Nobuyuki Hirose, Naoyuki Osaka; Asymmetry in object substitution masking occurs relative to the direction of spatial attention shift. Journal of Vision 2008;8(6):771. doi: 10.1167/8.6.771.
A lateral mask persisting beyond the duration of a target can reduce its visibility (object substitution masking: OSM). Y. Jiang and M. M. Chun (2001) reported that a mask on the peripheral side of the target caused stronger OSM than on the central side. Assuming that spatial attention was focused on the target, the peripheral and the central masks were always located in the same and the opposite direction of an attentional path with reference to the target in their study. We hypothesized that the asymmetry of OSM relies on the asymmetry of mask configuration relative to the attentional shift. To test this, we conducted four experiments among which the presence or absence of the relative center-periphery relationship and the presence or absence of the asymmetric mask configuration were manipulated independently and orthogonally. In Experiment 1, we successfully replicated the asymmetric OSM discovered by Jiang and Chun. In Experiment 2, we compared two mask positions symmetrically placed with respect to the line connecting the fixation and the target but found no asymmetry. In the next two experiments, to manipulate the attentional trajectory to the target, we introduced a new paradigm in which participants were asked to identify two letters, the decoy and the target, sequentially presented in different positions. In Experiment 3, asymmetric OSM was not observed even in the presence of the center-peripheral relation if the mask arrangement was symmetric with respect to the attentional path. In Experiment 4, however, the asymmetric OSM was evident even without the center-periphery relationship if the mask configuration was asymmetric relative to the attentional shift. Taken together, all of these results suggest that the asymmetric OSM occurs relative to the direction of attention shift. We propose that this kind of asymmetry might be explained by attentional momentum associated with orienting toward the target.
Supported by a grant from the Research Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists to N.H., JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, #19203032 and #19653082 to N.O., and MEXT Global COE Program, D-07, to Kyoto University.


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Most students, no matter where they go to school, have to balance many different priorities. They may need to juggle school, work, and a social life. They should not have to deal with criminal charges on top of their already hectic schedules.
If you or your child has been accused of any cybercrime, be sure to contact a Rockland County student cyber crimes lawyer. A dedicated attorney could help you through the case to make sure every action you take is the correct one.
In many situations, students are accused of illegally using or accessing on-campus computer equipment, including tampering with computers and grade or other records. One of the most basic computer-related crimes is that of unauthorized use of a computer. Under New York Penal Law §156.05, an individual is guilty of unauthorized computer usage if they knowingly use, or cause to be used, a computer or computer network without authorization.
Unauthorized use of computers may arise when a student is accused of accessing off-limits computers or networks, including those belonging solely to staff or faculty. Any individual that has further questions about unauthorized computer usage charges should contact a Rockland County student cyber crimes lawyer for more information.
Computer tampering is generally a more serious charge than the unauthorized use of a computer. To be charged with computer tampering, an individual must access a computer without authorization and also intentionally change or destroy computer data, according to New York Penal Law §156.20.
For example, if a student is accused of changing or falsifying their grades by accessing a staff-only database or network, then they may be charged with computer tampering.
More serious degrees of computer tampering usually involve monetary loss or damage as the result of changing or destroying computer data. These types of computer tampering may be charged as felonies. For example, first-degree computer tampering occurs if a person causes damages exceeding $50,000, as per New York Penal Law §156.27. For assistance with computer tampering or other similar charges, students should call a Rockland County student cyber crimes lawyer as soon as possible.
Any individual charged with a cybercrime should not delay in obtaining legal assistance. Many cyber crime cases are complex, involving multiple defendants and technological details. You may need a Rockland County student cyber crimes lawyer who can help you navigate your case and provide you with detailed legal recommendations.
An attorney is dedicated to helping you achieve the best possible outcome for your case. They could work with you at every stage of your case and provide you with the resources necessary to make informed decisions. If you have been charged with a cybercrime, do not hesitate to contact an attorney immediately.


Victory: Collective Action Beats Evictions in Parkdale!
Parkdale Rent Strike Ends in Victory!
On June 21 fourteen tenants representing rent strikers from six buildings sat down across the table from eight high ranking AIMCo and MetCap executives to put forward the demands of the Parkdale rent strike. Rent strikers secured an agreement from MetCap to stop all evictions as long as negotiations are ongoing. Negotiations resume next week.


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coquito.io
I am engineer
www.coquito.io
A short poem documenting the trials and tribulations of a software engineer in 2021.
Mario Pabon
I am engineer.
I am the one who writes the code. The knower of algorithms. The translator of business requirements. The resolver of conflicting requests. The foreseer of tech debt. The understander of scalability. The one who knows how to get around that weird bug in IE 11. The one who can get it done. The master planner. The realizer of dreams.
I am the one who spawns the bugs. The one who disrupts your timeline. The one with no discipline. The one with the excuses. The one who doesn't know what they are doing. The one who writes the shitty code. The antithesis of order. The harbinger of chaos. The destroyer of dreams.
I am the one who finds the workaround. The reader of the documentation. The navigator of office politics. The practitioner of the scientific method. The systems thinker. The bringer of hope.
© 2023 Mario Pabon

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Joost Luiton 20/1 has been in great form this year with two wins, five Top Ten finishes and is now part of a victories' European team that took last week's Seve Trophy. I can see the Dutchman adding to his win tally this year and with a runners-up finish in this event back in 2010 don't be surprised if he goes one better this year.
Defending champion Shane Lowry 20/1 comes into this week in confident form after his great showing at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, where he held the lead on the back nine but missed out on the play-off finishing one shot back. Shane has not had a win so far this year but he has had six Top Ten finishes. Being back here this week and memories of his final round 66 to take the Portugal Masters title last year can only put the Irishman in a great frame of mind.
I do feel Francesco Molinari 22/1 has some unfinished business at the Portugal Masters, having been in contention on several occasions and not quite closing it out and has two runners-up finishes to his name. He obviously enjoys playing the Oceanico Victoria Golf Course and with holing the winning putt for the European team on Sunday at the Seve Trophy, will be another player turning up this week full of confidence and maybe this year Francesco will go one better than those runners-up spots.
Another player coming into this week in great form is the Johnny Walker Championship winner Tommy Fleetwood 40/1. Since that win Tommy has had two other Top 10 finishes, which makes that three Top tens from his last five events, if you add in the victory. And at these odds I think this could be one of the best bets out there this week.
It has not been the greatest of years for Tom Lewis 50/1 but the 2011 Portugal Masters Champion certainly came back with a bang at the Alfred Dunhill Championship, adding a final round 64 to his opening round 64, which saw him move rapidly up the leaderboard. Lewis had shown signs that he could be getting back to playing some good golf at the Johnnie Walker Championship and the Omega European Masters. Being back here this week can only help build that confidence.
I am stuck between picking Fredrik Andersson Hed 80/1 who I tipped as an outside bet two weeks ago and Johan Edfors 150/1. Both seem to enjoy this track but out of the two, Fredrik has had the better season and comes into this week with a Top ten and Top Twenty-five finishes in his last five events, whereas Johan has missed four cuts in his last six events. But I will leave it to you to decide I think I may just put a couple of pound on each!


