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Director of Operations
Jaime Luna joined WEST in 2012 and serves as Director of Operations. She comes to WEST with extensive experience in nonprofit organizations, specifically in program operations and project management. Jaime served as Director of Program Operations for Illumination Foundation working with homeless families and individuals. As a key member, she helped the grassroots nonprofit grow from its infancy to a $2,000,000 organization in three short years. Previous to Illumination Foundation, Jaime worked at the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, Camping Services. She filled in the role of Operations Executive Director. She oversaw the operation of many YMCA camps and developed, monitored, and managed related annual operating budgets of over $2,000,000, including human resources, office administration, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and procurement. Jaime completed her Master's degree in Education.
Board of Directors
Co-President: Meredith Fisher, Ph.D. is a Partner at the Partners Innovation Fund- the venture arm of Partners Healthcare System in Boston, MA. Previously, she was in the private office at Bracebridge Capital serving as Director of Private Investments where she led investments in early stage life science companies. Prior to that role she led business development for Ginkgo BioWorks- an MIT spin out- and was Senior Director of Technology and Business Development of Enlight Biosciences- a venture creation company founded by PureTech Ventures. She spent several years working as a scientist in drug discovery and assay development for Idenix Pharmaceuticals and Anadys Pharmaceuticals (formerly, Scriptgen). Meredith received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College, her MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and her PhD in molecular microbiology from Harvard University. Meredith serves on the board of Lyndra and Nocion for PIF. She is a board member, co-founder and Interim CEO of Mediar Therapeutics.
Co-President/Treasurer: Chesley M. Chen, is an entrepreneur, Chief Executive Officer, and Board Member. He is currently launching two digital health start-ups as CEO of g.Root Biomedical and as Strategic Advisor of MindMics. Prior to that, he was CEO of Safety Partners. Chesley has over 30 years experience in launching, scaling, and reinventing businesses in life sciences, high tech, and financial services with firms that include Health Dialog, Good Measures, VWR, Goldman Sachs, and Hughes Aircraft Company. Chesley holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Tufts University, an SM in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He dedicates his time to mentoring new and promising CEO's with strong science and technology backgrounds. Chesley serves on the Strategic Advisory Board of the U Mass Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Tufts Launchpad Accelerator Evaluation Committee. He is a devoted family man, rock climber, and black belt in Shotokan karate.
Vice President: Dr. Meena Subramanyam joined Takeda's gastroenterology group as Vice President and Global Program Leader in May 2017 to oversee the strategic development of therapeutic assets for gastric motility indications. Prior to joining Takeda, Meena spent 19 years at Biogen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As Vice President and head of the Translational Sciences and Technology group she held broad responsibilities for developing and implementing the biomarker, bioanalytical and diagnostic strategies for pipeline products in clinical development for Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, Fibrosis, SLE amongst others. She co-led the development of the strategy for PML risk stratification and is the co- inventor of the STRATIFY JCV™ diagnostic test. Over her 20 year career in the biotechnology industry, she has contributed to 9 successful BLA and NDA filings. She served as the chair of the National Biotechnology Conference in 2017, and as chair of the BIOTEC section of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. She also serves as a member of the Biotechnology Industrial Advisory Board of North Eastern University, Boston. Dr. Subramanyam has authored several scientific publications and white papers on topics related to therapeutic drug development.
Previous President: Mariana Nacht, Ph.D., is currently CSO of Cereius with over 20 years of experience in biotechnology. Most recently, she was CSO of Vivid Biosciences and before that she was VP Cancer Biology at KDAc Therapeutics. Prior to KDAc, she was VP and Head of Biology at Padlock Therapeutics, which was acquired by BMS in 2016. She was one of the first employees at Avila Therapeutics, a biotech dedicated to discovering and developing irreversible small molecule inhibitors of kinases for oncology. During the first 5 years, three drug candidates were discovered, and two were advanced to clinical trials (the BTK inhibitor CC-292, and the mutant selective EGFR inhibitor CO-1686, partnered with Clovis Oncology). After the acquisition of Avila by Celgene in 2012, Mariana continued to lead biology research at Celgene Avilomics Research before joining Padlock as an early member of the executive team. Mariana started her biotech career at Genzyme, where she worked for ten years, focusing on various aspects of human oncology including the study of proteins that promote or prevent tumor angiogenesis and growth. Mariana received her B.S. in Biology from Tufts University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She continued her training as a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Tyler Jacks at MIT before continuing her career in industry.
Past President: Jo Viney, Ph.D., is Co-Founder, President, and CSO of Pandion Therapeutics, a start-up biotech company focused on drug discovery in autoimmunity, inflammation and transplant. Previously Jo worked at Biogen where she began as VP, Immunology Research and was responsible for building the company's immunology portfolio before moving on to become SVP, Drug Discovery. Before moving to the East Coast, Jo worked at Genentech, Immunex and Amgen, but she originally hails from the UK where she received her PhD from the University of London. Throughout her career, Jo has been passionate about workplace inclusiveness, promoting the careers of women and under-represented minorities in science. She is involved with several groups driving this mission, and joined the Board of WEST in 2015. Jo is also a member of the Board of Directors for CaroGen Corp, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Vaxart Inc.
Previous President: Sandra Glucksmann is presently President and CEO of Cedilla Therapeutics. She is a veteran biopharma executive and experienced scientist who most recently served as founder and chief operating officer of the gene editing company Editas Medicine, Inc. She previously served as senior vice president of research and development at Cerulean Pharma, which she also joined at its founding. Sandra was a founding scientist at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, where she spent 13 years, taking on a series of senior roles on the science team before moving into an executive position with responsibility for strategic program management and operations. Sandra serves on the boards of directors of REGENXBIO and Scenic Biotech. Sandra holds a Ph.D. with honors in molecular genetics and cell biology from the University of Chicago. She was a post-doctoral fellow at MIT.
Board Members:
Katherine Andersen serves as Head of Life Science & Healthcare Relationship Banking at SVB. She also sits on the Board of Directors for SVB's Joint Venture in China, SPD Silicon Valley Bank. Prior to SVB, Katherine was a Senior Vice President for Wells Fargo Bank leading the Life Sciences business development and relationship management efforts for the New England region. Before that, she was a Director at Wells Fargo Capital Finance focused on front-end business development and underwriting of structured loans. Prior to Wells, she held various positions across mergers and acquisitions, finance, equity derivatives, audit, and management while at Affiliated Managers Group, Merrill Lynch, GE Corporate Audit Staff and GE Capital. Katherine has a bachelor's degree in finance and economics from Virginia Tech. She has also completed Dartmouth's Tuck Executive Leadership and Strategic Impact Program, Wells Fargo's Transformational Leadership Program, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the GE Capital Financial Management Program. Away from work, Katherine serves on the Finance Advisory Board for Virginia Tech, the Advisory Board for WEST (Women in the Enterprise of Science & Technology), and as Chairperson for the American Cancer Society's Hope Lodge Corporate Council. She also enjoys endurance sports, traveling with her family, and baking epic birthday cakes for her three kids.
Jon Giebel has 10 years of experience in the agbiotech sector with Bayer. Most of his career Jon worked in Bayer's CropScience business, leading a team of scientists focused on isolating and culturing environmental microbes for insecticidal toxin discovery. In addition to his roles in new trait discovery, he has served in global strategy roles for R&D and supported the integration of Bayer and Monsanto. In his current role as Program Lead for Bayer's LifeHub Boston, Jon is responsible for leading a cross divisional open innovation space with a goal of leveraging the strong innovation ecosystem in Cambridge and Boston. The LifeHub Boston strives to convene diverse communities and creative thought leaders to explore solutions to complex challenges in the fields of health and nutrition. Jon is also a Board Member for the WEST (Women in the Enterprise of Science & Technology) organization and is passionate about community outreach activities that advance Bayer's core mission statement, Science for a Better Life. He has authored 9 scientific papers and is a named inventor on multiple US patents. He has a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. in Biology from Cornell University.
Etta Jacobs is the Founder and Principal of Power in the Middle, an executive coaching and training organization that specifically focuses on empowering mid-level managers and their teams. Prior to becoming an executive coach, Etta gained her corporate expertise as an award-winning design executive at two Fortune 500 companies, where she coached cohorts of managers and directed teams of creative professionals on innovative, multi-media projects. She shepherded her teams through continuous technological transitions and multiple corporate reorganizations—helping them thrive through increasingly aggressive deadlines, uncertainty, and industry-wide disruption. Etta draws upon this 20+ years of corporate experience when coaching. Her passion is helping her clients reach their highest potential—by guiding them to look at events through different lenses, question their assumptions, find creative and unexpected solutions to their career challenges, and to build a career that is aligned with their strengths, talents, and values. Etta holds a Master of Organizational Psychology and is a Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation (ICF). Etta earned her MA and her Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching from William James College. She has a BFA from Syracuse University.
Alicja Januszewicz has 15+ years of experience in Talent Management/Human Resources. Before joining Allena Pharmaceutical as a Head of People and Culture, she consulted with small biotechs in Cambridge within the areas of talent management like employee development, organizational development, succession management, high potentials, and workforce planning. Before starting her own consulting services, Alicja served as the Head of Talent Management at Baxalta (former Baxter BioScience), Cambridge office where she supported R&D until the Shire acquisition. Before joining Baxalta in 2015, Alicja was the Head of Talent Management at Epizyme, an R&D organization that specializes in personalized therapeutics for patients with genetically defined cancers. Alicja also led Talent Management at Haemonetics, a leading provider of premium blood management solutions in the medical devices area. Additionally, from 2007 to 2013, Alicja served as a Talent Development lead at Boston Scientific HQ, rolling out global development initiatives. Prior to Boston Scientific, she was responsible for organizational development of the Genzyme global manufacturing group. Alicja holds a PhD in Sociology from the Polish Academy of Science and the Copenhagen Business School. She is also a member of the faculty at Boston University School Of Management, where she teaches Organizational Behavior.
Danielle Lauzon is a partner in Goodwin Procter LLP's Technology Companies & Life Sciences Group. Danielle's representation of start-up and later stage companies spans the entire corporate life cycle, including formation matters, general corporate representation and counseling, venture capital financings, public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Her clients are in the life sciences, software and healthcare information technology services industries. Prior to joining Goodwin Procter in 2005, Danielle was an associate in the Business Practice Group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault in Boston. Danielle is a member of the Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations. Danielle holds a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif) and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Joseph Lehar is VP of Data Science for Oncology at Janssen. Prior to this, he was an executive director of computational biology at Merck Research Laboratories. Before then, Joseph was at Verily (Google Life Sciences), building their computational biology capability; after Novartis, where he was a director of bioinformatics for Oncology Translational Medicine; and at CombinatoRx, a biotech focused on drug combinations. As an adjunct professor at Boston University through all of these positions, Joseph continues to pursue research on the systems biology of drug combinations. Joseph holds a Ph.D. in physics, and his original career was astrophysics, which he pursued at MIT, Cambridge University, and Harvard.
Anna Li is a senior organism engineer at Gingko Bioworks. She has more than 15 years of research and teaching experience in molecular biology, microbiology and plant pathology, she has served a series of roles on a scientific team with responsibility for technical development, research supervision, program management and operations throughout her career. She has been a key player in developing the genome mining platform, initially at Warp Drive Bio and recently acquired by Ginkgo. This platform is currently being used, in collaboration with Roche, to develop new classes of antibiotics to fight the rise of antibiotic-resistant diseases. Previously Anna worked as a visiting scholar in the Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Department at Harvard University and conducted research on mutational pathways of bacterial drug resistance. She received her Ph.D. in Plant Pathology in 2007 and held a position as an associate professor at Shandong Agricultural University in China before moving to the US. Anna is passionate about advocating for women in the science community, enabling them to connect and support each other. She has volunteered at WEST events and book clubs for many years and was the recipient of the WEST Giving Back Award in 2017. She served as a WEST Advisory Board member in 2018.
Dr. Patrice Prusko is the Assistant Director, Learning Design, in the Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL) at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She oversees design, development and project management of online and digitally enhanced courses. Prior to joining the TLL she worked as an Instructional Designer at Cornell University in the Center for Teaching Innovation, and as a faculty member at State University of New York, Empire State College, Center for Distance Learning and International Programs. Dr. Prusko's research focuses on developing course and systems level structures that support inclusive, transformational learning experiences for all students, especially first generation and underrepresented student populations in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. She is passionate about increasing global access to STEM education for all women. Dr. Prusko believes by increasing access to education for women we can enable more communities across the globe to thrive and flourish. She holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering (B.S.), and Business Management (MBA) from Union College, and Curriculum and Instruction (Ph.D.) from University at Albany.
Jackie Schumacher is currently the VP of Regulatory and Quality at Lyndra Therapeutics. At Lyndra, Jackie is responsible for the regulatory strategy and operations across the portfolio along with Quality Assurance oversight for the company. Prior to Lyndra, Jackie spent most of her 30+ year career within Pfizer; starting as an analytical chemist followed by a long tenure within the CMC Regulatory organization in roles of increasing responsibility. She has led teams to develop successful global registration strategies for new small molecules, product enhancements, inhalation and injectable products. Jackie also held several business-facing/commercial roles, including the creation of a satellite Pharmaceutical Sciences team in Brazil supporting Latin American product and business development; regulatory leadership within the nascent Established Products Sterile Injectables organization and later as Portfolio Optimization and Strategy Leader; facilitating a matrixed team of Pfizer colleagues tasked with radically optimizing the value of the 600+ molecule portfolio. In addition to her Pfizer-based experiences, she has served as a board member and chaired an industry consortium, IPAC-RS, focused on strategic pharmaceutical and regulatory development objectives for orally inhaled and nasal drug products. Jackie has co-founded a recently launched non-profit organization, Optimists without Borders, USA, with one of her former Pfizer colleagues and serves as one of the Directors. Jackie earned her B.A. degrees in Chemistry and Classical Studies from Hamilton College.
Elizabeth N. Spar, Ph.D., J.D. (Clerk) is Assistant General Counsel, IP at Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Before this, she was a Partner at Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP. She has extensive experience as a technology specialist, with a focus on intellectual property and patent law, including drafting patent applications, preparing responses to office actions, and contributing to infringement, validity and patentability analyses. With more than 13 years of technical experience in diversified academic research environments, she has drafted patent applications in the fields of molecular and cellular biology, immunology, antibodies, RNAi, biologics, biosimilars, protein expression, genetically transformed plants for use as vaccines and immunogens, genomics, drug discoveries, gene therapy, antitumor therapies, screening assays and protease assays. Dr. Spar's prior positions include post-doctoral fellowships at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and pre-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University. Dr. Spar's awards include the Women's Cancers Program Fellowship, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; and the Ryan Fellowship at Harvard University. She received her B.A. in Biology from Oberlin College, her Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard University and her J.D. from New England School of Law. Dr. Spar is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Deborah Vernon, Ph.D. is a partner at Womble Bond Dickinson LLP and a founding member of its Boston Office. Deborah assists clients in obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights with a focus on technology in the chemical and mechanical arts. Deborah has successfully represented clients in appeals and contested proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Circuit. Deborah obtained her J.D. from Suffolk University School of Law (magna cum laude). Prior to her legal career, Deborah obtained her doctorate degree in material science from Brown University, where she conducted research on thin films and ceramic materials. This research led her to develop novel processing techniques for controlling grain growth during the densification of nanophase ceramic compacts using chemical vapor deposition. In addition to serving on WEST's Board of Directors, Deborah serves as a member of the Trinity Engineering Advisory Council at Trinity College.
Chair Emeritus
Janice Bourque is former Senior Vice President and Group Head-Life Sciences for Comerica Bank where she was responsible for leading Comerica's national strategy for the life sciences. Prior to that, Ms. Bourque was President/CEO of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MBC) where she led the organization for 12 years. In 2004, she was awarded the Woman of Valor Award by the American Diabetes Association and the 2004 Distinguished Leadership Award by the Huntington Disease Society for her work in public policy and public health. In 2003, Boston Magazine named her one of Boston's 100 most influential women and the Cambridge Chamber Commerce awarded her Business Person of the Year. Ms. Bourque received her MBA degree in finance and accounting and her BS degree in veterinary science from the University of New Hampshire.
Board Emeritus
Abigail Barrow is the Managing Partner of Cambridge Innovation Partners – a consulting firm that helps start-ups find global and local resources for success. Previously, she was the Interim Executive Director, Office of Technology Commercialization and Ventures (OTCV) at the University of Massachusetts from 2015 to 2018. She joined the UMass President's Office in 2004 as the Founding Director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC) which was hosted in OTCV. At MTTC she was responsible for the overall management of the MTTC and the development of its programs. Prior to joining UMass, Dr. Barrow served as managing director of William J. von Liebig Center at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Dr. Barrow worked in a variety of roles at UCSD CONNECT from 1990 to 2001. Dr. Barrow is on the board and is Chair of VentureWell. Dr. Barrow received her Ph.D. from the Science Studies Unit and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh.
Joel MacAuslan, Ph.D., is Chief Executive and Chief Science Officer of STAR Analytical Services, which provides mathematical and analytical capability for clients' innovation projects that require expertise in system modeling, signal processing, and nonlinear dynamics - from brain surgery to rocket science. He founded STAR on an NIH grant to apply techniques of chaos theory to the dynamics of the larynx. Joel has participated actively in WEST since early 2000. Joel holds a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Cornell and has spent over twenty-five years in mathematical speech, signal, and image-processing analysis.


