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Updated on Nov 08, 2020
Lawyer conducts the land title, the company and the bankruptcy searches online
Agency: e-Tanah online single window
The parties will mutually agree on whose solicitors will prepare the sale-purchase agreement.
As of December 2017, the lawyer can conduct the following searches via the online platform e-Tanah:
Land Title Information to ascertain who is the registered proprietor of the property, the category of land use of the property, the conditions to which the property is subject, whether the property is subject to any restrictions, and whether the property is subject to any encumbrances (charges, caveats).
Company search to check all the information registered on the company and charges registered.
A winding-up/bankruptcy search on the seller with a private company, MYEG in place of Insolvency Department. The bankruptcy and winding up search is not required by the Land office or by law in a property Land Title Information transfer process but it is done as a prudent measure to protect purchaser.
Time and cost: Less than one day (online), MYR 55
Land title search: 30 RM; plus
company search: 10 RM; plus
Service Charge: 5 RM; plus
GST: 0.90 RM (GST is not included in cost); plus
Winding-up search: 10 RM (all online through e-Tanah)
Buyer and seller sign sales-purchase agreement in presence of lawyer and lawyer fills out Form 14A Memorandum of Transfer
Agency: Lawyer's office
The Memorandum of Transfer (Form 14A) has to be attested by a licensed professional – can be a lawyer or an official from the land office. This is stated in the National Land Code.
Documentation shall include:
Memorandum of Transfer (Form 14A)
Copy of the sale-purchase agreement
Copy of title deed
Form PDS15 (Stamping Proforma)
Time and cost: 1 day, MYR 17,320.32
Effective from 15.3.2017, Lawyers' professional fee (not including GST and disbursements) for preparing sale and purchase agreement and completing the transfer of property as follows:
For the 1st RM500,000.00 of purchase price: 1% (subject minimum of RM500.00),
The next RM500,000.00: 0.8%,
The next RM2,000,000.00: 0.7%,
The subsequent next RM2,000,000.00: 0.6%,
Where consideration is excess RM7,500,000.00: negotiable on the excess (but shall not exceed 0.5% of such excess).
Send Memorandum of Transfer (14A) to the Stamp Office for adjudication of Stamp Duty and valuation by JPPH
Agency: Stamp Office assessment and payment system (http://pinharta.hasil.gov.my)
The valuation department will conduct an inspection to value the property, if required. The inspection is not mandatory to conclude the valuation and it is at the discretion of the valuation department, but in practice, it takes place in the majority of the cases. The Stamp Office will issue a notice of assessment based on the valuation department's report.
Submission can be made either manually or online through the website http://pinharta.hasil.gov.my. E-stamping (online) is now available only to legal firms, banks, company secretaries, accounting firms and companies.
If completed online the submission must include:
The sale-purchase agreement
Copy of the Issue Document of Title (IDT)
Form 14A
Form PDS 15
Other supporting documents
Once accepted, an adjudication number will be assigned by the system. When the Stamp Office receives the submission, the documents are transferred to JPPH for valuation. When required, a valuation inspection will be made on the property by JPPH. In most of the cases, commercial properties will be assessed. The JPPH will prepare a valuation report which is sent to the Stamp Office. The applicant will be able to follow the status of the adjudication online.
Time and cost: 9 days, no charge
Payment of stamp duty and stamping of Form 14A
Agency: Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (IRBM)
Stamp duty must then be paid to the Stamp Office, based on the Notice of Assessment, within fourteen (14) days from the date of such notice or the period indicated by the Collector of Stamp Duty. Usually the Collector will give thirty (30) days from the date of such notice to pay the stamp duty.
Online: 1 – 8 days (for standard property, ie. apartment, condominium, terrace house, factory and warehouse within a scheme); 2 – 4 weeks (for nonstandard property, ie. bungalow, shop, factory, land, etc). Payment may also be made electronically via Financial Processing Exchange (FPX), or at the Stamp Office.
The documentation shall include:
Form 14A (Memorandum of Transfer)
Notice of Assessment Form PDS 3
Time and cost: 1 day, MYR 59,658.51 (1% on first RM 100,000, 2% on excess of RM 100,000 up to RM 500,000 and 3% on excess over RM 500,000 (Stamp duty))
The transfer is registered at the Land Office/Registry
Agency: Land Office/Registry
The purchaser's lawyer presents the duly stamped Memorandum of Transfer (Form 14A) for registration at the Land Office/Registry. This must be done within three months from the date of the Memorandum of Transfer (Form 14A) which is usually dated when it is submitted for adjudication. A title search is conducted just prior to presentation to ensure that there are no encumbrances or restraint against dealings which may hinder the registration of the Memorandum of Transfer (Form 14A). The documentation shall include:
Copies of Quit rent and Assessment receipts
Certified true copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, Form 24 (Return on Allotment of Shares), Form 49 (Return Giving Particulars in Register of Directors, Managers and Secretaries and Changes of Particulars) of the Purchaser and Vendor
Certified true copies of the Vendor's and Purchaser's board resolutions giving authority to sell and purchase the property respectively
Search report on the Purchaser as extracted from the Companies Commission of Malaysia
Duly stamped Memorandum of Transfer (Form 14A)
Copy of Notice of Assessment bearing Stamp Office's endorsement that ad valorem stamp duty has been paid (obtained in Procedure 3)
Original of the title document.
After submission, the applicants get the "presentation receipt" the same day. It gives the time of submission and that is the time of legal "registration". The computerized system at the Land Registry also immediately tags the land as 'pending transfer' and hence anyone conducting a land search on the property will be aware of encumbrances (if any). However, the "presentation receipt" is enough for Banks to release the loan.
Time and cost: 4 days, MYR 130 (Registration fee: RM 100 + Search fee: RM 30)
Update the name of the buyer at the Municipality
Agency: Kuala Lumpur City Hall
In law, both the seller and buyer will have to update the name of the property owner at the Kuala Lumpur City Hall.
Pursuant to Section 160(1) of the Local Government Act, 1976, ("LGA") it is the duty of a vendor and purchaser within three (3) months after the sale or transfer of a ratable holding to give notice of such sale or transfer thereof to the local authority in Form I of the First Schedule to the LGA; and
Pursuant to Section 160(6) of the LGA, every person failing to give any notice shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding RM2,000.00 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
Time and cost: 1 day, no charge
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The period of transition: Polemic with the P.C.Int.-Battaglia Comunista
Submitted by International Review on 14 September, 2009 - 03:57
The debate on the period of transition has always been the object of fierce polemics between revolutionary groups. With the development of the class struggle, revolutionaries have been compelled to focus their attention on more immediate questions, in particular the question of organization and intervention. But in playing its role of advancing concrete proposals in the workers' struggles, the revolutionary organization, because it is based on what is 'general', on what concerns all workers, the whole class, can't afford to neglect the problem of the historical goals of the struggle: the revolutionary destruction of the capitalist state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the communist transformation of social life. In devoting this article to the positions of the Partito Comunista Internazionalista (PCInt - Battaglia Comunista) on the period of transition, as expressed in the document from their 5th Congress (Prometeo No 7), we are aiming to help reanimate this important discussion in the revolutionary movement. (For further reading on this question see the ICC's pamphlet 'The Period of Transition from Capitalism to Socialism').
For our part, we have no doubt that the PCInt's text does share with us an important extent of common ground in the historical acquisitions of marxism. In particular:
* against the idealist theories typical of bourgeois historiography, it locates the origins of the state in the real historical and material evolution of class society;
* against anarchist utopianism, it affirms the necessity for the dictatorship of the proletariat and for a state in the transition period, which will still be marked by class divisions;
* against reformism, now a counter-revolutionary ideology of the bourgeoisie, it affirms the lessons of the Paris Commune about the need to smash the bourgeois state and replace it with a state of a new type, a semi-state destined to disappear with the overcoming of class antagonisms
* following Lenin's State and Revolution it affirms that the semi-state must be based on the soviet form discovered by the working class in 1905 and 1917;
* and finally, in line with the contribution of the Italian Fraction of the Communist Left in the 1930s, it draws a certain number of critical lessons from the Russian experience:
-- the causes of the decline of the Russian revolution and of the transformation of the Soviet State and the Bolshevik party into a counter-revolutionary capitalist machine reside first and foremost in the failure of the revolution to spread internationally;
-- within the objective framework of the isolation of the revolution and the conditions of backwardness and famine facing the Russian proletariat, certain errors of the Bolshevik party acted as "accelerators" of the process of degeneration;
-- the first of these errors resided in an identification between the party and the dictatorship of the proletariat, resulting in the entanglement of the party with the state, the growing rift between party and class, and the increasing inability of the party to play its real role as a political vanguard.
There is also an echo - though, as we shall see, a faint and inconsistent one - of the position, developed by the Fraction and further elaborated by the Gauche Communiste de France and the ICC, that not only can the party not be identified with the state, but also that the transitional state and the dictatorship of the proletariat are not identical.
The importance of these shared points is not to be underestimated because they constitute the basic class lines on the problem of the state, the essential 'starting point' for a marxist understanding of the question. The exception to this is the question of the non-identification of the state with the dictatorship of the proletariat which, as we have always maintained, is an 'open question' which cannot be definitively settled until the next major revolutionary experience.
Having briefly defined these areas of agreement, we can now develop our criticisms of the PCInt's inadequacies and inconsistencies which weaken their capacity to defend or develop the marxist position on these questions.
