Earthquakes with magnitude (M) ≥ 3 in the U.S. midcontinent, 1967–2012. AfaHuman-induced earthquakes are suspected to be partially responsible for the increase.
Fig. 1  seismic events. Only earthquakes with M ≥ 3 are shown; larger symbols denote events with M ≥ 4. Background colors give the probability of exceedance in 50 years, from the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Map (1). Red, ≥ 1g; orange, 0.3 to 1g; yellow, 0.1 to 0.3g; light green, 0.03 to 0.1g; darker green, 0.03 to 0.1gearthquake (Fig. 2). More than 300 earthquakes with M ≥ 3 occurred in the 3 years from 2010 through 2012, compared with an average rate of 21 events/year observed from 1967 to 2000. States experiencing elevated levels of seismic activity included Arkansas, Colorado,The greatest rise in activity occurred in 2011 when 188 M ≥ 3 earthquakes occurred. Although earthquake detection improved for M < 3 as the USArray transportable seismograph array began to pass through the region starting in 2008 (10), a recent report onfound that the probability of missing M ≥ 3 earthquakes in the region has been near zero for decades (11). Consequently, the increased earthquake count represents a temporal change in earthquake rate. Because the hazard of damaging ground shaking is fundamentally related to the rate of earthquake occurrence (1), regions where the rate increased may be more hazardous than forecast by the 2008 version of the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Map (Fig. 1) (1). Understanding why seismicity increased and how this increase affects the hazard have become a priority for the earthquake-research community.
Fig. 2 Cumulative count of earthquakes with M ≥ 3
A number of these recent earthquakes occurred in areas where specific types of nearby industrial activities raise the possibility that these events were induced by human activity. Here, I will use the term “induced” to include both earthquakes triggered by anthropogenic causes that primarily release tectonic stress and those that primarily release stresses created by the industrial activity (4). Understanding which earthquakes may have been induced and, if so, how are challenging problems to solve in the current data-poor environment arch.
Earthquakes release stored elastic strain energy when a fault slips. A fault will remain lockedto initiate rupture is usually expressed in terms of the effective stress τcrit = μ(σn – P) + τo, where the critical shear stress τcrit equals the product of the coefficient of friction μ and the effective normal stress given by the difference between the applied normal stress σn and the pore pressure P (3, 19, 20). For almost all rock types, μ lies between 0.6 andτo, is negligible under typical crustal conditions. Increasing the shear stress, reducing the normal stress, and/or elevating the pore pressure can bring the fault to failure, triggering the nucleation of the earthquake (Fig. 3). Once initiated, sliding resistance drops and seismic waves radiate away, driven by the imbalance between the elastic stress stored in the surrounding rock mass and the frictional resistance of the dynamically weakened sliding surface. Rupture will continue to propagate, as long as the wave-mediated stress at the rupture front exceeds the static strength, and may extend into regions where the ambient stresses are below the failure threshold.
Fig. 3 Schematic diagram of mechanisms for inducing earthquakes.
Earthquakes may be induced by increasing the pore pressure acting on a fault (left) or by changing the shear and normal stress acting on the fault (right). See (4).s, σ3, and the tensile strength of the rock, forming an opening-mode fracture that propagates in the plane normal to σ3. the local stress state, hydraulically conductP = σ3. A successful “frac job” may create a fracture network dominated by pathways created by shear failure (21).
Earthquakes are known to be induced by a wide range of human activities (3–5) that modify the stress and/or pore pressure (Fig. 3). At present, with the use of seismological methods, it is not. Induced earthquakes sometimes occur at the source of the stress or pressure perturbation; at other times, these events take place deep below and kilometers away from the source. When removed from the source, induced earthquakes typically release stored tectonic stress on preexisting faults, as do natural earthquakes. Sometimes induced events occur shortly after the industrial been under way or even ceased. Factors that should enhance the probability of a particular stress or pore-pressure perturbation inducing earthquakes include the magnitude of the perturbation, its spatial extent, ambient stress condition close to the failure condition, and the presence of faults well oriented for failure in the tectonic stress field. Hfaults in the basement may also favor inducing earthquakes, as the tectonic shear stress increases with depth in the brittle crust (2). In addition, the larger the fault, the larger the magnitude of earthquakes it can host.
Methods for anticipating the time of failure have long been the “holy grail” of seismology (22). Though short-term prediction remains an elusive goal, it has been proposed that critically loaded faults have enhanced triggering susceptibility to dynamic stresses from distant earthquakes (23). Specifically, some but not all of the sites where fluid-injection–induced earthquakes are suspected of contributing to the recent increase in seismicity in the midcontinent (Fig. 2) experienced increased rates of microearthquakes in the days immediately after three recent great earthquakes (23).
Extracting hydrocarbons from shale requires the creation of a network of open fractures connected to the borehole. Horizontal drill holes extending up to several kilometers within the shale formation undergo a staged series of hydraulic fractures, commonly pressurizing a limited section of the cased well at a time to stimulate the flow of gas or oil into the well. Each stage involves the high-pressure injection of water into the formation. Fracking intentionally induces numerous microearthquakes, the vast majority with Mw < 1.
Several cases have recently been reported in which earthquakes large enough to be felt but too small to cause structural damage were associated directly with fracking. These cases are notable because of the public concern that they raised, despite maximum magnitudes far too small to cause structural damage. Investigation of a sequence of felt events with maximum M 2.9 in south central Oklahoma revealed a clear temporal correlation between fracking operations in a nearby well and the seismic activity (24). Available data were insufficient to definitely rule out a natural cause due to the occurrence of some natural seismicity in the general area. In April and May 2012, a series of induced earthquakes with maximum M 2.3 occurred near Blackpool, United Kingdom (25), during fracking to develop a shale gas reservoir.
One of the major shale plays in the United States—the Marcellus Shale ofOhio, and New York—lies within a region characterized by low levels of natural seismic activity (Fig. 1). The regional seismographic network) systematically catalogs all earthquakes with M ≥ 2 in Pennsylvania (Fig. 4). Although thousands of hydraulic fractures were done in Pennsylvania since major development of the field began in 2005, only six earthquakes with M ≥ 2 were detected by the LDEO network within the footprint of the Marcellus Shale, the largest of which was just M 2.3. The largest earthquake in the region since the development of shale gas happened across the Ohio border in Youngstown, where it was induced by injection (12), much of the fluid apparently coming from wells in Pennsylvania.
Shading indicates areas underlain by deposits of the Marcellus Shale. Blue dots, earthquakes before 2005; red dots, after 2005. Seismicity was determined by the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (45).
The November 2011 central Oklahoma earthquake sequence initiated very close to a pair of wastewater-injection wells where disposal operation began 18 years earlier (16). No unusual seismicity was detected in this historically quiet region, where only a few events of M < 2 were noted, until a Mw 4.1 earthquake occurred near the wells in early 2010. Aftershocks of this event continued sporadically through 2010 and into mid-2011. This decaying sequence was shattered by a Mw 5.0 earthquake on 5 November 2011, followed 20 hours later by the Mw 5.7 mainshock. With the initiating point of the November sequence within 1.5 km of the injection wells and some earthquake hypocenters at the same depth as injection, the potential for a causal connection between injection and the earthquakes is clear. The earthquakes, however, deviates from the pattern seen in other documented cases of injection-induced seismicity, such as the 2011 Youngstown, Ohio, earthquake where there was, at most, a few months of delay before induced seismicity began. In the Oklahoma case, years of injection may have been needed to raise the pore pressure above the preproduction level in this depleted oil field before fault strength was exceeded (16).
Conclusions about the cause of many of the recent earthquakes suspected of being induced by injection are complicated by incomplete information on the hydrogeology, the initial state of stress and pore pressure, the pumping history of the well(s), and where pressure changes are being communicated at depth. Routine earthquake locations with uncertainties of 5 to 10 km and a high magnitude-detection threshold are of limited use. Three particularly wty from Colorado illustrate what can be learned when more is known about the pre-injection stress state and seismicity, as well as the injection history.
In 1961, a deep injection well was drilled at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal (RMA) northeast of Denver, Colorado, to dispose of hazardous chemicals produced at this defense plant (30). Within several months of the start of routine injection in the 3.6-km-deep well in March 1962, residents of the northeastern Denver area began to report earthquakes, and events registered on two nearby seismic stations. Between the start of injection and its termination in February 1966, a total of 13 earthquakes with body wave magnitudes (mb) 4 and larger occurred. The following year, the three largest of the Denver earthquakes occurred, including the Mw 4.8 event on 9 August 1967 that caused minor structural damage near the epicenter. By this time, the earthquakes had migrated as far as 10 km from the injection point (31). Hydrologic modeling showed that the migrating seismicity would track a critical pressure front of 3.2 MPa (32). Although declining, earthquake activity continued for the next two decades, including a mb 4.3 earthquake on 2 April 1981. d.
