text: SALIENT FEATURES OF REGULATIONS ON GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION, 1997(PUBLISHED IN PART III, SECTION 4 OF THE GAZETTE OF INDIA DATED 17TH MAY 1997*) (AMENDED UPTO MAY 2018) Click here to view complete Regulation Medical Council of India The 4th March 1997 NOTIFICATION In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 33 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956) the Medical Council of India with the previous sanction of the Central Government hereby makes the following regulations, namely :- (1) Short title and commencement : (1) These regulations may be called the "Regulations on Graduate Medical Education, 1997". (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. CHAPTER 12. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS AND TEACHING APPROACH (1) Graduate medical curriculum is oriented towards training students to undertake the responsibilities of a physician of first contact who is capable of looking after the preventive, promotive, curative & rehabilitative aspect of medicine. (2) With wide range of career opportunities available today, a graduate has a wide choice of career opportunities. The training, though broad based and flexible should aim to provide an educational experience of the essentials required for health care in our country. (3) To undertake the responsibilities of service situations which is a changing condition and of various types, it is essential to provide adequate placement training tailored to the needs of such services as to enable the graduates to become effective instruments of implementation of those requirements. To avail of opportunities and be able to conduct professional requirements, the graduate shall endeavour to have acquired basic training in different aspects of medical care. (4) The importance of the community aspects of health care and of rural health care services is to be recognized. This aspect of education & training of graduates should be adequately recognized in the prescribed curriculum. Its importance has been systematically upgraded over the past years and adequate exposure to such experiences should be available throughout all the three phases of education & training. This has to be further emphasized and intensified by providing exposure to field practice areas and training during the intership period. The aim of the period of rural training during internship is to enable the fresh graduates to function efficiently under such settings. (5) The educational experience should emphasize health and community orientation instead of only disease and hospital orientation or being-concentrated – on-curative -aspects. As such all the basic concepts of modern scientific medical education are to be adequately dealt with. (6) There must be enough experiences to be provided for self learning. The methods and techniques that would ensure this must become a part of teaching-learning process. (7) The medical graduate of modern scientific medicine shall endeavour to become capable of functioning independently in both urban or rural environment. He/she shall endeavour to give emphasis on fundamental aspects of the subjects taught and on common problems of health and disease avoiding unnecessary details of specialization. (8) The importance of social factors in relation to the problem of health and diseases should receive proper emphasis throughout the course and to achieve this purpose, the educational process should also be community based than only hospital based. The importance of population control and family welfare planning should be emphasized throughout the period of training with the importance of health and development duly emphasized. (9) Adequate emphasis is to be placed on cultivating logical and scientific habits of thought, clarity of expression and independence of judgment, ability to collect and analyse information and to correlate them. (10) The educational process should be placed in a historic background as an evolving process and not merely as an acquisition of a large number of disjointed facts without a proper perspective. The history of Medicine with reference to the evolution of medical knowledge both in this country and the rest of the world should form a part of this process. (11) Lectures alone are generally not adequate as a method of training and are a poor means of transferring/acquiring information and even less effective at skill development and in generating the appropriate attitudes. Every effort should be made to encourage the use of active methods related to demonstration and on first hand experience. Students will be encouraged to learn in small groups, through peer interactions so as to gain maximal experience through contacts with patients and the communities in which they live. While the curriculum objectives often refer to areas of knowledge or science, they are best taught in a setting of clinical relevance and hands on experience for students who assimilate and make this knowledge a part of their own working skills. (12) The graduate medical education in clinical subjects should be based primarily on out-patient teaching, emergency departments and within the community including peripheral health care institutions. The out-patient departments should be suitably planned to provide training to graduates in small groups. (13) Clinics should be organised in small groups of preferably not more than 10 students so that a teacher can give personal attention to each student with a view to improve his skill and competence in handling of the patients. (14) Proper records of the work should be maintained which will form the basis for the students' internal assessment and should be available to the inspectors at the time of inspection of the college by the Medical Council of India. (15) Maximal efforts have to be made to encourage integrated teaching between traditional subject areas using a problem based learning approach starting with clinical or community cases and exploring the relevance of various preclinical disciplines in both understanding and resolution of the problem. Every attempt be made to de-emphasize compartmentalisation of disciplines so as to achieve both horizontal and vertical integration in different phases. (16) Every attempt is to be made to encourage students to participate in group discussions and seminars to enable them to develop personality, character, expression and other faculties which are necessary for a medical graduate to function either in solo practice or as a team leader when he begins his independent career. A discussion group should not have more than 20 students. (17) Faculty member should avail of modern educational technology while teaching the students and to attain this objective, Medical Education Units/ Departments be established in all medical colleges for faculty development and providing learning resource material to teachers. (18) To derive maximum advantage out of this revised curriculum, the vacation period to students in one calendar year should not exceed one month, during the 4 ½ years Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) Course. (19) In order to implement the revised curriculum in toto, State Govts. and Institution Bodies must ensure that adequate financial and technical inputs are provided. |


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First Reading
Wisdom 7:7-14
7Therefore I prayed, and understanding was given me; I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me. 8I preferred her to scepters and thrones, and I accounted wealth as nothing in comparison with her. 9Neither did I liken to her any priceless gem, because all gold is but a little sand in her sight, and silver will be accounted as clay before her. 10I loved her more than health and beauty, and I chose to have her rather than light, because her radiance never ceases. 11All good things came to me along with her, and in her hands uncounted wealth. 12I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom leads them; but I did not know that she was their mother. 13I learned without guile and I impart without grudging; I do not hide her wealth, 14for it is an unfailing treasure for men; those who get it obtain friendship with God, commended for the gifts that come from instruction.OR
Ephesians 4:7, 11-15
7But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. 11And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, 12to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ; 14so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles. 15Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, -
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 40:3-4, 10-11, 17
2He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. 3He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD. 9I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; lo, I have not restrained my lips, as thou knowest, O LORD. 10I have not hid thy saving help within my heart, I have spoken of thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness from the great congregation. 16But may all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; may those who love thy salvation say continually, "Great is the LORD!" -
Mark 16:15-20
15And he said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. 16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover." 19So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. 20And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.


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In recent years, the spread of ransomware has become increasingly severe, thousands of servers and databases around the world have been invaded and destroyed. Among them, the Phobos ransomware virus family is notorious for being evil all year round.
The Phobos ransomware first appeared in December 2018, and it was named after the suffix Phobos was added to encrypted files.
Recently, 360 Security Center has detected that a new variant of the Phobos ransomware virus appeared on the network. The virus uses software such as system activation tools as a carrier to induce users to download and install, steal the user's machine information, and further pass the Trojan C&C server Download encryption ransomware related programs and implement Bitcoin ransomware. In just over a week, the variant has spread to more than ten countries.
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According to 360 Security Center Monitoring, the ransomware variant uses software such as system activation tools as a breakthrough.Once the user is induced to download and run, disguised as the first layer of "sheepskin" powershell script, another powershell script will be downloaded and executed pps.ps1, pps.ps1 will decrypt and release the base64-encrypted exe file data to %userprofile% In the directory and loaded, the exe implements the theft of the victim's computer information and further downloads the encrypted ransom related files through the Trojan C&C server.
After the file is encrypted, the Phobos ransomware variant will add a specific suffix named id[XXXXXXXX-2275].[firstname.lastname@example.com].help, where "XXXXXXXX" is the disk serial number.
At the same time, it will release files named info.hta and info.txt as blackmail letters in the desktop directory and disk root directory of the victim's computer. By calling the info.hta program with the same text content as info.txt, the box titled "All your files have been encrypted" will inform the victim of the virus author's contact information and the Bitcoin ransom payment method.
According to the pps.ps1 script, the time stamp of the release of the virus exe program is 2020/7/12. It can be seen that in the short period of more than one week since the time stamp, the ransomware variant has spread and infected more than ten countries.
Compared with the previous version, the Phobos ransomware variant has been upgraded in many aspects, such as camouflaging the encrypted ransomware function module, bypassing the security protection mechanism, and local persistence. After in-depth analysis, 360 Security Center reproduced the "five sins" of the rampant evil of the ransomware variant.
When the user downloads and executes the exe file in the %userprofile% directory and decrypts and releases it by powershell, it will further download the executable program zeVrk.exe and other files used for file encryption from the Trojan server to complete the encryption ransom behavior.
The virus first uses SilentCleanup in the scheduled task to bypass UAC, and then obtains the Trojan horse program with the original file name zeVrk.exe from the Trojan server.
