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South Atlantic Anomaly: Have astronomers finally explained space's Bermuda Triangle?
There is an area of the North Atlantic Ocean known as the Bermuda Triangle where ships, airplanes and people have been known to disappear without explanation. No-one knows for certain why more than 50 ships and 20 planes have vanished since the mid-19th century. But that's not to say people haven't had some fun seeking … Read more


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Fun for all the family at The Triangle
We offer a wide range of fun activities for the whole family to enjoy in and out of the pool.
From activities to keep the little ones active during the school holidays, to parties for that special day, to fun and active ways to spend some quality family time together - we have something for everyone.
Bouncing, spinning and rolling, and more…
Our gymnastics programme follows British Gymnastics' Rise Gymnastics scheme – a modern take on a wonderful, legendary sport. Children of all ages and abilities have the power to shine with Rise Gymnastics.
Learning through fun games and activities to enable gymnasts to develop physically, socially and emotionally, your child will build key foundation skills for life. Achievements will be rewarded regularly with certificates and medals, and you can follow all of their progress in real-time using the Course Hub.
Defy gravity with one of our trampolining courses!
Bounce to new heights with one of our trampolining courses! Our courses are adaptive for all abilities. Trampolining helps children build strong, healthy muscles and bones, and increases flexibility, balance, and coordination as well as discipline, self-esteem, and social skills.
Our Trampolining courses follow British Gymnastics Trampoline Proficiency scheme with badges and certificates awarded as children progress through the levels.
Parties at The Triangle
Turn your child's party into an exciting day to remember.
There's no fuss and no mess. You, your child and their friends have all the fun whilst we plan the big day for you.
We have a range of parties for you to choose from.
Our party choices
Active Play and Bounce
A fantastic way for your child to keep active whilst having fun! Suitable for under 5's this session includes early years play equipment, soft play and bouncy castle.
Antics Soft Play
An adventure for your little people.
Antics is an indoor soft play adventure zone, which promotes fun and healthy play for kids under 12 years of age (max height 1.4m), in a safe and clean environment.
With 3 tiers to explore kids will love the excitement, adventure and creative play that Antics offers.
Holiday activities
We understand the importance of children being active during the holidays.
Our experienced and fully qualified team deliver a wide range of activities to keep your children happy, active and busy.

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Even though the decision to hire a plumbing company may seem simple, but determining which plumbing company to hire is never a walk in the park. Without going out of your way and shopping around, you might end up regretting your decision. Well, this is a situation you never want to find yourself in after parting with your hard-earned money.
The good news is that you can prevent this from happening provided you understand the important things to watch out for. As experts in the field of quality plumbing, Red Hat Plumbing has put together some of the things you should expect from a reputable plumbing company.
Quality Plumbing Services
When you hire Red Hat Plumbing or any other service provider of choice, you expect nothing less than maximum satisfaction. A reputable service provider should ensure all clients are happy and satisfied with the job. To find out more about a prospective plumbing company, be sure to check their online reviews including their social media accounts.
Fortunately, Red Hat Plumbing has not disappointed in this regard since they prioritize client satisfaction. Better, they have put in place affordable prices making sure you save yourself some money. No wonder many agree Red Hat Plumbing is the best in Los Angeles and throughout Ventura County.
Certified Plumber
Truth be told; just about anyone can hire a vehicle, put on work attire and claim to be a professional plumber. However, such plumbers may not have amassed years of experience in the industry and can cause more harm than good. That's why you should only hire a certified plumbing company if everything is to turn out the way you expect.
Some of the most notable signs of a certified plumbing company include business credentials, driving a company vehicle and wearing a company shirt. Be sure to go through their business credentials and confirm whether they are legit or not. If they seem to be hesitant, then you need to take it as a red flag and run for your heels.
The Bottom Line
These are just but some of the things you should expect after hiring a plumbing company. To ensure you get good value for your money, why not contact redhatplumbing. Any person who has had the chance to pay for their services will attest to the fact that Red Hat Plumbing is amazing at what they do.


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It's no longer necessary to jailbreak your iPhone to completely overhaul the appearance of its Home screen. All you need is the Shortcuts app in iOS 14, and you can use custom icons for any app you have installed.
With some simple tweaks and plenty of spare time, you can make your iPhone feel like a brand-new smartphone with a completely different operating system designed just by you. We'll show you how.
You've probably seen those images circulating around social media over the last week or so that show iPhones powered by what looks like custom software. Some look incredibly clean and simple, while others sport weird and wonderful designs with all kinds of snazzy colors.
One of the most popular redesigns we've seen so far makes iPhone look like it's running a classic version of Windows. But in reality, all of these devices are running the same version of iOS 14 we're all using. They're just using some simple tricks to make it look a lot different.
The tweaks don't require a jailbreak or any third-party software whatsoever. All you need is the Shortcuts app that comes pre-installed with iOS 14, a nice wallpaper and some icon images.
Create or buy custom app icons
Before we dive into the steps you'll need to follow to start customizing your icons, it's a good idea to prepare your image assets so they're ready when you need them. You'll find some great icon packs, such as the popular Traf pack, online with a bit of searching.
Here are some great resources for icon images:
You can also find some great icon packs on Reddit. Alternatively, you can create your own icons from scratch. Each should be saved as an individual image, 180px by 180px in size, to your iPhone's photo library.
While hunting for or creating app icons, it's a good idea to think about what kind of theme you want to rock. Do you want to follow a certain color palette, or do you want to sport as many colors as possible?
Once you've decided on that, you'll want to find a good wallpaper that will work nicely alongside the icons you're going to use.
How to set custom app icons in iOS 14
With your wallpaper and all your icon images saved to your device, it's time to start customizing your app icons. It's a simple process, but each icon needs to be changed individually, so it can be time-consuming. Simply follow these steps:
- Open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone.
- Under the My Shortcuts tab, tap the + button.
- Tap Add Action.
- Choose the Scripting option.
- Under Apps, tap the Open App option.
- Tap Choose, then select an app to customize.
- Tap the … button.
- Give your Shortcut a name.
- Select Add to Home Screen.
- Give your app a new name if you wish, then tap its icon and select Choose Photo.
- Select a custom icon image from your photo library.
- Finally, tap the Add button to place the icon on your Home screen.
All you're really doing here is creating a Home screen shortcut with its own icon that opens up a certain app. The trick won't permanently change any of your app icons, so it's easy to go back at any time.
The trick also won't hide any apps you already have on your Home screen, so you'll need to send them manually to the App Library, or to a page you don't visit very often, if you don't want to see them.
Tweak your iPhone Home screen even more with custom widgets
Many iPhone users are combining custom icons with homemade widgets for even more unique designs. To do this, you'll need an app that lets you create your own widgets, like the free Widgetsmith. (That app, and some similar ones, surged in popularity recently thanks to the hot new iOS customization trend.)
Widgetsmith offers widgets in various sizes, and each one can be given its own font, theme, background color, border color and more. Its widgets can show you the time, date, weather information, battery status, photos, custom text, etc.
Color Widgets is another free option that does a similar job. It doesn't offer as many widgets as Widgetsmith, but those that are available are more customizable, which is great for those who want all kinds of fancy font and color options.


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By Brad Lee
The Ottawa Sun newspaper up north in Canada needs some spell checkers. Or fact checkers. Or less medicinal marijuana. Something. Let's go right to the evidence written by Bruce Garrioch.
(In case you can't read that, the subhead says, "NHL GMs want to ban Thachuck-style rentals.")
NAPLES, FLA. -- Call it the Keith Thachuk rule.
Personally, I'd call it the Keith Tkachuk rule. Or the Doug Weight rule. Or the Be Kind, Rewind rule. But maybe that's just that's me.
NHL GMs want to stop the practice of players being dealt at the trade deadline, only to return to their former clubs as unrestricted free agents weeks after the season ends.
Because the term "unrestricted free agent" is actually a misnomer? You mean a "unrestricted free agent" should be able to sign with any team he wants in the league...except one? Since the rule would make a player a not totally-free agent, maybe we should call them "heavily discounted agents" or "clearance agents" or "partially restricted free agents" or "indentured servants."
Ending these short-term rentals, along with bigger nets, are the big items on the agenda as GMs gather here today for meetings ahead of the Feb. 26 trade deadline.
Those are the big items on the agenda? Apparently the league wants bigger nets because the league is full of Michelin Man goaltenders and a new rule restricting player movement because two players in two years decide to return their old teams after getting traded at the deadline. How many guys have been traded at the deadline? And in case you have a short term memory, how many guys have re-signed with their old team? Oh that's right, two.
Sources say several GMs didn't like St. Louis winger Thachuk being dealt to the Atlanta Thrashers at last year's deadline, then simply returning to the Blues on July 1.
My sources say 29 unnamed NHL GMs didn't like the fact that their teams didn't win the Stanley Cup last year. My sources also say that close to 29 teams didn't want to re-sign Weight and that guy with the apparently hard to spell last name when they were free agents.
There's been talk about the Toronto Maple Leafs doing the same thing with captain Mats Sundin: Sending him to a contender for the playoffs and bringing him back as an unrestricted free agent in the summer.
Oh, because that would be horrendous, a player choosing where he'd like to sign a contract when he's a free agent (a concept this league HATED in the early 1990s when the Blues upset the apple cart and started actually signing free agents). And wouldn't it be horrible for the fans in Toronto who pay the highest-priced tickets in the league to see a guy they love and consider the heart of the franchise? Obviously these abominations must be thwarted. Maybe I'm just wearing my "The NHL Hates The Blues And I Feel Persecuted" hat.
It's believed the GMs will discuss a policy to block rental players from returning to their former teams for one full season.
"What we're discussing is making a rental player a true 'rental' and then keeping that player from going back to his former team for one full season," said an NHL executive. "Not many people like the situation where you send a player to be another team, get something in return and then bring the player back.
