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About us
ENROYALE GLOBAL SERVICES LIMITED is a World-Class Consulting Firm with specialization in Human Resource Management, Management Consultancy Services, Business Development Consultancy Services and Capacity building Services. We are committed to our client's development and growth through the introduction of internationally proven innovations, ideas, products and services to our client which are aimed towards enhancing the productivity of their organization.
At EGSL, our services draw on the experience and skills we have obtained from being at the forefront of international development and we continually build on our extensive practical expertise and knowledge.
Our Staff are Professionals in their areas of specialization and use real-life examples and case studies to support their work. We are committed to providing professional, personal service links and dedicate ourselves efficiently and effectively.
At ENROYALE GLOBAL SERVICES LIMITED,
We listen to Our Client,
We assess our Client's Needs,
We deliver solutions that meet client's needs,
We go the extra-mile.
ENROYALE GLOBAL SERVICES LIMITED will inspire its Employees to be the best they can be. We will engage in Sustainable Practices and anticipate the needs of our clients. We will maximize return to the Stakeholders while still maintaining World-Class Standard in our Services.
To be a Modern, Dynamic and Technologically Enabled Team, running a World-Class Consulting Service.
Our Objectives
In describing our firm's goals and objectives, we do not resort to the standard cliché lines about high deals and inherently naïve and complex formulas for success. As a result, our objectives are resolute and tangible. (1) to build a formidable team of HR strategists who are able to collaborate with institutions across various fields for superior performance. (2) to emerge top 5 HR firms in Abuja by 2019.
Our Growth Plan
At EGSL, our growth remains consistent and measured to ensure delivery on our commitments to superior solutions. Over the next five (5) years, EGSL will focus on expanding its reach to the small and medium scale enterprises whose businesses have been devoid of investments in Human Capital management. Our plans include strengthening our place in the United Kingdom by forging at least (12) additional strategic partnerships with expert strategists and consultants in various fields to ensure that EGSL has a broader spectrum of solutions tailored to the various client types.
We also plan to re-established our position as leaders in the Public Sector terrain by targeting model agencies and parastatals who desire to invest more in Human Capital. Overall, we will optimize the benefits of migrating from a sectional brand into a strong national and regional brand. Our focus will remain primarily on clients with vision and a true desire for change and transformation.
Our Commitment To Clients' Services
We are committed to excellent delivery of a wide range of services to our clients to meet their growing needs. We are dedicated to delivering actionable results in a tight-knit bond by leaving a positive impact on their businesses.
The high expectations we set for our service delivery teams are articulated, throughout all facets of the firm from its values. At EGSL, we ensure our services are tailored to the specific needs of our clients.


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While there are different ways to lead and different styles of leadership, without the ability to develop realistic budgets, communicate consistently and transparently with staff, and define a compelling mission and vision for all to rally around, they're just meaningless personality traits. If it's raining outside, don't sing me "the sun'll come out tomorrow," give me a damn umbrella.
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Random Thoughts on a Summer Friday (In Which I've Buried the Lede)
That "Local First" angle is what disturbs me the most, latching on to a legitimate movement whose most compelling hook focuses on locally sourced goods and sustainability, to support booksellers whose primary focus is usually selling the products of multi-national corporations who treat them like second-class citizens. The bookstores that are true pillars of their communities don't need hollow slogans and dreams of going viral on YouTube, because they prove on a daily basis why they matter to their communities.
Beer Tasting Class: Off-Flavors
I signed up for a class on "common off-flavors" in beers and it turned out to be a really interesting workshop on what can go wrong in the brewing process, and why. It was led by Mary Izzet and she covered seven off-flavors, using Miller Lite as the "control beer," with all but the last off-flavor demonstrated with it.
Writers Write, Even When They Don't Realize It
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. –Russell Baker That Baker quote has been on my About Page forever, but I only just recently realized its irony … Continue reading Writers Write, Even When They Don't Realize It
The Force is Strong in Him
My 8-year-old son has become a huge Star Wars fan over the past several months, without overt encouragement, as he's now seen all seven movies, and the new Clone Wars animated series has become appointment viewing for us almost every Friday night. He has three lightsabers, two of which he bought with his own allowance; … Continue reading The Force is Strong in Him


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Remit of Governing Body
The Governors are ultimately responsible for the effective and efficient running of the school but they delegate the daily management of the school to the Head Teacher.
Specifically, they are responsible for:
- The strategic direction of the school,
- Holding the school to account for its standards and provision, and
- Supporting and challenging the Head Teacher.
In order to work as effectively as possible, the Governors have established three main committees:
- Finance
- Ethos
- Curriculum and Standards (FGB)
These committees meet at least once every term, which allows for more detailed discussion and monitoring of progress on particular areas of school management. They are the executive arm of the full Governing Body (FGB) and, as such, report to the FGB at its termly meeting. Committee members are involved in decisions on the curriculum, the budget, recruitment and selection of staff, maintenance and improvement of premises, health and safety issues and general discipline.
Non-confidential minutes of previous meetings are available through the School office, as are copies of approved School policies. Meeting dates, Governing Body officers and committee and Panel membership are decided for the year in advance at the first FGB meeting of the academic year.
If you are interested in finding out more about what Governors do, or in applying to join the Governing Body, please contact our School Office.


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Title: Lee Wards The Complete Needlecraft Encyclopedia
Edited by: Berniece Wilkinson
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1973
Publisher: William G. King, Ltd., Paris, Ontario, Canada
Language: English
Page Count: 97
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 6 3/4"
ISBN: None
SUMMARY- The tatting section is five pages. You get a pictorial demonstrating the making of a ring, three(3)traditional and simple edgings, and a doily pattern. The basic instructions are fairly good for their brevity, and illustrates one of the faster methods of tatting. I don't believe it can replace having a teacher show the basics, though.
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The findings show a third of the audited codebases that contained Apache Struts also had the vulnerability that resulted in the Equifax breach
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today released the Black Duck by Synopsys 2018 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report, which examines findings from the anonymized data of over 1,100 commercial codebases audited in 2017. Industries represented in the report include the automotive, big data, cyber security, enterprise software, financial services, healthcare, Internet of Things (IoT), manufacturing, and mobile app markets.
The report highlights a massive uptick in open source adoption, with 96 percent of the applications scanned containing open source components. The data also shows that the average number of open source components found per codebase (257) grew by 75 percent over the previous year, with many applications containing more open source than proprietary code. What is worrisome is that 78 percent of the codebases examined contained at least one open source vulnerability, with an average 64 vulnerabilities per codebase. Over 54 percent of the vulnerabilities found in audited codebases are considered high-risk vulnerabilities. Seventeen percent of the codebases contained a highly publicized vulnerability such as Heartbleed, Logjam, Freak, Drown, or Poodle.
"Since modern software and infrastructure depend heavily on open source technologies, having a clear view of components in use is a key part of corporate governance," said Tim Mackey, technical evangelist at Black Duck by Synopsys. "The report clearly demonstrates that with the growth in open source use, organizations need to ensure they have the tools to detect vulnerabilities in open source components and manage whatever license compliance their use of open source may require."
Vulnerable open source components were found in applications in every industry. The Internet and Software Infrastructure vertical had the highest proportion—67 percent—of applications containing high-risk open source vulnerabilities. Ironically, 41 percent of the applications in the Cyber Security industry were found to have high-risk open source vulnerabilities, putting that vertical at fourth highest risk.
In addition, 33 percent of the audited codebases that contained Apache Struts also contained the vulnerability that resulted in the Equifax breach. The report clearly shows that organizations are allowing a growing number of vulnerabilities to accumulate in their codebases. On average, vulnerabilities identified in the audits were disclosed nearly six years ago.
