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Review by Matt S.
Here's the thing about Japan; it has the world's best transport network, bar none. You'll get around the cities easily, on time, and without spending too much, but you'll also use the trains an awful lot. While in Japan I've found myself catching the train to two, three, or even four different destinations each day in order to check out various different things, go to art galleries, or shopping malls.
Related reading: Matt's review of the last RPG Maker 'full' title on PC; RPG Maker MV.
Further to that, getting to the Hatsune Miku concert or Tokyo Game Show was a long trip indeed, as those were actually hosted in the city adjacent to Tokyo, and I was staying in the city on the other side of Tokyo. So, while the train was the best way to go, I found myself with a fair bit of downtime in the past couple of weeks, which has meant I've been playing my iPhone a great deal. For short trips of 10, 15, 20 minutes, or spending time standing in thick crowds during rush hour, the iPhone really is the best gaming platform there is (explaining in no small part why mobile games are so popular with the Japanese).
In the last week that I was there I was playing around with a very different kind of application, however. RPG Creator landed in my lap, and this is something I've wanted to have on my mobile devices for a very long time. RPG Creator is, effectively, the mobile version of the superb RPG Maker series. As the name suggests, these "games", which have been around for a long time now, allow people to build their own JRPGs, and don't require any coding skills whatsoever. A drag-and-drop interface makes building games a snap, and easy export options mean it's easy to then share your games with other players. With RPG Maker, the other players don't even need RPG Maker to play your games, and indeed we've seen some especially innovative storytellers use the software to produce commercial projects (To The Moon, anyone?).
|Clearly my game's going to be in the running for narrative prizes.
RPG Creator is a little different in that it does require the app to play other people's games, and you'll have to download those form an in-game user-generated content portal, much like you do in titles like LittleBigPlanet and Super Mario Maker. It's not a big deal for playing other people's games, as the interface is easy to navigate and the app itself is a free download (the premium-priced stuff is there for people who want additional options in creating games). It is just noteworthy that you won't be able to use RPG Creator to make commercial products – that being said, for professional RPG Maker users, this can be a useful little app for testing out ideas while on the go.
So, what was I able to achieve using RPG Creator while on Japanese transport? Quite a lot, actually. Bearing in mind that I was still learning the ropes with the interface and its quirks compared with RPG Maker, I was able to;
– Create a small island as an overworld map
– Create a farm, which had a woman NPC that would give the players their quest (and a cat that would purr if interacted with).
– Created a boat that players could use to reach a previously inaccessible bit of land.
– Created a dungeon, complete with boss, for players to challenge themselves with.
– Created three different enemies (slime! Zombie! Boss!), and developed the lead character's levelling, in terms of skills learned and so forth, to take players from level 1-10.
Obviously, in this state, my game is incredibly raw. It's painfully badly balanced, for a start, contains about four lines of stand-in dialogue, and none of the JRPG trappings that you'd expect from a game – no shopping, no inn-keepers and so on. This is by no means a complete game, but purely in the interests of experimenting with creating games on iPhone while filling in time on public transport, I'm quite impressed with what I've done.
A couple of quirks need to be noted, however; at the moment the localisation is quite terrible. The in-app help directory doesn't always make sense (for example, to import your own music assets you're told to Dropbox or email them, which is fine except it doesn't tell you where to dropbox or email them to, or how to retrieve those bits of content into the app itself). Worse, the default comments that pop up, in battle, for example (Zombie appeared! Amelia attacks!) have been directly translated from their Japanese counterparts, with no regards to English grammar or form (Zombieappeared! Ameliaof Attack!). Many of these can be edited from the database, which only takes a few minutes, but is a frustrating use of time nonetheless. A small few of the comments are not fixable, however, and it sends the editing pendant in me a little nuts to see such poor grammar in a game I created.
With RPG Maker on PC, if you weren't big on creating your own art and music assets (and it's a skillset I certainly don't have), it was incredibly easy to import extra graphics for environments, characters, and monsters into the software. Indeed, the amount DLC – paid and unpaid – available for the last two RPG Maker titles is a Godsend for people looking to infuse their games with atmosphere and aesthetics different to the standard, generic fantasy that comes with the default art work.
It's a little more of a process to get different art assets into RPG Creator (though visual art, like characters and environment settings, is much more straightforward than the mystery of getting music in there), and the default assets are also more limited than they are in RPG Maker. The results are attractive, and the games that you'll able to make on this thing look gorgeous on both iPhone and iPad, but the limitations are noticeable for people who have got experience with the PC RPG Makers.
There's plenty of room to patch out the issues that I have with RPG Creator at launch, and I'm sure the development team will do just that in the coming weeks and months. However, the inability to export the game into a format that would allow people to play in outside of the app or on PC is a real downer, though understandable. That issue I can't see the developer ever working out a solution for, which will mean that RPG Creator will always be a paired-down version of the PC original. It is, nonetheless, an awful lot of fun to play around with, and some of the stuff that other players are creating and then sticking on to the download portal are worth grabbing the app for in itself, even if you have no intention on creating your own games as well.
– Matt S.
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Drag show benefits LGBTQ and allies
April 13, 2015
"Raise your hand if you're gay," Crystyle Starr said. "Now raise your hand if you are straight."
More than half of the crowd raised their hands to let Starr, the emcee drag queen, know that there were multiple straight people in the crowd.
Shaking her head in laughter, Starr said, "That's one I'll never understand."
Starr, the retired diva, hosted the Drag Show Benefit event in the Student Union Ballroom this past Friday night to help raise awareness and money for the Gay-Lesbian Student Education Network program (Glisten), along with Common Ground, the organization on NKU's campus that is responsible for putting the event together.
Nick Snider, Common Ground Education Ambassador, contributed to the cause by advertising the event for both Common Ground and Glisten, an organization that supports the LGBTQ against both bullying and suicide.
"The main goal of Common Ground is to be a social, support, and educational student group for LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning) students and their allies," Snider said.
"The drag show is about visibility in a lot of ways. We get to celebrate our difference, have fun, and really raise money for a good cause. It's definitely one of our more social events, rather than being about education or support. But Common Ground does strive to give back to the community, and one of the ways in which we do this is through donating some of the proceeds of the show to the charity."
The charity is not the only one who benefits from the excitement of the drag show; the performers enjoy the environment the audience provides.
"My favorite part is always the crowd," Starr stated. "The energy that this crowd gives off is the most incredible thing ever. I actually retired from doing club shows and bar shows and all of that other nonsense. I literally now only do drag for NKU; solely for NKU. I love it, I really do."
Starr, along with many other drag queens, such as Sarah Jessica Darker, Mystique Summers, Chasity Marie, Desiree LaRue, Tara Newone, Aurora Starr, and Mirelle Jane Divine, all chose to dedicate their time for free to perform and earn tips from the audience in hopes to raise enough money to make a difference for the future.
"I have been doing this going on eight years," Starr laughed. "I love that we raise so much for charity, and seeing people crowd around the stage to give their money to a great cause."
Desiree LaRue, however, loves more than just the charity work.
"I do love doing good for charity, and giving back, but I also love the time I take to focus on my makeup," LaRue said. "It really gets me in the zone and in character."
While being in character, the drag queens interacted with the crowds to liven up the night.
Gabby Lock and Regan Lock, both NKU students, were led onto the stage by Starr to share the celebration of their upcoming birthdays with the audience.
"I like texted my boyfriend during the show 'I was just on stage with a drag queen; I'm like totally fulfilled," Gabby Lock laughed.
But without the persuasion of a friend, the girls might not have been there to celebrate.
