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After South Carolina's Department of Revenue was hacked in November, exposing 3.8 million Social Security numbers, 387,000 credit and debit card numbers and 657,000 business tax filings, state officials announced plans to implement a dual-authentication password system to better protect information.
What the state had at the time of the attack offered next to no security: a single-password security system, with almost none of the data encrypted.
A simple phishing attack gained access to one employee's user name and password, and the hackers were off to the races, allegedly accessing the financial system at will for well over a month before the hack was discovered, according to The State newspaper.
Federal agencies have two-factor authentication, the second factor in the form of a token such as a Personal Identity Verification card (civilian agencies) or Common Access Card (defense). But public-sector agencies without that kind of protection could turn to dual password systems.
There are two main dual-authentication password systems in use today, outside of biometrics.
The method frequently used by banks, online games and any site with high-value transactions is called one-time password. It's almost always used as a second line of defense behind the usual name and password protection. The key is that the second password changes very often, sometimes as quickly as every minute, but certainly no less than every 90 seconds. A security server uses a mathematical algorithm to keep changing the password. Of course, users need to know that changing password, and this information is given to them via a portable device that can both keep track of time and has the same mathematical formula as the server. So the mobile device and the security server come up with the same numbers at the same time.
For a user to get access to a protected system, he has to enter the right password at the right time. Some fancy password systems include a USB key or a smart card as part of the mobile device, and a user has to insert the token into a system he is using to access the data, whereby the password is automatically applied.
If the password on the token matches the current one on the security server, access is granted. This makes it almost phishing-proof because even if a user somehow gives out the second password, it's only valid for a very short time. And in the case of the automatic passwords, a user probably never actually knows what the rotating passwords are. He just inserts his key to gain access. A phisher or hacker who gains the primary password doesn't get into the system, and attempts to break the second password after the first is approved will trigger alarm bells in any halfway decent monitoring setup.
The second method involves encrypting all files and folders with a program such as BitLocker, in which encryption acts like the second password. If a hacker is able to access a system, say, by using a phishing attack, he still doesn't get anywhere. All the files will be encrypted gibberish.
The value of this system is that even if someone steals all of the files, he likely won't be able to make use of them because of the encryption protecting the data. It also makes data monitoring systems more effective because they can detect if someone accesses a system properly, but then runs into walls each time he tries to use a file.
In truth, a system like the one in South Carolina that protects Social Security information and tax records can never be too protected. It should probably have both secondary password methods in use, for a triple-security login, plus system monitoring. But either of the two methods alone would have stopped the rather unsophisticated attack on the South Carolina system had it been in place at the time of the breach. The state just made it easy for the hacker, and provided a valuable lesson in what not to do.
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Obama is very forward thinking when it comes to security and cyberspace. But the guy from South Carolina is talking about his home state, so the president does not really apply. It sure sounds like the tea party messed up SC. Glad I'm not there.
Tea Party's fault? Why not blame Bush? Wait til "O" gets hold of that money!
You forgot to mention that the reason there was no protection on our system was the fact that the Tea Party lunkheads took over the state government, and they refused to spend a tiny bit of money to protect the data for fear that it would lead to "big government." Instead they exposed all of us who live here to possible identity fraud, and have to pay $18 million in services like Lifelock to try and chase the horse after it left the barn. The first system you talk about would have cost the state $25,000. For want of that, they sold us out and cost themselves almost 20 million. There will be a reckoning in the next election, if not sooner. Jim DeMint flew the coop because he sees what is coming. We are going to put real republicans in place or even turn the place blue in 2014. Then crap like this won't happen anymore.
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(Reuters) - Accounting software maker Advent Software Inc said it decided to continue as an independent company after a strategic review, sending shares down as much as 12 percent in early trading.
Advent, which has a market value of about $1.5 billion, had hired Frank Quattrone's investment bank Qatalyst Partners to explore a sale, Reuters reported on March 12, quoting several sources familiar with the matter.
The company has embarked on a cost-cutting campaign to improve margins as revenue growth slows. Many of its customers, including mutual funds, hedge funds and investment advisers, have been reluctant to spend.
San Francisco-based Advent, founded in 1983, provides software and services to the global investment management industry.
Advent shares were down 9.6 percent at $26.05 on the Nasdaq on Monday morning after falling to $25.45.
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By Ibby Caputo
Dec. 13, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — "Default" is becoming a very common, dirty word. In this story, it applies to the cash-strapped United States Postal Service, which is facing bankruptcy.
"We're on the brink of insolvency. Everything is on the table," said Dennis Tarmey, the spokesperson for the USPS in Greater Boston. In Tarmey's 30-year career, he's been a clerk, mail carrier, postmaster and a labor relations specialist.
"I'd like nothing better than to say our organization was healthy and thriving, but to do so would be irresponsible on my part," he said.
Starting in January, it will cost you another penny to mail a letter. The rate is up to 45 cents. But it won't be enough to bail out the USPS.
The post office is trying to reduce its operating costs by $20 billion in the next few years. It thinks it can save $3 billion by closing more than half of the mail processing plants in the nation and slowing down delivery service by a day, which means your first-class delivery service might more aptly be considered second-class.
We're rethinking the traditional post office. That's a message on the postal service website. Yes, online… ironic since the web is making traditional correspondence through the post office obsolete.
Dean Granholm is a post office vice president. In an online multimedia presentation, he made the case for the proposed closing of nearly 3,700 post offices nationwide, 43 of which are in Massachusetts.
"Many communities across America have several post offices in close proximity to one another," Granholm said in the online video. "In many cases, only one of those post offices receives adequate foot traffic. It's easy to see why eliminating some of these post offices makes a lot of economic sense."
