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Blogotá!
César and Citizenship
I just returned from a meeting at la Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, a prestigious public university in Bogotá. I went to meet with César, an Anthropologist and Public Health professor there and the author of Itinerarios Burocráticos. The university had a typical sprawling campus with various squares and greens with students reading, rolling cigarettes, protesting and playing the guitar. The buildings were all names of well-known revolutionaries with the Plaza Guevara as the central meeting point.
We met in the cafeteria and César treated me to jugo de Feijao (green fruit that tastes kind of like a kiwi). César looks kind of like my father and has similar mannerisms, so I immediately felt comfortable with him. I wanted to talk to him about researching in Colombia and the ethical questions that pertain to using human subjects. Unlike the US, there is no Institutional Review Board, but there are different ethical committees depending on where the research is to be published and who the researcher affiliates with. I have no idea where/if I will publish, but César gave me some names of university and health publications and also intellectual magazines like Malpensante (The New Yorker equivalent) and Nueva Caseta. I think that the language/style I use for my research will help determine where I will try to publish. Obviously the important question is: Why publish? For whom? Who does it benefit? Right now, I would just like to make my research useful for the population I am interviewing. Unfortunately, it will not change their personal situations in any way, but perhaps the article could promote awareness for the NGO's that are providing them care and help increase funding for these NGO's.
César helped illuminate one of the central problems of the health system: it assumes that all people living in Colombia consider themselves citizens and understand what citizenship entails. This assumption forces the subject to play by the rules of citizenship or die. Legislation, then, is a strategy of social cleansing. How can street people operate in the health system if they are considered to be outside of the law? Do street people think they have the right to be attended to at the hospital? Some important questions to ask my interviewees (street people, drug users, sex workers, and transvestites) might be:
"Are you Colombian?"
"What does it mean to be Colombian?"
"Do you consider yourself a Colombian citizen?"
"If so, do you feel like you have certain rights as a citizen?"
"What rights do you feel entitled to?"
"Do you feel like you have a right to health?"
César told me that when he was conducting interviews for his research on barriers in access to healthcare, he sometimes would ask his subjects, "Where are you from? Colombia?" and they might reply, "No I'm not from Colombia, I'm from La Pedrera (little city in Southern Colombia)." In other words, they didn't have a concept of national, territorial identity, inherent in the concept of citizenship. Or perhaps they didn't believe in this notion of citizenship and belonging to the state.
But when people don't see themselves as part of the system, because they can't find a job, or don't vote or engage in illegal actions, they often don't think they have a right to demand for healthcare (even though it is usually the structure of the system that creates and reproduces their conditions). If the healthcare system refuses to give an appointment, or pay for necessary post-operational physical therapy, would these street people conceive of taking legal action if they have no concept of citizenship? What type of knowledge does engaging in "legal action" require? In reality, it is not simply a notion of right or wrong, but rather the perception of the individual's power vis-à-vis the state. A street person, unaware of the rights of the citizen, feels powerless and stays sick. Slowly the system kills off these outliers. I will try and see if these ideas are consistent with reality in my interviews. Based on the stories I have heard so far, they seem all too true.
Like Dr. T and Timothy, César is yet another inspirational thinker I have been lucky to meet here. I left the Universidad Nacional with an energy I remembered feeling in college after an incredible lecture. In Plaza Guevara, clubs were making jewelry, planning political strategies and selling food and burnt DVDs. To cope with my nostalgia, and feel part of the university world, I bought a buckwheat flour arepa and a copy of SICKO.
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Etiquetas: Anthropology, Citizenship, Street people
Intersubjectividades Estructuradas
RESOLUCION 0769 DE 2008: Planificación Familiar a Hombres y Mujeres
Itinerarios Burocráticos en Colombia
Fundacion Social Fénix


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AVClass is a malware labeling tool.

You give it as input the AV labels for a large number of
malware samples (e.g., VirusTotal JSON reports) and it outputs the most
likely family name for each sample that it can extract from the AV labels.
It can also output a ranking of all alternative names it found for each sample.

The design and evaluation of AVClass is detailed in our
[RAID 2016 paper](https://software.imdea.org/~juanca/papers/avclass_raid16.pdf):

> Marcos Sebastián, Richard Rivera, Platon Kotzias, and Juan Caballero.
AVClass: A Tool for Massive Malware Labeling.
In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Research in
Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses,
September 2016.

In a nutshell, AVClass comprises two phases:
preparation (optional) and labeling.
Code for both is included,
but most users will be only interested in the labeling, which outputs the
family name for the samples.
The preparation produces a list of aliases and generic tokens
used by the labeling.
If you use our default aliases and generic tokens lists,
you do not need to run the preparation.

## Labeling

The labeler takes as input
a JSON file with the AV labels of malware samples (-vt or -lb options),
a file with generic tokens (-gen option),
and a file with aliases (-alias option).
It outputs the most likely family name for each sample.
If you do not provide alias or generic tokens files,
the default ones in the *data* folder are used.

```shell
$./avclass_labeler.py -lb ../examples/malheurReference_lb.json -v > malheurReference.labels
```

The above command labels the samples whose AV labels are in the
*../examples/malheurReference_lb.json* file.
It prints the results to stdout,
which we redirect to the *malheurReference.labels* file.
The output looks like this:

```
aca2d12934935b070df8f50e06a20539 adrotator
67d15459e1f85898851148511c86d88d adultbrowser
```

which means sample aca2d12934935b070df8f50e06a20539 is most likely
from the *adrotator* family and
67d15459e1f85898851148511c86d88d from the *adultbrowser* family.

