Residence and Greek life accepts applications from part-time and full-time graduate students, including visiting and exchange students.Graduate students can live in McCormick Student Village, State Street Village, Carman Hall or Gunsaulus Hall.

Illinois Tech offers housing to all students, including visiting and exchange students; some housing choices are limited. For general information regarding campus housing, please review the Residence and Greek life website: http://www.iit.edu/housing.

Residence Halls & Apartments

Residence Hall housing aims to serve the social and academic needs for both undergraduate and graduate students. Going away to a university is much more than attending class and preparing for your professional future. It is an opportunity to meet new people, to exercise leadership and to grow.

Undergraduate and Graduate students can live in Gunsaulus Hall (Juniors/ Seniors/ Graduates/ Research scholars). Carman Hall students must be over the age of 23 or a graduate student. McCormick Student Village and State Street Village accommodates all students. Housing contracts are for 10-months. Summer housing options are also available at an additional cost; however, residents will be required to move to the summer housing location.

Students with a room assignment in the residence halls will find their room furnished with a twin bed, desk, dresser, and chair. Built-in closets are included. Included in the contract is internet access, cable, local telephone, electric, and gas.

Illinois Tech is strongly committed to the educational value of on-campus living. Because of this commitment, all freshmen not residing with a parent or guardian are required to live in Illinois Tech campus housing.

Roommates in the Residence Halls

Roommates in the residence halls (Gunsaulus Hall, McCormick Student Village and State Street Village) are assigned based on gender and space availability. Most halls and floors are coed; individual apartments are not.

Every effort is made to place students who mutually request each other in the same room. It is recommended that students who wish to live together list the name of their preferred roommate when submitting their online room contract at www.myroom.iit.edu/, All roommate requests must be mutual.

Single rooms and apartments are available in various locations.

Applicants will be given priority based on availability and according to the date the completed application is submitted. In compliance with the Unites States Fair Housing Act, assignments are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or veteran status.

Residence and Greek life reserves the right to make assignment changes as necessary. Updates can be viewed at: http://myroom.iit.edu/

GRADUATE STUDENT On-Campus Housing :

Residence and Greek life has a variety of campus housing options. Illinois Tech is growing and campus housing continues to be a commodity. It is strongly recommended that graduate students submit a Room and Board Contract for housing as early as possible.

Graduate students are welcome to submit Room and Board contracts for Carman Hall, McCormick Student Village, State Street Village or Gunsaulus Hall. All contracts are submitted online at: myroom.iit.edu.

There is no deadline to apply for housing; however, it is recommended that you submit a contract early especially if you have a preferred building, room type, or theme community request. All requests are honored on a first-come, first-served basis. To inquire about availability, please email housing@iit.edu.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT On-Campus Housing :

Illinois Tech is strongly committed to the educational value of on-campus living. Because of this commitment, all freshmen not residing with a parent or guardian are required to live in Illinois Tech campus housing.

Undergraduate students are welcome to submit Room and Board contracts for McCormick Student Village, State Street Village or Gunsaulus Hall. All contracts are submitted online at: myroom.iit.edu.

Residence and Greek life offers a variety of campus housing options. Illinois Tech is growing and campus housing continues to be a valued resource. It is strongly recommended that students submit a housing contract as early as possible.

There is no deadline to apply for housing; however, it is recommended that you submit a contract early especially if you have a preferred building, room type, or theme community request.

How to Apply

All new, transfer, visiting and exchange students must apply for campus housing upon accepting admission to Illinois Tech. Additional information and the housing contract is available online at: www.myroom.iit.edu/

Housing is limited, so accommodations must be booked well in advance. Applications are processed in the order in which they are received.

IMPORTANT: Mailed or faxed housing requests, applications, or deposits DO NOT guarantee a room. Applicants must submit the online housing contract to be assigned to a campus room.

When to arrive

If you have questions about check-in, room assignment, or housing in general, please contact the Residence and Greek life at: housing@iit.edu, Phone: 312-567-5075, Fax: 312-567-5926.

Residence and Greek life has a very helpful guide to moving into on-campus housing. You can find this guide by going to the main webpage (http://www.iit.edu/housing) and selecting on "Move in Guide". Learn about what items to bring, how to get involved and what opportunities and amenities await for you in campus housing.


The scope of soccer at the adult level continues to expand in Washington state. Our growing scene features clubs in most of the national leagues, including MLS, USL’s PDL, PASL, WPSL, W-League and the new NWSL. We’ve also got an entry in the otherwise all-Canadian PCSL.

What’s left outdoors? Only the NASL (men’s pro division two), USL Pro (men’s pro division three) and the NPSL (amateur league similar to the PDL but less developmentally-focused) are without Washington-based sides.

That could change as early as this year, if reports from the USL meetings are accurate.

Jason Davis of NASN broke the idea:

The details as understood are:

1. If an MLS city has a USL PRO team nearby, MLS will provide 5 players and pay their salary.

2. If there’s no USL PRO team, the MLS reserve side will become a new, permanent team in USL PRO.

3. All USL PRO teams will have an MLS affiliate.

It’s unclear at this point how far along the proposal is, though separate sources have confirmed that discussions are ongoing.

Sounders Reserves to USL Pro?

There are no ‘nearby’ USL Pro sides for the Sounders, Timbers and Whitecaps to adopt. Will they join in what would be a suddenly large 3rd division?

Initial responses to the idea from soccer followers are positive:

The existing reserve system has been a point of concern for many of the technical staff in the league, particularly when compared to the robust reserve systems in countries like Germany and Spain. As an example: MLS teams were restricted to just 10 Reserve matches last year. The Sporting KC technical staff opted to schedule six reserve matches before May 15, meaning reserves had only four opportunities to play a Reserve Match in the last five-and-a-half months of the season.

Merging the Reserve League with a lower-tier league like USL PRO offers an existing structure for MLS reserves to play more games while providing USL PRO the marketing boost of regularly scheduled games featuring tomorrow’s stars.

The Sporting News ran this feature today:

“My understanding is there are some talks, and they’re very positive talks,” Rochester Rhinos president Pat Ercoli told WYSL-AM this week. “We were told that there’s something that will be in place for this next season, and obviously it’ll be expanded upon in the future. … Hopefully within several weeks, we’ll be able to make that announcement.”

The man who runs one of American minor-league soccer’s most accomplished clubs hinted that there’s been a holdup in releasing the USL Pro schedule because of the talks with MLS. It is understood that one provisional schedule pits each USL Pro club against a pair of MLS reserve teams in 2013.

“There’s some exciting stuff coming down the line within several weeks here that will encompass our schedule,” Ercoli said.

Meaningful Matches

The biggest gain for Major League Soccer clubs and Sounders FC would be the additional meaningful matches in which to develop, train and evaluate players…all in a national league that they don’t have to operate themselves. For local fans it would mean yet another brand of soccer in yet another national league coming to the state of Washington.


Want to cut down on your meds? Your pharmacist can help.

Pharmacists are pivotal in the process of deprescribing risky medications in seniors, leading many to stop taking unnecessary sleeping pills, anti-inflammatories and other drugs, a new Canadian study has found.

Published today in the Journal of the American Medical Society (JAMA), the study by researchers at Université de Montréal (UdeM) took place in Quebec, Canada. The D-PRESCRIBE clinical trial followed 489 patients aged 65 year and older, involving 69 local pharmacists.

Half of the pharmacists distributed an educational brochure on deprescribing to their patients and also sent their family physician a pharmaceutical opinion to recommend deprescribing. The two-pronged approach sparked deprescribing conversations with eight out of every 10 patients.

More importantly, within six months, 43 per cent of users of sedative-hypnotics, 58 per cent of users of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and 31 per cent of users of glyburide (a.k.a. glibenclamide), an anti-diabetes drug, had safely stopped taking their medications.

No adverse events requiring hospitalization were reported, although 38 per cent of patients who attempted to gradually reduce their sedative-hypnotic medication reported transient withdrawal symptoms.

Education and outreach

"The D-PRESCRIBE study proves that community pharmacists can successfully lead the deprescribing of risky medication, by combining patient education with evidence-based outreach to physicians," said lead author Cara Tannenbaum, a medical professor and geriatrician who heads the Canadian Deprescribing Network.

"Seniors in Quebec have some of the highest rates of use of sedative-hypnotics in Canada," said Tannenbaum, who is also a researcher at UdeM's Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal and the Michel-Saucier Endowed Chair in Geriatric Pharmacology, Health and Aging at UdeM's pharmacy faculty.

"These are powerful medications that are not meant for long-term use, and they have also been linked to accidental opioid overdose," she said. "Some patients in our study had been taking these pills for decades, yet were able to gradually taper their dose over several months and completely stop." She added: "Deprescribing is possible at any age, as long as you have a good plan in place with your pharmacist or physician. You simply have to ask: 'Do I really still need this medication?'"

Mr. Yvon Quenet did. The patient participated in the D-PRESCRIBE study and discovered that "Deprescribing is a great big word for a great cause," he says. "We must denounce the excessive consumption of medications among seniors."

An all-time high

Worldwide, experts say the number of pills being prescribed to older people is at an all-time high, as are drug-related hospitalizations and deaths due to drug interactions or side effects. Seniors are especially at risk due to age-related changes in the body. Sedative-hypnotic sleeping and anxiety pills can contribute to memory problems, falls, fractures and motor-vehicle accidents. NSAIDs increase the risk of bleeding and heart failure. Glyburide (or glibenclamide) is yet another medication listed on the American Geriatrics Society 'Beers' list of drugs for the elderly to avoid, as it has been associated with excessively low blood sugar, dizziness, falls and lack of concentration.

"There's no question that pharmacists can play an active role in deprescribing and collaborate efficiently with their patients' physicians to reduce their risk of medication harm," said Bertrand Bolduc, President of the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec.

