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Get the whole family involved in physical activity
Do you ever wish your children would be more physically active?
Being physically active with your partner, your children, grandparents, cousins and other relatives is a great idea! All family members can get health benefits by being more active. Plus, the more time you spend with family members, the stronger your family connections will become.
Beyond the physical benefits and family bonding time, being active as a family can also help to teach your children valuable life skills. For instance, many activities involve organization, planning, communications and teamwork, along with fun, excitement, and good family times. All of these experiences will be good for the kids (and the adults)!
Regular Physical Activity for Children and Youth
Did you know that the CDC, the World Health Organization, and the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines recommend that children accumulate at least 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity each day? This is only the minimum recommendation; more is even better for their health!
Regular physical activity is vital to your children's health and well-being, and leads to improved habits that they can carry through into adulthood. Activity choices for children and youth should be mostly aerobic and include vigorous activity (such as soccer), as well as strengthening activities (such as resistance training).
The benefits of regular physical activity for children include:
• Building strong bones and muscles
• Maintaining a healthy weight
• Improving physical self-esteem
• Increasing relaxation and improving sleep
Adults Can Lead the Way
To boost your family's physical activity levels, the adults in the family have to "step up" too! By leading the way and adding family-oriented activities to your family's daily schedule, it can really help to boost the amount of physical activity that you and your family members achieve.
At a minimum, adults and older adults should build at least 150 minutes of moderate activity into their weekly schedule. If you can do more, all the better for your health!
Some of the common benefits of regular physical activity for adults and older adults include:
• Sleeping better and feeling more relaxed
• Having more energy, plus better physical and mental health
• Building stronger muscles and bones
• Better posture and balance
• Reduced risk of chronic conditions, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, osteoporosis
• Improved ability to continue with independent living, due to better physical health
Invite Friends and Family
Bringing friends and relatives into your family's "PA" plans can also help to get everyone moving. For selected activities, invite friends and neighbors to join you! For example:
• Meet at a local pool for a swim
• Meet at a local skating rink, followed by hot chocolate at the rink or your home
• At a local facility, make plans for a casual game of soccer or baseball
To help you organize these kinds of group activities, it often helps to give advance notice. Try to plan ahead and perhaps invite people by e-mail. If a large group shows interest, great! If only a few can attend, modify your plans so at least the small group will use the time to be physically active.
Future Health Benefits
Being active with your whole family is a great way to connect with each other, while doing something good for your mind and body.
Beyond the physical benefits (such as building strong muscles, sleeping better and fending off chronic disease), you can teach your children valuable life skills and show them how physical activity can be a vital part of their lifestyle, now and into the future.
Fransisco Marentez is owner, certified personal trainer and certified strength and conditioning specialist at The Institute of Strength and Development. Today marks his first Healthy Living Alliance article.
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Kilauea has had 62 eruptions during the past 245 years, making it the world's most active volcano. Mauna Loa is also very active, with 15 eruptions since 1900.
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East Trenton's 10th Annual Reunion in Hetzel Park did not lack for food, vendors, fun, music, plus, one specific symbolic gesture.
The latter occurred before the official start up as children formed a circle and elders held hands to form a larger circle around the kids.
When parents, advocates, mentors and communities understand our fundamental requirement to protect, nurture, guide and instruct children then the City of Trenton display a revitalization that lasts.
"We've got to raise them right from the very start," Keith Upshur said, pushing down an open palm to the approximate height of a small child.
"There's so much that we should teach children. They learn by watching us, listening to us, so that means adults have to act right."
Rap on, Brother. Rap on.
The East Trenton Committee produced another successful event with public donations and several gift items from local stores.
"The hope is to bring unity and love back into our neighborhood. We think this event can put the focus on community awareness and togetherness," said Miko Green, president of the East Trenton Committee.
"It's really a kids-based event with many of the activities geared toward them. Bouncy house, horse carriage ride, petting zoo, face painting, it's all for the kids. We're going to play some games with them and give everyone a chance to win some prizes."
Green noted that 90 percent of donations originate from fundraisers.
"Sure, money is short but we make it work. Ninety percent of our donations come from fundraisers and public funds. It's always a nice turnout. We have people coming from New York, South Carolina, Florida, Chicago and North Carolina. We even had someone come from California one year," Green explained.
East Trenton Committee provided food, drinks and other items while many families find their own parcel of land, set up chairs, tents and prepare their own meals.
Yesterday's events included a visit from Minnie and Mickey Mouse who danced to music pumped out by a DJ.
Youngster Clyde Williams received a free hair cut from barber Keyon Jackson who recently opened his own shop called #Da Honeycomb on South Broad St.
Stacy Heading, a program director for ISLES, Inc. Youth Institute, watched over several youth volunteers from his organization.
"It's really nice. Great how the community really put their heart and soul into making sure they have a nice celebration. This is a top-notch community event," Heading praised.
As part of the revitalization of the neighborhood and community building, East Trenton Collaborative announced significant summer events.
Saturday, July 22 from 9-11 a.m., local residents will participate in a St. Joe's Ave. beautification event that will clean up that street's park.
Wednesday, July 26 offers a Homeownership 101 session with instructions on how to purchase a home. That class takes place at East Trenton Center located at 601 North Clinton Ave. Call for details (609) 731-4331.
On July 28, HomeFront hosts a job readiness workshop. HomeFront will provide transportation to their Family Campus for this program that offers instructions regarding resume development, interviewing skills and dressing for success.
Call Maria (609) 468-3592 or Latasha (609) 883-5486.
The East Trenton Center hosts a National Night Out event on August 1. Come out for a night of safe family fun.
Finally, help support the 11th Annual East Trenton Reunion by making a financial or in kind donation.
Contact Trish Lee (609) 851-8748 or Hiddy (609) 422-1685.
L.A. Parker is a Trentonian columnist. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter@laparker6.


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Traditionally live events such as concerts, film and TV shows have been a passive experience for viewers. More recently producers and broadcasters have learned that providing companion content and opportunities for participation result in a much more engaging experience, and build an enthusiastic returning audience.
Using Pusher at The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation enabled us to build an engaging realtime stream of breaking news and comment within a matter of weeks.Øystein Riiser Gundersen, NRK.no
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GetGlue is a platform that provides deeply personalized, social and connected experience around television, movies and sports and makes it possible for users to discover content, and engage with fans and brands.
Pusher powers all of the live social notifications on GetGlue desktop and mobile websites. This functionality naturally provides a more responsive, engaging, and social environment and gives users the ability to remain engaged in conversations while browsing other facets of GetGlue.Visit GetGlue
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Entertainment is no longer a one-way street. Audiences love to get involved by expressing their opinions and taking part in the fun. Use Pusher to create live competitions and quizzes and let your audience test their skills. Invite users to vote en masse and make their voices heard.
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A Belgian company Small Town Heroes used Pusher to create an interactive game for 'Wie is de Mol?' (Who is the Mole?), a popular TV-show in the Netherlands, where viewers played along trying to solve the Mole mystery. Every TV show continued online with a webcast, which combined interviews, in-depth analysis and data visualisations. Over 300.000 viewers participated.
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In December 2011 Thomson Reuters organised an expedition to the Antarctica, breaking the world record for the fastest overland journey to the South Pole. The team of three were using a laptop to publish 'dispatches' via the satellite Internet back to the London support team. Thanks to Pusher, when a dispatch was sent, it fired off a siren and video clip on a screen mounted to the wall in London offices. Since the team in London were notified in realtime, the time it took to edit any footage or pictures was minimized, which meant that the followers received the most up-to-date info and felt the excitement of the challenge.


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Gannon University Villa Maria School of Nursing, Erie, Pennsylvania
Gannon University Villa Maria School of Nursing offers both Bachelor and Master degrees in Nursing. Both undergraduate and graduate level nursing programs are approved by the Pennsylvania Board of Nursing and accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
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Back in February, I had an opportunity to test COVERGIRL's newest lipstick, LipPerfection lipcolor. LipPerfection does double duty – while drenching your pout in rich, creamy color, it performs like a treatment. Silk therapy moisturizers hydrate and smooth dry lips. So, the more you wear it, the better your lips look and feel. COVERGIRL promises the product's "Silk Moisturizing Complex" provides smooth gorgeous color and sustained levels of moisture to actually improve lip condition in just 7 days.
