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ThreatMetrix Announces a Comprehensive Cloud-Based Fraud Prevention Platform
Posted March 20, 2011
The Third-Generation Fraud Platform Incorporates Cookieless Device Identification and Enhanced Mobile Authentication
LOS ALTOS, CA. – March 21, 2011 – ThreatMetrix™, the fastest growing provider of fraud prevention solutions that do not require personally identifiable information (PII), today announced the availability of the ThreatMetrix™ Cloud-Based Fraud Prevention Platform, which incorporates cookieless device identification and enhanced mobile authentication that makes it easy for banks, merchants, online businesses, payment gateways and payment providers to detect and screen for fraud. The comprehensive fraud platform helps companies fight online fraud during account creation, login authentication and payment authorization regardless of the device.
The announcement will be made at the 2011 Merchant Risk Council Annual e-Commerce Payments & Risk Conference where Alisdair Faulkner, ThreatMetrix chief products officer, will speak during a session called, "Get Smart About Controlling Mobile Commerce Fraud." Many experts and research reports have cited the growth of mobile commerce and mobile banking in years to come, which will only accentuate the need for fraud solutions in this channel.
"The ThreatMetrix Cloud-Based Fraud Prevention Platform provides companies with the ability to authenticate payments, new accounts and returning customers online regardless of the device involved – be it a smartphone, personal or tablet computer – without requiring a forklift install of hardware or software," said Reed Taussig, president and CEO, ThreatMetrix. "A smarter approach to device identification combined with aggregated fraud intelligence in the cloud allows customers to benefit from proactive protection without needing to share personally identifiable information."
ThreatMetrix's solution to cookieless device identification, called ThreatMetrix SmartID™, goes beyond traditional device identification solutions by incorporating device fingerprint attributes instead of cookies, which can be wiped or blocked. ThreatMetrix SmartID, which incorporates unique TCIP/IP packet intelligence, cross correlates and scores device attributes and behavior with session and browser cookies to more accurately establish and authenticate a device identity.
"Using ThreatMetrix SmartID, ThreatMetrix provides the most effective first perimeter of defense for transaction security from cybercrime, hidden proxies, scripted attacks and cookie and browser manipulation by fraudsters," said Taussig.
The ThreatMetrix Cloud-Based Fraud Prevention Platform includes several new features including:
• Enterprise Risk Engine: ThreatMetrix provides real-time contextual scoring based on device, customer and transaction attributes and historic analysis through a customer configurable rules engine. Default rules and algorithms will detect many anomalies such as hidden proxies, high-risk geographies, anomalous language and time settings, potential cookie wiping and blacklisted attributes. More advanced rules allow for correlation of other transaction data such as detecting multiple identities, payment accounts or shipping addresses used by the same device, or an unusually high volume of transactions from a device across the ThreatMetrix network. ThreatMetrix rules can be updated by analysts and activated immediately to respond to changing threats.
• Global Network Intelligence: ThreatMetrix customers benefit from anonymous and aggregated device and transaction behavior seen across the global ThreatMetrix network through both automated scoring as well as customizable fraud filters. The ThreatMetrix Cloud-Based Fraud Prevention Platform provides proactive protection that gets smarter with every customer and transaction without, requiring extensive manual input.
• Queue Management: Manual review of transactions is time consuming and expensive. To address this, ThreatMetrix allows for custom tuning of rules to reduce false positives, and also automated assignment of transactions to analyst queues by configurable rules. This enables analysts to focus on the highest risk transactions, based on score, transaction amount, or criteria such as geographical origin, for instance. When a transaction is reviewed, it can be marked as rejected/accepted to improve the ability of ThreatMetrix to score transactions through predictive scoring.
• Customizable Alerting: ThreatMetrix supports automated alert rules to notify an analyst by email when a transaction meets specified criteria. These alerts can be set based on risk, transaction or device attributes, or associated with specific fraud behavior. Alert content can be customized and linked directly back to the transaction for review.
• Online Portal and Dashboard for Transaction Monitoring and Link Analysis: In addition to a real-time API that immediately returns device identifiers, anomaly indicators and risk scores, ThreatMetrix provides an online portal to review past transactions. It includes a dashboard that shows recent high-risk transactions and trends, as well as advanced search capabilities to assist fraud analysts in finding related transactions and discovering links between suspicious activities.
• Bulletproof Security and Privacy Protection: ThreatMetrix provides advanced device identification technology to detect and alert based on suspicious device anomalies. For even more powerful fraud detection, transaction identifiers (such as an email address, payment account hash, phone number, etc.) can be passed to allow for more correlation. When provided, ThreatMetrix protects these identifiers with encryption and one-way hashing so the data is never exposed or shared. In addition, power role-based permissions and full auditing meet and exceed enterprise security compliance requirements.
Additional Resources
• Solution Brief on the ThreatMetrix Cloud-Based Fraud Prevention Platform
• Blog on the ThreatMetrix Cloud-Based Fraud Prevention Platform
• Comic on ThreatMetrix SmartID Cookieless Device Identification
• ThreatMetrix SmartID Demo
About ThreatMetrix
ThreatMetrix®, The Digital Identity Company®, is the market-leading cloud solution for authenticating digital personas and transactions on the Internet. Verifying more than 20 billion annual transactions supporting 30,000 websites and 4,000 customers globally through the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network®, ThreatMetrix secures businesses and end users against account takeover, payment fraud and fraudulent account registrations resulting from malware and data breaches. Key benefits include an improved customer experience, reduced friction, revenue gain and lower fraud and operational costs. The ThreatMetrix solution is deployed across a variety of industries, including financial services, e-commerce, payments and lending, media, government and insurance.
For more information, visit www.threatmetrix.com or call 1-408-200-5755. Join the cybersecurity conversation by visiting the ThreatMetrix blog, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook pages.
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Steven Wilson: To the Bone
With To the Bone, his foray into '80s progressive pop, Steven Wilson does something unusual: he writes happy songs.
Steven Wilson
To the BoneLabel: Caroline
US Release Date: 2017-08-18
UK Release Date: 2017-08-18
Up until now, Steven Wilson has written a single song that can be reasonably called "happy" in his nearly 30 years as a professional musician. Wilson's lyrics abide his oft-repeated mantra that "the saddest music is the most beautiful". For him, truly meaningful and uplifting beauty comes in channeling difficult emotion into song. The songs that Wilson often touts as his best, such as Porcupine Tree's "Stop Swimming" and the devastating "Routine" from his 2015 solo LP Hand. Cannot. Erase., may deal with punishingly heavy subject matter (depression and isolation, respectively), but in taking them on, Wilson overcomes them.
The lone song of Wilson's whose lyrics express overt jubilation, Porcupine Tree's "The Rest Will Flow", doesn't get to savor in its contentment for long. "Stay with me my angel / I've found you now / I don't feel low," Wilson sings on the string-bathed track. Once the brief three minutes of "The Rest Will Flow" run out, the album -- 2000's Lightbulb Sun -- segues into the menacing "Hatesong", which in a live setting culminates with Wilson stabbing at his guitar with his plectrum after shouting, "Yes I'm hearing voices too / And I'm more cut up than you." Joy, in the music of Steven Wilson, comes in feeling companionship with life's struggles, not reveling in cheer. Tellingly, Wilson once titled a Porcupine Tree B-side "Cure for Optimism".
For that reason, the song "Permanating", while far less sophisticated than Wilson's longer, more progressive pieces, represents one of his boldest career moves yet. Released as the fourth single from Wilson's newest solo record, To the Bone, "Permanating" finds Wilson stretching his vocals into the upper reaches of his range -- Justin Hawkins, he isn't -- atop bouncy piano chords and an insistent drum beat. But the music isn't the only thing that's chipper: in the chorus, Wilson sings, "Permanating / Celebrating now / Levitating high above the clouds." In the vibrant music video for "Permanating", directed by Andrew Morgan, Wilson hammers out the song on an upright piano while a troupe of Bollywood dancers twirls around him, smiles permanently plastered onto their faces. At one point, the camera catches Wilson looking at the dancers with an irrepressible grin etched onto his face. "I've always loved Bollywood dancing because it's such a joyous form of expression," Wilson explained to Anil Prasad. Perhaps that's why Wilson smiles in the video. Or, maybe, he's delighted by the experience of singing about something happy for once.
Like "The Rest Will Flow", "Permanating" doesn't lift the spirits of the album on which it appears. The song is sandwiched between "Blank Tapes", a somber and beautiful duet with Ninet Tayeb about a fleeting romance, and "Refuge", a meditation on the plight of Syrian refugees. But if "Permanating" doesn't share the more serious subject material of the majority of To the Bone's tracks, it does join them in their emphasis on pop songwriting. Wilson is no stranger to pop; his project with Aviv Geffen, Blackfield, which has five studio records to its name, anchors its musical explorations in the three-to-four minute pop song.
Many of Porcupine Tree's popular tunes -- "Lazarus", "Trains", "Blackest Eyes" -- are would-be radio hits whose only hindrance to mainstream exposure is Wilson's insistence on doing things in every way but the mainstream musical playbook. Yet Wilson's identity takes it shape from the world of progressive rock, a genre of which he is now considered the musical figurehead. This means lengthy songs, extended instrumental explorations, and conceptually-oriented albums. Even when Wilson manages to fit in a pop song on one of his many concept records, such as Hand. Cannot. Erase.'s excellent title cut, it takes up far less space than the ten-plus minute compositions from which he earned his fame. Off the heels of the highly conceptual Hand. Cannot. Erase., To the Bone offers the song-centered side of Wilson's musical world while maintaining clear connections with all elements of his formidable discography.
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The myriad connotations of the word "pop" resulted in minor controversy amongst Wilson's fanbase when To the Bone was announced as a "pop album", which was no doubt compounded by Wilson signing to a major label, Caroline International. Of course, anyone who knows Wilson's tastes couldn't have reasonably expected a capitulation to the mainstream charts simply because of the invocation of the word "pop". The music of To the Bone certainly lends itself to the charts in a way the jazzy improvisation of The Raven that Refused to Sing (and other stories) (2013) and Hand. Cannot. Erase. could never hope to, but Wilson's songwriting hasn't strayed too far down the path he's paved for himself. The soaring chorus of "Nowhere Now" wouldn't have been out of place on this year's Blackfield V. "The Same Asylum as Before", Wilson's take on FM radio-type classic rock, even cops the bridge riff from Porcupine Tree's "Prodigal". To the Bone presents Wilson compressed, rather than trying on a set of new genre tropes. Lengthier numbers like "Detonation" exhibit all the complexity found on Wilson's concept albums.
In fact, To the Bone often sounds too close to Wilson's prior albums, particularly in cases like the aforementioned "Nowhere Now" and "The Same Asylum as Before". A superb chorus rescues the latter, and even as it borrows from "Prodigal" too closely, it successfully keeps the song at a steady, head-bobbing drive. (There is an article to be written on Wilson's affinity for the Dsus2 chord, which begins the "Asylum" bridge and appears on Wilson-penned tunes like "Prodigal", "Open Car", and "Home Invasion".) The pulsating "Song of I", which was given a stunning video capture by frequent Wilson collaborator Lasse Hoile, mirrors the tense "Index" from 2011's Grace for Drowning. Wilson's songwriting here isn't a simple act of copying and pasting, but it does sometimes rely on old tricks where other songs on the album showcase new ones.
Wilson's smartest move in writing To the Bone was giving himself two songs to sing with Tayeb, "Pariah" and "Blank Tapes". On Hand. Cannot. Erase., Tayeb proves herself to be a perfect collaborator for Wilson; her voice, hushed in one moment and soaring in the next, lends itself to the wide range of emotions that exist on Wilson's best tracks. "Pariah" finds her vocals in full form, blossoming into a gorgeous crescendo as she counters the defeatist attitude of Wilson: "I'm tired of Facebook / Tired of my failing health / I'm tired of everyone / And that includes myself," he sings, to which she replies, "So pariah, you'll begin again / Take comfort from me / It will take time." Although not the rosy-faced bliss of "Permanating", this show of solidarity keeps with the surprising elation that runs throughout To the Bone.
In addition to flashing off some much-needed cheer, Wilson also sings about the pressing issues of the day: terrorism ("People Who Eat Darkness"), immigration ("Refuge"), and the "post-truth" era ("To the Bone") each get a track of their own. Wilson hasn't shied away from political commentary in the past; Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet tackles technological progress and the socialization of teenagers, and Hand. Cannot. Erase. zooms in on the interpersonal problems caused by modern urbanization. But To the Bone makes more pointed lyrical observations, particularly when it comes to the notion of "flexible" truth – or, as memorably put by one tangerine president's spokesperson, "alternative facts". Wilson's music, whether encouraging a brighter outlook ("Pariah") or a better understanding of what drives people to violence ("People Who Eat Darkness"), looks for the humanity in inhumane times. Music, like any great art form, should always aspire to that.
For all of the marketing and chatter about To the Bone being Wilson's "pop turn" in his solo career, the album is continuous with the work he's been doing since he started putting out solo LPs with 2008's Insurgentes. The songwriting emphasis has shifted, but not transformed. Wilson remains a progressive artist even when To the Bone evokes the familiar. Really, it's just nice to hear music that opens up the window shades and throws some sunlight on things. Melancholy defines Wilson's music, no matter the project, which makes the unapologetic happiness of To the Bone a welcome entry into his catalogue. In post-truth times, joyous music may seem absurd, but Wilson makes it, and the times we live in, feel alright.


