We are now inviting submissions for the upcoming Kaipara Coast Sculpture Garden Exhibition.
The Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens Exhibition aims to entertain and engage both the general public and the art community through an interactive, fun, artistically challenging and visually stimulating outdoor exhibition.
We are seeking sculptures and interactive works which are playful and will encourage visitors to engage, explore and interact with the local environment.
The sculpture gardens, which opened in 2008, have been developed in conjunction with Kaipara Coast Plant Centre which has been owned and operated by David and Geraldine Bayly from this site since 1988. The trail passes through a rural landscape with a mix of grassy slopes, ponds, wetland area, formal gardens, native bush, an orchard, pine planting and has views to the Kaipara Harbour. This exhibition will celebrate 11 years of offering a wide range of sculpture to the viewing public and providing a showplace for sculptors to exhibit their work.
The sculpture gardens are only a 35-minute drive from Auckland on the scenic SH 16 route, making it readily accessible to a large public audience and to potential clients.
We look forward to seeing your proposals and working with you to create a great exhibition.
Send your proposal in now.
We will send a notification of acceptance (or not) within 2 weeks.
Installation by artists mid November.
Exhibition on show until November the following year.
Please provide us with as much detail as possible in order to assist us in understanding your submission.
Don't hesitate to contact us with any questions regarding the up coming exhibition. Please complete the proposal form, supporting documents and suitably labelled images.
Concept description and details of the proposed work* Where possible please include labelled files of drawings, photographs of actual work or other similar work to represent your proposal.
Technical description of the proposal including Materials/Medium* Work must be sufficiently durable and weather resistant to remain in good condition for the 12 month duration of the exhibition.
Attach File Attach sketch, photographs, videos, diagrams or plans of previous or proposed work.
Total size of all files must add up to no more than 20MB.
Installation Requirements* Does the work have any special installation or on-going maintenance requirements? Please list proposed method of installation and any assistance that may be required (eg hiab, footings, ladders, people power etc.) Sculptures need to be firmly supported so that they are safe for public access.
Retail sale price or NFS * Please refer to information below to assist with determining this price.
Description of installation for promotional material * Please describe in approximately 100 words your work and how it relates to your art practice, a bio about yourself, exhibition history etc that we can use on signage and in a portfolio to promote your work.
Promoting all work in an exhibition catalogue to be given to each group going through the gardens and on the Kaipara Coast website.
Promoting and profiling the work of exhibiting artists in an 'Artists Library' to be kept in the Kaipara Coast Coffee Stop and through the Kaipara Coast website and facebook pages. Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens encourages artists to share their own promotional content to be used for these purposes. A template for the artists profile to be included within the 'Artists Library' is available.
Passing on artists contact details to potential purchasers, if appropriate.
Two Complimentary tickets to the Exhibition opening and an annual pass for artists and their immediate family for the duration of the exhibition.
Upon sale of a sculpture the artist will be given first opportunity to fill this place with another work.
For the integrity of the exhibition sculptures must remain in place in the gardens for the duration of the exhibition ie: until November 2019 unless sold by us. Assistance for the installation and de-installation of works will be at the discretion of Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens and will be negotiated with the curator and/or David Bayly.
Transportation of the works to the site and removal of unsold works will be the responsibility of the artist. A transport subsidy may be available on application. For works that are sold, the artist will be responsible for arranging transportation and installation of the sculpture with the purchaser. If required, Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens can provide a quote to cover the costs of organising the delivery and installation of sold works.
Works must be constructed of suitably high quality materials and workmanship so as to withstand the environmental conditions of display at the gardens for 12 months and have longevity for the purchaser. Defects in workmanship will be the liability of the artist. (Unless the work is ephemeral in nature). If works are defective and are unable to be repaired so that they can last until the duration of the exhibition Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens reserves the right to ask artists to remove or replace the works.
While we work in consultation with artists on the siting of work, the selection and final placement of works will be at the discretion of the curator/directors of Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens. Placement of work will be in a location that best suits the work and the overall exhibition and will be at their discretion.
The exhibitor is responsible for insuring their works both in transit and while on site. Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens is staffed from 9am to 5pm. The sculptures are located well away from the main highway down a long driveway, after hours a security gate is shut and locked on the driveway. Please be aware that this is a rural environment where birds, possums, rabbits and other wildlife may be present. Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens does not accept liability for any damage incurred by trees, animals, wildlife or the public.
A 40% commission applies for work under $300. For work valued over $300 there will be no commission, however there will be an administration fee of $120. The commission or administration fee will be deducted from the payment of works sold to the artist.
Payment for work sold will be on the 20th of the month following sale.
Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens will reproduce images of the sculptures for the purpose of promotion of the artists and the sculpture trail. This may include use for the catalogue, advertising, publicity, website, magazine, print media, TV, video and documentary. In order to assist us to promote your work, please provide photographs, sketches, videos of your work in progress and any other work that you have done that would assist Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens in promoting your work / talent.
Ownership of sculptures remains with the artist until the works are sold and paid for.


