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If you are wrapping gifts for your loved ones, you should be sure to use a Christmas label. There are many benefits to using this kind of label. First, they make your gifts look nicer than if you didnt use a label. Also, you will know who the gift belongs to even if it is wrapped. Now, for small kids, you can label some of their packages from Santa. Do this during an age while they still believe in Santa. There are a couple types of labels. Some of the labels are made out of paper, while others can be stickers. Typically, the label goes somewhere close to the bow to make it look like proper wrapping.
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How to Use McGill's Paper Blossoms Punch System
Create detailed handmade flowers that perfectly complement your scrapbook layouts using McGill's Paper Blossoms punch system. By combining different punches to create your flower petals and centers, you can totally customize your look in no time at all.
1. Follow the guide on McGill's website to determine which punches you need to create your flower. Here, we selected the Dogwood flower. Each flower on the website has a downloadable PDF of instructions on exactly how to assemble your chosen flower.
2. Punch the shapes from your paper according to the instructions in your PDF. While the instructions list paper to use to create a realistic flower, feel free to mix it up to make a flower that coordinates with your scrapbook layout. Here, we used a patterned paper line from Echo Park Paper Co.
3. Prepare flower pieces according to the instructions in your PDF. This may include cutting pieces apart.
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UBS statement of Mark Branson before the permanent Subcommittee of Investigation
UBS representative Mark Branson, Chief Financial Officer of Global Wealth Management & Business Banking, today testified at a US Senate Subcommittee hearing. The title of the hearing was "Tax Haven Banks and US Tax Compliance".
UBS is taking the actions necessary to address any compliance failures that may have occurred in the US cross-border business, says the statement delivered by Mark Branson on behalf of UBS, explaining that the bank has decided to exit entirely the business in question. "That means UBS will no longer provide offshore banking and securities services to US residents through its bank branches. Such services will only be provided to residents of this country through companies licensed in the United States", Branson told the Subcommittee.
Second, UBS is working with the US Government to identify the names of US clients who may have engaged in tax fraud. Client identity is generally protected from disclosure under Swiss law. But such privacy protections do not apply when disclosure of client names is requested in connection with an investigation of tax fraud and where the requests are presented to the Swiss government through established legal channels. UBS will fully support and assist that process.
At the hearing Branson also pointed out that the cross-border business under the QI Agreement was - and is - entirely legal in both Switzerland and the United States. Indeed, the QI expressly contemplated that US citizens could access bank accounts in Switzerland and other countries without providing a form W-9, as long as they held no US securities. Branson: "Unless or until those rules are changed, that is the framework with which we and other banks must comply."
Last year, in order to respond to the ongoing investigations of the US Department of Justice and the SEC, UBS launched a comprehensive internal investigation into its cross-border business with US customers. Branson: "We did have detailed written policies that prohibited our employees from engaging in some of the conduct that our internal investigation has uncovered, such as assisting in the creation of sham offshore companies to defraud tax authorities. While our own review is not complete, it is apparent now, that our controls and supervision were inadequate. UBS is committed to taking both corrective and disciplinary measures."
The full statement of Mark Branson can be found on UBS's website at www.ubs.com/media.


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3:11PM: Larry Brooks tweets that the NHL appears willing to come off of their demand of a salary cap of $60 million for next season but will want something in exchange for that move.
8:44AM: At ESPN.com, Pierre LeBrun predicts that the NHL will end up bending a bit and raise their salary cap proposal to between $62 million and $62.5 million.
4:44PM: In the Globe and Mail, James Mirtle writes of how the players are being hit from both sides in regards to the salary cap.
If they agree to the lower cap number of $60 million, which the league is proposing, it will leave less money for free agents. Pushing for the higher number will allow for teams to spend more money, but the league will keep a bigger part of their salaries due to escrow.
He writes that this is a polarizing issue for the players and that players under contract likely want the lower cap so that they can keep more of their money.
The NHLPA has asked for the salary cap to be $65 million for 2013-14.