The insights gained from RMA led to the suggestion that earthquakes could be controlled by modulating the fluid pressure in the fault, according to the effective-stress relation (19). In 1969, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began an experiment to test the effective-stress hypothesis in the Rangely oil field in northwestern Colorado (20). Water injected into the reservoir under high pressure had been used to enhance oil production at Rangely since 1957. The operator, Chevron Oil Company, gave USGS permission to regulate the fluid pressure in a portion of the field that was known to be seismically active. Laboratory measurements of the coefficient of friction on core samples of the reservoir rocks and in situ determination of the state of stress led to the prediction that a critical fluid pressure of 25.7 MPa would be required to induce earthquakes. Two cycles of fluid injection and withdrawal were conducted between 1969 and 1973. When the pressure in a monitoring well exceeded the target pressure, earthquake activity increased; when pressure was below the threshold, earthquake activity decreased. In particular, the earthquake activity ceased within 1 day of the start of backflow in May 1973, providing own. The rapid response of seismicity at the onset of backflowgeohydrology and, in particular, the importance of hydraulically conductive faults and fractures for transmitting pore pressure within the system.
A local seismic network was established in 1985 to determine background levels of seismicity before the drilling of the well and initial injection tests. Between 1985 and June 1996, only three tectonic earthquakes were detected within 15 km of the well and just 12 within 35 km (33). However, hundreds of earthquakes were induced during injection tests conducted between 1991 and 1995. Most of these earthquakes were concentrated within 1 km of the injection point, although a few were located 3 to 4 km from this site. All events were below M 3. The occurrence of induced earthquakes is not notable here, as injection required a bottom hole pressure in excess of the hydraulic fracture pressure of 70 MPa.
High injection pressure was needed to keep pace with the disposal requirements; consequently, induced earthquakes were expected when disposal operations went into production in 1996. Continuous monitoring of injection pressures and volumes, along with seismicity, is being conducted to insure the safe operation of the project. During the first few years of operations, several of the induced earthquakes exceeded M 3, necessitating changes in injection procedures in an attempt to limit the maximum magnitude. The dimension of the activated zone also grew, with earthquakes as far as 8 km from the injection point appearing within a year and events to beyond 12 km several years later (Fig. 5). Because seismicity rapidly abated after each injection test, it was hypothesized that occasional shutdowns of 20 days would allow the fluid pressure to equilibrate, reducing the potential for larger events (33). By itself, this procedure proved inadequate, as a M 4.3 event was induced in May 2000.
Fig. 5 Seismicity near Paradox Valley, Colorado.
After this earthquake, a new procedure was introduced in 2000 that involved periodic 20-day shutdowns and a 33% reduction in the injection volume, which initially reduced the required bottom hole pressure to 78 MPa. Over the following decade, the pressure required to inject that volume steadily increased to more than 84 MPa in 2012, drawing the revised strategy into question, as a steadily increasing injection pressure is not sustainable in the long term. On 24 January 2013, a Mw 3.9 earthquake occurred 8 km northwest of the well in a previously active cluster, causing strong shaking in the town of Paradox, Colorado (Fig. 5). As a consequence, injection was halted for 12 weeks before restarting at a reduced rate. The Paradox Valley experience illustrates how long-term, high-volume injection can lead to the continued expansion of the seismically activated region and the triggering of large-magnitude events many kilometers from the injection well more than 15 years after observation of the initial seismic response. This case study also illustrates the challenges for managing the risk once seismicity has been induced.
The hazard from earthquakes depends on proximity to potential earthquake sources, their magnitudes, and rates of occurrence and is usually expressed in probabilistic terms (1, 40). The U.S. National Seismic Hazard Map, for example, gives the exceedance probabilities for a variety of ground-motion measures from which the seismic design provisions in the building codes are derived (Fig. 1) (1). Our understanding of the hazard will the underlying earthquake sources, which are ideally derived from a combination of fault-based information and historical seismicity. Accounting for the hazard of induced earthquakes, however, presents some formidable challenges.
In the current U.S. map (Fig. 1), for example, the estimated hazard in most parts derives exclusively from historical seismicity. How should increases in the earthquake rate since 2009 (Fig. 2) be incorporated in the model? Should identified or suspected induced earthquakes be treated the same as or differently than natural events? In particular, do induced earthquakes follow the same magnitude-frequency distribution models as natural earthquakes? This issue has particular importance, as the high end of the magnitude distribution, where events are infrequent, contributes disproportionately to both the hazard and risk. Although injection-induced earthquakes have done only minor damage in the United States to date (5), the 2011 central Oklahoma earthquake was the same magnitude as the 1986 San Salvador, El Salvador, tectonic earthquake that killed more than 1500 people, injured more than 10,000, and left 100,000 homeless (41). Losses on this scale are unlikely in North America and northern Europe, where a catastrophic building collapse in a Mw 5.7 earthquake is unlikely, but world where nonductile concrete frame or unreinforced masonry buildings are prevalent. The earthquake that killed nine and caused serious damaged Lorca, Spain, was even smaller at Mw 5.1 (40). The heavy losses in this possibly induced earthquake resulted from the exposure of many fragile buildings to strong shaking from this very shallow-focus earthquake (42). This event should serve as a reminder that risk is the product of the hazard, exposure, and vulnerability.
The fact that the great majority of UIC class II injection wells in the United States appear to be aseismic, at least for earthquakes Mw > 3, suggests that ambient conditions in geologic formations commonly approved for disposal are far enough removed from failure that injection can be done with low risk, provided that the pressure perturbation remains confined within the intended formation. The largest injection-induced events have all involved faulting that is considerably deeper than the injection interval (13, 16, 30, 43), suggesting that transmission of increased pressure into the basement elevates the potential for inducing earthquakes. Consequently, detection of seismicity in the vicinity of the well or changes in seismicity in the neighborhood should prompt reevaluation of the hazard.
How can the risk of inducing damaging earthquakes through human activity be minimized in an information-poor environment?  (18), even though most wells are apparently aseismic (5). In contrast, ear The largest fracking-induced earthquakes (24, 26).
One approach for managing the risk of injection-induced earthquakes involves setting seismic activity thresholds that prompt a reduction in injection rate or pressure or, if seismic activity increases, further suspension of injection (44). Such “traffic-light” systems have been used selectively, going back to at least the RMA well pump tests in 1966–1967. The traffic-light system used in in Basel, Switzerland (7), did not stop the four Mw 3 earthquakes from happening but might have prevented larger events. The decision to stop injection in the Youngstown, Ohio, well, based on the seismicity (12) and made the day before the Mw 4.0 event, resulted in seismicity near the well declining within a month. All of these examples feature better seismic monitoring capabilities than currently exist in much of the United States or most of the rest of the world. Lowering the magnitude-detection threshold in regions where injection wells are concentrated to below Mw 2 would certainly help, as a traffic-light system using the current U.S. detection threshold of Mw 3 in many of these areas would have limited value. Improvements in the collection and timeliness of reporting of injection data to regulatory agencies would provide much-needed information on hydrologic conditions potentially associated with induced seismicity. In particular, daily reporting of volumes, peak, and mean injection pressuresmeasurement of the pre-injection formation pressure.
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Are you a super hero fan? We are. This is a house of geeks. We like comics and we love all things Marvel. We have been looking forward to this movie and although we got to see a screening we will be heading to the movie theater again today.
When Tony Stark jump starts a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as they battle to save the planet from destruction at the hands of the villainous Ultron.
Yes we did. The story line is a little different to what we were expecting. We are hoping that future movies clear all this up. This movie has 6 the powerful super heroes: Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, Thor and Hawkeye coming together to fight one of their biggest battles yet.
The movie is packed with great action scenes and as I was seating at the theater I was thinking how some of the action scenes could be the new Disneyland attraction at TomorrowLand. Yes it would be super cool to have a simulator with this movie.
The special effects are great and as the movie ends all you can think is we cannot wait until the next Avengers movie is here!


