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Stan Brakhage - Anticipation of the Night
DVD/Blu-Ray combo with the film 'Anticipation of the Night' by Stan Brakhage
"The great achievement of Anticipation of the Night is the distillation of an intense and complex interior crisis into an orchestration of sights and associa- tions which cohere in a new formal rhetoric of camera movement and montage." -P. Adams Sitney
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Jon Behrens: 6 Films Vol 1
I am happy to announce the long awaited Blu-ray release of 6 of my short films. This is a limited addition of 300 numbered and signed discs. Brand new HD scans of all the films taken from the original film negatives. This is the first vol of films, future volumes will follow. - JB
Jon Behrens is a Seattle based filmmaker, film programmer, photographer, sound designer and teacher. His films have been screened through out the world and has been active in the Experimental and avant garde film movement since the early 1980's.
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Ken Jacobs: 3X3D
Three works by Ken Jacobs on 3D: Blankets for Indians (2012), A primer in sky socialism (2014) and The guests (2013).
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Lost Lost Lost & Walden: Two Diary Films by Jonas Mekas
Kino Lorber have revealed that they are planning to release on Blu-ray two landmarks of the American avant-garde: director Jonas Mekas: Walden (1969) and Lost Lost Lost (1976). The two-disc Blu-ray set will be available for purchase on November 17.
Walden, Mekas' first completed diary film, is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s.
Lost Lost Lost documents Mekas' early years in New York as he and his brother Adolfas build their new life in America.
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Prismatic Music - The Super 8 Films of Joseph Bernard
40 Super 8 films from one of avant guarde cinemas overlooked masters, Joseph Bernard. Shot in Detroit + Provincetown 1975 to 85, these films have had no prior release, finally existing as a 2K scanned Blu-Ray edition of 6 hours. A full color 24 page booklet with critical assessments, past show announcements and historic context included. Bernard, a student of Stan Brakhage, worked and taught film in Detroit before returning to painting in 1986. A Beneath Detroit Project and release of Geodesic Disques - geodesic.tv
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Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film 1920-1970
Flicker Alley and the Blackhawk Films® Collection, in collaboration with Filmmakers Showcase, are proud to present Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 in a 4-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo Edition. This breathtaking collection includes 30 films, restored to pristine high-definition, from some of the foremost experimental filmmakers of the 20th century.
Commencing in 1920 with Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's creative collaboration on Manhatta, successive generations of experimental filmmakers and artists have worked in collaboration or alone to create a cinema capable of expressing dynamic unspoken concepts in totally abstract visual terms.
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Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera and Other Newly-Restored Works
"I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only the machine can see it." - Dziga Vertov ("Kino-Eye")
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Bill Morrison: Selected Films 1996-2014
Over the past twenty years, Bill Morrison has built a filmography of more than thirty striking and original works which have been presented in cinemas, museums, galleries and concert halls worldwide. Making use of rare archival footage, which has often been decayed by the passing of time, Morrison explores the power of film as a medium which is evocative of memory and gives rise to a sense of collective mythology. Morrison's exquisite and timeless films are scored by the cream of the US underground / avant-garde music scene, including Dave Douglas, Henryk Górecki and Bill Frisell.
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The films of Jack Chambers
This 3-volume set brings together for the first time the complete film works of Jack Chambers (1931-78), largely regarded as one of Canada's most important visual artists. With a well-established career as a painter, he embarked on a short-lived but significant career as a filmmaker in the mid-1960s. Chambers' artistic practice was described as "perceptual realism" and stood in counterpoint to the dominant abstract styles of his day. He completed five films in his lifetime.
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What is Cinema?
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman's documentary What Is Cinema? tackles the question of its title through over 100 clips and new interviews with Mike Leigh, Jonas Mekas, Yvonne Rainer, David Lynch, video artist Bill Viola, Robert Altman, Kelly Reichardt, Costa-Gavras, Ken Jacobs, Michael Moore, critic J. Hoberman, and others, and with archival interviews from Robert Bresson, Alfred Hitchcock, Chantal Akerman, Akira Kurosawa, Abbas Kiarostami, and more. The film also includes commissioned sequences from experimental artists Lewis Klahr and Phil Solomon. What Is Cinema?
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For many years, braces have been associated with children and teenagers and they were almost a rite of passage for most of them. However, times have changed and the need for orthodontics among adults is becoming greater every day. And perhaps rightfully so, since discreet orthodontics are now more popular than ever.
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A person's smile is one of their most noticeable characteristics and the first thing people notice. For this reason, it can have a positive or negative impact. Patients with misaligned teeth are less likely to smile confidently and this can negatively impact their personal, social or professional life. Moreover, crooked teeth can cause many dental problems including plaque build-up, jaw pain and even tooth loss.
While it is easier to control teeth movement at a young age, teeth can move and shift at any age and this cannot change even if someone had braces during childhood. Teeth movement later in life can happen because of many reasons including natural growth, accidents and/or health conditions. In any case, people who had orthodontics in Weybridge in the past, may need to have them again. There is no guarantee that teeth will stop moving, since mouths can change, naturally or not so naturally.
In recent years, research has shown that almost as many adults in the UK have been treated for misalignment as children and teenagers. While poor oral hygiene, gum disease, cavities, irregular wear of the tooth enamel, jaw problems and even tooth loss can be avoided with orthodontics in Weybridge, oral problems may not be the only concern a patient with crooked teeth has to face. Misaligned teeth can lead to poor digestion and gastrointestinal problems, speech problems as well as headaches, earaches and other serious problems related to the jaw.


