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- 27 February, 2015 12:02
Unpatched code proved to be a hunting happy hunting ground for cyber criminals during 2014 according to a new report by HP.
The vendor's annual Cyber Risk Report found that 44 per cent of attacks last year were due to unpatched code that was two to four years old.
"Exploitation of widely deployed client-side and server-side applications are still commonplace. These attacks are even more prevalent in poorly coded middleware applications, such as software as a service [SaaS]," read the report.
"Businesses should employ a comprehensive patching strategy to ensure systems are up to date with the latest security protections to reduce the likelihood of these attacks succeeding."
The remaining 56 per cent of attacks last year were caused by server misconfigurations, Internet of Things (IoT) devices and mobile malware.
According to HP, server misconfigurations were the number one vulnerability in 2014, followed by privacy and cookie security issues. Server misconfigurations were also the number one vulnerability in the vendor's 2013 report.
"Our findings show that access to unnecessary files and directories seems to dominate the server misconfiguration related issues. The information disclosed to attackers through these misconfigurations provides additional avenues of attack and allows attackers the knowledge needed to ensure their other methods of attack succeed," read the report.
The report advised that regular penetration testing and verification of configurations could identify configuration errors before cyber criminals exploit them.
HP South Pacific's enterprise security products general manager, Shane Bellos, provided some tips for organisations to improve their security.
"Collaboration and threat intelligence sharing is key to cooperatively addressing threats across the security industry. This enables organisations to gain insight into adversarial tactics, allowing for more proactive defence, strengthened protections offered in security solutions, and an overall safer environment," he said in a statement.
"Complementary protection strategy should be adopted along with the mentality that you could be breached. There is no silver bullet solution, and defenders should implement a complementary, layered set of security tactics to ensure the best defence," said Bellos.
Computerworld Australia contacted HP for more information.
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The Best Religion
Over the past ten years an unstoppable religion has swept across the world, acquiring adherents, taking over governments, subverting society, infiltrating our homes, destroying families, and placing its clerics at the very top of human society. Judaism and Christianity submitted … Read More
Over the past ten years an unstoppable religion has swept across the world, acquiring adherents, taking over governments, subverting society, infiltrating our homes, destroying families, and placing its clerics at the very top of human society. Judaism and Christianity submitted to it early, and the Hindu and Muslim world is now following suit. Its power is such that even atheists submit to it. It has created an international brotherhood like nothing before it, and flowed across the boundaries of nation-states with an ease that is beyond description. Its eventual goal – of making every last person in the world its adherent – looks to be well within its grasp. I am speaking, of course, of the religion of Tech; whose gods are gadgets; whose Bible is Engadget; whose Koran is code; whose followers are geek; whose clerics are Gates and Jobs and Boy Genius; whose temple is Facebook; and whose enemies, those venomous Luddites, have been defeated so thoroughly that no one can even pronounce their names: Kac zyns what? Like with the most successful religions of yester-eons, it provokes an unmatched zealotry in its newest converts, turning them into eager evangelists whose commitment is so severe that we – yes, I am a convert, hallelujah! – can turn down an invitation to the hottest party in Las Vegas (Tuesday nights at Pure) just so we can come home and pray to our gods, touch them, run our fingers upon them, sleep with them, and when no one is looking, lick them. The lust – and it can be called nothing else – that this religion evokes in a body creates the monomania of sweet fundamentalism, when nothing creates skepticism, when doubt is an after-thought, when responsibility to others becomes secondary to our unceasing desire to be near our gods, prostrate before them, muttering their name — Mac, Mac, Mac – over and again. When, in the few moments between sleeping and waking, after we have checked our email, and have to put up with insufferable cruelty of being separated from our iPhone and Treo for the daily torture that is shower, we are sometimes struck by the realization that our devotion might be going overboard, after all – Holy Linux! – aren't there some savages in the world killing one another; aren't there cyclones ripping up countries; aren't there tyrants turning fat from gluttony. So, ridden with guilt we return to our gods, setting our heads upon them, wracked with short-lived concern. Then the idea comes to us – through the organic osmosis that exists between us and our gadgets from having slept in the same bed so long – and we wonder why we didn't think of it before. Why not utilize our gods in the (tedious because it keeps us from the next session of WoW) fight against fear and poverty and tyranny? Within moments, we create groups on Facebook, launch initiatives on the internet, send out BCC emails to BBC, do up a Blogspot, make a trackback, and the really daring among us take to the street and shoot a few rounds of SMS or Twitter. Admittedly, unlike other types of resistance, this one is not aimed at the actual enemy, the rapacious tyrant, the invader, or the human rights abuser: it is aimed at us. We realize that it does not matter what it is that other people actually do; but that we describe what they are doing so there is a record of it in our hard-disks and archives. As long as we describe it – even if it is only to ourselves – we have done our part. "Torture? Yes, I suppose you can call it that, but did you know that my 2.2 ghz Macbook has allowed me to describe it in a speed unmatched by anyone else! Oh, and check out the resolution of these pictures on Flickr!" We are historians, all of us, of the instant. Our gadgets give us power to view the world in segments, without context, without even a need for expertise or reflection. What is truth except the ability to unearth two seemingly contradictory permalinks? What is love except the ability to guess the username of the hot girl at the mall on your Bluetooth network? What is freedom except the right to own a god (and now, with a software called Parallels, two simultaneously)? Sent from my iPhone


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Arabic IR
"On the Usage of a Classical Arabic Corpus as a Language Resource: Related Research and Key Challenges", ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, vol. 18, no. 3, p. Article N°23, 2019.,
Building a Morpho-Semantic Knowledge Graph for Arabic Information Retrieval
"Building a Morpho-Semantic Knowledge Graph for Arabic Information Retrieval", Information Processing & Management, vol. 57, no. 6, 2019.,
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Hadith NER
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So, here goes. It truly was a thrill to meet my older sister, Kathy. She had put her ALL into that June 13th. As her husband, Tom, had told me. That next day, Sunday, Kath was having extreme difficulty breathing. I was sure it had something to do with too much fluid. Tom, Rob-their son and I were going to rotate nights in Kath's room. We wanted to make sure she knew she wasn't alone and if she needed extra help during rough moments, we were at the ready. My night was Tuesday, June 16th. We were all exhausted. Trying to make sure Kath was being taken care of, to the nth degree. I was curled up in Kath's chair. I could hear her every sound, but frequently looked to my right, double checking. There was a light on in the bathroom, at the back of us, so plenty of light. Kath was sleeping restlessly. Somehow, I dozed off. I was startled awake. For which I chided myself. Not a noise came from Kathy. I was SO upset, at myself, for falling asleep and letting Kathy die alone.
