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|Standard MWL 3.4b
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|Standard MWL 3.1
|Standard MWL 3.0
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|Core Set
|Humanity's Shadow
|Opening Moves
|True Colors
|Fear and Loathing
|Double Time
|Honor and Profit
|Order and Chaos
|Breaker Bay
|Data and Destiny
|The Liberated Mind
|Card draw simulator
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|Repartition by Cost
|Repartition by Strength
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|Inspiration for
|EoI Sync - 5th/6th Atl Regionals
|AGENDORS GET!! [4th Place Stockholm Regionals]
|Kitten Chop Shop (2nd, Poznan RC)
|SYNC EOI 1st place Malmö Regionals
|Kitchen SYNC (1st Place Huddersfield Regional)
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This deck is the new shit. EoI into breaking news to swap a GFI back (or an astro with token if your opponent is one of those scumbag who plays turntable) is real.
Payback time, baby.
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2 Jun 2016 thebigunit3000
Turntable is one of the most honorable cards in netrunner. Exchange of information is for scumlords.
2 Jun 2016 Calimsha
GTFO, orange shitbag.
2 Jun 2016 spags
Nice deck. Nice to see you active again.
Confirmed this isn't one of my designs. XD
2 Jun 2016 GrantZilla1979
fast. fast as hell. if a scrub like me can consistently close out games by no later than turn 10 with it, imagine what someone who knows what they're doing can do with it.
2 Jun 2016 ericbtool
2 GLC's so you can have 2 AM's? oh i guess i should offer a cut.......a bernie or the psycho.
2 Jun 2016 Calimsha
the money is clutch and i don't think GLC would be good enough.
2 Jun 2016 Calimsha
But feel free to test,
2 Jun 2016 ericbtool
nah you know what you're doing better than I. I was just curious about the decision. I have my own EoI silliness to try. The card is ridiculous. Will you update the thread to include results?
2 Jun 2016 ericbtool
@ajar and @thebigboy play in my league so i'll probably see it from @ajar at least once
2 Jun 2016 haywire
Deck looks great. But i gotta ask a noobish question:
2 Jun 2016 HiggsBozo
If you use SanSan or an Astro token to score Breaking News, you'll have an extra click to play Exchange / ASI / Closed. Also, if you Exchange a Breaking News for something, the tags don't go away.
You can often put the runner in a situation where they have to choose between letting you have an Astro and floating a Raven tag (especially if you pump the Raven trace). You wanna be sticking stuff behind a Raven and daring them to check it on turn 1.
2 Jun 2016 haywire
True, the SanSan-Way is a possibility.
2 Jun 2016 Calimsha
3 Jun 2016 cranked
How useful have you found the Psychographics? I feel like without Midseasons, it may lose a bit of value considering that it doesn't seem like you're piling tags on all at once.
3 Jun 2016 Therad
3 Jun 2016 Calimsha
3 Jun 2016 tf34
This deck is terrible. I just tried it and went 0-4. Nobody should bring it to regionals this weekend.
3 Jun 2016 MrMint
3 Jun 2016 Simone Suka
3 Jun 2016 Ironcache
Oh sure I make this deck and bring it to a regionals and I get 7 likes over like 2 weeks, but
Being serious though, I do like some of the differences this has from my regionals deck. Mine had a 15 Minutes in it (going to 19 points), but I found that the hypothetical dream of tagging them + trading Global Food Initiative for 15 Minutes often didn't line up, and never needed to when it did; Breaking News was almost a preferable trade for 2 persistent tags. I also had Scorched Earth + Green Level Clearances in the deck, and I would definitely have preferred the Blue Level Clearances. Also, the ICE suite I had was a bit too expensive (especially considering I had GLC vs. BLC), and I think I would swap my Tollbooths for either Quandary or Little Engine.
That said, I feel like 11 ICE is a little light, and the investment in the tagging theme might be a little too much. I think I'd ditch both Bernice Mai, the Psychographics, and maybe the Closed Accounts/The All-Seeing I for Keegan Lane, a 3rd EoI, and more ICE. I found Breaking News (along with the ICE suite and 1x SEA Source) was more than enough to land the tags I needed to get EoI off, and EoI was usually enough to win the games. I never really missed not having any of the other tag events; the losses I did take in the tournament, they wouldn't have helped with. Curious about your experience on this front.
3 Jun 2016 Calimsha
if you are playing scorch, GLC, booth and 15 mins, it's totally a different deck man ... Can't really compare.
3 Jun 2016 Calimsha
Being more serious, the next iteration of that list dropped the ASI (a bit too much win more), a quandary and play 3 resistor and Archangel. Archangel was already there in the very first version but
3 Jun 2016 Ironcache
Tangenting to the core concept, I'm pretty sure this whole Breaking News/Exchange of Information is extremely strong, and I wouldn't be surprised to start seeing New Angeles City Hall in Shaper with Film Critic. I was going to slot it for regionals, but since the pack had just came out, I figured that not many people would be playing it. I was right, but I think it will probably change.
4 Jun 2016 wedgeex
Vanilla over Resistor? Or am I missing something?
4 Jun 2016 Calimsha
Vanilla doesn't punish the runner going tagme.
4 Jun 2016 sabre0001
Got to Fast Track - Install - use Astro token - flip SanSan and trade my newly scored BN for a GFI. Glorious!
5 Jun 2016 saifrc
I just went 4-1 with this deck at the Chicago regionals. The one loss was in a game in which I was Account Siphoned eight times, and Legworked twice, by Ken Tenma. He went tag-me, but I couldn't for the life of me find a Resistor, or anything taxing for that matter, to put over HQ, nor did Psychographics ever show up. Even then, the game was close, and this deck performed amazingly.
6 Jun 2016 helloledbetter
Had to face this 4 times in NYC vs. my Stealth Kate deck that had served me well all year. I was totally unprepared. Despite going 5-1 in corp I lost to this deck 3/4 times and missed cut, with the only win being because my opponent couldn't find ICE. This thing is real and it's abominable. Are ProCo shapers just a bad matchup (all the ProCo Haleys and Kates I spoke to lost to this deck), or did I just not have a winning strategy?
6 Jun 2016 Ironcache
``@helloledbetter` again, I'm pretty sure that slotting NACH and Film Critic is probably the right answer for shaper. Artist / aggressively draw for them. Once you have NACH out, it's just a neutered FA deck.
6 Jun 2016 Hermit
Went undefeated with this deck in Atl regionals! Definitely a great deck. Thanks
6 Jun 2016 Calimsha
On my own testing I've lost once and won 12 time with proco Kate. But I'm also on triple indexing and know this match-up super well.
6 Jun 2016 helloledbetter
6 Jun 2016 Zakalwe
I was thinking about the viability of just leaving Global Food Initiative sitting on a Film Critic until the Runner reaches 5 points but then I realised SYNC can easily tag the runner and trash Film Critic.
6 Jun 2016 Ironcache
6 Jun 2016 Calimsha
Yeah but you can also be rushed out and it's not like you have 3 FC in you deck so you can keep all the agendas you score there :).
