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Pencil skirt, the slim fitting skirt with a figure hugging cut, is a classic style universally popular. It makes the wearer look chic, feminine and confident.
Pencil skirt is a fashion staple for women of all ages, ever since Christian Dior first introduced it in the 1950s
The best thing about a Pencil skirt is its flattering fit which follows your womanly curves. It has a sleek silhouette which enhances the look of the wearer. The slim look of this skirt gives the illusion of height thus elongating the body line and making you look taller.
Checkout the 12 tops you could wear with pencil skirt
The Pencil skirt is snug at the waist and hip and tapers from the thigh to the bottom edge – It usually has a slit at the back or front for easy stride and the peek it gives of your calf is very sexy. The hem of a pencil skirt usually falls just above the knee or below it.
What fabric to use to sew a pencil skirt
Look for a cloth with some stretch like wool or cotton, to make sure that the skirt will fit you just right without being too tight.Medium weight cottons, denim, linen, knits all make suitable clothing to make pencil skirts. Suiting cloth is ideal for a formal pencil skirt , as it gives a very polished look to the finished garment.
Black is the go to colour for pencil skirts. All the skirt lovers will have a classic black pencil skirt in their arsenal. Other neutral shades like grey, beige and black are also very chic and will go with most tops. But that doesnot mean that you should chuck all other colours. I have made a pink pencil skirt which is a favourite. Pretty printed fabrics also make good choices.
Another option is to split up the skirt making the top hip portion in one color maybe a plaid and the bottom in a different fabric – this way you can use up your favourite scraps to make this simple skirt; if you are doing this it will be better if it done in the front pattern only – the back pattern is better done in a single fabric.
A Tailored Pencil Skirt Pattern
Supplies needed to sew a Pencil skirt
- The fabric of choice – 1.25 meters of cloth. Depends on the length you need for the skirt.
- Zipper ( 7 inch pant zipper)
- Hook and eye/ Buttons
- Thread matching
- Fusible interfacing long strip for the waistband – waist round + 3 inch
Method 1 Sew a Pencil skirt with Back Vent
Step 1 Cut out the Pattern pieces
Front panel – cut 1 on the fold
Back panel -cut 2
Waistband – cut 1
Interfacing – half the width of the waistband
Pattern to make the Pencil skirt – Front Panel
After you have marked the pattern add 1 inch seam allowance along the side seam.
Pattern to make the Pencil Skirt- Back Panel
After you have marked the pattern add 1 inch seam allowance along the side seam.
This is marked on folded cloth and then cut by the center (A-G) to make 2 back panels.Cut the vent area as shown in the picture above
Mark 1″ from the center edge (S-T) this is the seam allowance for the center of the back panel.
Mark the seam allowance of the vent
Step 2 Prepare the front panel
Finish the side edges with a zigzag stitch or a serger
Step 3 Join the back panels
Keep the two back panels right side together and Sew the back center seam. You will have to sew loose long stitches on the top and bottom edge – for the top edge sew 6 inch like this – the broken lines of red line in the picture above are basting stitches (long length stitches which you will open up later).In the bottom edge you should make basting stitches
The rest are all regular straight stitching for the seam – solid red lines in the picture. Do not forget to back stitch and anchor stitch at the start and opening of the regular straight stitching wherever you are doing it.
The top basting stitches are made for the opening for the zipper
The bottom basting stitches are made for the vent
Clip the joint as in the picture below just above the vent
Press the seam open, starting from the opening of the zipper till the clip you have made. You can now finish the edges of the opened seam allowance with a zig zag stitch.
Step 4 Sew the vent
Finish the edge of the top seam allowance with zigzag stitch;
Fold the edge of the back seam allowance 1/4 inch and stitch.
Checkout more ways to finish fabric edge here
Press the vent seam allowance to the left side ( as you look the left side you see)
Stitch it there in place, sewing it to the back panel. When you open it it will look like this.
Step 5 Sew the darts
Mark the darts on the back panel as mentioned in the pattern
Sew the darts -Remember all the dart principles. If you want a refresher check out the post on sewing darts here.
Do not forget to tie the thread tails at the end of the darts to secure it
Step 5 Join the zipper on the back panel
Keep a 7-inch long zipper face down on the back of the back panel on the seam line of the basting stitch you have made.
The zipper tooth will be aligned on the seam line exactly. Pin in place or if you are not confident make basting stitches to keep it there.
Sew the zipper there – always ensure that the zipper teeth is aligned above the seam. Use a zipper foot to stitch close to the zipper teeth.
Open the basting stitches once you have finished sewing the zipper.
Step 6 Sew the side seams
Stitch the front panel and back panel together
At this point you can try it on to see if it fits – if it is too tight loosen the darts, it too loose increase the dart depth.
Step 7 Prepare waistband
Measure the top edge of your skirt. You have cut out 4 inch wide waistband measuring length equalling the top edge of your skirt plus 3 inches. Out of the 3 inches, 1 inch is for seam allowance and 2 inches serves as an extension past the zipper Here you can attach a button or hook to secure the waistband, later.
Take the waistband piece and fold it along the center, right side touching together (wrong side out)
Sew one short edge closed.
The other short edge and 2 inches of the botton edge is sewn together.Trim seam allowance clip corners
Look at the picture for reference
Turn the waistband rightside out. You need to pull out the corners with a sharp tool or something so that they look sharp
This gives you a projection on one side of the waistband for hooks /buttons
Step 8 Join the waistband
Place the skirt right side out before you back side facing. Start joining the waistband from the left side (when you look at the skirt )- this is the end where you join the nonprojecting side of the waistband.
Keep the waistband so that it is meeting the top edge of the skirt. Stitch in place.
Turn the waistband upright
Fold the back edges to the inside – You can stitch in the ditch from the front so that with this stitch you will catch the fold on the back – this is tricky. I just topstitched ensuring that this stitch will catch the fold on the back
Attach metal pant hooks and bars as closure ; you can also sew a button closure with button and the button hole. Checkout the tutorial on how to sew a button by hand and with a sewing machine. When sewing a button closure sew the buttonhole first and then the button. Check out the posts on sewing buttonholes by the machine or making handmade buttonholes.
Step 9 Hem the skirt.
You can sew a hand sewn hem ( check out the different ways to hem by hand; 5 invisible stitches you can use) or sew a machine sewn hem – here are different ways to hem by sewing machine
Fold the hemline. Fold over the raw edges to the wrong side. Press in place before sewing.
The easy Pencil skirt pattern (or no pattern Pencil skirt)
This is a cheat pencil skirt ; It is not tailored as the other pattern but will fit you nicely enough and obviously is very easy to sew. You must have made this skirt if you have been sewing for sometime, or even thought of doing it.
