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Data Engineering and Big Data
Campaign and CRM
Data Planning
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Digital Implementation
Media Analytics and Ad Tech
As a Founding Partner of Harnham, David has built and established sales teams facing in to the UK and international markets. David is now responsible for overseeing Harnham's global sales team, whilst also building best in class Learning & Development and Internal Recruitment teams.
David's career has spanned over 15 years in recruitment across the IT, Pharmaceutical and Data & Analytics markets, and he is recognised as an expert in the industry.
A Pick Of Our Top Data Stories From 2020
It has been a year packed with news and views. We've seen it all, from buzz words like 'Big Data' through to in-depth research about automation and machine learning; 2020 has showcased the rapidly changing pace of the Data & Analytics market. In our increasingly data-driven world, the working landscape has been dramatically transformed as a result of the way in which the sector has scaled. We are more reliant now on data than ever before, as data and analytics have been supporting leaders to make difficult decisions, especially in a period of uncertainty. When you combine this continued growth with the impacts of the pandemic, it's no surprise that the Data & Analytics market continues to be in the spotlight. As a direct response to the pandemic, we've seen remarkable innovation and transformation across the sector. We have picked out a few of the most striking stories in data and analytics from the past year. Take a look below. Google acquiring Dataform At the end of the year, we saw Google Cloud acquire London-based start-up Dataform. As a business that has seen continued growth in their mission to make day-to-day business processes cheaper and simpler for organisations, Dataform was a significant scoop for the tech giant. However, this isn't the first time this year that the global corporation has snapped up another data-based company. Earlier in the year they also took on Business Intelligence platform Looker, in a bid to enhance its data analytics services for multi-cloud customers. That's as well as Actifio and Cornerstone too. But what do these moves mean for the future capabilities of Google Cloud? Using the strengthening data capabilities added by the series of acquisitions, there continues to be added functionality and accessibility to the cloud's platform, allowing a range of services for individuals and businesses alike to be streamlined. All we can say is, watch this space. Read the full article here. Data startups securing more funding In a year of highs and lows, it's exciting to have seen a great range of data-focused startups securing much-needed funding, in some cases, repeatedly. Take Skyflow for example. The startup that helps companies to protect personal data raised $7.5 million early on in May, and in its latest round, secured an additional $17.5 billion. With plans to target specific markets such as finance and healthcare, (areas that are notorious for holding sensitive data) it seems the sky is the limit for this startup. Disciplines within Data & Analytics are innovators, adapting to the needs of their customers and building up (and securely managing) datasets in a range of forms. It will be interesting to watch how these organisations scale in the next year, and how their teams of talent grow to propel them forward. Read the full article here. Accelerating the use of data & analytics across varying industries In recent months that have been shrouded by uncertainty, what has been remarkable is the swift and progressive response of the Data & Analytics sector to the effects of the pandemic. In this report from Information Age, there is mention of the significant value add that data and analytics has brought to businesses in the past year. We know that the adoption of more efficient technologies has been supported by the use of data across a range of industries. From retail, government and media, all the way through to healthcare, industries are expanding their use of data and analytics in meaningful ways. Ultimately, the response to the pandemic has been sped up by the implementation of both data and technology. It is the convergence of these powerful tools that has streamlined processes, supported industries to crossover and innovate change, and provided some much-needed optimism and direction for concerned business owners. The transformative performance of our increasing use of data and technology means that, together, they can drive the most impactful changes, regardless of business size or sector. Read the full article here. There is no doubt that there has been a truly impressive range of news from the world of Data & Analytics this year. One thing that these stories share is that with this change comes great opportunity for engineers, analysts and data specialists to take on new roles in supporting organisations in their growth plans. We are certainly looking forward to what 2021 has in store for the sector. The Data & Analytics market is one full of exciting and dynamic opportunities. To learn more about our work in this space, take a look at our latest roles or get in touch with us at info@harnham.com.
by David Farmer
The 'New Normal' Isn't So New To Data & Analytics
Across the globe, the impact of COVID-19 has spread like wildfire and our sense of normality has been shaken, most likely for good. We're seeing huge spikes of flexible working offerings, with many opting to work from home; a virtual world of online meetings; new diagnosable psychological conditions such as 'Zoom fatigue'; the inability to stand any closer to our friends and colleagues than two metres; and real concerns for our jobs markets and our economy. However, elements of our new world aren't as unique as we probably think. The changes that the pandemic has made to many of our industries, their environments and attitudes especially, were beginning to take shape a few years before COVID-19 in the Data & Analytics space. Flexibility Working remotely or from home is possible in the industry first and foremost because of well-established, high-functioning Cloud-based technologies. In Harnham's most recent research, our 2020 UK Salary Guide, the top five technologies across the sphere are SQL, Python, SAS, Google Analytics and Excel. With these systems already in place, the almost-overnight shift that the world saw from office-based work to a flexible model was already implemented across the Data & Analytics sector. Ahead of the pandemic, over half of Data & Analytics businesses stated that they had some sort of flexible working scheme in place; this year we saw this rocket to 84%. While it may seem connected this growth is not a result of lockdown measures. Prior to COVID-19 rapidly changing measures in the UK, 83% of respondents were listed as having some form of flexible working, something which only increased by 2% during our post-COVID analysis. Job Security Of course, one big concern across the board was whether any of us would have a desk to go back to once things began to subside, with many holding onto their current roles for dear life. However, for Data & Analytics, changes in attitudes were not as drastic as people may expect. While less respondents felt 'more secure' in their role and slightly more felt 'less secure' than this time last year, the number who felt 'about the same' stayed almost identical. Even post-COVID, 77% felt 'more' or 'as secure' in the role, the same percentage as in our 2019 guide. Interlinked with this surprisingly good attitude towards job security is the atypical finding that, despite our economy and the jobs market as a whole, the Data & Analytics market will be more active than ever this year. Post-COVID less respondents felt happy in their current position and almost a third were actively seeking a new role. Confident in the industry as it still efficiently grinds it gears, employees are searching for more competitive salaries (17%) or a role with more career progression prospects (18%); 74% would happily leave their roles if something better came about within the industry, only 3 percentage points down from last year. The pandemic has undoubtedly changed our world for good, and for many the next year, two years and so on will be a period of having to adapt and flex to the employee, economic and industry changes to come. What is sure however, is that Data & Analytics is two steps ahead, and will look to continue to trail blaze over this turbulent time as an industry that has been adapting to the 'New Normal' long before any of us could have predicted we would need it. If you're looking for more insights on the Data & Analytics, you can download our 2020 UK, EU, and US guides here. If you're looking to take the next step in your career you can find all of our latest roles here or, if you're looking to hire in these uncertain times, get in touch with one of our expert consultants who will be happy to help.
