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August 11, 2002
Thai woman commits suicide by crocodile
BBC | Submitted by: Grayson
"She scaled a high fence and jumped into the concrete enclosure at the Samut
Prakarn Crocodile Farm on the outskirts of the capital, Bangkok. Visitors
looked on in shock as the woman was dragged into a pond and dismembered. 'She
did not cry or scream when she was bitten,' said a tour guide. 'It happened so
quickly. Nobody could do anything.'"
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Robert hunts lions to win go-go prize
The Scotsman | Submitted by: wingnut
"Robert Ngromagogo caused a sensation when he entered a pole-dancing
competition at the Siglo bar on the Cowgate. The audience whooped with
delight as he put on an "energetic" display, based on traditional
techniques used to hunt lions. His show saw off challenges from one of
the usual favourite female contestants taking part in the weekly
contest and won him the UKP100 top prize."
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Idiocy In Kentucky
Louisville Courier-Journal | Submitted by: KY Jelly
"A man driving a van with the message 'this is a stolen vehicle' scribbled
in lipstick across a window led law-enforcement authorities on a high-speed
chase yesterday... It struck the rear of Bullitt County Sheriff's Deputy
Charles Mann's car, then eventually cut across the median to head north, then
went back south... The van hit Mann's car several more times, then struck a
guardrail."
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Dead teen gets burial 80 years after death
Washington Post | Submitted by: Brad
"So Tindall stood the coffin in a corner of a back room. "They used to play
poker and dominoes in that room, and everybody thought (the body) brought them
good luck because his lips were pulled back like he was smiling," Thibodeaux
said. "As time went by, I guess he kind of petrified."
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Miss NZ's raunchy photo
Stuff NZ | Submitted by: wingnut
"Auckland's Amie Hewitt wanted to use a sexy photoshoot for men's magazine
Ralph as a way of boosting the beauty pageant's flagging profile. Instead,
a storm has erupted over a raunchy photo of 18-year-old Amie, posing topless
with her Miss NZ crown and sash. "I thought the photo would be good for
the pageant," she said."
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Young Kurt Warner fans might belong to street gang
KUSA-TV 9 Denver | Submitted by: bdragon
"The boys, ages 5 and 9, were at Six Flags Elitch Gardens earlier this week
when they found out what they were wearing was definitely not OK. The youngest
boy, Garrett Grive, and his friend, Nicky Baca, had on St. Louis Rams T
shirts... The boys say a park employee approached them and said they had to
turn their shirts inside out. A spokesman for the park said, "Denver police
have alerted us that the number 13 refers to a street gang based in Los
Angeles. Part of our policy is to maintain a family atmosphere, and maintain
the safety of our guests."
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Polygamists host students, oops
Wire Services | Submitted by: gremlin
"Two Japanese teenagers on an exchange program were inadvertently placed
with a host family of alleged polygamists... "It wouldn't be appropriate to
place visiting guests in the home of someone who was disobeying the law,"
[Salt Lake City Mayor Spokesman] Joshua Ewing said."
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Elvis clone just a piece of hair away
The Commercial Appeal | Submitted by: Poots Brownhole
"No one has initiated a cloning of the rock icon, but at least one devoted
collector of Elvis memorabilia said last week he has one of the "ultimate"
keepsakes - and a necessary ingredient for a cloning attempt. "I think
everybody wants a piece of Elvis, and you can't get any closer than his hair,"
said Tom Morgan, a friend of Elvis's late hair stylist and heir to roughly a
half-pound of Elvis hair saved by the stylist."
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Truck pops in on neighbor
Staten Island Live | Submitted by: dominic
Eleanor Rohrig said she was snug in her bed until the souped-up 1972 Dodge
Ram came to a screeching halt two feet from her head. "I thought someone was
breaking in until I saw my microwave fly across the room.  If he wanted a cup of coffee to get sober he
didn't have to drive his truck into my kitchen. He could have just knocked."
 Without a word, he drives on. Another car pulls
up, and Cristal purrs "Ciao, ciao," and grabs for the door. The driver smiles
coldly and guns his car out of reach. Cristal, a 25-year-old transsexual
prostitute from Colombia, decides it's time for a break. Flipping her long
blonde braids from her face, she squats in the gutter as drivers gawk."
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Renting a friend in Japan
Miami Herald | Submitted by: Son of Benway
"When 29-year-old Akiko gets married next month, she'll rent a reception room
in a luxury hotel for the party, a Christian preacher for the ceremony and
eight strangers posing as friends to round out the guest list... For a fee, a
sometimes hefty one, Ookunitani will provide mourners for a funeral, fill a
college lecture hall for a professor's speech, supply hundreds of protesters
for a demonstration or, more commonly, fabricate matchmakers and guests for
roles at traditional Japanese wedding parties."
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Poor judgement in Monaco
Court TV | Submitted by: Son of Benway
A Forrest Gump story gone awry:
"The fire was very small and I did not think that the fire in such a small
trash can was going to do all this," Maher told an investigating magistrate in
2000, according to the June 18 ruling provided by the defense to Court TV
last month. "Moreover, there were windows in the room, so I could not imagine
that Mr. Safra and Vivian could die."
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South African fan loses it
Xtramsn | Submitted by: Pedro
"The most recent case of spectator-rage, in which a Springbok fan attacked
the referee at the Tri-Nations match in Durban overnight." Video of.
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Freaks like being freaks
Wire Services | Submitted by: Gutter Juice
"While the doctors who separated conjoined twins in Los Angeles talk about the
little girls' prospects for healthy, productive lives, another pair of
conjoined twins say that's exactly the life they've lived for 40 years.
The women, one a former hospital worker, the other an aspiring country western
singer, say the separation isn't necessary. 'I don't think it should be done...
You don't mess with what God made, even if it means you enjoy both
children for a shorter time.'"
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Hitchhiked himself to jail
Springfield State Journal-Register | Submitted by: Gutter Juice
"He had no money and no wheels, so he took off his shirt and started walking
north on Interstate 65. He had 400 miles ahead of him. During his three-day
journey from Nashville, Mark says, he was stopped by four or five cops. They
all checked his ID and probably ran it through their computers to see what he
was wanted for. Then they let him go on his way."
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--- layout: post status: publish published: true title: How far should we go with estimates author: display_name: Fabio Pereira login: admin email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>url: http://fabiopereira.me author_login: admin author_email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>author_url: http://fabiopereira.me wordpress_id: 154 wordpress_url: http://fabiopereira.me/blog/?p=154 date: '2009-05-04 07:10:41 +1000' date_gmt: '2009-05-04 14:10:41 +1000' categories: - Technical tags: - ThoughtWorks - IterationMgmt - Photo - Scrum - Prioritization comments: [] ---
My colleague Dan North facilitated a session today at ThoughtWorks office in Sydney about estimation, creating an MSL (Master Story List), what Scrum calls Product Backlog and which level of granularity should it be.
Dan started the session with a very interesting metaphor: If we want to calculate the area of a country we can always approximate it by comparing it with something that we know how to calculate... A triangle, for example. Dan used the map of the UK, I'm sorry Dan, I couldn't help myself... I changed it to Brazil... :)
Basically, the area is something in between the areas of MIN and MAX triangles. And it's very easy to calculate the areas of the triangles, right? How accurate is that? Of course it's not 100% accurate, but most of the time we don't need 100% accuracy. We just need to understand the boundaries in order for us to mitigate risks, which have been described as our "fears".
