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My Guardian column this week argues that what Jimmy Justice does, videotaping errant traffic cops, is vigilante journalism, but journalism nonetheless. (nonregistration version here) Snippet:
So here's the question: is what Jimmy Justice does journalism? Consider: he is performing the watchdog function of journalism, holding government and its agents to account. He is recording facts; his video camera – oscillating between the no-parking signs and the cops' licence plates and badges – does not lie. He is asking tough questions. Then he shares what he learns. . . .
But Jimmy's not slick, he's sloppily dressed, he has a grating accent and manner, and his camera wobbles. In short, he's unprofessional.
Aren't journalists supposed to be professional? Not necessarily. Not anymore. That is precisely what the professional class – in many trades – fears from the internet: it enables the amateurs. And that's not always pretty. Institutional journalism considers its ability to package – to make things look neat and complete – a key value. But that expectation was really just a necessity of the tools of production: you have one chance to print this story, so make it good. In truth, a news story is a process to which many can now contribute. Life is messy. So is reporting on it. . . .
But I still say that if we care about a watched government and an informed society, then the response to Jimmy shouldn't be to scold him but perhaps to teach him. Indeed, a commenter on my blog suggested a gadget for Jimmy that would help him hold his camera steadier. Perhaps journalistic organisations should arm a thousand Jimmys with cameras and microphones. Perhaps they should assign the public to report alongside the professionals, to gather more news than could ever be gathered before. Maybe, just maybe, this is an element of a new means – and one new business model – of news: armies of Jimmy Journalists.
MORE: Or they could be Johan Journalists. Martin Stabe says that the German tabloid Bild has used more than 400,000 photos sent readers via their mobile phones and that politicians aren't happy about it. That must mean they're doing something right. (Full story auf Deutsch here.) Here's a key to it: The paper pays €500 if the picture gets in the national edition, €100 in a regional edition. Still cheaper than having 2,500 photographers on staff all over the country.


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In Zabbix 2.4.0 the support of node-based distributed monitoring has been discontinued due to existing limitations and potential problems with reliability in large environments. While a new version of distributed monitoring may be considered and developed in the future, for the time being using proxies becomes the main distributed monitoring option in Zabbix.
For the remaining node-based DM users, during an upgrade to Zabbix 2.4.0, each upgraded node will be switched to a standalone Zabbix server keeping all configuration and history information from the local node and from the child nodes as well.
To maintain uniqueness of data from non-local nodes, all the fields will be prefixes with N<nodeid>_. If the length of the new value exceeds max field size, it will be trimmed. Highly unlikely, but if the new value already exists in the database, the situation will be caught by a check on duplicates. Global macros will be processed in a special way by adding N<nodeid>_ after the dollar sign, for example, {$N123_MACRO}.
Support of the "node watcher" second parameter has been removed from the
zabbix[process] internal item. This item has also been removed from Template App Zabbix Server. In order to fix it, either manually delete the item or import the new template and mark Delete missing option for items.
A case-sensitive MySQL database is required for proper server work. It is recommended to create a case-sensitive MySQL database during new installations. If you created a MySQL database with the utf8 character set previously, in order to support case sensitiveness of stored data, you need to convert the charset to utf8_bin.
Hosts created by a network discovery rule will be deleted automatically if a discovered entity is not in the rule's IP range anymore. Hosts are deleted immediately.
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The formatting of JSON objects (with tabs and new lines) has been removed, which allows the traffic to be reduced by 20-30% when data is sent between Zabbix services. Additionally, the escaping of forward slash or solidus (/) has also been removed. JSON, formatted as in the previous versions of Zabbix, would still be accepted as valid.
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About twice as many women as men experience depression. Several factors may increase a woman's risk of depression.
Women are nearly twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with depression. Depression can occur at any age.
Some mood changes and depressed feelings occur with normal hormonal changes. But hormonal changes alone don't cause depression. Other biological factors, inherited traits, and personal life circumstances and experiences are associated with a higher risk of depression. Here's what contributes to depression in women.
Hormone changes during puberty may increase some girls' risk of developing depression. However, temporary mood swings related to fluctuating hormones during puberty are normal — these changes alone don't cause depression.
Puberty is often associated with other experiences that can play a role in depression, such as:
After puberty, depression rates are higher in females than in males. Because girls typically reach puberty before boys do, they're more likely to develop depression at an earlier age than boys are. There is evidence to suggest that this depression gender gap may continue throughout the lifespan.
For most females with premenstrual syndrome (PMS), symptoms such as abdominal bloating, breast tenderness, headache, anxiety, irritability and experiencing the blues are minor and short-lived.
But a small number of females have severe and disabling symptoms that disrupt their studies, jobs, relationships or other areas of their lives. At that point, PMS may cross the line into premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) — a type of depression that generally requires treatment.
The exact interaction between depression and PMS remains unclear. It's possible that cyclical changes in estrogen, progesterone and other hormones can disrupt the function of brain chemicals such as serotonin that control mood. Inherited traits, life experiences and other factors appear to play a role.
Dramatic hormonal changes occur during pregnancy, and these can affect mood. Other issues also may increase the risk of developing depression during pregnancy or during attempts to become pregnant, such as:
Many new mothers find themselves sad, angry and irritable, and experience crying spells soon after giving birth. These feelings — sometimes called the baby blues — are normal and generally subside within a week or two. But more-serious or long-lasting depressed feelings may indicate postpartum depression, particularly if signs and symptoms include:
Postpartum depression is a serious medical condition requiring prompt treatment. It occurs in about 10 to 15 percent of women. It's thought to be associated with:
Risk of depression may increase during the transition to menopause, a stage called perimenopause, when hormone levels may fluctuate erratically. Depression risk may also rise during early menopause or after menopause — both times when estrogen levels are significantly reduced.
Most women who experience bothersome menopausal symptoms don't develop depression. But these factors may increase the risk:
The higher rate of depression in women isn't due to biology alone. Life circumstances and cultural stressors can play a role, too. Although these stressors also occur in men, it's usually at a lower rate. Factors that may increase the risk of depression in women include:
Women with depression often have other mental health conditions that need treatment as well, such as:
Although depression might seem overwhelming, there's effective treatment. Even severe depression often can be successfully treated. Seek help if you have any signs and symptoms of depression, such as:
Not sure how to get treatment? Consider turning to your primary care provider first — for example, your family doctor, internist, nurse practitioner, obstetrician or gynecologist. If needed, your primary care provider can refer you to a mental health professional who specializes in diagnosing and treating depression.
Remember, depression is both common and treatable. If you think you're depressed, don't hesitate to seek help.
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Whenever I hear dire predictions concerning the social impact of new technologies, I recall a similar prediction made nearly 2,500 years ago. In the Phaedrus, Plato recounts a myth, according to which an Egyptian god approached King Thamos and offered him the gift of writing. But the wise king refused the gift, arguing that it would allow people to substitute the appearance of knowledge for its substance. If we rely upon writing to preserve our knowledge, our memory will weaken, and we will begin to mistake the living truth for its shadow, Plato suggests.
Today, of course, we rightly think of literacy as essential to education. But bearing in mind Plato's warning should help us recall that fears concerning new technologies are a natural response to the unfamiliar. The unease generated by the strange causes us to think that it's risky, and the reasons we offer are often rationalisations of that feeling.
When we hear Baroness Susan Greenfield talk about the dangers of the internet and of social media, we should recall these facts, and alter our responses accordingly. Because she is not a digital native, she likely finds these technologies more threatening than do younger people. But because the internet is transforming the world in ways that are unprecedented, a feeling of unease might arise in any of us.
Her claims that digital culture may cause negative changes in the brains of users – reducing attention spans, lowering empathy, and so on – sound plausible. But surface plausibility is not always a good guide to truth.