In order to serve low-income and emerging consumers effectively, insurance providers need to make significant changes to the way they do business. Changes can include finding cost-effective ways to understand the needs of a new market segment, reaching clients through different distribution channels, managing expenses to accommodate for lower margins per policy, and building systems to tackle large volumes of transactions. Insurers may also need to make changes to how they recruit, train, incentivize and retain their staff, how they structure their organization, the technologies they use, and the partners they work with. Starting a change process for an insurer can be daunting, especially given the difficulties in making the business case to serve this market segment. Successful implementation of change requires that the process is managed carefully with a systematic approach.
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I Spent the Night With Yelp's Robot Security Guard, Cobalt
Robbie Gonzalez
Cobalt is the latest member in a growing class of autonomous robots developed for commercial spaces.
Cobalt Robotics
The newest member of Yelp's security team wakes just after 8 pm, ready to begin its rounds.
It traverses the lobby, gliding over polished concrete toward a small recess in the corner, where it inspects the emergency exit tucked inside. Last year, burglars tried to breach the office by rending the door from the building, frame and all. The low-resolution camera mounted in the lobby saw nothing.
"We couldn't see what was going on inside the alcove," says Rick Lee, Yelp's head of security, who joined me on my late-night visit to one of the company's San Francisco offices. "But there was daylight and cold air coming through where they'd bent the door frame. A high definition camera would have spotted the light. A directional mic would have heard the noise. A FLIR infrared sensor would have flagged the temperature delta," Lee says, with the punctilious air of a man who has spent more than a decade overseeing security at Silicon Valley firms like Uber, Apple, Google, and Amazon. "Cobalt has all three," he says, gesturing toward his recent hire as it about-faces from the alcove and resumes its patrol. "It's also mobile."
Cobalt is one in a growing class of autonomous robots developed for spaces like malls, museums, and offices—the kinds of places that are more structured and less cluttered than, say, an apartment, but more dynamic and unpredictable than a warehouse or server room. Tug, an autonomous medical robot, delivers food and medications to hospital patients. Tally and Bossanova audit the shelves of grocery stores. And then there's the Henn-na Hotel, an uncanny lodging in Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture staffed entirely by androidal assistants. Experts agree that commercial bots will soon take over many of the world's blue-collar, high-turnover jobs. Less clear is how these robots should look and act, and the role we meatbags will play as stewards to our robot replacements.
Cobalt, developed by the Palo Alto startup of the same name, distinguishes itself from its peers in both respects. Each of its robotic sentries stands 5-feet 1-inch tall, and tapers from a big, blue ovular foundation to an ivory-colored top the size and shape of a badminton racquet head. Tetris-ed between its base and its crown lie more than 60 sensors and the computer parts required to run them, along with (what else?) AI and the machine learning and computer-vision algorithms to recognize people, places, and, yeah, temperature deltas. "We have the equivalent of what's running in an autonomous car running on this robot," says Cobalt Robotics CEO Travis Deyle.
However—and this is significant—you don't see most of this hardware. A soft, mesh, cobalt-blue fabric envelopes the robot, hiding it all. Cobalt designed Cobalt to look capable, not humanoid; authoritative, but nonthreatening. On this front, the company's collaboration with Yves Béhar—the A-list industrial designer behind products like Samsung's gorgeous new television The Frame and, more infamously, the Juicero juicer—is evident. Lee says it reminds him of a piece of Herman Miller furniture. "Classic and understated," he says, as we watch it scoot around Yelp's 17,000-square-foot office. "You notice it, but it doesn't dominate the room." To me, it looks like a traffic cone with fashion sense.
Dan Semo/Fuseproject
Either way, that congenial vibe is one of two big things differentiating Cobalt from other commercial robots—especially ones from Knightscope, another Silicon Valley startup and the current leader in developing security bots. Knightscope's flagship, the K5, started patrolling malls, offices, and schools in 2015, and looks pretty intimidating when it's not nose-diving into fountains. Aggressive, even—like a cross between a Dalek and Bullet Bill. The upshot is that Knightscope's robot resembles hired muscle, while Cobalt Robotics' looks like the kind of machine you might ask for directions.
The second thing Cobalt has going for it is telepresence. Most of the time, Cobalt patrols autonomously, detecting people, dodging obstacles, and flagging anomalies on the fly. But if it spots something unusual, it alerts a remote operator. The robot can then ask its human partner questions like "Is this a person?" to improve its computer-vision algorithms, or allow that carbon-based lifeform to assume control of its movements and display their face on its forward-mounted touchscreen.
This is exactly what happens around 8:30 pm, halfway through the patrol route. Cobalt spots a woman sitting quietly at the far end of the office, staring at a computer screen. The robot alerts Shiloh Nordby, Cobalt Robotics' lead pilot, who is overseeing an undisclosed number of robots from the company's headquarters in Palo Alto, some 35 miles away.
Lee and I watch from perhaps 40 feet away as Nordby takes control of the robot. He approaches the woman slowly, parking Cobalt a few feet to her right, just beyond her field of view.
"Hi there," Nordby says. No response. Maybe she didn't hear him.
"Hi there," he says again, louder this time.
"Oh, hi! How are you," the woman replies, turning quickly in her chair.
"Good, thanks. My name is Shiloh. I'm with Cobalt Robotics. Do you mind badging in on the screen?"
"Sure!"
Nordby scoots the robot to within arm's reach of the woman, who grabs her employee ID, raises it toward the screen, and pauses. She seems confused about where to put her badge.
"Oh, just place it right below the screen," Nordby says.
"OK, right here? Oh. Oh! Wow, OK," she says, as the screen gives the all-clear.
"Thanks," Nordby replies. "Have a good night."
"Thanks, you as well."
"Thank you!" Lee shouts at the woman, alerting her to our presence.
"Oh, no problem," she says. "That was awesome!"
Lee swears Cobalt's badge-in interaction wasn't staged. In fact, in the four months Cobalt has been monitoring Yelp's offices, he's never seen it do this in person. Lee occasionally pops in unannounced to join the robot on patrol, but he mostly keeps tabs on its performance through a weekly "instance report," prepared by Cobalt Robotics. The dossier includes details like the number of people detected and authenticated, the robot's schedule and patrol routes, and detailed descriptions of significant incidents from the preceding week.
Like a recent report of a rogue pair of microwave thieves. In timestamps, video stills, and transcribed conversations, Cobalt told Lee how it spied a couple of Yelp staffers schlepping an appliance from the office. Lee showed me a still of the video Cobalt captured of the incident. The pair did look suspicious, but they had merely burned something in the microwave and were moving it outside to air it out.
Lee says he's quite satisfied with the 'bot. "I wanted a super-capable machine, full of sensors, coupled with telepresence to help with customer service, creative problem solving, and negotiating all sorts of things people usually deal with every day," he says. "So far, it's functioning exactly the way I envisioned. It operates on its own, and the employees, once they've interacted with it a few times, barely notice it."
Robotic Symbiosis
Friendly—and subtle—human interaction is a bigger deal than you might think. Especially for robots, and especially right now. "I think that 20 years from now, robots moving among us will be very common—people aren't even going to notice whether they're there or not," says roboticist Manuela Veloso, who oversees Carnegie Mellon University's machine learning department. But first, she says, machines must earn humanity's trust.
One way to do that is through something Veloso calls symbiotic autonomy, a relationship in which robots recognize their limitations and ask humans for assistance. Veloso coined the term to describe the behavior of semi-autonomous robots developed in her own lab, which can ask passersby for help with, say, riding an elevator. Cobalt works in a similar fashion, asking its remote operator to identify people and objects it doesn't recognize, or bystanders to help open or close a door.
It bears mentioning that symbiotic autonomy is different from the concept of human-in-the-loop, whereby the human is the one asking the robot to do something. Cobalt uses both techniques in concert, to powerful effect. The exchange between Cobalt, Nordby, and the employee working late? Impressive. Nordby's ability to not only control Cobalt but address the employee's confusion on the robot's behalf leant the whole exchange a surprisingly pleasant, human quality.
Which is ironic, because Cobalt seems purpose-built to eliminate human guards, save for a few remote operators. Deyle won't tell me what his company's services cost, but he says Yelp pays a fraction of what it would employing human guards. He puts the figure between $30,000 (the annual cost of monitoring an office full of security cameras) and $300,000 (the annual cost of a flesh-and-blood security detail).
It's also not clear just how many robots a remote operator could realistically oversee. "The toughest thing today is quickly getting a sense of what's going on around each robot, when switching between different units in the fleet," Nordby says. Cobalt Robotics would not say how many robots Nordby manages on a given night, but it's not unreasonable to assume the ratio of robots to pilots would increase with time, as the latter train the former to become increasingly self-sufficient.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. It's early days for Cobalt, and the robot has yet to prove its worth in a range of security settings. Voloso, for her part, would like to see it navigate busier, less predictable environments. (Right now, Cobalt patrols only at night, when foot traffic is minimal, but the company's promotional video shows the robot easily navigating a naturally illuminated office bustling with people.) "I'm skeptical, not doubtful," she says. "Show me! When Cobalt's robots have logged more than 1,000 kilometers without a collision, we'll talk."
Deyle says his company is working on that. And that promotional video? "It's definitely representative of today's capabilities," he says, adding that, if it's something customers want, Cobalt robots could begin daytime operations within six to 12 months.
I'll believe that when I see it. But for now, color me optimistic. At three points in my visit, I stepped abruptly into the robot's path, and it always avoided me with little fuss. At this small but significant task, at least, Cobalt has earned my trust.
Robbie Gonzalez is a senior writer at WIRED, covering humanity's evolving relationship with science and technology. He was previously the editor of WIRED's design desk. Prior to joining WIRED he was the senior science editor of Gizmodo. Before that, he was a reporter at io9. Gonzalez holds bachelor's degrees in... Read more
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'Extreme Outsiders: Randy Constan' is a very lo-fi pamphlet-style fanzine that caught our attention at the recent Zinefest in Berlin. Although it was one of the more modestly produced offerings, an A3 black and white photocopy, it was also one of the funniest and most intriguing.
Wouldn't it be awesome if musical chairs wasn't just that childhood game none of us have played in years? As in, if there really were musical bits of furniture that you could play like instruments? We've got everything from bendy guitar tables to an organ that also just so happens to be a desk.
Available now at Motto Berlin, ANZA is the first East African architechture publication born of a collaboration between Tanzanian architechture students and Swiss architecture magazine Camenzind. It was completed in just over four weeks between August and October this year.
With twelve photographs nominated for this year's AOP Photography Awards, Josh Cole is a photographer at the top of his game. Having begun his career photographing the UK hip hop and graffiti scene, Cole now travels the world photographing slums and hard to reach people in hard to reach places.
Murderous pigs sent to the gallows, sparrows prosecuted for chattering in Church, a gang of thieving rats let off on a wholly technical acquittal – this is the very strange world of medieval animal trials as recounted in E.P. Evans' "The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals" published in 1906.