The verbose (-v) option makes it output an extra
*malheurReference_lb.verbose* file
with all families extracted for each sample ranked by the number of AV
engines that use that family.
The file looks like this:

```
aca2d12934935b070df8f50e06a20539  [(u'adrotator', 8), (u'zlob', 2)]
ee90a64fcfaa54a314a7b5bfe9b57357  [(u'swizzor', 19)]
f465a2c1b852373c72a1ccd161fbe94c  SINGLETON:f465a2c1b852373c72a1ccd161fbe94c
```

which means that for sample aca2d12934935b070df8f50e06a20539
there are 8 AV engines assigning *adrotator* as the family and
another 2 assigning *zlob*.
Thus, *adrotator* is the most likely family.
On the other hand, for ee90a64fcfaa54a314a7b5bfe9b57357 there are 19 AV
engines assigning *swizzor* as family,
and no other family was found.
The last line means that for sample f465a2c1b852373c72a1ccd161fbe94c
no family name was found in the AV labels.
Thus, the sample is placed by himself in a singleton cluster
with the name of the cluster being the sample's hash.

Note that the sum of the number of AV engines may not equal the number
of AV engines with a label for that sample in the input file
because the labels of some AV engines may only include generic tokens
that are removed by AVClass.

## Input JSON format

AVClass supports three input JSON formats:

1. VirusTotal v2 API JSON reports (*-vt file*),
where each line in the input *file* should be the full JSON of a
VirusTotal v2 API response to the */file/report* endpoint,
e.g., obtained by querying https://www.virustotal.com/vtapi/v2/file/report?apikey={apikey}&resource={hash}
There is an example VirusTotal v2 input file in examples/vtv2_sample.json

2. VirusTotal v3 API JSON reports (*-vt file -vt3*),
where each line in the input *file* should be the full JSON of a VirusTotal API version 3 response with a *File* object report,
e.g., obtained by querying https://www.virustotal.com/api/v3/files/{hash}
There is an example VirusTotal v3 input file in examples/vtv3_sample.json

3. Simplified JSON (*-lb file*),
where each line in *file* should be a JSON
with (at least) these fields:
{md5, sha1, sha256, av_labels}.
There is an example of such input file in *examples/malheurReference_lb.json*

**Multiple input files**

AVClass can handle multiple input files putting the results in the same output files
(if you want results in separate files, process each input file separately).

It is possible to provide the -vt and -lb input options multiple times.

```shell
$./avclass_labeler.py -vt <file1> -vt <file2>
```
```shell
$./avclass_labeler.py -lb <file1> -lb <file2>
```

There are also -vtdir and -lbdir options that can be used to provide
an input directory where all files are VT (-vtdir) or simplified (-lbdir) JSON reports:

```shell
$./avclass_labeler.py -vtdir <directory>
```

It is also possible to combine -vt with -vtdir and -lb with -lbdir,
but you cannot combine input files of different format. Thus, this command works:

```shell
$./avclass_labeler.py -vt <file> -vtdir <directory>
```

But, this one throws an error:

```shell
$./avclass_labeler.py -vt <file1> -lb <file2>
```

## Labeling: Family Ranking

AVClass has a -fam option to output a file with a ranking of the
families assigned to the input samples.

```shell
$./avclass_labeler.py -lb ../examples/malheurReference_lb.json -v -fam > malheurReference.labels
```

will produce a file called *malheurReference_lb.families* with two columns:

```
virut 441
allaple 301
podnuha 300
```

indicating that 441 samples were classified in the virut family,
301 as allaple, and 300 as podnuha.

This option is very similar to using the following shell command:

```shell
$cut -f 2 malheurReference.labels | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
```

The main difference is that using the -fam option all SINGLETON samples,
i.e., those for which no label was found,
are grouped into a fake *SINGLETONS* family,
while the shell command would leave each singleton as a separate family.

## Labeling: PUP Classification

AVClass also has a -pup option to classify a sample as
Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) or malware.
This classification looks for PUP-related keywords
(e.g., pup, pua, unwanted, adware) in the AV labels and was proposed in our
[CCS 2015 paper](https://software.imdea.org/~juanca/papers/malsign_ccs15.pdf):

> Platon Kotzias, Srdjan Matic, Richard Rivera, and Juan Caballero.
Certified PUP: Abuse in Authenticode Code Signing.
In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Denver, CO, October 2015

```shell
$./avclass_labeler.py -lb ../examples/malheurReference_lb.json -v -pup > malheurReference.labels
```

With the -pup option the output of the *malheurReference.labels* file
looks like this:

```
aca2d12934935b070df8f50e06a20539 adrotator 1
67d15459e1f85898851148511c86d88d adultbrowser 0
```

The digit at the end is a Boolean flag that
indicates sample aca2d12934935b070df8f50e06a20539 is
(likely) PUP, but sample 67d15459e1f85898851148511c86d88d is (likely) not.

In our experience the PUP classification is conservative,
i.e., if it says the sample is PUP, it most likely is.
But, if it says that it is not PUP, it could still be PUP if the AV labels
do not contain PUP-related keywords.
Note that it is possible that some samples from a family get
the PUP flag while other samples from the same family do not
because the PUP-related keywords may not appear in the labels of
all samples from the same family.
To address this issue, you can combine the -pup option with the -fam option.
This combination will add into the families file the classification of the
family as malware or PUP, based on a majority vote among the samples in a
family.

```shell
$./avclass_labeler.py -lb ../examples/malheurReference_lb.json -v -pup -fam > malheurReference.labels
```

will produce a file called *malheurReference_lb.families* with five columns:

```
# Family  Total Malware PUP FamType
virut 441 441 0 malware
magiccasino 173 0 173 pup
ejik  168 124 44  malware
```

For virut, the numbers indicate all the 441 virut samples are classified
as malware, and thus the last column states that virut is a malware family.
For magiccasino, all 173 samples are labeled as PUP, thus the family is PUP.
For ejik, out of the 168 samples, 124 are labeled as malware and 44 as PUP,
so the family is classified as malware.

## Labeling: Ground Truth Evaluation

If you have ground truth for some malware samples,
i.e., you know the true family for those samples, you can evaluate the accuracy of the labeling output by AVClass on those samples with respect to that
ground truth.
The evaluation metrics used are precision, recall, and F1 measure.
See our RAID 2016 paper above for their definition.

```shell
$./avclass_labeler.py -lb ../examples/malheurReference_lb.json -v -gt ../examples/malheurReference_gt.tsv -eval > malheurReference.labels
```

The output includes these lines:

```
Calculating precision and recall
3131 out of 3131
Precision: 90.81  Recall: 94.05 F1-Measure: 92.40
```

The last line corresponds to the accuracy metrics obtained by
comparing AVClass results with the provided ground truth.