"I have spoken to a number of teams that didn't like what happened with Thachuk."
Apparently what happened with Weight they were fine with because they think he sucks. And that Thachuk reference is getting really annoying. The grammar fairy is also dying a little inside when she reads, "send a player to be another team." Ugh. Let's just wrap this up.
Blocking the return of rental players would need approval from the NHL's board of governors and a blessing from the Players' Association before take effect.
Translation: The Players Association will never allow this to happen, so most of this article is entirely a moot point. But the poor spelling is still kind of humorous.
Bigger nets have been on the agenda at past GMs' meetings, but there's a bigger push this time with scoring down.
"If they're not going to make equipment bigger, then we might as well have bigger nets," said the executive.
Did the writers strike affect all the newspaper copy editors in Ottawa? That last sentence written a different way means: "If they keep the equipment the same size, we might as well install jumbo nets the size of an elephant." The grammar fairy is crying.
I'm all Thachuked out. Maybe the Sun meant this guy.


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Capital Raises Weekly Wrap - 12/07/2021
In a more subdued market gold and lithium focused companies persist with the raising of capital, with all eight of the mining sector placements being run by companies with gold assets.
(ASX:LTR) and (ASX:SYA) also hold lithium assets and combined raised $90m of the $120m raised in the mining sector this week and 40% of $234m raised across the entire market. Both are seeking to catch the wave of escalating demand for battery metals, by funding the next stages of their lithium assets.
Placement Overview
*Placements are limited to those which left a trading halt between 12/07 and 16/07.
Liontown Resources Limited (ASX:LTR) raised $52m via placement with funds to be used to accelerate the development of the Company's world-class Kathleen Valley Lithium-Tantalum Project in Western Australia (Kathleen Valley) considering strong lithium market conditions. The placement was conducted at an issue price of $0.76 which represented a 10.1% discount to the halt price and 6.6% premium on the 30 day VWAP.
EROAD Limited (ASX/NZX:ERD) raised NZ$64.4m to assist in acquisition of 100% of Coretex Limited. The acquisition of Coretex Limited is hoped to assist EROAD's positioning to become a bigger player in the global telematics market. The shares were issued at NZ$5.58/A$5.25 per new share which represents a 9.2% discount to the last closing price.
Matsa Resources Limited (ASX:MAT) raised $3.38m at $0.08 per new share (including a 1 for 2 listed option exercisable at $0.17). The funds will be used to fund an aggressive exploration program at the Lake Carey Gold project including; new underground exploration at the Red October underground gold mine to expand the current resource, a drilling program at Fortitude North to test the 700m untested structure, and further drilling at the Devon Hub to build on the recent success at HE1, HE2 and HE5. The issue price of $0.08 represented 10.1% discount to the halt price and 14.4% discount to the 15 day VWAP.
Placement Sector Breakdown
For a more detailed look at how the ASX sectors are performing check out: https://www.freshequities.com/ASX/sectors
90 Days Post Capital Raise Performance
Looking back at how some capital raises have performed 90 day post capital raises, it takes us back to the first week of March where the market began to slow seeing 10 raises occur over the week starting on the 1st of March. In the 90 day post performance two gold exploration companies (ASX:MAG) and (ASX:KGD) have been the best performing. While (ASX: DCC) and (ASX:CI1) have fallen well below their issue price.
The top performing:
Magmatic Resources Limited (ASX:MAG) peaked at 95.83% 63 days post raise.
Kula Gold Limited (ASX:KGD) peaked at 52.50% 84 days post raise.
With the worst performing:
DigitalX Limited (ASX: DCC) -42.22% 90 days post raise.
Credit Intelligence Ltd (ASX:CI1 -62.50% 90 days post raise.
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Rabbi Joe Wolfson (NYU) and Mrs. Margot Botwinick's (IDC Herzliya) initiative for helping out the most vulnerable segments of our community during this time is up to over 175 volunteers. Volunteers call the elderly, Yachad members and others that are immunocompromised or otherwise isolated (the goal is to reach 5000 seniors). Through Rabbi Joe, volunteers are taking part in a campaign to write letters to 1400 seniors living in Met Council for Jewish Poverty housing complexes. Volunteers are also helping package and deliver meals and/or go grocery shopping for those in need of food, while maintaining safe, government social distancing guidelines. Rabbi Joe believes it is about more than just all the good volunteers are doing, "It's about agency, it's about giving people a sense that they can do something in this moment. It really helps to have something productive to do."
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Light Fantastic 2012 on again — and you could attend for free
I'll get to the free bit a little later : Light Fantastic — 17th & 18th of March AIPP Master photographers Nick Melidonis and Dale Neill again present a fascinating
Light Fantastic 2011
Now in its sixth year, Light Fantastic is one of WA's premier annual photography event. Master Photographers Dale Neill and Nick Melidonis have again brought together leading industry professionals and gifted amateurs to present inspirational images, cutting-edge technology and original ideas.
One of the world's leading photojournalists, Michael Coyne, will be our keynote speaker. Based in Hong Kong, Michael has authored more than twenty books and is internationally recognised for his photojournalism.


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September 21, 2022
The oldest calendar explains each day as "a lifetime without wisdom".
The oldest priest still cannot find one particular tomb.
Mankind is a relic of our planet.
Behind every theory there is someone who worships the robe.
An ancient people will come, following these towering waves.
We know now that earthquakes are a form of communication.
The magnetic moon produces buildup, while the computers make collisions of gas.
There are helicopters buried in holes, and horses on the glowing road.
The young bathe madly with floating heads,
their strength tested through generations of time and waste.
Tomorrow we will be in the future with the micro-electric journeymen.
The landscape will break, and the calendars will be marked for space travel.
Every birth will result in hunger, and the sand will destroy the desert.
There will be floods in the ocean.
The universe will be one enormous bank.
A man of great wisdom chooses simple system of technology.
The Earth is a military development, while the youth build structures out of flowers.
The traveler will stay in character, despite Earth's volcanic workings.
Men begin to glow when they're one foot away from the neon field.
The traveler's strange hysteria makes a pilgrimage into the light.
On the radar is a sizeable housewife, and the disc-bodies digesting a second UFO.
Every eyewitness is a visionary.
Photographs of the evening are naturally boundless,
religious salvation in line with its Christian investigators.
Oil crews drill out rainbows in the unanswered miles.
The torches painted in the laborers' hands are smooth on all sides.
Mankind is a monk in a library,
with access to every public record of religious writing.
Cassette tapes hold texts of Twentieth Century mythology.
The greatest ages are always doomed to destroy their own information.
There are glass engineers that exist in heavy temperature,
and a jungle with an ocean around it.
There are twenty crowns inside each machine, and a tent for every crusade.
Outer space is the oldest known vacuum cleaner.
If you look close enough, you will find meteors underneath the surface of the Earth.
We examine this age as organic, and see its parallels to the scholars' limitations. Transporting technology to the metal dimension,
the astronomers do not grasp the computer's graphics.
The mountains remain as statues of priests.
In the museums, each painting is immediately explained.
Every bomb offers a fable of impact, and years without planetary orbit.
Twin sisters surface from an impossible quantity of fire.
The stars will be unable to erect their sensitive light.
Two monks made of hydrogen are fixed within our planet's artificial planes.
The universe was discovered in a vein.
There are photographs of rockets striking through the fabric of darkness.
Radioactive villages burn down the desert,
while human blood contains copies of its person's information.
The Pharoah's dimension is the size of one thousand Americas.
Every religion exists through time, and its visionary is born out of chaos.
One computer can address a countless amount of people.
When a thought has been rejected, the computer works faster than medical consultations.
There is proof of every computer's existence in the biochemical unknown.
Still, the computer has no social life.
The computer was born in a military base.
One must weigh the rocket, or another fragile planet will tip over.
Every doctor's cortex disintegrates in a field of mind beams.
Horsepower wields the cold joints of industry.
Gallons of weight discovered under every open umbrella.
Every light beam is capable of traveling light years.
Show me the God of one single myth,
and I will show you Christian travelers with no religious motives.
Unsuccessful animals spend eternity in their fertilized architecture.
God will die on the space trip, in a garden that breathes undetectable disease.
Some statues' heads resemble no one from the past.
Kind women warned him: both roads lead to two separate mountains.
We hear knowledge of biblical rooms that were first used in Egypt.
It is fine to hear stories that you doubt.
Different hands channel water through the seventh mountain.
A mountain cannot slow the Chariot of human discourse.
Spherical maps are made for the sailors, while plants mutate into rust and steel.
Sailors land between two identical tombs.
Some old rocks are mazes,
and some mazes were not constructed by men.
Every kingdom is a dynasty of horses, with its galleries of imported soil.
Ancestors of the present-day will shape modern people's ideas.
The pail nails of the sky are numerical in their detonations.
Sleep is female to the travelers.
Every weapon is born from the imagination of men.
Heaven is a powerful womb, firing weapons at the unborn children of God.
The last circus will thunder around the biggest dollar ever printed.
We will call this time The Great American Coma.
It will lead with its helmet, into the rocks.
Different forms of data will disintegrate into a field of mind-beams.
New galaxies will form around the infinite animal of western civilization.
No text exists which describes the oldest skeleton.
Old metals have inscriptions of an unintelligible compass.
Each decimal system carefully stores its own skeleton,
the archive in the sky known for revealing its god-shaped spheres.
Astronomers flood the calendar cycle with knowledge of future priests
Elephants connect tirelessly with the graveheads,
the graves holding powerful mathematicians.
One million mathematicians plant seeds in the North and South Pole.
Some men drill Christian scrolls into the frozen ground of the colony.
Others are handed weapons that stink like birds.
The heaviest planet possible is made of semi-intellegent hydro-data.
Its overcrowded moon hides atoms in its own broken land.
A centimeter of shadow goes unnoticed by one billion astrophysicists.
