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I have long believed that the Mercedes-Benz 560 SEC and the Porsche 928 represent two of the best-engineered GT cars of the 1980's. Stylistically they are unique and immediately recognizable. The pillarless Benz is especially elegant and represents a high water mark for post-war Mercedes design. Both of these cars were ludicrously expensive when new, especially in their final iterations. Today, pedestrian versions are "used cars" that can be bought for under $10,000. However, if you want an investment-grade car you have to pay up and focus on the later year SEC (1990-1991) and the final version of the ultra-rare 928 GTS (1993-1995). Low-mileage well-maintained SEC's and 928's are quite rare. Finding one-owner cars with full documentation greatly limits the menu further.
The SEC and 928 were ultra-complex vehicles that required abundant care and feeding. The depreciation curve was not kind to these cars. Eight years after leaving the showroom most of them ended up composting in the hot sun. For the last twenty years, the restoration and maintenance costs were not economic given the paltry valuations of both the SEC and 928. This general trend explains why today we are left with so few pristine 100-point examples of 80's-tastic German cars like the iconic BMW E24 M6. Most luxury performance GT cars from this era were driven hard and put away wet. Most models became uneconomic to preserve or restore. Even today there would need to be a dramatic increase in valuations to justify restoring even a decent SEC or 928.
I recently came across a surprising article on Bloomberg. They named the Jaguar XJ-S, the Mercedes-Benz 560 SEC, and the Porsche 928 as modern classics that are poised to appreciate. I strongly agree with their conclusions on the SEC and 928—I'm less enthusiastic about the Jaguar. The Turtle Garage collection currently includes an investment-grade 1990 Mercedes-Benz 560 SEC and a very low-mile one-owner 1994 Porsche 928 GTS.
But if you are talking about the holy trinity of the 1980s touring car, they are the Jaguar XJ-S, Porsche 928, and Mercedes 560 SEC. These vehicles were built as flagships, the pinnacle of performance and technology. These cars were for wealthy executives, country club members, and people on the board of directors, and they communicated class and sporting elegance loud and clear.
An XJ-S in decent condition will run you around $10,000, and even a pristine one will barely crest $25,000. But these values are up 25 percent over the past five years, and the car has made multiple lists of up-and-coming classics. As with most collectibles with a long production run, the ones that are increasing in value fastest are the earliest models—for their originality—and the most recent ones, for their sophistication.
The Porsche 928 was supposed to replace the venerable 911, but it didn't take. Porsche loyalists wouldn't accept a big, luxurious, front-engined car as a replacement for their small, spartan, rear-engined one. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't. While the 911 still looks stuck in its Beetled past, the 928, produced between 1978 and 1995, has an uncanny breadth, angularity, and curvy profile that will always look like the future. And its complex V8 (ranging from 228hp to 345hp, depending on the model year) can really pull. At the end of their run, these were among the fastest and most expensive production cars on the road.
Mercedes has been producing elegant S-Class coupes since the mid-'50s. But the more vintage ones have become increasingly unaffordable. Fortunately, time marches on, and the hard angular designs of the Mercedes-Benz 560 SEC, produced from 1985 to 1991, have begun to look downright avant-garde. Few vehicles have the despotic beauty of these 238hp, V8-powered coupes, much less their imposing, tank-like engineering.
I have owned and Loved BOTH of these cars and agree with this association. Will go down in History as 2 of the Most beautiful and best Driving Cars of there Time..the cars always stayed in my memories..
You are so right! The euro bumper cars are so much sleeker. Also, they have more attractive headlights and headlight wipers. The American safety rules mandated larger bumpers and it really negatively impacted the look of the car. Thank you for being a subscriber to Turtle Garage.
I had a gorgeous 560SEC about 15 years ago, and miss it still. Traded it to buy a horse for Matti, but am tempted to buy one again after reading your article. I wonder if the bumpers can be change out for the European version. Great article!
I am now on my third 560 SEC and completely agree with your assessment of the car and it's present modest cost. I would only add the only thing better than a late-year, low mileage example is a European version. This the holy grail of the model with much smaller bumpers and more horse power.


For the several years Professor John Cerne has been using hands-on radio control (RC) flying to get Buffalo public school (BPS) students interested in science and technology. Recently, he as focused on their teachers. By working directly with teachers rather than students, he is hoping to broaden the impact in terms of numbers of students involved. Working with teachers will also help improve the educational content and allow the development and use of these RC concepts for years to come.
Read more about this in the Spring 2017 newsletter.


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require 'helper'
require 'net/http'

class Vindicia::ModelTest < Test::Unit::TestCase

  def setup
    Vindicia.class_eval do
      def self.clear_config
        if Vindicia.config.is_configured?
          Vindicia::API_CLASSES[Vindicia.config.api_version].each_key do |vindicia_klass|
            Vindicia.send(:remove_const, vindicia_klass.to_s.camelize.to_sym)
          end
        end
      end
    end

    @good_api_version = '3.6'
    assert Vindicia::API_CLASSES.has_key?(@good_api_version)
    assert !Vindicia.config.is_configured?

    assert_nothing_raised do
      Vindicia.configure do |config|
        config.api_version = @good_api_version
        config.login = 'your_login'
        config.password = 'your_password'
        config.endpoint = 'https://soap.prodtest.sj.vindicia.com/soap.pl'
        config.namespace = 'http://soap.vindicia.com'
      end
    end
    assert Vindicia.config.is_configured?
  end

  def teardown
    Vindicia.clear_config
    Vindicia::Configuration.reset_instance
  end

  def test_should_define_api_methods_of_respective_vindicia_class_for_respective_api_version
    Vindicia::API_CLASSES[@good_api_version].each_key do |vindicia_klass_name|

      vindicia_klass = Vindicia.const_get(vindicia_klass_name.to_s.camelize)

      Vindicia::API_CLASSES[@good_api_version][vindicia_klass_name].each do |api_method|
        assert vindicia_klass.respond_to?(api_method)
      end
    end
  end

  def test_should_catch_exceptions_thrown_underneath_savon
    Vindicia::AutoBill.client.expects(:request).once.raises(Timeout::Error)

    resp = Vindicia::AutoBill.update({})

    assert_not_nil resp
    assert resp.to_hash
    assert_equal '500', resp[:update_response][:return][:return_code]
  end

  def test_should_support_ruby_keyword_actions
    # this feature is used by WebSession, to support the initialize action, no huge rework, just escape codes
    assert Vindicia.config.is_configured?

    web_session = Vindicia::WebSession

    # method is available to be called
    web_session_methods = web_session.methods
    assert web_session_methods.include?(:_initialize)

    # method yields an action that is escaped
    VCR.use_cassette('web_session#_initialize') do
      resp = web_session._initialize(:ipAddress => '124.23.210.175',
                              :method => 'AutoBill_Update',
                              :returnUrl => 'https://merchant.com/subscribe/success.php',
                              :errorUrl => 'https://merchant.com/subscribe/failed.php',
                              :privatePormValues => [
                                { :name => 'Account_VID', :value => '36c8de2cb74b2c2b08b259cf231ac8d90d1bb3b8' },
                                { :name => 'Product_merchantProductId', :value => 'StartWars II' },
                                { :name => 'vin_BillingPlan_merchantBillingPlanId', :value => 'GoldAccess2010, PlatinumAccess2010' }
                              ],
                              :methodParamValues => [
                                { :name => 'AutoBill_Update_minChargebackProbability', :value => '80' }
                              ])
      assert_not_nil resp
      assert resp.to_hash
      # the fact that the response is enveloped in the escaped form of the action is evidence that the action was properly mapped
      assert_equal '403', resp[:initialize_response][:return][:return_code]
    end
  end
end

