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A "toothache" is pain typically around a tooth, teeth or jaws. In most instances, toothaches are caused by a dental problem, such as a dental cavity, a cracked or fractured tooth, an exposed tooth root, or gum disease. Sometimes diseases of the jaw joint (temporomandibular joint), or spasms of the muscles used for chewing can cause toothache like symptoms.
The severity of a toothache can range from chronic and mild to sharp and excruciating. It can be a dull ache or intense. The pain may be aggravated by chewing or by thermal foods and liquids which are cold or hot. A thorough oral examination, proper tooth testing and evaluation, along with appropriate dental x-rays, can help determine the cause. What we want to know is whether the toothache is really coming from a tooth or somewhere else.
Extractions (General Procedure)
When restoration procedures such as root canal therapy, crowns, or fillings are not enough to save a tooth, it may need to be pulled, or extracted.
Tooth extraction procedures today are far less painful than ever before, thanks to powerful anesthetics and sedatives. In many cases, a patient who has tooth pulled experiences little or no discomfort, and only minor bleeding.
Before a tooth is extracted, the area surrounding the tooth is numbed with a topical/and or injectable anesthetic such as Novocaine.
Patients with extracted teeth sometimes need to take an antibiotic, and at the very least, take precautions following the procedure to ensure that infection doesn't occur.
Smoking, vigorous brushing and rinsing, and drinking liquids through straws are discouraged during the post-operative period because they hinder healing and may cause the wound to open. Cold compresses applied to the outside cheek near the extraction area can help reduce any swelling and promote faster healing.
Wisdom Teeth
Wisdom teeth are the third and final set of molars that erupt in the back corners of the upper and lower normal adult mouth. Unfortunately, most people experience problems from wisdom teeth; in most cases, this is because the teeth erupt too close to existing permanent teeth, causing crowding, improper bites, and other problems.
If wisdom teeth are causing a problem and are not pulled, they can sometimes become impacted. Impacted wisdom teeth can be extremely painful, as well as harmful to your oral health. Symptoms are easy to spot: severe discomfort, inflammation, and some kinds of infections.
Many people need to have their wisdom teeth extracted to avoid future serious problems. In general, the lack of the four wisdom teeth does not hamper one's ability to properly bite down, speak or eat.
If you experience any of the following symptoms, you may have an impacted wisdom tooth:
- Facial swelling
- Infection
- Pain
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Aussie authorities urged the residents of Sapphire to move to higher ground last Wednesday when violent thunderstorms dropped 215mm (8.5 inches) of rain on one of the largest precious gem-bearing areas in the world.
While most residents scrambled their way to safety, others characterized the raging flood waters as liquid gold.
"There are already people out in the sapphire fields looking for sapphires," Victoria Bentham, the co-owner of Sapphire Caravan and Cabin Park, told the Guardian. "Sapphires are in the ground there, and when it floods, the flood waters wash them down the creek beds and they get stuck behind billy boulders."
Bentham reported that fossickers were heading downstream to seek their future fortunes. The last time Sapphire flooded was about a decade ago.
"It just goes to show that even in tough times there is always a glimmer of light," she added.
Sapphire is located in the sparsely populated Central Highlands region of Queensland, just 50km (31mi) west of Emerald. During an average year, the region receives 628mm of rain. On Wednesday alone, the area collected more than one-third the yearly total. The local Retreat Creek rose nearly 10 meters in a few hours and roadways became impassable.
Comprising the townships of Rubyvale, Sapphire Central, Anakie Siding and Willows Gemfields, the Sapphire Gemfields have a large commercial mining presence, but also attract fossickers from around the world.
Fossicking is the term Aussies use to describe amateur prospecting, especially when carried out as a recreational activity. The Queensland Government is promoting fossicking as a popular outdoor activity the whole family can enjoy.
Sapphires and rubies are mined in all eastern Australian states, including Tasmania. According to The Natural Sapphire Company, the mines of Australia have produced more commercial-grade blue sapphire than any other source in history.
To learn more about sapphire mining in Australia, check out the video, below, titled "GIA's Australia 2015 Field Expedition."
Credits: Screen capture of GIA video via YouTube.com/didier gruel. Map by Google Maps.