I looked to my right, hoping Kath was breathing calmly ? There was no movement, whatsoever. I remember the tears filling my eyes. Kath's head was facing the wall. I was holding my breath assessing the situation. I was about to get up. Kathy's head turned to me. No breathing movement, no blinking. She had her glasses on. Pristinely cleaned, as she had taken care of them earlier that night.
I stifled a gasp. As I looked at Kathy, it wasn't her. It was Shawn's head after he had died. He just starred at me. No blinking, no breathing movement. Nothing. Just an eery, blank, black eyes stare. I think I held back tears. I was afraid to move. I believe I was asking God what was happening. I know I started beseeching to God. Let Shawn talk to me. Please God, let him tell me I did everything I could, for his life. Let him tell me that I didn't make mistakes. I implored God to let this Shawn tell me he was okay. I earnestly bid God to let this Shawn tell me he didn't hate me. I needed to hear this Shawn tell me that he didn't fault me for his death. I wanted to hear Shawn tell me he didn't regret having me for a Mom. I needed for him to tell me~~~ANYTHING !!! Just one more talk~~~I begged God !!! I just wanted to hear Shawn's voice one more time ! I just needed to hear his voice, one more time saying, "love you Mom". NOTHING !!! Just an eery stare~~~ After several moments, Shawn's silent head, turned slowly to the wall. I heard a strange breathing noise. The head turned back to me. It was Kathy, blinking and breathing hard, but, just starring at me. Tears were flowing. I was afraid to move. Kathy continued her labored breathing. Then her eyes closed for a few moments of restless sleep. The next day she was admitted to the hospital. There is a new ache since Kathy died, June 28th, in the early AM. All these emotions make me think of a song by Skillet: One Day Too Late.
Since Kathy died, I find myself in a strange funk. Her death happened sooner than I expected. I had enough time to do my summer drive-mostly to visit my parents and Melissa and the Grands. This year worked out time wise to visit with relatives who had traveled to the same area-what a blast Melissa and I had had. I also learned from a mom who's son had died 7 years ago, that the missing pain continues to hurt, one just learns how to handle it-even if it means leaving a room for a moment or 2.
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Regarding Exercising: I have been working hard regarding my eating and exercising. My brother, Marlin has been helping me with various food calculations. My doctor is focusing on teaching me to eat, regularly~~~ugh !!! Eating is not a fun thing, for me to do.
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The New York Times reports on a supposed trend of hugging among high school students. A thin story, but it's always amusing to read the cameo appearances by administrators determined to produce another generation of fearful, sexually repressed Americans:
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A properly maintained 1989 Lamborghini LM002 will go down under the hammer without reserve next month.
A properly maintained 1989 Lamborghini LM002 will go down under the hammer without reserve next month.
The "Rambo Lambo" was built in a limited series of just 301 units and only a handful are in United States while this particular car was manufactured in March 1988 and had only two previous owners. Despite being more than a quarter of a century old, the car was driven over the years for just 18,764 miles (30,197 km) and still rides on its original Pirelli Scorpion tires built specifically for the LM002.
Under the hood it's a massive 5167cc V12 engine with six Weber carburetors and a 444 bhp output channeled to both axles through a five-speed manual gearbox. It benefits from independent front & rear suspension and comes equipped with hydraulic ventilated disc brakes for all wheels. RM Auctions says the car has remained in a "largely original condition" as only the wood trim had to be replaced.
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The Lamborghini LM002 will be sold by RM Auctions at an event which will be organized on January 16 when the car is expected to fetch anywhere between $175,000 and $225,000.


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CYCLEPASSION 2011 - Fabienne Heinzmann - Eyes Wide Open Sneak Peek 8
Fabienne Heinzmann graces the cover of the 2011 Calendar, so it's only fitting to let her close out the 8th and final DVD Sneak Peek.
Go beyond the photosessions to uncover the origins of the Calendar and take a closer at the life of elite pro cyclists away from the stress of racing. Find out how each of the eight Cyclepassion 2011 athletes got into the sport, what motivates them to win and push themselves season after season. Cyclepassion founder Anke Wilken has combined beauty with performance and gives the world's top female cyclist a chance to metamorph from super athlete to super model for a day. The life of a pro cyclist doesn't end at the finish line. See what happens when lycra is swapped for latex, lace and leather - when sweat, blood and pain are swapped for perfume, make-up and pampering. Cyclepassion - the Sensual Side of Cycling.
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What if Disney Created 'Game of Thrones'?
The Game of Thrones we all know and love is a product of HBO, which means we get lots of blood, guts, cursing and nudity. Like tons of nudity.
But what if George R.R. Martin sold the rights to the show to Disney instead of HBO? Would the end result be much different? Maybe not. In the case of Daenerys Targaryen, she is already a princess who has an uncommon bond with some mythical creatures.
Of course, you can't have Disney without the princesses belting out a tune or two. YouTube channel AVbyte imagined what that song would sound like if Daenerys lived in a castle high atop Westeros and was constantly searching for Prince Charming instead of the Iron Throne.
The rest of the Disney princesses would probably relate pretty well.