After testing it out for a few days, off and on, I was so impressed by the flattering shades, staying power and unique formula that I included it in a Beauty Breakthroughs article I penned for Philadelphia Magazine. But, to be honest, I didn't test it for seven days straight, so I really couldn't verify the better-lips-in-a-week claim.
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I opted for a richly pigmented, bright pink called Siren. It applied very smoothly and felt comfortable on my lips. But after seeing my reflection in the mirror, I felt that it was a little light for my complexion. I was running late for work and didn't feel like taking it off and starting over – so I grabbed a wine shade, called Tempt, and layered it on top. The result was a gorgeous fuchsia that garnered a handful of compliments at work, and made me feel like a more polished version of myself.
My lips didn't feel or get dry, and I didn't feel the urge to swipe on lip balm throughout the day, like I usually do. And it gets better: my lipstick looked freshly applied all day long (even after lunch!) and even when it faded in the late afternoon, it left behind a uniform, intentional looking stain.
So far, so good. I'll be back in a few days for an update.
*COVERGIRL is compensating me for my time and participation in the LipPerfection Transformation Challenge; however, all opinions shared are my own.


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A Clinic on Wheels for the Homeless
Ellery Tarife provides healthcare for New York City's hard-to-reach homeless population by staying mobile.
Why do we get bags under our eyes?
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Cozy yet hungry or uncomfortable but full?
The choices made by fruit fly larvae may provide basic understanding of how animals make decisions.
Learning Gets a Green Face
Environmental education enhances the student experience in New York City's public and private schools.
Rewarding Recycling
A program that rewards recyclers is growing, even in a state that once boasted some of the highest recycling rates.
Flushing your body and flushing the toilet – not so innocent anymore
A study discovers that water supplies are tainted with an array of everyday drugs.
Hope for Those Most Vulnerable to Malaria
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What happens to your body when you fall asleep?
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Over twenty representatives from the British Jewish community participated in a high-level study trip from 5-9 February 2017 exploring issues relating to Bedouin citizens of Israel in the Negev. Delegates toured Rahat, Hura, Az-Zarnog & Az-Zarura, and Beer Sheva, visiting projects and engaging with leading representatives within the Bedouin community, the public sector, local and national government, and civil society spheres.
Led by both Co-Chairs of the UK Task Force, UJIA Chief Executive Michael Wegier and Pears Executive Chairman Trevor Pears CMG, and UK Task Force Director Toni Rickenback, the delegation included senior figures in British Jewry, including religious, political, and youth leaders, as well as representatives of charitable foundations.
The Bedouin are a subgroup within the Arab Muslim minority in the State of Israel, with a unique cultural, historical, social, and political history. There are approximately 300,000 Bedouin citizens in Israel, constituting 3.5% of the Israeli population. 230,000 (80%) live in the Negev, in seven towns that were built by the government and approximately 35 unrecognized villages that are at the centre of tensions between the Bedouin community and the Israeli government. The Bedouin communities are the poorest in Israel; rated last on the socioeconomic scale, with the lowest employment rate in Israel. They are also the youngest communities in Israel with 50% of Bedouin under 18 years of age.
The unique challenges of Bedouin society are being addressed by the Israeli government and civil society organizations, creating new opportunities to improve and encourage the integration of the Bedouin into Israel's economy. In the last decade the government allocated specific budgets for the Bedouin community and approved initiatives to empower Bedouin men and women to take their place in the labour market. There has been significant progress in women's education: At the end of the 1990s there were few Bedouin women with higher education qualifications, today there are thousands of university and college Bedouin women graduates.
During the study trip the UK Task Force delegation met with government representatives and Bedouin leadership, civil society activists and academics, including: Yariv Man, Senior Division Manager for Economic & Social Development, Directorate for Economic & Community Development of Negev Bedouins, Ministry of Agriculture; MK Ayman Odeh, Head of the Joint Arab List; and Dr Sarah abu Kaf of Ben Gurion University.
The group learned about plans to create employment opportunities for Bedouin citizens of Israel in the hi-tech industry and public sector, about educational challenges and the role of government, civil society, and communities in meeting the needs of Israel's Arab Citizens.
The trip was closed by David Quarrey British Ambassador to Israel, at a lunch hosted at his residency, complimenting the participants for their interest in the Israeli society.
Speaking after the study trip, Jeremy Kelly, Chief Executive of the Ben Gurion University Foundation said, "Reflecting on the past few days I realised that I have learnt and been exposed to so many issues and new ideas – more than in many years of travelling to Israel. It was a fantastic programme, brilliantly executed, and consummately managed."
On the impact of the trip, Rabbi Daniella Kolodny, Rabbinic Consultant at Masorti Judaism said, "The study trip was intense and thought provoking; even days later I continue to contemplate everything I saw, heard and experienced while we were in Beersheba and the Bedouin villages."
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The Department of German strongly condemns the violence and intimidation perpetrated by the white supremacists and Neo-Nazis who gathered in Charlottesville, VA, on August 11th and 12th, 2017. As a faculty, we are appalled that the UVA Grounds were used to promote this agenda and that students were subject to intimidation and physical attack a short distance from their dormitories. That the racist ideology of this group targets especially vulnerable minorities while threatening the dignity, safety, and well-being of individuals in Charlottesville, at UVA, and nation-wide goes without saying; but it must be said nonetheless.
As members of a German Department we are profoundly conscious of the violent, bigoted, and genocidal history that forms the indelible legacy of white supremacist ideology, no matter what mask it might assume or name it might go by. Appalled at the conduct of these purveyors of hate who marched to the Nazi slogan "blood and soil" (Blut und Boden) while declaring "You will not replace us" and "Jew will not replace us," we affirm our solidarity with those groups that they especially targeted last weekend. As individuals and as a department, our faculty is committed to the safety and well being of all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Virginia. We assert the need and encourage all to oppose these white supremacist heirs to Nazism: As Governor Terry McAuliffe declared, such people "are not wanted in this great commonwealth."


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Why and how and you should protect your Facebook account
February 3rd, 2017
Last week Brad Hill, Security Engineer at Facebook, wrote a post. He recommends you to set up your online security with two-factor authentication (also referred to as login approvals) using a physical device.
The reason for this two-factor authentication recommendation is because we are careless. Most people have their username and password stored on the same phone or computer they want to keep secured. Access to the phone and computer is therefore enough to get control over your Facebook account. The historical way to solve this is to send a text message with a four digit code. But most people use their phones as the primary Facebook device so the text message doesn't really add any security… Read the full story here:
How two-factor authentication works on the phone
Logging into Facebook with login approvals active from a phone you'll be prompted to tap your secure device to the phone. That is after entering your password – which is normally stored in memory. That way, even with access to your password and/or phone, a hacker can't access your account without having your secure device.
We offer you the Fidesmo Card (recommended) in our shop http://shop.fidesmo.com/product/fidesmo-card. And through our Android app you can easily make it a secure U2F device. The perfect device for securing your Facebook account on your phone!
And of course any Fidesmo device of yours can act as secure device!
Facebook login approvals use the standard U2F that is widely supported including Google, Dropbox, Github and more.
Fidesmo open sources APDU-over-Bluetooth protocol – Fidesmo devices are now reachable from any smartphone
November 18th, 2016
Last time we discussed the future wearable cloud, where the Fidesmo vision is that some important functions of the mobile phone can be distributed to a set of wearables. In order for this to work, we need to enable non-technology driven companies to integrate technology seamlessly into their devices, and the devices need to be able to interact with one another independent of brand and phone application.
This calls for standardized or open protocols that devices can use. Today Fidesmo is publishing our open protocol for transporting secure chip commands (called APDUs) over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and we are also publishing reference implementations for the client and server parts so that you can test out the protocol just with two Android phones.
This enables a wearable manufacturer to implement a device with Fidesmo functionality and make the Secure Element inside that device accessible by any application or device that implements the BLE client side of the protocol.
One possible use case is to issue public transit tickets from the public transit operator's own application, and transfer them over BLE to your wearable, as long as the app implements this protocol. Or to issue your payment card directly from your banking app to any device that implements the protocol. By not forcing a proprietary protocol onto the devices, the number of possible combinations of devices and use cases increases exponentially.
It is also important that the protocol can be used with both passive and active devices and that it is as lightweight as possible. We believe we have found a good compromise but are of course open for feedback.
So please review our first contribution to the wearable cloud, and start to play with the code. You can find the specification and code here: https://github.com/fidesmo/apdu-over-ble. We are looking forward to your feedback.
