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1. Give the names of the two primary alcohols with the molecular formula C4H10O. butan-1-ol2-methyl propan-1-ol
2. Write the equation, using state symbols, for the reaction of ethanol with sodium. CH3CH2OH(l) + Na(s) CH3CH2O-Na+(alc) + ½ H2(g)
3. Name the organic product above.
Sodium ethoxide
4. Give the names and structural formulae for the two possible products of the reaction of methanol with sodium dichromate(VI). HCHO methanalHCOOH methanoic acid
(Partial oxidation)(Full oxidation)
5. For the products above give a test that would confirm the functional group Add Brady's reagent (2,4,6 dinitrophenyl hydrazine). Methanal gives bright yellow precipitate, methanoic acid dies not. To confirm the acid functional group, add sodium carbonate solution: effervescence results. 6. Draw structural formulae for the four isomers with molecular formula C4H9Br. A CH3CH2CH2CH2Br 1-bromopropane
B CH3CH2CHBrCH32-bromopropane
C CH3CHBr(CH3)CH32-bromo-2-methylpropane
D CH3CH(CH3)CH2Br1-bromo-2-methylpropane
7. Which of the halogenoalkanes in the previous question will react fastest with aqueous silver nitrate? Give a reason for your answer. C, as it forms a tertiary carbocation, which is the most stable intermediate.
8. An unknown halogenoalkane , with molecular formula C2H5X reacts with hot aqueous silver nitrate to give a yellow ppt. a) identify the halogen
Yellow ppt is AgI, so the halogen is iodine
b) give the formula of the organic product of the reaction CH3CH2OH, C2H5OH or C2H6O
c) state the type of organic reaction and the mechanism occurring Substitution, Nucleophilic
9. When 2-bromobutane reacts with hot ethanolic potassium hydroxide three products form. a) Give the names of these products
Butan-2-olSubstitution, Nucleophilic
But-1-eneElimination, by Base
But-2-eneElimination, by Base (2 isomers: E and Z)
b) State the type and mechanism of the reaction occurring in their formation See above
10. Explain how IR spectroscopy can be used to distinguish between ethanol, ethanal and ethanoic acid. Ethanal can be distinguished from the other 2 as it lacks an OH vibration. The C=O vibrations in ethanal and ethanoic acid will occur at different frequencies because in ethanal the C is bonded to methyl and H, and in ethanoic acid to methyl and OH. Similarly the OH vibrations in ethanol and ethanoic acid will occur at different frequencies. Ethanoic acid will have both C=O and OH vibrations.
11. Explain how you would distinguish 1-bromobutane from 2-bromobutane using their mass spectra. Structural formulae:
Many of the fragment ions produced by C-C bond breaking will be the same for both isomers. However, you can only get the fragment ion CH2Br+ from 1-bromobutane and not from 2-bromobutane. (Note that since bromine exists as two isotopes, with m/z = 79 and m/z = 81, with approximately equal abundances, this fragment ion will appear as two peaks of same height at m/z = 93 and m/z = 95.) Similarly, you can only get C3H7+ from 1-bromobutane, and not from 2-bromobutane. Peak for this ion at m/z = 43.
12. Suggest a likely ion fragment for ethanol, and at what m/z value this would occur.
Parent ion at m/z = 46
Principal fragments and their m/e values:
CH3CH2O+45(Loss of H)
CH2OH+31(Breaking C-C)
CH3CH2+29(Breaking C-O)
OH+17(Breaking C-O)
CH3+15(Breaking C-C)
13. The mass spectrum for propanal includes peaks at m/z values 29,57 and 58 a. Explain why the mass spectrum shows peaks at these values Propanal has structural formula CH3CH2CHO, which corresponds to relative formula mass of 58. Peak at 58 is the molecular ion CH3CH2CHO+.
Peak at 57 is the molecular ion less one hydrogen: C3H5O+ (the H may be lost...
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That's it for this weeks Top Ten Tuesday. I could only think of 8 books. Have you read any of these books and enjoyed them? Let me know below
I feel the same way about The Maze Runner. I want to read it cause the movie is coming out but part of me just keeps putting it off.
I liked Fangirl better than Eleanor and Park, and I feel the way you do about the Maze Runner. I probably will end up not reading it and just watching the movie when it comes out.
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The Maze Runner is popping up on everyone's lists today! It's putting me off!ReplyDelete
Loved The 5th Wave. The Maze Runner was slow for me and ultimately I only felt okay with it. I started The Scorch Trials but DNF'd it about 20% in. I've loved the Bloodlines series, but I still enjoy Vampire Academy more. Bloodlines itself was a slow book for me and the series took longer to "take off" for me than Vampire Academy. I think that's because Sydney was slower to change than I wanted. BUT Sydney definitely grows as a character and I love that Richelle Mead writes such strong female characters. I loved Eleanor & Park and have Fangirl in my possession, but I'm nervous about reading it. The Raven Boys kind of reminds me what I said about Bloodlines. The first book was very slow and it was so different from the Maggie Stiefvater that I loved from The Wolves of Mercy Falls. I enjoyed The Dreams Thieves more than The Raven Boys. But I can see why it might not appeal to everyone. Legends is still on my TBR list.
Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know
Run away from The 5th wave, what a horrible book. I really liked Fangirl - which surprised me, since I don't read that type of books very often. I'm more a fantasy-girl. The raven boys was really good, but I think you need to enjoy her particular writing-style.

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The Pulsar Nova range of sound level meters uses the latest direct sampling technology to produce powerful meters that are quick easy to use. This range of meters can be split into three families to suit different applications and noise measurement requirements.
The Pulsar Nova is a whole range of sound level meters, all based on the same technology. Even the most basic meter can be upgraded to have all the options of the top meter, effectively future-proofing your purchase. If a new application comes up that needs Octave Band Filters, they can be added. Some upgrades can be done remotely, some need a trip back to the factory.
To help understand the full range, we group these sound level meters into three distinct families, although there is nothing stopping a meter from hopping from one family to another when an upgrade is needed:
|Nova Models
|Description and Applications
|Sound Level Meter
|Model 41 (Class 1)
Model 42 (Class 2)
|This is the base model of the Nova sound level meter range. It measures the A, C and Z weighted sound level with Fast, Slow and Impulse time weightings. It provides the Max and Min measurements and is ideal for basic noise surveys, alarm testing and roadside vehicle noise measurements.
|Integrating Sound Level Meter
|Model 43 (Class 1)
Model 44 (Class 2)
|As an Integrating sound level meter, these models include measurements such as Leq and Peak sound level. They are perfect for occupational noise assessments in line with most regulations. These meters are also suitable for basic environmental surveys - additional environmental parameters and timers are available as an option for more detailed surveys.
|Octave Band Sound Level Meter
|Model 45 (Class 1)
Model 46 (Class 2)
|These are integrating sound level meters with the addition of octave band filters. They can be used for more detailed noise at work surveys and carry out detailed checks on the suitability of hearing protectors. These meters include the environmental noise survey parameters and automatic timers, making them suitable for many environmental and community noise surveys.


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Blog design
Recently I created this blog background and header for some friends who are missionaries! I found this really cool kit online from Kevin & Amanda! I use a lot of their fonts in my designs and one day I noticed she had this free scrapbook kit out there to use...I loved it! It was perfect for an African themed blog!