The Trojan horse program will extract and decrypt the base64-encrypted dll data named "AndroidStudio.dll" from the resource section, call its export function StartGame(), and then continue to extract the encrypted file data from the resource section of the dll, and then transfer it Decompress and XOR decrypt, restore to the exe file data responsible for the encryption and ransom function, and then load the exe. After "take off" the disguised "sheepskin" decrypted and loaded in the two-layer resource segment, the exe will complete the substantial file encryption operation.
zeVrk.exe decrypts the AndroidStudio.dll file data of the resource segment and calls its export function StartGame()
AndroidStudio.dll! StartGame decompresses, decrypts and loads the exe responsible for file encryption
Once the virus variant invades successfully, it will first steal hardware information such as the CPU model, sound card and graphics card on the target computer, as well as user information such as country, IP address, and installed software, and write this information into the "system.txt" file; at the same time It will also try to obtain the local account password information and write it into the "password.txt" file; it will also name the current screenshot obtained as "screenshot.jpg".
Then, it will package these three files as compressed files and send them back to the Trojan horse server and delete the local compressed package files. These stolen user information are likely to be the first to further potential attacks by the Phobos family in the future.
This virus variant also downloads a program with the original file name "Disable-Windows-Defender.exe" through the Trojan horse server to disable various functions of Windows Defender.
The method includes: modify the registry to turn off Windows Defender real-time protection and other functions, call powershell to execute the "Get-MpPreference -verbose" command to check the current Windows Defender settings, and try to turn off the specified Windows Defender function.
Modify the registry to turn off the Windows Defender function
Call powershell to turn off Windows Defender
SilentCleanup in the scheduled task can be started with normal user rights, and will be automatically elevated to high rights after startup. Based on this feature, this virus variant uses SilentCleanup, which has less strict permission control in scheduled tasks, to bypass user account control UAC.
Virus variants use SilentCleanup to bypass UAC
The virus will copy the zeVrk.exe file responsible for file encryption tasks to %LocalAppData%, %temp% and the Startup directory at startup, and add the zeVrk.exe file path to the registry startup key to achieve local persistence of encrypted ransomware , To achieve the purpose of scanning the disk again to encrypt new files when the user restarts the computer.
The directory where zeVrk.exe (original file name) is located
Registry startup items added by virus variants
At the same time, in order to prevent the recovery of encrypted files, the virus variant will delete the disk volume shadow backup through the following commands, modify the startup policy to disable Windows startup repair, and delete the windows server backup backup:
vssadmin delete shadows /all /quiet
wmic shadowcopy delete
bcdedit /set {default} bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures
bcdedit /set {default} recoveryenabled no
wbadmin delete catalog -quietIn the process of encrypting files, the exe program that is decrypted and loaded from the AndroidStudio.dll resource section will be responsible for the substantial encryption task, and its functions include: file occupation release, "RSA+AES" algorithm encryption, etc.
The ransomware variant first enumerates the current processes through process snapshots, and through process name matching, ends more than 40 processes that may cause file occupation and affect encryption.
The virus variant ends the specified process and releases the file occupation
The Trojan will then scan the network shared disk and local disk of the current machine and prepare for file encryption.
The virus uses the AES256 algorithm to generate 32-byte AES keys for network shared disks and local disks. However, only the first 16 bytes of the key are random values obtained by the time factor and the SHA256 digest algorithm, and the last 16 bytes are taken from the 17-32 bytes of the attacker's RSA public key built into the virus.
For the generated 32-byte AES key, the virus uses the RSA algorithm to encrypt it. The encrypted content includes the AES key, disk serial number, pseudo-random number, etc., a total of 128 bytes.
Before starting file encryption, the virus first determines the size of the file to be encrypted. If the file is smaller than 0x180000 bytes (ie 1.5Mb) or the file to be encrypted is marked as a fully encrypted file type, phobos will encrypt all the file to be encrypted; otherwise, only part of the file is encrypted.
Determine file size difference encryption method
For fully encrypted files, the virus variant first creates a new file and splices the original file name with a specific suffix of the encrypted file. Then read the file data to be encrypted to the memory in sequence, use the AES random key and a 16-byte random initial variable to encrypt in CBC mode, and write the encrypted content to the newly created file in sequence.
After the file data is encrypted, it will append the key, the original file and other related data to the end of the new file, a total of 0xF0 bytes. The end of the file mainly contains the following contents: 64 bytes including the encrypted original file name, AES encryption initial vector IV, the AES encryption key that has been RSA-encrypted and the system disk serial number, the 4-byte tail space size mark (0xF0), and the 6-byte constant value that is suspected to mark the version number of the Phobos virus.
For partially encrypted files, the virus reads data fragments with a size of 0x40000 bytes from the file to be encrypted 3 times, plus a constant and check value, uses the same encryption algorithm as full encryption for data encryption, and then writes the encrypted data to At the end of the file, the encrypted original data fragment is cleared.
Security advice
1. Go to http://www.360totalsecurity.com/to download and install 360 Total Security, and keep the 360 Total Security process permanent, which can effectively protect against similar virus threats and prevent problems before they occur;
2. Improve personal network security awareness and not easily download so-called "free" activation tools and other software from various download sites. It is recommended to download and install software from official channels. For unfamiliar software blocked by 360 Total Security, do not continue to run and add trust.
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The Network Engineering Tool (which I will now refer to as the netool) is the result if an Indiegogo campaign. I borrowed the unit I tested from the WLPC Lending Library. The netool is a portable, battery powered unit that when connected to an Ethernet port will provide you with information about that port, similar to a NetScout LinkSprinter (~$379), but at a much lower price point ($169). I did not really set out to make this a comparison against the LinkSprinter, but it somewhat turned out that way and I'm okay with that. It's a natural comparison.
With the netool, you can connect it to an Ethernet port and it will provide you the following information via an app on your mobile device:
- Connection up/down status
- Speed of connection
- DHCP Info
- Public IP
- VLAN (for tagged ports)
- Detects LACP
- STP Info
- Can test QoS
- Detect and authenticate using 802.1X
- Switch information via CDP/LLDP
- Verify reachability via ping for default gateway, google.com, and configurable addresses
It's a pretty nifty tool. Here's some screenshots of the diagnostic screen.
The netool can also provide an AP allowing direct connection to the device. It also has an interesting Host Discovery mode that can detect information from a host device (as opposed to a switch), however, I was unable to discover the macOS box I was using. This is a new feature in the latest build and I didn't try very hard to make it work. It's promising, though.
I was initial unable to get any useful data from the unit because it was on a very old firmware. It's supposed to be able to update online, but the build was so old that wasn't working. I had to power the device off and on, connect it to the network, and go to https://netool.io/updatenow/ to force a manual update. After this procedure, it worked well.
There are a few potential downsides to this device. First, it takes about 30s to start up. That's just when you first turn it on, but you can continue to test multiple network drops without restarting it. If a network connection goes up or down, it takes several seconds to notice. This could be an annoying delay when troubleshooting. Being used to the LinkSprinter, both these delays are a minor, but real annoyance. The delay in detecting up/down changes is far more annoying than the delay in startup. Potentially the biggest downside vs the LinkSprinter, at least for the WLAN pro, is that it does not detect and report on PoE.
The ability to share results is limited to text based tools and there's no database of results hosted in the cloud. It does have an on-board history, but that's the only place it's stored. Having some form of cloud based history is very convenient. Again, I have to draw a comparison here against the Link-Live service for the LinkSprinter. Link-Live allows multiple users and multiple units to be associated, allows photos and notes to be added, and can also send your results via email. It's a much more enterprise-type solution. This is probably a bigger deal for larger shops than one-man operations, but it's one of the things you get for the higher price point.
Lastly, the only way to get the information from the netool is through the app on your smartphone. The LinkSprinter has helpful LEDs to give you a quick thumbs up/down on a link, which can save you time. Again, how big a deal this is depends on your use case.
Despite the potential downsides I mentioned, this is still a slick device. It does do things the LinkSprinter cannot, such as provide STP info, detect LACP, and detect VLAN tags. LinkSprinter does a few things it cannot, like detect PoE. The netool has had many features added since it first was released and I presume they will continue to add new features. I think this could be a great addition for many an engineer's toolkit, especially at it's price point and given it's potential for new features. If I can only carry one, I personally will continue to carry my LinkSprinter. It fits my needs better and I already own them. For a route/switch focussed engineer, I could see the netool being a better fit. Pick the tool that best fits your needs or just buy both to make sure your bases are covered. :)


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You are working on a case that pertains to a common issue encountered by customers.