RIP! The phone is dead.
November 1st, 2016
A few weeks back there was an article where I was featured in Computer Sweden questioning whether or not the phone is the right medium for physical payments. There is no secret that Fidesmo supports the view that everything won't be circling around the phone in the future, and I would like to take the opportunity to elaborate on that vision. Specifically, in the long term we believe that a wearable cloud of devices will take over the role of the mobile phone and that Fidesmo has an important role to fulfil in this evolution.
Let's first take a look at the current trends brewing in the outskirts of the mobile eco system. Taking these trends into account, we think that a lot of the use cases exclusively tied to the mobile phone will be taken over by a combination of wearables – the wearable cloud. Right now, the phone is the perfect device, but in all sincerity it is a clunky device with a small screen and sub-par audio input functionality that we need to carry around. The main functionalities of the phone are 1) audio input and output, 2) visual input and output, and 3) the potential for contactless interaction with the environment. Added to this is connectivity, where services and systems are reached instantaneously.
Audio input and output we already see early trends of it being taken over by other devices such as the Apple Airpods and the family of devices for the home such as Amazon Echo and Google Home. The speaking partner for humans in these devices is being decoupled from the device itself, and goes under the names of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant.
The whole field of Augmented Reality (AR) is targeting the removal of the screen as the number one input method. Examples of early explorations into wearables targeting the visual input/output space are Google Glass and Spectacles from Snap (formerly known as the company Snapchat). I am very fascinated about the evolution path for the Spectacles – it is currently marketed as a toy, but will it stay like that? There are a lot of opportunities to expand the Spectacles into new fields once the platform is starting to become used. Another interesting field, complementing the AR evolution in glasses and contact lenses, is public screens that are potential interaction points with your personal cloud like Dropbox or Google Drive. This is very similar to the home devices mentioned above (Amazon Echo, Google Home) – the functionality that used to be tied to your mobile phone is moving out to the world around you. But then you need a way to seamlessly and securely tie yourself into these devices.
And lastly, we think that the point for secure interaction with your environment will be moved to the most convenient spot: the hand or the wrist. This is a spot where most adults already have a wearable called watch or bracelet. The introduction of contactless payment cards has been promoted by the payment industry as a faster way of payment, and by the transport ticketing world also with the benefit of less wear and tear for the reader infrastructure. But for the connected world, we believe that the potential to make the payment device shape independent is just as important if not more important. With the introduction of contactless payment the opportunity to put payment functionality into every watch is a reality.
So, it is not hard to envision a not too distant future where the the mobile phone has been dissolved into smaller, more invisible pieces of technology. Invisible doesn't necessarily mean that the device is not seen, but rather that the technology is not seen. In many cases, the device will be seen, and really stand out, but as a fashion statement or as a token of group belonging. Non-tech companies will then make many, if not most, of these devices, and there will be many different manufacturers with small niches to fill. The tech part will be delivered by very thin services residing in the cloud and connecting to the different end points.
What is needed to be able to address the mish-mash of devices that we expect to form the future personal cloud? What are the requirements that we need to put on the technology that needs to be integrated into these wearables? Since most of the manufacturers are not technology companies, the technology must come almost pre-packaged. This means that the hardware (the silicon) must be pre-packaged also with the services (silicon is not enough) and that there must be standardized protocols for local interactions, so that wearables from different manufacturers can work together also on the service levels. Fidesmo aims to offer this ecosystem for contactless wearables, and we look forward to bringing more news about the building blocks of our platform soon.
Best regards, Mattias Eld, CEO, Fidesmo
Shortened version, in English, of the Computer Sweden article.
The mobile will be relegated to a modem that is in your pocket.
Watches and bracelets are much faster to use than mobiles to make payments, open doors, or ride the subway. The clock is already on the arm; it sits there all the time.
Today Fidesmo is selling cards with NFC and payment chip that can be programmed to work with a range of systems and companies. A next step is to, inter alia, to incorporate the chip in watchbands. We have cooperation with a number of watch brands and products that will be on the market before the summer.
People will continue to use their regular watches, but they'll be a little smarter. Having a computer on the wrist it is far from what all want.
A chip with antenna sewn into the bracelet, which allows them to be integrated in the clock any time just changing the bracelet and you can then keep the fashion factor. You can pay, ride public transportation, open the hotel room and much more with your own watch.
"We believe in a wireless future," chanted Apple's design chief Jonathan Ives when the company showed off his iPhone 7 and the wireless headphones Airpods. It is a sign of the times that not even Apple wants to focus entirely on mobile.
Instead of having everything in the mobile phone, I think we will start to see a trend that the technology is dissolved into its components, and I actually think that Apple is one of those driving the trend.
With headphones who control Siri and the Apple Watch on your arm, your body starts getting connected, and you can interact with your mobile phones and other technology in the environment without picking up the phone.
Securing KeePass databases with OTP codes generated on a Fidesmo device
June 3rd, 2016
Securing your KeePass 2.x password database with OTP codes generated from a seed safely kept on a Fidesmo device is really simple. We do however recommend that you have gone through our instructions on how to use basic OTP functions with your Fidesmo device before trying this. If you feel ready then read on! Warning[…] Read More
Fidesmo Android app v0.12.1
April 19th, 2016
Version 0.12.1 was supposed to be a small bug fix update. But when checking the changes that have happend since the last update it turned out to be quite a few. See the huge changelog below: Roll back usage of TagArbiter for now. Stop supporting NFC-less delivery Remove starting the app with NFC Stop supporting[…] Read More
Fidesmo Android app v0.12.0
February 22nd, 2016
Version 0.12.0 of the Fidesmo Android app is a big release that we have been working on for over a month. Lots of stuff have been going on behind the curtains and we have updated and refactored some of our own systems and tools. We have finally introduced the first UI testing in the Android[…] Read More
U2F via NFC on Android
January 7th, 2016
After an unusually warm but cozy Christmas we at Fidesmo are slowly getting back to full power. Besides presents (and a lot of good food) December brought with it several important announcements in the context of U2F and Android: Ledger FIDO U2F Our partner Ledger has released Ledger FIDO U2F on the Fidesmo platform! The[…] Read More
How to use the Fidesmo PGP applet to encrypt and sign emails in Android
November 12th, 2015
There are many good reasons to protect your email from prying eyes with encryption. There are also many reasons to ensure nobody can impersonate you by digitally signing your messages. PGP has been providing the tools to do both encryption and signing since 1991. This blog post, written as a tutorial, shows how to use it on the most popular[…] Read More
How to set up and use our secure One Time Password generator (updated)
August 20th, 2015
Note: this post is the updated version of this one. The recommended Android app to generate one-time passwords is now Yubico Authenticator. Passwords have been quite unpopular for a while. Every few weeks major news sites publish some variation on the "password is dead" topic. In order to improve login security, many of the leading[…] Read More
Why doesn't Fidesmo use default ISD keys?
July 14th, 2015
We have been asked several times: how come Fidesmo Cards are personalized with secret ISD keys? If you want to be developer-friendly, why don't you distribute them with the default ISD keys, so developers are able to install whatever they want? There are several reasons for that: It would decrease the system's overall security Our[…] Read More
Fidesmo on the radio
July 6th, 2015
Two weeks ago, one of our co-founders was interviewed in Estartapeando, a space about the startup scene in Spain in Cadena SER's Hora25 evening news programme. Cadena SER is the largest radio broadcasting network in Spain, so it was a pretty big thing for us. And being greeted by the fishmonger because he heard you on[…] Read More
Interested in a Fidesmo-enabled Yubikey?