2018 marks 10 years of God's faithfulness to us as a church. We are so thankful and want to share this video showing a sampling of the people involved and the ministry God has allowed us to have. We are so thankful!


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She frowned. "Why would I not be interested in one of my own brood performing the First Exile?"
"Perhaps because you have respect for the principle of the First Exile and, as once was done for you, you prefer to leave him alone so that you do not interfere with it?"
"You are not satisfying me here, Mourne," she said, hard edge creeping into her voice.
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"Let's not find out. Just don't push me. I have a job to do, and I still take it seriously."
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"It galls you, doesn't it? If you'd never stopped me to reminisce about old times and fish for information, you'd be free to do whatever you liked to Selka. But if you go after her now, it won't be in ignorance. You'd be knowingly interfering with a First Exile."
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She stepped closer to him, touching him, and he felt the coy flutter of her eyes eroding his defenses. "Where?" she whispered.
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It will be many days before we arrive, he mused. Will she still feel the same about me when we get there?
To hit what you were aiming at involved calculating angles and trajectories, factoring in the pull of the earth over long distances. The humans seemed to understand it a bit more intuitively than that, but to him it seemed a very mathematical exercise.
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The boots were enchanted specifically to divert a great deal of his mass from the single point of his feet and to distribute it outwards. So long as he was on his feet, the excessive weight of his form was not a factor. It would not make it any easier for him to be picked up or to ride a horse, but it at least ensured he was not making the journey through the mucky forest buried up to his thighs in sodden ground. There were other ancillary advantages to his boots, but he could not think of a realistic scenario in which these aspects of the enchantment would ever come into play.
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Q: How Do I Convert This LinqToTwitter query from Console results to View results in ASP.NET MVC 4? Im a rookie and could use some help.
I was looking at examples of LinqToTwitter and ain my view instead of the console.
   (from search in twitterCtx.Search
    where search.Type == SearchType.Search &&
    search.Query == "LINQ to Twitter" &&
    search.Count == 7
    select search).SingleOrDefault();
    Console.WriteLine("\nQuery: {0}\n", srch.SearchMetaData.Query);
    srch.Statuses.ForEach(entry =>
           "ID: {0, -15}, Source: {1}\nContent: {2}\n",
            entry.StatusID, entry.Source, entry.Text));
I would like to use a ViewModel if possible.
Thanks Joe. Here's where I am after your help. I'm stuck at the part where I need to store the results into my viewmodel. I appreciate any help given. Thanks!
List<TweetViewModel> TwitterResults =
    from search in twitterCtx.Search
    search.ResultType == ResultType.Recent &&
    search.Query == "killsometime" &&
    search.Count == 10
    select new TweetViewModel
        ScreenName = search.Statuses. >> "I'm Stuck Here",
        Text = search.Statuses. >> "I'm Stuck Here"
 ).ToList();
    return View(TwitterResults);
public class TweetViewModel
@model IEnumerable<FVV.ViewModels.TweetViewModel>
@foreach (var tweet in Model)

ScreenName: @tweet.ScreenName, Tweet: @tweet.Text

A: There are ASP.NET MVC samples on the LINQ to Twitter Samples page. The demos might be a little dated, but will probably easy to tweak if there are any problems. You'll probably want to update the NuGet package.
Also, the downloadable source code contains a LinqToTwitterMvcDemo that does a query and loads a collection of TweetViewModel into a view. It isn't part of the solution, but you can right-click on the Solution, select Add, Existing Project, and navigate to the LinqToTwitterMvcDemo folder under the LinqToTwitter folder to find it. Just add your credentials in Web.config and it should work fine.


and tulips and UV light. Okay. The sun did that. But we were able to dive right in without a huge production.
Teddy made Leprechaun Snow, which teaches kids about super absorbent polymers—long chains of molecules.
Investigating the fluffy green snow.
Will these white tulips turn green?
St. Patrick’s Day is soon! The Leprechaun Science Kit from Steve Spangler would be a fun way to bring some green into your celebration. But don’t think the kit is only fun for a limited time. It comes with cool science supplies to play with year-round, including jelly balls, fizzers, worm creators, rainbow beads, rainbow glasses, and big green bags that make excellent oversized swords. It also comes with test tubes, beakers, and a stand along with measuring scoops and cups.
PS How big is Teddy now? He’s not a baby anymore and is SUPER cute!. </s> Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation launches Marine Turtle Nesting Site Conservation and Rehabilitation Project
On this occasion,General SurasakKanjanarat,participated in the event along with Vice Phuket Governor Dr. PrachiadAksornthamakuland parties.The event welcomed theHonourary Chairperson of The Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation, Mrs. Katherine Heinecke, and the executive management team of Marriott International, Mr. Carl Hudson, Area Vice President of Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia and Japan and Mr
The successfulevent was a great opportunity to officially launch the grand opening of The Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation, also known as the turtle shelter and education centre, opening its doors to the public as well as marking the special occasion of the Mai Khao Marine Turtle Conservation Declaration signing ceremony among 10 hospitality operators, and 3 government sectors including Anantara Mai Khao Phuket Villas, Anantara Vacation Club Phuket Mai Khao, Dvaree Mai Khao Beach, Holiday Inn Resort Phuket Mai Khao, JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa, Maikhao Dream Villa Resort and Spa Phuket, Marriott Vacation Club Resort, Renaissance Phuket Resort and Spa, Sala Phuket Resort & Spa, Baan Maikhao Phuket by Sansiri, Mai Khao Sub District Administrative Organization, Phuket Marine Biological Centre, Sirinart National Park and Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation .19 Turtle were released back to the Andaman Sea as a significant gesture of the special occasion.
“I am very honored to be here today to represent the Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation at the Turtle Shelter and Education Center Grand Opening. I was personally involved with this project when it started 14 years ago when we had a very large leatherback come and lay her eggs in front of the hotel during the hotel opening time, I am very happy to report that she was back again last year laying more eggs.Together with the PMBC, IUCN, our partners and local community we have spent 14 years protecting the turtles of Mai Khao and educating people about their plight.
We are very excited to have signed an new ”Turtle Declaration for Mai Khao” and will be working with all of the hotels in Mai Khao in a strategic manner to further positively impact the conservation of turtle and the amazing beauty of this natural area we call Mai Khao.
We are hugely proud and excited about the opening of our on-site turtle and education center where we can share our resident turtles with the community, guests and schools to further inspire them to help with our conservation efforts.Thank you to the Minister for being in attendance and to all of the MKMTF partners for their continued support.This project represents the future of conservation with all parties involved working together for the benefit of turtles and the environment” said, Katherine Heinecke, .
- Hospitality operators will promote and create the economic mechanism to support marine turtle conservation activity at Mai Khao Beach.
- Local authoritieswill promote and support the participation of the public for the preservation of relevant local traditional culture regarding the marine turtles at Mai Khao Beach.
- Phuket Marine Biological Center (PM


