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Former Apple Intern May Have Inadvertently Aided in the Creation of Apple's Textbook Initiative
Following Apple's announcements earlier today, Brian Lam has posted a fascinating story over at The Wirecutter regarding the origin of Apple's new textbook initiative. In short, back in 2008, a former Apple intern, Joseph Peters, introduced an early concept for Apple's implementation of the textbook for an internal competition, iContest.
Peters is careful not to attribute Apple's new textbook initiative to himself, but today's announcements certainly suggest that his presentation might have had a profound and lasting impact upon the Apple executive team. In the interview, Peters says:
Well the original idea came from my frustration with how much Textbooks were and I did some research about the market which showed that prices were artificially inflated because publishers were losing revenue from the resale of used textbooks.
Peters' original presentation even included mockups of iTunes and iOS allowing for the perusal of textbooks.
Whether or not Apple's current implementation is based upon Mr. Peters' concept or not, it is certainly intriguing to consider the potential that an enormous company like Apple embraced the ideas of the youth. Indeed, Lam writes:
This seems like a smart thing for an enormous company to do when they're trying to keep start-up values. It's a neat little hack to the innovator's dilemma. Also, the idea only cost them a few Macbook Airs.
Check out the interview in its entirety at The Wirecutter (a fantastic site worth bookmarking if you haven't already).

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In my last post, I closed out because I was receiving guests from my home church, Downey First Christian Church. A group of four came for nearly 5 days. Stephen, the youth minister, was scheduled to teach at the weekend Biblical leadership institute we hold every couple of months. Sarah, my sister and church admin extraordinaire, brainstormed with a couple friends, Monica and Kerri, and came up with a couple talks they could give.
Monica helps out with the youth group, especially with junior high. She spoke to teens at El Recreo church which is located in a gang-ridden neighborhood. She shared about how God saved her from a life of drugs and gangs. I didn't get to attend, but I heard comments later that they really appreciated her openness and how passionate she is about sharing Christ with kids who are lost. She doesn't scare away easily. The church leaders were so glad to have Monica back again. She's such a good fit at El Recreo church. They say she's Ecuador's lost daughter and eventually she'll find her way home to them.
Kerri works with the children's ministry. She held both morning and afternoon sessions at Samborondon church on how to work with kids. Some of her students have been teachers for nearly 2 decades, but were excited to see something as powerful and simple as an object lesson. Gladys is pictured with Kerri. She just started working with the children outreach at her church a few months ago. I asked her what impacted her most about Kerri's class. Her eyes sparkled with emotion when she said she appreciated the insights for working with kids with trauma.
Sarah didn't come to give a class. She came to see me and bring me a suitcase full of stuff from clothes to nutella! Oh, and she organized the whole trip and translated for Kerri and Monica. I was so happy to have her here! Last year she was my guide to Ecuador. We were amused by how that had flipped this year.
I got to translate for Stephen's youth ministry course that spanned three days. It was such a great time! I've missed being part of his leadership team. He's such an encouraging leader who is great at listening and encouraging. The first night, people had arrived as quickly as they could after work and were tired and hungry. There wasn't much interaction that night. The next day, as Stephen shared about mission and vision driven ministry and how it is fed by our own relationship and communion with Jesus, people started grasping onto something they'd not considered before. It was awesome to see them come alive and share their experiences. As you can see in the picture, everyone had a new excitement and insight to take back to their home churches.
I was honored to participate in the experience. And I learned a lot, myself.
I'm a pretty direct person who believes in always speaking truth into people's lives, but I learned that grace must be extended before truth can be received. Both must go together, hand in hand.
Stephen also got to preach at El Recreo church Sunday night. Notice the progress on the upstairs offices in the back. The church is working really hard to complete that project themselves, instead waiting for next year's missions teams. I'm so excited to see them take ownership of it. They are learning that they can accomplish things for Jesus, too.
After a busy weekend of teaching and preaching, we toured Guayaquil on Monday. Our first stop was the National Historical Park of Guayaquil.
They have a zoo section and different areas recreated to represent colonial Guayaquil and regional farming life of the 1900's. The zoo was closed for maintenance, but we got to see this peacock show off in the coffee plantation area. Magnificent!
The team left the next day and I admit I was bummed to see them go. Samuel and Paola kidnapped me for the rest of the day.
We went to explore Santa Ana Port, a high-end esplanade along the Guayas River. If you've been to Guayaquil and climbed the Santa Ana hill with the 506 steps up to the lighthouse and faced north, congratulations, you looked out over the Santa Ana Port. You probably noticed a tall twisty building. That's the tallest building in Ecuador, at 36 stories. It is an office building named "The Point". I'd always seen it when crossing the bridge into Guayaquil. You know when you always see something from afar and then you finally see it up close you have a sense of fulfillment and attainment (like finally reaching the lighthouse)? That happened. I was finally there. It's just so tall and twisty.
We found a coffee shop at the base of "The Point" that had just opened called "El Yogurt Irlandés" (The Irish Yogurt). Yogurt places where you can get yogurt and fruit blends and, my favorite, "pan de yuca" are common in Ecuador. This place adds coffee to the menu. We went in, but the guy was out of stock on everything. This sign advertises a morning special of Irish coffee with 3 "panes de yuca" (yucca bread rolls) for $3.95. That's pretty steep. Yogurt Persa, my favorite yogurt place, offers a yogurt blended with your choice of fruit and 3 "panes de yuca" for $2.75.
The School
I don't remember if I've mentioned that we're now having school on Saturdays. Due to El Niño flooding they are expecting next year, the ministry of education has decided to wrap up the school year a month early at the end of January to avoid the worst of the rain. To accomplish this we now have school on Saturdays. Yay. Everyone is tired of classes by the time Saturday rolls around, so Lupe plans less academic activities for Saturday. For example, a couple of weeks ago we had a presentation of the extra-curricular "clubs". The kids' arts and crafts projects were on display.
Miss Yuli's third grade class presented a Snow White play they'd been working on. You get creative with roles when there are 35 kids in your class.
And my choir performed in "public" for the first time. As each teacher before me presented her students' completed projects they explained the process they went through to get their outcome. Boy, was I glad for my college voice lessons and the Sister Act movies when it was my turn to explain how we went about learning to sing. I explained about posture, breathing, and scales. I restrained myself from breaking into song… "Doe a deer, a female deer…" a la Maria Von Trapp. The English would have been confusing for them.
We had our picture taken with the recently purchased keyboard and then they sang "Oceans" in Spanish with a soundtrack (I'm still getting comfortable playing the keyboard). They were amazing! And I was beaming proud.
Miss Yuli, Lupe, Adrian, and Pastor Jose resting after the kids' program.
I have a new favorite street vendor snack: sliced green mango with lemon and salt. The salt looks dirty because they add a bit of pepper. My mouth waters at the memory, but I can only have it once in a while because the lemon is brutal on my teeth. Immediate tooth brushing is required to save enamel.
This is what I got the other day when I ordered chicken fried steak with French fries. Notice the unmentioned rice takes up the most real estate on the plate. That's how Ecuadorians roll, especially in the rice farming region that is Samborondon. They don't even list the rice on the menu. Everyone just assumes whatever is offered comes with a good-sized portion of rice. I heard someone criticize this restaurant for skimping on their rice portions. Huh.
The coastal plains area (which extends from the ocean to the mountains) of Ecuador only has two seasons: summer is hot and dry, winter is hotter and wet. We're currently nearing the end of summer when temps drop just below 80 degrees at night. It's as close to fall as it gets here. I guess that's why my favorite lunch place offered this pumpkin soup the other day. So yummy! And only $3.50 for the full lunch!
Before I close, I'd like to thank World Wide Outreach, the elders at DFCC and anyone else that was involved in sending Sarah and the others to spend a long weekend here. I feel loved and I'm grateful for you all.
Next time, I'll tell you about what Samborondon celebrates instead of Halloween on October 31.
Love and Peace,