June 22nd, 2015
Yubikey is a well known security device that generates one-time passwords, acting as a second authentication factor for secure log-in. There are USB-only and USB + NFC versions (the Yubikey NEO). They are used to login securely into Google, Facebook, GitHub, and to access corporate networks. Together with Yubico we have designed a Yubikey NEO[…] Read More
How to set up and use our secure One Time Password generator
April 8th, 2015
Note: now we recommend a different Android app to generate one-time passwords. See the updated instructions in this blog post. Passwords have been quite unpopular for a while. Every few weeks major news sites publish some variation on the "password is dead" topic. In order to improve login security, many of the leading online service providers[…] Read More
Important evolution of the Fidesmo platform
March 18th, 2015
Just a little bit more than 6 months ago we shipped our first development Fidesmo Card, and our platform has since then undergone a massive development. We have implemented support for Java Card. The Fidesmo App has evolved from being just two lines of very user unfriendly text input, to an embryo of a cardapp[…] Read More
The Higher Education Smart Campus Association (HESCA) meeting in Warwick
February 23rd, 2015
Both the two main Fidesmo propositions – use your mobile phone to interact with your Fidesmo card and use one card everywhere – rhymes very well with university use cases. In particular, the university is in most cases part of an extended ecosystem including for instance public transport ticketing, loyalty, ID and closed loop payments.[…] Read More
Java Card applications on the Fidesmo Card
August 26th, 2014
by Yves Bringing the "smart" to the smart card, we now allow not only the storage of MIFARE tickets on the Fidesmo Card, but also the installation of Java Card applets. These applets are programmed in a reduced version of the Java programming language and are directly executed on the card, while it is powered[…] Read More
Fidesmo in New York
May 19th, 2014
Working for a start-up sometimes require some travelling. This time it was mine and Mattias' turn. The destination: New York! Why? To present at TechCrunch Disrupt. If you are curious about the event you can read more about it here. We found a nice hotel on Manhattan not too far away from the venue where[…] Read More
Our new branding
April 28th, 2014
The first thing we did when we started Fidesmo was to create a logo at 99designs, and you can read more about that here. A year later and a long creative process regarding what our offering will be, it is now time to update our logo and corporate profile to better reflect the company and[…] Read More
Service Delivery API is now available on developer.fidesmo.com
April 23rd, 2014
by Mattias As was previously discussed in our roadmap the Service Delivery API would be our next release, and we are now happy to announce that it is fully supported on developer.fidesmo.com, in the Fidesmo Backend server as well as in the Fidesmo App. With the Service Delivery API you as a developer can tie[…] Read More
We love cloud services
April 15th, 2014
by Miguel At Fidesmo we are strong believers in cloud services, and we use them a lot. This blog post is a big thank you to all our suppliers! Squarespace, we love the simplicity you provide in bringing our website to life. Github, we love the way you make our development work flow. Travis CI,[…] Read More
Cards as the New Computing Platform
March 31st, 2014
by Mattias Over at avc.com, Fred Wilson is writing about the search for the next platform, spurred by the recent Oculus acquisition. Now, we can debate what a platform is – is it a software framework like facebook, instagram and twitter, or is it more the underlying computing platform, like desktop, cloud and mobile, or[…] Read More
The Fidesmo developer portal is open!
February 19th, 2014
by Mattias Today Fidesmo is opening up its developer portal with the Transceive API for interested beta developers! The Transceive API is the first building block of many, but it nevertheless gives the developer a hint of what is expected in the future. The API allows a Service Provider to send APDUs from a backend[…] Read More
New office (again)
December 11th, 2013
by Mattias Start-up life is very dynamic, and one of the things that is changing very often in the beginning is the office address. Fidesmo yesterday moved in to SUP46, our second office, and it feels great! SUP46 is a meeting place for start-ups, early stage investors and the tech-scene in general in Stockholm. It[…] Read More
Scala eXchange 2013
December 9th, 2013
by Petter As a part of developing our software architecture me (Petter) and Fredrik visited this years' Scala eXchange. A lot of the software we use to develop our systems was discussed, and especially interesting for us were the talks about Akka (Jonas Bonér), Spray (Mathias Doenitz) and Scalatest (Bill Venners) since these packages form[…] Read More
We won!
November 22nd, 2013
Today we received a 300k SEK grant by Vinnova as part of their Vinn nu competition. Vinnova is Sweden government's innovation agency. We were one of 21 selected companies out of 209 participating in the competition. The grant came in the form of a classical diploma and today was the price ceremony at Vinnova. It[…] Read More
Our APDU library is ready!
October 31st, 2013
by Petter After months of hard work, we are proud to announce that our APDU library has reached beta state, that is, it can be used to build program logic that interacts with a smart card, using of course APDU scripts. Although the library is by no means finished, its architecture and main processes are[…] Read More
Back in Stockholm…
October 28th, 2013
by Miguel Having worked with my co-founders for more than two years before creating Fidesmo, we have pretty much nailed down how to run a geographically-distributed team. But it is always good to meet in person, and sometimes even necessary: for example, to have a long architecture design session, review the company's strategy, or simply[…] Read More
New office
August 27th, 2013
by Mattias We have finally moved to our first office at Adlerbethsgatan 21 in Kristineberg in Stockholm. It feels good to finally meet everyday in a "neutral" place, not having to hang around in each others apartments. Plus that the location is nice next to the Fredhäll park where the sun is always shining! (At[…] Read More
Designing a business model top-down. Does it make sense?
July 11th, 2013
by Miguel Some weeks ago (18th June) GlobalPlatform organized a TSM seminar a few subway stops from where I live, hosted by the Spanish Royal Mint ("Real Casa de la Moneda", no less). No, they didn't let us see where they print those nice Euro notes. But the food was excellent. It was a busy[…] Read More
Tough requirements
July 5th, 2013
By Petter A core part of what we are doing at Fidesmo is related to implementing standards like Global Platform card specification, ISO 8825-1 or Mifare 4 Mobile. All these standards are fairly low level and are related to coding the data to be sent on the "wire". The implementation of a low level standard[…] Read More
Fredrik says hi!
June 28th, 2013
by Fredrik Hi, I'm Fredrik and recently started working as a developer at Fidesmo. For someone who enjoys the startup climate and loves working on technical challenges, Fidesmo has shown to be an excellent place to work during the last three weeks. Most recently, I have worked as technical lead for the startup company evisto[…] Read More
Future Perfect triggers thoughts…
June 4th, 2013
By Mattias A few weeks back I wrote a short blog post regarding why we started Fidesmo. There I mentioned that we want to break down the barriers for NFC by providing software and connectivity in an Internet-fashion. A few days ago I then read "Future Perfect" by Steven Johnson (an all in all very[…] Read More
Are we disruptive?
May 27th, 2013
By Miguel This is the promised follow-up to 'The Innovator's Dilemma' review, applying the book's analysis to our own case. It could be presented as one of Clayton Christensen's examples: a technology industry, the smartcard industry, facing a technology change: the migration from plastic cards to 'virtual cards' pushed to users' mobile phones. This industry[…] Read More
On Disruptive Technologies
May 20th, 2013
By Miguel A few years ago, while working at a big company in a pure technical position, I got this recommendation: "read this, it is not the typical book for Dilbert-esque managers". I don't remember who recommended it to me, probably it was my own manager at the time (not "Dilbert-esque" at all); the case[…] Read More
Stockholm start-up city!
April 26th, 2013
By Mattias The last week and a half has been busy for people attending start-up events in Stockholm, including myself. First, on Tuesday last week, there was 33-listan, which is an event to celebrate the 33 most promising young companies in Sweden. On Saturday there was Start-Up Day 2013 (SUD13 for short), and finally Wednesday[…] Read More
Why we started Fidesmo
April 8th, 2013
By Mattias One of the first questions people ask you when you say you have started a company: why did you do it? In our case, a lot of the people we know are also from the industry, and then the question might be something like: how are you going to make a difference, there[…] Read More
How we got our logo
March 31st, 2013
by Miguel Designing a website, writing down some content, setting up a Twitter account are some of the activities most startups nowadays have to do, while chasing investors and coding our magic (more about that in our technology section). We even have ordered some visit cards, God have mercy of our souls. All those things[…] Read More


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Mt. Rainier and Paradise Park Road Trip
Years ago, as part of our honeymoon, my wife, Debbie and I passed through Mt. Rainier National park. It was very early in the summer season and despite the fact that the road to Paradise visitors center was open, snow was absolutely everywhere. The weather was dreary but the thing that most impressed me was the fact that Mt. Rainier is absolutely enormous. I later read that Mt. Rainier has more glacial volume than all the mountains combined in any other state in the lower 48 . I believe it! At 14,410 vertical feet and with an enormous mass and the fact that it is one of the snowiest places on earth, it is an impressive sight. Well, because I recently heard that the wildflowers at Mt. Rainier were very good this year and my wife has always wanted me to get some good images from Mt. Rainier, I made a road trip. Below is one of my best images from Mt. Rainier National Park. This image was captured shortly after sunrise from near the Paradise Park visitor center.
