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Mike Wagner helps government contractors navigate high-stakes enforcement matters and complex regulatory regimes.
Combining deep regulatory knowledge with extensive investigations experience, Mr. Wagner works closely with contractors across a range of industries to achieve the efficient resolution of regulatory enforcement actions and government investigations, including False Claims Act cases. He has particular expertise representing individuals and companies in suspension and debarment proceedings, and he has successfully resolved numerous such matters at both the agency and district court level. He also regularly conducts internal investigations of potential compliance issues and advises clients on voluntary and mandatory disclosures to federal agencies.
In his advisory work, Mr. Wagner counsels government contractors on regulatory issues arising at all stages of the public procurement process. He advises clients on best practices for managing a host of compliance obligations, including domestic sourcing requirements under the Buy American Act and Trade Agreements Act, safeguarding and reporting requirements under cybersecurity regulations, and pricing obligations under the GSA Schedules program. And he routinely assists contractors in navigating issues and disputes that arise during negotiations over teaming agreements and subcontracts.
Mr. Wagner is a Co-Chair of the ABA Suspension & Debarment Committee and principal editor of the American Bar Association's Practitioner's Guide to Suspension & Debarment (2018). He is a frequent writer and speaker on issues relating to procurement fraud and contractor responsibility, and he also has served as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School.
Government Investigations and Defense
Defended pharmaceutical manufacturer in False Claims Act investigation involving alleged violations of the Buy American Act (BAA) and Trade Agreements Act (TAA); secured DOJ declination and currently defending non-intervened qui tam case (2018-present).
Defending international defense contractor in parallel civil and criminal investigation involving allegations of major fraud and trade controls violations (2017-present).
Defended subsidiary of multinational life sciences firm in False Claims Act investigation involving alleged pricing violations under Multiple Award Schedule contract administered by Department of Veterans Affairs (2018-2019).
Represented services contractor in responding to series of subpoenas relating to billing practices and related records in connection with contractor-managed health care services (2018-2019).
Suspension and Debarment Defense
Represented international energy conglomerate in successfully resolving suspension by DOD component agency despite underlying criminal conviction (2019).
Represented Maryland construction contractor in successfully challenging parallel federal and state proposed debarments, resulting in termination of both debarment actions (2018-2019).
Represented small business services contractor challenging proposed debarment issued DOD component agency, resulting in rescission of proposed debarment within one week (2018).
Represented global communications manufacturer, in securing an emergency waiver of debarment restriction to prevent business interruption and negotiating the debarment's termination, effective immediately (2017).
Represented tech executive in federal lawsuit successfully challenging debarment under the Administrative Procedure Act, resulting in grant of summary judgment and termination of unlawful debarment (2016-2017).
For Department of Energy services contractor, leading investigating of contractor hotline reports alleging false billing practices, misuse of government property, and reprisal (2019-present).
For leading consulting services contractor, led investigation into allegations involving improper payments to foreign government officials and counseled client on reporting and disclosure considerations (2019).
For top-five defense contractor, investigated allegations of labor mischarging and related accounting issues, and guided client through process of disclosure to DOD Inspector General (2018-2019).
For defense services contractor, led investigation into allegations of employee misconduct and labor mischarging following data breach affecting government systems; guided client through mandatory disclosure process (2017).
For leading consulting contractor, conducted internal investigation, with parallel criminal proceedings, involving federal bribery and gratuity laws, the Procurement Integrity Act, and Organizational Conflicts of Interest regulations; achieved favorable resolution of investigation with DOJ and agency SDO (2015-2016).
Government Contracts Counseling
Routinely assist government contractors in managing supply chain compliance, particularly with respect to domestic preference requirements under the BAA, TAA, and related sourcing restrictions.
Counseled several large contractors on rules governing federal contracting with "inverted domestic corporations," including advice on structuring business and operations to maximize contracting opportunities and engagement with relevant agency officials.
Guided large technology reseller through revision of pricing practices under GSA schedule contract, including overhauling its CSP-1 disclosure and persuading GSA to authorize alternative pricing model.
Represented several contractors and grant recipients in challenging cost disallowances and negotiations resolutions to performance and cost disputes at both the agency and Board of Contracts Appeal level.
Represented Army veteran in successful appeal from denial-of-benefits decision before the Board of Veterans Appeals.
Successfully represented NGO providing public health services in the developing world in commercial dispute with credit card payment processing company.
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INSIGHT: Federal Agencies Using Different Approaches to Manage Debarments, Suspensions
December 5, 2019, Bloomberg Law
New FAR Rule Expands Counterfeit Reporting Obligations
November 26, 2019, Inside Government Contracts
Last week, the FAR Council issued a Final Rule, setting forth new FAR provisions that require the reporting of certain counterfeit and suspect counterfeit parts and certain major or critical nonconformances to the Government – Industry Data Exchange Program ("GIDEP").[1] This Final Rule comes more than five years after the rule was first proposed in...… ...
OFCCP Proposes Rule Removing TRICARE Health Care Providers from Its Regulatory Authority
On November 6, 2019, the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs ("OFCCP") issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") aimed at resolving what OFCCP describes as a "decade of confusion."[1] At issue is a long-standing question concerning the scope of OFCCP's enforcement authority over health care providers participating in ...
New Report Shows Feds' Nuanced Approach To Contractors
November 7, 2019, Law360
Mike Wagner is quoted in Law360 regarding the 2018 Suspension and Debarment report. Mr. Wagner says "that modest decline in suspension and debarment activity over time has also been offset in part by suspension and debarment officials' increased use of alternative measures. This dual trend is interesting — I think it speaks to the overall evolution of the ...
Suspension & Debarment Update: Five Takeaways from the ISDC's Annual Report
November 6, 2019, Inside Government Contracts
The government has released its long-awaited annual report on federal suspension and debarment activities, and the data reflect a number of trends and developments that should be of keen interest to federal contractors and grantees. The report, which is published by the Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee ("ISDC"), shows that suspension and debarment ...
Creation of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force
November 6, 2019, Covington Alert
On November 5, 2019 the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the launch of the "Procurement Collusion Strike Force" (PCSF). The creation of the PCSF marks a significant development in the government procurement enforcement landscape. Creation of the PCSF prioritizes the DOJ's focus on government procurement offenses. As part of that effort, DOJ has launched a ...
Essentials of Domestic Preference Laws: BAA, TAA, and Beyond Webinar
Presentation and Speech
GSA's E-Commerce Portal Program Is Here: What the New Solicitation Means for Government Contractors
October 4, 2019, Inside Government Contracts
After nearly two years of planning, GSA has released an RFP seeking prototypes of online shopping portals that would allow federal customers to buy COTS items from their computers. GSA's plan implements Section 846 of the NDAA for FY 2018, which instructed the agency to create an internet marketplace exempt from many standard procurement regulations. ...… ...
Suspension & Debarment Update: SBA to Sharpen Suspension & Debarment Procedures
September 26, 2019, Inside Government Contracts
Changes are coming to the suspension and debarment practices of the Small Business Administration (SBA), and contractors should ready themselves for an uptick in suspension and debarment activity as a result. That's the takeaway from a new audit report released last week by the SBA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) criticizing aspects of the...… Continue ...
Contractor Suspension & Debarment
July 24, 2019, Transportation Research Board Annual Legal Workshop
Another Executive Order on Buying American, and This One Has Teeth
July 23, 2019, Inside Government Contracts
(This article was originally published in Law360 and has been modified for this blog.) On July 15, 2019, President Trump issued an Executive Order on Maximizing Use of American-Made Goods, Products, and Materials. The EO directs the FAR Council to "consider" amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation's provisions governing the implementation of the Buy ...
The Latest Executive Order On Buying American Has Teeth
July 18, 2019, Law360
Supreme Court Extends Statute of Limitations for Relators in FCA Cases, in Limited Circumstances
May 30, 2019, Inside Government Contracts
As previously discussed on this blog, the Supreme Court announced last year that it would resolve a circuit split over when a relator needed to file a qui tam action under the False Claims Act ("FCA"). Earlier this month, the Court decided in Cochise Consultancy Inc. v. United States ex rel. Hunt, that relators can...… Continue Reading The post Supreme Court ...
DOJ FCA Guidelines Hardly Revolutionary, But Now More Formal
May 24, 2019, Bloomberg Law
Federal Online Shopping Platform Coming Soon — GSA to Issue Prototype RFP Within the Year
In the latest step towards delivering on the long-promised "Procurement Through Commercial e-Commerce Portals" program, the General Services Administration has announced plans to build a proof-of-concept for federal online shopping, aiming to issue an RFP by the end of the year for web-based acquisition platforms. According to GSA's notice, the platforms will be ...
Attys React To High Court FCA Statute Of Limitations Ruling
May 13, 2019, Law360
Michael Wagner spoke with Law360 about the Supreme Court's ruling in Cochise Consultancy Inc. v. U.S., a case determining the statute of limitations in False Claim Act cases. Mr. Wagner says, "In theory, the Court's ruling could incentivize qui tam plaintiffs to wait years to bring their claims, in the hopes of allowing their potential recovery to increase. This ...
New DOJ Cooperation Credit Guidelines a Welcome Sign, but Key Questions Remain Unresolved
May 9, 2019, Inside Government Contracts
This week, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") released formal guidelines ("the Guidelines") for awarding credit to entities that cooperate in False Claims Act ("FCA") investigations. Frequently hinted at by DOJ officials in recent speeches and public statements, the Guidelines have been eagerly anticipated by practitioners in the FCA space. Despite the build-up, ...
New York Executive Order and Legislation Signal Increased Debarment Activity
Two recent developments in Albany suggest that New York is poised to kick its debarment activity into a higher gear. First, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order pointedly reminding state entities of their authority to debar non-responsible contractors and directing all state entities to ensure that contractors remain "responsible" throughout the term ...
IG Report Has Implications for Contractors
April 2, 2019, National Defense
GAO Report Shows That Agencies Buy Only a Small Percentage of Non-American Goods, But Buy American Act Implementation Remains a Challenge
February 25, 2019, Westlaw Journal Government Contract
Recent Updates and Current Trends in Suspension & Debarment Webinar
An Introduction to Suspension & Debarment Webinar
Covington Promotes 20 New Partners
WASHINGTON—Covington has promoted 20 lawyers to its partnership. "This group covers a wide range of the firm's most important practices and reflects the ongoing imperative of continuing to build and expand our strengths and to position the firm most effectively to be vibrant in the years ahead," said Timothy Hester, Covington's chair. "The size of our class is a ...
Suspension and Debarment Update
August 2, 2018, American Bar Association, Section of Public Contract Law, Anatomy of a Debarment Action
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Teaming To Win: Creating Winning Teaming Arrangements
July 14, 2016, National Small Business Federal Contracting Summit
What To Expect In Post Escobar FCA Litigation
June 28, 2016, Law360
Supreme Court Accepts Implied False Certification Theory But Erects Substantial Hurdles To Proving Materiality
In Universal Health Services Inc. v. U.S. ex rel. Escobar, No. 15-7 (Slip. Op. June 16, 2016), a unanimous Supreme Court affirmed the viability of the "implied false certification" theory of False Claims Act liability, at least in certain circumstances. This portion of the ruling was not unexpected given the overwhelming acceptance of implied certification among ...
Small Business Contracting: Set-Aside and Sole-Source Awards
March 17, 2016, National Small Business Federal Contracting Summit
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September 24, 2015, InsideGovernmentContracts Blog
Updated DoD IG Guidance Signals New Enforcement Emphasis for DCAA Auditors
August 24, 2015, InsideGovernmentContracts Blog
Doubts Raised About GSA's New Vision for Federal Contracting
April 24, 2015, InsideGovernmentContracts Blog
FAR Council Proposes New Rules on Inverted Corporations; Congress Voices Support
April 2015, Government Contracting Law Report
6 Questions About GSA's 'New Vision For Federal Purchasing'
March 11, 2015, Law360
Contracting With Inverted Corporations: The Latest Rules
December 19, 2014, Law360
HHS Looks To Existing Procurement Tool For Ebola Drugs
October 29, 2014, Law360
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September 26, 2014, Law360
The Government Contracts Update
August 1, 2014, Covington E-Alert
Contractors Vulnerable to Growing Number of 'False Claims' Suits
July 7, 2014, National Defense Magazine
Susan Cassidy and Mike Wagner authored this article on the increase of "false claims" suits. Under a recent court decision by the Fourth Circuit, a federal government contractor may suddenly find itself facing potentially massive liability based solely on the number of invoices submitted in previous years, even if every one of those invoices was entirely ...
4th Circ. Per-Invoice Rule: Warnings For Gov't Contractors
July 3, 2014, Law360
Susan Cassidy and Mike Wagner write on the False Claims Act in this article for Law360: "For the past four years, FCA enforcement has focused most heavily on the health care industry, recovering more than $2 billion a year in cases involving health care fraud. This article discusses a recent FCA ruling by the Fourth Circuit that, if allowed to stand, could ...
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January 9, 2014, Law360
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May 10, 2013, Covington E-Alert
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Q: Bash Script adding random newline Okay, some background info. I've been writing a project in Bash, it essentially looks to see if you've done certain things on an ubuntu computer, and grades your performance, One of those things is answering questions, or disabling the guest account. The file that runs (init.sh) creates a new shell script(engine.sh) that actually does the grading depending on what the user wants to grade.
Now for the problem: All of the checks that I have output to the engine thus far have worked, but when I make this particular check (checks a file for a particular answer to have been given) it adds a newline to the engine.
functions involved:
createVuln() {
    type="$1"
    points=$2
    var1="$3"
    var2="$4"
    var3="$5"
    var4="$6"
    var5="$7"
    test=$("$type" "test" "$var1" "$var2" "$var3" "$var4" "$var5")
    message="$("$type" "message" "$var1" "$var2" "$var3" "$var4" "$var5")"
    vuln="
if [ ${test} ]; then
    scorePoints \"$points\" \"$message\"
fi "
    echo "$vuln" >> vulns
    totalvulns=$(($totalvulns + 1))
    totalpoints=$(($totalpoints + $points))
}