It is also enough to push in the drill.
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Let the Quest Begin
This year's SummerQuest – our unique summer reading adventure game – will kick off on Monday, June 10 at 7:30 p.m., and we hope you will join us!
While many other library systems in Maryland and elsewhere use the summer reading program created each year by
national library collaborative, our Library as opted instead to tap Library Associate Dave Burbank's artistic and storytelling talents and offer patrons a totally one-of a-kind reading program. The result is a unique reading adventure each year.
Young readers particularly like the interactive nature of our Summer-Quest program. To participate in Summer-Quest, readers first choose a character from one of the dozens Dave has drawn through the years. Veteran Summer-Quest participants know that while the characters are all different, they all have one thing in common: They are rabbits. Dave has always loved trickster characters, especially rabbits, and so even if he is drawing a basketball player or a ninja, it will be some kind of bunny.
Once readers choose a character, they then color it (if they want) and give it a name. Each character has a large version and a small version; when readers hand Library staff their characters, we keep the large character and hand the smaller one back. Why do we do this? We use the large characters to track readers' progress on the big Summer-Quest game board in the Children's Room, moving their characters each time they complete a reading challenge. Meanwhile, kids can use the smaller version of their characters to track their own progress on a take-home game board they receive after signing up for Summer-Quest.
Along with that take-home Summer-Quest game board, readers receive a copy of the story, which contains 10 different reading challenges. Kids complete the challenges by reading specific types of books. For example, they may be asked to read an award-winning book or a book about someone who is different than them. A favorite challenge is one that asks kids to read a book that shows them how to make or do something (e.g. a cookbook or a craft book) and then make or do it.
Because studies show that letting kids choose their own reading is a key way to motivate them to read, our Summer-Quest reading challenges are deliberately open-ended. We suggest a type of book, but it's up to readers to choose the book. Choice really becomes paramount in Summer-Quest when kids get to reading challenge 9, in which they are urged to read as many books as they want. We've had some kids read more than 100 books in a summer!
Through the years, we've added a couple of new elements to SummerQuest. First, we've urged parents to join their kids in doing SummerQuest. Parents can use the 10 reading challenges as a way to broaden their own reading of adult books or just join their kids in reading children's and teen books. Last summer, one parent used the SummerQuest challenges as a way to explore our teen book section, so she could learn more about the books her soon-to-be teens would be reading.
In addition, we've created 10 reading challenges and related activities most appropriate for parents to do with very
young children. These challenges include reading an alphabet book and then singing the alphabet or reading a picture book and acting it out with your child. As you can see, SummerQuest is an allages program! Please mark your calendars for our June 10 kick-off to make 2019 a summer full of great reading.
If you can't make the June 10 kick-off, don't worry! You can register for Summer-Quest any time during the summer.
This article appeared in the June 2019 edition of the Takoma Park Newsletter. The Takoma Park Newsletter is available for download here.


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SP-RA headset is for use with any station using a mono 3.5 mm right-angle plug. This ultra-lightweight headset weighs in at only one (1) ounce. It's domed; directional sound chambers are adaptable to the contour of any ear. The Spectra headset will provide hours of comfort and pristine clarity making your job easier. This headset also features a 5-foot cord.
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AMD and Radeon part ways – in a manner of speaking
Some industry news, and only applicable if you're hoping to impress someone with your grasp of the finer details of Intel/AMD/Nvidia rivalry, is that AMD has announced places to turn their graphics division into a standalone called Radeon Technologies Group. Which, if you remember the great ATI/Nvidia wars of 2008 (those were the days), is where we came in before chip-maker AMD bought and took over graphics company ATI. AMD say that the decision to spin off this new company is to "…more agile, vertically-integrated graphics organization focused on solidifying our position as the graphics industry leader, recapturing profitable share across traditional graphics markets, and staking leadership positions in new markets such as virtual and augmented reality."
Source: AMD
DJI announces in-house cameras for their DJI Inspire 1 drone
It was only a matter of time before drone companies saw the profit in making their own cameras – especially since the likes of GoPro are about to start muscling in on their turf by releasing drones. So DJI's revelation of what they're calling the first aerial micro four thirds cameras, the ZenMuse X5 and X5R, designed specifically for the DJI Inspire 1 drone should have been expected. 16MP stills, 4K video and interchangeable lens could be your domain soon. If you can afford it. The X5 and a 15mm f/1.7 ASPH lens will cost $4,500 (R62,000), the X5R will run you $8,000 (R110,000) when it launches at year-end.
Source: Engadget
GoPro's VR 'Odessey' is for sale – if you're a good enough producer
Speaking of action camera companies, GoPro have taken a page from the Eric Cartman School of Business and put their VR-filiming rig – which consists of 16 GoPro Hero 4 Black units mounted in a circular rig – on sale. But you're got to prove that you can handle it before shelling out the massive price ($15,000/R205,000). The reason given is that production of the camera rigs will be limited and we're sure that GoPro wants to have the best VR content shot with their product as possible with those limited units.
Watch the Ultima Evolution tearing through the British countryside. Just because.
Ultima could be one of two things – A game series started by Lord British himself or an auto manufacturer from Britain. In this case it's the second and the Ultima Evolution, in spite of sounding like the next instalment in that game series, is 6.8 litre V8, 950kg, 0-to-100km/h-in-2.3-seconds, 386km/h top-speed having supercar. Which is road-legal, at least if you're a resident of Britain, but we've got no idea where you could let something like this stretch its legs. But let's just watch it in sedate action this Friday morning.
Source: Ultima (YouTube)
We find your lack of theme park disturbing (but that'll change soon enough)
You all knew this day would come. Search your feelings, you know it to be true. Disney, the current owners of the Star Wars franchise, are going to be getting started on Star Wars Land a little earlier than expected. Rather than waiting till 2017 to start building that moon in California and Florida, they're going to recreate the Millennium Falcon, that cantina on Tatooine and other iconic locations from the science fiction universe next year. When they will be done isn't known yet but as they "…want people to feel like they've stepped into the world of Star Wars", it'll probably take a few years.
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[Editor – The NGINX ModSecurity WAF module for NGINX Plus officially went End-of-Sale as of April 1, 2022 and is transitioning to End-of-Life effective March 31, 2024. For more details, see F5 NGINX ModSecurity WAF Is Transitioning to End-of-Life on our blog.
This post is adapted from a webinar by Owen Garrett, Head of Products at NGINX, Inc. The original product name, NGINX Plus with ModSecurity WAF, was still in use at the time.]
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0:00 | Introduction |
0:34 | NGINX Plus R9 Recap |
2:34 | NGINX Plus R10 New Features |
3:01 | ModSecurity WAF |
6:03 | Why ModSecurity? |
7:12 | ModSecurity 101 |
8:49 | Comprehensive Protection for Critical Apps and Data |
9:37 | NGINX Plus with ModSecurity WAF Details |
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13:58 | Native JWT Support |
14:38 | NGINX Plus for Authentication |
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18:07 | Why NGINX Plus for OpenID? |
19:56 | "Dual‑Stack" RSA‑ECC Certificates |
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22:45 | Network Features |
23:04 | Transparent Proxy |
26:27 | What Is nginScript? |
27:38 | nginScript in NGINX Plus R10 |
30:17 | Additional Features |
33:53 | Additional Features (Continued) |
34:50 | Summary |
0:00 Introduction
Owen Garrett: Thank you for joining this presentation on the new features in NGINX Plus R10.
My name is Owen Garrett. I lead the product team for NGINX, Inc. and I'll be explaining some of the features we've brought to you in this new release. We'll also walk through use cases and see how these new features can benefit you in the applications and services that you're building today.
00:34 NGINX Plus R9 Recap
We do major releases for NGINX Plus about every three to four months. The last major release, R9, was in April of this year, and it brought some big features to our user base.
The most important of those was support for dynamic modules. That's a capability that we're building on in the R10 release, as we bring to you our ModSecurity‑based web application firewall [WAF] and a preview of nginScript, a JavaScript‑based scripting language for NGINX. [Editor – nginScript is now called the NGINX JavaScript module.] Both of these are dynamic modules, allowing you to conditionally load them, use them, evaluate them, and then decide whether you want to use that functionality in your production environment or not.
In the R9 release, we brought some significant extensions to our Stream module – the capability to manage TCP‑ and UDP‑based traffic. We added in UDP load balancing with a number of core features, and we've extended that now in the R10 release, bringing it closer to parity with the HTTP load balancing.
We made a major push into service discovery with support for DNS SRV
records, so that NGINX Plus can pull configuration and react dynamically to changes that were recorded within a service discovery database such as Consul or etcd.
We also introduced a new pricing model for larger organizations, or organizations who are building large applications that need to use a large, or unpredictable number of instances of NGINX Plus, and want to do so in a cost‑effective and scalable fashion.
2:34 NGINX Plus R10 New Features
This is the foundation we're building upon to bring to you today the features in our new NGINX Plus R10 release. There's a focus around security, we're bringing a new ModSecurity WAF product to market, adding authentication performance improvements. Also there is a focus around some low‑level capabilities to address some specific network‑focused use cases, and also a preview of new features for our JavaScript language called nginScript [Editor – nginScript is now called the NGINX JavaScript module.].
3:01 ModSecurity WAF
Let's start with security and the significance of the ModSecurity web application firewall (WAF) that's included as part of NGINX Plus R10.
A web application firewall is an essential part of any modern web application that's handling sensitive data. In some cases, a WAF is mandated, such as if you're operating under standards like PCI DSS; in the majority of cases you're required to deploy some sort of WAF device acting as a firewall to protect your application from malicious or undesirable requests.
A web application firewall operates at a different level than a traditional network firewall. Network firewalls typically operate on Layers 2 to 4 of the OSI network stack. These are known as Layer 2 or Layer 4 firewalls. They inspect packets and drop bad packets – ones that fail to meet particular security or access control parameters.
