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Welcome to Day #4 of Christmas Week, a multi-blogger event co-hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Jen from Juanita's Cocina! Each day we will be celebrating the holidays with a different set of Christmas-themed treats, as well as a fabulous Christmas giveaway. We hope you enjoy this fabulous event. Tune in each day starting today, Monday, December 9th and ending Saturday, December 14th.
I get cold so easily. As I live in a town called Frostburg, you can imagine it gets cold here all winter long. In fact, we pretty much have winter in this area from October until April and it's freezing! In order to help me stay warm, I'm always drinking hot beverages. While I enjoy regular hot chocolate, sometimes I want something a little fancier and that packs a bit of a punch.
- Mini Sugar Cookie Houses aka Hot Chocolate Mug Perches by Cravings of a Lunatic
- Eggnog Cookie Truffles by The Weekend Gourmet
- Spiked Candy Cane Hot Chocolate by Hezzi-D's Books and Cooks:
- Gingerbread Texas Sheet Cake with Lemon Frosting by Chocolate Moosey
- Swirl Cookies by Noshing With The Nolands
- Caramel Apples by My Catholic Kitchen
- Homemade Caramels by Dinners, Dishes, and Desserts
- Puff Pastry Ravioli Mince Pies by Food Lust People Love
- Mounds Brownie Cupcakes by That Skinny Chick Can Bake
- Hot Chocolate Pull Apart Bread by The Dutch Baker's Daughter
- Sugared Grape and Phyllo Tart by See Aimee Cook
- Taffy Tan Fudge by Mom's Test Kitchen
- Double Chocolate Pecan Cookies by Cooking In Stilettos
- Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal Bread by Liv Life
- White Chocolate Candy Cane Fudge by Rants From My Crazy Kitchen
- Devil's Food Cake Cookies by Try Anything Once Culinary
- Cinnamon Whiskey Balls by Home Cooking Memories
- Pumpkin Chiffon Pie by Jen's Favorite Cookies
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Dough Truffles by Cupcakes and Kale ChipsCandy Cane Blossoms by Like Mother Like Daughter
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A Landscaping Contractor in Madison, CT Helps When a House Is Built on Property With a Steep Slope
A Landscaping Contractor in Madison CT can help people who have had a house constructed on a lot with a relatively steep slope. They may not feel comfortable when mowing grass on that type of slope and wonder what else would be suitable to plant there. Landscaping professionals often recommend wildflower gardens as an alternative to grass in steeper parts of a property.
Wildflowers that are native to the area don't need a great deal of attention. Consider that they are able to grow in the natural environment without any tending. These native plants are hardy. Nevertheless, particular species should be chosen in relation to other aspects of the property. If there are many trees on the level part of the property and they, provide abundant shade to the slope, wildflowers that thrive in these conditions are best.
Ferns could be added along with creeping greenery that grows well when left alone. Creeping plants should be contained by vegetative borders against grassy areas or other people's lawns since they are tenacious and can easily invade those places if no preventive measures are in place.
In contrast, wildflowers that can handle hot sunshine throughout most of the day should be planted in areas with little to no shade. The property owner may need to water them regularly or have an irrigation system developed and installed by a landscaping contractor in Madison CT. An irrigation system tends to be the best option since there are problems when trying to water slopes with a garden hose or one rotating sprinkler. Much of the water is likely to simply cascade down the hill without having time to sink into the earth. The situation worsens during dry spells and outright drought conditions.
On this type of land, professional landscapers from a company such as Sullivan Lawn Services evaluate the property to create an environment that is both beautiful and functional. Erosion is a significant potential issue on steep slopes, and effective landscaping can prevent that. Certain species of prairie grass and turf grass might work well on the property. to learn more about this particular organization.

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Sep 23, 2020
A good course for learning and apply sql to conduct analysis on ab testing results. Would be better if the instructor could provide more info about how to design and apply AB Testing on the customers
Jul 30, 2019
The instructor is very smart and her syllabus is very easy to follow. The real life examples are great and helps put ideas in perspective! I would definitely recommend this course and already have!
by Marie-Eve J•
Feb 11, 2020
There is a big gap between what was taught in the previous class and what is expected to be known in this class. Moreover, the instructor often poorly explains the codes that she is teaching in the solution videos. and don't seem to have been critically reviewed for improvements.
by Susan L•
Nov 08, 2019
I liked the content of this course. It is very practical. The teaching style was frustrating for me, though. I understand that the instructor wanted us to "see" that everyone, even experts, make silly mistakes when they code (like forget ,'s or the mis-name variables), but watching mistakes being made in EVERY solutions video was too much. More time should have been taken explaining the coding concepts, rather than watching mistakes.
Also, there wasn't much discussion. I had trouble with some of the early assignments and (as instructed) asked for help in the discussion. But no one EVER responded! So I stopped asking for help. Basically, everyone just wrote "done" or something like that. To be fair, I'm not sure anyone actually looked at or read the discussion threads. You just had to write something in the discussion box to unlock the solutions video.
There also seemed to be some errors in the solution codes. Some of the solutions were fine, but others spawned errors when I cut and pasted them into Mode (the software we used). I still don't understand in one of the final assignments how the instructor used the table dsv1069.events_big (or something like that that wasn't listed as one of the files we had access to). When I tried using this file in my own code, I got an error. When I cut and pasted the entire solution code, I got an error. Maybe I was doing something wrong. I just don't know. But gaining this understanding was something I really wanted to learn …
by Michael P•
Aug 31, 2020
Lots of "oh wait, let me catch my own mistakes" on the videos. It appears to be sloppy, rather than a "teaching moment" for how one might debug the query.
by Annie L•
Feb 28, 2020
It was awful. The whole course was poorly structured or at least I couldn't understand the logic between the lessons.
Watching the videos was truly painful: I don't understand the virtues of watching someone type with all the typing noise, the countless mistakes and few proper explanation. We should have had access to slides, with the code on one side and comments on the other, such as in the previous course.
It is a unfortunate we have no access to the code in a format that could be copy-pasted neither in the instructions nor in the solutions.
On the whole, I don't really understand how such a course can be put online without more serious proof testing. Some of the instructions were out of date (using databases that were not provided) or sometimes the solutions gave results different from what we would get typing the exact same code. These problems are long reported by other learners on the forum, without being corrected.
And the final test? I found the instructions very poor: we had to do two graphs without being told what question they should answer. If I did right, these graphs did not add anything to the solution compared to a simple table. The whole test was just a replication of something seen the last week of the course ; what we were told the previous weeks was of no use at all in there. And the 'solution' does not provides the numbers needed to properly grade the works. Has no one re-read it?
by Anisha Z•
Apr 03, 2020
I was quite disappointed with this course
1) They don't teach advanced SQL concepts adequately well (For example Windowing functions/Pivoting). I recommend self-learning from https://mode.com/sql-tutorial
2) Almost all of the content in the first 3 weeks was useless. Going through https://mode.com/sql-tutorial practice problems helped me learn the concepts better
3) The final assignment solution didn't match any of the the solutions I reviewed. I think the dataset has been altered, so it's impossible to get answers that match the final assignment
4) In the statistics refresher the instructor makes completely incorrect statements. For example, she says if two confidence intervals overlap then the differences are not significant. This is incorrect!