I am again with a new article with another simple and easy CSS trick. In this article I am going to show you how to give a text blur effect to make it blurry. I hope this article is going to be helpful for you.
You can modify the code to make the blur effect low and high. Start testing by changing the value of "4px" and "0.7" that you can see in the above CSS code and chose which value are better and can fulfill your need.
You can see the result of this HTML code using in the above image.
So now you have understand how to give blur effect to any text using CSS code. It was very easy to do. Isn't it? What you think? Well thanks for reading this article. I am soon coming with more CSS code snippet to help you in many ways.
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Imagine you're a child. You spend eight hours at school every weekday, and you return home to an empty house every night. Sometimes, your only meal is the lunch provided at school. Your parents work day and night to provide for your family, but it's never enough. Meanwhile, you have homework that you desperately need help with, but there's no one around to help you. You want to talk about school, the friends you've made, or your latest art project, but you're alone.
This is the life of many children in the low-income neighborhoods of the Omaha community. But it doesn't have to be.
Completely KIDS is determined to make sure it isn't. Enriching activities, help with homework, nutritious snacks, and people to talk to for guidance—these are all things the nonprofit organization offers to youth and families through after-school and family strengthening programs.
The organization was formerly Camp Fire USA Midlands Council, a nonprofit founded in 1920 as a club for girls and young women. In the 1970s and '80s, the program admitted boys and young men, reaching out to the needs of the underserved through after-school activities in North and South Omaha. Now, Completely KIDS—which disaffiliated from the national Camp Fire organization in 2011 to keep its funds within the Omaha community—serves more than 2,000 youth from pre-kindergarten through high school, as well as their families.
Penny Parker, executive director of Completely KIDS, has devoted her professional career to serving children and families. Previously, she worked with American Red Cross, the Nebraska Department of Social Services, Child Saving Institute, and Douglas County Social Services.
"My prior employment focused on working with children who were already involved in the child welfare system, and I wanted to work at an agency where I could work with children to keep them out of the system," she explains. That's why she applied for the position with Completely KIDS, which she's occupied for 22 years now.
Lisset Hernandez, program coordinator at Field Club Elementary School for Completely KIDS, can certainly attest to the organization's impact on the lives of youth, as she herself was helped by the program.
Today, Hernandez is a senior at the University of Phoenix, where she's working toward a bachelor's degree in health administration. She's also a mother to a 2-year-old son, Nazim. She believes her life has gone in a good direction because of the support she received from Completely Kids during her youth.
Lynn Gray, a special needs paraprofessional at Millard West High School in the Millard Public Schools district, began volunteering with Completely KIDS more than a decade ago after learning about their mission.
Back in 2001, Gray read an article in the Omaha World-Herald about Completely KIDS. "I thought I could stop in and see if I could volunteer," he says. Shortly after, he began working with the nonprofit, helping kids with their homework and doing activities with them.
Although he and his wife, Cindy, don't have children of their own, Gray loves working with kids and always has. As a student at University of Nebraska-Lincoln years ago, he helped with a special needs swimming program through Lincoln Parks & Recreation.
It's not a formal chess club, of course. Gray says it's just for fun. "Working together is a major benefit of chess. For some kids, they learn decision-making and problem-solving; others learn patience." One of the things he enjoys the most is watching the older, more experienced chess players help the younger, newer kids just learning the game.
Volunteers, as well as donations, are always needed to continue providing quality programs for youth and families in the community. Events, like the upcoming Big Red Tailgate, which will be held Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. at Embassy Suites La Vista (12520 Westport Pkwy.), are major fundraisers for the organization. For more information about Completely KIDS, visit completelykids.org or call 402-397-5809.


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Q: Programmatically Modify EditForm.aspx I am working with document upload, after upload, it takes user to EditForm.aspx, where I do not want few of the fields displayed.
How do I hide Fields from EditForm.aspx programmatically? Including automated deployment.

A: You don't.
You simply update the list fields to set them as non editable via the ShowInEditForm property.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfield.showineditform.aspx

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Nicole S. Kelly is a children's book author and has written 14 books in the Peanut Monkey series. Peanut Monkey is a series of books about a curious, confident and cheeky character who finds himself, unwittingly, in various situations where he feels overwhelmed and always manages to find a solution.
These books are aimed at children between 3 to 8 years of age, however the books have a special message for any child to help empower them in all sorts of situations they too may find themselves in.
When Peanut Monkey's little boat floats out to sea, he waits for it to come back. What does he do when it doesn't come back?


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Democrats' left flank coalesces around Biden — driven by hatred of Trump |
Democrats' left flank coalesces around Biden — driven by hatred of Trump
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Kerry Eleveld
July 09, 2020News & Politics
New polling shows that presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden isn't suffering from the defections among the party's left flank that helped hobble Hillary Clinton's candidacy in 2016. In fact, Biden's most loyal cohort in the polling is voters who formerly supported Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic primary.
Warren supporters said they planned to vote for Biden over Donald Trump by a margin of 96% to 0%, in the New York Times/Siena polls of six battleground states (including Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona, and North Carolina). That level of loyalty edged out even Biden's own primary supporters, who say they support Biden over Trump, 96% to 1%.
And frankly, voters who backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders weren't far behind, now saying they'll vote for Biden over Trump 87% to 4%. In 2016, just 74% of Bernie supporters backed Clinton while 12% voted Trump, according to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study. As the Times' Nate Cohn writes, "If there was a Bernie-or-Bust movement, it has either faded with the conclusion of the Democratic race, or it never existed in serious numbers in the battleground states."
Once more, Warren supporters indicated the highest likelihood they would vote in November, with 72% of them saying they were "almost certain to vote." That again topped Biden supporters, 70% of whom put their intention to vote at the highest levels. Sanders supporters were slightly less sure, with 64% saying they would almost certainly vote.
Nearly three-quarters of Biden (75%) and Warren (70%) supporters say they are "very enthusiastic" about voting, while only 47% of Sanders supporters said the same. But when it comes to Biden himself, only 40% of Warren supporters say they have a "very favorable" view of him, while just 21% of Sanders supporters say that.
One thing that animates both Bernie and Warren supporters is a visceral hatred for Trump. By a 43-point margin, Sanders supporters say they are mainly voting against Trump (69% to 26%), while Warren supporters say the same by 61% to 36%.
Interestingly, Biden's support from the party's left flank is slightly higher than that of the party's centrists. The more moderate Democrats who backed Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and Michael Bloomberg, taken together, say they will back Biden over Trump 87%-6% (Bernie supporters were 87%-4%). But overall, the moderates account for a smaller share of the Democratic electorate, according to the Times.
Either way, Democrats of all stripes are ready to vote Biden, and many of the party's most progressive voters are counting down the days until they can cast their vote against Trump.
Watch: Jamie Raskin shreds Marjorie Taylor Greene at hearing for sympathizing with insurrectionists


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With a current output of over 5 million bags of jerky per year, Boyd Specialties has the capacity to work with any client, big or small.
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Boyd Specialties is audited annually by Merieux-Silliker for Good Manufacturing Practices. Each year our score has surpassed the previous year with our current score standing at 99.1%! That puts Boyd Specialties in the top 1% of meat processing plants in the country.
Boyd Specialties was presented the Family Business Entrepreneurs of the year award for 2013 by the California Spirit of the Entrepreneur Association. We were honored to receive such recognition, especially because it celebrated not only our company, but our family.
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For over a decade, Boyd Specialties has worked closely with USDA to make sure that plant sanitation and food safety procedures not only comply with national regulations, but also set the standard for best practices as well. This commitment to excellence has cultivated our relationship with USDA into a partnership to help make the best jerky in the world.
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Last summer a friend, while volunteering in China, sent me a picture of this little thing, feeding tube in her nose, chubby baby flesh squeezed into a bright green swimsuit, half bent over an inflatable turtle swim ring. The cuteness overflowing from her dark brown eyes and pudgy baby elbows.
She was adorable, and was exactly the age and gender we would have pursued had we been ready to start the adoption process. But we weren't, we had just moved 3700 miles back to the US, bought a house, I had started a new business and we were getting our bearings after living overseas for 8 years.
So we filed it away in the "someday" folder.
Someday, for me though, was always close. I have always known I was going to adopt. We had actually started the process to adopt and then I got pregnant with Lorelai. We realized God had other plans. After a trip to China in 2013 I fell in love with a little boy that we wanted to pursue and then I was diagnosed with cancer. Again, God had other plans.
Then last February, Joe and I attended a Missions Conference at our church where we heard Brian McConaghy from Ratanak International talk about the child trafficking crisis in Cambodia. Our hearts were stirred and we decided to pursue the little girl in the turtle swim ring.
Psalm 46:1 says, "God is our refuge and strength, an EVER present help in trouble." This verse was running, broken-record-style in my head during the entire missions conference. During our last few moments of prayer at the conference I had such a vision from the Lord that this little girl would be our daughter and we would name her Everly.
It took us weeks to find her information, her Chinese name, which province she was from and all the other details you need to pursue a child. We applied with the agency, submitted a "Permission to Proceed" to the Chinese government, due to my previous cancer history and waited.
This little girl does not have a file, her future hangs in mid-air, caught up in red tape and politics. We have been working hard to get our ducks in a row, hoping and praying that our timeline matches up with hers.
I am holding her loosely, a gift from God really, that while she may be ours, if she is not, we are at least a part of her story. We are at least a piece of her puzzle, because without a file, no family can pursue her.