A web application firewall operates at a much higher level: Layer wsq7. It inspects HTTP requests and tries to decide whether a particular HTTP request, or indeed a particular user, is legitimate or is acting maliciously. This is so malicious users can be stopped and the request can be denied before they even reach the web application.
In a security context where the number of web application attacks has increased 50% year‑on‑year, according to Akamai's State of the Internet report, and the number of DDoS attacks has more than doubled from Q1 2015 to Q1 2016, security is absolutely critical.
When security isn't properly in place, breaches can be devastating. Code Spaces was driven out of business when an attacker exploited a vulnerability, gained access to the Amazon control panel, and extorted the organizers. When they refused to immediately pay up, the attackers started deleting data and virtual machines on Amazon.
Democratic National Congress emails were leaked, resulting in four resignations, and other high‑profile web application attacks have caused great damage to the owners of those web properties.
A WAF is a necessary tool for protecting applications. It's not the only tool, and of course you would want to think about a blended approach, bringing in network and application‑level techniques, as well as code reviews and code scanners. But a WAF such as ModSecurity forms an essential foundation.
6:03 Why ModSecurity?
ModSecurity is the most widely deployed WAF in the world. It's a mature and well‑regarded project which has been tested in production for over 14 years.
The open source project is owned by TrustWave Holdings and stewarded by a team within TrustWave Holdings called SpiderLabs. They are a team of developers and penetration testers who both build the ModSecurity WAF and manage the open source community around that, and are also responsible for building out the rule sets that the WAF uses.
There's a large, enthusiastic community that uses ModSecurity WAF, contributes to it, and deploys it in production. Although it has a reputation of being somewhat cryptic and difficult to learn, with a few hours investment, it's relatively easy to become familiar with the rules language that the ModSecurity WAF uses, and it's also easy to find help.
7:12 ModSecurity 101
There are two basic components involved. Rules are a little bit like virus signatures; they're a set of regularly updated rules that identify particular malicious or suspect requests. The WAF software applies and executes those rules against incoming traffic to then make a decision. It can decide to drop the traffic, or to give it an anomaly score (in which case a later decision can then be made), or it can just log it as potentially suspect. An administrator can then review the logs and make an informed decision as to whether the WAF is enabled and which rules are put in production and which continue to run in shadow mode.
There are a range of rule sets available. The OWASP Core Rule Set (CRS) is distributed at no cost, and there are also a couple of commercial rule sets, most notably the one developed by the SpiderLabs team at TrustWave, which is available on an annual subscription.
You can, of course, build your own rules, running security scanners against your own code to identify potentially weak points, such as form fields that aren't adequately checked, or create rules to prevent invalid data from ever making it into that form field and the code that processes it.
8:49 Comprehensive Protection for Critical Apps and Data
ModSecurity provides a lot more than just a static list of rules. It also provides a range of tools to profile, and accumulate a reputation score against, particular users. It attempts to identify DDoS attacks by drawing on real‑time denylists and third‑party sources, inspecting responses, and integrating with security scanner tools to perform virtual patching.
Together, these security capabilities are more than sufficient to meet the requirements of auditing standards such as PCI DSS.
9:37 NGINX Plus with ModSecurity WAF Details
The ModSecurity project began as an Apache module, and even now, the most widely deployed instance of ModSecurity, known as version 2.9, is implemented as an Apache module. There are connectors and patches available to make that module work with NGINX. But we find, backed up by feedback from our own users, that still doesn't really meet the performance or the stability expectations that our users have.
A little over a year ago, TrustWave embarked on a project to refactor the ModSecurity code into a core platform‑independent library called ModSecurity, with a range of connectors which would then allow that library to be used by web server and proxy platforms, including NGINX. This project, known as ModSecurity version 3.0, is under active development, and it's getting close to the first public, certified open source release.
The ModSecurity implementation in NGINX is based on this new ModSecurity 3.0 code. We currently describe it as a "preview" because there are features and open issues that need to be addressed before that body of code reaches functional parity with the existing ModSecurity 2.9 implementation.
We encourage you, if you're interested in trying the NGINX Plus ModSecurity module, to evaluate it in a test environment against your application and against production‑like traffic. Please report any issues, any stability problems, any missing features to us. As we continue to develop that project with the TrustWave team, we will address those issues. When you're confident that it's able to meet your performance, your functionality, and your stability requirements, you can of course go ahead and deploy it.
During that entire process, you'll be fully supported by our core engineering team, by our support team, and by the engineers from our team who are working on the open source ModSecurity project. All the work that we are doing with ModSecurity to harden and complete version 3.0 is going back into the community, and in time, you'll be able to take that as an open source module and use it directly.
We provide the completed, tested, certified, and supported module at a fee. With that fee, you get technical support, you get updates, and you get the assurance that those updates have been fully tested against NGINX Plus.
12:44 Why NGINX Plus with ModSecurity WAF?
Why use NGINX Plus ModSecurity WAF rather than alternatives?
The cost savings are significant. The WAF market – when you move into commercial products – is an extremely high‑value and expensive market to play in. As with our NGINX Plus pricing, we're seeking to create something that is widely applicable, widely available, and is suitable for deployment in large volumes.
The combined solution from NGINX increases your operational efficiency by bundling the application delivery controller capabilities of NGINX Plus with the WAF capabilities as a software package. That means you're free to deploy that in dev and test, on‑premises and off‑premises, and in the cloud. We're also minimizing vendor lock‑in by building on an industry standard language and rule set so that, should you ever need to, you can migrate or pull in expertise from other sources to build out your NGINX Plus expertise and deployment.
13:58 Native JWT Support
The WAF was the first major project that's part of the R10 release, and it's something that we've been working on for almost a year, hand in hand with the TrustWave and SpiderLab teams. The second part of NGINX Plus R10 also focuses on security, but rather than looking at content inspection, it looks at authentication and provides a means of inspecting the authentication tokens used by modern security standards – OAuth 2.0 and OpenID.
14:38 NGINX Plus for Authentication
OAuth 2.0 is emerging as the dominant standard for authentication for a very wide range of both web applications and API‑driven applications.
The core pattern is relatively straightforward: a client who wishes to access/protect the application will first talk to an authentication provider – very commonly, someone like Google or Twitter. You've all seen websites that allow you to log in with your Google password. They're using this technology behind the scenes. The authentication provider then provides the client with a signed token that includes some metadata about the client, such as their email address and other parameters. The clients can then present that token to the web application. Normally, the web application would then need to unpack that token, verify the signature, and pull the data it wants out of that token.
With the support that we've added in NGINX Plus R10, you're able to do that operation directly on the frontend load balancer. The token is known as a JWT (pronounced 'jot'), for JSON Web Token, and it contains a range of field data provided by the identity issuer and is signed and certified by that issuer. This token is used in a couple of different manners, depending on whether you have an API or a web‑based application.
16:18 Use Case 1 – Single Sign‑On (SSO)
On a web‑based application, an administrator will typically use something like Google's JavaScript client authentication API library to wrap a Google Single Sign‑On onto the front of his application, so that users who try to get through a walled part of the application are redirected to sign on, and are granted a Bearer Token (which is an OAuth 2.0 concept.) The Bearer Token will contain the JWT which has the user's identity, signed by Google. And then the user will present that Bearer Token to the application.
This functionality is supported by identity providers such as Google and Yahoo. Unfortunately not by Facebook, though: Facebook standardized on an authentication process before the OpenID Connect standard was accepted and the JWT approach was defined. This is also supported by a range of enterprise and internal identity providers, such as Okta and OneLogin.
17:29 Use Case 2 – API Gateway
If you're using an API gateway‑like environment, where you have a mobile application, that mobile application will operate in a similar fashion: it will retrieve a Bearer Token containing a JWT from an identity provider. That Bearer Token may even be hardwired into the mobile application. Typically, if you're running a mobile app, you'll use a homegrown entity to provide that identity, either build it from open source or simply script it. And then the mobile application will present the Bearer Token as part of the flow.
18:07 Why NGINX Plus for OpenID?
In each case, NGINX Plus as the first point of entry for the web traffic can do two things:
- It can validate the JWT token (it can verify the signature matches the signature algorithm and secret data that's used by the issuer)
- It can check parameters such as the expiry date to ensure the token is valid
And then NGINX Plus can also automatically extract data from the token. Just as you can access HTTP headers using variables in NGINX Plus, you can now access parameters in a JWT using variables.
This means that NGINX now knows the identity of the user behind individual requests, and it can apply configuration logic based on that identity. It can log those parameters, it can add them to HTTP headers, it can apply rate limits based on the user identity, to ensure that users meet particular service levels, and this can simplify your application logic.
You don't need to put the secure keys on your application to allow the application to verify the JWT is valid. You don't need to put complex JWT management code on the application. This is particularly significant if you're using multiple different code stacks for the app. Instead, you can centralize all of that frontend on NGINX Plus and ensure that only authenticated traffic is allowed in, and that requests are decorated with the authentication parameters that each application requires.
19:56 "Dual‑Stack" RSA‑ECC Certificates
The third feature added as part of NGINX Plus R10 is support for RCA and ECC certificates on the same virtual server. This feature was released as part of our open source release a month or two ago, and is now available at NGINX Plus, fully supported by our team.
20:26 RSA vs. ECC
Certificates are used in the SSL handshake process in order to verify the identity of a website. A certificate is issued by a certificate authority, presented to the client, and the client verifies that it is connecting to the right website.
These are very long‑standing bits of Internet and SSL technology, and the vast majority of certificates use the RSA algorithm to perform the public key exchange that's necessary as part of the certificate check. Recently, certificates have started to be produced that use an alternative algorithm called Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC).
Elliptic Curve Cryptography is significantly faster than RSA on the server side in terms of the amount of computations the server has to do during the SSL or TLS handshake. And this is one of the biggest performance‑limiting aspects of SSL, so anything that reduces the amount of compute work without compromising the level of security is a great thing.
