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In this happy, whimsical story, Oliver wonders how he will be able to keep his hat and turns to his friends for advice. Children will be drawn to the bright, bold characters, and will want to listen to the Oliver Poons theme song again and again!
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Our Oliver Poons and the Bright Yellow Hat E-Book Read & Listen Edition contains audio narration by illustrator, Lois Wendus, and an Oliver Poons theme song by children's songwriter, Ruark Downey.
In this happy, whimsical story, Oliver wonders how he will be able to keep his hat and turns to his friends for advice. Children will be drawn to the bright, bold characters and will love to listen to the Oliver Poons theme song again and again. Appropriate for Birth – 6. Also excellent for classroom use in Pre-K through Grade 2.
Oliver Poons and the Bright Yellow Hat is written and created by a mother-daughter team. Lauryn wrote the book while recovering from a severe case of Lyme disease and sought out her mother, Lois, as her illustrator. The story's character is inspired by Lauryn's real-life rescue cat, Oliver.


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It's no surprise over here that I am not the most tidy or organized person out there. I am making some great progress though and it's amazing how implementing some small changes can really make a big difference.
When I think of spring cleaning, I don't always jump to the typical mindset of cleaning every nook and cranny. I've shared before about 5 ways to spring clean your blog and 5 ways to spring clean more than just your home. This year, I decided to break away from sharing five things and got ambitious with sharing seven (I'm such a rebel) ways to get your kids involved with spring cleaning more than just their toys.
1. ORGANIZATION: decorative storage bins have been so helpful for us, especially in their play room. Even with all of our bins around, I still get asked at least once a day where one of their toys are. Somehow Moms are just supposed to magically know where everything is, right? After A had a meltdown because he couldn't find one of his beloved Paw Patrol toys, we deiced to have a designated bin for all of those specific toys so he can keep better track of them. We've also done this now with their stuffy friends and superheroes.
2. SETTING GOALS: setting goals has been a big thing in our house. We utilize an app or start charts that the boys can works towards earning things so it was the perfect time to put some goals in place for the spring.
3. MAKE CLEANING FUN: what I've learned with kids is if you make something fun or turn it into a game you are more likely to capture their attention and have them participate. They enjoy seeing who can match the most socks, using the garbage bin as a bucket and throwing things in there like a basket ball.
4. ADDING IN AN INCENTIVE: who doesn't love a little incentive for doing some extra help. My boys have really been into finding change lately so this has been a motivator for them to want pick things up. You know, in case they find some extra "monies". We may or may not leave a few coins laying around so they really think they are finding things.
5. OUTSIDE ORGANIZATION: our back door is right off of our kitchen and where majority of their outdoor toys are. Just like how they ask me where something is in the house, they'll ask about their things outside too. We use an old wash tub for them to put majority of their things in but being organized outside can also be as important as being organized inside.
6. BEING KIND: we also talked to the boys about ways they can be kind to others at school or when we are out at places. We asked them what they thought they could do and A said, he could play with someone new and share his toys, and little nugget wants me to pack extra smoothies and stickers for his best friends everyday. We're still working on him coming up with some other ideas.
7. GIVING COMPLIMENTS: The boys new thing has been coming to Eric and I and saying that one of them is lying about something or being mean to each other. Instead of allowing them to continue complaining about things (of course we also hear their thoughts and let them work it out) but we also follow up with having them give each other a compliment or say something nice about each other.


