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Lionel Messi 'U-turn' amid claims star is now '90% likely to stay' at Barcelona
Lionel Messi faces a defining day in his career amid reports he is considering a U-turn over his decision to leave Barcelona.
A crunch meeting between Messi's dad Jorge and Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu reportedly ended in a stalemate on Wednesday, with no agreement reached over the wantaway forward's future.
Messi's camp have claimed the six-time Ballon d'Or winner can leave the Nou Camp for free this summer, while Barca have insisted that is not the case – and have been backed in their stance by La Liga.
And now Messi is considering a dramatic U-turn, according to the same source in Argentina which first broke news of the 33-year-old's transfer request.
The man regarded by many as the game's greatest ever player is now considering seeing out the remaining year of his contract, according to TyC Sports.
Renowned in Argentina for its reliable reports, TyC Sports claimed senior figures at the club have pleaded with Messi to stay, and that he will spend Thursday considering his options.
Reports from Messi's homeland have also claimed he is now "90% likely to stay" – which if true will be a blow to Manchester City after reports the forward was poised for a fairytale reunion with his former Barca boss Pep Guardiola.
Earlier, a report from TyC Sports cited by Spanish publication Marca had claimed that Jorge Messi had told Bartomeu "My son isn't staying at Barcelona".
But the Catalan giants do not appear willing to budge on their assertion that they are due a transfer fee of €700m (£621m) if Messi is to leave the Nou Camp.
And if the reports from Argentina are to be believed, then it appears the club's intransigence could force their best player to stay for at least another season.
As well as City, Paris-Saint Germain and Juventus are also reportedly in the hunt for Messi.
A move to the Ligue 1 champions or the Serie A kings would open up the tantalising prospect of Messi teaming up with either Kylian Mbappe and his former Barca teammate Neymar, or his great rival Cristiano Ronaldo.
Inter Milan have also been linked with a move for Messi, although the club's sporting director Piero Ausilio has indicated that the Serie A giants would not be able to afford him.
Messi's dad said staying at Barcelona would be "difficult" for his son when quizzed by reporters on his arrival in the city on Wednesday.
Interviewed by Cuatro Deportes, he was asked whether going to City was "a good option" and replied: "I don't know. There is still nothing.
When it was put to him that Guardiola had said it would be best if his son stayed at Barcelona, Messi Snr said: "I have not spoken to Pep. I have not spoken to anyone."
He was then asked how he saw Messi's future at Barcelona, and replied: "Difficult, difficult."
Also in other news;
Messi's exit from Barca will allow other players to become stars – Modric
Luka Modric believes Barcelona can succeed without Lionel Messi, citing Real Madrid's ultimate ability to cope with the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo.
Zinedine Zidane's side claimed the La Liga title last season as Real claimed their biggest piece silverware in the aftermath of Ronaldo's move to Juventus in 2018.
Though Los Blancos have struggled in the Champions League since they lost their Portuguese star, they have eventually adapted to his absence. Learn more……………….


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May 14, 2019 — Jon Rappoport's Blog on WordPress has been taken down for no reason, with no forewarning or communication with the blog's operator. Rappoport is a health freedom advocate and writes prolifically on the truth surrounding health and vaccination. He invented the term FAKE NEWS long before Donald Trump thought to use it. His website https://nomorefakenews.com is required reading for anyone interested in understanding the truth of how our world works.
Like Rappoport my blog is also run on WordPress, but I have nowhere near the readership or popularity as he does. Rappoport is one of the few journalist who I trust when using unnamed sources. I have been reading his work for at least 17 years. His blog is the only one on WordPress that I follow besides my own!
Contact WordPress and tell them to bring back Jon Rappoport's blog. He is a national treasure and an ally of anyone who advocates for health freedom.
Here is Jon Rappoport in his own words:
|(To read about Jon's mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here.)
|by Jon Rappoport
I say, "Dear Parents, All over the world they are injecting your children, from the day of their birth, with poisonous chemicals and germs, and they're calling it a miracle. But it isn't. It's devastating."
And then, someone somewhere behind a curtain who's hidden his name-badge in his underpants says, "Censor that man. Cut off his expression. He has no right to say what he's saying."
The Soulless Ones are at it again.
Many of you now know that, last Saturday, WordPress took down my blog without warning or notice. After 10 years—boom. Gone. We are in the process of restoring the blog through "other means." Meanwhile, my home page at NoMoreFakeNews.com is still up, and you can let others know to go there to sign up for the email list to receive my articles in their inbox on a regular basis. You can also order products at that same home page.
I strongly suspect that my articles criticizing vaccines triggered the censorship move. The justification would be: well, we must protect the health of the public and your influence could be quite negative in that regard, etc.
Information, evidence, opinion are all now subject to the preferences of "those in charge," who of course "only have the best interests of The People at heart." Sure.
The reality is: when there is something called official science, then unofficial science must be trampled on and stamped out—the word "official" tells you that authorities are pushing lies down on people's heads and those lies must be maintained and never doubted. Unofficial science becomes dangerous. It contains repressed truth.
I've learned that first-hand over the past 35 years working as a reporter. All my major investigations have been "unofficial," and in every one of those cases, there was someone standing in the middle of the road behind barricades shooing people away and warning that there was nothing OFFICIAL to see by going farther.
THE RIGHT TO HAVE AND EXPRESS AN OPINION OR VIEW OR FINDING are under attack. Structures that would enable persons to express an opinion publicly are censoring certain voices. They don't have to give a reason. They just do it.
They might say a writer "violated community standards." What community, and what standards? Oh, the ones they make up and pretend exist. Those communities and standards. Or perhaps "the community" they're talking about is some collection of goody two-shoes robotic idiots they've convinced to form an organization and make a so-called mission statement in line with official truth. Blank minds, blank stares, earnest faces.
The age of rational argument and debate, if it ever existed, appears to be over. Now it's just FIND THE CONTRARY VIEW and silence it.
Of course, I'm not the first person to be censored recently. And I've noticed that the black-listing hasn't worked. Those independent reporters and analysts and editorialists and activists are still talking and writing. I'll do the same.
You can help. Spread my articles any way you can. Get others on my email list. Consider ordering my three MATRIX collections. Get in touch with WordPress and let them know how you feel and what you think. Refuse to obey the Law of Silence.
There is a WE here. It isn't a collection of dumb know-nothings. It's many individuals who happen to have arrived, separately, at a similar place: the crossroad where a choice is made for justice and against surrender.
If you're not already there, get there. If you're there, make your presence count.
The game isn't lost. It isn't over.
It's never over.

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A facilitator has been hired to manage the various
meetings under the National Marine Fisheries Service's "Regional Forum."
A selection committee made up of representatives of the Bonneville Power
Administration (BPA), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, State of Oregon, and
tribes, signed an $80,000 contract this month with Donna Silverberg, an
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Tag Archives: health
Are e-cigarettes really the future of smoking?
Electronic cigarettes, commonly referred to as e-cigarettes, have been around for a while now and are often touted as a good alternative to smoking more conventional cigarettes and other tobacco based products, such as shisha. But, are they really the future of smoking, and are they less dangerous than cigarettes? Read on to find out… What are e-cigarettes? E-cigarettes
Mental Health and Technology: The Surprising Pros and Cons of Smartphones on Your Well-Being
This generation has seen a sharp and alarming spike in mental health problems. People have been quick to blame the prevalence of smartphones and social media for this, and it's not surprising why. The amount of young children who own a smartphone is increasing, and every day, we hear that excessive technology use is responsible for the rise in depression, anxiety,
What Goes Into Proving a Personal Injury Case
Well, you have been involved in an accident at work or on the road, and you've sustained injuries and other loses. Your friends and loved ones have urged you to seek compensation for your injuries and losses. The truth is that pursuing settlement is undoubtedly a good idea, but proving your case is a monster in every right. There are just many things that go
Ideas for How a Woman Can be Good to Herself
They say a woman's work is never done. And with their crazy schedules and commitments to do so much for others, they sometimes forget that charity starts at home and with yourself. Perhaps even reading this makes you feel guilty, but it is a fact that needs to be internalized because it will make you stronger and more able to be great for everyone else
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South Bound
The idea sparked on a Tuesday afternoon. The trip was planned, supplies were purchased and the van was packed before Wednesday rolled around. It started as most adventures of this order do, "Dude, I've gotta get out of town."