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Waitaha schools make their debut at Te Mana Kuratahi
6:38pm, Monday 4 November 2019. By James Perry
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Whānau Tahi, from Christchurch, was the first of three schools representing the Waitaha rohe to take the stage on the first day of competition in Hamilton today.
Principal Mark Rangi says, "In one of our songs, we talk about "tamaua te kura huna", so we hope they can bring that through to all of their songs and haka today."
Rangi says it has been a long time coming for the region to make their way to the nationals, particularly as Te Rangaihi, the local regional competition had been left dormant since 2008. Te Rangaihi was revived last year, and three schools qualified to the Mana Kuratahi competition this year, taking their place amongst 59 other schools seeking national supremacy at Claudelands Arena.
"We've been wanting to get to the nationals for a long time. However, with what Christchurch has endured over the past decade, that hasn't been realised," Rangi says.
Male leader, Cambell Codyre (13, Ngāti Porou, Te Whakatōhea) says, "It's exciting to able to stand and represent Waitaha, our school, our whānau and our iwi today."
They've spent a lot of the last few months perfecting their bracket ahead of their debut on the national stage. Manaia Keen, (12, Tainui waka) who is the group's female leader says at times it got annoying "with all the growlings and pressups" but ultimately it was good.
Codyre, said that commitment made them ready to take the stage today in Hamilton, "Yeah we've put heaps of hours into this, and now we get to get the rewards."
While the goal of winning the national title is the ultimate reward for the hours of effort, the goals for the new kids on the block this week are simple,
For Keen, she wants to be able to return home and say, "Yeah I stood on that stage."
Codyre wants to "show the North Island what we in the South Island are capable of doing."
Mark Rangi, is looking forward to his students living up to the schools motto, "Our school saying is "Poipoia ō tātou nei pūmanawa - Making our potential a reality", and we have a lot of potential amongst our students, so we're really hoping to see that come through this week.
The three schools representing Waitaha this week are Te Whānau Tahi and Te Waka Unua who both took the stage today, and Te Pā o Rākaihautu who take the stage tomorrow.
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On Jan. 22, FireEye participated in a panel focused on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology during the World Economic Forum. The panel addressed issues raised in a report developed by FireEye, together with our partner Marsh & McLennan (a global professional services firm) and Circle (a global crypto finance company). The report touched on some of the security considerations around crypto-assets – today and in the future, and in this blog post, we delve deeper into the security paradigms surrounding cryptocurrencies and blockchain networks.
By its simplest definition, cryptocurrency is digital money that operates on its own decentralized transaction network. When defined holistically, many argue that cryptocurrencies and their distributed ledger (blockchain) technology is powerful enough to radically change the basic economic pillars of society and fundamentally alter the way our systems of trust, governance, trade, ownership, and business function. However, the technology is new, subject to change, and certain headwinds related to scalability and security still need to be navigated. It is safe to assume that the ecosystem we have today will evolve. Since the final ecosystem is yet to be determined, as new technology develops and grows in user adoption, the associated risk areas will continually shift – creating new cyber security paradigms for all network users to consider, whether you are an individual user of cryptocurrency, a miner, a service-provider (e.g., exchange, trading platform, or key custodian), a regulator, or a nation-state with vested political interest.
By definition, cryptocurrency wallets are used to store a user's keys, which can be used to unlock access to the funds residing in the associated blockchain entry (address). Several types of wallets exist, each with their own level of security (pros) and associated risks (cons). Generally, wallets fall into two categories: hot (online) and cold (offline).
A wallet stored on a general computing device connected to the internet is often referred to as a "hot" wallet. This type of storage presents the largest attack surface and is, consequently, the riskiest way to store private keys. Types of hot wallets typically include user-controlled and locally stored wallets (also referred to as desktop wallets), mobile wallets, and web wallets. If remote access on any hot wallet device occurs, the risk of theft greatly increases. As stated, many of these solutions store private keys in a well-known and/or unencrypted location, which can make for an attractive target for bad actors. While many of these wallet types offer the user high levels of convenience, security is often the trade-off.
Offline, also called cold wallets, are those that generate and store private keys offline on an air-gapped computer without network interfaces or connections to the outside internet. Cold wallets work by taking the unsigned transactions that occur online, transferring those transactions offline to be verified and signed, and then pushing the transactions back online to be broadcasted onto the Bitcoin network. Managing private keys in this way is considered to be more secure against threats such as hackers and malware. These types of offline vaults used for storing private keys is becoming the industry security standard for key custodians such as Coinbase, Bittrex, and other centralized cryptocurrency companies. Even recently, Fidelity Investments released a statement regarding their intentions to play an integral part of the Bitcoin's custodial infrastructure landscape.
"Fidelity Digital Assets will provide a secure, compliant, and institutional-grade omnibus storage solution for bitcoin, ether and other digital assets. This consists of vaulted cold storage, multi-level physical and cyber controls – security protocols that have been created leveraging Fidelity's time-tested security principles and best practices combined with internal and external digital asset experts."
Typically, wallet software solutions hide the process of generating, using, and storing private keys from the user. However, a paper wallet involves using an open-source wallet generator like BitAddress[.]org and WalletGenerator[.]net to generate the user's public and private keys. Those keys are then printed to a piece of paper. While many view this form of key management as more secure because the keys do not reside on a digital device, there are still risks.
The most recent software bug was a transaction validation bug that affected the consensus rules; essentially allowing miners to create transactions that weren't properly validated and contained an extra input – which could have ultimately been exploited to create an amount of bitcoin from nothing. This vulnerability went unnoticed for two years, and fortunately was responsibly disclosed.
Some of the more popular blockchain scaling solutions for crypto-assets often depend on layering networks and system architectures on top of the base protocol – also referred to as "layer two" (L2) scaling. This allows users to conduct transactions "off-chain" and only occasionally synchronize them with the Bitcoin blockchain. Many argue that this is similar to how legal contracts are enforced; you don't need to go to court each time a legal contract is written, agreed upon, and executed. And this is something that already occurs frequently in Bitcoin, as the vast majority of transactions happen offline and off-chain within large exchanges' and merchant providers' cold storage solutions.
This solution involves pushing transactions off-chain to a privately managed database where transaction can be settled and then occasionally synced with the Bitcoin blockchain. However, in creating this second layer of private "off-chain" transaction processing, an element of trust is introduced to the system, which unfortunately introduces risk. When transactions occur "off-chain" in a centralized private database, there is risk of improperly secured centralized ledgers that can be falsified or targeted for attack.
Another L2 solution would be to push transactions off-chain – not onto a private database, but to a trustless decentralized routing network. There are two primary L2 solutions being developed: The Liquid Network (for Bitcoin) and Raiden (for Ethereum).
However, a critique of this type of scaling solution is that the accounts used on this layer are considered hot wallets, which presents the largest attack surface. This makes it the riskiest way to store funds while also creating a valuable target for hackers. If an attacker is able to identify and access a user's L2 node and associated wallet, they could transmit all funds out of the user's wallet.
Lightning and Raiden as scaling solutions are still relatively new and experimental, so it's unknown whether the they will be globally accepted as the preferred industry scaling solution. Additionally, because this layered development is still new and not widely implemented, at the time of this post there has not yet been an instance or proof of concept attack against L2 networks.
Companies such as NiceHash offer a marketplace for cryptocurrency cloud mining in which individuals can rent hashing power. Couple the information available from sites like Crypto51, which calculates the cost of performing 51% attacks, and it presents an attractive option for criminals seeking to disrupt cryptocurrency networks. While these types of attacks have been observed, and are no longer theoretical, they have historically posed the most risk to various alt-coins with lower network participation and hash rate. Larger, more robust, proof-of-work (PoW) networks are less likely to be affected, as the cost to perform the attack outweighs potential profit.
Engineered Block Races: Block races occur in mining when two miners discover blocks at the same time. Generally, one block will be added to the chain, yielding mining rewards, while the other block is orphaned and ignored, yielding no mining reward. If an attacker can successfully eclipse attack miners, the attacker can engineer block races by hoarding blocks until a competing block has been found by non-eclipsed miners – effectively causing the eclipsed miners to waste efforts on orphaned blocks.
On Jan. 5, 2019, the cryptocurrency company Coinbase detected a possible eclipse + 51% attack effecting the Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain. The attack involved malicious nodes surrounding Coinbase nodes, presenting them with several deep chain reorganizations and multiple double spends – totaling 219,500 ETC (worth at the time of this reporting roughly $1.1 million USD).
Because of the public sector's wait-and-see approach to regulation, it could be argued that the private sector should have a more active role in securing the technology as it continues to mature. Private sector leaders in software and network development, hardware manufacturing, and cyber security all have the ability to weigh in on blockchain development as it progresses to ensure user security and privacy are top priorities. Universities and independent research groups should continue to study this emerging technology as it develops.


