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The Fort Knox Command and community is engaged in the overall commitment and concept of the Ready and Resilient Campaign (R2C) which guides the Army's efforts in cultivating a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to health promotion and includes the efforts of the Army health promotion program. R2C is a far-reaching and comprehensive campaign to enhance individual and collective resilience in order to improve readiness across the Total Army - Soldiers (Active, National Guard and Reserve), Army Civilians and Family members. Fort Knox takes pride in integrating and synchronizing Army programs aimed at health promotion and the multiple Army-wide efforts designed to improve physical, psychological and emotional health in order to enhance individual performance and increase overall unit readiness. Additional information regarding R2C and related resources may be accessed on the R2C website
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The CHPC is facilitated by the USAG/DHR Community Readiness and Resiliency Integrator (CR2I) which encourages cooperation, coordination and integration of medical, tactical; and garrison assets as it relates to (R2). The CHPC working groups (Spiritual, Emotional, Physical, Social, Installation Prevention Team and Family Resiliency) identify the risk factors and community needs. The senior commander assigns responsibilities, and directs staff action to resolves issues as they relate to R2. The end state of the CHPC process is Sustained Personal Readiness and Optimal Human Performance of the Fort Knox community through the concept that collaboration leads to readiness.
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by adam on January 5, 2015
Lately I've noted a lot of people quoted in the media after breaches saying "X was Security 101. I can't believe they didn't do X!" For example, "I can't believe that LinkedIn wasn't salting passwords! That's security 101!"
Now, I'm unsure if that's "security 101" or not. I think security 101 for passwords is "don't store them in plaintext", or "don't store them with a crypto algorithm you designed". Ten years ago, it would have included salting, but with the speed of GPU crackers, maybe it doesn't anymore. A good library would probably still include it. Maybe LinkedIn was spending more on preventing XSS or SQL injection, and that pushed password storage off their list. Maybe that's right, maybe it's wrong. To tell you the truth, I don't want to argue about it.
What I want to argue about is the backwards looking nature of these statements. I want to argue because I did some searching, and not one of those folks I searched for has committed to a list of security 101, or what are the "simple controls" every business should have.
This is important because otherwise, hindsight is 20/20. It's easy to say in hindsight that an organization should have done A or B or C. It's harder to offer up a complete list in advance, and harder yet to justify the budget required to deploy and operate it.
So I'm going to make three requests for 2015:
- If you're an expert (or even play one on the internet), and if you want to say "X is Security 101," please publish your full list of what's "101."
- If you're a reporter and someone tells you "X is security 101" please ask them for their list.
- Finally, if you're someone who wants to see security improve, and you hear claims about "101", please ask for the list.
Oh, and since it's sauce for the gander, here's my list for individuals:
- Stay up to date–get most of your machines on the latest revisions of software and get patches for security issues installed, especially in your browser and AV software.
- Use a firewall that blocks most inbound traffic.
- Ensure you have a working backup of your data.
(There are complex arguments about AV software, and a lack of agreements about how to effectively test it. Do you need it? Will it block the wildlist? There's nuance, but that nuance doesn't play into a 101 list. I won't be telling people not to use AV software.)
*By "lately," I meant in 2012, when I wrote this, right after the Linkedin breach. But I recently discovered that I hadn't posted.
[Update: I'm happy to see Ira Winkler and Araceli Treu Gomes took up the idea in "The Irari rules for declaring a cyberattack 'sophisticated'." Good for them!]
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I agree somewhat that people are quick to blame the victim for not having X. It's a bit like people used to blamed banks for not having enough protection against armed thieves, now it's a PITA to do physical banking so it's all online and we face the same problems again.
I don't know of a "101" per-sé, but I do know that SANS make a very good attempt at it with their 20 critical controls:
Thanks Ken! I think that the SANS list is a good start. However, it's really not 20 controls, but over a hundred, as each of the 20 is broken out into a dozen or more sub-controls.
I'm going to ask this one in a more confrontational manner than it perhaps deserves: would you say that anyone not implementing each of the 20 controls and each sub-control is failing "security 101"?
I've heard that term countless times since I've become involved with the InfoSec community, and I'm glad someone shares the same sentiments as me. I really think that people love hearing themselves sound "smarter" than others when it comes to security. It's easy to say so-so should have done x when you're on the other side of the situation.
Of course, there are definitely situations where yes, situation x was Security 101 (like not storing passwords in plaintext), but I find that most of time, the situations is a lot more complex than people try and make it out to be. If everything was as common knowledge as folks make it out to be, we wouldn't see half of the breaches we do.


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The regional directors interpreted the initiatives of the World Health Assembly as being primarily advisory. Some they accepted, some they ignored, and some they modified to suit their own and the region's particular needs and agendas.
Given the director-general's openly expressed skepticism about smallpox eradication, it was not surprising that there was little support for smallpox eradication in the regions. Two regional directors were passively or openly hostile to the program; one largely ignored it; and one actively opposed it. Fortunately, the one who most strongly opposed the eradication program was replaced through election by a strong supporter a year after we began.
