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Dermestid beetles are used by universities and museums to prepare skulls and other bones for display. Boiling of skulls is messy, smelly and can damage delicate bone structures such as nasal membranes, loosen suture lines, as well as impart an oily film to the bone. Boiling also shrinks skulls! Preparation with flesh eating beetles avoids these pitfalls. These beetles are easy to maintain and multiply, by following simple procedures.
My colonies are 100% healthy; I absolutely guarantee no mites, fly larvae or other pests occurring in my colonies. If not purchasing from me, you will want to insure yourself that other sellers maintain the strict quality controls I maintain for my beetles, as these pests could eventually wipe out your colony. I hear frequently from frantic buyers who have purchased from others, and have had pests introduced to their existing colonies.
I include detailed written instructions for start-up, maintenance and growth of your colony, and procedures to prepare/clean skulls. These instructions include important points learned from years of raising and using dermestids. These tips will greatly assist you in avoiding costly beginner mistakes while establishing and growing your colony! I will gladly correspond by email or phone to answer questions and offer startup support to those who purchase my colonies. Lots of questions can and will arise when culturing beetles and cleaning skulls with dermestids. Don't take chances with your trophy, consider what after-the-sale support is worth...?
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Your colony is shipped using Priority Mail, to insure rapid delivery. Normal delivery time is 4-5 days. I notify buyers by email when I ship, and provide a confirmation number for your tracking on USPS.com. The beetles/larvae are shipped in the sawdust-like medium they create (called "frass") when they reduce specimen and bedding material. The frass has insulating properties, and helps insure the colony survives the trip in familiar surroundings, ready to immediately begin cleaning and reproducing. The frass also contains beetle eggs, which will hatch within days. If you are purchasing the 5000+ colony, I ship these via 2-day EXPRESS MAIL; all prices INCLUDE shipping costs!
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Shipments are normally made no later than 3 - 4 days following receipt of payment. Special shipping arrangements can generally be accommodated with prior notification. However, during the fall and winter periods (generally Oct - March), I experience higher numbers of orders, and frequently, (as I am dealing with living animals), the "supply and demand" equation becomes an issue. For orders during this period, there is frequently a need to delay shipping. If this is the case, I will notify buyers via email, with details regarding any shipping delay. If delayed shipping is a problem, I will gladly immediately and fully refund your purchase price. I appreciate the patience and understanding during peak seasons.
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David C. Steinmetz [1], Amos Ragan Kearns professor of the history of Christianity, will present his retirement lecture, "Taking the Long View," on April 2. The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in Room 0016 Westbrook, Duke Divinity School.
Professor Steinmetz, who came to Duke in 1971, is a specialist in the history of Christianity in late medieval and early modern Europe. In recent years he has concentrated on the history of biblical scholarship and learning in Europe from 1350 to 1600. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.
Read more about Professor Steinmetz, especially his work with the media, in Divinity magazine [2].
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My friends at Distinctive Dummies have a new addition to their Hammer Horror series of figures. In the past they have released 12 inch figures of iconic Hammer characters like Oliver Reed's Werewolf and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing.
Their latest offering is just as spectacular, it is the Christopher Lee version of the Mummy. How about some pictures:
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Approx 12 inches tall
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The Mummy starts shipping April 23rd, so get your order in now to make sure you are one of the first to own this awesome addition to the Hammer Horror collection.
And if you would like to have a look at MY Hammer Horror collectibles. Here is a video tour:
One of our favorite podcast is the Fearshop Horror Podcast. Hosted by Frank and Mike, who usually spend the show arguing, review various horror flicks ranging from old school classics to the new movies of today. If you have not heard them yet, give 'em a subscribe on iTunes.
Recently they sent over a box of goodies to Tanya who took a couple of pics for the boys. Video of Tanya's box of goodies can be seen here. I'm a little pissed I missed out on them TastyKakes.
We went to Monsterpalooza in Burbank last week and had a blast! For those not in the know Monsterpalooza is an amazing horror convention that more about the art of horror. Sure, there are guests and films, but it mostly features sculpts, masks and effects.
There is even a fantastic museum there, it really is a very cool experience. I'll post some more pictures up this week, in the meantime here's one with Tanya and Mike Hill's life-size creation; Hammer's Werewolf. It's a perfect homage to Oliver Reed.
Special thanks to Corpsy of Girls and Corpses magazine for letting us hang out with them. Monsterpaloooza is an awesome event, be sure to check it out next year!
It's well known that both Tanya and I are big Hammer Horror fans. If you love those movies as much as us, you gotta pick up the magazine Little Shoppe of Horrors. It's really is the most in depth coverage of the Hammer Films. I first happened across it about 15 years ago with the Dracula "unofficial" trilogy of Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Taste the Blood of Dracula and Scars of Dracula issue back when I was still doing work as an extra (or background actor) in Burbank. I've been following this magazine ever since and it continues to be a great read. Every issue is a labor of love with in-depth coverage, amazing artwork (some of which is by Bruce Timm of Batman: The Animated Series fame), incredible interviews and more. For the cover price of around $10 it is far worth it's price.
So pick up a few issues for your self by going on to the website, http://www.littleshoppeofhorrors.com. You won't regret it.