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This yummy simple food is very popular during fasting month. My mother used to cooked this for sahur (early morning breakfast). I loves to eat it with hot plain rice... without anything else.
2 pcs tempe - cut
1 cup of anchovies - soaked
1 big onion - cut
2 garlic - chopped
5 pcs dried chilli - stir fry and pounded
1 tblsp soy sauce
1 tbslp palm sugar (boil 1 stick with 1/2 cup of water until dissolved)
1 chicken stock (powder/ granules)
1 tblsp white vinegar
1 tsp lime juice
1. Deep fry Tempe and anchovies separately until brown. Keep a side
2. Remove the oil leave about 2 tblsp and saute the garlic. Add cut onion and chili paste, stir fry about 5 mins.
3. Add soy sauce, vinegar, chicken stock granules and palm sugar. Stir properly until it dry. Remove from the stove
4. Combine Tempe and anchovies, mixed well. Transfer iinto a plate and garnish with salad and tomato, served with white rice.
Note: You can add peanut to this recipe


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Saturday, September 1, 2012
"Application, Discipline, Focus, Repetition"
For the Labor Day weekend, I thought I would post this video of Henry Rollins, an American singer and artist who has continually reinvented himself since he left his job as a manager of a Hagen-Daaz ice cream store in 1981 to become the lead singer in Black Flag.
The point of posting this video is not to glorify Henry Rollins, but to consider, on its own terms, the life narrative of one interesting person. Rollin's formula of "application, discipline, focus, repetition" sounds a lot like deliberate practice. Based on my own research, I have broken this process into two steps:
- Identifying the core elements needed to be become an expert or master in a specific domain -- Jeff Lipshaw was alluding to this in his post on Donald Schon and reflective practice;
- Practicing, through thousands of hours of effort, on elements that one lacks in order to move along the continuum to mastery. Number 2 works best when the person has the benefit of feedback and coaching. Of course, they also have to be willing to do the work.
For an individual, it may not be necessary to formally break down the core elements into specific pieces. Instead, these pieces can be obtained iteratively through trial and error and reflection. I think this is what Rollins has done. It is a formula that works for one highly determined person. But can it be scaled?
As an educator, I am interested in making the components of practice mastery more explicit and transparent--this is step #1 above. To accomplish step #1, we still need to do foundational research that deconstructs the careers of outstanding lawyers into sets of specific skills, abilities, and competencies--i.e., the things to be practiced. (Notice I said "sets" -- outstanding lawyers often master different domains.) At present, the Shultz-Zedeck Effective Lawyering study is the only solid published research that is even adjacent to this topic.
Once these components of effective lawyers are identified--i.e., a law school identifies the skills, abilities and competencies it wants to develop over the course of three years--we move to step #2. This step raises complex questions of order (which competencies first, which come second, etc.) and pedagogy (best and most cost-effective methods) and measurement (how do we know we have made progress?). I think the answers would have to come iteratively, through trial and error.
Any educational institution pursuing this strategy would have to commit itself to studying and continuously improving the educational process. For law schools, this would be new. At the vast majority of law schools, we mostly teach legal knowledge, we don't articulate our intended educational outcomes, we let students pick their courses ala carte with minimal guidance, and we don't engage in serious measurement. But we could. I think this is the next great frontier--an enormous opportunity for any law school willing to think for itself, to experiment and to change. The data needed would come from one's own alumni, ideally supplemented with data sharing within a law school consortium.
[posted by Bill Henderson]
Wonderful post. This is the future of legal education. I suggest you also look at the material on expertise in Daniel Kahmeman, Thinking, Fast ans Slow (2011). Also, Duane F. Shell and his co-authors have shown how learning works in The Unified Learning Model (2010). I have applied these theories to legal education in How to Become an Expert Law Teacher by Understanding the Neurobiology of Learning at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2115768.
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Several years ago, one of my best friends posted a photo of her daughter naked on Instagram. At the time, her daughter was maybe a year old…and adorable. It was an adorable picture. But her daughter was naked.
After 23 years of counseling, you could call me an alarmist. I obviously hear the worst stories about all kinds of issues. And I hear more than my fair share of information about predators, both real-world and online. They're out there, as we all know. And any image today can be found and kept and used for lots of things I don't want to mention or really even think about, especially when it comes to the precious children of my dear friends.
I also read an article recently about the facial recognition software that is so prevalent today. It said that by the time the children who are toddlers now are old enough to have their own social media sites, they'll already have albums full of their own photos where they've been recognized and tagged.
What kind of photos are you posting about your children? Are they photos you would have been embarrassed for your parents to show their five friends sitting around a dinner table? If so, you might want to re-think posting them for your hundreds of friends on your social media.
You also might want to read this insightful article from the good folks at Parenting.com about the other kinds of photos your kids don't want on your social media (or they sure won't want on theirs when they hit 13).