In order to assess the genuine costs and benefits of digital culture, we need empirical evidence. This kind of evidence is extremely difficult to collect because it's very difficult to isolate the causal factors at work in human populations. When we are studying animals, we can isolate them from other influences, and carefully control the factors of interest, but with regard to human beings, we are reliant on natural experiments, and natural experiments are usually very messy.
Suppose we compare the attention spans of people who are digital natives with those who are not: what drives any result we find? Since age will correlate with whether one is a digital native or not, is the effect an effect of age or of exposure to technology (there is independent evidence that younger people are more impulsive than older)? Suppose we use groups matched for age: comparing those who had free access to computers when they were children (say) with those whose computer use was strictly limited. In that case, the effect might be the result of different parenting styles (permissive versus strict), or of other factors correlated with this particular difference in parenting (religiosity, say).
That isn't to say that it's impossible to identify the genuine causal influences at work in large human populations. It is to counsel even more caution than usual in interpreting existing scientific work. We can be confident that we have identified a cause only when we have a sufficient number of studies, using different methodologies and controlling for as many of the confounding factors as possible. The data must also be sufficiently long-term: costs and benefits may emerge only gradually. Right now, the available evidence is not alarming.
Consider the empathy finding Greenfield cites. Using self-report data, Sara Konrath and colleagues find that college students today are less empathic than previous generations. Suppose the finding holds up (remember this is one study, using one methodology, on one population; it may turn out that the result is spurious). Can we blame digital culture?
Perhaps, but there are a multitude of other factors that might be at work. Perhaps an increasing individualism is to blame, or an intensification of consumer culture, or economic insecurity. Alternatively, perhaps it's now more acceptable to report a lack of empathy than previously; perhaps the reports index a willingness to admit to a lack of empathy, rather than a decline in empathy. It is worth noting that the supposed decline in empathy occurred at a time when violent crime was decreasing in the United States, which should surely lower our confidence in the finding.
Konrath's study was well designed; its limitations are endemic to this kind of study. The same cannot be said for much of the existing work on internet addiction. Many findings are from badly designed, badly controlled studies, by researchers who seem more interested in publicity than truth.
Greenfield doesn't cite any data on whether and how the internet is affecting cognitive processing. She just cites Eric Schmidt's worry that the effects might be negative. They might, but the evidence is not persuasive.
There is evidence that multitasking leads to a lowering of performance, and it may be true that people tend to engage in more multitasking today than formerly, because they have tablets, smartphones and laptops constantly available. But, in that case, it is multitasking that is the problem, not digital media per se. What's more, we don't know whether heavy multitasking is caused by digital technology or just finds a ready outlet in it (today's teenagers tweet while also browsing Facebook; perhaps their grandparents had the radio on while they read their comic books).
One particular worry is certainly wrongheaded. A number of people have worried that the internet exerts "an actual physical influence on the neurons and synapses in our brains", as Nicholas Carr put it. The worry is wrongheaded because all experiences change the brain. If it did not, we would not be capable of learning and storing memories. Brains are supposed to change in response to experiences; that's a sign they're working as they are designed to.
I started by mentioning Plato's worry that literacy would weaken memory. As a matter of fact, Plato may not have been entirely wrong: there is evidence that people in preliterate cultures have better memories. It does not follow, however, that the invention of writing had costs as well as benefits, or rather it does not follow that any effect on short term memory is simply a cost. It may that writing did not merely provide us with an external memory store that was superior to brain-based memory (much more reliable, for one thing). By decreasing the burden on our memory, it may also have freed up brain-based processing resources for other tasks.
Something like that might be true for the internet too: it might be that insofar as iPhones take over the task of memory and time management, some brain-based capacities will atrophy and the neural real estate will be repurposed. Right now we have little reason to think that the costs of digital culture (if there are significant costs) outweigh the benefits, and no reason at all to think that these apparent costs will not bring unexpected benefits for our brains, as well as for our societies.
Of course, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but we have no reason to panic, and no reason to think that the challenge of unravelling the causal effects of internet use on minds is especially urgent.


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Biblical Studies
Overview[edit | edit source]
This work reflects the study of the Judeo-Christian Bible and related texts. For Christianity, the Bible traditionally comprises the New Testament and Old Testament (also called the Hebrew Bible), which together are sometimes called the "Scriptures." Judaism recognizes as scripture only the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh, an acronym for the Hebrew names of its divisions: Torah (Law), Nevi'im (Prophets) and Ketuvim (writings). Other texts often examined by biblical scholars include the Jewish apocrypha, the Jewish pseudepigrapha, the Christian apocrypha, the many varieties of ante-Nicene early Christian literature, and early Jewish literature.
Study Methods[edit | edit source]
There are several approaches to study of, and commentary on, the Judeo-Christian texts. The distinctions are found in the understanding of the Origins for the text and the basis of Truth found in the texts.
Orthodox Religious Study[edit | edit source]
In the Jewish community, the classical approach is Orthodox religious study of the Bible, where it is assumed that the Bible has a Divine origin and the human writers were inspired directly by the Spirit of God when writing. This is also true in the conservative Christian communities that hold to a Biblical Worldview and those who hold to the historically traditional Church view.
In both cases, Biblical writings are considered to be absolute truth coming directly from God and form the basis for all moral, ethical and social practices of believers.
Progressive or Mainstream Religious Study[edit | edit source]
It is common in both Judaic and Christian contemporary religious communities, often called Mainstream, to study the Bible as a human creation, where the writings were originated by people inspired by God as well as being inspired by Religious Study.
Such an approach yields scripture that is considered to be truthful only in some respects, which necessitates the addition of other writings or rational thinking in order to reach truthful and applicable practices of moral, ethical and social thought. In such cases, studies include high consideration for texts that are part of a tradition. These include Apochryphal writings and rabbinical commentaries. Also, science and other contemporary knowledge from the academic community is often used to augment the understanding of Biblical text.
Secular Study of the Bible[edit | edit source]
Secular practitioners of Biblical Studies view the Bible as literature and not Sacred text. Most do not have any faith commitment to the texts they study. Biblical criticism seems to reject the idea that the Bible was written by prophets or teachers inspired by God. Indeed, this practice, when applied to the Torah, is generally considered heresy by the entire Orthodox Jewish community. As such, much modern day Bible commentary written by non-Orthodox Judaic authors is considered treif (forbidden) by rabbis teaching in Orthodox yeshivas.
Some classical rabbinic commentators, such as Abraham Ibn Ezra, Gersonides and Maimonides, used many elements of modern day biblical criticism, including their then-current knowledge of history, science and philology. Their use of historical and scientific analysis of the Bible was considered kosher by historic Judaism due to the author's faith commitment to the idea that God revealed the Torah to Moses on Mount Sinai.
The Modern Orthodox Jewish community allows for a wider array of biblical criticism to be used for biblical books outside of the Torah, and a few Orthodox commentaries now incorporate many of the techniques previously found in the academic world, e.g. the Da'at Miqra series.
Non-Orthodox Jews, including those affiliated with Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism, accept the validity of both traditional and secular approaches to Bible studies. See the article on Revelation for details of how members of these groups understand this concept.
The Wikipedia article on Jewish commentaries on the Bible discusses Jewish Tanakh commentaries from the Targums to classical rabbinic literature, the midrash literature, the classical medieval commentators, and modern day commentaries.
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Biblical Commentaries[edit | edit source]
- Old Testament Commentaries
- New Testament Commentaries
- Bible Topics
- 1599 Geneva Study Bible Study Bible of the version that Shakespeare studied
External Links[edit | edit source]
- WikiChristian - A Wiki for Christians to discuss the Bible, current issues in the church, church history, Christian music and movies, and Christian doctrine and theology
- EasyEnglish project from Wycliffe Associates UK - Bible Books in simple English, with Bible Commentaries and various Bible Study books online. All books can be downloaded free.
