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Heard in the wild on 3 Sep 2007—someone said to me "if I could only sum up the courage." A search through the bottomless archive of hasty speech turns up hundreds of hits for this eggcorn. In the immortal words of Gershwin and Van Morrison, how long has this been going on?
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
It sounds perfectly right at first, probably because the word-pair "sum up" is so common in its own right.
Lots of wrong ones on Google, and one using this phrase in a literally correct sense:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_h … _n18507151
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will buy a ridiculous hat – Scott Adams (author of Dilbert)
Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day; set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life – Terry Pratchett
The fact that both "sum up" and "summon up" are rather idiomatic/standard usages helps this eggcorn all the more.
(I would also point out that it helps to point out the original phrase before mentioning the eggcorn. For a while I was wondering how "sum up" could be an eggcorn of "muster up" until I realized that the original must actually be "summon up.")
Ditto here, Joe. Hey, by the way, when you make it to 1000 posts, do you earn a new title? ...."Eggcornquistador"?
Sorry for not mentioning the source of the "sum up the courage" eggcorn. I had forgotten about "muster the courage." By the way, it's not "muster UP the courage," is it? One doesn't "muster up the troops"—any troops unlucky enough to get mustered are decidedly down.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Interesting—I never really thought about all those optional "ups" in verb forms before. To see how often they were used, I did some googling. Here are the results:
muster the troops 6310 (71.6%)
muster up the troops 2500 (28.4%)
muster the courage 109000 (70.4%)
muster up the courage 45900 (29.6%)
summon the courage 64300 (68.3%)
summon up the courage 29800 (31.7%)
Considering that my raw data comes from Google inquiries, these results are amazingly consistent. The forms with "up" are running about 30%—a very respectable share. I imagine the figures for the "up" forms would drop if I looked at edited prose, but they're clearly in very wide use. My guess would be that people who tend to use "up" with one of the verbs tend to use them with the other ones, too. And the same pattern applies to "up"-averse speakers.
booboo wrote:
Hey, by the way, when you make it to 1000 posts, do you earn a new title? ...."Eggcornquistador"?
Now that would be a cool title! ...mainly because it has a certain corniness to it.
Of the various verbs here, summon seems most likely to go with "up" – perhaps because of the spiritual sense of summoning up demons, the devil etc – of course they are summoned up from 'down there', so the up is literal (as far as a reference to hell can be real or literal)
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will buy a ridiculous hat – Scott Adams (author of Dilbert)
Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day; set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life – Terry Pratchett
"Rally the courage" = 12,500 hits
"Rally up the courage" = 2 hits
Welcome back, Gilibug!
I was amazed by Gilibug's numbers for "rally the courage." It's not a phrase you hear much, and 12.5k for a 3-word fixed string on Google is pretty darn respectable. I ran the search myself and got even more—12.6k. But—suspicious—I decided to figure out the unique hits. Guess what? That 12,600 dwindles rather startlingly to 38 hits.
That still gives "rally up the courage" a rather low percentage (about 5 %) against the other "up" phrases. But if Google gets hold of this post, the percentage will rise to about 7%. Maybe I'll use "rally up" in a few other posts in order to achieve the 30% I'd predict.
Before I get busy manipulating my own data, this is probably a good time to remind people once again of the mounting problem of using raw Google numbers rather than unique Google hits. (I last raised the issue a few days ago in regard to Eggstatic's post on "pure bread.") If raw Google numbers seem too big to be true, they almost certainly are.
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And the way to obtain the number of unique hits is to skip to the last page and take the count from there, is that right? I'll be certain to do that in the future.
Eggstatic—Yes, one way to get the unique hits for a Google search is simply to scroll to the end of the pages returned.
Of course, if you get much more than 100 hits, that can start becoming tedious. So for searches with lots of legitimate hits, another way to do it is to add the string "&start=950" (without the quotes) to the Google search URL. Let's take the word "mind-bottling" from a recent post by Faldage as an example. If you put in "mind-bottling" at Google, the end of the search string might look like this:
That search gives you 24,500 hits. But if you add &start=950 to it, the end of the string will look like this:
That search returns only 489 hits, and some of those aren't the eggcorn. So that demonstrates the value of looking for unique hits—the raw hit total inflates the real numbers for "mind-bottling" by over 24k.
Here's my actual google search for "mind-bottling":
Here's the same search with the "unique string" added:
Thanks, I wasn't aware that the difference could be so dramatic!
A moment after posting that I realised that "rally the troops" would probably be a more common phrase:
786 hits for "Rally the troops"
118 hits for "Rally up the troops" – that's if I've correctly counted the unique hits this time!


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We oppose Islam, not Muslims. We are against hate, not faith
It is notable for its association with the sealing of Magna Carta
I maintain that the fundamental relationship is based on the hatred and enmity of muslims towards non-mulims as Koran 60:4 dictates.
manfred wrote:1 to 5 describe demonstrable facts. So we all must deny facts?
you can interpret those mentioned punishments as the less punishment as long its can stops those crime.
QS. 5:32. whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely
Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.
Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,
QS. 24:2. The [unmarried] woman or [unmarried] man found guilty of sexual intercourse - lash each one of them with a hundred lashes, and do not be taken by pity for them in the religion of Allah, if you should believe in Allah and the Last Day.
manfred wrote:"less" of a punishment? Do tell that to someone who had his hand and foot cut off.
manfred wrote:This is the whole verse :
manfred wrote:And lashing someone in public is "liberal" to you?
sum wrote:Hello Garudaman
There have been over 33,000 known jihad attacks in many different countries.
Do you condemn them all or perhaps just some or perhaps none at all?
These attacks are the reason why there is rapidly increasing Islamorealism.
He dismisses "Islamophobia" for what it is - political coinage.No, Islamophobia is not the new anti‑Semitism
Brendan O'Neill
It is historically illiterate to compare criticism of Islam with hatred of Jews.
Anti-Muslim prejudice unquestionably exists, but Islamophobia is an invention. Don't take my word for it. Take the word of the Runnymede Trust, one of Britain's leading race-equality think-tanks. It openly boasts that it is 'credited with coining the term Islamophobia… in 1997'. And what does this term Islamophobia mean? It doesn't mean racial hatred. Runnymede's definition of Islamophobia, which has been adopted by the Metropolitan Police, includes any suggestion that Islam is 'inferior to the West', and even the belief that Islam is sexist. If you think Islam is 'unresponsive to change', you are Islamophobic. And, get this, if you 'reject out of hand' 'criticisms of the West made by Islam', you're an Islamophobe. So even to ridicule Islam's view of the West is apparently to be infected with the 'cancer' of this so-called racism.
These are criticisms of religion. In a free society they ought to be entirely legitimate views, subject to no punishment whatsoever. And yet the police actually say in their internal documents that the ideas listed above count as 'Islamophobia'. That is chilling. Anti-Muslim prejudice is out there, yes. But 'Islamophobia' is an elite invention, a top-down conceit, designed to chill open discussion about religion and values and to protect one particular religion from blasphemy.
sum wrote:Hello Garudaman
When they shout Allahu-Akbar while committing the atrocity then I would claim that it is jihad.
Do you agree and so condemn these atrocities?
Police Defend Thousands of Hours Spent Investigating 'Hate Incidents' Amidst Crime Epidemic
Police across 30 forces have wasted thousands of hours reviewing 11,236 'hate incidents', figures have revealed, while crime and violence surge in Britain and the vast majority of robberies go unsolved.
The National Police Chiefs' Council defended the protocol as "vital" after the 2015-16 figures were revealed, which included such 'hate incidents' – acts too trivial to be classed as crimes – as people complaining of barking dogs and of receiving "racist looks" from strangers.
Since the government's release of an action plan in which success is defined as maximising the number of 'hate' complaints, police have proactively solicited reports of such incidents from the public and are required to record and investigate each one by sending an officer or making telephone calls.
According to the Daily Mail, which notes that even just 15 minutes spent looking into each incident would have taken up 3,750 hours of officers' time, the reports included people offended by newspaper cartoons and a student claiming to have been refused drinks in a bar due to alleged racism.