Coronavirus Update: What to expect from Harnham
As we learn more about COVID-19, we want to inform you of the proactive measures Harnham have taken to ensure the health and safety of our employees, while continuing to provide the best possible service to you. The majority of our service offering will be unaffected by the current situation. All staff are continuing to work remotely and are on hand to support you, although you may experience slight delays in communication or find our phone lines busy. In these instances, we'd ask that you contact the member of the Harnham team that you were last in contact with directly. If you need to find their details, you can contact them via their online profile. Alternatively, you can also contact us via our social media channels and directly via email to our main inbox (UK/EU and USA). Our Operations and Technology team have been working around the clock over the past weeks to ensure that we are able to continue running processes virtually. This has ensured that we are able to provide our clients with virtual meeting spaces, alongside the opportunity to conduct video interviews and calls without the need for face to face interaction. We are working with a number of businesses who are continuing to hire, supporting them as they begin putting in place alternative processes. We will be in contact with all candidates who are currently in any process to update on the current situation or any change to process. If you are currently looking for a new role, all our open vacancies have been updated on our website which you can view here. In the coming weeks our Marketing Team will be running a number of events such as webinars and online Q&A sessions. I would advise that if you are not already following us on Social Media (Twitter and LinkedIn), that you do so to ensure you don't miss these. We are also working to provide a range of comprehensive guides covering the challenges that you may face in the current climate. I'd also like to add, if you have yet to take part in the Harnham 2020 Salary Survey please take a moment to do so, we will be extending this for a further two weeks due to unprecedented demand. All those that take part will be the first to receive a copy of the report. In the meantime, we're running as close to business as normal as we possibly can, and are still here to support you with any hiring or job-seeking needs. We hope that you are able to look after yourself through this trying time and we look forward to working closely together again when normality returns.
Harnham 2020 Data & Analytics Salary Survey
I'm excited to announce the launch of our 9th annual Salary Survey. Covering salaries, diversity, benefits and technologies, our published Salary Guide is known for reflecting and driving trends within the Data & Analytics industry. As ever, we can't put together our guide without your input, so we are extremely grateful to everyone who is able to take part. This year, one participant will win a £500 Amazon Voucher (or an equivalent amount in your local currency). You can read all the terms and conditions for this here. The survey takes around 10 minutes and we would love to hear your thoughts. All submissions are 100% confidential and will only be used to provide an overview of the industry as a whole. You can choose the survey relevant to you below: UK Survey US Survey EU/EEA Survey In the meantime, you can download a copy of last year's completed Salary Guide here. We look forward to sharing our latest results with you later in the year.
We've launched two new offices
I'm incredibly pleased to announce that this week we have launched two new offices. The first, in central Berlin, will solidify our on-the-ground presence in the German capital and allow us to continue to develop our client base in this rapidly-growing market. Run by Senior Manager Peter Schroeter, under the guidance of our Director of Europe, Alex Hutchings, we're really excited to see the new space become a hub for Berlin's Data & Analytics talent. Secondly, we've also opened a second Wimbledon office. Despite only moving in to our current home 18 months ago, our rapid growth has led to us opening an additional Executive Office to house our Operations team as we bring in more and more expert consultants. Fortunately, it's just over the road, so there's no need to grab a bus between meetings. This continues to be a great time for Harnham and watch this space for more growth news in the not too distant future.
The Harnham 2019 Data & Analytics Salary Guide Is Here
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our 2019 UK, US and European Salary Guides. With over 3,000 respondents globally, this year's guides are our largest and most insightful yet. Looking at your responses, it is overwhelmingly clear that the Data & Analytics industry is continuing to thrive. This has led to an incredibly active market with 77% of respondents in the UK and Europe, and 72% in the US, willing to leave their role for the right opportunity. Salary expectations remain high, although we're seeing that candidates often expect 2-10% more than they actually achieve when moving between roles. Globally, we've also seen a change in the reasons people give for leaving a position, with a lack of career progression overtaking an uncompetitive salary as the main reason for seeking a change. There also remains plenty of room for industry improvement when looking at gender parity; the UK market is only 25% female and this falls to 23% in the US and 21% across the rest of Europe. In addition to our findings, the guides also include insights into a variety of markets and recommendations for both those hiring, and those seeking a new role. You can download your copies of the UK, US and European guides here.
Harnham Achieve Best Companies' 3 Star Accreditation
We are delighted to announce that Best Companies has awarded Harnham a 3 Star accreditation, their highest standard of workplace engagement. Presented only to organisations that truly excel, the accreditation reflects 'extraordinary' levels of workplace engagement. As a business who dedicates a lot of effort towards our employees' wellbeing and development, we're incredibly pleased to see that our team remains incredibly engaged. This is only our first year of participating in this survey, so to achieve such a high score reflects how highly we value our workforce. Following a recent run of award wins, including being named APSCo's Recruitment Company of the Year £10m-£50m and LinkedIn's 6th Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agency (out of 38,000), we're excited to see what the remainder of 2019 holds for Harnham. If you'd like to work for us, take a look at our Internal Recruitment area or email joinus@harnham.com.
Download our 2018 UK & EU Salary Guides
We are thrilled to announce the release of the 2018 editions of our market-leading Salary Guides for the UK, US and Europe. Having spoken to thousands of Data & Analytics professionals across the globe, we gained invaluable insights into key industry salaries and trends across a wide variety of specialisms and sectors. Our surveys are created for analysts, by analysts, and offer a detailed, on-the-ground look at what's concerning talent in the industry. As with the last few years, 2018 has shown us that the data industry continues to grow and shows no sign of slowing, with demand for analysts still easily outstripping supply. The guides include salary and trend analysis across five key specialisms: Data & Technology, Data Science, Digital Analytics, Marketing & Insight, and Risk Analytics. You can download the UK & EU guides here.
Charity begins at work
At Harnham, we believe that charity begins at work. We allow each employee to take one paid charity day off a year, in addition to their annual leave, to work for a charity of their choice. In December 2017, almost every employee in our London office decided to use their charity day to collectively volunteer for a local charity. In the lead up to Christmas, 50 employees went out in small groups daily to volunteer at the Wimbledon Foodbank. Employees generously brought in their own food to donate, and Harnham also donated a £500 supermarket order. Thanks to our volunteering at the Wimbledon foodbank, we contributed to providing help to 889 people in crisis in December 2017. 8 tons of food was donated, sorted and dated, and over 300 food parcels were handed out. In comparison, during November, 352 people were fed, 124 parcels were handed out, and 3 tons of donations were received. In order to keep supporting the Wimbledon Foodbank, employees have the opportunity to donate directly to them through our Payroll Just Giving Scheme. Harnham also matches all donations up to the value of £20.
Data and Analytics Market Review
Anyone working in analytics will know as well as I do that things move fast. The pace of change and evolution in the market means that each year presents new challenges and opportunities for us all. As I write this, we are busy planning our 10th anniversary celebrations; since the first day Simon and I started working from a couple of desks in his lounge back in 2006, we've immersed ourselves in data and analytics, and now Harnham is filled with a thriving team who are equally as passionate about the market as we are. Harnham's Market Insight 2016 saw us release our latest data and analytics salary guide. Apologies to those who had issues downloading it – our website was overwhelmed by the 900 people who downloaded it in the first few hours alone! It yet again, emphasised many interesting points about the market, whether you're hiring or being hired. If you would like more information on anything from this year's guide, feel free to get in touch with one of the team. Beyond the UK, 2016 has been a busy year. Harnham's international expansion has continued apace – in the last year, we have welcomed Alex Hutchings as Director of our European business and Craig Brown as Managing Director of Harnham USA. With these two additions, we now have consultants working in 11 countries across Europe alongside our growing UK and USA teams, meaning we are more equipped than ever to support you in any of these regions. As well as learning to say resume rather than CV, the team in the USA has also shared their tips on strategic CV writing and how to overcome hiring challenges. Data And Analytics Is Moving OnOver the last few years, data and analytics has spread its reach far and wide. Data science in particular, has continued to grow as a discipline, moving it from "must-have title" and industry buzzword to a clearly defined discipline. For graduates entering that market, the options are broad and potentially bewildering. So, Harvey offered solid advice for graduates in his recent article. As fast as the market is developing, it is not without its struggles, as seen in Jethro's post about why it is hard to build a Big Data team, whilst Ross detailed why Business Intelligence is often considered "old news". Beyond simply focusing on analytics and data, we've created commentary on topics important to us this year. As a new dad, I wrote about what I see the challenges working parents face and what I believe companies can do to support them. With all this activity, let's not forget about the over 500 people we have found roles in the last 12 months! All in all – it's been a busy start to the year, with more to come! You can get involved Don't forget to download your copy of the 2016 Harnham Salary Guide and participate in ourongoing survey and tell us which trends we all should be looking out for in 2016 – 2017.
