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Les Toits du Marais Bed and Breakfast - Paris B&B
Your host Marie-Christine will welcome you into her apartment located within an historical building where there are three different bed and breakfast rooms available two with small double beds and a third as a studio suitable for three people, with a traditional French breakfast supplied of a morning.
Accom Type
Bed & Breakfast
Average Double
€110 - €160
Paris 3rd
Not Disabled Friendly
Family Rooms
No Pets
No Hotel Parking
No Air Con
Eiffel Tower 5.9 km
Free WiFi
Private Bathroom
Courtesy Tray
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About Les Toits du Marais B&B
You will find this B&B located within a building that dates back to the 1600s when it was constructed at the same time as the Place Royale was put in place, which became known as the
Place des Vosges
after the French Revolution, and the building itself has been classed as an historical monument.
The B&B is situated on the fourth floor and fifth floor of the building and unfortunately there is no lift due to the historical nature of the property, and it is owned and run by Marie-Christine who will be your host, and she is welcoming and willing to offer advice on the best places to visit, where to eat, how to get to different
Paris tourist attractions
, museums and so on.
The breakfast room has views over the roof tops of Paris and in this room for those of you who know how to play, there is a piano you can utilise, and as you would expect, this is where the traditional French breakfast is served each morning, consisting of fresh bread and pastries with accompaniments such as jams, along with fruit juice, hot beverages and a boiled egg.
Rooms at Les Toits du Marais
The first room is called Room Revolution that is decorated with warm tones and has a 140cm wide bed, wardrobe, well stocked bookcase with numerous books and guides along with a courtesy tray for making tea and coffee.
The second room is called the Room Victor Hugo decorated in a more vibrant style and again has a bookcase with numerous books, magazines and guide books, abed of 140cm in width, plus a sink within the room along with a courtesy tray for making your own tea and coffee.
Each of these
Paris B&B rooms
is located on the fourth floor, have access to the WiFi, which is completely free of charge, you just need to request the password, and a child bed can be added to the room if requested at the time of booking. The shower and toilet is shared between these two rooms.
Le Toits du Marais also has a studio apartment situated under the roof of the building on the fifth floor where you can admire the old wooden beams, which has an area of approximately 15 metres squared containing a kitchenette with items such as fridge, microwave, courtesy tray, tableware, cutlery and utensils along with a folding table and a bathroom containing shower and toilet.
There are also two single mattresses that can be placed within this studio plus on the mezzanine level accessed by a steep set of stairs like a ladder, you will find a space of approximately 5 metres squared that has a small double bed.
Access to Les Toits du Marais
Located in the Marais area in the 3rd Arrondissement, this bed and breakfast is within walking distance of numerous tourist attractions and
museums in Paris
such as the
Maison Victor Hugo
, which one of the rooms is named after.
You will find that the nearest Metro station Chemin Vert stop via
metro line 8
but others within walking distance are the Saint-Paul stop serving
metro line 1
to the south west, the Bastille stop serving
Paris metro lines
1, 5 and 8 to the south east, the Breguet - Sabin stop serving
metro line 5
directly to the east and the Filles du Calvaire to the north serving metro line 8.
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Alternatively, still using
Paris public transport
, the
Paris bus lines
29 and 96 are closer than even the Chemin Vert metro stop, but other bus lines 69, 76 and 91 along with the
Noctilien Night Bus Service
via lines N01, N02, N11 and N16 will get you even closer to this welcoming B&B in Paris than the other Metro stations mentioned, plus there is a
Velib station
for the Paris bike rental a very short distance away.
Now when it comes to checking in, Marie-Christine is flexible on the times and will do her best to accommodate you for your arrival and departure, but she does not accept credit card, so it is either cash or bank transfer, plus as we mentioned earlier, this B&B is not accessible to the disabled.
Paris Hotel booking info
Les Toits du Marais
39 Rue de Turenne
Ile de France
Mobile Tel: 0033 6 87 68 20 06
Website: No website available at this time
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2 rooms and 1 studio apartment
Avg room: €110 -
Breakfast available
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Emilio: Deal me in, Bhoys
EMILIO IZAGUIRRE last night urged Celtic to sign him up for the rest of his career.
The Honduras defender, back in his homeland helping his side defeat Venezuela in a World Cup warm-up this week, revealed he wants to keep on picking up prizes at Parkhead.
Izaguirre, above, has regained the form that saw him win both player of the year awards, players' and football writers', in 2011 and has again been linked with a move to England.
But the 27-year-old, who has one year left on his contract, said: "If Celtic ask me to sign for many more years, I have no problem with that.
I never want to leave them because they have treated me very well.
"Manager Neil Lennon, the board and the fans have always supported me.
"There are always teams who are interested in you but what good is going to England to fight for a mid-table place? I'd rather play and fight for titles and win trophies and have medals in my house."
But it wasn't all good news for the Celts at the end of international week. Nir Biton has ruptured a groin muscle and will miss the rest of the season.
The Hoops star has recently started to establish himself as a key member of Lennon's side after joining in a £700,000 deal at the start of the season but was crocked playing for Israel in a 3-1 midweek defeat by Slovakia.

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One of the best tools any writer can possess is a healthy sense of cynicism.
I don't mean skepticism, as in, "Yeah, and I bet you've got some ocean-front property in Arizona to go along with bridge you're trying to sell me," although skepticism is also a fine virtue for a writer.
I mean cynicism, as in being motivated by self interest, and understanding that other people are, too.
Wide-eyed enthusiasm is wonderful, and so is a passion for words, and ditto a desire to find things out, or at least to experience them.
But publishing is a tough game, and it's toughest on the writers. And you will be exploited if you don't keep a very firm grasp on what your own self interest is.
So, when content mills make millions and billions of dollars selling content to third parties and they pay you five dollars to write an article, I have a hard time getting all bent out of shape over content mills doing what companies do in a capitalistic society. (That is, make the most profit with the least amount of expense.) What I do wish is that writers would look after their own self interest better.
If someone else is profiting off your labors, you need to be compensated for that, period. And that compensation should not come in the form of abstractions like, "Good exposure."
I do understand that writers need to get their work out there, to build an audience, to spread the word. But what is happening is that writers are mistaking promotion for work. I will write a blog post about my book (Simple Self Defense! Makes a great gift!) for the purpose of promoting my book. I'll do an interview. I may even write up a brief article for which I don't expect much income.
But all of that is in support of the book. I don't mistake it for being the book or for serving any other purpose than to promote the book.
The minute someone wants me to blog, interview or write articles for their purposes, they need to pay me. Simple enough, but a lot of writers fall down at this step. "But," they say. But it's my friend, but it's a start up, but the opportunities are endless (the opportunities for working for free are always endless).
All the blog posts in the world won't feed my daughter, unless they happen to sell a book, or get someone to enroll in one of my classes. So when people crow about having a certain number of page views, or a certain number of followers, that's all well and good, but the bottom line is, what does that put into your pocket?
Here's the thing: once you start paying attention to your bottom line, then you realize that that's what everyone else is doing, and that's when you really get that it's nothing personal. It's nothing personal that I don't write for start-ups. It's nothing personal that I don't write on spec.
That makes it easier to understand that when people reject your work, it has nothing much to do with you. They are just looking at their own interests. And once you really get what that means, it's easier to find ways to appeal to their self interest. It becomes less about I wrote a book and hope you like it and more about I wrote a book and here are the reasons I know you'll like it. A much stronger position to be in, don't you agree?


