Thank you, Monica and Jonas, for your witness. I listened to it as a friend, as if we were sitting close to one another in some bar, telling one another about our lives as we drink a beer or a girá after going to the jaunimo teatras.
But your lives are not a piece of theatre; they are real and concrete, like those of everyone else gathered here today in this beautiful square situated between two rivers. Perhaps all this helps us to think back on your stories and to find in them the footprint of God… for God is always passing through our lives. He is always passing by. A great philosopher said: "I am afraid when God passes by! Afraid that I do not notice him!".
Like this Cathedral, you have times when you think you are falling apart, fires from which you think you can never rebuild. Think of all the times this Cathedral went up in flames and fell apart. Yet there were always people ready to start rebuilding; they refused to let themselves be overwhelmed by hardship: they never gave up. There is a lovely Alpine song that goes like this: "In the art of climbing, the secret lies not so much in not falling down, but in not staying fallen down". Always start over again, always, and that's how you will climb. Just like this Cathedral. The freedom of your nation, too, was won by men and women who did not flinch before terror and misfortune. Monica, your father's life, his condition and his death, and your illness, Jonas, could have been devastating for you. Yet here you are, sharing your experience, seeing it with the eyes of faith, and helping us to see that God gave you the grace to be strong, to lift yourselves up and to keep moving forward in life.
I ask myself: how was it that God's grace was poured out on you? Not from the air, not magically; there is no magic wand for life. This happened through persons whose paths crossed your lives, good people who nourished you by their experience of faith. There are always people in life who give us a hand to help us pick ourselves up. For you, Monica, your grandmother and your mother, and the Franciscan parish, were like the confluence of these two rivers; just as the Vilnia flows into the Neris, you let yourself be carried along by that current of grace. Because the Lord saves us by making us part of a people. The Lord saves us by making us part of a people. He places us within a people, and our identity in the end, will be through our belonging to a people. No one can say, "I am saved on my own". We are all interconnected, we are all "networked". God wanted to enter into this web of relationships and he draws us to himself in community; he gives to our lives the deepest sense of identity and belonging (cf. Gaudete et Exsultate, 6). Jonas, you too found in others, in your wife and in the promise that you made on your wedding day, the reason to keep going, to fight, to live.
So don't let the world make you believe that it is better to do everything on your own. On your own, you never get there. Yes, you can manage to arrive at success in your life, but without love, without companions, without belonging to a people, without that beautiful experience of taking risks together. You can't move forward on your own. Don't yield to the temptation of getting caught up in yourself, only looking after yourself, being tempted to become selfish or superficial in the face of sorrow, difficulty or temporary success. Let us say once again, "Whatever happens to others happens to me". Let us swim against the current of that individualism which isolates us, makes us egocentric and makes us become vain, concerned only for our image and our own well-being. Concerned with our image, with how we look. Life in front of the mirror is no good, it is no good. On the other hand, life is beautiful with others, in our families, with friends, with the struggles of my people… That's how life is beautiful!
We are Christians and we want to aim for holiness. Aim for holiness through your encounters and your fellowship with other people; be attentive to their needs (ibid., 146). Who we really are has to do with our being part of a people. Identity is not the product of a laboratory; that does not exist; it is not concocted in a test tube; a "pure blood" identity: this does not exist. An identity does exist in walking together, of struggling together, of loving together. Identity does exist in belonging to a family, to a people. An identity does exist that gives you love, tenderness, concern for others… An identity does exist that gives you the strength to struggle and at the same time the tenderness to caress. Each one of us knows how beautiful it is to belong to a people, but also how tiring it is – it is great that young people get tired; it is a sign they are working – and even, at times, painful; you know this. But that is the basis of our identity; we are not rootless. We are not rootless people!
The two of you also spoke about your experience in a choir, praying in the family, Mass and catechism, and helping those in need. These are powerful weapons that the Lord gives us. Prayer and song keep us from getting caught up in this world alone: in your desire to know God you went out from yourselves and were able to see what was going on in your heart through God's eyes (cf. ibid., 147). In embracing music, you became open to listening and the interior life; in this way, you developed sensitivity, and that always opens the way to discernment (cf. Instrumentum Laboris, Synod for Youth, 162). Prayer can certainly be an experience of "spiritual warfare", but it is in prayer that we learn to listen to the Spirit, to discern the signs of the times and to find renewed strength for proclaiming the Gospel each day. How else could we fight the temptation to become discouraged by our frailties and our difficulties, and those of others, and by all the dreadful things that happen in our world? What would we do if prayer did not teach us to believe that everything depends on us, when we are alone and wrestling with adversity? As Saint Alberto Hurtado used to say, "Jesus and I are an absolute majority!" Don't forget this; a saint used to say it! The encounter with Christ, with his word, with the Eucharist, reminds us that it makes no difference how strong the opponent is. It makes no difference whether Žalgiris Kaunas or Vilnius Rytas are in first place [laughter] … By the way, let me ask you: which one is in first place? It does not matter who is first, what matters is not the result, but the fact that the Lord is at our side.
Both of you also found support in life through the experience of helping others. You realized that all around us there are people experiencing troubles even worse than our own. Monica, you told us about working with children with disabilities. Seeing the frailty of others gives us perspective; it helps us not to go through life licking our wounds. It is no good living by complaining, it is just no good. It is no good living to lick our wounds. How many young people leave home for lack of opportunities, and how many are victims of depression, alcohol and drugs! You know all this, of course. How many of the elderly are lonely, without anyone to share the present, and fearful that the past will return! You, young people, can respond to these challenges by your presence, by your encounter with others. Jesus invites us to step out of ourselves and to risk a face-to-face encounter with others. It is true that believing in Jesus can often demand taking a leap of blind faith, and this can be frightening. At other times, it can make us question ourselves, and force us to abandon our preconceptions. That can involve anguish and we can be tempted to discouragement. But stand firm! Following Jesus is a passionate adventure that gives meaning to our lives and makes us feel part of a community that encourages us, a community that accompanies us, and commits us to the service of others. Dear young people, following Christ is something worthwhile, it is worthwhile! Do not be afraid to take part in the revolution to which he invites us: the revolution of tenderness (cf. Evangelii Gaudium, 88).
If life were a theatre piece or a video game, it would be limited to a precise time, and have a beginning and an end, when the curtain falls or one team wins the game. But life measures time differently, not with the time of a theatre piece or a video game; it follows God's heartbeat. Sometimes it passes quickly, while at other times it goes slowly. We are challenged to take new paths; things change. We grow indecisive mostly out of fear that the curtain will fall, or that the stopwatch will eliminate us from the game or prevent us from advancing. But life always involves moving forward, life moves forward, it does not stand still; life always involves moving forward, seeking the right way without being afraid to retrace our steps if we make a mistake. The most dangerous thing is to confuse the path with a maze that keeps us wandering in circles without ever making real progress. Please, as young people, don't let yourselves get trapped in a maze, but follow a path that leads to the future. No mazes; only move forward!
Don't ever be afraid to put your trust in Jesus, to embrace his cause, the cause of the Gospel, the cause of humanity, of human beings. Because he never jumps off the ship of our life; he is always there at life's crossroads. Even when our lives go up in flame, he is always there to rebuild them. Jesus gives us plenty of time, lots of room for failure. Nobody has to emigrate from him; he has a place for everyone. There are many people out there who want to capture your hearts. They want to sow weeds in your field, but if, in the end, we entrust our lives to the Lord, the good grain will always prevail. In your testimony, Monica and Jonas, you spoke of your grandmother, your mother… I would like to say to you – and here I will stop, don't worry! – I would like to say to you: don't forget the roots of your people. Think of the past, speak with the elderly: it is not boring to speak with the elderly. Go and find the elderly and let them tell you about the roots of your people, their joys, their sufferings, their values. In this way, by drawing on your roots, you will carry your people forward, the history of your people, for greater fruitfulness. Dear young people, if you want a people who are great and free, take their memory from the roots of the past and carry your people forward. Thank you very much!