Each line in the *../examples/malheurReference_gt.tsv* file has
two **tab-separated** columns:

```
0058780b175c3ce5e244f595951f611b8a24bee2 CASINO
```

which indicates that sample 0058780b175c3ce5e244f595951f611b8a24bee2
is known to be of the *CASINO* family.
Each sample in the input file should also appear in the ground truth file.
Note that the particular label assigned to each family does not matter.
What matters is that all samples in the same family are assigned the
same family name (i.e., the same string in the second column)

The ground truth can be obtained from publicly available malware
datasets.
The one in *../examples/malheurReference_gt.tsv* comes from the
[Malheur](http://www.mlsec.org/malheur/) dataset.
There are other public datasets with ground truth such as
[Drebin](https://www.sec.cs.tu-bs.de/~danarp/drebin/) or
[Malicia](http://malicia-project.com/dataset.html).

## Preparation: Generic Token Detection

The labeling takes as input a file with generic tokens that should be
ignored in the AV labels, e.g., trojan, virus, generic, linux.
By default, the labeling uses the *data/default.generics*
generic tokens file.
You can edit that file to add additional generic tokens you feel
we are missing.

In our RAID 2016 paper we describe an automatic approach to
identify generic tokens, which **requires ground truth**,
i.e., it requires knowing the true family for each input sample.
Not only that, but **the ground truth should be large**,
i.e., contain at least one hundred thousand samples.
In our work we identified generic tokens using as ground truth
the concatenation of all datasets for which we had ground truth.
This requirement of a large ground truth dataset is why we expect most users
will skip this step and simply use our provided default file.

If you want to test generic token detection you can do:

```shell
 $./avclass_generic_detect.py -lb ../examples/malheurReference_lb.json -gt ../examples/malheurReference_gt.tsv -tgen 10 > malheurReference.gen
```

Each line in the *../examples/malheurReference_gt.tsv* file has
two **tab-separated** columns:

```
0058780b175c3ce5e244f595951f611b8a24bee2 CASINO
```

which indicates that sample 0058780b175c3ce5e244f595951f611b8a24bee2
is known to be of the *CASINO* family.

The *-tgen 10* option is a threshold for the minimum number of families
where a token has to be observed to be considered generic.
If the option is ommitted, the default threshold of 8 is used.

The above command outputs two files:
*malheurReference.gen* and *malheurReference_lb.gen*.
Each of them has 2 columns: token and number of families where the token
was observed.
File *malheurReference.gen* is the final output with the detected
generic tokens for which the number of families is above
the given threshold.
The file *malheurReference_lb.gen* has this information for all tokens.
Thus, *malheurReference.gen* is a subset of *malheurReference_lb.gen*.

However, note that in the above command you are trying to identify generic
tokens from a small dataset since Drebin only contains 3K labeled samples.
Thus, *malheurReference.gen* only contains 25 identified generic tokens.
Using those 25 generic tokens will produce significantly worse results
than using the generic tokens in *data/default.generics*.
For more details you can refer to our RAID 2016 paper.

## Preparation: Alias Detection

Different vendors may assign different names (i.e., aliases) for the same
family. For example, some vendors may use *zeus* and others *zbot*
as aliases for the same malware family.
The labeling takes as input a file with aliases that should be merged.
By default, the labeling uses the *data/default.aliases* aliases file.
You can edit that file to add additional aliases you feel we are missing.

In our RAID 2016 paper we describe an automatic approach
to identify aliases.
Our alias detection approach
**requires as input the AV labels for large set of samples**,
e.g., several million samples.
In contrast with the generic token detection, the input samples for
alias detection **do not need to be labeled**,
i.e., no need to know their family.
In our work we identified aliases using as input the largest of our
unlabeled datasets, which contained nearly 8M samples.
This requirement of a large input dataset is why we expect most users
will skip this step and simply use our provided default file.

If you want to test alias detection you can do:

```shell
$./avclass_alias_detect.py -lb ../examples/malheurReference_lb.json -nalias 100 -talias 0.98 > malheurReference.aliases
```

The -nalias threshold provides the minimum number of samples two tokens
need to be observed in to be considered aliases.
If the option is not provided the default is 20.

The -talias threshold provides the minimum fraction of times that
the samples appear together.
If the  is not provided the default is 0.94 (94%).

The above command outputs two files:
*malheurReference.aliases* and *malheurReference_lb.alias*.
Each of them has 6 columns:
1. t1: token that is an alias
2. t2: family for which t1 is an alias
3. |t1|: number of input samples where t1 was observed
4. |t2|: number of input samples where t2 was observed
5. |t1^t2|: number of input samples where both t1 and t2 were observed
6. |t1^t2|/|t1|: ratio of input samples where both t1 and t2
were observed over the number of input samples where t1 was observed.

File *malheurReference.aliases* is the final output with the
detected aliases that satisfy the -nalias and -talias thresholds.
The file *malheurReference_lb.alias* has this information for all tokens.
Thus, *malheurReference.aliases* is a subset
of *malheurReference_lb.alias*.

However, note that in the above command you are trying to identify aliases
from a small dataset since Drebin only contains 3K samples.
Thus, *malheurReference.aliases* only contains 6 identified aliases.
Using those 6 aliases will produce significantly worse results than using
the aliases in *data/default.aliases*.
As mentioned, to improve the identified aliases you should provide as
input several million samples.
For more details you can refer to our RAID 2016 paper.

