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Mariners rookie Elias proves too much for Yanks
NEW YORK -- The Yankees might have thought they caught a break when heavy downpours pushed Felix Hernandez's start back a day, saving them a look at the former American League Cy Young Award winner. They weren't counting on Roenis Elias to be a pretty tough customer in his own right.
Elias, a 25-year-old rookie from Cuba, showcased an impressive curveball and struck out 10 as the Mariners defeated the Yankees, 4-2, on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium, completing a sweep of a weather-abbreviated two-game series.View Full Game Coverage
NEW YORK -- The Yankees might have thought they caught a break when heavy downpours pushed Felix Hernandez's start back a day, saving them a look at the former American League Cy Young Award winner. They weren't counting on Roenis Elias to be a pretty tough customer in his own right.
Elias, a 25-year-old rookie from Cuba, showcased an impressive curveball and struck out 10 as the Mariners defeated the Yankees, 4-2, on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium, completing a sweep of a weather-abbreviated two-game series.View Full Game Coverage
"He threw the ball well," Derek Jeter said. "He's not a typical lefty where he's up there trying to trick you. He gets it up there pretty good, and when he gets ahead, he's got a strikeout pitch. He was better than us today."
Jacoby Ellsbury hit his first home run in a Yankees uniform and Brian McCann knocked in a run with a sixth-inning single to account for the production against Elias, who scattered six hits over seven innings in the sharpest of his six big league efforts to date.
Elias had been scheduled to pitch before the rain came on Wednesday, and the Mariners elected to stick with him, saving King Felix to see the Astros on Friday. The scuffling Yanks managed just four at-bats with runners in scoring position as they lost for the third time in five games.
"I don't make too much of it in the first month of the season, but obviously the consistency of the offense is important for us," manager Joe Girardi said. "I believe it's going to get better as the year goes on, but right now we're struggling to score runs, and every team goes through that."
The Yankees' starting pitching was a strength through the first few weeks of the season, but it has since developed into a legitimate concern following a season-ending injury to Ivan Nova and the loss of Michael Pineda for at least three weeks.
Masahiro Tanaka has been electric, but he'll need some help. With CC Sabathia also having been knocked around early this year, Hiroki Kuroda didn't do much to assuage the Yanks' worries on Thursday, as the 39-year-old was tagged with his second consecutive loss.
"I think my split was inconsistent," Kuroda said through an interpreter. "There were some good pitches, but the ones that got hit were bad pitches. ... I think right now because the results are not there, there's a part of me that may be thinking too much."
Coming off an outing in which he allowed eight runs (six earned) by the Angels, Kuroda this time permitted four runs (three earned) and seven hits over six innings, still struggling with his consistency.
"Well, he didn't pitch horribly tonight," Girardi said. "I think tonight was an improvement. I think it's a step in the right direction."
Kuroda had some early support on Ellsbury's homer, which marked the Yankees' first leadoff shot since Aug. 21, 2012, when Jeter homered to start a game against the White Sox's Francisco Liriano in Chicago. But Elias bounced back to strike out the next three Yanks, a sign of the performance to come.
"I thought he used his fastball and his curveball really effectively," Girardi said. "He got a number of strikeouts on his curveball tonight. He has pretty good stuff, that young man. We saw up to 94 [mph] and a pretty effective curveball."
The boos did not seem quite as plentiful this time around for Robinson Cano, who played his second game as a visitor in the Bronx and drove in a pair of runs, extending his hitting streak to nine games with a 1-for-4 showing.
Cano touched a shaky Kuroda for a run-scoring double in the first inning and picked up another RBI in the third inning, connecting for a fielder's choice that drove in Brad Miller after the Seattle shortstop reached on a ball that glanced off a charging Jeter, ruled an error.
"It bounced up," Jeter said. "It's a do-or-die play because you can't really wait. He didn't hit it particularly hard, so you go and get it; an in-between hop and I didn't get it."
Miller dug out a splitter to flare a run-scoring single in front of left fielder Brett Gardner, padding Seattle's lead in the fourth inning, and Michael Saunders followed with a ground-rule RBI double to left-center that hopped the wall.
"You look at the ball Saunders hit; it was off the plate," Girardi said. "They put some balls in play that weren't necessarily strikes when he was expanding the zone, and so I think you've got to say they did a good job in that sense."
The ground-rule double saved Kuroda and the Yankees a run, sending Miller back to third base, but the damage was already done.
After McCann's sixth-inning single, the Yanks didn't manage another baserunner until Ichiro Suzuki's pinch-hit single off Fernando Rodney in the ninth. After advancing on defensive indifference, Ichiro was stranded at second base as Gardner went down looking at a called third strike.
"I'm pretty sure we'll struggle again at some point this year, but you have to try to get out of it as soon as you can," Jeter said. "Just get a few guys on, score some runs and next thing you know we're doing interviews talking about how hot we are."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat.


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As Google changes it's policy on bidding for trademarked phrases or words brand owners need to beware as trademarks could be up for grap. I was reading Marketing Week the other day and found an article by Ruth Mortimer from Brand Strategy. It was a good read and opened my eyes to the real power Google has over trademarked search terms.
Google is claiming that they want advertisers to use the keywords that are most relevant to them and to their business and Google users.
This will be fun to watch develope and see how brand owners react when the changes start being visible.