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U.S.S. Mayrant DD-402 (Benham-Class Destroyer)
The History of the U.S.S. Mayrant:
The U.S.S. Mayrant was named for John Mayrant, who served in the Revolutionary War, as a Midshipman under the command of John Paul Jones on the famed Bon Homme Richard. Mayrant achieved Admiral's rank, and the vessel named for him later acted as an escort vessel for President Franklin Roosevelt on a 1940 tour of new Caribbean naval posts, which the US had acquired from Britain. The bases, acquired in a "vessels for bases" deal between the two allies, was coincidental in many ways…including the fact of Great Britain's having cut use of asbestos in her vessels for decades. It would not be until the 1970s that US Naval policy dealt with asbestos and its real risks.
The U.S.S. Mayrant and her crew fought in many important parts of WWII encounters, helping to sweep away Japan's mainland defenders. At the end of WWII, the Mayrant and crew had won three battle stars. Her final service is recorded in the annals of the opening nuclear bomb chapters of the Cold War, in 1948.
The U.S.S. Mayrant DD-402 became part of a desperate American attempt to catch up with the world tide of battle. She was designed and launched as one of the pre-WWII Benham-class destroyers. The reliability of the small class (only 10 were made) showed by her durability…eight were retired, but two vessels were lost in combat.
The U.S.S. Mayrant was constructed at the Boston Navy Yard, with her keel having been laid on April 15, 1937. A fourth-generation descendant of Admiral Mayrant's christened the vessel at her launching. By the time she entered WWII, she had another famous descendant aboard: FDR, Jr. was the ship's commander.
Repairs and Upgrades
With a crew complement designed to be only 184, many at-sea emergency repairs on the U.S.S. Mayrant were shared by a highly commended crew. This "pitch in and help" attitude of a small crew may also have meant that the later asbestos illnesses were not limited to engineer's mates and pipefitters, who were most frequently exposed to asbestos. In the need of a particular emergency, anyone on the crew might be exposed to damaged and exposed asbestos or asbestos dust and fibers, during repairs and upgrades.
The early WWII role of the Mayrant also brought her under potentially heavy fire from German air assaults. An example of this risk came on July 26, 1943, off the Italian coast (Palermo). Luftwaffe dive bombers dropped missiles, striking only two yards away. The near-misses caused extensive hull damage. The engineering section flooded. The entire crew fought to keep the electricity on and water out. She reached Malta in August for temporary repairs, and in November limped back to Charleston for extensive refitting. Mattresses were used to stuff the structural holes. Decades later, doctors were to discover these periods of repair often exposed workers to the dangerously exposed and damaged asbestos, which permeated so many WWII era ships and confined workspaces.
Asbestos Risks On the U.S.S. Mayrant (DD-402)
As with most ships such as on the Benham-class (into the early 1970s), asbestos remained a common way to cost-effectively guard against fires and high heat. Unfortunately, asbestos also carried high risks of many potentially disabling or even deadly diseases. Only after many years were many symptoms fully understood. Later lawsuits helped prove asbestos had very possibly harmed thousands of crew members and shipyard workers. Evidence also suggested some of those who were exposed "second hand" to the asbestos also suffered.
Other problems came from what to do with the mothballed WWII vessels: especially as admissions about asbestos risks came later. Given later evidence proving connections of asbestos to disease caused by service on so many WWII vessels, the final use of the brave old Mayrant was somewhat ironic. Decommissioned in 1946, the U.S.S. Mayrant was used for atomic bomb testing in "Operation Crossroads." Surviving the blast, the vessel was too contaminated for any further use and was soon destroyed.
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Theo Watkins - Glass HUman
Theo Watkins
Glass Human
self-released; 2013
By Sean Dennison
Theo Watkins is 15 years old and sent us the bare minimum of information about his album, not calling it much more than "electronic, ambient, and a bit experimental." I like this kid. He gives us a basic idea of what to look out for without all the esoteric music history behind it and then lets us digest the music. As for the music itself on this six-track EP, it's a mix of electronic, ambient and experimental sounds.
Glass Human uses a myriad of samples and Watkins' own imagination to craft sometimes pleasant, sometimes jarring electronic compositions. Many of the songs seem to exist as a need to create rather than express, but the music isn't necessarily cold or emotionless. "Gust" ebbs in and out of loose sonic parameters while a smile of John Coltrane's "Naima" anchors the glossy electronic sound effects. The cover of Saint Etienne's "Heart Failed (In the Back of a Taxi)" is the standout cut, with a head-nodding handclap rhythm keeping things alive while oscillating synths and subtle percussive sounds skirt straight through the track.
On exploring this album you'll notice the title track is eight minutes long, and a knee-jerk reaction may be to ask why this isn't the strongest track on the album. It is, but it's also the weakest (oooh, duality). "Glass Human" is everything wrong and right with this EP; samples that seem at once both adventurous and arbitrary, hard drum breaks that use very simple patterns but don't go anywhere, random ambient bridges that stunt the mood while giving the listener time to breath…an interesting mess is still a mess. The other tracks suffer from more or less the same, nifty ideas (especially the eastern-influenced "Japanese Red Moon Rises") but distracted execution, and all to lesser degrees.
Overall, "Glass Human" should be listened to by anybody who thinks all kids do is post grams of themselves doing stupid faces. I'll give Watkins props to stepping out of the comfort zone of many budding musicians his age, because sampling does take an ear to pull off smoothly. There's more potential here than focus, but given the musician's age, that can be overcome with time and experience.
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A Study Takes The Globe's Blood Pressure And Finds A Dramatic Rise
By Richard Harris
Published August 8, 2016 at 5:27 PM EDT
A woman has her blood pressure checked at a center for the elderly in Bangkok.
High blood pressure, once considered a scourge of wealthy nations, is now even more common in low- and middle-income countries, according to an analysis in the journal Circulation.
Globally, more than 30 percent of the population suffered from high blood pressure, otherwise known as hypertension, in 2010. That represents a notable increase over the span of a decade, driven by a dramatic rise of hypertension in less wealthy nations, according to the new study.
Elevated blood pressure, in turn, contributes to heart disease, stroke and chronic kidney disease. Public health officials call it the leading preventable cause of premature death worldwide. And 1.4 billion people worldwide now have that risk factor.
Researchers at Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine took the globe's blood pressure by searching through hundreds of individual studies published in recent years, focusing on people over the age of 20.
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"Two things really surprised me" when the analysis was complete, He said. First, that hypertension had increased so rapidly in low- and middle-income nations, it is now a more common disease there than in wealthy nations.
As best as they can tell, in poor nations, 32 percent of people have high blood pressure, compared with 29 percent in high-income countries
"Traditionally we know that hypertension is associated with over-nutrition" and other features of high-income lifestyles, said He, who is a professor and department chair of epidemiology.
He suspects that the rapid increase in high blood pressure is due to the increasing urbanization in low- and middle-income countries. Urban diets are higher in sodium, fat and calories. "The urban environment is also high-stress, including work-related stress and low physical activity. All those contribute to hypertension," He said.
He's second surprise was that hypertension is rarely treated appropriately in low- and middle-income nations. His study found that fewer than 8 percent of people with the diagnosis had treatment that successfully lowered their blood pressure.
Effective drugs are available to treat high blood pressure, but people in low- and middle-income nations may not have access to health care or the funds to pay for these drugs, the article noted.
Because the study inferred hypertension rates from many countries rather than measuring them directly, the results (wordplay alert!) should be "taken with a grain of salt," Dr. Andrew Moran from Columbia University wrote in an editorial in Circulation.
Even so, he doesn't doubt that there has been a dramatic increase in high blood pressure in many parts of the world. "If you follow the other risk factors that are associated with it, like overweight and obesity, they track in a similar direction," Moran, a research scientist, told Goats and Soda. "That makes it believable."
The World Health Organization is striving to reduce noncommunicable diseases, including hypertension, by 25 percent by 2025. Unfortunately many trends are heading in the opposite direction at the moment, including hypertension rates.
"Drug treatment is not the first choice," He said. "The first choice is prevention."
"We'd all like to alleviate poverty and make healthy food more accessible to people and give people more healthy work environments," Moran said. But it's probably more realistic to focus on improving the diets of people in the rapidly urbanizing developing world by encouraging lower calorie intake as well as reducing salt in people's diets (though there are differing opinions about the role of salt in hypertension).
Psychological and social stress is also cited as a cause of high blood pressure (for example, this op-ed piece in The New York Times).
"We really have in the U.S. not spent enough time and effort looking at these underlying factors, social and psychological," Moran said. "I believe they are hugely important, but they're hard to measure and very hard to disentangle from alcohol, poor diet and high salt intake."
There's one glint of good news in the new study: It did document a modest decrease in hypertension in high-income countries. That suggests lifestyle changes can in fact reduce the rate of high blood pressure. Even so, Moran said some populations in the United States still see increases in high blood pressure, such as African-American men.
Award-winning journalist Richard Harris has reported on a wide range of topics in science, medicine and the environment since he joined NPR in 1986. In early 2014, his focus shifted from an emphasis on climate change and the environment to biomedical research.
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The South Pacific island of Tahiti is an exotic paradise, nestled among more than 100 islands in the French Polynesia. Enjoy its cobalt seas, lush rainforests, exciting barrier reefs and legendary local welcome. Get in touch to book your dream yacht charter and experience Tahiti for yourself.
Welcome to Tahiti, which sits within a cruising ground of five groups of islands bursting with exciting marine life, emerald volcanic peaks and vivid exotic flowers. Tahiti is in the Society Islands, made up of the Windward and the Leeward Islands. This area boasts some of the most famous, spectacular landscapes in the world, including the idyllic Bora Bora for romantics, as well as Raiatea, Tupai, Maupiti and Moorea. Sail around the ancient volcanic remains and atolls while spotting turtles, dolphins, unspoiled coral and shoals of colorful fish. There is so much to experience, such as swimming with sharks and manta rays, diving, hiking and even jeep safaris of volcanic rock faces. Fans of fine dining will enjoy the very best French cuisine with a Polynesian influence, supported by a palette from paradise. You'll be hosted by wonderful local people warmly sharing their culture with you.
Dream Yacht Charter in Tahiti: Whether you want an all-inclusive by the cabin cruise or a bareboat charter, your dream vacation awaits. You'll also get a friendly welcome from our knowledgeable team at our Tahiti base in Raiatea and can choose from our fleet of catamarans and monohulls. If you need help planning your charter, check out our inspirational itineraries section or get in touch with our team to find out more.
Traveling around the island needs a little planning and you'll need a car or scooter, or arrange transport. There are a few rental firms on the island but compare prices. We can help you arrange a transfer for the short distance between the airport and our base.
Temperatures in Tahiti tend to be dry and cooler (averaging 24ºC) May to November with the driest months between June and August. It is warmer and rainier December to April. February tends to be the hottest month, while December and January have cooling showers to counter the sun's heat.
The sailing conditions in the Leeward Islands benefit from a south-easterly wind of between 15 and 20 knots and the Maraamu wind between June and August of 25 and 35 knots. You need a special waiver to navigate Tuamotu Archipelago and authorization for night navigation.
Day 1: After orientation at Marina Uturoa, Raiatea, set sail for the east side of Taha'a. Head for amazing diving at the coral reef or head onto the Passe Toahotu. Overnight and eat onboard.
Day 2: Sail five or six hours to Avamoa Pass, Huahine. Make sure you visit Fare, a typical friendly Polynesian village with some boutiques and small restaurants.
Day 3: Cruise along the sandy coastline to Avea Bay, then sail to the Huahine Lagoon. This is a tranquil area, with a well protected anchorage, which should give a weary crew a restful night's sleep.
Day 4: You can't visit the area without going to the Anapa Pearl Farm, Raiatea. Call to reserve a tour, then moor at the farm. Take your dinner aboard and prepare to sail back to base.
Day 1: Get to know, Raiatea, the heart of Polynesian culture. Then focus on resting by eating dinner on board as your Tahitian adventure is just beginning!
Day 2: Head to the Anapa Pearl Farm with its pearl divers, rare aquatic reserve and coral garden. Make a tour reservation, then take a mooring at the farm and learn all about pearls. Afterwards, explore the lagoon or hike through the rainforest to spot Tiare Apetahi, a very rare flower.
Day 3: Anchor at Motu Toopua on Bora Bora and enjoy swimming and snorkeling. Take a mooring at the Bloody Mary's restaurant and marvel at their huge list of famous guests.
Day 4: Sail to the east side of the lagoon, where you can swim with turtles, rays, sharks and fish. In the afternoon, sail the southern shore of the island and explore the magnificent coral reef.
Day 5: Sail to the east side of Taha'a and explore the amazing coral reef or Passe Toahotu. Stay onboard for dinner and get a decent night's sleep.
Day 6: Sail to Huahine and visit Fare, where you will find a warm local welcome in this Polynesian village. Browse the boutiques and get a bite to eat in the small restaurants.
Day 7: Cruise to Avea Bay, then sail to Huahine Lagoon, with deep clear waters and gleaming white sand. The anchorage in this bay is very well-protected and should provide a restful night.
Day 8: Sail downwind to Raiatea, dine ashore and sail back to base.
Day 1: Sail from the base to Motu Mahaea, Taha'a for a spot of reef exploration and swimming in clear azure waters. Spend the night at Ha'amene Bay, anchoring north east of the small village. Take a dinghy to restaurant Tahaa Maitai. Book in advance.
Day 2: Head 22 nm to Bora Bora with a fast downwind passage. Anchor west of the Motu Toopua, swim and snorkel before mooring at the Bloody Mary's. Great restaurant. Refill water at the dock.
Day 3: Explore the lagoon and sail to the east side of the Bora Bora lagoon with its many spots for anchor. Visit the Lagoonarium and swim with the rays, sharks, and turtles.
Day 4: Head back to Raiatea. Make sure you start very early for a long passage to Hurepiti Bay Taha'a. Book a tour for an excursion in the Taha'a mountain and for a mooring buoy. Overnight on the mooring and dine onboard.
Day 5: After breakfast, hike Taha'a mountain and sail to the Anapa Pearl Farm. Overnight at the mooring.
Day 6: Snorkel on the reef around the boat. Tour the pearl farm to learn about why the region is famous for pearls. Sail to Taha'a east coast and stop at the Vahine Island resort. Moor overnight and dine at the excellent restaurant.
Day 7: Sail to Huahine and anchor in Fare, a typical small village. Amble around the boutiques, bar and restaurants on the sea front. Refill water at the dock.
Day 8: Sail to the south and anchor in the beautiful bay of Avea, where there is fantastic snorkeling on the coral heads. The shore is great for a relaxing walk among beautiful scenery. Dine at the restaurants on the beach.
Day 9: Passage Huahine- Raiatea downwind, where you'll find good fishing for tuna or mahi mahi. Enter the Irihu Pass and take a mooring in the Faaroa Bay.
Day 10: Head back to base.
Day 1: Spend your first day in Raiatea, also known as "faraway heaven", and get to know the local area and your boat.
Day 2: The region is famous for its pearls so make sure you visit Anapa Pearl Farm to learn about them. Make a reservation for a tour, moor at the farm and explore.
Day 3: Cruise to Bora Bora and anchor at Motu Toopua to swim and snorkel in some of the best waters in Polynesia. For food, moor at the Bloody Mary's restaurant where you may spot a celebrity or two.
Day 4: Sail at sunrise to Raiatea, the second largest of the Society Islands. Take time to relax, explore the lagoon, hike through the rainforest, take a jeep safari and look for Tiare Apetahi, a very rare flower.
Day 5: Head for the east side of Taha'a to snorkel in sun sparkling waters at the coral reef, or in the Passe Toahotu.
Day 6: Make your way to Huahine, which is quieter than Bora Bora and Moorea. Visit the main town of Fare, which has some boutiques and small restaurants. Or, you can visit its Sunday outdoor market, which is known for its fruit.
Day 7: Travel to Avea Bay, then sail along the Huahine Lagoon with a wonderful backdrop of emerald green vegetation. The well protected anchorage here will provide a restful sleep for the crew.
Day 8: Cruise back to Raiatea to explore the lush rainforest and sparkling lagoon. Dine aboard and rest for an early morning sail.
Day 9: Head to Moorea, a key destination for snorkeling, fishing, swimming, and paddle-boarding. On shore, discover the well-kept hiking trails and get to know the local flora and fauna. Whales and dolphins are abundant here, so book a whale-watching tour or a meet-and-greet with some playful porpoises.
Day 10: Sail to Tahiti, Queen of the Pacific, and the largest island in the French Polynesia. Marvel at the landscape, which is dominated by extinct volcanoes.
Day 1: Head from Raiatea to the Motu Mahaea, Taha'a, for reef snorkeling and swimming. Overnight at Ha'amene Bay with dinner at the Tahaa Maitai (make an advance reservation).
Day 2: Sail 25 nm to Huahine with a stopover at the main town of Fare. Meet the friendly locals and browse the shops and restaurants on the sea front. Refill water at the dock.
Day 3: Sail south and anchor in the beautiful bay of Avea for superb snorkeling among the colorful coral. Here you can swim with the manta rays along the sand edge or walk along the east side of the cape. Dine at Relais Mahana.
Day 4: Passage Huahine- Raiatea downwind, where you'll find good fishing for tuna or mahi mahi. Enter the Irihu Pass and take a mooring in the Fa'aroa Bay.
Day 5: Take the kayaks or dinghy along the mangrove river (no engine allowed) and visit the botanical garden beyond the wooden dock. Sail to Hotopuu Bay for a stopover at Taputapuatea Marae, the most important religious site in the Polynesia. Overnight at Motu Nao Nao.
Day 6: Sail to the Punaeroa Pass for a downwind passage to Bora Bora and anchor on the west side of Motu Toopua.
Day 7: Sail to the east side of the Bora Bora lagoon where you have plenty of anchorage choices. Swim with rays, sharks, and turtles at the protected Lagoonarium. Dine with a BBQ onboard.
Day 8: Head back to the west of the lagoon and moor for dinner at the famous Bloody Mary's where you may spot some celebrities! Refill water on the dock.
Day 9: Day sail to Tupai, a deserted atoll, to enjoy a spot of fishing. Head back to Motu Toopua for the night.
Day 10: Passage for Maupiti, a small coral atoll. Check the condition of the pass as conditions may be too rough. Postpone or take the ferry for a day visit to Maupiti.
Day 11: Visit the island, walk around the shore and snorkel the reef. Dine at Tarona, overlooking the lagoon.
Day 12: Sail to Bora Bora, mooring at Bora Bora Yacht Club. Refill water and have dinner ashore.
Day 13: Sail to Taha'a. Call ahead for a mooring buoy in the Hurepiti Bay and book a tour (Tel: 65 62 46 VHF 9) or anchor in the bay. Overnight on the mooring and have dinner aboard.
Day 14: After breakfast, head back to base at Raiatea. Stopover at the fuel station at the entrance of the marina for fuel and diesel refill, then call the base for docking assistance.
At our base in Marina Uturoa, Raiatea, our Base Manager will happily welcome you on arrival. The Maupiti Pass can close regularly due to heavy swell so call our base a day in advance to check when on a stopover or returning. The base also offers the best provisioning options compared to Bora Bora and Tahaa.
Fly direct to Tahiti via the international airport in Papeete, the capital of Tahiti. Internal flights between Papeete and Raiatea are with Air Tahiti. We can arrange airport transfers on request and the base is close to the airport and 500 m from Uturoa, the capital of the Leeward Islands. Make sure your passport is in date and valid for the duration of your stay and look under our Handy Info section for visa advice!
Area code from abroad is 00 + country code + 11 digit phone number or for local calls 00 + Polynesia area code (689) + 8 digits. You can rent mobiles at our base.