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The Invisible Wall (Oct. 15, 1947)
Posted on December 6, 2011 by Adam Lounsbery
Never gamble with the boss's money.
I don't know about you, but that seems to me like a pretty simple rule to follow.
Then again, more film noirs than I can count are based on doomed protagonists breaking simple life rules because of their uncontrollable urges.
In the case of Eugene Forde's The Invisible Wall, the protagonist's uncontrollable urge is the urge to gamble.
When World War II veteran Harry Lane (Don Castle) is sent to the Hotel Flamingo in Las Vegas by his once and future boss, big-time L.A. bookie and racketeer Marty Floyd (Edward Keane), he has $1,000 of his own money, and he plans to blow his roll fast. He's holding $20,000 of Marty Floyd's money that he needs to make a payoff with, though, so when he meets a man who claims to have a system for beating roulette, his goose is cooked.
The man who draws Lane into his gambling scheme in Las Vegas, Richard Elsworth (Richard Gaines), is accidentally killed, so Lane heads to Denver, where he impersonates Elsworth. The only snag is Elsworth's wife, Mildred (Virginia Christine), who shows up and throws a monkey wrench into Lane's plans.
The Invisible Wall follows a familiar film noir structure. It begins in St. Louis, where Harry Lane works at the Crown Jewelry Company under another name. He's arrested for murder and gives a full confession, telling the story in flashback.
The Invisible Wall isn't a great film by any stretch of the imagination, but it's solid entertainment from Sol M. Wurtzel Productions, theatrically distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox. The actors are all stiff, but not laughably so, and as far as B noirs go, you could do a lot worse.
Posted in 1947, October 1947 and tagged 20th Century-Fox, Don Castle, Eugene Forde, Film Noir, Richard Gaines, Sol M. Wurtzel, Virginia Christine. Bookmark the permalink.
Humoresque (Dec. 25, 1946)
Posted on February 10, 2011 by Adam Lounsbery
In a recent NY Times interview with David O. Russell, the director of the Oscar-nominated biopic The Fighter (2010), he compared his star, Mark Wahlberg, to John Garfield. Russell said that — like Garfield — Wahlberg is "always kind of in character, because it's always him in some way."
Garfield might seem as unlikely a choice as Wahlberg to play a concert violinist, but Humoresque never tries to pass Garfield off as something he wasn't. His character, Paul Boray, spends his boyhood in what appears to be New York's Lower East Side, in an immigrant family that has neither the time nor the money for classical music. (Garfield was born Jacob Julius Garfinkle, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, and grew up in Brooklyn and the Bronx, where he was enrolled in a school for difficult children.) At a high society party, a tipsy young woman refuses to believe Boray when he tells her he's a violinist. She pegs him as a prizefighter, and refuses to believe he even knows what end of a violin the music comes out of. "It comes out of the middle," he responds. (Garfield would, however, play a boxer in his next film, Body and Soul.)
There are plenty of hoary cliches in the early sections of the film. Bobby Blake plays Boray as a child. His immigrant father (J. Carrol Naish) works hard and always has his eye on the bottom line, while his mother (Ruth Nelson) is more sensitive, and grows to believe in Paul's desire to play music. All of these scenes are pretty laborious.
Perhaps director Jean Negulesco wanted to be explicit about how a rough young man from the slums could become a dedicated concert musician, but all of the scenes of Boray's childhood are less effective than a short sequence later in the picture in which the adult Boray storms out of a recording studio after being forced to cut a major chunk from a piece for radio time. He returns to his apartment to play alone, and the wildness of his music is reflected in a herky-jerky montage of chaotic city streets and teeming masses of people.
Long stretches of Humoresque are told through music, which is beautifully played by violinist Isaac Stern, but there's plenty of snappy dialogue, too. When Boray gets in an argument with his friend, accompanist, and mentor Sid Jeffers (played by pianist and wit Oscar Levant), Jeffers tells him, "You'll do all right. You have all the characteristics of a successful virtuoso. You're self-indulgent, self-dedicated, and the hero of all your dreams." Boray responds, "You oughta try a few dreams yourself, it might make you less cynical. When I look at you, I know what I want to avoid." (And to give you an idea of the rapidity of the dialogue in the film, that exchange takes place in less than 12 seconds.)
The plot, such as it is, kick in around the 30-minute mark, when Joan Crawford shows up as Mrs. Helen Wright, a myopic, dipsomaniac socialite with a sharp tongue. Her husband is a cultured, sensitive man, but — by his own admission — very weak, and as soon as Helen takes an interest in Paul and his career, tongues begin to wag.
Garfield and Crawford have great chemistry, and both are good enough actors to give their relationship depth. It's unclear for a time exactly what each wants from the other, but her alcoholism and his deep-seated anger make for plenty of stormy scenes. At one point, Paul blows up and yells at her, "Well, you didn't do any of this for me, really. You did it for yourself, the way you buy a racehorse, or build a yacht, or collect paintings. You just added a violin player to your possessions, that's all."
In Bosley Crowther's review of Humoresque in the December 26, 1946, issue of the NY Times, he wrote, "The music, we must say, is splendid — and, if you will only shut your eyes so that you don't have to watch Mr. Garfield leaning his soulful face against that violin or Miss Crawford violently emoting ('She's as complex as a Bach fugue,' Oscar says), and if you will only shut your ears when folks are talking other such fatuous dialogue, provided by Zachary Gold and Clifford Odets, you may enjoy it very much."
I love Crowther's reviews. Maybe if I'd been around when he was writing them I would have resented the stranglehold he had on public perception, but in retrospect they're fantastically entertaining. I liked Humoresque more than he did, but I don't disagree with his assessment. One has to take into account his longstanding hatred of Joan Crawford, of course, but by the time the credits rolled I was more moved by the music than by any of the vacuous melodrama.
Posted in 1946, December 1946 and tagged Bobby Blake, Clifford Odets, Craig Stevens, Don McGuire, Drama, Ernest Haller, Fannie Hurst, Franz Waxman, Fritz Leiber, Hugh Reticker, Humoresque, Isaac Stern, J. Carrol Naish, Jack L. Warner, Jean Negulesco, Jerry Wald, Joan Chandler, Joan Crawford, John Abbott, John Garfield, Leo F. Forbstein, Leonid Raab, Nestor Paiva, Oscar Levant, Paul Cavanagh, Peg La Centra, Peggy Knudsen, Richard Gaines, Robert Blake, Romance, Rudi Fehr, Ruth Nelson, Tom D'Andrea, Tommy Cook, Warner Bros., Zachary Gold. Bookmark the permalink.
Nobody Lives Forever (Nov. 1, 1946)
Jean Negulesco's Nobody Lives Forever is far from a great film, but it's crackerjack entertainment. Warner Bros. had been making crime pictures for 16 profitable years at this point. While the heyday of the Warner gangster film may have been in the '30s, this is a fine example of the quality product the studio was still churning out in the post-war era.
The screenplay is by W.R. Burnett, whose 1929 novel Little Caesar was made into a film in 1931 starring Edward G. Robinson — the first of Warner's great cycle of gangster movies. Nobody Lives Forever is based on Burnett's novel I Wasn't Born Yesterday, and while it may not be as significant as Little Caesar, it's still a tight thriller with plenty of snappy tough-guy dialogue.
Besides the good script and excellent direction, the picture works as well as it does because of impeccable casting. When you're looking for a hard-bitten but essentially decent con man, you can't ask for a better protagonist than John Garfield. A kindly, doddering old mentor of cons named "Pop"? Who better than Walter Brennan? A sweaty, bug-eyed, paranoid louse named "Doc" who desperately needs one decent score to get back on top? Is George Coulouris available?
Garfield plays Nick Blake, a World War II veteran honorably discharged after being wounded in action. One of his hands doesn't close quite right, but other than that he's none the worse for wear. After his sidekick Al Doyle (George Tobias) picks him up from the hospital in Governor's Island, they take the ferry back to Manhattan, where he reunites with his girl, Toni Blackburn (Faye Emerson). As she sings "You Again" in a swanky nightclub, Nick follows the mustachioed club owner Chet King (Robert Shayne) into his office to settle a beef over money. Rudi Fehr's editing in this sequence is superb, cutting between Toni on stage, Al standing guard outside the office, and Nick bracing Chet inside.
After Toni finishes her number, Nick confronts her, then kisses her passionately, then smacks her in the face for double crossing him.
The action soon switches to California, where Al has gotten a line on a widow with a $2 million fortune, which — as Pop points out — is a lot of money, even after taxes. Nick, a handsome "diamond in the rough," is the perfect candidate to pose as a shipping magnate and charm her out of her cash.
Unlike most long cons, Nick, Pop, Doc, Al, and the other members of their crew meet in smoky back rooms as if they're planning a bank heist. The only problem with the job is that Nick actually starts to fall for the widow, Gladys Halvorsen (Geraldine Fitzgerald), who turns out to be younger than most widows, and a dish to boot.
When Doc pushes Nick to close the deal, he shoots back, "I'm not used to operating with a bunch of cheap, hungry chiselers who should be in the strong-arm racket. Big deals take time."
Garfield has great chemistry with his co-stars, particularly the ladies, but the relationships take a back seat to the action, especially during the final climactic 20 minutes.
Sure, there are some holes in the plot, and there's nothing deep about Nobody Lives Forever, but it's a hell of a way to kill an hour and 40 minutes.
Posted in 1946, November 1946 and tagged Adolph Deutsch, Arthur Edeson, Faye Emerson, Film Noir, George Coulouris, George Tobias, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jack L. Warner, James Flavin, Jean Negulesco, John Garfield, Nobody Lives Forever, Ralph Peters, Richard Erdman, Richard Gaines, Robert Buckner, Robert Shayne, Rudi Fehr, W.R. Burnett, Walter Brennan, Warner Bros.. Bookmark the permalink.
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Q: Generating a SHA1 Signature with Different Results Between Ubuntu/Bash and Windows/Powershell Why would these respective bash and powershell scripts return different signatures:
## (Ubuntu) Bash
now='Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:32:36 -0400'
bucket="mybucket"
path="/"
awsKey="MSB0M3K06ELMOI65QXI1"
awsSsecret="706Fdj+LFKf8pf/2Wh5V8Q8jbgGUUQo3xSXr5sbt"