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Crystalee from The Mama Ladder International is back! Today we are going to talk about Perfectionism, so if you are perfect and you have it all together then today's show is probably not for you. We are talking real struggles today.
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Robert Vaughn, the cleft-chinned actor who reached the peak of his fame in the 1960s playing Napoleon Solo, the debonair international agent tasked with saving the world each week on the hit television series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," died on Friday in Danbury, Conn. He was 83.
His manager, Matthew Sullivan, said that the cause was acute leukemia, for which Mr. Vaughn had been under treatment in Manhattan and Connecticut.
Mr. Vaughn had numerous roles in film and on television. He played an old boyfriend of Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) on an episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and a gunman in "The Magnificent Seven" (1960). He was nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actor for his role as a man accused of murder in "The Young Philadelphians" (1959) and won an Emmy in 1978 for his performance as a White House chief of staff in the mini-series "Washington: Behind Closed Doors."
But no character he played was as popular as Napoleon Solo. From 1964 to 1968, in the thick of the Cold War, millions of Americas tuned in weekly to "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." to watch Mr. Vaughn, as a superagent from the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement, battling T.H.R.U.S.H. (Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity), a secret organization intent on achieving world domination through nefarious if far-fetched devices like mind-controlling gas.
At the height of the show's popularity, Mr. Vaughn said he was receiving 70,000 fan letters a month.
The show was a self-aware parody of Ian Fleming's creation James Bond, who had been played by Sean Connery in two hit movies by the time "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." made its debut. (Fleming served as an adviser to the show, and is widely credited with coining the name Napoleon Solo.)
"The whole show is a joke. It's an extension of the Bond joke into a gigantic cartoon in prime time," Mr. Vaughn told The Saturday Evening Post in an 1965 interview, to which, the magazine noted, he arrived wearing a custom-tailored Italian suit and a black silk tie.
Joke or not, the show was wildly popular and catapulted Mr. Vaughn into overnight fame. It was also a platform for many other acting careers, most notably that of David McCallum, the Scottish actor who played Illya Kuryakin, the enigmatic Russian spy and Solo sidekick who developed a big fan following of his own.
Kurt Russell (at age 10), Leslie Nielsen and Joan Collins all appeared on the show. In the first season, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, who would co-star on "Star Trek" two years later, had roles in the same episode.
Despite his acclaim, Mr. Vaughn could be a little disdainful about his vocation. "Acting has always been very boring to me," he told The Post. "Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton."
At the time, Mr. Vaughn was seemingly more focused on politics than show business: He often spoke publicly against the war in Vietnam.
"In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam?" he asked in an impassioned speech. "By marching our legions through the countryside of foreign continents, burning homes, laying waste to the land and indiscriminately killing friend and foe alike?"
Mr. Vaughn became national chairman of an organization called Dissenting Democrats in 1967 and debated the war with William F. Buckley Jr. on Mr. Buckley's television program, "Firing Line" — a bout that Newsday, on Long Island, said Mr. Vaughn had won. "Vaughn suffered no wounds from Buckley's expert needling," the newspaper said.
Mr. Vaughn befriended Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and was a frequent guest at Hickory Hill, Kennedy's estate in McLean, Va., where Mr. Vaughn played touch football with luminaries like the writer Art Buchwald and the astronaut John Glenn.
The Kennedys, Mr. Vaughn wrote in his name-dropping autobiography, "A Fortunate Life" (2008), were big fans. "The house was covered with U.N.C.L.E. posters inside and out," he reported, "including pictures of me with my Walther P38 at the ready."
Robert Francis Vaughn was born on Nov. 22, 1932, in New York City into a theatrically inclined household. His father, Gerald Walter Vaughn, was heard on radio series like "Gangbusters" and "Crime Doctor," and his mother, the former Marcella Gaudel, appeared in a 1931 Broadway production of "Dracula." The couple divorced when Mr. Vaughn was an infant and he moved with his mother to Minneapolis, where he was partly reared by grandparents.
"I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful," he told The Sunday News of New York in a 1965 interview.
When he was with his mother, she pushed his acting career, teaching him to recite the "To be or not to be" soliloquy from "Hamlet" when he was 5. While she was working as a cocktail waitress in a Chicago bar to earn extra money, his mother had young Robert perform the soliloquy for John Barrymore after Barrymore had dropped by. She later helped get her son cast on radio shows like "Let's Pretend" and "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy."
Mr. Vaughn headed to Hollywood in 1952. During the day, he studied theater arts at Los Angeles City College and played bit parts, including a Hebrew slave in the movie epic "The Ten Commandments."
At night he would go to local hot spots and hobnob with other aspirants and the occasional star. He hung out with Johnny Carson, dated Natalie Wood and knocked back Cutty Sark at 2 a.m. with Bette Davis. He also befriended a young James Coburn and took credit for getting him a role in "The Magnificent Seven."
After he graduated from college in 1956, Mr. Vaughn signed with Columbia Pictures for $15,000 a role. His career was temporarily waylaid when he was drafted; he served uneventfully as a drill sergeant in the Army and was discharged after 18 months.
After that, his life was a series of increasingly high-profile parts, and then he landed "U.N.C.L.E." The show was such a success at first that he expected it to last for many years, but the ratings dropped, and it was canceled halfway through its fourth season.
He kept busy afterward, appearing on numerous TV shows and in movies like "Bullitt" (1968) and "The Towering Inferno" (1974). He also traveled extensively. He was in Prague in 1968 when Soviet tanks rolled into the city to suppress the local reform movement.
Mr. Vaughn earned a doctorate in communications from the University of Southern California in 1970. His dissertation, "The Influence of the House Committee on Un-American Activities on the American Theater 1938-58," was published as a book, "Only Victims," in 1972.
But the farther away he got from "U.N.C.L.E.," the more Mr. Vaughn found himself taking roles that he characterized as "not quality," among them a millionaire looking to dominate the world through computers in "Superman III" (1983) and a mercenary in "Battle Beyond the Stars" (1980), a low-budget science fiction epic conceived of as "The Magnificent Seven" in space.
In the late 1980s he acted as pitchman in an infomercial for the Helsinki Formula, which claimed to be a cure for baldness. The Federal Trade Commission eventually prevented the manufacturers from making this claim, but by then they had sold $100 million worth of the product.
In a 1993 interview with The Los Angeles Times, Mr. Vaughn was unapologetic about his work as a Helsinki Formula spokesman. "That was about the most profitable thing I've ever done in my life," he said. "Every call that came in on the 800 number, I got a piece of that."
During one of his rare returns to stage acting, he appeared in a production of "The Tender Trap" in Chicago in 1970. Also in the cast was the actress Linda Staab, whom he married in 1974 and who survives him. With his Hollywood stature on the decline, they moved to a castle-like stone home in Ridgefield, Conn., in 1981.
Mr. Vaughn's survivors also include a daughter, Caitlin Vaughn; a son, Cassidy; and two grandchildren.
Mr. Vaughn continued to work as an actor into his 80s. He appeared on the British television series "Hustle" from 2004 to 2012 and on another British show, "Coronation Street," in 2012. He was seen on an episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" last year.
Toward the end of his life, his view of acting, and of his luck in having a long show business career, grew rosier. As he put it in his autobiography, "With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune."


