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How To Do Digital Marketing in the Age of Privacy
Have you ever had an online ad follow you for days on end? It appears as you're scrolling through social media, on the sidebars of your favorite news column, and above the navigation bar of that website you love. Like a ghost, it tracks your behaviors with a quiet, sometimes creepy, determination. This "e-haunting" is thanks to digital marketers, who are tracking your online behaviors to showcase their products and drive sales.
Within the last few years, digital marketing efforts have shifted their strategies. Before, marketers relied heavily on third-party cookies to deliver highly-targeted ads. Through various web browsers, they were able to collect sensitive data about consumers and retarget campaigns based on this highly-specific information. Utilizing these strategies led to severe privacy risks and the distrust of the public. There is a reason why so many internet users block cookies from their web browsers to this day.
Fortunately, the world of digital marketing is moving in a new direction. This new age focuses on protecting consumer privacy through less invasive advertising tactics. The tides began to change in 2017 when Apple introduced its Intelligent Tracking Prevention program. This program started the trend of blocking third-party cookies, which are now in the process of being phased out legally by 2023. Browsers like Safari and Firefox are already following Apple's lead, while Google Chrome is well on its way.
New research from AdRoll suggests that there are many new tools and strategies that digital marketers will be using when the cookies crumble for good. The e-commerce marketing leader highlights many other channels to use that are secure, informative, and much more creative.
Contextual targeting is not a new digital marketing strategy, but research suggests that it is making a comeback. Although often confused with the behavioral targeting of cookies, it does not make decisions based on individual users' data. Context-specific ads are personalized for an audience as a whole; they are relevant to a website's content and its audience. For example, an ad for a coffee brand could appear on a recipe page for pancakes. Or, an advertisement for an airline could pop up on the travel section of a new site.
Contextual targeting protects user privacy while remaining relevant to the interests of users. It also allows ads to look and feel organic without being over-personalized. Automated technologies are helping digital marketers find their footing in this "post-cookies age." A great example is AdRoll's brand awareness solution, which uses artificial intelligence to help brands locate their target audiences and match their ads more accurately. The company's AI takes note of keywords, content, and website imagery to find the best results.
Overall, contextual targeting offers digital marketers the ability to boost brand awareness to broader audiences without relying on behavioral tracking.
Email lists are a great, cookie-less way for digital marketers to engage with a brand's established audience. This example of first-party data is exactly what it sounds like: It is a list of email addresses that users have offered a company in return for special news and updates.
The purpose of email lists is to create a more direct relationship with the consumer. Users who sign up for email lists are more likely to convert because they are already interested in the company. By including conversion forms and call-to-actions, marketers can increase ROIs and get a feel for what customers are looking for. They can also ask specific questions of subscribers to collect more data. Trust is built when customers share their preferences and develop their data profiles independently.
Email lists protect customers' information from third parties as well, and the relationship stays between the company and the user's email inbox. This exclusivity makes it a fool-proof way to securely improve customer interactions and drive sales.
Organic Social Media
Digital marketing isn't always about creating advertisements, and it is just as important to drive sales through organic social media strategies. Organic social media marketing includes all content pieces that are not paid promotions. Marketers can engage with a brand's followers by posting consistently and creatively without spending a dime.
So how does a company maximize its reach without targeted ads? First, marketers need to focus on their brand's identity. Selecting strong keywords for SEO purposes is a great way to start. Keywords help users find products and services when scrolling through their search engines. Strong keywords target a company's niche audience while also remaining broad enough for new leads to discover. Incorporating these keywords into social media posts can improve a brand's visibility to relevant audiences. The same consistency should be considered when improving a brand's visual aesthetic.
Marketers must consistently create and post content once this branding is established across the board. Adroll suggests planning one's content cycle up to three months in advance. To avoid feeling overwhelmed by a busy content calendar, incorporating evergreen content is a great way to repurpose pieces when something new cannot be made.
To successfully keep followers engaged, marketers should mix up the different content pieces that are posted. Whether it is a fun TikTok dance or an Employee of the Week series on Instagram, organic social media is most successful when it feels authentic. The consumer's values and interests should be the focus.
An Emphasis on the Creative
Although third-party cookies were an easy way for marketers to track consumer data, the future of digital marketing looks much more innovative. The age of privacy is asking the e-commerce space to learn about consumers through relationship-building tactics instead. With the average American seeing 4,000 to 10,000 ads per day, there is a need for new channels like these to replace the "e-haunting" of the past and build consumers' trust.
The opinions expressed here by Inc.com columnists are their own, not those of Inc.com.
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    using System;
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Category: News // Jurisdiction: Bahamas // Topic: Data Protection Act, Disclosure of Information, Trust Law // Author:
The trustees of the Glenfinnan Settlement are being sued by Mrs Ashley Dawson-Damer and her two children regarding the disposition of the trust's assets. In 2013, having failed to obtain disclosure under Bahamian legislation, the Dawson-Damers were represented by Taylor Wessing, with a UK subject access request under section 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998). This requires a company to disclose all the personal data it holds on the individual who made the request.
The Data Protection Act's legal professional privilege exemption was used to establish an attempted defence. It won in the England & Wales High Court however subsequently lost on appeal, with the UK Court of Appeal issuing an order for the disclosure of their personal data.
The company initially complied with the order for electronic data however their refusal to release any hard copies on the grounds that paper files did not constitute a relevant filing system as per the Data Protection Act 1998 was later challenged.
The beneficiaries challenged the decision again, which was subsequently rejected, whereby the Court of Appeal ordered them to examine their paper files for relevant information to be disclosed to the Dawson-Damers.
The ruling has been described as a 'landmark victory' by many for its clients and UK trust law, as the case (Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing 2019) establishes the following notable points:
The case provides an extra level of protection of rights of Bahaman Citizens.
In the absence of litigation privilege, trustees and beneficiaries have joint privilege for legal advice, as per UK legislation.
The case has been influential in the significance of litigation privilege between a trustee and its legal advisor.
The Judge from the case stated: decision was a "necessary clarification that trustees can rely on the specific exemption which provides that personal data can be withheld (if subject to legal advice privilege), and importantly, that the privilege between a trustee and its legal advisor can only be lifted by a beneficiary if the governing laws of the relevant trust allows it".
In this instance, the relevant provisions as stipulated by Bahamian Law under section 83(8) of the Bahamian Trustee Act holds that a beneficiary of a trust in the Bahamas has no automatic right to see the legal advice and the trustee has the right to withhold this information. The General Data Protection Regulation 2018 contains a subject access right similar to section 7 of the act. However, the amended Data Protection Act introduced in 2018 contains a provision protecting Solicitors from the need to make disclosure of information, which is confidential to their clients, however this right does not extend to protect trustees or other fiduciaries.

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Some of the major players have started testing AV1.
- 05 Oct 2018, 02:06 #14180 Link fix, sorry about that.
Starting spring 2019, we will start confirming whether or not TVs support AV1 format during our reviews.