Such incidents are upgraded to a 'hate crime' if a law is found to be broken.
A "non-conforming-gender-specific lesbian" reported being the victim of a so-called hate incident when a man stood "intimidatingly" close to her wheelchair, while another complainant alleged the barking of a man's dog was "racist".
One in 20 of the reported incidents related to posts made on social media, the Mail reports, with one case involving a woman informing police that someone on Facebook had told her she bore a physical resemblance to the character of Peter Griffin from the cartoon Family Guy.
A National Police Chiefs' Council spokesman said: "By recording and reviewing reports of hate incidents, police forces play a vital role in helping prevent hate crime.
"Officers can often use these reports as an indication of where and when tensions could escalate into violence. Victims and those feeling vulnerable should report any incident of hate crime to the police."
Labour-controlled Hackney council is sending 'Enforcement Officers' to mosques to encourage them to report "hate crimes".
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There are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
About two years ago, the Israel Ministry of Education decided to shorten the summer school vacation, and start a week earlier. This year, that decision was implemented, and approximately 2,000,000 Israeli children began their school year yesterday, August 27.
This school year, like other school years in
, began with a bang. Literally. Three Kassam rockets were fired into the town of Israel yesterday, just as the kids were making their way to school – to maximize casualties. Once again, G-d was watching, and no on was physically hurt. Just a reminder of the neighborhood we live in. Since the beginning of the week, seven Kassams have been fired into Sderot. Sderot
One of those 2,000,000 children was my youngest child, beginning her last year in elementary school. The night before school began, she laid out the new clothes I had bought her, made sure she had all the equipment the teacher had told her to bring on the first day, decided which clips she would wear in her hair, and went to bed early. The next night, she went to bed an hour later, couldn't find her shoes in the morning, and 'didn't have time' to copy down the homework. At this rate, she'll be smoking a nargilla and hanging out on street corners by Chanuka.
Having only one child to wake up these days is a piece of cake. This is my first year with only one child in the system in 21 years. When my oldest first started nursery school at age 3, I still had to get the younger child (aged 8 months) ready to go out also. Then when he was in nursery, I had another younger baby or two to take with me. Now, there aren't any babies, but it seems so much harder just to get myself dressed.
This year, I just have to drop the one kid off at school on my way to work.
There was one year, when the kids were very little, that I had to travel in three different directions to get four kids to school (two actually went to the same school). I was always late to work (ironically, I was an English teacher). I had to get up what seemed to be hours early (it was about half an hour) to prepare what seemed to be dozens of sandwiches for 'snack time' (it was probably only four). I don't remember why I didn't prepare them the night before, but I'm sure there was a reason. Today, this kid doesn't eat anything anyway, so all I do is put some cereal in a bag, add an apple, and snack time is solved.
One year, my five kids were in five different schools in four different cities around the country (one was in college). On the first day of school I received an angry phone call from one of the schools that I hadn't picked up my child's books during the summer. I apologized, attempting humor to explain away my lack of organization. "My kids," I told the teacher, "are all over the country. I don't even know where they are, let alone their books."
"That's no excuse", replied the teacher in a particularly teacherish manner, "Mothers are required to know where their children are and prepare them for school properly, no matter how difficult. That is our job."
Uh huh.
My problem, and I'll deny it later so don't bother confronting me on this, is I don't much believe in school. I was a terrible pupil myself. There was this room in the basement of my high school that the teachers didn't seem to be aware of, where my friend AB and I hung out most afternoons. Or, if it was too hot down there, we'd leave by the back door and go shopping. I graduated, went on to University, and became a (mostly) productive member of society, so no preaching.
Most of my friends complain about the length of the summer vacation and the amount of days the kids have off during the year, but I always loved having the kids at home. We would just laze about, not doing a great deal. I'm a great believer in lazing about. Getting the kids up and out, not to mention making sure they have their books and sandwiches, is way harder than keeping them entertained (i.e., lazing about) all summer. I'm also not a great believer in mothers running around keeping their kids occupied for two months, taking them to summer camp, the pool, the beach, movies, plays, ice skating, Austria, origami demonstrations, or dress up parties. My parents never took me to even one origami demonstration. (But we did go to mini golf, and if we had mini golf in Beer Sheva, I would take my kids.)
But I digress.
The point I'm making is that I actually miss those days of anarchy in the mornings and evenings, when all the kids were home. I miss the noise and the mess, and the shouting and the laughter. I miss my kids.
I'm so grateful that I still have one at home keeping me young. Even though I don't know where her books are and I can't help her in arithmetic or gym, I appreciate that I still have homework time with her and I love buying new erasers and sport shoes.
Of course, mostly I miss lazing about with them. I'm just glad that this last one loves lazing about even more than picking out clips for her hair.


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Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011
Miromar is essentially a private 1,800-acre resort, with homes lining its 900 acres of freshwater lakes. The clubhouse has been voted No. 1 in the U.S. - Handout photo
I am surrounded by silence. And yet, here I am in urban southwest Florida, a mile east of the I-75 near Fort Myers. A few minutes ago, I was driving along Highway 41, that stop-and-start roadway fraught with signage, traffic lights, noise and distraction. A couple of left-hand turns later, and I wonder if I've gone through a Floridian rabbit hole. Instead of staccato street lights and strip malls, I follow an allee of banyan trees so perfectly spaced the autumn sun creates a piano-key rhythm of light and shadow. Next turn, I meet a parallel phalanx of 70-foot royal palms, guarding a 90-foot-diameter Italianate stone fountain depicting the four seasons. I explain my presence to security at the gatehouse, and the enormous iron gates silently swing open. I wend past white-curtained cabanas on a white-sand beach, past more precise landscaping, and alight at Miromar Lakes Beach and Golf Club.
That was quite magical, I think to myself, and find that the spell lasts past mere first impressions. Clearly, as Miromar is winner of more than 100 national and regional awards, including this year's biggie, No. 1 Community in the United States, I'm not the only one enchanted. That's a lot of love in less than 10 years.
Begun in 2002, Miromar is essentially a private 1,800-acre resort, with homes lining its 900 acres of freshwater lakes. While a Miromar lifestyle offers such warm-weather activities as golfing, tennis and even water-skiing, the real magic happens in the gathering spots; I see the place come to life early one evening in the bar and the 200-seat fine-dining room (unlike most clubs, this has no monthly food minimum), as both spaces fill with chatty, cheery (and well-jewelled and-coiffed) folk of all ages.
Forty-eight per cent of the owners live at Miromar full-time, and the rest vacation here — year-round — from around the U.S. and 11 other countries, with the largest contingent from Canada. According to Brian Ellis, vice-president of Florida Home Finders of Canada, 70% of buyers from the Greater Toronto Area buy along the state's west coast.
"Friends bring friends," Victor Spina, director of sales, tells me as we tour the site. "There are different levels of wealth at Miromar, with a variety of options for everyone's needs. But the thing is, once you're all at a social event, everyone's the same."
There are professional sports players living here, dozens of doctors and business owners, young families and retirees. They're all after the same thing: the ease of living, and pride, that comes from what is essentially a resident-owned five-star resort.
The sublime view from one of the homes, where the lake can be seen beyond the infinity pool.
The mesmerizing architecture in the dining room.
The good life begins at the clubhouse, named No. 1 Club House in the U.S. The heavy double custom glass-and-bronze front doors have the heft of those on a Florentine palazzo; here, they open to an interior space that's palatial in scale but domestic in comfort. Discreet concierge desks, brilliant chandeliers and original artwork create a veritable living room (tucked nearby: a library, a 50-seat theatre, a billiards room, and conference rooms complete with fireplaces). Past the dining room and bar, the large terrace skirts the 210-foot-long infinity pool, which seems to meld into Lake Como.
Babies splash in the beach-entry shallow end while some older gents soak in the deep end, gazing over the lake (perhaps dreaming of the fish they'll catch this evening).