The regional offices added a dysfunctional layer of bureaucracy for communications with country program directors and WHO advisers. Recall that at the time of the program, there were no e-mail facilities, no mobile phones, and no fax machines. Telex and ordinary telephone calls were expensive (and not always technically possible). Personal contact and correspondence by mail were our only reliable routes for communication. WHO policy required, however, that all correspondence with countries had to pass through the regional offices. But this was more than simply a routing of memos. For example, if I wanted to communicate with a smallpox program adviser in Uganda, my letter had to go first to the African Regional Office whose office was in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. It would be read by one of the staff, who might eventually prepare a draft forwarding memo for the regional director's signature—a deceptively simple procedure that often required several rewrites and could take weeks. The recipient, the WHO country representative, would then consult with our WHO smallpox eradication adviser. A reply followed this track in reverse.
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Sadly the important pioneering role of Dr. Karel Raska was overlooked in this article. You may read Dr. Alex Langmuir's appreciation of Dr. Raska and Dr. Henderson's addendum originally printed in 17 Intl. J. Epid. 491 (1988) at http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/17/3/491.pdf
Sadly the important pioneering role of Dr. Karel Raska was overlooked in this article. You may read Dr. Alex Langmuir's appreciation of Dr. Raska and Dr. Henderson's addendum originally printed in 17 Intl. J. Epid. 491 (1988) at http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/17/3/491.pdf
Sadly the pioneering role of Dr. Karel Raska was overlooked in this article. Interested readers may learn more about this in Dr. Alex Langmuir's Appreciation and the Addendum by Dr. D. A. Henderson published in 17 Int. J. Epid. 491 (1988) and found online at http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/17/3/491.pdf .
Sadly the pioneering role of Dr. Karel Raska was overlooked in this article. Interested readers may learn more about this in Dr. Alex Langmuir's Appreciation and the Addendum by Dr. D. A. Henderson published in 17 Int. J. Epid. 491 (1988) and found online at http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/17/3/491.pdf .
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As a mother of a four year old my life is full of entertainment. Everyday is full of possibilities and failed gestures. With her growing up, like in every second, every bone in my body is all in love with her various actions and also in a super frustrated mode with her irrational questions, all at the same time. Her daily tantrums sometimes get to my nerves and I feel like running away or trashing her to her reasonable senses but then several self-proclaimed-maternal-gurus beautiful articles jolt me back into my lovey-dovey-mother self again, where you forgive or let go of your child's most actions with a benefit of doubt of being small and your own blood. Its just a phase, that's what I tell myself every time I am dealing with such scenarios (that's almost every other second).
Thanks to all my peers, who so passionately share their stories, that sometimes its such a relief to make myself feel blessed that I am not alone in this mad jumboree. It feels so good just to realise that someone else is also in the same boat as me. As my daughter sometimes tell me, with so much love, "It's ok mumma. All will be well soon. I am there na!". These are generally my dialogues when she fell ill or is dealing with her own struggles of setting up her blocks or getting her 'M's and 'N's right. So apart from this partially sad mother, I am also here to tell some interesting stories of my little one, which makes every ounce of blood in my body to multiply 10 times.
Story 1:
For her 'Show & Tell' activity in school, she was given the topic animals. As a good mother to teach her independence, I asked her to choose the animal she wants to speak on. She chose Turtle, (frankly I was very happy that she didn't chose dog, cat or cow, but also very worried because now I have to search about the points and make her to learn them). Nevertheless, we succeeded and did some wonders in making her learn the points with nice pictures (efforts by Mr Husband). Next day when she came back from the school, I as per the inquisitive mother catalogue, I asked her about what she did in her activity? She said that I told a story in the school. I was like, 'What?'. To the utter shock she said that she told a story about the turtle and monsters. Then she told me about a brand new story of a turtle and fishes who stays inside the sea and are eaten by the monsters. One part of me was beeming with joy that my daughter was good at on-the-spot topics and was fearless. But the other part of me was little sad that she didn't follow the instructions or she is carried away with other things and not sticking to her own. What to do? I guess a mother can never have the best of both the worlds.
Story 2:
For her next show and tell activity, the topic was 'Indian festivals and Celebrations'. She chose Dussehra this time. This time I was careful and let her chose her words in the form of a story or sequence of events. And she did impress me with her little version of sequence of events where dussera is to celebrate the victory of Ram killing Ravan, bringing back of Sita from captivity and the triumph of good over evil. This time although I was confident that she will change the facts but convinced myself that she will nearly stick to the actual version of facts. So next day when she returned from the school, my obvious question was not obvious. I asked her what facts exactly she twisted this time ? And the reply was epic. This is how she goes, "Mumma, I didn't twisted anything. I just told them that Ravan kidnapped Sita because he liked her a lot. Ram and Laxman went to save Sita as they both liked her a lot too. Then Ram killed Ravan to bring back Sita to Ayodhya as everyone liked Sita a lot. " I was speechless as it was straight out of a masala hindi movie. It was nowhere near to the version we heard of Ramayan or what we told her. The facts were right but the way she put up them was a little over the top and dramatic. The first thing I thought was what the teachers would be thinking that parents are teaching this to her?"
One thing that I learnt in this complete scenario was that what we need is to let the children be. I realized that they are in the learning phase, where they will learn lots of things during the process of unlearning lots of things taught to them by us. They have a journey of their own and we have to let them explore that on their own. We should be walking behind to catch them if they fall but not in the front to drag them onto a path we want them to follow. Its little unnerving sometimes where you have to put up several fights with yourself as well as with others to let your child be the natural self of what they actually are. But trust me this will be the best thing you could do for your child in the long run.
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Hello friends! I'm wondering, do you like to decorate your home for the holidays? I sure do. I like a little bit of holiday decor to spruce up the home. It just makes me happy.