"When Equifax was breached through the Apache Struts vulnerability, the need for open source security management became front-page news," said Evan Klein, the Black Duck product marketing manager responsible for the OSSRA report. "Yet even though it was disclosed in March 2017, many organizations apparently still have not checked their applications for the Struts vulnerability."
Based on the findings, 74 percent of the codebases audited also contained components with license conflicts, the most common of which were GPL license violations. The percentage of applications with license conflicts within verticals ranged from the Retail and E-commerce industry's relative low of 61 percent to the high of the Telecommunications and Wireless industry—where 100 percent of the code scanned had some form of open source license conflict.
To download the OSSRA report, visit https://www.blackducksoftware.com/open-source-security-risk-analysis-2018.


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Water primrose Alert!William2019-10-03T17:02:13+01:00
Water primrose Alert! We need you to report any sightings of this plant. If you think you have found water primrose, 'check the identification' then send a photo and location details to: email@example.com Water primrose Ludwigia grandiflora is an invasive non-native plant that is invading our ponds, lakes, wetlands, ditches and watercourses. It was introduced
Parish Council Notice of ElectionTown Council2019-10-03T17:24:48+01:00
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Advance Notification of WorksTown Council2019-10-03T17:26:26+01:00
We have received a letter from Highways England regarding the improvement programme to the A66 West Cumbria Route. Please click here for more information.
Christmas at The FitzTown Council2019-01-08T15:15:51+00:00
Big thank you to Bob Slack and all involved , Christmas at the Fitz on Saturday 29th December 2018 was a huge success raising a whopping £2685 towards the restoration works on the Cenotaph.
Grand Window Competition – 5th Dec 2018Town Council2019-10-03T17:27:40+01:00
Today The Mayor of Cockermouth Cllr David Malloy and the chairman of the Chamber of Trade, Ruth Gildert walked around Cockermouth looking at all the shops Christmas windows, it was a tough one with so many shops displaying such beautiful windows this year. But the results are in and the winners are ..... Cockermouth Town
Cockermouth Christmas Lights 2018Town Council2018-12-05T13:11:04+00:00
On Sunday 18th November, thousands gathered to watch the Mayor of Cockermouth Cllr David Malloy and local school children switch on our amazing christmas lights. The street was lined with festive stalls, and entertainment on stage. The street was full with festive cheer.
Mayors Christmas Coffee MorningTown Council2018-12-04T14:27:24+00:00
On Saturday 1st December, The Mayor of Cockermouth Cllr David Malloy raised an amazing £214.65 for his chosen charities. The Mayor also presented certificates and prizes to the winners of this year annual Window Spotting Competition. 1st Prize - Eva and Emilia Humphreys 2nd Prize - Poppy & Emilie Sparke 3rd Prize - Isabella Day
There but not thereTown Council2018-10-09T13:58:17+01:00
We have been lucky enough to secure funding from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund for 10 'There but not there' silhouettes perspex figurines to commemorate the fallen. These figures will be used throughout the Town to highlight the sacrifices made by so many. There will be a service on Sunday 11th November 2018 at 1.00pm
Cockermouth Town Hall WeddingsTown Council2018-09-27T11:16:46+01:00
Great news .... we have just renewed our wedding license until August 2022. If you would like more information or to view our beautiful room please contact Kirstie Goodger firstname.lastname@example.com or Amy Pattinson email@example.com or give us a call on 01900 821869
Garden and Allotment Competition Presentation Evening – Monday 24th September 2018Town Council2018-09-27T10:36:34+01:00
Last night the Mayor of Cockermouth Cllr David Malloy presented the winners of this years garden and allotment competition with their trophies. It was a fabulous evening.
The 14th edition of the Tour of Britain through CockermouthWilliam2018-09-27T17:33:24+01:00
The route for the 14th edition of the Tour of Britain has now been confirmed and we are lucky enough to have 2 days in Allerdale. Thursday 6th September 18 – Cockermouth to Whinlatter Pass Team Time Trial Friday 7th September 18 – Barrow-In-Furness to Whinlatter Pass Our aspiration is that the tour will


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Participation in an IBN Global designed workshop obviously offers the expected theoretical and practical application of the subject matter. Learning methodology include lectures, supported by illustrations and interactive discussions, and power-point presentation. This course will use illustrative financial statements to illustrate the practical transition, development and application of Accrual Accounting
The decision to adopt an accrual-basis accounting system is one journey while the path toward proper implementation, however, is another endeavor all together. This is a significant shift for the federal and state governments (and their related agencies, statutory bodies and authorities) who have long used a system of modified cash accounting. It can often take several years to implement change on such a scale, and even longer to ingrain and institutionalise within the government. Time will be needed to change mindsets, instil a sense of fiscal discipline and reskill public servants to have the necessary skills and expertise
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Mesa Tactical Side Saddle SureShell Carrier for Remington 870/1100/11-87 (6-Shell, 12-GA)
This Mesa Tactical SureShell shotshell carrier for the Remington 870, 1100 or 11-87 has a six-shell configurations. Carriers can also be installed pointed back toward the stock.
The principle difference between one model of Mesa Tactical Side Saddle and another, aside from capacity, is the backing plate, which is designed to mount the carrier assembly on a particular model of shotgun. Side-mount SureShell Side Saddle shotshell carriers for Mossberg , Remington and Benelli M1 shotguns use the trigger group pin holes to secure the assemblies to the weapon; the Benelli M2 Tactical, Benelli M4/M1014, Benelli SuperNova Tactical and some Mossberg 500/590 versions take advantage of the factory-tapped rail mounting holes in the tops of these shotguns and include integrated Pictanny optics mounting rails; another version with an integrated rail is the saddle-mount design for Remington; SureShell Side Saddle Carriers for M4 SOPMOD stocks feature special hardware for attachment to these buttstocks; Adapter Mount SureShell shotshell carriers are designed to be attached to Mesa Tactical Telescoping Stock Adapter accessory mount points.
The distinction between inferior quality and premium 870 Side Saddle is undeniable. At MSP, we only offer 870 Accessories from the most trusted brands like Mesa Tactical. Buy with confidence that we stand behind the product we sell.
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This is the fourth of my current series on the castles of Northern England, this time including one in Cumbria, two in Northumberland and one a bit further south in Lincolnshire – which I know many will say isn't in the North, but it's almost there!
There are still quite a lot to come. One good consequence of the North of England's rather brutal past is the number and variety of its castles, plus of course the remains of Hadrian's Wall. There really is a lot to see and do in the North.
Four More Northern Castles – Selection No. 4
Brough Castle, Cumbria: This was one of the several Cumbrian castles renovated by Lady Anne Clifford following the 17th century Civil War. Its history goes much further back, though, as the medieval buildings were erected over an old Roman fort. Today it is a roofless shell but there are very interesting information boards provided by English Heritage and its location, in the beautiful Eden Valley, is splendid.
Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland: Bamburgh was the seat of the ancient Kings of Northumbria and their castle still stands on its rocky plateau high above the coastline of Northumberland. It is one of the largest still-inhabited castles and has been owned by the Armstrong family since the 1890s when it was bought and restored by the 1st Baron Armstrong of Cragside, the 19th century armaments engineer and manufacturer – which is reflected in the castle's current exhibitions.
Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire: All six floors of the remaining Grand Tower of the medieval castle are open for exploration by visitors. Tattershall is unusual for a castle of its era, being built of red brick where most are built of stone. It was built in the 1430s by Henry VI's Lord High Treasurer on the site of an earlier stone castle. It is now cared for by the National Trust.
Alnwick castle in Northumberland is home to the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland (as it has been to many previous generations of the Percy family) and also to one of the country's major art collections. With four very different museums as well as the castle and grounds there is no shortage of things to see and do on a day at Alnwick, and after decades of neglect the Alnwick Garden has over the past ten years been recreated into something special.