"Our friend, Nicole, actually talked us in to coming tonight," Regan Lock said. "She was hounding us to come!"
"I did," Nicole Hall, another fellow NKU student, laughed. "My brother is gay, and I want to be able to support him and everything, and it's a good cause so why not? So I talked them into it."
The girls expressed how the drag queens not only gave them entertainment, but they gave them inspiration that can be used in the future.
"Crystyle Starr was right, there will always be someone that loves you unconditionally," Nicole Levesque, NKU student, said.
"She [Starr] taught us that self-love is important," Hall said in agreement.
The Drag Show Benefit accomplished more than just raising money; it pushed students to see that wig or no wig, makeup or no makeup, or even straight or gay, love is equality.

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With an eye toward growing its influence in the supply chain management field, the University of Michigan has revamped its 10-month Master of Supply Chain Management (MSCM) program to include a stronger emphasis on data analytics and leadership skills. The university also created what it calls the Supply Chain Consulting Studio.
The changes were partially driven by the school's desire to double the number of applicants it accepts for the nine-year-old master's program, from between 20 and 30 per year to 50 to 60. A surge of applicants in recent years meant that the school has had to turn away many high-quality applicants it would have liked to accommodate, said Hyun-Soo Ahn, professor of operations and management science at Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business and faculty director of the MSCM program.
One of the biggest changes involved replacing a summer internship format with the Supply Chain Consulting Studio, a six-credit-hour course offered during the winter semester (which runs from January to April) that combines solving a real-world problem with classroom and case discussions. An advisory group of companies will submit their real-world problems to the master's students. Teams of four to five students will then work on the problems throughout the semester. While most of the work will be done at school, the students will also visit company sites to collect data and conduct interviews. The teams will present their solutions to the companies at the end of the semester.
The curriculum has also been altered to more closely align with the supply chain skills that are in high demand in the marketplace. For example, students now must complete seven credit hours focused on data and analytics. The revised program also takes into account student demographics. Currently, many applicants are international students, who come from countries such as India, China, South Korea, and Mexico. However, according to Ahn, many U.S.-based companies, particularly in the automobile industry, prefer not to hire international candidates to management positions. "But even these companies are open to hiring international candidates for [jobs involving] data analysis and business analytics," he said.
To complement these technical, analytical skills, the program also provides intensive training in leadership and other "soft" skills. "The skills that graduates need to get hired include being able to analyze a problem, perform data analytics, and understand lean management, but in order to get promoted once they have been hired, graduates also need leadership and other soft skills," Ahn said.
The new program begins in July. The program accepted students during the first round of applications in December. The deadline for the second round of applications is February 1, and the third is in March. Interested applicants can check out an online information session on February 16.
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The Dr. Marnie Rose Foundation was founded in 2002 in memory of Dr. Marnie Rose, a 28-year-old pediatric resident who passed away from what is considered one of the deadliest of human cancers, a glioblastoma (or GBM). The diagnosis of 'brain cancer' exposed its relative unimportance in the hierarchy of cancers, the lack of funding for its research, and the limited interest by pharmaceutical companies to the disease. Rather than retreat, the Foundation's founding board decided to respond. What began as a simple walk in her memory has turned into multiple programs directed at eradicating brain cancer and continuing Dr. Rose's legacy in pediatric initiatives. To date, over 20,000 people have participated in the organization's programs.
The Dr. Marnie Rose Foundation was the first organization in Houston, TX, to raise funds specifically for brain cancer research. The Foundation now has given more than $7 million to Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. These local efforts have contributed to creating The Dr. Marnie Rose Professorship of Pediatric Neurosurgery; creating and continuing the Supportive Medicine Program (formerly Palliative Care); the development of the Delta-24 adenovirus (also known as DNX-2401) that is targeted to the immune system; outfitting the first pediatric Life Flight helicopter; and innovative brain cancer research and clinical trials not otherwise supported by the National Institute of Health.
The mission of the Dr. Marnie Rose Foundation is to: Eradicate brain cancer through research, advocacy, and awareness to improve the lives of patients and caregivers.
The Dr. Marnie Rose Foundation programs have been developed to increase awareness of brain cancer, educate the community on brain cancer developments and treatments, and raise revenue for brain cancer research. Funds are used to start or expand clinical trials and to expedite treatments from the laboratory to the patient. Often times, funds are used immediately to enhance patient care. Funding also ensures that funded researchers do not have to wait months or years to have their research begin. The funds the Foundation raise are considered "seed money." Every $1 of seed money generates on average $5 – $10 in federal funding and grant support.
Run for the Rose is the primary program that raises funds for brain cancer research. Each year, the Run brings together more than 5,000 people whose lives have either been directly or non-directly impacted by brain cancer or who work in the field of brain cancer research. The Run includes educational vendors as well as basic nutritional vendors who support the race participants but also provide educational opportunities related to brain cancer. Over 300 volunteers participate in Run for the Rose.
Brain Power 5K is the Dr. Marnie Rose Foundation's race in Austin, TX, which brings together more than 2,000 people each year. The race supports brain tumor patients, families, awareness and programs in Central Texas. The race includes educational, fitness and nutritional vendors. Over 100 volunteers participate in Brain Power 5K.


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Mendel90 e3d v6 bowden setup
A modified X carriage, hotend mount and fan duct for the e3d V6 bowden mounted on a Mendel 90. The x carriage also works for the Kraken.3D printer parts and enhancements
A free software license that requires that all work based on this must also be free software as in freely remixable and sharable by anyone under the same license but may be used commercially.
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Part of the ongoing developments to upgrade the Mendel90 Lasercut to a bowden machine with 1-5 extruders.
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As per the original mendel90 carriage, fan and extruder pcb. All the vitamins from the original design should be able to be re-used.
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Join us for the NYC REIC Organizational Planning Meeting
Mayday Community Space
176 St. Nicholas Street
Sunday, March 5th
We are at a point in the NYC REIC's trajectory where we are actively considering investment projects, thinking about fundraising, and generally deciding what the NYC REIC is going to look like in the near future.
To make sure the NYC REIC develops intentionally and with member input, the Founding Board is hosting a facilitated organizational planning session. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP here by February 27, 2017.
As this will be a sequential, facilitated meeting, please commit to attending the full four-hour session. After you RSVP, a facilitator will be in touch with you by email with more information.
Founding Board Report-Back on the January 28, 2017 All-Member Meeting
We would like to express our thanks to MoMA PS1 for their generosity in hosting our meeting!
We had a good turn-out of member-investors, both old and new – thank you for joining us!
The agenda centered around an update on where the Founding Board stands now in achieving the aims of the REIC, with a review of our adopted Bylaws, and a presentation on a potential first collaboration project by Nat Roe, Executive Director, Flux Factory, in LIC.
After an interactive game of "Let's Invest in This Place," using real potential projects, we looked at our next steps, as well as a glimpse of the direction our branding design is taking, and a shout-out of upcoming meetings and ways to join us in our work.
We are incorporated! The NY Department of State has accepted the certificate of incorporation for our Not-For-Profit Corporation that houses our cooperative. Since then, the Founding Board (made up of the Steering Committee members) has finalized and approved the initial set of Bylaws, which now govern the operations of the Not-For-Profit Corporation. The Founding Board decided, after discussing with our lawyers at the Fordham's Community Economic Development Clinic, to adopt the initial set of Bylaws to ensure that we are bound by the rules we've designed for ourselves (rather than be bound by the default rules of NYS laws). From this point on, however, you the membership are in charge of the rules of the cooperative, and any amendment to them must be approved by members at a properly called meeting.
