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The Workforce Shortage in Cybersecurity Is a Myth
What we really have is an automation-in-the-wrong-place problem.
You hear it at every conference and in the halls of every university computer science program. It's mentioned in every sales pitch for cybersecurity tools and outsourcing services: There simply aren't enough qualified cybersecurity professionals.
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The problem is that this statement assumes that the process of securing systems and enterprises is just fine as it is. That simple claim assumes that we need each and every one of the jobs posted, listed, and forecasted.
We don't have a workforce shortage problem. What we have is an automation-in-the-wrong-place problem. It's not about training people to do traditional network security. What we need are mathematical models that meaningfully predict risk and provide pathways to reduce it.
This lesson is easily seen in vulnerability management, but it's applicable to other fields. Think of it this way: The typical enterprise network has millions of vulnerabilities. On median, our research found that out of about 500 enterprises, IT teams fix 10% of those vulnerabilities, though some exceptional performers patch 25% on a monthly basis.
If companies were to hire enough people to eliminate every vulnerability from their systems, they'd need to at least quadruple their workforce devoted to the task. And that, of course, assumes that the rate at which vulnerabilities are found and disclosed stays constant, which it doesn't — it's constantly increasing. Does that seem reasonable? It is not.
But another reason lies in the nature of vulnerabilities themselves. For the vast majority of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), the risk of exploitation is entirely theoretical. That is, nobody has weaponized the vulnerability with an exploit.
Traditionally, enterprises have treated vulnerability management as a manpower and triage problem. They assembled lists of CVEs that their scans turned up and argued over which ones to patch. Every day the list grew, and every quarter CISOs tried to make the case for additional hires.
Application of data science to this problem has shown that companies can — and do — make meaningful risk reductions with available resources. That's because the small cadre of hackers capable of developing new exploitations are highly likely to follow well-worn patterns. A complete analysis of decades of threat data bears this out.
Threat actors are more likely to develop exploits for certain vulnerabilities than for others. They look for CVEs that target assets in widespread use, which makes operating systems from Microsoft riskier than Apple, and they target vulnerabilities that allow for remote code execution more frequently than other Common Weakness Enumerations. Dozens of factors, all of which are publicly available, drive risk or reduce exploitation risk. Identification of these factors forms the basis for risk-based vulnerability management.
Just 5% of vulnerabilities pose a risk of exploitation, which means that even average organizations, in theory, have twice the capacity to patch vulnerabilities in a way that drastically reduces risk of intrusion. We wouldn't know that vulnerability management is a math problem, and not a workforce problem, without data science to prove it.
That risk-based, data-driven approach is quite suitable for other cybersecurity disciplines. User behavior and analytics tends to generate a significant amount of data that can be marshalled in service of identity management. That's just one example.
The key is to find tools, datasets, and statistical methodologies that can help you separate the signal from the noise. The right tools will help you quantify risk and apply that analysis to prioritize the actions that get the most meaningful results. Which is to say, find tools that help you get the most out of your available resources.
If you can't find the tools, invent them. The cybersecurity community can't hire its way out of the manpower shortage, but there might just be a new startup idea in solving it — the good ones always come from practitioners automating themselves out of a job.
Machines are well suited to the task of defending networks. They can automate analysis in a way that fills the manpower gap. For CISOs and other executives facing a manpower shortage, it's imperative that they accept this so they can adopt strategies that deal with the world as it is.
Michael Roytman is the Chief Data Scientist at Kenna Security, and has spoken at RSA, BlackHat, SOURCE, Bsides, Metricon, Infosec Europe, and SIRAcon. His work focuses on cybersecurity data science and Bayesian algorithms, and he served on the boards of the Society of ... View Full Bio
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Senator Thune Joins Letter to President Obama on Negotiating with Iran
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(NPN) – South Dakota Republican Senator John Thune joined 82 of his U.S. Senate colleagues in a letter to President Barack Obama Tuesday outlining what they believe should define any final agreement with Iran on its nuclear weapons program.
All Northern Plains states' Senators joined in the letter except Democrats Tim Johnson of South Dakota and Tom Harkin of Iowa.
The letter was headed by Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.).
In their letter, the Senators write: "We must signal unequivocally to Iran that rejecting negotiations and continuing its nuclear weapon program will lead to much more dramatic sanctions, including further limitations on Iran's exports of crude oil and petroleum products."
The letter also noted the Senators' "core principles" concerning any deal with Iran.
North Dakota Senators Heidi Heitkamp (Dem.) and John Hoeven (Rep.), Nebraska Senators Mike Johanns and Deb Fischer (both Rep.), Wyoming Senators Michael B. Enzi and John Barrasso (both Rep.), Minnesota Senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar (both Dem.), Montana Senator Jon Tester (Dem.) and Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley (Rep.) also joined the letter.
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Coretta Scott King Was More Than Civil Rights Widow
Coretta Scott King, who died on Jan. 31, will perhaps forever be known as the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But there was much more to Coretta King than that.
by Barbara Ransby
She was a serious thinker, a committed activist, a talented musician and an outspoken woman whose influence and activism extended well beyond the career of her famous husband, who was assassinated in 1968.
Born on a farm in Alabama in 1927, she traveled north in 1945 to attend Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she was one of only six black students. She encountered racism there but would not be deterred from her goal of becoming a teacher and a professional musician. She went on to pursue her graduate studies at the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, which is where she met her future husband.
Coretta Scott was a civil rights activist years before she met King. While a student at Antioch, she was banned from student teaching at a nearby integrated school because one of her supervisors felt black teachers should not teach white children. She protested the restriction and decided to join the campus NAACP chapter as a result.
She later supported Henry Wallace and the Progressive Party in the 1948 presidential campaign, becoming a student delegate to the party's national convention that year.
After her marriage to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1953, she took on the roles of wife and mother. However, she never abandoned her political beliefs or moral convictions.
Unfortunately, after her husband was catapulted to international acclaim in the 1950s and '60s, most political observers and historians relegated her to his very large and encompassing shadow.
Coretta Scott King, to some extent, embraced this traditional role of helpmate to her husband, but it was never as simple as that.
She was a supporter of King, and she tolerated what biographers have reported as a troubled and sexist marriage. But there was also a sense of purpose and determination that was all her own.
She traveled the world with King, marched alongside him and urged him to take a stand against the war in Vietnam before he himself had decided to do so.
The real strength of her character, however, is perhaps best evident in the work she did and the stances she took after her husband's death. She used the platform his name gave her to deliver some courageous and compelling messages.
For nearly 40 years, Ms. King was a syndicated columnist, public speaker and protester.
The founding president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta, she joined civil disobedience actions to protest the racist system of apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s and later traveled to that country to express her solidarity with its people.
She lectured at Harvard University, St. Paul's Cathedral in London and in churches, schools and community centers all over the United States.
She called for more funding for HIV/AIDS treatment and research.
She demanded a moratorium on the death penalty.
She supported gun control legislation and a cancellation of Africa's debt as a strategy for development.
And in a significant move, when black ministers in Atlanta rallied in 2004 to oppose gay marriage, she opposed them as shortsighted and wrongheaded. She defended gay rights as a form of civil rights, and condemned gay bashing.
In short, she took stances on issues that went well beyond the civil rights consensus of the 1960s.
History has unfairly placed women like Coretta Scott King in the margins and the footnotes of its texts. It is time we remember them as more than civil rights movement wives and widows. We should also recognize them as conscious historical actors and activists in their own right.
Barbara Ransby is an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of the award-winning biography "Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision" (UNC Press, 2003). This column was produced for the Progressive Media Project, which is run by The Progressive magazine, and distributed by the Tribune News Service.
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For those that did not attend it, have a look at the PDF, basically I have outlined a few things that you can try on your CAD workstation to make it run a bit faster, not everything in there will work for everyone, but if you try a couple of things, I'm sure you will see some sort of improvement. This is mostly biased towards Inventor, but most of the advice is pretty generic.
The main message was that a basic looking Operating system, with no fancy widgets and colour schemes will run faster that one that runs all of those things, and that correct set-up of your graphics will help improve your CAD experience.
The handout doesn't convey everything covered, but if you have questions or comments, post them on the MFG forum.


Season five of Bosch will have its Australian premiere on Amazon Prime in April.
The series featuring Titus Welliver will screen same day as the US.
SBS has so far screened 4 seasons, but it isn't clear how the Amazon premiere will affect future episodes.