Last week I had a date with friends. I arrived a little early because I knew that there were shops in the area I would enjoy strolling through. The shops were all decked out for Valentines Day, it was so beautiful everywhere. As I was looking around I saw this bucket full of glimmery hearts. The bucket full of hearts on long sticks was adorable and also pricey, so instead of purchasing them I came home and made my own.
Below is my creation. I saved a bundle of money by making my own. And I even like mine better than theirs, LOL!!!
The paper used to make the hearts is Stampin' Up's! Glimmer paper ( the red is retired, sorry). For the sticks, I grabbed some wooden sticks that I had and slipped them into black and red stripe straws. The wooden sticks made the straws stiff for stability that I needed. This project was quick and easy and added so much love to my table.
I used a stamp from the Meant to be bundle and Momento Ink to stamp the sentiment. I love how my bucket has a place to slip a label into it.
Here is a close up of all the shimmer and shine and the sticks. I think the stripes added even more to this eye candy.
That is it for today~Simple but Sweet. Enjoy your day and thank you for stopping by.
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Last night Teresa, Alex, Liz, Lori and I went to see Star Trek. We went at 7 PM on Thursday night — the first screening. The fact that the screenings began five hours before midnight was a pretty well kept secret 'cause the theater was only half full.
Teresa will undoubtedly review this for Pink Raygun and we pretty much agreed about the film so I'm just going to comment briefly. I'm a huge Trekkie. A HUGETrekkie. And I really enjoyed that this movie could be enjoyed both by huge nerds like me and also Muggles. It was exciting. It was funny. It was fun. It captured the lighthearted original series atmosphere better than The Next Generation ever did (despite being about a cataclysmic genocide) and it was nice to have the fun back in Star Trek. I have no doubt this will reenergize this franchise in a way we haven't scene since The Wrath of Khan or "The Best of Both Worlds."
BUT… I do have one complaint.
There was too much ACTION!. Seriously, this movie was like Star Trek on speed. It never ever let up. There were so many jaw dropping ACTION! sequences but I didn't feel like I got to enjoy them fully. The key to enjoying ACTION! is that moment when the sequence is over and the entire audience, eyes wide and mouths agape, collectively exhale and think to themselves, "Jesus fucking Christ that was the most fucking awesome thing I've ever seen!" Star Trek didn't have that moment. Ever. (Maybe once.) You can't really talk about the pacing of this movie's plot since there's only one speed — full throttle! Even Star Wars, which created action movie pacing the way it is today, takes a moment to let everyone catch their breath once in a while. I felt like J. J. Abrams was so worried about boring the audience with the traditional Star Trek talking heads that he overcompensated.
It isn't deadly to the film. It's still pretty freakin' awesome and you're going to love it so don't let this little complaint scare you out of seeing it. I'm going again this weekend. It's just that I felt a little bit bad for the new cast trying to stake a claim to these beloved roles in the middle of all the ACTION!. Chris Pine never got to take Kirk much beyond a sneering frat boy and Zachery Quinto… man, I just feel sorry for the guy! He was trying to make an iconic character his own and play it in a new, original way. Not only did his character-defining scenes keep getting preempted by ACTION! — they brought in Leonard Nimoy for a Spock cameo that stole the show. Quinto does all the action scenes, Nimoy gets all the good stuff. How's Quinto supposed to compete with that?
Anyway, complaint over. I loved it. I just wish Abrams knew that the material was strong enough that he could take his time a little more. It would have made all the ACTION! even better.


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Well, it's been a profiting season for Spurs and they are seriously in the title-race this time around, nearly-men are in for some business in the Barclays Premier League, main catalysts being stable defence, flexible midfield and forward line. We'll be analysing the movements of Spurs' forward line and draw few interesting things out of it as conclusion :-
There is some serious rotation that goes on between the four forward line Spurs' players.
So, let's start the business of our own now, take a look at forward-line setup of Spurs with their movements and analyse through few things keeping that tactic board as reference :-
Ok so we will ponder through movements of each of the four forward line players one by one :-
1.) Kane – As we see the image above, there are five primary movements Kane does on/off the ball, off the ball Kane takes the position as one of the wide players and when the ball is cleared out wide, he tries to hold up play and take one of the centre-back out. This results in diagonal runs from wide players and central runs from midfielders. Take an instance of Spurs having the ball with right fullback Walker, Kane always stations himself in far post of that crosser Walker. He looks to beat the second centre-back and head or shoot across the goalkeeper.
2.) Eriksen- Probably the most flexible player in that forward line, his original position is number 10 behind Kane but his floating role in and around opposition half makes it near impossible to mark him constantly. You can't man mark him specifically the whole match as a defender. Off the ball, he drops deep centrally and blocking runs of opposition midfielders. On the ball, he takes up several positions, he swaps a lot with Delle Alli but doesn't go very wide, he allows Rose to go for overlaps. The Dane also swap places with Lamela and try to run in between the centre-back and fullback.
3.) Lamela – Lamela doesn't change his position much as compared to his mates. He remains on that right-hand side most of the time, swaps with Eriksen in few moments but mainly loves to stay on the right trying to tuck in with Walker overlapping. While defending, he helps out Walker in wide areas. He can run at people with the ball, very effective in taking defenders out of the game and play defence-splitting passes.
There's one example of what Lamela can do if he's central on the ball, he can run at defence. With Kane wide and Eriksen running through centrally, the Argentine drew one centre-back towards him before passing it to Eriksen onside from other defender.