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You may think pre-workout is a relatively new trend, but you'd be surprised to find out athletes have been using supplements in some way, shape or form to enhance their workouts throughout history. While pre-workout has been popularized by career athletes, it can be a beneficial addition into your workout routine by kickstarting your energy levels. Don't believe us? Read on and find out more about how pre-workout works and remember to talk to your physician before using dietary supplements.
What Is Pre-Workout?
Pre-workout is defined as any meal, snack or supplement consumed before working out to help energize and maximize your efforts. However, the pre-workout we're dishing on is the supplemental variety. Pre-workout supplements are meant to enhance your workouts, but how do they work? For starters, many pre-workout options are formulated with caffeine. Caffeine, a stimulant, energizes by activating beta-endorphins in order to increase your alertness and your energy. That burst of energy comes in handy during a strenuous workout. While caffeine is used in some pre-workout varieties—it's not found in all of them. If you're sensitive to caffeine, there are plenty of other options. Some brands use an additive called beta-alanine which helps slow down muscle fatigue so you can push harder, longer during your workout. Some additional popular ingredients found in pre-workout are creatine, taurine and L-arginine.
When Should I Use Pre-Workout?
The first thing you need to do if you're interested in incorporating a pre-workout into your fitness journey is speak with your physician. A doctor should always be consulted before using dietary supplements and pre-workout supplements are no different! When you get the all-clear to use pre-workout, plan on taking it roughly 30 minutes prior to your workout. The pre-workout needs enough time to digest into your system and help energize your exercise sesh.
How Do I Know If Pre-Workout Is Working?
In short, you'll know. That sudden burst of energy? It's the pre-workout! You'll also notice that your body isn't as fatigued as it typically might be during your workout.
Is Pre-Workout Worth the Hype?
It's a common question people ask when considering using pre-workouts, with good reason. With pre-workout, there's often more caffeine in the formula than recommended for daily consumption. Some pre-workout supplements contain as much caffeine as the equivalent to FOUR cups of coffee in just one serving and many others contain caffeine levels that could present health problems.
The occasional use of pre-workout can help with performance inside the gym. If you find yourself needing a boost or need to work out later or earlier than usual—it could be worth trying. However, it's important to ask yourself why you're feeling fatigued or looking for a boost. Do you need more sleep? Are you drinking enough water throughout the day? Are there more natural ways to boost your energy? Pre-workout can be a great way to super-charge your time in the gym, but they aren't your best bet for everyday use.
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King of Ashes
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The world of Garn once boasted five great kingdoms, until the King of Ithrace was defeated and every member of his family executed by Lodavico, the ruthless King of Sandura, a man with ambitions to rule the world.
Ithrace's ruling family were the legendary Firemanes, and represented a great danger to the other kings. Now four great kingdoms remain, on the brink of war. But rumour has it that the newborn son of the last king of Ithrace survived, carried off during battle and sequestered by the Quelli Nacosti, a secret society whose members are trained to infiltrate and spy upon the rich and powerful throughout Garn. Terrified that this may be true, and that the child will grow to maturity with bloody revenge in his heart, the four kings have placed a huge bounty on the child's head.
In the small village of Oncon, Declan is apprenticed to a master blacksmith, learning the secrets of producing the mythical king's steel. Oncon is situated in the Covenant, a neutral region lying between two warring kingdoms. Since the Covenant was declared, the region has existed in peace, until violence explodes as slavers descend upon the village to capture young men to press as soldiers for Sandura.
Declan must escape, to take his priceless knowledge to Baron Daylon Dumarch, ruler of Marquensas, perhaps the only man who can defeat Lodavico of Sandura, who has now allied himself with the fanatical Church of the One, which is marching across the continent, imposing its extreme form of religion upon the population and burning unbelievers as they go.
Meanwhile, on the island of Coaltachin, the secret domain of the Quelli Nacosti, three friends are being schooled in the deadly arts of espionage and assassination: Donte, son of one of the most powerful masters of the order; Hava, a serious girl with fighting abilities that can set any opponent on their back; and Hatu, a strange, conflicted lad in whom fury and calm war constantly, whose hair is a bright and fiery shade of red...
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Justin Bieber Shares Secrets to Winning His Heart
Justin Bieber is in a lengthy relationship with starlet Selena Gomez. But whether or not you believe the tabloid reports about their status, the couple appears happy and to be maintaining a healthy and loving partnership. The Biebs, a self-professed "butt man" who also has infinite and inherent swag, he has offered up some dating secrets and tips for ladies, sharing what he likes in a girl, based on experience from his romance with Sel!