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Friday, September 11, 2015
Slipknot's Corey Taylor about ".5: The Gray Chapter": "It's probably one of our most honest albums"
Slipknot's Corey Taylor was recently interviewed by Mary McCool, you can read some excerpts below.
About what he hopes Slipknot fans will take away from listening to the band's latest album, ".5: The Gray Chapter", Taylor said: "The one thing that I hope that the fans take away from this is hearing the honesty in not only the lyrics, but the music and just the overall message. Because this really is the diary of a band who's kind of still amongst the grieving process. But it's us not holding anything back, 'cause people tend to romanticize grieving. But there's so many human emotions to go through, you're angry, you're selfish, you're pessimistic, depressed… I mean, it's just everything. And that's what this is, basically, it's a raw nerve exposed to the world. I think it's probably one of our most honest albums. And I hope that people can listen to this and realize that if they're in a situation like this, it's okay to feel these human emotions."
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Last week we noted that U2's iconic album The Joshua Tree was one of several classic alternative records turning 30 in 2017. Now we've learned that Bono and the boys will spend the spring and summer touring it, as U2 this morning have revealed the dates for their anticipated Joshua Tree Tour 2017.
The tour hits Gillette Stadium in Foxborough in June 25. Tickets for all North American dates go on sale Tuesday, January 17, and U2 have enlisted Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, and One Republic as opening acts.
U2 will also headline Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee between June 8 and 10 (the full Bonnaroo lineup is out Wednesday).
"It seems like we have come full circle from when The Joshua Tree songs were originally writtten, with global upheaval, extreme right wing politics and some fundamental human rights at risk," says The Edge in a press release. "To celebrate the album — as these songs seem so relevant and prescient of these times too — we decided to do these shows, it feels right for now. We're looking forward to it."
Adds Bono: "Recently I listened back to The Joshua Tree for the first time in nearly 30 years. It's quite an opera. A lot of emotions which feel strangely current, love, loss, broken dreams, seeking oblivion, polarisation… all the greats… I've sung some of these songs a lot… but never all of them. I'm up for it, if our audience is as excited as we are… it's gonna be a great night. Especially when we play at home. Croke Park… it's where the album was born, 30 years ago."
Full dates and promo video below. Get additional ticket information here.
The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 North America
May 12 Vancouver, BC BC Place Stadium
May 14 Seattle, WA CenturyLink Field
May 17 San Francisco, CA Levi's Stadium
May 20 Los Angeles, CA Rose Bowl
May 24 Houston, TX NRG Stadium
May 26 Dallas, TX AT&T Stadium
June 3 Chicago, IL Soldier Field
June 7 Pittsburgh, PA Heinz Field
June 11 Miami, FL Hard Rock Stadium
June 14 Tampa, FL Raymond James Stadium
June 18 Philadelphia, PA Lincoln Financial Field
June 20 Washington, DC FedEx Field
June 23 Toronto, ON Rogers Centre
June 25 Boston, MA Gillette Stadium
June 28 E. Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium
July 1 Cleveland, OH First Energy
The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 Europe
8 July London, UK Twickenham Stadium
12 July Berlin, DE Olympic Stadium
15 July Rome, IT Olympic Stadium
18 July Barcelona, ES Olympic Stadium
22 July Dublin, IE Croke Park
25 July Paris, FR Stade De France
29 July Amsterdam, NE Amsterdam Arena
1 Aug. Brussels, BE King Baudouin Stadium