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Siray Kong — Babe of the Day
Siray's a 26-year-old Thai-Cambodian model, singer, and actress who was born in Thailand but raised in Minnesota.
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Lesson 3: Processing the Time Series Structure and Models
In this lesson, you will use the INSERT INTO (DMX) statement to process the time series mining structures and mining models that you created.
When you process a mining structure, Analysis Services reads the source data and builds the structures that support mining models. You always have to process a mining model and structure when you first create it. If you specify the mining structure when using INSERT INTO, the statement processes the mining structure and all its associated mining models.
When you add a mining model to a mining structure that has already been processed, you can use the INSERT INTO MINING MODEL statement to process just the new mining model by using the existing data.
For more information about processing mining models, see Processing Data Mining Objects.
INSERT INTO Statement
In order to train the time series mining structure and all its associated mining models, use the INSERT INTO (DMX) statement. The code in the statement can be broken into the following parts.
Identifying the mining structure
Listing the columns in the mining structure
Defining the training data
The following is a generic example of the INSERT INTO statement:
INSERT INTO MINING STRUCTURE [<mining structure name>]
<mining structure columns>
OPENQUERY (<source data definition>)
The first line of the code identifies the mining structure that you will train:
INSERT INTO MINING STRUCTURE [<mining structure name>]
The next lines of the code specify the columns that are defined by the mining structure. You must list each column in the mining structure, and each column must map to a column contained within the source query data.
<mining structure columns>
The final lines of the code define the data that will be used to train the mining structure.
OPENQUERY (<source data definition>)
In this lesson, you use OPENQUERY to define the source data. For more information about other methods of defining a query on the source data, see <source data query>.
Lesson Tasks
You will perform the following task in this lesson:
Process the mining structure Forecasting_MIXED_Structure
Process the related mining models Forecasting_MIXED, Forecasting_ARIMA, and Forecasting_ARTXP
Processing the Time Series Mining Structure
To process the mining structure and related mining models by using INSERT INTO
In Object Explorer, right-click the instance of Analysis Services, point to New Query, and then click DMX.
Query Editor opens and contains a new, blank query.
Copy the generic example of the INSERT INTO statement into the blank query.
Replace the following:
[<mining structure>]
Replace the following:
<mining structure columns>
[ReportingDate], [ModelRegion]
Replace the following:
OPENQUERY(<source data definition>)
OPENQUERY([Adventure Works DW 2008],'SELECT [ReportingDate], [ModelRegion], [Quantity], [Amount] FROM vTimeSeries ORDER BY [ReportingDate]')
The source query references the AdventureWorksDW2008 data source defined in the IntermediateTutorial sample project. It uses this data source to access the view vTimeSeries. This view contains the source data that will be used to train the mining model. If you are not familiar with this project or this views, seeLesson 2: Building a Forecasting Scenario (Intermediate Data Mining Tutorial).
The complete statement should now be as follows:
INSERT INTO MINING STRUCTURE [Forecasting_MIXED_Structure] ( [ReportingDate],[ModelRegion],[Quantity],[Amount]) ) OPENQUERY( [Adventure Works DW 2008], 'SELECT [ReportingDate],[ModelRegion],[Quantity],[Amount] FROM vTimeSeries ORDER BY [ReportingDate]' )
On the File menu, click Save DMXQuery1.dmx As.
In the Save As dialog box, browse to the appropriate folder, and name the file ProcessForecastingAll.dmx.
On the toolbar, click the Execute button.
After the query has finished running, you can create predictions by using the processed mining models. In the next lesson, you will create several predictions based on the mining models that you created.
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#1 German Flesh Mob Strips in Airport to Protest of TSA Body Scanners
11-18-2010, 06:19 PMI dont know about anybody else, but I am totally against the TSA body scanners for civil libertarian reasons. We know who it is that causes these security failures in our airports. Either we be realistic about the issue, or we continue to create inconveniences for ourselves. We cant bring a certain amount of liquid in planes, we have to through so many checks and searches.
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Melissa Clouthier of @MelissaTweets on Twitter said: I think people should protest the #TSA by stripping naked. The tweet heard around the world!
The Pirate Party of Germany has had enough. They took it upon themselves to protest the nanny state and these idiotic scanners by stripping at the airport while handing out pamphlets against these scanners. The flesh mob!
The protesters marked their bodies with a number of messages such as,
Something to hide? and Be a good citizen drop your pants.
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I'm against them because they're a reaction to past TTPs, rather than an effective means of anticipating attacks. First, let's understand that the goal of the terrorists is twofold: First, to kill as many infidels as possible in their overarching goal of destroying those who oppose their reinstituted caliphate, and second, to force western governments to impose onerous restrictions on civil liberties in order to weaken their support. This policy fails on both counts, here's why:
By putting toddlers and grandmothers through the scanners, we are buying into PC propaganda. Pretending that everyone is a threat diverts resources from the real threat, which is Islamist extremism. This erodes support for dealing with the threat and reduces vigilance. In short, it undermines security.
It doesn't make us safer. The issue is not to prevent dangerous objects from going onto a plane, it's to prevent dangerous people from acting on their intent. The longer lines at security are now a point of vulnerability. A suicide bomber doesn't have to board a plane to rack up a body count, he just has to get on line at the check point and before you can say "Allah Akbar" he'll have detonated in the crowded line. This does nothing to prevent that, and in fact, it exacerbates it.
It takes focus away from the real risk. It's kabuki security theater, a series of exaggerated gestures that looks like security, but aren't. Real security at airports would entail expanded curbside luggage check-in (nothing should enter the building that hasn't been checked), use of software and cameras to analyze behavioral patterns, profiling potential threats (hint: young men and women from Islamic countries, traveling without luggage or on one-way tickets that were paid for with cash), and the use of trustworthy personnel (Hint: US Military and civilian police should be presumed safe and permitted to keep defensive weapons on flights in order to protect other passengers and suppress hijackings).
Finally, it empowers those government agencies with the most egregious record of failure to expand their base and take on more authority over the people who they ought to be serving.--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
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The Hypocrites Of Congress: Who Voted Against Net Neutrality, But For SOPA/PIPA
from the just-checking dept
But some people fear that without government intervention, that entrepreneurs and innovators are going to hijack the internet that you enjoy... the World Wide Web! This has never happened and there has never been a time that a consumer has needed a federal bureaucrat to intervene.... Here's what they want to do: Take the private internet and put it all under government control. Think about it: what's going to happen to the next Facebook innovator, if they have to go apply with the government to get approval to develop a new application. And what would happen to your small business, if you had to depend on internet speeds that Uncle Sam says is going to be okay.... We want to keep [the internet] open, free and prosperous.How that doesn't apply equally to SOPA... I don't know. But she's listed as a co-sponsor. Funny, that. Especially since SOPA is likely to have a much more direct impact on "the next Facebook innovator" than anything in the (yes, poorly designed) net neutrality rules put forth by the FCC.
Unfortunately, Gross's article only names a few names. But not all of them. So we thought we might as well do that. Below, for your viewing pleasure, the list of hypocritical Congressional Reps and Senators who claim to be against regulating the internet, but have no problem doing so when it comes to SOPA or PROTECT IP (PIPA):
- Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee
- Rep. Mary Bono Mack, California
- Rep. John Carter, Texas
- Rep. Steven Chabot, Ohio
- Rep. Elton Gallegly, California
- Rep. Robert Goodlatte, Virginia
- Rep. Tim Griffin, Arkansas
- Rep. Peter King, New York
- Rep. Thomas Marino, Pennsylvania
- Rep. Alan Nunnelee, Mississippi
- Rep. Dennis Ross, Florida
- Rep. Steve Scalise, Louisiana
- Rep. Lee Terry, Nebraska
- Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee
- Sen. Kelly Ayotte, New Hampshire
- Sen. Roy Blunt, Missouri
- Sen. John Boozman, Arkansas
- Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Georgia
- Sen. Thad Cochran, Mississippi
- Sen. Bob Corker, Tennessee
- Sen. Michael Enzi, Wyoming
- Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina
- Sen. Charles Grassley, Iowa
- Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah
- Sen. John Isakson, Georgia
- Sen. James Risch, Idaho
- Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida
- Sen. David Vitter, Louisiana


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Many of you followed The Great Meh BSNYC Free Scat Contest that we ran in conjunction with the Bike Snob last month. Well a winner has been selected and here he is:
. . . looking very sharp with his new Scattante Americano 4 and new lock thanks to OnGuard.


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Assassian360 wrote:I think what he is meaning is "where do sites store their data from users?".
fatso6996 wrote:no i mean where can i log into a site that normally isn't able to be logged into. i mean the admin has to identify them self somehow.. should i use a shell?
a random example would be http://www.huntingcamera.org/
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If you received a following too close ticket, please check out our New York Traffic Lawyer page.
I've complained off and on about the excessive focus on speeding and the excessive punishments for DWI. Despite what some might think of me, I do think some laws should be enforced, and in some cases more vigorously.
The biggest one that stands out in my mind is "Following Too Close," (or following too closely) a violation of section 1129(a) of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York. This used to be commonly known as "tailgating," but that term has been taken over for parties in parking lots of football games.
Here's what I know as a traffic lawyer and a personal injury lawyer: following too closely is the most common cause of traffic accidents. You will often read statistics that say speed is a factor in some large percentage of accidents. Baloney. I was a trial lawyer for one of the largest auto insurers for over three years, then law clerk to a judge handling a number of car accident cases, and now have my own practice where I still handle car accident cases.
We do see accident cases where speed is a factor, and even some where speed is a major factor. But in most cases it's not a factor at all. You could get into semantics and say that if someone was driving slower the accident wouldn't have happened, but you could also say it wouldn't have happened if he stayed home that day, or if he'd been driving faster as he would have been further down the road and would not have encountered the other car at that intersection. Well, hopefully you get the idea.
Following too close is the cause of many, many accidents. I see people doing it all the time. But I rarely get cases where someone is charged with following too close. Why? I don't really know. Maybe if a police officer reads this blog he can explain.
I have my guesses. For one, speeding tickets are politically popular, so there's pressure on patrol officers to write speeding tickets. The government spends lots of money on radar, lasers, and related equipment so they have to justify the spending. It's easy to write speeding tickets. Just sit in a U-turn on an interstate and you can write tickets all day long.
Then there's the punishment side. Following too close is a 4-point ticket with a fairly low fine (I think total is under $200), and under Insurance Law 2335, one such offense cannot affect your insurance rates. By comparison, a speed of 16 mph over the limit has a max fine of $355, also four points, and can raise your rates (probably 30% a year for 3 years). At 21 mph over the limit it's six points $655 total, and the same problem with insurance.
Just my personal opinion, but going 86 in a 65 on an empty interstate is far less dangerous than the guy who was tailgating me this morning, one car length behind me at about 50 mph (hey, there was traffic - I really couldn't go faster). He was driving a beat-up car and I'm driving my ubervagen (Audi A4 Avant). My car does 70-0 in about 170 feet. His car probably takes over 200 feet.
As an aside, don't tailgate the Corvette Z06 -- they've got awesome brakes - I think it's 70-0 in 140 feet. I read Car and Driver, so I know such things. And I stayed at a Holiday Inn once too. :-)
I really don't think it would be that difficult for police to enforce 1129(a) of the V & T Law, and I wish they'd do it more. I do like getting paid to handle all these speeding ticket, but I'd like to be safer and some enforcement on cases of following too closely might actually make a difference.


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Arsenal and Newcastle United are keeping tabs on Leicester City goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, as he runs down the remainder of his contract, reports the Sunday Mirror.
The 26-year-old - son of Manchester United legend Peter Schmeichel - has been heavily linked with a move away from the King Power Stadium, having entered the final 12 months of his current deal.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has been credited with an interest in bringing Schmeichel junior to the Emirates Stadium, as back-up for his first-choice stopper, Wojciech Szczesny.
However, Arsenal will face serious competition from Newcastle for the Denmark international's signature, with Alan Pardew also on the lookout for cover for Tim Krul.
Schmeichel kept a clean sheet in Leicester's 3-0 win over Watford on Saturday, but will more than likely leave the club, should Nigel Pearson's side fail to win promotion to the Premier League this season.
After beginning his career at Manchester City, the Foxes star has spent the majority of his career to date in England's second tier, having lost his place at the Etihad Stadium to England number one Joe Hart.
He was linked with a move to Premier League newcomers Hull City during the summer, but Leicester rejected all three bids from the Tigers, to keep Schmeichel in the Championship for another year at least.


