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Madison Opera Goes Old School
November 6, 2018 Posted in Maidson Opera
Some great singing and a traditional approach revive "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci"
It has been more than 30 years since Madison Opera staged that once-ubiquitous double bill of one-act operas, "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci." That's nothing—I've been attending and listening to opera for a little over half a century, and I never managed to see them until Friday night in Overture Hall.
So first things, first: A thank you to Madison Opera general director Kathryn Smith for reviving these one-hit wonders of Mascagni and Leoncavallo, respectively. And more thanks are due to director Kristine McIntyre and scenic designer Constantine Kritikos for adopting a solidly traditional approach that still breathed some new life in these works.
All that was needed was to add some great singing, and there was a great deal of that. But before we start tossing out more bouquets, some general thoughts on the experience of encountering these operas at last.
Each of these operas contributed their fair share of iconic moments and music, to the point where it was easy to parody Italian opera in general with an exaggerated "Ridi, pagliaccio" ("Laugh, clown") an aria and role that helped launch Caruso, particularly his landmark early recording career, and certainly promoted "Pag". (I trust my readers will indulge me from this point in using the "Cav/Pag" shorthand references to the works).
To resume, I don't think I even listened to all 74 minutes of "Cav," and never bought a recording. The "Intermezzo" is often heard out of context (at the end of "Godfather III" to name one example), and I did have a Jussi Bjorling recording that included Turiddu's famous farewell to his Mamma, just before he is killed (if you think that's a spoiler alert, you don't know how predictable opera can be!). Speaking of Bjorling (a great Swedish tenor who died far too young), I did have the old Seraphim LPs of his complete "Pag." But even though I must have seen at least two dozen operas at the Metropolitan Opera between 1968 and 1975, it was never this famous pair. By the time I was in Los Angeles for 20 years beginning in 1981, the works had fallen somewhat out of favor. (Interesting footnote: John DeMain conducted a fascinating 1999 pairing of "Pag" with, of all things, Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana"—and got a great review in the Los Angeles Times).
Enough digressing… "Cav" (the title translates as "Rustic Chivalry," the chorus is pictured above, courtesy of Madison Opera) is a tale of two loves betrayed, and vengeance played out on Easter Sunday. The set design of Kritikos had a church stage left, with dramatically angled, two-story residences on the right, plenty of room in front and an open between them in the center. To these untrained eyes, it had the feel and mostly the look of 1890 small Italian village, which is when the work was written.
Tenor Scott Piper, the double betrayer, began unimpressively, but then again, even the Madison Symphony, so glorious in its two season-opening programs, was a little ragged in its intonation initially, and lacked its characteristic sheen. The vocal stars were soprano Michelle Johnson as Santuzza (in her local debut) and as Alfio, Michael Mayes—last seen here in Dead Man Walking. As memorable as that was in 2014, it was great to see and hear him in some traditional fare; needless to say he had little trouble in conjuring menace when he learns of his wife's unfaithfulness.
Perhaps the most surprising thing to yours truly is that "Cav" is, despite its brevity, a little languid and almost colorless at times. By the time of the famous "Intermezzo" however, the MSO was in full bloom, and the final twenty minutes of the opera were thoroughly compelling.
"Pag" was everything "Cav" was not, from the first minute to the final tragedy. Now Kritikos' set was largely intact on the right, with the church replaced by the makeshift stage for the commedia troupe, and only slightly updated by an electrical pole and wires as needed for makeshift 1920s-ish lighting; in short, it worked (the piece dates from 1892).
Now Mayes was Tonio, the would-be lover of Nedda, who is coupled with Canio, the troupe leader, but is in fact having an affair with Silvio. Nedda was sung by Talise Trevigne in her Madison Opera debut—but I could hardly be surprised by her vocalism or stage presence, as she had been Bess when DeMain conducted Porgy and Bess at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2017. We can only hope she is back here again, and soon.
Piper was Canio, and not only was he in fine voice throughout, but carefully navigated the easy-to-overdo "Ridi, pagliaccio" moment. Mayes was even more amazing as the ugly clown with a dark side. Benjamin Taylor was Silvio, and his debut was exceptionally impressive, displaying a light-colored voice that did not lack for power, and a real chemistry with Trevigne in their extended duet.
The conductor was Joseph Mechavich, returning after a 2013 Don Giovanni and 2017's "Opera in the Park." (DeMain had recently returned from a Candide triumph in Barcelona, but had already missed nearly all the rehearsal time). Mechavich had no trouble in getting the MSO back on all cylinders in "Pag," the woodwinds particularly seeming to revel in the score which, unlike the opener, abounds in color. And a collective "bravi" for the Madison Opera Chorus, trained as always by Anthony Cao, never sounding better; once again a nod to McIntyre for giving us a sense of natural action that never became too busy for its own sake.
In all, a very satisfying opening for Madison Opera's 58th season, and we look forward to the February offerings of A Little Night Music.
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Making the basic buffer overflow demo more approachable

            2021-05-05

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                #buffer overflow
                #exploitation
                #demo

TLDR

I wrote up a basic buffer overflow to program redirection demo which attempts to improve upon the standard buffer overflow demo in the following ways:

Makes the target address a printable string (in this case "HACK").

Provides feedback on faults so that the students are capable of being successful with the assignment without a debugger.

The demo supports x86, x86_64, and ARM targets.

See it in action:

You can find the code here.

Introduction

I took a Computer Architecture course at Johns Hopkins toward my M.S. in Computer Science this term. The course had an optional final project. This blog post is adapted from that project.

My Professor, Dr. Kann, had a list of recommended projects. On the list was a project to rewrite their buffer overflow example for undergraduates. They had a stack buffer overflow example based in the MARS Simulator. He wanted an updated example which ran as a binary on ARM so that the students could use their Raspberry Pis which was also mindful of the fact that the some of the students might not be familiar with debuggers.

