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July is one of our favorite months. My husbands birthday is at the beginning of the month and mine is at the end. We normally use the month for celebrating and often take our vacation in July. Since the kitchen heats up so much in the summer, most of our meals are prepared on the grill. So when it was time to choose what to make for my husband's birthday it was between crab cakes and ribeye steaks. Both would be great for his birthday but I chose ribeyes since we could make them on the grill.
Normally when we cook steaks on the grill I put them in a marinade and then my husband cooks them off on the grill. However, ribeyes are such a great cut of beef that I didn't want to marinate them and cover up the flavor. I was thinking that a sauce, poured over top of the steaks, would be a much better choice. I immediately thought of using a delicious red wine and I had a bottle of Gallo Family Vineyards Merlot in the cupboard. I also thought that mushrooms would be wonderful in a red wine sauce. I also thought that we could drink the remainder of the Merlot with our dinner. For more Wine and BBQ Pairings, make sure to head over to the Gallo Family Vineyards website.
To start the ribeyes I simply rubbed them with olive oil, sea salt, and fresh ground black pepper. I allowed them to sit for an hour then my husband started up the grill. While he grilled them I started on the Merlot sauce. The sauce is made with the Merlot, some garlic, shallots, and the mushrooms. It simmers until the sauce reduces by half and the sauce thickens and darkens.
I poured a spoonful of the sauce, along with a spoonful of the sauce soaked mushrooms, on top of each ribeye. The ribeye had developed a thin crunch on the outside from the salt and pepper rub and the inside was pink, juicy, and delicious. The Merlot sauce on top was incredible and pairing it with the leftover Merlot made the dinner just about perfect. My husband was thrilled by both the ribeyes and the sauce as his birthday dinner.
After a hot grilled dinner I always am looking for a cool dessert. I made Pomegranate White Wine Panna Cotta using Gallo Family Vineyards Sweet White Wine Blend. The smooth and creamy panna cotta was delicious with the tart pomegranate seeds and sweet white wine blend syrup on top. It was a great ending to a fabulous meal.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 2
Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 600Total Fat: 36gSaturated Fat: 13gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 22gCholesterol: 82mgSodium: 3832mgCarbohydrates: 23gFiber: 4gSugar: 8gProtein: 27g
Grab two delicious Certified Angus Beef ribeyes and get grilling with this awesome Mushroom Merlot Sauce!
Source: Adapted from Williams-Sonoma
- 2 boneless rib-eye steaks
- 1 T. coarse sea salt
- 1 T. fresh ground black pepper
- 2 T. olive oil
- 8 oz. thinly sliced mushrooms
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 large shallot, minced
- ½ c. Gallo Family Vineyards Merlot
- 1 c. beef stock
- 1 t. sugar
- 1 T. cornstarch
- 1 T. butter
- Brush both sides of the ribeyes with olive oil. Sprinkle with sea salt and black pepper. Wrap in plastic wrap and set on the counter for 30 minutes.
- Heat a gas grill to high heat. Place the ribeyes on the grill. Grill for 6-8 minutes per side or until the steaks are medium-rare. Remove from the grill and place on a plate tented with foil. Set aside.
- In a medium saute pan heat the remaining olive oil over medium high heat. Add the mushrooms and cook for 5-6 minutes, or until the mushrooms are beginning brown. Remove the mushrooms to a bowl.
- Add the garlic and shallot to the saute pan and cook for 1 minute. Pour the wine into the pan and cook until it has reduced by half.
- Add the beef stock to the pan and cook for 5 minutes. Place a couple of spoonfuls of the sauce in a small bowl. Add the sugar and cornstarch to the bowl and whisk until smooth. Stir the cornstarch mixture into the sauce in the saute pan and cook for 1 minute.
- Remove the sauce from the heat and add the butter. Stir until it has melted.
- Place the ribeye steaks on two plates. Top with the mushrooms and Merlot sauce. Enjoy.
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Monax will join the DCARPETM Alliance and become a premier provider of blockchain-based legal products to customers on the DCARPETM assurance and disclosure network.
Pursuant to the terms of the strategic alliance, Monax will integrate its dealspace, OAuth2 credentialing and production studio environment for the development of API level integration, testing, and production between the DCARPETM and Monax platforms.
The end goal of the alliance will be to offer Monax's legal backbone to DCARPETM users via API integration so that users of both platforms can gain legal and audit certainty in real time for their obligations.
Auditchain will enable customers to use the DCARPETM Explorer to build, deploy, and monitor "enterprise state machines" which will include accounting and HR systems into the DCARPETM layer two protocol as part of the enterprise internal audit and external validation architecture.
Monax, who has been developing its legal agreements platform since 2014, will integrate its blockchain-based contractual obligations management system, which is built on Hyperledger Burrow, into the DCARPETM Explorer via the Monax Platform API.
This will enable enterprise customers to include a variety of smart contracts as a part of enterprise state integration and enable the external validation of, and compliance with, all contractual relationships.
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Today, Entertainment Weekly released their exclusive first look of the new live action Aladdin movie by Walt Disney Studios. Whilst the trailer did look aesthetically pleasing and brought back some great memories, this movie is going to suffer from the get-go due to the incredible advertising campaign for The Lion King. This preview is the first true look at the characters on camera and see what direction they are taking this story, and I have been hoping for some good stuff from the set of Aladdin. Let's have a look at a few of the shots shown and see what we make of it.
|Aladdin (2019) - source: Walt Disney Studios / EW
Unfortunately, the worst of the images comes right at the start with the front cover for EW. This to me doesn't scream Hollywood blockbuster, but instead the local pants. Everything here feels so staged and unnatural, from Mena Massoud's (Aladdin) smile to Will Smith's (the Genie) posture. This feels cheesy and this cover art was not a good decision. Whilst it is understood that the Genie is currently in his human form for this cover and he will be mainly CGI throughout the film, and I expect that the CGI department aren't yet ready with the design, I feel starting the big campaign off by not showing the CGI Genie is a bad decision from Disney. This is only the cover art though, and not any of the official shots of the film.
|Aladdin (2019) - source: Walt Disney Studios
|Aladdin (2019) - source: Walt Disney Studios
It was always going to be tough to recreate the character of Jafar in live action, but this almost seems bland. I am not a fan of the costume, as they have seemed to take away the simplicity of the costume from the animated version of Jafar. He also doesn't seem to feel powerful or demanding, despite holding the Genie lamp. With no Iago by his side in this remake either, this worries me that Jafar will be toned down and end up not being as great of a villain as he should be and is in the original.
|Aladdin (2019) - source: Walt Disney Studios
Whilst we may not see the CGI Genie just yet, we do get to see a glimpse of Abu and he looks stunning. Of course, after seeing how well done the Lion King trailer looked for the CGI animals, there is nothing to be shocked about here. However, Abu seems to have more expression and for this type of film, it works brilliantly. He looks absolutely adorable and this is definitely the best shot that was shown by EW today.