Fifteen months after bringing his mother's killer to justice, Bosch finds himself seeking the truth on two fronts. New evidence in an old case leaves everyone wondering, did Bosch cross the line by planting evidence and imprison the wrong guy? And a murder at a Hollywood pharmacy exposes a sophisticated opioid pill mill, but Bosch's search for the killers takes him down a dark and perilous path.
Friday 19 April on Amazon Prime.
Saw it via US amazon prime site and a VPN.
When I tried to do this for Season 4 they wanted a Prime account with a credit card with a US billing address.
Much appreciated. As a big fan of the books I am really annoyed at having to wait 6 months for each series and then get it one episode a week while the rest of the world ( or just about) can binge watch it so much sooner. Am prepared to pay $7 for the privilege!!
Where did you get your information? I have been in contact with Amazon and been told it is not available in this region. If your info is reliable can you please ask them to make it available.
Sent by Amazon contact to me on March 27. I will raise it with them next week.
Tried to watch it yesterday, still unavailable in this region, disappointing.
I've been assured this is avail in Oz and shown a screenshot.
It's there now. Thank you so much.
Yes its available now, thanks for chasing up David!
Ok something weird is going on, went to watch season 5 tonight and now it's saying it's unavailable again.
Same thing for me. Watched 3 episodes last night, went to pick up tonight and season 5 has become unavailable.
Sigh. I will ask again on Friday.
It does not appear as playable in the Australia.
Either Amazon sold the rights conditionally or SBS has handed or sold them back. We will find out if SBS will still show Bosch, but its not in Amazon's interests for them to do so.


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Biden, Xi to carry talks at G20
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The two Leaders can even focus on a variety of regional and international points, says White House
U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese president Xi Jinping will on Monday maintain their first face-to-face assembly as leaders of their two international locations alongside the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia, amid a rising record of tensions difficult an more and more fractious relationship.
Beijing and Washington confirmed the assembly in separate statements on Friday.
The White House stated the assembly in Bali will see each leaders "discuss efforts to maintain and deepen lines of communication between the United States and the PRC [People's Republic of China], responsibly manage competition, and work together where our interests align, especially on transnational challenges that affect the international community." "The two Leaders will also discuss a range of regional and global issues," an announcement stated.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing stated on Friday Mr. Xi will attend the G20 Summit in Bali from November 14 to 17, and in addition go to Thailand from November 17 to 19 for the APEC Economic Leaders' meet. The two leaders have beforehand met once they had been each serving as Vice-Presidents.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying confirmed Mr. Xi's bilateral conferences with Mr. Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, Senegalese President Macky Sall, and Argentine President Alberto Fernandez. These had been conferences, she stated, "among others, upon request", leaving open the potential of different engagements.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi can even attend the G20 Summit in Bali. Mr. Modi and Mr. Xi didn't meet on the current Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Uzbekistan and haven't spoken since their talks in November 2019 alongside the sidelines of a BRICS summit in Brasilia, amid the downturn in relations following the April 2020 disaster alongside the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Mr. Biden, requested about Monday's assembly, advised reporters, "I always think my conversations are productive", and added it could give an opportunity for each leaders to debate "red lines". Their assembly comes regardless of already strained relations taking an extra hit in current months within the wake of U.S. House Speaker and Democratic chief Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan in August. Mr. Xi, in October's Communist Party Congress, slammed exterior interference within the Taiwan problem.
Chinese officers have seen the Biden administration as broadly carrying ahead former President Donald Trump's more durable method to China with widening rifts on quite a few points. These vary from Taiwan and commerce, to human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
China has additionally been involved by current export controls imposed by the U.S. on superior microchips, which dealt a serious blow to its semiconductor trade.
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A new 'Star Wars' spin-off could take place in Spain
Spanish media have announced a spin-on of the "Star Wars" universe.
The news comes from the El Mundo newspaper, which claimed that Lucasfilm is planning to "create a spin on the story of a young girl named Canaria, who lives in a town called Gran Canaria" in Spain.
"Canaria is a young woman who lives under the shadow of a volcano and has become obsessed with the 'Star wars' universe," the publication said.
"She has an idea of the possibility of finding a way to travel to a galaxy far, far away.
But she must not forget the fate of her father."
Lucasfilm declined to comment on the reports.
However, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy said in a statement to IGN in February that the spinoff was in development.
"We are still in the very early stages of development, but we are looking forward to working with our partners to bring the Star Wars universe to life on the silver screen," Kennedy said.
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2017 Exhibition review of Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, Sweden
Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on Skeppsholmen island, a setting of natural beauty. Opened in 1958, the building was designed by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo. In 2009, the museum opened a new branch in Malmö in the south of Sweden, Moderna Museet Malmö.
Moderna Museet is a state museum with a national mandate for modern and contemporary art. The collection is at the forefront of its kind in Europe. The museum is a meeting place for people and art with a strong foundation in society and the world at large. With its world-class programme of exhibitions, collection-based projects and educational activities, Moderna Museet has substantial local presence and international reach. The exchange with other art institutions around the world is extensive.
Moderna Museet has a long-standing history of hosting international artists for groundbreaking exhibitions, performances, and other presentations, as well as through its world-renowned collection. Experience one of Europe's foremost collections of art from the twentieth century to today, featuring works by artists including Picasso, Dali, Derkert, and Matisse.
With an art collection comprising more than 130 000 works, Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art) is Sweden's leading museum for modern and contemporary art. Moderna Museet has one of Europe's finest collections of modern and contemporary art. The collections contain contemporary painting, sculpture, photography and art film from 1900 onwards, and in the case of photographs also from around 1840.
By combining international masterpieces by artists such as Warhol, Picasso and Dali with temporary exhibitions by prominent artists of the 20th and 21st century, Moderna Museet manages to attract many returning visitors for an ever-changing art experience. The original collection was dominated by Swedish and Nordic art, American art from the 1950's and 60s, and French-oriented modernism, however, the collection has been extended to include more female artists and to create a more versatile collection with works from all over the world.
Moderna Museet is a stimulating platform for people and art, offers audiences elevant, engaging, and direct ways of encountering art on equal terms. Moderna Museet inspire, and create space for new ideas by being a stimulating platform that makes world-class art accessible to a broad audience.
Thomas Schütte – United Enemies
The exhibition Thomas Schütte: United Enemies takes the artist's sculptural works from the past two decades as a starting point. Installations, architectural models, drawings, prints and gigantic sculptures are waiting for you at this autumn's major exhibition. Thomas Schütte is one of the most seminal artists of his generation, and is known mainly for his sculptures. Schütte explores shifts of scale – juxtaposing the intimate and personal with the monumental. A colossal steel figure outside the museum entrance, Vater Staat (2010), observes visitors as they arrive. The key work in the exhibition, the monumental bronze sculptures United Enemies (2011), originate in his small, sketchy figures with heads of modelling clay made nearly twenty years earlier.
Thomas Schütte was born in 1954 in Oldenburg, north-west Germany. He was enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1973. Among his fellow students were many of today's internationally acclaimed artists, including Thomas Ruff (b. 1958) and Katarina Fritsch (b. 1956). The works from his student years are distinctly influenced by 1970s minimalism and conceptualism. Thomas Schütte's artistic practice is characterised by a rare combination of gloom and humour. His works may appear unnerving and playful at the same time. Existence seems to be off balance, the familiar becomes absurd and alien. Action figures can take centre stage, and puppet-like dolls be blown up into monumental giants. Thomas Schütte addresses life's eternal questions, without offering any unequivocal answers.
Schütte often works serially. Over the years, he has built a repertoire of motifs, shapes and themes that he revisits, develops and adapts to different dimensions or unexpected materials. The large sculptures United Enemies (2011) are based on a series of eponymous works on a considerably smaller scale that he began making in 1992. These small three-legged figures were dressed in fabric and tied together two and two before being placed under bell jars on plinths. The figures are each other's prisoners, united enemies. In 2011, nearly twenty years later, when Thomas Schütte returned to this motif, he enlarged the "enemies" to larger than life size. The figures in the new series have got down from their pedestals and turned into grotesque giants cast in one of the most tradition-laden materials in art history – bronze.
Various kinds of architectural models have a key role in Thomas Schütte's artistic practice. He refers to these explorations as a way of opening up works to the viewer: "I use models because they are something anyone can understand. You can see them as a prototype for something bigger, something seen from a child's perspective; you could see them as a public stage." In his series One Man Houses (2003-2005), Schütte has combined units from an industrial ventilation system into shiny, minimalist sculptures.