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Cher gets Thom into Racial Drama...
My four year old daughter has a rather eclectic taste in music. I'd say she gets it from me, and perhaps in its inception it may have very well been my direct thumbprint on that ear of hers. But I'm pretty sure it's YouTube now that's guiding her selections now (I guess I can take credit for having cultivated the odd search history that would generate the selections), and it's certainly odd.
Her most recent musical obsession happens to be Cher; a thankful change of pace, given her previous favorite was the Insane Clown Posse. She had an original favorite, perhaps Cher's greatest ditty ("Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves"), but has since moved on to easily her number two (on my mine, anyways; but certainly rounding out any Cherite's Top Five), "Half Breed".
(In case you haven't ever given this tune a listen, or it's been a hot minute, why not settle in and give it a tumble. It'll help understand what's coming if you know the lay of the land...).
If I Could Turn Back Time...
So it's a Friday, and P-Nut and I are driving home. We're in my work van, windows down with the music just screaming. We were getting off "Under the Sea" and the shuffle kicks over to the next ditty.
Her crystal eyes grow big with impish glee, the thundering beat of native drums pounding before the disco heavy strings and backbeat start spinning.
We start belting out the words, near screaming as we compete with the speakers and one another, my words floundering as I struggle to not giggle as she really feels the groove; losing herself to car seat dance. Cher gets to that first chorus as I roll to a fresh red light; and the three of us are just at the top of our lungs.
"Halfbreed! That's all I ever heard! Half breed!..."
As I'm singing I hear someone saying excuse me.
I'm usually singing like an ass in traffic, so having gotten someone's attention for acting like a fool in his bedroom isn't all that surprising a phenomenon.
But they are usually not this irritated.
"I said excuse me." I hear again. It's a woman's voice.
I turn, truthfully half ready to hear some wretch lecture me for inadvertently cutting her off or something. I see it's a woman, as I had thought, sitting in the passenger seat trying to get my attention. She had caramel skin and a irked look on her pretty face.
"Yes?" I reply, turning down the volume a little.
"What was it you were just calling me?" She asked. Her tone was serious and annoyed. Quickly I rush past the lyrics I had sung, wondering if there was anything that could have been misinterpreted as a crude cat call. I was drawing a blank.
"Nothing, ma'am... Was singing with the kid."
"Singing, huh... Just happened to pull next to a light skinned black lady and just happened to scream out "half breed" as you did? You just happened to do that?" She questioned, our light cycle nearing its end.
"Yes, I swear. It's a Cher song called "Half Breed". It about her being half Indian..." I said,Mylar chuckling at th absurdity of it all.
"Sure motherfucker," she said, light turning green as she did.
"Hope Donald Trump win and kicks your spic ass back to Mexico!" She called out, flipping me off as her friend's late model Focus speeds off through the intersection.
"Who was that, daddy," my daughter asks, still a bit confused why the dance party had been cut short.
"Was it a friend?"
"No P-Nut," I say, continuing my drive home.
"Just an angry lady."
"Well, maybe if we put on Taylor, she'll be happy and we can have dance party." She reasoned, certain Taylor Swift would be above any and all protest.
And she was right, no one else bothering us during the remainder of our ride. Got a few looks, the pair of us bopping to "Shake it off" like some tent revival attendants, but no kore angry confrontations to speak of.
I contemplated getting pissy over the whole exchange for a second, doing my best to deny myself those infectious beats of that angelically voiced, blonde 2x4. And that feeling did subside as I relented to the groove.
I chalked it up to just another instance of a haters that's gonna hate, hate, hate; the woman so wrapped up in her own personal grudges and issues that she couldn't see perhaps that I wasn't being malicious to her. That perhaps I was just singing an old song with my daughter that- had she not been so busy defending her "trigger free zone", she might have listened to and perhaps identified with to some degree or another (I'm assuming that, given her light skin tone and facial features, that the offended party was perhaps a mulatto [or oft confused for one], and had had her fill of being called "half breed" and "mud blood" after a while).
And it made me a little sad for her, my day taking a little less than a city block to get back on track all the while knowing that her's had been no doubt ruined; knowing the sting of thinking someone was calling you a slur for the fuck of it can stick in your craw like molasses for hours. If there's one curse to our current society of narcissistic self devotion, it would have to be worship placed towards victimization; whole pockets of our society seemingly craving to find proof for the mistreatment and horrors they believe they feel in day to day existence. Given what all had happened, it's easy to tell that girl was seeking to find bigots, somehow finding hate in the sweet dulcet tones of Cher. An it would be easy to write her off as some sour faced cunt.
But instead I felt pity for her. Such a curse to be held so hostage to the innocuous words of strangers... Must be tough living in a world with so many boogie men.,.


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RYE — Police are still investigating what caused the accident that killed 20-year-old Jhaime Dye on Saturday.
RYE — Police are still investigating what caused the accident that killed 20-year-old Jhaime Dye on Saturday.
Rye Police Chief Kevin Walsh said his department is arranging for state police to have a look at Dye's minivan, a 2001 Chrysler Town and Country, to determine if anything went wrong mechanically.
"We're giving the family a little breathing room," said Walsh. "We are waiting on toxicology tests."
Walsh said he has no reason at this time to suspect drugs or alcohol were involved. He said toxicology tests are standard practice in a case such as this one.
"It's a real shame to see a kid who has potential to do something with their life end up this way," said Walsh. "He graduated from high school and was going to college. I felt he had a positive thing going."
Dye was killed in a single-car accident on Ocean Boulevard early Saturday morning. A small bouquet sits on the rocks where his car was found, a memorial to a young life cut short.
Dye, of 13 Mountain View Terrace, was pronounced dead at the scene after emergency personnel discovered his minivan on rocks 25 feet off the road, north of Wallis Sands State Park just before 6 a.m. He was the son of John R. Dye, and David and Susan Anderson. Herald archives revealed that Dye was an honor student and an athlete, a member of Portsmouth High School's boys soccer team.
No witnesses to the crash have been found. Police are asking those with information to call them at 964-5522 or 964-7450.


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Today's Everyday Fashion: New Years Eve/
Happy New Year everyone! This is what I threw on last night to ring in the New Year at home! Hope you all had a fun and safe night.
Shirt: c/o The Blue Door Boutique
Jeans: TJ Maxx, $17 (recent - bought them in Kansas!)
Shoes: Colin Stuart c/o MJR Sales, $17
Necklace: My Stella & Dot website, $136 (this necklace is on sale!)
Bracelets: Banana Republic
Cocktail ring: Bakers


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This Month in Bass History: February
2ND Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose, 1979.
3RD Nigel Harrison's bass part is the just the thing for Blondie's U.K. No. 1 "Heart of Glass," 1979.
4TH The Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive," bolstered by a Maurice Gibb bass line, takes over the charts, 1978.
6TH Danny Klein's work on J. Geils Band's "Centerfold" is tops, 1982.
7TH John Entwistle and the Who record "Pinball Wizard," 1969. John Paul Jones and the boys are tops in the U.K. with Led Zeppelin II, 1970. Tony Levin's mind-meld with drummer Steve Gadd takes Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" to the top, 1976. Robert "Kool" Bell & the Gang rule the charts with "Celebration," 1981.
8TH The Ohio Players and Marshall "Rock" Jones have a No. 1 single with "Fire," 1975.
9TH Multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and Count Basie bass man Walter Page born, 1900.
10TH Educator, bandleader, and sideman Rufus Reid born, 1944. Metallica bass legend Cliff Burton born, 1962. Original Stooges bassist Dave Alexander dies from pneumonia, 1975.
12TH Producer, bassist, and label head Bill Laswell born, 1955. Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," blessed with a Leroy Hodges bass line, is No. 1, 1972.
13TH Geezer Butler and Black Sabbath release their self-titled debut, 1970.
15TH Larry Graham's slap bass part helps push Sly & the Family Stone's "Everyday People" to the top of the charts, 1969. Glen Matlock is fired by the Sex Pistols and replaced by Sid Vicious, 1977.
17TH Thirteen years before he makes the move, Bill Wyman declares his intention to leave the Rolling Stones, 1980.
18TH Carol Kaye lays down her immortal bass line for the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations," 1966.
19TH Colin Pattendon grooves Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "Blinded by the Light," written by Bruce Springsteen, right to the top of the charts, 1977.
21ST Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay," with its groovy Donald "Duck" Dunn bass line, is No. 3 in the U.K., 1968. The Four Seasons' Don Ciccone's bass and vocals are featured in the No. 1 U.K. hit "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)," 1975. Fleetwood Mac and John McVie release their masterpiece Rumours, 1977.
22ND Roger Waters and Paul McCartney are both recording at Abbey Road Studios—Waters for Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn sessions, and McCartney for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967. Alan Gorrie's perfect bass part helps push Average White Band's "Pick Up the Pieces" to the top of the charts, 1975.
23RD Suzi Quatro hits No. 1 in the U.K. with "Devil Gate Drive," 1974.
24TH Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song," adorned with a Ron Carter bass line, hits No. 1, 1973.
26TH The Beatles' Rubber Soul album hits No.1 in the U.S., 1966.