createForensics() {
    outputType="$1"
    question="$2"
    answer="$3"
    fileName="$4"
    if [ "$outputType" = "test" ]; then
        touch "$fileName"
        echo "Forensics Question:" > "$fileName"
        echo "$question" >> "$fileName"
        echo "" >> "$fileName"
        echo "ANSWER: " >> "$fileName"
        mv "$fileName" "/home/$sysUser/Desktop/"
        echo "\"\$(grep \"ANSWER: $answer\" \"/home/$sysUser/Desktop/$fileName\")\" != \"\""
    elif [ "$outputType" = "message" ]; then
        echo "Solved ${fileName}"
    fi
}

If I run this with
createVuln createForensics 8 'What is the UID of the user root?' 0 'Forensics Question 1'

this outputs to the vulns file as:
if [
"$(grep "ANSWER: 0" "/home/user/Desktop/Forensics Question 1")" != "" ]; then
    scorePoints "8" "
Solved Forensics Question 1"
fi

expected output:
if [ "$(grep "ANSWER: 0" "/home/user/Desktop/Forensics Question 1")" != "" ]; then
    scorePoints "8" "Solved Forensics Question 1"
fi

Obviously, these newlines break the engine. the code I copied the forensics function from doesn't do this. The actual echos in the createForensics function do not output a newline when I run those from a terminal... In fact, the if statement even outputs correctly. So what is causing these newlines?!?

A: My Friend and I just realized: there was a problem with git not pushing a specific change that fixed this. There was a blank line that wasn't originally redirected to $fileName , and you can see there is a redirect now. When I committed and pushed got decided not to take that with it I guess.

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Q: Time Stretching and Pitch shifting with IOS In short:
   How to do Time Stretching and Pitch Shifting in iOS?

In Detail:

What am i trying to do?
The app will show the video thumbnails to the users to select a certain range of frames from the video file.
I have to Apply the ramp slow Mo, only to the selected duration or frames of the video.
Ramp Slow Mo: (Time Stretching + Pitch shifting) dynamically. I have to vary the Time and pitch in a for loop say for some 10 iteration. Its nothing but the behaviour of English letter "U". So, i will increase the time and pitch and decrease them.
How am I trying:

*

*Finding the Start/End time for the user selected videos.

*Splitting the video and audio separately through AVFoundation Mutable Composition.

*For Video: Applying Time Stretching for only for the duration in between Start/End time. *No problem* in it,Its happening as i expect.

*For Audio: Doing Time Stretching and Pitch shifting dynamically, which is also for the selected time frame. I am using Dirac for this. Now, i would like to use IOS SDK itself.

*Merging audio and video post slow mo as a file and storing it.