Later, Schütte made the houses in wood, slightly larger than life, and fitted them with carefully-made furniture. In 2007-2009, one of the houses was built in a life-size version in the Roanne region in France, and more recently, several of his architectural models have also been produced in the same dimensions. The most recent example is his own foundation and sculpture hall Skulpturenhalle, outside Düsseldorf, which opened in spring 2016. The architectural model Pringles (2011) is an early version of the building, where the curved roof is modelled on a potato crisp placed on a matchbox.
Marie-Louise Ekman has alternated effortlessly between painting, sculpture, film and drama since the late 1960s. In her works, Ekman exposes the absurdity of everyday life and undermine social constructions, and in rooms decorated with floral wallpaper, people, animals and farting geezers sit at the same table. Featuring nearly 350 works, this exhibition is the largest presentation so far of her renowned oeuvre.
Marie-Louise Ekman belongs to a generation of Swedish artists who emerged in the politically turbulent 1960s. Many young artists in the 1960s were deeply influenced by popular culture, and comic books in particular. Ekman made series of silkscreen prints, stitched fishcakes out of shiny, pink silk, built enclosed worlds out of miniature objects, and borrowed the format of comic strips for her own serialised paintings. In her early works, she also appropriated images from The Phantom, Donald Duck and Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy. Ekman's protagonists, however, are Minnie and Daisy, together with April, May and June, rather than their male friends.
Ekman's works have a strong narrative focus. In cramped pictorial spaces with warped one-point perspectives, dreams, passions and disappointments run amok in a heightened reality. In the series At Home With a Lady from 1973, a lonely woman acts out her desires, captive in an interior, like an animal in the zoo, reliving the same reality day after day. In Striptease (1973), this blonde female figure is transformed step-by-step, via ape and man, into a bird that flies away. This is not a sexually charged act of undressing, but a way of stripping off roles and entering and exiting states of mind. In other paintings, windows and sinkholes open up to other worlds. The women's orifices evolve into exotic landscapes with oceans lined by palm trees, and beyond the windows are other windows, where new wondrous scenes are enacted.
During the early 1980s, Ekman appropriated the styles of other artists, creating works where Picasso's women and Daisy Duck vie for space. In these paintings, Olle Baertling's terse compositions provide the landscape for swaddled infants, wounded fledglings and dissected crocodiles on pedestals. In a large series of recent works, shown for the first time in this exhibition, Ekman instead revisits her own works from the 1970s. With her grandchildren as muses, she moves in and out of the familiar pictorial scenes. The children are here given free rein to paint over and add their own images. In other pictures, the rooms are bare, and where there used to be tables and chairs, all that remains is a play of shadows.
Written in Light – The First Photographers
The exhibition Written in Light – The First Photographers explores Moderna Museet's collection of photography from the second half of the 19th century. It includes the Museum's unique collection of daguerreotypes and works by a few of the world's most famous photographers: Julia Margaret Cameron, Oscar Gustave Rejlander, and Carleton E. Watkins. Photography means "written in light". The eponymous exhibition is an adaptation of a chapter in the project Another Story, which filled the entire collection exhibition with photography and photo-based art at Moderna Museet in 2011.
Since its invention, photography has developed, changed, and been used for many different aims and purposes. With the breakthrough of digital images, and their omnipresence in social media, photography is once again in a period of change. This gives all the more reason to look back and consider the impact of its legacy on contemporary photography. This exhibition highlights the Museum's collection of daguerreotypes, but also gives examples of other early photographic techniques. Thanks to two significant acquisitions in the mid-1960s, the Helmut Gernsheim Duplicate Collection, and the Helmer Bäckström Photographic Collection, some of the most internationally famous photographers in history are represented at Moderna Museet, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Oscar Gustave Rejlander, and Carleton E. Watkins.
Gerard Byrne – Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli – film inside an image
A new and twisted vision of Nordic nature is presented in the Irish artist Gerard Byrne's new film, shot at the Biological Museum in Stockholm. Byrne's work is based on the museum's setting, with stuffed Nordic animals against a backdrop painted by Bruno Liljefors. Byrne's earlier video installations recycle images and conversations from various media and epochs. Byrne explores our perception of the contemporary world by revisiting history.
The Biological Museum was built in 1893. It was the world's first natural history museum using a large-scale diorama, a format using genuine, three-dimensional objects against a painted backdrop that give the illusion of animals or people in their natural habitat. The only source of light in the museum is from the windows in the ceiling. Byrne thus compares the museum to a camera, which creates its frozen images through light. When photography and film were still in their infancy, visitors had this opportunity to experience the Nordic wilderness in the middle of the city. Byrne films this setting in one unbroken tracking of the camera. The stuffed animals look as if they have paused in mid-movement.
Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm
The Moderna Museet was inaugurated in the exercise house on Skeppsholmen, May 9, 1958. The Superintendent of the National Museum, Otte Sköld, reminded in his inaugural speech that as early as 1908 the problem of current local art in the National Museum had been taken seriously and the idea of a new building for these collections. Shortly before his death, Otte Sköld saw for himself the museum realized and his commitment to creating the new museum had been decisive. Together with, among others, the Friends of the Modern Museum, which was founded in 1953, he gave the National Museum's collection of 20th century art its own home. The museum's driving superintendents Pontus Hultén and Olle Granathcame with their contacts and initiatives to pursue these intentions in the following decades.
The museum is a state administrative authority under the Ministry of Culture, and has, according to its instructions, the task of collecting, preserving, displaying and communicating 20th and 21st century art in all its forms. Moderna Museet shall promote international contacts through collaboration with institutions outside Sweden in the form of touring exhibitions, and shall also be responsible for Swedish participation in international art biennials. The Modern Museum is also a central museum, with national responsibility in its area.
On 14 February, 2004, the museum building was reopened with festivities. In addition to repairs, the opportunity had been taken to improve some of the spaces, partly to make it easier for visitors to move through the museum, and partly to utilise the upper entrance space more adequately. At the same time, the museum's graphic profile was updated. Another major new feature at the reopening was the introduction of museum hosts – people who have a variety of skills, from life-saving to being able to tell visitors about the works of art in both the permanent and temporary exhibitions. The reason for introducing new hosts was to cater for the large increase in visitor numbers since the admission fee was abolished.
In 1901 architect John Smedberg established a beautiful electricity plant building on Gasverksgatan 22. The mission to transform the building into a more appropriate museum went to the award-winning architect firm Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter. They chose to establish a new annex – a contemporary addition to the historic building. And give the interior an entirely new spatial order.
It includes key works by Pablo Picasso, Ljubov Popova, Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim, Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd and Irving Penn, along with works by contemporary practising artists. Here you can read about the various parts of the collection and its history.
The Moderna Museet arranges several large exhibitions in both Stockholm and Malmö each year, a number of medium-sized and smaller exhibitions. In 2012, the museum in Stockholm had around 500,000 visitors and the museum in Malmö over 100,000 visitors.
Since the start in 1958, the Museum has been known for its close relationship to artists – Marcel Duchamp, for instance, signed several of his works in Stockholm towards the end of his life, and Andy Warhol had his first solo museum exhibition in Europe at Moderna Museet in 1968.
The Moderna Museet collection now comprises some 6,000 paintings, sculptures and installations, 25,000 watercolours, drawings and prints, 400 art videos and films, and 100,000 photographs. The Collection covers paintings, sculptures, installations, films, videos, drawings and prints by Swedish and international artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, and photography from the 1840s until today.
Thanks to focused collecting initiatives, the Museum has successfully increased the breadth and depth of its collection. Back in 1963, The Museum of Our Wishes was launched, transforming the Museum instantly into a leading European art institution; the government contributed SEK 5 million, for the acquisition of iconic works by Giacomo Balla, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters, Giorgio de Chirico and many others. A few decades ago, the exercise was repeated, but this time spotlighting women artists only – works by Louise Bourgeois, Dorothea Tanning, Judy Chicago, Susan Hiller and others were added to the collection.
Only a fraction of the collection can be on display. But it allows us to explore and reformulate the standard art historical narrative through new insights and constant changes in the exhibition. This includes Moderna Museet Malmö, with its innovative angle on selecting and showing works from the collection since opening in 2009.
A large art collection is the best possible starting point for visual and intellectual experiments. Moderna Museet, as an open and living museum, is constantly rewriting the standard history of modernism by frequently rehanging its collection in radical new ways. Since 2009, the Museum has two locations, Stockholm and Malmö, where innovative selections of works from the collection have been featured regularly since the opening. A few of the iconic works, such as Henri Mattisse's Moroccan Landscape (Acanthus), Robert Rauchenberg's Monogram, and Eva Hesse's sculpture Untitled, are nearly always available for check.