Motivation

The following is a perfectly valid buffer overflow demonstration. The function strcpy is unbounded while the buffer is bounded so we can overflow variables on the stack including the return address saed there. On a modern system it will need a flag to disable stack canaries (-fno-stack-protector), but otherwise this works fine.

int main(int argc, char* argv[]){
    char buf[16];
    strcpy(buf, argv[1]);
    return 0;
}

If we wanted to continue with this demo we might write a target function, expect the students to find the address, and then also expect students to know how to pipe the associated characters from the address into an argument field like this:

./bin `python -c "print('a'*20 + '\x01\x02\x03\x04'[::-1])"`

That's a lot of information to expect someone just starting to know. Next up let's see what happens if they run the binary with a string long enough to overflow the return address on the stack.

$ ./bin AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

So informative! Students may realize they did the wrong thing, but gain no information with these crash messages. Of course, students could use a debugger on the run or on the core file, but that's more than we should expect of a student seeing a buffer overflow for the first time.

In the following sections we address both of these problems.

Making the winning string typeable

If we leave it to the compiler an address of a function we may want to hit could be something like 0x08048911. Take a look at each series of bytes: 0x08, 0x04, 0x89, and 0x11 and find the corresponding key on your keyboard. I will assist you with an ASCII chart below. You'll find that none of these will appear on your keyboard: that is, they are not typeable. Most addresses will not be fully typeable. So we've defined our problem: we want an address at a fixed address and whose bytes are all typeable.

Let's start with putting a function at a fixed address. When I first came across this problem I thought it would be easy. The internet was littered with potential options:

mmap a memory region RWX, memcpy a function, and then call a function pointer at that address: link

I discounted this option because I wanted the functionality in the binary itself to be clear and also for the address of the function to both be available in the symbols output and for that output at that address to be analyze-able in a disassembler.

Various options related to __attribute__((at(address))): link

I didn't pursue this option because it seems to only be supported in specific embedded compilers and I wanted our system to be able to be built on a generally available compilers.

objcopy the data into the program: link

objcopy is the traditional way to get binary data into a C program. It works pretty well and if I had thought about it before this next option I might have used it instead. In the end it's less fun than our actual solution so I'm not too worried about it.

Writing a custom linker script: link

This was very close to what I needed, but unfortunately there is very little documentation on non-embedded customization of linker scripts. It's really not a common use case.

I decided to move forward with a custom linker script. I put some time into attempting to write something custom using the documentation I found online for embedded systems and the linker script docs themselves, but the issue is that the embedded systems writing custom linker scripts are far more simple than the actual requirements for a semi-functioning linux binary. There always seemed to be an issue some section or issue I forgot.

It was around that time that I realized that my machine must be using some default linker script that I could just modify somehow. So I started attempting to locate my linker script. I searched high and low for .ld scripts on my machine: "surely it must be somewhere!"

Eventually I gave up and googled it and I found out a couple things: first, people are a bit frustrated by the lack of linker documentation and that the binary ld, the linker itself, would produce for me its linker script if I asked nicely.

If you run ld --verbose (and add -m to specify machine type) it will produce something like:

GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.30
  Supported emulations:
   elf_x86_64
   ...
   using internal linker script:
==================================================
/* Script for -z combreloc: combine and sort reloc sections */
/* Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   Copying and distribution of this script, with or without modification,
   are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
   notice and this notice are preserved.  */
OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-i386", "elf32-i386",
              "elf32-i386")
OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
ENTRY(_start)

If we tee this to a file and edit it a bit we can see what our system is actually doing under the hood. We see things like ENTRY(_start), which is the declaration that the _start symbol is the actual entry point for our binary. We can see the definition of the text segment relative to the program start and other sections.

PROVIDE (__executable_start = SEGMENT_START("text-segment", 0x08048000));
. = SEGMENT_START("text-segment", 0x08048000) + SIZEOF_HEADERS;
.interp         : { *(.interp) }
.note.gnu.build-id : { *(.note.gnu.build-id) }
.hash           : { *(.hash) }
.gnu.hash       : { *(.gnu.hash) }

For those of you who have not had the displeasure of looking through linker scripts I'll provide a very basic primer. There are commands such as SECTIONS, MEMORY, PHDRS, and VERSION which define, as you might guess, the sections and memory and whatnot. We'll only be dealing with the SECTIONS command today. There is also the concept of the '.' variable. This is the location counter: it's value is updated as assignments are made as the linker traverses the command from the top to the bottom.

We would like to put code at a custom address so we need a new section containing just our code. Adding to our linker script is a little bit more difficult that we might expect. We do not want to put our custom values at the beginning because we don't want to disrupt the rest of the binary. We also do not want it at very end of the SECTION command because that is where debug information that is not loaded is placed.

So we place our section declaration right before the _end symbol, set the location tracker to a custom value, and then use the linker syntax to define a custom section.

  . = 0x4b434148;
  .win_sec          : { *(.win_sec) }
  _end = .; PROVIDE (end = .);
  . = DATA_SEGMENT_END (.);

This works well enough. It creates a section, but our winning code is not yet pointing to that section. We need to point our assembly to our new section. In ARM we add:

.section .win_sec, "ax"

Next, we just had to pick a custom string that fit some criteria. In particular, the string is an address so the last byte needs to line up with instructions. On little endian systems the string is read into a word and flipped so it's actually the first character of the custom string that needs to align to boundaries. To support 64-bit machines I made sure that this first character was divisible by 8.

ASCII characters divisible by 8 are pretty limited. There are 3: 'H', 'P', and 'X'. Of course, we jumped on 'H' and chose our string to be HACK. A valid solution to our exercise is:

$ ./demo_amd64 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHACK
Hello to the string consumer 3000!
You provided me a string! Yum!
  _____
 /     \
| () () |
 \  ^  /
  |||||
  |||||

Oh no! There's haxx0rs in the mainframe!

Making the system give meaningful feedback

I wanted the students to be able to be successful with this exercise without the use of a debugger. That meant making sure each time they hit a signal stopping the program it gave back meaningful feedback.