7 Jun 2016 Bandura
my experience with shaper against this is that I just need to produce enough cash to trash all the SanSans. Which can be problematic because of Data Raven
8 Jun 2016 meta4
Why no Keegans? Seems like Keegan is a better way to punish tag me than Resistor because Resistor can be killed easily by David+knifed, and Resistor can also just be paid through pretty easily (4 creds isn't a ton if you're using Maker's Eye or something similar). I've been playing a tagging deck in Making News since D&D came out, and I quickly ditched the resistors for just 3xWraparound and 2xKeegan and found that change really helped because you can just deny their fracter/other breakers. I also played a bit more recursion though to keep the Keegans coming back.
8 Jun 2016 Calimsha
Because Keegan is a dead slot if the runner doesn't go TagMe and you want your tag punishment to be pro-active (aka: can be enabled with Breaking News). Keegan make zero sense here since the runner should ideally never go tagme.
8 Jun 2016 Ironcache
Note that data raven enables Keegan for the run.
8 Jun 2016 Calimsha
In a world where pretty much everyone play clone chip and the decks who doesn't play Councilman and/or déjà vu, Keegan feels weak. Like a bad one trick pony.
Don't play Keegan, it's not worth it.
8 Jun 2016 ericbtool
there's too much set up for keegan with a deck like this.
8 Jun 2016 Bandura
I did try Keegan some time ago and reached the same conclusion. Either you got him but not the Data Raven, or vice versa, or they ran past the Raven / Turnpike early in the game when they had no breakers, etc...
11 Jun 2016 ZiNOS
Have you tried Casting Call? It cannot be trashed, gives two tags and behind a data raven is king imho. Maybe better than Bernice Mai in some occasions?
14 Jun 2016 manveruppd
I'm curious: what are the usual targets for Archived Memories? More EoI?
14 Jun 2016 Calimsha
15 Jun 2016 manveruppd
Cool, thanks! It's a very strong deck, I tried it at a casual meet tonight (but with -1 ASI, -2 Quandary, +1 Archangel, +1 Enigma, +1 Resistor) and it impressed me!


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In what is a whole new take on tunnel vision, for marathon runners in Hamburg after years of renovation work there is finally light at the end of the tunnel. June 2 marks the return of the Elbtunnel Marathon, with runners completing 48 laps beneath one of Europe's major waterways.
Asked to describe their symptoms, people talk about headaches and feeling unsteady on their feet. But we're not talking about the aftereffects of a night on the town, although Hamburg's red-light district and the famous Reeperbahn are barely a stone's throw from the Old Elbe Tunnel. Instead, these are the symptoms occasionally encountered by runners in the Elbtunnel Marathon in which the competitors actually run the whole race "underwater". The course takes them over 48 anticlockwise laps through the two tubes of the tunnel, itself a historically significant piece of civil engineering located at the Landungsbrücken harbor terminal. At the deepest point, the runners are 21 meters beneath mean high water in the Elbe, one of Europe's most important inland waterways. Fact is that here, at the heart of Hamburg harbor, the Old Elbe Tunnel crosses the river at a level that, depending on your constitution, can leave you feeling out of your depth.
But such moderate discomfort is nothing compared to the conditions to which workers were subjected when the Elbe Tunnel was built more than a century ago. Exposed to constant temperatures of over 40°C and expected to work in a pressurized environment, many of the laborers were unable to cope. In only the first three months of construction activity more than 200 workers fell victim to decompression sickness, or "the bends", as divers call it, in which bubbles form in the body when leaving a pressurized environment in an uncontrolled way. But never fear, this can't happen today. It's nice and cool in the tunnel and the air is not under any real pressure.
Today celebrated as a significant technical achievement of bygone days, back in 1911 the tunnel was officially opened with typically North German understatement by a single blast of a policeman's whistle. As the first tunnel ever to be built underwater, it was a technical sensation and was to become one of Hamburg's most important road links, connecting the districts of St. Pauli in the north and Steinwerder in the south. The tunnel accommodated pedestrians, cyclists and cars, with the cars not driving in and out on ramps but being hoisted down and up again by huge elevators at either end. In 1923, more than 19 million people used the tunnel to cross the river. Every change of shift at the companies based in the harbor led to long queues at the head of the tunnel. In the course of the 1970s − and particularly when the new Elbe Tunnel carrying the A7 autobahn opened in 1974 − the Old Elbe Tunnel gradually fell into disuse. Today it may be no more than a popular tourist attraction, but even in this role it attracts some 800,000 visitors a year to admire its time-honored tubes. Over the years, two World Wars, numerous dredging operations to deepen the Elbe and more than a century of Hamburg's history left their traces in the tunnel. Eventually, cracks in the walls, contaminated floors and broken elevators meant the time had come for extensive renovation measures.
As a result, what in the year 2000 was the first ever marathon to be run entirely underground, came to a complete halt in 2009. Both tubes of the Old Elbe
Tunnel were up for renovation, Initially the tab was supposed to come to EUR 16 million and both tubes were supposed to be restored to their former glory by 2011. But 2011 came and went, and the costs soared to EUR 60 million – for just one tube. For the people of Hamburg who witnessed similar developments with their Elbphilharmonie concert hall, this was familiar ground. Ultimately, the renovation of one tube took as long as the original construction of the Old Elbe Tunnel, begun in 1907 and completed in 1911.
So for the organizers of the Elbtunnel Marathon, it was a long time before they saw light at the end of the tunnel. Now though, the celebrations to mark the reopening of the West tube in April 2019 are at hand. At the end of May a full orchestra of some 140 musicians will play a specially composed Tunnel Symphony. But the next sporting highlight on the calendar will doubtless be the revived Elbtunnel Marathon which is to be staged on June 2. The 280 runners will be accompanied by a selection of tunnel-dwelling creatures, including crabs, porpoises, eels and seals. But there's no cause for concern – they are only decorations on some of the 400,000 or so tiles that line the walls of the tunnel. But if you didn't get one of the coveted starting numbers and still feel like some exercise in the Old Elbe Tunnel, it's open to pedestrians free of charge all year round – and the 132 steps down and back are sure to set your pulse racing.
For further details, visit http://100marathon-club.de/elbtunnel.html


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"Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, 1887-2058" and Julien Prévieux – Prix Marcel Duchamp at Centre Pompidou, Paris
"Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, 1887-2058"
The Centre Pompidou is devoting a both forward-looking and retrospective exhibition of the work of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, presenting some 30 connected works in spaces both inside and outside of the museum. The artist will create a spatiotemporal labyrinth of rooms and environments, a theatre of sounds and perceptions, a multi-faceted story.
"Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, 1887-2058" displays an "open" timeline from 1887 to 2058, and extends the idea of the retrospective by combining different centuries and climates.
The exhibition begins in the late 19th century; journeys through the experiments of the 20th century, and projects viewers into landscapes and interiors in turn desert— like or tropical, biographical or dystopian. This combination of parallel realities and stage sets—where the genres of landscape, portrait and period rooms co-exist— becomes a fictional house with numerous entrances, constructed so that viewers experience the sensations of outdoor and indoor, ideas of identity and fiction, the present moment and a journey through time.