Poolside, glasses are refilled, al fresco lunches served. To the right is the entry to the private gym and full luxury spa (where a fabulous facial lulls me into a state of serenita), and next to this is the open-air Blue Water Beach Grill pavilion, another hub of Miromar's vibrant social scene. Its neighbour is the pristine Marine Center, where staff have all manner of lake activities up their sleeves, from kayaking, sailboating and motorboating to fishing and kite-flying. For solitary moments, the cabanas just beyond offer comfy places to crash.
That long stretch of social infrastructure comprises the 39,000-square-foot Beach Club area, home to 300-plus activities, including art shows, charity events, wine and food-pairing seminars, on-site continuing education classes (Florida Gulf Coast University is a friendly neighbour), and even family Olympics on the beach.
It's no mirage, this ocean-style beach on an inland lake. "I wanted a mile of beach," says developer Margaret Antonier, "so I had the sand brought in from central Florida. When it was done, I wanted another mile. Then another. And from the beginning they all told me it couldn't be done. But now look at it!"
In fact, Antonier, a Montrealer, says, "people thought it would be impossible to build my vision here. I wanted to bring the Riviera here — its beaches, boardwalks, architecture and its lifestyle."
The naysayers have been proved wrong, evident not only by the shelves of awards in the trophy case, but by the fact that 940 homes have been built so far, all in the Mediterranean style. And, stippled among the bays and inlets of the 250-acre Lake Como and the 450-acre Lake Maggiore are new home sites in various stages of development. Miromar (miromarlakes.com) sees 10 more years of growth in various phases, with each limited to a very small number of homes. A mix of detached, multi- and single-family homes abound in neighbourhoods with such nomi aproprie as Montebello, Murano, Portofino and Isola Bella.
Such names set me dreaming. At Bellini, I could have a full-floor condo. Ah, but if I wanted that with a private boathouse and elevator, it'd be Ravenna. I have fond memories of the real Sorrento, so maybe I'd build a 5,000-square-foot house at this Sorrento, one with an infinity pool overlooking the lake.
Because of the wide variety of home types available, residences have a price range of $500,000 US to more than $5 million US.
According to Spina, only about five per cent of existing Miromar homes are on the resale market at any time — and about 85 per cent of those are bought by other Miromar owners, who want to upsize, downsize or change neighbourhoods. They're clearly in thrall with the development, too.
And because there's a variety of home choices, there's a concomitant choice of whether to have a pool, a dock, a garden or just a balcony. Maintenance is available for any option, as desired. With one phone call, you can have someone booked to tidy up the yard while you enjoy a peaceful, private catered sunset cruise, leaving from your back door. Now that's a special magico.
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text: I was at my prosthodontist's office the other day getting some work done and the conversation turned to what I do for work. I told my dentist, Vu Huynh, DMD that I worked as a Web Producer for MAKE magazine. He almost dropped the cheek clamps (not a real thing…). He's a subscriber and a maker. He told me about some of the projects that he's worked on. One of his favorite builds was the Squelette, a bare-bones amplifier project that we featured in Volume 23. Vu took a few liberties in his build that I found interesting. For instance, he separated the power supply from the rest of the circuit to minimize noise. It's a nice little amp, and a great project for those new to electronics. Sadly, even with my increased cred with the doc, I didn't get an extra lollipop — or a discount on the bill.


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This news story first appeared on January 29, 2014. For more information click here.
By Robert Miller, The Dallas Morning News; January 29, 2014
A $7.75 million gift from Darwin Deason will launch the Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security and support the Deason Innovation Gym in Southern Methodist University's Lyle School of Engineering.
Deason's gift includes a $5 million endowment and $1.25 million in operational funding for the new institute, which is headed by cybersecurity expert Frederick R. Chang. The former research director at the National Security Agency joined SMU last fall as the first Bobby B. Lyle Endowed Centennial Distinguished Chair in Cyber Security with the goal of creating the institute that now bears Deason's name.
The gift provides $1.5 million to support Deason Innovation Gym, a facility in which students are immersed into a fast-paced environment to solve engineering problems.
"This support immediately positions the Lyle School to make significant contributions to the science of cybersecurity," said SMU president R. Gerald Turner. "Darwin Deason's generous gift of operational funding, in addition to the endowment, allows the institute to begin addressing critical cybersecurity issues from day one, advancements that will have an impact far beyond our campus nationally and globally."
Lyle School dean Marc Christensen said: "The institute will attract the best minds to address the threats of cybercrime and cyberterrorism. The Innovation Gym helps develop young minds, turning students loose to solve real-world problems under tight deadlines, overcoming intermediate failures as they learn to innovate. By supporting the institute, this gift recognizes the importance of research at the highest level to solve a global challenge."
Deason is the founder of Affiliated Computer Services Inc., launched in 1988 to handle business processes. Deason took the company public in 1994 and sold it to Xerox Corp. in 2010 for $6.4 billion.
Previously, Deason worked for the data-processing firm MTech and in data processing for Gulf Oil in Tulsa.
"My business career was built on technology services, so clearly the issue of cybersecurity is something I take very seriously," Deason said. "The work of the institute will have a far-reaching impact, spanning retail, defense, technology, health care, energy, government, finance and transportation — everything that makes our world work."
Deason is chairman of Deason Capital Services and president of the Deason Foundation.
"The reach of this gift means that SMU students will benefit from a unique combination of learning opportunities at SMU," said SMU provost and vice president for academic affairs Paul Ludden. "It supports both important research and the spark of student creativity in one step."
The Deason Institute will educate leaders who understand the complexities of cyber-related issues, whether they take their degree in computer science or philosophy. It will also incorporate elements from law, business and the social sciences to promote development of an educated citizenry in the issues of cybersecurity.
In addition to directing the Deason Institute, Chang teaches computer science and serves as a senior fellow in the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies in Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences.


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Tech's Heavy Hitters Come Out in Support of Gay Marriage
Just because it's big business doesn't mean it's not progressive. (At least, not this time.)
Nearly 300 businesses — including Silicon Valley mainstays like Facebook, Oracle, Qualcomm, Apple and dozens of others — filed a brief with the Supreme Court expressing support for same-sex marriage.
The brief, first reported by Fortune, opposes arguments made in bills such as Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, the two initiatives that most stridently argue against same-sex marriage in California.
Much of the amicus brief's argument echoes that put forth by Proposition 8's main bill of opposition (filed last week), which maintains that Prop 8 is unconstitutional. President Obama has publicly echoed these sentiments in stump speeches, though he has yet to formally file an amicus brief in opposition, as many gay rights activists have urged him to do.
But the companies' collective amicus brief takes a different tack, arguing for the business reasons that bills like DOMA and Prop 8 aren't desirable.
"The capital of modern enterprises is in many ways a human capital. Success depends on the talent, morale and motivation of the workforce for private and public employers alike," the document states. "To attract the best employees and colleagues, amici must offer robust workplace benefits and a workplace ethos of transparent fairness."
It is a decidedly different approach to an argument often championed as a civil rights issue, making an economic case for what ultimately amounts to a morass of HR problems for prospective LGBT employees and the enterprises who hire them.
Another bill, in opposition to Proposition 8, will be filed on Thursday, arguing much the same thing as Wednesday's amicus brief.
For some major tech companies, the pro-LGBT stand is not entirely foreign. Companies like Facebook, Google and Apple have openly come out in support of equal rights for LGBT employees, and many of these corporations are home to programs that support gay employees, sometimes hosting pro-LGBT events that span company (and competitor) lines. (Facebook, for instance, held the Out for Undergraduates in Technology Conference last month.)
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, who was a vocal supporter of the Prop 8 ballot initiative when she ran unsuccessfully for governor in California, recently switched her stance on the issue, joining dozens of prominent Republicans in signing a legal document saying that gay people have a constitutional right to be married.


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BT gets personal with PAC chair
Under pressure from the Public Accounts Committee to show value for money for the £1.7bn it is receiving for BDUK contracts, BT is fighting back.
Bill Broadband has just retweeted a Guido Fawkes tweet that it will "revisit" PAC chair Margaret Hodge's tax affairs.