And don't forget the Northern Castles Online Mystery Tour.
Local Accommodation
When you visit a castle, if you plan to stay overnight in the area look here for accommodation: Hotels – B&B accommodation
Some related pages:
- Fortnightly Selection of Northern English Castles [1]
- Castles of the North [2]
- Castles of England's Northern Counties [3]
- Historic Houses and Castles in Cumbria
- Visit a Northern England Castle – A Mystery Tour


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This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Data Security & Operating Environment
1. Service Level Objectives (SLO)
2. Availability and Reliability
4. Data Encryption (In-Transit and At-Rest)
6. Vulnerability & Penetration Testing
7. Product Based Secure Access
1. Service Level Objective (SLO)
We provide 24/7 monitoring and have set our Service Level Objectives for our infrastructure to provide the most reliable service to our Kintone.com clients.
- Uptime rate: 99.99%
- Response time: within 4 seconds
- Recovery time: within 10 mins
- Access log storage time: 1 year online
Historical Uptime Results
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Click here to check full uptime report (in Japanese).
2. Availability and Reliability
2.1 Operating Hours
Our platform operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (excluding regular maintenance), with regular backup and redundancy built-in.
2.1.1 Regular maintenance
When and if necessary, regular maintenance occurs the second Friday of the month, unless the 1st of the month lands on a Saturday or Sunday – in which case it will be conducted on the first Friday.
2.1.2 Occasional maintenance
If there's a need for occasional maintenance, at least 1 week advanced notification will be given.
2.2 Redundancy
Kintone operates a fully redundant system which includes servers, networks, storage, and data (Hyperlink to 4 DLP (Data Loss Prevention).
2.3 Fault Management
Kintone has developed and maintains an extensive Fault Management system, which is comprised of a set of functions that prevent, detect, and correct malfunctions, and initiate recovery automatically within the Kintone cloud platform.
2.4 Updates
As a policy, Kintone platform and product updates are propagated across the platform at the same time for all clients.
2.5 Support
2.5.1 Support Hours
Standard support hours are Monday through Friday 9 am – 5:00 pm PST. More detailed Support SLA can be found here.
2.5.2 Support Contact
Support phone number: 415-692-6546 Support e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
2.6 Data Deletion
All data stored within a customer account sub-domain shall be deleted 30 days after the termination of an account. All backup data shall be completely deleted approximately 2 weeks after the initial data deletion.
2.7 DLP (Data Loss Prevention) & Disaster Recovery Plan
"Square" is our backup system designed to protect clients data, and includes the following locations and storage server sets:
- 2 Regions (East and West Japan)
- 4 storage servers ( 3 storage servers in East Japan and 1 storage server in West Japan)
2.7.1 Hard Disk Redundancy (RAID 6)
The Storage Server set has 12 hard disks per server. 10 of the 12 hard disks were implemented with RAID6. RAID6 allows for two disk failures within the RAID set before any data is lost. The 2 additional hard disks are prepared as "hot spares".
2.7.2 Mirroring (RAID 1)
Customer data is updated to the storage server and the replication storage server simultaneously. This RAID1 'mirroring' system protects against the loss of data due to storage server failures because of hard disk failure or power supply failure.
2.7.3 14-day Backup Data with Backup Server
The East Japan Data Center (EJDC) maintains storage servers, replication storage servers and backup storage servers. The most recent 14-days of data is stored there. Backup data beginning from one day prior to the current day can be restored. Restoration capabilities are tested daily.
2.7.4 2 Regions for Remote Backup "BCP"
The West Japan Data Center (WJDC) has remote backup storage servers in case of any catastrophic event affecting the EJDC. All backup data stored in the backup storage servers in EJDC are automatically backed up to the WJDC.
2.7.5 Data Centers Meet FISC Standards for Most Reliable
Data Centers Meet Tier 4 FISC Facility Safety Standards
The data centers that house and manage Cybozu.com servers, including Kintone.com, comply with the requirements of the The Center for Financial Industry Information Systems (FISC) Facility Safety Standards, considered one of the strictest compliance agencies in Japan. (Cybozu Inc is Kintone's parent company).
The data centers meet Tier 4 specifications, the highest level, for most of the categories in the Data Center Facility Standard regulated by the Japan Data Center Association.
2.7.6 A+ Rating for Secure Network Encryption (SSL/TLS)
As detailed below in Section 5, Server Security, Kintone maintains an A+ rating for server security by Qualsys, the leading provider of infrastructure security compliance solutions.
2.7.7 Power Supply and Network Redundancy
We provide Power Supply and Network redundancy to help reduce the chance for disaster-related damage.
2.7.8 Hard Disk Physical Destruction
After service, retired hard disks shall be physically destroyed to prevent any possible information leakage from such disks.
Cy-SIRT (Cybozu Computer Security Incident Response Team) is an in-house expert security group created to prepare against and handle any Security incidents. Cy-SIRT helps create policies to protect against threats and responds rapidly and in real-time to identify, contain, and eradicate threats as they arise.
3.1 Internal security management policies
3.1.1 Only highly access-restricted devices can be connected to the data center
3.1.2 Product environment and testing environment shall be separated
3.1.3 Infrastructure operations system shall be operated only by authorized members within a dedicated access control room
3.2 Human Error Prevention Management Systems
3.2.1 Service Updates
To prevent Human Error, systems shall be tested and verified several times before updates occur.
3.2.2 Separation of product environment and remote backup environment
The Product Environment and Remote Backup Environment shall be separated and prohibited to operate simultaneously .
When data is deleted in Product Environment, that data can not be deleted at the same time in the Backup Environment.
3.2.3 Automation
Automation is implemented to minimize failure probabilities caused by human error.
Kintone.com promotes automation wherever possible instead of manual system operations. For example, the creation of a client sub-domain environments and adding and cancelling services are all automated.
3.2.4 Automatic Logging of Manual Operations
Manual operations performed by humans shall be done while following prescriptive manuals.
All such manual operation activities however, shall be logged automatically.
3.2.5 Working alone is prohibited
In an emergency case, humans operating the system without a manual is permitted.
However, even in an emergency case, working alone is prohibited as 2 or more authorized technicians must work together.
4. Data Encryption
Kintone encrypts all data both in transit and at rest. Learn more.
4.1 Data in Transit Encryption
All data is encrypted as it moves between our servers and your web browser.
The Kintone service is offered only with SSL connections, and provides optional IP address connectivity restrictions, 2-Factor Authentication and basic authentication.
4.2 Data at Rest Encryption
We also encrypt all data stored on our servers.
Our Data at Rest Encryption encrypts all inactive data stored within our servers. Kintone uses a 512 bit key length encryption scheme, the same used in Windows BitLocker and OS X FileVault.
5. Server Security
Our Server Security level is confirmed as A+ by Qualsys' SSL Labs per below.
Source: Qualys SSL labs
A+ rating by Qualys SSL Labs for cloud server security
We deploy the latest SSL/TLS (1.2 or higher) technology
- HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
- Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS)
- SHA-2 certificate
6. Vulnerability & Penetration Testing
Kintone has third-party vulnerability testing auditors such as Vulnerability Defense Laboratory perform vulnerability/penetration audits on our platform on a semi-annual or as needed (when any major updates occur) basis.
6.1 Collecting Information of Third Party OS and Software Vulnerability
A vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying and quantifying security vulnerabilities in a software environment.
A penetration test simulates the actions of an external and/or internal cyber attacker that aims to breach the information security of the organization.
Found a security problem? Report it here.
6.2 Detection and Prevention of Any Possible Fault or Failure
6.2.1 An autonomous fault management system
Kintone.com has an "autonomous decentralized agent system' called "Tsukuyomi", a prophet in Japanese mythology who can predict future events. Appropriately, this system is designed to prevent, detect, and correct faults or failures and initiate recovery in the Kintone servers.
