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Canada has been providing development assistance to Mali since 1962. In 2009, as part of Canada's new aid effectiveness agenda, Mali was selected as a country of focus for Canadian international development assistance.
In 2012, Mali ranked 182 out of 187 in the list of countries in the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index. In 2011, of a total population of 15.8 million, 50.4 percent lived on less than US$1.25/day and 46.6 percent was under 15 years of age. The country had an adult illiteracy rate of about 69 percent, and has higher rates of infant and maternal mortality, disease, and malnutrition than most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2011, life expectancy at birth was just 52 years.
Mali experienced a political crisis that culminated in a military coup d'état that occurred on March 22, 2012. Canada condemned the coup and suspended the portion of its aid programs that involved direct payments to the Government of Mali. This suspension was lifted in February 2014.
Another crisis, a food crisis this time, created serious tension in Mali in 2011–2012, with low and erratic rainfall causing a decrease in food production. This crisis, the third of its kind since 2005, was aggravated by population displacements caused by insecurity in northern Mali.
Canada provided humanitarian assistance to help Malians cope with the crisis and Canada continues to respond to Mali's humanitarian needs, especially those of people living in northern Mali, where the effects of the conflict, as well as the 2012 food and nutrition crisis, are still being felt.
Thematic Focus
In 2014, Mali was confirmed as a country of focus for the Government of Canada's international development efforts.
DFATD's cooperation program in Mali aims to provide basic services to Malians. It focuses on health, education, food security and nutrition, while supporting reform to improve governance.
Development priorities identified in Canada's 2009–2013 Mali Country Strategy remain relevant, but approaches and key anticipated results will have to be adapted to the new context. The 2014–2019 country development strategy is currently being developed.
Canada's international development program in Mali is directly aligned with the Government of Mali's 2012–2017 Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP III) (in French only) (PDF, 1 MB, 146 pages). This strategy identifies good governance, accelerated growth, sustainable job creation, equitable access to quality social services, and protection against vulnerabilities as Mali's priorities.
Children and youth including maternal, newborn and child health
Canada is helping Mali to decrease the mortality rate for children under the age of five through improved maternal, newborn and child health services. Under the Africa Health Systems Initiative, a Canadian program active in several countries, Canada continues to strengthen Mali's health system to achieve concrete progress toward the Millennium Development Goals. Canada is also putting an emphasis on basic education with a view to increasing gross enrolment rate at the primary school level and providing quality education.
- reduce the maternal mortality rate from 970 deaths per 100,000 live births (in 2008)
- reduce the infant mortality rate from 178 deaths per 1,000 live births (in 2010)
- train community school teachers
- provide assistance to increase primary school enrolment rates from 80 percent (in 2008).
Food security
Canada supports irrigation and agricultural development projects and promotes the use of new methods and techniques to increase food security and stimulate economic growth. In this way, subsistence farmers can increase crop yields, producing more food for their own consumption and for selling in local markets and neighbouring countries. This progress will help to strengthen food security and price stability in urban centres.
Canada supports the development of financial products suited to the agricultural sector, and seeks to make these products more available to people living in rural areas, to enable Malians to meet their socio-economic development needs, while helping to increase regional food security.
- develop 9,550 hectares of farm land to ensure secure production of rice and market-garden vegetables
- form small-scale organizations of rural producers, both women and men, to help educate farmers in the use of new farming and management techniques
- strengthen rural organizations' ability to access agricultural credit and markets
Canada's continued support of the public sector will help ensure better access to judicial services for citizens, will improve the accountability of public officials, and help ensure adherence to contractual obligations. This will improve the business climate for investments and increase economic opportunities for the poor.
Canada will also strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations to monitor reforms and see to it that national policies focus on poverty reduction.
- implement a larger percentage of the recommendations issued by the Office of the Auditor General of Mali in its reports
- strengthen judicial control and inspection, and establish effective system for combatting corruption
- reinforce civil society organizations' capacity in policy dialogue, analysis, research and citizen engagement around development policies.
Progress on Aid Effectiveness
In 2008, donors demonstrated their willingness to work together and harmonize development efforts through a joint country-assistance strategy aimed at improving the effectiveness of support to the Government of Mali's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP II) by ensuring an adequate division of labour. Canada is helping to develop the next joint country-assistance strategy, which will ensure effective harmonization and division of labour between the Government of Mali and its partners.
Cumulative achievements
Over the years, considerable success has been achieved in initiatives to reduce poverty, improve the health of women and children, improve Mali's education system, build the capacity of agricultural producers (both women and men), and improve good governance in Mali.
- From 2001 to 2010, the proportion of Malians living under the national poverty line declined from 55.6 percent to 43.6 percent.
- The proportion of immunized children under one year of age increased from 69 percent in 2007 to 92 percent in 2010.
- Grain production rose from 3,693,240 tonnes in 2007 to 6,418,000 tonnes in 2010.
Achievements 2012-2013
Children and youth including maternal, newborn and child health
- Helped UNICEF to produce 850,000 textbooks urgently needed to give children displaced following conflict access to textbooks at their host schools.
- Enabled community health centres in the Kayes region to respond to 80 percent of the health needs of mothers and newborns in their community in 2012, 14 percent more than in 2011.
Food security
- Helped to construct and strengthen small-scale irrigation infrastructure to generate an additional 19,800 tonnes of rice produced in 2012, equivalent to the annual nutritional requirement of more than 243,000 Malians.
- Helped educate political parties, civil society, and government institutions about electoral fraud and the management of potential electoral conflicts.
Achievements 2010-2011
Children and youth including maternal, newborn and child health
- Distributed 615 tonnes of fortified food to 3,007 mothers and 24,233 infants and children.
- Helped the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria provide HIV/AIDS treatment to 28,000 people, detect and treat 17,000 cases of tuberculosis, and distribute 720,000 anti-malarial, insecticide-treated mosquito nets between 2002 and 2012.
- Provided three doses of a life-saving vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B, and polio to more than 66,500 infants in 2010, helping to increase the national rate of protected infants from 69 percent in 2007 to 92 percent in 2010.
- Helped to deliver more than 1.2 million new textbooks, ensuring that every primary school student received two textbooks.
- Helped to increase the primary education completion rate from 56 percent in 2009 to 58 percent in 2011. Among girls, the increase was from 47 percent to 51 percent during the same period.
Food security
- Provided 5,481 tonnes of food rations to 164,878 people in rural areas, including 82,863 women, through contributions to the World Food Programme (WFP).
- Helped to develop 7,453 hectares of newly irrigated land, which yielded 12,778 tonnes of paddy rice and 900 tonnes of fresh fruit and vegetables annually, enough to meet the food needs of 157,000 people.
- Helped the Office of the Auditor General of Mali to update its auditing methods using international standards.
- Help to train judges, police, soldiers, and prison administrators in human rights, particularly women's rights.
Achievements 2010-2011
Children and youth including maternal, newborn and child health
- Increased vaccination rates in Timbuktu from 58 percent in 2008 to 80 percent in 2009; in Gao from 90 percent in 2008 to 100 percent in 2009; and in Kidal from 39 percent in 2008 to 44 percent in 2009.
- Helped increase the percentage of people living within five kilometres of a community health centre from 51 percent in 2006 to 59 percent in 2010; this was accomplished by training medical staff and constructing clinics.