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According to Kaspersky ICS CERT data, a number of industrial companies are currently experiencing targeted attacks involving the Snake encryption ransomware.
On June 8, 2020 issues were reported which affected the computer networks of Honda, a Japanese motorcycle and auto manufacturer, in Europe and Japan. Specifically, it was announced that Honda Customer Service and Honda Financial Services were experiencing technical difficulties. Information security experts believe that, in all likelihood, one of the company’s servers was infected with Snake (EKANS) ransomware.
A sample of the Snake malware discovered by some researchers on VirusTotal checked for Honda’s domain name, “mds.honda.com” (which is probably used on the company’s internal network). If the domain name cannot be resolved (i.e., if the corresponding IP address cannot be determined), the ransomware terminates without encrypting any files. According to the researchers, this could indicate that the attackers’ activity is targeted.
Kaspersky ICS CERT experts used their own telemetry data to identify other samples that were similar to the sample uploaded to VirusTotal. Based on the findings of our research:
The malware was launched using a “nmon.bat” file detected by Kaspersky products in domain policy script folders.
The only difference between all of the Snake samples identified is the domain name and IP address embedded in the code.
The IP address embedded in the malware code is compared with the IP address resolved from the domain name, if the malware was able to resolve it.
The malware encrypts data only if the IP address embedded in the malware code matches the IP address resolved from the domain name that is also embedded in the malware code.
The IP address and domain name combination embedded in the malware code is unique for each attack we have identified and is apparently valid for the internal network of the organization targeted by that specific attack.
In some cases, the domain names may have been obtained from public sources (DNS), while information on IP addresses associated with these domain names is apparently stored on internal DNS servers and is only available when sending DNS requests from the victim organizations’ internal networks.
In addition to the domain name and IP address of the organization under attack, which are embedded into the malware code, new Snake samples are different from those identified in December 2019 in that they include an extended list of file extensions (types) that the malware should encrypt. The new samples include extensions for virtual drive files, Microsoft Access, source code in C/C#/ASP/JSP/PHP/JS, as well as the corresponding files of projects/solutions and other extensions that were unsupported by earlier samples.
The results of our research clearly indicate that the attackers carry out multistage hacker attacks, each attack targeting a specific organization. Encrypting files using Snake is the final stage of these attacks.
Each Snake sample was apparently compiled after the attackers had gained the knowledge of the relevant domain name and its associated IP address on the company’s internal network. In the malware samples analyzed, the IP address and domain name are stored as strings. This means that the executable file cannot be easily changed (patched) after compilation because the length of these strings varies.
Clearly, checking that the domain name matches the IP address is a technique designed to prevent the malware from running outside the local network for which the sample was created.
It is most likely that the attackers used domain policies to spread the ransomware across the local network. In that case, they had access to the domain administrator’s account, compromised in the attack’s earlier stages.
It is known that, in addition to Honda, victims include power company Enel Group. According to Kaspersky ICS CERT data, attack targets also include a German company that supplies its products to auto makers and other industrial manufacturers and a German manufacturer of medical equipment and supplies. Apparently, other auto makers and manufacturing companies have also been attacked: similar Snake samples have been detected on computers in China, Japan and Europe. We believe the attack may have gone beyond the victims’ IT systems. Specifically, in one case, the malware was detected and blocked on the video surveillance server of an organization attacked in China.
All malware samples were proactively blocked by Kaspersky products using the heuristic signature Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Snake.a, which was created using the original Snake sample that appeared in December 2019.
It is worth reminding that an important distinguishing feature of Snake is that it targets, among other things, industrial automation systems – specifically that it is designed to encrypt files used by General Electric ICS. This is evidenced by the fact that the malware attempts to terminate the processes of General Electric software before starting the file encryption process.
Attacks similar to those described above continue. If you have encountered an attack of this kind, you can report it via a special form on our website.
July 7, 2020 update
Our hypothesis that the attackers used the attacked company’s domain controller to spread the ransomware across the local network is supported by one more curious fact.
The malware checks the domain role of the computer on which it is running. If the computer has the domain controller role (DomainController), the function returns the value “1”.
If the function that checks the attacked computer’s domain role returns “1” (i.e., the computer has the role of a primary or backup domain controller), the function that calls it returns “0”. This results in the malware terminating without performing any encryption. The calling function also checks whether the domain’s IP address matches the hard-coded IP address.
This means that if, as we believe, the attackers used the domain controller to spread the malware across the victim’s local network, the domain controller exclusion logic described above would certainly work for them, since they needed the domain controller to be operational and unencrypted.
To identify traces of an attack and prevent possible damage, Kaspersky ICS CERT recommends:
Using the indicators of compromise provided to identify infections on Windows workstations and servers;
Checking active domain policies and scripts for malicious code;
Checking active tasks in the Windows Task Scheduler on workstations and servers for malicious code;
Changing the passwords of all accounts in the domain administrator group.
Folders in which malicious objects can be located
If you have any questions remaining, please email us at ics-cert@kaspersky.com


"It was another strong month in terms of year-over-year sales performance," said Greg Manns, senior vice president of ASA business intelligence partner Industry Insights, which prepares the monthly sales report. "While it's largely being driven by a weak 2020, it's encouraging to see modest growth month to month (i.e. October vs. September)."
"Business continues to be strong. There seems to be continued projects on the horizon as well. Hopefully, this trend continues through the end of 2021 and well into 2022."
"Business is still strong, although it seems to be easing off."
"Demand remains strong while supply shortages are rampant. We do not see 2022 providing much relief for our supply issues. Some vendors are improving slightly while others are getting worse. Finding good people continues to be a challenge."
"Our open orders are shrinking which has us concerned for the start of 2022. Finding reliable workers for the warehouse and driver positions continues to be our biggest challenge."
"Supply, supply, supply."
"We had a downturn in October, probably due to supply issues. Customer outlook may be worsening and they are being more protective of assets."


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Clockwise from bottom-left : Shean Wenn adorned in her full moon gifts of gold chains; Hubs & friends pealing the Full Moon red eggs; FIL & SIL Alicia; Full Moon red egg.
We celebrated Shean Wenn's full moon with a yum-cha (dim sum) lunch at a local restaurant on Saturday. Lunch was at 1pm and we managed to get Shean Wenn bathed and prepped up by 12.30 despite her fierce protest. (We had to wake her up from her morning beauty slumber after her 9am feed) She was very well behaved the whole time in the restaurant, choosing to sleep amongst the festivity (people chatting loudly and having a few "che ches" admiring her). She only woke up for her mid-day feed, but quietly drinking and being burped by her grandma! I wish she is like this everyday! :)
After our dim sum (or yum-cha to Australians), we distributed the red-eggs to our guests - the red eggs are a symbol of longevity.
After that, we went back and just in time as well- it started to rain after we arrived home. Phew! (And what a wet summer this has been)
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Wonder what is Shean Wenn dreaming about?
Today after feeding and burping Shean Wenn, she fell asleep in my arms. I put her down next to me on the bed and fell asleep next to her.
In the short time we were sleeping, I dreamt : I dreamt I was in Egypt visiting the pyramids and sphinx. I don't know what triggered it (the dream).. But I always had a fascination for Egypt and Egyptology since I was 16. I would pore over books and materials on Egypt, the Sphinx and anything related to Egypt. That was 13 years ago, eh?
I was so fascinated by Egypt that I even wanted to study archaeology - an ambition that my mother was not very supportive of: "You want to dig ground for a living?" Was what she thought an archaelogist does.
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Baby Shean Wenn seems to be creasing her browse in deep thoughts here :
Hmmmmmm... what should I do later? Sleep, drink more milk, entertain these adults (that's hard work, yo!)... or poo? Tough life as a baby!
On another unrelated note : My mom's on FACEBOOK! How unusual is that? She is really embracing the IT wave - especially if Facebook will invade other territories soon enough.
Women's fitted Piggu shirt in grey
I want me a piggu shirt (in pink).
Piggu's a (fluff)friend that I created on my Facebook (and named it Wenni-pig, after... the little mungbean, of course). There are a variety of the cutest, fluffiest (fluff)friends that are avaiable to adopt (in Facebook)... I kinda like the frog (called Froggu), the monkey (Munkii), the penguin (Pengi) and even the flying giraffe ((Flying) Giraffee)!! I picked Piggu because Shean Wenn's born in the year of the pig.
Wenni-Pig is cute, no?
Someone get it for me? **Big charming smile**
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On 2 July, we went to register the birth (and name) of baby Wong.
She is now Wong Shean Wenn (pronounced as "SHIEN WEN") - 王善雯
善 (Shan4) meaning kind and virtuous.
雯 (Wen2) meaning colourful clouds.
We decided not to give her any "English name".
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She's 2 weeks old!
Baby Wong is now 2 weeks old today.
She is getting used to being bathed now, instead of screaming her lungs out every time we try to bathe her before.
She has a habit of frowning..
Another 2 weeks more and she'll be celebrating her "Full Moon" (1 month old). The family (Grandma & Grandpa, aunty Alicia and both of us) will have a small lunch at a restaurant. Aunty Alicia has agreed to take some nice photos - hopefully some will turn out nice so that i can make it into a photocard to be sent out to family and close friends :)
Labels: baby, Baby Development
Post Natal : Day 12
Lilies from Sis-In-Law Alicia
12 days with baby:
She now sleeps slightly longer(spoke too soon) wakes up every hour or 2, although it still depends on her mood and of course, her tummy.
She has a cheeky habit of peeing AFTER we have cleaned her and just before changing a new nappy. So sometimes the unfortunate victims will be either me or her grandma. Her grandma got pee-d on twice while bathing her, that cheeky girl!
She also likes to lift her head - a sign tht she is practicing her neck muscles. :) Sometimes, this can get tiresome for me as she tends to wiggle her body when I try to burp her after a feed. Grandma suggested to put her lay on her stomach one day and see if she lifts her head. Well, she did try but she lifted her legs and butt most of the time.. and ended up crying after a few attempts.
She snores - like me and her dad! Well, can't blame her, it's all in the genes, no?
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Grandma thinks this picture of Baby Wong looks like she's being vain. But mommy thinks she looks alot like the painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, originally entitled "Der Schrei der Natur" (The Scream of Nature).
Picture taken off Wikipedia
Every mother goes through labour and some (those lucky ones!) have it easy while some not-so-easy. Of course, every birth/labour experience is unique. This is mine. The condensed version is summarised at the end of the entry (for those who has no patience nor interest to read the gory details of the "Full Version").
By now, I have woken up my MIL to inform her. We continued waiting. I paced up & down a few times due to the pain! Tried sleeping. Also went in for a shower and washed my hair (because I'm gonna be observing "confinement"). MIL made breakfast (yummy porridge) and we were eating it around 7-8am. Still waiting.
At about 9.30am, my contractions were coming every 3-5mins. At 10am, I called up labour ward again. The lady told me I could come in soon. We packed up and went off.
Arrived at the hospital at around 11am with little traffic as it was a Saturday. They prepped me up in labour ward - the midwife checked my dilatation - I was only 2cm dilated. They let me wait there and hooked me up on the fetal heart-beat monitoring system and also a contraction monitoring system. Hubs and I waited in the labour room while my MIL waited with all our bags in the waiting room. By noon, they decided I was NOT "in active labour" stage yet and they planned to move me to the ante-natal ward.
At around 1pm, I was transferred to the ante-natal ward. My contractions, by now, were coming infrequently - sometimes every 3-5mins, at times, every 10-12mins. My MIL & hubs waited with me in the ante-natal ward. It was utterly boring lying on bed and bearing with the pain of the contractions. I was advised to walk around to help contractions get stronger and more frequent. By 2pm, I told hubs & MIL to go get lunch for themselves. They came back after awhile with McD lunch for me! They left to go home at 3.30pm.
Back to LABOUR WARD
Right about 4.30-5am, I noticed that my right leg was in excruciating pain (Isn't epidural supposed to be HELPING MY PAIN, not adding extra pain?). I told the midwife and the anaesthetician was again assigned to me and he asked me some questions to determine my pain. He then adjusted the catheter placed at the epidural space and administer another dosage. After 20mins, I noticed that the pain on my right leg has gone. And it really helped with my contraction pain as well. By 6am, the midwife thought it was time to push as my contractions were already 3 times every 10mins and I was 10cm dilated. I remember her teaching me how to push but due to the long labour, tiredness, painkillers, I could not push as much as she would have liked. AT some point, she had to summon in the doctors as she noticed there was a drop in the baby's heart rate.
They placed baby on me for awhile before cleaning, weighing and observing her.
Olu, the midwife finshed her shift and I was passed to Felipe (pronounced as "Philippa", he's spanish) the attending midwife (who is a male!). Anyway, at around 8 or 9am, they transferred me from Labour Room 2 to Labour Room 7 where it was more spacious and have more monitors to monitor me closely. In total, they took about 2 hours to stabilise my BP and brought me back from pale to ok. By 10am, I was stable enough for hubs to call in MIL to see both me & baby. Felipe was in the room all the while to monitor and record my situation. He is seriously an excellent midwife!
While hubs and MIL cooed over baby Wong, I was just glad to have survived all that. It is an experience I will never forget. I even have bruises to show for it!
26+ hours of labour,
Loss of blood causing low BP