We are now finalizing the letter to send to the NY State Real Estate Finance Bureau, which will allow us to start raising capital for our first project(s); registering with the NYS Charities' Bureau; and filing for our tax-exempt status (we currently receive tax exempt charitable treatment through an agreement with our fiscal sponsor, Spaceworks NYC).
We are focusing on building the limited liability company (LLC) that will invest in projects for us, and a framework to guide how we approach the communities and the proponents of future projects! We invite you to help with vetting potential projects in your own communities!
Stay tuned to our Event Calendar for our next open meetings! Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com and by voicemail at (718) 316-6092 ext. 5.
Art & Media Update
We are in the final phases of creating a new graphic identity for the REIC, with huge thanks to Roy Rub and Seth Labenz of Topos Graphics for their pro bono work! We presented the two directions we are looking at, at the All-Member Meeting – and will be asking for your feedback soon!
Please post to the REIC blog! Contact Leland at email@example.com to post on a topic specific to your workgroup or anything else related to the REIC.
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REIC University Update
Please keep an eye out for an upcoming screening event in March!
REIC U is the committee of the REIC that creates educational programming for our membership and the public.
See the info on our joint meeting with CORB on February 26th.
Join us, contact us at: firstname.lastname@example.com
CORB: Community Outreach & Relationship Building Update
The former PBIG: Public Buildings Inventory Group seeks new members with great community organizing skills. We are looking for those who can help us build our community engagement model and educate the membership in best practices in how to reach out to communities and work together with them, in a horizontal, democratic, grassroots way.
We are also looking for members who can help with translation, where necessary – whether from Spanish, Chinese, Russian, or other languages.
See the info on our joint meeting with REIC U on February 26th.
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Sherborne School, Dorset
6-7 January 2018
STOP PRESS: There were victories for players from Winchester College and Alleyn's School in the U18s and the U16s respectively. Players from 9 schools took part.
The Organisers report: The tournament was held at the Sherborne courts over a pleasantly dry and sometimes sunny weekend and the Fives drew plenty of interest from many and varied supporters, including at one point a group from the Junior School. Though the overall entry was down on 2017, particularly at Under 18 level, the fast courts produced some excellent action. We are once again most grateful to Sherborne School and particularly to Nick Scorer for the use of the courts and for Nick's unfailing cooperation and enthusiasm.
In the Senior event, whilst Winchester came away with the spoils in both Singles and Doubles, St. Paul's and Blundell's were rewarded with runners-up medals and the Doubles Plate, and Marlborough with the Singles Plate.
In the main Singles three of the top four seeds came through to the semi-finals, with Kidner (Winchester), the number one seed, dropping only six points en route. The other semi-final player was fifth seed Jackson (St Paul's) who overcame fourth seed Cochrane (Alleyn's) in a tight match, 11-6, 11-6 with some long rallies. The semi-finals saw a further upset as third seed Chai (Blundell's) showed steadiness and speed around the court to overcome number two seed Cheveley (St Paul's), thus setting up a Kidner vs. Chai final. Remarkably no matches had run to a third game at this point The final started badly for Kidner, who could not find his rhythm and lost the first game 4-11 but composed himself to deliver some fine shots to take the second and third games, in spite of Chai fighting back at every opportunity. In the Plate, Rigg of Marlborough played consistently to overcome Skoczylas of St Paul's.
The U18 Doubles was a little depleted by Alleyn's being unable to take part and Winchester and Blundell's fielding just a single pair each, resulting in eight pairs in the contest. However the Fives was no less hard fought and Winchester showed their class by losing only four points in the four games en route to the final. St Paul's I experienced more resistance on their road to the final stage, including an entertaining and hard hitting encounter with Blundell's. In the final it was a run-away first game of 11-1 for Winchester to go ahead but St Paul's ran them close in the second 12-10. In the Plate, St Pauls II achieved three clear victories to take the winners' medals.
In the Colts (U16) events Alleyn's did the double but not without having to overcome some stiff competition, particularly from the Winchester contingent. In the Singles the four top seeds of Winchester (Percival), Sherborne (Mercer), St. Paul's (Odgers) and Alleyn's (Wiseman) all progressed to the semi-finals, with only Percival suffering a scare with an exciting 3-gamer in the quarter-finals against Ali from Derby Moor. He was also pressed hard by Mercer in the semis and perhaps these exertions told somewhat in the final against Wiseman. This was a superb contest, with the first game going to 9-9 before Wiseman edged it with some powerful hitting. In the second game with Percival tiring, Wiseman pushed on to win in the end comfortably, a well deserved champion, and the first Alleyn's winner of this event for 10 years. Ames from Blundell's, who had only narrowly lost his first match in the main competition, went on to win the Plate by beating Redfern from Winchester in the final.
The Colts Doubles produced some more excellent fives. The semi-finals took a familiar look with pairs from Winchester, Sherborne, St. Paul's, and Alleyn's making the semi-finals, i.e. the same four schools as in the Singles semis. This time it was Sherborne who had the tough earlier matches with a 16-15 win over St. Paul's II, and then a good quarter-final win against Blundell's I. There was another tense first round match, with Tonbridge I also achieving a 16-15 victory, this time over Winchester II. Sherborne pressed Winchester I hard in their semi-final but the top seeds showed their class to come through 11-3, 11-9. As expected, the final was a close encounter with Winchester (Percival & Fraser) taking the early lead. But Alleyn's (Wiseman & Scott) started to take control with Wiseman dominating and Scott playing an important supporting role. After many exciting rallies the Alleyn's pair won through by 11-9, 11-7, to put their school name on the trophy for the first time since 1978!
The Doubles Plate was played as a round-robin amongst the five pairs. The event was remarkable for the number of close matches, with all pairs acquitting themselves well. Finally St. Paul's II (Jobson & Monro-Davies) won through, edging out Winchester II (Hawkey & Redfern) into 2nd place. Winchester were therefore unlucky in coming a close second in all four Colts events, but they took their defeats with the good sportsmanship that was evident in all the matches played over the weekend.
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U18 Singles
1st round: Choo-Choy (Tonbridge) bt Hirth (Alleyn's) 15-8; Powell (Marlborough) bt Skoczylas (St. Paul's) 15-8; Hanley (Tonbridge) bt Ames (Blundell's) 15-7; Parsapour (St. Paul's) bt Beswick (Marlborough) 15-3; Davies (St. Paul's) bt Rigg (Marlborough) 15-4; Liu (St. Paul's) bt Sholapurkar (Alleyn's) 15-1
2nd round: Kidner (Winchester) bt Choo-Choy 15-0; Sumner (Bedford Modern) bt Powell 15-8; Jackson (St. Paul's) bt Hanley 15-10; Cochrane (Alleyn's) bt Parsapour 15-1; Chai (Blundell's) bt Buxton (Sherborne) 15-3; Mackison (Winchester) bt Davies 15-12; McLaurin (Blundell's) bt Liu 15-8; Cheveley (St. Paul's) w/o Gill (Alleyn's)
Quarter-finals: Kidner bt Sumner 11-3, 11-0; Jackson bt Cochrane 11-6, 11-6; Chai bt Mackison 11-4, 11-2; Cheveley bt McLaurin 11-5, 11-0
Semi-finals: Kidner bt Jackson 11-2, 11-3; Chai bt Cheveley 11-2, 11-8
Final: Kidner bt Chai 4-11, 11-6, 11-7
Plate: Rigg bt Skoczylas 11-2
U18 Doubles
Quarter-finals: Winchester I bt St. Paul's III 11-0, 11-2; Marlborough I bt St. Paul's II 11-5, 11-4; Blundell's bt Tonbridge 11-0, 11-6; St. Paul's I bt Marlborough II 11-0, 11-7
Semi-finals: Winchester I bt Marlborough I 11-2, 11-2; St. Paul's I bt Blundell's 11-0, 11-2
Final: Winchester I (Kidner & Mackison) bt St. Paul's I (Cheveley & Jackson) 11-1, 12-10
Plate: 1st St. Paul's II; 2nd Marlborough II
Colts (U16) Singles
Preliminary round: AR (Derby Moor) bt Nolan (Tonbridge) 15-10; Ryder (Blundell's) bt Parker (Tonbridge) 15-11; Lewis (Tonbridge) bt Banisha (St. Paul's) 7-3 ret.