Analysis:
Hitherto, I've found that OpenAl or Audio Units(Using AUVarispeed alone or AUTimePitch and Time Rate together) can help.
After splitting the video and audio, i will have the audio URL to proceed further, either with OpenAL or Audio Units.
My questions:

*

*Can anybody help me to avoid Dirac(ref bullet 4)? So how to do Time Stretching and Pitch shifting dynamically?

*How to do *only for the selected frame*s (in between start and end time)?

*I am not sure how to combine *AVFoundataion's* URL with OpenAL or Audio Unit's buffer and after slow mo effect, how to merge finally with AVFoundation's video reference URL?

Any kind of reference or sample codes helps a lot.


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import React from 'react';
import { observer as mobxObserver } from 'mobx-react';
import { addInjectProvider } from '../injector/index.js';

export function observer(Class) {
    if (!isComponent(Class)) {
        throw new Error(`@observer must be called on a React.Component`);
    }

    return mobxObserver(Class);
}

export function isComponent(Entity) {
    return (Entity && Entity.prototype && !!Entity.prototype.isReactComponent);
}

addInjectProvider((instance, propertyName, Class) => {
    if (isComponent(Class)) {
        // TODO: Maybe check if this is already an observer?
        const ObserverComponent = mobxObserver(Class);

        class WrappedComponent extends React.Component {
            render() {
                return (
                    <ObserverComponent {...this.props} {...{[propertyName]: instance}} />
                );
            }
        }

        return WrappedComponent;
    }

    return Class;
});

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The old expression "no teeth – no horse" couldn't be truer. Oral health is essential to the general health of all horses. Horses have evolved to hide pain and as a consequence often show little or no symptoms of even quite severe dental problems. Many horses have undiagnosed dental pathology which can develop into painful conditions if left. A detailed oral examination is required to identify these and this often requires sedation to carry out safely and completely.
All of our equine vets have an interest in equine dentistry and have undertaken further training in this important area. They all carry up to date modern equipment and mirrors to allow full examination.
These sharp points can cause discomfort during ridden exercise or ulceration of the cheeks and tongue causing difficulty or pain during chewing.
Most but not all horses require an annual rasp to remove the sharp points that develop naturally at the margins of the cheek teeth over time as the teeth a worn down.
Young horses, competition horses or those with dental disease may require treatment more frequently.
Wolf teeth are vestigial teeth that usually sit just in front of the first cheek tooth in the upper jaw and occasionally the lower jaw. They vary in size and position and depending on this can interfere with the bit.
Not all wolf teeth cause a problem but we recommend removal of them in any horse showing signs of bit resentment, wolf teeth that are identified prior to bitting in a young horse or those that sit away from the cheek teeth into the bars of the mouth where they are likely to cause a problem.
"Blind wolf teeth" are un-erupted, usually being found underneath the gum in the bars of the mouth. These are commonly problematic and extraction is nearly always advised.
Lower jaw wolf teeth are rare but in most cases will cause bitting issues and for this reason are almost always removed when identified.
In most cases wolf teeth extraction can be performed in your horses stable under sedation and local anaesthesia.
It is worth noting that legally, only a vet can sedate a horse and extract wolf teeth.
Coombefield Equine department is able to offer specialised treatment options for many more complicated dental conditions. Whether an abscessed tooth root, periodontal pocketing or temporomandibular joint disease our combination of digital radiography, ultrasound examination, video oral endoscopy and specially designed equine dental machine gives us the capacity to diagnose and treat the problem.
While symptoms and treatment will be specific to each horse a few of these conditions are outlined below.
This is one of the most significant dental problems in the horse, the most common cause of "Quidding" (dropping partially chewed hay/haylage or grass) and is often overlooked.
Additionally bad breath, poor response to ridden work and loss of weight/condition may be seen with this painful condition.
Diastemata (spaces between the teeth) trap food material which then rots. This decay causes gum disease and periodontal pocketing – a very painful condition.
There are several treatment options to tackle this problem – although this is not always straightforward. One of our vets, Stuart Altoft is among a small number of people in the UK to offer diastema widening and hard interdental bridging as a long term solution to this problem.
Often presenting as a painful swelling of the jaw or smelly discharge from one nostril infection of the ooth root is often localised into an abscess. In many cases removing the infected tooth is the only treatment option. Ideally the tooth is removed orally with the horse under standing sedation but as the tooth root can be as long as 10cm this is easier said than done!
Fractured teeth can be difficult to extract but recent techniques such as this MTE extraction mean these can still be removed in a sedated horse.
The joint of the jaw is situated just behind the eye in the horse. Although not commonly recognised this joint can cause difficulty eating or more subtle signs such as poor performance on the bit.


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We are very pleased to announce that Professor Pamela Kearns has taken the Presidency of SIOP Europe for the years 2019-2021. Pamela Kearns succeeds Professor Martin Schrappe, who has been President for the past three years and has served on the board since 2009. As a SIOP Europe board member for the past 6 years, Pam has a solid understanding of our organisation, mission and strategy.
The SIOP Europe board and staff thanked Martin Schrappe for his dedication as President over the past years. SIOP Europe made tremendous strides under Martin's leadership. Amongst his significant accomplishment is navigating the organisation to explore and launch a key flagship event: the first SIOP Europe Annual Meeting, which will take place on 20-24 May 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Martin is passionate about the SIOP Europe Annual Meeting and will carry on championing the necessity of bringing together all the diverse stakeholders together once a year to exchange, learn from each other and network. We therefore look forward to building on this and more as we enter the next chapter.
Joining the SIOP Europe board are Tomasz Szczepański, Carmelo Rizzari, Andishe Attarbaschi and Reineke Schoot. We are very pleased to welcome all four to the SIOP Europe board.
Tomasz Szczepański is an Independent Scientist at Medical University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) and since 2009 the Head of the Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology in Zabrze. He is also full professor at Medical University of Silesia, serves as Vice-Rector for Scientific Affairs, member of the Board of the Polish Paediatric Association and the President of the Polish Society of Paediatric Oncology and Haematology.
Carmelo Rizzari has been involved in the field of paediatric leukaemias with a special interest for both traditional and innovative chemotherapy agents. He is currently running the Paediatric Haematology-Oncology Unit in Monza (within the frame of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy), which is one of the largest centres for the diagnosis and treatment of haematological malignancies in Italy.
Andishe Attarbaschi dedicated 20 years career as a physician, scientist and 'teacher' to paediatric haemato-oncology, especially leukaemia and lymphoma. As Associate Professor of paediatrics/adolescent medicine, with specialisation in paediatric haemato-oncology at the Medical University of Vienna. He is responsible for training both residents and students during their first clinical year at the St. Anna Children's Hospital in Vienna.
Reineke Schoot is currently a clinical fellow and Postdoctoral researcher at Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology. She is chair of the European Young SIOPE Group and prior to that, as chair of SIOP YI-NET, she was involved with the development of several projects such as the SIOP educational day, SIOP mentorship program and collaborative event.
These new board members fill vacancies and replace board members who have served on the SIOP Europe's board for many years. Also, a special note of thanks and appreciation to all our board members (new, current and past) for their dedication to the children and young people we serve. Given the impressive track records and diverse backgrounds of our board members, we are confident of their leadership and impact.
A new group within SIOP Europe has been formed: Young SIOPE. This group was created in recognition of the need to support the future of Europe's healthcare and future paediatric oncologists. The initial aims of the group are to develop a platform for collaboration with the European Clinical Trial Groups, to facilitate active participation in the SIOP Europe Annual Meeting and to broaden members' networks. Young SIOPE will officially be launched at the SIOP Europe Annual Meeting and the group has organised several sessions as well as a social event.