If I had to put a theme or a tagline on this spur of the moment adventure, I would have to say "Somewhere in Mexico" is pretty fitting. We had absolutely no idea where we were going except we knew that it was south of Los Estados Unidos. So we got through the border, drove through Rosarito, and ended up at a beach that looked and felt exactly like the one we had just left behind at home. The journey here however felt worth it at the moment. We didnt know where we were going to get dinner, we were drinking $0.50 pacificos and LIFE WAS GOOD.
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Dairy farmers work closely with a variety of professionals such
as veterinarians and animal nutritionists. One of
my favorite professionals that we talk very little
about is the dairy cow hoof trimmer.
In the human world, you might call him your
podiatrist or foot specialist.
It is a known fact that comfortable cows are healthy cows.
Hoof trimming provides a measure of comfort that will correct
or prevent lameness.
Our hoof trimmer is a master at
utilizing his skills to diagnose and treat the types of foot issues that
each animal is experiencing or keeps the feet healthy by trimming
the hooves for preventive maintenance.
Hoof trimmer Ben sets up his own shop when he
arrives on the farm. His hydraulic chute and table
will place the cow on her side with her legs
restrained for safety and comfort.
I'm thankful for professionals like Ben that use their
skills and love for cattle to ensure that each of our dairy
cows is comfortable, healthy and providing high-quality
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The importance of crisis comms
Last year's KFC chicken shortage could have been disastrous (indeed many devoted fried chicken fans thought it was at the time) and yet it threw up a golden opportunity for the brand's PR and marketing team who quickly took charge of the situation and, crucially, took responsibility for the FCK-up. Head of PR Amanda Bunn takes a look at the importance of crisis communications when things go wrong.
Communicating honestly, with humour and humility, resulted not only in forgiveness from their loyal customer following but a huge increase in brand awareness, including total brand reach for the initial press ad in excess of one billion. Oh, and one silver and three gold Lions in Cannes (the global benchmark for effective creative marketing communications).
By definition, a crisis is going to be unexpected and, whatever business you're in, it can strike at any time. But the majority of crises aren't unforeseeable – you just need to have spent some time thinking about what might happen from multiple angles and prepare accordingly.
It might be a data breach, or an event cancelled by bad weather (quite likely in the UK!), maybe a defective product (or one that's being dangerously misused), or any other of a multitude of possibilities.
What's important is to have a plan in place to cover those eventualities or be able to adapt swiftly to cover any that haven't been identified in advance. While the crisis itself can happen in seconds, it takes time to create that plan, which is where working with PR professionals can really help you to consider all of the key points.
- Use your imagination – to successfully anticipate as many crises as possible, list out all of the scenarios you can think of, even the ones that seem really unlikely. Encourage co-workers at all levels to do the same, especially the ones that spend the most time in customer-facing roles.
- Identify key people – who will be in charge and who will be your spokesperson (not necessarily one and the same). It's definitely worth identifying a reserve spokesperson too. By identifying them now, you've got time to make sure that they're fully on-message and comfortable in front of a mic or camera, with some media training which could make all the difference if and when a crisis hits.
- Brand voice – you may well already have an established tone of voice for your brand, that's used across various communications channels. Your crisis comms voice should emulate this but may need to be tweaked to ensure that it speaks with the appropriate tone. • Internal and external messaging – your staff will also need to be kept up to speed during a crisis and there's likely to be quite a difference in the information that you share with the two groups.
- People power – you may well need extra hands on deck to implement the detail of your crisis comms plan, to man the phones or respond to tweets and DMs as well as arrange any reparation (rebooking event tickets, sending out replacement products, etc.). • Delivery – how will you communicate? Individual phone calls? Social media? (Although beware: this may actually make the situation worse).
- Don't forget the washing-up – a live crisis is a great learning opportunity. Make sure that all those involved are given the opportunity to feed back as early as possible, so that improvements can be built into the plan for the future.
Of course, in an ideal world you'll never need to follow your plan, but there are no guarantees. What is a certainty is that if you forgo any kind of crisis planning, your business is likely to suffer significantly should the worst happen. If this article has got you thinking about your own crisis comms, talk to the team at Mobas today. You can reach us at email@example.com or +44 (0)1223 841699.


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Whenever I write on the Holocaust – the Shoah – I do so with a certain degree of humility, and not without a deep sense of pain.
For I am reminded of what my parents taught me while still a young boy — the profundity and pain of which I realized only years later — that there are things in Jewish history that are too terrible to be believed, but not too terrible to have happened; that Oswiencim, Majdanek, Dachau, Treblinka — these are beyond vocabulary. Words may ease the pain, but they may also dwarf the tragedy. For the Holocaust was uniquely evil in its genocidal singularity, where biology was inescapably destiny, a war against the Jews in which, as Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel put it, "not all victims were Jews, but all Jews were victims."
But while the Holocaust was "uniquely unique" as Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer put it, there are important universal lessons to be acted upon. Indeed, I write at an important moment of remembrance and reminder, of witness and warning:
- on the 66th anniversary of the liberation of the surviving remnants of "Planet Auschwitz" — the most horrific laboratory of mass murder in history;
- on the 66th anniversary of the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg – Canada's first honorary citizen – whom the UN called the greatest humanitarian of the 20th Century, and who showed that one person could confront evil, resist and prevail, and thereby transform history;
- in the aftermath of the 65th anniversary of the UN, which as former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said, "emerged from the ashes of the Holocaust"; and as he reminded us, "a UN that fails to be at the forefront of the fight against anti-Semitism and other forms of racism, denies its history and undermines its future";
- on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg Principles, which became the forerunner of international humanitarian and criminal law, reminding us also of the double entendre of Nuremberg — the Nuremberg of jackboots as well as the Nuremberg of judgments;
- on the fifth anniversary of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
And so, on this International Day of Holocaust Remembrance — on the eve also of the 60th anniversary of the coming into effect of the Genocide Convention — the "Never Again" Convention — we have to ask ourselves, what have we learned and what must we do?
Lesson 1: The Importance of Holocaust Remembrance – The Responsibility of Memory
The first lesson is the importance of Zachor, of the duty of remembrance itself. For as we remember the six million Jewish victims of the Shoah — defamed, demonized and dehumanized, as prologue or justification for genocide — we have to understand that the mass murder of six million Jews and millions of non-Jews is not a matter of abstract statistics.
For unto each person there is a name — unto each person, there is an identity. Each person is a universe. As our sages tell us: "whoever saves a single life, it is as if he or she has saved an entire universe." Just as whoever has killed a single person, it is as if they have killed an entire universe. And so the abiding imperative — that we are each, wherever we are, the guarantors of each other's destiny.
Lesson 2: The Danger of State-Sanctioned Incitement to Hatred and Genocide — The Responsibility to Prevent
The enduring lesson of the Holocaust is that the genocide of European Jewry succeeded not only because of the industry of death and the technology of terror, but because of the state-sanctioned ideology of hate. This teaching of contempt, this demonizing of the other, this is where it all began. As the Canadian courts affirmed in upholding the constitutionality of anti-hate legislation, "the Holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers — it began with words". These, as the Courts put it, are the chilling facts of history. These are the catastrophic effects of racism.
The Holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers — it began with words. As the UN marks the commemoration of the Holocaust, we are witnessing yet again, a state-sanctioned incitement to hate and genocide, whose epicentre is Ahmadinejad's Iran. Let there be no mistake about it. Iran has already committed the crime of incitement to genocide prohibited under the Genocide Convention. Yet not one state party to the Genocide Convention has undertaken its mandated legal obligation to hold Ahmadinejad's Iran to account.
Lesson 3: The Danger of Silence, The Consequences of Indifference — The Responsibility to Protect
The genocide of European Jewry succeeded not only because of the state-sanctioned culture of hate and industry of death, but because of crimes of indifference, because of conspiracies of silence.