In the "Tsukuyomi" system, Servers monitor each other to detect faults or failures. After detection, the automatic recovery process instantly replaces the fault server to the spare server. If multiple servers go down, then special recovery plan will be initiated.
6.2.2 DoS, DDoS attack protection and mitigation
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are common attacks wherein a huge volume of traffic (TCP, UDP and ICPM packets) is sent to a specific sub-domain (URL) within a very short time. In such instances, the tenant's sub-domain will be automatically shut down to protect the rest of the tenants in Kintone's multi-tenant system.
Network monitoring systems and intrusion detection/prevention systems continuously monitor the Kintone system.
7. Product-Based Secure Access Features
7.1 Sub-domain and login page
7.1.1 Customers have unique sub-domains for their log-ins option
- IP address restriction / 2-Factor Authentication option
- Unique login names per account
7.1.2 Login page
- Images and company name can be changed for destination confirmation used to counter phishing attempts
7.2 Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
7.2.1 Basic authentication – Free
– Sets up an extra login page before accessing the sub-domain (users enter a shared login name and password)
– Note: The password should be changed if a user leaves the company
7.2.2 IP address restrictions – Free
– Restricts access from IP addresses that are not listed
– Can be used together with Basic Authentication and Client Certificate Authentication to provide individual device-based access
Secure access setting screen
Secure access settings can be reviewed and set in the Security & Authentication admin control panel displayed below. Setting Changes are reflected immediately.
7.2.3 Secure access through client certificates
– Client certificates can be issued for individual users to install onto their devices in order to gain a unique access gateway through the IP fencing restriction setting.
– Certificates can be set to expire at set time intervals and re-issued easily.
4 Examples of Security Settings Options with the Kintone.com /Cybozu.com cloud platform
7.3 Login and Password Policies
7.3.1 Password settings
The following is a list of password settings that can be configured when setting up a Kintone account.
- Password Character length
- Password Character complexity
- Password reuse policy
- Password expiration policy
7.3.2 Logins
188.8.131.52 Account lockout policy
- Account lockout threshold – number of incorrect attempts
- Account lockout duration – length of time the lockout will occur.
220.127.116.11 Automatic login policy
- Enable/disable auto login
- Enable auto login duration
7.4 Audit Log
You can browse and download the audit log of operations such as logins, modifications, file downloads, etc. Custom audit log settings can also be set to initiate notification emails.
8. Compliance
Information Security Management System (FISC)
As mentioned above, the data centers the Kintone.com cloud is currently operating from comply with The Center for Financial Industry Information Systems (FISC) Facility Safety Standards, considered one of the strictest compliance agencies in Japan.
In fact, the data centers meet Tier 4 specifications, the highest level, for most of the categories in the Data Center Facility Standards as regulated by the Japan Data Center Association.


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Tam Johnson Realtor, Broker-in-Charge, Owner
Hi, I am Tam Johnson, the owner of Southern Living Realty, LLC and I have been a Realtor® since 2010 and in January 2013. I have lived in the Greensboro for over 24 years and spent by childhood living at the NC Crystal Coast.
My love of working with and meeting new people is what led me into real estate. Being a Realtor® allows me to help you fulfill the "American Dream" of being a homeowner by guiding you through this fun and exciting time!
Before becoming a Realtor® I worked for 30 years as the Project Coordinator and Office Manager for my family's commercial construction company that worked in 16 states.
I am organized, detail oriented and I do not stop providing service to you even after the transaction is complete. I treat my clients like family and tailor my services to your individual needs.
I combine the latest technology with a hands-on approach so no matter if you are tech-savvy or tech-challenged I will guide you through the buying and selling process with ease.
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National Association of Realtors® (NAR)
North Carolina Association of Realtors® (NCAR)
Greensboro Regional Realtors® Association (GRRA)
Activities and Accomplishments:
Greensboro Citizens Police Academy (10 week course)
1996 – 2016 Provided Christmas for over 180 needy children and 40 senior citizens raising over $30,000 in donations
1999 – 2017 President, Vice-President and Board Member of North Oaks Homeowners Association (where I currently live)
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I am Win Johnson, my "Real Estate Expertise" is in Retail Leasing, Buying and in all areas of Commercial Real Estate and I operate the "Commercial Division" of Southern Living Realty, LLC.
I have been a Business Consultant and Advisor for new and expanding business for my entire career.
For over thirty (30) years I was the Owner of a General Contracting Company, Win and Associates, Inc. I built thousands of retail stores, offices and medical facilities in malls, strip-centers and free standing in thirty-four (34) states.
I was the COO of a Jewelry manufacturing company. I designed, built and operated forty-eight (48) retail stores in seventeen (17) states. Over the years, I have read, evaluated and signed more leases than I can remember. I have worked extensively with Business owners in leasing spaces, buying and designing/building retail stores, medical facilities and offices.
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National Association of Realtors
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Businesses I Have Owned:
Owner – Win Johnson Consulting, LLC
Teaching and Program Consultant for Business Education Programs
Year in Business: Started January 1, 2013 to Present
Project Manage for Retail Construction
Business Consultant to Individuals planning to open Small Business Ventures
Owner – Win and Associates, Inc.
General Contractor working in (34) States
Retail and Commercial Construction and Design Specialist
Years in Business: 24, 1988 to December 2012
Number of Projects: Over 2,000 retail projects completed
Sales: Over $50 million in 24 years of business
Scope: Design/build retail stores in malls and shopping centers, medical facilities and offices
Owner and CEO of Retail Jewelry Chain, Jewelry Manufacturing
Established National Sales Program for Jewelry Products
Created a National Retail chain of Jewelry Stores
Jewelry manufacturer, wholesaler and promotional company
Years in Business: 25
Number of Stores: 48 in 17 states
Average Sales: $14 million annually
Scope: Leased spaces, design/build stores, hired and trained personnel, developed policy and procedures for National jewelry operation, supervised operations and sold franchises.
Scope: Executive V.P. of Sales developing promotional programs for customers, directed a national sales force, developed jewelry show presentations for (32) Jewelry Shows per year.
I am Veetta Parker and as a life, long resident of the Triad I grew up in Southeast Guilford County where I lived, worked, and graduated high school. I have an associate's degree in Horticulture that I received from Alamance Community College. I have worked for more than thirty-five years in sales, customer service, management and owned a consignment business.
I received my Real Estate License in November 2016 and have worked diligently to learn all that I can to guide my clients through the buying and selling process and to provide excellent customer service. I have a strong work ethic and I am always striving to understand my client's needs and wishes to help them to fulfill their real estate dreams.
Within five (5) months of receiving my license I completed the "additional" three (3) courses required by the NC Real Estate Commission to become a Full Broker. (The commission allows three (3) years to complete these courses).
I chose to associate with Southern Living Realty, LLC after having worked with Tam as my Buyer's Agent while purchasing my current home. "I was impressed with the knowledge and professionalism I experienced working with Tam as my Realtor® and we had become friends through the process". I was excited to learn that Tam was willing to have me become a part of her company where I am learning from her knowledge, the proper procedures of being a Realtor®.
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Greensboro Regional Realtors Association
North Carolina Association of Realtors
National Association of Realtors
Multiple Listings Service (MLS)
Activities and Accomplishments:
Associate's degree in horticulture as well as several certificates in horticulture technologies.
Selected as a Student Ambassador for Alamance Community College and was honored to serve for two years, I also was chosen to serve on the Horticulture Advisory Board.
Twelve (12) years in the veterinary field as a client coordinator, which allowed me to get involved with various animal rescue groups and fostering programs.