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#1 posted 01-29-2014 03:34 AM
Great start ya got there. They look good!
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#2 posted 01-29-2014 01:41 PM
I just started turning pens myself….
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#3 posted 01-29-2014 02:50 PM
Nice looking pen. Myself I set up two pen blanks and glue them in each night, cut two from yesterday, and assemble two I cut the day before. If you use Purpleheart try leaving the finished pen blanks outside in the sun for a few days them assemble, it takes on a rich color you might like. I discovered it by accident once when I was painting something and hung that item and the pen outside for some unknown reason.
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#4 posted 01-29-2014 03:32 PM
I like to turn purpleheart too. This is what I do to make the purple come out faster on the purpleheart.
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#5 posted 01-29-2014 08:28 PM
Oh boy, be careful. About a year ago I turned my first pen, and let me warn you just how easy it is to go off the deep end. Pretty soon you'll order a Penn State catalogue, then you'll be going to bad dog's burl source, and even do like I did, and build your own stabilization chamber. It's a gnarly hobby to get into, but the costs add up. I eventually had to start selling about half the pens I make so I can afford to give away the other half as gifts!
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Pause Before Posting About Work On Personal Social Media Pages (part 1)
We all need to vent about a hard day at work, but clinicians should think twice before posting on personal social network pages.
Guest post by Kimberly Sandstrom, MFTI
Have you ever have a long day at the office and wanted to vent your frustration to someone? Me too! We are containers of all sorts of confidential information and sometimes our containers get full, or we get triggered by something that happened during the day. It's hard to hold it all in at times—especially when it touches or triggers some reaction in us. Yet, we are called to an oath of confidentiality, and sensitivity to our client's information. For most, venting to a trusted colleague or a relaxation activity can be enough. Yet, some therapists use their personal social media accounts to release stress about their clients. Can't believe clinicians do this? Read on.
As therapists, we reach in, listen, validate our client's pain and help them make sense of it so that they can reflect, respond, and repair the distance in their relationships. It can be emotionally draining work. And we need ways to work out our stress. But are personal social media accounts the place to do this? Probably not.
Yet, some therapists post things their clients did or said that made them laugh or made them upset. Yes, you read that right. I've seen complaints about cancellations, clients not following treatment plans, and negligent parents. Then there are the posts intended to be funny—pictures of notes clients left for them (yes, I have seen this), pictures of children in the local paper they treat (this too!). Friends comment back "lol" or similar funny retorts, and then everyone gets a good laugh.
My heart drops whenever I read these posts.
What about all the people in their friendship circle who are in therapy or contemplating therapy? Do they wonder if their own therapist is posting something they said? I know I would.
We have such a wonderful opportunity to promote a positive image o
f ourselves and our therapeutic community and to cultivate confidence in the therapy process (see Julie Hanks' article on using social media in practice). We also have an opportunity to foster community with our public who often need courage just to pick up the phone and call us for support. Posting about clients negatively undermines these opportunities!
The good news is that therapists who post in a negative or comical fashion about their clients are definitely in the minority. And, given that I have seen some of these posts myself online from people I know, I take the view that their posts are not meant to be harmful but meant to release steam from a difficult day, or to draw others in as a way to cope with the "compassion fatigue" often experienced in this line of work. While the person posting does not intend harm, ultimately, in a round-about-way, they can elicit harm. How do we address this problem as we experience stress burnout and how do we address this with our therapeutic community?
Next time, I will provide tips on how to create self-awareness of our personal postings about our work, promote a positive image of therapy, and how to approach colleagues who may not be aware of how their posts about clients impact our wonderful therapeutic community.
Kimberly Sandstrom is a Marriage & Family Therapist Intern and Relationship Educator, Supervised by Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT, working in private practice in San Diego, CA. Married for 24 years, she and her husband are raising three daughters, two of whom are now adults. She works with couples, and families to create emotionally safe and enduring connections in their most cherished relationships.
Dynamic self & relationship expert Dr. Julie de Azevedo Hanks, LCSW loves to make a difference for women. She owns Wasatch Family Therapy and regularly contributes to TV Shows and her advice has been featured nationally including Wall Street Journal, Parenting, Fox News, and others. Connect on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter. Her books The Burnout Cure and The Assertiveness Guide are now available. Dr. Hanks is currently accepting coaching clients.


