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Authorities: Overseas Hackers Seeking to Extort Community with Cyber Threats
Hackers send ransom letter seeking electronic currency to end threats, destroy personal information that was gathered in breach
By Dillon Tabish September 18, 2017
Community members applaud the efforts of local law enforcement agencies and school administrators during a community meeting in Columbia Falls regarding recent cyber attacks on Sept. 18, 2017. Greg Lindstrom | Flathead Beacon
Law enforcement has identified the source of recent cyber threats as an overseas hacking organization that is seeking to extort local residents.
Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry released a statement Monday night explaining the latest details of the investigation, including a seven-page ransom letter. Hackers emailed the lengthy ransom letter to members of the Columbia Falls school board and the superintendent on Monday.
Curry said the hacking organization, identified in the letter as TheDarkOverlord Solutions, is an overseas group. The organization is the subject of other investigations across the U.S., Curry said, and has been tied to high-profile hacking incidents, including a breach of Netflix.
Curry said the group is seeking payment via bitcoin, a cryptocurrency and digital payment system. Law enforcement has advised the recipients of the ransom letter to not engage with the hackers.
"We understand that our valley has been terrorized due to the extremely emotionally charged, seemingly real, physical threats to the students of our area schools," Curry said. "We have made the unusual decision to release the ransom demand letter. We feel this is important to allow our community to understand that the threats were not real, and were simply a tactic used by the cyber extortionists to facilitate their demand for money."
»»» Click here to read the ransom letter released by the sheriff's office
Curry said the FBI and other law enforcement continues to investigate the case. Classes are resuming across the Flathead Valley on Tuesday with heightened police presence.
"We fully understand the concern and fear that has resulted from this cyber-attack, and want the community to know that all the valley law enforcement agency heads feel there is no threat to the physical safety of our children," Curry said. "As previously stated, the safety of our children has always, throughout this investigation, remained our paramount concern. We will continue to work around the clock to bring those responsible to justice, and remain fully committed to this investigation, even though we now know the physical threat to our children does not exist."
The ransom letter exposes the hackers' ultimate goal from this multi-day situation.
"We prefer to prey upon the likes of institutions such as your own, but not because we have anything against children, but rather for much more interesting reasons which you will soon come to understand," the ransom letter states.
»»» Click here to read an editorial explaining why the Beacon posted excerpts of its conversation with the suspect
The hackers later seek various payments of bitcoin in exchange for them destroying the data and information they gathered, as well as ending the threats.
"If you decide to not entertain us and agree to one of our win-win business propositions, we will escalate our use of force in a tiered process that will involve an ever increasing level of damage and harm for you," the hackers state.
The letters are targeting Columbia Falls after the hackers successfully infiltrated the school district's server. The suspects, described as skilled computer hackers who have concealed their location through highly sophisticated means, infiltrated the school district server last week and obtained information about past and present students, parents and staff members, including names, medical records and addresses.
Over the weekend, the individual began sending extremely graphic threats via text messages to specific individuals. The entire server and communication system was shut down temporarily.
Curry said all indications are that the hackers do not fulfill their promises if people do pay the ransom.
"We have also discovered that they have frequently failed to live up to their promises to not release the stolen data in the past, even when their ransom demands have been met," Curry said.
Columbia Falls Police Chief Clint Peters, left, and Steve Bradshaw, Columbia Falls Schools superintendent, address concerns about recent cyber threats during a community meeting on Sept. 18, 2017. Greg Lindstrom | Flathead Beacon
Monday's events marked a bizarre twist in a saga that has cast a pall over the Flathead Valley in the last six days as families and schools try to regain a semblance of normalcy after anonymous hackers sent menacing electronic messages.
Classes resumed Sept. 19 at more than 30 area schools with heightened police presence and preparations among staff in the event of a situation while a robust collection of law enforcement resources, including the FBI, continued to work around the clock investigating the complicated cyber threat.
Authorities have been communicating with the individual for several days and developed intelligence that indicated the threat was not immediate or in the area, according to officials.
Yet the series of electronic messages that emerged last week threatening to harm a large number of people prompted significant concern among local families and disrupted school and activities for several days for more than 15,700 students across Flathead County.
The day before classes resumed, hundreds of parents from across the Flathead Valley attended informational meetings at local schools, hearing from school administrators and law enforcement about the ongoing situation.
