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Wombat's state of phishing report shows that attack rates remain steady, but there is some good news: User Click rates have dropped.
Wombat Security has released its fourth annual State of the Phish report (registration required).
Wombat revealed that phishing rates in 2017 remained steady—76% of infosec professionals surveyed said that their companies experienced phishing attacks, roughly the same as 2016. Click rates have dropped to an average of nine percent, down from 15% in 2016, which is encouraging—users seem to be getting the message about the dangers of phishing.
The most important part of the report for infosec professionals is its breakdown of which kinds of phishing messages are the most successful.
Wombat breaks phishing messages into four categories:
Of the four, consumer and corporate messages were the overwhelming favorite of phishing campaigners in 2017—they were used in 45% and 44% of attacks, respectively.
Consumer and corporate attacks weren't the most successful, though—to find out what was the most clicked, the report digs down a bit deeper into specifics. The rates at which the most successful phishing email templates were clicked is alarming—as opposed to the nine percent average across the board, each highly successful template saw click rates in the mid to high 80-percent range:
The statistics gathered by Wombat are alarming, but it's important to understand that they're all from simulated attacks using Wombat's Security Education Platform, one module of which is for conducting phishing attack simulations.
Those tests are what gives the success statistics, but the numbers in the report about prevalence of attacks, namely that consumer and corporate phishing leads, comes from real-world data.
In 2016, corporate attacks were the leader, but those have been overtaken by consumer attacks, which Wombat attributes to the growing merging of personal and business email. "As employees begin to blend their personal email accounts into their work accounts, this creates a risk with regards to consumer-themed email attacks," said Amy Baker, VP of Marketing at Wombat Security.
Baker said the blending of personal and work accounts increases infection risk because both consumer and commercial messages are now potential attack vectors on corporate networks.
Looking forward into 2018, it's important for infosec professionals and IT teams to ensure users aren't being casual in their use of business email accounts. Managed email should only be used for business purposes, and personal accounts and messages should be strictly separated. IT teams should also encourage users to access personal email only on personal devices, such as smartphones, to reduce the risk of consumer phishing to business networks.
To read Wombat's full State of the Phish 2018 report, click on the link at the beginning of this article.
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Pinterest is full of cute animal pictures, and among the most popular are teacup or miniature pigs. But like we all know—pigs, however big or small, are still…well, pigs.
Others are figuring that out too. Even the Humane Society of Missouri is asking people to think twice before adding a miniature pig as a pet.
The Humane Society of Missouri has 31 pigs at their Longmeadow Rescue Ranch in Union, Mo. That's four times as many pigs as they took just three years ago. (Click to watch the video report.)
Some people bought the pets, not realizing that miniature pigs can actually grow to be 40 lb. to 300 lb. And they still have natural pig instincts—rooting and raiding the cabinets were just two examples of pig behavior people weren't prepared to deal with.
But, make no mistake, miniature pigs are becoming a big business. A single piglet can bring $50 to thousands of dollars—more than double what a commodity hog brings. Breeders a lured by a pig's ability to reproduce quickly and have large litters.
Few pork producers will ever consider trading commodity hogs for mini pigs. But the industry should be wary of the growing public relations issue. Few consumers will see the difference between pets and food producing animals—regardless of their size.

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I breathe deeply
Is today, a day that will be marked in history in years to come?
In 1949 Faulkner said in his Nobel speech " I decline to accept the end of man…"
Will today be remembered in history, probably yes. It's a day where I woke up, expecting a different result to the election in America. Many of us did not get the President elect we had hoped for. Many did. I really don't know what to say to that.
Today I haven't watched any news. I read a little online but it made me anxious and filled with despair. I decided to live instead. I went for a wonderful breakfast, in a little coffee shop, in my neighborhood. I savoured my coffee and breathed deeply.I smiled at everyone I made eye contact with all day. I breathed deeply. I had a wonderful meeting, I will share more about later. I spoke on the phone with both my mom and my dad. I guess we never get too old to be comforted by our parents, right?
I kissed my children a bit more than usual (which is a lot to begin with so at the end of the day ,I think they were like "OK enough already mom).
Just breathe
I sit here now in my livingroom. Both children sleeping in their beds. My husband is out tonight. I still feel anxious but less so than this morning, when the news of Trump as president hit me. The outcome of this election is out of my control. What happens with the world now that he is president, is out of my control.
What is in my control, is how i choose to react. I will not let hate, fear, anger and a them against us attitude fill my life, my thoughts, my home.
I will breathe deeply. I will pray that everything will eventually be okay. That the world my children grow up in, is not more dangerous today, then it was yesterday. Good will prevail over evil. I have to believe that to live.


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In the spring of 2003, the United States Marines led the invasion of Iraq. At the point of the spear was the First Reconnaissance Battalion out of Camp Pendleton. The platoons of "First Recon" rotated occupying the point position at the head of the column where the likelihood of being attacked is highest. When the five Humvees of Bravo Second Platoon drove point, in the lead vehicle, in the rear right seat, sat Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright. "I remember, when we finished," Wright recalled during a phone interview from his Los Angeles home, "Lieutenant Fick, who was the platoon commander, told me, 'The only way you could have gotten closer in this invasion was to move from the back seat to the front seat.' He said, 'Only one person was in front of you in this invasion.' "
Wright, who later expanded the articles he wrote on the experience into a recently released book titled Generation Kill, talked his way into that right rear seat after he objected to being assigned a safer situation. "When I started," he said, "the original plan was for me to embed with the headquarters and support company, and they ride in the rear, and I was going to hang out with officers and stuff. I realized quickly that was bullshit. I knew I wouldn't get a good story. So then I sort of finagled my way out of it. And finally I met this one platoon, and they told me, 'We have an extra space,' and I said, 'Cool,' and they said, 'We have one Humvee which has some armor on it.' See, of the five Humvees, four of them were completely open, they didn't have roofs or doors, some didn't have windshields, and they were just like these platforms. Mine had a roof, and it did have this very thin armor on the doors. I think it was, like, a 16th of an inch thick, and it would stop a nine-millimeter round. It sometimes stopped AK rounds. But anything a little bit larger, or a close-up AK, they went right through it. But the funny thing is, when they said, 'We are putting you in our one armored Humvee,' I thought, 'Oh, I guess that is because I am the reporter.' Only in retrospect did I figure out that it was armored because it was the point Humvee for the platoon."
Wright's reception from the platoon was a bit cool at first, he said, "but not hostile. I was an unknown quantity. It was clear they were in the military and I was the only civilian."
Asked how he won them over, Wright answered, "There were three things. First, the way I handled their sort of subtle -- it wasn't hazing, really, but they were a little bit hostile, making jokes. But I put up with the very mild hazing. Second, I used to work for Hustler magazine, so that clearly won them over, because saying you worked for Hustler is like Kryptonite. They can't resist. Third, as soon as they started getting shot at, I didn't try to leave the Humvee or anything, and I stayed with them the whole time. So once you get shot at together with people, it's a shared experience.
"Oh, and the other one," Wright added, "is I had done a Rolling Stone story on Shakira, and a couple of the Marines thought she was really hot."
Wright admitted that he "really grew to like" the young Marines with whom he was situated. Asked how they won him over, he answered, "It's almost too cute to put it that way. We were in life-and-death situations together. I am always careful about that, because I grew to really like them. But I think, as a reporter, I am really merciless. I like people all the time, but that doesn't stop me from writing things that are bad or negative or incriminating. Whether I like someone or not is almost immaterial to my job, and the reason that I point that out is that a lot of my friends, they thought the embedded reporters were all co-opted by the military, and I don't think I was. And certainly the fact that, because of my stories, many of the Marines got into trouble is proof that I didn't write a puff piece on them."