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Over the last few years, adventure and the outdoors has started becoming 'cool'. Largely thanks to the Instagram scene in North America, but gradually heading across the Atlantic to the UK. Those of us who were already outdoor fanatics before might meet this sudden adventure craze with mixed thoughts, but one certainly positive aspect in my opinion is the amount of new outdoor apparel shops and websites aimed at younger people. I came across Rise Outdoors when looking for some new hiking gear that didn't make me look like my dad, and what I found was a store that not only stocked cool and unique brands, but that also had an excellent ethos and was based on UK-soil.
Rise Outdoors was founded by British brother-sister duo Amelia and Jack Steele, who grew up skiing in France and camping in forests with their parents. After having travelled individually in South America and Canada they decided to establish Rise Outdoors, providing the UK with high-quality, ethical and good-looking gear. In this interview, Jack and Amelia tell us about their adventures in the Amazon Rainforest, dreams of hiking in Corsica and plans for expanding Rise Outdoors, with a strong focus on their desire to protect and support the environment through sustainability projects.
"The ethos really involves a shared enjoyment of being outdoors
whether it's just going for walks, nostalgia for a childhood in the
countryside, surfing, skiing, climbing or all of the above."
Can you tell us about your childhood and how you came to love adventure and the outdoors?
Amelia: I think we owe that sense of adventure in part to our parents. Our dad spent much of his 20s travelling and is always keen to get out in the wild, while our mum is probably the best skier I know and always encouraged us to be outside. I have distinct memories of spending portions of my childhood climbing trees and sitting in the canopy. Our family summer holidays consisted of road-tripping down to Lacanau in the South of France, were we would camp in an enormous pine forest, body-board at the beach, cycle through forests and kayak down rivers. I have memories of the flashes of lighting through our burgundy tent as summer thunderstorms occasionally struck in the night. I always wished we lived near the sea so that I could learn to surf. In the winters we would cram into a tiny apartment in Tignes in the Alps and ski for a week if not more, trying park tricks on wobbly legs and exploring off-piste sections. We only had to be rescued once!
Jack: Yes, we definitely have our parents to thank for supporting that sense of adventure by taking us to exciting spots. We never really looked forward to relaxing in the sun during the school holidays, I definitely always preferred doing something more exciting. I love skiing, skateboarding, surfing, biking and pretty much any other sport that gives you an adrenaline rush.
Can you tell us about your personal travel experiences? Are there any particular trips you consider significant to where you are now in life?
Amelia: I studied Spanish (and English Lit) at uni, partly because it meant I could spend my third year living abroad. I was lucky enough to live and work in Peru for a year, where I spent the majority of my time Lima. I finally learnt to surf, I ate burritos, danced to cumbia and took trips into the mountains with the school where I worked to hike, climb and mountain bike. The best part of the year though was probably the six weeks I spent volunteering in the Amazon Rainforest. Manu National Park is one of the most biodiverse places on earth and my experience there had a profound effect on me; not only because of the incredible beauty of the forest, but also because of the people I met, the disconnection from modern life and the need to conserve the area. After that experience I travelled in the San Blas Islands – a tropical paradise – and Colombia, where I learnt to scuba-dive on the Caribbean coast. Interestingly, after my time in the jungle, travelling without purpose felt slightly odd. While of course it was really fun, it made me realise that I need to be working towards something to feel fulfilled. In the future I would like to be able to connect with and support environmental projects with Rise.
Jack: I lived in Whistler in Canada for two years after graduating from uni. My time spent there confirmed that I want to be in the mountains as much as possible. I loved the amount of activities that the landscape has to offer in both summer and winter. Waking up and seeing mountains out of my window each day gave me so much energy and excitement. The outdoor scene over in British Columbia has had a huge influence on what we are doing with Rise. The clothing and lifestyle brands over there put a great emphasis on quality and sustainability, whilst also being driven by style.
"It's not about the best technical gear for a particular sport, but
rather lifestyle clothing that appreciates and looks after our native
outdoor environments – forming a community that respects nature."
How did Rise Outdoors come about? And what is the ethos behind it?
Back in March, Jack mentioned setting up an outdoor apparel website. His day job involves web-design and he was looking for a relevant and exciting project to hone his skills. Over the past couple of years, I've spent quite a lot of my spare time researching cool sustainable projects, particularly those that involve clothing and outdoor gear because that's what interests me. The week after I got back to uni I messaged Jack and said "let's do it!". We both agreed that the shop should stock stock ethical products, and I had loads of ideas of products we could stock, new innovative brands and a vintage range. Jack got to work on building the site and we set up our social media to try and get our name out there. People really started to engage with the idea. The ethos really involves a shared enjoyment of being outdoors whether it's just going for walks, nostalgia for a childhood in the countryside, surfing, skiing, climbing or all of the above. It's not about the best technical gear for a particular sport, but rather lifestyle clothing that appreciates and looks after our native outdoor environments – forming a community that respects nature.
What do you think of the current adventure/outdoor industry in the UK?
It is definitely growing, I think influenced by the Instagram culture of the outdoors being "cool" which seemed to start in North America. While being outside has always been a part of our lives – whether it was trendy or not – over the past couple of years, brands directed at outdoorsy young people have sprung up in the UK. We're really hoping to epitomise and encapsulate the UK outdoor scene as it grows, while providing our customers with high quality and ethical apparel and gear.
What are your favourite adventure travel destinations?
Amelia: Well there are just so many places I haven't been to so it's hard to say, I've had a list of interesting places I want to go since I was about fifteen. I think I would say Corsica. We went on a family holiday when I was twelve and stayed on the west coast of the island. It made a big impression on me. The landscape is really dramatic; pinkish red cliffs drop straight into the sea while lush greenery towers above you. I remember thinking it was something like Jurassic Park. The roads snake around the side of the cliffs and between jagged outcrops. We spent a lot of time hiking through the forests and swimming in fresh water pools and rivers. I'd love to return there as an adult and explore more of that coastline.
Jack: Of course, I would generally choose somewhere mountainous and good to ski; Andorra is an awesome little country. I went there for a week about three years ago and I would love to spend some more time there. Good mountains, less crowded than the alps, nice food and really good snow parks. Another place that I am desperate to go back to is the Caribbean Coast of Colombia. I spent a few weeks in Minca on a trip in South America and the jungle there was a great place to hangout. I stayed in a hostel called Casa Elemento which is home to the world's largest hammock, incredible views of the Sierra Nevada and some really laid back owners. I'd love to get off the tourist track in this area and do some trekking.
What are your favourite places in the UK?
Amelia: I went to university up in Edinburgh and before that I had only been to Scotland once. I think, as a general rule, Scotland is a really underrated travel destination. A couple of weekends ago I went back up for the first time since I graduated this summer. We walked in the Cairngorm Range and climbed Cairngorm Mountain. We camped by Loch Morlich and swam in the loch. My favourite part though (and what has encouraged me to see even more of Scotland) was camping in Tentsmuir Forest in Fife. We arrived after dark and pitched our tent where a huge pine forest joins sand dunes. We cooked up our supper and sat around a campfire. In the morning there were blue skies and sunshine, and the real beauty of the place in which we had slept became visible. As I walked away from the tent over a ridge of dunes, the sparkling ocean came into view about a mile away. The dunes stretched out for miles and miles along the sandy beach, and turning around I could see the acres of beautiful pine forest which lead straight onto the beach. For now, that's my favourite.
Jack: I've recently moved to London so I'm really enjoying finding lots of little skate parks and spots around there at the moment. That being said, you can't beat getting out for the weekend. I would love to go back to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, it is truly wild up there with beautiful sea kayaking spots and beaches to explore.
Do you have any future trips planned?
Amelia: I'm actually heading to Canada in October. I'll be doing a ski season for the first six months and after that I am hoping to find a job in conservation in the Great Bear Rainforest. Maybe I'll become a forest firefighter in Alberta or a surf bum in Tofino, I'm not really sure yet. I'm excited to explore the incredible natural landscapes there, though.
Jack: I was supposed to be hiking the GR20 in Corsica this summer but unfortunately that never quite happened. That is still high on my list though. The Corsican landscape is insane and it's been awhile since I've done any multi-day hikes. The terrain and backcountry look really challenging, so maybe a few Scotland and Peak District adventures could be good as a warm up. I'll also try my best to get some snow this winter. I spent a month living in Bourg-St-Maurice in the French Alps last winter and drove to different resorts each day there was good weather. I'd like to do something similar again and take advantage of being able to work remotely.
What's in the pipeline for Rise Outdoors?
We are hoping to reach out to many more people with our projects and increase the Rise community through meet-ups, pop-up shops and clothes-fixing workshops, as sustainability is really important to us. Jack has some innovative and exciting features in mind for the website to get more people involved. We would like to expand our range to include more relevant brands and work on our own Rise Outdoors branded gear. We have some pretty rad illustrations in the pipeline for the coming weeks! Eventually, though, we would like to offer a certain percentage of our profits to worthy environmental causes – perhaps through tree planting or other alternatives – and be able to work with a variety of environmental organisations to help preserve the British wilderness and promote its conservation.
Check out Rise Outdoors here for some awesome clothing and gear. You can also follow them on Instagram here for adventure travel inspiration.
Athena Mellor is a writer, linguist and co-founder of ROAM Magazine. Her passion for travel lies in that which keeps you on the move – hiking, cycle-touring, road-tripping. After graduating from University College London with a degree in Modern Languages, Athena decided to spend 4 months solo cycle-touring around parts of the USA and New Zealand, before returning to the USA to explore more of California, Oregon and Washington. She shoots on a Pentax MX 35mm film camera and is constantly trying to learn new languages on her travels, also working as a freelance translator. She is based in Yorkshire, England.