TBM are on tour, Nov 12 In NY. Webster.
:) just in time to catch your show!
hey there IX, and thank you!
Oh, it is amazing. And this version is oddly compelling, too, despite everything!
I am listening while eating Raisin Bran™! Sounding good.
Listening after breakfast in UK. Thanks for "I'm Not" and your beautiful voice.
morning listening cat and Klay. Is this good music for cereal?
This Can is very Fabio. Ha! Yes, this is good cereal music.
and it is the only Can song I know!
I crave some Type O Negative.
Love it. Snap, Crackle and Pop!
Had mushrooms for lunch yesterday. Appropriate music indeed.
Bonjour Julie and Darkies !
Hello from Dunedin, NZ - enjoying the show. (I'm listening while cooking my dinner on Thurs evening).
Hi ! Always neat to hear stuff from the other side of the world. Can you please play something from Hamish Kilgour's new solo album, please?
Ha! I thought she was singing Cinnamon Bun.
Morning! Waking up was not fun. Was having crazy dreams.
X Key - pasta, fish, some veges. Are you called X Key after "X Key Score" ?
Harp(?) reminds me of "Long Years Ago" by Rozi Plain, hint hint ..
Is her other stuff this good ??
Especially since I'm a composer with scores!
is that what a coincidence is?
Why did my new book of Sylvia Plath poems fall open at Wuthering Heights when I'm on a Kate Bush trip?
oh cool ! Yr traveling ?
That's ok. Just "X Key Score" is a big topic here in NZ. Edwin Snowden, Glen Greenwald, and others have just exposed our gov't as using it. There's a general election here on Sat and it's just one of many *crazy* things in the past few weeks.
is that a photo of you ??
That Vigoda track was great.
I looked at yr photo Did u steal my cap ?
@ X Key. His talk in Auckland on Mon was amazing. It confirmed what a venal gov't the National Party (NZ's version of Republicans) are.
Julie, your taste is impeccable (= same as mine). Are all your shows like this?
I saw that event he was hilarious!
It's ok it looks good on u !!
Is that a jaunty Irish cap?
It was great. Our craven PM Jon Key was in denial, but then had to concede he was right. Greenwald is a brave man and a lot of people here are very pleased at what he's done.
Julie, that'd be cool if you can play some Hamish. No worries if you can't.
Damn, missed Abe Vigoda. Still alive, I hear:-). Good morning, Julie and darknights everywhere.
Bet ya thought I wasn't going to hit the 60s tonight!
Which night are you seeing Before The Dawn?
@Julie: How many days are you spending in London?
WFMU: The home of music that sounds better than it is.
@P-90: a future as a copywriter awaits.
How long have you been into Kate?
I think I got my first album of hers in like 1981..
@listeningcat: Your kapsule Kate review?
Been a good long while since I've heard this one, Julie. Oh, brother, a Proustian flashback song, or what?
Stan is here, he's like I have that one!
No doubt. Stan's the Man alright.
P-90: "You had to be there"
yah ! That was cool, thank you !
Julie, could you take a leaf out of U2's book by automatically downloading your playlist to my computer for every show you do please?
OK now you still have to download the U2 to your iiTunes by clicking on it.
Peter Gutteridge. : ( Thank you, Julie. His music meant a lot to us here in NZ.
Have a good one in CALIRFORNIE Julie !!!
I assume news of his passing has made it to the US ? Very sad.
So, Scotland: In or out?
DeaconDave: No. Looking for confirmation.
Thanks, Julie! Have a good flight.
next thursday morning, same time!
@Beavo - voting only started about three hours ago, no result until tomorrow. I hope they say "yes".
Julie, great show ! Have a neat time in California.


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Born in Padova, 1960 and lives in New YorK, USA
A self-taught artist, Maurizio Cattelan began his career designing furniture but turned to conceptual art in the early 1990s and quickly garnered a reputation for a sense of humour and for blurring the distinction between art and reality.
He described himself as a lazy artist. Some of his actions backed up the latter claim. In 1992, for example, he assembled a group of donors to award him a $10,000 grant that stipulated that he not exhibit any artwork for one year. At the 1993 Venice Biennale by subletting his exhibit space to a perfume company.
The artist "retired" in 2011 after his Guggenheim retrospective but continues to work on projects like Toilet Paper Magazine, which he founded. In 2013 he curated a show in Turin, titled Shit n Die, during the Artissima week.
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How to detect ancient buried cities without any digging
A team from southern Spain has become a leader in the use of new technology to map out underground sites; in just a few years it has explored six Roman cities and uncovered a Punic port
Jesús A. Cañas
Cádiz - 01 Sep 2021-11:21 UTC
The ground-penetrating radar used in 2017 to uncover the ancient Punic port of Doña Blanca.Juan Carlos Toro
In just a few days, the Spanish archeologist Lázaro Lagóstena can figure out the complete layout of streets, buildings and ports in ancient cities that were swallowed up by the earth centuries ago. And he can do it without any digging.
It's been years since Lagóstena, a professor of ancient history at Cádiz University (UCA), last used trowels, spades and brushes. Instead, he applies what he terms "the archeology of the future" to locate, say, a necropolis under a field of cereal. He can even determine how many cubic meters of sand would have to be extracted in order to reach it.
This kind of archeology is already a reality at UCA's Geodetection Unit, which Lagóstena has been coordinating since 2016. His team routinely uses technologies such as ground-penetrating radar, drones and magnetometers – devices that measure magnetic fields – and over the years it has become a leader in this non-destructive way to interpret a country's archeological heritage.
"I don't think there is another research team in Europe that has been able to study six Roman cities in such a short period of time, and that's if we limit ourselves to that particular historical period, because we have done even more," says Lagóstena proudly.
A 3D model of the Roman site of Arva, in today's Alcolea del Río (Seville), made by the UCA's Geodetection Unit. UCA
In the space of five years this group of between eight and 10 researchers, depending on the number of students in training, has managed to reconstruct the hidden urban layouts of the Roman cities of Hasta Regia (today's Jerez de la Frontera, in Cádiz province), Ilici (Alcudia, Elche), Libisosa (Lezuza, Albacete), Balsa (Luz de Tavira, in Portugal's southern Algarve region), Arva (Alcolea del Río, Seville) and Calduba (La Perdiz, Arcos, Cádiz). And there is another project underway in Flavia Sabora (Cañete la Real, Málaga).
But the team's findings go well beyond ancient Roman cities: they have over 60 projects to their name, some of them commissioned by public and private institutions. Some of them include helping locate mass graves containing victims of the Franco regime that followed the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
The use of non-invasive technology in archeology is not new, nor is it exclusive to Lagóstena's team. But the UCA's Geodetection Unit has shown a unique capability for detection and interpretation. "There are private companies out there, but not with as much technology," notes the professor. "This used to be a field for geophysics, where experts would call in historians and archeologists. We, on the other hand, are experienced across disciplines and able to provide interpretation. Our leadership stems from the fact that no other university in Spain has this many resources."
Lagóstena had not imagined any of this when, back in 2003, he began working on archeological research tied to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a set of tools that can link a vast amount of data that's been georeferenced and positioned on maps. It was then that he first applied for a national program of infrastructure and scientific equipment in order to build up the Seminario Agustín de Orozco department at UCA.
Lagóstena explains how a ground-penetrating radar works (Spanish audio).
But the real turning point for the unit came in 2016, when it secured funding for its first large ground-penetrating radar. Despite initial misgivings about how useful it would be, in just two test runs the device was able to locate and map out the largest known Punic-era port in the Mediterranean, lying under a cultivated field adjacent to the Doña Blanca archeological site, in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz).
Since then, the unit has secured four more investment projects and acquired technology worth €1.8 million. It now functions as a peripheral service of UCA, and has the independence to enter into contracts with third parties that have already generated revenues of €250,000. "We're being hired by other universities, provincial authorities, museums, local governments and companies. We are competitive because we don't speculate with the quotes, we just charge enough to cover costs and generate some income for the researchers," says Lagóstena.
The first step in any survey work is usually carried out by drones, which help identify areas of interest and geoposition their working space. The radars – they have five different ones – trace the urban itineraries under the ground to a depth of up to four meters. Their two magnetometers (soon to be four) identify spots where there was combustion in the past, such as a necropolis or a ceramics factory. The team is now planning to buy seismographs and tocographs that will allow them to reach deeper cavities, reconstruct geological layers and even differentiate between human and natural elements lying under the ground.
For Lagóstena, discovering the port of Doña Blanca remains one of his biggest sources of satisfaction. The public interest around this discovery was such that the regional parliament of Andalusia last month unanimously approved a proposal to start negotiations with the current owner of the land with a view to purchasing it and exploring the area further.
The work of the UCA researchers not only yields information about ancient urban structures, it also helps delineate physical areas that should get legal protection and draft appropriate management methods.
"In history we need information. Dig-based archeology is expensive and certain sources of information are now depleted. This is the future," says Lagóstena, underscoring that technology-based archeology delivers more data in a shorter time and at a lower cost, making it possible to tackle larger territorial investigations that also address issues such as past interaction with the landscape through agriculture and water management.
"We are creating information databases with the experiences of the past. All pre-industrial societies were necessarily sustainable, and if you recover the way they worked, you are moving in a direction that is necessary in the present."
Twelfth-century bathhouse uncovered in Spanish bar
Margot Molina | Seville
The WWI British spy who lived over ancient treasure on a Spanish islet
Vicente G. Olaya | Madrid