The clouds you can see at the base of Mt. Rainier, quickly grew and completely covered the mountain. Shortly thereafter, the rain and snow commenced! I wasn't able to capture any images with my large format camera because it was simply too windy. I suppose this offers inspiration for a return visit to Mt. Rainier next summer! Mt. Rainier Fine Art Photograph. Below is an image I captured the night before at the tail end of the 6 hour drive to Mt. Rainier from Our Pacific Crest base camp of Bend, Oregon.
Great colors and textures made it well worth while to stop despite the fact that I was frantically looking for a camp site and I was almost out of daylight.
The morning of my Mt. Rainier visit I awoke before 4:00AM and began hiking. I traversed the Mazama Ridge in the dark and along the way I saw two red foxes and countless deer. Not finding any remarkable scenes along this part of Mt. Rainier National Park, I continued uphill back towards Paradise. I passed through the Van Trump area and the Edith Creek Basin which is pictured below.
Weather reports from the visitor center predicted rain and heavy clouds for the next two full days in the Paradise area so I hastily retreated to the Columbia River Gorge area where the weather forecast was more promising. I got some great new stock photos from the Coulumbia River Gorge National Scenic area but they will have to wait for another blog entry.
Mt. Rainier National Park is truly amazing and offers much more than just the mountain. There are countless waterfalls long the way as well as the gorgeous Tatoosh range, and the Grove of the Patriarchs and it's 1,000 year old cedar and Douglas Fir trees. Below is Sunbeam Falls, a whimsical little waterfall along the roadside near the Paradise area.
For more information about the remainder of my Mt. Rainier road trip, and some great images from the Columbia River Gorge, Double Mountain Brewery, and Elowah Falls, please check back soon! Thanks for reading and if you would like to license any of the images in this blog entry, please visit our stock photography site, Pacific Crest Stock.
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In July 2012 I participated in a BMC Big Data Summit that took place in BMC headquarters in Houston, Texas. I met architects from many of the BMC product lines and we discussed Hadoop and Big Data opportunities along with customers use cases, challenges and needs (I've described some of the Workload Automation use cases before in an article published in the Enterprise Systems Media magazine). This is the "behind the scenes" story of the team that made Control-M for Hadoop a reality.
Amit Cohen, Product Management
As soon as we had the green light for the project, R&D started the technical research and we identified together the potential content for the first release. With the Big Data market and the Hadoop ecosystem being so dynamic, we wanted to ensure that what we developed actually addressed customer needs. We validated both the potential content and the use cases with customers in North America, EMEA and AP, and adjusted our plans according to their input. The support for HDFS file watching for example was added to the content based on such feedback.
We learned what type of challenges companies experienced when using Hadoop specific schedulers (such as Oozie) and realized that we can deliver immediate value by offering the ability to manage Hadoop batch jobs with the same power and ease of the "traditional" enterprise processing. Control-M for Hadoop allows application developers to focus on developing Hadoop programs rather than wasting time with writing and debugging wrapper scripts that schedule those programs.
The main challenge that customers shared with us was the ability to integrate Hadoop jobs with data integration activities, analytics tasks, and with file transfers – types of integration for which Control-M was specifically designed. Proactive notification on missed SLAs and self-service offering for application developers were asked for as well. Having Control-M able to easily integrate mainframe and distributed tasks was also a key factor for those customers who shifted data processing from DB2 to Hadoop in order to reduce MF processing costs.
Avner Waldman & Shaul Segal: Research & Development
We have always been passionate about learning new technologies but the team excitement increased to a new level after the discussions we had with our customers and the understanding of the value we would be providing them. We learned that we had customers running Hadoop jobs with Control-M for years, using homegrown wrapper scripts, but looked for a tighter, more "native" integration that would reduce effort and risk. We helped them eliminate these scripts by replacing them with jobs defined from a simple and powerful graphical user interface.
We started the research on a couple of single-node Hadoop clusters but this wasn't enough for us. We knew that our customers' Hadoop environments were more complex, and that Control-M for Hadoop must support these environments. We tested various Hadoop distributions in multi nodes cluster configurations. Our virtualized infrastructure allowed us to provision Linux instances quickly and the feedback from our customers helped us to configure the Hadoop clusters in a way that is as similar as possible to their environments.
Gad Ron: Architect
Being involved with the first BMC Big Data initiative was the thing that got me excited the most. Other product lines are now following us with developing additional offerings around Big Data, but we got to be the leading team. We've been "playing" with Hadoop for a couple of years now and finally reached a point where the market demand for enterprise support justified the development costs. Now that the first release of Control-M for Hadoop is available and customers are adopting it, we have a larger community to get feedback from and we are already looking into additional use cases for the next release.
I love the idea of new and innovative technology that is mostly batch oriented. Over the years we heard people saying that IT is turning to a completely online driven approach but the truth is the exact opposite. It's like saying that the mainframe is dying…
Analyst predictions on the Big Data market growth encourage us to invest in additional research in Big Data technologies. NoSQL databases and in memory databases (such as SAP HANA) are now on the table as well, next to the social, mobile and cloud initiatives. We are also witnessing a trend of silo Big Data exploratory projects turning into enterprise-wide Big Data initiatives. Our customers are looking for tools to support such a shift.
Oranit Atias: Project Management
Communication is always a key factor in these types of projects. We all learned the new technology together, shared customer inputs and worked collectively to ensure we met our project deadlines and quality standards. In fact, we were able to complete the project ahead of time. The alignment of all participating teams including documentation and support to the dynamic nature of the project was all I could ask for. When I saw the Times Square ad and Control-M for Hadoop on the www.bmc.com front page I couldn't be more proud and felt privileged to be part of the team.
Abi Yavo & Avi Biton: Quality Assurance
The feedback from the customers that evaluated preGA releases of Control-M for Hadoop helped us to design and execute the testing use cases. We made sure that our testing coverage included the same platforms and configurations that those customers use and they in return now have a much more stable and robust solution that meets their needs, IT standards and configurations. The learning curve of the new technology was relatively short due to the fact we've been there with R&D and product management since the beginning of the project. We participated in the technical research, the discussions with the customers and the release specifications planning. This was a truly team effort. We ended up with a shorter release cycle and eventually a better product.
Robin Reddick: Solution Marketing (@robinreddick)
Working on Control-M for Hadoop let me do two of my favorite things as a solutions marketer – bring a new product to market AND in a new market area. I began researching the big data market opportunities well over a year ago. With all of the initial big data processing being batch (scheduled), it was a perfect fit for Control-M and just a matter of the right time.
Reaching out to customers, understanding their needs, and then working with product management, sales, and other stakeholders in the company – it was all great fun, and of course challenging as well.
The best part of the entire effort was working closely with customers to understand their business needs. Every customer I spoke with was using Hadoop and big data to learn more about their business –to make better informed decisions. Each of them was passionate and excited about the opportunities they were finding to offer better and even personalized service, new products, and improve their business operations. Their excitement was infectious.
Memorable moments? The first meeting with a customer, which was MetaScale, and understanding just what a game-changer big data really is for businesses. The first conversation with a sales rep — they called Hadoop "Hoopla" the entire conversation making me realize how important training would be. And throughout — working with my team-mate Joe Goldberg who was relentless and remarkable the entire time.
It's not over yet. This is just the beginning!
BMC's Complete Guide To Hadoop
Wikibon: Automate your Big Data pipeline
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"Art is an exclusive human privilege. The more diverse and sophisticated is the art expression, the deeper will be our human dimension. Artistic creation is born from an overflow soul, from the ability to live with intensity, both love and sadness, both fulfillment and loss. It has its real source in a unique power of the soul to self-analyze, to understand and express ourselves. Is a single act, unrepeatable, because there is a flow, an inner affective glowing core, which rise to the surface in new metamorphoses, new ideas and forms, in every moment.
My painting, I like to think, express a philosophy of inner freedom, the deployment of conventional, a philosophy of enthusiasm, of vibrant living, optimistic, of fulfillment starting from the inner, from intrapersonal to interpersonal and social.
An abstract painting is only a proposal. It is a seed. The viewer is the one to choose the angle and depth of his look, will find an interpretive pattern as a reflection of his own inner wealth. Every painting is a "link" to the inner world of everyone. Therefore, we all love art: in it we fiind ourselves as human beings and through it we probe the levels of our own conscience."
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Five teenagers will be charged as adults in the death of a Michigan man who was killed by a rock allegedly thrown off of an interstate's overpass last week, prosecutors announced Monday.