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Sophos XG Update v17.0.6: MR6 Released
Sophos has completed version v17.0.6 MR6 of the SFOS. All those who have installed version v17.0 on their XG can install the update immediately.
If you don't see the update on your XG firewall yet, you can download the new version from MySophos Portal, as usual.
Note: When updating from v16 to v17, SFOS does not set SHA2 truncation on custom IPSec policy. Please have a look at the following post: Sophos XG Firewall: IPSec v16 to v17 update does not set SHA2 truncation on custom policy
- NC-26520 [Base System] Logviewer exceeds allotted diskspace
- NC-26601 [Base System] validatePort didn't validate all used ports correctly
- NC-25574 [IPsec] Upgrade to v17 failed when a policy with name 'IKEv2' was created before upgrade
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- NC-27001 [IPsec] Unable to enable the fail-over group for IPSec
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LAMP is a software bundle that is an acronym of the primary or original open source products, which include a Linux operating system, an Apache server, a MySQL database, and utilizes the PHP programming language; the acronym originated from Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. However, the stack has interchangeable options, such as another web server, scripting, or database options. Using open source software allows the stack to be customized in ways that benefit the user without fear of being locked into a specific vendor or software producer.
A commonly used iteration of Linux is Ubuntu, a user-friendly Linux-based operating system that new and experienced users often utilize. For this guide, Ubuntu 18.04 is being used, which is the current stable release.
To get started installing the stack, you will need a freshly installed virtual machine (VM) with root access; root access is used to engage in administrator level actions on the operating system.
Make sure that your version of Ubuntu is the current stable release, 18.04, before proceeding with your stack installation. You can start by verifying that your system is up to date:
apt update && apt upgrade -y
Once complete, you will need to install tasksel:
apt install tasksel
After completing the tasksel installation, it's time to install the lamp server package, which will include Apache 2.4, PHP 7.2, and MySQL 5.7:
tasksel install lamp-server
When finished, you will need to secure your MySQL installation, since there's a blank password by default:
It's important to secure your MySQL server deployment, especially since it's installed with a blank password by default. Once completed, you can connect to MySQL with a blank password and use the VALIDATE PASSWORD PLUGIN function to test passwords and help improve security.
The plugin helps you create passwords that are considered secure enough for the installation. You will be prompted to setup the VALIDATE PASSWORD PLUGIN, pressing "y" for 'yes' or any other key for 'no'.
Once you select 'yes,' you will be prompted to set the root password, entering it twice for confirmation.
On the default setup, MySQL has an anonymous user account, which allows any user to log on without having a user account created. The anonymous user accounts allow for easier testing environments and easier installations, but they should be removed before placing your VM into production.
To remove anonymous users, there will be a prompt asking you to select "y" for 'yes' or any other key for 'no.' Make your selection of "y" and complete the removal when ready.
When setting up a stack installation with root access, it's important to set up your root connection to connect from 'localhost.' Setting up the connection in this fashion keeps users from attempting to guess the password and connecting from unauthorized locations.
During setup, you will be prompted to "disallow root login remotely," pressing "y" for 'yes' and any other key for 'no.' Select "y" to disallow remote root logins.
There is another default database, named 'test,' that can be accessed by anyone and should be removed before placing your database in production.
Similar to the other steps, you will be prompted to select "y" for 'yes' or any other key for 'no.' Select "y" and remove the test database.
Once the test database has been dropped and privileges are removed, you will be prompted to reload privilege tables to ensure that changes take effect immediately. You will be prompted to select "y" for 'yes' or any other key for 'no.' Select "y" and complete the table reload, making your changes take effect.
You've successfully completed installing your LAMP stack on a virtual machine running Ubuntu 18.04; you're ready to move your installation into production. If you found this process guide helpful, please share it with other users engaging in a similar setup, and review our other guides for additional help and support.
Ubuntu is a popular Linux-based operating system, providing an open source alternative to other popular operating systems like Windows and Mac OS. With the variety of Linux operating systems available, Ubuntu has managed to become the most popular system for cloud storage solutions, personal computers, and even some server environments.
The next major release of Ubuntu is 18.04 LTS, given the identified "Bionic Beaver," and will carry long term support for five years after release; when this period ends the product has reached its' "end of life" point and no longer receives support or updates. Ubuntu 18.04 will be the first long-term support release since Ubuntu 16.04, sometimes called "Xenial Xerus." When releases are referenced in common discussion, the descriptor or adjective is often used, such as "bionic" or "xenial" instead of the complete code name.
The Bionic Beaver release is scheduled for April 2018, though if there are bugs or potential development delays the release may be delayed.
Compared to previous Ubuntu releases and updates, the Ubuntu 18.04 update will feature new additions, changes to the desktop environment, and kernel updates.
Previous Ubuntu releases have utilized Unity as the graphical interface for the desktop environment; Unity was first developed by Canonical Ltd, which is a development company for Ubuntu that helps offer commercial support when necessary. However, in April of 2017, Canonical announced they are no longer pursuing the Unity platform, choosing to utilize the GNOME Shell interface; this makes GNOME Shell the default going forward for Ubuntu releases.
This changeover from Unity to GNOME 3 was pushed by Canonical's move to concentrate on their desktop, cloud computing, and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms; previously there was the ambition to move into a unified mobile device platform, but Canonical has since moved away from this.
The upcoming 18.04 release also has the expectation of a new theme default, providing an option similar to Windows operating systems instead of the previous Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release and Mac OS releases. Previous pain points from other Ubuntu themes have been addressed or removed, but the Ubuntu desktop team even reached out to the Ubuntu user community for help creating the new theme.
Ubuntu 18.04 – Daily Build (12/12/2017)
Ubuntu 16.04
There's also excited about the upcoming ability for color emoji fonts to be utilized, through the implementation of NotoColorEmoji, which offers color and black-and-white emoji fonts; this solution is also implemented on the latest stock Android devices.
There are changes being implemented in the Linux kernel, currently on version 4.15; the kernel provides many helpful updates for users that experience issues were trying to manage their hardware with a non-stock operating system.
At the core of an operating system is the kernel, which is a program that has control over the entire computer system. After the system bootloader, the kernel is often one of the first programs to load, handling the remainder of the startup processes, software requests, and peripheral equipment (e.g., keyboards, printers, monitors, etc.) to the system. At its core, the kernel helps connect the hardware of the system to the software applications; kernels are often stored in protected areas of the system memory to keep them from being corrupted.
Updating the Linux kernel provides users with updates that help the operating system run efficiently, ensure issues or bugs are patched within the system and even give users support for hardware that may have had compatibility issues previously.
Some of these changes include DRM driver updates for AMDGPU/Radeon, Intel, Nouveau, and other driver options, AMD temperature monitoring, USB Type-C management support, and touchpad and touchscreen support for more devices. This kernel update also provides support for networking through Thunderbolt connections and enhancements to the Flash-Friendly File System, often abbreviated F2FS, which is a flash file system developed for use with Linux kernels.
The Bionic Beaver release, although highly anticipated, is not scheduled for a rollout until April 2018 at a minimum; this does not include any potential delays. However, the Ubuntu website is providing updates and a schedule of anticipated checkpoints leading up to the release. With this release being a Long Term Support release, it will receive five years of support for the desktop and server versions. At GloboTech Communications, we expect to release Ubuntu 18.04 for dedicated and cloud servers at the end of April 2018.