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This is our PC Parts Computer Shop page. We have listed the full address of PC Parts, phone numbers and websites. PC Parts is in Stockport, PC Parts offers cheap computers, cheap laptops & cheap PCs in Stockport. They also offer cheap PC and laptop repairs and parts in Stockport.
PC Parts Map:
PC Parts
28 Sandy Lane
Stockport, SK5 7NZ
Phone: 0161-476 1199
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28 Sandy Lane
Stockport, SK5 7NZ
Phone: 0161-476 1199
Fax: 0161-477 0703
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never had an issue with these guys, always helpful and know what they are doing
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I first heard of PC Parts through a family member and tried them after I had a problem with my computer, I had previously gone to Pc world and was far from satisfied with the service, so was very pleased with the friendly sevice at PC Parts, they don\'t try to blind you with science, the prices they charge makes you wonder how they make any profit and they are fast and extremely efficient. I also buy all my printable dvd\'s from there as they are the cheapest around, Once you have tried PC Parts, I doubt you will want to try anywhere else, Credit where it\'s due.
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Tip of the week – Click Here – Great Tip on a healthy breakfast recipe that personal Trainer Chaney Respondek and her family has everyday.
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Have any one who wants to try the workouts without actually paying? This Saturday from 9-10am we will have a free trial session for anyone new looking at our program. We have made it easy to get discounts for bringing your friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc to join our program. We have trial sessions for folks to come check us out before they join. Click Here to read about our Referral Program and how you can get an entire boot camp month for free for just sending folks our way. We do all the work. Send an email and let people know they can come for a trial session. Just send them to this web page – Click Here
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#1 Tool Towards Recovering From Panic, Anxiety and Depression
Dennis Delivers Tool for overcoming Panic, Anxiety and Depression. When new people come to our group they are quite hesitate, anxious, and down right scared of what they are going to be participating in. Is the room going to be … Continue reading
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How Partners, Friends, Family or Spouses Can Help
How Partners, Friends, Family or Spouses Can Help (The following excerpt has been taken from Lesson 2 of the Panic and Anxiety Recovery Course and from our group meeting welcome package but we feel it is very important in our … Continue reading
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Dennis Delivers I Am Perfect Just Like You! Happy New Year! Our recovery group was fortunate enough to continue to meet through the holidays and we got to see some faces we have not seen in awhile. We have … Continue reading
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With a large number of water and wastewater professionals expected to retire over the next decade, attracting new talent to the industry is a must. At NEWEA 2018, experts share their thoughts -- including a unique program to employ veterans.
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FIP Seminar: Harnessing Light for Sensing, Communications, Metrology and Manufacturing
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side B, room 1466
Dr. Lynford L. Goddard, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
We present key theoretical and experimental results of our investigations into novel photonic devices, quantitative optical imaging, and light assisted semiconductor manufacturing. The photonic devices include palladium based optical hydrogen sensors, reflective microring resonators, and hybrid microring/plasmonic bio-sensors. We will also present diffraction phase microscopy (DPM) as a non-destructive optical method for monitoring physical processes in real time and with nanometer level sensitivity. We have used DPM to observe the dynamics of semiconductors during wet etching, surface wetting and evaporation of water droplets, the dissolution of biodegradable electronics, and the stretching of thin films due to heating or lattice expansion. Next, we will discuss how to use DPM and emerging near-field imaging techniques to detect defects in patterned semiconductor wafers. In particular, we will report on light focusing and photonic nanojet formation using our cascaded asymmetric microstructure. Finally, we will get into how to use light from an ordinary computer projector to perform photochemical etching in order to define variable height topography during semiconductor manufacturing.
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Posted on November 8, 2018 | Start date September 28, 2018
|£25,000 - £30,000 per annum depending on experience paid monthly, Tips shared quarterly
|Statutory (28 days p/a)
|Lunch: 25; Dinner: 50; Breakfast: 40-70; Functions: up to 100
|Food type:
|2 AA Rosette Scottish/French Cuisine. plus Brasserie
|Full-time chefs:
|6 - 8 chefs plus kitchen porters
|Job description:
The Robert Parker Collection includes six specially selected properties, located in magnificent surroundings, offering our guests a luxurious experience in a home away from home. Our properties are located in Edinburgh, the Scottish Borders, Northumberland and the Lake District.
Dalhousie Castle is a stunning Castle dating back to the 13th Century and now a beautifully appointed 4* hotel that offers a memorable mix of warm hospitality, an award-winning restaurant with 2 AA Rosettes, and facilities ideally suited to both the discerning traveller and business guest.
We pride ourselves on serving delicious, quality food with an exciting twist - using locally sourced ingredients and suppliers. High standards of cleanliness and personal presentation are essential.
As a Pastry Chef at Dalhousie Castle, you are responsible for ensuring high levels of food preparation to deliver an excellent guest experience. We are looking for a personable addition to our kitchen team with the ability to work as an individual and as part of a team.
This role is a demanding role that needs a strong Pastry Chef who is capable of running a section in the kitchen and taking responsibility for the section, and can manage his time effectively.
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By Cheap on Monday 6 February 2012, 14:53 - French property - Permalink
The 'village house' - in French property-speak, is something special. And it
is something you're more than likely to find in the Cheap French Property
It nearly always refers to a terraced house, without a garden or yard, right
in the middle of a tight network of ancient streets. Village houses seldom
refer to recent building; indeed it is more often associated with mediaeval
villages or small towns. The property may be associated with a garden or
allotment, but this will frequently be outside the village limits (or walls) in
an area devoted to vegetable gardens.
Above all, the term 'village house' means a relatively cheap property. This
is because previously the nature of the villages in question meant that the
lack of light, the proximity of traffic and the difficulty of renovation made
these houses less attractive. The desire of local people to escape to modern
bungalows on the outskirts has resulted in cheap and relatively unrenovated
properties in the heart of countless French villages.
Today, these properties are becoming more and more
There are four main reasons:
• By-passes and ring-roads have reduced motor traffic in the older villages
almost completely. They are now a delight to wander through and to live
• Modern machinery, hoists and lifts make it easier now to have building materials delivered on site: tiles, plasterboard and beams can all be delivered to any location
• Planning laws in some regions allow owners to open up 'terrasses provençales' – roof terraces – at the top of the building.
• Lock and leave. Not having gardens or yards, these properties are much easier to shut up for the winter Thus they are very suitable for second homes.
What to look for when buying a village house.
• Access: can you get a van or car up to the door?
• Parking: is there space for parking next to the house or will you have to use a communal park further away?
• Orientation: does it face south? How much light will there be in winter?
• Attic space: Could it be converted into bedrooms? Opened up as a roof terrace?
• The village: is there a café, a baker, a grocer, a Primary school?
In general you should not pay more than €100,000 for a village house. But there are exceptions: occasionally there are gems that come on to the market - manor houses with gardens around which the village or town has grown. Like this old 18th century mansion now operating as a Bed and Breakfast. It even has a pool!


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A letter to Harper's Magazine by Joseph Marguelies of Chicago. Harper's entitled it "Stress Position":
In "We Still Torture" [Criticism, July, 2009], Luke Mitchell notes that President Obama has preserved much more than he has rejected of his predecessor's approach to post-9/11 detentions. This fidelity to the past is not confined to detentions; regarding domestic surveillance and state secrets, the differences between Bush and Obama are likewise insignificant.
There is nothing unusual about a president who fails to deliver on a promise of change. What is striking is that so many people—on both the left and the right—seem to believe, contrary to all evidence, that change has indeed come, and that Obama has adopted a set of policies diametrically opposed to those of the Bush Administration. For some, this misconception—an alleged end to a shameful epoch—has occasioned a sigh of relief; for others, like former vice president Dick Cheney, it has produced alarmist consternation. Why do so many see so much in so little?
As with much in politics, it is a problem of perspective. For the overwhelming majority of Americans, post-9/11 detention policy is necessarily remote. Shrouded in secrecy, it operates in a realm set apart from our daily existence and completely beyond our influence. It exists as a collection of evocative images and ideas—black sites, Guantánamo, terrorists, torture—that are entwined with the most powerful political symbols in American life: race, national security, and, the most elusive of all, "American values."
This potent symbolism guarantees popular interest in the debates surrounding our detention policy even as the policy's remoteness means that people cannot intelligently evaluate these debates. Are the prisoners innocent men, wrongly detained and horribly mistreated? Or coddled terrorists committed to destruction and mayhem? Can they be tried in federal court or paroled into the United States? Or would they overwhelm our courts and disappear into the shadows only to strike again?
We are apt to forget that Americans rather recently attached inordinate significance to a junior senator's dramatic allegations that Communists had infiltrated the State Department. McCarthyism and its attendant debates unfolded mostly at a symbolic level; today, the public's passionate attachment to the course of detention policy is similarly untempered by reason.
Under such circumstances, people form opinions based on symbolic gestures from trusted voices. That is, when remote issues acquire symbolic significance, symbolic gestures substitute for actual change. In a recent speech at the National Archives, surrounded by our founding and most revered documents, President Obama announced that he had broken with the policies of President Bush and embraced the Constitution. The response was swift and predictable: obama reinstates rule of law. The details announced in the same speech, including Obama's plan to hold prisoners indefinitely without charge or trial—the same policy so detested during the Bush Administration—were generally ignored. The symbolic gesture (the closure of Guantánamo) satisfied the portion of the public that trusts Obama and alarmed the portion that does not.
It makes no difference—to either group—that Guantánamo may be closed but immediately re-opened elsewhere, or that Obama has stepped into the footprint left by the forty-third president. Political change is usually just symbolic change, and that, for most, is enough.