1st round: Scott (Alleyn's) bt Grubb (Blundell's) 15-2; Ali (Derby Moor) bt Knight (Tonbridge) 15-4; Pymont (St. Paul's) bt Peck (Marlborough) 15-7; Hawkey (Winchester) bt Rackham (Blundell's) 15-2; Fraser (Winchester) bt AR 15-4; Harrison (St. Paul's) bt Ryder 15-5; Harvey (Sherborne) bt Bucknell (Blundell's) 15-4; Mahmood (Derby Moor) bt Pring (Sherborne) 15-11; Jobson (St. Paul's) bt Redfern (Winchester) 15-10
2nd round: Percival (Winchester) bt Scott 15-1; Ali bt Pymont 15-8; Monro-Davies (St. Paul's) bt Hawkey 15-2; Mercer (Sherborne) bt Fraser 15-2; Odgers (St. Paul's) bt Harrison 15-7; Harvey bt Ames (Blundell's) 15-13; Lewis bt Mahmood 15-5; Wiseman (Alleyn's) bt Jobson 15-2
Quarter-finals: Percival bt Ali 10-12, 11-6, 11-6; Mercer bt Monro-Davies 11-2, 11-2; Odgers bt Harvey 11-2, 11-4; Wiseman bt Lewis 11-0, 11-4
Semi-finals: Percival bt Mercer 11-5, 11-9; Wiseman bt Odgers 11-1, 11-1
Final: Wiseman bt Percival 11-9, 11-2
Plate: Ames bt Redfern 11-3
Colts (U16) Doubles
1st round: Derby Moor I bt Tonbridge II 15-8; Sherborne bt St. Paul's II 16-15; Blundell's I bt Derby Moor II 15-3; Tonbridge I bt Winchester II 16-15; St. Paul's III bt Blundells II 15-3
Quarter-finals: Winchester I bt Derby Moor I 11-5, 11-7; Sherborne bt Blundell's I 11-2, 11-9; St. Paul's I bt Tonbridge I 11-5, 11-4; Alleyn's bt St. Paul's III 11-7, 12-10
Semi-finals: Winchester I bt Sherborne 11-3, 11-9; Alleyn's bt St. Paul's I 11-5, 11-5
Final: Alleyn's (Scott & Wiseman) bt Winchester I (Fraser & Percival) 11-9, 11-7
Plate: 1st St. Paul's II (Jobson & Monro-Davies) ; 2nd Winchester II (Hawkey & Redfern)


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As well as medicinal caustics, we manufacture medical devices and pharmacy sundries, many of which are listed in the UK Drug Tariff and extensively exported. Typical customers are national health services including the NHS, hospitals, clinics, wholesalers, distributors, retail pharmacies, medical practitioners such as GPs, podiatrists and veterinarians, and complementary therapists.
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On Thursday, November 19, 2015, Taney County Circuit Court Judge Laura Johnson sentenced JUSTIN LEE CHAMBERS, d/o/b 8-26-1983, of Harrison, Arkansas, to seven (7) years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for the class C felonies of receiving stolen property and possession of a forging instrumentality. The sentences were ordered pursuant to a plea agreement between Chambers and the Taney County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
Chambers' receiving stolen property sentence was the result of his March 31, 2015, arrest at the Good Shepherd Inn, in Branson. Chambers was arrested by Branson Police for being in possession of a 2002 Jeep Wrangler that had been reported stolen to Springfield Police on March 15, 2015. Chambers had initially claimed he borrowed the Jeep and did not know it was stolen.
Then, on June 5, 2015, Chambers was contacted by Branson Police at the Stratford House Inn, on Highway 76, in Branson, as part of a multi-jurisdictional investigation into the passing of several forged checks. Taney County Sheriff's deputies, along with Branson Police officers found Chambers in possession of another man's stolen identification card, checks, and a typewriter – which Chambers admitted he used to fraudulently alter checks.
Each of those class C felonies carry a maximum prison sentence of seven (7) years. Pursuant to the guilty plea, Chambers' sentences will run concurrently with one another.


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Domestication for Conservation of an Endangered Species: The Case of the Wollemi Pine
Trueman, S. J., Pegg, G. S. and King, J. (2007) Domestication for Conservation of an Endangered Species: The Case of the Wollemi Pine. Tree and Forestry Science and Biotechnology, 1 . pp. 1-10.
Publisher URL: http://www.globalsciencebooks.info/Journals/TFSB.html
A small population of tall slender conifers was discovered in 1994 in a deep rainforest canyon of the Wollemi National Park, New SouthWales, Australia. The living trees closely resembled fossils that were more than 65 million years old, and this 'living fossil' was recognised as a third extant genus in the Araucariaceae (Araucaria, Agathis and now Wollemia). The species was named the Wollemi pine (W. nobilis). Extensive searches uncovered very few populations, with the total number of adult trees being less than 100. Ex situ collections were quickly established in Sydney as part of the Wollemi Pine Recovery Plan. The majority of the ex situ population was later transferred to our custom-built facility in Queensland for commercial multiplication. Domestication has relied very heavily on the species' amenability to vegetative propagation because seed collection from the natural populations is dangerous, expensive, and undesirable for conservation reasons. Early propagation success was poor, with only about 25% of cuttings producing roots. However, small increases in propagation success have a very large impact on a domestication program because plant production can be modelled on an exponential curve where each rooted cutting develops into a mother plant that, in turn, provides more rooted cuttings. An extensive research program elevated rooting percentages to greater than 80% and also provided in vitro methods for plant multiplication. These successes have enabled international release of the Wollemi pine as a new and attractive species for ornamental horticulture.
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Cricket Wireless and mobile rewards developer Adfone are rolling out a rewards app and program called Ad it Up, the companies said Tuesday. Using the app, Cricket Wireless customers across the US can choose to view ads on their phone and, in return, earn points that can be redeemed for bill credits.
The Ad it Up app will come "pre-loaded on millions of select Cricket Android phones," the companies said, but customers can choose to opt in or out from their devices.
When customers register for the program, they'll be asked to choose their interests so the program can show them targeted ads.
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Michael Lucid, who runs the Pretty Things Tumblr and Michael Lucid Presents YouTube channel, dug up and posted a bunch of fantastic old photos of his visit to the Twin Peaks set at the Van Nuys sound stage back when they were filming the second season episode in which Maddy Ferguson and Donna Hayward try to steal Laura Palmer's secret diary from Harold Smith. These photos, taken in 1990 when Michael was just a 12-year-old kid, are a wonderful blast from the past and a great way to continue the currently ongoing "25 Years Later" celebration!
Thanks for sharing these, Michael! Hat tip to @OneInchThoughts and John Kiely for pointing me there.
UPDATE (August 2014): Added a few more photos from Michael's visit to the Twin Peaks set.