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I have now read this book three times: once because I have read the author's other stuff and then as a convenor of two different book groups.
I wonder whether the bishop is partly modelled on Walter Hussey, who commissioned outstanding modern art and music for St. Matthew's Northampton and later, when he was dean, at Chichester Cathedral.
There are some interesting theological issues, made simply by being part of a narrative rather than in a text book, for people to get their heads around: is art sacramental? Do Christians take seriously 'the word made flesh?' (This has all been fought out, literally, in the past, between the iconoclasts and the iconodules.) Who created Hell – God, or a god made in humanity's own image? How can people have already been in Hell? Does Hell diminish God's love? Liberals don't like the idea of God being vengeful but should there be some final justice? As myth, is Genesis harmful in placing humanity at the pinnacle of creation? Whatever happens is God's will?
There is good food for thought about the presenting issue that is rending the Anglican Communion asunder: the 'issue' of human sexuality, which is a phrase to obscure the fact that the only issue is homosexuality and that this is about people, not merely an 'issue'. The novel earths this issue in flesh and blood people whose lives are deeply affected by such a debate. Does God punish people by AIDS? Should gays seek to change their orientation? Should gay marriage be allowed or is marriage 'a reactionary and oppressive institution?' Was Jesus less than fully human if he didn't have a sex life?
For those unaccustomed to inter faith dialogue, there are some thought-provoking insights into Islam and Judaism: Is the Qur'an better, with Adam made from the dust of many lands? Is Judaism, as seen by the popular mind, an 'escape into a world of "thou shalt nots"'? Or is the Jewish attitude towards the Torah one in which people can find' freedom in a world of constraints? Does the Hebrew alphabet have radiance? Does the study of 'comparative religion' lead to the loss of conviction? Do Eastern religions involve more spirituality than 'Western' religions? Are the Bible and Qur'an man-made rules? Regardless of the official teaching of religious leaders, what do adherents realty believe? How widespread among Jews (and Christians) is belief in reincarnation? What is the right attitude towards Holy Writ, given that both Jews and Christians have always held that there are different levels of interpretation? 'We debate laws rather than them falling out of the sky. The law is an absolute good?
Some people come to God through the heads, others through the heart. What implications does this have for religion?
Fundamentalism is portrayed well, though I think the author overdoes it in the case of the Church of England. As one of the characters says, the job of the C. of E. is 'to constrain emotion not to ferment it' (Alpha Course take note). After all, how common are '6 dayers'? (This is not America, yet.) Is fundamentalism increasing? What is the difference between 'taking faith seriously' and 'not taking it simplistically?'
The implications for belief as played out in ethical decision-making are displayed with emotion and intellect: What sort of God would be offended at Edwin's wish to be smothered with pillow? Might not the commandment to honour father and mother be fulfilled by honouring a father's wishes for euthanasia? The faith of some people leads them to serve in the armed forces. The faith of others leads them to oppose war. Is one more true to faith than the other? Are newspapers a modern form of Inquisition/Confessional and public penance?
However, both groups wondered whether the author was trying to tick boxes regarding topics likely to interest readers: the role of women, fundamentalism, pro-life/pro-choice, sexual orientation, asylum seekers.
Some thought that the characters were cartoon-like, apart from Rafiq, who seems to be true to himself but whose character is never developed. Iris Murdoch dealt with these sorts of issues better. Some thought that the style was too 'flowery' and remarked on the sheer implausibility of several of the episodes, for example that only two men would be sharing cells in a category B prison. Many thought that there was an imbalance in the portrayal of Muslims and Jews: that Muslims came across as barbaric whereas that Jews were treated uncritically by comparison.
Many enjoyed the first section but got bogged down after that. 'It started well, with a man stripping off.! 'I'm glad I read it but I wouldn't read any more of his books.'
"But you must still know to respect other people's faith.'
'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.'
'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.'
'In which case I believe in Jedi"
"All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly."
"For myself I couldn't care less, but I have a lover. Not a partner, Susannah, or a friend or a significant euphemism, but the love of my life. And he believes. And I've watched him tie himself in knots, as he struggles to find a place for himself in texts that were written thousands of years ago, with the deliberate aim of excluding him."