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Will the entire writers quote
What their conscience really vote?
Will the darkness of the night
Blind and shade their mind?
To think bright
Will their writing be biased?
Won't they use their unique talent
To jot truth, straight?
If the night could talk,
How painful the words be,
Persons with malignant cells,
"No turn back",
Cold sanatorium wall yells.
They gaze at the ticking clock,
No more friends flock,
But longing to live,
Beckon them.
With suppressed wails,
They feel their scalp,
Just few tuffs they have,
The skin lost lustre,
Bloated red with blemish,
Eyes opaque, glowless.
The flow of money,
Little does cure,
Only aches in ample,
Life a dreadful scramble.
If the night could talk,
About the night prayers chanted
So fervent;
By Evangelist, Priests and Pastors.
Vigil they are, whole night,
Fasting, sacrificing intending to
heal the sick, guide the weak,
Support the offender,
Reconcile the defendant.
Are all the soldiers of God
Really righteous not fraud?
Are the offerings received-
set right, none undeceived?
Is the white and saffron-
Cloak worn at day, not-
stained at night-
By blood of innocent,
Tears of humble?
Only the night has witnessed.
If the night could talk,
Its words would have choked,
To see the frail aged,
Sent off to be caged.
Once the parent,
Of precious fledglings,
Best they clothed,
Taught and fed.
Their protective clasped hands
On either side, led
Through stairs of life,
The symbol of pride,
Not giving pain,
Oh, all in vain!
Now in dark,
With strange folk.
They do not know that dome,
Long to be in their home.
Lullaby tune still rings,
Love they poured always brings-
Tears of loneliness,
Tears of longing, sleepless-
In the dark cold night.
The frozen heart of children,
Couldn't hear their cries.
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NATO nuclear experts discuss global nuclear challenges
NATO's annual Nuclear Policy Symposium got underway in Brussels on Wednesday (7 September 2022) with discussions on issues including Russia's nuclear threats and weapons development, China's rapid nuclear build-up and strategic arms control.
"This symposium takes place at a critical time for NATO as the Alliance responds to a fundamentally changed security environment" said Jessica Cox, NATO's Director of Nuclear Policy, who chairs the two-day event. "We face a Russia that is increasing its nuclear capabilities, breaching its arms control commitments and fielding new and novel missile systems." She added that Russia has also made irresponsible and dangerous nuclear threats as part of its brutal war against Ukraine. Concerns over the status of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant are also expected to be discussed.
Held annually since 1992, the Symposium brings together experts, diplomats and senior officials mainly from across the NATO Alliance. Also on the agenda are China's rapid expansion of its nuclear arsenal, ongoing concerns over Iran's nuclear program, and North Korea's unprecedented missile launches in 2022. "NATO must continue to adapt to this security environment," said Ms Cox.
At the NATO Summit in June, Allied leaders reiterated that "the fundamental purpose of NATO's nuclear capability is to preserve peace, prevent coercion and deter aggression". After the Cold War, NATO greatly reduced its nuclear arsenal in Europe and the Alliance supports the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. At the same time, Allies have agreed that NATO will remain a nuclear Alliance as long as nuclear weapons exist.


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Mon, 6 April 2015
The second episode of Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that impact it, is now available. In this episode, Susan Martin talks with Alex Cook, senior communications specialist, and Leonard Lee, Thomson Reuters resident PR consultant. They discuss election year reputation management, Ted Cruz, issuing a public apology and Guiliana Rancic. There's something for everyone! |


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Chicks are popular motifs for kids and adults alike for spring and Easter craft decorations. Here you will find a selection of crafts with chicks, hens, ducks, geese, birds, etc... using different techniques and for all age levels.
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Joe Douglass & SOP have returned in 2020 with an all-new live album JOURNEY TO GLORY.
Oakland, CA — Joe Douglass has always had the gift of captivating the hearts of people. In 2009 he began as a music promoter bringing multi-cultural and multi-denominational concerts, seminars, and conferences to the bay area. His vision was to always think outside the box and to reach beyond walls of the church. Joe continued working with some of the biggest names in Gospel music and further answered the calling to launch his own ministry – Spirit of Praise. In 2011 Joe Douglass & Spirit of Praise (SOP) became a full-on ministry movement through music and culture igniting a reviving trend of young people being led to Christ.
In 2014 Douglass & SOP recorded their first album, THE GREAT I AM, which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Gospel Chart and remained in the Top 25 for 9 weeks. Douglass & SOP have returned in 2020 with an all-new live album JOURNEY TO GLORY.
Douglass & SOP remake the classic hit "Praise Him" which was written by Edwin Hawkins over 50 years ago. "Praise Him" features Shelene Huey-Booker on lead vocals and is the first single from JOURNEY TO GLORY.
"My desire for this album is to connect with other songwriters and pull from their journeys to create a collective Kingdom sound," Douglass shares. "The legacy of the lead single 'Praise Him', from the Hawkins family, lives again 50 years later through a new generation which is Spirit of Praise."
Douglass continues,
"To have Edwin Hawkins witness, hear, and support the revamp of 'Praise Him' before he passed away only confirmed my desire to push forward and release this new music to the world. This album honors Gospel music history and also ignites a new sound of music from the northern California region."
JOURNEY TO GLORY is available now on all digital music outlets and is released by Dream Label Group, Dream Gospel, Capitol Christian Music Group and The Platform Agency.
JOURNEY TO GLORY Track List:
Hour of Change
Right Here (Feat. Ashlee Young)
Shine Your Light (Feat. KJ Scriven)
Love Endures
The Great Exchange (Feat. Lena Byrd-Miles)
Flood My Soul (Feat. Y'Anna Crawley)
All By The Grace of God (Feat. Lisa Page Brooks)
How Great & Awesome
Praise Him (Feat. Shelene Huey-Booker)
Father You
Make It
Conqueror (Feat. Victor Brice & Dayanna Redic)


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Unwinding: Return to Normal Enrollment
How to Know When Your Renewal is Due? [PDF] English | [PDF] Spanish
LTSS Medicaid Renewals for Aged, Blind, or Disabled (ABD) Members Factsheet [PDF] English | [PDF] Spanish
Virginia Medicaid proudly provided protected coverage to our members during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Now that those federal protections have ended and normal program rules apply, all members must complete the annual redetermination process. If you or your family no longer need assistance from the Medicaid program, please call Cover Virginia at 833-5CALLVA (TDD: 1-888-221-1590) or your local Department of Social Services to request that your case be closed.
Starting in March 2023, Virginia began reviewing members' health coverage to make sure they still qualify, however closures will not occur prior to April 30, 2023. We're working with community partners, advocates and members to make sure eligible Virginians keep getting high quality health care coverage.
We need your help to meet this goal.
You can help our members take steps to get ready now. To make sure our members receive important paperwork, we need their up-to-date mailing addresses and phone numbers. Members can make updates:
- Online at commonhelp.virginia.gov, or
- By calling Cover Virginia at 1-855-242-8282,
- By calling their local Department of Social Services.
- By contacting your Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO, or "health plan")
If you do not qualify for full benefits through Medicaid or FAMIS, or you cannot afford Virginia's Insurance Marketplace coverage, please know that people who are uninsured can get health care services at Virginia's Free and Charitable Health Clinics and Virginia's Community Health Centers.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What is the federal public health emergency and how does it affect Medicaid members?