- Helped to increase, by 13 percent, the percentage of childbirths assisted by trained health-care providers, from 51 percent in 2003 to 64 percent in 2010.
- Helped to increase the primary school enrolment rate from 77.7 percent in 2008 to 79.8 percent in 2010.
- Helped to increase the primary school completion rate from 55.7 percent in 2008 to 59.7 percent in 2010.
- Contributed to establishing a national model for distribution of textbooks to schools, which played a significant role in achieving an improvement in country-wide textbook distribution, with senior primary school students receiving more than three textbooks each.
- Helped increase access to primary education by 9.4 percent for girls and 2.1 percent for boys since 2008.
Food security
- Helped to increase production of grain—the staple food in Mali—from 3,693,240 tonnes in 2006–2007 to 6,334,440 tonnes in 2009–2010.
- Helped the Office of the Auditor General of Mali to reduce fraud by conducting performance assessments.
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The employment outlook for graduates is excellent. Respiratory Therapists can work full or part-time. The average salary for new graduates is approximately $65,000. The annual salary for experienced registered therapists is approximately $70,000 to $90,000. Most therapists work in a hospital with eight or twelve hour shifts being the norm. Graduates can specialize in areas such as: adult and neonatal intensive care, pediatric care, pulmonary function testing, or home care. There are opportunities for advancement.
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Waymarked Walks
Walking in the park
With over 450 acres of park and 8 miles of path to walk Woodgate Valley is an ideal place for a gentle stroll.
There are 3 waymarked routes to choose from that range from a 1 mile walk to 2.5 miles or pick up a map and explore the rest of the park.
Three Routes to choose from:
Three paths of varying lengths have been laid out to guide you around the park.
They all start from the Visitor Centre and cover routes 1, 2 and 2.5 miles.
To follow the trails simply look for the colour marked posts along the way.
All the routes are circular.
The Green Route
This is the shortest route and is approxmately 1 mile in length. The route leaves the Visitor Centre and goes through the horse fields.
At the bottom of these fields it makes a left turn following the streamside and passes the Treking Centre, it then follows Watery Lane. At the main road it turns left and briefly walk along the pavement before re-entering Woodgate's car park. On this short walk you will see horses grazing in their fields and glimpse part of the Bourn Brook as it flows through the valley.
Look out for other wildlife, birds and butterflies that live on the different grasses and wildflowers. At the end of the walk you can take a look at our demostration wildflower meadows and butterfly garden.
The Red Route
This walk of about 2 miles follows much of the Bourn Brook as it makes its way through the heart of the park.
Leaving the Visitor Centre and turning right you walk into the Valley between the horse fields. Here there are great views right across the valley to Quinton. As you are walking through these field you can see some of the old field boundaries from the time when Woodgate was farmland.
At the bottom of the horse fields take the right path towards the stream, and follow the stream until you come to a green bridge, as you walk you will pass by tree plantations of Alder, Cherry and Field Maple. It is worth pausing where there are gaps in the trees to look across the brook and with luck you may spot a Kingfisher or a Water Vole.
Walk past the green bridge then take the a right turn through a large meadow where field scabious can be seen in late summer, walk through the hedgerow and turn left towards the red bridge where you will see Orchids in June.
The walk then crosses the Bourn Brook at the red bridge and returns on this side for different views of the park.
Just before you reach the green bridge take the grass path on your right that goes through an open plateau where more orchids can be seen. When you rech the end of this area a path to your left will lead you to a metal bridge and can then walk back to the centre via the Trekking Centre and Watery Lane.
Yellow Route
The longest of our three routes, covering approximately 2.5 miles, this walk follows the old cart track from the visitor centre east into the valley. This old hedge lane is around 500 years old and was once the main thoroughfare for the area. This will bring you into a tree plantation created in the 1980s which will hopefully become a future deciduous wood for the valley. From here the Chamberlain clock tower at the University of Birmingham is easily picked out on the horizon. Near the end of this plantation a left turn will take you into one of our largest hay meadows that in the summer is full of buttercups and other wild flowers and butterflies. Continue walking towards the green bridge taking the path off the right of the meadow. This will bring you to the side of the stream. Walk along this path until you reach the red bridge. Cross over the red bridge and walk back along the Quinton side of the stream until you reach the metal bridge.
Then take the path on your right, this path runs through an oak regeneration area that will become an important part of Woodgates woodlands of the future. Look out for woodland birds like woodpeckers (green and great spotted) and tree creepers. Re-join the Bourn Brook and the walk finishes back at the Visitor Centre taking in the Trekking centre along the way.
Walking the Illey way
For those who like more of a challenge Woodgate Valley is the start/finish point for the Illey Way a 5 mile walk through the Worcestershjire country side to Waseley Hills Country Park. This route also links up with the Monarchs Way and North Worcestershire footpath.
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White House Action Was Purely Political
Federal law requires that when a large employer anticipates it may have to lay off workers, it must issue notices of the possibility to them. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act – WARN – mandates such notices.
But when officials at Lockheed Martin, the giant defense contractor, decided they ought to send out WARN notices to as many as 123,000 employees just a few days before the presidential election, the White House erupted. Why, that many WARN notices at that time might cost President Barack Obama votes on Nov. 6, administration officials fumed.
Maybe so, but the law is the law, Lockheed Martin responded. In view of big spending cuts the Pentagon will be required automatically to make Jan. 2, unless Congress acts to stop them, the company would risk breaking the WARN law.
So desperate was the White House to avoid the Lockheed Martin WARN notices that it tried to make a deal this week. The Office of Management and Budget offered assurances the Pentagon will not cancel any contracts on Jan. 2. And, the administration added, the government instead of Lockheed Martin will make payments required by the WARN Act to any workers who are laid off – providing the company does not issue the WARN letters.
The bottom line is that the White House is offering Lockheed Martin our tax dollars if the company will forestall action required by law – but that might cost Obama votes.
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Psychology faculty member David Anderegg spoke at the TEDx Conference in Brussels, Belgium, last month on the growing culture of anti-intellectualism in America—a topic central to his critically acclaimed 2008 book Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them.
TEDx conferences are independently organized events affiliated with the larger TED Conference that happens each year. TEDxBrussels was organized around the theme of "Who is going to save the world?" and featured talks from 25 scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs engaged in important work around the world.


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Book your room at La Concha Renaissance San Juan Resort
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Freshly updated with a chic 21st-century style, this landmark San Juan resort adjoins a sandy beach and the calm, clear Caribbean Sea.
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Waterfalls link the resort's multi-level infinity pools. Dining options include Perla's, located under the La Concha's signature "shell."
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Hotel Amenities
La Concha Renaissance San Juan Resort is in San Juan's fashionable Condado District. The beach is protected by a rock jetty and ideal for calm-water swimming in the clear Atlantic Ocean. Guests can bask in the sun alongside the hotel's 3 outdoor infinity-edge pools. Beach sun loungers/chaise longues, towels and umbrellas are provided. The resort also features a state-of-the-art fitness facility with ocean views. Some of its amenities include 2 spa tubs, massages, and on-site yoga classes (advanced reservations required for massages). Nearby hiking and biking trails beckon guests seeking an overland adventure. Guests can also take advantage of the facilities offered by the surrounding area, such as a full-service health spa, and shops. A medical center is also nearby.
