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Kat Slump is a junior studying IT innovation at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), a software engineering intern at Flywheel, a social engagement strategist at Interface Web School and the president of UNO's Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization.
She also recently received news that she will be heading to California this summer to intern at Apple Inc. as a software engineer.
This week we caught up with Kat at 13th Street Coffee in Omaha to talk about all things tech, innovation and how she manages to juggle it all.
AIM: When did you decide to get into IT?
KS: After a near-death experience when I was 15, my schedule for the following semester was all messed up, and I had to pick between a piano class or a computer programming course. I tried computer programming, and I ended up making this casino app. It was a visual basic slot machine, and I was so excited that I had made something and to show it to my friends. From there I kept going with AP courses in high school and later the IT Innovation Cup.
AIM: What motivated you to get involved with startups?
KS: I randomly applied for a position at Interface after my involvement with CEO Club, not knowing too much about it or what I was getting myself into (laughs). It was unique to be a tech student applying for a marketing job at Interface because I had the opportunity to market something that I believe in. From there, Shonna [Dorsey] became a huge mentor to me, and I went to tons of startup events and really tried to get involved.
AIM: What do you do with CEO Club?
KS: I actually found the startup community through UNO's professor Dr. Eesley who encouraged me to get involved in the CEO Club. The following semester I decided to run for the Chief Marketing Officer of the organization and I got it.
It's almost been like running a startup in itself because we've revamped a lot of things. We added a lot of technologies like Slack, MailChimp and Flock to add transparency and to help us with strategy within the organization. Our main mission this year is to bridge the gap between students and the local startup community.
Working for two startups, I'm able to see these opportunities first hand and connect students with local resources to help teach them about the branding, marketing and funding aspects that go into startups.
AIM: What piece of advice would you give someone who is working and going to school full time?
KS: Learning how to pull back and saying no to some things is very important. Also, if it's not in my Google calendar it's not happening. You have to prioritize, get organized and you have to give yourself a break sometimes. I get through it because I am doing something I love, so be passionate about what you do as well.
AIM: Why do you think it's important for more women to get involved in the IT field and what do you think is the best way to make it happen?
KS: Diversity is so important to innovation. You need to have the different thought processes, lifestyles and viewpoints come together to create innovative projects.
It's such an awesome time to be in the IT field, especially if you want to make an impact. I think there needs to be more women inspiring others by telling them about their experience and explaining the variety of opportunities there are out there.
AIM: What are you most excited about in the coming year?
KS: The internship at Apple has been a main goal for the last year and a half, so the fact that it's happening is a dream come true.
Last summer I visited some friends who were interning there, and they let me go to lunch with them. I was sitting with that group, and I said, 'I'm going to be here next year.' Some of them didn't know me so I don't think they took me seriously (laughs). But I'm so excited.
AIM: Do you think you'll stay in the Silicon Prairie?
KS: Yes, yes, yes! I'm totally coming back. I'm just trying to learn as much as I can right now, wherever that leads me. I want to come back and be a leader and inspiration to girls and women that are interested in the IT field.


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The Internet is robust. It's not dependent upon a single machine or cable. It's a network made up of other computer networks. It spans the globe. Connections cross over continents, under oceans and through space via satellites. And as the Internet has grown, so has our dependence upon it.
Connections across the Internet are flexible. When you use your computer to contact another machine on the Internet, the data could cross one of millions of pathways. Whenever you download a file, the file comes to your machine in electronic data packets that travel across the Internet. The packets don't all take the same path -- the traffic routes are dynamic. If a particular connection is damaged or unresponsive, the data can follow a different path to reach your machine.
This makes the Internet a reliable communications resource. Even if an entire section of the Internet were to go offline in the wake of a natural disaster or a nuclear attack, other sections could remain functional. While any data stored on machines that were hit by the disaster might be lost, the Internet itself would remain.
It's almost impossible to imagine a set of circumstances that could cause the Internet to collapse. It would require destruction on such a widespread scale that the loss of the Internet would probably be the least of our worries. But what if the Internet did collapse? How would that affect us? Would life change drastically or would we quickly adjust, relying on older means of communication?
Internet Collapse and Communication Errors
A world without the Internet would probably seem very strange to us now. Depending upon the nature of the disaster and how you defined the Internet, even basic services like text messaging or cell phone service could become unavailable. That's because the infrastructure for these services is also part of the Internet infrastructure. If you take this thought experiment to an extreme case, even the phone lines might not work since they, too, form part of the Internet's infrastructure.
Some cable and satellite services would be unavailable. You could still access television programming sent via broadcast towers if you had an antenna. But if the cable and satellite systems were part of the general collapse, you'd lose access to most channels.
You wouldn't be able to log on to social networking sites and services like Facebook or Twitter. You wouldn't be able to fire up an instant messaging service to check up on friends. Many of the tools we rely on to keep up with what our friends and family are doing would cease to exist. If the cell phone towers and telephone lines were also affected, we'd be reduced to writing letters and sending them through the post office.
Transferring files between computers would be difficult, too. You'd either need to store the files on some form of physical media like a compact disc or you'd need to connect the two computers with a physical cable. Projects that depend upon grid computing to make complex calculations wouldn't work either. Cloud computing services would also fail and the information you store on those services could become inaccessible.