Unfortunately, there are still a number of clients that don't understand and can't process ECC certificates. With this new feature in NGINX Plus R10, you can configure an SSL virtual server with a pair of certificates, RSA and ECC.
When a client connects to NGINX Plus, NGINX Plus will serve up the ECC certificate to modern clients that it knows are able to handle the ECC handshake, and it will serve up the RSA certificates to legacy clients that can't handle ECC certificates. And in that way, you get a common level of security across all clients, but you're able to use the most efficient possible certificate. This reduces the CPU utilization on the NGINX Plus server and increases the number of new SSL handshakes it can perform per second.
22:45 Network Features
We introduced a number of other features in NGINX Plus R10 as well. Some of them focus roughly around the different networking capabilities that you would expect from an enterprise‑level ADC such as NGINX Plus.
23:04 Transparent Proxy
We added a capability called transparent proxy that allows NGINX Plus to dynamically control the source IP address and port of each connection or each UDP packet that it sends to an upstream server.
Before IP Transparency was an option, every connection originating from NGINX Plus to an upstream would originate from one of the local IP addresses on NGINX Plus. That's fine for majority of modern HTTP applications, because they can use things like the X-Forwarded-For
header to determine the true source IP address of each client.
But for some legacy web applications and for TCP or UDP protocols that need to be able to see the source IP address of each client for login, or authentication, or rate‑limiting purposes, then obviously that functionality can't be used if the source IP address isn't in the TCP string.
This new capability allows NGINX Plus to spoof the source IP address for both TCP and UDP traffic. And by doing so, the upstream server observes that the connection originates from the remote client's IP address.
This practice is called IP Transparency. But it's not without its challenges. It's a complex networking deployment to configure because you need to ensure the traffic is routed back through the NGINX Plus device and correctly terminated. We'll be publishing a solution shortly that shows how to do that with a combination of routing on each upstream server and use of the TPROXY iptables
module on NGINX Plus, so that you can perform IP Transparency for HTTP and TCP transactions.
For UDP traffic, you can also use this functionality for a deployment configuration called Direct Server Return or DSR, where response packets completely bypass NGINX and the network stack of the server that NGINX is running on. This is great for high‑performance applications where you don't want the hit of processing response packets. Again, it requires careful network configuration and it requires a judicious configuration of health checks on NGINX, so that it can determine whether individual UDP servers are up and running or have failed and aren't responding to UDP requests.
The key point of this functionality is that if you are using a legacy hardware load balancer that provides either IP Transparency or Direct Server Return, then this new support makes it easier to deploy NGINX Plus in its place.
Editor – For detailed configuration instrutions, see IP Transparency and Direct Server Return with NGINX and NGINX Plus as Transparent Proxy on our blog.
26:27 What Is nginScript?
nginScript is a really exciting project which we first announced about a year ago at last year's NGINX conference. [Editor – nginScript is now called the NGINX JavaScript module; this post uses the names interchangeably.] The goal of nginScript is to free your configuration from the static and constrained configuration language NGINX currently uses, and allow you to embed dynamic bits of code within your configuration – code that uses JavaScript and is run on‑the‑fly per request, to make rich and intelligent decisions about how that particular request should be managed, or how the response should be processed.
The nginScript implementation is still a preview. We are working on the APIs and the interfaces, but there are a number of ways that you can use nginScript right now in the R10 release to do some very cool things.
27:38 nginScript in NGINX Plus R10
Here's an example of an nginScript implementation that allows you to gradually move traffic from one set of servers to another.
We define a window, a time window, where we want to migrate. We determine the name of the upstream that we want to send traffic to, by calling a JavaScript function that we've implemented called transitionStatus
, and then we proxy pass through to that upstream.
We can create that JavaScript variable using almost arbitrary JavaScript. There are limitations, and we're working to address those limitations and build out the richness of our JavaScript implementation.
But even now, you can do some fairly sophisticated calculations to see where in time the user is in that window, and then perform a progressive transition from one set of servers to another. It's a way of doing a seamless upgrade, pinned by source IP address, so that users aren't switched forwards and backwards between servers, from an old generation to a new generation.
Editor – For a detailed discussion of this nginScript use case, see Using the NGINX JavaScript Module to Progressively Transition Clients to a New Server on our blog.
This is a really exciting way that you'll be able to use to extend the functionality of NGINX Plus in the future, and it's something we're going to continue to iterate on and develop over the next few months.
It is a work in progress. We've targeted a subset of ECMAScript 5.1. We have implemented our own JavaScript interpreter on runtime, that runs directly within the core of NGINX, and interfaces cleanly and nicely with the event model that NGINX uses as well as the memory management model that NGINX uses.
We're building out a growing set of both global functions and built‑in objects: date, time, string, other objects like that, and core functions. It's still a work in progress so the internal API may change in the next release, but our target is to lock that down; build out the core interfaces between the nginScript language, the NGINX configuration, and the core runtime; and then build out the range of both global functions and built‑in JavaScript capabilities that we can support, to help you build rich and articulate applications using NGINX.
30:17 Additional Features
There are a number of additional features that we've added as part of NGINX Plus R10.
I mentioned at the start some of the work that we had done in previous releases to deliver the same level of performance and functionality with UDP and TCP load balancing that we currently offer with HTTP. That gap is continuing to close with the availability of more of the functions that you're familiar using with HTTP traffic – these can now be used with the Stream module that handles TCP and UDP requests.
Capabilities like split clients to share traffic between different servers, the GeoIP and Geo modules. The Map modules to make complex decisions and other NGINX variables. And of course, you can also use nginScript as part of the evaluation of the configuration for Stream services as well as HTTP.
Another capability we've added is support for a new socket option called IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT
This slightly obscurely named socket option provides some very significant scalability benefits for large‑scale applications that are handling very large numbers of connections. WebSocket is a great example where you want to use NGINX Plus to manage a large number of long‑term, kept‑open TCP connections.
Without this capability, NGINX Plus is confined to the ephemeral port limit of a Linux server. Essentially, that means that you can't make more than about 60,000 TCP connections to your upstream servers from an individual NGINX instance. You can overcome that limit by adding additional IP addresses to that NGINX instance and putting some decision logic in place to pick the source IP address for each connection. But you still have a similar limit that scales linearly with the number of IP addresses that can affect you, if you're running a large number of persistent connections through NGINX Plus.
The Linux kernel capability that supports IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT
overcomes that limit, and it allows NGINX Plus to make upwards of 60,000 TCP connections to each upstream server. The more upstream servers you have, the more concurrent TCP connections you can run from NGINX Plus.
The limit comes down to the IP 4‑tuple: the number of options you have for source IP address and port and destination IP address and port. That must be unique for every single TCP connection. And with IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT
, it overcomes one of the limits in that calculation. So, this capability is turned on by default on modern Linux kernels, and it will allow you to scale your web application, particularly ones using WebSocket, far beyond the levels that you could do previously.
Additional Features (Continued)
We've added in an additional transaction ID variable [$request_id
], randomly generated, that you can use in logging or you can pass through in the headers, the upstream servers. So, you can then track an individual transaction as it moves through multiple tiers of web servers, load balancers, and web applications. Improvements to HTTP/2 allow us to buffer HTTP bodies and stream those through to upstream servers; similar improvements for the way that we stream bodies back to clients.
These changes reflect a continued investment in ensuring that we can build out the most scalable and high‑performance HTTP/2 implementation available.
34:50 Summary
In summary, NGINX Plus R10 doubles down on security, with the addition of our ModSecurity WAF, our support for JWT tokens and OpenID handshakes, and support for dual certificates on an individual virtual server.
We've provided additional options for network configuration to support IP Transparency and Direct Server Return. We've further closed the functionality gap between UDP and TCP load balancing, and added more feature‑rich HTTP load balancing capabilities in NGINX Plus.
We're previewing the next stage of nginScript, and I'd love to get your feedback on that as you use it in task and production. And of course, the range of other capabilities and features we talked about.
To try out all the great new features in NGINX Plus R10 for yourself, start your free 30-day trial today or contact us to discuss your use cases.
[Editor – NGINX ModSecurity WAF officially went End-of-Sale as of April 1, 2022 and is transitioning to End-of-Life effective March 31, 2024. For more details, see F5 NGINX ModSecurity WAF Is Transitioning to End-of-Life on our blog.]


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The road to the upcoming AEW All Out 2020 pay-per-view continued this week with a special AEW Saturday Night Dynamite on TNT show.
This week's All Elite Wrestling show featured a TNT Championship bout with "The American Nightmare" Cody defending against "The Exalted One" of The Dark Order, Mr. Brodie Lee, as well as the finals of the first-ever AEW Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament: The Deadly Draw finals between the Nightmare Sisters and the team of Ivelisse and Diamante.
Tonight's show also included FTR vs. Private Party in tag-team action, Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks vs. The Dark Order in a six-man tag-team bout and an eight-man tag-team contest with The Lucha Bros, The Butcher & The Blade vs. Jurassic Express & Natural Nightmares.
Additionally, Darby Allin returned to in-ring action, and "Freshly Squeezed" Orange Cassidy will gave his first-ever in-ring one-on-one interview … sort of.
Featured below are our AEW Saturday Night Dynamite results from the show held at the Daily's Place amphitheater in Jacksonville, Florida, and aired on TNT on Saturday, August 22, 2020.
After the NBA Playoff game between the Indiana Pacers and the Miami Heat runs a little long, the AEW on TNT broadcast of Saturday Night Dynamite officially kicks off a little bit after 6:30pm Eastern Time with the regular signature video package that opens the show every week.
From there we shoot inside the Daily's Place amphitheater in Jacksonville, FL. where the announce trio of Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone and Tazz welcome us to the show.