Marilyn Love Cunningham
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Marilyn Ann Love Cunningham, 83, died Monday, October 3, 2016, from recurrent ovarian cancer. She grew up in Washington State and was a graduate of Whitworth University and Deaconess School of Nursing in Spokane. She served as a Captain in the US Army Nurse Corps as well as in many various positions involv In 1957 she married Peter Stokes Cunningham and lived in South Carolina until 1970 when the family moved to Texas.
Marilyn became involvedFriendswood United Methodist Church, the Friendswood Volunteer Fire Department, the Clear Woods Improvement District, the Bayou Preservation Society, the Clear Creek PTA Area Council, and several area school PTAs where she was awarded a Texas Lifetime PTA membership. She was also active in the San Jacinto Girl Scout Council, the League of Women Voters, the Wedgewood Village Homeowners Association and Beta Chi Chapter of Delphia October 22, 2016 at 2:00 pmX. Burial will be in Sumter, SC.
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"When the Heart is Young," oil on canvas, by John William Godward, 1902.
How I would Change the Endings of Perfect Tragedies
I cannot watch Romeo and Juliet without hoping this time Juliet's lids will flutter before Romeo sips his poison, nor read The House of Mirth without wanting to shake some sense into Lily, beg her to forego the excess sleeping draught so Lawrence can declare his love the next day. And when fifteen hours of Wagner's Ring draws to a close, please Siegfried, don't take the potion making you forget Brünnhilde. Just go somewhere safe with her forever. Yes, that would negate the enthralling Immolation Scene, where she sings the longest aria in all opera, rides her horse into your funeral pyre, and burns up Valhalla, consuming all the gods. And yes, your deaths leave humankind redeemed by love, which I'm all for. But these days, the real world has all the drama I can stand, what with lovers leaving, dogs limping, bills piling, politicians stabbing, big toes stubbing, wrinkles slicing deeper and deeper into my face, once as smooth as an apple fresh from the tree.
My Almost Date with a Cowboy, Polebridge, Montana
Maybe an ex-pro-hockey player, now cattle broker, doesn't qualify as a cowboy. And his trailing my girlfriend, her husband, and me from the Bandit Saloon to the Northern Lights Bar at their country club isn't what you'd call a date. So I guess I should call it my almost date with an almost cowboy, though he did have on needle-toed cowboy boots. He'd been watching football while throwing back beer or maybe shots all day, wore a Montana Grizzlies sweatshirt and wasn't that cute. When he ordered a Jägerbomb so loud everyone in the fireplace-lounge could hear, we felt like crawling under the table. Plus my friends had briefly considered setting me up with him but thought better because he always strung along at least two women, one in Canada and one or possibly two here. All that said, he was the first man to flirt with this newly single woman who hadn't dated since 1977. His being so drunk he wouldn't remember slurring once every three minutes, You're hot! and You're leaving tomorrow? shouldn't have flattered me. But it did.
"My Almost Date with a Cowboy, Polebridge, Montana" originally appeared in Kentucky Review and was reprinted in The Good Men Project. Both poems appear in No Such Thing as Distance (Terrapin Books, 2018)and Untying the Knot. She was named a Best Emerging Poet by Stay Thirsty Media in 2016. Her work has appeared indiode poetry journal, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. To support fellow writers, Holmes founds.


Facebook uses neural networks to discern faces and identify your friends. Google’s Deep Dream goes a step further; its algorithms can actually see crazy mutant animals like pig-snails and camel-birds in the clouds. (How? The software is trained on what pigs, snails, camels, and birds look like–and if it thinks it spots an animal, it actually filters and enhances the source image until it looks more like an animal, essentially reinforcing its hallucination.)
Even though the research is just over a week old, coder-artists are already playing with the methodology themselves. Kyle McDonald has posted some early results to his Twitter feed, and in a satisfying twist, they’re even in motion.