Possibly closing in Cambridge: MIT
At the post office in the basement of the student center at MIT — one of two post offices being considered for closure in Cambridge — many students were unaware of the potential closing. Some expressed indifference. Some had received a notice from the post office asking for input about the possible closure.
Jenna Berkowitz, who fundraises with the alumni association at MIT, said she filled out the survey but never sent it in. "I care, but not that much, because I do understand it's not worth it to them to have the one employee there and not really doing much," she said.
Possibly closing in Cambridge: Inman Square
The feeling was different at the Inman Square post office — the second location in Cambridge that may be closed.
"Every time I'm in here it's very busy, so I don't know why they think it's not producing," said Stacy Walker of Stoneham, Mass. Walker has a property management business in the neighborhood.
She was upset about the potential closing. "I have all of my business mail sent here. It would be a hassle to change everything over. I don't know where I would go that's more convenient," she said. There's a large post office in Central Square, but "there's no parking."
Does public opinion matter?
Mike Foley, the discontinuance coordinator for greater Boston, said that most communities are in favor of keeping their local post office.
Foley is responsible for compiling public feedback on the potential closing of local post offices through community meetings and surveys. "Does that carry weight based on how many people responded? My answer is I don't know," he said.
At a Cambridge City Council Meeting in the fall, Bob Waterhouse, a clerk at the Central Square post office, offered a warning to the council and residents.
"The postal service is one that many of us take for granted and will not realize its benefit until it's too late. Only then will we turn back and say I wish I had done more," he said.
The feedback phase in Cambridge ends on Jan. 11. A decision is expected soon after.
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A shortage of brass for metal vessels in the early Joseon dynasty may have encouraged the production of ceramics, which became widespread in Korea and intended for all classes and seasons.
The production of blue-and-white wares began in Korea around the mid-fifteenth century, the result of influence from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) wares of China. In the early Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), the Koreans had to import ore from China to make cobalt blue. The first reference to a blue-and-white ware made using Korean ore comes from the annals of King Sejo's reign (1455-68), which tells of cobalt ore being discovered at Sunch'òn, a region in the extreme south of the peninsula, in the "eighth month of 1464." The king was then presented with a porcelain decorated in blue from this native source.
Blue-and-white wares were mainly used in the Korean court and the households of the upper class during ancestral rites, but they were also used as utilitarian kitchenware and tableware. On the pieces destined for the royal household, the underglaze blue decoration was executed by professional court painters. Images of plants, flowers, birds, and animals constitute one of the painting genres, known as hwahwe yòngmohwa, borrowed from the traditional repertoire of literati painting.


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Rounded or squared, I'm not so sure that is the game changer, I have a 1969 vintage Comp + in the box (new and complete) and the handle is the rounded type, but uses two bolts to fasten to the shifter. No GM part number. VT
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Fox & Friends contributed several minutes of their Wednesday program to mocking the United States Olympic team uniform which includes a "French beret." While suggesting that the wearing of berets is unpatriotic, the co-hosts seemed to forget that most of the United States military wear berets until receiving emails from their viewers pointing out this fact.
On NBC's Today, American company Ralph Lauren unveiled the design for the United States Olympic team opening ceremony uniforms, which are topped off with a navy blue beret with red and white stripes. Fox mocked the decision to top the uniform off with a "French" hat.
Not only did they fail to mention that the United States military wear berets as part of their uniforms, but that the 2002 Olympic uniforms for the Salt Lake City Olympics also featured powder blue berets.
DOOCY: Should the American team be wearing a beret? Why not a baseball cap? Why not a cowboy hat like when we went to Calgary?
A basic Google search reveals that berets have been in use by the United States military "unofficially as early as 1954," and as part of the official uniform as early as 1961.
Fox's mockery of the "French" headgear continued until they received "a lot of email" from viewers pointing out the military connection to the Olympic team's headgear, forcing co-host Steve Doocy to make a disclaimer: "There is a team that's already wearing a Beret for America, and that's the special forces guys, and they look great."
UPDATE: During today's edition of Fox News Radio's Kilmeade & Friends, guest host Peter Johnson Jr. and Fox News anchors Martha MacCallum and Bill Hemmer also mocked the U.S. Olympic team for having a "French" uniform.
Johnson Jr. wondered: "Is this the American team or the French fashion team?"
Hemmer asked: "How about a baseball hat? How about a cowboy hat? How about no hat?"
MacCallum replied to Hemmer: "I had the same reaction. I was flipping through the paper this morning and I was like, 'What the heck is this? It looks like a French flight attendant.' Nobody looks good in a beret, OK? Show me people who look good in berets. You know, it's very rare. I think no hat would look better."
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh ruled Tuesday that a senior member of the main opposition party should be put to death for his involvement in the killing of hundreds of people during the county's independence fight against Pakistan in 1971.
The verdict against Salauddin Quader Chowdhury came in a packed courtroom amid tight security in the nation's capital, Dhaka. Fearing a backlash from opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party supporters, authorities deployed paramilitary forces in southeastern Chittagong district, where Chowdhury was elected to Parliament six times.
Hours after the verdict, Chowdhury's supporters attacked ruling party activists and smashed and burned vehicles in Chittagong, Channel 24 television station reported. One man was injured in the violence, it said.
In Dhaka, at least two vehicles were burned, the station said.
Chowdhury's party called a daylong general strike in Chittagong on Wednesday.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said the tribunal convicted Chowdhury on nine of 23 charges, including four counts of genocide. Chowdhury was found guilty of aiding and ordering the killing of at least 200 people, mostly minority Hindus, during the war in Chittagong.
"I think this is a fair trial," Alam said. "We are happy."
