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All children are welcome to Sunday School which takes place on the last Sunday of each month in the Church Hall at the bottom of Church Road. If you're under three, please bring your mum or dad with you! We also encourage children and their parents to come to the family service at 11 am in the church on the first Sunday of the month. The childrenwill be sharing what they have learned about the Holy Spirit as we celebrate Pentecost on 3 June. At the end of the month, the theme follows the church's year: the Trinity.
Fellowship Group
This is not a holy huddle for an in-crowd - rather an opportunity to meet together for an hour and a half on the first and third Wednesdays of the month. Home made cakes or biscuits accompany the tea and coffee served in the Church Hall from 8 pm to 9.30 pm. Each evening has a focus and these have included a chocolate tasting, items from the news, and Christian Aid materials about money. Why don't you come and get to know people from the church in a more relaxed way than is possible on a Sunday morning?
Ploughman's Lunch
A Ploughman's Lunch in aid of church funds will be held at Driveside (74a Station Road) on Sunday 24 June from 12 noon. Tickets for lunch (to include a drink) will be £5 per adult, £3.50 OAPs/children and £14 for a family ticket of two adults and two children under 12. Please contact Milton Keynes 372032 to book in. Final numbers by Wednesday 20th June please. All welcome.
Climate Change - the Game Show
An evening with a difference! Have you ever wanted to know more about climate change? Do you find the jargon difficult to understand? A theatrical company will be piloting new material at Christchurch, Stantonbury Campus on Wednesday evening, 4th July - American Independence Day has been deliberately chosen to highlight George Bush's refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Initiated by the Oxford Diocese, this is a bargain evening. £1 per person - maximum number of 75, so ring 310951 to book your place now (pay on the door, but you need to reserve your seat). You'll get through to Milton Keynes World Development Education Centre whose co-ordinator, Rosemary Clarke, lives in Bow Brickhill. The show begins at 8 pm and lasts 90 minutes.
Would you like to learn more about the Old Testament? Do you think you have the potential to lead worship? Are you wondering how you could use your talents within the church? Do you fancy a trip to Taize? Or perhaps you'd like to learn more about prayer. Details of ways to answer all these questions in the Summer Term Cottesloe prospectus available at the back of the church.
Bow Brickhill Parent & Toddler Group
Invites you to join the fun on a Thursday afternoon at Bow Brickhill Pavilion, Rushmere Close from 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm with children from birth to school age. £1 per adult (children free). For further information please contact Julie - 01908 642155 or Lisa - 01908 374019.
Bow Brickhill Women's Institute
The next meeting will be on 21 June at 7.30 pm. Dr Logan will speak on general health matters and the competition will be for either a medical remedy or an old medical instrument.
The mobile library will be in the village by the War Memorial on Friday 1 June and Friday 15 June from 11-11.15 am.
Recycling Calendar for June
Blue weeks: Wednesdays 13 and 27 June
Red weeks: Wednesdays 6 and 20 June
Bedford Morris Men
The Bedford Morris Men will be visiting the village again this year on Wednesday 27 June at 8 pm bringing raditional English dances for you to see outside the Wheatsheaf public house - a date for your diary.
Events at The Wheatsheaf
Pool league - Saturday 9 June Karaoke and buffet night
Friday 15 June - The Peartree Bridge Family performing live.
Congratulations A Team on winning the Aspley and Woburn District Pool League. B Team came fourth in the league - well done.
The Bow Brickhill Club
Club members spent a very interesting afternoon at our meeting on 1 May when Maxine and other ladies from the CLUTCH Club entertained us with a very informative presentation, aided with two computers, photographs and details obtained from some of our village residents over the past ten months. The afternoon concluded with our members taking turns at the computer and acquiring new skills. Our next meeting will be on 5 June in the Pavilion at 2 pm when we shall have a quiz, raffle, board games and a session of Betty's Bingo.
Trek Tibet in aid of Mencap
As you read this I will be bearing the completion of my adventure to Tibet. (Editor's note: Alan is now safely back home.) Hopefully I will have successfully climbed to 16,000 feet without any ill effects and will be making my descent. I would like to say a big 'thank you' to everybody who has supported me. The sponsor money I have collected to date amounts to over £4,500 which has far exceeded my expectations. I have been very touched by the number of cards and messages I received wishing me luck; your encouragement has been much appreciated. A special thank you must go to Andy Malleson who doggedly forced me out training in all weather; I think we was an army sergeant major in another life! Thank you. Alan Preen
Preserve Bow Brickhill
PBB will be running a treasure hunt at the show on 15 July. We are looking for prizes - both valuable and amusing - and would welcome any donations. Please contact Sandy Paulger, 3 London End Lane, Bow Brickhill.
Publicity: from time to time the broadcast media may wish to meet and record or film PBB supporters. It would help to know who would be available, possibly at short notice to 'form a crowd'. Please contact Sue Malleson tel 01908 372736, if you would be able to help, especially if you are available during the day.
Planning proposals: further planning proposals to the Local Plan have recently been made available for viewing by Milton Keynes Council. The Parish Council has obtained copies of the proposals for Bow Brickhill and these are available for residents to view.
Youth on Show
YOS proudly presents 'A Good Knights Work' at the Jennie Lee Theatre, Bletchley Leisure Centre on Thursday 28th, Friday 29th and Saturday 30th June at 7.30 pm. A musical comedy based on knights, dragons,a princess and mistaken identities, starring a case of local children aged 7 - 16 years. Ticket prices at £4.50 for adults, and £2.50 concessions are now available from heather on 01908 661389 and Mary on 01908 647003 or email powerplug@aol.com. The Youth on Show cast has been working extremely hard and very much hopes you will support this production.
The Milton Keynes National Trust Association
The MKNTA is organising a holiday to the Loire from 22 - 29 September 2001, conveniently starting from Bletchley and Aspley Guise. We stay one night in Rouen, five nights in Ambrose and one night, on the return journey, near Fontainebleau, in three star hotels with dinner, bed and breakfast and bathroom ensuite. During the week we shall see Rouen's beautiful cathedral, visit Monet's glorious garden, amazing Chartres cathedral and delightful chateaux such as Amboise, Chenonceu, Azay le Rideua, Blois and Cheveny. We end the holiday with a visit to Vaux le Vicomte. We shall also see the Romanesque Abbey of Fontevraud and the church at Cunault.
This should be a wonderful opportunity to see a beautiful part of France with the minimum of effort. The cost of the holiday is only £475 per person in a double room. It includes dinners with wine included, all entrances and even all tips! To keep the holiday at this price we have to have six more people and wonder if any readers are interested in joining this friendly group. Contact telephone 01908 582161 or 01525 261589.
Rural Transport Partnership
If you would like to take the opportunity of attending a Rural Transport Partnership Even on 14 June at Milton Keynes Council Offices, please contact Linda Nicholls on 01296 421036. It will start at 10.15 am and will include short presentations by Buckinghamshire Community Action and the Countryside Agency. There will be time to meet other community groups involved in rural transport issues as well as Unitary Authority transport staff before refreshments end the morning at 1 pm.
Fred O'Dell
Fred O'Dell's passing closes a chapter of Bow Brickhill history. For the first time in several hundred years there is no O'Dell in the village. Throughout the centuries O'Dells have been prominent in the village as Church Wardens and village elders, a family tradition of service to the community that can seldom be equalled, less still surpassed. Fred continued in this tradition playing a full part in village life. He was a parish councillor - chairman for many years - and district councillor to Newport Pagnell RDC. A keen sportsman Fred played cricket and football and with Audrey were founder members of the Tuesday Club. Happily there are still members of the family in the village, but Fred will be sorely missed.
Contributions for the July newsletter should reach Norman Causer, 14 Downs View, Bow Brickhill Tel 01908 372884 by Friday 22 June please.
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Gulf Times - judiciary
6/24/2018 11:50:11 PM20
Deputy Amir opens Institute of Criminal Studies
HE the Attorney-General Dr Ali bin Fetais al-Marri delivered a welcoming speech on this occasion. He said that Qatar offers great support to the judiciary on all levels and affirms its independence.
4/23/2018 9:58:27 AM20
Naidu rejects opposition bid to impeach India's top judge
India's vice president on Monday rejected an unprecedented petition by seven opposition parties to impeach the top judge for "misbehaviour", saying that the allegations were "neither tenable nor admissible".
4/20/2018 1:58:05 PM20
Indian opposition moves to impeach chief justice
Chief Justice Dipak Misra came under a cloud in January when the four next highest-ranking judges in the Supreme Court criticised his distribution of cases to judges and raised concerns about judicial appointments.
4/2/2018 4:36:49 PM20
Iraq condemns 6 Turkish women to death for IS membership: judiciary
A Baghdad court on Monday sentenced six Turkish women to death and a seventh to life in prison for membership of the Islamic State jihadist group, a judicial source said.
Philippine judges, court staff urge chief justice to resign
A group of judges and four court employees' organisations called on Monday for the Philippines' chief justice to step down and make a "sacrifice" to restore peace and order in the judiciary, a plea she strongly rejected.
UN group says rule of law 'under siege' in Maldives
A UN rights group said on Monday the detention of two Supreme Court judges in the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives was an attack on the independence of the judiciary and undermined the rule of law.
Senior judges open rift with India's chief justice
The judges said they were making their disagreement with Chief Justice Dipak Misra public after private talks failed to address what they said were serious problems with the running of India's highest court.
8/2/2017 12:10:15 PM20
Bangladesh court ends MPs' power to sack judges
Bangladesh's Supreme Court has scrapped parliament's power to sack top judges, in a landmark verdict that lawyers said Wednesday bolstered the independence of the country's judiciary.
Oman closes down newspaper, accuses it of insulting judiciary
A privately owned newspaper in Oman said on its website on Wednesday it had been suspended from publishing, a day after the government said it had "taken measures" against a paper for insulting the judiciary.
UN urges judiciary reforms in Lanka
United Nations human rights experts have urged Sri Lanka
Iran billionaire tycoon Zanjani sentenced to death for corruption
Iran's billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption, a judicial official said Sunday, after a long trial in which he was accused of fraudulently pocketing $2.8 billion.