Every aspect of every component is designed in-house.
We use locally-based manufacturers to create them just how we want them. Because we're used to life on the road, everything is easy-to-assemble and, with tailored flight-cases, convenient to ship worldwide.
All Igloo frames are designed to be elegant yet practical.
We use alumium frames to give high strength whilst being lightweight for shipping. Our dome designs have withstood hurricanes in Nova Scotia and typhoons in Hong Kong.
All Igloo projection spaces come complete with high-gain custom-built 360º screens.
Over our 10+ year history, we've perfected the design, so we get the best results in a 360º setting and avoid bleaching and washout.
For our domes we use negative-pressure technology. Where extra durability is required (in a retail space, for example, or a visitor attraction), there's the option of solid, floor-to-ceiling fibre-glass screen. And, for the cavernous 21-metre dome, we use our own double-skinned inflatable design.
Our cylinders come equipped with durable, tensioned fabric screens. To get the best out of the projection system, they are pre-printed to just the right colour. They can also be fitted in a matter of minutes and, being fabric, they're affordable to replace if needed.
Igloo covers are designed to provide a complete blackout – and create the ideal projection environment, no matter what the conditions outside.
You can have plain, sleek white covers. You can choose a colour of your own. Or you can brand your Igloo in any way you want (we can provide templates for you to organise your own design and printing, or we can do everything on your behalf).
Igloo domes come with super smooth indoor or all-weather outdoor PVC options giving you total flexibility for mobile or permanent solutions. We use tried and trusted, UK-based fabric engineers to ensure your cover can withstand whatever's thrown at it.
Like the screens, cylinder covers are very affordable to replace, which makes it easy for you to freshen-up your cylinder or create bespoke covers for one-off events or installations.