Kenneth Andrew White, 32, was traveling home from work along Interstate 75 in Vienna Township on Wednesday night when a 6-pound rock smashed through the windshield of the car he was riding in and struck him while he sat in the passenger seat, authorities said.
White, a father of four, died from blunt force trauma to the head and chest, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said at a press conference.
The five suspects have been identified as Kyle Anger, 17; Mark Sekelsky, 16; Mikadyn Payne, 16; Trevor Gray, 15; and Alexander Miller, 15. They are all from Clio, Michigan, and face charges of second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit second-degree murder, six felony counts of malicious destruction of property, and two misdemeanor counts of malicious destruction of property.
"These people should have known better. Under Michigan law, this is second-degree murder," Leyton said, later adding that that specific charge carries the potential of life behind bars.
Leyton said a total of 20 rocks were recovered from the scene, the heaviest of which was nearly 20 pounds. Several other cars were damaged but no one else was injured.
"You ought to know, a reasonable person would know, that that's creating a very high risk of bodily harm or death," Leyton said, referring to the speed limit of the interstate and the size of the rocks.
Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell told HuffPost that the suspects allegedly threw other items, including a spare tire, from another road's overpass before driving to the I-75 overpass where White was hit. Pickell said the suspects had collected the rocks in advance.
"When we got the [911] call, there were already four cars that were pulled off of the highway because they had driven through a debris field," he said.
Asked if the suspects have expressed any remorse for their actions, Pickell said there's a chance they may now that they're behind bars.
"After their rock-throwing incident, they climbed back into the van and went to McDonald's and ate," he said.
At Monday's press conference, Pickell praised Leyton for "throwing the book" at the suspects and setting an example.
"It's not a prank; it's second-degree murder. I don't think anybody's laughing," he said. "You make a bad decision, you could be spending the rest of your life in prison. This is not a prank."
White's fiancee, Amiee Cagle, expressed both outrage and heartbreak over the incident that killed the father of her 5-year-old son.
"He was a good man and a good father," she told WDIV Local 4 News. "For some senseless act, for it to be just a rock, just to take him so soon. He took away a child's father, and the love of my life. His stupid act took away a life."
White lived in South Carolina for most of his life before moving to Michigan, according to an obituary. He worked as a construction worker and "enjoyed sports, video games and the outdoors."
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help pay for White's funeral expenses.
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1950s: Army tests mosquitoes, fleas as biological weapons
By MARC VALERO | Highlands Today, Sebring, Fla. | Published: April 6, 2014
AVON PARK — A military attack with about 230,000 mosquitoes infected with yellow fever would be difficult to detect and would be impossible for a nation to react quickly with a mass-immunization program, the U.S. Army Chemical Corps believed in the 1950s.
The corps put its theory to a test in two locations - Savannah, Ga. and the Avon Park Air Force Range.
With tests called Operation Big Buzz, Operation Big Itch and Operation Drop Kick, the corps explored the feasibility of using fleas and mosquitoes as weapons.
Many online watchdog groups and other online posts make unsubstantiated claims that the U.S. military released mosquitoes infected with yellow fever over Savannah and Avon Park. After each test Army agents posed as public health officials to test the victims for effects, according to these accounts.
A Truthout story quoted an unidentified resident in 2010 who said the experiments resulted in at least six or seven deaths. The quote is from a story titled, "Florida Dengue Fever Outbreak Leads Back to CIA and Army Experiments."
Declassified government documents apparently show tests were conducted, but with uninfected mosquitoes.
"In 1956 the Corps released 600,000 uninfected mosquitoes from a plane at Avon Park Bombing Range, Florida. Within a day the mosquitoes had spread a distance of between one and two miles and had bitten many people," according to Summary of Major Events and Problems U.S. Army Chemical Corps, Fiscal Year 1959 - January 1960, from the corps historical office in Maryland.
"In 1958 further tests at Avon Park AFB, Florida, showed that mosquitoes could easily be disseminated from helicopters, would spread more than a mile in each direction and would enter all types of buildings," the corps report stated.
Longtime Avon Park resident Beatrice Peterson didn't know about mosquito releases, but she remembers that screwworm flies were released in the mid to late 1950s.
She was 14 years old in 1956 and attended the Hopewell Elementary/Junior High School.
"We know they released some flies, but what was the reason and why, I can't remember why because we were in school back in the 1950s," Peterson said. "Occasionally we would see them when they fly over and drop the little boxes out. Evidently the boxes were supposed to open up."
She said planes dropped the boxes, but she didn't remember specifically what type of planes.
"You know living in Avon Park and with the bombing range right out there, we would never look up to see, all we would say is 'that's coming from the bombing range,'" Peterson said. "You know what they say about the government - the government keeps a lot of secrets."
The corps report stated that tests showed that mosquitoes could be spread over areas of several square miles by means of devices dropped from planes or set up on the ground. And while the tests were made with uninfected mosquitoes, "it is a fairly safe assumption that infected mosquitoes could be spread equally well."
The Biological Warfare Laboratories at Fort Detrick established a program to study the aedes aegypti mosquitor, which is a carrier of the yellow fever virus.
If a military attack were made with Aedes aegypti mosquitos it would be quite difficult to detect the fact, particularly if this type of mosquito ordinarily lived in the area, the corps report stated. "There is a yellow fever vaccine that has proven to be an effective prophylatic, but it would be impossible for a nation such as the U.S.S.R. to quickly undertake a mass-immunation program to protect millions of people."
The Avon Park mosquito testing is noted in a March 1981 U.S. Army report titled "An Evaluation of Entomological Warfare as a Potential Danger to the United States and European Nations."
"The feasibility of area coverage with adedes aegypti mosquitoes was based on the Avon Park, Florida mosquito trials," the report stated. About 223,000 infected female mosquitoes would be required for a hypothetical attack. The insects would be released from a helicopter 610 meters upwind of the target area.
A 2002 article by the Lakeland Ledger reported the release of some details of government biological tests in a 1977 Army report. Tests at Avon Park involved wheat fungus that apparently was part of the effort to develop weapons against the Soviet Union's food supply, according to the report and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.
Tests at Avon Park took place during 1954-1957, 1960, 1964 and in 1965, according to the 1977 report.
In 2002, Nelson pushed for the release of information about the military's biological and chemical weapons tests.
Efforts to declassify details of these tests do not appear to include tests conducted in the 1950s throughout the nation and at several sites in Florida, including the Avon Park Air Force Range, the Lakeland Ledger article stated.
Highlands Today attempted to contact Nelson for this report.


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Cheryl Cole's 'monsieur right' is planning romantic birthday bash
WILL Cheryl Cole have a tres bien birthday bash this weekend? Oui, oui!
And she'll have her new French beau Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini to thank.
We hear the restaurant owner, who began dating the gorgeous X Factor judge earlier his year, is organising her a special 31st party this weekend ahead of her birthday on Monday.
"Cheryl knows there's going to be a party, but doesn't know all the details yet "Daily Star source
And Jean-Bernard, 33, is planning to cater the bash with food from his own restaurant Cosy Box, as well as hiring his resident DJ Alex Merrell to play tracks at the pop-up style shindig in London.
Apparently he's also in talks with hotspot Chiltern Firehouse to hold the evening there. A source told us: "Cheryl knows there's going to be a party, but doesn't know all the details yet.
"But she's excited and has already invited her friends along, including Simon Cowell and former Girls Aloud bandmates Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts.
"The best thing about this birthday for Cheryl is that she'll have Jean-Bernard on her arm for the whole weekend.
"She's excited to show him off to her nearest and dearest. However, she doesn't want it to be as boozy as her 30th was last year..."
For that milestone the Crazy Stupid Love singer rounded up her pals and took them for a wild weekend in Las Vegas.
But it sounds like this year's celebrations will be a more subdued affair.
We think it's wise she won't get too hammered, as the starlet is right in the middle of X Factor auditions.
Yesterday the Geordie star returned to the north-east with fellow judges Simon, 54, Louis Walsh, 61, and Scary Spice Mel B, 39. They visited the Baltic in Gateshead to find the UK's next singing sensation.


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Bullington site plan continued to address concerns over traffic signal
'We get one shot at this. We need to get this right.'
Ben Pearson spoke in favor of the site plan for Black Mountain Plaza and the proposed traffic signal, which would also provide access to his residential property, he has applied to have rezoned. Seated behind Pearson, from right, are Dr. and Mrs. Robert Bullington, Attorney Paul Gilbert and Kent Bro.