Initially I just programmed up a basic signal handler, but eventually decided that I wanted additional information about the crash. The struct sigaction takes a flag option called SA_SIGINFO which provides two additional options that provide a lot of great information about the crash:

void fault_handler(int signo, siginfo_t *info, void *ucontext);

However, every once in a while a crash would come along where the siginfo_t and the ucontext pointers were invalid. I looked through the sigaction documentation thinking I had missed a configuration option until I came across SA_ONSTACK:

Call the signal handler on an alternate signal stack
provided by sigaltstack(2).  If an alternate stack is not
available, the default stack will be used.  This flag is
meaningful only when establishing a signal handler.

The only conclusion I could come to was that when I was smashing the stack the signal handler somehow could not recover it. I followed the example here which uses malloc to define a new stack signaltstack to define an alternate stack. After that the handler worked perfectly.

As for the logic internal to the handler we wanted to give some sense of the error and provide additional logic provided to us in the system (usually in the form of the si_code field). In particular, we separated out SIGSEGV codes to make them clearer and provided the address of the crash so that student can use that as information to make informed guesses. Additionally, we print the register state for each architecture we support.

An error state on ARM looks like:

------------------------FAULT-------------------------

Goodbye cruel world! I was a young program. And I have died too soon!

You can avenge my death! I received a fault.
That means something went wrong. I received a "Segmentation fault".
If you haven't seen that term before google it! The Wikipedia article is pretty good.

Signal Information:
Seems like the faulty address was 0x4140.
Looks like that address isn't mapped.

Register state:
R0           0xfffef0c0
R1           0xfffef3a3
R2           0x0
R3           0x73752f3d
R4           0xfffef0f8
R5           0x0
R6           0x0
R7           0x41414141
R8           0x0
R9           0x0
R10          0xff7ee000
FP           0x0
SP           0xfffef0d8
LR           0x109ed
PC           0x4140

Keep in mind we want our address to be 0x4b434148

A student playing around with this will see that they have modified the Program Counter and with some help they may be able to figure out the padding size and address string should be.

Conclusions

I built a code redirection buffer overflow demo that should be an easier initial target for students; especially those students who are not familiar with debuggers. This blog post was written with the intention that the link be listed in the book such that anyone interested in a deeper explanation of the problem would be able to find it here.