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Should You Buy Stock In Gun Companies?
In the last downturn, many sectors of the market seemed to make perfect investment sense in the financial atmosphere of the time. It turned out that the only investments that did not lose money were U.S. Treasuries and gold. As an investor, and as an advisor, I want a more diversified portfolio, and more of a return than these two investments would provide. Where else to look in the ever changing, in fact potentially radically changing, American financial landscape? It might also behoove an investor to take a real look at the political landscape, as well, as so many changes, and huge changes they would be, are out there. I mean, you have to have a good look, and think, let's see, how are my investments in the short term and long term likely to be impacted from the next round of increasing taxation that will surely reach even deeper into my pocket?
And then I thought, maybe — stock in gun & ammunition companies!
In contemplating an investment in the stock of gun and ammunition companies, one needs to understand that this particular part of the business landscape differs from just about any other business sector. There are several reasons for this; the first and most significant is the ever-present elephant in the room regarding this sector. On the surface, the products of gun and ammunition companies, in terms of putting one's money into a product attractive to the investing public, would seem to be the same as any other being produced, marketed and competing in the American and international markets. Unlike most of the other products in these markets, however, gun and ammunition company stock will never escape from the political and/or legislative agenda that those committed to either the support of or the opposition to the Second Amendment to the Constitution espouses. Both sides of this issue are equally passionate: to some Americans, being able to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights is akin to a guarantee of their liberty; to those on the other side of the issue, gun ownership is tantamount to a license to kill. Both sides of this issue engender vociferous, active and well-funded voices, and, as a result, the very fact of gun ownership has become and probably always will be, controversial, and certain to create significant movement on either or both sides of the issue.
Clearly, the value of the stocks of the companies manufacturing these products, whether you think it is a symbol of liberty, or the object of the devil, is subject to the always vocal activities of these partisan advocates. There is, for example, an organization called SocialFunds.com which exists to identify any guns or ammunition company stock in a given mutual fund. This is so that any member of the unsuspecting public may jettison this stock and thus be protected from being duped into owning such evil in their portfolios. There are also numerous other so-called 'socially responsible' funds that will not buy stock in any gun or ammunition companies, nor in any that produce or distribute such equally evil products such as tobacco or alcohol. Some will not even own stock in any company that has any weapons related business in any way.
That said, when considering whether or not to buy the stocks of these companies, it is a fact that the military and law enforcement, both nationally and internationally, will always have a need for the products of gun and ammunition companies, whether they are politically popular or not. This thus creates a permanent constituency for the products of these companies and this need would seem to establish a base of stability in the sector. Then again, there is the very real possibility that budget cuts at all levels of government may reduce the size not only of the Department of Defense, but also law enforcement at every level. This is also true with regard to foreign governments who purchase American gun and ammunition company stock. Even so, purchases of firearms would still have to be made, but at lower amounts, thus negatively affecting the stockholder.
Upon an initial examination of the sector, one finds that some of the best-known gun companies are privately owned (i.e., not a company whose stocks are traded on national exchanges). For example, Colt, the best known and most well-regarded pistol company in the United States, is 83% owned by Zilkha & Co., which is a New York based banking firm, and is not publically traded. The equally well-known international gun brand of Beretta, is actually Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta, S.p.A., which is run privately by the Beretta family in Italy, as it has been since 1526. There is a lot of stability; but clearly but no chance to buy stock in the family-owned firm. The private ownership of gun and ammunition companies is, we observe, the pattern in this sector.
Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., the large diversified private equity partnership, has made a substantial investment in this sector. Good news for this sector could be seen in October of last year, when Cerebus was planning for the IPO (an initial public offering of stock) of a company under the name of 'The Freedom Group.' 'The Freedom Group' is a company comprised of the following: Advanced Armament Corp., Bushmaster, Dakota Arms, DPMS, Eotac, H & R, L.C. Smith, NEF, Parker Gun and the Remington Arms Company. This group would seem to dwarf the 'public' competition, who are respected gun makers but who are smaller companies by comparison. While greatly anticipating this IPO opportunity, gun and ammunition company enthusiasts should perhaps remember that the Cerebus Capital's most recent venture was to buy Chrysler from Mercedes Benz, then to give it to Fiat in bankruptcy. That it did not work out as well as investors might have planned but, hopefully "The Freedom Group" will do better..
The international firm, Sturm, Ruger & Co., however, is publically owned (i.e., traded on a stock exchange, in this case the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker: RGR). The only gun company in the world that manufactures products in all four gun categories; i.e., revolvers, pistols, rifles and shotguns, Sturm, Ruger & Co. currently has more than 20 million shares outstanding. The value of the stock of this company, perhaps reflecting on the recent volatility of the market rather than that of the sector, has gone from a low in December of 2008, of $5.88, to a high in July of 2009 of $15.20. Ruger began the year with a price of $10.00 per share. As of the beginning of this year, analyst expectations for Ruger were quite mixed and evenly split between 'buy' and 'sell' recommendations.
Another public gun company in America is Smith & Wesson, the largest handgun manufacturer in the United States. It is also publically owned, as it had been bought by the UK based firm, Tompkins, PLC, but was later resold to Saf-J-Hammer Corporation for a fraction of the price Tompkins paid for it. It is currently known as the Smith & Wesson Holding Company, whose ticker symbol is SWHC, and is traded on the NASDAQ market. The company had a total of $295 million in revenues, as reported in 2008, and its stock is currently valued at around $4.00. Looking at analysts' reports, most view Smith & Wesson as neutral or hold as of the beginning of the year with very few recommending a buy.
It should also be pointed out that penny stocks, i.e., stocks that are valued at less then $5 per share, in general, are always considered to be the riskiest of stock purchases.
In general, gun companies have been consistent and solid producers of revenue while their value as an addition to the portfolio of publically traded securities has been mixed. The fact that a permanent clientele in armed forces and law enforcement exists as a market for the products of these companies, both nationally and internationally, and with other potential gun owners, as well, might make this sector an investment for the long term as long as one understands the politics as well as the economics involved. The rapid run-up in the share prices of RGR and SWHC that began right after the 2008 election seems to have passed. RGR and SWHC appear to have fallen more into place with market participants as a whole. While the outlook of these companies to continue to produce products and turn a profit, thus looks good, one must consider the 'politically incorrect' designation in deciding whether or not they are a good investment.
A well diversified portfolio that includes exposure to and allocation in numerous asset classes, to include foreign and domestic stocks and bonds, is normally preferable to a highly concentrated portfolio as a means of alleviating risk and increasing the potential for long term returns. The allocation of your assets should match your ability to take risk – and that means your ability to withstand losses. Any investment in any company, as well as those mentioned above, should only be undertaken if it meets the risk and return parameters that match your investment goals.
Next, we will examine some of the other gun and ammunition companies, both national and international, and how their stocks are doing, and expected to do, in this market. Inquiring minds want to know, my own among them: is there profit on the way with investments in those companies?


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Texas Tech defensive back Octavious Morgan to medically retire following knee injury
Texas Tech Red Raiders logo.
By Ben Baby
10:10 PM on Jun 28, 2019
The lingering effect from a knee injury has ended the playing career of one of Texas Tech's veteran defensive backs.
Senior cornerback Octavious Morgan will medically retire, Tech coach Matt Wells announced in a statement released on Friday afternoon. Morgan, who hasn't played since 2017, will continue to be on scholarship as he pursues his degree.
"It's unfortunate Octavious will not be able to finish out his career on the field," Wells said in a statement. "He is well-liked by his teammates and our staff, and our program wishes him nothing but the best as he finishes his degree."
In 2017, the former Butler (Kans.) Community College standout tallied eight pass deflections and 41 tackles in his lone season with Tech. Butler suffered his career-ending knee injury during a preseason scrimmage before the 2018 season.
Morgan's presence could have bolstered a Tech defense looking to improve under a new coach. Last year, the Red Raiders were fifth in the Big 12 in pass defense efficiency. Before Morgan arrived in Lubbock, Tech was ranked last in the conference during the 2016 season.
Ben Baby. Covers college football, sports for The Dallas Morning News.
bbaby@dallasnews.com @Ben_Baby