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Pinecones' 'Sings for You Now' hits hard
With debut album Athens/Atlanta bandmates simply enjoy themselves
Less is more, as the saying goes. Though much of modern music is at odds with the adage, the rock underground has long been a reliable source for stripped-down sounds. The output of recent buzz bands such as Parquet Courts and Protomartyr echo the no-frills approach of iconoclastic predecessors such as Minutemen and Fugazi, not to mention the godparents of rock minimalism, the Velvet Underground.
On the home front, few recent albums have proven the power of simplicity better than Sings for You Now, the debut LP from Atlanta/Athens-based sludge-rock band Pinecones. A brainy and pummeling effort, the 11-song record hinges on melodic and rhythmic austerity. Guitarist Brain Atoms says Pinecones emerged from a quest to get to the root of what its members loved most about music: simplicity.
"I had fallen out of being super into music," says Atoms, who formerly played in the Atlanta punk band Crater, which utilized a similarly minimalist approach. "[Drummer] Ben [Salie] would make mixtapes, and we would listen together," he adds. "There were all these songs that we bonded over." In the process, Atoms found himself captivated by certain moments. "Just a single sound is enough," he says, "It doesn't have to be this complex composition. I'm in love with just, like, the sound of a guitar."
Singer and guitarist Bo Orr explains that leanness was the band's main focus. "We wanted simplicity and a basic rock 'n' roll theme. We've had songs where there was too much happening. We were like, 'How do we simplify this?' Not for ease of playing, but because simple and repetitious is something we all agree on."
Sings for You Now is trimmed of all fat. On the opener, "Tears from Your Skin," the band spends minutes exploring a single chord. On "Cosmosis," drummer Ben Salie and bassist Ryan Evers lead the charge with a massive groove, while Orr and Atoms' subtle melodic shifts play off the rhythm section's Krautrock throb. Throughout the album, Orr's raspy, insistent vocals provide a volatile counterpoint to the music's steady, hypnotic rumble.
"[It's a] magical decision," Orr says. "You've played a part a few times, and most bands would be like, 'OK, what's the next part?' But if you as a band can come to the conclusion that that's the only part, [that] this is how this song is gonna go forever, until it feels right to stop — that's really cool. There's no pressure, and it eases your mind into being there."
Pinecones' Zen-like approach doesn't stop with their sound. The group's members aren't interested in self-promotion in the traditional sense; nor is there any grand design in place for the future. For the moment, they are happy simply sharing in their friendships and creating art as a highly functioning unit.
"I kind of feel like we've reached our goal," Atoms says. "Us playing music together is just sort of going to be what we do. When we're playing, there's this [voice] in my mind that's like, 'I get to be here, and that's cool, and why not enjoy it?'"
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Collective consciousness is always shifting, changing and evolving.
Personally and professionally, I have been heartened to witness a change in consciousness regarding health, healing and wellbeing in the last 30 years. The shift has been towards a more integrative and holistic approach to medicine and healing.
An integrative approach to medicine and healing can include: mainstream medicine, complementary medicine and lifestyle medicine. The significant difference between these approaches is that lifestyle interventions (medicine) are not administered by a specialist, doctor or therapist but by the person/patient themselves.
Lifestyle medicine may include healthy changes in terms of: stress management, meditation, exercise, nutrition, detoxification, healthy relationships, power of the mind and spirituality. More and more current research is proving the validity and importance of lifestyle medicine. It has been a long time coming, but many people are shifting their mindset from being a passive consumer of health goods and services (provided by external authorities) – to becoming creators (or, at least, co-creators) of their health and wellbeing.
The old mindset was one of dependency on external authorities: "Doctor, please fix me!"
The hope was to resolve the symptoms of illness as quickly as possible, with as little disturbance as possible, so that the patient could continue their life as usual…no insight, no changes, no growth. Through this mindset, illness is seen as a nuisance, a disruption that must be overcome as quickly as possible to get back to business as usual. The old mindset looks for quick fixes and magic bullets.
The new emerging mindset is that people are beginning to take back their power and look for ways to become co-creators of their prognosis – rather than victims of illness. Lifestyle medicine gives power to the people. From this perspective, illness or poor health can be seen as a feedback mechanism and a wake-up call – something has to change.
The first good prognostic sign in dealing with illness or poor health is that the person takes 'agency', i.e, they want to feel empowered and involved in their health and healing outcomes. This shift in consciousness has supported the growth of the domain of health services called 'coaching'. Coaches show you how to do it yourself; they correct you when you get off track and they inspire you to keep going. The challenge of lifestyle medicine is significant – it requires sustained personal commitment and perseverance. When the old lifestyle bad habits begin to sabotage your best intentions, your coach is there to encourage you to keep going. The coach can't do the healing for you, but they can show you how and remind you why change is important for you.
I have also witnessed this shift of consciousness in the field of counselling. The old school of paternalistic counselling was about telling the client what they could do by giving advice and 'rescuing' the client. The new paradigm in counselling sees the counsellor as 'holding the space' for the client to connect with their own feelings, needs, values and instincts. Rather than 'rescuing' the client, this approach to psychotherapy encourages the client to stay present and to turn towards difficult feelings – with the supportive therapeutic presence of the counsellor. In this way, the client can develop their inner resources like courage, mindfulness, self-compassion, healthy boundaries and resilience.
This shift in consciousness is the growth from a dependency relationship on an external authority (who offers to fix or eradicate the problem) to a more empowered relationship with oneself, which fosters the growth of inner resources in the client. These two approaches don't need to be antagonistic or exclusive but, together, they give people more choices, and create healthier relationships between specialists, doctors, therapists, coaches and their clients.
So, whether it be walking, jogging, cycling, juicing, fasting, cooking, qigong, yoga, laughing, resting, meditating, chanting, praying, breathing or hugging… power to the people!
Paul Bedson, senior therapist and retreat facilitator at the Yarra Valley Living Centre, Victoria.
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EXCLUSIVE: Darci Lynne Farmer Describes Agonizing Moments Before Finding Out She Won 'America's Got Talent'
Darci Lynne Farmer can breathe a little easier!