## Create the signature
message="GET\n\n\n${now}\n/${bucket}${path}"
messageSignature=$(echo -en "${message}" | openssl sha1 -hmac "${awsSsecret}" -binary | openssl base64)
echo $messageSignature

Returns >> 5oJM2L06LeTcbYSfN3fDFZ9yt5k=

## Powershell
$OutputEncoding = [Text.UTF8Encoding]::UTF8

$now='Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:32:36 -0400'
$bucket="mybucket"
$path="/"
$awsKey="MSB0M3K06ELMOI65QXI1"
$awsSsecret="706Fdj+LFKf8pf/2Wh5V8Q8jbgGUUQo3xSXr5sbt"

## Create the signature
$message="GET\n\n\n${now}\n/${bucket}${path}"
$messageSignature=$(echo -en "${message}" | openssl sha1 -hmac "${awsSsecret}" -binary | openssl base64)
echo $messageSignature

Returns >> 77u/W8O5RwJeBsOodDddXeKUlCQD4pSUduKVrD3ilIxADQo=
]2
On Ubuntu, my shell is running "en_US.UTF-8".
I've run into the case where the signature is different on different systems: AIX, Windows w/Ubuntu, Windows w/Powershell, etc. I'm trying to figure out why.

A: There are at least three problems here: Powershell pipelines aren't binary-safe, you have the wrong variable name, and echo isn't portable/reliable.

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*At least according to this question, you can't pipe binary data in Powershell. The output of openssl (which is raw binary data) is getting treated as UTF-8 text (presumably due to $OutputEncoding), and mangled in the process. You can tell by decoding from base64 and looking in hex instead:
$ echo '77u/W8O5RwJeBsOodDddXeKUlCQD4pSUduKVrD3ilIxADQo=' | base64 -D | xxd
00000000: efbb bf5b c3b9 4702 5e06 c3a8 7437 5d5d  ...[..G.^...t7]]
00000010: e294 9424 03e2 9494 76e2 95ac 3de2 948c  ...$....v...=...
00000020: 400d 0a                                  @..

It starts with EF BB BF, which is a UTF-8 byte order mark; and it ends with 0D 0A, which is a DOS/Windows line ending (ASCII carriage return and linefeed characters). Something else bad is happening as well, since it's much too long for a sha1 hash, even if you account for the BOM and line ending.
The output of echo is probably getting mangled similarly, so even if the hash wasn't mangled it'd be the hash of the wrong byte sequence.
See this question (and its answer) for an example of using Powershell's  own tools to compute the HMAC-SHA1 of a string.

*The message to be signed is in $message, but you actually sign $string_to_sign, which is undefined. The Ubuntu result is the correct HMAC-SHA1 for the null string:
$ </dev/null openssl sha1 -hmac "706Fdj+LFKf8pf/2Wh5V8Q8jbgGUUQo3xSXr5sbt" -binary | openssl base64
NCRRWG4nL9sN8QMrdmCPmUvNlYA=

*As Lorinczy Zsigmond pointed out, echo -en isn't predictable. Under some implementations/OSes/shells/compile & runtime options/phases of moon/etc, it might or might not print "-en" as part of its output, and maybe also print a newline (or something) at the end. Use printf instead:
printf 'GET\n\n\n%s\n/%s%s' "${now}" "${bucket}" "${path}" | openssl sha1 ...

Or (in bash, but not all other shells):
printf -v message 'GET\n\n\n%s\n/%s%s' "${now}" "${bucket}" "${path}"
printf '%s' "$message" | openssl sha1 ...

Or (bash again):
nl=$'\n'
message="GET${nl}${nl}${nl}${now}${nl}/${bucket}${path}"
printf '%s' "$message" | openssl sha1 ...

A: Providing a summary for anyone who stumbled onto this thread. The problem problems were....

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*Cannot pass binary data through the pipeline as noted by Gordon Davisson

*Need to represent newlines with "`n" instead of "\n"

The Powershell script that ultimately replicated my results in Ubuntu/Bash was...
$now='Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:32:36 -0400'
$bucket="mybucket"
$path="/"
$awsKey="MSB0M3K06ELMOI65QXI1"
$awsSsecret="706Fdj+LFKf8pf/2Wh5V8Q8jbgGUUQo3xSXr5sbt"
$message="GET`n`n`n${now}`n/${bucket}${path}"

## Create the signature
$sha = [System.Security.Cryptography.KeyedHashAlgorithm]::Create("HMACSHA1")
$sha.Key = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.Getbytes($awsSsecret)
[Convert]::Tobase64String($sha.ComputeHash([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.Getbytes($message)))

While it's a better idea to use printf over echo on Linux/Unix systems, that difference wasn't material in this use-case.

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For animal lovers and those that want to learn more about the native animals of Aruba and other exotic animals make sure to pay a visit to Philip's Animal Garden Aruba. It is truly an animal lover's paradise. Founded by Philip Merryweather who loved exotic animals so much that he decided to start rescuing and providing living areas for them in 2004. It all started with his rescue of one cat and has expanded to over 20 other species. In 2009 he established the non for profit Philip's Animal Garden and one of Aruba's number one tourist attractions was born. Your modest admission will include an educational tour of the facility. There are also opportunities to touch and feed some of the animals as well. They are open most days 9:00am-5:00pm. Admission $10.00 adult Children 3-13 $5.00 Philips Animal Garden is located just 7 minutes away from Palm Beach and can be reached by car or taxi.
Some of the animals that can be found at Philips' Animal Garden are exotic birds, snakes such as boa constrictors, monkeys, jaguarundi, a pony, pig, skunks, a ocelot-painted leopard, caiman alligators, bengal cats, and alpacas. While visiting these animals you can learn about their habitats in the wild, life span, diet, and growth. There is also opportunities to feed animals and to interact with them during certain times of the day. Who wouldn't want the opportunity to feed a alpaca? All proceeds from your admission is used to continue the care for the animals and for rescue efforts of others. Philip and his associates work hard to educate each guest that come through their doors not just about the animals found there but also conservation and preservation. The tours offered start every thirty minutes and are a must to get the full experience. Please make sure to pay Philips' Animal Garden a visit on your next vacation to Aruba.