The federal government declared a public health emergency when the COVID-19 pandemic began. Since then, state agencies have continued health care coverage for all medical assistance programs, even for people who are no longer eligible, called the continuous coverage requirement.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act was signed into effect on December 23rd, 2022. This omnibus bill decoupled the continuous coverage requirement from the public health emergency effective March 31, 2023. This means on April 1, 2023, all states may return to normal enrollment processes, including redeterminations and processing reductions/closures of coverage. While Virginia is initiating its first month of redeterminations in March of 2023, reductions/closures of coverage will not begin until April 30, 2023.
When will normal Medicaid processes begin again?
- The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has given states the option to take up to 12 months to initiate all redeterminations, with an additional two months for clean-up work to meet all federal rules. We will not cancel or reduce coverage for our members without asking them for updated information. Starting in March 2023, we will begin reviewing members' coverage. We may be able to renew your case without asking you for anything, and if so you will receive a letter in the mail letting you know your health care coverage will continue. If we do not have all information necessary to renew your benefits, we will send you a form or a checklist to complete and return.
NOTE: The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has given states the option to take up to 12 months to initiate all redeterminations, with an additional two months for clean-up work to meet all federal rules, so you may not hear from us for a while after normal processes begin.
What if members lose their coverage?
It is important for all eligible Virginians to get and stay covered. If a member no longer qualifies for health coverage from Virginia Medicaid, they will get:
- Notice of when the Medicaid coverage will end,
- Information on how to file an appeal if the member thinks our decision was incorrect, and
- A referral to the Marketplace and information about buying other health care coverage.
NOTE: Unless a member has died, moved from the state permanently, or requested closure of their case, we cannot close your case unless we ask for updated information prior to making a decision that you are not eligible. It is important to keep your eye out for any mail regarding your health care coverage so that you can return your information on time. If you think you might not stay covered, please return your information anyway so we can look at your situation and send your full information to the Marketplace for a review. If you do not return the information we need to review your case, we cannot automatically send your information to the Marketplace so that they can determine your eligible for that type of coverage or the Advanced Premium Tax Credits.
What can members do now?
Members can:
- Update their contact information by calling Cover Virginia at 1-855-242-8282 or online at commonhelp.virginia.gov. We must have current contact information on file, such as a mailing address and phone number(s), so members receive important notices and so we can reach out if we need more information.
- Watch for and respond quickly to notices about their coverage.
- Sign up for email and text updates, follow us on social media and visit us at coverva.org and facebook.com/coverva/
What are the other health care coverage choices?
Virginians who do no longer qualify for Medicaid or FAMIS may be able to get financial help to lower the cost of private health insurance through Virginia's Insurance Marketplace. Learn more at marketplace.virginia.gov or 1-888-687-1501.
- Find out how much financial help you may qualify to receive. Ninety percent of those enrolled in a Marketplace plan receive help paying for coverage, lowering monthly premiums to as little as $0, depending on income.
- Compare plans and cost with an easy, anonymous online tool
- Get enrolled!
Need help? Trained assisters, called navigators, provide free, in-person and virtual help with the Marketplace application and enrollment process. Find your local navigator at enrollva.org or 1-888-392-5132.
How can I get more information?
Virginia Medicaid will keep members up to date through coverva.dmas.virginia.gov, commonhelp.virginia.gov, emails, text messages and social media.
Where can I send questions or share my views?
Members can reach us at email@example.com.
We will also give our partners policy and operational information through our Bi-Monthly Stakeholder Meeting, at dmas.virginia.gov/covid-19-response/ and through our Partner Points newsletter.
COVID-19 Resources
Cover Virginia has an email inbox for verification (proof) returns. This lets customers send proof by email in addition to fax or mail. We will tell customers about this return method during calls for applications, status, and renewal submissions. It is also on the Verification Checklist (VCL) we send customers asking for information.
The new inbox lets Virginians send proof by email. They can still use fax or U.S. mail. Applicants and members who call will be given the email address. The new option is also on the Verification Checklist (VCL) that we send to Virginians who ask for information. They can still use the email inbox after the emergency ends
Community Partner Information and Updates
- Virginia Department of Health
- Virginia Poverty Law Center has response resources for housing and immigration
- VCU Partnership for People with Disabilities short video explaining COVID-19 to people with intellectual disabilities
- Federal Public Health Emergencies
- COVID-19 Emergency Waiver Guidance - 01/24/2023
- COVID-19 Federal Public Health Emergency website
- COVID Flexibilities Update – 06/30/2021
- COVID-19 Emergency Waiver Guidance - 5/04/2020 & 05/06/2020
These forms authorize (allow) individuals or groups, including application assisters, Navigators and Certified Application Counselors (CACs), to help Medicaid applicants after getting verbal consent. The verbal consent authorization will expire at the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.
[PDF] Acknowledgment of Receipt of Verbal Consent (English)
[PDF] Acknowledgment of Receipt of Verbal Consent (Spanish)
[PDF] Consumer-Directed (CD) Services Personal Care COVID-19 Flexibilities Fact Sheet - 2020
[PDF] Consumer-Directed (CD) Services COVID-19 Fact Sheet on Personal Protection - 2020
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is an 'option' for Barcelona showing the gap between the two clubs for all to see as Arsenal try to hold on to their star, but can Arsenal keep Aubameyang?
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has just been named Arsenal's captain. With nine goals in 15 appearances this season he leads our goalscoring charts by two from Gabriel Martinelli who has seven in 10.
Since he arrived, he has scored 50 goals, with 12 assists, in just 80 matches and is our best player. He is vital because without his goals, we'd probably be in the relegation zone.
But to Barcelona he is just an 'option'. They could take him or leave him, shop around for someone made a little younger, or bring him in merely to supplement their squad.
An 'option'.
That's who we are now. A team whose best players aren't even totally coveted by the best sides anymore.
So can Arsenal keep Aubameyang?
More worrying is Auba's desire to one day play in Spain according to Dario Sport.
With Unai Emery looking like he's only fit to guide Arsenal out of Europe altogether rather than back into the Champions League as demanded, we could very well be entering the final few months of the Gabonese forward as an Arsenal man.
It would seem very unlikely that Arsenal can keep Aubameyang, especially if things carry on as they are with Unai Emery in charge.
Just one more thing Unai Emery has ruined.


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2.2. The role of humans
Examination of the earliest human interactions with the marine environment in most parts of the world is beset by a major problem. The rise in sea level after the most recent ice-age has obscured or destroyed much of the earliest evidence of human exploitation along the margins of ancient shores [29]. Although in some areas such as the North Sea some evidence of early exploitation has been recovered from submarine deposits it has often been reworked by waves and currents making interpretation difficult [30]. However, there is evidence for an intensive use of marine resources by early modern humans in Pinnacle Point (South Africa) some 164,000 years ago. Gathering shellfish seems to have been part of a response to sea level fluctuations, which forced these people to expand their home ranges and to follow the shifting position of the coast [31]. Almost contemporarily, Neanderthals gathered shellfish in the coastal waters of Torremolinos in Southern Spain [32]. Archeological studies have revealed a general shift in marine resource exploitation from inshore towards offshore areas. Marine fish became increasingly important – as early as 1,500 years ago – on the Californian coast [33]. Similar patterns have been discovered in the Wadden Sea [34]. But for most of human history, the extent of anthropogenic impacts on natural environments was largely restricted to local and regional levels. Within the last 200 years, human actions reached the global level by affecting processes such as global nutrient and water cycles. The traces of human activities are not restricted to populated areas anymore, but can be found everywhere in the ocean [35]. For example, plastic debris is accumulating at the shorelines of even the most remote islands and in the deep sea [36]. Johan Rockström and colleagues [37] claim that human actions have accelerated to such an extent that they might push the Earth beyond its "planetary boundaries". The term planetary boundary refers to thresholds between alternate states of the global system. Once crossed, the system enters a new state, and irreversible environmental change might be unavoidable. By now, the existence of thresholds has been posited for numerous ecological and social-ecological systems, including the marine realm (see the thresholds database of the Resilience Alliance and the Santa Fee Institute).