During the war, Chowdhury's father was an influential politician in the Muslim League party, which sought to prevent Bangladesh from breaking away from Pakistan.
Chowdhury's wife, Farhat Quader Chowdhury, said her husband would appeal.
"We will do whatever we need to do to show the world that this is a farce," she said.
The ruling Awami League party welcomed the verdict.
The government says Pakistani soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed 3 million people and raped 200,000 women during the nine-month war that ended in December 1971. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina set up the tribunal in 2010 to punish alleged collaborators.
The opposition, led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, has criticized the trials as an attempt to weaken the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies.
Six people have already been convicted of war crimes by the tribunal. Four of them are currently top officials of the country's main Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, while one is a former party chief and another is an expelled member of the party. Those verdicts led to widespread violence.
Jamaat-e-islami is the main political ally of Zia's party and is seeking to contest the next general election under a Zia-led alliance. Jamaat-e-Islami shared two posts in the Cabinet during Zia's latest premiership in 2001-2006.
The New York-based group Human Rights Watch has criticized the conduct of the tribunals, saying they are not up to international standards.
Hasina's government denies that the tribunals are biased. It says it pledged before the 2008 elections to prosecute those responsible for war crimes and that its 14-party political alliance won that election with a two-thirds majority.


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By COLLEEN McGRUDER
En Foco/In Focus, opened Jan. 22, 2013, at CIIS, with 56 images by 48 artists, selected from the permanent collection of En Foco, a New York-based non-profit dedicated to cultural diversity in photography. The below interview most recent in a series conducted by CIIS students and emerging photographers, Jessica Juliao and Colleen McGruder.
Colleen had a chance to speak with artist Samantha Box about her work with homeless LGBTQ youth of color in New York City.
"You know, if I ever taught a photo class," says photographer Samantha Box as we begin to wrap up our interview, "I would say go photograph the things you are absolutely obsessed with and the minute taking pictures of it becomes chore you should stop."
Box's statement lingers in the air before we both laugh in agreement.
Samantha Box found her photographic voice in 2005 when she began documenting the lives of LGBTQ homeless youth in New York City. Her documentary series, recently re-titled "The Invisible Project," intimately chronicles the lives of LGBTQ homeless youth, mostly of color.
Colleen McGruder: How did you get involved with En Foco?
Samantha Box: I took my first photography class 14 years ago at City College in New York, during a leave of absence from my biology studies at Cornell. I met and became friends with Marisol Diaz, who upon graduating went to work for En Foco. So that's originally how I became aware of them. In 2009 I applied for a work fellowship at En Foco and was accepted. En Foco was the first organization to recognize The Invisible Project. This was especially significant for me because many of the photographers I really admired were involved in the organization; since first becoming aware of it, I'd thought, "Maybe one day I can become an En Foco photographer."
CM: So how did your project become known as The Invisible Project?
SB: At the time I submitted the work to En Foco, it was called Nobody to Anybody. This referenced a quote by Mother Teresa about being seen: "One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody." To me this idea pinpoints the feeling of the young people I shoot. I switched it later to The Invisible Project because it works on a couple different levels. To most people moving along the street these kids do not look homeless. They look just like regular young people going about their lives. In this way they are invisible; a part of their lives is kept in the shadows. They exist in this intersection of race, class and gender, invisible to the media and to social policy makers. The Invisible Project speaks to their marginalization.
CM: A significant portion of The Invisible Project is done with LGBTQ youth in a homeless shelter in New York. How did this come about?
SB: A good chunk of my early work (on this project) was from a shelter on the West Side but since the director left three years ago, I am broadening the scope of the project. In some ways I now de-emphasize the shelter to focus more on the outside experience, especially on those youth living on the streets. But it's still true that I meet most of the young people at the shelter; they come in with their friends and the shelter is kind of a hub.
CM: Whether inside or outside the shelter, often times you are photographing people whose lives are very different from your own. How do you make this entry?
SB: In documentary photography there are things that are problematic. There are certain visual stereotypes that are perpetuated. There is a certain type of portrayal of people of color...and there are really irritating stereotypes of the LGBTQ community, specifically of trans women.
CM: Yes I see this often. Photographers sometimes take an anthropological approach to entering others' lives, making images that mostly reflect their own expectations.
SB: One of the reasons people photograph in a stereotypical way is because it is easy. So you go to another country, or spend time in a community outside your own and see the people involved as the other because you have not taken the time to look at the fact that we are all people. If someone came into my house to photograph me I would want to be represented with honesty but also with respect.
If you are photographing someone like Donald Trump there is a way to photograph him that can actually show you who Donald Trump is, beyond the scandalous public life. It's important be able to look at the photos you make of him and think, okay, I get it. I understand who this nuanced person is.
My subjects' lives aren't scandalous but to some people what's happening may be shocking. They may not understand it. But again, if someone was photographing my life I would not want to be reduced to that shock; I would want them to tell who I am in a way that is respectful and yet honest.
In the beginning I really tried to make pictures that drove home the issues for viewers. Then I realized, life is the in-between moments, when you are just sitting, contemplating things, just existing. So when I am photographing these young people I look for the moments when they are just being themselves, just living. After two years of working on this project I started to feel like I finally had the tools to talk about what I saw happening with queer young people.
CM: That is what I think is so great about your work. Your subjects' lives may be different from that of the viewer but your photographs feel like an invitation to share a moment with them that speaks to a larger human experience.
SB: This is the thing, when you photograph in stereotypes you do not get to find out what is really going on in someone's head. You have to watch them long enough, get to know a person long enough to see who they really are.
CM: Can you tell us the story behind the photograph in the En Foco collection?
