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// This file is part of Moodle - http://moodle.org/
//
// Moodle is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
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// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
// along with Moodle.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die();

abstract class editor_tinymce_plugin {
    /** @var string Plugin folder */
    protected $plugin;

    /** @var array Plugin settings */
    protected $config = null;

    /** @var array list of buttons defined by this plugin */
    protected $buttons = array();

    /**
     * @param string $plugin Name of folder
     */
    public function __construct($plugin) {
        $this->plugin = $plugin;
    }

    /**
     * Returns list of buttons defined by this plugin.
     * useful mostly as information when setting custom toolbar.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function get_buttons() {
        return $this->buttons;
    }
    /**
     * Makes sure config is loaded and cached.
     * @return void
     */
    protected function load_config() {
        if (!isset($this->config)) {
            $name = $this->get_name();
            $this->config = get_config("tinymce_$name");
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns plugin config value.
     * @param  string $name
     * @param  string $default value if config does not exist yet
     * @return string value or default
     */
    public function get_config($name, $default = null) {
        $this->load_config();
        return isset($this->config->$name) ? $this->config->$name : $default;
    }

    /**
     * Sets plugin config value.
     * @param  string $name name of config
     * @param  string $value string config value, null means delete
     * @return string value
     */
    public function set_config($name, $value) {
        $pluginname = $this->get_name();
        $this->load_config();
        if ($value === null) {
            unset($this->config->$name);
        } else {
            $this->config->$name = $value;
        }
        set_config($name, $value, "tinymce_$pluginname");
    }

    /**
     * Returns name of this tinymce plugin.
     * @return string
     */
    public function get_name() {
        // All class names start with "tinymce_".
        $words = explode('_', get_class($this), 2);
        return $words[1];
    }

    /**
     * Adjusts TinyMCE init parameters for this plugin.
     *
     * Subclasses must implement this function in order to carry out changes
     * to the TinyMCE settings.
     *
     * @param array $params TinyMCE init parameters array
     * @param context $context Context where editor is being shown
     * @param array $options Options for this editor
     */
    protected abstract function update_init_params(array &$params, context $context,
            array $options = null);

    /**
     * Gets the order in which to run this plugin. Order usually only matters if
     * (a) the place you add your button might depend on another plugin, or
     * (b) you want to make some changes to layout etc. that should happen last.
     * The default order is 100; within that, plugins are sorted alphabetically.
     * Return a lower number if you want this plugin to run earlier, or a higher
     * number if you want it to run later.
     */
    protected function get_sort_order() {
        return 100;
    }

    /**
     * Adds a button to the editor, after another button (or at the end).
     *
     * Specify the location of this button using the $after variable. If you
     * leave this blank, the button will be added at the end.
     *
     * If you want to try different possible locations depending on existing
     * plugins you can set $alwaysadd to false and check the return value
     * to see if it succeeded.
     *
     * @param array $params TinyMCE init parameters array
     * @param int $row Row to add button to (1 to 3)
     * @param string $button Identifier of button/plugin
     * @param string $after Adds button directly after the named plugin
     * @param bool $alwaysadd If specified $after string not found, add at end
     * @return bool True if added
     */
    protected function add_button_after(array &$params, $row, $button,
            $after = '', $alwaysadd = true) {

        if ($this->is_button_present($params, $button)) {
            return true;
        }

        $row = $this->fix_row($params, $row);

        $field = 'theme_advanced_buttons' . $row;
        $old = $params[$field];

        // Empty = add at end.
        if ($after === '') {
            $params[$field] = $old . ',' . $button;
            return true;
        }

        // Try to add after given plugin.
        $params[$field] = preg_replace('~(,|^)(' . preg_quote($after) . ')(,|$)~',
                '$1$2,' . $button . '$3', $old);
        if ($params[$field] !== $old) {
            return true;
        }

        // If always adding, recurse to add it empty.
        if ($alwaysadd) {
            return $this->add_button_after($params, $row, $button);
        }

        // Otherwise return false (failed to add).
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Adds a button to the editor.
     *
     * Specify the location of this button using the $before variable. If you
     * leave this blank, the button will be added at the start.
     *
     * If you want to try different possible locations depending on existing
     * plugins you can set $alwaysadd to false and check the return value
     * to see if it succeeded.
     *
     * @param array $params TinyMCE init parameters array
     * @param int $row Row to add button to (1 to 10)
     * @param string $button Identifier of button/plugin
     * @param string $before Adds button directly before the named plugin
     * @param bool $alwaysadd If specified $before string not found, add at start
     * @return bool True if added
     */
    protected function add_button_before(array &$params, $row, $button,
            $before = '', $alwaysadd = true) {

        if ($this->is_button_present($params, $button)) {
            return true;
        }
        $row = $this->fix_row($params, $row);

        $field = 'theme_advanced_buttons' . $row;
        $old = $params[$field];

        // Empty = add at start.
        if ($before === '') {
            $params[$field] = $button . ',' . $old;
            return true;
        }

        // Try to add before given plugin.
        $params[$field] = preg_replace('~(,|^)(' . preg_quote($before) . ')(,|$)~',
                '$1' . $button . ',$2$3', $old);
        if ($params[$field] !== $old) {
            return true;
        }

        // If always adding, recurse to add it empty.
        if ($alwaysadd) {
            return $this->add_button_before($params, $row, $button);
        }

        // Otherwise return false (failed to add).
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Tests if button already present.
     * @param array $params
     * @param string $button
     * @return bool
     */
    private function is_button_present(array $params, $button) {
        for($i=1; $i<=10; $i++) {
            $field = 'theme_advanced_buttons' . $i;
            if (!isset($params[$field])) {
                continue;
            }
            $buttons = explode(',', $params[$field]);
            if (in_array($button, $buttons)) {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Checks the row value is valid, fix if necessary.
     *
     * @param array $params TinyMCE init parameters array
     * @param int $row Row to add button if exists
     * @return int requested row if exists, lower number if does not exist.
     */
    private function fix_row(array &$params, $row) {
        $row = ($row < 1) ? 1 : (int)$row;
        $row = ($row > 10) ? 10 : $row;

        $field = 'theme_advanced_buttons' . $row;
        if (isset($params[$field])) {
            return $row;
        }
        for($i=$row; $i>=1; $i--) {
            $field = 'theme_advanced_buttons' . $i;
            if (isset($params[$field])) {
                return $i;
            }
        }
        // This should not happen.
        return 1;
    }

    /**
     * Adds a JavaScript plugin into TinyMCE. Note that adding a plugin does
     * not by itself add a button; you must do both.
     *
     * If you leave $pluginname blank (default) it uses the folder name.
     *
     * @param array $params TinyMCE init parameters array
     * @param string $pluginname Identifier for plugin within TinyMCE
     * @param string $jsfile Name of JS file (within plugin 'tinymce' directory)
     */
    protected function add_js_plugin(&$params, $pluginname='', $jsfile='editor_plugin.js') {
        global $CFG;

        // Set default plugin name.
        if ($pluginname === '') {
            $pluginname = $this->plugin;
        }

        // Add plugin to list in params, so it doesn't try to load it again.
        $params['plugins'] .= ',-' . $pluginname;

        // Add special param that causes Moodle TinyMCE init to load the plugin.
        if (!isset($params['moodle_init_plugins'])) {
            $params['moodle_init_plugins'] = '';
        } else {
            $params['moodle_init_plugins'] .= ',';
        }