You discover a new solution to resolve the issue.
You need to ensure that all users can find the new solution.
What should you do?
A. Create a knowledge article.
B. Create a solution file.
C. Assign the case to a team that includes all of the users
D. Share the case with all of the users.
Answer: A
You have an on-premises deployment of Dynamics CRM.
You plan to gather customer feedback by using several surveys.
You need to identify the prerequisite for the planned surveys.
What should you identify?
A. Microsoft Exchange Online
B. a Microsoft Office 365 subscription
C. Microsoft OneDrive for Business
D. a Microsoft Azure subscription
Answer: A
Your company has a Dynamics CRM organization that uses a FieldOne solution.
A customer calls your company's Help Desk to report a failed device.
You schedule a technician to resolve the issue.
You need to identify which notification methods can be used to notify the technician.
What are two possible notification methods? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
A. an automated phone call
B. an email message
C. Windows 10 toast
D. a text message
E. a web browser pop-up
Answer: AB
You need to create a new case in Dynamics CRM.
Which two fields are required to create the new case manually? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
A. Subject
B. Product
C. Case Title
D. Origin
E. Customer
Answer: BE
Your team uses the Dynamics CRM knowledge base.
You do not use the interactive service hub.
You need to search for an article in the knowledge base.
From which two types of records can you search for the article? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
A. Phone call
B. Email
C. Case
D. Queue Item
Answer: B
You use the interactive service hub for knowledge articles.
You need to identify which information can be gathered from the Analytics tab of a knowledge article.
What should you identify?
A. the cases that use the article and the number of views per case
B. the customer service representatives who viewed the article and the number of views per case
C. a helpfulness rating for the article and the cases that use the article
D. a helpfulness rating for the article and the customer service representatives who viewed the article.
Answer: C
You work for a hosting company.
One of the data centers experiences an outage.
Several contacts from two different customers report the outage.
You create a parent case for each customer and a child case for each child cases.
You need to consolidate all of the cases.
What should you do?
A. Merge all of the parent cases into one case, and then delete the child cases.
B. For each customer, merge all of the child cases for each parent case, and them merge all of the parent cases.
C. Export the cases, update the cases, and then reimport the cases.
D. 1 Merge all of the child cases into one case, and then delete the parent cases.
Answer: D
You need to locate recently created records that reference Feature A .
What should you do?
A. Use Advanced Find and specify* FeatureA *
B. Use Global Search and specify "FeatureA *.
C. Use Global Search and specify FeatureA.
D. Use Advanced Find and specify FeatureA.
Answer: D
Your company uses Dynamics CRM for case management.
You need to use the heatmap in Microsoft Power Bl to display customer calls by region.
What should you do first?
A. From the Interactive Service Hub dashboard, add a widget
B. CRM dashboard, export data as a dynamic worksheet.
C. From a CRM dashboard, add a widget.
D. From Power Bl, add a service connection .
Answer: C
You complete work on a case.
The case has several activities, some of which are open and some of which are complete.
You need to identify what will occur when you attempt to resolve the case.
What should you identify?
A. You will be able to resolve the case. All open activities will remain open.
B. You will be able to resolve the case. All open activities will be completed.
C. You will be prevented from resolving the case.
D. You will be able to resolve the case. All open activities will be canceled.
Answer: A
The Base currency for your Dynamics CRM organization is US dollars.
You have an order that has a transaction currency in euros.
You need to identify which events will cause the exchange rate for the order to be recalculated. Which two events should you identity? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
A. The currency of the order record is updated.
B. The exchange rates are updated in CRM.
C. The order record is opened.
D. The record state of the order record changes.
Answer: CD
A task activity is assigned to a user named SalesUser1.
After reviewing the task activity, SalesUser1 identifies that the activity must be handled by customer service.
SalesUser1 needs to send the task activity to a queue named Customer Service Queue.
SalesUser1 opens the task activity.
What should SalesUser1 do next?
A. Edit the Queue Item Details.
B. Modify the owner
C. 1 Set the Regarding field,
D. Select the queue.
Answer: D
You have an entitlement that has an allocation type of Hours.
You need to identify what will cause the remaining terms of the entitlement to be decremented.
What should you identify?
A. A case that is associated to the entitlement is deleted.
B. A case that is associated to the entitlement is canceled.
C. A case that is associated to the entitlement is resolved.
D. A case is associated to the entitlement.
Answer: A
You plan to deliver several surveys to your customers.
You need to identify which Dynamics CRM functionalities can be used for the surveys.
What are two possible functionalities that you can use? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
A. Automatically generate survey questions based on CRM data.
B. Place completed surveys on a marketing list.
C. Compare survey results to CRM data.
D. Pipe customer-specific data from CRM to personalize the surveys.
Answer: C
You have a new Dynamics CRM organization.
You need to define a parent goal and a child goal for cases.
Which two items should be the same for the parent goal and the child goal? Each correct answer presents part of the solution .
A. the rollup query
B. the subject
C. the time period
D. the goal metric
Answer: AD
You recently created several customer feedback surveys.
You gather the results of the surveys.
You need to analyze the results of the surveys.
What should you use?
A. Sway
B. Office Delve
C. Microsoft Power Bl
D. Microsoft lntune
Answer: B
Your company has a Dynamics CRM organization.
The company employs 20 technicians who respond to service calls at more than 1,000 customer locations.
You need to recommend changes to the organization to meet the following requirements:
– Improve the accuracy of the estimated technician arrival time at the customer locations.
– Collect real-time analytics about visits to the customer locations.
What should you include in the recommendation?
A. FieldOne
B. Unified Service Desk
C. the interactive service hub
D. Microsoft Power Bl
Answer: D
Your company has a Dynamics CRM organization that uses FieldOne.
The company employs 10 field technicians.
Each technician starts work at 08:00 and ends work at 16:00.
You need to identify what percentage of the technician utilization time is scheduled for the service calls that will take place the next day.
Which tool should you use?
A. the Schedule Assistant
B. the Schedule board
C. the visual filter
D. the Report Wizard
Answer: C
You have a Dynamics CRM organization that has Unified Service Desk implemented. In CRM, you use a custom entity named Projects for project management.
Your customer service representatives will access the information in Projects from Unified Service Desk. The projects will be associated to specific accounts always.
When a user selects a project from an account the project will open in a different window.
You need to identify which Unified Service Desk component you should use to display the project information in the Unified Service Desk interface.
Which component should you identify?
A. a hosted control
B. a computer telephony integration (CTI) adapter
C. an event
D. an entity search
Answer: B
While viewing open cases on an interactive dashboard in the integrated service hub, your manager informs you that there is a recall on a new product.
The cases associated to the new product must not affect the customer support agreement and must be moved to a queue named Recall Queue for processing.
You discover that a case regarding the recalled product is assigned to you.
You need to manage the case based on guidelines provided by the manager.
What are two possible actions that achieve the goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
A. Merge
B. Assign
C. Apply Routing Rule
D. Do not decrement entitlement terms
E. Add to Queue
Answer: BC
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Samsung's corporate network was breached recently. That's bad news all by itself. The company has recently confirmed that in addition to the confidential customer information that was stolen, the hackers also made off with the source code for the software used in the company's Galaxy smartphones.
The hackers responsible for the attack call themselves "Lapsus$." Not long after their attack, they disclosed that they had made off with almost 190GB of archives.
Disturbingly, this group has been exceedingly busy so far in 2022 and extremely successful. Just a week prior to the announcement regarding Samsung's data, the same group released a 20GB sample of documents stolen from Nvidia. The group claims that this sample is part of a collection of stolen documents more than 1TB in size.
Aside from the aforementioned source code at this point, we do not know exactly what sorts of data the group of hackers may have compromised when they successfully breached Samsung's network.
For that matter, we do not yet know the full extent of the contents of the 1TB cache documents stolen from Nvidia because as members of Lapsus$ explained, they are currently in negotiations for the sale of that data.
This is the world we live in. This is the shape of 2022 and years to come. What the long-term implications might be are anyone's guess but fortunately, the advice for guarding against such attacks remains largely the same.
Be sure the software you use is updated with the latest security patches and constantly educate and reeducate your employees about the dangers of phishing campaigns to minimize your risk.