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However, all of those stories would show a very poor attitude, and I am bound and determined to keep it positive! So, instead, I am going to cling to the hope that the weather guy wasn't lying when he promised only "scattered" showers this afternoon, and get us out of here before Baby J starts riding his tricycle around the house and seeing creepy twins (Shining reference, anyone?).
On the brighter side, the sun is supposed to return tomorrow, and then we are supposed to have weather in the 70s with bright sunshine this weekend. So, I'm trying to stay focused on the spring fever instead of the cabin fever, and to that end, I am thinking about what might make the perfect mama uniform for the coming hot weather season. I am thinking dresses in comfortable fabrics and forgiving cuts are going to be the secret to my success this summer, and there are many cute options out there. Some of my favorites so far:
CP Shades Pema Dress (although obviously not in white... it comes in a lovely gray that I'm admiring)
Priced much more reasonably than the above and available in petite sizes is this Gap dress...intriguing.
And finally, the Patagonia Kamala dress, because I am always a sucker for the Patagucci.
What will your summer uniform be?


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I've spent the past week in Savannah, GA (at least in my head I have). I'm already six chapters into my new series and keeping pace at a chapter a day. My goal is to finish in November or December for a January release date. I'll keep you posted.
|One of Savannah's beautiful historic squares.
But why Savannah? Why do writers choose one specific setting over another? For me setting is another factor that shapes and adds depth to whatever original idea I had for a story.
For example, my first two novels are set around St. Louis, Missouri. I grew up there so it was an easy first choice but the setting was still a conscious choice that I used to influence the story and characters. Being from there I knew specific traits and idiosyncrasies of the locals that I could incorporate into the storyline to add depth and help shape my characters. St. Louis is a predominantly Catholic area (more so when I lived there). The bulk of the population in the suburb I grew up in was either of German, French or Irish descent. I used the German family qualities I knew to shape my main character Ben. He is close to his German grandparents and acknowledges his roots by occasionally being involved in German festivals and attending their German-Catholic church.
I also wanted the very middle-America feel of St. Louis. People from that area don't have a strong accent. They are somewhere between Chicago's northern dialect and Memphis's deep Southern twang. The "middle of nowhere" feeling we all joked about when living there worked perfectly with my story. I wanted to create an amazing love story in the most ordinary of places and circumstances.
So now I'm in Savannah with my new character Vivienne. I've never lived in Savannah, but I fell in love with it on a trip and did my research before using it in this new series. Savannah gives me a perfect combination of contrasting moods. It's the laid-back, friendly, Old South mixed with a rising hipster art vibe. It's cotillians meet college bars. It's a town that loves its history while welcoming new, different, and unique ideas.
|Let's #LiveLikeViv in the world of private Jets
It's also a hub for the private jet industry and the career path for the heroine of this series, Vivienne Ramsey. I'm using my insider knowledge of this amazingly small, mostly male, posh international business to create Vivienne's rise to the top. And just like Savannah, she's all about contrasts and contradictions. She's the quiet, introverted, girly girl who surprises everyone when she bursts through the glass ceiling of the good-old-boys-club in private jet sales.
I might physically be in Memphis today, but my head will be in Savannah with Vivienne. I can't wait for you to join me there. If you would like me to send you a reminder when the series is released (and a special discount) add your email address to my mailing list today. Together we can #LiveLikeViv and hop a jet to Savannah.


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How to deliver criticism so employees pay attention
When it comes to delivering feedback and criticism, there are best practices that, when used correctly, can improve performance, enhance trust and respect, and advance the achievement of mutual goals. Used incorrectly, and it can be toxic to a relationship. Here are four guidelines to delivering criticism that improves performance, trust and respect, and advances the achievement of mutual goals:… Read more →


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Conference calls can be arranged quickly and don't involve any travel costs. With the advances in video conferencing, conference calls using the telephone might not be so important in the future, but they're still a big part of working life for many office workers today.
Apart from technical problems, there are lots of other things that can make conference calls a nightmare. Here are some things that could make your experiences with conference calls in English less stressful:
How to know who is speaking
The most common way is to say "This is [John]" each time you speak, although this may not be necessary if everyone knows each other well.
How to stop people speaking at the same time
It's not always possible to stop this from happening, but directing questions at individuals instead of the group can help. You could ask "What do you think, [John]?" or "[John], can you answer that question?"
How to interrupt someone without sounding impolite
The easiest way to stop someone is perhaps "I'm sorry to interrupt, but…" or "Sorry, can I stop you there for a moment?"
Alternatively, the participants could agree on a rule like 'if you want to speak next, just say your name'. Everyone will then know who's waiting to say something next.
How to let someone know when you've finished speaking
Finishing with a military-sounding 'over' is probably a little ridiculous, so how about asking a question after you've made your point like "Does anyone disagree?" or "Any questions?"
A few other things to think about:
Even if your level of English is high, some of the other participants could have a lower level than you. Always try to speak clearly and concentrate on communicating your idea. This will even help native speakers who are listening to you!
Try to be aware of cultural differences. Interrupting someone or being too direct can be disrespectful in other cultures. The cultural differences between East and West are well known, but there are also many between the UK and Germany, for example.
If the call is international, remember that it could be very early or very late for some of the participants and they could be tired.
Remember that if you're having problems during a conference call, there is a good chance that you're not the only one! If in doubt, ask for help!
What problems have you had during conference calls? Can you share any tips?


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While hanging out with the Western Kentucky photojournalism students this weekend, I received an opportunity to play around with David Honl's new speed grids for a bit. Lengthy story short, I like his better than my DIY versions – for several causes. In the picture proven, the boy had painted teeth for Halloween. I Alt clicked on the underside tooth, then grafted that coloration to the top enamel. But if you've acquired a solution to play FFX on an emulator that delivers considerably crisper renders than the PS2 did, there's not a lot motive to buy the remaster unless you need the worldwide and new content. Notice that I made the image's style=command specify that its width is 100%. 100% of what? The paragraph containing it. As a result of the image is going to shrink or stretch to match the width of the paragraph containing it, there will not be any room for the caption beside the picture, in order that forces the caption below the image.
In this YouTube video I'm displaying tips on how to use colour to cowl up the grid lines on the pet drawing. See how easy it's to cover up lines on a grid drawing! One other factor you can do if you do not want to make your individual grid is purchase graph paper for drawing. Choose a sort of graph paper that has gentle colored strains, which is able to make it simpler to cover up the grid marks. However, with a ruler it is simpler and more cost effective to make the grid by yourself.
I don't assume that is such a bad change for Facebook. We all know individuals who upload ALL their photographs from their digicam onto Fb. Even those that aren't flattering, are not focused, did not end up, etc. There isn't any point having them on Fb, and no less than now it's a must to pick and select the photographs earlier than importing.
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text: The investigation focused on obtaining experimental results from the self-heating properties of different softwood samples during lab-scale storage. The samples investigated were a mixture of dried soft wood sawdust, softwood pellets 8 mm in diameter, and aged softwood sawdust stored outdoors for three months. Isothermal calorimetry was used to measure the heat released from the biomass samples and assess the contribution to self-heating during storage. Softwood samples were stored at 20 °C, 50 °C, 55 °C and 60 °C, and the metals manganese, copper and iron were added as a water solution to investigate if the presence of metals would increase the risk of self-heating. For most sample series, the highest levels of heat release were found after approximately 10 days of storage; sample series stored at 50 °C displayed the highest levels. The addition of copper resulted in levels of heat release 135% higher than samples without metal added.