What are your thoughts on this preview of Aladdin? Has it made you more excited for the movie, or are you now worried about how the final product will turn out? Are you like me, who thinks that the advertising campaign hasn't been strong so far, but has faith that Disney will make a good movie by the end of it? Let me know in the comments below.


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Wireless spoofing attacks are easy to launch and can significantly impact the performance of networks. Although the identity of a node can be verified through cryptographic authentication, conventional security approaches are not always desirable because of their overhead requirements. The project is proposed to use spatial information, a physical property associated with each node, hard to falsify, and not reliant on cryptography, as the basis for 1) detecting spoofing attacks; 2) determining the number of attackers when multiple adversaries masquerading as the same node identity; and 3) localizing multiple adversaries. It is proposed to use the spatial correlation of received signal strength (RSS) inherited from wireless nodes to detect the spoofing attacks. It formulates the problem of determining the number of attackers as a multiclass detection problem. Cluster-based mechanisms are developed to determine the number of attackers. When the training data are available, the project explores using the Support Vector Machines (SVM) method to further improve the accuracy of determining the number of attackers. The localization results use a representative set of algorithms that provide strong evidence of high accuracy of localizing multiple adversaries. In addition, a fast and effective mobile replica node detection scheme is proposed using the Sequential Probability Ratio Test. evaluated our techniques through two test beds using both an 802.11 (WiFi) network and an 802.15.4 (ZigBee) network in two real office buildings.
|Wireless network security, spoofing attack, attack detection, localization
|The wireless transmission medium, adversaries can monitor any transmission. Further, adversaries can easily purchase low-cost wireless devices and use these commonly available platforms to launch a variety of attacks with little effort. Among various types of attacks, identity-based spoofing attacks are especially easy to launch and can cause significant damage to network performance. For instance, in an 802.11 network, it is easy for an attacker to gather useful MAC address information during passive monitoring and then modify its MAC address by simply issuing an ifconfig command to masquerade as another device. In spite of existing 802.11 security techniques including Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), WiFi Protected Access (WPA), or 802.11i (WPA2), such methodology can only protect data frames—an attacker can still spoof management or control frames to cause significant impact on networks.
|Spoofing attacks can further facilitate a variety of traffic injection attacks, such as attacks on access control lists, rogue access point (AP) attacks, and eventually Denial-of- Service (DoS) attacks. A broad survey of possible spoofing attacks can be found. Moreover, in a large-scale network, multiple adversaries may masquerade as the same identity and collaborate to launch malicious attacks such as network resource utilization attack and denial-of-service attack quickly. Therefore, it is important to 1) detect the presence of spoofing attacks, 2) determine the number of attackers, and 3) localize multiple adversaries and eliminate them.
|Most existing approaches to address potential spoofing attacks employ cryptographic schemes. However, the application of cryptographic schemes requires reliable key distribution, management, and maintenance mechanisms. It is not always desirable to apply these cryptographic methods because of its infrastructural, computational, and management overhead. To use received signal strength (RSS)-based spatial correlation, a physical property associated with each wireless node that is hard to falsify and not reliant on cryptography as the basis for detecting spoofing attacks.
|It first divides the network into a set of zones, establish trust levels for each zone, and detect untrustworthy zones by using the Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT).When multiple nodes are compromised in one zone; they can all be detected and revoked at one time. The SPRT decides a zone to be untrustworthy if the zone's trust is continuously maintained at low level or is quite often changed from high level to low level.
|The main contributions of the work are: 1) GADE: a generalized attack detection model (GADE) that can both detect spoofing attacks as well as determine the number of adversaries using cluster analysis methods grounded on RSSbased spatial correlations among normal devices and adversaries; and 2) IDOL: an integrated detection and localization system that can both detect attacks as well as find the positions of multiple adversaries even when the adversaries vary their transmission power levels.
|In GADE, the Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM) cluster analysis method is used to perform attack detection. We formulate the problem of determining the number of attackers as a multiclass detection problem. We then applied cluster-based methods to determine the number of attacker.
Localization of Attackers
|Identify the positions of multiple adversaries even whenthe adversaries vary their transmission power levels.The main contribution of the paper is organized areas follows:
|- To effectively detect the presence of spoofing attack
|- To count the number of attackers
|- To identify the location of multiple adversaries inthe network
|- To provide solution to identify adversaries in the network where in there is no additional cost or modification to the wireless devices themselves
|- To avoid authentication key management
|- To avoid overhead
|- To develop a mechanism where in there is low false positive rate
Attack Detection Using Cluster Analysis
|The RSS-based spatial correlation inherited from wireless nodes to perform spoofing attack detection. It also showed that the RSS readings from a wireless node may fluctuate and should cluster together. In particular, the RSS readings over time from the same physical location will belong to the same cluster points in the n-dimensional signal space, while the RSS readings from different locations over time should form different clusters in signal space.
|In Fig. 2.1, which presents RSS reading vectors of three landmarks (i.e., n = 3) from two different physical locations. Under the spoofing attack, the victim andthe attacker are using the same ID to transmit data packets, and the RSS readings of that ID is the mixture readings measured from each individual node (i.e., spoofing node or victim node).
|Thus formulate spoofing detection as a statistical significance testing problem, where the null hypothesis is H0 : normal (no spoofing attack):
|In significance testing, a test statistic Tis used to evaluatewhether observed data belong to the null-hypothesis or not.
Problem Formulation
|The Precision is defined as
|F-measure : F-measure is originated from informationretrieval and measures the accuracy of a test by considering both the Hit Rate and the Precision .
|Multiclass ROC graph: We further use the multiclass ROC graph to measure the effectiveness of our mechanisms. Particularly, we use two methods :class- reference basedandbenefit error based. The class-reference-based formulation produces C different ROC curves when handling C classes based on Pi and Ni. Further, in the C- class detection problem, the traditional 2 x2 confusion matrix, including True Positives, False Positives, False Negatives, and True Negatives, becomes an C x C matrix, which contains the C benefits (true positives) and C2 - C possible errors (false positives). The benefit-error-based method is based on the C x C matrix. For example, when C = 3 with possible number of attackers of {2,3,4}, the benefits are 3 and the possible errors are 6.