I did this so that I get the specialization certificate, but wouldn't recommend this course as a stand-alone
by Alex B•
Feb 04, 2020
this was the worst one I've taken on coursera. I couldn't really concentrate on what the instructor talks about in the video because I had to listen how she slams the keys while typing the code. Seriously? Couldn't that part have been muted out? This was a very bad experience. I'm going to have to take a different course on SQL AB testing
by Tianmin L•
Nov 26, 2019
The solution data in the video sometimes do not match with the tasks provided
by Sanija K•
Jan 05, 2020
Awful explanation. No structure.
by Lucy D•
May 03, 2020
Quite frustrated. The content is interesting, relevant and well explained- however, if you need a hint with the assignments there is no help at all. I have been waiting two weeks now for my assignment to be graded (having to pay another month of coursera while I wait...) and no one has reviewed it yet. It is all peer reviewed which meant that when I submitted an assignment that I had found difficult, I am still no more informed as to what I did well and what I got wrong and therefore learnt very little from it. Assignment questions are confusingly phrased and I spent two days trying to complete it before another student wrote on the message board an explanation of what was actually being asked that many people had been trying to find out. At one point I had to submit my assignment knowing it was probably incorrect and that I simply did not understand what was being asked- a query which could have been explained in twenty seconds by the instructor but instead I had to submit, fail the assignment (not surprisingly) and then try again with another guess at the requirement.
by Claire H•
Apr 27, 2020
No structure to course. Very difficult to follow. No clear flow to the course. Poor explanations.
Some databases in videos no longer exist. For example, in exercise 1.4, week 1, the database dsv1069.raw_events does not exist.
It's a pity that the lectures were not available as pdf slides.
It was frustrating that the code to the solutions was not readily available in a copy and paste format.
I would expect a higher standard from Coursera especially as I PAID for the certification for this course. I feel I have not learned anything from this course just pure frustration!!
I've decided to discontinue with this course.
by Shriti P•
Jul 30, 2019
The instructor is very smart and her syllabus is very easy to follow. The real life examples are great and helps put ideas in perspective! I would definitely recommend this course and already have!
by Alexandre C•
Dec 12, 2019
I find the teacher very interesting.
The cases were also interesting.
Harder key concepts like windowing functions or multiple subqueries should be included in courses and not only in exercices solution videos.
by Ahmad B S•
Apr 12, 2020
With respect to course provider and teaching staff, but this course if terrible in 2 ways: 1. teaching is not for students, rather than looks for seniors in same role as instructor. 2. the assignment and quizzes are not clear at all, you have to spend too much time to understand what is required to do. I hope this can be improved.
by Sean G•
Apr 10, 2020
I was not a big fan of the approach this class took to teaching the material. The idea of try it yourself before we show you how to is a cool concept, but me being new to the learning material meant that I had no clue where to start with any of the practice exercises. So I left a meaningless comment in my submission just to unlock the solution video so I can then begin learning.
Overall I didn't feel like there was enough context built into the solution videos to explain the process such as why certain functions, joins, etc. where used and a summary of the overall path of the solution video was absent but could have been very helpful as there is a lot covered in each video.
When looking to the forums for help, it appeared most of the posts where built around others also being confused or lost in the process.
The first course of this specialization was much more organized and provided better explanations. Hopefully the third and 4th legs follow course 1
by Marston G•
Apr 17, 2020
I'm leaving the course.
I don't think it was put together in a very solid structural way.
It was very difficult to follow from one thing to the next.
It would have been better had the instructor said 'we are going to use...' in future so keep that query.
I didn't really do that, so then I had to go back and forth and redo things.
by Cristina R•
Jan 17, 2020
Pretty informative course!
Sometimes the descriptions of the practice exercises seem a bit fuzzy, but as you go with the course it gets easier to understand how to interpret the requirements. Very helpful solution videos!
by Mehrshad E•
Jan 08, 2020
Good course, not very productive instruction though!
by Clayton S•
Jul 02, 2020
Before you start familiarize yourself with mode.com and the report builder function, it is required for the final project. This is an advanced class with an assumption of baseline skill. If you don't have that skill you may find yourself in the weeds solving problems. But, the explanation by the instructor, Kat, really do help you understand how to solve problems. I did find myself struggling with some of the problems, in part because the problems can be vague, like real life. My advice, follow her code and logic and skills she teaches.
by Takashi T•
Sep 07, 2020
I was disappointed with this course on following points. I think these points should be improved. 1. The instructions on Exercises and the Final Assignments must be clear and precise. The questions were vague and hard to understand. 2. The solution videos are not clear. The instructor is mumbling and not easy to understand what she is saying. The solutions should be available in pdf format (they should be unlocked after the students finish the exercises and going through the solution videos.
by Rohan G L•
Jun 28, 2020
One of the worst classes I've taken. I finished the first course, which also had issues. This being the second, had too many as well. I'm not going to waste time on an inferior course path.
This sequence has potential. The instructors make good videos. However, the practice problems need to be more clearly worded and in a better format.
by Sherri N•
Jun 19, 2020
The test questions are over one or two things stated in a video and not over your understanding of the concepts. They also ask questions about a tool that she spends less then a minute displaying and doesn't explain what it tells you at all.
by Karina S•
Jan 19, 2020
Great course!! I have learned a lot about how to evaluate the quality of the data received, how to problem solve with SQL when asked ambiguous business requirements, tips to do multiple selection editing in text editor (that was a great discovery!), metrics and AB testing. Highly recommended!
by Mike F•
Sep 23, 2020
A good course for learning and apply sql to conduct analysis on ab testing results. Would be better if the instructor could provide more info about how to design and apply AB Testing on the customers
by Vedat O•
Jul 12, 2020
It is pretty useful course to understand how to prepare data for AB Testing in real database environment. you should know SQL intermediate leve before starting this course.
by Jennifer B•
Dec 30, 2019
A very thorough overview of SQL and how to best structure data tables and metrics for AB testing. I appreciate the high quality content of the UC Davis courses!


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Target result shows primary health smoking message getting through (Whanganui DHB)
News Item
posted by WM Admin on 28 May 2015
Whanganui DHB media release, 27 May 2015
Primary health workers throughout the Whanganui District Health Board (WDHB) area have reason to celebrate as the Minister of Health's national health targets results show primary care achieving the Better help for smokers to quit target for the first time with a 91 percent result.
The results released today report the performance of DHBs against the six national health targets over the 2014/15 Quarter Three period of January to March 2015. Whanganui GP and national primary care tobacco target champion John McMenamin says he's delighted to see the primary care Better help for smokers to quittarget reached in Whanganui.
"Whanganui health workers have every reason to celebrate. This result reflects the determination of primary health workers to encourage people to quit smoking," Dr McMenamin says. "It's a result that is very deserving as well as timely, with World Smokefree Day coming up on 31 May."
While the WDHB narrowly missed out by one percent on achieving the 95 percent smoking target set for hospitals, the consistent results achieved for this target each quarter are a credit to the hospital staff offering advice and support for patients to quit smoking, says WDHB chief executive Julie Patterson.
Emergency Department clinical director Athol Steward is delighted that the WDHB's hospital-wide efforts to admit, discharge or transfer 95 percent of patients from ED within the six-hour target, have been sustained. Dr Steward says it's interesting to see the WDHB once again achieving 96 percent. "It shows consistency by the Whanganui Hospital's entire clinical team and management."
The 2014/15 Quarter Three national health target results show Whanganui district residents continue to enjoy a high access rate to elective surgical procedures with the DHB achieving 103 percent for the 100 percentImproved access to elective surgery.
But disappointingly, Whanganui's result for the 95 percent Increased immunisation target has dropped to 86 percent. Whanganui Regional Health Network chief executive Judith McDonald says in addition to the 181 children who were immunised in this quarter, there were a further 19 children who did not receive their immunisation on time. "And given that the target performance includes families who have made an informed decision to decline immunisations, and, families who despite being offered support have not met the target timeline, the result is not surprising," Mrs McDonald says.