The 12-year-old ventriloquist, who won it all on the season finale of NBC's America's Got Talent, and her mom, Misty Farmer, sat down with ET's Denny Directo for a Facebook Live chat on Thursday, breaking down how they felt in the moments before host Tyra Banks crowned Darci the victor.
"I was so stressed out. That was the longest 30 seconds of my life," Darci admitted. "I was, like, just spit it out Ty Ty! "
"I really don't think I was breathing, honestly," Misty added. "I was very nervous for her because I know she wanted to win, and I knew that she would handle it well if she didn't. But I just, you know, you want your child to stand up there and have joy."
WATCH: Darci Lynne Farmer 'Overcome With Joy' After 'AGT' Win, Talks Prize Money Plans
So... what does she plan to do with the prize money?
"I am definitely going to give some to my church. Because they always raise money for different missions and mission programs," she said. "And second, I have to give my mom a dishwasher because we definitely need more household appliances."
What selfless gifts! But c'mon, Darci! What do you really want?
"And a pug," she added. "I want a pug really bad!"
WATCH: Ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer Performs Mind-Blowing Duet With Two Puppets in 'AGT' Finals
That's the spirit! Sadly, Misty smartly would not make any promises to Darci on camera regarding the dog.
"I am not saying yes or no on [Facebook] Live!" she laughed.
Check out Darci and Misty's whole Facebook Live chat with us below.
Congrats, Darci!
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Company Description
Dropbox is now a Virtual First company, which means work outside of an office will be the primary experience for all employees. The location listed on the job description is simply so our jobs get picked up by job boards as they require a specific location. Being Virtual First means, location is flexible, so please feel free to apply to any position regardless of the location listed. Final location will be determined, by teams and individuals as the hiring process unfolds.
Dropbox is the world's first smart workspace that helps people and teams focus on the work that matters. With more than 600 million registered users across 180 countries, we're on a mission to design a more enlightened way of working. Dropbox is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and has 12 offices around the world.
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Our Engineering team is working to simplify the way people work together. They're building a family of products that handle over a billion files a day for people around the world. With our broad mission and massive scale, there are countless opportunities to make an impact.
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Site Reliability Engineers are mission-critical for Dropbox success. SREs have major impact across Dropbox engineering through optimizing web services, building our in-house multi-exabyte storage system (Magic Pocket), and in a host of other areas. Check out the Dropbox Tech Blog to learn more.
SREs at Dropbox are hybrid systems and software engineers integral to designing and managing our large scale infrastructure while improving reliability and efficiency. We're looking for engineers who want to be a part of developing, maintaining, and scaling infrastructure software. You will be part of a small family within Dropbox that has a huge impact on the world.
You will build scalable infrastructure to manage metadata for hundreds of billions of files, exabytes of user data, and millions of concurrent connections
You will design the systems and processes that Dropbox engineers use to manage and deploy their software in production
You are expected to bring a voice to the table throughout the full software development lifecycle, and partner effectively with the rest of engineering, working together to come up with solutions that meet the needs of the business efficiently
You will minimize risk of reliability related failure outcomes as pertaining to durability, availability, performance, and correctness
BS (or higher, e.g., MS, or PhD) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
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t isn't easy being a girl child in Nigeria—with predators and paedophiles ever inspired to exploit their innocence. Tragic enough, the girls are yet to find protection in those reforms meant to shield them from the violations
By Gbenga Ogundare
UNICEF statistics reveals that 39 percent of Nigerian girls marry before the age of 18. Now that figure has just been spiked by 15-year-old Benue girl, Patience Paul who was abducted March 2 by two neighbours and married off to a certain 'Sarkin Musulumi' in far flung Sokoto State and Ese Rita Oruru, who has got a five months old pregnancy to show the world she indeed played the child bride in Kano State until 29 February, 2016 when IGP Solomon Arase secured her release from her abductor.
Ese was just a little over 13 years when she was lured to Kano in August 2015 by one Yunusa Dahiru, a tricycle operator living at Opolo, Yenegoa.
According to the Kindling Hope Across Nations Initiative, an NGO Ese's parents initially reported the alleged abduction of their daughter to, the teenager was first converted to Islam, after which Yunusa got her hand in a nikhai.
As expected, the initial firestorm kindled by that abduction and sexual exploitation has lost steam with Ese back in Yenagoa. And as it was the case with the victims before her, she is now left alone to nurse the psychological torture and mental injuries of her abduction, rape and vandalization in the custody of the predator called Yunusa Yellow.
First it was Maimuna Abdulmumini who was just 13 when she was arrested in 2007 for allegedly roasting her 35-year-old husband to death.
The legal fireworks lingered over five years. Finally in 2012, when she turned 18, Maimuna was convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to death. Today, despite an ECOWAS regional court ruling in February 2014 that the sentence is a violation of her rights, she is still on death row, waiting in a dirty, cramped cell shared with six other inmates in a Katsina state prison.
Wasila Tasi'u too faced the threat of a death penalty for allegedly murdering her 35-year-old husband, Umar Sani, and three others at her own wedding party in April 2014.
Soon after she was arrested, Tasi'u narrated how she had been tied to the bed and raped by Sani on their wedding night. And when she appeared in Gezawa high court for the first time soon after her arrest, she could barely say her own name, turning her back to the court when the charges were being read, breaking down in tears.
She's been freed now really, but not until she turned 15 behind bars in Gezawa, outside the city of Kano.
ALSO SEE: Caliphate sexual predators: Ese Oruru stand off
Never mind that the 2003 Child Rights Act says no person under 18 is capable of contracting a valid marriage, and a marriage so contracted is null and void. Or that marrying a minor, under the same Act, is a crime punishable by N500,000 or a 5-year prison term or both for anyone.
Those provisions only exist on paper, they hardly work in favour of hapless children like Maimuna and Wasila. And chances are that teenage girl Ese and others who share the same experience with her might never get true justice in the law court.
Yinusa already has a devil's advocate in professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Ishaq Akintola, who was quick to submit that the Yunusa-Ese drama was a modern exemplar of the Romeo and Juliet affair.