The Economic Fallout of a Collapsed Internet
If the Internet did collapse somehow, the economic impact would be disastrous. While the loss of services like electronic banking or PayPal would be annoying, the effects would extend much further.
Think of the businesses that depend upon the Internet. Every Web site would be offline. Huge companies like Google or Amazon would become obsolete instantly. Other companies like Microsoft would see enormous sections of their operations disappear. Even companies that only use the Web as a means of advertisement would be adversely affected.
Assuming the collapse was either of a permanent or extended nature, many companies would go out of business. Hundreds of thousands of people would be out of a job. Google employs nearly 20,000 people alone [source: Google]. With hundreds of companies folding or cutting back on staff, the market would be flooded with people in need of a job.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, e-commerce accounted for 35 percent of all shipments from the manufacturing industry in 2007. That amounts to more than $1.8 trillion for that industry alone. When you extrapolate those numbers to all industries across the entire world, you'll see that commerce on the Internet is big business. If the Internet collapsed, multiple industries would experience an instant recession. There's no easy way to bounce back from a loss of trillions of dollars.
Some countries would feel the sting more than others. Developed countries would face severe economic crises as entire industry sectors either disappeared or struggled to survive in the wake of devastating losses. Other countries wouldn't suffer as many direct effects from the collapse because they don't have much of a presence on the Internet. But these countries would also suffer as the trade and aid they depend upon from other connected countries decreases.
Very few types of businesses would remain unaffected by the collapse of the Internet. The Internet has become pervasive in business.
Political Crises After the Internet Collapse
The economic fallout would probably be the primary crisis governments would face around the world if the Internet were to collapse. But that would just be one problem world leaders would face.
In the United States, there's a push to develop the power grids around the nation into a smart grid. Smart grids could theoretically respond to customer needs more efficiently, conserve power and communicate with one another over Internet connections. In theory, this system could reduce power outages and other problems. But if the Internet were to collapse, a smart grid would be crippled. Massive power outages could become a problem across any country using such a system.
As the Internet has become more pervasive, countries have used it to gather intelligence and to spy on one another. The loss of the Internet would be an enormous blow to intelligence agencies. Sharing information would become slow and difficult. Some governments might react to such a situation rashly. It's impossible to predict how each government would react; however, it's not hard to imagine a series of events that could escalate into a conflict.
Assuming world leaders could maintain order and resist the urge to blow each other up, other problems would surface. The Internet has become an important part of many educational programs. The loss of the Internet would leave a void that other resources would need to fill. Resources cost money -- something that would be in short supply as markets around the world try to recover from staggering losses.
In the United States, military organizations and some research institutions are part of networks that are similar to the Internet but are technically not part of the Internet itself. If these networks remained unaffected, at least some electronic communication and data transmission would be possible. But if our imaginary crisis extended all the way to these computer networks, the country would become vulnerable to all sorts of attacks.
Could the Internet collapse?
Here's the good news -- a total collapse of the Internet would be almost impossible. The Internet isn't a magic box with an on/off switch. It's not even a physical thing. It's a collection of physical things and it's constantly changing. The Internet isn't the same entity from one moment to the next -- machines are always joining or leaving the Internet.
It's possible for parts of the Internet to go offline. In fact, this happens all the time. Whether it's a particular server that crashes and needs to be rebooted or replaced or a cable under the ocean gets snagged by an anchor, there are events that can disrupt Internet service. But the effects tend to be isolated and temporary.
While there is such a thing as the Internet backbone -- a collection of cables and servers that carry the bulk of data across various networks -- it's not centralized. There's no plug you could pull out from a socket or a cable you could cut that would cripple the Internet. For the Internet to experience a global collapse, either the protocols that allow machines to communicate would have to stop working for some reason or the infrastructure itself would have to suffer massive damage.
Since the protocols aren't likely to stop working spontaneously, we can rule out that eventuality. As for the massive damage scenario -- that could happen. An asteroid or comet could collide with the Earth with enough force to destroy a significant portion of the Internet's infrastructure. Overwhelming gamma radiation or electromagnetic fluctuations coming from the sun might also do the trick. But in those scenarios, the Earth itself would become a lifeless hulk. At that stage it hardly matters whether or not you can log in to MySpace.
The positive way to look at this is to realize that the men and women who helped design the Internet created an amazing tool that's remarkably stable. Even when sections of the Internet have a technical hiccup, the rest carries on with business as usual. While the collapse of the Internet would be a catastrophic event, it's not one you need to worry about.
Learn more by following the links on the next page.
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- Ackerman, Ernest and Hartman, Karen. "Internet and Web Essentials: What You Need to Know." Franklin Beedle & Associates. 2000.
- Boavida, Fernando et al. "Wired/Wireless Internet Communications." Springer. June, 2007.
- Budde Comm. "Global Digital Economy - E-Commerce & M-Commerce Trends & Statistics." Oct. 27, 2009. (Feb. 2, 2010) http://www.budde.com.au/Research/Global-Digital-Economy-E-Commerce-M-Commerce-Trends-Statistics.html?r=51#overview
- Compaine, Benjamin M. "Communications Policy in Transition: The Internet and Beyond (Telecommunications Policy Research Conference)." The MIT Press. November 2001.