The Scream Queen of Adult Entertainment, Tanya Tate, is always asked about her Hammer Horror collection. Here the sexy star shows off her memorabilia. From Dracula figures and Ingrid Pitt models to books and CD soundtracks, Tanya has a collection that would make Christopher Lee proud. Have a look for yourself! Is there something Tanya is missing from her collection? Let her know with a comment below!
The good people at Fearshop.com have sent some goodies to Tanya Tate! Fearshop is the place to go to for all your Horror T-shirt needs. You want some Walking Dead, Friday the 13th, Evil Dead or any other Horror T-shirt then you have got to visit their website. They have the goods. The guys from Fearshop also do a bi-weekly podcast and as many of you know, Tanya is a Hammer Horror fan. So see what the Fearshop guys sent over to the "Scream Queen of Adult Entertainment".
LOS ANGELES, CA, March 4, 2011-Famous Monsters of Filmland announced today a change in date and venue for it's first annual Imagi-Movies Film Festival! The three-day film festival will be held at the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills, located at 9036 Wilshire Blvd. from April 8-10, celebrating the legacy of Forrest J Ackerman, America's #1 Sci-fi Fan.


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Permethrin Cream 5% for Scabies
How It Works
Prescription-strength permethrin 5% kills the scabies mite. The medicine will come with instructions, and your doctor will also give you a treatment schedule. The National Institutes of Health recommends the following use of 5% permethrin cream for scabies:
National Institutes of Health information available online: www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a698037.html.
Why It Is Used
Permethrin cream (Elimite) is one of the first medicines doctors prescribe to cure a scabies infestation.1 It is the treatment of choice for children and for women who are pregnant or breast-feeding. Permethrin 5% cream is considered safe for infants as young as 2 months old.2
Permethrin should be used with caution on people who are allergic to pyrethrin products or chrysanthemums.
How Well It Works
Research has shown permethrin to be more effective than lindane, without the risk of rare yet severe side effects.3 A single application of permethrin cream (Elimite) cures most scabies infestations. Itching usually decreases significantly within 24 hours, though some itching is common for up to several weeks after treatment.
People who have crusted (Norwegian) scabies (rare) may need to apply the medicine several times. It may be necessary to follow the initial permethrin treatment with other scabies medicines (such as ivermectin, lindane, or sulfur) to cure this form of scabies.
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Permethrin is considered very safe. Possible side effects include:
If these side effects persist, call your doctor.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
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Itching commonly continues for up to several weeks after treatment with a scabies medicine. This doesn't mean that the scabies mites are still alive. It means that the body is still reacting to the mites and their feces.
Unless your doctor recommends it, do not apply permethrin scabies medicine (Elimite) more than once. Overuse of scabies medicines can irritate the skin and may increase the risk of side effects.
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Kawasaki's all-new supercharged H2 is going to be packed with high-spec components, will pump out around 250bhp and is expected to cost in excess of £20,000. But is there any point in a 250bhp plus road going sportsbike?
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MCN Senior Road Tester Michael Neeves is at the launch of the eagerly awaited new KTM RC 390 in Italy today. Costing £4995 the single-cylinder 43bhp, 373.2cc machine is aimed at younger riders and can be ridden on an A2 licence from the age of 19. Its closest rivals will be the new Honda CBR300R and Kawasaki Ninja 300R, but ...
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First there was the Kawasaki Ninja 30. Then KTM joined the 300-or-so class with the announcement of the RC390. And now, Honda has gotten in on the action. But is it too little too late? Has Honda missed its opportunity with the delayed CBR300R?
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The standard KTM Adventure is hardly under-powered, producing a claimed 150bhp. But that wasn't enough, so KTM recently unveiled the Super Adventure, which gets the same engine as the Super Duke R and 180bhp.