4.) Delle Alli – Starting position is on the left hand side, but the young England international swaps a lot with Eriksen getting on the edge of the box and trying to create the gap between centre-back and fullback. He's not a dribbler but more effective with his direct play and hold up play whenever possible so that runners run beyond him with some space.
So, there you go we discussed the movements of all the players featuring in that flexible Spurs' forward line. One thing is crystal clear in it, defenders can't mark anyone of them specifically for the whole match, if you're defending against this forward line, you must defend on instincts rather going for man to man marking. Ok, Spurs are not scoring five every game but their high-line pressing and flexibility on and off the ball is something to behold and it's one of the main catalyst as to why they are challenging for title this season.
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The asteroid, dubbed 2015 TB145, was discovered on October 10 by astronomers using the Pan-STARRS telescope. The object measures about 280 to 620 meters (920 to 2,034 feet) in diameter, so it's pretty big—about the size of a skyscraper. Or two. Not only that, it's moving at a velocity of 35 km/s (78,830 mph or 12,600 km/h), which NASA describes as "unusually high."
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Tips for Turning on Your Sprinkler System
Sprinkler systems all around the Truckee Meadows are coming out of hibernation following a long, cold winter. Local lawn services are scrambling to turn on sprinkler systems now that the weather has warmed up. Scott Leonard of Signature Landscapes says his crews are responding to calls from customers who are ready to start watering. "The weather changed from last week and freezing temperatures to near 80 degrees right now. It's about getting water on as fast as we can," said Leonard.
Sometimes the long winters can cause leaks, which eventually show up on your water bill. Leonard said the first thing to do is look for problems above ground. "If you're going to turn it on yourself, go through each zone. Walk your property, make sure there are no drip breaks, check your sprinklers, look for clogged valves," he said.
Another important tip is to check your water meter to make sure your system isn't leaking. "Inside the water pit is your gauge," said Leonard. "There's a small red wheel, if it's turning there's a leak," he added.
"So you want all your household water off, come out and check it. If everything's off and it's spinning, then it's time to call somebody to come out and investigate for a leak," Leonard explained.
Andy Gebhardt of the Truckee Meadows Water Authority says you can also check your water bill. "If your bill is higher than you think it should be, you might want to take a good look and see if something's going on," he said.
Once the sprinklers are on and working properly, it's important not to over water. Experts say right now about 5 minutes three times a day on your assigned watering days should do the trick. "Start it up slowly, give it a little drink. But you don't want to flood it early. It'll thrive," said Gebhardt.
The Truckee Meadows Water Authority is holding a free a workshop on Wednesday, April 9th at 5:30 to explain how to turn on your irrigation system. The address is 1355 Capital Blvd. in Reno.
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For years, every morning, I drank
from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt,
the feet of ducks.
And always it assuaged me
from the dry bowl of the very far past.
What I want to say is
that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is,
and you are capable
of choosing what that will be,
darling citizen.
So come to the pond,
or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing,
and put your lips to the world.
And live
your life.
from Red Bird: Poems by Mary Oliver (Boston: Beacon Press, 2008), p.57.
~With a nod to Third Story Window where I read this poem in my blog wanderings this morning. It fed my soul, so I'm sharing it with you in honor of April and National Poetry Month.
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Baker's Dozen Theatre Company are proud to present…
Written by Mike Bartlett. Directed by Beng Oh.
John has a boyfriend, but he has just met the girl of his dreams. He's going to have to make a choice… but hearts are on the line.
A play rife with sexual ardor, dark comedy and eerily relatable relationship breakdowns, COCK, written by award winning playwright Mike Bartlett, is the story of a man's desperate struggle to choose between the life that has made him who he is, and a life that could show him who he was really meant to be.
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|Anyone thinking of coming along on this?
Saturday, March 31, 2012 - Easter Egg Run + Disco
Organiser: West Midlands MAG
Charity ride in aid of the Acorns Childrens Charity in Worcester and evening Disco in aid of MAG. Gather from 12 noon for a 12:45 start to the ride. Evening Disco starts at 8pm at the Worcester Autoclub Perdiswell Worcester WR3 7SN. Free camping available after the Disco.
Location: Meet at the Bewell Head Working Mens Club, Bromsgrove, B61 8HY.
tickets for the disco available on the door
the Autoclub normally run a BBQ after the ride
Please bring along any suitable donation (Easter eggs cuddly toys or even a small cash donation for this very deserving charity)
There may be a ride in organised from Woodsetton to the bromsgrove meet on the morning.
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|Sad loss indeed after how busy it used to be. But i suppose facebook is the real option now. All the very best to all those who have still looked in now and again.
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Meeting at 12 midday for 1pm start. Please remember to bring your current MAG membership card so you are entitle to vote - no card, no vote.
Location: To be held at the: Park Inn, George St, Woodsetton, Dudley, DY1 4LW.
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|NABD's oldest and youngest reps are going to do tandem sky dives on Sunday 4th MARCH 2012 at Beccles airfield in Suffolk NR34 7TE. We are now looking to raise as much money as possible for the NABD so we need lots of lovely people to sponsor us. I might add that the oldest rep is 68 years old !!!!!!