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Meet Bill Furnas, Award-Winning Executive Chef and Regional Director of Dining Services for Carillon Assisted Living
Were it not for a paperwork miscue, Bill Furnas might never have owned nearly a dozen restaurants, earned a nutrition degree, and overseen menu preparation for all 21 Carillon Assisted Living facilities. Thank goodness for human error.
As a young Army draftee, Furnas expected an assignment related to his work experience in a machine shop. However, instead of a 74-B-20 (materials handler), a clerk classified him as 94-B-20 (cook). So, he saw action in the Vietnam War as a combat mess sergeant.
"I've been doing that the rest of my life," Bill says of his career in food services. "I'm almost positive it was a clerical error. You couldn't make that stretch without that hook on the seven."
Furnas, who earned his nutrition science degree from Central Western University near Dallas, got his initiation in food preparation at a convenience store. There, fresh doughnuts put a smile on everyone's face. By the time he reached the Army, so did the hot cinnamon rolls he supplied to soldiers in the activity room.
After his discharge, Bill went into business, creating and owning 11 restaurants in Texas and North Carolina. One of the most popular: The Great American Feed Store in Dallas. Its lunch-only menu of Army-style food—like meat and potatoes, yeast rolls, and peach cobbler—packed the place.
Other favorites over the years included smothered steak, barbecued chicken, fried potatoes and onions, and chili dogs, served up at Wild Bill's in Dallas as "The Pistol."
Ultimately, Furnas spent 25 years in retail and 12 in hospital patient feeding. For 16 years (the past five at Carillon) he has been involved in senior dining operations.
Not only does he get to use his expertise, residents enjoy the benefits of his experience. The shrimp salad served periodically at Carillon won an award in 1983. Another honor came from Premier Incorporated, one of the nation's largest group purchasing organizations. Premier presented him its Illuminating Excellence Award in 2013 because of residents' dining satisfaction scores and other accomplishments.
Later, he removed his nameplate from the trophy and inserted one with the name of the facility receiving the highest satisfaction scores that quarter. Currently on display in Asheboro, the traveling trophy helps with local marketing efforts.
"Nutrition is important," Furnas says. "I think that's comforting to families, to know somebody is looking out for their loved ones' nutrition and food preparation."
Chief Operations Officer Bob Goyette says Furnas brings a flair to Carillon's menus and recipes because he understands the "wow" factor of food preparation (Bob's personal favorite is the fried chicken).
"I can't say enough good things about Bill," Goyette says. "His work ethic is second to none. He takes so much pride and ownership in everything he does. He is truly a 'servant leader.'"
This leadership is a prime reason Carillon creates recipes and menus based on residents' needs and preferences, Goyette adds. That's important because meal times are an important part of quality of life. The dining experience directly relates to residents' satisfaction, and peace of mind for their families.
Like Furnas, all of Carillon's dining service directors have a ServSafe certification from the National Restaurant Association. Generally good for five years, it signifies a mastery of standards on food safety, such as handling food properly and serving it within certain time frames.
Even though senior dining operations are much different than restaurants, Bill says his background has proved quite useful in his position.
"The neat thing is our most successful people came from the retail world," Furnas says. "They know how to respond to customers and aren't afraid to visit with residents. That's how they made their money."
A father of three children and grandfather of three, Furnas credits family for his distinguished career. His wife, Tammy, is the senior patient services manager for one of North Carolina's largest hospitals; they met as co-managers of a restaurant. December will mark their 21st anniversary.
"It's all about passion that you have for different things," Furnas reflects. "Everyone has different passions. Back in the day, I was always bouncing ideas off my kids. When I opened the Hanger Cafe (in a small airport), my wife was in the loop with me planning for that. My family's been very supportive."
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Secure Software Supply Chain with Nikhil Kaul and Victor Szalvay
This week on the podcast, hosts Stephanie Wong and Bukola Ayodele speak with Nikhil Kaul and Victor Szalvay about security in the software supply chain. Cloud OnAir will be offering a virtual event on supply chain software security on July 29th, and our guests start the show by telling us more about it.
The recent cyber attacks on US companies have brought to light the importance of cyber security. A new set of guidelines for securing these components and software as a whole will be released soon, impacting not just software developers but the users as well. The Cloud OnAir event will breakdown these new guidelines and educate attendees on steps to take to ensure more secure software and software components. Internally, Google has been optimizing their software supply chain security for years with solutions like BeyondCorp and internally developed solutions that Google has since adapted for their clients. These solutions will be discussed in detail in the Cloud OnAir event.
Victor goes on to explain the three areas of supply chain security and how they fit into the overall security of online platforms. Software projects are often built using many small pieces of software sourced from third parties, which can create vulnerabilities. The new guidelines will help ensure quality and security at all levels of development for software and its pieces, thus strengthening security at every level of the supply chain. Nikhil and Victor talk about issues that contribute to supply chain security, including the risks that a microservices architecture can introduce and the use of open source software and their dependencies. We hear about Google's contributions to the supply chain security effort, like OpenSSF that strives to bring the open source community together toward the goal of cyber security. Our guests give listeners tips on starting the supply chain security journey.
Join the Cloud OnAir talk to learn more!
Nikhil Kaul
Nikhil leads a team of product marketers focused on driving and building messaging, positioning, and go-to-market strategy for Google Cloud's DevOps portfolio.
Victor Szalvay
Victor is an Outbound Product Manager with Google Cloud focused on helping customers get the most from the cloud. Previously he has been a tech entrepreneur and leader, with a concentration on DevOps and app dev team productivity.
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GCP Podcast Episode 251: BeyondCorp with Kiran Nair and Ameet Jani podcast
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[UPBEAT MUSIC] STEPHANIE WONG: Hey everyone, and welcome to episode number 268 of the weekly Google Cloud Platform podcast. It's Stephanie Wong here, and today I'm here with my teammate Bukola. Hey, Bukola, welcome to the podcast.
BUKOLA AYODELE: Hey, Stephanie. I'm so happy to be here today.
STEPHANIE WONG: OK, so for everyone out there, Bukola is a very accomplished, self-taught software engineer, and also a pretty famous YouTuber. So I'm in the presence of some greatness right now.
BUKOLA AYODELE: Wow, Steph. Those are high praises. [LAUGHS] Thank you.
STEPHANIE WONG: I'm just excited to have you on. So Bukola, why don't you answer this question. What are we talking about today?
BUKOLA AYODELE: So I'm so excited because we're going to be talking about an upcoming event, which is the container security event. And it's all about building trust in your software supply chain. And it's happening on July 29.
Open source software is rapidly growing and so are potential security vulnerabilities. Whether it's building an application on Kubernetes, serverless, or virtual machines, end-to-end security is crucial to mitigate this. Plus we've seen the world has had recent cybersecurity attacks and data breaches.