FTR vs. Private Party
Then, we shoot inside the ring where the four men who will be kicking off things inside the squared circle are already standing and waiting for battle.
The advertised tag-team bout between FTR — Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler and Private Party — Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy, will be the opening match on this week's special Saturday Night Dynamite broadcast.
We hear the bell and this one is now officially underway. It doesn't take long for FTR to calm down the fiery duo who came out of the gate strong, but now find themselves isolated with Harwood and Wheeler utilizing quick tags to keep a fresh guy on the weakened member of Private Party who is stuck away from his side of the ring.
Harwood and Wheeler continue to dominate the action while the camera pans around and we see some familiar faces while the announcers put over Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard and other legends being fond of the old-school traditional style used by FTR in their matches.
Private Party is now showing signs of life, as they start making a comeback. They blast the FTR duo with a barrage of strikes while yelling out "Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots!" as the fans inside the Daily Place amphitheater chant along.
Quen and Kassidy enjoy a couple of minutes in control of the offense, but it isn't long before the veteran heel tactics of FTR surface and help Harwood and Wheeler find the opening they needed to turn the tide.
They finish things off with the Goodnight Express double-team finisher after some outside interference from Tully Blanchard provides the necessary assist to get FTR the victory and help them improve to a perfect 6-0 record in the official AEW tag-team rankings.
After the match, Tully re-enters the ring and celebrates with FTR as the commentary team puts over the fact that the former Four Horsemen member has officially aligned himself with Harwood and Wheeler.
Winners: FTR
Jon Moxley Backstage Promo
After the announce trio run down some of the advertised matches and segments still to come in tonight's broadcast, they send things over to a backstage promo segment featuring the AEW World Heavyweight Champion.
Moxley goes on to mock Maxwell Jacob Friedman, talking trash about MJF and calling him a virgin who lives in his mom's basement. He claims that he hopes Friedman does turn out to be the man to help take AEW through the next generation long after he is done with his own in-ring career.
The AEW Champion goes on to infer that MJF is hiding something and he is going to get to the bottom of it.
MJF's Latest State Of Wrestling Address
When we return from the break, we see and hear a very emotional and sad-sounding MJF who is back with his latest State of the Wrestling Union Address segment.
Friedman, who is wearing a big neck brace, talks with a sad, scared-sounding (with sarcastic overtones, obviously) voice as he mentions wanting to be able to play with his children but fears he won't be able to because of Jon Moxley and his Paradigm Shift.
MJF claims his neck hurts too bad and he is in too much pain, so he moaningly asks Wardlow to take over. MJF stands nursing his wounds as Wardlow takes over and explains that Moxley's Paradigm Shift, which he says is otherwise known as a Double-Arm DDT, is a dangerous and potentially deadly move.
He goes on to say that the MJF team have put in a formal request to have the Paradigm Shift banned. Wardlow taunts Moxley, claiming the AEW World Heavyweight Champion should be able to win a match without one little move being able to be used.
The Lucha Bros, The Butcher & The Blade vs. Natural Nightmares & Jurassic Express
After the MJF segment wraps up, we return inside Daily's Place where we see all eight men already in the ring ready to go for our next match of the evening.
In eight-man tag-team action, we will see The Lucha Bros — Rey Fenix and Pentagon Jr., teaming up with The Butcher and The Blade to take on the foursome of Jurassic Express — Luchasaurus and Jungle Boy, who are joining forces with the Natural Nightmares — Dustin Rhodes and QT Marshall.
Immediately we see some potential in-fighting on one side of the ring as all eight men collide to kick this one off with a bang. After a couple of the baby face bodies hit the floor like an old Drowning Pool song, we see our first "tope suicidas" of the evening as the duo of The Lucha Bros go flying out to the floor.
The brawling continues once the action resumes inside the ring, but still the referee is having trouble keeping order in this one, as there are constant double and triple-team spots.
The heels continue to dominate the action as Rhodes and Marshall are the only two who have been able to compete on behalf of their team, a point the announcers sell on commentary as they mention that the Jurassic Express members have been forced to stand on the apron and watch helplessly as The Lucha Bros, The Butcher and The Blade have done a good job of cutting off the ring.
As the Lucha Bros make another tag to bring in another fresh man to beat on the already weakened Natural Nightmares who are still isolated in the ring and unable to make it to their corner to tag in a fresh member of their team, we head to a mid-match, picture-in-picture commercial break.
We're back from the break and finally some fresh blood enters the mix on the other side of the ring, as Jungle Boy is tagged in. The Jurassic Express member immediately turns the momentum in his team's favor, hitting running dives to the floor on both sides of the ring repeatedly, before re-entering the ring and tagging in the big fella.
Luchasaurus tags in and the 270-pound masked monster starts unleashing hell on anything that moves until a numbers game advantage from The Lucha Bros slows down his momentum. He tags in Jungle Boy, but they do the same to him and are firmly back in control of the contest. We see some more in-fighting now on the heel side of the ring, as The Butcher and The Blade argue with The Lucha Bros. After one pushes the other, it leads to a school-boy roll-up by Jungle Boy for the 1-2-3.
Winners: Natural Nightmares & Jurassic Express
Eddie Kingston Wants Lucha Bros, The Butcher & The Blade To Walk With Him
After the match, Eddie Kingston comes out and cuts a promo, halting the in-fighting that continued in the ring among The Lucha Bros, The Butcher and The Blade after the match was over.
Kingston talks about how the four men in the ring, Pentagon Jr., Rey Fenix, The Butcher and The Blade, only lose when they are divided. He addresses each guy individually and persuades them to become united and walk with Eddie Kingston. They all embrace while Kingston looks at the camera, winks and smiles behind their backs.
Dr. Britt Baker With Penelope Ford & Kip Sabian
We shoot to a backstage segment with Dr. Britt Baker and Rebel. AEW's only dentist, Baker, then smells something, leading to the camera panning over to show Kip Sabian and Penelope Ford making out next to she and Rebel.
Baker goes on to address Big Swole, daring her to put her money where her mouth is before the segment wraps up and we head back to another commercial break.
Tony Schiavone's Interview With Orange Cassidy Crashed By "Le Champion"|
We're back from the break and we see Tony Schiavone standing in the ring alone. Schiavone addresses the crowd inside Daily's Place, as well as the viewing audience on TNT, and talks about Orange Cassidy's victory over Chris Jericho in their rematch is one of the biggest moments in the history of AEW Dynamite.
With that said, Schiavone introduces his guest at this time, the "Freshly Squeezed" one himself. On that note, Orange Cassidy's music hits and out he comes in all of his jean jacket glory, accompanied by his buddies the Best Friends — Chuckie T. and Trent.
Schiavone again brings up Cassidy's victory over "Le Champion" on last week's AEW Dynamite broadcast, but before Cassidy can respond or say anything, we hear the familiar theme song of the leader of the Inner Circle himself — Chris Jericho.
Jericho makes his way out and stops at the end of the entrance tunnel at the top of the entrance way inside Daily's Place amphitheater. Jericho says he knows Cassidy is a man of few words, so he wanted to say some of his own before Cassidy speaks.
"Le Champion" congratulates Cassidy on his big win over him on last week's show. He goes on to mention that he can count on one hand how many times he has lost a wrestling match in All Elite Wrestling, and one of the men who scored one of those victories is the man who puts his hands in his pockets, Orange Cassidy.
Jericho says since he too holds a win over Cassidy and because they are 1 and 1, it's only fitting that they have a rubber match to determine who the better man truly is. He goes on to mention some of his famous wrestling gimmick matches, such as the Money In The Bank match and the Stadium Stampede, and now he has a brand new one specifically designed for the "Freshly Squeezed" one himself.
He goes on to introduce a video package that sets the stage and explains the match concept of what he is calling the "Mimosa Mayhem Match." The match features 80 gallons of orange juice and 500 cases of "a little bit of the bubbley" and the only ways to win are by pin fall, submission or by throwing your opponent into a big mixture of the large amounts of o.j. and bubbley.
Jericho says all that is left is for Cassidy to accept the match. He lays out the formal challenge for the upcoming AEW All Out pay-per-view scheduled for September 5, 2020, and now he awaits Cassidy's response. This leads to Orange holding a thumbs up, his only means of communication in this entire segment touting his first-ever in-ring one-on-one interview.
Regardless, we've got ourselves a Mimosa Mayhem Match confirmed for the AEW All Out 2020 PPV. Jericho then brings out the rest of his Inner Circle members to attack and beat down Cassidy, Chuck and Trent and pouring a little bit of the bubbley all over them the way they drowned Jericho in orange juice, ruining his $7,000 suit a few weeks ago on the show.
After this segment ends we head to another commercial break.
The Dark Order vs. The Elite
We're back from the break and out come three members of The Dark Order — John Silver, Alex Reynolds and Alan Angels, otherwise known as Dark Order members 3, 4 and 5.
Once they settle into the ring we are treated to the collective ring walks of their opponents for this contest, Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks — Nick and Matt Jackson — a.k.a. The Elite!
This six-man tag-team match is next in the ring here on AEW Saturday Night Dynamite. The bell sounds to make this one official. As the announcers plug the weekly Being The Elite digital series, which drops every Monday on the official BTE YouTube channel, we watch as The Elite jump off to an early offensive lead.
The Young Bucks take turns on Alan Angels, who is isolated in the ring by himself, as Nick and Matt Jackson exchange tags after executing various high spots, before tagging in Omega. He picks up where they left off after the two hit a stereo plancha high-spot from the ring to the floor on all three members of The Dark Order.
Moments later, the heel trio turn the offensive tide in their favor after they use a steel chair and a numbers game advantage on the floor to beat down the three members of The Elite, softening them up before returning to the ring where they now enjoy a comfortable offensive lead in the bout. As Angels takes it to Omega in the ring, J.R. leads us into a mid-match, picture-in-picture commercial break.