Silhouette Plot
Attacker Number Determination
|A Silhouette Plot is a graphical representation of a cluster. To determine the number of attackers, we construct Silhouettes in the following way: the RSS sample points S= {s1,...,sN}(with N as the total number of samples) are the dataset and we let C=(c1,...,cK)be its clustering into K clusters, as shown in Fig. 8. Let d(sk,sl)be the distance between skand sl. Let cj=(sj 1,...,sj mj)be the jth cluster, j =1,...,K , where mj=|cj|.
|Based on this observation, we developed SILENCE,testingSILhouette Plot and System EvolutioN with minimum distanCE of cluster, which evaluates the minimum distance between clusters on top of the pure cluster analysis to improve the accuracy of determining the number of attackers. Additionally, when the training data are available.
Support Vector Machines-Based Mechanism
|Provided the training data collected during the offline training phase, we can further improve the performance of determining the number of spoofing attackers. In addition, given several statistic methods available to detect the number of attackers, such as System Evolution and SILENCE, we can combine the characteristics of these methods to achieve a higher detection rate.using Support Vector Machines to classify the number of the spoofing attackers. The advantage of using SVM is that it can combine the intermediate results (i.e., features) fromdifferent statistic methods to build a model based on training data to accurately predict the number of attackers.
|IDOL: an Integrate Detecti On and Localization system that can both detect attacks as well as find the positions of multiple adversaries even when the adversaries vary their transmission power levels.
|? The existing detection mechanism is highly effective in both detecting the presence of attacks but considers all the location as single zone.
|? Location information taken from victim as well as adversaries is directly taken from the corresponding nodes themselves. Not the neighbor nodes are queried for their location information. i.e., the spatial readings from node to base station alone are taken.
|? Since the approach requires fixed node locations, it cannot be used when nodes are expected to move.
|The proposed system work is motivated from mitigating the limitations of previous schemes. In particular, the new system proposes a method in which the nodes are fixed as well as in movement. A reputation-based trust management scheme is designed to facilitate fast detection of compromised nodes. The key idea of the scheme is to detect untrustworthy zones and perform software attestation against nodes in these zones to detect and revoke the ones that are compromised.
|Specifically, first divides the network into a set of zones, establish trust levels for each zone, and detect untrustworthy zones by using the Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT). The SPRT decides a zone to be untrustworthy if the zone's trust is continuously maintained at low level or is quite often changed from high level to low level. once a zone is determined to be untrustworthy, the base station or the network operator performs software attestation against all nodes in the untrustworthy zone, detects compromised nodes with subverted software modules, and physically revokes them.
|In addition, a novel mobile replica detection scheme is proposed based on the Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT). The new system uses the fact that an uncompromised mobile node should never move at speeds in excess of the system-configured maximum speed. As a result, a benign mobile sensor node's measured speed will nearly always be less than the system-configured maximum speed as long as it employs a speed measurement system with a low error rate. the other hand, replica nodes are in two or more places at the same time. This makes it appear as if the replicated node is moving much faster than any of the benign nodes, and thus the replica nodes?? measured speeds will often be over the system-configured maximum speed.
|? By detecting an entire zone at once, the system can identify the approximate source of bad behavior and react quickly, rather than waiting for a specific node to be identified.
|? When multiple nodes are compromised in one zone, they can all be detected and revoked at one time.
|? The proposed system validates the effectiveness, efficiency, and robustness of the scheme through analysis and simulation experiments.
|? The new system finds that the main attack against the SPRT-based scheme is when replica nodes fail to provide signed location and time information for speed measurement.
|? To overcome this attack, the new system employs a quarantine defense technique to block the noncompliant nodes.
|? It provides analyses of the number of speed measurements needed to make replica detection decisions, which shows is quite low, and the amount of overhead incurred by running the protocol.
|The below modules are used in project. They are
|In this module, spoofing attack detection is found out. To study Received Signal Strength (RSS), a property closely correlated with location in physical space and is readily available in the existing wireless networks. The RSS readings at the same physical location are similar, whereas the RSS readings at different locations in physical space are distinctive. Thus, the RSS readings present strong spatial correlation characteristics.
|The Received Signal Strength value vector as s = (s1, s2,...sn) where n is the number of landmarks/access points that are monitoring the RSS of the wireless nodes and know their locations. Generally, the RSS at the ith landmark from a wireless node is distributed as
|Si (dj) [dBm] = P (d0) [dBm] - 10 log (dj/d0) + Xi
|where P(d0) represents the transmitting power of the node at the reference distance d0, dj is the distance between the wireless node j and the ith landmark, and the path loss exponent, Xi is the shadow fading which is given as input. For simplicity, the wireless nodes have the same transmission power. If the received signal strength does not match in successive RSS values, then the node is said to be malicious.
|In this module, a form is generated which contains a text box to get node id and the id is saved in to "Nodes?? table. During network creation, the nodes with id will be displayed in random X and Y position. The base station node is need not be displayed as it is programmatically listens and updates the location information of all the nodes when they are in movement.
|In this module, all the nodes are roaming in any directions (their walk is updated by incrementing x-axis or y-axis or both at a movement with any number of pixels within the specified maximum limit. In practical situation, the nodes can move with their physical capabilities. For sake of convenience, if the nodes reach the picture box limit, then they move in opposite direction so that they roam in the rectangular boundary of the picture box control.
|In this module, all the nodes are calculating the neighbor nodes with their transmission range (specified in "n?? units common for all nodes. It means than all the sensor nodes are having homogeneous transmission ranges). Then it gives the location information i.e., its position to all of its neighbors. It occurs for all the nodes at regular intervals. The timer control is provided and the time is considered in global aspect. All the nodes are having unique time values.
|In this module, the base station is collecting the location information from all nodes. It occurs for all the nodes at regular intervals. It is assumed that no two nodes are in same location since the nodes purpose is to serve individually a specific area.
|In this module, the node is updating its location information to base station with one of the remaining nodes. It means that it is replicating some other node. This result in, at a given time, both the nodes are sending same location information to the base station of which one is true and other is false.