Anyone willing to sponsor us can either contact Venessa Downes (Stourbridge Rep)or David Silburn (Lichfield rep) through the Contact us page at www.nabd.org.uk or you can donate online at www.everyclick.com/skydivefornabd
The cost of the skydive has been sponsored by Bikesure Insurance www.bikersure.co.uk a long time supporter of the NABD, offering a friendly service, competetive quotes on bikes and trikes, a discount for NABD members and also offering insurance to users of the Learner Loaner Scheme SO all other sponsorship will go to the NABD


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Seychelles awarded with its first White Flag Certified Safe Marine Area
President Danny Faure was the guest of honour at Seychelles' first White Flag Certification award ceremony held at the Beau Vallon Promenade this morning.
White Flag Certified Safe Marine Areas (CSMAs) represent the world's purest and cleanest water bodies that have been physically cleaned from plastic and other marine debris. Since its launch in Monaco in 2012, Whiteflag International has become a leading symbol representing clean, plastic-free zones for inhabitants and tourists, and also marine life.
The first White Flag to the Republic of Seychelles was awarded to President Faure by Mr Kristijan Curavic, the president of the Ocean Alliance Conservation Members (OACM), in the presence of Vice-President Vincent Meriton and Hon Nicholas Prea, Speaker of the National Assembly. This declares Seychelles as an official member of OACM, a testament to the importance Seychelles places on environment protection both locally and internationally, and follows from President Faure's participation at the "Our Oceans Conference" in Malta in 2017.
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Gabe Soria's noirish graphic novel valentine to American roots music follows damned and doomed record company owner Nate Theodore as he tries to shake the hellhounds (and creditors) on his tail, only to stumble across Donny and Marvell Fontweathers, two talented young African-American brothers whose dark, violent country blues may just be his salvation -- or maybe not. To finance a new record by the two gifted sibling, the three of them decide to go on a crime spree. The stark, moody art by Paul Reinwand and Chris Hunt slides on by easy, but the accompanying blues music by bluesman Robert Finley and The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, all grit and hurt, brings it on home like a jackhammer. (July 2017)
Finally! The P.I./Funko barrier has been breached! After years of hoping the makers of those ever-so-collectable big-eyed vinyl figures would give us some shamus love, we're beginning to see some light with the release of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage figurines, both taken, not from the comics, but from the TV show versions streaming on Netflix. Hopefully, we'll soon start to see more TV-based P.I. figures soon. Rockford? Mannix? Peter Gunn? Veronica Mars?
Frustrated by the lack of tchotchkes devoted to detective fiction? Ever wonder where the hell the Rockford Files bobbleheads are? The Kinsey Millhone Barbie Dolls? The Jack Reacher action figures? Sure, Edgar Allen Poe and Sherlock Holmes are well represented, but there are plenty of other stars of this little genre of ours who could use a little love. Which is why Debbie Ritter's mystery author dolls are such a blast. Each of these little buggers is hand-crafted from wire, wood and clay and features a hand-painted face and an appropriate book clutched in one tiny hand. Raymond Chandler, for example, looking very much the geeky Anglophile, with his gray flannel trousers, black suit coat, and checkered tie, sporting wire spectacles, and a tiny version of The Long Goodbye in his hand. Other figures, currently ready to ship, include James M. Cain, Elmore Leonard, Ian Fleming, Dashiell Hammett and even Agatha Christie. Even better, though, is that Debs will actually design a doll for you if she's hasn't already created one of your favourite authors. Tell her Kevin sent ya...
Release your inner Beckett! Or Castle. Okay, okay. ABC's Castle is NOT a private eye show, but it's encouraging, after all these years, to finally see a kids' game based on any crime/detective TV show again. And yes, I know that Castle is not exactly a kids' show, but then neither was Peter Gunn or any of those other TV tie-in board games. Maybe this one'll be a big hit and we'll soon see Burn Notice: The Miami Mystery Game or, even better, something based on Republic of Doyle. Although the latter might be a drinking game...eddy Wilson Trio). Good stuff all around. Includes a program guide by Elizabeth McLeod. (June 2012)
What? You don't have a cozy for your shiv? The perfect book for those guys and molls who know the ecstasy of a hot glue gun on a cold Sunday afternoon, this only slightly tongue-in-cheek volume by Miss Demeanor offers thirty darkly themed "outlaw projects," plucked from the annals of crime. Pass the glue gun.
A boxed set of eight of the BBC's recent acclaimed, full-cast dramatisations of novels, featuring Toby Stephens as Philip Marlowe. Titles include The Big Sleep, The Lady In The Lake, Farewell My Lovely, Playback, The Long Goodbye, The High Window, The Little Sister and Poodle Springs. (November 2011)
To these old fart eyes, it just looks like a cartoon version of Ellroy's L.A. Confidential, but people are going apeshit over this thing. To "'honour" (ie: tie-in with) the release of Rockstar's hot new videogame, Mulholland Books is releasing L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories, a collection of eight original stories by some of the best writers in the biz, including Lawrence Block, Duane Swierczynski, Joe Lansdale, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott and Andrew Vachss. I dunno.
This soundtrack to the ambitious but flawed big-screen remake of the TV cult fave about an author feverishly rewriting his life even as he faces his own personal Big Sleep swaps the original's big band-era tunes for classic 1950s-era doo wop and rock'n'roll. The film's star, Robert Downey Jr., offers the only new recording, a soulful cover of In My Dreams. Goodies include Gene Vincent's original, Johnnie Ray's Just Walking In The Rain, The Chordettes' Mr. Sandman and the eerily appropriate It's Only Make Believe by Conway Twitty. A tasty selection, balancing the expected with some genuine sleepers that deserve to be rescued from obscurity. Dreamy.