A wide selection of restaurants includes Perla, serving fresh seafood beneath the resort's signature shell structure. A nightclub, tapas bar, a seaside bar, and an Italian Restaurant are additional highlights.
Valet parking and self-parking are available (surcharges apply), and include in/out privileges. Complimentary wireless Internet access is provided. Additionally, laundry, luggage storage, and a 25-room conference center (25,000 total square feet) with technology support staff are available. On-site babysitting/child care (surcharge) is available upon request.
- 24-hour front desk
- ATM/banking
- Babysitting or childcare
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Beach sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Beach umbrellas
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Conference space size (feet) - 269098
- Conference space size (meters) - 25,000
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Free WiFi
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Laundry facilities
- Long-term parking (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Meeting rooms 19
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 12
- Number of meeting rooms - 25
- Number of outdoor pools - 3
- Number of restaurants - 6
- Number of spa tubs - 2
- On private beach
- Poolside bar
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Snack bar/deli
- Spa tub
- Total number of rooms - 483
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- DVD player
- Free Wi-Fi
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Laundry facilities
- Outdoor pools
- On private beach
- Snack bar/deli
- Sofa bed
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Long-term parking (surcharge), Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable TV service
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free toiletries
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- DVD player
- Free local calls
- Free long-distance calls
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board
- Minibar
- Pay movies
- Phone
- Premium bedding
- Premium TV channels
- Private bathroom
- Room service (24 hours)
- Shower/tub combination
- Sofa bed
- Sofa bed size
Where to Eat
Perla - Specializing in sophisticated seafood cuisine, this popular restaurant opens daily for dinner. Housed beneath a dramatic shell and surrounded by a reflecting pool, Perla offers a sophisticated atmosphere, bar, and ocean views. Bathing suits are not permitted.
Voga - This bar and restaurant serves breakfast and dinner in a relaxed atmosphere enriched by ocean views. Bathing suits not permitted. Voga is closed on Sundays and Mondays.
Solera - This poolside hotspot offers a tapas bar serving lighter fare until sundown, followed by an after-dark tapas lounge for tidbits with a local twist. Solera also specializes in hearty wines. This venue is open for lunch and dinner and maintains a casual dress code.
Komakai - Sushi and Asian cuisine with a twist are on offer at Komakai. Open for lunch and dinner, Komakai features a casual dress code.
Aroma Café - Serves beverages and breakfast on the go for the morning pick-me-up. This restaurant offers pool views and maintains a casual dress code.
Nearby Things to Do
- Golfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Windsurfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at Midnight
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
- Pets not allowed (service dogs only)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Only service dogs are allowed
No rollaway/extra beds available
- Resort fee: 18 percent of room rate
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: USD 25 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 15 per night (in/out privileges)
- Valet parking fee: USD 20 per day (in/out privileges)
Hotel Name
- Concha Renaissance
- Concha Renaissance Resort
- Concha Renaissance San Juan
- Concha Renaissance San Juan Resort
- Concha Resort
- Concha Resort San Juan
- Renaissance San Juan
- Renaissance San Juan Resort
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We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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SEC502: Perimeter Protection In-Depth
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Just outstanding having Paul teach this class he knows his stuff. Brings real world experience to the discussions.
Stephen Dillon, MITRE
This course, on the first day, made clear several topics that I had questions on for years. The explanations provided were unlike other information contained on websites and in books.
M. Cook, Arrowhead International
There is no single fix for securing your network or perimeter. If asked, "How do you secure your perimeter?", people used to answer "A firewall!", but of course, that is not a valid answer today. The perimeter is so much more complex than it used to be. That is why this course is a comprehensive analysis of a wide breadth of technologies. In fact, this is probably the most diverse course in the SANS catalog, as mastery of multiple security techniques is required to defend your network from remote attacks. You cannot just focus on a single OS or security appliance. A proper security posture must be comprised of multiple layers. This course was developed to give you the knowledge and tools necessary at every layer to ensure your network is secure.
The course starts by looking at common problems we need to resolve. How is my perimeter being bypassed? How did my system get compromised when no one can connect to it from the Internet? How do I identify compromised systems? How do I identify command and control activity? What is the best way to identify, control and investigate malware? We will dig into these questions and more and answer them.
We spend quite a bit of time learning about IP. Sure we all know how to assign an IP address, but to secure your network you really need to understand the idiosyncrasies of the protocol. We will talk about how IP works and how to spot the abnormal patterns. If you cannot hear yourself saying "Hummm, there are no TCP options in that packet. It is probably forged," then you will gain some real insight from this portion of the material.
Once you have an understanding of the complexities of IP, we will get into how to control it on the wire. Rather than trying to tell you what are good and bad products, we focus on the underlying technology used by all of them. This is extremely practical information because a side-by-side product comparison is only useful for that specific moment in time. By gaining knowledge of what goes on under the cover, you will be empowered to make good product choices for years to come. Just because two firewalls are Next Generation firewalls, do they really work the same on the wire? Is there really any difference between stateful inspection and network-based intrusion prevention, or is it just marketing? These are the types of questions we address in this portion of the course. Once we looked at the technology, we will also look at examples of open source and commercial solutions. Commercial solutions such as Palo Alto, FireEye, Bit9 and Carbon Black and more are discussed.
From there, it is a hands-on tour through how to perform a proper wire-level assessment of a potential product, as well as what options and features are available. We will even get into how to deploy traffic control while avoiding some of the most common mistakes. Feel like your firewall is generating too many daily entries for you to review the logs effectively? We will address this problem not by reducing the amount of critical data, but by streamlining and automating the backend process of evaluating it.
But you cannot do it all on the wire. A proper layered defense needs to include each individual host - not just the hosts exposed to access from the Internet, but hosts that have any kind of direct or indirect Internet communication capability as well. We will start with service and OS lockdown techniques and move on to third-party tools that can permit you to do anything from endpoint protection to full-blown application policy enforcement, advanced malware protection and advanced threat protection.
Most significantly, the course material has been developed using the following guiding principles:
- Learn the process, not one specific product.
- You learn more by doing, so hands-on problem solving is key.
- Always peel back the layers and identify the root cause.
While technical knowledge is important, what really matters are the skills to properly leverage it. This is why the course is heavily focused on problem solving and root cause analysis. While these are usually considered soft skills, they are vital to being effective in the role of security architect. So along with the technical training, you will receive risk management capabilities and even a bit of Zen empowerment
Test Your Skills
If you are still not sure if this course is for you, consider taking the evaluation test. It is only 15 questions and is directly based on this course material. If you can correctly answer 12-13 questions out of the 15, you are in pretty good shape. If you answer fewer than that, you will find the content of this course valuable.
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|SEC502.1: IP and Packet Decoding
On day one we start off with a 30,000 foot view of what needs to be addressed. This section is more than an executive overview as we dig down into the bits and bytes of the problem, as well. What can be secured at the network level, and which protection needs to be pushed back to the hosts? What are my packet level control devices really doing on the wire, and when can't I trust them?