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Robert Clayton Ward, M.Div., D.Min. – Prior to pastoring Pleroma Bible Church, Clay taught history and coached basketball on the high school and college level. During such time he served as a Fellowship of Christian Athletes huddle coach, taught various Bible studies and filled pulpits in central Mississippi. Clay received his master of Divinity with an emphasis in Hermeneutics from Louisiana Baptist Theological Seminary in Shreveport and a Doctor of Ministry from Covington Theological Seminary with an emphasis in the Old Testament. Clay has pastored Pleroma Bible Church in Tullahoma, Tennessee for fifteen years. The primary goal of Pleroma Bible Church and Pastor Ward's ministry involves teaching the full counsel of God so that believers can bring maximum glorification of God through living the spiritual life by God's grace provision. Clay and his wife Amy live in Tullahoma, TN and stay busy homeschooling their six children: Andrew (12), Reagan (10), Jonathan (9), Hannah (7), Abigail (6), and Lydia (4).


Knitting stripe patterns is engaging, however all those color changes can mean weaving in many ends or having an edge to your work that looks "messy." In this class you will learn how to conceal the contrast color yarn at the side of your work. This technique can be applied to your own designs, or to most designs using stripes and contrast colors in pattern work. In this class we will learn how to carry the yarn for a two row stripe and a multi-row stipe pattern, while "hiding" the yarn not in use at the edge of the work. The yarn can easily be picked-up a few rows later when you work with it again. This Elegant I-Cord Edge technique creates a clean, polished, finished edge to all your knitted projects. A pattern showcasing this technique was first published in the Knitty Winter 2016 issue of their online magazine. Designs featuring this technique were also published in the Brooklyn Tweed Outpost Newsletter Winter 2017 and will be included in The Yarnery Wearwithall Pattern lines for Winter 2019.
Please read our class policies and cancellation information before registering.
Special guest teacher, designer Lisa Carney-Fenton!
Long tail or knitted cast on, knit and purl stitches, familiar with changing yarn colors, comfortable working with 2-3 colors of yarn at one time.
How to create an elegant i-cord edge while working with multiple colors.
Yarn: approximately 100 yards each of three contrasting colors of worsted weight yarn.
Needles: appropriate needles to obtain a gauge of 5 sts to the inch.


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SAN MATEO, Calif., April 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SignalFx, the real-time cloud monitoring platform for cloud infrastructure and microservices, today announced new integrations with Google Cloud services for cloud-native applications: Google Cloud Functions, Istio on GKE, and Knative.
Developing and operating modern digital services requires a new approach to monitoring. The pressure to maximize developer productivity and to constantly improve customer experience requires a platform capable of providing accurate insights in real-time with minimal operator intervention. SignalFx accomplishes this thanks to its unique Streaming Analytics architecture that leverages patented data science to intelligently analyze metrics and traces in real-time without the latency of traditional batch architectures. To ensure the most accurate characterization of application performance, SignalFx's NoSample™ distributed tracing solution analyzes every transaction across microservices – not just a small random sample – thereby intelligently capturing all anomalies - even the P99 outliers.
SignalFx is the only real-time cloud monitoring platform for infrastructure, microservices, and applications. The platform collects metrics and traces across every component in your cloud environment, replacing traditional point tools with a single integrated solution that works across the stack. SignalFx is built on a massively scalable streaming architecture that applies advanced predictive analytics for real-time problem detection. With its NoSample™ distributed tracing capabilities, SignalFx reliably monitors all transactions across microservices, accurately identifying all anomalies. And through data-science-powered directed troubleshooting SignalFx guides the operator to find the root cause of issues in seconds. SignalFx is used by leading enterprises across high tech, financial services, consumer products, retail, communications, media, entertainment and web-scale players like Yelp, HubSpot, Acquia, and Kayak. SignalFx is venture-funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, and General Catalyst.


(Dan Trimmer, 1998). Diploid (ALMOND PUFF X FRANCIS JOINER) When Pat and her sister seedling KATHY ROOD first bloomed I was thrilled. This is the only time I have ever redone a successful cross due to the quality of the first batch. PAT NEUMANN and her sisters are the finest large doubles I have grown in my garden. Pat is a very large 6" consistent informal double with round full petals and a profusion of rounded petaloids that glow pink and cream and chartreuse. Face on, about half of the bloom is an extension of the green and chartreuse throat, creating the effect several flavors of sherbet having been blended but barely mixed. In Florida scapes just kept reoccurring, and flower size increased with each new bloom set. Established plants display deep branching and an occasional proliferation on there lowest bract. Foliage is compact and the plants are vigorous. Registered as a dormant Pat behaved as a Semi-evergreen in Florida. Named for Long Island's Pat Neumann who first informed me she had to have that plant!