SB: That photograph was taken in the first couple of months of the project. I was taking classes at ICP (International Center for Photography) during the day and I would go to the shelter in the evenings. Misty was one of the people I met. We warmed up to each other very quickly while everyone else was just getting used to me being there. And I was asking myself, "Okay, so how do I do this?" Missy had set up her bed for the night, a little pallet—a nest really—and she wanted me to photograph it. She had these two stuffed animals just set against her pillows, and to me, this was so interesting. The young people all had these talismans to create the idea of home; hers were these two animals. So I began taking a photograph of the stuffed animals, then the pillows, then her bag of clothes. When she saw me doing this she asked me to take a picture of her and she arranged herself in that way. I only took like three pictures so I really lucked out.
CM: In what ways has this project enhanced your life?
SB: It has impacted my life in ways that I find hard to explain. Mainly it has allowed me to clarify who I am, how I exist in the world, how other people like me exist in the world and how I talk about those things. I've been out for a while, but through this project I have access to a community of queer people of color. Finding like-minded people was a wonderful reward for doing this project.
CM: What are the misconceptions?
SB: Many believe that homeless LGBTQ youth are being kicked out of their communities and that is why they are homeless. Really it is more about communities of color being so unstable that a child can get arrested, a child gets put in foster care, mothers abandon their children for new relationships. . .There are just so many reasons why these kids are on the streets; it's much more complicated that the idea that communities of color are kicking out their young people. This project gave me the confidence to finally talk about these intersections and the intersections in my own life.
When people take photos for the sake of taking them, I think, "Maybe you shouldn't...maybe you should photograph only the things you really want to photograph. Maybe you should try becoming obsessed with it."
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Why Cancun Matters
Don't buy into the apathy about this year's climate negotiations.
After a year of anticipation and two weeks of frenzied negotiations, last December's Copenhagen climate summit ended in frustration and acrimony. It's no surprise, then, that as negotiators descend on Cancun today for the next round of U.N. talks, many have concluded that the negotiations no longer matter. The headlines say it all: "Cancun Climate Talks Get Dim Prognosis for Success" (Bloomberg); "Expectations for Climate Change Conference Limited" (Voice of America); "Cancun Climate Negotiations Headed Nowhere" (Indian Express, quoting the top Indian climate negotiator). Policymakers are even more pessimistic in private than they have been in public.
Reporters, opinionators, and analysts are right to have limited hopes for Cancun but dangerously wrong if they think the meeting is unimportant. Last year's talks produced the "Copenhagen Accord," a political agreement that was roundly savaged. Yet the accord is more valuable and important than most assume—and its future is at risk in Cancun. If negotiators let it die, as many privately wish, they will not get something closer to their ideal; they will get nothing.
The Copenhagen Accord did three important things. It established a series of global benchmarks against which countries' efforts to confront climate change could be judged. These include the goal of preventing global temperatures from increasing to more than 2 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels, and a goal of raising "up to $100 billion" by 2020 to help developing countries address climate change. It required all but the poorest countries to present national plans for curbing emissions; more than 100, including China and India, have followed through. And it committed countries to transparency, so that other nations could assess whether they were making progress.
Despite these accomplishments, the accord was viciously attacked for what it lacked. Some focused on the fact that it was not a legally binding treaty. The line between gentlemen's agreement and hard law, though, is fuzzy in the world of international affairs. The Kyoto Protocol was legally binding, yet Canada has grossly violated it without penalty; China, meanwhile, has technically adhered to the protocol, but only because it required nothing of Beijing. There is no reason to assume that a wise political deal cannot be more effective than an unambitious but legally binding one.
Others have emphasized that the emissions-cutting pledges that countries made as part of the Copenhagen Accord are not enough, collectively, to meet the 2-degree target. But the pledges improved upon the status quo, and there is nothing in the accord that would prohibit countries from strengthening their efforts in the future. The Copenhagen Accord is surely insufficient by itself, but that does not make it unworthwhile.
Indeed, most of the attacks on the accord rest on a ridiculous comparison to a perfect agreement that will never exist. The political deal brokered by national leaders at Copenhagen was about the art of the possible.
Now there is a real possibility that the accord will effectively die at Cancun. The failure of cap-and-trade in the United States has sapped the influence of the original agreement's biggest backer. Fiscal pressures have made it difficult for wealthy countries to move toward the $100 billion goal. China has had buyer's remorse from the moment that it agreed to the accord and has been playing hardball on efforts to flesh out its transparency requirements. Those who would like to see the accord become irrelevant are aided by the broad sense that it doesn't really matter.
U.S. negotiators need to gather their allies and make a strong push to reinforce the accord and each of its key components. They should reiterate the United States' intention to cut its emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, something that is still achievable (though very difficult) without passing cap-and-trade legislation in the next few years. They should press the conference to endorse the recent report of the U.N. secretary-general's High Level Panel on Climate Finance, which outlined several paths to the $100 billion goal, as a worthy guide to moving forward. To that end, U.S. negotiators should also pledge to protect climate-assistance funding from upcoming congressional fights over foreign aid. And they should insist that China make concrete concessions on international transparency, which are essential to building trust in the future.
Negotiators, if they're wise, should also act on smaller, yet still important, efforts that Copenhagen championed. Hammering out deals to curb deforestation and spread clean-energy technologies would be valuable on their own but would also help reverse the popular sentiment that the Cancun talks are a pointless exercise.
Protecting Copenhagen's achievements will not solve the climate problem—not by any stretch. Nor will it change the fact that climate will increasingly be dealt with outside the U.N. talks. But the U.N. talks can't be avoided—and the Copenhagen Accord, properly reinforced, can provide a core foundation for future efforts to address climate change. Without it, the world is in for an even rockier ride.