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Aspiring Scientists from Across the Nation Participate in SIUE/U of I Competitive Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates
While some have a passion for archaeology and others are more focused on ecology, 10 undergraduates from across the nation are gaining hands-on experience in both fields by participating in an interdisciplinary field study hosted at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in collaboration with the Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
This is the second summer of a three-year program funded by a $287,690 National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant awarded to the two institutions.
The project is entitled Exploring Evidence of the Anthropocene: Archaeological and Ecological Interdisciplinary Research Experiences for First Generation Students in the Upper Mississippi River System. The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch in which scholars suggest that humans are now more influence on climate and environmental conditions than natural processes.
"We have a fantastic group of students who are engaged in science and eager to conduct research," said Carol Colaninno-Meeks, PhD, principal investigator (PI) of the program and research assistant professor in the SIUE STEM Center. "The students are engaging in field archaeology and long-term fish monitoring programs in the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, and learning methodologies and theoretical perspectives that bridge archaeological and ecological concepts."
The NSF REU program caters to first generation and non-traditional college students. This summer's participants are pursuing degrees at SIUE, the University of Georgia, City University of New York, the University of Minnesota, Hofstra University in Long Island, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Belmont University and more.
According to co-PI John Chick, PhD, director of the Great Rivers Field Station in Alton, "Working on a project like this gives students a much greater feel for actual research. A typical field class is great for learning sampling techniques, but it doesn't allow students to experience the day-to-day consistency in sampling methodology or the setup and breakdown at the start and end of each day. The students involved in this program will leave with an excellent understanding of what a standardized monitoring or research program is and how it operates."
"Any field and research experience you can get as an undergraduate is wonderful for your educational development and future applications," said SIUE junior Emily Lange, of Edwardsville. "It has been amazing. I had never been in the field before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. Doing the things that we've read about in textbooks and heard through lectures has been beneficial for my understanding of the subject."
Lange is pursuing a bachelor's in anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology. The natural environment and lab materials available at SIUE are what make this an exciting opportunity, she says.
"At the back of our campus is this amazing archeological site," she said. "It's an incredible resource. Obviously archeological sites are not an infinite resource, but we'll be able to dig here for decades since there's a wealth of area."
"Our program is studying the overall health of the Upper Mississippi River," said SIUE alumnus Eric Ratcliff, Great Rivers Field Station fisheries specialist. "It's wonderful to get young people in here and involved with this important project. This is unique work, and we're contributing to an enormous database."
"This is my first field experience that is focused on fish," said Courtney Camp, a junior at the University of Georgia, who's majoring in wildlife science with a minor in anthropology. "This opportunity is the perfect mesh of my two academic emphases and will definitely boost my resume."
"We have had a lot of interesting conversations about our projects, and how to collect data and conduct research, since we're all from different universities," added Sarah Klush, a sophomore studying archaeology at Hofstra University in Long Island, N.Y. "Also, getting to work with all of these professionals is wonderful."
"Getting to work one-on-one with a scientist helps to humanize the process of science and allows these students realize that they can do this, too," Colaninno-Meeks explained. "Rather than sitting in class and reading about it, they get the experience of going through the entire research process."
The program also offers student and career development sessions, including a panel on job search strategies, an "ask a professor anything" event and more.
"I love the interdisciplinary aspect of this research experience, because I am interested in environmental science," said Olivia Mullenax, a sophomore double-majoring in anthropology and art history at the University of Minnesota. "I appreciated that it was targeted toward first generation students like me and am grateful for the opportunity to network and build connections. This experience will open pathways for future internships."
Senior personnel involved in the collaborative project include Corey Ragsdale, PhD, assistant professor and Julie Zimmermann, PhD, professor, both in the SIUE Department of Anthropology; Andrew Casper, PhD, of the Shed Aquarium; Sergiusz Czesney, PhD, director of the Lake Michigan Biological Station; and James Lamer, PhD, site manager of Western Illinois University's Kibbe Field Station.
During the eight-week program, all ten participants will complete an original research contribution. Their work will be featured during the REU Symposium being held from 1-3 p.m. Thursday, July 26 in the Morris University Center's Mississippi Room.
About the STEM Center
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Center for STEM Research, Education and Outreach comprises an independent group of researchers and educators, innovating ways to engage students and the public in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Within the SIUE Graduate School, the Center brings together research faculty, graduate students and practitioners to conduct education research. The Center contributes educational expertise to SIUE undergraduate classes and provides professional development for K-12 teachers. The Center boasts a significant library of equipment and resources, which are available for loan at no cost to campus and regional instructors. For more information, visit https://www.siue.edu/stem/about.shtml or contact STEM Center Director Sharon Locke at (618) 650-3065 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
About the University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey
The mission of the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS), part of the University of Illinois' Prairie Research Institute, is to investigate and document the biological resources of Illinois and other areas, and to acquire and provide natural history information that can be used to promote the common understanding, conservation and management of these resources. For more information, visit inhs.illinois.edu.
Photos: SIUE's Carol Colaninno-Meeks (left) works with REU participant Emily Lange, of Edwardsville, excavating archaeological deposits.
Students participating in SIUE and the U of I's collaborative REU program assist with fish monitoring on the Mississippi River. Working left to right are Sarah Klush, of Hofstra University, Courtney Camp, of the University of Georgia, and Olivia Mullenax, of the University of Minnesota.
REU students Sarah Klush and Julia Allison, of the U of I Urbana-Champaign, engage in electrofishing on the Mississippi River.
SIUE's Carol Colaninno-Meeks (center) works with REU participants Alexander Huaylinos (left), of CUNY-City College of New York and Hunter Ridley of Augustana College (right) as they identify 1,000-year-old fish remains using comparative materials in the SIUE Department of Anthropology Archaeology Lab.


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Technorama lecture, March 23, 2000
Remo Besio, the director of Technorama invited me to give a 30 minute lecture at the opening of his new exhibition on mechanics and vibration. Here is a report on that lecture.
by Paul Doherty
Hello I'm Paul Doherty
Welcome to Technorama and it's new exhibition on vibration.
Ringing Aluminum Rod
To begin, I hold a 1.5 meter long 1 cm diameter
aluminum rod at its middle then whack it on the end with a
It rings out two notes.
The lower pitch note fades away while the high pitch note continues to ring for over a minute.
I just stand there holding the rod which rings and rings and rings.
After 15 seconds the audience laughs.
Paul holds the ringing aluminum rod.
Sound is the organized motion of the rod.
The organized motion is converted into heat and the sound fades away.
Aluminum rods turn the organized motion into disorganized motion very slowly, they can ring for over a minute.
Fingers turn organized motion into heat.
I hold the rod at the middle and hit it on the end. It rings.
I grab the end between two fingers and the rod stops ringing immediately.
I hit it again and grab it near the middle, it keeps ringing.
I grab it 1/4 of the way from the end and it stops ringing slowly.
Your fingers tell you where the rod is vibrating.
If you grab it where it is vibrating, the sound goes away. the greater the vibration the faster the sound goes away.
But the rod only rings if you hold it at special places like the middle.
Other special places are 1/4 of the way from one
I hold the rod at this point and it swings down until it is vertical.
Then it it and it rings with a higher pitch for nearly a minute.
After a while I hold it at 1/4 and 3/4, it continues to ring.
So the rod does not vibrate at the 1/4 and 3/4 marks.
I grab it in the middle and the sound dies away instantly.
We can find the invisible pattern of vibration with only our fingers for tools.
It also rings if I hold it 1/6, and 1/8 of the way
from one end. I do that.
The rod rings when held at the 1/6 mark and at the middle.
It doesn't ring if you hold it at other points
like 1/3 of the way from one end.
I do that and it goes thunk.
So objects vibrate when you hit them, the frequency of the vibration depends on the pattern of vibration, or on where you hold it.
Remember that low note that died away when I held
the rod in the middle.
I have a demonstration to teach about that.