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With all the controversy surrounding its foreign players this week, the focus of the Hawai'i men's basketball team remained English.
Hawai'i's Phil Martin contests the shot of Drake's David Bancroft as Carl English looks on during the title game of the Nike Tip-Off Tournament.
Proving that his performance in last season's Western Athletic Conference Tournament was no fluke, Carl English scored 22 points to lead the Rainbow Warriors to a 74-63 victory over Drake last night in the championship game of the Nike Tip-Off Tournament. A crowd of 3,587 at the Stan Sheriff Center watched the 'Bows improve to 2-0.
English, a 6-foot-4 sophomore guard, scored 14 points in the second half, when Hawai'i rallied from a nine-point deficit. He was named the tournament's most valuable player, just as he was during last season's WAC Tournament.
"After last year, I got a lot of confidence in myself, and so did my teammates," said English, who connected on 9 of 14 shots.
Senior guard Mike McIntyre came off the bench to contribute 22 points, while Phil Martin added 15. Mindaugas Burneika, who was named to the all-tournament team with English, had eight points and eight assists.
For the second consecutive game, Hawai'i played without three players currently under NCAA investigation, including leading scorer Predrag Savovic.
For the second consecutive game, English was a more than capable fill-in as the team's go-to player.
In a tale of two halves, the 'Bows out-scored the Bulldogs, 57-37, in the second half after trailing, 26-17, at halftime.
"We wanted to be a championship team and we knew that if we didn't come out and play in the second half, we were going to come out losers," English said.
Coach Riley Wallace insisted that he did not put on a halftime tirade for his team: "This is not a hell, fire and damnation team, so most people will say Riley went in with his red hair and Irish temper and laid it out. That's not what happened."
Instead, Wallace said he instructed his team to keep taking its normal shots, even though the 'Bows connected on just 7-of-25 field goals (28 percent) in the first half.
Carl English was bamed MVP of the Tip-Off Tournament.
McIntyre, who did not start because of a deep bruise on his right thigh, was apparently listening. After 1-of-6 shooting in the first half, he scored 20 points in the second half, hitting 5-of-9 from the field and all six of his free throws.
"Coach told me just to take my time and plant my feet," McIntyre said. "The defense (Drake) was playing, they were letting us have shots. We just had to make 'em."
Drake coach Kurt Kanaskie said: "The biggest difference in the second half was that (Hawai'i) did a great job of moving the ball and shooting the ball."
Hawai'i opened the game with an 11-3 lead after the first four minutes, but then lost its shooting touch. After tying the score at 15 on a short jump shot by McIntyre midway through the half, the 'Bows went scoreless for the next eight minutes.
During that stretch, Hawai'i failed to score on nine consecutive possessions, and was outscored by the Bulldogs, 8-0. English ended the drought with a baseline jump shot, but that represented the only two points UH scored in the final 9:24 of the first half.
"We were fortunate to be down only (26-17)," McIntyre said. "If it was somebody else (like) Fresno State, we would've been down 30."
Hawai'i opened the second half with a 10-1 run that tied the score, 27-27.
"We're a good shooting ball club, but some nights it's not going to be there," Wallace said. "We tried to get started (in the second half) by going inside to some of our other guys and they responded."
In particular, 6-8 forward Martin scored 13 of his 15 points, and 6-10 center Haim Shimonovich scored all seven of his in the second half.
The score was tied at 38 before UH went on an 11-0 surge to take the lead for the rest of the game. English scored five points during the run, including a 3-pointer that forced Drake to call a timeout.
The Bulldogs never got closer than four points in the game's final six minutes. Luke McDonald led Drake (1-1) with 24 points.
McDonald and teammate Andry Sola were also named to the all-tournament team, along with Terrance Winston of Norfolk State and Donald Cole of Sam Houston State.
• Sam Houston State 90, Norfolk State 71: Donald Cole scored 19 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, and teammate Jay Oliphant added 15 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Bearkats (1-1) over the Spartans (0-2) for third place.
NOTES: Hawai'i was officially named as one of the participants for the 2003 Maui Invitational yesterday. The eight-team field will be comprised of Hawai'i, Chaminade, California, Dayton, Florida State, Ohio State, San Diego State and Villanova. It will be the 'Bows' first appearance in the prestigious tournament, which is hosted by Chaminade and televised on ESPN. ... The 'Bows are next scheduled to play Friday in Hawai'i-Hilo's Big Island Invitational. Hawai'i will play Mercer in a first-round game at 5 p.m. at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium. Eight teams are participating in the three-day tournament.


No one likes the surprise cellular bill announcing that you've exceeded your data plan. Most modern plans will provide unlimited use of talk and text while charging for a pool of data, so managing your organization's use of data is the best way to control your costs. A few weeks back, we published a post about which apps are eating up your mobile data plan, so this post, the sixth in our series Telecom Tip Tuesdays, is a set of tips to help.
How do I track my smartphone data usage?
How do I minimize my company mobile data?
How can I keep my mobile costs down?
Because everyone uses their phone differently, there is no one method for controlling your smartphone data usage. However, we can break our advice up into three general topics: Simple Tips, Apps for Tracking Usage, and Apps for Managing Usage. Depending on how your organization uses mobile data, you should find a few items in here to help you keep your data plan manageable.
At Opticom, we have been helping our clients manage their mobile plans for the last twelve years, so we used our extensive experience and a little search to turn up some good tips on managing your data usage. There are some good articles out there, but most focus on individual smart phones. Very few of them address the concerns of organizations that want to manage the pooled data of several (or several hundred) phones and tablets on corporate plans. We will address both in the list here.
Outline your policies – As with many other aspects of managing an organization, it really helps to be clear up front about what you consider acceptable use of organization-provided phones. Organizations can usually be generous about employees' use of talk and text, but you should set clear guidelines for app usage and data plan usage.
Monitor your bills – Getting on-line access to your cellular account will make available tools and reports for analyzing mobile data and pinpointing who is using it. You can also subscribe to a Mobile Device Management (MDM) package, such as our Mobile Management Service, which provides monthly reports on usage. It's best to monitor your usage a few days before the end of the billing cycle so that you can adjust your plan if there is a problem.
Watch for hotspot usage – Almost all modern smartphones and tablets can launch a "mobile hotspot" that will allow 5 or 10 WiFi devices share the phone's mobile data connection. This can be a boon for traveling employees who need to access legitimate resources on a laptop when there is no WiFi connection available. Unfortunately, it can also eat up your data plan in a big hurry, especially if the employee is using video services such as YouTube or Netflix. Most plans allow the organization administrator lock out this service on company phones, but if you choose to allow it, then you should also have clear policies and monitor usage.
Manage the apps – Apps are the applications (and games) that run on smartphones and tablets and these can be another source of data plan usage. Again, most providers give the administrator the ability to disallow app downloads on organization-provided phones, but there are many apps that can be helpful to your organization. If you decide to allow app downloads, you should have clear policies on what is acceptable and also monitor usage. Also, there are some apps that come pre-loaded on phones – such as stock-ticker and sports apps – that can cause trouble for your data plan. It can be difficult to remove them, but they can be disabled.
Use WiFi where possible – While smartphones and tablets are using a WiFi connection, they are not using mobile data plans, so all of your organization's devices should be set to use WiFi when available. If your organization's corporate network is not WiFi enabled, you should consider getting a Wireless Access Point to allow mobile devices to use the network while employees are in the office. Also, your employees should save all data-intensive tasks like streaming video or downloading and updating apps, for times when they are on a WiFi network.
Send pictures via text – As we discussed in our previous post on mobile data usage, messages that contain photos or video are sent via a cellular network service called MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), so these messages do not use the data plan. Since most modern mobile plans charge for data and offer unlimited talk and text, it is a good practice to send pictures and short videos via text messaging rather than email.
Stop apps that use location data – Lots of apps use location data to provide directions, suggest locations, update traffic conditions or a host of other tasks, but watch for those apps that stay running in the background. These apps will continue to load location data in the background, so they should be shut down when you're not actively using them.
As we indicated earlier, it's a good idea to keep track of your data usage on a monthly basis to avoid the unpleasant surprise overage bill. However, very active smartphone users should stay on top of their usage all the time. Well, as the saying goes – there's an app for that. We found some useful data management apps for individual users in a Wired Magazine article. The four apps specifically mentioned for monitoring and managing your data usage were My Data Manager, DataMan, 3G Watchdog (which actually works on any network), and the aptly-named Data Usage. All four should give you a pretty good idea of the data your phone is using every month. Unfortunately, all four work on an individual basis, not oganization-wide, so it will track the data usage only for the phone that the app is installed on.
There are also apps available to help you manage or reduce you data usage. In the Wired Magazine article referenced above, we found an app called Onava Extend that will automatically compress all of the traffic sent across the network so that you are sending or receiving smaller files and using less data. However, this app introduces some delay, so it can't be used to help with the biggest data hogs, streaming video and streaming audio.
Another set of apps exist to help frequent travelers manage the data used by location services like maps and navigation. As we discussed in our previous post, the GPS radio on a smartphone does not use mobile data, but loading the maps to track your position does. These apps allow you to pre-load maps while you are using WiFi and use the maps for travel at a later time. We should note that Google Maps will allow you to pre-load and save maps as well, but the app's turn-by-turn directions will not work in offline mode so this feature cannot be used for navigation.
In our twelve years of managing clients' cellular plans, we at Opticom have learned that keeping control of your mobile phone bills is more of an art than a science. We have some great tools to track data usage and compare alternate plans in our Mobile Management Service, but the carriers are always changing their plans to maximize their revenue. The best practice is to carefully monitor your organization's data usage, adopt some of the data-saving practices we discuss in this post and adjust your cell plans when your needs change.