No P.I. show worth its salt would be ever be caught dead without a cool theme, so the good folks at TV Land, the American nostalgia channel, and Rhino Records have collected 16 of the original themes from such classic detective shows as The Rockford Files, Mannix , Charlie's Angels, 77 Sunset Strip, Vega$, Peter Gunn, Cannon, Hart To Hart, Remington Steele, Honey West, Hawaiian Eye, Spenser: For Hire, Harry O, Checkmate, Tenspeed and Brownshoe and Magnum P.I. by artists such as Mike Post, Lalo Shifrin, Jack Elliot & Allyn Ferguson, Warren Barker, Dominic Frontiere, John Parker, Mark Snow, Henry Mancini & His Orchestra, Alfred Perry, Steve Dorff & Friends, The John Gregory Orchestra and Johnny Williams & His Orchestra. The liner notes, by Thane Tierney, are also great fun. Noticeable by their absence are the themes from Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, by Pete Rugolo, and Staccato, by Elmer Bernstein, but who's complaining? A companion volume, entitled Crime Stoppers: TV's Greatest Cop Themes, is also available. A perfect little stocking stuffer.
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From 550 feet in the air, Google's Scott Huffman peers down at the Las Vegas skyline. It's a sunny afternoon in early January and, at the moment, Google owns this town.
The search giant has come here for a marketing blitz at CES, the biggest tech showcase in the world. Its sole mission is trumpeting the Google Assistant, its digital concierge software for controlling your smart thermostat, getting your flight information and reading you headlines.
Huffman, vice president of engineering for the Assistant, is standing with me in a big glass orb on the High Roller, Sin City's version of the London Eye observation wheel. We've just about reached the apex of the ride. Down below, you can see the words "Hey Google," the trigger phrase for the Assistant, plastered in gigantic letters on the Las Vegas Convention Center. The phrase is partly obscured by the corner of another building jutting into frame, so the sign looks like it just says "Hey Go."
It's a fitting vantage point because "go" seems to be the unwavering philosophy for Google when it comes to its Assistant. Since Google CEO Sundar Pichai released the software three years ago, the search giant has been hell-bent on catching up to Alexa, Amazon's own digital assistant. Alexa, which beat Google to market in 2014, is now, literally, a household name. It's also a product many considered the birthright of Google, whose raison d'etre is making the internet searchable and usable.
When it comes to gaining ground, Google still has work to do. Amazon's Echo devices, powered by Alexa, own almost 70 percent of the smart speaker market, according to the research firm eMarketer. Google Home devices, inhabited by the Assistant, own just shy of a quarter. But Google could take the crown from Amazon by 2023, predicts Canalys, another research firm.
"An assistant isn't useful if you don't have it," Huffman tells me. "So we've spent a lot of energy over the last couple of years really getting the Assistant out."
Ask most people what they use the Assistant or Alexa for, and they'll probably tell you voice assistants are great for playing songs, setting a kitchen timer or, if they're connected to a smart device, turning on a light. That's fine, but Google wants to beat Amazon by doing more than stuff like that. For the past year, Google's trajectory with the Assistant has been at the level of sci-fi lore, and it's only getting more aspirational from here on out.
Relying on its hardcore machine learning, natural language processing and artificial intelligence chops, it's introduced ambitious new features. To wit: With a project called Duplex, Google wants a freakishly human-sounding robot to schedule appointments on your behalf. And it wants the Assistant to translate conversations for you in real time with a new Interpreter mode that speaks 27 languages.
"Do we turn on a light? Yeah, that's table stakes," Huffman says as we hover above some of the world's most famous casinos. "But if AI is really our differentiator, what is the functionality that will take it to a level where it really changes people's lives?"
I've asked Huffman here because I was hoping the expansive setting might spark some introspective conversation. As if the great heights would spawn a moment like Mufasa and Simba on Pride Rock, talking about the Circle of Life. Or… something like that.
Things are never that dramatic when you're talking to a media-trained tech exec. But it wasn't all just wishful thinking on my part. Huffman, a 14-year Google veteran with kind eyes and a bushy gray goatee, considers my questions about the future of privacy in the era of digital assistants. He says — at first — it might take legislation.
He's also game to talk about how the Google Assistant could evolve. It's illuminating insight into how Google is thinking about arguably its most important product.
In the next five years, Huffman suggests, the Assistant could achieve the basics of natural human conversation, which, from a computer science standpoint, are anything but basic. He says wake words like "Hey" or "OK" are "really weird." He wants the Assistant to understand your mood and tone, and detect if you're frustrated. He wants the software to remember an exact discussion you had with it yesterday, so that today you can pick up where you left off.
I ask him about the vision for 10 years from now. Maybe, he muses, physical robots — not just bots you can talk to, but robots that move and do stuff — will become household products, and digital assistants could integrate with them.
As our ride on the observation wheel comes to an end, the cabin descends slowly back to earth. We pass a Las Vegas Monorail car docked on its track, which also has the words "Hey Google" slapped on its side. It's getting ready to leave the station.
Hey Go.
The Duplex moment
A few days before Pichai introduced the Assistant in May 2016 before a crowd of 7,000 developers at Google's annual I/O conference, I sat down with him in his office to hear the product pitch. The search giant was getting ready to announce Google Home, a smart home speaker to compete directly with the Amazon Echo. It was clear the Assistant would be seen as analogous to Alexa.