Two Camp Pendleton-based Marine sergeants, Tony Espera and Eric Kocher, were disciplined following the publication of Wright's Rolling Stone articles; Espera was removed from the battalion for comments he made regarding the "manifest destiny" of the white man, and Kocher was reprimanded for actions such as running into a minefield to save a fellow Marine.
"When they really won me over," Wright added, "wasn't so much when I was in the process of writing them. What really wowed me was after I printed these Rolling Stone articles, and they were very raw. I mean, I wrote about guys by name shooting civilians. I wrote about them using the foulest language, bathroom humor, and things that you might make jokes about, but you wouldn't want your mom to read them, and their moms did read them. I put them through all of this, then some of them got threatened [with disciplinary action], and one guy gets kicked out of the battalion. So here I am writing this really raw, gritty portrayal of them, which got them into trouble, and when I see them, the first time after when they came out, they were, like, 'That was great what you wrote,' and I asked them, 'You got into trouble; aren't you mad?' and they said, 'No, no, no, we want people to know the truth,' and they actually presented me with this photograph of the platoon taken outside of Baghdad, which said, 'May the Truth Set Us Free.' "
The Marines' reaction, Wright found, "was totally refreshing, because it was great to be with people who spoke their minds and then had the courage to stand by it. In my experience that is really unusual."
In addition to an admiration for the individual men with whom he went through combat, Wright also gained respect for Marine culture in general. "I had been embedded a year earlier in Afghanistan," he explained, "with a unit of the 181st Airborne Division, which is sort of an elite unit within the Army, roughly comparable to First Recon, who are elite within the Marines. There is such a world of difference between Marines and Army personnel. Marines tend to be very opinionated, outspoken. This is all my anecdotal experience, but they tend to have funny senses of humor. Really, when I was embedded with the Army, I was with these guys in the Army for weeks, and it was hard to draw people out. You never have to worry about drawing out a Marine. Marines will start talking and saying crazy stuff."
Wright believes the cultural difference he experienced in the two branches of the Armed Services can be seen in their television advertising. "The Marine Corps doesn't sell recruits on college education," he said. "They sell them on becoming a warrior. Even in the 'Army of One' ads, you will notice that they always focus on Army technology, like cool tanks and helicopters. The quintessential Marine ad is the one where a young guy fights a dragon, and as he sheathes his sword, he morphs into a Marine in dress blues. In the Marine Corps, they really sort of sell you on the fantasy: 'You will improve yourself and become the ultimate warrior.' So I think you get a different type of person. People in the Army tend to be much more sort of institutionalized in their outlook. The paradox is the Marine Corps in their training initially brainwashes recruits much more heavily than the Army does. But in the end, I think individual Marines tend to absorb that brainwashing but then reemerge as very sort of individualistic characters."
As a consequence of that, Wright said, most Marines he came into contact with in Iraq and in subsequent visits to Oceanside want to be where the fighting is. Sergeant Kocher, for example, despite having a wife here and despite his arm being severely wounded when his Humvee exploded, is itching to get back to Iraq. For four days in June, Wright went to Oceanside to visit Kocher, Espera, and other Marines he spent time with in Iraq. His take on wartime Oceanside: "It is a company town. I felt like I was in a company town, and business was booming. Because all the Marines you talk to, they are really excited because they are getting deployments. I mean, Marines are really sort of schizophrenic about this. On the one hand, they always complain about being sent away for six months on floats, as they call them. But at the same time, there is a war going on, and a lot of them joined because they actually wanted to go to war. So they are very excited about that. And the other interesting thing is, the Marines who are getting out, a lot of them are getting these insanely lucrative job offers to work [in Iraq] for private security companies. When I was in Oceanside, we went to the Semper Fit gym on Camp Pendleton, and people were really excited about business. We went out to dinner to Applebees and some other restaurants, and everybody in these restaurants was a Marine. And a lot of people were talking about the deployments they are going on, the deployments they have been on, or about their buddies who got out of the Corps and now work for private security companies and how they are making, like, six-figure incomes. Some guys in the unit that I wrote about have gotten out, and they are making, like, $120,000 going back to Iraq and guarding hotels and stuff like that."
Wright added, "As a writer you are always thinking of stories you are going to do, even if you end up not doing them. Well, while I was there, I had this story in my mind, 'Oceanside: Business Is Booming.' "
Next week: An excerpt from Generation Kill.
More from SDReader
- More stories by Ernie Grimm
- The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words — July 6, 2006
- Dark Side of the Kitchen — April 6, 2006
- We Did the Dirty Work — Sept. 15, 2005
- San Diego Marine reservists tell Kuwait stories — July 25, 1991
- Combat vet watches Marine recruits tested at Camp Pendleton — March 16, 1989


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The Devil's Labyrinth (2007) by John Saul
It should be a sin to read this book.
In fact, it is, for only indolence will keep you turning the pages. The Devil's Labyrinth, thy name is Sloth.
Ryan McIntyre gets himself beat up at school, prompting his mom, Teri, to send him to Catholic School. It could be worse: with his soldier father dead, Ryan's mom has started seeing Tom, and Ryan, who doesn't like Tom at all, is happy to get away from him. Oh, sure, St. Isaac's is a strange place — one kid slits a woman's throat shortly before Ryan arrives and ghostly screams wake Ryan up in the night — but where else can a geek like Ryan find a beautiful girlfriend in two days? We know she's a hummer because her name is Melody.
Melody has a roommate (no, not Josie or Valerie). Sofia. Sounds Italian, or Latin. Lusty. She's a bit of a bad girl. She gets caught one night with her boyfriend's hand in her blouse by a no-nonsense nun who drags her off to a secret chapel in the maze of tunnels beneath the school's sprawling campus. The mysterious Father Sebastian, knowledgeable in the arts of exorcism (or so the nun thinks), performs the ancient ritual on Sofia, purifying her soul (or so the nun thinks). But we know and Sofia knows that Father Sebastian hasn't exorcised anything; instead, he's done rather the opposite and called forth the evil in her soul. And Melody wonders why her roommate isn't the same when she returns.
Meanwhile, a couple of Muslim terrorists search for a precious object and the Pope himself takes an interest in the wondrous doings at St. Isaac's.
Now, just how dumb is all this? Well, imagine a nun (strict, but devoted to God) who sees nothing wrong with an exorcism that includes a giant crucifix carved to a point just above Christ's head, suspended upside down over the "sinner," then multiply that tenfold. That's how dumb all of this is. It's only through multiplication that you can arrive at Muslims who reject the Catholic faith not because its tenants are false — indeed, they're demonstrably true — but because Allah can beat up God.
This is a book in which good people have convenient "feelings" about people and things that are never wrong. Like Ryan's dislike of Tom. One particularly idiotic scene has Teri lying to a couple of cops because of a "feeling" she has about someone else in the room. This comes after one of the cops had a "feeling" Teri was in trouble. Teri supposedly loved her husband, Ryan's father, who was Good and Brave and Pure (he was a soldier, after all), but unlike Ryan, she can't sense anything amiss about Tom, who is, underneath, nothing at all like her husband.
Oh, and there's an equally convenient ghost that pops up now and again.