- Google. "Google, Inc." (Feb. 4, 2010) http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:GOOG
- Internet World Stats. "Usage and Population Statistics." Jan. 1, 2010. (Feb. 2, 2010) http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
- Small Business Research Board. "Internet Law: E-commerce Statistics in the United States." Internet Business Law Services. Sept. 26, 2007. (Feb. 2, 2010) http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?id=1861&s=latestnews
- U.S. Census Bureau. "E-Stats." May 28, 2009. (Feb. 2, 2010) http://www.census.gov/econ/estats/2007/2007reportfinal.pdf

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P.T. Barnum worked with many performers. Perhaps the most famous was the diminutive General Tom Thumb. Barnum also promoted Swedish singer Jenny Lind, but his biggest act was Jumbo the Elephant, an African elephant he bought from the London Zoo.
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The "Nairobi incident"
On June 11, 1988, a mysterious figure appeared suddenly at a Christian meeting outside Nairobi, Kenya. Instantly recognized by many as Jesus, he addressed a crowd of six thousand and healed dozens. He promised to return with more blessings and then he was reported disappearing into thin air while leaving the area.
The incident was witnessed by an editor of the Kenya Times and captured on film. Job Mutungi's subsequent report generated worldwide attention, supporting already existing claims about the return of the Christ.
The following are reproductions of Mutungi's story and related themes from issues of the Kenya Times (now defunct). They are offered here to promote the historiographical investigation of similar events across religions.
Job Mutungi's story:
Kenya Times, vol. 2, no. 111, Wednesday 22 June 1988, pp. 16–17.
The "skeptical backlash":
Sunday Times (Kenya), vol. 2, no. 19, 26 June 1988, pp. 12, 17.
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The Kookiest Chinese Copies, from PompiDON'T to WRONGchamp. Sex and Real Estate, Reconsidered: What Was the True Story Behind Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House? In 1951, Mies van der Rohe completed a house in Plano, Illinois that was the epitome of his modernist ideals; with a steel structure surrounded entirely by glass walls the building perfectly connected the user with its idyllic natural setting, and it was - and is - venerated as a masterwork.
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Your wedding ceremony
A guide to what will happen on your wedding day.
Before the ceremony
To make sure everything goes ahead on time and without any hitches, please make sure that you and your guests arrive at least 15 minutes before the time of your wedding.
Remember to make allowances for traffic delays, parking and any pre-wedding photographs and inform your guests of this.
Before the ceremony, the Registrar who will be registering the marriage will see both partners privately to check that the details to be entered into the marriage register are correct. You can be seen either individually or together, whichever you prefer. This is also an opportunity for you to ask any last minute questions.
After these checks have been made we can then proceed with your wedding ceremony.
The ceremony
"Our Registrar was professional, welcoming, friendly and very reassuring. After we had our photos developed we noticed in the background she was beaming. This in itself illustrates that the service we received from Oxfordshire Registration Service was excellent and much appreciated. Thank you from us both."
Saying "I do" in front of family and friends can be a nerve-racking event, but the Registrars will be on hand to help you every step of the way. They will guide you through everything you need to do or say, so there is no need to worry about forgetting your lines or doing things in the wrong order!
Once you, your guests and your witnesses are seated the ceremony will begin with a welcome by the Registrar. The couple will be asked, in turn, to repeat a number of solemn declarations. These will include the choices you have made for your legal declarations and contracting words (your vows) and your promises.
After you have made your marriage contract you and your witnesses will sign the marriage register. Once this has been done the Registrars will sign the register and will present you with your marriage certificate.
If you would like additional copies of your marriage certificate these can be provided, but they may have to be posted to you depending on how many you would like and the other appointments the registrars need to keep on the day.
There will be an opportunity for you to pose with a Register prior to being presented with your marriage certificate. If you would like official pictures during the ceremony, you need to discuss this with the registrar first. Video recordings are allowed, but please let the registrar know this before the ceremony.
Some wedding venues have restrictions on confetti, so please discuss this with the registrar conducting your ceremony and the staff at the venue.
Format of the ceremony
- Pre-arrival music
- Entrance music
- Welcome
Arrival and presentation
- Legal statements
Reading option
- Legal declarations (to be selected from options)
Reading option
- Rings, promises and contracting words (see options for contracting words and suggestions for promises)
Signing music
- Signing of register (signing music)
- Photographs
Reading option
- Presentation of the marriage certificate and conclusion
- Exit music
(You may substitute a reading for music)
Example text from a wedding ceremony
Example ceremony text
Could I ask you all to stand for the entrance of the bridal party.
Please be seated.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. May I begin by welcoming you all here today to the lovely setting of the Law Hotel, and in particular to the Garden Room, to the marriage of Reg and Rose. Today marks a new beginning in their lives together and it means a lot to both of them that you, their family and friends, are here to witness their wedding vows and celebrate their marriage.
Nigel and I are delighted to be here with you to share in this special celebration. We do so hope that today will be a happy and memorable day for you both. A very important relationship is that between a loving father and his daughter and it is during a wedding ceremony that this relationship is acknowledged.