An incomplete assimilation of the work of the Italian Left
The PCInt claim that: "The political positions mentioned here represent the theoretical baggage and traditions of struggle of the Italian Left, whose historical presence has been ensured through the foundation of the Communist Party of Italy and the consecutive acquisitions of the Fraction and the PCInt constituted during the course of the Second World War."
As we have said, the text undoubtedly reflects the influence of the Fraction. But while the PCInt doesn't merely sweep the work of the Fraction under the carpet like the Bordigists do, neither can it be said that it has fully assimilated its work and above all its method, which enabled it to initiate a fundamental critique of the positions of the Communist International. But in a number of areas the PCInt reverts back to the 'Leninist' orthodoxy which the Fraction dared to call into question. This is especially clear on the question of the relationship between the proletariat and the transitional state.
According to the PCInt, the ICC digresses from marxism into opportunism when it argues that a crucial lesson of the Russian revolution is that the transitional state, emanating from a social order still divided into classes, will have a conservative rather than a dynamic character, at best codifying and administrating the push towards communism deriving from the revolutionary class, at worst opposing it and becoming a focal point for the renascent counter-revolution. That, consequently, the proletariat must not identify its class rule with the state machine, but must rigorously subordinate it to the control of its own class organs.
The PCInt want to be very 'orthodox' on this question and so go back to Marx's statement that in the transitional period, "the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat" (in which Marx was essentially attacking reformist deviations about the state). For the PCInt, the state is "a workers' state", even "a socialist state" (in the sense that it permits the realization of socialism). It is the same thing as the soviets: "The error is to see the soviets (which hold all power) distinct from the state; but the proletarian state is none other than the centralized synthesis of the network of soviets."
In fact, the PCInt can only remain 'orthodox' on this question by ignoring some of the fundamental issues posed by the Fraction and the continuators of its method. The text does have a glimmering of the Fraction's developments in this area, in that certain passages imply that the state and the dictatorship of the proletariat are not identical: for example, the text begins by saying:
"To talk about the period of transition is to talk about the workers' state and its political and economic characteristics, and about the relationship which has to be established between it and the specific form of the dictatorship of the proletariat: the soviets."
But this insight is then contradicted by the PCInt's insistence on defining itself against the positions of the ICC. And in doing so, it inevitably defines itself against the work of the fraction.
The pages of Bilan (organ of the Italian Left in exile, 1933-38) contain many profound studies on the question of the state. Its historical origins, the different forms of the state in capitalist society, and so on, are analyzed in the series 'Party-State-International'. The political and economic questions posed by the transition period are examined above all in Mitchell's articles 'Problems of the Period of Transition' (which the ICC intends to republish). In the light of the Russian experience, where the Soviet state was transformed into a monstrous bourgeois apparatus, Mitchell returned to some of Marx and Engels' warnings about the transitional state being a necessary evil, a "scourge" which the proletariat is compelled to use, and concluded that the Bolsheviks had made a fundamental error in identifying the dictatorship of the proletariat with the transitional state:
"Although Marx, Engels and above all Lenin had again and again emphasized the necessity to counter the state with a proletarian antidote capable of preventing its degeneration, the Russian revolution, far from assuring the maintenance and vitality of the class organs of the proletariat, sterilized them by incorporating them into the state; and thus the revolution devoured its own substance.
"Even in Lenin's thoughts the idea of the 'dictatorship of the state' began to predominate. At the end of 1918, in his polemic against Kautsky (The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky), he was unable to distinguish between two conflicting concepts: the state and the dictatorship of the proletariat." (Bilan No 31). Or again:
"The safeguard of the Russian revolution, the guarantee that it would stay on the tracks of the world revolution, was therefore not the absence of all bureaucracy - which is an inevitable excrescence of the transition period - but the vigilant presence of proletarian organs in which the educational activity of the party could be carried out, while the party itself retained a vision of its international tasks through the International. Because of a whole series of historical circumstances and because of a lack of indispensable theoretical and experimental equipment, the Bolsheviks were unable to resolve this basic problem. The crushing weight of contingent events led them to lose sight of the importance of retaining the Soviets and trade unions as organs which could be juxtaposed to the state, controlling it but not being incorporated into it." (ibid).
The link between this position and that of the ICC is clear. The class organs of the proletariat are not to be confused with the state. Thus, the PCInt should take issue with Bilan on this matter.
Of course, the ICC's position is not merely a repetition of Bilan's. By assimilating the work of the GCF, it has made it clearer on a number of points:
* on the party question: Bilan saw the need to distinguish the proletariat and its party from the state, but tended to identify the party with the proletarian dictatorship. For the ICC, the party is not an instrument for wielding political power. This is the task of the workers' councils and other unitary organs. The function of the party is to conduct a political fight within the councils and the class as a whole against all the vacillations and bourgeois influences and for the implementation of the communist program;
* on the union question: while the proletariat in the period of transition will still require organs to defend its immediate interests against the demands of the state, these will not be trade unions, organizations which arose on the basis of specific trades in the struggle for reforms last century, and which have proved themselves antithetical to the needs of the class struggle and have passed over to the capitalist camp in the epoch of social revolution, but the workers' councils, factory committees, militias, etc, (see below);
* on the question of the state itself: the GCF and the ICC, inquiring more deeply into the origins of the state in history and in the transitional period, have rejected the formulation 'proletarian state', which still appears in Bilan's work.
In the passage in their document dealing with the historical origins of the state, the PCInt correctly summarizes Engels' writing on the subject by saying that:
"1) the state is the product of a society divided into classes
2) the state is the instrument of domination by the economically dominant class."
However, they do not draw all the appropriate conclusions from this, in particular, that the state did not emerge as the simple, ex nihilo creation of a ruling class but arose 'spontaneously' from the inner contradictions of a social order dividing into classes. It is this understanding of the state as first and foremost an instrument for the preservation of social order which makes it possible to explain how, in the phenomenon of state capitalism, the state can 'substitute' itself for the traditional ruling class. And it is this understanding of the fact that the state arises from a class-divided social situation which enables us to see that the transitional state doesn't emanate from the proletariat but from the exigencies of the transitional society itself. In a sense, the destruction of the bourgeois state represents a break in a millennial continuity which takes us back, on a higher level, to the situation preceding the emergence of the first state forms. The transitional state coheres out of the 'disorder' bequeathed by the smashing of the bourgeois state power. But in contrast to all previous states, this state won't 'automatically' become the organic expression, the prolongation of an economically dominant, exploiting class, because such a class will no longer exist. The proletariat will have to wage a constant political struggle to ensure that the state remains under its control: no automatic unfolding of economic laws will ensure this. On the contrary, the period of transition will be the battleground between conscious human will and economic automatisms of all kinds, and thus between the communist proletariat and the state which will tend to reflect the continuing pressures of economic laws in a society still marked by scarcity and class divisions.
To be more precise, the emanation of the state from the transitional society means that it will be based on organisms - the territorial soviets - that regroup the whole non-exploiting population. Though containing proletarians these organs are not proletarian in themselves and the proletariat must always maintain a strict political independence through its specific class organs, the workers soviets, which will exert a rigorous control over the territorial soviets and all the administrative or repressive organs which emerge from their centralization.
It is striking that the PCInt's text almost entirely evades the problem of the organization of the non-proletarian, non-exploiting strata in the transitional state - particularly in view of the PCInt's self-proclaimed 'sensitivity' to the problems facing these strata in the peripheries of capitalism, where they greatly outnumber the working class and thus pose a central problem to the revolution. Consequently, when it is compelled to touch on this problem, it falls into two symmetrical errors:
-- the 'workerist' error (which has in the past been particularly marked in the Communist Workers Organization), of denying that these strata will have any participation whatever in the transitional state. Thus they write:
"The soviets will be elected exclusively by workers, excluding any electoral rights to those who profit from wage labor or who, in one way or another, economically exploit the labor of the proletariat".
The exclusion of the exploiters from participation in the soviets is one thing and we agree with it. But this passage gives us no idea at all about what is to be done with the vast mass of humanity - peasants, artisans, marginalized elements, etc, etc who belong neither to the working class nor the bourgeoisie. To have attempted to exclude these masses from the soviet system would have been unthinkable to the Bolsheviks in 1917, and so it should be to communists today. To draw in these strata behind the workers' revolution and not against it, to raise their consciousness about the aims and methods of the communist transformation, to push forward their integration into the proletariat - these strata must be incorporated into into the soviet system through a network of soviets elected on the basis of neighborhood or village assemblies (in contrast to the workers' soviets which will be elected by workplace assemblies);