The Devil's Labyrinth shifts point of view so often that it's only barely accurate to say that this is Ryan's story. But it's an awfully shallow story, with a weak and unappealing hero. Things happen to Ryan, he doesn't do much of anything. He doesn't fight the boys who put him in the hospital to begin with, he doesn't have to work for Melody, he gets pushed around by everything and everyone — all he ever learns is that supernatural forces are a lot stronger than he is. (Sofia, at least, learns to enjoy eating maggots.)
Saul's "theology" is just as shallow. He raises an interesting question: what if the evil in all men's souls could be drawn out and destroyed? Having raised the question, though, Saul has no intention of answering it. He doesn't even go near it, in fact. The only character it really seems to matter to (he's part of the Church) spends his time creaming over the idea of it without ever thinking about what it would mean. He thinks it would be wonderful, but I think he might change his tune when he found himself suddenly unemployed.
Secular readers should avoid this book religiously. Catholic readers should be prepared to confess it on Sunday.


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Tall drink of water noun
1. A man or woman who is tall, gorgeous, and super delicious. Like on a hot day, a tall drink of water is absolutely appealing.
2. Old slang for a visually appealing man or woman.
From the Fact & Fiction editorial in Russh Magazine
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Model: Othilia Simon


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Producer share of retail price remains strong
The share of pork retail prices received by producers remained healthy during January, at 40%. This represented a small fall of less than half a percentage point on December.
Nevertheless, substantially higher pig prices, relative to 2016, meant the share was eight percentage points higher than the same month a year earlier. The EU-spec APP lost 0.69p on the previous month during January, to stand at 153.85p/kg. This, coupled to a small increase in average retail prices, was responsible for the marginal decline in the producer's share month on month.
Retail pork prices for most cuts were static on the month during January, though a few exceptions showed small increases. Minced pork and pork fillets showed price increases of 2%, while loin chops rose by 1%. Relative to January 2016, price movements were more mixed. Diced pork, minced pork and loin steaks were all back in price by 5%, 4% and 3% respectively, while traditional pork sausages were only 1% cheaper. Conversely, leg cuts were more expensive, with fillet end leg up 5% on the year, while boneless leg was also up 3%. A similar increase was also seen for boneless shoulder, while pork fillets rose by only 1% and loin chops remained stable on the year.
Bethan Wilkins, Analyst
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ModSecurity in Cloud Web Hosting
ModSecurity is available with every cloud web hosting solution which we offer and it is switched on by default for any domain or subdomain that you include via your Hepsia CP. If it disrupts any of your apps or you'd like to disable it for whatever reason, you'll be able to do this through the ModSecurity area of Hepsia with simply a mouse click. You can also activate a passive mode, so the firewall will detect possible attacks and keep a log, but shall not take any action. You'll be able to view extensive logs in the exact same section, including the IP where the attack originated from, exactly what the attacker attempted to do and at what time, what ModSecurity did, etcetera. For max protection of our clients we use a collection of commercial firewall rules blended with custom ones that are provided by our system administrators.
ModSecurity in Semi-dedicated Servers
ModSecurity is part of our semi-dedicated server plans and if you opt to host your Internet sites with us, there won't be anything special you'll need to do since the firewall is activated by default for all domains and subdomains which you include through your hosting CP. If required, you'll be able to disable ModSecurity for a certain website or switch on the so-called detection mode in which case the firewall shall still operate and record data, but won't do anything to stop potential attacks on your sites. Thorough logs will be accessible inside your CP and you will be able to see which kind of attacks took place, what security rules were triggered and how the firewall addressed the threats, what IP addresses the attacks came from, and so forth. We employ two sorts of rules on our servers - commercial ones from a company that operates in the field of web security, and custom ones which our administrators occasionally include to respond to newly found threats promptly.
ModSecurity in VPS Servers
Protection is very important to us, so we set up ModSecurity on all VPS servers which are made available with the Hepsia CP as a standard. The firewall could be managed via a dedicated section inside Hepsia and is activated automatically when you include a new domain or create a subdomain, so you won't have to do anything by hand. You shall also be able to deactivate it or activate the so-called detection mode, so it shall maintain a log of potential attacks which you can later analyze, but shall not prevent them. The logs in both passive and active modes offer information regarding the type of the attack and how it was eliminated, what IP it originated from and other valuable data that may help you to tighten the security of your sites by updating them or blocking IPs, for instance. Besides the commercial rules which we get for ModSecurity from a third-party security enterprise, we also employ our own rules since from time to time we detect specific attacks that are not yet present within the commercial package. This way, we could enhance the security of your VPS right away as opposed to awaiting an official update.
ModSecurity in Dedicated Servers
ModSecurity is provided with all dedicated servers that are integrated with our Hepsia CP and you will not have to do anything specific on your end to employ it since it's enabled by default whenever you include a new domain or subdomain on your hosting server. In case it interferes with any of your applications, you will be able to stop it through the respective part of Hepsia, or you can leave it operating in passive mode, so it'll recognize attacks and shall still keep a log for them, but won't stop them. You'll be able to analyze the logs later to find out what you can do to improve the security of your Internet sites since you'll find info such as where an intrusion attempt originated from, what Internet site was attacked and in accordance with what rule ModSecurity responded, etc. The rules that we employ are commercial, therefore they are frequently updated by a security firm, but to be on the safe side, our admins also include custom rules occasionally as to respond to any new threats they have found.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- McClatchy Co. MNI, -1.81% late Wednesday said it has agreed to sell four Knight Ridder Inc. kni newspapers for $1 billion cash to MediaNews Group Inc. and Hearst Corp. MediaNews is buying the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times, and Hearst is buying the Monterey Herald and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Separately, Hearst has agreed to contribute the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Monterey Herald to MediaNews in return for an equity investment in the non-San Francisco Bay Area assets of MediaNews. In the event such a transaction is not consummated, MediaNews has agreed to buy these newspapers from Hearst. McClatchy last month agreed to buy Knight Ridder for $6.5 billion. Earlier, McClatchy said it had received a request for additional information from the Department of Justice regarding the deal. The four-newspaper sale is expected to close after the Knight Ridder transaction closes.
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MIDI Music - Monolith
The music in Acorn games isn't always wonderful - although some games do have good music - but no current software will play music via the MIDI port.
Most PC games rely on MIDI capabilities for their music and, although cheaper soundcards achieve this with poor quality FM synthesis, in general it results in high quality music playback. MIDI lets you do things you can't hope to do with soundtrackers, and removes the tight restriction on the number of instruments you can play at once. It also places far less load on the computer, freeing it to concentrate on the game itself!
Of course, you then need a MIDI synthesiser in order to hear the music output, but most PC owners have suitable hardware since it's pretty cheap, and more and more Acorn computers are also suitably equipped. Audio Dynamic/Q-Tec's XG hardware allows superb quality playback to be obtained for under 200 pounds, although there are cheaper options. ESP also sell a software synthesiser for Acorns, although running this will slow your computer down significantly and will not produce quality even approaching that of virtually all hardware synthesisers.
Partially in order to facilitate inclusion of MIDI music in Acorn games Rob Smith has released a freeware MIDI player called Monolith. It is a compact module which lets the user/programmer easily trigger playback of a piece of MIDI music, and then just forget about it if they wish. It also includes a simple frontend for use as a desktop MIDI player.
You can download the current version from this site if you so wish (51K) [Bug fixed version 30/12/97].