Just find a big t shirt ( pinch your husband's, if all you have are fitting ones) and some elastic for waistband
Measure your waist and the length of the skirt you need.
Keep the T shirt on a flat surface
Cut the t shirt into a square piece that measure ( 2 layers);
Width = waist round / 2 + 1 inch seam allowance ( If you have a very big difference between your hips and your waist you may need to add an inch or two )
Length = length you need + 2.5 inches
( no need to hem this skirt as your piece already has a beautiful hem; We are using the tshirt hem obviously)
Cut an elastic (of width 1″ or 3/4″ or even 1/2″) of length = (Waist round – 1 inch ) + 1/2 inch seam allowance.
Sew the sides ( Use an appropriate needle for sewing up the skirt – a ballpoint needle is preferred. Knit fabric needs a needle which works for the cloth. Checkout the post of selecting the appropriate needle)
Stitch the edge of the top edge. Leave 1″ open for inserting the waistband.
Stitch the top edge Closed after inserting the elastic. There you have your skirt ready .
Pencil skirt styling
In leopard prints, leather, sheers, worn along with leather jackets , tunics or tank tops – all these Pencil skirts have one thing in common – High heels. Pencil skirts look the best when paired with high heels.


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- Renck adds that the Cubs are "closing in on Kosuke Fukudome," which echoes Geoff Baker's take last night.
At 5:09pm- In a Baseball Prospectus chat today, Will Carroll said "Fukudome will decide today. Someone made a big offer." That means Fukudome signing could in fact be announced tonight or tommarrow.
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...the onward march of Economic Substance regulations
I'm sure many of you reading this are familiar with the term "brass plate" company. If not, let me outline what is meant by this term. A brass plate company is a phrase used to describe a legally incorporated company who's only presence (in the jurisdiction where it is incorporated) is the name plate on the wall. No legions of staff, no gleaming office block, no underground car park, no on-site gym, no staff restaurant, nothing. Just the brass plate attached to the wall outside it's registered office. They are traditionally associated with international finance centres, and in-part, thanks to the Panama Papers affair, thousands were uncovered and were brought to the forefront of many people's (and indeed financial regulators) consciousness.
Flexing the muscles
The European Union's Code of Conduct Group (Business Taxation) have decided to get tough on jurisdictions that are traditionally associated with brass plate companies, and ensure that businesses registered there can demonstrate that they have sufficient "substance" in the jurisdiction in which they are operating.
The EU is concerned that some of the tens of thousands of brass plate companies are routing company profits through various offshore financial centres, where they pay little or no tax, and potentially deprive EU member states of income to spend on essential public services like schools and hospitals.
Jurisdictions that do not comply with this ruling could be for the high jump. We've already seen evidence of this, when in late 2017 and early 2018, the EU placed the British Virgin Islands the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the Crown dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man) (along with 59 other places) on an anti-tax-avoidance "grey list" due to concerns relating to their economic substance. It threatened to blacklist the BVI as a non-compliant tax jurisdiction if the territory did not satisfactorily address the EU's concerns regarding economic substance. In reaction to this, the BVI approved legislation to address these concerns over its financial services sector. As recently as March 2019, the EU placed Bermuda on its black list, following the EU's assertion that the island had "been playing games" in an effort to dodge the EU requirements. The Crown Dependencies reacted by introducing legislation that will be effective for accounting periods on or after 1st January 2019, with companies being fined up to £100,000 if they cannot prove they have a sufficient physical presence in the islands.
Who's required to prove their economic substance?
In the Crown Dependencies it is those types of business sectors which are both geographically mobile (and therefore can move their operations between different jurisdictions) and have traditionally been the focus of preferential tax regimes (i.e. businesses whose profits are subject to low or no tax). The regulators refer to these businesses as carrying on 'relevant activities'.
Businesses conducting relevant activities are:
- banking
- insurance
- fund management
- finance and leasing
- headquarters
- shipping
- intellectual property
- holding companies that generate income from any of the above activities
- holding companies that hold shares in other companies
But how does one go about demonstrating sufficient economic substance? It doesn't necessarily equate to the presence of an on-site gym, gleaming sky scraper or a fancy staff restaurant (although I'm sure that would help). No, the Crown Dependencies have defined economic substance as follows; 'the company is being directed and managed in the island, conducting Core Income Generating Activities (CIGA) in the island, and having adequate people, premises and expenditure in the island'.
What is a CIGA? Well, it depends on the industry sector. For a fund management company based in Guernsey these are defined as:
- Taking decisions on the holding and selling of investments
- Taking decisions on currency or interest fluctuations and hedging positions
- Preparing relevant regulatory or other reports for governmental or regulatory authorities and investors
How is evidence of sufficient economic substance to be provided to the authorities?
Proving economic substance will typically form part of a company's income tax filing process. The Crown Dependencies are in the process of redesigning their tax returns to ensure that all tax resident companies will be required to provide additional information concerning their activities and income to ensure the above activities can be identified.
As part of their income tax filing process, all companies are required to provide details on:
- Business/income types (in order to identify the type of relevant activity), and
Amount and type of gross income.
Companies carrying on relevant activities must also provide:
- Amount of operating expenditure
- Details of premises
- Number of (qualified) employees, specifying the number of full time equivalents
- Confirmation of the CIGAs conducted for each relevant activity
- The financial statements, and
- Confirmation of whether any CIGAs have been outsourced and if so relevant details.
What's the end game?
You could argue that this direction of travel goes beyond loss of taxation revenues and money laundering, but is actually about shoring up local industries that could otherwise be harmed by the traditional offshore locations embracing the globalisation that technology brings. Whether that is true or not, what is clear is that economic substance is going to be the new front on jurisdictional competition, with the Channel Islands in particular using it to bolster their position as a leading centre of wealth management.
Want to know more?
The power and flexibility of 5Series means that our customers are already well placed to record and report this information, but we're following developments keenly. If you'd like to chat with me or the wider product team about this, just send an email to us at email@example.com.
Philip Taylor is a Product Owner at Microgen Financial Systems.