Meanwhile, Mrs McDonald is delighted that for a third quarter in a row, Whanganui exceeded the 90 percent national target for More heart and diabetes checks by one percent. She says this is down to the dedicated efforts of general practice teams and the Whanganui Regional Health Network's success in targeting patients who have not had a completed cardiovascular disease risk assessment.
Mrs Patterson is pleased with the steady progress being made on the new 85 percent Faster cancer treatmenttarget. This quarter's 67 percent result is a five percent improvement on the 62 percent result achieved in the October to December quarter. The target asks that 85 percent of patients will receive their first cancer treatment (or other management) within 62 days of being referred as having a high suspicion of cancer. The target will increase to 90 percent by June 2017.
Click here for the full National Health Targets results table for 2014/15 Quarter 3.


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Countless married couples end up living alone – in the same house. Over twenty-eight years of conducting "Weekend to Remember" conferences have convinced Dennis and Barbara Rainey that isolation is the number-one problem in marriages today. But they believe it's possible to overcome "marital drift" and experience the miracle of oneness. This book provides a positive, workable strategy for keeping your marriage vital and intimate. Included are proven principles and hands-on exercises to help you:
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Fall 2018 Color Update
Fall for Color
New hues of jade and burgundy, now introduced on selected fall essentials, perform a mesmeric play on color. Offering an eye-catching twist on the favorite and the familiar, each leather-crafted accessory is reimagined through a modern lens—making their colorful debut amidst neutral tones while lending a timeless simplicity to the wearer.
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Diminutive in size yet demonstrative in color, our Mini Zip-Around Wallet in Italian pebbled leather takes a considered approach to storing loose coins and essential cards. Epitomizing both the beautiful and the useful, this little luxury ensures lasting quality and style.
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Carter Oosterhouse goes back to his hometown of Traverse City, MI to spend the Holidays with his family and give back to the town that gave him so much. Two deserving families are selected by the Oosterhouses and are given life-changing home transformations. A single mother of three who then adopted three special-needs children is given new life with a new living/dining/kitchen space and a surprise room. The brave men and women of Traverse City Firehouse #2 are surprised with a new great room and kitchen.
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How to Mix Mud for a Skip Trowel Texture
When it comes to texturing walls, the texture of the mud itself is one of the vital aspects to ensuring that the overall project goes smoothly. If the mud is too runny, it doesn't hold a texture and runs down the wall instead. If it is too thick, it is difficult to smear onto the wall and texture with your trowel. As far as a skip trowel texture goes, the mud needs to be pliable enough so you can easily spread it across the wall with your trowel.
Open up your box of mud to prepare for mixing. When you are working with mud that comes in a bucket, mix straightaway into the bucket. To mix texture mud that comes in a box, remove the mud from the box and put it into a bucket.
Fill the bucket at least halfway full with texture mud from the box. Tilt the box so the corner rests on the edge of the bucket and scoop it out into the bucket. When you first open a container of pre-mixed texture, scoop out some of the mixture onto the bucket of the lid so you have room to add water.
Add water to the bucket and use the mud masher or the drill with the paddle to mix up the texture mud until you reach a thick, creamy consistency. It needs to be smooth and free of lumps, and may require several minutes of mixing. As a general rule, it only takes 1 to 2 cups of water, but this may vary depending on how much mud you are mixing.
Put the remaining mud from the lid of the bucket back into the bucket and mix it into the batch after you have applied some of the mixed mud onto the wall. Add more from the box as necessary into the bucket.
Things Needed
- Drill with paddle
- Mud masher
- Texture mud
- 5-gallon bucket
- Unless you are a professional who is used to applying large quantities of texture mud in a single session, don't mix all of the mud from a box into a bucket at the same time. Obviously you can't split the mixture when dealing with mud that comes in a bucket, so cover the bucket after use to keep the mud from drying out. Add more water if necessary.
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The U.S. Embassy now accepts applications for the U.S. Passport Card. The Passport Card is a travel document that can be used to enter the United States from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda at land border crossings or sea ports of entry. The Passport Card cannot be used for international air travel.
If you would like to apply for a Passport Card when applying for a new passport, you only need to submit one form and check the two boxes at the top for "U.S. Passport Book" and "U.S. Passport Card." The fee is 58 AED for applicants under age 16 and 116 AED for applicants age 16 and older. The Passport Card takes longer to issue than the Passport Book. Processing takes four to six weeks.
To apply for a passport card, please make an appointment on our online appointment system and follow the instructions for renewing a passport.
For further information on the Passport Card, including the differences between a Passport Card and a Passport Book and other FAQs, please click here.


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By default, Kali Linux does not have everything you need to easily pass the daily penetration tests. With a few tips, tricks and applications, we can quickly start using Kali like a professional white hat.
Most Linux distributions are highly customizable. This makes the personalization of your penetration testing distribution a bit daunting. With just a few commands, we can automate tasks, install our favorite software, create additional user accounts, properly configure anonymization software, and streamline our interactions with terminals. There are only a few things we can do to improve our interactions with the operating system.
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Installing Git
Git is an open source software version control application. It can be used for collaborative sharing and editing, but is often referenced here as zero bytes as the primary tool for copying (or "cloning") code repositories to GitHub. Git is a must have for penetration testers who want to extend their toolset beyond the available potash repository.
Git can be installed with the following command apt-get .
apt-get install git
2. Configuring Bash Aliases
Bash aliases are great for creating custom command-line shortcuts. For example, we can reassign the command ls to automatically use our favorite arguments. Below is an example of a normal ls edition
androidbins.txt folder-images.png smtp.cracked text-x-generic.png
Windows 10 bogus_gmail.creds folder.png smtp.list
dumpzilla-b3075d1960874ce82ea76a5be9f58602afb61c39 package-x-generic.png text-x-generic.ico # Windows 10 Icons & # 39;
Here it is again after the creation of a ls alias.
a total of 220K
-rw ------- 1 root root 15K Aug 24 2015 folder-pictures.png
-rw ------- 1 root root 8.7K August 24, 2015 folder.png
-rw ------- 1 root root 11k Aug 24, 2015 package-x-generic.png
-rw ------- 1 root root 5.5K September 3, 2015 text-x-generic.png
drwxr-xr-x 12 Root Root 4.0K May 31, 00:44 & # 39; Windows 10 Icons & # 39; /
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4.0K May 31, 00:44 Windows 10 /
-rwxr-x --- 1 Root root 103K May 31 00:49 text-x-generic.ico *
drwxr-xr-x 5 Root Root 4.0K Jun 11 21:57 dumpzilla-b3075d1960874ce82ea76a5be9f58602afb61c39 /
-rw-r - r - 1 root root 52 Jul 5 18:13 bogus_gmail.creds
-rw-r - r - 1 Root Root 15K Jul 5 18:28 smtp.list
-rw-r - r - 1 root root 181 Jul 5 18:43 smtp.cracked
-rw-r - r-- 1 Root Root 23K Jul 23 18:18 androidbins.txt
drwxr-xr-x 5 Root Root 4.0K Jul 23 19:22 ./
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Aug 9th 04:25 ../
We get a much more detailed output. The ls command now uses the -l -a -t -h and -r arguments automatically. All these arguments will instruct ls to use the Listing ( -l ) format to list all ( -a ) files – including hidden files – and file sizes in human readable ( -h ) formats (eg 1K, 234M, 5G).