Today John shows his love for Rose and therefore I ask him: Who presents this woman to be married to this man?
"I do"
Marriage is a desire by two people to share themselves and their experiences with each other, and a willingness to accept each other for who they are. It is making a commitment to friendship and mutual respect and calls for honesty, patience, courage and of course, humour. Marriage is where each partner is there to support each other in all that they do.
Marriage requires closeness and distance – the closeness of a couple growing together and enough distance to allow each partner to be an individual. A good partner in such a marriage will be loving, caring and above all a best friend.
Reading 1 - 'The art of a good marriage' - Pippa
It is one of my duties to inform you that this room in which we are now met has been duly sanctioned according to law for the celebration of marriages. You are here to witness the joining in marriage of Reginald Simon Ring and Rose Mary Bouquet. If any person present knows of any lawful impediment why these two people may not be joined in marriage he or she should declare it now.
Could I ask you both to stand please, and hold hands.
Before you are joined in matrimony here today I have to remind you both of the solemn and binding character of the vows you are about to make. Marriage in this country means the union of two people, voluntarily entered into for life, to the exclusion of all others.
These vows which unite you constitute a formal and public pledge of your love for one another. I am now going to ask each of you in turn to declare that you do not know of any legal reason why you should not be joined in marriage to each other.
Groom please repeat after me:
"I do solemnly declare / that I know not / of any lawful impediment / why I Reginald Simon Ring may not be joined in matrimony / to Rose Mary Bouquet."
Bride please repeat after me:
"I do solemnly declare/ that I know not / of any lawful impediment/why I Rose Mary Bouquet/ may not be joined in matrimony / to Reginald Simon Ring."
Reading 2 -'There is no way to tell you' - John
Now the solemn moment has come for these Reg and Rose to contract their marriage before you their witnesses, families and friends – so can I ask you all to stand please and join together for the celebration of their marriage.
Reg - Will you take Rose to be your wedded wife, to share your life with her to love support and comfort her whatever the future may bring?
"I will."
I call upon these persons here present / to witness that I Reginald Simon Ring/do take thee Rose Mary Bouquet/ to be my lawful wedded wife.
Rose - Will you take Reg to be your wedded husband, to share your life with him to love support and comfort him whatever the future may bring?
"I will."
I call upon these persons here present / to witness that I Rose Mary Bouquet/do take thee Reginald Simon Ring /to be my lawful wedded husband.
Two rings to be placed on cushion - Horace to pass
It is an ancient tradition for a bride and groom to exchange rings: this giving and receiving of rings symbolises the continuity of their relationship and the sharing of their lives together. A wedding ring is an unbroken circle which symbolises an unending and everlasting love, and we would ask you to wear your wedding rings as an outward sign of lifelong vows and promises that you have both made to each other today.
Groom takes bride's ring and places it on her finger and says:
"I give you this ring as a symbol of our marriage and as a token of my love, trust and commitment. I promise to care for you above all others, to give you my love, friendship and support and to respect and cherish you throughout our lives together."
Bride takes groom's ring and places it on his finger and repeats:
"I give you this ring as a symbol of our marriage and as a token of my love. I promise that I will respect you as an individual, support you through difficult times, rejoice with you through happy times, be loyal always, and above all, love you as my husband and friend."
Reg and Rose you have both made the declarations prescribed by law and have made a solemn and binding contract with each other in the presence of the witnesses here assembled. It therefore gives me the greatest honour and privilege to announce that you are now husband and wife together.
(Invite groom to kiss bride)
Please be seated while the register is signed.
Photographs and music
Reading 3 - 'Today is the day' - Matthew (aged 9)
Bride and groom to stand.
To conclude the ceremony, Nigel, the Registrar, will now present the bride and groom with their marriage certificate.
Can I be the first to congratulate you both on your marriage. May I wish you both a wonderful day today, a very long and happy marriage and all the very best for your future lives together. Congratulations Mr and Mrs Ring.


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Choosing the right Costa Rica fishing charter is naturally very important. The tourism sector in Costa Rica is well developed and there exists a wide range of different Costa Rica fishing charter operations of varying quality.
Costa Rica Fishing Charters
Some will cater only for a small part of Costa Rica, e.g. a short stretch of a particular river, while others arrange trips over the entire country or even into nearby Central American states. Both types of Costa Rica fishing charter operations naturally have their own charm. If you choose a small Costa Rica fishing charter company that focuses on a limited region, they will typically have an in-depth understanding of that particular area. If you on the other hand choose a larger trip arranger, it can cater for all your needs and arrange a fishing trip that takes you to several different destinations. Before you make up your mind and book a Costa Rica fishing trip, it is advisable to contact several Costa Rica fishing charter companies. Take advantage of their knowledge and do not be shy when it comes to asking questions about your future trip.