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Mobile devices have reached a wide development range and proved its assistance in health care with the combination of Cloud Server. The health monitoring offers various services such as monitoring of physiological data through remote sensors. These are achieved in collaboration with Cloud Servers providing software as a service, thus providing healthcare solutions at low cost. But there is a high risk of security violation of patient's private data as there is a lack of data management. The proposed approach identifies the existing system's design problems and proposes private key proxy re-encryption scheme that helps in reduction of computation complexity of securing data. This system is used to transmit patient's personal information from smart mobile phone to a monitoring system installed by a health service provider in cloud, such that the third party collaborator of the healthcare company is then responsible for private key distribution to clients which can be used for querying his data. When the user requires accessing his data, he/she passes the private key and the healthcare company index to the collaborator, who in turn inputs the master key to the cloud that provide parallel access to the databases. The user finally receives a token from collaborator and pass to the cloud, which respond back to the user with semi-decrypted data and final decryption takes place at the end user's place. Hence the cloud has no reach to unencrypted private data of the user. Also the advantage of this model is drastically reduces the workload of encryption/decryption tasks by outsourcing them to the cloud server.
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|In recent years, cloud computing is gaining much momentum in the IT industry. Especially, we have seen the dramatic growth of public clouds, in which the computing resources can be accessed by the general public. Advancing the field of health informatics has been listed as one of the engineering grand challenges for the current century. Activities in this field include acquiring, controlling, and using biomedical information, from personal level to global levels, to improve the quality and efficiency of medical care and the response to widespread public health emergencies. Predominantly, in the personal level, biomedical engineers envision "a new system of distributed computing tools that will collect authorized medical data about people and store it securely within a network designed to help deliver quick and efficient care. In this direction, several technological advances and new concepts, such as medical devices, Body Area Networks, pervasive wireless broadband communications and Cloud computing are enabling advanced mobile health-care services that benefit both patients and health professionals. Especially, they enable the development of a system to perform remote real-time collection, distribution and analysis of medical data for the purpose of managing chronic conditions and detecting health emergencies. The key problem of storing encrypted data in the cloud lies in revoking access rights from users. A user whose authorization is revoked will still retain the keys issued previously, and thus can still decrypt data in the cloud. This solution will lead to a performance bottleneck, particularly when there are frequent user revocations [1].
|In such a remote mHealth monitoring system, a client could arrange portable sensors in wireless body sensor networks to collect various physiological data, such as blood pressure (BP), breathing rate (BR), Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG), peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO ) and blood glucose. Such physiological data are sent to a central server, which could run various web medical applications on these data to return timely guidance to the client[2].
|Besides, the current trend is more focused on protection against intrusions while there is little effort on protecting clients from business collecting private information. Many companies have significant commercial interests in collecting clients' private health data [3] and sharing them with either insurance companies, research institutions or the government agencies. The collected information from an mHealth monitoring system could contain clients' personal physical data such as their heights, weights, blood types, and ultimate personal identifiable information such as their fingerprints and DNA profiles [4].
|Another major problem in addressing security and privacy is the computational workload involved with the cryptographic techniques. With the presence of cloud computing services, it will be wise to shift thorough computations to cloud servers from mobile devices. However, achieving this effect without compromising privacy and security becomes a great challenge, which should be suspiciously investigated. As an important remark, our design here mainly focuses on insider attacks, which could be provided by either malicious or nonmalicious insiders. For instance, the insiders could be unhappy employees or healthcare workers who enter the healthcare business for criminal purpose [5], [6]. It was reported that 32% of medical data breaches in medical establishments between January 2007 and June 2009 were due to insider attacks [7], and the incident rate of insider attacks is rapidly increasing [7]. The insider attacks have cost the victimized institutions much more than what outsider attacks have caused [8]. Furthermore, insider attackers are generally much harder to deal with because they are generally sophisticated professionals or even criminal rings who are adept at escaping intrusion detection [6]. On the other hand, while outsider attacks could be easily prevented by directly adopting cryptographic mechanisms such as encryption, it is nontrivial to design a privacy preserving mechanism against the insider attacks because we have to balance the privacy constraints and maintenance of normal operations of mHealth systems.
|We integrate the recently proposed outsourcing decryption technique [9] into the underlying multidimensional range queries system to shift clients' computational complexity to the cloud without revealing any information on either clients' query input or the decrypted decision to the cloud. We recommend a further improvement, which is most important to our final scheme. It is based on a new alternative key private proxy reencryption scheme, in which the company only needs to accomplish encryption once at the setup phase while shifting the rest computational tasks to the cloud without compromising privacy, additionally reducing the computational and communication burden on clients and the cloud[10].
A. Mobile Cloud for Assistive Healthcare (MoCAsH)
|This paper proposes a Mobile Cloud for Assistive Healthcare infrastructure. The infrastructure addresses the limitations of our earlier Active Grid infrastructure, invoke Cloud computing features such as user easy access, elasticity of resources demands, scalability of infrastructure, and metered usage and accounting of resources. The innovative infrastructure also addresses a number of issues with current Cloud architecture including some security and privacy issues, data protection and ownership. P2P paradigm is deployed to federate clouds that may belong to different administrators to address security, data protection and ownership. Part of the infrastructure has been implemented or migrated from the Active Grid [11].
B. The Era of Cloud Computer
|Cloud-Computing helps provide the best efficiency for human beings, and it presents acquisition (user interface service), business (marketing driven usage), access (internet & intranet), and technology (unlimited, dynamic and flexible). For example, the heart beat detection can be detected by the portable sensors which typically send the health information though the RFID, gather into the media gateway, and then upload it to the public server system. Within a few seconds, the animated heart graphic with the calculated data soon replies back to the wireless network gateway, displaying the 3D graphics of heart in order to prevent the heart stroke or monitor diseases. All this concert is going through the wireless RF methodology, and its arithmetic process is finished by the remote computing servers that decrease the loading of mobile media devices. The remarkable value is the lowest cost for common users and the capability to provide the best medical care from the integration of the cyber system [12].
C. A Cloud Based Web Analysis and Reporting of Vital Signs
|The solution was built by converting an ordinary stethoscope into a digital one by implanting a Bluetooth microphone in the stethoscope ear piece. This enables a smart phone to record and store stethoscope audio signal. A Matlab program is written to demonstrate analysis of audio recording. The program contains a set of configuration parameters that can be customized based on patient conditions and recording environment. The program analyzes the signal to extract S1 and S2 timing instants. Before analysis, the noise is reduced by passing the signal through filter that removes frequency bands outside the signal range. A new algorithm is presented based on two passes search of signal peaks. The paper also presents a new approach for visualizing regularity of heart beats by fitting the measured S1 and S2 timing and plotting norms of residues [13].