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Why You Should Enter EVENT's LET DOWN YOUR HAIR Contest
It's a chance to experiment. Write a poem about a refrigerator that's a portal to another dimension, a story about US politics being a figment of a cranky four-year-old's imagination, or a personal essay about the time you were pretty sure your hamster could read your mind. With a word limit of 1800, in any genre, the LET DOWN YOUR HAIR contest is an opportunity to flex your writing muscles, to take a risk.
It could open the doors. All entries will be considered for publication in EVENT. Works published in our pages are regularly read by editors of anthologies like Best Canadian Stories, Best Canadian Poetry, and so on. Every year we nominate writers for the Journey Prize, the Pushcart Prizes, National Magazine and Western Magazine Awards, and more! Submitting your work is the first step to having your writing reach new readers. Madeleine Thien said, "EVENT found my work and brought it out into the world."
Amber Dawn is our contest judge. She's a maven of speculative writing in multiple genres including both poetry and prose, a winner of the Vancouver Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award. Her debut novel, Sub Rosa is described by Arsenal Pulp Press as "a beautiful and gutsy allegory of our times, a fairy-tale-like fantasia imbued with a grave, unapologetic realness." Being selected to our contest shortlist means an expert will read your work.
We'll throw in a one-year subscription to EVENT. Contest entrants will receive a one-year subscription to our magazine, including the Notes on Writing issue, featuring personal essays by notable Canadian writers exploring their writing lives.
Grand Prize is $1000. That's enough to buy over a hundred reams of paper and a new printer to print all your future stories on. Need we say more?
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May 12, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Reno Phil welcomes its three Youth Orchestras back to the stage of the Pioneer to showcase a year of hard work. The evening will begin with the Youth Strings Symphonia (YSS) under the direction of conductor Carol Laube. The YSS will be followed by the Youth Concert Orchestra (YCO) under the direction of Dustin Budish and conclude with the Youth Symphony Orchestra (YSO) under the direction of Dr. Jason Altieri.


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The Look Of Love
This musical directed by Scott Ellis and choreographed by Ann Reinking showcased the music of writing team Burt Bacharach and Hal David. With songs including "The Look of Love", "There's Always Something There to Remind Me", "I Say a Little Prayer", "Walk On By", and "A House Is Not a Home" this all dancing and singing tribute played 15 weeks at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
Eric was the Principal Standby and performed every role understudied.
Cast members included Liz Callaway, Kevin Ceballo, Farah Alvin, Nikki Renee Daniels, Jonathan Dokuchitz, Eugene Fleming, Capathia Jenkins, Janine LaManna, Shannon Lewis, Rachelle Rak, Allyson Turner and Desmond Richardson.
Additional Details
- Venue: Brooks Atkinson Theatre
- Date: (April 4, 2003 - June 15th 2003)
- Total Performances: 49
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The Westin Whistler opened Grill & Vine late last month to boast a revitalized look that is modern and sleek with dark slate tiles, walnut communal tables and incredible mountain views. The restaurant seats 105 and offers "traditional favourites with a local twist", as well as an array of local and international wines.
The revamped, elegant looking restaurant replaced the dark and gloomy, terribly carpeted Aubergine.
I stayed at The Westin during my time in Whistler for Cornucopia and was able to pop into the restaurant to chat with Executive Chef Bradley Cumming over a quick bite to eat. Chef Cumming crafts food with the notion of allowing the natural flavours of the ingredients to express themselves, so you'll often find "simple" dishes composed of high quality, local ingredients.
Grill & Vine's signature items include the Margherita Pizza and Louis Lake Steelhead, but I was a major fan of the tender and rich Brasato Beef Short Rib on creamy carnaroli rice and the Cacciatore with a sunny side up egg.
With the renovation comes a brand new Wood Stone hearth oven (shown above). This oven presents a bit of a learning curve for the culinary team as they test out how it distributes heat and the time it takes to cook in comparison to a traditional commercial oven. In it they will be cooking a variety of dishes including steelhead, steaks and pizzas.
In addition to the oven, Grill & Vine has also installed an Enomatic Wine Preservation System which will hold 16 high-end, unique wines by the glass. Chef Cumming displayed how it worked as he punched in a 5 oz pour of Burrowing Owl Merlot for me. The advanced system will streamline operations as it is run on a card system that tracks ounces poured, as well as servers pouring. Wine is also available by carafe or bottle.
Grill & Vine is open for breakfast and dinner year round, as well as for après ski in the winter. Also incorporated into the restaurant is an all day Grab & Go with Starbucks® espresso coffees and a variety of take out snacks.
The Westin Whistler is located at 4090 Whistler Way.