        // Get URL of main JS file and store in params.
        $jsurl = $this->get_tinymce_file_url($jsfile, false);
        $params['moodle_init_plugins'] .= $pluginname . ':' . $jsurl;
    }

    /**
     * Returns URL to files in the TinyMCE folder within this plugin, suitable
     * for client-side use such as loading JavaScript files. (This URL normally
     * goes through loader.php and contains the plugin version to ensure
     * correct and long-term cacheing.)
     *
     * @param string $file Filename or path within the folder
     * @param bool $absolute Set false to get relative URL from plugins folder
     */
    public function get_tinymce_file_url($file='', $absolute=true) {
        global $CFG;

        // Version number comes from plugin version.php, except in developer
        // mode where the special string 'dev' is used (prevents cacheing and
        // serves unminified JS).
        if (debugging('', DEBUG_DEVELOPER)) {
            $version = '-1';
        } else {
            $version = $this->get_version();
        }

        // Calculate the JS url (relative to the TinyMCE plugins folder - using
        // relative URL saves a few bytes in each HTML page).
        if ($CFG->slasharguments) {
            // URL is usually from loader.php...
            $jsurl = 'loader.php/' . $this->plugin . '/' . $version . '/' . $file;
        } else {
            // ...except when slash arguments are turned off it serves direct.
            // In this situation there is no version details and it is up to
            // the browser and server to negotiate cacheing, which will mean
            // requesting the JS files frequently (reduced performance).
            $jsurl = $this->plugin . '/tinymce/' . $file;
        }

        if ($absolute) {
            $jsurl = $CFG->wwwroot . '/lib/editor/tinymce/plugins/' . $jsurl;
        }

        return $jsurl;
    }

    /**
     * Obtains version number from version.php for this plugin.
     *
     * @return string Version number
     */
    protected function get_version() {
        global $CFG;

        $plugin = new stdClass;
        require($CFG->dirroot . '/lib/editor/tinymce/plugins/' . $this->plugin . '/version.php');
        return $plugin->version;
    }

    /**
     * Calls all available plugins to adjust the TinyMCE init parameters.
     *
     * @param array $params TinyMCE init parameters array
     * @param context $context Context where editor is being shown
     * @param array $options Options for this editor
     */
    public static function all_update_init_params(array &$params,
            context $context, array $options = null) {
        global $CFG;

        // Get list of plugin directories.
        $plugins = get_plugin_list('tinymce');

        // Get list of disabled subplugins.
        $disabled = array();
        if ($params['moodle_config']->disabledsubplugins) {
            foreach (explode(',', $params['moodle_config']->disabledsubplugins) as $sp) {
                $sp = trim($sp);
                if ($sp !== '') {
                    $disabled[$sp] = $sp;
                }
            }
        }

        // Construct all the plugins.
        $pluginobjects = array();
        foreach ($plugins as $plugin => $dir) {
            if (isset($disabled[$plugin])) {
                continue;
            }
            require_once($dir . '/lib.php');
            $classname = 'tinymce_' . $plugin;
            $pluginobjects[] = new $classname($plugin);
        }

        // Sort plugins by sort order and name.
        usort($pluginobjects, array('editor_tinymce_plugin', 'compare_plugins'));

        // Run the function for each plugin.
        foreach ($pluginobjects as $obj) {
            $obj->update_init_params($params, $context, $options);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Gets a named plugin object. Will cause fatal error if plugin doesn't exist.
     *
     * @param string $plugin Name of plugin e.g. 'moodleemoticon'
     * @return editor_tinymce_plugin Plugin object
     */
    public static function get($plugin) {
        $dir = get_component_directory('tinymce_' . $plugin);
        require_once($dir . '/lib.php');
        $classname = 'tinymce_' . $plugin;
        return new $classname($plugin);
    }

    /**
     * Compares two plugins.
     * @param editor_tinymce_plugin $a
     * @param editor_tinymce_plugin $b
     * @return Negative number if $a is before $b
     */
    public static function compare_plugins(editor_tinymce_plugin $a, editor_tinymce_plugin $b) {
        // Use sort order first.
        $order = $a->get_sort_order() - $b->get_sort_order();
        if ($order != 0) {
            return $order;
        }

        // Then sort alphabetically.
        return strcmp($a->plugin, $b->plugin);
    }
}