"Yinusa is seen by many as the culprit in Ese's predicament. Do you think he acted alone?"
"Ijaw youths are not looking at it from an objective angle. They are spoiling for war. All they see is a northerner that abducted their daughter. But is it abduction or elopement? Can we prevent a young boy and a young girl from falling in love with each other?' the MURIC Director said in an interview granted the Punch Newspaper.
In his familiar sermon to Nigerians each time predators like Senator Ahmed Yerima snapped off a girl-child from her mother's back for induction into a life of sex slavery, Akintola says: "The simple truth is: Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this…" In effect, he fires at those who would make an issue over the ages of the babies who have been married off to their suitors under Islamic injunctions.
'Islam is a complete way of life. As a religion, non-Muslims will have to take Muslims as they are, not as they want them to be. Neither Muslims nor their religion should be judged according to other standard."
ALSO SEE: Ese: Governors, reps descend on Yunusa for impregnating 14-year-old
A Judiciary on Trial
The Professor of Islamic Eschatology and other parochial minds can afford to stand the law on its head and still claim to be right really. After all, Sharia law provides for 'marriage of persons who have reached the age of puberty'. Even though lawyers and human rights advocates like Kemi Okenyodo of the Partners West Africa like to argue that 'age of puberty' is vague, especially in modern times where girls menstruate from the age of 8-9 years.
"In the eyes of natural and common law, it violates the rights of the person as she is still deemed to be a girl,' Kemi Okenyodo laments.
Well if the noise making persists, which is very unlikely, Yinusa can count on some other warped minds to seize the stage and remind the public that Nigeria has three different legal systems operating simultaneously—civil, customary, and Islamic—and both the state and federal governments have control only over marriages that take place within the civil system. Not the nikkai which binds both Ese and Yinusa together.
It's a dizzying jigsaw already, though not unsolvable says Kemi Okenyodo. According to her, Ese and her defence have got a lot to prove to nail Yinusa Dahiru.
"The criminality in this, is that, if it can be proved that Ese was "actually" abducted, then the matter comes within the purview of state which will be handled in a civil court.'
'Secondly, if it can be proved that Ese was forced to convert to Islam and eventually forced to marry Yunusa, then the issue becomes a violation of her constitutional right to religion and dignity, because the constitution gives jurisdiction to the Sharia court to handle matters of marriage between "persons who are muslims". Thus the issue of a forced conversion becomes a criminal matter that can only be handled by the high courts, and not Islamic law."
ALSO SEE: How Ese played child bride in Kano for 6 months
The Burden of Proof
For a Yunusa who had once worked with Ese's parents, Abdur-Rahman Ahmad, Chief Missioner of the Ansar-ud-Deen Society of Nigeria was so sure he told Faji FM 106.5 during an interview that what is being peddled as forced conversion to Islam and marriage was a consensual thing between Ese and Yunusa who are in love. Others in the cast of the Islamic cleric have also argued that Ese might have agreed to abscond with him knowing her parents may not approve of such a relationship.
It's a perplexing quagmire really—especially with the teenage girl yet to give a testimony or make a deposition. But then, the concern is whether Ese's evidence can be admitted in court knowing fully well she's just a minor—at the mercy of foxy counsels who are adept at perfecting counter-motions and challenging court jurisdiction.
all these structural defects in our legal system, according to Adewale Adeduntan of the Christian Rural and Urban Association of Nigeria [CRUDAN], provide leeway for unscrupulous offenders.
"The laws are there. They are enforceable! But, basically, the will power to bring offenders to book suffers setback because we have politicize and mortgage our existence on the altar of corruption, ethnicity, slow judicial process and gratification,' Adeduntan mourns.
Spare the CRUDAN South-West Zonal Facilitator if he sounds emotive really. The truth is that Nigeria's constitution is far from being gender sensitive in the real sense of it. And that's the reason a number of people hold the views that the laws are weak in terms of protecting the girl child.
ALSO SEE: Emir of Kano orders Ese's return after Bruce's threat
"Our law books seem to be pro-male. Our laws seem to be indifferent to the sensitive needs of the female gender. If not, what do you make of the stringent terms and conditions that apply before cases of rape could be established let alone bringing offenders to justice?' Adeduntan queried.
nonetheless, the Quran is clear about the obligations to be fulfilled before a marriage stands in Islam. And they are Proposal and acceptance (al-Ijaab wa alqubuul), approval by both parents (ridaa alwaalidayn), payment of a dowry by the groom (al-mihr) and the presence of at least two male witnesses at the ceremony (shaahidayn 'aadilayn).
Yinusa Dahiru obviously flunked the sharia matrimonial test—at least he did not get approval from Ese's parents, neither did he pay a dime in dowry. Quite unlike his kinsman, Senator Ahmed Yerima who shot to infamy when he married a 13-year-old Egyptian girl as his fourth wife in 2010 after reportedly paying a $100,000 dowry to her parents.
Well, the truth is that public outrage—such as the joint press conference addressed by Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka and activist Femi Falana [SAN]– inspired each time a girl child is abused in Nigeria is often momentary and brief. So it won't be a shocker if the human rights community and those clamouring for justice in the Ese's forced marriage go to sleep as usual or get caught up in another contrived social chaos.


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I traveled to Denver for the IPW travel conference along with my husband and friend, Howard. It was my first time to the state of Colorado and I couldn't wait to explore a city I'd heard so much about.
With over 30 breweries in the downtown area, seven unique arts districts, seven pro sports teams, and over 300 days of sunshine, you'll soon see why this metropolitan city is one to add to your travel agenda!
Check out my guide to visiting Denver, Colorado (Mile High City) including where to eat, drink, stay, and play based on my trip.
Where to Eat in Denver
Food Truck Extravaganza
A superb summer food truck scene (CivicCenter Eats), that is sure to please any palate, sets up near the Colorado state capital. It runs early May through early October with at least 25 vendors daily. I enjoyed a tasty grilled sandwich with an overdose of melted cheese, but unfortunately I cannot remember the name of the food truck. There were so many tantalizing options to choose from.