Carlos standing in an almond orchard pollinated by Estrada Farms.
At Estrada Farms, our main business is beekeeping. Given the fact that the honey market is flooded with cheap Chinese, Argentinian, and Brazilian honey (to name a few), American beekeepers need to find sources of income other than honey. Fortunately for California beekeepers, we live in the state that produces most of the almonds for the entire world! And yes, almonds are 100% reliant on honeybees for pollination (no bees equals no almonds). At Estrada Farms, we have an exclusive almond pollination contract with one grower who understands our "chemical free" approach. For this reason we have negotiated pollination terms with this grower so that they do not spray any pesticides, miticides, or fungicides while our bees are present. Negotiating these types of terms is currently not the industry norm and it's the reason why we only have one pollination customer. We hope that the rest of the industry will one day do the same. But for now, we are proud of the fact that we can contribute to our local California agriculture economy while not compromising our value of, "Simply Natural".
Thanks to our temperate California weather, we were able to deliver some hives with greater than 20 frames of bees. We averaged 15 frames of bees per hive when the industry standard is 8-10 frames.


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Samantha Oxford, Prostate Diagnosis Nurse Practitioner, University Hospital Southampton
The winner of this years' Bruce Turner Award started her nursing journey when she qualified in 2018 and commenced her current post as Prostate Diagnosis Nurse Practitioner at University Hospital Southampton shortly after in 2019. She is currently in the process of setting up a nurse-led prostate service right from initial 2ww appointment through to point of diagnosis. Although she primarily works within the prostate service she has always had a passion for urological nursing and started her nursing career on a urology ward and has a long term career goal to develop and potential become a nurse consultant
Presented by Nicola Farnell, 2019 Bruce Turner Award Winner and Louisa Fleure
Deborah Victor, Uro-onc Clinical Nurse Specialist, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NhsTrust
This award is in recognition of someone who has made an impact and significant contribution to improving the experience of urology patients. This winner has clearly demonstrated significant service development in both the diagnostic aspect and ongoing management of prostate cancer patients. She has assisted with the transition from trust biopsy to and LATP biopsy service and developed a nurse led service for metastatic prostate cancer patients. She has promoted this work and shared her experience nationally and demonstrated her passion and commitment to these innovations to deliver the best service for her patients. She has led on research and clinical trials and it is clear that this nurse is an exceptional role model. And actively shares her knowledge and experience. The winner should be very proud of all she has achieved.
Presented by Clare Waymont, BAUN President and Louise De Winter, CEO of The Urology Foundation
University Hospital of Leicester, Urology Ward 28a Team
The Winners of BAUN Urology Team of the Year Award sponsored by Coloplast were nominated by their management team who clearly appreciated how the whole urology team rose to the challenges that came their way. With innovation, motivation, determination resilience and working flexibly, they developed new services within their existing service which has helped to increase theatre capacity and in particular reduce their historical cystoscopy waiting list.
Presented by Karen Tomlin, Education and Medical Marketing Manager, Continence Care Division, Coloplast and Pauline Bagnall, BAUN Trustee
Award for Best Poster
Tracey Geddis, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, National Spinal Injuries Centre
'Retrospective Analysis of Current Bladder Management Practive within the National Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC): An audit of evidence-based practice'
This year we had some very good posters submitted covering various aspects of urology including kidney stones survey to LAPT introduction during COVID, a flexible cystoscopy training programme that was across a nation and also collaborative working covering prostate cancer care across various sites
The reason this poster was chosen, was it covered a really important topic which is really close to all of our hearts as urology nurses and it was exceptionally well written with a lot of effort into doing this piece of work. It demonstrated really good practice, and its aims were to improve patient experience by recommending and standardising patient pathways. It suggests further research which is always good and the outcomes are transferrable to improve patient care and their experience in general
Presented by Rachel Skews and Deborah Victor, BAUN Trustees
Award for Best Oral Presentation
Margaret MacAulay, Senior Research Nurse, University Of Southampton
'The MultiCath Trial'
The quality of the oral presentations this year, has as usual been extremely high standard and this made judging both challenging but also pleasurable as well. The winner was chosen because they were very eloquent, they met the requirements for the time keeping, and ticked all the boxes on a subject that is very important to all urology nurses up and down the country.
Presented by Tina Gerhing, BAUN Trustee and Conference Lead
Joanne Wortley, Lead Prostate Cancer Nurse, University Hospital of Leicester
This award recognizes and celebrates the outstanding contribution of clinical nurse specialists caring for men with prostate cancer or benign prostate disease. This year's People Choice Award winner is Joanne Wortley, Lead Prostate Cancer clinical nurse specialist at the University Hospital in Leicester JO is nominated for the People's Choice Award by her colleagues. She is amazing at her job and cares for her patients by not only noticing what can make the patient's life easier but acting on it and using her own time to do so JO is very supportive of her team and does her upmost to help with any ideas the team come up with. There really is no end to Jo's talents. She will try her hand at anything to help patients with prostate cancer and make their lives easier. Her passion for this role shines and this is reflected through her team and colleagues. For Jo it really is all about the patients. A few things that are particularly striking from Jo's nomination are that she is exceptionally caring, appreciated by her patients, and also able to be strategic and make changes that have impact for the wider service Jo has not only consistently provided personalized care, she has gone above and beyond to enhance the patient journey being proactive to promote developments, reaching to local and national levels. Jo represents an outstanding level of care and we would like to thank Jo for all of her hard work and congratulate her on winning Prostate Cancer UK People's Choice Award 2021.
Presented by Chiara De Biase, Director of Support and Influencing, Prostate Cancer UK


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Physical RAM attack can root Android and possibly other devices
Attackers can reliably flip bits in physical memory cells in order to compromise mobile devices and computers
Lucian Constantin (IDG News Service) 25 October, 2016 05:15
Researchers have devised a new way to compromise Android devices without exploiting any software vulnerabilities and instead of taking advantage of a physical design weakness in RAM chips. The attack technique could also affect other ARM and x86-based devices and computers.
The attack stems from the push over the past decade to pack more DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) capacity onto increasingly smaller chips, which can lead to memory cells on adjacent rows leaking electric charges to one another under certain conditions.
For example, repeated and rapid accessing of physical memory locations -- an action now dubbed "hammering" -- can cause the bit values from adjacent locations to flip from 0 to 1 or the other way around.
While such electrical interference has been known for a while and has been studied by vendors from a reliability standpoint -- because memory corruption can lead to system crashes -- researchers have shown that it can also have serious security implications when triggered in a controlled manner.
In March 2015, researchers from Google's Project Zero presented two privilege escalation exploits based on this memory "row hammer" effect on the x86-64 CPU architecture. One of the exploits allowed code to escape the Google Chrome sandbox and be executed directly on the OS and the other gained kernel-level privileges on a Linux machine.
Since then, other researchers have further investigated the problem and have shown that it could be exploited from websites through JavaScript or could affect virtualized servers running in cloud environments. However, there have been doubts about whether the technique would also work on the significantly different ARM architecture used in smartphones and other mobile devices.
But now, a team of researchers from the VUSec Group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the Graz University of Technology in Austria, and the University of California in Santa Barbara has demonstrated not only are Rowhammer attacks possible on ARM, but they're even easier to pull off than on x86.
The researchers dubbed their new attack Drammer, which stands for deterministic Rowhammer, and plan to present it Wednesday at the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Vienna. The attack builds upon previous Rowhammer techniques devised and demonstrated in the past.
The VUSec researchers have created a malicious Android application that doesn't require any permissions and gains root privileges when it is executed by using undetectable memory bit flipping.
The researchers tested 27 Android devices from different manufacturers, 21 using ARMv7 (32-bit) and six using ARMv8 (64-bit) architectures. They managed to flip bits on 17 of the ARMv7 devices and one of the ARMv8 devices, indicating they are vulnerable to the attack.
Furthermore, Drammer can be combined with other Android vulnerabilities such as Stagefright or BAndroid to build remote attacks that don't require users to manually download the malicious app.
Google is aware of this type of attack. "After researchers reported this issue to our Vulnerability Rewards Program, we worked closely with them to deeply understand it in order to better secure our users," a Google representative said in an emailed statement. "We've developed a mitigation which we will include in our upcoming November security bulletin."
Google's mitigation complicates the attack, but it doesn't fix the underlying problem, according to the VUSec researchers.