STEPHANIE WONG: Yes, and adversaries are just more clever than ever in finding potential windows in your software supply chain to introduce malware into your software. So at this event, you're going to learn how you can adopt an in-depth, security-first approach with Google Cloud that embeds security and compliance at all of the steps of your software lifecycle.
We have a really exciting keynote by our product executives, Pali Bhat and Eric Brewer. And we're going to hear more in a bit, because we are bringing on Nikhil and Victor from our product team to talk about the landscape and our approach to security. But first, let's jump in to the cool things of the week.
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BUKOLA AYODELE: One of the cool things I saw this week was this article about how Google Cloud is helping customers get access to the regions that have the lowest CO2. So I'm not sure if you know this, but as a Google customer, your carbon footprint is already carbon neutral. And to add to these sustainability efforts, Google is aiming to be carbon-free energy everywhere by 2030.
So to empower customers to make more sustainable decisions, in the Cloud Console you'll find a green leaf that indicates the regions with the lowest carbon impact. And this is available today for products like Cloud Run and Datastream. And you'll see it roll out to more cloud offerings over time.
So before releasing this feature, Google Cloud ran a lot of experiments to measure its impact, and users who were exposed to these enhanced region pickers were 19% more likely to select a low-carbon region for their Cloud Run service. So these results show that by displaying carbon information in context of when you make the decision of picking a region, we are helping you make more sustainable decisions, which is really cool.
STEPHANIE WONG: Yeah, that's amazing, and really encouraging results there. And just a couple of months ago we were just talking about the release of this Cloud region picker that lets you pick the region based on your priority of cost, how green the region is, and the latency to your users. And so to see this continued progression of giving you more access to this information within the console is really exciting.
So my cool thing of the week is about optimizing your Google Cloud spending using BigQuery and Looker. So our friends on our team here in DevRel, Mark Mirchadani and Leigha Jarett, wrote up a new guide. So you can visualize your billing data with Looker to gain insights on your spending over time.
So you can use the Google Cloud cost management block to quickly get analyzing. All you have to do is enable the export of your billing data to BigQuery. And the standard billing export already includes a cost table where you can see cost and usage across services, and also a pricing table that can be used to analyze prices, discounts, and services.
And then on top of that, you have something called Recommender, which is a service that provides per-product or per-service recommendations based on various heuristic methods like machine learning and current resource usage. And so what's added on top of this is you can visualize all of this data using Looker.
On the Looker marketplace, you can install any number of Looker blocks, which are essentially templates, and other content. And installing the Google Cloud billing block only takes a few steps, and you'll end up with a dashboard to help see what your spend looks like. So if you're not already taking advantage of all that you can do with your billing data, absolutely do it. I have had some great feedback on Twitter about how insightful and useful it is to really fine tune your spending and see what trends exist within your environment.
BUKOLA AYODELE: That's awesome.
STEPHANIE WONG: So let's go ahead and jump straight into our conversation. We're going to be talking to Victor and Nikhil
Victor and Nikhil, good to see you again. Thanks for joining the podcast. Just to get started, why don't you go ahead and let everyone know a little bit about yourselves.
NIKHIL KAUL: Hey, Stephanie and Bukola. Thanks a lot for having us here, really excited to do this. I'm Nikhil Kaul and I lead our product marketing team for DevOps. Essentially, the team is focused on positioning, messaging, and go-to-market activities for our DevOps products. Really excited to be here as I said, and looking forward to the conversation.
VICTOR SZALVAY: Hey, everyone. I'm Victor Szalvay. I'm an outbound product manager. I focus also on the DevOps space. I work with Nikhil and the product management team in bringing our solutions to our customers.
BUKOLA AYODELE: That's awesome. It's great to meet both of you guys. So we heard that Google Cloud is hosting a secure software supply chain event, and we heard it's happening July 29. Could you tell our listeners what it is about and the motivations behind that event?
NIKHIL KAUL: Yeah, absolutely. As you said, the event is happening on July 29. Let me take a step back and talk about the motivations of the event. Many of your viewers might know about the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack, which happened in May. The pipeline supply has nearly half of the East Coast gasoline.
Post that attack, one thing which really came out was President Biden's signed an executive order to strengthen our nation's cybersecurity. If you look at the executive order as a whole, one crucial element or the key element of that executive order is actually strengthening our software supply chain security, which basically entails, in one sentence, knowing exactly what components are being used in your software products, which includes open source dependencies, other software artifacts, and stuff.
The other important thing of that executive order is that within 180 days, NIST, or National Institute of Standards and Technology, will be publishing guidelines for securing software supply chain after consultations with, let's say, federal government, private sector, and academia.
As you can see and imagine, once these guidelines come out, they would be impacting everyone, whether you are a financial services company, whether you're a government company, whether you're working in health care or even a retail company. So irrespective of whether you use software or whether you create software, the guidelines will have an impact on your business.
So one of the motivations for the event was to drive awareness behind these upcoming changes given the executive order, and how, as an enterprise or even as a startup, given most of or many of our customers are really from that area now, to help them be better prepared to meet these new regulatory changes coming up in the future.
VICTOR SZALVAY: Yeah. And I think just to add to that, at Google we spend a lot of time securing the software supply chain internally. This is not a new problem for us. We've been facing threats for the last 10 plus years. We've had solutions in play for about that long. And a couple of good examples of that are Binary Authorization on Borg and BeyondCorp, our zero-trust initiative. Both of those are good examples. And I think we've linked in the description of the podcast here to those, so you can take a look at those and see what we've done there.
And at the same time, we're building products to help our customers with these same problems, so basically taking our internal learnings and building cloud products that make those accessible for everyone.
So we thought an event would be a perfect opportunity to shed light on some of these practices that we follow to secure our own supply chain, while at the same time highlighting some of these exciting new products and announcements. And by the way, you can register for the event. Again, there's a link in the description. And yeah, we'd love to see you there.
STEPHANIE WONG: Yeah, and the Colonial Pipeline example is just one particularly extreme and severe example recently that made its way to the presidential desk, which is a big deal to pay attention to, especially in regards to cybersecurity. But for many of us, supply chain doesn't really spring to mind when we talk about cybersecurity. Can you talk a little bit more about how software supply chain security fits into the broader context?
VICTOR SZALVAY: It really is kind of an emerging area within cybersecurity. And we actually think of this in three main categories or buckets. There's securing the supply, which includes, I think as Nikhil alluded to, your third party dependencies. It also involves securing your build process or your CICD process. And then finally securing the runtime in which your actual containers or workloads are actually running.
So the build and the runtime may be directly within your control. And I think most companies are also using a large supply chain in addition to their own code. That is, they're importing third-party components, and that's both commercial and open source, for which they don't necessarily have visibility into contributors, nor do they have visibility into the software development lifecycle or the SDLC and the adjacent security processes.
So there's some risk there. A close enough analogy would be something like automobile manufacturing. I think when you hear the term supply chain, I think a lot of folks think of manufacturing supply chain. And that's really where the term was borrowed from. And it's roughly analogous.
I mean, when you buy a car, you're buying an assembled set of parts that came from hundreds of different suppliers. Those suppliers all have upstream suppliers, though. That goes on and on until we're talking about raw materials. So it's this chain, if you can visualize a chain of suppliers that ultimately leads to the auto manufacturer assembling that into a finished good.
And so auto manufacturers therefore need to mandate quality guidelines. They need to have security guidelines, which those apply to the entire supply chain. And there are often certifications and inspections that go with that. So in software, we have a similar web of third-party suppliers.