D. Leveraging Mobile Cloud for Telemedicine
|Leveraging the modern advances in mobile technologies and cloud computing, telemedicine is on the limit of a substantial transformation that will make stronger the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare delivery.
|In this paper, we present a preliminary performance study of mobile cloud to demonstrate its potential in performing continuous health monitoring in daily life and achieving higher diagnostic accuracy. Our findings also unveil the limitations of existing mobile devices in performing telemedicine by themselves. As shown in Fig: 2.1 mobile devices can be used to acquire various physiological signals from a set of ambient/body sensors. To alleviate intensive computations and extend the battery life of mobile devices, the acquired physiological signals will be transferred to a cloud service environment to perform desired, computation-intensive algorithmic signal processing. The processed results, recognized abnormalities, or analytical alarms will be automatically archived in the cloud or sent to the mobile devices owned by patients, physicians, or emergency teams. This application mode can be of particular significance to patients whose physiological signals need to be monitored continuously [14].
|Many encryption schemes are used in cloud for security. These algorithms are Homomorphic Encryption, Private Key Proxy re-encryption ,Attribute based encryption, Outsourcing Decryption scheme and triple-DES encryption schemes are given below
1. Homomorphic Encryption:
|Homomorphic encryptions allow complex mathematical operations to be performed on encrypted data without compromising the encryption. The homomorphic encryption describes the transformation of one data set into another while preserving relationships between elements in both sets. Uses of Homomorphic encryption is expected to play an important part in cloud, allowing companies to store encrypted data in a public cloud and take advantage of the cloud providers analytic services[15][16].
|Intuitively, for homomorphic encryption HEnc(.), given two encrypted messages HEnc(m1) and HEnc(m2) , the encryption of the addition of the two underlying messages can be computed as follows: HEnc(m1+m2)= HEnc(m1) *HEnc(m2) , where * is the corresponding operation in the ciphertext space. A typical homomorphic encryption scheme was proposed by Paillier cryptosystem [17], [18].
|2. Private Key Proxy re-encryption:
|We initiate by specifying the input/output behavior of a proxy re-encryption scheme [19]. For simplicity, we consider a definition for unidirectional, single-hop PREs. By single-hop, we indicate that only original ciphertexts (and not reencrypted ciphertexts) can be re-encrypted. One might extend the basic notions of our security and key privacy definitions for multi-hop schemes, but this requires a more involved definition of when users become distort, and may be more appropriate for CCA-secure schemes.
|A unidirectional, single-hop, proxy re-encryption scheme is a tuple of algorithms Π= (Setup, KeyGen, ReKeyGen, Enc, ReEnc, Dec) for message space M:
|• Setup(1k) → PP. On input security parameter 1k, the setup algorithm outputs the public parameters PP.
|• KeyGen(PP) → (pk, sk). On input public parameters, the key generation algorithm KeyGen outputs a public key pk and a secret key sk.
|• ReKeyGen(PP, ski, pkj) → rki→j . Given a secret key ski and a public key pkj , where i ≠ j, this algorithm outputs a unidirectional re-encryption key rki→j . The restriction that i ≠ j is provided as re-encrypting a message to the original recipient is impractical.
|• Enc(PP, pki,m) →Ci. On input a public key pki and a message m Ɛ M, the encryption algorithm outputs an original ciphertext Ci.
|• ReEnc(PP, rki→j ,Ci) →Cj . Given a re-encryption key from i to j and an original ciphertext for i, the re-encryption algorithm outputs a ciphertext for j or the error symbol ┴
|• Dec(PP, ski,Ci) →m. Given a secret key for user i and a ciphertext for i, the decryption algorithm Dec outputs a message m Ɛ M or the error symbol ┴.
|A unidirectional, single-hop PRE scheme Π is correct with respect to domain M if:
|i. For all (pk, sk) Ɛ KeyGen(PP) and all m Ɛ M, it holds that Dec(PP, sk, Enc(PP, pk,m)) = m.
|ii. For all pairs (pki, ski), (pkj , skj) Ɛ KeyGen(PP) and keys rki→j Ɛ ReKeyGen(PP, ski, pkj ), and m Ɛ M, it holds that Dec(PP, skj , ReEnc(PP, rki→j , Enc(PP, pki,m))) = m.
|3. Attribute Based Encryption:
|Attribute based encryption (ABE) , a recently invented one-to-many public-key cryptography, has the possible to enforce the fine-grained access policies for large-scale systems. In attribute based encryption data are associated with attributes. Access policies, defined on attributes, are compulsory within the encryption procedure. Different form traditional broadcast encryption, ABE offers the ability to encrypt data without exact knowledge of the receiver set. In this sense the concept of ABE is closely related to Role-Based/Attribute-Based access control and suitable for large-scale application. In attribute-based encryption (ABE), user secret key revocation is also a challenge issue[20].
|4. Outsourcing Decryption:
|We give new methods for efficiently and securely outsourcing decryption of ABE ciphertexts. The core change to outsourceable ABE systems is a modified Key Generation algorithm that produces two keys. The first key is a short El Gamal [21] type secret key that must be kept by the authorized user. The second key called as a TK(transformation key), that is shared with a proxy (and can be publicly distributed). If the proxy then receives a ciphertext CT for a function f for which the user's credentials satisfy, it is then able to use the key TK to transform CT into a simple and short El Gamal ciphertext CTˊ of the same message encrypted under the user's key SK. The user is then able to decrypt with one simple exponentiation. Our system is secure against any malicious proxy[22].
|Let S represent a set of attributes, and A an access structure. For generality, we will define (Ienc, Ikey) as the inputs to the encryption and key generation function respectively. In a CP-ABE scheme (Ienc, Ikey) = (A,S), while in a KP-ABE scheme we will have (Ienc, Ikey) = (S,A). A CP-ABE (resp. KP-ABE) scheme with outsourcing functionality consists of five algorithms:
|• Setup(λ,U).The setup algorithm takes security parameter and attribute universe description as input. and outputs are public parameters PK and a master key MK.
|• Encrypt(PK,M,Ienc).The encryption algorithm takes as input the message M, public parameters PK, and an access structure (resp. attribute set) Ienc. It outputs the ciphertext CT.
|• KeyGenout (MK, Ikey).The key generation algorithm takes as input the master key MK and an attribute set (resp. access structure) Ikey and outputs a private key SK and a transformation key TK.
|• Transform(TK,CT).The ciphertext transformation algorithm takes as input a transformation key TK for Ikey and a ciphertext CT that was encrypted under Ienc. It outputs the partially decrypted ciphertext CTˊ if S Ɛ A and the error symbol ┴ otherwise.
|• Decryptout (SK,CTˊ).The decryption algorithm takes as input a private key SK for Ikey and a partially decrypted ciphertext CTˊ that was originally encrypted under Ienc. It outputs the message M if S Ɛ A and the error symbol ┴.
|5. Triple-DES algorithm:
|Triple Data Encryption algorithm is an encryption algorithm that is based on the Data Encryption Standard encryption algorithm. The size of block is 64 bits and the key sizes are 168, 112, or 56 bits. The input key sizes are 3 64 bit keys, which are shortened to 56 bits because of the internal key scheduler. The block of data is encrypted 3 times with each of the keys according to the keying options:
|Keying Option 1: All the keys are independent.