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TAPS 170B: Directing Workshop: The Actor-Director Dialogue (TAPS 372)
This course focuses on the actor-director dialogue. We will work with actors and directors developing approaches to collaboration that make the actor-director dialogue in theater. TAPS Ph.D. students are required to enroll in TAPS 372 for 4 units. This course must be taken for a minimum of 3 units and a letter grade to be eligible for Ways-AII credit.
Last offered: Winter 2020 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | Repeatable for credit
TAPS 196: Dancing Black: Embodying the African Diaspora in the United States and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 196, DANCE 196, TAPS 396)
What does it mean to dance black? How can studying comparative dance practices across the United States and the Caribbean expose continuities and differences in African diaspora experience? How can we draw strategies from black performance to inform our current movements for social change? This class will explore how dance and writing about performance have shaped notions of what it means to identify or be marked as an African diaspora subject. From the ring shouts of captive Africans to the 20th-century concert dance stage, from New York queer ballroom culture to Tiktok fads, this class will expose students to both historical and ethnographic methods for using dance to study the formation of black community in the New World. Looking beyond the surface of skin, we¿ll explore how race is experienced in muscle and flesh, and how black performers have historically taken advantage of or disavowed racialized ideas of how they can/should move. We will read theories of diaspora, queer of colo more »
What does it mean to dance black? How can studying comparative dance practices across the United States and the Caribbean expose continuities and differences in African diaspora experience? How can we draw strategies from black performance to inform our current movements for social change? This class will explore how dance and writing about performance have shaped notions of what it means to identify or be marked as an African diaspora subject. From the ring shouts of captive Africans to the 20th-century concert dance stage, from New York queer ballroom culture to Tiktok fads, this class will expose students to both historical and ethnographic methods for using dance to study the formation of black community in the New World. Looking beyond the surface of skin, we¿ll explore how race is experienced in muscle and flesh, and how black performers have historically taken advantage of or disavowed racialized ideas of how they can/should move. We will read theories of diaspora, queer of color critique and black feminist theory, and performance theory. We will search for the common questions and conversations about embodiment, the spectator¿s gaze, and black belonging that run through all three disciplines. Students will be required to do some movement research (through accessible, at-home dance practice), write weekly journals, and complete short essay projects. Students develop will skills for writing, speaking, and making performance to explore the intersections between race, sexuality, and dance.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors: Reid, A. (PI)
TAPS 196 | 4 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Class # 24149 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | SEM | Remote: Synchronous | Students enrolled: 1
01/11/2021 - 03/19/2021 Mon, Wed 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM at Remote with Reid, A. (PI)
TAPS 258: Black Feminist Theater and Theory (AFRICAAM 258, CSRE 258, FEMGEN 258X)
From the rave reviews garnered by Angelina Weld Grimke's lynching play, Rachel to recent work by Lynn Nottage on Rwanda, black women playwrights have addressed key issues in modern culture and politics. We will analyze and perform work written by black women in the U.S., Britain and the Caribbean in the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics include: sexuality, surrealism, colonialism, freedom, violence, colorism, love, history, community and more. Playwrights include: Angelina Grimke, Lorriane Hansberry, Winsome Pinnock, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan- Lori Parks, Ntzoke Shange, Pearl Cleage, Sarah Jones, Anna DeVeare Smith, Alice Childress, Lydia Diamond and Zora Neale Hurston.)
Last offered: Winter 2018 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
THINK 24: Evil
What is evil? Are we naturally good or evil? How should we respond to evil? There are many books and courses that focus on the good life or the virtues. Yet despite their obvious apparent presence in our life and world, evil and the vices are rarely taken as explicit topics. We will read philosophical and literary texts that deal with the question of evil at a theoretical level, but will also focus on some practical implications of these issues. By exploring evil, we will confront larger questions about the nature of human beings, the appropriate aims of the good society, the function of punishment, and the place of morality in art.
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
THINK 31: Race in American Memory
How have Americans remembered the Civil War - what it meant, what it accomplished, and what it failed to accomplish? How did Americans reimagine the United States as a nation after the war? Who belonged in the national community and who would be excluded? In 1865, the peace treaty was signed at Appomattox and the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery, but the battle over memory and national identity had just begun. The questions that the Civil War addressed - and failed to address - continue to affect our lives today. We will focus on how Americans negotiated issues of cultural memory and national identity through a close analysis of historical texts, novels, poems, films, paintings, cartoons, photographs, and music. Our interpretations will foreground the particular themes of race and nationhood, freedom and citizenship, and changing notions of individual and collective identity. Our assumption in this course is that history is not available to us as a set of events - fixed, past, and more »
How have Americans remembered the Civil War - what it meant, what it accomplished, and what it failed to accomplish? How did Americans reimagine the United States as a nation after the war? Who belonged in the national community and who would be excluded? In 1865, the peace treaty was signed at Appomattox and the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery, but the battle over memory and national identity had just begun. The questions that the Civil War addressed - and failed to address - continue to affect our lives today. We will focus on how Americans negotiated issues of cultural memory and national identity through a close analysis of historical texts, novels, poems, films, paintings, cartoons, photographs, and music. Our interpretations will foreground the particular themes of race and nationhood, freedom and citizenship, and changing notions of individual and collective identity. Our assumption in this course is that history is not available to us as a set of events - fixed, past, and unchanging. Rather, history is known through each generation's interpretations of those events, and these interpretations are shaped by each generation's lived experience. What stories get told? Whose stories? And in what ways? The stories we choose to tell about the past can shape not only our understanding of the present, but also the kind of future we imagine and strive to realize.
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
THINK 43: What is Love?
Is love a spiritual or a bodily phenomenon? Is the concept of love timeless or ever changing? How does thinking about love lead us to ask other important philosophical and social questions? In this course we will examine the classical roots, medieval developments, and contemporary permutations of Western ideas of romantic love. With an eye to thinking about representations of love in our own culture, we consider some of the foundational love books of the Western tradition. From Plato's Symposium to Chester Brown's graphic novel Paying For It, we ask the fundamental question of whether and how we might distinguish between spiritual and physical desire. We consider how medieval and contemporary writers dealt with the relation of love to sex, power, money, marriage, and gender. We discuss these works of the past, for example the illicit love in the courtly romance Tristan, in tandem with representations of clandestine love from the present day, such as the portrayal of same-sex love in Brokeback Mountain.
Why do people believe in God? What does it mean for people to experience the supernatural? How do we understand belief in God? How do people convey experiences that are by definition extra-ordinary to others? In this course we ask the big (and unanswerable) question why people believe in God. Some scholars argue that belief results from direct experience, such as visions or moments of transcendence, that testify to God's existence. Others suggest that belief in the supernatural is better explained by the way the human mind has evolved or people's experience of the social world. In this class, we will pair medieval literature on Christian mysticism and magic with readings from modern psychology and anthropology. We will look at the dominant answers provided by each discipline. For example, belief might result from our sensory experience of the world, or it might have developed as part of our cognitive apparatus in response to fear. Our aim is to show how different disciplines can work together to cast light on a basic question of human existence.
Last offered: Winter 2017 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
THINK 49: Stories Everywhere
Do we perceive the world through stories? Are we made of stories? Can we make sense of the world without narrative? The telling of stories is not just a form of entertainment but an essential human activity that moves and persuades us, compelling us to action and reflection. In this course, we will probe how moral, cognitive and historical forces give stories their power. You will be introduced to the basic theory and art of storytelling, enabling you to understand and master the fundamentals of narrative structure, plot, and character. This will allow you to practice producing your own stories through both interpretative and creative writing assignments. The class will also give students the chance to participate in various story-making activities and work with the Stanford Storytelling Project, San Francisco StoryCorps, School of the Arts and the Stanford Innocence Project to create assignments that would be useful to both private and nonprofit organizations.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Instructors: Edmondson, C. (PI) ; Johnson, A. (PI) ; Laurence, A. (PI) ... more instructors for THINK 49 »
Instructors: Edmondson, C. (PI) ; Johnson, A. (PI) ; Laurence, A. (PI) ; Rials, E. (PI) ; Sorg, T. (PI) ; Tackett, J. (PI) ; Vermeule, B. (PI)
THINK 49 | 4 units | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | Class # 14889 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | LEC | Remote: Synchronous | Students enrolled: 136 / 120
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Mon, Wed 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM at Remote with Johnson, A. (PI); Vermeule, B. (PI)
Instructors: Johnson, A. (PI); Vermeule, B. (PI)
THINK 49 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | Class # 14890 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | DIS | Remote: Synchronous | Students enrolled: 13 / 13
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Mon, Wed 2:30 PM - 3:20 PM at Remote with Rials, E. (PI)
Instructors: Rials, E. (PI)
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Mon, Wed 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM at Remote with Tackett, J. (PI)
Instructors: Tackett, J. (PI)
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Tue, Thu 8:30 AM - 9:20 AM at Remote with Sorg, T. (PI)
Instructors: Sorg, T. (PI)
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at Remote with Sorg, T. (PI)
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Tue, Thu 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM at Remote with Laurence, A. (PI)
Instructors: Laurence, A. (PI)
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Tue, Thu 2:30 PM - 3:20 PM at Remote with Laurence, A. (PI)
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Tue, Thu 2:30 PM - 3:20 PM at Remote with Edmondson, C. (PI)
Instructors: Edmondson, C. (PI)
In this course, we examine how the ways we talk about food offers us a window into history, psychology, culture and economics. We ask students to think critically about language and taste as well as explore the hidden meanings and influence of the language that surrounds us. Students will analyze the language of food through menus, recipes, Yelp reviews, TV food shows, as well as the history and etymology of food words. Some of our examples will be drawn from East Asian food and culture in addition to, and as a point of contrast with, foods and cultures that may be more familiar to students.
Last offered: Spring 2017 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
THINK 55: Understanding China through Film
How did China move from an imperial and colonized country to an independent modern nation? How did the Chinese people transform its tradition, create new ways of life and values, and move toward modernity? What can the films tell us about the most significant events in modern Chinese culture and history?nWe will learn about major social and cultural transformations in modern Chinese through film. We will analyze films as a window on the ongoing narrative of a people making history and responding to a changing circumstances of revolution, reform, political movements, and modernization. Students will study film images as an art that is intertwined with ordinary people, their lived experiences, cultural habit, moral values, and political consciousness. The course will highlight four major periods: the May Fourth New Culture (1919-1930), the socialist era, the Cultural Revolution, and the reform era of globalization since the 1980s. We will learn to be sensitive to film as a visual and dramatic medium that brings to life Chinese history and culture.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Martin, N. (PI) ; Tang, J. (PI) ; Wang, B. (PI)
THINK 55 | 4 units | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II | Class # 18623 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | LEC | Remote: Synchronous | Students enrolled: 35
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at Remote with Wang, B. (PI)
Instructors: Wang, B. (PI)
THINK 55 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II | Class # 18624 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | DIS | Remote: Synchronous | Students enrolled: 9 / 13
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Tue, Thu 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM at Remote with Martin, N. (PI)
Instructors: Martin, N. (PI)
THINK 55 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II | Class # 18625 | Section 03 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | DIS | Remote: Synchronous | Students enrolled: 6
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Wed, Fri 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM at Remote with Tang, J. (PI)
Instructors: Tang, J. (PI)
THINK 55 | UG Reqs: THINK, WAY-A-II | Class # 18626 | Section 04 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception | DIS | Remote: Synchronous | Students enrolled: 12 / 13
09/14/2020 - 11/20/2020 Wed, Fri 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM at Remote with Tang, J. (PI)