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Lane splitting
Lane splitting refers to a two-wheeled vehicle moving between roadway lanes of vehicles that are proceeding in the same direction. More narrowly, it refers to overtaking slow or stopped vehicles by traveling between lanes.[1][2] It is also sometimes called lane sharing, whitelining,[3] filtering, or stripe-riding.[4] Alternatively, lane splitting has been used to describe moving through traffic that is in motion while filtering is used to describe moving through traffic that is stopped.[5][6]
Lane splitting by motorcycles is illegal in certain places, such as most US states with one notable exception being California, but widely used and legal in many other countries.[2] Additionally, the legality of lane splitting for motorcycles and bicycles is the same in some places, such as California,[7] but different in other places, such as Nebraska, where lane splitting is prohibited specifically for motorcycles and is therefore lawful for bicycles.[8]
In the developing world[edit]
In population-dense and traffic-congested urban areas, particularly in the developing world, the space between larger vehicles is filled with a wide variety of different kinds of two-wheeled vehicles, as well as pedestrians, and many other human or animal powered conveyances.[9] In places such as Bangkok, Thailand and in Indonesia, the ability of motorcycles to take advantage of the space between cars has led to the growth of a motorcycle taxi industry.[10][11] In Indonesia, the motorcycle is the most common type of vehicle.[12]
Unlike typical developed nations that have only a handful of vehicle types on their roads, many types of transport will share the same roads as cars and trucks; this diversity is extreme in Delhi, India, where more than 40 modes of transportation regularly use the roads. In contrast, New York City, for example, has perhaps five modes, and in parts of America a vast majority of traffic is made up of two types of vehicles on the road, cars and trucks.[13] It has been suggested that highly diverse and adaptive modes of road use are capable of moving very large numbers of people in a given space compared with cars and trucks remaining within the bounds of marked lanes.[14][15] On roads where modes of transportation are mingled this can cause a reduced efficiency for all modes.[16]
Filtering forward[edit]
Filtering forward, or filtering, is a technique used by bicyclists and motorcyclists to pass a stopped or slow-moving lane of congested traffic by traveling in unused lane space. When the space used is between two lines of vehicles, this is also known as lane splitting, but filtering can be accomplished by using space on the outside edge of same-direction traffic as well. There can be a significant saving of time by bypassing what otherwise would be obstructions.[17][18]
Lane splitting is controversial in the United States,[19][20][21][22] and is sometimes an issue in other countries. Questions are debated as to whether or not it is legal, whether or not it should be legal, and whether or not it should be practiced regardless of legality. Bills to legalize lane splitting have been introduced in state legislatures around the US over the last twenty years but so far none has been enacted.[23][24][25][26][27]
Filtering forward, in stopped or extremely slow traffic, requires very slow speed and awareness that in a door zone, vehicle doors may unexpectedly open. Also, unexpected vehicle movements such as lane changes may occur with little warning. Buses and tractor-trailers require extreme care, as the cyclist may be nearly invisible to the drivers who may not expect someone to be filtering forward. To avoid a hook collision with a turning vehicle at an intersection after filtering forward to the intersection, cyclists are taught to either take a position directly in front of the stopped lead vehicle, or stay behind the lead vehicle. Cyclists should not stop directly at the passenger side of the lead vehicle, that being a blind spot.[28][29][30]
There is no safety research in the United States which has directly examined the question of lane splitting, in spite of the opportunity to compare similar populations of riders in the US who lane split in California but do not (legally) do so elsewhere. The European MAIDS report studied the causes of motorcycle accidents in four countries where it is legal and one where it is not, yet reached no conclusion as to whether it contributed to or prevented accidents.[4]
Proponents of lane splitting state the Hurt Report of 1981 reached the conclusion that lane splitting improves motorcycle safety by reducing rear end crashes.[22] Lane splitting supporters also state that the US DOT FARS database shows that fatalities from rear end collisions into motorcycles are 30% lower in California than in Florida or Texas, states with similar riding seasons and populations but which do not lane split.[31] No specifics are given about where this conclusion is found in the FARS system. The database is available online to the public.[32] The NHSTA does say, based on the Hurt Report, that lane splitting "slightly reduces" rear-end accidents, and is worthy of further study due to the possible congestion reduction benefits.[2]
Lane splitting is never mentioned anywhere in the Hurt Report, and all of the data was collected in California, so no comparison was made between of lane splitting vs. non-lane splitting. The Hurt Report ends with a list of 55 specific findings, such as "Fuel system leaks and spills are present in 62% of the motorcycle accidents in the post-crash phase. This represents an undue hazard for fire." None of these findings mentions lane splitting, or rear end collisions. The legislative and law enforcement advice that follows this list does not mention lane splitting or suggest laws be changed with regard to lane splitting.
In Europe, the MAIDS Report was conducted using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) standards in 1999–2000 and collected data on over 900 motorcycle accidents in five countries, along with non-accident exposure data (control cases) to measure the contribution of different factors to accidents, in the same way as the Hurt Report. Four of the five countries where data was collected allow lane splitting, while one does not, yet none of the conclusions contained in the MAIDS Final Report note any difference in rear-end accidents or accidents during lane splitting. It is notable that the pre-crash motion of the motorcycle or scooter was lane-splitting in only 0.4% of cases, in contrast to the more common accident situations such as "Moving in a straight line, constant speed" 49.1% and "Negotiating a bend, constant speed" 12.1%. The motorcyclist was stopped in traffic prior to 2.8% of the accidents.[4]
Preliminary results from a study in the United Kingdom, conducted by the University of Nottingham for the Department for Transport, show that filtering is responsible for around 5% of motorcycle Killed or Seriously Injured (KSI) accidents.[33] It also found that in these KSI cases the motorist is twice as likely to be at fault as the motorcyclist due to motorists "failing to take into account possible motorcycle riding strategies in heavy traffic".[33]
Debate over safety and benefits[edit]