At the global level, the World Health Organization has also begun to address unsafe medication practices and medication errors – a leading cause of injury in health-care systems in many countries – through a patient-safety program called Medication Without Harm. "A concerted response is now needed to answer the WHO's call to action," said Tannenbaum.

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Van Susteren broke the news herself on Thursday when she delivered a short and sweet but looming tweet to her million-plus Twitter followers.

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According to The New York Times, Van Susteren’s agent and husband, John P. Coale, said that she was informed on Thursday that she would not be on that night’s broadcast. “They didn’t want her anymore,” said Coale in an interview. “We’re in kind of shock.”

Anyone would be, if they were let go from their work only hours before doing the job. Coale also said that there was “no warning” that Van Susteren or her show was in trouble.

This news does, however, come after a slew of tough ratings for Van Susteren in her new time slot. MSNBC’s 5 p.m. show, “MTP Daily,” averages up to 1.3 million viewers, but those numbers drop during Van Susteren’s hour, which is usually when most cable networks’ viewership numbers rise as they approach prime time. According to Nielsen, Van Susteren's show only averaged about 1 million viewers in June, an 18 percent drop from the previous hour. The network regained viewership by 58 percent in the next hour during Chris Matthews’ “Hardball.”

Van Susteren was also let go from Fox News in April after 14 years with the conservative news outlet. It was reported that a messenger arrived at her home and gave her two letters saying that she was out, effective immediately. Harsh. Though Thursday’s news is unfortunate, at least it was given to her in person by MSNBC’s president, Phil Griffin, according to Coale. Slightly less harsh. She was told around lunchtime in Washington.

MSNBC wasted no time in finding a replacement. Ali Velshi, who already had a 3 p.m. slot Monday through Friday at the network, started the same day Van Susteren was let go. He tweeted this out at 4 p.m. Thursday:


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Monday, 23 August 2010

The trade winds were strong enough last week to reach summit level and in fact were much stronger than at sea level. We found ourselves dealing with 30 mph winds with much higher gusts at times. Not only did the winds do their best to turn the telescope into a sail whenever we looked into the east, they created a local turbulence which destroyed any chance of obtaining decent image quality.

The shot above, of the setting sun, looks calm enough but I was standing in the lee of UKIRT. Even then the gusty winds made taking a a picture difficult. Below, a picture of Hualalai and the clouds in the saddle between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa taken an hour or so earlier. The winds were even stronger there as they were channeled between the two huge volcanoes and driven upslope. The cloud tops were literally being torn to pieces.

Saturday, 21 August 2010

I love my Irish music having been raised on it by an Irish father, but this is a little different - and very funny. Don't watch if swearing isn't your thing or you run an airline. Or German if you watch through to the very end.

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

It looks as though NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea is closed. In fact it isn't, it's just the dome turning its back to me. The open slit is facing 180 degrees away and the telescope is observing something in the orange twilight sky above the usual sea of clouds.

So here's a puzzle. The IRTF spends a lot of time observing planets in our Solar System and there's a good chance it might be doing that. This is around 7:05pm local time on the evening of August 11th - it's looking roughly north-northwest. Anyone hazard a guess as to what the observers were looking at?

Not that it'll help, but as ever you can click on the picture for a larger version.

Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Bloody hell, I'm tired. This switching to remote observing mode has to be done to keep us in business but it puts a bit of strain on those of us left. This is another shot from my last scheduled full night at UKIRT but I'm thinking more and more that it really won't be the last - there are just too many issues to deal with. As we've done for 30 years though, we'll make sure UKIRT works and provides the best service of all the professional observatories out there.

Anyway, it's well after sunset and the twin Kecks are open with Haleakala on Maui in the background.

Sunday, 15 August 2010

I found some wonderful videos today thanks to British Pathé . Find out about the planet Mars and the possibility of human and animal life on the planet including an in-depth explanation of retrograde motion. Modern technology such as movable arrows are employed to help explain the more succinct points.

(I just wish I could find out what the last second or two of the video is about - what's that thing being poked in his ear?)

Gravity is explained in the following video including a demonstration of how the whole of Europe rides on a wave of gravitational distortion. Is that Jack Hawkins playing the role of Newton by the way? Incidentally, this becomes quite surreal half way through.

Friday, 13 August 2010

Couldn't help it, I had to get a bit of lens flare on my last official full night at UKIRT. Pictures like this aren't normally ones I post because they show I don't always take care of cleaning my lenses, but the flare pattern is interesting - it looks as though I rolled a six!

It was an interesting night. Despite a clear sky, conditions were poor and above all, on the odd occasion I stepped outside to see the Perseid meteors, I think I saw only one in total. With 30 to 40-mph winds and temperatures well below freezing, I didn't stay outside long enough to see if there were any others!

Thursday, 12 August 2010

This seems so strange and it's come so quickly, but this is my final officially scheduled full night at the summit of Mauna Kea due to our upcoming switch to remote observing. I'm up again a few times during the rest of this year but all of them are support runs where I'm only at the summit for a few hours in the evening.

What an evening as well! Howling winds, below freezing temperatures and dreadful seeing. Oh well, I can't ask for everything I guess. It's going to feel a little sad at the end of the night when we leave for HP although my gut feeling is that I'm going to spending plenty of nights up here in the future. I hope so!

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

From atop Mauna Kea several inversion layers out to the west over the Pacific Ocean are noticeable due to their effect on the sunset. This evening's sunset was difficult to photograph as the winds were as high as 40mph, so I didn't bother with trying anything too spectacular, but did try and capture the setting sun with short exposures.

If you look closely (click on the image for a larger version) the upper and separate part of the sun (a mirage) is caused by refraction in a strong inversion layer. The layer holds air of a different temperature than below, hence has a different density therefore a different refractive index (remember your physics lesson at school?).

Several weaker inversion layers can also be seen distorting the disk of the sun as it sets behind very distant clouds. Eventually, the mirage disappears as the sun disappears behind the clouds and it's time to start another night on the mountain.

Sunday, 8 August 2010

Sometime we're so busy at sunset there's little time to take good sunset photographs. You just pop outside, take a couple of hand-held shots and head back inside to deal with whatever's going on. I took this on one of those occasions and it wasn't helped by some high winds. I'd started our observatory calibration sequences and popped outside quickly to watch the sun set before returning to the control room to sort out some problems we were having.

I'm not sure about this picture, it's a couple of hand-held pictures stitched together, but I like the colours and the lens flare!

Thursday, 5 August 2010

Eddie got the limelight yesterday so it's Bubbles' turn with her James Bond stare. She's old as well, about 9-months younger than Eddie, and thinks Eddie is her mum (she isn't). Bubbles and Eddie have an odd relationship. Bubbles will follow Eddie everywhere and Eddie doesn't like that but puts up with it. When they sleep, Bubbles' first task is to cuddle up to Eddie and if Eddie is half awake she runs away, but if she's really tired after her normal routine of pacing around the house and yard all day, she allows Bubbles to cuddle up.

That usually lasts ten minutes until Bubbles wants to play with Eddie and then it's the "where did my mum go?" look. Quite often, though, I find them sleeping together when I wake up in the morning.

Bubbles is not the most energetic of cats, her favourite pastime is lying by my side (or Eddie's), looking cute and purring like a meat grinder with BP pumping cement into it. Still, without any doubt, she has learned how to attract attention. Unlike Eddie, she likes to pose for the camera.

What does Eddie think? Nothing really, just as long as Bubbles doesn't bother her and she can stretch out on top of her favourite cardboard box.

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

After five minutes of frenetic activity with the catnip-filled toys, Eddie takes a rest. She's been with me from almost the first day I moved to Hawai`i 14 years ago and is (usually) still as active as she was when a kitten and certainly as cheeky. She just doesn't take any nonsense these days, just like the rest of us as we get older I suppose!

Tuesday, 3 August 2010

There are several reasons why Mauna Kea is one of the very best astronomical observing sites on the planet. One of them is the inversion layer which is caused by cool air above the summit sinking and preventing the warmer air nearer the surface from rising higher than a few thousand feet. It means the summit is free of cloud and fog for much of the year - weather can be a real problem for observatories closer to sea level.

That's not to say we don't get hit by clouds. Depending on how the jet stream is behaving we can get hit by high level cirrus clouds for days on end that don't care about the inversion layer. They provide the best sunsets for tourists and photographers but for optical and infrared telescopes they make observing rather tricky.

Then there are evenings when there's an inversion layer but convection is strong enough to force the tops of the clouds through the layer as in these pictures. Some of us who've worked at the summit long enough can often predict how good a night we'll have in terms of image quality just by looking at the clouds below us and how far they've risen above the layer. There's even one or two of us who think they can tell how much water is in the atmosphere above us simply by looking at the night sky! Kooks! Except I'm one of them!

Anyway, here are more clouds to look at from the summit, I hope you enjoy the pictures. At the top is the NASA IRTF with a very reflective dome and inversion layer busting clouds in the background.

The CFHT and one or two convective cumulus clouds to the north. The tops are just high enough to catch the last light from the setting sun. The shadows on the slope below the observatory are caused by the Kecks and Subaru.

You can tell where the inversion layer is in the two pictures above. Just look for the flat-topped cloud layers (click on the pictures for a larger version if you want).

The clouds are really bubbling up between the Big Island and Maui to the North-West. The summit of Haleakala on Maui is visible in the distance.

Final walk-around and check before observing starts. It's well after sunset, the Kecks are opening and the clouds down below shouldn't be a problem tonight.

Monday, 2 August 2010

Not much to say this evening, it's work all day and night at the moment and I've certainly had a few curve balls thrown my way. If I still lived in England I would have said "googlies sent my way" but no-one in the US would know what I was talking about. Just before I left the UK many years ago I actually managed to learn how to bowl a googly but my master ball was the top-spinner. I seemed to bowl that every time even when I didn't mean to.