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This is Issue 1 of Peter's Journey.
Issue 1Edit
{The scene opens with a group of kids, Peter, Scott, Garry, Ben, Mark, Susan, Ross, Jonny, Anna, Danny, Zara, Adam and Henry all sitting in a living room of Anna's house, peter has a Magnum in his hand, Ben has a Sniper rifle, the rest of them are all sitting down on the chairs, some are sleeping, Peter and Mark are standing near the front door, which has been boarded up, as is the other windows and the backdoor, Scott and Ben are at the back of the house, looking outside the gaps in the wood}
Adam: I'm hungry; we haven't eaten a full meal in three days now
Peter: I know, we just need to all sit tight, leave it for a few days before the walkers outside clear off, then Ben and I'll go and scavenge some food
Scott: I'll go with Ben, *Scott walks towards peter and Whispers to him* you ain't going, we need you here, you're the leader of this group
Peter: Okay, I'll stay, but the rest of you, just go and chill out
Anna: Chill...
Peter: You know what I mean; you don't need to be sitting in this room the whole time
Jonny: We're scared, in case any walkers get in
Peter: that's not gonna happen, okay, now mark and Sarah are upstairs keeping a watch in the front bedroom, they'll let us know if anything's happening, whether or not they'll break in or not
Scott: Okay, you 'all need to loosen up, play a board game, play cards
Danny: we've done that
Scott: well do it again then
Zara: Yeah, let's play monopoly
{So everyone plays monopoly except Peter, Ross, Ben and Scott they are in the kitchen}
Ben: Peter, what happens if the walkers get in?
Scott: we'll need to get them out quickly
Peter: I know, I've been thinking that this morning, we'll have to leave
Ross: and go where?
Peter: away from here
Ben: You saw the news, the streets are blocked up by the army
Peter: what I don't understand is that all of the adults are gone, but yet we're all adults, Ben your 19, Mark's 24
Scott: I've been thinking that myself lately, the rest of them are all teenagers, except Henry, he's only 12
Ross: it's going to be hell getting them outta here, isn't it?
Peter: Yeah, but... Ben, do you remember the Walking Dead?
Ben: Yeah, I still watch it
Peter: Same, well, they had an RV or a caravanet as we call them
Ben: So, what's your point?
Peter: my point is that the people down the road have one, so if we need to get out well I'd drive that
Scott: good idea, that'll have a toilet and a shower, that's if it still works, but what about the keys?
Peter: that's the good thing, you see the Moores always kept the keys underneath the passenger seat, so it'll be easy access, and you could take your Dad's truck, couldn't you?
Ben: yeah, the keys are in the house, beside the front door
Peter: Ross, you could take your dads Citron, Scott you could take your mums Hyundai and Mark'll take his mini
Scott: you've got this all set out, haven't you?
Peter: oh yes
{They all laugh; they then join the others, while Peter walks upstairs to see Mark and Susan (who are brother and sister)}
Peter: *Knocking* how you guys doing?
Susan: we're fine, just fine
Mark: it's getting calmer out there, something about the night that seems to rouse them up a bit
Peter: uh, em, Susan could you give us a second?
Susan: sure, I'll be downstairs when you're done
Peter: thanks *Susan then leaves* Okay, so what we've decided in case the walkers over take this place is get outta here, all of the vehicles have been placed, are you okay taking your mini?
Mark: Yeah, but it'll only fit three people, the back hasn't got much legroom at all
Peter: Well then Henry can go with you; he seems to be fond of Sarah
Mark: yeah, well I'm happy to with that, I do have a question though, and when will we be getting more food?
Peter: well as soon as outside has cleared up a bit then Ben and Scott will scout the homes in search of food and other supplies
Mark: I can
Peter: No, we'll need as many fighters here to defend the others in case if an emergency
Mark: sure, well outside seems clear enough
Peter: *Looking through the gaps in between the wood* your right, they could go out now
{Peter walks back down, he sends Jonny up for watch, he then gathers everyone else down into the main living room}
Peter: Okay guys, the coast seems clearer out there, so Ben and Scott are willingly going to go out and search for food and other supplies, if you have time can you find any sort of weapons, axes and other gardening told are fine, so I only ask, and i don't want to force anyone, but is there anyone that would like to go out there as well?
{There is a moment's silence}
Anna: I'll go
Ross: Same here
Peter: No, Ross, you're needed here; we'll need every one that can fight here, just for safety reasons
Ross: Scott and Ben are away
Peter: I ain't arguing with you Ross, I've said no, if you don't like it then tough
{Ross walks off to his room}
Peter: Now Anna Scott and Ben, you be safe and careful, you get what you need and you come straight back, even if you only go into one house, you don't take any risks, okay?
Ben: don't worry mummy, we'll be fine
Peter: I'm serious, I want all three of you back in one piece, and now off you go
{Ben, Scott and Anna leave the house, the rest of them go back to what they were doing}
Peter: *knocking on Ross's bedroom door* Can I come in?
Ross: If you like
Peter: *sits beside Ross on the bed* I-I can't do everything by myself, you know that, right?
Ross: Yeah, i know, id there a point?
Peter: there is, somewhere, I've got a hell of a lot to deal with now, looking after you lot, for a start, getting food and everything else sorted. What I'm trying to get to is that I don't want to have to deal with you every time I ask you not to do something, it's not that I don't want you doing it, it's that I don't want you getting hurt, I care for you, for all of you
Ross: I know, I...I just don't want to be sitting around looking out of the window all day, I want to be out there killing walkers
Peter: let's hope that's not the case
Ross: I want to do that Peter, you can't stop me,
Peter: Okay
Ross: what?
Peter: I said, okay, go on
Ross: I don't follow
Peter: You want to go and kill walkers, then go on
Ross: still not following
Peter: walkers are everywhere Ross, not just here, I'm not stopping you form leaving, go find your walkers, kill them, but in the end, you go out there all alone, you'll have no one to watch your back, one slip-up and your dead
Ross: I
Peter: just shut up and think about others next time you speak, your gonna need to man up more, there's more than just you around here, if you don't like it, leave *Peter walks off*
One of the other houses in the neighbourhood
Ben: Scott you look downstairs with Anna, I'll go out to the shed, see if there's anything that we can use as a weapon, don't be going upstairs
Scott: sure, be careful out there
Ben: When am I not careful? *Ben goes outside*
Anna: what are we looking for?
Scott: anything that is tinned, like fruit, beans and other non-perishable foods, don't be taking milk, if there's cereals then take them, also anything that's in the freezer
Anna: I think that Mrs Jemphery's freezer is out in the garage.
Scott: I'll go out and check, you stay here and look for the canned goods
{Scott then goes to the garage, which is connected by a door in the house, when he gets into the garage, he sees the freezer, he then empties everything out of it that is light and easy to cook,, meanwhile out in the shed, Ben is putting all of the axes, shovels and a pitchfork into a big carry bag, soon they all meet in the kitchen}
Ben: D'you find much?
Anna: Yeah, loads of canned food that should last us a long time, how about you?
Ben: Yeah, I got a few weapons at least enough for all of us to carry
Scott: I got some stuff from the freezer, cakes, buns bread and three tubs of ice-cream
Ben: okay, that's good for today, lets head back home
{Ben, Scott and Anna head back home, they all gather in the living room when they arrive at the house, they empty there finding on the big table}
Peter: *upon seeing the food and weapons* Well done guys, now looks like we'll be having a good meal tonight *they all cheer* hey, keep the noise down, we don't want to be spotted or nothing
Ross: You want me to help you with the food?
Peter: Yeah, that'd be great, thanks
Ross: *pulling Peter aside* your right, we need to stick together and I'm sorry for earlier, that was selfish of me
Peter: *patting him on the shoulder* It's okay, don't worry about it {Around 6:30 pm}
Peter: okay guy's grubs up, don't be eating before the rest of us get our food, and eat it at the table, and don't go wondering off
Danny: this is delicious
Garry: It's the best we've had in ages
Scott: It is, isn't it?
Peter: And it's down to Anna
Anna: and Scott
Scott: Well, mostly you
{All of a sudden a phone starts to ring, they all turn to the phone, and the camera angle zooms into the phone}
End of Part 1
- First Appearance of Peter
- First Appearance of Scott
- First Appearance of Mark
- First Appearance of Ben
- First Appearance of Susan
- First Appearance of Jonny
- First Appearance of Henry
- First Appearance of Adam
- First Appearance of Danny
- First Appearance of Zara
- First Appearance of Garry
- First Appearance of Ross
- First Appearance of Anna
|Peter's Journey - Volume 1
|Issue 1 - Issue 2 - Issue 3 - Issue 4 - Issue 5 - Issue 6