Sometimes stage, sometimes playground and sometimes introspective narratives, the rooms, films and appearances of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster are anchored in living memories of cinema, literature and the open structures of architecture and music: all ways of exploring the limits of the possible in art.
Like an opera or a musical, the exhibition brings to life all kinds of cinematographic, literary and scientific presences, to create a world inhabited by sensations, stories and quotations. The exhibition is an identification of the artist, the work and the viewer all at once.
Curated by Emma Lavigne, director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, this monograph devoted to the work of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, one of the world's leading contemporary artists, is part of the ongoing series of retrospectives devoted to the art figures of today (Philippe Parreno, Gabriel Orozco, Pierre Huyghe …). This exhibition of an unprecedented scale constitutes an important milestone in the presentation of the work of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, following her solo shows at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2007, at the Tate Modern in 2008, the Palacio de Cristal of Madrid in 2014—organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and her cycle of scheduled appearances programmed for the opening week of the Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2014.
until 1 February 2016
"Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, 1887-2058" installation views at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2015
Courtesy: Centre Pompidou, Paris. Photo: Philippe Migeat and Grégoire Vieille.
Julien Prévieux – Prix Marcel Duchamp at Espace 315
The Centre Pompidou has invited Julien Prévieux, the winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2014, to stage a show of his work in Espace 315. In response, artist has chosen to present a mixture of drawings, abstract sculptures and films organised around the themes of the recording of movement and the schematization of the body.
The work of Julien Prévieux interrogates the world and the way we experience it under the aspects of employment, economics and politics. He's interested in cutting-edge technology, mechanisms of control and management theory, which he seeks to turn against themselves.
Prévieux thus re-appropriates the technologies developed to record movement in order to generate aesthetic experiences that bring out their potential for play and for the creation of form.
Similarly, he makes use of the vocabulary, mechanisms and procedures of the world of work to unpick the unquestioned assumptions underlying them and to underline the dangers they pose, prompting us to think about the issues at stake. An example might be the famous "expressions of non-interest" he sent to employers over many years, responding to job-adverts in the press. In his effort to resist administrative power and escape commodification Julien Prévieux deploys a "counter-productivity" strategy, one that also finds expression in numerous collaborations.
An example of this is Prévieux's work with officers from a police station in the14th arrondissement of Paris, which forms part of this exhibition. Here he takes up the crime map – a graphic image derived from the computer-processing of statistics that shows the distribution and density of crime in a given area – inviting the officers to produce these entirely by hand – robbing the process of its efficiency and its practical purpose but revealing its poetic possibilities.
Produced especially for this exhibition, the film Patterns of Life has five dancers from the Opéra de Paris perform a history of movement capture. From Georges Demenÿ's recording of faulty gait to the "activity-based intelligence" generated by the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the film traces the genealogy of the quantification and visualisation of bodily movement and the different ways of making sense of it.
The dancers perform six key experiments in the measurement of movement, carrying out of protocols and scientific results as if they were choregraphic instructions, in a film highlighting their political, economic or military implications.
Such schematisations of movement generate results whose aesthetics echo the formal explorations of modern and contemporary art. The visualisations of movement presented here thus offer, in their lines, colours and materials, all the wealth one might expect of abstract drawings or sculpture. This stress on the relationship between abstract art and the modes of recording gesture and movement – of the worker on the line or of pedestrians in the city – is not merely an amusing anecdote but also a strategy of diversion.
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Julien Prévieux – Prix Marcel Duchamp at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2015


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Since its launch on 9th, January 2012, China's first civilian high resolution stereo mapping satellite ZY-3 has provided a reliable stream of high resolution stereo image data. ZY-3 produces three line-array stereo panchromatic images (2.1-meter for nadir,3.5-meter for forward and backward) and 5.8-meter multispectral (red, blue, green, near infrared) imagery that can be combined in a variety of ways to accommodate a wide range of high-resolution imagery applications.
View more info on SASMAC (Satellite surveying and mapping application center, NASG).And the website is http://www.sasmac.cn/portal_space/ (In English)
The files of the different scenes can be identified by the last digits before file extension e.g. the scene of file
ZY3_01a_hsnbavp_275102_20121201_183107_0008_SASMAC_CHN_sec_rel_001_12120422639.tif can be identified by 2639 within the available data set
Technical data of the images are available in the *.XML-files (ASCII) as corner coordinates, view direction, sun elevation and azimuth, imaging time . . .
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bwd = backward, pan 3.5m GSD 24513 x ~19997 pixels
fwd = forward, pan 3.5m GSD 24513 x ~19996 pixels
mux = nadir, color, 4 bands 5.1m GSD 8820 x ~8786 pixels (blue, green, red, NIR)
nad = nadir, pan 2.1m GSD 24513 x ~23996 pixels
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CHICAGO (CBS) — About 30,000 people in Illinois are approved for medical marijuana, but not everyone wants to smoke it.
A cooking class in the northern suburbs is teaching patients how to cook with cannabis.
CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports those with real medical concerns are learning how to cook with coconut oil infused with cannabis in order to help them get longer-lasting relief at a lower cost.
Jody Greco, a medical marijuana patient, says she has made everything from sweets to sautéed vegetables with the cannabis concoction.
Greco, who suffers from arthritis, lupus, and fibromyalgia, says cooking with cannabis gives her relief and a natural high.
"Being a chef, it's a lot of fun," she said. "My chef hat went on and I started making heavy cream. By the time I started whisking and stirring, I was making gelato."
Jami Miller works at Clinic Mundelein, a marijuana dispensary.
She said, "A lot of folks don't want that on their lungs. A lot of our patients are pulmonary patients."
To meet that need, the Clinic Mundelein developed seminars to teach patients how to infuse butters and oils with cannabis to use in standard daily recipes.
"Edibles are much more body centric, so when you are dealing with pain, edibles do the job much more efficiently than smoking," Miller explained.
A cannabis cookie can cost $20 at a dispensary, but patients can make one on their own for the equivalent of $1.60 – a savings for patients because cannabis is not covered by insurance.
"I always equate it to making dinner, as opposed to eating out," Miller said.
At the seminar, the instructors use oregano as a substitute, since cannabis is a controlled substance.


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This open-source software package enables researchers to sample redistricting plans from a pre-specified target distribution using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm. The package allows for the implementation of various constraints in the redistricting process such as geographic compactness and population parity requirements. The algorithm also can be used in combination with efficient simulation methods such as simulated and parallel tempering algorithms. Tools for analysis such as inverse probability reweighting and plotting functionality are included. The package implements methods described in Fifield, Higgins, Imai and Tarr (2015) ``A New Automated Redistricting Simulator Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo.''
The source code and the documentation are available for download from the Comprehensive R Archive Network and the GitHub repository.
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Scott Gordy works for Offshore Marine in North Carolina. The company is the primary electronics installer for many custom-boat brands, including Jarrett Bay. On the boat manufacturer's new 64-foot Builder's Choice, Gordy and his team installed a long list of electronics components for the boat's custom suite.