I'll See You Again In 25 Years – My Visit To The "Twin Peaks" Set In 1989
I've unearthed these pics of me as a goofy 12-year-old visiting the set of "Twin Peaks" in 1990. My mom won a raffle at my LA elementary school where the prize was to visit the set – they were shooting the beginning of Season 2 at the time, and they had moved their location from the Pacific Northwest to sound stages in Burbank, CA, where they had re-created all of the iconic "Twin Peaks" locations. The most surreal thing was that often the sets were built side-by-side, so I was able to step directly from One Eyed Jacks into Benjamin Horne's office into Laura Palmer's living room. The locations seen here are: Harold the meals-on-wheels hermit's house (with Donna, Maddy and Harold), me with Mike the One Armed Man, The Double R Diner, Laura Palmer's living room, One Eyed Jacks, the sheriff department's jail, the piano in Donna's living room, and Benjamin Horne's office. On the day I visited, they were shooting the scene of Harold scratching his face menacingly with the rake – it adds a bit of amusing context to know that while Harold was raking his face, this funny-lookin' kid was watching from off-camera! – Michael Lucid
Michael with Lara Flynn Boyle (Donna), Sheryl Lee (Maddy) and Lenny von Dohlen (Harold)
Michael meets Al Strobel (Phillip Gerard, aka MIKE aka The One-Armed Man)
Michael behind the counter of the Double R Diner
Michael at the Palmer residence holding Laura Palmer's famous homecoming queen portrait.
Michael at the One Eyed Jack's casino and brothel
Michael inside the Sheriff's Dept. holding cell
Michael behind Gersten Hayward's piano
Michael at Ben Horne's desk inside the Great Northern Hotel
Michael in the study of the Blue Pine Lodge
Michael at the Roadhouse
Michael next to Benjamin Horne's fireplace
Michael at the front entrance of the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department
Michael inside the Johnson house
Michael in the Great Northern Hotel lobby


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Paul-Edouard Delabrierre | French, 1829-1912
Paul-Edouard Delabrierre was born in 1829 in Paris, where he later became an important member of the Animalier school in the late nineteenth Century. Having been educated by the painter Jean Baptiste-Delestre, he found his true vocation as a sculptor and made his debut at the Salon of 1848, where he exhibited a wax model entitled 'Terrier holding a Hare'. Due to the success of his early work, Delabrierre went on to exhibit more than seventy works at the Salon over a period of fifty years.
He was greatly influenced by the great master of Romanticism Antoine-Louis Barye, especially by the movement that he captured in his combat scenes and his ability to suspend his subjects in mid action which he emulated to great success. The façade of the Louvre incorporated one of his most ambitious pieces 'L'Equitation' which he sculpted in 1857. His work can also be found in the Museum of Amiens.


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Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You (2015), by the British Broadcasting Corporation and The Open University
In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You. Michael Mosley, a British television producer and journalist, hosts the documentary. Along with narrating animated scenes of a growing fetus in the womb, Mosley meets with individuals around the world who experienced mutations that can arise in the womb. Introduced over the course of the three episodes, several people share their personal stories of how their bodies did not develop correctly prior to birth.
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Pearl Luella Kendrick (1890–1980)
Pearl Luella Kendrick researched prevention for pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the mid-1900s. Pertussis is a respiratory disease that mainly affects infants and young children. During the 1920s, pertussis was responsible for more deaths in children in the United States than any other disease. In the 1930s, Kendrick created one of the first pertussis vaccines that underwent large-scale clinical trials.
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"An Extended Family with a Dominantly Inherited Speech Disorder" (1990), by Jane A. Hurst et al.
In 1990, researcher Jane Hurst and her colleagues published "An Extended Family With a Dominantly Inherited Speech Disorder," in which they proposed that a single gene was responsible for a language disorder across three generations of a family. Affected individuals of the family, called the KE family, had difficulty producing, expressing and comprehending speech. Hurst and her team studied the KE family and the disorder at the Department of Clinical Genetics at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, England.
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"Mothers' Anxiety During Pregnancy Is Associated with Asthma in Their Children" (2009), by Hannah Cookson, Raquel Granell, Carol Joinson, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, and A. John Henderson
In 2009, A. John Henderson and colleagues published "Mothers' Anxiety During Pregnancy Is Associated with Asthma in Their Children," hereafter, "Mothers' Anxiety," in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Previous studies had shown that maternal stress during pregnancy affects children's health during childhood. The researchers explored the association of asthma in children with maternal anxiety during pregnancy. The cause of asthma is often unknown.
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"The Emergence of Developmental Psychopathology" (1984), by Dante Cicchetti
In 1984, Dante Cicchetti published "The Emergence of Developmental Psychopathology," an article in which he argued that the previously amorphous study of developmental psychopathology was emerging as a unified discipline. According to Cicchetti, developmental psychopathology describes an interdisciplinary field that studies abnormalities in psychological function that can arise during human development.
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Embryos in Wax (2002), by Nick Hopwood
Embryos in Wax: Models from the Ziegler Studio is a history of embryo wax modeling written by science historian Nick Hopwood. Published by the Whipple Museum of the History of Science University of Cambridge and the Institute of the History of Medicine University of Bern, 2002, the book, like the wax models, helps exemplify the visual and material culture of science.
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Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (1998), by Alice Domurat Dreger
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, by historian of science Alice Domurat Dreger, was published in 1998 by Harvard University Press. In the book, Dreger describes how many doctors and scientists treated human hermaphrodites from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. She states that during this time period, many physicians and scientists struggled to determine the nature sex, and to support a classification of sex as male or female, many physicians and scientists resorted to viewing a person's gonads for identification of his or her sex.
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"Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution" (1987), by Rebecca Louise Cann, Mark Stoneking, and Allan Charles Wilson
In 1987 Rebecca Louise Cann, Mark Stoneking, and Allan Charles Wilson published Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution in the journal Nature. The authors compared mitochondrial DNA from different human populations worldwide, and from those comparisons they argued that all human populations had a common ancestor in Africa around 200,000 years ago. Mitochondria DNA (mtDNA) is a small circular genome found in the subcellular organelles, called mitochondria.
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An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (1895), by Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson in the US published An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (hereafter called An Atlas) in 1895. The book presents photographs by photographer Edward Leaming that capture stages of fertilization, the fusion of sperm and egg and early development of sea urchin (Toxopneustes variegatus) ova, or egg cell. Prior to An Atlas, no one photographed of eggcell division in clear detail. Wilson obtained high quality images of egg cells by cutting the cells into thin sections and preserving them throughout different stages of development.
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"The Results of Operations for the Cure of Cancer of the Breast Performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from June, 1889, to January, 1894" (1894), by William Stewart Halsted
In 1894, William Stewart Halsted published The Results of Operations for the Cure of Cancer of the Breast Performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from June, 1889, to January, 1894, in the medical journal Annals of Surgery. In the article, Halsted describes the results from fifty of his operations on women with breast cancer, performed at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Those operations involved a surgical procedure Halsted called radical mastectomy, which consists in removing all of the patient's breast tissue, chest muscle, and underarm lymph nodes.
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"Of Pregnancy and Progeny" (1980), by Norbert Freinkel
Norbert Freinkel's lecture Of Pregnancy and Progeny was published by the American Diabetes Association's journal Diabetes in December of 1980. In the lecture, Freinkel argued that pregnancy changes the way that the female body breaks down and uses food. Through experiments that involved pregnant women as well as infants, Freinkel established the body's maternal metabolism and how it affects both the mother and the infant. Freinkel's main focus of research in the latter part of his life was diabetes, specifically in pregnant women.