My alias also sorts the output after modification time ( -t ), and vice versa ( -r ) the order of the list so recently changed files appear at the bottom of the terminal , This collection of arguments is my personal ls preference, but yours may be different.
To create aliases, open the /root/.bash_aliases with nano or your favorite text editor. Add the following line to create an alias:
alias ls = # ls --color = always -thla & # 39;
We can also go a bit further and add more complex functions to the .bash_aliases file. Below is a simple example of a feature that keeps Kali fully up to date.
Function apt-updater {19659006]
apt-get update &&
apt-get dist-upgrade -Vy &&
apt-get autoremove -y &&
apt-get autoclean &&
apt-get clean &&
start anew
After you save changes to the .bash_aliases file, open a new terminal for the changes to take effect. Running the newly created function apt-updater calls a series of apt-get commands that automatically update and maintain your system. The ampersands ( && ) ensure that the function does not continue with the following command if a previous command fails.
For more information about Bash aliases, see Kody's "Setting Up a MacOS System for Wi-Fi Packet Capturing" article.
. 3 Create a New Low-Priority User
Many applications, such as the Chromium Browser and the Tor Browser, should never be opened or used as root users. Such applications rely heavily on low-level permissions to provide a degree of security. It may be advantageous for some users to create a low user privilege account for such activities.
This concept is discussed in more detail in Takhion's "Lock Down Kali Linux for Secure Desktop Usage", so check it for help.
. 4 Installing a Terminal Multiplexer
A multiplexer is a tiling terminal emulator that can be used to open multiple terminal sessions in a single window. The big advantage is that all open terminal sessions are displayed at the same time and the windows do not overlap. Below is an example of a multiplexer.
There are many noteworthy multiplexers. Tilix, as seen in the screenshot above, is an open source and reliable option. Alternatives are tmux and screen.
Tilix is available in Kali's APT repositories and can be installed with the following command:
apt-get install tilix
Read package lists ... Done
Create dependency structure
Read status information ... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libgtkd-3-0 libphobos2-ldc-shared78 libvted-3-0 tilix-common
Recommended packages:
Python Nautilus
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgtkd-3-0 libphobos2-ldc-shared78 libvted-3-0 tilix tilix-common
0 updated, 5 reinstalled, 0 removed and 466 not updated.
Need 10.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 49.1 MB of additional space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
5. Install Your Favorite Hacking Tools
Some versions of Kali target minimalist Pentesers who prefer not to install hundreds of hacking tools. That means we have to manually install our favorite tools. The types of tools we use differ because of our capabilities and expertise, but below are some popular hacking tools.
These tools can be installed with the following command.
apt-get install maltego metasploit-framework burpsuite Wireshark Aircrack-ng Hydra nmap Beef-Xss nikto
Read package lists ... Done
Create dependency structure
Read status information ... Done
Hydra is already the latest version (8.6-1kali1).
The following NEW packages will be installed:
Beef-Xss Binfmt Support Burpsuite Fastjar Fonts Droid Fallback Fonts Lato
fonts-noto-mono ghostscript gsfonts imagemagick imagemagick-6-common
imagemagick-6.q16 jarwrapper java-wrapper javascript-common libc-ares2
libcupsfilters1 libcupsimage2 libdjvulibre-text libdjvulibre21 libdouble-conversion1
libfftw3-double3 libgmp-dev libgmpxx4ldbl libgs9 libgs9-general libhttp-parser2.8
libijs-0.35 libilmbase23 libjbig2dec0 libjs-jqery libjs-jquery-easing
libjs-jquery-fancybox libjs-jquery-mausrad libjs-jquery-ui libjs-source-map
libjs-uglify libjxr-tools libjxr0 liblqr-1-0 liblua5.2-0 libmagickcore-6.q16-6
libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra libmagickwall-6.q16-6 libnetpbm10 libnl-route-3-200
libopenxr23 libpaper-utils libpaper1 libcre2-16-0 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5
libqt5gui5 libqt5multimedia5 libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5multimediagsttools5
libqt5multimediawidgets5 libqt5network5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5svg5
libqt5widgets5 libruby2.5 libsbc1 libsmi2ldbl libspandsp2 libssh-gcrypt-4 libuv1
libwhisker2-perl libwireshark-data libwireshark11 libwirepap8 libwmf0.2-7
libwscodecs2 libwsutil9 libxcb-iccp4 libxcb-image0 libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-randr0
libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-xkb1 libxkbcommon-x11-0 libyaml-0-2
maltego netpbm nikto nodejs nodejs-doc openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless
qt5-gtk-platformtheme qttranslations5-l10n rake ruby ruby-addressable ruby-ansi
Ruby Atom Ruby Buftok Ruby Celluloid Ruby Celluloid Ruby Demon
ruby-dataobjects ruby-dataobjects-mysql ruby-dataobjects-postgres
ruby-dataobjects-sqlite3 ruby-dev ruby-did-you-mean ruby-diff-lcs ruby-dm-core
ruby-dm-migration ruby-dm-migration ruby-dm-serializer ruby-dm-sqlite-adapter
ruby-docile ruby-domain-name ruby-em-websocket ruby-equalizer ruby-erubis
ruby-eventmachine ruby-execjs ruby-faraday ruby-geoip ruby-hittime ruby-http
ruby-http-cookie ruby-http-form-data ruby-http-parser.rb ruby-json ruby-librex
ruby-libv8 ruby-memoizable ruby-mime-types ruby-mime-types-data ruby-minitest
ruby-mojo-magick ruby-msrpc-client ruby-mssgpack ruby-multi-json ruby-multipart-post
ruby-nought ruby-net-telnet rubin-nio4r ruby-oj ruby-parseconfig ruby-power-assert
ruby-public-suffix ruby-qr4r ruby-rack ruby-rack-protection ruby-ref ruby-rqrcode
ruby-rspec-expectations ruby-rspec-support ruby-rubydns ruby-simple-oauth
Ruby-Simplecov Ruby-Simplecov-html Ruby-Sinatra Ruby-sqlite3 Ruby-Term-Ansicolor
Ruby Test Unit Ruby Therubyracer Ruby Ruby Ruby Tin Ruby Timer
Ruby-Twitter Ruby-Uglifier Ruby-Unf Ruby-Unf-Ext Ruby-Xmlrpc Ruby-Zip Ruby2.5
ruby2.5-dev ruby2.5-doc rubygems-integration thin wireshark wireshark-common
wireshark-qt zip
The following packages are being updated:
aircrack-ng libcups2 libnl-3-200 libnl-genl-3-200 libxkbcommon0 Metasploit Framework
nmap nmap-common
8 updated, 182 reinstalled, 0 removed and 458 not updated.
Need 381 MB of archives.
After this process, 616 MB of additional space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
6. Install the latest version of Tor
Tor is available in Kali's repositories, but anonymity software should be purchased directly from the source (torproject.org). Also, Kali's version of Tor is not reliably maintained or updated. This means that we may lack critical stability and security updates.
Add the Tor Project repositories to your APT repository list.
echo & deb https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org stretch main
deb-src https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org stretch main & # 39;> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tor.list
Then load the signing key of the Tor Project package Download and import it into your APT keychain.
wget -O- # https: //pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 & # 39; | add sudo apt-key -
- https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89
Resolving pgp.mit.edu (pgp.mit.edu) ... 126.96.36.199
Connection with pgp.mit.edu (pgp.mit.edu) | 22.214.171.124 |: 443 ... connected.