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Main Street Song and Dance Troupe's remarkable vocalists and dancers have wowed audiences at hundreds of venues around southeastern Wisconsin and the U.S., including Summerfest, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, and Disney World.
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Tickets for the event can be purchased online with reserved seating at www.mainstreetsonganddance.org. A 33% discount is available when using the promo code CHEER, making this show an affordable and fun family outing at only $10 per ticket.
Children are invited to meet and take pictures with Santa at the 3:00 show on Dec. 15th, and all three shows feature an interactive sing-along section that kids—and kids at heart—will love.
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Reminiscent of the centuries-old Christkindlesmarkt of Nüremberg, Germany, the 21st annual Old World Christmas Market at The Osthoff Resort offers the warmth and merriment of this Old World tradition. The Osthoff Resort's Old World Christmas Market was named one of the 2012 American Bus Association's Top 100 Events in North America (CLICK HERE TO READ THE PRESS RELEASE)! For ten consecutive days, guests stroll the aisles of a grand heated tent bedecked with fragrant boughs of fresh evergreens and the tantalizing scents of roasted almonds and Nüremberg bratwurst as they browse for unique and specialty items among international and regional artisans.
The 2018 Old World Christmas Market is open daily from 10 AM – 5 PM, November 30 – December 9, 2018. Admission is $7 per adult, children 14 and under are complimentary with an adult ticketholder. Discounted ticket prices for groups of 20 or more are available.
For more information, please call (877) 517-4596.
Celebrate the season as you travel back in time to engage your sense with performances, music, food, and hands-on activities that highlight holiday traditions brought to Wisconsin by immigrants. Help prepare Vanocka (traditional braided bread), tour the Yuletide Village in a horse-drawn sleigh, have your picture taken with Victorian Santa Claus in his busy workshop, sip on hot cider and wassail, indulge in sweet treats, and more! Don't forget to watch out for Krampus!
December 1-2, 8-9, 15-16 from 10am to 4pm. / Advance reservations are not required for An Old World Christmas. Special Pricing: Adults $12; youth (5-17) $9; children 4 and under are free. WHS members receive Free Admission to An Old World Christmas.
Christmas in the Country 2018 and the 25th Annual Illumination Ceremony – Join Grand Geneva on Sunday, November 18, 2018 for the kickoff of the annual six-week long Christmas in the Country Celebration. We flip the switch on more than 2 million lights throughout the property, then follow it up with our dazzling grand fireworks display to kick off the holiday season. Discover even more holiday magic this season with the additional kids activities and live entertainment throughout the Grand Ballroom, Evergreen Ballroom and the Lobby. Enjoy holiday cookies and hot apple cider too. We ask that all guests bring a new, unwrapped toy to donate to United Way of Walworth County.
This annual holiday tradition transforms BMO Harris Bank's downtown lobby into a holiday spectacular. Free and open to the public at 770 N. Water Street, downtown Milwaukee. This year's BMO Harris Bank Holiday Display features more than 150 life-sized animals in Holiday Busy Town. The display is free and open to the public. For each visitor to the Display, BMO Harris Bank will donate $5 to Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin.
It's the most dazzling time of year downtown – the Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival is returning for its 20th year! Kick off the season on Thursday, November 15 at Pere Marquette Park with a holiday variety show and the city's largest switch-flipping ceremony.
Enjoy an elegant horse-drawn CARRIAGE RIDE through the streets of downtown Waukesha. Tickets can be purchased from participating downtown businesses, and you can get on a carriage at any of the carriage ride stops throughout downtown.
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CANDY CANE LANE is in West Allis and is fundraising for the MACC Fund (Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer). It runs November 23 through December 26th, and the hours are 6:00 -9:00 pm on the weekdays and 5:00 – 10:00 pm on Saturday & Sunday. Please note that the hours may change due to weather, traffic, and other conditions. Candy Cane Lane is the neighborhood bordered by 96th Street on the west, 92nd Street on the east, Montana Avenue on the north, and Oklahoma Avenue on the south. The Official MACC Fund donation location is at the intersection of 95th and Manitoba.
THE CHRISTMAS CARNIVAL OF LIGHTS is open Saturday, November 24th through December 31 except Christmas Day, when the Carnival is closed so that the Isaacson family can enjoy the holiday together. Hours: Sunday-Thursday: 5:00 – 9:00 pm, Friday and Saturday: 5:00 – 10:00 pm. Cost: Car (up to 8 people) $20, Large passenger vans, camper, limo, mini bus $30, Large Bus, Greyhound or Large Motorhome $35. Please note: Santa's Workshop is open every day. Santa is at the workshop and available for photos every Wednesday 6:00-8:30pm, Friday and Saturday 5:30-9:30PM on November 26th and between December 2nd and 24th. Visit SANTA'S WORKSHOP to learn more. The Wisconsin Christmas Carnival of Lights is hosted at Yogi Bear's Jellystone Camp Resort in Caledonia, Wisconsin, located just 20 minutes south of Milwaukee.
Note: Cash only. ATM available.
Join us the first weekend of December (Nov 30 – Dec 2) for a driving tour through the historic Monches and scenic Holy Hill area. Each stop on the tour is offering unique giftable items you won't find anywhere else, created by local artists. Visit our 'participants' page to view all the stops along the tour. The tour runs from 9:00am until 5:00pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday*. Print out a map to plan your personal driving tour! Maps will also be available at each of the tour stops as well.
Pricing: $5 per person before 3:30pm (2 & under are free) $7.50 per person after 3:30pm (2 & under are free) Pricing includes the holiday drive-thru, petting zoo admission, and hot cocoa. We hope to see you this holiday season!
*Special events provided every night starting at 6 p.m. or 6:30 p.m.
Celebrate the holidays with Cedar Creek on Festive Fridays! On each of the six Friday nights before Christmas you will find a specially-themed holiday event at the Cedar Creek Settlement. The winery and shops are open until 9pm with music, wine tastings, cookies and cider. The Settlement is festively adorned for the holidays and features 25 unique shops all nestled in a restored 1864 woolen mill. Each Friday will have a specially-themed holiday event. November 16 – Settlement Christmas Showcase November 23 – Home for the Holidays November 30 – A Heritage Christmas December 7 – Santa's Workshop December 14 – A Taste of Christmas December 21 – Countdown to Christmas Happy Holidays!
In 2018, the City is delighted to host the Wisconsin State Ice Carving Competition as part of the 2018 Ice Festival on Saturday, December 15 and Sunday, December 16!
Over a dozen ice blocks will be placed throughout Wehmhoff Square Park. Each sculpture will be carved from a 300-pound block of ice that has been frozen in a special process to ensure that the blocks are crystal clear. The blocks are ten inches thick, twenty inches wide and stand forty inches tall on a wooden stand. The live sculpture carving, a favorite viewing attraction, showcases ice carvers using hand tools as they transform the massive blocks of ice into an array of giant masterpieces.
Along with watching the carving competition, visitors can spend the day in downtown Burlington taking a horse-drawn wagon ride, seeing live reindeer, visiting Santa Clause, exploring our downtown and much more! There is no cost to visitors attending this festival. This is event is only made possible with the support of our community sponsors.
• Carvings lit up at night!
The show will run from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm Sunday through Thursday; 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm on Friday and Saturday.
See link for address and more details.
The display will run each night starting at 5:00 pm. The shows will end at 9:00 pm on Sunday through Thursday and 10:00 pm on Friday and Saturday nights. The display hopes to be up on December 1, 2018.
Park your car and watch the Christmas lights as you listen to the music over the radio at a residential home on Sunflower Court in Summit. Tune to channel fm 89.5. The display runs from 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm. Lights are up and one song available at this time. More songs will be added the weekend of December 1, 2018.
Drive past this beautifully remodeled home in downtown Oconowmoc at night to see their gorgeous lights.
The Ziemer Family invites you to drive through their light display on their farm on the north side of Watertown. The lights will be on at 5:00 pm. You can drive through now through New Year's Day.
LAKE COUNTRY FAMILY FUN HAS ALL YOUR HOLIDAY NEEDS. CHECK OUT OUR HOLIDAY SHOP SMALL GUIDE, PHOTOS WITH SANTA GUIDE, CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING GUIDE, CHRISTMAS TREE FARM GUIDE, HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR GUIDE, AND CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAY PARADE GUIDE. HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM LAKE COUNTRY FAMILY FUN!
If you have a Holiday Fun event that fits into one of the categories in our Holiday Fun Guide and would like it added to this list, please email us at erin@lakecountryfamilyfun(dot)com with your information. You can also email us via the contact form below.


Riot police stand among flare smoke on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier burns during clashes outside the parliament building as Greek lawmakers vote on the latest round of austerity Greece has agreed with its lenders, in Athens, Greece, May 18, 2017.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police fired teargas at anti-austerity protesters rallying outside parliament in Athens on Thursday as lawmakers debated further spending cuts demanded by the country's international lenders in exchange for bailout funds.
A small group of hooded protesters broke away from a rally of about 10,000 demonstrators and hurled petrol bombs and firecrackers at police guarding parliament. Police responded with teargas dispersing the crowd temporarily.
As the clashes broke out, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was delivering a speech in parliament defending proposed legislation which includes pension cuts and tax hikes to be implemented in 2019 and 2020, if adopted later on Thursday.
A vote was expected around midnight local time (2100 GMT).
Tsipras' coalition, which came to power in 2015 promising to end austerity but was forced to sign up to a third bailout later that year, has a slim majority of 153 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament.
The leftist-led government hopes that legislating the measures, four days before euro zone finance ministers meet in Brussels, will convince its lenders to release a 7.5 billion euro bailout tranche and grant it further debt relief.