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Land supply not to blame for rising home prices: Study
By Tess KalinowskiReal Estate Reporter
Wed., Oct. 5, 2016timer3 min. read
Some developers and economists have said the Greenbelt and the provincial Growth Plan are partly to blame for the Toronto region's soaring home prices.
But the first comprehensive, independent analysis of how much land is still available for development shows that there is no land shortage pushing the cost of housing higher.
In its study released Wednesday, the non-profit Neptis Foundation, a non-partisan research group, found that only 20 per cent of the land that was designated for building when the Growth Plan was implemented 10 years ago has actually been used.
Related:The Neptis Foundation study
"We're here to put the facts on the table and say, there is no constraint from the Greenbelt or the Growth Plan on the land supply," said Neptis executive director Marcy Burchfield.
"We're not in an argument with the development community. They're part of who are building our region. It's just — let's get past the argument of land supply — that it is being constrained by our policies — because that's just not true," she said.
The foundation is releasing its research in an environment that Burchfield described as "ripe for misinformation," as the province prepares to update its 2006 Growth Plan early next year.
Some developers want Queen's Park to limit municipal population and employment density targets, and extend the area that can be used for urbanization, called the Designated Greenfield Area (DGA).
But the Neptis research shows that 80 per cent — 45,660 hectares of the land that has been approved for urbanization in the Greater Toronto Hamilton Region — is still available for building, easily enough to last the region to 2031, and likely well beyond that, said Burchfield.
Municipalities have already designated much of that land — known as the Designated Greenfield Area (DGA) — for single family dwellings, semis and townhomes, she said.
Neptis found that 45 per cent of the land that has been developed in the region in the last decade was in three municipalities, Brampton, Vaughan and Milton.
"Even so, these three still have plenty of land to build on — about 15,700 hectares, or 35 per cent of the remaining DGA land supply in the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area," says the Neptis brief.
Other municipalities, including Oakville, Whitby and East Gwillimbury, have barely touched their supply. Pickering has almost 3,000 hectares left in the Seaton area.
Burchfield said other factors such as municipal approvals and market shifts may be contributing to home prices.
"There are certainly more condominiums going up," she said.
"The hope is that you have a diversity of housing out there," said Burchfield.
The Neptis data is information that the province should have been gathering centrally since it implemented the Growth Plan in 2006, she said.
"Instead we had to take three years to do that. The province never required that information to be delivered up the chain," said Burchfield.
Municipalities collect the information on how much land is designated for servicing but they don't necessarily release that information publicly. Some want to avoid pressures from developers or other interests.
A recent study by the Ryerson City Building Institute and the Ontario Home Builders Association recommended municipalities change their zoning and development charges to help builders create more affordable housing options such as mid-rise, family-sized condos that are close to transit.
Land that is designated for development is typically more valuable even if the plan doesn't call for it to be immediately built up.
A July report from the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) showed new homes, not including condos, had risen more than $100,000 in the previous year.
It has urged Queen's Park to go slow on implementing changes to the Growth Plan until the impacts can be assessed. BILD says the effects of the policy are just starting to show in housing supply and prices. It is also urging the government to do more consumer education about the plan to intensify the region's urban areas.