First, the Biebs shared, in a chat with women's bible Cosmopolitan (quotes via Hollywood Life), that he is attracted to an adventurous spirit, like Sel has. He said, "Whether it's tasting new foods or going on different adventures — hikes, whatever — it's great when she's willing to try new things." Hear that, Beliebers? If you want to impress the boy you are crushing on, be open to doing and attempting new things.
Cell phones are also a big no-no during his dates with Gomez, unless, of course, they are taking Instagram shots and sharing them via Twitter to their several million followers, which both have been known to do. "Both of us leaving our phones behind is important," he emphasized. "No distractions is the best."
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As I pass along a row of mannequins, the sharply tailored, pale blue cotton dashiki stops me in my tracks. Based on a long-sleeved open-necked, centuries old tribal costume, the garment has a sash draped gently from one shoulder to the other like a Roman toga.
The dashiki, part of the Intsinzi Collection from Rwandan design studio Moshions, first appeared on a catwalk in Kigali five years ago. Its graceful cut and clean lines struck me as youthful, elegant and yet deeply traditional. It would be equally at home in an urban or rural environment on a handful of continents.
Now it is part of a visually stunning exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum entitled "Africa Fashion."
The two-level exhibition looks like a roundhouse inside one of the museum's rotundas and includes fashion pieces that range from eye-catching costumes and gowns to ordinary workday dresses. It makes the case that any list of global fashion powerhouses should include African designers — that fashion is not solely the purview of European design houses like Coco Chanel, Christian Dior or Yves Saint-Laurent.
The museum is also making amends for failures in its own collecting and curating practices that have have left vast gaps in its previous offerings around African culture and design.
In an irony of history, the museum is named for a monarch and her consort who presided over the longest expansion of the British Empire. The end of that colonial era in Africa brought not only sweeping political changes but a flowering of creativity in music, art — and fashion.
It is the renaissance and subsequent evolution of the continent's couture that the exhibition "Africa Fashion" seeks to assess and amplify.
Exhibit curator Christine Checinska herself worked for many years as a designer at several major British fashion labels before pursuing a Ph.D. in cultural studies at Goldsmiths' College in the University of London, with her thesis focused on the impact of Caribbean creole culture on British male dress. Ever since, she says, she has sought to explore the relationships between race, culture and cloth.
Checinska has been tasked with expanding the Victoria and Albert museum's permanent collection of African and African diaspora textiles and fashion.
"Across the board, there is recognition that we need to almost have a broader sense of — a broader vocabulary when we're curating," she told NPR, "to incorporate many of the different cultures that perhaps have been missing in the past and to recognize and revisit our own colonial history."
She hopes the show manages "to inspire and to encourage" visitors from all backgrounds but also to offer a glimpse of what she describes as "the genius of African creativity that all too often has been left out."
Below are a sampling of garments from the exhibition that she thinks exemplify African fashion itself and best represent the intention behind the show, which runs through mid-April 2023.
Chris Seydou brings flair — and mud — into haute couture
Seydou's stunning orange checkered suit and wide brimmed hat combination on display are emblematic of the Malian designer's ability to marry contemporary Western tailoring with African materials. Seydou lived in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast before moving to Paris, where he worked for Yves Saint-Laurent in the 1970s before returning to West Africa to open his own atelier and launch his own line. He often used traditional patterned cloth like Mali's "bògòlanfini" — dyed with fermented mud — and not only marketed his designs across the region but further afield in Europe and the United States. He died in 1994.
IB Kamara, a Sierra Leone-born and London-based stylist who is now editor-in-chief of the magazine Dazed, stepped behind the lens to take three soulful black-and-white portraits of Seydou's clothes on a contemporary model. Kamara has long championed what curator Checinska calls "African heritage fashion." The intention of this Seydou display, Checinska says, is to mark the museum's own conscious celebration of African fashion through a refreshed collecting and curating strategy.
Bubu Ogisi marries fashion and politics
This Nigerian designer does not shy away from political statements in her works. For instance, she incorporates raffia from the Democratic Republic of Congo in this costume on the right to highlight Belgian exploitation in its former colony, where traditional weaving and manufacturing techniques were curtailed to service the foreign desire for products like rubber and ivory.
"Her work is research-based," Checinska explains. "She's sort of 'decolonizing her own mind' – and those are her words – through the deconstruction technique that she uses in her clothes," reimagining traditional styles and reinvigorating ancient materials commonly used in the pre-colonial era.