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At -49c with windchill, .......(you know I'm just going to drop the windchill thing, it is always windy here in Saskatchewan, especially on the bald prairie where I take my images from), I really , really didn't want to go outside to take a pic of the March Full Moon, but I thought with the cold temps I may get some wacky images of the Moon.
When the warm less dense upper atmosphere meets the colder dense atmosphere, that is -49c for example, the place where they meet acts as a refracting lens and it inverts the bottom of the Moon, what you get is the real Moon setting on a fake mirage Moon, kind of cool, at one point, the Moon looks like a mushroom cloud.
At least with the Moon I know exactly how long it takes to set so I can sit in my car until the last possible minute before jumping out and snapping the pics. Because of the Earth's daily rotation the Moon appears to travel through the sky it's own diameter , or roughly .5 degree every 5 minutes, so if I want to shoot a 10 minute real time movie clip I pop out of my car when it is around 2 Moon lengths from setting. Also just for trivia sake, because the Moon orbits the Earth in the same direction as the Earth spins on its axis, the Moon appears to travel backwards, or along with us in the sky it's own diameter, or .5 degree every hour, over a 24 hour period that's 12 degrees, multiply that by 30, the average amount of days in a month and you get....TA DA.. 360 degrees or a complete Lunar orbit of the Earth....just so you know.
To take the movie clip below I had to stand outside in the frigging cold -49c weather and count down 5 seconds to take each image, let me tell you it was hard enough concentrating not to freeze and die let alone count down the 5 seconds, but in the end it was worth it.
At around 56 seconds into the clip notice the fake Moon rise to meet the real Moon. Actually because the atmosphere itself acts like a refracting lens, the Moon we see sitting on the horizon is actually a fake Moon, the real Moon is just below the horizon, the atmosphere refracts the real Moon up to what we actually see, so in essence what you are watching is the fake fake Moon rising as the fake Moon is setting, we don't really ever see the real Moon. I know this is a lot of technical stuff but I find it interesting, maybe some of you can follow, if not, you can just look at the pretty images, at least I think they're pretty and call it a day, anyways hope you enjoy the video.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nuclear Moon
66 comments:
- Genie said...
I frequently dream of two moons in the sky, maybe this fake moon/real moon/refraction thing is why!
Amazing moon images. You're always outdoing yourself! GORGEOUS!
How'd you keep your camera going, got a warmer for it now? Jeez, you are so dedicated.
- March 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM
- OldWestMom said...
Just wanted to let you know I've really been enjoying your blog. The photos are especially fabulous! I love it so much I gave you an award! Hope you pop by to see it!
- March 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM
- Jo Hoffacker said...
Now those are some pretty cool pics. I've never seen that before!
- March 18, 2009 at 6:02 PM
- Retinna Bell said...
This is my very first visit to your blog and I must say...I am in love! This is such a fantastic site. I LOVE it! I expect to come back again and again. Thanks for offering it to the world!
- March 18, 2009 at 6:14 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Lol, thanks Genie, I have been very lucky with my camera working and not breaking down, same with me,lol, but both of us have made some strange noises, hey who wouldn't at -49c,lol.\m/\m/
- March 18, 2009 at 6:38 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Well thank you very much OldWestMom, I will drop by to pick it up later, thanks again.\m/\m/
- March 18, 2009 at 6:39 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks, and thanks for dropping by Jo Hoffacker.\m/\m/
- March 18, 2009 at 6:40 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Retinna Bell, so glad you like the site and hope to see you again.\m/\m/
- March 18, 2009 at 6:41 PM
- kml said...
These are fantastic, Bob. I would never have thought the moon would do that - just like a mushroom cloud. Way too cool - and so are you for standing out there and taking them for us to see!
- March 18, 2009 at 6:42 PM
- Barry said...
I had to watch the video twice to catch it, but finally I see what you were talk about
Here in the City we have no opportunity to see a horizon. The moon just sets into the smog.\
How sad.
- March 18, 2009 at 7:17 PM
- Marvin the Martian said...
Very cool!
- March 18, 2009 at 7:26 PM
- Shinade said...
oh my this is the coolest thing I have ever seen Bob. Thank you so much for doing this and sharing with us.
I know Walter will absolutely love this. I will be back when he gets home so he can see this.
Thank you also for the particulars of how you got the shots.
I don't understand it but Walter will. He's truck driver but he was born with a natural gift for understanding things like this.
He's only tried about a thousand times to explain to me what a black hole is.
Oh my you have been very blessed to have the gift of this knowledge!!
- March 18, 2009 at 8:50 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Kathy, glad you like the shots, the Moon is very cool, lots of opportunities for some interesting shots when you are aware of what to look for.\m/\m/
- March 18, 2009 at 8:55 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Lol Barry, smog would kind of screw up the shot for sure, thanks for dropping by.\m/\m/
- March 18, 2009 at 8:56 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Marvin!\m/\m/
- March 18, 2009 at 8:56 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Lol Jackie, hey I'm still not sure exactly what a black hole is, I don't think there are too many people if any out there that do know for sure, so no worries, say hi to Walter for me when he gets back home.\m/\m/
- March 18, 2009 at 8:59 PM
- Stephanie B said...
I understand the explanation. I'm in awe, as usual, at your photographic skill.
My safety self, however, quivers with fear at you putting yourself at risk in the horrific cold. Buddy, these shots are LOVELY, but TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. You are worth it, too.
- March 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM
- Linda said...
You always amaze me! Such a beautiful film. Stay warm!
- March 18, 2009 at 11:54 PM
- Moonshadow said...
Beautiful moon shots, Bob! I hope you have the proper thermals for being out in such cold weather.
I missed getting some awesome sunset shots tonight. I usually don't see the sunset because we're on the sunrise side of town, but I had to drive my grandson to his house to pick up his contact solution so he could spend the night and as I went by an east/west street I spotted the most beautiful big bright orange sun setting at the end of it with deep blues and purples all around it. Unfortunately, I hadn't brought my camera along. :(
- March 19, 2009 at 12:30 AM
- AngelBaby said...
You are amazing, these pictures are awesome. I loved them especially the video, just great! I do hope I don't hear that they found you frozen somewhere so please take care of yourself.
Love and Blessings,
- March 19, 2009 at 12:33 AM
- Ryan said...
Awesome blog!
Especially this post, freakin awesome.
- March 19, 2009 at 3:50 AM
- Wiggy said...
thats a pretty cool set of pictures and video! Thanks for sharing them
- March 19, 2009 at 4:18 AM
- Daisy said...
The movie clip is breathtaking!
- March 19, 2009 at 4:36 AM
- Mike said...
Cool picture of the moon! Does it warm up where you live?
- March 19, 2009 at 7:12 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Stephanie, thought you'd get it. I hear you about the safety , I try to dress in layers, but that cold wind does a job on the eyes, fingers and toes, I really need like a spacesuit, any idea where I can get one on the cheap?lol.
- March 19, 2009 at 7:21 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks a lot Linda.\m/\m/
- March 19, 2009 at 7:22 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Moonshadow, no thermals, I keep on meaning to get some.
Too bad about missing the Sunset, I always carry the camera with now, expecially in this kind of frigging cold weather, for halos and sundogs and such.
- March 19, 2009 at 7:24 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Lol, me too, I'd hate to be found dead, thanks for dropping by AngelBaby.\m/\m/
- March 19, 2009 at 7:26 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks alot Ryan, and thanks for dropping by.\m/\m/
- March 19, 2009 at 7:26 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks a lot Wiggy!\m/\m/
- March 19, 2009 at 7:27 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks so much Daisy, I'm glad you like the video.\m/\m/
- March 19, 2009 at 7:27 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Mike,lol, no, well kind of warms up, the only month it hasn't snowed here, July, sucks,lol.
- March 19, 2009 at 7:29 AM
- kRiZ cPEc said...
very interesting, thanks for sharing the footage and the shots.
- March 19, 2009 at 7:53 AM
- Final_Transit said...
Wow, never knew that, it does look like a mushroom cloud. Bob, is it refraction from atmosphere or reflection from snow (or both)? I read about atmosphere causing refraction but doesn't that simply bend light and cause moon/sun to look ellipsoid rather than a sphere? It wouldn't create a mirror image, will it?
btw, in Toronto we have spring already! :P :P :P
- March 19, 2009 at 9:24 AM
- Peter said...
Hi! Just finished watching this and now it's time to jump into my heated waterbed!
Take Care,
- March 19, 2009 at 10:34 AM
- flit said...
I've been there.... well, not there exactly ...but have driven right through Saskatchewan a couple of times :)
great shots!
- March 19, 2009 at 4:23 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks kRiZ cPEc and no problem, love to share this stuff.\m/\m/
- March 19, 2009 at 5:08 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Priyank, good questions, the atmosphere does a lot of strange things, even invert depending on the extremity of the temp inversions and the difference in the densities of the lower and upper atmospheres, and at -49c, there is a lot, sometimes it even blocks the light altogether.\m/\m/
- March 19, 2009 at 5:12 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Lol, Peter, I almost did, but I decided to go outside instead, I used to have a heated waterbed, geez, they were really hard to get out of on a cold winter's day,lol.\m/\m/
- March 19, 2009 at 5:14 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks flit,lol, most people do drive right through to get to other places, especially in the winter time.\m/\m/
- March 19, 2009 at 5:16 PM
- Stephanie B said...
Space suits ain't cheap and, with Portable Life Support System, they weigh hundreds of pounds, you might want a different alternative. Have you thought of diving gloves and the like of neoprene?
- March 19, 2009 at 5:22 PM
- notedscholar said...
My goodness. This is very frightening!
- March 19, 2009 at 5:26 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Stephanie, too bad about the spacesuit,lol, I am looking into and will probably get some better gloves, how bout space suit gloves, can you get them separately,lol.\m/\m/
- March 20, 2009 at 8:55 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Lol NS, it was.\m/\m/
- March 20, 2009 at 8:56 AM
- Ivanhoe said...
It was all worth of the freezing, Bob :o) I cannot believe that your camera is working under those conditions. Hope it will get a bit warmer for you soon!
- March 20, 2009 at 9:18 AM
- Shinade said...
Walter loved this and did explain it to me.
I subscribed to you at YouTube. I hope you don't mind but I might steal this on Sunday and post it on Simply Shinade.
I just love it...I will link it to you of course!!
- March 20, 2009 at 4:43 PM
- Shinade said...
Oh yes I forgot....Walter and I both are very curious at what size telescope or lens you are using.
After seeing these awesome shots and videos of yours we have started another savings account!!
- March 20, 2009 at 4:47 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Ivanhoe, I am amazed as well, although it was making some whiny sounds,lol.\m/\m/
- March 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
That's great Jackie, no prob with the video, I love it.
I use a 300 mm lens on all my shots unless otherwise stated, plus I just bought a 1.5 tel-extender which effectively makes it a 450mm lens, then I do some cropping to frame it properly. The key I find is with the Canon 40D I have live view with x10 magnification I can zoom in on the spot before I take the shot and get a real tight focus.\m/\m/
- March 20, 2009 at 5:17 PM
- beth said...
Beautiful shots.
- March 20, 2009 at 5:27 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Hi Beth, thanks a lot.\m/\m/
- March 20, 2009 at 6:31 PM
- Dr. Lauren said...
Wow, it looks like a red mushroom cloud. That is bizarre.
- March 20, 2009 at 10:45 PM
- Hicham said...
A very well done job, Bob :) It's always amazing for me to follow up with the the space surronding out planet, beside the nature on the Earth itself.
Keep up the good work on this excellent blog!
- March 21, 2009 at 7:49 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Hi Dr.Lauren, it is bizarre isn't it.\m/\m/
- March 21, 2009 at 9:03 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks a lot Hicham, and thanks for dropping by.\m/\m/
- March 21, 2009 at 9:03 AM
- Swubird said...
Wow man, you are really getting good at that movie stuff - sound track and everything. I could definitely see the round moon transform into a huge elongated egg just before it set. Fantastic. One of these days, though, you're going to stand out there a little too long and become a permanent fixture - frozen.
A chilling happy trails to you.
- March 21, 2009 at 10:11 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Lol swubird and thanks, I picked up some warmer gloves and a giant scarf, I'm more concerned now with my camera then myself,lol.\m/\m/
- March 21, 2009 at 8:15 PM
- Nature Nut /JJ Loch said...
GORGEOUS moon photos, Bob!!! The colors and imagery are AWESOME!!! We have cloud cover and I was wanting to see the March full moon. THANK YOU!!!
I found something for you on Twitter.
Jacob is in Shanghai right now and tweeting about it. You can ask him questions.:D
If you sign up for Twitter, I'm Northern Nancy. :D
Hugs, JJ
- March 22, 2009 at 1:40 AM
- João Soares said...
Hello Bob Johnson
Glad to meet you and your blog.
Simply dreamfull.
Hope also like to visit mine, Bioterra, an environmental blog (mainly in Portuguese, but many links are english based)
Abraços*(Star) Hugs
***João Soares***Portugal
- March 22, 2009 at 5:59 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks a lot JJ, and thanks for the twitter link. I do have a twitter account although I have never used it, mostly for lack of knowing how,lol.\m/\m/
- March 22, 2009 at 2:01 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Joao, I will definitely take a look at your site, thanks for dropping by.\m/\m/
- March 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM
- Roger said...
Awesome job Bob! I know you put a lot of work into your films, but I am sure to you it is not work at all but a pleasure. Nice job my friend.
- March 23, 2009 at 5:46 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Roger and thanks also for subscribing to my videos.\m/\m/
- March 23, 2009 at 9:02 PM
- Anna said...
Damn Bob :D :-D how come your moon always looks better, lol. I have to say I never seen moon like that with the naked eye. Wow these are nice images, and damn that is cold!!!! Anna :)
- March 25, 2009 at 8:19 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Lol, damn right it was cold Anna, and thanks for the compliment about the Moon shots.\m/\m/
- March 29, 2009 at 10:41 AM
- Web 2.0 Design said...
Excellent pics. Many thanks for sharing this....
- July 16, 2010 at 6:02 AM