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Best Rock and Metal Bands With a Bad ReputationSabbath
The Top Ten
Very bad reputation due to plagiarism (many proven rip offs). Their biggest hits are rip offs - Whole Lotta Love, Stairway to Heaven, Dazed And Confused, In My Time of Dying, Since I've Been Loving You, The Lemon Song, to name a few. In many cases the Court's verdict was "uncredited covers".
Plagiarism is probably the worst possible sin in music. - Metal_Treasure
I love them dearly and all, but yeah. 1. Plagiarism. Plenty of plagiarism. 2. Accused of many horrible crimes. 3. Bonzo shot a cop. He also drank 40 shots the night he died. 5. Jimmy Page was kind of satanic and also had sex with a 14 year old.Well... They're still great. Don't judge me!
And also! I didn't say great people. I mean their music. Yes, I know Jimmy and Bonzo were rather bad people. It doesn't mean I can't still enjoy their music. John Paul Jones was responsible, yet still a plagiarist, but helped a lot with the studio and direction of albums. And Robert Plant was actually pretty kind towards his fans. - MontyPython
Led Zeppelin is voted number 1 on the greatest bands of all time so I don't get why they are on this list - Sabbath
Still overrated - god knows why.. - Ananya
Maybe because a lot of people like their work but you apparently don't? - Billyv
I'm even not a fan of Ozzy. - Userguy44
I heard he had a suicidal case against him. - zxm
What was with the song "Suicide Solution." The idiot who killed himself only read the title, and not the lyrics that warned of alcohol. - SoldierOfFortune
He's never had a good reputation but the reality show "The Osbournes" was something really bad because metal musicians are not allowed to do such things for money and popularity.
The show featured Ozzy's domestic life and his family. It had 52 episodes and was on MTV and national TVs for 4 seasons (2002-2005). Yep, lots of $$$.
The theme song for the show was a cover of Ozzy's song "Crazy Train". So far so good.
But the cover was done in a jazz-swing style reminiscent of Pat Boone... - Metal_Treasure
I think Ozzy is a real good musician and he has some of the best songs, but GOD DAMN SHARON! Only good thing from her was sobering him up. Firing Jake E Lee wasn't a good move, and let's not forget Eggfest! A big reason zakk is still in is because he kisses Sharon's ass. - SoldierOfFortune
Their bad reputation is because they bullied Jason so he wanted to leace the band and they went through their worst period in their career. Then they made St. Anger, but Hardwired To Self Destruct is a great comeback album. I didn't mentioned Lulu because it isn't even a Metallica album. - Userguy44
They were the first thrash band to play in arenas before MTV even hear of them and now people just see the bad in them. They had ups and downs but they are still going today and back to thrash metal. - Sabbath
This list is a joke - Sabbath
Who cares? They are great - Ananya
Slipknot it is a very interesting band if you open your mind. People laugh at them because they wear masks and have so many band members. They are awesome live and they have their own sound. - Sabbath
Their masks and band members number aren't their biggest problems... - Metal_Treasure
I find them to have enough decent materials to say that this is a pretty good band, both their self titled album and Nightmare are amazing, and City of Evil has a handful of great songs as well. I think that people give them too much flak. - kempokid
This band might be kind of cheesy and it's a turn off to men to see other men wearing makeup but however, they have talented band members and they are educated in music. People will always bash them while other people enjoy them just like Metallica. - Sabbath
They were always ranked 4th out of the big four but now they are the best out of the big four. - Sabbath
Scott Ian (and Anthrax) got a bad reputation because they were involved in creation of the nu-metal/rap metal subgenres. Die hard metal fans (hardliners) hate these crossovers and find them awful. Most of the metal hardliners don't even consider those subgenres metal, and respectively - the bands that play nu-metal and rap metal. - Metal_Treasure
The Contenders
Can anybody explain - how they gained a bad reputation because nothing comes to my mind. Did I miss something?
Can anybody explain - how they gained a bad reputation because nothing comes to my mind.
Since when does ACDC ever get a bad rep
DYK that r/nickelback has less that 300 subscribers as of right now? Ariana Grande has over 50,000. I think it's safe to call these guys overhated.
All artists in the Top 10 and most of the Top 20 on this list have fantastic critical reviews and are loved by either the public, mudic lovers or both... this is simply the most untrue list I have ever seen. Because a bad reputation does neither mean you hate them nor that they aren't popular on TTT. It means that they are regarded as horrible by most people and/or critics.
Nickelback apparently have a bad reputation in America, most of the reviews aren't all too good and many people hate them. So I voted for them because they are highest item on the list that actually fulfill the title. They don't have a bad reputation over here, reviews are mixed to positive and people either are fans or completely ignore them. - Martin_Canine
System of a Down has a bad rep? This is news to me. They have a huge fanbase as well as critical acclaim.
Most metalheads hate them for one obvious reason: They made Nu Metal.
They aren't an emo band. All of their fans aren't suicidal teens. "The Black Parade" is one of the greatest albums of all time. - MyLocalRoyalVampire
I was emo, now I'm not
its just a stage in life silly gooses - Metalfan2112
I really enjoy their music don't get me wrong. It's just so much of their music is explicit, which makes the songs hard to appreciate. Of course you can simply ignore the lyrics but it's hard when you know it's explicit. Believe me I've tried. But enough negativity they have great music and not all of their songs have bad meanings.
After their first 5 albums I lost interest and American idiot was and is one of the most overrated albums in rock - Sabbath
Their glam metal past (in the 80s). - Metal_Treasure
Just about every other name on this list grew up with a poster of Jim Morrison tacked up in their garage.
Yeah, the amazing singer of the Metal Gods (Rob Halford) is GAY. For some reason gays are great singers - Freddie, Adam Lambert, Elton John, George Michael... - Metal_Treasure
I heard about it once. They had some case against suicide. They were sued for it. But the won it. (as I remember). - zxm
Constantly getting a bad rap when Slipknot is worse
They are an amazing band. Probably my favorite. But they did so many drugs. Drugs contributed to Jerry's death, alcohol caused Pig Pen's death, and attheir shows, everyone did drugs. Their fans are big drug addicts a lot of the time. It's terrible, because, I've never been to a dead show, because I wasn't born when Jerry died, so I want to see Dead and Co., but I'm not allowed to because of the drugs at those shows.
Amazing music, but creator of this project has bad reputation because of church arsons, murder.


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It's been exactly a year since the death of original Deftones bassist Chi Cheng. To coincide with this anniversary, the Deftones posted what would be their last-ever song with Cheng, titled "Smile". It is taken from their "lost" album Eros, which was supposed to be the follow-up to 2006's Saturday Night Wrist.
You can stream "Smile" below.
Deftones last released Koi No Yokan in November 2012 on Reprise Records. The band has been in talks of releasing their "lost" album Eros, but no release date has been set.
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The ORF suffix indicates files containing raw image data generated by various models of Olympus digital cameras.
The ORF files contain the unprocessed or minimally processed raw data of the image sensor. Although these RAW (raw) data are larger than the JPEG files stored by the device, they are more versatile.
These sometimes called "digital negative" raw data are excellent for post-processing such as the adjustment of the colors, correction of the exposure, suitable for sharpening or noise filter. They are indispensable for professional work or things like astrophotography.
In order to convert them into an RGB image format that can be commonly used, the data must be "developed". This means that processing steps such as interpolation and exposure as well as converting to a format such as PNG, PSD, TIFF or JPEG must be performed.