Proponents state that the practice relieves congestion by removing commuters from cars and gets them to use the unused roadway space between the cars,[2][22][34][35] and that lane splitting also improves fuel efficiency and motorcyclists' comfort in extreme weather.[36] In the US, transportation engineers have suggested that motorcycles are too few, and will remain too few, to justify any special accommodation or legislative consideration, such as lane splitting. Unless it becomes likely that very large number of Americans will switch to motorcycles, they will offer no measurable congestion relief even with lane splitting. Rather, laws and infrastructure should merely incorporate motorcycles into normal traffic with minimal disruption and risk to riders.[37]
Potentially, lane splitting can lead to road rage on the part of drivers, who feel frustrated that the motorcyclists are able to filter through the traffic jam.[22][35][38] However, the Hurt Report indicates that, "Deliberate hostile action by a motorist against a motorcycle rider is a rare accident cause." Lane splitting is not recommended for beginning motorcyclists, and riders who do not practice it in their home area are strongly cautioned that it can be risky if they attempt it when traveling to a jurisdiction where it is allowed.[19][39][40][41] Similarly, for drivers new to places where it is done, it can be startling and scary.[21][42]
Responsibility and liability issues[edit]
Another consideration is that lane splitting in the United States, even where legal, can possibly leave the rider legally responsible. In California, it is legal only if done safely: "'Safely' is always very much a judgment call. The mere fact that an accident happened while a rider was lane splitting is very strong evidence that on that occasion it wasn't safe to do so...If you've been involved in an accident you will have a hard job convincing an insurance adjuster that the accident was not completely your fault."[22][43][44][45][46]
When the 2005 bill to legalize lane splitting in Washington State was defeated, a Washington State Patrol spokesman testified in opposition, saying that, "it would be difficult to set and enforce standards for appropriate speeds and conditions for lane splitting. And he said that officials with the California Highway Patrol told him that they wished they had never begun allowing the practice."[47] The California Highway Patrol's official policy is that lane splitting is "permissible but must be done in a safe and prudent manner".[45]
Safety aspects[edit]
California's DMV handbook for motorcycles advises significant caution regarding lane splitting: "Cars and motorcycles each need a full lane to operate safely. Lane sharing is not safe. Riding between rows of stopped or moving cars in the same lane can leave you vulnerable. A car could turn suddenly or change lanes, a door could open, or a hand could come out of a window. Discourage lane sharing by others."[45][48] The Oxford Systematics report commissioned by VicRoads, the traffic regulating authority in Victoria, Australia, found that for motorcycles filtering through stationary traffic "No examples have yet been located where such filtering has been the cause of an incident."[49]
In the United Kingdom, Motorcycle ROADCRAFT, the police riding manual, is explicit about the advantages of filtering but also states that "The advantages of filtering along or between stopped or slow moving traffic have to be weighed against the disadvantages of increased vulnerability while filtering".[50]
After discussing the pros and cons at great length, motorcycle safety guru David L. Hough ultimately argues that a rider, given the choice to legally lane split, is probably safer doing so, than to remain stationary in a traffic jam. However, Hough has not gone on record as favoring changing the law in jurisdictions where it is not permitted, in contrast to his public education and legislative efforts in favor of rider training courses and helmet use. A literature review of lane-sharing by the Oregon Department of Transportation notes "a potential safety benefit is increased visibility for the motorcyclist. Splitting lanes allows the motorcyclist to see what the traffic is doing ahead and be able to proactively maneuver." However, the review was limited and "Benefits were often cited in motorcyclist advocacy publications and enthusiast articles."[51]
Legal status[edit]
A frequently asked question by motorcyclists is "Is lane splitting legal?"[52] In Australia a furor erupted when the transport authorities decided to consolidate and clarify the disparate set of laws that collectively made lane splitting illegal. Because of the very opacity of the laws they were attempting to clarify, many Australians had actually believed that lane splitting was legal, and they had been practicing it as long as they had been riding. They interpreted the action as a move to change the law to make lane splitting illegal. Because of the volume of public comment opposed to this, the authorities decided to take no further action and so the situation remained as it was[53][54][55][56] until the 1st of July, 2014 when NSW made lane filtering and lane splitting legal under strict conditions. [57]
The legal confusion in Australia is not exceptional. In a 2012 California survey only 53% of non-motorcycle drivers knew lane splitting is legal.[58] No law explicitly and clearly prohibits lane splitting, and it has become the policy of law enforcement, the courts, and the public in California to tolerate it when it is done safely. However, those engaged in unsafe behavior, including unsafe lane splitting, can still be cited for violating certain sections of the vehicle code.[59] Motorcycle safety author and consultant Pat Hahn wrote in his 50-state handbook of US motorcycling laws that:
"Lane sharing with vehicles other than motorcycles is not legal anywhere, including California. However, it is tolerated in California to large degree" and that "California is the only state in the country that allows lane splitting, lane sharing, and filtering. However, contrary to legend, it is not legal. Nor is it illegal. It falls in a gray area unique to California … You can (and will) get stopped and cited if you're riding like an ass."[60]
California has no laws explicitly prohibiting lane splitting, and is the only U.S. state in which it is officially stated that lane splitting, when done safely, is legal.[61][62]
California is not the only state in which there is no traffic law that explicitly prohibits lane splitting,[38][40][43][63] but officials rely on other laws to regularly interpret lane splitting as unlawful.[43] For example, New Mexico does not address lane splitting by name, but has language requiring turn signals be used continuously for at least 100 ft (30 m) before changing lanes,[64] as well as other codes which may be cited by an officer.[59][65] Many other states have identical codes, derived from the Uniform Vehicle Code.[66]
Other jurisdictions have similar or identical current legal codes, yet their authorities have, over time, interpreted the law as prohibiting lane splitting in all cases, even when done safely, and so riders are cited for it.[67] For instance, in Colorado and Nebraska the law explicitly prohibits lane splitting, while permitting motorcycles to ride two abreast, and making an exception for police officers.[8][68]
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Further reading[edit]
All available from the United Kingdom Department of Transport websites (executive summary), and the Transportation Research Board Record publication:
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- WSP Policy and Research UK, Motorcycles and congestion: the effect of modal shift: Phase 2 - Modelling Methodology. 2004, WSP for Uk Department for Transport: Cambridge UK. p. 47.