We have already witnessed an appalling indifference and inaction in our own day which took us down the road to the unspeakable — the genocide in Rwanda — unspeakable because this genocide was preventable. No one can say that we did not know. We knew, but we did not act, just as we knew and did not act to stop the genocide by attrition in Darfur.
Indifference and inaction always mean coming down on the side of the victimizer, never on the side of the victim. Indifference in the face of evil is acquiescence with evil itself.
Lesson 4: Combating Mass Atrocity and the Culture of Impunity — The Responsibility to Bring War Criminals to Justice
If the 20th Century — symbolized by the Holocaust — was the age of atrocity, it was also the age of impunity. Few of the perpetrators were brought to justice; and so, just as there must be no sanctuary for hate, no refuge for bigotry, there must be no base or sanctuary for these enemies of humankind. Yet those indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity – such as President Al-Bashir of Sudan – continue to be welcomed in international fora.
Lesson 5: The Trahison des Clercs — The Responsibility to Talk Truth to Power
The Holocaust was made possible, not only because of the "bureaucratization of genocide", as Robert Lifton put it, but because of the trahison des clercs — the complicity of the elites — physicians, church leaders, judges, lawyers, engineers, architects, educators, and the like. Indeed, one only has to read Gerhard Muller's book on "Hitler's Justice" to appreciate the complicity and criminality of judges and lawyers; or to read Robert-Jan van Pelt's book on the architecture of Auschwitz, to be appalled by the minute involvement of engineers and architects in the design of death camps, and so on. Holocaust crimes, then, were also the crimes of the Nuremberg elites. As Elie Wiesel put it, "Cold-blooded murder and culture did not exclude each other. If the Holocaust proved anything, it is that a person can both love poems and kill children".
Lesson 6: Holocaust Remembrance — The Responsibility to Educate
In acting upon the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, states should commit themselves to implementing the Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, which concluded: "We share a commitment to encourage the study of the Holocaust in all its dimensions… a commitment to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to honor those who stood against it… a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust… a commitment to plant the seeds of a better future amidst the soil of a bitter past… a commitment… to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice."
Lesson 7: The Vulnerability of the Powerless — The Protection of the Vulnerable as the Test of a Just Society
The genocide of European Jewry occurred not only because of the vulnerability of the powerless, but also because of the powerlessness of the vulnerable. It is not surprising that the triage of Nazi racial hygiene — the Sterilization Laws, the Nuremberg Race Laws, the Euthanasia Program — targeted those "whose lives were not worth living"; and it is not unrevealing, as Professor Henry Friedlander points out in his work on "The Origins of Genocide", that the first group targeted for killing were the Jewish disabled — the whole anchored in the science of death, the medicalization of ethnic cleansing, the sanitizing even of the vocabulary of destruction.
And so it is our responsibility as citoyens du monde to give voice to the voiceless, as we seek to empower the powerless — be they the disabled, the poor, the refugee, the elderly, the women victims of violence, the vulnerable child — the most vulnerable of the vulnerable.
We remember – and we trust – that never again will we be silent or indifferent in the face of evil. May this International Day of Holocaust Remembrance be not only an act of remembrance, but a remembrance to act.


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We celebrated Easter a bit early! Mom fail here, I don't normally celebrate Easter. I skip quite a few holidays, Easter, Halloween (normally), Valentines Day, etc. Basically it's birthdays, Thanksgiving and Christmas, that's about it. This year, though, we did it! I rented a bounce house, had my mom, niece and great nieces over, and we went all out. We decorated cookies, decorated cupcakes, hunted eggs and wore everyone out by 4 p.m. It was glorious.
I have begun working on Book 9, so fear not! You'll be back with the kids in no time! Or at least by May. I've got a big family vacation in May, so my goal is to have book 9 done and published before we leave. I've got a good outline going, some great plot twists, and a FANTASTIC ending to the book, which should lead into an awesome book 10, and the end of this part of the adventure.
Speaking of endings, my 10 year old is not on board with me ending the series at all. To him, it should be like Lamb Chop and "the song that never ends". I can't do that. I really do want to end it, and not entirely because I'm sick of putting pictures in books. Truly, I'm no artist, that part is the WORST for me!
That said, I can see doing a spin off, there are quite a few people you haven't met yet, heck, I haven't even met them yet, but they are important, and you'll learn more about that in book 10. So, while this part of things will wrap up nicely, there might be more to come, sort of a "World of The World Keepers" kind of way, if that makes sense.
I'll keep you posted! Have a Happy Easter!
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a very very favorite shop of mine here in la, potted, is having a very cool contest. why it is a terrarium contest! the most creative terrarium wins a $500 shopping spree at potted. and let me tell you i could easily spend that load of cash there! remember that rad circle pot i scored from dwell? well that was a gift from the lovely ladies of potted.
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Glass Production
Of all of the industries depicted in the Encyclopédie, glass manufacturing is one of the most thoroughly documented and highly detailed. According to Charles Coulston Gillispie, a former Princeton history professor who compiled a collection of Encyclopédie plates on trades and industry, "The glass industry, for example, is splendidly illustrated—one could take the text and plates, construct a plant with divisions for plate, smallware, and crown glass, and produce 18th century glass."1 Illustrations of the glass industry range from general factory overviews to a step-by-step guide for creating a glass bottle. The Encyclopédie covers several practical commercial applications of glass production including: hand-blown mirror glass, cast mirror glass, bottle glass making, English glass making, and wood glass making.
The International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass (IMI-NFG) at Lehigh University is an educational repository for the glass community that provides glass education resources. The Institute has been founded and managed by Professor Himanshu Jain, the T.L. Diamond Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Director of NSF's International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass. At least one method of glass production described and shown in the Encyclopédie is still in use today and can be experienced locally in the Lehigh Valley. The Banana Factory in Bethlehem, PA, which is the home of ArtsQuest's visual arts education programs, offers a variety of classes and studio space for glass blowing and kiln glass design.
1 Diderot, Denis, and Charles Coulston Gillispie. A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry: Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected From "L'Encyclopédie, Ou Dictionnaire Raisonné Des Sciences, Des Arts Et Des Métiers" of Denis Diderot. New York: Dover Publications, 1959.


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Motorola has confirmed that the DROID Bionic will arrive on September 8, finally announcing when buyers will be able to pick up the much-anticipated smartphone. Powered by a dual-core processor and offering 4G LTE on Verizon's network, the Bionic also has an 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video recording support.
Update: Looks like there's nothing confirming that the Twitter account is, in fact, Motorola's official one. DROID Bionic goes back on the rumor shelf for the moment.
Expectations of an imminent launch had been raised after the official DROID Bionic product page arrived in Motorola's online store over the weekend. However, there was no option to buy the handset, and the listing was subsequently removed.
According to the official Twitter account for the smartphone, the Bionic will go up for pre-order soon. Verizon itself is only confirming the September release window, with no option to order as yet.


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COAF has now ended
COAF ended on 30 September 2020 and the university no longer receives a COAF grant to support open access. However, all former COAF partners remain committed to open access and continue to fund open access costs for their researchers.
Details of the policies of the individual funders are available via the links below:
- Blood Cancer Now
- British Heart Foundation
- Cancer Research UK
- Parkinson's UK
- Versus Arthritis
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The Bandit wargames by OverTheWire is aimed at beginners and is lots of fun. It teaches the basics and many useful commands. Finding the solution is one thing, however eliminating other solutions and what you learn on the way is a great experience. Its highly recommend you try to solve these yourself before looking at the solutions. Note no keys or spoilers are found here.
OverTheWire can be found at http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/
1) Read the goals for each level and the suggested commands on overthewire.
2) Use the man <command> (manual) command to find out more on the suggested commands. eg: if you want to know more on ssh you can type man ssh. It will tell you what switches are available and how they work.
3) While in the man you can press "h" for help on using the manual. For example if you wanted to know more about using "version 2" you can press /version 2 and it will find occurrences of that text. Then n to move forward or N to move back.
4) If you can't figure out the man. Google research the command and search for practical examples.
5) As a very last resort, search for other walk throughs. You shouldn't give in, jumping straight to the solution means you don't learn as much and you miss out on the satisfication of solving it your self : )
Level Walk Through's
Level 0
SSH in with given credentials
sh [email protected] -p 2220
ls shows one file. cat opens it up and gives level 1 key.