Be sure to stop in the Colorado State Museum while you are in the area. The Beaux-Arts inspired Civic Center Historic District became a National Historic Landmark in 2012 and shares a home with the Colorado State Capitol.
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Hard Rock Cafe
Many restaurants close relatively early in Denver, something I found really surprising. If you are looking for a late night bite, stops in the rock & roll themed chain, Hard Rock Cafe. Order the truffle fries or a flatbread, both perfect midnight snacks.
Sams No 3
Sams No 3 is a colorful Colorado food establishment (circa 1927) that I learned about from Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. It was so delicious that we ended up eating there twice. During our breakfast visit, we had Classic Eggs Benedict and a Denver Flat Top Omelet. The hollandaise was velvety and so freaking good.
For dinner, we started with the ooey-gooey Mac & Cheese Dip, with chunky chorizo sausage and Sam's Kickin' Green Chili that you eat with tortilla chips. For our main courses, we went with a Souvlaki Burrito and a Chili & Greek Salad Combo. Yum-o! It is easy to see why Sams No 3 has been voted Denver's best diner time and time again.
Lucile's Creole Cafe
We ventured over to Lucile's Creole Cafe for breakfast and I immediately loved the ambiance and friendly staff who wore clever "Friends with Benedicts" t-shirts. We started our meal with homemade beignets, heavily dusted in powdered sugar. The front of us was shortly covered with the fine sugar, but we enjoyed every bite of them!
Between the three of us, we ordered Eggs Benedict, an Omelet, and the fabulous Cajun Breakfast. Picture this, the epitome of a cajun/creole meal: Red beans (w/meat), poached eggs, and hollandaise. Oh my heavenly day, the Cajun Breakfast was a fantastic dish! It also came with perfectly cooked cheesy grits and a honkin' big cathead biscuit. We also tried a side of Lucile's yummy sausage gravy to go with our lusious biscuits.
Lucile's is in the top 20 restaurants of 2700+ Denver eateries on TripAdvisor. Trust me and obviously everyone else, your taste buds will thank you for an excellent meal from Lucile's.
Syrup Restaurant
Serving amazing breakfast, brunch, and lunch is Syrup, the sweetest spots in Denver with their three locations.
I had the awesome Jalapeño Popper Omelet with fresh jalapeños, jalapeño cream cheese, and crispy fried onions across the top. Eddie chose a Breakfast Burrito with classic Denver pork green chili and chorizo. Our meals were both quite tasty.
Other Tasty Mentions
Mici Handcrafted Italian is a perfect quick service restaurant with really good Italian food at a reasonable price. The paninis and Penne (or spaghetti) with hand-rolled Meatballs are both good choices. Be sure to have a slice of crusty garlic bread with your pasta!
Grab a rich bowl of Beer Cheese Soup from Henry's Tavern, topped with green onions, bacon, and cheese. Henry's also makes stellar cocktails and has a large selection of beer.
Ready for something sweet? Look no further than French for Sugar, an upscale sweets and treats store with beautiful decor and divine cupcakes. I swear by the Earl Grey and White Lavender ones.
The Irish Snug is a great little Irish pub to hang out in, watch sporting events, and enjoy a variety of whiskeys. Take advantage of the 2 for 1 happy hour deals from 3 to 7 PM and 10 PM to close and by all means order the delectable Corned Beef Eggrolls and Pretzel with honey mustard sauce.
Where to Drink in Denver
Wynkoop Brewery
The Wynkoop Brewery is in LoDo (the heartbeat of Denver) inside of an 1800's warehouse. It was Colorado's first brewpub. Whether you are in the mood for cocktails, mules, wine, cordials, or good beer, you'll find them all. Wynkoop also has a whole floor of pool tables for your entertainment pleasure. Explore your adventurous side by sampling the Oyster Stout, made from bull testicles.
I tried a flight of beer that included Monk-y Business (Belgian), Bad Habit Nitro Blonde, Move Your Car Porter, and Cowtown Milk Stout. The stout was one of the best I've ever had! Wynkoop also serves food with many classic elevated bar food items.
Las Margs Tavern
Have the best margarita in Denver, at Las Margs Tavern. I had two absolutely delicious raspberry margaritas with a sugar rim. Pair your libations with Las Margs' tasty salsa trio (Picante chipotle, avocado salsa, fire roasted) and guac dip.
Note: Due to the altitude in Denver, one drink equates to two to three anywhere else. Be cautious, as a buzz slips up very quickly.
Machete Tequila + Tacos
Before leaving Denver, head over to Machete Tequila + Taco for a killer blood orange margarita. Wow, what a fantastic drink! I would come here for the decor alone, but it helped that the staff was friendly and the drinks were so tasty.
Where to Stay in Denver
Our home-away-from-home during our Denver stay was the spacious Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center. The rooms were stylish, comfortable, and met all of my needs with plenty of outlets, good lighting, and great picturesque windows overlooking the city. The bathroom had a powerful and awesome shower and kenetMD toiletries.
The Hyatt has an impressive lobby with a kickin' coffee bar and onsite bar and restaurant. It was filled with little seating areas, perfect for having a cocktail and chatting about business.
Where to Play in Denver
Visit the Dispensaries
First things, first. Visit a legal cannabis store because why not—you are in Denver! My husband and I visited Native Roots Dispensary and learned the ins and outs of how to buy marijuana. The selections are high-tech and the budtenders (those who help you with your purchase) have incredible knowledge about the products. The store's atmosphere is very professional and it is a no-joke environment. Of course, you can come to look and ask questions, but the dispensaries were way more sophisticated than I ever imagined.
Admire the Street Art
Denver's street art is abundant and noteworthy. You'll see impressive artwork at pretty much anywhere in town.
Across from the Denver Convention Center, was a really cool mural dedicated to Teddy Roosevelt that I was drawn to. Be sure to go to 16th Mall Street (the downtown pedestrian street and transit mall) full of public art installments and street performers. The mall contains 50 restaurants and 300 stores in its 1.25 mile long area. You will also find the MallRide buses and MetroRide Service here, Denver's free public transportation.