|Keying Option 2: K1 & K2 are independent and K3 = K1.
|Keying Option 3: All keys are identical (i.e. K1=K2=K3).
|It reinforces DES by expanding the key space which is it's main weakness and protects itself from brute force attacks. Today TDEA is widely used.
|Triple DES uses a "key bundle" which comprises three DES keys, K1, K2 and K3, each of 56 bits (excluding parity bits).
|The encryption algorithm is: ciphertext = EK3(DK2(EK1(plaintext)))
|i.e., DES encrypt plaintext with K1, and DES decrypt with K2, finally DES encrypt with K3.
|Decryption is the reverse: plaintext = DK1(EK2(DK3(ciphertext)))
|i.e., decrypt ciphertext with K3, and encrypt with K2, finally decrypt with K1.
|In each case the middle operation is reverse of the first and last. This algorithm mainly improves the strength of the security [23].
|In our existing system with the pervasiveness of Cloud-assisted networks the Healthcare which extends the operation of Healthcare provider into a pervasive environment for better health monitoring is not governed properly by the trust authority. The privacy disclosure and the high reliability of distributed system over single cloud process and transmission in Healthcare emergency monitoring is not an efficient user-centric privacy access control on CAM. For healthcare infrastructure there may be several serious issues concerning security, data protection and ownership and quality of services need to be resolved before Cloud computing can be widely adopted. This analysis exhibit the key for an authenticated token providence in the Cloud for Assistive Healthcare as an infrastructure for assistive healthcare. Healthcare business with criminal purposes may affect our system which is a drawback in our existing algorithm, and also Several serious issues concerning security and data protection paradigm [10].
|In this paper, propose a secure and privacy-preserving opportunistic computing framework for the Healthcare Emergency. To improves the performance evaluation via extensive simulations and parallel database. We can provide high reliability and transmission for minimizing the privacy disclosure .Cloud computing can be widely adopted to address these concerns, and this paper propose a new solution that includes in a cloud platform designed to deal with those issues that are relevant for an assistive healthcare infrastructure.
|Our design of the proposed system consists of four parties: the cloud server (simply the cloud), the company which provides the mHealth monitoring service (i.e., the healthcare service provider), and the individual clients (simply clients), and a trust authority (TA), as shown in Fig: 5.1. The company stores its encrypted monitoring data in the cloud. Individual clients collect their medical data and store them in their mobile devices, which then transform the data into cloud. TA is responsible for distributing private keys to clients and collecting service fees from clients according to a certain business model such as "pay-per-use" model. TA can be considered as a collaborator or a management agent for a company (or several companies) and thus shares certain level of mutual business interest with the company. In the following, we will briefly introduce steps for this paper. We only illustrate the functionality of these components here. Because the detailed input and output of those steps might vary in different schemes, we leave more details wherever needed.
|Fig: 5.2 shows First step the company collect the patients, doctors and hospitals information's, which is encrypted under the respective triple-DES algorithms. Then the company will deliver the resulting ciphertext and its company index to the cloud, which corresponds to the algorithm in the context.
|Fig: 5.3 shows the clients request the particular patient information from the cloud server. Then the client sends the company index to TA, and the trust authority (TA) provides authorization to the requested individual clients. After that TA generates the token and provided to the particular client
|Finally, the client delivers the token to the cloud, which runs the phase. The cloud using the parallel concept to completes the major computationally intensive task for the client's decryption (triple-DES) and returns the partially decrypted ciphertext to the client. The client then completes the remaining decryption (triple-DES) task after receiving the partially decrypted ciphertext and obtains its decryption result. These are shown in fig: 5.4. The cloud obtains no useful information on either the client's private key input or decryption result after running the phase.
|• Advantages of Proposed system:
|1. The Security level is increased in the health care monitoring solution.
|2. Using the parallel computing concept to increase the performance.
|It is cost prohibitive for many individual healthcare systems to support the investment in the equipment, technology, personnel, and ongoing training required to deliver the highest level of data security. To protect the clients' privacy, we apply the triple-DES encryption. To reduce the decryption complexity, we apply recently anticipated decryption outsourcing with privacy protection to shift clients pairing computation to the cloud server. We also introduce the parallel computing concept to accessing the database. So the accessing time are reduced. Finally, to enable resourceconstrained small companies to participate in mHealth business, our design helps them to shift the computational burden to the cloud by applying newly developed key private proxy reencryption technique. Our system has been shown to achieve the design objective.
|It can also secure health care information in the form of images in an encrypted form once after getting authenticated through trust authority. Preserving health care information in an globalised way can also be helpful in pattern matching strategy to analyze new diseases.
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I'm Oktay and I live in Malatya. One day God helped me go abroad. I didn't know what could happen there, but I still went.
This was in 2018 and in the days of the World Cup in Russia. I met a Polish woman on social media. I still can't forget that it was a football match between Poland and Senegal. Each of us bet on a team to win. If I won the bet, I could get her phone number. I was saying prayers until the end of the match. Can you believe it?
I won the bet. A few days later, she came from Krakow to Bielsko, so we could meet. She told me that there was a big castle in Bielsko and we could meet there. I couldn't breathe properly until I met her.
Finally, I met her! I never met such a beautiful woman before. She made a difference in my life. There was also something funny about the meeting. The castle is not so big at all. It was a small and cute castle.
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Perhaps this essay is only my desperate attempt to connect to spring in spite of the seven inches of additional snow currently falling on my yard and life. I should be glad to have a reason to stay inside and stick to my writing schedule, before gardening season distracts me. But I am itchy to get my hands in dirt.
My gardening is a little obsessive…friends tease me I have a problem. I used to worry about the time spent in the garden away from my pages. I felt guilty neglecting my novel in progress. But now I understand that the gardening actually feeds the writing in many ways. The most obvious way my garden enriches my writing is that it gives me something relatively mindless to do with my hands—which is exactly when the ideas flow. If I'm trying to figure out what happens next in the story or how to resolve a problem in a scene, I can't just sit at the desk and expect the answers to come. The ideas come when I'm driving or running or mowing or washing dishes…or gardening. I never listen to music or the news in my garden. I like my mind open and free, while my hands are engaged. Many a scene has been created in my garden.
But beyond that most crucial gift, the gardening process is, in fact, quite similar to the writing process. Every step of the process in one has a parallel in the other.