In fact, fixing what is essentially a hardware issue in software is impossible. Hardware vendors are investigating the problem and may be able to fix it in future memory chips, but chips present in existing devices will likely remain vulnerable.
Even worse, it's hard to say which devices are affected because there are many factors that come into play and haven't yet been fully investigated, the researchers said. For example, a memory controller might behave differently when the device battery level is under a certain threshold, so a device that doesn't appear to be vulnerable under a full charge might be vulnerable when its battery is low, the researchers explained.
Also, there's an adage in cybersecurity: Attacks always get better, they never get worse. Rowhammer attacks have grown from theoretical to practical but probabilistic and now to practical and deterministic. This means that a device that does not appear to be affected today could be proven vulnerable to an improved Rowhammer technique tomorrow.
Drammer was demonstrated on Android because the researchers wanted to investigate the impact on ARM-based devices, but the underlying technique likely applies to all architectures and operating systems. The new attack is also a vast improvement over past techniques that required either luck or special features that are present only on certain platforms and easily disabled.
Drammer relies on DMA (direct memory access) buffers used by many hardware subsystems, including graphics, network, and sound. While Drammer is implemented using Android's ION memory allocator, APIs and methods to allocate DMA buffers are present in all operating systems, and this warning is one of the paper's major contributions.
"For the very first time, we show that we can do targeted, fully reliable and deterministic Rowhammer without any special feature," said Cristiano Giuffrida, one of the VUSec researchers. "The memory massaging part is not even Android specific. It will work on any Linux platform -- and we suspect also on other operating systems -- because it exploits the inherent properties of the memory management inside the OS kernel."
"I expect that we're going to see many other flavors of this attack on different platforms," added Herbert Bos, a professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and leader of the VUSec Systems Security research group.
Along with their paper, the researchers have released an Android app that can test if an Android device is vulnerable to Rowhammer -- at least to the currently known techniques. The app is not yet available on Google Play but can be downloaded from the VUSec Drammer website to be installed manually. An open-source Rowhammer simulator that can help other researchers investigate this issue further is also available.


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Q: Is setTimeout() in JavaScript synchronous or asynchronous? I have the following function that utilises the setTimeout() function
someElement.addEventListener('click', function () {
    someElement.classList.remove('active');
    someElement.classList.remove('active--show');
    setTimeout(function () {
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    }, 3000);
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Does the current function carry on running the following commands (code snippet below) when reaching the setTimeout() function and once 3 seconds have passed run the script inside the setTimeout() function?
someElement.classList.remove('another--class');
someElement.classList.remove('and--another--class');
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Or does it get to the setTimeout() function, wait 3 seconds, then run the script inside it then carry on with the rest of the original function?
Appreciate any advice on this.
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John 4:21 – We worship neither in this earthly mountain [Mt. Gerizim], nor that one [Mt. Sinai].
Hebrews 12:18-24 – Rather, we have come to a heavenly mountain, that growing crest of God [Mt. Zion].
Daniel 2:31-44 – The stone cut without hands [Jesus] will become a great mountain filling the whole earth.


All that being said, I found this video while working on some knitting research. It might be good for you if ou want to try to at least attempt to meditate.
Life is one of those things. Unstable. Undetermined. Uncontrollable. Life just happens to all of us and no matter how hard you work to change or fix something it doesn't mean if will be changed or fixed.
So what do you do when you're in that area of your life when everything seems the same and none of it seams right?
For me I think I haven't found the perfect solution to that question. I love to workout. I always feel better after I do it. No matter how hard in cardio I push myself I feel amazing and happy. It's like I accomplished something new when all I really did was do something old.
I won't say that working out is my crutch in and of itself, but I think because I find when I'm down, or stressed, my first thought is to change clothes and hit the workout hard kind of means I do lean on working out for both physical and emotional health. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
I love to workout but should I also use it as my therapist? Should I really let myself run to yet another workout in a day that can total up to five just because I need to take my mind off things? Should I use it to avoid my pain or should I force myself to deal with what has me running?
As a woman who was once a psych major I know the logical answer to those questions. Avoidance does not make the problem go away. When the adrenaline calms you'll circle right back around to the same problem that sent you running in the first place.
Good, bad, something in between–life shifts are inevitable. Enjoy the good, learn from the bad and keep going in the in between. You never know, the next shift might just be amazingly epic.


Constructed by the Campbell family in 1874, the Victorian "wedding cake" building guests see today was created by local ale tycoon Frank Jones, starting in 1888.
Casey is a Maine wedding photographer specializing in luxury Maine weddings as well as throughout coastal New England, Maine & New Hampshire. She captured Colleen and Jeff's wedding so beautiful I'm excited to show off some of these great shots!
To make Colleen and Jeff's day absolutely perfect!
With our leader, New Hampshire Wedding and Event Planner, Inked-Events taking charge, there was no doubt that everything would go off without a hitch. Tracy and her team did an amazing job putting this wedding together.
I had the pleasure of working along side hair stylist and fellow makeup artist Jodie Santer who performed fabulous work on Colleen and her bridal partys hair! Her on hair and me on makeup we made a great team!
It was such a fun time with Colleen and her girls, we all had an early start but good spirits were all around. I made some new friends and Instagram followers.
I even came home with some yummy cookies from Cookie Central to share with my husband!
Jacques Pastries "took the cake" with this masterpiece and Ford Flowers created some beautiful arrangements!
Wishing Colleen and Jeff a long happy life together and much love to both your families!
Thank you again to Casey Durgin Photography for Sharing the images!
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Changes to emergency-relief program coming to expand eligibility, Trudeau says
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says 240,000 people successfully applied for emergency relief amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the first few hours after the federal government opened the process this morning.
Only people with birthdays in the first three months of the year can apply for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit today, with the process opening more widely each day this week.
The benefit offers $500-a-week payments for workers who have lost all their income.
Trudeau says changes to the program will come soon to offer help for people whose hours have been slashed, but who are still working a little.
He also is promising more details on how the government intends to help those who are earning less now than they would if they were receiving the 16-week benefit, citing care workers for the elderly as an example.
Trudeau didn't say how many people have thus far today been unable to be approved for the benefit.
The Canada Revenue Agency, which is running the system, issued a request for patience as it expected large demand for the new benefit that the federal government expects to cost $24 billion.
Over the last two weeks, more than two million people have applied for employment insurance benefits, a giant spike from what the program normally sees even in previous recessions.
The outlook for the rest of the year has seen an equally dramatic drop from just a few weeks ago.
Two surveys from the Bank of Canada today provide a pre-pandemic picture of consumers' and businesses' plans for the disrupted year.
The survey of consumer expectations suggests more people anticipated searching for new jobs and expected they would quickly find something new, while fewer thought they would lose their jobs.
Household spending expectations continued to edge up faster than expectations for wage growth, which the bank says suggests consumers by mid-February weren't becoming more cautious in their spending.
Results from the business-outlook survey suggest business sentiment had softened in most regions before the pandemic intensified.
Much of that sentiment emanated from the country's oil-producing regions, where companies were generally less optimistic, pulling back on capital spending and hiring plans as they watched the price of oil fall.
Companies told the central bank they expected the economic shock from low oil prices to be worse than what hit the sector in 2015 and the 2008 economic crisis. As one data point, capital spending was being cut by 30 per cent compared with 2019.
The reason, the bank says, was concern that financing was becoming harder to come by for companies that were also anticipating "a bottoming-out in the sector rather than a negative shock."
The survey also suggests oil companies foresaw few layoffs unless low oil prices persisted over a longer period.
The belief was the benchmark price for crude, known as West Texas Intermediate, would be between US$30 and US$35 a barrel. The price to start the week was closer to US$28 a barrel.
By mid-March, restaurants, hotels and other service industries had seen a collapse in sales, had either closed or expected to soon, and were "drastically laying off staff or reducing staff hours in line with operations." Others, the bank noted, were moving to food delivery and online sales to find new ways to earn money.
Manufacturers were anticipating temporary shutdowns and declining sales from challenged customers.
Grocery retailers and related transportation companies saw their sales reach "unprecedented levels" as workers were being told to stay at home.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 6, 2020.
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Once a victim's computer network is compromised and the data encrypted and downloaded, the NetWalker criminals demand money to return system access. If victims refuse, they might never regain their data or, more frequently now, the information is made public.
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Answers to your Orioles questions
Thanks to those who responded and sent in questions for our mailbag.
Question: "Who will play second base for the Orioles next season?" @MichaelJBinelli
Answer: For the moment, it's Hanser Alberto and players to be determined. Alberto played both third and second last season, and at the Winter Meetings last week, manager Brandon Hyde said he thought he wore Alberto out.