|This module presents the details of the technique to detect replica node attacks in mobile sensor networks. In static sensor networks, a sensor node is regarded as being replicated if it is placed in more than one location. If nodes are moving around in network, however, this technique does not work, because a benign mobile node would be treated as a replica due to its continuous change in location.
|This project proposed to use received signal strength-based spatial correlation, a physical property associated with each wireless device that is hard to falsify and not reliant on cryptography as the basis for detecting spoofing attacks in wireless networks. It provided theoretical analysis of using the spatial correlation of RSS inherited from wireless nodes for attack detection. It derived the test statistic based on the cluster analysis of RSS readings. The approach can both detects the presence of attacks as well as determine the number of adversaries, spoofing the same node identity, so that can localize any number of attackers and eliminate them.
|In addition, a zone-based node compromise detection scheme is proposed using the Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT). Furthermore, several possible attacks are described against the proposed scheme and proposed countermeasures against these attacks. The scheme is evaluated in simulation under various scenarios. The experimental results show that the scheme quickly detects untrustworthy zones with a small number of zone-trust reports.
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What Young People Think of Their Future
The results of an international sociological research project were recently presented in Rome. It looked to explore what young people think about their own personal futures and how they view the outlook for their families and for the local and national communities in the countries where they live. The survey was based on a large sample of young people aged between 18 and 30 years in the period between March and July 2018 and involved young people from four European countries: Italy, Germany, Poland and Russia. As far as Italy is concerned, the reference institute was Eurispes (Institute for Economic, Social and Political Studies),[1] which put their research results online together with other materials that we have used for this article.[2]
The research method
Here are a few comments on the sample chosen for the survey and on the methodology followed. The survey involved 1,536 young people living in the four countries mentioned. In each country 384 people were interviewed. According to the researchers, the sample size ensures that the results are representative of each of the selected countries.[3] The technique of the survey consisted in using a method combining a classic survey (conducted face to face) and online work.
These four countries were each chosen for reasons distinctive reasons, including their markedly differing historical paths, albeit they have many similarities. Historical events have certainly had an impact on the current generation of young people. The research presents their diversity, dividing them into: "a) Countries where there have never been fundamental changes in the economic and political sphere; b) Countries that have seen a unification of fundamentally different economic and political systems; c) Countries where there have been substantial changes in economic and political structures. In these countries Christian culture is represented by its main components: Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox" (p. 4).
More specifically, Russia underwent profound historical transformations in the 20th century, which to a large extent also determined world development. In practice, during the period of monarchy and up to the beginning of this century, it had no experience of true democracy: it passed from a system in which the Tsar was the center of political life to a communist one party system. Now, a new political system based in theory on democratic principles has been established as a republic with a president and parliament. In the religious sphere, there has been a move from Orthodoxy, recognized as the national religion, to the complete rejection of it and, after the collapse of the USSR, the return of religion to an active role in the socio-political life of the country.
Italy is a developed agricultural-industrial nation with a long history as a market economy. In the past two centuries there has been no change from one market economy system to another, and the role of Catholicism has never been questioned. The economic sphere is characterized by large regional differences in terms of income and industrialization. The black economy also plays a significant role in the nation's finances.
From 1949 to 1990 Germany was divided into two states: the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (DDR). The first maintained the market organization of production and the value system of the Protestant-Catholic society, while the DDR adopted the Soviet command economy and its corresponding political values. After unification in 1990, the eastern part was practically absorbed by the western market economic system. Protestantism is widely the religious focus found in the former DDR and had numerous adherents before unification. Poland had a market economy before the Second World War, and Catholicism strongly influenced public life. After the War the Soviet system with its command economy model was dominant. The role of religion was neither officially recognized nor supported. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact it returned to the previous market economy system and the Catholic Church resumed an active role in community life.
The 'life values' of young people
The young people surveyed were given a series of 25 "life values." Researchers only took into account the answers on the values scale that were indicated as "very important" or "important." This highlighted the values on which young people focus their attention and on which it is likely that they will act in the future. The percentages shown below concern the proportion of young people who have indicated the corresponding value as important. The general tendencies expressed in the responses are quite homogeneous in the four countries considered, but with specific differences.
Health is in first place in Italy (97.8 percent), Poland (98 percent) and Russia (95 percent); in Germany the percentage drops to 86.1 percent, while the first place goes to the value accorded to Friends. Education rates highest in Italy (96.4 percent), while in the other countries it has been indicated as important in a percentage that varies between 81.2 percent and 88 percent of responses.
If one wishes to to glean general indications on some of the significant and interesting points, one should note, for example, that the value of Children is rather low in the older age groups: no more than 70 percent in each country, a figure confirmed by the low fertility rates existing today in all countries. It is therefore a value considered less important than Friends, Free Time and Leisure.
The values of Personal Independence and Freedom were judged to be important between 80 and 95 percent of young people, which highlights the desire to avoid parental control. The desire for independence grows with age.
Religion is held to have the lowest status in the ranking of values (between 36.9 and 32.8 percent in all countries). The decline in religious values among young people is not linked to religious confession. In fact, these are countries in which the main Christian denominations are present, but with substantially similar data. The lowest places in the ranking, next to Religion, are generally occupied by Patriotism, Beauty, Business and Politics.
The importance of Work and of Money is obviously higher in the countries where young people face the greatest difficulties in achieving employment or a decent wage: work is highly valued by 92.4 percent of those interviewed in Italy, 89.1 percent in Russia, 87.5 percent in Poland, but only 70.7 percent in Germany.
Patriotism does not arouse particular interest among young people. In Russia, Patriotism, Politics and Religion were at the bottom of the list of values, despite the great emphasis on these issues made by the media and the Church in this country.
Russia has some unique aspects compared to other countries, such as the low esteem of values such as Democracy (only 58 percent), while in other countries it is at the level of at least 80 percent, and in Italy it is 91.1 percent. There also appears to be a greater emphasis on the material aspects of life and a certain desire for privacy in personal life. In Russia, less importance is attached to the values of Friends and Sex, which is generally not typical for this age group. Even less importance is attached to the value Follow Solid Principles. The gap between Russia and Italy on this category is more than 25 percent. Instead, there is greater interest in the material aspects of life and well-being.
The fundamental similarity in the structure of values indicates that the young people of these four countries belong to a common European culture, but the particular differences of each country and the specifics of social life also appear.