- WSP Policy and Research UK, et al., Motorcycles and congestion: the effect of modal shift: Summary Final Report. 2004, WSP for Uk Department for Transport: Cambridge UK. p. 26.
- Burge, P., et al., The modelling of motorcycle ownership and usage: a UK study. Transportation Research Record J Transportation Research Board, 2007(2031): p. 59-68.


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Noted IoT expert and researcher Joseph di Paolantonio (pictured below) has joined the @ThingsExpo faculty. Joseph, who describes himself as an "Independent Thinker" from DataArchon, will speak on the topic of "Smart Grids & Managing Big Utilities." Over his career, Joseph di Paolantonio has worked in the energy, renewables, aerospace, telecommunications, and information technology industries. His expertise is in data analysis, system engineering, Bayesian statistics, data warehouses, business intelligence, data mining, predictive methods, and very large databases (VLDB). Prior to DataArchon, he served as a VP and Principal Analyst with Constellation Group. He is a member of the Boulder (Colo.) Brain Trust, an organization with a mission "to benefit the Business Intelligence and data management industry by providing pro bono exchange of information between vendors and independent analysts on new trends and technologies and to provide vendors with constructive feedback on their of...
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Software AG helps organizations transform into Digital Enterprises, so they can differentiate from competitors and better engage customers, partners and employees. Using the Software AG Suite, companies can close the gap between business and IT to create digital systems of differentiation that drive front-line agility. We offer four on-ramps to the Digital Enterprise: alignment through collaborative process analysis; transformation through portfolio management; agility through process automation and integration; and visibility through intelligent business operations and big data.
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There will be 50 billion Internet connected devices by 2020. Today, every manufacturer has a propriety protocol and an app. How do we securely integrate these "things" into our lives and businesses in a way that we can easily control and manage? Even better, how do we integrate these "things" so that they control and manage each other so our lives become more convenient or our businesses become more profitable and/or safe? We have heard that the best interface is no interface. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Chris Matthieu, Co-Founder & CTO at Octoblu, Inc., will discuss how these devices generate enough data to learn our behaviors and simplify/improve our lives. What if we could connect everything to everything? I'm not only talking about connecting things to things but also systems, cloud services, and people. Add in a little machine learning and artificial intelligence and now we have something interesting...
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Last week, while in San Francisco, I used the Uber app and service four times. All four experiences were great, although one of the drivers stopped for 30 seconds and then left as I was walking up to the car. He must have realized I was a blogger. None the less, the next car was just a minute away and I suffered no pain. In this article, my colleague, Ved Sen, Global Head, Advisory Services Social, Mobile and Sensors at Cognizant shares his experiences and insights.
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) irreversibly encoded. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Peter Dunkley, Technical Director at Acision, will look at how this identity problem can be solved and discuss ways to use existing web identities for real-time communication.
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Can call centers hang up the phones for good? Intuitive Solutions did. WebRTC enabled this contact center provider to eliminate antiquated telephony and desktop phone infrastructure with a pure web-based solution, allowing them to expand beyond brick-and-mortar confines to a home-based agent model. It also ensured scalability and better service for customers, including MUY! Companies, one of the country's largest franchise restaurant companies with 232 Pizza Hut locations. This is one example of WebRTC adoption today, but the potential is limitless when powered by IoT. Attendees will learn real-world benefits of WebRTC and explore future possibilities, as WebRTC and IoT intersect to improve customer service.
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From telemedicine to smart cars, digital homes and industrial monitoring, the explosive growth of IoT has created exciting new business opportunities for real time calls and messaging. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Ivelin Ivanov, CEO and Co-Founder of Telestax, will share some of the new revenue sources that IoT created for Restcomm – the open source telephony platform from Telestax. Ivelin Ivanov is a technology entrepreneur who founded Mobicents, an Open Source VoIP Platform, to help create, deploy, and manage applications integrating voice, video and data. He is the co-founder of TeleStax, an Open Source Cloud Communications company that helps the shift from legacy IN/SS7 telco networks to IP-based cloud comms. An early investor in multiple start-ups, he still finds time to code for his companies and contribute to open source projects.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to create new business models as significant as those that were inspired by the Internet and the smartphone 20 and 10 years ago. What business, social and practical implications will this phenomenon bring? That's the subject of "Monetizing the Internet of Things: Perspectives from the Front Lines," an e-book released today and available free of charge from Aria Systems, the leading innovator in recurring revenue management.
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges.
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There's Big Data, then there's really Big Data from the Internet of Things. IoT is evolving to include many data possibilities like new types of event, log and network data. The volumes are enormous, generating tens of billions of logs per day, which raise data challenges. Early IoT deployments are relying heavily on both the cloud and managed service providers to navigate these challenges. In her session at 6th Big Data Expo®, Hannah Smalltree, Director at Treasure Data, to discuss how IoT, Big Data and deployments are processing massive data volumes from wearables, utilities and other machines.
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Erik Lagerway, Co-founder of Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services to the modern P2P RTC era of OTT cloud assisted services.