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By Sean Gabb
At the moment in England, our masters and their clients are discussing censorship of the newspaper press. After months of submissions, a government inquiry into newspaper conduct has finished, and its report will almost certainly call for what is called "a rule-based framework of regulation." The surface argument is between those who want controls backed by the law, and those who want "voluntary self-regulation." No one who matters, though, disputes that something must be done.
This means that something will be done. And this something will be formal censorship. Even if we start out with one of the minimal options, the desired end is plain. This is for newspapers to be brought under the same formal control as the broadcast media. They will be licensed. They will be subject to various forms of prior restraint. There will be review and complaints procedures for articles already published. The whole process will be managed by the usual ruling class apparatchiks, all on vast salaries, and all enforcing conformity to the usual totalitarian PC.
Now, I know that my duty as a libertarian is to start jumping up and down in defence of our free press. And I will go through the motions. We already have too many controls in this country on what can be published.
These are generally used to keep wrongdoing by the rich and powerful from the public eye – that, or to keep us from knowing the truth about the caring, sharing, multi-cultural paradise that is modern England. The effect of more control will be to block future exposure of fraud and bribe-taking by Members of Parliament. Oh – and there is the matter of those ruling class salaries and pensions.
I don't know about you, but the great army in modern England of looters in suits – with their low-grade intellects and first-class connections, and their £400,000 salaries at my expense, and their endless public moralising about how everyone else should be made to live – they really get on my tits. Anything that means more for these, or more of these, gets my thumb straight in the down position.
This being said, how much difference will actual censorship make to the quality of investigation and news reporting in the newspapers? In a sense, the question answers itself. If it were likely to make no difference, why bother discussing it? If true, however, this answer is of limited value. I admit that, in the past few years, the newspapers have brought down scumbag after scumbag. The most recent example is Denis Macshane, a Labour MP and former Minister who was shown to have milked his expenses by about as much as many of his electors earn in a lifetime of toil. Then there was David Laws, forced to resign as a Minister when it came out that he was getting the taxpayers to underwrite his relationship with his boyfriend – I notice, by the way, he's a Minister again. Or there was Liam Fox, also forced out of office when we learned about the very fishy dealings of his close friend.
Never mind whether The Sun newspaper hacked the mobile telephones of various entertainment celebrities – it strikes me as obvious that the purpose of "regulation" will be to stop future embarrassments like the cases given above.
And that's about the limit of the value we get from the newspapers. I suppose they're worth defending for that limited value. But it's hardly worth rolling out long quotes from John Milton and John Stuart Mill. The cases given above are exceptions to the general rule, which is for the newspapers to collaborate in hiding – or simply never to notice – wrongdoing in high places. Look at these cases:
1. In 2007, the BBC announced that, following a meeting with 28 "top environmental scientists" they year before, it would no longer pretend to give balanced coverage of the debate on man-made climate change. Instead, it would become a naked propagandist for the global warming scam. No salaried newspaper reporter bothered to ask who these 28 experts were, and what were their scientific credentials. It took five years before an independent blogger, Tony Newbery, got round to putting in a Freedom of Information request for the names of these experts. When the BBC sent a team of lawyers into action to get a biased tribunal to slap this request down, it was another blogger, Maurizio Morabito (omnologos), who dug round the Web until he found the full list, and showed that these 28 experts were mostly the usual riders on the global warming bandwagon. It became plain that the BBC, which is "public service broadcaster" with a legal duty of impartiality, was up to its neck in a gigantic intellectual fraud.
After the event, Melanie Phillips wrote a nice article about all this in The Daily Mail. It would have been a nicer article, of course, if she and her friends had lifted so much as a finger of their own to expose the fraud.
2. Cyril Smith was a Liberal Party politician, and supposedly the fattest Member of Parliament in history. He was also a pederast with a taste for beating young boys. In 1991, I had dinner with a retired Special Branch officer. He told me how, in 1977, the Rochdale police had assembled a dossier of evidence against the MP – systematic abuse of homeless boys in a hostel he'd helped found. However, the man was Chief Liberal Whip at the time, and the Liberals were in an informal coalition with a minority Labour Government. My friend was given the job of driving up to Rochdale to confiscate the dossier, and tell the local police to mind their own business in future.
I thought this was very amusing, but only half believed it. The Internet was still in the future, and, however crass their actions, I still took it for granted that England was ruled by men of reasonably spotless integrity. Well, Cyril Smith died in 2010, and it came out that he really had been beating and – so far as his shape allowed – buggering every boy who fell into his clutches.
Not a peep, while he lived, in the mainstream media, of course. So much for the Fourth Estate of the Realm!
3. I suppose I should mention the Jimmy Savile scandal. But this has been done to death, and you need to be very American indeed not to have heard something about it. Again, though, it was pretty common knowledge that he was partial to underage girls. I heard about it when I was a schoolboy. He always looked like a dirty old man. Despite this, when he died in 2011, the newspaper press went into a chorus of his praises. It took a whole year for him to be demoted to his current – though temporary – status of most prolific sex offender in history.
More important, though, than the details of what Jimmy Savile might or might not have done in a caravan in Skegness c.1973 is what the sudden eruption of the scandal wiped from all the newspapers. Fringe organisations like the British National Party had long been pointing to a culture of sexual predation among Pakistani Moslems in the North of England. There were whole gangs of these people involved in the kidnap and rape of white working class girls. The police had ignored every complaint. Ditto local authorities. Anyone who complained too loudly was called a racist and threatened with formal or informal punishments. Finally, the scale of criminality reached a point where the authorities were forced to act. A series of trials in the first half of 2012 provided chapter and verse evidence about the real nature of race relations in England. This had to be reported by the newspapers and commented on by its appointed writers. They even had to report police claims that one murdered white girl had been disposed of
in a mincing machine and sold as doner kebabs.
Very convenient, don't you think, that the stuttering discussion of race and immigration all this forced the authorities into allowing was immediately smothered by full spectrum coverage of the alleged crimes of the late Jimmy Savile?
I could go on. I believe that the transfer of Hong Kong was set in motion, back in 1982, by a few London banks that wanted privileged access to the China market. I could give you the names of the Cabinet Ministers who were bribed into beginning a transfer that no one in Peking had asked for. But they are still alive and very rich, so I won't. I believe that William Hague was either bribed or blackmailed by the Americans into losing the 2001 general election to Labour – Tony Blair having been regarded as more reliably pro-American. I believe many other things. Just because I have no evidence for them doesn't make them untrue. Just because some of them sound outlandish doesn't make me mad. Bearing in mind what we know the newspapers haven't reported, or have conspired to cover up, all of the above and much more beside is conceivably true.
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Mets want focus to be on team, not Harvey's rehab
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Though the Mets are eager to track Matt Harvey's rehab progress all spring and summer, do not expect them to trumpet his every achievement along the way.
"The thing that maybe I should try to make clear at the very outset of this camp is that the story for 2014 is not Matt Harvey," general manager Sandy Alderson said Thursday. "The story for 2014 is the other 25 players who are active. We're all interested in Matt's progress, obviously. But we don't intend for it to be a storyline every time he throws 40 pitches."
Harvey underwent Tommy John surgery on Oct. 22, and is expected to play catch for the first time next weekend. Coming off a National League Cy Young Award-caliber season before his injury, Harvey has stated that he would like to return as soon as September -- though a more realistic goal would be the start of 2015.
"I know he's anxious to get back and I know he wants to be ready to go in September, and that's fine," Alderson said. "But we have an identity of interest with him, and that is his long-term value to himself as a player and to us as an employer. We'll focus on his rehab with that in mind."


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Learning Python, Fourth Edition
Mark Lutz
O'Reilly Media, 2010
1,216 pp., $54.99
I have been a Python programming fan for many years. I was introduced to the language during a time when I was quickly becoming enamored with the first release of Borland's Delphi. After boasting to another developer about how Delphi was vastly superior to the version of Microsoft's Visual Basic at that time, this insightful person suggested I take a look at this relatively new dynamic language named after the Monty Python comedy troupe.
I put his suggestion off for a few weeks while I continued whipping up GUI goodness in various Delphi apps I was writing. Then a server-side text processing need arose, offering the ideal opportunity to give this snake-mascot language a chance to show me what made it so special. At the time, there was no Google, so I obtained most of what I needed from newsgroups and the meager Python 1.x documentation available at that time. Still, I was impressed with the rapid development time, the clear (and forcefully formatted) syntax and overall concise engineering nature of the language. It wasn't until 1999 when I read the first edition of Mark Lutz's Learning Python that I understood the reasoning behind much of the language's intentions and design decisions. Indeed, after Learning Python, I felt as though I had truly taken the time to deeply learn the language rather than call upon bits and pieces as I my projects demanded. More recently, Mark Lutz has written the fourth edition of Learning Python, a tome that weighs in at more than 1,150 pages.
The world of programming has changed considerably since the dot-com heydays and, perhaps not remarkably, the man who created Python (Guido van Rossum) is now at Google, and this powerful search engine company uses van Rossum's talents and his language for a portion of its secret sauce. For a company with the engineering calibre and collective IQ points of Google to commit to Python has much to say about the efficacy of the language itself.
So here we are in 2010 and the Python language is at a crossroads between its legacy 2.6 and below, and its new 3.x and higher. I agree with the book's author that those who are shackled by complex legacy Python programs to stick with the coding conventions of the pre-3.0 days.
Greenfield projects should almost always consider the 3.x codebase, with the upcoming 3.1 release being the most promising. It is with these suggestions and caveats that the author reminds readers of the difference between the two classifications and why the book has increased in size to accommodate explaining the differences and reasons behind the language's evolutionary changes.
For the uninitiated, especially those new Django web developers who are ready to go beyond the browser, Learning Python is the bible of Python education. Reading this book while practicing the code at a terminal and taking the quizzes at the end of each chapter along the way will elevate your depth of knowledge and appreciation for this workhorse language. Even for a seasoned Python veteran like myself, the book took over two months to read cover to cover. While much of the material is replicated from earlier editions, there are enough insertions of new insights and syntax call-outs that made revisiting this book like seeing a favorite city that has continued to undergo explosive construction and expansion.
Five new chapters filling an additional 200+ pages touch on more advanced topics such as Unicode, managed attributes, decorators and metaclasses. Receiving this more comprehensive instruction helped me better obtain a crystal clear understanding of these constructs and the recommended approaches for their use. So even after 10+ years of reading Mark's evolutionary work, he still has precious nuggets of information worthy of the book's cover price. Naturally for those who are new to the language, all the basics are covered in great detail in the books eight parts: Getting Started, Types and Operations, Statements and Syntax, Functions, Modules, Classes and OOP, Exceptions and Tools and, the bulk of the new material, Advanced Topics. Two appendixes on Installation/Configuration and the solutions to the end-chapter quizzes round out this city phonebook-sized educational experience.
Overall, I give Learning Python my strong recommendation to anyone seeking the most detailed introduction to the language and who has the patience to commit to the multi-week effort of grok'ing the material the author has condensed into this culmination of his years of writing and teaching the subject. While other Python tutorial books do an adequate job of getting readers up to speed quickly, few can touch the depth and calm, steady progression of deeper understanding by example and comfortably clear explanations by an author who has devoted the last 10+ years of his life to the art of teaching Python to the world.