"A lot of thought has gone into what is the right thing to do, and the consensus among local and federal law enforcement is to go back to our lives and stop giving him or her power," Jordan Venezio, school resource officer at Kalispell Middle School, told a crowd of nearly 200 people gathered at an informational meeting.
"I know this is a very scary time … We need your trust. We need you as a community to know we would not put your kids in danger."
School officials echoed a similar message at several meetings around the valley, saying the safety of students was paramount and that staff were trained and ready if an incident did occur.
"Trust our teachers," Tryg Johnson, principal at KMS, said. "Our teachers are coached up."
Mark Flatau, superintendent of Kalispell Public Schools, said families can keep their students home until they feel safe.
"If you need a couple more days, if you need the rest of the week, that's fine," he said. "We will work with you. But the goal is, of course, in the days to come to get us back into a normal routine moving forward."
Flatau said teachers would talk with students about the situation in a sensitive manner depending on the grade level and try to help students understand what occurred.
"There's a really bad bully who is bullying our schools, and that's how we are going to talk to them at the younger grades, and the sophistication of that conversation moves forward with the age appropriateness," he said.
Electronic threats were delivered to schools across the valley late Sept. 13 and early Sept. 14. The cyber threats prompted widespread school closures across Flathead County on Sept. 14 and Sept. 15 and impacted roughly 15,700 students. Extracurricular activities and athletic events were canceled through the weekend.
The Beacon has also been in communication with the suspect since Friday after the individual contacted the newspaper seeking an interview via electronic message through a secured line. The Beacon contacted law enforcement after receiving the request and later shared details of the conversation in the interest of public safety. Law enforcement confirmed that the secure line sent to the Beacon was the suspect's.
The Beacon is publishing portions of the conversation with the suspect to shed light on the threat and investigation. Much of what the individual stated was extremely graphic in nature, and the Beacon is not going to print a majority of those statements at this time.
Beacon reporter Dillon Tabish along with Editor in Chief Kellyn Brown communicated with the suspect via electronic messages.
"As a journalist I'm compelled to tell you that if this devolves into inflammatory statements or threats, I will not engage in that kind of conversation," Tabish told the suspect. "Why are you doing this?"
During the course of the conversation, Tabish tried multiple times to understand who the suspect was, where he or she was from, why the individual was making the threats and why they were targeted at area schools.
The individual said on multiple occasions in various ways that he or she intended to kill people in large numbers. The suspect said they were heavily armed with "extensive training."
"If you know anything about military weapons … it should scare your region," the person said.
When asked again why he or she was targeting the Flathead Valley, they responded that they wanted to scare people and harm as many people as possible.
"I wanted the public to exist in a state of fear before I make my move. This will allow the government protecting your children to look poorly in the light of the public," the suspect said.
The individual later elaborated, "The quaint, small, backwoods region of the US like yours is prime hunting grounds. This incident is the last thing you will expect to happen here."
Tabish asked if the individual was politically motivated, and the individual responded, "My only two purposes are to exterminate human life and smear your government."
The person expressed pride in the closure of schools, asking, "When was the last time schools were closed this long because of a 'threat'?"
Tabish asked if there was anything that could be done to change the individual's mind, and he or she responded, "I might consider an immense donation to my mental health recovery fund. It could fix my mental health issues."
Tabish asked about the individual's mental health issues and if they were receiving help.
The individual responded with a threatening statement about murdering people and then added, "Does it sound like I am getting help? Do you think I am foolish? Of course I am not mentally unhealthy. I am of clear mind. I just like to kill people."
Later in the interview, the suspect asked if the Beacon was going to publish the conversation.
Tabish responded, "I will discuss this with my editor and determine what is relative to our community. We're not in the business of fear mongering, though. If you want to talk without inflammatory speech, contact me again."
The individual said if the Beacon was not willing to publish his or her words, they would go to another media outlet.
"That's your choice," Tabish responded.
Students and community members arrive at Columbia Falls High School for a community meeting on Sept. 18, 2017, as law enforcement officials and school administrators address concerns about recent cyber threats. Greg Lindstrom | Flathead Beacon
There has been no indication that any other school districts' data systems were breached, according to law enforcement, and all school districts in the Flathead Valley are taking necessary precautions to ensure that no data breach occurs.