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Small Multi-Frequency / Multi-System RTK Module
Supports numerous satellite positioning and has 35 satellite receiving channels with ultra-low power consumption
The deviation of current general GPS positioning could be several metres around. If the GPS module performance is not good enough, that deviation could be even hundreds of metres away.
Moreover, in the past, because RTK was limited by high cost and cannot be popularised, and the high-precision demand of "Centimetre-Level" rises in 5G and AIoT industry
Providing robust Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) services for wireless communication, embedded systems, avionics, and automotive and consumers electronics is the RTK-1010 module by LOCOSYS Technology that can concurrently support all satellite positioning systems, including United States' GPS L1/ C/A, L5C, Europe's Galileo E1, E5a, Russian GLONASS L1, Chinese BeiDou B1I/B2a and Indian IRNSS L5.
In addition to the combination features of multi-frequency / multi-system signals, RTK-1010 has 135 satellite receiving channels and 65 mA ultra-low power consumption. It can also be used as a base station or rover station.
When being as the base station, it can broadcast the original RTCM 3.X revised coordinate data. The positioning time can be acquired by less than 10 seconds.
When being as the rover station in static or high dynamic modes, it can set up a 1 to 10Hz high update rate, its position accuracy is 1cm and its heading accuracy can be less than 0.2 degrees.
The RTK high-precision positioning is more appropriate to the following applications, e.g., unmanned mobile vehicle, bridge/dam/hillside/building structure monitor, drone aerial photography/logistics/artistic performance, handheld/wearable devices, precision agriculture, shared movement/tracking management, V2V/V2X and so on.
LOCOSYS Senior Vice President, Nick Chen, said the global satellite positioning has already been broadly used in our daily lives. Except for special applications such as aviation, military, and geographic surveying and mapping.
LOCOSYS has marketed globally for decades and anticipates high-precision positioning requests for quick expansion to all kinds of civilian markets.
The "High Quality with High Cost-Performance Ratio" module is a customers' best solution.


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Jessica Powers December 30, 2020 at 6:04 AM 10 min read
Should Event Pros Use QuickBooks Online or Desktop?
It's common knowledge that QuickBooks is a staple financial software for event businesses of all sizes, and has been for quite some time. Things are changing over at QuickBooks, as a quick visit to their website will make it apparent that they are promoting QuickBooks Online over their traditional Desktop version. While there is no evidence that they will stop supporting their desktop version anytime soon, it does beg the question: Should event pros use QuickBooks Online?
Here at Goodshuffle Pro, we say: absolutely!
You may be thinking, "Of course the folks at Goodshuffle Pro think it's great, they have a partnership with QuickBooks Online and it's integrated into their software!"
And you're not wrong. We do have a fantastic QuickBooks Online Integration— but we never would have made that choice for our company if we didn't think QuickBooks Online was the best financial software out there. So, let's delve in and look at some of the comparisons between the QuickBooks Desktop version vs. QuickBooks Online.
Security— Is It Up to Snuff?
A main concern for people when switching from a desktop software to a cloud-based software is security. After all, it really seems like all your data is out there in the ether. In a previous post, we discussed the high level of security demanded by both Goodshuffle Pro and Quickbooks Online— I encourage you to check it out if you haven't already, as we review some of the technical nitty-gritty involved in securing client data. In many ways, cloud-based software has become more secure than server-based software. This is because server-based software is all in a single location (e.g. your desktop computer), so your data could be more vulnerable to breach and loss due to hackers, hardware failure, and even theft of the computer itself.
Take Your Inventory Everywhere
From our perspective, the biggest benefit of QuickBooks Online is that it IS a cloud-based software. Event rental company owners are busy people, and we know from experience that they love the mobility of Goodshuffle Pro. You can literally conduct business from anywhere you have a mobile signal or an internet connection— and with QuickBooks Online, that can also mean you can manage your financials from ANYWHERE with pretty much any device with a browser or the QuickBooks Online app.
A Direct Line to Your Accountant
But it's not just business owners that can access QuickBooks Online from anywhere, it's your accountants, too (by the way, accountants also love Goodshuffle Pro's QuickBooks Online Integration). No more having to sync up time to drop off sensitive documents, running to the post office, or having to drop everything to email over a report; everything from invoices to revenue reports are available to your accountant through QuickBooks Online. What a relief!
Saving Money with Services & Features
At this point, you may be thinking, "Well, that's nice and all, but I really need QuickBooks Online to pull its weight. The Desktop version does so much, can the Online version even keep up?"
In short: yes. I scoured the QuickBooks site myself searching for areas where the Online version would fall short, and I was surprised to find that they were comparable— and that the Online version has additional money-saving features. QuickBooks Desktop is a one-time (-ish, more on that ahead) software you purchase, whereas QuickBooks Online is a subscription service, in that you pay a monthly or annual fee to use their software. At first blush, it seems like the subscription service may cost more— that is, until you look at some of the included features.
(Please note: These prices are directly from the QuickBooks website as of 11/13/2020 and may change.)
QuickBooks Online QuickBooks Desktop
Support Free Up to $89 for 90 days
Cloud Access Free $44-200 per month
Users Up to 25 users for free Fee per user
Access to new products & features Included $299 annual repurchase cost
Backups Constant encrypted backups included $9.95 per month
Plus, QuickBooks Online can connect with around 650 different cloud-based apps.
Multiple Levels so You Never Overpay
QuickBooks Online offers several levels of their software, from a very basic plan that's perfect for freelancers and start-ups, to an Advanced plan that's perfect for medium to large companies. That way, you're never over-paying for features you'll never use. There's even an add-on service that allows you to completely manage payroll with QuickBooks Online, which really allows it to expand from a software ideal for medium sized-companies to one that can hold its own with large companies.
Making the Switch
"But I have so much data in the QuickBooks Desktop version, it'd be such a headache to switch!"
QuickBooks Online has your back there, too. They currently offer to transfer over all of your data for free.
We think the choice is clear: QuickBooks Online really gives you the most freedom and flexibility, without sacrificing computing capabilities. It's pretty much like having your cake and eating it too and sharing said cake with your accountants. Plus, it ties right in to Goodshuffle Pro with our QuickBooks Online Integration.
Want to learn more about Goodshuffle Pro's QuickBooks Online Integration? Read our articles on what makes our QuickBooks Online Integration the most secure and how to make the switch from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online.
Curious how Goodshuffle Pro integrates with QuickBooks Online to empower your business?
Jessica Powers
Jessica Powers is a Data Analyst for Goodshuffle Pro, powerful business software for event companies.
8 Reasons Why Goodshuffle Pro's QuickBooks Online Integration is Unique
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Why Goodshuffle Pro's QuickBooks Online for Event Pros is the Most Secure on the Market
At Goodshuffle Pro, we understand that security is an incredibly important part of your business. It's extremely important to ...
Jessica Powers September 22, 2021 at 12:00 PM 6 min read
5 Benefits of QuickBooks Online That You Probably Didn't Know
You may remember some of our previous posts about QuickBooks Online (QBO) and noticed how they primarily focused on our QBO ...


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import _ from 'lodash'

import shuffle from './shuffle'

export default (
  roomsWithTeams,
  teamStandings,
  round
) => {
  let roomsWithPositions = roomsWithTeams
  roomsWithPositions.forEach(room => {
    const team1Id = room.teams[0]._id
    const team2Id = room.teams[1]._id

    const team1Gov = teamStandings[round._id][team1Id].totalResults.gov
    const team2Gov = teamStandings[round._id][team2Id].totalResults.gov

    if (team1Gov > team2Gov) {
      room.gov = _.cloneDeep(team2Id)
      room.opp = _.cloneDeep(team1Id)
    } else if (team1Gov < team2Gov) {
      room.gov = _.cloneDeep(team1Id)
      room.opp = _.cloneDeep(team2Id)
    } else {
      // Add most recent position check
      shuffle(room.teams)
      room.gov = _.cloneDeep(room.teams[0]._id)
      room.opp = _.cloneDeep(room.teams[1]._id)
    }

    delete room.teams
  })