Apple's Siri Now Answers Your Pet Questions!
There's a lot of great marketing out there but this is quite the coup.
With 15 different programmed responses, this is the first time Apple has collaborated on a home entertainment title and the first time Siri has been programmed to interact with an iTunes movie title.
I'm not kitten you, this toadally works!
How clever! In terms of marketing ideas, this one is brilliant. The best part is that most people probably enjoy this, rather than feeling like they're being hit with unwelcome advertising.


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Q: how to get the session cookies using volley library in android studio? I am making an android app in android studio (java) that uses the rest API to get and post data.
I can log in and signup to the server but in order to get the data from the server I need the session cookies, but I don't know how to get session cookies using the volley library.
Here is my working code for the login:-
private void login(String email,String password){
        String url = "https://someURL.com/login";

        StringRequest stringRequest = new StringRequest(Request.Method.POST, url, new Response.Listener<String>() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(String response) {
                textView.setText("String Response : "+ response.toString());
            }
        }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
            @Override
            public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
                textView.setText("error");
            }
        }){
            protected Map<String, String> getParams() throws AuthFailureError {
                Map<String,String> params = new HashMap<>();
                params.put("email",email);
                params.put("password",password);
                return params;
            }
        };

        requestQueue.add(stringRequest);
    }

And here is my request code:-
    private void getProfile(String id,String email,String password){
        String url = "https://someURL.com/profile/:"+id;

        StringRequest stringRequest = new StringRequest(Request.Method.GET, url, new Response.Listener<String>() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(String response) {
                textView.setText("String Response : "+ response.toString());
            }
        }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
            @Override
            public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
                textView.setText("Profile error");
            }
        });

        requestQueue.add(stringRequest);
    }

Both are working fine but in order to get the data from the server, I need to create a cookie-based session. Please help ... I have searched for the resources but nothing worked.

A: I have solved this problem (by going through the documentation and source code of the volley library).
The solution I got is not an automatic way of handling the session cookies, instead, it is solved by overriding some methods of Volley.
My problem is how to get the session cookies and then how to set the session cookies(I know it is a novice way of saying and not technically right - read further for clarity) for further requests.
I solved my first problem by overriding the 'parseNetworkResponse' method of Volley. This method has a 'response' parameter which can give all the headers of the response from the server by using 'response.headers'.
Below is my code:-
            @Override
            protected Response<String> parseNetworkResponse(NetworkResponse response) {
                Map<String, String> responseHeaders = response.headers;
                cookie = new String(responseHeaders.get("Set-Cookie"));
                Log.i("cookies",cookie);
                jsonObject = new JSONObject(response.headers);
                Log.i("response", String.valueOf(jsonObject));
                return super.parseNetworkResponse(response);
            }

And for my second problem, I overloaded the 'getHeaders' method. This method can be used to send the cookie back to the server for any query which is authentication-based.
Below is my code:-

            @Override
            public Map<String, String> getHeaders() throws AuthFailureError {
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Narcis Iustin Ianău (n. 24 februarie 1995, Barați, județul Bacău) este un cântăreț român.

Familia și studiile
Narcis Ianău s-a născut pe 24 februarie 1995 în localitatea Barați din județul Bacău, din părinții Eduard și Felicia. De la vârsta de 5 ani a cântat în corul Bisericii Catolice din Barați, unde dascălul l-a așezat în rândul sopranelor. După terminarea clasei a VIII-a a urmat Liceul de Artă "George Apostu" din Bacău. După terminarea liceului și-a început studiile la Academia de Muzică "Gheorghe Dima" din Cluj.

Carieră

Românii au talent 2011
Narcis Ianău s-a înscris la primul sezon al emisiunii Românii au talent. La preselecții a interpretat "O mio babbino caro" din opera Gianni Schicchi de Giacomo Puccini. Deși a fost privit inițial cu neîncredere de membrii juriului, Ianău a mers mai departe în faza semifinalelor, obținând trei de "da".

Din septembrie 2010, Narcis Ianău a început să ia lecții de canto pentru următoarea etapă a concursului. În semifinală a interpretat piesa "Adagio" de Tomaso Albinoni. Datorită voturilor telespectatorilor, s-a clasat pe prima poziție, mergând în etapa finală a competiției.

Narcis Iustin Ianău își alesese să interpreteze o arie din opera Lucia di Lammermoor de Gaetano Donizetti; totuși, acesta a fost nevoit să o schimbe doar cu cinci zile înainte de finală, deoarece durata piesei era prea lungă pentru formatul emisiunii. În cele din urmă, Ianău a interpretat o versiune proprie a ariei "The Phantom of the Opera". S-a clasat pe locul al doilea cu 24,40% din voturi, fiind depășit de rapperul Adrian Țuțu, care a acumulat 29,29% din voturi. După încheierea concursului, Ianău a fost comparat cu Susan Boyle, ocupanta locului secund în Britain's Got Talent.

Românii au talent 2012
Ianău, una dintre marile revelații de la Românii au talent, a revenit pe scena emisiunii care l-a consacrat, fiind invitat special în prima semifinală a celui de-al doilea sezon. Acesta a interpretat balada britanică "Scarborough Fair".

Io canto
În cadrul concursului italian Io canto, Ianău a cântat în duet cu Al Bano piesele "Tu che m'hai preso cuor" și "O sole mio". Publicul italian i-a comparat vocea lui Narcis cu cea a sopranei Maria Callas.

Cariera Internațională
A semnat un contract cu Frank Peterson, un producător care a lucrat cu artiști precum Sarah Brightman, Ofra Haza, Gregorian și Andrea Bocelli. Împreună cu Frank Peterson a colaborat la realizarea a două albume Gregorian în 2013 pentru albumul Masters of Chant Chapter IX ca feat pentru piesele Gloria și în 2014 pentru albumul "Winter Chants" ca feat pentru piesele "Jesu joy of man's desiring" și "Ave Maria". Aceste două albume s-au vândut pe plan mondial, iar cel de-al doilea a avut un succes foarte mare, fiind acum nominalizat pentru Echo music award la categoria Crossover și a fost de-a lungul timpului în topul celor mai bine vândute albume din mai multe țări.

Debut la Opera Natională Română
În ianuarie 2015 a debutat la Opera Română din Cluj cu rolul păstorașului din opera Tosca de Giacomo Puccini, în urma căruia a primit multe aprecieri și laude.