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Brow furrowed? Pulse galloping? Barely able to breathe? It's time to relax. We've gathered easy strategies to keep tension from taking over.
Forget swaying pocket watches and deep trances. "Hypnosis is a state of highly focused attention," says David Spiegel, the director of Stanford School of Medicine's Center on Stress and Health. If done properly, hypnosis can clear your mind, lower your heart rate, and decrease muscle tension. Close your eyes and picture a movie screen with something stressful, like rush-hour traffic, on the left side. Now, visualize a solution playing out on the right, like discovering a new route with no traffic. Eventually, you'll feel a moment of intense absorption, he explains, like when you're so caught up in a good movie that you forget where you are. Try doing this for five minutes, three or four times a day.
Although it may be tempting to rehash the details of how your sister's boyfriend snubbed you, letting go of negative feelings really does lower stress. "When our minds keep rehearsing troubling interactions, the body's calming system becomes impaired," says Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet, a psychologist at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. A cursory hug won't do, though. You have to sincerely replace your anger toward the wrongdoer with an attempt to understand the reasons behind his actions. "Forgiveness helps you see more of the truth, not less. When we are upset, our vision is limited in scope," says Witvliet.
Just looking out your window can have a relaxing effect. In a study led by Peter Kahn, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle, participants in an office were shown one of three views: a natural setting, a digital display of the same scene, and no view. When stress levels were artificially increased, those looking at the real natural scene returned to their normal heart rate more quickly. Those who looked at the digital display did no better than those looking at a blank wall, suggesting the brain is not easily fooled. "We do best mentally and physically when we're connected to nature," says Kahn.
"Without question, stress is mitigated by nature," says Mehmet C. Oz, coauthor of You: Stress Less (Simon & Schuster). Scientists at Harvard University delivered flowers to one group of women and gave candles to a second group. Within a week, the first group felt less anxious and depressed, perhaps because humans are comforted by vegetation—a means of survival in caveman days. Oz suggests keeping a plant on your desk and cut flowers at the dinner table.
A kiss (or two) a day can keep the stress away. You'll feel less isolated, which is a common source of anxiety. According to Laura Berman, a professor of obstetrics-gynecology and psychiatry at Northwestern University, women in particular respond to locking lips by releasing endorphins. She recommends at least one ten-second kiss a day—deep and emotional, but not necessarily sexually arousing. "Just enjoy the physical connection," she says.
You don't need to slip into bed to get the benefits of a good rest. Kate Hanley, author of The Anywhere, Anytime Chill Guide: 77 Simple Strategies for Serenity (Skirt!), suggests a simple exercise you can do at your desk that is just as refreshing as a nap:
• Keeping both feet on the floor, stack your forearms on the edge of the table.
• Scoot back in your chair so your spine is extended.
• Rest your forehead on your arms for a minute or two.
This opens the neck and shoulders, where physical tension commonly builds up, and creates space in your rib cage for deep breathing. Visualize your next task going well, or simply focus on your heartbeat. Either way, this exercise gives you a break.
Working out is a great way to take a bite out of tension—but think twice before you sign up for a boot camp. "When you are mentally tired, intense exercise adds to the stress you are feeling," says Samuele M. Marcora, a physiologist at the University of Kent in England. After a draining day, he suggests a moderate-intensity workout, like walking or light running. "It won't improve your fitness level, but it is good for the mood."
Yoga is a proven stress buster, but not all poses give the same relief. Inverted stances, such as back bends and headstands, may have a greater effect on your mood and anxiety, say researchers. The part of the nervous system that relaxes the body and mind may be stimulated when the spine is bent, explains Chris Streeter, a professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine.
"Stress can be triggered when our bodies don't know what time it is," says Julie Holland, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. "Exposing your retina to sunlight resets your circadian rhythm so your brain is on a schedule." Take a walk outside without sunglasses for 20 minutes a day, three times a week. Phototherapy lamps and vitamin-D supplements also help.
If you're still crying your contacts out on your 100th viewing of Blue Valentine, try watching it a 101st time with a new outlook: A recent study suggests that thinking positively while watching a sad movie may help you cope with setbacks in the real world. Women who had experienced stress were shown sad scenes from movies such I Am Sam and Fatal Attraction and asked to come up with happy endings and good advice for the characters. Test subjects who were best at this showed fewer signs of depression than women who watched the movies passively, says Allison S. Troy, a researcher at the University of Denver. Solving other people's problems is always easier, she says. Practicing as you make your way through your Netflix queue may sharpen your skills.
Itchy eyes and a runny nose aren't the only plagues of allergy season: Stress may rise with the pollen count. Alvaro Guzman, a psychiatrist at the National Center for the Treatment of Phobias, Anxiety and Depression in Washington, D.C., says research shows that patients with seasonal allergies often report stress, mood dips, and depression when symptoms flare. "When we have an allergic reaction, chemicals are produced in our blood that can aggravate mood changes," he says. If you notice your stress levels peaking when the weather is changing, Guzman suggests getting tested for allergies.
Saying what you really think about the boss over a couple of martinis has its advantages. After observing groups in various workplaces, Yehuda Baruch, a professor of management at Rouen Business School in France, found that people swear as a coping mechanism to release stress. When upset with a difficult customer, one test subject pretended to carry on a conversation as if the client were still on the phone, but with profanity to describe exactly how she felt. In the real world, Baruch warns to use common sense. "Stay professional and never swear in front of someone who would be offended."
You're sitting on the couch watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reruns—just like last weekend. And instead of becoming absorbed, part of your brain stays focused on the looming deadlines that have been nagging at you at work. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, a professor of psychology at Yale University and the author of Women Who Think Too Much (Henry Holt), says, "Overthinking without being able to resolve anything draws us deeper into a feeling of being overwhelmed." A pastime that requires you to pay attention or engage with other people—like tackling a new recipe, taking a foreign-language class, or playing tennis—lets you escape from your own spinning head and break the cycle.
Admiring a photo of a model or a movie star just as you would a work of art could relieve tension. Half a group of people who viewed photos of females wearing makeup said they were less stressed afterward, according to a study at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. The other half did not report the same benefit, but they didn't feel any worse, says Patrick Pössel, a professor of psychology who conducted the study.
Battling stress can be as simple as ordering fish at a restaurant. On The Truth About Food, a program on the Discovery Health Channel, researchers measured hormone levels in London cabdrivers, who have highly stressful jobs. When put on a diet of four portions a week of oily fish like mackerel, a source of omega-3 fatty acids, the drivers produced less of the stress hormone cortisol and more of DHEA, a hormone the body cranks out to combat stress. "When the body sees omega-3 fatty acids, it feels calm," says Oz. Walnuts, flaxseeds, and tofu are other excellent sources.
The hours your boyfriend and his slacker buddies spend hooked up to an Xbox may have an actual benefit. According to researchers at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, playing nonviolent video games can decrease stress and improve your mood. "Getting absorbed in games provides a distraction and relaxes the nervous system," explains Carmen Russoniello, a professor at the university. Skip World of Warcraft, even if you love walloping trolls, and choose something like Peggle instead. "The challenge should be difficult enough, but not an added pressure," says Russoniello.
Via Allure
Monday, March 26, 2012
16 Ways to De-stress
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Sony, IBM, and Toshiba are set to fully unveil the details of the Cell processor at the upcoming International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in early February. A few working papers submitted contain details of the Cell architecture and its interconnect technology, and both the EET and the Reg (among others) have fresh details gleaned from those papers. Here's a quick rundown for you:
Interestingly enough, published reports claim that Cell will use the POWER ISA, and not the PowerPC ISA. I'm not 100% sure what this signifies for the Cell, and I'd like to see readers' thoughts on why IBM picked POWER over the PPC subset. What do the differences between the two ISAs tell us about what we can expect from the Cell? Update: A reader in the know has clarified for me that IBM's marketing folks are now using "POWER architecture" as more of a catch-all for the entire family of POWER derivatives, and not just the original POWER ISA. So it doesn't necessarily mean anything that the news reports say "POWER-based" and now "PowerPC-based."
On a related note, I'm assuming for now that the Cell's SIMD units will use VMX/Altivec. But there's no news one way or the other on that matter.
According to the Reg, Cell sports some sort of virtualization features, where each core can run a different OS. When you combine this with the fact that Cell is also multithreaded, then Cell starts to look like POWER5 in some important respects. Nonetheless, I don't expect that Cell's microarchitecture will share much of anything with POWER5 or the 970.
Cell-based workstations are already in the hands of game developers. If you're reading this and you've got your hands on one and want to talk about it, email me at email@example.com or pop into #mods on IRC. I mostly just want background for my reporting and writing on the topic and not "scoops" or "exclusives," since we at Ars don't traffic in that sort of thing. (In case you're suspicious, when was the last time you saw us tout "insider" info? We do indeed get such information, but we handle it differently than most.) At any rate, I don't expect anyone will contact me, but I figured I'd throw it out there since a lot of game developers read Ars.
All of the processing elements (a.k.a. Cells) are peers--even the ones on the network. I noted early on that this appeared to be the case, and this claim occasioned some controversy in the news discussion forum because network latencies would seem to prohibit any kind of network-based rendering in real time. We'll have to see what they do with this capability once the product hits the market.
Rambus designed the Cell's high-speed inter-element links. This makes me wonder if the PS3 will use Rambus DRAM, like the PS2. It's a great fit, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen.
There are a few more things I'm leaving out, but the above covers most of the new info released today.
On a parting note, the Reg speculates about Apple's possible uses for this chip. First off, Apple and Sony are competitors. This doesn't prohibit Apple from using the technology, but it's something to factor in when speculating in that direction. Second, should Apple find a use for the Cell I doubt seriously that it will be as the main CPU in some kind of workstation or rackmount rendering box. I'd expect the Cell to show up as a media coprocessor in an Apple machine. Steve Jobs has a history of putting dedicated DSP chips in his workstations; he did this back in the NeXT days, and it was speculated that we would do it with the G5 towers.