"This person is only trying to gain power and self satisfaction through fear and intimidation," Columbia Falls police officials said in an announcement over the weekend.
Columbia Falls Police Chief Clint Peters added, "I would also like to commend our community for refusing to be paralyzed by fear and continuing your day to day lives in the face of this threat. The resolve and strength of Columbia Falls is unmatched and it truly makes us proud to serve this city. The law enforcement agencies will continue to investigate every lead, will continue to protect our citizens, and will stand strong around the clock to support our communities."
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Home Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of Veracode Software
Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of Veracode Software
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and BURLINGTON, MA, December 31, 2018 – Thoma Bravo, LLC, a leading private equity investment firm, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Veracode Software ("Veracode"), a leading provider in next-generation application security testing (AST), from Broadcom Inc., in an all-cash transaction valued at $950 million.
Veracode's SaaS platform and integrated solutions assist security teams and software developers with finding and fixing security-related defects throughout the software development lifecycle. Veracode's innovative approach allows its rapidly growing customer base to identify and resolve critical vulnerabilities while ensuring regulatory compliance without sacrificing speed or innovation.
"At a time when the need for application security could not be any greater, we are pleased to be partnering with Thoma Bravo, an investment firm that has a strong track record in security and that recognizes the importance of fueling continued innovation to further extend our leadership position," said Sam King, CEO, Veracode. "The team at Veracode is excited about this next phase in our journey, and we are looking forward to continuing our mission of securing the world's software and helping security teams and developers create great software that is also secure software."
"Security solutions are a critical necessity in today's corporate environment, and Veracode's unique, flexible, full-service platform delivers exactly what today's software-driven world requires," said Seth Boro, a managing partner at Thoma Bravo. "Thoma Bravo continues to be impressed with Veracode's dedicated team, cutting edge products and services. The company has a tremendous track record of problem-solving its customers' most complicated security needs while driving innovation in the constantly evolving cybersecurity sector."
Thoma Bravo has extensive experience investing in the cybersecurity software sector, and has completed nearly 40 acquisitions of enterprise security companies to date, including SailPoint (NADSAQ:SAIL), Barracuda Networks, LogRhythm, Bomgar, BlueCoat Systems, SonicWall and Entrust. The firm also has years of experience effectively executing software "carve-outs" and driving growth and productivity in newly created platform companies, including Digital Insight, Flexera, Kofax and Dynatrace.
Kirkland & Ellis is serving as Thoma Bravo's legal advisor.
About Veracode
Veracode is the leading AppSec partner for creating secure software, reducing the risk of security breach, and increasing security and development teams' productivity. As a result, companies using Veracode can move their business, and the world, forward. With its combination of process automation, integrations, speed, and responsiveness, Veracode helps companies get accurate and reliable results to focus their efforts on fixing, not just finding, potential vulnerabilities.
Veracode serves more than 2,500 customers worldwide across a wide range of industries. The Veracode solution has assessed more than 24 trillion lines of code and helped companies fix more than 59 million security flaws.
Learn more at www.veracode.com, on the Veracode blog and on Twitter.
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Dorchester's Clinton Sparks Drops New Book On Success In The Music Business
Get Familiar! After 20 years of working in music as a DJ, Grammy-nominated producer, radio host and more, Clinton Sparks just released a book telling his philosophy on being successful in the music industry. It's called "How to Win Big in the Music Business."
"How to Win Big in the Music Business" is available for free as an e-book or for purchase as a hardcover. Sparks said he is also working on releasing an accompanying course of over 65 videos on YouTube that feature other industry experts like Director X and Yo Gotti.
The e-book consists of a foreword by way of FUBU CEO and businessman Daymond John and 20 chapters detailing numerous achievement methods and classes, similar to the importance of not having too many objectives or how key it's to pivot when issues don't cross as deliberate. "Clinton pulls again the curtain on the track business and provides you a transparent data of the instruments wanted to develop to achieve success inside the track enterprise, from mentality to actionable steps and the entire thing in between," John wrote.
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Beloit Snappers Home Hat - Fresh Fitted Friday!!!