The way I became skilled at cooking was to follow tonnes of recipes. Most of the time I made a little discovery while preparing a meal; whether it was how to use an exotic ingredient, a new method of cooking an ingredient or simply finding a match made in flavour heaven. Cooking is an exciting journey with no destination because it is impossible to know everything. Bottom line? Just enjoy the ride.
Yesterday I tried yet another recipe. Potato, pea, tomato and spinach curry. Sounds yummy, right? Everything went well. The potatoes cooked slowly in the thick, bubbling tomato sauce and it tasted divine. Slowly I added the peas. So far so good. Last step, add the spinach. Result? Disaster. Recently I started eating spinach, first raw and then cooked. One thing I forgot about spinach it that when you cook it, it creates a lot of water. My lovely tomato sauce became disgustingly watery and the flavour diluted to oblivion. Aargh! How can some recipes even get published? Is it possible that the creator of this dish found the result acceptable?!
Speaking of recipe testing, BBC Good Food magazine boasts that it tests all of the 101 recipes in each issue. I have to admit, they do quite a good job at putting the publication together, because I've never had a flop.
Leek and bacon risotto is one of my favourite rice dishes. Simple, yet flavourful risotto with sophisticated flavours. Best cooked with Arborio rice. Top with parmesan cheese shavings or fresh herbs.
Heat the oil in the big pot and fry the bacon to your liking (just cooked or very crispy). Remove the bacon. When it has cooled, chop it into bite-sized pieces.
Add the leeks to the pot and fry for 2 minutes until starting to soften.
Stir in the rice and cook for 1 minute, stirring.
Add the wine and stock, and then bring to the boil. Reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 10-12 minutes until the rice is tender.
Remove the rice from the heat, add the bacon pieces, then stir in the parmesan if desired and some freshly ground pepper. Serve immediately.
Enjoy this plate of delight with a glass of white wine.
Those leeks are adorable thanks to your pictures.
Made the risotto last night but substituted some chopped up italian cured meats instead of the bacon as this was what was in my fridge. One word… delicious!
Hi Michelle. Thanks for this delicious recipe! We so excited to have it included in this week's FoodieView Recipe Roundup!
Leeks + bacon = a match made in heaven. I often make this combo (sometimes also with courgettes) as a pasta sauce – will definitely give this risotto a whirl. Looks gorgeous too!
That is beautiful and I imagine that it tastes wonderful. I will be most certainly be making this soon. All five of my sons are nutty for risotto and adding bacon will gain me Mom-points!
Seriously, everything is better with bacon and this is no exception! Looks wonderful!
I love leeks and bacon in combination. Nice risotto!
then then it mean for me..


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Sushant Singh Rajput's sister demands justice, says no biopic to be made on her deceased brother
Late actor's sister took the matter to Instagram and said that no one can play the role of her brother.
The sister of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, Priyanka Singh, has said no one can play her brother's character in a biopic based on his life. Ahead of his birthday, Priyanka promised that no film will be made up until justice is served for her brother who passed away in 2020.
She shared a throwback photo and wrote that she "firmly believes no movie on SSR should be made, at least not until justice is served," as a promise to her brother.
Priyanka also said that she wonders who will be able to bring "SSR's handsome, innocent, and dynamic persona" to the screen. "It can only be illusory to expect that anybody from this insecure film industry has the courage & integrity to truthfully portray SSR's outrageously unique story where he always followed his heart, left the most dominant & dynastic of production houses, at the peak, on his own terms."
Lastly she mentioned a fact about the M.S Dhoni: The Untold Story actor — Rajput always wanted to do his own biopic. Priyanka wrote that if the biopic were ever made it should be with "Artificial intelligence (AI) technology". She believes this could become a reality soon.
Rajput's death shook Bollywood as well as his fan following across the world. His case is currently in court and was initially ruled to have been a suicide. However ,the actor's family and loved ones believe his ex and actor Rhea Chakraborty and other influential people are responsible for his death.
The case is still being investigated by India's Central Bureau of Investigation.
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Justice? In India? Keep dreaming.
Biopics are like an imitation of a rose blooming in the garden with a plastic rose, Made in China !!!
Taimur
He was killed by criminal Khan gang
Respect Priyanka's wishes, people. She has lost a dear brother and hopes for justice.
SSR will live forever in the hearts of the people world wide.
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Bollywood actor Sushant Singh found dead in Mumbai


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Gemstone Details: 2 Oval cut green amethyst stones, weighing 10.67 carats total.
Measurements: 17mm in length and 12.5mm at the widest point.
These amazing pair of 14k white gold earrings, designed in Italy, contain 66 round brilliant cut white diamonds of F color, VS2 clarity and excellent cut and brilliance weighing .21 carat total, surrounding 2 oval cut green amethyst stones weighing 10.67 carats total. A great gift idea!
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The earrings measure 17mm in length and 12.5mm at the widest point.


Check out this great summary paper from the irrepressible Chandra Wickramasinghe. Wickramasinghe just keeps going and going and going — even without his side-kick Sir Fred Hoyle.
Hoyle and Wickramasinghe's decades-old contention that life evolved in space and spreads via comets is convincing to me. Not only do they have substantial data indicating this to be the case, it just makes common-sense. The notion that life began on our humble rock is to me as quaint as the belief that the earth is the center of the universe.
I agree with Hoyle and Wickramasinghe: We are the aliens.


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Morphometric and Metabolic Correlates of Frailty in Pancreas Transplant Recipients
R. Parsons, J. Wolosyn, R. Lynch.
Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Keywords: Kidney/pancreas transplantation, Morbidity, Pancreas transplantation, Resource utilization
Session Name: Concurrent Session: Pancreas and Islet - 2
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Location: Room 4C-3
Background: Prediction of survival and health resource utilization in the pancreas transplant population requires novel approaches to risk stratification. We studied whether sarcopenia and osteopenia, as correlates of frailty, would predict adverse outcomes, including rehospitalization, graft loss, and death.
Methods: We reviewed records for the last 100 consecutive pancreas transplants, including simultaneous kidney pancreas (SPK) and pancreas after kidney (PAK) operations, at our center. Demographic, comorbidities and diabetic complications were studied for patterns with regard to graft and patient survival and hospital readmissions. Post-transplant DEXA bone demineralization results and psoas muscle area (PMA) relative to body surface area were studied for correlation with clinical outcome by logistic regression.
Results: Among the study sample, 46% were female and 35% were African American. The mean age at transplant was 38.5 +/- 7.3 years. At time of transplant, the mean Karnofsky Performance Score was 76.5 +/- 9.6, 18% of patients had known coronary artery disease, 59% had peripheral arterial disease, 59% had retinopathy, and 6% carried a diagnosis of gastroparesis. 79 patients had DEXA scores within 3 months of transplant, with 67% of those showing osteopenia, and 19% osteoporosis (mean t-score -1.91 +/- 0.92). Patient survival was 98% at one year, but 10% of patients were admitted for >14 days for their transplant admission and 19% spent >14 days inpatient during readmissions over the first transplant year. Sarcopenia on peri-transplant cross-sectional imaging correlated with burden of readmissions but not index length of stay (figure 2).
Conclusions: Among pancreas recipients, sarcopenia predicts resource utilization in the first year after transplant better than comorbidities or standard measures such as performance status. Gastroparesis diagnosis is uncommon preoperatively, but is a frequent reason for readmission post-transplant. Sarcopenia, in conjunction with higher-fidelity clinical assessments of frailty, may be useful in preoperative identification and intervention on high-risk transplant candidates.
CITATION INFORMATION: Parsons R., Wolosyn J., Lynch R. Morphometric and Metabolic Correlates of Frailty in Pancreas Transplant Recipients Am J Transplant. 2017;17 (suppl 3).
Parsons R, Wolosyn J, Lynch R. Morphometric and Metabolic Correlates of Frailty in Pancreas Transplant Recipients [abstract]. https://atcmeetingabstracts.com/abstract/morphometric-and-metabolic-correlates-of-frailty-in-pancreas-transplant-recipients/. Accessed January 19, 2022.


