Don't miss tonight's special discussion with the founder of The Enterprise Mission and host of The Other SIde Of Midnight! RCH has cleared his calendar to talk to YOU and to make some very exciting announcements – tune in and get the inside scoop!
Richard C. Hoagland is a former space science museum curator; a former NASA consultant, and during the historic Apollo Missions to the Moon, was science advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News. For over 20 years, Hoagland has been leading an outside scientific team in a critically acclaimed independent analysis of possible intelligently-designed artifacts on Mars. Richard and his team's investigations have been quietly extended to include over 30 years of previously hidden data from NASA, Soviet, and Pentagon missions to the Moon. His writings claim that advanced civilizations exist or once existed on the Moon, Mars and on some of the moons of Jupiter and Mars and that NASA and the US Government have conspired to keep these facts secret. He has advocated his ideas in two published books, videos, lectures, interviews and press conferences.
In 1976, Hoagland, an avid Star Trek fan, initiated a letter-writing campaign that successfully persuaded President Ford to name the first Space Shuttle the Enterprise, replacing the previously slated name for the prototype vehicle, Constitution.
Hoagland authored the book The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever (published in 1987), and co-authored the book Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA, which was ranked 21st on November 18, 2007 on The New York Times Best Sellers List for paperback nonfiction.
Hoagland runs The Enterprise Mission website, which he describes as "an independent NASA watchdog and research group, the Enterprise Mission, attempting to figure out how much of what NASA has found in the solar system over the past 50 years has actually been silently filed out of sight as classified material, and therefore totally unknown to the American people.
Richard has served as a science advisor and research expert guest over the years on prominent syndicated radio shows such as Chuck Harder's For The People and Coast To Coast.
Richard C Hoagland hosted his own talk show The Other Side of Midnight on Dark Matter Digital Network and now is affiliated with AM First Radio Network.
Richard C. Hoagland is a former museum space science Curator; a former NASA Consultant; and, during the historic Apollo Missions to the Moon, was science advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News. In the mid-1960's, at the age of 19 (possibly "the youngest museum curator in the country at the time"), Hoagland created his first elaborate commemorative event — around NASA's first historic unmanned fly-by of the planet Mars, Mariner 4. A simultaneous all-night, transcontinental radio program the evening of the Encounter (linking the museum in Springfield, Mass., and NASA's JPL control center, in Pasadena, Ca.), co-produced by Hoagland and WTIC-Radio, in Hartford, Ct., was subsequently nominated for a Peabody Award, one of journalism's most prestigious.
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The first thing you need to do when you find out that your swimming pool pump is frozen is to make sure that you unplug the electrical cord from the outlet. You do not want the pump to turn on while it is frozen because that could damage the electric motor or even burn it out. The next thing you will have to do is remove the pump from the filter system plumbing but you will need to first take a look to see if you have unions in your plumbing. If you do in fact have unions in your plumbing you will want to loosen to loosen the union collars and then remove the pump from the filter system plumbing.
If you do not have unions in the swimming pool filter system plumbing you will now have to pick from one of two choices.If you do not have unions on your swimming pool filter system plumbing you will either have to cut the pipe with a PVC saw or you will have to remove some of the plumbing where there is a union, meaning that there could be a union at the multi-port, so if you loosen that union the pump may separate with the multi-port. Also remember that if you decide to cut the suction and the discharge lines you can now install unions in the plumbing when you go to re-install the pool pump.
Now that you have removed the pool pump you will want to bring it indoors where the temperature is above freezing so that the ice that is inside of the volute and the pump impeller will thaw. After you have placed the pump indoors you will want to let it sit until all the ice inside is totally thawed out. There could be a chance that your pump housing is cracked so when you bring the pump inside you should make sure to place the pump over something that is able to catch the water inside. If you have a slop sink or laundry sink you could set the pump inside that until it has thawed. You will only need to worry about water leaking out of the pump if the pump has been cracked from the ice, but it is always a good idea to have something underneath the pump just in-case water does drain out.
Once you have let the pump sit for a while you can check to see if the water is still inside. If your pump is full of water now that it is not frozen anymore and its not leaking you will be ready to install the pump back into the system when the weather outside is steady above freezing. If all of the water has leaked out of your pump you may need to find out what has cracked and then replace the part. The most common part that will crack from the ice is the pump volute which is also known as the pump housing. If the pump housing is cracked you can either expoxy it back together or buy a new one and replace the existing damaged pump housing.


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Wife took this pic this morning while we were on a hike. when we looked at this pic, we saw this strange object. we noticed an odd hole in the clouds to the far left. also a strange aura around the object. this was while viewing the pic as we did not see this with our eyes.
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A Rockin' Time Stone Age Fair aims to educate,…
A Rockin' Time Stone Age Fair aims to educate, entertain with rare finds, hands-on displays
Lilia Munoz
Kennedy Jewell, 8, looks and picks stones set up for kids to take home at the Stone Age Fair at the Pulliam Community Building in Loveland on Sunday September 29, 2013. Kids where able to touch the rocks and learn about the different types exhibited at the Fair. (Photo by Lilia Munoz/ Loveland Reporter-Herald)
By James Garcia |
Loveland went back to the Stone Age on Saturday and Sunday.
The annual Stone Age Fair, hosted by the Loveland Archaeology Society, brought collectors, artifact hunters and rare-find enthusiasts to the public in downtown Loveland at the Pulliam Community Building, 545 Cleveland Ave.
The first Stone Age Fair was held in 1934 in Cornish, a town east of Loveland that no longer exists. It was moved to Loveland in 1940 and has been held each year since, save for a few years during WWII.
"This is basically a bunch of collectors and avocationals, hobbyists, who like to go out into fields or farmland to go hunting for artifacts. It's evolved a bit because we've become an
urban society, but there are people who still enjoy it," said Kevin Zeeck, co-chairman of the fair.
He said the purpose is to educate society members as well as the public on the proper methods of collection and documentation of found articles.
Many of such items were arrowheads from various American Indian tribes, found in a variety of locations in the U.S. — some of them dating back thousands of years. There were experts on site to demonstrate how these artifacts may have been fashioned as well as helping hunters identify their spoils.
"There are stringent laws out there for what you can actually do," Zeeck said. "People want to know type, age, materials. So it's a lot of
He pointed out a few exhibitors who came from Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma.
"We have people coming in from all over the country," he said.
"It's amazing how long this has been going on for. It's perfect for someone just starting out to get to talk to experts," said Janet Orth, whose husband had just started hunting. This was the couple's first year attending the fair.
Zeeck said this year's turnout was expected to be lower due to the recent flooding, but that most of the exhibitors did make the trip to Loveland. But he said the public attendance did suffer.
"This year we started a new program called The People's Choice awards: Best Artifact, Best Interpretive Display and Best Collector," he said. "People walked around and voted for the best in each category."
The winner of the inaugural award for Best Interpretive Display went to McKellan Walsh of Vail. This was her 10th year participating in the fair, having started exhibiting with her grandfather when she was 5 years old.
"It's been a tradition, with just him and I," she said. "I just like hanging out with my grandpa. The best part is four-wheeling when I go out hunting."
Her display consisted of framed artifacts — arrows, bear claws and other Native American items — she and her grandfather had collected together over the years. She said she plans to keep their hobby going.
"We leave some loose stuff so the kids can touch the arrowheads," Walsh said.
Saturday's events included talks and demonstrations with knowledgeable archaeology enthusiasts like avocational archaeologist and author Mike Pearce of Littleton. He said his favorite artifact in his collection is a Folsom point, a sharpened stone projectile dating back 10,800 years.
His collection included a wide variety of fashioned tools from a wide range of locations and tribes, including wooden artifacts from Utah and Arizona, U.S. Paleoindian points, micro points and ornate stone fish hooks.
"This is our big outreach event. It is free to the public and free for exhibitors. And we intend to keep it that way so people can come learn about archaeology," Zeeck said.
The event relies on donations from individuals and businesses, as well as support from the city, to offset the costs of running the free two-day event. The Loveland Archaeological Society is also a free and open organization. Anyone with an interest in archaeology can become a member.
The organization holds meetings at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at the Pulliam Community Building. For details on the club and the Stone Age Fair, visit StoneAgeFair.com.
"It's been a great learning experience," said Gregg Orth. "Hopefully more people will show up next year."
James Garcia can be reached at 970-635-3630 or garciaj@reporter-herald.com. Follow him on Twitter: @JamesGarciaRH.
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By John Gruber
The Talk Show
Hex gives data teams superpowers for analysis, collaboration, and sharing.
Dateline NBC's Report on Stolen iPods
So, unsurprisingly, lots of iPods get stolen. And when Dateline set up hidden cameras and left seemingly-new still-in-the-box iPods laying around on benches and other public places, people took them. They tracked them by including custom installer CDs with the iPods, which reported back to Dateline the address used to register the iPods with iTunes.
Dateline, along with some of the people they interviewed whose iPods have been stolen, argues that Apple should be using this data to track all 110 million (and counting) iPods they've sold.
Would it be possible for Apple to do something about this? Yes. Easy or simple? No. (a) It'd be an enormous amount of work for Apple; and (b) how would it not be a privacy nightmare? Imagine all the iPods given to ex-boyfriends / ex-girlfriends / ex-spouses that would be reported as "stolen".
Here's the part of Dateline's report I love most:
We should say that many of iPod's competitors in the MP3 market apparently don't do anything more than Apple does to track missing machines.
By which they mean that none of Apple's competitors in the MP3 player market do anything to track stolen players.
Intriguingly, the story ends on a positive note, reporting on a patent Apple recently applied for:
Just recently came word from the U.S. Patent Office that Apple has applied for a new patent. In its application, Apple confirms that there is a "serious problem" with iPod theft and that iPod owners have been seriously injured or even murdered for their iPods. And the company has proposed an ingenious solution to the problem: essentially, you can't recharge the iPod or the new iPhone if you can't prove the device is yours when you hook it up to iTunes.
Dateline's approval of which is curious — or at least shortsighted — given that, if approved, Apple could use such a patent to prevent any other gadget maker from implementing theft-deterring device tracking. Hooray for software patents.
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Dovoto discovered some quirks in the way names were used under shared data runs and had a nice suggestion to allow images to be added via grit files as well. There was also some other small niggly bits that needed straightening out. So yeah, grit v0.8.3.
The files have need downloadable for a while now as a preview, but I finally put the text up on the main site as well so I guess that makes it official. Tonc is now at version 1.4. As mentioned before, the main new thing is TTE, a system for text for all occasions. I've also used grit in some of the advanced demos, so if you want to see how you can do advanced work with it, check out the mode 7 demos and the tte demo.
This will be the last version of Tonc. It's really gone on long enough now.