The curator says that from a purely design point of view she wants to include these two adjacent outfits in her selection for NPR. The one on the right is "exquisite," she says. "The proportion of the long jacket against the shift dress underneath, it's just wonderful fashion." On the dress on the left, meanwhile, Checinska highlighted elements drawn from a Nigerian masquerade tradition known as Egungun, pointing to the rows of multi-colored tassels attached to the front of the dress that create the kind of kaleidoscope effect found on the costumes worn by individuals in a community who act out the role of departed ancestors during ceremonies — a practice that continues in parts of West Africa and diasporas in the Caribbean and Brazil.
Imane Ayissi is a bold Cameroonian trailblazer in Paris
Ayissi is the first Black designer from sub-Saharan African to be included in the annual calendar of haute couture fashion shows, the founder of an eponymous Paris studio that melds traditional artisanal techniques from African countries – including Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana – with cuts and designs that garnered critical acclaim from Milan to New York. A former ballet dancer and model who once graced catwalks for fashion giants like Givenchy and Valentino, he has sought to encourage an industry in his native Cameroon that produces various types of local textiles, like the raffia derived from palm leaves seen in this bold, backless pink design that wraps around the wearer.
In an interview with NPR, Ayissi emphasized how important local fashion is in Africa, that he wants it to become "a force that functions properly" on the international stage and that the exhibition would help to "educate" people about the continent.
A luxurious combo of past and present from Kofi Ansah
The Ghanaian designer studied at the Chelsea Art School in the U.K. before returning to his homeland, designing clothes with an emphasis on "luxury" as well as "exacting standards and attention to detail," Checinska says. His glittering jacket and shorts set with blue and white floral trim atop delicate buckled shoes (second from the left in the photo below) were first displayed at the Ivory Coast's embassy in London in the late 1980s and encapsulated an effort by the designer to bring the past — the printed fabrics, the ruffled neckline — with him into the new, the curator says, with the sequins and female shorts.
Throughout his career Ansah, who died in 2014, worked to mentor young talent back in Ghana, famously instructing them that, " 'West is not always best, inspiration is all around you,' " Checinska explains, quoting a phrase Ansah used. "There's a sense in which that feels part and parcel of what this show is, also."
Willem Marx is a London-based journalist.
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An administrator believes that the web servers are being flooded with excessive traffic from time to time. The administrator suspects that these traffic floods correspond to when a competitor makes major announcements. Which of the following should the administrator do to prove this theory?
A. Implement data analytics to try and correlate the occurrence times.
B. Implement a honey pot to capture traffic during the next attack.
C. Configure the servers for high availability to handle the additional bandwidth.
D. Log all traffic coming from the competitor's public IP addresses.
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There is a time aspect to the traffic flood and if you correlate the data analytics with the times that the incidents happened, you will be able to prove the theory.
Executive management is asking for a new manufacturing control and workflow automation solution. This application will facilitate management of proprietary information and closely guarded corporate trade secrets.
The information security team has been a part of the department meetings and come away with the following notes:
Human resources would like complete access to employee data stored in the application. They would like automated data interchange with the employee management application, a cloud-based SaaS application.
Sales is asking for easy order tracking to facilitate feedback to customers.
Legal is asking for adequate safeguards to protect trade secrets. They are also concerned with data ownership questions and legal jurisdiction.
Manufacturing is asking for ease of use. Employees working the assembly line cannot be bothered with additional steps or overhead. System interaction needs to be quick and easy. Quality assurance is concerned about managing the end product and tracking overall performance of the product being produced. They would like read-only access to the entire workflow process for monitoring and baselining.
The favored solution is a user friendly software application that would be hosted onsite. It has extensive ACL functionality, but also has readily available APIs for extensibility. It supports read-only access, kiosk automation, custom fields, and data encryption.
Which of the following departments' request is in contrast to the favored solution?
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B. Legal
C. Sales
D. Quality assurance
E. Human resources
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An application present on the majority of an organization's 1,000 systems is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack. Which of the following is the MOST comprehensive way to resolve the issue?
A. Deploy custom HIPS signatures to detect and block the attacks.
B. Validate and deploy the appropriate patch.
C. Run the application in terminal services to reduce the threat landscape.
D. Deploy custom NIPS signatures to detect and block the attacks.
Answer: B
If an application has a known issue (such as susceptibility to buffer overflow attacks) and a patch is released to resolve the specific issue, then the best solution is always to deploy the patch.