The estimated range also helps us to make decisions. If a client wants to build an application, for example, and after calculating his current operational manual costs and what the application would make him save, he is willing to pay 1 million. But the estimated range is between 4 and 6 millions, this already helps the client to make the decision of not to proceed with the project.
Always bear in mind what estimates are:
"Estimation is the calculated approximation of a result which is usable even if input data may be incomplete or uncertain." (wikipedia)
Another pertinent topic during the session was that the Iteration Manager (Scrum Master or XP Coach) should not only be focused on the lower level stories (Product Backlog), but also on the high level project goals and outcomes as well as relating them to the client's and organization's needs and purposes.
Stories can be grouped at a A higher level, which we call a theme. Prioritisation and estimation could also be done at these levels.
Some other things that I learned:


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The postgresql.conf comparison tool was created to make it easier to track changes to the database's main configuration file. These configuration options, referred to by the Pg hackers as GUCs ( Grand Unified Configuration), do change over time with major versions. These changes typically reflect new features added, existing features improved, and other changes.
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| 005:088 Khan | : |
And eat of the things which Allah has provided for you, lawful and good, and fear Allah in Whom you believe. |
| 005:088 Maulana | : |
And eat of the lawful and good (things) that Allah has given you, and keep your duty to Allah, in Whom you believe. |
| 005:088 Pickthal | : |
Eat of that which Allah hath bestowed on you as food lawful and good, and keep your duty to Allah in Whom ye are believers. |
| 005:088 Rashad | : |
And eat from the good and lawful things that GOD has provided for you. You shall reverence GOD, in whom you are believers. |
| 005:088 Sarwar | : |
Eat from the pure and lawful things that God has given to you. Have fear of God in Whom you believe. |
| 005:088 Shakir | : |
And eat of the lawful and good (things) that Allah has given you, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah, in Whom you believe. |
| 005:088 Sherali | : |
And eat of that which ALLAH has provided for you of what is lawful and good. And fear ALLAH in Whom you believe. |
| 005:088 Yusufali | : |
Eat of the things which Allah hath provided for you, lawful and good; but fear Allah, in Whom ye believe. |
Concepts/Themes Covered: أركان الإسلام > الصيام > الطعام والأغذية Pillars of Islam> Fasting> Food and Nourishments
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AMORES PERROS (Love's a Bitch)
Reviewed by Harvey Karten Lions Gate Films Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Writer: Guillermo Arriaga Jordan Cast: Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo, Alvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salins
The great Scottish poet Robert Burns once said "The best laid plans o'mice and men/Aft gang a-glee." And don't we all now that! In Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's debut film "Amores Perros"--which joins "Crouching Tiger," "Divided We Fall," "Everybody Famous," and "The Taste of Others" in the Oscar competition for Best Foreign Language Film--scripter Guillermo Arriaga Jordan reminds us of an even more all- embracing quote. "If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans." Everybody in "Amores Perros" has A Big Plan. Everybody gets shafted. But ah, there's some justice in the failure of the humanity's plans in this case: each of the aspirants violates one or more of the Ten Commandments and each receives justice of biblical proportions.
What's so great about Mexico's entry to the Oscar competition aside from its grandiose ambition to illustrate a divinely-inspired vengeance on its principals? Aside from the skillful acting of a cast largely unknown to a typical American audience, "Amores Perros" keeps us on the edge of our seats by its graphic but essential violence, the intensity of its characters' drives, and not least by a battery of dogs of all descriptions who are, sad to say, uncredited in the press notes. Dogs figure in virtually every sequence of this three- part, "Traffic"-like story but this is no "Lassie Come Home" nor are we about to see Toto in Kansas. In fact we are in the world's most populous and perhaps most polluted metropolis, Mexico City, which--judging by the way U.S. tourists seem to be bypassing that capital in favor of Cancun, Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta--is a dangerous place to be.
One of Mexico's most notable performers, Emilio Echevarria, figures in each of the three stories in the role of El Chivo, but the real center of the action is not a goat but a ferocious dog named Cofi. In the first of three sequences, Cofi is entered into a dog-fight competition, illegal in Mexico though practiced in shady places by seedy characters for fairly large stakes. Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal), an man of about eighteen years of age, is in love with his sister-in-law Susana (Vanessa Bauche), and is in need of some pesos to carry out his plan to free her from her occasionally abusive husband and elope with her to Juarez. Entering his Rottweiler into the ring, he succeeds in cashing in fifteen straight times, but remember what the Bible says about incest: his plans go awry when he perpetrates a godawful car crash.
 The car crash--this time shown through the perspective of the model rather than of the perpetrator of the collision--interrupts the plans of this box-office couple. Perhaps inspired by Bunuel's film "Tristana," director Gonzalez Inarritu casts not one but two divine reprisals on the unfortunate beauty who in one situation desperately tries to save her little dog who has fallen through the apartment's floorboards and is threatened by large rats. (By contrasting the glossy wooden floor with the unkempt life beneath, Gonzalez Inarritu is obviously throwing us a metaphor for surface glitter vs. inner rot.)
The final episode finds El Chivo, now a homeless man with a cartload of homeless pooches, wandering through the mean streets of Mexico City.
"Amores Perros" faces tough competition particularly against "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (which Joel Siegel pretentiously called "one of the finest films ever made), but for its more earthy treatment of celestially-inspired repayment for our sins deserves serious consideration by the Academy.
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The Government is giving parents new opportunities to put their child in a great local school by announcing that 24 free schools will open in September this year.
The Government is giving parents new opportunities to put their child in a great local school by announcing that 24 Free Schools will open in September this year. They are part of the Government’s drive to raise education standards across the country and tackle educational disadvantage.
Funding Agreements for all 24 schools aiming to open in September 2011 have now been agreed and signed. This means that all schools aiming to open this year now have full approval from the Government, and can make the very final preparations needed to welcome the first ever Free School pupils. The schools will open at different times during the month.
These new, state-funded schools - set up by teachers, charities, education experts and parents - will eventually provide thousands of new places for children across England, many in areas where there is a shortage. They will also open in areas with historic educational underperformance.
Under the Coalition Government’s radical new plans, Free Schools will also be able to prioritise the most disadvantaged children (eligible for Free School Meals) in their school admissions arrangements. With the Pupil Premium, there will be an even greater incentive for Free Schools to attract pupils that are most in need of high-quality education.
Education Secretary, Michael Gove, said:
The most important thing for any parent is to be able to send their child to a good local school, with high standards and strong discipline. That is why we are opening Free Schools across the country. I am delighted to announce that the first 24 will open this year.
Too many children are being failed by fundamental flaws in our education system. The weakest schools are concentrated in our poorest towns and cities, and we are plummeting down the international education league tables.
In spite of years of investment, the situation is worsening. Children from disadvantaged homes are still falling behind. A change of approach is vital.
By freeing up teachers and trusting local communities to decide what is best, our reforms will help to raise standards for children in all schools.