If you want to control traffic on the wire, you have to understand the IP protocol. It is for this reason a majority of the day is spent doing packet-level analysis. While many protocol analyzers will tell you what they think is happening, if you cannot read the decodes for yourself, you will have no idea when the tool is leading you astray.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Threat Vectors
OSI Layer 2
OSI Layer 3
OSI Layers 4 and 5
Packet Decoding
|SEC502.2: Network Security - Part I
The only way to understand if a network traffic control device is going to meet your requirements is to understand the technology underneath the hood. Do all firewalls handle traffic the same way? What is the difference in solutions? In today's material we will cut through the vendor marketing slicks and look at what their products are really capable of doing. We will also start pulling together the pieces of a layered defense as well as start discussing best practices for traffic control.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Static and Stateful Packet Filtering
Stateful Inspection and NAT
Netfilter and Building a Rule Base
Network Based Intrusion Detection and Prevention
NIDS Hands-on
|SEC502.3: Network Security - Part II
On day two we laid the foundation by discussing the technology under the hood of traffic control products. In today's material, we expand further by looking at looking at additional solutions and how they work. We will also discuss how to test these products on the wire so we know exactly how they are impacting traffic. Can the product stop a source route attack? What about an application layer attack? These are the types of questions we will strive to answer in this material. We will also look at network access control (NAC), NextGen firewalls, Virtual firewalls and much more.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Cisco Routers
Network Access Control
Packet Crafting
Perimeter Assessment
Virtual Firewalls and Proxies
Beyond Stateful
|SEC502.4: Protecting the Endpoint - Host Security
In the early days of the Internet it was possible to secure a network right at the perimeter. Modern-day attacks, however, are far more advanced and require a multi-layered approach to security. This does not mean the traditional perimeter no longer serves a useful role; just that it is only part of the equation - and the perimeter has changed. So in today's material, we will focus on the security posture of each of our individual hosts. We will look at Endpoint protection solutions, and solutions to identify advanced malware. Additionally, we will look at applications and the huge vulnerabilities that can be present within applications and how to secure the issues identified.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Locking Down Hosts
Locking Down Web Applications
Application Firewalls
Endpoint Protection
Advanced Malware Protection
|SEC502.5: Logging, Wireless, Encryption, and VPNs
The number one problem students have with managing their environment is dealing with the firewall logs. This is why it is also a topic in today's material. Not only will we discuss what to look for, but through practical exercises you will learn how to optimize the log review process into something that takes less time to finish than your morning coffee.
We will also talk about security information and event management. The devices on your network really want to tell you what is going on; it is just a matter of being able to sort through all of the data. We will look at options for both daily reports as well as real-time alerting.
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Security Information and Event Management
Firewall Log Analysis
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|SEC502.6: Assessments, Cloud Considerations and Pull it All Together
On the final day we will pull together everything we have learned. This day's material focuses greatly on problem resolution. The problems start off easy, like small organizations that need advice in order to make their environment more secure. The complexity quickly escalates, however, to where you need to combine security, functionality, and political issues into the design. A healthy dose of risk assessment is also thrown in for good measure.
It is not enough to simply configure the hosts securely and hope for the best. So we will also look at vulnerability scanning and audits in order to be able to validate continuous integrity. For those times when the worst occurs, we will talk about the basics of performing a forensic analysis as well.
Of course cloud computing is also important to consider today, so we will look at some of the risks and how to mitigate the risks.
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Vulnerability Assessment and Auditing
Cloud Considerations
Pulling it All Together
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The 10 Greatest Uses of Trash Talk in the History of War
#5. Pierre Jacques Etienne Cambronne, the Battle of Waterloo
The Situation:
When the Battle of Waterloo turned into a giant clusterfuck for Napoleon and France on June 18, 1815, England called upon the surrender of Pierre Cambronne of France and the remnants of Napoleon's Imperial Guard.
Via Warrfarr.co.uk
In return, they guaranteed the safety of his wicked sideburns.
Cambronne knew that no matter what his reply would be, it was guaranteed to be repeated far and wide in the annals of military history. So he made his answer count.
The Quote:
(Or in the original French, "Merde!")
In 1815, "merde" was a bit of a super-swearword so defiant and ungentlemanly that in today's jaded terms it would be like the French having their answer delivered with a 10-minute rant by a coked-up Dave Chappelle and a 1980's Eddie Murphy, then projecting a giant dong in the sky. Hell, even Ernest Hemingway was impressed.
Via Orbit-mag.com
Well-educated in the art of cursing.
The Aftermath:
Sure enough, Cambronne was forced to surrender the Old Guard at Waterloo, but his immortal insult to the English went down in history as "the word of Cambronne." "Merde!" would go on to appear in popular culture, the most famous example being Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, and the word even got etched onto Cambronne's statue in Nantes. That's the kind of legacy most of us can only hope for.
Via Wikimedia Commons
And a neck we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.
#4. Sparta, the Third Sacred War
Via Wikipedia
The Situation:
Sometimes the best trash talk is uttered in reply to someone else's trash talk.
Which brings us to Philip II of Macedon, the Sith-lord-like father of Alexander the Great, who possessed such an insatiable appetite for war and conquest that the Fates cursed his legacy by having Val Kilmer play him in Alexander.
Via Wikimedia Commons
Look, it's Batman!
After maxing out his army's tech tree and throwing his enormous weight around in the Third Sacred War, Philip turned his eye toward the oiled abs of Sparta. So, in 346 B.C., he decided he would do a little smack-talking of his own to the Spartans:
"You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army on your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people and raze your city."
Via Wikimedia Commons
"And I shall make little coins with my head on them and place them in the thongs of your strippers."
The Spartans answered ...
The Quote:
As in, "That's the only relevant word in all your tough talk."
The Aftermath:
Sure enough, it never happened. Both Philip II and his son Alexander ended up spending the remainder of their military careers fighting as far away from Sparta as humanly possible.
Via Lib.utexas.edu
#3. Joan of Arc, the Siege of Orleans
Via Wikipedia
The Situation:
Prior to her arrival at the Siege of Orleans during the Hundred Years' War, the Maid of Orleans Joan of Arc dictated a message for the English to let them know what they were in for. The letter from Joan to the Duke of Bedford, leader of the opposing forces, reads like a curious mix of flowery ranting and religious zeal. That is, right up until the end -- where Joan suddenly gets down to business:
Via Wikimedia Commons
Creepy face and all.
The Quote:
"The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself."
Note how smoothly she enters Captain America mode, using her code name for effect while delivering her enemy matter-of-fact statements about certain defeat.
Via Wikimedia Commons
"The Maid is about to pop your siege cherry."
The Aftermath:
Alas, the duke, he did not listen. And whether or not Joan was schooled in warfare by the same archangel who uppercutted Lucifer to the Pit, she and her troops were the battlefield equivalent of the Konami Code, tearing the English new ones in more places than syphilis in one of the most decisive battles of all time.
Via Wikimedia Commons
Mostly because they were all ridiculously huge.
#2. William T. Sherman, the Battle of Atlanta
The Situation:
In May 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman was given the task of invading Georgia with three federal armies with the objective to take Atlanta. With Grant stuck in the mud outside of Richmond and Lincoln's presidency on the line, the outcome of the Civil War and thus the fate of the United States hinged on how effectively Sherman could wreak havoc.
Luckily, Georgia ranked very high on Sherman's personal "things I want to punch in the face" list. He proceeded to take the state apart in the exact manner that could be expected from a man that even in official portraits manages to look like this:
Via Wikimedia Commons
He's either reaching for a giant handgun or tweaking his nipples.