Costa Rica Fishing Charters The Price
Asking about the prices is naturally very important when you are in the process of choosing a Costa Rica fishing charter company. Do not assume that the prices on their webpage or in their folders are up to date. The prices can have changed and might be higher as well as lower. If you are a larger group travelling together, you might be able to negotiate a better price. The same is true if you want to stay longer than normal, participate in many fishing excursions or have the Costa Rica fishing charter take you to several different destinations. Keep in mind that lowering the actual price isnt everything. In many situations it is much easier to get things for free rather than lowering the price. You might be able to get meals for free if you stay at a certain lodge, have all the transportation included in the price, get a discount on equipment and so on.
The Fish
If you want to catch certain fish species during your trip, you should discus this with the Costa Rica fishing charter company at an early stage. Certain species might only be in season during certain months, or might regularly travel from one part of the country to another. Costa Rica is home to a wide range of migratory fish species that spend time out in the ocean as well as in jungle rivers.
The Boat and the Equipment
The boat and the equipment are naturally very important for your Costa Rica fishing adventure. Always ask the Costa Rica fishing charter company about their fleet and equipment before you book any trip. If you want to engage in deep sea fishing, you will for instance need access to a large and sturdy boat that can safely venture into open water. If you on the other hand want to go fishing in jungle rivers, a completely different type of boat will be necessary.
The Weather and the Water
Since the weather and water conditions affect a lot of fish species, a reputable Costa Rica fishing charter company will have extensive knowledge about these factors. They will be able to inform you about current as well as historical weather and water conditions, and keep you updated on the latest forecast. Do not hesitate to ask questions about currents, underwater visibility, temperatures, winds and tides.


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On Saturday, the boys ran in their first Spartan races. These are obstacle course runs; Ethan ran a 1-mile course and Micah did a 1/2 mile one.
Ethan's obstacles included things like sand bag carrying, climbing over various walls, doing box jumps, throwing a spear, and running through mud pits. Mike ran down the hill to catch videos and pictures of the part of the course that was down in the valley.
Micah's obstacles included much of the same things, but his course didn't go down into the valley like Ethan's had, so we were able to see everything he did. If you even know a smidgen of his story, you know how much we've been praising God for the healing He has done in Micah's heart. It's been such a thrill to watch him try new things with a whole lot less anxiety!
We are SO proud of them for doing something so hard all on their own. They had a blast and both want to do more races in the future!


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In what might just be one of the best tours of the fall, Trophy Eyes have announced their first-ever North American headlining tour, with support from Free Throw and Head North.
To celebrate the band's momentous occasion, we caught up with Trophy Eyes vocalist John Floreani to talk more about their forthcoming tour, the band's favorite parts about visiting North America and what we have to look forward to.
Read more: From Trophy Eyes' John Floreani's POV: What you miss when you're wishing for something else
Trophy Eyes are supporting their 2016 record Chemical Miracle, which Floreani explains has truly been a game changer for them.
"We had an EP and a record out before Chemical Miracle, and we were proud of them. But we never really felt like we got it right," Floreani says. "Chemical Miracle is the first time we really achieved our sound as a band. The record came out and people liked it. It's definitely changed our lives, especially here at home. People care, people come to shows and the response has been crazy, and we couldn't be happier or more grateful."
The band will be kicking off the tour Nov. 24 in Seattle, rounding off the tour Dec. 17 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Tickets are currently available here, and you can see the full list of cities and dates below.
This is your first-ever North American headlining tour. How stoked are you guys on that?
Super stoked. It's always been a dream, ever since we were little kids, to get to the States. We wrote some shitty songs and ended up being able to go to America, actually play there and find out people care about us. We've done support tours and a couple of Warped Tours now, and it's a dream come true to finally be in a spot where we can host our own show and invite people that enjoy our music to come and see us. It's really something else. It's a lot of hard work, dedication and persistence, and it's paid off with the chance to play our album to people who want to listen to it. It's really exciting.
Like you said, you're not strangers to the U.S. by any means. What's your favorite part about touring North America?
I like how every state is totally different—it's really cool. It's such a cool thing to go one state over, and the people have a different accent, countryside or food. You know, you don't get a Philly cheesesteak from anywhere else but Philadelphia because it sucks. I fucked up and I tried a Philly cheesesteak in Buffalo [New York], and it was one of the worst things I've ever had in my life. [Laughs.] Every state in America is like a different little country, and it's incredible. I love the people, and we've got so many friends now.
Not to give anything away, of course, but are there any surprises up your sleeve that fans can anticipate for your upcoming tour?
We have some things up our sleeves. This next thing is a big deal for us. We're all really stoked. I can't tell you exactly what it is, though…
And you'll be hitting the road with Free Throw and Head North. How excited are you to be hitting the road with these bands in particular?
Super stoked. I like all the bands on the tour. These are some of the standout bands in this scene that I really do appreciate. Especially Free Throw—"Two Beers In" is such a great track. It was our soundcheck on a couple of our American tours. All these guys have got great new content out. America is going to want to see them, too, so it's really going to help give us a welcome for our first headlining tour. I'm so happy they're coming. I love all those guys.
For someone who isn't as familiar with Trophy Eyes, what would you recommend they check out to get a feel for the band?
We'll be playing primarily our new record on this next tour because we want to show everybody this new thing we wrote, so I would say listen to "Chlorine." It's got a little bit of everything in there: slow, fast, heavy, sad, fun, whatever. And the music video has a cute dog in it, so you should watch that, too.