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Home / Threat Research / Advanced Threats
New, Live, Interactive Phishing Attacks Emerge in Brazil
By Limor Kessem
co-authored by Tal Darsan
Brazil is fighting an uphill battle when it comes to cybercrime. There's a new fraud attempt every 16.9 seconds in Brazil, Convergência Digital reported. According to Brasil Econômico, there are about 4,700 attempts per day. No wonder internet fraud has been named the "fraud champion" of Brazil.
IBM X-Force continues to discover evolving cybercrime threats and new tactics in the country. X-Force researchers uncovered and analyzed a new phishing method that recently emerged in Brazil. This particular method is designed to emulate a banking Trojan by extracting critical data from its victims in real time via a live, interactive phishing attack.
This type of phishing scheme takes place over a web session between the attacker and the victim. It is able to mimic a target website's look and feel, more so than just an idle phishing page. From afar and behind the scenes, cybercriminals impersonate the victim's bank and ask for all kinds of account details.
Most likely, the criminal will access the compromised account from the bank's website to make a transaction in real time, all the while milking more authentication details from the unsuspecting victim. The emergence of this new method's will likely contribute to rises in fraud in Brazil over the coming months.
Brazil is already the second-largest generator of cybercrime in the world, according to Computerworld, and the country most affected by fraud in Latin America, per Globo. For some perspective, one of cybercrime's most targeted countries in the world, the U.K., saw a 25 percent increase in online fraud in 2015, as reported by The Guardian. Brazil saw a 40 percent rise in online banking fraud, according to El País, during the same year.
A Man in the Middle Gone Phishing
Phishing fraudsters have devised numerous tactics to solicit the attention of banking customers. They may send emails impersonating the bank, redirect users to fake sites, deploy pharming attacks, induce malicious proxy changes, or launch fake windows or images on the victim's desktop to rob access credentials, account information, card data and personally identifiable information (PII).
Most banks require users to provide personal details in real time to authenticate customers during digital transactions. This usually foils fraud attacks. These details are called out-of-band authentication because they happen away from the user's browser, via a smartphone, card reader or numeric code chart. So how does a criminal rob an SMS code without infecting the victim's smartphone? How does he or she gain real-time access to a time-based code issued by the bank for a given transaction?
Well, they typically can't. But you can appreciate how much they would want this type of access.
Enter interactive phishing, a real-time web session that dupes users with a seamless flow of changing screens and messages controlled by the attacker from a remote server. Using this type of interactive attack, criminals can better impersonate the victim's trusted bank or service provider. Furthermore, with information being delivered from the victim according to the attacker's request in real time, the chances of success are much higher. This threat is considered advanced and high risk due to its credibility factor.
Read the complete X-Force Report on The Perils of Phishing
Reel Experts and Dainty Hooks: An Insider's View
Like other cybercrime-related domains, the interactive phishing attack is hosted on a domain the attacker registers. But unlike regular phishing pages, it is a live web session attackers control and can personalize at their discretion.
1. Spam Email
A victim receives a phishing email containing a link. After clicking it, the victim lands on the attacker's page, which looks like the bank's real website, but the URL in the address bar is not the correct one. To add a measure of credibility and to manage the different targeted brands, the attackers add an underscore followed by the bank's URL in the address bar.
2. Start a Session
The interactive web session begins as soon as a new victim arrives to the fake page. To alert the attacker every time there's a new phish in the net, the admin panel launches a sound bite of evil laughter. Yes, evil laughter!
From this point on, the victim and the attacker are interlocked in a conversation of sorts — only the victim is entirely unwitting and the criminal is likely to initiate an account takeover fraud attempt during the talk.
Figure 1: An Interactive Phishing Conversation
Following the victim's initial submission of login credentials, the criminal uses the admin panel to push social engineering screens to the victim, requesting other pieces of information the bank may require to complete a transaction.
3. Orchestrate
Using the admin panel (see Figure 2 below), the attacker can pick premade content or even type customized messages into the screen to make the process seem more personalized and legitimate.
The admin panel itself is mostly written in Portuguese. Before the victim enters any more information, the panel indicates the status: waiting.
Figure 2: Attacker's Web-Based Admin Panel
Figure 3 shows how the panel enables the criminal to select messages from a menu. These are programmed to request different elements from the victim. Some examples are:
Token code;
Digital signature;
Payment card PIN;
Identification number;
Phone number; and
Content of SMS messages.
Figure 3: Admin Panel Offers Different Premade Options to the Attacker
On top of asking for these critical elements, the attacker can also return an error message if the victim enters incorrect information. The attacker can verify whether the information is correct by testing it on the bank's site in real time.
Figure 4: Social Engineering Screens Requesting Critical Authentication Elements
Victims are kept waiting online between new questions. The attacker displays a message asking the victim to wait a moment to draw out the live session.
Figure 5: Fake Hold Screen Asking Victims to Wait Between the Attacker's Actions
To keep switching up the requests displayed to the victim, the website renders new fields via JavaScript using AJAX, implemented by an external script, which is also written in Portuguese. This offers a hint to the kit's origins:
The following figure demonstrates conditions related to the fields rendered by the AJAX request. For example, once the phishing operator requests the password "senha" in Portuguese, the "senha" field will be displayed to the victim on the same screen they are looking at:
The JavaScript code "document.getElemetById("sen")" acquires the relevant DIV element by the requested ID. By doing that, it sets the style of the DIV from "none" to "block" to render the content to the page. The next figure shows an example of the HTML chunk called for each question/screen change:
4. Finalize and Keep Them Away
After managing to obtain information from the victim, the attacker ends the sessions with a message about the "successful update" being complete.
Notice the attacker ask the victim to wait 24 hours before accessing the site again. This is because the attacker wants the fraudulent transaction to clear before the victim discovers it. Banking Trojans do this by locking the access to the bank's page. Interactive phishing uses social engineering throughout the process to achieve the same goals.
Figure 6: Social Engineering Screen Notes the Update Is Complete
The admin panel also indicates the completion of the attack on the cybercriminal's end by modifying the status message to "finalizada," which means "finalized":
Figure 7: Admin Panel Status Changes to "Finalized" After Attack Conclusion
To keep things in order following each attack completion, the panel logs the IP addresses of victims from whom details were stolen during the web session.
Phishing Here to Stay?
Phishing is one of the oldest threats on the internet. This social engineering trick has been around since about 1995, per Phishing.org. But although it really is one of the oldest tricks in the book, phishing attacks are still on the rise.
The volume of phishing attacks surged 250 percent in Q1 2016, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group's "Phishing Activity Trends Report." That's more phishing recorded this year than in any other three-month span since the group began tracking attack data in 2004.
But phishing is also evolving. According to IBM X-Force, interactive man-in-the-middle (MitM) phishing is proof of increased sophistication, making attacks more believable through real-time data theft.
Data stolen through interactive phishing can be commercialized in underground boards and sold to an untold number of cybercriminals. The commercialization factor amplifies the prevalence and risk of any online threat. The same kit can be adapted to target any bank in any country. Service providers must acknowledge this risk and mitigate it ahead of time.
Since this sort of phishing attack can enable criminals to access victims' accounts and defraud them with illicit transactions, one of the best ways to detect it is by using a solution that identifies account takeover (ATO) attacks.
Going beyond the use of technology, browsing hygiene rules are just as important to help users avoid even an advanced attack like interactive MitM phishing. Use these tips for mitigating malware to reduce risks, and check out the IBM X-Force Report "The Perils of Phishing" for additional recommendations.
Bank Fraud | Brazil | Fraud | IBM X-Force Research | Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attack | Online Banking | Phishing | X-Force
Limor Kessem
Executive Security Advisor, IBM
Limor Kessem, CISO, CISM, is one of the top cyber intelligence experts at IBM Security. She is a seasoned security advocate, public speaker, and a prolific a...
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FLW to host high school fishing summer camp, tournament on Kentucky Lake
Fishing League Worldwide announced on Friday that it will host a high school fishing summer camp from July 24-27 on the Murray State University campus in Benton, Ky., with a tournament to follow.
Daily activities also will take place on the shores of Kentucky Lake. This is the second year the FLW will host the event.
Among the benefits of attending the camp will be the chance to meet many professional anglers and learn firsthand from them. FLW Cup champion and Angler of the Year Scott Martin, two-time AOY Bryan Thrift, FLW Tour leading money winner and three-time AOY David Dudley, fishing legends Jimmy Houston and Larry Nixon, Costa pros Russell Cecil and Todd Castledine and many others will be there to provide personal instruction on a wide range array of topics for students and parents/coaches.
Cost for the camp is $300 per person, which includes all housing, meals and accommodations at Murray State University in Murray, Ky. Registration for the Costa FLW High School Fishing Camp will close June 30, or whenever the camp reaches capacity. The inaugural camp filled within weeks of registration opening, the FLW said in a news release, so don't delay.
According to the release, the sessions offered at the camp will include boating safety, seasonal techniques, electronics, lure and rod building, equipment basics, fish care and off-the-water necessities like building a social media following, career exploration and résumé building for the outdoor industry.
"The Costa FLW High School Fishing Summer Camp offers a lifetime of lessons for achieving excellence both on and off the water," Martin said in the release. "Kentucky Lake along with Murray State University provide the perfect backdrop for developing young, talented and hungry anglers. We believe great anglers are developed, not born, and this camp certainly helps to set young anglers up for success."
Additionally, courses offered for parents and coaches include best practices for sanctioned teams, optimizing individual and team performance, career readiness and fish care at weigh-ins.
"After the huge success of the inaugural Costa FLW High School Camp in 2018, we are even more excited about this upcoming year," said Melinda Hays, Costa Bass community leader, in the release. "Costa knows that young anglers are the future of our sport, and we are committed to helping them become better stewards of our sport — both on and off the water. The camp is also extremely beneficial to parents and coaches of high school bass anglers. It provides ample networking opportunities and strategies to help teach and guide these young anglers."
Following the activities, campers are invited to compete and test their new skills July 27 in the FLW Foundation Benefit Tournament on Kentucky Lake. The tournament will feature two divisions — a boat division and a kayak division — and one camper will be selected to fish with an FLW Tour pro.
Entry for the tournament is $200 per boat or kayak, and proceeds from the tournament will go toward high school fishing scholarships to help anglers and teams who don't have the money to get out on the water and compete.
Participants also are eligible for thousands of dollars in cash prizes, with the winner taking home the Costa FLW High School Fishing Cup.
To sign up for the camp, visit https://bit.ly/2019CostaFLWCamp. Anglers who can't attend camp but would like to fish the FLW Foundation tournament can register at https://bit.ly/2019FLWFoundationTourney.