Why we need a UK-US Trade & Economic Council
Emanuel Adam / Feb 2022
On 19 JanuarUS Secretary of Commerce, Gina M. Raimondo, ande start of bilateral discussions to solve the transatlantic dispute over the Section 232 tariffs; an exercise that follows an agreement reached between the US and the EU on the same issue in October last year.
An agreement between the US and the UK on howe termination of the US tariffs applied on imports from the UK, and the UK’s retaliatory tariffs on certain US products, would remove one of the last big trade irritants that have defined discussions about the transatlantic economic corridor for a long time.
Solving the issue will not only lift a burden off affected industries and companies, it can also pave the way for new policy solutions that build on efforts made to further integrate the UK and US economies, such as .
Whether there is a chance for a UK-US FTA anytime soon has been a question regularly put to political and business leaders since formal negotiations were halted in October 2020. A proper assessment of political dynamics and priorities suggests that the likelihood of negotiations recommencing is rather small at this point, particularly in the context of the US domestic agenda and external events such as the tensions at the Russia-Ukraine border or the West’s adjustment in its relationship vis-à-vis China.
These dynamics, priorities and external events may take away crucial energy and resources from substantial US-UK activity on trade policy. In addition, while feasible, addressing current scepticism in the US over the UK’s stance on the Northern Ireland protocol or the negotiation of issues where the US and the UK are less aligned, such as agriculture, would require stronger political and external momentum. Political theory and real-life experience would suggest that the ‘stars are not aligned (yet)’.
While negotiating FTAs can certainly play a key role in enhancing trade and investment and reflect countries, it is not the only way to make progress in an existing economic relationship. Rather, it can be an end goal, or the ambition for ongoing efforts. In addition, some areas of economic trade cooperation, such as mobility of talent or work around small business trade promotion support can be worked on outside of the scope of a trade agreement.
This is where the proposal of a UK-US Trade & Economic Council comes in. Using the framework of a common policy advocacy structure – something that is also being used in the US-EU context with the establishment of the US-EU Trade and Technology Council - the Council brings together a set of workstreams that reflect either existing efforts that could be further emphasized today by governments, or areas of cooperation that reflect new priorities of the transatlantic business community. By offering a pragmatic yet ambitious approach to economic cooperation, the proposal aims to help renew momentum behind the UK-US trade agenda and encourage governments to take action on things that are front of mind for the business community right now.
For example, shorter application times for visa renewals, mutual recognition of qualifications, or expanded support for small businesses keen to expand across the Atlantic can make all the difference for ambitious businesses. Innovative and creative work on regulatory approaches to new technologies, data flows, sustainable and digital trade can set the benchmark globally.
Engaging in this kind of work would re-emphasize the economic importance of the corridor. In fact, the UK and the US remain important trading partners, and by far each other’s m. Moreover, putting an emphasis on, and investing political capital in this kind of work is relevant because the window of opportunity for an ambitious trade agreement may open again one way or the other. Policymakers and key stakeholders ought to be ready when the moment comes. The Trade & Economic Council, and the ideas that it stands on, can be a way and inspiration to achieve that.
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Seven killed in pro-Morsi clashes
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At least 261 people were injured in the violence, the health ministry said.
Thousands of supporters of, were protesting to press their demands that he be reinstated as president. Egypt's military deposed Mr  The ousted president's supporters say he was removhere was no official word on how the seven died, but security officials said four were killed in clashes between Morsi supporters staging a sit-in near the main Cairo university campus and residents of the area.
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The police fired volleys of tear gas, andr Morsi hails, said officers also used birdshot and live ammunition.
Thousands of Morsi supporters have been staging sit-ins in two locations in Cairo, one outside the main campus of Cairo University and another outside a mosque in a neighbourhood iMrby Egypt's 2011 uprising, worked incessantly to undermine Mr prevented him from introducing reform.
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On first impression you might think "Oh, the government is going to protect the US taxpayer?From the IRS?After all, they do have the right of search and seizure if they think you've paid them too little or not at all. Or maybe they're going to protect the taxpayer from prosecution for making mistakes because of an incomprehensible tax code?
"Also," he adds,"while increasing the operating cost of the IRS, it would encourage tax preparers to increase their fees for being 'IRS certified' (even though this isn't really a certification). Thus increasing the overall cost of compliance. (Yeah I ain't no dummy, my fees would go up!)"
So this bill is wrong on many fronts. It solves no problems; it creates some. Most important, though, the bill increases the burden of the income tax system on society. Poor people should be exempt from paying taxes to give them a chance to work and save until they reach a decent income level. How does that work?


ANTH 1100 Culture and Society – Faculty Resource Page
Culture and Society: Introduction to Socio-Cultural A Cultural Anthropology – an academic discipline that studies human societies in all their diversity. Cultural anthropologists have traditionally focused their research in remote locales and stressed the importance of learning the languages and lifestyles of the people with whom they work. Nevertheless, today’s anthropology is largely about understanding the increasingly global nature of our own society. Culture and Society is a portal into more advanced anthropology courstypengage in a critical dialogue on how the work of anthropologists contributes to the understanding of the human condition. Anthropological research is more than a theoretical endeavor; it is used to shape solutions to real worA significant focus of this course is therefore focused on the applied dimensions of Anthropology. Students who take this class will obtain a broad overview of Cultural Anthropology andthat they encounter in everyday life.
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Students should know that categories are socially constructed and be able to critically assess divides such as: urban v. rural, center v. periphery, modern v. traditional, race v ethnthods and aims of ethnographic writing.
Students will come to understand, and hopefully use the Anthropological Perspective. This perspective privileges ideas around holism, the comparative approach and cultural relativism as a way to think through and reflect on ethnocentrism.
Students will understand how categories are socially constructed. Especially with regards to: Race, Gender and Class.
Students will be able to recognize orientalism as it functions in popular media.
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The Australian man admitted to cheating investors out of $90 million taken from two crypto funds in the U.S.
Twenty four-year-old Stefan He Qin entered the plea to a single count of a securities fraud charge in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday, Feb. 4.
According to the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the fraud occurred from 2017 to 2020 as Qin operated the fund titled Virgil Sigma. In a statement, U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said:
“Stefan He Qin drained almost all of the assets from the $90 million cryptocurrency fund he owned, stealing investors’ money, spending it on indulgences and speculative personal investments, and lying to investors about the performance of the fund and what he had done with their money,”
She added that Qin then tried to steal money from another fund he controlled called the VQR Multistrategy Fund to meet the redemption demands of the defrauded investors in Virgil Sigma.
Virgil Sigma purported to employ a strategy to earn profits from arbitrage opportunities in the cryptocurrency markets. It used a trading algorithm to take advantage of price differences for a number of crypto assets, including Bitcoin, across as many as 40 different exchanges around the world, including three located in the U.S.
Qin was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal in October 2018 when he explained how his arbitrage trading bots worked.
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Music Hip-Hop on Trial: A Debate
I recently finished watching this. It's pretty interesting (my initial response to follow in a new post). From the website:
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In the third of our Versus series of debates with Google  the Google+ Hangout technology. We have rappers such as KRS-One, ?uestlove, Q-Tip and Estelle, and renowned US hip-hop intellectuals such as Touré, Michael Eric Dyson, Tricia Rose and dream hampton. We’re bringing over civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson, once a critic and now in the hip-hop camp.
I think what's most interesting about this entire debate, is that there was a debate on hip-hop music, a predominantly black musical art form, in the first place, and not, say, country music or death metal, predominantly white musical art forms.
Missing from the panel were any of the wealthy white men who have profited the most from the negative forms of hip-hop music -- the commercialized ******** that dominate the radio, television and film -- wealthy white men who are largely responsible. When hip-hop started in the late 70s and early 80s, the bad, "degrading-to-society" style of hip-hop music was not present.


SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Loral Space & Communications Inc. lorl said Wednesday it has won a $51 million jury verdict in New York in its contract action against Rainbow DBS CVC, . Shares of New York-based Loral, a satellite communications company, rose 2.3% to $43.80 in late Wednesday afternoon trade.


Okay I realize it's more than 6 months away, but I thought I'd start my planning now. I've been home less than a week after my first African safari and I can only think about how/when I'm going to get back. But to soothe the itch, I was giving thought to going to the convention in January. I've never been before but have heard/read much about it. Furthermore, a friend that nearly went with me on my safari is definitely wanting to go now and so I was thinking about getting him to go to the show too. With work and family commitments I will only be to attend on Friday and Saturday, missing the first two days. For those of you who have been, if I miss those first two days am I giving up too much? Or will I still be able to catch most of what there is to see? I saw where Jerome mentioned in his 2010 SCI thread having an AH get together at this year's show. I think that's a great idea and would love to meet fellow AH members.


so here is to facing the forest... being in comfort & peace with the forest....