"On sport-fishers like Jarrett Bay's Builder's Choice, we used Garmin GPSMap 8600 series glass helm displays, a GSD 26 chirp sounder and open array radar, and we networked Garmin's Meteor 300 audio into that," he said.
The boat's captain wanted to keep a Northstar 952X chart plotter from his previous boat and install a Simrad AP28 autopilot he was intimately familiar with. Gordy also was tasked to bring high-definition TV, Blu-ray, shore-based Wi-Fi and satellite Wi-Fi access to the vessel. To do so, he added a Denon AVR-X4100W receiver, Apple TV and a Sony BDP-s1500 Blu-ray player. He also installed a Vizio smart TV and a Samsung 6350 48-inch TV for satellite and streaming TV.
Below is the full electronics component list installed on Builder's Choice:
- Navigation package
- Garmin 8215 displays (2)
- Garmin GMR 1226 radar
- Garmin GSD 26 chirp sounder
- Garmin 19X GPS antennas (2)
- Garmin AIS 600
- Garmin GXM 52 weather
- Garmin Wi-Fi
- Garmin Meteor 300 stereo with MS-NRX200i remote
- JL Audio M400/4 amp
- JL Audio 650 speakers (6)
- FLIR M-Series camera
- Simrad AP28 autopilot
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The presentation by the Automation Federation, "Cybersecurity Career Pathways for Protecting Critical Infrastructure," will be delivered at 11 a.m. on Friday, 27 January.
January 23, 2017 – As part of its mission to help develop a workforce capable of competing in advanced manufacturing, the Automation Federation will deliver a presentation on career pathways in industrial cybersecurity at this week's 2017 Workforce Development Institute conference.
The conference, which will be conducted 25-28 January at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach in Newport Beach, California, is sponsored by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). It will bring together education leaders, manufacturing executives, and workforce and economic development experts from both government and private enterprise to assess current workforce challenges and consider new partnerships and perspectives.
The presentation by the Automation Federation, "Cybersecurity Career Pathways for Protecting Critical Infrastructure," will be delivered at 11 a.m. on Friday, 27 January.
The Automation Federation has long regarded community colleges as essential for providing the community-based education and training needed to groom future automation and control professionals and engineers. For many years, it has been working with the AACC as well as individual community colleges to help expand students' access to automation curriculum and degree programs.
In 2012, the Automation Federation worked with the AACC to establish the US Automation Community College Consortium. The member colleges that comprise the Consortium use the Automation Federation's Automation Competency Model as the framework for developing an automation curriculum that will result in two-year degree programs in specific automation arenas and provide an educational track leading to a four-year degree program in automation, engineering, and technology.
The Automation Federation is currently working with numerous community colleges to develop automation curriculum leading to associate degrees in automation. "The Automation Federation and the AACC have established a strong partnership around the Community College Consortium," emphasizes Michael Marlowe, Managing Director and Director of Government Relations at the Automation Federation. "We're confident that, by working together, we're creating a pathway for a new generation of automation professionals that is so critical to the future of advanced manufacturing."
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Secondary metabolites are produced by plants in response to biotic or abiotic interactions with their environment and confer protection through a variety of antimicrobial, pesticidal, and pharmacological properties. Alkaloids are a class of plant secondary metabolites that traditionally have been classified as basic compounds derived from amino acids that contain one or more heterocyclic nitrogen atom. About 20 % of plant species accumulate alkaloids, which are mostly derived from amino acids, e.g., phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan, and lysine. The alkaloids are popular for their medicinal importance. The pharmaceutically important representatives of secondary metabolites are mostly alkaloids derived from tyrosine. In this chapter, we summarized the prior information, basic knowledge about the alkaloids, origin, physicochemical properties, uses, classification, biosynthetic reactions, and distribution of tyrosine-derived alkaloids especially opium alkaloids and their biosynthetic pathways in plants. We have also reviewed different web resources related to alkaloids and secondary metabolic pathway databases such as KEGG.
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CHARLESTON, SC — The 2nd Annual Medal of Honor Bowl, scheduled for January 10, 2015 at The Citadel's Johnson Hagood Stadium, will again have top quality players seeking a shot at professional football along with coaches that possess nationally-recognized reputations. This year's game will also have a national televised audience watching it.
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"The Medal of Honor Bowl committee is thrilled to have NBCSN as our telecast partner," said Tom McQueeney, Chairman of the Medal of Honor Bowl Committee. "Being able to deliver this game to a national audience will allow us to showcase the college All-Star talent, and our tremendous community support to all of America."
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"We are excited to present the second annual Medal of Honor Bowl," said Gary Quinn, Vice President, Programming, NBC Sports and NBCSN. "The game will feature some of the most talented college football players in the country, and help shine a light on two important charitable organizations."
The Medal of Honor Bowl is a postseason college all-star game that features the nation's top draft-eligible players. In addition to the game, the week-long event will feature a player leadership conference, the Wounded Warrior Luncheon, the Medal of Honor True Blue Gala and opportunities to meet the players and future NFL stars. Other entertainment and fan experiences are in the process of being scheduled. The major portion of the game's proceeds benefit the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation with other funds anticipated for support of local veterans and wounded warrior projects.


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Those who live in a home with more than one story are used to going up and down stairs multiple times through the day. While this is something we don't even think about doing, stairs are responsible for many accidents in the home with the elderly, handicapped or young children being most at risk. Even guests who are not aware of certain irregularities to do with your stairs, are also at risk. So, what are some problems with stairs that can occur?
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In partnership with Northwest Missouri State University, the North Kansas City School District operated a pilot "Grow Your Own" program this summer in hopes of getting high school students interested in pursuing a teaching career, according to the Kansas City Star.
- The program, which gives students college credit, would be followed by two tuition-free years at a community college, after which the students would transfer to Northwest Missouri State's Northland Innovation Campus in Gladstone. The district would also give the students on-the-job experience, such as teaching in an after-school program.
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A blog post earlier this year from the Center for Great Teachers and Leaders at the American Institutes for Research noted that little is known about how "grow your own" programs are designed and implemented. The post featured videos describing various models, such as Pathways2Teaching in Denver and a micro-credentialing program called Educators Rising. Training future teachers is also a high priority for New York City schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña.
Surveys show, however, that young people are often not interested in going into a teaching career. An article last year in Educational Leadership discussed that high school teacher preparation programs face challenges such as a "lack of structure for how to implement a gold standard grow-your-own program," but that new standards created by Educators Rising, along with its Educators Rising Academy curriculum are helping to solve that problem.


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I did Gravel metric and it had some rough terrains and gravels and some grassy areas. Thank goodness there weren't too many hills.
I rode a road bike designed for wider wheels/tires and I used 700cx35 gravel grinder and I was fine with it.
Personally, I'd recommend to people to ride the bike they're most comfortable with, in terms of handling and comfortability for a long bumpy ride.
There were people who rode a Brompton and they both regretted the decision - well, one of them did, the other was a Brompton rep.
A lot of people rode a hybrid mountain bike converted with road handle bar, with no suspensions - and they enjoyed that.