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Q: Why do sys.schemas and INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA return different results? Why do sys.schemas INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA return different results and which one I should trust?
On a default azure data warehouse database,
SELECT *
FROM sys.schemas

returns 4 rows: dbo, INFORMATION_SCHEMA, sys and sysdiag.
SELECT *
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA

returns 17 rows, with additional guest, pdw, QTables and db_*.
I'm working an Azure SQLDW editor.

A: It's a bug. The two queries should return the same results. I've filed this internally and it should get fixed quickly. Thanks for reporting it.


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Q: Location estimation methods based on multiple surfaces I'm probably reinventing the wheel here and wonder if somebody can point me in a better direction.
I have about 10 surfaces of signal strength (z) received at a transmitter. Here I'll provide an example with four surfaces r1, r2, r3, r4.
library(raster)
library(gstat)
set.seed(3178)
n <- 100
r0 <- raster(nrows=n, ncols=n,xmn=1, xmx=n,ymn=1,ymx=n)
r0 <- as(r0,"SpatialGrid")

pts <- data.frame(x=c(10,20,60,80,1,1,n,n),y=c(10,80,70,40,1,n,1,n),
                  id=c(1:4,rep(0,4)), z=c(c(rep(1,4)),rep(0,4)))

pts <- SpatialPointsDataFrame(pts[,1:2],data=pts[,3:4])

r1 <- idw(z~1,pts[c(1,5:8),],newdata=r0)
r2 <- idw(z~1,pts[c(2,5:8),],newdata=r0)
r3 <- idw(z~1,pts[c(3,5:8),],newdata=r0)
r4 <- idw(z~1,pts[c(4,5:8),],newdata=r0)

r1 <- raster(r1)
r2 <- raster(r2)
r3 <- raster(r3)
r4 <- raster(r4)

I also have a series of points with signal strengths that correspond to each surface. The locations of these points is unknown. The task is to determine a location for each point. E.g., for unknownXY:
# Extract a point. For the real data I would have the z data but not x and y
cell2get <- floor(runif(1,1,n^2))
unknownXY <- c(extract(brick(r1,r2,r3,r4),cell2get))

In this case there is a four-way intersection of the contour lines that I could find suing some kind of intersection technique (e.g., rgeos::gIntersection).
# Here is the the contour for the unknown point on each raster
plot(r1,axes=F)
contour(r1,levels=unknownXY[1],add=TRUE)

plot(r2,axes=F)
contour(r2,levels=unknownXY[2],add=TRUE)

plot(r3,axes=F)
contour(r3,levels=unknownXY[3],add=TRUE)

plot(r4,axes=F)
contour(r4,levels=unknownXY[4],add=TRUE)

# here are all 4 contours
plot(r0,axes=F,col="white")
contour(r1,levels=unknownXY[1],add=TRUE,drawlabels=FALSE,col="red")
contour(r2,levels=unknownXY[2],add=TRUE,drawlabels=FALSE,col="blue")
contour(r3,levels=unknownXY[3],add=TRUE,drawlabels=FALSE,col="purple")
contour(r4,levels=unknownXY[4],add=TRUE,drawlabels=FALSE,col="green")

But there are times when, I think, that there will not be a completely pure intersection (e.g., the contours will not exactly overlap). In that case I'm wondering about using a probabilistic method for finding x,y for a given vector of z.
One thing I was thinking was calculating distances. E.g.,
# calc distances
r1d <- sqrt((unknownXY[1] - r1)^2)
r2d <- sqrt((unknownXY[2] - r2)^2)
r3d <- sqrt((unknownXY[3] - r3)^2)
r4d <- sqrt((unknownXY[4] - r4)^2)
plot(brick(r1d,r2d,r3d,r4d))

And them summing them:
# Straight sum? Should they be weighted in some manner?
rdSum <- sum(brick(r1d,r2d,r3d,r4d))
plot(rdSum)

I could find the min value to get the ``best'' point:
# Use min to get possible location. Seems easy to get trapped.
rdSumMin <- rdSum == minValue(rdSum)
plot(rdSumMin)

Or use a threshold value to get a series of locations that are the most likely:
# Or use quantile to get possible locations?
thresh <- quantile(rdSum, probs = c(0.01))
rdSum99 <- rdSum < thresh
plot(rdSum99)

Is there a way of finding a surface that is explicitly probabilistic?
What I'd like to do is be able to determine possible location with x% likelihood.

A: I don't think you can find a probabilistic answer without an assumption of uncertainty either on your surfaces or your samples.
For example, if you believe that your surfaces are known exactly with zero error and your point sample value is not at a contour intersection then your point sample must have an error in it. You need to specify this error structure, for example you might assume the measured point sample value is from a Normal distribution with mean of the ground truth value and some standard error. That would then translate to a probability surface over each of the surfaces and then (with, I reckon, a few additional assumptions) you could find the location with the highest probability, or draw contours of probability ("this point came from within this contour with p=0.90" or similar).
Conversely if you believe your sample point value is known with zero error and can't be at a contour value then you need an uncertainty model for your surfaces. I've actually implemented this for single surfaces where the surface has a mean and standard error obtained from Kriging: https://gitlab.com/b-rowlingson/revkrig - you could repeat this over your four surfaces and combine the probability surfaces.
The methods you've described look like ad-hoc methods for finding an optimum point but without a probabilistic structure to your data I don't think you can put a probabilistic measure on your answer.
And of course you could have uncertainty in both.


We are requesting prayers for one of our beloved kindergarten students who was in a car accident with his mother and brother yesterday. Our student and his brother were airlifted to Lubbock. Sadly, their mother, Maylin Gabriela Melo Perez, passed away. Their father and the boys need our prayers of healing, guidance, and comfort. We are grateful for all of the prayer warriors who support us during this time with love and prayers. Eternal rest grant unto Maylin, O Lord!


Of the 30,000 new products and services launches last year, around 28,000 of them failed. We are swimming in data about our audience, so why is failure still happening at this scale? Does reliance on quant data lead to less innovation, and more failure?
A recent article in Forbes stated that globally we create around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily. That's over 2,500,000,000 GB of data per day. At the core of this data explosion is the digitization of Indonesia and the world. Even shoes and toothbrushes are generating data, and companies are capturing vast amounts of it. At the same time, on-demand access to products, services and experiences has raised consumers' expectations to levels we couldn't have imagined a decade ago. Businesses need to innovate if they want to keep up.
Thanks to all of this data, we now know so much more about our customers. Where they buy, what they buy, when they buy, and many other things. Access to such plentiful data often leads the c-suite to demand that all actions should be based on quantitative data sets. While quantitative data is perfect for informing decisions that require answers to the question of "how many?" – which applies to most money-related matters - relying on quantitative data alone when it comes to innovation is a big mistake, and one that stands in the way of true innovation.
There is a sense of safety in quant, just like there used to be a safety in buying IBM stocks; you won't get fired for buying IBM. The problem is that innovation is not about safety, it's about exploring beyond the obvious. It's messy, going back and forth between research and design. The start of the innovation track lacks, quite rightly, the quantifiable data the c-suite requires. It's uncertain what you'll end up with, because you don't know yet what you are going to be inspired by. If we knew what we are going to create from the outset, it wouldn't be very innovative, would it?
To innovate you need inspiration, something that is surprising and exciting at the same time. This is found in the weird, the abstract, the outliers. It comes from one mom who has found a way to level a spoon of powdered milk using the edge of a plastic container, or a student who started investing at 15 years old with only IDR100,000 by creating his own elaborate way of saving. This is exactly the type of data that tends to be ignored, even though it's this that drives new design ideas. This is what distinguishes design research from market research.
You uncover opportunities by understanding people and finding out what it is that you don't know you don't know. So, with 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day and hard drives full of quantitative market research I wonder if we really understand people better. Do we know what people think? What context they behave in? What they feel? How we make them feel throughout each interaction with our product or service? What are the things that we couldn't even fathom from our perspective? The golden nuggets of information that we are missing out on? How can we find a way to make an impact in people's lives?
Doing research for innovation (based on the practice of design research) is not about avoiding bias (as it would be in most traditional research setups), but about being rigorous and understanding the extremes, rather than the general population. When innovating, you constantly need to create, confirm, build on, or disprove your ideas, even when doing initial research. The key is to explore all options and figure out the little details that could inspire design.
According to author and former P&G CMO Jim Stengel, "If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle." Too much research gets done in artificial settings. Getting inspired means going to out to talk to people and observing them in their natural environments. It's as much about what people say as what they do, so we should seek to understand the words, tools and workarounds they use, to inspire our design. These hacks tend to be particularly interesting, as they highlight where a product or service falls short, and consumers' informal innovations.
You don't need massive sample sizes to get inspired. Mirum's innovation arm, led by our Experience Design team, typically does design research with a sample size of anywhere between five and 20 people. We combine quantitative data with a deep qualitative understanding of people, often leading to different personas and persona-specific journeys to understand innovation opportunities and inspire design. Together with client experts, our innovation specialists generate a variety of different concepts that might help people. We then get consumer feedback, which inspires concept refinement and redesign. This process is repeated until we are confident we can make a real difference to our target consumer.
Using design research and creating concepts is like creating a menu of possibilities that a business can use to start their innovation journey. Then it's time for quantitative research to shine, showing us the numbers around the business viability of each concept. At this stage, we need to choose what makes sense at scale.
If CEOs want to disrupt the market, transform their business, and make real impact on their customers, they have to be brave enough to invest in the fuzzy front-end of the innovation process, and take a leap of faith to trust the process to deliver inspiration for design innovation.