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The Continuum of Authentication and Biometrics
Posted April 2, 2018
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In this episode Armen is joined by Phil Dunkelberger, President and CEO of Nok Nok Labs. They discuss how authentication and biometrics are changing our world.
Armen: Hello, and welcome to this edition of Digital Identity 360. I'm here today with a very interesting guest, Phil Dunkelberger, President and CEO of Nok Nok Labs. Phil, welcome to the show.
Phil: Great to be here.
Armen: Can I call you Dunk?
Phil: Yes, please do.
Armen: All right, good. Phil is a valley legend and has been involved in many, many transactions and many interesting businesses. Phil has a very interesting perspective from where he's been and where he is right now at Nok Nok Labs on what I would call a really important discussion on this continuum. If you think about authentication in the broad sense, and on one end of the spectrum you've got risk-based authentication, and on the other end of the spectrum you've got strong authentication. It's not a binary world, right? As we talked about sort of leading up to this discussion, not all forms of authentication are created equal depending upon the scenario and the use case and the need. And so I thought it would be a good conversation for us to have, and we can riff on it from there on this show. But let's just start there. What are your thoughts when you think about that continuum? How do you think about the continuum first of all?
Phil: I think that the continuum really starts with signaling. I think that the internet and the people on the internet, the old question is how do you know who's at the end? Is it a dog? Who is sitting at the end of the internet? The internet was never really designed to do the commerce and things that we're trying to do with it today, it was designed to be a research tool. If you go back to its inception in DARPA. When I looked at the signaling capability back to that context we're using a 50 year old idea still that is the market leader in authentication, which is user names and passwords. Or nothing at all. Today we've got so many transactions that fall in, everything from your fantasy football leagues locking in, or at the time we're doing this interview, March Madness. Or how's your bracket doing? How important is that data to you versus your finances? Versus your banking data, your medical records? I said probably 10 years ago when I was the CEO of PGP, "Why do people need to protect data? Because data is becoming a currency." And today there is no doubt it's a currency. If your data is currency, and what we're really trying to ultimately do is protect data, the continuum that begins on the back end of any transaction married with the front end is now all about how do we minimize risk and actually increase security? With one other really valuable piece, today it's got to be easier to use because 13 character uppercase, lowercase, special characters on a phone isn't going to get it done from a strong auth capability. Changing your password every 30 days isn't going to get you there.
Armen: There's a time and place for everything and I think it really comes down use cases, if we can sort of use that dorky word if you will. You know, you've got to be very mindful. If you look at the authentication need from the customer or the consumer perspective back. To your point, if I'm sitting in a car and I've got a mobile device and I need to check my email at a stop sign I don't want to have to deal with 13 character uppercase, lowercase, special character password. There's got to be a better way to manage it, right?
Phil: Yeah.
Armen: So how do you think about these sort of use case centric decisions on authentication?
Phil: Well you know you bring up an interesting one that's going to morph again. You're sitting in a car and very soon the cars are going to have to authenticate. It's going to be a really big deal about who's in the car is going to have to authenticate to the car, the car is going to have to authenticate to the network, etc. As we move to IOT in device authentication, and you still have the human overlay, you're going to have to think about it even differently again coming that fast. So use cases, back to your point, I think if you keep with the idea of a continuum, the idea that you can use a very, very simple user name or password for something that isn't very valuable in your head on one side of the ledger. If you move to the other side of the ledger and say, "I need something more secure, more complicated, more heavy duty for other types." Then you get into the whole idea of, "Well, what if we could do biometrics?" Since the rise of biometrics the last few years. Apple popularizing fingerprints. But now we've got selfie pay, pay by voice. You've got the whole face ID thing that just come out in the 10 in the Apple line. Samsung's capability they bring in the nine. But even further afield from that you've got the new shiny penny of behavioral biometrics. You know, "When I swipe left to right how much pressure do I use? How do I hold the phone?" If you really talk to end users they don't care about any of that, they just want it to be secure and they want it to be easy. You go to the back end and the IT guys, you know their constituency is, "We need to be able to put this on any device, any transaction, any application, any operating system." It's got to be global in your thoughts. Then you step to a different group of people, the security people who want it to be rock solid, ironclad no matter what the transaction is. Depending on the constituency it's going to change the use case. I'll give you a good example of that. Today, a lot of people are kicking the tires around strong authentication. Their idea of strong auth used to be something you know and something you have. We've morphed that now with biometrics also something you are. And then you've got this whole hacker community who's figured out, "I can emulate all those things in software. So I can head fake everybody and still think it's an end user with a device talking to a set of services trying to get capability." The real cool piece is that when you start doing things like mirroring strong back end algorithmic types of things with things that, for instance, ThreatMetrix has pioneered in the market and is a leader in with device reputation, authentication, a big strong global data view of this device. Where it's been and what it's doing.
Armen: A broader digital identity?
Phil: An extremely broader digital identity, and then you extend that one more step to the users themselves. That's when you get this idea of a strong three-way bind. Person, device, services. In the world today I think we're past the idea of there being consumers, and departmental guys, and enterprise guys. There's just people looking for services.
Armen: It's all homogenized, really.
Phil: It really is.
Armen: Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. I mean, my behavior as a consumer versus my behavior as an employee of ThreatMetrix, how interact with technology is all very much the same. And my needs are converging, and the day parts are starting to merge, and so yeah I think you're absolutely right. Going back to something you said, though. I mean you brought up the point of signals, and you think about these different forms of authentication, these different use cases, different applications. But ultimately these are signals. There's biometric signals, there's behavioral signals, there's data signals. Ultimately if you look at these various touchpoints as signals in a continuum, or signals in a graph that can be applied depending upon the situation. If there's equal levels of trust in all of them, that sort of triangulation of who I am, or who I know, or what I know and what is my identity? Does that provide enough of a menu of options for developers of applications to choose from? To sort of converge upon the right combination of signals to deliver the right authentication experience?
Phil: Well I think if you look at the ability to look at a series of medium level signals combined give you one set of stronger signals because of the multiplier effect of those signals. I think if you define it as implied signals, "This is what I think this person is. This is what I think we know about this person about their device." With explicit, this is a person making a statement about who they are. You know I can see something more about their claims. Really it's all about claims at the end of the day, what you can prove. If you have a combination of weak signals, username and password is a very weak signal as an example, a lot of people think that's a strong signal but in reality it's one of many kind of weaker signals. To do step-up authentication as an example into something stronger. You know some kind of proof, you know hardware token or software token, all the way up to a biometric. And within those they all have trade offs for usability. I think that what you finally have for development community is not only, "What is it that I'm trying to provide as a service? What by regulatory environment or by fiat do I have to include security-wise? And now I have security trade offs and signals that I didn't have before as a very, very good option for them."
Armen: I think that's well put. When I think about just my experience as a mobile device user for … you know I worked for a large company before coming to ThreatMetrix and they imposed an MDM solution on everyone's mobile device and it became very onerous to use and were it not for thumbprint recognition it would have been very difficult to do my job efficiently. It would have been very disruptive. To your point though, thumbprints can be mimicked or I could be spoofed, right? In that particular use case, for me to sort of re-unlock my phone, yep, used the thumbprint, that worked fine. I think combining that with other forms of authentication, I would occasionally get stepped up, right? It was a little inconvenient but I guess, you know, put in the wrong hands … I kind of felt good about that. I could deal with the inconvenience. But where do you see this moving? There's still some inconvenient experience for consumers with good intentions from the developer community. Ultimately where do you see this heading if you were to project forward five years?
Phil: Well I think you're going to see, and we're already seeing it, where there is the idea of a password-less world is already on us. Almost all the major vendors creates a bad thing, stolen credentials are 91% plus of the beginnings of data breaches and how they all begin. There's a real reason to solve this problem. There's another reason coming, most of the people coming up today are very, very comfortable with computers. The Millennial group that are going to be the next big wage earners and spenders in the world, those folks want a seamless transaction capability. If I had to look out five years, and I think it's going to take at least five years to see the ends of passwords as an inconvenience, not a convenience. I think you're going to see the rise of biometrics but I think you're going to see those coupled with things like the ability to do a combinatory piece that we just talked about. The bigger piece I think really you're going to see is things like silent enrollment, something that we do in our product where you can silently enroll people. You can kind of use what's on the device that you find there from a different type of tokenization or capability you already find. The idea that users are going to be able to have an experience that makes it really super easy to use, but underneath it's really, really secure. Something we didn't worry about in the past, we thought the back end could take care of all of it and the front end was left to algorithmic, and user names and passwords were a little more complicated. That isn't going to fly. I think that you're going to see if you go in regions of the world today, Japan who is very, very comfortable with biometrics, is already moving that way in a big way. We have a company in our portfolio that has 180 devices, 700 applications, all of it biometric based, or secure pin based. And the applications run the gamut from moving money and doing payments to scheduling work people, to getting help over the phone through an IVR. All of those are things that are already fully integrated for those 180 devices and 700 apps in their service environment.
Armen: What are some of the interesting developments that you're seeing? We talked about a password-less world and how there's some very big tech companies out there sort of beating that drum. What other innovations are you seeing right now? Again, when we think about this continuum of signals along the spectrum, any other techniques that you're seeing? I think the biometrics examples you gave are interesting.
Phil: Yeah, you see biometrics, you see wearables. There's a big, big idea of wearables. I think one of the really neat things we saw in a big global environment, it had call centers. Something that everybody never hopes they have to deal with, but you do every day at some point. You know, getting service. What they saw was a win for both their employees and a win for their consumer customers. It was a really neat application where the person walks up with his phone and he or she wants to enter the building and the phone, machine-to-machine, unlocks the front door. The moment that they unlock the front door it sends a signal in the call center to where they're going to work that day. And they get a text message saying, "Hey, you're in section three, cubicle one, working with Scotland today." And all of a sudden you go to your workstation and all of your tools are loaded. You get up and leave it logs you out automatically. You go down to the cafeteria payments are done automatically with your phone in your pocket. This is a place where you've literally gone and done your whole day, and when you leave the building at night it locks you out of everything and updates all the files. Think about how cool that is. You never once touched a keyboard to do anything for authentication. It automatically, using both machine-to-machine auth and person-to-machine auth, that combinatory capability where you never had to log into anything and log out, your devices just did it and knew it was you.
Armen: Yeah. Wearables is important. I mean, as a consumer I got an Apple Watch recently and my hope in doing that is I would rely less on having to pull my phone out of my back packet. I think that's largely played out. I think this has become more than a convenience, it's actually sort of altered how I interact with technology in a positive way I would suspect. I think that scenario you played out is actually a very, very good example. What about scenarios where, I've got young children at home, devices are shared? I've got iPads that I use for work, my kids might take it over sometimes and try to launch their games. In that world, given those scenarios, how can the device itself with biometrics, how can you authenticate that it's actually someone? I guess you gave that example of gestures and patterns, pressures.
Phil: You can do behavioral capability, you can essentially register the different biometrics where it creates a different underlying key structure that the old parlance and encryption of building a key ring on the device, and only the people with the right keys swiping their finger, or taking a selfie, each one of those keys can be developed for the device or kiosk in the real world of not just home sharing computers. How do you stop friendly fraud? You know, somebody using your device? You do that by the ability to set up who the real users are on a key ring. These are the kind of standards for instance, that both companies that we work for share this idea of fast identity online, or The FIDO Movement, that is supported by over 400 different products in the marketplace today, and over 300 plus companies have been part of building that standard. You see the industry trying to solve the problem for some of these sets. I think one of the really rich opportunities is you're talking about in the future is the capability that once we have better options, as you said earlier, as developers and providers of tech to provide these creative solutions. I'm always amazed that when customers or consumers of this know what they can do with it. Think about the ability to send targeted, positive ads or services to people that might need it. Think of the fact that in the future you do not want to have to go through what you go through to get your medical records moved today. If you've got somebody in a dire situation you want as fast, and quick, and secure as possible to move medical records from point A to point B. Insurance. You want to fill out the 500th form? Or do you want to swipe your finger three times and they're done automatically for you? These are the ideas of just less keystrokes, more interactivity, better information at the point of need when you need it versus spending a lot of time doing authentication.
Armen: Yeah, and I'm just reflecting back on some of the early conversation I think. You know the biometrics certainly play a role as far as user experience and needs of user interaction. On its own though, it might not be entirely appropriate to do a full authentication but a very good signal. The device itself certainly serves a role. Maybe it's a little inconvenient at times, but where you've got wearables that's I think taking a lot of that inconvenience and awkwardness out of the equation. Yeah, combining it with that third factor, if you will, or that third data of the amass, the crowdsourced identity from your digital experiences across the consumer web. Somewhere in that triangulation there's enough positive signals to present a complete picture?
Phil: As we've talked about, you and I, on the lead up to this we've got to get off of really thinking about risk signals anymore. These are the risk signals we're trying to interpret. Let's go look for assurance signals. How do I know these are the people doing the things they say they want to do when they're doing it? And that's just talking in a fraud mode. Let's talk about all the other things because I think we tend to look at, in a positive way, dollars and cents, "How am I not being fraudulently ripped off, increasing costs, etc.?" But at the same time look at all the other things that we've talked about you can do when you're not every time you want to do something having to type characters in or have the device not be mimicked in software, etc.? Where you can go about doing things naturally, interactively versus having to let the machine become an opposition to you getting your work, or getting your personal stuff done.
Armen: Yeah, if you operate under the premise here at ThreatMetrix of the vast amount of transactions we see, at the end of the day 92% or more are trustworthy, right? It's those edge cases that are either questionable or known to be sort of fraudulent. But for the vast majority of consumers, conducting the vast majority of transactions, you want to minimize any friction possible to make it as ambient as possible. And some of these techniques the we've talked about certainly are ambient and not invasive. And flipping it around, how do you provide the best experience possible? Because you want to keep out the fraudsters from doing bad things, but for the known good consumers, the 92% or more, those transactions, how do you want to make it a positive experience so they come back and do more business with you if you're a merchant? Or interact with you more if you're a financial institution? Or you get the picture, right?
Phil: Yeah, and it goes full circle back to you providing goods and services. It's funny, the question that really intrigued me years ago, when we were PGP we'd get asked a lot, "How do we do strong auth before you encrypt? How do we do auth before you encrypt? Is it username and password? What's the difference between a pass phrase versus a password?" The whole idea of the future that people are looking at with technologies like blockchain that don't readily have any type of real authentication mechanism to them. They're going to go build a lot of business structure on top of something that does not have the ability to authenticate strongly to it? I'd worry about that if I was journaling and having partners journal. That's an interesting challenge. You know I get a lot of questions like, "Why did you name it Nok Nok?" And we went through a lot of naming your background in marketing how you do that. Really what the whole premise of Nok Nok Labs was, was when you say "Knock, knock." What do you say back?
Armen: Who's there?
Phil: Exactly. And I go back to the question that I had to the people that were involved in coming up with the stuff we've been working on was, "How will it change the way we do business with people if we did actually know it wasn't a dog on the internet?" It was actually a person who we knew before, who had these kind of services already, or it was somebody that was a patient in our clinic that needed this kind of information transmitted or federated out to people like the drug group. You know, we've got an opioid crisis in this country because of drugs flowing freely in and out, when in reality if you had people and it's strongly authenticated on both sides of that transaction who were taking the drugs and putting them to the people, and the people were receiving the, you'd probably have a pretty good marker to slow those transactions down. And there is no perfect security. Anybody who says that really hasn't spent a lot of time in security. You know, the people saying it's military grade? Military grade, there's a lot of what that really means in encryption and other things. But I think the fundamentals come back to, we as vendors owe the users and our companies that use our products both the idea that security doesn't have to be limiting anymore, it can be enriching actually, if we come up and innovate in and around the security solutions we provide. I think that our partnership and other things that we've been able to do and look at are evidence of the industry trying to do the right thing. Not just saying, "Hey, let's not do the right thing anymore and just leave it up to user names and passwords always."
Armen: Yeah, we talked about ecosystems in the minutes leading up to this episode. I very much believe like most great industries there's an ecosystem that must be formed, and some great partnerships that must exist in complementary technologies. That's very much how I see this playing out, this goes back to this continuum discussion that we started with is not all signals are created equal and these cases define that. And there's certainly best-in-class providers along that spectrum to deliver the insights that are needed to drive the right level of authentication for the right moment in time.
Phil: And to your point on that, not one company can do this. Not today anyway.
Armen: Maybe there shouldn't be one company that does do it, right?
Phil: Well, the responsibility and risk that goes with that, I don't think that any one company is going to own the operating system, and the hardware, and all the pieces. What you want is people that can work together and see everything from the silicon that it's based on, all the way up to now the cloud and beyond. All these devices and people working together. When you're thinking 20 to 50 billion devices and people interacting soon you've got to do it a better way than we've been doing it. You know it scaled back when it was departmental computing, or remote computing, or enterprise computing. When we started getting into cloud computing you know, let's take the data center and multiply it by X, let's take the applications, multiply them by Y, let's take the users, multiply them by Z, and we had a hot mess. I think today what we've got to do is say, " Can we provide you guys innovation wise with a better set of solutions?"
Armen: Yeah. I loved when we talked last week your zoo versus jungle metaphor. There's equally dangerous creatures in both environments, but generally you're not going to get killed in a zoo. But you could get killed in the jungle, right?
Phil: Yeah, I think it goes back to that metaphor. Really comes back to today, you really don't know who you're interacting with many, many times. So much is provided, I think of the challenges facing governments today and the cyber problems we've got at the government level. The U.S. government is one when it comes to using technology to securing technology and the challenges they have. Who are all these constituents? And if you're global it used to be you couldn't shop online globally. Today, shop anywhere in the world, get stuff shipped anywhere in the world. But you really want to know who you're doing business with. Is this really the company that I'm buying from? Is it really the shipping company that's supposed to be shipping me something? Is this package the right package even to me? It says to me, but is it something I ordered? If it's not, let's not think of all the bad things that could be in the package, let's just think it's somebody else's product and you're going to spend an hour and a half of your life trying to send that product back to somebody that you didn't order it from. There's only two things people really manage in their lives, time and activities. What I really hope that we can do is lessen the amount of activities and time it takes to get the stuff online that we need and want in the time frames we need it in. If you're going to have go in the jungle, because it is a jungle it's really not a zoo, it's still not well ordered. You know you go into a data center and you see everything labeled in a really good one, and the racks are all set right. That's not the way the internet works today. You don't really see all of that infrastructure. You just hope that when you make that transaction it's okay.
Armen: It just all works.
Phil: Yeah, and that's what you hope it always will be.
Armen: Yep, very well put. Well, this has been great, Phil. I really appreciate your insights. Great to kind of riff on the current state of authentication and what that might hold for the future. You heard it here on Digital Identity 360. Phil, thanks so much for your time, really appreciate it.
Phil: Sure.
Armen: Good discussion.
Phil: Thank you. Appreciate it.
Armen: All right. Thanks.