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package main

import (
	"strings"
	"unicode"

	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto"
	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto"
	gogo "github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo/descriptor"
	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/vanity"
	"github.com/gogo/protobuf/vanity/command"
	"github.com/serenize/snaker"
)

func main() {
	req := command.Read()
	files := req.GetProtoFile()

	// Forced (to prevent mistake)
	vanity.ForEachFile(files, vanity.TurnOffGogoImport)

	// Default stuffs.
	vanity.ForEachFile(files, vanity.TurnOnSizerAll) // 'Marshal' needs this.
	vanity.ForEachFile(files, vanity.TurnOnUnmarshalerAll)
	vanity.ForEachFile(files, vanity.TurnOnMarshalerAll)

	// Apply custom fixes.
	vanity.ForEachFieldInFilesExcludingExtensions(files, fixFieldName)
	// vanity.ForEachFieldInFilesExcludingExtensions(files, fixNumericJSONTag)

	resp := command.Generate(req)
	command.Write(resp)
}

// fixFieldName changes field names like
//  'id' -> 'ID'
func fixFieldName(field *gogo.FieldDescriptorProto) {
	if gogoproto.IsCustomName(field) {
		return // Skip if a custom name is specified.
	}

	if field.Options == nil {
		field.Options = new(gogo.FieldOptions)
	}

	name := field.GetName()
	name = snaker.SnakeToCamel(name)
	name = lintName(name)

	// Use gogoproto.customname
	proto.SetExtension(field.Options, gogoproto.E_Customname, &name)
}

//TODO(jerrodrurik):
// func fixNumericJSONTag(field *gogo.FieldDescriptorProto) {
// 	if gogoproto.GetJsonTag(field) != nil {
// 		return // Skip if a custom jsontag is specified.
// 	}
//
// 	switch field.GetType() {
// 	// https://godoc.org/github.com/golang/protobuf/jsonpb says
// 	// jsonpb "encodes int64, uint64 as strings"
// 	case gogo.FieldDescriptorProto_TYPE_INT64, gogo.FieldDescriptorProto_TYPE_UINT64:
//
// 	default: // Not applicable.
// 		return
// 	}
//
// 	if field.Options == nil {
// 		field.Options = new(gogo.FieldOptions)
// 	}
//
// 	jsonTag := *field.Name + ",string" + ",omitempty"
// 	proto.SetExtension(field.Options, gogoproto.E_Jsontag, &jsonTag)
// }

// See: https://github.com/golang/lint/blob/master/lint.go
// commonInitialisms is a set of common initialisms.
// Only add entries that are highly unlikely to be non-initialisms.
// For instance, "ID" is fine (Freudian code is rare), but "AND" is not.
var commonInitialisms = map[string]bool{
	"API":   true,
	"ASCII": true,
	"CPU":   true,
	"CSS":   true,
	"DNS":   true,
	"EOF":   true,
	"GUID":  true,
	"HTML":  true,
	"HTTP":  true,
	"HTTPS": true,
	"ID":    true,
	"IP":    true,
	"JSON":  true,
	"LHS":   true,
	"QPS":   true,
	"RAM":   true,
	"RHS":   true,
	"RPC":   true,
	"SLA":   true,
	"SMTP":  true,
	"SQL":   true,
	"SSH":   true,
	"TCP":   true,
	"TLS":   true,
	"TTL":   true,
	"UDP":   true,
	"UI":    true,
	"UID":   true,
	"UUID":  true,
	"URI":   true,
	"URL":   true,
	"UTF8":  true,
	"VM":    true,
	"XML":   true,
	"XSRF":  true,
	"XSS":   true,
}

// lintName returns a different name if it should be different.
func lintName(name string) (should string) {
	// Fast path for simple cases: "_" and all lowercase.
	if name == "_" {
		return name
	}
	allLower := true
	for _, r := range name {
		if !unicode.IsLower(r) {
			allLower = false
			break
		}
	}
	if allLower {
		return name
	}

	// Split camelCase at any lower->upper transition, and split on underscores.
	// Check each word for common initialisms.
	runes := []rune(name)
	w, i := 0, 0 // index of start of word, scan
	for i+1 <= len(runes) {
		eow := false // whether we hit the end of a word
		if i+1 == len(runes) {
			eow = true
		} else if runes[i+1] == '_' {
			// underscore; shift the remainder forward over any run of underscores
			eow = true
			n := 1
			for i+n+1 < len(runes) && runes[i+n+1] == '_' {
				n++
			}

			// Leave at most one underscore if the underscore is between two digits
			if i+n+1 < len(runes) && unicode.IsDigit(runes[i]) && unicode.IsDigit(runes[i+n+1]) {
				n--
			}

			copy(runes[i+1:], runes[i+n+1:])
			runes = runes[:len(runes)-n]
		} else if unicode.IsLower(runes[i]) && !unicode.IsLower(runes[i+1]) {
			// lower->non-lower
			eow = true
		}
		i++
		if !eow {
			continue
		}

		// [w,i) is a word.
		word := string(runes[w:i])
		if u := strings.ToUpper(word); commonInitialisms[u] {
			// Keep consistent case, which is lowercase only at the start.
			if w == 0 && unicode.IsLower(runes[w]) {
				u = strings.ToLower(u)
			}
			// All the common initialisms are ASCII,
			// so we can replace the bytes exactly.
			copy(runes[w:], []rune(u))
		} else if w > 0 && strings.ToLower(word) == word {
			// already all lowercase, and not the first word, so uppercase the first character.
			runes[w] = unicode.ToUpper(runes[w])
		}
		w = i
	}
	return string(runes)
}