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By Cynthia A. Harris
Title: Jason Holcomb Custom Harvester oral histories, 1980-2010
Primary Creator: Holcomb, Jason
Extent: 18.0 Gigabytes
Arrangement: The arrangement has been kept in the original order created by Jason Holcomb. The collection includes six (6) DVDs containing WAV format interview audio files, PDF format transcripts of the interviews, PDF files of published articles, and scanned photo image files of interviewees with photo indexes between 2008 and 2010. An index was created for eight (8) interviews in cooperation with the MHAM.
Date Acquired: 01/24/2017
Subjects: Kansas life and culture - Agriculture and rural life
Languages: English
This collection contains oral histories of custom harvesters operating in Kansas and surrounding states. Twenty-five interviews of individuals and couples, some from Mennonite families, were conducted between 2008 and 2010 by Jason P. Holcomb, Associate Professor of Geography, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY, in an oral history project partially funded by the Kansas Humanities Council and the Mennonite Heritage and Agricultural Museum (MHAM).
This collection consists of 58.7 hours of audio files and the accompanying transcripts of oral history interviews with custom harvesters. Those interviewed were all from the United States except for one participant from Saskatchewan, Canada. American participants were from Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, or North Dakota. The time period discussed in the interviews ranges from pre-World War II to 2010 with first-person accounts of harvest from the 1950s to 2010. All persons interviewed were retired or working custom harvesters, yet the project has a distinct group of interviews, 21.5 hours in length, exclusively with Mennonite custom harvesters. The interviews with Mennonite custom harvesters began when Mr. Schmidt recommended interviewing Waldo and Doris Froese of Inman, KS, one of the communities in the Mennonite settlement area of south-central Kansas. Other communities include Buhler and Moundridge. Dr. Holcomb then recruited others in this area for a separate project that included interview questions pertaining specifically to Mennonite custom harvesters. Dr. Holcomb received grant funding from the Kansas Humanities Council, with sponsorship from the Mennonite Heritage & Agricultural Museum in Goessel, KS, which he used to pay for travel and transcription expenses for these interviews. There is a subject index of the transcripts of the interviews with Mennonites.
Dr. Holcomb obtained 244 complimentary photos and news articles from participants to augment the interviews. Photos were either from the personal collections of those interviewed or were taken by the research team. There are two photo keys that provide captions for the photos. All interviews were conducted between 2008 and 2010. Questions asked fell into broad categories of family history and background, geography and sense of place, harvester identity and lifestyle, equipment, labor, and, in the case of the Mennonite participants, details about faith and the relationships between faith and the work of custom harvesting, pacifism, and conscientious objector status.
DVD 1 is comprised of Deeds of Gifts, scans of photographs and documents, transcripts and Jason Holcomb's Oral History K-State Donation. DVD1 contains two folders. Folder one is about Waldo Froese and folder two is about Geral and Margie Schmidt. DVD 3 contains digital wave files of interviews with Keith Albrecht, Jan Altendorf, Leon Bulgin, Keith and Della Dirks, Randy Ediger, Melvin and Vivian Eyster and Archie Franz. Dvd 4 contains digital wave files of interviews with Rick Farris, Rick and Gary Farris, Larry Hancock, Tom Herberg and Meyer, Irene Hoffman, Perry and Candice Hoffman, Brent Johnson, Joyce Johnson, and Mike Matajcek. DVD 5 contains digital wave files of interviews with Ken and Pam Pauls, Linda Pauls, Gerry Rattei, Orval Regier, Henry Stock, and Forrest Tupper. DVD 6 contains a digital wave file interview with Les White.
Custom grain harvesters in the Great Plains own harvesting machinery and typically move their combines and other equipment to Texas or Oklahoma in May or early June to begin the wheat harvest season, and then move north as the wheat ripens, ending the wheat harvest season in North Dakota, Montana, or Canada. Custom harvesters are also known as custom combiners, and many now harvest fall crops as well. They own combines, trucks, tractors, grain carts, and bunkhouses (travel trailers), and move all the equipment from place to place to harvest for farmers that do not have their own harvesting equipment. Most live their own bunkhouses, while some stay in motels along the harvest route. Custom harvesting began at a smaller scale with the pull-type combine before World War II, taking the machines out of state to harvest wheat. The invention of the self-propelled combine allowed owners to more easily move the machines long distance to harvest wheat and other crops in multiple states. In the United States most of this type of custom harvesting work is done in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana. Custom harvesters also work in Canada in the Prairie Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
The seeds of this project began in 2008 when Dr. Jason Holcomb, the project interviewer, recorded the oral histories of Geral and Margie Schmidt, owners of Schmidt Harvesting in Sterling, KS. Dr. Holcomb worked for Schmidt Harvesting for all or part of most of the summers between 1988 and 2004 while he completed degrees in geography at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University and even after he started his work as a geography professor at Morehead State University in Morehead, KY. The Schmidt's retirement from custom harvesting in 2006 provided the impetus to record their personal experiences, as both Geral and Margie were children of custom harvesters and thus spent much of their lives doing the work of harvesting crops and living this unique lifestyle. Mr. Schmidt suggested other custom harvesting families in the vicinity of Sterling to interview, and from there the project grew to include custom harvesters from multiple states. Dr. Holcomb recruited additional oral history participants by contacting members of the United States Custom Harvesters, Inc. Some interviews were recorded in 2008 or 2009 while the largest number were recorded when Dr. Holcomb was on sabbatical in 2010. Many of those interviewed were retired while others were still working in the harvesting business.
The goal of this project was to document the experiences of people with firsthand knowledge of the origins of custom harvesting in the first generation of custom harvesters after World War II, and how it developed in subsequent decades. Geral and Margie Schmidt and other participants were/are children of the first generation of custom harvesters and remember those early days. The project permanently preserves the memories of people who have taken part in this very important part of Great Plains agriculture. Another valuable resource completed by the Inman Museum Association is titled Sixty years of custom harvesting on the Great Plains: Oral histories, and is available at McPherson College's Miller Library in McPherson, KS.
Repository: Morse Department of Special Collections
Access Restrictions: No access restrictions: All materials are open for research.
Use Restrictions: The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Physical Access Note: Original materials available during open hours of repository and any digitized materials that are online are available with Internet access.
Technical Access Note: Collection contains materials that are not accessible without proper technology.
Acquisition Source: Jason P. Holcomb
Acquisition Method: Donation.
Appraisal Information: Acquired because it documents oral histories of custom harvester families in Kansas.
Preferred Citation: [Item title], [item date], Jason Holcomb Custom Harvester Oral Histories, Box [number], Folder [number or title], Morse Department of Special Collections, Kansas State University Libraries.
Processing Information: Cynthia A. Harris, Library Assistant III, processed the collection and curator David Allen reviewed it, in March 2017.