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Man Shoots At CTA Bus After Being Denied Ride For Not Wearing Mask
By CBS 2 Chicago Staff June 9, 2021 at 5:20 am
Filed Under:CTA, shooting, West Pullman
CHICAGO (CBS)– A man was arrested after he shot at a CTA bus in the West Pullman neighborhood.
According to police, the man was not allowed on the bus because he was not wearing a mask. The man then started shooting a the bus near 119th Street and Princeton Avenue.
Two bullets hit the bus door, but no one was injured.
Police arrested the shooter.
CBS 2 Chicago Staff
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Just about every consistently profitable forex trader uses a trade plan and follows it in a disciplined way. Read more about the importance of a trading plan here. Accordingly, this successful trading mindset represents a key forex trading guide post that you will want to emulate as you grow as a forex trader.
In essence, a trading plan gives a forex trader all the information they need to initiate a trade, liquidate the trade for a profit or take a small loss if the trader was in error.
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Novice forex traders will probably want to either obtain some mentoring or a trading system from a more experienced trader to get a sense for how such trading plans should operate in practice.
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Once you understand the basics of how the forex market works and how to generate trading signals, coming up with a forex trading plan can actually be quite a simple initial process.
You can also later refine your plan after developing some more experience with operating under a trading plan and have the opportunity to see where problems might arise.
The main characteristic that you will want to achieve with your trade plan will be an objective way to trade the forex market that will help you remove the emotional element from your trading activities.
(1) What observables to watch for trading signals.
(2) When to get into the market.
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(4) How large your trading positions should be.
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Rehearsals at Manticore Studios, early 1977
By Otto Masson,
January 8, 2009 in Photos
Knebby
manbags and gladrags, Queen :)
Location:Albion
Otto Masson 8 posts
Knebby 7 posts
Chicago 4 posts
RiotHouse 3 posts
I'm told this pic is from Manticore, not 100% certain though.
ninelives
Great ones Knebby. Funny the last one it took me a minute to figure out the leg with the sneaker was Jimmy - the angle of the photo I thought it was Robert until I saw Robert's legs are crossed - I thought there was a mirror or something
Carrieanna31
Location:Lost in a state of reverie...
Really great photos. I haven't seen a few of them. Thanks everyone!
FireOpal
Location:Up the creek
Fascinating photos and information. Manticore looks quite rough & rustic, doesn't it? Bordering on Dickensian.
I've always loved that photo of Pagey in his country boots lying on the ironing board (?) propped up by tyres. Adorable smile he's got.
Edited January 14, 2009 by FireOpal
Location:electric ladyland
I think Manticore used to be an abadonned cinema theatre that was used as rehearsal room mostly by ELP. Keith Emerson talks in his Authobiography about the riot that was going on downstairs at the Zep place while they were trying to rehearse;- )
dpat
Location:I know to trip is just to fall
Jimmy's t-shirt has a drawing of a pill on it -- Rorer 714 -- more commonly known as Quaalude, a strong downer, soaper, mandrake, etc.
Edited January 19, 2009 by dpat
11 months later...
SteveAJones
The Alchemist's Archivist
All Jimmy's interviews from that day at Swan Song in November state that they will begin their US tour in February, in fact I think it began in April, so not sure what happened there.
Yes, it was originally scheduled to start Feb 27th in Ft. Worth. The first ten tour dates were announced January 20th 1977…all sold out...three additional LA Forum dates were added...everything was postponed on February 24th 1977
until April 1st on account of Robert Plant's tonsillitis. Jimmy said he didn't touch a guitar again until they rehearsed in Dallas (March 29-31) because all their gear had already been shipped over to the states. A Toronto concert and two
Montreal concerts were cancelled as a result of the rescheduled tour itinerary.
Keith Richards was busted for heroin possession in Toronto the very week Zeppelin postponed the 1st leg of the 1977 tour. When they reshuffled dates all of the Canada dates were off the schedule. It seems to me it was more than coincidental they didn't venture into Canada after Keith's scenario unfolded. With all the alleged drug activity in the Zeppelin camp at that time it appears they didn't want to trust their luck by crossing the border.
tom kid
Man I want that shirt, not the t-shirt but that red one. Fucking awesome!
Also, Jimmy must have been smoking a tonne of cigarettes during this period, there's hardly a photo of him without one!
Edited April 18, 2010 by tom kid
ZoSo1960
Location:Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Led Zeppelin started rehearsals for the 1977 U.S. Tour early in the year. They began somewhere in northern London, and then moved to Manticore studios in Fulham, where the following pictures are all taken. I wonder whether anybody has more photos from there, or indeed more detailed information about the rehearsals? Some exact dates, perhaps? Anyway, here goes.
These pictures are from 1975 not 1977 Kate Simon Photographer
https://www.morrison...otographID=4735
Edited August 24, 2012 by ZoSo1960
DavidZoso
Pie Cutter
Location:Itchycoo Park
No they are from 1977. There are so many sites on here with wrong info about dates and years-it really gets frustrating.
magerogue
Location:Land of Ice and Snow
http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p181/omasson/jima.jpg
That photo doesn't look like it's from 1977. Jimmy's weird. Couldn't this have been from 1978?
Cookie0024
Location:London, United Kingdom
Posting the cover of Classic Rock Magazine since the exact photo used isn't elsewhere in this thread
02me
Yes, Manticore was a cinema, ELP i.e Emerson Lake & Palmer owned it and used it for rehearsals, practice etc. & storage & also rented it out. It was a bit rough and ready, but not dirty as far as i saw, I was a minicab driver and Swan Song (Led Zeps own record company) had a account so drivers like me took members of staff and sometimes band members around. As i was known i was invited inside a couple of times, and waited, watching rehearsals till they finished. Not sure of year (not 1977) but think all were times was for the last rehearsals as Bonzo departed and Zep finished soon after last visit.
One time i was there about 1/2 hour or more, the band were on the stage playing, the large sloped area in front of stage was (always) clear of seating and was empty with just the sound engineers with their desk/equipment near the rear, (where i stood/waited & watched), during a band part (without Robert Plant singing) a string on Page's guitar broke and a roadie came on to repair it. Robert had came off stage and started kicking a football around and the 2 engineers and myself just passed/kicked the ball around for a while (even after string was repaired and band restarted).. Apart from myself, never saw anyone else there, ,though may have been roadies at rear.
At the end of one session the band wanted a drink and with one engineer and myself walked (about 100 yards) around to the Red Lion and had a drink, there were a number of head turning, but no one hassled us (must have been about 7-9pm as not dark), though Jimmie stood behind the bar (staff area). But that was not a normal pub, lots of bands used it infact it was the regular for for many including Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix band) as he lived in the road opposite.
As was over 30 years ago, i do not remember any of music played, or what they wore etc.
Just that is was magic, even when mistakes were made and they had to do it again.
p.s. lots of bands used it, remember Wings there for quiet a while.
bcarter690
Location:Philadelphia, Pa.
ZISH
I used to go and watch at Manticore. It was around the corner to where I lived. Led Zeppelin did frequently go to The Red Lion, which changed name to The Goldon Lion. I also watched Barclay James Harvest and Bethnel rehearse there. Manticore had a full size stage and was used for the 1977 American Tour. The Golden Lion is where Jimmy presented one of his guitars to a Canadian man, who had won 'The Capital Radio,'Save A London Child', "Silly Party Night Raffle. In December 1982. I was there that night, which I have previously written about. As an extra snippet, the last film to be shown before the cinima closed was. Richard Rowntree's 'Shaft'. in 1972.
ZISH.
Location:Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Shaft, man that was a long time ago, back when Isaac Hayes was the shit! I remember having to special order a cassette of The Theme From Shaft because it was impossible to get back in the 70s. I hope it doesn't get imprinted on my mind for the next three months, now that it's in there again...
Who's the black private dick
That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
(Shaft)
You're damn right
Who is the man
That would risk his neck for his brother man?
Who's the cat that won't cop out
When there's danger all about?
They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother
(Shut your mouth)
But I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft
(Then we can dig it)
He's a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
(John Shaft)
Edited November 22, 2014 by Daniel
Disco Duck
That brings back memories. Say what you will about the 1970's blacksploitation films; they had kickass scores. Shaft, Superfly, Trouble Man, and Watermelon Man all come to mind.
Hi Daniel.
I also hope that the theme tune from Shaft does not replay over and over in you head until the new year.
We've gone from Zeppelin to Shaft in one giant leap. Thanks for the lyrics.
John Bonham is the Heart 'N' Soul of Led Zeppelin.
Location:Inside The Blimp
I remember watching "some" of Shaft, but I heard the all of the soundtrack. I went on a double date (no driver's license -- I was 15, and my date was a year older) to see Shaft at the Drive-In. My buddy (16, and with a Driver's license),and his date actually watched all of the movie, while I, made out with my date in the back seat.
So yeah, I have memories around Shaft, on one of my first dates. My family was hosting a family reunion at the time, so I wore collared shirts to hide the fresh hickys on my neck. My mother had compassion on me, and applied some make-up to hide the hickys.
Ha Ha Rover. Nice one. Did you stay with the girl?
Bet you don't remember much of the film.
Boleskine
Location:Manchester, UK
Anyone know what happened to the building that housed Manticore?
I assume it's been demolished.
JohnOsbourne
Location:The Darkest Depths of Mordor
Interesting that Page looks reasonably healthy, esp. in comparison to his ghastly and emaciated appearance in America just a few months later.