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Disappointed Spieth 'had it in my hands'
AUGUSTA, Ga. --
Bubba Watson might have slipped his arms into the green jacket Sunday night, but this Masters carried another distinct vibe - as Jordan Spieth's introduction to mainstream sports fans.
Spieth's name has resonated in golf circles ever since he made the cut in his hometown Byron Nelson Championship in 2010, at age 16. Then, two years ago, he earned low-amateur honors in the U.S. Open at the Olympic Club. Last year, he became the youngest PGA Tour winner since 1931.
Still, it's another deal entirely to threaten to win the Masters at age 20. Spieth even took a two-shot lead Sunday, but he sputtered in the middle of his round - making three bogeys in a five-hole stretch (Nos. 8-12) - and tied for second with Jonas Blixt.
Spieth, whose previous best finish in a major was his tie for 21st at Olympic, acknowledged he was "very, very pleased" with his inaugural week at Augusta National.
"Although I feel like it's very early in my career, and I'll have more chances, it stings right now," he said. "I had it in my hands."
He moved ahead with four early birdies, including sinking a difficult bunker shot on No. 4. Spieth let it slip away with bogeys at Nos. 8 and 9 and a tee shot into Rae's Creek at No. 12. Spieth ever so slightly misjudged the wind on the short par-3, leading to another costly bogey.
He also lost his cool a bit, becoming visibly frustrated as his shots went awry and his putts eluded the hole. Then again, he's 20. He'll be back.
Graybeards, rejoice: Those old guys really can play.
Fred Couples, 54, floated back to Earth on the weekend - he shot 73-75 and skidded into a tie for 21st - but he was one of six 50-and-older players who made the cut. Miguel Angel Jimenez, 50, led the way, shooting 71 on Sunday to finish fourth.
Bernhard Langer, 56, posted a final-round 69 to soar into a tie for eighth. Langer, a two-time Masters champion, savored the parade of "old-timers" holding their own at Augusta National.
"I think it's a statement, yeah," Langer said. "There are a lot of good over-50 players. We can compete at the highest level and even on a very, very long course like this one.
"I think the guys stay in better shape and they know there's a great tour waiting for them. They don't kind of quit in their late 40s. They're maybe working harder at it, knowing they have five or 10 years and maybe more on the Champions Tour."
The other 50-and-over players who reached the weekend were Vijay Singh (tie for 37th), Sandy Lyle (tie for 44th) and Larry Mize (51st).
Walker's solid finish: All in all, Jimmy Walker acquitted himself well in his first Masters appearance.
Walker, who lives in San Antonio, played his way out of contention by shooting 76 on Saturday. He played his way back into the top 10 by posting 2-under-par 70 on Sunday, making six birdies and four bogeys.
That left Walker at even-par for the tournament, tied for eighth. He still leads the PGA Tour with three wins in this wraparound season, though he slipped to No. 2 on the money list behind Watson on Sunday.
Briefly: Rory McIlroy posted his only sub-70 round of the tournament (69) to climb into a tie for eighth, his best finish in six Masters starts. ... Adam Scott, last year's winner, tied for 14th after closing with a 72. ... Hardest hole: No. 11, the par-4 with an average score of 4.48. Easiest hole: No. 13, the par-5 at 4.70. ... Nick Watney shot 74 on Sunday and tied for 44th.
Ron Kroichick is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.


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^ This amazing handmade chandelier is the perfect piece for an entryway. The antiqued mercury mirrored globes sparkle and diffuse the light in the space. We are actually installing this beauty TODAY in a client's entry, we can't wait to see how it looks in person! Stand by for a follow up photo.
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What Is Swimmer's Itch?
Swimmer's itch is caused by a group of parasitic flatworm species, called avian schistosomes. All avian schistosomes live as adult worms in a definitive (vertebrate) host, and pass their eggs in the feces of their host. If the eggs land in water they hatch within an hour and the resulting free-living larvae (called miracidia) need to penetrate into the correct intermediate host (always a snail) in order for the parasite to survive. Once inside a snail, the flatworms reproduce asexually and after 3-4 weeks develop into second free-living larval stages (called cercariae). These cercariae leave their host to find a new definitive host. Swimmer's itch, a severe dermatitis, occurs when cercariae accidentally penetrate humans when they are in lake water, where they die before reaching the skin's dermal layer. In many Michigan lakes, the common merganser is the primary or sole vertebral host. (See lifecycle of swimmer's itch)
It all started when...
Discovering of the cause of Swimmer's Itch
It wasn't until 1928 that a Dr. William W. Cort (Johns Hopkins), working at the University of Michigan Biological Station on Douglas Lake in northern Michigan discovered small, water-borne parasites cause swimmer's itch. The scientific world took notice and soon investigations around the world focused on the larval parasites that cause the condition known medically as cercarial dermatitis. Over 100 species of parasites responsible for swimmer's itch have been identified to date as documented as hundreds of scientific papers worldwide.
In the 1980's several lake associations in Leelanau County contracted with a professor from Hope College (Harvey Blankespoor) and his associate, Ron Reimink, to determine the cause of swimmer's itch and devise a program to eliminate or reduce the factors that cause the problem. They formed a firm called SICON and quickly became leaders in researching, understanding and controlling swimmer's itch.
Although it was known most species of waterfowl carry itch-causing parasites, SICON scientists made a major discovery in the early 1980's that the species found in common mergansers (a diving duck) is responsible for mayor outbreaks of swimmer's itch on large recreational lakes in Michigan and across the United States. That discovery opened up new, more effective and less environmentally damaging control methods that continue to evolve and develop today.
Today, MISIP is assisting lake associations to understand how to identify and assess the problem on their lakes, helping to connect them with qualified researchers and control experts, promoting new research efforts which will result in long term, affordable methods to maintain low levels of swimmer's itch, assisting efforts to find new methods of prevention and hosting meetings and conferences to share information.