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Lorenzo José Torres Agüero (n. Buenos Aires, Virreinato del Río de la Plata, agosto de 1803 – Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1880), abogado y político argentino, que se destacó como el símbolo de la continuidad entre el gobierno de Juan Manuel de Rosas y los gobiernos que sucedieron al de este en la provincia de Buenos Aires, que proclamaban ser la antítesis del sistema político rosista. Hermano de Eustaquio Torres Agüero.

Biografía

Sobrino de Julián Segundo de Agüero, prominente figura del Partido Unitario, apoyó la revolución del general Juan Lavalle. Se recibió de abogado en 1829, en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Desde ese año, y por otros tres años, enseñó Derecho Público en esa Universidad.

En 1839 fue vicepresidente de la Academia de Jurisprudencia. Por ello fue también electo por primera vez diputado provincial, cargo que ocuparía ininterrumpidamente hasta la caída del gobernador Juan Manuel de Rosas, trece años más tarde. Fue secretario de la legislatura durante nueve años.

Era un exaltado partidario de Rosas, y favoreció desde la legislatura las represalias contra los Libres del Sur, los conjurados del grupo de Ramón Maza y quienes apoyaron la invasión de Lavalle en 1840. Fue el autor del texto de la ley de confiscación de sus propiedades.

Fue también vocal del Tribunal de Apelaciones y miembro de la Comisión Inspectora de Programas de Enseñanza.

Tras la batalla de Caseros se apresuró a ponerse a disposición de vencedor, Justo José de Urquiza, y el nuevo gobernador, Vicente López y Planes, lo nombró vocal de la Comisión Redactora del Código Civil de la provincia, aunque el código nunca fue sancionado. Fue elegido diputado provincial, y apoyó al gobernador López y Planes en su firma del Acuerdo de San Nicolás.

No obstante, apoyó la revolución del 11 de septiembre de 1852, y en un acto público se unió en un abrazo con el líder unitario Valentín Alsina, en un gesto que llevó a la unidad de los antiguos federales y unitarios porteños, en oposición a los federales del interior, cuyo líder era Urquiza. El gobernador Manuel Guillermo Pinto lo nombró su ministro de Gobierno y de Relaciones Exteriores, entre febrero y marzo de 1853 fue también ministro interino de Guerra y Marina, teniendo una actitud intransigente durante el sitio de Buenos Aires. Fue uno de los gestores del soborno al comandante John Halstead Coe, jefe de la escuadra federal, y varios de sus oficiales, lo que determinó el final del bloqueo naval de Buenos Aires, y por consiguiente, del sitio.

Fue brevemente gobernador delegado durante la enfermedad que llevó a Pinto a la muerte, y siguió ocupando el ministerio de Gobierno y Relaciones Exteriores durante el gobierno de Pastor Obligado – otro prominente partidario de Rosas hasta el día de Caseros – hasta octubre de ese año. Antes de presentar su renuncia al gobierno, ejerció brevemente como ministro de Hacienda.

Al año siguiente fue miembro de la Convención Constituyente Provincial, y uno de los que propusieron la independencia del Estado de Buenos Aires como país separado de la Confederación Argentina. Fue senador provincial y apoyó al gobierno de Obligado; llegó a ser presidente del Senado provincial.

Durante este período fue socio mayoritario en la empresa que construyó el Teatro Colón.

En 1856 se unió al Partido Federal dirigido por Nicolás Calvo; publicó muchos artículos en su favor en el periódico La Reforma Pacífica, y fue candidato a gobernador. Terminó por ceder ese puesto al general Tomás Guido, que de todos modos fue derrotado por Alsina, ayudado por el uso masivo del fraude y la violencia.

Durante la crisis entre Buenos Aires y la Confederación que siguió a la Batalla de Cepeda fue envidado al Paraguay, consiguiendo la mediación de Francisco Solano López en el conflicto. Volvería a ser embajador en el Paraguay entre 1863 y 1864.

En 1864 ingresó a la Municipalidad de Buenos Aires, en la que fue vicepresidente. Al año siguiente volvió a ser diputado provincial, apoyando al presidente Bartolomé Mitre. En 1870 fue miembro de la Convención Constituyente Provincial.

Falleció en Buenos Aires en 1880.

Fuentes

 De Luca, Rubén Mario, Funcionarios Bonaerenses, Ed. Dunken, Bs. As., 1993. ISBN 978-987-02-3041-0
 Cutolo, Vicente, Nuevo diccionario biográfico argentino, 7 volúmenes, Ed. Elche, Bs. As., 1968-1985.

Políticos de Argentina
Historia de la Argentina moderna
Diplomáticos de Argentina
Abogados de Argentina
Porteños
Alumnado de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