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More iPhone sketches....
From the cover of The Wire season 4....
A Portfolio I did last year. Very jumbled, very random. I still kinda like it....
That was freakin' atomic!!
So much stuff to love - and I guess reason to forgive you for not posting as often :P
Was good to see ya man - I hope the 7m2 wasn't too traumatic ;)
Dude it was great seeing you man. I can't wait to see the film. 7m2 is the metro line right?
Dude, this is awesome! What a post! I love your work, man, and this is a real treat. So much great stuff here.
:D 7 meters squared room!
awwwww shiiii-... this is too much goodness for one post
now thats a flaming post!
wen you said you were collecting things to post i as expecting mayb 3 images max! this is incredible.
thanks wes.
crumbs! that's quite a post hahaha.
lovely stuff man. i love the cat drawings
Geez ! I looove that monkey ! And even more when he's wearing modern stuff aha :D luvit ! Nice perspective guy as well :) Monster I met feels like a realllyyy amazing project ! Is it finished ? :) I wanna seeee :P
Every inch the mastery I come to expect from you. As always an inspiration, brother.
Chris: Thanks man appreciate it :)
Rossi: Haha, No, I think all the space in Annecy cured me. LOL
Freddy: I hope it makes up for my lack of posting
Frankie: Thanks
Timbo: The cats name is Nala, my sisters doing not mine ;)
Marguerite: Thanks soo much. Monsters has been animated (rough anyway) has no bg yet. I do want to finish but I did it with a couple guys in scotland in our spare time. Based on a poem by shel Siverstein.
I think though that I'll look at the animation and want to start again. Im a bit better at animating now :)
Kristian: Still trying to reach you bro, but thanks, your approval means a lot.
Beautiful to behold as ever. Never knew you were so good at storyboarding.
niiiice! Thanks for sharing your portfolio Wes, some lovely things there!!!
Right I just installed a newsreader software and will now get my priorities right by checking your blog more often instead of procrastinating on Facebook !! ;-)
You weren't kidding about an Atomic Post, that was epic! your portfolio is great and I love the batman sketches, thanks Wes
Sam: Thanks man, Im actually looking at storyboarding more. I want to get better.
Olivier: Dude, Google reader is my new best friend
Richard: Cheers mans. I may do more with that batman....
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Warm weather is not linked to birth defects of the heart, though unseasonably hot winter days may be associated with the rarest heart defects and requires more study, according to a new study from Israel.
Women should be aware of the possibility of an effect, though small, said lead author Keren Agay-Shay of the University of Haifa.
"This is also important to decision makers, to understand all possible effects of climate change on" health, she told Reuters Health.
Studies with animals have sometimes found a link between hot weather during pregnancy and live young with structural problems of the heart. Only one previous study examined the association between outside temperatures and inborn heart problems in people, in 2012, and found no link.
Some heart defects heal themselves gradually, while others require surgery and may lead to disabilities over time. Mothers' infections with certain viruses, drug use and diabetes also increase the risk of complications, Agay-Shay said. But often, the cause of heart defects is not known.
Supported by the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection, researchers examined about 1,600 cases of heart birth defects among more than 135,000 babies born from 2000 to 2006.
They also looked at recorded temperatures from weather monitoring stations in the area of Tel Aviv, where the mothers lived during pregnancy.
The researchers took into account the average outside temperature and "extreme heat events" during the third to eighth week of pregnancy, when the fetal heart develops and starts to beat.
There was no association between outside temperature and heart defects over the entire year, according to results in the journal Human Reproduction.
When they looked at seasons individually, the researchers found a very slight increase in risk for multiple heart defects in babies of women exposed to unusually high temperatures during the cold season.
In Tel Aviv, winter temperatures averaged 59 degrees Farenheit, increasing to about 86 degrees in summer. Babies in the sensitive third to eighth week period when winter temperatures spiked to near summer levels - which happens a few times each year in Israel - were about 13 percent more likely to be born with multiple heart defects.
But even in the hot season, the rate of multiple heart defects was almost exactly the same as that seen worldwide. Some kind of congenital heart defect occurs in roughly five of every 1000 live births, including about 40,000 babies in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Babies born with multiple defects are even more rare.
Still, a 13 percent increase in risk is not terribly small, Agay-Shay said. Such defects "are rare events but also very meaningful since they are the more severe cases," she told Reuters Health by email.
Researchers may have only found a significant effect in the cold season because people in Tel-Aviv are used to hot, humid summers and are careful to use air conditioners, but may not be as prepared for high temperatures in the cold season, she said.
But Dr. Beate Ritz of the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, believes the findings are very far-fetched.
What the study considered - a heat wave in the cold season - was what anyone would call perfect weather, in the high 60s to low 70s, she told Reuters Health.
The authors acknowledged in the study that temperature data and heart defect data were based on registries and may not have been entirely accurate, and that they had no information on how much time the mothers spent indoors.
Still, Ritz believes the subject deserves more study, and that if high temperatures really are linked to heart defects, summer, not winter, is the place to look.


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Hello, spirit, welcome, dear spirit,
my cougar, my puma, my snarling lover,
bring me words. I know you.
And now I see your wound,
and now I see your death,
and wailing is my only song.
~Dale Pendall, Pharmako Gnosis
The most recorded type of magick throughout the span of history is the use of drug-induced ritual. It spans the ages and almost all shamans were known to use specific plants and herbs to induce an altered state. These herbs were revered in Native American traditions, known as Gods and Goddesses in many other cultures. They were the saviors, not the tool of the savior. They were never used for recreation for this was a dishonor to the plant. The plant spirits were the guardians of knowledge, and the guides of those who sought that knowledge.