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Norwegian Foreign Minister Boerge Brende said half of the sum would be used for reconstruction, and the assistance would be distributed in response to the daily needs of Palestinians. He did not specify the use for the other half.
Envoys from dozens of countries attended the Cairo conference, which was hosted by Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.
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The Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) selected three Boston University College of Engineering doctoral students for this year's Applied Healthcare Engineering Fellowship awards. First-time recipients are Elif Cevik (ECE), Grace Wu (BME) and Margo Monroe (BME). They join three other CIMIT Fellows, Cassandra Browning (ECE), Amira Hussein (ME) and Qingqing Cao (ME), who are continuing into their second year. "Through these fellowships CIMIT seeks to support the innovative research of graduate engineering students," said John Parrish, CEO of CIMIT, a consortium of Boston-area hospitals and engineering schools that supports translational research by multidisciplinary teams for medical device and clinical technology system applications. "Their work offers new approaches to solving unmet clinical needs." Covering students' tuition, stipend and some ancillary expenses for up to two years, CIMIT fellowships support highly innovative yet traditionally underfunded areas of healthcare research. Cevik, who will be advised by Professor Selim Ünlü (ECE), seeks to design and fabricate a wireless, optically activated microstimulator to be used in chronic implants for people with central nervous system diseases. "Potential applications include stimulating neuronal growth in spinal cord injuries and enhancement of drug delivery," Cevik said. "The versatility of these microstimulators makes them very exciting tools towards the development of novel therapies for nervous system diseases." Monroe, also advised by Ünlü, will focus on developing and optimizing a self-calibrating, low-cost, portable, diagnostic technology for the doctor's office. The highly sensitive and reliable biosensing platform that she is advancing could be used to diagnose medical conditions such as allergies and rheumatologic disease. "Not only would the hassle of shipping patient samples to outside diagnostic companies be eliminated; an on-site device would also save time and costs to both patient and doctor," said Monroe. Wu, who will be advised by Assistant Professor Muhammad Zaman, will develop a cell phone-based, user-friendly, CD4 [specialized white blood cell] counter for rapid HIV monitoring and AIDS diagnosis in resource-limited settings. "This will provide quick and reliable HIV monitoring for the thousands of patients in rural sub-Saharan Africa that are highly impacted by HIV," she said. Now in its fourth year, the collaboration between the College of Engineering and CIMIT has been a fruitful one, noted Ünlü, who is also the College's associate dean for Research and Graduate Programs. "Participation in this program has been very valuable for the training of our doctoral students," he said. "We are very pleased to see the excellence of our doctoral students continuing to be recognized by external institutions." The six CIMIT healthcare engineering fellowship recipients are among 45 College of Engineering graduate students supported by prestigious fellowships offered by external organizations that include the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Sixty-five ENG graduate students receive fellowships directly from BU. Nearly all College of Engineering PhD students participate in external or College-based funding programs. -Mark Dwortzan