HTTP request sent, answer waiting ... 200 OK
Length: 47255 (46K) [text/html]
Save as: & # 39; STDOUT & # 39;
- 100% [==================================================>] 46.15K 72.0KB / s in 0.6s
- (72,0 KB / s) - written after stdout [47255/47255]
You will see the "OK" output when the signature key has been added to your keychain. Next, update APT with the following apt-get command.
apt-get update
Hits: 1 http://downloads.metasploit.com/data/releases/metasploit-framework/apt lucid InRelease
Get: 2 https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org stretch InRelease [4,965 B]
Obtained: 4 https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org stretch / main sources [1,169 B]
Get: 5 https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org stretch / main amd64 Packages [2,400 B]
Hits: 3 http://archive-3.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease
Reached 8,534 B in 8s (1,091 B / s)
Read Package Lists ... Done
Install Tor with the following command and you're done.
apt-get install for deb.torproject.org keyring
Read package lists ... Done
Create dependency structure
Read status information ... Done
Recommended packages:
mixmaster torbrowser-launcher socat tor-arm apparmor-utils obfs4proxy
The following NEW packages will be installed:
deb.torproject.org key ring
The following packages are being updated:
7. Configure File Sharing with Synchronization
Syncthing, created by Jakob Borg is a cross-platform, private, lightweight file synchronization (Dropbox) alternative. As a penetration tester, transferring keystroke logs, screenshots, webcam recordings, and sensitive looot files between virtual private servers and local Kali machines can be a frustrating task. Syncting makes secure file sharing completely painless.
I have covered the installation and configuration of Syncthing in an earlier article. Readers should refer to this for a detailed step-by-step guide.
. 8 Install a Code Editor
Atom is a free, open source, feature rich and highly customizable text editor. Its features include the ability to share code in real time, the intuitive automatic completion of encoding, and the ability to install packages that further enhance Atom's versatility. Other noteworthy text editors are Geany and Gedit.
To install Atom, go to their website and download the latest Debian installer. Next, open a terminal and install the required dependencies with the following apt-get command:
apt-get install gvfs gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs gconf -service gconf2 gconf2-common gvfs-bin psmisc
Read package lists ... Done
Create dependency structure
Read status information ... Done
Correct dependencies ... done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gconf service (3.2.6-4.1)
gconf2 (3.2.6-4.1)
gconf2-common (3.2.6-4.1)
gvfs-bin (1.36.2-1)
libgconf-2-4 (3.2.6-4.1)
psmisc (23.1-1 + b1)
The following packages are being updated:
gvfs (1.36.1-1 => 1.36.2-1)
gvfs-common (1.36.1-1 => 1.36.2-1)
gvfs-daemons (1.36.1-1 => 1.36.2-1)
gvfs-libs (1.36.1-1 => 1.36.2-1)
4 updated, 6 reinstalled, 0 removed and 462 not updated.
1 not completely installed or removed.
Need 3,317 kB archives.
After this operation, 8,909 kB of additional memory will be used.
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Finally, use dpkg a command-line manager, with argument install ( -i )
dpkg -i ~ / downloads / atom -amd64. deb
(Read database ... 191882 Files and directories are currently installed.)
Preparation for unpacking atom-amd64.deb ...
Unpack Atom (1.29.0) via (1.29.0) ...
Set up Atom (1.29.0) ...
Processing Trigger for Desktop File Utils (0.23-3) ...
Processing trigger for mime support (3.60) ...
When that's done, Atom will be available in your application menu.
9. Clone Rubber Ducky Encoder
The USB Rubber Ducky is the infamous keystroke tool. Creating Ducky payloads is easy with the DuckToolKit website, but as a penetration tester, it's not safe to share client information with random sites. Uploading payload content to a third-party Web site can be dangerous.
Instead, we can use Git to clone the USB Rubber Ducky Repository and locally encode payloads.
Git Clone https: // GitHub .com / hak5darren / USB Rubber Ducky
In & # 39; USB-Rubber-Ducky & # 39; clone ...
remote: counting objects: 1657, done.
remote: total 1657 (delta 0), reused value 0 (delta 0), packet reused 1657
Receiving objects: 100% (1657/1657), 31.88 MiB | 162.00 KiB / s, finished.
Resolution deltas: 100% (745/745), done.
Checking Out Files: 100% (1509/1509), Done
Then go to [USB-Rubber-Ducky/Encoder/ cd ) and use the following java command starts encoding of Ducky payloads without third party websites
cd USB Rubber Ducky / Encoder /
java -jar encoder.jar -i input_payload.txt -o inject.bin
What do you do first after installing Kali?
We all have different degrees of interests, abilities and levels of experience. This makes it difficult to compile a well-rounded list of steps after installation. Have I overlooked any critical steps? How do you personalize new potash installations? (19659065) Do not Miss: Linux Basics for the Budding Hacker


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January 11, 2017
Who Should Manage the Risk Manager?
by Alexei Sidorenko
It actually doesn't matter as long as two important criteria are met, but here are five reasons why Internal Audit is a good home.
A while back I recorded a short video on the topic of risk management organizational structure in a non-financial company. In the video I discussed various options for risk manager's place in the overall organizational structure. Since there is really no single right answer, the few common options include: reporting directly to the CEO, reporting to the Board or Audit Committee, reporting to the CFO or the Head of Internal audit and so on. You probably already have a personal preference. I hope this article will help you to rethink it.
It really doesn't matter…
The first conclusion I make in the video is that it actually doesn't matter where risk manager sits as long as two important criteria are met:
- Direct access to decision makers – risk managers must be close enough to the decision makers to be able to support the risk management integration into business processes and decision making and be able to reinforce risk management culture. This requires some level of seniority to be able to participate in the decision making and reach executives or Board members when required.
- Access to information – risk managers need unfiltered access to various sources of information, including internal audit findings, IT data, production data, financial and accounting information, compliance data and so on. This requires good relationships with key information owners and established communication channels that will allow risk managers to use corporate data for risk analysis on a daily basis. The second criteria is the most important in my mind.
As long as these two criteria are met the risk manager will be able to fulfill his role almost anywhere within the organizational structure.
See also: Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid as a New Risk Manager
…but it helps to sit with Internal Audit
My personal experience was reporting to Head of Strategy, CFO, CEO, Chair of the Audit Committee and the Head of Internal Audit. And while, it's unique to every organization and does depend to a large degree on the personal relationship with the supervisor/sponsor, I found that sitting together with Internal Audit makes perfect sense, because:
- Internal audit doesn't own many risks, so there is less pressure on risk managers to withhold information or exclude data from risk analysis. The opposite could be reporting to a CFO. Finance department originates and owns a lot of risks. I have come across companies where risk managers who reported to the CFO were pressured to exclude financial risks from the analysis or were prevented from integrating risk analysis into financial business processes.
- Internal audit has direct communication channel with the Board and the Audit Committee. This helps to integrate risk management into strategic decision making.
- Access to financial and operational company data. Internal auditors usually have full access to company data and facilities, which is invaluable when performing timely and accurate risk analysis.
- Access to audit findings, non-compliances, control weaknesses and so on. Internal audit is a gold mine of data that can significantly improve quality of risk analysis. I was very fortunate to be able to communicate with Internal auditors on a daily basis. Their input helped me dramatically improve my risk analysis and hence improve the quality of the overall decision making in the company.
- Risk management can also improve Internal audit planning and auditing procedures. The relationship works both ways.
- Higher ethical expectations from Internal audit.
There are of course arguments against having risk management and internal audit in one department. I am sure you have thought of a few right now. Most of them are not real. I encourage you to write your arguments for and against in the comments below and I will try to respond to each one.