Bill Broadband is one of the names used by BT's astroturf community to defend BT's NGA roll-out and intimidate would-be competitors.
Hodge is away and unavailable for comment.
BT to cut BDUK roll-out costs – but it was already 20% cheaper
The National Audit Office (NAO) report on the BDUK's former Rural Broadband Programme, now renamed the Superfast Broadband Programme, contains elements that might lead to cognitive dissonance.
It reports that BDUK commissioned Atkins, a primary supplier of services to government, to look at BT's costs to provide high speed broadband in rural areas. After looking at a few sites in Suffolk, Atkins concluded "BT had charged Suffolk nearly 20% less than would hypothetically be charged by another efficient supplier, in part reflecting that BT benefits from substantial national bulk buying power compared with other providers." Paragraph 3.10)
That's good news, right? But it seems there's more joy to come for taxpayers. In Paragraph 5 NAO reports "BDUK's experience of actual costs in phase 1 has led to BT agreeing to submit lower costs in its financial model for phase 2."
However, it carefully notes that BT was picking low hanging fruit in Phase 1, namely peri-urban areas rather than deep rural ones where is cost to reach them is likely to be higher, unless you use a satellite.
NAO also suggests BT got other sums wrong. BrOkenTeleph0n3 revealed that BT's planners estimated BT would break even on a 20% take-up in 12-14 years. "Take-up of superfast broadband so far has been significantly faster than forecast by BT in the phase 1 contracts. Take-up has risen to more than 20% already for two non framework projects", the NAO found. This "should bring greater coverage than contracted, as local bodies will be able to extend their rollout with remaining funds," it says.
BT is the only framework supplier left, and 43 out of 47 county councils have opted to use the framework to procure Phase 2, although 10 may elect to hold money back for Phase 3, the final 5%.
"Overall, the effect of the first 2 phases will be to reinforce BT's already strong position in the wholesale market for broadband infrastructure (the Wholesale Local Access Market). BT's assets and infrastructure will benefit from approximately £1.7 billion of public sector investment although BT must maintain these assets at its own expense. BT is also required by regulatory conditions to provide wholesale access to other suppliers."
The NAO also revealed that the public will benefit from clawbacks due to higher than expected take-up for only seven years. "After these seven years, the supplier will keep all of the extra wholesale profit."
BT amortises its fibre over five to 20 years, and its exchange equipment over three to 13 years.
BTW, in its 2013 rural broadband report on page 35, the NAO said "The Atkins 'should cost' model for Northamptonshire is three per cent higher than BT's actual bid for the area. Atkins was not able to complete analysis of a second local body area, Suffolk, due to the difficulties it encountered in modelling a more complex technical solution. Atkins' model is the only model available to us that has tried to match a corresponding BT bid identically."
The hour-long Public Accounts Committee interview on the NAO report, featuring DCMS, BDUK and BT officials, took place on 28 January 2015. You can see the video here.
PAC opens Act 3 of superfast broadband enquiry
There are still some people who are interested in seeing what's happening to the near £2bn of taxpayers' money given to BT to roll out next generation broadband in the "Final Third". Many of them probably sit on the Commons' Public Accounts Committee, which is taking its third stab at finding if BT is delivering value for money this coming Wednesday.
The PAC, chaired by Margaret Hodge, was previously frustrated by the answers it received (here and here), and vowed to keep asking questions until it was satisfied. BT's director of strategy, policy and portfolio, Sean Williams, who was the source of much of Ms Hodge's frustration, gets a third act in front of the committee.
Supporting players are DCMS boss Sue Owen, BDUK CEO Chris Townsend and superfast broadband programme director Andrew Field, and Openreach MD for infrastructure delivery Kim Mears.
In its preamble the PAC said its reports on the rural broadband programme in September 2013 and April 2014 "raised concerns over lack of published information on BT's plans for superfast broadband coverage, the availability and transparency of cost data and the level of competition secured throughout the programme. This recall session will examine the transparency of cost and rollout information and explore whether the department has done enough to promote greater competition for phases 2 and 3 of the programme."
The curtain for the hour-long show goes up at 2.15pm on Wednesday 28 January 2015, Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster. If you can't make it in person you can follow on Parliament TV: Rural broadband: progress update session.
Javid to break business broadband logjam?
The government is looking at how to get high speed broadband to urban businesses despite state aid rules that appear to preclude using some of the £2bn of BDUK money to do so, culture secretary Sajid Javid told MPs on the Culture, Media & Sport parliamentary committee yesterday.
Javid said DCMS is talking to stakeholders, including the Federation of Small Businesses, which this month produced a second damning report on broadband, to resolve the situation.
Javid also revealed that the contracts between BT and country councils for rolling out "superfast broadband" have claw-back clauses that come into effect when take-up reaches 20%.
Javid added that the government was updating the Electronic Communications Code as part of a deal with mobile network operators to extend mobile coverage to 90% of the UK land mass announced late last year.
The code was outdated and inconsistent with current technology and practice, he said. The required changes are included in the Infrastructure Bill currently before parliament (see here).
In February 2013 the Law Commission recommended changes to provide a clearer definition of the market value that landowners can charge for wayleaves, resolve inconsistencies with other legislation, clarify network upgrade and sharing rights, and establish the rights of land owners and network operators with respect to access to land and removal of equipment, as well as ways to resolve disputes
This link Culture secretary Sajid Javid on the DCMS annual report opens a new window. Javid's comments on the code are at 12.43, and on broadband at 12.53.
Ofcom glass ceiling stands firm
Second permanent secretary at the Treasury Sharon White will earn less than Ofcom CEO Ed Richardson when she replaces him in March 2015.
Richardson took home £393,204 in 2013/14 for doing the job, according to the Ofcom annual report (p64) for the period. His pay was made up from salary (£284,362), pension (£56,872), flexible benefits (£19,956), benefits in kind (£2,014), and performance bonus (£30,000). The previous year he took home £378,158.
White, a black woman, will earn a salary of £275,000, Ofcom said.
A career civil servant, White was appointed to her present job in October 2013. Tom Scholar, the man she replaced, earned a salary between £150,000 and £155,000 a year, according to an October 2013 Gov.net report.
A Cambridge economics graduate, White joined the civil service in 1989, starting with spells in Washington, the No 10 Policy Unit, and the World Bank. she later worked in the Department for International Development, the Department of Work and Pensions, the Ministry of Justice and the Treasury.
She is married to Robert Chote, chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility since 2010. They have two children.
White was appointed by the Ofcom Board, vetted by an independent assessor, and approved by the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, Sajid Javid.
MPs to query rural broadband roll-out
MPs have launched an inquiry into rural broadband speeds following on-going concerns that nearly £2bn of taxpayers' money is unlikely to produce the expected results.
- the extent of broadband coverage in hardest to reach rural areas
- digital access and experience of digital─only programmes, such as the new CAP system applications
- support available for those required to use digital─only programmes
Written submissions should be submitted via the Rural broadband and digital─only services inquiry page on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs website.
The deadline is Wednesday 19 November 2014.
What broadband network is fit for UK future? Have your say
There is less than a month left to respond to the government's Digital Communications Infrastructure Strategy consultation.
The government seeks guidance on what people think will they require from a communications ecosystem that is fit for their purposes.
In preparing the consultation document it consulted "companies, organisations and individuals from across the communications industry, consumer representatives, the regulator, other government departments and the devolved administrations".
A glance through Annex A shows that the consultation is, from the outset, framed by an insiders' view of how the debate should go. "Our assumptions were developed through discussion with stakeholders and draw on a review of published reports and articles. The assumptions include:
- Users will need more bandwidth as data consumption continues to rise;
- Expectations to gain access to services and applications on the move will become the norm;
- Technological advances in telecommunications and broadcasting will continue to be rapid;
- We can expect changes in the communications market, potentially including new players and possibly market consolidation; and
- Resilience and reliability will become increasingly important as aspects of what constitutes a good service, alongside availability and speed."