The world has entered a geological new era: the Anthropocene. In this era, an important line of research will be the study of the interaction of different human activities and their impacts on specific marine areas in the past. Cross-regional comparisons of magnitude and direction of these changes to marine life in response to multiple human pressures could also be extremely helpful in teasing apart multiple long-term drivers. For example, it was only by the late 1990s that more or less the full range of harvestable fish and invertebrates in all ecological strata of Southeast Asian waters was caught [38]. Near-pristine marine systems could still be found in some parts of the Indonesian Archipelago until the 1960s, a time at which Atlantic waters had already been affected by industrial fishing activities for more than two centuries.
In particular, data from large, isolated, late settled islands or regions such as Madagascar, New Zealand, and Antarctica, where significant human impacts became relevant much later than in the seas bordering the major continental landmasses, can play an important role in distinguishing among natural climatic variability and human drivers (including anthropogenic climate change). Recent work in Australian coral reefs has shown that it is indeed possible to differentiate natural variability from human-induced environmental change [27]. Despite the importance of similar drivers acting at the global level, most ecosystem changes are caused by a set of interactions that are more or less unique to a particular place [11]. To understand how resource and socio-economic endowments, in combination with other factors, have created specific exploitation patterns, bioregional histories of marine environments need to be developed. This will also provide a more comprehensive view of "what once was", e.g., historical baselines of marine animal populations, enhancing our ability to articulate desirable ecological states and management recommendations [39]. In this line of research, specific attention must be paid to the role of globalisation and changing consumption patterns.
Processes of globalisation have had a significant influence on marine resource exploitation for hundreds of years. The quest for marine resources was an important aspect of European expansion into Asia, Africa and the Americas. Arctic marine mammals, sea turtles in the Caribbean, and cod from Iceland to Newfoundland are just some examples of valuable sought-after species [40]. Similarly, Asian, particularly Chinese food and medicine markets, have driven a search for marine species on a regional to global scale over the past few centuries. For example, the development of sea cucumber fishing and trading by people from Makassar, Indonesia, can be traced from its beginning more than 300 years ago to the industrialization of the fishery in the 20th century and the depletion of sea cucumbers in the 1980s [41]. Economic gain was only one side of the story. Changing preferences for certain products, the exploitation of new areas, and technical innovations all played a role in a widening search for marine resources.
Required research
How has the pattern of marine resource exploitation proceeded in each area settled by humans, and which species were affected? Was the unfolding of events in Africa fundamentally different from histories in Asia, Australia, the Americas, and Europe and recently settled remote islands? To address this will require integration of the earliest archaeological records with historical and modern information sources to determine patterns of marine resource use over the entire period of human settlement of coastal margins. Studying the role of globalisation and changing consumption patterns may improve our understanding of resource use by linking serial depletion on a global scale to local demands. We also need research into changing consumeŕs preferences, especially towards more sustainably harvested marine products. Do such changes occur on a short or long-term scale, are they caused by public advice, by economic forces, or by other cultural factors that are to date poorly understood?
Altered Marine Ecosystems
3.1. Extinctions, species declines, and habitat changes
Extinctions and resource depletions in the marine realm have been evaluated by a number of studies (eg., [41], [42], [43]). We now have a relatively precise overview of globally extinct marine mammals, birds, fish, and molluscs [42]. Many species have become extirpated, or nearly so, across part of their range, such as is the case with several shark and ray species in the Mediterranean Sea [43]. Others have been depleted to such an extent that they cannot fulfil their former role in the ecosystem, as in the case of reduced abundances of some filter feeders [44]. To truly understand the extent of these changes, long-term biodiversity loss should be studied in different regions of the oceans over various periods of time. This includes the reconstruction of decadal, centennial, and millennial dynamics of marine animal populations [45], [46]. A number of studies have provided important knowledge in this respect, for example on changes to shark populations in the West Atlantic [47], or on numbers of large predatory fish in different seas [48]. Most of the historical studies to date have concentrated on exploited higher trophic levels of marine animals, while intermediate and lower trophic levels have largely been ignored [49]. In large part this is because the evidence about large exploited species is more readily available from archaeological and historical sources. But there is also evidence for a sequential exploitation of invertebrate species in the past [41]. How this has shaped the status of ecosystems should be an important research topic in future. Changes in coastal and marine habitats are a related research topic that deserves more attention. Although this line of work has been less prominent that changes in species, important contributions have already been made. For example, Lotze and colleagues reconstructed time lines, causes, and consequences of change in several estuaries and coastal seas worldwide and found similar patterns of habitat destruction, water quality degradation, and the influence of invasive species [44]. Other work has also focused on sub-tidal algae forests in the Adriatic Sea [50], or provided a two-century perspective on changes in a Scottish coastal area [51].
Required research
In the future, a major research avenue may be to link geospatial data and historical maps showing coastal and marine habitats to information about past distribution and abundance of species derived from archaeological, historical, and genetic sources. Such research could help us to understand indirect causes and effects of habitat change and be of value to marine and coastal management. Focussed research on species across levels, including intermediate and lower levels, is required to describe the patterns and magnitudes of their exploitation, preferably from the period of first human settlements to the present day.
3.2. Recoveries of populations, habitats and ecosystems
There are many examples around the world where previously affected species, habitats and ecosystems have or are responding to new management interventions. For example, over the last 40 years of protection populations of New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus fosteri) have started to rebound after 600 years of exploitation first by Polynesian settlers and later by European sealers [52]. Interestingly, the same protection regime has made little impact on the recovery of New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri). In this species the return of maturing females to their beach of birth has limited the expansion of breeding populations into their historic range [53] Research on ecological recoveries has a very clear link to providing input to decision-makers and managers, because it brings a historical perspective into the present management of marine resources and tells them what has worked so far and what not. Given that the approach to managing marine systems is evolving towards ecosystem-based adaptive management, a long-term, historical perspective to ecosystem function and change is very much needed [54], [55]. An interesting example of such work is a recent reconstruction of social-ecological interactions over the last 700 years in Hawaiian coral reefs. It reports previously undetected recovery periods related to a complex set of changes in underlying social systems resulting in the release of reefs from direct anthropogenic stressors [56].
Required research
Future investigations should continue to assess the adaptive capacity and resilience of degraded ecosystems and depleted stocks to recover from human impacts. There is already work done on how marine resources have recovered from previous exploitation-related declines [45], [57], but we need a stronger focus on which species, ecosystem traits, and management activities might facilitate recoveries.