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Media Bias in 2010: A Top 7
Dear Scott Brown: Well, we're almost here, aren't we? The end of a long, arduous, four-month campaign for a Senate seat that you have approximately the same chance of filling as you did the pilot's chair of the Starship Enterprise. … [The] notion that Massachusetts would elect a Republican to fill the seat left vacant by Edward Kennedy was the property of people who buy interesting mushrooms in interesting places. You might as well expect the House of Windsor to be succeeded on the British throne by the Kardashian sisters. … I would like to make you the permanent Republican candidate for US senator. Seriously, you're good at the job of being a candidate, and it's going to be hard enough for your party to groom another state legislator every six years. Think about it. It beats working for a living.
~ Charles P. Pierce of the Boston Globe in a January 10, 2010 piece taunting Scott Brown about his all but inevitable upcoming Senatorial defeat.
I can't think of a better way to kick off a retrospective on the media follies of 2010 than the Pierce's remarkable prognostication above. Apart from the fact it obligingly occurred at the beginning of the year, it contains most if not all of the major characteristics of any good leftist offering:
- Not only is it wrong, it is completely wrong. It is – to paraphrase Evan Sayet – 180 degrees from right.
- This completely, utterly, obviously wrong analysis is delivered with blithe self-assurance and a sneer.
- It is ideologically driven and thus completely impervious to fact. (At the time Pierce was playing Taps for Brown, the two candidates were virtually neck and neck in the polls.)
- It contains no logical arguments, as we understand the term, but a series of unsupported assertions presented as fact. (In fairness, more ambitious pieces of the Left do attempt to simulate logic with sophistry and fallacy, but they arrive at more or less the same place.)
- Despite self-conscious attempts at wit there is no evidence of a functioning sense of humor. Attempted zingers are artless, predictable and clumsy, rather like watching someone trying to dance by following the numbered feet on the floor. The author's obvious tin ear is only a partial explanation – it is impossible to be dogmatic and funny at the same time.
- It contains at least one cheap popular culture reference to prove the author is a regular guy.
- It contains at least one reference to a Left icon (or appropriated historical event like the Civil Rights Movement) as if its very invocation should reduce the reader to reverent silence and foreclose all further debate.
- It is infused with a sense of denial and unreality that evokes in all but the most doctrinaire readers rapid head-shaking and exclamations of "huh?" and "what?"
- Above all, it tells us much more about the author than his subject.
There probably was a time when the Charles Pierce's of this world would have been consigned to some dank corner of the microfiche library to write obits and wedding announcements for more or less their entire careers, but these days we give them Pulitzers.
And thereby hangs our tale.
As a result of growing reversals of fortune and the undeniable devolution of the talent pool (which is what you get when you allow the Left to hollow you out), the media has progressively dropped all pretense of objectivity and exposed themselves in ways that would have horrified the more sophisticated and accomplished obfuscators that preceded them. This is never been more evident than it was in 2010.
Accordingly, here is a list of some of last year's stories where the media dropped their masks and/or pants and revealed a great deal more about themselves than the subjects they were attacking.
Next: While we're on the subject of Scott Brown … The attack dogs really needn't have bothered.