This week's post is the final installment of my Midwest League extravaganza and we're capping it off with a logo that hasn't changed much since the Beloit Snappers team identity was born in 1995. It's incredible to think that the surly, possibly constipated, turtle on the current home cap has not been refreshed much over the past 25 years. By now I should have a label for posts that feature a cartoonish logo that was created in the mid-1990's to appeal to kids but then that tag would apply to half the hats I write about so what's the point in making the effort to point it out, right? Sorry got off-topic there. I actually do like this hat for a number of reasons. First, it's green and green is my favorite color. Also, the team's name and logo pays tribute to turtles and I've always felt a strong connection to Testudines order of the Reptilia class. In short, I like turtles! An even cooler part of the story is that apparently t
1997 South Bend Silver Hawks
Until now, I've only written about half of the sixteen cities who currently host a team in the Midwest League and this week's South Bend Silver Hawks cap takes it to the tipping point. For the first three seasons of its existence, the Silver Hawks had an austere cap logo which definitely bucked the trend of the zany animals that many teams started using for their logos in the mid-1990's. In 1997, they finally bit the bullet on that aesthetic and I believe that this week's cap is from that very year. The New Era flag debuted in 1997 so its absence on the sweatband tags tells me that New Era simply used whatever leftover tags they had for that season's Silver Hawks caps. The earliest photos I can find of players wearing this cap is from 1997 but that doesn't mean it didn't appear in 1996. Either scenario is possible, but I'm sticking with the former. I also believe most fans of Minor League Baseball enjoy learning about tea
1993-99 Cedar Rapids Kernels
Wella-wella-wella welcome back, y'all! Last week was way too busy for me to turn in a quality post but we are keeping the spirit of the Midwest League theme going this week with a classic cap from another Iowa-based franchise: the Cedar Rapids Kernels. I've written about the current version of the Kernels cap but in truth, that one has never been my favorite. Virtually every sports team has a logo that I feel is their greatest and to me, this week's cap is the classiest and most elegant logo the Kernels have ever worn. Firstly, a baseball gently emerging from a corn husk is about as Midwest as it gets, folks. Corn's importance in the region is boundless but what I appreciate most about the imagery is it represents new life as every spring, a new season of baseball begins in Cedar Rapids. I've never been to Iowa but teams like the Kernels, Clinton LumberKings and Quad Cities River Bandits have piqued my interest since an early age. The movie F
1993 Waterloo Diamonds
I hope everyone enjoyed the South Atlantic League caps over the last few months but if the volume of posts was too much, that's ok too because I have a more streamlined set of caps on deck for the Midwest League series, which starts off this week with a Waterloo Diamonds snapback from 1993. For their inaugural season in 1989, the Diamonds were a co-op team (aka baseball's version of polyamory) featuring players from the Baltimore Orioles and the San Diego Padres but they were going steady with the Padres from 1990 through their final season in 1993 . The Waterloo Diamonds were only a team for five years in total and the fact that they only wore this cap logo for their last two seasons makes it super unique to me. I think a lot of other hat nerds feel the same way because when Hat Club recently did a retro release, the cap sold out rather quickly and I wouldn't be surprised to see it return sometime soon. The logo is comically large but you would only kn
2002 West Michigan Whitecaps
This week's Fresh Fitted Friday selection is a West Michigan Whitecaps hat because the state of Michigan made some waves (I'm so, so sorry for this terrible pun) this week as they became the 10th state in the U.S. to legalize recreational marijuana. This is no doubt going to do wonders in continuing to grow their economy and decrease overcrowding in prisons, which to be fair has dropped some in recent years. It's now dawning on me that I've never been to Michigan but I have some friends in Kalamazoo that I can visit and Bells Brewery is also located there so I think I might need to make the trip at some point. I should try to check out a Whitecaps game and maybe the Great Lakes Loons or Lansing Lugnuts too. The Whitecaps stuck with this logo from their inaugural season in 1994 through 2002 which is a really long time considering this logo is nondescript when compared to the zany logo trend that many teams jumped on during that time. T he satin taping
Kane County Cougars - Fresh Fitted Friday
While I haven't been to a game since last week's post, I am planning on going to one during the Orioles visit to Citi Field next week. My decision on which game will be based on a combination of weather and whether...I can choose between less-than stellar matchups such as Dylan Bundy facing Jason Vargas or David Hess against Seth Lugo. This week's Fresh Fitted Friday selection is a Kane County Cougars hat as it's the perfect bridge from last week's Marlins series and the impending Orioles visit. The reason for this being Kane County was the Midwest League Class-A affiliate for the Baltimore Orioles during the 1991 and 1992 seasons and then for the Florida Marlins from 1993-2002. The lifespan of this Kane County Cougars cap logo is incredible. The team wore this damn thing from their inaugural season in 1991 all the way through 2015, which is way more than 9 lives by my count. This cap has a "Made in U.S.A." (or rather, "Hencho en EE.UU.") tag and the satin taping features
Burlington Bees - Fresh Fitted Friday!!!!