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Science: Flipping molecule bowls over the chemists
By John Emsley
Molecules made of benzene rings are usually very rigid, but one such
molecule has confounded chemists. The bowl-shaped molecule turns itself
inside out 200 000 times a second (Journal of the American Chemical Society,
vol 114, p 1920 and p 1921).
Lawrence Scott's team at the University of Nevada at Reno and Jay Siegel's
team at the University of California, San Diego, made the molecule, known
as corannulene (C20H10), using a technique known as flash vacuum
pyrolysis. This involved heating a starting compound to a temperature of
1000 °C while reducing the pressure to less than a millionth of an atmosphere.
The two teams of chemists used slightly different starting materials,
but each had three connected benzene rings. Both were able to produce a
few milligrams of corannulene, which was enough to make several derivatives.
Corannulene consists of five benzene rings joined together in a circle.
Such an arrangement is unstable when flat, because the bonds of its benzene
rings are distorted. Instead, the molecule adopts a concave saucer shape.
Although corannulene was first made 25 years ago, the recent synthesis
of buckminsterfullerene, the football-shaped carbon molecule (C60),
has renewed interest in corannulene, which should be chemically similar.
The molecule is rather like a fragment of C60, except that hydrogen
atoms are arranged around its rim. Its shape allows chemists access to
the molecule's interior, unlike C60.
Scott says the molecule turns itself inside out with ease, even though
it must pass through the perfectly flat state to do so. He observed this
unexpected behaviour by first attaching a dimethylcarbinol group to the
rim of the saucer, then studying the modified molecule by means of the technique
of nuclear magnetic resonance. The group on the rim made the concave and
convex saucer (see Figure) distinguishable in the strong magnetic field
of an NMR machine, effectively creating a left-handed and right-handed molecule.
Scott and his colleagues, therefore, expected to see two distinct signals.
However, to his surprise, Scott only found one signal when he studied the
corannulene molecule at room temperature. The saucer molecule was flipping
inside out and back again so rapidly that NMR could not distinguish between
the two shapes.
But when Scott cooled the sample to -64 °C two signals appeared.
The saucer was rigid at this low temperature, half the molecules effectively
frozen into each form. Sure enough, when Scott warmed the molecule, it
acquired enough energy to start turning itself inside out again. Scott
found that it does this at an astonishing rate of 200 000 times a second
at room temperature.
Scott suggests that it may be possible to bring two corannulene molecules
together to make a C40 football, which chemists have often speculated might
exist but which no one has found.
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30 August 2018, 13:17 | Updated: 31 August 2018, 07:54
The paraglider who was allegedly "abusive and hostile" to members of the public rang James to answer the accusations.
Reports of a paraglider causing criminal damage and obstructing the highway in southern East Sussex have been received over the past two years.
Police officials, who are searching for the man, say he allegedly "intimidates people" and is "generally behaving in an anti-social manner," and uses Galley Hill, Bexhill-on-Sea, as a launch site.
James stopped Mystery Hour to take the call from "evil" paraglider, known as Paul in Bexhill, to let him hit back at the claims.
Paul said: "The accusations are lies. Fake news like Councillors, police officers, beach rescue guys, dog walkers.
"One woman came up to me with her dog and said 'You shouldn't be doing that here - it's very dangerous,' while her dog was weeing on my wing [on the glider] which is worth £4000."
James Told The "Abusive" Paraglider To "Fly Free". Picture: LBC
James mockingly asked Paul: "Do you intimidate people by flying low over the sea front?"
Unable to contain his laughter, Paul replied: "No, I do not.. I fly low because I'm a paraglider pilot flying by a hill which is exempt from the '500 foot rule.' I'm a free flying spirit. I live to fly and fly to live."
The LBC presenter exclaimed: "I'm with you man... Fly free, fly free Paul. It's the man trying to crush you... You're a local treasure."
Paul later offered to take James out on a free tandem jump to which the presenter declined remarking "It would frighten the life out of me."
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In defence of NHS chaplains
The NSS has been running a blog and fairly fiery Facebook discussion on the cost of NHS chaplaincy. Specifically they put the cost of chaplaincy to the NHS at £23.5 million pounds. This, they note, is a £1.5 million increase on the last financial year "despite falling levels of religious adherence".
First, some context. Spread across 230 NHS trusts, with a 2015–2016 overall NHS budget of an eye–watering £115.4 billion, the amount spent on chaplaincy is pretty trivial. Furthermore, no NHS trust is obliged to have chaplains (unlike prisons, where the role is a statutory one). Therefore, given the extreme cuts across NHS departments it seems a fairly safe assumption that most NHS trusts that retain their chaplains see some sort of value in them – or else they would surely have followed the example of a few from a few years ago and cut them completely. Still, £23.5 million is £23.5 million and chaplains should not be immune from having to justify their value for money.
With that in mind, here are a few markers that might make that case:
1. Chaplaincy as a time and money saver.
Patients who feel listened to and have their broader pastoral needs met while in hospital are far more likely to be positive about their treatment (reported in the media here, but also part of a growing academic study). They are less likely to complain when things go wrong and more likely to recover faster and, therefore, be moved out of the hospital earlier (freeing up beds). At the very least this leads to better feedback response for the hospital and at the more extreme end can reduce costs on patients both in terms of avoiding complaints procedures and clearing beds needed by other patients.
Chaplains play an essential role in this. As figures who spend their time actually talking and listening to patients, calming them down and engaging with them on a personal level – rather than simply as part of the diagnostic process – they have a huge amount to offer in terms of meeting that pastoral need.
Among chaplains to GPs there is emerging evidence that the chaplains actively save the NHS and GP surgeries money. It is often the case that many people, particularly older patients, don't really need to see a GP. Their problems are either not strictly medical or simply can't really be addressed by medical options. They do, however, take up time and appointments. By offering a chaplaincy service there is evidence that suggests that these frequent visitor patients come to feel better, and use their GPs less, thereby clearing time and money for other purposes. Since the chaplains come at a fraction of the cost of a doctor or even a nurse they are an excellent value financial move.
There is a real demand for chaplaincy among patients. One mental health trust approached during our chaplaincy research has done research which demonstrates high demand among their patients for more work meeting their spiritual needs. More generally there is evidence that a majority of patients both value spiritual care and feel that it is often insufficiently met at present (in other words there is an argument for more widely available chaplaincy work – not less).
It is worth noting that while church attendance nationally is falling it is far higher among older people – the same demographic that overwhelmingly makes up patients in Britain's hospitals.
For further evidence of demand one only has to look at how busy many of these chaplains actually are. One annual report from a hospital recorded 201 emergency call outs for chaplains, including call outs for out–of–hours advice on 52 occasions. In total, they had 827 referrals across the year and made over 14,600 visits. An average of 23 patients each week received Holy Communion within this one hospital.
Let there be no doubt – patients want and value their chaplains.
3. Secondary roles and value to the NHS
Chaplains do not only provide pastoral and spiritual care (though that is clearly essential to their role). They also perform a range of tasks in hospitals. Minority faith chaplains are often used as translators. Other chaplains serve as mediators, calming down irate families or explaining the treatment and calming patients. In mental health trusts chaplains did an enormous amount of work helping to identify the limits of religious beliefs (i.e. identifying what might be seen as an odd, but legitimate religious belief within certain traditions, and what is a symptom of their mental health condition).
For a number of other secondary roles performed by NHS chaplains see our chaplaincy report A Very Modern Ministry: Chaplaincy in the UK.
4. An already heavily subsidised model
An argument I have seen made on several occasions is that if faith groups want chaplains they should pay for them. To which the basic reply is – they do. One senior religious figure estimated that the cost of training a chaplain paid by the religious group in question was £10–15,000 per chaplain. The vast majority of people doing chaplaincy work in Britain's hospitals are either entirely unpaid or paid only expenses. A number of religious groups (notably Sikhs) make it a point of policy to not accept any pay for the role. From our research we found that the vast majority of chaplains in all fields, including healthcare were not paid a salary. Full time paid chaplains in the NHS probably account for 300–400 chaplains. The total number of people involved in chaplaincy in the NHS is probably not too far short of 20,000.
Where, then, does the cost come in? There are certainly paid chaplains, and part–time paid chaplains, and expenses paid to some chaplains. Much of the cost, however, I imagine, is tied up in the cost of management, accountability, co–ordinating chaplaincy teams, training, safeguarding and other such costs which are simply going to be unavoidable in any work in which employees are working with vulnerable people.
Facts and figures from this blog are drawn from our chaplaincy report A Very Modern Ministry: Chaplaincy in the UK, which is available here.
Ben Ryan is a Researcher at Theos
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WhatsApp Co-Founder Was Rejected By Facebook For A Job In 2009; Today Tables Have Turned
By Ben Reid | February 20th, 2014
Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp Messenger, is naturally among the headlines today after Facebook acquired the instant messaging service for the colossal sum of $19 billion. But what make's Acton's story particularly interesting is not just the mere fact that he, along with another former Yahoo employee, created perhaps the most high-profile service to be bought-out in tech history, but in an ironic twist, was rejected when applying for several jobs at major firms – including Facebook.
See, while many have lauded the social network's decision to grab WhatsApp – a service boasting around 400 million monthly active users – Zuckerberg could arguably have had WhatsApp for a great deal cheaper had he and his team recognized Acton's potential back in August of 2009.
Although Acton was well known within tech circles prior to this moment, the monumental amount of money paid out by Facebook for WhatsApp has thrust him into the spotlight, and as is often the case in these situations, interested parties have been doing some digging through his Twitter. Along with the August 2009 revelation that he had been turned down by Facebook and thus, had missed out on "a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people," the determined Acton had also tried, and failed, to secure a job working for Twitter.
Yet all of these rejections have proven to be a blessing in disguise for a guy who has now shown the entire tech world, including Facebook and Yahoo, what they've been missing. The story shows that, even when doors keep closing, determination and dedication can prevail, and considering WhatsApp was only launched five years ago, it's staggering to consider how quickly nothing can be turned into a multi-billion dollar company.
Of course, it's easy to note of how Facebook may have missed a trick by not employing Acton sooner, a move to secure his services may have cheated the world of WhatsApp, which mightn't ever been invented. In fact, had Zukerberg, or Twitter, or any other company, for that matter, had come in for him when he was job hunting, we'd hazard that WhatsApp almost certainly wouldn't ever have materialized, so the constant rejection Acton faced has all worked out nicely in the end.
For him, for Facebook, and, most importantly, for us.
(Source: Brian Acton [Twitter])