I mean, if you look at a lot of the open source products out there, they're made up of other open source products, which then, in turn, are made up of other open source products and so forth. So the problem is, we really have no good way of enforcing quality or security outside of our own build and development processes. And so that's really the problem.
NIKHIL KAUL: One of the great ideas which you just presented was comparing software supply chain to the manufacturing example of a car. And just like in the manufacturing example that Victor gave, each and every point in the software supply chain across source, build, and deploy can be a potential vector for attack, the same way each and every point in the car example can be potentially compromised for the security. In fact, of late you would see that there have been numerous attacks that highlight the urgency to solve this software supply chain problem for any company, whether you're an enterprise or whether you're a startup.
BUKOLA AYODELE: That's so interesting. So you mentioned attacks. Could you give us more examples about the different attacks that have been happening in the industry?
VICTOR SZALVAY: Yeah, there's been actually quite a few. And I think there's one that happened just recently. At the time of recording now, this happened just this week. A company named Kaseya, they have a product named VSA, which was basically the target of essentially a supply chain attack. And what happened was that attackers compromised the Kaseya VSA, who then basically those attackers used a software update to push ransomware out to those Kaseya customers.
So these things happen often because there's kind of blind trust of upstream suppliers or the lack of a vetting process.
NIKHIL KAUL: Yeah, and Kaseya is just an example of one of the attacks which has happened in the industry. If you Google software supply chain, I'm sure you will see one after the other examples. SolarWinds is another attack which comes to my mind. [INAUDIBLE] is another example.
One of the common themes across all these attacks is either a bad code, compromised build systems, or a leaked credentials from CICD, who are partly responsible for the supply chain attack that happened. Again, it highlights the importance of securing your software supply chain when you think about cybersecurity as a whole.
STEPHANIE WONG: Yeah, and just thinking about it, there are so many points within the process, like you mentioned, where vulnerabilities can exist, whether it's in the dependencies or at the source, the build, or the package stage. So it really does take a very measured approach to making sure that there are policies in place to prevent any potential attacks.
So when we're thinking about organizations that have very established means to do this already, how are these attacks affecting the decisions inside enterprises?
NIKHIL KAUL: So there are some things which are pretty obvious, which are the first-order dimensions on how the behavior might change. And one of the things which is pretty obvious is that given the executive order, it wouldn't be surprising to see security budgets as a whole go up in 2022.
And if you read the executive order as well, as a part of the executive order there is a special focus on zero-trust architecture. So we feel that zero-trust architecture, whether it is in cybersecurity or whether it is in securing a software supply chain, will be front and center. Another crucial tangent of that zero-trust architecture is that there will be a strong interest in automation, as manual checks can only go so far when you're implementing this architecture.
Second, if you look over the previous multiple years, you would see that when working with enterprises, traditionally, having more control and having more in-house setup has been equated with having a better security approach. As these attacks have proven, this is necessarily not the case.
So we envision enterprises as well as other companies moving to a fully managed, lockdown Cloud services model with the flexibility to operate this model within their own private network if necessary, rather than having an in-house setup where they take care of security on their own.
VICTOR SZALVAY: I agree with that, and I think specifically from a development and DevOps tool standpoint. Traditionally, most organizations are balancing the control and transparency they get from self-hosted point products that they string together themselves against a more fully managed offering.
And I think right now, the need for auditable security practices will likely tilt the balance more toward a fully managed offering that provides security baked in. In other words, securing the software supply chain and SDLC is a whole new dimension of responsibility I think that most organizations don't necessarily want to shoulder directly.
I mean, at one point fully managed options like Google Cloud look pretty attractive, considering we are dealing with this problem at a massive scale already. We have solutions in place that can be kind of just implemented.
So in fact, I recently spoke with a large fintech company who basically started down the path of a self-hosted, self-managed development tools ecosystem. And with this executive order, it's really turned them around 180 on that decision. They're now thinking about, OK, if we're going to have to have a level of scrutiny and a level of regulatory compliance even within the SDLC, we've got to think of more fully managed solutions as an option there.
BUKOLA AYODELE: I can only imagine that this is such a difficult problem to solve. And other than the disparate tools, could you give us any other reasons that make this a difficult problem to solve?
NIKHIL KAUL: Yeah, absolutely. Disparate tools, point solutions, as Victor mentioned, are part of the problem, because having one single view across these disparate tools from a security standpoint can be challenging. The other challenge which really arises is, if you see over the past multiple years, we have moved from a monolithic architecture to a microservices-driven model.
When we move from this monolithic architecture to a microservices-driven model, each of these microservices, we are updating, testing, and releasing, based upon the need of that microservices. What that also means, that each of that microservices has its own supply chain, which spans from what dependencies are being used, the CICD and the build system, and how often they are getting deployed.
What that means is this challenge is multiplied numerous times depending upon the release frequency and depending upon how many microservices you have as a whole. So as you can see, this problem of securing a software supply chain can actually get compounded exponentially, depending upon your release and testing schedule as a whole. That's just one of the things.
The other thing is like, if you see the industry as a whole, we have got really good at using open source solutions. And the benefit of open source is pretty evident. You can leverage the work of others, you get the benefit of accessing the work of others without writing the source code of your own. So it's been a really good benefit to the industry.
But at the same point of time, when you're leveraging the work of others, it also means that you're relying or trusting the work of others. The dependencies which you are using from open source software can really run deep. And before you use that software, you really need to understand potential security risks that come with using the software, with open source components as well.
So the move from monolithic to microservices and the use of open source software are probably the two other things which come to my mind, other than the use of disparate tools, which make this problem much more difficult to solve.
VICTOR SZALVAY: And just building on that a little bit, especially the open source point, I think because we're talking about a supply chain with potentially thousands of unknown contributors, it's very hard to even understand or visualize the dependencies you have upstream. Because it's not just your immediate dependencies that matter. Most open source software has tons and tons of dependencies. And this chaining of dependencies can go very deep.
So one of the things we've done for the industry broadly is we've released Open Source Insights, and that's accessible at deps.dev, D-E-P-S dot dev, and we'll link it, of course, in the description. But this basically helps with awareness. It really provides a tabular and graphical visualization of the dependency chain of any given open source package. So it covers a bunch of different languages and a bunch of different package types. I really encourage folks to check it out and integrate it into their process.
STEPHANIE WONG: Yeah, Open Source Insights is fantastic. I heard about it a few weeks ago when we first announced it. And it's just awesome because you can actually see whether a vulnerability exists in a dependency that might affect your code and recognize it before you roll any of your code out to production. So it's just fantastic.
And now we're starting to talk a little bit more about what Google is doing here. So can you dive into what Google's doing to help prepare our industry for these supply chain threats?
NIKHIL KAUL: That's a really good question. Actually, we have a whole section in the event that is coming up on July 29 dedicated to this. But there are some things which I can talk about here. There are things which we are doing with Lighthouse and NIST to establish standards. So come learn about what we're doing with these two parties at the event.
As Victor was mentioning, and, Stephanie, you also referred to, Open Source Insight can be a really good place to start, if you're especially using open source software to understand the dependency graph. But what you two didn't mention is the open source scorecard space, which actually provides you a risk score for open source projects as a whole. So those would be the top three things which come to my mind.