If you could sum up your live show experience, what would that be?
When we first started, it used to be like, "Everybody drink as much as you can and do as much ridiculous shit as you can." But we wrote some more mature songs, so it's a high energy, high intensity, extremely emotional experience. It's a place to come and exude all of those shitty feelings and anxieties and your shitty work week and just say, "Fuck yeah, I belong here."
You'll likely have some long drives, so embarrassing or not: What guilty pleasure artist or band do you like to listen to on a long drive?
I've never really felt guilty about the weird shit I listen to. Some people are like, "Oh, don't tell anybody, but I really like that new Justin Bieber record," and I'm like, "Dude, that record is fucking awesome. It was a really good record." [Laughs.] I'm a firm believer that if it's good, you should listen to it.
So what would be the most unexpected?
Unexpected? The song "The Night Is Still Young" by Nicki Minaj. It has the biggest, best produced chorus I've heard since I can remember. When I hear the song, I'll put it on and play it literally 15 times, just one after another. I remember one time I was at our drummer Callum [Cramp]'s house, and I was like, "Dude, you have to listen to this," and we watched it three times, one after another. Then we watched a live version of it, and we watched the original version of it like three more times. That would be the song—it's fantastic.
Anything else we didn't touch on?
If I could add one thing, it would be: If you're reading this, bring me food to the venue. It has to be the best favorite local place.
11/24 – Seattle, WA @ The Funhouse
11/25 – Portland, OR @ Analog Lounge
11/26 – Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone
11/27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echo
11/28 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
11/29 – San Diego, CA @ The Irenic
11/30 – Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge
12/02 – Dallas, TX @ Dirty 30
12/03 – Houston, TX @ Walters
12/05 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
12/06 – Nashville, TN @ The End
12/07 – Columbus, OH @ Woodlands Tavern
12/08 – Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
12/09 – Cleveland, OH @ Mahalls
12/10 – Toronto, ON @ The Hard Luck
12/12 – Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place
12/13 – Boston, MA @ Sonia
12/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bazaar
12/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
12/16 – Washington D.C. @ DC9
12/17 – Asbury Park, NJ @ House Of Independents


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On 1 January 2019, an estimated 395,072 babies were born. As life persisted at midnight on New Year's Day, UNICEF dispatched 12 photographers in ten time zones to capture the world's future.
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Finding malicious code is not too difficult if you have a fingerprint or signature to look for. Traditional signature-based antivirus tools have been doing this effectively for years. But malware often morphs, adapts and evolves to hide itself, and a simple one-to-one match no longer is adequate.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing guidance for a technique called approximate matching to help automate the task of identifying suspicious code that otherwise would fall to human analysts. The draft document is based on work of NIST's Approximate Matching Working Group.
"Approximate matching is a promising technology designed to identify similarities between two digital artifacts," the draft of Special Publication 800-168 says. "It is used to find objects that resemble each other or to find objects that are contained in another object."
The technology can be used to filter data for security monitoring and for digital forensics, when analysts are trying to spot potential bad actors either before or after a security incident.
Approximate matching is a generic term describing any method for automating the search for similarities between two digital artifacts or objects. An "object" is an "arbitrary byte sequence, such as a file, which has some meaningful interpretation."
Humans can understand the concept of similarity intuitively, but defining the aspects of similarity for algorithms can be challenging. In approximate matching, similarity is defined for algorithms in terms of the characteristics of artifacts being examined. These characteristics can include byte sequences, internal syntactic structures or more abstract semantic attributes similar to what human analysts would look for.
Different methods for approximate matching operate at different levels of abstraction. These range from generic techniques at the lowest level to detect common byte sequences, to more abstract analysis that approach the level of human evaluation. "The overall expectation is that lower level methods would be faster, and more generic in their applicability, whereas higher level ones would be more targeted and require more processing," the document explains.
Approximate matching uses two types of queries: resemblance and containment. Two successive versions of a piece of code are likely to resemble each other, and a resemblance query simply identifies two pieces of code that are substantially similar. With a containment query, two objects of substantially different size, such as a file and a whole-disk image, are examined to determine whether the smaller object, or something similar to it, is contained in the large one.
As described in the document, approximate matching usually is used to filter data, as in blacklisting known malicious artifacts or anything closely resembling them. "However, approximate matching is not nearly as useful when it comes to whitelisting artifacts, as malicious content can often be quite similar to benign content," NIST warns.
The publication lays out essential requirements of approximate matching functions as well as the factors—including sensitivity and robustness, precision and recall and security—that determine the reliability of the results.
Comments on the publication should be sent by March 21 to email@example.com with "Comments on SP 800-168" in the subject.
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Bio-IT World shows what is possible and what is being accomplished...last week I took the subway downtown and crossed the two wind- and rain-whipped bridges that the city of Boston built to connect to the World Trade Center. I mingled for a day with attendees and exhibitors to find what data-related challenges they're facing and what the latest solutions are. Here are some of the major themes I turned up...