These schools have been set up in record time - responding faster to the urgent demand of parents for a new, or different, type of education to benefit local children and their families. They will open just 10 to 15 months after submitting initial plans to the Department for Education. In the past, it normally took between three and five years to set up a maintained school, with the few that were able to be set up by parents taking up to nine years.
Free Schools are funded by the Government, but have greater freedoms than schools run by local authorities.  They are not permitted to make a profit, and all funds raised must go back into improving education for pupils.
The freedoms that Free Schools and Academies have allow teachers to make decisions that are right for local children. International evidence shows that giving teachers and heads more freedom in the classroom helps to raise standards in education.
Charter schools in New York, which are similar to Free Schools, have been shown to dramatically close the gap separating inner-city neighbourhood students from those of the wealthiest suburbs - by 86 per cent in maths and 66 per cent in English.
The Harlem Children’s Zone charters have closed the achievement gap between black and white pupils at both elementary and middle school level.
Charter schools in Chicago close half of the achievement gap between disadvantaged inner-city public school students and middle-income students in suburban districts. This is despite the fact that these students entered the Charter Schools achieving lower scores on average than their public school peers.
At home, schools with greater independence are also excelling. From 2009 to 2010, results in Academies increased by an average of 7.8 percentage points (proportion of pupils in Academies achieving five or more GCSEs at A*-C, including English and maths) compared with the national average increase of 4.5 percentage points for all state schools.
A recent Public Accounts Committee report on Academies found that they have achieved rapid academic improvements and raised aspirations in some of the most challenging schools in the most deprived areas of the country.
26 per cent of the Academies inspected in 2009/2010 were rated outstanding by Ofsted compared to 13 per cent of secondary schools nationally. In addition, a lower proportion of Academies were rated inadequate compared to secondary schools nationally. All of which is an achievement for Academies given that these Academies were generally starting from a low base and were in challenging circumstances.
Groups that were successful in applying to open a Free School went through a robust process to make sure they were suitable and capable to run a school. They had to:
Like other state-funded schools, Free Schools are inspected by Ofsted, will have their exam and test results published and will have to teach a broad curriculum. Action will be taken if results slip or if teaching isn’t up to scratch. Free Schools also have to abide by the same rules for pupil admissions as other schools - making sure that these are fair and inclusive of children from different backgrounds.
ALDBOROUGH E-ACT FREE SCHOOL, Redbridge
ALL SAINTS JUNIOR SCHOOL, Reading
ARK CONWAY PRIMARY ACADEMY, Hammersmith & Fulham
ARK ATWOOD PRIMARY ACADEMY, Westminster
BATLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL, Kirklees
KINGS SCIENCE ACADEMY, Bradford
BRISTOL FREE SCHOOL, Bristol
CANARY WHARF COLLEGE, Tower Hamlets
DISCOVERY NEW SCHOOL, West Sussex
EDEN PRIMARY SCHOOL, Haringey
ETZ CHAIM PRIMARY SCHOOL, Barnet
THE FREE SCHOOL, NORWICH, Norfolk
KRISHNA-AVANTI PRIMARY SCHOOL, Leicester City
LANGLEY HALL PRIMARY ACADEMY, Slough
MAHARISHI SCHOOL, Lancashire
MOORLANDS FREE SCHOOL, Luton
NISHKAM FREE SCHOOL, Birmingham
PRIORS FREE SCHOOL, Warwickshire
RAINBOW PRIMARY SCHOOL, Bradford
SANDBACH SCHOOL, Cheshire East
ST LUKE’S CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, Camden
STOUR VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL, Suffolk
WEST LONDON FREE SCHOOL, Hammersmith & Fulham
WOODPECKER HALL PRIMARY ACADEMY, Enfield
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Following global object and function will be defined:
And following global classes (see extending w2ui)
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- w2field - field class, can be extended
- w2form - form class, can be extended
- w2grid - grid class, can be extended
- w2layout - layout class, can be extended
- w2sidebar - sidebar class, can be extended
- w2tabs - tabs class, can be extended
- w2toolbar - toolbar class, can be extended
However, starting with version 2.0, you can load libaray as ES6 module and these variables will not be registered globally
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w2ui
All objects you create - layouts, grids, toolbars, sidebars, tabs, forms - will be attached to global w2ui object.
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- It makes sure that you will not overwrite already created object (object name must be unique)
For example, if you created a grid with name myGrid then it can be accessed in the following manner:
w2locale
This object holds all variables for localization purposes, such as date and tiem format, currency format, number format,
days of weeks, months names, and translation phrases.
To load different locale use w2utils.locale
w2utils
This global object has useful functions for data validation, data sanitation, data formatting, encoding, etc.
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See w2utils.methods for more information.
Generic dialog object
w2alert
Alert dialog
w2confirm
Confirm dialog
w2prompt
Generic prompt dialog
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All w2ui classes can be extended and in such way a new and/or custom functionality can be added to grid, toolbar,
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Bootstrap percolation
27 Mar 2016If you have ever heard about percolation it might have been in the context of making coffee. That is, when brewing by filtering water through grinded coffee beans it is a desireable feature that the water can eventually pass through. Consequently the particles need to be large enough for the material to be porous and for the water to percolate through. This article is not about brewing coffee unless you want to get really creative but bear in mind that copious amounts of caffeine were part of its creative process regardless.
So what kind of percolation are you talking about then? Please explain like I’m five.
Imagine that your friend just got a new shiny toy. He shows it to you and you want it. You ask your parents but they say no. In time more of your friends get the toy and you still want it. Still your parents say no but they realise this will be a great gift and they buy the toy for your next birthday.
You probably already made the connection of how this short example relates to brewing coffee. If not let me explain. Think of yourself as an empty cell defined by the finely grained coffee bean particles around you. If it is not too disturbing you can think of your friends as adjacent cells. When one of your friends got a new toy in this analogy their cell was filled with water. For a single adjacent cell full of water the pressure is not sufficient for the water to enter your cell but once enough many adjacent cells get filled yours gets filled as well.
So you see, percolation has something to do with the dissemination of information in a network. Some other good examples are gossip and rumor spreading as well as advertising campaigns – it is important to know which individuals in a social network one should pay to advertise a product in order to reach as many potential customers as possible (you can start throwing your free products at me now). It is also valuable to know if a banking network is stable and how many individuals need to default on their loans for the network to collapse (Amini & Minca, 2014). Another great example is the spread of diseases. For every encounter with an infected individual the chances of becoming infected increase. My favorite example of bootstrap percolation is the way neurons communicate in the brain. Neurons communcate by sending spikes to their neighbors. If a neuron receives a couple of spike signals it will also spike and thus inform all of its neighbors, quite amazing. Finally percolation can be described by a cellular automaton which is the setting in which it was first studied (Chalupa, Leath, & Reich, 1979) (but motivated by physics) and since then it has been extensively studied on the grid in arbitrarily many dimensions (Balogh, Bollobás, Duminil-Copin, & Morris, 2012).
As you might have realised percolation is literally everywhere around us. It is therefore not surprising how interest in it has percolated. Below I will define more formally the process. This is where things start to get just slightly technical. In case you want to skip the technical parts just scroll down to the bottom of the article to play with the javascript simulation.