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Breaking: Fake ATO phishing scam uses tax return to lure victims
Posted by Jaclyn McRae on 26 August 2016 12:13:15 AEST
A highly-sophisticated new ATO phishing scam uses the lure of a tax refund to steal Australians' banking details and personal information.
The email, which appears to be from the Australian Taxation Office and is titled 'ATO Refund Status', differs from other phishing scams which tend to contain links to compromised websites.
Instead, the email includes an attached HTML file, titled TaxReturn.htm. If clicked by a curious recipient, the phishing website is copied to a temporary directory on their computer, and is loaded into their browser.
This is where the sophistication of the scam becomes clear.
Those who click the attachment are sent to an official-looking ATO page, complete with logo and references to the still-relevant Taxation Administration Act 1953.
If the recipient begins to fill out the fields presented, more fields begin to appear. The fields become more probing; as they progress through the form, users are asked for details including:
Credit card number, expiry date, credit limit and funds available
Bank name, customer number and phone password
Bank security questions and answers
Cleverly, the fields are dynamic: attempts to input a fake email addresses and credit card numbers are immediately met with an error message.
Those who fill out the form and click 'Submit' are advised that their identity is being confirmed.
Finally, a confirmation page advises victims their information is being processed and that their tax return is imminent.
Instead, their private information is being transferred into criminal hands.
MailGuard CEO Craig McDonald said a lot of work had gone into developing the scam.
"They've done their homework," he said.
"All the banks in Australia have been added to the 'bank name' dropdown menu and the information victims provide is immediately verified. Attempts to input an incorrect MasterCard sequence are immediately knocked back.
"They've spent a serious amount of time developing this scam. Most likely the aim is to sell the information they can gather on the black market."
Why an attachment?
What does the ATO scammer have to gain by giving targets an attachment, rather than a link to a fake ATO website?
Saving an HTML file to your computer bypasses link-checking security systems, known as RBL (Real-time Blackhole List). These keep track of domain names and IP addresses that are known to generate spam.
To reduce the risk of being tricked by one of these scams, you should immediately report and delete any emails that:
Appear to be from a well-known organisation, typically a bank or service provider, and are not addressed to you by name and/or may include poor grammar
Ask you to click on a link within the email body in order to access their website or download suspicious files. If unsure call the company directly and ask whether the email is legitimate
Offer money, reward or gift to entice you to hand over your personal details
Ask you to submit personal information that the sender should already have access to or should not be requesting from you in the first place
The Australian Tax Office website shares advice on how to verify and report scams impersonating the ATO.
We recommend you share these tips with your staff to make them aware of these campaigns.
By employing a cloud-based email and web filtering solution such as MailGuard, you'll also reduce the risk of these new variants of phishing from entering your network in the first place.
Our benchmarking shows that MailGuard is consistently between 2 hours and 48 hours ahead of the market in preventing new attacks.
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The American Idol 2014 Top 10 finalists take the stage tonight to perform for your votes in the next round of the finals. Which one of them will be sent home tomorrow night after failing to impress the viewers and American Idol judges Harry Connick Jr., Keith Urban, and Jennifer Lopez tonight?
We'll be bringing you all the action in our live American Idol recap tonight as the Top 10 contestants take on the Top 10 from the Billboard charts. We've already made our predictions about who is most likely to end up on bottom this week. Our readers have also made their favorites from the Top 10 known. But just one great performance can always lift a singer out of danger.
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And here we go! It's morning time for the American Idol finalists and we have host Ryan Seacrest with a video montage of the contestants taking selfies as they get ready for and go through their day.
Ryan introduces the American Idol judges, who take a brief moment to call out some of the signs from the audience. Then Keith explains that the singers could choose any song from 2011 to today that were in the Billboard Top 10 from any chart.
Ryan and the judges talk a bit about the earthquake, and Harry Connick Jr. says he was "doin' the nay nay" at the time and didn't feel it. Which, by the way, does not mean he was getting busy. It means, if we heard it correctly, that he was sleeping. Harry is, once again, just weird.
Now we have the American Idol 2014 Top 10 taking the stage. They all visited with Ryan Seacrest this week to talk about their song choices. Then it's time for the performances!
Well, we aren't sure what to think about MK's now half pink hair, but this song choice kind of doesn't work for us. She sounds pitchy and strained on the song, although she does look a little more comfortable on stage with this performance. The American Idol judges are not overjoyed at the song and point out how she messed up in the middle. Keith thinks she recovered, but J-Lo and Harry don't. J-Lo liked the emotion in the beginning of the song, but Harry thought she sounded like she was singing on top of Pink and not doing it well.
Dexter has picked another good ole country boy song, which is what works for him and what his voters like. Let's face it, Dexter is a good country singer and this is his wheelhouse. Maybe not his most exciting or perfect performance, but it's hard for him to go horribly wrong with any country song. The audience screamingly loves it. And the judges are pretty much on board as well, although they think it was more on the "good" side than the 'great'. Although Harry thinks it was actually not so good. He's being kind of harsh tonight. J-Lo boos him, Keith thinks it was good but the beginning was better than the end.
We think Michelle Chamuel on The Voice killed this song way harder. Jena sounds like she is struggling with the vocals on this. What is with everyone coming across as pitchy tonight? And we were not feeling her yelling at the audience to "get those glow sticks up!" It was weird. Her belts verge on screaming. The American Idol judges are more complimentary than we are. Harry is excited about what kind of songs Jena could do in this genre and he really liked it. Keith thinks it was the best performance of the night so far, not that we think that says a lot. J-Lo also loved it and thought it was perfect for her.
This is kind of an odd song choice but if he can please the 'Directioners' that wouldn't be a bad thing at all for his voters. We think he's really made the song his own and given it his own stylistic twist. Once again we are reminded that Alex is truly an artist and a musician, not just a singer. This is by far the best performance of the night. Gorgeous vocals and an emotive performance. Great job. The judges are all on board and agree it was a fab performance.
This turns out to be a good song choice for Malay, despite the weirdness of the lyrics being geared toward a male singer. She keeps the song smoother and reined in, which is great. Sometimes she tips too far over and starts screaming and losing the subtle sound of her songs. Nicely done and one of her best performances. J-Lo had goosies even though the lyrics were still for a guy. Harry thought it was sincere and she was totally present in every word, but says she should work on learning more about doing runs. Keith thinks it was well done and she knocked it out of the park vocally. He's also happy to hear her have more control. Ryan gives Malaya a pot of flowers from Harry on stage. It's odd.
So this is a bizarre song choice, but we loved when he did Adele so we were looking forward to hearing this. Honestly, we are liking it almost as much as his "Skyfall" performance. He's giving it a great rock edge and his vocals are sweet for the most part. We like that he doesn't just stick with his rocker image and goes out of the box. Not perhaps his best performance, but we enjoyed it. Harry says Caleb gets an A for originality, but it wasn't his best song. Keith didn't dig it quite as much as Harry and thought it lumbered along a bit. J-Lo says she's in between the two guys. She liked the song, and thought Caleb sounded great, but it lacked a little feeling for her.
This is a pretty song choice for CJ but we don't think he blows it out of the park. We think he could have picked something a little more powerful and given us a bigger performance. But it's sweet and he does a good job with some very nice notes. There are other places though that it sounds a little pitchy and weak. The American Idol judges are not totally crazy about it. Keith thinks it was really shaky and pitchy. J-Lo isn't overjoyed either and neither is Harry, who gives an example of how he was off pitch and has a tendency to sing sharp.
While we don't like this song because it's basically about kids shooting other kids, it's a relatively good song choice for Jess. She sounds good on the vocals, especially the chorus. Although we prefer when they sing solo and don't have back-up vocals playing with them as it makes it harder to judge how well they are singing. The audience seems to be happy with the song. J-Lo was really pleased with the performance as well. Harry, however, thought Jess wasn't connecting with the lyrics because she has a one dimensional performance. Keith thought it was good and he liked it.
We think this is a much better song choice for Majesty than last week, when she really sounded not good on "Let It Go." However, we still feel it is a bit of a weak performance and she looks scared and uncomfortable tonight. She has a good moment or two, but the song overall comes across as bland and lacks emotion. Harry really liked what Majesty did with the tune and her interpretation of the song. Keith disagrees with Harry and thinks the song didn't work just as a straight folk arrangement, but her voice was still good. J-Lo thinks Majesty showed fear on stage tonight, but she started to recover about halfway through.
What did you think of the performances tonight? Who do you think will go home in the American Idol results on Thursday?
I'm torn on this week competing against last week which was sooo good.
I can't stand this Jena bashing. Opinion or not, you have to give credit where credit is due and Jena killed that song!
So opinions are okay, but only if they agree with who you like?
No. But give proper credit when it's due. It's only fair.
Performances are not objective. There's no "credit due" and no "fair" when votes are based on subjective preferences.
Harry is the best thing that ever happened to AI…and he actually like 4 of the performances tonight outright … Others he liked but had advise for the singer that makes sence if you can think….
I critique Harry so that means I can't think? So silly. Don't be fooled that Harry really likes any of these singers, his disappointment and frustration at this season of AI talent is clearly written on his face. He caves in at times but he clearly doesn't think any of these kids are great. By the way the correct spelling is SENSE. Get some!
Exactly! He looks disgusted at each performance. While you see J.Lo and Keith at least enjoying the good performances. Harry… not so much.
did you see Harry's performance? I was not impressed.
Harry did get on my nerve tonight. I feel they are pushing three of them, he and Jlo to win.
Malaya sings very good slow songs, but for three weeks now nothing fast.
I'm gonna go ahead and say bottom 3 this week is Jena, MK and Majesty with Majesty going home.
I agree about MK and Majesty, but not Jena. I think CJ is going to be in the bottom 3. i couldn't understand half of his words, And Majesty keeps audibly gasping for breath between phrases which ruins the song.
I highly doubt Jena will be going home, I just think she will be in the bottom 3 this week. She is one of those contestants who has to give a great performance every week in order to stay out of the bottom 3. This week, she wasn't very good. She wasn't bad, but it was kinda pitchy and the singing was way too quiet (which, admittedly, might have been due to technical difficulties). She has already landed in the bottom 3 once and is a wild card, so who says it can't happen again? Also, she's the Angie Miller/Jessica Sanchez of this season: a great singer but her fans are really overzealous and obnoxious which turns off a lot of people who want to like Jena. Regardless, if she is in the bottom 3, it probably just means she got the 8th most votes. If she isn't I'd have to flip her spot to CJ. Not like any of this matters anyway. We all know MK or Majesty will go home tomorrow and Sam Woolf will end up winning.
I agree on the Sam Woolf win, I said from the beginning when he was picked for the top 13, if things go the way they usually do at AI. There's the winner young cute white boy with a guitar.
Dexter is better looking and sings country, he's the WGWG.
Dexter is cute, he also seem's the nicest in the bunch and that counts alot. Imo But I still think he's better looking then Sam. Btw, that Johnny Keyser is a looker, shame he isn't on the show this year.
I can't argue about the nice factor. Dexter seems like a sweetheart.
A sweetheart that's in the bottom three,. I feel bad for him, I saw Jlo clapping,… She doesn't like him.
No, I think bottom 3……. MK, CJ, Majesty, if Jena goes home it's not because of her talent she's just not connecting with the audience.
JENA?! How on earth do you think that Dexter & CJ did better than her? She was better than Majesty, Malaya, Caleb, and the 2 I mentioned.
Or MK could go home but that's way too obvious for me and she sang Perfect which is the song that saved Hollie Cavanagh two season ago. I guess we just have to wait and see.
Huh. She reminds me of Bobbie Gentry.
She sounded nasal tonight, her lower voice not so good.
CJ, MK, and Jena is my bottom 3.
MK, Majesty and Jessica are my bottom 3! (However I fear CJ or Dexter could be in bottom 3 in Jessica's spot). Don't understand why people thin Jena! While last night's performance was not my favorite of her performances, she is hands down the best female! Her voice is awesome! She is in my favorite, after Alex! Alex is amazing!
Snore-fest. The only 4 who actually sing in tune,have decent musicianship and interesting voices are Alex,Sam,Jessica, and Jena. But Jena should stay behind the piano. Boring group this year.
I agree with you except for Jessica. She is very nasally and she does not connect with her songs. You also forgot about Caleb. Caleb, Jena, Alex and Sam, with Alex being #1. I agree this year is boring. Last year was so much better!
Yes I do think Caleb is pretty good. My favs are Sam and Jena. I think they will improve.
My favorite is Sam and I think he did really good last night!