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"Fetal Surgery" (1996), by Michael R. Harrison
In 1996, Michael R. Harrison published "Fetal Surgery" in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In the article, Harrison describes the importance of fetal surgery and the techniques used to correct defects in fetuses. As a fetus develops in the uterus, it can develop abnormalities that may become debilitating or fatal. Harrison discusses cases that show how physicians can use fetal surgery to repair such abnormalities, including obstructions in the heart or urinary tract, or organs or muscles whose malformations impair function.
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Where Are My Children? (1916)
Where Are My Children? is an anti-abortion silent film released in the United States on 16 April 1916. The film was directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley and produced by Universal Film Manufacturing Company/Lois Weber Productions in Universal City, California. In the film, Weber tells a story of an attorney who wants to have children and raise a family, but his wife chooses to abort her pregnancies, fearing that having children will ruin her social activities. In the early 1900s, information about contraception was not freely available or legal to obtain.
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"Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells" (2005), by Leon Kass and the President's Council on Bioethics
Human pluripotent stem cells are valued for their potential to form numerous specialized cells and for their longevity. In the US, where a portion of the population is opposed to destruction of human embryos to obtain stem cells, what avenues are open to scientists for obtaining pluripotent cells that do not offend the moral sensibilities of a significant number of citizens?
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"On the Induction of Embryonic Primordia by Implantation of Organizers from Different Species" (1924), Hilde Mangold's Dissertation
Hilde Proscholdt Mangold was a doctoral student at the Zoological Institute at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany, from 1920-1923. Mangold conducted research for her dissertation 'On the Induction of Embryonic Primordia by Implantation of Organizers from Different Species' ('Ueber Induktion von Embryonanlagen durch Implantation artfremder Organisatoren'), under the guidance of Hans Spemann, a professor of zoology at the University of Freiburg.
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A History of Embryology (1959), by Joseph Needham
In 1931 embryologist and historian Joseph Needham published a well-received three-volume treatise titled Chemical Embryology. The first four chapters from this work were delivered as lectures on Speculation, Observation, and Experiment, as Illustrated by the History of Embryology at the University of London. The same lectures were later released as a book published in 1934 titled A History of Embryology.
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Images of Embryos in Life Magazine in the 1950s
Embryonic images displayed in Life magazine during the mid-twentieth century serve as a representation of technological advances and the growing public interest in the stages of embryological development. These black-and-white photographs portray skeletal structures and intact bodies of chicken embryos and human embryos and fetuses obtained from collections belonging to universities and medical institutions.
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"The Development of the Turtle Carapace" (1989), by Ann Campbell Burke
Ann Campbell Burke examines the development and evolution of vertebrates, in particular, turtles. Her Harvard University experiments, described in Development of the Turtle Carapace: Implications for the Evolution of a Novel Bauplan, were published in 1989. Burke used molecular techniques to investigate the developmental mechanisms responsible for the formation of the turtle shell.
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The Germ-Plasm: a Theory of Heredity (1893), by August Weismann
Friedrich Leopold August Weismann published Das
Keimplasma: eine Theorie der Vererbung (The Germ-Plasm: a
Theory of Heredity, hereafter The Germ-Plasm) while
working at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany in 1892.
William N. Parker, a professor in the University College of South
Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff, UK, translated The
Germ-Plasm into English in 1893. In The Germ-Plasm,
Weismann proposed a theory of heredity based on the concept of the
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"Sex Limited Inheritance in Drosophila" (1910), by Thomas Hunt Morgan
In 1910, Thomas Hunt Morgan performed an experiment at Columbia University, in New York City, New York, that helped identify the role chromosomes play in heredity. That year, Morgan was breeding Drosophila, or fruit flies. After observing thousands of fruit fly offspring with red eyes, he obtained one that had white eyes. Morgan began breeding the white-eyed mutant fly and found that in one generation of flies, the trait was only present in males.
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"Child Development in the Context of Disaster, War, and Terrorism: Pathways of Risk and Resilience" (2012), by Ann S. Masten and Angela J. Narayan
In 2012 Ann S. Masten and Angela J. Narayan published the article "Child Development in the Context of Disaster, War, and Terrorism: Pathways of Risk and Resilience" in Annual Reviews in Psychology. The authors conducted their study at the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the article, Masten and Narayan review a number of articles to examine and compile the research made since the twenty-first century on the psychological impact of mass trauma, such as war, terrorism, and disasters, on children.
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Subject: Publications
"Experimental Studies on Congenital Malformations" (1959), by James G. Wilson
The article Experimental Studies on Congenital Malformations was published in the Journal of Chronic Diseases in 1959. The author, James G. Wilson, studied embryos and birth defects at the University of Florida Medical School in Gainesville, Florida. In his article, Wilson reviewed experiments on birds and mammals from the previous forty years to provide general principles and guidelines in the study of birth defects and teratogens, which are things that cause birth defects.
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Subject: Publications
"Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?" from The Ants (1990), by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
In "Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?" Bert Hölldobler and Edward Osborne Wilson discussed the predictive power of kin selection theory, a theory about the evolution of social behaviors. As part of Hölldobler's and Wilson's 1990 book titled The Ants, Hölldobler and Wilson compared predictions about the reproductive practices of ants to data about the reproductive practices of ants. They showed that the data generally supported the expected behaviors proposed by kin selection theory.
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Subject: Publications, Theories
The Cell in Development and Inheritance (1900), by Edmund Beecher Wilson
The Cell in Development and Inheritance, by Edmund Beecher Wilson, provided a textbook introduction to cell biology for generations of biologists in the twentieth century. In his book, Wilson integrated information about development, inheritance, chromosomes, organelles, and the structure and functions of cells. First published in 1896, the book started with 371 pages, grew to 483 pages in the second edition that appeared in 1900, and expanded to 1,231 pages by the third and final edition in 1925.
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Subject: Publications
"The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme" (1979), by Stephen J. Gould and Richard C. Lewontin
The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm:
A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme, hereafter called
The Spandrels, is an article written by Stephen J. Gould and
Richard C. Lewontin published in the Proceedings of the Royal
Society of London in 1979. The paper emphasizes issues with
what the two authors call adaptationism or the adaptationist
programme as a framework to explain how species and traits evolved. The paper
is one in a series of works in which Gould emphasized the
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If you have fire insurance as well as your home was damaged or ruined as soon as you are permitted back into your homes, you ought to right away speak to exclusive insurance coverage asserts adjusters to process your claims. In every phrase of your insurance coverage claims, the insurance adjusters are going to attempt to reduce the value of your claims so that they can pay you less than you can show. That is why it's an excellent suggestion to work with a independent insurance adjusters who have accessibility to the same information that the insurance business depends after. He or she could then utilize their understanding of exactly how the insurance adjusters job as well as present info that will certainly attack the insurance policy companies plans to decrease the value of your claims.


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"A House Is a Home," Ben & Ellen Harper Grammy winner Ben Harper teams up with his mother, Ellen, for Childhood Home, which releases this week. This is the first single from the album. Their tender harmonies and reflections here are like flipping through a family photo album, reminding us of every trial and all the successes our own families experience. JESSE SENDEJAS JR.