-- the interclassist error, which consists of fusing or submerging the class organs of the proletariat into the organs regrouping the entire non-exploiting population. This confusion raises its head when the PCInt talks about the transitional state as "the state of all the exploited... directed politically by a working class organized on an international basis." Again, the formulation itself is not totally incorrect; the confusion arises out of what is not said. Who are "all the exploited"? Only the working class, or, as the passage seems to imply in the phrase "directed politically by the working class", the other non-exploiting strata as well? And if the state is to be the state of all the non-exploiting strata, how will it be "directed politically" by the working class if the working class is not organized in an independent manner?
Both these errors reinforce each other, since they spring from the same source: an incapacity to analyze the real social conditions giving rise to the state in the period of transition.
On the trade union question, it is normal to expect today's revolutionary groups to be clearer than the Italian Fraction, since the absence of autonomous class struggle for most of the '30s did not provide the latter with all the material required to resolve this question. As we have said, both Bilan and (in an initial stage) the GCF considered that the necessary defense of the proletariat's immediate interests against the demands of the transitional state would be carried out through the trade unions. What is strange, however, is to read that the PCInt - which says the trade unions are no longer proletarian organs and will have to be destroyed in the revolution - also argues in its period of transition document, written in 1983, that:
"The soviets are really revolutionary and political organs. They should thus not be mixed up with the trade unions which, after the revolution, will still have the function of defending the immediate interests of the proletariat and organizing struggles against the bourgeoisie during the difficult process of the 'expropriation of the expropriators'. Neither should they be confused with the factory councils which have the task of ensuring workers' control over production."
We have often said that the PCInt and the CWO retain certain confusions about the unions as 'intermediary' or even 'workers' organizations in this epoch, and this quote confirms it: they seem unable to understand why the trade union form no longer corresponds to the needs of the class struggle in this epoch, the epoch of capitalist decadence and of the proletarian revolution. The essential characteristics of the class struggle in this epoch - its massive character, its need to break down all sectoral barriers - won't change after the seizure of power by the workers. We have already said that we recognize the continuing necessity for the workers to be able to defend their immediate and specific interests against the exigencies of the transitional state, but to do this they will require organs that regroup proletarians irrespective of trade or sector: the factory committees and the workers' councils themselves. In the PCInt's view of things, where the workers' councils 'are' the state, we are presented with the bizarre scenario of the workers using trade unions to defend themselves ... against the workers' councils!
This article in no way claims to be an exhaustive study of the question of the period of transition, or even of the PCInt's view of the matter. It's aim has rather been to give a new impetus to the discussion of the transition period, to define certain basic starting points, and to criticize the confusions, contradictions, or outright concessions to bourgeois ideology contained in the positions of another revolutionary organization. The PCInt's positions, though setting off from this marxist starting point display on certain crucial issues - the relationship between class and state, party and state, the union question - a difficulty in moving from this point of departure to its most coherent conclusions. They stand half-way between the most advanced positions of the communist left and the depasse theses of the Communist International under Lenin. But as even the revolutionary bourgeoisie understood, you can't make a revolution half-way. All confusions and contradictions about the revolutionary process will be exposed mercilessly by the revolution itself. This is precisely why the debate on the period of transition can't be ignored today: when we are launched on the ocean of the communist revolution, we will have to be equipped with the most accurate compass permitted by the present evolution of Marxist theory.
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"Thank you," he said drily, glancing from her to the door and then at her again.
"I'll have them nicely dried, sir, at once," she said, and carried his clothes out of the room. She glanced at his white-swathed head and blue goggles again as she was going out of the door; but his napkin was still in front of his face. She shivered a little as she closed the door behind her, and her face was eloquent of her surprise and perplexity. "I never," she whispered. "There!" She went quite softly to the kitchen, and was too preoccupied to ask Millie what she was messing about with now, when she got there.
When Mrs. Hall went to clear away the stranger's lunch, her idea that his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered, was confirmed, for he was smoking a pipe, and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to put the mouthpiece to his lips. Yet it was not forgetfulness, for she saw he glanced at it as it smouldered out. He sat in the corner with his back to the window-blind and spoke now, having eaten and drunk and being comfortably warmed through, with less aggressive brevity than before. The reflection of the fire lent a kind of red animation to his big spectacles they had lacked hitherto.
"I have some luggage," he said, "at Bramblehurst station," and he asked her how he could have it sent. He bowed his bandaged head quite politely in acknowledgment of her explanation. "To-morrow?" he said. "There is no speedier delivery?" and seemed quite disappointed when she answered, "No." Was she quite sure? No man with a trap who would go over?
But the visitor was not to be drawn so easily. "They do," he said through his muffler, eyeing her quietly through his impenetrable glasses.
"I can quite understand that," said the visitor.
The visitor laughed abruptly, a bark of a laugh that he seemed to bite and kill in his mouth. "Was he?" he said.
"Thanks," he said concisely, as she put them down, and turned his shoulder upon her and stared out of the window again. It was altogether too discouraging. Evidently he was sensitive on the topic of operations and bandages. She did not "make so bold as to say," however, after all. But his snubbing way had irritated her, and Millie had a hot time of it that afternoon.
The visitor remained in the parlour until four o'clock, without giving the ghost of an excuse for an intrusion. For the most part he was quite still during that time; it would seem he sat in the growing darkness smoking in the firelight–perhaps dozing.
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I'm working with a couple of organizations faced with NIST 800-171 compliance. The first is a small manufacturing company doing business with a prime contractor. The second is a tribal business unit with federal contracts. Both must be compliant by December 2017 or risk losing their federal business.
From what I can tell, neither organization was provided much guidance beyond the request to be compliant in the given timeframe – they're on their own to figure it out. Tough task.
If you're not familiar, "Controlled Unclassified Information" (CUI) supports federal missions and business functions that affect the economic and national security interests of the United States. Non-federal organizations (e.g. colleges, universities, state, local and tribal governments, federal contractors) often process, store, or transmit CUI.
Executive Order 13556 (11/10/2010) designated the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) as the Executive Agent to implement the CUI program. NIST Special Publication 800-171 defines the security requirements for protecting CUI in non-federal information systems and organizations. The final draft was made public in April 2015.
Diving deeper… let's look at an example for Configuration Management from Chapter 3, Requirement 4 in NIST 800-171.
With that background, consider that many of the organizations faced with this requirement are in a bit of a quandary, considering the reality of never having had to protect CUI at this level before. They don't want to lose these important customers but at the same time, they don't have the people or experience or technology to solve it.
They have to step up their game or lose the business to a competitor… not necessarily one with a better product or price but one that can demonstrate compliance with the standard.
The NIH template is very helpful, as it points out that security controls already in place for SOX or HIPAA may satisfy many of the requirements of 800-171. The template provides detailed instructions to describe the "in scope" system and components. It also provides a fillable table with the 14 families of security controls, including both the basic and derived requirements.
There are many tools available from vendors to help manage the controls required by NIST 800-171. Imprimis i2ACT-800 includes all security controls contained in NIST SP 800-53 and fully supports cyber requirements specified in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplements and the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS). It also supports the Risk Management Framework (RMF) now being adopted by the Department of Defense as a replacement for the Department of Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP).
NIST allows contractors to adequately protect CUI "using the systems and practices they already have in place, rather than trying to use government-specific approaches." The burden is on the contractor to ensure that it meets its legal and contractual obligations to the government for handling CUI.
Given that many contractors will have a strong security plan, supplementing the plan with tools designed for a specific purpose may also be beneficial. Tripwire's compliance products (Tripwire Enterprise and CCM) are good examples of tools designed to test controls for compliance and provide remediation on how to fix failed tests. These tools can provide support for the security plan.
While this is a time-consuming project and may involve an investment in enhanced security, the benefits of safeguarding CUI are many … including continuing to do business with an important customer.
Feel free to leave any questions or comments below, or you can find out more information from us here.
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using System.ComponentModel;
using System.ComponentModel.Design;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using EnvDTE90a;
using Microsoft.PythonTools.Debugger.DebugEngine;
using Microsoft.PythonTools.Uwp.Interpreter;
using Microsoft.PythonTools.Uwp.Project;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextManager.Interop;