There's plenty going on with Active Music Joystick right now, and so we thought we'd let everybody know about the latest news at AMJ.
Active Music Joystick have launched their brand new Duja joystick.
This new joystick, the third available from AMJ following the Thrustmaster and MADCATZ joysticks, is a unique singing instrument which can be used in connection with the various levels of AMJ software, along with providing some intriguing, exclusive new features.
They include the utilising of the special and simple sine wave audio, created within the computer upon connection with the AMJ software; providing an extensive understanding of scales (in particular, the harmonic scale), as well as an understanding of and opportunity to practice with playing specific notes in time; focusing on pitches as frequency numbers, either in steps or free changes as bands and theremin; understanding and playing the different characters available for colour and wave structures; experimenting with musical phrases; and developing knowledge and experience with utilising articulation within music.
The Duja instrument provides new elements of music control and education, and when used alongside the AMJ software, you can really develop your understanding of music creation in a great many forms.
You can find out more about the new Duja instrument at www.forumliverpool.net/education.
Active Music Joystick have produced a full-colour catalogue containing all of its products.
This catalogue is easily accessible, and provides extensive information on all of the AMJ products to date.
They include the original Thrustmaster and MADCATZ joysticks and all six levels of Active Music Joystick computer software. This includes the physical features, benefits and, in the case of the software levels, the enhancements made based on the progression and increased musical knowledge and experience of the user.
The catalogue also covers the recently-released audio games, which are Crosby, Reality and Audi, along with their standout features. This includes full-colour images throughout, and it can be accessed online and downloaded as a PDF file, or it can be requested in print form.
The catalogue is an ideal tool when determining which AMJ joysticks, software packages and audio games are right for you based on your level of music creation expertise. It is also particularly handy when attending music events and exhibitions alongside industry insiders. All of the products contained within the catalogue are available on our website, as well as Amazon.
To download the AMJ catalogue and for a sneak preview of the publication, you can visit www.forumliverpool.net/news.
Active Music Joystick, led by Reinhard Fuchs, will be on hand at the annual Musikmesse trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany this April.
Musikmesse is an annual event, and it is amongst the world's most important international trade fairs for musical instruments, sheet music, music production and marketing.
Active Music Joystick will be in attendance at this prestigious event, and Reinhard will be present on behalf of AMJ at stand 9.0 C49, showcasing the entire range of AMJ products as well as providing useful advice and handy hints about how best to utilise the range of joysticks, software and audio games.
Musikmesse 2017 runs from Wednesday April 5 to Saturday April 8, from 10.00-18.00, and it takes place at Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage, 1 D – 60327, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
For more information about Musikmesse 2017, visit www.musikmesse.com.
For further details about any of the topics included within this news update, and for more information about Active Music Joystick, visit www.forumliverpool.net.


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King Abdullah Port marine services are provided by Specialized Marine Services Company (SMS), a joint venture company between the Ports Development Company (PDC) and National Port Services (NPS).
The following marine services are available:
King Abdullah Port provides state of the art towage services via a fleet of ASD tugs, ranging from 85t – 47t BP. Details and specifications of each tug, which can be downloaded in stand-alone documents:
Dolphin I Tug Specs (PDF)
Dolphin II Tug Specs (PDF)
Marlin I Tug Specs (PDF)
Wahoo 1 Tug Specs (PDF)
Although the provision of bunkers in the port will be made available in the future, at present this service is unavailable. Document details will be provided in the future.
No documents available at this time
Underwater Inspection
SMS, the providers of marine services in King Abdullah Port, are able to offer ship owners and operators an underwater inspection service using trained and qualified personnel as well as the latest available underwater inspection equipment. Details and specification of diving facilities and equipment, including details of trained personnel, which can be downloaded in stand-alone documents:
Survey, inspection, and investigation services are available at King Abdullah Port by qualified marine personnel, upon request. Details of inspectors, including experience and qualifications, which can be downloaded in stand-alone documents:
Consultancy services are available at King Abdullah Port upon request. Details of consultants, field of expertise, including experience and qualifications – to be downloaded in stand-alone documents.