I pick up a 4 meter long 2 cm diameter tube of PVC. It sags a little at the ends.
I move my hand up and down and the rod begins to vibrate up and down a lot at the ends. This is the motion of the aluminum rod when it sings the lower pitch note.
Learning to Walk the Walk
However the explainers at the Exploratorium immediately saw another use for it.
They said that I walked like a physics professor. I walk across the stage.
I needed to walk with more rhythm and the tube could help me. I hold the rod in the middle and it wiggles up and down. I move to the rhythm of the rod.
Walking with rhythm, I am cool! (Well at least cooler than a physics professor!)
Playing the Slinky Accordion
To Visualize how the rod is vibrating in the high
pitch mode,
I slide an orange slinky onto a slippery plastic rod, PVC.
Then with the same grace that my host Remo used when he sat down at the piano I sat down to play the slinky accordion.
Just like an accordion I move my hands together and apart, it is as if I am applauding myself.
Paul shows the node at the center of a slinky in its fundamental mode of oscillation.
I build up a rhythm and find the resonance.
I ask the audience to notice how the "slinks" move.(A slink is my name for one turn of a slinky.)
The slinks do not move back-and-forth in the center of the slinky.
However the coils crowd together at the center and then spread apart there.
It is easy to see the alternating flash of orange and then dark as the slinks crowd together and then spread apart.
It is harder to see that the middle slink doesn't move.
So I clip a yellow LED to a small 3 volt lithium
battery disk using a binder clip.
The battery and LED are inside an "electricity condom" cut from the neck of a balloon. The lamp glows bright yellow and is visible throughout the room.
The lamp doesn't move.
The lamp is at a node of motion.
It is also at an antinode of pressure, when the slinks crowd close showing a flash of orange they are at high pressure, when they spread apart, low pressure. The changes are greatest at the center. The center is an antinode of pressure. The Swedish have a better word for antinode "bök" which is the same name as the protruding stomach of a beer drinker.
By moving my hands faster I can get three nodes on the slinky.
But I can't get two nodes at any frequency of hand motion.
I confess that this result puzzled me even with my Ph.D. from MIT I didn't know instantly how to get two nodes on the slinky. After some thought however I realized the answer:
The Bhudist clap, actually the double bhudist clap.
Which is the sound of one hand clapping done with both hands.
Both hands move right, then both move left at the
same time.
The hands stay the same distance apart.
The result is a pattern on the slinky with an even number of nodes.
The Bhudist clap makes the second harmonic.
After the rod and the slinky I do four fast activities, just like commercials.
The first is:
Mass on a spring
How simple can you get?
A steel ball under my hand, hung from a spring.
I pull the mass down and let go.
It moves up and down at the resonant frequency of the system.
As I point out that people should look for the
mass and the spring in all oscillating systems, the mass begins to go
up and down less and to go side to side a little. The side to side
increases until the mass doesn't go up and down at all, it is a
simple pendulum.
But then the pendulum starts to bob up and down and soon it is not going side to side anymore, it is going up and down.
I tell the audience that any simple scientific statement needs an asterisk*
* It's more complicated than that.
This simple mass and spring shows how
complications lurk when you least expect them.
(An aside, The spring is a special spring designed to produce the puzzling motion.)
The spinning spoon.
Here is an activity hat belongs in my friend Eric's book on Restaurant Science. If you really hate a restaurant and don't plan to go back, bend a spoon handle back over the bowl as shown below. Push it a little to one side.
The bent spoon oscillator, notice the spoon on the overhead projector.
Place the spoon on a convenient hard surface like
the top of an overhead projector.
Push the handle of the spoon down and let go.
The spoon will rock up and down, an oscillator.
But then, just like the mass and spring it will do something different, it will begin to rotate.
Start it rotating the other way and the spoon will stop rotating and begin vibrating then rotate the opposite way.
The spoon looks like it is violating the law of conservation of angular momentum, but it isn't.
Vibrating Balls
I pick up two balls about 6 cm in diameter. Hold them in each hand and click them together. They make a nice vibrating collision you can easily hear.
Paul clicks two steel ball bearings together.
The vibration of the two balls is identical, the impulse made when the balls smack together travels around the ball to the other side all arriving together making a large motion of the surface. The waves keep going, returning to the original point of contact. The waves travel around and around always adding together at the contact point.
On the moon when the seismic waves from the Imbrium basin crater rushed around to the other side, they all arrived together, their simultaneous arrival made the biggest moonquake in history throwing huge chunks of the surface of the moon into space jumbling the surface into a chaotic terrain.
We can use the same phenomenon too.
My wife Ellen came up from the audience to be my assistant.
She held a sheet of typing paper.
I clicked the balls together 5 times with the
paper between them.
Then showed the paper on the overhead projector.
Five ragged holes had been burned into the paper by the vibrating balls. Wow!
Vibrating ball bearings burn 5 holes into a sheet of typing paper.
Vibrating Downer
My friend Engineer Lundström gave me an
interesting apparatus.
A piece of grooved aluminum, Bolt heads fit the grooves and are attached to springs with a ball like mass on the end.
Start the balls at the top and they vibrate with a wonderful sound to the bottom.
Balls vibrating in grooves noisily bounce their way down to the bottom.
Then it was time for my finale:
I twirled the three foot long children's toy whirly playing a series of notes up and down the scale. "I fell in love with the sounds of the whirly the first time I heard one. Whirlies only play notes which sound good together. No matter how I swing it around, it only plays certain notes. It does not slide from note to note it jumps. It thus behaves like the electron in an atom which jumps between energy levels. The whirly plays quantum music.
After I had played the toy whirly for a while I got tired of the same five notes and began looking for other corrugated singing tubes. I conceived of a plan to incorporate the whirly into symphony orchestras. That set me on a search for the full range of instruments from alto to bass. My first experiments were geared toward finding bass instruments. One day, my wife Ellen and I were at a friend's swimming pool. In the pool I spotted a surface vacuum cleaner trailing a long flexible corrugated hose. Ellen impressed me with her speed as she stopped me from unfolding the blade of my knife. She talked me into waiting a day and buying my own hose from a swimming pool supply store. At the store I purchased my first swimming pool vacuum hose whirly.
I played a few notes and they rang out loud and clear in the room.
One day a professional whirly player came to the Exploratorium, Sarah Hopkins. She had a question for me, how do whirlies sing their songs.
I was pleased to be able to give her a short complete answer,"I don't know." She laughed and said that she had already asked two physicists and received two different answers.
I suggested we do some experiments. While we worked together Sarah tuned this whirly for me and taught me to play a piece of music she composed for it, "Deep Whirly Heartsong." I played it.
The performance whirly filled the hall with sound.
As the last note faded away the audience applauded and cheered.
Paul playing "Deep Whirly Heartsong" by Sarah Hopkins.
We began to discover how whirlies work.
Note the lower pitch of the lowest note of the longer whirly. The whirlies only sing sound waves which fit in them exactly, longer tubes mean longer soundwaves which have lower pitch.
It got to the point where my wife hated to go into
hardware stores with me.
I kept blowing into and whirling every piece of corrugated hose I could find; gas pipes, electrical conduit and electrical wire guides... like these."
I picked up the two "Fly" whirlies.
"I was thrilled to find something to do with my left hand."
I began to play 'Fly' (another Sarah Hopkins composition.) by arcing the two whirlies from above my shoulders down across the front of my body.
"When I play this I find that even in the roughest neighborhoods no one gets within several feet of me. This motion allowed me to combine music, physics and self-defense!"
I segued into the second part of 'Fly' which involves swinging the two whirlies alternately, then into the finish with arcing moves again. The audience applauded.
Just like the Mr. Toad who was stricken with
automobile fever, I was smitten with whirlies. When I went to visit
friends they hid their china and lamps. The children loved me
" One day a friend made the comment that my music was not very multicultural. I took his words to heart."