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Technology, Computers & IT(Technology)
Critical Strategies for Staying Ahead of Emerging Cyberthreats
By John Maddison, EVP of products and solutions at Fortinet.
Over the past couple of decades, changes in the threat landscape have driven changes in how we design, implement, and manage security. Organizations have spent the last two decades updating their security gear to keep up with the latest threats and attack vectors. In the late 1990s, the creation of viruses and worms forced the development of anti-virus and IDS solutions. Spam and phishing drove the development of advanced email gateways. The list is long, with organizations adding things like Anti-DDoS, Secure Web Gateways, and Reputation filters to their security closets on an almost annual basis.
The thing these security tools tended to have in common is that they were all signature based. And because cybercriminals tend to be as invested in ROI and TCO as their victims, they learned that attacks that could be countered by a new signature were less profitable.
So they switched their tactics.
Advanced threats and ransomware began implementing advanced strategies—such as polymorphism, multi-stage attacks, fileless malware, and obfuscation techniques—that could detect and bypass signature-based solutions. The playing field tipped strong in favor of cyber adversaries and security developers invented behavioral analytics and ATP solutions to detect zero-day attacks and identify anomalous and malicious behaviors.
That was before digital transformation, where providing consistent and timely security is once again becoming increasingly difficult to accomplish. This is being driven by two elements of transformation—interconnectivity and performance—that are transforming how we create and interact with new digital environments.
Both of these also have serious implications for our ability to detect and respond to new threats, which means we need to make some radical changes to how we design and apply security.
Interconnectivity: Networks, devices, and applications now need to move seamlessly between platforms and environments. Unfortunately, most security solutions are unable to do the same, creating gaps in both visibility and control. Current challenges in securing traffic that moves from the multi-cloud to the edge are just the tip of the iceberg. Highly interconnected systems, such as smart cars, smart cities, and edge networks will require security to span dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of systems simultaneously.
Performance: New immersive and interactive applications and services require massive amounts of processing power. And because computing power always follows the data, endpoint and IoT devices are also becoming faster and smarter. This means that security not only needs to support and secure more throughput, it also has to deliver decisions in as close to real time as possible.
To meet the demands of interconnectivity and performance, networking capacity and functionality has had to grow exponentially. And in the process, it has outpaced the traditional security model of placing security devices in a particular location to monitor a controlled set of data while isolating them from other solutions—which frankly, in retrospect, seems to have been a pretty bad idea.
Addressing the needs of our new digital world is going to require us to transform how and where we deploy security. That will require four things to happen:
Networking and security will need to converge. Security cannot possibly hope to be everywhere it needs to be if it has to be overlaid across every new digital environment by hand. The edges of the network are exploding with new devices, applications, and workflows, replacing the traditional perimeter while creating literally billions of new potential attack vectors. At the same time, known environments such as clouds continue to be in constant flux, baffling the abilities of security teams to adequately deploy traditional security devices there as well.
Only by weaving security deep into the infrastructure itself can security be expected to be where it needs to be, when it needs to be there, and to automatically adapt as the network evolves. Achieving this will require collaboration between networking and security vendors that to this point has been severely lacking.
Security will need to be much, much faster. No one is going to tolerate slowdowns in their immersive application experience because a security component can't keep up while processing live streaming content. Keeping up will require deploying physical and virtual processors that can secure and process data at digital speeds.
Security will need to be interconnected. As data and workflows pass between devices, networks, and ecosystems, things like security policies, tags, and protocols will need to follow them across and between different networked environments, including operating natively across every major cloud platform and providing full support for new branch and 5G edges.
Finally, security will need to be smarter. Because new applications and services are becoming more interconnected (think smart cars and cities) and applications are less tolerant of latency issues (think VR/AR and immersive, interactive solutions), security cannot afford to wait for a decision on an event to make a round trip between the sensor and some security engine in the cloud. When your car hits a patch of ice at 60 miles per hour, you want your all-wheel drive technology to engage immediately. This requires solutions that can make local and autonomous decisions in real-time.
Advanced Security Solutions
For security to continue to not only be effective, but actually get out ahead of the fast-moving threat landscape, a new generation of tools, such as advanced behavioral analysis, intent-based segmentation, automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence will need to be developed and incorporated into everyone's security strategy. This starts by automating not just detection and protection, but also predictive systems that empower prevention.
We also need to be able to teach machines to identify threats and respond in an appropriate manner. This starts with a predefined set of protocols and a preprogrammed decision tree—which is what most vendors mean when they claim to have embedded AI into their systems. But what we really need is the ability to correlate threat intelligence across a variety of tools such as analytics to identify a complex attack scenario, especially those made up of smaller attack events. This will also require the application of AI solutions to accelerate the process of discovering and responding to events—especially those never seen before.
Securing today's networks requires automating the identification, detection and remediation of malicious tactics—particularly those techniques designed to evade discovery. And even more challenging, the creation of new techniques for searching beyond patterns in code and malware behavior.
Again, Fortinet has led the way by being an early adopter of AI, which has enabled us to significantly improve the immediate detection and remediation of global threats with amazing accuracy—a task that previously required an entire team of trained researchers. And now, that advanced intelligence is being integrated into a growing suite of security devices alongside analytics and intent-based security solutions, for both physical and cloud deployments. This enables organizations to reallocate valuable human resources to other, higher-order tasks, while autonomous tools can detect, prevent, and even predict threats in order to short-circuit attacks before they can cause damage.
Out-Innovate Your Adversaries
Malicious actors will continue to evolve their attacks in order to successfully exploit the expanding attack surface. Gaining the upper hand requires more than playing catch-up with threat actors. It means developing broad, powerful, and automated solutions built around deeply integrated security tools designed not just for today's increasingly complex and distributed networks and network edge, but for the networking challenges of tomorrow. That requires combining real vision with years of experience monitoring and responding to evolving threat trends and techniques.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning, especially when combined with other advanced security solutions, will be tremendous aids in this process. But to be truly effective, the security solutions these strategies support also need to operate where the threats exist, adapt as the networks they are protecting change, interoperate between and across devices and networks, and operate at the digital speeds that tomorrow's networking solutions will require.
That requires a level of commitment to innovation that few vendors have consistently provided. But that will be the benchmark the entire industry will need to meet if we want to defend the emerging digital economy against the organized cybercriminal communities that want to disrupt and profit from the efforts of others.
PR Category : Technology
Posted on : Wednesday, June 19, 2019 2:39:00 PM UAE local time (GMT+4)
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We failed in part because the mainstream media was having too good of a time to help. Last spring, Stop Trump operatives told me they brought damning stories to mainstream outlets. The response was usually: "We're not interested in covering that -- right now."
By May, Trump had already received roughly $3 billion worth of free media, thanks to ratings-hungry TV networks. CBS chief Les Moonves summarized it well at an investor conference in February: Trump's rise "may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS."
Only slowly has the media come around to the realization that Trump is an actual threat, but now it may be too late because it has a serious "cry wolf" problem. Millions of Americans firmly believe that journalists are water carriers for the Democrats and will tune out much of what they have to say about Trump now that he's the nominee.
Every election cycle, the GOP nominee is smeared as a racist by the Democrats or the press -- or both. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia trades in a bit more of his hard-earned moral authority each time he insinuates that the GOP nominee is like George Wallace or wants to bring back Jim Crow, and political columnists relinquish a bit more of their claim to objectivity each time they let his comments pass without condemnation or criticism.
I have no doubt many journalists would defend their smears and professional failures, but that doesn't change the fact that many Americans outside the mainstream media/Democratic bubble find it all indefensible. More important, they find it all ignorable -- because the race card and the demagogue card have been played and replayed so often they're little more than scraps of lint.