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache cTAKES™ As A Top-Level Project
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache cTAKES has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. Read More »
The State of Open Source in South Korea
Open source software is growing exponentially all around the world, and South Korea is a vital part of that trend. While most South Korean open source projects don't get the international attention that projects from the Apache Foundation, the Linux Foundation, and similar organizations receive, they are making significant contributions to mobility, artificial intelligence, web technologies, and other areas. Samsung may be the best-known South Korean company working in open source, but Naver, Kakao, Coupang, and others are also writing important open source software and maintaining their projects on GitHub.
VA Researching Natural Language Processing In EHRs To Prevent Suicide
The U.S. Department of Veterans affairs is researching the use of natural language processing within its electronic health records system to automate suicide risk alerts.
Why Electronic Health Records Aren't More Usable
Federal government incentives worth about $30 billion have persuaded the majority of physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic health record (EHR) systems over the past few years. However, most physicians do not find EHRs easy to use. Physicians often have difficulty entering structured data in EHRs, especially during patient encounters. The records are hard to read because they're full of irrelevant boilerplates generated by the software and lack individualized information about the patient...
Why the Touchstone Project is so important to HL7 FHIR
The AEGIS Touchstone Test Platform, launched at the most recent HL7 FHIR Connectathon in Atlanta, Georgia in October 2015, provides the means to help guide FHIR implementations toward a high degree of conformance and interoperability within a continuous testing and integration model. As stated by HL7 CEO Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, "A successful testing program also provides FHIR development teams at HL7 with the essential infrastructure that is critical for all of our stakeholders."


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Jon and Jen are done
After 18 years together, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt have officially called it quits. While this may be surprising to some, there were unofficial reports a couple months back that they had ended things. At least now Sandra Bullock isn't to blame.
"With great sadness, we have decided to separate, after 18 years of love and shared history," the couple told People in a joint statement. "We will continue to be supportive of each other in every way possible moving forward." Yep, we're just as sad now as we were in July when the rumours first surfaced.
Beyoncé got the cutest birthday card
Happy belated, Bey! She may have received millions of birthday wishes for her 34th year but the best one came from daughter Blue Ivy.
Bey also shared on her website the gifts her nearest and dearest gave her: a list of super-personal song dedications. There are a ton there but the two that stood out were from Blue and Jay Z. So freakin' sweet.
The Rock saved new adopted puppy from drowning
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson may save lives on the big screen but turns out he's quick to take action in real life too. The actor adopted two French Bulldog puppies and within hours of bringing them home sweet home, he ended up having to rescue one of them from his pool. And of course the king of hashtags Instagrammed the almost-gory details.
Here's a fun Labor Day weekend story… We just decided to add two new members to our Johnson family. Baby French Bulldogs. In my right hand is BRUTUS and in my left hand is HOBBS. Bring them home and immediately take them outside so they can start learning how to "handle their business and potty like big boys". I set them both down and they both take off in a full sprint and fall right into the deep end of our pool. HOBBS immediately starts doggy paddling while BRUTUS (like a brick) sink heads first to the bottom of the pool. I take off into a full sprint, fully clothed, dive in the pool, swim to the bottom, rescue my brick, I mean BRUTUS and bring him back to the edge of the pool. He was a little delirious.. took a moment, threw up all the water he swallowed and looked up at me as if to say, "Thank God you didn't have to give me mouth to mouth!" and then ran off to play with his brother. A few lessons I've learned today.. A) Not all puppies have the instinct to doggie paddle. B) Some puppies (like BRUTUS) will be so in shock by experiencing water they will sink extremely fast so react quick. C) While spiriting to save your puppies life, before you dive in, try and throw your cel phone to safety. Don't keep it in your pocket… like I did. #BRUTUSLives #HOBBSCanSwim #MyCelPhonesDead #AndNoMouthToMouthNeeded #HappyLaborDay A photo posted by therock (@therock) on
The Rock — our hero.
Robin Williams' daughter posted an inspiring message
It's been just over a year since the death of Robin Williams and to this day it's still hard to believe he's gone. The late actor's daughter, Zelda Williams, shared a touching message about sadness and grief, asking those who are suffering from depression to "hold on to the possibility of hope."
Moonrise on the lake 🌕 I spent this night shivering and laughing under a clear, cold sky full of stars with people I love just to witness something beautiful. We mooned the moon and laughed ourselves hoarse, and I'm so incredibly grateful for every silly second. I came to a realization this year that I feel compelled to share here, for whomsoever may need it: Avoiding fear, sadness or anger is not the same thing as being happy. I live my sadness every day, but I don't resent it anymore. Instead, I do it now so that the wonderful moments of joy I do find are not in order to forget, but to inhabit and enjoy for their own sake. It's not easy. In fact, I'd say it takes much more effort to consciously do than it does to just stay sad, but with all my heart, I cannot tell you how worth it it is. And for those suffering from depression, I know how dark and endless that tunnel can feel, but if happiness seems impossible to find, please hold on to the possibility of hope, faint though it may be. Because I promise you, there're enough nights under the same yellow moon for all of us to share, no matter how or when you find your way there.
Two months after her father's death, Zelda tweeted about trying to "end the stigma" surrounding mental illness and the day after he died, she took to her Tumblr page to remember him. His memory will live on and remind us that everything is not what it seems.