However, there is no uniform raw data format. Every manufacturer has developed his own. These proprietary and often undocumented formats can only be processed by specialized software. They can contain different data, for example in different color depths, depending on the capabilities of the sensor as well as on the software integrated in the camera. Manufacturers are changing their RAW formats relatively frequently, which means that program support often needs to be adjusted. Supporting the extension is not enough if the specific camera is not supported.
Most RAW files also contain metadata with information about the image and the recording conditions, in part also in the EXIF or IPTC standard.
Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements support a large number of cameras with the help of the free plug-in Adobe Camera RAW (ACR). Which depends on the ACR version. However, newer versions of ACR can only be used by the latest versions of the main programs.
Olympus provides a codec that allows many graphics programs to import ORF files. However, the quality of specialized programs is better.
Most often resolving problems with opening ORF files is very simple. Just install an appropriate program that supports such files. All of the listed programs support ORF files, but may vary in offered function and purpose. Some programs may be capable only of viewing contents of ORF files or offer file conversion options, but may not be capable of editing such files.
It is possible that although a compatible program has been installed on user's system, it is not used by the system to open it. This may happen because no default application was associated with this type of files. To associate ORF files with given application, select "Open with" from drop-down menu (accessed by right-clicking on the file). Then select from the list the program or application you want to be used to open this type of file. If the Olympus Master applications is not on the list, select "Browse" option in order to manually locate the directory where Olympus Master has been installed.
Sometimes problems with opening ORF files may not lie with the application itself, but can arise due to other causes, such as:


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An enchanting vintage French pewter Art Nouveau statuette of a lady with a parasol. The small figurine dates form the 1970s and portrays a woman from the Belle Epoque dressed in Edwardian fashion with a large feathered hat. It has been cast with very fine details and is mounted on a wooden base.
The pewter statuette itself (excluding the base) is 5" Tall and 2" Wide (13 cm x 5 cm).
The wooden base is 2" long x 1/2" tall x 1 1/4" wide (5 cm x 1,5 cm x 3 cm).
The figurine is in very good condition.
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Branding yourself correctly may be one of the best ways to get repeat traffic.
What is a Branding?
Branding means to mark and solidify an identity for yourself or your business.
For instance, what do you think of when I say these words?
What image does that bring to mind?
How can Branding help you get traffic?
If you are consistent in your business as THE person who knows about this topic, you'll start being branded as the person to go to.
Many online business people try to do everything immediately and end up being branded with nothing. Oftentimes it takes an outsider to say "Hey, you're really good at this…" before the person will recognize his or her own brand and run with it.
How do you Begin?
First of all, look at what you enjoy doing. Then, ask your friends and business associates what they think of when they think of you. If they say "You're the person who knows a lot about growing roses." Then maybe you should run with that.
This also applies in Direct Sales. If you keep switching businesses and run from one to another, then no one will contact you when they need to reorder. Or, if they do, they'll start with "Are you still doing that business?" That's a hobby mentality, not a business mentality. If you want to be known as the best Tupperware lady in the business, then you can't have ten other businesses you're trying to promote at the same time. Run with the one you love and don't look back. You'll see how many people contact YOU for orders when they need them, because YOU stood the test of time while other reps ran off to the next best thing. It's branding that will bring you business.
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The pioneers at North Yorkshire family-run Steenbergs Organic are passionate about providing organic spices, loose leaf tea and cooking ingredients packed with flavour, aroma and decades of know-how. Their products are ethically sourced (many carry the Fairtrade Mark), organic, environmentally sound (Steenbergs is carbon neutral), great-tasting and stylishly yet functionally packaged.
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of which saturates (g): 0.0
Salt (g): 0.7
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The cameras are apparently kind of crappy.
Tomorrow will see the launch of the iPad 2. Already, a few early birds have managed to get their hands on this slick new slice of iOS. First impressions were positive, across the board. But the consensus seems to be that the iPad 2 is an evolutionary improvement, not a revolutionary one.
Walt Mossberg praised the iPad 2 for how thin and "airy" it felt. He noted that the A5 processor felt speedier than the iPad's A4, but not wildly so in the course of normal use. An intense battery test (screen at 75%, WiFi & 3G on, looping video) gave it a little over ten hours of battery life. The original iPad scored slightly better, but the iPad 2 beat the Xoom by 2.5 hours.
Points of criticism include poor still quality issues with the cameras and smartcovers that slide off when carried inside a bag.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball is next. He and Walt both used the word "swollen" to refer to the original iPad (and the Xoom) in comparison to the iPad 2. Gruber noted that it was more comfortable to hold, and that the display seemed identical to the original. Geekbench rated it as nearly twice as fast.
Graphics rendering has improved even more substantially. A test of graphics processing showed the iPad 2 as orders of magnitude better than its predecessor. Once developers catch up to the new iPad's capabilities, expect to be blown away.
Gruber was more positive about the smart covers. He noted that they might be enough to convince an iPad owner to make the upgrade.
Engadget was positive about everything you'd expect. But they also provided a hardware snob's look at the iPad 2. They dinged its 512 MB of RAM, although they noted "no memory issues". They also had no issue with the display, but still wished it saw just a teensy boost in resolution.
The iPad 2 camera saw its most damning condemnation here- "really pretty bad" and possibly "the SAME cameras used in the iPod touch". Their Geekbench showed the CPU cores as clocked at 800 MHz. If that's the case, Jailbreaking could lead to very notable improvements in speed.
Engadget's battery life test (65% brightness, WiFi on, mpeg4 clip looping) gave the iPad 2 a staggering 10 hours and 26 minutes, which beats the original iPad by nearly an hour. Also noteworthy was GarageBand, which is appears to be a pretty revolutionary way to create music.
If you'd like to do some reviewing of your own, check out Apple's guided tour of the new iPad 2 apps. Get a look at GarageBand or iMovie or FaceTime before you make that big buy tomorrow.


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Our last weekend at Anderson Cove proved to be fairly busy. The person that does the scheduling for the store must not have thought that Friday evening would be very busy so just one person was scheduled to work in the store. Since school is back in session everyone waited until after school/work to arrive at the campground.
About 6:00 pm there was a 'call for help' over the radio and 4 of us responded. We ended up working for 2+ hours as the vehicles just kept coming. I wrote paperwork and gave it to Kathy who rang it all into the register. Michael & Fred worked the long lines of traffic, keeping the vehicles off the road as much as possible. Debbie ran interference….helping the guys outside and also helping Kathy and I in the store. It was the best teamwork I've experienced the whole season…it was GREAT!
We had so many campers come in that we ended up having to open one of the loops that was closed for the season…we didn't fill it completely but had a good plenty sites filled. Our loop was completely full and pretty much emptied out on Saturday and then nearly full again that night with everyone but one site leaving again on Sunday.
Come Monday the entire campground was really quiet with less than a dozen sites filled.
With the campground so quiet it makes it easy for us to run errands on a day other than our day off so on Monday we made a run over to Zack and Kelsea's with a few things that needed to be dropped off there.
We stopped at In & Out Burger for a quick lunch and were kinda disappointed with our burgers and not happy with the old french fries. It wasn't our first trip to a In & Out Burger and have had better experiences but this time was not a good one. You win some, you lose some.