Demons teach, instruct, and inspire men; there never was a man of outstanding stature in any art or action who had no familiar spirit to guide him. ~Paracelsus
Why do I bring these thoughts up when they are obviously illegal? I bring these ideas to mind because we as a group must understand where the stories of the past come from. The brujos of old often partook in ritual drug use in order to gain exceptional powers. South American shamans still partake in ritual Ayahuasca use in order to cleanse the mind and spirit as well as to travel through the underworld with the plant spirits as guides.
So the question I must ask is which way do we go? On the one hand, the plant guides of the past are dangerous, deadly, and controlling. They are not controllable, and in fact will control even the most cautious of followers evenutally. They are the end to many voyagers of their paths. They are also proven guides. They are the poison that heals, the darkness that brings the light, and the savior that condemns.
Do we discount all of the stories of the past? Are we to think of the shamans of old as ignorant and unknowing of the truth that science and modern medicine has told us about? Do we, the followers of the old ways, the followers of our ancestors' beliefs, feel it right to take what we think is safe from their ways and leave the rest? I do not wish to push these ideas onto people. I only wish to play devil's advocate and ask what do you believe?
There are legitimate reasons to abstain from the use of endeogenic plants and drugs. They are illegal. They take the control away from the user. They can even destroy the user. What is your view? How can you discount it completely?
O Sacred, Wise, and Wisdom-giving Plant,
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This is actually a shame because I like the lock design if we ignore the existence of PvP, where the issues are much more global than warlocks anyway. We actually have very few issues currently, to make warlocks fun again they'd only need to fix the following:
1) Dispel protection. Make UA dispel actually deal damage, and/or make it give us a shard back. Make Haunt undispellable if needed
2) Shift some damage from Malefic Grasp to DoTs, and some from Chaos Bolt into Incinerate/Immolate
3) Balance the rest of the game. This is the other half of the reason affliction sucks - the way it delivers damage is just useless with current damage vs healing ratios.
What the fuck is up with Blizzard and "Cataclysm"? Every time you see them using the word, it's something bad.
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The real reason Putin is unlikely to bend on Syria – ultimately forcing Western powers to find a way to bypass the Russian roadblock – has to do with Putin's own vision of himself as the sentinel of a mighty Russia that doesn't take moral lessons from the West. Read first part here.
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Russia's brutal suppression of the rebellion in Chechnya – a two-stage, multi-year war in which over 100,000 were killed or disappeared – is a mirror image, on an even larger scale, of the atrocities recorded by UN officials in Syria.
Neither is it a very far leap from the summary brutality with which Russia's crack riot police, the OMON, have dealt with protesters in Moscow in recent months, and the violence perpetrated on Syria's "armed gangs" by thugs allied to the Assad regime.
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Lonnie Blalock, 56, of Coalfield, died Friday, Oct. 26, 2007, at his home.
A devoted husband, father and a friend to all, he loved the outdoors, gardening and hunting. He was a coal miner for many years and will be missed by all who knew him.
Boyd Edwin Kelley Jr., 78, of Rockwood, passed away Monday, Oct. 22, 2007 at Roane Medical Center in Harriman.
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Manchester aldermen seem set to award a five-year ambulance service contract with a company that was almost run out of town for poor customer service just last year. And the reason for the city's suddenly favorable opinion of the company that many elected officials and residents wanted to kick out is a mystery. Something smells fishy.
American Medical Response is the city's current ambulance service provider. After complaints from city residents, the company conducted an internal audit and found that it had overbilled for 323 trips in Manchester in 2011 and 2012. AMR officials said the problem stemmed from employees in its central billing office being unfamiliar with the city contract. But that was not the first time AMR had overbilled people.
In 2010, the company paid $994,000 to settle a class action lawsuit regarding overbilling in Spokane, Wash. Last year the company paid $2.7 million to settle federal charges that it "knowingly submitted falsely inflated claims" for Medicare and other federal health insurance programs.
This is the company that Fire Chief James Burkush is recommending for a five-year city contract, though a competitor, American Ambulance, appears to have received a more favorable review from a special city committee set up to review the ambulance bids and a recommendation from that committee. We say "appears to" because there is a dispute over the committee minutes, which also is fishy.
Going with American Ambulance would seem to be a no-brainer. The process that led to the AMR recommendation is tainted by a disputed committee meeting with poorly kept minutes that don't explain how the fire chief wound up choosing a company with a track record of overbilling problems. Aldermen should rebid the contract — at two years, like Nashua does, not five — and start over.


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Erasing Time
C. J. Hill
Erasing Time
Release Date: 8/28/2012
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When twins Sheridan and Taylor wake up 400 years in the future, they find a changed world: domed cities, no animals, and a language that's so different, it barely sounds like English. And the worst news: They can't go back home.
The twenty-fifth-century government transported the girls to their city hoping to find a famous scientist to help perfect a devastating new weapon. The same government has implanted tracking devices in the citizens, limiting and examining everything they do. Taylor and Sheridan have to find a way out of the city before the government discovers their secrets. To complicate matters, the moblike Dakine has interest in getting hold of them too. The only way for the girls to elude their pursuers is to put their trust in Echo, a guy with secrets of his own. The trio must put their faith in the unknown to make a harrowing escape into the wilds beyond the city.
Full of adrenaline-injected chases and heartbreaking confessions, Erasing Time explores the strength of the bonds between twins, the risks and rewards of trust, and the hard road to finding the courage to fight for what you believe in.
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Dramatic twists and turns to the very end ensure readers' attention and the possibility of an equally thrilling sequel.