I am a bit belated on this post. I've been cleaning my apartment in plans for a visitor coming to stay and it's been taking up a lot of my time. Today's paper doll is the last of the Jessica things, so there will be a new short run paper doll starting next Sunday, unless I get too busy to post it which might happen. Life is full of surprises.
My favorite thing about this set of paper doll clothes is the orange sweater. It's SO orange, but I also love the brightness of the color. Plus my Vogue magazine tells me Orange is the color of the season. And would Vogue lie to me? Of course not.
I'm not totally pleased with how the gray dress turned out. I think the trim looks a little flat and should be more curved and I have mixed feelings about her shoes, but I'm trying to stay positive about the paper doll since in general I like it.
As sometimes happens, I can't think of anything to really say about this paper doll. It's the second page of the Jessica set and there will be one more. I'm fond of the teal dress, because I still like the bodice. Many of the pieces came directly from fashion magazines- the blue dress is one case- but some don't and I think over all that weakens the paper doll. I wish I'd done either everything high fashion or kept it all more casual.
Today's paper doll is named after a friend in middle school who always said she was going to leave Juneau and head off into the city down south (when you're in Alaska, the habit is to call anything outside of the state "South". It's a matter of perspective I suppose). Eventually, I think she ended up at college in New York, so I suppose it worked out for her, though I lost track of her since then.
It's funny how people we're close with at one point in our lives drift away from us later. I hadn't thought about Jessica until I was trying to name this paper doll and then for some reason she came back to me. Odd how the mind works.
Coloring the paper dolls is always a bit of a crap shoot. How they show up after converting them into PNG's is always a bit of a shock. Colors are always more muted. Sometimes I like it, but it can play havoc on skin tone. I think I managed okay with Jessica's coloring, but I wish the brightness of the coat had converted better. Oh well, I suppose I'll just have to keep messing with formats.
She's also the first paper doll to be posted in a vertical print format, not a landscape print format. Just something to remember when you're printing out the PDF.


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using System;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.Animation;

namespace Telerik.UI.Xaml.Controls.Input.Calendar.Commands
{
    internal class MoveToNextViewCommand : CalendarCommand
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Determines whether the command can be executed against the provided parameter.
        /// </summary>
        public override bool CanExecute(object parameter)
        {
            return parameter is CalendarViewChangeContext;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Performs the core action given the provided parameter.
        /// </summary>
        public override void Execute(object parameter)
        {
            base.Execute(parameter);

            CalendarViewChangeContext context = parameter as CalendarViewChangeContext;

            this.MoveToNextView(context.AnimationStoryboard);
        }

        private void MoveToNextView(Storyboard animationStoryboard)
        {
            DateTime newDisplayDate = CalendarMathHelper.IncrementByView(this.Owner.DisplayDate, 1, this.Owner.DisplayMode);

            this.Owner.MoveToDate(newDisplayDate, animationStoryboard);
        }
    }
}


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package com.intirix.openmm.server;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.servlet.Filter;
import javax.servlet.Servlet;

import org.apache.log4j.Level;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout;
import org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender;

import com.intirix.openmm.server.api.QueryServlet;
import com.intirix.openmm.server.api.UpdateServlet;
import com.intirix.openmm.server.filter.AuthenticationFilter;
import com.intirix.openmm.server.filter.FilterServlet;
import com.intirix.openmm.server.ui.RootRedirectServlet;
import com.intirix.openmm.server.ui.SingleStaticFileServlet;
import com.intirix.openmm.server.ui.StaticResourceServlet;
import com.intirix.openmm.server.ui.html.HtmlTemplateEngineServlet;
import com.intirix.openmm.server.vfs.FileServlet;
import com.intirix.openmm.server.vfs.VFSFileServlet;
import com.intirix.openmm.server.vfs.WebCacheFileServlet;

/**
 * The driver program that actually starts the server
 * @author jeff
 *
 */
public class OpenMMServer
{
	private final Logger log = Logger.getLogger( OpenMMServer.class );

	private final Configuration config;
	private final OpenMMServerRuntime runtime;

	private ServletEngine engine;

	private final List< Filter > filters = new ArrayList< Filter >();

	public OpenMMServer() throws IOException
	{
		initLogging();

		config = Configuration.loadFromUserDir();
		runtime = new OpenMMServerRuntime();

		runtime.setConfig( config );

		runtime.init();

//		engine = new TJWSServletEngine();
		engine = new JettyServletEngine();
		engine.init( runtime, config.getHttpPort() );
		initServlets();

		initPaths();

	}

	private void addSecureServlet( String uri, Servlet servlet )
	{
		engine.addServlet( uri, new FilterServlet( filters, servlet ) );
	}

	private void addPublicServlet( String uri, Servlet servlet )
	{
		engine.addServlet( uri, servlet );
	}

	private void initServlets()
	{
		final AuthenticationFilter authenticationFilter = new AuthenticationFilter();
		authenticationFilter.setUserApp( runtime.getApplicationLayer().getUserApp() );

		filters.add( authenticationFilter );

		final HtmlTemplateEngineServlet htmlServlet = new HtmlTemplateEngineServlet( runtime );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/html", htmlServlet );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/html/*", htmlServlet );

		final Servlet webjarsServlet = new StaticResourceServlet( "/META-INF/resources/webjars" );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/staticlib", webjarsServlet );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/staticlib/*", webjarsServlet );

		final Servlet staticServlet = new StaticResourceServlet( "/web" );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/static", staticServlet );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/static/*", staticServlet );

		final FileServlet fileServlet = new VFSFileServlet();
		fileServlet.setRuntime( runtime );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/download", fileServlet );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/download/*", fileServlet );

		final UpdateServlet updateServlet = new UpdateServlet();
		updateServlet.setEngine( runtime.getActionEngine() );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/api/update", updateServlet );

		final QueryServlet queryServlet = new QueryServlet();
		queryServlet.setRuntime( runtime );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/api/get", queryServlet );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/api/get/*", queryServlet );

		final FileServlet webCacheServlet = new WebCacheFileServlet();
		webCacheServlet.setRuntime( runtime );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/cache", webCacheServlet );
		addSecureServlet( "/openmm/cache/*", webCacheServlet );

		addPublicServlet( "/favicon.ico", new SingleStaticFileServlet( "/ic_launcher-web.ico" ) );

		// redirect the root to the website
		addSecureServlet( "/index.html", new RootRedirectServlet() );
		addPublicServlet( "/", new RootRedirectServlet() );
	}

	private void initLogging()
	{
		final File logdir = new File( System.getProperty( "user.home" ) + "/.openmm-server" );
		if ( !logdir.exists() )
		{
			logdir.mkdirs();
		}
		try
		{
			final RollingFileAppender appender = new RollingFileAppender( new PatternLayout( "%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p [%t] %c{2} - %m%n" ), logdir.getAbsolutePath() + "/debug.log", true );
			appender.setMaxBackupIndex( 4 );
			appender.setMaximumFileSize( 1024 * 1024 );
			appender.setThreshold( Level.DEBUG );
			Logger.getRootLogger().addAppender( appender );
		}
		catch ( Exception e )
		{
			log.error( "Failed to setup logfile", e );
		}
	}

	private void initPaths()
	{
		final File webCacheFile = new File( config.getWebCache() );
		if ( !webCacheFile.exists() )
		{
			webCacheFile.mkdirs();
		}
	}

	public void start()
	{
		engine.start();
	}

	/**
	 * @param args
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	public static void main( String[] args ) throws IOException
	{
		final OpenMMServer server = new OpenMMServer();
		server.start();
	}

}


Our new episode of the Scottish Writers' Centre Podcast is a soul-soothing adventure from one of the SWC's most enchanting workshops. Grace Banks, talented storyteller, singer, author, and embodiment of gentleness, looked at what can inspire and influence creativity, the art of storytelling, and how each individual has a unique tale to tell.
Those who attended the workshop got to explore different approaches to their own writing, the results of which you'll hear near the end. There are even some beautifully sung ballads in there too!
Grace works as a storyteller, singer and outdoor-discovery facilitator mainly in and around Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. She runs workshops and sessions for adults and/or children. You can reach her on her website at https://silverhaar.com/.
If you want to read our interview with Grace, you can find it here, along with our blog post about the event by Rebecca Gaff.
Time is running out for you to be part of our special anthology celebrating ten years of the Scottish Writers' Centre: midnight on 30th April is the deadline for submissions. We want to use this to help showcase the best contemporary writers in Scotland, so show us what you've got and submit your writing here!