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By now I'm sure you are "sick and tired" of hearing that accurate, complete and timely documentation is your best defense against allegations of professional negligence. Well, despite your reaction to hearing it, this is a true statement. Documentation of patient care, whether in narrative form or in an electronic format, is an essential component of patient care and an invaluable risk management tool from a defensive perspective.
There are many court cases that have been won or lost based on nursing documentation. For example, in Crawford v. Beth Israel Medical Center (1), the patient, who had just had a coronary bypass graft procedure, which required the placement of clips during the surgery, left the OR for the PACU/ICU between 2:45 pm and 2: 50 pm. Dr. Hoffman, one of the surgeons, checked the clip placement several times in the OR with no bleeding noted and stayed in the OR until the chest was closed. He then dictated his OR report and left the hospital for a meal.
At 2:45 pm, the patient's BP was 115/70. However, shortly after, the attending nurse realized Mr. Crawford had a "precipitous" blood pressure drop and knew he was hemorrhaging internally. (2) The surgeon returned to the hospital about the time the hemorrhaging began. He was paged and he and a colleague treated the patient in the ICU and the patient was then transferred back to the OR.
The nurse's note, timed at 2:45 pm, summarized what had occurred with the patient, as did a 3:00 pm note on the Cardiac Surgery Flow Sheet which indicated that the patient had been sent back to the OR. This time line corresponded with the OR log which reflected the patient returned to the OR at 3:05 pm, with OR nurses already assembled there at 3:00 pm.
The doctor's note about the incident, however, indicated that the patient's bleeding was discovered at 3:00 pm, not at 2:45 pm as documented by the attending nurse. The patient survived this event, but died at home after being admitted to another facility twice, then discharged, for an infection of his valve annulus.
Prior to his death, Mr. Crawford and his wife filed a professional negligence case, with additional allegations, against Beth Israel Hospital and the physicians and nurses involved in Mr. Crawford's care. After his death, the case was amended to include a wrongful death count, alleging that the Hospital failed to timely diagnose and treat Mr. Crawford's infection.
Except for Dr. Harris, the defendants moved for summary judgment (dismiss the case without a trial) because the case was filed after the statute of limitations for ran to file the case against them.
The Supreme Court of New York County held that the statute of limitations did prohibit the case from going forward against all defendants but Dr. Harris. The case against the surgeon for the additional allegations of wrongful death and lack of informed consent were also dismissed. However, the surgeon's failure to eliminate the issue of timeliness in dealing the patient's post-operative bleed should proceed to trial. (3) In short, the reliance on the nursing notes created an issue of fact that could only be resolved by a full trial.
Four weeks later, Mr. Meier was transferred to a rehabilitation facility after his decubitus ulcer improved. While there, Meier developed decubitus ulcers on his heels. The patient was then sent to a VA facility, from which he was discharged. Even though the decubitus ulcer healed on his tailbone, it was "hard and painful" and was no longer able to perform many of the things he could do before the hospitalization.
Mr. Meier brought a suit against the Medical Center due to the negligence of its nurses to prevent the decubitus ulcer on his tailbone. The jury returned a verdict in favor of Mr. Meier. The Medical Center appealed.
The appellate court record detailed the testimony of a nurse expert witness for Mr. Meier. She testified that skin assessments and pressure sore relief is to be provided every two hours and that documentation of this assessment and relief is required.
In addition, the nurse expert further explained the standard of practice for assessing a patient's skin and ulcer status. A detailed description of the decubitus ulcer must be included in the notes so that anyone reading it can "draw a mental picture of what the nurse [caring for the patient] saw. Likewise, charting should include the color, location, size, depth, presence or absence of infection, and whether the tissue was dead or perfused. (7).
In short, the nurse expert testified, the nurses' failure to provide required care was the direct and proximate cause of the formation of Mr. Meier's decubitus ulcer.
The court pointed out that the patient's ICU record had no documentation that the interventions testified to by the nurse expert witness occurred. Likewise, the court continued, the physician should have been notified at once at the onset of the decubitus ulcer rather than, in this case, waiting until the next day to inform Mr. Meier's doctor of his condition.
The doctor did order a wound- care nurse consult and a special pressure bed for Mr. Meier. The wound care nurse did not see the patient until three days after the report was written. The special bed was never obtained for Mr. Meier.
Last, the court stated, whatever the wound-care nurse specialist ordered was never documented in the patient's record nor was there any documentation that her orders were being carried out.
A jury verdict of $240,000.00 at the trial was upheld by the Appeals Court.
Remember, if care wasn't documented, you are going to have a very difficult time convincing a jury or the board of nursing, for example, that the care you reportedly gave did take place.
There is a wealth of information available to you about nursing documentation and it would be helpful to review that information on a regular basis. Texts on nursing documentation alone are quite numerous. Some examples include Lippincott Williams & Wilkins' Nursing Know-How: Charting Patient Care (2008) and Complete Guide To Documentation (2007).So, too, are articles in nursing journals, especially as documentation pertains to specialty nursing practice. A general article for review is Sally Austin's 2011 article, "Stay Out Of Court With Proper Documentation", 41(4) Nursing 2011, 24-29 (CE Module).
The next time you are documenting your care of a patient, keep in mind one thing: someone outside of the facility—an attorney for the patient, the surveyor of the state public health department, a board of nursing member, or a nurse expert witness for both sides in a lawsuit—may someday read your entry. You want to ensure that the quality care you gave was what the patient needed and that you met your standards of practice, and the standard of care, for that patient.
2008 NY Slip Op 51934U [21 Misc 3d] 1103(A). The entire case can be found at http://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/other-courts/2008/2008-52282.html . Accessed September 14, 2012.
198 S.W. 3d 408 (Ct. of Appeals, Dallas, Texas) (2008).


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Dicey Hollow announces debut EP, shares "Silver and Sand" — listen
Alberta Cross singer and New York's Jamie Biden collaborate on new EP
June 29, 2015 | 11:00am ET
Photo by Jason McDonald
Petter Ericson Stakee and Jamie Biden have been friends for years, despite their disparate backgrounds. The former is known as the lead singer of Alberta Cross, while the later DJs around New York City and the Hamptons. One's from Sweden, the other's the nephew of the Vice President of the United States. They'd long desired to work together, and the opportunity finally arose when a friend asked them to score a film he was working on. Though the movie was never finished, Stakee and Biden decided to keep going with their work and ended up forming Dicey Hollow.
Now, the duo is set to release their self-titled debut EP on July 24th via Dine Alone Records. The effort sounds little like Alberta Cross' indie rock or Biden's party spinning. Instead, the artists have slowed down their respective styles and delivered six tracks of steel pedal-heavy alt country/indie folk tunes.
Such is the case with their latest single, "Silver and Sand". The song comes in gently on synths the belie the acoustic finger plucking that takes over after 20 seconds. From there, it builds on slow-but-heavy piano notes and a heap of Americana string work. Taking lead vocals, Stakee sings gently about life's constant contradictions, saying, "Woah man, woah man/ It ain't easy to understand/ But sometimes it's just like silver and sand."
"'Silver and Sand' came out of a jam we had in Mt. Tremper in upstate New York, where we wrote most of the record," Stakee tells Consequence of Sound. "It sums up the vibe of this EP. We had a grand time recording it with our extended musician family here in Brooklyn." Check it out below:
Dicey Hollow Tracklist:
01. Silver and Sand
02. Rose of Main
03. Howl at the Moon
04. North Texas
05. Oh, Lonely Muse
06. Mizaru
Dicey Hollow
Alt-Country
Debut EP
Alex Lahey Announces New Album The Answer Is Always Yes, Shares "Good Time": Stream
Dicey Hollow announces debut EP, shares "Silver and Sand" -- listen


The red empress males can be pretty tough fish. It doesn't surprise me that they are breeding. They breed like rats.
But so do all the other fish in that tank.
One thing - two types of vics in a tank is a pretty solid no-no. The males will breed with any similar (not identical, just similar) female and now you have mutts.
There are way too many fish in that tank. I count 25 or so (maybe some reflections). With that many fish, someone is always interfering with the breeding. Scale back to 1M/ 3f of three of the species. Raise the heat to 80 degrees. Feed frozen krill, mysis, or a ton of brine shrimp for a week. Do a 50% water change with cooler water.
I have a 55 gallon tank and I keep the following fish in the same tank ( Christmas Fulu , Acei Yellow Tails, Pundamilia Nyererei and Red Empress. The Red Empresses are spawning with no problem . But its the rest of them are not . Do I have something wrong with tank mates. They all get along no dead fish or beat up fins.