We also stopped to pick up the top of the stool for our granddaughter, Zoe. Michael had found a place that could carve her name into the top of the stool so that we could finish it up. He dropped the stool top off 5 or 6 weeks ago. We stopped by about 3 weeks ago to check on it and found that he hadn't touched it yet even though he'd told Michael it would take a week or 2. When we stopped that time we reminded him we'd be leaving the area in a few weeks and needed it completed…he said he'd get it done.
When we stopped yesterday he wasn't there so Michael called him and found out that he still hadn't touched it. We didn't even give him a chance to say 'I'll get to it' before we told him not to bother that we'd pick it up later this week. How frustrating.
I'm actually happier with the outcome as I would rather the work be done by Papaw and Nana exclusively. We'll figure out a way to get Zoe's name routered in the top so that we can get it finished and sent to our littlest princess.
Tuesday (today) was our last day of work so we turned everything in (cart & supplies, uniforms, keys, paperwork, till money, and last weekly report/deposit). Michael made sure that the bathrooms were clean and filled with water so that they were ready for the weekend.
After much debate we've decided to come back again next year and try it again. We love the weather here…warm days and cool nights. We really enjoy the work…both in the campground and the store. Plus it's convenient and close to our Utah Barnett's. We're not sure who the area managers (our bosses) will be as the current ones have said they don't plan to come back. We only know of one other couple (for sure) that plan to come back next year as well. So I guess we play it by ear and see what happens. We've requested to have the same loop and the boat ramp again next year as we really did like the area that we covered.
Another of the bottoms of one of our kitchen drawers started falling out and needed to be rebuilt. Michael took the drawer out and left it at Zack's house so that he could rebuild it when we're there. Today Zack surprised us by sending us pictures of the newly rebuilt drawer! Now Michael will just need to reattach the drawer front and we'll be in business!
Our 'vacation' begins September 27th when we head south to Glendale, Utah for a Heartland Owners Club rally and then continues while we make a leisurely trek back to south Texas. We ended up extending our vacation by a few weeks so that we can fly to Wisconsin to visit our youngest son, Dan, and his family the first 2 weeks of November. We were originally going to be ready to go back to the oil field November 1st but will now go back just before Thanksgiving.
I've been continuing my Instant Pot adventure with a couple of new dishes over the last week. I made my normal meatloaf but put it in the instant pot for 20 minutes and was very happy with the result…a very tender and juicy meatloaf and I didn't even have to turn on the oven and heat up the house! I also made Beef Tip and Gravy in under 45 minutes from start to finish (that included cutting up a rump roast into cubes!) The dish turned out nice and tender and quite flavorful.
I made a cheese cake again this week using the same recipe but for some reason it wasn't as solid in the middle as it should have been….it still tasted good but was a bit of a disappointment nonetheless. 🙁


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Chadron High School901 Cedar Street
Chadron, Nebraska 69337
(308) 432-0707
(308) 432-0723
Daily School Schedule
Regular Dismissal
1:30 Dismissal
Girls State Golf
Good Luck to our Lady Cards at the State Golf Tournament Monday and Tuesday (Oct. 9 & 10) in North Platte.
Tee Times for Monday:
11:38 #1 Ricki Hickstein 12 Chadron C-5 76 9:30 #10 Taurie Pourier 11 Chadron C-5 104 10:02 #10 Aubree Noble 12 Chadron C-5 107 10:10 #10 Katarina Dodd 12 Chadron C-5 108 11:14 #10 Madeline Pelton 9 Chadron C-5 133
District Softball Suspended
Chadron joined many other districts across the state in having to suspend play for another day due to inclement weather!
Game #11 (Chadron vs Centural Central Valley) will resume at 9:00am tomorrow (Saturday, Oct. 7th) at Hampton Field in Chadron.
The winner will play in the Championship Game vs. Southern Valley which beat Chadron earlier today 10-8.
No School Wednesday, Oct. 4th
Personal Finance - Paper Slide Show Challenge
Every semester, the Personal Finance class splits into groups to complete a paper slide show to reinforce the 5 Foundations of becoming wealthy. They have to write the script, make the slides and practice before the final video is made. This semester, although it was a tough decision, the class voted on their favorite to be shared with everyone.
Winners of the video being presented are Billy Tidyman, Katryna King and Kylee Garrett.
District Students Lead Fundraiser for Kubo Family
10th & 11th Grade Health Screenings - Sept. 26
(Letter from the CPS School Nurses)September 20, 20172017-2018 Chadron Public SchoolsHealth ScreeningsDear Parents/Guardians:We hope this letter finds each of you and your families enjoying the beautiful fall season!We are writing to let you know the 2017-2018 Chadron Public Schools Health Screenings will be held on September 25 and 26, 2017. The state of Nebraska requires students in 1st - 4th, 7th and 10th grades to complete a hearing, vision, dental and height, weight and blood pressure screenings. Students in 8th and 11th grades will complete a hearing and vision screening.
Homecoming Royalty & Attendants
Congratulations to our 2017 Homecoming King and Queen candidates!
The Queen candidates are: Kat Dodd, Alpine Hickstein, Dana Dunbar, and Kylee Garrett.
The King candidates are: Coy Bila, Sam Rischling, and Billy Tidyman. Please stop by Mrs. Girard's room after school.
Also, Congratulations to our 2017 Homecoming attendants!!
Parent-Teacher Conferences Sept. 14th 5:00-8:30p
Advanced Biology Soil Experiment
CHS Homecoming Schedule
Upcoming Testing Dates @ CHS
Chadron High School will host the following testing dates for CHS students:
Financial Aid Presentation - Thursday September 14th
Chadron High School Counseling Office will host it's annual Financial Aid Presentation and Fall Senior/Junior Meeting Thursday September 14th at 6:00 p.m. in the High School Auditorium. This meeting will include information regarding: Financial aid, the college application process, scholarship hunting, and the FAFSA. Chadron High School will be partnering with Andrew Hunzeker from EducationQuest to provide parents with the most up to date informations regarding the college process.
Patriot Day - September 11th
Patriot Day happens every year and is observed as the National Day of Service and Remembrance. It lands on September 11th of each year in memory of the 2,977 killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001. A bill to make a national day of mourning on September 11th was introduced in the U.S. House on October 25, 2001, but it wasn't actually declared as Patriot Day until 2002. Today, the American flag is flown at half-staff at the White House as well as at all U.S. government buildings.
Students Learn About Egg Diffusion
(Submitted by CHS Junior, Kellie Waugh)
Trig Student Competition
(Submitted by CHS Junior, Moriah Hastings)
Lockout? ...What's a Lockout???
Join CHS Text Reminders
Advanced Biology Examines Plant Anatomy
(Submitted by CHS Junior, Dominic Nobiling)
Advanced Biology Microscope Lab
Join Us For 'Dream Team' Planning Sept. 6th
"Dream Team" Master Planning Meeting 9/6/17 @ 5:30 PM in CO($ are not a consideration at this time - we are dreaming)
All Are Invited!
CHS Picture Day is next Wednesday, Sept. 6th
Get your pretty on!
Picture Day for high school students is Wednesday, September 6th. Students can stop at the office to pick up an informational packet or parents can log on to www.mylifetouch.com with the Picture Day ID number listed above to order online.


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REST services with Spring – getting the client locale
When building a REST backend, you often need to know what language the user is using.
This is why the HTTP/1.1 standard (section 14.4) defines the Accept-Language header. Most HTTP clients (web browsers at least) set this header to the language the user has set as his system language.