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A system-agnostic mini-zine for exploring Pentolan Catacombs.
602 backers pledged $6,208 to help bring this project to life.
Beneath the spires and stones, the canals and isles, the Catacombs breathe, inhaling life and exhaling danger... and the smell of treasure.
When the brave, greedy, desperate, or foolish venture beneath the stones and soft waves of Pentola they find themselves in a world made by Those Who Came Before, though shattered and marred by some ancient catastrophe which buckled the earth and loosed a seemingly endless flood of magical creatures and monsters into those halls of the dead.
This single-sheet mini zine (zini, if you will) is an experiment in pushing the envelope for information density, layout, and gameable lore. It is written to be system agnostic, allowing you to take adventurers from any world and game into the catacombs described inside.
The inside spread describes how to procedurally generate dungeons on the fly or in advance complete with dozens of possible encounters and a back cover which is a quick reference for all the mechanics contained within.
The content and tables for the zine are already written and laid out, the only piece that remains is the art for the front cover and the spread.
To make it possible to do a small, high quality download-and-print release run of this zini and prove out the format more broadly for other projects. If Beneath the Canals does well, it means we can make more content of this density and format and get it into people's hands sooner and more often.
Beneath the Canals is system agnostic and includes 4 tables with over 250 possible rooms, over a thousand possible demons you might encounter, and over 200 encounters, all in two A5 pages of content. The content and mechanics are designed to be hackable and malleable, leaning into making life as an OSR referee easier, not harder. The physical zine is a single folded piece of A4, giving you an A5 cover, two A5 pages inside for the content spread, and an A5 backcover which includes the quick reference tables.
We are working with a local printer for a print-run of the zinis!
✔ $250: Stat Blocks - I'll write up and format stat blocks compatible with B/X, Pathfinder, and 5e for the weird Pentolan creatures you might find in the Catacombs.
✔ $300: Digital Dungeons - Digital Tables and Randomizers for Beneath the Canals and all stretch goals by Saker Tarsos.
✔ $500 Smoldering Gardens of Bone - A dungeonzini with catacomb map and artwork by Abigail LaLonde utilizing Beneath the Canals for its initial layout and then expanded upon, featuring an alchemical garden in the tombs and tunnels of the catacombs!
✔ $750 Cadavers in the Catacombs - Additional dungeonzini detailing corpses and encounters you might discover while exploring the catacombs with art and content by Dungeons & Possums.
✔ $1000 Afraid of the Water - Additional dungeonzini with catacomb map by Foot of the Mountain Adventures and art by Michelle Smallwood utilizing Beneath the Canals for its initial layout and then expanded upon.
✔ $1250 Breathing Stone - Additional dungeonzini written by Zedeck Siew and illustrated by Jay Labelle featuring a living one-page dungeon set in the Pentolan Catacombs.
✔ $1500 The Fallen Eidolon - Additional dungeonzini with written by Jose Kercado and art by Jay Labelle utilizing Beneath the Canals for its initial layout and then expanded upon.
✔ $1750: Bones and Precious Stones- Additional zini with catacomb map and artwork by Spaghetti Quester utilizing Beneath the Canals for its initial layout and then expanded upon.
✔ $2000 Reliquaries & Ossuaries- Fiona Maeve Geist has agreed to delve into the dark and deliver a zini for developing the reliquaries of lost, forgotten and forbidden saints, resting places of chthonic holy relics and fabulous and perverse structures built from countless bones. The incredible Lauren Bryce will be illustrating this one!
✔ $2300 Fatal Fungi- a toolzini, this one written by Donn Stroud and illustrated by Matthew Cartwright, exploring all of the terrible and intriguing fungi and molds in the Pentolan catacombs, their dangers and uses, and the strange things they do creatures in the dark halls of the dead.
✔ $3000 P R I N T R U N - we've crunched the numbers and if we hit this mark we'll be set up for a print run for up to 200 copies - 150 for backers at the new Bonegolem level as well as all Shard backers! (We can't edit the pledge level but they get paper copies anyway). Note that this will net you a copy of Beneath the Canals AND every other zini we unlock during this campaign.
✔ $3300 Kofun: Buried Across the Sea - A toolzini, written by Takuma Okada and illustrated by Kai, adding new options for catacomb rooms and structures, items and enchantments.
✔ $3600: Craft and Violence - A toolzini, written by Mabel Harper, detailing the guerrilla artists and criminal underworld that operates in the Undercity, their factions and their magic.
✔ $3900: Memories Entombed - A toolzini, written by Skylar Wall, for exploring the customs of the people who made the catacombs and the things they left behind, with tools and guidance for generating practices and meaningful artifacts at the table.
✔ $4200: Song of Destruction - A song of destruction rings within the catacombs of Pentola and a trio of researchers from Tikor have arrived to find its source. A special Swordsfall/Pentola crossover collaboration dungeonzini written by Brandon Dixon!
✔ $4500: The Black Market - A toolzini. written and illustrated by the Best Left Buried team, detailing underground cells of shady merchants that live along the canals of Pentola. Inside are the tools to generate a group of merchants and their suspicious, often illegal wares.
Jay Labelle is a Canadian artist and illustrator that has been bringing life to the fantastical and macabre for over 15 years. They are currently looking forward to a themed sketchbook release later this year focusing on canids in European mythology and are co-illustrating a collection of Canadian folklore tales due out in the summer of 2020.
Michael T Lombardi has been writing and playing tabletop games and supplements for the better part of a decade when he's not busy writing and talking topics related to his IT day job. He's currently working on Pentola: City of Shards, a high-stakes adventure roleplaying game set in the city above the catacombs this project is exploring.
Saker Tarsos makes modules and helpful web tools for OSR games. He also occasionally writes. You can find his work on his blog.
Abigail LaLonde started playing RPGs back in '99 and has been drawing for as long as she can remember. She has become fascinated by the Old School/DIY movement and has open commissions for stippling and maps. You can find her work on her Patreon and at ArtStation.
Pat Eyler (AKA Foot of the Mountain Adventures) is a nerd just coming back to gaming. He draws maps, DMs games, and blogs. You can find his work on his blog and Patreon.
Michelle Smallwood is a free-lance TTRPG artist who has been working on her traditional and digital style for 20 years. She is heavily influenced by her love of fantasy, old-school TTRPG products, and doom metal. You can find her work in her portfolio and on DeviantArt.
Zedeck Siew is based in Port Dickson, Malaysia, and has been a journalist, essayist, editor, fiction writer, translator, and game designer. With artist Mun Kao, he is currently creating fantasy RPG zines inspired by the mythistory and material cultures of Southeast Asia, collectively titled: "A Thousand Thousand Islands". You can also find his work on his blog.
Jose Kercado is a passionate YouTuber, Dungeon Master, and game designer. You can find his work on YouTube and Patreon.
Spaghetti Quester is an Italian Dungeon Keeper and Pasta Eater.He started playing D&D in the '90s and never managed to stop. Currently, he collaborates as an illustrator with several indie game designers, maintaining an aesthetic linked to the sacred monsters of the fantasy culture of the late twentieth century. You can find his portfolio on instagram.
Fiona Maeve Geist is an additional content writer for Mothership: Dead Planet and editor of Silent Titans.
Donn Stroud is the cowriter of Mothership: Dead Planet, A Pound of Flesh, and writer and publisher of Lesser Key to the Celestial Legion as Psychoda Press. He was also cohost and producer of Drink Spin Run: the RPG Talkshow.
Matthew Cartwright is a concept artist and illustrator who loves RPGs. He draws and paints in a range of styles from dark and Macabre to animated and colorful. You can find his work on his Instagram and Artstation.
Takuma Okada is a game designer and musician. Looking for authentic portrayals of Japanese people in tabletop games, they found none, and decided to write their own. Her music can be found on soundcloud and her games can be found on itch.
Kai is a Los Angeles based Illustrator and VisDev Artist attending Cal State Long Beach. They are current working towards their Illustration BFA and specialize in ink, digital, and watercolor. They have a passion for history, mythology, and art. When they're not drawing they love to play ttrpgs, cook, watch movies, and read. You can find more of their work on their tumblr.
Mabel Harper is a trans Filipina musician, writer, game designer, and digital artist. When she's not creating the stuff of nightmares, she's making queer pop music as Don't do it, Neil. Or she might just be vegging out on her bed and watching anime with her cats.
Brandon Dixon, aka Tikal, is the author of the Afropunk Sci-Fantasy setting and TTRPG Swordsfall. He's a philosophy major and lifelong omni-nerd who aims to bring his vision to tabletop and novel worlds alike. While Swordsfall is its own universe and system, denizens of Tikor find a way to show up in the most unexpected of places. You can join the project and get updates via Patreon.
T'umo Mere is the Lead Artist for Swordsfall. Hailing from Botswana, they help bring their local knowledge to Swordsfall and incorporate a modern African style through their art and knowledge. You can find their work on Instagram.
Zachary Cox and Ben Brown make roleplaying games with SoulMuppet Publishing. The pair are best known for their work on Best Left Buried, an atmospheric fantasy-horror RPG where the monsters are scary and the characters are insane. Zach does the writing and layout, Ben does the art.
The writing and layout for Beneath the Canals is completed and the art is ongoing - the project is 90% complete and I do not expect any real risk - even with the stretch goals there will be no delay of the initial PDF release.
You do the important work, and that means the world.
Sometimes doing the work means grabbing the filthy lucre instead of breaking ground.
You're a horror from the deep, a splinter in the world, and you won't stop. You can't.
You're an incredible human, for such a terrible monster. You've got a slot in a oneshot catacomb crawl with other Shards run by the author to be scheduled after the kickstarter ends.