The first step is to have an idea, right? It actually makes me laugh a bit when people ask me at signings and readings, "Where do you get your ideas?" (as if they want me to name a website or secret store). I don't mean to be flippant, but I get my ideas from keeping my eyes open as a human being on this planet. I have so many ideas queued up in my brain (kind of like a Netflix queue, complete with the "move to top" option) that I will never be able to write them all in this lifetime. That is exactly how I feel when I look at seed and garden catalogues (or worse, when I am actually in the nursery and end up buying everything I want) "I want this, and this, and ooh, look at that! I need two of these, one in every color…"
But then, you have to eventually pick an idea and focus. You have to look at your space and decide which plants will actually thrive in your zone and soil and sun/shade conditions. I don't have room for every single plant I'd like to grow, so I have to be picky. And just like with an idea for a novel, once I choose, I have to commit. You have to serve your story, and you serve your story by focusing on character motivation and conflict, not by straying off into tangents.
Early on in the gardening season, I deal with a lot of shit. Literally. Luscious, thick, black, fragrant compost…which is nothing but worm shit and decomposed other matter, usually mixed in with some velvety, ancient horse manure (which tomatoes adore) and chicken droppings raked from some dear friends' coop. How fitting, since, as Ernest Hemingway told us, "All first drafts are shit." We give ourselves permission to write badly, knowing that beautiful things will grow later from that all that fertilizing shit.
[pullquote]We give ourselves permission to write badly, knowing that beautiful things will grow later from that all that fertilizing shit.[/pullquote]
Before the beautiful things do start to grow, though, you have to have faith. You have to water what essentially looks like dirt and simply trust that the seeds you planted will take root and grow. You have to show up daily and tend to the places where you believe they are going to arrive. And you have trust they will eventually take the shape and fill the space the seed packets say they will and plan accordingly…just like those early days of a first draft. Just make it exist. Put the words on the page. See one scene ahead and write that, even if you can't envision the ending yet.
When the beautiful things do start to grow, you need to be diligent. You need to thin them, so they don't overcrowd (continuing to serve the story). As the early crops come in—the peas, the radishes, the spinach, and the spindly Brussels sprouts—you can enjoy that sense of satisfaction, but you know the work is only just beginning.
Later, as the zinnias and hydrangeas bloom, and the bees are humming busily about, and you pick your first sun-warmed tomato and eat it right there in the garden, juice dripping down your chin, the realization hits you: what are revision and editing, really, but pruning, deadheading, and thinning? Cutting out what's not necessary, so that what remains can thrive? Staking and propping up parts that sag or need bolstered? Perhaps transplanting because you now see that a scene or a plant would thrive better here instead of there, in full sunlight?
You're never really "done" with a garden, or with a novel, but eventually there comes the harvest. The baskets full of zucchini and cucumbers, the bouquets of fragrant basil…and the freshly printed draft. Eventually, at the end of the season, you put the garden "to bed," and you're lucky enough to reach "acceptance of final copy" and release the book out of your hands, making peace with what it is.
But…after a brief period of well-deserved rest, you start planning the next season and the next book. Because that's what we do, right? And there will come a day, because of snow or because of resistance finally fading, that we cannot wait to delve in again.
What activities in your own life feed your writing process? How does your writing nurture other areas of your life?
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Man-on-man spooning, long thought to be the gateway drug to sporking and other unseemly be-gay-vior, is back in the news with a shocking study on straight men.
According to research published in the Men and Masculinities journal, 93 percent of straight British men have spooned with another man, and 98 percent have shared a bed with one. Holy sheet, you might be saying to yourselves. It's an epidemic and NOM missed it due to their now constant struggle to remain even a little bit relevant.
We've long since suspected spooning was a nefarious activity, ever since Mary Poppins sang about a spoonful of sugar helping the "medicine" go down. Like we haven't heard that line before, Fairy Poppins!
We're kidding, of course. Straight men should be welcome to experience physical affection between other men, and not just the kind involving their fists (please interpret that sentence however you want).
According to researchers at Winchester and Durham Universities, who conducted the study, homosocial behaviors among heterosexuals like cuddling and spooning are nearly ubiquitous, at least in the 40 British college students who were surveyed.
Of course, we can't really deduce much from such a small sample size of white teenagers (get on that, science!), but it's encouraging to see straight men experiencing an outlet for physical touch outside of beating on each other or the occasional sports-related butt tap.
One participant, Max, described how cuddling helps his hangovers:
On the morning following a night out clubbing, the friends will congregate at one house, where they watch TV, play video games. ... These activities would include frequent cuddling, which Max described as ''feeling good,'' adding, ''If your mate has a headache you can like massage his head, or you just lie there together holding each other and laughing about how awful you feel.''
That other gold standard for scientific research, IsItNormal.com, also points to a resounding "yes, it's fine." The question posed by a dude, "Is it normal to Cuddle/Spoon and Sleep with same-sex best friend?" produced an 82 percent response rate in the affirmative. And if the Internet says it's true, then it must be true.
Homophobia is often blamed as to why two straight men aren't allowed to be physical with each other, though here in San Francisco, we think dude-on-dude affection is far more accepted than in other parts of the country. Half of our straight friends have made out with at least one guy and thought nothing of it. American psychiatrist Fritz Klein believed straight guys avoid being physical with other guys due to "a myth that such intimacies are inspired by sexual desire and are thus precursors to sexual intimacy."
Since homophobia also causes people to die sooner, this spooning study is one more reason to combat it by hugging a bro today.
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Obama proposes new taxes to fund health-care expansion
President Barack Obama is set to propose $634 billion in new taxes on upper-income Americans and cuts in government spending over the next 10 years to pay for health-care expansion, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 26 (see tax story). The tax increases alone would raise an estimated $318 billion over the next decade by cutting down on mortgage and charitable deductions for the wealthiest Americans. The budget plan also would extend tax cuts for the middle class and working poor.
Nonprofit campaign spending takes downturn in 2008
Nonprofits spent more than $400 million last year to influence voters in the presidential election, down from $486 million in 2004, says an analysis by the Campaign Finance Institute, CQ Politics reported Feb. 25. However, 501(c) groups, including business coalitions, spent nearly $196 million in 2008, more than triple the estimated $60 million they spent in 2004. The top three spenders were the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with $36.4 million, Freedom's Watch with nearly $30.2 million and Employee Freedom Action Committee with $20 million.
Former governor joins forces with Gates Foundation
Former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley plans to work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a paid consultant on educational issues, the Associated Press reported Feb. 25. Easley, who left office last month after eight years as governor, aims to expand his Learn and Earn program, which allows students to earn a high-school diploma and college credit simultaneously, or take technology classes. The program received an Innovations in American Government Award last year from the government school at Harvard University.