Over more than 10 years, Julie Tippex has established itself as an agency that is able to develop projects at the crossroads of music, visual arts, writing and film. Since 2007 it's focus has particularly been on artists who have made a cultural impact within the past fifty years of music history, working with the likes of Young Marble Giants, Jeff Mills, ESG, Kim Fowley, The Make Up, Saravah, Glenn Branca, Faust, Tony Conrad, amongst many many others. As well as this historical element, the agency has welcomed more maverick talents: artists who have expanded the imagination of performance and music or who work at the edges of conventional artistic practice, such as Pierre Bastien and his automated music machines, Jad Fair and his paper cuttings, Ghedalia Tazartès and his unique embodied music. The agency has also championed newer artists who will embody this tradition in the future, supporting them in starting and sculpting their own new languages, such as the cinematic crossover of Zombie Zombie, the postmodern pop deconstruction of The Chap, or the sonic brinksmanship of Tomaga. Julie Tippex also works or worked in regular partnership with several world class art institutions that include Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier, Paris' Philarmonie, the Louvre Museum, The Barbican Centre, The British Film Institute, Lieu Unique and is also behind the program, since 2005, of Festival BBmix in Paris, as well as the executive production of the monthly Gonzaï nights at La Maroquinerie in Paris.
With Saravah Revisité, Endless Boogie, Hyperculte, Pan American, Facs, Von Limb, Evan Crankshaw & The Dead Mauriacs, The Mauskovic Dance Band, Waltraud Blischke, projection autour du label Saravah.
Renowed French musician Pierre Bastien and cartoonist Philippe Dupuy have decided to collaborate and present a concert, aiming to push the concept of "music+drawings" to its maximum. Pierre plays with the machines he created; Philippe is drawing, live, on paper, retro-projector and graphic palette – but the papers are amplified, we wll hear the pencil strokes or brushes, the cameras installed on machines shoot the drawings, which physically integrate the machines, playing with them. An infinity of possibilities that the two artists developped during a residency in October 2018 at L'Avant-Scène de Cognac, France.
A 10 minutes short documentary about the first solo performances in China of Pierre Bastien, directed by Mariette Auvray, released April 2018, premiered on the Quietus.
Zombie Zombie present Livity, their latest album, to a sold-out room in a very unusual venue. Visuals by Giulia Grossman, 2nd February 2018.
With The Pop Group, Goat, Boris, Fumaca Preta, Piotr Kurek, Electric Electric, Fantastic Mister Zguy, Dj Cambodian Knives, Dj Marcus Detmer, Mimo the Maker, Guy Girard "Don Pauvros de La Manche", exhibition "Sticker removals".
A one-time collaboration at Villette Sonique Festival, 29th May 2016.
Featuring Sonic Boom, Etienne Jaumet and Céline Wadier. Premiere at Lieu Unique Nantes and Cité de la Musique Paris during the Velvet Underground exhibition. 20, 21 & 22 May 2016.
With Wire, Half Japanese, Sylvain Chauveau & Ensemble Nocturne, Disappears, Last Ex, Chicaloyoh, Moss Lime, Tomaga, Nots, Thee Dead Clodettes, Sofia Bolt, Rosa Vertov "Girls on Tape", DJ sets: Rach Three, Nico Sdz, Yugo Solo + workshop Rock & animaux by Le Club des Chats.
Thurston played with Irmin Schmidt (Can), Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))))) and with the Thurston Moore band, playing to films by Kenneth Anger, Kōji Wakamatsu and Věra Chytilová. April to May 2016.
Philarmonie de Paris, 20 February 2015.
A brunch at Marie-Antoinette at the occasion of festival Atonal where Julie Tippex was presenting the reformation of "Outside The Dream Syndicate" of Tony Conrad with Faust (in collaboration with Front Porch productions) and "Mecanology in 4 rooms", a sound installation by Pierre Bastien. With many guests !
Emocean, the third album of Berlin based psych pop band Fenster is also the soundtrack to their dystopian movie, created, written, produced, filmed and starring the band. After its world premiere at the infamous Berghain in Berlin as cine-concert where the band performed the soundtrack live, Emocean has traveled to cities all over North America Europe and India including – Berlin, Montreal, Calgary, NYC, Lisbon, Hyderabad, Coventry, Lyon, Baden, Dresden, Munich, Luzern, Lausanne, Jena, Karlsruhe, Würzburg, Lugano, Castellon, Bordeaux, Bielefeld, Brussels, Nurnberg, Offenbach, and Leipzig. Emocean has appeared as part of the official selection at the following film festivals: Festival du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal, Canada), IndieLisboa (Lisbon, Portugal), Sled Island (Calgary, Canada), All Lights India International Film Festival (Hyderabad, India).
Concept and creation: Fenster, executive production and booking: Amande Dagod.
Pierre Bastien, Slow Steve, Classic Muscle, Acid Baby Jesus, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Motus, White Fence, Disappears, Cobra, Jeff Mills, The Oscillation, Skiing, Zombie Zombie, Moxham and Halliday, Nisennenmondai, Etienne Jaumet, Ghédalia Tazartès, Tomaga, High Wolf, Glen Branca, Lee Ranaldo, Young Marble Giants, Aloa Input, Richard Pinhas, Ensemble Minisym, Ela Orleans, Moon Duo, Stereo Total, Dogbowl, Colleen, The Monochrome Set, Fenster, Fumaca Preta, Fucked Up, Acid Baby Jesus, Chicaloyoh, The Chap, Eternal Tapestry, Ray Bartok, Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, Gangpol & Mit, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO, Richard Youngs, Vaadat Charigim, Lumerians, Atelier Rock & Animaux du Club des Chats, Demian Castellanos, Maximum Joy, Deradoorian, Moss Lime, FaUSt, Housewives, Nots, Arbouretum, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Thee Dead Clodettes….
A 12-musicians orchestra commissioned by Villette Sonique Festival.
Portuguese bands showcases in association with Lovers And Lollypops.
Performances at Fondation Cartier, Salle Pleyel, Le Louvre (4 show residency including filming inside the museum Egyptian collection), Cité de la Musique, Paris Film Festival, La Machine du Moulin Rouge (the Time Tunnel residency), La Gaité Lyrique, Nuit Blanche, MAC Créteil, Maison des Musiques (Paris), Les Utopiales-Nantes, Nouveau Siècle-Lille (one-week residency), Jazz à Vienne, Les Escales-St Nazaire, Astropolis-Brest, La Passerelle-St Brieuc, Stereolux-Nantes, TNB-Rennes, Le Louvre Lens, Halle aux Grains-Toulouse, Auditorium de Lyon, Fondation Vasarely-Aix-en-Provence, Festival Mimi-Marseille, Eye Institute-Amsterdam, Dekmantel-Amsterdam, Concertgebouw-Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Rewire-Den Hague, Zomerparkfeest-Venlo, Malmö Live Concert House, Millenáris Teátrum-Budapest, Casa da Musica-Porto, Meltdown Festival-London, Barbican Center-London (one-week residency), Coronet Theater-London, Glasgow Film Festival, Irish National Concert Hall-Dublin, AVA-Belfast, Heart of Noise-Insbruck, Ode Gand Festival, Bozar-Brussels, Festival Antigel-Geneva, Parco della Musica Sala Sinopoli-Rome, Time Zone Festival-Bari, Festival dei Due Mondi-Spoletto, New Form Festival-Vancouver, Studio Museum Harlem-NY, Apollo Theater-NY, Kambar Hall-San Francisco, Melbourne Town Hall.
Concept and production: Pascal Regis.
Residency at Le Lieu Unique, Nantes in April 2011, concert April 15th.
After 25 years Emmanuelle goes back to the stage with a brand new band and a new album.
With Bobby Conn, Dogbowl, La Batterie, Chain and The Gang, Jeremy Jay, Trans Am, Publicist, Tussle….
Co-curating and administrative coordination: Marie-Pierre Bonniol, co-curators: Jean-Sébastien Nicolet and Pascal Bouaziz.
Gare du Nord and around, Paris, France + St Pancras international station and around, London, UK, November 24th 2007, in partnership with La Blogothèque.
With The Chap, Le Club des Chats, Air Guitar, Indie Quizz (Le Chevalier de Rinchy).
Foundation of Julie Tippex as entity, January 2007, in London.
Program: Marie-Pierre Bonniol and Alexandre Périgot, production by Pascal Regis. Bilal and Vejvoda's show will then tour for several years.
First show since 1980 at BBMIX Festival of the cultish band from Cardiff. The band will continue touring with Julie Tippex, including performances at Primavera and ATP festivals, until their final show at The Royal Festival Hall in London in 2015.
Invitation by Marie-Pierre Bonniol, booking by Pascal Régis.
Curating and administrative coordination: Marie-Pierre Bonniol (also festival founder, the same year).
With I:Cube, Mira Calix, Bernard Parmegiani, T-Bone Guardnerius, Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor.
At Comptoir and Sous-station, Liège, Belgium, May 14th 2005, exhibition until June 26th 2005.
Programme and production: Marie-Pierre Bonniol with Pascal Regis and Virginie Pargny.
With Pierre Emery & Gil Lesage (Ultra Orange), Kangourou (DJ), Emmanuelle Pidoux, Nine Antico (drawings), Nicolas Richard, Charlène Darling (readings), Jasmine (MC), La Musardine.
Program and production: Marie-Pierre Bonniol with Virginie Pargny.
Records swap concept developed between 2004 and 2006 within several places in Paris but also elsewhere in France (Point Ephémère, Cantada, Panam / Future Now, 9 Billards, Mains d'Oeuvres, Les Voûtes, Confort Moderne).
Fanzines fair at Point Ephémère, Paris, on an invitation of CNEAI=, National center for printed art within the exhibition Ephemeras.
Concert and program: Marie-Pierre Bonniol. Production and promotion: Marie-Pierre Bonniol, Pascal Régis, Virginie Pargny, with the help of Claire Daigremont, Claire Cuinet, Jaume Santaeularia, David Le Simple.
Kevin Coyne meets Jeffrey Lewis at le Nouveau Casino, Paris.
Program: Pascal Regis, production by Coup Franc, venue promoter: Marie-Pierre Bonniol.
First collaboration for Marie-Pierre and Pascal !