Last year the Confederation of British Industries (not credited) said in a study of the UK's broadband infrastructure that it was "a mistake to hold back the investment until after the next election" and that "households and firms in rural internet 'not-spots' need to be connected faster".
The Federation of Small Businesses (credited) said earlier this year the networks are not "fit for purpose". "Many urban or semi-urban businesses can experience poor coverage too, and even where broadband is available the range and quality of services often fall short of what businesses require.
"Tailored business packages offering symmetrical upload and download speeds are often prohibitively expensive, while business parks and premises have been overlooked in the roll-out of local fibre networks to residential areas. If the full potential of small business is to be harnessed and the economic benefits of broadband connectivity realised, this must change."
In 2012 the Forum of Private Business (credited) said, "Energy costs and access to effective telecommunications, including broadband, are the most important infrastructure issues faced by small businesses."
To be fair, HMRC recently acceded to FPB's call to delay the compulsory online submission of VAT and tax returns until there is adequate access to high speed broadband across the country.
But that is a small victory.
The well-connected Philip Virgo shows that the scenarios envisaged DCMS are already out of date. By 2020, DCMS's most extreme view is likely to be commonplace, at least in other countries. Describing the background material as "myopic", Virgo says, "…publicity for the consultation has been muted and its timing might seem to imply HMG is going through the motions and in not serious. But the politicians are serious and the consequences of a lack of response other than from those contacted will be profound." (His emphasis.)
Virgo makes the point that the government's ambition for government services to be "digital by default" is at odds with the delivery mechanism. For him there are two questions: are the on-line services of government usable by the target audience, and how is that usability measured?
As policy issues, those are a lot more useful than most of the 44 questions posed by the DCIS consultation (see Annex C for the summary.) Should government policy really consider technical issues like IPv6? Should it really care how UK network speeds compare to other countries?
A disciple of economist Michael Beesley, Virgo strongly believes that regulators can, or rather should, do little more than control price, quality of service and predatory behaviour. "The recent histories of Ofcom and Ofgem indicate why he was right," he says.
The Rwandan telecoms regulator RURA has taken this to heart. Last year it set out easily understood and measured Quality of Service standards for mobile and fixed line operators. How the operators do it is up to them. Either they hit it or they don't. At risk is their licence. That concentrates the mind.
But to return to the consultation. TechQT has put up the entire document plus annexes in an easily commentable online format, thanks to DigressIT. It will collect comments and forward them to DCMS by deadline. And it won't "disappear" them the way inputs to the Digital Britain report have mysteriously vanished.
Comments close on 1 October. Have your say. It may be your last chance for 10 years.


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Posted on September 25, 2017 by Dr. Steven R. Cook
God is gracious to us and treats us better than we deserve. More so, He calls us to be like Him and to show grace to others. This means loving our enemies and being kind to those who hurt us. Continue reading →
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This is a guest post by Garrett Grolemund (mentored by Hadley Wickham)
Lubridate is an R package that makes it easier to work with dates and times. The newest release of lubridate (v 1.1.0) comes with even more tools and some significant changes over past versions. Below is a concise tour of some of the things lubridate can do for you. At the end of this post, I list some of the differences between lubridate (v 0.2.4) and lubridate (v 1.1.0). If you are an old hand at lubridate, please read this section to avoid surprises!
Lubridate was created by Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham.
Parsing dates and times
Getting R to agree that your data contains the dates and times you think it does can be a bit tricky. Lubridate simplifies that. Identify the order in which the year, month, and day appears in your dates. Now arrange "y", "m", and "d" in the same order. This is the name of the function in lubridate that will parse your dates. For example,
library(lubridate) ymd("20110604"); mdy("06-04-2011"); dmy("04/06/2011") ## "2011-06-04 UTC" ## "2011-06-04 UTC" ## "2011-06-04 UTC"
Parsing functions automatically handle a wide variety of formats and separators, which simplifies the parsing process.
If your date includes time information, add h, m, and/or s to the name of the function. ymd_hms() is probably the most common date time format. To read the dates in with a certain time zone, supply the official name of that time zone in the tz argument.
arrive <- ymd_hms("2011-06-04 12:00:00", tz = "Pacific/Auckland") ## "2011-06-04 12:00:00 NZST" leave <- ymd_hms("2011-08-10 14:00:00", tz = "Pacific/Auckland") ## "2011-08-10 14:00:00 NZST"
Setting and Extracting information
Extract information from date times with the functions second(), minute(), hour(), day(), wday(), yday(), week(), month(), year(), and tz(). You can also use each of these to set (i.e, change) the given information. Notice that this will alter the date time. wday() and month() have an optional label argument, which replaces their numeric output with the name of the weekday or month.
second(arrive) ## 0 second(arrive) <- 25 arrive ## "2011-06-04 12:00:25 NZST" second(arrive) <- 0 wday(arrive) ## 7 wday(arrive, label = TRUE) ## Sat
Time Zones
There are two very useful things to do with dates and time zones. First, display the same moment in a different time zone. Second, create a new moment by combining a given clock time with a new time zone. These are accomplished by with_tz() and force_tz().
For example, I spent last summer researching in Auckland, New Zealand. I arranged to meet with my advisor, Hadley, over skype at 9:00 in the morning Auckland time. What time was that for Hadley who was back in Houston, TX?
meeting <- ymd_hms("2011-07-01 09:00:00", tz = "Pacific/Auckland") ## "2011-07-01 09:00:00 NZST" with_tz(meeting, "America/Chicago") ## "2011-06-30 16:00:00 CDT"
So the meetings occurred at 4:00 Hadley's time (and the day before no less). Of course, this was the same actual moment of time as 9:00 in New Zealand. It just appears to be a different day due to the curvature of the Earth.
What if Hadley made a mistake and signed on at 9:00 his time? What time would it then be my time?
mistake <- force_tz(meeting, "America/Chicago") ## "2011-07-01 09:00:00 CDT" with_tz(mistake, "Pacific/Auckland") ## "2011-07-02 02:00:00 NZST"
His call would arrive at 2:00 am my time! Luckily he never did that.
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The long tails sported by many male birds in the tropics look like they're a drag to carry around and a distinct disadvantage when fleeing predators, but experiments by University of California, Berkeley, biologists shows that they exact only a minimal cost in speed or energy - at least in hummingbirds.
"We estimate that having a long tail increases a bird's daily metabolic costs by 1 to 3 percent, which means the bird has to visit 1 to 3 percent more flowers in its territory," said Christopher J. Clark, a graduate student in UC Berkeley's Department of Integrative Biology. "Is that a lot? It's hard to say, but we argue that it's not, especially when compared to the costs of things like molting and migration."
As a way to attract admiring females, in fact, long tail feathers may be one of the easiest ornamentations to evolve with the least consequences, the researchers say.
Clark and Robert Dudley, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology, report the results of their study in the March issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which appeared online this week.
Male birds of numerous species have evolved elaborate colors and decorations to attract females, many of them involving tail feathers. The peacock's eye-popping display, the broad, gauzy tail of the male lyre bird and the two-foot-long, iridescent green tail of the quetzal are but three examples.
Some biologists have made computer models of elongated tails, like those of the Jamaican red-billed streamertail hummingbird, the scissor-tail hummingbird or the marvelous spatuletail hummingbird, and have predicted as much as a 50 percent greater energy cost when flying with a long tail.
In his experiment, Clark outfitted short-tailed Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna) with long tail feathers from a red-billed streamertail (Trochilus polytmus), giving the hummingbirds two tail feathers that were five times the normal length for an Anna's, and put the hummers through their paces in a wind tunnel. He and Dudley found that the hummingbirds with enhanced tail feathers suffered only a 3.4 percent drop in their maximum speed. This corresponded to an 11 percent increase in energy needed to fly at high speeds.
For moderate and low speeds - the speeds at which hummingbirds typically flit from flower to flower and hover the long-tailed birds expended considerably less extra energy.
While other studies are needed to establish whether the same holds true in all bird families, Clark said, "I think that in most birds with long tails, the long tail is not costly."