The emotional state of young people in 2018 and family planning
If we divide the emotional state of young people into three categories: Negative, Uncertain or Positive, we can conclude that a constant negative mood leads the population to abandon certain activities and inhibits the development not only of individuals, but also of society. Young people with this state of mind will not be promoters of development. On the other hand, positive states of mind are considered to be as infectious as negative ones: if they are multiplied, the emotions of joy and happiness can become the basis of public enthusiasm.
In Italy, 55.5 percent of young people in 2018 had positive emotions; 43.4 percent experienced negative emotional situations, and only 1.2 percent experienced uncertainty. In Germany, negative emotions dominate (43.8 percent). These included indifference, melancholy and sadness; 35.4 percent of young people have positive emotions; and 5.7 percent experience uncertainty. In Poland, the positive mood prevails: 48.7 percent have positive emotions; 31.2 percent experience negative emotions; and 20.1 percent are in a state of uncertainty. In Russia, young people are divided into three almost equal groups: 37.3 percent experienced negative moods; 30.1 percent an attitude positive characteristics; and 32.6 percent frames of mind marked by uncertainty.
With regard to reproductive orientation, family planning, the creation of a family and the birth of children, it is clear how important this area is for the current generation and for society as a whole. The expected number of children is lower than the ideal number, as shown by surveys in all countries. The largest number of children is found in the concrete plans of Russians and Italians, amounting respectively to an average of 1.64 and 1.74 children. It should be noted for all the countries considered that fertility rates in relation to the expected number of children (from 1.28 to 1.74 children on average) never reach the level required to maintain current population levels. This suggests that, for at least a decade, the current population will continue to shrink, opening up space for migrants, especially in the area of employment. But this is not yet the subject of serious public debate in these countries.
Any growth in reproductive orientation is strongly correlated to a sense of confidence in the future. The comparison of responses to being confident or uncertain about one's future reveals a significant difference in outlook. This indicates that an increase in the birth rate is possible not only with the help of financial or other support from the member states, but also if the views of young people on the possibility of social mobility are changed, with more optimistic forecasts of real success for young people in society.
It should be remembered that the orientation toward a low level of births does not imply that young people have abandoned the idea of a family life, "which instead is fully accepted and inserted in their structure of values, where the value of the family is significantly higher than the value of the children" (p. 10). Opponents of the creation of a family union are generally around 10.5 percent. The minimum number of opponents of family life is found among Germans (3.9 percent), while Italians (82.2 percent) are the most family oriented.
Horizons for future planning
1) Lifespan. People define the duration of their life plans differently. Some plan the future for a year, some for 5 or 10 years, and some live from day to day. Obviously, everything depends on the conditions in which persons actually find themselves. The public environment, the possibility of career and personal growth, the presence of stable values in society, and a vision of the future clearly outlined in its main elements are factors that contribute to forming and clarifying the breadth of this horizon.
From the results obtained in all the countries surveyed one may conclude that young people have a horizon for planning their lives for an average period of 5 to 8 years, which sociologists consider a short period. Young people do not see the possibility of adopting long-term plans, but neither are they necessarily oriented toward living from day to day.
Important elements for long-term planning are life expectancy, but also the length of a healthy life. According to Eurostat data, for 2016 the average life expectancy for Poles was estimated at 78 years, for Germans 81 years, for Italians 83.4 years: data confirmed by research results.
Young Russians reported their life expectancy was 68.8 years, almost 4 years lower than the official statistics, confirming their belief that they will have to make greater efforts to achieve their goals than the current generation of active people, and so their physical resources will be consumed more quickly. If we ask young people what the age limit is for physical and mental activity to continue in good condition, they estimate 66.6 in Italy, 61.2 in Germany, 51.1 in Poland and 56.2 in Russia. These estimates indicate levels significantly lower than those provided by modern medicine: 83.4 years for Italy, 81 for Germany, 78 for Poland, 72.7 for Russia.
2) Social mobility. Taking into account the perspective of 10-15 years, the young people of the four countries believe that in the future they will have the opportunity to become more financially secure and to live in a more powerful and respected country. All evaluations show a positive outlook. Italians and Poles are at the highest level both in current situations and in the perspective of a future of 10-15 years, but young Italians believe they will make the most progress on the social ladder. Social optimism is also found among young people in all the countries. "The self-assessment of the prospects of the young generation of Russia, Poland, Germany and Italy shows a focus on vertical social mobility" (p. 12). This also improves the position of each country in a competitive world.
The factor Confidence in the Future plays a crucial role. The assessment of Confident/Insecure About the Future varies significantly across countries. People who are confident in their future have shown higher initial indices and greater advances on the social scale. The only exception is Italy, where young people without confidence in the future, even if they evaluate their positions lower than those of people who have confidence in their future, believe that their progress will be great.
According to the research, Russia is the only country in which the assessment of the power and strength of the state and the prospects for its worldwide promotion are higher than personal social dynamics. In other words, it will gain a better position on the world stage. Germany in the coming10-15 years, according to its young people, will see a slight worsening of its position, but its economic development will continue to make it one of the engines of global development. From this point of view, young Italians and Poles exhibit an average value level in the current situation and in the coming 10-15 years.
The gender differences are interesting. In Germany and Russia, girls are very optimistic. In Italy and Poland young males are more optimistic. The authors of the research believe that the bulk of the young respondents, as a whole, enjoys a healthy level of optimism.
3) Civil and political activity. The ability to interact with the authorities and to influence the decision-making process reflects the level of democracy in a state, but also indicates the level of trust in the authorities and the involvement of the population in the management process at the various decision-making levels.
The ability to influence official policy allows you to plan your future in an appropriate and favorable environment. According to the survey, the higher the level of the public institution, the fewer the young people who think they can influence the decision-making process. Young Poles and Germans are convinced that they have the greatest chance of influencing national politics as well as those of regional authorities. Young people in Italy think they can influence the policy of regional and municipal authorities.
With regard to the possibility of influencing national politics, opinions are equally divided between Yes and No. Young people in Russia think they have no influence on the policy of the authorities at any level. This corresponds to the low importance for Russians of the values of democracy and politics. This risks undermining the credibility of the authorities.
It may be interesting, in order to define the maturity of civil society, to evaluate the participation of young people in certain initiatives in their country. For example, in a country where the role of the Church and religion is strong, religious institutions are actively involved in society and participation in religious activities is increasing, as in Italy.