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Q: Raise an auto-flag on duplicate comments I am using What flags are automatically raised by the system? from Meta.SO for reference (I could not find a Meta.SE equivalent post).
I believe an auto-flag should be raised when duplicate comments are posted.  I mean, how constructive can something like this be?

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Metadentobunus est un genre d'opilions eupnois de la famille des Sclerosomatidae.

Distribution
Les espèces de ce genre sont endémiques de Taïwan.

Liste des espèces
Selon World Catalogue of Opiliones (11/05/2021) :
 Metadentobunus brevispinus Chen & Shih, 2018
 Metadentobunus formosae Roewer, 1915
 Metadentobunus garampiensis Suzuki, 1944

Publication originale
 Roewer, 1915 : « Fünfzehn neue Opilioniden. » Archiv für Naturgeschichte, , ,  (texte intégral).

Liens externes

Notes et références

Sclerosomatidae
Genre d'opilions (nom scientifique)
Faune endémique de Taïwan


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Q: Boost condition_variable argument error I encounter an error in the code below.
recursive_mutex m_RecurMutex;
condition_variable cond;
unique_lock<recursive_mutex> lock(m_RecurMutex);
cond.wait(lock); // Error Here.

What is the reason causing this error?

A: I assume the error is
mutex.cc: In function 'int main()':
mutex.cc:9: error: no matching function for call to 'boost::condition_variable::wait(boost::unique_lock<boost::recursive_mutex>&)'
/opt/local/include/boost/thread/pthread/condition_variable.hpp:17: note: candidates are: void boost::condition_variable::wait(boost::unique_lock<boost::mutex>&)
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if not, please correct me. The documentation shows boost::condition_variable::lock takes a boost::unique_lock<boost::mutex> as an argument, not a boost::unique_lock<boost::recursive_mutex> as in your example.

A: You should use condition_variable_any instead, the semantics of this version is the same, but it allows all kinds of lock types. The regular condition_variable is however said to be potentially faster.


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__author__ = 'sbrochet'

"""
Launch crab or condor and run the framework on multiple datasets
"""

from CRABAPI.RawCommand import crabCommand

import json
import copy
import os
import argparse
import sys

def get_options():
    """
    Parse and return the arguments provided by the user.
    """
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Launch crab over multiple datasets.')
    parser.add_argument('-f', '--datasets', type=str, required=True, action='append', dest='datasets', metavar='FILE',
                        help='JSON files listings datasets to run over.')

    group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=True)
    group.add_argument('--mc', action='store_true', dest='mc', help='Run over MC datasets',)
    group.add_argument('--data', action='store_true', dest='data', help='Run over data datasets')

    parser.add_argument('-c', '--configuration', type=str, required=True, dest='psetName', metavar='FILE',
                        help='Analysis configuration file (including .py extension).')

    parser.add_argument('--submit', action='store_true', dest='submit',
                        help='Submit all the tasks to the CRAB server')

    options = parser.parse_args()

    if options.datasets is None:
        parser.error('You must specify a file listings the datasets to run over.')

    c = options.psetName
    if not os.path.isfile(c):
        # Try to find the psetName file
        filename = os.path.basename(c)
        path = os.path.join(os.environ['CMSSW_BASE'], 'src/cp3_llbb')
        c = None
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
            if filename in files:
                c = os.path.join(root, filename)
                break

        if c is None:
            raise IOError('Configuration file %r not found inside the cp3_llbb package' % filename)

    options.psetName = c

    return options

options = get_options()

datasets = {}
for dataset_file in options.datasets:
    with open(dataset_file) as f:
        datasets.update(json.load(f))

from cp3_llbb.GridIn.default_crab_config import create_config

config = create_config(options.mc)

def submit(dataset, opt):
    c = copy.deepcopy(config)

    c.JobType.psetName = options.psetName
    # get the name of the output file out of there
    filename = options.psetName
    directory, module_name = os.path.split(filename)
    module_name = os.path.splitext(module_name)[0]
    path = list(sys.path)
    sys.path.insert(0, directory)
    try:
      module = __import__(module_name)
    finally:
      sys.path[:] = path # restore
    c.JobType.outputFiles.append( module.process.framework.output.value() )

    c.General.requestName = opt['name']
    c.Data.publishDataName = opt['name']

    c.Data.inputDataset = dataset
    c.Data.unitsPerJob = opt['units_per_job']

    print("Submitting new task %r" % opt['name'])
    print("\tDataset: %s" % dataset)

    if options.data:
        c.Data.runRange = '%d-%d' % (opt['run_range'][0], opt['run_range'][1])
        c.Data.lumiMask = opt['certified_lumi_file'] if 'certified_lumi_file' in opt else\
            'https://cms-service-dqm.web.cern.ch/cms-service-dqm/CAF/certification/Collisions15/13TeV/Cert_246908-247381_13TeV_PromptReco_Collisions15_ZeroTesla_JSON.txt'

    # Create output file in case something goes wrong with submit
    with open('crab_' + opt['name'] + '.py', 'w') as f:
        f.write(str(c))

    if options.submit:
        crabCommand('submit', config=c)
    else:
        print('Configuration file saved as %r' % ('crab_' + opt['name'] + '.py'))

def submit_wrapper(args):
    submit(*args)

from multiprocessing import Pool
pool = Pool(processes=4)
pool.map(submit_wrapper, datasets.items())