Perceptions, Governance, and Management of Marine Systems
How people perceive and value marine environments and the resources they provide determines individual and collective preferences, actions and strategies in the marine realm. Historical descriptions of coastal and marine environments are prime examples of documented perceptions of the past. In the absence of other data, they have been successfully used to establish abundance changes of marine species in different time periods [58], [59]. Different perceptions and valuation systems also underlie the institutional structures that govern and manage marine systems. Research on governance structures must be linked with research on perceptions and values to understand what drives and has driven approaches to marine resource exploitation and its management in different periods of time. For analytical clarity, it is important to distinguish between governance and management. Governance describes a social function centered on efforts to steer the actions of humans toward achieving desirable outcomes and avoiding undesirable ones. It covers the fundamental goals, institutional processes and structures which are the basis for planning and decision-making, and sets the stage within which management occurs. Management refers to the process by which human and material resources are used to achieve a defined goal within a known institutional structure [60]. The notion of the sea as a seemingly endless source of resources has long dominated marine governance, or rather the relative absence of institutions governing the sea. However, there are also examples of long-enduring traditional management regimes which have regulated the exploitation of valuable or scarce resources such as pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, or Trochus spp. shells in many coastal areas in the Pacific and parts of Southeast Asia, long before modern fisheries management was invented. For example, the Indonesian regime of "sasi laut" regulated access to marine resources by placing temporal and spatial harvesting restrictions on them. Similarly regulations in European inshore waters such as the Limford sustained fisheries for hundreds of years [61]. While such community-based management is certainly not a panacea, studies around the world have found that traditional community-based governance regimes contain elements that may support sustainable resource use [62], [63].
Required research
How have different local perceptions of marine systems affected their governance and management, and how have these evolved over time? Can we identify elements of these historical, community-based approaches to ocean governance and management that are also relevant to modern marine management?
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Just 9% of voters believe journalists were right to dismiss the possibility that the coronavirus began in a Wuhan, China laboratory. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that another 22% see no ill intent in the media coverage. That includes 12% who consider the dismissal a serious but innocent mistake and 10% who think the journalists were misled by government officials.
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Augustana University has announced a new strategic vision. The plan looks at how Augustana can innovate, grow, and transform. It includes offering new acedemic programs and graduate degrees, expanding the performing and visual arts, growing enrollment, enhancing diversity, transitioning to a Division I athletics conference, and investing in the physical campus.
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The Art of the Demo is a precise science designed to test the strengths and weaknesses of new gear -- are these speakers capable of reproducing dynamic sonics; does this amp add any unwanted tonality? -- and also a way to spread your enthusiasm of the home cinema hobby to your friends and family. As such, when it come time for the demo, you need to be ready with precise cues that will wow any audience.
With 30 Blu-ray titles either currently available or set to release before the end of 2015, as well as several VUDU title options, many Dolby Atmos encoded soundtracks make great demonstrations. As such, we've set out to highlight a few demos when new Dolby Atmos-enabled Blu-rays come our way.
Last week we saw the release of Guy Ritchie's latest film, 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.', which stars Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer as Cold War era spies, Solo and Kuryakin, who must team up to find a missing Nazi scientist who may be building a nuclear weapon. Based on the 1960s TV series, this film offers a breezier take on spying -- charming men; exotic women and locales -- than the most recent 'Bond' movies.
As a demo disc, it offers a sparkling video presentation with a rich, saturated color palette. And the Dolby Atmos mix, while not the most aggressive of the year in terms of height speaker usage, is quite solid and boasts more than a few demonstration-worthy moments to wow any guests who find themselves in your home theatre. When watching the whole film, take special notice of the music cues (a multi-fascinated score composed by Daniel Pemberton), factory lights turning on, helicopter rotors, swinging light bulbs, and other such sound effects that help create a full sense of hemispherical immersion.
Here are my Top Five favorites listed in chronological order (SPOILER WARNING for those who wish to avoid mention of any plot points):
Our first demo finds Solo and Kuryakin breaking into a hidden vault underneath an enemy factory. In addition to echoing lights clicking on in a cavernous space (which is technically a little earlier than the timecode listed above), sound effects begin with vault lock tumblers clicking into place all around us, followed by alarm bells, 360-degrees worth of ricocheting bullets, and several vrooming boat engines. In addition to articulate surround panning, the entire mix is lifted upwards by a jaunty Spanish guitar.
Next let's explore Dolby Atmos' ability to provide nuanced sound panning while showing off your speakers' tonal ranges. Solo is trapped in an electric chair as a sadistic Nazi describes his own personal history with torture. Sonically, we open with a sharp door closing, followed by a swinging light bulb, its stretching chord creaking overhead and around the soundstage. All is relatively quiet until a bomb drops (literally), the LFE crashes, and the music swells. The choral score elements are immersive with pops of other effects like boat wakes and helicopter rotors. It's an excellent little sequence that will showoff the color of any system, and challenge your speakers mid to high capabilities.
Less an action set-piece than a wonderfully stylish transition, this demo sees all of our characters, good and bad, either departing from or racing towards the enemy's lair. The demo begins with a series of concussive gun shots which morph into thundering drums that bounce from front to back and back to front of the listening environment. This demo will test high and low frequencies as well as speaker placement. And, where are our next demo wins extra points for sound effects immersion, the film's music really shines here (as it once again displays its musical genre variation).
My favorite demo on the disc. This sequence features a furious chase across hilly terrain and one river. It begins with Solo uncovering a dune buggy to chase the villain, who has taken off with the bomb and the girl. A vocal cue, akin to something from a spaghetti western, swirls up and around the entire room before revving engines take over for the chase itself. Tires spit grave and debris, vehicles splash through water And, as the scene builds, we get to flip over with a crashing SUV (the sound rotating over head) before thunder and falling rain round out the experience. It's a longer demo, but one that offers variation in both nuance and aggression.
Our last demo is a quick one, but also very dynamic, transitioning between mid-and-upper tonal ranges, total immersion, and some nice rumbling LFE. It begins with Kuryakin on the phone receiving instructions from the KGB; what he learns frustrates him so greatly he slams down the phone and throws a mini-tantrum. In this moment, the sound mix surges to life with a great sense of character-driven-POV; IE, the mix defines Kuryakin's emotional shifts with tolling bells that envelope the entire sound stage. This is all supported with a low, pressurized LFE that builds up into a full rumble until a door knock releases everything.
There we have it. The Top Five Dolby Atmos Demo Moments in 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' What are your favorite demos on this disc, or favorite demos that you've found recently? Hit up the comments below or forums to let us. know.
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The last couple of years I've had great success fishing hair jigs. Anything from the good old classic bucktail jig to more elaborate rabbit strip jigs and some with a lot of flash and rubber legs as well.
For me, the lively materials in many fishing situations seem to outfish more solid lures like jerkbaits, wobblers, spoon, spinner and softbaits. Not always… but just about any time the predators aren't in a suicidal mode.
So anytime fishing gets slow (cold fronts, heat waves etc.) these hairy and feathery creatures just keeps getting results.
But jig heads work best for structure fishing, or when you want to hit the rocks on the bottom. And with the hook at the head – really long jigs got some short strikes. And… in some instances I felt a need for a system, that would enable me to fish every inch of the water column.
This week I was actually outfished (not by much ;0) by my friend, Thomas. We were fishing for post spawn pike in a really low water cove, connected to a large lake by a small channel.
I had to work the jigs to fast, if I didn't wanna be stuck in the weeds. Naturally post spawn pike are kind of slow. They are exhausted from the spawning activity – and the water is still cold. So Thomas' large weightless rigged swimbait, gave him an edge on that day. That made me think the usual… what if?
Spy – Spin Fly system
After a couple of days in the lab, I am slowly beginning to see a way to make a spin/fly system, that will:
• Be flexible – in length as well as fishing depth
• Enable any combination of colour, size and sink rate to be decided on the water
• Use any kind of hook, to meet different fishing conditions and local fishery rules
• Enable me to use a favourite lure for surface fishing or bottom bouncing and anything in between – with minor adjustments
• Feature a lot of different head styles, making the lures floating, hovering or sinking at different speed rates.