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Highland hosts sidewalk sale, more
Day includes special sales, gift basket drawing, sidewalk chalk art contest
Highland hosts sidewalk sale, more Day includes special sales, gift basket drawing, sidewalk chalk art contest Check out this story on HometownLife.com: http://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/milford/2014/10/01/highland-sidewalk-sale/16485811/
Laura Colvin, hometownlife.com Published 12:00 a.m. ET Oct. 1, 2014 | Updated 10:41 a.m. ET Oct. 6, 2014
New sidewalks in the downtown Highland area will be decorated with sidewalk chalk art during this weekend's special event. (Photo: Laura Colvin )
In celebration of the nearly-completed streetscape, the Highland Downtown Development Authority and Highland White Lake Business Association will host a ribbon cutting, sidewalk sale and sidewalk art contest this weekend.
The events take place Saturday, Oct. 11, starting with all-day shopping and special sales at participating merchants. originally it was set for Oct. 4, but rain postponed the festivities.
"It should be a fun event," said DDA director Missy Dashevich, noting hungry shoppers can grab a hotdog and a beverage from a vendor on site.
All participating businesses, including those who are not in the Highland Station Area, will be represented on a map, which can be picked up at any of the businesses, or at the DDA offices located at 205 West Livingston Road.
Shoppers will also be able to pick up a punch card, which can be marked by participating merchants at each stop. Completed cards can be entered into a drawing for a gift basket, which will contain an item from each participating business.
A ribbon cutting is scheduled in the area of Milford Road and Livingston Road at 3 p.m., and a sidewalk chalk art contest will begin at 3:30 p.m., with participants creating art on various sections of recently installed sidewalk in the downtown area. All supplies will be provided for the contest Dasevich said, with one category for adults and another for children.
In the adult contest, the first place winner will take home $100 in cash, while the second place finisher will collect $50. Awards will be presented in the children's category, as well.
"Part of the DDA's vision is to have art as part of our district," said Dashevich. "We're doing the contest because this day is all about celebrating our sidewalks."
The sidewalk art competition is free.
Highland Township's long-awaited streetscape project kicked off in May. The Pedestrian Improvement Initiative, as was been dubbed, runs along Milford Road from M-59 south to Colasanti's Market, and along East Livingston Road from Milford Road east to the railroad tracks.
The project, which finished last month ahead of schedule, has been called a "major facelift" for the downtown area. Enhancements on both streets included sidewalk removal and replacement, along with the addition of storm drains, driveway, and streetlights. New landscaping will be installed some time next year.
A rain date for next week's event is scheduled for Oct. 11.
For more information, call the Highland DDA at 248-887-7200
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'''
   Copyright 2015 University of Auckland

   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
   limitations under the License.
'''
from PySide import QtGui

class MaterialChooserWidget(QtGui.QComboBox):

    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        '''
        Call the super class init functions
        '''
        QtGui.QComboBox.__init__(self, parent)
        self._nullObjectName = None
        self._materialmodule = None
        self._material = None

    def _buildMaterialList(self):
        '''
        Rebuilds the list of items in the ComboBox from the material module
        '''
        self.blockSignals(True)
        self.clear()
        if self._materialmodule:
            if self._nullObjectName:
                self.addItem(self._nullObjectName)
            materialiter = self._materialmodule.createMaterialiterator()
            material = materialiter.next()
            while material.isValid():
                name = material.getName()
                self.addItem(name)
                material = materialiter.next()
        self.blockSignals(False)
        self._displayMaterial()

    def _displayMaterial(self):
        '''
        Display the currently chosen material in the ComboBox
        '''
        self.blockSignals(True)
        if self._material:
            materialName = self._material.getName()
            # following doesn't handle material name matching _nullObjectName
            index = self.findText(materialName)
        else:
            index = 0
        self.setCurrentIndex(index)
        self.blockSignals(False)

    def setNullObjectName(self, nullObjectName):
        '''
        Enable a null object option with the supplied name e.g. '-' or '<select>'
        Default is None
        '''
        self._nullObjectName = nullObjectName

    def setMaterialmodule(self, materialmodule):
        '''
        Sets the region that this widget chooses materials from
        '''
        self._materialmodule = materialmodule
        self._buildMaterialList()

    def getMaterial(self):
        '''
        Must call this from currentIndexChanged() slot to get/update current material
        '''
        materialName = self.currentText()
        if self._nullObjectName and (materialName == self._nullObjectName):
            self._material = None
        else:
            self._material = self._materialmodule.findMaterialByName(materialName)
        return self._material

    def setMaterial(self, material):
        '''
        Set the currently selected material
        '''
        if not material or not material.isValid():
            self._material = None
        else:
            self._material = material
        self._displayMaterial()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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PHASE DE GROUPE 1
MATCHES DE CLASSEMENT
PHASE FINALE
1 BRESIL 6 3 3 0 0
2 ARGENTINE 4 3 2 0 1
3 JAPON 2 3 1 0 2
4 PAYS-BAS 0 3 0 0 3
Local \ Visiteur
ARGENTINE	 —	 7-1	 —
BRESIL	 11-0	 15-1	 —
JAPON	 —	 —	 —
PAYS-BAS	 1-7	 1-16	 0-2
1 ESPAGNE 6 3 3 0 0
2 URUGUAY 4 3 2 0 1
3 AUSTRALIE 2 3 1 0 2
4 CANADA 0 3 0 0 3
AUSTRALIE	 6-1	 —	 —
CANADA	 —	 —	 —
ESPAGNE	 11-1	 9-1	 5-1
URUGUAY	 3-1	 3-0	 —
1 PARAGUAY 6 3 3 0 0
2 REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE 4 3 2 0 1
3 PORTUGAL 2 3 1 0 2
4 COSTA RICA 0 3 0 0 3
COSTA RICA	 —	 —	 2-4
PARAGUAY	 6-0	 7-5	 7-1
PORTUGAL	 3-1	 —	 2-7
REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE	 —	 —	 —
ARGENTINE	 —	 5-3
ESPAGNE	 3-1	 5-2
REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE	 —	 —
BRESIL	 1-0	 2-0
PARAGUAY	 —	 5-2
URUGUAY	 —	 —
COUPE DU MONDE AMF FUTSAL – MATCHES DE CLASSEMENT – 1985
COUPE DU MONDE AMF FUTSAL – MATCHES DE CLASSEMENT
COUPE DU MONDE AMF FUTSAL – MATCHES DE CLASSEMENT 3ème place - PARAGUAY vs ARGENTINE
COUPE DU MONDE AMF FUTSAL - PHASE FINALE
COUPE DU MONDE AMF FUTSAL - FINALE - ESPAGNE vs BRESIL
CHAMPIONNATS DU MONDE AMF
« Créé l'Histoire depuis 1930 »
The AMF Futsal World Championships (previously called the FIFUSA Futsal World Championships) is the international championships for futsal, the indoor version of football organized by FIFUSA (1971–2002) and AMF (2003–present).
The world championship tournament was held every three years until 2003, and now is played every four years. The first event was held in 1982 in Brazil. The South American teams have won most of the championships, with Colombia and Paraguay as the most successful teams with 3 titles each.
Since 2008, a women's tournament is also held. As of 2016, only two tournaments has been played: the 2008 edition in Catalonia and the 2013 edition in Colombia.
AMF host a number of International tournaments from World Club Team Championships, Confederation Tournaments to World Cup Tournaments, below are just some of the tournaments that you can compete in to represent their countries.
Jeux Mondiaux – Men's, every 4 years
AMF Championnats du Monde Féminins, tous les 4 ans
AMF Championnats du Monde Masculins, tous les 4 ans
Championnats du Monde C20, tous les 4 ans
Youth World Cup – tous les 4 ans
Youth Women World Cup – tous les 4 ans
FOURTH PLACE
1982 BRAZIL
1 - 0 PARAGUAY
(2 - 1 p) COLOMBIA
1985 SPAIN
3 - 1 SPAIN
10 - 3 ARGENTINE
2 - 1 BRAZIL
5 - 1 PORTUGAL
(3 - 2p) PARAGUAY
3 - 2 BOLIVIA
1994 ARGENTINE
2 - 1 COLOMBIA
4 - 0 URUGUAY
2000 BOLIVIA
(3 - 1p) BOLIVIA
(6 - 5p) RUSSIA
2003 PARAGUAY
STAGE COLOMBIA
STAGE PERU
1 - 0 ARGENTINE
6 - 4 PERU
2011 COLOMBIA
8 - 4 RUSSIA
2015 BELARUS
7 - 1 BELGIUM
11 - 1 AFRIQUE DU SUD
RUNNERS-UP
TOP 4 FINISHES
3 (1988, 2003, 2007) 4 (1982, 1991, 2011, 2015) 1 (1985) 0 8
3 (2000, 2011, 2015) 2 (1994, 2003) 2 (2007, 2019) 1 (1982) 8
2 (1982, 1985) 2 (1988, 2019) 2 (1991, 1997) 1 (1994) 7
4 ARGENTINE
2 (1994, 2019) 1 (2007) 3 (2000, 2011, 2015) 1 (1985) 7
1 (1991) 0 0 1 (1988) 2
1 (1997) 0 0 0 1
0 1 (1997) 2 (1982, 1994) 0 3
0 1 (2000) 1 (2003) 1 (1991) 3
0 1 (1985) 1 (1988) 0 2
0 0 0 3 (1997, 2000, 2011) 3
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\section{Introduction}