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Seventeen-year-old Cliff Riggins is a self-described theater freak who wears black nail polish, listens to Godsmack and has experimented with Wicca, a neopagan religion involving witchcraft. At West Mecklenburg High School, located just off Billy Graham Parkway on the outskirts of Charlotte, North Carolina, these are not activities that get him chosen to head up the pep rallies. That duty is usually reserved for a crowd known around school as the "preps," who wear a lot of Abercrombie & Fitch and all seem to work at the county pool in the summer. Although Riggins has found a groove for himself at West Meck by spending lots of time in the theater department, he's frank about the fact that he's never really fit in. "I guess I've always liked to color outside the lines," he says.
A new school-safety initiative launched at West Meck this fall means there is no end of aggravation in sight for students like Riggins. The WAVE, which stands for Working Against Violence Everywhere, is a corporate-sponsored program that features a toll-free number students can call anonymously to report classmates they deem dangerous. To help identify potential offenders, the WAVE, which is run by the global security giant Pinkerton's Inc., distributes brightly colored pamphlets outlining the "Early Warning Signs." Behaviors listed include "social withdrawal," being "easily angered by minor things" and experiencing "excessive feelings of rejection." The program enjoys the support of North Carolina's Democratic Governor, Jim Hunt, and is being introduced statewide in public middle and high schools.
While the corporate-sponsored reward system is unique to the WAVE, similar "early warning" behavior checklists are surfacing in a slew of national school-safety programs aimed at identifying potential young offenders before they strike. This fall the FBI released a forty-five-page report titled "The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective." Although the FBI study says it discourages "profiling" of students, it lists twenty-eight characteristics that are supposedly associated with past school shooters–among them watching TV without parental supervision, having a failed love relationship or demonstrating narcissism or inappropriate humor. Other warning-sign behaviors include depression, alienation and appearing detached from school. For Riggins, the report reads like a checklist for his high school experience. The FBI maintains that the study is intended only to help teachers evaluate a student who has made a violent threat, but others argue that creating such a list is inherently dangerous because of its potential for misuse as a profile.
In the past three years, having seen school shootings in Kentucky, Colorado and Oregon, school administrators have exhausted both students and budgets with efforts to combat a perceived epidemic. West Mecklenburg High has spent nearly $200,000 installing forty-eight security cameras that monitor students in corridors and gathering spaces. (Giving the finger to the cameras is a popular hallway pastime.) The school also employs four security guards and a full-time police officer, who cruises the halls with a loaded Smith & Wesson on his hip. About once a month, visiting security officers interrupt classes at West Meck to conduct surprise searches.
The media's focus on a few horrific but extremely unusual incidents has fueled a widespread perception that violence is exploding in American schools. In fact, schools are among the safest places to be in this country [see Annette Fuentes, "The Crackdown on Kids," June 15/22, 1998]. In late October, just weeks after presenting the FBI report on school shooters, Janet Reno delivered a Justice Department report documenting a 30 percent drop in school violence over the past eight years. Although 71 percent of Americans believe a school shooting is "likely" to occur in their community, juvenile homicide rates have fallen 56 percent since their peak in 1993. Even in 1999, the year of the Columbine shooting, school-associated violent deaths declined 40 percent from the previous school year.
Of course, anyone who watched news clips of ninth graders wheeled out of Columbine High School on stretchers knows that youth violence, regardless of reduced-incident rates, is a continuing problem with devastating consequences. Violence rates are still higher than they were in the early 1980s. But are anonymous tip lines the right remedy? The FBI report clearly shows that students who commit violent acts experience intense feelings of social isolation. "We need to look beyond these quick-fix solutions like metal detectors, zero-tolerance policies and tip lines," says Bill Modzeleski, director of the Safe and Drug Free Schools program for the US Education Department, who supports smaller class sizes and better counseling programs for troubled kids and their families.
While the WAVE provides ample privacy protection and complete anonymity for those who call in tips to the toll-free number, it offers little defense for the fingered students. When calls come in on the WAVE 800 number, Pinkerton's "communication specialists" type up a report that gets faxed to three contact people at the caller's school and, in some cases, to local law enforcement as well. The investigation is left entirely in the hands of the school and local authorities.
"Anonymous tips are inherently unreliable," says Deborah Ross, executive director of the North Carolina chapter of the ACLU. "And they're even less reliable when you're talking about kids, who are more likely to play practical jokes." Ross notes that the WAVE Line could lead to constitutional tangles in the wake of last March's Supreme Court decision tossing out anonymous phone tips as legal grounds for police searches. Although many Fourth Amendment protections against search and seizure are suspended in public schools, the WAVE could run into legal problems if police follow up on an anonymous call.
The WAVE is Pinkerton Services Group's first venture into the educational realm, but the company has a colorful history of profiting from enterprises of questionable ethics. Pinkerton's fortunes were built by renting out private police forces as brutal strikebreakers in major nineteenth-century labor disputes, including the Homestead and Haymarket strikes. The company continues to provide armed security guards and "business intelligence" services to Fortune 500 clients, including Starbucks, Disney and Coke. In fact, the WAVE Line is an adaptation of Pinkerton's Alert Line service, a similar 800-number concept, which the company's corporate clients use to encourage employees to anonymously report co-workers who are slacking off, stealing or giving discounts to their friends.
Aside from a few public statements issued by the ACLU, resistance to WAVE is hard to come by in North Carolina. Many of the students, who've grown accustomed to regular searches and the daily presence of security cameras, see the WAVE and other profiling programs simply as part of the school-day routine.


17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the Most-High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
25 That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the Most-High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most-High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
36 At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honor and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.


Rises and minor flood levels are expected in the lower Burdekin River Thursday evening.
Heavy rainfall with isolated falls of between 200-430 mm have been recorded between Strathbogie and Eton Vale in the past 12 hours. Heavy rainfall is expected to continue over this area during Thursday.
River level rises are occurring in the Bogie River and King Creek with rises extending downstream to Dalbeg in the lower Burdekin River.
The Burdekin River at Dalbeg is currently at 7.99 metres and rising. Further rises are expected but the river levels at Dalbeg are likely to remain below minor.
River levels are currently steady in the lower Burdekin River at Clare. River level rises and minor flood levels (8.00 m) are likely Thursday evening.
The Burdekin River at Inkerman Bridge is currently at 2.56 metres and steady. River level rises and minor flood levels (7.00 m) are likely Thursday night.
The next warning will be issued by 04:00 pm EST on Thursday 10 January 2019.
Lots of rumbles just off the coast currently. Come on ex Penny, go west a bit!
For people in parts of Northern Goldfields and Upper Flinders and Herbert and Lower Burdekin Forecast Districts.
Issued at 10:46 am Thursday, 10 January 2019.
Locally heavy rain likely between Bowen and Townsville, particularly with thunderstorms.
Weather Situation: At 10am AEST Thursday, ex-tropical cyclone Penny was located inland near Charters Towers. Bands of thunderstorms with locally very heavy rainfall have moved onto the coast and nearby inland overnight and through this morning on the southern edge of the system.
Locally heavy rainfall, which may lead to flash flooding, is expected to continue over the warning area with thunderstorms during the next few hours.
Thunderstorm activity is also expected to develop about the coast and ranges near and north of Townsville through to Cairns during today and may also generate some locally heavy rainfall - Severe Thunderstorm Warnings will be issued as necessary.
A trough associated with ex-tropical cyclone Penny is expected to move northwards along the tropical east coast later today and through Friday, gradually shifting the focus for thunderstorm activity with heavy rainfall further northwards.
An initial minor flood warning has been issued for the Burdekin River. A Flood Watch remains in place for coastal catchments between Proserpine and Cape Tribulation.
Locations which may be affected include Mingela, Clare, Woodstock, Giru, Ayr, Alva Beach and Magnetic Island.
Severe weather is no longer occurring in the Central Coast and Whitsundays and Central Highlands and Coalfields districts and the warning for these districts is CANCELLED.
Strathbogie, inland south of Ayr, recorded 432mm in the 12 hours to 10am Thursday.
Groper Creek, near Ayr, recorded 187mm rainfall in the 12 hours to 10am Thursday.
Eton Vale, inland just south of Strathbogie, recorded 171mm in the 12 hours to 10am Thursday.
The next Severe Weather Warning will be issued by 5:00 pm AEST Thursday.
For people in parts of Herbert and Lower Burdekin Forecast District.
Issued at 12:17 pm Thursday, 10 January 2019.
Heavy thunderstorms developing across the Herbert & Lower Burdekin.
Weather Situation: Outside the severe weather warning area, heavy thunderstorms are developing to the west and southwest of Townsville. This is likely to shift towards Townsville later this afternoon.
Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Palm Island, Ingham, Rollingstone, Dotswood, Yabulu and Lucinda.
The centre of ex-Penny appears to be just North of Pentland at the moment, heading WNW.
The fact that most of this system has completely skipped around Townsville is astounding.
just cant fathom it hey. Tropical low and a coastal trough in January and best it can come up with locally is 0-40mm across the city. last month 100km north of us got hammered, today its 100km south. this isnt rain shadow issues either, these are systems coming from the east.
A persistent NE infeed into troughing and any eddys forming.
acccess only model giving us hope. hopefully showers developing in the onshore stream overnight.
240mm all up from this event at home.
blimey can only wish for those sorts of falls down there. that 240mm would overflow our dam.
26mm for me last two days.
Rain showers this morning. Naff all in them though. My rainfall total is like watching paint dry. Pissed off that after 7 days of amber alerts the most rain in one day was 11mm, 6mm on another day 4 days later and nothing in between.
steady showers here all day, cool, certainly better than that humidity and heat we had earlier in the week!
7mm during the week, So far the Wets season has been meh.
Another 3mm overnight. Paint drying is more interesting at the moment. This should be our second highest rain fall month and basically we have had 5/8ths of sfa.
big juicy rain-band moving towards the coast! wonder what it'll deliver. looking good for areas north of the usual rollingstone.
Thought id had enough of the 40+c temps in Tsv last month, this is the 5th day ive experienced it while in SA this past 8 days. Record breaking temps in Adelaide, my closest aws on 47.7c at Parafield.
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Q: Add more then 1 item to a PHP array and iterate it Below is a file iterarot unction I have working on that iterates over folders and gathers all images, it saves each image's file path to a $files array and then later on the code has to iterate over that $files array
Right now the code I am working on actually sens a file through imagemagick 3 times ( I didn't write the original code) so I am trying to improve the whole code, So far I have cut that down to 2 times and when this is finished it will be only 1 time for each image.
Basically the current code runs an image through imagemagick to see it it is an image or not, later on it does it again but this time to get the image extension, and then the 3rd time was to make sure it was an image again (I know pretty crazy that people write code that bad)
So to reduce it to 1 time, when the $files array runs an image file through imagemagick the first time to make sure it is an image, I now have that function returning the file extension instead of a simple true/false.  So when the filepath is saved to the array I would like to save the returned file extension to the array with that particular file path so that I can access it later without running imagemagick again.
So here is the function that cycle thorough folders grabbing all image files and then sends them to imagemagick.  It then saves the filepath to the array, can someone show me how to save the file extension to this array and then how to access it in the code below the function
function find_recursive_images($path)
{
    $directory = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path,RecursiveDirectoryIterator::SKIP_DOTS);
    $iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($directory,RecursiveIteratorIterator::LEAVES_ONLY);
    $exntensions = array("png", "jpg", "jpeg", "gif", "bmp");