You guys, the Houston Astros are in the World Series right now! I'm not going to say I told you so, but I did tell you so and if you don't feel like reading that entire post where I told you so, I'll give you the quick and dirty: I told you so back in March! One thing that's more important than being right about telling you so is that I want the Dodgers to lose this series so I'm doing my part to root on the Astros by featuring a hat from a team that plays in a city which once hosted an Astros affiliate: the Burlington Bees. This is a brand new addition to my collection and it is certainly going to be one of my most cherished caps as it was a gift from my wife, whose nickname is Bee! How cute is that, y'all? This is the Bees' official on-field road cap and I prefer this one more than the home version which has the same purplish blue crown but with a yellow gold bill. The Burlington Bees are currently a Class-A affiliate for the Lo
1998 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers - Fresh Fitted Friday!!!!
Answer honestly: are y'all getting sick of reading about these hats from The Great eBay Haul by now? I ask only as I've got many, many weeks worth of size 7 1/4 hats that I want to write about...and trade/sell off. Maybe I need to spice it up a little which is why I'm thinking of communicating this week's Wisconsin Timber Rattlers cap in Parseltongue! What's "Parseltongue" you ask? According to the Harry Potter Wikia page , Parseltongue is the "language of serpents...and those who can converse with them". This is a really good idea folks! Also, let's pretend the "W" behind the snake in this cap logo stands for "Wizard" rather than "Wisconsin"! Oh you don't want to have fun? Fine, I'll just show you some interior crown photos of this vintage gem which I basically decided to feature today because it has a maroon brim and black crown like last week's Williamsport Crosscutters cap . Aren't


The David Bowie orchestral tribute that took place at Glastonbury Festival earlier this year will now embark on a short tour of the UK.
The orchestra, conducted by leading conductor Charles Hazlewood, performed composer Philip Glass' 1996 classical work 'Heroes Symphony', based on Bowie's 1977 album 'Heroes'. The performance was accompanied by a light show designed by artist Chris Levine, who has worked with Massive Attack, Grace Jones and Sigur Ros. The ensemble features Army Of Generals and members of The British Paraorchestra.
After performing to 20,000 at Glastonbury in June, the orchestra will now play three indoor shows at the end of 2016. Gigs will take place in Bristol, Nottingham and Bexhill during December. See the dates in full below.
Watch footage from the Glastonbury tribute below.


(OFFSHORE/ www.offshore-mag.com ) EDINBURGH, UK – Wood Mackenzie has detailed its thoughts on Snoek, ExxonMobil's third oil discovery on Guyana's deepwater Stabroek block.
The Snoek-1 well was drilled to a depth of 5,175 m (16,978 ft) in 1,563 m (5,128 ft) of water. It encountered 25 m (82 ft) of oil-bearing sandstones of Maastrichtian-Aptian age, similar to the Liza-1 discovery well 9 km (5.6 mi) to the north.
Next the rig will drill the Liza-4 appraisal well. ExxonMobil's partners are Hess and CNOOC subsidiary Nexen.
The discovery follows ExxonMobil's recent Payara find and Liza-3's uncovering of a new reservoir on the same block.
Wood Mackenzie says its base case for Liza-Payara is 1.5 Bbbl of oil, while Snoek may add a further 220-370 MMbbl. The partners have also identified five more prospects on the block that they plan to drill through 2018.
In addition, ExxonMobil farmed into and took operatorship of two blocks north of Stabroek, while Hess farmed into block 42 off Suriname.
Apache is currently drilling the Kolibri-1 well on Suriname's block 53, while Tullow will drill on block 54 later this year.
According to the analyst, a key unknown is whether the Cretaceous fan play extends across the Guyana basin or is isolated to this discovery cluster.