Clark is writing his Ph.D. thesis on tail feather variation among the 330 known species of hummingbirds, which occur only in the Americas. Last year, he and fellow student Teresa Feo described how the Anna's hummingbird flares its tail feathers to generate a chirp at the bottom of its display dive.
In this new experiment, Anna's hummingbirds were the controls to discover whether very long tail feathers create enough drag to significantly affect flight performance. In visits to Jamaica, Clark collected five pairs of long tail feathers from red-billed streamertails, which molt their feathers once a year and then re-grow them. Eight of a streamertail's 10 flight tail feathers, called rectrices, are of moderate length - slightly more than an inch long - but the two feathers next to the outside pair are about 19 centimeters (7 ½ inches) long. (Of the approximately 60 hummingbirds with long tails, all but the red-billed streamertail have the outer pair of tail feathers elongated, as opposed to the next-to-outer pair.)
He first glued two streamertail shafts to two of an Anna's own feather shafts and placed the bird in a wind tunnel to see how its metabolism was affected by hovering or flying into a breeze of up to 35 miles per hour, or 15 meters per second. He enticed the hummingbird to feed in flight at a plastic tube that allowed him to collect its breath, which was analyzed for oxygen content. Of six birds tested, all expended more metabolic energy when equipped with long tail feathers. At high speeds (12 meters per second or 27 mph), they expended, on average, 11 percent more energy.
Based on these metabolic measurements, Clark and Dudley predicted that long-tailed birds would show a 3 to 4 percent decrease in maximum flight speed, which is what they found: 3.4 percent, on average.
As an extra control, Clark tested the flight abilities of birds without rectrices and of birds without either rectrices or covert feathers (the short feathers that cover the bases of the rectrices, both above and below). Birds lacking both rectrices and covert feathers showed a 2 percent drop in maximum air speed, but those lacking only rectrices were unaffected.
Given that elongated tails in birds have evolved at least 26 times, if not hundreds of times, it seems as if tail feather variation is easier to live with than, for example, wing feather elongation, which would more likely affect flight and is rare in nature, Clark said. Tail feathers streamline the bird's body and reduce drag, but when folded in flight, the length of tailfeathers appears to be less important than having at least some tail feathers.
"We propose ... that sexual selection has generated enormous diversity in avian tail morphology because, by 'hiding' in the wake of the body, such modifications can be relatively cost free," they wrote in their paper.
Although most biologists think that extreme ornamentation, like long tails, arise because females select males based on that trait, there is still much debate about the evolutionary details. Some suggest that females have an innate bias that is exploited by males to win over females. Others suggest that long feathers are a good indication of a healthy male, and thus stand out like "tall, dark and handsome" in human males.
"The energetic costs of a long tail are not high, but it remains to be seen if there are any benefits of a long tail, other than the indirect benefit of helping to pass on one's genes," Clark said.
Source: University of California - Berkeley (news : web)
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Sprint, forlorn over missing that ambitious target of selling 1 - 1.5 million Palm Pre phones in its first year on the network, will now try its luck with the lovely Android operating system, too. Sprint's entry into the Google Android derby will be this attractive HTC Hero, bringing all its touchscreen goodness on October 11.
It's the first Android-running phone on the Sprint network, and judging from the number of Android phones multiplying like rabbits lately, it won't be the last. This is a fine-looking phone, and thank goodness it's lost that ugly chin of the T-Mobile version, and especially of its homely forebear, the Android-pioneering T-Mobile G1.
Like most phones of its ilk, expect to pay steep prices for Sprint's HTC Hero, with $180 buying you the phone with a two-year contract, and then a cheaper-than-AT&T $70 tariff each month to keep the calls and data flowing. It might be worth it, because we've tried Android, and love it. It's especially useful for running Google Voice and Flash apps. All it needs is some decent hardware and a good network, and it's a winner. Tall order.
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The Pi Meditation Bench is a simple kneeling bench that offers greater comfort during meditation. The design is so unique, you'll wonder why nobody thought of it before now. Now it's available in a folding version for easier transport.
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- Dimensions: 18" wide by 7" deep by 7-1/4" high
- Weight: 5 Pounds
- Solid metal mechanism secures legs for sitting meditation
- Made from durable select hardwoods
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OWASP Internationalization
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|Project Name
|OWASP Internationalization Project
|Short Project Description
|The main goal of OWASP is to spread the word about security ("Our mission is to make application security "visible," so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about application security risks.") and OWASP has done great work so far :). And now it's time for a next big step. The number of native and secondary speakers in the world for Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic and Indi languages are estimated in similar number to English speaking or even more (Some References at Ethnologue, Encarta, Wikipedia). I think is a good time for OWASP to reach those that do not speak English to have full access to all the OWASP materials, not just a couple of documents. OWASP, while open to translations, do not have clear guidelines on how to translate OWASP contents and (AFAIK) there is no multi-language support in OWASP.org site. This is understandable as there is no formal project for internationalization so far.
|Email Contacts
|Project Leader
Juan Carlos Calderon
|Project Contributors
|Mailing List/Subscribe
|First Reviewer
Fabio Cerullo
|Second Reviewer
Rodrigo Marcos
|OWASP Board Member
|Sponsor - OWASP Summer of Code 2008
|Sponsored Project/Guidelines/Roadmap
|Author's Self Evaluation
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|First Reviewer
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|Second Reviewer
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|OWASP Board Member
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|Objectives & Deliveries reached?
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- 1 Why this project?
- 2 Objectives
- 3 I want to translate OWASP Materials to [Put your language here], Where should I start?
- 4 Creating a Language Specific OWASP Project
- 5 General Translation Guidelines
- 6 Organization
- 7 Translating Documents
- 8 Translating OWASP pages
- 9 Tracking Changes in Pages
- 10 Translating OWASP Software
- 11 Active Translation Projects
- 12 Future Plans
- 13 News
- 14 SoC 2008 Road map
Why this project?
The main goal of OWASP is to spread the word about security ("Our mission is to make application security "visible," so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about application security risks.") and OWASP has done great work so far. The number of native and secondary speakers in the world for Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic and Indi languages are estimated in similar number to English speaking or even more (Some References at Ethnologue, Encarta, Wikipedia). It is a good time for OWASP to reach those that do not speak English to have full access to all the OWASP materials, not just a couple of documents.
This project is the pioneer of an effort to define basic guidelines for the localization of OWASP site and OWASP projects (both documentation and software). Also define a way to do a continuous effort to keep information across the different languages in synchrony.
The main objective is to provide a framework for new translation efforts, those effort will have 2 main objectives:
- Make OWASP information currently available, reach the people speaking of a specific language
- Allow non-English speaking people to contribute to OWASP and have internationalization projects transfer that knowledge to English and other languages. So as you can imagine the replication effect will have great benefits to the OWASP community and the world of application security.
I want to translate OWASP Materials to [Put your language here], Where should I start?
Good for you, we are always happy to have more people to spread the OWASP message. Our suggestion is:
- You Identify the project you like or can translate, you can go to page or contact Paulo Coimbra for a suggestion (he manages all the OWASP projects). Check #Active_Translation_Projects to see if there is an existing or ongoing translation to the materials you want to translate, ask the language project mailing list (OWASP-Spanish mailing list) or the material project leader (e.g OWASP Top 10 Leader, Dave Wickers)
- Check if there is an existent Language-specific project, that is look for a OWASP_Spanish project if you are willing to translate to Spanish, There might be existing guidelines to help you out do the translation smoothly.
- Choose you approach:
- If you want to translate only a small document or one page, just go and do it, follow the Language guidelines or #General_Translation_Guidelines below.
- If you want to translate various documents, consider to create a Language-Specific Project that way there will be a solid baseline for all the translations.
- That's it
Creating a Language Specific OWASP Project
If you have decided to start a formal project to host all the translations to your native/desired language, here is what you have to do.
- Follow the How to Start an OWASP Project page instructions, we suggest you call the project as the language not the country, e.g. OWASP-Spanish not OWASP-Spain, as languages use to spread across more than just one country.