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Other than the soft shell crab, these croquettes caught my eye in the menu! When it was served, all I could smell was the truffled mayo. These croquettes were beautiful, I mean, what can go wrong with mac'n'cheese!
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The chicken was perfectly cooked, succulent inside and crispy outside. Couldn't really taste the miso in the mayo but the charred onion was definitely sweet!
This is from the kids menu! I didn't eat it but my nephew who happens to be a picky eater demolished it.
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Even down here in Florida, we can experience some cold, wintery days. In these cold seasons, we tend to rely on our sources of heat. If you have heated seats in your car, you might press that button for your morning commute. If you know you're going to be outside for a long period of time when the weather's cold, you might make sure to bundle up and wear layers. Even here in Hillsborough County, we have to know how to stay warm when the temperatures drop. As much as rely on our cars and clothing for heat, we all know that heat in our homes is probably the most important heat source that we depend on.
If you're anything like us, you understand the feeling of comfort and familiarity when you walk out of the cold elements into your warm house. You can take your shoes off, remove that outer layer, and feel perfectly at ease in that perfect, seventy-degree room. Now, if you will, imagine a different scenario: you come home from a long day at work on the coldest day of the year, only to realize that your house is barely warmer than the winter weather you just emerged from.
Broken furnaces in our area can often go unnoticed for months because we know that Florida residents only rely on their furnaces two or three months out of the year, at the most. Because Florida weather is usually fairly mild, you can live comfortably in your home with a furnace that doesn't work and not even know that there's a problem, that is, until you find out the hard way. In Hillsborough County, there is one company that stands above the rest: Benjamin Brothers will work to address your heating and cooling needs. Keep reading below to learn about some of the most common issues encountered by your furnace.
If your furnace hasn't been inspected in years, don't be surprised if it starts to act up. Just like for your AC unit or HVAC unit, your furnace needs yearly inspections to ensure that it's running efficiently and effectively. Give your heating and cooling specialist a call to schedule your inspection today!
Just like anything that relies on a filtration system, your furnace filter needs to be regularly changed so that dust and build-up don't clog your ventilation. When a furnace filter is needing to be changed, you might start to notice a difference in your temperature, air flow, or overall furnace function. Make sure that you contact your HVAC professional here in Hillsborough County to come out and make sure that your filter is still in tip-top shape.
I'm sure we'd all love for our applications, appliances, and gadgets to last forever, but that's simply not reality. Everything in our lives breaks down eventually and your HVAC and furnace are certainly no exception. Most furnaces are supposed to last fifteen to twenty years. This means that it's easy to just assume that your furnace is always going to behave the same way it has. Your furnace can start experiencing a few small issues even when it's relatively new. However, as it ages, the chances of something going wrong go up. If you're needing furnace repair from regular wear and tear, call the experts. But if your furnace is anywhere near fifteen years old, it might be more cost-effective to actually bite the bullet and replace your unit.
While a pilot light being out might seem like an easy fix, there might be a bigger issue that, until addressed, is just going to keep extinguishing your light. There are a number of issues that can cause a problem with your pilot light's ability to stay on: thermocouple issues, appliance clogs, or drafts can each cause a problem.
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ATP RANKINGS. Rune in top10 with Auger-Aliassime, Draper hitting a career-high record
Holger Rune, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Jack Draper keep on improving their personal record in the ATP Rankings. Rune won the recent ATP1000 in Paris to gain 8 positions and become the new world number 10 (career-high). After reaching the semi-final in Paris, Felix Auger-Aliassime goes 2 places up in the ranking to be the new world number 6. Jack Draper lost in the second round in Paris, but despite that, he gained 4 places to become the new world number 41.
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Holger Rune in 2022
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Now the world no.10 (career-high), the Dane played his last match on the 6th of November when he defeated world no.8 Novak Djokovic 3-6 6-3 7-5 in the final in Paris to win his 3rd career title.
Until now, during this year Holger has a 50-27 win-loss record. Holger clinched 4 titles in 2022 in the Sanremo Challenger, Munich, Stockholm and Paris. Rune was the finalist in Sofia and in Basel.
Rune's Record
Felix Auger-Aliassime in 2022
Felix Auger-Aliassime
Ranked no.6 (career-high), Felix played his last match on the 5th of November when he lost to world no.10 Holger Rune 6-4 6-2 in the semifinal in Paris (draw).
At the moment, during this season the Canadian has achieved an overall 56-25 record. The Canadian has won 4 titles in 2022 in Rotterdam, Florence, Antwerp and Basel. Auger-Aliassime was the runner-up in Marseille.
Auger-Aliassime's Record
Holger Rune and Felix Auger-Aliassime played each other only on 2 occasions. The head to head is 1-1. Previously, the last time they played each other, Holger Rune won 6-4 6-2 in the semifinal in Paris (Rolex Paris Masters) on the 5th of November 2022.
In the following video you can watch the highlights.
Jack Draper in 2022
Jack Draper
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Currently the world no.41 (career-high), Jack played his last match on the 2nd of November when he was defeated by world no.19 Francis Tiafoe 6-3 7-5 in the 2nd round in Paris (draw).
Presently, during this year Jack has a 44-17 win-loss record. Jack clinched 4 titles in 2022 in the Forli 2 Challenger, the Forli 4 Challenger, the Forli 5 Challenger and the St. Brieuc Challenger.
Draper's Record