I think I can cope with the extra work - it keeps the job interesting to say the least - but the lack of cricket is getting me down!

In the meantime, just another sunset photo to to keep everyone satisfied.

Sunday, 1 August 2010

I received two emails from Hawai`i Island Civil Defense this evening. The first said this:

"Highway 11 is closed in both directions at the 87 Mile Marker due to a traffic accident."The second one, about 2 hours later, said everything was clear:

"Highway 190 is now open in both directions"As much as I appreciate the time and effort these people put into their work, it's a great example of life on the island. This is a small, isolated place with few highways - it's almost impossible to get lost as a driver. The key to island life though is not to expect competence. If you can live and cope with that then life on the island is much more enjoyable.


Q:

How to force a line break in a legend of a boxplot?

I need help to skip lines in the legend of boxplots : I have a plot with two boxplots, and each of them has a legend to long to fit on a single line.
I tried this, X being my matrix of data (two colums) :
boxplot(X,'Labels',{'1stpartofthelegend\newline2ndpartofthelegend','1stpartofthelegend\newline2ndpartofthelegend})

This solution works in other types of plots, like a plotspread plot so I don't understand why it is not working here ?
I found this question, but the solutions are not working for me, maybe because I have a more recent version (R2018b).
I actually want to add my boxplots over a plotpsread plot, but when I do that the legends of the boxplots win over the legends of the plotspread (even if I add boxplots without legends, the previous legends of the plotspread are replaced by "1" and "2"). So preventing the boxplot to erase the previous legend would be a nice solution but as I failed to do that I tried to find another way.
Thank you for your help

A:

You want to set the 'Labels' of the boxplot for multiple lines. So use a cell of cells:
Lbl = { {'1st entry (1st line)','2nd entry (1st line)'},...
        {'1st entry (2nd line)','2nd entry (2nd line)'} };
boxplot(rand(100,2),'Labels',Lbl)

EDIT
LaTeX commands work in the title and labels but apparently there is no interpreter or TickLabelInterpreter  property for boxplot-Labels:

Error using internal.stats.parseArgs (line 42)
Invalid parameter name: TickLabelInterpreter.


Buying silk this Diwali? Make sure it really is silk!

If you are planning to surprise someone with a silk shirt or a silk saree this diwali, I suggest that you make sure it is authentic silk and carries the silk logo. This not only adds value to your gift, but also shows you as a smart consumer.

The advances in textile technology make it difficult for consumers to judge the quality of the fabric, particularly silk, at the time of purchase. So the Silk mark, represented by a high security hologram depicting a butterfly, provides an independent third-party assurance that the silk that you are buying is 100 per cent genuine, natural silk.

You can locate retailers who stock such guaranteed silk by logging on to the website of the Silk Mark Organization of India. I must also mention here that several state-government run shops that sell handlooms, particularly from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, sellonly silk-marked products. Moreover, you also get good festival discounts at these shops.

This is also the time when special exhibitions and melas are held at different parts of the city. While some sell fabrics and made ups, yet others sell jewellery, household goods, decoration items and electronic products. Since these are sold at temporary outlets put up for the occasion, it is important that you take a receipt for what you buy and get the permanent address of the seller. If something were to go wrong with the product, you would need that address. Keep the address of the organisers of the exhibition too.

If you are buying electronic goods, I would suggest you bargain real hard and get a good discount. Some manufacturers are offering to convert your purchases into 12, 24 or 36 EMIs on your credit card. I would advise caution here — given the steep rate of interest charged by credit cards companies, it may not end up as such a good idea. On the other hand, there are those offering to let you pay a part of the amount in interest-free installments. That’s a better offer, but make sure that it is really interest free.

This is also the time when retailers try to pass off brands or models other than what you ordered, when they make the delivery, and try to convince you that what they have sent is the best. Remember, this constitutes an unfair trade practice. In the case of Giriraj Studio VS M/s Koron Business Systems , for example, the apex consumer court made it clear that delivering a brand or a model other than the one ordered by the consumer constituted an unfair trade practice (RP no 2419 of 2002). Similarly undue delay in delivering the product constitutes deficiency in service.


Hong Kong City Guide

Avenue of Stars

With its renovation underway and target to re-open around end of 2018, Avenue of Stars celebrate the success of the film industry of Hong Kong. Currently, some of the exhibits are showcased in the Gardens of Stars including sculptures of Bruce Lee and Anita Mui, and 20 star-handprinted plaques.

Kennedy Town

Situated in the western side of the Hong Kong island and with the subway line extended, Kennedy Town has been seeing a booming restaurant scene where you can find many different kinds of café, specialty restaurants and bars.

Ladies’ Market

Its name came from the huge amount of items on sales for women of all ages. Nowadays, there are over 100 stalls of bargain clothing, accessories, souvenirs, watches, cosmetics, bags, home furnishings, CDs and trinkets, all you can name it.

Lan Kwai Fong

Undoubtedly the most popular nightlife hot spots, Lan Kwai Fong has been revamping to offer latest dining concepts and party venues. During the festive seasons such as Halloween, Christmas and New Year, there are always special celebrations in the area.

Temple Street Night Market

This is the only one place with entertainment, performance, food and shopping all converged. Temple Street Night Market is a popular street bazaar where you will find traders selling all kinds of wares, the Chinese opera singers performing, fortune tellers emerging to eagerly read your future, and no doubt, many eateries are surrounding the area.

Theme Parks

Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park Hong Kong are must dos for family vacationers – both conveniently connected by MTR system. Easily for a one-day excursion, it gives children the perfect spots to burn off their energies!

The Peak

If you only stay in Hong Kong for one day and ask for a must-do – The Peak it is. The circular walkway will give you probably the most amazing views of Hong Kong. You can also take The Tram from Admiralty up to The Peak or try a few different restaurants there while you are overlooking the stunning Hong Kong skyline.

The Big Buddha

Hidden away by lush mountains on the Lautau Island, the 34-metre Tian Tan Buddha statue, also known as the Big Buddha, has become a popular sightseeing spot for international tourists, especially for those who also want to enjoy a vegetarian meal at the monastery.

Outdoor Adventures

Perhaps lesser known but there are many hiking trails around Hong Kong – from the 100-kilometer MacLehose Trail offering different levels of difficulties and Dragon’s Back Ridge to the more challenging Lantau Peak.

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James Milner isn't just an ice-cool penalty taker in football matches, Liverpool's vice captain is also ruthless on the training ground, too!

Team-mate Emre Can has revealed that the Reds vice-captain is the best penalty taker he has ever seen in his career.

Milner has taken seven penalties in his Reds career so far - converting every one - including four this season.

And Can said: "I’m young but I haven’t seen in any of my teams so far such a good penalty taker.

"In training, every ball is in the net. He’s a very, very good penalty taker.”

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The Germany international has also been impressed by how vice-captain Milner has adjusted to life at left-back this term having spent most of his career in midfield.

“It has surprised a lot of people because it’s not easy to play at left-back from midfield,” Can said.

“But Millie did it very well and I think he has scored more goals than last year in this time.

"He’s a very important player for us. He has to keep going like that and the team has to keep going like that.”


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I had been meaning to reflect on the topic of “heroes” for a while now, then Pi Day came and Stephen Hawking left. As they say: “for a theoretical physicist you can hardly pick a better exit date than Pi Day and the birthday of Albert Einstein” (John Moffitt).

For those of you who don’t know about Pi Day (I just found out last year): It’s when 14th of March, written the American way (so: 3/14), resembles π … And then there’s this coincidence:

The news of Hawking’s passing was a surprise. I somehow expected him to survive us all. Surely his consciousness was uploaded previously up into a cloud somewhere.

Then again, this is the man who outlived his life expectancy, and every other expectation after that. His death is immediately a celebration of the life he had that no one said he would have.

I realized recently that growing up, I didn’t have female heroes I could relate to. My Barbies were white-skinned and blonde, and I didn’t really like Barbie anyway (I played with Ninja Turtles). I grew up in Nigeria so TV programmes were limited. I read a lot of books by Enid Blyton, telling stories of British girls in British boarding schools savouring scones. All this was entertaining, but it wasn’t a world I could relate to – and I really tried.

Growing up, this was my hero:

An intelligent, kind and culturally savvy European man, with his lovable, smart, and slightly alcoholic dog. I loved Tintin because he had no prejudice, made friends with “commoners”, learnt languages and wanted to understand cultures. He was always on the go, always on an adventure. He preferred not to solve with violence, but if he had to throw a punch, he hit mighty hard.

I still collect the comics and when I visited Belgium a few years ago, my main goal was to visit the Herge museum.

Summer 2014

But when Disney produced Pocahontas, I finally understood what identifying with a role model could be. She looked like me, spoke about values I could relate to, she was strong, she was kind, and she could speak to trees. In the Disney film, she didn’t fight (she only stopped a war) but I was sure if she had had to fight, she would have sent them all running.

Do our young girls growing up today have enough role models? Do we agree that they are good? How do girls today aspire to be? Until Pocahontas came along, my goal was to be an intelligent and kind European man, and I’m aware it sounds ridiculous, but deep down I know I still aspire to be him.

The #MeToo movement is changing the world. I see it in the media and hear it in conversations on campus. The most used phrases are “gender binary” and the criticism thereof. For the first time in history, female characters in film are beginning to resemble us women, our conversations, and our agenda.

I study anthropology: a field largely dominated by men, but the few female voices in our hall are loud. Just to name few: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, the one who demands the discipline go hand in hand with activism. Donna Haraway, the one who demands we think through the eyes of our companion species. Anna Lowenhaupt-Tsing, the one who explores the anthropocene through mushrooms.

