Ninja Man is in need of an emergency heart surgery after being diagnosed with a serious cardiac problem.
Ninja Man has a serious heart condition, according to his attorney.
On Monday (Nov 6), reports surfaced that the embattled deejay's health was in serious condition after allegedly suffering a mild heart attack on Friday (Nov 3).
Hype Life Magazine now understands that the Dancehall veteran is in need of an emergency heart surgery.
Ninja Man's attorney, Valerie Neita Robinson, on Tuesday (Nov 7) revealed that the "People Dead" deejay will need heart surgery "as soon as possible" as he has been diagnosed with a serious heart problem that requires urgent medical attention.
"We have the medical, Ninjaman has a serious heart condition, and he will have to have an operation which will require a recovery period of three to four months," Valerie Neita Robinson told Loop Jamaica.
"So we want to finish this case as quickly as possible because Ninjaman cannot go under any stress right now and has to remain as calm as possible," she added.
The high-profile attorney expressed that they look forward to finishing the murder case as quickly as possible to avoid further difficulties to the Jamaican entertainer's health.
"Well, he needs to do an angioplasty as soon as possible, his pulse rate is very low, normally the pulse rate of the average human being is about 90, Ninjaman's rate is 40. the blood is not going to all the places in the heart, and being stationary is not very good for him," she added.
Ninja Man's lawyer also disclosed that reputable doctors have diagnosed that there is need of a 'vascular intervention' because there is evidence in Ninja Man's heart of severely reduced blood flow (ischemia) to an area of heart muscle caused by one or more narrowed coronary arteries.
Nevertheless, his condition of a narrowed or blocked artery is likely to be treated successfully with angioplasty, which is not a major surgery.
Despite the devastating news, Ninja Man is expected to return to court for his murder trial on Wednesday (Nov 8).
Meanwhile, sources say it is unlikely that the prosecution could sum up their case Wednesday as another witness is expected to be called.
During his trial last week, Ninjaman complained of severe chest pains and difficulty breathing before he was rushed to private doctors. The incident forced an abrupt end to the session, which was held in camera at the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston.
The hospitalized deejay, however, gave his lawyer permission to go on with the case without him.
Ninja Man, whose real name is Desmond Ballentyne, along with his son, Janeil, and another man, Dennis Clayton, is charged with the shooting death of Ricardo Johnson who was gunned down in the Waltham Park area in 2009. He was granted bail in 2012.
The Dancehall deejay was taken into custody last month after his bail was revoked by High Court judge, Justice Martin Gayle, who ordered the murder trial to begin immediately.
The case, first mentioned in court the same year, has had 17 missed trial dates and 23 mention dates since then.


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Q: Android studio 3.6 can`t open emulator Background:
I am using android studio 3.6 as my IDE for flutter development, the problem below only happening when I use android studio with flutter, in native android development it's all fine.
The problem:
Sometimes my android studio will not be able to detect my emulator and in order to run something on it(or even open it), I will need to open the Avd manager and run it from there (It is working sometimes).
Visual explanation:
1) What I meant by will not be able to detect my emulator... looks like this:

2) And What I meant by I need to open the Avd manager and run it from there looks like this:

Question:
I am using the stable version of android studio, why this is happening and can I make sure that android studio will detect the emulator every time without going to the Avd manager

A: Yes, I had this probelem too.
You can update android studio plugins if any update is required.
Then, please uninstall android studio and install again.
This worked for me.

A: Updating the android studio to 3.6.3 version solved the problem.

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Q: Jboss/Tomcat monitor I'm looking for a tool (in linux) that can montior a tomcat/jboss process and if the process fails, I can respawn either or both without having to manually ssh into the box, do any house keeping and then start them up again. I'm not too sure if there is a good tool out there that can monitor the health of jboss/tomcat and report on it's performance. I know jvisualvm gives you various tools, but I'm looking for a disaster recovery solution that is a bit higher level than jvisualvm.

A: Java Service Wrapper is an application that wraps your Java process and installs it in the system using service (Windows) or daemon (Linux). It pings the VM periodically and restarts it when it does not respond. Worked for us in production with several application, including Tomcat, JBoss, Mule, etc. Actually Mule ESB is even bundled with this application in the distribution.
Also you don't have to run the application manually when the system starts.

A: I'm currently working on a daemon to do this and more, since JOPR nor naggios didn't do what we needed, but those are good tools you could use. I'm not sure but JOPR (or whatever is called today) can restart your servers in case something goes wrong.
A custom made solution as we're working on shouldn't take you more than a week. The main problem, is that to start either JBoss or Tomcat you have to call the startup scripts. But the startup script will restart the service if the exit code is 10, something like this:
while $? -ne 10; do
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So, this daemon which is made in Java uses JMX to connect to the JBoss server and tells JBoss to go down and exit with status code 10 using a method in a MBean. I'm at home, so I'm not sure the exact name of the MBean you have to call for this but I'll provide more info tomorrow.

A: I am using monit to control the launch of Tomcat/JBoss.


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The Great Antonio: TOON Level 2
The Great Antonio is a biography about Antonio Barichievich, a famous strong-man who was known as The Great Antonio. He came from a country called Croatia. We don't know much about his childhood, except that he was a VERY big baby.
There were many stories about Antonio, like that he was raised by bears or was an alien because he was just too big to be a human! At the age of twenty, Antonio went by boat to Canada. By then, he was 6'3" and 460 pounds! That is as heavy as a horse! Because he was so big, he was a very hungry man. He could eat twenty-five whole chickens in one sitting!
Antonio most loved being a wrestler. He fought against champions around the world, sometimes fighting ten wrestlers at a time, against two trucks, or even a bear! (Antonio won!)
I enjoyed learning about Antonio's life. I would have liked to meet Antonio and swing off one of his braids like other kids! His life was very impressive. Also, I don't think he was an alien, just a big human. I also loved the pictures. My favorite picture is the one with the horse that says, "Hey, that's not so heavy!"
Reviewed By: Shreya - Age 6
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That's what happened to Young.
In the early summer of 2000, the then-14-year-old accompanied his mother's 24-year-old crack dealer on a series of nonlethal armed robberies in Tampa. At 15, Young was tried as an adult and sentenced to four consecutive life terms.
But now there is a push by lawmakers on Capitol Hill, backed by scientists and childhood experts, to recognize the fact that children are different. They argue that children's brains are not fully developed and they do not yet possess the impulse control or judgment skills of adults.
"This is without a doubt cruel and unusual punishment," Cardenas said during a screening at the Capitol this week of a documentary called 15 to Life about Young's life and fight for release.
Cardenas was joined at the screening by Rep. Bobby Scott, a Democrat from Virginia, who recently introduced a bill with Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin aimed at reducing the number of nonviolent offenders behind bars.
As Congress bickers about everything from health care to Iran, there seems to be a bipartisan appetite for reforming criminal-justice laws.
Earlier this month, the Senate judiciary Committee approved a plan that would require states to keep figures on the number of children of color behind bars. The Obama administration will announce plans on Friday to give some prisoners access to Pell grants to help pay for college, a resource that has been inaccessible to them for 20 years.
Public figures as diverse as Pope Francis and Newt Gingrich have called for change. Gingrich wrote in a 2012 op-ed with conservative commentator Pat Nolan, "We don't let young people drink until they are 21, and they can't sign contracts, vote or serve on juries until they are 18. But there is one area in which we ignore teens' youth and impulsiveness: our criminal laws."
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to impose the death penalty on juvenile offenders. Five years later, the Court said juveniles cannot be sentenced to life without parole for non-homicidal offenses, and then two years after that it removed the murder exception and ruled mandatory life without parole for children as cruel and unusual punishment.
But Young is still in prison.
Florida said the 2010 Court ruling allowed Young, who has worked as an aide for a handicapped inmate and whose only disciplinary report was for failing to make his bed one Saturday morning, to obtain a resentencing hearing. But a single judge remained unconvinced and set his release for 2030, when he will be in his mid-40s.
Meanwhile, men like Chris Wilson, who murdered a man at age 17, have been released as a result of more favorable resentencing hearings.
Wilson, who attended the Capitol screening, has flourished. He has graduated from college, speaks several languages, and works to connect unemployed Baltimore residents with jobs.
Over the last several years, a handful of states including Texas and Nevada have moved to limit the sentences that can be imposed on juvenile offenders. Others, including Pennsylvania, the state with the most juvenile offenders behind bars for life, continue to support life without parole as a sentencing option for children. Some states, including Alabama and Louisiana, have refused to reconsider the sentences of offenders who were given life before the Court rulings.
Advocacy groups like the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth say the discrepancy is cruel.
Yet opponents of softer sentences for juveniles, some of them family members of victims, are a vocal and heart-wrenching group. And they are often aided by public outrage at individual cases that gain national attention. Just this week, a 15-year-old in Santa Cruz, California was charged as an adult for the sexual assault and murder of his 8-year-old neighbor, in a case that has sparked public outrage.
The decisions that have made offenders like Wilson and Young eligible for resentencing are so recent, and the number of cases so few, that calculating reliable recidivism rates for children originally sentenced to life without parole and then released is difficult. Opponents often point to Wilson as an exception and ponder what Young might do if released.
Progress will take a cultural shift, Cardenas said, which is no easy task, particularly as recent officer-involved shootings of unarmed black men create intense, often racial, divisions over how the criminal-justice system should be structured.
But advocates are hopeful that reforms aimed at restorative rather than retributive justice will make their way through Congress. A case currently under consideration by the Supreme Court is set to decide whether juvenile offenders who were sentenced to life without parole before the Court's 2012 decision have the right to a retroactive resentencing.
"It is rare that there is such agreement," Jody Kent Lavy, director of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, said at the screening.
"I think we're seeing a little light at the end of the tunnel," Rep. Scott agreed.
Until then, hundreds of juvenile offenders like Young will continue to grow old behind bars.