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From a scallop diver in Mull to parkour athletes in Edinburgh, Harry Potter fans to an Outlander herbalist, Scottish locals are bringing the country to life in a unique new social media campaign.
The ambitious global campaign, which will run for the next 18 months, will involve up to 25 global vloggers and Instagrammers matched with a diverse range of local people across Scotland with interesting jobs, hobbies or skills.
In this unique way, the social media influencers will be able to gain a true insight into what it is really like to live, work, study and play in Scotland and communicate this to inspire their audiences in their millions to discover the country for themselves.
The VisitScotland campaign, 'Scotland: Life', launched officially with the release of a film by the popular US YouTube channel DevinSupertramp. The American videographers were paired with four extreme athletes includ - parkour stars Robbie Griffith and Johnstone Macpherson Stewart and street trial bike riders Duncan Shaw and Ali Clarkson - to create a fast-paced film showcasing parkour and street trial bike stunts in Edinburgh.
The video has been a hit with a reach of over seven million already across Facebook and YouTube with many admiring the city being showcased through the eyes of the athletes.
Each social media influencer spends 1 or 2 days with their Scottish local and is encouraged to shadow them in their activities. For the rest of their time in Scotland, they will complete an itinerary associated with their interests in different regions across the country.
Malcolm Roughead, VisitScotland chief executive, said: "Our campaign has been one of our most successful to date with millions of people embracing the hashtag and content we have created globally and understanding the true meaning of what the spirit of Scotland is – whether it is felt through experiencing our landscapes, meeting our people or visiting any of our amazing and unique events and attractions.
Further information about the project can be found at http://go.visit.sc/ScotlandLife More can be found on social media by using the hashtag #ScotLife and #ScotSpirit


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In a new study published in the August 16th issue of Developmental Cell, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center identified a molecular mechanism that guarantees that new blood vessels form in the right place and with the proper abundance.
"We have known for a long time that blood vessels branch to give rise to new ones and that in some places of our bodies this branching occurs with a reproducible pattern. However, the mechanisms that ensure that new vessels sprout at specific locations had not been uncovered until now," said Jess Torres-Vzquez, PhD, assistant professor of Developmental Genetics at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at NYU School of Medicine. "Our study illuminates the genetic basis behind the reproducible pattern of the vasculature and suggests ways in which the formation of new blood vessels could be modulated to treat certain cancers in the future."
Using the zebrafish embryo as a model system, researchers identified that Semaphorin-PlexinD1 signaling limits the formation of new blood vessels. This signaling pathway works by ensuring that blood vessels make the proper levels of soluble Flt1. Soluble Flt1 is an inhibitor of the Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) pathway, which promotes the growth of new blood vessels.
These findings have broad implications for human health, since changes in the level of soluble Flt1 are associated with cancer, vascular birth defects and pregnancy-related hypertension (preeclampsia).
According to researchers, the Semaphorin-PlexinD1 signaling pathway shows significant promise as a future therapeutic target for cancer treatment to slow the progression of diseases by controlling the blood vessel growth.
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Good neighbors make good fences
We get wind up where I live. Over-90-mile-an-hour gusts, to be exact. On New Year's Day.
So I came home from work one day, let my terrier-mutt outside in the dark, then went to let her back in, and she's happily popping in and out of the yard through a missing picket. "Hi, Human! I love my new doggie door! Hey, did you know the folks down the street have a new puppy? And their garbage? Mmmm…" So I go outside to check things out, and three fence panels are leaning cattywompus over the sidewalk. The wind had snapped solid cedar 4×4 posts in two like they were pencils.
The gusts that blew and blew down the mountains into Berthoud and Loveland and all over north Boulder County and southern Larimer County wreaked such havoc on our part of the Front Range that State Farm brought in a catastrophe team to help them assess all the damage. They expected about 200 claims; mine was one of 900. (Had a few roof shingles blow off as well).
I am… I confess … a girl. I own a power screwdriver and know how to use it, and I can secure an errant picket with the best of them. In fact, I can replace whole sides of fence and have done so, when I had to upgrade from 4-foot chain-link (because my husky showed me just how high he could leap when motivated). I built my own cedar fence panels because the ones available for sale at the big-box stores back then were about as sturdy as Kleenex. But when it comes to concrete work … I call in construction types. I call in big burly people who own pickaxes and sledgehammers that I would have trouble lifting. People who can fit an 8-foot cedar post in their vehicles without having to use them as temporary armrests. But the problem was, which people to call? And that's when I was reminded that when you live on a corner, you have lots of neighbors.
Russ the Realtor from across the street showed up at my front door. "Hey. You want to save some money on that fence?" He said that Dallas the Other Neighbor had a guy. Dallas the Other Neighbor — Dallas who had bought Scary Vacant House to the north and was in the process of turning it into a showplace — stopped by. "This guy, he's real meticulous. If something is a sixteenth of an inch off, he rips it out and starts over." And then, while I was waiting for Real Meticulous Guy to get a break in his real job, Jeff the Retired Rancher and Best Next-Door Neighbor Ever ever says, "Well, if he doesn't show up, you come over and get me, and we'll get 'er done."
On Super Bowl weekend, other people got a day to party down with big bowls of dip and kegs of beer. I got Fence Heroes. Real Meticulous Guy and Real Meticulous Guy Jr. — his son — came to fix fence Saturday. Remember I said I had clay soil It took the pair of them probably two hours to dig the concrete and remains of cedar posts out of my adobe soil. They took turns hacking and digging and flinging. Chips of concrete and wood flew. Then the posts were set and braced and the holes filled and the whole thing put to bed for the night. Super Bowl Sunday, they came back and finished the job, filling in for broken pickets with lumber pulled from a double side of fence to avoid the "Appaloosa" effect that mixing new and aged cedar can give.
Come spring, maybe I'll spring for new pickets along that whole side. And move the raised beds that threaten to weaken the other posts. But for now, it's just good to have the fence buttoned up again. My boundaries are secure. And it's even better to know that I'm surrounded by good–make that great–neighbors who never once complained that they could see into my oh-so-far-to-go-on-its-way-to-fabulous back yard.
My Fence Heroes rock. Every one of them.