There is no lack of women available for the job of role model. So it is an exciting time to be human in this re-imagining of genders. For women like myself, who grew up wanting to be just like Tintin and are in our mid-30s, we get to start over.

What kind of women do we want to be?

In my profession as an aerial instructor, we teach our students to “have clean lines”. We tell them there is no ideal body, no ideal age, but there are ideal lines. Pointed feet, extended legs, externally rotated shoulders. I justify this by saying, this is to help them develop proprioception: an awareness of their body in space. If you can remember to point your toes while you’re lifting yourself in the air, you got it.

I don’t like lines because they are rigid, block my creativity, and aren’t symbolic of movement but of rigidity. In a line, I have arrived. I am not going anywhere from here. In a line, I present.

Photoshoot with Kara Isabella Shepherd (Aberdeen, 2017)

They can be very satisfying to observe, and it is uncanny how quickly we will mould our bodies into lines. (Watch an aerialist do a sit up: his/her toes will be pointed.) Once we’ve moulded ourselves, lines prove herculean to exorcise.

Today I prepared for an aerial photoshoot for this weekend with a friend. As a trained dancer and aerialist, she has an eye for lines and a wicked knack for breaking them. I wanted to pose in moves I had created / found. Here are a few of the ones we found:

How have we changed since we last spoke? I was still learning the language of lines and desperately wanted to learn to embody them. After my radio silence, I can tell you I am now working to break free of them.

The female anthropologists I mentioned briefly don’t sound linear. They are not even circular; crisscrossing disciplines, borrowing metaphors and theories in order to sharpen and weaponise their points.

What kind of heroes do we want? In the end, Hawking wasn’t a hero for being a theoretical physicist. He crisscrossed the media, from The Simpsons to The Big Bang Theory. He wove his web all around us, binding unlikely friendships.

I’ve said a lot tonight, so I leave you here. I want to thank everyone who wrote me after my last post. Your replies of encouragement lifted me greatly!!

For my next post, I plan to share a paper that I wrote during my undergraduate years in Aberdeen that was accepted for publication, so you can get a feel for what I was writing when I was not writing here!

I leave you with this. If you watch any documentary, watch this. It’s on netflix.

I left Germany 4 years ago in a “glass half empty” kind of way. I had said everything I could say, and although I wasn’t done speaking, I had run out of energy to form words.

So I enrolled in a Master of Arts in Anthropology because I needed to fill my glass. Anthropology would help me understand the world again, its people and their madness, and feed me.

But I became fascinated. The more I studied, the deeper I wanted to go. Before I knew it, 4 years were up, and I felt I had just begun. I became passionate about zoonotic infectious diseases (illnesses that are transmitted from animals to humans) and when I graduated from the University of Aberdeen…

…I was accepted at the University of Edinburgh for an MSc in Medical Anthropology. That’s where I am now.

I also accidentally opened a circus space. In 2015, I pitched the idea of the benefits of such a space to the City of Aberdeen, to the Scottish Institute for Enterprise. I won the Young Innovators Challenge 2015 and, with two amazing fckn fantastic friends, Theo and Elsie, founded a company called “Inverted: Circus and Pole Fitness Ltd”.

I became a director, and taught aerial silks and acrobalance at all levels, to adults and children. If you want to know more about our company, go here: Inverted website!

So I spent the last 3 years being a director, finishing my undergrad, and writing my undergrad dissertation on how movement creates an identity, with focus on aerialists.

I made incredible friends. I gained an acro and aerial partner with whom I performed around Scotland: Elsie.

And now, my glass is filling up again.

I thought so often of writing you, telling you everything, but the longer I was away, the more I had to say, and the snake’s tail became too long. So I’ve just dumped this summary on you and I’m off again.

Welcome to the Blog

My name is Ritti Soncco. Born in Peru, bred in Nigeria and Germany, currently living in Scotland. I am a writer, aerialist and medical anthropologist. This blog is all about finding a balance between the artistic and the academic.

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Want to Get In Touch?

rittisoncco@gmail.com
facebook.com/aynisonqo
twitter: @rittisoncco

My Upcoming Novel

Vocabulary I Love To Use

AYLLU (Quechua): spiritual family; a nickname I use for my blog-reading family.

AYNI (Quechua): reciprocity; the fundamental law of Andean society. The concept of ayni goes as follows: if two people race against each other, the winner of the race is then, by the law of ayni, obliged to teach and train the loser how s/he won, until they become equally good. According to the law of ayni, this is the only way in which a society can advance.


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Q:

Traffic is not routed through VPN when PPPoE is Used

I have internet through PPPoE but the traffic is not routed through VPN. i use ubuntu 12.04.
Usually when i connect to a wireless internet adapter, there is no problem. But now I have to connect to through a PPPoE connection to connect to the internet and the problem rises. this is /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface dsl-provider inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth2 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
provider dsl-provider

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet manual

i have a strange feeling that pppoeconf made sth to the whole routing proccess. this is the ifconf
This is the /etc/resolvconf/interface-order
 # interface-order(5)
 lo.inet*
 lo.dnsmasq
 lo.pdnsd
 lo.!(pdns|pdns-recursor)
 lo
 tun*
 tap*
 hso*
 em+([0-9])?(_+([0-9]))*
 p+([0-9])p+([0-9])?(_+([0-9]))*
 eth*
 ath*
 wlan*
 ppp*
 *

vpn successfully makes the connection this is a part of ifconfig
 ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
           inet addr:172.19.11.36  P-t-P:192.168.4.19  Mask:255.255.255.255
           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
           RX packets:17307 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:15393 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
           RX bytes:11982216 (11.9 MB)  TX bytes:2269457 (2.2 MB)

 tun0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
           inet addr:10.1.7.21  P-t-P:10.1.7.22  Mask:255.255.255.255
           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:544 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
           RX bytes:169625 (169.6 KB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

This is the output of route -n
 Kernel IP routing table
 Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
 0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 ppp0
 10.1.6.242      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 tun0
 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth2
 172.25.1.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     2      0        0 eth2
 192.168.4.19    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0

How can i make the traffic go throught the tun0?

A:

Please add the routing table aswell (route -n). Most probably just the default route is missing. Something like "route add -default gw 10.1.7.22" may work but it depends also on the rest of the routing you have to do.
Most probably with wlan and so on the NetworkManager itself already sets up the default route on that interface.


/**
 * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0.
 */

#pragma once
#include <aws/opsworks/OpsWorks_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSVector.h>
#include <aws/opsworks/model/Command.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
template<typename RESULT_TYPE>
class AmazonWebServiceResult;

namespace Utils
{
namespace Json
{
  class JsonValue;
} // namespace Json
} // namespace Utils
namespace OpsWorks
{
namespace Model
{
  /**
   *
Contains the response to a DescribeCommands
   * request.

See Also:
   AWS
   * API Reference

   */
  class AWS_OPSWORKS_API DescribeCommandsResult
  {
  public:
    DescribeCommandsResult();
    DescribeCommandsResult(const Aws::AmazonWebServiceResult<Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue>& result);
    DescribeCommandsResult& operator=(const Aws::AmazonWebServiceResult<Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue>& result);

    /**
     *
An array of Command objects that describe each of the specified
     * commands.

     */
    inline const Aws::Vector<Command>& GetCommands() const{ return m_commands; }

    /**
     *
An array of Command objects that describe each of the specified
     * commands.

     */
    inline void SetCommands(const Aws::Vector<Command>& value) { m_commands = value; }

    /**
     *
An array of Command objects that describe each of the specified
     * commands.

     */
    inline void SetCommands(Aws::Vector<Command>&& value) { m_commands = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
An array of Command objects that describe each of the specified
     * commands.

     */
    inline DescribeCommandsResult& WithCommands(const Aws::Vector<Command>& value) { SetCommands(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
An array of Command objects that describe each of the specified
     * commands.

     */
    inline DescribeCommandsResult& WithCommands(Aws::Vector<Command>&& value) { SetCommands(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
An array of Command objects that describe each of the specified
     * commands.

     */
    inline DescribeCommandsResult& AddCommands(const Command& value) { m_commands.push_back(value); return *this; }

    /**
     *
An array of Command objects that describe each of the specified
     * commands.

     */
    inline DescribeCommandsResult& AddCommands(Command&& value) { m_commands.push_back(std::move(value)); return *this; }

  private:

    Aws::Vector<Command> m_commands;
  };

} // namespace Model
} // namespace OpsWorks
} // namespace Aws


GETTY North Korea cyber attack: a hacker group called 'Reaper' are on the rise

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Cybersecurity research firm FireEye has warned Kim Jong-un’s regime has stepped up its efforts to spy on large South Korean and Japanese, Vietnamese and Middle Eastern firms. The news of Reaper’s activity comes after another North Korean backed hacker group called “Lazarus” wreaked havoc across the world last year after a wide-spread cyber attack. John Hultquist, FireEye's Director of Intelligence Analysis, said: “We're talking multinationals, they have offices all over the world. Companies like that, any effect can reverberate, because it's global already.” Reaper is a mysterious hacking group and very little is known about them but FireEye has said with “high confidence” the group’s online activity is “carried out on behalf of the North Korean government, given malware development artifacts and targeting that aligns with North Korean state interests.”

While Mr Hultquist would not name which companies had been targeted by North Korea, he said the group had placed their attention on Fortune Global 500 companies that are "the crown jewels" of the South Korean economy. The FireEye Director continued: “It's like your security system is a big wall, but someone knows that there's a hole somewhere in that wall and can crawl through it.” The new report into the threat posed by Reaper comes after the US intelligence community said in a Worldwide Threat Assessment published last week that there would be a rise in cyberattacks from North Korea in 2018. They said: “We expect the heavily sanctioned North Korea to use cyber operations to raise funds and to gather intelligence or launch attacks on South Korea and the United States.”