Level 1
Appears to be only a file in /home/bandit1 called "-" and its ASCII text.
Checking file sizes shows there is something in there.
Trying to open this with cat appears to go nowhere, just appears to be waiting for something. Notice in the man for cat an exception for no file or when file is "-" read standard input.
While researching more the cat command, found a site that showed how to solve this one.
Level 2
Enclosing the file name in quotes or using tab to autocomplete had the same affect. To the next level.
Level 3
Using the ls command with a specific switch, reveals a hidden file. This was another easy one – check the man for more details.
Level 4
We are told the key is on a human-readable file in the inhere directory. Using the du -ab command showed all files were the same size (33 bytes). But when checking the file type of all the files in there (note the wildcard *) showed "-file07" was ASCII text. Trying to open the data files just gave gibberish.
file /home/bandit4/inhere/-file0*
Level 5
Logging in there are a lot of folders and files within. We are given the hint that the key is human-readable, 1033 bytes in size and not executable
Searching for human readable (assuming ASCII text) there are many but searching just on size we find only one file. (check man for find under -size)
Level 6
The password for the next level is stored somewhere on the server and has all of the following properties: owned by user bandit7, owned by group bandit6 and 33 bytes in size. (check out the man for find under -size, -user, -group)
The solution I found while narrowing things down, still shows many "permission denied" errors in the results. I found a solution that tidies this up even further by amending 2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied" to the end
Level 7
Level up. The next password we are told is stored in the file data.txt next to the word millionth. A quick check shows the data.txt file we are after is right there in our home dir – however has many entries inside the file.
Hint – I used strings and grep commands to make this happen.
Level 8
The next password we are told is stored in the file data.txt and is the only line of text that occurs only once. This time we have many passwords, just need to find one with the single occurrence.
Hint – I used 2 commands to make this happen. Also uniq does not detect repeated lines unless they are adjacent (from the –help)
Level 9
The next password we are told is in the file data.txt in one of the few human-readable strings, beginning with several '=' characters.
We could further refine the results below by using strings -n 20
Level 10
These are fun. The next password we are told is stored in the file data.txt, which contains base64 encoded data.
Level 11
The next password we are told is stored in the file data.txt, where all lowercase (a-z) and uppercase (A-Z) letters have been rotated by 13 positions.
Level 12
The next password we are told is stored in the file data.txt, which is a hexdump of a file that has been repeatedly compressed.
A quick cat of the file shows data2.bin (possibly the file name before this was once converted to hex).
After some reading I found a way to reverse the operation of a hexdump we can use the xxd -r <filename> command.
Once converted back, as the problem says "repeatedly compressed" we need to know which compress algorithm/command was used. Using the file command we can find this out, then rename the file to suit what we need eg: mv data2.bin data2.gz then use the relevant command and switches to decompress eg: gzip -d data2.gz
Without spoiling the challenge, you repeat this process with all the compression commands until you are left with a ASCII text file with the key. Be sure to check the man for each command as some have different switches.
Level 13
The next password we are told is stored in /etc/bandit_pass/bandit14 and can only be read by user bandit14. For this level, you don't get the next password, but you get a private SSH key that can be used to log into the next level.
ssh <user>@<host> <private_key>
Using nmap we see the local SSH port is TCP22 (default). Out of interest using the file command we also see it is a RSA private key.
The man for ssh has an entry for using a identity for a private key. We use this with ssh to connect in as bandit 14. Note as localhost and not specifying the port number so it uses the default.
Once in we grab the key
Level 14
We are told the password for the next level can be retrieved by submitting the password of the current level to port 30000 on localhost. This was an easy one. Check the man for netcat (aka nc) for specifying a port number.
nc -v <host> <port>
Level 15
We are told the password for the next level can be retrieved by submitting the password of the current level to port 30001 on localhost using SSL encryption. Checking the man for a few of the suggested commands, it appears openssl s_client is what we will need. Also confirmed with nmap TCP port 30001 was open.
openssl s_client -connect <host>:<port> -ign_eof
Level 16
This is going to be a good one. We are told the credentials for the next level can be retrieved by submitting the password of the current level to a port on localhost in the range 31000 to 32000. First find out which of these ports have a server listening on them. Then find out which of those speak SSL and which don't. We start with nmap, scanning the range and its serVices – one port stands out.
nmap -<service/version> -<port range> <host>
openssl s_client -connect <host>:<port> -ign_eof
For this one, we appear to get a RSA private key?
We can save it to use later on. We can use mktemp to create a unique and temporary directory.
We then echo the key into the file.
When attempting to use the key to progress to the next level we get this error below.
To change permission on this file, and lock down we can use the below command. This will only allow the owner (us) access to the file. A good explanation can be found here on Linux permissions.
chmod 700 /tmp/tmp.aui92G7ZSw/bandit17
Now when we try again, we are in.
Level 17
We are told the there are 2 files in the home directory: passwords.old and passwords.new. The password for the next level is in passwords.new and is the only line that has been changed between passwords.old and passwords.new. We want the line that is related to passwords.new – note the arrow indicating the line that matches the file on the right.
diff <file1> <file2>
Level 18
We are told the password for the next level is stored in a file readme in the homedirectory. Unfortunately, someone has modified .bashrc to log you out when you log in with SSH. Sure enough when we ssh in, we get booted straight away.
Checking the man for ssh, we can run a command at the end.
ssh [email protected] -p 2220 "/bin/sh" don't use bash for this session, try /bin/dash or /bin/sh
or ssh [email protected] -p 2220 "bash –noprofile –norc" which uses bash but with options to disable processing startup files
out of interest I open the .bashrc file to see what was causing it to exit.
Level 19
We are told the we should use the setuid binary in the home directory. Execute it without arguments to find out how to use it. The password for this level can be found in the usual place (/etc/bandit_pass), after you have used the setuid binary. The only file in there is bandit20-do so we run that with no arguments. When checking the file its an ELF 32-bit Executable.
After figuring out how to use this, it appears when running the binary it runs as bandit20. We can test this by running the id command with and without the binary.
./bandit20-do cat /etc/bandit_pass/bandit20
Level 20
We are told there is a setuid binary in the home directory that does the following: it makes a connection to localhost on the port you specify as a command line argument. It then reads a line of text from the connection and compares it to the password in the previous level (bandit20). If the password is correct, it will transmit the password for the next level (bandit21). This will be interesting as there was infrastructure changes.
We will need 2 terminals open on our local machine. Before connecting to otw we use a modified ssh command. On the first, we connect as normal but using the -L switch, this creates a local_socket:host:hostport.
ssh -l bandit20 -p 2220 -L 1234:localhost:22 bandit.labs.overthewire.org
Once in, we echo level 19's password and pipe into ncat using the -l switch to "bind and listen for incoming connections" and the -v for verbose – to see more output. The final parameter is the port number – 6969 because its funny. This is now running waiting for a connection.
echo <level19pwd> | ncat -lv 6969
Now on our local machine we open up 2nd shell and ssh to localhost and port number (1234) we setup before. Though some wizardry we end up in the same session on the remote end.
ssh [email protected] -p 1234
Now in the 2nd shell we use the binary and connect to port 6969. This then sends the next password back to terminal 1. This took a long time to get working, but I learnt a lot in the process.
Level 21
We are told a program is running automatically at regular intervals from cron, the time-based job scheduler. Look in /etc/cron.d/ for the configuration and see what command is being executed. Checking out the /etc/cron.d/ we find a job under bandit22.
Then checking out /usr/bin/cronjob_bandit22.sh we find a script which is doing two things:
1) modifying permissions on a temporary file (owner: r-x, group: r–, users: r–)
2) then reading a file and writing it to the temp file
Sure enough, when we read the temp file we find the next key!
Level 22
Again we are told a program is running automatically at regular intervals from cron. Following the same path as the previous level we find a script.
Running the default script cronjob_bandit23.sh copies the level22 password (which we already know) to a temp file.
To get the temp file location for bandit23 use echo I am user bandit23 | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1 then read the temp file.