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Nebraska out to 0-4 start: 'I never thought I'd see the day'
PMN Football
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska's descent from the top of the college football hierarchy is going on two decades, yet those white helmets with the red block "N" remain an iconic piece of the sport's lore.
That might be why the Cornhuskers' 0-4 start is so jarring, and not just to people inside the program and a fan base that has sold out Memorial Stadium every game since 1962.
Nebraska's worst start since 1945 has been a major story line this season, especially after the splashy hire of 2017 national coach of the year Scott Frost, who completed Central Florida's two-year turnaround with a 13-0 record before he returned to his home state and the program he quarterbacked to a share of the 1997 national championship.
The Huskers have lost 14 of their last 18 games, and last weekend they dropped an eighth in a row for the first time in the program's 129-year history. They're listed as 17 1/2-point underdogs for their game at Wisconsin on Saturday night.
Even the coaches who used to get beaten badly and regularly by the Huskers are having difficulty grasping the current state of the Nebraska program.
"I never thought I'd see the day," said Glen Mason, 0-9 against the Huskers as Kansas coach from 1988-96 and now a Big Ten network analyst. "I would have thought they would have been better. Not great, but I thought he would make them better right away."
"Unthinkable. Shocking, really," said R.C. Slocum, whose Texas A&M teams went 1-3 against the Huskers, including a 39-point loss in the 1997 Big 12 championship game.
"It just breaks my heart," said Jim Walden, who was an assistant at Nebraska under Bob Devaney in the early 1970s and went 1-7 against the Huskers as Iowa State coach from 1987-94.
Nebraska ranks fifth all-time in wins, and no team won more from the 1970s through the '90s under Devaney and Tom Osborne. The Huskers went 309-56-5 for an .842 winning percentage over the three decades, and won all or part of five national championships and 17 conference titles.
Nebraska is 150-87 (.633) since, hasn't won a conference championship since 1999 and hasn't appeared in the final Top 25 in six years.
"Look at every program in the country, they went through some dog days, so to speak," said Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, 5-14 against Nebraska over two stints from 1989-2010. "They'll build their way out of it, and I have great confidence in that. It doesn't surprise me a bit. College football, it's hard to be surprised by anything."
Schools such as Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame, Penn State and Southern California have endured lean times, but Nebraska's down cycle has been lingering.
Mason, Slocum and Walden said the turning point was the decision by former athletic director Steve Pederson to fire Frank Solich after a 9-3 season in 2003. Solich had played for Devaney, was an Osborne assistant and went 58-19 in six years. Bill Callahan, Bo Pelini and Mike Riley followed.
"I don't think Bill understood the Nebraska program," Mason said. "Right away he talked about changing the recruiting and doing away with the walk-on program. Being a guy who had to compete with Nebraska back in my Kansas days, I was thinking, 'Are you crazy?' That walk-on program was the envy of every program in the country."
Osborne's triple-option offence also gave the Huskers a unique identity that attracted top running backs, and his teams played what Mason called "suffocating" defence. Those days are long gone. Offensive co-ordinators on the previous three staffs had a penchant for the pass, and since joining the Big Ten in 2011 the Huskers have allowed more than 50 points in nine conference games, including five of the last seven.
Walden said he watches Nebraska games regularly and the drop in talent is apparent. Slocum said two factors work against the Huskers in recruiting. High school players don't know much about the Huskers because they've mostly been irrelevant nationally in their young lifetimes. Also, Slocum said, the move from the Big 12 to the Big Ten seven years ago made it more difficult to pull a large number of players out of talent-rich Texas.
None of that is to say Nebraska can't rebound and compete for championships again.
"We need Nebraska to be good," Walden said. "We need teams that are not just the sparkling Ohio States and Alabamas of the world. You need that good ol' Midwest hard-core Nebraska-type mentality to be good. I always felt we were leaders to show the way you could get things done, and not necessarily in a glamorous city or a big school. Nebraska was what we used to call a blue-collar college, a blue-collar football team, and we loved the fact it was a farming community and people loved the school and this team and it was everything to them. I still do believe that's important."
Each of the four former or current coaches interviewed said Frost is the right man for the job because he excelled as a player, succeeded as Oregon's offensive co-ordinator and UCF's head coach, and knows what it takes to win at Nebraska.
Frost is trying to blend old-school Nebraska principles, such as relentless effort and being the stronger team in the fourth quarter, with the fast-paced spread option offence he brought from UCF.
"He understands what they used to be, and that's the standard he'll set," Mason said. "I don't think he'll take any shortcuts. It might take him a little bit longer than they would have liked, but it' s not his fault because he wasn't there when they were making decisions that let that program decay."
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OVERLAND PARK, Kansas — The Cloud County Community College softball team went toe-to-toe with the top team inside the Region VI on Saturday, but unfortunately came out on the short-end of a pair of pitcher's duels as the T-Birds fell by the final scores of 3-1 and 2-1, respectively.
While the T-Birds (6-18 overall, 0-8 Region VI) were disappointed to be leaving Overland Park without a win, they did finish their eight-game road trip with a 5-3 record and showed with Saturday's performance against Johnson County (14-7 overall, 11-1 Region VI) showed they are a different team since the calendar flipped to April.
"You could tell there was a team out there that really wanted it badly. And I told them, at the end of the day that their effort was outstanding," said Cloud County head coach, Aaron Acree. "We executed, defensively, all day long. We received two very good pitching performances. We just didn't hit the ball like we should have. There were great things to see and those were two well-played ballgames by both teams all the way around."
Cloud County pushed the Cavaliers, who received votes on the latest NJCAA national poll, to extra innings in Game Two.
With two gone in the bottom of the eighth, Johnson County's Alli Heiman lined a two-out RBI double down the left-field line that scored Kerry Murphy on a controversial call at home plate.
Murphy and Cloud County freshman catcher Emily Wells collided a few feet in front of home plate and Wells was ruled for catcher's interference as she tried to position herself for the relay throw home. The call was discussed, but ultimately upheld by the field umpires to give the Cavaliers a 2-1, walk-off victory.
"We had perfect relay throws from (left fielder) Kara Chisolm and Kennedy Doherty (shortstop) to Emily, who tagged (Murphy), but had the ball come out at the same time as the collision," Acree explained. "We thought she tackled Emily, then stayed on top of her and wouldn't get off her. But the umpires ruled it was obstruction and that it was Emily who wouldn't get off the runner."
It was an anti-climatic end to an otherwise brilliant day in the pitching circle for freshman Mattison Hogrefe, who threw a career-high 7.2 innings, limiting a powerful Johnson County lineup to two runs, one earned, on eight hits while striking out two.
"They (Cavaliers) are so tough and Mattison did a great job of throwing first-pitch strikes and Emily called a great game behind the plate, moving the ball in and up, down and outside while changing speeds," Acree said. "No one ever really squared her up all game long."
Cloud County took its first lead off the day in the top of the sixth when Wells led off the inning with a double, then came around to score on a two-out single by freshman Jacie Marcotte.
"Jacie won a great battle there. Full count and she was able to get her hands through and hit a nice line drive over the shortstop's head," Acree said. "It was a huge at-bat in the game."
Johnson County loaded the bases the next half-inning on three straight bunt attempts, but Hogrefe was able to induced a 3-5 double-play on a pop-up and escape the jam with just one run allowed, setting up the exciting finish in extra-innings.
Marcotte, who finished 1-for-3 with the RBI in Game One, also impressed Saturday in the pitching circle as she got saddled with the tough-luck loss in Game One after throwing six innings after limiting Johnson County to three runs on eight hits.
Jacie pitched a heck of a game, as well," Acree said. "She worked ahead in the count, consistently, like Mattison did and I'm extremely proud of both of those girls. They did an outstanding job (Saturday) and they are starting to understand their jobs."
Cloud County scored its lone run of Game One to tie the game back in the fourth inning when Hogrefe scampered home from third base on a strike three wild pitch that kicked away from the Johnson County catcher.
The T-Birds finished with six hits in Game One, and nine total hits on the day, as the Cavaliers pitching duo of Kerrigan Dixon and Hallie Henderson were able to match the outings turned in by Hogrefe and Marcotte.
"Johnson County's pitchers keep hammering that low and outside part of the strike zone and we kept popping the ball up off the end of the bat or watching it go by for strike three," Acree said. "We faced two darn good pitchers from Johnson County. Both teams were hitting locations and making big pitches when they needed to."
Cloud County will take the rest of the weekend off and turn its attention toward its Tuesday's doubleheader against Coffeyville Community College.
Tuesday's doubleheader, set for 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. in Concordia, marks the long-awaited home opener for the T-Birds after an unusually snowy spring forced the team to play their first 24 games out on the road.
"I know the girls are looking forward to playing at home," Acree said. "And if we can play like we did (Saturday) and this past week, I think we can take care of business at home and get back into the picture of things (in the Region VI standings). We have to take care of things one game at a time. But after playing as well as we did today against a great team like Johnson County, we know it's in us."