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BIDDEFORD – The Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine hosted a celebration of citizenship for 30 children, six of whom were from Biddeford.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services conducted the event and presented the children with certifications of citizenship on Thursday, Jan. 11. Unlike adults, who must file an application, sit for an interview and pass a test to become a citizen, the children celebrated in Portland became citizens either through their parents own naturalization process or adoption by a U.S. citizen. The children came from several different countries including Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Iraq, People's Republic of China, Somalia and Uganda. Aside from Biddeford, the other children live in Blue Hill, Brooklin, Gorham, Lewiston, Portland, Sanford and Westbrook.
Citizenship ceremonies are not a requirement for children as they are with adults.
"We arrange them as a celebration," said U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Public Affairs Officer Paula Grenier said. "It's fun for kids and for the ones on the older side it makes the occasion of getting their certification of citizenship more memorable."
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Officer Megan Nelson led the children in the Oath of Allegiance, which states that all new citizens of the U.S. renounce allegiances to any previous nation, defend the Constitution and bear arms on behalf of the U.S. when required by law. Nelson also led the children in the Pledge of Allegiance. Grenier said certifications of citizenship are mailed to families who do not attend the ceremony.
Huda Ajeel, 16, is the eldest of five sisters and received her certification of citizenship at Thursday's ceremony. She was born in Iraq and her family moved to Texas in 2012. After living there for six months, they moved first to Portland, then Westbrook and now Biddeford. She said it took her mother about four months to become a citizen. A junior at Biddeford High School, she's considering whether she'd like to go to college or open her own salon. She said she'd also like to study criminal law some day.
Ajeel helped her mom with the application because she does not speak English.
"The paper got sent back because of mistakes," she said. "We were upset about it. We had to redo it and pay again. But now it's good. We're happy we finally became citizens. We waited for so long."
Ajeel's mother, who was able to apply for a passport, will be able to travel to Quwait to stay with family for a month. Ajeel can also apply for her passport and would like to visit Iraq.
"I miss my home," she said. "I want to go back and stay for a couple months. I don't want to go and live there right now. There's nothing there."
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The Ajeel family is originally from Diwaniyah,
Iraq. From left, Zainab Albadri, with three of five daughters, Huda, 16 Noor, 8 and Fatima, 5. Huda said members of her family have also gone to England and Australia. Huda works and pays for her own car to help her mother take care of the rest of her sisters. (Grant McPherson photo)