- World English Bible project - Modern English public domain translation of the Bible (an update of the American Standard Version of 1901, which is also in the Public Domain)
- King James version of the Bible
- World English version of the Bible


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Denard Span drives in 5 as Twins plaster Orioles
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Twins are mostly out of postseason contention.
Ben Revere and Denard Span can still put on quite the skills competition.
Span had three hits and five RBIs, plus two highlight-reel catches in center field to help the Twins stop their five-game losing streak and beat the Baltimore Orioles 19-7 on Monday night.
Revere made two remarkable running grabs himself in right field to go with four hits and three RBIs, Joe Mauer homered and drove in two runs and Justin Morneau had four of Minnesota's 20 hits to stretch his hitting streak to a season-long 14 straight games.
"We've been taking a few beatings lately. It's nice to be on this side of one," manager Ron Gardenhire said.
Chris Tillman (1-1) gave up seven runs in the first and didn't finish the inning, the shortest appearance by an Orioles starter in almost a year. Six of the runs were unearned, due to an untimely two-out error by first baseman Mark Reynolds. He hit a three-run homer off Scott Diamond (8-3), but the Twins starter won his third straight decision thanks to the big early lead -- and that pitcher-friendly defense.
"Basically having a center fielder in right field, it's huge for us because it just allows you to force the hitters to put balls in play," Diamond said.
Tillman turned in a stellar start for the Orioles on July 4, surrendering only two hits and two unearned runs over a career-high 8 1/3 innings at Seattle, but this time was just the opposite of that.
Baseball games are rarely determined so early, but a pair of plays in the field in the first inning essentially decided this one.
With two on and no outs, Adam Jones drove what would've been a double or a triple hard down the right-field line, but Revere raced toward the corner and came up with a fully outstretched catch to freeze the runners.
"The ball kind of tailed, kind of got in the sun a little bit, so I squinted my eyes and luckily I saw it," Revere said. "I dove and it landed in my glove."
Then, Matt Wieters bounced into a double play, keeping the Orioles from scoring at all, though manager Buck Showalter tried to downplay the effect of Revere's catch, as impressive as it was.
"I don't think when you give up 19 runs you can hang your hook on one play," Showalter said.
In the bottom of the frame, Revere doubled and scored on Mauer's single. The Twins eventually loaded the bases, but Tillman had two outs and a full count on Ryan Doumit. On the eighth pitch of his at-bat, Doumit hit a chopper to first base that Reynolds awkwardly lunged toward with his backhand. The ball glanced off the edge of his glove, allowing two men to score and paving the way for Span's three-run double that capped the inning.
The Orioles and Twins sure packed a lot into this matchup, including a balk, an infield fly rule call and even a two-run infield single. That came courtesy of Revere, whose grounder up the middle skipped off second base in front of shortstop J.J. Hardy, who couldn't grab it in time to throw Span out at home and keep the Twins from taking a 10-2 lead in the third.
Span made a sprinting, sliding catch of a sinking liner to steal a single from Steve Tolleson in the sixth and sped back to nab Hardy's drive against the bullpen wall in the seventh. Revere also took an extra-base hit from Hardy with his second long run of the night, in the fifth.
"They can cover some ground out there," Reynolds said.
Span teased Revere, who is four years younger and a fellow first-round draft pick, about trying to one-up him.
"I said, 'Hey, you're killing me, man.' Every time I try to make a catch he turns around and dives and flips," Span said.
Revere has been able to make up for a weak arm with elite range in right, where he's beginning to feel comfortable playing.
"It's going to make our team a lot better having me out there with him. We can cover so much ground," Revere said.
Game notes
RHP Samuel Deduno (0-0, 5.06 ERA) makes his second career start for the Twins on Tuesday. He was added to the rotation right before the All-Star break. LHP Zach Britton will be recalled from Triple-A Norfolk by the Orioles and make his 2012 debut. He started the season on the DL with a left shoulder problem. ... The Orioles still haven't named a starter for Wednesday to fill RHP Jason Hammel's spot. Hammel had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee on Monday. ... The Twins are averaging 5.9 runs per game when Diamond starts, nearly two more than the rest of the rotation.
Series tied 2-2
Game Information
- Umpires:
- Home Plate Umpire - Tom Hallion
- First Base Umpire - Brian O'Nora
- Second Base Umpire - Chad Fairchild
- Third Base Umpire - Alfonso Marquez
2023 American League East Standings
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Men are not always the best about remembering anniversaries, but there are a few that we would all like to forget. This past Sunday marked the two-year anniversary of the infamous "Flash Crash" of May 6, 2010 that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average swing by 600 points in 20 minutes.
What is perhaps most remarkable about that incident is that there was never a proper explanation for what happened. High-velocity "algorithmic" trading is generally credited as the culprit, but what exactly happened? And what is to prevent it from happening again? To these questions we have no answers.
The real legacy of the Flash Crash is not the portfolio losses suffered by some investors; in fact, unless you happened to have open stop loss orders that got executed, chances are good that the entire event came and went before you had time to act.
No, the real damage was to Wall Street itself, or rather its reputation. The Flash Crash made investors cynical, making them feel the market was a casino game rigged against them. Perhaps never again would they believe that the stock exchanges were what they claim to be: a place for holders of capital to allocate it to businesses deemed worthy of investment.
In truth, the market is a rigged game, and it always has been. Perhaps we need a good Flash Crash every few years to remind us of that. But rigged game or not, investors able to keep a level head can still use the market for its ostensible purpose of allocating long-term capital. Market turbulence is something that can be embraced rather than shunned.
The late Sir John Templeton had a great strategy for managing volatility and taking his emotions out of the equation. He would make a list of stocks that he would love to own if only they sold for a substantially cheaper price. He would then place limit orders to buy them at those prices. If a wave of panic swept the market, Sir John would not be paralyzed by indecision because the decision had already been made for him.
An investor with a plan like this in place on May 6, 2010 could have made a fortune in a matter of minutes.
A similar strategy that had the added benefit of earning you a little extra income is selling deep out-of-the-money puts on stocks you'd like to own at the right price. Under normal conditions, your puts will expire worthless and you pocket the premium. But if prices experience a short-term dip, your options might get exercised, meaning that you would have to buy the shares in question. Of course, that's the whole idea. You'd be buying shares of a company you always wanted to own at a price you weren't expecting to get.
These strategies work fine for buying on the cheap, but what about investors that use stop loss orders for risk management purposes? I will address that, but first I want to ask a question: would you knowingly play a game of poker if you knew the other players could see your cards?
You most assuredly would not. But when you place stop loss orders, you have effectively done exactly that. Don't be surprised when the stock price dips just low enough to hit your stop before rallying higher.
I'm not suggesting that investors eschew stop losses; good risk management is essential to prevent small losses from becoming catastrophic ones. But I am suggesting that you play it close to the vest. Have your stop losses tracked in an Excel spreadsheet, a website not affiliated with your broker, or even a Post-It note.
And finally, while automatic techniques like these are valuable tools, they will never fully replace good old fashioned intestinal fortitude. An oft-quoted line from Warren Buffett is to "be greedy when others are fearful."
Today, investors are fearful about Europe, which has me feeling more than a little greedy. I've recommended Spanish telecom giant Telefonica (NYSE:$TEF) in these pages before (see "Investing Lessons from Peru"), and I would like to reiterate that recommendation again today.
Telefonica is one of the finest, most globally-diversified telecom firms in operation today, and long after the current crisis has passed it will be routing telephone calls and paying its investors a fat dividend. Use any turbulence in the months ahead as an opportunity to accumulate more shares.
Disclosure: Telefonica is held by Sizemore Capital clients and is a holding of the Sizemore Investment Letter Portfolio.