- Create a new translation guidelines (for documents, pages and tools) based on the #General_Translation_Guidelines below. It should include all the knowledge needed to make a quality translation in your native languages. Make sure to provide the necessary resources to at least avoid common pitfalls like false cognates and similar.
- Link your language specific project to this project, add a reference in "Related Projects" section at top template of this page
- Ask OWASP Wiki Admin (Larry Casey in this case) to enable your language in the Wiki Site, in case is not available in the languages list.
- OWASP is open and and you are free to modify or add new content to OWASP Materials, however it is always recommendable to contact project leaders and let them know on your intentions before you start a translation effort, at least as a courtesy.
- Update this page. Please feel free to modify this page, or add new pages if required, for your specific language. But make the content generic to the language family of your language as the idea of this project is to be used as a framework to develop language specific information.
Remember Language projects could be more than just translating, the idea is that knowledge in your native language could also be brought to English speaking people, so think on the project as a link between both languages.
General Translation Guidelines
Usually a document translation involves several people in order to facilitate the translation it is necessary to provide general guidelines for the translation. First of all, we strongly support language neutrality, this is especially important when the language is spoken in many different countries or regions.
Translation guidelines should include the following information:
- Glossaries for the target language,
- Basic orthography rules
- Basic grammar rules
- English-Target Language dictionary.
- Enumeration and examples of special cases, for example use of dashes, quotes, etc.
- False cognates
- Remind the translation must remain loyal to the original text, do not add content to the document (at least on this stage)+
- Recommendation to avoid slang language
- Policy for using automated tools
- Rules to handle terms that cannot be translated.
- Recommend to run Spell and Grammar check
- Examples to the rules described
- Include a peer review strategy
- Supportive readings and links
+ Although the objective of the project is to enable people speaking foreign languages to learn from OWASP and enrich OWASP documentation. This process must be done in separated stages, initially it is desirable to have a loyal version of the official release.
We strongly suggest you ask for help of an experienced person to give the document a final look before it is published to OWASP site.
The first thing is to have a good communication and coordination strategy, we propose the following organization for a translation effort:
Although OWASP is an open project, minimum skills should be procured to ensure the translation has good quality and takes just the needed amount of time. Believe me, you won't like to fix dozens of small mistakes for common computer world terms just because the translator is a totally outside the computer world with null knowledge on what is a hard disk :).
The proposed skills are:
- Translator(s)
- Basic computer related knowledge.
- Good English skills
- Fluent in foreign language
- Working knowledge in application security skills
- Editor(s)
- Strong computer related knowledge
- Strong English skills
- Strong skills in foreign language, participation in translation project of other open source projects is a plus.
- Strong knowledge in application security skills
- Translation leader. Person in charge of coordinate the translation effort. There are no special requirements, just the ability to manage a team of people and deliver on proposed time.
Translating Documents
This is the first release of the section, expect changed during the following weeks as we are requesting feedback from people involved in previous translations of OWASP documents, if you know one of these people please ask them to contact me
Translation Project leader and/or translation leader should create set of basic guidelines for translation as defined in #General_Translation_Guidelines section If the translation is going to be on a MS Word document is highly recommended to create a document template with web established styles for headers, so consolidating the document is easier The translation leader will distribute the work and set up tentative due dates for the sections based on the translators workload.
While Translating
It is suggested that once the distributed sections are ready, they are sent to the distribution list and the editor is notified
Before Delivering
In parallel to translation or after everyone has finished, the editor (or the person designated by the editor) will do the following actions
- Consolidate the whole document
- Do spelling and grammar check
- Ensure document "harmony". This is:
- make sure the same terms are using across the document
- topics sequence is natural.
- Font type, size and style are the same for the same types of text.
- Add the official cover page translated to the foreign language (OWASP logo, title and trademark information)
- Add GNU license (all the OWASP work is done under this license so translation work should also be GNU)
- Add OWASP internationalization project and the specific translation project explanation and references to let readers know where they go in case of interest in the translation project. Add this page after cover page.
- Add translation credit for project leader, editor and translators just after the author name.
- Convert the document to PDF format for portability, but also let the editable version available to the public.
Finally If there is a translation project, you can send the document to the project leader for its publication in the translation project and in the original project page.
Translating OWASP pages
To make more clear the process of creating a translated page, consider the following assumptions. Our example foreign language code is "es" for Spanish and the page we want to translate is called "TranslationTest". (Actually this page is there for you to use it ans tes for translation support of the portal on your specific language). So let's start
You should first classify the page to translate as a main page (project description page, project content page) or support page (roadmap, links, quotes, etc)
For Main Pages (project pages only)
- Add a new page called "PruebaTraduccion" ("Translation Test" in Spanish)
- At the beginning of the page add the TranslatedPageHeader template by adding {{TranslatedPageHeader}}
- At the end of the page add the TranslationInProgress template by adding {{TranslationInProgress}} in page code.
- Go to "TranslationTest" page and click on "View Source" tab.
- Copy the source code and start translating it locally. Then paste it in "PruebaTraduccion" page as you progress.
- If there is links to pages that are not translated, let the reader know by adding a "(In English only)" note after the link.
- Just before the end of the page, add a recognition section for the people that helped in the translation. Make sure to mention their role in the translation, their full name and Security certifications, refain to mention companies unless they are OWASP members or you have permission from OWASP Board to mention them.
- Once you are done remove the TranslationInProgress template in "PruebaTraduccion" page.
- Add a new sub-page for "TranslationTest" using your language code. This is, for Spanish, you should create a sub-page called "TranslationTest/es".
- In "TranslationTest/es" page just enter the following redirect statement #REDIRECT [[PruebaTraduccion]]
For Support Pages
For support pages, you do not need to add a third page in the foreign language (like PruebaTraduccion in previous example). Rather, you add the translated content directly to the "TranslationTest/es" page. Adding the TranslatedPageHeader is also not necessary.
Translating Links
Similar to templates, links are enclosed in special characters, in this case square braces. There are 2 types of links, external links will look like this
[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates here]
And should be translated as Links like this
[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates aqui]
Internal links, or links that point to pages in the OWASP site will look like this
[[OWASP WebGoat Project Roadmap|Roadmap]]
And should be translated to
[[OWASP WebGoat Project Roadmap|Plan de trabajo]]
For links without the second part (the one after the pipe character) just add it, Avoid changing the content if this is case otherwise you will break the link or link to a non existent page.
Translating Templates
Templates are an special type of pages that can be included as part of regular pages contents, you can learn more about them here, you can identify it in wiki code as text enclosed in curly braces like the following:
{{OWASP Book|1416452}}
To access wiki code of the template above you have to go to http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Template:MainLink. Templates do not support "/es" for translations as regular pages, instead we need to use special tags to support multiple languages in the same page. So edit the template code and change it from:
[[{{{1}}}| Main
({{{1}}})]]
<IfLanguage Is="en"> [[{{{1}}}| Main
({{{1}}})]] </IfLanguage> <IfLanguage Is="es"> [[{{{1}}}| Principal
({{{1}}})]] </IfLanguage>
The previous code displays the text in the first IfLanguage tag to people with browsers in English and the second to people with browsers in Spanish language.
That is it. Now visitors with browsers configured in your foreign language will be automatically redirected to the page in that language.
Tracking Changes in Pages
In order to track changes of pages for a translation project to keep translated pages up to date, you have to track changes doing the following:
- Login to OWASP Portal (register if you haven't, its free!)
- Go to the page you want to track and click on the "watch" tab. After that you will be able to see all the change to that page at the Watchlist special page.
- You can always go back to the Watchlist special page by clicking on Special Pages link at the left bottom of the site. and then click on the Watchlist special page.
There is a drawback, you will have to click the watch tab for every single page you want to track. This simple process will be enough to keep track of pages updates.
You can find more information on here:
Translating OWASP Software
Here you can find a series of basic guidelines document to help you make your OWASP tool project internationalizable.
The guidelines are available for:
Active Translation Projects
Future Plans
- Have people that help us ot enhance the guidelines and develop recommendations for arabic, slavic(Russian, Polish), ideographic (Chinese), Hindi and Japaneese (among others).