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While great strides have been made relative to the video aspects of remote collaboration, audio technology has basically stagnated. Typically all audio is mixed to a single monaural stream and emanates from a single point, such as a speakerphone or a speaker associated with a video monitor. This leads to confusion and lack of understanding among participants especially regarding who is actually speaking. Spatial teleconferencing introduces the concept of acoustic spatial separation between conference participants in three dimensional space. This has been shown to significantly improve comprehension and conference efficiency.
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, will discuss single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example to explain some of these concepts including when to use different storage models.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Gridstore™, the leader in software-defined storage (SDS) purpose-built for Windows Servers and Hyper-V, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Gridstore™ is the leader in software-defined storage purpose built for virtualization that is designed to accelerate applications in virtualized environments. Using its patented Server-Side Virtual Controller™ Technology (SVCT) to eliminate the I/O blender effect and accelerate applications Gridstore delivers vmOptimized™ Storage that self-optimizes to each application or VM across both virtual and physical environments. Leveraging a grid architecture, Gridstore delivers the first end-to-end storage QoS to ensure the most important App or VM performance is never compromised. The storage grid, that uses Gridstore's performance optimized nodes or capacity optimized nodes, starts with as few a...
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The Transparent Cloud-computing Consortium (abbreviation: T-Cloud Consortium) will conduct research activities into changes in the computing model as a result of collaboration between "device" and "cloud" and the creation of new value and markets through organic data processing High speed and high quality networks, and dramatic improvements in computer processing capabilities, have greatly changed the nature of applications and made the storing and processing of data on the network commonplace. These technological reforms have not only changed computers and smartphones, but are also changing the data processing model for all information devices. In particular, in the area known as M2M (Machine-To-Machine), there are great expectations that information with a new type of value can be produced using a variety of devices and sensors saving/sharing data via the network and through large-scale cloud-type data processing. This consortium believes that attaching a huge number of devic...
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Torq, there seems to be a bit of a mismatch here. Perfect took tile 4 and you have him marked as taking and completing tile 5. My map makes perfects tile line up on 4 so I dont know what is going to happen with Jfrazierjr. Maybe he should take 5 instead but I thought id bring this up before a lot of mapping has taken place.
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Wow what a great display of everone's different map styles
"The Enemy's Gate Is Down" - Ender Wiggen, Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Software Used- ME v16, My Hands 1.0, My Brain
All Maps are either Copyright J.L.Odom and Bardic Fire Studios or under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License (Note it applies to all countries even though it's United States)
Another fetaher in your cap REdrobes for the close attention you are paying to this project and the hours you are putting into it.
Jfrazierjr, would you mind mapping area 5 rather than 4? I see that 5 is in any case theheight field that Redrobes has supplied.
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Software Used: Terranoise, Wilbur, Terragen, The Gimp, Inkscape, Mojoworld
:: Edit - Sorry, I didn't see that TM had handed his tile on but I'll leave the post below anyway::
There seems to be a bit of confusion here. This is what I can see on the top rank of tiles (click the 'thread' sort to see the map postings displayed in numerical order):
Map 1 - Alucard
Map 2 & 3 - Darkone
Map 4 - Perfect
Map 5 - Terrain Monkey (jfrazierjr?)
Map 26 - Bohunk.
So it looks like all the top tiles (indeed all the tiles) have gone, I'm not sure where this leaves jfrazierjr unless we open up more tiles to be mapped or start re-assigning tiles which have been handed out at the begining of the project but which have not been mapped at all.
I would suggest the latter option (use it or lose it) as it would be good to have this region completed before moving on. For example, I'm not sure if Hans Worst (Map 11) has moved onto other things? Perhaps that could be reassigned to jfrazierjr and if Hans reappears we could start to create more tiles to map or encourage people to do more local mapping in the existing region (eg. Towns , cities , localities etc).
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Looks like I've finally got a little bit of time and come late to the party. Map 11 looks interesting (if Hans has really gone walkies). There's Ravs' Beastlands to the East, Baviron's island chain to the South (and a small part of a province), NeonKnight's Thanelands to the North.
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Just to let you know I haven't abandoned the project. I've got other things on my plate at the moment and am taking a bit of a break, but I fully intend on finishing, so there will be no giving away of my spot, if you please!
Oh well ... hopefully when region 2 comes along it'll fit with an availability to do maps
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Valarian, you can always pick a town, city or a locality within a region and map that...
Is this the entire world? If so, I am sad that there are no pieces left.


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This driller is ready to rock
Rig supplier and operator Helmerich & Payne is a promising play on the domestic drilling boom.
By Igor Greenwald, MoneyShow.com
These are momentous times in the North American drilling industry.
On Monday, natural gas prices soared some 10% from a decade-low after key producer Chesapeake Energy (CHK) said it would cut its drilling of wells containing only natural gas by half, shifting resources to shale plays yielding the much more profitable crude and other liquids.
The cuts are far short of what would be needed to curb the epic glut threatening to overwhelm the nation's gas storage capacity later this year. Yet President Obama promoted natural gas drilling as the solution to America's energy and job deficits in Tuesday's State of the Union Address.