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There is much uncertainty surrounding the security industry for 2017, and according to experts in the field, a lot of the trepidation is directly connected to what the nation's next president will do.
Here's what security vendors and analysts are predicting for the year ahead.
John B Wood, CEO of Telos Corporation, cites a need for cooperation between the government and the private sector. President-elect Donald Trump took a break from his "thank you" tour to meet with tech executives to smooth over a contentious time between the two sides during his campaign.
"President-elect Trump has been vocal about the need for a stronger and more aggressive cyber security posture, and I'm confident that he'll work with leading members of Congress. Many non-political cyber experts throughout the government, various agency CISOs and [Federal Chief Information Security Officer] General Touhill will also be great resources to further refine cyber security policies to protect U.S. interests in the face of constantly changing threats," Wood said.
He also noted the renewed focus on U.S. Cyber Command. The President-elect has promised to eliminate the threat of defense sequestration and to spend more on the military. "This needs to include working to roll back the budget caps for defense spending and providing additional resources for cyber security, including more money for U.S. Cyber Command, which I believe is grossly underfunded," Wood added.
Speaking of funding, Wood does not believe that a change of administration will automatically lead to a change in regulatory policy.
"Although there will certainly be a big push by the Trump administration to roll back or modify overly burdensome regulations, I don't see this affecting cybersecurity regulations, like the NIST Cyber Security Framework that has been developed in consultation with the private sector," he commented.
Reuven Harrison, CTO and co-founder of Tufin, a provider of network security policy orchestration solutions for enterprise cybersecurity, said the thought of a Trump administration inevitably failing to uphold regulations will keep IT departments tossing and turning at night. "If Trump implements his deregulation promises, and penalties for non-compliance with industry-wide security regulations are relaxed, security teams will need to be self-disciplined to maintain a high level of security by turning to outside resources for security best practices," he said.
Carson Sweet, co-founder and CTO at CloudPassage, said privacy will take center stage over security.
"Trump's administration will create a fundamental shift in concerns as it pertains to security. There's a new sheriff in town, and many posit that he has less regard for privacy concerns than the current administration. Case in point, Trump supported the FBI in its battle with Apple over iPhone privacy and security," Sweet stated. "If this new administration demonstrates in their policies a value for law enforcement and intelligence access over citizens' privacy, they'll double or triple down on the government's right to inspect data. The impact of such a reality would extend to the use of online services, cloud providers, even personal computing devices and IoT."
What that impact would be is very hard to know, but it's safe to bet that it won't be positive, he said. The wars around PGP and personal encryption come to mind (anyone remember the Clipper chip?).
John Bambenek, threat systems manager at Fidelis Cybersecurity, said he never would have predicted last year that we would be talking about the DNC and hacking of elections.
"Ransomware will be on the upswing and evolve in new unforeseen ways. It will be more targeted and focus on more valuable targets as we saw with healthcare. And it will continue to attack new, more damaging industries like we recently witnessed with San Francisco BART and Muni," he said.
While 2016 found the election under scrutiny because of alleged hacking by foreign powers, 2017 will continue the trend of identity theft and ransomware.
Forrester predicts that within the first 100 days, the new president will face a cybercrisis. The momentum of winning the election gives new presidents the public's support to follow through on key initiatives of their campaigns. However, the 45th president will lose that momentum coming into office by finding the administration facing a cybersecurity incident.
Forrester suggests that the administration prepare for nation-states and ideologies looking to disrupt and degrade. They believe the U.S. should be on the lookout for China, North Korea and Iran.
"Political ideologies use electronic means to both recruit and spread information. DDoS attacks using IoT devices are becoming a common means of disrupting operations for companies or individuals that threat actors disagree with. A company can become a target not just because of its size or global presence but also because of its political donations or public statements. If you've never factored geopolitical concerns into your security risk analysis, you ignore them at your own firm's peril."
Civilian "casualties" in the Cyber Cold War
Corey Nachreiner, CTO at WatchGuard Technologies, follows Forrester's way of thinking. "Whether you know it or not, the cyber cold war has started. Nation-states, including U.S., Russia, Israel, and China, have all started both offensive and defensive cyber security operations. Nation-states have allegedly launched malware that damaged nuclear centrifuges, stolen intellectual property from private companies, and even breached other governments' confidential systems. Countries are hacking for espionage, crime investigation, and even to spread propaganda and disinformation."
Carson Sweet, CTO, CloudPassage
He believes 2017 will be much of the same: Behind the scenes, nation-states have been leveraging undiscovered vulnerabilities in their attacks, suggesting that these countries have been finding, purchasing, and hording zero-day flaws in software to power their future cyber campaigns.
"In other words, the nation-state cyber cold war is an arms race to discover and horde software vulnerabilities—often ones in the private software we all use every day," he said.


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2011 TEA and AECOM Attendance Report Now Available
The report paints a picture of a generally healthy industry in North America, naturally where our focus is. In 2011 the top 20 U.S. parks saw a 2.9% attendance growth, while the top 25 parks worldwide saw a 4.8% upswing. The fastest growing segment in the world is again Asia, which saw a 9.4% increase in attendance at its top 20 parks.
The report also details the top parks on an individual basis by location, showing that once again the Magic Kingdom in Florida is the most visited park in North America with 17.1 million guests.
The big news of the report is Universal's Islands of Adventure, which saw an astonishing 29% increase in attendance, making the park the 6th most visited in North America with 7.6 million guests. Compare that to the park's 2009 attendance of 4.6 million before the Wizarding World opened, and you can really get a feel for how massively popular the addition has been.
The report is not just numbers, but contains some interesting commentary on the industry as well. For a direct link to the .pdf of this year's Theme Index, follow this link.


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The Diocesan Advent Appeal 2012 is to support two areas within our diocese helping refugees.
|Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Turkey: Syrian refugees
This tragedy is a result of the civil war and violence in Syria. Caritas Turkey and the Jesuit Refugee Service are both helping support the refugees with food coupons, hygiene items, medical assistance, blankets and other items to survive the winter. The Syrian refugees out of the camps are not able to enter the state's assistance system and most of the time are left on their own. As they are foreigners with no work permit they have a difficulty to make their own living. Their psychological trauma increases with a situation of uncertainty about official procedures. It is important for them to feel the support from international community as much as possible in these days of displacement due to the violence in their homeland. This project was recommended by the Church of the Resurrection, Istanbul, our Turkish-speaking congregation, which has close connections with the work of Caritas and the Jesuit Refugee Service.
|Sudanese Refugees in Finland
Finland: White Nile Congregation
This growing community of Anglicans who are refugees from Sudan continue to need our support. They are running an Education Project which is training students in English language skills. In this way, key leaders are being equipped for eventual return to their homeland, the new country of South Sudan, where English is now the national language, replacing the Juba Arabic which was the previous lingua franca. The Education Project is supervised by the Revd Amos Manga, the priest who serves the White Nile Congregation within the Anglican Church of Finland.
Please consider contributing to the Advent Appeal and supporting these projects with refugees within our Diocese in Europe. Funds can be sent to the Diocesan Office. Contact the Diocesan Finance Officer, Mr Nick Wraight, for further information: email@example.com.


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Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! Two weekends ago we made 7 dozen Christmas cut out cookies. They were all eaten before the week ended. So, I woke up to my mom sneaking into my room to steal some of my confectioner's sugar from my "baking tote". Here are some photos from baking cookies, though.
We used the flooding technique to frost them for the first time. I think they turned out beautifully!
I got Meowzers and Kitten all dressed up in their Christmas outfits. Unfortunately, I don't think they enjoy being in their outfits as much as I do.
We even took a family picture for the first time in forever.
My Grandma loved the painting I made for her.
Santa always comes to our Christmas party to give gifts to the kids. This was him telling them that he doesn't bring kittens or puppies as gifts because they poop in his sleigh.