I just had to laugh when I read Julie's blog. I, too, visited the eye doctor yesterday. That tell-tale squint was happening again, so I knew the time had come. Also, after wearing glasses for 3 years, I was ready for contacts again. I even got to wear them home!
I was 7 years old when I got my first pair of glasses, and only 11 years old when I was prescribed hard contacts to stop my eyes from changing so drastically. After 25 years of contact wearing, I wanted a break. Although I've enjoyed my specs, I have come up with the top 7 reasons why I wanted contacts again.
I had to take off my glasses every time I wanted a big smooch from my man.
I couldn't cuddle with my head squished in a pillow watching a movie on the couch.
Swimming with glasses is a nuisance. Swimming without glasses is good if we're playing blind man's bluff.
I could not merely look up or down or side to side. My head would have to follow where my eyes wanted to look to see with clarity through the lenses.
When it rained, I had to shield my glasses, then wipe off the raindrops.
And my son is excited because I no longer have an excuse not to be squirted with the water gun.
This is another difference we have. I guess we are definitely not twins separated at birth.
I don't think I could handle the monovision either. That would be so confusing to my already befuddled brain.
Many people with astigmatism believe that they can't wear contact lenses, or that only rigid contact lenses can correct astigmatism.
This was true many years ago, but now there are soft contacts that correct astigmatism; they are called toric contact lenses. Toric lenses have a special correction built into them and may also contain a prescription for nearsightedness or farsightedness if you need it.
While contacts are definitely not for everyone, they are just getting better and better.
Oh how I have missed you! I am so glad to be back!
Your fudge was supremely delicious. And this latest batch with cinnamon has a nice kick to it.
I think it is best to get permission first, wouldn't the rest of you moms agree?
Your son makes you fudge! With cinnamon?! So not fair. I"m going to have to add that lesson to list!
As for the glasses, they do help cover up puffy eye syndrome, but you look amazing with contacts. Such a lovely picture. AND you are having a great hair day. I'm so jealous (the hair AND the fudge)!
Haha! My husband's comments were, "Did you have a cold sore?" (the fudge) & "Did you take that photo yourself?" How did he know?
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As qualified nurses, therapists and doctors move from service delivery into strategic and managerial roles, many join MiP to access the support and services they need in their new positions. Working with the clinical unions and professional bodies, we ensure that our clinician members are as well supported and protected in the management aspects of their jobs as they are in their specialist professional development.
MiP fully supports the move to bring more clinical expertise into health management, and works to ensure that senior clinicians are supported through the unique challenges of management roles – which bring a unique set of legal, organisational and professional risks.
Our specialist services have attracted a range of senior clinicians, such as lead nurses, nurse ward managers, clinician therapy service managers, and qualified doctors working in managerial roles. Many are also members of clinical unions, including the Royal College of Nursing, Royal College of Midwives, and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. And we work in partnership with these organisations to protect and defend our members – both in their interactions with employers, and in relation to regulators such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
As well as our members within NHS trusts, MiP also serves senior clinicians working for private and voluntary sector health providers, and for commissioning bodies such as CCGs.
Mersey Care's HR director Amanda Oates tells MiP how adopting a 'just and learning' culture has cut disciplinaries by 80% and improved patient care.
Telemedicine could bring huge benefits but, managed badly, we could end up combining the worst aspects of private healthcare and public-sector IT.
Marie Gabriel, the chair of East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT), led a Management Life workshop on promoting staff health and wellbeing at the MiP Members' Summit on 6 November.
Managers and doctors from Ipswich Hospital tell us how they joined forces with local partners to dramatically reduce their bed blocking problem.
How the struggling gastroenterology department at St Mark's Hospital worked with patients and quality improvement managers to deliver dramatic results.
NHS guardians have a tricky but powerful role in tackling poor care and boosting staff engagement. National Guardian Henrietta Hughes speaks to Healthcare Manager.