As a Realtor I see many homes and one questions sticks out in my mind these days.
Do people really like the new look of white cabinets and white counters with gray walls through out the new homes? Or do people still like browns and other colors in their homes which seem to make the homes warmer and less industrial?
Here are some kitchen pictures, I would love to know your opinion of what colors you like in a kitchen? At the rehab home I am pondering the color scheme so I would love your input.
HGTV is also full of these white kitchens and gray walls through out the home, not sure its my thing. Altho accents are still key of course. Newly constructed homes are totally trending with white cabinets and white quartz counters, I am a huge fan of quartz which are beautiful and it comes in many colors.
The new white trend is clean looking but I know in my house with all the traffic and family and pets that white would not be great in the long run.
Which kitchen do you prefer ?


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A boot sailed across the room, bouncing off the wall when the scraggly tabby cat dodged hastily. "Bloody hell. A man can't even grab a few winks without you wailing for something." He ran a grimy hand through his greasy, sleep-do hair and staggered over to the mirror to squint at his reflection in the tarnished glass.
"Jesus. Jeremy, how could it possibly get any better than this?" Scratching under his arm, he reached for the baggy dungarees hanging over the chair and pulled them over his bony legs, yanked on the socks from last night, and cursed when he realized he'd have to retrieve his boot from its resting place against the wall. First came a few handfuls of water from the stained sink, then a hasty straight-back comb and a stained, threadbare shirt over the thin, stooped shoulders.
The yellowed, buzzing fridge grudgingly offered green bread, a bag of potatoes, and an apple with one brown spot. Teeth sank into the apple while eyes swept over his kingdom. A sagging mattress and box spring sans frame, one floor lamp with a crooked shade, a dresser with one drawer missing, and three books: "The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce," John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," and a King James version of the Holy Bible. The last was a nuisance. He hadn't read a page of it, but it had been a gift from mum, and every time his hand had poised over the dumpster out back, a vision of her pitiful face during his last visit to her hospital room came to mind. So it stayed and gathered dust. Even had a couple nibbles out of one corner from a scuttling tenant who lived in that hole behind the fridge.
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THE Professional Contractors Group (PCG) today expressed its frustration with the Inland Revenue's new Guide to the Settlements Legislation for Small Business Advisers, and confirmed its decision to take a test case to the appeal courts.
The case, involving Geoff and Diana Jones and their company Arctic Systems, is regarded as a landmark in tax legislation and interpretation.
The PCG says there is a growing body of expert opinion which believes that the ruling which found in favour of the Inland Revenue is invalid because of the way in which the presiding Commissioner used her casting vote.
Today's publication of the new guide, was accompanied by a statement from the Revenue that refers to the case and the 'recent Special Commissioners decision that the settlements legislation can apply to small companies owned jointly by a husband and wife.' It also claims that the settlements legislation 'does not affect ordinary businesses'.
PCG chairman Dr Simon Juden said: 'Many accounting and legal experts have cast doubt upon a judgment which found in favour of the Inland Revenue thanks to a casting vote, when the two Special Commissioners could not agree on one single aspect of their assessment.
'Now the Revenue has issued new guidance, confirming its stance with regard to the case and advising any taxpayers whose circumstances are similar to those of the Joneses to disclose this in their self-assessment returns.
'This guide fails to address key elements of the vagueness surrounding this measure and does little to mitigate the uncertainty for small family business owners, who will no doubt be surprised to hear that they are not classified as 'ordinary businesses'.
PCG believes that around 200,000 small business owners could be affected, and is calling for public support to help fund its appeal of the Arctic case. Details of how to donate are available via its website at www.pcg.org.uk/LegalFund.