When we return from the break, it isn't long before a one-winged angel from Omega wraps things up and helps secure the victory for the trio known as The Elite.
After the match, however, the bond between the trio seems to be weakened, as Omega is pissed and is letting it be known. He flips out a bit before Matt and Nick Jackson finally calms him down.
Winners: The Elite
Backstage With FTR, Tully Blanchard & "Hangman" Adam Page
Alex Marvez is standing by backstage with the team of Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler — FTR — who are accompanied by Tully Blanchard. A match is announced for next week's edition of AEW Dynamite.
As the two begin cutting their promo, in walks a heated "Hangman" Adam Page. FTR quickly try and calm him down, explaining that what happened in the ring last week with the Tag Team Appreciation Night segment going off the rails with surprise attacks in the ring had nothing to do with him and wasn't personal.
They manage to calm down the "Hangman" and appear to be on the same page as they all toast themselves with a few brews before we head to another commercial break.
Darby Allin vs. Will Hobbs
We're back on AEW Saturday Night Dynamite where a wrestler is already standing in the ring waiting while the familiar theme of Darby Allin hits the house speakers inside the Daily's Place amphitheater.
Allin makes his way to the ring in a hurry and blasts who we now see is Will Hobbs, his opponent for tonight, before the match is even officially started.
Allin goes to work on Hobbs outside the ring before the action continues inside the squared circle where the bell finally sounds to make this match official. Allin continues his berzerk-mode beat down on Hobbs, however Hobbs ends up absolutely killing Allin's momentum with a big shot.
Hobbs now completely takes over on offense while the announcers point out that new AEW official Mike Chioda is the referee for this match after making his All Elite Wrestling debut last week.
Allin is showing signs of life after an extended offensive run by Hobbs and out of nowhere, Allin turns the tide and heads to the top rope. He leaps off with a Coffin Drop and pins Hobbs for the victory.
Winner: Darby Allin
Taz Introduces New Member Of Team Taz — Darby Starks
Taz tells J.R. and Schiavone on commentary that he has something for Darby Allin. With that said, he stands up from the commentary table and cuts a promo.
The Human Suplex Machine tells Allin that there is a new member to Team Taz, and his name is also Darby. With that said we hear Darby Allin's theme music while someone comes out in Darby Allin attire with his face covered by a skateboard.
He lowers the skateboard to reveal that he is actually Ricky Starks. Starks, who also has the Darby Allin face paint on, begins cutting a promo while mocking the way Darby speaks softly and ominously with a monotone voice.
Starks taunts Allin while Taz laughs at the commentary desk and finally, the FTW Champion himself, "The Machine" Brian Cage attacks the real Darby Allin from behind in the ring.
Starks joins him and the two beat down the charismatic baby face. Afterwards Starks cuts a promo on Darby, taunting him and insulting him, to end the segment.
Matt Hardy Gives Sammy Guevara A Violent Receipt
As Sammy Guevara makes his way out, J.R. leads us into a picture-in-picture commercial break.
"The Spanish God" of the Inner Circle flips through his usual stack of comedic signs while the audio-less segment quickly goes from humorous to violent as Matt Hardy attacks him from behind.
Hardy nails Guevara with a steel chair from behind. He goes on to repeatedly blast him with the chair over-and-over again as he rages out and we finally return from the commercial in mid-assault.
As the beat down continues, Hardy grabs Guevara and sends him flying off the entrance stage, where he crashes down through a table that was set up below. A ton of AEW officials come out to get Hardy off of Guevara.
AEW Deadly Draw Finals
Nightmare Sisters vs. Ivelisse & Diamante
Shaul Guerrero, the daughter of AEW manager Vickie Guerrero and the late WWE Hall Of Fame legend Eddie Guerrero, is the ring announcer for our next contest of the evening.
It's time for the finals of the first-ever AEW Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament: The Deadly Draw. Shaul introduces the two teams who will be competing for the first-ever AEW Deadly Draw Trophy, which is placed on the entrance stage.
Out comes the duo of Ivelisse and Diamante, followed by the Nightmare Sisters — Brandi Rhodes and Allie. The bell sounds and here we go.
Brandi and Ivelisse kick things off for their respective teams. As the team of Brandi and Allie establish offensive control of the action, we head to a mid-match, picture-in-picture commercial break.
When we return from the break we see a close-up shot of the AEW Deadly Draw Trophy. The camera pans back to the ring where Allie has Diamante on the top-rope looking for a super-plex. Diamante fights her way out of it.
Diamante hits a tornado suplex and starts trying to crawl to her corner. She finally makes it over to tag in the fresher Ivelisse. She takes the hot tag and comes in clotheslining Allie and eventually Brandi, who was also tagged into the match by Allie during this sequence.
Ivelisse's offensive run doesn't last long, however, as she tags Diamante back in and the two look for a double-team spot, but Brandi lands a big shot and tags in Allie. Allie hits her Rabbithole spot and looks for the cover, but it is broken up.
Allie and Diamante are now the legal two women in the ring. Diamante tags Ivelisse. Shawn Spears tries to interfere but it appears to backfire. When the smoke clears, Ivelisse scores the pin on Allie. With the win, she and Diamante become the winners of the first-ever AEW Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament: The Deadly Draw.
Winners of the FIRST-EVER AEW Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament: The Deadly Draw: Ivelisse & Diamante
After The Match: Trophy Presentation
Once the match is officially wrapped up, the first-ever AEW Deadly Draw tournament winners go up the entrance ramp and to the trophy placed at the top of the stage. They each pull out their respective nation's flags and show some attitude as the match and segment wraps up.
TNT Championship
Mr. Brodie Lee vs. Cody (c)
We're back from the break and immediately "The Exalted One" of The Dark Order — Mr. Brodie Lee makes his way down to the ring for tonight's advertised AEW Saturday Night Dynamite main event.
Out next is the TNT Champion himself, "The American Nightmare" Cody. The reigning, defending TNT Champion comes out accompanied by Arn Anderson. Our main event is up next.
Cody's music wraps up and now the ring announcer, Justin Roberts, does the formal pre-match introductions for each competitor in this TNT Championship main event.
As the bell sounds to officially start the match, "The American Nightmare" sprints across the ring with a big kick to Brodie Lee, as he looks to gain a quick offensive advantage over arguably his toughest TNT Championship challenger to date.
Cody's attempt at establishing an early offensive advantage completely backfires, however, as Lee turns the tide quickly. All Cody did was piss off "The Exalted One," as Taz points out on commentary. Immediately the announce team are strongly selling the fact that Lee has hurt the arm of Cody, which "The American Nightmare" immediately begins selling to establish the arm injury.
Lee knocks Cody out to the floor with authority and then knocks him over the guard rail once the action gets going outside of the ring. "The Exalted One" finally brings Cody back into the ring where he continues to deliver more punishment. All-the-while, the announcers repeatedly bring up Cody's injured arm, and the camera shots continue to show close-ups of the arm issues.
Mr. Brodie Lee with a huge power bomb and then his discus lariat. He flattens "The American Nightmare" and covers him. 1-2-3. Mr. Brodie Lee essentially just ended Cody's TNT Championship reign in squash match fashion. Wow. We see highlights which a shocked AEW Dynamite announce team narrate while still sounding like they are in complete disbelief.
Winner and NEW TNT Champion: Mr. Brodie Lee
After The Match: The Dark Order Begin Hostile Takeover Of AEW
The Dark Order members all come out and fill up the ring, celebrating as Mr. Brodie Lee poses with the newly designed, final version of the TNT Championship, which is now owned by The Dark Order.
Tony Schiavone enters the ring to interview the new TNT Champion. Mr. Brodie Lee talks about everyone having to deal with the monster they created. He talks about being held down for so long.
Meanwhile, while all of the gloating from Mr. Brodie Lee is going on, several AEW officials fill the ring, as does Arn Anderson, to tend to Cody. J.R. and Taz quickly change focus on commentary from Mr. Brodie Lee's post-match interview, to Cody, who is now being loaded up on a stretcher and taken out of the ring. The camera pans in on Cody as he is stretchered to the top of the stage, where he struggles to give a thumbs up to the fans.
As they reach the entrance tunnel, Arn Anderson turns around to notice that all of the members of The Dark Order are lined up on the entrance ramp. Anderson tries throwing hands with them, but is quickly out-matched. The Dark Order start a savage attack on the pro wrestling legend before new TNT Champion Mr. Brodie Lee grabs Cody and slams him off the stretcher. Cody, who is wearing a neck brace and has his arm clutched to his body, is beaten down by Mr. Brodie Lee while the announcers talk in their somber serious voices.
Finally, with Anderson and Cody laid out, Mr. Brodie Lee orders his fellow Dark Order members to line-up and pose in front of them. We see Brandi Rhodes run through the wall of Dark Order members to check on Cody and Arn, when all of a sudden Anna Jay emerges through the Dark Order bodies. She grabs Brandi from behind and slaps a choke on her. She then relinquishes the choke and flashes a sadistic smirk to the cameras before posing with all of the Dark Order members.
Mr. Brodie Lee proudly raises his TNT Championship before leading his fellow Dark Order members to the back. The camera shows close-ups of Cody, Arn Anderson and Brandi Rhodes all laid out as the special AEW Saturday Night Dynamite broadcast goes off the air.
Thanks for joining us here this evening for LIVE AEW Saturday Night Dynamite results coverage. Make sure to check back on Thursday for another special time and night coverage, as we once again provide the best AEW Dynamite results on the web! Follow myself, wrestling-edge.com reporter and AEW Dynamite results writer Matt Boone on Twitter @MattBoone1984.


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Alaskan Coalition Seeking Permanent Protections For Bristol Bay
In the face of the Pebble Mine filing for an appeal, Alaskans are asking the EPA and Congress to permanently protect the Bristol Bay watershed
Since 2005, the people of Bristol Bay Alaska have been fighting to save one of the last great salmon runs on earth and prevent the Pebble Mine, a massive copper and gold mining operation, from being built within their watershed. And last November, they had a huge win. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied Pebble Limited Partnership (PLP) the permit to build the mine.