Dec 2010: OWASP Newsletter has been translated into Chinese(View)
26rd Jan 2010: OWASP Testing Guide v3 has been translated into Chinese (Download). Thanks to the China-mainland chapter.
24th Nov 2009: Weilin Zhong will translate ASVS and create the Chinese guidelines for future translations
5th May 2008: First Draft of General Translation Guidelines are published RC1 of general recommendations to start a translation of an OWASP document in a foreign language is released.
5th May 2008: Translating an OWASP document section is added Guidelines on how to do a document translation is released.
7th April 2008: The OWASP Internationalization project starts Juan Carlos Calderon starts the effort as part of the SoC 2008.
SoC 2008 Road map
This information is included just as reference
|(Expected) Competition Date
|1. Team up with Larry Casey to implement Multi language support in OWASP.org Mediawiki.
|June 20, 2008
|2. General Guidelines on minimum/recommended requirements to start a new language translation for OWASP Document and Site Pages.
|May 2nd, 2008
|3. General Guidelines on minimum/recommended requirements to implement internationalization and localization (i18n) on OWASP Software.
|Sep 4, 2008
|OWASP Internationalization Java Software
|4. Create a Communication strategy to help and keep track on new pages or changes in significant pages so all the translations are in sync.
|Sep 3, 2008


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Crammed and squeezed into a vertical sliver of space in the New York Times the article headline read:
Colours, creeds, rich and (for the most part) poor, the sick, the hopeful and the fearful flooded through the gate of Ellis Island that day.
As the New York Times told the city, "A rosy-cheeked Irish girl was the first registered".
That girl was Annie Moore.
When Annie Moore left Ireland, Queenstown – now named Cobh – would be her point of departure.
Any visitor to Cobh today will, as if pulled by unseen magnets, find themselves drawn to the town's Victorian promenade. It's easy for thoughts to wander there.
A mind might drift to Titanic. In 1912, the mighty ship moored out in the open sea just off Cobh, awaiting a final delivery of post and passengers before beginning her fateful Atlantic voyage.
Spike Island, a former prison fortress described as "Ireland's Alcatraz", broods on the horizon. Today, it may be stripped of its menace, but it still adds spice to the imagination.
Along the elegant stretch of promenade stands Annie Moore. Her two brothers bustle about her legs and you instantly imagine them yanking at her dress, asking her unending questions and looking to her for comfort about the journey ahead. Just like her statue at Ellis Island, though, Annie's face doesn't begin to hint at nerves.
Was this a teenager beyond her years, or was she simply utterly unconscious of the part she was about to play in the story of Ireland's emigration?
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Scholar and tour guide Dr Michael Martin has, in his own words "expounded the virtues of Cobh's past on the Titanic Trail Guided Walking Tour every day for the last 15 years".
Over that time he has come to empathise with Ireland's emigrants leaving Cobh, Annie Moore included.
"I am not so sure if she was scared or if she felt other emotions," he says. "At only 14 years of age and looking after two younger brothers, it must have been an exciting and perhaps exhilarating experience. If one had never been on a transatlantic voyage there would be no idea what was in store."
At the time, of course, Annie could have no way of knowing the part she would play in not only Ireland's, but America's history.
"For me," continues Dr Martin, "the story of Annie Moore typifies the trials and tribulations of 19th-century Irish family emigration. The decision to leave home, the initial separation of the family across the Atlantic divide, the psychological and physical distance people had to travel before then confronting a new situation and new culture in order to avail of new opportunities. Whenever I see her statue, this is what comes to mind."
Annie Moore's journey in life ended when she died of heart failure on 6 December 1924. Today, over 5,000 kilometres separates Annie's grave in Queens from her statue on the Cobh prom.
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Dare to be different
That said, there is one feature that will surely meet the favour of most photographers: the SD1's ability to produce infrared images straight out of the box. The SD1's unique personality shows in the clever idea of placing the IR filter, which also doubles as dust filter, at the front of the lens mount in a position where it can easily be removed to produce infrared images, something no other mainstream camera I know of can do.
Just a few lenses...
The SD1 ships with its own supplied software – Sigma Photo Pro – to process its X3F RAW files, which is an integral and essential part of the imaging system of the camera. The software is not very user-friendly to start with or very fast either, but it complements the camera's image output brilliantly and is capable of fixing some of the issues affecting native files.
For example, the raw processor is capable to recover almost all the highlight details lost in the above mentioned overexposure problem and to perfectly convert the infrared shots, taken with the filter removed, into quirky Black and White images.
A unique sensor with unique characteristics – ideal for photographers with unique talents
Sigma uses its own lens mount, which means that the SD1 is only compatible with Sigma lenses. These are plentiful though – over 40 to choose from – and usually of very good construction, so the brand-specific mount should not be too much of a problem. I tested the DS1 with the Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM lens which is a very decent standard zoom. Enjoying a f/2.8 constant aperture and a smooth zooming operation it is a solid and useful optic.
Battery life is nothing to write home about and considering the lack of video mode or Live View it is far shorter than I expected with less than 200 hundred shots per charge.
So what's the final word? Is the Sigma SD1 worth the premium price tag it carries and the attention of professional and enthusiast photographers? There is actually no definitive answer to these questions. For landscape and studio photographers the SD1 will be an outstanding, unique camera worth every single penny.
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I think people who ask questions like that are taking an unwarranted shortcut--something like, "Well, we know patriarchy affects people" (true) "and we know patriarchy is based on a power dynamic" (also true) "and we know BDSM is based on a power dynamic" (true) "so patriarchy must be involved in BDSM somewhere" (wait, stop, back up a bit).I agree with that, and I also wonder whether it might be useful to bring up something this comment makes me think of. Not sure how useful it is or isn't but...
They're leaving out the step of showing that the power dynamic in BDSM bears any significant similarity or common traits to the one in patriarchy. (Possibly they assume that, as an overarching model embedded in our culture, patriarchy must have gotten its meathooks into most power dynamics that exist, but they have to prove that first, and define exactly what the "meathooks" are and how they got attached, etc.).
I have no problem believing that patriarchal assumptions have affected my thoughts about kinky things in some ways...but I seriously doubt it was the sole driving force responsible for their existence.
I also think patriarchy is everywhere, but I'd have to see solid scientific studies before I just assume it's any more "involved" with BDSM than it is in (say) cooking or photography or raising miniature horses.
I'm reminded of reading books like Coming to Power years ago, and noticing several of the folks who contributed to that (who identified as both kinky and feminist) saying stuff like "I think everything in life is shot through with power dynamics. Life itself is a constant interplay of power: of control, of authority, of obedience, of surrender. When I make that part of my life, whether I'm 'playing' with it or doing something else, I'm acknowledging and studying and perhaps even affecting how those many dynamics of power play out."
It makes me think. At the time, I figured that the kinky folk expressing this view (and I'd say in some ways I too am one; I think power relations underlie a whole lot of human interaction at a pretty basic level) saw power as just a part of life, where anti-kink folk saw power dynamics as something sick and twisted overlaid forcibly on some more innocent state of nature.
Now I wonder if that's true. Maybe they agree that power is a part of everything, a part of cooking and dancing and talking and sex, but it's just that they think it's poison, stuffed into everything so we don't know what's natural any more and what isn't. Kind of the way there are preservatives in food.
And that... well, to go back to the commenter's comment, I'm inclined to think patriarchy is that way, stuffed bits at a time into a lot of things we do. And I don't think that's healthy. (But neither do I think aggressive methods to try and purge it work. I don't think corn in everything I eat is good, but I think it would make me crazy to try and eat nothing with corn syrup in it.)
But I'm not sure power is. I'm pretty sure interplays of power just are what they are. Yes, some of them are pernicious, and yes, all of them probably carry some risk. But I tend to think they come with interacting. I'd say "in the way dying comes with living," except that dying is unknown and often painful and scary and usually seen as negative, and I mean something more neutral than that. I mean if you live, they're there.
I can't imagine they wouldn't be in the post-patriarchy, or even in the post-kyriarchy of any kind.