Bootstrap percolation (also known as iterative retrieval) is a simple model for the spread of activity in a graph/network. The vertices in the process have two states, either they are active or inactive. The process traditionally proceeds in rounds. Let K>0 be a threshold parameter. In any given round all inactive vertices turn active which have at least K active neighbours from previous rounds. Once a vertex turns active it remains active for the rest of the process. The bootstrap just refers to the set of initially active vertices and percolation refers to this spread of activity.
This is the most common definition but there are also some variations of the process which I will not cover in this post. When a vertex turns active in the description above you can think of it as the vertex telling all its neighbours that it turned active and this message takes one round to be delivered.
Generally the process is studied formally on some specific graph classes where as I mention above the lattice was the first candidate. I’ve been fortunate to work with some amazing people on a couple of projects involving bootstrap percolation (Einarsson, Lengler, Panagiotou, Mousset, & Steger, 2014) which will be the topic of a future post. Our study was sparked by the results by Janson, Luczak, Turova and Vallier (Janson, Łuczak, Turova, & Vallier, 2012) which analysed bootstrap percolation, the process above, on the Erdös Renyi random graph. The random graph is quite simple, each edge is present independently with some probability p which is a parameter of the model. For n vertices the expected number of neighbors is thus np. Janson et. al discovered that percolation has a threshold property on the random graph. If the bootstrap is below the threshold then almost no additional vertices turn active. But if it is above the threshold the activity percolates, that is almost every vertex turns active.
You can play with the process on the random graph below. The parameters can be chosen below and additionally you can turn the vertices between an active and an inactive state by clicking on them. The simulation was made with visjs and the code is available on my github page. Please note that at the moment the code scales quadratically in n so simulations for large values of n will be slow. Additionally the network layout has a hard time converging to a stable state when there are many vertices and the graph is not sparse.
The next post discusses a variation of the process which is not round based.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Guðmundur for reading a draft of this post.
References
- Amini, H., & Minca, A. (2014). Inhomogeneous Financial Networks and Contagious Links. Available at SSRN.
- Chalupa, J., Leath, P. L., & Reich, G. R. (1979). Bootstrap percolation on a Bethe lattice. Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 12(1), L31.
- Balogh, J., Bollobás, B., Duminil-Copin, H., & Morris, R. (2012). The sharp threshold for bootstrap percolation in all dimensions. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 364(5), 2667–2701.
- Einarsson, H., Lengler, J., Panagiotou, K., Mousset, F., & Steger, A. (2014). Bootstrap percolation with inhibition. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:1410.3291.
- Janson, S., Łuczak, T., Turova, T., & Vallier, T. (2012). Bootstrap percolation on the random graph G_ {n, p} . The Annals of Applied Probability, 22(5), 1989–2047.


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Italia Marathon
Carpi ITA
Website: www.italianmarathon.it
Race Winners
(33 runnings)
2:32:22a 2:27:16a 2:32:03a 2:30:44a 21 Oct
2007
2:11:18a
2:28:17a
15 Oct
2006
2:10:07.2a
2:26:43.2a
16 Oct
2005
2:11:16a
2:36:45a
17 Oct
2004
2:09:09a
2:30:54a
12 Oct
2003
2:12:13a
2:31:39a
06 Oct
2002
2:09:58.1a
2:30:24a
14 Oct
2001
2:12:04a
2:33:38a
15 Oct
2000
2:12:51a
2:28:32a
10 Oct
1999
2:10:44a
2:25:57a
11 Oct
1998
2:13:12 2:31:23
12 Oct
1997
2:12:16a
2:28:43a
13 Oct
1996
2:09:43
2:28:22
08 Oct
1995
2:15:48
2:32:22
23 Oct
1994
2:12:04
2:36:07
24 Oct
1993
2:11:49
2:39:53
25 Oct
1992
2:12:36
2:29:34
27 Oct
1991
2:11:28
2:28:57
28 Oct
1990
2:11:54
2:32:47
29 Oct
1989
2:15:43.5
2:35:05.1
30 Oct
1988
2:16:28
2:31:08
1986-87
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20 Oct
1985
2:14:10
2:48:29
1971-84
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04 Oct
1970
2:23:02
19 Oct
1969
2:23:09
1986-87
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05 Aug
1962
2:46:59
Notes: 1962 was the inaugural year. For 1997, the race was run from
Reggio Emilia to
Carpi. For 1999 to 2011 and 2013-date, the race has been run from Maranello to Carpi, a distance
of 28 km, a drop of 2.4 m/km. The race started and finished in Carpi for
all other years. The 1988 race is considered as a test run by the present organizers; the distance
was about 41.9 km. Races prior to 1988 were organized by a different group than at present.. The 1969 course was
approximately 41 km. This race was also known as the Italia Memorial Enzo
Ferrari Marathon. In 2016, Jaouad Zain (MAR) finished first in 2:23:57 but was
later disqualified for drug use.
09 Oct
2017
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cancelled
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cancelled
09 Oct
2016
2:24:00a
Abderrafi Roqti (MAR)
3:07:18a
Patrizia Donato (ITA)
11 Oct
2015
2:33:03a
Giuseppe Mucerino (ITA)
2:50:39a
Elga Caccialanza (ITA)
12 Oct
2014
2:41:06 a
Pietro Cabassi (ITA)
2:48:30a
Paola Dal Mas (ITA)
13 Oct
2013
2:25:00a
Jilali Jamali (MAR)
2:51:27a
Silvia Savorana (ITA)
14 Oct
2012
2:11:58
Sisay Lemma Kasaye (ETH)
2:35:34
Ivana Iozzia (ITA)
09 Oct
2011
2:08:36a
Nicholas Kiprono Kurgat (UGA)
Derebe Godana Gebissa (ETH)
10 Oct
2010
2:09:00a
Paul Kosgei Malakwen (KEN)
Helen Wanjiru Mugo (KEN)
11 Oct
2009
2:11:44a
Vasily Matviychuk (UKR)
Anne Bererwe Cheptanui (KEN)
12 Oct
2008
2:10:50a
Benjamin Chebet (KEN) (nc)
Rosaria Console (ITA) (nc)
Noah Serem (KEN)
Aniko Kalovics-2
David Kemboi
Kiyeng (KEN)
Aniko Kalovics (HUN)
Stephen Biwott (KEN)
Romina Sedoni (ITA)
Harun Toroitich (KEN)
Anne Chelegat (KEN)
Philemon Rotich (KEN)
Jennifer Chesinon (KEN)
Daniel Kirwa (KEN) (nc)
Tiziana Alagia (ITA) (nc)
Joseph Maqala (RSA) (nc)
Patrizia Ritondo (ITA) (nc)
Gideon Chirchir (KEN)
Jackline Cherotich (KEN)
Stephen Rugut (KEN)
Maria Guida (ITA)
Kipkemboi Cheruiyot (KEN)
Maura Viceconte (ITA)
Massimilano Ingrami (ITA) (nc)
Ornella Ferrara (ITA) (nc)
Fabian Roncero (ESP) (nc)
Franca Fiacconi (ITA)
(nc)
Antonio Clair Wathier (BRA)
Jane Salumae (EST)
Roberto Crosio (ITA)
Simona Viola (ITA)
Graziano Calvaresi ITA)
Marjan Freriks (NED)
Grzegorz Gajdus (POL)
Rosanna Munerotto (ITA)
Diamantino dosSantos (BRA) (nc)
Irina Bogacheva (KGZ) (nc)
Severino Bernardini (ITA) (nc)
Emma Scaunich (ITA)
Cszaba Szucs (HUN)
Anna Villani (ITA)
Mirko Vindis (SLO)
Rita Marchisio (ITA)
not held
not held
Osvaldo Faustini (ITA) (nc)
Lucia Bertelli (ITA)
not held
Francesco Amante (ITA)
Antonio Ambu (ITA) (nc)
not held
Salvatore Cuccuru (ITA)
a => point-to-point course
(nc) => national championship
2008 Alberico diCecco was the national champion (2:13:16,
5th place)
2002 Fabio Rinaldi was the national champion (2:14:40, 8th place)
2001 Angelo Carosi was the national champion (2:12:46, 4th place)
1996 Franco Togni was the national champion (2:12:36, 2nd place)
1991 Salvatore Bettoil was the national champion (2:11:48, 2nd place)
1991 Emma Scaunich was the national champion (2:30:26, 2nd place)
Most Wins (1988-date)
Men
No man has won more than once.