Failing that, take regular backups and have a rapid response team standing by that can spring into action if your defenses fail. That's by no means a perfect solution, but it will make you a significantly harder target and there's value in that.


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Monitor Calibration and Profiling
On this page, we describe how monitor calibration and profiling works, and outline workflow for optimizing your monitor.
Understanding monitor calibration and profiling
Monitor types
LCD panel architecture
Using a hardware device to calibrate your monitor
What luminance, white point and gamma do I use?
Quality controlling your color management system
Reference lighting
Ambient lighting
Understanding monitor calibration and profiling
The monitor is your window to the world (or at least to your photos). If you've ever been in a television store and looked at a row of sets playing the same program, you may have noticed that the color appearance can vary widely (or wildly) from TV to TV.
If you don't calibrate and profile your monitor, then your picture's appearance can vary widely from the way it would look on other monitors, and can mislead you about the actual colors in your image. To address this problem, monitors can be calibrated and profiled. This process makes the device show as accurate an image as possible.
Calibration is the process of setting the monitor to the desired neutral output. It includes settings for luminance, white point and gamma. Once it's been neutralized as well as the monitor's controls allow, it's time to measure the color and help to perfect it with software.
Profiling is the process of measuring the imperfections in the monitor, and creating a "filter" that compensates for those imperfections. Using the parameters set in the calibration step, profiling requires using a hardware device, often referred to as a "puck" (a Colorimeter or Spectrophotometer), that hangs over the monitor screen and reads several sets of red, green, blue and grey patches generated by the profiling software. The color patches are measured by the puck as they are displayed. The differences between the colors the monitor displays in its native state and the true colors of the patches are used to create a monitor profile which will cause the monitor to display the true colors more closely than it did in its native state.
Monitor types
Like high-end stereo speakers, the monitor is a place where you really do get what you pay for. The best systems are precision engineered for added fidelity and evenness across the screen.
Fast-changing marketplace
The old-school CRT monitors are pretty much out of service. They have been replaced by LCD flat panel monitors. The newest technology is a new form of flat panel that uses LED light behind the screen.
Important characteristics to consider when selecting a monitor to use for image editing:
Illumination type – backlit fluorescent or LED
In the 1990s, high-end CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors were considered to be state of the art. That technology has gradually given way to LCD panels. Up until now, these panels have used CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) back lights. CCFL technology is in the process of being replaced by LED (light emitting diode) backlights. LED backlights have many advantages over CCFL including requiring half the power consumption and, more importantly, they are free of mercury, a toxic material that is emitted by electronic equipment. LED backlights have another advantage: the white light they create is derived from pure red, blue and green LEDs, so the light is purer, brighter and can offer a wider color gamut than CCFL. Some LED panels that are currently available have up to 120% of the Adobe RGB (1998) color gamut, which is 25% more than the very best CCFL panels. Most likely your next LCD will be an LED backlit display.
DDC (display data channel) enabled
DDC allows adjustment of the display's brightness, contrast, white point and gamma through the profiling device and software. This will save time and improve precision when calibrating and profiling monitors. When shopping for a new monitor, it's best to choose a DDC-compliant display if possible.
Bit depth
Computer monitors started out as 1-bit depth displays – good only for looking at type. Monitor development quickly progressed and now all consumer displays are 24-bit and can display over 16.7 million distinct colors. Twenty four-bit color is based on eight bits per RGB channel, which is why you may see monitors described as having 8-bit depth color. High quality graphics monitors such as the EIZO CG series have 10-, 12-, or 14-bit depth. This results in smoother transitions between tone values and the possibility of using the extra bits to extend the dynamic range of displayed images, allowing more detail to be seen in extremely bright areas and better shadow detail all at the same time. This extra headroom allows for easier editing in wide gamut color spaces. Some of this advantage is still theoretical until Photoshop supports greater than 8-bit depth all the way from the display to the pixels in an image.
Many high-end monitors advertise the fact that they can display all or nearly all of the Adobe RGB (1998) color space. At first glance, this seems like something that you would want, and in many ways it is, but there are a few trade-offs. One issue is that the visible difference between almost identical colors – meaning colors that vary by just one number in an RGB triplet, such as our example in the color management overview section of 255, 133, 1 and 255, 134, 1 – is much greater. This can make color editing more difficult. Another unwanted side-effect of wider gamut displays is that untagged colors and images on the web (which is most of them) will be greatly exaggerated. This neon effect is the result of narrow gamut sRGB images displaying in the monitor gamut space, which is what happens with non-color-managed browsers and/or untagged images. This can make web viewing an unpleasant experience on these wide gamut displays.
Evenness of illumination across the screen
We can say unequivocally that this is an essential feature for a monitor to have. When you buy a new widescreen monitor you should check it for evenness. This can be most accurately done by creating a monitor profile, and then use the "validate current profile" function of the monitor profiling software to measure the four corners and side-to-side areas. If you have a spectrophotometer handy, this can be used as well. A quick-and-dirty approach is to bring up an image in Photoshop and move it around on the screen and see if it appears to get brighter or darker as you move it around.
Pixel response time
This refers to how quickly a pixel can change colors, measured in milliseconds (ms); the fewer the milliseconds, the faster the pixels can change, reducing the ghosting or streaking effect you might see in a moving or changing image. This feature is important for watching videos or gaming but not very important if you use your monitor for editing images in Photoshop. What is important for image editing is quick screen redraw, which is governed by the amount of RAM available on the graphics card and the image cache level settings.
Built-in calibration tools
The best monitors come with calibration tools as part of a package. These include calibration and profiling software, and some include the hardware device or puck. These tools include DDC communication, which allows the calibration tools to adjust the monitor hardware settings directly as opposed to just adjusting the graphics card. This preserves the monitor's dynamic range better than adjusting only the graphics card.
LCD panel architecture
LCD (liquid crystal display) monitors come in several architectures. One term you may see is TFT (thin film transistor) LCD. Thin film technology improves image quality and is used in all high quality computer monitors.
In addition to TFT, other terms you may see are TN, VA, and IPS. TN (twisted nematic) technology is the most basic LCD architecture. However, TN panels are not the best for photo editing due to a limited viewing angle (meaning that the color and contrast change fairly dramatically if your viewing angle is not dead center), and low bit depth (6-bit depth is typical).
VA (vertical alignment) architecture is an improvement over TN with improved viewing angles and support for 8-bit depth. There are several variations such as MVA (multi-domain vertical alignment), PVA (patterned vertical alignment) and ASV (advanced super view).
IPS panels are the best for photo editing
VA architecture and its variants are an improvement over TN, but arguably the best architecture for high-quality displays (the type required for accurate photo image editing), is the IPS (in-plane switching) architecture. There are now several variants of in-plane switching as the technology continues to advance.
These are the key advantages of IPS architecture:
- True wide viewing angle: Accurate and consistent colors at any viewing angle
- Real color: IPS reproduces images that are closest to the actual color ( original image = digital camera = IPS monitor)
- Eye comfort: Less eye strain in comparison to VA and TN
- Stable quality: Image onscreen is designed to remain stable when you touch the screen
Many professional IPS-based LCD monitors also feature high bit-depth and ultra wide color gamuts, which we define as equal to or greater than the Adobe RGB (1998) color space.
One interesting variation of IPS is the AH-IPS architecture developed by LG Display. This type of IPS panel uses the AFFS (advanced fringe field switching). This architecture gives the best performance for smaller screens with high resolution, such as those used in handheld devices like the Apple iPad.
AH-IPS has the advantage of greater light transmission, which translates into lower power consumption. So far, this technology has been limited to small screens due to higher manufacturing costs for larger screens.
Using a hardware device to calibrate your monitor
While some monitors have integrated devices for calibration and profiling, you might want to invest in a stand-alone device. You can get great results with many mid-priced monitors and low-cost calibration solutions.
Figure 1 This video discusses monitor calibration and shows how to get accurate color on your monitor.
Verification of calibration
Some software incorporates a verification function that essentially rechecks the profile against the color patches and creates a monitor verification report. This report can be used to check on the accuracy of the monitor profile over time and even to track the performance of the monitor over time.
Best practices also recommend that you check the calibration by comparing a reference file as shown on the monitor to a reference print illuminated under a high-quality light source like a SoLux lamp.
What luminance, white point and gamma do I use?