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Samsung Recycles, Sells Galaxy Note 7 in South Korea
The burned Samsung Note 7 smartphone belonging to Brian Green is pictured in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters, Oct. 6, 2016.
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - Samsung Electronics said Sunday its recalled Galaxy Note 7 phones will be recycled and sold starting this week in South Korea.
The Galaxy Note FE phone, using unused parts in the recalled Note 7 smartphones, will go on sale in South Korea Friday at 700,000 won ($611), about three quarters of its original price.
The company said the supply will be limited to 400,000 units. Overseas sales plans will be determined later, it said in a statement.
Samsung said the Note FE has "perfect safety."
Black eye for Samsung
The original Note 7 was one of the biggest black eyes in Samsung's history. When it was launched in August 2016, the Note 7 was Samsung's answer to Apple's upcoming iPhone. It was also one of the most expensive Samsung phones with the price starting at $850.
But after reports emerged that its batteries were prone to overheat and catch fire, Samsung recalled the phone in less than a month of its launch and released another one with replaced batteries. But the second batch also tended to overheat, prompting Samsung to discontinue the Note 7.
The debacle dealt a blow to Samsung's corporate image. Aviation authorities around the world banned the pricy phone on flights and photos of scorched Note 7s circulated on social media. Samsung spent billions of dollars to recall the Note 7 and fix its damaged brand.
Earlier this year, the company released the investigation results and blamed flaws in design and production of batteries supplied by two battery makers.
Environmentalists urged reuse of parts
After Samsung recalled millions of Note 7 phones, environmental activists have pressured the South Korean tech giant to reuse the electronics parts to reduce waste. Samsung said the Note FE is part of its efforts to minimize waste.
The Note FE, short for "Fan Edition," features the screen measuring 5.7 inches (14.48 centimeters) diagonally and the stylus pen.
Samsung Plans to Sell Refurbished Galaxy Note 7s
Tech giant Samsung Electronics plans to sell refurbished versions of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, the company said late on Monday, signaling the return of the model pulled from markets last year because of fire-prone batteries. Samsung's Note 7s were permanently scrapped in October after some phones self-combusted, prompting a global recall roughly two months after the launch of the near-$900 devices. A subsequent investigation found manufacturing problems…
Note 7 Fiasco Leaves Samsung's Smartphone Brand in Question
The fiasco of Samsung's fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphones - and its stumbling response to the problem - has left consumers from Shanghai to New York reconsidering how they feel about the South Korean tech giant and its products. Samsung Electronics said this week that it would stop making the Note 7 for good, after first recalling some devices and then recalling their replacements, too. Now, like the makers of Tylenol, Ford Pintos and other products that faced…
Samsung Note 7 Recall to Cost at Least $5.3 Billion
Samsung Electronics said Friday that discontinuing the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, which is prone to overheat and catch fire, will cost it about $3 billion in the current and coming quarters, raising total costs from the recalls to at least $5.3 billion. The Note 7 discontinuation will cost in the mid-2 trillion won range during the October-December period and another 1 trillion won ($884 million) during the January-March quarter, the company said in a statement.
Samsung Halts Production, Sale of Note 7
Samsung is stopping worldwide sales and exchanges of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, citing continued safety concerns, and advised all customers to stop using the device immediately. The company asked all Galaxy Note 7 owners to turn off the device and seek a refund or exchange them for different phones. "We are working with relevant regulatory bodies to investigate the recently…


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Q: How to print on stderr with Swift? I'm using Swift 2.2 on Linux and I need to write some debug output on the standard error stream.
Currently, I'm doing the following:
import Foundation

public struct StderrOutputStream: OutputStreamType {
    public mutating func write(string: String) { fputs(string, stderr) }
}
public var errStream = StderrOutputStream()

debugPrint("Debug messages...", toStream: &errStream)

However, I've upgraded Swift to 2.2.1 but it seems that Foundation is no longer available.
How to write on the standard error stream with Swift 2.2.1 (and that'll still work on the next upgrade)?

A: From https://swift.org/blog/swift-linux-port/:

The Glibc Module: Most of the Linux C standard library is available through this module similar to the Darwin module on Apple platforms.

So this should work on all Swift platforms:
#if os(Linux)
    import Glibc
#else
    import Darwin
#endif

public struct StderrOutputStream: OutputStreamType {
    public mutating func write(string: String) { fputs(string, stderr) }
}
public var errStream = StderrOutputStream()

debugPrint("Debug messages...", toStream: &errStream)

Update for Swift 3:
public struct StderrOutputStream: TextOutputStream {
    public mutating func write(_ string: String) { fputs(string, stderr) }
}
public var errStream = StderrOutputStream()

debugPrint("Debug messages...", to: &errStream) // "Debug messages..."
print("Debug messages...", to: &errStream)      // Debug messages...