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A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
The quirky staff of an American magazine based in 1970s France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
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Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.
A group of toy store employees must protect each other from a horde of parasite infected shoppers.
During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.
The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history.
A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.
A Scottish orchid farmer visiting her ill sister in Bogota, Colombia, befriends a young musician and a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is bothered by increasingly loud bangs which prevent her from getting any sleep.
Looking for inspiration, a novelist takes up residence in an eerie mansion.
The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future in Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey to find Anne, who she believes is still alive, in today's Europe. While the young girl is shocked by the modern world, she also comes across Anne's legacy.
Prayers for the Stolen
In a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow, the girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground to escape the threat of being stolen. Ana and her two best friends grow up together, affirming the bonds of their friendship and discovering what it means to be women in a rural town marked by violence. Their mothers train them to flee death, to escape those who turn them into slaves or ghosts. They create their own impenetrable universe, but one day one of the girls doesn't make it to her hiding place in time.
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
The enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.


Kenya Airways Group MD and CEO Sebastian Mikosz, speaking at CAPA Airline CEOs in Sydney, said Africa is a "very small market", "not really well known" and "not yet a mature market".
He noted the market for the whole continent is "the size of Ryanair", with less than 100 million passengers p/a, and seven airports account for 88% of traffic.
Mr Mikosz described Africa as "a completely different market" from other parts of the world, noting demand for business class products even on short haul 40 minute services. He forecast 274 million additional passengers in Africa in the next 20 years, but said the continent will remain a "pretty small market".


This semi-transportable bed-turner rotates the bed smoothly up to an angle of 200°. This makes cleaning and repair work considerably easier. In an ergonomically correct position, all tasks can be carried out with much less effort.
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The object to be serviced may be positioned anywhere in the room. The bed, once rotated, is locked into position with spring-loaded bolts.


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A composite screw preferably made of a metallic pin embedded in a polymeric tubular structure having the outwardly facing threads, wherein the metallic pin comprises a screw head, an intermediate shaft and a screw tip, and the polymeric threaded tube is either molded onto the metallic shaft or the threaded tube is machined after molding a polymeric structure onto the shaft.
Pedicle screws used in spinal surgery are disclosed, for example, in U.S. Patent No. 5,672,176.
Spinal fixation devices can be anchored to specific portions of the vertebra.
Since each vertebra varies in shape and size, a variety of anchoring devices have been developed to facilitate engagement of a particular portion of the bone. Pedicle screw assemblies, for example, have a shape and size that is configured to engage pedicle bone. Such screws typically include a bone screw with a threaded shank that is adapted to be threaded into a vertebra, and a rod-receiving element, usually in the form of a U-shaped slot formed in the head. The shank and rod-receiving assembly can be provided as a monoaxial screw, whereby the rod-receiving element is fixed with respect to the shank, or a polyaxial screw, whereby the rod-receiving element has free angular movement with respect to the shank. In use, the shank portion of each screw is threaded into a vertebra, and once properly positioned, a fixation rod is seated into the rod-receiving element of each screw. The rod is then locked in place by tightening a set-screw, plug, or similar type of fastening mechanism into the rod- receiving element.
Polyaxial pedicle screws such as disclosed in Biedermann's U.S. Patent No. 5,443,467, incorporated herein by reference, are used for connecting vertebrae to rods in spinal surgery. They incorporate a ball joint at the connection to the rod to allow the surgeon some flexibility in placing the screws. Tightening a nut on the screw compresses the ball joint components to lock the angular position of the ball joint.
wherein the threaded polymeric tube is disposed over the outer surface of the intermediate shaft portion.
The metallic shaft can be textured for increased adhesion of polymeric tube thereto. The polymer can be selected from any biocompatible polymer (and is preferably PEEK) and may be reinforced by fibers. The metallic shaft can be made of any biocompatible metal, and preferably comprises titanium.
In preferred embodiments, the composite screw has a variable stiffness along the screw shaft from the tip to the head. This is typically accomplished by reducing its thickness. Preferably, the composite screw is more flexible than the typical metal screw, yet possesses a conventional metallic head. Typically, the composite screw has three principal sections possessing different stiffnesses: a) a distal section composed primarily of polymer and having stiffness similar to that of cancellous bone, b) a middle section composed of both polymer and metal with an overall stiffness similar to that of cortical bone, and c) a proximal metallic section having the neck and the head of the screw. The composite screw will preferably reduce or eliminate the screw toggling and therefore screw loosening. This is viewed as having particular advantage for osteoporotic bones. The composite screw is meant to reduce the stiffness of the screw by introducing polymeric thread.
wherein each of the first maximum diameter Di and second maximum diameter D2 is greater than the third maximum diameter D3.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the composite bone fixation system of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the pin component of FIG.1.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the tubular component of FIG.1.
FIG. 4 is a cross-section of a composite bone fixation system of the present invention, wherein the pin has a distally narrowing shaft.
i) a pin 5 comprising: a) a proximal head 11 having a first maximum diameter D1, b) a distal tip 21 having a second maximum diameter D2 and a distally narrowing insertion taper 23, and c) a substantially cylindrical intermediate shaft portion 31 having an outer surface 33 defining a third maximum diameter D3, ii) a threaded polymeric tube 41 comprising an inner bore 43 and a threaded outer surface 45, wherein the threaded polymeric tube wraps around the outer surface of the substantially cylindrical intermediate shaft portion, and wherein each of the first maximum diameter Di and second maximum diameter D2 is greater than the third maximum diameter D3.
D2 is greater than the third maximum diameter D3, the polymeric tube (which circumferentially contacts the outer surface of the shaft and so also has a bore diameter of essentially D3) will remain in the middle of the pin because it is prevented by the larger head and tip components from sliding off either end of the pin.
In some embodiments, the distal tip of FIG. 2 comprises a distally narrowing insertion taper. This facilitates insertion of the screw into the vertebral body.
In some embodiments (not shown), the distal tip of FIG. 2 is detachable from the shaft. The detachability helps the assembly of the composite device. In the manufacturing process, the pin having the detached tip is first provided. The polymeric tube is slid onto the shaft of the pin and set in its final place. Once the polymeric tube is in place, the distal tip is attached to the end of the shaft, thereby fixing the position of the tube. In some embodiments thereof, the detachable distal tip and the shaft comprise a male/female connection. In some embodiments thereof, the male/female connection is threaded. In other embodiments thereof, the male/female connection is a taper lock.
i) a pin 53 comprising: a) a proximal head 55, b) a distal tip 57, and c) an intermediate shaft portion 59 having a distally narrowing outer surface, ii) a threaded polymeric tube 61 comprising an inner bore 63 and a threaded outer surface 65, wherein the threaded polymeric tube is disposed over the outer surface of the intermediate shaft portion.
FIG. 4 provides a solution to the above-mentioned stiffness mismatch problem by gradually reducing the thickness (and therefore the stiffness) of the shaft from the screw head to the distal tip of the screw. This narrowing shaft region of the screw corresponds to the cancellous region of the vertebral body. Thus, the region of the screw tip will have stiffness comparable to that of vertebra body cancellous bone, while the region of the screw in the pedicle will have stiffness substantially equivalent to that of the (cortical) vertebra pedicle.
In some embodiments, the distal tip of FIG. 4 is formed by the distal narrowing of the intermediate shaft portion.
In some embodiments, the distal tip of the metallic pin extends to the distal end of the polymeric tube. In other embodiments, as in FIG. 4, the metallic pin terminates prior to the distal end of the polymeric tube.
If a metal is chosen as the material of construction for the pin, then the metal is preferably selected from the group consisting of titanium, titanium alloys (such as Ti-6A1-4V), chrome alloys (such as CrCo or Cr-Co-Mo) and stainless steel.
In some embodiments, the polymer of the threaded polymeric tube is preferably selected from the group consisting of polyesters, (particularly aromatic esters such as polyalkylene terephthalates, polyamides; polyalkenes; poly(vinyl fluoride); PTFE; polyarylethyl ketone PAEK; polyphenylene and mixtures thereof.
In some embodiments, the threaded polymeric tube is a composite comprising carbon fiber. Composites comprising carbon fiber are advantageous in that they typically have a strength and stiffness that is superior to neat polymer materials such as a polyarylethyl ketone PAEK. In some embodiments, each component is made from a polymer composite such as a PEKK-carbon fiber composite.
(PEKK) and polyether ketone (PEK). In preferred embodiments, the PAEK is PEEK. In some embodiments, the carbon fiber comprises between 1 vol% and 60 vol% (more preferably, between 10 vol% and 50 vol%) of the composite tube. In some embodiments, the polymer and carbon fibers are homogeneously mixed. In others, the material is a laminate. In some embodiments, the carbon fiber is present in a chopped state. Preferably, the chopped carbon fibers have a median length of between 1 mm and 12 mm, more preferably between 4.5 mm and 7.5 mm. In some embodiments, the carbon fiber is present as continuous strands.
In especially preferred embodiments, the composite tube comprises: a) 40-99% (more preferably, 60-80 vol%) polyarylethyl ketone (PAEK), and b) 1 -60% (more preferably, 20-40 vol%) carbon fiber, wherein the polyarylethyl ketone (PAEK) is selected from the group consisting of polyetherether ketone (PEEK), polyether ketone ketone (PEKK) and polyether ketone (PEK).
In some embodiments, the composite tube consists essentially of PAEK and carbon fiber. More preferably, the composite comprises 60-80 wt% PAEK and 20-40 wt% carbon fiber. Still more preferably the composite comprises 65-75 wt% PAEK and 25-35 wt% carbon fiber.
One skilled in the art will appreciate that the screw of the present invention may be configured for use with any type of fixation system - mono-axial or polyaxial.
Typically, a bone anchor assembly includes a bone screw, such as a pedicle screw, having a proximal head and a distal bone-engaging portion, which may be an externally threaded screw shank. The bone screw assembly may also have a receiving member that is configured to receive and couple a spinal fixation element, such as a spinal rod or spinal plate, to the bone anchor assembly.
In some embodiments, the bone anchor has a plate and bolt design. The receiving member may be coupled to the bone anchor in any well-known conventional manner. For example, the bone anchor assembly may be poly-axial, as in the present exemplary embodiment in which the bone anchor may be adjustable to multiple angles relative to the receiving member, or the bone anchor assembly may be mono-axial, e.g., the bone anchor is fixed relative to the receiving member. An exemplary poly-axial bone screw is described U.S. Pat. No. 5,672,176, the specification of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. In mono- axial embodiments, the bone anchor and the receiving member may be coaxial or may be oriented at angle with respect to one another. In poly-axial embodiments, the bone anchor may biased to a particular angle or range of angles to provide a favored angle the bone anchor. Exemplary favored-angle bone screws are described in U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2003/0055426 and U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2002/0058942, the specifications of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
-a threaded polymeric tube comprising an inner bore and a threaded outer surface, wherein the threaded polymeric tube is disposed over the outer surface of the substantially cylindrical intermediate shaft portion.
1. A composite bone fixation system comprising: i) a pin comprising: a) a proximal head having a first maximum diameter Di, b) a distal tip having a second maximum diameter D2, and c) an intermediate shaft portion having an outer surface defining a third maximum diameter D3, ii) a threaded polymeric tube comprising an inner bore and a threaded outer surface, wherein the threaded polymeric tube is disposed over the outer surface of the substantially cylindrical intermediate shaft portion, and wherein each of the first maximum diameter Di and second maximum diameter D2 is greater than the third maximum diameter D3.
2. A composite bone fixation system of claim 1 wherein the distal tip comprises a distally narrowing insertion taper.
3. The composite bone fixation system of claim 1 wherein the distal tip is detachable from the shaft.
4. The composite bone fixation system of claim 1 wherein detachable distal tip and the shaft comprise a male/female connection.
5. The composite bone fixation system of claim 1 wherein the male/female connection is threaded.
6. The composite bone fixation system of claim 1 wherein the male/female connection is a taper lock.
7. The composite bone fixation system of claim 1 wherein the pin is metallic.
9. The composite bone fixation system of claim 1 wherein the polymeric tube comprises carbon fiber.
-a threaded polymeric tube comprising an inner bore and a threaded outer surface, wherein the threaded polymeric tube is disposed over the outer surface of the intermediate shaft portion.
11. A composite bone fixation system comprising: i) a pin comprising: a) a proximal head, b) a distal tip, and c) an intermediate shaft portion having a distally narrowing outer surface, ii) a threaded polymeric tube comprising an inner bore and a threaded outer surface, wherein the threaded polymeric tube is disposed over the outer surface of the intermediate shaft portion.
12. The composite bone fixation system of claim 11 wherein the distal tip is formed by the distal narrowing of the intermediate shaft portion.
13. The composite bone fixation system of claim 11 wherein the distal tip comprises a distally narrowing insertion taper.
14. The composite bone fixation system of claim 11 wherein the distal tip is detachable from the shaft.
15. The composite bone fixation system of claim 11 wherein detachable distal tip and the shaft comprise a male/female connection.
16. The composite bone fixation system of claim 11 wherein the male/female connection is threaded.
17. The composite bone fixation system of claim 11 wherein the male/female connection is a taper lock.
18. The composite bone fixation system of claim 11 wherein the pin is metallic.
20. The composite bone fixation system of claim 11 wherein the polymeric tube comprises carbon fiber.