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Hi everyone,
I am going to buy some hardware to sniff and exploit WiFi networks, I have a low budget (50-70€) and I need a small device.
I was thinking about two solutions:
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- Dual-core eee PC (used)
Both would be with an external WiFi card and antenna.
What are your opinions? The price would be nearly the same yet there are pro and cons for both platforms.


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Broadband network to be expanded to remote rural areas of Slovenia
The government approved the co-financing of projects aimed at improving connectivity across the country
- January 17, 2020 19:30
- Anton Stoyanov
Slovenians living in remote and distant areas will soon have the opportunity to enjoy a proper lag-free experience. The country's central government recently approved a new piece of legislation called the Regulation on Broadband Infrastructure Support that aims to provide the necessary assistance and co-funding to projects being developed in so-called "white areas".
But what are these "white areas"? To put it simply that is the name carried by regions that have no existing broadband network infrastructure and there are no providers currently willing to do it due to unprofitability. For the most part, these areas are remote rural areas, far away from larger urban centres.
Main beneficiaries of the new legislation
The main goal of the new government support programme is not only to provide citizens with high-quality internet connection but to also give them the opportunity to make use of all the vital eGovernment services that are slowly becoming indispensable across Slovenia.
As part of the 2014-2020 Government Rural Development Programme, the Slovenian central authorities are committed to providing network transmission speed of at least 100 Mbps to the areas that are going to be covered by the support scheme. Furthermore, the plan is for at least 80% of households in these so-called "white areas" to have an internet connection by the end of the programming period.
The support programme has a special emphasis on cities, towns and villages with less than 5000 inhabitants in the regions of Carinthia, Podravina and Pomurje.
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Keeping Yourself Comfortable After A Tooth Extraction
Having a tooth yanked out of your mouth is not the most comfortable experience, but since anesthetics will be used to numb you during the process, most of the pain will come afterwards as you're healing. Thankfully, there are a number of steps you can take to keep yourself comfortable in the days following tooth extraction.
Keep your head up.
Whenever you lie down, make sure your head is elevated on a couple of pillows. A lot of the pain following extraction is throbbing pain, and this will become worse if your head is below or even with your heart, allowing blood and fluid to pool in the area and increase the pressure. When you've noticed that all of the swelling has dissipated, which typically takes a few days, it is safe to sleep with fewer pillows again.
Rinse with salt water.
Your dentist may instruct you to rinse with salt water in order to keep the extraction site from becoming infected, but you can do this whenever you feel the pain creeping in, too. The salt helps draw extra fluid out of the healing tissues, which reduces the pressure on pain-sensitive nerve endings. Just stir a spoonful of salt into a cup of warm water, and swish away.
Hold ice against your face.
If you notice that it's not just your gums, but also your cheeks that are swelling, try holding an ice pack against the outside of your face. The ice will reduce swelling and numb your pain somewhat. In fact, using a bag of frozen peas works even better than an ice pack, since the peas mold around your face.
Take NSAIDs.
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, also known as NSAIDs, can be taken as directed on the bottle to ward off pain. Ibuprofen and naproxen are both available over-the-counter and are good choices. Avoid aspirin, since it may thin your blood and increase bleeding at the extraction site. If your tooth was badly impacted, your dentist may even prescribe opiate-based pain medications for you to take. Make sure you take these only when your pain is at its worst (they're addictive and have a lot of side effects) and try to stick to milder, over-the-counter NSAIDS otherwise.
Having a tooth extracted is painful, but the majority of the pain should subside within a few days. To learn more about managing your discomfort, speak with a dentist like Dr. Peter L Drob.