text: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2008, Fault Lines takes an interesting narrative approach and follows four generations of a family counter-chronologically. Family secrets start to unravel as each generation's character is revealed. We first meet 6 year old Sol, a coddled spoiled brat of a character, as he and his family are on a trip to Germany to revisit a long-lost relative. Huston then introduces the reader to the other generations; his father Randall, grandmother Sadie, and great grandmother Erra. As each character's story unfolds, you can see how each narrative weaves into one. The last section, which centers on Erra, is the most eye-opening one and is the final piece of the novel's puzzle. I don't want to say much more because it'd be giving too much away, but suffice it to say, it's a pretty intense (and sad) read.


text: We had so much fun "painting" with light! The room was buzzing with creativity. If you want to light paint at home, find a dark room, put a digital camera into manual mode, change the shutter speed to 15 seconds or long exposure setting, and use bright flashlights with focused light to "paint" in the air. It's that easy! Try out light painting at home and make sure to share your photos with the librarians!


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Thorn of 2000 Pullout from Lebanon
Still Giving 6srael Rough Times
Still Giving 6srael Rough Times
By Mohamad Shmaysani, Al Manar
In Israel, the scene of the May 2000 pullout from most of occupied territories in south Lebanon has never easy to digest. Ten years after the pullout, the Israeli media used this event to deeply assess the Zionist entity's status today.
"It wasn't a withdrawal and it wasn't a retreat…We ran away, pure and simple." These were the words of Col. Noam Ben-Tzvi, the last commander of the Israeli occupation forces western sector in south Lebanon, to Haaretz.
He said that staying in Lebanon was an ongoing failure, "we had to get out."
"We left vehicles and equipment behind…In some instances soldiers looted military equipment. There was the disgraceful scene of South Lebanon Army (of Antoine Lahed) crowding at the Fatima gate. This was running away, it was unplanned, with Hezbollah hardly even shooting at us.
Ben-Tzvi recalled telling SLA members in the months leading to the withdrawal that "we're going to leave, and we're going to leave without an agreement. Don't tell me that you'll last without us… Israel won't even give you a bullet after we withdraw."
Some in Israel believe that the cost of the "temporary calm" on the northern front was creating easy conditions for Hezbollah to prepare for the 2006 war.
"The cost of the temporary calm was Hezbollah's propitious opening conditions. Our dead in that war numbered six times more than the annual average in the final years we were present in Lebanon," wrote Ephraim Sneh, deputy defense minister during the pullout, which he strongly opposed.
I his article in Haaretz, Sneh says he believes that the unilateral pullout from Lebanon has two other repercussions. "One was the abandonment of the SLA, whose soldiers had linked their fate to ours and many of whom had fallen in combat, but were left to live in poverty in Israel or in humiliation and suffering in Lebanon. Their cynical abandonment is a moral stain on the State of Israel, a warning signal to anyone considering an alliance with us in the future. The second repercussion was the dissemination of a message of weakness to our surroundings: We run away from places where we bleed. On June 30, 2000, one month after the withdrawal and three months before the outbreak of the second intifada, Yasser Abed Rabbo told me: "With you Israelis, one should only speak in 'Lebanese.' It's the only language you understand."
Other journalists however sought to justify the pullout but without highlighting the 'negative" aspects of such a move.
Haaretz's military affairs analyst Amos Harel says the occupation of south Lebanon should have ended anyway. "With zero international legitimacy, no political objective, no long-term political plan, and with a minimum attempts to understand the hearts and minds of south Lebanon residents, this was not a war that could have been won, so ending it was better," Harel explains.
He even highlights the reasons why the "way the dramatic and heroic pullout happened should be praised." "It happened within two nights and not one soldier was injured" in the process.
But Maariv's Ben-Caspit deeply disagrees with Harel. He wrote an article titled "Crying for generations," in which he describes the pullout as a withdrawal scare adding that Israel had lost a chance to get out of Lebanon in an honorable manner.
Ben-Caspit goes on to say that then Prime Minister Ehud Barak brought a cumbersome disaster on Israel. "True, pulling out of Lebanon was a necessity, but not the way it took place because the way the withdrawal was announced and executed resulted in all of the problems that emerged in the years following the pullout." Caspit asks in his article: Who has eventually won after the pullout from Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2003? He responds: Surely not us.
On Sunday, Israel will begin its drills dubbed "Turning Point 4" which will see millions of Israeli moving into shelters at a time when the Lebanese will be taking part in municipal elections in the south. "We will be celebrating while they will be in shelters," Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said on Friday during the inauguration of the Resistance landmark site in the town of Mlita, as part of efforts to enhance resistance and jihadi tourism in Lebanon. "Armies that emerge victorious from wars display their exploits in museums," Sayyed Nasrallah said in his inaugural speech.
Israel has been threatening Lebanon with war over allegations of Scud missiles transportation from Syria to Hezbollah. The Resistance vowed to deal Israel a severe blow if it carried out its threat. According to analysts, Israel in a frustrating hammer and anvil condition; it could not be ready for war at the time being because of the balance of power that Hezbollah has imposed, however, between the risk of letting the resistance in Lebanon grow even stronger and waging war, Israel might choose the second option, and in this case, war will become regional and no one would want to be in Israel's shoes.