Here is the first of many Christmas 2012 pictures of Alec and I... and our matching dimples.


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Tyler Wright (AUS), 17, en route to eliminating reigning ASP Women's World Champion Carissa Moore (HAW), 19 , in the Quarterfinals of the Roxy Pro Gold Coast.
SNAPPER ROCKS, Queensland/Australia (Tuesday, February 28, 2012) ? The Quiksilver Pro and Roxy Gold Coast presented by Land Rover, the opening stops on the 2012 Men's and Women's ASP World Championship Tours, today whittled the field down to the just eight men and four women with the world's best surfers tested in tricky two-to-three foot (1 metre) surf at Snapper Rocks.
Tyler Wright (AUS), 17, runner-up at the 2011 Roxy Pro, eliminated reigning ASP Women's World Champion and defending event winner Carissa Moore in a re-match of last year's Final. Wright was ferocious in her assault on the waves at Snapper Rocks, posting two excellent scores en route to causing the biggest upset of the event.
"I knew I had to do something big to beat her," Wright said. "She's the ASP Women's World Champ. I think she won three events last year so I knew it was going to be tough. I was lucky enough that I got the good waves. If she got them she would have smashed me too."
Wright will face compatriot Laura Enever (AUS), 20, in the Semifinals of the Roxy Pro Gold Coast when competition resumes.
Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), 21, 2011 ASP Women's World Runner-Up, clocked a pair of scores in the 8-point-range to eliminate newcomer Malia Manuel (HAW), 18, in today's Quarterfinals. Manuel would end up with Eqaul 5th and bragging rights as the highest placed rookie at the 2012 Roxy Pro.
"That was a really good result to start the year off," Fitzgibbons said. "Yesterday I was struggling with my board choice and wave selection and it's good to fix that up. It was really nice out there with really fun waves. I'm feeling fired up. I'm still finding my feet after having not too much surfing time in the off season with a wrist injury, but it's all coming together and I'm looking forward to the Semifinals."
Fitzgibbons will take on four-time ASP Women's World Champion Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 24, in the Semifinals when competition resumes. The Gold Coast natural-footer seems to have found her form at the Roxy Pro Gold Coast and will be a dangerous draw when the event recommences.
Amidst the high-powered women's action of the day was the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast presented by Land Rover. The opening stop of the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour, the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast completed Rounds 4 and 5 with the final eight Quarterfinalists deteremined for when competition recommences.
Adriano De Souza (BRA), 25, won the first three-man, non-elimination heat of Round 4 of the Quiksilver Pro. The lead changed multiple times between De Souza, Owen Wright (AUS), 22, and Josh Kerr (AUS), 27, with the Brazilian taking out the two Australians and advancing directly into the Quarterfinals.
"I just tried to concentrate on my myself because Owen (Wright) is one of the form surfers of this event and Josh (Kerr) can also do some damage out there," De Souza said. "I tried to catch the best waves and sometimes luck is on your side and it worked out for me in that one. I'm stoked to skip Round 4 and move straight into the Quarterfinalss."
De Souza will once again face Owen Wright (AUS), 22, who went on to win his afternoon Round 5 heat, in Quarterfinal 1 when competition resumes.
Kelly Slater (USA), 40, reigning 11 x ASP World Champion and last year's Quiksilver Pro winner, didn't take his foot off the gas in his morning Round 4 heat win. The iconic Floridian built momentum throughout the affair, even changing equipment mid-heat to adjust to the conditions.
"On that first wave I could tell my board didn't have the pop I wanted," Slater said. "Because the waves are so small, you need a small board to fit in the pocket, so I switched to a shorter, wider board. None of us really got in sync in that one. It was really tough to pick the right waves. I only woke up 40 minutes before my heat. I thought we were going to be off today so I was sleeping in and I got a call saying 'get up, we're on.'"
Slater will now face Josh Kerr (AUS), 27, in Quarterfinal 2 when competition resumes.
Jordy Smith (ZAF), 24, edged out Joel Parkinson (AUS), 30, and Miguel Pupo (BRA), 20, in an exciting Round 4 exchange at Snapper Rocks. Smith and Parkinson put on an epic show for the crowd and finished the heat with only 0.14 separating their score lines.
"I wanted to beat Joel (Parkinson) bad," Smith said. "He has beaten me pretty much my whole life, so I've got a lot to get him back for. He's also one of my favourite surfers so it's tough to come up against him. Miguel (Pupo) is another tough one because he's got all the tricks in the book. Choosing the right waves is pretty key out there."
Joel Parkinson (AUS), 30, two-times Quiksilver Pro event Champion posted the event's first perfect 10-point-ride in 2012 in his afternoon Round 5 match. Parkinson battled Julian Wilson (AUS), 23, for a Quarterfinal berth in glassy conditions this afternoon and the local natural-footer was in unbeatable form.
"I got stung by a blue-bottle and that fired me up!" Parkinson said. "There's still some good waves out there and I thought we were going to have an air-off. Julian (Wilson) did some, and I tried a few, then that one came through and it had some good air sections, but they were better turn sections. I've got some rivalries going today – I surfed against Jordy (Smith) and we have a good one going, now Julian and I are one building too. That's what makes healthy competition. You're happy to get involved in a real rivalry."
Parkinson will now re-match Jordy Smith (ZAF), 24, in Quarterfinal 3 when competition resumes.
Taj Burrow (AUS), 33, former Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast winner and last year's event runner-up, once again showcased his familiarity and affinity with Snapper Rocks by posting a massive heat total – 17.34 (out of a possible 20).
"It was pretty much a 9-point-wave by itself and I just rode it," Burrow said. "I got one good turn out the back and then one good one on the end. The judges like a good start and a good finish, so I knew it would be up there. Once I had that 9, I just really wanted to back it up with something solid. It's pretty tough out there, but I managed to find another good score."
Event organisers will reconvene tomorrow morning at 6:30am to access conditions for a possible 7:30am start.
Today's highlights available via www.quiksilverlive.com/progoldcoast/2012
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QF 1: Adriano De Souza (BRA) vs. Owen Wright (AUS)
QF 2: Kelly Slater (USA) vs. Josh Kerr (AUS)
QF 3: Jordy Smith (ZAF) vs. Joel Parkinson (AUS)
QF 4: Taj Burrow (AUS) vs. Adrian Buchan (AUS)
HEAT 1: Owen Wright (AUS) 16.20 def. Michel Bourez (PYF) 15.43
HEAT 2: Josh Kerr (AUS) 14.44 def. Heitor Alves (BRA) 9.84
HEAT 3: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 18.00 def. Julian Wilson (AUS) 10.06
HEAT 4: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 14.03 def. Miguel Pupo (BRA) 13.27
HEAT 1: Adriano De Souza (BRA) 15.37, Owen Wright (AUS) 15.134, Josh Kerr (AUS) 9.00
HEAT 2: Kelly Slater (USA) 14.00, Michel Bourez (PYF) 12.13, Heitor Alves (BRA) 11.10
HEAT 3: Jordy Smith (ZAF) 15.44, Joel Parkinson (AUS) 15.30, Miguel Pupo (BRA) 11.04
HEAT 4: Taj Burrow (AUS) 17.34, Adrian Buchan (AUS) 12.33, Julian Wilson (AUS) 9.33
SF 1: Tyler Wright (AUS) vs. Laura Enever (AUS)
SF 2: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) vs. Stephanie Gilmore (AUS)
QF 1: Tyler Wright (AUS) 18.03 def. Carissa Moore (HAW) 13.47
QF 2: Laura Enever (AUS) 13.57 def. Silvana Lima (BRA) 12.23
QF 3: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 17.00 def. Malia Manuel (HAW) 12.00
QF 4: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 16.77 def. Courtney Conlogue (USA) 16.30
HEAT 1: Carissa Moore (HAW) 17.13 def. Sarah Mason (NZL) 10.80
HEAT 2: Silvana Lima (BRA) 14.73 def. Paige Hareb (NZL) 10.50
HEAT 3: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 18.13 def. Lakey Peterson (USA) 16.50
HEAT 4: Courtney Conlogue (USA) 15.03 def. Sofia Mulanovich (PER) 12.23


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DENVER - 1/11/2011 - Quark announced today that Forbes is using QuarkXPress® 8 and Quark Publishing System® 8 to dynamically publish its leading business magazine that is read by over 900,000 subscribers. Quark Publishing System is the editorial workflow system that is the core of Quark's dynamic and digital publishing solutions. It, along with the graphic design and layout capabilities of QuarkXPress, facilitates collaboration and enables automation to help publishers increase productivity, cut costs, and successfully publish across media.