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I did the Rough Road 100 and rode with Will on the Gravel Metric. Rough Road was more pavement than I expected, maybe 1/3 of the course. The gravel portions were basically flat fairly smooth farm roads where you pretty much rode in tire tracks for a smooth line. There was also a 3-4 mile or so stretch of really rough doubletrack that was just bone jarring and annoying as opposed to being a challenge to relish. Now Sager Rd at Barry, that was a challenge!
Gravel Metric was a lot of fun! The course was a mix of gravel farm roads, grassy snowmobile trails, and a few sections of what I think were private farm roads that pretty much only saw tractors. There was also a shallow stream crossing that we were able to slowly ride through. However the headwind was brutal when the course turned east for the final 15 mile leg. Then pouring rain with 10 to go! Regardless I thought it was a lot of fun and will be back next year if I don't do the Badlands Gravel Battle up in ND.
For both of those I rode a cross bike with 700x38 Challenge Gravel Grinders. I feel like it was a good tire and bike for both events. Some people had mountain bikes, others had cross bikes with narrower tires.
I've done the 24 miles at Barry Roubaix for three years and every year I say I am not going to do it again but I keep coming back. It's a cold ride and the weather and conditions have been different every single year. I ride my cx bike. Lots of hills, sometimes ice, sometimes sponge-like mud. Always so happy when I cross the finish line (knowing the suffering is over).
Palos is a great place to try out your bike - there's a multi-purpose trail that has some gravel, hills, etc. I also did some of the easier MTB on my CX bike there and it was a lot of fun.
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Bathing your Guinea Pig
Guinea pigs only require bathing when necessary. Cavies will naturally groom themselves. You may notice a opaque
liquid which will be secreted from your cavies eyes. This liquid will assist in cleaning your guinea pigs face and body. A
guinea pig will groom itself numerous times a day often after eating vegetables or after burrowing through grass hay.
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Please note: Long haired guinea pigs will require daily grooming and bathing every 3 to 4 months to maintain the
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A hair dryer on low heat can be used after you have bathed your cavy to ensure the fur is
completely dry. Extreme care must be taken at all times if using a hair dryer. Always hold the hair dryer at least 20-
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hair against the grain (against the direction the fur is growing) as this will make your cavy uncomfortable.
A good way to check the heat of the hair dryer is to hold it to your bare skin. If too hot it will be too hot for your
guinea pig. It will help you change the setting and range of air flow.
Non-Slip Mat (optional):
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In June 2003, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich acquired Chelsea from Ken Bates, ushering in a new era of big-money spending in the Premier League.
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He also owns British fashion brand Belstaff, and is planning to produce a successor to Land Rover's discontinued off-roader Defender.
He's an Avid Sailor and Adventure Seeker
Jim Ratcliffe, worth £21.05bn. Moved to Switzerland to save £100m in tax and because he was refused tax breaks. Forced employees to accept worse employment terms & a 3yr pay freeze. His latest super-yacht cost £130m & once said China had "no union or pension issues"! #UKRichList pic.twitter.com/YDrGQZDlP8— soulrebelno1 (@soulrebelno1) May 13, 2018
A well-known adventure seeker, Ratcliffe has made expeditions to the North and South Poles, and went on a month-long motorbike trip in South Africa in 2015. He has owned two super-yachts Hampshire and Hampshire II, and is known to be an avid sailor.
In 2018 it was reported that he had partnered with Ben Ainslie in order to compete in the 2021 America's Cup, a yacht race that will take place in New Zealand, investing
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This September Microsoft celebrated the 25th anniversary of SQL Server with a big announcement; SQL Server 2019, which is already available to download for Windows, Linux, Docker and Kubernetes.
This new version brings up some security improvements in Certificates Management within SQL Server Configuration Manager along new features and enhancements.
In September, Microsoft also released cumulative updates for both SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017. We have also seen a number of Windows Updates released, with the most critical detailed below.
SQL Server Updates
Cumulative update 11 (CU11) for SQL Server 2017
Cumulative update 3 (CU3) for SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2
Cumulative update 11 (CU11) for SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1
Windows Updates
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The increased number of students in school across Brazil may have played a role in the country's mark on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), responsible for the test.
Students in urban public schools across over 5.2 thousand municipalities in Brazil are expected to be benefited from internet access. During a ceremony attended by President Jair Bolsonaro at the Planalto presidential palace yesterday (Nov.


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Cars with Idle-stop Systems
Although the savings you'll get on fuel in a mild hybrid won't really compare to those of a full hybrid car, stop-start technology is still a promising step forward in making conventional cars much more fuel-efficient. This is an especially important step, since most fuel economy problems stem from idling and the constant stop and go nature of city driving. The technology has actually been around for a while, but we'll a look at some notable newer cars using idle-stop systems and the improvements that are underway for the existing technology.
Several recent car models will use (or have used) some kind of stop-start technology, with most examples coming from Europe or Japan. Some people might not know that the MINI Cooper, built under the BMW Group, has actually used idle-stop technology since 2007. And German automaker Audi started using an idle-stop system in the second quarter of 2009 in its A3, A4 and A5 models, with more to follow.
The most recent, and perhaps the most significant, example of a vehicle receiving an idle-stop system is the Madza3, which will begin using a new and improved type of stop-start technology by the end of 2009. While some systems tend to suffer due to the use of a conventional electric starter, which can cause slow and sluggish restarts, the new Mazda system will use combustion for the restart. Direct injection plays an integral part in the function of the system that Mazda calls the Smart Idle Stop System, or SISS. When a vehicle slows down and stops, sensors position the engine's pistons in specific locations within each of the cylinders. This allows the system to determine which of the cylinders is fully pressurized and ready to fire. At restart, fuel is injected into the appropriate cylinder, the fuel and air mix is ignited and the engine continues to operate as it normally would.
With these slight improvements, Mazda claims that their engines can restart in 350 milliseconds, about half the time it takes for other conventional systems to restart, and it results in a 10 percent reduction in fuel use, too.
For lots more information about hybrid cars and fuel-efficient technology, follow the links below.
Related HowStuffWorks Articles
- Abuelsamid, Sam. "Paris Preview: Mazda introducing new, smarter Smart Idle Stop System." AutoBlogGreen.com. Sept. 10, 2008. (June 22, 2009) http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/09/10/paris-preview-mazda-introducing-new-smarter-smart-idle-stop-sy/
- HybridCars.com. "Stop-Start Engine Hybrids." (June 22, 2009) http://www.hybridcars.com/stop-start-engine
- Korzeniewski, Jeremy. "Audi announces introduction of stop/start technology." AutoBlogGreen.com. May 8, 2009. (June 22, 2009) http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/05/08/audi-announces-introduction-of-stop-start-technology/
- Pollard, Tim. "MINI stop-start." CarMagazine.com. Sept. 3, 2007. (June 22, 2009) http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Green-Cars/Search-Results/Drives/Mini-stop-start/
- Richard, Michael Graham. "Tired of getting zero miles per gallon? Stop/start technology is for you." Treehugger.com. Feb. 8, 2008. (June 22, 2009) http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/stop-start_technology_zero_miles_per_gallon.php
- U.S. Department of Energy. "Stop/Start: Overview." (June 22, 2009) http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/hybridAnimation/stopstart/stopstartoverview.html


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Calculators for Southern Africanists
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Background: While using material from the Transkei magisterial archives in writing my dissertation, I always found myself converting from the currency and land units in use in South Africa in the early 20th century. I set up a spreadsheet to do the conversions, then a discussion of morgen-hectare conversions on H-SAfrica inspired me to convert this to a publicly available format. Here it is.