Luminance or brightness of the monitor is the most important setting (outside of creating a good color profile) for screen-to-print matching. Monitor brightness is measured in candelas per square meter (cd/m2), also sometimes referred to as "nits". The acceptable range is 80 cd/m2 to 120 cd/m2, with 100 cd/m2 being the most commonly recommended brightness for pre-press work. The brightness of the monitor is driven to a large degree by the brightness of the working environment. The brighter the working environment, the brighter the monitor will need to be.
The white point
The white point is the calibration setting on a monitor that determines the color temperature of the brightest white. Color temperature is expressed in Kelvin, eg 6500K. A more accurate unit of measuring color temperature is the so-called standard illuminant, expressed as D50, D65, etc. For most practical purposes you can use either unit of measure with your monitor calibration software. 5000K/D50 and 5500K/D55 are commonly used in CMYK reproduction, and 6500K/D65 is commonly used for general purpose and images on the web.
Native white point
The native white point is the default white point of a monitor. Most high-quality LCD monitors are very close to 6500K. Less expensive monitors and many Windows operating system monitors are quite a bit bluer, having a native white point between 7300K and 9300K.
Gamma is less important than white point and luminance for photographers because color managed image editing applications such as Photoshop automatically adjust for gamma and display all images the same, regardless of monitor gamma. The Windows operating system default is a gamma close to 2.2, while Apple operating systems have used a native gamma of 1.8 up until the Snow Leopard version of OS 10. Most monitor hardware is designed to have a native gamma of 2.2 so many Mac users calibrate and profile their systems to 2.2 gamma. A few calibration/profiling software applications use a variable gamma curve called L* gamma. It is a slightly less linear version of 2.2 gamma which can result in slightly more shadow detail.
Quality controlling your color management system
You can run the calibration routine, but you don't actually know that everything is set up optimally until you check it against some reference standards.
There are three elements to this:
- the reference file
- the reference print
- reference lighting
Reference print and reference file
In order to confirm that the monitor is showing you accurate color, you need to compare it to a print that is of known quality. The best way to do that is to purchase a reference print that is a certified proof of the file that produced the print. The color of these two versions of the image should match. Of course, in order to make sure you are seeing the colors in the print correctly, you need to view it under high-quality lighting. This exercise can help you fine-tune your choice of monitor white point.
A GATF RHEM indicator affixed to the proof will show when you are viewing your color with a light source with an accurate color temperature. The way that this works is that when the print is viewed in 5000K lighting, the indicator will appear to be all one color. In anything less than 5000K quality light the indicator will exhibit a striped appearance
Figure 2 A GATF metamerism sticker in light that is not 5000K. | |
Figure 3 A GATF metamerism sticker in light that is 5000K. |
Reference lighting
In order to check the quality of your calibration, you need to examine a print under a standardized lighting setup which we refer to as reference lighting. Reference lighting is a high quality light source that is close to the D50 standard for graphic arts. This can be a lightbooth such as those made by GTI or others, or it can be a relatively inexpensive SoLux lamp. The SoLux lamp is very color accurate, but the lightbooth will produce less glare. Some lightbooths are equipped with brightness controls and some even have USB connections to the computer to provide complete control over monitor and reference lighting equalization.
Reference lighting can confirm the quality of your calibration sequence.
You can also use it to determine the best light source.
For those who really want to get things perfect, the reference setup can be used to determine which white point is most appropriate for your eye and your workspace. Profile your monitor to D65 and compare the screen to the reference print viewed under the reference lighting. If the print appears to be slightly warmer than the monitor, try D60, D55 or even D50 until you find the best match of monitor to print for your system and your working environment.
To really ensure that your workflow is color consistent, you can print out a copy of the reference image and check it against the reference print to see how well your printer is calibrated.
Read more in Desktop Printer Profiling
Figure 4 This image shows how the color of the light source changes your perception of the colors in the print. Use a known reference light source like SoLux lights to check the print color. |
Ambient lighting
Ambient lighting, otherwise known as your working environment lighting, is a critical component of your color management setup. To a large degree it will influence your choice of monitor white point and monitor brightness, the two most important variables for monitor calibration. We recommend a reasonably dim unchanging ambient light level. Avoid working in conditions where strong sunlight streams in, as it will be too bright and will change continually throughout the day and from day to day.
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My Halpert and Szleper families come from Kalisz. Or at least, that's what I've always known. Just before I left for my trip, I double checked the records that I wanted from the PSA in JRI-Poland and discovered that some Halpert records I wanted were actually in the Konin Archive and not the Kalisz Archive. Unfortunately, this meant trying to squeeze both of those cities into one day, which was a failure. I had trouble with transportation from Konin to Kalisz and never made it to Kalisz this trip.
But I learned something interesting in Konin.
My great-grandparents were Henry Halpert and Bertha Szleper, just to establish the connection between these families. I already had tons of records from Kalisz for the Szleper family from microfilm, and probably some ordered from the PSA years ago. I can go back into the late 1700s with them, and sideways to many other cousins. In my great-grandmother's generation, they all Anglicized their surname, to Smith, Sheppard, Levy, Burnstein, or Bornstein. I assume that Smith and Sheppard were to be similar to the original. Levy is a maiden name in the family. I still haven't figured out the reason for Burnstein yet, but the multiple spellings don't concern me; they're probably all for the same reason or copying each other.
Halpert is another problem. I have barely found them indexed by JRI, except for two births that were in the Konin Archive (and one death in the Kalisz Archive). Upon arrival in Konin, I ordered up a few books, two for the indexed records, and the following years to look for more. I soon confused the archivist when I didn't want to look through the other books, though I eventually did.
The two records that were indexed, I was certain, were Henry's siblings, Benjamin and Fajga. I already knew their parents' names, Itzik and Rachel Leah (or, more correctly, Ruchla Laia in Polish). My family had been within about five years of their correct birth years, upon interviews with another cousin before I was born. Benjamin was born in 1891 and Fajga in 1894.
But it was Fajga's birth certificate that surprised me. Even though I had the information in my database already (though a few years off), I just hadn't noticed. Her mother was listed as a widow.
I even had Itzik's death year, and the listing from JRI-Poland to retrieve the record in the Kalisz Archive. But since my information was more like estimations, and I didn't realize that he died while his children were so young, finding that he died six months before one of them was born was a shock. The month and year of his death are listed on his daughter's birth, but I still need to get the death certificate for the exact date.
We also have some surname issues in this family. Both birth certificates listed Ruchla Laia's surname as Bruks. I had been given that surname before, but it was not yet attached to her in my database. I don't know if the person who told me that said it was her surname or just that it was in the family. (I'll have to search for that note.) I was also told by two people that the name was changed to Halpert, but I don't know what from. I think my grandmother told me when I was 11, but I didn't write down every word she said. Her sister told me it was Moshkowitz, but I've found that as a maiden name in the family; she mixed up quite a few names, so it's less likely she got it right.
I've tried searching for Itzik and Ruchla Laia's marriage by their given names, but haven't yet been successful.
Once again, I have more work to do on this. The Halperts are tricky.


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The action-driven, all-out warfare gameplay in Battlefield 3 gets a massive boost this March as gamers engage in high-speed combat across four distinct maps in the all-new Battlefield 3: End Game digital expansion pack. Players can race through enemy lines using the new dirt bike, bringing speed and agility to the battlefield, or fight back aerial assaults with the new lightweight AA vehicles. Coordinate lightning fast attacks and defenses or take to the sky and engage in massive dog fights in the return of the two classic Battlefield game modes – Capture the Flag and Air Superiority. Buckle up, it's time for battle!


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There's been lots of coverage in the news the past couple of weeks about changes to Social Security claiming strategies, so we'd like to share a few key highlights about what's changed and how it may affect you.
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, signed into law by President Obama on Monday, November 2, 2015, closes several "unintended loopholes" in Social Security's rules. It effectively eliminates a married couple's ability to use well-known social security claiming strategies—file and suspend and restricted application for spousal benefits—which have made it possible for both members of a couple who are 66 or older to delay claiming benefits based on their own earnings record, while the other receives a spousal benefit based on their spouse's earnings.
What do the Social Security changes mean for you?
- The file and suspend strategy has been eliminated. When you suspend your own benefit, you suspend all associated benefits (spouse, children).
- Individuals who will be age 62 or older by December 31, 2015 will be grandfathered in and still be able to use the file and suspend and restricted application strategies. However, after May 2, 2016, the restricted application strategy will no longer be available.
- Deemed filing now applies to age 70, rather than at full retirement age. This means that when you file for social security benefits, you file for the maximum personal and spousal benefits, not one or the other.