When Sherman finally had Atlanta within reach, Mayor James M. Calhoun sent Sherman a letter begging that his city be spared from the Union attack. Sherman's response was a letter of orders that said the shit about to go down on Atlanta is inevitable, with the definitive line:
The Quote:
"You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm."
Wait, you can't appeal to a thund- oooooohhh.
Or, to quote it in full, "You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war." He did also mention that he's only doing this out of duty, and "... when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing" -- but shockingly, they weren't too keen on this offer from the guy standing on their doorstep with an angry army.
The Aftermath:
Sherman managed to work Atlanta into such a pants-shitting evacuation frenzy that a chunk of the city had actually blown itself up by the time he got there. Out of principle, he wrecked the rest up nevertheless.
Via Monkeymindonine.blogspot.com
There's no reason you shouldn't enjoy your job.
#1. Philip Sheridan's Drinking Is Best Left Uninterrupted
Via Wikipedia
The Situation:
The Battle of Missionary Ridge is one of those odd pages in Civil War history that should be required reading in every classroom, but tends to end up a minor footnote because it's just too awesome.
It all got started when Union General Philip Sheridan was instilling confidence in his men while keeping a flask of some liquid confidence of his own close by. Suddenly, he spotted some Confederates peeking down on him from their higher ground at Missionary Ridge. So, being an officer and a gentleman, he raised his flask to them and calmly toasted: "Here's at you!"
Sweet, sweet liberty.
The Confederates, pissed off at this display, responded with a volley of gunfire that splattered the Irishman and his Union officers with dirt. Sheridan, his toast so rudely interrupted, turned at his assailants and roared ...
The Quote:
"That was ungenerous! I'll take your guns for that!"
His army promptly mistook this outburst as an order and stormed up the slopes toward the Confederates on Missionary Ridge, along with the seething Sheridan himself -- while Sheridan's bewildered superior, General Ulysses S. Grant, was left wondering what the hell was going on.
Via Wikimedia Commons
"I've won entire campaigns drunker than you'll ever be."
The Aftermath:
The Confederates fled in panic, with angry Sheridan in hot pursuit. He didn't stop until he realized that they had won ages ago and he was in fact the only Union general who was still fighting.
Via Wikimedia Commons
And because he'd most likely run out of booze and sobered up by that point.
The Battle of Missionary Ridge was a spectacular victory that cost the South the war in the West and elevated Grant to command of all Union armies (which in turn didn't hurt his future election as the President at all). As Grant would later remark: "To Sheridan's prompt movement the Army of the Cumberland, and the nation, are indebted .... Except for his prompt pursuit, so much in this way would not have been accomplished."
So, yeah. Sheridan and his hip flask helped shape the nation.
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A graph with number of vertices less than R(n,n)-1, is called quasi-Ramsey of case n, if it has no complete graph Kn in itself or its complementary graph, and if added another vertex, no matter how it is lined to the graph, the derived graph will have Kn in itself or its complementary. When the number of vertices is R(n,n)-1, call it a Ramsey graph. There is a simple example to show the existence of quasi-Ramsey graph. First R(n,n)>(n-1)(n-1). Second, choose n-1 (n-1)-complete graphs Kn-1, without any lines between any two vertices from two distinct Kn-1. This graph with (n-1)(n-1) vertices is a quasi-Ramsey graph. Furthermore, there are a series of questions about it. For example, if there could be non-isomorphic quasi-Ramsey graphs with same number of vertices, if they are all completely symmetrical (vertex transitive)and how many quasi-Ramsey graphs there are. If all the quasi-Ramsey graphs can be cleared out, we will get a deeper understanding of the structure of Ramsey graphs. Then we are more likely to obtain better estimates of Ramsey numbers.
In the case of $R(4,4)$, there is a unique graph $G$ of order 17 and two non-isomorphic graphs $G_1, G_2$ of order 16. You can find the graphs here. The three graphs $G,G_1,G_2$ are each isomorphic to their own complements.
In the case of $R(5,5)$, the largest known graphs are on 42 vertices, even though the best proven upper bound on their size is 48. All of the 656 known graphs of order 42 are available on the same page, and the paper explaining their construction is B. D. McKay and S. P. Radziszowski, Subgraph counting identities and Ramsey numbers, J. Combinatorial Theory, Ser. B, 69 (1997) 193-209 PDF.
In general I don't think much is known about the Ramsey graphs slightly below the maximal graphs, and it is hopeless at the current state of knowledge to find general constructions for them.
ADDED: Thanks for your reply, I didn't notice you wanted vertex-maximal Ramsey graphs. The second of the (4,4)-graphs of order 16 is one. There are 634 of order 15, 126010 of order 14, 693270 of order 13, 136834 of order 12, 4124 of order 11, 76 of order 10, 6 of order 9, none of smaller order. The great majority of these are not regular. The 6 of order 9 include your example $3K_3$ (three triangles).
The complement of a quasi-Ramsey graph will still be quasi-Ramsey so that answers the question about non-isomorphic with the same number of variables (together with your construction).
$R(4,4)=18$ and there is a unique 17 vertex graph (a Paley graph) with no $K_4$ subgraph or 4 vertex independent set.It is self dual and regular of degree 8. It is vertex transitive which means that except for one 16 vertex graph every other either contains 4 independent vertices or a $K_4$ or is quasiRamsey. This should make it easy to find some irregular 16 vertex quasiRamsey graphs.
later Thanks to the answer from Brendan McKay (who would know!) I can say a bit more. I'll allow myself an editorial moment to say that the description of the graph6 format is not the most welcoming to the casual (windows based) curious reader who just wants to see the (adjacency matrix of) a particular graph or two. Hence I will state that the data pages he links to give descriptions of certain graphs but I have seen them. An R(4,4) graph is one which has neither 4 vertices with all 6 edges between them nor 4 vertices with 0 edges between them. Of course any subgraph of such a graph is also R(4,4). The definition in the question of a Quasi-Ramsey graph (for $n=4$) is an R(4,4) graph (on 16 vertices or less) so that no extension by adding one vertex and some edges on it is also R(4,4)
As Brendan says (with a link to a page with the descriptions) there is a single 17 vertex R(4,4) graph. It has only one 16 vertex subgraph . There is exactly one other 16 vertex R(4,4) graph so it fits the given description of Quasi-Ramsey. Between them these two graphs have no more that 32 vertex subgraphs (probably somewhat less.) In all there are evidently 640 15-vertex R(4,4) graphs so at least 608 of them are Quasi-Ramsey. Between all 640 there at most 640*15=9600 14-vertex subgraphs. Evidently there are 130816 14-vertex R(4,4) graphs so at least 130816-9600= 121216 of them are Quasi-Ramsey. Most likely some of those are not regular (let alone vertex transitive).
All this leads me to suspect that there are a very very large number of Quasi-Ramsey graphs for each $n \ge 5$ and that plenty of them are not regular. Perhaps someone can give an explicit description of at least one for $n=4$, however I can not at the moment.


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Seven servings! If we've done our math right that's a burger for every George in the Foreman family.
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The dishwasher-safe removable plates are key. It might make it heat up a tiny bit slower, but when it comes time to clean the thing it's essential. I wouldn't ever buy a contact grill without them.
7 servings seems a little overly optimistic though. The thing is only 100 square inches. A sheet of notebook paper is 93.5 square inches.