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Comprised of lawyers, developers, bankers and community development experts, the CVP Advisory Council assists JCUA staff to ensure the following:
- CVP loans are given to viable projects.
- Projects involve an acceptable amount of risk.
- Projects have responsible repayment plans.
- Projects are in line with JCUA's overall mission.
Zachary Braun
Senior Vice President, First Eagle Bank
With over 15 years of experience in banking and finance, Zachary Braun brings a wealth of knowledge to JCUA's Community Ventures Program Advisory Council. Mr. Braun serves as the Senior Vice President of First Eagle Bank, a locally owned commercial bank which proudly carries a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) certification, Zachary serves on JCUA's Board of Directors.
Ralph Brown
Founder/President, Technical Assistance Corporation
In a 50-year career devoted to the development and preservation of low and moderate income housing, attorney Ralph Brown has a national profile and has been involved in the production of thousands of affordable housing developments throughout the city. Through his leadership on the Community Ventures Advisory Council, Ralph brings decades of experience to the program where he has served in a leadership capacity for over eight years.
Edward Chez
Managing Partner, Schultz & Chez, L.L.P.
Edward Chez is the Managing Partner at Schultz & Chez, L.L.P. a family-owned accounting firm with a focus on tax preparation and estate planning. With over 50 years of experience in accounting and wealth management, Edward brings expertise in analyzing the viability of community development projects. He is an avid supporter of Misercordia, an organization that offers assistance to the developmentally disabled. He currently serves on the JCUA Board of Directors.
STEve Keen
Consultant, Executive Service Corps of Chicago
Steve Keen serves as a consultant for the Executive Service Corps of Chicago which does management consulting for non-profits and has been on the board of Open Communities and the United Way of Highland Park/Highwood. He currently serves on JCUA's Board of Directors where he has also served as president of the board and chair of the finance committee. Steve and his wife Gerry are investors in the Community Ventures program, and are also active with Congregation Hakafa with their refugee mentoring program.
David Midgley
Former Director, Illinois Housing Development Authority
With an extensive career as a real estate and financing attorney, David Midgley has offered legal counsel to a variety of development projects. Currently retired, David is the former Deputy Director and served as the Director of the Illinois Housing Development Authority. Mr. Midgley is a former investment banker and advisor for tax-exempt bond issues for moderate income housing and has represented clients nationwide. David has been an active supporter of JCUA for over 10 years and previously served on the organization's Board of Directors.
roberta Nechin
Consultant, Affordable Housing Development
Roberta Nechin has supported JCUA for nearly 20 years and has been leading the Community Ventures Program for over 15 years. As an independent consultant focused on affordable housing development, Roberta has helped to bring thousands of units of affordable housing to neighborhoods throughout Chicagoland. She serves as the Chair the Community Ventures Project Advisory Committee.
nadia Underhill
Director of Real Estate Development at Heartland Housing
Nadia Underhill is leads Heartland Housing's affordable housing development work. Nadia has more than 12 years of experience financing, planning and constructing publicly financed housing developments. She has lead award-winning development projects throughout Chicagoland including the renovation of the former Viceroy Hotel that now offers 89 units of affordable housing on Chicago's Near West Side.
Rich Wallach
Senior Director of Community Development at IFF
Chair, JCUA Community Ventures Advisory Committee
Rich Wallach is a development and acquisitions professional with over 35 years of experience in for-profit, non-profit and public sector real estate and urban redevelopment. As Senior Director of Community Development at IFF, Rich Wallach conceptualizes, evaluates and executes proactive comprehensive community development opportunities.


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Each sensor in the series uses a silicon detector, has a 10 x 10mm aperture, and operates in the 350 to 100nm spectral range. Download the datasheet for information on differing power ranges and scales, resolution, damage threshold, and accuracy.


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Day 1: Three Secrets of Soul Rest {7 Days of Soul Rest}
ting on the couch, the sun slant
in the windows as I sip coffee and half-heartedly attempt to read my Bible. M
y one-year-old daughter toddles over to me, her arms overflowing with "stuff." One at a time, she hands me a train, a purple rubber band, a board book, a sippie cup, an old broken cell phone and her blanket. Finally,
she raises her tiny arms and waits for me to lift her up.
Lately, as I've been mulling over the subject of soul rest, this scene seems to be God's message to me during this chapter of my life as a mother of two teeny children
Give me everything you're carrying.
And then let me carry you
Before I launch into this series, which I hope will be helpful on a very practical level, I need to ask you some personal questions.
What are you carrying around with you?
Before we can even hope to have the kind of soul rest we long for, we need to unload. Here are some ways we can do that.
1. Confess
As an evangelical, the churches and groups I associate with tend to focus more on grace and less on spiritual disciplines, so I was surprised when I asked my Catholic friend how she finds soul rest and one of her ways was through confession. Here is what she said:
"I know this is very Catholic, but experiencing the Sacrament of Reconciliation (confession) always lifts a huge weight off my shoulders. I try to go every month but don't usually meet that goal. The act of someone speaking in the name of Jesus and saying that my sins are washed away is always a hugely emotional moment and is in its own way incredibly restful. I think the restfulness comes from experiencing tangibly that it is God's grace that covers my sins, and that my failures are gone. They do not define who I am from now on. And although I walk out of the confessional with the firm intention of not repeating my sins, I will fail again. But I am not steeped in depressing, burdening history. Soul rest at its finest!"
The film,
The Mission
, has a
powerful scene
where mercenary and murderer (played by Robert De Niro) does penance for his crimes by carrying his armor and weapons in a bag strapped to his back for many miles. Filthy, he struggles with the weight of his burden up a hill until he is cut free by a Jesuit priest. Released from the burdens he has carried, he weeps in the arms of the priest.
We cannot experience true soul rest until we are freed from the weight of our failures, guilt, regret, and shame.
Audibly speaking these aloud or writing them down and then burning or burying them are physical ways we can express our confession. Taking advantage of
the opp
reflection during
communion in church is also a
od time to
ask God to convict us of anything we are carrying that we don't need to be. Jesus has
paid the price for our freedom and only He has the
ability to cut
away our heavy bur
When is the last time you confessed your sin
s to Him?
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness"
(1 Jn. 1:9).
Give H
im Everything
But even after we hand our heavy sins to God, we are still not empty-handed. God wants more. He wants our
hopes, dreams, longings, desires
, will,
anxieties, fears,
goals, plans, careers, spouses, children, parents, friends, health and even our life.
I have so much more respect for people who choose not to follow Christ because they know deep down in their soul that following Him will cost them everything.
"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me" (Gal. 2:20).
God wants it all--the good, the bad, the ugly, the worries that keep us up at night and the fears that threaten to paralyze us.
Is there anything you're holding back from Him?
3. Let
Yourself Be Lo
y God
In Jesus' final hours with His disciples, He washed their feet and ate with them. The disciple John, called "the one whom Jesus loved," sat next to Jesus and is described as "leaning on His breast" (Jn. 13:23).
In the Western church, our "Christianeze" for drawing closer to Christ has been to say we are going to "sit at the feet of Jesus," as Mary did in Luke 10:39.
But why don't we ever say we
are going
to "lean on the breast of Jesus"?
I think
we clutch onto th
e image of sitting at Jesus' feet because it
fits in more with west
ern culture
and because we
ike our personal space--even with Jesus. But when I think of my Chinese students all sitting on each other's laps and holding hands with the same gender friends, I wonder if they ever talk about their relationship with Christ and say they want to lay on His chest?
I love the intimacy of this picture. If we are leaning on Jesus' chest, we hear Him even when He whispers and can have no doubt that He is near because we are
In order to experience soul rest, we need to allow ourselves to be loved by God--and that means we
must give up our personal space
and allow ourselves to be held.
Just as my daughter handed me her bundle, we must give God the burden of our sins, offer Him our fears, hopes and dreams and allow Him to carry us, our heads on His breast, if we want to begin experiencing soul rest.
I realize that all of this sounds pretty abstract and
you may be thinking some
asier said than don
thoughts (and believe me, I
am too
). But personally, I
am going to start with an honest conversation with God
"Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you
. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart.
And you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light" (
Mat. 11:28-29).
"He tends His flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in His arms and
carries them close to His heart
; He gently leads those that have young" (Is. 40:11).
A day after writing this, I "happened" to hear
this song
on the radio, by Casting Crowns. If you can, take a few minutes and
. Here are the lyrics:
"Just Be Held"
Hold it all together
Everybody needs you strong
But life hits you out of nowhere
And barely leaves you holding on
And when you're tired of fighting
Chained by your control
There's freedom in surrender
Lay it down and let it go
So when you're on your knees and answers seem so far away
You're not alone, stop holding on and just be held
Your world's not falling apart, it's falling into place
I'm on the throne, stop holding on and just be held
Just be held, just be held
If your eyes are on the storm
You'll wonder if I love you still
But if your eyes are on the cross
You'll know I always have and I always will
And not a tear is wasted
In time, you'll understand
I'm painting beauty with the ashes
Your life is in My hands
So when you're on your knees and answers seem so far away
You're not alone, stop holding on and just be held
Your world's not falling apart, it's falling into place
I'm on the throne, stop holding on and just be held
Just be held, just be held
Lift your hands, lift your eyes
In the storm is where you'll find Me
And where you are, I'll hold your heart
I'll hold your heart
Come to Me, find your rest
In the arms of the God who won't let go
So when you're on your knees and answers seem so far away
You're not alone, stop holding on and just be held
Your world's not falling apart, it's falling into place
I'm on the throne, stop holding on and just be held
(Stop holding on and just be held)
Just be held, just be held
Just be held, just be held
Songwriters: HALL, JOHN MARK / WEST, MATTHEW / HERMS, BERNIE
© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
For non-commercial use only.
What are you carrying? Are you allowing God to carry you?
Check out the other posts in this series:
Day 2:
Moms Are Not Monks
Day 3: Permission for Self Care
Day 4:
Ordinary Moments
Day 5: Creative Spirituality for Busy Times
Day 6: Planning a Personal Retreat
Day 7: Sabbath Rhythms
Linking up with
Thought Provoking Thursday
Velvet Ashes
7 Days of Soul Rest
Spiritual Lessons