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CAVE CREEK – On May 27, the planning commission unanimously recommended approval of Appendix A – Use Descriptions of the zoning ordinance, with a few amendments, defining commercial uses by zoning category and identifying uses in each that would require a special use permit (SUP) or site plan review.
Although "Adult Businesses" was brought forward by staff as being restricted to General Commercial with a SUP, Commissioner Ted Bryda's motion to allow it in Commercial Core as well, citing it would remove a use previously allowed, failed by a vote of 3-4, with Commissioner John Ford and Vice Chairman Reg Monachino voting with Bryda in favor of the amendment.
Those voting against the amendment said their recollection of the town attorney's advice was they could restrict where adult businesses may locate but could not zone them out altogether.
The next item on the agenda, rezoning of the Bullington family's property at the southeast corner of Cave Creek Road and Carefree Highway from Commercial Core to General Commercial passed with a unanimous recommendation for approval, with Commissioner Peter Omundson commenting, "It just makes sense."
However, during discussion of Black Mountain Plaza's site plan for the same parcel, Omundson, who moved to recommend approval and said, "I like the plan overall," expressed concern the Bullingtons and Walmart have been unable to resolve their differences.
Planning Director Ian Cordwell said the town received comments from the city of Phoenix regarding the 205-foot setback for the Scenic Corridor with "numerous comments" from Scottsdale, regarding traffic.
When Monachino questioned the Scenic Corridor setback, Cordwell explained the 205-foot setback is only a suggestion, whereas the requirement calls for a 105-foot setback from the center of the road, and said the applicant meets that requirement.
Additionally, in reviewing properties along the Scenic Corridor, Cordwell pointed out Phoenix did not meet the 205-foot setback it was requesting.
Bryda stated there were an "enormous amount of entrances and exits" to the project.
Attorney Paul Gilbert, representing the Bullingtons, said, "We're in agreement with staff's comments. We're asking for no variances and there's a specific finding we are compatible with surrounding development."
He said the Bullingtons' traffic engineer worked "very carefully" with the town's traffic engineer and the proposed traffic signal would be the only full turning entrance capability into the project.
Gilbert also noted the city of Phoenix hasn't complied with the 205-foot setback it was requesting.
Commissioner Shelly Anderson questioned the five entrances and exits to the site and the fact that 56th Street was very close to the intersection, which she believed would invite cut-through school traffic.
Town Engineer Wayne Anderson introduced Joe Spadafino, the town's traffic engineer, who said five entrances/exits was quite common for a commercial development of that type and explained each of their uses.
Spadafino said, normally, you would not want to place a traffic signal within 660 feet of an intersection. He said this would be about 630 feet, which he commented was "close enough" to the minimum standard.
During public comment, Wes Cooper said several years ago when he spoke to Mayor Vincent Francia, who just returned from having lunch with Dr. Bullington, the mayor told him they were "proposing a nice looking office complex for the site."
Kent Bro, who owns the Chevron Station at the southwest corner, said when he built the gas station in 1998, there was no median. He stated, "I'd be perfectly happy to move my driveway to the south to line up" with the proposed traffic signal, and, in which case, he would "back this plan 100 percent."
Bro said, "I guess my comment is I'd be happy to support this if I could share the same access."
Walmart Attorney Sean Lake stated, "We absolutely support the Bullingtons' project." However, he said, "Walmart has a very strong opinion" about the proposed traffic signal, which he stated was only 60 to 100 feet from Walmart's northern driveway.
Lake said Walmart designed its site to stack traffic based on a light at the intersection, pointing out it initially proposed a traffic signal at Barbie Lane but pushed it down to Olesen Road with only "right in and right out."
Stating the proposed traffic signal "will cause significant problems," Lake said, "We support their site plan but we have a problem with a signal at that location approximately 100 feet north of our main entrance."
He also said Walmart's proposal for shared access with the Bullingtons' project was still on the table.
Ben Pearson, who owns residential property south and west of the Chevron Station, and who organized a group of adjacent residential property owners to apply for mixed use zoning two years ago, said, "We have no objection to the site plan and traffic signal. This traffic light will provide us with access."
Gilbert stated, "The traffic light we're proposing is beneficial" to Bro and Pearson and "solves the problem these properties face."
He said, "The traffic engineers have documented evidence the light will not cause the stacking problem as indicated by Mr. Lake," adding, "It is very disingenuous of Mr. Lake to say we can have a shared drive … Walmart gave us a list of restrictions on our property as a condition of shared access."
Dawn Cartier, the Bullingtons' traffic engineer, told the commission, "We had to do a more detailed study than we've ever done for any commercial shopping center."
According to Cartier, the study showed stacking of 36 feet, which she said allows them to time the traffic signals together.
Bryda asked, "Which traffic signals?"
Cartier responded, "All of them," including the signal at Olesen Drive.
When asked about traffic volume and what she used for peak hours, Cartier said she looked at one hour between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on a weekday and provided estimated volume, by direction, as 14,000 northbound, 10,000 southbound, 13,500 eastbound and 12,000 westbound, indicating there is a 10 percent increase in traffic during the one peak hour.
Chairman Dan Baxley asked what the current traffic was at the intersection.
Cartier said current traffic is approximately 10,000 northbound, 7,500 southbound and 8,500 in each direction eastbound and westbound.
Baxley stated, "We get one shot at this. We need to get this right."
Commissioner Bob Williams stated, "We've not heard from Kimley-Horn (Walmart's traffic engineers)," and said he'd like to see the motion withdrawn and the case continued.
"We're not going to resolve this tonight," said Williams.
Anderson said the commission would benefit greatly by obtaining additional information.
Ford said he is looking out for the residents of Cave Creek, stating, "I pass through that intersection every day."
Baxley thanked staff for their work and stated, "But sometimes we disagree."
Cordwell recommended continuing the case until the June 17 meeting.
However, Bryda said, "I don't think June gives us enough time."
Anderson's motion to continue the case until a date uncertain carried unanimously.


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Eclipse DemoCamps Juno 2012/Frankfurt
Frankenallee 111
60326 Frankfurt am Main
Date and Time
June 27th, 2012, 18:00
itemis AG, Eclipse strategic member and the leading company for model-driven software development
compeople AG, Eclipse Solution Member and a leading IT-service provider, supplying innovative sales and distribution systems
Ralph Müller, Director Ecosystem, Eclipse Foundation Europe, "Eclipse - New and Noteworthy"
Ed Merks, Project Leader of Eclipse Modeling Framework, "XCore"
Heiko Barth, Eclipse Riena Committer, "Riena on e4"
Markus Knauer, Eclipse Architect, "Writing Native Mobile Apps with RAP"
Marcel Bruch, Eclipse Committer, "Code Recommenders"
Alex Schladebeck, Bredex, "Application-hopping with Jubula"
- 18:00 Welcome
- 18:15 Vortrag
- 18:40 Demo 1
- 19:00 Pause
- 19:15 Demo 2
- 19:40 Demo 3
- 20:00 Pause
- 20:15 Demo 4
- 20:40 Demo 5
- 21:00 Closing
- 21:15 Get-together im Restaurant Olympion Palas
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If you plan on attending please add your name and company to the list below. If you have any trouble with the wiki, just send an email to Sven Lange.
- Sven Lange, itemis AG
- Manuela Duft, compeople AG
- Michael Kloss, itemis AG
- Ali Syed, itemis AG
- Christian Campo, compeople AG
- Ralph Müller, Eclipse Foundation
- Timur Achmetow, INDUSTRONIC GmbH & Co. KG
- Markus Knauer, EclipseSource
- Heiko Barth, compeople AG
- Jordan Dukadinov, compeople AG
- Solveigh Matthies, GSI
- Gunnar Wagenknecht, AGETO
- Jutta Fitzek, GSI
- Tilman Moser, Moser Beratung
- Thomas Keßler, Kessler Beratung Ltd. & Co. KG
- Pablo Yamamoto, Continental
- Liebgard Becker, BSSM GmbH
- Gerd Wierse, HighQ-IT
- Sonny Vaupel, HighQ-IT
- Oliver Kolle, BSM GmbH
- Paul-Gabriel Müller, HighQ-IT
- Steffen Kremser, Devoteam Danet GmbH
- Alexander Oros, DFS
- Peter Berthold, DFS
- Stefan Theusner, SunGard
- Gerd Aschemann
- Ludger Strohbücker, Dittrich & Partner Consulting GmbH
- Istvan Ballok, CAS Software AG
- Uli Merkel, www.uli-merkel.de
- Susanne Braun, Accso GmbH
- Rüdiger Grammes, Accso GmbH
- Bernd Kissinger, denic e.G.