• Work on light tackle – spinning reel setups as well as baitcasters
Being custom lures combining the best elements from large predator flies, hair jigs and other lures, I've named the project Spy (SPinflY) as a working title. I plan to do lot of testing, underwater filming – and hopefully team up with a company, that will be open for a collab opportunity on some special head designs.
Here are a couple of prototypes. Both of these lures are build up by several elements, that can be changed and combined in any way you like. Length on these are 8 – 10 inches – but they could be anywhere from a few inches for trout fishing up to as long as you wanna go.
Really looking forward to work with the Spy project.
If you find this interesting, watch this blog as well: Testing the new SPY (Spin Fly) – Red version
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You can't guarantee that you'll never be the victim of identity theft. This crime is simply too enticing for scammers.In identity theft, criminals steal information such as your Social Security number, address, and birth date and then use it to take out credit cards or loans in your name.
They might also use your personal information to illegally obtain medical care that is eventually charged to you. Or they might rely on your sensitive information to access your bank or credit card accounts, running up unauthorized purchases or draining your savings account.
This crime, then, is so potentially lucrative that criminals continually target potential victims.
There is hope, though: While you can never eliminate the threat of identity theft, you can take steps to lower your odds of becoming a victim. The key is to rely on both common sense and technology to keep your personal and financial information away from the scammers.
Can you prevent identity theft?
No one can completely protect themselves against identity theft. Even if you don't share your personal and financial information with others, don't click on suspicious links in email messages, and limit the amount of financial information you share at doctors' and dentists' offices, some security aspects are out of your control.
For instance, if a company with which you do business suffers a data breach, your personal information could be exposed and sold on the dark web. Besides not having done business with that company, there is no way to prevent that data exposure from happening.
This doesn't mean, though, that you shouldn't take steps to lessen your odds of having your identity stolen.
What are some types of identity theft?
First, it's important to understand that there are many different kinds of identity theft, and that helping to protect yourself against them might require different steps. Here are some of most common types of identity theft.
Existing account takeover identity theft
This occurs when criminals gain access to your existing accounts, so that they can then make charges to your credit cards, siphon money from your bank accounts, and even file claims against your insurance policies.
New account identity theft
This happens when a thief opens a new account in your name. The thief might take out a personal loan in your name, taking the money from this loan and leaving you with the monthly payments. Or the thief might open credit card accounts in your name and use these accounts to go on a spending spree.
Thieves might use an old-fashioned technique to gain the information they need for this crime: digging your unwanted credit card applications from your mailbox or your trash.
Tax-related identity theft
This occurs when a fraudster submits an income tax return using your Social Security number and fraudulent income data. The thief's goal is nab your tax refund.You might not discover this crime until you file your own income taxes for the year and discover that someone else has already filed taxes in your name.
Criminal identity theft
This is when a criminal gives someone else's personal information to a law enforcement official. It could be for something as simple as a minor traffic violation.But if a fine is never paid, authorities could issue an arrest warrant in the identity theft victim's name — leaving you to figure out what happened and clean up the mess.
Are you an easy target for identity thieves?
Would you be an easy target for identity theft? That depends, in part, on how well you protect your information. It also depends on how well others — the people to whom you've entrusted your information — are protecting it.
Consider data breaches involving email accounts. If an identity thief had access to all the information in your email account, what would that include?
Well, possibly everything from old bank and credit card statements to electronic pay stubs to documents you gathered for a mortgage application. Between your inbox and your "sent" mail, there's no telling what personal information an identity thief would have access to.
Once the identity thief had access to your email account, the fraudster would try to quickly change the password so you couldn't seize control again.
The message here? Don't keep your personal or financial information in your email accounts. But the larger message is to hide away this information as best as you can. You want to make it as difficult as possible for scammers to steal your identity.
How to help protect yourself against identity theft
You can't put a "protected" sign on your personal information like you can when you install a security system in your house, but whether you're online or out and about, there are ways you can help combat identity theft.Let's review some of the steps you can take in both settings. These aren't all-inclusive, but they're a good start, and they may prompt you to come up with other ways to protect your PII.
Let's start with where you may be as you read this article — online.
How to help protect yourself from ID theft online
Your online behaviors may have an impact on your risk of identity theft. Here are some tips to keep in mind:
- Be careful with both how and where you share your personal information when you're on the Internet — whether you're using a computer or a mobile device.
- Give your home Wi-Fi network a name that isn't tied to your home. For instance, if your street address is 123 Main St., don't name your Wi-Fi network "123 Main." You don't want to make yourself an obvious target.
- Make sure you give your Wi-Fi network a strong password so those would-be intruders can't easily access your network and, perhaps, the devices connected to it. Include numbers, symbols and upper-case and lower-case letters to make your password as difficult to crack as possible.
- Make sure the passwords you're using for online accounts are unique. Using the same password on multiple accounts might make logging into these accounts easier for you. But when sophisticated hackers score a breach using one of your passwords, they may test your stolen login credentials on other accounts, the one for your bank, perhaps. If your credentials are the same for both, imagine the consequences.
- Consider how you use Wi-Fi when you're on the go. Be wary of logging into accounts such as your bank or credit card portals when on a public Wi-Fi network, even if that network is password-protected. Coffee-shop Wi-Fi passwords are easy for hackers to snatch. With the right tools, a cyber thief on the same network could follow your online moves and capture everything from your login credentials to the credit card information you type in while shopping.
- If you must do business on a public Wi-Fi network, consider using a VPN, or virtual private network. A VPN creates a kind of tunnel to encrypt your data, making it useless to would-be snoops.
- Check your credit reports regularly. You can order these reports free from AnnualCreditReport.com. Once you do, look at the list of loans and credit card accounts in your name. If you see loans and accounts that you know you've never applied for, that's a sign that scammers have stolen your identity. Contact the credit bureaus to inform them of these illegitimate accounts. Call the lenders and banks behind these fake accounts to tell them that you never applied for these loans or credit cards.
- Check your online bank and credit card accounts regularly, too. Look for purchases you know you've never made or withdrawals you don't remember authorizing. These are another sure sign that someone has stolen your identity. Contact your bank and credit card providers immediately if you suspect suspicious activity.
How to help protect yourself from ID theft offline
There are also plenty of precautions you can take while "offline" to help protect yourself from identity theft. Remember, you're trying to reduce the chance identity thieves will put their hands on your personal information. Consider how they can access it around your home.
- Is your mailbox secure? An unlocked mailbox is an easy target for thieves who steal identities the old-fashioned way. They can grab everything from credit card mailings to your annual W-2 statement. A secure mailbox can be a wise and relatively inexpensive investment to help protect your identity.
- Dumpster diving still happens, too. If you're throwing away documents loaded with your personal information without first shredding them, you're making it too easy for identity thieves who are willing to get their hands dirty rifling through your trash. Thieves could obtain vital info from old bank statements, healthcare claims, and other discarded paperwork.
- Do you invite strangers into your home? Not usually, right? But consider the occasional appliance repair person, cable TV installer, or other unknown people you allow beyond the front door. Unless you're with them throughout their visit, and depending on where you keep your incoming mail or important documents, they might have easy access to your personal information without you ever noticing.
- It may also pay for you to invest in a document lockbox at home or a security deposit box at your bank to safeguard your most important documents.