A buffer overflow occurs when a program or process tries to store more data in a buffer (temporary data storage area) than it was intended to hold. Since buffers are created to contain a finite amount of data, the extra information – which has to go somewhere – can overflow into adjacent buffers, corrupting or overwriting the valid data held in them. Although it may occur accidentally through programming error, buffer overflow is an increasingly common type of security attack on data integrity. In buffer overflow attacks, the extra data may contain codes designed to trigger specific actions, in effect sending new instructions to the attacked computer that could, for example, damage the user's files, change data, or disclose confidential information. Buffer overflow attacks are said to have arisen because the C programming language supplied the framework, and poor programming practices supplied the vulnerability.
A security administrator has noticed that an increased number of employees' workstations are becoming infected with malware. The company deploys an enterprise antivirus system as well as a web content filter, which blocks access to malicious web sites where malware files can be downloaded. Additionally, the company implements technical measures to disable external storage. Which of the following is a technical control that the security administrator should implement next to reduce malware infection?
A. Implement an Acceptable Use Policy which addresses malware downloads.
B. Deploy a network access control system with a persistent agent.
C. Enforce mandatory security awareness training for all employees and contractors.
D. Block cloud-based storage software on the company network.
Answer: D
The question states that the company implements technical measures to disable external storage. This is storage such as USB flash drives and will help to ensure that the users to do not bring unauthorized data that could potentially contain malware into the network. We should extend this by blocking cloud-based storage software on the company network. This would block access to cloud-based storage services such as Dropbox or OneDrive.
Ann is testing the robustness of a marketing website through an intercepting proxy. She has intercepted the following HTTP request:
POST /login.aspx HTTP/1.1
Host: comptia.org
Content-type: text/html
Which of the following should Ann perform to test whether the website is susceptible to a simple authentication bypass?
A. Remove all of the post data and change the request to /login.aspx from POST to GET
B. Attempt to brute force all usernames and passwords using a password cracker
C. Remove the txtPassword post data and change alreadyLoggedIn from false to true
D. Remove the txtUsername and txtPassword post data and toggle submit from true to false
Answer: C
The text "txtUsername=ann&txtPassword=ann" is an attempted login using a username of `ann' and also a password of `ann'.
The text "alreadyLoggedIn=false" is saying that Ann is not already logged in. To test whether we can bypass the authentication, we can attempt the login without the password and we can see if we can bypass the `alreadyloggedin' check by changing alreadyLoggedIn from false to true. If we are able to log in, then we have bypassed the authentication check.
A security administrator wants to calculate the ROI of a security design which includes the purchase of new equipment. The equipment costs $50,000 and it will take 50 hours to install and configure the equipment. The administrator plans to hire a contractor at a rate of $100/hour to do the installation. Given that the new design and equipment will allow the company to increase revenue and make an additional $100,000 on the first year, which of the following is the ROI expressed as a percentage for the first year?
A. -45 percent
B. 5.5 percent
C. 45 percent
D. 82 percent
Answer: D
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The helpdesk is receiving multiple calls about slow and intermittent Internet access from the finance department. The following information is compiled:
Caller 1, IP 172.16.35.217, NETMASK 255.255.254.0
Caller 2, IP 172.16.35.53, NETMASK 255.255.254.0
Caller 3, IP 172.16.35.173, NETMASK 255.255.254.0
All callers are connected to the same switch and are routed by a router with five built-in interfaces. The upstream router interface's MAC is 00-01-42-32-ab-1a
A packet capture shows the following:
09:05:15.934840 arp reply 172.16.34.1 is-at 00:01:42:32:ab:1a (00:01:42:32:ab:1a)
09:06:16.124850 arp reply 172.16.34.1 is-at 00:01:42:32:ab:1a (00:01:42:32:ab:1a)
09:07:25.439811 arp reply 172.16.34.1 is-at 00:01:42:32:ab:1a (00:01:42:32:ab:1a)
09:08:10.937590 IP 172.16.35.1 > 172.16.35.255: ICMP echo request, id 2305, seq 1, length 65534
09:08:10.937591 IP 172.16.35.1 > 172.16.35.255: ICMP echo request, id 2306, seq 2, length 65534
09:08:10.937592 IP 172.16.35.1 > 172.16.35.255: ICMP echo request, id 2307, seq 3, length 65534
Which of the following is occurring on the network?