Without Jonathan Villar, the Orioles will have to get at least another infielder. Stevie Wilkerson, who has played some second in the last two seasons, could be in the mix. So could Pat Valaika, who was claimed on waivers from Colorado.
Dilson Herrera, recently signed to a minor league contract, is another candidate, and there probably will be more contenders for second base and shortstop signed between now and spring training.
Q-"Which players from last year's team do you think may still be around when we could be competitive in 22 or 23? Here is who I think? Santander, Mancini, Hays, Wilkerson, Nunez, Mullins- extra outfielder?
Harvey, Tate, maybe Severino. What do you think?"-David Evans
A-Mancini is their most valuable trading piece at the moment. In order for him to stick around in 2023, they would have to sign him to an extension, which doesn't seem likely right now.
I would certainly add John Means to your list, and I would guess that when Adley Rutschman becomes the regular catcher, he'll likely play perhaps 120 games a year, making Pedro Severino a possible trade chip.
Austin Hays and Anthony Santander probably have good chances to stick. So do Hunter Harvey and Dillon Tate. The others are questionable.
Q-"What are your thoughts on signing a big name free agent starting pitcher at market rate with no intention of keeping him around? For example, let's say you sign a guy for 5 years 150 million. He plays for us (hopefully well) up until the trade deadline and we trade him for a huge haul of prospects. We're out 20ish million, but don't have to pay the remainder of the contract and maybe end up with a couple of top 50 prospects to boot? "Now, I'd like to say that I would prefer that we don't do this and continue the rebuild path we're currently on. And this would all be a moot point assuming no big name free agent pitcher wants to come to Baltimore at the moment. But I'm curious on your thoughts about how this could possibly satisfy some people clamoring for something a little more entertaining in the short term. Thanks!"-Logan Miller
A-It's a fun idea, but an impractical one. A pitcher who signs for that amount of money would probably want a no-trade or limited-trade clause.
They've become free agents so that they could choose where they play, and if four months into their tenure, they're traded elsewhere, what's the point of signing in Baltimore?
It would certainly add interest, but it's not going to happen.
Q-"Since you asked for questions I thought I throw a couple at you.
Both are related to the new uniform deal with Nike (Maybe I am a traditionalist, but I hate the logo on the front of uniform….Looks really out of place especially for classic looks from the Yankees and Dodgers….).
"Assuming it was for more money than the previous deal, do the teams see any of this additional revenue? Where does it go?
"Do you know if any other companies will be allowed to make jerseys? Mitchell and Ness makes classic jerseys. Will they be able to continue making them?"-Seth Mendelsohn
A-According to Terry Lefton of "Sports Business Journal," having a logo on the uniform isn't new. Majestic has had a logo on the uniform sleeve and New Era has also had a logo on the caps for the past few years. Nike will also have a logo on the uniform pants.
The previous deal was with Under Armour, but due to the company's weakness, that imploded, and Nike could be paying slightly less than Under Armour would have.
Each team receives the same amount of money.
Nike is only manufacturing the on-field jerseys. Fan jerseys will be manufactured by Fanatics.
Terry wasn't certain if Mitchell and Ness would be able to contain to manufacture jerseys, but guesses they would because they're not for use on the field.
Q-"Could trading Villar and Bundy and not making the Cozart trade with LAA that SF did, be a precursor to dumping Chris Davis this spring?" @bobwatk76881279
A-You're referring to the trade the Angels made where they sent Zach Cozart and his $12.67 million salary to the Giants along with infield prospect Jeff Wilson for left-handed pitcher Garrett Williams.
The trades of Dylan Bundy and Jonathan Villar were to cut salary and to garner prospects.
The Davis issue is unrelated. The $93 million, including deferred money owed to him, is already on the books while the projected salaries of Bundy and Villar wasn't.
Q-"My son and I were upset to hear the news of Orioles FanFest being cancelled this year. Attended every year for the past four years. Any reason for the cancellation? Will this be a permanent thing or is there a chance that it might return after the 2020 season?"-Dan Goldsamt on Facebook
A-The Orioles haven't announced a reason why FanFest isn't being held, but attendance had fallen in recent years. They had an event last Saturday, the Winter Warmup that drew about 1,000 fans, and they may have other events in the coming weeks. My guess is that FanFest won't return after this season.
Q-"Wondering if I can get more info on the Orioles/stadium authority deal with Camden yards? I haven't heard that the company tract has been extended yet. Any reasons for the delays?"-Travis Badore on Facebook
A-My understanding is that talks between the Orioles and the state have taken place. The lease doesn't expire until after the 2021 season.
Leases are complicated, and the current ownership group wasn't in charge when Camden Yards was built.
I don't see any problems arising, but I wouldn't necessarily expect a deal imminently.
Q-"Will I see a World Series at Camden Yards? Ever"? @BrettHollander
A-Brett, my guess is that even though you're younger than I am, we'll both see one.
Incidentally, Camden Yards is the oldest ballpark in the major leagues that has yet to host a World Series.
In this century, we've seen long World Series droughts broken by the Red Sox, White Sox and Cubs. I'm guessing that the new decade will see a World Series in Baltimore.
Here's a question…what will happen first at Camden Yards – a World Series, or another All Star game?
Both will happen in the same year, but since the All-Star Game is in July…
Rich, care to predict a year?!?
Before 2030.
Is it too late to ask a question,? If I'll ask this question which I may have asked before.
"WHEN DOES THE REBUILD START?"
Norm, when have you not asked that question?
@NormOs, you apparently have never lived through a renovation. Once you start demo and discover issues with infrastructure, you are resigned to spending money and taking time to address something that no one will see, but has to be done.
Rich, why buy an 81-game plan in 2020?
There isn't an 81-game plan in 2020. There's an 80-game plan, though.
whiterose
You act like the lease expiration is soooooo far away. And that talks are in the past. Sounds like waiting for new owners.
Rich, why do people think a new lease needs to be signed two years before the current one expires? Neither side has any motive to not get an extension. It is unrealistic that each parties wish list of changes in the agreement are mutually accepted. Revenue share, upgrades, security, length of term, etc. Legitimate but complicated discussion areas.
Phil, shame on you for bringing logic and good sense to this discussion.
Also to be negotiated are renovations and modifications to the ballpark.
There is always a desire by some people to listen to the most negative thoughts. They think, this person isn't afraid to tell us the truth.
There has been so much disappointment around here that they think the worst is always coming.


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Don't get nauseous yet. A JELLY ice cream party is not what you think. Thanks to a friend, I have now been exposed to a whole new kind of JELLY – the Jerusalem English Library for Youth, one that is not red and gooey, but instead offers story time, day camps and other activities, including an ice cream party at the end of the summer (for free!).
As an English speaker living in Israel, I have to make a concerted effort to teach my daughter English. My husband speaks to her in Spanish and she learns Hebrew at daycare. So, I was obviously excited when I found out that there is English story time in Jerusalem. This gives my daughter another place to hear English and for me, another place to connect with other English-speaking parents.
Monday evening story time: Each week, different parents volunteer to read books over a half hour. The story hour is free.
When: Mondays at 4:15pm. September 1 to the end of June.
Location: Baka Matnas (community center) at 3 Issachar St.
Summer JELLY ice cream party: To encourage kids to read, the goal of the party is to have kids read (or have read to them) 10 books.
When: Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 4-6pm.
The JELLY Summer Theatre Workshop: The 12-day workshop is for 6-9th graders with the thrill of being on stage, as well as the crafts that go into producing a show, culminating in two an evening performances of a play, on stage in a theatre for family and friends.
Camp JELLY – an Adventure with Books: for kids going into gan hova or 1st grade. All activities such as arts and crafts, games, songs are based on books -each day with a different writer or theme. Lively but structured with aim to encourage English and a love of books.
English library for youth: The Baka library has 50% English books. The picture books for younger kids (and teachers' library) are on the 2nd floor and all other books of the Baka library including easy readers to adults are on the 1st floor. JELLY volunteers do the mending, shelving, entering books into computer, etc.
Taking out books: To join is free with a security check.
If there is one thing harder than birth, we would say it is trying to register your child for day care. Unlike the birthing process, there's no Lamaze class to teach you breathing techniques as you try to register your child for day care in Israel.
But lucky for our readers, you can learn through our mistakes and questions as we navigate the childcare system in Israel. And let us say right off the bat, that we encourage and beg you to add info in the comments section in order to help the new parent community.