"Africana," Los Rakas One of the hottest Latin acts is this Hip-Hop duo of Panamanian cousins who hail from the Bay Area. With a little bit of reggaeton and a lotta bit of cool, Los Rakas released their first full-length album, El Negrito Dun Dun & Ricardo, on April 15. This track is my favorite of the bunch, with a mix of sweet melodies and ass-shaking bass. I'm anxiously waiting until they make another stop in H-Town. YO SI SOY! RAKA! MARCO TORRES
"Bang It Out," Breathe Carolina (feat. Karmin) Breathe Carolina and Karmin are two acts who I think have high ceilings, but just need to put the pieces together to get there. This song is a good start; sure it's a fluffy club track, but BC bring the energy and a bit of an edge and Amy Heidemann is better than most of the singers that sing on dance tracks. And that hook? Magnificent. CORY GARCIA
"Benz Friendz (Whatchutola)," Future feat. Andre 3000 Future's brand-new album Honest has been killing the game lately. On this fun and filthy track from his debut album, he teams up with Dungeon Family compadre Andre 3000, who provides all the cool and crazy that we expect from the OutKast MC. And somehow, some way, Future uses Autotune in a non-annoying manner, with a tearful vocal delivery that endears his character to the listener. Future is the truth; I'm just being honest. MARCO TORRES
"Blue Smoke," Dolly Parton Corny as she can be, Dolly Parton rarely jokes around when it comes to the music she grew up on, which comes to her as naturally as the rippling creeks and early-morning Appalachian mists of her hometown near Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Putting on the bravest face she can, Parton armors herself to board the "heartbreak train" of the title (also the title of her new album, due next week) with glistening dobro, slippery fiddle, a faint Johnny Cash drumbeat and some absolutely impeccable country-gospel harmonies after the double-time breakdown at the bridge. Kudos to the guy singing baritone, too. CHRIS GRAY
"Breakfast," Kelis Kelis was already the bee's knees, what with her milkshakes that brought all the boys to the yard and all. Now she's managed to top herself by releasing an album comprised of songs about food entitled, well, Food. In her typical style, the songs have absolutely nothing to do with actual food items, but have everything to do with eating...if you catch our drift. She's as random and fantastic as ever on the innuendo-laced "Breakfast," a throwback track that makes no sense and complete sense all at once. ANGELICA LEICHT
"Damascus By Sundown," Jack Rentfro and the Apocalyso Quartet Jack Rentfro is a Knoxville, Tenn. journalist and creative writer who happens to set some of his poetry to music. And this is not the frilly poetry of your freshman English class at Mom and Pop University. His new album, Damascus By Sundown, is a stunning document and a creative wonder chock full of thoughtful smart-isms like "I Have Come For Your Bones," "Elvis Limousine" and "Talking Like a Crazy Man."
But it is the beatnik-like, ten-minute title-track rundown of all our military follies that clamps a steel grip on the mind and refuses to let go. Rentfro attacks our prejudices and nationalistic jingoism like a Gatling gun that never runs out of ammo, like a lunatic wino riffing on Lawrence of Arabia. WILLIAM MICHAEL SMITH
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I will be moderating a session at ITExpo West on Monday 4th October at 2:15 pm: "The State of VoIP Peering," will be held in room 304C.
Here's the session description:
VoIP is a fact – it is here, and it is here to stay. That fact is undeniable. To date, the cost savings associated with VoIP have largely been enough to drive adoption. However, the true benefits of VoIP will only be realized through the continued growth of peering, which will keep calls on IP backbones rather than moving them onto the PSTN. Not only will increased peering continue to reduce costs, it will increase voice call quality – HD voice, for instance, can only be delivered on all-IP calls.
Of course, while there are benefits to peering, traditional carriers have traditionally not taken kindly to losing their PSTN traffic, for which they are able to bill by the minute. But, as the adoption of IP communications continues to increase – and of course the debate continues over when we will witness the true obsolescence of the PSTN – carriers will have little choice but to engage in peering relationships.
This session will offer an market update on the status of VoIP peering and its growth, as well as trends and technologies that will drive its growth going forward, including wideband audio and video calling.
The panelists are:
- Rico Vitale, Senior Systems Engineer, Enablence
- Mark Benisz, VP – Americas, XConnect Global Networks, Ltd.
- Grant Kirkwood, Chief Technology Officer, PacketExchange
This is shaping up to be a fascinating session. Rico can tell us about the hardware technologies that are enabling IP end-to-end for phone calls, and Mark and Grant will give us a real-world assessment of the state of deployment, the motivations of the early adopters, and the likely fate of the PSTN.


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I have been working as a Cyber Threat intelligence area from quite a long time and today I want to talk about a question that I often get asked.
Do we need Cyber Threat Intelligence?
With this article I will try to answer as much as I can based on my personal experience.
Firstly, one must understand Cyber Threat intelligence and how it can help your organisation. But before we venture into Cyber world we must know Intelligence has always been there before Cyber was even a word. Simply, put Intelligence is ability to acquire certain knowledge and skills and apply where applicable or where they fit. However, as we know Intelligence is a very broad and there can be multiple answers to the question, how can we select one single answer?
Article from Martin T. Bimfort evaluates multiple definitions and perceptions of the person who is defining Intelligence in there own context with the knowledge and skills they have gathered in there field.
SANS CTI course generalized the definition as following:
Intelligence is the collecting and processing of information about a competitive entity and its agents, needed by an organisation or group for its security and well-being.
So, meaning of Intelligence for military individual and a chess player can be completely different and they both be right. However, is it possible they can have same goal? Yes. We all want to win!
Who are we are trying to win against? Enemies, nation state attackers, rival organizations or someone sitting next to you. Let's call them Threats – internal or external. So does this threat existed before Cyber? Of course they did. However, the threats themselves were limited with their knowledge and skills compared to now.
From the beginning of the world, there has been war, where Intelligence helped to prepare against enemies. However, this was mostly HUMINT – Human Intelligence, where one of your trusted individual would go around enemy states and give the information back. We didn't had emails so Falcon, dove were used to transfer messages. Than came ciphers to hide actual messages, morse code etc. From then to now we have seen tremendous uptick on tools and technologies that aids us in defending against these threats. Main point still remains, our threats have same tools and technologies. As time went by, Cyber Intelligence came into existence and now everybody wants to do it.
Note: Intelligence is a field of expertise and not everybody can do it. Steer away from those who claims, we provide Cyber intelligence or Threat intelligence services and just sharing IP addresses and sending email notification without context.
So coming back to the main point what should organizations consider if and when they require Cyber Threat intelligence services and what it actually is.
For me main reason to have a Cyber Threat intelligence program is that it provides actionable outcome or information that helps any organization to understand their security posture, how to deal with current threats, fills any security gaps and assist in reducing over all risk. For any organization that is planning to get into Cyber Threat Intelligence following are my prerequisites:
- Have a management agreement|vision|understanding in why they want the Cyber Threat intelligence program.
- Make sure its not a checkbox that needs to be ticked because of a compliance or insurance or its just cool to have it.
- Understand current Risk model of your organisation and works towards a strategy that aligns to your risk model.
- Understand Intelligence have different categories and they all require equal attention. Will discuss more in coming articles.
- Operational
- Tactical
- Strategic
- Hire expertise – being blunt, companies do tend to transfer or promote internal staff who lacks knowledge and experience in cyber intelligence including adversaries tools and techniques and believe it will yield positive results but actually steers the team to never ending ocean.
Organization may have more or less prerequisites, however I have seen some organization will just implement a program without considering any of the above points.
Consider following DONT'S:
- Do not believe that Cyber Threat intelligence is achievable by getting a platform or a service. It will help but they are just to supplement an established Threat intelligence program and assist in finding missing pieces.
- PowerPoint presentation IS NOT EQUAL TO expertise in Cyber Threat Intelligence. There are lot of vendors now jumping in Cyber Threat intelligence that believes a nice platform with indicators going to SIEM is the intelligence. They are just pretenders and one should stay away from them.
- Peer pressure : Do not think that your peer has Cyber threat intelligence program|vendor|platform, we should have that as well. Many organizations have done that mistake by just following what peers do or are doing, but forget the most important part to understand their own organization requirements, threats etc. This leaves them starting their journey with somebody else's goal.