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Ripple CTO David Schwartz has offered his own take on why XRP, one of the most popular cryptocurrencies, has been underperforming for a long period of time
Ripple CTO David Schwartz believes that the sluggish performance of XRP and other major cryptocurrencies is a result of uncertainty as to whether or not crypto will actually be the next big thing.
Using Google in 2000 as an example, Schwartz compares how people may have been skeptical then about how the search engine was going to deliver billions of dollars worth of new wealth, but some became true believers and made millions. He believes that crypto is in a similar situation as of now.
As a result, prices often move together as investor sentiment waxes and wanes depending on whether more people become convinced of crypto's future potential or not. Simply put, "the markets are still trying to figure out if crypto is going to be the next big thing."
Therefore, mass adoption of different crypto technologies could succeed if the industry is able to convince people about crypto's potential by offering real use cases and a sufficient level of scalability.
At the same time, Schwartz has stressed that this is just his personal opinion that is not backed up with facts and data. Hence, one is free to disagree with him.
At press time, the XRP price is down more than 90% from its record peak that was achieved all the way back in early 2020. Uncertainty surrounding the SEC v. Ripple lawsuit remains a major headwind for the popular cryptocurrency.
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Q: try to convert date to string in visual basic .net I want to convert a date value to string in vb.net, but its not working
heres my code in vb.net when try to convert to string
While (sqlReader.Read())
....
 pro.fechaOperacion = Convert.ToString(sqlReader.GetString(3))
end while

and this is my code for my stored proc
select ...
 Convert (date, EN.FECHA,103),
...from Fact

Please I need your help.

A: You will run into unnecessary complications if you use strings for dates in your code. The only times you normally need to convert between the two are for input and output.
You can modify your code (as shown) to achieve that:

*

*make pro.fechaOperacion a DateTime instead of a String.

*select it value with SELECT ... [date] ... FROM Fact*.

*retrieve its value with pro.fechaOperacion = sqlReader.GetDateTime(3).

* Use the appropriate delimiters for your database if `[` and `]` are wrong.

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Jesse Williams Sets Social Media On Fire With His BET Humanitarian Award Speech
Jesse Williams delivered a powerful wakeup call at the BET Awards.
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Actor and activist Jesse Williams is this year's recipient of the BET Humanitarian Award, and his beautifully eloquent, honest and sobering speech was so moving, it became an instant trending topic.
He urges: "If you have no interest in equal rights for Black people, then do not make suggestions for those who do. Sit down."
He continues his inspiring dialogue:
"A system meant to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do. It's kind of basic mathematics. The more we learn about who we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize. Now this [award] in particular is also for the Black women, who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everybody before themselves. We can and will do better for you. Now, what we've been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what's gonna happen is, we're gonna have equal rights and justice in our own country, or we will restructure their function in ours."
"Yesterday would have been young Tamir Rice's 14th birthday. So I don't want to hear any more about how far we've come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on a 12-year-old playing alone in a park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich. Tell Rakia Boyd how it's so much better to live in 2012 than it is 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that To Sandra Bland. Tell that to Dorian Hunt. Now the thing is though, all of us in here getting money…that alone isn't gonna stop this. Dedicating our lives to getting money just to give it right back for someone's brand on our bodies, when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies? And now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies? There has been no war we haven't fought and died on the front lines of. There's been no job haven't done. There's no tax they haven't levied against us. And we've paid all of them. But freedom is somehow always conditional here. 'You're free,' they keep telling us. But she would have been alive if she hadn't acted so…free. Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter, but the hereafter is a hustle. We want it now."
He ends his speech with a chilling reminder that, once again, Black Lives Matter. "Just because we're magic, doesn't mean we're not real."
Let the church say amen!
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Concrete Catwalk: The 2016 BET Awards Red Carpet
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2. Akon
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4. Ezekiel Elliott
5. Yvette Nicole Brown
6. Yara Shahidi
7. Orlando Jones
8. Jacob Latimore
9. Anderson .Paak
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12. DJ Khaled
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16. French Montana
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18. Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz
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21. Gabrielle Union
22. Young Thug and Jerrika Karlae
23. Questlove
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25. Yo Gotti
26. Bilal
27. Regina Hall
28. Ty Dolla $ign
29. Floyd Mayweather
30. Jesse Williams
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34. Kirk Franklin and Tammy Collins
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36. Tasha Smith
37. G-Eazy
38. Jermaine Dupri
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Marines help Japanese troops build an amphibious capability, hone skills
By GIDGET FUENTES, Special Correspondent
The group of Japanese troops gathered around the olive-drab litter bearing a Soldier with a simulated injured leg. They chatted as a clipboard-bearing supervisor and several U.S. Marines and Navy hospital corpsmen observed closely.
After several minutes, the litter team lifted the patient and hustled into the MV- 22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft waiting to lift off the shipboard tarmac at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., and take the patient to follow-on medical care. It seemed routine. But it was not when Hospital Corpsman 1st Class (FMF) Benjamin Chapin, speaking through a translator, offered them some feedback.
The troops had brought the patient feet-first into the Osprey, where racks would hold the litters three high. The proper procedure is head-first, Chapin, an instructor with Combat Logistics Battalion 11's Health Services Platoon, later told Seapower.
That is the feedback and grassroots-level interaction commanders and enlisted leaders expected during Iron Fist 2016, the largest bilateral exercise the Marine Corps conducts on the West Coast. It ran from late January through late February.
Earlier that Feb. 26 morning, Maj. Gen. Shinichi Aoki stood on a sun-splashed bluff above Red Beach and watched a dozen Assault Amphibious Vehicles (AAVs) rush toward shore.
His Japanese Soldiers were riding with infantry Marines in Marine Corps AAVs. In the scenario, the joint force attacked an opposed beach to secure a town on a small "island" that then would be the launch site for the main objective. Once additional troops arrived on MV-22s, the The scenarios, crafted by Japanese planners and developed with Marine Corps input, echo real Japanese fears. The key U.S. ally and security treaty partner is rattled by China's military expansion and its ever-increasing reach across the region, particularly in the South China Sea.
China has claimed vast rights to those waters and has been more aggressive in patrolling them by ship and air to ward off other military forces transiting or operating in what are international waters. Japan also continues to face growing threats from North Korea over disputed islands.
Japan's once passive, defensive-heavy stance is changing. The government is reviewing its security posture and moving ahead to expand defensive capabilities that
Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Alliance
With significant help from the U.S. Marine Corps, the Japan Self Defense Force is building an amphibious force that relies on the new MV- 22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft and the aging Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV).
n Japanese Soldiers got hands-on experience on the range, at sea, riding in AAVs and Ospreys, and operating jointly with U.S. Marines and Sailors during the recent annual Iron Fist bilateral exercise in California.
n That ongoing relationship is seen as key to help Japan build a "Gator Navy" capability and sort out interoperability and integration issues with joint forces — and also with Japan's ground and maritime components.
n The Marine Corps' efforts to support Japan in the endeavor include joint amphibious training exercises, assignment of Marine liaison officers and a robust exchange program for AAV familiarization.


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SMC Global Power Holdings, the power arm of conglomerate San Miguel Corp., on Thursday reported that it raised $300 million via a US dollar-denominated perpetual subordinated capital bond offering.
It said in a disclosure to the stock exchange that it "priced an issuance of Reg S, Unrated perpetual non-Call 5.5 years $300 million."
"Following investors' meetings in Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as calls with investors in London, the SMC Global Power launched and subsequently priced the deal at 6.75 percent. Final allocations saw the majority of the deal distributed into Asia at 87 percent, with European investors taking the remaining 13 percent," the conglomerate said.
Proceeds from the transaction will be used to finance investments in power-related assets, including its greenfield power projects and general corporate purposes.
The conglomerate earlier told the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) that SMC Global tapped ANZ, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, DBS Bank Ltd., Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Mizuho Securities and UBS for the transaction as joint lead managers and bookrunners.
SMC Global earlier planned to raise as much as $1 billion from a stock-offering debut and sale of a 49-percent stake to cornerstone investors.
SMC Global Power is one of the largest power producers in the country. It was awarded independent power producer administrator contracts for the 1,000-megawatt (MW) Sual coal power plant owned by Team Energy; 1,200-MW Ilijan power plant in Batangas owned by Kepco; and the 345-MW San Roque power plant.
It also won the contract to rehabilitate and operate Albay Electric Cooperative.