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Rihanna, has been rewarded with an iconic feat… Today T Magazine named the Bajan Superstar as one of the Greats of all time. The star was interviewed by the magazine and is the cover girl of the issue, in the interview within the spread the pop queen stated that she exceeds what people think of her as a black woman and racism still exists in the entertainment industry. Read more on the riri interview in the magazine on stands now.
Over here at swagonlock we think Riri is one of the greats and her new album "Anti" will certify this accolade for the mega-star more power to Miss Fenty.


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Awesome livestream session, Pascal :) Nice to see how things like this are created… Looking forward to next Tuesday's continuation :)
Livestream: Pascal Brander, New Designer Pledge!
In yesterday's update, we let you know that we will be hosting a live stream of the creation of the Kickstarter exclusive poster. As of 9:00am UTC+1, the stream will be running and throughout the day you will be able to see how our art director, Pascal Brander, turns an empty canvas into a masterpiece.
Follow the livestream at:
*** http://www.livestream.com/crossofthedutchman ***
Also, yesterday we hosted a topic on Reddit to let a completely new community know about our project, we had a lot of support and we're already seeing the first Redditers join the Kickstarter campaign, welcome guys! We will keep an eye on the topic today as well, so feel free to head over to Reddit and ask us anything!
Reddit link: http://redd.it/u2tp4
As for press, our German neighbors are giving us a lot of support! The blog kopftreffer.de wrote an article about Cross of the Dutchman, calling on all their readers to support us! (read it here in German).
New Reward: Designer Pledge
Let me ask you something, have you ever thought about being a game designer? Well, because this is an awesome project, we are now giving you the chance to design part of our game. When you choose this new Designer Pledge, you will be given the tools to design your very own Cross of the Dutchman quest.
You are able to decide everything from dialogue, enemy types, mission objectives, surroundings and much more. You will host your own topic on the Ambassador boards and at the time of the Beta you will be able to tweak your quest to perfection. Your name and quest will be mentioned in the credits as well as any contributors who helped you design your quest.
We offer this great and unique opportunity at the level of $1000 the cool thing is, you will also get all of the other pledges on top of that. Is that an awesome pledge or what?


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I have just learned that once I was able to risk loosing someone in order to be myself – I gained a better friend and more respect for myself.
I was tearing myself up by not expressing my true feelings. But when I finally said, "the hell with it," "I have to get this out even if I loose a friend" – I felt free. I was no longer obsessed with the possibility of loosing a friend because if I lost them for speaking my mind – maybe they weren't worth keeping.
I won't say that I am ready to always speak my mind, but I will try to be more true to myself because when I suppress who I am, I'm the one who suffers.


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Cockram Constructions Ltd has been awarded a $20.4m contract for Stage Twoof the redevelopment of the Katanning Health Services.
Under the contract, Cockram will build a new emergency and medical imaging departments, an outpatient care facility, refurbished surgical services and sterilising facilities, a new laundry and a new morgue.
Cockram is is due to start work in late August and finish in 2018 and the project expected to support about 700 jobs.
The facility is in regional town Katanning in southern Western Australia and services a number of regional communities. The improvements to infrastructure and service delivery will mean that more patients can be treated regionally, reducing the need to travel away from family to larger facilities or metropolitan sites.
Artist impression of redeveloped Katanning Health Service entry. Source: Business News
Stage One of the contract was awarded to BGC Contracting in early 2016 and work was completed last week. The initial works included the relocation of site services, bulk earthworks and the demolition of obsolete structures.
The project has been funded by the State Government's Royalties for Regions program and is part of the State Government's Southern Inland Health Initiative's program to improve hospital infrastructure in 37 towns across the Wheatbelt, Great Southern, Mid-West and South-West regions.
The existing Katanning Health Service will remain operational throughout the development and will continue to provide for the community's healthcare needs.
Source: WA Govt, AEOL, Business News


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Approach danger with a smile, How and why to smile, Smiling creates personal flexibility, Smiling generates friendliness
My discussion group today was wonderful, as it almost always is, and about an hour into our rejoinders to rejoinders the question arose, "But what can I do when a difficult person or situation is coming toward me?" After some others gave what I considered too vague answers, because they were not going to be quick enough or spontaneous enough to be effective, I developed my method.
You want to begin with an honest smile, and that may be hard to do if you are looking at the difficult situation, so you need to have cultivated a way to get an honest smile quickly. The reason you want an honest smile on your face is because it keeps your brain thinking in friendly options rather than going into a fight, flight, or freeze mode, and that is what will happen if you put an angry, frightened, or terrorized expression on your face. While the others were developing their ideas I was thinking of ways to routinely get a smile on my face, and it became obvious what to do. Instead of looking at the difficult face coming toward you look at their shoes and observe how unusual and comic they appear. That is easy to do and if you look around at people's shoes, which we did when I brought up this technique, we all got a chuckle at the variety and absurdity of what we had on our feet. It is easy to put a smile on your face using that technique.
The benefit of this procedure is that it puts you in a better mood for coping with whatever is coming, and when you look up and into a person's face with a genuine smile it is automatic for the other person to mirror that expression and emotion. Then this supposedly hostile person has a more positive mood moving inside of their mind and it's easier for the two of you to begin your conversation with a more positive interpersonal affect. That's got to be a good beginning for any conversation.
After developing this idea for a moment, one of my friends said that at one time he worked as a telephone salesman, and a technique they used was to look into a mirror while dialing a new number and smile warmly at themselves. This is very similar to what I was proposing, and when I think back on this person's habitual approach when meeting or when inserting a comment into an ongoing conversation, it always begins with a smile and develops into some kind of humor. That is what I have been considering as the sign of a highly developed personality, and here has been that face talking to me for over a year. I am quick to see, but slow to observe. It may seem unusual, but:
Approach new and possibly dangerous situations with a smile, and you can generate your smile by first looking at people's silly shoes.