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Guide to Affiliate Compliance
Techniques, Signs, & Strategies To Combat Affiliate Fraud
Forced Clicks and "Cookie-Stuffing"
While much affiliate fraud occurs in the form of trademark bidding and paid search violations, other types of abuse remain in active use amongst affiliates. Forcing clicks, also known as "cookie-stuffing," is a particularly popular way that rogue affiliates gain commissions fraudulently. The following section will discuss what cookie-stuffing is, how it impacts the merchant and other affiliates, and varied means of detection and prevention.
What is Cookie-Stuffing?
The standard affiliate marketing model operates by using cookies to track how a user arrived at a merchant's website. In most systems, a merchant pays a commission to an affiliate when a user visits an affiliate's site, clicks on an affiliate link, and then makes a purchase from the merchant. Each time that affiliate link is clicked on by a user, it drops a cookie in the user's system that allows the merchant to know from where the user came and what affiliate deserves a commission. Most programs also use a 30-day return period, wherein if a user returns to the merchant within a set number of days, the affiliate still receives credit for the sale. Some affiliates, however, manage to trick merchant's tracking systems into believing that a user has clicked on a link even when they haven't done so. By dropping cookies onto their system without their knowledge or their click-through, the affiliate gains credit for any purchase by that user without necessarily ever promoting the merchant or driving any incremental traffic.
eBay vs DigitalPoint, USA vs Shawn D. Hogan
One of the most high-profile examples of sophisticated cookie-stuffing involves Digital Point Solutions owner Shawn Hogan. Both eBay and the federal government have accused Hogan of cookie-stuffing while he was an affiliate for eBay and alleged that this practice is not only unethical, but unlawful.
The original lawsuit was a civil suit filed by eBay against Hogan, two other defendants, and all their respective companies on August 25, 2008. The company alleges that Hogan and the others committed fraud, racketeering activity under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, wire fraud, and unauthorized access of eBay's servers in order to run a cookie-stuffing scheme from approximately 2003 until mid 2007. They claim that the scheme involved using hidden forced clicks of affiliate links and that the defendants actively hid their practices from eBay and denied any wrongdoing when asked about suspicious traffic. All documents pertaining to the civil suit can be found on the Justia page for eBay v Digital Point Solutions et al.
The civil suit was put on hold, however, when on June 24, 2010, Hogan and one other civil suit defendant were indicted by a California grand jury for wire fraud and criminal forfeiture following an FBI Cyber Crimes investigation. Hogan was indicted for ten counts of wire fraud. The indictment closely parallels the civil suit, but also expands upon some key details. It alleges that during the four years that Hogan cookie-stuffed, he was the number one eBay affiliate and made approximately $15.5 million in commissions from eBay. It claims that he and others forced hidden clicks not only on their own websites but also on other sites not connected to their own entities. It further specifies that they hid the practice from eBay by stuffing cookies on any given user's computer only once, so that it looked more like real traffic, and used reverse IP-geotargeting to so as to not stuff cookies on computers near the eBay headquarters. The full text of the indictment can be found here.
The potential legal implications for affiliates, networks, and merchants are far-reaching and numerous. For one, if the federal government wins the case, it will move cookie- stuffing from being a civil contract breach into being a violation of federal law. In the USA v Hogan indictment, the legal criteria for wire fraud was established not on the transfer of money or commissions via wire, but rather because of the transmission of cookies between states and internationally. Should the defendants be found guilty— both are currently released on a $100,000 property bond and the surrender of their passports—they will face a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment, a $250,000 fine or twice the gross gain/loss (whichever is greater), three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment fee per count, in addition to the ramifications of the civil suit and legal fees.
This case has received much press in the affiliate world, with one of the most insightful articles written by Kellie Stevens, wherein she discusses the potential impact of this suit on the broader affiliate field. Hogan himself has also responded via his blog, explaining the various cookie-stuffing techniques that he used, while firmly maintaining his innocence. Of course, all defendants in both cases are considered innocent until proven guilty by the court.
Forced Clicks at an Affiliate Site
One common way that affiliates force clicks is through JavaScript on their front web- page. When a visitor arrives at their site, the site forces the user's browser to load an affiliate link. Just by visiting the site, cookies are loaded onto the user's computer and any subsequent purchase from the associated merchant will be credited to the affiliate. Most often this method involves the presence of an invisible iframe on a website that contains the affiliate link. The affiliate page is loaded in the iframe and cookies automatically dropped onto the user's system. Wordpress plugins, such as CPA Redirector, CookieFire, and Chocolate Chip Cookie Stuffer, also make it extremely easy for affiliates to force clicks from a Wordpress page. Without the user ever clicking on an ad, the affiliate will gaina commission for any purchase the user makes from the merchant within a several day period. Sophisticated affiliate abusers are increasingly developing new ways to hide this kind of click fraud from merchants and affiliate managers through varied obfuscation techniques.
The practice of loading affiliate links in banner ads contribute another level of complexity to the practice of cookie-stuffing. In this scenario, an affiliate loads an affiliate link and drops cookies into a user's browser via a banner ad. This type of cookie-stuffing allows an affiliate to gain a commission based on nothing more than a user's natural browsing.
When using this method, an affiliate gains a commission without the user ever clicking on a link or browsing to their website. The merchant pays out to an affiliate in violation of their Terms of Service, but, even worse, the merchant receives absolutely no advertising or promotional benefit. As the banner ad does not even have to be for the merchant in question, any sale that occurs would have happened anyway; the affiliate intervened in no meaningful way.
Image Cookie-Stuffing
Image cookie-stuffing makes it even easier (and potentially cheaper) for an affiliate to drop cookies without the user's knowledge. In this model, an affiliate uses an affiliate link as the source of an image file and then places that image file on a website. A browser will follow this link and read and act on cookies sent through it even through it will not be able to load an image. This link will appear either as an innocuous broken image icon or a more sophisticated scammer may set the image to appear as a blank space.
While this technique is very effective on an affiliate's website, its real advantage to an abusive affiliate is its capacity to drop cookies on large quantities of free traffic. Online discussion forums provide a huge opportunity to force clicks through the use of these image files in online signatures. By embedding these affiliate links in a signature, any user who views a post written by the affiliate will have the affiliate cookies dropped in their browser. Not only has the affiliate managed to force clicks without directing a user through a link or to their own site, they have also managed to do so without even paying for ad space. This technique works equally well in forums such as Myspace profiles, eBay auctions, and craigslist ads. Abusive affiliates can create pages on these sites in which they embed an affiliate link image and thereby force a cookie on to a user's browser whenever they view the profile, auction, or ad. And, as explained before, any purchase made at the targeted merchant's site for the duration of the "return days" period will be credited to the defrauding affiliate.
Affiliates who convert at a much lower than average rate
Blank or odd HTTP Referrer headers
Long delays between clicks and purchases
Clearly manipulated statistics
The appearance of click cookies when you haven't clicked on anything
Countering Cookie-Stuffing
There are a few different ways of determining if a suspicious-looking affiliate is in fact cookie- stuffing. One simple method is to clear the cookies off your browser, visit a suspect site, and then look at what cookies have been dropped on you. If there are any click cookies, they have been stuffed as you haven't clicked on anything. Make sure if you plan to do this kind of investigation yourself, that you learn the difference between "impression cookies" and "click cookies."
The other option is to use a plugin-type HTTP viewer or full packet sniffer to track the redirects that a site sends you through to see if they include any affiliate links. Some popular suggestions include HttpWatch, IEWatch, EffeTech,Endace, and Wireshark. Of course, the affiliate may only be cookie-stuffing for certain IP addresses so you are best served by using a proxy server.
Ascertaining exactly how an affiliate is cookie-stuffing can be difficult and usually will involve examining source code. Some monitoring can be done automatically via software, but it is also highly recommended that at least some members of an affiliate marketing management team have a strong technical background. Abusive affiliates only continue to adapt and improve their methods in the face of merchant actions.
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Catching the attention of local customers and getting them to engage with your posts should be your number one goal when posting to your Facebook page. Yes, you want to market your product or service, and of course, you want potential customers to click thru to your website. But remember, people don't want to be "sold to" all the time. The sale will come once you have built some rapport and trust with your followers. This can easily be done by posting content that includes questions, photos, fill-in-the-blanks. The goal is get your followers engaged and talking about your posts. Once a relationship has been established, you can mix in links to your website, to specific products you sell, and highlight specials you are running.
People love winning stuff! They love it even more when it can be redeemed locally. Not only will running contests bring new followers to your page, but it will also bring the winning customers into your store! Facebook now allows businesses to launch a quick and simple contest using a normal newsfeed post. In the past, contests had to run through a third party app.
"Like" To Win where fans only need to "like" a certain post to be entered into the contest. Since it is so easy, this type of contest usually brings lots of participation.
Comment To Win – If you want to step up fan engagement, this type of contest is quite simple. You can either ask fans to "Leave a comment for a chance to win" or ask them to answer a question such as: "What do you like most about our products? Comment for a chance to win a free ____".
Caption Contests – post a picture and let your fans' creative and fun side shine by asking them to create a caption. You can either choose the winner or let the caption with the most "Likes" win. Don't forget to choose a picture that fits with your brand!
Boosting a post on your timeline is simple, and it gets results that are easily measured. Below each post on your timeline is a "Boost Post" link. This link will open a small window, so you can choose to target existing fans and their friends or another specific demographic. You will also have the option to choose a budget for what you are willing to spend on the boosted ad. Data continually proves that spending as little as $5.00 can result in ads reaching thousands more people. Boosting your post is an inexpensive way to build your fan base and followers.
Appeal to your fans' senses by showing off your products with high quality photos. The power of suggestion is very strong for consumers and online visuals can lead to thru-the-door customers. Listing specific product details when accompanied by high-resolution color photos can ignite the senses and appeal to potential customers. Photo uploads on Facebook total 300 million per day. (Source: Gizmodo) This is an indication of engaged users; also, it is an indication that there are a lot of photos competing for users' attention. Your choice of photos can help set you and your competitor across town apart.
People often want to message you directly from your page, so make sure the message feature is turned on in your Facebook settings. This is crucial for local businesses. Customers like simplicity, and messaging you directly is easier than finding out your email and using another channel to reach you. Make it simple for potential customers to inquire about prices, any promotions, and your products directly from your page.
And finally, it should go without saying, but you MUST put your business phone number in the "About" section of your page. Additionally, at Lead Dog Digital, we recommend that our customers put their phone number in each post. Remember, most fans of your page will see your posts on their newsfeed – not on your timeline. So keep your number visible and easily accessible with each post.
If you would like to learn more about how Facebook or other social media channels can help your business reach potential customers, the social media marketing specialists at Lead Dog Digital would love to help. We offer social media packages to help you set up, maintain, and monitor your business's online presence.


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City Lisboa
Ground Estádio da Luz
Nickname As Águias
Captain Jardel Nivaldo Vieira
Coach Bruno Lage
Website slbenfica.pt
Sport Lisboa e Benfica is a Portuguese football club based in the city of Lisbon. They are one of the heavyweights in Portuguese football, having won the Portuguese championship a record 31 times.
The club was founded on February 28,1904 as Grupo Sport Lisboa and played their first match in January 1905. In 1908 the Grupo Sport Lisboa tookover the Sport Clube de Benfica and the club soon began to win regional titles and championships.
After a somewhat downbeat 1920s, Benfica soon escalated in the 1930s and were one of the founding members of the Portuguese national leagues in 1933. They won the champinships three times in a row between 1936 and 1938.
Benfica continued winning domestic honours and won their first international honour when they emerged victorious in the Latin Cup in 1950. Then they won two European Cups in succession in 1961 and 1962, guided by the Portuguese football legend Eusebio.
From the 1970s onwards Benfica simply rode through in Portugal and from 1994 to 2003 when they failed to win the Portuguese league even once. But they once again gained prominence in the 2004-2005 season when they won the national championships for the 31st time in their history and reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League in the 2005-2006 season.
Benfica play their home matches at the Estadio da Luz (Stadium of Light) that can entertain a crowd of 65,200. Benfica bear the nicknames O Glorioso (the Glorious), As Aguias (the Eagles), Lampioes (Lamps), Diabos Vermelhos (The Red Devils).
Some of the club's major achievements include:-31 Portuguese league titles-24 Portuguese Cups-2 European Cups(now known as the UEFA Champions League)
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ITR? Are you talking about Radial Sedan? How is that class doing? Seems rather interesting to me.
I think it was a typo. ITE as the Cal Club web site has listed for group 6.
I hope you don't mind that I took the initiative in making sure they were posted.
From a NASA event in June.
Are you guys going to fix the Pinto?