See also: Rising Risks of Medicare Audits
Lack of independence and conflict of interest are usually quoted as the main logic for separating risk management and internal audit. I find this quite naive: first to seriously think Internal audit is truly independent is a bit of stretch and second lack of independence with risk management in particular is literally the least of Internal auditor's problems. I summarize my thoughts on the 3 lines of defense in the following video:
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On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 06:30:03PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > I tried to install debian on a blank computer using the current > boot-floppies (2.0.6) > > That worked very well, until after reboot I was dumped into dselect, > selected NFS as installation method and was asked for the paths. [..] Yes, this is still broken. This is IMO a grave bug.
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Salford referendum votes for directly elected mayor
- Published
People in Salford will have the chance to vote for a new city leader next May after a referendum backed proposals for a directly elected mayor.
In the poll, 17,344 people voted yes, while 13,653 voted against having an elected mayor.
The result means residents will vote on 3 May to choose a mayor who will usher in a new process of running the city.
But just 18.1% of the 171,000 eligible voters took part in the referendum.
The current leader of the council, Labour's John Merry, said he would put his name forward to be his party's candidate in the election.
'Out of touch'
The vote was triggered after the English Democrat Party handed a petition with 10,500 signatures to the council last July.
Any local authority is legally obliged to hold a referendum if more than 5% of the electorate sign a petition under the Local Government Act of 2000.
Local businessman Geoffrey Berg, who organised the petition, said he was pleased with the result, which saw the Yes campaign receive 56% of the vote and record a majority of 3,691.
"I'm very pleased about it because the council originally said there should not be a vote," he said.
"They are out of touch with the wishes of the people they are representing. It was a low turnout but an even lower vote for the position of the council."
Mr Berg is now set to meet the English Democrats and independents to decide their choice of candidate.
Mr Merry's Labour group had campaigned for a No vote.
He said: "The real issue is the future of Salford and that's what I will be fighting for."
The local Conservative Party had backed the Yes campaign, in line with the government's Localism Bill.
'Policies for future'
Hazel Blears, the Labour MP for Salford and Eccles, said: "It is obviously disappointing when there is a low turnout in any kind of ballot but that's the beauty of democracy, the people are in charge and the people decide.
"The next stage of this is to elect a mayor who will be elected on policies that people care about.
"And our job as a party will be to develop policies for the future of Salford and contrast those with some of the policies put forward during this referendum, such as cutting council tax by 50%.
"This would result in serious cuts to services, care for the elderly, cleaning the streets, collecting the bins, services for children in care and at risk, which will be under threat by a massive council tax cut."
Council officials had prepared a draft constitution, in the event of a yes vote.
Eleven other English cities will vote in May on whether to have elected mayors.
They are Salford's neighbour Manchester and Birmingham, Bristol, Bradford, Coventry, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield and Wakefield.
The government announced on Wednesday it planned to hold any resulting mayoral elections on 15 November, the same date as polling for 40 police commissioners.
Mayors could get powers over rail and bus services, skills and apprenticeships and money to invest in high-speed broadband and other economic infrastructure.


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Yes, Tomos 2 Speed Automatics, or for that matter, most 2 Speed Automatic Moped's aren't really reliable when making a lot of Power, specially when going up steep hills. But you should be good if you keep the rpm's down and don't push it.
But also, modifying Tomos Bikes with in Frame Tanks isn't really a good idea anyways, they aren't stable at all.


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Atlanta Wedding DJ + Corporate DJ Charles Honeycutt
DJ Charles Honeycutt
Professional Mix DJ + MC
Speakers: Power Mackie 15″
Control Unit: 2 Tehnic 1200's Turntables, Serato DJ, Numark X6 Mixer
Mic: AKG Cordless Mic
Atlanta Wedding DJ and Corporate DJ Charles Honeycutt has been an integral addition to the Atlanta music seen since the early 90's. While well known for his cutting edge sound engineering production and love of vinyl, he set his sights on Turntablism/Djing quickly gaining notoriety for his precise blends and mixes. Since then Charles has been electrifying dance floors all over the city with his unique and eclectic mash up of today and yesterdays, best in party music across all genres.
See for yourself what sets him apart from other DJ's. Charles does more than just play music; he puts on performances that express his love for music. His attention to detail, extensive sound library and pure ability to move the crowd makes him an excellent choice for your next Wedding Event and or Celebrations.
Get To Know DJ Charles
What made you get into the music industry?
The love I have for music and I have the ability to make people move.
How long have you been working with Lethal Rhythms?
Five Months
Tell us something goofy or unique about yourself.
I still use my original turntables.
Describe your musical style.
Old school, soul (all types), up-tempo, 80's , 90's and anything that makes you dance.
How long have you been mixing?
For 9 years
What is your favorite event you have ever spun for?
Atlanta Botanical Garden Holiday Lights
What advice do you have for potential new clients?
Be prepared to dance and have a great time.
Praises for DJ Charles Honeycutt!


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Maud Fontenoy is the first woman to row across the North Atlantic and the Pacific, she has also sailed around the world against prevailing currents. Spokeswoman for UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission for oceans and the World Ocean Network (Réseau Océans Mondial), this yachtswoman is also a member of the French Economic, Social and Environnemental Council and the founder of the Maud Fontenoy Foundation which oversees environnemental education initiatives. The recipient of the French National Order of Merit and the Order of Maritime Merit, she is the autor of several documentaries.
Maud was born on 7 September 1977. She was barely seven days old when she went on board the family schooner. She was to spend the first 15 years of her life on the open sea, learning all about sailing, nature and the sea.
Back in France, Maud ran a real-estate agency in Paris for a few years, but sailing remained part of her life and was never far from her thoughts. She founded the French Federation of Traditional Sailing Boats and Rowboats, of which she became president, and then founded an association that helps young people from disenfranchised backgrounds go sailing.
When she turned 25, she decided to make her dreams come true by setting sail. This was the beginning of four years of both maritime and human adventures.
In 2008, Maud established the Maud Fontenoy Foundation. This organisation provides the means to take action. It raises awareness and educates people, especially young people, about the challenges we face to protect the deep blue sea.
Maud appears regularly at conferences, seminars and round tables for both companies and institutions…
What's new with Maud: her documentaries, publications, interviews and forthcoming projects…
The Foundation sends its Little Adventurers sailing on the famous Tahia, the boat on which Maud sailed round the world against prevailing currents.


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We are well and truly halfway through the season of home and away and finals are just a couple of months away. I certainly miss going to the games, something I had the privilege of doing last season quite a bit even getting to the Collingwood Grand Final win. I wasn't sure how much I was missing the game until I found myself at the Saertu railway station just standing there listening to the train horns which sound fascinatingly the same as the siren at the MCG. It was an eerily comforting sound. Lots of Chinese people just stared at me because I was not catching a train but then again being stared at here is not unusual. As a matter of fact you get to miss it when you are asleep, that being the ONLY time you are not stared at!!I just stare back and say hello in Chinese which usually cracks them up. Sometimes I really stare because of the unusual things I see and in your wildest imagination you would not believe what your eyes are witnessing. That's not being critical that's just saying it's really, really different. Cultures, customs and language. It's why I'm here. I've come to the conclusion that people here seem to be rude in our eyes because there are over a billion of them trying to do the same thing at the same time. Cross the road, shop at the supermarket, eat out at a restaurant, go to the park, catch a bus, hail a taxi, board a train, drink beer, all normal activities but there's a crowd doing it wherever you are. Survival of the fastest here and there is no room for patience and manners. I was hoping to go to the beach for a break in summer but have been advised that the same plan has occurred to 300 million others. You probably can't spread your towel out on the sand, you have to stand!!!