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Hmong American Partnership opposes marriage amendment; community divided
The state's largest non-profit serving the Hmong community today announced its opposition to the voter identification and marriage amendment proposals on the November ballot.
The board of the Hmong American Partnership in St. Paul today announced its position on the issues, saying the photo identification requirement would erect barriers to voting, and the marriage amendment would hurt its communities and families.
It also said passage of an amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman would shut down a conversation about gender and sexuality that is just beginning in the Hmong community.
Hmong amendment supporters are also gearing up for the race.
President and CEO Bao Vang said the Hmong American Partnership is an inclusive organization that could not ignore an amendment that it believes would limit rights for gay and lesbian members of its community.
"We do not believe in the discrimination of any groups, and Hmong being the minority community, we know how that feels," Vang said.
Vang put the issue of legal recognition of marriage into terms that would resonate with many Hmong people. She described how in traditional Hmong heterosexual marriages, people can be married in the eyes of the community, but not the law because they don't have the right paperwork. That can cause problems when they don't have documentation that entitles them to legal benefits and protections.
"If we already feel that discrimination, or we already feel that that's unjust, imagine what that feels like if you're from the LGBT community," Vang said.
She said that opposing the marriage amendment may be controversial, and even unpopular in the Hmong community, especially among its elders, but it's an intergenerational conversation that the Hmong American Partnership is committed to having.
On the other side, Minnesota for Marriage already has two Hmong groups working to pass the amendment: the Hmong American Alliance Church and the Hmong Village Shopping Center on St. Paul's East Side.
Shong Yang is the co-owner and president of a "Hmong megamall" that includes 18 restaurants, an indoor farmer's market and bazaar. He wants the marriage amendment to pass.
"I don't like the idea of a man marrying a man and woman marrying a woman because God created us, and God created a man and a woman," Yang said.
Yang approached Minnesota for Marriage about joining its coalition, something Deputy Campaign Manager Andy Parrish said is happening among many different groups of voters.
"They're coming to us. They're saying what we can do in our community to help pass this amendment," Parrish said. "It's been really humbling to see people of all faith and of all color join behind and understand that marriage is profoundly good for society and that children need a mom and a dad."
Yang said he doesn't know how the Hmong American Partnership could come out in support of same sex marriage because he thinks most Hmong people are on his side.
"I believe that 99- or whatever-percent are against that gay marriage," Yang said.
Kham Moua disagrees.
"Well, I would say that he's wrong in his declaration that 99-percent of Hmong people stand with him on this."
Moua, 23, leads a group called "Shades of Yellow," an advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people that got its start in the Hmong community almost a decade ago. Moua said LGBT people have always been a part of the Hmong community, but faced enormous cultural pressure to conform.
"Many families will attest to this. They know individuals within community who are 70, who are 80, who chose to live their lives alone because they didn't want to explore their feelings or go against cultural or family values," Moua said. "There are individuals who are in 40s, 50s, who no longer come around [the Hmong community] because they identify as LGBTQ."
Moua said he is a lot more open because he's of a younger generation, but he said the route to acceptance even within his own family has been difficult.
In the months ahead, Shades of Yellow plans to work with Minnesotans United for All Families to educate the Hmong community about the importance of marriage to gays and lesbians, and to urge them to vote against the amendment.
At the Hmong Village Shopping Center, Yang said he is willing to distribute brochures to his 400 vendors and their shoppers to make sure they understand the importance of voting yes to define marriage as between a man and a woman.
Four percent of Minnesotans are Asian, according to the 2010 census, and the Hmong make up the largest group. In a tight race over this amendment, both sides know it could come down to who does the best job mobilizing every group of voters.


text: You know how there's that stoopid trend in plastic surgery in which women try to "normalize" their labia by homogenizing them? (I went for my own consultations, once upon a time.) Well, we have Dr. David Matlock, aka Dr. Sex, to thank for that. He's the dude who's pioneered the whole thing, and also invented the G-Shot (that shot that's supposed to enlarge your g-spot to enhance sexual pleasure, but has no real research behind it). Anyway, in this profile on Dr. Matlock in the Times of London, we learn that he is now a multimillionaire, and he refers to his patients as "customers." At least he's honest. [Times]