Women 2
Aniko Kalovics (HUN)
2006-07
Prize Money
(ADR qualified runners)
Year Men Women Total 2006 $45,685 $34,540 $80,225 .... 2002 39,210 18,765 58,075 2001 36,795 19,535 56,330 2000 78,090 59,775 137,865 1999 57,675 43,400 101,075 1998 58,775 31,070 89,845 1997 62,655 42,350 105,005 1996 96,890 45,195 142,085 .... 1994 103,230 7,130 110,360 .... 1992 94,240 64,790 159,030 1991 114,080 77,810 191,890 1990 113,170 78,145 191,315 1989 37,250 28,630 65,880 1988 9,425 7,160 16,585 Sums $947,270 $558,295 $1,505,565
Race Time Bias (sec/km)
Year Men Women 2008 -3.8 n/c 2007 -2.7 n/c 2006 -1.7 -1.1 .... 2004 -1.3 n/c 2003 +1.8 n/c 2002 -2.6 n/c 2001 -0.3 n/c 2000 -0.5 -3.7 1999 -1.0 n/c 1998 -0.9 n/c 1997 -3.3 +0.2 1996 -1.4 -0.6 1995 +3.6 n/c 1994 -1.3 n/c 1993 -2.5 n/c 1992 +3.6 +2.2 1991 -2.0 -3.4 1990 -2.4 -2.1 Avgs -1.0 -1.2
Competitive Level (1990-date)
Year Men Women 2011 n/c 201 2010<PHONE_NUMBER><PHONE_NUMBER><PHONE_NUMBER><PHONE_NUMBER><PHONE_NUMBER> 508 n/c 2004 589 n/c 2003 295 66 2002 444 n/c 2001 407 79 2000 375 n/c 1999 393 n/c 1998 363 n/c 1997<PHONE_NUMBER> 402 n/c 1995 351 n/c 1994 389 n/c 1993 560 n/c 1992<PHONE_NUMBER> 698 644
Quality Performances
Men <2:09 1 <2:10 9 <2:11 20 <2:12 42 <2:13 75 <2:14 120 <2:15 158 <2:16 183 <2:17 211 <2:18 237 <2:19 258 <2:20 282 Women <2:26 1 <2:28 3 <2:30 13 <2:32 28 <2:34 40 <2:36 61 <2:38 79 <2:40 99 <2:42 114 <2:44 126 <2:46 139 <2:48 149 <2:50 160
Last Updated on 08 Oct 2017
Contributors: Wim vanHemert, Frieda Michiels, Martin Rix, Maratona d'Italia, Franco Civai (42), Mauro Bulgarelli, Cristina Corradi, Klaas Loonstra (10), Shigenobu Ota (1)


Scheduled Events on QuantConnect are the equivalent of schedule_function()
from Quantopian.
Examples are provided comparing the Scheduled Events functionality between QuantConnect and Quantopian.
Quantopian
import quantopian.algorithm as algo def my_scheduled_function(context, data): pass def initialize(context): # Runs a function every day 60 minutes before U.S. Equities market close algo.schedule_function( func=my_scheduled_function, date_rule=algo.date_rules.every_day(), time_rule=algo.time_rules.market_close(minutes=60), calendar=algo.calendars.US_EQUITIES )
QuantConnect
class MyAlgorithm(QCAlgorithm): def my_scheduled_function(self): pass # Runs a function every day 60 minutes before SPY ETF's market close def Initialize(self) -> None: self.Schedule.On( self.DateRules.EveryDay(), self.TimeRules.BeforeMarketClose("SPY", 60), self.my_scheduled_function )
You can read more about scheduled events at the Scheduled Events documentation page.


Class: Concurrent::Promises::Channel
- Inherits:
-
Synchronization::Object
- Object
- Synchronization::Object
- Concurrent::Promises::Channel
- Defined in:
- lib/concurrent/edge/promises.rb
Constant Summary
- UNLIMITED =
Default size of the Channel, makes it accept unlimited number of messages.
Object.new
Instance Method Summary (collapse)
-
- (Channel) initialize(size = UNLIMITED)
constructor
A channel to pass messages between promises.
-
- (Future) pop(probe = Concurrent::Promises.resolvable_future)
Returns a future witch will become fulfilled with a value from the channel when one is available.
-
- (Future) push(message)
Returns future which will fulfill when the message is added to the channel.
-
- (String) to_s
(also: #inspect)
Short string representation.
Constructor Details
- (Channel) initialize(size = UNLIMITED)
A channel to pass messages between promises. The size is limited to support back pressure.
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# File 'lib/concurrent/edge/promises.rb', line 2005 def initialize(size = UNLIMITED) super() @Size = size # TODO (pitr-ch 26-Dec-2016): replace with lock-free implementation @Mutex = Mutex.new @Probes = [] @Messages = [] @PendingPush = [] end |
Instance Method Details
- (Future) pop(probe = Concurrent::Promises.resolvable_future)
Returns a future witch will become fulfilled with a value from the channel when one is available.
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# File 'lib/concurrent/edge/promises.rb', line 2044 def pop(probe = Concurrent::Promises.resolvable_future) # TODO (pitr-ch 26-Dec-2016): improve performance pop_for_select(probe).then(&:last) end |
- (Future) push(message)
Returns future which will fulfill when the message is added to the channel. Its value is the message.
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# File 'lib/concurrent/edge/promises.rb', line 2019 def push() @Mutex.synchronize do while true if @Probes.empty? if @Size > @Messages.size @Messages.push return Promises.fulfilled_future else pushed = Promises.resolvable_future @PendingPush.push [, pushed] return pushed.with_hidden_resolvable end else probe = @Probes.shift if probe.fulfill [self, ], false return Promises.fulfilled_future() end end end end end |
- (String) to_s Also known as: inspect
Returns Short string representation.