Meanwhile, U.S. crude output is already booming, thanks to advances in extracting oil from rocks with "fracking" and horizontal drilling. The Energy Information Administration expects oil output in the continental U.S. to jump 20% between 2010 and 2020, according to its latest upgraded estimate.
As with any resource boom, the real money here comes from selling shovels to the prospectors. In this case, the shovels are land rigs, and contract driller Helmerich & Payne (HP) is the leading supplier and operator of such rigs in the continental U.S.
Moreover, it makes the most technologically advanced rigs in the industry, ones better adapted to the technical difficulties of shale drilling. As a result, H&P can charge significantly higher day rates and enjoy fatter margins than rivals like Patterson-UTI (PTEN) and Nabors Industries (NBR), and still provide a better value proposition, thanks to its rigs' increased efficiency.
These advantages are manifest in the 25% revenue surge H&P delivered in November, as well as the 46% jump in profits. The company has more cash than debt, and is valued at an attractive 12 times estimated earnings for the current fiscal year, and less than seven times trailing cash flow.
Roughly three-quarters of its rigs are drilling for oil and natural gas liquids, as opposed to "dry" gas, so shifts such as the one announced yesterday by Chesapeake play to H&P's strengths. Revenue for its land-based rigs, a key demand metric, is forecast to rise 5% in the most recent quarter.
Goldman Sachs opined last month that "owing to the shale revolution, U.S. land rig demand has just entered the second phase of a multi-year pick-up."
Even if exploration and drilling stall, many of the outdated land rigs pressed into service during the first stage of the boom are due to be retired and replaced. Goldman thinks the long-overdue recovery in natural gas prices could spur demand even more a couple of years down the road.
HP is run by the grandson of a barnstorming pilot who founded the firm 92 years ago. The founder's son and longtime CEO, who passed away two weeks ago, was a revered civic leader in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
That death spurred profit-taking in the stock -- probably on worries about sales by insiders, who haven't been shy in the past about unloading at levels near the current one.
But this is an inexpensive stock with a dominant competitive position in a booming industry, stable and skilled leadership, and very bright prospects. The profit-taking seems to have run its course following yesterday's intraday reversal. HP is headed higher.
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Myth, the Militia, and Politicalprof
So this post has generated a lot of commentary for me—a lot more than most of my posts do.
Much of the commentary has been supportive: many people seem aware of the complex history of the militia in the United States, and to know how it was limited in its battle effectiveness … not to mention its long association with putting down slave rebellions in the American colonies. A few commentators suggested I was too dismissive of the role of the militia in the Revolution, noting it was a significant force in the Southern colonies during the war. This, as it happens, is true, and I tried to dodge some of those comments by sticking the phrase, "the militia had their uses in the Revolution" into my post. That was a bit too subtle for some, it seems.
Then there were the haters. For them, I was vile, hateful, stupid, ridiculous, moronic, and in at least one case, "full of shit." For them, no facts matter, only the myth of the militia does. Their passion for the myth is only intensified by their sense that they, today, are reenacting their forefathers' fateful stand against British tyranny.
One thing that's striking about the myth of the militia is just how ancient it is. As it happens, the Framers started it … but not at all for the reasons you might think. Rather, they invented the myth of the militia for contemporary political reasons: to assuage popular fears that a new United States would build a standing army.See, the Framers hated the notion of a standing army. Such armies were both expensive and could be used as tools of state repression. They were anathema to republican ideology. On the other hand, militias had proved largely useless in the Revolution—useless enough in any case that George Washington, who ought to have known, really wanted the US to build a standing army. How to square this circle? Lie. Promise that the militia is the answer … even though you knew it wasn't. Then hold on and hope for the best.As I put it in my book, Rage on the Right: The American Militia Movement from Ruby Ridge to Homeland Security:
Intellectually, the militia's inadequacy during the Revolution presented the designers of the new nation's government with a challenge: their practical experience emphasized the importance of permanent, professional military institutions even as their ideology insisted that such forces were dangerous. In response, even Federalist supporters of a strong central government and professional military forces came to assert the significance of the militia—particularly the right of private citizens to own guns that could be used in defense of liberty—in their Constitutional theory. Two quotes from the Federalist Papers can illustrate this move. Writing in defense of the establishment of a standing army in Federalist [28], for example, Alexander Hamilton, as strong an advocate of centralized government power as could be found among the Constitution's creators, nonetheless insisted that militia power could be used to check the power of a professional military by using tactics that mimicked those allegedly used effectively by the militia during the war:
"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government…. If the federal army should be able to quell the resistance of one State, the distant States would be able to make head with fresh forces. The advantages obtained in one place must be abandoned to subdue the opposition in others; and the moment the part which had been reduced to submission was left to itself, its efforts would be renewed, and its resistance revive."
James Madison made similar arguments in Federalist [46], even going so far as to claim, against all immediate experience, that the Revolution was won by the armed militia:
"Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government: still it would not be going too far to say that the State governments with the people on their side would be able to repel the danger… . To [this army] would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence. It may well be doubted whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops. Those who are best acquainted with the late successful resistance of this country against the British will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it."