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When the hacker group appeared to rapidly increase their activity last year, security firm Check Point warned the rapidly growing new bot may have already infected millions of organisations. Check Point warned: “The next cyber hurricane is about to come”. The attack could be used to distribute ransomware, or to send spam or phishing messages. Check Point said: “So far we estimate over a million organisations have already been affected worldwide, including the US, Australia and everywhere in between, and the number is only increasing. “Our research suggests we are now experiencing the calm before an even more powerful storm.

GETTY Kim Jong-un has always denied North Korea being linked to any cyberattacks


I. Introduction
===============

The decision-making process is fundamental for healthcare facilities struggling to improve healthcare quality. Monitoring activities is the first step in the decision-making process, yet it remains a challenge for healthcare facilities, requiring maturity of their decision information system where information is collected correctly, shared in a timely manner in a representative form, and personally adapted to health professionals' needs.

As an emerging data science field to leverage data and to translate it into actionable insights, business analytics (BA) empowers decision makers with data and supports them to make decisions. BA may be defined as "a broad category of applications, technologies, and processes for gathering, storing, accessing, and analyzing data to help business users make better decisions" \[[@b1-hir-26-2-146]\].

Three types of BA are employed by organizations: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive \[[@b2-hir-26-2-146],[@b3-hir-26-2-146]\]. Most healthcare facilities start with descriptive analytics, using data to understand past and current healthcare decisions and to make informed decisions \[[@b4-hir-26-2-146]\]. Studies of applied descriptive analytics for chronic diseases \[[@b5-hir-26-2-146]\], cardiovascular diseases \[[@b6-hir-26-2-146]\], diabetes, oncology, elderly care, gynecology, mental health \[[@b7-hir-26-2-146]\], supply chain management, and clinical research have shown that it can enable the delivery of timely care and cost-saving by eliminating inefficiencies.

The majority of BA users are in developed countries; therefore, there is a need for promotion of research on BA in developing countries \[[@b8-hir-26-2-146]\].

This study aimed to describe the experience of a low-income healthcare facility in adopting BA where business processes were adjusted according to BA insights and to discuss implementation challenges in such an environment.

II. Case Description
====================

1. Project Settings
-------------------

The University Psychiatric Centre Ibn Rochd (CPU) is the reference public teaching hospital for mental health in the Greater Casablanca region of Morocco with an estimated population of 6.812 million citizens in 2014 and a litter capacity of 104 beds.

CPU has utilizes an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system in outpatient consultation, which it adopted in 2015. Each time a patient has a consultation, the doctor adds clinical notes to the patient record in the EMR system and a single computerized physician order entry (CPOE) of psychiatric drug prescription. However, not all patient visits are recorded in the EMR system. The ratio of patients seen with and without CPOE was 0.48 (2,200/4,560) in 2016, 2.33 (5,496/2,358) in 2017, and 1.27 (4,540/3,568) in 2018.

To monitor this activity, we applied BA techniques to EMR data over a 3-year period from Jan 19, 2016 to Dec 31, 2018. The monitored key metrics were the following: (1) monthly number of consultation represented by the monthly number of CPOEs; (2) number and proportion of mental diseases represented by the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD10); (3) number of prescribed psychiatric drugs aggregated by family and specialty names; (4) monthly number of CPOEs performed by a particular physician; (5) number of CPOEs for a particular geolocation using patient district geolocation; and (6) monthly averaged outpatient care wait time computed by calculating for each patient the delay between patient arrival time and CPOE time.

2. Business Analytics Techniques
--------------------------------

Descriptive business analytics was conducted including three steps.

### 1) Data extraction

It includes three processes namely extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) to extract EMR data fields using structured query language queries, to compute new fields, and to store fields in a data warehousing server. We used Pentaho Data Integration as an ETL graphical tool \[[@b9-hir-26-2-146]\]. [Figure 1](#f1-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"} shows a drug dimension transformation.

### 2) Data modeling

A data star schema model \[[@b10-hir-26-2-146]\] transforms data fields to a dimension data model where the dimension hierarchy and measures are defined. Using Pentaho Model Editor, we created the data model represented in [Figure 2](#f2-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"}.

### 3) Data visualization

For representing outcomes, we used Pentaho Report Editor included in Pentaho BA Solution \[[@b11-hir-26-2-146]\]. [Figure 3](#f3-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"} shows the graphical interactive reporting editor for creating graphs.

3. Statistical Analysis
-----------------------

Using R statistics version 3.5.3, we describe continuous variables by mean ± standard deviation, and categorical variables by number (%). We applied the Student *t*-test to compare CPOE means of 2 years and ANOVA one-way test to compare multiple outpatient wait care time annual means. A *p*-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.

4. Results
----------

### 1) Acts quantitative assessment

CPU outpatient acts are estimated by the monthly number of CPOEs ([Figure 4](#f4-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"}). This number increased significantly (*p* \< 0.0001) in 2017 (mean ± SD, 433 ± 66) compared to 2016 (183 ± 88). However, a significant decrease was noted (*p* = 0.028) in 2018 (378 ± 47) compared to 2017.

### 2) Medico-economic key metrics

Care insights were obtained according to several medico-economic dimensions, such as socio-demographic factors (sex, marital status), economic factors (patient health insurance), medical factors (diagnosis, clinical scales, hospitalization decision). [Figure 5](#f5-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"} shows the top five diagnoses according to time dimension, and [Figure 6](#f6-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"} shows the top five diagnoses according to gender dimension in 2018.

### 3) Psychiatric drug needs according to prescription

Monitoring drug prescriptions allows CPU to have a real estimation of drug needs. BA Roll UP and Drill Down techniques allow reporting of (1) aggregated measures of drug families, drug specialties or (2) detailed information about a particular prescribed drug ([Figure 7](#f7-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"}).

### 4) Health professional performance monitoring

Physician performance was evaluated by monitoring each physician's monthly number of CPOEs over time. [Figure 8](#f8-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"} shows a personal follow-up of one physician whose activity drastically improved after the first-year feedback meeting.

### 5) Outpatient care wait time monitoring

The monthly averaged outpatient care wait time in minutes is presented in [Figure 9](#f9-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"}. A significant progressive decrease was noted (*p* \< 0.0001) between 2018 (68 ± 49), 2017 (81 ± 56) and 2016 (93 ± 56).

### 6) Psychiatric drugs distribution mapping

Using a country-based geographical location database \[[@b12-hir-26-2-146]\], a district-based map of prescribed psychiatric drugs weighted by patient count was created ([Figure 10](#f10-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"}). Prescribed psychiatric drugs and patient count are graphically correlated (green color goes with bigger dots).

III. Discussion
===============

In addition to obtaining data-driven quantitative assessment of activity, we also adjusted many CPU business processes according to BA insights:

1.  \- EMR adoption was enhanced based on CPOE monitoring. The number of CPOEs significantly increased in 2017 compared to 2016 ([Figure 4](#f4-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"}) due to BA report feedback.

2.  \- The significant decrease in the number of CPOEs in 2018 compared to 2017 ([Figure 4](#f4-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"}) coincided with CPU manager (project leader) departure, which spurred the new manager to resume efforts to ensure project sustainability.

3.  \- Intern training was adapted to the distribution of mental disorders ([Figure 5](#f5-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"}).

4.  \- Drug-need estimation was for the first time data driven ([Figure 7](#f7-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"}).

5.  \- Private manager--physician meetings to discuss poor CPOE activity in 2016 ([Figure 8](#f8-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"}) drastically impacted physician performance in subsequent years.

6.  \- Outpatient care wait time excessive average in May 2016 ([Figure 9](#f9-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"}) led to better physician leave planning in subsequent years.

7.  \- The Mental Health League (non-governmental association dispensing free psychiatric drugs to patients) used a drug-distribution map ([Figure 10](#f10-hir-26-2-146){ref-type="fig"}) to rationalize psychiatric drug dispensing.

Several challenges in BA adoption were encountered in our experience:

1.  \- Maturity of strategic needs and business organization: Higher investment in technology may not bring more returns, rather organizational capability acts as a key mediator in value creation \[[@b13-hir-26-2-146]\]. CPU managers are more aware of BA strategy plan need to become a data-driven facility.

2.  \- Data quality and governance: Underlying data quality and semantic interoperability systems adoption are data success factors to address in decision-making process \[[@b14-hir-26-2-146],[@b15-hir-26-2-146]\]. To tackle data issues, CPU adopts structured clinical templates and data repositories along with BA fuzzy matching techniques.

3.  \- Quality key metrics issues: It is important to identify appropriate metrics to know whether an implemented change represents an improvement over existing processes \[[@b16-hir-26-2-146]\]. Bringing relevant metrics out of the existing EMR system designed only for continuity of care was quite challenging in this project.

4.  \- Audit and feedback: Continued auditing and feedback of performance has been recognized as critically important \[[@b4-hir-26-2-146],[@b16-hir-26-2-146]\]. Annual feedback meetings based on BA reports have been a key success factor for project sustainability.

5.  \- Reporting and interpreting results: Reporting should be collaborative between health professionals and data scientists who know data limits and weaknesses \[[@b17-hir-26-2-146]\]. Collaboration between CPU medical staff and medical informatics staff was important for interpreting outcomes.

6.  \- Evaluation of BA adoption impact on healthcare facility: BA impact on business performance and business value creation implies a multidimensional relationship evaluation model \[[@b18-hir-26-2-146]\]. The relationship between BA and firm performance is to a large degree mediated by process change capabilities \[[@b19-hir-26-2-146]\]. Project stakeholders positively perceive BA impact on business processes and on information processing.