Forbes is a long-time Quark customer and based on Quark's ability to implement solutions for dynamic and digital publishing, recently completed a full update of their Quark Publishing System infrastructure. "From my vantage, Quark was the first vendor to plant a stake in the ground about dynamic publishing and define it as creating, managing, publishing, and delivering content across multiple media. I have witnessed the company's dynamic publishing vision become a reality, and at Forbes the increase in collaboration and productivity we've achieved with Quark Publishing System 8 has been impressive," said Louie Torres, director of business solutions at Forbes.
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The Office of Intercultural Engagement and Inclusion subscribes to a number of magazines. Below is a list of magazines that students can browse during their free time.
- The Asian Reporter
- Black Issues in Higher Education
- El Hispanic News
- Equal Opportunity: The Career Magazine
- Hispanic Business
- Issaquah Living
- Jet
- Minority Access
- Multicultural Review
- Northeastern Law Magazine
- Outlook in Higher Education
- Vibe
Previous publications subscribed to:
- The Hispanic Outlook
- Hispanic Times
- Orientation 2002
- Colors
- The Oregon Peaceworker
- Ke Kuamo'o O Ke'elikolani
- The Hybrid Culture (Yoshida Mitsukuni, Tanaka Ikko and Sesoko Tsune)
What happened when East and West met.
- How to Study and Other Skills for Success In College (James and Ellin Deese)
- Hope: Helping Our Peers Effectively (Janet Molina)
A manual dedicated to making peer groups more effective.
- Facing Racism in Education (Nitza Hidalgo, Ceasar McDowell and Emilie Siddle)
- The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.)
This book takes into consideration the melting pot of American culture and uses that to respond to the question, "What does it mean to be an American today?"
- Dialogues for Diversity (Martin Kramer and Stephen Weiner)
- Crossing the Great Divide, Can We Achieve Equity When Generation Y Goes to College? (Anthony Carnevale and Richard Fry)
- 1999 Audit of Violence against Asian Pacific Americans
- The Black Undergraduate (Alexander Astin)
- The Black Perspective
- Let Nobody Turn us Around (Manning Marable and Leith Mullings)
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- Majority Minority Relations (John E. Farley)
- Martine's BIG Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Doreen Rappaport)
- Martin Luther King Jr. Resource Guide
- Minorities in Higher Education 2001-2002 (William B. Harvey)
- Minorities on Campus: A Handbook for Enhancing Diversity (American Council on Education)
- Native American Connections 2001 and 2002 Yearbook Directories
- Millenium March For Equality: Four Part Series
- The Politice of Love — In Black and White
Mixed couples testify to the joys and strengths of their relationships, but also their pain and anxieties. They talk candidly of pressures from both races- including family, friends and frat brothers to stay with their own. Black and white students opposed to interracial dating argue about its political implications for race relations today.
- A Question of Color
The first documentary to confront "color consciousness" in the black community explores the devastating effect of a caste system based on how skin color, hair texture and facial features conform to a European ideal.
- Color Adjustment
This film confirms the observation by James Baldwin: The country's image of the Negro which hasn't very much to do with the Negro, has never failed to reflect with a kind of terrifying accuracy the state of mind of the country.
- Ethnic Notions: Black People in White Minds
This award winning documentary takes views on a disturbing voyage through American history tracing for the first time the evolution of the deeply rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.
- Race Against Prime Time
This film scrutinizes the way television news represents African Americans.
- Winds of Change: A Matter of Choice
This film talks about the choices of young American Indians today to stay or move out of reservations and about some of the people who have made such choices.
- America: A Cultural Mosaic
- The Color Purple
Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel the Color Purple.
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How do the images of popular culture influence how young women and men understand themselves and each other? This film raises critical questions and suggests new answers about the effect of music videos.
- In The Spirit of Crazy Horse
- I Will Fight No More Forever
This is the heroic and tragic story of the Nez Perce Indians and their leader, Chief Joseph.
- Prejudice
- Turn Loose the Voices
- Wrath of Grapes
- Tres Vidas
- New Harvest, Old Shame
- Multicultural Forum: Voices From the Diverse Workforce
- Snake Talk: Urgent Messages from the Mother
- In Plain English: Students of Color at the University of Oregon speak out
- Fisk Jubilee Singers
- MLK Celebrations: 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1997
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- Fireside Chat with Rev. James Lawson, 1/23/04
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By David Crane defrev at gmail dot com December 17, 2008 DefenseReview has been using TangoDown "Rail Grip" polymer rail covers (a.k.a. rail panels), "BattleGrip" vertical foregrips and "Rifle Grip" pistol grips (for rifles) on tactical AR-15 carbines and subcarbine/SBRs (Short Barreled Rifles) for quite awhile, now. These products have always performed well, and we've been satisfied with them. TangoDown's …Read More »
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DefRev Goes to Blackwater USA for NDIA Firing Demo: Advanced Tactical Small Arms
by David Crane defrev at gmail.com May 10, 2007 Well, we're still in Virginia Beach, VA, and on our way to see our friends at Special Tactical Services (STS). I'm sitting in the lobby of the DoubleTree Hotel Virginia Beach as I write this. Yesterday was range day at Blackwater USA. While we were at the Blackwater USA range, DefenseReview …Read More »
Modern Day Marine Military Expo: Latest and Greatest Tactical Technology
by Bob Taubert Like the SHOT Show, the annual Modern Day Marine Military Expo gets bigger and better each year. However, unlike SHOT some of the toys for Uncle Sam's boys that are on display cost millions of dollars a pop. Aircraft, particularly the unmanned variety, unmanned and manned waterborne patrol and attack platforms, wheeled and tracked robots, people and weapons …Read More »
FNH USA 'S.O.F. Capable Assault Rifle' Spec Sheet. (Weapon Pics!)
by David Crane [email protected] USSOCOM's Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR) program appears to be very healthy, at the moment, and the FN Herstal/FNH USA "S.O.F. Capable Assault Rifle" (FN SCAR Light 5.56x45mm carbine/subcarbine and FN SCAR Heavy 7.62x51mm carbine/subcarbine) functional/competition prototypes look interesting. DefenseReview received a spec sheet via email on the FNH USA "S.O.F. Capable Assault Rifle" …Read More »
DefRev Scoop! FN Herstal SCAR/SOFCAR Competition Winner and Modified XM8
by David Crane [email protected] This just in: DefenseReview has been told by one of its sources that FN Herstal's/FNH USA, Inc.'s SCAR/SOFCAR (Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle) program competition winner utilizes an updated/upgraded FN FNC upper receiver w/M1913 Picatinny rail system, mated to a modified M4/M4A1 Carbine-config/type lower receiver. Supposedly, the M4/M4A1 Carbine-config/type lower features an HK M4 (a.k.a. …Read More »


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Shena Hardin, the Ohio woman caught driving on the sidewalk to get around a schoolbus, had to carry out her punishment this week.