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R&B Icon Billy Ocean Says He Chooses Bud Over Booze
Jun 18, 2019 07:08 PM PST
The "Caribbean Queen" singer came out as a cannabis consumer and threw his full weight behind the legalization movement.
Another music legend just hopped on the legal weed train.
On Friday, R&B singer Billy ocean, 69, told the Daily Mail that he consumed cannabis as part of a holistic health regimen, which includes acupuncture for an old shoulder injury, along with daily jogging.
"I really don't see much wrong in smoking herb," he said while noting that there's a time and place for everything, even for the green. "I never get involved in that when I am working."
Ocean is currently touring Australia, celebrating a career that spans over four decades. The Grammy-Award winning artist has sold over 30 million albums since his studio debut, Billy Ocean, which dropped in 1976.
Previously, Ocean said he preferred the buds to the bottle, and though he couldn't recommend weed for everyone, he said it ought to be an option for responsible adults.
"You have got a choice: You can either be in the bottle drinking as much alcohol as possible, or you can relax smoking herb…marijuana…and I'd rather do that," he said to Confidential, according to the Daily Mail. "I would not encourage anyone to do it, but horses for courses. They should legalize it."
The name of his Australian tour is aptly named "All the Hits," and his next stop will be on June 21 at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney. Cannabis is currently legal in the Land Down Under, but only for certain serious illnesses.
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Ledwithstown House is a handsome Georgian country house, situated outside the town of Ballymahon, and has been described as a "miniature gem" by architectural historians.
It is believed to have been designed c.1730 by the eminent architect Richard Castle, who died in 1751. Castle, or Cassels, was probably the foremost architect in Ireland at the time of construction and was one of the greatest proponents of Palladian architecture in Ireland.
His domestic villas were strongly influenced by the designs of Italian architect Andrea Palladio, who designed elegant, symmetrical houses with classical details inspired by the architecture of ancient Rome.
Ledwithstown House has solid, robust appearance with a pleasing symmetrical design, typical of Palladian villas. It features finely-carved cut limestone trim, such as the window surrounds and the heavy eaves cornice that runs along the top of the walls.
The good-quality dressed limestone quoins to the corners help to emphasise the stocky appearance of this building. The doorcase is especially attractive and provides a central focus to the main elevation, and is further enhanced by the flight of stone steps to its base.
The house has undergone an extensive programme of conservation and renovation by the present owners from the 1970s onwards, with support of agencies such as the Irish Georgian Society (www.igs.ie).
Ledwithstown House was the residence of the Ledwith family from its construction to around 1900. The Ledwith family were an important family in County Longford from 1650 onwards. Successive generations of family members served in public office as grand jurors, or as high sheriff of the county, including George Ledwith who was the high sheriff in 1764; James Ledwith in 1792, Richard in 1807 and Edward in 1847.
Ledwithstown House is privately owned by the Feeney family.
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EDITORIAL: State must be careful with gas-tax exemptions
Adding school buses to a growing list increases chances for future tax hikes
EDITORIAL: State must be careful with gas-tax exemptions Adding school buses to a growing list increases chances for future tax hikes Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/opinion/editorials/2018/10/28/editorial-state-must-careful-gas-tax-exemptions/38304499/
Published 12:13 a.m. ET Oct. 28, 2018
Some lawmakers hope to exempt school buses from the gas tax.(Photo: ~File photo)
Some New Jersey lawmakers want to exempt school buses from the state's gas tax.
That's nice of them. If bus companies can save some money, school districts can save money. That means schools could spend more in the classroom, or save residents some money by trimming taxes.
The idea also seems fair and reasonable, considering other types of vehicles – emergency vehicles, tractors, commercial fishing boats – already receive the same exemption.
But here's the problem: All those dollars that will not be spent on gasoline for buses will instead come out of our pockets for our own gas. That, folks, is how New Jersey's gas tax works these days, and it stinks.
Let us take you back to those bright and shiny days not so long ago when New Jersey still boasted one of the nation's lowest gas taxes. Unfortunately, the state at the same time also had a Transportation Trust Fund that had all but dried up. Inevitably, therefore, that "low" gas tax was seen as ripe for increase to generate the needed revenue to keep transportation projects moving.
It was a battle to win sufficient legislative support. Then-Gov. Chris Christie insisted on a package of other tax reductions to theoretically compensate – among them a small trim on the sales tax and eventual elimination of the estate tax. But lawmakers eventually settled on a 23-cent hike, with many supporters confident the public would quickly forget about it as the cost blended into the usual ebb and flow of gas prices.
But there's a kicker to all of this. The 23-cent hike is just a start. Built into the plan is an annual reconsideration of the gas-tax level based on hitting established revenue thresholds. In other words, if the gas tax isn't producing enough money, it goes up – automatically. That's already happened – by more than 4 cents this year. A surplus would trigger a tax reduction, but does anyone expect that? Greater fuel efficiency and changing driving habits are reducing consumption and creating downward revenue pressure that doesn't figure to change anytime soon, and that's a trend we shouldn't want to discourage regardless.
What all of that tells us is that gas-tax exemptions will have a ripple effect on the vast majority of drivers. If school buses are simply added to an ever-growing list of vehicles that lawmakers decide deserve some financial relief, that removes another chunk of revenue, making it that much more likely that the tax will be hiked again next year – and every year after that. The supposed generosity of legislators would therefore come at an ever-increasing cost.
There's another challenge looming as well. The new gas-tax law was set to run for eight years. Does anyone honestly expect legislators to not maintain the higher tax – whatever it has reached by then -- or even raise it higher when the time comes? Critics of the eight-year plan have noted that planned revenue distribution will leave the fund only paying off debt by then. In other words, a higher gas tax beyond that seems all but inevitable.
When it all stops is anyone's guess. New Jersey's infrastructure and transportation problems are far too plentiful and expensive to expect any easing of the financial pressures for the foreseeable future. Keeping the Transportation Trust Fund well stocked will be vital for many years to come.
Another factor in the school-bus exemption proposal is some uncertainty about the actual savings. The state processes the gas-tax exemptions by refunding payments already made. But if bus companies are lax about applying for those refunds, the potential savings drop.
But even if the numbers could be pegged more accurately, will the total savings for school districts be worth shifting even more of the transportation-funding burden onto ordinary drivers?
Lawmakers should think long and hard about which categories of vehicles should receive exemptions, make a short list now and stick to it. Generosity in this case can only go so far.
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Q: Installing Jenkins on MAC OS X El Capitan This is probably a stupid question but I can't get Jenkins installed on my MAC. I've searched the web and tried various different tutorials but it does not seem to work for me. Moreover it seems that nobody experiences the same problem. I've downloaded the Jenkins Installer from here. After running the installation process, the script tries to connect to http://localhost:8080 but I get the error message that the browser cannot connect to the server. Can anyone help me with this?
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Welcome to Reality, Lionsgate, Pleased to Have You Here
Well, this deserves its own post. Lionsgate is making far too much sense for a company in the movie industry. It's scaring the crap out of me, frankly. Here's the story: they've made a deal with YouTube. Rather than fighting to get clips of their films taken down, they're going to monetize the clips. They're going to have their own YouTube channel and let people share, embed, upload and mash up clips. That's what the Variety article says.
Pause here for a moment. Upload? That's fascinating. So does that mean they'll let you upload a clip from a Lionsgate movie if it's uploaded to their channel so it can be monetized? That seems fair enough. And as for mashup–does that mean they'll let you download and then re-upload your new version? If so…wow. This covers film and television programs. Now, users don't get free reign. If something's still in cinemas, clips will be removed. But that's perfectly reasonable.
[ad#longpost]Check this quote out from Curt Marvis, Lionsgate's president of digital media: "(The partnership) grew out of discussions about claiming — the process of getting content off YouTube. But if there's an audience for our content, it was like, 'Wait a minute. Let's not put our heads in the sands here. Let's give them what they want and get revenue from it.'"
Holy crap. That sounded like somebody at a studio thinking? I'm floored. Wait. He's not done: "We're trying to be as progressive as we can be as opposed to shutting them down. That didn't seem to work very well for the music industry."
This is me, gobsmacked. Not only do they use common sense but they learn from others' mistakes? Curt Marvis, I want to buy you some coffee. In fact, I think I'll send you some. Seriously. Update: Done.
Anyway, YouTube is trying to work out deals with other studios. And that will depend on what money Lionsgate sees from this. Basically they're trying to take the 300 million uniques that YouTube gets and harness them so that they're making money off of clips instead of spending money trying to get them removed. The "Time of My Life" video from Dirty Dancing? 4.8 million views. And you'll be able to purchase the movie or the television show from the clip. What an audience.
Now, you have to remember: while this seems like completely basic rational thinking to you and me, Hollywood doesn't usually think rationally. They drive franchises into the ground with crap remakes and horrible stories and then brush their hands off and go, 'Yes, well, Star Trek's just tired. People don't want Star Trek anymore. Time for something new.' And insert superhero movies, or R-rated films, or sci-fi or anything where I put Star Trek and you'll probably be fairly accurate. Lionsgate treating you, their customers, like fans instead of felons, is a breath of fresh air. Granted, the way this thing gets rolled out might be completely botched…but if they're smart, they'll work it and refine it and make money instead of pissing a lot of people off. They get points for at least trying to be smart.
The only criticism I would have is…it took you how long to figure out that embeddable videos are free advertising? Geez.
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I agree with you and I don't know why studios didn't think of this earlier. It's going to happen anyway so you might as well profit off it instead of spending money to get rid of the videos.
I've been wondering when someone was going to use youtube for the forces of good/personal gain. Besides ok go. You know, the treadmill guys. I've always wondered about youtube, it's a site that gets millions of hits a day, with practically limitless potential for publicity, and it's free advertising. Not only is Lionsgate getting all that advertising, it's making money. It's like powering your car on other cars' emmisions.