The three Stabroek discoveries are within 30 km (18.6 mi) of each other, so economies of scale could be achieved if associated FPSOs and subsea infrastructure were shared.
However, with each new find disposal of associated gas (the analyst estimates more than 3 trillion cubic feet (tcf) so far) becomes a bigger challenge. Initially, the joint venture plans to target low-GOR (gas-oil ratio) areas and will re-inject produced gas, but FLNG or a long pipeline may be needed as well.
The partners are taking a phased approach to the area's development. Wood Mackenzie anticipates two large FPSOs to develop Liza and Payara and a further vessel for Snoek.
It has drawn up two scenarios for Snoek: a high case with reserves of 370 MMbbl produced through a 120,000-b/d FPSO, and a base case of 220 MMbbl with an 80,000 barrels per day (b/d)-FPSO.
The resultant developments could lead to Guyanese production peaking at 400-450,000 b/d during the next decade.
Guyana's fiscal terms were set at a level to attract high-risk frontier wells, the analyst points out. But success could bring a tightening of these terms as the country's expectations shift.


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Fintech Firms Try to Appeal to Millennials' Sense of Social Responsibility
By Alexandra Posadzki
Several startups in the financial technology sector have unveiled products or services in recent months that attempt to court millennials by appealing to their sense of social responsibility.
Online investment adviser WealthSimple launched a socially responsible portfolio about three months ago, and since then roughly 10 per cent of the robo-adviser's clients have signed up for that option, says founder and CEO Michael Katchen.
"It's been hugely popular," says Katchen. "Our clients love it."
Socially responsible investing, or ethical investing, is the marriage of personal ethics with finance, and it's been growing in popularity in recent years, a trend believed to be fuelled partly by the values of millennial investors.
According to a report released last year by the Responsible Investment Association, more than $1 trillion of assets in Canada were being managed using at least one responsible investing strategy as of Dec. 31, 2013. That's up from $600 billion two years earlier.
A global study released by research firm Nielsen last year found that 73 per cent of the millennials it surveyed are willing to pay more for brands that are sustainable.
"Socially responsible portfolios really try and avoid investing in companies that don't have a good environmental, social or corporate governance record," says Isaac Schweigert, a portfolio manager and chief compliance officer at ModernAdvisor.
The online investment manager, or robo-adviser, launched early this year and offers socially responsible portfolios.
"We are based in Vancouver, which tends to be ahead of the curve on a lot of the socially responsible and ethical investing, and just social causes in general, so we wanted to be at the forefront of that on the investing side," Schweigert says.
One of the challenges with offering ethical investing options is that everyone's definition of an ethical investment is different, says Katchen.
"It's a massively subjective term," he says.
"Some people don't want to invest in tobacco or alcohol companies or gaming companies. Some people don't care about that but they just want to make sure that there's a board that represents diversity, or invest in the environment. So, first of all you have to come up with some definition of what this means, and also understand that it's not going to satisfy everyone out there, because it's impossible."
It isn't just investment managers that are trying to woo millennial customers with products focused on social responsibility.
Merchant Advance Capital, a technology-based online small business lender, launched a so-called impact loan earlier this month, offering lower borrowing rates to entrepreneurs who are looking to make a positive impact on their community or the environment.
The loan offers reduced interest rates to business owners who want to invest in social responsibility initiatives — such as upgrades that boost energy efficiency or renovations to make a business more accessible to people with disabilities — but can't afford to do so.
"We're going to definitely sacrifice a bit of profitability because we're going to pass on lower rates than our standard products," says David Gens, the company's founder and CEO.
"But I think we'll still get our money back in most cases, and I want to be doing good work."
While products such as this may help lure millennial customers, Gens says the primary reason why he started the program was because he — himself a millennial at 29 — wanted to do good in the world.
"The primary aim of the product is to encourage businesses to make investments that will have a positive benefit in their community," says Gens. "That's priority number one."
Source: The Globle and Mail
By Tatiana Ayala|2017-06-26T12:02:14+00:00July 14th, 2016|


THAT Amendment No. 37 to the Official Plan of the Town of Collingwood, being the attached text and schedules, is hereby adopted.
THAT the Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to make application to the County of Simcoe for approval of the aforementioned Amendment No. 37 to the Official Plan of the Town of Collingwood.