- Those already implementing the file and suspend and restricted application strategies are also grandfathered in under the previous laws.
- Persons turning 62 in 2015 will have options, but will need to start planning by the end of the year as there is a six-month window to file a restricted application.
- Unfortunately, if you turn 62 after December 31, 2015, you will not be able to use the file and suspend or restricted application strategies.
Even though the file and suspend and restricted application strategy may no longer be an option for you, your advisor can help you optimize your social security benefits. If you have any questions about these social security changes or intended to follow the file and suspend or restricted application strategy, please contact your advisor for a complimentary social security analysis that takes into account the updated laws.


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First off, I picked out the nice, big red ones and put them in bowls for us to eat, plus shared them out with neighbours as well. Then I picked out the just ripening ones, peeled and cored them, then chopped them into pieces and sugar froze them for pies and crumbles.
I then put little not-so-red ones into two big cardboard boxes, layering well with newspapers, and cellared them, so we have fresh apples through winter. I made applesauce with about 10 kilos of apples (a HUGE amount of applesauce). And I still have one more large bagful to sort through... yes, that's a lot of apples! I've been using them up little by little, making cakes and cookies, and as some ripen up, we've been eating them too.
So I was extremely pleased when Chele chose apples as the special ingredient for We Should Cocoa this month. Not least because I had sent out a desperate appeal to grandmas (that's Aditi's grandma, not mine) and grandpas for apple recipes. Both of them came up trumps with several gorgeous looking recipes, including this one. I love the fact that this recipe is from the booklet 'Magic Recipes for the Electric Blender' and dated 1952. A true classic, indeed!
The applesauce in this recipe was made by me, using this recipe from Canadian Living. I modified it slightly, as I added some sugar (the apples were a bit on the tart side) and instead of using powdered cinnamon, I chucked in a few cinnamon sticks which I then removed once the sauce was made. I also did not puree the sauce as I wanted it chunky. I canned it using the traditional boiling water method.
I made a few modifications to the recipe, and instead of the coffee icing suggested by Grandma, I used a coffee glaze, which was a lighter sauce, and added a delicate pudding-like aspect to the cake. The cake itself was moist and dense, almost like a sticky toffee pudding. As my applesauce was chunky, there were little pieces of apple scattered through the cake, and the slight tart flavour was just delicious, adding a real contrast to the sweet stickiness of the rest of the cake. The cocoa added the chocolate flavour, but unlike my expectations, it did not overhwhelm the cake, just enhancing the fragrance and flavour with a touch of bitterness. All in all, this cake was a real success and this is a keeper of a recipe for sure. I am looking forward to the rest of the apples already!
On a side note, has any of you been utterly confused by the North American coffee cake? Most don't have coffee in them, and are actually cakes that are served with morning or afternoon coffee. Who knew? As it turned out, I was making a recipe for sour cherry coffee cake. I kept thinking that they must have missed out the coffee in the recipe, and so I added a slug of coffee to the recipe when making the cake. Not my greatest moment, I'll admit, hehe :-)
(Printable Recipe)
Adapted from Magic Recipes for the Electric Blender, 1952, 1956
2 cups sifted cake flour
2 tbsp cocoa
1 cup sugar
¾ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp cloves
½ tsp nutmeg
½ tsp ground ginger
½ tsp allspice
½ tsp baking soda
1½ tsp baking powder
1½ cup (375 ml) applesauce
2 eggs
½ cup shortening (or softened butter)
Coffee Glaze:
2 tbsp strong espresso coffee
1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp water
1 cup icing sugar
Pinch salt
Preheat oven to 350 F.
In a bowl, sift together dry ingredients.
Place the applesauce, shortening or butter and the eggs in blender container (or use hand blender) and blend until smooth.
Pour over sifted dry ingredients and mix thoroughly, using a wooden spoon.
Pour into greased and floured (or wax paper lined) 9"x13" pan and bake at 350 F for about 45 minutes.
To make the coffee glaze, heat together the butter and water. Add this hot mixture to the icing sugar, along with the espresso. Whisk to a smooth sauce, and pour over the still warm cake.
Note: I took a small portion of the cake batter and poured it into mini bundt moulds for the pictures. The rest of the cake was baked in its tin.
This recipe is linked to Ren's fabulous blogging event, Simple and in Season.


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A few months ago we started up a new Twitter chat series, #Bufferchat.
So far, we've talked about everything from productivity to social media monitoring and lots of other topics in between. These days, we have up to 185 participants each week, sending out nearly 2,000 tweets. It's a true delight!
Along the way, I've been learning the ins and outs of operating a Twitter chat and testing new tools and ideas to optimize our chat even further.
It's amazing how much there is to know, both for the chat host and the chat participants! I'd be thrilled to share some of our best tips and techniques with you. Twitter has been an awesome learning experience in so many different ways, and chats are no exception.
Whether you're a Twitter pro or newer to the network, whether you plan to host your own chat or if you look forward to participating in others, a bit of advance preparation could help. Here's what we've discovered so far to help you make the most of Twitter chats.
Twitter chat basics
What is a Twitter chat?
A Twitter chat is where a group of Twitter users meet at a pre-determined time to discuss a certain topic, using a designated hashtag (#) for each tweet contributed. A host or moderator will pose questions (designated with Q1, Q2…) to prompt responses from participants (using A1, A2…) and encourage interaction among the group. Chats typically last an hour.
Imagine a business networking event—but without a dress code and with a keyboard instead of a bar. The same social customs apply—courtesy and respect—and it's a great way to meet new people with similar interests. There are Twitter chats in almost every industry imaginable.
Twitter chats are business networking events – minus the dress code.
Why participate in a Twitter chat?
Twitter chats provide a chance to network and grow your circle (and knowledge!) through shared interests. Through our #Bufferchats, we've discovered a whole host of useful tools, tips, and super savvy people whom we might not have otherwise connected with.
How to find a Twitter chat
There are many ways to find Twitter chats, most of which happen on a fairly regular basis. Try the following links to find a chat that meets your interests or industry.
- Chat Salad is a great place to find chats that are currently happening or taking place in the near future.
- Tweet Reports also has a great listing of Twitter chats.
- Twubs, a website where you can register a hashtag, has an easy-to-read and thorough listing of chats.
6 tools for a more productive Twitter chat
At the most basic level, you can participate in a Twitter chat simply by entering the hashtag into a Twitter search and interacting with people there. But there are many other great tools that help organize and filter tweets into a stream for easier conversing.
One of the major benefits of these tools (specifically Tweetchat and Nurph) is that they automatically add the hashtag to your Tweet, which can save you lots of time—Twitter chats move fast!
Tweetchat is a simple, powerful tool to quickly interact and reply to Tweets. Once connected to your Twitter account you can easily keep up with fast-paced Twitter chats as it updates and refreshes in real time.
Nurph is a comprehensive Twitter chat tool with rooms for chats, replays of chats and RSVP functionality too. If you're hosting a chat, definitely look into this tool as it also provides analytics. Nurph also has a great video series about Twitter chats that are worth a watch!
Update: It looks like Nurph has shut down 🙁
Twchat connects with your Twitter account and provides rooms for your chats.
Hootsuite organizes your social media profiles or searches into streams that you can easily scan and manage. This is one of the favorites for following along and organizing social content.
Tweetdeck is owned by Twitter and integrates seamlessly with your Twitter account as a login. This is a beautiful, simple way to keep on track with a Twitter chat.
After the excitement is over and the chat concludes, it can be helpful to scan back through a Twitter chat to check out tools, resources and point you might have missed.
Lots of chat hosts put together chat recaps for this purpose. If you're the host of a chat, Storify is a straightforward, effective way to create a recap of each chat. Simply add in the hashtag into the Twitter column on the right hand side and drag and drop tweets into the story column to organize and construct the story of your Twitter chat.
Here is an example of the Storify for our last #bufferchat.
10 quick tips for Twitter chat participants
- Give your Twitter followers a heads-up before you join a Twitter chat ("High tweet volume warning") and share an invite to join the chat if it might be of interest to your followers.
- Reply directly for targeted conversations with one or two people.
- Include a "." in front of an @ if you want your tweet to show up in all feeds. (Don't worry if you've flubbed this in the past; it's one of the most common Twitter mistakes!)
- It's OK to dip in and out of a Twitter chat. Drop by for the time you have and don't feel guilty if you can't stay for the whole thing.