This is why Khloe is our favourite
What's better — Compton or Kris Jenner? Khloe Kardashian posed with sisters Kim, Kourtney, Kendall and Kylie and used the meme generator that was created by Beats by Dre to promote the blockbuster hit, Straight Outta Compton. (Pfft. As if the movie needed promoting.)
Ha!! Khloe may be the only smiling but that's not to say the rest of us don't find this hilarious.


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Metaliteracy – Week 2 – Creating and sharing a social identity
Week 2 of the Metaliteracy course is entitled "Creating and Sharing a Social Identity" and after the enjoyable first week's materials, I was looking forward to seeing what nuances would crop up this week. The video for the week was a short animated feature showing a young woman interviewing for a job, and while the interview went well, the hiring manager googled her after the interview to see what her online presence looked like. The hiring manager found no LinkedIn account, found a recent tweet she posted saying she "nailed the interview", and some old tweets complaining about her job, and about hating people and her boss. So the hiring manager moved on. The "lesson learned", as intended, is that people should think about the persona they project online and the impact it can have on your professional life.
And as I went through the week's readings, and other materials, I seriously hoped that there was going to be more to the week's offerings than a 1970s-style guidance counselor advising young girls to watch their image (don't worry, there is more than that!). A hiring manager who was more up to date in their thinking could just have easily seen her lack of a LinkedIn profile as innovative (not doing the same as everyone else, particularly if she's active on another platform) and there are those who view LinkedIn as old and stodgy. Equally, the tweet saying "Nailed It" could just as easily be seen as a positive sign, projecting confidence and a strong desire to work there. And finally, the tweets about the old place she worked? Not ideal necessarily, but it explains why she's looking for a new job that is better suited to what she wants to do. I might tend to agree that posting negative things about your work or boss aren't the best idea on Twitter, but I wouldn't feel the same about sharing thoughts on Facebook with a smaller circle of friends and coworkers with strong privacy settings. The whole video completely seemed too simplistic and one-dimensional. More like an "after school special" designed by my grandmother.
In the readings, one of the first ones starts with seeing what you can find out about yourself online i.e. Go Google Yourself! The article is public, https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/how-to-google-yourself-effectivelywhat-to-do-about-it/23035, and quite interesting, albeit eight years old. I share the same name as an US politician, so almost all of Google is dominated by his stuff. If you append my city after my name, my twitter feed comes up as the first link. A couple of comments on FB pages and an old comment on a newspaper site show up too. But you are almost to the end of the first page before you see a link to this website, and even then it is just because I have a subarea devoted to an old HR conference that I helped host, and the pages include all the organizers' names, including mine. My website domain is obviously NOT my personal name, just the PolyWogg nickname and I don't list my name on it too widely, for a couple of reasons.
First and foremost, it's not really needed. I don't hide it, but I don't see any reason to shout out my full name either and attract spam. Second, I had a bad experience once where someone disagreed with something I said in a discussion forum online about the public service, and her way of trying to "shut me down" was to post my home phone number and address in the forum, along with my work info. It didn't stop me from pointing out the fallacies in her approach and people laughing her out of the room so to speak, but I also don't need crackpots looking me up in the phonebook either.
Third, sometimes when I'm blogging, I talk about thing related to being a public servant, and while I don't think anything I say gets me in any dangerous areas for my duty of loyalty to the government (in fact, I'm more often defending something by explaining it, not attacking), some parts of the legal test are how identifiable the link is between you personally and your position within the government. Since I don't actively advertise my name, just my PolyWogg nickname, it's a partial link that is broken. Of course, anyone with a WHOIS capability can look up who the domain is registered to, so I'm not trying to be anonymous. But I'm not actively advertising either.
I found the second article (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/19/online-identity-authenticity-anonymity) debating anonymity and authenticity both off-base six years after it was written and eerily prescient in some of the quotes about the tension between those who want to stamp out anonymity to kill the trolls vs those who deny authenticity is even possible (i.e., that FB and Instagram feeds are NOT real life but rather a cross between a censored version that is usually more positive than reality or a wishful thinking world of what you want your life to be like now).
The third article from 2013 (https://gizmodo.com/how-to-erase-yourself-from-the-internet-1456270634) talks about killing your Google+, FB, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts to get rid of a large part of your online presence, but as I said, I have three of those, and my search didn't even turn those ones up, other than Twitter. And the site that knows the most about me right now? Amazon, hands down.
The second half of the week is focused more on privacy and protecting one's data, and the readings aren't bad (a bit paranoid in some places, but not bad). https://www.privacyrights.org/consumer-guides/online-privacy-using-internet-safely has some online guides written for newbies.
For the assignment / discussion for the week, the focus was on:
- writing a short biography of yourself from your googling (I talked about my dual identity, once under my own name and once as PolyWogg);
- reviewing the privacy policies of a social media platform and the implications for you (I did Twitter); and,
- looking at a poverty project that shared rather stark photos of people in Troy New York that went viral and which received a lot of backlash (https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Churchill-An-unflattering-portrait-of-poverty-in-5649292.php).
Overall, not a bad week. But I don't know that I feel any more "empowered" in my metaliteracy for considering whether your online persona is really, well, you?