The NVD publishes open source information about cyber vulnerabilities as they are reported, and many network defense tools use the NVD as a data source to update organizations of risks and threats to a given network. For example, if a network contains computers that use Windows operating systems, a tool might reference the NVD to alert users on known weaknesses in Windows that a hacker could potentially use as a foothold to access the network. Such alerts will inform network security analysts to patch the system before a malicious actor can exploit the vulnerability. Therefore, it is critical that the NVD is updated as soon as a vulnerability is discovered in order to give security analysts an advantage against cyber attackers. However, research shows the NVD is not always updated in a timely manner, and that information about vulnerabilities is often openly discussed on social media platforms months before it is published by the NVD \cite{sabottke2015vulnerability, sauerwein2018tweet, alves2020follow}. These social media platforms, such as Twitter, Reddit, and GitHub, have become profilic sources of information due to the wide access and reach of these mediums \cite{shrestha2020multiple, horawalavithana2019mentions}. These platforms can be leveraged as open source threat intelligence (OSINT) for use by cyber operators.

Vulnerabilities are given a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures identifier (CVE ID) when entered into the NVD. However, social media platforms, like Twitter, may often exclude the CVE ID in their discussions of vulnerabilities that have not yet been published to the NVD. Even after a vulnerability is in the NVD, related discussions on Twitter may still lack the CVE ID. Therefore, the data gathered for analysis of tweets with trending vulnerability discussions should not be limited to tweets that contain CVE IDs, but encompass all tweets related to cyber vulnerabilities. To address this, we present a framework for unsupervised relevance filtering of `vulnerability' tweets and insights that can be gained from mining cyber-relevant tweets. The contributions of our work include:
\begin{itemize}
    \item An implementation of two unsupervised methods evaluated on a labelled `vulnerability' Twitter dataset, with the zero-shot BART classifier yielding an 83.52\% accuracy. To our knowledge, prior machine learning (ML) techniques for cyber-relevance filtering require labelled data for supervised methods or fine-tuning on a cyber-relevant dataset;
    \item Unique insights that can be gained from cyber-relevant tweets, including topic analysis and counts of tweets per CVE, and a use case showing how tweet counts can prioritize CVEs with low Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS3) \cite{cvss_v3_1_specification_document} scores.
\end{itemize}
Together, this relevance filtering and data mining framework allows for real-time situation awareness (SA) of vulnerability information from Twitter that can supplement existing tooling. Finally, we discuss ways to extend this work into operational use.

We first provide an overview of prior work related to our analysis in Section 2. In Section 3, we discuss our approach to implementing and evaluating different unsupervised ML methods for relevance filtering. In Section 4, we discuss insights gained from mining cyber-relevant tweets with examples. In Section 5, we discuss our findings and limitations, and highlight future research directions to build on this work.

\section{Related Work}

Prior work exists in applying ML to filter for cyber-relevant tweets. To our knowledge, they all require labelled data for training in supervised methods or fine-tuning on a cyber-relevant dataset. Supervised classification has been used on tweets related to IT assets \cite{dionisio2019cyberthreat}, tweets containing at least one security keyword from certain user accounts \cite{alves2021processing}, tweets from cyber experts with n-grams extracted \cite{queiroz2017predicting}, and social media threats from multiple platforms \cite{lippmann2016finding}.
Mittal et al. use a trained named entity recognizer to extract security terms from tweets, and then label tweets with at least two security terms as cyber-relevant \cite{mittal2016cybertwitter}. On the labelled dataset we use, Behzadan et al. achieve 94.72\% accuracy \cite{behzadan2018corpus} and Simran et al. get 89.3\% with word embeddings \cite{simran2019deep}, but these methods requires training and labelled data.
Shin et al. use word embeddings and fine-tune with cyber security positive and negative data, but do not specifically focus on tweets \cite{shin2020new}. Iorga et al. classified news articles as cyber-relevant using a fine-tuned BERT model \cite{9324852}.

There is also prior work in mining features for analysis from cyber-relevant tweets. Rodriguez et al. use keywords to filter for cyber-relevance and active learning to update the keywords, and use tweet sentiment as a feature over time \cite{rodriguez2020social}. Zong et al. study the connection of severity of cyber threats with how they are discussed online \cite{zong2019analyzing}. Hoppa et al. visualize cyber-relevant tweets in Kibana for end users \cite{hoppa_debb_hsieh_kc_2019}. Alves et al. cluster cyber-relevant tweets, select exemplar tweets for each cluster, enrich those tweets with extracted CVEs, associated CVSS impact scoring and publish date, \cite{alves2021processing}, and count Twitter mentions per CVE \cite{alves2020follow}. There is also research in generating alerts and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from tweets \cite{mittal2016cybertwitter, dionisio2019cyberthreat}. Sabottke et al. analyze exploits associated with vulnerabilities from Twitter \cite{sabottke2015vulnerability}.

\section{Relevance Filtering}

The goal of relevance filtering is to reduce the large corpus of topically-varied tweets down to a more manageable and cyber-relevant set for downstream data mining and analysis. In this section, we describe two unsupervised ML methods considered for inclusion in our pipeline, evaluate their performances in correctly classifying tweets as cyber-relevant or not using a labelled dataset, and discuss tradeoffs of the methods.