Written by: Phillips Matthew on November 12, 2016.
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I enjoyed the process of your group giving the topic of phylogeny of human violence and the explanation of the possible causes. Furthermore, I loved how key words were explained well and applied to things that we learned in class and that occurs in life now. The video was very informative and put together well.
I really enjoyed the humor of the video because it kept the viewer engaged and interested in what the speaker was saying. I also thought that the visuals were well done and matched with what the speaker was saying. Connecting human violence to the module of evolution was nicely done and tied everything together. Great job!
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I thought the amount of movement was a little excessive and at times distracted me from the speakers information. Otherwise that, it was a very informative video with cool drawing and diagrams to help understand the main topic.
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I like how the video began with the calculation of lethal deaths. The video has many good explanations of terms and the audio is at an understandable pace. The graphics were drawn very well and I like how the narrator tries to engage with the viewers and seems very interested in the topic. The graphs are very helpful in understanding the data as well.
Not only did I find the actual study discussed in this video to be very interesting, this video in particular also did a great job presenting it! The visuals were excellent and the attempts at humor were pleasantly cringe worthy, keeping me engaged throughout the video. The video tied in concepts from the evolution module nicely and presented the study in a clear manner. Great job!
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The humor is this video was very well balanced with the information presented. It definitely helped to keep me engaged the entire time. Video was very clear- good job.
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The visuals were great and matched closely with the audio. The attempt at humor was good and kept the viewer engaged. Overall, I enjoyed the video.
All of the content from the paper seemed to be presented very thoroughly. The drawings were very good and helped with explaining the content. The comparisons and examples were useful in explaining the topic.
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You had some great comedic moments peppered throughout the film, and it helped to keep my attention. However, these did detract somewhat from scientific content of the project. Nonetheless, great job!
I thought the video was very entertaining and humorous. It was easy to watch and understand and I liked the simplification of a very complex experiment.
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I loved this video. It was entertaining and you took a subject and tried to put some humor in it. Your drawings matched the information and were helpful in explaining it.
Good intro/background information. The jokes, though cheesy, made it relatable and kept my attention. The findings were explained clearly.
Great job with the opening to engage me. Overall good video with nice videos drawing out your graphs. I really enjoyed the commentary also explaining the interesting topic very well.
I liked how you incorporated humor into the video! It made it very enjoyable to watch and continued to explain the experiment without distraction.
This video included a lot more comedy than a lot of the others, which made it easier to watch. The narration was clear and the information was presented in a way that was easy to understand.
It was an interesting , funny, and thoroguh, video. It was easy to stay engaged and excited through the vid.
This is very detailed. I enjoyed the relation to phylogeny.
Nice jokes in the film! They kept the viewer wanting more and on their feet! The drawings seemed very plain, so those could've used a little of work. Overall, I thought the topic was very interesting and the video was very informative.
I really liked the introduction as it was very captivating. The drawings were neither too simple nor too complicated and flowed well the presentation of ideas. Good job on incorporating terms from lecture like proximate and ultimate causes!
For a very complex study this video presented the information very clearly in a way that did oversimplify concepts but made it easy to understand.
Video is engaging and clear, which is very important. The voice and narrating of the video are perfectly done.
The narration made this experiment easy to understand and relate to what we have learned in class. I enjoyed the video and it was clear to see the amount of thought that went into making it.
You explained the terminology related to your theory well, making it easier to understand.
Interesting topic, very humorous. Information was presented well too, and it didn't interfere with the tone of the presentation. Job well done.
I enjoyed the introduction! Very creative way to capture the audience's attention. I liked the addition of humor integrated in the video & the information was well-represented thrpugh thre drawings.