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# File 'lib/concurrent/edge/promises.rb', line 2069 def to_s format '<#%s:0x%x size:%s>', self.class, object_id << 1, @Size end |


I have battled chronic depression since my adolescence. Years of therapy and rigorous exercise helped little until I started taking the new-generation anti-depressants. For the last 15 years or so, I have had (temporary) good results with a series of these: Zoloft worked well for some years, then lost its efficacy. Effexor likewise, and then Cymbalta. A couple of years ago, rather than change to a new drug when the Cymbalta started to work less well, my doctor prescribed Provigil as an adjunct to it. It has been great, on the whole.
Because my insurance will not cover the drug for off-label use (I don't have narcolepsy, just depression), the cost of the prescription drug is prohibitive, so I have been buying modafinil from overseas pharmacies, and have mostly had good luck with these sources (once, the product delivered seemed inert).
I take 120 mg Cymbalta and 200 mg modafinil daily.
I find myself not depressed, have normal levels of energy (like other people, instead of feeling barely able to get out of bed), have little in the way of side effects. I am more prone to motion sickness or other nausea than when not taking the drugs, but the problem is mild.
The one concern I have is that I have found that cutting the dose (as I did once for several days when I didn't place the online order in time) seems to have a dramatic negative effect. A couple of days at 100 mg/day instead of 200mg/day had me sleeping 12 or 14 hours/night and dragging myself around feeling exhausted, and after 3 or 4 days at the lower dose, I experienced a pretty serious bout of depression (uncontrollable weeping; ruminative, self-lacerating thoughts; generally excruciating misery). A day or so back on the full dose put me right, but it has left me a bit nervous about the prospect of ever getting completely off the drugs.
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| 21 Apr 1926 |
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor born to King George VI and Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, London England. |
| 11 Dec 1936 |
Father George VI assumes the throne of Great Britain. |
| 20 Nov 1947 |
Marries Philip Mountbatten. |
| 15 Nov 1948 |
First son, Prince Charles born. |
| 15 Aug 1950 |
Daughter, Princess Anne born. |
| 6 Feb 1952 |
Accession to throne as George VI dies. |
| 2 Jun 1953 |
Coronated as Queen of England. Also as Queen of thy people Israel, according to the rite. |
| 19 Feb 1960 |
Second son, Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward Windsor, born. |
| 10 Mar 1964 |
Third son, Prince Edward Antony Richard Louis, born. |
| 20 Nov 1992 |
Part of Windsor Castle burns. |
| 26 Nov 1992 |
The Queen becomes a taxpayer, after public pressure over the cost of restoring Windsor Castle. |
| 30 Nov 1996 |
Queen Elizabeth II orders the return of Jacob's Pillar, a 336 pound stone contained within the coronation throne at Westminster Abbey, to Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. This is the stone from Genesis 28:18, yes it is. |
| 31 Aug 1997 |
Lady Diana and boyfriend Dodi Fayed killed in an automobile accident while fleeing from papparazzi, Paris. |
| 4 Aug 2000 |
The Queen Mother becomes a centenarian. |
| 6 Feb 2002 |
Golden Jubilee, marking fifty years of reign. |
| 30 Mar 2002 |
Queen Mother dies. |
| 12 Dec 2003 |
Mick Jagger knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.  |


Amazon UK's hardware is discounted RIGHT NOW for Black Friday
Black Friday has come to the UK a week early, or at least Amazon is pretty bad at reading a calendar. Nevertheless, the online giant has kicked off its Black Friday event with a number of hot discounts across its first-party hardware, including Fire TV, Fire Tablets, Echo and Kindle.
Source: Amazon
All of the deals featured here are now live and will run through until early December. Grab your wallet and form an orderly queue!
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Deals are live across the Echo range covering the speakers, models with a display like the Echo Show, and there are some tasty bundles with other hardware that will help you save even more.
- Echo Dot 3rd Generation - £22 (was £49.99 - 56% off)
- Echo Show 5 - £49.99 (was £79.99 - 38% off)
- Echo Flex - £19.99 (was £24.99 - 20% off)
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- Echo Show 8 - £59.99 (was £119.99 - 50% off)
- Echo Connect - £17.49 (was £34.99 - 50% off)
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ManageIQ Botvinnik is Here - Control All the Things
We’re very happy to announce that ManageIQ Botvinnik is now generally available. This marks the first full release cycle for ManageIQ as an open source project. As mentioned in previous announcements, we name our releases alphabetically after chess world champions. For the “B” release, we selected Mikhail Botvinnik, a Soviet chess champion from the 1950’s. The “C” release cycle is named after Jose Raul Capablanca, a Cuban world chess champion from 1921-1927.
For the impatient, here’s what you need to know:
- View a recent webinar about the Botvinnik release
- See the changelog
- Download Botvinnik
- Read some docs about using it for the first time
- Talk about it on talk.manageiq.org
Cloud management is very quickly morphing into systems management, to the point where the difference between the two is increasingly indistinguishable. Everyone has a cloud, somewhere. Everyone has a virtualization platform. ManageIQ has had management capabilities for popular platforms of both for some time.
What’s new in the Botvinnik release, which marks the beginning of ManageIQ’s evolution from “Your gateway to the open cloud” to “Control all the things,” brings several important new features, including:
- More and better integration with cloud orchestration frameworks, including CloudFormations and OpenStack Heat.
- Comprehensive support for OpenStack infrastructure management.
- Bare metal provisioning and other integrations with The Foreman.
- The beginning of container management and Kubernetes integration
One of the key differentiators for ManageIQ is that it all starts with a comprehensive asset inventory and the relationships between them. Orchestration, automation, and the policy engine are built on that inventory base. First, know what is there, and then decide how to automate it. Other cloud management tools start with provisioning but lack the features necessary for what is described as “day 2 management.” ManageIQ was built from the ground up following design principles geared for day 2 management. It can do provisioning as well, but its holistic, comprehensive approach is what truly sets it apart.
Botvinnik has a host of new features, and these are just a sample:
OpenStack Infrastructure Management (Undercloud)
- Infrastructure Provider (undercloud) in 2015
- Inventory for Heat Stacks
- Connect Cloud provider to Infra provider
- Autoscale compute nodes via Automate
- Infrastructure Host Events & Event processing
- Handling of power states (paused, rebooting, waiting, etc.)
- Tenant filtering based on security groups, floating IPs, and networks.
Foreman Provider Integration
- Enabled Reporting / Tagging
- Exposed Foreman models as Automate service models
- Zone enablement
- Added tag processing during provisioning
- Added inventory collection of direct and inherited host/host-group settings
- Organization and location inventory
Amazon AWS Support
- Inventory collection for AWS CloudFormation
- Parsing of parameters from orchestration templates
- Amazon Events via AWS Config service
- Enables event-based policies for AWS
- Added C4, D2, and G2 instance types.
- Virtualization type collected during EMS refresh for better filtering of available types during provisioning.
- Handling of power states
Orchestration Management
- Orchestration Stacks includes tagging
- Cloud Stacks: Summary and list views.