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New firm turns your website into a mobile app
Former executives from Thrillist and Microsoft launch Dwnld, a platform that makes websites into mobile apps.
Dwnld, a platform that can turn any website into a smartphone application in just minutes and at minimal cost, launched on Wednesday.
BY MATTHEW FLAMM SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 11:14 A.M.
The Manhattan-based company (whose name is pronounced "download") has blue-chip backers and more than 200 bloggers, media personalities and publishers among its first clients. They include fashion designer and reality-TV star Kristin Cavallari and bicoastal fashion, music and photography hub Milk Studios.
These customers pay $15 a month to have Dwnld's programming software convert Web content into a native iOS or Android app that also figures out the best way to display that content on the user's device. Publishers also refresh new content on the app through Dwnld's system.
Typically, a development studio can charge thousands of dollars to create a mobile app. Once approved, Dwnld's apps become available on Apple's App Store or Google Play.
Founded by former Thrillist Media marketing vice president Alexandra Keating and former Microsoft executive and seed investor Fritz Lanman, Dwnld on Wednesday announced its launch along with the $2 million in seed funding it has raised since its founding in 2012. Its A-list funders include William Morris Endeavor, Crunchfund, the Chernin Group and Gordon "Gordy" Crawford.
The company plans to expand its reach from fashion, lifestyle and media into business, finance, cooking and food.
"We're taking business-development opportunities industry by industry," said Ms. Keating, who is chief executive, in an interview.
The 29-year-old Australian sees mobile-app usage as at a point similar to website development in the late 1990s.
"In 1997, there were a million websites," she said, adding that there are now 1 billion, thanks to services such as WordPress and Squarespace that have made website creation easier and cheaper, and Google, which has made it possible to find them. "There are 1.2 million apps in the app stores between Android and iOS. I really feel mobile growth is going to emulate that of the Web."
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Most people don't take their time to explore new information about 1080p resolution. While most of us use technology with this resolution, but not that many of us know about its specifications. It's time for you to find out few basic things about 1080p!
Why is it important? Ask gamers!
Which game consoles utilize it and how?
The "p" in 1080p stands for progressive scan. 1080p is also known as Full HD. The widescreen aspect ratio is 16:9, and the resolution is 2,1 megapixels. To have this resolution, the display draws every line of a frame in a sequence, going from the top to the bottom. It does this in one-sixtieth of a second!
For example, 1080p is different from 1080i. 1080p is a frame-based or progressive-scan video. 1080i is a field-based or interlaced video. The 1080p frame rate is 25 fps for TV in PAL countries, while 1080i field rate is 50 fps for TV in PAL countries. But, what are each of these resolutions good for? 1080p are great for fast-moving videos, and it's used in Blu-ray discs and game consoles.
1080i often looks blurry when it's showing action or sports scenes, and it's mostly used in terrestrial TVs.
Resolution of video games is much more important than you imagine. While some of us can tolerate a lower resolution of pictures, a more significant problem is text and numbers size.
Games such as Starcraft are almost impossible to play in lower resolutions because of the amount of text and numbers.
In comparison to 720p, 1080p contains twice as many pixels. In 1080p there are 1,920 columns multiplied by 1,080 rows for a total of 2,073,600 pixels. Some may say that it's quite difficult to see differences between 720p and 1080p. This is especially true looking from farther than 2m away on a 50-inch TV. However, even if you have a 55-inch TV, the difference is very visible. The increased sharpness is what most people notice first.
The most famous consoles that display this upscaled games and videos in 1080p are PlayStation 3 & 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, Wii U and Switch.
They do it through HDMI connections, and most of them only became available in the 2007 period.
You probably didn't know that televisions that provide 1080p only came into play in 2012. Nowadays, this resolution in all televisions: plasma, LCD or DLP. Nowadays, we have 2K, UHD, 4K, and 8K resolutions. The 1080p resolution became possible for smartphones in 2012 as well. Nowadays, smartphones can support 1440p or 2160p resolutions.
Technology that supports 1080p has rapidly grown over the past decade.
It's interesting to learn about the importance of having a good resolution such as 1080p. Now that you know more things about 1080p, you'll be able to make right decisions when you're buying technology devices.


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Concord Family Shocked After 56 Pro-Trump American Flags Left on Front Lawn
The family's electricity was also tampered with during the incident.
By Gillian Edevane	• Published November 26, 2016 • Updated on April 17, 2017 at 1:48 am
A Concord family is shocked and unsettled after someone cut electricity to their home and planted 56 American flags, seven of which were defaced with handwritten pro-Donald Trump messages, on their East Bay front lawn early Saturday morning.
Concord police are investigating the incident, reported by Jay and Denisen Hartlove, who live on Montana Drive.
The couple was preparing for bed just after midnight when Jay Hartlove heard someone fiddling with their screen door. When he went to check out the noise, he says he found scores of plastic American flags staked into his front lawn, and a man — believed to be a neighbor with whom the family has had previous issues — skulking away from the house.
"There was one in the door handle to our car, there were flags all over the front lawn, and there was one in our screen door," Denisen Hartlove said.
Some of the flags had "Build The Damn Wall" and "I Luv The Donald" written on them in black ink. The Hartloves say they are one of the more liberal families on the block, and believe they may have been targeted because of it.
"Why else would someone do that?" Jay wondered. "(The vandal) must have spent 20 minutes out there putting the flags in. This is not some drive-by prank….I mean, where do you get 56 flags in November?"
Upon finding the flags, the couple was irked but not worried. It was only after their electricity suddenly shut off at around 1:30 a.m. that the pair decided to call police.
"At that point, I thought we were under attack," Denisen said.
Family Rattled After Lawn Defaces With Trump Flags, Electricity Cut
Jay Hartlove, who went outside to investigate, says he discovered the metering box connecting power to their property had been ripped off.
The couple called the Concord Police Department and filed a police report with two officers, both of whom the Hartloves describe as being "very unhelpful."
"They basically said that because (the neighbor) denied doing it, they couldn't do anything," Jay said.
Chris Blakely, a spokesman with the Concord Police Department, said that officers are investigating, and noted that a detective has already been assigned to the case. A follow-up is scheduled for Monday, he said.
"For us to do our job efficiently, we have to make sure that we get all the information," Blakely said. "That includes taking photographs, talking to neighbors, seeing if anyone has surveillance footage. It's not as quick as some people want, but we do take it seriously."
Throughout the Bay Area and the nation, politically-motivated instances of harassment are being reported at an alarming rate, according to hate-tracking groups. As of Monday, the Southern Poverty Law Center had noted 701 reports of harassment since election day.
Many critics have pointed to President-elect Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric as fueling the incidents. In a sit-down interview with 60 Minutes, Trump told any of his supporters engaging in the behavior to "stop it."
The Hartloves, who have lived on Montana street for 20 years, are in the process of installing surveillance cameras around their home — a security measure they never thought they would need in their safe, suburban neighborhood.
"We like our house. We like the street. We like our neighbors. With very few exceptions, it's a wonderful place to be," Denisen Hartlove said. "But, at this stage, I don't know that I'm not going to wake up with the house burning down around me.
For her, the silver lining on a dark cloud has been the neighbors, Republican and Democrat, who have stepped up to condemn the vandalism.
"We had quite a few neighbors offer support and say 'You know what, that's not OK," she said. "They offered us help, and that was really nice to see. It was just really nice to see people step forward from our community."
Gillian Edevane covers Contra Costa County for NBC Bay Area. Contact her at Gillian.Edevane@NBCuni.com or through text or call at (669) 263-2895.
Concord family had their power cut, home vandalized w/ 56 American flags (some supporting @RealDonaldTrump) last night pic.twitter.com/VNFokAAb2A
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Hint1: The shape of the numbers.
Hint3: Count the number of closed loops.
the shity thing is that there is an infinite number of functions which go through the first 13 ordered pairs so asking what the "next" value is, is kinda dumb.
The fact that the author's PhD friends could not solve this means that the usual methods of plotting and correlation probably won't work.
The key for me was that 8888 = 8. Two loops in the shape of each 8 times 4 = 8.
Notice also that 9009=4 and 9900=4 which would cause you to suspect that the positions of the 9's and 0's are not important.
Then look at 9900=4 and 9910=3. You could strongly make the case that 0 in position 3 is worth 1.
Then look at 9889=6. If 8's are worth 2 in any position then two 9's are worth 2 or 1 each.
So then look at the 0 value 7172=0. If you go with the guess that we are adding the mapped value of each of the four digits then you could make the guess that 7's, 1's and 2's in any position are worth 0. This theory actually works out. So continue along this way.
So 3859=3 because the number 8 has 2 loops and 9 has 1 loop.


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Minnie Pearl brings laughs at museum's Country Tea
Guests chat while waiting to be served at Overland Trail Museum's Country Tea Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (Callie Jones/Sterling Journal-Advocate)
Actress Sarah Ophelia Colley (Elsa Wolff) transforms into her famous comedy character Minnie Pearl during Overland Trail Museum's Country Tea Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (Callie Jones/Sterling Journal-Advocate)
Overland Trail Museum staff member Bobbie Hupke presents biscuits, zucchini bread and pumpkin bread for guests to enjoy at Overland Trail Museum's Country Tea Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (Callie Jones/Sterling Journal-Advocate)
Overland Trail Museum Curator Kay Rich serves up tea for guests at the museum's Country Tea event Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (Callie Jones/Sterling Journal-Advocate)
Guests at Overland Trail Museum got plenty of laughs Wednesday as they took a trip to the Grand Ole Opry with a Country Tea featuring legendary comedian Minnie Pearl.
Held in the High Plains Education Center, the museum's 17th annual tea included a delicious three-course menu served by museum staff Kay Rich, Gwen Duncan, Zach Pomeroy and Bobbie Hupke, as well as volunteers Cindy Lambert, Chelsea Taylor and Jan Scott. Menu items included tea, of course, along with biscuits and jam, zucchini bread, pumpkin bread, assorted fruit, apple meatballs, cranberry/pecan chicken salad, cucumber sandwiches, mini creampuffs and pumpkin dip with ginger cookies.
If you would like to enjoy your own apple cocktail meatballs the recipe is simple. You will need:
12 ounce bottle of chili sauce
18 ounce jar of apple jelly
½ cup apple cider
¼ tsp apple pie spice
28 ounce bag of frozen Swedish or Italian meatballs
1. Add chili sauce and jelly to a crock pot. Add the cider to the chili sauce jar, replace lid and shake to get any remaining sauce and pour into the crock pot. Add in apple pie spice and garlic powder and stir together to evenly coat.
2. Cook on high for 2 hours or until meatballs are tender and hot throughout, turn heat to low to keep warm during servings. Stir occasionally.
After guests finished enjoying their treats, they were introduced to actress Sarah Ophelia Colley, portrayed by Elsa Wolff. She told the story of how her famous character, Minnie Pearl, who performed at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years from 1940 to 1990, came to be.
Described as plain by those who knew her, Colley studied classical education at Ward-Belmont College, in Nashville, and then worked for the Wayne P. Sewell Production Company, an itinerant community theater company that traveled to rural southern cities staging plays owned by the firm.
While on the road, she stayed with a 60-75-year-old rural Alabama woman and her family. Colley was so impressed with the woman's humor and homely charm, she began imitating her, and Minnie Pearl was born. She chose that name for her character because "Cousin Minnie and Aunt Pearl were both very common names in the south, so I just put them together."
One day she did her imitation for her parents and her daddy said "you can make some money off of that someday Phe, if you keep her kind."
A chance opportunity at a banker's convention brought her to the attention of executives at radio station WSM in Nashville and on Nov. 30. 1940, she made her debut on WSM's Grand Ole Opry, at 11:50 p.m. "that way if you're a bomb no one will really know," the radio executive told her.
Less than a week later, she receive more than 300 letters from people writing how much they loved her and on Dec. 7, 1940, the name Minnie Pearl appeared among the Opry cast listing for the first time in the weekly radio guide of the Nashville Tennessean newspaper, in the 8:45 p.m. segment.
"Really it was the war I'd have to say that led to my very big success. You have to understand, that was in 1940 and by 1941 we were traveling around to all of these training areas with these young men training to go to World War II and we would go to these little places and all of those wonderful men, they came to know and love Minnie Pearl," Colley said.
Minnie was known for her hopelessly styled knee-length country dresses, her straw hat decorated with colorful plastic flowers and a $1.98 price tag. The familiar price tag came about when she accidentally left the tag on one of her hats, it fell off and the crowd roared with laughter, so she kept it as part of her act.
After sharing some of Minnie's story, Colley transformed into her character, with Wolff imitating Minnie's over-the-top "country" mannerisms and jokes and her cheerful shout of "How-dee! I'm just so proud to be here!"
Minnie Pearl was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1975 and in 1992 she received the National Medal of the Arts. She died on March 4, 1996, at the age of 83.
At the end of her presentation, Wolff appeared as herself for a brief question and answer period.
If you were unable to attend Wednesday, mark your calendar now as the museum is planning a May Day celebration for its next tea.
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You are looking at a 1972 Ducati bevel drive 750GT in excellent condition. The bike is super clean and shiny, it is an attention grabber from all angles.
When I went to pickup the bike, I rode it around a bit to check things out and verify everything worked, which it did. The previous owner liked to occasionally ride his bike and kept things in operating condition. He had ridden it a couple weeks previous to passing when I got it. The PO's brother (also a customer of mine) called me to come get it right after his brother passed unexpectedly. When I got back to my shop with it, I drained the gas out of the fiberglass tank and carbs, cleaned it up a bit and then put it on display in the entrance to the shop where it has sat since. A couple weeks ago I pulled it out and went through the carbs, as well as addressing other issues that I encountered.
The work described above I personally did to get it road worthy again. The motor has very good compression and kicks over without any binding or weird noises. The transmission shifts through the gears easily. The brakes work, the inside of the carbs are perfectly clean as I just rebuilt them - everything is ready to go.
This bike looks very nice - the motor is clean, covers appropriately polished, paintwork on body panels are shiny and present well.
You get the bike as you see above, Clear California title with Non-Op registration in Steve Allen's name (this bike will be an easy export) plus a 1 time use 10% discount coupon for anything in stock at Bevel Heaven. You also get a folder containing receipts and notes from the previous owner.
TERMS: CASH or we can go to your bank together and your bank can hand me a cashiers check. If you are an international buyer and/or unable to come see this bike in person, we can work out terms, pay a (non refundable) $1500 deposit via PayPal (use Pay Friends Or Family) then you can do a bank to bank transfer to a bank account under our control for the remaining amount due.
NOTE: Concord is a 45min drive from SFO airport or 1.25 hour BART ride from SFO. If you choose to fly in to have a look, Steve can pick you up from the N. Concord/Martinez BART station and take you to it - by arrangement of course, then take you back to the BART station so you can fly back out easily. After we work out a deal on the bike, Steve can arrange shipping for you.


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AppWorks operates two main programs — AppWorks Accelerator and AppWorks Funds. RealEstateDoc is thrilled to join the AppWorks accelerator to be able to connect with potential partners and future clients. The AppWorks accelerator accepts about 30 startups twice annually on the bleeding edge of the latest tech trends. For AppWorks #18 the focus is shifting to artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain applications, which will certainly provide ample opportunities for collaboration in this fast evolving space. It provides founding teams with essential sources, mentorship, and leadership to help the companies scale from zero to one. Additionally, AppWorks manages two venture capital funds with US$61 million assets under management (AUM) and invests in about 10–15 deals per year. The AppWorks ecosystem currently includes 328 startups and 925 founders. Those startups generate US$2.5 billion in annual revenue, have created more than 9,000 jobs and maintain an aggregate valuation of US$3.6 billion.
In addition to joining the AppWorks Accelerator, RealEstateDoc is also preparing to provide a comprehensive blockchain treasury management solution for clients holding cryptoassets including ICO projects, exchanges, and more. By directly addressing some of the major pain points of the industry — such as security, liquidity, and volatility risks — the RealEstateDoc platform aims to deliver mission critical services to clients globally.
Digitalising can help improve overall productivity and maybe even general job satisfaction.


The Painted Quilt: I'm making myself crazy!
It's a good thing that I've been procrastinating about starting to cut my Cheddar Broken Dishes quilt because it's driving me crazy.
Have a look at these photos that Margie, one of my readers and friends sent me.
To heck with the sashing, I say...and maybe even the cheddar will have to be put on hold for another project!
I just love this quilt!!!
LOL! That is how it goes sometimes--a quilt keeps morphing before your very eyes. That is a warm and wonderful combination in scraps and browns.
OMG! I love it without the sashing! What a gorgeous quilt! Love how she did the border! Thank you for sharing!
Ooh....ahhhhh.... Love this even more than your original idea! Why not make both??
Oops! I think I have to agree with you. I like Maggie's version even better. And I adore cheddar, so I guess you just never know what will inspire you.
Haha....I think Maggie's quilt looks more like you anyways. It's a beauty.
I really love this quilt - design, colors, background print, borders... If you were intent on cheddar, you could use a cheddar print for the background.
This one is a beauty. And I love the blend of fabrics used. Guess the cheddar will have to wait for something else.
I can see why you love it...it's gorgeous!
If I got to vote on which quilt you were to make, I'd vote for this one...and maybe even sew along with you!!
What a gorgeous quilt picture your friend sent you! I really like it.... I am not a fan of using a lot of white in quilts, so the darker colors made my heart pitter patter too!
Have a fun quilting day!
Lovely quilt. Either way you go, it will be great. Decisions, decisions. . .
Yay Margie! :-) I kind of like this better without the sashing too! Or.... maybe it's the colorway? Either way... a broken dishes quilt has been on my list for awhile now.
I agree! LOVE this version!
The cheddar quilt is lovely, the only problem is the sashings are too light. Keep the broken dishes in indigo with very light beiges, use a darker beige for the sashings, keep the cheddar. The piecing will sparkle and the rest of the quilt will GLOW.
Love, love this version. So lovely antique-ee. Pray will this be a sew along?
the first one was ho-hum to me...this one is gorgeous!


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2 wires and 2 wheels: Bikes can do CAN too
by: @canbusdutch
(PDF) (Video)
"Most motorcycle manufacturers started using CAN in the early 2000s, and since then, more and more devices have been added to CAN networks on bikes. ABS, traction control, navigation systems, luxuries like heated grips, basics like lighting and advanced diagnostics, but for some reason, they still haven't grabbed the attention of car hackers. Why? I hope to open the door to this field, and help gain popularity in motorcycle CANbus hacking.
Through this adventure, you'll follow me as my passion for motorcycles, goes headfirst into my passion for computers, and I build tools and software to reverse engineer my motorcycle's CAN system.
Python scripts, microcontrollers, pulse width modulation, some potentiometers, and a bit of what I like to call "Ruthless Engineering", has helped me finally reach the pinnacle of CAN bus packet reversing. We'll cover some engine simulation, execute some packet capture session analysis, and put it all back together again, for the development of an aftermarket gauge cluster."
A deeper diving on shellcode...
by: unixfreaxjp
Shellcode is often spotted to execute a malformed code in a way that can trigger the injection or further exploitation process, or other operations, mostly used in offensive ways.
In this presentation I would like to describe more advance method in handling malicious shellcode cases I dealt in Linux operating systems on several architectures.
But beforehand I will to try to present several basics & category of shellcode in a simple and practical ways that maybe can help other analysts or RE beginners to help in recognizing which type of shellcodes and how to handle them in their work on their blue-team's field.
This is a sequel of my previous presentations at:
2018: R2CON2018 "Unpacking the non-unpackable Linux malware"
2019: HACKLU2019 "Linux Fileless Malware and Post Exploitation"
Automating Threat Hunting on the Dark Web and other nitty-gritty thingso
by: Apurv Singh Gautam (@ASG_Sc0rpi0n)
What's the hype with the dark web? Why are security researchers focusing more on the dark web? How to perform threat hunting on the dark web? Can it be automated? If you are curious about the answers to these questions, then this talk is for you. Dark web hosts several sites where criminals buy, sell, and trade goods and services like drugs, weapons, exploits, etc. Hunting on the dark web can help identify, profile, and mitigate any organization risks if done timely and appropriately. This is why threat intelligence obtained from the dark web can be crucial for any organization. In this presentation, you will learn why threat hunting on the dark web is necessary, different methodologies to perform hunting, the process after hunting, and how hunted data is analyzed. The main focus of this talk will be automating the threat hunting on the dark web. You will also get to know what operational security (OpSec) is and why it is essential while performing hunting on the dark web and how you can employ it in your daily life.
Blockchain Based OT Monitoring Solution (BBOTMS)
by: Asif Hameed Khan / Gagan Jattana
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are no longer an Isolated system. Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are having internet connectivity capabilities. The rise of IIoT/Industry 4.0 has opened the gateway for an adversary to attack the OT environment. The last decade has shown tremendous growth of cyber-attacks on OT/ICS environments ranging from Stuxnet malware to Industroyer, Shamoon, and Triton SIS devices compromise to name a few. As the cyber-related issues are rising, it is necessary to build threat detection and monitoring capabilities for an enterprise to detect and respond to sophisticated cyber threats. This work presents a novel approach for robust monitoring of OT/ICS environment based on the blockchain technology.
Discover vulnerabilities with CodeQL
by: Boik Su (@boik_su)
- In this talk, I'll give a little bit of introduction to CodeQL and its practical functionality. Besides, I'll showcase some vulnerabilities that I found through utilizing CodeQL's powerful static and taint analysis. There's even one flaw that could lead to RCE! Consequently, the audience will understand the concepts of static analysis, taint analysis, data flow analysis, and so on after the talk.
- In addition to finding flaws, developers gaining such experiences can also take advantage of using CodeQL's powerful features to improve the SSDL cycle and have security baseline enacted for large codebases.
From an 'IVI in a box' to a 'CAR in a box'
by: Ian Tabor (@mintynet)
The talk will have details of the vulnerability I found in my 2015 DS5 Limited Edition. I decided to build an 'IVI in a box' to further test the hardware for further exploits, this posed its own challenges. There is information on how I found a major vulnerability in a vehicle which paid out some money to allow me to complete the 'car in a box'.
The talk also details the additional hardware that was used to make PD0 'car in a box' think that the engine is working, the wheels are turning and other sensors are also working.
Hackers Don't Wear Black Hoodies, They Wear Capes
by: Chloé Messdaghi
Sixty percent of hackers don't submit vulnerabilities due to the fear of out-of-date legislation, press coverage, and companies misdirected policies. This fear is based on socially constructed beliefs. This talk dives into the brain's response to fear while focusing on increasing public awareness in order to bring legislation that supports ethical hackers, ending black hoodie and ski mask imagery, and encourage organizations to support bilateral trust within their policies.
High Value Adversary Emulation through Purple Team and the C2 Matrix
by: Jorge Orchilles and Bryson Bort
(PDF) (Video) Adversary Emulation is a type of ethical hacking engagement where the Red Team emulates how an adversary operates, leveraging the same tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), against a target organization. The goal of these engagements is to train and improve people, process, and technology. This is in contrast to a penetration test that focuses on testing technology and preventive controls. Adversary emulations are performed using a structured approach following industry methodologies and frameworks (such as MITRE ATT&CK) and leverage Cyber Threat Intelligence to emulate a malicious actor that has the opportunity, intent, and capability to attack the target organization. Adversary Emulations may be performed in a blind manner (Red Team Engagement) or non-blind (Purple Team) with the Blue Team having full knowledge of the engagement.
Command and Control is one of the most important tactics in the MITRE ATT&CK matrix as it allows the attacker to interact with the target system and realize their objectives. Organizations leverage Cyber Threat Intelligence to understand their threat model and adversaries that have the intent, opportunity, and capability to attack. Red Team, Blue Team, and virtual Purple Teams work together to understand the adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures to perform adversary emulations and improve detective and preventive controls.
The C2 Matrix was created to aggregate all the Command and Control frameworks publicly available (open-source and commercial) in a single resource to assist teams in testing their own controls through adversary emulations (Red Team or Purple Team Exercises). Phase 1 lists all the Command and Control features such as the coding language used, channels (HTTP, TCP, DNS, SMB, etc.), agents, key exchange, and other operational security features and capabilities. This allows more efficient decisions making when called upon to emulate and adversary TTPs.
It is the golden age of Command and Control (C2) frameworks. Learn how these C2 frameworks work and start testing against your organization to improve detective and preventive controls.
The C2 Matrix currently has 48 command and control frameworks documented in a Google Sheet, web site, and questionnaire format.
How I Pwned the ICS data during my internship
by: Shail Patel
(PDF) (Video) As part of my summer graduate internship, I was hired by NREL as a cybersecurity intern to perform security evaluations on a grid based ICS network. There was a need to develop, validate and deploy a unique and innovative architecture that comprehensively addresses the challenges associated with the proliferation of high penetration of distributed PV systems such as reverse power flows, feeder load balancing and voltage stability. Having considering this type of architecture which includes Advanced Distributed Management System (ADMS), a Beaglebone pi controller, Real-Time Automation Controller (RTAC), Grid Edge Management System (GEMS), a local python script that communicates between these devices, and unencrypted communication protocols like Modbus and DNP3 being used, there was a need to perform vulnerability assessments on these devices to test the confidentiality and integrity of the data being flowed between these devices. Thus, I performed packet capture analysis, vendor device analysis and local NREL device analysis on them and observed interesting results.
Pentesting disclosed various bugs and loopholes as a result of the use of insecure protocols like Modbus and DNP3. Some of the classic examples I discovered are Default credentials for the Inverter, LFI in BeagleBone image, lots of open network ports, capacitor bank statuses, and lots of plaintext values in the communication model. I also devised measures to protect the DNP3 and Modbus data in transit which I will introduce in this talk. Thus, the purpose of this talk would be focused on need to secure the ICS/SCADA data which has no built-in security and possess challenges.
I've Injected a DLL - You Won't Believe What Happened Next!
by: @CaptnBanana
"Over the past year I've noticed that many people are particularly interested in the field of multiplayer game hacking, since these kinds of blog posts get quite a few clicks on my blog. Detailed information of good quality on this topic is hard to find on the internet, especially documentation of game hack source codes. I think this topic is quite interesting and fascinating at the same time since game hacks are able to precisely alter the inner workings of other processes by employing modifications of assembly code or memory segments. What's even better is that people with experience in game hacking are able to transfer the knowledge into various other fields, like exploit development and antivirus evasion research. Hence, game hacking is a win for everyone :)
These are the reasons why I decided to dig into this topic myself, with the goal to share my research, code and knowledge afterwards. During the last years I've implemented various game hacks for two different games:
- A hack for the Quake3 engine based game Jedi Academy: It allows you to view enemies trough walls (wallhack), it automatically aims (aimbot) and shoots (triggerbot) at enemies. Also, it has various other very game-specific features and some convenience functions like adding custom shaders to enemies to make them more visible. Even though the game is kind of retro, the techniques I've used can be applied to modern games too.
- Hacks for the game Counter Strike: Global Offensive: It makes you immune to flash grenades that would normally block your view. It's able to hook the 3D engine of the game to add custom content to the screen, like information on other player's current weapon and status. Also, I've implemented an aimbot that's very different to the one from the other game since the underlying game engine is also different.
During the talk I will explain two methods to implement a game hack:
1. Internal Hacks: It basically works by injecting a custom DLL into the game process that's able to hook and modify game functions. I'll also explain how to implement hooking from scratch without using an external library.
2. External Hacks: They run in their own process and constantly read and write the game memory of the game process in order to alter it at runtime.
As you can imagine, implementing the same cheat, e.g. the aimbot, is quite different when doing it internally versus externally."
Inside the Mind of a Threat Actor: Beyond Pentesting
by: Phillip Wylie
(PDF) (Video) Red team is a commonly misunderstood offensive security discipline. Red team has been used as a general term for all areas of offensive security just as blue team for defensive security. True red teaming goes Beyond Pentesting and into more adversarial emulation. While there are overlapping skills, there are differences that will be discussed as Phillip shares his experience of going from a pentester to a red teamer. In this talk, you will learn about the different areas that make up red team operations, common tools, and the path to becoming a red teamer. In this presentation, you will learn about resources helpful for a path into red teaming.
Offensive Embedded Exploitation : Getting hands dirty with IOT/Embedded Device Security Testing
by: Kaustubh Padwad
(PDF) (Video) "The world is moving towards smart culture everything nowadays is smart, and mostly all are those smart devices are basically embedded devices with internet connectivity or some provision to connect with the internet. Since these devices are booming in market this also tempting lots of people/groups for hacking.
In this 1 hour talk we will discuss how to test the embedded/IoT devices, it would give you a methodology for assessment, how to perform firmware analysis, identifying vulnerable components, basic approach for reverse engineering the binaries to discover potential remote code execution, memory corruption vulnerabilities by looking for native vulnerable functions in C or bad implementation of functions like System, popen, pclose etc.
After conducting static analysis,firmware analysis we will move towards dynamic testing approch which include web application testing, Underlying OS security testing, identifying vulnerabilities and misconfiguration in device. At last we will move towards fuzzing the device via web application parameters and installing aproppriate debugger on device to identify memory corruption vulnerabilities."
Payload delivery for initial access in Adversary Simulation exercise
by: Bourbon Jean-Marie aka "kmkz"- @kmkz_security
(PDF) (Video) How to perform payload delivery and compromise a company that have a very small attack surface during Adversary Simulation exercise? Let's talk about this!
As red team we know that a decisive task is to gain initial access... and it is not that easy in 2020. The goal of this talk is to provide a real feedback from battlefield on how to deal with all mitigation and blue teamers in order to gain initial access in restricted environments.
Some droppers example, payloads and other real-life oriented TTPs will be shared during this talk (no magic but working!) as well as some idea on how a blue team can catch attacker using some quick-wins solution.
Pursuing Evasive Custom Command & Control (C3)
by: Mark Ian Secretario / Renzon Cruz
(PDF) (Video) - Investigating in-memory attacks leveraging legitimate 3rd party services like Dropbox, OneDrive, and Slack to use as a medium for Command & Control Communication
- Detecting usage and exfiltration optimizing custom command & control channels
- Part of this talk is performing a forensics investigation to a large footprint of artifacts when utilizing cloud storage such as OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, GoogleDrive
Quark Engine - An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System
by: JunWei Song / KunYu Chen
(PDF) (Video) "Android malware analysis engine is not a new story. Every antivirus company has their own secrets to build it. With curiosity, we develop a malware scoring system from the perspective of Taiwan Criminal Law in an easy but solid way.
We have an order theory of criminal which explains stages of committing a crime. For example, crime of murder consists of five stages, they are determined, conspiracy, preparation, start and practice. The latter the stage the more we're sure that the crime is practiced.
According to the above principle, we developed our order theory of android malware. We develop five stages to see if the malicious activity is being practiced. They are
1. Permission requested.
2. Native API call.
3. Certain combination of native API.
4. Calling sequence of native API.
5. APIs that handle the same register.
We not only define malicious activities and their stages but also develop weights and thresholds for calculating the threat level of a malware.
Malware evolved with new techniques to gain difficulties for reverse engineering. Obfuscation is one of the most commonly used techniques. In this talk, we present a Dalvik bytecode loader with the order theory of android malware to neglect certain cases of obfuscation.
Our Dalvik bytecode loader consists of functionalities such as 1. Finding cross reference and calling sequence of the native API. 2. Tracing the bytecode register. The combination of these functionalities (yes, the order theory) not only can neglect obfuscation but also match perfectly to the design of our malware scoring system.
Further, we will also show a case study of Android malware and demonstrate how the obfuscation technique is useless to our engine. Last but not least, we will be open-sourcing everything (Malware Scoring System, Dalvik Bytecode Loader) during our presentation."
ReconPal: Leveraging NLP for Infosec
by: Nishant Sharma & Jeswin Mathai
(PDF) (Video) Recon is one of the most important phases that seem easy but takes a lot of effort and skill to do right. One needs to know about the right tools, correct queries/syntax, run those queries, correlate the information, and sanitize the output. All of this might be easy for a seasoned infosec/recon professional to do but for rest, it is still near to magic. How cool it will be to ask a simple question like "Find me an open Memcached in Manila with UDP support?" or "How many IP cameras in Phillippines are using default credentials?" in WhatsApp chat or a web portal and get the answer?
The integration of GPT-3, deep learning-based language models to produce human-like text, with well-known recon tools like Shodan can allow us to do the same. In this talk, we will cover how such integration can be done with Shodan and other recon tools. And, how this functionality can be extended to cover other popular tools. The code will be open-source and made available after the talk.
Zero Trust in the Era of Cloud
by: Vandana Verma Sehgal aka InfosecVandana
(PDF) (Video) Cloud is the new cool thing, everyone wants to be in cloud but what about security and compliance standards. How do organizations manage safety as well as security in the era of cloud. The concept of everyone inside the network being good or trusted is blown out of the water with cloud deployments. Effectively everyone is a tenant on a big server farm when it comes to cloud.
The only way forward is to not trust anything or what can be called a zero trust model. This talk will explore the concept of zero trust and will try to demystify zero trust models. The talk will focus on implementation and deployment scenarios of zero trust for organizations. How should the business prepare for the transition, what are the architectural requirements and what policies are required to be implemented?
We will conclude the talk with some recommendations based on our own experience dealing with zero trust deployments across a broad spectrum of clients and market segments.
@canbusdutch
Derrick is a corporate IT infrastructure professional, Cyber security hobbyist and motorcycle enthusiast, with more than a decade involved in the fields. When Derrick isn't consulting for major firms in the San Francisco area, feeding his autodidact addiction, or working on independent projects, he can be briefly seen as a blur passing you on the highway.
@CaptnBanana
@CaptnBanana enjoys reverse engineering and exploit development. He blogs regularly about these topics at his blog bananamafia.dev. Recently he got into the field of game hacking and is here to present his research. Also, @CaptnBanana is a red teamer and penetration tester at @codewhitesec. He likes bananas.
Apurv Singh Gautam (@ASG_Sc0rpi0n)
Apurv Singh Gautam is pursuing his Master's in Cybersecurity from Georgia Tech. He commenced work in Threat Intel/Hunting 2 years ago. Throughout his professional career, he worked on hunting threats from both clear web and dark web and is also involved in performing HUMINT on the d2web. He is very passionate about giving back to the community and has already conducted several talks and seminars in local security meetups, schools, and colleges. He loves volunteering with Cybrary and Station X to help students make their way in cybersecurity. He looks forward to the end of the day to play and stream one of the AAA games Rainbow Six Siege.
Asif Hameed Khan
Asif Hameed Khan is an independent OT/ICS Cybersecurity Researcher. He has an expertise in OT/ICS Cybersecurity, ISA 62443 Audit and Compliance, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Digital Forensics and Incident Response, Malware Analysis, and Honeypots. He published research papers in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Cryptography. He is currently exploring areas where concepts of Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Swarm Intelligence are applicable in Cybersecurity. He runs the platform namely OTISP- OT Threat Information Sharing Platform on LinkedIn, Github, and Twitter.
Bryson Bort
Bryson is the Founder of SCYTHE, a start-up building a next generation attack emulation platform, and GRIMM, a boutique cybersecurity consultancy, and Co-Founder of the ICS Village, a non-profit advancing awareness of industrial control system security. He is an R Street Senior Fellow and an Advisor to the Army Cyber Institute. Prior, Bryson led an elite offensive capabilities development group. As a U.S. Army Officer, he served as a Battle Captain and Brigade Engineering Officer in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom before leaving the Army as a Captain.
Bryson received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with honors from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He holds a Master's Degree in Telecommunications Management from the University of Maryland, a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Florida, and completed graduate studies in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas.
Boik Su
Boik Su is currently in CyCraft as a security researcher focusing on web security and threat hunting. He has received some awards from CTFs, been the speaker at various security conferences like [email protected], ROOTCON 13, OWASP Global AppSec - DC, AVTokyo, NanoSec, and others like OSCON and Taiwan Modern Web. He is also the lecturer at HITCON Training and National Center for Cyber Security Technology in Taiwan.
Bourbon Jean-Marie aka "kmkz"- @kmkz_security
Jean-Marie (kmkz) is an experimented Penetration tester and Red/Purple teamer that works now as a team leader in Luxembourg. His favorite part is post-exploitation, physical security and initial accessing in the most realistic condition that he consider as the most useful approach in term of security challenging human, processes, technologies etc.
He was speaker in "Nuit du Hack, Paris in 2011" , and more recently he presented talks in "Security Bsides, Dublin 2019", "Swiss CyberSecurity Day 2020" and other smaller event such as "JS meetup, Luxembourg 2019".
Chloé Messdaghi
Chloé Messdaghi is the VP of Strategy at Point3 Security. She is a security researcher advocate who strongly believes that information security is a humanitarian issue. Besides her passion to keep people safe and empowered online & offline, she is driven to fight for hacker rights. She is the founder of WomenHackerz & the President and cofounder of Women of Security (WoSEC), podcaster for ITSP Magazine's The Uncommon Journey, and runs the Hacker Book Club.Twitter: @ChloeMessdaghi
Ian Tabor
Network / security architect that has a passion for car hacking, found vulnerabilities in his own car and private Car bug bounties.
Now runs Car Hacking Village UK and is part of the team behind CHV at defcon.
Has created the nano-can pcb and software, which can allow potential car hackers to build a cheap OBD2 (<£10) car hacking device.
Jeswin Mathai (@jeswinmathai)
Jeswin Mathai (@jeswinmathai) is a Researcher at Pentester Academy and Attack Defense. He has published his work at DEFCON China, RootCon, Blackhat Arsenal, and Demo labs (DEFCON). He has also been a co-trainer in classroom trainings conducted at HITB, RootCon, OWASP NZ Day. He has a Bachelor degree from IIIT Bhubaneswar. He was the team lead at InfoSec Society IIIT Bhubaneswar in association with CDAC and ISEA, which performed security auditing of government portals, conducted awareness workshops for government institutions. His area of interest includes Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering, Cryptography, WiFi security, and Web Application Security.
Jorge Orchilles
Jorge Orchilles is the Chief Technology Officer of SCYTHE and co-creator of the C2 Matrix project. He is a SANS Certified Instructor and the author of Security 564: Red Team Exercises and Adversary Emulation. He was a founding member of MITRE Engenuity Center of Threat-Informed Defense. He is a Fellow at the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and National Security Institute. Prior, Jorge led the offensive security team at Citi for over 10 years.
He also co-authored Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and A Framework for the Regulatory Use of Penetration Testing in the Financial Services Industry, and author of Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference. Jorge holds post-graduate degrees from Stanford and Florida International University in Advanced Computer Security & Master of Science. Jorge speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese, in decreasing levels of fluency. When he's not hacking, teaching, or writing, you'll find him watching and playing soccer.
Junwei Song
JunWei is a Security Researcher from Taiwan. A paranoid Pythonista who focuses on cybersecurity, reverse engineering, and malware analysis. And as a PyCon Taiwan Program Committee, presented at DEFCON, HITB, ROOTCON, PyCon Europe/TW/KR/MY. He's the co-founder of Quark-Engine and a security research group, TWBGC.
Kaustubh Padwad
Kaustubh is a Device security Assurance Manager at Reliance Jio Infocomm limited, his main work include Securing JIO's Cutting Edge Enterprise, Consumer, and SMB(small,Medium,Big) business products. His main area of interest is Device security,Reverse engineering, discovering RCE,Priv-esc bugs in proprietary or close source devices. He was Null champion, He had deliver more than dozens of talk in null meet and he was champion for 3 years in null community. Also he is a speaker at Owasp SeaSide 2020,Some of his works are published in SecurityWeek, ExploitDB, 0day.today and have more than Dozens of CVE, Recently he was the winner of SCADA CTF @ nullcon 2019.
KunYu Chen
KunYu Chen is a security researcher at Telecom Technology Center, Taiwan. Since 2014, he has been engaged in honeynet system research and the automation of malware analysis. Also, he's an open source activism who contributes to CPython, viper-framework and the founder of Quark-Engine and a security research group, TWBGC. He presented at HITCON CMT 101, PyCon Korea, PyCon Taiwan and COSCUP.
Mark Ian Secretario
Mark Christian Secretario is a security professional who has 8 years of experience who holds different positions throughout his career like Security Analyst, Incident Responder, and now working as Senior Penetration Tester. He is also the Founder of GuideM, a cybersecurity training provider in The Philippines that conducts real-world cybersecurity training and assessments. He also holds multiple offensive certifications including OSCP, OSCE, CRTP, CRTE, CRTO, CCNP, CFR & CCNA CyberOps. His interest is towards on offensive security, red teaming, exploit development, security architecture & purple teaming and likes to play different CTF such as Netwars.
Phillip Wylie
Phillip Wylie is the Senior Red Team Lead for a global consumer products company, Adjunct Instructor at Dallas College, and The Pwn School Project founder. Phillip has over 22 years of experience with the last 8 years spent as a pentester. Phillip has a passion for mentoring and education. His passion motivated him to start teaching and founding The Pwn School Project a monthly educational meetup focusing on cybersecurity and ethical hacking. Phillip teaches Ethical Hacking and Web Application Pentesting at Dallas College in Dallas, TX. Phillip is a co-author of the soon to be published book based on his talk "Thee Pentester Blueprint." Phillip is a co-host for The Uncommon Journey podcast. Phillip holds the following certifications; CISSP, NSA-IAM, OSCP, GWAPT.
Renzon Cruz
Renzon Cruz, a Filipino security professional living in Doha who works as Sr. Security Consultant in a government and part of a national cybersecurity operations center. Prior to working to Doha, he works as Sr. Security Analyst & Incident Responder and was also a previous college instructor at New Era University, Philippines. He was also accepted to various international conferences as a speaker such as BSides Vancouver (2019), BSides London (2019) & BSides Doha just this year. He is also a co-founder, course developer and instructor of GuideM, a real-world cybersecurity training provider based in the Philippines. He also holds different certifications such as GCFE, GCIH, eCTHP, eCDFP, eJPT, CFR, ITIL, MCS, MCP. His interest is towards defensive strategy, threat hunting, digital forensics, and incident response, malware analysis and purple teaming.
Shail Patel
I am a security enthusiast, researcher, and an engineer by profession having been involved in the info-sec community since 2+ years now. I hold a master's degree in cybersecurity from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and two industry certifications (AccessData Certified Examiner, CompTIA Security +). I have worked on numerous security concepts and frameworks, though my research interests include red teaming, malware analysis, digital forensics and automation.
unixfreaxjp
a security engineer, currently a cyber threat analyst and RE in IR field of cyber incident management in Cyber Emergency Center of LAC/LACERT, Tokyo, Japan. For coding, I am a practical UNIX related coder, unixfreaxjp coded in some languages without flavors and he don't like to do specific indentation. unixfreaxjp code environtment is on the shell, mostly on the VT100-base.
unixfreaxjp do programming in: Perl, Shell scripts, C, Python, Assembler or a bit of Ruby, with some web programming like: PHP, Java(+/-JavaScript), and also some VB/PowerShell etc. Currently unixfreaxjp on LUA, Cython and Go for DFIR/RE purpose.
Nishant Sharma (@wifisecguy)
leads R&D at Pentester Academy and Attack Defense. He has 8+ years of experience in the information security field including 6+ years in WiFi security research and development. He has conducted classroom trainings in Blackhat USA, HITB Amsterdam/Singapore, RootCon, OWASP NZ Day. He has presented research and conducted workshops at Blackhat USA/Asia, DEF CON China, HITB, RootCon, Packet Hacking Village, Wireless Village, IoT village, and Demo labs (DEFCON USA). Prior to joining Pentester Academy, he worked as a firmware developer at Mojo Networks where he contributed in developing new features for the enterprise-grade WiFi APs and maintaining the state of art WiFi Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS). He has a Master's degree in Information Security from IIIT Delhi. He has also published peer-reviewed academic research on HMAC security. His areas of interest include WiFi and IoT security, Linux security.
Vandana Verma Sehgal aka InfosecVandana
Vandana Verma Sehgal is a seasoned security professional with over a decade worth of experience ranging from application security to infrastructure and now dealing with DevSecOps. She is currently working as a Security Architect. Vandana is a global speaker and Women in Cyber Security Advocate. She received Global cybersecurity influencer among IFSEC Global's "Top Influencers in Security and Fire" Category for 2019. She recently received Cybersecurity Women of the year award by Women Cyberjutsu Society in the Category "Secure Coder." She has also been listed as one of the top women leaders in this field of technology and cybersecurity in India by Instasafe. She works with various communities (InfoSecGirls, OWASP, WoSec and null) and is passionate about increasing female participation in Infosec space. She has trained over 1000 Diversity Participants around the globe on Web Application Security. She was a keynote speaker at Owasp Global AppSec DC, 2019. She has spoken and trained at various conferences AppSec Europe, AppSec USA, NullCon, Security Guild 2019, BSides Delhi, c0c0n (Kerala Police Conference), Global AppSec Tel Aviv, and Black Hat US 2019. She is part of the crew for OWASP Seasides and BSides Delhi conferences. She also does CFP Reviews for AppSec Europe, Global AppSec Tel Aviv, Global AppSec DC and Grace Hopper US 2019 (Security/Privacy Review Track).
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Liz Rywelski – Buffalo, New York
Posted on June 27, 2014 by greymattergallery
I shop, because money and how we use it is a reflection of identity and self-image—but the concept can be played with. With my shopping list and budget I aim to critically discover what exactly is being offered to me– the consumer, and how my desires as a customer aid to construct an identity. As a customer, I search for gratification, browse various dimensions of material identity, try on perception and often return my purchases.
I was born to a couple of hippie-ish folks on Long Island, NY, in 1980… so that was inspiring. I moved to Philadelphia in '98, participated in DIY art collectives and established alternative art spaces, performed in a few bands, Man Man /Gamelon; The Johnny Showcase and Lefty Lucy Cabaret; and Sri Slava, and collaborated with artists on various projects, events, and art. Space 1026 is where I found inspiration in performance art above other art forms. I worked with an amazing talented genius artist named Tom Ruth– we made performances, photos, videos, movies, and music together. We put our videos on Friendster and Youtube on 2003-4 and through those platforms we met other artists, including the artist Ryan Trecartin. Ryan ended up moving to Philadelphia and we all became friends. Ryan and I lived together and would spend countless hours on Chatroulette together performing for the people through my desktop lens from my bedroom.
Growing up in Philadelphia, an independent alternative artist in my 20's, there was so much freedom to do and be and grow because anything goes there, in a good way. Philadelphia is an awesome nurturing creative environment, the experience there inspired me and granted me the economic flexibility and freedom to really get in touch the most complicated parts of who I simply am as an artist. I don't feel I have to return to Philly to feel right post-grad school, though I love and cherish and miss that city very much. What I need as an artist is in my heart and I'm inspired anywhere and by all things.
I moved to Buffalo in 2010 for graduate school and my first years there were lonely because it is a small city, I missed my friends, and Buffalo's downtown isn't walkable, so I'd go to the mall and large outdoor shopping complexes to be around people and walk around freely. I began to gravitate to big box stores because the identical architectures and aisles of familiar-lined shelves of big box stores were comforting, they were just like the big box stores in Philadelphia, Long Island, Miami, LA, and other places I had spent long periods of time. These stores became my studio, shopping became my art practice, "the customer" became my performance. These comforting yet displaced shopping experiences were the catalyst for a major body of work titled RETURN POLICY, in where I attempt to find in consumption a deeper sense of human frailty, how buying makes me who I imagine myself to be.
RETURN POLICY just scrapes the surface of the complicated illusion that everyday commerce constructs. I made a diverse collection of performances, photographs, web-based media, and games about identity, desire, a meta-consumer esthetic and conceptual strengths to isolate an environment where shopping for ideals and identity can be played with, laughed at, adored, and reconsidered all together.
When I first started making art—like, feeling a sense of urgency and identity though completing works that I considered to be art—I felt like my heart was on fire, I was sure the art world would have a place for me. I didn't follow rules, I made scenes, I was hard to love, I wanted to leave a good story in my wake, I wanted to be undeniable artist-ego, because I felt I was, and so I was. 10 years later, well– like 8 independent artist years and 3 academic years later, I discovered that I can tell you what it looks like but I can't tell you what it is in a way that makes conventional sense, and that is my unique role. Blending in with the crowd, rather than sticking out has made my best work, and that has been the most unexpected thing I've learned about myself as an artist since I began the journey.
When do you find is the best time of day to make art?
Payday! I get ideas at the most random moments anytime of day, often the moment has something to do with sunlight or a shower, live music or reading, twirling my bangs and/or biting my lip.
Do you have time set aside every day, every week or do you just work whenever you can?
I go shopping-as-art-practice whenever I have over $300 to play with. Making in-store work can be expensive and I don't always get the $ back for a second try, also I am a terrible speller and have more misspelled receipts than correct ones due to my spelling problem.
I think that is one of the most interesting things about my body of work, because when I get a new idea it's exciting as if I'd just figured out how to get from wheel to airplane in a single invention, but really I've reinvented the wheel all together again and again… Kinda love saying the same thing over and over different ways for 12 years. My work, in terms of the actual product, like photography, sculpture, performance, drawing, video has changed but the concept has remained unintentionally constant.
Yes, I've mentioned a few guys however, the most impact on me as an artist has come directly from other women. The artist and friend Alice Alexandrescu has made an art out of helping others realize their own art practice, she calls it "Gut Flora", or being an "Art Fluffer". Artist, feminist performance artist, educator, and icon Mecol Hebron has such an epic catalogue of powerful event work and performance art to share. I am in awe of her ability to organize and make powerful-positive things happen for women in the arts. Finally, I am just going to admit it here first but I am absolutely inspired by female body builder Kelly Keiser. Her project is her, from the inside out. Kelly's practice challenges female sterio-types and requires absolute commitment to exceed personal goals. It is amazing to watch via social network and awe inspiring to support.
I do have another occupation (or three) but all require me to be an artist. I am a substitute teacher, make websites, work at ArtPark, rep for an amazing family owned vineyard, and sell Out-of-Home advertising. Currently, I am working on a freelance project at a healthcare corporation writing job descriptions for several hundred vacant positions waiting to be filled. Working within a cubicle in a call center, experiencing real time customer service both internal and external, and operating in a corporate environment has been the start to a new body of written work that I am absolutely consumed by creatively in producing it. It is not like anything I've done before, yet touches on familiar concepts.
Money and how we use it is a reflection of identity and self-image—but the concept can be played with. Through my shopping list and budget I aim to critically discover what exactly is being offered to me– the consumer, and how my desires as a customer aid to construct an identity. In shopping, I search for gratification, browse various dimensions of material identity, try on perception and often return my purchases.
Liz Rywelski was born to Long Island, NY, in 1980. She moved to Philadelphia in 1998, participated in DIY art collectives and established alternative-art spaces, performed in a few bands and collaborated with artists. It was at Space 1026 where she found inspiration in performance art, and put it to play in performing with Ryan Trecartin on Chatroulette, then later in his movies.
Rywelski moved to Buffalo in 2010 for graduate school. She describes her first years there as lonely, and said she often roamed aimlessly through big box stores because, "the identical architectures and aisles of familiar-lined shelves of big box stores were comforting … they were just like the big box stores in Philadelphia, Long Island, Miami, …" and other places she'd lived. This comforting yet displaced experience became the catalyst for a major body of work titled RETURN POLICY, in where Rywelski attempts to find in consumption a deeper sense of human frailty, how buying makes us who we imagine ourselves to be.
RETURN POLICY just scrapes the surface of the complicated illusion that everyday commerce constructs. Seen through a diverse collection of performances, photographs, web-based media, and games about identity and desire her meta-consumer esthetic and conceptual strengths isolate an environment where shopping for ideals and identity can be played with, laughed at, adored, and reconsidered all together.
Recent exhibitions include Echo Art Fair as a featured installation artist; RETURN POLICY, Anderson Gallery; The Sketchbook Project, traveling exhibition; LIKEARTBASEL, Workshop Collective, Miami FL; Suite 6 Portraits Series, Dis Magazine; Getting Closer: intimacy in the digital age, Fe Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh PA. Liz is currently preparing for a residency at Vermont Studio Center where she will finish a new series of writings for publication next spring.
"Positive Return Policy"
www.lizrywelski.com