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Our Daily Bread Devotional – Game of Thanks
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Topic: Game of Thanks [November 24, 2016]
Read: Colossians 3:12–17, Bible in a Year: Ezekiel 22–23; 1 Peter 1
Whatever you do, . . . do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. Colossians 3:17
Every autumn we throw a scrumptious Thanksgiving feast on campus at Cornerstone University. Our students love it! Last year a group of students played a game at their table. They challenged each other to name something they were thankful for—in three seconds or less—without repeating what someone else had said. Anyone who hesitated was out of the game.
There are all kinds of things that students might gripe about—tests, deadlines, rules, and a host of other college-type complaints. But these students had chosen to be thankful. And my guess is that they all felt a lot better after the game than they would have if they had chosen to complain.
While there will always be things to complain about, if we look carefully there are always blessings to be thankful for. When Paul describes our newness in Christ, "thankfulness" is the only characteristic mentioned more than once. In fact it is mentioned three times. "Be thankful," he says in Colossians 3:15. Sing to God "with gratitude in your hearts" (v. 16). And whatever you do, be sure to be "giving thanks to God the Father" (v. 17). Paul's instruction to be thankful is astonishing when we consider that he wrote this letter from prison!
Today, let's make the choice to have an attitude of thankfulness.
Prayer: Lord, teach me the liberating joy of being thankful! Help me to find the blessings that are locked up in the things I complain about and to regularly express my gratitude to You and others.
Choose the attitude of gratitude.
Paul compared new life in Christ to changing old clothes for new ones (Col. 3:9, 10). But don't we have old "clothes"—attitudes—that feel more comfortable than new ones? What if we've tried over and over to be more forgiving, thankful, and peaceful (vv. 14–15) without much change? If so, it's important that we not misunderstand what Paul is urging us to do. The secret of clothing ourselves in the attitudes of Christ, according to Paul, is being good hosts to Christ in us (1:27). As we learn to consider and rely on His presence in us gratefully, we gradually discover that wonderful new attitudes of love, peace, and gratefulness are growing in us in ways that we sense are not simply the result of our own efforts.
This message was written by Joe Stowell [Our Daily Bread Ministries.]
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"Don't expect any grandchildren from me!" yelled my 16 year-old daughter.
We were parked on the side of the road, wind blowing, rain pelting on the roof, rush-hour traffic whizzing by on route 430. Amy had the back door of the car open and she was trying to wrestle the baby out of the car seat with no luck, and the baby had just reached the screaming stage.
I think it is safe to say that, at that moment, I really didn't want a grandchild anyway.
"It's not scanning!" cried my daughter, waving her hand over the baby and getting no results. I wasn't sure what the results were supposed to be, but judging from the look on her face, they weren't happening.
Never, in all my child-rearing years, had I ever waved my hand over a baby and expected it to stop crying.
"I can't get the baby out!" she yelled. "This is going to be a 'missed care' and I'm going to fail!" I elbowed her aside and unfastened the seatbelt and the harness. The baby's cries were pitiful, but they were as nothing compared to what would happen next. I took hold of the baby and lifted it out, handing it to my daughter. It began to scream and, I must confess, so did she. "You didn't support its head!" she yelled. "Its neck is probably broken!"
Talk about trauma.
The Tories have come up with a plan to encourage Newfoundlanders to have more children. They are paying $1000 per baby and a parental leave subsidy of $100 per month added to EI insurance to sweeten the deal. It sounds good, but I'm about to let you in on a little secret; the government's bid to increase the population may never fly, owing to the Baby Think It Over Program introduced into Newfoundland high schools. If my daughter's weekend experience is any indicator, the RealCare Baby II—a realistic infant simulator—is at sixes and sevens with the Tory's aim to encourage more births.
The Baby Think It Over program was implemented to help students make educated decisions about child rearing. It works to a point, but only to a point. For instance, when I first heard the baby cry, all the old nurturing instincts flooded back, until I took the baby in my arms. That's when the reality hit; this 'baby' was no more than an intractable doll. A real baby is soft and flexible and nestles its downy head into the crook of a parent's shoulder; a real baby interacts with the caregiver; cooing, smiling, and making eye contact. Amy found this baby to be all drudgery with few rewards. "It's just a machine," she protested, although I'm willing to bet it might have mollified her somewhat if she had received a government cheque in the amount of $1000.
The baby's cries were very real; when she arrived there were plenty of 'oohs' and 'aahs' from friends and relatives. Even the cat was interested; she tried to help the baby by lying down beside it and purring and flexing her claws while it had its bottle, and to be fair, it sounded exactly like a nursing infant; when it was rocked, it murmured and cooed, reminding us of the sounds our own children made. We even gave her a name, Annabel Lee, after the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. "It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me."
Wherever we went, we took Annabel Lee with us, but never was she more colicky than on Thanksgiving Sunday when we took her to turkey dinner at her uncle and aunt's. She wasn't about to let Amy enjoy the meal. She cried for her bottle; she cried for a burp; she cried for a diaper change, she cried to be rocked, and, as we were going out the door, she cried even more lustily, forcing Amy's uncle to remark, "That's one cross youngster!" Interestingly enough, though, the baby barely squawked at the church service that followed.
Danny Williams has been heard to protest, "We can't be in a situation where our population is shrinking," but I'm thinking Mr. Williams hasn't heard about this Program; otherwise, he might have consigned Baby Think It Over to the same sad fate as Poe's Annabel Lee.
As sure as you're born, this program is probably the most effective form of birth control in Newfoundland today.


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The Windows Incident Response Blog is dedicated to the myriad information surrounding and inherent to the topics of IR and digital analysis of Windows systems. This blog provides information in support of my books; "Windows Forensic Analysis" (1st thru 4th editions), "Windows Registry Forensics", as well as the book I co-authored with Cory Altheide, "Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools".
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
The Forensic Server Project
For a listing of sites that mention the FSP, go here.
Anyway, the one thing in common amongst all of these sites seems to be that the FSP is simply misunderstood. I talked about the FSP in chapter 8 of my book, but soon after the book was published, I made some updates to the tools, and released them as standalone executables (I compiled the Perl scripts with Perl2Exe).
So...what is the FSP? The FSP is a client/server architecture for effective, sound incident response procedures. The FSP, along with the client application (the First Responder Utility), provides a framework for quick, efficient, and effective data collection during incident response activities. The FRU can be run from a CD or thumb drive, and communicates via TCP with the FSP server component in order to get data off of a system.
Think of it like this...have you seen where netcat is used to get data off of systems? Each command is typed in by hand, or run via a batch file, and the output is piped out over netcat to a waiting listener on another system. The responder has to log each command entered, and do a lot of documentation manually. On the server end, the investigator either ends up with one huge file he must parse, or he has to shutdown and restart the listener for each new command.
The FSP, on the other hand, handles all that for you. The server component takes care of logging, hash generation (and comparison, if files are copied), timestamping of the logs, etc.
The FSP is also very flexible. The FRU runs off of ini files, which tell the application what commands to run, which Registry keys/values to collect, etc. With all of the necessary tools copied to the CD, the investigator create and choose from a variety of ini files, based on location, operating system, installed applications, etc. The ini file can be loaded on the CD or thumb drive, or run from a floppy or even a mapped drive.
So, yes, the FSP does require a little bit extra work in set up, but in providing the standalone executables, I've made that process MUCH easier. The flexibility simply can't be beat...there's no waiting for updates, as the FSP framework allows the investigator to run whichever third party tools she chooses.
There is still some room for improvement, though. For example, incorporating the ability to select files to be copied directly into the FRU. Another thing is the analysis suite...pulling together tools to parse and analyze that data that's collected.
Which brings me to something else that's beneficial about the FSP...it's written in Perl. A lot of folks may look at this and think "Ugh!" Well, being written in Perl, it's also open source. Which means that you can run the server component on just about any platform the supports Perl, and write your own client apps. The currently available FRU is the client for Windows, but clients can be written for Linux, the Mac, etc. And because the framework is open, you're not restricted to using just Perl. Use Python, Ruby, shell scripts...whatever you're most comfortable with.
So I guess I just added a couple of things to my ToDo list...a user manual, and a developer's manual.
2 comments:
Isn't a compiled perl script "dirty" when run on a target/comprimised system? Specifically, I recall that complied perl (I used an older version of ActiveState's perl-to-exe compiler) was "extracted" and then run and it left a footprint of garbage behind (.pll files and others). Is there a new way to create a statically-linked, stripped binary from perl that I am not aware of?
- H. Carvey said...
The Perl2Exe compiler isn't the same thing as ActiveState's compiler. I've successfully run the FRU from a CD with no issues whatsoever...which wouldn't work if it had to write a file to the drive.
If you're not familiar with Perl2Exe, you should check it out.