Not a bad week of tipping with 6 from 8. Not many would have got the Eagles correct and those that got 7 happened to select Melbourne over Richmond I guess.
Hawthorn 23.8.146 defeated Essendon 12.9.81The Hawks blitzed the Bombers in the 2nd quarter setting up a 10 goal lead which was about the margin at the end of the game. Essendon suffered a few more injuries which they could ill afford but in general they were just not good enough. Hawthorn strengthened their position in the top 4 and the Bombers will lose their place in the top 8.
Western Bulldogs 17.08.110 defeated Gold Coast Suns 13.10.88
As expected the Bulldogs won with a half time lead of 34 points that was just too much for the Suns to peg back although they gave it a good shot in the last quarter. Gold Coast can take a lot more from that game that the Western Bulldogs who still look pretty fragile whenever they play.
Melbourne 17.16.118 defeated Richmond 13.13.91
While the final result may not have been surprising the margin certainly was with the Demons ahead for most of the day. The usual late surges by Richmond came in the last but Melbourne was able to hold on and as a result of the Essendon loss the Dees now find themselves in the top 8.
Collingwood 13.21.99 defeated Sydney 14.9.93
Here's a game with the score board showing the losing team kicking more goals than the winning team. Atrocious kicking by for goal by Collingwood might account for the closeness of the result but the Swans, as usual, are very good in tight games. The Pies are one of the few teams to win after a bye so maybe the week off is really not such a good thing.
Fremantle 12.16.88 defeated Brisbane 10.5.65
The game was up for grabs into the last quarter and the Fremantle win was as much due to Pavlich's dominance as Brisbane's inexperience. Freo saved their place in the 8 and gained a little breathing space and without injuries one can only guess where the Dockers might be on the ladder.
Geelong 19.11.125 defeated Adelaide 10.13.73
The Cats entertained the home supporters with a mini massacre in the first quarter which extended to a 10 goal lead by the end of the 3rd quarter. The Crows outscored Geelong in the last but by that time the game was gone, well and truly. Geelong's unbeaten run continues.
West Coast Eagles 15.13.103 defeated Carlton 10.7.67
The long winning run of Carlton has come to an abrupt end surprisingly at the hands of West Coast, a team most thought, including me, was not up to this standard. The Carlton forward line was non-existent and they found it hard to take marks inside the forward 50. The Eagles are now just half a game behind Carlton and certainly look top 6 material if not top 4. They certainly will not win the wooden spoon this year.
North Melbourne 21.10.136 defeated Port Adelaide 14.7.91
The betting line for Port at the beginning of the last quarter was $850 for the win!! I wonder if anybody would actually take the bet? The game? Well after an even first quarter it was pretty well North, particularly in that 3rd quarter when they kicked 6 goals to 1 giving them a 51 point lead at the last change. The final score doesn't matter as Port could never catch up.


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Position Summary The Public Health Institute (PHI) is looking to hire a Desktop Support Manager to manage day-to-day operations for the Tracing Health Program (THP). This includes maintaining all THP IT systems including Microsoft office 365 administration, SharePoint administration, VOIP systems administration, and the direct supervision of the Help Desk support technicians/specialists. 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After six years of renovation work, the Musée d'Arts de Nantes reopened its doors on June 23rd, 2017. The museum entrusted the realization of its digital devices to Mazedia who used the Wezit platform for the creation of these devices.
The mobile application:
Published on the stores, this mobile IOS and Android application is also distributed on 100 Android devices available for lease in the museum. The application allows the geolocation of the works and an indoor geolocation. It also communicates with GColl (management tool of the collections of Videomuseum) and has a multicriteria search engine on all the art pieces present in the museum, thus allowing a customization of the users' visit. The application is available in three languages: French, English and Spanish.
"Œuvre à la loupe" / A Closer Look at…:
This kind of interactive multimedia module allows visitors to see the details of an artwork through a magnifying glass, while commentaries and animations give visitors its historical and artistic background. The device integrates games allowing the visitors to explore the works in greater depth. It is completely administrable by the museum which can change the contents at its convenience to put forward other works present in the museum.
Terminals of information and orientation:
Based on the plans of the museum and on the search engine allowing to locate the works in the museum, they facilitate the exploration of the museum. Available in three languages (English, French, Spanish) they also communicate with the Nantes Métropole diary for an experience beyond the walls of the museum.
To facilitate the work of the Museum of Fine Arts of Nantes regarding the management of its contents, Wezit finalized a back-office centralizing the configuration and the contents of the various devices. This back-office is synchronized with the management tool of the collections of the museum (Gcoll, Vidéomuseum).


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An Izakaya is a small cosy bar which sells food and drink
A Description of the Izakaya
Uncle Ginzo's Authentic Izakaya
Catwalk 66 runs from the Universal Supermarket to the Universal Police Station and Catwalk 49 runs from Universal Station to Chinatown. The two walkways meet right near Pillar Seventeen and this intersection is the centre of the Robot Bar District. On the east side of the pillar there is a Hundertwasser style building which has been attached to the side of the pillar by an architect. It is called Piano House and it is a Japanese hotel. There is an izakaya at the front of the hotel and it is a popular place to eat and drink. The clientele is varied. Sometimes robot workers come up from the unregistered robot shops in Chinatown and sometimes wealthy people from the upper levels who could drink anywhere with their MIC cards, come down to mingle with the varied clientele at "Uncle Ginzo's" as the izakaya is called.
At the front there is a simple sign which reads "Izakaya" in Japanese and English but there is no name or other signage to show who it belongs to or what it offers. The owner is a bird painter called Ginzo Kobashi who opened the bar after migrating to the area around Pillar Seventeen after the Universal Railways Train Accident, which killed so many people.


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This is a repost from a few years back about what is happening to reading and comprehension
-Students at Hofstra University
Every time some new technology comes out, people bemoan its dangers and problems, warning how it can be misused and complaining about how it causes some degradation in virtue and tradition. This has always been true, and will always be true until kingdom come.
When the buggy came out, people complained about a disconnect from nature, about the noise, about the sloth involved in sitting while a horse did all the work, and so on. Now roads were being built which blighted the natural landscape, now horses are mistreated because of their harnesses and whips, on and on. It doesn't matter what technology is developed, someone always sees a problem.
Yet there's some truth in these complaints as well. Most good science fiction is cautionary; it warns of the dangers and implications of any new technology. Robotics seem like a great idea that will save us labor and enhance life, yet how many books have warned how this could go horribly wrong?
All technology is good and bad, as this world tends to be. The fall of man brought a taint of bad to all things, even good things. Nuclear power can bring light and heat, but also weapons and radiation burns. Chemistry brings us cures to polio and drug addictions. Dynamite was invented to save lives and help with construction, yet it also brought bombs and destruction. The problems come not from the technology its self, but from our misuse or violent use of them.
The internet is not exactly novel, but is still relatively new and the full implications of its existence have yet to be understood. And with it has come a great deal of good, from communication, to education, to information, entertainment, employment, and beyond. The internet means I can talk to friends around the world, write on this blog to hundreds of people a day, and keep in touch with relatives I haven't seen for decades.
At the same time, there are problems as many have pointed out over and over. Surprisingly, one of the more subtle, less-understood problems of the internet is that of of literacy. One would presume that a medium of interaction that is primarily driven by reading and writing would increase literacy and reading habits. After all, if you have to read and type answers -- and people do practically all day -- you would think most people would thereby increase their reading and writing ability, broadening their vocabulary and concentration levels.