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The American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) is a professional advocacy and educational organization of women physicians and medical students. Founded in 1915 by Bertha Van Hoosen, the AMWA works to advance women in medicine and to serve as a voice for women's health. The association used to publish the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association; the Journal of Women's Health is now the official journal of the AMWA.

Honors
The AMWA honors women physicians each year with four awards.
 The Elizabeth Blackwell Medal, named for Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman awarded an M.D. from an American medical school, is granted to "a woman physician who has made the most outstanding contributions to the cause of women in the field of medicine."
 The Bertha Van Hoosen Award, named in honor of the Founder and first President of AMWA, honors "a woman physician who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and service to AMWA."
 The Lila A. Wallis Award, named for one of AMWA's Past Presidents, is given to an individual whose lifetime achievements and values reflect those of Wallis.
 The Woman in Science Award is given to a woman physician who "has made exceptional contributions to medical science, especially in women's health."

The AMWA also established The International Women in Medicine Hall of Fame to recognize contributions made by women in the medical profession.  The more than two dozen inductees include the first woman physician, Elizabeth Blackwell; and two former Surgeon Generals of the United States Antonia Novello and Joycelyn Elders.  In 2010, the inductees were Linda A. Randolph, president and CEO of the Developing Families Center, an innovative model for healthcare delivery to poor families; and Diana Zuckerman, a health policy expert who is president of the National Research Center for Women & Families.  The latter is the first non-physician inducted.

Publications
The AMWA has published a number of books, primarily in the field of women's health.

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Medical associations based in the United States
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Q: autocomplete: how do I avoid a duplicate search? I use JQuery plugin autocomplete as a kind of dataset chooser.  If the user chooses a value from the autocomplete lookup, the database is queried for the matching dataset.  If the user types in a new value, the user can enter a new dataset. An issue arises when the user types in an existing value rather than choosing it from the autocomplete lookup. When this is done, the autocomplete .result() method is not called and no dataset is retrieved.  To fix this I added a .blur(function(){$(this).search();}); to the input element.  This fixed the original problem.
Now I have the problem that .result() fires on selection from lookup AND on blur. I would like .result() to fire on selection from lookup OR on blur. How do I make that happen?
Here is my code:
$('#groupset').autocomplete('ajax/php/leeruns.php');
$('#groupset').result(
    function(event, data, formatted) {
        if(data){
            $('#groupsetdesc').val(formatted);
            groups.load(data[1]); //retrieve matching dataset
        } else {
            $('#groupsetdesc').val('');
        }
    }
).blur(function(){$(this).search();});

A: You could store the current value of data in a persistent variable called previous and not load the dataset if it is the same.
var loaded_previous;
$('#groupset').autocomplete('ajax/php/leeruns.php');
$('#groupset').result(
function(event, data, formatted) {
    if(data && data[1] != loaded_previous){
        loaded_previous = data[1];
        $('#groupsetdesc').val(formatted);
        groups.load(data[1]); //retrieve matching dataset
    } else {
        $('#groupsetdesc').val('');
    }
}
).blur(function(){$(this).search();});