Biennial event uses traditional sport to help save lions whose numbers have declined.
It is called the Maasai Olympics, a biennial event in Kenya that uses traditional sport to help save one of the country's most important animals.
For generations, the only way for Maasai boys to prove their manhood and become a warrior was to kill a lion.
But with the animal's population dropping by a third in the past two decades, the tribe has adopted a modern interpretation of their ancient tradition.
Al Jazeera's Elise Holman reports.


Here's a tidbit about Donald and Ivanka Trump's relationship you definitely didn't ask for: The president apparently likes it when the first daughter calls him "Daddy."
Yep, you read that right. President Donald Trump was joined by Ivanka on Wednesday in North Dakota, where he was speaking about tax reform—and things got a little icky when he called his daughter up to the stage.
"Look at Ivanka. Come on up honey. She's so good," Trump told the crowd. "She wanted to make the trip, she said, 'Dad can I go with you?' She actually said, 'Daddy' can I go with you?' I like that."
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Choosing a Cybersecurity Career Ten Reasons Why You Should
Here are 10 reasons why choosing a cybersecurity career is a smart move: Companies, individuals, and industries need constant protection from cyber criminals which means that cybersecurity is both a profitable and promising career choice. 1. Future Job Growth is Guaranteed. A question that is often asked when choosing a career is " Can I keep …(1)
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Jan 14, 2022Companies are investing heavily in cyber security, building internal teams and working with contractors, creating thousands of jobs for cyber security professionals across the globe in the process. Let's explore 5 common questions and areas of interest for professionals thinking about making a career change to cyber security: 1.(2)
Why Choosing Cyber Security is a Good Career Choice
Nov 12, 2021A career in Cyber Security is an invaluable position in IT as it provides the first line of defense against cyber-attacks in any network. The demand for these skilled Cyber Security Specialists is increasing every year, but there are not enough candidates to occupy these positions. The Increase of Hacking The increase in cyber security has …(3)
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Dec 7, 2021Essentially, being a cybersecurity professional allows you to choose your desired lifestyle and follow through with almost no limitation from work. If limitations in your current occupation bring discomfort, transitioning to cybersecurity may be worth your while. 6. You can eventually opt for self-employment.(4)
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Jan 27, 2021Why is Cybersecurity a good career? Low unemployment: One of the biggest benefits of getting into cybersecurity right now is that there is a high demand.In a 2019 cybersecurity workforce study, it found that there was a global shortage of cybersecurity professionals of about 2.9 million in 2018. As a result there is extremely low unemployment among cybersecurity professionals.(5)
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Jul 5, 20211# High Salary. As majority of people look for jobs for a good pay, cyber security might a good fit for you. With a high demand and a relatively low supply of qualified labor in the cyber world, the salary is pretty good in this career line. The average salary of a person working in cyber security in North America is around 90,000 compared to …(6)
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Apr 8, 2021The clearest benefit of making a cybersecurity career change is your salary. The BLS found an average salary of $99,730 for information security professionals including cybersecurity specialties. New professionals can level up their salaries by committing to this ever-evolving field.(7)
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May 18, 2021Demand for cyber security jobs. The cyber security challenges don't show any sign of slowing, either for governments or businesses. The growing number of cyberattacks has been driving the demand up for qualified cyber security specialists to help defend organizations and businesses. Given the increasing demand, it becomes difficult for organizations to find the needed cyber security talent …(8)
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Oct 22, 2021Learn how one IT pro leveraged her security mindset and problem-solving skills to start a new career in cybersecurity. An interesting concept in technology is how we, as a society, have transformed throughout the years to depend on it. The generational adaptation toward technology has been interesting to witness.(9)
Is a Cyber Security Degree Worth It? [Pros, Cons & Alternatives]
While a cyber security degree won't guarantee a job, it does position you advantageously in the marketplace. According to CareerOneStop, 77 percent of those employed in information security hold at least an associate's degree. Further, 67 percent have at least a bachelor's, and 25 percent hold a postgraduate degree.(10)
Is Working In Cyber Security a Smart Choice? – General Index
The good news is those job opportunities, that pay well, are easy to find. You just need to find a career path ahead of time so you can get the right schooling. If you want to choose an industry that's exciting to work in, and continues to see a growing demand, then consider cyber security a career choice.(11)
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Jan 10, 2022Yes, it is. Due to growth in cyber threats across the world, the need for experts in cybersecurity will remain forever. Choosing your career path in cybersecurity will be the right decision. Although the career path is good, the journey will be tough. Subscribe to one of the training platforms and keep learning.(12)
Why you should consider a career change to cybersecurity
A career in cybersecurity turned out to be the perfect fit for her. "Highly technical roles, flexible work schedules and supportive bosses make being a successful parent and cyber professional …(13)
Remote Work: Is Cybersecurity A Smart Choice? – CyberWarrior
May 27, 20211- Cybersecurity Analyst While working in this job, you will be responsible for protecting your organization's network and systems from any cyber-attack and implementing threat protection measures and security controls. To achieve this, you will be spending hours creating plans, monitoring networks, and computers, implementing security …(14)
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Ganiela Egro, 2020-21 alumna, says: "There is a cultural misconception that technology and security are masculine professions. Women often feel intimidated and discouraged to pursue a cyber security career path in a male-dominated industry.". The opinion is shared by Chevening Alumna Stephana Mugoša: "There is still, I believe, a …(15)
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Why Helping Companies Fight Cybersecurity Threats Will Make a Great Career. 1. There is Zero Percent Unemployment in Cybersecurity. The US Bureau of Labor projects a 32% growth rate for employment in the cybersecurity industry. This is twice the growth rate for all occupations.(16)
Jobs in Cyber Security: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
As with other jobs, work in the information security industry can be demanding, stressful, and routine. Ultimately, when making any major career choice, it's essential to start with realistic expectations. To help, we'll review the realities of jobs in Cyber Security: the good, the bad, and the ugly surrounding what can be a highly-rewarding …(17)
Is Cyber Security the right career choice for me? – Institute of Data
The salary expectation for a cyber security professional is expected to be in the six-figure range. Due to the lack of cyber security professionals on the market, the current average salary is $117k per year and it is forecasted to increase to $239k. Businesses are offering higher salaries to attract leading experts due to rarity of …(18)
Why Choose A Career In Cyber Security | Bd Jobs Today
Aug 10, 2021• To become familiar with cyber security and privacy issues associated with. from Smart Cities: Foundations, Principles, and Applications by Houbing Song, Ravi Srinivasan, et. al. Wiley, 2017: Cyber security skills shortage has become a major challenge in industry and thus the requirement for training and upscaling cybersecurity specialists has increased.(19)
Cybersecurity Is A Great Career Choice
• A massive increase in cybersecurity jobs is coming. Much of the money spent on cybersecurity finds its way to the professionals working daily to keep companies safe; therefore, spending toward new jobs is more than likely. However, therein lies a problem. Cybersecurity already has a huge number of empty jobs.(20)
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(7). Career Change: How to Move into Cybersecurity | SBU Blog
(8). 3 Reasons to Consider a Career in Cybersecurity – Swiss Cyber Institute
(9). Career Change to Cybersecurity | CompTIA
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whack them back constantly, or they'll take over major metropolitan areas.
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>on it sending more particulate matter and gases into the air.
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>environment is the motivating factor.
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Earlier this year, just before President Obama gave the State of the Union address, he announced his initiative for free community college to all eligible students, known as America's College Promise. At Fastweb, we promised to keep you updated on his plan as it unfolds, and last week, President Obama announced another push towards free community college. To recap, the College Promise hopes to provide a free community college education to any student who qualifies and continues to meet the programs standards. Students hoping to utilize the benefits of the program would have to maintain a 2.5 GPA and show that they are making progress toward completing their major or field of interest on time. In return, community colleges would have to create or redefine programs so that students could easily transfer all of their credits to a four-year institution as well as provide a quality education that is in demand within the current jobs landscape. Federal funding for College Promise will cover roughly 75% of the cost, while states that plan to participate will cover the remain quarter. As a further push for College Promise, President Obama announced an advisory board that will seek to develop the initiative further and garner bipartisan support from Congress. The College Promise campaign will be chaired by Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United States, Jim Geringer, a former Republican governor of Wyoming, as co-chair and several other individuals who are leaders both politically and in higher education, according to Inside Higher Ed. They expect that the advisory board will be working toward the enactment of College Promise for a minimum of three years. The advisory board will also be working alongside Heads Up America, a grass roots campaign that hopes to mobilize students, educators and politicians to advocate for free community college, as stated by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Many of the ideas for College Promise stem from existing programs in Tennessee and Chicago. This year, Tennessee launched the inaugural class of Promise students, for which the state fills the gap between what they can pay and their financial aid package, reports Inside Higher Ed. They also report that within the past six months, two other states, Oregon and Minnesota, have jumped on board devising free community college programs. Additionally, Congressional Democrats have proposed free community college legislation, which backs President Obama's plan. Again, Fastweb will be providing updates on America's College Promise as they become available.
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Crowley, TX sits in the North Texas region that experiences extremely dry summers where your ground can begin to shrink and cause pipes to crack. Unfortunately, pipes cracking is a fairly common issue for swimming pools and if you find yourself to be one of the unlucky ones, Colin Irons will come to your rescue.
Other common areas that could be causing your pool in Crowley to be leaking could be:
Leaks in the pool equipment. Common areas would be the piping, filters, heater and pumps.
Check the fittings in the pool for tears or separations.
Also check lights, skimmers, returns, pool steps and corners for any obvious issues.
You can also determine if your pool is definitely leaking versus typical evaporation.
Look for standing water in the lower areas around your pool.
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Crowley is a city located mainly in Tarrant County in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 12,838 at the 2010 census, up from 7,467 at the 2000 census.
Around 1848, pioneers began farming the area around Deer Creek. The settlement moved a mile or so west to the site of present-day downtown Crowley when the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway built pens and laid tracks there. The first station depot was built in 1885. The community was named for S. H. Crowley, who was the master of transportation for the railroad.
An election to approve the incorporation of Crowley was held on February 3, 1951. The town council voted to change the designation of Crowley from a town to a city on September 3, 1972.
Crowley is in southern Tarrant County, with a 5.8-acre (2 ha) portion extending south into Johnson County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.3 square miles (18.8 km2), of which 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2), or 0.18%, are water.
The city is bordered to the north and east by Fort Worth and to the south by Burleson. The center of Fort Worth is 13 miles (21 km) north of the center of Crowley. Interstate 35W passes 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the Crowley city limits, with access from Exit 39, Rendon–Crowley Road. The center of Crowley sits at the crossroads of Farm to Market Roads 1187 and 731.