VICTOR SZALVAY: Yeah, there's so much we're doing. I mean, one of the big things we did was founded the openssf.org website, which is the Open Source Security Foundation. And this is really an effort to bring the open source community together to collaborate on supply chain security. So think town hall with actionable outputs and bringing folks together and really providing a forum for discussing these issues.
There's also Salsa And Salsa is basically an end-to-end framework for ensuring the integrity of software artifacts throughout, basically, the software supply chain. So what it is is it's a three-tiered approach, and it provides basically an incremental, stepwise, kind of practical roadmap for adopting supply chain security along eight identified attack vectors. So you can check that out at slsa.dev.
STEPHANIE WONG: I feel like I need to grab some chips for that one.
VICTOR SZALVAY: Yeah, I think we're going with Salsa for a good reason there. So--
STEPHANIE WONG: Love it.
VICTOR SZALVAY: There's a ton of this stuff, and we're going to talk in a lot more depth at the event, as Nikhil mentioned. And I think another fantastic thing is that you're going to hear directly from some of Google's thought leaders in this space as well as some of our customers.
BUKOLA AYODELE: That sounds great. I'm so excited to attend the event. And it seems like we are having a lot of new learnings and new practices. I wonder how we're bringing all these lessons and practices into our products here at Google Cloud.
VICTOR SZALVAY: We talked about things like Binary Authorization on Borg and the zero trust. And we are bringing those pieces out as capabilities within Google Cloud. So based on what we discussed, really the need is around establishing the provenance of those dependencies in your supply chain and that certain processes were followed and tools were used during the lifecycle.
So we'll have a complete demo of this at the event, but Google's Binary Authorization product does exactly this. So with Binary Authorization, you can require images to be signed by trusted authorities during the development process. So as you're basically creating artifacts and container images, it can basically be signed.
And that process allows you to define a policy, which is required in your SDLC. So the policy would look something like, for example, that you've used blessed artifact repositories for all of your dependencies. For example, that your images were scanned, that code review was done with x number of reviewers, that a specific build system was used, and so on. So you can basically craft whatever policy you want to see as part of your SDLC.
And then as your artifacts move through that SDLC, what are called attestations are captured. And this is really like a cryptographic signature that says that, hey, this particular process was followed, or as I mentioned earlier, code review was done or the build system was used. This collection of attestations then becomes sort of a chain of trust. We now know that as you're about to deploy this thing into Google's Kubernetes Engine or Cloud Run, that Binary Authorization can sit there as an admission controller and basically block any image that has not been fully adhered to, according to this policy.
NIKHIL KAUL: Along with Binary Authorization, we also provide lockdown environments for continuous integration and continuous delivery. Cloud Build is a really good example of that. We also provide a secure lockdown environment for storing your artifacts. Those artifacts could be a Maven NPM or other container artifacts with artifact registry.
And finally, and most importantly, once you have created a build with CICD using Cloud Build, stored those artifacts in artifact registry, you need to deploy them in a secure manner. Cloud Run and Cloud Functions are products which we offer for serverless, where each container or a function runs in its own sandbox. So that takes care of security.
And finally, and most importantly, if you're someone who loves Kubernetes and wants to run applications or containers on Kubernetes, GKE Autopilot would be a great fit, given it contains security features like shielded GKE nodes, Secure [? Boot, ?] among others. One of the crucial things is we shared a lot of information, which is right from how we can help with Binary Authorizations, which Victor mentioned, how Cloud Build provides a secure environment, artifact registry, and then runtime environments like Cloud Functions, GKE Autopilot, or Cloud Run.
In the event, one of the things which we are doing is actually we are trying to bring all of this together via a demo of how you can actually leverage all of these solutions in an end-to-end manner in order to build in secure software supply chains. I'm pretty excited to see how that demo comes up together as well. So those are some of the things which we are doing to bring learnings and practices from Google into our products.
STEPHANIE WONG: Fantastic. We're looking forward to seeing the demo. But just thinking about where customers may be on their journey, some companies, they have a long history with their software supply chain. They may be currently defining new security policies. And as you mentioned, other companies have a huge influx of new services being implemented. So it's a ripe moment for them to start to look back at their secure practices. So what's the one thing that you would recommend to do with their supply chain, irrespective of where they are in their journey?
NIKHIL KAUL: You would see multiple companies being on different trajectories or different parts of the software supply chain journey. Some are using virtual machines, some are using containers, or some are in the process of actually moving from virtual machines to containers. Rather than us coming up with recommendations, DevOps Research and Assessment, which is the leading voice in DevOps, given its six years of research across companies of all sizes and industry, actually has an answer for that.
But the answer really lies in not sacrificing speed or stability for security. It actually showcases that organizations, elite teams, or high-performing teams actually are able to manage speed, security, and stability together. And in fact, one of the other things which the report highlights is the elite teams or high-performing teams actually use open source software a lot.
And the way they do it is actually ensuring that security is taken care before the development is complete. So the way I would say it is shifting left on security and taking care of it earlier in the development process. And this can happen irrespective of what you're building or what technology you're using or what processes you're using, whether you're using agile, whether using DevOps, or whether you're using something else, or whether you're working on virtual machines, or whether you're working on Kubernetes or even serverless architecture.
So one thing which I would say is, thinking of security earlier in the development process and ensuring that it gets embedded on as a part of your software development process would be one thing which I would feel that other folks, irrespective of where they are in the journey, can actually take something and implement it.
VICTOR SZALVAY: Yeah, I completely agree. I mean, really, agility is actually necessary to be effective in responding to security issues. That is to say, if you detect a security problem but you're unable to release for the next x number of months because your process is not agile enough, that's also a problem.
So we're absolutely not advocating taking a full clamp-down approach to the point where your velocity is squashed. We're advocating for the opposite, right? And instead, shifting security left into your SDLC. So some practical examples there-- get your infosec team involved early, even potentially in the design stages. Often, security is an afterthought and we engage the security team in late review stages, when we're very close to already having products baked and things built. So bring them in early, get them into your early design reviews, and build that in as part of your process.
The next thing is think about developing security-approved tools. So a great example here is settling on a blessed artifact repository, which perhaps contains known or scanned third-party dependencies, versus just grabbing stuff off the internet at build time, doing a curl in your build process straight up.
The last thing I'll just kind of say is automated testing. I've always been a big believer in automated testing. And I think getting security tests into the test automation process basically means that you can build and proceed at a high velocity while also continuously testing at scale. So minimize those manual reviews and have it be something that's a built-in part of your process from the very beginning.
BUKOLA AYODELE: Those were all really awesome tips, especially like the tip about putting security earlier in the development process. So we're so excited to hear even more tips at the event. So could you tell us about the container security day event and what we should expect?
NIKHIL KAUL: Sure. So essentially we have divided the event into three main parts, I would say. The first and the foremost part of the event is really focused on talking about how Google secures its software supply chain internally and how we are bringing those practices to the market. So in that part, you will see our product leadership as well as talk to leaders like Eric Brewer and our chief security officer Phil Venables, talk about how we are bringing these practices and how we are working with, as I said, Lighthouse and NIST to actually set the standards.
We also have customers such as Shopify, and one of the interesting things Shopify is doing is actually they're able to manage security with speed. So you do not have to choose one or the other. So their insights would be really helpful in understanding how you can actually go faster without compromising on security or stability. So that's the first part of the event.
The second part of the event, we actually go deeper into the secure software supply chain. So we basically break down the secure software supply chain into four parts, as Victor was saying before. We talk about how to secure your open source dependencies, what are the best practices you follow. Then we talk about how you can secure your CICD processes as a whole. The third part would really talk about how you can actually secure the runtime, and then finally and most importantly, how you can have a single policy for managing.