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September 20, 2004
"HONORED TO SILENCE, HONORED TO DEATH" * 'honor' violence
against lesbian and gay immigrants in the Nordic area.
Conference and cultural happenings in:
Stockholm October 15-16, 2004
Gothenberg November 6, 2004
ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network)-Nordic planning
sessions in Copenhagen (October 23, 2004) and London
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KRISTALL NACHT * November 9 -- Discussions, cultural happenings in
Stockholm at Herman's. Part of pan-European anti-discrimination events.
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Cisco AIR-AP2702I-UXK9, Omni, 802.1x RADIUS, AES, EAP, EAP-FAST, EAP-PEAP, EAP-SIM, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, TKIP, WPA, WPA2, 100 - 240, 2.4/5, 10 - 90 procent, -20 - 50 °C
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|The Cisco® Aironet® 2700 Series of Wi-Fi access points (APs) delivers industry-leading 802.11ac performance at a price point ideal for plugging capacity and coverage gaps in dense indoor environments. The Aironet 2700 Series extends 802.11ac speed and features to a new generation of smartphones, tablets, and high-performance laptops now shipping with the faster, 802.11ac Wi-Fi radios.
The Aironet 2700 series supports 802.11ac "Wave 1" In its first implementation, providing a theoretical connection rate of up to 1.3 Gbps. That's roughly triple the rates offered by today's high-end 802.11n APs. The boost helps you stay ahead of the performance and bandwidth expectations of today's mobile worker, who usually uses multiple Wi-Fi devices instead of just one. As such, users are adding proportionally larger traffic loads to the wireless LAN, which has outpaced Ethernet as the default enterprise access network.
High Density Experience (HD Experience)
Building on the Cisco Aironet heritage of RF excellence, the 2700 Series APs run on a purpose-built, innovative chipset with a best-in-class RF architecture. This chipset provides a high-density experience for enterprise networks designed for mission-critical, high-performance applications. The 2700 is a component of a Cisco series of flagship, 802.11ac-enabled APs that delivers a robust mobility experience based on the following product features:
- 802.11ac with 3x4 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology supporting three spatial streams. This architecture offers a sustained 1.3-Gbps rates over a greater range for more capacity and reliability than competing APs.
- Cross-AP Noise Reduction, a Cisco innovation that enables APs to intelligently collaborate in real time about RF conditions so that users connect with optimized signal quality and performance.
- Optimized AP Roaming to ensure that client devices associate with the AP in their coverage range that offers the fastest data rate available.
- Cisco ClientLink 3.0 technology to improve downlink performance to all mobile devices, including one-, two-, and three-spatial-stream devices on 802.11ac. At the same time, the technology improves battery life on mobile devices.
- Cisco CleanAir technology enhanced with 80MHz channel support. CleanAir delivers proactive, high-speed spectrum intelligence across 20-, 40-, and 80-MHz-wide channels to combat performance problems due to wireless interference.
- MIMO equalization capabilities, which optimize uplink performance and reliability by reducing the impact of signal fade.
The Cisco Aironet 2700 Series sustains higher-speed connections farther from the AP than competing solutions. The result is up to three times greater availability of 1.3-Gbps rates in the Cisco environment for optimum mobile device performance and user experiences.
Cisco also offers the industry's broadest selection of 802.11n and 802.11ac antennas, delivering optimal coverage to different deployment scenarios.
The Cisco Aironet 2700 Series is a component of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network, a foundation for operating both wired and wireless LANs in an integrated manner. The Unified Wireless Network can scale to as many as 18,000 APs with full Layer-3 mobility across locations on the enterprise campus, in branch offices, and at remote sites. The Cisco Unified Wireless Network delivers highly secure access to mobility services and applications. It offers the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and investment protection by integrating smoothly with existing wired networks.
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CBRE Renews, Expands Relationship with Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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The strength of CBRE Group Inc.'s association with Bank of America Merrill Lynch has gotten even stronger. The commercial real estate services firm just renewed and expanded its relationship with the global financial services company to include new territory.
A CBRE spokesman told Commercial Property Executive that the company has been working with BofA since the '90s. The firm has been providing BofAML with transaction, project and facilities management, critical engineering, portfolio and consultancy services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Per terms of the new contract, CBRE will extend those services to include BofAML's operations in South Africa and its enterprise services Taiwan.
"Renewing the relationship across EMEA, APAC and LATAM … is testament to the strength of our integrated, cross-border service offering," Mark Caskey, EMEA Head of Global Corporate Services at CBRE, said in a prepared statement.
CBRE certainly knows the territory. The firm has long had a presence across EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America, and over the last few years, has significantly expanded its footprint in Europe and Asia. At the close of 2013, CBRE completed its acquisition of London-based Norland Managed Services Ltd., a provider of engineering services in the U.K., Ireland and Singapore. As Bob Sulentic, CBRE president and CEO, said during the firm's fourth quarter earnings call in early February, the $434 million purchase substantially bolsters its business in EMEA. Additionally, in 2012, CBRE grew in Asia with the acquisition of its affiliate company in Vietnam, CB Richard Ellis (Vietnam) Co., Ltd. And in 2011, the firm snapped up the majority of Netherlands-based ING Group N.V.'s real estate investment management business for $940 million in cash in a transaction that included substantially all of the ING Real Estate Investment Management operations in Europe and Asia.


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Suitable for key stages 2-5 Geography, Citizenship, Design and Technolgy and Science.
These six inspirational stories outline problems faced by local communities in developing countries and the solutions they worked on solving them with the support of Practical Action. Presented as Powerpoints and PDFs, the slides are colour coded in traffic light form:
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Kenya - solar-powered water pump
Zimbabwe - micro-hydro systems
Bangladesh - floating gardens
Peru - wind turbines
Sri Lanka - biogas
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Grand Teton National Park looms over a land squabble in western Wyoming. The state is once again beating the drums of selling, swapping or even developing on property that offers some of the most breathtaking vistas on the planet. On one side stands a governor with a history of taking on the feds, on the other is an Interior Department with a lot on its plate.
The duel is over two square miles of land near the Teton Range. The land is mostly in two parcels, with a few smaller ones nearby. Wyoming's governor, Dave Freudenthal, says the land is worth about $125 million. Wyoming's constitution requires that state land generate as much revenue as possible to fund education. Currently the land is leased for grazing and it generates about $3,000 a year.
The wildly popular and term-limited Freudenthal seems intent on getting the state its money — one way or another. He recently sent a letter to the Interior Department, asking the federal government to trade land, minerals or mineral royalties and threatening to sell the land to the highest bidder if no action was taken.
In the past, deals have fallen through. Freudenthal told ABC News that previous offers of worthless Bureau of Land Management land and discussions of a coal exchange in which the value of the deal was determined by the federal government had brought him to this point. "I admit we aren't as bright as those boys on the Potomac, but this ain't our first county fair," Freudenthal said.
Perhaps the implication of a privately developed ski lodge, a mini-mall or a suburban style cul-de-sac is just the type of threat the Interior Department and conservationists would heed, but Freudenthal has shown willingness to act on his threats in the past.
In 2008, Freudenthal's administration negotiated a heavily scrutinized plan to manage endangered gray wolves independently of the federal government. But, after excessive numbers of wolves were killed immediately after that policy was enacted, the federal government overturned Wyoming's management policy. In 2009, grey wolves we removed from the federal endangered species list in Montana and Idaho but remained on the list in Wyoming because the state's management plan was deemed "insufficient."
Still, if nothing else is clear from this squabble, consider the history. Freudenthal usually acts first. With the sun setting on his second term, he may also act last.


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Advice from the Experts: Adding an Addition to Your Home
Making any change to your home is exciting. Once that decision has been made, you've decided what projects to take on, what your budget is, and you have some inspiration. It's important, however, to have some expert knowledge before you start the process. In our new series, "Advice from the Experts," we give some tips about particular projects based on what we've seen in the past. This week we're talking about home additions.
1. Create a wishlist. Are there specific elements that are "must haves?" Maybe you're really excited about a new sunroom or extra space in your kitchen. Also, be sure to make a list of problems that need to be solved, and list them by what's most important to you
2. Know what the legal restrictions are. It may not be the most exciting to learn about, but it will save you some headaches in the long run. Most cities have setback restrictions that govern how close a structure can be built to property lines, height restrictions, building area ratios, design covenants, and historic-district preservation ordinances.
3. Be positive in your planning. You may have a particular change in mind, but logistically it might not work out. Do your best to keep an open mind, and trust the process of designing your new space. It will pay off in the end.
4. Make efficient use of your space. Though additions are about getting extra room, they don't need to be large. As you plan, consider stealing space from adjacent closets or hallways to keep your addition at a modest size. In the kitchen, a small breakfast nook only requires a few feet of space, yet it can transform the entire kitchen.
5. Be selective about your materials. A perfect siding match can help make a new addition look like it's been there all along. Unfortunately, it's difficult to get the exact siding or roofing materials that were originally used on your home. Choosing materials of the same vintage and tonal range but with slightly different textures will create a natural appearance between the two textures.
6. Keep an eye on the details. A well-designed addition will make use of small architectural details. Look at the elements on the original structure – the trim, windows, doors, and lighting – and try to replicate those things in your new addition for a consistent overall design.
7. Use landscaping to your advantage. Whatever landscaping you've done around the original part of your home should be continued around the new addition. Pay close attention to walkways, gardens, and the borders that surround them.
8. Be aware of scale. Your designer will help to ensure that your new addition won't be too large or small for your existing home. It's important that the new space doesn't overwhelm the house, and it's also essential that it's not too small and out of proportion.
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