What is happiness? This is the burning question that psychologists have been trying to answer since the end of World War II. Happiness differs in each person. Some may be happy for smaller events or achievements than others would. Maybe celebrating a good grade would put someone in the happiest state he or she have ever been in, but for another person it might give them a spur of happiness that he or she quickly loses. Either way, most strive for a constant state of happiness, but “experience the wrong types of happiness, and go about trying to find happiness in the wrong ways and at the wrong time” (David, PhD). While happiness may be a key to living a long, healthy life, people are not supposed to feel happy 100% of the time. Other emotions that are deemed as negative, like sadness and anger, are beneficial and are of as much importance as happiness. While being happy is an amazing state, experiencing other emotions are just as important. The unpleasant states of sadness, fear, anger, etc. can greatly contribute to one’s cognitive process. Negative feelings help someone rely less on jumping to conclusions and judging, and rather encourage acceptance and observation. Happy people are more gullible than those who have negative moods, and tend to be easy going and accept things rather than ask questions, which in situations may not be the best response or have the best results and consequences. Overly happy people are quick to make poor decisions and not think them through,
How To Complete Happiness
“— wh” (David 124). The emotions deemed as negative can make a person more aware and attentive to a situation. These emotions allow for a thoughtout response or reaction. It is less likely for an individual to make a rash decision, and to rather think out the consequences and take into account the details. When life is good and all is well, a person would rather accept a positive answer or situation than question it, to avoid ruining the state of happiness.
Happiness Is Too Much Happiness
Happiness: The Most Important Emotions In Life
Three Components Of Happiness
While the effects smoking has on a person's health is caused directly by the action, with happiness the issue arises, “When  It's not too big a stretch to suggest that being excessively happy could kill you. You might engage in riskier behaviors. . .” (David 124).
The Attriving For Happiness: The Aspects Of Happiness
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Should we be thankful for freedom? </s> One challenge developers face when working with financial data is identifying a stock, company, security, index or other financial entity across data sets. Is Apple Inc. the same as AAPL in your code? This seems like a simple example but things can quickly get more complicated when working with numerous data types and thousands of securities in the same application. The Security Master Data Feed serves as a guide for investors and developers working with multiple data sets,various identifiers associated with an economic entity.
The Security Master Data Feed is designed to make it possible to bring multiple data sets together without running into confusion when the curators of those data sets create non-unique names. Typically, when users run into these challenges, they are forced to use the names used by the data providers, which can slow down development and create headaches for end-users who aren't sure what they are looking at. With the Security Master data feed, investors and developers can use the identifier that suits their needs rather than adjusting their system to suit the data provider's naming convention. By searching the security master, users can quickly and definitively see how that entity is named across data sets.. </s> Make Better Food Choices with these 10 tips for women’s health
Thanks Nasuko – the same to you – Happy New Year!! Wishing you health and happiness! </s>  CITO was published few weeks ago, but for some reason was not yet picked up by PGC. It can have various reasons, but the simplest solution is to use Support -> Self Support and submit this GC code for refresh. It will eventually catch up (I already submitted this cache for you).
The queue for refreshing geocache data is unusually long. The servers are working on catching up. Meanwhile our data might not be as fresh as normal. </s>
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“Ae’s a political settlement there’s no way this is going to happen,” he said, adding that people should pray for these pastors.
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.” — Jesus (Matthew 24:9-14, NIV) </s> Rolls Royce, Bentley, Mercedes-Benz and Cadillac. These are the choice of rides fBut wait…..what about the Emperor of Japan? I’m glad you asked. Emperor Akihito rides in none other than the Toyota Century! The Cent. Did I mention the Century is the top choice for the prime minister of Japan, company executives and the Yakuza, ヤクザ、the Japanese mafia?
The Century is so exclusive that the golden phoenix is carefully hand carved on every wheel. Here’s something else that makes this car special. If a malfunction were to occur in the V12 engine the motor will keep running on 6 cylinders. The new model coming out this year will be a V8 hybrid.
The interior is well equipped with all the bells and whistles for a relaxing ride. The body is very solid and the ride is smooth as riding heavenly clouds. The time and effort that goes into building the Century is a wonderful representation of the Japanese saying “お客様は神様” Okyaku sama wa kami sama.（the customer is god) Whether you are a heavenly host or a regular host the Japanese know how to make you feel like a million bucks.
Believe it or not you can find the Toyota Century on the roads of Europe, United States and other countries. There is a growing number of collectors that can’t get enough of this Japanese luxury. A brand spanking new Toyota Century is priced in the six figures (100,000 to 125,000 USD) but you can get an older model for a very modest price. The older they are the least expensive they get. I’ve seen a 1999 sell for less than 2000 USD at Japanese auto auctions.
Taking a ride in a Century is on my bucket list. Heck, maybe I’ll just own one someday or just put the hand carved wheels on my van!! The older ones can be found for a few thousand dollars in the Japan car auctions on our homepage! A real classic undervalued and worth an investment!
Thank you for reading my blog. Feel free to leave a comment. </s> Mother’s Day is always a bit difficult for me these days. It never used to be, providing I remembered in time to get my dear Mum some flowers and a card – ideally with some sugared almonds, that vied with chocolate covered Brazil nuts as her favourite sweet. I would be


The South Korean technology giant revealed the insights in its new industry-focused 5G whitepaper...
Samsung’s 5G strategy, published in their report entitled 5G Standalone (SA) Architecture, will enable mobile operators to take several 5G migration paths to implement the new technology.
Samsung currently provides the full scope of 5G solutions ranging from RAN to Core, including chipsets, radios, and core network technologies, that is outfitted with cloud-native features and is ready to support operators to commercialise 5G SA network.
The migration strategy is divided into two major categories, namely Non-Standalone (NSA) and Standalone (SA), defined by 3GPP. According to the whitepaper, 5G NSA operators can tap into high speed 5G services by using legacy 4G infrastructure.
Samsung itself began systematically installing and commercialising 5G NSA networks worldwide in 2019 in preparation for the move. This will enable operators to explore new opportunities and provide customers with the full benefits of immersive 5G services off the back of existing mobile networks.
However, operators will first need to migrate to Samsung’s 5G SA architecture. By highlighting the migration roadmap from 4G to 5G and the advantages of 5G SA, the whitepaper illustrates Samsung’s capability and its migration strategy to support operators’ needs.
The report summarises, “5G allows operators to provide unprecedented communication services for end-users and to explore innovative business use cases that can generate new revenue streams by means of utilising 5G-specific services. 5G–specific services combined with other features enable diverse business use cases such as factory automation, smart cities, autonomous driving and remote healthcare. In this way, an operator can secure new revenue streams.”
Currently, Samsung supports mobile operators' 5G rollouts in Korea, the US and Japan, with an aim to enter new markets like New Zealand and Canada within the near future.
Sateliot and AWS to build cloud native 5G satellite network


crazing in polymers (rus. крейзинг полимеров) — formation of ordered fibrillar-porous structures during orientation stretching of amorphous polymers in adsorption-active liquid media.
When the polymer is stretched in an adsorption-active liquid media, in contrast to stretching in the air, a system of nanopores emerges and develops spontaneously; such a system permeates the entire volume of the deformed polymer and the pores are continuously filled by the surrounding liquid. At the first stage of polymer stretching (up to the yield point) a number of crazes (Fig.) emerge on its surface; the crazes grow in the direction perpendicular to the axis of stretching, while maintaining almost constant width (hundreds of nanometres). This process continues until the growing crazes cross the cross-section of the sample; it is followed by broadening of the crazes in the direction of the axis of stretching with conversion of the polymer into a highly ordered fibrillised state. When a significant portion of the polymer is transferred into the oriented highly dispersed state, the formed porous structure collapses with a marked decrease in the cross-section of the deformed polymer, in porosity, average pore size and specific surface area. During the collapse a part of the liquid filling the nanopores is mechanically captured. If this liquid is a solution of a modifier in an adsorption-active medium, then the collapse of the structure is accompanied by a release of the liquid into the surrounding space and the mechanical capture of the dissolved modifier in the form of nano-sized inclusions.
а — Schematic representation of individual stages of crazing in polymers: I — craze initiation; II — craze growth; III — expansion of crazes.
b — Electron microphotograph of a polyethylene terephtalate sample deformed in n-propanol (×1000) [1].
Volynskijj A.L. Rehbinder effect in polymers (in Russian) // Priroda. 2006. No 11. — http://vivovoco.astronet.ru/VV/JOURNAL/NATURE/11_06/CRAZYING.HTM (reference date: 12.12.2011).
Volynskijj A.L., Bakeev N.F. Self-organized Structure of non-crystalline polymers (in Russian). — Moscow.: Fizmatlit, 2005. 232 pp.


Cinderella: Andrew Lloyd Webber says theatre is on its knees due to Covid rules
He was speaking after the opening two nights of his new show Cinderella were te.
That positive test had already led to two preview performances being scrapped on Saturday.
Lord Lloy“I’m not going to do that, I can’t do that,” he said. “I’m a Brit and we’ve got a fantastic cast and so we will open here, but who knows? 2084? I don’t know.”
“P Listen. We do know what we’’t apply across the board.”
“Whilst the need to self-isolate is an economy-wide issue, I recognise the particular challenges it presents to the arts and I’m strongly making the case for that in government.”
Lord Lloyd-Webber added Mr Dowden “does his best” but “I don’t think he’s really able to be that effective”.
“This is the last chance for this govhe said. “I do worry at the end of the day that the government doesn’t regard theatre as anything other than nice to have.
“No one MADE him try to open a new musical in a pandemic. And yet now it’s everyone else’s fault but his own,” he wrote.
Cinderella r Lord Lloyd- ittress Carrie Fletcher tweeted on Monday to say she was “completely and utterly gutted” at the news.
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After I read the first short chapter I put the book aside and decided not to finish it. I was really turned off. Mercy Gunderson is a retired special ops sniper who loves guns and ammunition of any and every kind. She goes out into a field of prairie dogs and starts picking them off, one by one, for kicks. How could that not turn me off?


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Happy creating tribal nostalgia. Their music can be received as low waves of synthed indie rock mixed with splashes of orchestrated pop. Laminate Pet Animal (Snowmine’s album) is a collection of delightful body treatments.
Along with Snowmine, there will be performances from Conveyor, Illuminator, and Teletextile. Conveyor recently released a new single titled “Mukraker”. Check it out here and for advanced tickets of the show on January 5th, click here. I hope to see beautiful faces at this event. Don’t hesitate to tweet me if you plan on attending, @Banacrisp.