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Paris suicide bomber "killed himself because of stress" – Mother
News of the People November 17, 2015
The mother of Paris suicide bomber, Ibrahim Abdeslam, whose two brothers are also suspects, has said her son "did not mean to kill anyone" and his family believes he blew himself up because of "stress".
Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31, detonated his suicide vest outside the Comptoir Voltaire cafe on Friday night, but did not kill anyone other than himself.
His brother Mohammed was arrested in Brussels on Saturday and a third sibling, Salah, is Europe's most wanted man after becoming the subject of an international arrest warrant.
The Abdeslam family said they were "surprised" that Ibrahim blew himself up, even though he had spent time in Syria.
Their mother Faklan, speaking to a reporter through her nephew said she was sure he had not planned to kill anyone.
Another family member said he would not have wanted to become a suicide bomber. "Maybe the explosives went off prematurely by accident. Maybe it was stress.
"We even saw him two days before the attacks. There were no signs that they had plans to do anything violent.
"The fact that his bomb belt exploded without killing anyone else says a lot."
The family admitted he had spent "a long time" in Syria.
"We were really surprised that Salah was involved. Ibrahim was different. We did see that he had been radicalised, at least in part. But not so much that we ever thought he would commit an atrocity like this".
Ibrahim, who seriously injured a bystander when he detonated his suicide bomb, rented a Seat Leon used in the attacks.
The car was used by the terrorists who murdered diners outside the Casa Nostra pizza restaurant and the La Belle Équipe cafe.
It was later found abandoned with a cache of weapons inside.
Meanwhile the French newspaper Le Parisien reports that police closed a coffee shop run by Ibrahim Abdeslam earlier this month because neighbours had complained about a strong cannabis odour.
Mohammed Abdeslam later spoke outside the family home, saying: "My family and I had no idea that they were in Paris. My parents are truly shocked. It was terrible for them.
"I have never had any problems with the justice system. I just want to be left in peace. I have been interrogated and cleared by the police. Everyone here knows what I am capable of and what I am not capable of.
"We don't know what has happened to Ibrahim and Salah. I did not know that they had been radicalised. I found out about it on the TV like everyone else.
"I am thinking of the victims."
A 48 year old woman, who owns a dress shop next door to the Abdeslam family home, said of the brothers: "They are nice boys, they say 'bonjour Madame, ca va?' When I see them coming and going from the house. They are good boys. They are a normal family, I am friends with their mother."
The neighbour said the family, who are of Moroccan origin, also had a daughter in her early 20s and a younger son. She said Mohammed and Ibrahim, both married with young children, lived in the house with their parents but Salah moved out three or four months ago to another house in Molenbeek.
She said: "I am friends with their mother, Faklan. I think she had no idea they were terrorists".
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Why the Best Is Yet to Come for Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
By Steve SymingtonFool.com
When revenue inPalo Alto Networks Inc.'s (NYSE: PANW) latest quarter fell short of Wall Street's expectations a few weeks ago, shares of the next-gen security specialist plummeted more than 20% in a single day. To blame, according to Palo Alto, were execution challenges that the company insists it's "moving quickly to address."
With shares now more than 30% below their 52-week high set this past December, that raises the question: Are Palo Alto's best days ahead?
For investors who don't mind some potential volatility along the way, I think so.
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The root of Palo Alto Networks' problem
That's not to say Palo Alto's results looked bad on the surface. For its fiscal second quarter of 2017, revenue climbed 26.3% year over year, to $422.6 million, while adjusted net income per share increased 46.5%, to $0.63. But by contrast, while earnings came in near the high end of expectations, Palo Alto's guidance called for higher revenue of $426 million to $432 million.
Speaking to those execution issues during the subsequent conference call, Palo Alto CEO Mark McLaughlin elaborated that the company has seen great success in the past by splitting its sales territories each year, continually segmenting the market both vertically and by customer size, and investing accordingly in future sales and marketing resources. Over the past two quarters, however, McLaughlin states that the company has "overcomplicated [its] go-to-market motion with a lot more territory splits and segmentation than [it has] done in the past."
What's more, similar to its deceivingly strong resultslast quarter, Palo Alto is increasingly winning larger deals, which has meant weathering some longer sales cycles as these bigger customers take more time to solidify their purchase orders.
And though competition is always looming in the fast-changing world of network security, McLaughlin noted that Palo Alto continued to "capture market share at high rates" last quarter, securing several major competitive wins against the likes of Cisco, McAfee, and Check Point Softwareboth at large North American and multi-national businesses.In fact, Palo Alto saw repeat purchases last quarter from each of its top 25 lifetime customers -- a list those customers would have had to spend a minimum of $16.6 million (up 46% year over year) in lifetime value to make. All told, Palo Alto added roughly 2,000 new customers last quarter to bring its total to over 37,500 worldwide.
Palo Alto's plan of action
Palo Alto also swiftly put a plan in place to address its execution missteps, including implementing a reorganization of its account coverage model "to drive more accountability and clarity." Next, it's reallocating its sales and marketing resources to match its new structure.
In the meantime, however, Palo Alto Networks knows all too well that the reorganization will probably disrupt its near-term growth. For the current quarter, the company anticipates that revenue will grow "just" 17% to 20% year over year. And looking further out, it expects full fiscal-year 2017 revenue growth of roughly 25%, which is below guidance of 30% annualized revenue growth provided by the company in previous investor presentations.
That said, there's a chance those predictions could prove too conservative. Also during the call, Palo Alto CFO Steffan Tomlinson suggested, "We're purposefully being prudent and cautious around the guide because we understand that the execution issues will take a while to get through."
So if Palo Alto's sales restructuring efforts prove fruitful in increasing productivity, and as the company grows accustomed to more accurately forecasting those longer sales cycles for its bigger deals, Palo Alto believes it should be able to reaccelerate growth down the road. For investors willing to buy now and patiently track Palo Alto's progress as that happens, I think the rewards should be more than worth any volatility you endure between now and then.
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Q: DOM updates with slight delay in dojotoolkit I have a dojox.mobile.IconMenu with 6 dojox.mobile.IconMenuItems on it.
When i press the IconMenuItems the buttons should get pressed in. I achieve this behavior by simply switching the images of the buttons at the right time.
Now here are the problems that arrise:
On Desktops (Chrome): When I just click the button the view changes so fast that you can t see the new, pressed in, graphic! I have to hold the button for about half a second and then release it till the button displays the new Image.
On Android/iOS Devices (tested: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Skyfire, Board Browser, Dolphin, Safari): The button changes the image but I cant see the change because the graphic is changed too slow.
Here is the code (html)

  [OTHER BUTTONS HERE]

and here are the functions that I call (javascript):
onmousedown="toggleImg1()
// press button1
// press button1
function toggleImg1(){
    portalButton1.set("icon", "../deliverables_800x480/buttons/portal/btn_portal_freetext_big_armed.gif");
}
function toggleView1() {
    portalButton1.set("moveTo", "messaging");
    portalButton1.set("selected", true);
    portalButton1.set("icon", "../deliverables_800x480/buttons/portal/btn_portal_freetext_big_normal.gif");

}

A: First isn't there an error in your markup? I see onmousedown and then onmousdown, shouldn't that be onmousedown/onmouseup?
However I think you should use dojo/touch and listen to touch.press/release instead of mousedown/up for this. This will make sure you listen to either touch or mouse, depending on the device.
Or, maybe you could watch the "selected" state of the item, and change the icon when the item is selected? Something like:
item.watch("selected", function(){
    this.set("icon", this.selected?"selected.png":"deselected.png");
});

Then, to have the item stay selected for a while, you can set _selEndMethod="timer". You can also change _duration if you want (default 800, should probably be a little shorter for you?).

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