Overall, not bad for the price as long as you aren't comparing to black friday deals, etc.
Ordered for my GF for v-day...she mentioned she wanted one, I told her I'd let her know when I see them. Surprise!
Add code RPGRILLS to take off another 15%... should come to $31. With tax (about 3.80) and shipping ($12) I'm getting a total of $47. Wonder if that is still a good price?
@tonyschiller: Hmmmmm, appliance for Valentines Day? Not the best choice. Personally, I wouldn't be pissed, but plenty of my friends sure would.
My GF grill sat in the basement for years, until dd wanted a panini one day. We gave it a shot, and it really makes great panini's.
kmartind is absolutely right about the removable plates being essential for these grills! I bought one of these a little over a year ago from DailySteals. It arrived with one of the hinges snapped and I could not get DailySteals to take back the item. However, even with the broken hinge, the convenience of cleaning it was SIGNIFICANTLY better than the old fixed-plate version that I previously used. And now that there's a great deal running on this large grill, I'm in for 1 to replace my broken one!
@theyoz: Thanks!
Considering retail on this grill is $90, that RPGRILLS code brings the grill down to about half price after shipping (46.36 total). I'm calling that a good price.
@theyoz: Thanks for the code! I ordered two for $74.83 total. $31.44 each plus $11.95 shipping. It averages out to $37.42 each shipped to my front door. I'd say that is a good price :)
Ok you guys talked me into it haha... you are welcome for the code :)
I love this grill. We buy the big bags of frozen chicken breasts. Throw those on this grill (still frozen) and I have cooked chicken (without having to dethaw) in 10 mins or less with minimal cleanup due to the removal plates. Great for salads.
Considering how much my wife loves cooking on the GF, and how much I hate cleaning our current non-removable plate GF, this is an autobuy for me. Thanks for the deal and the code!
Me too....I have used a GF for years...this year I went whole hog and ordered the Evolve Grill and ALL the plates including the Waffle plate...which is awesome. Which I paid over $100 for!
For you Vegetarians....this thing is great for grilled veggies too. Chop some cabbage, onions, carrots, zuchinni maybe a little corn or what ever you have on this thing...season to taste...serve over brown rice..YUM. Also awesome on grilled asparagus....the ONLY way I cook it.
As the previous poster said....you can throw a frozen chicken breast (or a rib eye) on this thing and it comes out tender as can be!
I even have the omelet and muffin and deep dish pans....makes a great little omelet I must say...I use this appliance on a daily basis.....Buy this item for this price you won't be sorry.
Is it good for steaks? Please reply...as the only interest for me to buy this is for grilling steaks
@wootagonist: You may get mixed reviews for such a question. Clearly there is something that cannot be matched with outdoor gas/charcoal grills. However, I can tell you this... A GF grill this is absolutely the best way to cook a steak that is not on an actual charcoal/gas grill.
So lets put it this way: IMO, If you are cooking indoors, and you don't have a gas grill built into your kitchen counter-tops, this is as good as it will get for your steaks.
@wootagonist: I agree with @criticalcritic, for the most part. If you don't have an outdoor grill available, or weather prevents its use, the GF grill will quickly cook a steak but doesn't really char the outside. In my opinion, an oven or toaster oven broiler will do a better steak, but that will cost you more electricity and time.
Can't beat it for vegetables, boneless chicken or pork chops, though...
@wootagonist: I cook steaks on mine all the time....it makes a great steak even if frozen. Also....to simulate a charcoal grill you could by "Liquid Smoke" at your grocery store.
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WHEELING - They might have to reach a little deeper than they did in 1977, and perhaps endure a few more aches and pains, but the 12 Ironmen preparing to run the Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon Classic for the 37th time believe there's plenty left in the tank.
In fact, 75-year-old Mitch Toto Sr., the elder statesman of the Ironmen - those who have run Wheeling's premier distance race each year since its inception - hopes to keep his streak going at least until the race turns 50. He would be 88.
"It's a way of life," said Toto, who will turn 76 just three days after this year's race. "I ran this race the first time when I was 40 years old. It's a way of keeping young and a way to keep doing the things I do as long as I can."
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A CLASSIC — The select group of runners known as the Ironmen prepare to run the Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon Classic for the 37th time later this month. Front row, from left, are Pat Cronin, race Director R. "Scat" Scatterday, Tim Cogan and Mitch Toto Sr. Back row, from left, are Dave Fiorilli, Steve Habursky, Dr. John Holloway, Dave Claypool, Paul Exley and Ted Rouse. Not pictured are Larry Jones, Joe Kubik and Mike LeMasters. -- Ian Hicks
Toto said he's "getting slower" with age, but for him it's no longer a race against the clock, but one against his own body.
"It's just a matter of hanging in there. ... It isn't competition anymore. Each one of us wants to see the others cross the finish line. ... We'll see how long I can make it last," he said.
This year's Ogden Half Marathon Classic is set for May 27-28 on the streets of Wheeling.
Along with Toto, the remaining Ironmen are David Claypool, Tim Cogan, Pat Cronin, Paul Exley, Dave Fiorilli, Steve Habursky, Dr. John Holloway, Larry Jones, Joe Kubik, Mike LeMasters and Ted Rouse, the youngest of the group. He ran the inaugural event at age 16 and has never looked back.
Last year the group was 13 members strong, but Bruce Kirby is no longer a member of the group because he required assistance from a golf cart - albeit briefly - in order to finish. His bib number will be retired, said Race Director R. "Scat" Scatterday.
Cronin, 59, acknowledged the training regimen necessary to prepare one's body for the rigors of running 13.1 miles gets a little more difficult with each passing year.
"You get the aches and pains, and age takes its toll, but on the other hand you want to get in shape so you're not struggling to finish," he said.
For the Ironmen, an extraordinary level of mental toughness takes the place of what age may have taken away. But that can be a double-edged sword, noted Cronin.
"Your mind still thinks you can do things and your body doesn't cooperate," he said.
Many of the Ironmen agree that the blistering hot weather during last year's race put it among the most challenging they've ever run.
"I really struggled last year," Claypool said. "I don't think Wheeling Hill's ever been as tough as it was last year."
When Rouse got home after the race, he said, "I sat on my kitchen floor for two hours. I didn't move."
Scatterday said he has a great deal of admiration for the Ironmen and their endurance.
"You guys are a bit of sports history," he told the group during a recent gathering. "There's not a race in this country that's been as many years as ours that have had people in every one. And that makes you guys unique. ... There's something in each one of you that isn't in regular human beings."
To help the Ironmen with their training and recovery, That's the Spot Massage Therapy of Moundsville has offered each a free massage once a week between now and race day, and for two weeks after, said massage therapist K.J. Burley.
Preregistration for this year's race, which ends Monday, is available at www.ogdenhalfmarathonclassic.com. Late registration will be May 24 only, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the ground level of the Robert C. Byrd Intermodal Transportation Center.
Race events get started May 24 with the Veterans Torch Relay at 4 p.m. Following a brief ceremony at the conclusion of the relay, the weekend's youngest runners will take to the street for the Ogden Tiny Tot Trot for children 5 years old and younger at 6:45 p.m., near the half marathon finish line. The non-competitive, mile-long Ogden Fun Run for ages 12 and younger gets under way from the top of Wheeling Hill at 7:15 p.m., followed by the Ogden Mile at 7:30 p.m.