How to report identity theft
Even if you do everything correctly, you might still become a victim of identity theft. Remember, breaches occur regularly, and companies where you have accounts may be among those hit, putting what is known as your personally identifiable information, better known as your PII, in the wrong hands. Scammers might sell this information on the dark web, exposing it to a network of con artists and cybercriminals.
If you find that you're a victim of identity theft, the Federal Trade Commission recommends the following steps to report the crime and begin the recovery process:
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- Place a fraud alert and obtain credit reports. You can order free credit reports, to check for unauthorized loans or credit card accounts, from AnnualCreditReport.com.
- Notify the FTC. It's important to report identity theft. Having this report can help you prove that your identity has been stolen if you need that information to dispute unauthorized charges or loans taken out in your name.
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The bottom line
It's important to take the steps necessary to protect your personal information from being lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised. It's important, too, to recognize that the security of your information is only as strong as the weakest link in a chain that includes the many businesses, government agencies, and other entities that you trust with it.
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Mintje van Lier (1982) is Principal Second violin with Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra.
At the age of five, Mintje started studying the violin under Anneke Schilt-Plate and continued with Hans Scheepers, Joyce Tan, Mimi Zweig, Chris Duindam and Lex Korff de Gidts. In 2006 she received her Bachelor of Music at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She continued her studies in the class of Ilan Gronich at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, receiving the Diplom in 2009.
From 2004-2006, Mintje performed as a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra under the direction of Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Paavo Järvi and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
In 2007, Mintje studied in the Academy of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, after which, she was awarded a scholarship from the Bernard Haitink Fund for Young Talent. In 2008, Mintje won the position as assistent principal 2nd Violin with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Filharmonic. In the five years leading up to the closing of this orchestra, Mintje enjoyed playing under the frequent guest conductor's Philippe Herreweghe and Frans Brüggen. Mintje freelances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. From 2014—2021 Mintje was the assistant principal 2nd violin of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as a member of the Jenufa String Quartet.
She has taken part in the Zermatt Festival with the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In Berlin, Mintje played with Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop.
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First Big Update For Crytek's Fibble
Given the game was previously criticized for needing "tighter design in future levels", this update should prove the ideal time to rectify past flaws. A new area has been added with eight extra levels to check out, as well as "lost files" bolstering level numbers by a further nine. A new crew member friend also features in the form of Klonk, who offers alternative ways to play.
There's now iCloud support for save files so players can always pick up where they left off if they switch between their iPhone and iPad. Finally, new skins have been included for those keen on seeing a new look.
Adjustments such as speedier loading times and a reworked "nudge" feature have been added to round off the package.
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The volume 19, first issue of the Caribbean Examiner magazine is now available online. In this issue, we look at key stakeholder consultations across the territories in development of CXC's Strategic Plan for 2021 – 2025, COHSOD-Education grants approval for the administration of CXC's Regional Examinations in July, CXC's Learning Hub – the Council's e-learning platform, the launch of the Caribbean Community Administrative Tribunal (CCAT), new syllabuses – CCSLC® Digital Literacy, and CAPE® Design and Technology. Key highlights also include four articles focused on environmental issues, and more!
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As a disclaimer, I didn't participate in this CTF. I just found this challenge online and thought it was fun.
- crypto
We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled.
#!/usr/bin/env sage
from secret import P1, Q1, a, b
from Crypto.Util.Padding import pad
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
P0 = P1 & ord('?')
Q0 = Q1 & ord('?')
assert is_prime(P0) and is_prime(P1)
assert is_prime(Q0) and is_prime(Q1)
class Chall:
def __init__(self, p, q):
self.p = p
self.q = q
self.n = p * q
self.E = EllipticCurve(Zmod(self.n), [a, b])
self.E1 = EllipticCurve(Zmod(p), [a, b])
# Not Implemented, but you get the point :D
self.G = E.random_point()
self.d = randint(1, 1 << 128) & (p >> 1)
self.Q = self.d * self.G
def expose(self):
def getkey(self):
return self.d
if __name__ == '__main__':
s = Chall(P0, Q0)
sd = s.getkey()
l = Chall(P1, Q1)
ld = l.getkey()
size = 16
flag = pad(open('flag.txt', 'rb').read(), size)
key = int(sd + ld)
key = key.to_bytes(size, byteorder='big')
cipher = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_ECB)
enc_flag = cipher.encrypt(flag).hex()
The challenge encrypts the flag with AES using a key derived from some large secret number. To recover the secret number, we need to solve the ECDLP. The challenge comes in two parts: recovering the unknown curve parameters, and solving the ECDLP.
The Chall
class is initialised with two (prime) numbers and . It selects a random point on the curve and a random 128 bit number as the private key. We are given , the order of , the random point , and the point given by .
Part 1: Recovering the Unknown Curve Parameters
Points on the curve are related by the equation
We are given 2 points and on the curve, so we can solve for and :
We notice that the order of is rather smooth! If we can recover , we should be able to solve the ECDLP in .
So the goal for now is to recover . Curiously, we are given . It turns out that this is actually a pretty good estimate for . In fact, on average the top 128 MSB of are the same as the top 128 MSB of . (Here is around 256 bits). We know that, as a general rule of thumb, whenever we have a good amount of bits of a number we're trying to find, we can usually apply Coppersmith's theorem to recover the number completely (given some other information, of course). We're actually also given the bottom 6 LSB of with the call to s.expose()
since we can easily factor in that case and deduce that p & 0b111111 == 37
. So we have just over half the bits of .
Let be the top ~128 bits of . We know that , and . Now, construct the univariate polynomial in
will have a root (modulo ).
We can recover by computing
Part 2: Solving the ECDLP
As mentioned before, the order of is rather smooth. We are given this in the challenge output, so we are pretty much guided on how to proceed. This is the prime factorisation of the order n
2^3 * 3^4 * 13 * 151 * 37277 * 63737 * 743689 * 14743331 * 20904431 * 3659465143 * 38635749385473505471502894387389
Most of the factors are small, except the large 105 bit factor. Luckily for us, the secret multiplier d
is only 128 bits! Excluding the large 105 bit factor, the product of the other factors is more than 128 bits. We can solve the ECDLP in these subgroups and combine the results using the Chinese Remainder Theorem to get the secret multiplier. See here for details.
Grabbing the Flag
The value of sd
is less than 37 >> 1
so we can trivially bruteforce it. All we need to do is decrypt the flag and check which decryption contains the flag format.