See Big Blue Bear
The 40-foot-high Big Blue Bear statue mysteriously peeks into the Colorado Convention Center's lobby and is worth checking out. He is adorable! The piece is officially called "I See What You Mean" and was designed by artist Lawrence Argent.
Tour the Molly Brown House
If you recall the Unsinkable Molly Brown from the Titanic, yep, she is a real person that lived in Denver and survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic. If you don't remember her, Kathy Bates played Molly Brown in the Titanic movie. You can visit activist, philanthropist, and socialist Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown's gorgeous historic 1887 home. The tour is highly popular and fills up fast so I recommend making reservations.
Visit Union Station
Located in the LoDo neighborhood (Denver's oldest!), Denver's Union Station is a stylish transport hub that is mostly used for dining and entertainment. You can catch Amtrak, light rail, or the free MetroRide here. The 100-year-old landmark building also houses The Crawford Hotel, a luxury modern place to stay.
Union Station offers quite a lovely photo-op, both day and night. Inside, top-rated cafes and foodie hotspots offer a wide array of delicious food and drink, as well as concerts and a weekly farmers' market. Be sure to check out the string lights that decorate Larimer Square after dark.
Explore the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Visiting the Nature & Science Center is a must! This natural history museum is filled to the brim with all sorts of engaging exhibits.
Our favorite areas at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science included the wildlife exhibits, with areas like the tundra, alpine, and the Expedition Health. The nearly 3,000 year old Egyptian mummies were cool to see, but the Gems & Minerals exhibition stole the show. It was our favorite!
Colorado was founded on mining so it was only fitting to see the six-foot wall of blood-red rhodochrosite crystals. They were gorgeous! I could have spent hours admiring all of the California watermelon tourmaline, Australian opals, and blue azurite, or just reading the trivia facts about each one. The museum also has a planetarium and IMAX theater.
Stroll the Denver Zoo
Within walking distance of the natural history museum is the Denver Zoo. This walkable zoo offers captivating displays with rhinos, leopards, camels, African and Humboldt penguins, golden lions, emperor tamarins, lemurs, and rams.
The bird exhibit has a big variety of exceptional birds including kingfishers, kookaburras, starlings, pigeons, and pheasants. Many of them posed for their pictures to be made. The Denver Zoo offers up-close animal encounters for an additional fee.
Tour The Denver Mint
Want to learn how money is printed and what it costs the American public? Learn this and more on a tour of the US Mint in Denver, printing American money since 1906. There are more coins produced at the Denver US Mint than anywhere in the world!
This free guided tour was one of my favorites of the year. The amount of money that is kept in the mint is mind-boggling–but I won't spoil it for you. Afterwards, you will be given sealed uncirculated pennies as a souvenir.
Note: Cell phones, purses, and bags are prohibited.
A Perfect Car for Our Denver Trip
During my Colorado trip, I drove a sleek and attractive 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander 2.4 SEL S-AWC. She was a real beauty with her Rally Red metallic paint against the brown and green landscapes of Denver and Colorado Springs. The Outlander got great gas mileage (26 MPG), had a huge sunroof for enjoying the weather, and a stellar stereo/speaker system.
I didn't want to return it when my trip was over!
Denver, A City with Everything
Sharing my guide to visiting Denver with you brought back wonderful memories of my first time in Mile High City. You are sure to have a wonderful time in this thriving mountain destination.
Thanks to the Denver CVB for hosting my accommodations and providing me with a VIP card for attractions.
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- Mileage: 110,124
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bought this Porsche 944 Turbo out of storage in running condition. Had it shipped from the east coast, and started investigating what it would take to get it in a road worthy condition.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
But what if...?
Hope you are having a good week. I made it through the weekend of watching all four kids. The pizza party was absolutely crazy; we ended up making 7 pizzas. The kitchen was a disaster, but I think everyone had a good time. I don't know, because all I did was make pizzas all night. My mom came about at 7pm and helped with getting the baby a bath and into bed. By the way, said baby is teething and is a crying, snotty mess most of the time.
Got up at 3:30am to run, it was a beautiful 77 degrees out. The run totally sucked. I did pretty well until about 16 miles, and then I just didn't feel like running anymore. One problem - my truck was 4 miles away from where I stood. So I had to get my sweating, tired, cramping, angry butt back to the parking lot. I am not going to be ready for the marathon at this pace. It is in 6 weeks and I am feeling like I am in big trouble. One problem is that I have already spent over $1200 getting the f!@#$%^ing tickets to run in this f!@#$%^ing marathon with the flight, the hotel, the registration. Isn't running great?
Saturday I couldn't really move from the couch because I just didn't want to. Madison went to Disney and me and the boys just hung out. On Sunday, everyone made it to church with clothes on, so I call that a total success. It was very nice to see my wife again, with much more appreciation for her than before she left.
One last thing... We haven't talked about TV in a while, but for us right now it is all TNT and USA network. We are watching "The Closer" and sometimes "Rissoli and Isles" on Mondays. The rest of the week we are watching stuff like "Burn Notice," "White Collar," and "Covert Affairs." This week I started taping "Flashpoint" on Friday nights. We tape them all, so I don't really know when they come on, but we really like these summer shows. And, of course, "Cake Boss." Forgetaboutit.
Tomorrow is the START OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!!!! Are you kidding me?!?! I am so excited. But you know what else is starting tomorrow? Orangewood Christian School's middle school football. It is not going to be televised, so I will let you know how it goes.
I want to talk about getting hurt. Not hurt like "I got a boo boo on my little finger." I mean hurt like you have to miss work hurt. Like, if you broke your hand playing basketball with your kid. Or if you tore your ACL during a coed soft-ball league game. Or if you were in a car accident and had something really serious happened to you.
Back in the old days my father was part of a group. There were about 10 dentists that got together and vowed that if anyone ever got hurt the other 9 would take shifts working at his office to keep the office afloat.