The third section of the event is actually where the attendees can ask us questions. So we will have Kelsey Hightower as well as a part of the event, moderating it, where the attendees and the audience can ask us questions on how they can implement these findings or these learnings as a part of the software development journey. I hope that is helpful. And if you want the registration details, it is in the podcast description.
STEPHANIE WONG: Yes, and as you said, this is core and fundamental to how Google's operated at this scale, being secure and agile simultaneously. And we're both looking forward to attending the event. And thank you again for joining and giving us a sneak peek.
VICTOR SZALVAY: Hey, thanks very much, Bukola and Stephanie. Appreciate for having us.
NIKHIL KAUL: Thank you so much for having us. This was fun.
STEPHANIE WONG: Wow, so "move security to the left." I feel like that needs to be on a t-shirt or something for everyone to really internalize that phrase. But I just really love the conversation talking about how, irrespective of whether you are building using monolithic applications or you're already implementing microservices, each has its own software supply chain.
And at this point, with the proliferation of open source software, nearly all software depends on open source and other external, third-party building blocks. And so all of this has become more common attack vectors. But it's exciting and encouraging to see that Google Cloud has invested in various causes like the Open Source Security Foundation, Open Source Insights, and one of my favorites, Salsa. So yeah, it was a great conversation.
BUKOLA AYODELE: Yeah I thought the conversation was great. I learned so much. What was actually the most interesting thing that I learned was how GCP is bringing these security lessons into the products. For example, when Victor talked about Binary Authorization, which allows you to acquire images to be signed by a trusted authority during the development process. You can also define policies which are required in your software development cycle.
So that's really cool, because Binary Authorization integrates with GKE Cloud Run control plane, to allow or block images based on whether they meet your policy.
STEPHANIE WONG: Right, it's like, how do you ensure only authorized builds make it to production, plus scope the blast radius of vulnerabilities in production? So be sure, everyone, to check out the event. It's called Container Security: Building Trust in your Software Supply Chain. And it's on July 29, from 12:00 to 3:00 PM Eastern time.
And it's all virtual. So you have no excuse not to go. But you'll also be seeing demos, and you'll get a special live Q&A with Eric Brewer, Kelsey Hightower, Nelly Porter and Michael Windsor. So be excited for that. And before we wrap up, Bukola, what are you working on?
BUKOLA AYODELE: So I'm actually working on this new season of the series on Security Command Center, which is actually going to be on the GCP YouTube channel next month. You should definitely check it out.
STEPHANIE WONG: Yeah, we'll include the link to that. And it's really exciting to see how much that series has grown since we first launched it a little while ago. The Product Security Command Center has matured. And we have a lot of exciting features like Event Threat Detection, BigQuery data exfiltration, resource-level access control, and more. And so the series is great to not only introduce each of those, but walk through some demos on how you can use it yourself.
Thanks for joining, Bukola, to co-host, and thank you everyone else for listening. We'll see you all next week.
BUKOLA AYODELE: Bye, see you next week.
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Usually, this is where racers like Max Verstappen and Marc Márquez park their machines. On these four days, however, every sports enthusiast is given the chance to become a star. In February 2020, the pits of the Red Bull Ring won't see international motorsport teams fight for glory. Instead the pit gates of Austria's Grand Prix track will open for amateur athletes of all ages – from occasional sportspeople to ambitious competitors. This unique event is titled "Kleine Zeitung Tennis in the Box – Adventure Padel am Red Bull Ring" and the game provides four days of sporting entertainment for the whole family.
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In Spain and Argentina, it has already become a national sport and now it is on its way to also become one of Europe's most popular trend sports. The "Kleine Zeitung Tennis in the Box – Adventure Padel am Red Bull Ring" is endorsed by celebrities such as tennis pro Barbara Schett, the former no. 7 in the world and best female Austrian player of all time in the WTA ranking: "This game offers dynamic and action-packed fun in a small space: I can warmly recommend padel tennis to all those who love exercising! You get the hang of it extremely quickly and its high fun factor makes it appealing even to less experienced players. 'Tennis in the box' is a great way to get to know the sport!"
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Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) Born in Pécs, Hungary, Marcel Breuer studied at the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar from 1920 to 1924. After a short stay in Paris, he took over the management of the joiner's workshop at the Bauhaus from 1925 to 1928, which had meanwhile moved to Dessau. During this time, he was strongly influenced by constructivism and De Stijl and developed a few trend setting tubular steel furniture designs. In 1928, Breuer went to Berlin and dedicated himself mainly to the field of interior design. Starting in 1932 he worked on several aluminium furniture designs in Switzerland. In 1935 Breuer moved to London, where he worked as an architect. In 1937 he was granted a professorship for architecture at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Later, he opened an architectural office there together with Walter Gropius. In 1946 Breuer founded his own studio in New York and realized numerous designs in Europe and the United States. He is considered one of the most important architects and designers of modernism.
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Akron Clinic Will Expand Help for People With Criminal Records to Get Jobs
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The University of Akron's Re-entry Clinic is getting a $67,000 grant from the Ohio State Bar Foundation to help people with criminal records get jobs.
The clinic offers free assistance with filing the forms the state uses to establish someone's a good employment risk in spite of their record.
The new funds will expand the clinic's reach outside of Summit County, educate employers on the benefits and survey applicants who receive the so-called Certificate for Qualification of Employment from the state about the program's success.
Associate Professor Joann Stahl says the grant now allows the clinic to improve lives throughout the state.
"You no longer have to live in Summit County to get help," said Stahl. "There are now other places in Northeast Ohio and in Northwest Ohio where you can get assistance with the CQE application. So it's really expanded what I like to call the 'path to hope' for so many people who deserve a second chance."
In addition to Summit County, Northeast Ohio residents can now gain assistance in Cuyahoga and Mahoning counties.
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When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As our national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger crisis. Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) directs an all-star cast featuring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo, Ashley Judd and Rick Yune. (c) FilmDistrict
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Q: I got this shape (1,254,254,1) while expected shape is (1,254,254,3) Image comes from the front end in PIL I preprocess it but it giving me a different shape than expected.
my code is
def preprocess(img):
    img = np.array(img)
    resized = cv2.resize(img, (254, 254))
    img = tf.keras.preprocessing.image.img_to_array(resized)/255
    img = np.array([img])

    return img

this is a pil image

<PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile image mode=L size=2144x1805 at
0x229615E2488>

And when I preprocess it, it gives this shape
the shape of the test image is  (1, 254, 254, 1)

and when I try the preprocess code outside of my project it works fine.

A: This means that your Network needs an image not in grayscale colors and you're unconsciously trimming that info. I suggest you to try resized = cv2.resize(img, (254, 254, 3)) instead of resized = cv2.resize(img, (254, 254)). Because otherwise your telling to the resize method implicitly that you want an image on grayscale and you'll miss that last dimension.

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I've loved pink all my life. I still to this day tend to gravitate towards anything pink in stores and in general haha. Something about it is so attractive to me. In my room now, I have a pink study table, a pink chair, a pink bedside table, a pink mug, pink towels, even a pink mini Quran. I'm not however, a pink wearer. I don't wear much pink. Or any colour for that matter. I'm not someone to wear bright coloured things. I'm more muted in my outfits.