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To combat the high rate of death among the enslaved, plantation owners demanded females start having children at 13. By 20, the enslaved women would be expected to have four or five children. As an inducement, plantation owners promised freedom for enslaved female once she bore 15 children, according to Slavery in the United States by John Simkin.
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Have a SIL who lets just say is, on her good days, a lazy willfully ignorant schemer. (Ive posted about this charming woman before before.)
For years she could not be bothered to cook or even buy anything for family gatherings. However she has seen the attention and appreciation that people recive when they arrive with food at events and wants it for herself. So she has come up with a way to cash in.
She started calling up people (people who she knows won't make too much of a fuss. Or people she doesn't care about pissing off) to find out what they would be bringing. Once she finds a dish she wants to make (by 'make' I mean either thaw or microwave to pass off.) she shows up and the event with the dish someone else had specifically told her they would going to be bringing. She makes sure to get there early, something she never does otherwise, to ensure that her dish is the first of it's kind to arrive and giving her time to imply the person bringing the same dish is copying her. She has even gone so far to place it in a very conspicuous place and stand next it. She'll even go around the room serving people,weather they want it or not, to get extra praise and attention and to detract form the dish she plagiarized. As per usual she thinks she is getting away with it because she believes is smarter than everyone else. (This from a woman who believes the Kardashians is an educational documentary experience.) The fact is people see exactly what she does. And as annoyed as some are beginning to get people have opted to simply let it slide
Has anyone else experienced this or has my SIL actually one up with a unique nefarious scheme? And how best to handle it.


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Thanks so much marcusjohn and Paul ; )
Gives me the same great feeling as the other one. Now it is almost like a tattoo. What I said … a billboard campaign all over the world. Would be very healing.
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Reception have been busy being creative, getting messy and exploring new ways to create forms of transport.
The children were fascinated by hot-air balloons and enjoyed watching them in their spare time and even demanded I take them to see a show- inshallah.
As a compromise, we made hot-air balloons we could hang in our classroom and decorate with their chosen design.
We made these using the technique; Paper Mache.
The children initially found this activity very challenging which forced them to access their critical thinking and fine motor skills independently.


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I attached a link to the the items as I found them, if some of them are "linkless", it means that I couldn't put my mouse on them.
Etam minimal black V-neck: Just your classic black jumper, I already had a burgundy one of these and it turns out I wore it so much I decided to get the black one. It was reduced from an already low price, which the quality doesn't reflect.
: I had already spotted these babies last autumn, they are gorgeous but use to be much too expensive. So when I saw them 50% off, I went for it! The leather quality of the shoes is beautiful, the colour quite unique and the shape goes with anything. I'm not used to wearing light colored shoes, 'guess I just need to be careful in my very muddy countryside.
H&M thin knitted cardigan: Not as warm as I wanted it to be but I quite like the way it looks. It gives a classic effortless look, keeping it neutral, super for layering.
H&M blue jumper: Again, not very warm but I just love he way this top fits. I usually stick to neutral colors, but this long sleeve caught my eye with its baby/teal blue color. I am in love with it! Gettin' out of the comfort zone vol°1 (pat on the back).
H&M "pima" black top: This one's a very simple piece, made special by its white detailing on the sleeves, collar and shoulder. This twist on the classic black top is what sold me. I wanted it in the creamy/beige color but it unfortunately wasn't available in my size.
H&M laced top: I've always been a big fan of lace detailings on shirts/skirts, so I can assure you that when I saw this shirt massivly reduced, I knew what would happen to it... it would end up in my closet. It did, and I'm really happy about it!
Stradivarius blue cropped jumper: Gettin' out of the comfort zone vol°2! It's the exact same colour as the H&M top though...tough!! I like it, it's quite warm and goes really well with all of my high-waisted jeans.
Bershka striped roll neck: My latest purchase, I suprised myself in buying a roll neck, they normally make me look like a tortoise XD. This one doesn't, it's a tad bit cropped and pyjama-soft. I usually find Bershka's clothes quality to be on the shitty side, not for this top though (I'll let you know how it washes). Its suuuper low price point pushed me to the vice.
H&M fleecy leopard pyjama bttoms: I'm all for a comfy/warm PJ in the winter, and if it can make me look like Waynetta Slob (role model) then it becomes an obligatory purchase. 'nough said.
: I had already spotted these babies last autumn, they are gorgeous but use to be much too expensive. So when I saw them 50% off, I went for it! The leather quality of the shoes is beautiful, the colour quite unique and the shape goes with anything. I'm not used to wearing light colored shoes, 'guess I just need to be careful in my very muddy countryside.
H&M long triangle necklace and long glass necklace: Although quite far from my usual stytle (I'm normaly a silver person), these 2 necklaces look quite classy. I wouldn't wear them together though, as it would be too "in your face" for me. The quality isn't as bad as the price lets it seem, a nice adition to my small jewelery collection (keep loosing them... shame on me).
H&M 3 layers necklace: This one is as pretty as it is annoying (it's always getting tangled). I like it a lot though.
Guilty bonus
H&M cosmetics powder highliter: OK, I am guilty, I bought makeup.Again. But it was so cheap, and I'd heard so many good things about this highliter. You get a really good product for the price, of course not as pigmented as the lou-minizers from "the balm" but not bad at all. Worth the spend if you can find it.
And with that comes the end of my january haul, hope you enjoyed it. As a "last word" I'll leave you with a picture of my bed after I received an order from H&M, here comes the apocalyps...


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I didn't feel too inspired to play in any challenges yesterday, so I made a point to play in today's challenges. They are:
Sweet Sunday Sketch
Sunday Stamps - Red, White, and Kraft
Pile It On - Fantasy
Sentimental Sundays - New Beginnings
For my fantasy element, I used the only fantastical stamp I own - Unicorn Dreams. And for the "new beginnings" element, I made this a baby card. I thought the unicorn goes well with the baby theme. And for my red, I used Tulip, which has a touch of pink, better for babies I think.
Materials used:
Cardstock: Kraft, Tulip, White Daisy
Stamps: Unicorn Dreams
Ink: Tulip
Other: Spring Blossom Just Blooms, Burlap Ribbon, Garden Wooden Shapes
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Unicorn Baby Card
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What a fantastic take on all challenges - I love the little dragonfly with the flower. Thank you so much for joining us at SSSC!ReplyDelete
Such a SWEET Baby Card!ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining us at PIO!
Hope you will join us again soon!
Have a GREAT day!!
Wow, you did a great job combing all the challenges and made a very hip and cool baby card! Thanks for joining us at Sunday Stamps! :)ReplyDelete
beautiful baby card! I love the unicorn! Thank you so much for sharing this with us at Sentimental Sundays xReplyDelete
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