**Conflict of Interest**

No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

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![Pentaho Report Editor showing drug prescriptions per diagnosis.](hir-26-2-146f3){#f3-hir-26-2-146}

![Monthly CPOE number at the University Psychiatric Centre outpatient consultation by year. CPOE: computerized physician order entry.](hir-26-2-146f4){#f4-hir-26-2-146}

![Top five diagnoses by year at the University Psychiatric Centre outpatient consultation.](hir-26-2-146f5){#f5-hir-26-2-146}

![Top five diagnoses by gender at the University Psychiatric Centre outpatient consultation in 2018.](hir-26-2-146f6){#f6-hir-26-2-146}

![Prescribed psychiatric drug at the University Psychiatric Centre outpatient consultation in 2018.](hir-26-2-146f7){#f7-hir-26-2-146}

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![Monthly averaged the University Psychiatric Centre outpatient care wait time in minutes over year.](hir-26-2-146f9){#f9-hir-26-2-146}

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Q:

Core Plot drawing a straight y axis line with the labels on top

For the image below

Does anyone know how to get those horizontal lines with the numbers on top of them ? All I can get so fat is to color the ticks themselves and the numbers standing to the right of them. Any ideas how this can be achieved ?

A:

You need to use the majorGridLineStyle properties on your axes. Also check the minorGridLineStyle property. You can see an example in the CPTestApp. For more details check this google forum.
for eg:-
CPTMutableLineStyle *yMajorGridLineStyle = [CPTLineStyle lineStyle];
yMajorGridLineStyle.lineCap = kCGLineCapRound;
yMajorGridLineStyle.lineColor = CPTColor whiteColor];
yMajorGridLineStyle.lineWidth = 1.0;

CPTXYAxisSet *axisSet = (CPTXYAxisSet *)graph.axisSet;
CPTXYAxis *yAxis = axisSet.yAxis;
yAxis.majorGridLineStyle = yMajorGridLineStyle;

In order to move the numbers to the right side of the axis, you can use,
yAxis.tickDirection = CPTSignPositive;.

Also use,
yAxis.labelAlignment = CPTAlignmentBottom;


So, I decided to make a Nerf version of the Aliens pulse rifle...I looked at a few different Nerf guns to use as a base, and the Stampede stood out from the start, as it was a full-auto gun. Once I got down to it though, the dimensions just weren't right, and I went a different route.In the end, I used a Nerf Recon for the body, Longshot Front Gun for the front/grenade launcher, and the Raider's sliding stock. My plan was to make the entire gun portion out of Nerf and then scratch build the rest out of styrene...So, here she is, from start to completion^started with the 2 Nerfs^chopped the top off the front gun and repositioned it to the bottom^styrene mostly done. For the clip, I used a cut-down 18 dart Nerf clip, then reglued it bck together to hold 12 darts.^modeling done...^painted!^You can see the trigger for the grenade launcher here. Both the main gun and grenade launcher fire perfectly (and were modded to go much farther than stock)^and a couple artsier shots to end itStill need to cut off the ends of a few screws to get em in the holes without blocking the clip or stock from sliding, but other than that she's done.Super happy with the way it turned out. It's very sturdy, and pretty hefty too, since I filled a lot of the innards with loads of hot glue to add some strength and weight.Hope you like itUpdate: *** here's the templates for anyone else that wants to make one http://mobiusdesigns.com/nerf/Nerf_pulse_rifle.rar ***


German Chancellor Angela Merkel has agreed to a proposal from coalition partner and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer to limit the number of asylum seekers in Germany to 200,000 per year – but other coalition partners are not as positive on the policy.

The German chancellor, who also heads the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), mended a rift between her party and the Bavarian CSU who have argued for the migrant limit for well over a year. The new agreement, which was negotiated over the span of around six hours, gets rid of the term “upper limit” but still agrees to the 200,000 asylum seeker number proposed by the CSU, Die Welt reports.

The official text of the agreement states: “We want to achieve the total number for humanitarian reasons (refugees and asylum seekers, subsidiary protection, family reunion, relocation and resettlement, minus repatriations, and voluntary expulsions of future refugees) a number not exceeding 200,000 people per year.”

Merkel Coalition Rift Deepens As Ally Demands Cap On Migrants https://t.co/lWCOuAJiOY pic.twitter.com/ePxhvTuAt3 — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 18, 2016

The agreement states that Germany will work with existing structures, including agreements with the European Union (EU) to maintain the goal of 200,000 per year. What is not stated in the agreement is what will happen if the limit is met and there are still more migrants who wish to enter the country.

“If the aforementioned goal is not met by international or national developments, the Federal Government and the Bundestag will make appropriate adjustments to the target down or above,” the text reads, meaning that the number could be increased above 200,000.

The asylum seeker limit could also have implications for the proposed “Jamaica coalition” between the CDU/CSU, the libertarian Free Democrats and the Green party.

Green party co-leader Simone Peter said that the agreement could see asylum seekers pitted against each other. “This has nothing to do with human rights-based asylum policies,” she said. Peter also claimed that the Greens would not support the classification of more overseas states as safe, meaning less chance for migrants to be deported to countries like Afghanistan or North African nations.

Merkel Ally: Deportation of Quarter of a Million Failed Asylum Seekers ‘Almost Impossible’ https://t.co/KApU0ZeBV3 — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 13, 2017

The month before the German national election, CSU leader Horst Seehofer said that mass deportations of illegal migrants had become “almost impossible“.

Despite there being an estimated 250,000 illegals in Germany he said: “The question of deportation is a great illusion in Germany. It is almost impossible to send back the migrants once they are in the country.”


A recent development in the field of electro-mechanics has been the miniaturization of various mechanical devices. Typical of such devices are tiny gears, levers, and valves. These "micro-mechanical" devices are manufactured using integrated circuit techniques, often together with electrical control circuitry. Common applications include accelerometers, pressure sensors, and actuators. As another example, micro-mirrors can be configured for use in spatial light modulators.
For fabricating micro-mechanical devices, as with electrical integrated circuits, a carrier, known as a wafer, has thin-film materials selectively deposited and patterned on it. Thin-film deposition and wet and dry etching are integral parts of the fabrication process. The thin films are patterned to provide structural elements of the micro-mechanical elements. Sacrificial etching is used to provide a "spacer layer", which is a soluble layer that is grown or deposited for later removal from beneath structure that has been patterned above it. The removal is usually by wet etching. The patterned structure is left behind, with an air gap between it and its underlying structure. The air gap permits the formation of elements that move, such as by rotating, bending, or tilting.
One type of micro-mechanical spatial light modulator is a digital micro-mirror device (DMD), which has an array of tiny tilting mirrors. For freedom of movement, each of these mirrors is mounted on one or more post-supported hinges and spaced by means of an air gap, over underlying control circuitry. A typical sequence of steps for manufacturing the mirrors and their hinges is to etch the support posts, provide sacrificial spacer material between the support elements, fabricate the mirrors and hinges on the surface of the spacer material such that each hinge is in contact with its support post, and remove the sacrificial material. Many DMD designs call for the sacrificial material to be provided in a manner that provides a surface that is co-planar with the top surfaces of the support elements. In the past, this has been accomplished by at least two steps that include depositing a layer of sacrificial material over the support elements and selectively etching away the material over the support posts. Typically, the selective etching requires use of a mask.


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A two-alarm fire in the Bronx that left three little boys dead, including a 4-month-old baby, was started by a candle that was burning in the apartment after electricity was cut off, officials said. Checkey Beckford reports. (Published Monday, Oct. 28, 2013)

A two-alarm fire in the Bronx that left three little boys dead, including a 4-month-old baby, was started by a candle that was burning in the apartment after electricity was cut off, officials said.

Fire officials say the fire broke out around 7:45 p.m. Friday evening inside an apartment on the second floor of a three-story building on West 165th Street in Highbridge. A candle in the kitchen was said to be the cause.

Police say 2-year-old Jeremiah Artis, 5-year-old Elijah Artis and 4-month old Michael Turner all died in the fire.

“FDNY fire marshals have determined the fire is accidental," authorities said in a statement. "And the fire was caused by a candle in the kitchen area.”

An official for Con Edison said the power had recently been shut off in the apartment because the bill, which totaled thousands of dollars, had not been paid.

The children's 25-year-old mother and two of their sisters were also brought to the hospital, where they were being treated for smoke inhalation.

"Fire inside that apartment basically burnt off some of the plaster off the walls and a couple rooms in that apartment were charred up pretty bad," said FDNY Chief Ronald Spadafora.

Witnesses said people rushed to get out of the building as the fire spread.

“It was a horrible sight,” said Al Meyers, who lives across the street. “People screaming, climbing out the fire escape.”

The building is near the site of a 2007 fire that killed 10, including eight children.


OKCoin traders in Singapore can buy Bitcoin and Ethereum using the Singapore Dollar (SGD) as of 12 May. The exchange has opened offices in Singapore, which is one the world’s most crypto-friendly countries.

Accordingly, OKCoin has joined more than 600 firms that have forayed into Singapore, including Binance Asia, Litecoin Foundation and Algorand Foundation.

This is the latest OKCoin journey of connecting the world to cryptocurrencies.

Hong Fang, OKCoin CEO, said:

“There has been a huge demand from traders throughout Singapore who are looking for a safe and reliable way to trade cryptocurrencies with the Singapore dollar, and we are proud to be entering the market in a way that fully complies with local regulations and policies.”

Singapore’s regulations likely to lure more firms

In addition, the company has added another currency portal to the almost 200 onramps.

On 28 January, Singapore has enacted its crypto law – the Payments Services Act (PSA) – which formally puts crypto firms under the control of The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS); the country’s central bank.

Despite being expensive for some, applying for this vital license provides credibility for the crypto industry in Singapore.