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My husband has been on staff at a church for most of our 13+ year marriage. I have been around many pastors' wives because of his role as a seminary professor and because of our work in churches. A very common piece of advice, or warning, I have received is that my closest friends should not be in our church. I have been told it's impossible to have close friendships with church members, warned I will get burned, and told to find another outlet for community in order to protect myself and my family from negative experiences. These warnings often come from pastors' wives who have been hurt by church members they thought they could trust. They have seen their husbands suffer at the hands of people they considered close friends. As a result, they have built walls around their family to try and protect them from having it happen again. I completely understand this, but I am calling foul.
Ladies, this is simply no way to live.
Is there some wisdom in having close, trusted and godly friendships with people outside your church? Yes. Are there sometimes burdens you cannot share with members of your church because it would be inappropriate? For sure. If you do pursue friendship with members of your church, will you be disappointed by friendships with people in your church and have your feelings hurt at some point? Most likely. But if you choose not to pursue friendships within your church, you will also miss out on true friendships and real community. You will set an unhelpful tone and example for the rest of your church. The truth is, whether inside or outside of your church, no friendship is totally free of disappointment and hurt.
Most of us pastors' wives want people to feel welcome at our churches when we meet them. We want to be friendly and kind and help them feel as though they belong. We want them to see us as friends and sisters in Christ. However, oftentimes in our hearts we become so guarded and so fearful that we make it impossible to have true community with other ladies in our church. Sure, we attend events and interact with people at them, but we don't often open up our lives in meaningful ways to them. In failing to do this, women in our churches are neglected, pastors' wives are isolated and we fail to grow in love for one another. There has to be a better way.
Being a friend means imitating Christ.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children let us not love in word or talk but in deed and truth. 1 John 3:16-18
God's instruction in these verses is important for us. Pastor's wife, when you lay down your fears, your hurts and your bitterness and choose to love the women in your church deeply you are imitating Christ. When you see your sister's needs, especially her need to connect and belong, and you close your heart to her, how does God's love abide in you? When you tell the women in your church to love one another, serve one another and live life together, but you don't join them, your words ring hollow.
My family and I were part of a church for over six years that we left for various reasons. It was the first and only time we have left a church that wasn't for a new ministry opportunity. It was painful. It was gut wrenching. It felt like something died. We lived our lives openly and freely with the people in that church. They were my closest friends, my husband's closest friends and our kids' closest friends. We ate together, prayed together and cried together. We stayed up late talking, laughing and encouraging one another. Some of my best friends to this day are people I met and lived in community with at that church. Some of my deepest personal disappointments were because of relationships at that church. We got burned by people. We were hurt and I am sure we painfully disappointed others as well. But in those years we also grew. We saw Jesus more clearly, we learned how to love and serve one another better, and we learned so much about what it means to lay our lives down for one another. It was absolutely painful, but it was also beautiful and completely worth it.
Pastor's wife, we must be on mission to show people Jesus.
To put the hands of the hurting into the hands of the Savior you have to be close enough to get hurt yourself. - Rosaria Butterfield
On this worthy mission you will likely get hurt, but you will also experience love and belonging like you never would have if you kept your distance. Give the ladies in your church not only the gospel but your lives as well (1 Thes 2:8). Sister, lay your life down and be a real friend.
Lauren Lambert is a pastor's wife to Heath and mom of three children. She lives in Jacksonville, FL where Heath serves as Associate Pastor at First Baptist Church and is the Executive Director for ACBC.


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Sometimes I love my husband just a little bit more than usual. Especially when he fixes my computer, so now I've got access to blogger again! Yay! So now you can comment again, if you want to.
Since I finished the huge Urdr shawl for my mother-in-law I've mostly knit on the Austin hoodie. It's coming along very nicely, I'm already done with all of the body and half-way through the first sleeve. Then it's just the second sleeve and the hood left, so I think this one might be finished pretty soon. I'm really looking forward to wearing it!
A while ago I got a very nice message on Ravelry from stitchdiva studio. They were asking if they could use my photo of my Silken Scabbard sweater on their pattern site! I feel very honoured, so I had to go take some new, outdoors photos (well, Thomas took the photos, I just posed).
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At work Bistro writer Liane Faulder has been doing monthly food tours of little areas of Edmonton. Some are a given, such as Little Italy (this one is to come), but some focus on lesser known areas.
Here's a microsite with the tours done thus far, including Alberta Avenue (118 Avenue), 124th Street and Little Lebanon. The pieces are mixed focusing on groceries, restaurants and specific recipes, explained through written pieces, video, galleries and soundslide. More are to come! edmontonjournal.com/foodtours.