These Premium Snacks Have Evolved into Street Foods and We're Loving it!
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Emery Lehman (13 juni 1996) is een Amerikaans langebaanschaatser met de lange afstanden als specialiteit.

Lehman nam deel aan de Olympische Winterspelen 2014 op de 5000 en 10.000 meter.

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A father waiting to find out if his son was chosen to go to a charter school.
The Pacific Collegiate School in Santa Cruz, Calif., is a public charter school. It must hold a random lottery when it has more applicants than vacancies. It is not supposed to be selective.
Yet somehow its average SAT score has risen to the top tenth of one percent among all public schools nationally. Less than ten percent of its students are low-income, compared to 40 percent in its city. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that the school is allowed to ask (not require, its principal emphasizes) that every family donate $3,000 and 40 hours of volunteer time a year.
As a supporter of the charter school movement, I get grief from people who say that charters—independent public schools using tax dollars—are private schools in disguise. They are almost always wrong about that, but there are enough Pacific Collegiate situations to make me wonder if the rules need revision.
So what do you think? Are charter schools too picky? Should charter schools be compared to traditional public schools? How can we ensure that children receive the best education no matter what school they attend?
Vote daily for Stanton in Glee's Give a Note Contest!
Last month, my school entered Glee's Give a Note Contest. Glee is offering up to $1 million dollars in prizes to 73 schools!! You heard me correctly!! Glee is giving up to $1 million dollars in prizes to 73 schools. The money will go towards music programs. My school needs your daily support! Vote by clicking this link here. Share the video with your friends and family. Thanks for your support.
No computer left behind? Ensuring school resources for all!
It must be nice to have a computer lab.
I remember my senior year of high school vividly. I toured many colleges and universities. One thing that each of these universities touted was its technology and libraries. All of the universities I toured were public schools, yet each could proudly state how many computer labs and libraries were on campus. Since each wanted to be known as a premier learning institution, they knew that having top-of-the-line computer labs and millions of books were necessary to ensuring that reputation. Can we also say this about public elementary, middle, and high schools? Are we creating premier learning institutions that help our children to become critical thinkers and innovators by providing them with these basic tools?
As I am creating my non-fiction writing unit, I am forced to come face-to-face with the reality that my school is lacking the basic resources that should be available to all schools in this technologically advanced age. In the non-fiction writing unit, my scholars will write reports on animals. In November, they go on a trip to the National Zoo, so it makes sense for them to connect their in-classroom learning to outside experiences. Nevertheless, what concerns me is the fact that my school does not have a computer lab or working library. Can you imagine teaching students how to conduct research without the two most important places to find sources? My story is not an exception. In fact, many teachers across America face this same problem.
Just think of how each kids can't wait to check out a book!
As a child, I loved taking both computer and library class. In high school, I would race my friend as we learned how to type. We did not realize it as the time, but we were both fostering a love of computers while simultaneously increasing our typing skills. In elementary school, my school's librarian engaged us in the most fascinating lessons before sending us off to choose and checkout books on our own. We did not know it then, but we were learning how to enjoy reading and personal responsibility at the same time. Just how are we creating learning environments where children are intrinsically motivated to learn if they are learning in schools without the basic resources to engage them?
It is an injustice that many schools in communities that need quality educational opportunities have to send their children to schools with the least resources. Now do not get me wrong. I am not bashing the teachers or administrators at my school. Teachers in these schools work tirelessly to create engaging lessons and learning opportunities that spark a student to want to learn in spite of a lack of resources. Many of us event spend our own money to fill the void. How can we expect all schools to meet the same standardized test score bars when we all there to be "have" and "have not" schools? More importantly, when will school districts ensure that all schools equip teachers with the basic resources necessary to teach students so that they may achieve at high levels?
Fall into Reading with First Book-DC!
As a teacher, I know how schools in low-income communities lack resources. As a literacy teacher, I know how important it is to have a wealth of books available build a love of reading in each student. When I was a teacher in New Orleans, I served on the board of First Book-NOLA. I helped give out thousands of books to children across the New Orleans metropolitan area. Nevertheless, when I moved to DC, I learned that their First Book Advisory Board was inactive. This broke my heart and I decided to do something about it. I contacted First Book National and soon was asked to co-chair the effort to bring First Book-DC back!
First Book provides new books to children in need, addressing one of the most important factors affecting literacy – access to books. In low-income neighborhoods there is on average only one book for every 300 children, compared to 13 books per child in middle-income neighborhoods. In fact, 61% of low-income families have no books for children in their homes.
1) Make a donation to our Fall Into Reading fundraising campaign by visiting www.firstbook.org/dc. Our Advisory Board raises funds for the purchase of books for kids in the Washington, DC area. Currently, we are working to raise $2,000 – enough money to provide 1,000 new books to kids in Washington, DC. Our goal is to raise this money by October 31. It is my hope that we will reach and even exceed our goal with your support. Every $2.00 donated provides a book to a child in need. So, a donation of just $10 will purchase 5 new books. A donation of $50 will provide 25 books – enough for an entire class of DC students.
2) Like First Book-DC on Facebook. We'll be posting updates about the progress of our fundraising campaign on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/FirstBookDC. Be sure to "like" us on Facebook so you can stay up-to-date about our upcoming activities, events and fundraisers.
3) Help us spread the word about First Book-DC. Do you know of a program, teacher, school or other organization in Washington, DC that could benefit from a First Book grant for new books? Help them connect with us by directing them to our website at www.firstbook.org/dc.
For more information about First Book, visit www.firstbook.org.
Earlier this year I introduced big goals to my scholars by reading them Tupac Shakur's poem, The Rose that Grew from Concrete.
I showed them pictures of Tupac and told them about his life. I explained to them the achievement gap. They were inspired. They understood the comparisons of concrete and their neighborhoods. More importantly, they became invested in working to be roses growing from their concrete environments.
Thanks to Twitter, I always come across great articles and videos pertaining to education reform. Recently, I watched a video of Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade, an Associate Professor of Raza Studies and Education Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies at San Francisco State University. It was a TED lecture entitled Growing Roses from Concrete. Immediately after reading the title, I felt compelled to check it out. Little did I know that upon clicking that link, I was in for the most powerful lecture I've heard in a long time. Dr. Duncan-Andrade's educational theory aligns exactly with what I envision needs to be done to systemically change our nation's school.
I encourage you to check out the rest of the Dr. Duncan-Andrade's lecture here. It will give you much insight into the road less traveled in education reform: acknowledging that children and families growing up in low-income neighborhoods do not have to live under these conditions. These conditions are man-made and when we address the living environments of families in low-income and under-resourced communities, we also create a solid foundation to systemically reform our schools for the better.
Twitter is a powerful tool to connect people with many interests. As a public school advocate, I'm eager to hop on Twitter each night and catch up on the latest education news. More importantly, I'm eager to read what the latest power players in education reform are saying. On Friday night, I had the opportunity to dialogue with who education power players: Diane Ravitch and Dr. Steve Perry. Both are people that I admire, and one day I hope to chat with them face-to-face. As a fourth year teacher, I am constantly seeking the wisdom from more seasoned people in the education arena. Both Ravitch and Perry share many of my views.
I felt obligated to ask Diane Ravitch some questions after watching her debate with Geoffrey Canada on Education Nation. It rocked my core that two people, who agree on many things, were actually debating. Geoffrey Canada is the founder of the Harlem Children's Zone–an innovative way to reform not only schools, but an entire community in Harlem, NY. Diane Ravitch, a former Secretary of Education, and now a historian and professor at New York University who advocates for teachers, whole child education, and eradicating poverty to improve our nation's schools. It perplexed me that they were debating. Now don't get me wrong, people can debate. However, the current status quo vs "reformer" arguments are divisive. Quite frankly, I don't view Diane Ravitch as the status quo. I think she's one of the most progressive thinkers of our time. I do believe Geoffrey Canada to be an innovative reformer because of his Harlem Children Zone approach. Nevertheless, I personally believe that the back and forth in education debates are halting progress. Therefore, I asked Diane Ravitch some questions on Twitter. To my luck, she replied.
@DarlaBunting The @dianeravitch and Geoffrey Canada debate on@EducationNation seemed a bit exaggerated. I'm sure you both agree on more things.
@DarlaBunting How can we change how the national dialogue around education reform @dianeravitch?
@DianeRavitch @DarlaBunting Current education policy is crazy. Test whatever moves, then fire teachers, close schools. That's not improvement strategy.
@DianeRavitch @DarlaBunting @EducationNation I admire HCZ. I wish that all schools could have same resources, social & medical services for kids.
@DarlaBunting @DianeRavitch I agree, and it frustrates me that the debate is being framed in a way that is halting progress.
DianeRavitch @DarlaBunting @EducationNation We were pushed to sharpen debate. Geoff likes to fire teachers, close schools, I believe in helping people.
DrStevePerry Failed schools must be closed and the children must be provided w/ vouchers so they can attend good schools in their lifetime.
@DarlaBunting Okay, now we're talking. @DrStevePerry I knew there was more beyond that one statement.
I love engaging in dialogues about the current state and future of our nation's public schools. Twitter makes it that much easier to connect with people from all walks of life doing many different things in improving the life opportunities of our nation's most neediest kids. I look forward to following more education advocates and reformers. Follow me @darlabunting and I'll follow back.
*Now, let me be clear. I do not believe that unions are the sole reason for our nation's failing school system.
As mentioned in my previous post, Twitter's Role in the Education Debate, The dialogue around education reform is becoming divisive. I am not a proponent of either side. I actually see a common ground. Nevertheless, what has been on my mind is the misconception that people who want to create better neighborhoods and communities for our nation's low-income citizens, while simultaneously pushing for education reform, are being labeled as status quo. That label is extremely confusing for me. I hope that many of you can help me to understand why a belief that is perhaps the most progressive is labeled as status quo.
I decided to tackle this issue, by shedding light on how I developed my education reform theory. I hope that my story helps you to understand my point of view: Children growing up in low-income communities have the innate ability to achieve at high levels. However, often as statistics indicate, their community's influence limits them to see what is possible. Many become products of their environments. Nevertheless, America has the capacity and knowledge to create better neighborhoods for its low-income citizens. Building more sustainable communities, coupled with reforming these schools, will systemically change our public school system for the better.
Growing up in small-town Bridgeton, N.J., (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeton,_NJ) exposed to me an early age to the economic inequality in America. I had friends who lived in middle class homes, like me, and I had friends who lived in "the projects". I knew early on that something was inherently wrong with that, but in my elementary years, I was too young to understand why. However, because my town was so small and school options were slim, everyone from middle class to low-income attended the same schools. Back then, my town had six elementary schools (now all K-8) which fed into one middle school and one high school. I gained an early awareness through certain life experiences (summer camps at Rowan University, computer courses as the local community college, constant interactions with college-educated people, etc) to a different way of life, partly because my dad went to college. He was able to open my eyes to what is possible for me to achieve beyond my small-town. This exposure was the reason I was able to overcome living in a small-town that had little resources. (According to Census results, the median income for a family in Bridgeton is $30,502). Fortunately, I grew up with a middle-income lifestyle. This was not the norm for many of my peers.
During my eighth grade year, my dad asked me if I wanted to attend private school. By that age, I had developed my own educational and economic theories, and I knew exactly why he asked me that question. Growing up my local high school did not have the best reputation—in fact; it was labeled as the worst high school in my county and one of the lowest performing in the state. This label haunted my classmates and me as we interacted with students at different schools. As a student-athlete, we would interact with other schools that made it known through their taunting and sly remarks that we were at the bottom of the barrel. In my county, people would say, "Oh, you're from Bridgeton?" as if it meant that I was less of a person. Therefore, when my dad, asked me if I wanted to attend private school, I knew it was because he wanted what any parent wants for their children: the best education. Since he was fortunate to beat the odds and graduate from both college and graduate school, he wanted me to have every opportunity to succeed.
Yet, without hesitation, I firmly and confidently told him that I wanted to attend my local high school, and I knew what that decision meant, too. It meant that I may not receive the best education—yes, math still haunts me to this day. I even failed my first collegiate math course. However, what was most important to me was that I served as a voice to my peers to take charge of their futures despite where they grew up. I wanted them to prove people wrong; I wanted to prove people wrong. I wanted to prove to naysayers that people growing up in Bridgeton could achieve just like anyone else. Most people cannot escape their environment to attend a better school–but I chose to stay.
I do not know if I chose my life, or if my life chose me, but I committed my life to advocating on behalf of my peers who fell victim to their zip code. I decided early on that people should not have to live like that. That is why I view education reform and community reform as both necessary to systemically change our nation's public school system.
Be on the lookout for Part 2 of How I Developed my Ed Reform Theory.