Level 23
Again we are told a program is running automatically at regular intervals from cron and we will have to create a bash script to solve the level.
Looks like the job is running every minute as user bandit24 (More details on cron here). Scripts are run from /var/spool/$myname, then deleted.
At /var/spool the only usable folder there is bandit24. We can't create any folders here or list what is in the bandit24 directory. But looks like we can copy files in there – a script perhaps?
I create a temp directory with mktemp -d and a temp file (touch) use an editor to create my script in there (3 lines). Modify its permissions (chmod) so anyone can read and execute it. Use the file command to confirm it is indeed a shell script and will be executed. Then copy it to the /var/spool/bandit24/ folder and await execution. I use the date command to impatiently check the time.
Through shell wizardry, the key for the next level appears in the temp file I created.
Level 24
We are told a daemon is listening on port 30002 and will give you the password for bandit25 if given the password for bandit24 and a secret numeric 4-digit pincode. There is no way to retrieve the pincode except by going through all of the 10000 combinations, called brute-forcing.
First we create a temp working directory mktemp -d to play in. Next we try connecting to it to see what happens. We find it requires a specific syntax.
Without spoiling the fun, I approached this many ways before finding a quick solution and spent a long time on this level. But on the upside learnt how to use vim and python. The most satisfying level so far.
Create the python file vim bandit24.py and create the content, make it executable chmod +x bandit24.py then run it.
Level 25
We are told logging in to bandit26 from bandit25 should be fairly easy… The shell for user bandit26 is not /bin/bash, but something else. Find out what it is, how it works and how to break out of it. Similar to level 16 we find a private key. But when used to connect, we get booted off straight away.
Looks like bandit26 is using a shell at /usr/bin/showtext. Assume text.txt is the BANDIT26 logo displayed above (we can't read this). There is an exit 0 command at the end which is booting us out.
I spent a fair chunk of time on this before searching for a hint. This is a very simple yet clever problem. The hints I would give is focus on the showtext file and look more closely.
Tried usermod –shell /bin/bash bandit26. No access to change /etc/passwd. No access to modify the /usr/bin/showtext file. Tried ssh -i <key> <user>@<host> "bash –noprofile –norc". Tried SSH with different shells listed at /etc/shells eg: ssh -i <key><user>@<host> /bin/sh then ls to see if anything comes up. Tried commands to copy the key back to my home dir ssh -i <key> <user>@<host> "cat /etc/bandit_pass/bandit26 >> tmp/<file>". Tried all the files involved in an interactive login.


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I Know What You Did Last Summer
Lois Duncan
Laurel Leaf, 2005 (1973)
Reviewed by J. A. Kaszuba Locke
t only takes one note, only one sentence, to panic four persons who have made a pact of secrecy. Julie James is ecstatic over an acceptance letter from Smith College, her opportunity to get away from it all. Opening the second piece of mail changes Julie's mood. Addressed to her in big, block print with no return address is a note:
I Know What You Did Last Summer
, sending coldness throughout her body.
elen dropped out of high school at the end of junior year, but has lucrative employment at the local station as Channel Five's
Golden Girl
. She resides at the Four Seasons Apartments, and enjoys being with boyfriend Barry Cox. Barry is a freshman and fraternity house brother at the local university; he has been dating Helen since high school, but has other girlfriends on the sidelines.
ulie drives to the apartment complex to show Barry and Helen
the letter
. They panic but conjure excuses - a prank, a crank thing - '
somebody taking a jab at Julie
', or did someone from the pact slip with some words? Perhaps Julie's ex-boyfriend Ray sent the note as a joke. After high school graduation, Ray Bronson moved to California to get away from the town and its memories; however, it didn't work. Helen announces to Julie that she has seen Ray back in town.
ay visits Julie and admits, '
I kept waking up at night and seeing that curve in the road again - that bicycle coming suddenly out of the dark ... the thud and then the bump as wheels went over it. I'd lie there and shake.
' Barry was driving that night, Helen in the passenger front seat, and Julie with Ray in the back seat. After the accident, Barry drove to a roadside phone booth to call 911, but hung up without identifying himself. They made a pact of secrecy, but now Ray wants to dissolve the pact and face up to what happened.
t the pool, Helen meets Vietnam vet Collingsworth Wilson, newly-moved into Four Seasons. Returning to her apartment she finds a picture of a little boy on her door. Ray receives an envelope with no return address, his name in the same black lettering as in Julie's note, containing a yellowed newspaper clipping - '
A ten-year old boy was killed last night in a hit-and-run accident on Mountain Road ... died en route to St. Joseph's Hospital.
' Ray's immediate thought - '
So it's caught up with us, finally ... deep inside I somehow knew it would
n his way to the athletic field for a fireworks display, Barry is attacked. A frat brother testifies overhearing him on the house phone telling a caller they'd meet. Helen returns to her apartment to find a man sitting in a chair. He tells her, '
I'm going to kill my date tonight
'. Julie prepares for an evening out, while her mother encourages her to stay in for the night. Mrs. James has had a lifetime of experiences with premonitions and knows '
something is going to happen
ois Duncan's
I Know What You Did Last Summer
coaxes tensions to build, and plays on her characters inside a skillful plot, with a trademark Duncan twist and an accident that will change four teen lives forever. Her story ends abruptly, as abruptly as the messages received by the central players. Her other lauded works include
A Gift of Magic
They Never Came Home
The Third Eye
, and many more.
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The purpose of this investigation was to examine overweight students' perceptions of and experiences in physical education. Specifically, the applicability of learned helplessness as a framework to understand their experiences was explored. Participants were seven female and five male high school students whose body mass index was at or higher than the gender- and age-specific 85th percentile based on Centers for Disease Control growth charts. Data collection included formal interviews with students and their parents. The primary findings indicate that students have mixed opinions concerning the benefits to be derived from physical education. Despite recognizing the relationship between lack of physical activity and obesity, many participants avoided participation because they had been traumatized to the extent of exhibiting symptoms consistent with learned helplessness. Participants demonstrated greater concern about visibility than they did about their performance, which suggests they might engage in physical activity if shielded from the view of peers.
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Location: Franschhoek
Walkers: Jenny, Iain and Helen
See also: Part I.
Our next stop on our tour of the open gardens of Franschhoek was La Rive.
This property was immediately appealing, with its thatched buildings, serene swimming pool and curving beds spilling over with white, purple and pink flowers. So, so pretty!
Oooh, and irises too.
And other garden plants I do not know. Attractive colours on this one.
This is a big garden. A couple of steps lead to the upper garden, where an Erythrina tree provided a pop of orangey-red in contrast to the pastel shades in most of the flower beds.
Beyond we came to a charming series of pergolas. Sleeper stepping stones allow one to walk through the bed to see the view it from the other side.
Our next stop was a small garden in a suburban street of the town. Lots of bright colour in this one.
Cinerarias and pelargoniums.
We headed across town to another smallish garden in a residential street.
Nice lawns, shrubs and flowers in pots, with the most amazing views of the surrounding mountains too.
Flowering creepers on the arched pergola.
The outside beds really complimented the attractive thatched cottage.
Next stop: Franschhoek Manor. We walked through the white gates...
... to the gracious guesthouse, with its blue swimming pools and formal gardens. Lovely peaceful place to spend some time.


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Dolutegravir/lamivudine (By mouth)
Dolutegravir (doe-loo-TEG-ra-vir), Lamivudine (la-MIV-ue-deen)
Treats HIV infection. This medicine does not cure HIV or AIDS, but it may slow the progress of the disease.
Brand Name(s):
DovatoThere may be other brand names for this medicine.
When This Medicine Should Not Be Used:This medicine is not right for everyone. Do not use it if you had an allergic reaction to dolutegravir or lamivudine.
How to Use This Medicine:
- Your doctor will tell you how much medicine to use. Do not use more than directed.
- Do not stop using this medicine without checking first with your doctor. If you stop the medicine even briefly, the virus may become harder to treat. Contact your doctor or pharmacist when your supply is low so you do not run out.
- Read and follow the patient instructions that come with this medicine. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions.
- Missed dose: Take a dose as soon as you remember. If it is almost time for your next dose, wait until then and take a regular dose. Do not take extra medicine to make up for a missed dose.
- Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light.
Drugs and Foods to Avoid:
Ask your doctor or pharmacist before using any other medicine, including over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal products.
- Do not use this medicine together with dofetilide.
- Some medicines can affect how dolutegravir/lamivudine works. Tell your doctor if you are using any of the following:
- Dalfampridine, metformin, rifampin, sorbitol, St John's wort
- Medicine to treat seizures (including carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin)
- Take this medicine at least 2 hours before or 6 hours after you take sucralfate, or an antacid, laxative, or other medicine that contains aluminum, calcium, magnesium, or iron.
- Supplements that contain calcium or iron (including multivitamins) may be taken with this medicine if you take them with food.
Warnings While Using This Medicine:
- Using this medicine while you are pregnant can harm your unborn baby. If you are a woman who can get pregnant, your doctor may do tests to make sure you are not pregnant before starting treatment. Do not use this medicine during the first part of your pregnancy. Use an effective form of birth control to keep from getting pregnant. Tell your doctor right away if you think you have become pregnant.
- Do not breastfeed. You can spread HIV or AIDS to your baby through your breast milk.
- Tell your doctor if you have kidney disease or liver disease (including hepatitis B or C).
- This medicine may cause the following problems:
- Liver problems
- Lactic acidosis (too much acid in the blood)
- Your immune system may get stronger when you start using HIV medicines. This could cause a hidden infection in your body to become active. Tell your doctor right away if you notice any changes in your health.
- This medicine will not keep you from giving HIV to others. Always practice safe sex, even if your partner also has HIV. Do not share needles or other items that may have blood or body fluids on them.
- Your doctor will do lab tests at regular visits to check on the effects of this medicine. Keep all appointments.
- Keep all medicine out of the reach of children. Never share your medicine with anyone.
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- Blistering, peeling, red skin rash
- Dark urine or pale stools, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, stomach pain, yellow skin or eyes
- Fast or trouble breathing, lightheadedness, fainting, severe weakness, tiredness, or confusion
- Fever, chills, cough, sore throat, joint or muscle aches, severe tiredness, pain or swelling around your eyes
If you notice these less serious side effects, talk with your doctor:
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- Headache
If you notice other side effects that you think are caused by this medicine, tell your doctor
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KMa s.r.o. – Levné knihy is a Czech publishing company specialized on publishing and selling cheap books, especially classic literature with expired copyrights. Now they publish cheap movies on DVDs as well, for a price of 3-4 €, that is about 1% of common salary here and easily affordable.
They publish various kinds of movies, including large selection of excellent movies by Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa. Thanks to them I can watch movies on DVDs for the first time now.


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Database Search Solution
(New Version) Search Control
SEO Pager
Shortcut Controls
Crypt Package
Free ASP.NET Controls
Geotargeting Component
ASP.NET Media Player Control
Flash Video Player Control
ASP.NET Telecommute Jobs
Free IP Location Lookup
Test .Net Regular Expressions
CSS/Table/DIV Page Layouts
Custom Programming
Article Sites Master List
ASP.NET Tutorials
.NET Windows Forms
General .NET Framework
Freelance Tutorials
Web Domains
Accepting Credit Cards
Anti Spam
E-Mail in ASP.NET
In this article we will explore three different and important e-mailing techniques; to send a simple text e-mail, to send HTML content via e-mail, and to send attachments. Let's dive right in.
Before We Start
Make that the SMTP server is running and that it can relay mail. From the IIS MMC window, with "local computer" selected on the left, you should see the "Default SMTP Virtual Server", if not you need to install it.
After installation, Right-click it, go into "Properties", the "Access" tab, and click the "Relay" button. With the "only the list below" radio button selected, you should see the local IP address: 127.0.0.1, if it's not there, you need to add it. Otherwise, the code will not work.
Also, when using the code, locate the line where I am setting the SmtpServer. I'll be setting it to "localhost", but you'll need to replace it with the name or IP address of your SMTP server. If you are using a Windows Desktop Computer, then there is no need to change it.
Send simple e-mail
The code to send a simple e-mail is pretty simple and very small. There isn't much to explain either.
msg As New
Net.Mail.MailMessage( _
That is all there is to sending a simple text e-mail using ASP.Net 2.0.
Sending E-mail Attachment
Let us now look at how to include attachments to our e-mail. Open the web-page in design mode and add an HTML file upload control to the form. Set it to run at Server, and switch to code-behind to make changes in our previous method.
msg As New
Net.Mail.MailMessage( _
All you need to do is check if the user posted a file or not, and if he did, then you need to create a new Net.Mail.Attachment object and add that to the MailMessage Object's Attachments collection. The line of code doing that could be broken down into the following, for simplicity;
strName As String
= fileUpload.PostedFile.FileName
Moving forward, let us now look at how to send an HTML e-mail.
Send HTML E-Mail
Sending an HTML e-mail is pretty simple. All you need to do is set the IsHTML property of the MailMessage object to true, and the mail will be sent as HTML.
The major part is in choosing the editor to create HTML Messages. Free TextBox (http://freetextbox.com/) is one of the best free ASP.Net editor control out there, and that is what I'll be using in my sample. Before you proceed, please download the latest version of the text-Box from the site. The best thing about this Free TextBox is that there are no external Scripts to worry about. All JavaScripts are internally stored in the assembly.
Add the assembly to your ToolBox, and replace the simple textbox with this editor. You'll access the editor the same way you accessed a simple text-box. (By using the Text Property)
You'll just have to add one line of code, and that to set the MailMessage's IsHTMLBody property to true. Otherwise, it will not identify the text as Html.
Run the application, and quickly write down some text into the editor.
Quickly switch to the HTML view of the editor, and add in an image tag, linking to an image that you want to display.
Switch back to design-view, and you should have the following;
Cool! Isn't it? Now press Send to send the e-mail.
Potentially Dangerous Request Error when sending e-mail
If you do not receive an error stating; "potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client..." upon clicking Send, then you can skip this portion, but if you did, here is what you need to know.
The .NET framework is throwing up an error because it detected something in the entered text which looks like an HTML statement. The text doesn't need to contain valid HTML, just anything with opening and closing angled brackets ("<...>").
The reason behind the error is as a security precaution. Developers need to be aware that users might try to inject HTML (or even a script) into a text box which may affect how the form is rendered. For further details see http://www.asp.net/faq/RequestValidation.aspx.
This checking was not performed in the .NET 1.0 framework and was introduced with the .NET 1.1 framework.
To disable request validation on a page add the following directive to the existing "page" directive in the file - you will need to switch to the HTML view for this:
For example if you already have:
<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="MyForm.aspx.vb" Inherits="Proj.MyForm"%>
Then this should become:
<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="MyForm.aspx.vb" Inherits="Proj.MyForm" validateRequest="false"%>
Alternately, you can globally turn request validation off. To do so, add the following to your web.config file:
<pages validateRequest="false" />
This should go within the <system.web> section, resulting in turning of Request Validation for every page in the web application.
End Result
If everything goes well, this is what you'll have in your inbox:
Of course, this is just basic functionality. There is a lot of other features you can add to make this code better. If you often need to create e-mail forms you can try Auto Email which creates advanced e-mail forms without programming required. This control will do all hard work for you and dramatically reduce your working time. Be sure to look its video demo to get closer picture how this control works.
I hope you found this article informative and helpful. Sample Visual Studio .NET project for this tutorial you can download here Happy Coding!
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I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years and I have many friends there. The new restaurant everyone is talking about is the Argyle, on Sunset Boulevard, in a perfect Art Deco Hollywood apartment building. [#image: /photos/54cbf5da0a5930502f5e67f5]For decades the building has been called the Sunset Tower, and in the old days it was known as the place where movie moguls kept their mistresses in elegant style. Years ago the apartments were turned into a hotel. Jeff Klein, whom I had never met but whom everyone seems to know, is the proprietor, and he has created a drop-dead-gorgeous restaurant, with fabulous food, piano music, and a crowd of great-looking regulars. I went there twice.