The head-on crash happened on Tuesday evening on National Road 4 in Kampong Speu’s Phnom Srouch district.
Deputy police chief Un Soous said a petrol truck belonging to LHR collided with the truck the family were in.
Mr Soous said it was not yet clear what caused the accident but it had been raining at the time and at least one of the drivers may have been going too fast.


By Rabbi Minna Bromberg, July 16, 2014
Promises on a Bumpy Road
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Moses gave the Israelites the Torah in the hopes that it would help them stay on the right path despite the many bumps in the road. What does Torah teach me now as I prepare to make aliyah? —kept “men” “women.”— men and women alike —Minna Bromberg serves as rabbi of Kesher Zion Synagogue, a Conservative congregation in Reading, Pa, and has released five albums of original music0 andVisit her website here.
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Now is a difficult time to make aliyah. I hope it went well.


When the humans started fighting at this Beijing zoo, the animals followed suit.
A fight between visitors of the Beijing Wildlife Park has gone viral on Chinese social media. The altercation happened on the afternoon of August 7 at the Wildlife Park in the Daxing District.
Earlier this month, Molly became a big topic on Chinese social media again due to various big accounts on Xiaohongshu and Weibo posting about the ‘Save Molly’ campaign and calling for an elephant performance ban in China (read more).
On May 15, the Henan Forestry Bureau – which regulates the holding of all exotic species, including those in city zoos – announced that Molly would return to Kunming in order to provide “better living circumstances” for the elephant. A day later, on Monday, Molly left Qinyang and returned to the Kunming Zoo where she was born. In Kunming, Molly will first receive a thorough health check during the observation period.
To read more about zoos and wildlife parks causing online commotion in China, check our articles here.


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Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti said McGwire is coming to Los Angeles after serving as the St. Louis Cardinals' hitting coach for three years.
Under his direction, the 2011 World Champion Cards led the National League in batting average (.273) and runs scored (762). They finished second in both categories last season, when St. Louis again reached the NL Championship Series.Colletti said"
McGwire -- a 12-time all-star -- became the first player to hit 70 homers in a season in 1998, but his accomplishments were diminished after being linked to banned steroid use.
The 49-year-old turned down a contract extension offer from St. Louis to join the Dodgers.
U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe named Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson of Year


(Ok, if you have to know more, a candy shop opens in this little town, and the owner, a grandma-type woman, tells this group of four friends that she’ll give them magical candy if they do a favor for her. Foot-in-the-door, people. That’s really all you need to know.)
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Consultant recommends CARD tax, but board…
Consultant recommends CARD tax, but board hasn’t agreed
Consultant recommends parcel tax
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2019 at 4:00 pm | UPDATED: May 17, 2019 at 10:20 pm
CHICO — After hearing what Chicoans had to say in a survey, consultants are recommending the Chico Area Recreation and Park District go to the voters next year for a ballot tax measure.
CARD has been tossing around the idea of a revenue measure for several years, hoping to complete its master plan along with cover maintenance costs. Support has not been strong enough for the board to move forward.
More meetings about possible CARD parcel tax
Oversight committee, projects discussed at CARD’s tax meeting
Questions were asked in several different ways, and the consultant noted that one of the questions about “possible projects and priorities for CARD” that reducing crime and homelessness in parks came out first, followed by “” and providing lighting, security and safety features for parks, along with maintaining youth sports programs. Updating sports field, updating aging recreation centers and facilities, and updating swimming pools were lower in the list.
The presentation did not go into the reason for the feeling, whether it was political, post-Camp Fire or something else.
Ultimately, consultant Clifford Moss of Oakland recommended the district go with a parcel tax that could raise up to $22 million. CARD has identified the need at around $73 million for maintenance and improvements. CARD will also consider a bond measure, which would be the vehicle to generate the rest of the money needed.
CARD has talked about a full-size, competitive aquatic center for years, which is part of the recreation agency’s master plan, but it became more of a priority when decades-old Shapiro Pool started failing. Owned by the Chico Unified School District, but operated by CARD, the pool at Chico Junior High has been retired from human use, but still used for an annual dog event. CARD has pledged to keep it operational and has talked about the cost of replacing it with a bigger, newer system at that location. CARD has identified competitive swimming events, along with community use, as important and money makers.
The CARD board got its first sight of the 2019-20 budget, which offers a balanced general fund, and notes that full-time staff will be increasing their pension contributions. While CARD’s unfunded CalPERS liability is budgeted at $261,748, finance manager Heather Childs noted that is an estimate and will likely change. The district has also finished its debt payments on previous obligations.
The budget document is on CARD’s website, and a  June 20. At Thursday’s meeting, the board unanimously adopted the preliminary budget.
Capital projects CARD hopes to accomplish include a new roof for the community center, new windows for Lakeside Pavilion, new heating air condition for Dorothy Johnson Center and a playground for DeGarmo Community Park, among others.


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WWII French General Charles De Gaulle A WWII photo portrait of General Charles de Gaulle of the Free French Forces and first president of the Fifth Republic serving from 1959 to 1969.
Office of War Information, Overseas Picture Division.
[1] The image prefix (LC-USW3) at the Library of Congress image page matches that of pictures from the OWI collection. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b42159.
I have put this detailed photo information in because I came across this photo (before I went directly to the Library of Congress) on a website called Maritime Quest. These people constantly slap their copyright on photographs which are in the public domain. It is outrageous that they do this and it is simply a way to get their website mentioned. Any photograph which is released to the public taken by a photographer working for the US Government is immediately in the public domain and no one can copyright one of said photographs.
Royal Air Force ground crew "bombing up" a Vickers Wellington MkIII strategic bomber with a 4,000 pound "cookie".
(photo courtesy of the BBC)
more information on this bomber here:
Prior to D-Day, the Allies wanted to bomb and keep bombing important French rail junctions to make movement on the railroads difficult for the Germans. Since railroad tracks are easy to repair, we had to keep bombing them over many months and bomb rail junctions all over France so as not to give away that we were going to invade in Normandy.
The Allies sought the permission of the Free French under de Gaulle to bomb these rail junctions knowing that many thousands of Frenchmen would be killed. Nonetheless, de Gaulle gave his permission. We bombed to many areas in France that it is hard to say exactly how many French civilians were killed in Allied bombing raids on just rail junctions.
I think the estimate which many historians use is 15,000 to 20,000 dead. Many more French civilians were killed in Allied bombings of German military installations in German occupied France. Nonetheless, the bombing of rail junctions was critical to the success of D-Day. It is worth noting that according to Anthony Beevor's history of D-Day, more French civilians were killed by Allied friendly fire on D-Day than Allied soldiers.
While the efforts of the French Resistance are wildly overestimated, it is worth noting that not one train moved on the French rail network on 6 June 1944.
An excellent piece on the number of French civilians killed in Allied bombing can be found on the BBC website here. A British historian calculates 57,000 French civilians were killed by Allied bombing of France in WW Two. He makes some disparging remarks about why we bombed certain French cities which subsequently were quickly taken by Allied troops which they could have done without having the city bombed.
I sincerely doubt the Allied combat soldiers who were in the front line moving into attack after the bombing would agree. Second, we were bombing German strong points in French cities. We weren't bombing the French cities for the hell of it.
Interesting article on this subject from the BBC here:
It has been a taboo subject in France for 70 years but in his D-Day commemoration speech on 6 June, President Francois Hollande will pay tribute to the terrible civilian casualties suffered by the French due to Allied bombing up to and during the liberation of France. Historians believe Allied bombardments killed almost as many French people as German bombs killed Britons during the Blitz. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27703724 http://charlesmccain.com/2014/11/bombing-french-rail-junctions/
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In Mixed Reality, you see and experience virtual objects mixed with real surroundings within the marked limits of an area defined as Boundaries. Boundaries in Windows Mixed Reality can be visualized as an area in which you can move around while you’re wearing your Windows Mixed Reality immersive headset.
It’s easy to create Boundaries in Windows Mixed Reality, but you should be mindful of certain points. For example, during setup, you can choose to create one Boundary at any time by selecting Start > Mixed Reality Portal on your desktop.
Or you can open Menu, select Run setup to create a new boundary. If you move your headset to a new location, you’ll need to set up a new boundary that works for that space.
- Make sure to hold your headset at waist height, and face toward your computer while you trace the boundary.
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