namespace Microsoft.PythonTools.Uwp {
    /// <summary>
    /// This is the class that implements the package exposed by this assembly.
    ///
    /// The minimum requirement for a class to be considered a valid package for Visual Studio
    /// is to implement the IVsPackage interface and register itself with the shell.
    /// This package uses the helper classes defined inside the Managed Package Framework (MPF)
    /// to do it: it derives from the Package class that provides the implementation of the
    /// IVsPackage interface and uses the registration attributes defined in the framework to
    /// register itself and its components with the shell.
    /// </summary>
    // This attribute tells the PkgDef creation utility (CreatePkgDef.exe) that this class is
    // a package.
    [PackageRegistration(UseManagedResourcesOnly = true)]

    // This attribute is needed to let the shell know that this package exposes some menus.
    [Guid(GuidList.guidUwpPkgString)]

    [ProvideObject(typeof(PythonUwpPropertyPage))]
    [ProvideObject(typeof(PythonUwpProject))]
    [ProvideAutoLoad(VSConstants.UICONTEXT.SolutionHasAppContainerProject_string)]
    [Description("Python Tools Uwp Interpreter")]
    [ProvideProjectFactory(typeof(PythonUwpProjectFactory), null, null, null, null, ".\\NullPath", LanguageVsTemplate = PythonConstants.LanguageName)]
    [ProvidePythonInterpreterFactoryProvider(PythonUwpInterpreterFactory.InterpreterGuidString, typeof(PythonUwpInterpreterFactoryProvider))]
    public sealed class PythonUwpPackage : Package {
        internal static PythonUwpPackage Instance;