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Three Recent Indian Crimes Reveal Culture's Failings
The following is excerpted from "Crimes Against Women," a new book by The Wall Street Journal's Krishna Pokharel and Paul Beckett, co-published by The Wall Street Journal and HarperCollins.
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Poster in New Delhi protesting the country's violence against women.
Credit: Ramesh Lalwani on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0).
(WOMENSENEWS)–As 2012 came to a close, news of the gang rape of a young woman on a bus in India's capital generated headlines around the world. The Dec. 16 assault on her by men wielding a metal rod, and her death two weeks later from her injuries, challenged the image of modern India as a liberal aspiring superpower of confident young professionals and benign spirituality.
Instead, it focused attention on one of the dark sides of the world's largest democracy: the struggle that many Indian women face in a country where chauvinistic and misogynistic attitudes prevail despite years of rapid economic growth.
The assault, on a woman who was putting herself through college by working shifts in a call center, laid bare a troubling dynamic: Indian women are pursuing opportunities opened up by education and the economic boom, but a deep-rooted patriarchy means society and its institutions often fail them.
The Wall Street Journal's India bureau explored the plight of India's women in great detail in the past 12 months. The three stories in this book show how the social blight evident in the Delhi rape is a phenomenon across the country, in various forms. What the crimes chronicled here have in common is the failure of society in general, and government institutions in particular, to protect women in vulnerable situations. It is not primarily a question of inadequate laws but of incompetence or venality in their enforcement.
The result is a breakdown in the social compact that is fundamental to the idea of a modern democracy: the equal treatment of its citizens and the right of all individuals to protection under the law and by their government when danger threatens.
Instead, as these stories show, the world's largest democracy is rife with lawlessness, lacks a safety net to protect its most vulnerable citizens and frequently shows a blatant disregard, punctuated with flashes of abject brutality, for half its population.
It is a fact of Indian life that is rarely delved into amid the trumpeting of India's economic success story or of its continued struggle to eradicate poverty. But it is a blight that, unchecked, will have just as much influence on India's future.
Murdered Nun
The WSJ's reporting on these issues began with the story of a Catholic nun murdered in rural India as she tried to preserve ancient tribal ways in the face of mining expansion. In her work, Sister Valsa John Malamel faced off against villagers who wanted to reap economic benefits from local mining. She also came to the aid of a woman who had allegedly been raped but whose complaint to the police was not being taken seriously. It may have been a combination of these two separate dynamics, and the threats they posed to local men, that set the stage for a nighttime mob attack that took her life, police contend.
A few months later, the WSJ published an in-depth account of a young woman, Munni Khatoon, from rural Bihar, who was duped into moving to Delhi, where she was forced to marry or go into prostitution–and the disaster for her and her family that ensued. The plight of one of her daughters, dubbed "Baby Falak," was national news. The WSJ offered a unique reconstruction of the broader human tragedy.
What Khatoon and her children's ordeal revealed was an underbelly of exploitation of women in the heart of India's capital–and the failure of social services to identify and intervene with children at risk. India has laws that are designed to provide a safety net, even at the village level, for children in need of protection, and the social welfare minister in the family's home state of Bihar acknowledged that little Falak's predicament could have been prevented had those laws been effectively enforced.
But combating human trafficking is not a high priority, and, the minister added, "The general public is not even bothered about it." Nor was it bothered about a young woman who was seeking to escape an abusive husband, the father of her kids–until after tragedy had struck.
Gang Rape Case
Less than a year after Baby Falak's story gripped the nation, a young woman was on her way home from watching "Life of Pi" with a male friend when they boarded a bus toward her home. What happened next is the stuff of nightmares: five men and a teenager–the only other people on the bus–turned on the couple, beat them, sexually assaulted her and threw them both out, naked, on the side of a highway. The bus, its inside lights turned off and the victims' appeals for help unheard or ignored, plied some of the capital's major thoroughfares for almost an hour unchecked.
Later, when demonstrators took the streets to protest what had happened, and the lack of women's safety in India in general, they were met with volleys from water cannons and charges by police wielding bamboo truncheons.
The WSJ led global coverage of the crime. It published intimate portraits of the victim and her friend, who tried to save her but couldn't. It delved into the lives of their alleged assailants and their communities and backgrounds. And it looked more broadly at the culture of harassment that Indian women face, which sometimes flares into violent crime.
Paul Beckett (@PaulWSJ) is The Wall Street Journal's Asia editor based in Hong Kong. Krishna Pokharel (@PokharelKrishna) is a Journal reporter based in New Delhi. A print version of "Crimes Against Women" is available in bookstores in India. To purchase and download the e-book, please visit: crimesagainstwomenebook.com.
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Q: Why should coordinate transformations be reversible? Intuitively I understand why coordinate transformation should be reversible. New coordinates should cover the same area covered by the initial coordinates, i.e. there should be one-to-one mapping.
But still, are reversible transformations used only because it is convenient or is there any theoretical background?