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At NutraBio, we're committed to a singular goal – providing you with the purest, safest and most effective weight management and sports supplements that science can offer. Whether you're a professional athlete or weekend warrior, we'll get you moving faster, jumping higher, hitting harder and performing better. We'll push you beyond your current limits so that you can reach new levels of personal achievement. We formulate our sports supplements to be the best — so that you can be your best.
Our supplements contain only the purest and highest quality ingredients, and are based on exhaustive research and sound nutritional science. Sure, we could use cheaper raw ingredients — our bean counters in the back office would love it — but we don't. We pay a premium to give you the highest quality because we believe your health is worth it. You're not buying paint for your bathroom walls or polish for your shoes — you're putting our supplements in your body, and you're expecting safe results. We'll give them to you.
Each NutraBio product undergoes the strictest quality control testing in the industry. But the ultimate test before I allow any supplement to wear the NutraBio label is: Am I confident enough in the quality and science behind the supplement to use it myself, and would I trust it for my family? The FDA doesn't require such high standards. You should.
On behalf of the entire NutraBio team, we thank you for choosing us as your nutrition source.
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The Malaysian censorshipboard, Censorship Film Malaysia, has banned the local release of Marooned InIraq, Bahman Ghobadi'sacclaimed drama which details the impact of Saddam Hussein's devastatingchemical attacks on the Iraqi Kurds.
A personal film retitledfrom Cannes 2002 where it played in Un Certain Regard as Songs From MyHomeland, Marooned In Iraq follows an old Iranian Kurd musician who sets out insearch of his long estranged wife who crossed over into Iraqi Kurdistan yearsearlier. When he finds her, it emerges that she has been badly deformed by thechemical attacks of March 1988 which killed 15,000 Kurds.
The film had been bought bySuraya Film Production from international sales agent Menemsha Entertainment aspart of a three-picture deal, but the censorship board last week barred itstheatrical release, labeling it a weapon of US propaganda which could"dangerously jeopardize relations between Malaysia and Iraq."
"This film is anattempt to prove that Saddam Hussein's government possesses the chemicalweapons which contravene international law," said the ruling sent toSuraya. "It tries to prove that Saddam is an inhumane person who needs tobe punished and corroborates President Bush's suggestions that Saddam isstill using chemical weapons. The screening of this film would affect relationsbetween Malaysia and Iraq and Iran."
"Chief minister ofMalaysia Dr Mahadir Mohamad wants a peaceful settlement with Iraq and banningthis film is consistent with that. Our political situation at present supportspeace in Iraq and not war and for that reason we have banned Marooned InIraq."
Sales agent Neil Friedman,who runs Menemsha, was startled at the decision. "There are two or threedistributors in Malaysia, and Suraya buys all the films from Islamic countrieswhether they be Turkish, Iranian, Iraqi or Kurdish," he told Screendailyyesterday. "Not in a million years did he think this would happen sincethe film has nothing to do with this war or the US and merely shows life in Kurdistan, another part of the Islamic world."
Wellspring plans to releasethe film in the US on April 18. Ghobadi is a renowned Kurdish film-maker whoseprevious film A Time For Drunken Horses was one of the most acclaimed of new Iranian cinema and won the Camerad'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000.


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Who Uses This Software?
Presentation management solution for all kinds of videos with features such as voice overs, storytelling, PowerPoint integration, background music and more.
Average Ratings3 reviews
- Overall 4.3/5
- Ease of Use 3.7/5
- Customer Service 4.3/5
- Features 4/5
- Value for Money 4.3/5
Product Details
- Starting Price US$8,00/one-time
- Free Version Yes
- Free Trial No
Cloud, SaaS, Web
Vendor Details
- SlideTalk
- http://slidetalk.net
- Founded 2012
SlideTalk Features
- 3D Objects
- Animations & Transitions
- Audio Content
- Collaboration Tools
- Customizable Templates
- Media Library
- Offline Editing
- Offline Presenting
- Screen Sharing
- Search/Filter
- Video Content
SlideTalk Most Helpful Reviews
Reviewed on 2018/03/28
Use to take eLearning to a new level
Nan H.
Comments: Use to take eLearning to a new level
Pros: Helps take written and powerpoint formats to a video model that can be tailored to your audience. It's awesome.
Cons: Has a learning curve unless you are experienced with translating static content to a video format. Not really a con per se.
Reviewed on 2018/04/16
A useful presentation tweak!
Joshua H.
Pros: Slidetalk is a must in this culture of endless presentation slides. You need an edge to make your slides stand out. Slidetalk is it.
Cons: I try and not go overboard when it comes to its features. Slidetalk is such a convenient way to broaden the discussion around a presentation.
Reviewed on 2018/05/11
Slide Talk is one of the best tools for converting PowerPoint presentations into videos.
Roger R.
-It's easy to use.
-Simplifies the process of creating a video (which is quite difficult and cumbersome) using PowerPoint presentations.
-You can choose the voice that best suits the material we are developing, and in the language you need.
- It has great utility in the educational field because it serves for the realization of online lessons, presentations, instructions, tutorials, among other activities.
-It is also useful in the business field for the preparation of presentations and other types of marketing materials.
- It serves for the documentation of projects and events both business (launch of a product, price list, online visits) and personal (weddings, parties, birthdays).
-You can share videos on YouTube and other social networks.
Cons: -It has few weaknesses. Among them we can mention that although it is easy to use, it can be complicated for those who do not have any experience with editing software like this.


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Noonie's Masterpiece in Purple
by Lisa Railsback
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Portrait of the artist as a young girl
"Misunderstood, underappreciated and dreaming of better things to come- sound like the blueprint for a budding artist? Well, these are exactly the symptoms affecting 10-year-old genius-in-training, Noonie Norton. Lisa Railsback's newest play, "
Noonie's Masterpiece in Purple",
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This award-winning play is the latest production by the Looking Glass Theater, a company devoted to producing works by new women writers. It begins as pigtailed Noonie (played by Madeleine Mager), a self-proclaimed "great painter", puts the finishing touches on her latest work. She is wide-eyed about the possibilities which lay before her. Amiration for legendary painters such as Van Gogh, O'Keeffe, and Picasso, coupled with her steadfast belief in what it means to be an artist-including posthumous fame, misinterpreation, and isolation-inspire Noonie to create conscequently helping to bridge the gulf with her father, who is globetrotting on business. Her mother having "flown away to the sky" when she was younger, Noonie inherited a new family, which includes an unemployed car salesman of an uncle; a dental hygienist of an aunt who is fanatical about teeth cleanliness; a bullying, wannabe action-figure of a cousin; and a doughnut-obsessed babysitter who watches soap operas. In lieu of the supportive family she reallly needs, her teacher, Ms. Lily, urges Noonie to enter the upcoming art contest. Noonie uses her "artist mind" to transform the defining characteristics of each family member into what she thinks is an abstract masterpiece, only to have her faith crushed by her families misguided mockary.
Divine guidence comes when Van Gogh, O'Keeffe, and Picasso pay Noonie a visit, inflating her hopes with positive messages such as "Artists never quit," and "Artists have the power to change the world." Soon Noonie unlocks the magic of the artist's mind.
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From the 20th to the 24th March 2019 Brisbane turned red for the 4th annual World Science Festival Brisbane. Events were held throughout Qld with the main activities centred around the Qld Museum and Southbank.
The Queensland scientists pushing the bounds of the impossible
Chamindie Punyadeera was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in South Africa, coming to the Queensland University of Technology via the Netherlands, where she worked for tech company Phillips. Her brother-in-law died of oral cancer in 2017, leading to her developing the idea for an oral gargle test that could detect oral and throat cancers, as well as serving as an early warning for heart disease.