Some local crypto exchanges have highlighted the possible benefits of the new law, with some of them expecting the regulations to attract more blockchain companies to the country.

OKCoin spokesperson said:

“The commitment the Singapore government has shown to the growth and development of Blockchain will put the city-state among the global leaders driving the industry forward, making Singapore a major focus for OKCoin.”

Binance applies for license in Singapore

Binance, Malta-based crypto exchange, has applied for an operating license in Singapore, in a bid to expand its user base while complying with regulations.

However, Binance is not the only international firm seeing the potential of the new regulations in Singapore. London-based Luno, and Tokyo-located Liquid have also expressed their plans to apply.

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-y**2 - 2316*y + 1
What is the y'th term of -6493, -6503, -6525, -6565, -6629, -6723, -6853?
-y**3 - 3*y - 6489
What is the n'th term of -8650, -8639, -8630, -8623, -8618, -8615, -8614?
-n**2 + 14*n - 8663
What is the b'th term of -1878, -1855, -1824, -1785, -1738, -1683?
4*b**2 + 11*b - 1893
What is the s'th term of 405, 803, 1127, 1341, 1409, 1295, 963, 377?
-6*s**3 - s**2 + 443*s - 31
What is the z'th term of 451, 415, 355, 271, 163?
-12*z**2 + 463
What is the u'th term of 36869, 36871, 36873, 36875?
2*u + 36867
What is the k'th term of 76, 209, 296, 313, 236?
-4*k**3 + k**2 + 158*k - 79
What is the z'th term of 1354, 2600, 3834, 5050, 6242?
-z**3 + 1253*z + 102
What is the y'th term of 311, 701, 1217, 1901, 2795?
7*y**3 + 21*y**2 + 278*y + 5
What is the q'th term of 1052, 849, 646, 443, 240?
-203*q + 1255
What is the t'th term of 4365, 4349, 4307, 4227, 4097?
-2*t**3 - t**2 + t + 4367
What is the m'th term of 1867, 1994, 2203, 2494, 2867, 3322?
41*m**2 + 4*m + 1822
What is the z'th term of 8850, 8854, 8858, 8862?
4*z + 8846
What is the c'th term of 49142, 49128, 49114, 49100?
-14*c + 49156
What is the v'th term of 6270, 6264, 6258?
-6*v + 6276
What is the f'th term of -942, -1747, -3100, -5007, -7474, -10507, -14112, -18295?
-f**3 - 268*f**2 + 6*f - 679
What is the u'th term of -3890, -3901, -3912, -3917, -3910, -3885?
u**3 - 6*u**2 - 3885
What is the z'th term of -284, -556, -830, -1106?
-z**2 - 269*z - 14
What is the d'th term of 984, 1023, 1062?
39*d + 945
What is the h'th term of -9810, -9814, -9822, -9834?
-2*h**2 + 2*h - 9810
What is the y'th term of 309, 2659, 9063, 21549, 42145, 72879, 115779, 172873?
338*y**3 - y**2 - 13*y - 15
What is the o'th term of -23516, -47030, -70544, -94058, -117572?
-23514*o - 2
What is the h'th term of 119, 112, 105, 98, 91, 84?
-7*h + 126
What is the s'th term of 972, 1728, 2270, 2598, 2712, 2612, 2298?
-107*s**2 + 1077*s + 2
What is the t'th term of 30675, 61315, 91953, 122589, 153223, 183855, 214485?
-t**2 + 30643*t + 33
What is the u'th term of 334, 400, 504, 646?
19*u**2 + 9*u + 306
What is the z'th term of -324, -319, -328, -363, -436, -559?
-2*z**3 + 5*z**2 + 4*z - 331
What is the w'th term of -466, -396, -326, -256, -186, -116?
70*w - 536
What is the f'th term of 67, 102, 111, 88, 27, -78?
-f**3 - 7*f**2 + 63*f + 12
What is the s'th term of -146, -581, -1302, -2309, -3602, -5181, -7046?
-143*s**2 - 6*s + 3
What is the z'th term of 1922, 1911, 1888, 1847, 1782, 1687, 1556?
-z**3 - 4*z + 1927
What is the x'th term of 620, 1137, 1654, 2171?
517*x + 103
What is the f'th term of 15608, 15917, 16756, 18389, 21080, 25093, 30692?
44*f**3 + f**2 - 2*f + 15565
What is the a'th term of -2027, -4075, -6123, -8171, -10219, -12267?
-2048*a + 21
What is the b'th term of -2049382, -2049375, -2049354, -2049313, -2049246, -2049147?
b**3 + b**2 - 3*b - 2049381
What is the d'th term of 184459, 368918, 553377, 737836?
184459*d
What is the p'th term of -1249760, -1249759, -1249758, -1249757, -1249756?
p - 1249761
What is the m'th term of 7133546, 7133547, 7133548, 7133549?
m + 7133545
What is the t'th term of -29, -61, -113, -185, -277, -389, -521?
-10*t**2 - 2*t - 17
What is the t'th term of -1416, -1396, -1340, -1230, -1048, -776, -396, 110?
3*t**3 - t - 1418
What is the p'th term of -2572527, -5145055, -7717583, -10290111, -12862639, -15435167?
-2572528*p + 1
What is the q'th term of -19360, -38703, -58044, -77383, -96720, -116055?
q**2 - 19346*q - 15
What is the w'th term of 459, 925, 1409, 1911, 2431, 2969?
9*w**2 + 439*w + 11
What is the i'th term of 1036, 4218, 9546, 17014, 26616, 38346, 52198?
-i**3 + 1079*i**2 - 48*i + 6
What is the z'th term of -18639, -37283, -55927, -74571, -93215, -111859?
-18644*z + 5
What is the d'th term of 2143, 8566, 19271, 34258, 53527, 77078?
2141*d**2 + 2
What is the j'th term of 94127, 188257, 282389, 376523?
j**2 + 94127*j - 1
What is the t'th term of 437, 958, 1819, 3014, 4537, 6382, 8543, 11014?
-t**3 + 176*t**2 + 262
What is the o'th term of 14, -21, -72, -133, -198, -261, -316, -357?
o**3 - 14*o**2 + 27
What is the u'th term of 113, 911, 3047, 7193, 14021?
112*u**3 - 3*u**2 + 23*u - 19
What is the b'th term of -15627, -15446, -15267, -15090, -14915, -14742, -14571?
-b**2 + 184*b - 15810
What is the t'th term of -1393, -1407, -1425, -1447, -1473, -1503, -1537?
-2*t**2 - 8*t - 1383
What is the t'th term of -102, 439, 980?
541*t - 643
What is the p'th term of -862, -869, -876, -883?
-7*p - 855
What is the s'th term of -10565055, -10565057, -10565059?
-2*s - 10565053
What is the o'th term of 5249, 5240, 5225, 5204, 5177?
-3*o**2 + 5252
What is the h'th term of -70, 14, 118, 254, 434, 670?
2*h**3 - 2*h**2 + 76*h - 146
What is the k'th term of -22632, -45271, -67920, -90585, -113272, -135987, -158736?
-k**3 + k**2 - 22635*k + 3
What is the x'th term of 43, 310, 1033, 2440, 4759, 8218?
38*x**3 + x + 4
What is the u'th term of 354, 2942, 9972, 23664, 46238?
370*u**3 + u**2 - 5*u - 12
What is the p'th term of 201, 281, 361, 441?
80*p + 121
What is the t'th term of -133, -273, -413, -553, -693, -833?
-140*t + 7
What is the x'th term of -2761, -2750, -2737, -2722, -2705, -2686, -2665?
x**2 + 8*x - 2770
What is the k'th term of -54, -88, -238, -564, -1126, -1984?
-10*k**3 + 2*k**2 + 30*k - 76
What is the o'th term of -125, -221, -295, -335, -329?
2*o**3 - o**2 - 107*o - 19
What is the l'th term of 17496, 17497, 17498, 17499?
l + 17495
What is the j'th term of -629, -1262, -1905, -2564, -3245?
-j**3 + j**2 - 629*j
What is the n'th term of -540999, -1081994, -1622989?
-540995*n - 4
What is the a'th term of -1434, -2900, -4366, -5832?
-1466*a + 32
What is the q'th term of -5, 803, 2989, 7243, 14255, 24715?
115*q**3 - q**2 + 6*q - 125
What is the p'th term of 22552, 45102, 67652?
22550*p + 2
What is the a'th term of -16464, -16392, -16320, -16248?
72*a - 16536
What is the p'th term of -5102, -5083, -5054, -5015?
5*p**2 + 4*p - 5111
What is the u'th term of -45318, -45327, -45350, -45393, -45462, -45563, -45702, -45885?
-u**3 - u**2 + u - 45317
What is the o'th term of -127, -274, -417, -556, -691, -822, -949?
2*o**2 - 153*o + 24
What is the i'th term of -36916, -147597, -332064, -590317, -922356, -1328181, -1807792?
-36893*i**2 - 2*i - 21
What is the i'th term of 5217, 5226, 5237, 5250, 5265, 5282, 5301?
i**2 + 6*i + 5210
What is the u'th term of -4866, -4793, -4662, -4467, -4202, -3861, -3438?
u**3 + 23*u**2 - 3*u - 4887
What is the t'th term of 27, 77, 163, 291, 467?
t**3 + 12*t**2 + 7*t + 7
What is the u'th term of 16872, 16932, 16992?
60*u + 16812
What is the m'th term of -12, 62, 150, 258, 392, 558?
m**3 + m**2 + 64*m - 78
What is the a'th term of 2398, 5116, 7834, 10552, 13270?
2718*a - 320
What is the i'th term of -11441, -22881, -34307, -45713, -57093, -68441, -79751?
i**3 + i**2 - 11450*i + 7
What is the b'th term of 2395, 2450, 2505?
55*b + 2340
What is the p'th term of -157, -199, -211, -193?
15*p**2 - 87*p - 85
What is the r'th term of -1108719, -1108723, -1108729, -1108737, -1108747, -1108759?
-r**2 - r - 1108717
What is the l'th term of -1045, -2127, -3285, -4555, -5973, -7575, -9397, -11475?
-6*l**3 - 2*l**2 - 1034*l - 3
What is the d'th term of -33, -162, -497, -1140, -2193, -3758, -5937?
-17*d**3 - d**2 - 7*d - 8
What is the s'th term of -45769, -45763, -45755, -45745, -45733?
s**2 + 3*s - 45773
What is the d'th term of -11046, -11128, -11258, -11430, -11638, -11876, -12138?
d**3 - 30*d**2 + d - 11018
What is the b'th term of 2387, 2383, 2379?
-4*b + 2391
What is the k'th term of -1407, -2829, -4251, -5673, -7095, -8517?
-1422*k + 15
What is the n'th term of -8618, -17210, -25786, -34352, -42914, -51478, -60050, -68636?
-n**3 + 14*n**2 - 8627*n - 4
What is the b'th term of 6986, 7015, 7068, 7157, 7294, 7491, 7760, 8113?
2*b**3 + 15*b + 6969
What is the h'th term of 66755, 66740, 66717, 66686, 66647, 66600?
-4*h**2 - 3*h + 66762
What is the a'th term of 385, 762, 1085, 1348, 1545, 1670?
-a**3 - 21*a**2 + 447*a - 40
What is the p'th term of 80, -105, -412, -841?
-61*p**2 - 2*p + 143
What is the g'th term of 6037, 11849, 17661, 23473, 29285?
5812*g + 225
What is the z'th term of -86892, -173762, -260632, -347502?
-86870*z - 22
What is the j'th term of -100, -130, -38,