Instructions for use: Both calculators work the same way. Enter the value you want to convert, then click the button to the left of the field. The other fields in the calculator will display the converted values. For example, to convert 10s. 4d. to decimalized pounds or rand, enter 10 in the field labeled s and 4 in the field labeled d, then click the "Pounds / Shillings / Pence" button.
Notes: Rand conversions are based on R2 = £1,
the rate at the time of the introduction of the Rand, and are accurate
to two decimal places. Area conversions use the factors which were formerly
provided at http://www.stellenbosch.co.za/tourists/sub_tourists/conversions.shtml,
which are accurate to four decimal places (link broken as of 7/03). The
calculators use Javascript and are subject to slight rounding errors (e.g.
10000 morgen converts to 8565 ha , but 8565 ha converts back to 9999.6375
Currency Conversions
Land Area Conversions
Other old British currencies
Farthing: ¼d
Half-penny: ½d
Penny: 1d
Three-penny bit: 3d
Groat: 4d
Sixpence (or tanner): 6d
Shilling (or bob):1s
Florin or two shilling piece: 2s
Half-crown: 2s 6d
Crown: 5s
Half-Sovereign: 10s
Sovereign: 20s or £1
Guinea: 21s


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Today, on February 19, 2019, the world of fashion has suffered an irreparable loss, as the pioneer fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has dies in Paris at the age of 85. Let's take a close look at Lagerfeld's brilliant career and most iconic looks!
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1. Early life and career
Karl Lagerfeld was born under a name of Karl Otto Lagerfeldt in 1933 in Germany. From a young age, he knew his passion was designing clothes, which is why he moved to Paris, the internationally acclaimed fashion capital, as soon as he had the opportunity.
In Paris, Karl Lagerfeld worked for a variety of renowned brands, including Pierre Balmain, Fendi, and Chloe. His career steadily progressed throughout the 1960s and 1970s until he reached his peak by joining Chanel.
2. Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel
A decade after the brand founder Coco Chanel died, Karl Lagerfeld joined the fashion house in 1983. There he applied his vision to Chanel's classic designs, returning Chanel to its rightful place as a fashion brand everyone adored.
Perhaps, the best known accomplishment of Karl Lagerfeld as Chanel was his rethinking of the classic tweed suit. With Karl's innovative approach, the tweed suit once again became a trendy and coveted piece of clothing for established connoisseurs and young fashionistas.
As Karl Lagerfeld was working for Chanel, he also developed his signature look and attitude. When you hear his name, you instantly picture the designer in his dark suits, tinted sunglasses, jewelry, and with a platinum blonde ponytail.
Karl was also known for his fascination with young celebrities and youth culture. He was always inspired by a new muse, from Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss to Cara Delevingne, Kristen Stewart, and Willow Smith.
3. Karl Lagerfeld's 5 iconic designs
The contribution of Karl Lagerfeld to the world of fashion is so incredible that it's impossible to list every achievement he had in the industry. Instead, we picked 5 of his well-known designs.
As a man who had worn some of the most fabulous suits, Karl Lagerfeld also loved designing menswear-inspired looks for women, like this fierce number from the 1990s.
One of the oldest traditions of Karl's fashion shows was the wedding wear part. His wedding gown designs were diverse, eye-catching, sometimes controversial, but never boring.
Different variations of the iconic tweed suit were among the things that made Karl Lagerfeld famous in the first place, so there was always a new version of the suit to admire at Karl's runway shows.
Karl Lagerfeld was known for diverse approach to fashion – it seems like there is no style he hasn't successfully tried. This dreamy pink floral gown is both unexpected for Lagerfeld and very up his street.
Naomi Campbell was one of Karl Lagerfeld's muses and had the honour of rocking many of the designer's outfits. This textured coat dress is perfect for Naomi's personality and impossible to miss.
4. Celebrities react to Karl Lagerfeld's death
Karl Lagerfeld was such a groundbreaking figure in the fashion industry that hundreds of fellow designers, models, and celebrities are mourning his death on social media.
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MINOR AVATARS, AND THE MYTHOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS TERMS, &c. &c.
ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE PRINCIPAL HINDU DEITIES, &c.
BY CHARLES COLEMAN, Esq.
IN presenting the following pages to the Public, I have to acknowledge my obligations to the distinguished and intelligent writers on oriental subjects, from whose works I have derived very extensive and valuable assistance in the first part of this book, and have compiled the larger portion of the second.
It has been frequently observed by those who have been acquainted with India, that although almost the whole of the wide extent of country from the southern coasts of Ceylon to the snowy range of the Himalaya mountains, and from the confines of China to the shores of Guzerat has, within the last century, come under the dominion of Great Britain, there is scarcely a spot in the civilized world so incorrectly known to the British community in general as India. Tales of romance have beguiled the ardent imaginations of youth, and tales no less fictitious and delusive have misled the more ripened and sober judgment of manhood: for, with the general or local histories of the nations and tribes of Hindustan ; the positions of the several states in regard to each other; the varieties in the people ; or with their religion, their customs, or their manners, even the well-informed parts of European society have been almost as little


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… Though I am greatly loathe to admit it, I fear that my brother may be correct in his assessment of the particulars of this situation. Birgitte is not like any others. She has taken on an import to me the likes of which I find myself failing at every turn to describe with the proper words. While I certainly do not consider myself a wordsmith of any caliber, I cannot help but be discomfited with the manner of which words allude my grasp regarding all things related to Birgitte.
She is human, it is true and with that I do not argue; perhaps so because it is the one matter that cannot be argued. Birgitte is human with all of those dreadful human flaws: sentimentality, emotional morality; she is flawed, she is fragile, breakable and mortal. I could extinguish her frail human life without so much as foresight of planning. I could cast away her soul by simply wrapping my hands around that lovely throat of hers and twisting until the bones snap and shatter within her body. I could drain her, gorging myself of the sweet nectar of the life blood that flows through her veins until I feel her heart slow and finally cease it's mortal quickening. (Let not it be thought that I have not been tempted to drink from her veins until they run dry and she has nothing left to sate me. I do not deny my nature and Birgitte offers up a palette of endless temptation when she lies entangled in my arms and gazes at me with such trust in her eyes as such not be given when she is all too well aware that I am not the man that I must pretend to be.)