  return roomsWithPositions
}

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An interview with Becky Blomfield from Milk Teeth (England)
"Em and Jack really made sure they're parts complimented our sound and who Milk Teeth are live"
Steadily they have arisen from the underbellies of the English rock underground and thus henceforth arrive boldly having delivered their second album back in March, say hello to Stroud-natives Milk Teeth. The punk rock trio have in the past 7 years signed with some of the biggest labels on the planet: Roadrunner Records, Hopeless Records and now Music For Nations. Vocalist and bassist Becky Blomfield spoke to GMA about the state of the Punk Rock scene, what plans Milk Teeth COVID-19 depending and the beauty of the vinyl revival.
Guys would you say that Punk Rock over the past few years is seeing a huge resurgence in the UK? How did you get into Punk Rock?
"I think punk always exists in the background and underground scenes, I actually think there will be a more prominent rise in punk at the forefront again in light of so much anger caused by the Government lately and the circumstances surrounding COVID-19.
I got into Punk Rock as a teenager - I found bands like Operation Ivy, Alkaline Trio, early Green Day, The Ramones etc and was hooked."
You released your second album back in late March, what was the reception like given the circumstances we are faced with?
"It's been so positive! I think it was so important not to hold the date back for release. What time is better to give people music and escape than in a global pandemic."
How did it feel signing for Music For Nations and was it a rocky journey signing with 3 labels over a 4-5 year period?
"I feel like I'm used to large amounts of instability in my work and personal life so have almost come to expect things to go wrong before they go right. It's been positive signing to someone new and we are grateful they have championed the record and music we are making. I think a lot of labels aren't sure what to do with us."
What would your favourite tracks from the new album be? What did you do differently with this album compared to 'Vile Child'?
"My favourite tracks are "Smoke", "Better" and "Wannabe". Vile Child was written as the original line-up - a lots changed and it's given me so much to write about. I think this self titled record brings my writing to the forth front more than it ever has been, we stuck with a stripped back approach to production and Em and Jack really made sure they're parts complimented our sound and who Milk Teeth are live."
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Your album was released on both black and orange splatter vinyl, you must be excited to see that?
"It's always crazy to see your own record exists physically. I don't really associate it with me there's "band Becky" and "regular Becky". I'm stoked it's out - I feel especially proud of this album."
Outside of music do you have any other hobbies / interests?
"I love working out and hiking - lately I've enjoyed trying boxing style workouts. I love reading, am getting into gardening and am hoping to do some more craft based courses in either ceramics or silversmithing."
What plans do you have for the rest of the year when everything gets back to normal?
"Everything's uncertain right now, when we know what we are doing, the fans will be the first to know."
Are there any greetings / thanks you wish to send out?
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Google is making its Image Search results smarter, but only for mobile
Vishal Laul Neowin @vishal1082 · Aug 1, 2017 13:02 EDT with 0 comments
Google is making its image search just a tad bit smarter. Starting from today, images in search results will have a badge on the bottom-left corner, signifying the type of information that may be discovered if you click on them.
In Google's example – seen in the GIF – we can see the red velvet cupcakes have the recipe badge, and sure enough, tapping on it reveals more information about its recipe.
Recipes aren't the only things these badges will highlight; there are several other badges highlighting products to buy, videos to watch, and GIFs to share, among other things.
The idea is to make it easier to find more details about an image, without clicking the 'visit page' button, albeit at the cost of reducing traffic to that particular website. Though, further details about an image will still require you to follow up on it as usual.
Unfortunately, these badges won't be available on Google's desktop image search just yet; for now, the company is only rolling the feature out to the mobile image search, and the Google app for Android. It's not clear when we may see the feature pop up in search results on other platforms.
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Azmin says Guan Eng stopped allocations for Malay economic empowerment, Felda road works
The Gombak incumbent, who was in charge of Felda under the PH government, says he protested the finance ministry's decision to Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Gombak incumbent Mohamed Azmin Ali speaks at a Perikatan Nasional event in Selangor last night.
Cutbacks as well as a refusal to release allocations meant for Malay economic empowerment, including for a major project to improve infrastructure at Felda settlements, were among the decisions by the finance ministry under the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government that led to the start of a major rift, says Bersatu's Mohamed Azmin Ali.
Azmin, who was economic affairs minister during the PH rule and whose jurisdiction included Felda, said some RM400 million allocated for Teraju, the unit under the Prime Minister's Department set up to empower the Bumiputera economy, was also blocked by then finance minister Lim Guan Eng.
He said his claim could be proven as the decision was made known in writing.
The RM400 million for Teraju was an annual allocation under the five-year 10th Malaysia Plan, which allocated a total of RM2 billion to assist small Bumiputera businesses.
Azmin said before the 2018 election which saw PH taking over the administration, some RM700 million had been channelled to Teraju.
"But once PH took over, the finance minister from DAP, starting from 2018, stopped altogether the allocations for the Malays and Bumiputeras," Azmin said last night at the launch of Perikatan Nasional's (PN) election machinery in Gombak, where he will be defending his seat for a fourth term at the Nov 19 polls.
In 2020, following the resignation of Dr Mahathir Mohamad which caused the collapse of the 22-month PH administration, Azmin and a group of MPs from PKR joined hands with Bersatu to form a new government headed by Muhyiddin Yassin, after the latter received support from Umno, GPS and PAS.
Azmin and about a dozen PKR MPs were sacked by the party after their fallout with Anwar Ibrahim in the wake of demands by the president's supporters that he be appointed as prime minister to replace Mahathir.
Azmin said he wrote to Mahathir to protest the move by the finance ministry but that it was ignored by the PH government.
He said instead of the annual RM400 million allocation for Teraju, Lim set aside only RM100 million for it under the 2020 budget.
"This is an insult to an agency that is given a huge mandate," Azmin told reporters last night when asked to explain his claim.
"With RM400 million, we could have helped 200 Bumiputera companies and benefited 10,000 for Malays in various fields."
He said Teraju was just one among many agencies that were not given fair allocations by PH.
He cited another case involving a major road improvement project for Felda settlements spanning 1,000km, saying only allocations for 300km were approved.
"The same went for Ekuiti Nasional Bhd (Ekuinas), a government agency that injects capital into Bumiputera businesses to take over strategic companies.
"Unfortunately, the finance ministry also wanted to take over Ekuinas' revolving fund and requested that the agency be shut down," he added.
Azmin said he had gone to the Prime Minister's Office to protest the move to Mahathir.
"Alhamdulillah, the prime minister agreed with my suggestion and we were able to retain RM2.4 billion for the capital."
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On Sunday, as the Sweet 16 drew to a close, it became brutally obvious that if the little number indicated your seed was lower than your opponents, you were probably going to advance to the Elite Eight.
One seeds Connecticut and Tennessee cruised past 5-seeded Old Dominion and Notre Dame, respectively. Each team's star led the way. Freshman Maya Moore finished with 25 points and 11 rebounds and, not to be outdone, Candace Parker dropped 34 and 13 for the Lady Vols.
As for the two seeds, they both advanced with Texas A&M topping Duke handily, 77-63, and Rutgers holding off an upset bid from George Washington for an 11-point victory.
The Lady Vols, Huskies, Scarlet Knights and Aggies join two seeds LSU and Stanford and ones Maryland and North Carolina as the eight teams remaining in the Big Dance.
Yup, so much for parity. All eight top seeds remain.
Well, I said that Maryland needed a big game from Kristi Toliver to get out of their recent funk and advance to Monday's Elite Eight.
I was wrong. Maryland got just 8 points out of Toliver and the junior missed every three-pointer she took. She's now shooting 2-for-16 from long range. And the Terps still breezed into the round of eight.
It was obvious watching Oklahoma State play LSU that the Tigers were simply physically superior.
Were it not for Andrea Riley over the first few minutes, LSU would have been shutting out the overmatched Cowgirls.
And to make things worse, the one thing LSU needed to become even more dangerous, the emergence of point guard Erica White's scoring talents, happened. White led the Tigers in scoring with 18 points and that total isn't as high as it should be. In the first half, White, usually the team's assist person, was looking for her shot. She would weave inside defenders and have open layups, but several rimmed out. In the second half, they started to drop.
Told you Angel McCoughtry was going to need to score 40 points for Louisville to beat top-seeded North Carolina in Saturday afternoon's regional semifinal game from New Orleans.
McCoughtry, though, didn't heed my advice. She only managed to score 35. And guess what? The Cardinals lost by just four points. Had McCoughtry's total been 40, Louisville would still be dancing.
The Cardinals star was on fire in the first half and Louisville, who's men's team is also playing North Carolina in the Elite Eight later tonight, rushed out to an early 18-point lead over the Tar Heels.
But it wasn't to last.
The Spokane and New Orleans Regionals are down to their final matchups and Sunday is Greensboro and Oklahoma City's turn to dance into the Elite Eight.
Four more games to whet your appetite await.
The first four of eight Sweet 16 games commences Saturday with the New Orleans and Spokane Regionals playing their semifinals.
In what can only be described as a weird and annoying schedule, North Carolina and Louisville and Louisiana State and Oklahoma State meet early with noon and 2 p.m. ET starts, respectively, while the Spokane games begin late at 9 and 11:30 p.m. ET.
That means that Pitt and Stanford won't declare a winner until the early morning hours on Sunday. But of course, She's On Fire will be here to let you know what happened.
Raise your hand if you simply can not wait for the Tennessee-Connecticut national championship matchup.
Well, if Van Chancellor, Sylvia Fowles and LSU have anything to do about, those hand raisers will be waiting for something that never comes.
People seem to forget about the Tigers, who are the only remaining team playing their Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games in their home state. That's right, the Tigers have under a two-hour drive to get from their home in Baton Rouge to the New Orleans Arena where they will meet 3-seed Oklahoma State on Saturday.
Connecticut beat Texas by 34 points. Tennessee spanked Purdue by 26 on the Boilermakers own home court and trust me, it could have been worse.
The point I'm trying to make here is thus: It is unacceptable for Maryland, if they hope to win their second national championship in three years, to be beating Coppin State by 14 and Nebraska by 12.
I've never been much for style points or pouring it on but let's get one thing straight. There is a difference between coasting to victory and grinding out a win. Don't fool yourselves; the Terrapins were hanging on for dear life in that game against Nebraska. When Yvonne Turner converted on the four-point play to pull the score to 65-61 with the game clock winding down, I don't think Brenda Frese was feeling breezy about the situation.
The Big 12 can eat its heart out.
They may have been 8-0 in the first round, but the second round was a whole other story. Only two Big 12 teams remain - No. 2 Texas A&M and No. 3 Oklahoma State. So what happened to the other six?