The subject of dinner-party conversation everywhere in Hollywood was Mark Seal's story on the ugly financial scandal occurring in the family of the late billionaire Marvin Davis; the article is in the November issue of Vanity Fair, which wasn't even on the stands when I was there, but which everyone seemed to know about. The first mention I heard of the scandal was whispered in my ear by a lady with beautiful long earrings at a cocktail party given by Kirk and Anne Douglas and Alan Livingston, the music mogul, and his wife, the actress Nancy Olson. Patricia Davis Raynes, the oldest of the five Davis children, was claiming in a lawsuit that her trust had been robbed by her father and that he had hit her when she refused to sign certain papers. Barbara Davis, Patricia's mother, is said to be distressed by the article, but she is a popular woman in the Beverly Hills party and charity worlds, and she did not cut down on the number of her appearances on the social scene. In fact, her other children celebrated her birthday with her at Spago on a Sunday night, one of the restaurant's biggest nights of the week.
I was in town covering a week of the Robert Blake civil trial, in Burbank. I had been at Blake's criminal trial last March, when he was acquitted of murdering his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Civil trials rarely have the drama of criminal trials, since they can end only in a monetary award rather than in a verdict that could result in life imprisonment. Bakley's four children are suing Blake for wrongful death. Trial historians will remember that O. J. Simpson, another celebrity on trial for murder, was similarly acquitted of slaying his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, along with her friend Ronald Goldman. One year later, in a wrongful-death civil trial brought by the victims' families, Simpson was ordered to pay $33.5 million. He has never come up with the money—most of it is still unpaid—and he has made it abundantly clear that he has no intention of doing so.
While I was attending the trial, there was an alert that a terrorist act might take place in Los Angeles. The next day a massive power failure took out the electricity in most of the city, and all of us had to leave the courthouse and go outside. For a while I found myself sitting on the steps with Robert Blake. He likes to talk about the movies with me, and I asked him if he had had any offers for parts since his acquittal. He said he was waiting until the civil trial was over. He also told me he was broke. He said he had offered to settle with Bonny Lee's children for $250,000, which, he said, was all he had left. They insisted on pressing forward with the case, however, clearly in the hope of getting more. "So all the money that's left goes to the lawyers for this trial," Blake told me.
I had to leave Los Angeles before Blake took the stand, and as this issue of the magazine goes to press the trial is still not over, but I keep up with the proceedings through reporter friends on the scene. It seems from all I hear that once Blake took the stand he completely took over the courtroom. He is putting on a mesmerizing show, which could very well be his last great performance.
Robert Blake is more on my mind than ever since I went to a screening of the film Capote, which deals with the four years Truman Capote spent writing In Cold Blood. He called the book the first nonfiction novel, and two years after its publication, in 1965, it became a film starring Robert Blake as one of the killers in the story. Every time I have seen Blake at his trials, he has talked about Capote, and I would love to talk to him again about this movie, which was directed by Bennett Miller from a script by Dan Futterman based on the distinguished biography by Gerald Clarke. I haven't enjoyed a movie so much in a long time. The astonishing Philip Seymour Hoffman has reached his zenith playing the tiny, effeminate Capote.
I knew Truman. He was never a great friend, but I had several intense experiences with him. He was a fascinating, highly manipulative person, incredibly talented but apt to say anything, who could tell lies and utterly captivate you at the same time. He befriended the Kansas killers who had been given the death sentence for the murders of the four members of the Herbert Clutter family, and he made them famous as soon as excerpts of his book were published in The New Yorker magazine. He also made them feel that they could rely on him to help them win an appeal. At the same time, however, he knew that he couldn't finish the book that would make him the most celebrated writer in America until he had witnessed their executions, which kept being delayed.
Here's a very superficial story about Truman, but a revealing one, I think. In 1964 my wife and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary with a black-and-white ball at our house in Beverly Hills, and there was much advance talk about the party. The fire department was adamant about the number of people we could invite, so we had to let all the guests know that they couldn't bring any friends or houseguests with them. Truman was staying with the producer David Selznick and his movie-star wife, Jennifer Jones, so naturally we invited him. Then he called and asked if he could bring Alvin Dewey—the Kansas detective who had broken the case and arrested the killers—and his wife. (Chris Cooper plays Dewey in the movie.) I told Truman that because of fire laws we couldn't let anyone bring extra guests. But he wouldn't let it go. It was clear that he wasn't going to hang up until he had gotten the Deweys into the party, so eventually I relented. They were great, by the way. And Truman got the idea for his famous black-and-white ball in New York, two years later, from our party, but he didn't invite us.
Fortunately, there was another side to Truman. At the time in my life when I stayed for six months in a one-room cabin in Oregon, without a telephone or a television set, trying to pick up the pieces of my wrecked life, Truman wrote me the most wonderful letter. He said he was filled with admiration that I had dropped out of Hollywood and was dealing with my demons. He ended by saying, "But remember this, that is not where you belong and when you get out of it what you went there to get, you have to come back to your own life." I never forgot that. A year or so later, after I did return to my own life, I went to Truman's memorial service at a theater on Broadway. It occurred to me sitting there that if Truman had gone to a cabin in the mountains of Oregon and dealt with his demons he wouldn't be dead at the age of 60.
The memorial service at Christie's auction house for Nan Kempner, the last of the great New York fashion icons, was just about perfect. Quite rightly, it wasn't a sad event. People waved to one another, blew kisses, and kissed on cheeks. Nearly 800 classy people sat on white ballroom chairs. Serena Balfour was there from London, Sheila de Rochambeau from Paris, Lynn Wyatt from Houston, Betsy Bloomingdale from Los Angeles, and Pat Buckley from Park Avenue. Peter Duchin, in supreme form, sat at a piano on the stage and created a Nan mood by playing classic dance and show tunes of the 30s, 40s, and 50s. Nan's widower, Tommy Kempner, who is a man of very few words in social life, gave a loving and beautiful eulogy for his wife of 53 years, and their sons, Jamie and Speedy, read touching farewells to her. Tributes were also paid by Nan's great friends William F. Buckley Jr., the writer and wit, Kenneth Jay Lane, the jeweler and man-about-town, and Jean Jackson, who had grown up with her in San Francisco. Nan was there. You could feel her presence. She wasn't going to miss that last happening.
When I picked up the telephone on Friday, August 26, and heard my sister-in-law Joan Didion's voice, I knew what she was going to say before she said it. "Quintana's dead," she told me in quiet, calm tones. Her daughter had been critically ill for months, but it still was a shock to hear the news. The last time I had seen Quintana was on Easter Sunday. For years it had been the habit of my late brother John Gregory Dunne and Joan to have an Easter lunch in their New York apartment, and Joan had continued the tradition this year. The living room was crowded with about 30 friends when Quintana was wheeled into the front hall by Gerry Michael, her husband. Everyone stopped to look at the young woman, because it was the first time they had seen her since John's funeral. Determined not to be wheeled into the party, she rose from her wheelchair, wearing a long blue bathrobe, and walked the dozen steps to the seat that had been saved for her. Her feet pointed inward, and it was clear that just taking those few tiny steps was an enormous effort for her, but she managed it, and she smiled at her accomplishment. It was a gallant moment for her and an emotional one for the rest of us. Jean Halberstam, the wife of the writer David Halberstam, was standing next to me. "It's so wonderful to see Quintana again," she said, turning to me. Our eyes were filled with tears at the tragic sight. Three months later, in June, Quintana was re-admitted to the hospital with an abdominal infection. As always, during the long ordeal, Joan was there by her side, along with Gerry. "I'll call all the Dunnes," I said to Joan.
The memorial service at St. Vincent Ferrer, on Lexington Avenue at 66th Street, conducted by a family friend, Father Daniel Morrissey of the Dominican Order, was beautiful. That night the Didion family, the Dunne family, and the Michael family all had dinner at Joan's. It was one of those occasions where you see and talk to relations you don't otherwise see very often, and amazing family histories come out. I am one of four brothers. Three of us lost children. So many memories of my daughter filled my mind on the day of Quintana's service. I went to my house in Connecticut early the next morning. It was a cold, rainy weekend, and I stayed inside. I didn't see a soul. It was a time for mourning.