But from the very beginning, Pichai insisted it was more than that. "It's Google asking users, 'Hi. How can I help?"http://www.cnet.com/" Pichai said at the time. "Think of it as building your own individual Google."
After some prodding, an annoyed Pichai eventually gave Amazon credit for igniting the market. "There are areas where we will be ahead, and there will be areas where someone points a way and we do it," he said.
In the last year, that ambition has become more apparent. In May, Pichai unveiled Duplex, a jaw-dropping, realistic-sounding AI that mimics human speech. The software uses verbal tics like "uh" and "um," and pauses while talking, as if thinking of what it's going to say next, even though its responses are preprogrammed. It's currently in limited public testing.
The point of Duplex is to enable the Assistant to make restaurant reservations and hair appointments for you. But almost immediately, industry watchers, AI ethicists and consumers worried about the software's ability to deceive the people it was talking to. Google later said it would build in disclosures so people would know they were talking to a robot.
It was a key moment for Google, Huffman says. "The strength of the reaction surprised me," he says. "It made it clear to us how important those societal questions are going forward."
The specter of legislation
One of those big questions: What does privacy look like in an age when digital assistants are getting smarter and smarter?
That's important as Silicon Valley faces more scrutiny over its privacy practices than ever before. Facebook has spent the last two years fending off crisis after crisis, from disinformation campaigns to massive data breaches. Last month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to defend the company's data-hungry advertising business model in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal. Google has been under the microscope for its location data collection on Android phones, as well as what its stances on privacy could mean if were to re-enter an authoritarian country like China. Pichai was dragged in front of Congress in December to confront questions about the China project, called Dragonfly, and answer for Google's overall intake of people's personal information.
Put a device in people's living rooms with a microphone that's always listening for wake words — that's where "Hey Google" comes in — and things get even more complicated.
"If you think about Google Home or Alexa, these are really the first devices ever that aren't personal devices," says Huffman, who has a doctorate in computer science. "They're really computing devices that live in a shared environment … These things now live in this room with all of us, and we're all users. How does privacy work then?"
Huffman points to the work Google has already done in setting the agenda around AI. Last June, Pichai released a set of AI ethical guidelines that govern how the company uses the technology. The guidelines came after employees protested against a contract Google signed with the Pentagon to help develop AI for the analysis of drone footage. Those guidelines include vows to never develop AI for weaponry and to only create technologies that are "socially beneficial."
But self-regulation likely won't be the only check on the company.
"Honestly, I think it will also in the end probably take new legislation, as society figures out how these things fit in," Huffman says. "You look at things like the telephone; that's been around for a long time. There's a bunch of laws about how you could use a telephone, and what you can do."
For example, you can't wiretap a phone without a warrant, he says. "So that [rule] was for that generation of technology," says Huffman. "With AI, we're going to end up with society thinking through some of the rules of the road."
Pressed about what that legislation could look like, Huffman walks back his statement. "I don't know if it takes legislation or not. I'm not the right person to talk about that," he says. But somehow, it will be up to society to decide, he says.
Huffman won't speculate on the types of regulation, but Jen King, director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, has an idea of what legislation could look like. She's currently researching the types of data collected through smart speakers.
King says regulation could look similar to the restraints ushered in by the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, a sweeping European law that went into effect in May 2018. It gives consumers more control over the personal information they hand over to tech companies. With regard to digital assistants, legislation could mean the government enforces deletion policies for data if consumers want it wiped. Or the law could require more specific consent on how the data is specifically used and to make sure it's not done so "in perpetuity."
She says we should all pay attention to what defaults Google and other companies set on their devices in the future, to make sure people aren't unwittingly giving up personal information.
"Google, for most people, is the gateway to the internet. These assistants further fill that role," King says. "The company shapes your experience, and they're going do so in a way that benefits them."
'I get yelled at'
Of course, none of this matters if people decide they just don't need digital assistants.
As Huffman and his team toil away developing features for the Google Assistant, Pichai is doing his part too — even at the most granular level. Huffman says the CEO often reports bugs and inefficiencies with the software. For example, when he says "Hey Google" and the wrong device springs into action, he lets Huffman know about it. And when Pichai was trying to set up the software so the Assistant could understand the voices of his family members, he told Huffman the process was too complicated.
"I get yelled at sometimes, and rightly so," Huffman says with a laugh. "He's really pushing us."
Eager to prove that consumers are actually using their assistants, last month both Amazon and Google did something they rarely do: They released user figures.
Amazon said more than 100 million Alexa devices have been sold. Not to be outdone, a few days later Google said the Assistant was close to hitting 1 billion devices. But neither figure tells the whole story. For example, the vast majority (Google won't say how much) of those billion Assistant devices are automatically included on Android phones because the software is preinstalled. Of course, Google also installs the Assistant on its own Pixel phones.
I ask Huffman when that figure will be dominated by devices that are not phones. He says he doesn't know, but Google is looking to two areas where the Assistant could live that could eventually add up — cars and houses.
Google's battle plan for the smart home is well-documented. It wants to take on Amazon and its Echo devices in the market for smart home speakers. It also wants to make the Assistant work with as many smart TVs as possible, from manufacturers like Samsung, Sony and Hisense. But Google's push to get the Assistant into cars is less talked about. At CES, Google announced a few Assistant devices for automobiles, including a car phone adapter made by Anker Roav that plugs into a cigarette lighter.