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It will be the second time that the CNRT, as the second most voted party, deprives FRETILIN, the party that won the legislative elections, of exercising executive power.
A political crisis unfolding in East Timor is unpredictable. The situation has dragged on since July's parliamentary elections, in which Mari Alkatiri's FRETILIN was the most voted party (23 members), but by the minimum margin, electing only one deputy more than the National Congress of East Timorese Reconstruction ( CNRT, 22 members) by José Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmão.
Alkatiri formed a minority coalition government in September (30 MPs out of a total of 65 seats in the Timorese parliament), along with the Democratic Party ( PD, 7 Members). However, contrary to what was initially envisaged, Alkatiri saw his government program be rejected en bloc by the opposition: CNRT, People's Liberation Party (PLP, 8 deputies) of former President Taur Matan Ruak and Kmanek Haburas National Unity Timor Oan KHUNTO, 5 Members).
With the political crisis in place and with the government reviewing its program at this time, the president called a meeting that will take place next week with FRETILIN, CNRT and PLP leaders. In practice, if there is a second rejection of his program, the Alkatiri government comes to an end without honor or glory, at a time when Xanana Gusmão promises to move forward with a majority alternative.
This will be the second time that the CNRT, as the second most voted party, deprives FRETILIN, the party that won the legislative elections, of exercising executive power. In a sense, we are witnessing a repetition of what happened after the June 2007 election.
Naturally, the Timorese Constitution allows this possibility, as well as the Portuguese, ignoring in part the popular will. Put another way, if you understand it, CNRT, PLP and KHUNTO have constitutional legitimacy to prevent FRETILIN (and the PD) from governing, but politically this can turn out to be a big trouble.
In 2007, the constitutional "coup" of the CNRT was very badly received by the sympathizers and militants of FRETILIN. In reaction, serious disturbances of the public order occurred, having been burned and looted hundreds of houses. Despite appeals for calm, it is not impossible, or even unlikely, that a replay of the serious events of 2007 may occur, perhaps even on a larger scale.
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Long gone in 2001, for example, when Xanana Gusmão, modest and humble, said that he was not "the best person to be president" and that he was "tired because of [his] 25 years of great responsibility" in the struggle for self-determination and independence of Timor-Leste.
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This other child is pushing, hitting and bullying her DD.. she is also trying to attempt mobbing style bullying against her DD. That can have catastrophic consequences on a 4 year old .
I did say if she exhausts all other reasonable options and none of them work, to try and help her daughter fight back (verbally) to create an uncomfortable feeling in the bully.. after all the other girl is doing far worse things.
Embarrassing a bully can be done in an intelligent way without creating complexes in a child. Im not suggesting she insults her. She can give her some tips on what to say in a way thats clever and effective and will cause the bully to avoid targeting her DD.
What is the alternative if all other options are exhausted and its not an option for her to change environments? That her DD takes it and becomes a victim? What will that do to her DDs self esteem and character? How will the bullying impact on her DD for the rest of her life? A child's character is formed by age 6.
There is nothing wrong with teaching her DD to return back an insult when all other options have failed. If its done right her DD wont think its an appropriate action to take whenever someone doesnt want to play with her. The problem isnt that this girl doesnt want to play with her. The problem is that she is pushing and hitting her and calling on to other kids to not play with her. Its creating anxiety as a response which is a red flag response.
I believe that at 4 she can have conversations with the child to explain what is appropriate and what is inappropriate behaviour. When is it appropriate to stand up for yourself in the play ground for an example and effective ways to do that.
Unfortunately sometimes talking to teachers, other parents, avoiding a bully or removing a child from an environment doesn't work (or isnt possible).. and that stage i think standing up for yourself is almost always more beneficial for a child then to cop the abuse which can damage her well into adulthood.
Have you tried play acting responses for your child? So for example before preschool DS2 and I talk about what is and isn't ok behaviour. We play act what to say or do if someone is hitting/pushing or saying something not nice. I have taught DS2 to put his arm out straight palm flat and say in his loudest voice 'stop I don't like that' he is then to walk away and tell his teacher.
Maybe you could come up with some other scenarios for your daughter.
I agree to an extent to teach your child to say something back to the other child but not to embarress them but to show them that there words are having no affect on your child.
Having a 7 yo in school she has always been told why bullies do those things as the bully is insecure etc and my dd understands that but at the end of the day it still upsets them that it is happening.
4 is a tough age as they are in and out of "best friends" and they often want to lead in playing.
We need to teach our children not to be bullies but we also need to teach them to stand up for themselves and have confidence.
Big hugs. It certainly is hard as a mum to see this happen to your child. Keep reminding her that she can always come and talk to you, dd and I have big chats when Im putting her to bed about school and any problems she is having.
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Tower of the Stargazer
Posted on November 5, 2012 by Bryce Lynch
by James Edwar Raggi, IV
for Lamentations of the FLame Princess
LotFP/D&D
Introductory characters
Legends tell of a wizard so arrogant that he felt the entire sky was naught but a lens for him to view the stars. So great was the hubris and defiance of this man that the gods smote him with the power of storm and fire. Oh did the wizard laugh at such a pathetic gesture. He did not fear the gods, for he drew his knowledge from something greater. Something darker The legend of this wizard grew, first whispered by men in fear, and later in awe. The wizard, they said, attacked the gods just as they had attacked him. And his joy only grew as the land around him died. But then there was no more news. No more talk. Something had finally brought the wizard low, for though the sky still blazed down on him and his abode, he no longer blazed back. And now you're going to walk right through this wizard's front door.
Stargazer is very good and can be very deadly, in spite of the low creature count. It's one of my favorite modules to run at cons. Unlike most of what I review, I HAVE run this. About 20 times.
The module is in digest format and sometimes manages to squeeze three entries to page. Raggi does like to fill a room with words, ad there's a little bit of this that goes on in the module. Unlike many 3.x modules though it doesn't feel TOO excessive. Many 3.x modules feel like they are being padded in order to exploit a 'cents per word' payment rate by the publisher. In this product though it feels lie it's genuine excitement over the room and setting. The module is also meant to be a kind of introductory work and thus there are some extensive notes in certain areas. These are a kind of combination designers notes and advice to the DM; advice both on how to run the room and the design behind it, in order to guide a new DM and help them run better games in the future. I LOVE designers notes and don't really have too much of a problem with them being integrated in to the main text. The advice also does a decent job of conveying the feel the designer is going for. Most games are shooting for a certain feel and it can frequently be difficult to figure out what that feel is. This helps.