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Pete Sandford noticed at a young age that Home and Business Technology was something most people were generally concerned about.
They weren't just concerned about purchasing the correct equipment or installing it the right way, but they were also afraid of the consequences for not having it at all.
"Big Box" companies make their money on showing you the products they make the most profit on instead of identifying the opportunity to solve your problems long term with the correct product and solutions.
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"Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way. He clearly saw how simple — how narrow even — it all was; but clearly, too, how much it meant to him, and the special value of some anchorage in one's existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his back on sun and air and all they offered him and creep home and stay there; the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind In The Willows
The safety and comfort of a home to return to is a luxury many of us take for granted. We all feel the same relief when we step through our front door, drop our keys, and flop on the nearest seat. Ah, we're home.
It's another feeling when we invite others into our home. How we treat our place when people visit changes depending on whether they're familiar or strangers. We may not prepare the spot equally when our guests arrive, but we always feel safe, comfortable, and in control in our home.
Adrian Greenwood, a 42-year-old a British historian, author, and art dealer deserved to feel safe in his own home.
On April 7, 2016, Greenwood was found dead in the hallway of his Oxford home by his cleaning person. He had been stabbed over 30 times in the head, neck, and chest in what appeared to be a "vicious and sustained attack," according to police.
His skin was covered in puncture wounds and dark bruises, indicating that he was likely tortured. His arm was broken, likely having been stamped on. Police found a knife handle at the scene, but no blade.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Having been internationally known for his collection of priceless historical artifacts, original art, and rare first edition books; items such as signed wartime photographs of Winston Churchill, a first illustrated edition of Frankenstein, an oil painting by George Bernard Shaw, and a 16th Century Bible. It didn't take investigators very long to suspect that this was a robbery.
Police searched the residence with a list of all of Greenwood's valuable items worth £2000 or more. After a meticulous search, investigators were unable to find the art dealer's rare first edition copy of the Kenneth Grahame novel, The Wind in the Willows, valued at £50,000.
Also missing, Greenwood's mobile phone. Catching a break, police were able to track the device leaving Oxford around 3 pm the day of the murder all the way to Peterborough. After hours and hours of searching CCTV, police determined that only one car traveled the same route at the same time: a blue Citroen Picasso owned by a Michael Danahar.
Danaher, 50, was unemployed and living alone in a one bedroom apartment in Peterborough. He was separated from his wife, Elaine, with whom he had two children, ages 15 and 9. Danaher could be described as a morbidly obese, sullen man. He had no criminal history.
The former senior manager at an engineering company was seriously struggling financially, deeply in debt, and hadn't had much luck recovering. His only stable source of income was selling random items on eBay.
One of those items was a rare first edition of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. He was selling it on eBay for £17,000. Sure enough, after arresting Danaher on suspicion for murder and upon searching his residence, a copy of the classic children's novel identical to Greenwood's was found.
Further implicating him, a spreadsheet entitled "Enterprises" was found on Danaher's laptop listing 14 "people of means." Among the targets researched for blackmail, kidnapping, or burglary were novelist and politician Jeffrey Archer, model Kate Moss, reality TV judge Simon Cowell, and art dealer Adrian Greenwood.
Internet history revealed that Danaher repeatedly searched for "Adrian Greenwood," "rare books Oxford," and "Wind in the Willows." Police believed that Danaher zeroed in on Greenwood as he learned that his target was in possession of, and a proficient dealer in, valuable items and lived alone in an unguarded, easy to access residence.
If that weren't enough, Danaher's fingerprints were found at the scene and on the missing knife blade. He even took a selfie after the crime.
Despite his claims that he killed Greenwood out of self-defense, it took a jury less than two hours to find Danaher guilty at Oxford Crown Court.
He was sentenced to prison for a minimum of 34 years.
In an interview, Danaher's now ex-wife Elaine said, "The hardest part for me right now is having to go home and tell the boys that their father is going to be in prison until he's 85. And for what?
"He's thrown it all away just for the money. Why couldn't he just say he was struggling for money? It's so hard to understand."
It's difficult to comprehend why Danaher felt desperate enough to target a man, invade his home, and kill him over a book. Plenty of us have felt the stinging ulcer that is financial pressure, and those of us who have known what it's like to feel desperate enough to do almost whatever it takes to stay above water.
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Kale Salad with Pepper Parmesan Dressing
Hey, look at me, being somewhat healthy again! Let's discuss this super food, shall we? Kale is rich in calcium, vitamin C, and vitamin K. It also contains sulforaphane - a chemical that carries lots of anti-cancer properties, and kale is known to lower cholesterol and decrease your body's absorption of fat! Sounds great, huh? Unfortunately, I'm going to be straight with you. Kale tastes like construction paper. You have to really doctor up this bad boy. Fortunately, here's a flavorful and bright dressing that will [sorta-kinda] make you forget you're eating your children's craft paper! The combination of the Parmesan dressing and the lemon zest really makes this salad shine, and when you add the tart cranberries, it all comes together and pops!
What You'll Need:
For the salad
1/2 large sweet potato or 1 whole small, peeled and diced
2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
1 bunch kale
2 lemons, zested
1/4 cup craisins
3 tbsp. pecans or pine nuts
2 cups low-fat buttermilk
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 tbsp. coarse ground black pepper
1/2 tbsp. dried parsley
1/2 tbsp. granulated onion
1/2 tbsp. granulated garlic
2 tbsp. green onion, thinly sliced
1. Prep your sweet potato: Toss your diced sweet potato in olive oil, salt, and pepper. Roast in a 400-degree oven for 25 minutes, or until the potato is tender. Set aside.
2. Prep the kale and fixings: Remove the ribs from the kale and finely chop the leaves. Kale can be a very tough green, therefore, the finer the kale, the easier it is to chew. Soak the leaves in hot water for 5 minutes, then transfer to a bowl of cold water. (Not everyone does this, but I tried it both ways, and I like the extra tenderness soaking brings to the greens. Drain in a colander. In a mixing bowl, toss the kale, lemon zest, craisins, pine nuts, and sweet potatoes. Season with salt and pepper, if desired.
3. To make the dressing, whisk all ingredients together in a large bowl until incorporated. (This recipe makes more dressing than you will need for the salad, but transfer the rest to a sealed container and refrigerate to use for future salads!) The tough kale leaves can withstand heavy dressing better than regular lettuce can, so dress your salad with a healthy portion. Transfer to bowls, sprinkle with a little extra lemon zest and enjoy!
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It is the responsibility of the applicant to arrange adequate travel insurance for the duration of the conference.
Academic Activities Fund
The Academic Activities Fund (with an annual value of c.£2,500) is used to support student-led, Linacre branded events, such as the initiation and implementation of themed seminar series, conferences, talks, etc., within College.
Applications for this funding are gathered and reviewed termly at the meeting of the Academic Committee. Selection will be made according to the following criteria:
- the strength of the application
- the relevance of the proposed theme
- the likely success and impact of its implementation.
Applications of an inter-disciplinary nature are particularly encouraged.
Activities proposed should be held in College. Only for very exceptional logistical reasons will events located outside of College be approved, and, in such exceptional cases, the majority of participants should be from Linacre, and the academic content be of strong interest to College. Activities should be implemented within 12 months of the funding decision being made.
Applications, in the form of a one page proposal (including a budget break-down), should be sent to the Senior Tutor (email@example.com) no later than 12.00 noon on Monday of fifth week of term.
Writing-Up Bursary
A small number of Writing-Up Bursaries (up to £1000 each) are available annually to DPhil students who have achieved confirmation of status, are in the first or second year beyond fee liability, and are within two terms of their expected date of submission. Download form (word) (pdf).
Fast Track Modern Language Course Fees (formerly OPAL)
Linacre House Trust may reimburse up to 50% of Fast Track modern language course fees on successful completion of the course. This grant does not include examination fees or the cost of course textbooks. Download form (word) or (pdf)
In addition to more general conference travel grants, Linacre has a Fund, established by a former student, available to support current Linacre students in specific areas:
The Frederick Mulder Fund
This fund was established in 2004 by Dr Frederick Mulder, offers travel grants, normally for fieldwork, to students working on social deprivation, in fields such as Social Policy, Anthropology, and Refugee Studies. Download form (word)(pdf)
It is the responsibility of the applicant to arrange adequate travel insurance for the duration of their trip.
Leeds Hoban Linacre - Huntington Exchange Fellowship
This Exchange Fellowship was set up in 2009, thanks to the generosity of an Old Member and her husband. It enables a Linacre member annually to visit the Huntington Library, California, for a period of 4 weeks (and a similar arrangement exists for a Huntington member); the Fellowship, approximately £1,700 in value, pays for the Exchange Fellow's travel and accommodation. The Huntington Library will help in finding accommodation. On their return to Linacre, in Michaelmas Term, the Exchange Fellow will be expected to give a paper at a Linacre Seminar, related to the area of their research at the Huntington. Details of each year's Exchange Fellowship are published in Michaelmas Term preceding the visit, and are posted on a College noticeboard, and also on Linacre's website.
University level sporting or non-sporting activities
There is a small fund to reimburse part of the expenses of students participating at University level in sporting or non-sporting activities. An email application detailing expenditure, together with a supporting letter/email from the President (or equivalent) of the relevant club that confirms expenditure and membership, should be sent to the Academic Administrator by the end of Week 1 of Hilary Term. The Linacre House Trust Committee considers applications in Week 3 of Hilary Term. If some funds remain unspent, another round of applications will be accepted in the first week of Trinity Term. Only students who are in fee liability are eligible to apply.
College Hardship Funds
If you experience unforeseen financial hardship during your time at Linacre, there are some College Hardship Funds you can apply for. Please read the qualifying conditions before you submit an application for on the basis of hardship. Full details can be found (here). Applications should be sent to the Academic Administrator. Download form (word) or (pdf)
Grants for academic & social events
Details can be found (here).