        /// <summary>
        /// Default constructor of the package.
        /// Inside this method you can place any initialization code that does not require
        /// any Visual Studio service because at this point the package object is created but
        /// not sited yet inside Visual Studio environment. The place to do all the other
        /// initialization is the Initialize method.
        /// </summary>
        public PythonUwpPackage() {
            Trace.WriteLine(string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "Entering constructor for: {0}", this));
            Instance = this;
        }

        /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        // Overridden Package Implementation
        #region Package Members

        /// <summary>
        /// Initialization of the package; this method is called right after the package is sited, so this is the place
        /// where you can put all the initialization code that rely on services provided by VisualStudio.
        /// </summary>
        protected override void Initialize() {
            Trace.WriteLine(string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "Entering Initialize() of: {0}", this.ToString()));
            base.Initialize();

            RegisterProjectFactory(new PythonUwpProjectFactory(this));
        }

        #endregion

        internal new object GetService(Type serviceType) {
            return base.GetService(serviceType);
        }

        public EnvDTE.DTE DTE {
            get {
                return (EnvDTE.DTE)GetService(typeof(EnvDTE.DTE));
            }
        }

        internal static PythonUwpProject GetProject(IServiceProvider serviceProvider, string filename) {
            IVsHierarchy hierarchy;
            IVsRunningDocumentTable rdt = serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(SVsRunningDocumentTable)) as IVsRunningDocumentTable;
            uint itemid;
            IntPtr docData = IntPtr.Zero;
            uint cookie;
            try {
                int hr = rdt.FindAndLockDocument((uint)_VSRDTFLAGS.RDT_ReadLock,
                    filename,
                    out hierarchy,
                    out itemid,
                    out docData,
                    out cookie);

                if (ErrorHandler.Succeeded(hr)) {
                    rdt.UnlockDocument((uint)_VSRDTFLAGS.RDT_ReadLock, cookie);
                }
                var res = hierarchy as PythonUwpProject;
                if (res != null) {
                    return res;
                }
                return null;
            } finally {
                if (docData != IntPtr.Zero) {
                    Marshal.Release(docData);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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... as do the common blue of the meadow buttercups!
Wild flowers to be seen include red campion, rose-bay willow herb, oxeye daisies, meadow buttercups, common bird's foot trefoil, ragwort, knapweed, cow parsley, foxgloves, thistles, forget-me-nots, and white and purple clover to name but a few! Great food for the butterflies and bees!
The flood waters are also alive with colour and sound thanks to an abundance of wildfowl and their young. From the Carden Hide several great crested grebes can be seen, easily identified by their elegant heads and the fierce flash of orange from their crests as they turn into the sun. At least one pair has chicks and great crested grebes have the particularly charming habit of carrying their youngsters on their backs.
Other colourful chicks include those of the coots, whose bright red heads are strikingly dissimilar to the white heads and shields of their parents. There is probably an evolutionary advantage to the jarring colour of the chicks' feathers: indeed research shows that female coots concentrate their feeding and preening activities on the chicks with the brightest plumage. Those with the brightest plumage are, presumably, those in the best of health and therefore most likely to survive.
Recently, the coots have been gathering on the flood waters in coverts of 28 or more - certainly a sight to be seen.
Less colourful, but equally charming, are the young of the resident greylag geese. On your visit to RSPB Scotland Loch Leven you are almost guaranteed to see rafts of these geese and their growing chicks out on the bay, or along water's edge. They make regular outings onto the water and on my latest visit to the reserve there was a flottila of 200 plus greylag geese with their young ones enjoying the sunshine.
Likewise you are almost always guaranteed to see mute swans (at the moment with cygnets), and lapwings, whose young are growing rapidly and becoming increasingly independent.
And summer, of course, wouldn't be summer without the swallows flying low over the long grasses of the bumblebee meadows, and high over the waters of the reserve. The first young have now fledged and can be seen, swooping and diving for flies with the adults, or resting on fence post and gate. It is a joy to see their progress and to hear their twitterings merge with skylark song, the buzz of insects, the honk of geese and the ever-present raucous cries of the black-headed gulls and their young. Sounds and sights to lift the heart and a perfect time to plan a visit to the reserve!
Events to Look Out For: BioBlitz!
We are delighted to welcome TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham to RSPB Scotland Loch Leven on Saturday, 14th July as part of his UK BioBlitz - Nature Reserves are Not Enough! This is a free event and you are invited along from 10am to help record any wildlife seen on the reserve - from beetles to blackbirds and beyond! Chris will be on site from 12 noon to 1pm to lend a hand and inspire us all to nurture nature more than we do! Please come along early on the day as we anticipate our car park will fill up very quickly. For more information see here.
Events to Look Out For: Festivals Players!
The Festival Players will entertain us with an Open Air Theatre Production of The Winter's Tale on the evening of Thursday 26 July. This is a popular event and perfect entertainment for a summer's evening. Tickets can be booked here.
Events to Look Out For: Big Wild Sleepout!
And our annual night of camping under the stars is scheduled for the weekend of 28th/29th July. Join in with bat and moth walks, enjoy wildlife and bushcraft activities and toast marshmallows on the fire! To book and for more information see here.
Work to develop our new accessible underpass is going well and remains on plan. We are looking forward to seeing the end result! During this time the Heritage Trail will be diverted via the Wetlands area of the reserve free of charge, however please be aware there is a small charge for visiting the hides during this period of £3 per adult (free to RSPB members and children). We would like to say a massive thank you to the public for both their support and patience during this time.