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New York Knicks: Derrick Rose invites himself to Carmelo Anthony's Thanksgiving
Robby Sabo
Oct 4, 2016; Houston, TX, USA; New York Knicks guard Derrick Rose (25) celebrates with forward Carmelo Anthony (7) after a play during the third quarter against the Houston Rockets at Toyota Center. The Rockets won 130-103. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports
New York Knicks point guard Derrick Rose didn't take the subtle route as it related to getting in on the fun of a Carmelo Anthony Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving. Is there a better holiday?
There can't be.
Not only do you indulge in the finest feast of the year, but wall-to-wall football is playing in the background on those HD flat screens. For Americans, it just doesn't get any better.
So, when you're all alone in New York City, while your family continues to live in Chicago, you have to find a Thanksgiving feast to attend. This exactly what New York Knicks point guard Derrick Rose needed to do.
Since he needed a spot to go, he decided to invite himself to Carmelo Anthony's Thanksgiving Dinner, via Ian Begley of ESPN.
"My mom and everybody, my son, will be back in Chicago. So yeah, I'm thankful I have somewhere to go."
"I just asked where his family's (going) and asked if it was cool if I came over. He said yeah so I don't think I have to bring anything but an appetite. Yeah, that's the only thing I have to bring right now."
To top it off, the Chicago native doesn't even have to bring anything but an appetite. Well, at least that's what he thinks.
Rose's Knickerbockers welcome in the Portland Trail Blazers to Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night. The squad will be looking for its second-straight victory against a very dangerous and high-powered Blazers offense.
H/T Bleacher Report
NEXT: Knicks future lies beyond the triangle
Elite Trending
Founder of Elite Sports NY---Former strong safety, point guard and 400-meter hustler. Remembers Matteau, the Dunk, the Yankees on MSG, Mr. Conn Smythe Leetch and Chrebet's fearless ways. E-Mail: [email protected]


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Svartmaskad bergtangara (Tephrophilus wetmorei) är en fåtalig sydamerikansk fågel i familjen tangaror inom ordningen tättingar. Den förekommer i höga bergstrakter nära trädgränsen i Anderna från sydvästra Colombia till nordvästra Peru. Tidigare fördes den till släktet Buthraupis, men urskiljs numera oftast som egen art i släktet Tephrophilus. Arten minskar i antal och har ett litet världsbestånd. Den anses därför vara hotad, av IUCN placerad i hotkategorin sårbar.

Utseende och läte
Svartmaskad bergtangara är en 20,5 cm gulaktig tangara som är rätt slö i rörelserna. Den är olivgul på hjässa och nacke och gul på pannan, liksom i en ram runt det svartaktiga ansiktet. Ovansidan är olivgrön, övergumpen gul och på täckarna syns blå kanter som ger blå skuldror och ett blått vingband. På undersidan syns lätt svartfläckade flanker. Lätet beskrivs som ljust, metalliskt och monotont, levererat två gånger i sekunden.

Utbredning och systematik
Svartmaskad bergtangara förekommer i Anderna från sydvästra Colombia till nordvästra Peru. Den behandlas som monotypisk, det vill säga att den inte delas in i några underarter.

Släktestillhörighet
Svartmaskad bergtangara beskrevs vetenskapligt 1934 av den amerikanska ornitologen Robert Thomas Moore som placerade den i det egna släktet Tephrophilus. Senare och fram tills alldeles nyligen inkluderades den i släktet Buthraupis, och vissa gör det fortfarande. Genetiska studier från 2014 fann dock att Buthraupis var polyfyletiskt, och de flesta taxonomiska auktoriteter har efter det återfört den till Tephrophilus.

Levnadssätt
Svartmaskad bergtangara hittas vanligen i par eller smågrupper högt uppe i bergstrakter nära trädgränsen, i mycket fuktig elfinskog, spridda buskage, bambu, jättegräs och i täta snår på mellan 2 900 och 3 600 meters höjd.

Status och hot
Svartmaskad bergtangara är en fåtalig fågel med en uppskattad värdspopulation på endast mellan 1 500 och 7 000 vuxna individer. Den tros också minska i antal på grund av habitatförlust. Internationella naturvårdsunionen IUCN kategoriserar därför arten som sårbar.

Namn
Artens vetenskapliga artnamn hedrar den amerikanske ornitologen Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978). Det vetenskapliga släktesnamnet Tephrophilus betyder "askälskande", syftande på att typexemplaret hittades i en vulkan. På svenska har den även kallats svarthalsad bergstangara.

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Doctors repairing the unidentified soldier's digestive tract found dozens of parasites in his intestines. One of the suspected roundworms was nearly a foot long.
"I spent more than 20 years of experience as a surgeon, but I have not found parasites this big in the intestines of South Koreans," Lee Cook-jong, who leads the team treating the soldier, told the Associated Press.
But the worms tweezered from his intestines tell a story of the humanitarian and health crisis gripping North Korea even as it expends significant resources in its effort to become a global nuclear power.
A Newsweek headline put it more succinctly - and brutally: "North Korea's Kim Jong Un is starving his people to pay for nuclear weapons."
According to a report by the United Nations, two of every five people in North Korea are undernourished. Seventy percent of people require food assistance to survive, including 1.3 million children below the age of 5.
And the food they have access to can sicken or kill them. According to the New York Times, many North Koreans who've defected to the South have shown up infected with parasites.
That's partially because North Korea lacks chemical fertilizer, and many farmers rely on human excrement to fertilize fields. As a fertilizer, "night soil" is free and abundant - and even made a cameo appearance in "The Martian."
But it's notorious for transmitting parasites like the ones inside the North Korean defector's stomach.
Finding worms inside a soldier who once guarded one of the most scrutinized borders in the world is especially telling, a sign that North Korea's food woes affect military members, who typically have a higher ranking on the food-rationing list. There are even reports that North Korean soldiers have been ordered to steal corn from farmers to stave off hunger.
The soldier's vital signs were stabilizing this weekend, the AP reported, but it was still unclear whether he would recover or wake up.
Until then, the parasites taken from his body were the only things telling a story, as Peter Preiser of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University told the BBC.
"What they all do is take nutrients away from your body," the professor told the BBC. "So (even) if most of them might go unnoticed, they all indicate a poor health status. To put it simply: People who have parasites are not healthy."