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In the autumn of 2016, at a meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia, trustees of the World Academy of Art and Science discussed a proposal to create a large international research institute for South-East Europe. The facility would promote the development of science and technology and help mitigate tensions between countries in the region, following the CERN model of "science for peace". A platform for internationally competitive research in South-East Europe would stimulate the education of young scientists, transfer and reverse the brain drain, and foster greater cooperation and mobility in the region.
The South-East Europe initiative received first official support by the government of Montenegro, independent of where the final location would be, thanks to the engagement of Montenegro science minister Sanja Damjanovic, who is also a physicist with a long tradition working at CERN.
On 25 October last year at a meeting at CERN, ministers of science or their representatives from countries in the region signed a Declaration of Intent (DOI) to establish a South-East Europe International Institute for Sustainable Technologies (SEEIIST) with the above objectives. The initial signatories were Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo*, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. Croatia agreed in principle, while Greece participated as an observer. CERN's role was to provide a neutral and inspirational venue for the meeting.
The signature of the DOI was followed by a scientific forum on 25–26 January at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, held under the auspices of UNESCO, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European Physical Society. The forum attracted more than 100 participants ranging from scientists and engineers at universities to representatives of industry, government agencies and international organisations including ESFRI and the European Commission. Its aim was to present two scientific options for SEEIIST: a fourth-generation synchrotron light source that would offer users intense beams from infrared to X-ray wavelengths; and a state-of-the-art patient treatment facility for cancer using protons and heavy ions, also with a strong biomedical research programme. The concepts behind each proposal were worked out by two groups of international experts.
With SEEIIST's overarching goal to be a world-class research infrastructure, the training of scientists, engineers and technicians is essential. Whichever project is selected, it will require several years of effort, during which people will be trained for the operation of the machines and user communities will also be formed. Capacity-building and technology-transfer activities will further trigger developments for the whole region, such as the development of powerful digital networks and big-data handling.
Reports and discussions from the ICTP forum have provided an important basis for the next steps. Representatives of IAEA declared an interest in helping with the training programme, while European Union (EU) representatives are also looking favourably at the project – potentially providing resources to support the preparation of a detailed conceptual design and eventual concrete proposal.
The initiative is gathering momentum. On 30 January the first meeting of the SEEIIST steering committee, chaired initially by the Montenegro science minister, took place in Sofia, Bulgaria. Sofia was chosen at the invitation of Bulgaria since it currently holds the EU presidency, and the meeting was introduced by Bulgarian president Rumen Radew, who expressed strong interest in SEEIIST and promised to support the initiative. Officials have underlined that a decision between the two scientific options should be taken as soon as possible – a task that we are now working towards.
SEEIIST wouldn't be the first organisation to be inspired by the CERN model. The European Southern Observatory, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the recently operational SESAME facility in Jordan – a third-generation light source governed by a council made up of representatives from eight members in the Middle East and surrounding region – each demonstrate the power of fundamental science to advance knowledge and bring people and countries together.
Herwig Schopper is the proponent of the SEEIIST initiative. He was Director-General of CERN from 1981–1988 and first president of the SESAME Council from 2004–2008.
This article was originally published as a viewpoint in the CERN Courier.
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Vital Saudi Military Bases Attacked by 18 Drones and Eight Ballistic Missiles
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Sana'a armed forces carried out on Friday a large-scale military operation, titled "the National Resilience Day Operation" targeting vital military facilities and installations on Saudi lands.
"The operation that came at the launch of the seventh year of steadfastness was carried out with 18 drones and eight ballistic missiles," Spokesman of Sana'a forces, Brigadier General Yahya Sarie, said in a statement.
The headquarters of Aramco in Ras Tanura, Rabigh, Yanbu, Jizan and the King Abdulaziz base in Dammam were targeted by 12 Sammad-3 drones and eight ballistic missiles of Zulfiqar, Badr, and Sa'ir tayps, Brig. Gen. Sarie explained.
Other military sites in Najran and Asir were targeted by six Qasef 2k drones, he added.
The spokesman said that the operation had successfully achieved its objectives, warning the coalition forces of the consequences of their continued war and siege on the Yemeni people.
He also confirmed the readiness of the Sana'a forces to carry out more severe and harsh military operations during the coming period.
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Vaping Guides / April 13, 2019 / By Vape Forest
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This is a photograph of a vape producing vapor. Inhale the vapor and you are vaping.
As vaping continues to skyrocket in popularity around the world, the question of what vaping is has become increasingly common. To answer this question of what is vaping, we've created this guide.
What Is Vaping?
The definition of vaping, as defined by the dictionary, is "the action or practice of inhaling and exhaling the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device."
By our definition, vaping is using a vape to inhale vapor. That's as simple of a definition as we can offer. To elaborate a bit for those who require additional clarity on the matter, vaping is what e-cigarette users are doing when they inhale the vapor produced by their electronic cigarette. When you see someone using an herbal vaporizer to inhale vapor, again, you are seeing a person vaping. Regardless of the device, so long as it's designed to produce vapor for direct inhalation, then inhaling the vapors from it is considered vaping.
The people who use vapes are known as vapers. E-cigarette users, herbal vaporizer users, and the like all have one thing in common: they're vapers.
Vapor Is Not Smoke
Don't confuse vapor with smoke. The two, while similar in appearance to the untrained eye, are vastly different from one another. Tobacco cigarette smoke is filled with over 4,000 chemicals and includes tar, whereas vapor contains no tar and far fewer chemicals. With vaping, the vapor that is produced is technically an aerosol, but in the world of vaping, this aerosol is known as vapor.
The vapor produced by a vaporizer is the result of a process known as vaporization, through which the blend is heated to the point of vaporization, which occurs at a lower temperature than combustion. Combustion, for reference, is what occurs when a cigarette is lit. As the cigarette burns, it's combusting, which releases smoke.
Vaping VS Smoking
According to the independent e-cigarette evidence review that UK public health agency Public Health England conducted under government mandate, using e-cigarettes is likely 95% less harmful than using conventional cigarettes. So you can see where the two have dramatic differences and why it's wise not to confuse the two.
As we stated earlier, the vapor produced while vaping does not contain tar, which is a significant difference between smoking cigarettes and vaping e-liquids. There are also substantially less chemicals found in e-cigarette vapor than there are in cigarette smoke.
Vapes Explained
The devices that vapers use to produce inhalable vapor are known as vapes, e-cigs, and vaporizers. Vaping hardware operates on the principle that a power source supplies power to a heating element that heats up the blend — be it dry herbs, oils, or e-liquids — to the point at which vaporization occurs and vapor is produced.
Most modern vaporizers utilize electricity as a power source, typically running off of a rechargeable battery, often of the lithium-ion variety. Outside of the realm of what's typical in the vape industry today, there are vapes that plug directly into electrical outlets, those that are gas powered by fuels like butane, and those that require external heat sources like lighters.
E-Liquid Education
The e-liquid used by e-cigarette type vapes is a liquid solution that's made from flavorings, a base like vegetable glycerin (VG) or propylene glycol (PG), and sometimes nicotine. In the case of nicotine, not all e-liquids contain the chemical that's always present in the tobacco of conventional cigarettes.
E-liquids are also known as e-juices and vape juices. Like with e-cigarettes, vapes, and vaporizers, all these words used to describe e-cigarette liquid share the same definition.
Vaping Is For Adults
Vaping is intended for adult use only. In many cases, manufactures of vaping products aim their products at adult smokers, offering them what numerous studies suggest to be a less harmful alternative to smoking.
As for the effectiveness of vaping as a smoking cessation (quit smoking tool), to quote Duncan Selbie on the matter, Public Health England's Chief Executive, when e-cigarettes are supported by a smoking cessation service, they "help most smokers to quit tobacco altogether."
"In a nutshell, best estimates show e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful to your health than normal cigarettes, and when supported by a smoking cessation service, help most smokers to quit tobacco altogether."
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USS Pandemonium Treasure Island Biological and Chemical Training Ship.
James Pepper Nuclear Radiation sites, Nuclear Waste Site, Radiation Experiment Site, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, the water, Treasure Island Navy Base November 5, 2020 April 27, 2021 2 Minutes
The Navy built a mockup of a ship at Treasure Island which was used to train military personnel how to clean up after a Chemical and/or biological strike. The ship was later built to contain laboratories and a large shower room for decontaminating the personnel exposed to the biological and Chemical agents in the testing.
The Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin
July 1957 Nav-Pers-O Number 486
The Good Ship 'Pandemonium' p. 16 ,Treasure Island,
The Good Ship 'Pandemonium' p. 176 ,Treasure Island,
The Good Ship 'Pandemonium' pp 16., Treasure Island,
ARRIVING AT NAVAL STATION, Treasure Island, with orders from the Chief of Naval Personnel to teach Biological-Chemical defensive measures at the Damage Control School, CDR John H. Stover, MC, usn, had the bright idea that simulated "reallife" shipboard conditions would be a big help in teaching the course.
That idea, plus plenty of willing hands, plus help from Navy headquarters, resulted in Pandemonium.
Here's the story:
There was no ship in the area that could have answered the needs of the course.
Even if there had been, it would have been a tough job to obtain exclusive use of it for class-room studies.
But—parts of ships would provide the same desired simulated effect in demonstrating the use of modem techniques. There was a deck house handy, and it was not in use.
From various naval installations in the area came promises of "junk," surplus gear, scraps for enlarging the "mock-up" to include a partial deck, some old guns, winches and a bit of hull at the bow.
As soon as the promised materials began to arrive, labor was performed by the personnel of the service school command and through the Naval Receiving Station in the form of transient personnel. Soon students "came aboard" for training, learning through actual demonstration and practice.
Through the chain of command application was made to the Bureau of Ships for funds to sink pilings and raise the deck to the level of an actual PC-type vessel for better simulated working conditions. BuShips, realizing the value of such a project, made the funds available. Later, pilings were sunk and the deck house and partial deck were hoisted into place upon them.
This odd-looking vessel with only deck house and partial deck, looked somehow like a house on stilts, with no underpinning.
But now more scraps began to arrive, metal pieces, hatches, and fittings. Plans and photographs of a PC-type vessel were procured, and construction continued.
Fifteen months later, in February, 1957, the "ship" had progressed to an undreamed-of stage. She now measured 173 feet in length, 24 feet at the beam.
BuShips provided money for steel, a wash-down system and utilities and had given cooperation in procuring the many miscellaneous items of equipment.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery gave financial aid and equipment for shipboard laboratories. BuPers provided funds for shore connections to run the utilities to the ship, and aided by procuring items of equipment including surplus guns, compasses, electrical gear, flags, sextants, and binoculars. A "ship" was taking shape.
On 1 Feb 1957, ceremonies for christening the strange craft were held at the Atomic-Biological-Chemical Defense section of the Naval Schools Command at Treasure Island. The name Pandemonium had been decided upon, since it best described the little ship's decks immediately following a simulated attack by enemy forces.
At the ceremony, the Twelfth Naval District Band struck up the National Anthem, the Jack was hoisted, and uss Pandemonium (PCDC-1) swept down the ways Here, thanks to a bright idea, students will sail through many years of classroom studies learning defensive measures againt biological and chemical attack.
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The Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Release Notes provides late-breaking information about the Intel® Software Development Kit (SDK) for OpenCL™ 1 2 Standard Edition and the Intel® FPGA Runtime Environment (RTE) for OpenCL Standard Edition Version 18.1.
The Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Version 18.1 and the Intel® FPGA RTE for OpenCL Standard Edition Version 18.1 contain no new features or enhancements.
Information about OS support for the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition is available on the Operating System Support page of the Intel® FPGA website.
Items listed in the following table represent cases in which the behaviors of the current release of the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition and the Intel® FPGA RTE for OpenCL Standard Edition differ from the previous version.
Items listed in the following table represent cases in which the behaviors of the current release of the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Custom Platform Toolkit and Reference Platforms differ from the previous version.
This section provides information about known issues that affect the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition and the Intel® FPGA RTE for OpenCL Standard Edition Version 18.1.
Reduce the size of the OpenCL kernel name.
Valid OpenCL kernel pipes cannot be passed as arguments in some cases. The symptom is the runtime will receive a CL_INVALID_BUFFER_SIZE (-61) error when you enqueue your kernel.
Modify your design to use channels instead of pipes.
The emulator runtime results in an assertion error if a kernel is enqueued 16,000 times. Do not enqueue a kernel more than 16,000 times.
OpenCL design kernel source files cannot be named kernel.cl.
Rename your kernel source file.
When alternatively using subbuffers and their parent buffers, changes written to one might not be reflected in the other.
Unmapping and mapping a buffer forces the subbuffers and their parent buffers to be synced. Unmapping and mapping a buffer between buffer uses should prevent this issue.
Avoid using the OpenCL Profiler on a kernel that contains multiple channel call sites.
After you set up the Installable Client Driver (ICD) and the FPGA Client Driver (FCD) on an Intel® SoC Custom or Reference Platform, the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ aocl link-config and aocl linkflags utilities do not return the correct library paths. To obtain the correct information on libraries and paths, concatenate the results returned by the aocl ldflags and aocl ldlibs utilities.
This section provides information about known issues that affect the current release of the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition Custom Platform Toolkit and Reference Platforms. These issues might also affect Custom Platforms you create for use with the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition.
Race conditions can occur between enqueue and dequeue buffer operations and host pipe operations. These conditions can results in incorrect data being read or written.
Manually make sure that no enqueue or dequeue buffer operations occur in parallel with host pipe API calls.
A way to ensure that buffer operations to do not occur in parallel with host pipe API calls is to do buffer operations as blocking calls before the first host pipe operation and after you are certain that the last host pipe operation has been completed (for example, all the data is read back).
For additional known issue information for the current Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ version, refer to the Knowledge Base web page.
You can find known issue information for previous Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ versions on the Knowledge Base web page.
The following issues were corrected or otherwise resolved in the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition and the Intel® FPGA RTE for OpenCL Standard Edition .