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Hill leaves the ending wide open for a sequel, and the combination of action and romancewhich has become a trademark of the ever-growing trend of dystopian serieswill make readers eager for the next installment.


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Faculty Retirement Plans
New faculty members have the option of selecting between the University of Alaska's Optional Retirement Program and the State of Alaska's Teachers' Retirement System (TRS). New faculty must choose between ORP and TRS within 30 days of being notified they are eligible. This is an irrevocable decision. Employees who do not make a choice will automatically be enrolled in TRS.
Teachers' Retirement System (TRS)
The university and the employee contribute a percentage of the employee's pay to this state-sponsored retirement plan. The percentage depends on date of hire. Modifications to the plan over the years have resulted in three different "tiers, with benefits based on date of hire. The first two tiers are a defined-benefit plan and TRS Tier III is an account-based or defined-contribution plan.
Tax-Deferred Annuities (TDAs)
Faculty members may contribute to tax-deferred annuities to supplement retirement income or defer taxable income. Participation is optional and subject to IRS limits on contributions.
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The Optional Retirement Plan is a defined-contribution plan created by the university in 1990. The university and the employee contribute a percentage of the employee's pay to this account. The percentage depends on date of hire. Employees select their own investments with one of the following vendors: Fidelity Investments, Lincoln Financial Group, AIG VALIC or TIAA-CREF. The different levels of benefits are:
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The University of Alaska contributes an amount equal to 7.65% of an employee's first $42,000 of salary in a calendar year to the UA Pension Plan. The funds can be invested with Fidelity Investments, Lincoln National, TIAA-CREF or VALIC. Employees hired on or after July 1, 2006 become 100 percent vested after three years of service. Eligibility for the UA Pension Plan is tied to the selection of the Optional Retirement Plan for employees hired on or after that date.
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You know how after traveling for a while you really crave home? The ordinary things, like being able to sleep in your own bed and cook for yourself? By the end of our Eurotrip, I even missed bootcamp (so happy I love working out) and my business. With every city we left, I was sad to go yet ready to move on.
And now I miss those daily pastries, al fresco drinks in the middle of the day and long long walks. Guess what? I can still get away with doing all 3! I really should sometime…
Last month I was asked for a Russian Napoleon cake recipe so I immediately emailed my mom and set up a date for us to make it. I'm good like that (also I really like cake). It's actually originally a French dessert (Russian food has a lot of French influences) but the traditional Russian version seems to be a bit easier (although it has 4 layers vs 2) and has a bit of a different look. With using store-bought puff pastry dough, the whole thing comes together in a cinch and will be gobbled up even quicker! That's a fact. [See how the styled photos are only of a few tiny pieces? Yeah, that's because that's all that was left! Too good.]
So what's a Russian Napoleon cake? It's pretty much 4 layers of puff pastry layered with custard cream (creme patissiere). Bake the puff pastry according to instructions on the package, make the custard cream (eggs, milk, sugar, flour, butter) and then layer the two. Easy!
The last piece of puff pastry gets crumbled to create this fun topping:
Let the whole thing stand in the fridge overnight so the puff pastry softens a bit from the custard and the layers really meld together. The result is a cool, creamy, buttery dessert that's unbelievably addictive!
I want a piece right now!!
Do you ever miss home while on vacation? Ever had Napoleon cake? It's gooooood; I hope you try it!


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NHIAA Girls' Basketball: Londonderry starts fast, tops AlvirneBy JIM FENNELL
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 07. 2013 10:49PM
LONDONDERRY - The snowstorm may be coming today, but the avalanche arrived Thursday night.
At least that's how the Alvirne of Hudson girls' basketball team must have felt after being buried by a landslide of fast-break baskets in the first quarter that carried Londonderry to an easy 75-50 win.
It was win No. 597 in the storied career of Lancers coach John Fagula.
Londonderry (10-4) jumped out to a 15-0 lead by holding the Broncos (10-4) scoreless for the first four and half minutes. Aliza Simpson led the way, scoring eight of her game-high 22 points in that run. The junior also finished with nine assists, 16 shy of the school record of 360.
"When she gets off to a good start, it loosens everything up," Fagula said.
After losing its last two games, Fagula said his team's emphasis was on defense, running when the opportunity presented itself and using its size advantage against an Alvirne team missing leading rebounder Britney Lambert.
Check, check and check.
Londonderry ran at every opportunity, scoring 10 points off turnovers in that early and decisive run. The Lancers also shot 7-for-13 from the field and scored seven points on offensive rebounds in that span.
And, while everything was going right for Londonderry, the Broncos were having a hard time just getting into an offensive set as they turned the ball over on seven of their first nine possessions and missed their first eight shots.
"They killed us in that first quarter and the rest of the game was even," Alvirne coach Steve Tracy said. "We can't do that against good teams."
Alvirne finally got on the scoreboard when Veronica Moceri drove the lane with 3:33 left in the first quarter.
Londonderry led 28-8 after one quarter and was up 43-20 at the half. By then, playing time was plenty for all.
Despite going into the game sitting fifth in Division I, ahead of Londonderry, Alvirne has yet to beat a team with a winning record, something Tracy chalks up to a team with only one senior.
"It's part of the maturity process," Tracy said. "We're beating the teams we should. We lost to all four teams above us."
Ten players got into the scorebook for Londonderry, with Casey Evans (14) and Taylor Collins joining Simpson in double-figures. Junior guard Sandi Purcell had 19 points for Alvirne.