I've never been the type to actually wait to see what Pantone has set as 'colour of the year' but I was aware that this year it was the first time that they have two colours instead of just one. This years Pantone 'it' colours are rose quartz and serenity, the former a baby pink and the latter a baby blue. How pretty is the name 'rose quartz' to describe a pink by the way?!?!
So I, at 430 am, decided to pick my favourite 'pink' photos on my personal Tumblr and made this collage. I love the colour and I think I'm probably going to hunt that corduroy baby pink skirt to the ends of earth.
Resolution 2k16 #87 : Wear more pink. Also, wear some blusher, for Gods sake.
I feel like I'm more free to wear anything I want here than in KL (with my dad and the general public lol) but the weather is heavily restrictive. So I'm going to give myself the winter months off, and start again when it's a lot warmer. A LOT warmer.


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Q: Update values in Table A based on sorting results from Table B (MySQL) First - Thanks in Advance for looking and possibly helping, it is most appreciated!
Basically I need to sort Table A, Column DESCRIPT, from A~Z and then...
Based on this sort, then update Table B, Column PRINTORDER so that the lowest sort value would have a PRINTORDER = 1 and the highest sort value would have a PRINTORDER = 20,000
In the subset of data the lowest is 18681 & highest is 18695.  (Actual table range is from 1 to 20,000)
The only data that should be modified is PRINTORDER in Table B.
Here is a subset of data from Table A:
    INUM    DESCRIPT
    23151   Crayon Apron
    23152   Acrylic bunny acry153
    23153   Acrylic easter egg acry154
    23154   Acrylic posypot tulip acrye01a
    23155   Acrylic orn chick acrye02
    23156   Hat baby chick bge10151
    23157   Sipper baby chick bge10158
    23158   Grow chick ea10991
    23159   Nail crystals easter ea11052
    23160   Mug jelly bean em11681
    23161   Plush tumbleweed chick he10148

Here is a subset of data from Table B:
    ID      INUM    PrintOrder
    142161  23151   18681
    144054  23161   18683
    145092  23159   18687
    145093  23160   18688
    145094  23152   18689
    145095  23153   18690
    145096  23155   18691
    145097  23154   18692
    145098  23158   18693
    145099  23156   18694
    145100  23157   18695

Here is the hoped for result:
    ID      INUM    PrintOrder
    142161  23151   18681
    144054  23161   18694
    145092  23159   18693
    145093  23160   18692
    145094  23152   18689
    145095  23153   18683
    145096  23155   18687
    145097  23154   18688
    145098  23158   18690
    145099  23156   18691
    145100  23157   18695

Thanks & Happy New Year!

A: This might work.  First you set the counter (i) which will go from 1 to 20000 (if you have 20000 rows).
Then you use the UPDATE ... JOIN ... ORDER BY pattern to sort by DESCRIPT, at which point you can set PrintOrder to the sequential number.
I hope it works for you.
set @i:=1;

UPDATE b b
   JOIN
   (
   SELECT a.INUM, DESCRIPT
   FROM a AS a
   WHERE DESCRIPT <> ''
   ORDER BY DESCRIPT
) a
ON b.INUM = a.INUM
SET b.PrintOrder=@i:=@i+1;


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Auchnagatt School is situated in the village of Auchnagatt and serves the catchment area of the village and surrounding rural area. Auchnagatt School was opened in 1957 and replaced the two schools of Savoch and Clochan. In 2007, to accommodate pupils from the closure of the nearby Braeside School, an extension for office accommodation and a fully upgraded school meals kitchen was added. A car park was also added to the front of the school.
Auchnagatt School provides education for children aged 4 1/2 – 12 i.e. from P1 – P7, currently there are 3 classes including a teaching Head Teacher. Teaching staff are supported by two part time Pupil Support Assistants, an Administrator, an Admin Support Assistant and a part time Janitor.
We also have a number visiting specialists who provide support for learners and a range of specialist skills. The school works closely with a range of other support agencies and volunteers in order to provide the best possible experience for all the children.
Auchnagatt School has a supportive School Council, there is also a Pupil Council in the school.
Pupils transfer to Mintlaw and Ellon Academies for Secondary Education.
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New Records Shed Light on Donald Trump's $25,000 Gift to Florida Official
September 14, 2016 – The New York Times
Donald J. Trump & Attorney General Pam Bondi of Florida in March at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. Credit Michele Eve Sandberg/Corbis, via Getty Images
by Kevin Sack and Steve Eder
It was Aug. 29, 2013, an unremarkable day inside Florida's whitewashed Capitol, and a typically sweltering one outside among the moss-bearded oaks and sabal palms. Around 3:45 p.m., Jennifer Meale, the communications director for Attorney General Pam Bondi, fielded a seemingly routine call from a financial reporter for The Orlando Sentinel. The attorney general of New York had recently filed a lawsuit against Donald J. Trump alleging fraud in the marketing of Trump University's real estate and wealth-building seminars. Had Florida ever conducted its own investigation, the reporter asked.
The call set off an exchange of emails between Ms. Meale and top lawyers in the office. She learned that 23 complaints about Trump-related education enterprises had been filed before Ms. Bondi became attorney general in 2011, and one since. They had never generated a formal investigation, she wrote the reporter, but added, "We are currently reviewing the allegations in the New York complaint."
The Sentinel's report, which was published on Sept. 13, 2013, paraphrased Ms. Meale's response and took it a step further, saying that Ms. Bondi's office would "determine whether Florida should join the multi-state case." Four days later, a check for $25,000 from the Donald J. Trump Foundation landed in the Tampa office of a political action committee that had been formed to support Ms. Bondi's 2014 re-election. In mid-October, her office announced that it would not be acting on the Trump University complaints.
The proximate timing of the Sentinel article and Mr. Trump's donation, and suspicions of a quid pro quo, have driven a narrative that has dogged Mr. Trump and Ms. Bondi for three years. It has intensified during Mr. Trump's presidential campaign, peaking this month with the filing of ethics complaints, calls for a federal investigation by editorial boards and Democrats in Congress, and a new investigation of Mr. Trump's foundation by New York regulators.
But documents obtained this week by The New York Times, including a copy of Mr. Trump's check, at least partly undercut that timeline. Although the check was received by Ms. Bondi's committee four days after the Sentinel report, and was recorded as such in her financial disclosure filings, it was actually dated and signed by Mr. Trump four days before the article appeared.
The check's date does not categorically demonstrate that Mr. Trump was not seeking to influence Ms. Bondi, a fellow Republican. Even as he has denied trying to do so in this instance, he has boasted brazenly and repeatedly during his presidential campaign that he has made copious campaign contributions over the past two decades, including to Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, in order to buy access and consideration for his business dealings.
Politicians in Florida, which Mr. Trump considers his second home, have been among his leading beneficiaries. An analysis of public records shows he has contributed at least $375,000 to state and federal candidates and political committees here since 1995, accounting for 19 percent of the roughly $2 million he has given to campaigns nationwide, other than his own.
Although not unprecedented, his $25,000 gift to And Justice for All, the committee supporting Ms. Bondi, is among his largest.
What is more, when Mr. Trump wrote that check, he still theoretically had reason to be concerned that Florida's attorney general could become a player in the legal assault on Trump University.
Through 2010, when the company ceased operations, Florida had been one of the most lucrative markets for his unaccredited for-profit school. It ranked second among states in purchases, with 950 transactions, and third in sales, at $3.3 million, according to an analysis of sales data revealed in court filings. [READ MORE]
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