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How Australia can achieve its dream of being most cybersec savvy by 2030
Phillip Ivancic
The Aussie govt should be applauded for the ambitious goal of Australia becoming "the world's most cyber-secure country by 2030." By borrowing good ideas and newly introduced regulatory frameworks from other govts, Australia could potentially get there even quicker.
Basically, the Australian government has the unique benefit of learning from what other national governments have already achieved in the past couple of years and building upon those frameworks and regulations to meet the 2030 goal. After a number of data breaches that were clearly linked back to open source, application or API vulnerabilities, many govt regulators around the world have woken up to the importance of application security.
In response, govt regulators have moved away from high-level guidance to prescriptive regulations, reflecting global best practices, to ensure companies achieve the effective application security needed in the modern age. More so, as govts are typically very large clients of software and apps, with the clout to drive better application security adoption.
What are the trends the Aussie gov't could build on?
They are using their procurement process to mandate and lead better security by ensuring their own suppliers are providing evidence of best practice application security as a part of doing govt business. Three trends the Aussie govt could build upon to meet the 2030 goal:
Prescriptive API and specific Application Security regulations to give regulated enterprises 'step by step' guidance on what controls are expected to form best practices.
"Putting your money where your mouth is" and using government procurement processes to mandate adoption of best practices in application security amongst suppliers.
Focus on total supply chains and the need to understand partners and suppliers.
Clare O'Neil, Australia's Minister for Home Affairs
The good news is that Aussie enterprises can get on the front-foot and automate pretty much every best practice application security trend right now, without waiting for prescriptive regulations from the govt. The tools, techniques and managed services exist in Australia to make all of the recommended controls simple, cost-effective, and fully automated.
What are some examples we can learn and adapt from?
Philippines Central Bank prescribing best practice API security controls
After noticing a string of high-profile data breaches relating to application programming interfaces (API) in 2022, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) released Memorandum No. M-2022-016 for API security controls. It prescribes a range of cybersecurity practices for Filipino banks and non-banks' alike who utilise APIs and any interconnected platforms.
This is particularly important as Filipino banks are undergoing massive digital transformation programs and they are releasing innovative banking platforms that rely on APIs for enhanced customer experiences. BSP-supervised financial institutions (BSFIs) need to adopt a range of security controls under Memorandum No. M-2022-016, including but not limited to:
Maintaining an up-to-date API inventory;
Proactively managing API versions and unintentional endpoint exposure;
Conduct regular security tests using API and business logic exploits such as, but not limited to: SQL injection, replay attacks, and logic bypass; and enforce thresholds and rate-limiting API calls to prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and others;
Ensure that sensitive API payload data is encrypted using industry accepted encryption standards and versions.
The Australian government could definitely leverage something similar to BSP Memorandum No. M-2022-016 to drive better API security. This is especially important given what we know so far about the high profile Optus and Medibank breaches. In the meantime, Australian organisations can already improve and automate their own API security today, such as:
Conducting an "Attack Surface Discovery" exercise to ensure all publicly exposed APIs are correctly captured in organisational asset registries.
Implementing Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) technologies such as Seeker, that will automatically detect vulnerabilities as developers and engineers are writing and testing new APIs.
Leveraging Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) delivered as a continuous Managed Service such as White Hat, to continuously monitor APIs exposed in production web applications.
Leveraging platforms such as Code Dx, that de-duplicate and correlate all manual penetration testing results, risk assessments, threat models and automated scans from 170 plus tools into a central dashboard to provide a prioritised risk posture by application, project or platform.
U.S. Federal Govt requirement to produce a Software Bill of Materials
Another good example is the US Presidential Executive Order 14028 which, amongst many other security controls, mandates the need for a complete Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) be produced and automatically maintained as a part of suppling software to the federal govt.
The US gov't is one of the largest software client, and nothing forces positive security changes quicker than a huge client insisting on evidence that, all open source components and interdependencies are correctly documented and updated as changes are made.
The mandate for an SBOM came about because the use of outdated or vulnerable open source components has been linked to high profile data-breaches globally. The latest Open Source Security & Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report demonstrated the scale of the problem and the reasons why open source component security was a cornerstone of the executive order.
Synopsys' study examined anonymised findings from over 2,400 commercial codebases across 17 industries and cross-referenced it with their Black Duck Knowledge-Base to compose the OSSRA report. The Black Duck Knowledge-Base contains information for nearly 200 million versions of over 5.1 million open source components leverages data from more than 26,000 unique sources. Some of the highlights from the OSSRA report showed that:
97% of all customer applications include open source code components;
81% of all codebases contain at least one known open source vulnerability;
88% of codebases that contained open source code has not updated components for over 2 years.
The Australian Government are also massive customers for applications and software and a similar mandate or recommendation for an SBOM to supply to government could be another stepping stone to Australia becoming "the world's most cyber-secure country by 2030." Aussie firms serious about open source component vulnerability management can use tools like Black Duck to automatically produce an SBOM in accordance with industry standards.
Singapore's updated regulations on supply chain risk
Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Technology Risk Management (TRM) Guidelines have been a bedrock of risk management for Financial Institutions (FIs) not only in Singapore, but across South East Asia. The revision of the TRM guidelines focused on addressing the cyber concerns of FIs, considering the usage of cloud technologies, application programming interfaces, rapid software development, and increasing reliance on third-party vendors.
There are a number of clauses in the recent updates to TRM guidelines in relation to third-party vendor risk management. They are good practices that can easily apply to any firm. Like the US Executive Order 14028, the emphasis is on-going and continuous assessment, not just once-off checks. The 4 new clauses relevant to application security include:
3.4.3: On having high standards of care and diligence
Management of third-party vendors is an ongoing process. A one-off selection exercise done in the past does not automatically make the selected vendor eligible for future partnerships. FIs should regularly review and audit vendors to ensure that data is protected continuously.
6.13 On open-source software codes from third parties
Review and test third-party and open-source software codes before any integration. FIs should implement best practices including Secure Coding, Source Code Review, and Application Security Testing. Rather than having new policies and procedures, FIs can simply include third-party and open-source software as part of existing best practice policies.
6.1.4 On timely vulnerability remediation
Remediate all software vulnerabilities — third-party or in-house — in a timely manner using a robust vulnerability management policy or procedure that prioritises the fixing of these vulnerabilities by severity and data sensitivity. Also, your third-party vendors and you should have an open-door policy for reporting new vulnerabilities at any time. If you use open-source applications, keep an active lookout for vulnerabilities reported by the community.
6.4.2 On vetting third parties
Develop a comprehensive checklist when it comes to reviewing third-party vendors. How is the vendor's Data Privacy posture? Does it have relevant certifications like SOC2, ISO 27001, or Trustmark? Be diligent on vendor selection with this holistic approach encompassing both business and information security deciding factors to help assess suitability.
As with the other trends, the Australian government could use elements of the Singapore MAS TRM to provide prescriptive guidance to Australian businesses. The government's ambitious goal of Australia becoming "the world's most cyber-secure country by 2030" is achievable and by learning from others we may be able to get there quicker.
Phillip Ivancic is the Head of Solutions Strategy for APAC at Synopsys.
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What is your story for episode 132 about?
I will be reading from The Box Jumper, my stand-alone novella about Houdini which was nominated for both the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards and won "Novella of the Year" from This is Horror. The protagonist or narrator is Leona Derwatt, a former "box jumper" i.e. assistant to the great magician himself. Thirty years after Houdini's death, she says she's going to reveal his secrets about the paranormal—but is she telling the truth? Leona was in love with Houdini and she helped him debunk fraudulent Spiritualists, but in the present (1956 in the novella) she's trying to guard herself from telling a shady medium/magician named Emory the real source of Houdini's powers. As the book progresses, we (as readers) realize she's been drawn into a dangerous situation with Emory and two of his cohorts that is more nefarious than she ever imagined. The novella's five parts and main structure follow the five classic symptoms of demonic take-over—from "invitation" to "summoning" to "obsession" through "infestation" and finally, "possession." Has Leona been "invaded" and overcome by dark forces? Or is she merely a tragic, lonely figure who's fallen prey to madness? Terrifying and poignant, the novella delves into the darker side of a broken woman who worshipped an immensely charismatic public figure—and maintains—was loved by him in return.
I first started writing when I was eight years old—and the very first story I wrote (that wasn't an assignment from one the nuns who taught at my school) was a psychological tale about vampires. Sounds pretty sophisticated, right? It wasn't though. It turns out my parents were going crazy because I had night terrors and I was keeping the entire household awake night after night. When I wrote the story, my mother read the "Twilight Zone" ending I'd tacked on which was that the girl's frightening nightmares and dreams were actually triggered when her mother came in each every evening to kiss her while the child was asleep and resulted in her bolting upright and screaming an hour or two later. This goodnight ritual was my mother's routine because she was going for an advanced degree from NYU and by the time she got off the train and came home, I was already in bed, asleep. The great thing from my parents' point of view was that by writing about it, I saved them megabucks at the psychiatrist they were just about to drag me to. The important thing for me was that if you let your subconscious run, great stories (not this one, necessarily) can happen. And sometimes it doesn't matter if truths about the author emerge—I mean unless you have my mother as your first reader, chances are excellent you won't know what the hell you're revealing and won't have to feel embarrassed.