Q:

OS Label at System Boot Menu

I have two disks in the same computer and both have installed Win7 (for easier transition purposes). Now, for the time being (a week or two), I will customize the new installation and when I am satisfied with the setup, I will format the old disk.
Now, during the boot, the two options in boot menu are

Windows 7
Windows 7

(I don't use any third-party boot loader.)
Is there any way to change the name of these labels, e.g. set them to "Win7 (old)" and "Win7 (new)"?
This is not a must, since I can definitely remember a binary choice, but I was always curious as to where this label can be set (if it can be set, that is).

A:

BCDEDIT - Boot Configuration Data Store Editor
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709667(WS.10).aspx
The Bcdedit.exe command-line tool modifies the boot configuration data store.
The boot configuration data store contains boot configuration parameters and
controls how the operating system is booted. These parameters were previously
in the Boot.ini file (in BIOS-based operating systems) or in the nonvolatile
RAM entries (in Extensible Firmware Interface-based operating systems). You can
use Bcdedit.exe to add, delete, edit, and append entries in the boot
configuration data store.


Watch The Target, Not Just The Wire

Before I became a systems engineer a few years ago, I worked in the industry as a technical security manager for over 15 years, focusing on computer forensics, incident management and compliance.

During that time, I witnessed security vendors move from securing the endpoints with a focus on anti-virus software to monitoring and analysing network traffic across corporate networks with intrusion detection systems and evolving into intrusion prevention systems.

Then, of course, there’s the recent move to detonation of user traffic to detect malicious objects or exploit attempts from drive-by download attacks.

However, in recent years, I have started to see the move back to monitoring and focusing on the endpoints—the target, and in my opinion, for good reason, too!

To be clear, I’m not suggesting monitoring traffic across the corporate networks is a bad thing, nor am I suggesting that we should stop monitoring networks. But, like most things, it does have drawbacks. Network monitoring solutions largely rely on signatures to detect anomalies on the network, with the exception of a few security vendors who focus on the zero-day attacks.

This is all well and good, but how about the target itself?

Does your average employee remain on the corporate network all the time, thus have the protection from network monitoring?

Or do they take their laptop home with them, visit coffee shops, go online at airports, access networks where the network monitoring is not within your remit or being monitored?

Let me put this another way… Imagine there is a road in a residential area that is full of houses of high value. On this road are a number of CCTV and property security cameras, placed there to detect criminal behaviour.

A burglar enters the road. Would you be able to spot them? They’re not likely to be dressed up in a thief costume, and carry a bag with the words SWAG on their back – that would draw too much attention to them and may trigger an alert to their presence.

No, this burglar is going to be smart. They are going to avoid detection at all costs by attempting to act normal. They will approach the houses with caution and not draw attention to themselves. The burglar knows there will be countermeasures in place and will want to avoid detection at all costs.

Now let’s replay that analogy in the corporate environment. The last thing an attacker wants to do is go in all guns blazing and trigger alerts and have their access blocked. They will want to avoid detection and remain as stealthy as possible.

The attacker will use obfuscated exploits that are hard to detect or use zero-day attacks to bypass signature-based systems. They will use the route of least resistance possible, and it may be as easy as scanning a target in a coffee shop, or sending a phishing email.

The goal is to compromise the target, and they would have achieved this by not being detected.

In recent years, I believe the focus is moving back towards protecting the endpoint itself – the computer the attackers wants to gain access to; the computer that contains that sensitive customer data; the computer that belongs to an employee that has privileged access; the computer that belongs to senior members of the organisation that may contain information on company confidential information.

Who is the target though? It’s not necessarily a person. It could be a fileserver, database server, employee devices, such as laptops and desktops, Point-of-Sale terminals, etc.

And what about the network devices, such as routers, switches and firewalls? With companies moving to virtualisation, how about the VM infrastructure? Could that be a target, as well?

How would we know a system has been compromised if the attacker wants to remain stealthy? Well, one thing to detect a presence is to monitor the endpoint and detect what has changed.

Let’s step back to the burglar in the street. They will compromise a house by gaining access to the property by least resistance, perhaps breaking a window. If we were monitoring that house, we would see the baseline being a property with no compromise but as soon as a window has been broken, an alarm has been triggered notifying the authorities.

The focus should be on the critical files that shouldn’t be modified or removed and driving a workflow when a change is detected. Traditionally, this process has always been known as “FIM,” File Integrity Monitoring, but now we don’t just focus on files.

As mentioned before, the changes could be on our router configurations or unauthorised changes to our firewall rules; it could be unauthorised changes in our directory services, or it could be an unauthorised change in a database schema.

When a change is detected, the impacted system needs to be back online in the shortest period of time, so not only do we need to be alerted on the change but we need to be told what exactly has been changed, and by whom.

The ‘whom’ bit is equally important as the ‘what’ element. It may not be a malicious employee, but an employee whose system has been compromised and their account used by an attacker.

When I joined the Tripwire team last year, I was pleased to see we had an industry-leading enterprise software that will do exactly what I feel that’s needed on the target.

Tripwire Enterprise will help protect the critical targets. It will help detect, contain, analyse and remediate. But where this enterprise tool differentiates with others is the capability of focusing on the critical areas that need to be monitored and show you a side-by-side comparison of what changed in a file, and showing you who did it and when.

As a former computer forensics investigator, this information would be of great value. Not only from investigating an employee’s perspective but to understand how a system was compromised in the first place and by what method.

As part of the analysis process, Tripwire will leverage threat intelligence sources to help identify malicious objects that have snuck onto the target and will help you get back to your known good state through remediation. Repair the endpoint, revert to a safe configuration, and remove unauthorised objects.

In summary, I think we should be focusing more on the target. We should be responding to changes detected on systems, network devices, directory services, database content and schemas, as well as virtual environments.


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The season blasted off along Florida’s iconic Space Coast as Thunder on Cocoa Beach launched the 2019 APBA Offshore Championship. This highly anticipated event boasted a joint partnership between the Offshore Powerboat Association (OPA) and Powerboat P1, designed to strengthen the future of offshore racing in the United States.

The Victory Team duo of Salem Al Adidi and Essa Al Ali led the Dubai boat to an exciting second place in the opening round of the ABPA Offshore Championship Series on Cocoa Beach, Florida, late on Sunday.

Team Abu Dhabi’s Shaun Torrente survived a race long onslaught from teammate Thani Al Qemzi in an absolute thriller on the Arade River in Portimao to win the UIM F1H2O Grand Prix of Portugal for the second time.

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Powerboat Racing World

The season blasted off along Florida’s iconic Space Coast as Thunder on Cocoa Beach launched the 2019 APBA Offshore Championship. This highly anticipated event boasted a joint partnership between the Offshore Powerboat Association (OPA) and Powerboat P1, designed to strengthen the future of offshore racing in the United States.

The Victory Team duo of Salem Al Adidi and Essa Al Ali led the Dubai boat to an exciting second place in the opening round of the ABPA Offshore Championship Series on Cocoa Beach, Florida, late on Sunday.

Team Abu Dhabi’s Shaun Torrente survived a race long onslaught from teammate Thani Al Qemzi in an absolute thriller on the Arade River in Portimao to win the UIM F1H2O Grand Prix of Portugal for the second time.


Gábor Nagy (footballer, born 1981)

Gábor Nagy (born 30 September 1981) is a Hungarian football player. He currently plays for Gyirmót SE in Hungary.

He signed for FC Aarau on 6 February 2007.

External links
Profile at HLSZ

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Q:

Cydia SBSettings "Free Up Memory"?

Does anyone know how to add the SBSettings "Free Up Memory" to their application? I'm developing an app in iOS5 and ARC doesn't appear to be releasing memory as often as I would like.
How can one write that functionality in their app using Objective-C?
Thanks for your time.

A:

ARC releases objects when they are supposed to be released. It is not a solution to free up all memory because you are allocating too much. My suggestion is that you change your app to be more efficient.