Solve script:
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
from Crypto.Util.Padding import unpad
ZN = Zmod(N)
n = 97940012926710762153437884674079301076079191877203953722437921714333988067208
ct = bytes.fromhex('f512c0de4f899ac8d8e6481f2f9b9df22f0cd05f50f9d42750be913156bb27ea5a141f014082853aa97341499ca74d84')
x1,y1 = G
x2,y2 = Q
a = ZN((y2^2 - x2^3 + x1^3 - y1^2)/(x2-x1))
b = ZN(y1^2 - x1^3 - a*x1)
print('[+] a recovered:', a)
print('[+] b recovered:', b)
P.<x> = PolynomialRing(ZN, implementation='NTL')
poly = (n - (n % 2^124)) + 2^6 * x + 37
poly = poly.monic()
delta = poly.small_roots(X=2^122, beta=0.5, epsilon=1/84)[0]
p = (n - (n % 2^124)) + 2^6 * delta + 37
print('[+] p recovered:', p)
E = EllipticCurve(GF(p), [a, b])
factors = (n//(2^3 * 3^4 * 38635749385473505471502894387389)).factor()
factors = [f for f,_ in factors]
for pi in factors:
qi = int(n//pi)
Pi = qi*G
Qi = qi*Q
print('[*] computing discrete log for subgroup of order', pi)
K.append(discrete_log(Qi, Pi, operation='+'))
d = crt(K, factors)
print('[+] private key recovered:', d)
for sd in range(37 >> 1):
key = int(sd + d)
key = key.to_bytes(16, byteorder='big')
cipher = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_ECB)
flag = cipher.decrypt(ct)
if b'CODEGATE' in flag:
print(unpad(flag, 16).decode())
Flag: CODEGATE2020{Here_comes_the_crypto_genius}


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Featured here is a Magnificent Hand Carved Marble Sitting Lion; Hand Carved by Master Craftsman in a fabulous Black Marble. The lion is Sitting on a base carved with borders on top and bottom of the base. He is adorned with a marvelous mane of hair and his face is carved in detailed perfection. A pair of these Sitting Lions would make a terrific choice guarding your doorway. They are unforgettable and would enhance and compliment the front door of your home, your garden or your business entry. The statues would be a wonderful addition wherever you placed them The lions stand 5 feet high and are carved in fabulous Black Marble.
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Football cards and stickers issued around the world, from the 1880's to the present day and even some that haven't been issued yet. I don't have any cards for sale, nor do I provide valuations, this blog is just a means of passing on information I have gathered over many decades of collecting. Alan Jenkins.
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Are you that person who asked me about books last year? You're in luck! I've finally got around to sharing what I've been reading and it's an interesting list, touching on racial identity, freelancing and setting better habits. My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamkristabel/
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If for no other reason, once in your life live in a bungalow just to be able to say the word more often. Bungalow. One of the oddest housing names after yurt. Cute, though. This 1 bedroom, 1 bath house that's 600 square feet inside probably was built by pragmatists, not designed by high-paid architects; and after 110 years of owners it continues to give bungalow a good name. They're asking $385,000 for it and the 3,000 square foot lot it sits on. Besides the classic hardwood floors, a wainscot and tile bath, peaked roof, stylish and minimalist roof over the front door; the property also has location. It has good access to the Burke-Gilman Trail, Leary Way, the Ballard and Fremont bridges, and Ballard and Fremont. Or, stay home and enjoy a design and style that's survived more than a century - then get more modern and hangout in the hot tub out back. Historic is nice, but modern indulgences are sweet.
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As Theory of a Deadman, or TOAD, as their fans call them, begin to hit the road this spring and summer, I thought I would take the opportunity to review their last album, Scars & Souvenirs. With eight singles being released from this album, they have been certified Gold in the USA. Coming from Canada, they have that Nickleback sound down pat. I guess having Chad Kroeger signing the band to his label has some influence. This will not be remembered as one of the best albums of the year, but it's a nice CD to just pop in as you're working around the house or taking a road trip.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2011 Volume 2 at lulu.com/strangesound.
Hearing this song, most people would not guess Brent Smith from Shinedown was on it. This is a very catchy song about a strained relationship. It has nice guitar licks toward the end, along with a great rock/pop feel.


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I'm slowly making the conversion from our previous outdated photo website to this new format, and there's much more work to do, so bear with me.
Luckily, I can mask my novice skills with cute pics of the kid. This one was taken on the hot air balloon ride at an amusement park near the grandparents. E spent the afternoon and evening with a firm grip on the seats and a big smile on her face.
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Trump Indicates He Would Consider Cuts To Medicare & Social Security Breaking Campaign Promise
President Donald Trump indicated on Wednesday that he may cut entitlement programs, including Medicare in order to reduce the national debt.
Asked in an interview with CNBC if he would ever consider cuts to entitlements, Trump answered yes.
"At some point they will be," Trump said. "At the right time, we will take a look at that."
Trump tells CNBC that he's pondering taking the axe to Medicare and Social Security because it's "the easiest of all things" for him to cut. pic.twitter.com/Ojozrq966O
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We find the news you need to know, so you don't have to.— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) January 22, 2020
Trump's latest budget proposal called for a total of $1.9 trillion in cuts to mandatory safety-net programs, like Medicaid and Medicare. The proposal also called for cost savings of $26 billion on Social Security programs, including a $10 billion cut to the Social Security Disability Insurance program.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) criticized the president for using safety-net programs to pay for tax breaks for corporations.
"Trump gave the top 1% and powerful corporations huge tax breaks. He increased the deficit. Now he wants to cut your Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security to pay for it," she wrote. "That's just not right and it's not fair."
His proposal marks a shift from his position on cuts to safety-net programs during the 2016 election, in which he insisted he would not touch them.
In his formal 2016 campaign announcement he said: "Save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cuts. Have to do it. Get rid of the fraud. Get rid of the waste and abuse, but save it."
Thursday, Trump tried to walk back his comments.
"Democrats are going to destroy your Social Security," Trump tweeted. "I have totally left it alone, as promised, and will save it!"
Democrats are going to destroy your Social Security. I have totally left it alone, as promised, and will save it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 23, 2020
The national debt has grown exponentially under Trump largely due to his tax cuts.
The federal budget deficit surpassed $1 trillion in 2019, according to the Treasury Department. It was the first calendar year since 2012 that the deficit topped that threshold.
The Treasury Department will begin issuing 20-year bonds to help finance the deficit.
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When using bookmarks in Confluence, you will find it useful to put a bookmark icon on your browser toolbar. Read an overview of adding the icon to your toolbar.
This page tells you how to drag the bookmark link from Confluence to the browser toolbar, using Firefox as an example browser.
To drag the link onto your browser toolbar,
- First make sure that your browser's 'Bookmarks Toolbar' is shown.
In Firefox, click 'View' in the browser menu bar, then select 'Toolbars' and put a check mark next to 'Bookmarks Toolbar'. - Go to 'Browse Space' for any Confluence space and click the 'Bookmarks' tab.
- The 'Space Bookmarks' screen will appear. Click the 'Bookmark in Confluence' link on the right of the screen, and drag it onto the browser's 'Bookmarks Toolbar'.
- The bookmark icon looks something like this:
You can change the bookmark name from 'Bookmark in Confluence' to something else, if you want to. Just use your browser's own functions for editing/organising bookmarks and bookmark properties.
Screenshot : Dragging the bookmark link to Firefox
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Steam Engine Concept
Main > Energy > Steam Engine
Steam Engine Intro
The Open Source Modern Steam Engine
- Steam Engine
- Power
- Uniflow
- Bump Valve
The OSE steam engine allows steam generated from a solar concentrator [1] or boiler [2] to be converted first in linear motion (pushing on a piston) and then to rotary motion (using a crankshaft) that can be used to perform useful work (like running a hydraulic pump) or to generate electricity [3]. The first prototype [4] is a uniflow engine design [5], which means that steam is admitted on one side of the piston and allowed to vent to the atmosphere after it has expanded. Steam is controlled using a bump valve [6].
Technical Information
There is a wealth of information on the OSE steam engine gathered in the OSE Wiki. The Steam Engine/Index page shows all of them grouped by topic. Pages of specific interest include:
- History of the idea [7]
- Commercial Examples
- Inputs and Outputs needed
- How well it meets OSE Specifications, goals, and requirements.
- Relationship to Other Concepts or Functions
- Specifications [8] including:
- Explanations of why certain designs are preferred
- Performance and Efficiency [16] and [17]
- Scaling to Different Sizes
- Uncommon Items Needed