ENACTED and passed this 27th day of November, 2017.


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Q: Magento: Fatal error issue I downloaded an updated module earlier and everything was going fine (except that the module wasn't working 100%) and I went to do some debugging. I started by comparing some folder from the old module with the updated module. Everything seemed to check out but there was still a mixed content error on the map page. So, as any novice who has no clue what NOT to do, I thought I would start by renaming a folder in our custom design folders from "unirgy" to "_unirgy" to somehow see if I could force it to load the default map.phtml file. This caused a
Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object in
/home/lynsecom/public_html/store/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Config.php
on line 901

I went back and changed the folder name back to it's original name, but this error keeps coming up. I cannot get to store admin either - the same error pops up. I am clueless where to start because I just do not have a strong grasp yet of how Magento works. I am appreciative of any help I can get at this point.

A: To get past this fatal error, I'd suggest disabling the module that was causing you trouble.

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*Navigate to /home/lynsecom/public_html/store/app/etc/modules/ and locate the module declaration file. It'll follow the naming convention [Package]_[Modulename].xml

*In that xml file, find the <active>true</active> node and change it to <active>false</active>

A: Well, I think you should clean your cache through your admin and delete the folders in var/cache since the only thing that you might have done by changing the folder name is that the Config class cannot find the proper templates defined in the xml, they could have been cached.

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Wisconsin Union Directorate, Wisconsin Union will hold Human Rights Week events Dec. 1-7
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The Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) and the Wisconsin Union will hold multiple Human Rights Week events Dec. 1-7 at Memorial Union, Union South and other campus locations.
Current events include the following:
"Still Beginning: The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art" film screening, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m., Marquee at Union South, hosted by the WUD Art and Film Committees
Women's Empowerment Gala, Dec. 2 at 6:30 p.m., Tripp Commons at Memorial Union, hosted by the WUD Global Connections Committee
"Forbidden Voices" film screening, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m., Marquee at Union South, hosted by the WUD Film and Publications Committees
Service at the Texas-Mexico Border with LUPE, Dec. 3 at 8 p.m., Agriculture Room at Union South, hosted by the WUD Alternative Breaks Committee
Food and Human Rights, Dec. 4 at 4:30 p.m., 5th Quarter Room at Union South, hosted by the WUD Cuisine Committee and the Wisconsin Union Social Justice Hub
Poetry by Caleb Rainey, Dec. 4 at 6:30 p.m., Play Circle at Memorial Union, hosted by the WUD Performing Arts Committee
"Beyond the Gates" film screening, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m., Marquee at Union South, hosted by the WUD Film and Society and Politics Committees
Health Equity Symposium, Dec. 5 at 5 p.m., George L. Mosse Humanities Building, hosted by the Wisconsin Union Social Justice Hub and the Student Pre-Health Committee
Talk with Professor Campbell: HIV and Art, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m., Memorial Union, hosted by the WUD Art Committee
Joseph Chilliams, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m., Play Circle at Memorial Union, hosted by the WUD Music Committee
Spotlight on Chaz Wheelock: Indigenous Peoples and Lands Diaspora and the New World Drama, Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m., H.F. DeLuca Forum in the Discovery Building, hosted by the WUD Distinguished Lecture Series Committee
Free Art Friday: Drawing Food Insecurity, Dec. 6 at 5 p.m., Wheelhouse Studios at Memorial Union, hosted by the WUD Cuisine Committee in partnership with the Union's Wheelhouse Studios
Student Artists of Color Panel Discussion, Dec. 6 at 6 p.m., Northwoods Room at Union South, hosted by the WUD Art Committee
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"We really want to bring campus together and celebrate our universal human rights while also educating those who are unsure about what they are," Wisconsin Union Vice President of External Relations Alison Hovind said. "We wanted to bring awareness to the official Human Rights Day, which is Dec. 10."
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More information about the student leaders' week of human rights-related events is available at union.wisc.edu/humanrights.


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On your computer, go to the WhatsApp website (http://www.whatsapp.com/) and click on WhatsApp Web.
On your iPhone, open WhatsApp and tap Settings.
Now, you have to scan the QR code in your web browser by holding your iPhone's camera towards your computer screen.
Violà! You should now be able to use WhatsApp on your computer and you don't have to go back and forth between your PC and iPhone.