It is barely spring, but according to Israel you need to secure a place for your child for the fall. You must sign up before spaces fill up, and that means that even if you don't know what part of town, or even what part of the country you are living in, well that's too bad.
Check out our guide below that explains the different types of daycare options in Israel.
Definition: This is large-scale daycare run by various organizations (usually women's organizations). The government supervises and dictates policy. You must register for these and be accepted (registration starts April 27, 2011). Full-time working mothers have top priority.
3-15 months: 1 adult for every 6 children, maximum 15 in a group.
Holidays: Government policy: three weeks in August (of which you pay a full month's worth of tuition), a week before Pesach and the whole holiday, the other major Jewish holidays and the week of Sukkot.
Definition: This is daycare that is run out of a private home. The government supervises and dictates policy. There can be a maximum of 5 children (without getting special permission for more) and no more than 2 children under the age of one. If there are more children an additional caregiver must be present.
Holidays: They must abide by the government set holiday schedule. This includes taking off three weeks in August (of which you pay a full month's worth of tuition), a week before Pesach and the whole holiday, the other major Jewish holidays and the week of Sukkot.
Prices: More or less the same price as a Maon, approximately NIS 1550, scale-based subsides payments based on household salaries and siblings.
I love walking into bookstores. I love the smell. I love rummaging and looking for great finds. I love the bargain bin. I even love reading book spines until my neck is permanently stuck to my shoulder. But if you live in Israel, there is no massive Barnes & Noble – like store or well-stocked library with English books besides Hebrew University. There are a few bookstores that carry English books but it's very possible that you won't find what you're looking for. So, as much as I love dawdling around in a bookshop, I find myself drawn back to the web to find more choices. The problem is that some online stores like Amazon charge a ridiculous amount to ship books to Israel. Luckily, I've spotted a bunch of bookstores that ship relatively cheaply or even for free to Israel and a few websites where you can download books for free.
Note about shipping: If you order books over $50, you may be required to pay a VAT tax at the Israeli post office.
Hook A Book – focused on Israel although prices are in dollars. Free international standard shipping. The site is a little hard on the eyes and there is no search function which makes it a bit difficult to browse but maybe they're still developing the site as it's pretty new. PayPal accepted.
Project Gutenberg Over 30,000 works of literature, cookbooks, reference works, periodicals, etc. in the form of e-books and audio mp3s that you can download for free.
42Scifi New and used English sci-fi books in Israel.
HebrewBooks Over 40,000 classical Hebrew books for free download. Mostly Jewish books and texts. Books in Hebrew and English.


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FAMU Statement On MEAC Suspension of Sports for 2020
Presidents and chancellors for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) voted Thursday to suspend all sports competition for the remainder of 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The MEAC, which includes Florida A&M University and 10 other historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU), plans to proceed with winter sports competition as scheduled, unless health and medical professionals advise otherwise.
FAMU supports the decision as in the best interest of the health and well-being of our student athletes and our fans, said President Larry Robinson, Ph.D.
"The pageantry of fall sports, especially football, is a key part of the Florida A&M University experience; however, given the current trends with the global COVID-19 pandemic, the MEAC's suspension of fall sports is the right thing to do," Robinson said. "This decision demonstrates our collective commitment to safeguarding the health and wellbeing of our student-athletes, coaches, staff and our communities. We ask for your understanding and continued support of our Athletic programs as we plan for the return of competition when the current crisis abates."
The MEAC announcement comes as student-athletes had begun returning to campus in anticipation of pre-season training, following a spring when competition was shortened because of the pandemic.
FAMU had scheduled three home football games this fall. Athletic Director/Vice President Kortne Gosha expressed disappointment at the news but said it was necessary to protect student-athletes.
"The health and safety our student-athletes are our top priority, but obviously we are disappointed that we will not be able to compete this fall," Gosha said. "This decision has not been taken lightly, and we are confident that we will continue to work through these challenges together. The mental health of our student-athletes and considerations regarding eligibility are being addressed."
Coming off the best Rattler season in more than a decade, head football coach Willie Simmons was looking forward to returning to the gridiron.
"It's shocking news to all of us. Right now, my initial thoughts are to reach out to my team and communicate with them, make sure they are in a place that they could move forward. A lot of individuals will be affected by this decision. Their safety and wellbeing is paramount," said Simmons. Staff and administrators are working to ensure academic and other concerns of student-athletes are being handled.
"We have to be leaders during this time. As the saying goes, there's no sense in crying over spilled milk," Simmons continued. "We have to be very aggressive in our planning moving forward."
Conference officials have yet to decide whether the fall sports will be moved to the 2021 spring semester.
Filed Under: Education Tagged With: FAMU, Florida A&M University


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This model was hand crafted for Vladimir Guerrero and combines a large barrel and medium handle with a traditional knob. This is a variation of the popular 243 and is a favorite among power hitters looking to have an end-loaded bat with a larger hitting surface.
Using it along with another Trinity bat, (same model) but a select birch, in a 45 and over wood bat only league in CA. Never seen a ball jump out of the park like this with a wood bat, cleared everything and landed on the freeway!!!
Absolutely the best bat ive ever used. If I get the chance to play pro ball one day, This is the model i will use my whole career. I had never driven a as well as i did with this bat because the second pitch of BP i got with it I hit over the fence in dead center. It felt pretty nice to me.
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Introversion is an orientation in how you relate to the world. It is not a skill, or a choice. It is not a lifestyle. Introverts are people who find other people tiring. By contrast, Extroverts are energised by people, and wilt or fade when alone.
Out of all of the constructs of personality, the Introvert-Extrovert construct is arguably the most powerful influencer as to what we notice and how we live our lives.
What's the benefit in knowing this? In designing working environments it's important that introverts have access to quiet spaces for completing more intensive work. Mobile phone and emails can be unwelcome distractions too.
When thinking about designing the ideal learning environment for a course, facilitators would do well to ensure that there are both quiet contemplative times for reading, digesting new material as well as for paired or small group work.
Because of their preference to be an onlooker / observer type, Introverts really come into their own when they are asked to review and comment upon others' work and to appraise the logic of a situation.
Investing your time in doing some 'quality' noticing for where introverts thrive can repay your effort many times over, especially if you are then able to adapt your approach to operate in a way that gets the best from your team of introverts.
Establishing a culture of coaching is one of the most challenging change initiatives any company can take on. I'm talking about a true culture of coaching, where every manager and employee engages in it and not the kind we are seeing advocated in some organisations where a few people are trained as internal coaches. I'm taking cultural, where it becomes 'the way we do things around here' The difficulty, as we've written here before, is in the integration of coaching into every leaders modes operandi. In this blog I share some insights from a recent discussion with an emerging leader coach.
We fancy ourselves as pretty tough in this country. 'Get over yourself' is a reasonably common phrase here. However, just telling ourselves to 'get over yourself', and ignoring our state of mind, doesn't work by itself. It's important to take note when we're 'out of sorts' because in fact brain-wise we may be. As simple as it may be, getting a good night's sleep, and breathing well throughout the day, will set you up for integrated brain success. So, ironically by attending (i.e. 'getting into yourself') rather than ignoring your current state, you'll make significant steps toward 'getting over yourself' and moving forward in an elegant and integrated way.


¨with courageous simplification, one might assert that the chemistry of the last century was largely the chemistry of covalent bonding, whereas that of the present century is more likely to be the chemistry of noncovalent binding¨1.
There are different terms for the inter-atomic interactions which play an important role in various chemical processes and reactions and which are not classified as typical covalent bonds. One can mention non-covalent or non-binding interaction, Lewis acid – Lewis base interaction, inter-atomic contact etc. The common feature of a part of them is the meaningful electron charge shift from the Lewis base unit to the Lewis acid one which often leads to further processes, among them to particular chemical reactions.
The hydrogen bond is the most often analyzed non-covalent interaction since it plays a key role in chemical, physical and bio-chemical processes23. One can mention numerous examples such as the role of hydrogen bond in enzymatic catalysis, arrangement of molecules in crystals, crystal engineering, proton transfer reactions, and also its important role in life processes4. This interaction is often designated as A-H…B where the A and B atoms are usually negatively charged while the H-atom is characterized by the positive charge. For example, the O-H…O hydrogen bond which links water molecules is analyzed in numerous studies. The hydrogen bond, because of the opposite charges of the B and H centers being in a contact (the O and H centers in a case of water), is usually classified as the electrostatic in nature interaction. However the mentioned above electron charge transfer processes are very important for the hydrogen bond and this is why also the covalent nature of this interaction is often the subject of disputes and debates. These processes, in a case of the hydrogen bond, often lead to the proton transfer reaction5.