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Vulnerabilities in a Flash
Flash Player-related vulnerabilities currently account for approximately 14% of all Web application vulnerabilities discovered by WhiteHat Security. This statistic is surprisingly high considering that HTTP Archive reports 47% of Web applications are currently using Flash technology.
Flash Media Player is an effective method for delivering stylish vector graphics across multiple platforms to enrich a Web user's experience. When properly designed, Flash makes a website visit interactive and fun. Unfortunately, Flash can also introduce vulnerabilities to an otherwise safe application. Many Flash developers are primarily designers who may have some programming experience, but little – if any – knowledge about Web security.
Flash Player itself has many security restrictions and policies, but users often misunderstand them – or even purposely disabled them to get a particular feature to "work." Among many Flash designers, there's also a common misconception that the Flash framework will provide all the protection their applications need.
One of the most frequent comments I get about Flash vulnerabilities is, "Doesn't my cross-domain policy file protect me from that problem?" Well, the cross-domain policy file does prevent cross-domain data loading for execution; but it is a unidirectional permission that the server hosting the data file grants. The permission does not come from the Flash file. Some people may find the cross-domain policy file to be "backwards" compared to what they expect, and in many attack scenarios the Flash file will first seek permission from the attacker's domain before initiating the attack.
Flash Player has an in-depth security sandbox model based on the domain where the Flash file is embedded, and I will discuss the scenarios for when a sandbox policy applies and how that policy can be bridged or bypassed – but in a later blog post. In this post I'm going to focus on the simplest and most prevalent method used today on the Web to exploit Flash files – unsanitized FlashVars.
Flash Player supports several methods to declare variables that are to be used in the resulting content. The two most common techniques are: (1) to declare FlashVars in a related javascript block, or (2) via the param tag within an embed. A third, and sometimes overlooked, method to declare variables is by directly referencing them in a URL query string. Many Flash designers build their projects based primarily on flexibility in order to allow greater customization and wider distribution, but these "features" often allow attackers to make their own customizations – and then exploit the application.
Typical banner ad with FlashVars to specify remote image and link:
<param name="movie" value="swf/banner.swf" />
<param name="img" value="image1.jpg" />
<param name="link" value="http://www.whitehatsec.com" />
<embed src="swf/banner.swf" flashvars="img=image1.jpg&link=http://www.whitehatsec.com" />
Attackers link to SWF:
FlashVars with HTML Support
If a Flash file is compiled for HTML support for a given textbox, then an attacker can inject a limited subset of HTML characters to achieve remote code execution. Flash framework supports two main HTML tags that are of interest to an attacker: ANCHOR and IMAGE. A simple SWF file that reflects user input can be used to execute malicious javascript when a user clicks on the file.
Attackers NameTag:
http://www.example.com/swf/nameTag.swf?name=Haxor
Server Filter Bypass
With the exception of Internet Explorer, Flash Player will evaluate a query string behind a hash character in all browsers. When a URL query string is placed behind a hash character the browser will not forward the query string with the request for the Flash file, thus allowing an attacker to bypass any attempt at server filtering.
Internet Explorer Sandbox Bypass
A recent Flash 0-day that allowed an attacker to submit arbitrary HTTP headers to an application was the result of an unhandled 307 redirection from a domain controlled by an attacker. Flash Player has always had limitations handling HTTP responses if it receives anything other than a 200 OK. The problem stems from lack of insight into how a given HTTP request is handled by the Web browser. Firefox 4 contains a new API that hopes to remediate this issue by providing additional insight for browser plugins. If a Flash file utilizes an external configuration file an attacker can bypass any attempt to restrict data loading from a given domain if the domain also contains an open redirection. The Flash file will verify that the initial request is for a trusted domain, but will load the malicious configuration file residing on the attacker's domain.
Proof of Concept
The following video demonstrates the common issue of Flash files targeting external XML configurations via FlashVars without properly validating the XML file that resides on a trusted domain. Camtasia Studio's popular presentation software was used to produce the video, which shows the vulnerabilities present in Camtasia's own ExpressShow SWF files. The developer of the files, Techsmith, has addressed this issue with a patch that must be manually applied (available via Techsmith Security Bulletin 5). The patch restricts generated Flash files to loading XML configurations that reside on the same domain as the Flash file.
Guya.net – Flash Bug in Internet Explorer Security Model
Jason Calvert @mystech7
Application Security Engineer
WhiteHat Security, Inc.


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Here you can find information on the latest vacancies, upcoming conferences and workshops, new exhibitions, calls for papers, prizes, recently issued journal volumes and more from the fields of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Folklore Studies. Get the EVIFA-RSS-Feed. And announce your own News on EVIFA.


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Fresh new trails are the siren song for mountain bikers – when you hear about a new line or some sweet new singletrack, you have to go and check it out. So when we heard about a new section of trail being built, by professional trailbuilders, on our usual home office lunchtime loop (a 6 mile trail system in a local sustainable development) our ears perked up and we had to know more!
We rode by to check out the construction progress and meet the guys from Elevated Trail Design, otherwise known as Andrew Mueller and Peter Mills. Based out of the Carolinas and Boulder, Colorado, ETD creates trails that integrate unique trail features into the natural landscape while maintaining high standards of safety and sustainability. They offer a variety of natural surface and resurfaced trails for many types of clients, and their specialties include multi-use trails, mountain bike trails, backcountry hiking trails, and bike parks. With experience building both machine built and hand built trails and all types of mountain bike features, they take pride in being a rider-owned company, and strive to secure projects which allow them to build creative and progressive features.
With that in mind, we fired off some questions to Andrew to find out more about what goes into building great trails.
How did you get started building trails as a job?
I started building trails the same way a lot of pro trailbuilders do; by building illegal trails. I guess it started around age 12, when digging holes to build jumps (without permission, of course) in the neighborhood was just a good way to get out of our parent's houses. After all, until you can drive, a bicycle is about the closest thing to freedom that a teenager can get. Spots came and went, jumps were built and torn down, but I knew by the time I was 18 that I loved building bike trails…I just didn't know it could be a job. My desire to ride and build led me to Appalachian State University, where I studied Geographic Information Systems and Sustainable Development (you could argue that I minored in downhill mountain biking!). I took an internship my senior year at the newly-envisioned Rocky Knob bike park in Boone, NC. We worked alongside a trail contractor, both working on the trails and then mapping them. It all pretty much fell into place from there; I got a job working for a trail company, met Peter Mills, and realized that we should be doing this on our own. We knew that if we wanted to build the unique features and trails that were in our heads, we had to go legit, and Elevated Trail Design was born.
What does it take to design & build a great trail?
I think design is huge. So much of a trail's potential comes from its design. Our first step is looking at maps and exploring. I want to know where all the rocks are, find the cool trees, and learn the layout of the terrain before we drop the first flag for the line. The next thing is drainage; you have to understand how water is going to behave if you want to build something that lasts. The last thing is experience. I think what sets Peter and myself apart as bike-specific builders is our diverse backgrounds as riders. We've ridden so many different types of trail and terrain that we have a unique vision for what mountain biking should be. We understand how trails evolve beneath knobby tires and how to prepare for that. It's fun to think back to a fun section you rode in some other place and envision how we can replicate that experience where the users might not expect it.
What do you use to build trails?
The tools really depend on the project. A lot of people think pro trailbuilders just drive through the woods with a bulldozer and build some boring trail, but we really try to work with the client to build what he or she wants. We do machine built and handbuilt trails, and I think there are a lot of great things about both. Nothing beats the artistic quality and minimalist traits of a handbuilt trail, but there are also situations where a machine can build better product in less time. I can confidently say that learning how to build trail with an excavator has made me much better at handbuilt trail and vice versa. For handbuilt trails, we start with chainsaws and blowers, then remove organics and cut the trail with trail tools (Rogue Hoes, Mcleods), then touch up with rakes and loppers. For machine built trail, we only use mini excavators. The excavator is the ultimate do it all trail machine; we can use it to build minimal trail with rocks and roots, or we can build big dirt features that make places like Whistler famous. Either way, separation of materials is key…it's all about keeping as much of the good mineral dirt on the trail and discarding the waste materials in a clean fashion.
What's your favorite place to ride?
I've ridden a lot of great places, but for this question, I think I have to stick with my roots. I learned to ride in Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina, and I still have to say it's my favorite. I love the rugged trails there and the remote feel that they have. I hope that people see that we try to pay tribute to the rocks, roots, and rhododendron of Pisgah even though we're trying to build sustainable trails and also make a living. Peter would probably tell you his favorite places to ride are Whistler Mountain Bike Park or any nice big dirt jumps. I think that's what makes us a great team; we draw from different mountain bike experiences and put them all into a totally unique product.
What's a favorite project that you've worked on?
It's hard to pick just one, but believe it or not, I have to mention a hiking trail here. Last spring we did a 1.5 mile "face-lift" on part of NC's Mountains-to-Sea trail near Boone, NC. It was called the Boone Fork Trail and it involved hiking into a remote drainage each day to build a huge variety of trail features. We did excavator trail, hand-built, rock armoring, and ladders with local timber, all on one job. Just working in that beautiful setting; with huge hardwoods and cascading rapids all around us every day, made that job really memorable.
What would be your ideal trail?
I like variety in my trails. My favorite trails mix new-school mountain bike trail building with natural terrain. I love a trail when you are smashing through some crazy rocks but there's a perfect berm at the bottom to hold your speed into the next section. I love turns; if I'm riding in a straight line I better be hitting a nice jump or some roots and rocks, otherwise I'll be bored! I also love trails that descend through different zones and environments, making you feel like you're experiencing the forest and having a blast in a way a hiker could never understand.
And of course, near to our hearts, how would you describe the trail you just built at Briar Chapel?
Briar Chapel was just an all-around great project for us. It was a design/build, so it allowed us to show off our full vision and potential as trailbuilders. We tried to maximize the terrain in every way possible, striving to show people that you can have a rugged and fun mountain bike experience even in a suburban, residential setting. What that vision resulted in is a huge variety of building and riding styles packed into a small amount of trail. We built flowy berms and rollers, tight singletrack, rock gardens, stuff that's clearly machine-built, stuff that people will think is handbuilt, and stuff that actually is handbuilt. We were calling it the party trail while we built it; it makes you just want to do lap after lap. If people come there and ride our trail two or three times in different directions, we accomplished our goal [note for locals: please check trail conditions before riding – the new section of trail may not be open yet due to weather].