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Salt Stress Responses and Protein Expression Changes in Tomato
I. I. Hamma, A. A. Aliero, H. M. Maishanu, and A.Y. Abbas,
Tomato is a model plant for studying the mechanisms of plant salt tolerance. Responses of Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) to various concentrations of salt and changes in some protein expression levels were investigated. Seeds of three (3) varieties of tomato namely, Roma vf, Rio Grande and UC 82 B were germinated on a nursery bed and seedlings were transferred to polythene bags supplemented with 0, 20, 40 and 60 mM NaCl. After 24 days, growth parameters, floral number, free Proline content, Glycine betaine content, shoot dry weight were measured using standard methods and procedures. Leaf samples were collected for protein extraction and the alterations in expression levels induced in leaf proteins under salt stress treatments were studied by one-dimensional SDS-PAGE. Increasing concentration of NaCl decreased in all growth parameters (floral number, number of leaves, plant height and dry weight) evaluated. Free Proline and Glycine betaine content increased significantly (P < 0.05) in salt-treated plants compared with the control. The content ranges from 1.56-1.99 mM in Roma vf, 1.32-1.99 mM in UC 82 B, and 1.77-1.99 mM, 1.95-1.99mM in Rio Grande. SDS-PAGE showed up-regulation of at least nine proteins with a molecular weight of 46, 35, 25 and 12 kD in leaves of UC 82 B, 45, 25, 19 and 17 kD in leaves of Roma vf and 38 kD in leaves of Rio Grande. At least three proteins with a molecular weight of 29 kD in leaves of Roma vf and 45 and 53 kD in leaves of Rio Grande were down-regulated. From the results of this study, it was observed that Tomato Roma vf is more tolerant to salt stress followed by UC 82 B and the Rio Grande, and therefore could be selected as the salt-tolerant variety to ameliorate production loss.


The Book of Movements represents eternally active living knowledge and is part of the Apollonian Light Parallel Knowledge`s in which it occupies a special place. It represents the upgrade of interrelated teachings within Parallel Knowledge, and its universality is contained in the fourth part of the book – The Living Book, which is only exclusively orally transmitted from the Teacher to the Student. Followers of the Book of Movements are Warriors of Light. The Warriors of Light and their teachers are responsible to themselves, to the Knowledge and directly to The Great Teacher.