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My day-to-day tasks at work differ each day which is great as I never get bored and I am always busy. I do everything from compliance checks for our current and incoming teachers, to re-registering teachers and helping with interviews – and I do all of this whilst leading a team of dedicated consultants.


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KC has experience working with people from ages 7 years old to 93 years old. She has a heart for people and a passion and drive to help them to feel better.
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This morning at Mercer Oaks, Democratic Committee representatives from the 15th legislative District met for a party convention to choose the successor representative to the State Assembly to fill Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman's recently vacated seat.
B efore a standing room only crowd, Mercer and Hunterdon County Democratic Party leaders choose Mercer County Chairwoman (and former Mercer County Freeholder) Liz Muoio to represent the district in the Assembly. Muoio will join Assemblyman Reed Gusciora and Senator Shirley Turner.
Assemblywoman-elect Muoio thanked all of the delegates who bra ved the snow this morning to cast their votes, telling the crowd that "whether you are a committee person, or a candidate, a club member, a club chair or a municipal chair, or a county chair, it takes a village" to make the local party so successful.


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Q: Are uninitialized values ever a security risk? While learning C, I made some mistakes and printed elements of a character array that were uninitialized.
If I expand the size of the array to be quite large, say 1 million elements in size and then print the contents, what comes out is not always user unreadable, but seems to contain some runtime info.
Consider the following code:
#include <stdio.h>
main() {

        char s[1000000];
        int c, i;

        printf("Enter input string:\n");
        for (i = 0; ( c = getchar()) != '\n'; i++) {
                s[i] = c;
        }

        printf("Contents of input string:\n");
        for (i = 0; i < 999999; i++) {
                putchar(s[i]);
        }
        printf("\n");

        return 0;
}

Just scrolling through the output, I find things such as:

???l????????_dyldVersionNumber_dyldVersionString_dyld_all_image_infos_dyld_fatal_error_dyld_shared_cache_ranges_error_string__mh_dylinker_header_stub_binding_helper_dyld_func_lookup_offset_to_dyld_all_image_infos__dyld_start__ZN13dyldbootstrapL30randomizeExecutableLoadAddressEPK12macho_headerPPKcPm__ZN13dyldbootstrap5startEPK12macho_headeriPPKcl__ZN4dyldL17setNewProgramVarsERK11ProgramVars__ZN4dyld17getExecutablePathEv__ZN4dyld22mainExecutablePreboundEv__ZN4dyld14mainExecutableEv__ZN4dyld21findImageByMachHeaderEPK11mach_header__ZN4dyld26findImageContainingAddressEPKv

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I believe one time my $PATH environment variable was even printed out.
Can the contents of an uninitialized variable ever pose a security risk?
Update 1

Update 2
So it seems clear from the answers that this is indeed a security risk. This surprises me.
Is there no way for a program to declare its memory content protected to allow the OS to restrict any access to it other than the program that initialized that memory?

A: Yes, at least on systems where the data  may be  transmitted to outside users.
There have been a whole series of attacks on webservers (and even iPods) where you get it to dump the contents of memory from other process - and so get details of the type and version of the OS, the data in other apps and even things like password tables

A: It's quite possible to perform some sensitive work in an area of memory, and not clear that buffer.
A future invocation can then retrieve that uncleared work via a call to malloc() or by checking the heap (via an unitiaised buffer/array declaration). It could inspect it (maliciously) or inadvertently copy it. If you're doing anything sensitive it thus makes sense to clear that memory before binning it (memset() or similar), and perhaps before using/copying it.

A: Most C programs use malloc to allocate memory. A common misunderstanding is that malloc zeros out the memory returned. It actually does not.
As a result, due to the fact that memory chunks are "recycled" it is quite possible to get one with information of "value".
An example of this vulnerability was the tar program on Solaris which emitted contents of /etc/passwd. The root cause was the fact that the memory allocated to tar to read a block from disk was not initialized and before getting this memory chunk the tar utility made a OS system call to read /etc/passwd. Due to the memory recycling and the fact that tar did not initialize the chunk fragments of /etc/passwd were printed to logs. This was solved by replacing malloc with calloc.
This is an actual example of security implication if you don't explicitly and properly initialize memory.
So yes, do initialize your memory properly.
Update:

Is there no way for a program to declare its memory content protected
  to allow the OS to restrict any access to it other than the program
  that initialized that memory?

The answer is yes (see in the end) and no.
I think that you view it the wrong way here. The more appropriate question would be for example, why doesn't malloc initialize the memory on request or clears the memory on release but instead recycles it?
The answer is that the designers of the API explicitly decided not to initialize (or clear memory) as doing this for large blocks of memory 1)would impact performance and 2)is not always necessary (for example you may not deal, in your application or several parts in your application with data that you actually care if they are exposed). So the designers decided not to do it, as it would inadvertently impact performance, and to drop the ball to the programmer to decide on this.
So carrying this also to the OS, why should it be the OS's responsibility to clear the pages? You expect from your OS to hand you memory in a timely manner but security is up to the programmer.
Having said that there are some mechanism provided that you could use to make sure that sensitive data are not stored in swap using mlock in Linux.

mlock() and mlockall() respectively lock part or all of the calling
  process's virtual   address space into RAM, preventing that memory
  from being paged to the swap area.   munlock() and munlockall()
  perform the converse operation, respectively unlocking part or   all
  of the calling process's virtual address space, so that pages in the
  specified   virtual address range may once more to be swapped out if
  required by the kernel memory  manager. Memory locking and unlocking
  are performed in units of whole pages.

A: From the C standard:

6.7.8 Initialization
"If an object that has automatic storage duration is not initialized
  explicitly, its value is indeterminate."

indeterminate value is defined as:
 either an unspecified value or a trap representation.

Trap representation is defined as:

Certain object representations need not represent a value of the
  object type. If the stored value of an object has such a
  representation and is read by an lvalue expression that does not have
  character type, the behavior is undefined. If such a representation is
  produced by a side effect that modifies all or any part of the object
  by an lvalue expression that does not have character type, the
  behavior is undefined.41) Such a representation is called a trap
  representation.

Accessing such a values leads to undefined behaviour and can pose security threats.
This paper Attacks on uninitialized variables can give some insights on they can be used to exploit the system.

A: If you are concerned about security, safest way is to allways initialize every variable you're going to use. It may even help you find some bugs.
There may be some good reasons for not initializing memory, but in most cases initializing every variable/memory will be a good thing.

A: Reading uninitialized memory leads to undefined behavior. Bear in mind that what it means to be initialized depends on the invariant of a particular type. For example, it may be required for some pointer to be non-null, some enum to be from a valid range or a certain parameter to be a power of two. Situation complicates further with compound structures. An arbitrary sequence of bytes may not represent a valid object. This is why zeroing memory is not enough. If the expected invariant is broken, some code path relying on it will behave in an undefined manner and may pose a security issue.


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Q: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<' in index.html I want to include google map places service into my app, and in my index.html file I have an error:
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<' (at js?key=${process.env.GOOGLE_MAP_API_KEY}&libraries=places&callback=initAutocomplete`}:1:1).
You can see that I'm using backtick to add the google map API key into the src url. But how can I have an error about < here?
The index.html file:
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <link rel="icon" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/favicon.ico" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <meta name="theme-color" content="#000000" />
    <meta."description"
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