Philadelphia art museum cuts staff, plans to raise admission
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is postponing exhibitions and laying off staff after losing at least $90 million of its endowment, which stood at $346 million last July, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Feb. 25. The cuts are part of an effort to reduce the museum's operating budget by about $1.7 million for the fiscal year ending June 30. Pending city approval, the museum also plans to raise admission in July by an undetermined amount.
UNC nursing school receives grant for safety education
The nursing school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is set to receive $1.8 million of a $4.25 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Triangle Business Journal reported Feb. 25 (see nursing story). The school plans to devote the funds to a program that aims to educate nurses on safety and quality issues. The remaining $2.45 million from the grant will go to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
Helmsley's billions not just for dogs, judge rules
The billions of dollars left in a charitable trust by hotel magnate Leona Helmsley do not have to be spent solely on the welfare of dogs, a judge ruled, The New York Times reported Feb. 25 (see dog story). Going against Helmsley's wishes, the judge said trustees may distribute funds to whichever charitable purposes they choose. Helmsley, who died in 2007, raised eyebrows when she devoted her entire estate to canine care and named her Maltese, Trouble, her biggest beneficiary.
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* As Long Island school districts lose state funding, parents and local community groups are stepping up to the plate, creating foundations to fund axed or endangered programs, The New York Times reported Feb. 25. But the move has alarmed some education officials, who say that relying on unstable sources of funding can leave school districts too vulnerable.
* Hawaii nonprofits, faced with state funding cuts and dismal donations, are asking state lawmakers for help in securing shares of the federal economic-stimulus package, The Honolulu Advertiser reported Feb. 26.


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Bantwal, Mar 24, 2019: A man and his 12 year old daughter were found dead under suspicious circumstances in their rented house in a residential complex at Vivek Nagar, B C Road on March 23, Saturday.
The deceased have been identified as Prabhaker (45) and his daughter Pranamya. The girl was studying in fourth standard in SVS English Medium School. The suspicion is that Prabhaker might have poisoned his daughter and then ended his life by consuming poison. However, the police are investigating the case from all angles.
Prabhaker who was working in the Gulf some time back was residing in this house since three years with his daughter. It is learnt, he was into finance business. Sources said Pranamya who was a talented girl had not attended classes on Friday and Saturday.


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First Impressions: WILD GINGER
Welcome to First Impressions for the month of June! Our first selection is a MG Contemporary manuscript by Valerie Hobbs titled WILD GINGER:
There were times living with her parents when Elizabeth "Lizzie" Lessing has had to be the grownup, or at least feels as if she does. Like right now on the Big Island of Hawaii as their tiny rental car passes a sign on the side of the road. "Hey, you guys," she says. "We're driving into a volcano. Did you see that sign?"
Her mother laughs. "Not into it, honey. Not exactly. Nothing to worry about."
Lizzie thought about the day her sixth grade teacher, Mr. Sylvester, did his amazing volcano imitation. "Kaboom" he cried, leaping into the air, sending them all into shrieks and fits of laughter. "Is it active?"
Lizzie's father, too big for their rented car, hulks over the steering wheel. "Kilauea is an active volcano all right," he says. "If we're lucky we'll get to see some lava."
Her parents are crazy. Always chasing after some new "folly," Lizzie's grandmother says. But nothing seems to work. Lessing Cake and Coffee had attracted only flies. Lessing Laundry went belly up when a fancier one opened on the next block. There were penny stocks and bubble gum machines, a dog washing service and Mack Of All Trades home repairs. Her father finally took a job as a manager at Burger King but lost it in a week.
And now there is this new thing her mother had spotted on a real estate flyer. "Old plantation house surrounded by lush vegetation, perfect for a bed and breakfast". The flyer had no picture.
Based on my first impression of the story, Lizzie's parents have moved to Hawaii to purchase and operate a bed and breakfast after having repeatedly failed at running small businesses in the past. Lizzie's grandmother thinks they're foolish, and Lizzie feels as if she's the grown-up and her parents are irresponsible children.
But I'm not sure the information is presented in the right order. In general, I think it's best to avoid putting back story in front of the now story.
For example, I'd like to know the car is headed toward an old plantation house in Hawaii that Lizzie's parents plan on running as a bed and breakfast, and I'd like to feel Lizzie's apprehension about this – through her actions and dialogue – before finding out why she's worried. The fact that her parents have spectacularly failed at several previous business ventures is something that could wait until after we know what they're up to now.
I also had trouble connecting with the first sentence. There's an issue of verb tense, with the sentence starting out in past tense, moving to present perfect (I think. That one always confuses me.), and finishing in present tense. Even if the entire sentence is edited into the present tense like the bulk of the narrative, the bigger problem is that an unnamed narrator is telling us Lizzie's feelings before we've met Lizzie.
I'd rather see this page start with Lizzie watching the landscape, worrying about the volcano sign, trying to direct her parents to be careful where they're driving — while they brush her off. Then, it's okay to share how Lizzie feels like the only grown-up in the car, although it would be great if this came through Lizzie's thoughts. Ex: Sometimes, Lizzie thinks, it's like I'm the only grown-up in this family.
Personally, I've never written in third person present tense, and I've only seen it used once or twice. (Boundless by Kenneth Oppel comes to mind.) Since there are a couple other places where you slip into past tense (ex: Lizzie thought about the day her sixth grade teacher …), are you sure you wouldn't be more comfortable sticking to past tense for the whole story? Readers, what do you think?
Valerie, thank you for sharing your first page with us! You can find Valerie and learn about her other books at her website. We have two other authors giving feedback on this page: Marcy at Mainewords and Krystalyn at See the Stars. Please check them out!
7 Responses to First Impressions: WILD GINGER
I agree with what Dianne said, but I'd like to add that I like the idea of the story. It sounds like an adventure is coming.
Good suggestion to switch things up and place where they are going first. I also had problems with the tense. It read awkward. The story could potentially have some great humor to it though!
Dianne's comments would straighten up the confused feeling I had (with switching things around). I also felt that it was a little too many different droplets of info too fast. I had to smile at Lizzie's personality–she's got voice!
The very last line of this, about the plantation house in Hawaii but with no picture I think is the best line. The comments about how their business ideas fail only reinforces that this deal may not turn out to be what they expected. To me, that alone would make me want to read on. So much of this is telly, though. I agree with Dianne that too much backstory is given too early and it reads like exposition. All the proper ingredients are here, though. A little cutting and editing will make a world of difference.
Dianne wrote a great critique! I love the premise of the story and left my critique comments on Marcy's blog. 🙂
Somehow it slipped my mind that the critiques would be available early this month! Thanks so much, Diane. Your response to the first page is very helpful and, I think, right on. How generous of you to do this. I'd be happy any time to return the favor.