- Be polite and positive! 🙂
- Don't be afraid to contribute and jump in! It can be intimidating, but trust me, the moderators and participants will be glad to hear from you!
- When answering a specific question or comment from another participant, use Twitter handles to identify who you're speaking to in order to avoid confusion.
- Remember Twitter chats are about connecting and learning, not selling your product. Use the time to provide as much value on the given topic as possible and show your expertise without over-promoting.
- Always include the chat hashtag in your responses.
- Follow up with people after the chat! Keep the conversation going or get to know fellow participants on a more personal level. You never know what new connections you can make!
6 steps to hosting your own Twitter chat
There are tons of great chats out there! And if you can't find a chat that you're looking for, why not start your own? Here's what you need to know about hosting a Twitter chat.
1. Participate in plenty of chats first
If you're planning on hosting a chat of your own, make sure you learn the ropes first. Try to join in several Twitter chats in advance of your own . If you participate heavily, you'll start to get the feel of the flow, the speed, and the types of interactions you're likely to see as host.
While you're participating, test out some of the tools mentioned above and see what fits best for you.
2. Choose a hashtag: Make it brief and clear
Your chat will need its own hashtag. Picking the ideal hashtag can be tricky business—there are tons of chats already out there, and you want to pick something brief (since it will be appended to every tweet), clear and simple. Bonus point if it's easy to relate back to your business or perhaps even branded to you or your company.
We originally hosted #toolschat several years ago, but when we decided to launch back into the Twitter chats, we felt a more branded hashtag might be best to tie it back to Buffer.
You can register your hashtag on Twubs to provide a place where people can learn more about your talk or topic.
3. Schedule your chat: Consider your audience, time zones
When it comes to scheduling the best time to host your chat, consider your audience. Are they in multiple time zones? Are they most active with you on Twitter during the day or in the evening? It's OK to experiment a bit to find the best time or even ask your audience what they'd like!
For #Bufferchat, we wanted to make sure as many timezones as possible could partake, so early in the day for Pacific time, midday for East Coast and Evening for Europe worked well for us!
We also wanted to be conscious of not conflicting with too many other chats (though this may be inevitable—did we mention how many there are?)
As you promote your Twitter chat on Twitter and other social media spots, make sure you post the time zone since anyone around the world can join! The Time Now is an accessible web tool for converting time zones that you can share with your audience.
4. Topics and questions: Plan in advance
Once you decide what your chat will focus on, start brainstorming possible topics and questions in advance so you can build out your schedule.
At Buffer, we often look at our popular blog posts for topic ideas, since we know these seem to resonate with our audiences. But we've also kept an open mind and asked our guest speakers what might work best for them.
Write down the questions ahead of time—5 to 8 questions should be a good number to get you going. Be sure to include a few alternative questions you might want to add in depending on the direction of the conversation. It's great to be flexible and go with the flow. Sometimes chats can go in different directions than you intend, which can lead to great things!
5. Consider special guests
Bringing in special guests to answer questions and lend their expertise can help your chat reach new audiences.
We were so excited to have Peg Fitzpatrick from Canva as our first #Bufferchat guest, which allowed for several participants to be introduced to Canva, a tool we love for creating visuals. We have a lot more special guests on the way!
Don't be afraid to reach out and ask an expert in your field. It's likely a flattering request and if it doesn't work with someone's schedule, they'll let you know. Be sure to communicate clearly and send questions ahead of time so the guest can prepare.
6. Encourage and engage
When your chat gets going, get fired up! The next hour will be an awesome blur.
Make sure you encourage participants to join in and introduce themselves at the start. Large chats can be intimidating, and asking your community to welcome the new folks can help foster engagement.
Over the course of your chat, you'll be busy as you keep the conversation moving, ask and answer questions, manage conversations, share resources, connect participants and generally try to be the best host you can.
Experiment and have fun. Enjoy the process—and the rush!
Your turn
Have you participated in Twitter chats before? How did it go, and what tips would you offer? If you have yet to join a Twitter chat, what questions do you have? Share with us in the comments!
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The ancient Vía de la Plata (Silver Route) was fundamental to the historic development of this town, where ham is the stellar product
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The ancient Vía de la Plata (Silver Route) was fundamental to the historic development of this town, where ham is the stellar product
Monasterio is in the south of Badajoz province. It belongs to the Tentudía region, studded with ancient holm and cork oaks, and is very close to the Sierra Morena mountains on the border of Extremadura with Andalusia. This region offers you stunning landscapes full of history, legend and untamed nature.
And it is part of one of the most important routes in Antiquity, the Vía de la Plata, or Silver Route.
In the Roman period, Monesterio was the gateway to Extremadura from the south, with the town's history dating back to its founding by the Templars.
Although this town is most famous for the road that passes through it, it also has a lot of places worth visiting. Its heritage includes the 16th century parish church of San Pedro Apóstol, which has now been restored.
Monesterio is the perfect place to find out everything you ever wanted to know about cured Iberian ham. It has a Museum of Ham dedicated to this famous product that is so closely identified with the town, and Extremadura in general. Visitors to the Museum find out more about the Tentudía region, the Iberian pig, the customs and rituals associated with the "matanza", when the pig is killed, and the virtues that set this product apart from all others. The museum explains the importance of this product for the area and the entire production process.
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He's 12 feet tall. He's ripped. He's as quick as a tiger and fierce as a dragon. Lit by his fury to a dull green glow, the guy is sheer, boundless power. Any NFL team you can think of would love to start him at middle linebacker. But, as art-house director Ang Lee would have it, this outsized, computer-generated, big-screen version of The Hulk is also a sensitive bundle of repressed childhood traumas fomented by his megalomaniacal father. So, to write him off simply as a big lug who can run a hundred miles an hour and tear the turret off an army tank with his bare hands -- to see him as just another summer-blockbuster superhero, in other words -- would be to misunderstand, well, his existential dilemma, his very soul. Any movie that costs $150 million to make, Lee seems to be telling us, ought to come with at least ten bucks' worth of deep thinking.
To that end, the man who gave us Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm, as well as the high-flying, Oscar-winning antics of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has injected The Hulk not only with a fateful shot of mutant DNA, but also full doses of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Nutty Professor, a dash of leftover Joseph Conrad, and an entire casebook of Freudian insecurities. Compared to the vivid Marvel comics that introduced the man-monster in 1962, or the popular '70s TV series that brought the fantasy to an even wider public, Lee's movie is downright philosophical. Too often, the fun stops there.
While millions of Matrix cultists spend their summers decoding a big new chunk of Hollywood cosmology, Lee and three screenwriters (John Turman, Michael France, and longtime Lee collaborator James Schamus) provide some pseudo-science and solemn pop mythology of their own. They start with the deeply divided hero, Bruce Banner (the unremarkable Eric Bana, late of Chopper). Thanks to his scientist-father's past fiddlings and an accidental zap of gamma rays down at the lab, the nerdy Berkeley geneticist is -- after being angered once too often -- about to discover the torment and exaltation of his uncontrollable alter ego. We've also got Nick Nolte, looking like he spent the week in custody, as the messianic lost-and-found father, David Banner, still obsessed with his experiments and given to raving about "the pale religions of civilization that have infected humanity."
The pivotal new wrinkle here involves poor, bottled-up Bruce's love interest, a fellow scientist named Betty Ross (A Beautiful Mind's Jennifer Connelly). Whip-smart, Betty sees all and knows all (including the secret of Bruce's metamorphosis), but she, too, has issues. Her father, it turns out, is a ruthless, emotionally inadequate army general (Sam Elliott), who doesn't give a damn about her but cares plenty about hooking up the National Security Agency and an evil corporation called Atheon (godless, no doubt) in a plot to exploit Bruce/Hulk for their own purposes. Is this plot element a miscalculation? Or an act of defiance? In any case, it's odd. In a time when American approval of government and the military is soaring (at least, that's what the polls are saying), these moviemakers have returned to the wary, even paranoid view of the military-industrial complex that characterized earlier science-fiction fantasies. Is it going too far to speculate that Lee and company have hidden a political parable (a second personality!) about the indiscriminate use of official power inside their summer movie? To be sure, Lee wants us to know he's no mere hack, but a fellow conversant with all the realms of human thought and striving.