The idea is to spread the Assistant far and wide. It won't be easy. In laying out the odds, Huffman returns to the Vegas theme.
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Maybe a good way to facilitate this would be to have a gain/loss approach to promotions. In the larger scheme of things, your graph outlines this. But to make it practical, maybe you could set the promotions up so that you GAIN potential skills,xp, etc. but LOSE a few skills, xp, etc from. You would loose skills or advancements in certain skills in the area you are moving away from. For example a character promoted from Lt. Commander to Commander would lose advancements made towards tactical skills and gain the potential to increase those skills necessary to perform duties in operations.
Still, you've got a point. One of the unhappy possibilities of a Star Trek MMORPG is to see grizzled old admirals leaping over their desks with a phaser in their teeth to do hand-to-hand battle with NPCs. If advancing in rank means retaining all the old tactical skills while adding new operational and strategic capabilities, then that unhappy possibility of admirals going tactical on NPCs exists.
My assumption was that the game itself would counter that by the kinds of challenges offered to characters at particular ranks -- admirals just plain wouldn't get offered tactical content. But that sort of begs the question: what's stopping captains and admirals from seeking out tactical content on their own? Should the game try to prevent these characters from taking a break from the leadership and planning content?
This is something for which I don't yet have a satisfying answer. I'm still inclined to try to think in terms of an emergent approach, in which it's not necessary to impose game rules to get some behavior because the game is designed such that most players themselves will want to express that behavior. I'd like to think that if you like strategic play, and if you became an Admiral to gain access to that kind of content, and if there's so much strategic content that you don't run out of it, then you won't be interested enough in tactical play to revert back to it.
Lots of "ifs" in that, aren't there?
Is there some other way to minimize the "two-fisted Admiral" situation other than taking away skills when a character is promoted?


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The sun is shining and the first signs of spring are here! Please get outside (while it lasts) and then come back in and enjoy this brief update from STREAM.
Celebrating 3 Years of Local Projects
Our 3 year anniversary is approaching so we thought we would share a map of our projects since the beginning. This is a great way to illustrate our "Local First" committment and our emphasis on building a diverse, mixed-use, and resilient future for Ithaca. As you can see, we LOVE working close to the core so please don't hesitate to give us a call or just stop by to chat about sustainability and the built environment.
Adaptive Re-Use Proposal Submitted
We just submitted our final proposal for the adaptive re-use of the Old Library. With sound economics confirmed by our financier and overwhelming community support for responsible resource and energy conservation how can we go wrong? Well unfortunately, the county still hasn't made a decision. If you also support minimizing the impact to the historic neighborhood through adpative re-use please consider contacting your county legislator and signing the petition prepared by the Dewitt Park Civic Association.
Firelight Camps Expanding
The awesome folks at Firelight Camps (at La Tourelle) are busy planning the next phase of their successful glamping venture. STREAM is helping plan 15 luxury tents, expanded common tents, and a fully renovated bath house for this upcoming season.
Hillside Villa
On behalf of PPM Homes, we recently presented an initial concept sketch plan for our newest multi-family project in the city of Ithaca. This is a 4-building, 12-unit residential project built on one of the few vacant parcels within the city boundaries. The incredibly steep site poses both a challenge and opportunity to create a special place unlike any other. Imagine an "old world" feeling with central stairway providing access to individual units and a through block pedestrian connection.
AIASNY Award
STREAM is so excited to be recognized by our peers at this year's AIASNY Chapter Awards dinner. Along with Randall + West Planners, we won an Honorable Mention Award for our 2012 Ithaca Form-Based Code Demonstration Study. This is the project that kick started our current Form Ithaca initiative to help imagine a coordinated form-based code for both the City and Town of Ithaca. Congratulations to John Snyder Architects, Ann Beha Architects, Holt Architects and Grace Chiang Architects who were also recognized this year with awards.
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SHANGHAI, Oct 24 (Reuters) - A second Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor on China's eastern coast is now ready to go into full commercial operation after a week-long trial run, the project's operator said late on Tuesday.
The State Power Investment Corp (SPIC) said in a notice posted on its website that the first unit of the Haiyang nuclear reactor project in Shandong province completed a 168-hour full-load test late on Monday evening. The reactor unit began construction in 2009 and was finally connected to the grid in August.
China gave the go-ahead to build four Westinghouse-designed AP1000 reactors in 2007. The first unit at Sanmen in Zhejiang province was originally scheduled to go into full operation in 2014, but the unproven "third-generation" technology has been beset by years of delays as a result of safety concerns and unanticipated design problems.
Unit 1 at Sanmen was finally declared ready to go into full commercial operation last month, making it the world's first AP1000 reactor to be completed.
Westinghouse, which was acquired by Brookfield Business Partners from Japan's Toshiba in August, hoped China would serve as a shop window for its AP1000 design, which boasts enhanced "passive" safety features as well as higher levels of generation capacity.
Westinghouse filed for bankruptcy last year after its nuclear projects in the United States were also hit by billions of dollars of cost overruns.
China also hoped that AP1000 technology would be at the centre of its own ambitious nuclear power plans after signing a technology transfer agreement in 2006.
But after a root-and-branch industrial safety review in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster in 2011, China's nuclear programme has slowed considerably, and it is now unlikely to meet its 2020 capacity targets.
Reporting by David Stanway; Editing by Joseph Radford