I picked up a toy whirly attached to a 5 gallon plastic bag. I filled the bag with air from a battery operated leaf blower. The audience giggled at the sight of a turgid bag attached to a whirly, then laughed aloud as I tucked the whirly under my arm and they figured out what I was going to do. I played the bag whirly by squeezing the bag under my arm.
I was pleased to find the answer to my search for multicultural whirlies in with my own Celtic roots...
After I played half a bagful of notes, I removed the bag from my underarm and played the whirly in my usual swinging way. The whirly sang and sucked the remaining air from the bag. The singing stopped when the bag was empty. I looked quizzically at the quiet whirly and its deflated bag and said, of course, "pardon me but my instrument seems to be a little flat tonight." (This time the audience groaned.)
Whirly discoveries came fast and furious.
I found my highest pitched instrument in a 7-11."
I pick up a large plastic cup pull out the corrugated straw and blow a few notes making high pitched sounds.
"Have you ever been thrown out of a 7-11?"
"I have."
I still longed for deeper notes.
Then one day at a winery my attention was riveted by a piece of hosing. My wife shouted "NO!" But she was too late I had found the Mount Everest of whirlies &emdash; agricultural drain hose. It was three inches in diameter and twelve feet long."
I picked up my giant whirly and held it, coiled around me on the stage looking at it in a perplexed way.
The only problem was how could I play it?
Then I started to spin A loud low tone grew to fill the room. I spun faster, a higher bass note rang out, faster and faster&emdash; the whirly sang higher notes. I slowed down slowly, dropping from one note to the next until I ended by holding the lowest note for a few seconds before brining the whirly to a gentle landing on the stage coiled at my feet.
I ended facing the audience.
The room erupted with cheers and applause.
I sure had fun at this lecture.
We then went in to see the new exhibition on vibration and I realized that the fun had just begun. Remo had put together an excellent exhibition.


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I made these cute Sugar Skull Dolls with my girls for Halloween and Day of The Dead (Día de Muertos) and they turned out so beautifully that I thought I'd share how to make them with you. They look fantastic as stand-alone ornaments but also look amazing added to table centrepieces. Make sure you check out my other Halloween Crafts
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Materials Needed To Make Sugar Skull Dolls
Card (empty cereal packet is fine or you could use card stock)
40mm polystyrene ball,
patterned paper,
double sided sticky tape,
pva (white) glue,
permanent marker pens,
non bleed tissue paper,
cotton pipe cleaners
felt scraps
How To Make The Sugar Skull Dolls
1. Draw a circle about 21-22 cm in diameter (I use a plate to draw round) on a piece of card. You can use card stock or an old cereal box which is what I've used for this tutorial. Cut the circle in half and keep one semicircle to make the doll dress.
2. Cut a piece of patterned paper to cover the semicircle making sure you add an extra 1cm all the way round to fold over and glue to the back. Glue ths in place but before folding over around the curved edge make small incisions all the way around so that the paper will fold over and glue neatly.
3. When dry find the center of the straight edge and gently bend the two ends in to form a cone. Try not to crease the cone. Allow the cone to undo and add two strips of double sided sticky tape to each edge see picture. Now curl the edges back around and stick in place. If the card is thick you may need to add a little PVA glue in between where the sticky strips hold the cone together.
4. Using a sharp pencil make a hole in the polystyrene ball so that the point of the cone can be glued inside.
5. Using permanent marker pens (sharpies are great for this) draw your sugar skull face on.
6. Using a sharp point (I use a nail) make 2 holes towards the top of the cone and thread your pipe cleaner through (I use a natural coloured one) and bend the arms into shape. Glue the head on and allow to dry.
7. Glue a doubled up piece of rectangular shaped tissue to the top of the head and curl the edges to make a hat (it's a smaller version of this tissue paper hat). You may need to hold it in place and shape it a little whilst it dries.
8. Finally, add some felt flowers to the side of the hat and one between her hands …
The pink Sugar Skull Doll was made last year and considering she has been played with loads she's weathered pretty well.


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It is always difficult to detach oneself from the immediate business schedules and requirements of the daily project work, and to take time to write a company blog post. Often a change of scenery helps a lot and as it is now beautiful Springtime in Finland, I considered either taking my laptop and materials to some outdoor café or perhaps to the city library for a really proper environment to inhale and write up this piece about Big Data.
Nevertheless, I ended up reserving a quiet conference room for myself and for my trusty headphones, which is always a good alternative.
It seems there's quite a lot of buzz around Big Data in Finland, and all around you hear how important it is. However, there are precious few concrete examples of what it actually means in practice, and very little has been done to guide the industries and businesses towards this new future.
People give lots of reasons and excuses of why Big Data is not happening. It's either the lack of experts, the lack of a suitable business model or a customer, or it's all someone else's problem. The real reason why it is not happening as much as it should be is simply the lack of vision and initiative. The lack of vision, initiative and higher cognitive functions is often replaced with mechanistic selection of tangentially relevant courses to point the engineers to, as part of competence development. Surely a couple of Hadoop courses can replace a technology strategy.
The industry and the business won't be aligned for the future, if we can't create a clear vision of what Big Data is, and know where one's respective business is located in the vision and what is its role in creating this future.
My aim is to clarify the Big Data concept, the vision and the current state of the affairs in Finland. A blog post can only go so far, though, and anyone who has an interest in a more thorough and context-dependent analysis should contact Cybercom Advisory Team.
Big Data - What is it really?
Big Data concept was originally coined by the media companies, mainly Google and Yahoo, and most of the examples about Big Data are about this business domain. The examples talk about web documents and profiling advertisements, about PageRank and BigTable. Companies who are in different business fields are left with some tools and technologies mainly around NoSQL and clouds, and without a clear vision of how these tools and Big Data are relevant at all in their respective fields.
From bird's eye perspective Big Data means that the exponential growth of data in all domains and fields leads to the situation where new ways to manage the data are needed, and new ways to benefit from the data will emerge.
Big Data has several main segments relevant to most of the Finnish industries and businesses: Fast Data, Large Volumes of Existing Data, NoSQL and Cloud, Open Data, Deep Data and Visualization.
Fast Data
Fast Data refers to data which is often collected by sensors and which has a primary use where the data gets old and useless pretty fast. I will also include logs in this segment, as the primary purpose is considered to be alerting about the logged event as soon as it happens.
This does not mean that the data becomes totally invalid soon after collection; often the historical data has still a lot of value especially for deeper analysis, but the application for the primary purpose of the data needs to get it fast. Good examples are for example industrial process sensors, intelligent traffic GPS sources, and video and sound streams.
In fast data, there are two issues: The data needs to be distributed to all the consumers quickly and efficiently, and the amount of data is cumulatively so large that its storage and use requires special methods. In Finland, fast data is often simply discarded, and the longer term value is lost.
Many logs are discarded, or simply left in the field, even though for example elevator use patterns might give us valuable business insights.
It should be noted that fast data sources are almost always distributed into the world, and the connectivity might not be absolute and perfect. This generates some distinctive challenges of the fast data segment.
There are several technologies that help us with data distribution, depending on the type, volume and the consumer of the data we are distributing, for example: Content Distribution Networks, Rest/WebSocket, and XMPP.
The data storage for the fast data is often row oriented, and we can use many traditional Big Data solutions for it. In addition, there are some special solutions for common use cases, especially related to log data, like Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana stack. Cybercom has special competence related to this area.
Large Volumes of Existing Data
Sometimes we actually do have large volumes of data already collected, with potential value in analysis and use if only we would get it into a form that allows analysis. Such data could be for example: Patient records of hospitals, old genealogy documents, and thousands of unsorted and forgotten documents on shared network drives and Sharepoint shares.