Still, he knows who buys concessions at the multiplex, so he also dutifully stages the money shots. The big action setpieces here include the computerized green monster's satisfyingly destructive breakout from a secret underground army base, a battle with slavering mutant dogs, and a visit to San Francisco that has him tearing up several blocks of pavement and tossing a cable car onto the sidewalk. Lee also mounts his own version of Desert Storm, in which Hulk bounces from butte to butte like a huge blob of Flubber, swatting helicopter gunships out of the air. Lee and his technicians rarely let up on the technical flash. There are lots of bewildering split-screen effects straight out of the '60s, alongside a surplus of flashbacks, plenty of morphing, and an array of oozy, multicolored hallucinations intended, we must assume, to express the conflicted agony in Bruce/Hulk's mind and the molecular rage inside his body. Leave it to preachy Banner Senior to explain things: "You are nothing more than a husk of flimsy consciousness." Okay, but the husk could do with a gallon of Maalox about now.
Some Marvel fans and diehard devotees of Lou Ferrigno, the bodybuilder who played the Hulk on TV (and who does a brief walk-on here) may find Ang Lee's whole enterprise grandiose and -- given its not-always-successful attempt to fuse brains and brawn -- a little bit silly. Certainly, the climactic pitched battle tries for Greek or Shakespearean classicism, but it comes off as cartoon. In the end, The Hulk seems as unhappily divided in its nature as Bruce Banner himself. Art and entertainment don't always get along. Still, in the very last shot, Lee takes pains to suggest -- heaven help us -- a sequel. We can only hope it answers one vital philosophical question. To wit: Whenever Bruce violently expands into The Hulk, he bursts out of his undersized wardrobe. So tell us -- how does the big guy always wind up in a pair of perfectly fitting blue shorts?


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Patriarch of Constantinople Proposes Eastern Catholicism's Return to OrthodoxyNow before anyone gets too excited (or concerned), I checked the original KATH.net story, and it doesn't seem quite so irenic. My German is quite a bit rusty, so I hope someone will produce a translation.
19.06.2008, [12:10] // Inter-Christian relations //
Munich—In a recent interview with the German ecumenical journal Cyril and Methodius, the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Constantinople Bartholomew I invited Eastern Catholic Churches to return to Orthodoxy without breaking unity with Rome. He noted that "the Constantinople Mother-Church keeps the door open for all its sons and daughters." According to the Orthodox hierarch, the form of coexistence of the Byzantine Church and the Roman Church in the 1st century of Christianity should be used as a model of unity. This story was posted by KATH.net on 16 June 2008.
At the same time, the patriarch made positive remarks about the idea of "dual unity" proposed by the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Archbishop Lubomyr (Husar). Patriarch Bartholomew I noted in particular that this model would help to overcome the schism between the Churches.
Note that "1st century" should read "1st millennium".
If the Patriarch really were speaking along the lines this article suggests, he would be revealed as a Zogbyite! (Not that that's such a bad thing....) But until I see an accurate reportage of the original interview I will pray and leave it to our Lord. However, I can't help but think Moscow will not be favorable to this option unless it is seen as merely asking all us "Uniates" to come to our senses and return to the Orthodox fold.
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Soad Thabet's house no longer has a door. Inside, its walls are blackened with soot and a television lies shattered on the floor. The remains of a red nightgown stand out among the ashes.
Thabet, 70, describes being dragged outside by Muslim villagers and stripped naked in the dirt roads of Alkarm, the Egyptian village where she spent her most of her adult life.
Her crime? Her son, a married Christian, was rumored to have had an affair with a married Muslim woman. The woman has since denied the affair took place on national television.
"They burned the house and went in and dragged me out, threw me in front of the house and ripped my clothes. I was just as mymother gave birth to me, screaming and crying," Thabet told Reuters a week after the attack.
Orthodox Copts like Thabet, who make up about a tenth of Egypt's 90 million population, are the Middle East's largest Christian community. They have long complained of discrimination in the majority-Muslim country.
Sectarian attacks occur so frequently in Egypt that they rarely attract wide publicity. But Thabet's ordeal, the public humiliation of an elderly woman, prompted an outcry among Copts and led to the case becoming national news.
"If it were just a burning we could handle it, but what can we do about what happened to the woman? How can you compensate for this insult?" Ishak William, Thabet's neighbor and relative, told Reuters at his house in Alkarm.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has denounced the Alkarm attack, which underlines that Copts remain vulnerable three years after he took power and pledged to unite the country following years of political turmoil.
Sectarian violence often erupts on the back of rumors about inter-faith romances or suspicions that Christians are building churches without the required official permission.
Homes are burned, crops are razed, churches are attacked and, occasionally, Copts are forced to leave their villages, say human rights groups and residents of the southern province of Minya, home to Egypt's largest Christian community.
Then come the reconciliation sessions, processes informally backed by the government that see local Coptic priests and Muslim clerics attempt to mediate a communal peace without resorting to the legal system.
Christians interviewed by Reuters said the sessions often end with them making concessions, such as agreeing that certain families leave town or that the church not bear a visible cross, while those who perpetrated the attacks often go unpunished.
Muslim residents and religious officials say the informal process helps broker compromises to avoid a cycle of escalation and retribution.
Copts often go along with it to avert more trouble.
But the latest attack has left a new bitterness among the Copts of tiny Alkarm, in the agricultural hinterland of Upper Egypt. This time, they say, reconciliation is not enough.
"We answer to the law, not to reconciliation sessions. Whoever did this must be held accountable," said William.
Thabet's ordeal led to the Diocese of Minya releasing a statement demanding justice. The attack subsequently drew condemnation from the government and Al Azhar, Cairo's ancient center of Islamic learning.
"We have people getting killed and there is no one answering for it, money stolen, houses looted, girls kidnapped … and we bear it all and let it pass, but now there is escalation," Bishop Makarios, the highest Coptic church official in Minya, told Reuters by telephone.
"We get told, take reconciliation because it is better for you than other bad scenarios and people are simple and just want to live in peace, but this time people won't have it."
Since the case went public, 15 men have been detained in connection with the violence and will be investigated, according to security sources.
Before then, said William, the attackers were freely walking around the village.
Neighbors who witnessed the incident told Reuters it took place on May 20, when a group of Muslim men set fire to seven Christian homes and stripped the grandmother naked in the street after rumors of her son Ashraf's inter-faith affair.
Ashraf fled with his wife and children on May 19 after receiving threats, said William. His parents went to the police, fearing for their lives, said Ishak Ibrahim of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. The mob burned down their house the next day, Ibrahim and several local residents said.
The Governor of Minya initially denied the attack took place in comments to local media. On May 26, after it became public, Tarek Nasr, said it was a "minor incident."
Nasr did not respond to repeated attempts to reach him on his mobile phone. He visited Alkarm on Friday, after Sisi denounced the attack.
"What is happening in Egypt is unacceptable and must never happen again … anyone who made a mistake no matter how many they are, will be held accountable," Sisi said during a speech at the opening of a housing project on Monday.
On Friday, a joint delegation of Cairo-based Muslim and Coptic clerics visited Alkarm, where several armored vehicles and dozens of police patrolled the streets. Local Copts refused to meet them.
With deep scars visible on his head, face, and arm, Ishak Yakoub, a Copt who lives next door to Thabet, says he almost died the night the grandmother was attacked and wants the law to take its course and put an end to what he sees as mob justice.
"I heard gunfire so I got out of the house and stood at the doorway. People advised me to get back inside, so I did and locked the door. I climbed up on the roof and saw smoke coming from her house so I called the fire department," he said.
"I came back down and found they had broken in and were in my house. One of them hit me on the head but I don't know with what, then they dragged me onto the street and beat me."
Yakoub later found Thabet hiding in the home of a Muslim neighbor. He took her to his house.
"When I heard what they did, that a woman was stripped naked in the street, I took her to my room and we locked ourselves in," says Yakoub's wife, who declined to be named.
Umm Magdi, the Muslim neighbor who sheltered Thabet, played down the incident as "threats from silly youths".
"My son came in with (Thabet) and told me to dress her. She came into my house and I dressed her. I told her to sit but she wouldn't … it was like she didn't feel safe with me," Umm Magdi said.
"I've known her all my life and lived by her side like a sister. She's Christian and I'm Muslim but I won't take sides."
Thabet, wearing a black gown and headdress and looking shaken, appeared in an online video on Friday, saying: "I didn't ask for anyone's help. I forgive them."
But Copts from Alkarm said forgiveness would not prevent future attacks.
"Show me a (Christian) woman that will be able to walk in the street after the authorities leave," William said.