A. A man-in-the-middle attack is underway on the network.
B. An ARP flood attack is targeting at the router.
C. The default gateway is being spoofed on the network.
D. A denial of service attack is targeting at the router.
Answer: D
The above packet capture shows an attack where the attacker is busy consuming your resources (in this case the router) and preventing normal use. This is thus a Denial Of Service Attack.
Since the implementation of IPv6 on the company network, the security administrator has been unable to identify the users associated with certain devices utilizing IPv6 addresses, even when the devices are centrally managed.
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether f8:1e:af:ab:10:a3
inet6 fw80::fa1e:dfff:fee6:9d8%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 192.168.1.14 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 2001:200:5:922:1035:dfff:fee6:9dfe prefixlen 64 autoconf
inet6 2001:200:5:922:10ab:5e21:aa9a:6393 prefixlen 64 autoconf temporary nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
media: autoselect
status: active
Given this output, which of the following protocols is in use by the company and what can the system administrator do to positively map users with IPv6 addresses in the future? (Select TWO).
A. The devices use EUI-64 format
B. The routers implement NDP
C. The network implements 6to4 tunneling
D. The router IPv6 advertisement has been disabled
E. The administrator must disable IPv6 tunneling
F. The administrator must disable the mobile IPv6 router flag
G. The administrator must disable the IPv6 privacy extensions
H. The administrator must disable DHCPv6 option code 1
Answer: BG
IPv6 makes use of the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP). Thus if your routers implement NDP you will be able to map users with IPv6 addresses. However to be able to positively map users with IPv6 addresses you will need to disable IPv6 privacy extensions.
Drag and Drop Question
IT staff within a company often conduct remote desktop sharing sessions with vendors to troubleshoot vendor product-related issues. Drag and drop the following security controls to match the associated security concern. Options may be used once or not at all.
Vendor may accidentally or maliciously make changes to the IT system ?Allow view-only access.
With view-only access, the third party can view the desktop but cannot interact with it. In other words, they cannot control the keyboard or mouse to make any changes.
Desktop sharing traffic may be intercepted by network attackers ?Use SSL for remote sessions.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encrypts data in transit between computers. If an attacker intercepted the traffic, the data would be encrypted and therefore unreadable to the attacker.
No guarantees that shoulder surfing attacks are not occurring at the vendor ?Identified control gap.
Shoulder surfing is where someone else gains information by looking at your computer screen. This should be identified as a risk. A control gap occurs when there are either insufficient or no actions taken to avoid or mitigate a significant risk.
Vendor may inadvertently see confidential material from the company such as email and IMs – Limit desktop session to certain windows.
The easiest way to prevent a third party from viewing your emails and IMs is to close the email and IM application windows for the duration of the desktop sharing session.
After the install process, a software application executed an online activation process. After a few months, the system experienced a hardware failure. A backup image of the system was restored on a newer revision of the same brand and model device. After the restore, the specialized application no longer works. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem?
A. The binary files used by the application have been modified by malware.
B. The application is unable to perform remote attestation due to blocked ports.
C. The restored image backup was encrypted with the wrong key.
D. The hash key summary of hardware and installed software no longer match.
Answer: D
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Company XYZ has purchased and is now deploying a new HTML5 application. The company wants to hire a penetration tester to evaluate the security of the client and server components of the proprietary web application before launch. Which of the following is the penetration tester MOST likely to use while performing black box testing of the security of the company's purchased application? (Select TWO).
A. Code review
B. Sandbox
C. Local proxy
D. Fuzzer
E. Port scanner
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D: Fuzzing is another form of blackbox testing and works by feeding a program multiple input iterations that are specially written to trigger an internal error that might indicate a bug and crash it.
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By Peter Shanley and John Ruch, Gazette Staff
S. HUNTINGTON—About 10 dolls adorned with protest signs were arranged around a tree at the Home for Little Wanderers at 161 S. Huntington Ave. last week, an effort carried out by a new Occupy JP-affiliated group called Babies Against Boondoggles, according to an Occupy JP member. The display is a protest against controversial luxury apartment projects slated to be built at the property and another one nearby at 105A S. Huntington.
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The Home for Little Wanderers, which is moving out, serves at-risk children and youths.