\subsection{Classification Techniques}
We considered two unsupervised classification techniques for relevance filtering. We focused exclusively on unsupervised methods for a couple reasons. First, we wanted to develop a filtering pipeline that could be used in a real-time operational setting and be resilient to the addition of new data points. The performance of supervised ML models tends to degrade over time when the distribution of new data points differs widely from that of the model's training data. In particular, Twitter topics can trend in varying degrees over different time periods, so it is important to have a robust classification model that can account for this variation. Second, supervised ML models require labelled data to train the models. These datasets are not readily available and labelling is a time-intensive and manual process. Thus, to overcome these short-comings, we investigated the inclusion of k-means clustering and zero-shot classification into our pipeline.

k-means clustering is a widely used technique for identifying subgroups of "similar" points within a larger dataset \cite{hartigan1979ak}. The number of clusters, k, is set by the user. The algorithm then determines the groupings by identifying \textit{k} cluster centroids such that the sum of the squared Euclidean distance between points within each cluster and the corresponding centroid is minimized. For this method, we first used Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) to convert each tweet to a vector representation for the numeric importance of each term to each document \cite{ramos2003using}. Then those vectors were inputted into the k-means algorithm. To identify a cluster as cyber-relevant, we assumed there must be at least one tweet in the cluster with a CVE mentioned.

One of the more recent advances in language modeling is zero-shot classification. This method applies language models, such as BART \cite{lewis2019bart}, to associate input text with a user-specified hypothesis, such as `This text is related to cyber security' (the prompt used for our analysis), and generates a likelihood of the hypothesis being correct. In this way, the language model acts as a classifier and does not require any training by the user since the model comes pre-trained on large amounts of sentence/hypothesis pairs. Specifically, we tested two different BART models. The bart-large-mnli model comes pre-trained on the Multi-Genre Natural Language Inference (MultiNLI) corpus \cite{N18-1101}, which contains 433,000 sentences paired with hypotheses. The distilbart-mnli-12-3 model is distilled from the bart-large-mnli model, containing fewer parameters and runs faster, but is slightly less accurate.

\subsection{Dataset}

In this experiment, the unsupervised techniques were evaluated on a labelled dataset of tweets from Behzadan et al \cite{behzadan2018corpus}. The dataset contains 21,368 tweets  collected over four days using common cyber security keywords, and were labelled as `threat', `business', `unknown', and `irrelevant'. Since we focus on vulnerabilities, we first filtered the dataset for tweets that contain the term `vulnerability', which came out to 9,963 tweets. Tweets labelled as `business', `unknown' and  `threat' were replaced with a `cyber-relevant' label as they also appeared to be relevant to cyber security, and comprised 54.5\% of the filtered dataset.

\subsection{Results}

\begin{table}[h!]
  \vspace{-8mm}
  \begin{center}
    \caption{Relevance Filtering Classification Results}
    \label{tab:results}
    \begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c}
      \textbf{Method} & \textbf{Parameter} & \textbf{Acc.} & \textbf{F1}\\
      \hline
      k-means & k=2 & 55.21 & 70.74\\% & 99.20\\
      k-means & k=5 & 54.01 & 70.06\\% & 99.36\\
      k-means & k=10 & 53.46 & 68.62\\% & 99.36\\
      Zero-Shot & bart-large-mnli & 83.52 & 83.88\\% & 99.12\\
      Zero-Shot & distilbart-mnli-12-3 & 83.40 & 83.53\\% & 99.20\\
    \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
  \vspace{-8mm}
\end{table}

Table \ref{tab:results} shows the accuracy and F1 score for each method evaluated against the labelled dataset. For the k-means pipeline, we evaluated values 2, 5, and 10 for k, and used the previously described method for labelling clusters as cyber-relevant. All the methods are over 99\% accurate in classifying tweets with explicit CVE mentions as cyber-relevant, which comprises 12.49\% of the dataset. However, on all `vulnerability' tweets, the zero-shot classification models significantly outperform the k-means clustering approach, with the bart-large-mnli model resulting in the highest accuracy of 83.52\% and the highest F1 score of 83.53. On the set of tweets with no CVE mention, the bart-large-mlni model is 81.29\% accurate with a F1 score of 78.85. On a Volta GPU, the distilbart-mnli-12-3 takes 2.18 minutes to classify the dataset, whereas the bart-large-mnli model takes 3.64 minutes. Overall, the BART model can accurately predict cyber-relevance without any fine-tuning or supervised training, making it useful in a framework for classifying tweets in real-time.

\section{Data Mining of Cyber-Relevant Tweets}

With the ability to filter tweets for cyber-relevance in real-time using an unsupervised ML method, the next step is to mine the corpus for insights that could be useful for a cyber operator. In this section, we discuss the use of word embeddings to identify key topics and trends in our collected Twitter dataset, and the metric developed to identify the most discussed vulnerabilities based on CVE mention counts.

\subsection{Dataset}

\begin{figure}[tb]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{wordcloud.png}
  \caption{Most common phrases in tweets containing the term `vulnerability' from 2/19/20$-$3/18/20}
  \label{f:tweet_wc}

\end{figure}

To create a new dataset for analysis, we used the Twitter API to collect tweets in real-time that contained the keyword `vulnerability', which we hypothesized was a suitable term for producing tweets related to cyber vulnerabilities in our initial data collection. These tweets were collected from 2/19/20$-$3/18/20, and statistics for these are in Table \ref{tab:stats}. Figure \ref{f:tweet_wc} is a word cloud of the most common phrases across this corpus. The zero-shot bart-large-mnli classifier filtered out 76.83\% of tweets, producing 77,979 tweets classified as cyber-relevant for analysis.
\begin{table}[h!]
  \vspace{-4mm}
  \begin{center}
    \caption{Characteristics of Collected Tweets}
    \label{tab:stats}
    \begin{tabular}{c|c}
      \textbf{Statistic} & \textbf{Value}\\
      \hline
      Number of Tweets & 337,468\\
      Avg. Tweets per Day & 12,052\\
      Avg. Words per Tweet & 29\\

      \% English Tweets & 92\%\\
      \% Tweets with URL & 45\%\\

    \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
  \vspace{-8mm}
\end{table}
\subsection{Topic Analysis}

Word embeddings were used as an alternative to TF-IDF to numerically represent the text. While TF-IDF is useful at capturing a few key terms describing a given text,
it does not account for words based on their relationships or contexts. For example, the terms `vulnerability' and 'vector' may seem unrelated when observed as a bag-of-words by TF-IDF but in context are actually related to a cyber attack surface. A word embedding model, like Word2Vec \cite{mikolov2013efficient}, detects this relationship and meaning by considering the surrounding words. Word2Vec is a neural network that learns a vector of weights for each term in a text corpus. Given two different words contained in nearly identical phrases, the weights learned for that word will be similar, and thus the two words will be close to each other in the vector space representation. The terms in each tweet were inputted to Word2Vec without any pre-processing, which created a word embedding. Clustering can then be applied to the word embeddings to yield topics within the full set of text data.

\begin{figure}[tb]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{word2vec.png} \caption{Topic Analysis Pipeline}
  \label{f:word2vec}
  \vspace{-4mm}
\end{figure}