The same applies to voluntary activities (including work for the poorest), which involve young people in Germany (35.6 percent) and Italy (36.8 percent), while in Russia and Poland the percentage of young people participating in this type of activity is reduced by half: 18.3 percent in Russia and 17.2 percent in Poland. This indicates a significant cultural difference, the distance from power and the tendency of young people to close in on themselves in order to devote themselves to solving personal problems or those of the immediate environment that surrounds them. Only 28.8 percent of young Russians said they participated in national elections; the same is true in Poland, where participation is 10 percent higher. But young people from all four countries express equal appreciation for their ability to participate in leisure and recreation activities.
In Germany and Italy there is a greater involvement of young people in political life – through participation in elections at various levels, in referendums, and in demonstrations – than there is among Poles and Russians.
If it is a question of evaluating a successful life the most important criterion for young people is Self-realization of the Individual, summarized by the expression "the opportunity to live an interesting life." Then come the criteria of Friendship, Communication and that of Health. Young respondents from all countries believe that they should rely on their own strengths, formulating plans to be implemented alone or with the help of another All reveal that they want to achieve their goals independently. The ones who show the highest level of self-reliance are the young Italians.
Concluding remarks
We have presented some of the most interesting results of the research that was conducted with the idea of outlining the future as young European people imagine it, on the assumption that they constitute the group that best perceives the social atmosphere and the direction of development of the country in which they live.
It is clear that the social horizon for young people as they plan for their lives extends to the medium term. However, it does not keep pace with the horizon of biological planning, which is understandable because we are living in a time of rapid change that has never been experienced before and that young people perceive better than adults. They are already part of it as participants, although often unaware and not always active.
This observation limits how one views future progress, but it also means that young people do not live day by day. They perceive that many things studied with difficulty by their parents or grandparents today are no longer needed or are insufficient, and this does not allow them to plan in the longer term, which in the past was the normal marker for those of a mature age. A more sustainable, less improvised and less devastating development process for the environment, combined with a more stable and more secure international framework, can contribute to broadening and lengthening the horizon of future forecasts and plans.
In the four countries chosen for the survey, there are very similar guiding values, which speak of the common Christian roots in European culture and the spread of universal values among the young people of Europe. In addition, there are national characteristics in the public life and history of each country.
Young people seem to show a more marked social optimism than adults, who have generally compared the present with a past that seems to them more solid and comfortable than the present and future uncertainties. In this sense, the research shows a better picture than that usually narrated by the media, always attentive above all to dysfunctions and failures. If young people are optimistic about the dynamism of the social ladder, this can also be a sign of the functioning of so-called "Social Elevators" in the community, which even if they are not yet working, are at least hoped for by European youth.
DOI: La Civiltà Cattolica, En. Ed. Vol. 3, no. 8, art. 5, 2019: 10.32009/22072446.1908.5
[1] The initiative was promoted by three Russian scholars: Svetlana Varlamova and Elena Kayshauri, of the Federal Center for Theoretical and Applied Sociology-Fctas of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and Anna Doroshina, of the Department of Sociology of the University "D.I. Mendeleev" of Moscow. In Germany, the reference body was the Iwak Institute at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.
[2] The numbers cited in brackets in the article refer to the pages of the text made available online by Eurispes.
[3] Since the population of each country considered is greater than 100,000 people, the calculation of the sample showed a probability of reliability of 0.95, and a sampling error of ±5 percent.


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"The what? What's the Grim Wall?" Elliot asked.
"The forest, the name of the forest, man, you really don't listen to me do you?" Samuel replied.
He pointed at the arch of trees above their head. They were curled outwards into a living tunnel you could pass through with the road. It was like entering a verdant cave. The forest itself made it easier for travelers to reach Clare de Rune. If you wandered off the path, you were as good as dead. "Have you noticed this thing here? Have you noticed how silent the world is outside this forest?"
Elliot, who was sitting at the head of the wagon steering next to Samuel, took this moment to savagely shove his brother backwards into the cargo. He snapped the cord violently on the two brown horses with white spots, which slowly entered the woods under the angry swings of Elliot's wrists. Samuel jumped out of the boxes and tried to knock his brother aside.
"I told you. I told you. We can't come in here unless we have an offering to them." He hissed. The trees were quiet. The wind was gone. The moment they'd entered the Grim Wall time seemed to take on a different flavor, like they were entering a cemetery with no discernible headstones.
"Get off me! Everyone is always bending over backwards for Calamity's Keep. Why on earth is there is a city here if they living next to him, plus a woods full of demons," Elliot yelled, pushing back on Samuel.
"What is wrong with you? Where is this coming from? Do you want us to die? You know these things exist. The city uses them as protection from him," Samuel said. They both wrenched on the reins like they were pieces of taffy.
"Stop it. Stop treating me like a child. I'm not an idiot." Elliot howled.
Somewhere in the woods, something heavy moved. A tree's roots cracked and broke under the unholy footprint of a timeless monster. The horses went to their knees and started to shake. Drool formed wildly on their lips. Samuel could feel the urine form between his legs. They were here. He fell backwards into the cargo to hide.
"What? What's wrong with you now?"Elliot said, standing up.
Somewhere in the eves there was a laughing sound, followed by a rattling, like a jar of rice was being shaken around. There was a piercing rush of air. Suddenly, Elliot's throat looked strange. His eyes rolled back in his head, revealing the whites, which gleamed like dead pearls. That chalky void matched the tip of the bone spear protruding through Elliot's jugular, like a piece of his back had inverted through his neck. The Lutchkins had harpooned him through the trees. There would be no saving him.
"No, no, no," Samuel said, trying to stand. The cargo shifted and the horses screamed. Samuel stared at the point of the javelin they'd hit him with from the trees. It had an ivory-like, with strange etchings of lines and circles carved into it. The spear wasn't just a tool for killing, but an artistic instrument. In the one grizzly moment Samuel noticed it, Elliot's body lurched backwards. The weapon was attached to an invisible wire from the trees. They reeled in Elliot like a fish, wrenching his body away in a bloody splash. Samuel didn't even get to say goodbye. There were only gurgles and gasps from his impaled brother.
The last thing Samuel could see was a shape in the woods. His eyes could barely make sense of it. It was tall, cloaked with foliage, and wearing a white mask with two slits for eyes and three vertical lines at its mouth, which sat over its chest. It looked curled over, like it was old, and gravity had aged it the quickest. Despite its bent form, it was still eight feet tall. There were no arms, legs, or other appendages. The wire dragging Elliot's body away didn't appear attached to it. Before anything else could move in the forest, the shape faded backwards into the trees, like a leviathan sinking into the deep. The only sound Samuel could hear from the silent woods around him was the words: "Thank you."