Kory Russell didn't grow up in a construction business. No one in his family owned Cat® machines or any kind of heavy equipment. But back in 1997, he was a 10-year-old kid — like a lot of 10-year-old kids — fascinated by big, yellow earthmovers. So one day he and his stepfather drove about 30 minutes to the nearest Cat dealer, walked in the front doors and asked the receptionist if they could look around.
A year later, on April 26, 1998, Kory, his mom and his stepfather attended their first NASCAR race at Talladega. It was there that a lifelong passion for all things Caterpillar — and Cat Racing in particular — was born.
The next summer, Kory stayed with an aunt and uncle who lived on High Rock Lake in North Carolina, about 45 minutes from Bill Davis Racing — the Cat team owner at the time. He visited the shop and walked away with his first Cat Racing memento: a piece of sheet metal from the Cat racecar.
Kory's love for Caterpillar and Cat Racing started when he was just 10 years old.
Fast forward 20 years, and Kory is no longer a wide-eyed kid experiencing Cat machines and the Cat racecar for the first time. Today, he's a 31-year-old firefighter who lives and works in Prattville, Alabama. That's his day job, anyway. His true profession? Collecting Cat Racing memorabilia.
In the two decades he's been gathering Cat® Racing memorabilia, Kory Russell has amassed a diverse collection of items — more than 200 of which currently are on display at the Caterpillar Visitors Center. Where does he find them? What are his favorites? What's missing? Get all the answers in our Q&A.
Q: Do you remember the first Cat Racing item you ever collected?
A: The passenger side rear quarter panel off the car Ward Burton wrecked at Sonoma on June 27, 1999. I remember lying on the living room floor watching that race. I want to say my parents paid $50 for it.
Q: Do you have a personal favorite item?
A: Probably Ward Burton's driver's helmet from the 2002 Bristol night race. A driver's helmet is a rare find and this one has a great story behind it. After Dale Earnhardt Jr. crashed into Ward, Ward got out of his wrecked car, walked up the racetrack and threw his foot heat shields at Junior. There are some great videos and pictures of this, which helps because I try to authenticate my items with visual proof.
Q: What's the most interesting or unique item in your collection?
A: Maybe the Ward Burton helmet I just mentioned because the story behind it involves one of the most popular NASCAR drivers of all time. Another interesting piece is the 1998 David Green driver's uniform with the NASCAR 50th anniversary patch since it also involves the history of the sport.
Q: What are your best sources for Cat Racing memorabilia?
A: Team members, race shops, auctions and other NASCAR fans or collectors. A lot of people in the NASCAR world know me now, so if they find something they usually contact me directly before they put it online. I also check eBay multiple times a day and recently put some ads on Craigslist.
Q: What Cat Racing items are you still looking for?
A: I have a fire suit from every Cat Racing driver but Dave Blaney, so I'm always on the search for one of those. I'm only a couple of pit crew shirts away from having every shirt from every year Caterpillar has been the primary sponsor, so it would be cool to check those off the list. I'd love to find sheet metal from any of the special paint schemes, especially when Caterpillar promoted new machines. I could go on and on about stuff I'm looking for!
Q: What's the Holy Grail of Cat Racing memorabilia?
A: The suit or helmet Ward Burton was wearing when he won the Daytona 500. I'm sure he probably has those two things in his personal collection.
Q: Do you have a favorite memory from the racetrack?
A: Definitely the 2002 Daytona 500 when Ward Burton won the race. I could barely watch the last couple of laps. Ward missed a big wreck toward the end and was running second when Sterling Martin got out of his car to fix damage under a red flag. NASCAR penalized Sterling and that put Ward in the lead. We stayed at the track for a while after the race was over — I didn't want to leave. Then we drove all the way back to Alabama and watched a VCR recording of the finish again in the middle of the night.
Q: Who's been your favorite Cat Racing driver?
Q: Do you collect anything else besides Cat Racing memorabilia?
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Danrarbc wrote: I don't know how I feel about a Raptor at GAm. Being compact helps matters but the truth is the capacity of the current models with single-wide trains seems like it'd be way too low for a park that gets the attendance numbers that GAm does.
coasterbill wrote: In all seriousness (though a third flume would be awesome albeit an incredibly stupid investment) my first thought was also that they should stockpile as many indoor rides as possible over the next few years.
First thing I thought of when I saw Holiday Park's new area was that SFGAm should have something like this.
Last edited by ytterbiumanalyst on Wed Nov 28, 2018 1:19 pm.
Indoor raptor? I'm on my way.
That line can get nasty. The park shouldn't make that mistake again.
How was it a mistake? The last couple times I've gone we waited ten minutes max, with the longest line of the day appearing to be around 20-30 minutes. The queue is also in plain view, so if someone wants to jump into an hour wait they do so willingly. I see no reason for SFGam to look at Joker as a mistake. A S&S Free Spin had already been installed at SFGAdv, which is a very large park. Free Spins are a ton of fun and everyone always seems to be laughing and smiling when they walk away from them.
That park has Cedar Point levels of attendance. Should Cedar Point get a coaster that can only do like 700 PPH in a theoretical sense? Nah. That's stupid. Luckily their management realized that and thus everything they've built coaster wise of late has been to increase the overall capacity of the park by installing or retrofitting rides into people eaters.
Whizzer's line is painful enough. Why put in something lower capacity than that with a ride model intended for small/mid size parks looking for a signature thriller? It doesn't even fit a need, whereas indoor or signature family attractions would.
PKI Jizzman wrote: My Six Flags Great America survey is about rides - more specifically about the RMC Wonder Woman. I'm on my 5th question about how I think that type of ride would fit in the park.
A Dive probably runs anywhere from 2 to 3 times the price of a Raptor. This isn't an either/or thing.
Yeah B&M is a class or 2 above RCM. Just when I took a survey for SFGAm it had a video of a dive coaster and one of the questions mentioned a dive coaster. A raptor was not listed as an option. Maybe we will get a Vekoma Dive coaster.
jopelt wrote: Maybe we will get a Vekoma Dive coaster.
Vekoma Dive Coaster? Is this a recently announced model? I never heard of that.