I should consider her no different from any other human woman that I have ever had the pleasure to take in arms and lie with and feed from, and yet I dare confess that it grows increasingly harder to shuffle her off into that group of useless, faceless chattel which do not even have more than a few moments of blurred pleasure and blood lust in my memories. Mayhap it is because Birgitte does not share the commonality of innocence and naivete that have made for such easy prey over the years. Her mind is closed to me (as is mine to her and for that I am eternally grateful), and that being such still she comes to me knowing well that when my teeth break her skin there shall be no easy way of it, and she accepts the pain as a counterpart of pleasure, a facet of nature that surely her good Protestant parents would take most assuredly as a sign of debasement. Though at this juncture it seems almost laughable to consider it, when I'm certain that the simple act of taking me into her bed most certainly has already damned her soul according to the religious edicts that her family pays homage to every Sunday…
… My brother's interest in this matter, and more importantly, in Birgitte gives me cause for more concern than I would ever dare admit. She is mine and I have marked and claimed her, but I know that Seamus cares not for such things as boundaries and rights of possession…


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Okta RADIUS
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is an extra layer of security used when logging into websites or apps. Individuals are authenticated through more than one required security and validation procedure that only you know or have access to.
RADIUS is a protocol commonly used to authenticate, authorize, and account for user access and actions. Acceptto offers a simple solution for adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) to Okta via its Radius solution. This step by step integration instruction illustrates how to configure both Okta and Acceptto appliance using RADIUS.
- An Acceptto Appliance connected to your user directory (for example Microsoft 'Active DirectoryTM').
- A user with administrative privileges for the Acceptto Appliance.
- The user population that is going to be authenticated via Radius must be enrolled in the It'sMe mobile application.
- A user with administrative privileges for the Okta Dashboard.
Configure the Acceptto Appliance RADIUS interface
- Login to the Acceptto Appliance admin panel with an administrative account, select RADIUS, and enter the following values.
- NETBIOS domain - enter the NETBIOS domain name.
- Assigned Computer Name - Enter the computer name that you want to be created in Active Directory.
- REALM - Enter the realm that is appended to your username. Usually, this is your domain name.
- MFA Active Directory Group - Enter the LDAP group that contains the users that can login via MFA (note that by default users outside of this group will have their access denied).
- MFA Login message - enter the message that your users are going to see on the It'sMe mobile application.
- Radius eGuardian UID - enter the UID of Radius application in your eGuardian Admin Panel.
- Radius eGuardian Secret - enter the Secret of Radius application in your eGuardian Admin Panel.
- Click Save Changes.
Configure Okta
- Log in to your Okta organization URL with an administrative account. Then, go to the Security tab and select Multifactor.
- Navigate to On-Prem MFA > Edit and click on Enable ON-Prem MFA.
- Fill the fields based on the following table and click Add New Agent.
|**Provider Name**
|Optional. For example, Acceptto MFA
|**Provider username format**
|Okta username prefix
|The hostname or IP address of the Acceptto Appliance
|**Authentication port**
|The port configured for RADIUS in Acceptto Appliance. Default is 1812
|**Shared Secret**
|RADIUS shared key in Acceptto Appliance
- Download the Agent, copy, and keep your Instance ID number and click Save.
Install Okta Agent
- Run the agent you downloaded earlier on a machine that can communicate with Acceptto Appliance through RADIUS protocol. Proceed with Next.
- You can change the Installation Folder.
- Enter the Instance ID number you got earlier from Okta and click Next.
- Enter your Okta Organization URL and click Next.
- You will be redirected to your Okta instance and need to Sign In with your credentials.
- Select Allow Access.
Configure Okta Groups and Policy
- Log in to your Okta organization URL with an administrative account. Then, go to the Directory tab and select Groups from the dropdown menu. Assume that you have a group named MFA, then add users that you want to authenticate with Acceptto MFA to this group.
- Navigate to Security and Authentication. Then, select Sign On tab and click Add New Okta Sign-On Policy.
- In the "Add Policy" window, give a name in the "Policy Name" field and Assign to the Group containing your MFA users then click Create Policy and Add Rule.
- In the "Add Rule" give the rule a name and set up its criteria based on your requirements. Click on the Create Rule button to continue.
Test your setup
- Sign in to your Okta organization URL with the credentials needed to pass Acceptto MFA authentication.
- Okta shows "set up multi0factor authentication" window. Select Acceptto MFA and continue with the proper credential. You will get a push on your It'sMe app. Accept it and finish the setup.
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By Sasha Lekach
San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood is notoriously tricky for any driver. Narrow roads, gobs of tourists, steep inclines, double-parked delivery vans, never-ending construction, and maddening six-way intersections run rampant there. Take away the human driver, and you've got a potential recipe for disaster.
Nevertheless, that's what Zoox, a self-driving startup, is attempting. But instead of going to the sunny, wide boulevards of Arizona or Silicon Valley, it's focusing on navigating through the windy roads of a dense, packed urban area. It's going to take a while to really get there, especially with Zoox's vision of a robo-taxi service in a made-for-self-driving vehicle that's still in development.
On a recent Zoox demo ride through North Beach and other crowded San Francisco neighborhoods, a safety driver was practically glued to the steering wheel and kept his eyes focused intensely on the road. Another safety engineer monitoring the self-driving computer system sat in the passenger seat. The humans never took over, but it was a nerve-wracking drive.
When we came upon a double-parked van on a narrow road, instead of zipping around it like anyone would normally do, we waited for a "safe" moment to go around. We waited so long the double-parked driver eventually moved along. Problem solved? Not really. In a 20-minute demo ride we encountered a constant stream of "edge" cases that other demos in Las Vegas and Phoenix would freak out about. Driving in San Francisco is never a typical experience.
For Zoox director of computer vision Sarah Tariq, the chaos of testing in a place like San Francisco is the point. "We want to test in the hardest places," she said after our ride in a modified Toyota Highlander. "Whatever we learn from here, it feeds into our launch." If the Zoox cars can't handle pedestrians literally blocking the entire intersection at the famous crooked Lombard Street, they're not ready for other "easy" driving scenarios. For the record, the Zoox test car politely scooted closer to the pedestrians until they realized they were blocking the road and moved.
Cruise is also attempting to start an SF-wide robo-taxi service, but that's already hit snags and delays. Just this week Cruise's parent company presented a new vehicle meant for ride-share without a driver's seat or steering wheel. The Cruise Origin six-seater is supposed to supplement Cruise's eventual taxi service in a fleet of Chevy Bolts. Honda and GM are collaborating on what it considers the first production-ready autonomous vehicle, and the companies emphasized it's not a concept. But nothing's here yet.
Compare all this to a Waymo driverless ride I took the week before in Chandler, Arizona. I took a very real and very empty Chrysler Pacifica minivan for a roundtrip journey from a hotel parking lot to a shopping mall parking lot. Except for one stressful moment at a flashing yellow left turn signal, the Waymo handled the trip just as it was programmed. I'd even say the Waymo drove better than most people I know. It made the perfect swooping turn into the parking lot. 10/10.
This was through the Waymo One app-based service available for a fee like a Lyft or Uber ride for riders who live in the area. No demos, but the real thing.
Autonomous trucking is another space within self-driving that's moving along smoothly. It's not just the wide, open, predictable suburban roads that are compatible with real progress. The open highway is a great place for self-driving systems to take over. On stretches in the middle of the country, like Texas and New Mexico, this is especially true. This week, Waymo is testing its autonomous semis in those areas.