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In CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses Part 18, I demonstrated how to achieve very high rendering and compute performance by mixing CUDA and OpenGL in the same program and through the use of primitive restart, an OpenGL extension CUDA programmers can exploit to bypass PCIe bottlenecks to increase rendering performance by nearly 100 frames per second. This is the first of a two-part article that focuses on how to use NVIDIA's highly anticipated Visual Studio based Parallel Nsight debugging and profiling environment for Microsoft Windows to create and profile applications. Specifically, this article discusses the thinking behind Parallel Nsight; how to install and configure the software; plus walk through the steps to create a CUDA project from scratch and debug it. The example code from Part 14 that was used to demonstrate cuda-gdb will be built with Visual Studio and debugged with Parallel Nsight. The next article uses the Parallel Nsight 1.0 analysis capabilities to compare the Part 18 primitive restart OpenGL example with more conventional OpenGL rendering methods.
Regular readers of this series will note that the use of Visual Studio represents a departure from the previous articles in this tutorial series, which utilized the Linux tool chain to edit and create CUDA applications. With the release of Parallel Nsight, NVIDIA has made a commitment to the debugging and profiling needs of a huge base of Microsoft Windows developers ranging from game developers to commercial High Performance Computing (HPC) users. In addition to CUDA, Parallel Nsight also provides developers the ability to analyze and debug HLSL textures plus OpenCL application tracing is also supported. All the features discussed in this article are part of the standard version that is available without charge. The analysis features require the professional version, which must be purchased.
The Thought Behind Parallel Nsight
Parallel Nsight was designed from the very beginning to fully support remote debugging. Instead of building an application and running it under a debugger, Parallel Nsight utilizes a host machine to build the executable with Visual Studio 2008 service pack 1 or higher. (Visual Studio 2010 support is coming soon.) The executable is then exported to a target machine via the Parallel Nsight monitor process, which runs the application and handles debugging and tracing operations. Some form of network connection is assumed between the host and target machine(s) be they virtual or real network links. Of course, a remote execution model fits naturally into debugging applications for both cloud and cluster environments. Secure connections are supported, which opens up interesting possibilities for remote application debugging and profiling at customer sites.
Rather than relying on specific hardware provided debugging capabilities, Parallel Nsight takes the different approach of generating code that is patched into the executable. The benefit is that only those debugging and performance tracing capabilities requested by the user are introduced when and where desired. This actually is an extremely flexible model that can minimally impact the application(s) running on the monitor machine. Future capabilities can be added by the Parallel Nsight team as needed and arbitrary hardware capabilities (e.g. new counters and signals) can be exploited in newer generations of hardware to reduce overhead and provide greater insight into application behavior. Basically, Parallel Nsight is designed to give developers and hardware designers the flexibility needed to best meet future needs -- however unanticipated they might be at the current time.
As is to be expected, there is a fair amount of integration with the Visual Studio GUI. This is nice as the mouse can be used to click sections of code to set or remove breakpoints. Mouse-overs work and the scroll wheel can be used to zoom in on application traces to see finer details.
Parallel Nsight provides three basic capabilities:
- Debugging CUDA kernels. Similar to cuda-gdb, Parallel Nsight lets you set breakpoints, examine variables on the GPU and check for memory errors. This video demonstrates the debugging capabilities in action.
- Tracing CUDA applications so the programmer can understand where and how the application is spending time be it in the operating system, calculating with CUDA, transferring data, or working on the host processors. Check out this video to get a sense of the tracing and analysis capabilities.
- Shader debugging. Parallel Nsight 1.0 supports debugging Direct3D HLSL shaders as in this video at this URL. (Note that debugging OpenGL shaders is not supported at this time.) To debug an HLSL shader, the user clicks on Start Graphics Debugging and then uses either the shaders toolwindow to open a shader or use Pixel History to work backward from a render target to a particular shader. In other words, it is possible to see geometry for every draw call, watch the frame getting built up, and review the pixel history by clicking on a render target's pixel to show all the draw calls that touched that particular pixel! However, debugging shaders will not be discussed further in this article.
Of course, Visual Studio provides C/C++ debugging as well. Please note that CUDA debugging, shader debugging, and trace analysis are considered as separate operations. This means that Parallel Nsight 1.0 does not have the ability to have C/C++ breakpoints and CUDA C/C++ breakpoints both hit at the same time. Instead, the debugging session must be redone using either Parallel Nsight or Visual Studio. (A helpful post in the NVIDIA forums can provide some of this mixed breakpoint functionality.)
Information Sources about Parallel Nsight
Following are several excellent sources of information about Parallel Nsight:
- The NVIDIA Parallel Nsight forum is an excellent place to look for information and post questions.
- The Parallel Nsight Developer Zone is the main entry point for Parallel Nsight on the NVIDIA site. It provides links to documentation, videos and webinars.
In addition to Internet resources, Parallel Nsight installs a wealth of documentation into Visual Studio. (An online version of the installed user guide can be found here.) The release notes in particular are important as the Parallel Nsight team is rapidly improving the software and adding capabilities. First time users will find the example projects included in the host install to be the quickest way to start working with Parallel Nsight without requiring any project configuration. Please note that under Windows 7, the C:\ProgramData directory that contains the walkthrough projects is a hidden directory. The Visual Studio document, "Walkthrough: Debugging A CUDA Application" contains more information about using the Parallel Nsight installed samples. It is accessed via the Start Page | Getting Started window | How Do I…? | NVIDIA GPU Development | Parallel Nsight User Guide | Existing Projects and CUDA C Debugging | Walkthroughs.
Starting Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 after installing Parallel Nsight will show a start page similar to the following screenshot. Highlighted in Figure 1 are three key areas that first-time Parallel Nsight users need to be aware of: How do I …?, The Solution Explorer window, and the Nsight tab on the toolbar.
Clicking on the How do I…? link and expanding the Contents window, lets users browse the documents provided by the Parallel Nsight team as can be seen in Figure 2. Documents include walkthroughs based on some projects that were installed along with the documentation. Be aware that the name or address of the target machine must be specified before these walkthroughs can be used. This article, along with the Parallel Nsight documents, describes how to set the remote machine name. The How to Set Build Options link is an extremely important document as Parallel Nsight v1.0 requires the user manually configure many of the options needed to build, package, and run the application on the remote machine.


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Larry Fink's photographs merge style, vision, and content so seamlessly that their meaning strikes us as given: something known and shared—an unequivocal truth about what things looked and felt like there in front of the camera. The art of this lies in Fink's ability and willingness to penetrate the scene at hand, even when the politics may not be to his liking. Join Larry Fink for a workshop that will explore the relationship between subject and photographer, style and meaning. Fink has been a professor at Yale University School of Art, New Haven; Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, New York; Parsons School of Design, New York; and Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia. Currently he is a tenured professor of photography at Bard College. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States, including solo exhibitions at Light Gallery, New York; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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President Barack Obama pledged the full resources of the U.S. government to assist the community of Moore, Okla., in its recovery following devastating tornadoes that hit the town on Monday.
"The people of Moore should know that their country will remain on the ground -- for them, beside them -- for as long as it takes," Obama said in a statement Tuesday morning at the White House, calling the storm "one of the most destructive tornadoes in history." Obama said the prayers of the nation are with the people of Oklahoma, adding "as a nation, our full focus right now is on the urgent work of rescue, and the hard work of recovery and rebuilding that lies ahead."
President Obama delivered a statement on the Oklahoma tornado tragedy that killed dozens in Moore, telling residents that "their country will remain on the ground there for them, beside them as long as it takes."
Noting that process will be long, the president assured that those affected "will not travel that path alone, your country will travel it with you."
The president said that he had spoken with Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, R, to coordinate the federal government's assistance to Moore, and had dispatched FEMA Director Craig Fugate to Oklahoma. Obama also signed a disaster declaration on Monday evening opening avenues for federal assistance to those affected by the hurricane.
Moore, a town which had also suffered a serious tornado in 1999, was damaged heavily during last night's storm. The president said that it was too early to assess the extent of the damage, death and injuries.
"But if there is hope to hold on to, not just in Oklahoma but around the country, it's the knowledge that the good people there and in Oklahoma are better prepared for this type of storm than most. And what they can be certain of is that Americans from every corner of this country will be right there with them, opening our homes, our hearts to those in need. Because we're a nation that stands with our fellow citizens as long as it takes."
Obama urged Americans who are interested in helping the tornado victims to donate to the American Red Cross, which he said is already on the ground in Moore.