Our work is also supported by Annie and John Nelson of Brown & Associates, Inc. Bookkeeping Services, and Doris Mack, Performing Arts Consultant. Our website has been designed and is supported by Courtney Shelton Hunt of Denovati Digital, who also provides social media and other digital engagement expertise and guidance.
Rick Bryant joined the paid staff of the CPFA as its director of visual arts in 1999, though his involvement with the Festival dates back to 1984, when he first volunteered on the Trash Crew. Rick was named Executive Director of the CPFA in 2005.
Born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, before the county hospital moved to State College, Rick attended public schools in State College, and afterward the University of Virginia, where he earned a bachelor's degree from the School of Architecture in 1979.
After college he toiled away in the insurance business and pursued professional education, earning a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter designation in 1986. He completed the Pennsylvania Rural-Urban Leadership Program in 2013.
In addition to serving as a long-time Festival volunteer, he has volunteered for many community organizations. He has served on many committees and boards including the board of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania, the State College Board of Health, the Community Advisory Board for Penn State's Center for the Performing Arts, and the State College Historic Resources Commission. He currently serves as the vice-chair of the State College Design and Historic Review Board and as the treasurer of the Board of Deacons of State College Presbyterian Church.
You can read about Rick's adventures as a doofus hipster-wannabe at his blog, The Wandering Wahoo.
Carol Baney has been with the Festival for nearly twenty years. She is a native of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. After attending public school in Bellefonte, she received an associate in arts degree from the Hagerstown Business College in Maryland. She has continued her post-college education and earned an associate in liberal arts degree from Penn State in 2009.
Carol holds an Emergency Medical Technician certification from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and has earned a Master Gardener designation from Penn State Cooperative Extension. For the third (and last, she claims) year, she is serving as the chair of annual plant sale for the Centre County Master Gardeners. The sale, which takes place on Penn State's Ag Progress Days grounds, raises over $10,000 annually.
In March 2013 and again in 2014, one of Carol's dreams–to visit Africa–came true when she volunteered at the Urkundo Home and Learning Center in the Muhanga District of Rwanda.
In her spare time, Carol creates jewelry which she sells at festivals in the mid-Atlantic region. This is not just a creative outlet, but also gives her the opportunity to learn about the festival business from the artists' perspective.
Jennifer joined the Festival staff in April 2015. Prior to that, she served almost 15 years as the Executive Director of ClearWater Conservancy, a well-respected land trust and natural resource conservation organization in central Pennsylvania. Jennifer grew up in the small village of Hublersburg in the Bellefonte area and earned a B.S. of Landscape Architecture from Penn State.
Since about 2005, Jen has been exploring her artistic side. She is a pastel painter whose work focuses mainly on landscapes of central Pennsylvania. Jennifer is a Signature Member of the Central Pennsylvania Pastel Society, the Secretary of the Farmland Preservation Artists of Central Pennsylvania, and a member of the Artists Registry of the Bellefonte Art Museum. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania.
Jen remains committed to conservation and connect people to nature. She serves on the Millbrook Marsh Nature Center Advisory Committee, and she is on the Boards of the Centre County Farmland Trust, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, and the Mount Nittany Conservancy. She is also a trustee on the Hamer Foundation.
Jen lives with her high school sweetheart husband Chris in Pleasant Gap, with their two kitties, Hammie and Moe. The cats – and their names – came from Hameau Farm, in the Big Valley, where Jen first picked up a pastel at an artists' retreat.
As CPFA's Director of Development, Jennifer helps the Festival's past, current, and future supporters find the best ways to make a difference in the community as part of the Festival family.
You can see some of Jen's art on her website.
Rachael Lowe is the 2019 Festival intern. She is a senior at Penn State majoring in public relations and minoring in Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Management. She aspires to work in the event planning industry in the future with a focus on entertainment and music.
Born in Stratford, New Jersey, Rachael has always been on the move. Moving from New Jersey to Delaware to Pennsylvania and back to New Jersey, she has found a love in traveling and exploring new cities. Rachael has found her home in Penn State and is involved with many different organizations on campus. She serves on the executive board for Movin' On, Penn State's annual music festival, and the Public Relations Student Society of America. She also danced in THON 2019 for her sorority, Sigma Kappa.
During her free time, Rachael loves going to concerts, being outside, and journaling. Fun fact: she's seen her favorite band live 50 times. She is looking forward to expanding her knowledge and experience in festivals and art!


Please note that as of November 14, 2017, USCIS has not advised whether in December 2017, it will accept adjustment of status applications for family- or employment-based petitions based on filing dates, rather than final action dates. USCIS anticipates that this information will be released within one week of the monthly Visa Bulletin.
Immigration law provides up to 55,000 Diversity Visas each fiscal year to permit additional immigration opportunities for persons from countries with low admissions during the previous five years. Under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA), up to 5,000 of the 55,000 annually-allocated diversity visas will be made available for use under the NACARA program. This resulted in reduction of the DV-2018 annual limit to 50,000. DV visas are divided among six geographic regions. No one country can receive more than seven percent of the available diversity visas in any one year.
Due to limited availability of visa numbers and the existing demand, the DOS expects to reach the annual limit of 50 Special Immigrant Visas early in FY-2018. It will hold the December Final Action Date at April 1, 2010 and expects that it will require this category to become "unavailable" in the coming months.
Once the annual limit is reached, visa issuance in this category will not be possible until October 2018, under the next fiscal year's annual limit. The SQ Special Immigrant Visa category for certain Iraqi and Afghan nationals employed by or on behalf of the U.S. government in Iraq or Afghanistan is not affected and remains current.
During the course of the past year, the Philippines F1 and F2B final action dates had been advanced very rapidly in order to fully utilize all available numbers. In recent months the amount of applications being filed has been increasing at a steady pace and has reached a level of demand where it has become necessary to retrogress each of those final action dates in an effort to keep within the annual limit for these preference categories.
The non-minister special immigrant program (SR visas) expires on December 8, 2017. No SR visas may be issued overseas, or final action taken on adjustment of status cases, after midnight December 7, 2017. Visas issued prior to this date will only be issued with a validity date of December 7, 2017, and all individuals seeking admission as a non-minister special immigrant must be admittedinto the U.S. no later than midnight December 7, 2017.
The final action date for this category has been listed as "Current" for December for all countries except El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, which are subject to specific final action dates for December. If there is no legislative action extending this category for FY-2018, the final action date would immediately become "Unavailable" for December for all countries effective December 8, 2017.
The immigrant investor pilot program was extended by continuing resolution until December 8, 2017. The I5 and R5 visas may be issued until close of business on December 8, 2017, and may be issued for the full validity period. No I5 or R5 visas may be issued overseas, or final action taken on adjustment of status cases, after December 8, 2017.
The final action dates for the I5 and R5 categories have been listed as "Current" for December for all countries except China-mainland born, which is subject to a July 15, 2014 final action date. If there is no legislative action extending them for FY-2018, the final action dates would immediately become "Unavailable" for December for all countries effective December 9, 2017.
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If you are sad you missed last Saturday's show, do not despair. I'll be performing again this Thursday, along with several of the quick-witted and fun people from my class plus a few more experienced improv-ers. And it's not just a regular improv performance: It's a competition, a battle for the hearts and minds (and votes) of the audience. It is THE CAGE MATCH.
Two teams each get 20 minutes to do their improv set, then you the audience vote on who comes back the next week to defend the belt. Two teams enter, one team leaves.
Scit students get in free.
At the Steel City Improv Theater.
Here's the thing: I need for you to come to this show — partly to make me feel loved and appreciated, partly so my team and I can bring you joy and chaos and laughter, and mostly so you can vote for us, so we win Cage Match and can go on to compete again the next week.
It's just $5 for the show — for that admission fee you can see the shows before and after Cage Match too, for three hours of uproariousness. And you'll have my undying appreciation. Plus, I'll buy you a drink afterwards, even if you vote for the other team.
Information and directions, including very important information about constructions closings for Highland Avenue and Ellsworth, are waiting for you at the Steel City Improv website.
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Won't you please come have fun with us?