This is virtually guaranteed, Madison continues, because U.S. citizens have "the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation." The myth of the militia thus became a tool with which early political leaders, even those advocating relatively centralized political power and having experienced the inadequacy of the militia during the Revolution, could resolve the needs of modern political systems for organized militaries while answering the demands of republican ideology.The Framers' legacy lingers today in the echoes of quotes in which the Framers are seen to have wanted the militia to protect us against an evil state. In fact, what they were doing was reassuring their fellow citizens that the US wouldn't need to build a standing army. But such nuance has been lost to the mythologizers. Instead, the Framers' words magically foretold life in the contemporary United States, where only heavily armed citizens can save America from "government." Made up of Americans. Elected by Americans.Because, you know. Because.
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Songs Of Desperation?
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Singers are the hottest celebrity partners lately. The list of companies sidling up to Beyonce, Adam Levine of Maroon 5, Jennifer Hudson, Nicki Minaj, Alicia Keys, Will. I. Am (Black-Eyed Peas), and more is surprising. The list includes Intel, PepsiCo, Weight Watchers, Microsoft, and Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). While I don't begrudge these performers a cushy gig giving them a respite from touring during the iTunes era, I have to wonder what their corporate partners are getting out of it.
Keys To The Rescue
The two most surprising lineups are Alicia Keys fronting for BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) as global creative director and Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) taking on Adam Levine and Nicki Minaj as designers of clothing lines for KMart. People Magazine may be the next investment bible if this trend continues. Are these songs, or signs, of desperation or canny business moves?
A year ago Keys described herself as an iPhone junkie and tweeted from her iPhone five days before the big launch. What...hypocrisy in celebrity endorsement? Shocked, I'm shocked.
In a live blog from the BlackBerry10 presser in NYC on January 30 on the BlackBerry 10 models, writers wondered what will the "Girl On Fire" do for BlackBerry? The company states in a press release," Keys revealed BlackBerry's new "Keep Moving" Project, which engages BlackBerry users in exclusive and compelling experiences ... Renowned film director Robert Rodriguez and author Neil Gaiman will join Keys as the first three "BlackBerry Partners" leveraging the power of the new platform to create original content and special user engagements." Whatever that means.
Will she be able to expand the 70,000 apps available for the new 10 models to the 400,000 plus on Android and iPhone? Will she be able to keep BlackBerry's 30 million enterprise customers on the line as more and more companies allow employees to use their own phones? These two factors, apps and business customer losses, are the biggest problems BlackBerry faces.
David Pogue of the New York Times gave a 60 second review of the new Z10 phone and concluded, "If you gotta bet the company on one phone the Z10 is really impressive." Is it a safe bet? Find out in mid-March when the new phones become available pricing between $150-200. Q10 phones likely aren't coming out before May according to AP reports.
The stock has had a huge move almost tripling since its 52 week low of $6.22 in September. Although BlackBerry has $5.31 cash per share, it also has negative EPS (-$1.67), negative return on equity (-8.67%) and negative operating margin (-2.85%). With such a big run and more questions than answers, investors may want to hold off. Frankly, I think Keys will be "jonesing" for her iPhone before long.
Singing For Their Supper
Does KMart still tread water with lines of clothing coming from Adam Levine and Nicki Minaj? Sears Holdings has made some out of the box moves lately adding Paul DePodesta of "Moneyball" fame to its Board of Directors. Pinning its hopes on two clothing lines is at least an attempt to make the chain relevant but actually bringing in shoppers is another thing. It will offer the two lines in-store and on ShopYourWay.com, the online site and also interact with customers with ongoing updates about the two singers.
Sears Holdings, owner of the Sears and KMart chains, has negative EPS of -$26.84, more than half the share price with a 43.90% short interest. Total cash at $6.22 million is dwarfed by total debt at $4 billion. The return on equity is a dismal -48.62%. Sears Holdings reports again on February 28.
Bruce Berkowitz' view of Sears Holdings is that selling it off piece by piece as real estate would result in unlocking value. To that end it's his second largest holding with 16,934,080 shares owned by his Fairholme Capital Management for 13.4% of its portfolio. His call is for a breakup value in the mid $100s.
All Hail The Queen
Netflix has inked a content deal with Queen Latifah for first look multi-year rights to her movie production company output. Her Flavor Unit Entertainment was responsible for such hits as Bringing Down the House and Beauty Shop.
The stock has been on a tear since its last earnings release up 69% getting another upgrade on February 4 from BMO Capital to Market Perform and a price target of $165 expecting better subscriber numbers through 2014. But remember its latest 13 cent profit reported was well below the year ago number of $0.73.
Netflix and Amazon are running neck and neck in a content race with Amazon recently obtaining the rights to new episodes of Downton Abbey for their Prime streaming service. Quite the coup! Amazon has also announced it will create five original kids' shows. Amazon may have the higher P/E but Netflix with a P/E in the 500s is pretty pricey too.
Sure, it's nice that Netflix signed a deal with the Queen but Amazon has more going for it overall than Netflix. However, Netflix is gaining momentum and market sentiment and is probably a buy on any significant pullback.
BlackBerry is such a dicey proposition that I can't recommend it even if they could sign Elvis, Jimi, and Janis to be global directors. The company's launches are too far away and they just don't "have the apps for that." Maybe Sears is worth $160 on a breakup basis but that's not a very viable investment thesis. As for Netflix, I would prefer Amazon but of these three, Netflix seems to be the one with any promise going forward.
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