The halogen bond often designated as A-X…B (X is the halogen atom) is another non-covalent interaction which is the subject of numerous analyses, especially in recent years6. This is surprising that this interaction possesses numerous characteristics typical for the hydrogen bond7 where usually negatively charged X-atom, commonly known as an electronegative element, acts as the Lewis acid center interacting with B, the negatively charged Lewis base center! Various concepts were proposed to explain this phenomenon, for example it was stated that the X halogen atom is characterized by the anisotropy of the electron charge distribution what results in the excess of the electron charge (-δ) in the direction perpendicular to the A-X bond and the depletion of this charge (+δ) in the elongation of this bond (Figure 1)8. However it seems that the reason of such anisotropy of the electron charge distribution may be explained in terms of a very simple σ-hole concept9.
Figure 1. The anisotropy of the electron charge distribution of the halogen (X) atom.
For example, one may consider the s2px2py2pz1 valence electronic structure of the chlorine atom to understand the formation of the σ-hole in CF3Cl. The half-occupied pzorbital interacts with a carbon orbital forming the σ molecular orbital. The electron density of the single occupied pzorbital of chlorine is shifted to the σ-bond region what results in the depletion of this density in the outer lobe of the pzorbital. This depletion is named as the σ-hole and if it is sufficient enough it is characterized by a positive electrostatic potential. This is why the halogen atom, even if it is negatively charged, may be characterized by the area of the positive electrostatic potential and may interact with the electron reach Lewis base centers. An example of the CF3Cl molecule is given in Figure 2. The σ-hole is formed in the elongation of the A-X bond (C-Cl bond in a case of CF3Cl molecule) thus the A-X…B arrangements corresponding to the interactions with the Lewis bases, i.e. halogen bonds, are usually linear or close to the linearity. It was found that the σ-hole is more positive if the more electron attracting is the remainder of the molecule, and the heavier (more polarizable) the halogen (I > Br > Cl > F).
On the other hand the px and py double occupied orbitals of the halogen atom (see Figure 2) form the belt of the negative electrostatic potential around the X-atom, in the direction perpendicular to the A-X bond. One can see that in such a way the halogen atom possesses the dual character since it may act simultaneously with the Lewis bases and with the Lewis acids (see Figure 1).
Figure 2. Computed (MP2/6-311++G** level of calculations) electrostatic potential on the 0.001 au molecular surface of CF3Cl. Blue color, in the elongation of C-Cl bond, corresponds to the maximum (+0.0367 au) and red one to the minimum (-0.0070 au) electrostatic potential. The belt of negative electrostatic potential around Cl-atom is observed (orange color, -0.0045 au).
The halogen bonds steered by the distribution of the electrostatic potential in the species being in contact do really exist and they are observed in solids and liquids. For example, in the numerous crystal structures the halogen bonds compete with the more common hydrogen bonds to influence on the arrangement of molecules or ions. Figure 3 presents the fragment of the crystal structure of trichloroacetic acid (TCA). It is commonly known that the TCA molecules are linked by two equivalent O-H…O hydrogen bonds. However there are also the interactions of the CCl3 groups, i.e. C-Cl…O halogen bonds.
It was pointed out earlier here that the halogen atom, owing to the specific electrostatic potential distribution, may act simultaneously. This σ-hole concept prediction has also the experimental confirmation since numerous crystal structures exist where such a situation is observed. Figure 4 presents an example where the Br-atom has the closest contacts with O and H atoms what corresponds to the C-Br…O halogen bond and the N-H…Br hydrogen bond, respectively.
Figure 3. The fragment of the crystal structure of trichloroacetic acid (Cl, O, C and H atoms are designated by green, red, grey and bright grey colors, respectively). Broken lines correspond to H…O and Cl…O contacts (hydrogen and halogen bonds, respectively). | Credit: Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) Allen, F.H. Acta Cryst. 2002, B58, 380-388.
Figure 4. The fragment of the crystal structure of 5-Amino-4-bromo-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-one (Br, O, N, C and H atoms are designated by brown, red, blue, grey and bright grey colors, respectively). Broken lines correspond to Br…O and Br…H contacts (halogen and hydrogen bonds, respectively). | Credit: Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) Allen, F.H. Acta Cryst. 2002, B58, 380-388.
Thus halogen bonds, similarly as hydrogen bonds, are responsible for the arrangement of molecules in crystals. However there are other numerous studies on halogen bonds as for example in biological systems and drug discovery10. One can also mention that halogen bonds are important in ligand recognition by proteins, and that halogen bonds can be engineered to direct the conformation of DNA junctions.


Tennessee offensive lineman Riley Locklear is expected to miss at least 10 to 15 days after having surgery for a small meniscus tear in his knee, coach Jeremy Pruitt said Wednesday. He sustained the injury during Saturday's game against Georgia.
Although the injury is a blow to UT's offensive line depth, Pruitt is glad it isn't worse. The initial fear was that Locklear had torn his ACL.
Brandon Kennedy, who started at center in the season opener, already is out for the season with an ACL tear.
Locklear had been the team's top backup guard. The sophomore appeared in four of UT's first five games.
Jerome Carvin and Jahmir Johnson are the team's starting guards. Without Locklear, Chance Hall and K'Rojhn Calbert are the team's top backups at guard. Each has appeared in three games this season.
Locklear also was the backup center. With Locklear unavailable, Carvin becomes the backup to Ryan Johnson.
Safety Shawn Shamburger wasn't in Athens, Ga., for Saturday's game against Georgia. Asked why, Pruitt said that Shamburger didn't make the cut for the travel roster.
Fellow safety Todd Kelly Jr. made his first appearance of the season against Georgia. He'd missed the first four games while continuing to recover from a knee injury that limited him to two games last season.
Shamburger played on special teams but not defense in the season opener but then saw his playing time increase the next three games.
Shamburger has two tackles this season. He appeared in 11 games, including one start, in 2017 as a freshman, when he played cornerback.
"With all of our players, it's learning what to do, how to do it and why it's important to do it that way and being consistent in doing it," Pruitt said, when asked about Shamburger's path to more playing time. "That's kind of what we're looking for. I think it's obvious. There's been lots of consistencies on both sides of the ball. We're looking for guys that can do it right and can do it right over and over again."
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Is it possible to create responsive images that work in Gmail webmail on android?
Does anyone know if it's possible to get responsive images to work in Gmail webmail on android?
Another solution would be to use media queries to switch between two images. But the mobile webmail of Gmail doesn't support <style> tags (and thus no media queries). So I'd recommend to adopt a mobile first approach, with your mobile image for Gmail visible by default, and use CSS in desktop media queries to hide and show a desktop image instead.
Thanks Rémi, I appreciate the help with this, the mobile first approach you have suggested sounds like a good idea, I'll give that a try.


Late night patrons of downtown Mt. Pleasant's bar scene have a new place to stop and eat before walking home.
Ignite Donuts celebrated its grand opening last week on Thursday, Sept. 13. The mobile food cart will serve hot and customizable donut holes from its perch near the intersection of Michigan and Main streets every Thursday night from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Central Michigan University seniors Casey Croad, Alec Czarnopys, and Jakob Muntz first got the idea for Ignite Donuts during the summer of 2017. The business idea began as a donut delivery service but has since become a mobile food cart following consultation with CMU faculty and local business professionals.
Croad, who is responsible for developing the products themselves, taught himself how to make the donut holes. Market research and taste tests led to the final recipe, which incorporates both French and southeastern Asian baking techniques. The result is a donut hole with a soft and fluffy interior and crispy exterior.
The donut holes are served hot and customers are able to customize them with hot dips and toppings. Flavors include chocolate, cinnamon sugar, and glazed.
Only one of the three co-owners is majoring in business--though that's an advantage, says Croad.
"Jake is majoring in environmental science, Alec in sports management, and I'm studying psychology and entrepreneurship," Croad says.
"Our separate passions are what drew in all these unique ideas for a business. That's what makes it fun."
The trio have utilized the resources available to them. In addition to speaking with professionals from Mt. Pleasant's business community and CMU's business school, the Ignite Donuts co-founders took part in two business competitions. Though they didn't win seed money, Croad says they benefited from the valuable knowledge and networking opportunities.
In addition to being found in downtown Mt. Pleasant every Thursday night from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., Ignite Donuts will pop up at various events throughout the year, including the Pleasant Town Music & Art Festival on Saturday, Sept. 29.