Turneul în Europa (2016)
Narcis a susținut în perioada 23.02.2016 - 16.05.2016 un turneu în Europa alături de Gregorian și Amelia Brightman în peste 70 de orașe din 16 țări precum: Germania, Elveția, Polonia, Finlanda, Suedia, Danemarca, România, Austria, Cehia, Lituania, Letonia, Estonia, Belarus etc. A avut un succes răsunător și a ridicat mereu sălile de concerte și stadioanele în picioare primind minute în șir de aplauze.

Turneul în Asia alături de Sarah Brightman
Devenit celebru în Europa după ce a participat la un show de talente, a colaborat cu renumita trupă germană Gregorian, Narcis a avut ocazia să cânte alături de Sarah Brightman în turneul ei din Asia; turneu intitulat: Gala Show - "An Evening With Sarah Brightman".  Turneul susținut în țări precum: Japonia, China, Taiwan, Coreea de Sud a fost în perioada 7 iulie 2016 – 10 august 2016 și s-a bucurat de succes.

Discografie
Narcis a colaborat împreună cu Gregorian la lansarea a trei albume în 2013, 2014 și 2015 ca feat pentru piesele "Gloria", "Jesu joy of man's desiring", "Ave Maria" și "Cry Softly".

Masters of Chant albums
 2013: Masters of Chant Chapter IX
 2014: Winter Chants
 2015: Masters of Chant The Final Chapter

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For Randy's birthday this year, we planned a short weekend trip to Austria! I've been wanting to go back since June, so I'm glad we finally had the chance. The PERFECT weather was the cherry on top of the sundae.
One thing I will say about small town Austria (we stayed in a town called Leogang) is that they're not too big on AirBNB's. And most of the gasthauses aren't cheap. I've gotten used to finding AirBNB deals for less than $50 a night, so when I could only find things for a minimum of $100-125 a night, I was determined to do a little more searching. I headed over to booking.com and found a room on a milk farm for about $70 a night! Not bad, considering everything else was over a hundred bucks. I wish I had taken a picture of our room! It was adorable. A comfortable bed, a balcony with a perfect view of the alps, and even a mini kitchen complete with a stove top, pots, pans, utensils, and a mini fridge. Our hosts gave us a tour of the milk farm, and we bought a liter of fresh milk. It doesn't get any fresher than that! I'll link the booking.com link HERE.
Our weekend consisted of hiking together on the Asitz, downhill mountain biking (for Randy), and more hiking (for me).
Views from the cable car as we ride to the top of the Asitz!
It was a BEAUTIFUL hike. After the ascent with the hot sun beating down on me, I thought it'd be a great idea to kick off the hiking boots and dip my feet in. It was COLD! Painful cold. It reminded me of the days we were told to hop into an ice bath for ten minutes after cross country practice in high school.
I know I've said this a million times, but there's just something about being in the mountains. The air is cleaner, the sun shines brighter, and there's something to be said about hiking in high altitudes amongst these beautiful giants – it's good for the soul. As someone who's always struggled with stress, anxiety, and feeling down, I think it's almost necessary. A natural medicine, if you will.
So after a quick weekend in my alps, we are back in Deutschland, Randy is officially 26 years old, and I'm proud to say that there were no trips to the hospital this time!
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The 2013 PGA Tour Canada season ran from June 6 to September 15 and consists of nine official tournaments. This was the 44th season of PGA Tour Canada (previously known as the Canadian Professional Golf Tour), and the first under the "PGA Tour Canada" name. On October 18, 2012, the Canadian Tour and the U.S. PGA Tour announced that they had reached an agreement by which the PGA Tour would take over the Canadian circuit.

Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 2013 season.

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Does Obama help or hurt Clinton?
President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wave to delegates after President Obama's speech. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Eight years ago, Barack Obama cast himself as the rare candidate who could transcend the polarizing "politics of the past" and bridge divides that had left Washington barely functioning for years. Ultimately, the gulf was too wide — if anything, the political climate in the United States worsened.
So, standing before the last, biggest audience he has left, Obama on Wednesday found a successor to carry forward the hopes and aspirations that once rallied millions to his side.
"It can be frustrating, this business of democracy. Trust me, I know," Obama told an adoring audience as he extolled Hillary Clinton for president. "Hillary knows, too."
While Obama gushed over his former rival and possible successor, his own credentials to make that argument seemed weakened by the long list of goals he tried unsuccessfully to fulfill. The mere fact that the country is considering electing Donald Trump — Obama's opposite in so many ways — is a stark reminder that many Americans reject his approach.
Though Obama pulled the U.S. out of recession doldrums, many Americans struggling financially feel left behind. While he secured a sweeping health overhaul and economic reforms that reshaped the American economy, the same gridlock he promised to break through stopped him from delivering new laws and policies to fix immigration, tighten gun restrictions and reduce the role of money in politics.
Those are the same priorities that Clinton is putting at the core of her own campaign. The question for voters is whether she can do what Obama could not.
In front of thousands of die-hard, cheering Democrats, Obama could do no wrong. But heading into the fall, it's unclear how his depiction of the country will be received by the broader voting public.
"By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we started," Obama said. "And through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy, and never quick — that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency or even in one lifetime."
Just 19 percent of Americans said the country is heading in the right direction in an AP-GfK poll this month, a significant drop from the 39 percent who felt that way a year and a half earlier. Almost 4 in 5 voters feel the country is moving in the wrong direction this month, compared to 3 in 5 in early 2015.
Yet like it or not, Obama's legacy is now Clinton's. His former secretary of state, Clinton has embraced Obama's record and most of his policies as her own.
And her legacy is his. Should Clinton lose and Trump follow through on his promises, much of what Obama built as president could be unraveled.
With only a few months left in office, Obama is now taking stock of what the Democratic Party looks like after his two terms.
Obama's party is better positioned than ever before to appeal to minority and women voters who increasingly drive the outcome of U.S. elections, an advantage Democrats put on display this week by highlighting black, Hispanic, female and LGBT Democrats at the convention.
On the other hand, his party's argument to white men who still make up 1 in 3 voters in presidential elections appears to have gotten muddled along the way, a trend that polls show has deepened on his watch. Vice President Joe Biden said this week that Democrats have done the right thing for them, but added, "The Democratic Party overall hasn't spoken enough to those voters."
For years, Democratic leaders have griped privately that Obama neglected the sometimes tedious work of building up his party and keeping it viable for the next election. This week, after the breach of Democratic National Committee emails led to the party chairwoman's ouster, the White House rushed to distance itself from the party's political organization, where many of Obama's staffers once worked.
What may be Obama's most significant contribution to his party is the enduring power of his political brand. As he took the stage in Philadelphia, there were throwbacks to his own campaign eight years earlier, from the chants of "Yes we can" to the "Obama" signs that bobbed up and down in the crowd in an undulating sea of blue.
Democrats hope that Obama nostalgia will animate voters over the next three months as Obama clears much of his schedule to campaign for Clinton and other Democrats across the U.S.
"Tonight, I ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me," he said.
Josh Lederman has covered the White House for The Associated Press since 2013. Reach him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/joshledermanAP
Associated Press writers Ricardo-Alonso-Zaldivar, Deb Riechmann, Jim Drinkard, Bradley Klapper and Jeff Horwitz contributed to this report.
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Of course he helps her. Its the Sanders people he wants to win over. Gopers aren't going to vote for her anyway and who gives 2 fecal particles about them?