This week, we'll start driving our Chrysler Pacificas and long-haul trucks in Texas and New Mexico. These are interesting and promising commercial routes, and we'll be using our vehicles to explore how the Waymo Driver might be able to create new transportation solutions. pic.twitter.com/uDqKDrGR9b
— Waymo (@Waymo) January 23, 2020
Cruise's co-founder Kyle Vogt recently wrote a blog post discouraging the very comparisons I just made based on one-off demo rides. I see how this is clearly an apples-to-oranges comparison with different regulatory environments. As Vogt wrote, "Keep in mind that driving on a well-marked highway or wide, suburban roads is not the same as driving in a chaotic urban environment. The difference in skill required is just like skiing on green slopes vs. double black diamonds."
It's well known that driverless miles aren't all equal. Autonomous vehicles will always be different in a busy city than in car-centric sprawl. But no matter, places like suburban Chandler are off and running with the first generations of true AV rides while places like San Francisco are still in hyper-supervised testing mode. That's not going to change anytime soon.


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To the north, we have the young leftist Justin Trudeau, and, as of Sunday, to our south, we have a hard leftist government elected in Mexico. So, what does this mean for the United States of America?
As reported by Fox News:
"In an election many Mexicans hope will be a turning point for a country beset by decades of corruption, violence and enduring poverty, voters turned to a left-wing populist some supporters refer to as a "messiah." A savior from the two major parties that have failed to deliver on promises of reform, in the eyes of many voters. For months, polls predicted Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a 64-year-old two-time presidential runner-up, would win the election by a landslide. When the National Elections Institute announced preliminary results Sunday, authorities predicted he would win with between 53 percent and 53.8 percent of the vote, a remarkable margin not seen in the country for many years.
"My presidential vote went to AMLO," said voter Laura Rodriguez-Verdin outside a polling location in Mexico City. "The reason I voted for him is because I believe he is the only person who has the interest at heart of people who most need help in this country. People with poor education and poor health services." Early in his career, Obrador lived in a dirt-floor shack, built houses for the poor and marched for environmental protections against the giant state-owned, state-run oil company, PEMEX. As Mexico City's mayor in 2005, he drove an old Nissan Sentra. Today, he claims not to own a credit card or checking account and says he will sell the presidential plane, turn the presidential palace into a park and live in his tiny townhouse in Mexico City. "I voted for Andres Manuel for president because I like his proposals," said Mexico City resident Diana Ortiz. "He's not promoting the a rich government, the powerful guys. Instead he wants to be empower as much to the people here. He wants a more democratic vote."
Sound familiar?
I am quite sure that we are going to see a flood of Hollywood leftist elitists flocking to Mexico to announce how they love President Obrador. They are going to tout how they wish Obrador was the president of the United States — don't laugh because Rolling Stone had a cover picture stating the same for Justin Trudeau.
Why do I say this?
Because it was not too long ago that a fella came to power in a very well to do Latin American country called Venezuela . . . his name was Hugo Chavez. There were all these hopes, and promises made for the "poor" people, and how the rich would be the providers of the much-needed social reforms. The government in Venezuela nationalized oil and gas production in that country. Well, Hugo Chavez died, and a former bus driver named Nicolas Maduro took over, and guess what? The people of Venezuela are eating from garbage cans, and undergoing a weight-loss program not approved by Marie Osmond and Nutrisystem.The people of Venezuela are eating from garbage cans, and undergoing a weight-loss program not approved by Marie Osmond and Nutrisystem. Click To Tweet
This is the path of socialism, and looks like Mexico has taken the first step heading down that road to perdition. Yes, it always begins as a rejection of failed political parties, and corruption, when a new face, voice, one who is deemed as some "messiah" steps in to make all the wrongs right. Heck, that should really sound familiar because once upon a time here in America, we fell for the same tired old message of "hope and change." Remember that famous line by Obama, "we are the change we have been waiting for?" What the heck did that mean? There were t-shirts and pictures of Obama as some kind of messianic figure, and some bought into that. There were those creepy commercial ads of children singing to Obama.
What happened in America, then? Yes, increases in poverty, and welfare rolls, along with increases in taxation — yet abysmal economic production. There were increases in government spending, but to what avail? Cronyism ran rampantem . . . remember Solyndra? There was a reason why the Keystone XL pipeline was rejected: ya know Obama supporter, and leftist corporatist, Warren Buffett owned rail lines.
This is why the famed line attributed to George Santayana, circa 1928, has even greater meaning for us today: "those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Leftist socialism doesn't change its tune, it just changes the singer — ala Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, here in America. They always make the promise of more stuff, free stuff, for those who they have determined should have it. For the left, everything is a right. Well actually, the stuff they want to give all are "universal rights:" education, healthcare, housing, you name it. And, in each and every case, it always ends up badly: folks dying, folks being gunned down by the government — especially since leftists embrace disarmament of the populace, the folks who can afford fleeing — take a look at Weston Florida and its dominant Venezuelan community.
Up north, Canadians come to the United States for medical care. Trust me, having lived down in South Florida we know. Soon, how many will we see fleeing Mexico? Does anyone believe that newly elected President Obrador will do anything to curb the violence and stranglehold of the drug cartels in his country? Maybe, perhaps, we will see a lessening of illegal immigration from Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador since folks can stay in Mexico, and get everything they could ever dream of — all for free. Yes, the Presidential Palace will belong to the people, a park. Let's see how that works out.
If anything, we in America may need to prepare for a collapse. That is, and always has been, the mantra of leftist socialist governance. That is fact.
Why, some of you may ask, do people still fall for the false narrative and message of leftists? The intellectual elitists dream up this stuff in classrooms where, emotionally, it sounds well and good, but in practice, it fails. The entertainment elitists embrace it because they feel they are above it. The underprivileged welcome it as a sort of savior to take them out of their current plight. The bottom line is that it can only work, as Margaret Thatcher articulated, until you run out of other people's money.
What we do not do very well is explain leftist progressive socialism in the simplest of terms. It does one thing, and one thing only: it takes stuff from one group, and redistributes it to another, based upon their determination. It destroys initiative, while creating victims.
Sadly, the people of Mexico are about to get a lesson in the history of socialism. Will they survive it? The lesson of Venezuela says no. America woke up, but the left ain't done trying here in our Republic.
And, that, folks, is why there is only one course of action: crushing the threat of progressive socialism. You cannot compromise with it, appease it, or acquiesce to it.
During his 22 year career in the United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel West served in several combat zones and received many honors including a Bronze Star, three Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals, one with Valor device, and a Valorous Unit Award.
In November of 2010, Allen was elected to the United States Congress, representing Florida's 22nd District.
West is a commissioned officer in the Texas State Guard. He's Fox News Contributor, former Director of the Booker T. Washington Initiative at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Senior Fellow at the Media Research Center, contributing columnist for Townhall.com, and author of Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Family, Faith and Freedom, and, Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death, and the forthcoming We Can Overcome.