Wow, what a wonderful response I got on the Joyfully Blogging Contest!!
Folks, please email me with your mailing addresses and congratulations!!!
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I'm doing a pug dance in my basement as I post this. Yay, yay, yay, yay, YAY!! Can you tell I'm excited?
PS Congrats to the other winners too. Aren't we in excellent company, ladies?
YES!! Thank you…I'm doing the happy dance. And all because Joy's bunny is just LUCKY!!


Members of the Scientific Dentistry Alliance (SDA) were delighted to play host to some influential individuals in a recent casual gathering involving the SDA and those who backed it.
The members of Scientific Dentistry Alliance were honoured with the presence of just a few of the many high ranking individuals supporting the cause. Those who were in attendance included, His Excellency, Daniel Dargent, the Belgian ambassador to Malaysia, Sherman Siew and Johny Sui, high ranking members of the Rotary Club of Bukit Bintang, Mr Kuehner, Director of edotco Group and his wife. Many members of the SDA were present as well including Bernard Schutte, the driving force behind the initiative.
Networking opportunities were in abundance as it became apparent to those who were present exactly how varied the industries involved in Scientific Dentistry Alliance could be, from those who had majored in financial studies to those who were professionals in designing medical facilities. Since the launch of SDA, the members have been actively involved with brainstorming and networking with various parties to see this effort to success.
All in all, it was a successful Scientific Dentistry Alliance event that helped to bring those in attendance closer to each other.


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Orientalia
Orientalia contains articles, commentaries, and links discussing issues related to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, written by Ines Murzaku.
Padre Pio and Mother Teresa: Jubilee Patrons
First appeared in The Catholic Thing on September 23, 2016
In February 2016, as part of the Jubilee of Mercy celebrations and by special request of Pope Francis, the remains of St. Padre Pio were moved from San Giovanni Rotondo in Puglia, Southern Italy, to Rome for a weeklong exposition. It was the first time in 100 years that Padre Pio's body left the convent, which he entered in 1916. He died exactly forty-eight years ago today, September 23, 1968.
According to Pio biographer Fr. Luciano Lotti, Cardinal Bergoglio (the future Pope Francis) has long had a great devotion to Padre Pio. For the Great Jubilee Year of the Third Millennium in 2000, Bergoglio asked, and some relics of Pio's arrived in Buenos Aires.
Papa Bergoglio canonized Mother Teresa a few weeks ago, just two months before the conclusion of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. Francis's choice of St. Pio and St. Teresa of Kolkata as jubilee's patron saints is significant. St. Pio is an example for the missionaries of mercy and Mother Teresa is an example of mercy in action.
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Cameras For Girls Empowers Females in Uganda
When I set out to build Cameras For Girls, I did not have any specific themes in mind except to teach photography. I also did not think about teaching females, specifically embarking on a career in journalism. That clear focus would come through my discussions with my journalism friend in Uganda, who urged me to pick a niche, and I am so glad I listened to Venex.
Thus, as we developed and our programming became very specific to the needs of females endeavouring to become journalists, I realized that the themes were becoming clearly defined and that our mission to empower females in Uganda was ever important.
Amina helping Hafitha with her camera settings
The Struggle for Female Empowerment is Real
For instance, identifying early on the struggles that females have in Uganda and other developing nations around career development was a priority for us to tackle. Second, recognizing our role in helping them to carve out a space for themselves in a society that does not necessarily realize their role in society was a clear indication that we would be working with the theme of gender equality, alleviation of poverty and female empowerment.
Knowing full-well, that without a career and a well-paying one at that, females would be stuck in the terrible cycle of poverty. Thus, we maintain to help each of our students alleviate poverty for themselves, their families, and their community by teaching them business and entrepreneurial skills.
The Camera as a Tool Helps Females In Uganda Climb Out of Poverty
Giving a female a camera teaches her a valuable skill in seeing her world differently, and it also encourages her to tell stories that matter to her. In a society where the female voice is not heard or valued, this becomes her way to share her views and opinions objectively and be respected alongside her male peers.
A few of our success stories need mentioning to fully understand how Cameras For Girls is empowering females in Uganda.
Our Students Are Carving Out a Place For Themselves in Uganda
Sharon Countrygal Kyatusiimire, a single mom, was in my first training in August 2018 and recently wrote to me with a proposal that she and a few other girls from year one and year two have developed. Not only will it give Sharon a voice in the heavily male-dominated journalism industry, but it will do the same for other girls as well.
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Sharon is empowering other females in Uganda and is definitely off to a wonderful start, and I cannot wait to see where she takes this.
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Q: Digamma Identities I've been studying the digamma function lately and I often see it defined as the following:
$$
\psi(x) = \frac{\Gamma'(x)}{\Gamma(x)}
$$
or
$$
\psi(x) = \int_0^\infty \frac{e^{-t}}{t} - \frac{e^{-xt}}{1-e^{-t}} dt
$$
I've seen this shown but rarely justified how these expressions are the same. Perhaps I don't have the tools to recognize it, but it is not immediately obvious to me. I'd like a proof laid out. Showing why these are equivalent.
I understand the identity $\psi(x) = -\gamma+\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n+1}-\frac{1}{n+x} $ comes from differentiating $\ln(\Gamma(x))$ and using the Weierstrass product formula for $\Gamma$ as explained in this post here (for those like me learning from the bottom up I found this PDF which explains the product formula; also $\gamma$ is the Euler-Mascheroni constant). I also accept $\Gamma'(1)=-\gamma$  (some good proofs in this post).
Now I tried first to split the integral into two:
$$
\int_0^\infty \frac{e^{-t}}{t} - \frac{e^{-xt}}{1-e^{-t}} dt = \int_0^\infty \frac{e^{-t}}{t} - \frac{e^{-t}}{1-e^{-t}} dt +\int_0^\infty \frac{e^{-t}}{1-e^{-t}} - \frac{e^{-xt}}{1-e^{-t}} dt
$$
For $0<t<\infty$ then $0<e^{-t}<1$ thus it follows that
$$
\int_0^\infty \frac{e^{-t}}{1-e^{-t}} - \frac{e^{-xt}}{1-e^{-t}} dt=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\int_0^\infty e^{-(n+1)t}-e^{-(n+x)t}dt =
$$
$$
\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n+1} - \frac{1}{n+x}
$$
Now clearly last integral should be $-\gamma$ and we're done. However I can't satisfactorily do this. I suspect it's because I'm not being rigorous enough somewhere or I've been thinking about it too much and can't see an obvious mistake. To start, I split the integral in two and use integration by parts $u=e^{-t}$ and $dv=\frac{1}{t}dt$.
$$
\int_0^\infty \frac{e^{-t}}{t} - \frac{e^{-t}}{1-e^{-t}} dt = \int_0^\infty \frac{e^{-t}}{t} dt - \int_0^\infty \frac{e^{-t}}{1-e^{-t}} dt =
$$
$$
\ln(t)e^{-t}|_{0}^\infty+\int_0^\infty \ln(t)e^{-t}dt-\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n+1}=\lim_{a\to0}-\ln(a)-\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n}+\Gamma'(1)
$$
Here I had two thoughts a) the limit goes to $\infty$ and the harmonic series does the same so we can say they cancel each other out. This is too much hand waving for my liking, but b) was that $\lim_{a\to0}-\ln(a)=\lim_{a\to0}\ln(\frac{1}{a})=\lim_{n\to\infty}\ln(n)$ and hence we have
$$
\lim_{a\to0}\ln(a) - \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n} = \lim_{n\to\infty}\ln(n) - \sum_{k=1}^n \frac{1}{k} \equiv -\gamma
$$
$$
\therefore \int_0^\infty \frac{e^{-t}}{t} - \frac{e^{-t}}{1-e^{-t}} dt = -2\gamma
$$
This second approach seems less dodgy to me but is wrong.
Could someone point out my error in this method, or give an alternative proof using Calc II techniques? Please justify any identities for $\Gamma$, $\psi$, or $\gamma$ not used here or provide a link to a source which does.