Occupy JP member Aria Littlhous sent the Gazette a satirical press release written in the voices of the "dollies" in the display, saying that they are "sick of rich people whining about not making enough money" and calling for permanent, affordable triple-decker housing rather than expensive rentals. The "dollies" also criticized recent campaign donations made by the developers to local elected officials, a practice that has ignited local controversy.
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"Fifi Dolly add[ed], 'We don't need any more stupid greedy rich people in JP. Tell them to go away,'" the press release concludes.
Littlhous told the Gazette that Babies Against Boondoggles formed during a Nov. 8 Jamaica Plain Forum event that helped small social activist groups to organize. Asked about the group's future plans, she said, "All I can really tell you about them is that they get very cranky when they don't get enough sleep and that they want real homes, not rentals. Their immediate plans include sleeping and eating."
Occupy JP is a local version of the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Boston protest movements that formed last year. A member previously told the Gazette that the group essentially went defunct several months ago.
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The City Zoning Board of Appeals voted yesterday to approve the variances requested by the developers, Boston Residential Group, of the luxury apartment project at 161 S. Huntington.
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Fast forward to the mid 90's where Porky Paul discovered & "enjoyed" to the max the Club & Dance music scene & could often be found, goggle eyed, & dancing like a man processed in the various clubs in & around Bournemouth and Poole (home to him back then) This is where he started to appreciate & see the huge & positive impact DANCE/HOUSE Music had on the masses & wanted to be a part of it by creating it!
Now living & based out of Kidderminster (West Midlands) Porky Paul is producing & writing House tunes from his home studio, under his own label "Porky Paul Productions" His sound is heavily influenced by the 70's Disco/Funk era & this can be identified instantly with the rolling funky bass lines, wah guitars all being driven & supported by the funky, banging House drum beat, There is no choice but to DANCE!!
Over the last 18 months and with the full support & backing of bea1 (Music Promotions – Club, Radio, International, Spotify and remixes) Porky Paul is gaining airplay on Kiss Fm, Centreforce883, Cambridge 105, Flex FM, Funky SX Radio, The Beat London, Shine879, French FM, plus many more, including placements on CD Pool who have been very supportive of the work & have featured several Porky Paul releases within their DJ Packs.
The single with Michelle Osborne "Dressed To Kill" reached number 6 on the music week commercial top 30 and has had nearly 700,000 views on TikTok.
To reach out to a wider audience within the Garage, Urban & DnB scene, the music has been sought out for remixing by some of the biggest associated names such as Blakk Habit, Mike Delinquent, Brock UK & Dope Ammo all of who are big supporters of the Porky Paul sound & have all smashed it with their remixes
Going forward Porky Paul is collaborating & working with various Featured Artists, so watch this space & keep an eye on Spotify & all other Digital stores along with the socials


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Pacific Fleet is turn based game set upon a detailed simulation depicting naval warfare during World War II.
Take control of the United States Pacific Fleet or Imperial Japanese Navy and sink enemy shipping to earn renown in order to purchase bigger ships along with an array of historical upgrades for each of your vessels.
"5/5 It really has too much detail and logic to be dismissed as an arcade game."
– Neal Stevens, subsim.com
"One of six games you should have played in 2013 (but probably didn't)."
– Owen Faraday, pockettactics.com
Game Manuals
Pacific Fleet (English)
Pacific Fleet (English)
- Stunning full 3D graphics depict the greatest war at sea
- Historically based ships, aircraft, weapons and dozens of ship upgrades
- A unique blend of deep strategic planning combined with quick tactical decisions
- Play as the US Pacific Fleet or Imperial Japanese Navy
- 90 combat zones to battle through on your way to victory
- Single Battle and Multiplayer Hot Seat modes
- Complete 44 achievements
- Sink ships with realistic buoyancy physics, not with hit-point bars!
- Submarine warfare and carrier operations with dive bombing and torpedo bombers
- Dynamic weather, shore bombardments and night engagements
- Target specific ship subsystems to sink or cripple the enemy
- 17 playable ships
- 8 playable aircraft
- Random ship placement, wind, weather and night engagements make each play-through unique
- No In Apps. No Pay-to-Progress. One Price = Full Game.


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Welcome to How To Travel With Pets, the website dedicated to pet owners who love to travel with their pets and want them well taken care of when they can't come along. Traveling with pets usually requires good preparation before your trip and doing the proper research beforehand. Most animals are naturally migratory and travel comes instinctively to them. It's up to you as their owner to know how to make your travels fit this natural inclination.