- Orchestration templates
- Create, edit, delete, tagging, ‘draft’ support
- Create Service Dialog from template contents
- Enabled Reporting / Tagging
- Improved rollback error message in UI
- Collect Stack Resource name and status reason message
Other Changes
- REST API: now at full parity with SOAP
- REST API: Added VM management capabilities
- Custom attributes
- Add lifecycle events
- Start, stop, suspend, delete
- Automate: new retirement workflow
- Fleecing: now supports qcow3, VSAN, OpenStack instances, systemd, XFS
- Kubernetes: EMS refresh scheduling, inventory collection
The comprehensive changelog is here.


Happy New Year everybody! Like probably many of you, I traveled for the holiday, flying on my airline of choice, JetBlue. They’ve always treated me well and this last trip was no exception: our return flight was delayed a few hours, so they bought everyone dinner and gave us a $75 voucher towards our next flight. Sweet!
What does this have to do with passwords? Well, to manage that voucher, they use TravelBank. Cool, never heard of them, whatever it takes to get that sweet discount. They helpfully emailed me confirmation of this new account, which stated that my password would be emailed to me in a separate message. Red flag #1. Whatever, I’ll change it once I’m in.
I open the email containing my password to discover that it’s not a randomly generated password, but instead it’s the same password I use to log into my JetBlue TrueBlue account, which has credit card information stored. Red flag #2, and that’s a biggie. I may have 2FA set up on my email account, but I don’t expect the average internet user does.
I immediately go to change my TrueBlue password. It simply asks for the new password (plus confirmation). So, I fire up 1Password and generate a passphrase. The form happily accepts it, and I log out to test (always do this when you change a password, you’re about to see why).
I cannot log into my account. “Wrong username or password.” How can this be, as I just changed it, using copy/paste no less? Like so many other account management systems, it actually does have rules governing passwords, even though the password change area under my profile settings stated none.
I click “forgot password” to get the password reset email with a link to the form to create a new one (which I feel is what should have happened in the first place with the TravelBank account). Aha! Passwords cannot be more than 20 characters long, well below the passphrase I had generated. The original password change form not only didn’t state this up front, but didn’t complain that my chosen password didn’t comply. Instead, it silently truncated my input.
I love JetBlue and of course will continue to do business with them, but they committed several sins regarding passwords and account security here:
No initial session to set the password for a new account
I would have preferred my voucher to be managed directly in my TrueBlue account, but since that isn’t the case, the next best thing would have been to allow me to create my own new password in a specially authenticated session.
Emailed non-temporary plaintext passwords
Email is not a secure storage medium. What if I used this password for other services as well, as many people do? If I were security savvy, I would go and change them all. But then, I wouldn’t have used the same password for all those services.
Inconsistent display of password rules between password change and reset forms
It would be very simple to have the same HTML bullet point list in the Profile -> Settings -> Change Password form as exists in the Password Reset form. Heck, this could even be a piece of shared code.
Silent modification of chosen password in the input field
Upsetting the user’s expectations like this, especially with respect to security, just shouldn’t be acceptable. A good UI should immediately present feedback regarding compliance and help the user discover and fix the error. It should never even allow the user the possibility to submit invalid input.
JetBlue/TravelBank are by far not the only companies to have less-than-perfect password management. A few other things I’ve seen that bother me or just leave me scratching my head:
Prefilled passwords
Sometimes obscured by asterisks–and in one case in plaintext–when I arrive at the login prompt. For what? Why even show the password field at all at this point? To add to the head-scratchiness, I recently received a new laptop for a new job, and the first time I visited the USBank site, it prefilled my password (after answering a security question). How? I wonder if they’re even using a not-easily-reversible hash.
No paste password fields
Funnily, I’ve only encountered these on mobile versions of websites, where it’s that much harder to type a password in correctly. This is why I shelled out for a password manager, but instead I’m encouraged to use a short, easily remembered password. If every service did this, I’d probably use the same password for them all. Now is that really less of a risk than hijacking clipboard contents? I don’t think so.
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FINDSMB(1) User Commands FINDSMB(1) NAME findsmb - list info about machines that respond to SMB name queries on a subnet SYNOPSIS findsmb [subnet broadcast address] DESCRIPTION This perl script is part of the samba(7) suite. findsmb is a perl script that prints out several pieces of information about machines on a subnet that respond to SMB name query requests. It uses nmblookup(1) and smbclient(1) to obtain this information. OPTIONS -r Controls whether findsmb takes bugs in Windows95 into account when trying to find a Netbios name registered of the remote machine. This option is disabled by default because it is specific to Windows 95 and Windows 95 machines only. If set, nmblookup(1) will be called with -B option. subnet broadcast address Without this option, findsmb will probe the subnet of the machine where findsmb(1) is run. This value is passed to nmblookup(1) as part of the -B option. EXAMPLES The output of findsmb lists the following information for all machines that respond to the initial nmblookup for any name: IP address, NetBIOS name, Workgroup name, operating system, and SMB server version.   Machines that are running Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95 or Windows 98 will not show any information about the operating system or server version. The command with -r option must be run on a system without nmbd(8) running. If nmbd is running on the system, you will only get the IP address and the DNS name of the machine. To get proper responses from Windows 95 and Windows 98 machines, the command must be run as root and with -r option on a machine without nmbd running. For example, running findsmb without -r option set would yield output similar to the following IP ADDR NETBIOS NAME WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION --------------------------------------------------------------------- <IP_ADDRESS> MINESET-TEST1 [DMVENGR] <IP_ADDRESS> LINUXBOX *[MYGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.6] <IP_ADDRESS> HERBNT2 [HERB-NT] <IP_ADDRESS> GANDALF [MVENGR] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.5a for IRIX] <IP_ADDRESS> SAUNA [WORKGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 1.9.18p10] <IP_ADDRESS> FROGSTAR [ENGR] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.0 for IRIX] <IP_ADDRESS> HERBDHCP1 +[HERB] <IP_ADDRESS> SCNT2 +[MVENGR] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0] <IP_ADDRESS> FROGSTAR-PC [MVENGR] [Windows 5.0] [Windows 2000 LAN Manager] <IP_ADDRESS> HERBNT1 *[HERB-NT] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0] VERSION This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite. SEE ALSO nmbd(8), smbclient(1), and nmblookup(1) AUTHOR The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed. The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy. Samba 3.6 06/22/2012 FINDSMB(1)


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Hey, I can DevOPS my Network too! - Auto-configured OSPF from Manual-configured OSPF (Part 6)
In our last post we went over manually configuring OSPF between all of our routers. And at the very end we were supposed to come up with a scenario and configure each router to communicate with all other router interfaces via OSPF. And I am sure you did that right? :) Well, if not; then I have done this for you so we may proceed with this series.
So what are the end results of this post exactly? What we will be covering is how you can define out your OSPF network topology in this lab manually; then, take the working configurations and create our Ansible variables in order to automate a predictable configuration. This is all about an automated, repeatable and consistent configuration management process.
So let's first go through the configuration that I came up with for this series. We will then take this configuration and define our Ansible variables; in which, we will be able to reproduce this topology from scratch in an automated fashion.
Below is a drawing of how I designed out my OSPF topology and we will be diving deep into how we accomplished said configuration.