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By Scott R. Baker | Via The Conversation
A partisan standoff in Congress led to a partial shutdown of the government that lasted a little over two weeks beginning on Oct. 1 in 2013. (Photo by Motion Studios, CC license)
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Challenges and possibilities for the introduction of autonomous vehicles in Mexico
Submitted by Federico Cirett Galan, Universidad de Sonora on 1 April, 2016 - 21:24
Raquel Torres Peralta; Federico Cirett Galán; Covarrubias, Alex
Gerpisa colloquium, Puebla (2016)
There are several terms to describe the smart car: selfdriving car, driverless car, autonomous vehicle, among others. These concepts encompass the idea of avehicle that can be driven alone without human intervention. In the last decade the advances in this technology have put smart vehicles on the streets in several countries (including Mexico, very briefly). Several universities and companies are developing the technology and software needed to make this technology available to the population in a near future. In this article we explore the possibilities, obstacles and key challenges for the introduction of autonomous vehicles in Mexico.
The impact of autonomous vehicles in society
Smart cars navigate by themselves without the need of human assistance, providing several benefits to communities. Being a machine, the lack of emotions, the strict adherence to law and proper behaviour makes them the perfect vehicle to reduce the risk of accidents. The selfdriving feature allows people with disabilities to commute without the need of others. In Mexico, in 2010, there were more than 5 million 700 thousand people with disabilities [INEGI, 2010]. Introducing smart cars in Mexico would be a fair measure of inclusion. In addition, the introduction of smart cars could reduce the number of road accidents as the number of cars in circulation, decreasing pollution caused by carbon dioxide emissions, a problem in big cities, as Mexico City.
By 2020, it is estimated that 10 million cars with a higher level of automation will be sold, and by 2019, the introduction of the first autonomous car in the market [BI Intelligence, 2015]. Tesla announced that in 2018, their cars will reach total autonomy [Fortune, 2015], while the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) predicts that 75% of cars in 2040 will be autonomous. The advent of smart cars into Mexico is imminent, but what are the challenges that must be overcome before the entering of autonomous vehicles into the country?
The challenges of the introduction of self‐driving vehicles into México
The introduction of the smart car to Mexico faces several obstacles, such as poor infrastructure, poor road culture, no legal framework, among others. If these problems remain unsolved, the delay of the introduction of the technology could put the country at a disadvantaged position. Some of the most important issues that must be addressed are listed below.
Computer vision limitations
Autonomous cars depend on complex algorithms of artificial intelligence and computer vision to acquire information from the environment and take decisions in real time. Those algorithms cover different problems but also rely on specific conditions and several assumptions, as for instance, the detection of traffic signs and its proper interpretation is crucial to navigate accordingly and avoid collisions. In order to do so, the sign must be readable and in place. In Mexico, sign vandalism and the lack of proper traffic signs is a problem all around the country. Also, the irregularities of roads and the visual pollution caused by a number of advertisement on streets make signs localisation a very difficult task, even for the best algorithms.
In October 2015 the smart car prototype "AutoNOMOS" of the Free University of Berlin traveled two times from Nogales, Sonora to Mexico City, the first one to make a digital map of the road, driven by a human pilot and the second one to travel autonomously. The project leader, Raul Rojas, said that Mexico represented a major technological challenge: "The tour was a challenge because Mexican roads differ from European, having bumps, caps and lack of delineation of lanes or areas construction" [La Jornada, 2015].
Interconnectivity is needed for optimum performance and safety navigation of autonomous vehicles. Intervehicular communication supports the information flow among smart cars traveling on the same road to broadcast any alert to others and help them to make the right decisions in order to avoid collisions or traffic congestions optimizing the route to their destination.
In Mexico, the wifi coverage is not guaranteed (Figure 4). For instance, along the international highway the most important highway to traverse the country the signal is not constant nor strong. The circulation of smart cars on those roads would not be safe, and it is precisely on these highways where the selfdriving feature would be most useful to enable passengers make use of long hours during a safe travel.
Smart cars are in a testing phase; they will become part of our urban scenario in the next years, and the figure of an autonomous vehicle must be included in the mexican constitution. Some US states have already approved the circulation of smart cars on their roads, such as California, Nevada, Florida and Washington, D.C. In Mexico there is no legislation considering the use of smart cars at any level, and the Internet of Things is also not regulated. The liability of an entity when a smart car is involved in a collision with another car as well as accidents involving people must be established in the law. Also, public policies must be proposed to support the acquisition and use of smart vehicles.
It is expected that by 2017 the first total autonomous car hit the market in the United States. Even when there is no date available for the introduction of smart cars to Mexico, we can expect their arrival in the second decade of this century. The proper debating on the legislation, infrastructure, security, ethical and cultural aspects is needed in order to be prepared for that moment.
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Written by Jim Kaczor
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Jim Kaczor
Year Occurred: 1999
Category Godly Coincidences
My training is as a scientist. In science, you only accept what is objective and observable.
In 1999, I had just gone through a divorce, and knew I would not be able to take care of my son while working a night job. I had worked in the inpatient psychiatry wing at Providence Hospital for 30 years. So I quit the job in April and started to look full time for a job as a teacher.
I had interviewed in a number of parochial schools. Shrine, St. Benedict, some others. After two months without a bite, I panicked. I applied for a summer camp teaching job at Roeper School for the Gifted in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and got it. Science teacher (my specialty).
At the end of the summer camp, on its last day, a friend asked me where I was working in the fall and I said, "Nowhere". It was unnerving to say so. I called home and found a message on the answering machine from Eton Academy in Birmingham, and I called them back from Roeper's campus. Evidently they had remembered me from one of the gratis science presentations I had put on in my spare time for them. It was called "The Amazing Forces of Science". I had given these presentations to several local schools and on the local Royal Oak cable TV channel.
The man from Eton asked "Where are you teaching in the fall?" "Nowhere", I said honestly, "but I will be hearing from Shrine School on Monday." "So you're not committed?" he asked. "We had a science teacher quit at the last minute. He got a job in Farmington. What are you doing now?" "I'm finishing up at Roeper." (Roeper has a certain cache among local educators because it is a school for the gifted.) He said, "I'll hold the principal here until 3:30 so that you can come here and interview."
I came straight to Eton from Roeper without first changing out of the colored t-shirt required by summer camp teachers, and did the interview. Two days later, Sunday, I went to Mass at St. Columban church, whose windows face Eton Academy, and I was facing the school while praying that I get this job. I was really putting my hope in God for this one.
When I got home from the Mass, I had a phone call. I got the job.
So many prayers go unanswered. This one was different. It was just incredible. It was just so immediate.
My training is as a scientist. In science, you only accept what is objective and observable. If you can't see, touch, hear or measure it in some way, it doesn't exist. So this whole spirituality bit is a real leap of faith for us scientists.
Jim Kaczor, Birmingham, Michigan
Editor's Commentary: Jim goes to my church. I've known him for over 15 years. He is quick to point out that not all prayers are answered, of course. - Bill Schaef
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Godly Coincidence reinforces Jim's belief
Category: Godly Coincidences
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First of all, what are we calling a Godly Coincidence? It's something less dramatic than a miracle. In the commentary article "What's the Point of a Miracle", we called a miracle 'any event of heavenly origin that breaks the natural laws of science, illustrating the mastery of God over all things, and pointing to His authority to lead us in life.'