Stargazer only has about 26 rooms, spread out over the seven levels of a wizards tower. Each level only has three of four encounters in it however it manages to deliver a good Exploration feeling, the kind that's very rare in a setting with so few rooms. It does this primarily through two mechanisms. First, it's the tower of a reprobate wizard, and thus there are many strange, bizarre, and weird things in it. This does an excellent job of setting the mood of the various rooms. Secondly, there are multiple ways around many of the levels. Three of the levels are only accessible through a levitating platform, and two of the levels are NOT accessible through that platform. Three levels also have no stair access while two levels only have stair access and two levels are connected by multiple 'stairs' and have areas not accessible by the other stairway. This map complexity to some decent Exploration elements in the tower, which, combined with the atmosphere, leads to the players not quite knowing what's around the next corner, even when it's obvious there is no next corner. Eventually though this leads to "find the missing room" syndrome, which is not necessarily a bad thing. The players get to experience both the mystery of the tower AND have a mostly-satisified feeling of having explored everything.
This being Raggi-land, the module is short on opponents and full on weird and death-traps. There is not, though, a feeling that the traps are arbitrary or unfair. Carry a ten-foot pole though a lightning field and take your chances. Go through the eighteen steps required to use the telescope and suffer the consequences. Perhaps the only borderline example is the front-door, but even then it can serve as a good example of how old-school play proceeds and it certainly sets the stage for what is to follow. I don't have problem with it since I use this frequently in con games with a boat-load of pre-gens available as replacement characters.
There is a SHIT-ton of stuff to play with in this adventure. Lots of stuff to drink, or to open, or to mess with. Some good, some bad, and almost all of it weird. I LOVE this kind of stuff and this is what OD&D means to me. It's the weird and strange and its use to invoke a sense of mystery in the players. There's absolutely no telling what some of this stuff will do. This instills a kind of apprehension in the players and keeps them off balance. It's terribly hard to min-max things through the rules when encountering the weird and non-standard. Almost every room has something interesting in it. I particularly like the crate room, the anatomy room and the wizards room. The wizards room, in particular, provides an enormous amount of fun in running, both for the players and the DM, in my experiences. The players generally think they are getting one over on the DM and the wizard is A LOT of fun to role-play. I only recall there being five monsters in the module, two which are NICELY bizarre and two of which are classics. It's not a combat-heavy affair.
The only criticism I have is that it can sometimes be a bit slow. Most of the combat encounters are clustered in the same area. This can lead the rest of the tower to feel a little slow.
I like this module a lot. I keep it in my "quick-start" kit, along with Death Frost Doom, Tomb of the Iron God, and Shadowbrook manor. Those four choices, along with a pad of graph paper, a big stack of 1st-level pre-gens, the magenta D&D basic book, and dice-pencils make for a PERFECT "zero effort" D&D kit. This module, along with that kit, makes it possible to play D&D IMMEDIATELY. Anything that lets you play more D&D is a good thing.
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5 Responses to Tower of the Stargazer
Ynas Midgard says:
I have read so many good reviews on this one that I feel urged to check it out.
S J Grodzicki says:
Far too many deadly traps for my liking.
Nobboc says:
Ireally liked it and will include it in my next sandbox. It's very vancian. The mage in his circle of salt could be Iucounu. And the front door trap is what you could find at the manse of Murgen. Great stuff (and one more ODD stuffI read because MrBryce. Stop him!)
I played this with a few more experienced players and an experienced DM, and I have to say that I really loved it, mostly the feeling of having no idea of what to expect next. I also like how all the traps force to be very careful and advance very slowly
Groody the Hobgoblin says:
We played this with 5e, and just two experienced players, a mage and a paladin.
Overall the adventure was a blast to play, old-school treasure hunter style. Since you get free spells via cantrips and rituals in 5e with a mage, they were able to avoid many of the traps with Mage Hand and continuous use of unseen servants. As Bryce (whatever his real name may be) says, it is very slow: there is nothing that punishes the players for idling time. Once they realised this, they took full advantage of it. They took about three weeks to throughly loot the tower, to the point where they bought vials for the acid from the acid pool with the returns of their first round of loot. Some specific tactics enabled by the lack of time pressure:
(SPOILERS follow): Play with a ghost for your soul to remove a force field? F*ck that, we'll just chisel our way in from the floor below. So what if it costs a day. Tired of playing around with the force fields in the treasure chamber? F*ck THAT, let's hire a dwarven demolition team and tunnel down from above through several feet of solid rock. I thought about the dwarves getting greedy and trying to overwhelm them in the face of all that gold, but then this was a fair solution to tackle the problem, so no. They however did get trailed back to the tower by a mage with a bunch of henchmen whom they sold the more interesting loot to, and had to barricade and negotiate their way out of that. Since they could not carry enough to make off with all the treasure, they also had to leave behind about 28,000 cp, the rest of the acid and the books for them.
Some of the scenes are hilarious fun, like the one where the mage licked the microscope slides clean. Or the attacking blood — as it does only one point of damage, it does nearly not hurt at all, its more of a weird itching. Man, were they scared of being infected. Preventive cure disease by the Paladin, just to be save. Or the brain maggot: the Paladin tried to snort acid up his nose to get it out again. He had to go to his deity's temple in the next bigger town, and after trying everything form cure wounds to cure disease (lesser restoration) to remove curse, they had to resort to splitting his skull open, fry the damn thing with sacred flames, and then revivify him. I also ruled that they could find a book in the library that explains its ecology with enough search or a good library use roll. It seems pretty shitty to give the players a whole library worth of monster books, and then all of them are useless.
In playing, I found there are a few incongruent things in the tower layout: firstly, where does the blood come from that trickles through the keyhole and washes down when you crash the door? If it is not in the chamber beyond, or the mage would be knee deep in blood, and the circle long dissolved? I ruled that it is magically created by the keyhole/door, there is no reservoir; still sloppy. Second, how is the door locked from the inside, if the former head servant made off with all the spell books (which my players figured out from the diary and an empty "strongbox" in the library area I added)? Third, what is beneath the entry floor and above the basement? The stairs to the entry floor lead "from the ground level up", and given the length of the stairs on the map, even if they were a lot flatter than the artists interpretation on the cover, they should go up at least a floor of 15-20 feet. But there is no such floor in the tower.
I think three things would make the maps a lot more usable: (1) indication in which direction doors open. This makes a hell of a difference when you are trying to bar or spike a door. (2) Indication how thick walls and floors are. (3) A cross section with height indication. This makes it a lot easier to judge if you can reach a ceiling, and how long it takes you to get through by force. Sure, I can make all that up, based on the overall size of the tower, and I did. But to parrot Bryce, this is the writer's job. It costs next to no extra effort to use doors with an indication to where they open, and a cross section would have easily exposed the logical construction flaws. These are things that /do/ come up in play, they are not useless backstory.


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Cimoideais a superfamily of rather specialized, highly evolved sea slugs and sea snails, (marine gastropod mollusks) within the infraclass "Lower Heterobranchia" .

Families
 Cimidae Warén, 1993
Synonyms
 Graphididae J.C. N. Barros, Mello, F. N. Barros, S. Lima, Santos, Cabral & Padovan, 2003: synonym of  Cimidae Warén, 1993
 † Tofanellidae Bandel, 1995: synonym of  Cimidae Warén, 1993
 † Subfamily Usedomellinae Gründel, 1998: synonym of  Cimidae Warén, 1993

References

 Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp
 Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526

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Overall membership has increased in the last year. This is especially noticeable in the attendance at both the Kabbalat and Shacharit Shabbat Services: for both there are twice as many people attending as last year. There were 110 people for Rosh Hashanah, 100 worshippers for the Pesach Community Seder, and 60 for the Yom Kippur day service, also more than last years attendance.
Purim Party
A unique weekend long Purim Party was organised by Simchaz, the youth group of Sim Shalom. The ball was held on a ship in the Danube river. Twenty-five representatives of eight European Progressive Jewish communities were here for a weekend of intense activities.
In the last year, Simchaz, the youth and young people's group has become an active and vibrant participant in most of the activities of the congregation. This is in addition to their own bi-weekly program meetings. Out of the Simchaz success with a Purim weekend in 2003 has sprung the international Jewish youth group, EuroJews, which led a Chanukkah weekend in Barcelona in Dec. 2003. This was attended by five Simchaz members. Finally, the Simchaz president, Péter Radvánszki attended the Limmud in late December and returned full of ideas and enthusiasm.
We held our second weekend family spirituality retreat in the Matra hills. The residential camp was attended by 80 people. The event coincided with Shavuoth, celebrating the revelation at Mt. Sinai, so all the events of the weekend had the theme of climbing our own Mt.Sinai.
Continuing from last fall, an ongoing monthly program in Interfaith topics was presented. In these meetings, led by one of our member and by a psychologist, the main theme was how to deal with religion and faith in mixed marriages. Among the guest speakers, there was the Christian theologist, Joseph Szécsi, who is also the President of the Hungarian Jewish-Christian Dialog.
A week long educational camp was arranged and led by Simchaz for the young members of Sim Shalom at Lake Balaton.
After a long working period, and overcoming many obstacles, we launched the draft edition of our Kabbalat Shabbat Siddur. It is the work of Rabbi Katalin Kelemen, with the help of the editorial committee: all members of our own community. The Siddur contains the Kabbalat Shabbat service, the Kiddush and Havdalah services, and the Birkat Ha-Mazon. It is the first ever Progressive Hungarian Siddur, and consists of the Hebrew text, Sephardi transliteration of each prayer, new Hungarian translations, a selection of alternative versions of prayers in English (so that our guests from abroad feel welcome at our services) and commentaries in a Progressive spirit – which latter is a real novelty in this country. Our intention is to distribute the draft edition among our members and potential members for use over a one-year period. During this time, we will collect the experiences and insights of the users, and correct the errors, and we plan to publish a revised version by the next Chanukkah.
Life Cycle Events, Visitors and Travel
One member of Sim Shalom took all the preliminary steps for conversion which will occur before the European Region Conference in the Hague, which the Rabbi, the vice president and the Rabbi's husband, Jesse Weil will attend.
Gabor Kalman, president and George Hajnal, vice president of Sim Shalom, attended the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) European Region Executive Meeting and Seminar in London. They gave a comprehensive presentation of Sim Shalom's situation in Hungary to the other European Progressive Community representatives.
Future Plans and Needs
The continuous search of alternative routes towards recognition led us to decide to start the legal steps to establish an independent Progressive Community, after twelve years of existence of Sim Shalom in the legal form of an association. To achieve our goal we have called a membership meeting for the first half of 2004, to vote on this proposal and start the formal legal process.
Simchaz is starting to make connections to other Jewish youth groups in Budapest.
The main problem we face, with expanding membership and program offerings is a growing lack of space. We badly need to find the financial resources to buy larger premises. Our finance committee is busy on this, but it is a daunting task.
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vice-president at time of report


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June 17, 2018 • NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro plays the Sunday puzzle with puzzle master Will Shortz and puzzle winner Gail White.
June 10, 2018 • NPR'S Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzle master Will Shortz play the puzzle with a surprise guest: Gene Demby of NPR's Code Switch.
June 3, 2018 • NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro plays the puzzle with puzzle master Will Shortz and Steven Tivol of Berkeley, Calif.


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Q: Unexpected output with input and print functions in python I'm new to python and I'm trying to jump from line to line but I read somewhere that's it's bad to do goto in python or something like that. So I decided to write the code like this.
def event_1():
    dsc_1 = input(print("Will you (1) turn west or (2) turn east? > "))
    if dsc_1 == "1":
        event_2()
    elif dsc_1 == "2":
        event_3()

def event_2():
    print("You have turned west.")

def event_3():
    print("You have turned east.")

event_1()

And this returns this:
Will you (1) turn west or (2) turn east? >
None

Now if I enter 2 after, this happens
Will you (1) turn west or (2) turn east? >
None2
You have turned east.

So this is what I want to happen, but I want to input to happen after the ">". I also don't understand why the code is returning "None". Like I said before, I'm new to python and coding so if you guys have any suggestions on how to do this better it would be much appreciated :)

A: You don't need the print statement in the input function.
def event_1():
    dsc_1 = input("Will you (1) turn west or (2) turn east? > ")
    if dsc_1 == "1":
        event_2()
    elif dsc_1 == "2":
        event_3()

def event_2():
    print("You have turned west.")

def event_3():
    print("You have turned east.")

event_1()

OUTPUT:
Will you (1) turn west or (2) turn east? > 2
You have turned east.