I really like writing about the dark side of life. Disease and disfigurement are prominent themes. I've written about polio, glanders (a disease that afflicts horses but can also spread to humans), radiation poisoning, and a host of other terrible ailments. In fact, I think one of the reasons the door to my imagination opens wider when I set the stories in the past is because the medical treatment was so abysmal compared to today's standards that disease (of all kinds) was more part and parcel to everyday life. I like to write about the things that "seize" us mentally or physically and force us to cope with what's beyond our control. I also like to write about the changes a disease has—not just on our bodies—but on our psyches. Both disease and possession/manipulation in my work are metaphors (ultimately) for the things around us we can't control—those profoundly painful moments each of us face in life. We all encounter deep disappointment, death of loved ones; harrowing circumstances that make us question ourselves and the world around us. I like to write about that nexus—the things that impact our lives and create permanent change in our bodies, minds and hearts.
I think a lot of my stories are still attempts to reckon with the fact that we all die someday. Because my mother was a nurse (later a public health director) we had plenty of medical-type textbooks around the house and the pictures and the diseases both fascinated and terrified me. From fourth through seventh grade, for example, I was obsessed and phobic about getting leprosy. It sounds funny now, but I really did worry about it to the point I was getting up in the middle of the night to check and see if my palms were turning yellow or if I'd lost feeling in my feet. The Catholic nuns were big on discussing it back then (and collecting money to send to leper colonies) and there was plenty to read in the school library about notable figures like Father Damien. The big thing about him, as I recall, is that during one Sunday sermon he began speaking about the affliction "we" lepers endure and that was the hint to the rest of the colony that he'd joined their little weeping sore club. There were also tons of books in each classroom that dealt with the lives of the martyrs—all of whom died gruesome, miserable deaths. (Everything from being shot with arrows, to roasted over coals, to thrown to lions) and between those books and my mother's handy pictorial guides, disease became a lifelong fascination for me. I didn't really move to the next level—how it impacts our personalities—until I was in my late twenties and diagnosed with a benign pituitary tumor that turned out to be no big deal. But, while I was at the doctor's office, I saw a woman about my age who was not only disfigured, but completely miserable. Don't get me wrong. I had the utmost sympathy for her, and it was abundantly clear she was suffering. It was also obvious that she couldn't help snapping and being somewhat nasty to people around her because her life had been utterly ruined by her disease. It was terrifying to me to contemplate—not just the havoc and devastation the disease wrought on her physically—but how her mind and heart had given way and succumbed, too. Years later I read Pet Cemetery and realized Stephen King was probing the same idea when he depicts what Rachel went through on account of her crippled sister.
Well, one thing that strikes me—as both a reader and a writer—is that the genre has both suffered and gained from a schizophrenic perception of its merits and faults. The first gothic supernatural novel, The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole in 1764 (which was both enormously popular and truly awful) claimed to be drawing on the works of Shakespeare. In my personal opinion the only thing Walpole really has in common with the bard derives from what I consider one of Shakespeare's more preposterous works: Titus Andronicus. Castle includes some pretty laughable scenes including one where a giant helmet falls out of the sky, and Titus has a lot of over-the-top action, too—his daughter, Lavinia, enters at one point carrying her father's severed hand between her teeth. Sure, there were and are some terrible horror novels—just as there are in any genre and in mainstream books as well. As a reader and a writer, I find it both fascinating and wonderful that authors like Stephen King and Peter Straub and Shirley Jackson (and many others—too numerous to mention) completely legitimized and elevated horror—and it's a pleasure to be able to write serious, literary works in their wake. Without their achievements, horror would be consigned to remainder tables, beach reads, and scrap heaps for the most part. The general public seems to have difficulty in making the imaginative leap or transitional analysis that (for example) makes them aware that a book like William Styron's Sophie's Choice or a play like Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer are fraught with horror—and that many of us draw upon the same kinds of important themes when we write.
Could you tell us about 51 Fiendish Ways to Leave Your Lover?
It started as a little joke to amuse myself, then P.D. Cacek suggested I find an illustrator and she introduced me to the wonderful and wonderfully talented Glenn Chadbourne. 51 Fiendish Ways is a macabre gag book of mostly one-liners about the nasty side of breaking up. There may be copies here and there, but alas it's pretty much out of print. The good news is that sometime in what I hope will be the near future, Glenn and I are going to reissue the book with new cover art, a new introduction, etc. I've always been drawn to dark satire—it's a skewed perception of a situation—just as horror the "overlay" used by horror writers.
This is a small video trailer of 51 Fiendish Ways for your enjoyment.
Could you tell us more about The Gentling Box?
Although it wasn't the first novel I wrote, it was my "debut" novel and I was thrilled beyond measure when it won the Bram Stoker Award.
The book is set in 19th century Hungary and Romania and its protagonist (who is suffering from a fatal disease), Imre, a half-gypsy horse trader; his immediate family; and his close circle of friends have all been duped by his wife's mother, a sorceress named Anyeta whose goal is to gain personal power and to throw off a curse that will condemn her to being eternally awake and aware in her own grave. But, the only way to make an end of Anyeta and to grant her victims peace is gentling—a crude surgery performed on wild horses in order to tame them. Imre's most hellish childhood memory is witnessing his father opening the crate-like gentling box and placing the wooden and leather devices around the heads of a herd of wild horses. Jutting inward from the circular bands are metal spikes which penetrate the horses' brains and Imre cannot forget the sight of the blood or, more sorrowful still, the dimming of intelligence in the horses' huge glossy eyes. Despite his trade, he has never gentled a horse—nor can he bring himself to face the ironic fact that in order to free Anyeta's human victims, he must gentle them. His decision, then, is whether he can summon the courage to heal himself of his disease by claiming the curse known as the hand of the dead, knowing that once he does so, he must also ultimately face the terror and the freedom of the gentling box.
N.B. The book is currently in its third edition (with wonderful cover art by Steven Gervais) published by NightScape Press and available from Amazon and other online retailers.
It seems like a lot of your work is a mix of historical fiction and horror, Do you have a favorite time period to write about and how long does it take you to research a book before you write it?
My background (actually my graduate degree and half my Ph.D.) is in 18th and 19th century English Literature; but this is a sort of chicken vs. egg situation since I'm not sure which actually came first. I've always been drawn to that period and it seemed like a natural fit when I began writing fiction. That said, I've set books and stories in 16th century Scotland, the late 19th and early 20th century in America, as well as in the present. I find that the past often opens the door imaginatively for me and I often write in the first person because it's a natural and immediate identifier for the reader. Unconsciously, the reader accepts and becomes one with the narrator and therefore finds it easier to slip into the past as present.
It depends on the story or book; but six weeks for a story and six months of research for a book are pretty typical. I also continue to research as I write and will look up whatever I need: a street address, the name of a song, a diagnosis. It keeps the process very interesting to say the least and I select what I find mind-boggling so hopefully the reader will also get caught up in those details. While I'm writing a particular piece, I also watch any videos and read any other books I can find that touch upon the topic—it keeps me close to the lives my characters are experiencing and even unconsciously influences the subtle details of the tale. So, for example, when researching Houdini, I not only read all his written work and biographies about him and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and watched videos of his and Doyle's films, I also read up on and watched anything I could find about mentalism, the Spiritualist movement, séances, magic, hypnotism, demons, 1920s New York City and Boston, mediums, and witchcraft. Plus a lot more that I can't think of right off the top of my head.
There are tons of my stories published in numerous well-edited anthologies that also include some other wonderful authors—so I can recommend them all without reservation. (Check out my Amazon Author page.) But, also available are my Stoker nominated stories, "The Hunger Artist" –which can be found in Zippered Flesh 2 (Smart Rhino Publications), and my short piece about Lizzie Borden, "1925: A Fall River Halloween" in Shroud Magazine #10. "Everybody Wins," which was made into a short film starring Malin Ackerman (Bye-Bye Sally) is available in Uncommon Assassins. (Smart Rhino Publications).
Among my books (fiction) are The New Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (Smart Rhino) and Deathwatch, (NightScape Press) which is a collection of two related novellas, "Dissolution" and "The Sheila Na Gig." "Dissolution," which was nominated for a Stoker Award, is set in 1893 and will soon be a feature-length film directed by Paul Leyden. It's the story of a young medical student who's been expelled from university and finds himself in an isolated town in upstate New York where he learns that though he's been ostensibly employed as a tutor to twelve-year old twins, their father has actually hired him as an assistant in an endeavor to separate them because they're conjoined. "The Sheila Na Gig" is also set in the 19th century and concerns a young man and his dysfunctional family and his grandmother's supernatural powers. Both novellas are very dark.
Finally, "1925: A Fall River Halloween"; The Gentling Box, and The Box Jumper (April 2017) have all been translated into Italian.
Just about everywhere! I'm also a member of the HWA and the Author's Guild.
Lisa Mannetti's debut novel, The Gentling Box, garnered a Bram Stoker Award and she has since been nominated four additional times for the prestigious award in both the short and long fiction categories. Her novella, "Dissolution," will soon be a feature-length film directed by Paul Leyden.
In addition to The Box Jumper, her novella about Houdini which was nominated for both The Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards and won "Novella of the Year" from THIS IS HORROR, she has also authored The New Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn; Deathwatch; a macabre gag book, 51 Fiendish Ways to Leave your Lover; as well as non-fiction books, numerous articles and short stories in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Recent and forthcoming works include "Arbeit Macht Frei" in Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, "The Hermit" in Never Fear: The Tarot, and a novel about the dial-painter tragedy in the post-WWI era, Radium Girl.