A: In a "coordinate transformation" (change-of-coordinates transformation), if you start with a basis $\beta=[\mathbf{v}_1,\ldots,\mathbf{v}_n]$, then because the transformation is one-to-one, the image of $\beta$ must be linearly independent, and hence a basis. Thus, the image of the transformation contains a basis, and so will necessarily be onto. Thus, by virtue of being one-to-one on a finite dimensional space, it must necessarily be onto as well, and thus will be invertible.
Or you can view a "change-of-coordinates" transformation as a way of expressing vectors in one basis, $\beta$, in terms of vectors in another basis, $\gamma$; if you then write out what it would mean to express the vectors in $\gamma$ in terms of $\beta$, and you compose the resulting two transformations, you get the elements of $\beta$ expressed in terms of $\beta$ (and composing the other way, the elements of $\gamma$ in terms of the vectors of $\gamma$). Because each vector can be expressed in a unique way in terms of the vectors of a basis, the only way to express the vectors of $\beta$ in terms of the vectors of $\beta$ is by the identity transformation:
$$\begin{align*}
\mathbf{v}_1 &= 1\mathbf{v}_1 + 0\mathbf{v}_2 + \cdots + 0\mathbf{v}_n\\
\mathbf{v}_2 &= 0\mathbf{v}_1 + 1\mathbf{v}_2 + \cdots + 0\mathbf{v}_n\\
&\vdots\\
\mathbf{v}_n &= 0\mathbf{v}_1 + 0\mathbf{v}_2 + \cdots + 1\mathbf{v}_n.
\end{align*}$$
so that the composition is the identity. Composing them the other way also gives the identity, so that shows the original change-of-coordinates transformation must be invertible.


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import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { bindActionCreators } from 'redux';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';

import * as MetadataActions from 'slices/MetadataSlice';
import * as NewSecretUIActions from 'slices/NewSecretUISlice';

import SecretFields from 'components/secrets/SecretFields';
import Modal from 'components/utilities/Modal';
import Form from 'components/utilities/Form';
import Input from 'components/utilities/Input';
import Button from 'components/utilities/Button';

class SecretNew extends Component {
  static propTypes = {
    shown: PropTypes.bool,
    folder: PropTypes.string,
    isFolder: PropTypes.bool,
    title: PropTypes.string,
    data: PropTypes.object,
    newSecretActions: PropTypes.object,
    metadataActions: PropTypes.object,
    isLoading: PropTypes.bool,
  };

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.onSubmit = this.onSubmit.bind(this);
  }

  onSubmit() {
    const { folder, isFolder, title, data } = this.props;
    this.props.metadataActions.createSecret({
      folder: folder?.id,
      isFolder,
      title,
      data,
    });
  }

  render() {
    const { isFolder } = this.props;
    return (
      <Modal
        show={this.props.shown}
        onClose={this.props.newSecretActions.hideModal}
      >
        <Modal.Header title={isFolder ? 'Add new folder' : 'Add new secret'} />

        <Modal.Body>
          <Form id="new-secret" onSubmit={this.onSubmit} disabled={false}>
            <Input
              label={isFolder ? 'Folder title' : 'Secret title'}
              name="title"
              value={this.props.title}
              type="text"
              onChange={this.props.newSecretActions.changeTitle}
              autoSelect
              required
            />
            {!isFolder && (
              <SecretFields
                fields={this.props.data.fields}
                onChange={this.props.newSecretActions.changeField}
                isNew
                canUpdate
              />
            )}
          </Form>
        </Modal.Body>

        <Modal.Footer>
          <Button
            type="reset"
            buttonStyle="default"
            onClick={this.props.newSecretActions.hideModal}
          >
            Cancel
          </Button>
          <Button
            type="submit"
            onClick={this.onSubmit}
            disabled={this.props.isLoading}
          >
            {isFolder ? 'Add folder' : 'Add secret'}
          </Button>
        </Modal.Footer>
      </Modal>
    );
  }
}

const mapDispatchToProps = dispatch => ({
  newSecretActions: bindActionCreators(NewSecretUIActions, dispatch),
  metadataActions: bindActionCreators(MetadataActions, dispatch),
});

const mapStateToProps = (state, ownProps) => {
  return {
    ...state.NewSecretUI,
    isLoading: state.AppUI.loading,
    folder: ownProps.folder,
  };
};

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(SecretNew);


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Home » Blog » Waiting for the Deus ex Machina
Posted on Jan 19, 2017 in Blog, International, Writing
Waiting for the Deus ex Machina
With the inauguration tomorrow, a lot of people are hoping for a last-minute miracle, something that will return to normal a government that promises to be anything but normal. We have exhausted the possibility of other miracles — faithless electors, a refusal by Congress to certify the electoral victory of a candidate who came in second in the popular vote by almost three million votes (and with strong evidence of illegal collusion by Russia and the FBI). We care because the stakes are so high: millions of people losing access to health care; restrictions on women's reproductive rights; restrictions on who can vote in future elections; a reversal of initiatives to combat destructive climate change; an end to protections for racial, ethnic and religious minorities; egregious ethical violations and upending of the rule of law; press censorship and censorship of the internet.
High stakes and almost-insurmountable obstacles to the protagonist are essential for compelling fiction. A professor in my MFA program said, "Drive your protagonist to the top of the tree…and then throw rocks at her." But there is a danger in this strategy. You can throw so many high-stakes obstacles at your protagonist that she has no logical way of overcoming them. You then turn to the deus ex machina. The last-minute miracle of a force beyond everyone's control.
From the Latin "God in the machine," deus ex machina is defined as "an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel." Lately, I've been thinking about one of the most famous deus ex machina endings in recent literary fiction, that of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. Roth has written a masterful (and eerily prophetic) counterfactual history of a United States that instead of re-electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt for a third term in 1940 elects the Nazi sympathizing demagogue and face of the "America First" movement, aviator Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh quickly moves to abolish civil liberties, turn U.S.'s industrial capacity in support of Hitler, and restrict Jews like the family of Roth's seven-year-old protagonist living in Newark, New Jersey. Gradually, the net closes around the Roth family. Young Philip's older brother, Sandy, is sent to live with a Christian family and turns against everything Jewish. The family visits Washington, D.C., where they're thrown out of their hotel and threatened by pro-Lindbergh diners at a cafeteria. A favorite journalist is assassinated, and when the mayor of New York City blames the Lindbergh government for his death, the mayor is arrested along with Jewish leaders. Many of Philip's neighbors flee to Canada, which is fighting on the side of Britain. Philip's Uncle Alvin volunteers for the Canadian army, loses a leg, and is ostracized upon his return to the United States. Philip's best friend, Seldon, and his mother are among the first Jewish families from Newark relocated to Kentucky, whereupon the Ku Klux Klan murders Seldon's mother and Philip's father takes a perilous journey to rescue the terrorized child. As the deportation of more Jews to the heartland is about to begin, Lindbergh's place suddenly disappears and his vice-president lacks the political skills to keep the regime going. Roosevelt returns and the old order is restored. Lindbergh's disappearance serves as the deus ex machina, an outside force saving Philip and his family from destruction.
In books for children and teens, adult intervention to save the day is a form of the deus ex machina. In my second semester at Vermont College for Fine Arts, I wrote a paper on Gloria Whelan's The Disappeared, a YA novel set during the Dirty War in Argentina. When 15-year-old Silvia's older brother is arrested and slated for execution or "disappearance" (killed but his body never found), she caves in to entreaties from the selfish and abusive son of a high-ranking military official in order to free her brother. But when he attempts to rape her, it crosses the line and she knocks him unconscious with one of his sports trophies. At that moment, his mother returns — with a mysterious letter, which she gives Silvia. Later, when she is arrested and in the same desperate straits as her brother, with her parents in danger from this totalitarian regime as well, the letter from the boy's mother leads to a "palace coup" that saves Silvia and her family. The teens are mere witnesses to the machinations of the adults that ultimately protect them. The deus ex machina is not an random event out of the blue such as a plane crash, but a cabal of powerful outsiders.
Faced with totalitarian circumstances, people call out for miracles, for the deus ex machina. We nurture false hopes of escape and restoration when we perceive ourselves to be trapped. When writers trap their beloved protagonists, without introducing any form of escape beforehand, the temptation to use the deus ex machina increases. But what if we follow our narrative course to its logical end? The protagonist dies. Or they lose everything of value to them, with the reader's only solace the fact that the protagonist lives to fight another day. Or not fight another day, because it's hopeless, but simply knuckle under and find a bit of happiness in new friends and small personal pleasures. Yes, in real life, sometimes evil wins and we writers have to reflect that reality if the story takes us there.