As ordered by a judge, she had to stand on a busy Cleveland intersection, holding a hand-lettered sign reading "Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus."
Hardin didn't look overly excited to be there, and fended off the inevitable media circus with silence and a cold glare. She wore sunglasses, talked on her cell phone, and smoked a cigarette as they crowded around, asking if she was sorry for what she'd done.
The scene reminded me of my days as a high school substitute teacher. You couldn't see Hardin's eyes behind her huge black shades, but the eye-rolling was palpable. Oh well, even though Hardin wasn't enthused, it's good to see that there are still journalists left over to cover something other than the Petraeus-Broadwell sex scandal. (Hat tip to Paul!)
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Congratulations! I like the shimmery blue gowns. On to life's next stage.ReplyDelete
FABULOUS shots:)
Congratulations.. Very touching:)
Congratulations to your son, Marina! And to you, too!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! I know your are proud : )ReplyDelete
Well done!! I can just imagine how proud you are as parents. Congratulations!!
Job well done.
I stumbled upon your beautiful blog and loving all your posts. Congratulations to you. I know it is a proud moment and you should cherish it. Enjoy Have a wonderful day ! Regards, SoniaReplyDelete
Congratulations to the graduate and the proud parents. Beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Congratulations this is so exciting! I graduate in September, definitely looking forward to it :D
Marina, you must be soooo proud :-D Congratulations :-DReplyDelete
Cool pictures! Congrats to your son.ReplyDelete
Congratulations to you and your son...nice pictures!
Hope you are having a lovely week :)
Congratulations to your son Marina! I don't think we had such a nice ceremony in English schools. It was more like "congrats, you're done here, now get out" :p.
I noticed someone in this picture here:
with a big beard and sunglasses... is that a teacher? Looks like a really cool guy! :D
Congratulations to the graduate, his friends, and to you, his proud parents! What a day that must have been!ReplyDelete
Мариночка дорогая моя, поздравляю тебя от всей души!! Какой славный у тебя сын, и сколько гордости у тебя за него. Радуюсь за вашу семью!!!! Обнимаю крепко.
Congratulations to you and the graduate! It must be such a wonderful feeling!ReplyDelete
Like the light colour robe that they are wearing. A pleasant colour.ReplyDelete
A big congratulations Marina! :DReplyDelete


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Still deciding on a family holiday destination for a last minute summer break or thinking ahead to next year? Having just got back from our two week family holiday, we would highly recommend this location and hotel!
Where? Viva Sunrise hotel in Alcudia, Mallorca.
Why? It's quick and easy to travel here from the UK, the beaches and surrounding mountain views are stunning, the weather is glorious (maybe not guaranteed but more so than the UK!!) with a constant cooling breeze and there is loads to do for the kids, both in and outside of the hotel.
We had such a lovely time that I'd like to sing the hotel's praises in a bit more detail and in doing so, I got a bit carried away and wrote far too much for one post! Therefore, to make it a bit more 'reader friendly', I've decided to split it and follow-up next week with more detail. So here is how and why we had such a great family holiday where everyone (not just the kids) had a whale of a time!!
Our first morning at breakfast:
The Boy: "Mum! Can I have a chocolate donut?"
Me: "Donut? It's 8.30 in the morning, we don't have chocolate for breakfast."
The Boy: "But there are donuts and cake and pancakes and muffins. They are for breakfast! Can I have one please, please, pleeeeeeeease?"
Me: "Is that Champaign over there (well Cava but still…..)? We're on holiday so have what you like……."
So, we've just returned from a fab, all inclusive holiday staying at the Viva Sunrise hotel in Alcudia, Mallorca. We stayed on an all inclusive basis though the hotel has other board options available. The hotel is totally set up for young families and was perfect for our lot aged 5,7 & 10. Grandma (my mum) joined us for seven nights mid-holiday, and just paid the 'up-grade to all-inclusive' fee per night and stayed in our apartment that slept six anyway. My mum is fab, she's a very hands-on Grandma and the kids love her! We didn't tell them that she was coming, smuggled her in and onto a sun-lounger while they were playing, their faces were an absolute treat when they saw her- priceless!! Mum insisted that J and I go out for dinner somewhere outside of the hotel, just the two of us, needless to say, we did. We love you Grandma!!!!!
The hotel rooms and communal areas were kept amazingly clean (with a few exceptions that I'll get onto later) with cleaners literally sweeping constantly, around eating areas as well as by the pool. The food was the best we have experienced in an all inclusive buffet for both quality and choice, with food and drinks available from somewhere, when ever we wanted it (bar shut at 11pm but with young kids, that was late enough for us!). The kids had plenty to do whether that be playing in the pools, playground or joining the kids club activities including art, cooking, treasure-hunts, performing arts and games. They made loads of friends and generally had a great time! As all parents know, if the kids are having fun, then the parents are too, we didn't see them for hours at at time- fan-bloody-tastic!!
I'm really not a big drinker and, in all honesty, we probably didn't get our full monies worth as far as alcohol was concerned but the 'ease-factor' of being all-inclusive really made up for that! The fact that the kids could help themselves to ice-lollies and drinks all day or try new foods in small it-doesn't-matter-if-you-don't-like-it portions because you can just go and get something else, made it worth it. In fact, it was a really good lesson in portion sizing for the kids as they are old enough to collect food themselves. At first they would go mad and pile up their plates, which is something a lot of people do, but I hate waste, even in this situation and they soon learned to take a little of a few different things and return for more later if necessary. Needless to say, J and I still put on a few pounds with all that gorgeous food around- it would be rude not to!!
It was all too easy to just laze by the pool while the kids burnt off their extra sugar intake, charging around the place! But by the second week, we needed to get out and explore! The beach was a short 5 minute walk away and was a long stretch of glorious golden sand. We walked down to the port along the beach and found that at the end (just before you reach the port), if you don't mind sitting on your towel under a tree, rather than a lounger with a parasol, it's quieter, less breezy and the bay creates a shallow mill-pond effect, where the kids can play and I'm not worried that I'll lose sight of them.
There were also lots of places to eat along the sea front and especially by the port, we only ate out a few times (having paid for the all-inclusive option at the hotel) but it was all good and being a bit snobby when it comes to food, we are not easily pleased! We also bought a few souvenirs in shops around here and if you are looking for something other than the 'usual tat' (!) this is the place to come. They were allowed up to €10 each and chose these:
The Boy chose the surf board to hang on his wall and the girls chose these lovely jewellery boxes decorated in starfish and sea shells.
So, all in all, a great time had by all, where our only real issue was having tired children! They wanted to do everything, see the shows and/or play with their friends until gone 10pm and were eager to get up early and into the pool in the morning. We had to negotiate a few cat-naps here and there with the younger two and there were a few occasions when they just crashed out on a sun-bed in the middle of the day! Most afternoons, we had to bribe them out of the pool with the promise of some iPad time (iPads were only allowed in the room) which also meant that we could enjoy a drink on our balcony in piece once they were showered. Happy Mummy and Daddy!!
Have you had a fab family holiday that you would recommend? Have you visited Alcudia or anywhere in Mallorca? I'm always looking for great destinations for family holidays so please let me know if you have a recommendation!