On May 25, the action begins at 7:30 a.m. with the start of the Half Marathon Walk, followed by the Half Marathon Run and Run Relay at 8 a.m. and the 5K Run/Walk for Health at 8:15 a.m. Announcements of race results will be at the Heritage Port Amphitheater at about 11:30 a.m. There will be food vendors available at the waterfront for spectators throughout the day.


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30 Aug 2012 7:40 AM #1
Unanswered: Expand/Collapse buttons issue in grouping grid with Buffered store
I faced some problem that I can't solve.
Here is the thing. I have a buffered store and a grid.
In the store I specified the 'groupField' config option and specified appropriate feature in the grid.
When I run the application the grid separates data by groups. But! It doesn't show '+'/'-' buttons. Because of that I can't expand or collapse groups.
When I delete 'buffered:true' option in the store, expand/collapse buttons appear.
I found simmilar topic here: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?237296-Scrolling-issues-in-grouping-grids-using-buffered-stores-(in-a-border-layout)&
In that topic described an issue with scrolling but there are no anything about expand/collapse functionality.
If you familiarize with example provided in that topic you'll probably see what I'm talking about.
You can find my code sample (pretty much the same sample as provided in the topic above) here: https://github.com/vdaiev/ExtJs-4.1.1-Grid-Grouping-with-Buffered-Store
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The Brothers Tsarnaev
The terrorist suspects next door.
Events in Boston were moving so quickly on Friday that it's impossible to draw too many conclusions. But the emergence of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev as the chief terror suspects who paralyzed a great American city deserves at least some reflection.
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One consoling thought is the admirable behavior of the citizens of greater Boston and its law enforcers. The point may seem banal, but it's no small matter that the public largely heeded the government's orders to stay off the streets and take the day off so police could track down the younger brother, 19-year-old Dzhokhar, who was captured Friday night after a day-long manhunt.
Bostonians have endured enormous disruption this week, but the city has shown a remarkable civility and calm throughout it all. Many lives were saved because of the rapid triage work by volunteers at the bomb scene. Bloomberg News reports that one of the marathon bombing's victims also helped the FBI identify a suspect after he awoke from surgery at the hospital. The suspect had dropped a bag at Jeff Bauman's feet and looked him in the eye minutes before it exploded. Mr. Bauman lost both legs below the knee but got his man.
As for the brothers, we will learn more about their motives, their training and whether they acted alone or as part of a network. What we have already learned is that they are immigrants from Chechnya, of the Muslim faith, and that 26-year old Tamerlan was uncomfortable in American society despite having lived here for about a decade.
The Associated Press reported that he was quoted in a Boston University student magazine in 2010 as saying, "I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them." Mother Jones reported that a video attributed to a Tamerlan Tsarnaev extolled an extremist religious prophecy associated with al Qaeda. None of this is definitive but it might be illustrative.
If such alienation turned to jihad, it would not be the first time. The radicalization of young Muslims in the West, in particular children of the well-off, is by now a familiar story. The London bombers of 2005 were middle-class Pakistani immigrants from Birmingham. Faisal Shahzad, the failed Times Square bomber, was a naturalized citizen from Pakistan.
After the London bombings, many Americans took comfort in the belief that immigrants to the U.S. are better assimilated than they are in Europe. But that may be more conceit than fact, at least in regard to some young men. "My Son the Fanatic" is a novella by Hanif Kureishi that speaks to the difficulties of acculturation of second-generation Muslims. The recent Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Disgraced," covers related ground.
Mitchell Silber and Arvin Bhatt explained how this can evolve into a threat in an instructive paper for the New York Police Department in 2007, "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat." The intelligence analysts looked at several cases here and abroad and described the process by which otherwise "unremarkable" men leading regular lives become jihadists.
"Muslims in the U.S. are more resistant, but not immune to the radical message," they wrote. "Despite the economic opportunities in the United States, the powerful gravitational pull of individuals' religious roots and identity sometimes supersedes the assimilating nature of American society which includes pursuit of a professional career, financial stability and material comforts." The Tsarnaev brothers may be an example.
Some will use this threat as an argument against immigration, but that would punish everyone for the sins of a few. The "homegrown" radical threat is really an argument for vigilance, especially within communities prone to producing terrorists.
This means surveilling foreign student groups in the U.S., certain immigrant communities that have produced jihadists, and, yes, even mosques and other Muslim venues. The key is to be familiar enough with these communities, to know and be trusted enough by their leaders, so those man and women will alert law enforcers when someone appears to have become radicalized.
This offends some civil libertarians, and the Associated Press excoriated the NYPD for the practice in a series of stories in 2011. In the wake of Boston, this looks notably misguided. New York's police say they've kept at it, under appropriate legal safeguards, and we hope they will continue.
The U.S. government watches right-wing extremist groups because we know they are dangerous. The police shouldn't refrain from doing the same to Muslim or immigrant groups merely because that is deemed less politically correct. As the week's events in Boston show, the costs of doing otherwise are too high.


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AZUSA, Calif. -- Azusa Pacific University has been selected to host the NBC Basketball Summer Camps, offering a variety of camp and clinic offerings for boys and girls age 7-18 at the Felix Event Center this summer.
NBC Camps offers over 100 basketball camps in 45 different cities, and over 250,000 athletes have been trained at NBC Camps, which has one of the highest rates of returning campers and customer satisfaction ratings.
Tim Beauregard, an assistant coach for Azusa Pacific's 2011 NAIA national champion women's basketball team, is the camp director, and this summer's camp provides 2 separate weeklong camp options plus 3 separate 1-night clinics for various age groups. Click here for the PDF camp flyer.
"I believe basketball teaches our youth such things as leadership, teamwork, dedication, perseverance and trust," Beauregard said. "That makes it much more than a sport to me - it makes it an outline for life success. Each chance I get to work with our youth only serves to further my passion for teaching, learning, and basketball as a whole."
The first camp option is the Complete Player Junior Basketball Day Camp, which runs from 9 am to 3 pm Monday through Friday, July 18-22, for boys and girls age 7-12, for a $295 registration fee. The second option is the Complete Player Basketball Overnight Camp, which is held July 25-28 for boys and girls age 9-18 for a $495 registration fee.
In addition, there are 3 separate clinics for boys and girls age 13-18: the Complete Skills Basketball Clinic (July 18, 6-9 pm), the Pure Shooting Basketball Clinic (July 20, 6-9 pm), and the Guard & Post Basketball Clinic (July 22, 6-9 pm). The registration fee is $35 per clinic, although a clinic special includes all 3 clinics for the discounted registration fee of $95.
To register, visit the registration page at www.NBCCamps.com, and questions or additional information on the camps should be directed by email to Camp Director Tim Beauregard at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The holidays are supposed to bring happiness and joy, but for some it also brings stress and depression.
There are many in the area who are already stressed about unemployment and the uncertainty of the economy. Household budgets are tight, and children are expecting gifts come Christmas morning. There will be family and friends visiting, parties to attend, cleaning, shopping and baking. All of which can lead to more stress and trigger depression.
The hustle and bustle of the holidays can put a damper on this time of the year but mental health professionals have tips to keep stress and depression to a minimum.
The holidays can be a sad time if you have lost a loved one during the past year. Professionals agree it is OK to take time to grieve, have a good cry and feel sad. Don't feel pressure to be happy, it will only make you feel worse.