A: Non-detailed proof: (copied from my old answer here. Thinking of adding more detail and thus copying this if its not clear enough)
Using the definition $\Gamma'(z)$ and by replacing the $\text{log}(t)$ term with the integral
$$
\text{log}(t)= \int_0^{\infty}\frac{e^{-x}-e^{-xt}}{x},
dx
$$
we can show that
$$
\Gamma'(z)=\int_0^\infty \frac{dx}{x}\left[ e^{-x}\Gamma(z)-\int_0^\infty e^{-t(x+1)}t^{z-1} dt \right].
$$
Using the substitution $u=t(x+1)$ we get
$$
\psi(z)=\int_0^\infty\left[e^{-x}-\frac{1}{(x+1)^{z}} \right]\frac{dx}{x}.
$$
Using this we can find
$$
\psi(z)=\lim_{\epsilon \to 0} \left[ \int_\epsilon^\infty \frac{e^{-x}}{x}dx-\int_\epsilon^\infty \frac{1}{(x+1)^{z}x} dx \right].
$$
Substituting $1+x = e^u$ for the last integral we get
$$
\psi(z)=\lim_{\epsilon \to 0} \left[ \int_{log(1+\epsilon)}^\infty \left( \frac{e^{-u}}{u}-\frac{e^{-uz}}{1-e^{-u}}\right)du -\int_{log(1+\epsilon)}^\epsilon \frac{e^{-u}}{u} du \right].
$$
Here the last integral goes to $0$ as $\epsilon \to 0$ so we get
$$
\psi(z)= \int_{0}^\infty \left( \frac{e^{-u}}{u}-\frac{e^{-uz}}{1-e^{-u}}\right)du.
$$

A: Let $F(x)$ be represented by the integral
$$F(x)=\int_0^\infty \left(\frac{e^{-t}}{t}-\frac{e^{-xt}}{1-e^{-t}}\right)\,dt\tag 1$$

Differentiating under the integral in $(1)$, we find that
$$\begin{align}
F'(x)&=\int_0^\infty \frac{te^{-xt}}{1-e^{-t}}\,dt\\\\
&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \int_0^\infty te^{-(n+x)t}\,dt\\\\
&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{(n+x)^2}\tag 2
\end{align}$$

Next, integrating both sides of $(2)$ reveals
$$\begin{align}
F(x)-F(1)&=\int_1^x F'(t)\,dt\\\\
&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \left(\frac{1}{n+1}-\frac{1}{n+x}\right)\\\\
F(x)&=F(1)+\sum_{n=0}^\infty \left(\frac{1}{n+1}-\frac{1}{n+x}\right)\tag3
\end{align}$$
where $F(1)=\int_0^\infty \left(\frac{e^{-t}}{t}-\frac{e^{-t}}{1-e^{-t}}\right)\,dt$.

Then, we can evaluate $F(1)$ by simple application of integration by parts.  Proceeding, we find that
$$\begin{align}
F(1)&=\int_0^\infty \left(\frac{e^{-t}}{t}-\frac{e^{-t}}{1-e^{-t}}\right)\,dt\\\\
&=\lim_{\epsilon\to 0^+}\left(\int_\epsilon^\infty \left(\frac{e^{-t}}{t}-\frac{e^{-t}}{1-e^{-t}}\right)\,dt\right)\\\\
&=\lim_{\epsilon\to 0^+}\left(-\log(\epsilon)+\int_\epsilon^\infty \log(t)e^{-t}\,dt+\log(1-e^{-\epsilon})\right)\\\\
&=\int_0^\infty \log(t)e^{-t}\,dt\tag4\\\\
&=-\gamma \tag5
\end{align}$$
where in going from $(4)$ to $(5)$, I appealed to the note at the end of THIS ANSWER.

Finally, substituting $(5)$ in $(3)$ yields
$$F(x)=-\gamma +\sum_{n=0}^\infty\left( \frac{1}{n+1}-\frac{1}{n+x}\right)=\psi(x)$$
as was to be shown!

A: I just was thinking about this several months later and it came to me what I wasn't seeing before:
$$
\int_0^\infty \frac{e^{-t}}{t} - \frac{e^{-xt}}{1-e^{-t}} dt = \ln(t)e^{-t}|_0^\infty + \int_0^\infty\ln(t)e^{-t}dt + \int_0^\infty \frac{e^{-t}-e^{-xt}}{1-e^{-t}}dt - \int_0^\infty\frac{e^{-t}}{1-e^{-t}}dt
$$
$$
=-\lim_{n\to0}\ln(n)+\Gamma'(1)+\int_0^1\frac{1-u^{x-1}}{1-u}du-\int_0^1\frac{1}{w}dw = -\lim_{n\to0}\ln(n)-\gamma + \int_0^1\frac{1-u^{x-1}}{1-u}du+\lim_{n\to0}\ln(n)
$$
$$
=-\gamma + \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\int_0^1u^n-u^{n+x-1} du =-\gamma + \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{n+1}-\frac{1}{n+x} = \psi(x)
$$
The last identity as explained in my question can be show using differentiation of $\ln(\Gamma(x))$ and using the Weierstrass formula of $\Gamma$ (see links in question for detailed explanation).

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One of the resolutions I made for 2018 was to be more productive as a writer this year. And that asks for a more disciplined writing schedule and writing practices.
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