But PLP doesn't seem to be deterred. They recently filed for an appeal to the ruling as did the state of Alaska. While these appeals are both under review, a coalition of business, tribal, nonprofit, and community organizations called the Bristol Bay Defense Fund is working to get permanent protections for the region and put the nearly two-decade-long fight to rest.
"Bristol Bay is an incredible place to experience, and I think there's a growing consensus that mega mines just don't belong in there—whether it's Pebble or a different one," says Shoren Brown of the Bristol Bay Defense Fund.
According to Brown, the first step to preserving the fishery would be seeking protection by means of a rule invoked by the EPA under a part of the Clean Water Act called section 404(c). This would empower the EPA to restrict things like mining if it finds that there would be an unacceptable adverse impact to the region. It would also allow the EPA to kill the Pebble Mine project.
The EPA proposed 404(c) restrictions in 2014 garnering legal challenges from PLP, but they later withdrew their proposal in 2017 under the Trump administration.
In order to provide 404(c) protections to the Bristol Bay watershed this time, the EPA will have to start the entire process over again. The good news for the Bristol Bay Defense Fund is that the public and leaked private plans of PLP would be taken into consideration in the new proposal.
"We're feeling confident and seeing early signs that the [Biden] administration is going to take tribal sovereignty a lot more seriously than the previous administration did," Brown says. "The 404(c) really is achievable. The Obama administration already did it once. It's a safe and well-justified, well-documented action the Biden administration can take to fix this problem in the short term."
The 404(c) restrictions would not necessarily protect the entire region from future mining operations. Instead, the protections would likely be used for specific sensitive areas within the Bristol Bay watershed including the proposed area for the Pebble Mine. That's why—according to the Bristol Bay Defense Fund—the second step will be for Congress to declare the Bristol Bay region a National Fisheries Area and preserve it once and for all.
"Once we fix the immediate threat we can start a discussion about what long-term protection for this watershed is going to look like," says Brown. "In the 1970s, the state of Alaska withdrew almost the exact same area from oil and gas leasing, and the reason they did it was because they recognized there was an incredibly valuable fishery there. I think there is precedent for this kind of action. It's a common-sense approach to keep people in business out there."
According to Brown, implementing this kind of action is likely to take a long time. However, the legislation they're seeking in the short term could put a hard stop to the Pebble Mine.


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Call me crazy, but in a talent competition, I pretty much expect the best performer to win.
Sure, I know that one of the things that makes television reality television so compelling is that we never really know what's going to happen. But Sabrina Bryan getting eliminated from "Dancing With the Stars" wasn't just a puzzling twist — it was a downright travesty.
From day one, the girl could move like no one else in the competition, mastering her dances so completely that I was even starting to wonder if it was fair that she was in the competition.
This feeling was exacerbated by the fact that despite how hard I've tried, I still can't quite get to the bottom of what, exactly, a Cheetah Girl is.
I'm guessing that viewers had the same problem. Because while I can understand Mel, Jennie, Cameron and Helio moving forward — they're all solid performers who have been improving week by week — there's absolutely no argument for the fact that Marie Osmond or Jane Seymour has out-danced Sabrina.
It must simply come down to the fact that those ladies have a combined 72 years in the entertainment business while the Cheetah Girl came on the scene — well, now.
But that's certainly not the only travesty I witnessed this week. Over on "The Bachelor," good old Brad Womack endured being scrutinized by four different families as he tried to decide who he wanted to spend the rest of his life with (or at least a few months, or however long it takes for the couple to keep the charade going before people move on to caring about something else and they can just go ahead and break up).
While the most adorable girl had the most adorable family — DeAnna comes from a large Greek clan in Georgia and they all got drunk and danced like something out of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and for some reason, it didn't seem staged for the cameras — the other families left much to be desired.
Sure, Jenni's parents seemed sweet, but Brad didn't seem to be passing muster with Grandma, who was one tough lady. Then there was Sheena's mom, who seemed completely normal until she asked Brad his sign, and then all hell broke loose. She started talking about how Sheena may not be his one but she was "the" one, basically giving anyone who thinks crazy people all live in California plenty of fuel for that argument.
But Sheena's parents couldn't even begin to compete with Bettina's D.C.-based family, who basically shamed and attempted to humiliate Brad for having not graduated from college and for owning bars. Rather than apologize for their judgmental and cruel treatment of him, Bettina then informed him that they were making her have doubts about him as well.
So what does he do? He goes and picks Bettina to join DeAnna and Jenni in the final three. True, he may have been concerned that while Sheena seemed normal, future wackiness could definitely develop. But to not get Bettina off the show and out of his life after his hometown visit is just about the craziest thing I saw on reality TV this week.
Besides, of course, a certain show's best dancer being kicked to the curb.
Anna David is a freelance writer. Her novel, "Party Girl," is in stores now.


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Next week Josh Gelinske, Director of AI Systems at Appareo, will be presenting at the 4th International VDI Conference on Smart Farming 2020 in Düsseldorf, Germany. This conference is supported by national and international experts, bringing together over 100 thought leaders in agri-industry solutions.
Josh's presentation is titled Robust AI at the Edge – Grain Handling Quality Assurance Sensor. During his presentation he will discuss:
- The costly mistake of mixing different grain types
- Sensor architecture and data collection strategy
- AI for crop type image classification
- Ensuring robust outputs and confidence measures
- Seeing inside the "black box" Convolutional Neural Network model
If you would like more information about this conference, click here to visit the official website.


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When upgrading their homes, people tend to focus on the kitchen first -- and with good reason: even a minor kitchen remodel can recoup around 80% of its costs. One of the easiest yet most noticeable ways to make a change in the heart of your home is to upgrade its tiling. With the kitchen backsplash tiles being the most obvious region (it is pretty much eye level), it's the perfect place to start. There are dozens upon dozens of options and tile types, so we're just going to focus on our top three favorites.
- Mosaic: Although mosaic tile backsplashes are the most expensive, they are also, without doubt, the most beautiful. You can either create your own design or choose a layout from the manufacturer -- the choice is up to you. Mosaic tile backsplashes give you the freedom to display a unique work of art on the very walls of your home; the craftsmanship that goes into its beauty pays itself off over the years, as you continue to enjoy it every single day.
- Subway: Subway tile designs are, in a way, the exact opposite of mosaics, though not in an inherently negative way. They are simple but give the space a very clean, fresh look, and are considered one of the most timeless, classic types of backsplash in existence as they can match nearly any color scheme or design theme.
- Arabesque: If you've ever been to Europe or the Middle East, you may have noticed the artful and incredibly detailed way ceramic tiles were decorated -- endless rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage or tendrils graced the tiles in a repetitive, almost hypnotic manner. Large tiles are also very popular in today's market, so bringing the two together can transform your kitchen into something right out of European history.
No matter which option you settle on, remember to factor in an extra 10% of materials to make up for those that may need to be trimmed (not to mention accidents that may result in waste). With the right research and dedication, you'll have the kitchen of your dreams in no time.


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A few weeks ago I was part of a small group of PB'ers lucky enough to attend a SharePoint Saturday event held in Lisle, IL. Although I was not able to make it by 8AM, I was just in time for free lunch and a great session by Virgil Carrol, a head of Monkey Consulting specializing in MS SharePoint technologies, on SharePoint Information Architecture (IA) Silos. The session was about 3 hours long and covered lots of different topics on IA and its importance in today's business world.
Some of you may already know that IA is a field of IT that deals with the creation and distribution of content, knowledge, information, or any other kind of data experienced by a user through an interactive system. In the SharePoint world, that means the content hierarchy or classification, content priorities, labeling, and navigational pathways.
The most common mistake made in organizing content and designing sites is not thinking about their audiences. Does the site offer a unique service? Is it selling a product? Why would people come to it the very first time? Will they come back again? Answering these questions and gathering information on how people will use and view your site will help to reveal the true purpose of the site. This also happens to be one of the most important steps in IA and as such requires a very careful planning and execution.
There are many ways to gather this kind of information, but IA advocates that one of the most efficient ones is through a technique called card sorting. The main advantage of this approach is that it's very low-tech and only requires you to identify main concepts of the site and write them on simple index cards or post-it notes. These cards are then presented to a user group which sorts and arranges them in the way most familiar to them. The results are then analyzed to find any patterns and relationships in group classifications. Once the data is analyzed, it is then incorporated into the design of the system, either for navigation or for other purposes.
To most of us this process may seem very impractical in terms of time and skills needed in order to do it effectively. But this is slowly changing and proves time over time that in the long run well-executed IA can save a lot of time and money and substantially increase the value of an organization.
To demonstrate this, Virgil showed to us a very entertaining video of a student who was given a task to find a campus map on his school's web site. After several unsuccessful attempts the student was finally able to find the map, but it took him a whopping 3.5 minutes to do that. And his result was much better compared to other people whose time on average was 5 minutes and more. It just goes to show how important content organization and navigation are, and the difference between making people want to return to your site or them never coming back again.
All in all, the IA session and the entire event were very educational and eye-opening and I'm definitely looking forward to attending the next one.


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When items of special damage are claimed, they shall be specifically stated.
Advisory Commission Comments.
Rule 9 sets forth rules governing the pleading of several specific matters about which questions might arise. The Rule is not intended to create exceptions to the principles set out in Rule 8, but is rather an exemplification of those principles in specific situations. The requirement in Rule 9.02 - in averments of fraud or mistake the circumstances constituting fraud or mistake must be set forth with particularity - is not intended to require lengthy recital of detail. Rather, the Rule means only that general allegations of fraud and mistake are insufficient; the pleader is required to particularize, but by the "short and plain"statement required by Rule 8.01.