I've passed a milestone since my last diary, and to my great surprise I'm very happy with the new state of affairs. Although I think of myself as a spry 60-year-old, the truth is that on October 29 I turned 80. That's a big one. It makes you stop and think. Other than experiencing an increasing number of senior moments, however, I'm still going strong, and my intention is to continue my very active life as a spry 60-year-old. When I changed careers and became a writer, at the age of 50, I realized that I finally had the life I had always wanted. I was out for lunch, out for dinner, at every party and screening, at opening nights, flying to London, flying to Los Angeles, sitting in courtrooms and observing trials, and then writing it all down. My horoscope in the New York Daily News recently read, "You are in the process of ending one life chapter, about to enter another, one that will absorb you fully and joyfully.… Jupiter enters Scorpio for the first visit in twelve years. You have a year's worth of happiness ahead." That not only sounded pretty good to me but also brought back something I hadn't thought of in years.
On the night before I was shipped overseas in World War II, I went to a fortune-teller in a town in Massachusetts near Camp Devon, my embarkation point. I was 18 years old. Drafted during my senior year of boarding school, I was the kind of kid who never made the team, and I was scared. I had become almost obsessed with the idea that I was going to be killed in battle. When by accident I passed this cheap little place with a sign out front for psychic readings, I felt compelled to go in. A Gypsy woman with rouged cheeks was sitting at a table covered with gaudy shawls, and there was a crystal ball on the table. She gave me a routine 10-minute reading and then asked if I had any questions. I was very shy in those days, and I stuttered, but I somehow got the words out: "Will I be killed in the war?" She was surprised at the question, I could tell, and I no longer felt as if she were just brushing me off. She stared intently into the crystal ball and said something like "No, you won't be killed. You will have a long life. Terrible things will happen to you, but the last part of your life is going to be the best."
I'd forgotten all about that Gypsy lady until I read my horoscope, but I resolved then and there to start out my 80th year on a high. I called the Ritz Hotel in Paris and booked a room as a birthday present to myself. As I was about to hang up, the assistant manager, who remembered me from past visits, said, "Mr. Dunne, do you know how I can get a copy of Empress Bianca?" He was speaking about the recent novel by Lady Colin Campbell that had raised the ire of Lily Safra, the rich widow of the late banker Edmond Safra, who claimed the main character had been based on her.
"It's been pulped," I replied.
Dominick Dunne is a best-selling author and special correspondent for Vanity Fair. His diary is a mainstay of the magazine.


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The Nissan Leaf, the Japanese automaker's popular electric car, could fall prey to remote attacks by hackers, according to security researcher Troy Hunt. In response to Hunt's discovery, Nissan has temporarily pulled the app that Leaf owners can use to control the car.
To use the app, owners only have to enter their car's Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). Hunt found that with just that information, hackers could potentially obtain driving history data and tweak the car's heating and air-conditioning controls. (The app does not, however, grant access to unlock a car or drive it remotely.) According to Hunt, the issue could easily be fixed if Nissan insisted on users providing additional information—aside from just the VIN, which can be found on a Leaf car's windscreen—for authentication.
Due to this vulnerability, Hunt, who was based in Australia, managed to take over the climate controls of a Nissan Leaf located in the U.K. Hunt posted a video of the experiment, as seen below:
In a statement to the BBC, a Nissan spokeswoman said the company was revising its app to ensure drivers' safety:
"Nissan is aware of a data issue relating to the NissanConnect EV app that impacts the climate control and state of charge functions. It has no effect whatsoever on the vehicle's operation or safety. Our global technology and product teams are currently working on a permanent and robust solution. We are committed to resolving the issue as a matter of priority, ensuring that we deliver the best possible experience for our customers through the app now and in the future."
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My school is located in a rural area and all students belong to BPL section. A large number of people live in villages which comprises three-fourths of our country's population. Today, when India is going digital with programmes like Digital India and Government wants our kids to explore the digital world so that they can be future ready. The revolution in digital education will not be complete unless modern devices are made accessible to each and every student of the village school in India.
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text: The control unit and the data center constantly monitor data received from the control devices during usage. The data accumulated, such as gas and electricity consumption, may be compiled to locate inconsistencies and deviations. For example, if the electricity consumption within the home increases by 10% over a period of time a warning may be provided to the homeowner informing them of the deviation. It can be appreciated that various other types of data manipulation may be utilized with the present invention.


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Bridging OT with IT networks for efficiency benefits
Modern factory robots and machines all get connected to the network to provide statistics and some form of control. These networks are distinctly separated form Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and often referred to as Operational Technology (OT).
Security is taken extremely seriously for these OT network as machine malfunctioning can cause serious accidents in the real-world and result in much more damage than data loss. OT networks have therefor traditionally been totally separated from IT networks. To connect them however has big potential to provide efficiency gains to analyse tuning possibilities, perform predictive maintenance and controlled remote access.
OT Micro Segmentation
Clavister firewalls for industrial use provide the ideal solution for allowing direct secure connectivity between OT and IT networks. The firewall is configured to be very strict on the specific devices that are allowed on the OT side. The ARP Authentication feature allows authentication of devices and the ability to create specific rules and policies for the same.
Also the Clavister Next-Generation Firewall provides application validation and control functionality to apply policy rules on communication protocols. The user can specify that only protocols like Modbus, OPC or PROFINET, as an example of many, are allowed between segments. In this way it segments the network into zones to simplify policy management and reduce impact upon breach.
The firewall can be configured to allow for communicaiton only in one direction, towards specific IP addresses in the datacenter or cloud. This allows for useage and system status informaiton to be uploaded to the suppliers direclty who can perform preventive maintenance programs and redcue the risk of unscheduled outage.
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Weak Canadian dollar impacts Postmedia quarterly results
The media co has posted a $54.1 million net loss for the period ending Aug. 31, 2015 largely due to foreign currency exchange losses.
Postmedia's losses continued into the fourth quarter of the financial year, with the newspaper company posting a loss of $54.1 million for the period ending Aug. 31, 2015. While year-on-year revenue increased by $76 million, this increase was largely attributable to the Sun Media acquisition earlier this year. Without that the company suffered a $67.2 million decline in print advertising revenue, as well as print circulation revenue losses of $9.7 million and digital revenue losses of $1.3 million.
Operating losses for the newspaper company can be attributed largely to a $19.4 million loss on derivative financial instruments compared to the previous quarter, coupled with the continued slump of the Canadian dollar against the U.S. dollar leading to an increase in foreign currency exchange losses to the tune of $19.387 million for this quarter.
However, these losses were offset to some extent by a reduction in operating loss and a recovery of operating losses. Operating income before depreciation, amortization, impairment and restructuring increased by $6.6 million from the previous quarter, amounting to $22.3 million. That increase was largely due to income from the Sun papers acquisition of April 2015; excluding that, operating income fell by $6.1 million for the quarter.
The fourth quarter saw a revenue increase of $83.4 million from the previous quarter, up to $230.2 million. But that increase, too, was largely due to the revenue from the Sun publications. Excluding the Sun papers, revenue fell $13 million, year on year.
Print advertising revenue took a hit, falling 13.7% and amounting to $10.2 million. Print circulation revenue also fell by 4.8%, amounting to $2.3 million with digital revenue falling 2.4% this quarter.
The company also experienced an increase in production costs on account of outsourcing the production for Montreal Gazette, The Vancouver Sun and The Province.
The company continues to struggle with its revenue-generation strategy. This week, despite investing heavily in tablet editions for the Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen and Montreal Gazette, it discontinued its evening tablet editions, which launched last year.
For the year ended Aug. 31 2015 the media co posted a net loss of $263.4 million compared with $107.5 million for the year ending in 2014. Revenue for the year ended Aug. 31, 2015 was $750.3 million, compared with $674.3 million (2014), an increase of $11.3%. Again, with the exclusion of the Sun Media brands, revenue decreased by $77.6 million or 11.5% for the year ended Aug. 31, 2015. Those losses were attributed to losses in print advertising revenue (17.9%), print circulation revenue (5%) and digital revenue (1.5%).
Postmedia continues its cost-reducing strategy with the aim of cutting $50 million in operating costs by the end of fiscal 2017. This quarter's contribution to that goal was about $14 million, according to the report.


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