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New Payment Card Standards Go Beyond Compliance
August 26, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Standards can be a way to get organizations to do things you want them to do, but oftentimes they don't get them to do much more.
The writers of payment-card standards appear to have been acutely aware of that phenomenon when the PCI Security Standards Council previewed their new PCI DSS 3.0 standard earlier this month.
"The existing PCI standard focuses clients on specific elements that are to be secured at a point in time — when the auditor is there — to get a PCI signoff for another year," Philip Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software, told TechNewsWorld. "For most merchants, the existing PCI standard is a one-time pain per year where things are cleaned up, and the bad security practices return almost immediately after the auditor leaves."
The new PCI standard won't be music to the ears for security hands who worship notion of the inviolate perimeter: "The new standard recognizes that perimeter breaches are a regular occurrence and outsiders regularly have access to credit card information," Lieberman said.
"Given that the perimeter is no longer secure, the only real mitigation is to have persistent controls within the interior that are both human and technological to minimize losses," he added. "The new standard properly focuses merchants into a vision of looking at security by process and technology that persists beyond the auditor's visit."
Ditching Checkbox Security
The new PCI standard will also encourage merchants to educate their employees about security, suggested Pierluigi Stella, CTO of managed security services providerNetwork Box USA.
"Apparently, the PCI industry has come to realize that while you can throw all the technology the world has to offer at this problem, if you fail to adequately educate the end user and ensure security becomes part of the way they conduct business, nothing will ever work," Stella told TechNewsWorld.
"There's absolutely zero use having an armored door if you don't instruct your employees to keep it always locked and monitor who uses it," he added.
Stella, too, praised the new guidelines' departure from the compliance rut: "I'm incredibly relieved to hear that PCI needs to be more focused on security and less on filling up check marks to reach compliance," he said.
"Compliance doesn't make you secure, while security will likely make you compliant," he added.
The new guidelines also appear to be getting ahead of the curve in another security area.
"This preview confirms that the downstream software supply chain is an emerging attack vector that impacts not only the payments industry, but enterprises as well," Torsten George, vice president for marketing at Agiliance, told TechNewsWorld.
"Increasing requirements for penetration testing, application development lifecycle security and threat modeling all point to the fact that supply chain risks are an escalating concern," he explained.
"Enterprises will need to go beyond vendor risk surveys and use verification services to test software applications prior to procurement and deployment," he added.
Mobile Passwords
Simple passwords are common everywhere consumers use passwords, but even more so with mobile phones. The reason for that is as simple as the passwords themselves.
"People generally don't want to type in a complex password on a mobile device as it is more difficult than a standard keyboard," Adam Ely, COO and co-founder of Bluebox, told TechNewsWorld.
"Almost all of our customers have commented on this," he added.
The convenience factor is a daunting one even for network administrators who might have the power to enforce stronger passwords on handsets.
"Even on mobile device management systems designed to allow organizations to enforce more complex authentication, organizations choose not to due to usability issues," David Britton, vice president of industry solutions for 41st Parameter, told TechNewsWorld.
However, smartphones have features — built-in camera, GPS and voice recognition — that may act in the future as more secure alternatives to passwords.
"Over time, I believe that mobile manufacturers will begin to exploit these alternate capabilities even for device access itself," Britton predicted, "in the same way that security organizations are beginning to exploit the diverse capabilities of the phone for systems and application authentication."
Aug. 19. U.S. Department of Energy sends notifications to some 14,000 former and present employees that their personally identifying information may have been compromised when an unauthorized person gained access to the agency's computers. No classified data was targeted in the attack, DOE said.
Aug. 19. University of Delaware revises estimate of number of records stolen by cyberthieves last month to 74,000. Records included Social Security and university identification numbers.
Aug. 19. Hope Community Resources of Alaska accidentally emails private, personal and sensitive identity and healthcare information of some 3,700 disabled clients as attachment to a promotion for a survey of the organization's clients and stakeholders.
Aug. 20. "Mauritania Attacker" publishes information on more than 15,000 Twitter accounts to the Internet. Information did not include account passwords.
Aug. 21. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposes rule in Federal Register requiring that state health exchanges report data breaches within one hour of learning about them.
Aug. 21. Bloomberg releases two third-party reports it commissioned recommending that stronger measures be implemented to ensure that the company's journalists be screened from viewing client information through its financial terminals.
Aug. 21. Riot Games, maker of League of Legends, which is played by 32 million gamers worldwide, announces it will be resetting the passwords of some of its users due to a breach of a portion of its North American account information. In addition, it said it will be requiring that all new players and existing players making changes to their accounts to provide the company with a valid email address. It will also be implementing two-factor authentication for changes made in an email address or password.
Aug. 22. Ferris State University began sending out notifications to some 39,000 people after a data breach on its Big Rapids, Mich. campus exposed files containing their names and Social Security numbers to unauthorized parties.
Aug. 27. Halon to release study of consumer email security.
Aug. 27. Bit9 to release 2013 Cybersecurity report.
Sept. 10. AT&T Cyber Security Conference. New York Hilton Midtown Hotel, Avenue of the Americas, New York City. Free with registration.
Sept. 11-13. 4th Cybersecurity Framework Workshop. The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas. Free with registration.
Sept. 12. Inside the Mind of a Hacker, 9:30 a.m. ET. Webinar sponsored by WatchGuard. Free with registration.
Sept. 12. Mobile Work Exchange Fall 2013 Town Hall Meeting. Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. Registration: government, free; non-government, US$495 (Aug. 16-Sept. 11), $595 (Sept. 12).
Sept. 18-20. Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2013. London. Registration: 2,325 euros + VAT; government, 1,800 euros + VAT.
Sept. 24-27. ASIS International 59th Annual Conference. McCormick Place, Chicago. Registration: Before Aug. 21, US$895 member, $1,150 nonmember. After Aug. 20, $995 member, $1,295 non-member.
Oct. 1-3. McAfee Focus 13 Security Conference. The Venetian /The Palazzo Resort-Hotel-Casino, 3325-3355 Las Vegas Blvd., South Las Vegas. Registration: Early bird to July 31, US$875/$775 government; Standard to Oct. 3, $995/$875 government.
Oct. 2. Visa Global Security Summit — Responsible Innovation: Building Trust in a Connected World. Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, D.C. Free with registration.
Oct. 5. Suits and Spooks. SOHO House, New York City. Registration: Early bird, $US395 (July 5-Aug. 31); $625 (Sept. 1 and after).
Oct. 8-9. Cyber Maryland 2013. Baltimore Convention Center., Baltimore, Md. Registration: US$495; government, free; academic faculty, $295; student, $55.
Oct. 17-18. 2013 Cryptologic History Symposium. Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory's Kossiakoff Conference Center, Laurel, Md. Registration information to be announced.
Oct. 29-31. RSA Conference Europe. Amsterdam RAI. Registration: Early bird to July 26, 895 euros + VAT delegate/ 495 euros + VAT one-day pass; discount to Sept. 27, 995 euros + VAT delegate/595 euros + VAT one-day pass; standard from Sept. 27-Oct.27, 1,095 euros + VAT delegate/695 euros+ VAT one-day pass; onsite from Oct. 28-31, 1,295 euros+ VAT.
Nov. 18-20. Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit. JW Marriott at L.A. Live, 900 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles. Registration: Early bird to Sept. 27, $2,075; standard, $2,375; Public sector, $1,975.
Dec. 4-5. MENA Business Infrastructure Protection 2013 Summit: Risk Management and Security Intelligence for companies in the Middle East and North Africa. Dubai.
Dec. 9-13. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). Hyatt French Quarter, New Orleans.
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