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Health care and you
Recently, a friend related his experience with a medical problem. After lengthy waits to get medical attention, he went to the hospital ER. His complaints were low-grade fever and in general feeling bad. After being admitted to the hospital and receiving a battery of tests, no major problems were indicated. Finally it was determined that a boil on his rear was his only ailment. When I was a child, my dad lanced a big boil on my knee by sticking it with a sewing needle and mashed it until a core popped out. My friend, however, was told surgery would be necessary and that no operating room was available until the next day. Luckily, a young doctor showed up in his room and asked if he would allow the procedure to be done there. Consent was quickly given, the boil lanced and my friend discharged. A few days after he had escaped the clutches of these private-sector caregivers, he received a bill for $14,000.
Until some scheme is devised to assure that every American citizen has some form of paid-for health care, the issue of health care will never be fixed. Government intervention is necessary if we are to ever have decent health care for all Americans.
The big lie currently being offered in the health-care debates is that health care can best be fixed by the private sector. Private insurance companies are not searching for ways to provide medical help for the poor and sick. The insurance industry's aim is to avoid insuring people with health issues. They prefer to insure those who aren't sick. Neither pharmaceutical companies, doctors nor hospitals are promoting lower costs of medical care.
Almost all experts believe that better management of delivering medical treatment is our best hope for cost savings. To date, government programs have done a better job of delivering savings than the private sector. Medicaid, for example, delivers prescription medicine to folks at a lower cost. This is mainly because Medicaid has been allowed to negotiate with the drug manufacturing industry for lower costs. Experts estimate that up to $135 billion could be saved if only Medicare was allowed by Congress to negotiate for the same type of discounts.
Congress has once again put the public's needs second to lobby interests. Big drug companies have an army of lobbyists in Washington ready to spend millions against any congressman who crosses them. Emboldened by the recent Supreme Court ruling that corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money in elections, it takes a very brave politician to oppose such special influences.
The only antidote to a tidal wave of corporate money at election time is well informed, well motivated citizens. The best time for citizens to be heard is just before election time. If you care about a healthy America in the future, ask those seeking seats in the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives now if they will side with the people or the special interests.


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"Rising elegantly among towering Douglas-fir trees, the six spires of the marble-clad Portland Oregon Temple create a beautiful sight for motorists traveling Oregon's I-5, situated about 8 miles south of downtown Portland in Lake Oswego. On the east side of the temple is a serene reflection pool sitting at the base of the main spire. Visitors are welcome to walk among the gorgeous gardens that decorate the temple grounds and to obtain additional information at the public visitors' center that features films, displays, multimedia presentations, and a stunning reproduction of Thorvaldsen's Christus statue."
See: http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/portland/
The spires of the temple were being painted at the time this photo was taken. I was not planning on shooting a 360 here but saw the temple as we were heading north on I-5 and decided to stop for a break.
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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Saturday, January 30, 2010
The Michener Challenge--Post your Reviews
Post your reviews for books read for The Michener Challenge in Mr. Linky below. Put your name and the title of the book read with the link to your review post. Hope you're enjoying the challenge!
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- AnonymousFebruary 13, 2010 at 10:22 PM
One does not often associate James Michener with nature-writing. He writes epics, sometimes likened to fictional documentaries, with wide strokes on broad canvases. Yet in most of his epic stories, it is difficult not to find a a chapter or more about the land, its formation, the animals, the plants and the people who live amongst them.ReplyDelete
The post is for Indian
Michener is the third nature writer to be reviewed, others already covered are E.H.Aitken and Sally Carrighar. will cover more nature writers such as Gerald Durrell, Jim Corbett and Jean Auel in future.
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM
themichenerchallenge.blogspot.com; You saved my day again.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2011 at 10:57 PM
The correct link for my post on Micehener titled "Epic Splendour" is :ReplyDelete
I read Michener back in high school with The Source. Don't remember much about it. Started reading Hawaii recently because I just came back from there again and love the island. Figured I should know it's history and Michener certainly does that for the reader.ReplyDelete
Have two more sections to get through but it's quite enjoyable. Thanks for the challenge :)
Glad you're joining us! I have a bunch of his books, including Hawaii. True confessions here: I started this challenge and I haven't even picked up one of his books. That will change soon, I promise. =O)ReplyDelete
I did read Chesapeake in high school and it really stuck with me which is why I started accumulating his books and then started this challenge.


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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Get the RootsTech 2013 App
The RootsTech 2013 app is here. Get the Android version or the iOS version.
Use this app to plan your schedule, access maps of the conference venue and Salt Lake City, learn about the vendors and more. You can also create a profile and "friend" other attendees.
The app is a work in progress. More data and details are added and updated each time I open it, so if it feels lacking to you, wait a day or two and see the improvements.
I've decided to friend as many attendees as I can. Sorry if this seems stalker-ish. I want to meet everybody. If you don't want to add me back, I won't be offended.
If you want to add me as a friend first, my name is in the book...and by book I mean the attendants list on the app.
Looking forward to seeing old genealogy friends and meeting new ones. RootsTech will be here before you know it.
[Disclosure: I am an official RootsTech blogger. However, I bring you this notice for my own selfish and social networking needs. I just like to meet people. -A]
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I installed (zip version xampp) to my C:\test directory. In this case to let it operate i have to run the setup_xampp.bat.
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But if i rename the C:\test directory to C:\test_new and run the setup_xampp.bat it runs perfectly no errors nothing everything is perfect, only this time it doesn't modify my config files at all.
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I am booked and fully paid up for this trip of a lifetime on MV Golden Dawn. However my son has been in a serious accident and I have to cancel. Due to the late nature I cannot get any refund at this stage unless I get someone to take my place. So I am offering the trip to anyone at a $500 discount.
Full trip price I paid is $4725, you can get it for $4225.
Details of this trip can be found at http://www.mvgoldendawn.com/ and numerous posts on the forums here. As UW photographers you will probaly know about this amazing and pristine dive destination which only rarely becomes available.
If interested please contact Craig de Wit directly ( and ask to book my spot ) at firstname.lastname@example.com
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PARIS -- Former world number one Venus Williams has pulled out of next week's Paris Open and February's Fed Cup match against Italy with a back injury.
The 32-year-old American, who has been struggling to get back to her best after suffering a serious autoimmune disease in 2011, was one of the main attractions at the French event whose top seed will be Italian world number seven Sara Errani.
"This event was really important to me and to continue climbing up in the rankings," Williams, 26th in the standings, said in a statement.
"Unfortunately, I've suffered a back pain which has forced me to rest and miss both the Paris event and the Fed Cup the following week."
Although Williams has pulled out, several big names will feature in Paris as the organizers handed wild cards to the 2009 French Open champion Francesca Schiavone, now 48th in the world, and 2011 Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova.


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As an experienced senior political adviser and administrator in both state and federal government in Australia, he brings two decades of in-depth understanding of critical national security challenges.
His range of experience also encompasses:
Public policy, infrastructure and the resources industry
He has held global strategy roles and served as a CIO for a major multinational company
As client account lead for the Intelligence and Security portfolio, Joshua's led complex and critical projects in the national security portfolio, including those designed to counter violent extremism.
Prior to joining Accenture, Joshua has also worked for clients in the security, infrastructure, banking and resources sectors.
Joshua is a director of "Strategic Forum," a not-for-profit think-tank that aims to advance strategic thinking on Australia's national security challenges.
He holds patents in Choice Modelling and Experimental Design and is chairman of "Predikkta," an analytics business that unlocks complex consumer choices.
More about Joshua
Joshua's academic career includes:
First Class Bachelor of Arts in politics & international Relations from William & Mary USA
Executive Education Program at Harvard on leading professional services firms
Study for a doctorate in international relations
His interests outside work include photography and farming.


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