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Farming Tales
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Today, there are games of different genres that will appeal to players from all walks of life. There are also many games in different categories in the play to earn area. But Farming Tales is a game genre that will appeal to everyone from young and old alike: a farming game.
Farming Tales is a play to earn game developed on the wax network. We play as farmers in the game. We give our chickens, geese, goats and pigs the necessary water and feed the and collect the products to sell them to the market and earn money. But there's something interesting about Farming Tales: Income from Farming Tales are used to support real-life farmers. So how to play Farming Tales play to earn game?
In order to play Farming Tales, we first need to have a wax wallet. You can check our related article to learn how to create a wax wallet. To start the game, you must have at least 2 nfts. These nfts can be hen and coop, pig and stable. In other words, we can start the game with a building where we can put 1 animal and 1 animal. After receiving our Nfts, we can go to https://play.farmingtales.io/ and log in with our wax wallet and start playing Farming Tales and earning money.
Another feature that distinguishes Farming Tales play to earn game from many other games on the wax network is that the game is played with the WASD keys of the keyboard. So we have a 3rd person farm game in front of us! Besides, our first word is 'Life'. To exit the WASD mode and access the clickable areas, we must press the 'Q' key on the keyboard. When we first open the game, our farmer, who is ready to do all kinds of work, greets us.
There are several areas we can interact with in our virtual farm in Farming Tales play to earn game: the tractor on the left, the wood cutting area on the right, the market in the garage, the gramophone inside the house, the front of the barn, the kennel right in front of the house, the water tank on the right, the pond where we can go fishing, beehives, the area where we can plant flowers and build a greenhouse. When you come in front of these places, you will see a green flashing circle. That green circle shows the areas where we can interact in Farming Tales play to earn game. If you go over this green field and press the 'E' key on the keyboard, you can interact. In order to use the nfts we have in the game, we can interact with the tractor by pressing the 'E' key and start placing our animals and the buildings where we will put our animals in them. When we interact with the tractor, a zone separated by squares will appear as you can see in the image below. Here, we can first place the buildings where we will place our animals, and then we can place the appropriate animals in the appropriate buildings. Remember that a chicken should be in the coop, not in the stable. You have to be careful which animal and which building you buy, just as you will be careful with our next word: 'in New Waxchester'.
After placing our buildings and animals here, the most important thing we should pay attention to is not to leave them hungry and thirsty. If we leave our animals hungry or thirsty in the digital farm of the Farming Tales play to earn game, fortunately our animals do not die, but they do not produce anything either. If we want to get efficiency from our farm, we must always meet our water and feed needs. So how do you get water and food in Farming Tales play to earn game?
Farming Tales has developed a system that will keep the economy in balance for the acquisition of water, the most basic resource in the game. When we go to the water tank on the opposite side of our house (called Silo in the game) and interact with the 'E' key, a window greets us as you can see in the image below.
If we have enough CBIT coins, we can fill our water tank (50 CBIT) and food tank (5 CBIT). What is CBIT coin, how to earn?
Farming Tales play to earn game has 2 currencies: SEST and CBIT. Both coins are available at alcor.exchange, the official exchange of the wax network. So what are the in-game uses of SEST and CBIT coins? We can earn SEST coins by selling the products we get from our animals to the market. In addition, we need CBIT coin to meet our need for water and food. This is where the economic infrastructure that makes Farming Tales long-term and sustainable is shaped. There is only one way to earn CBIT coin, which is the most basic need of the game: staking SEST coin. To access this section, we must click on the 'Main Wallet' text on the right side of the screen. When we click here, the screen you will see in the image below will welcome us.
We need to deposit the SEST coin purchased from alcor.exchange into our wallet. For this; we need to enter the amount in the field opposite the 'Deposit' section and click on the 'Deposit' text in the 'Main Wallet SESTs' section. After giving the necessary approvals, our coins will appear in our wallet. After this process, we enter the amount we want to stake in the space next to the 'Stake SESTs' text on the right, click the 'Stake SESTs' button and give the necessary approvals.
Here, you earn a certain amount of CBIT coin, 1 distribution per 12 hours, based on the amount of SEST coin we stake. This ratio is calculated by the SEST coins you stake to the pool of all staked SEST coins. I staked some SEST to show you the numbers, but the pool is so large that exponential mathematical expressions are used to calculate my rate.
With the CBIT we earn by staking SEST coin into the game, we can use it to fill the water and food tank. One way to get what we produce is to come to the interaction area where we place our buildings and animals in front of the tractor and click on the buildings one by one. If you don't want to deal with this, you can come and interact with the green circle right next to the tractor and get them all at once. However, this is possible with a certain CBIT expenditure. So you can save time by paying some CBIT coins. However, it will always be more fun to collect your items one by one for a more intense gaming experience. What we need to pay attention to here is whether the capacity of our barn is enough or not. As you can see in the top left, the game gives us a 50-unit barn at the beginning. This capacity can be increased with the barn nft item. If your capacity is full, when you collect your products, the amount exceeding the capacity will be wasted. So don't forget to keep an eye on your barn and make a note of our last word: 'is Beautiful'.
Farming Tales play to earn game offers us a very enjoyable farming simulation experience as it is. However, the game is not limited to this and a new update will come soon: New Waxchester! New Waxchester is the next phase of the game. By processing the raw materials we produce in our farm, we will be able to turn them into various goods such as Flour, Cookies, Beer, Toys, Gelatin, Olive Oil, Clothes. For this, we need to have a special building where we will produce that product. For example, we need to have a Windmill to make Flour, and a Laboratory to make Fruit Juice. We will be able to convert and sell the raw materials we produce on our farm into various commercial products in these buildings. In addition, a new stake pool is being developed and will reward SEST coin or CBIT coin stakers with their newly issued AUREUS coin.
Farming Tales play to earn game has adapted a farming type game that most of us have played to the blockchain and continues to progress quite successfully in this. Moreover, supporting real-life farmers with a portion of the income of the game is an unprecedented example of the interaction of the blockchain world with the real world. Don't forget to join our discord server to have more information about Farming Tales and not miss any updates.
Web: https://www.farmingtales.io/
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/farming_tales
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Oil Spill in Amazon Sickens Villagers, Kills Fish
A recent rupture of Peru's 39-year-old northern crude oil pipeline has terrified Kukama villagers along the Marañón River
By Barbara Fraser, Environmental Health News on July 23, 2014
CUNINICO, Peru – On the last day of June, Roger Mangía Vega watched an oil slick and a mass of dead fish float past this tiny Kukama Indian community and into the Marañón River, a major tributary of the Amazon.
Community leaders called the emergency number for Petroperu, the state-run operator of the 845-kilometer pipeline that pumps crude oil from the Amazon over the Andes Mountains to a port on Peru's northern coast.
By late afternoon, Mangía and a handful of his neighbors – contracted by the company and wearing only ordinary clothing – were up to their necks in oily water, searching for a leak in the pipe. Villagers, who depend on fish for subsistence and income, estimated that they had seen between two and seven tons of dead fish floating in lagoons and littering the landscape.
"It was the most horrible thing I've seen in my life – the amount of oil, the huge number of dead fish and my Kukama brothers working without the necessary protection," said Ander Ordóñez Mozombite, an environmental monitor for an indigenous community group called Acodecospat who visited the site a few days later.
This rupture of Peru's 39-year-old northern crude oil pipeline has terrified Kukama villagers along the Marañón River. People's complaints of nausea and skin rashes are aggravated by nervousness about eating the fish, concerns about their lost income and fear that oil will spread throughout the tropical forest and lakes when seasonal flooding begins in November. Cuninico, a village of wooden, stilt-raised, palm-thatched houses, is home to about 130 families but several hundred families in other communities also fish nearby.
Three weeks after they discovered the spill, the villagers still have more questions than answers about the impacts.
"It sounds like an environmental debacle for the people and the ecosystem," said David Abramson, deputy director of the National Center of Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Earth Institute in New York.
"There is a need for public health and environmental monitoring at a minimum of four levels – water, fish, vegetation and the population," he said.
Company officials at Petroperu did not return phone calls and emails seeking comment.
Government officials have not officially announced how much crude oil spilled. However, in a radio interview, Energy and Mines Minister Eleodoro Mayorga mentioned 2,000 barrels, which is 84,000 gallons.
Indigenous leaders noted that the pipeline, which began operating again July 12 after the repairs, has a history of leaks.
Leaders of at least four neighboring communities said masses of dead fish appeared in lagoons and streams in the week before the oil spill was reported, indicating that it could have been leaking for days before it was spotted.