They seemed to echo from everywhere.
There it is, the long awaited serialized story I've been talking about in my musings and whatnot for the last month. It will be called Calamity's Keep. Each week I'll try and share a new piece of flash fiction from the world surrounding this castle. I love this story. I've already written the first arc of it on my breaks at work. There are projects I'm doing that are sequels to books (the Greenland Diaries and Beware the Ills) and there other things like this that I get to go wild with creativity. Anyways, thank you for reading. I'll build a page and sent up the links once I get more content out.


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In today's Instant-On Enterprise, applications are spun up faster than ever.
While this blistering speed of application development and deployment may enable the business to be more agile and responsive to the changing business climate than ever, it creates unparalleled challenges for anyone with security as part of their job description.
An estimate that I've tossed around based on educated conjecture is that the capabilities to test for security defects in technologies is about 18-36 months behind the release of those technologies.
This means that when a cool, new UI framework is released today, it will likely take 12-18 months for the security community to understand it, find security defects, and build tools to effectively scale the automation of finding these defects on a large scale.
Whether you agree with me on the length of time, everyone can agree that there is some significant lag time.
That means that at a minimum there is some time where technology is deployed into your enterprise without the Information Security organization fully being able to understand and identify security defects in that code.
If that scares you, you're not alone.
I too lose sleep at night to these types of thoughts. Enterprise security is a topic that reaches far outside the realm of Software Security Assurance and rarely gets much air time on my blog - yet securing 'shiny objects' (a term I affectionately use for the bleeding-edge web technologies developers seem to love) requires a full-scale enterprise security approach.
When you have to protect a development technology you can't fully understand, sometimes the only method of protection is at the network layer by identifying known attack patterns and accounting for possible mutations.
Strong network-level technology (*cough* IPS/WAF *cough*) - something we tend to discount heavily in the application security world - may be our only saving grace!
Identifying attacks, and correlating events turns into a stop-gap while the capabilities around testing and development-level analysis play catch-up ... it's a race against the clock for sure.
So... as your developers start to pick up interest in HTML5, and other types of "shiny objects" type technologies think about how you're going to assess and protect those applications in the break-neck pace of business.
Remember, Software Security Assurance is not a stand-alone concept. SSA plays a major role in enterprise security, and the technology-based risk. At the end of the business day, it all rolls up into business risk, and that is what your executives care about anyway, right?
Understanding how these pieces fit together, and how the lagging capabilities of information security can be compensated is key to securing your business in today's "Instant-On Enterprise"...
Good luck! You know where to go if you need help.
- Security attacks hit home, IDM, 4/7/11
- Security Exploits Increasingly Complex, InformationWeek, 3/17/10
- Denial of Service Most Common Attack Vector in Second Half 2010, eWeek.com, 3/15/11


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Best Things To Do in Tibet
Tibet's two biggest points of interests are its religious culture and its natural wonders, which are surprisingly linked. Tibetans consider some of... READ MORE
Tibet's two biggest points of interests are its religious culture and its natural wonders, which are surprisingly linked. Tibetans consider some of their most beautiful lakes and mountains to be holy, including Lake Manasarovar. Though Mount Everest, which straddles the border of Tibet and Nepal, is in a league all its own. If you can stomach the high altitude, consider a sleepover at Mount Everest Base Camp. But if you'd rather keep your cultural experiences closer to sea level, visit one of the many holy monasteries and temples that dot the region. The sky-high Potala Palace is where the Dalai Lama used to reside, while Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is where his second in command, Panchen Lama, held power. But one of the best ways to soak up Tibet's intriguing spirituality is to watch pilgrimaging Tibetans at the Jokhang Temple. And while there, don't forget to pick up a souvenir or butter tea at Barkhor Street.
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Alongside Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple is one of the most important sites in Tibet. The Jokhang Temple was built in the seventh century to promote Buddhism in Tibet, and as such earned the distinction of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The name Jokhang translates to "house of Buddha," or more specifically "chapel of the Jowo." And it lives up to its name. The temple houses more than 3,000 images of Buddha, deities and other historical figures in the religion, including the Jowo Shakyamuni.
Jowo Shakyamuni, or also referred to as the Jowo Rinpoche, is considered to be the most sacred image of Buddha in Tibet. It is said that the statue was sculpted by Vishwakarma – the Indian god of architecture – between the fifth and sixth century B.C., when Buddha was still believed to be alive. This has led to the belief that the Jowo Sakyamuni, as one of the earliest accounts of Buddha, is the most accurate visual representation of Buddha. Research has shown that this story is factually inaccurate, but that hasn't stopped crowds of Tibetans from coming to the temple to pray. The statue depicts Buddha the moment he reached enlightenment – legs in lotus position, one hand gesturing meditation with the other gesturing the "earth to witness."
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After days of visiting temples, palaces and monasteries, treat yourself to some souvenirs on Barkhor Street. Barkhor Street is one big circular street that goes around Jokhang Temple and is filled to the brim with shops and stalls catering to those who want to take a little piece of Tibet home. Here, you can find tons of jewelry, including silver and colorful stone jewelry, traditional Tibetan wooden masks, Tibetan knives and even yak wool blankets. There are also religious articles for sale too, including Buddha statues, prayer beads, prayer wheels and beautiful Thangka, or Tibetan scroll paintings.
The presence of all these cultural souvenirs as well as the street's spiritual significance has helped earn Barkhor Street the distinction of being the "window of Tibet." Bakhor's spiritual significance is all thanks to Jokhang Temple. Part of the pilgrimage to Jokhang includes walking the circular route of Barkhor clockwise from dawn to dusk while reciting mantras, often with prayer wheels. Don't be alarmed if you see people prostrating on the ground, it's part of prayer. You will most likely see these pilgrims carrying out this tradition during your visit here. You are more than welcome to observe and take the walk yourself, but don't stop the pilgrims praying. Give them space, refrain from walking with them and don't take pictures, as the locals find it disrespectful.