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I wanted to write you this letter, to tell you about how your behavior in court on February 16, 2012, towards me, made me feel. My hope is that you will think about how you made me feel before behaving this way in the future towards victims of terrorist attacks.
During the sentencing of the underwear bomber, I was allowed to speak as a victim. All four other passengers spoke before me, and all were treated with respect and allowed to speak without comment or being judged.
When it was my time to speak, instead of simply calling me to the podium, you instead stated "Ms. Haskell, do you have anything to add besides what Mr. Haskell just stated about his government conspiracy theories?" I was floored. I was there, as a victim, someone who almost died in a terrorist attack, and you were talking to me like I was some kind of secondary citizen/criminal, completely *judging* me before I had said a word. I sat in your courtroom through all the other hearings and was never anything but respectful to the court and the judicial system. Throughout the entire proceedings, you treated the Defendant and everyone involved with nothing but respect, and until yesterday, I thought you were great during the proceedings in keeping level headed and being fair.
I am my own person. I may be married to Kurt Haskell, and while I do support him 100% in what he says, I am allowed, pursuant to court rules, to give my statement and not feel pressured to say what the court/judge wants me to say, or not say. I had prepared a handwritten statement, which I read, and which I felt was completely appropriate. However, you made me nervous about saying anything at all after your comments to me. I should have been treated differently as a victim. I feel you acted inappropriately, in letting your obvious disdain for my husband's comments flow over into my time to finally say how I felt.
As a Judge, you are always supposed to act in a unbiased way towards victims. I was not treated in that manner. It is embarrassing to judges everywhere that you treated me in this manner. It saddens me that before yesterday, I really looked up to you as a woman and a Judge. You swore me into federal court 5 and a half years ago. I realize now that I need to find a different kind of role model. One who does not treat victims like the criminal. If I am ever a Judge, I truly hope that I never make a victim feel worse than they already do. And if I did that, I would hope to be called out on it. You may be the Judge, but that does not mean you are always right. At least in my eyes.
Thank you for your attention. I wish you the best, and hope you never personally have to go through what I went through, and then be treated poorly by the judge in the case.
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That's the theory behind a forthcoming gadget called the PanaCast, a panoramic camera designed to be set at eye level atop a conference table tripod. The device includes digital processing software that allows remote participants to pan and zoom through the scene it captures without the camera actually needing to move. The client software, which will be available for smartphones and tablets as well as PCs, allows each viewer to manipulate the scene independently of other participants. "It works the way people work in in-person meetings, where you're able to look around and use your peripheral vision," said Aurangzeb Khan, co-founder, president and CEO of Altia Systems, which developed the PanaCast.
This is a low-budget way of achieving the "just-like-being-there" experience promised by high-end videoconferencing and telepresence systems, some of which use multiple cameras and multiple large monitors to provide a panoramic view. "We're doing it in a totally different way," Kahn said. "Those systems are typically $30K to $100K. We are trying to replicate that experience, but make it ubiquitously available on a mobile device. You don't need special cameras, a special room, or special paint on the wall, but you can be zooming and panning across a live feed."
Altia says the PanaCast will ship in the first quarter of 2013 at a price of less than $700. The company is also offering a 25% discount for early adopters who place advance orders through Kickstarter.
Altia says the technical breakthroughs behind the PanaCast include very low-latency digital processing, in which the video stream is assembled from the sum of the feeds of the six cameras spaced around the disk-shaped unit into a 200 degree-wide image. The video is then transmitted without ever being stored on the device and received by the PC or mobile client in a form that supports panning and zooming. Setup is as simple as plugging the device into an Internet connection and sending remote participants a link and a PIN code for access, according to Altia.
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"There's a wide gap between webcams or built-in cameras on smartphones or laptops and systems sold into business by companies such as LifeSize," said Ross Rubin, a principal analyst at Reticle Research who covers consumer technologies. "The opportunity is to address a range of office situations and conference room situations where there's an interest in remote videoconferencing capability but an unwillingness to invest in dedicated lines, higher-end equipment." He added, "If you put this at the end of the table, it's almost like a fourth-wall situation. The ideal way to use this product is to put people in a semicircle or on one end of the table, where the ultra-wide viewing angle allows the camera to capture a great deal of horizontal detail."
The comparison with telepresence is not exact, in the sense that high-end videoconferencing suites for executives are typically mirrored on both ends of the connection. Some beta users of the PanaCast have used the devices on both ends of a call, but the more typical scenario is that a conference room full of participants who are broadcasting a feed to home or traveling workers who aren't able to join the meeting in person. In that way, it's more like the video equivalent of the multidirectional conference room speaker phones that Polycom built its reputation on.
One early fan of the PanaCast is Bob Hagerty, former chairman and CEO of Polycom and current president and CEO of iControl Networks. "The PanaCast experience is a game changer," Hagerty said in a prepared statement. "The unique human panoramic perspective for video users is outstanding -- this technology significantly changes the user experience and will transform ease-of-use for unified communications and other markets."
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A major obstacle preventing the even more rapid expansion of the online offerings is the disparity in methods for borrowing library materials and incompatibilities between the formats of the online documents. As an example, I recently found a book I wanted to download from the Greater Phoenix Digital Public Library, after downloading I had an error message stating that the file format was not supported by my device. This type of error is one of the many issues confronting the DPLA.
Here is a brief statement of the objectives of the DPLA:
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America's heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used. More information is online at http://dp.la. To find out more about the DPLA launch, April 18-19 in Boston, visit http://dp.la/get-involved/events/launch/.
Recently, the Biodiversity Heritage Library announced that it will serve as a digital content hub within the Digital Public Library of America. Quoting from the announcement:
Biodiversity Heritage Library partners comprise 15 natural history libraries in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. They are committed to working together to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections and making that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global "biodiversity commons." The BHL Secretariat is hosted by Smithsonian Libraries. The Technical Director and portal development team are hosted by Missouri Botanical Garden. Affiliated BHL projects have been established in Europe, China, Australia, and Brazil. To further explore the new BHL, visit http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/.As other libraries come onboard with the DPLA, it appears that this will constitute a major source of online information in the very near future. On April 18, the DPLA will launch the first beta version. In its first iteration, the DPLA will combine a group of rich, interesting digital collections, from state and regional digital archives to the special collections of major university libraries and federal holdings.


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(3Bl Media/Justmeans) -Â I spoke with Paige Goff last week, VP of Sustainability and Business Communications at Domtar, the paper company. The company has been aggressively pursuing sustainability in every aspect of their operations, going so far as to brand themselves, âthe sustainable paper company.â
They established themselves as leaders in this regard years ago, by becoming the first paper company to achieve Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for their source fibers. Now, in their attempt to stay ahead of the pack, they are rolling out their EarthChoice sustainability platform.
Paige Goff: We wanted to come up with something to really simplify our sustainability platform, which is how we came up with our EarthChoice platform. Within that, we have the life cycle loop, that we break down into proof points within four different buckets.
The first bucket is where your paper comes from. That draws from a lot of our certifications, like FSC-Certified fibers and our partnerships with the Rainforest Alliance and the World Wildlife Fund. We want our customers to know that when they buy paper from Domtar, they are buying from a very sustainable source.
Justmeans: You have made a real commitment in this area.
PG: Yes. A full 100% of our fibers come from certified sources.
JM: Have you looked at what Woody Harrelson is doing with wheat-based papers?
PG: We are agnostic on the concept at this point, but we are looking into it.
JM: So what is the next bucket?
PG: The next bucket is how our paper is made. Weâre talking about transparency within the industry. Everything has an impact, though it's not always apparent. We have what we call the Paper Trail that shows the impact of everything you can buy from us. It provides an apples-to-apples comparison, that looks at not just the industry average, but calls out what we are doing well and what we need to improve on. We consider it the most transparent impact calculator in the industry.
JM: The reporting and transparency are great. But what kinds of sustainable measures are you taking in your production process?
PG:Â Our utilization of greenhouse gas neutral, sustainable biomass as a substitute for fossil fuels is above the industry average. All of our mills have programs underway to divert materials from landfills and find beneficial uses for our byproducts. We are conducting comprehensive energy assessments of all of our mills that inform our overall energy strategy. We are developing new techniques for better understanding the true cost of water utilization. We are making strategic investments in improving the fidelity of our production and environmental data so we can empower our front line managers to undertake scenario planning and make more data-driven decisions. And, of course, we continue to lead the drive for increasing the utilization of fiber certified to the FSC standard.
JM: These are all good things in the production arena. I'm guessing usage must come next.
When Domtar recently announced its acquisition of the Xerox North American paper business, I wondered what the positive sustainability impact would be.
Domtar is one of several sustainable companies to support the Rainforest Alliance's latest campaign
A new corporate-nonprofit partnership will provide thousands of books to children in low-income families in an effort to promote literacy across the United States.