How To Travel With Pets is a website that is for human travelers but dedicated to the animals and pets you love. I'll show you how to bring your pets with you when possible and how to keep them happy when they have to stay behind. Help add to the discussion with your personal advice and experiences.
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Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
Several functions are provided for dealing with an arbitrary-width field of contiguous bits appearing anywhere in an integer. Such a contiguous set of bits is called a byte. Here the term byte does not imply some fixed number of bits (such as eight), rather a field of arbitrary and user-specifiable width.
The byte-manipulation functions use objects called byte specifiers to designate a specific byte position within an integer. The representation of a byte specifier is implementation-dependent; in particular, it may or may not be a number. It is sufficient to know that the function byte will construct one, and that the byte-manipulation functions will accept them. The function byte accepts two integers representing the position and size of the byte and returns a byte specifier. Such a specifier designates a byte whose width is size and whose bits have weights through .
byte size position
byte takes two integers representing the size and position of a byte and returns a byte specifier suitable for use as an argument to byte-manipulation functions.
byte-size bytespec
byte-position bytespec
Given a byte specifier, byte-size returns the size specified as an integer; byte-position similarly returns the position. For example:
(byte-size (byte j k)) == j (byte-position (byte j k)) == k
ldb bytespec integer
bytespec specifies a byte of integer to be extracted. The result is returned as a non-negative integer. For example:
(logbitp j (ldb (byte s p) n)) == (and (< j s) (logbitp (+ j p) n))
The name of the function ldb means ``load byte.''
(defun haipart (integer count) (let ((x (abs integer))) (if (minusp count) (ldb (byte (- count) 0) x) (ldb (byte count (max 0 (- (integer-length x) count))) x))))
If the argument integer is specified by a form that is a place form acceptable to setf, then setf may be used with ldb to modify a byte within the integer that is stored in that place. The effect is to perform a dpb operation and then store the result back into the place.
ldb-test bytespec integer
ldb-test is a predicate that is true if any of the bits designated by the byte specifier bytespec are 1's in integer; that is, it is true if the designated field is non-zero.
(ldb-test bytespec n) == (not (zerop (ldb bytespec n)))
mask-field bytespec integer
This is similar to ldb; however, the result contains the specified byte of integer in the position specified by bytespec, rather than in position 0 as with ldb. The result therefore agrees with integer in the byte specified but has zero-bits everywhere else. For example:
(ldb bs (mask-field bs n)) == (ldb bs n) (logbitp j (mask-field (byte s p) n)) == (and (>= j p) (< j (+ p s)) (logbitp j n)) (mask-field bs n) == (logand n (dpb -1 bs 0))
If the argument integer is specified by a form that is a place form acceptable to setf, then setf may be used with mask-field to modify a byte within the integer that is stored in that place. The effect is to perform a deposit-field operation and then store the result back into the place.
dpb newbyte bytespec integer
This returns a number that is the same as integer except in the bits specified by bytespec. Let s be the size specified by bytespec; then the low s bits of newbyte appear in the result in the byte specified by bytespec. The integer newbyte is therefore interpreted as being right-justified, as if it were the result of ldb. For example:
(logbitp j (dpb m (byte s p) n)) == (if (and (>= j p) (< j (+ p s))) (logbitp (- j p) m) (logbitp j n))
The name of the function dpb means ``deposit byte.''
deposit-field newbyte bytespec integer
This function is to mask-field as dpb is to ldb. The result is an integer that contains the bits of newbyte within the byte specified by bytespec, and elsewhere contains the bits of integer. For example:
(logbitp j (deposit-field m (byte s p) n)) == (if (and (>= j p) (< j (+ p s))) (logbitp j m) (logbitp j n))
(deposit-field newbyte bytespec integer)
by computing
(logior (logand newbyte m) (logand integer (lognot m)))
where the result of (lognot m) can of course also be computed at compile time. However, the following expression may also be used and may require fewer temporary registers in some situations:
(logxor integer (logand m (logxor integer newbyte)))
A related, though possibly less useful, trick is that
(let ((z (logand (logxor x y) m))) (setq x (logxor z x)) (setq y (logxor z y)))
interchanges those bits of x and y for which the mask m is 1, and leaves alone those bits of x and y for which m is 0.