    foreach ($iterator as $fileinfo) {
        if (in_array($fileinfo->getExtension(), $exntensions)) {
            //This gets the filetype of the image from ImageMagick
            $img = self::get_type($fileinfo->getPathname());
            if ($img) {
                //This sets the full file path to the $files array
                $files[] = $fileinfo->getPathname();

                // I tried something like this but not correct
                $files[][] = $img;
            }
        }
    }
    return $files;
}

I then access the array like this right now...
foreach ($files as $file)
{
     // ie E:\Server\_ImageOptimize\img\testfiles\css3-please.png
     $source_file = $file;

    // $file also needs to return a filetype that is got when it ran thorugh imagemagick

}

A: How about you use an associative array for each image? try this:
To build your array:
$files[] = array(location => $fileinfo->getPathname(), type => $img);
To loop through your aray:
foreach ($files as $file) {
     $source_file = $file->location;
     $extension  = $file->type;

     //do some stuff using your info
}


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Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) - a native of Asia but now popularly used in Europe, Canada and the U.S, it is considered to be one of the first known herbs to mankind. A member of the Pea family Fabaceae, ancient ancestors considered it as vital to their everyday lives. It is often used to feed animals because it has the highest nutritional value of all the hay/forage crops.
Watercress (Nasturtium officinale) - an edible plant that is exceptionally rich in vitamins and minerals, it has a mild hot mustard flavour that is very good for use in fresh salads or on a sandwich. The seed is ground into a powder form and used to prepare mustard. It is long regarded as both food and medicinal plant. This herb boasts many nutrients including: Arginine, Aspartic-acid, Beta-carotene, Biotin, Folacin, Glutamic-acid, Glycine, Histidine, Isoleucine, Lysine, Methionine, Pantothenic-acid, Phenylalanine, Serine, Threonine, Tryptophan, Tyrosine, and Valine.
Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) - a native to the Mediterranean region of Southern Europe, this herb was primarily used as a medicinal plant even before it was consumed as food. An excellent source of vitamin K and vitamin C as well as a good source of vitamin A, folate and iron. Parsley's volatile oil components include myristicin, limonene, eugenol, and alpha-thujene. Its flavonoids include apiin, apigenin, crisoeriol, and luteolin.


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Q: How can I change a ClientWebPart title and description dynamically? I have developed a ClientWebPart and now I want to change the title dynamically. Is it possible?
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How, dynamically?

I want to show users a friendly title instead of a name of the App.
I prefer to do something like this:
target.postMessage('resize(' + ($(document).width()) + ',' + ($(document).height()) + ')', '*');
But instead of resize I want to do rename.

A: Since these values are written in the ClientWebPart XML node I would say no, it is not possible.
What you could possibly do is update the title of the webpart with javascript in a similiar fashion as in this  blog post: http://blah.winsmarts.com/2013-6-Resizing_the_AppPart_-_ClientWebPart.aspx (but here he is changing the size of the webpart. I have not tried it but it should be possible)

A: Could you not override the Title Property within your ClientWebPart class, putting the logic in there to change the returned string dynamically.
See ClientWebPart.Title in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.webpartpages.clientwebpart_members.aspx


Home » Events » Raise the ROOF for American Cancer Society!!!
Raise the ROOF for American Cancer Society!!!
Hello everyone, so here is another great cause sponsored by NY Thrill Seekers.
I don't think I'll be writing too much as this event will speak for itself definitely bring out the inner Thrill Seeker and adrenaline junkie in you to the surface. But I don't think that will happen so if you like to get to the sign up link just scroll down after you read first two paragraphs of event details.
So… NY Thrill Seekers partnered with American Cancer Societyto hold something NEW, in the BIG Apple!
We will be raising funds for as the title goes American Cancer Society. This is one of those things that unfortunately have touched all of us one way or another, and in the TRUE Thrill Seeker style we will host and participate in an incredible event that will help in fighting this disease!
But hey, even though an event like that does not need any more entertainment but who would want to keep looking up all day.
Well you won't have to, we will have lots of entertainment. Singers, Live music, DJ, martial arts presentations, dancers, snacks you name it. Even if you will not be able or too scared (yea you heard it, I called YOU too scared) to participate. Come and join in for support. Mark your calendar and keep that Saturday or Sunday (depending on weather) open.
I don't think you see people climbing down the skyscraper every day, especially in NY.
For those who would want to join and participate, please don't delay the space is limited and we only have 200 spots open (this year).
130 of which already been filled out I know who would of thought something like this would be popular!
Please visit this link to join official NY Thrill Seekers team http://main.acsevents.org/goto/NYThrillSeekers or participate as an individual or create your own team! You can read details on the site as well or post questions here.
Aside from that, this event will be featured on radio and televised, live video feeds, cameras and pictures so you be able to keep the memory of the event. Anyway if you had enough patience to get all the way here.
All I got to say is… ARE YOU GAME!!!


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Century for Dinesh Chandimal and stunning all-round display from Dasun Shanaka help Sri Lanka to big win in Dublin yesterday.
Dinesh Chandimal hit an unbeaten century and Dasun Shanaka continued his impressive tour as they helped Sri Lanka to a 76-run victory against Ireland in the first of two one-day internationals at Malahide.
Chandima's century an even 100* came from 107 balls as Sri Lanka reached 7-303.
Shanaka smashed a quick 42 from 19 balls to power the Sri Lankans batting, and then picked up five big wickets as the hosts were bundled out for 216.
The two sides meet again at the same venue on Saturday before Sri Lanka return to England for a five-match ODI series.