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SKF Explorer spherical roller bearings
Invented by SKF and refined over the years, SKF spherical roller bearings provide top-of-the-line performance.
All SKF spherical roller bearings are made to the SKF Explorer specifications, providing:
- Very high load carrying capacity – both radially and axially
- Highly wear-resistant bearing material
- Very high running accuracy
- Low friction
SKF Explorer sealed spherical roller bearingsSKF Explorer sealed spherical roller bearings are designed to withstand high loads, misalignment, poor lubrication, contaminants, moisture and more. By enabling fewer unscheduled stops and a radical reduction in grease usage, the bearings help simplify maintenance, improve safety, cut costs and reduce environmental risks.
- Ready-to-mount units - SKF sealed spherical roller bearings are ready-to-mount units filled with a suitable lubricant.
- Longer service life - Sealed bearings enhance service life by keeping solid contaminants and moisture out of the bearing.
- Environmentally friendly - For most applications, sealed bearings can be considered "greased for life." This means little or no contamination of the environment.
- Safer handling - The seals make handling and mounting less hazardous from the contamination point of view.
- Robust performance - Same basic load ratings as corresponding open bearings.
- Downsizing possible - Longer service life allows for bearing downsizing. The robust seal designs enable additional "axial" downsizing in applications where external seals are not necessary.


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SEC564: Red Team Operations and Threat Emulation Waitlist
Mon, April 9 - Tue, April 10, 2018
I loved SEC564. Hands down, the most practical course available.
SEC564 gives me the tools and structure to organize, plan, and execute red team engagements.
Red Teaming is the process of using tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to emulate real-world threats to train and measure the effectiveness of the people, processes, and technology used to defend environments. Built on the fundamentals of penetration testing, Red Teaming uses a comprehensive approach to gain insight into an organization's overall security to test its ability to detect, respond to, and recover from an attack. When properly conducted, Red Team activities significantly improve an organization's security controls, help hone defensive capabilities, and measure the effectiveness of security operations.
The Red Team concept requires a different approach from a typical security test and relies heavily on well-defined TTPs, which are critical to successfully emulating a realistic threat or adversary. Red Team results exceed a typical list of penetration test vulnerabilities, provide a deeper understanding of how an organization would perform against an actual threat, and identify where security strengths and weaknesses exist.
Whether you support a defensive or offensive role in security, understanding how Red Teams can be used to improve security is extremely valuable. Organizations spend a great deal of time and money on the security of their systems, and it is critical to have professionals who can effectively and efficiently operate them. SEC564 will provide you with the skills to manage and operate a Red Team, conduct Red Team engagements, and understand the role of a Red Team and its importance in security testing. This two-day course will explore Red Team concepts in-depth, provide the fundamentals of threat emulation, and help you reinforce your organization's security posture.
Course Syllabus
SEC564.1: Planning and Management of Red Team Operations
Joe Vest
Mon Apr 9th, 2018
Day 1 begins by introducing Red Team topics, concepts, and ideas. You will learn what Red Teaming is, how it is used, and how it compares to other security testing types, such as vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. Several topics, concepts, and ideas that are specific to Red Teams, and which constitute the critical foundation of Red Teaming, are examined in order to provide a solid base of understanding.
- Adversarial Mindset Challenge
- Setting up an Attack Platform
- Analyzing, Understanding, and Controlling User-Agent IOCs
- Decomposing a Threat
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Red Teaming Definitions, Assumptions, and Expectations
- Common Red Teaming Terms
- Security Misconceptions and Assumptions
- History and Origin
- Red Teaming Introductions
- How Red Teaming Compares to Other Security Tests
- Red Team's Role in Blue Team Training
- Live Assessment Example
- Red Teaming Concepts
- Red Team Roles and Responsibilities
- Standard Attack Platform
- Engagement Planning
- Understanding and Controlling Tool Indicators
- Threat Planning
- Threat Perspective
- Threat Emulation Scenarios
- Red Team Goals
- Social Engineering
- Other Red Team Engagement Concepts
- Handling Client Data
- Engagement Frequency
- How to Succeed
SEC564.2: Red Team Engagement Execution
Joe Vest
Tue Apr 10th, 2018
Day 2 continues with engagement execution and a focus on Red Team tools and techniques. The day is filled with exercises that walk students through a mock Red Team engagement. Multiple Red Teaming phases are explored that use realistic TTPs to ultimately impact the target organization's supply chain. During the exercises, you manage and control indicators of compromise (IOCs), design custom command and control channels, and use unique command and control tools. You will also learn Red Teaming concepts needed to control and manage a Red Team. These concepts include how to interface with clients, collect and log engagement artifacts, successfully execute an engagement, manage deconfliction, properly end an engagement, and deliver a professional report.
- Using Web Shells to Support C2
- C2 Design and Customization - PowerShell Empire
- Performing an Operational Impact Against an ICS System
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Red Team Engagement Execution
- Data Collection
- Tradecraft and TTPs
- Execution Concepts
- Tools and Techniques
- Engagement Background
- Engagement Culmination
- Red Team Engagement Reporting
Additional Information
Laptop Required
To get the most value out of this course, students are required to bring their own laptop so that they can connect directly to the workshop network we will create. It is the students' responsibility to make sure the system is properly configured with all drivers necessary to connect to an Ethernet network.
The class does not support Virtual Box, VirtualPC, or other non-VMware virtualization products.
You will use VMware to run a Linux guest operating system to perform exercises in class. You must have either the free VMware Player 6 or later or the commercial VMware Workstation 10 or later installed on your system prior to coming to class. You can download VMware Player for free here.
Alternatively, if you want a more flexible and configurable tool, you can download a free 30-day trial copy of VMware Workstation. VMware will send you a time-limited license number for VMware Workstation if you register for the trial on their website. No license number is required for VMware Player.
If you plan to use a Macintosh, please make sure you bring VMware Fusion.
Mandatory Laptop Hardware Requirements:
- x86-compatible or x64-compatible 2.0 GHz CPU minimum or higher
- 8 GB RAM minimum with 16 GB or higher recommended Ethernet adapter (a wired connection is required in class; if your laptop supports only wireless, please make sure to bring a USB Ethernet adapter with you)
- 40 GB available hard-drive space
- An available USB Port
During the course exercises, you will be connecting to a hostile network. Your laptop might be attacked. Do not have any sensitive data stored on the system. SANS is not responsible for your system if someone in the class attacks during course exercises.
By bringing the right equipment and preparing in advance, you can maximize what you will see and learn, as well as have a lot of fun.
If you have additional questions about the laptop specifications, please contact email@example.com.
Who Should Attend
- Security professionals interested in expanding their knowledge of Red Teaming
- Penetration testers
- Ethical hackers
- Defenders who want to better understand offensive methodologies, tools, and techniques
- Auditors who need to build deeper technical skills
- Red Team members
- Blue Team members
- CND/CNE Teams
- Forensics specialists who want to better understand offensive tactics
- Information security managers who need to incorporate red team activities into their operations
The concepts and exercises in this course are built on the fundamentals of offensive security. An understanding of general penetration testing concepts and tools is encouraged, and a background in security fundamentals will provide a solid base upon which to build Red Teaming concepts.
Many of the Red Teaming concepts taught in this course are suitable for anyone in the security community, and both technical staff as well as management personnel will be able to gain a deeper understanding of Red Teaming.
You Will Receive With This Course
- A course USB with the SANS Slingshot Linux Penetration Testing Environment loaded with numerous tools used for all exercises
- Details on Red Team use of common tools and their usage
- A variety of sample documents used in planning, executing, and reporting Red Team engagements
This Course Will Prepare You To
- Make the best use of a Red Team and apply it to measure and understand an organization's security defenses
- Learn what Red Teaming is and how it differs from other security testing engagements
- Understand the unique view of the offensive security field of Red Teaming and the concepts, principles, and guidelines critical to its success
- Design and create threat-specific goals to measure and train organizational defenders (CND/Blue Teams)
- Learn to use the "Get In, Stay In, and Act" methodology to achieve operational impacts
Authors' Statement
"A great deal of time and money are spent on protecting critical digital assets. Many organizations focus their security testing on compliance or limited scope reviews of a system. These limited tests often leave an organization with a false sense of security. Organizations that open themselves to assessment not only of their technology, but also of their people and processes, can significantly improve their security posture and adjust a limited security budget to protect their most critical assets. Scenario-based testing and Red Team techniques can be used to determine how an organization really stands up to a realistic and determined threat."
- Joe Vest and James Tubberville