I heard a couple of months ago that a local orthodontist had cancer. I don't know him very well (in fact, I wouldn't know him if I bumped into him on the street), but I know he lives in my neighborhood. So I called his house (neighborhood directory) and talked to his wife. I told her that I just heard about her husband and asked her if the family needed anything. I asked if they needed meals and I told them I would be praying for them. Then I asked if the practice was going to be okay and if she needed anything from me in that capacity. She then told me about the group he is in. Turns out he is in one of those groups of about 5 orthodontists and they are working at his office.
It got me thinking. Now, I have never had to worry about this kind of stuff. I am in a practice with my dad, so if either of us gets hurt then the other one picks up the slack. I have had some mishaps (broke my wrist, had surgery on my finger) and it was no big deal. My father has had to have some surgery and he wanted to take time off to recover and it was nothing.
But what does the solo practitioner do? Do the groups still exist? Do you just cross your fingers and hope nothing ever happens? What the heck is going to happen to our practices if we get hurt? And... what would happen to our families?
Do you have disability insurance? I have to admit that I have disability insurance, but don't know how much. I don't know the parameters of the plan. I don't know when they start paying. I don't know how much they would pay. I don't know anything. I THINK that it will start paying out in 90 days and I THINK it is tax free and I THINK my income would go down significantly.
I know I have the maximum insurance, but I don't think it would cover all of my income. I just found out that insurance will only pay 60% of your income (seems that if they will give 100% of your income the incentive to go to work goes way down, and all of a sudden that hangnail will keep you from work).
I have to pay for so many insurances that I stopped caring about all the insurance decisions I have to make. For me, it is out of sight, out of mind. I have never used it, so why would I have to keep it fresh in my mind? I know, I know that is a bad attitude to have, but I don't have the capacity to store all this information. (I can, however, tell you all the stats for all of the last 9 Gator quarterbacks... weird, huh?)
How is it for you? Are you burying your head in the sand and not worrying about it?
Are you over-insured? Do you have advisers? Do you have an insurance agent who basically tells you what to do? Do you ever double check him/her?
Let's not even talk about malpractice insurance. I don't know a thing about that. I think in this instance I am over-insured. Come to think about it, I hate ALL insurances. I know it is called insurance for a reason. It is "just in case." But I pay all this money for my car insurance, and have never been in an accident. I pay all this money for disability, and I never get hurt. I pay all this money for malpractice insurance, and have never had a claim against me.
I pay for fire, flood, theft, car insurance that I never use. In fact, in the fifteen years I have carried all this insurance, I remember using the insurance once. Home, office building, work, car. All of it, ONCE. So why would I bother understanding all the ins and outs of all my policies?
And the worst of it... I have this huge life insurance policy. If I "expired," my wife would be living very large and here I still write you - living. Go figure.
Have a great Wednesday
Tomorrow... college football... who cares who is playing? YEAH!!!!
3 comments:
- Cesar said...
we should all care who's playing tomorrow: THE Ohio State University is playing, for one :o)...and please don't remind me of the football/basketball championship games a few years ago against them gatorators...eek..
we have a group of 12 GPs for such emergency type situations (band of brothers). and we all have short and long term disability, which, yes, pays only 60% of what you make now.
be sure to double/triple check your agent's DA numbers and stats, and his/her individual company's "definition" of disability. i think you NEED to bother with the fine prints, because this one's for all the marbles.
- September 1, 2010 at 4:53 PM
I believe that should be 60% tax free,right? So not as little as imagined with 30% tax bracket.
- September 1, 2010 at 5:01 PM
The nice thing about spending all that money just to enter and travel to the marathon is that you will be more motivated to keep training. Hang in there. You can do it.
Hook 'em Horns!
- September 1, 2010 at 10:27 PM
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Like most people, when my phone rings, I check to see who's calling. I learned long ago not to answer calls from 800 numbers or unknown area codes. Those calls were usually from someone trying to sell me something.
Imagine the difficulty this presents for political polling organizations. Public response to polls is down from about 27 percent in the 1990s to less than 9 percent in 2012. The difficulty is magnified by the increasing number of households that no longer have a land-line telephone and the fact that land-line phone users skew much older.
Still, not a day goes by without news of the latest national or swing-state polls. Most of the current polling on the presidential race shows President Obama with a substantial lead. Democrats are pleased by these results; Republicans prefer to discount them or downplay their significance.
Then there are the GOP poll "truthers," who claim that polls are skewing results by over-sampling Democrats. This claim shows a lack of understanding of the polling process. Pollsters first ask who the respondent favors for president and tally the results. They ask party affiliation after the money shot. If you reversed that process, then weighted the results based on historical percentages of Democrats and Republicans, you'd skew the results.
Democrats also have poll truther issues. Most believe that Rasmussen and Fox News polls are weighted toward Republicans. But according to RealClearPolitics.com, the five most accurate polling organizations in predicting the final presidential popular vote margin in 2008 were Rasmussen, Ipsos/McClatchy, CNN, Fox News, and Pew. All were within .5 percent of the final margin: Obama, 52.9 percent; McCain, 45.6 percent.
But there's no need for truthers to be concerned about the Flyer's Best of Memphis results. Back when BOM voting was done via snail-mail, our poor ballot-counters were faced with deciding which ballots were "real" and which were the result of some restaurateur grabbing 50 Flyers off the rack and having their staff fill them out. We had a paper trail, but it wasn't pretty.
Since we moved to online balloting a few years back, our voting numbers have increased dramatically, and duplicate voting has pretty much been eliminated. This year, a record number of votes were cast. You can find the results beginning on page 19. And that's the truth.
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In our last Domain-Driven Design discussion, we learned how to group similar business components into application Bounded Contexts, which were separated folders in our Rails apps. This segregated cohesive groups of application code into separate folder structures (bounded contexts), and gave us a jumping-off point to drawing more explicit boundaries between domains in our monolith. Now it's time for us to re-think how to communicate from one context to another. Here's how: