Bottomfeeder is "Bad Lieutenant meets Humanoids from the Deep"; this qoute, from series creator Shawn Lewis, is the most accurate way to describe the gitty new comic from his horror comic company Eibon Press. Bottomfeeder tells the tale of a bad cop, Joe Angell, his dirty dealings and the trouble a monster made from illegally dumped chemicals can cause, namely death. Obviously, I've been singing praises about Eibon Press all year (including my end of the year list) but Bottomfeeder marks the start of something a bit new for them, an entirely original property. According to the man himself, like many good things, Bottomfeeder came to life one night over some drinks, a wild idea to fuse two distinctly different types of films. Initially conceived as a movie, Bottomfeeder would go through a tumultuous creation process that saw never saw the movie get off the ground but would eventually lead to the production of this comic book.
One thing that did stay consistent with the movie they proposed all those years ago is that it would star none other than Joe Pilato, most famously known for portraying the loudmouth military commander Rhodes in Day of the Dead. "Casting" real world actors is something Eibon Press has been doing for most of their comics, using the likenesses and performances of actual genre actors in their comics and I think think it adds another layer of participation to the story. The art is to the same high standard that all of their previous releases have held, with regular artist Pat Carbajal returning and Javi Laparra on interior colours while Fatboy handles colours on the stunning cover art.
The art here is just as gory and visceral as previous releases (well, maybe not Maniac but that comic is over the top in a special way), so the squeamish need not apply. It isn't like they try to hide it either; Bottomfeeder wears it's sleaze right there proudly on the front cover, the image of a woman being violated in the most Japanese of styles with some tentacles front and centre once you pop the comic out of the sleeve. The extra stuff that comes in the sleeve this time around is your pretty basic package for Eibon Press – some stickers, bookmarks, posters that will make people look at your sideways. All the good stuff. This issue also comes with a download card that lets you hear Joe Pilato spit the very lines of his character in Bottomfeeder, as if you couldn't already hear his distinct bark in your head when you read those words. Now I just want to hear a audio drama style version of Bottomfeeder, seeing as those are all the rage now with the kids. Then I could have Joe Pilato yelling in my ear about slave labour Nike shoes every week and who the hell doesn't want that?
Bottomfeeder fuses Abel Ferrera and Roger Corman into a unique and gory vision that might not be for everyone, but the people who do get it will love it. If you think you're one of those people, grab a copy of Bottomfeeder here from Eibon Press and follow them on facebook, twitter and instagram.


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Perfume greeting video for Singapore's live!
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With the successful sold out tours in Asia (2012) and Europe (2013), Electro-Pop girl trio, Perfume announced "Perfume WORLD TOUR 3rd" to take place in 5 cities: Taipei, Singapore, Los Angeles, New York and London!
Winner of the Silver Lion Award in Cyber Lions category with their "Perfume Global Site Project", Perfume were invited to Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France and performed a special version of their single, "Spending All My Time". The reviews for the cutting-edge performance were phenomenal, propelling Perfume to an international breakthrough. This will be the first time for Perfume to bring their highly anticipated live performance to United States.
Perfume first toured Singapore in 2012 at *SCAPE with their first ever WORLD TOUR 1st, simultaneously holding their first-ever overseas LIVE VIEWING event which broadcasted their Singapore concert in real time to a worldwide cinema audiences of 40,000 people. 2014 marks the return of Perfume to Singapore; they will be bringing their brand new state-of-the-art concert tour to the Southeast Asia region at the prestigious Resorts World™ Theatre, Resorts World Sentosa.
In the special video message for their fans attending Singapore live, Perfume express their excitement to return to Singapore and look forward to see everyone at their live.
With this announcement, Perfume unveiled special Official Website for "Perfume WORLD TOUR 3rd"!
http://www.perfume-web.jp/cam/WORLD/
Tour information and exclusive contents would be announced and updated via the following link >>
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Date: 2nd Nov 2014 (SUN)
Venue:Resorts World™ Theatre, Resorts World Sentosa
Time: OPEN 18:00PM / START 19:00PM
Ticketing: SISTIC (sales start from 16th Aug 2014, 1pm)
Ticket Prices: CAT1 S$188, CAT2 S$148 (Prices not inclusive of booking fees)
SISTIC website: http://www.sistic.com.sg
Organized by: Amuse Entertainment Singapore
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Microsoft Bans Adware Using MiTM Techniques
Microsoft on Monday announced plans to ban adware programs that use man-in-the-middle (MiTM) techniques to inject ads, starting March 31, 2016.
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This is the second big step the company has taken toward providing users with additional control over their browsing experience, after enforcing new behavior policies on adware in July of last year. In a blog post, Barak Shein and Michael Johnson of Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) explain that the updated Adware objective criteria will enter in effect in three months to address more unwanted behaviors exhibited by advertising programs.
They also note that ad injection software has evolved and often employs a variety of MiTM techniques, including injection by proxy, changing DNS settings, network layer manipulation and other methods. The issue is that these techniques intercept communication between the computer and the Internet to inject advertisements into webpages from outside.
The use of these methods also means that the browser does not have control over the injected promotions, which in result reduces the control that users have over these ads. However, the MiTM techniques used by adware are not only disturbing, but also pose security risks, mainly because they introduce a new vector of attack to the system.
Moreover, although most modern browsers include a series of controls to notify users when the browsing experience is about to change and requires them to confirm the intent, the MiTM methods do not produce these warnings, further reducing the choice and control of the user. Many of these techniques were also found to alter advanced settings and controls, making it very difficult or impossible for the majority of users to discover, change, or control, Microsoft says.
"To address these and to keep the intent of our policy, we're updating our Adware objective criteria to require that programs that create advertisements in browsers must only use the browsers' supported extensibility model for installation, execution, disabling, and removal," Shein and Johnson explain.
The tech giant has set the date for the enforcement of this new policy to March 31, 2016 to provide developers with enough time to comply. The company is encouraging developers to update their software to become compliant, and says that any programs that will not meet the new criteria will be detected and automatically removed.
Last year, the company announced that detected adware programs would be automatically stopped with users being notified and given the option to restore them. Microsoft also requested a close button on all ads, asked that information on which program is showing the ads to be clearly displayed in the advertisements, and urged developers to include an uninstall entry in the Windows control panel for the programs producing ads or promotion notifications.
Adware is often the method of choice for cybercriminals looking to spread malware, as was the case with a piece of malicious adware dubbed Vonteera, which can install potentially unwanted programs (PUPs), can create tasks in the Windows Task Scheduler to display ads at regular intervals by opening new tabs in the web browser, can modify app shortcuts for browsers to redirect users to random pages, and can add certificates to "Untrusted Certificates" to block anti-virus programs.
At the end of November, Microsoft announced an optional potentially unwanted application (PUA) protection for System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) or Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) customers, in an effort to keep environments safe from programs or application bundlers that may contain components such as adware, toolbars or other applications with questionable intentions.
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WIFI: At Bus Stations
Passengers at West Yorkshire bus stations, including Bradford Interchange, Halifax, Huddersfield and Leeds can now take advantage of free wi-fi.
Providing users with access to free wi-fi at its eight busiest facilities is part of the Combined Authority's current project with BT to upgrade CCTV coverage across all of 25 of its West Yorkshire bus stations.
When they enter any of these eight bus stations, people will now find that they have the option of connecting for free with 'WYCA Public' through the BT network. Connecting for the first time requires a one-time registration process to make sure their device is recognised on the next visit to one of West Yorkshire's Metro bus stations.
As part of the £1.2 million scheme, which is being delivered in partnership with Leeds City Council, around 230 new Bosch HD cameras have been installed at the Combined Authority's 25 Metro bus stations. The cameras, which replace the current analogue cameras, are connected to a high-speed CCTV fibre network, which is also providing the free wi-fi access and a new and improved staff radio communications channel.
The joint project will also see improvements made to the Combined Authority's CCTV monitoring centre in Leeds. It has resulted in significant operational cost-savings, and will pay for itself within four years.
Cllr Kim Groves, Chair of West Yorkshire Combined Authority's Transport Committee, said:
"Passengers are increasingly used to having access to free wi-fi on buses and trains and we were keen to use the opportunity of upgrading our CCTV to provide people at our busiest bus stations with a similar service."
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SeeD is perhaps the most comprehensive genebank-characterization effort globally to this date. We are going to characterize the genetic makeup of up to 200,000 DNA samples from genebank accessions and introgression populations/lines. We will also characterize accession subsets of varying size and composition for a set of priority traits and breeding targets.
A robust, high-throughput genome-profiling platform that accurately characterizes unknown genetic diversity, is 'forward compatible' with evolving genotyping technologies, and enables the standardized analysis of accessions from different genebanks at different times.
A state-of-the-art software platform to collect, standardize, store, query, visualize, and analyze the 'tsunami' of data we expect SeeD participants to generate – ideally made of modules that can be repackaged so that SeeD clients can install and use these software tools themselves to more effectively utilize SeeD data.
Given the critical nature of these enabling technologies, we have formed strategic partnerships with two organizations that have a proven track record of delivering solutions that are being readily adopted by their clientele, Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) and the bioinformatics group at the James Hutton Institute (JHI).
The primary objective of our partnership with DArT is to establish and operate a joint Genetic Analysis Service (SAGA for its Spanish acronym: Servicio de Análisis Genético para la Agricultura) at the National Center for Genetic Resources (CNRG). SAGA will initially focus on analyzing DNA samples for SeeD and other MasAgro components, using genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) technologies, while simultaneously building capacities in configuring modern genomics tools to fit applications in demand-driven agricultural research. In the medium term, we envision that SAGA operations should become self-sustaining to support applied agricultural research in Mexico and the region beyond the duration of the SeeD project and the crops targeted by SeeD by offering a combination of genetic-analysis and value-adding information-management services.
Information management presents a serious challenge for a project like SeeD. We are working with both DArT and JHI to co-develop a modular software platform for the SeeD project ('SeeDB' for 'SeeD database').
The entire SeeDB platform, including all its components and modules (for example for field data collection, will be made available for free. The code will be released under an Open Source license, starting with the first production version.
Project participants have developed a number of publicly available resources to facilitate the visualization and analysis of data.
Helium is an example of a useful visualization tool developed by SeeD collaborators that allows trait and characterization data to be painted onto a pedigree tree. This tool won the best paper award at BioVis 2014 in Boston, USA. A freely available video and a presentation demonstrate the use of this program.
To this date, DArT have analyzed approximately 400,000 DNA samples from almost 100 different species/crops for ca. 750 clients in more than 50 countries to generate data for a range of applications, including diversity analyses, QTL mapping, genomic selection, genetic-ID determinations, etc. DArTseq methods have so far been applied to approximately 50 different species/crops.
The software-development group at DArT, in collaboration with colleagues at the Queensland Department of Energy and Water Supply, has been working for several years on a breeding-informatics platform (KDDart), which builds upon, and significantly expands, an older platform developed for plant variety trials and breeding applications (Katmandoo).
The bioinformatics group at the JHI has built several widely-used visualization software tools and databases, including Flapjack and Tablet for visualizing high-density genotypic and sequencing data, CurlyWhirly for visualizing genetic relationships in three dimensions, Strudel for aligning genetic maps, and Germinate for storing a wide variety of crop-related data. The Flapjack program, in particular, has been widely adopted in the next-generation sequencing community.
The SeeDB platform is being assembled from several carefully selected components, by (a) further developing existing software (GrinGlobal for genebank management, Germinate for data warehousing, and Flapjack, CurlyWhirly and Strudel for data visualization), (b) integrating components that are under active development (KDDart backend database for genotypic, phenotypic, environmental, GIS and seed/DNA inventory data, KDSmart for field-data acquisition on handhelds, and the IB Fieldbook interface for nursery and field-trial management), and (c) building new modules such as a non-relational database module for ultrahigh-throughput GBS data and new summarization, visualization and query tools for very large datasets.
A key element of the SeeDB platform is the Data-Access Layer (DAL) of the KDDart package. The web services-enabled DAL (currently version 2.0) communicates between backend databases and user interfaces tailored to specific applications and user groups. It will enable the modular "evolution" of system components going forward. Web services will be used to link the Maize and Wheat SeeD Catalogs to other online resources, for example the GeneSys portal, once they are web service-enabled as well.