On the contrary, however, the internet has actually had the opposite effect, primarily through smart phones. Instead of increasing reading, the internet has tended to decrease it. And in the end, the result has been a sort of loss of literacy, even while more people are reading than ever. To understand this, you have to look more closely at a few effects of the ubiquity of the cell phone.
On average, teenage boys send 30 texts a day, and girls 80, although the average total is around 3000 a month, which means some are really ripping out the messages. Teenagers rarely use their cell phone to actually talk on, preferring texting for communication. This puzzles me, although it is more private than speaking into the phone and probably has a more coded, secret feel to it like passing notes in class rather than whispering.
Cell phones have been dominant in life so long that even college students today have grown up presuming their existence like their own hands. Growing up with a cell phone within reach and texting as the preferred method of communication has taken its toll on young people.
There is some evidence that young people are even starting to lose the ability to accurately read facial expressions and tone of voice in their fellow man because they primarily relate through screens and texting than through interpersonal communication. This shouldn't be too shocking; you've probably seen groups of young people all face down in their own device and shut off from speech by ear buds. They might be communicating with each other, but smiley faces and so on only work in text. It takes a different skill set to learn, display, and read facial expressions and tone of voice.
Further, reading on the internet has some key differences from reading a book. Long-form writing (such as I tend to do) is not as easy to absorb on a screen as on paper. There are too many distractions such as wondering what people said on Facebook or whether people responded to your tweet, even if nothing is showing up on your screen to grab your attention.
Hyperlinks allow people to jump to sources and other places related almost instantly, but each jump takes you away from the article or story, interrupting your train of thought and the author's carefully crafted sequence of ideas. Watching a screen is also more difficult than holding a book for a variety of reasons, although devices such as pads or an e-reader help (the size and mobility). This tends to reduce the amount of time anyone wants to focus on any one article.
Instead of crafting the ability to read more, the Internet has tended to lead people into the opposite direction so that they read less at a time. Overall the average person is tending to read more than they did 20 years ago, but they read small bits rather than long texts. 140 characters can be burned through almost as fast as your eye can capture them, but they cannot communicate any sort of complex ideas or build an argument or story. And with the ocean of possibilities the internet offers, its difficult to stay on any one site or article long. Its like being in a room with piles of every single piece of favorite food you love, and staying just on one food to savor it and truly enjoy a full meal of it.
I have to shut off my wireless access when I work on a book, because its too easy to get distracted and check something. Its like reading a dictionary; I don't stop with just one word, I just browse and check out definitions one after another. The internet is too distracting, entertaining, and easy to move around in rather than staying at one spot and absorbing it.
And if you have never learned the discipline of staying on one topic, reading something carefully, and really taking in the story or ideas being presented - or being taken into them - then you are unready to do so later in life. And that's what young people in school (and their teachers) are dealing with. Combined with the continuous coddling of and pandering to young people who never learn discipline or putting up with something they don't care for, this tends to make children largely illiterate.
Its not that they cannot read, its that they will not read anything longer than a short segment. And worse, they cannot really understand anything of any length. True reading comprehension requires an investment of concentration and time, as well as experience in pulling apart meaning and structure in text which short snippets does not allow. I tend to write in fairly complex combinations of clauses and ideas which it takes experience reading to understand. That kind of thing cannot be obtained by reading 160 character texts and 140 character tweets all day.
What happens is that people become overwhelmed, and are unable to decipher a longer sentence, let alone a paragraph building up to a conclusion. They are able to grasp small segments at a time, and when these small segments are dependent on longer portions to make full sense of the idea, then they become confused and disinterested.
So effectively these young people are becoming effectively illiterate; able to read but unable to understand anything beyond bite-sized snippets of data. Like classes on understanding poetry, there is a need to explain how to understand long-form writing.
There are other problems with this technology however. Studies are showing that young peoples' use and dependence on cell phones tends to make them tethered to and dependent on parents. They are always in touch and always have the parent to tap into rather than learning skills and experience to deal with even small events around them. What shoes to buy? What direction to travel? What is a bargain? What did he mean?
Further, young people tend to interact exclusively with peers when not dealing with their parents. This means they are focused and tied to peers, more dependent on fellow immature and inexperienced views of life and reality than with a varied age group. Even more than ever, young people are utterly baffled by and unready to deal with older people. Its an odd twist where, instead of old people unable to relate to younger, the young are unable to relate in any way to older. The generation gap is going the opposite direction.
This has serious consequences. Parents and teens have always had difficulty communicating, but now that is worsened by the lack of ability to build any sort of argument or conclusion. The very methods by which we communicate are being eroded between generations. Young people are less equipped and experienced in dealing with logic and proper reasoning without stripping away the very tools used to teach them.
Consider what this does to productivity and communication. Unable to study and understand longer concepts and a carefully built logical conclusion, a generation or more is growing up unable to properly learn and interact. What happens to the language and culture when this takes hold more broadly?
What happens to an audience raised and fed on catch phrases and spin when presented with someone who uses them exclusively to disguise their true intent or inability to do the job they are seeking? What reaction by well-meaning statists will attempt to address these problems?
What happens to an audience raised and fed on catch phrases and spin when presented with someone who uses them exclusively to disguise their true intent or inability to do the job they are seeking? What reaction by well-meaning statists will attempt to address these problems?
It isn't that technology is all bad, its that our use of it tends to find the most comfortable, immediately rewarding, personally beneficial, and selfish results. And in this case, its causing serious problems with the basic ability of humanity to communicate.
There are solutions, of course. Limiting cell phone ownership and use until a child has demonstrated some degree of responsibility and communication skills is one. Limiting the use of these tools while young is another. No texting while in the same house is a very good technique. No texting while company is around is another.
Doing things that require face-to-face interaction is a very important tool as well. This teaches young people to listen, to be patient, and to learn to deal with people in person rather than over a tool. Learning manners and politeness, such as what hurt you can cause through words, is a very critical life skill.
Video games can be fun, and the multiplayer ones (especially the Wii games) can seem like they are interpersonal, but they are not. You are side-by-side and never really interacting with the other person, only their avatar on a screen. Board games, sports, lawn games, charades, and such all not only teach communication skills, but force people to deal with each other face-to-face.
Reading to each other is another important skill, because the way you read, the tone of voice, and so on teaches young people a great deal about meaning and mood as delivered by speech. It also makes them have to deal with longer segments of text and allows discussion of that afterward. Reading difficult or significant works such as the Bible also teaches comprehension and stretches young minds.
Activities which involve several generations of people interacting is a great benefit to younger people as well. It helps you teach them how to behave and respect elders, how to interact with non-peers, and they might even learn something from their elders as well as younger people.
Merely forcing young people to sit down and do something that takes time which they might not particularly prefer is a terrific skill for later in life. Musical instruments, singing, arts and crafts such as pottery, sculpting, painting, knitting, etc all force long-term investment in a project with a tangible result. They might hate it at the time, but in the end they will have something they can point to that they've accomplished and have learned critical skills for later in life.
Merely forcing young people to sit down and do something that takes time which they might not particularly prefer is a terrific skill for later in life. Musical instruments, singing, arts and crafts such as pottery, sculpting, painting, knitting, etc all force long-term investment in a project with a tangible result. They might hate it at the time, but in the end they will have something they can point to that they've accomplished and have learned critical skills for later in life.
The internet is perfectly fine as yet another tool, and has a lot of benefits, but used unwisely can be incredibly destructive in ways sometimes so subtle it takes years to truly understand the damage. I wouldn't say its easy to avoid, but it is hardly costly or physically demanding to do so. And we all benefit from avoiding the bad while embracing the good.


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