This data often comes in a document form, sometimes on paper or old media. However, the data can also be in a video or sound form. Even whole spaces can be considered to be essentially data and digitized as big data, as we see in 3D virtual reconstructions of archeological sites, tourist destinations, museums and such.
Large volumes of existing data has several distinctive characteristics. First, the bulk of the work is digitizing the information, or collecting it into a datastore which enables analysis, summarization and correlation. Second, the data is already old, so the new value we can derive is through deeper analysis of the data.
Digitizing large amounts of existing data has to rely on specialized companies who are good at this specific thing, for example Microtask, who specialize in distributing manual work to numerous independent human contributors. OCR and Natural Language Processing approaches can be used also to create explisit structure to enable further analysis. After the data has been retrieved, the value can be often derived by Open Data or Deep Data approaches.
NoSQL and Cloud
This is possibly the best understood part of the Big Data vision, because it is directly realized in all the software companies, simply through the software engineers' direct competence. It is easy to see how complex data systems need environments to deploy them to, and hard disk, flash drive and memory capacity to store the data to. Often computational capacity in the form of powerful CPU and GPU instances are required as well, especially in relation to Deep Data.
Cybercom Cloud is well suited for Big Data applications, and we have related IaaS and PaaS initiatives.
Open Data
Most Big Data is out of reach, in closed systems and in forgotten databases. Often the instance responsible of the data never realizes that the data could be and should be opened for common use. However, there is a lot of potential value in this data not accessible to the instance holding the data.
Open Data is often understood to be governmental data, but it also includes a lot of data published by private companies and organizations. This requires understanding from the executives of these organizations of how their market value will increase through sharing the data.
Since Open Data is mostly about interconnecting multitudes of data sources, the core characteristics of this segment are the interfaces and data fusion technologies. Interfaces, and data and query end points need to be able to handle the volume of queries they will receive, and also enable rich combination with other data present in the internet.
Data combination requires natural IDs and proper timestamps (UTC) as preconditions, and data model design is a critical aspect of Open Data. Query interfaces need to enable rich filtering of the results, to enable combination with other data sources without downloading your entire data out for each query. Technologies such as REST and RDF/Jena help in opening the data.
The public APIs need to be documented and publicized also, otherwise they will simply be forgotten and left unused.
Deep Data
Deep Data refers to the value we can now derive from analyzing the data with computationally expensive, data-intensive tools. This value was out of reach before, as we didn't have the required computational capacity to extract it. It is quite analogous to modern mining methods capable of exploiting resources which were previously out of reach.
Analysis is based on data-intensive algorithms, and is often in the form of finding new, previously unknown connections and patterns in the data. Algorithms can be roughly divided into stream-based algorithms, such as map-reduce-combine and graph-based algorithms, such as Markov Random Fields and other probabilistic networks, deep neural networks, and semantic search.
Different distributed numerical methods and tools can be used, such as Pregel, cloud GPU instances and iterative map-reduce.
Typical applications would be diagnostics, sentiment analysis, and business intelligence. It should be noted that sentiment analysis should not be understood in a constrained fashion, as in mining Twitter feeds for positive and negative comments, although it can mean that also. Sentiment analysis also applies for example to harvesting potential riskful events from patient records, and in general in any case where you need to somehow sort documents into positive and negative ones based on the overall flavor of the content. Continuing the same thought, diagnostics similarly doesn't mean simply storing and analyzing logs; it can also mean storing and analyzing microphone audio streams to detect soon-to-be problems in escalators, automatic doors or in engines.
Big Data requires new user interface concepts, components, paradigms and methodologies to present the acquired value in data to the user, otherwise the value is lost. For this purpose, we have rich and dynamic interactive graphing components, both in 2D and 3D, new kinds of 3D user interface tools such as Unity3D, and augmented reality and virtual reality interfaces.
In addition to presenting the data to the user, the user needs to interact with the data and its projections and parameters. The simplest case is where a user selects a time interval in a long time series of data, but still even this case highlights the importance of proper summarization of the whole data to enable the user to select the meaningful data segments. Data visualization is closely related to the data analysis, and the actual analysis and discovering new patterns takes place through different views to the data. In Big Data context, the views are not trivial and static, but highly dynamic and interactive and modifiable foldings, projections, clusterings, summarizations, correlations and transformations of the data.
User interface in Big Data context is highly context sensitive work, and Cybercom Design Studio is well prepared to create a window to your extremely high-dimensional data.
Big Data - Current Situation
Some say that most companies only have "not so big data". This refers to the fact that in studies, only one third of the companies using Big Data technologies have databases over 1 TB in size. Obviously the issue is not that the data does not exist; it's just that it's not stored, for a lack of an immediate requirement. So, this metric actually indicates that the world is not done yet, and these companies probably do not yet collect and store all the data they could benefit from.
We are starting to see big applications being implemented in all the Big Data segments, across multiple industries, in healthcare, in intelligent traffic systems, and in public Open Data.
Big Data - Immediate Future
I'll just say this is about immediate future, to underscore that the Big Data vision in its whole is something that happens right now, and not in five years.
It is estimated that the whole human genome sequencing will cost $100 per person in the year 2015. To say that Finnish medical community in whole is grossly unprepared for this and its consequences is not an overstatement.
We are witnessing a growing tide of opening of public data sources as Open Data, as part of Government 2.0 and similar visions. Interconnecting the data and its value is growing all the time as the data connectivity grows in power of open data amount. This is simply because the number of potential data item pairs we can make statements of is already the second power of the number of data items we have.
In the near future, Open Data will include open personal (big) data as well, distributed to third parties through OAuth-style authorization mechanisms. Personal genomic data will be one central application in this trend, but it includes other things as well, like personal GPS tracks provided securely to third parties to target advertisement and services.
Software industry is in the role of an expert in this future vision, and it's role is to employ evangelists to teach the potential customers and the industries in whole about the potential value Big Data opens up. To give meaningful advice and guidance, the software industry needs to have an intimate dialog with the customer markets and industry segments.
Big Data is not about a bag of tools; it's about a vision we need to realize.
Some links:
Big data Suomessa - Liikenne- ja viestintäministeriö
Big Data muuttaa maailmaa - Talouselämä


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The European railway market opened up to competition back in 2010, allowing railways to compete on international routes. In this blog post, we look at Britain and Sweden's examples to anticipate what the European Railway deregulation could look like.
The UK is the most mature privatized market, but also the most criticized. In 1994, the British Government auctioned Britain's rail service. As a result, a new franchise model was born: contracting companies to run rail services. British Rail, together with 28 private companies, took control of the passenger lines, paying for infrastructure and stations usage. However, the results have not been positive so far:
The concession system in the United Kingdom is a complex one and involves too many actors. We believe it needs greater collaboration between all operators and authorities, before awarding any new franchise.
In 2010, the Swedish market was 100% open to competition, with the aim to increase lines, frequencies and passenger ridership. Rail liberalization divided Sweden's state railway into two different companies: one responsible for the infrastructure, Banverket (BV) and, one responsible for operating the trains, Swedish Rail (SJ). This division led to a conflict of interests, as both companies did not share the same priorities. Since then, the rail sector experienced a dramatic job decrease and had an impact on working conditions.
However, despite all the challenges, the overall result of the rail liberalization in Sweden is positive. Rail passengers have increased (from 10,828 in 2010 to 12,373 in 2016). Moreover, the average ticket price has gradually reduced, following the entrance of Sweden's new rail entrant, MTR Express, back in 2015.
Objectives for the liberalization of the rail market are to:
and we are glad to see already some of those positive effects.
Yet, this is a complex exercise and the UK is the perfect example of the challenges for the rail industry: infrastructure (the tracks) and train operations (transport services) split and a further split of functions (sales, cleaning, maintenance, train driving, and controls) to create competition.