"The ultimate goal is to have a test like a pregnancy test where people can test their risk of developing a certain disease," Dr Punyadeera said.
"We're now at the stage where we're talking to an industry partner and they can take that technology to the next phase."
Dr Punyadeera said her path, from the tech sector back into academia, was unusual as many STEM people go the other way, but ultimately it was about having the perseverance to see an idea come to fruition. "Research doesn't happen just because you have an idea. You can have lots of ideas; it's the idea that brings to the market or the clinical space — that's the innovation," she said.
Professor Ian Frazer, who was the moderator for the panel also highlighted the importance of perseverance, saying the Gardasil vaccine would never have been developed if he had given up early.
"We had a year when nothing worked, where you'd get up every morning and (the experiment) had failed again, and failed again," Professor Frazer said.
"I have a vision where my two granddaughters, who are seven and nine months old, will grow up in a world where, through technology and entrepreneurship, they don't have to worry about infectious diseases.
"It is an achievable ambition: you just have to have the passion to believe it can happen, and the willingness to work hard to get there."
'Think before you spit': Keeping track of how genetic data is used
DNA profiling services can be a fun insight into our genetic backgrounds, but we're being warned not to hand over our most personal information without understanding the consequences.
The popularity of genetic ancestry tests has exploded worldwide, with multiple companies now offering to analyse your saliva to determine your genetic heritage. However, the Whose DNA is it Anyway? panel at the World Science Festival Brisbane was told the eventual uses to which that data can be put can be far beyond what people initially intended.
Genetic counsellor Aideen McInerney-Leo urged individuals to take responsibility for ensuring their genetic information was used correctly.
"You pretty much need a PhD to figure out all the options relating to consent here," she said.
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Street Science
For two days on 23-24 March the South Bank precinct was packed with people visiting exhibitor booths with engaging science activities. Early reports estimate that over 80,000 attendees descended on South Bank last weekend for the final two days of the festival.
Thank you to all of the volunteers who worked tirelessly (in the extreme heat) across the weekend. Below is just some of the volunteers who made this event not only possible but a success:
Prof Brian Gabrielli, Ariel Andrew, Deborah Nazareth, Madushan Fernando, A/Prof Jo Forbes, Joy Cheung, Amelia Fotheringham, Selena Le Bagge, Sherman Leung, Dr Mitchell Sullivan, Ellen Tejo, A/Prof Jyotsna Batra, Farhana Matin, Eamonn McKenna, Mohammad Rasheduzzaman, Jeniffer Naranjo and Amila Suraweera to name but a few.
Brisbane has secured the World Science Festival for another two years and we look forward to participating again next year. Due to the success of this year, TRI has already registered our interest to partake again next year with a larger booth so that we feature even more groups.
It was a fantastic event, free for the public, giving them the ability to immerse themselves into the science world, with a main focus on getting young children interested in science.
Stay tuned for more information about the 2020 event!


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In the wake of reports of questionable financial practices in more than a dozen Philadelphia charter schools, state legislators are considering how or whether to overhaul the 13-year-old charter school law to strengthen oversight, tighten accountability, and increase transparency.
The Rendell administration and some legislative leaders disagree over how broad any reform should go – whether to stick to measures designed to prevent financial abuses or wade into deeper waters as to how charter schools are authorized, funded, and renewed.
Under the current law, what records and transactions that charter schools must make public on demand are not clearly specified, even though they are the legal equivalent of a full-fledged school district. Ethics and conflict-of-interest requirements for charter board members and administrators are vague, and the extent of a district's power to closely monitor charters is hotly debated.
Charter proponents want what they see as barriers to the creation and operation of charter schools to be eased, despite revelations by The Philadelphia Inquirer and City Controller Alan Butkovitz of profiteering, nepotism, poor record-keeping, and excessive CEO salaries at some charters.
"The original charter school law did not speak to some of the issues around accountability and ethics that we all recognize now are important," said acting Secretary of Education Thomas Gluck, who as a Democratic legislative staffer in 1997 helped draft it.
Many with high stakes in the outcomes have been notably silent in public on how they want to see the law changed. Rep. Dwight Evans, one of the legislature's leading proponents of charters and a key player in any reform legislation, declined to make himself available for an interview despite repeated requests.
The executive director and the president of the Pennsylvania Coalition of Charter Schools, an advocacy and support group, also declined to be interviewed. In a radio appearance, director Guy Ciarrocchi agreed with Butkovitz that some tightening of the law is necessary but suggested that some dubious practices could be the result of confusion rather than malfeasance.
In some cases, he said, "it's not clear any laws were broken. Where money or privilege has been abused, that needs to be addressed."
The coalition has called for reducing what many charter operators consider onerous paperwork requirements.
Several legislators have been involved in creating and supporting charter schools, and they or their allies serve on charter boards.
"The questions legislators should be asking is to what extent does the behavior being scrutinized reflect an alleged violation of the law, and to what extent the behavior is not a violation but reflects a weakness in the law," said Ron Cowell, a former Democratic state senator who now directs the Education Policy and Leadership Center in Harrisburg. "Legislators need to look at both issues."
But politically, amending the charter law is tangled up in related education priorities, including the state budget and the need to extend the Education Empowerment Act, which tightens state control over low-performing districts – and is itself friendly to the creation of charters as alternatives to failing schools.
So far, only the Senate Education Committee has acted. Responding to the Butkovitz report – and given a kick-start by the revelation that a charter in West Philadelphia operated a nightclub in its building – it approved a bill in April, S.B. 1314, that would create a state agency to oversee and investigate charter schools.
"This is public money, which needs to be protected, and we want to be sure that when there is public money that it goes to the education of the children," said Sen. Andrew Dinniman, Democratic chair of the committee.
Dinniman said that he was hopeful the bill would pass the General Assembly in June and be signed by Gov. Rendell.
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Under the current law, the mechanisms through which charter schools obtain their land and buildings open the door to potential conflicts, problematic lease arrangements, and profiteering.
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For Philadelphia, where half the state's charter schools are located and where the most abuses have come to light, the legislation would give the City Controller the authority to audit charter schools.
In his April report, Butkovitz took the School District to task for not adequately overseeing the rapidly proliferating charter schools.
"Under the current bill, school districts are supposed to be policing the charter schools," Dinniman said. "That hasn't always been done."
Other charter reform bills have been introduced, but none has made it past the committee stage. The Rendell administration prefers a more sweeping approach.
"What we've said to the senators, while working on that issue around accountability and behavior, we ought to not ignore the funding issues of charter schools," said Gluck.
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A swimming race but with relays. Winners take it all!
Water hoops
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Another very popular pool game. One player becomes Marco and is blindfolded. Whenever he shouts "Marco" all the players shout "Polo". Guided by their voices, "Marco" will try to tag the other players, who will try to run away from him to avoid being tagged.


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Renowned American consultancy firm Deloitte recently conducted a study to understand the digital and customer trends of the future in the world of dining. The company interviewed approximately 4,500 restaurant customers to produce a report on what customers expect from the restaurants of the future. The possibilities of geolocalization, augmented reality and artificial intelligence, amongst other technological revolutions, are already within our grasp and we have to make the most of them to make the lives of restaurants and customers easier. The new generations, who already use technology to facilitate and improve their daily lives, are already here and are already the customers of the future.
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