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I have just started The Shadow Rising, Volume #4 of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.
Visions of disaster loom over Tar Valon as unanswered questions linger and fester, the Forsaken remain at large, and the Dragon Reborn rises. Long has the world dreaded and longed for the return of the Dragon. Long have the Aes Sedai been divided as to how to deal with him. Now the choices that shall shatter oaths and forge destinies must be made.


Not everyone can go on Hajj, and certainly not every year, but this Day of Arafa is one of the great gifts of Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) that people all over the world can benefit from. On this day, Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) grants fasting Muslims forgiveness for their faults of two years, if they have committed any, if not, Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) elevates their degree in Paradise. The Muslims should celebrate the day of Arafa by restraining themselves from committing sins and iniquities in order that Allah may forgive them.
Remember to celebrate it by fasting and making dhikr, dua and istighfar.
May Allah accept us to be among his accepted servants.


A lovely heavy weight Cotton Linen mix fabric from fabric designer Manuel Canovas. This fabric would make a striking pair of curtains or could be used for upholstery and soft furnishings.
You can buy this fabric online and in store from our fabric warehouse in Northamptonshire.


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Trump hosted Mark Zuckerberg for private White House dinner
Meeting took place as Facebook chief was being grilled by the House, NBC News reports, with Peter Thiel also in attendance
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Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House financial services committee in Washington DC, on 23 October. Photograph: Xinhua/Barcroft Media
Donald Trump hosted the Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg for a private dinner at the White House in October.
NBC News revealed that the meeting, which had not previously been disclosed, took place when Zuckerberg was in Washington being grilled by Congress over topics including Facebook's limited steps to ban to misinformation in political advertising.
Facebook banned white nationalists months ago. But prominent groups are still on the platform
According to NBC News, the billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel, a conservative who donated to Trump's 2016 campaign and sits on Facebook's board, was also present at the meeting.
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the meeting to NBC News.
Zuckerberg and Facebook have been strongly criticized for allowing politicians to make misleading or false claims in adverts on the site. Facebook had previously banned ads containing "deceptive, false or misleading content", but it has lifted that ban when it applies to political advertising.
The October meeting represented the second time Zuckerberg, who has privately criticized the anti-corporation proposals of Trump rival Elizabeth Warren, met the president in two months.
The pair also held a meeting at the White House in September – a summit announced by Trump on Twitter.
"As is normal for a CEO of a major US company, Mark accepted an invitation to have dinner with the president and first lady at the White House," a Facebook spokesperson told NBC News in a statement.
Trump has been a major advertiser on Facebook. According to a Guardian analysis, his campaign has launched 5,883 different ads since news of the Ukraine-call whistleblower broke on 18 September, 40% of which mention impeachment.
One of the ads raised concern for being deliberately misleading. It claimed, wrongly, that Biden "promised Ukraine a billion dollars if they fired the prosecutor investigating his son's company". CNN declined to run the ad, saying its assertions were "demonstrably false".
Thiel, who is the chairman of private data technology company Palantir, donated $1.25m to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. In August a report by Mijente, a Latinx organizing not-for-profit, found that Palantir has more than $1.5bn in federal government contracts.


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"Were these dunes located in moneyed communities like Bloomfield Hills, no developer would dream of taking public park land for private use."
Guest op-ed: Hugh McDiarmid, Jr. on the Jean Klock Park trust
by: Hugh McDiarmid
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[Ed. note: Michigan Messenger is pleased to welcome Hugh McDiarmid, Jr. as a guest; he shares this op-ed about Jean Klock Park and the proposed Harbor Shores development in Benton Harbor.]
The massive Harbor Shores redevelopment project proposed in Benton Harbor would inject new economic vitality into a community that sorely needs it.
But the cost - the snatching of beautiful publicly-owned Lake Michigan sand dunes that were legally deeded for eternal use as a public park a century ago - is more than the citizens of Michigan should be willing to bear. Once this legal agreement is torn asunder, no Michigan conservation easement, land trust or preservation agreement is safe from developers with clever legal strategies and powerful political connections.
The controversy over the dunes at Jean Klock Park has split a community. Opponents rightly contend it is an environmental justice issue. The most scenic portions of a public park, utilized almost exclusively by minority residents of one of the state's poorest communities, would be appropriated by Harbor Shores to build a fancy golf course that few Benton Harbor citizens could ever afford to play.
The "compensation" land that the developer proposes in trade includes several unconnected patches of swampy brushland, and some access points to the St. Joseph River. Some of these parcels are contaminated with toxic chemicals, and others are already owned by the city.
Until recently, Harbor Shores was viewed largely as a local or regional dispute.
But what truly accelerates this issue into one of statewide significance is the troubling example it would set for thousands of similar land trusts and conservation easements throughout the state.
Those legal agreements -- setting aside key natural lands to remain undeveloped and accessible to the public -- are deeded by people or organizations with vision, passion and generosity.
That was the case in 1917, when John Klock donated the spectacular Benton Harbor dunes and lakeshore to the citizens in the memory of his deceased daughter, Jean Klock.
Twisting the Jean Klock Park trust agreement into an unrecognizable form will weaken all such trusts. "The land you've donated" -- future agreements might say -- "will be preserved forever, or until deep-pocketed developers with political connections and an army of attorneys decide they need it."
Who in their right mind will donate land to the public in perpetuity with the knowledge that their gifts to the people can be unwrapped and torn up so easily?
Were these dunes located in moneyed communities like Bloomfield Hills, East Grand Rapids or Lake Forest, Illinois, no developer would dream of taking public park land for private use.
That it is being considered in Benton Harbor is not right, not fair, and it shouldn't happen.
Hugh McDiarmid Jr. is the communications director for the Michigan Environmental Council, a coalition of 70 environmental, public health and faith-based organizations across the state.
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Kraft is a German surname that means "strength", "power". Notable people with the surname include:

 Adam Kraft (c. 1455–1509), German sculptor
 Antonín Kraft (1749–1820), Czech cellist and composer
 Charles H. Kraft (born 1932), anthropologist
 Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. (1924–2019), NASA flight director
 Eric Kraft (born 1944), American author
 Hannelore Kraft (born 1961), Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
 Herbert C. Kraft (1927–2000), American archaeologist
 James L. Kraft (1874–1953), founder of Kraft Foods
 Leo Kraft (1922–2014), American composer, author, and educator
 Milan Kraft (born 1980), Czech ice hockey player
 Nina Kraft (1968–2020), German triathlete
 Norbert Kraft (born 1950), Canadian guitarist
 Ole Bjørn Kraft (1893–1980), Danish journalist and politician
 Patrick Kraft, College athletic director
 Rainer Kraft (born 1974), German politician
 Randy Steven Kraft (born 1945), American serial killer
 Robert Kraft (born 1941), American football executive
 Robert Kraft (astronomer) (1927–2015), American astronomer
 Stefan Kraft (born 1993), Austrian ski jumper
 Thomas Kraft (born 1988), German football player
 Victor Kraft (1880–1975), Austrian  philosopher, member of the Vienna Circle
 William Kraft (1923–2022), American composer

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This interactive map, courtesy of Google, shows the current location of the storm and the forecast for Hurricane Sandy's path across the east coast of the United States.
The storm has been widely labelled the "Frankenstorm" because of its strength and its potential to affect millions of people.
The storm is expected to make landfall late in late tonight or early tomorrow morning (GMT), with wind gusts of up to 90 mph.
In Manhattan, subway stations, schools and even Starbucks cafes have closed amid fears of flooding.
Large areas of the coast, including on the southern tip of Manhattan, are subject to mandatory evacuation, and huge swathes of the coast are at risk of flooding if the storm moves closer.
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic flights to and from the east coast have also been cancelled along with offers to rebook or receive refunds.
In the Caribbean, dozens of people have already been killed by the storm.
Use this interactive map from WNYC to see the current status of evacuation zones in and around Manhattan.
This animation by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows the predicted path of Hurricane Sandy, with New Jersey and Delaware bearing the full force of storm.


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Otakon 2016: Vertical Acquires Seven Deadly Sins: The Seven Scars Left Behind Novel
Posted by Samantha Ferreira | Aug 14, 2016 | News Reporting |
Tags: acquisitions, otakon 2016, seven deadly sins, vertical
What's in the box? What's in the box?!
Yesterday, publisher Vertical announced that they acquired the rights to Shuka Matsuda's The Seven Deadly Sins: The Seven Scars Left Behind (Shōsetsu Nanatsu no Taizai -Gaiden- Karera ga Nokoshita Nanatsu no Kizuato). Vertical expect to ship the novel in May 2017.
The Seven Deadly Sins: The Seven Scars Left Behind is a side story to the Matsuda's original The Seven Deadly Sins manga. The book originally hit Japanese retailers in October 2015.
The book revolves around two folks who know the truth of the events of the day that the Seven Deadly Sins were framed for treason against the crown of Liones. Fearing the shock the information could have in their country, Margaret and Gilthunder keep the secret to themselves. The two share a mutual love for one another, and resolve to live their lives as the Seven Deadly Sins would have, growing stronger with each passing day.
In addition, Vertical marketing director Ed Chavez revealed that the first Nisemonogatari may face delays. The title could potentially be pushed back to "May or June," from its current April 2017 launch period.
Vertical's also pursuing a Gundam property, though the panelists were unable to divulge exactly which title.
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