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Countdown to the Daytona 500: Remembering the 1993 "Dale and Dale show"
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18 Feb 1996: Dale Jarrett in his Quality Care Ford Thunderbird holds off a charging Dale Earnhardt in his GM Goodwrench Chevrolet Monte Carlo in the Daytona 500 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Dale Jarrett held off Earnhardt.
The Daytona 500 is only six days away, and we're counting down the days until the NASCAR season begins at Daytona International Speedway with memorable moments at the most prestigious race in the sport.
By the time the 1993 season began, Dale Earnhardt had already won five Cup Series championships, and he had established himself as one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history.
He hadn't won the Daytona 500 yet during his career, but he led late in the race and was seemingly on his way to a trip to Victory Lane.
But Earnhardt was in a tightly contested battle with a driver who had only won one Cup Series race entering the season. A driver by the name of Dale Jarrett was pushing Earnhardt, and he eventually took the lead from Earnhardt on the last lap of the race.
To make the situation even better, Jarrett's father, Ned, was in the broadcasting booth calling the race. Ned's broadcasting team led him take over the last lap of the race, and the proud father famously called his son home.
Related: Countdown to the Daytona 500: Remembering the closest finish in Daytona 500 history in 2016
"Come on, Dale! Go, buddy, go! All right, come on! I know he's got it to the floorboard; he can't do anymore! Come on! Take 'er to the inside! Don't let 'em get on the inside of you comin' around this turn! Here he comes, Earnhardt; it's the "Dale and Dale Show" as we come off Turn 4! You know who I'm pulling for, it's Dale Jarrett. Bring her to the inside, Dale! Don't let him get down there! He's gonna make it! Dale Jarrett's gonna win the Daytona 500!"
CBS was probably more than OK with Jarrett showing bias towards his son in that moment, and even Dale Earnhardt was fine with Ned Jarrett's call.
Jarrett went on to win three Daytona 500s during his career, but none were more memorable than his first win.
And while Earnhardt finished second in that race, he eventually won his sixth Cup Series title later that year. Not a bad consolation prize.
About the author: Cole	Frederick
Cole Frederick is from a small town in Alabama, and he graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in journalism. He loves all sports - especially football and basketball - and quotes The Office frequently.
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Stax Of Wax, A Memphis Soul Stew (Soul October 16th 1971)
The highest new entry on the Cash Box Top 60 in R&B Locations for this week 50 years ago was "You Think You're Hot Stuff", Jean Knight's follow up to her #1 smash "Mr Big Stuff", the second chart topper of 1971, after "(Do The) Push & Pull (Part 1)" by Rufus Thomas for the Memphis based label Stax. Held in the same regard as Tamla Motown as a key player in the progression & popularity of Soul music Stax had faced tribulation after its breakthrough in the mid-1960s. The tragic, premature death in 1967 of the label's biggest star, Otis Redding, was followed by the discovery that a fracture in their relationship with distributors Atlantic meant that Stax held no rights to any recordings made from 1960 to 1967. A new catalogue was created with the release of 27 albums & 30 singles in mid-1969. There were some changes, Booker T Jones & Steve Cropper, pivotal as hit-making writers-producers-musicians, both left the company. The studio on East McLemore Avenue was no longer the organisation's creative hub. There was still talent enough to realise the label's ambition to diversify & expand. There were still plenty of discs on the R&B chart that featured the finger-snapping logo.
Johnnie Taylor was right there to help Stax along when, in 1969, his "Who's Making Love" sold a million. Johnnie had replaced
Sam Cooke in the Soul Stirrers, signed for Stax in 1966 &"Who's…" was a breakthrough for "The Philosopher of Soul", initiating a run of Top 10 R&B hits. Johnnie was equally comfortable with urgent, fast-paced songs like that hit & the great "I Could Never Be President" or bluesy ballads such as "Jody's Got Your Girl & Gone" & his current hit "Hijackin' Love", #14 this week after a couple of weeks on the Top 10. All of them had the solid groove & punchy horns of classic Memphis Soul. Producer Don Davis, a former session musician at Motown had found a place at Stax &, sensing more scope & opportunity there, encouraged some of his fellow Detroiters to follow him south. "Hijackin' Love" was co-written by Tony Hester, who had provided all the songs for the Dramatics' successful album "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" & by Richard "Popcorn" Wylie", a recording artist in his own right who played piano on early Motown hits & had a hand in Jamo Thomas' fantastic "I Spy (For The FBI)". Johnnie Taylor stuck with Stax until the end in 1975 & Don Davis stuck with Johnnie. In 1976 they found themselves at #1 on the US Pop chart with "Disco Lady".
For over a decade the Staple Singers enjoyed a thoroughly distinguished career as a leading Gospel-Folk group. A move towards recording more contemporary secular songs was sealed when the Chicago-based family group signed with Stax in 1968. For their first two records brother Pervis rejoined patriarch Pops & his three sisters Cleotha, Yvonne & Mavis. These albums were concurrent with the first solo collections by Mavis, two fine records featuring a strong, intimate voice which failed to set her apart in a crowded field of female vocalists. Perhaps it was realised that the right context for Mavis' outstanding talent was with her father & her sisters. The production seat vacated by the departed Steve Cropper was filled by Al Bell, now co-owner of Stax, the prime mover behind the revival & expansion of the label. A more thoughtful curation of songs that suited the positive, conscious reinforcement that had always been a hallmark of the group was taken to 3614 Jackson Highway in Alabama where the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section had set up after leaving the FAME studio. Now the Staple Singers zinged & grooved like no-one else.
"If you don't respect yourself ain't nobody gonna give a good cahoot". "Respect Yourself", the lead 45 from an upcoming album, rose a healthy 15 places to #33 this week. It was co-written by Mack Rice whose "Mustang Sally" (you know it) had been successful for himself & for Wilson Pickett & by Luther Ingram, another recording artist whose discs on the Koko label were distributed by Stax. It's an example of the label's encouragement for the talent to be found around Memphis but I'm sure that they could not have expected such an enduring anthem of affirmation, capturing the confidence & hope of the civil rights movement. The growing popularity of the Staple Singers led to higher visibility & what was not to like about the group. 56 year old Roebuck "Pops" Staples had learned guitar from Country Blues greats in Mississippi. His restrained, insistent rhythm & his lead runs were an individual, irresistible, influential kind of Funk. The sisters had a calm, consanguine, natural grace & beauty & they had Mavis, a new Soul star. The achievements of the Staples Singers are a list, a long one & unfinished as Mavis continues to shine. "If you're walking round think'n that the world owes you something 'cause you're here. You goin' out the world backwards like you did when you first come here" – that's enough.
Albert King had been playing the Blues around Arkansas, Illinois & finally St Louis since the 1940s. His adopted surname encouraged a connection with the more famous B.B. King (no, they weren't brothers). Albert was left-handed & chose not to re-string his right-handed Gibson Flying V developing a string-bending strength giving him a distinctive, searing, muscular sound. In 1966, after little recording success in the previous five years, he signed to Stax records & handed to the care of drummer Al Jackson Jr who brought along the other members of his impeccable group Booker T & the M.G.s. Singles like "Crosscut Saw" & "Born Under A Bad Sign" may not have set the charts alight but they set a new standard in modern Blues & a collection of his Stax sessions released in 1967 proved to be very influential among young, mainly white, Rock guitarists. In 1968 he was invited to join a bill at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco with Jimi Hendrix & Janis Joplin. Albert had found a new, younger audience & was making more money than he had thought possible after years of small club gigs.
For his 1971 album "Lovejoy" was produced by Don Nix, a saxophonist in his high school band the Mar-keys who scored big with "Last Night" when Stax was still called Satellite then became the house band for the label. Don was having a busy 1971, releasing two solo records of fine Southern Rock, organising the choir for George Harrison's Concert For Bangla Desh & producing the classic "Goin' Down" for another of the three Kings of the Blues Freddie. Working with Albert Don provided most of the songs & assembled two fine units for sessions in Los Angeles (Jesse Ed Davis, Wayne Perkins, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Jim Keltner) & the Muscle Shoals boys in Alabama. It takes a sensitive ear to distinguish what was recorded where (Jessie Ed's guitar in LA, Barry Beckett's keys in MS). It's a full Blues-Rock sound played with obvious enjoyment by everyone involved as they frame Albert's baritone & stinging guitar leads. "Everybody Wants To Get To Heaven" is at #50 on this week's chart, the slower, soulful Nix-Dan Penn song "Like A Road Leading Home" sure sounds good to me & the whole album should do to fans of the Blues & Southern Rock.
As well as these three selections & Jean Knight Stax had other records by Rufus Thomas, the Newcomers & Little Milton on this week's chart from 50 years ago. The following listing, for October 23 1971, the highest new entry was by the label's biggest star after the upheavals of a few years previously. "Theme From Shaft" by Isaac Hayes was a whole other stack of success, "Can you dig it?".