Even fish that escaped the worst of the spill could be poisoned, experts said. Fishermen who traveled an hour or two up the Urituyacu River, a tributary of the Marañón, in search of a catch unaffected by the spill returned with fish that they said tasted of oil.
Some Amazonian fish migrate long distances, and ongoing monitoring will be important for determining how fisheries recover, said Diana Papoulias, a fish biologist with E-Tech International, a New Mexico-based engineering firm that advises indigenous Peruvian communities on oil-related issues.
Key concerns include polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are classified as probable human carcinogens and can cause skin, liver and immune system problems, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Exposure to PAHs in the womb has been linked to effects on children's brain development, including learning and behavioral changes.
For pregnant women, the fish become a "double-edged sword," Abramson said. "They need that protein source to enhance the neurological development of the fetus, but at the same time, you don't want them ingesting things that have unknown impacts."
Mothers said children and adults in their families are suffering from stomachaches, nausea, vomiting and dizziness, and small children have skin rashes after bathing in the rivers.
In this part of the Marañón valley, the nearest health center is more than an hour away by boat and does not have a doctor.
The government's Environmental Evaluation and Oversight Agency (Organismo de Evaluación y Fiscalización Ambiental, OEFA) has taken no samples of fish tissue for testing, according to Delia Morales, the agency's assistant director of inspection.
Much of the oil settled in pools along the pipeline during the flood season, creating a viscous soup where dying fish flopped weakly. Government officials said damage was limited to a 700-meter stretch along the pipeline. The ground and tree trunks in the forest on both sides of the pipeline were also stained with oil, in a swath local residents estimated at up to 300 meters wide. When that area begins to flood again in November, villagers fear that contamination could spread.
Petroperu hired men from the village of Cuninico to find the leak and raise the pipeline out of the canal to repair it. Several of the men said they were up to their necks in oily water, working in T-shirts and pants or stripped to their underwear. They said they received protective gear only when a Peruvian TV crew arrived more than two weeks later. The July 20 newscast led to a shakeup in Petroperu's leadership.
Meanwhile, the workers' wives wash their clothes in the Marañón River, squatting on rafts moored along the bank. Besides being the only transportation route in the area, the river is the source of water for drinking, cooking, bathing and washing.
Within a week after the spill, the local fish market had dried up. Women who normally sold 10 to 20 kilos of fish a day said their usual buyers shunned them. Children in Cuninico told a reporter from Radio Ucamara, a local radio station, that fish had disappeared from the family table and they were eating mainly rice and cassava, a root.
Abramson said the villagers' mental health can be undermined by poor diet, income loss and conflicts between community members.
The pipeline has been repaired and the oil is flowing to the port again, but the long-term impacts of the spill are uncertain.
Light and bacteria help break down oil naturally, said Edward Overton, a chemistry professor in Louisiana State University's Department of Environmental Studies who has studied the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Volatile substances in the oil, which dissolve readily in water, could have caused the fish kills if the pipeline had been leaking for a time before the spill was reported, he said.
"The rule of thumb is that during the spill it's a horrible mess, and two or three years later it's hard to find evidence," Overton said.
But that may not be the case in Amazonian wetlands, where clay soil and high water limit the oxygen available to oil-eating microbes, said Ricardo Segovia, a hydrogeologist with E-Tech International.
The government's environmental agency is expected to issue its report on the spill by the end of this month and could levy fines, Morales said.
Villagers are waiting to see whether the government will sanction its own pipeline operation and pay damages.
"It sounds as though the state is in a precarious position," Abramson said. "It [the government of Peru] has to monitor and assure the health and well-being of the population, but it may be one of the agents that is liable [for the spill]. They have to monitor themselves and decide what is fair and equitable."
This article originally ran at Environmental Health News, a news source published by Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit media company.
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This recipe is so rich in raw nutrition that it could be considered a "super-food smorgasbord." You can alter the combination of vegetables in the wrap if you want to, just make sure they are always raw. Go easy on the slightly-bitter kale, but go generously with cabbage and quinoa.
This is RICH in raw power! It is well worth developing the aquired taste to handle the collard greens.
Steaming the leaves for just a few seconds will make it easier to wrap them.
There is evidence of additional benefits when the leaves are lightly steamed…just not too much.
1. Cook quinoa as directed, drain, and set aside while it cools.
2. Meanwhile, make the almond butter sauce. Finely-chop the onion, then sautee with 1 tbsp coconut oil, plus the garlic and ginger, until tender and transluscent. Add the water, almond butter, hoison sauce, tomato paste and 2 tbsp coconut oil. Wisk thoroughly. Turn heat off and leave on the burner, stirring ocassionally.
3. Cut the collard leaves into 5-6 inch strips, cutting perpendicular to the stem. You should be able to get 8-12 decent pieces to wrap with. Using a vegetable shredder, (Be careful! In my opinion, this is the most dangerous kitchen tool!) finely shred the cabbage and carrots. Using a knife, chop the kale, basil and parsley. Arrange the cabbage, carrots, parsley, kale, seeds, and collards leaves in an "assembly-line" fashion.
4. If desired, lightly steam the collard leaves for about 30-60 seconds. Lay leave onto a large surface, arrange shredded and shopped ingredients onto an area of the leaf that is slightly off-center. Use approx. 2-3 tbsp cabbage, 1 tbsp carrot, sprinkle the kale, basil, seeds, parsley, and 2-3 tbsp quinoa. Add fresh ground pepper and any other herbs desired.
5. Roll the short-end over the filling and tuck-in, then wrap by rolling the remaining leaf around the filling. Use a decorative toothpick to secure the wrap. Serve with the sauce and a small utensil to apply the sauce.
Note: For a less alkaline alternative, but still an awesome dish, use rice-paper wraps to make "Summer Rolls," instead of the collard greens. Use the same almond butter sauce.
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Looking to ease deployments of software-defined networks while reinforcing automation and security for hybrid and multi-cloud customers, VMware has taken the wraps off of a major release of its NSX-T Data Centre software.
"This is NSX-T's coming out party - it is now our primary platform and includes all the tools, services, security and support for future growth," said Tom McCafferty, senior director of product marketing for NSX, VMware.
Introduced in 2017, NSX-T Data Centre software is targeted at organisations looking to support multivendor cloud-native applications, bare-metal workloads, hypervisor environments and the growing hybrid and multi-cloud worlds.
A version of the software called NSX Cloud is a public-cloud/hosted version of the software. It already supports other cloud systems from Amazon Web Services to Microsoft Azure to IBM Cloud and its own VMware Cloud on AWS.
VMware offers NSX-V for its significant installed base of VMware vSphere customers. vSphere is largely based on technology VMware bought when it acquired Nicira in 2012 for $1.26 billion.
Playing up and advancing NSX-T is the next logical step for VMware and its customers, experts say.
"The future of applications will be distributed (hybrid IT and multi-cloud) and heterogeneous (legacy applications and cloud-native applications)," said Brad Casemore, IDC's research vice president for data-centre networks, in an email.
VMware customers are choosing to run containers on bare metal and/or in public clouds, and that drives a need for something like NSX-T rather than NSX-V, which is what many have today," Casemore said.
VMware is battling Cisco with its Application Centric Infrastructure, Juniper with its Contrail system and others like Pluribus, Arista and Big Switch.
The key components of NSX-T 2.4 that could drive the most customer interest include the ability to quickly turn up and securely manage software-defined network resources. Specifically NSX-T 2.4 adds an HTML5-based interface that reduces the number of clicks required to complete configuration tasks and includes installation enhancements such as Ansible open-source automation-platform modules to enable automation of installation workflows.
The system creates what VMware calls a declarative policy model to enable a one-step approach to configuring networking and security for applications, VMware wrote in a blog outlining NSX-T 2.4 enhancements.
VMware says the model drastically simplifies network automation by letting users specify what application connectivity and security needs are as opposed to how networking and security should be configured step-by-step.
"This approach eliminates the need for a tedious set of sequential commands to configure networking and security services which is time-consuming and error-prone," VMware stated.
"These policies are platform-agnostic and easily replicable, simplifying operations and allowing IT teams to scale to new levels."
Helping customers more quickly and easily handle network provisioning, configuration and automation is the goal, McCafferty said. "These were tasks that held back the wide-use of software defined networks – we can now remove those challenges," he said.
Support for advanced security capabilities such as Layer 7 application context-based firewalling, identity-based firewalling and whitelisting. The whitelisting feature supports fully qualified domain name (FQDN)/URL and applies to east-west traffic in the distributed firewall and it lets customers whitelist specific traffic going from a VM to a specific FQDN or URL. Benefits include support for communication to a different system/application in a multi-site environment, support for applications that use native cloud services and support for URL domain on the internet, VMware said.
NSX-T can scale to hundreds of thousands of routes, over a thousand hosts per NSX domain, and enables high-scale multi-tenancy. Previously the software supported thousands of networks, per instance, VMware said.
Support for IPv6 in NSX-T 2.4 which addresses a critical global problem and a key requirement of cloud-scale networks, VMware said.