Figure \ref{f:word2vec} shows our topic analysis pipeline. We used the elbow method in plotting the sum of squared errors (SSE) for different k values to select the optimal k,
which ended up being 10.
There are 31,821 unique tweets in this corpus, but clustering only those showed little difference.
Table \ref{tab:clusters} shows three of the clusters generated with the number of tweets and most common key terms. In particular, we see a cluster centered around the KR00K CVE \cite{krook}, and two clusters for different types of Microsoft vulnerabilities. These initial clusters show promise in topic identification, but further analysis is warranted to determine optimal clustering parameters. These clusters allow for quick triaging of vulnerability information and enable an analyst to efficiently focus on certain topics.

\begin{table}[h!]
  \vspace{-4mm}
  \begin{center}
    \caption{Topic Analysis Keywords for Example Clusters}
    \label{tab:clusters}
    \begin{tabular}{c|c|c}
      \textbf{ID} & \textbf{Total Tweets} & \textbf{Keywords}\\
      \hline
      1 & 8,701 & patch, Microsoft, SMBv3\\
      5 & 4,414 & devices, Wi-Fi, KR00K\\
      7 & 4,995 & remote, code, Microsoft\\
    \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
  \vspace{-6mm}
\end{table}
\subsection{CVE Tweet Counts}

In addition to trending topics, we also implemented metrics to determine the degree of importance of certain vulnerability mentions extracted from our curated cyber-relevant Twitter corpus. In particular the `tweet count` for a CVE observes the number of times a CVE is mentioned in the tweets across a specified time period. The tweet count can indicate public interest in the vulnerability, and serve as a potential proxy to measuring the exploitability of the vulnerability. For instance, if many users are discussing a CVE, it is possibly an active threat on their networks.

\begin{table}[h!]
  \begin{center}
    \vspace{-4mm}
    \caption{Most Mentioned CVEs on Collected Tweets}
    \label{tab:table1}
    \begin{tabular}{c|c|c}
      \textbf{CVE ID} & \textbf{CVSS3} & \textbf{Tweet Count}\\
      \hline
      CVE-2020-0688 & 8.8 & 1621\\
      CVE-2020-1938 & N/A & 1014\\
      CVE-2020-8597 & 9.8 & 741\\
      CVE-2020-8794 & 9.8 & 349\\
      CVE-2019-15126 & 3.1 & 279\\
    \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
  \vspace{-4mm}
\end{table}

Many vulnerability management tools rely on CVSS3 scoring to prioritize vulnerabilities on a network, since cyber defenders do not have time and resources to patch every vulnerability. Table \ref{tab:table1} shows the five most mentioned CVEs from the tweets we collected, along with their CVSS3 scores and tweet counts during the time period. We also calculated the correlation of the tweet counts and the CVSS3 scores for the CVEs in our corpus, which came out to .04, indicating no correlation. The fifth most mentioned vulnerability, CVE-2019-15126, is called the KR00K CVE, and allows unauthorized decryption in WiFi chips. Even though it has a low CVSS3 score of 3.1, the CVE has affected over 1 billion devices from companies such as Amazon, Apple, and Google, and has a known exploit \cite{krook}. The tweet count metric can detect exploited CVEs otherwise not prioritized by traditional risk management metrics.

\section{Discussion and Future Work}

The zero-shot classification pipeline was able to accurately filter out a large percentage of tweets and retain the cyber-relevant samples, without any labelled training data. Future work on the pipeline includes expanding the Twitter data collection to include other key terms, such as `exploit', and expand to data collected from Reddit. Tweets about cyber vulnerabilities can be mined for useful insights, such as the tweet count per CVE. This metric can detect some highly exploited CVEs otherwise not prioritized by other risk management metrics. Future work includes identifying other attributes about authors of tweets, such as their country of origin and association with security organizations, to weight the validity and importance of collected tweets, and analyzing the difference in chatter around vulnerabilities before and after they are published in the NVD.

We plan to incorporate these metrics and analyses into a reporting dashboard or alerting tool that operators can use in real-time for improved SA. The information from tweets can augment current risk assessment tools that rely on the NVD, since social media enrichment reporting provides analysts additional CVE information and additional patch actions not possible before through links shared in the posts. Future work includes developing a user interface to generate reports

\section{Conclusion}

In this paper, we show how unsupervised zero-shot classification using the BART language model allows for accurate prediction of cyber-relevance for tweets containing the term `vulnerability', with an accuracy of 83.52\%. This is significant since this method does not require any manual labelling of data for training or fine-tuning of a model. Cyber-relevant tweets can be mined to extract information and insights that are useful in cyber SA. One such insight is the tweet count metric, and we show how it prioritizes vulnerabilities that otherwise would not be highlighted using traditional ranking methods such as CVSS3. Social media data can augment current risk management tooling, and we plan to incorporate our findings from this paper into a reporting dashboard or alerting tool that would provide cyber operators with real-time SA of information disseminated on social media platforms.

\section{Acknowledgments}
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Oudaden (in Berber: ⵓⴷⴰⴷⴻⵏ) is a Moroccan musical group that plays Berber amazigh music. The band was formed in 1978 in Ben Sergao near Agadir, in the Sous region of Morocco. Its leader is Abdellah el Foua.

History
Oudaden was founded in 1978 in Ben Sergao, near Agadir. The group has performed throughout Morocco and internationally, particularly in Europe and the United States. They performed in Malaysia at the Rainforest World Music Festival, and in Tanzania on occasion of the Sauti za Busara. Their first album was released in 1985. The band's discography has grown to thirty-eight albums, contributing to the revival of Amazigh song.

In 2012, they went on tour in France and performed, in particular, at the Arab World Institute.

Group members
 Current members
 Abdellah el Foua (banjo and vocals)
 Ahmed el Foua (, a type of drum, and )
 Mohammed Amarrir (tam-tam, called )
 Larbi Amhal ()
 Khalid el Foua ()
 said ouhdi (guitar)
 Former members

Style
Oudaden takes inspiration from traditional Amazigh music. It is one of the leaders of the Soussi style called "Tagroupit" or "Tiroubba" This new style comes right after the Tazenzart style. This type of music is often present in wedding ceremonies in the Maghreb. and almost always includes at least one banjo and electric guitar; these two instruments constitute the pillars of "Tiroubba" style.

Discography

Albums
 2011 : Empreinte (Buda Musique)
 2012 : Mayna

References

External links
 Official site
 OUDADEN – MAROC

Moroccan musical groups
Berber music

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package net.iskandar.examples.chat.app.client.mvp;

import net.iskandar.examples.chat.app.client.mvp.activities.ChatActivity;
import net.iskandar.examples.chat.app.client.mvp.places.ChatPlace;

import com.google.gwt.activity.shared.Activity;
import com.google.gwt.activity.shared.ActivityMapper;
import com.google.gwt.place.shared.Place;

public class ChatActivityMapper implements ActivityMapper {

	private ChatApplicationInternal chatApplication;

	public ChatActivityMapper(ChatApplicationInternal chatApplication) {
		super();
		this.chatApplication = chatApplication;
	}

	@Override
	public Activity getActivity(Place place) {
		if(place instanceof ChatPlace){
			return new ChatActivity((ChatPlace) place, chatApplication);
		}
		return null;
	}

}


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