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Tom Grennan had a crazy year in 2018, breaking Guiness World Records, selling out tours and his debut album Lighting Matches went into the charts at #5.
You'd forgive him for being a bit cocky, but it seems like he can't quite believe his luck. "I never expected it all to happen so quickly. I've always wanted to go as far as I can but it's come as a big shock how quickly this has happened. I'm just taking it as it comes and enjoying it."
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SSWPA-YAV was established in the fall of 2018 with the support of SSWPA president, Dr. Lupinacci. Our mission is to promote citizenship, musicianship and friendship through piano performances for residents at senior living homes.
I am a senior in North Allegheny Senior High School. When I was seven, I started playing the piano regularly at an assisted living home with my friends and continued until our family moved to Pittsburgh in 2017. The experience of playing the piano at the assisted living home was unique, memorable and rewarding. It had impacted on my growth as a pianist as well as a person, on my dedication to serve the community, and on my understanding of the purpose of life. As I became one of the SSWPA Young Artists in May of 2018, I wanted to share with other young artists not only my music, but also my experience and what I have benefited during the years while playing the piano for the senior residents. Through SSWPA-YAV, I believe that we will rise, contribute, and have fun together.
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President Meta conveys his condolences to President Thaçi on the occasion of Adem Demaçi's deathPrishtina, July 26th 2018 – President of the Republic of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, has received today over a telephone conversation, the condolences of the President of the Republic of Albania, Ilir Meta, on the occasion of the passing away of the well known activist, Adem Demaçi.
While highly praising the figure of Adem Demaçi, President Meta conveyed his and the condolences of Albanian people to the people of Kosovo.
President Thaçi thanked his Albanian homologue for his condolences and pointed out that Adem Demaçi was an inspiration to the resistance not only in Kosovo but also in Albania, which has made him the conscience of the nation.


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Universal Technology College of Puerto Rico
Universal Technology College of Puerto Rico is an Associate's college with 1260 students located in Aguadilla, PR.
Universal Technology College of Puerto Rico is an Associate's college with 1260 students located in Aguadilla, PR.
|Total Undergraduates
|37% Male / 63% Female
|Enrollment Breakdown
|95% Full Time / 5% Part Time
|Socio-Economic Diversity
|93% of students received Pell Grants, which are provided by the U.S. government to students from middle and lower income families. It gives you an idea of a school's socio-economic diversity.
|Ethnic Diversity
Student Publications: Unitec Informa
Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse (94%), Executive Assistant/Executive Secretary (5%), Electrician (0%), Computer Programming/Programmer (0%), Business/Office Automation/Technology/Data Entry (0%), Business Operations Support and Secretarial Services, Other (0%)
Any instructional program in administrative and secretarial services not listed above.
A program that prepares individuals to support business information operations by using computer equipment to enter, process, and retrieve data for a wide variety of administrative purposes. Includes instruction in using basic business software and hardware, business computer networking, principles of desktop publishing, preparing mass mailings, compiling and editing spreadsheets, list maintenance, preparing tables and graphs, receipt control, and preparing business performance reports.
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|Student : Faculty Ratio
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|Faculty Gender (% Male : Female)
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|Percentage of Faculty Members
|Non-Tenure Track Faculty
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Designed in 1971 by the architect John Partridge, of the post-war practice, Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis, The University of Oxford's Hilda Besse, is 50 years old and Grade II listed.
Hilda Besse's faceted concrete cladding encapsulates the family of partitions within it. The building contains all of the core college social spaces, including the dining hall, bar and common rooms in addition to the college kitchens and maintenance stores.
Partridge designed Hilda Besse as a single entity with all of the services encapsulated within its structure and very little space for increased capacity. Having little refurbishment throughout its lifetime there are several issues with its fabric; the concrete is spalling in several locations, the roof is in poor condition, and the kitchen is in need of replacement.
Purcell has been appointed to completely refurbish the building — to ensure the protection of its heritage and structure. To facilitate the process, temporary buildings are being provided to house the college's kitchens, dining hall and common room.
Our Oxford studio have developed a sensitive proposal to repair and develop Hilda Besse, enhancing its architectural heritage. Our proposed changes aim to improve the usability of the college, repair materials, reconfigure the first floor kitchen, improve access on all levels and improve toilet provision.
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Mary's Underground
When the news of the imminent closure of legendary jazz club The Basement broke, it seemed like another nail in Sydney's live music and late-night frivolity coffin. Well, until the masters of loudness, late nights and boundless frivolity stepped in to not only rescue the venue as a live music mecca, but to do so in a way that retained an integral bit of The Basement's DNA, while retooling it the Mary's way. Cue: Mary's Underground.
Jake Smyth and Kenny Graham launched Mary's in Newtown in 2013, somewhat propelling a movement of American-style fast food cooked with fine-dining skills. With the music heavy and loud, and the venue carved out with home-spun renovation skills, bedecked with graffiti and feeling more heavy metal pub than dining room, it's no surprise that the more refined side of the cooking may have not registered with some. The food was good, damn good, but that temple of unpretentiousness was never about talking about the food. It's all about good times.
With 45 years of history stacked up behind it, Smyth and Graham weren't going to bin the legacy of The Basement, with their reboot keeping the jazz theme very much alive, even extending to their own house band, which takes the stage "until the wheels fall off" every Friday night. And while many might have expected the Mary's crew's emblematic fried chicken and burgers dripping in American cheese to be the core of the menu, Smyth and Graham took a sharp turn in the other direction, embracing their background in sophisticated cooking.
Upstairs, at Mary's Circular Quay, you'll find all the Mary's favourites, with everything available in vegan versions, too, but downstairs at Mary's Underground is a very different story. In a hark back to times when restaurants with entertainment were not linked to culinary mediocrity, they have embraced a hyper indulgent menu featuring lobster, caviar, freshly popped oysters and even dry-aged duck from their bespoke duck drying cabinet. Think tiered seafood platters emerging from the Clam Bar and bombe alaska to finish, and you'll get something of the picture.
Like the original Mary's, there's a big focus here at Mary's Underground on 'natural' wine, with ex-Fred's sommelier Caitlyn Rees taking charge of the group's lists. All the wines are made from organically or biodynamically farmed fruit, though some may not be certified, but Rees is absolute on the no additions bar a touch of sulphur. The list takes in 300-odd bins, with half international and half from closer to home (here and New Zealand), and 30 available by the glass. While Rees' job is very much to oversee, industry legend Charles Leong takes the helm on the floor, adding another layer of depth to this label-defying venue.


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