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It's hard to miss Potala Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This grand, imposing structure stands more than 12,000 feet above sea level on Marpo-ri, or Red Hill, in the middle of central Lhasa. Potala's larger-than-life presence physically embodies the great historical, cultural and religious significance it holds for the Tibetan people. Not only does the palace serve as the winter home of the Dalai Lama but it also houses the remains of many other Dalai Lamas throughout history. At one point, Potala also acted as the seat of the Tibetan government.
Potala Palace is actually broken up into two palaces. The White Palace is where the Dalai Lama took residence and also where the government once operated. The Red Palace is where you'll find the stupas (a dome-shaped structure in Buddhism used to commemorate a sacred person, place or event) where former Dalai Lamas are buried.
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One of the best places to immerse yourself in Tibetan Buddhism is the Sera Monastery. Situated about 5 miles north of central Lhasa, this monastery is one of the most important in Lhasa. It focuses on Gelugpa, a sect of Tibetan Buddhism, and houses monks in training. As a part of the monks' training, every afternoon at 3 p.m. (except Sundays), young monks are required to gather in the monastery's courtyard to debate important Buddhist doctrines with their superiors. The gathering is quite lively, with young monks sitting and waiting to be called on by older monks. But instead of raising their hand when they know the answer, older monks aggressively slap their hands together to signal a younger monk's participation in the lesson. And thus, the spirited debate begins.
This ritual alone has drawn travelers in droves to the Sera Monastery. Travelers say being able to witness such an important part of Tibetan Buddhist monks' training was incredibly fascinating. As for the monastery itself, there were mixed reviews. Some found the monastery to be beautiful while others said it was nothing special. Either way, if you're looking for an immersive cultural experience in Tibet, watching these debates is one way to do it.
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Tibet's mountain ranges get a lot of love, but the region's many alpine lakes are just as noteworthy. In fact, the Tibetan people consider these lakes to be holy and take pilgrimages to them. The most popular (and the most sacred) are Yamdrok Lake, Lake Namtso and Manasarovar Lake.
Yamdrok Lake is a freshwater lake that is lauded for its vibrant blue waters. The color of the water varies depending on the position and intensity of the sun. The lake, which is surrounded on either side by rolling hills and mountains, is known to be a very pretty landscape. The best way to take in Yamdrok is to climb one of its hills for panoramic views of its grandeur (the lake is a whopping 45 miles long).
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A trip to Tibet would not be complete without getting an eyeful of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. Everest sits on the border of Nepal and Tibet and each area has its own base camp. The base camp serves as a place for climbers, scientists and tourists. Tibet's base camp sits at a lower elevation and offers better accessibility (think: driving instead of hiking) than the one in Nepal. Another benefit to visiting Tibet's base camp is that it offers unobstructed views of Everest. In Nepal, Everest's surrounding mountains obscure the full view.
Tibet's Everest Base Camp is composed of camping grounds and some small shops, including the world's highest "post office" (it's a tent). How long you stay at the base camp depends on the kind of tour you choose. If you're interested in camping, it's important to be aware of the conditions. The higher the altitude, the lower the oxygen content (Lhasa is 11,996 feet above sea level while Everest Base Camp is 17,060 feet above sea level). Most travelers complained of altitude sickness while at the camp, with many saying it was difficult to fall asleep at night. Plus, the accommodations are basic at best (bathrooms are in separate tents, toilets are eastern in style and electricity is run by a generator).
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Like the Potala Palace, the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery holds a lot of significance in Tibetan Buddhism. Not only was the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery founded by the first Dalai Lama, but later it became the seat of power for the Panchen Lama, the most important spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama. The monastery comprises multiple gold-trimmed buildings that feature chapels, accommodations for monks, colleges, the stupas, or tombs, of past Panchen Lamas and one of the largest gilded statues in the world, Future Buddha (found in the Chapel of Jampa).
This monastery is also the site of one of Tibet's biggest cultural celebrations, the Buddha Unfolding Festival. The festival centers around the debut of a giant, new thangka (Buddhist painting whose images aid followers in meditation and prayer). The unveiling of this vibrant and detailed depiction of Buddhist deities is meant to spread good fortune and peace. If you can, try to make it to this festival (typically held in the mid- to late summer) as throngs of pilgrims and Buddhists gather in excitement to witness the ceremony.
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Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit
45 Pages Posted: 24 Jun 2008
Date Written: June 23, 2008
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure program that employs "investable" tax credits to spur production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its structure is now being replicated in other programs, the LIHTC has also drawn skepticism and calls for its repeal. This paper outlines a conceptual framework for exploring the conditions under which investable tax credits may be the most effective mechanism to deliver a production subsidy and discusses the desirability of employing investable tax credits in other policy domains. Estimates of tax expenditures under this program are provided and efficiency costs, distributional issues, and the likely effects of reforms to tax provisions such as the AMT are considered.
Keywords: housing subsify, tax credit, tax expenditure
JEL Classification: H2, H71, R31
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I'd consider this a quite rare sighting over our usual Rampton (Cambridgeshire) stamping ground but we saw a large hawk flying over a sheep-laden field adjacent to the spinney. Looked like a big Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) and indeed that is what it is. Not a Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), wrong underwing patterning, apparently.
One of my RSPB bird books actually describes the Goshawk species as "essentially a giant version of the Sparrowhawk" but also points out that a large female Sparrowhawk would be about the same size as a small male Goshawk. Both birds are adapted for the same niche: hunting prey on the wing in woodland. So, not a new one for us, after all; we've had Sparrowhawks in the garden nomming on the tits).


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I have been trying to create more difficult puzzles. My latest attempt has gone through 5 evolutions. The way I do it is to create the level, then solve it, then make it more difficult. Version 5 of this puzzle may be unsolvable, but it may just be that I am not a good enough solver to solve it. YASC's solver returns "Unsolved" after a couple of minutes. Takaken solver won't solve it because it has more than 64 boxes. I would like for the more adept solvers in this forum to look at the puzzle and try to solve it, and tell me if it is just more difficult, or if it is truly unsolvable.
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a new level
Sun, 2015-01-18 03:09#2
I made a change to the puzzle that made it solvable. I am still not certain that the previous version is not solvable, but it looks more and more like it is unsolvable.
Sun, 2015-01-18 05:46#3
The level in the #1 post is definitely unsolvable.
This is very easy to see.
If you try to push it, it doesn't take long to convince yourself that there's no way you can get to the the right without deadlock.
This can be seen in less than a minute.
You can also simplify the level to make it easier to see:
The level can be further simplified as well, but there's no need to.