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by Sean Daly January 28th, 2000 August 29th, 2020
"Fell in love. Bleach-bottle blond with a cheating heart….I couldn't get enough of her….She was always interesting to me. She could get up in the morning with a cigarette in her face and a ratty bathrobe, and to me, she looked great. I was always hot for her. I could do it with her and a half hour later, do it again, wait a half hour and do it again, and so on….Five days later she unloaded four shots from a .38-caliber revolver into my thoracic cavity, hit me in the knee and creased my ear with the sixth shot. Then the bitch dumped the empty cartridges onto the white plush carpet and calmly started to reload the gun." Welcome back to the Schlitz-splattered purgatory of Thom Jones. In the new Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine, the short-story writer's follow-up to the collections The Pugilist at Rest and Cold Snap, Jones, a thoroughly modern mix of the Raymonds Chandler and Carver, revisits his old down-and-out haunts yet still manages to shine some bare-bulb light into previously undiscovered corners. Stand-out tales here include "Mouses," in which an out-of-work engineer with a hump performs horrifying experiments on rodents, and "I Love You, Sophie Western," about a lithium-dependent teenager with a constant hard-on and a thing for Susanna York. Ask former boxer Jones why he's never attempted a novel—but watch out for the ensuing haymaker—when he discusses and signs copies of Sonny at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, at Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. (202) 364-1919. (Sean Daly)


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A view from the middle of America
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be London
December 4, 2019 By The Central Standard Times in Politics Tags: Bernie Sanders, Boris Johnson, China, House Intelligence Committee, impeachment, Jeffrey Epstein, Jeremy Corbyn, Macron, Merkel, NATO, Prince Andrew, trade war, Trump	Leave a comment
Every time President Donald Trump leaves the country he makes some big and unnecessary news, and the first day of his visit to London for a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was no exception. Geo-politics is quite complex and unpredictable these days, but Trump has predictably further complicated it.
Since long before he improbably took office Trump has been an outspoken critic of the NATO alliance, at times calling it "obsolete" and at all times haranguing the other members for their meager defense spending, and promising only in the most ambiguous terms to uphold America's commitment to defend any fellow member from attack. He's sticking to the same rhetoric on this visit, but he's also objecting to the French President Emmanuel Macron's recent statements in an interview with The Economist that NATO is currently "brain dead" under its current American leadership, and Trump somehow finds himself in alliance with former favorite punching bag and outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel in defending the importance of the institution.
Trump is also feuding with Macron over trade matters, with the former threatening huge tariffs in retaliation for the latter's recent internet tax law that will charge American tech companies. Trump continues to threateningly grumble about the rest of Europe's automobile industries, and although that didn't make the news we expect it came in the off-camera conversations. At one point in his lengthy conversations with the international media Trump admitted that there probably won't be an armistice in the trade war with China until after he wins reelection, at which point he will deliver the greatest deal ever, and after that all the stock markets tanked for a second consecutive day.
Trump also struggled with the difficult chore of not meddling in the United Kingdom's upcoming election. He'd clearly prefer that incumbent Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson somehow be reelected, as he's a fellow nationalist and populist with an even worse haircut, and presumptive Labour nominee Jeremy Corbyn is the British equivalent of Vermont Senator and potential Democratic nominee Bernie Sanders, only more dangerous in a country that has fallen in an out of socialism, but Trump has mostly avoided saying so. He did briefly brag about he swung the vote in recent gubernatorial elections in Kentucky and Louisiana, although the Republicans lost in both states, but declined to weigh in on British matters. He's so very unpopular among America's most important allies that Johnson has pleaded for no endorsement, according to both the Brith and American press, and Trump has for once adhered to a time-honored presidential tradition by declining to comment on an ally's elections.
Trump also told the international media that he did not support the uprising of protestors against Iran's government, although within a half hour he was correcting that on "twitter" and before the cameras. The British press dragged Trump into the middle of a big British brouhaha about Prince Andrew, who has recently withdrawn from public life because of recent interviews about his past relationship with the late billionaire and internationally notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump said he didn't know Prince Andrew, a claim quickly disproved by photo and video evidence from the archives of both the Brith and American media, just as he claimed to have barely known Epstein, despite photo and video evidence and glowing compliments in published journals, but that barely registered as news back home.
Back in the states the big story was that the House Intelligence had issued a 300-page report concluding Trump had abused his presidential powers for personal gain and further abused his powers to obstruct a lawful investigation, and the House Judiciary Committee is now considering articles of impeachment. Trump has publicly complained this makes it hard for him to swing deals with all the other world leaders at these big summits, which is undeniably true, but so far at least a slim majority of the country blames Trump for the situation. We're sure all those world leaders Trump is dealing with are well apprised./div>
All the rest of those NATO countries have their own embarrassing problems, and so do the Chinese and the Iranians and pretty much every country on the planet, and we wish them all the best. Even so, no one should count on any happy outcomes by the end of this NATO summit.
— Bud Norman
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Q: Find $x$ for which the series converges Find the $x$ s for which $$\sum_{n=2}^{\infty} \frac{x^{n^2}}{n \log(n)}$$ converges.
How can I do this? My attempt is to write $\sum_{n=2}^{\infty} \frac{x^{n^2}}{n \log(n)}$ in the form $\sum a_n(x-\xi)^n$. How can I do it?  Do I have to use the logarithmic function?

A: Hint: Use the Root Test, sometimes named after Cauchy. It will take care of everything except $x=1$ (diverge there, Integral Test) and $x=-1$ (converge, Alternating Series (Leibniz) Test.
Instead of the Root Test, you can use the Ratio Test.
If the Root Test is unfamiliar, we can use the fact that $|x|^{n^2}\ge |x|^n$ if $|x|\gt 1$, and $|x|^{n^2}\le |x|^n$ if $|x|\lt 1$ to reduce the problem to a more familiar one.


I wonder how many people can hold a conversation without saying something about the weather.
And why not? It's something that's with us constantly. We can't get away from it, although when we're snug inside our homes during winter or enjoying the air conditioning in summer, we can pretend the weather isn't affecting us.
I'll never forget Hurricane Isabel in 2003 and the effect it had on us personally. Like thousands of other Virginians, we were without electricity for almost two weeks. We visited Winn's Baptist Church that Sunday because we'd heard they were holding a service even without power. Uh, without electrical power, that is.
Then he told the people who needed take a shower or have a tree removed to go meet with one of those groups and get help.
Kathleen and I didn't belong to Winn's yet, and we didn't realize how much longer we'd be without power, but the church was filled with such a loving spirit that I'm sure we would've felt comfortable asking for help.
We definitely couldn't get away from the effects of the weather those two weeks. Probably every conversation included a lengthy discussion of Isabel.
When I was young(er), I used to say I preferred cold weather. When it's cold, you can always put more clothes on, but when it's hot you can't legally take but so many clothes off, and even then you might still be too hot.
Now that I'm old(er), I find cold weather to be more debilitating. I don't know why unless it's just an age-related problem.
Yesterday we enjoyed a temporary heat wave–mid-thirties Fahrenheit, but it's twenty degrees right now and only going to the mid-twenties. Even though we have heat tape on the pipes, we don't trust it, so that means leaving a tiny bit of water dripping to keep the pipes from freezing.
See what I mean? I couldn't even post a "normal blog post" today. I was so weather-conscious that I couldn't keep from talking about it.
What's your weather like? Do you have any particular preferences or dislikes regarding the weather? How about leaving a comment.