If you feel lonely, seek out events in your community. Attend a performance of a church choir or other social activities. Being surrounded by others can help you feel better.
Friends and family need to recognize those who are going through tough times and try to offer emotional support. Talk can be the best medicine for those who are feeling down.
There is an expectation that the holidays need to be perfect or just like ones they have been accustomed to over the years. Times change, but that doesn't mean you have to forget the good times and customs of years gone by. Pick and choose what traditions fit your life today.
Also, remember what makes you sad at this time and avoid those triggers.
Family differences can bring on stress at the holidays. Try to set aside differences during the holidays. Continuing a fight at the holidays can make coping with stress and depression even harder, and also can spoil the holidays for others.
Money problems can be made better by setting a budget for how much will be spent on gifts. Remember, it isn't the cost, it is the thought.
Pace your activities during the holidays. Set aside a day for baking or a couple days just for shopping. Don't let the stress of what you think has to be done become overwhelming. The same can be said for all the parties and events for which you have received invitations. Learn to say "no." There are only some many hours in a day.
Staying physically healthy during the holidays also can be a challenge. Stress can lead to illness. Taking a walk or getting on the treadmill can go a long way to alleviating stress, and make sure you get enough sleep. Take time for yourself. That small break is a great way to refresh yourself both physically and mentally.
Even following all the suggestions of mental health professionals may not be enough. Realize it may be time to ask for professional help.
Try to stay positive this holiday season, and don't let stress take away the holiday spirit.


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I have a 2007 Chrysler Aspen, and recently (past 2 weeks) when I turn on the ac, I notice a 'foul' smell, like burnt rubber, or even sulphur-like. The smell will last a few minutes and will gradually fade away while the ac is running. Since this has not happened to me before, I need to know if something is going on with the ac. I would appreciate any help or suggestions with this concern.
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You might want to consider the following answers. They might be relevant to your situation:
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Why does my A/C blow foul smelling air when it first turns on?
Here's a subset of what I suggested for the "heater" question:
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HILL COUNTY (February 11, 2013)--A spot has opened up on the Hill County Appraisal District Board of Directors after David Wolfe of Mount Calm announced his resignation.
Wolfe has moved outside of the county and is, therefore, ineligible to serve on the board.
The person selected to fill the position will serve until the unexpired term ends.
The term ends in December.
Taxpayers have the opportunity to nominate a person to fill the position which will be decided sometime next month.


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GTD question:
I'm very good at capturing "stuff". My problem comes in at classifying the stuff as actionable or someday/maybe. It's all actionable, right? How do I classify items as someday/maybe when I want to do them right now?
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I'm very good at capturing "stuff". My problem comes in at classifying the stuff as actionable or someday/maybe. It's all actionable, right? How do I classify items as someday/maybe when I want to do them right now?
Someday/Maybe items are things that you can't or don't need to do right now. Examples are things like vacations or ideas for future projects. Actionable items are things that you need to do now and you have the context, time, energy, and spending the time and energy will yield a payoff. These relate to current projects or tasks.
Something that is a Someday/Maybe would be a big trip. It's something that you want to do, but perhaps you can't take time off from work, or you have too many high priority tasks, or you don't have the money. Put it on Someday/Maybe and reassess in the future when you have the time and energy (and any other needed resources or skills).
If you can do it now (you are in the appropriate context, have the time and energy, and it is of sufficient priority), then you can choose to take action on that item. If you can't do it now, put it in he backlog of next actions, schedule a future time to do it when it's appropriate, or pass the task on to someone else.
An idea that I found helpful from the GTD forums was creating two lists, the SD/M and a 'Dreams' one. In SD/M I put things that I could start and turn into a project right now if I wanted to. 'Dreams' is for things I'd like to do some day but I couldn't start right now, maybe because they are dependable upon other conditions still not created, for example because I haven't reached the required professional status or financial level yet...
You're right, someday/maybe vs actionable is an artificial distinction that induces mental resistance during the classification process.
GTD requires this distinction because it is designed for the pencil and paper era and paper has a lower processing throughput that necessitates aggressive deferral in this manner.
I eliminate this distinction in Cyborganize, instead classifying all grammatically actionable phrases as "actionable". This is possible because Cyborganize has a high throughput because it's designed for specific software and cannot run on pencil and paper.
The result is a more fluid task sorting process that reduces anxiety over whether something truly belongs in someday/maybe and whether you'll come back to it again in time, and removes the problem of having to do weekly reviews in order to not let stuff languish indefinitely forgotten in the someday/maybe stack.


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I'm having serious problems understanding the syntax of LaTeX well. I know a lot of programming languages but LaTeX still is a little cryptic for me. Do you know what the key to fully understanding it is?
Since LaTeX builts on TeX, a very good foundation to understand its syntax is learning the TeX syntax. Here are helpful documents (I took it from a list on my blog):
Specifically for LaTeX syntax, there's a huge amount of documentation and there are many books and online tutorials and introductions. For understanding what the LaTeX author Leslie Lamport meant with LaTeX syntax extensions, I recommend to read his book "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System".
The key to understanding the syntax or rather shall I say to get used to it, is to do a bit of reading and programming in TeX. The best source of information on TeX is the Knuth's TeXbook. Trying to understand LaTeX reading its source alone is like trying to understand a computer language by reading its standard library.
The language is a bit cryptic but so is any language that one does not understand well (try Erlang or Brainfuck or even some of the code for Perl)! Perseverance is a good attribute to have when dealing with TeX/LaTeX!
I suggest you to read The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX 2ε several pages a day and do many real experiments.
Theoritically you need only 157 minutes in total to read the tutorial. And if you still have problems, just post it in a new thread.
The Wikibooks entry on LaTeX has an awesome amount of basic tutorials, examples, explanations, etc. It's pretty thorough for a beginner and yet has a very well-laid-out structure that can easily accommodate people of any level of experience.
If you are talking about doing document preperation with LaTeX, then it may help to remember that LaTeX works more like a markup language than a programming language. Try thinking more in terms of HTML (and CSS) than C/Python/VB.


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It says in SA YD Siman 305 that a Bas Cohen that has a bechor (firstborn) with a non-Jew there is chiyuv of pidyon haben since the Bas Cohen through having relations with the non-Jew she looses her status of being a Bas Cohen. What about if a not-frum (irreligious) Bas Cohen before becoming a baalas teshuva (religious person) had relations with a non-Jew. Then after becoming frum (religious) later got married to a Yisrael and had a bechor. Is there a chiyuv of making a pidyon haben on that child? (My doubt is because through the relations with the non-Jew before becoming frum perhaps she lost her status of being a Bas Cohen.)
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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 134:9 clearly indicates that a Bas Kohain who has had relations with a non Jew prior to having a child with a Jew would do a Pidyon HaBen as the relationship is what makes her a Chalal.
Shach Yoreh Deah 305:22 also says that a Bas Kohain who has had relations with a non Jew prior to having a child with a Jew would do a Pidyon HaBen.
A kohen's daughter does not lose her status as a kohen's daughter by simply having pre-marital sex; she loses it through either marrying a non-kohen or through having his baby. In the event that she marries him and then has a divorce, so long as she was never pregnant she regains her former status and all of its privileges.