Godly Coincidences also can serve to illustrate the mastery of God over all things, and pointing to His authority to lead us in life. But instead of breaking the natural laws of science, in this case God stays within the natural laws of science, but causes events to synchronize in a way that introduces a feeling of supernatural supervision. People who report Godly Coincidences commonly report three reactions:
1. The feeling that what just occurred is against the odds.
2. The feeling that what just occurred makes a life-giving connection with something that is very personal to us, and is often unknown to many other people.
3. The recognition that someone with supernatural abilities is willing to use them to love us. It is often correct to guess that God is behind this coincidence.
While we cannot prove that God is the driver behind such events, even when it happens to us directly, we can say that we sensed the possibility that "there is more here than what meets the eye", and "I felt loved". This reaction is hard for others to understand who have not benefitted from a Godly Coincidence. But for those who have, these events can solidify our faith and dedication to the God we felt to be real in our lives for even a brief moment.
To read true stories about Godly coincidences, go to the Wtness.org site's category titled "Godly Coincidences".
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InfoQ Homepage News Miguel de Icaza on ASP.NET MVC, Moonlight, and the Android Lawsuit
Miguel de Icaza on ASP.NET MVC, Moonlight, and the Android Lawsuit
We had a chance to catch-up with Miguel de Icaza, founder of the Mono project and it's new parent company, Xamarin. Some of the topics we covered include the future of ASP.NET MVC on Mono and the end of the Moonlight project.
InfoQ: Mono has supported ASP.NET since the early days. Do you see it as just a checkbox feature or is there a lot of interest in ASP.NET on the Mono platform?
Miguel de Icaza: We have not done a survey in a while, but on the last survey that we ran, ASP.NET on Unix was still a feature that people cared about. I would say that the interest declined when Microsoft fixed their licensing for Windows Servers, so the financial appeal of Mono was reduced in those cases. Nowadays, the main driver is to run ASP.NET when the rest of the stack is mostly centered around Linux.
InfoQ: ASP.NET MVC has been open source for a while now. In the past, how much effort was needed to make it compatible with Mono?
Miguel: It was very easy to get MVC 1 and MVC 2 running with Mono. With MVC3 things changed, since MVC3 was open source, but took a few dependencies on libraries that were not open source at the time, or were transitional libraries. So supporting MVC3 was easy, but deploying it was. It was a very rare to see an MVC3 site deployed with Mono, it was just too difficult.
With the recent opening up of the Microsoft ASP.NET libraries this has changed, and we managed to make MVC3 work out of the box with Mono.
Finally, for MVC4, we won't be able to run this for a while, since MVC4 requires us to upgrade the core ASP.NET engine to support the new async pipeline and currently nobody is working on it. It will be a matter of whether people care enough to contribute those changes to Mono and make this run.
InfoQ: Do you see the ability to contribute directly to ASP.NET MVC as a significant advantage for maintaining compatibility?
The main benefit of the open sourcing of ASP.NET MVC is for its own community: for too long innovation, bug fixing an extensions has been limited to what the developers at Microsoft did, could do, or were able to specify. This will bring ASP.NET in line with other open source frameworks that evolved quickly and responded quickly to change.
InfoQ: Right now, there are four different XAML-based UI technologies: WPF, Silverlight, Silverlight for Windows Embedded and Silverlight for Windows Phone. With the introduction of Windows 8, we will be seeing a fifth version? What is your opinion of this diversification?
Miguel: We are currently focused on C# for Android, iOS and Mac so we do not tend to interact much with XAML based frameworks.
There are interesting parts to XAML, but I was never completely bought into XML for the markup. I wished for a very long time that they had adopted something simpler for humans to produce, like using Json for the markup, or the markup that was part of JavaFX. It was just as easy to consume and maintain with tools, but it was also easier on the eye for programmers and easier to type.
At one point we implemented an open source rendering engine that was capable of rendering Silverlight 3/4 markup.
These days we tell developers to split their application in two: one reusable layer of code that can be used across all .NET/Mono platforms and another layer that implements the presentation layer. Either a native UI for iOS, Android, Mac or Windows, or an HTML version of it.
InfoQ: A lot of developers are turning to platforms such as PhoneGap to standardize their UI code across platforms. Do you ever see a point where C# will likewise have a UI library that can work across iOS, Android and Windows Phone?
Miguel: There will be a blend of those.
Sometimes you are on a short budget, and you use a write-once-run-anywhere presentation layer. This has proved popular for Java and we are using it ourselves for some or our tools with the Gtk# and Xwt libraries.
But sometimes you want to deliver a best-of-breed user interface, and you need to write custom native code. We have also been doing this with some of our tools, like our new documentation system for Mono which is now native on each platform
Particularly in the Mac and iOS space, users place a high value on the finished quality and native UIs, so a cross platform UI would not really deliver the best experience to users.
InfoQ: Before Novell was bought out, there were some people working on getting Moonlight to run on Android tablets. Is that effort still underway?
Miguel: We have abandoned Moonlight.
InfoQ: I'm sorry to hear that, Moonlight looked very promising. Was it just a lack of manpower or do you there is no longer a future for browser-based Silverlight/Moonlight?
Silverlight has not gained much adoption on the web, so it did not become the must-have technology that I thought would have to become.
And Microsoft added artificial restrictions to Silverlight that made it useless for desktop programming.
These days we no longer believe that Silverlight is a suitable platform for write-once-run-anywhere technology, there are just too many limitations for it to be useful. These days we believe that in the C# world the best option is to split the code along the lines of the presentation layer. The user would reuse a core part of their application across all platforms, and write a new UI specifically for each platform they target: iOS with MonoTouch, Android with MonoDroid, Mac with MonoMac, Windows with WPF or Winforms or Mac, Web with ASP.NET and Windows and Linux with Gtk
It is not write-once-run-everywhere, but the result are applications that can exploit the native facilities and create native experiences on each platform.
InfoQ: If you had more volunteers for the open source parts of Mono, which areas would you most like them to work on?
Miguel: I would say work on the upcoming 4.5 API as well as WCF.
Microsoft has updated many of their APIs in .NET to be C# 5 async-ready. Although we have done the work on the base class libraries, I would personally love to see both our System.Data (and derivatives like our Sqlite providers) become Async-ready as well as the ASP.NET stack which now also sports an async pipeline that developers can take advantage of.
The ASP.NET improvements are necessary to take advantage of all the code that Microsoft recently open sourced for ASP.NET. Without these changes, Mono will not be able about half of the new open source code, or will be limited in how much it can reuse.
InfoQ: I assume you have been following the Oracle/Google lawsuit over the Android API. What's your take on the situation?
Miguel: It looks like a war, and after the first round of shots have been fired, nobody is innocent and nobody looks good. It has damaged the reputation of both companies.
InfoQ: Are you concerned that, if APIs are found to be copyrightable, that Microsoft may threaten the Mono project?
In the Google/Oracle debate the issue is over some core APIs, because none of the high-level APIs reached the point that they would be useful in this multi-billion dollar fight. Google basically chose to not adopt the high-level bits because they needed a different set of APIs suited for the Android form-factor. In the Mono/.NET world, the copyright of the core APIs was granted to ECMA/ISO for distribution and the high-level APIs remain of dubious use for a multi-billion dollar industry. If a multi-billion dollar business emerged around .NET/Mono, it would likely use the core, and rip out all the high-level stuff, very much in the same way that we did for MonoTouch and MonoDroid: we use the core, but do not expose any of the high-level Windows-y APIs, and instead replace it with native Apple or Android APIs.
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Hall of Fame enshrinement Friday: What you need to know