/
Will you (1) turn west or (2) turn east? > 1
You have turned west.

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Top Shots: Week 10 vs. Chargers
Take a look through the top images from the Raiders' game against the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 10 at the Coliseum.
Oakland Raiders tight end Lee Smith (86), Martavis Bryant and Jared Cook before the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland Alameda-County Coliseum on Sunday, November 11th, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Joe Na/Oakland Raiders
Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr (4) walks out of the locker room during the Oakland Raiders game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. Oakland lost 20-6.
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Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquel Lee (55) leads the huddles with the team during the Oakland Raiders game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. Oakland lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Martavis Bryant (12) makes a play during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland Alameda-County Coliseum on Sunday, November 11th, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders running back Doug Martin (28) makes a play during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland Alameda-County Coliseum on Sunday, November 11th, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders cornerback Rashaan Melvin (22) makes a play during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland Alameda-County Coliseum on Sunday, November 11th, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders punter Johnny Townsend (5) runs a fake punt back during the Oakland Raiders game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. Oakland lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders running back Doug Martin (28) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders wide receiver and return specialist Dwayne Harris (17) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
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Oakland Raiders linebacker Jason Cabinda (53) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
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Oakland Raiders safety Erik Harris (25) and linebacker Tahir Whitehead (59) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders center Rodney Hudson (61) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr (4) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders punter Johnny Townsend (5) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquel Lee (55) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Martavis Bryant (12) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr (4) scrambles during the Oakland Raiders game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. Oakland lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr (4) makes a play during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland Alameda-County Coliseum on Sunday, November 11th, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders tight end Derek Carrier (85) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders linebacker Tahir Whitehead (59), linebacker Marquel Lee (55), defensive tackle Maurice Hurst (73), and linebacker Jason Cabinda (53) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders defensive end Arden Key (99), linebacker Tahir Whitehead (59), and defensive tackle Maurice Hurst (73) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders strong safety Karl Joseph (42) and Nicholas Morrow make a tackle during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland Alameda-County Coliseum on Sunday, November 11th, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders running back Doug Martin (28) and quarterback Derek Carr (4) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders safety Marcus Gilchrist (31) intercepts a pass during the Oakland Raiders game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. Oakland lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders tight end Derek Carrier (85) and linebacker Kyle Wilber (58) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Johnathan Hankins (90) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders defensive tackle PJ Hall (92) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders tight end Jared Cook (87) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders running back Jalen Richard (30) rushes during the Oakland Raiders game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. Oakland lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson (8) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Frostee Rucker (98) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Frostee Rucker (98) makes a play during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland Alameda-County Coliseum on Sunday, November 11th, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Johnathan Hankins (90) and linebacker Shilique Calhoun (91) sacks Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers (17) during the Oakland Raiders game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. Oakland lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders linebacker Shilique Calhoun (91) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
Raiders line up during the Oakland Raiders game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. Oakland lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders return specialist Dwayne Harris (17) runs back a kick off during the Oakland Raiders game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. Oakland lost 20-6.
Oakland Raiders linebacker Nicholas Morrow (50) and strong safety Karl Joseph (42) during the Oakland Raiders regular season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Sunday, November 11, 2018, in Oakland, California. The Oakland Raiders lost 20-6.
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Gameday Photos: Week 17 vs. Broncos
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Welcome to the Show: Pregame Sights from Week 17 vs. Broncos
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Silver and Black and White: Week 16 vs. Dolphins
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Sights of the Game: Week 16 Gameday Entertainment vs. Dolphins
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Silver and Black and White: Week 15 vs. Chargers
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2nd Lt Theodore S. Zendarski (ASN 0794379) flying P-40E-1 Kittyhawk (Warhawk) # 41-35954 "Texas Longhorn" was participating in an Aerial Gunnery mission flight with two other P-40E aircraft north of Magnetic Island off Townsville in north Queensland on 11 May 1943.
2nd Lt Zendarski completed the target shooting exercise with an Air Target Towing aircraft and lost control when he broke away from a flight of three P-40Es to start a series of slow rolls. Zendarski stalled his aircraft at 6500 ft, which then entered into an inverted spin which was not corrected in time. The aircraft crashed and cartwheeled into the sea about 3 miles north of Magnetic Island at 1210 hours on 11 May 1943 killing the pilot. His body was never recovered.
The aircraft and Pilot were assigned to the 5th Fighter Command Replacement Centre (5FCRC), Headquarters V Fighter Command, 5th AAF in Townsville.
2nd Lt Zendarski had 272 Hours 55 minutes flying hours at the time of this tragic accident. The two other Pilots of the accompanying P-40E-1s were 2nd Lts Robert Croft and Harry McCullough.
Note:- Another source shows this accident happening on 12 May 1943. 2nd Lt Zendarski is listed on the American Battle Monuments Commission web page and the date is shown at 11 May 1943.


Siuslaw football standout John Johnson is Coast Radio Sports' Athlete of the week. The senior quarterback completed nine of 14 passes for 126 yards and one touchdown in Siuslaw's season opening victory over the Junction City Tigers. He also rushed ten times for 65 yards and two touchdowns in his return to play after missing all of last season due to an injury.
Honorable mention is given to Viking Harrier Mitchell Butler who posted one of the fastest course times in memory on the Reedsport Road, Lake and Dune race last week, winning in 17:30.69.


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31 Aug 2012 | 2012
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is starting to crack down on cyber incident and cyber risk disclosures. They recently sent letters to six companies, including Eastman Chemical, asking for more information. This is the type of activity that gets C-level attention because they are responsible for SEC disclosures.
Justin W. Clarke found another backdoor account in ICS network infrastructure equipment, this time in the GarrettCom Management Software. It appears to require login with an established account before the administrative level account with hard coded password can be used. A patch from the vendor is available.
INL announced their Sophia Tool that identifies new communication on the network. It trains to learn what communication is normal and then alerts when a new source/destination/port combination occurs. The concept is good because SCADA and DCS communication is static compared to a corporate network. It's not particularly novel as Tenable's Security Center, WhatsUp Gold's FlowPublisher, and many other tools do this today. I continue to be baffled on why INL competes with industry. That said, if INL makes this available at no or low cost to owner/operators it's worth a look.
Reading the tea leaves it looks like President Obama will issue an Executive Order or Presidential Directive on Critical Infrastructure Cyber Security prior to the election. His team hinted at this a few weeks ago and now Senator Feinstein has urged him to do this. Politically for the President there is upside in being viewed as taking action on Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity where Congress failed, and there is little downside. And President Obama has not been hesitant to use Executive Orders. What will be in the Executive Order is a tougher to predict.
And on the other side, cybersecurity has made it into the Republican Party Platform. There assertion that the best way to improve critical infrastructure cybersecurity is to pass laws to allow information sharing is laughable. I still contend that DHS and other government agencies have every authority they need to demonstrate the massive insecure by design issues in SCADA and DCS. They just need to take off the gloves and prepare for a lot of vendors and owner/operators to look bad and be angry.
Qatar's RasGas has now been hit with a malware attack. The malware, size and scope is not yet publicly known. It is interesting how RasGas quickly announces that the ICS and operations are unaffected. As noted in an earlier article this week, unaffected may not mean that the malware did not spread to the ICS.
If you are interested in the security of rail ICS consider attending the American Public Transportion Association's Webinar: Cyber Security of Control and Communications Systems for Rail Transit – Scope and Application for APTA Standards on Sept 13th. Dave Teumim and a few others have been slogging away at trying to gain momentum for cybersecurity in this sector. The webinar will go over the Recommended Practices that APTA has been developing.
Offensive cyberwar efforts are out in the open now with the US Air Force requesting concept papers for future funding for "the potential to enhance Air Force operations focused on Cyberspace Warfare capabilities access, position, maneuver, and strike within the adversary cyberspace domain in support of the Combatant Commanders (CCDR) and national objectives."
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NESCO Webinar Year 2 Update, Sep 7
EnergySec Webinar Energy Utility Security Risk Management and Compliance , Sep 12
EUCI Webinar Resource-Based Information and Operational Security Compliance Management, Sep 25
NESCO Town Hall Meeting, Sep 27 in Portland, Oregon
ICS Security Presentation at DerbyCon, Sep 28 – Oct 1 in Louisville, KY
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Artist and CZT® Margaret Bremner created the steps for drawing the tangle pattern Diamond Panes.
Her inspiration? "I bought a book of bargello needlework patterns for cheap from the library's clear-out bin… There were some good ideas in there. One, called Diamond Panes, was easily adaptable to drawing although step two is a little tricky." This is Margaret's illustration used with her kind permission.
Margaret illustrates how to draw the tangle pattern Diamond Panes here.