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The Definition of a Will
A will, sometimes called a "Last Will and Testament", is a document that
contains directions for the distribution of your estate at the time of
your death. Wills can range from very simple to extremely complicated
depending on the extent to which you want to direct the distribution of
your property at the time of your death. A will can also become
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Anyone with minor children, property they care about, or specific health
care wishes should have some type of will. Wills are the only way to be
certain that your wishes are carried out upon your incapacitation or
A will does not govern the transfer of certain types of assets, called
nonprobate property, which by operation of law or contract pass to
someone else on your death. Some examples of these are life insurance,
joint property, retirement accounts, and employee death benefits.
Living Wills
A living will, also called a "medical directive" or "medical
declaration", is a document which directs how you would like your
doctors to carry out your health care in the event that you suffer
permanent incapacity. A living will is not the same as a will; it does
not dictate what should happen to your property in the event of your
death. If you think you would like to create a living will for yourself,
you will most likely also want a will that can carry out your property
wishes as well.
Living wills are often associated with elder care since they deal with
the incapacitated. It is recommended that a living will should allow for
all types of situation, so that your wishes are spelled out clearly in
the event of any emergency.
In addition to a living will, you should also name a Health Care Proxy
or Power of Attorney who will make decisions in your best interest in
the event that you cannot.
Power of attorney is a legal document appointing someone, or a group of
people, to speak for the person in the event that he cannot make
decisions for himself. A power of attorney can either be general (in
which the appointed person can make all decisions for the unable
individual) or limited (in which the appointed person can only make
specific decisions).
The three types of power of attorney are:
How to Execute a Will
The best way to start constructing a will is to find a wills attorney.
In the event of your death, you will not be there to explain what you
meant in your will, and instead of leaving it up to a court to decide
what should happen to your property, it is best to hire a wills attorney
to be certain that everything follows your wishes. After you and your
attorney draft your will, the document must be signed in the presence of
* If you believe you do not need a
lawyer, you need to make sure your will is still a legal document. In
order to do so, your will must be typewritten, state that it is your
will, have the date and your signature, and have the signature of two
(in some states three) witnesses who are not included in other parts of
the will.
When thinking about what you want to include in your will, there is certain information that must be present. Do not forget:
A codicil is any amendment to a will and must also be executed with the same formalities as the original will.
What Happens in the Absence of a Will
If a person dies without a will, his estate is intestate. If this
happens, the entire estate will pass to heirs according to state
inheritance laws. Most state statutes regarding intestate inheritance
are designed to resemble what the average person would want their will
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wanted upon their death, if no will exists, the court will decide where
everything goes with no exceptions.
Most states' laws closely resemble the 1990 Uniform Probate Code. While
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Writers on the Range: A hunter goes lobbying
February 26, 2008
A few weeks ago, I set out with a small group to lobby Oregon's Republican Sen. Gordon Smith. The visit was set up by the National Wildlife Federation, and our goal " a long shot " was to convince the senator to sign on as a co-sponsor of the Lieberman-Warner bill to control greenhouse-gas emissions in the United States.
We hoped to convince him that this bipartisan bill is our best chance to reduce pollution to the levels necessary to avoid catastrophic effects on our planet. If enacted, the law would reduce pollutants 70 percent by the 2050. It targets not just power plants but all major pollution emitters, and the bill's lever is "cap and trade," meaning the government will set a cap on the tons of pollution each company can release into the environment.
Companies that exceed their limits will have to purchase credits from companies that have reduced their pollution below allowed levels.
Sitting in Sen. Smith's comfortable office, one by one we told him why we cared. Buzz Ramsey, a legend in Northwest fishing circles, explained that glacial melting on Mount Hood has released hundreds of thousands of tons of sediment into the Sandy River, filling 25 foot-deep holes to within six feet of the surface.
When spring chinook arrive from the ocean in the spring, they spend months resting and waiting in deep holes for fall, when they spawn. But if the deep holes are gone, gone too is the chinooks' ability to escape from summer heat.
Increased water temperatures lead to diseases and death, and the few that survive to spawn may lose all their eggs to the suffocating sediment.
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Jack Glass, a fishing guide in the Portland area, gave up an $800 day with clients to tell why he feels so strongly about the Lieberman-Warner bill.
Jack's 24-year-old son is also a guide, and Jack worries about his son's future in the business. He put a face on the people likely to be economic victims of global warming.
Liz Hamilton, the executive director of the Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association, reminded the senator of the courage he'd shown in previous contentious issues. More than once, he has taken unpopular stances against the Republican Party. She asked him to do so again, explaining this bill is something we all need. Liz is a tough, savvy operator, and it was obvious he valued her opinion.
I was there as a hunter. Historically, we hunters have been a Republican choir, but we are reading more, learning more, and becoming more and more aware of the threats facing the habitats on which hunting depends. We recognize the peril facing our future in the outdoors. I told the senator that many hunters no longer blindly follow the voting guidance of the National Rifle Association (NRA), which bases its political stands on adherence to the Second Amendment.
We have watched the NRA recommend election of environmentally bankrupt politicians just because they supported the right to bear arms; then we saw those same politicians attempt to sell our public lands to the highest bidder. Now, we're not just going to "vote our sport."
We're going to vote our consciences and our environment, too.
I said hunters are looking for people with vision who can see beyond temporary economic impacts to a world where our grandchildren can thrive and where the outdoors is still great. We're looking for someone who will stand up for the Lieberman-Warner Bill. "We're hoping you are one of those people," I concluded.
The senator smiled and said the best he could promise was to vote for cloture, meaning he would vote to place a time limit on the length of time senators who oppose the bill can filibuster.
Sen. Smith's smile was bright and his manner friendly. But it was clear to us that he would not co-sponsor the bill and would probably not even vote for it. All he would do is vote against letting it die by filibuster.
The members of some 700 hunting, fishing and sporting groups who care about wildlife and the West are still looking for people to lead us.