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Here's a fun bright look you may wanna try out. Follow along below to see how I did this look.
Prime your lids.
Using a MAC 242, I patted Saucebox Modern (matte, bright orange) over three-quarters of my lid.
Using a MAC 242 again, I applied Saucebox Wildflowers (matte, burnt-orange), to the outer third of my lid.
Apply a base shadow (something close to your skintone) from your crease to the brow bone. I am using MAC Blanc Type (matte, cream).
Using a Sigma E45, I applied Saucebox Dramatica (matte, bright burgundy) from the crease half way up to the brow and coming to a point. (Follow the dots & it'll make more sense.)
Using a MAC 217, pick up a tad of Mac Wedge (matte, light neutral taupe) and blend that shadow into the edge of the Dramatica color.
Using a pencil brush, apply Saucebox Black Widow (true black) to the outer "v".
Use a MAC 217 and blend it out.
Blend a bit of Dramatica over Modern and into Black Widow.
Here, I applied more Saucebox Black Widow to deepen the crease with a Sigma E45. Blend it.
Add some winged liner.
Clean up any fallout.
Finish correcting, concealing and anything else.
Using a pencil brush, run Saucebox Dramatica halfway along the lash line.
Run Saucebox Modern along the inner half of the lash line.
Blend the shadows together and blend along the entire lash line.
Take a pencil brush and apply Saucebox Yell-Oh! to the inner corner. I'm using this instead of a highlight.
Brush off any fallout and blend. (I've also lined the waterline with a nude liner and the upper tightline with black.)
Curl your lashes, add some mascara and that's it! I also added lashes for the finished look!
Smashbox Primer - original
Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
MUFE HD foundation - 118
Illamasqua Skin base - white
Ben Nye Powder - Cameo
RCMA -No Color Powder
Nars creamy concealer - Chantilly
Sephora concealer- fair
ELF Mist & Set
MAC - sculpt
MAC - Emphasize
Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder - Diffused
Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder - Ethereal
Mac - Pink Swoon
Mac - Blanc Type
Saucebox - Black Widow
Saucebox- Dramatica
Saucebox - Yell-oh!
Saucebox - Wild Flower
Saucebox - Modern
UD 24/7 liner - Perversion
MAC Chromaline - NC20/NW15
L'Oreal Voluminous mascara- Carbon Black
Lorac- Front of the Line PRO Liquid Eye Liner
Maybelline Great Lash - clear
Anastasia Beverly Hills Dip Brow - Blonde & Dark Brows
NYX Matte Lip Cream- Addis Ababa
House of Lashes - Temptress


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Your financial mettle can be measured by the way you deal with money-related problems and situations. If one situation causes you to react out of spite, then it probably means that your financial mettle is not that strong. There's also the other instance wherein you feel complacent because no recent financial challenge has reached your doorstep (yet). If you want something to test your financial mettle, you should try getting a cash loan philippines. It can test and strengthen you in many possible ways.
You Have to Carefully Plan for Repayment
Having a repayment plan will make it easier for you to repay a personal loan. Your repayment plan should cover all aspects of your monthly budget: income sources, expenses, financial challenges, and adjustments. Keep your plan concise but detailed. You should also reveal the plan to your family so that you'll be more inspired in following it.
You May Need to Negotiate
Taking out a personal loan is not just a two-way process. Sometimes, you need to negotiate with your lender if you're caught on a tight spot. Not all lenders are open for negotiation, though. Take the bank as your example. Since banks operate on a strict policy, they will follow everything by the book. For independent lenders and organizations, there may be a greater room for negotiation. In this case, you need to explain your situation and make a promise that you'll repay whatever you owe.
You Have to Reexamine Your Life Choices
Personal loans can force you to reexamine your life choices, especially if you have to repay within a short time frame. What are the pointless luxuries that you have to let go? Perhaps it's the right time to save money for your contingency fund. By adopting good life choices, you'll become a wise personal loan borrower. You will also become more experienced in tackling the other situations in your life. To reexamine your life, jot down the things that you have to let go. Take an hour to do this. Gradually, you'll be able to let go of these things and you can take control of your finances.
You Need to Develop Long-Term Financial Foresight
Many people lack financial foresight. This is the reason why they sink deeper in debts and suffer from debilitating stress. Financial foresight is the capability to 'see' things ahead and predict how they can affect your budget. If you have financial foresight, you can make healthy financial decisions and prioritize the things that really matter. Otherwise, you'll drift from one financial situation to another without experiencing a positive change in your habits.
Don't underestimate the life-changing impact of a personal loan. Once you applied for a personal loan and managed to repay it on time, you'll feel better about yourself. If ever you need personal loans someday, you'll become more aware of the strategies that you must apply. Take out a personal loan now and test yourself!


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IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a PRE-ORDER for the restock of Root: The Riverfolk Expansion. ETA: Late-November 2018.
Orders placed outside of this region will be canceled and refunded with proper notice.
The Riverfolk Expansion adds two new factions, new vagabonds, and exciting new game modes.
Play as the:
- Lizard Cult – Attempt to indoctrinate the dispossessed creatures of the woods and spread your creed far and wide.
- Riverfolk Company – Capitalize on crisis. Offer services and expand your trade operations to secure your status as a merchant king.
- Second Vagabond – Compete with a rival Vagabond to gain fame and fortune while the other factions attempt to secure their rule.
- Mechanical Marquise – Wage war against the Mechanical Marquise in competitive or cooperative modes!
Each Game Includes:
- More screen printed warriors and the pieces you need to play with up to six players.
- Three new Vagabond Variants.
- Cooperative and Competive Bot Play.
- Dozens of new player configurations!