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Q: Unable to load System.Data.Linq.dll for CodeDom I am trying to dynamicaly compile code using CodeDom. I can load other assemblies, but I cannot load System.Data.Linq.dll.  I get an error:
Metadata file 'System.Data.Linq.dll' could not be found
My code looks like:
CompilerParameters compilerParams = new CompilerParameters();
compilerParams.CompilerOptions = "/target:library /optimize";
compilerParams.GenerateExecutable = false;
compilerParams.GenerateInMemory = true;
compilerParams.IncludeDebugInformation = false;
compilerParams.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("mscorlib.dll");
compilerParams.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.dll");
compilerParams.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.Data.Linq.dll");

Any ideas?

A: That may be because this assembly is stored in a different location than mscorlib is.  It should work if you provide a full path to the assembly.  The most convenient way to get the full path is to let the .NET loader do the work for you.  I would try something like this:
compilerParams.ReferencedAssemblies.Add(typeof(DataContext).Assembly.Location);

A: This may be a silly answer, but are you sure the code is running on a machine with .NET Framework 3.5?


Ooh nice, were you at the fair?
Seaside fair's are the best!
Yummy. Until you want to get them back into the packet and they get covered with hair!
Holiday? I prefer sugar dummies to rock.
A mini, mini holiday, yes! Ooh, i'll eat anything as long as it's sugary!
Yummy, and lovely colours too.
Great capture – full of bright colours!


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Caddell: Mainstream Media 'Enemy' of American People
Pat Caddell, the former adviser to President Jimmy Carter, called the mainstream media an "enemy of the American people" at an Accuracy in Media conference on September 21st. A video of Caddell's remarks were posted this weekend and has since gone viral.
"The press's job is to stand in the ramparts and protect the liberty and freedom of all of us from a government and from organized governmental power," Caddell proclaimed.
The critical passage of the speech reads:
When they desert those ramparts and decide that they will now become active participants, that their job is not simply to tell you who you may vote for, and who you may not, but, worse–and this is the danger of the last two weeks–what truth that you may know, as an American, and what truth you are not allowed to know, they have, then, made themselves a fundamental threat to the democracy, and, in my opinion, made themselves the enemy of the American people.
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh praised Caddell's elocution on Monday.
"Caddell's right!," he concluded. "You can't bring yourselves to report the truth about this until the story is over, when it no longer matters. But for the five or six days that matter right after the story, you carry the regime's water."
Caddell said Libya should have "should have been the equivalent, for Barack Obama, of George Bush's 'flying over Katrina' moment. But nothing was said at all, and nothing will be said."
He expounded further:
If a President of either party–I don't care whether it was Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or George Bush or Ronald Reagan or George H. W. Bush–had a terrorist incident, and got on an airplane after saying something, and flown off to a fundraiser in Las Vegas, they would have been crucified!
Caddell said the mainstream media "crossed some lines" in their coverage of Libya, and it was a "frightening" thing to him."
Caddell also accused the mainstream media of using polls they know are inaccurate as weapons against Republicans. He referenced polls whose samples predict Democrats will have a greater turnout in 2012 than in 2008 even as journalists write story after story about how nearly every part of the Obama coalition is less enthusiastic about him than they were in 2008.
"When I have polls that have the preference of Democrats over Republicans higher than it was in 2008, which was a peak Democratic year, I know I am dealing with a poll that shouldn't be reported," Caddell said. "And yet they are being done, and they are being done with that knowledge."
In an optimistic turn, Caddell declared the rise of new media made it easier to fight back against the mainstream media, and the old argument of "you don't get in a pissing match with someone who buys ink by the barrel" doesn't apply in the new media era.
"There are too many outlets, too many ways to do it, and the country doesn't have the confidence in the press that they once had," Caddell said, referencing a recent Gallup poll that found 60% of Americans distrust the mainstream media.
Caddell emphasized that mainstream journalists have thin skins, and they "wilt" when challenged. That is why, he explained, "they need to be called out" and "their organizations need to be called out."
"The fact is, if I were out there, if I were doing one of these campaigns, I wouldn't let one of these guys by with anything," Caddell said. "They have now made the decision they will control the political process.
"They are serving–with the hundreds of millions of dollars that the networks and these newspapers are, in effect, contributing–in-kind contributions to candidates in the Democratic Party. That's the legal issue that I would have been exploring. I mean, I would begin to put the heat on."
However, said, members of the Republican establishment do not say anything because "too many reporters, too many political people in the Republican party in this town want to maintain their relationships with the press."
"The corruption in this town is so great. Everybody in Washington seems to almost be on the take–with the exception of everybody in this room, and the assistants here. Everybody's on the take here, and everybody's cutting up their stock," Caddell lamented. "That's why, what used to be one of the best and most important things for the press, which was the investigative journalism of corruption and money, the stealing of the taxpayers, the looting of the Treasury, isn't an issue, and why no one speaks of it in this town."
"I think we're at the most dangerous time in our political history in terms of the balance of power in the role that the media plays in whether or not we maintain a free democracy or not," Caddell said.
Caddell listed off some examples of mainstream media malpractice during his speech. He wondered how the press could not ask how Valerie Jarrett could have a Secret Service detail and better security than Ambassador Chris Stevens. He wondered how Sunday talk show hosts would not ask David Plouffe, Obama's former campaign manager, about the $100,000 in speaking fees he received from an Iranian front group in Nigeria. He asked why the press would not look into Peter Schweizer's Government Accountability Institute study that documented the corruption behind many of Obama's green energy boondoggles.
"Of course Republicans don't raise it because in Washington, they simply want to do it when they get back in power," Caddell said. "And, of course, the press doesn't because they basically have taken themselves out of doing their job."
Caddell went on Fox News on Monday and defended his remarks. He asserted the mainstream media helps Obama through omissions as well, by not reporting on stories about how the Obama administration is trying to suppress military absentee votes and bully defense contractors into not sending layoff notices that are required by law or laying off employees. Caddell said these omissions amounted to "corruption of the first order."
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