Aug 5, 2016 at 8:54 AM Aug 5, 2016 at 9:30 AM
The Canton Repository's Todd Porter breaks down Friday's schedule and other tidbits surrounding the Pro Football Hall of Fame's enshrinement.
Hall of Fame and Festival Events
8 a.m.—Shuttle service opens at Stark County Fairgrounds for transportation to the Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium and Hall of Fame Village. Parking is $10, $3 per shuttle rider.
9:30 a.m.—Gold Jacket Photo Op at Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Noon—Fashion Show Luncheon at Canton Memorial Civic Center and Cultural Center.
8 p.m.—Concert for Legends at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.
8 a.m.—The Canton Repository Grand Parade in downtown Canton.
Noon—Fanatics Authentic Autograph Session presented by Panini (Hall of Famers) at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Noon—Returning Hall of Famers Autograph Session presented by Panini at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
7 p.m.—Enshrinement at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.
12:30 p.m.—Enshrines Gameday Roundtable at the Canton Memorial Civic Center and Cultural Center.
3 p.m.—Special Autograph Session presented by Panini at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
8 p.m.—NFL/Hall of Fame Game at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.
6:30 p.m.—Drum Corps International Competition at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium.
Hall of Fame Fan Fest on turf
A free fan festival will from Friday-Monday on the turf located in the center of the Hall of Fame's campus is open to the public. There will be live music, mini football clinics and appearances by Gold Jackets. Local and national bands and DJs will provide music. There will be an AVI food court and beer garden each day. Below is the Fan Fest and live music schedule.
Today 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
Karri Fedor & Kerosene–5 p.m.-7 p.m.
Scott Paris–7 p.m.-10 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
New Wave Nation–5:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
Sunday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
Biz Markie–3 p.m.-6 p.m.
Monday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Scott Paris–4 p.m.-6 p.m.
Today's weather forecast
It is going to be a hot, sticky day. The high will be 90 with a RealFeel temperate near 100. The peak temperature time is about 4 p.m. There is a slight chance of an evening shower, but rain chances increase after Tim McGraw's concert.
What did you miss?
More than a dozen Gold Jackets — Dan Fouts, Warren Moon, Franco Harris, Walter Jones to name drop a few — were on hand for a Play Football clinic at the youth fields at Hall of Fame Village. A few hundred local children from nearby communities were taught basic skills by the players. McKinley High School's senior players were on hand to help as well. The NFL and Hall share the same commitment to honor the values of the game, according to a koint release from both. While no official partnership was signed, the two organization renewed their commitments to share those values and then celebrated it with the clinic. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was in attendance and hinted the NFL Draft may come to Canton.
The Class of 2016 — Edward DeBartolo Jr., Tony Dungy, Brett Favre, Kevin Greene, Marvin Harrison, Orlando Pace, and the late Ken Stabler and Dick Stanfel — received their Gold Jackets at Thursday's dinner. It was broadcast on the NFL Network. Check out our photo gallery here.
— "Are you a millionaire?" Question from a little girl at the Play Football clinic to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. "Why yes I am," Goodell responded.
— "I'm an ambassador for football. I'm thrilled with what I'm seeing here. I encourage everyone, my own kids included, to go out for football, regardless if you're a first-round draft pick or a backup like me. I see something special coming together here. They protect the history of the game here and it looks like they're growing its future. This is a hotbed for football. I mean Canton, Ohio, McKinley High School, Massillon. Are you kidding me? I get chills man." — ESPN "Monday Night Football" analyst Jon Gruden, a former NFL coach as he surveyed to youth field jammed with little kids playing and learning skills taught by more than 15 Gold Jackets.
You tweeted it
"(Hard) to believe it has been an entire since I was inducted into the @ProFootballHOF! Congrats to the class of 2016!" — @JeromeBettis36
"Ken Stabler passed for 295yds & 4TDs in his final Monday night game as a Raider!" — @BlackFoxRaider
Singer and actor Paul Anka made an appearance at the Gold Jacket Dinner at Memorial Civic Center on Thursday night. Anka, whose hits "Diana," "Lonely Boy," "Put Your Head on My Shoulder," and "Puppy Love" made him a star in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, adapted a version of "My Way," for the Class of 2016. Anka wrote the English lyrics to "My Way," made famous by Frank Sinatra. Anka is a close friend of Class of 2016 enshrinee Edward DeBartolo Jr.
Sightings and rumblings
Community service projects are an important part of what happens this weekend. This year a record 141 Gold Jackets have returned and many of them are giving back to their second home in Stark County. Here is a look at all the community service projects Gold Jackets are undertaking today:
Derrick Brooks will read books at the Stark County Library to area families.
Elvin Bethea and Tom Mack will be at Pathway Caring for Children for a meet and greet. Both Hall of Famers will sign autographs for the young community members.
Dave Casper and Ron Wolf will meet with patients at the Canton VA Clinic.
Mike Haynes will meet with individuals on the cancer patient floor at Aultman Hospital. He will answer questions for the patients and sign autographs.
Billy Shaw and Joe DeLamielleure and will visit the SarahCare Adult Day Care Center for a meet and greet.
Tim Brown and Lem Barney will be at the Community Drop in Center to meet with local youth.
Floyd Little and Mel Blount will visit the Canton Boy Scouts of America branch to meet local scouts.
Ray Guy and Claude Humphrey will make a trip to the ICAN Housing for Homeless to visit with community members at the shelter.
On Sunday Jack Youngblood will attend the FCA Prayer Breakfast at Faith Family Church in North Canton.
"You as avid football fans undoubtedly have witnessed many exciting runs from scrimmage. But the greatest run I ever knew of was by my father, who during World War I, along with his comrades from the storied 4th Marine brigade, raced several hundred yards into withering machine gun fire, across the wheat fields at Belleau Wood in France. Their valor on that June day in 1918 succeeded in halting the German army advance just 25 miles from Paris. He was my hero even before I was born.
"One day many years later I telephoned my father to tell him I was leaving Harvard Law School and that I wanted to be a football coach. Thirty seconds of painful silence followed, and then the old Marine said simply, 'Be a good one!'
"I hope I haven't disappointed him."
Coach Marv Levy during his 2001 Enshrinement speech.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Pro Football Hall of Fame President David Baker made a weight-loss bet a year ago. They will weigh in Saturday to see who won. Baker is about 6-foot-9, 400 pounds.
"But there's a dispute," Goodell said. "I think it should be percentage and David believes it's total weight. This is one bet I will be happy to lose, but I will say he didn't play fair. He's been sending me cupcakes and cookies."
Former NFL offensive lineman Roman Oben, who played two seasons for the Browns, now works for the NFL. Oben helped to organize and lead Thursday's Play Football event. He is the NFL's senior director of youth and high school football.
Seen something, heard something?
Contact Repository Special Projects Editor Todd Porter with your odd and curious notes or sightings from Hall of Fame week. Todd can be reached at 330-580-8340, by email at todd.porter@cantonrep.com or on Twitter @toddporter
—TODD PORTER


My co-worker, we'll call her FiFi, is one of those southern belles who seems as sweet as a basket full of confections. Somehow, she's managed to ruin a friendship I had with my former boss–she gets so jealous of us that we actually "sneak meet" and don't tell her to avoid the wrath. Ironically, she rubs my nose into anything she has going on with my former boss. Now, for the up-teenth time, when we've agreed to work on a project together, made plans…she goes off and does something else, or actually plans with someone else, and I'm left wondering, hey? Now, although I was assigned a project that she feels should be under her, which the whole team agreed on…she's been campaigning all around the organization to get me taken off of the project…and basically let me know today that she doesn't need my help. Okay…listen, Fifi, I don't want your job. I'm not trying to take anything away from you…quit wasting my time! Next time our team talks about that project you don't want me to work on…I'm going to look straight at you and say, "Fifi told me she doesn't need my help." And you know what else? I'm going to my old boss and making plans without Fifi, then rub her nose in it. Bad dog!
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