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Examining AD RMS and Exchange 2010 IRM's cryptographic modes
Does IRM and AD RMS's relationship confuse you? What about their different cryptographic modes? It's definitely a perplexing topic; our expert aims to demystify it.
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modes. Why are they important, and what should I know about them?
A: The primary purpose of Exchange 2010's Information Rights Management (IRM) feature is to prevent information leakage. In addition to adding transport protection for messages, IRM also makes it possible to distribute messages to specific users in specific forms, prevent screen captures with native Windows tools, protect message attachments and more.
IRM is actually a part of an overarching technology that is built into Active Directory and known as Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS). Both AD RMS and IRM use professional-grade encryption. But AD RMS's most significant encryption features -- when it comes to IRM -- are its two distinct cryptographic modes.
When the Windows Server team released Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, it included an update to AD RMS. This update changes how cryptography works in both AD RMS and IRM.
Cryptographic Mode 1 vs. Cryptographic Mode 2 in AD RMS and IRM
AD RMS uses Cryptographic Mode 1 by default. Mode 1 uses 1024-bit encryption keys for RSA and 160-bit keys for the SHA-1 hash algorithm. The Windows Server update added Cryptographic Mode 2, which uses 2048-bit keys for RSA and 256-bit keys for SHA-1, and it has also added the SHA-2 hash algorithm.
This seems like alphabet soup, doesn't it? Well, it's important, and here's why:
SHA-1 is normally used to generate hashes. A hash is a signature for a piece of data; think of it as a digital thumbprint. Normally, it's not possible to figure out what the data is from just looking at the hash, but in 2005, researchers found that it was possible to create a "hash collision."
A hash collision is a piece of data that generates the same SHA-1 hash as another piece of data in less time required than by brute force, which involves attempting every single SHA-1 hash to see which one generates a collision. A brute-force search of all possible SHA-1 hashes would take 2^80 operations, but researchers found the time involved could be shaved down to around 2^57 operations.
In other words, it has become much easier to use reverse-engineering and expose the messages signed with SHA-1. In addition, the amount of time required to exploit this vulnerability is going nowhere but down.
There are utilities that enable a brute-force SHA-1 search for a 16-character password in a matter of minutes using nothing more than a CUDA-compatible video card. Considering how the price for processing power continues to decrease, it has become quite easy to crack SHA-1 hashes. Right now, short objects such as passwords are the most vulnerable with SHA-1, but trend is clear.
This is why Cryptographic Mode 2 was introduced in AD RMS. It's a way for those who use AD RMS and IRM to gracefully transition to a higher encryption tier -- one that is a bit more future-proof and even comes with the U.S. government's seal of approval.
Granted, it's entirely possible that in 10 years, something could come along and easily compromise SHA-2 and 2048-bit RSA keys, but Cryptographic Mode 2 buys everyone some time.
Don't jump the gun on AD RMS Cryptographic Mode 2
Before you run off and switch AD RMS to Mode 2, there are several things to keep in mind.
1. Cryptographic Mode 2 is a one-way upgrade.
After implementing Cryptographic Mode 2, there's no going back. You cannot go back to Mode 1 unless you restore a backup for all relevant systems. Obviously, this backup needs to have been made before Mode 2 was set up.
This should be a maintenance milestone like upgrading to an entirely new version of an operating system.
2. You must set up Cryptographic Mode 2 on both clients and servers.
It's not enough to patch your AD servers and enable Mode 2 on them. Windows 7, for example, has a post-SP1 hotfix you must apply before you can use Mode 2. Microsoft Office 2007 and Office 2010 have their own hotfixes as well (for the sake of Microsoft Outlook, of course). In addition, if you have a trusted user domain (TUD), you'll need to enable Mode 2.
3. Exchange 2010 IRM features do not yet work with Cryptographic Mode 2.
If your IRM rollout is mission-critical, switching to Mode 2 will harm more than help. Microsoft is working on an Exchange 2010 hotfix to make Mode 2 work with IRM, but don't hold your breath waiting for it. It will be thoroughly regression-tested before it's released.
4. There's no sky-is-falling scenario that currently demands Cryptographic Mode 2.
Most of the limitations and shortcomings of Mode 1 cryptography are a matter of long-term planning, not short-term demand. Mode 2 is available not because Mode 1 is broken, but because it makes sense to provide a bridge away from older cryptographic standards that are becoming much easier to attack thanks to commodity computing power.
Serdar Yegulalp has been writing about personal computing and IT for more than 15 years for a variety of publications, including (among others) Windows Magazine, InformationWeek and the TechTarget family of sites.
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PhlyerPhil - 26 Dec 2014 7:48 AM
Just beginning to experiment with MS IRM on my Home PC (Outlook 07). I have a bunch of volunteers that work with some pretty complex and expensive kit. One of them has a gripe with the organisation, has begun to forward / reply my emails about, while adding bitchy and derogatory comments when he doesnt agree with my instructions. I thought IRM would help in stopping this, but it turns out (of course) recipients all need IRM too! It would be easier to bounce him out of the door, but at this moment that's not an option. I am considering sending the IRM encrypted email just to him and letting him sort it out, do you guys have any other ideas??
Just beginning to experiment with MS IRM on my Home PC (Outlook 07). I have a bunch of volunteers that work with some pretty complex and expensive kit. One of them has a gripe with the organisation, has begun to forward / reply my emails about, while adding bitchy and derogatory comments to many people when he doesnt agree with my instructions. I thought IRM would help in stopping this, but it turns out (of course) recipients all need IRM too! I dont want to ask everyone to install IRM just to control one dilbert - for what he does it would be easier to bounce him out of the door, but at this moment that's not an option. I am considering sending the IRM encrypted email just to him and letting him sort it out, do you guys have any other ideas??


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Nebraska football: Huskers have a lot of personnel evaluating to do. Here are some suggestions.
Steve Marik | 20 days ago
After another disappointing season for Nebraska, the coaching staff should take a good, hard look at everything and everyone in the program this offseason.
Head coach Scott Frost isn't going anywhere, but he will have tough decisions to make with the personnel of his team. A 4-year bowl drought and a 4-year streak of losing records isn't going to cut it in Lincoln.
Why not look ahead and take a stab at figuring out some personnel questions heading into next season?
The quarterbacks are going to be the most interesting storyline of the offseason.
How will Adrian Martinez respond to a mentally grueling season in which he got benched? Considering how well he reacted after getting yanked in the Northwestern game, fans should have no doubt about Martinez as a leader and the heartbeat of the team. Sure, fans rightly have their doubts about him, but Martinez should start in 2021 because, from what we've seen, there isn't a better option.
What about backup Luke McCaffrey, you ask? The kid is a talented athlete — too talented to keep on the sideline. But it's clear that McCaffrey isn't a Division I passer, at least not yet. Moving McCaffrey to either running back or receiver would benefit him and the team more than if he stays at quarterback.
That leaves freshman Logan Smothers — how good is he? We won't know that until he actually sees the field against a live defense. If Smothers is good enough to push Martinez for that starting spot, he'll show it in practice.
Using the quarterback as your main ball carrier is risky business, but it's the route that Frost has taken throughout his career as a head coach. Sure, they can be your best runners at times, but they usually wind up putting the ball on the ground more often than running backs do.
That's the case with Martinez, who fumbled 12 times as a freshman in 2018, 8 as a sophomore and 7 this past season. McCaffrey fumbled 4 times in 65 attempts.
Now, it's true that Nebraska had a bunch of young and unproven backs behind Dedrick Mills this season. Those guys — Marvin Scott, Rahmir Johnson and Ronald Thompkins — got a combined 37 carries. That's not a lot when you look at the combined attempts of Martinez, McCaffrey and Wan'Dale Robinson, which is 202. Keep in mind that Robinson is truly a receiver, but he's also the player who seems to know what he's doing in between the tackles.
The coaching staff needs to trust the running backs more than they do and give them a real shot at carrying the rock in games. If Mills returns, he needs to have the most carries on the team next season, not Martinez, who we mentioned puts the ball on the turf and has battled injuries his entire career. If Mills leaves, then the coaches need to pick the best option at running back and stick with him. Scott looked good at times in his limited opportunities. Sevion Morrison is intriguing, too.
One of those guys would take advantage of the opportunity — it just needs to be presented.
Robinson led the Huskers' receivers with 51 catches for 461 yards and 1 touchdown. After Robinson, though, there was a huge drop-off in production.
Austin Allen, a tight end, was 2nd in catches with 18. Levi Falck, a transfer receiver from South Dakota, was 3rd with 13 while Zavier Betts, a talented but inexperienced receiver, was 4th with 12.
Those numbers need to be better. To be fair, the quarterback play wasn't solid in 2020 and that has something to do with the low number of catches for the receivers. But fans did notice that the wideouts Nebraska had on the field at times didn't necessarily scare defenses.
The recruiting class of 2021 might have some guys in it who can potentially help out right away in Latrell Neville and Shawn Hardy (as well as top recruit Thomas Fidone, a tight end). Those are talented receivers. They need to see the field next season, whether or not they block like a veteran.
Kickoff specialist
The Huskers allowed a total of 498 yards on kickoff returns this past season, which was the 2nd most in the B1G behind Rutgers.
LSU transfer Connor Culp handled both the field goal and kickoff duties. He was a godsend in one of those areas — he earned B1G Kicker of the Year honors after making 13 of 15 field goals — but not quite in both as he only had 12 touchbacks on 40 kickoffs.
One way to stop good kickoff returns is to kick the ball through the end zone, and Culp only did that 30 percent of the time. That needs to be better, and Nebraska should go out and find someone who can do it.
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Jenna Koenig's first love was solving mysteries. She felt compelled to piece together leads and unravel complex puzzles. There was excitement behind the chase, as it ultimately led to discovery. This fascination was followed by her love of science and biology. It was only natural that Koenig was drawn to medical research, as she was always relentless in her search for answers.
The biology major from Rice Lake, Wisconsin didn't waste any time pursuing her academic and career aspirations after enrolling at the University of Notre Dame in 2016. During her freshmen year, Koenig was exposed to biomedical research at Harper Cancer Research Institute, where investigators from both Notre Dame and Indiana University School of Medicine South Bend work together with the goal of helping cancer patients survive longer. This sparked her interest in cancer research in particular, and how cancer develops.
The summer after her sophomore year, Koenig decided to take a break from lab work and explore the world outside of South Bend. She enrolled in the Ireland Inside Track Program, providing her an immersive experience and insight into Irish culture. Accessing the program allowed Koenig to have significant cultural experiences such as a historical walking tour of Dublin, a tour of the Aran Islands off the west coast, exploration of the rugged Connemara landscape, and participation in a panel discussion on Irish-American relations in Galway.
At the end of the one-week program, Koenig arranged to find her way back to Ireland's west coast. Her sense of discovery was only heightened when she learned about a new study abroad program in Galway City. She was intrigued to discover Notre Dame's partner university, National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) renowned for its medical school and biomedical science programs.
It wasn't enough for this explorer to have a study abroad experience; she wanted to push herself further. Koenig contacted the executive director of the Kylemore Global Centre, Lisa Caulfield, to discuss possible research opportunities at NUIG.
"From day one, Koenig exhibited enthusiasm and interest in Ireland, identifying the west of Ireland as a motivator for her to return for the study abroad experience," says Caulfield.
Caulfield says Koenig was a charismatic young leader who was incredibly motivated. She was excited to help connect her to Irish researchers and get her back in the classroom in Ireland.
"For Jenna, coming out west was like coming home," says Caulfield.
As part of the first cohort of students to participate in the NUI Galway Study abroad program during the fall of 2018, Caulfield connected Koenig with leading Irish cancer researchers, leading to an internship in cancer research and her own independent project with breast cancer researcher Dr. Emer Bourke, with the Lambe Institute for Translational Research NUIG.
The focus of Dr. Bourke's group is investigating the molecular and structural changes that underpin how breast cancer develops. Koenig's project was a part of the collaboration between Dr. Bourke's group and a group in Denmark, investigating the interaction between breast cancer and malaria. Dr. Bourke's group is looking for the first time at the effects of Malaria proteins on a very aggressive sub-type of breast cancer called triple negative, a research area related to Koenig's freshman projects at Harper. Koenig's project allowed her to work with researchers, testing if triple-negative breast cancer cell growth was affected by specific malaria proteins.
Following successful completion of Koenig's project, Caulfield is impressed with the collaborative partnership and excited for future opportunities.
Once returning home to Notre Dame, Koenig hopes to share her scientific and cultural experience in Ireland with other students, highlighting how this program and experience has only enhanced her academic and professional opportunities. Koenig says some students fear that time abroad will put them behind academically, but wanted to emphasize that going abroad to NUIG is a huge asset, to both their personal and professional opportunities.
"There's a big future for placements in Galway," says Koenig.
Caulfield agrees that this is just the beginning of a program allowing students to seize new opportunities and experiences, through placement and collaborations with their partner NUIG.
Koenig is now back on campus and back at Harper. She's already looking beyond her senior thesis towards a MD/PhD program, with the goal of becoming a physician scientist doing cancer research. While she's now focused on her future research opportunities, Koenig says it's important to never lose her sense of discovery, which ultimately led her west.
Originally published by Colleen Wilcox at kylemore.nd.edu on April 04, 2019.