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The couture shows are officially underway in Paris, kicking off several days of over-the-top runway looks and lots of peacock-like parading around. But there's more to the week than made-to-order dresses you'll never afford.
While the word "couture" may be thrown around a lot in common parlance -- especially where it has no business being, i.e. "Juicy Couture" or J-Woww's "Filthy Couture" -- there are actually very few fashion houses that can technically refer to themselves as a couture house. (In fact, the very term haute couture is protected by law by the Paris Chamber of Commerce.) To claim such status, one must design made-to-order clothing for clients (unlike pret-a-porter, or "ready-to-wear" clothing, which is produced in sizes one can buy off the rack), and one must have a workshop in Paris that employs a certain number of people full-time.
Right now, the houses that can claim couture collections include names like Armani, Chanel, Valentino, Givenchy, Christian Dior, and Elie Saab. Other high fashion brands like Yves Saint Laurent and Versace may make spectacular gowns, but they do not have a couture business.
While the business of making hand-sewn clothing with stratospheric price tags might seem ridiculous now, it was really the only name-brand game in town up until the 1960s, when Yves Saint Laurent became one of the first reputable designers to announce a full-scale pret-a-porter collection, in addition to his haute couture line. Needless to say, in the decades that followed, ready-to-wear has quickly eclipsed couture in terms of scale and profitability, and now the vast majority of designer produce incredibly elaborate, upscale garments that are, in fact, designed to be purchased straight off the rack without stepping into the designer's studio for a fitting.
Even so, the industry continues to look to the vitality of the couture collections as a kind of litmus test for the strength of pure, unadulterated fashion overall -- as opposed to, say, the instant gratification of growing "fast fashion" giants like Topshop and Forever 21. When the number of couture shows dwindles, insiders tsk-tsk over the state of fashion; When the couture shows are strong, editors are quick to make pronouncements that fashion is back.
After Christian Lacroix filed for bankruptcy last year, many feared it was yet another indication that the world of high fashion was on its last legs, but in fact many couture houses have been seeing a rise in customer demand, according to a recent WWD article, mostly because it's so season-less (unlike ready-to-wear, where fall's hottest jacket quickly seems "so last season").
Even smaller couture houses like Elie Saab or Stephane Rolland have seen a bump in their couture business because of the constant demand for new, ever-more-spectacular dresses on the red carpet. In fact, one of the even more interesting reasons to pay attention to the couture shows is to guess which dresses will make it onto the Academy Awards' red carpet, like the frothy purple-skirted Givenchy dress Zoe Saldana sported, or J.Lo's white Armani Prive stunner. Heck, the red carpet spotlight has become so immense that Gucci has even started up a couture line for that exact purpose -- Salma Hayek was the first to debut one of the gowns in Cannes this past season.
So whether you're watching to gauge the global appetite for high fashion over fast fashion, or watching just to try and spot J.Lo's next Oscar dress, just watch. You never know what high-waist silhouette will sneak its way into next season's ready-to-wear collections, or onto J.Lo for that matter.


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Dougans Racing Engines Ends 2015 with Two Engine Builder of the Year Awards
Finishes 2015 race season with win and second points championship to monumental season
Capping off a monumental 2015 race season, Dougans Racing Engines was named 2015 Performance Engine Builder of the Year by Engine Builder Magazine. Engine Builder Magazine is one of the best-known business magazines serving the machine shop, custom engine, production engine and small parts rebuilding markets. Ray Field, owner of Dougans Racing Engines, was presented the award by Engine Builder magazine publisher Doug Kaufman at the Performance Racing Industry Show (PRI) in Indianapolis, IN.
Dougans has been machining and building engines for more than 30 years, offering engines for off-road applications such as Trophy Trucks, Class 8, pro trucks, prerunners, short-course racing, Pro 2, and Pro 4. More recently, Dougans has been involved with drag boats, both IHBA and NJBA, and circle track racing with APBA. Other series include stock cars, both dirt track and pavement, sprint cars, street stock, super stocks, and superlate models at local and divisional tracks.
In addition to the Engine Builder Magazine award, Dougans also took home the SCORE-International Engine Builder of the Year award. The award is determined by points, accumulated by finishes of their racers. With #21 Tavo Vildosola's wins at the San Felipe 250 and Imperial Valley 250, Lalo Laguna's win at the Baja Sur 500 and Apdaly Lopez' win at the Baja 500, Dougans Racers took four of five SCORE-International races in 2015.
Notably, Apdaly Lopez was first to the finish line at the Baja 1000 but was later penalized for missing two virtual checkpoints. Nonetheless, Lopez solidified the SCORE Overall season points championship and became the first Mexican national driver to win the SCORE Trophy Truck and SCORE overall season points championship.
Dougans' success this year didn't stop there. Dougans racers added three key wins in the Best in the Desert Racing Series. Gary Weyhrich opened the BITD season with a win at the iconic Parker 425, Justin Lofton won the legendary Mint 400 in one of the largest unlimited fields in off-road history, and Tavo Vildosola stole the show at the final race of the year and won the Henderson 250 overall.
Dougans Racer #39 Ron Whitton won the overall season points championship in the SNORE Series. Whitton raced all six races and won the Race Fuel 250 and Midnight Special earlier in the season. Whitton found the podium at the Motion Tire 300 and Napa Auto Parts SNORE 250. His 8th place finish at Rage at the River was enough to secure the championship.
For the second consecutive year, the #58 unlimited truck of Graf Racing won Rage at the River overall. Driven by Justin "Bean" Smith both years in its lone venture in the SNORE series, the #58 lasted nineteen other unlimited trucks on its way to victory.
After a massive 2015, Dougans Racing Engines looks to build off their successes in 2016 and will continue to lead the industry as the elite engine builder in the industry.


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Naomi Watts has replaced Jessica Chastain in Oliver Hirschbiegel's Princess Diana biopic, Caught in Flight. We reported in November that the film focused on Diana's real-life secret affair with heart surgeon, Dr. Hasnat Khan, "who was said to be the love of her life." However, THR broadens the synopsis by saying the movies takes place "during the last two years of her life," and "the script charts her search for personal happiness as she turned into a major international campaigner and humanitarian." However, since her relationship with Khan reportedly began in 1995 and Diana died in 1997, the timeline still holds. Presumably, the search for "personal happiness" involved Khan.
Filming on Caught in Flight is set to take place in the UK later this year. Watts will next be seen in the drama The Impossible, and she's co-starring opposite Robin Wright in The Grandmothers.


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I have a question about XenServer running on a ISCSI SAN
If my XENSERVER dies, would I still be able to purchase a new server, install XENServer and then load up the existing VM's on the new server which are stored on the ISCSI SAN?
(Will it just load? or will it fail? windows key will become invalid?)


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Thursday, August 2, 2007
Mashups, anyone?
In "Power of the Mashup," in the August issue of Learning & Leading with Technology, we profile two creative educators from opposite sides of the globe. Jerome Burg from California is developer of the popular Google Lit Trips, which turns Google Earth into a literary road trip. David Fagg from Australia developed iHistory Podcasts in an effort to turn a "classroom irritant" (those ubiquitous MP3 players) into a useful learning tool. We'd love to hear from others who have invented mashups to meet your students' learning needs. Read the article for free through the month of September!
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A stripe, a harem pant (these are super-soft joggers or 'sloungies' are we call them in our house) and a hi-top trainer (I'm obsessed with these Next ones – check out the khaki and grey too – sadly Marlow's high instep (or his 'dancer's arch as I like to call it – inherited from his mama!) meant he couldn't get into them, and it was not for the want of trying on my part!!) is pretty much my perfect, go-to outfit for boys. Simple. Cool. Easy.
ps: if you haven't bought your winter coat yet, hold off until you've read my Coats post – so many great ones on the high street this season. I bought mine (unexpectedly) today, and will of course be sharing it, along with all my other favourites. Des and I had a quick look at some in Westfield this morning actually – always nice to check them out in person. We were not disappointed!
pps: also coming soon (as SO many of you have asked!!): a post dedicated to all things denim. Watch this space…


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