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Q: The output of linux command is not getting suppressed from console I am using the below command to remove write access for "other" users:
    df --local -P | awk {'if (NR!=1) print $6'} | xargs -I '{}' find '{}' -xdev -type f -perm -0002 | awk -F"/" {'if ($5!="tmp") print $0'} | xargs chmod o-w

I need all error and output messages to be suppressed from console. I'm however getting this messages still:
find: /data0101/track_logs/IMEI_TRACK_9_20141127_01010014.LOG: No such file or directory
find: /data0101/track_logs/IMEI_TRACK_4_20141123_01010014.LOG: No such file or directory
find: /data0101/track_logs/IMEI_TRACK_7_20141122_01010014.LOG: No such file or directory

I tried all combinations like this at the end of my command:
&> /dev/null
>/dev/null 2>&1
2&>1 >/dev/null

But it doesn't help. My shell is :
# echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

Kindly help

A: You are close to your answer. Since the error is coming from the find command, you need to redirect the error of xargs -I '{}' find '{}' -xdev -type f -perm -0002 command.
So it would be:
xargs -I '{}' find '{}' -xdev -type f -perm -0002 2>/dev/null

Also, as stated by @HuStmpHrrr to redirect the error messages for your entire long command, use {long_command;} 2>/dev/null


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A working group that provides advice and guidance on disability issues to the University
The Advisory Group are working towards a culture that is more aware of and supportive of disabled people. Services for disabled students fall outside the remit of this group.
Membership is drawn from staff across the collegiate University with experience of or an interest in disability. The list is not exhaustive and from time to time new co-opted members may be invited to the group (for a specific time) to assist with projects that the group is working on. The membership will be discussed and revised every two years to ensure that the group has the opportunity to work with new and fresh ideas.
Hannah Boschen, Oxford Learning Institute
Jason Gurney, Finance
Dan Holloway, Linguistics and Philology
Gil Middleton, Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Paul Moorhouse, Finance
Sarah Stephenson-Hunter, Staff Disability Advisor, Equality and Diversity Unit
Kathy Noren-Curtis, Disability Advisory Service
Dr Martin Shotter, Wadham College
Dr Fiona Spensley, Lady Margaret Hall
Dr Catherine Walter, Chair, Linacre College
Verity Westgate, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
To advise the Equality and Diversity Panel and the Equality and Diversity Unit (EDU) on issues relating to staff disability.
To enable the views of disabled people to inform policy development and decision-making at the University.
To support the University in developing good practice in relation to providing a safe and supportive environment for disabled staff and visitors.
The group will meet at least once a term.
The group will report to the Equality and Diversity Panel.
The group will circulate agendas and minutes to encourage input from members of the Staff Disability Network.
Disability Advisory Group Terms of Reference (PDF)


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Q: Missing subject field values in user certificate (Windows) I am trying to enroll (on behalf of) a user certificate but certain fields appear to be missing in the subject field. Specifically, O and OU.
Using ADSI, I see that the fields have the values I want but when I generate the certificate using Enroll on Behalf, certreq.exe, or certmgr.msc (run as different user) O does not appear at all and OU values are the AD containers the user account belongs to. This occurs despite my specifying the values in my .inf for certreq and setting the values in certificate properties when using certmgr.msc.
Am I missing something or could I have configured something wrong? I am using an in internal CA.

A: A bit late but might help someone else.
If you are requesting certs based on a template, the template would be configured how to generate a subject on the cert. Specifically it will be configured either to read the properties from AD or accept the value specified in the request.
This looks like its configured to read the properties from AD. Therefore, the content in the request (be it the .inf or properties of request when using certmgr) will be ignored.
If you want to use the properties in the request you need to edit the template to not use the values from AD but use the properties in the request instead.


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Gaza Conflict: Israel Rejects Humanitarian Ceasefire, Majority Of Americans Side With Israel (VIDEO)
Christina Coleman
Despite Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to push a humanitarian cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, Israeli leaders rejected the proposal, citing the disappearance of one of its soldiers after a deadly battle on Sunday.
Overnight, Israeli forces hit more than 100 targets in eastern Gaza, including an Al Jazeera office.
The Israeli military officially declined the proposal by U.N. Special Envoy Robert Serry for a brief humanitarian cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
According to the Washington Post, Serry sought a pause in fighting by both sides to allow ambulances to reach the wounded in areas under heavy bombardment and to let residents safely bury their dead, shop for supplies, and to relocate away from areas being shelled.
Hamas announced Sunday that it had captured an Israeli soldier, though Israel's military cannot confirm whether the soldier is dead or alive. The development has surely complicated the diplomatic effort to stop the conflict that has left at least 604 Palestinians dead and more than 3,700 wounded since Israel began its Operation Protective Edge two weeks ago.
According to CNN, the United Nations has estimated that between 70% and 80% dead are civilians, including at least 120 children. Israel has reported that its forces have killed more than 180 militants. In total, 27 Israeli soldiers have died — more than double the number killed in the war with Hamas in 2008 and 2009.
Those numbers stand to rise in the coming weeks if a cease-fire is not reached.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said the Gaza military operation, which is now focused on finding and destroying underground tunnels, would continue "as long as necessary until the completion of the task and the return of the quiet in the whole of Israel."
But the most senior Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh, warned that "invaders" would find a graveyard awaiting them in Gaza. In a televised broadcast, Haniyeh said Hamas fighters would not put down their weapons until Israel and Egypt agree to open border crossings, ease travel and the flow of goods, and free Hamas members who were jailed after the killing of three Jewish teenagers in the West Bank last month.
"We'll never go back to the slow death," Haniyeh said. "Our demands are fair and they are humane. Our people have decided."
Meanwhile, a CNN weekend poll revealed that the majority of Americans side with Israel in the Gaza conflict. In fact, Americans say Israel's military actions in Gaza are justified, with only four in 10 saying that Israel has used too much force.
According to the poll, 57% of the public said the Israeli actions against Hamas, the Palestinian organization that runs Gaza, are justified, with just over a third saying they are unjustified.
The survey indicates that 38% have an unfavorable opinion of Israel, up 14 percentage points from February. Sixty percent said they have a favorable opinion of Israel, down from 72% in February. But that 60% favorable rating is three times higher than the 20% of Americans who have a positive view of the Palestinian Authority, the governing body that runs the West Bank.
The numbers are even more divided when politics are involved.
Forty-five percent of Democrats questioned said that Israeli's military actions in Gaza are justified. That number jumps to 56% among independents and 73% among Republicans.
But those figures aren't surprising, especially to The Daily Show's Jon Stewart (who has been accused of being pro-Hamas for expressing sympathy for the 600 plus dead).
He tackled the issue on Monday night's show, enduring some intense chastising from his correspondents any time he uttered the world "Israel."
"Look, obviously there are many strong opinions on this," Stewart said when the shouting subsided. "But just merely mentioning Israel or questioning in any way the effectiveness or humanity of Israel's policies is not the same thing as being pro-Hamas."
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Faculty and Student Research
Harold Scheub
Professor Emeritus, African Languages and Literature
Dr. Scheub is one of the world's leading scholars in African oral traditions and folklore. To record oral traditions he has walked more than 6000 miles through South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho. Dr. Scheub has published more than two dozen books and more than 70 articles.
A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Storyteller as Mythmaker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
The Poem in the Story. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
Story. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
The Tongue Is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.


I am going to tackle this prickly subject in a series of writings. I have already written on the subject a number of times because it is a perplexing one.
It seems clear to me that the "answers" one finds are largely determined by orientation. A person who wants to understand will seek resolution and understanding; a person who is not interested in resolution or understanding will camp on the questions and make them rhetorical. I am writing for the person who is seeking to understand.
Did you ever stop and think, "If God is God, He can whatever He wants"? Somehow it seems politically incorrect to think like that. Should we not love all people? Should we not wish everyone well? Should we not be judgmental? Should not God be like that?
If you think about it without preconceived notions and with a little rational thought, is not God the one who decides those things? I can see why people would want to believe there is no God. "He is not a tame lion" as my favorite author has said. If God is God, we do not control Him. We have no say in the order of the universe or the laws that He put in place. There is no question of right or wrong when it comes to God; God simply IS!
As God instructed Moses when he sent Moses to bring the Israelites out of Egypt, tell them, ""I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: "I am has sent me to you."" (Exodus 3:14) God simply is.
We did not make God. He made us. We did not create the rules for the operation of the universe. God made those rules. We do not define how God must relate to us. God defines how we relate to Him.
God made us like Him. "God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." (Genesis 1:27) I suppose there should be no wonder that we would be like Him in wanting to control the universe and define it. The thing is, though, it is not our province to establish the rules or define how they work. We may want to control things, but we do not control them.
We are here today and gone tomorrow. God simply is. God always is. God defines the rules. God has mercy and compassion on whom He will.
I consider from time to time the possibility that things might be different. God might be a tyrant. God might be cruel and unmerciful. Some even think He is that way. If it were true, God would not be wrong. God is.
In the context of God is, however, we do evil when our hearts are not set on seeking God. (2 Chronicles 12:14) Still, even if we have followed after false gods, have worshiped idols and have sinned in the sight of God, if we humble ourselves, pray and seek God, He will hear; He will forgive the sin; He will heal. (2 Chronicles 7:14) I, for one, am very thankful that God is that way … because He does not need to be that way. God is, and He defines the way it is.
The ultimate evil is in not seeking God. We do not think of evil in that way, but it is not for us to define evil. In the context of God is, evil is not acknowledging Him, not recognizing Him for who He is, not seeking Him. Evil is ultimately being separated from the God who made us.


Very relieved this paper is out. We've been helping many collaborators with their projects and their attempts to determine if their "intervention" has a role to play in metastasis. This assay is inexpensive, fast, and quantitative. I'd also emphasize that its an advance over techniques described in the Cell Reports paper. Once the proofs are fully done, I'll be uploading the manuscript here for people to access.