As I mentioned earlier, I'll be following up next week with more details about the hotel itself so please sign up to receive an email when I post! Thanks for reading xx


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The revival of the auto industry is perfectly fine, but the hottest car around is a decidedly limited-edition one: the Opportunity rover, now celebrating its tenth year working and roving on the Red Planet. Like any old car, Opportunity has its flaws: one of its six wheels is shot, not all of its instruments are working as they once did and its robotic arm has dust in its joints. But the golf-car-sized vehicle, which came with just a three-month warranty (admittedly a low-ball figure that NASA engineers suspected it would easily beat) has lasted far longer than even the most optimistic mission planners predicted—and fours years longer than its sister rover, Spirit, which arrived on Mars at around the same time and winked out in 2010. In that decade, Opportunity has put more than 23 mi. (37 km).on its odometer and is still on the move. Opportunity went to Mars to do science, and it's delivered splendidly on that score—with data streaming back about the chemistry and geology of Mars both today and in its distant past, and tantalizing hints to its biological potential. But humans are visual creatures, and it's the pictures from the rovers—a small collection of which follow—that will always thrill us most. Happy birthday, Opportunity—and keep rolling.
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I finally cleansed my spirit and started writing tests before code. I am hardly the New Year resolution kind of character, but I'd been meaning to do it ever since I heard about this funny methodology. I had written tests before, of course, but never systematically and I had only thought of them explicitly as being part of design when I encountered things that were difficult to test bacause they weren't designed with testing in mind. If you've ever read anything about test driven development (or Extreme Programming, which seems to feature TDD quite prominently), and certainly if you've been doing it, you'll know what I'm talking about.
I'm very, very new and don't pretend to be an expert about these things. So I'm only here for two modest contributions:
First, to encourage you to do TDD if you aren't doing it yet. It's not that hard and it's immediately rewarding.
Second, I was looking for some tips about doing it with vim and only found scattered pieces here and there. I hacked together something a little bit better than what I found so far, and am posting it here with the hope that you can use it and comment with improvements.
First of all, some organizational recommendations.
Using it
The idea here is that most of the time you are working from on a particular test, and when you fix something you saw broken there, that's usually the first test you want to try again after you make your fix. So we have a notion of a "current testfile" that should be easy to set (and unset), and which should be trivial to run. If you rush off to fix a bug somewhere, you don't want to lose the current test. If a test fails, you want to jump to the compilation error if there was one, or to the definition of the failed test if there wan't. If you aren't familiar with vim's quickfix feature, read about it now.
So it's simple really. Have vim load the file below* and then you just need to know three keybindings. They all work in command mode. As a bonus, if you ,w on a code file and not on a test, a subsequent ,t will run it against perl -c to check for compilation errors.
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Collapsing Bridges, Collapsing Spending, And Neil Cavuto's Infrastructure Denialism
In the face of repeated infrastructure related disasters, Fox News host Neil Cavuto has continued to dismiss calls for an increase in infrastructure spending, claiming that spending on infrastructure is high enough. In reality, infrastructure spending has plummeted in recent years.
A Bridge Collapse In Washington "Shines Light On Aging Infrastructure"
The Seattle Times: "An I-5 Bridge Over The Skagit River In Mount Vernon Collapsed Thursday Evening, Sending Cars And People Into The Water." According to the Seattle Times:
A chunk of Interstate 5 collapsed into the Skagit River near Mount Vernon on Thursday evening, dumping two vehicles into the icy waters and creating a gaping hole in Washington state's major north-south artery.
Rescuers pulled three people with minor injuries from the water after the collapse, which authorities say began when a semitruck with an oversized load struck a steel beam at around 7 p.m. [Seattle Times, 5/23/13]
USA Today: "Bridge Collapse Shines Light On Aging Infrastructure." According to USA Today on May 24:
Six years after a Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people called attention to the state of the nation's bridges, there has been minimal improvement and insufficient funding to repair and replace aging spans. The collapse Thursday of the Interstate Highway 5 in Washington state shined the spotlight once again on troubled bridges. [USA Today, 5/24/13]
Neil Cavuto Has Repeatedly Dismissed Calls For More Infrastructure Spending
In March 2013, Cavuto Said, "The Issue Isn't More Money Going To Infrastructure." From Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto on March 29 (emphasis added):
CAVUTO: Well, if you keep talking about building it, the money will come.
The president in Florida today doing just that, arguing for more spending on roads and bridges. But haven't we spent hundreds of billions of dollars on roads and bridges thus far?
Between highway tolls and fees, state excise taxes, federal highway transportation taxes, the issue isn't more money going to infrastructure. The issue could be what the heck happened to all the money we have already spent and committed to infrastructure.
If I had a dime for every time I heard politicians talk about the infrastructure, I would have a lot of dimes. We could have built a bridge to Oz, right? But -- but what happened to all the money that we already committed? [Your World via FoxNews.com, 3/29/13, accessed 5/24/13]
Cavuto Claimed: "We Pour A Lot Of Money... For Things Like Roads And Bridges And Highways." From a May 17 interview with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) on Fox News' Your World:
CAVUTO: You know, it's a dumb question on my part but last time I checked, I mean we pour a lot of money, commit a lot of money, gasoline taxes, tolls on bridges and roads, et cetera, surtaxes -- our transportation department for things like roads and bridges and highways. So I would like to know where that money has gone before I commit more money. [Fox News, Your World, 5/17/13]
Cavuto On Infrastructure Spending: "There's No Shortage Of Money Going To This Sort Of Thing, It Just Gets Robbed." From the May 24 edition of Fox News' Your World:
CAVUTO: The bottom line is, you've educated me in the past, Phil: There is no lock box for this highway funding, infrastructure spending. It's a slush fund. And politicians of both parties, by the way, take advantage of it.
FLYNN: Right.
CAVUTO: But there is no shortage of money going to this sort of thing. It just gets robbed and it just gets raided. And my issue with a lot of Americans and politicians otherwise who say 'hey, we need more money for bridges and infrastructure and preventing this sort of thing,' I want to warn you: There's plenty of money there already but first keep track of where that money has gone. [Fox News, Your World, 5/24/13]
But In Fact, Infrastructure Spending Has "Plummeted" And Experts Have Called For Increased Funding
Business Insider: "[P]ublic Construction Spending Is Lower Than Its Been In Over 20 Years." Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider reported on May 24:
The big news today is that a bridge in Washington collapsed, throwing cars into the water. Amazingly, nobody died. This may revive debate about the need to spend more on infrastructure, which would have multiple positive effects. Nothing is likely to happen, however. That being said, here's a chart of public construction spending (TLPBLCONS) as percentage of GDP. You can see, public construction spending is lower than its [sic] been in over 20 years.
[Business Insider, 5/24/13]
Washington Post: "U.S. Infrastructure Spending Has Plummeted Since 2008." According to Brad Plummer of the Washington Post, "Not surprisingly, the collapse of a bridge along Interstate 5 in Washington state yesterday has revived the long-standing debate over whether Congress should spend more to repair the nation's aging roads and bridges." After discussing the chart from Business Insider, Plummer continued:
So what if we just look at highways and roads? We get this chart:
There's still been a big drop-off in recent years, although that also came after a big build-up in the late 2000s. (Sadly, the data series doesn't extend back before 2002, so it's tough to see what this looks like historically.) [Washington Post, 5/24/13]
USA Today: "Federal Highway Administration Study Shows 11% Of Nation's Bridges Are Structurally Deficient." According to USA Today on May 24:
In 2012, the Federal Highway Administration said 67,000 -- 11% -- of the nation's 607,000 bridges were structurally deficient. That means the bridges are not unsafe but must be closely monitored and inspected or repaired. That percentage is little changed since 2007 when 12% of the nation's bridges were listed as structurally deficient and the I-35 bridge collapsed in Minneapolis. [USA Today, 5/24/13]
USA Today: The American Society Of Civil Engineers Called For An Increase In Spending On Bridge Investment. From USA Today on May 24:
[F]unding repairs and replacements continues to be a problem, especially because bridges are getting older, says Andrew Herrmann, an engineer and past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The average bridge in the USA is 42 years old, Herrmann says.
The group gave the nation a C+ in its report card for maintaining bridges, saying federal, state and local governments need to increase bridge investment by $8 billion annually to meet the needs of deficient bridges. [USA Today, 5/24/13]