- Frank Gerhardt, Gerhardt Informatics Kft.
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Iowa State design student wins CW Network internship with 'Gossip Girl' promo
AMES, Iowa -- An Iowa State University graphic design student's winning competition entry has earned him a place in the Hollywood spotlight.
Joe Kutilek's 25-second, digital motion-graphics promotional spot for The CW TV Network hit, "Gossip Girl," took first place in a national college competition, "Making the Cut."
Kutilek, a junior from Omaha, Neb., won an internship in the promotions department at The CW. His winning spot will air this fall in a new episode of "Gossip Girl," and online at CWTV.com. He even got a few job offers at the awards presentation during broadcast TV's biggest conference, held in New York City in June.
"Making the Cut" attracted 370 original trailers and promo spots. The competition was sponsored by The CW; Promax/BDA, an international association for television industry marketing, promotion and design professionals; and Blink, a creative services firm.
"We were looking for a spot that promoted the show, told a good story and was technically proficient," said Anthony Armenise, CW Network senior creative executive for on-air promotion. "Joe totally went above and beyond. He created a whole graphic look. It was great quality, a solid piece of work."
Although CW provided contestants with footage from their shows, "Supernatural," "Gossip Girl" and "Smallville," the network encouraged them to use their imagination and incorporate other visual tools available.
That's exactly what Kutilek did. He discarded the clips. Instead, his promotion for the "Gossip Girl" second season integrated a stock New York City image and a studio shot of the cast with motion graphics of the words drama, glamour, wealth and youth. A U 2 song, "I Fall Down," substitutes for narration. Kutilek created the piece using four software programs.
Kutilek learned the digital graphics software in Troy Abel's class, Motion and Broadcast Graphics. Abel, an MFA and Ph.D. student, is a teaching assistant in the art and design department. He incorporated the competition into his syllabus as a way to connect student work to industry. By March 1, Kutilek and several of his classmates submitted entries to the "Making the Cut" competition.
"And here's an interesting fact that is very profound," Armenise said. "Six entries in the top 15, and three of the nine finalists were from Troy Abel's class. Hats off to him!"
The other top finalists from Iowa State were Greg Ervanian, a senior in graphic design from Des Moines, and Andy DeVries, who graduated in May.
The entries were judged by a team from The CW's marketing department, including the network's vice president for marketing, Armenise said.
"A lot of eyeballs looked at these," he said.
Armenise said the network participates in the contest because it's a "perfect, organic way to engage fans with their favorite shows, and a way to reach out to young, creative minds."
Kutilek, who is participating in the College of Design's Rome program this fall, plans to pursue a career in film.
"Creating film titles interests me," Kutilek said. "I'm not sure what I'm aiming for right now, but I know I can work in the industry in Hollywood."
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Iowa State graphic design student Joe Kutilek won an internship at the CW TV Network when his 25-second, digital motion-graphics promotional spot for "Gossip Girl" took first place in a national college competition, "Making the Cut." His winning promo, selected from 370 entries, will air this fall in a new episode of "Gossip Girl," and online at CWTV.com.
"Joe totally went above and beyond. He created a whole graphic look. It was great quality, a solid piece of work."
Anthony Armenise, CW Network senior creative executive for on-air promotion.


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Jack Daniel's Fudge
Double cooked for extra flavour, this mouth-watering fudge is seriously addictive and makes a tasty treat for your loved ones. Most of the alcohol is evaporated off in the manufacturing process, yet the age old, unforgettable taste of Jack will still tingle your taste buds when sampling this delicious fudge!
Buy some here.
*Update: I couldn't find a U.S. distributor, but I did find this recipe for Jack Daniel's Fudge. The reviews are very positive.
**Second Update: Good news and bad news from the comments. Good news = "Monique" says Cost Plus sells it over the winter holidays (or has in the past). Bad news = she says they're disgusting. Worse comes to worst, the packaging's great.
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I don't know if I'll trust booze chocolates again after trying tequila bonbons. That was truly horrible. We had just enough friends to get rid of all of them -- nobody would try a second one!
I work at a store who sold this last year at Christmas. For the record, they tasted disgusting, but then I don't care for JD (but I like candy!)We only carry it during the holiday season so you may have to wait a few weeks before we begin to sell it. http://www.worldmarket.com/home.jsp
Interesting that it's linked to a UK site for sale. Where's a US distributor?
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Competition Systems Kawasaki Racing Team completes successful preseason test.
May 21, 2010
Toronto, ON (May 20th ) - The Competition Systems Kawasaki Racing Team with rider Alex Welsh just completed 3 days of testing at the Calabogie Motorsports Park in conjunction with the Turn2 organization.
"We are more than pleased with the improvements we have made to our championship winning bikes over the winter months,'' said team owner Mike Crompton . "The new Öhlins suspension components have provided improved cornering ability as well as enhancing stability . Continuous development on the dyno, along with upgraded electronics have also made it much easier to control the power delivery.
According to Alex " It still has all of the power of a superbike but now has the manners and feel of our 600's, I feel much more confident with the improvements."
The new Pirelli tires for 2010 were also impressive right off the truck.
" Pirelli continues to supply us with an excellent product to work with. It's one less thing to worry about ." said Mike.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Canadian Kawasaki Motors, Parts Canada, Noco, Akrapovic Exhaust Systems, Dynojet, Motul, DID, Vortex, Zero Gravity, and Pirelli for their continuing support .
We would like to also add a big thanks to Gerard Palmer, George Budacki, Mike Whitter and all the great staff at Turn2 for letting us participate in their first event to kick off our season.
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American Psychological Association Monitor
Instilling hope: Needed for contentment, helpful for long-term care operationsNovember 29, 2013
"I hope Santa brings me a Sony DS," my 7-year-old told me the other day. I can tell you right now that Santa is NOT bringing her a video game player, but I didn't want to tell her that. So I did what I imagine most parents would do in that situation: I asked her what else she hoped Santa would bring. What does this have to do with long-term care? As it turns out, a lot.


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Priya Narayanan
author, mother, designer, traveller . . . not necessarily in that order
I choose to write for children because one never loves a book as much as one does when one is young. And one never hates a book as much either. And I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz."
- Lewis Carol
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I once read a quote that goes
"The universe is made up of stories . . . not atoms"
It was one of those things that I immediately identified with and the quote has become a sort of mantra that I go back to everytime I find myself in a quagmire of ifs and buts.
On this page
, you can find details regarding my published children'sbooks. Of course, there are several other stories I've written that I hope will find a publisher some day. Until then, hope you'll enjoy these and spread the word so many more children can read them. After all, a writer wants nothing more than being read by more and more readers across the world :)
Stories & Poems
Long before I started writing for children
I was writing poetry. And although I'm not sure how they measure up to the
lofty standards of the world of poets and poems, I find great solace
in expressing myself through verse. So, if you like poetry, do keep checking for
poetic tit-bits every now and then.
Like evey great person (wink wink) I too make a discovery once in a while. My
latest one is that writing for children's magazines is just as much fun as writing
for books.
is where you can find some of the stories I have contributed
to various children's magazines.
About the Author
This is ME
This is my son's drawing of me
These pictures quite sum up the story of my life;
but if you want to know more,
is where you should go clickety click cluck cluck. . .
The Crooked Pencil
I've been toying with the idea of a blog for what seems like ever. The thing is, with a busy work schedule and the time I devote to my writing, it is difficult to write blog posts and maintain the site in general. But then, I got thinking . . . and I realized two things:
1. No one is going to penalize me if I didn't write a post daily ( or hey, will you?? )
2. If I give it a whacky enough name, I can post just about anything on the blog and blame it all on the PENCIL!!
So here I am, with a
that has a soul of its own. It wanders, observes and absorbs
all that it sees and returns to my hands to spill its stories on paper. And when it doesn't want a hand
controlling it, the pencil goes rambling on its own.
Click here to go to the blog
Proof of the Pudding
They say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. So here's where I share photographic evidence of all the fun I've had in conducting story-telling events, creative writing workshops and book readings.
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