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Yesterday I wrote a post describing a new process control system security program developed for the Water Sector. The program is broadly based upon the recently published NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF). Since large portions of the Water Sector are federally regulated (usually under State supervision) it was to be expected that an attempt would be made to incorporate the CSF into the loose regulatory scheme for drinking water security.
CFATS and CSF
Chemical facilities covered under the CFATS program might also be expected to face the inclusion of a CSF based cybersecurity program under the terms of §10 of the President's Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (EO 13636). Risk Based Performance Standard (RBPS # 8) of the CFATS regulations already {6 CFR §27.230(a)(8)} governs cybersecurity at covered facilities and requires that those facilities:
Deter cyber sabotage, including by preventing unauthorized onsite or remote access to critical process controls, such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Process Control Systems (PCS), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), critical business system, and other sensitive computerized systems;
Thus it would appear that DHS through the Infrastructure Security Compliance Division (ISCD) of the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) has the requisite "clear authority to establish requirements based upon the Cybersecurity Framework to sufficiently address current and projected cyber risks to critical infrastructure.
Furthermore, the non-directive nature and the lack of specificity found in the CSF would mesh well with the CFATS program's congressional mandate to allow covered facilities the widest latitude in developing security procedures and processes that would achieve the broad requirements of the RBPS.
The CFATS program already has an RBPS Guidance document that was adapted through a formal publication and public comment process. It provides very-broad, non-specific guidance on all 18 of the separate RBPS that govern the CFATS security processes. It contains 9 pages (pgs 71 – 81) of broadly written guidance on what the facilities site security plan must cover with respect to cyber security. Those pages includes nearly four pages of vaguely worded metrics that may be keyed to the (Risk) Tier ranking of the facility. An example is given below.
Metric 8.2.5 – Password Management - The facility has documented and enforces authentication methods (including password structures) for all administrative and user accounts. Additionally, the facility changes all default passwords and ensures that default passwords for new software, hardware, etc., are changed upon installation. In instances where changing default passwords is not technically feasible (e.g., a control system with a hard-coded password), the facility has implemented appropriate compensating security controls (e.g., physical controls).
Appendix C (pgs 162 – 173) includes another discussion of cybersecurity and how it impacts some of the other RBPS. That discussion also includes a listing of cybersecurity references similar to those found in the CSF. The RBPS reference list is not keyed to allow the facility to determine what areas of what standard apply to which parts of their cybersecurity program.
CSF Style Cybersecurity Guidance
A cybersecurity guidance tool like that developed for the Water Sector would fit in very nicely with the CFATS general security program. It would provide a general discussion of the various details that should make up a cybersecurity program and provide specific references that could be expected to provide more detailed information about that specific portion of the program.
The CFATS cybersecurity program is targeted not so much at protecting information as it is designed to protect access to and control of chemicals. Thus most of the systems covered are control systems, though some of the order placement and tracking systems could be a CFATS concern if the facility were regularly shipping covered DHS chemicals of interest (COI). Additionally any automated security systems, including video detection, security alarms and chemical release mitigation systems would also require protection under the CFATS site security plan.
The CFATS program already has a series of on-line tools that it uses in administering the evaluation of the implementation of the site security plans as well as the administrative aspects of the program. This Chemical Security Assessment Tool, CSAT, could easily be expanded to include a cybersecurity tool.
CFATS Cybersecurity Framework Tool
The Cybersecurity Framework Tool (CSFT) would encompass three closely related cybersecurity tasks:
• Define and catalogue those components of the facility computer based systems that would have direct impacts on the security of the chemicals of interest made, used or stored at the facility;
• Provide a reference based description of the security measures that would be necessary to protect those cyber assets; and
• Provide a method for recording the security activities that the facility has taken and plans to take to protect the security of their chemical security related cyber assets.
CSFT and the Security Vulnerability Assessment
ISCD makes a preliminary determination that a facility is at high risk of terrorist attack based upon the initial information provided in the Top Screen, a data submission tool that provides DHS information about the types and quantities of DHS chemicals of interest (COI) stored, used or produced on site and general geophysical information about the facility. Once that preliminary determination is made, ISCD directs the facility to complete a security vulnerability assessment (SVA).
The first portion of the CSFT would become a portion of that SVA. The facility would provide a brief description of the major components of its chemical and security related cyber systems. The tool would be constructed in a similar manner to the way the current SVA tool is designed with a series of questions with multiple choice types of answers and a limited number of fill in the blank responses.
For facilities that had release hazard COI (chemicals that if released on site in a terrorist attack could be expected to have serious off-site consequences) would be required to list the types of computer or electronic systems used to monitor or control the movement or physical status of those release COI on site. These would be primarily industrial control systems, but could also include automated safety systems and release detection systems.
For facilities that had theft/diversion hazard COI (chemicals that could be used to make improvised explosive devices (IED) or chemical weapons (CW) would be required to list the types of computer or electronic systems used to control the inventory and shipping of those chemicals. This would include any security systems used to control access to those chemicals.
All facilities would also be required to provide information about the electronic security systems that were used to monitor the facility or key area perimeters or control facility or key area access.
Once the major cyber components were identified there would be a series of questions about each of those components. Those questions would be designed to solicit the information necessary to determine the Use Cases similar to those shown in Table 3-1 of the AWWAC Process Control System Security Guidance for the Water Sector. Those use cases would be used to determine the level of cybersecurity risk at that the facility related to the electronic systems used to control or protect the COI at the facility.
More to Come
This post has gotten a little bit longer than I like, so this seems to be a reasonable stopping point. In future posts in this series I'll look at how the CSFT can be used as part of the site security plan development, authorization and approval processes for CFATS facilities. I'll also discuss how DHS can use the provided information to provide specific cybersecurity support to the facility.


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When does nature photography depart from its roots in photojournalism and become art? I suppose that a self-absorbed photojournalist might ask when their work becomes something more than just a record of an event or moment in time.
I can't help but see an ironic parallel that exists between the career that sustains me and the passion that fulfills me. I am a teacher. I teach biology, I think biology, and I love my content. I am enthralled by the history of my science, the new ideas, and the uncertainty that is inherent in the study of life. I work with teens every day, and try to convince my reluctant audience that there is more to the world than the microcosm in which they live. At the core of my science is a desire to discover the very essence that defines life, the chemistry that sustains us, and mechanisms that fuel its evolution. As a teacher, I am a specialist in my discipline; as a biologist, I am generalist. I freely admit to knowing a little about everything and a lot about nothing.
The tools I carry to class each day are the stories I've experienced and assembled across my many decades. I unravel the abstractions of the double helix, cellular chemistry and ecology with metaphors that are tangible to the neophyte biologist. Yet, my art, teaching, is under siege. As a profession, we are described as those who can't. To the masses, we are bottom feeding scavengers with an endless appetite for tax dollars. Newspapers and blogs quote the uninformed, political extremists, and anti-taxation groups that claim education robs the state treasury. To them, we cost too much, fail too many, and deprive future generations their opportunity for success. These same "news" outlets promote the point of view that my job is easy, I am overpaid and anyone could do it. Ironically, society implores skilled and knowledgeable professionals to join the teaching ranks while they rage against those who have committed their lives to educating the masses. Why would anyone choose to devote their precious college funds in the pursuit of an undervalued and underpaid sector of society. In spite my rich education that includes a B.S. Degree in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, a Post-Baccalaureate Degree in Science Education, and M.S. Degree in Biology, my own education is as undervalued as the skills I bring to the classroom.
I have spent more hours than I care to admit seeking an explanation for the disrespect that I sense from the general public. While I feel appreciated by those I serve each day, the same cannot be said for the community at large. I have no data to support my hypothesis, but I believe that the status deficit in my profession is rooted in the ubiquity of experience. Because we have all been students, spent countless hours with teachers, and been participants in this massive public enterprise, we see ourselves as experts. Our collective experience through twelve or more years of public education is the credential we use to justify our criticism. We frame our arguments in hindsight, but lack the knowledge of the present. Experience defines our point of view and lack of experience explains our ignorance.
This ramble of a blog began with a simple query... when does photography become art? Because taking pictures is as ubiquitous as our experience with the education system, we all see ourselves as the expert. Like education, photography is a practice for the masses. In this era of digital imaging, deep knowledge is undervalued. Understanding light and the interplay of aperture and shutter are now relegated to the technology that does the thinking for us. The art of seeing has been replaced by a "scatter and shoot" mentality; shoot enough and you're bound to get a good one. Unlike painting, sculpture, or music photography requires little dexterity... a "skill for the masses." Nonetheless, I still pursue this craft, I believe that there is more to my practice than the technology between my eye and my subject. Like my passion for biology, I thrive on my deep knowledge about light and image making. I reject the axiom... those who can do, and those who can't take pictures.
About the Images:
#1: Poas Volcano: Shot in Costa Rica during a brief rain shower. Canon 20D, Sigma 300 f2.8HSM
#2: Dik Dik: Lake Manyara, Tanzania. Canon 1DmkII, 300 f2.8L IS @ f3.5
#3: Lion Cub: Masai Mara, Kenya. Canon 40D, 100-400 f4.5L @ f5.6
#4: Old Barn: Stillwater Minnesota, USA. Canon 7D, 300 f2.8L IS @ f3.2
#5: Predator's Perspective: Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. Canon 5D, 70-200 f4.0L @ f5.6
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