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Q: Make a query to display unmatched data I m having difficulty making a query that displays unmatched data in between 2 tables.
The tables are:
Employee data                   Salary data
ID  Holidays               ID      Holiday
1    10                    0       10
2     8                    1        5
3     5                    2        8
4     7                    3        5
5     8                    7        6
6     5                    8        9
7     6                    9        2
8     9                    10       3

the primary key is ID for both tables.
I want my query result to contain all the values that does not match in both tables.
The type of output i want is something like this:
ID    Holiday
0       10
1       10
1        5
4        7
5        8
6        5
9        2
10       3

I tried using unmatched query wizard but that only compares ID, not the Holiday column.
Please help me!

A: You could use a union of two exists queries:
SELECT ID, Holiday FROM Employee as e
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM Salary as s WHERE s.ID = e.ID AND s.Holiday = e.Holiday)
UNION ALL
SELECT ID, Holiday FROM Salary as s
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM Employee as e WHERE e.ID = s.ID AND e.Holiday = s.Holiday);


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Q: Non-destructive measurement of qbits Yale news "New qubit control bodes well for future of quantum computing" (Original paper) says:

"The Yale physicists successfully devised a new, non-destructive measurement system for observing, tracking and documenting all changes in a qubit's state, thus preserving the qubit's informational value."

Which would be the major applications of quantum theory that are impacted by this new technique? Wouldn't e.g. the security of quantum key distribution in cryptography be rendered
questionable?