I will be starting with router1 (r1) and proceeding all the way to router5 (r5). So if you remember from the previous posts; you will need a vagrant ssh session to each one of our routers. FYI...I will be skipping some of the basic steps in the following sections. Again, we are learning and hopefully we have learned from the previous posts the proper commands in order to do the tasks required. If you find yourself stuck feel free to leave a comment because I am sure you are not the only one who has the same issue.
vagrant ssh r1 .... vagrant ssh r5
As we continue, I will start with router1 (r1); show the routing table, perform some ping checks, then the actual OSPF configuration and then continue onto the additional routers in order (skipping ip routes and pings after router2 (r2) because I can ensure that they work :) ).


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 It is a solid piece of unpredictable entertainment: wickedly funny and darkly comic at every turn.
Based on the book "Stray Dogs" by John Ridley (who also wrote the script), "U-Turn" stars Sean Penn as Booby Cooper, a gambler with a bag full of money who inadvertently breaks down in the strange town of Superior, Arizona.  Everything is everything.'
"U-Turn" engages us and pushes our buttons right from the opening sequence with a spectacular sight of the Arizona desert where a red Mustang is headed for unwanted trouble. Bobby is not a hero, though: he's flawed, has murderous impulses and not much of a conscience. This is the world of film noir, and we know there are no heroes in such a world. Bobby has no qualms about killing Jake's wife, Grace, as long as he gets the dough. But when Grace asks him to kill Jake, split with the money and head for Hawaii, what can Bobby do?  At one point, since he lost his gambling money, he opts for just two-hundred dollars to pay the mechanic for the damage to the car. Nobody, however, will lend him the money. He has a little over twenty bucks left yet it is not enough for the train ticket to Juarez, Mexico. He pleads and pleads for it and finally convinces the ticket agent (Laurie Metcalf) to give him a break - the guy definitely needs it but his day isn't over yet. Before you can say existentialism, Bobby endures several beatings, tortures, backstabbing, and double-crosses to make Franz Kafka blush. This is a world he can't escape from, and his illicit affair with Grace could lead to more than he bargained for. Who can he trust?
Oliver Stone is the perfect director for this neo-noirish, blood-soaked Western that is reminiscent of the cult film "Red Rock West." He bludgeons the screen, courtesy of the deft cinematographer Robert Richardson, with grainy colors, strobe cuts, and black-and-white images. The bright colors (bright reds, greens, and dark blacks) lend the film a baroque, cartoonish look atypical of Stone's ouevre, but his style is more evocative of the chaos and unpredictable surprises in Bobby's world than in "Nixon" or "Natural Born Killers." The rapid-fire montage cutting and editing is not as wild as you might expect - this is the first Stone film I can think of since "The Doors" where you can actually breathe while all the sound and fury is exploding on screen.
As in Stone's other work, the performances are extraordinary. Sean Penn turns in one of his finest roles as the confounded, bruised Bobby with black hair, a bandaged hand, and slick clothes, and is more distraught than anyone else in the movie.  Jennifer Lopez ("Selena") is quite captivating as the femme fatale Grace, an Apache woman who has an incestual past revealed in quick montages - she keeps the character cryptic to the point where we don't know if she can be trusted anymore than if Bobby can. Billy Bob Thornton is the welcome comic relief in this bizarre odyssey as he spews and spits with relish resembling a revolting court jester. Claire Danes ("Romeo and Juliet") is engagingly delirious as the girl who is attracted to Bobby - her scene in the diner where she questions him on the disappearance of Patsy Cline is a classic. Joaquim Phoenix is bitingly hilarious as her jealous boyfriend. Also worth mentioning is Powers Boothe as the sheriff of Superior who may have some ties to Grace's past, and there's also a strange cameo by Liv Tyler as a passenger at a train station. She doesn't utter a word but most film buffs will love to see her brief appearance anyway.
"U-Turn" is not a great film - there's too much time devoted to the mysterious Grace and her predictably angry husband Jake - but it is a nice change-of-pace for Stone. It's joltingly alive and incredibly funny. Other major pluses are the superb performances by all, brilliant cinematography and a terrific soundtrack full of Peggy Lee songs. "U-Turn" deserves a place in the Western noir tablets along with "Blood Simple," "Wild at Heart" and the aforementioned "Red Rock West."
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Vunerability
There's a moment in life where the days drag. Life gets a little harder, a little less bareable, and you can't help but feel empty. You sit there, contemplating your every living moment in existence, wondering how time passed by so quickly, or what you did wrong in this or that moment. It is easy to get lost in the racing thoughts which cloud your mind. Constantly trying to answer "what comes next?". Why am I acting this way, and why isn't there anything I can do about it.
"Maybe it's just me."
I've done a little thinking lately, trying to figure out the roots of my actions and my supposed passions. I'm a firm believer that everyone's actions, demeanor, and habits are all defined in one way or another by underlying feelings, insecurities, or stories of their past.  I withdrew into my own shell for a good majority of my life, feeling largely unable to succeed at much. I found a lot of peace thinking to myself, thinking about a hopeful future where I finally feel like anything I do would be worth something.
"Yet, I felt so empty."
Even though I had these thoughts for over a decade of my life, I never saw myself able to succeed in any manner, and I never realized what I was capable of. Until College.
More specifically, this past year.  My worth, my calling, etc. Every moment that I felt like I made a breakthrough, I was flung ten steps back, either by my own criticality or life's own burdens.
"The same voices haunting and taunting me became the ones in my head."
I was tired of feeling like I was stuck in a low place. I felt tired of falling over and over again, each time that I made progress. Every time I got up, I felt like I was sinking deeper and deeper into an abyss. Deep, dark, into the depths of my own inner demons and fears. There was a moment where I just sat at home for a couple of days, my ego hanging aimlessly by a thread.
In that moment, I decided to give up control.
"Control is an illusion after all."
You can only do so much until the amalgamation of all forces around you collapse into one moment and influence what directly affects you. We're not born into the world with a clean slate or equal standing. Life is hard and it will throw everything at you until you break. It could be the people around you, it coule be the environment you live in. It could even be the void of everything around you. Eventually, it gets the best of all of us. But how you react in that moment is what changes everything
I let go of the thread I hung onto, and let myself dive head first into my inner demons and fears. The ones which tormented me so greatly, and still torment me on a daily basis. I let myself lose control of what I was exposed myself to. I began letting the world humble me and letting everything wash in. All the pain, desolation, fear filled my mind. But soon after, I saw a glimmer in the darkness. For the pain that I felt, I saw growth. For the desolation I felt, I found friendship. For the fear i was haunted by, I gained drive. In letting myself descend into the darkness, I found glimmers of hope to hang onto.
I let go of my fear of confronting my reality. When you let go of the control you have on your life, you allow yourself to be vulnerable. Sometimes you will get hurt. Other times, you may gain a little more inner peace. But the more you do it, the more opportunities you are given. The more broadly you can look at the world and your own reality. It can be a challenge, but the payoff will speak for itself.
"Being vulnerable is an opportunity to start fresh and start anew in one way or another. What you do from there is up to you.""
It's easy to hold onto the false feeling that control gives you in your life. You can go about every day feeling like everything is okay, and that you're happy because you look good or you're doing something that you enjoy. But happiness is temporary. If you can embrace the "shit" if your life, you'll appreciate your own happiness even more.
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