The author summarizes his dissertation as follows: "The first objective of this study was to determine if the intergroup contact theory is suitable to explain the contacts among young Francophones and Anglophones in the context of Quebec colleges. In four Anglophone colleges in Quebec, students (N=539) were surveyed concerning their relationships with young Francophones and Anglophones. A theorical model, composed with the classical variables of the intergroup contact theory, as well as specific variables concerning the linguistic context was tested. The model yielded by the structural equations did not confirm the theorical model as a whole. However, the final model that was obtained clearly shows that the intergroup contact theory is pertinent to predict the quantity and the quality of the contacts between young Francophones and Anglophones in Anglophone colleges in Quebec, as well as the closeness felt to the other linguistic group. The final model also highlights the importance of feeling competent in the other language and its impact on the relationships with members in the other linguistic group, as well as on the attitudes concerning them. This model also allowed comparing the relative contribution of the social identification theory to the intergroup contact in order to explain the relationships between young Francophones and Anglophones in those colleges. The results obtained put a doubt on the pertinence of the social identification theory to explain the relationships between young Francophone and Anglophone college students. This study also allowed to describe the relationships that symmetric bilingual students (who speak as much French as English in their day to day life) have with Anglophones and Francophones in those colleges. Four bilingual sub-groups have been compared, including: bilingual students with French as mother tongue, bilingual students with English as mother tongue, bilingual students with French and English as mother tongues, and, finally, bilingual students having their mother tongue as neither French or English. The ANOVAs that were conducted showed that the four sub-groups are almost identical concerning their relationships with Anglophones, but that the sub-group of bilingual students who have French as mother tongue is globally closer to the Francophone group than the other three bilingual sub-groups."


Saturday morning many dear sisters volunteered to help at 11:00am as many South Church mom's brought their children for Christmas activities so they could have 3 hours of "mom time".
The day began with ornament making for the church Christmas tree, followed by a lunch of pizza, veggies, fruit, mini cupcakes and candy canes. After lunch the children (ages 7 and up) were taught a Christmas song by Mrs. McAfee while the younger ones watched a Christmas story and played. The older children will be singing "What Child Is This" during the upcoming Christmas Eve Service.
The day ended with everyone joining in to decorate the "big" Christmas tree in the Sanctuary. Other than the cupcakes and candy canes, the tree decorating seemed to be the highlight of the day!
May the Lord bless everyone who participated in the Mother's Day Out lunch last weekend, especially the volunteers & coordinators! The tree looks great!
Restore outreach ministries on Christmas Eve will take place either before or after the Christmas Eve Service. Please check with your Restore leader for times & details. If you're not a part of a Restore family but would like to participate in bringing Christmas cheer to First Responders--including EMTs & firefighters at the fire station, and nurses & doctors at the hospital--please give Restore leaders Chuck or Brad a call. Their contact info is available online in the Church Directory.
This year our Lord has provided a central place for South Church to celebrate the birth of His Son on Christmas Eve together: Suite 100! We plan to begin our candle light service of Scripture & Song at 6:30pm. Pastor Cody & his church family from Fredericksburg Christian Fellowship are planning to join us for this time of worship. So bring your friends & family and celebrate with us, next Sunday evening, December 24th.


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Shootings at NZ Mosques
Thread starter MrP
Woof? Bark? Whine?
Christchurch shootings: Terrorist attack at mosques
Terrorist kills people praying at mosques in Christchurch leaving dozens dead and injured.
World's gone f*cking crazy, this shit doesnt happen here.
Far right wing, racist Australian it looks like, published a manifesto on line and livestreamed the shooting. Sick fuck.
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Aberdeen , Scotland
40! A further 20 injured. Horrendous.
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East Front
In Nize it was twice as many.
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MrP said:
HIs point is that he's supports the murderers. He wants to kill all Muslims. A number of posters have said that on these forums over and over again.
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synicbast
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Gosford Australia
"We, New Zealand, we were not a target because we are a safe harbour for those who hate.
"We were not chosen for this act of violence because we condone racism, because we are an enclave for extremism,"
"We were chosen for the very fact that we are none of those things."
"We are a proud nation of more than 200 ethnicities, 160 languages. And amongst that diversity we share common values. And the one that we place the currency on right now is our compassion and support for the community of those directly affected by this tragedy.
"And secondly, the strongest possible condemnation of the ideology of the people who did this,"
"You may have chosen us – we utterly reject and condemn you."
"Many of those who would have been directly affected by the shooting may be migrants to New Zealand. They may even be refugees here. They have chosen to make New Zealand their home, and it is their home. They are us. The person who has perpetuated this violence against us is not. They have no place in New Zealand."
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Aaron Cleavin
Tomorrow or on Sunday I will likely head out to Western Sydney and visit a Mosque for the first time with a good Muslim friend from Pakistan and shed
some tears for our loss of innocence.
We will not let the b**@@$#s grind us down.
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DWPetros
Words of hate matter. This crazy f*ck was imbibing in right-wing hate talk before pulling the trigger. Much of this talk is coming from the US; whether in small doses or large, they add up eventually to triggering violence among guys on the edge. Trump has encouraged bigotry and hatred, and stands as someone who right-wing hate-mongers look up to provide them, in their minds, legitimacy.
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Welcome to the Real World MrP- maybe you can sympathise with British men who have to read stories about 10,000 plus white schoolgirls being beaten and raped by gangs of degenerates and wonder how that could happen here and why it was covered up................. maybe you thought that only French, Brits, Yanks, Swedes and Germans were the only ones who deserved to be raped and butchered .......................by sick f*cks...............I find it odd that your outrage has only been evident at a white guy doing the killing....I wonder what your reaction would be if it was the other way around ???????
https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/christians-in-iraq-dwindle-and-struggle-to-survive-19772
These do not have anyone to shed tears for them....................butchered in 100's of thousands...................I wonder where the hate came from to kill and persecute them.
This is only the canary in the sheep farm.................the hatred of western values and society has been one way from both the left and the peaceful ones..........................Meeeeh ! Pffffft !.................................
DWPetros said:
It is not starting in the US. It has started everywhere and hate speech was on the rise worldwide long before 2016. Trump is just a catalyst for that rhetoric. He is a total POS for a human being but the crazies of the world did not need Donald J. Trump to do anything.
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Hate is universal, no doubt. But the US exerts a disproportionate influence around the world because of our presence around the world; commerce, military, media.
So, while right-wing authoritarian fascism isn't new and did take off in the 20th Century outside the US, I would argue that the US, since WWII, the US has indeed been the most prolific source of right-wing fascist propaganda. Trump is their new Leader-hero and apparently they look to him in that way. And he loves that attention.
The purveyors of love speech and crime have something to say....................all together now...........pants down............ naked butts in the air........." Pleaaase,.....pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaase, spare my miserable life...........I will do and say anything to appease you.....absolutely anything..................annnnnyyyyythiiiiing.......................take my country, my women, my children....and my sheep.....MeeeeeeH !
Any Leftists wanting to call these Isis people sick f*cks......................I can't wait all day.................No !,,,, I did not think soooooooooo.....!....Pffffft !...
I wonder why they call it ChristChurch...???????
Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Also, US history has so much racism that thinking this is at all new would be to show real ignorance of US history.
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Racism now? I thought the guy(s) lit up the places because of religion? Muslim people are all over the world.
And, besides that, how the knee-jerk thinkers jump on Trump from this, when his manifesto mentions the European attacks, is beyond me. Oh well, some idiot on the internet said something irrational, not the end of the world.
Number. Eighty.
Wake up. The hate is being propagated throughout social media -FROM RUSSIA!! We (as in the West) are in the middle of a cyber war and we are LOSING. Russia is spreading hate and discontent throughout all of Europe with the use of social media. The rise of the far-right governments is not a result of anything that the US has done, excepting Iraq, and is a result of dwindling money, dwindling natural resources, & diminishing upward mobility.
We have had to change our money how many times in the past 20 years due to counterfeiting from Iran? China engages in cyber espionage/ data theft on a grand scale and has no intentions of stopping. North Korea uses malware ransom to fund their government.
Why are the people from the southern hemisphere stampeding northward? Global warming, war & safety. The governments that were barely adequate 10 years ago are now totally inadequate to take care of their peoples and those same people are now looking for a better alternative. The same issues that their previous governments were trying to deal with are being pushed onto the governments that they are trying to move into (dwindling money, dwindling natural resources, & diminishing upward mobility). This is only going to get worse.
Do away with the military industrial complex if you think that is the 'wave' of the world. Then all of the people will come to your campfire and sing kumbaya and the world will be a great place. Later, when you fall asleep, they will cut your head off and take all of your firewood... You have no way to protect yourself. Natural selection
We disagree again, but that's OK. I think you've grossly overestimated the Russian thing. I can't disagree that they're trying to sew confusion and discontent, but talking about or exaggerating a 'war' with them is something that plays suspiciously into the hands of the MIC and their influence - something you more or less deny the existence or influence of. No, it's not Russia regardless of what Rachel says to us. Oh well.
As for the stampede northward from Central America. Yes, to the reasons you mention, but are you aware of the reasons why their governments are so screwed up? Aware of the US involvement in CE over the past century, their installation of oppressive right-wing dictatorships in the last 30 years which has stirred up their population? You should be..
The MIC complex is part of the problem - not the solution. We're broke due to paying for it. Because we have such a strong MIC, we feel empowered to use it (Iraq, Afghanistan, and maybe soon Venezuala). No, we get ourselves into our own troubles. When do we start taking responsibility for the problems we experience? Blame 'them'?
That isn't working. We need to be more introspective about what, who, we are.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11753529
Villefying Jews and Christians------------------------ feeeeeeeel that looooooove speech....let it ooze through both brain cells....and soon , you will be skipping through the daisies.....safe in your deluded bubble.......your linus blanket........and soft moon slipper reality...........it's all a right-wing conspiracy which will never touch you in any way................saaaaaafe in your cosy home and CNN Drip feed cable coming out of your rear end..........Aaaaaaaaah !
" Home Sweet and Safe Liberal Home ! "................
We are not going to agree on everything, that is OK. I think you are terribly naive to think that we are not in a cyber war right now. We are definitely in the midst of one right now. The push in militaries is in specialization -specialized troops for cyber, special ops, specialized equipment (IE: Littoral ships -smaller, maneuverable, & lethal to challenge the Chinese in the waters around Indonesia, ect.. The days of mass armies fighting are becoming a thing of the past but they are not extinct by a long shot.
As far as Central America -we have made some bad mistakes but not everything was bad but I was not just talking CA/ SA. I meant the whole of the southern hemisphere. People from Africa are flooding out of there for the very same reasons. We did not do this. Are you going to blame us for that or think that maybe there might be some other reasons that is pushing this exodus. If we are so bad, why are they heading towards us and not away from us? Opportunity.. a chance. They do not have either from where they are coming from.
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Theatre owes a lot to Joan Littlewood: daughter of East End larkiness , music-hall jangle and tough 1930's socialism; idealist and bully, stridingly inventive, a populist elitist ("I want only the truly disenfranchised to grace our stage"). Any theatre-maker now who chucks out the scenery, forces a cast to create the script, indicates change of character with a hat , revels in actors using their own accent and veers from earthiness to fantasy and back to make a point – every one of them is nodding to her legacy. She wrote her own story, in every sense; some swashbuckling anecdotes raise an eyebrow – did she really walk to Manchester to beard the BBC man? But her values and unshakeable self-confidence blew a breeze through the polite, Lord-Chamberlained theatre of her beginnings. She was disgusted even at school when the Porter in Macbeth had the same accent as the King, and left RADA scorning to graduate with a "West End Letter" , remarking that all you learnt there was to drink fake sherry while moving downstage to a better sightline. She championed Behan and Shelagh Delaney, and Barbara Windsor too; she transferred her work up West albeit with disgust at it being "pickled" in this way while the BBC "plundered her casts".
All this lies before us in the Swan, and it is a joy to have Greg Doran's RSC hosting a musical about her: itself a debut by the composer Sam Kenyon creating book, music and lyrics, and with a cast full of RSC first-timers including Clare Burt as Joan herself. At least, as the leading Joan: observing, meta-theatrically directing the action while six others portray her in different times or different moods. Particularly apposite is the fact that some of the Joans are black women: when RADA speaks patronizingly of the pupil's "predicament" – meaning Joan's illegitimacy and roughness – there is a dry topicality , in this age of concern about diversity in the profession, that the line is addressed to Aretha Ayeh.
It is skilfully woven, and Kenyon shows a mastery of styles from silent-movie tinkling to lush waltzes, big belting numbers, Sondheim style jerks and mellow agit-prop folk (naturally we meet Ewan MacColl, formerly Jimmie Miller of the Theatre of Action, and there is a fabulous moment when he walks out and Joan accuses him of just being jealous of young Shelagh Delaney's new fame) .
The second act is tighter and better than the first, with a stunning evocation of the creation of O What A Lovely War, but Joan's story rolls through always with both theatrical panache and decent human poignancy: her Gerry Raffles, debonair and devoted and unfaithful, is Solomon Israel. Emily Johnstone gives us a storming display as Barbara Windsor: though I was sorry not to have the famous moment when at her audition Joan ordered her to sit on her hands and abandon the vaudeville gestures to make the song tell its own story.
The period after Raffles' death and Joan's retirement when "Nothing much happened" is given us with a clever, sharp shrug of brevity. It was, as she would have wished, the shows that mattered. The art. Not a lot of "bloody acting". In the end, she stands before us Joan Alone once more. Herself.


Mr. Kenneth Ng King Tsun, Senior News Anchor of Television Broadcasting Limited, was invited to be the guest speaker at the 7th BJC Talk. The talk was co-organized by the Public Relations Office and the School of Communication. Mr. Ng talked about his job as a news anchor and reporter and shared his valuable experience. The talk was a great success with a full house of over 180 audiences.
During his speech, Mr. Ng pointed out that an excellent news anchor should posses some qualifications including clear pronunciation, familiarity with current issues and great adaptability. He also encouraged BJC students to read extensively to enrich their knowledge, which is certainly helpful to their career as a news anchor.


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Topic Network threat detection
SubTopic SIEM and security analytics
SIEM and security analytics
Threat intelligence services
Defending the digital infrastructure
FeatureSecurity looks to machine learning technology for a cognitive leg up
FeatureMIAX Options CSO on security's role in business continuity
NewsDoxware: New ransomware threat, or just extortionware rebranded?
OpinionAI or not, machine learning in cybersecurity advances
ReportRansomware costs not limited to ransoms, research shows
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Security looks to machine learning technology for a cognitive leg up
Advances in machine learning technology and artificial intelligence have proven to work well for some information security tasks such as malware detection. What's coming next?
Robert Lemos
Keen Footwear sells its iconic boots, shoes and sandals through thousands of retailers worldwide. But the Oregon manufacturer, which is working hard to its commitment to become "American Built," does not have the manpower to support a dedicated information security staff. With a team of six information technology professionals -- all but two focused on handling the day-to-day client issues of its 450 employees -- the IT staff would fall behind in triaging incidents the company's security software flagged.
"We fit squarely in the realm that we have the problems of all the big players, but we don't have the resources of a large enterprise," said Clark Flannery, Keen's director of IT in Portland.
To solve the problem, Flannery augmented his IT staff with machines. While the company had a traditional firewall and antivirus software to block the most obvious threats, Flannery opted to deploy Darktrace's Enterprise Immune System, a physical appliance that passively monitors network data and then uses machine learning technology and probability theory to model patterns of behavior and flag anomalous activity. (The "self-learning platform" from U.K. cybersecurity startup Darktrace is based on unsupervised learning -- anomaly detection -- and recursive Bayesian estimation, and was developed at the University of Cambridge.)
For Flannery, who considers the system a form of artificial intelligence, the machine learning technology means that his team has less work piling up: "With this AI, we do not have to look through the minutia unnecessarily." Instead, he gets reports on events on which the team needs to focus: brute-force login attacks, shadow IT usage or other anomalous traffic.
Flannery is not alone. With the high volume of data that most security teams have to prioritize, machine learning technology is increasingly being adopted as a way to reduce the noise (alerts) that traditional security products produce and to bubble up mid- and high-level concerns to IT staff. The discipline of machine learning finds its way into many large companies through the hiring of data scientists, who use algorithms to efficiently analyze event logs for their security teams.
"If you look at any of the large companies with excellent security teams, they have all integrated data scientists and machine learning, creating new skill sets contributing to this domain of cyber and network security," John Lambert, general manager of Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, told attendees of the company's January BlueHat IL security conference in Tel Aviv.
Machines benefit smaller companies most
Smaller companies, such as Keen, have turned to platforms that incorporate machine learning and AI techniques -- and soon automated defense -- to solve a variety of problems. "I don't need to go hire someone dedicated to security," Flannery said. "It just feels like a whole team back there -- who are way more qualified than [staff] I would be able to pay."
While machine learning and artificial intelligence are often used interchangeably, the concepts are different. Machine learning is a branch of data science that uses data sets to train statistical methods of analysis; it is the launching point to developing approaches to adding intelligence to software. The predictive models and algorithms generally fall into one of three classifications: supervised learning, unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning.
Artificial intelligence seeks to create software that can think about problems like a human. IBM's Watson for Cyber Security, which relies on machine learning technology and natural language processing, may be moving in that direction. The technology can consume unstructured security data -- research papers, blogs, video -- and uses cognitive processes developed by IBM's research and development in deep learning and neural networks to provide algorithms out of the box. Forty companies in banking, healthcare, insurance and other industries signed up in December 2016 to participate in the IBM Watson Cyber Security beta program.
Many cybersecurity providers claim their technologies represent the generation of AI -- IBM is not among them. In general, computational procedures or processes that can be characterized as intelligent remain open to debate. A software replacement for a security analyst would arguably be artificial intelligence.
Gunter Ollmann
"In the security industry, no one is using artificial intelligence," said Gunter Ollmann, CSO at Vectra Networks Inc., an automated threat management startup in San Jose, Calif. A mentor to tech companies and self-described executive for hire, Ollmann has performed CTO or research roles for NCC Group, IOActive, Damballa and IBM.
Security applications are more likely to use advanced machine learning while incorporating basic AI techniques. Machine learning technology is used in malware detection, dynamic risk analysis and anomaly detection. The technology can perform threat detection in dynamic environments, but it still requires humans in the loop.
The promise of machine learning -- especially as it evolves into something resembling artificial intelligence -- is its ability to significantly reduce complexity for human analysts, said Bryan Lares, director of cognitive security solutions at SparkCognition Inc., based in Austin, Texas. The company's DeepArmor antimalware platform uses machine learning, natural language programming and AI techniques to detect infections across networks and devices, including the internet of things. It is still accepting participants for the DeepArmor beta program.
Who's Got the (Machine) Smarts?
Outside of enterprises adding data scientists to their security teams, machine learning is typically applied to security in three types of companies.
Traditional security vendors -- think Symantec and Intel's McAfee -- have adopted machine learning in their products, but also use it to reduce the workload of their analysts as they try to keep up with the deluge of malware. In 2015, the latest numbers available, Symantec had to analyze and classify 431 million malware variants.
Companies focused specifically on generalized machine learning techniques and artificial intelligence goals have targeted the information security sector as a lucrative application of their technology. Recorded Future, for example, initially pursued natural-language processing to produce intelligence, but has strongly focused on using the technology to gather information on cybersecurity threats.
A number of cybersecurity startups have developed their technology by applying machine learning to specific cybersecurity problems. Cylance and SparkCognition are early adopters of AI techniques to detect unknown malware, for example.
Investments have skyrocketed in these firms. Cylance raised $100 million in a Series D funding round last year, valuing the company around $1 billion, according to CB Insights. Texas-based StackPath, which uses machine learning for real-time threat detection, raised $180 million in private equity.
With a greater number of devices to worry about, and a burgeoning amount of data from those devices to parse, security teams are running up against a productivity barrier. Unless the data is whittled down more effectively, security incidents will continue to be missed.
Yet, when the techniques work, systems using machine learning can bring consistency to the analysis of security events, catching those that might otherwise fall through the cracks. The application of the technology also reduces work for security analysts and IT staff by weeding out the chaff and highlighting the most serious security concerns. Machine learning technology can give IT and security teams added depth of knowledge, detecting patterns or issues they may not have known about.
Promise of the machines
If the technology can move beyond threat detection and into incident response and prediction -- essentially acting as a software-based analyst -- then we will have moved into artificial intelligence, said William Altman, tech industry analyst at York venture intelligence firm CB Insights.
"That's the difference between knowing someone is in your house when they rob it versus knowing they are going to rob it and how they will get in before they do it," Altman said. "With the skills shortage of qualified cybersecurity pros, increased automation of security monitoring and controls is allowing for an augmented approach that allows fewer analysts to respond to the most relevant security red flags."
Some companies have already started down that path. Telecom firm IDT Corp., based in Newark, New Jersey, uses an incident-response system powered by AI techniques to whittle down the volume of data and speed response time. In the past, the company required at least 30 minutes to even detect and start triaging an incident, which then required a minimum of four hours to forensically analyze. And that's for incidents classified as critical, said Golan Ben-Oni, CIO at IDT Corp. Many low- and medium-severity ranked issues ended up being critical, he said.
You can't say that you are going to replace your analysts. What ends up happening is that you put your analysts to better use.
Golan Ben-OniCIO at IDT Corp.
To address the problem, IDT adopted Hexadite's Automated Incident Response Solution (AIRS) to triage incidents and act, automatically in most cases, to stop potential attacks. In 30 minutes, the company now not only automatically analyzes every alert, but can quickly place a system on a quarantined "remediation network" to isolate it. Following quarantine, a full investigation of the host is conducted with AIRS. For instance, command-and-control server IP addresses can then be pushed to the dynamic, block access lists of the firewall to protect the remainder of the organization. If the system is found to have been infected with something more critical than a potentially unwanted program, as in the case of malware, the host will be flagged for re-imaging back to factory default.
"You can't say that you are going to replace your analysts. What ends up happening is that you put your analysts to better use. It saves you from getting additional people," Ben-Oni said. "The analysts can work on problems that they never had a chance to, like getting in touch with other companies to discuss the origination of the threat."
Machine evolution
Machine learning is really good at crunching through data, but we are still far from replacing security analysts, said Joseph Blankenship, a senior analyst for security and risk at Forrester Research.
"One thing we need to do [is] to make any automation possible -- and make better and faster decisions," he said. "So the next milestone will be when we will see something from a tool and have a high enough confidence level to not have an analyst in the equation."
Current machine learning systems have problems with false positives. While numbers are not available, Lares acknowledged that the goal is 99% accuracy in both detecting malware and determining whether a file is clean.
Joseph Blankenship
The challenge for companies is that they are trying to hit a moving target. Machines must be able to adapt to detect evolving threats, said Jon Miller, chief research officer at Cylance Inc., in Irvine, Calif. The company offers an AI engine called CylanceProtect for detecting malware and other threats.
"Replacing human detection of cancer with an AI solution is totally possible because cancer today is the same as cancer tomorrow," Miller said. "Unfortunately, in the information security world, there is no natural evolution. Attacks that come at you today are not the attacks that are going to come at you tomorrow."
Organizations can also expect attackers to adopt machine learning and AI techniques. Even with advances in machine learning technology, and even if everyone agrees that it should be considered artificial intelligence, attackers will use these techniques against businesses. By automating software models and the search for vulnerabilities, adversaries will be able to create their own machine learning and AI systems, Miller said. "In the end, the adversary for AI will be AI."
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Nicely written. We've been recently hiring machine learning technology for malware detection. We've done our homework obviously, and this kind of feature installation is new to us. If anyone could contribute more to the discussion, I'd like to hear another opinion about the significant advantage behavioral analytics have over signature-based.
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Q: POST method variable not passing I'm trying to make a simple "request register app", so I send a variable $appUser_id via POST to a .php file that will make the storage into the database. I worked, for a while, but then it stopped working and I don't know what I changed. It makes the registration into the database but sets the appUser_id to 0, but I'm sending a number.
It doesn't throw any error but doesn't get the proper variable's value.
And sending the data with Postman for now.
newRequest.php
<?php

if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"]=="POST"){
    require 'connection.php';
    makeRequestRegister();
}

function makeRequestRegister()
{
    global $connect;

    $appUser_id = $_POST["appUser_id"];

    $query = "INSERT INTO requests (appUser_id) VALUES ('$appUser_id')";

    mysqli_query($connect, $query) or die (mysqli_error($connect));
    mysqli_close($connect);

}

?>

Connection.php
<?php

define('hostname', 'localhost');
define('user', 'root');
define('password', 'password');
define('databaseName', 'belandri_TEII');

$connect = mysqli_connect(hostname, user, password, databaseName);

?>

Postman

DataBase

Pd: Forget about injection and that kind of protection. I don't care about that for now.

A: You're currently using the Headers tab but, you should be using Body tab for POST data.
Check out the following example:

If you check out the Postman documentation, you'll see there's several ways to construct the Request Body:
form-data

multipart/form-data is the default encoding a web form uses to transfer data. This simulates filling a form on a website, and submitting it. The form-data editor lets you set key/value pairs (using the key-value editor) for your data. You can attach files to a key as well. Do note that due to restrictions of the HTML5 spec, files are not stored in history or collections. You would have to select the file again at the time of sending a request.

urlencoded

This encoding is the same as the one used in URL parameters. You just need to enter key/value pairs and Postman will encode the keys and values properly. Note that you can not upload files through this encoding mode. There might be some confusion between form-data and urlencoded so make sure to check with your API first.

raw

A raw request can contain anything. Postman doesn't touch the string entered in the raw editor except replacing environment variables. Whatever you put in the text area gets sent with the request. The raw editor lets you set the formatting type along with the correct header that you should send with the raw body. You can set the Content-Type header manually as well. Normally, you would be sending XML or JSON data here.

binary

binary data allows you to send things which you can not enter in Postman. For example, image, audio or video files. You can send text files as well. As mentioned earlier in the form-data section, you would have to reattach a file if you are loading a request through the history or the collection.

A: Looks like you may be sending that post variable in the headers. Use the body tab instead.

A: You are passing the $appUser_id as a string in the query, you don't need to put single quotes around the variable since double quotes evaluate vars inside. You can do:
$query = "INSERT INTO requests (appUser_id) VALUES ($appUser_id)";

Or
$query = "INSERT INTO requests (appUser_id) VALUES (".$appUser_id.")";

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Does Blog Commenting Improve Your Site's Rankings?
I see this question come up quite a bit, and it's usually asked by new website owners or companies that have recently started thinking about SEO and improving their website's rankings. For some reason, perhaps because it's easiest to understand and used frequently in SEO learning materials, webmasters often look towards blog commenting as their primary link building tactic.
So, does blog commenting increase your website's rankings?
The answer is definitely yes, but only when used in conjunction with other link building tactics at the same time. The truth is, simply focusing all of your link building efforts on blog commenting exclusively will not result in high rankings for even moderately competitive keywords.
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Concretely, this means that yes, you should utilize blog commenting to build links, but you also need to utilize other strategies as well if you want your site to earn top spots in the search engines and stay there.


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Anxious/depressed symptoms are related to microstructural maturation of white matter in typically developing youths.
Title Anxious/depressed symptoms are related to microstructural maturation of white matter in typically developing youths.
There are multiple recent reports of an association between anxious/depressed (A/D) symptomatology and the rate of cerebral cortical thickness maturation in typically developing youths. We investigated the degree to which anxious/depressed symptoms are tied to age-related microstructural changes in cerebral fiber pathways. The participants were part of the NIH MRI Study of Normal Brain Development. Child Behavior Checklist A/D scores and diffusion imaging were available for 175 youths (84 males, 91 females; 241 magnetic resonance imagings) at up to three visits. The participants ranged from 5.7 to 18.4 years of age at the time of the scan. Alignment of fractional anisotropy data was implemented using FSL/Tract-Based Spatial Statistics, and linear mixed model regression was carried out using SPSS. Child Behavior Checklist A/D was associated with the rate of microstructural development in several white matter pathways, including the bilateral anterior thalamic radiation, bilateral inferior longitudinal fasciculus, left superior longitudinal fasciculus, and right cingulum. Across these pathways, greater age-related fractional anisotropy increases were observed at lower levels of A/D. The results suggest that subclinical A/D symptoms are associated with the rate of microstructural development within several white matter pathways that have been implicated in affect regulation, as well as mood and anxiety psychopathology.