Once we understand our prerequisites and what is required we take a step further and understand what and Cyber Intelligence program should do. I have created my own Pyramid of Cyber Threat Intelligence and hope it can help others.
So how I read this. The bottom tip of the pyramid is where Intelligence provides actionable information which can be one or more shown under the line.
Threats are known to the organization via social media, vendor posts and direct notification and/or news articles. Information gathering starts from there and multiple phases that are shown in the pyramid. Assessing and analyzing available data and identifying actionable information and disseminating the same to the relevant teams within organization to prepare our defenses against the identified threat is an output of Intelligence.
I also use the Pyramid to set my priorities. Closer to the intelligence section higher the priority it is. Organizations can take similar approach but may have different pieces that makes the pyramid. Remember the pieces should align to your organization Risk model and/or managements vision for what Cyber Intelligence team are supposed to do.
So answer to the question do I need Cyber Intelligence program is YES. Following points summaries my ideology that organization may want to follow when you want to start with the program:
- Gather requirements from your management and understand their vision of the Intelligence program.
- Understand current Risk model of your organization.
- Identify key people in your team with expertise|experience in Cyber Threat Intelligence and if not available consider hiring them.
- Once requirements are set, plan to put the requirements into action. This involves creating processes. Processes should be created keeping your audiences in mind. Audiences are the people who will receive this actionable information.
- Identify current tools and technologies already in place that aids the team in providing the information.
- If provided tools are not able to assist Intelligence team in their tasks look for alternatives. Alternatives firstly should be in-house development or an open source tools. However, these alternatives although has no direct cost involved, one must understand there is an indirect cost involved such as maintenance, hiring expertise to build the tool and managing the tool etc.
- Collect evidence for what is working and what is not. The evidence can help the team to prepare case to the management if there is any chance of asking more finance if/when required.
- If the team is decided to get external help identify which gaps are you trying to fill. Convert the gaps into use cases and the evidence collected will help us in the stage And if we decide external help is required, following are the few point to identify vendors:
- Identify vendors
- Convert the gaps into use cases. Provide the use cases to about 3 vendors.
- Check with your peers. This helps in to understand why they choose certain vendor.
- Do a bit of research of known vendors with expertise in your line of business
- Look up there external presence such as public articles, intelligence reports, known work with law enforcement etc.
- Once identified give them the use case and see the outcome and verify whether it is actually filling your gaps.
- If yes take it to the management
- Cross Fingers 🙂
Before finishing DO NOT consider following vendor types :
- Vendors with no public presence or any evidence of helping community.
- Consultancy firms who just talks about in social media and conferences with no actual work in intelligence.
- Vendors who are not in expert and does multiple things and thinks adding Cyber Intelligence service on the brochure is the way to go.
I would still like to name few vendors that one should check out. This is purely based on my personal experience and their assistance to community.
- GroupIB : Good with their malware and carding information. Been known of IR in multiple countries.
- Proofpoint : Good with their malware intelligence.
- Recorded Future : Good with their public blog articles and presentations.
Also, wanted to thanks Robert M. Lee, instructor in SANS for Cyber Intelligence course.
Final words:
Intelligence should assist in making decision to assist organization in improving its security posture. Intelligence starts with your logs so make sure you listen to them what they have to say. Intelligence should sit in the middle of all other teams and can assist at every stage within organization so transparency and sharing of information helps.
I hope the article is useful. Thoughts and feedback are welcome.


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Recently, Lake Country Builders interviewed for a project involving Alzheimers residents. I found myself in unfamiliar territory and wondered what is Alzheimers and how is it different from other unfamiliar diseases such as Dementia? Below is a summary of research and information for our weekly Stay At Home Blog:
It can happen at any age -that's what people don't realize. People in their 50's die from it all of the time. There are 38 types of Dementia and Alzheimer's. Alzheimers and Dementia are basically two generic names given to them all. You cannot know which type of Dementia someone has unless they have their brain opened after death. Most often, this doesn't happen and the disease remains mysterious and misunderstood.
With dementia, it is progressive and more and more brain goes missing- at some point your body starts to forget certain life things- like how to turn on a faucet, how to brush your teeth, go to the bathroom.
In fact, death occurs because your body will forget how to breathe, etc. Pretty scary stuff!
Dementia is one of the biggest health and social care challenges of our generation. Yet, as reports show, we are failing to address it effectively.
The next question worth wondering is, Can people with Alzheimers and Dementia remain in their homes with this disease?
While staying at home is not right for everyone we know many people want to remain in the familiar surroundings they are used to with family or loved ones. Only with the right support and improvements in the home will this be possible.
Many people are happier if they can remain independent and in their own homes as long as possible.
Helping people with dementia to live at home and preventing them from needing to go into hospitals could save 127 million a year, according to a report launched by Healthcare at Home today.
To achieve this, it may be necessary to make some adaptions to their homes or to use new equipment and/or assistive technology that has been designed to enable people with dementia to remain independent for longer or make it easier for others to give support.
There are several options for extending care at home:
- In-home help refers to caregivers that you can hire to provide assistance for your loved one. In-home help ranges from help a few hours a week to live-in help, depending on your needs. You'll want to evaluate what sort of tasks you'd like help with, how much you can afford to spend, and what hours you need. Getting help with basic tasks like housekeeping, shopping, or other errands can also help you provide more focused care for your loved one.
- Day programs, also called adult day care, are programs that typically operate weekdays and offer a variety of activities and socialization opportunities. They also provide the chance for the caregiver to continue working or attend to other needs. There are some programs that specialize in dementia care.
- Respite care. Respite care is short-term care where your loved one stays in a facility temporarily. This gives the caregiver a block of time to rest, travel or attend to other things. This gives time for in home improvements to be made by a certified remodeler and when the person in need returns to their home-they are more comfortable and happy.


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Bringg, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based delivery and fulfillment cloud platform provider, has partnered with Uber to improve the delivery experience for retailers and other sectors.
Through this partnership, Bringg's global portfolio of clients, which includes Walmart Inc., Party City, KFC, Coca-Cola Co., Albertson's and Panera Bread as well as health care and logistics firms, get access to drivers through Uber Direct, enabling them to provide same-day and next-day deliveries.
Bringg said its customers using Uber Direct will continue to receive key delivery elements like branding, measurement, visibility and quality. In turn, Uber Direct gets access to more companies.
The partnership provides retailers with several capabilities, such as driver tracking, synchronizing driver arrivals, and order prep.
Founded in 2013, Bringg provides a SaaS (software as a service) solution to help companies launch and scale delivery and fulfillment services that are under pressure around the world due to consumers increasingly shopping online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The world is rapidly changing and retailers need to adapt to meet customers where they are," said Niko Avrutov, vice president of alliances at Bringg. "Our partnership with Uber provides retailers with more flexibility in the delivery cycle, not only ensuring that our customers get their orders when and where they want, but enables them to do so without compromising quality or profitability in the delivery cycle, which is key to an excellent customer experience and maintaining a healthy business."
Leveraging the Uber Direct platform will enable Bringg's customers to "seamlessly" handle on-demand delivery orders placed via an app or website, thereby "owning the customer experience end-to-end," Bringg said in its announcement.
"Retail businesses need to be able to rely on on-demand crowdsourcing options, much like they do already in food retail," Bringg said. "For retailers, scaling order fulfillment is twofold — it requires not only an expansion of available delivery providers but also the optimization of delivery workflows and driver engagement to help ensure every driver can be as effective as possible."
In addition to its Tel Aviv headquarters, Bringg has offices in Chicago; London; Toronto, and Austin, Texas.
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