A: From the abstract of the original article (emphasis mine):

Measuring a quantum system can randomly perturb its state. The strength and nature of this back-action depend on the quantity that is measured. In a partial measurement performed by an ideal apparatus, quantum physics predicts that the system remains in a pure state whose evolution can be tracked perfectly from the measurement record. We demonstrated this property using a superconducting qubit dispersively coupled to a cavity traversed by a microwave signal. The back-action on the qubit state of a single measurement of both signal quadratures was observed and shown to produce a stochastic operation whose action is determined by the measurement result. This accurate monitoring of a qubit state is an essential prerequisite for measurement-based feedback control of quantum systems.

That is, the abstract itself describes the fact that the measurement changes the state; what they are saying is that in their apparatus, how the state changes upon measurement of a subsystem can be reliably inferred from the measurement outcome, as in theoretical treatments of wave-function collapse of entangled states.

A: A "non-destructive measurement" is a highly misleading phrase in quantum mechanics experiments. A better (but less impressive) version is a "minimally perturbative measurement". In this and other papers, the claim is that researchers try to  perturb or change the system only as much as quantum mechanics requires. For superconducting qubits this is major progress: previous experiments tended to add far more noise that quantum mechanics required. There are many algorithms, including quantum error correction, which require a manipulate->measure->manipulate scheme at the quantum level.
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Простите, нам не удалось подключиться к battle.net.
Танки для проверки запустил - все работает нормально.
ps: у нас нет клиента игры а демо-доступа не предусмотрено. Можем подцепится через удаленку и попробовать настроить на месте.


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I use this when I bath my coated dogs. It makes their coats look and feel good and easier to groom.


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Firas Zreik (Palestine/USA)
Live at The Vine Sessions
Fields of Figs
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country:Palestine
style(s):Fusion, Maqam
label:not signed
instrumentation:instrumental
artist posted by:Firas Zreik
Alexandre Ferreira Alves (Drums)
Firas Zreik (Kanun, Composer, Leader)
Manuel Rocha (Guitar)
Tomas Marques (Saxophone)
Yuri Daniel (Bass )
Artist-composer, Kanunist and educator Firas Zreik has performed and recorded across the world as a leader and highly sought collaborator since 2013. A sonic revolutionary, the Palestine-born New Yorker has transformed global perception of the Kanun. His treatment of the instrument preserves its identity as a vital part of the Maqam tradition, and stretches its potential as a cultural chameleon enhancing a range of fresh, evolving sounds. He views the Maqam's improvisation-driven legacy as a vessel for unbound creative expression across musical styles.
His nuanced approach translates the Kanun's resonant depth of emotion, with a mastery of microtonal soundscaping. Comfortable in both heavily orchestrated and spontaneous settings, he creates waves of layered expression and lyricism among his fellow artists. Over the years, he has collaborated with a cross section of leaders, including Roger Waters, Simon Shaheen, Amir ElSaffar, Fabrizio Cassol, Marwan Khoury, Abeer Nehmeh, Elias Karam, Shreya Goshal, Shankar Mahadevan, Aynur Dogan, G.E. Smith, David Broza and his internationally-renowned mother and frequent artistic partner Amal Murkus, for whom he serves as musical director.
In live performance, Zreik conjures a complexity of emotion that shapeshifts throughout his sets. He enters fragile places and sits inside them. This commitment to stark exploration has sent him around the world, performing at storied venues, intimate clubs and international festivals. He has appeared at WOMEX international music expo, Smithsonian Museum, Savannah Music Festival, Tunisia's Carthage International Festival and Hill Auditorium, as well as The Jazz Gallery, Lincoln Center and Historic Greenwood in New York City; Boston Symphony Hall and Berklee Performance Center in Boston; Institute du Monde Arabe and La Bellevilloise in Paris; Palais de Congres and Fete Des Solidarites in Belgium; as well as Teatro Mediterraneo and Nuoro Jazz Festival in Italy.
Following the release of his two singles "Lullaby for Nature" (Levantine Music) and "Sentiments of Emptiness" (Universal Music Group), in 2020, during the pandemic lockdown, Zreik issued his debut EP Solo (Levantine Music), featuring a shimmering, contemplative set of Kanun music. In fall 2022, the young artist is poised to release his first full-length recording of original music featuring his 8-piece band.


:: amazed at the glow of desert colors.
:: thinking about what the next month will look like with so many unexpected changes happening in our household.
:: wearing pants with flowers on them. Everyone should have a pair.
:: considering moving the family to the woods in Vermont, but knowing we could end up anywhere.
:: hoping that I can have as much strength of love that my Grandparents have - they just celebrated 65 years together!
:: loving the unabashed kindness of a puppy kiss.
:: laughing at the notion of anything more stable than change. It is the month of the Storm Moon and the winds have moved in!
:: enjoying every precious moment I have in this wee Apothecary of ours.
:: smiling at small mint seedlings chattering in the windowsill and appreciating the incredible one who grew them.
:: deciding on what tea I will be serving at tonight's Clever Hedgehog School of Herbology class.
:: feeling a bit stretched, a bit sore, and beautifully alive.
:: readying myself for a big spring leap and all the excitement that brings!
:: brewing Slipper Elm Ulmus rubra for a new salve. Remember those vending machines where you could get little containers of florescent goo? The oil sorta has a texture like that - cool!
:: working on my Materia Medica for Borage Borago Officinalis. Can we all take a moment to appreciate the gift of courage that Borage brings?
:: watching the wind push trees, birds, and dust.
:: listening to that same wind rattle walls and windows.
:: grateful for my beloved, sturdy bike and my beloved, sturdy Dandelion companions.
:: remembering the way forward.
:: feeling a need to clean for spring. The itch started last night and this Virgo Full Moon has pushed the urge into full swing.
:: wanting to spend more time with one of my incredible housemates who is leaving tomorrow on a new adventure!
:: wishing everyone a fulfilling week!