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Your body contains about 5 litres of blood. Assuming you're resting, this is pumped around your body in just one minute. Blood is vital to our survival and excessive blood loss can lead to shock and death. Fortunately, our bodies have developed clotting agents as a way to prevent blood loss.
But in earlier historical periods losing blood was considered to be beneficial to health. This practice was called bloodletting and was the most common procedure performed by surgeons for almost two thousand years. They did it to balance the humours, as a surplus was thought to cause ill health. All four classical elements - fire, earth, water and air - were thought to be present in the blood, and so bloodletting was believed to return the patient to general good health. According to Galen, fevers, apoplexy and headache were a result of too much blood, so the surgeon would tie the arm to make the veins swell, cut the patient and drain out a certain amount of blood, a process which was called 'breathing a vein'. Excessive bleeding could cause anaemia.
Leeches were also used for bloodletting. Applied to the skin, this type of worm can suck several times its original body weight in blood. The use of leeches in Europe peaked between 1830 and 1850, then fell into decline. This was firstly a result of the invention of 'mechanical leeches', and then changes in medical models of the body. Today, leeches are used in surgery to help heal skin grafts and restore blood circulation. Their usefulness is no longer attributed to the amount of blood they can suck out, but to an enzyme in their saliva which helps blood flow freely.
Related links
Techniques and Technologies:
R Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind (London: HarperCollins, 1997)
K Shigehisa, 'Interpreting the History of Bloodletting', The Journal Of The History Of Medicine And Allied Sciences, 50 (1995), pp 11-46
K Shigehisa, 'Blood and life', The expressiveness of the body and the divergence of Greek and Chinese medicine (New York, Zone books, 1999), pp 195-231
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Idaho Military Records
This entry was originally written by Dwight A. Radford for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Two military collections on file at the Idaho State Historical Society are of interest to the researcher. The first, 'Soldier's Home' (AR 19) records, are applications for admission to the Idaho Soldier's Home from 1894 to 1983. Information contained in these applications includes record number, date of admission, name, age, nativity, company, regiment, rank, time served, pension, disabilities, county, occupation, social condition, and literacy. These applications are indexed.
The second collection is entitled 'The Adjutant General'State of Idaho: Collection of Official Correspondence, Records, and Documents, 1877'1927' (AR 11). This collection is composed of the following: requests to Governor Brayman for arms and ammunition from worried Idahoans during the Indian Wars of 1877/78, requests for discharge and/or pension benefits from said wars, the actual discharges for at least some Idaho volunteers from the Nez Perce and Bannock Wars, some muster rolls of the Idaho Volunteer Regiments, and other miscellaneous material. Material in this collection also includes various aspects of the draft during World War I and company rosters for the Idaho National Guard units who served during the Mexican Border campaign of 1916.
The Idaho GenWeb Project has transcriptions of all WWI Draft Registrations (1917'18). These are indexed by county.


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In the process of innovation, there are always design dead ends. None are weirder than the ones you get in the military.
Since people always trying to find new and exciting ways to kill each other, we end up with lots of strange military vehicles, particularly tanks. Something about them being big and shooting cannons makes designers go nuts.
So what's the weirdest tank ever built? We're taking a pretty broad definition of tank, so feel free to put in your thirteen-wheeled troop carriers, your flying mobile cannons, and your fifteen-century donkey-powered armored explosion cart if you want to.
And if you suggest a tank that never made it off the drawing board, please remind us that in was never actually constructed.
(QOTD is your chance to address the day's most pressing automotive questions and to experience the opinions of the insightful insiders, practicing pundits, and gleeful gearheads that make up the Jalopnik commentariat. If you've got a suggestion for a good Question of the Day, send an email to tips at jalopnik dot com.)
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The world's greatest ground? A photographic centenary celebration of Highbury
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7. Roof on the Laundry
In 1936, the North Terrace - by now concreted, like the rest of the former compacted-earth standing areas - was given a roof. From under it, the huddled masses could shelter from the weather while they gazed in awe at two matching stands stretching the length of either touchline.
For in the same year, Leitch's East Stand was torn down and replaced with a new one designed to match the impressive structure opposite it. But whereas the West Stand had cost £45,000, the costs for the East spiralled to £130,000 - equivalent to £7.7m in 2013 - with special attention paid to the quality of the facade.
Here, Arsenal's Ted Drake attacks the Everton goal on the opening day of the season, August 29, 1936. Despite the presence of Drake, who the previous season had scored seven in one game against Aston Villa and the winner in the FA Cup final, Arsenal would finish in sixth place. The team was ageing, but the stadium was timeless.


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I've had not one but two creaky bike seats in recent weeks. They're both Avocet, a NOS Racing II and an ancient Gelflex. It just so happened they had the same issue, common with older saddles running a lot of miles.
The seat rails just need a squirt of oil where they fit in the saddle. It dries up in there. Not just any oil. I found Liquid Wrench penetrant oil works best. Other oils may be too thick to soak in. Be sure to tip the saddle vertical as shown in the photo.
The saddle creak symptom only happens when you're sitting in the saddle, usually while climbing. It won't creak when you're riding out of the saddle.