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Balkrishna Doshi Interview: The Symphony of Architecture
"Architecture is an extension of life." During his more than 60 years of practice, Indian Pritzker Prize-winner Balkrishna Doshi has made substantial contributions to the evolution of architectural discourse in India, as well as pioneering work on low-income housing. In this extensive interview, Doshi shares the story of how he became the architect he is today, and why he considers a building a living, growing organism.
Doshi argues that the story of India is the story of finding your footing after a long struggle of dependence – and deciding to improve. Architecture is not only about housing but about creating understanding in people as to "what is the nature of what we had, what we are happy about, proud about? And what are we going to give back in return?" He compares this to a revolution, which begins with nothing: "And now we are facing the challenges of the new world, the technological world. And I think this is where the whole juxtaposition has happened, and I think this is where I was trying to play my role as an architect." In connection to this, Doshi also talks about building low-income housing, where the residents – from all social levels – are given the opportunity to expand the house themselves. This, he argues, gives people roots, hope and aspirations: "Variety is there, diversity is there, but most important, identity is there, and community life is there." In this way, architecture is also about creating a social change: "The moment you empower people, there is hope."
Balkrishna Doshi (b. 1927) is an Indian architect, who is considered a pioneer of modernist and brutalist architecture in India. Doshi has realized a wide range of projects, which include institutions, mixed-use complexes, housing projects, public spaces, galleries, and private residences, adopting principles of moderns architecture and adapting them to local culture, traditions, resources, and nature. From 1951-1954 he lived in Paris, where he worked under Le Corbusier (1887-1965). Upon returning to India, he oversaw Le Corbusier's projects in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad, which include the Mille Owner's Association Building. Doshi founded his own practice in 1956, and selected projects include Indian Institute of Management (1977-1992) in Bangalore, Amdavad Ni Gufa (1994) in Ahmedabad, Aranya Low Cost Housing (1989) in Indore, and his architecture studio Sangath (meaning 'moving together') in Ahmedabad (1980). Among numerous prestigious awards, Doshi is the recipient of the Pritzker Prize (2018) (the first Indian architect to receive the honour), Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France (2011), Global Award for Lifetime Achievement for Sustainable Architecture from Institut Francais d'Architecture (2007), Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1993-1995) (for Aranya Community Housing), and Padma Shree National Award (1976).
Balkrishna Doshi was interviewed by Khushnu Panthaki Hoof at his studio in 2018 in connection with the upcoming exhibition Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People at Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein in Germany in May 2019.
Interview from 'Balkrishna Doshi Interview, 2018'
Produced and directed by Vastu Shilpa Foundation
Camera: Vinay Panjwani
Copyright: Vastu Shilpa Foundation 2018
Edited by Klaus Elmer
Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner
Cover photo: Courtesy of Pritzker Architecture Prize
Supported by Dreyers Fond
With friendly support from Vastu Shilpa Foundation and Khushnu Panthaki Hoof, VSF Archives, R.A.T. Films, The Hyatt Foundation/Pritzker Architecture Prize, and Vitra Design Museum.
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Have I mentioned that work has gotten crazy busy again? Well it has and I am stressing but I am determined to continue posting as much as I can this time. No more 8-month hiatuses for me.
In my last post I showed you how to make cashew spread and I mentioned that I have been using it for coleslaw. Using cashew spread instead of mayonnaise and raisins instead of sugar makes for a healthier dish, one that I can enjoy all the time rather than having it be more of a special occasion kind of treat.
I like using buttermilk instead of regular milk because I almost always have it on hand and am looking for ways to use it between baking sessions. Because of the lovely tang it provides, I do not add vinegar to the dressing. If I were using regular milk I would add a tablespoon of vinegar to it.
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Comics Review: "Phonogram Volume 2: The Singles Club"
Written by Scott Cederlund• June 18, 2010• Books, Comics Reviews
The first Phonogram book Rue Britannia was about music on a cerebral level as Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie pulled us along on a whirlwind education, celebration and wake for Britpop. It was an almost impenetrable book at first, requiring the reader to possess the knowledge of a subset of pop music particular to Great Britain in the 1990s so that they could understand David Kohl's hero journey. Somewhere in there though was the opening that you needed; it was about music but it wasn't about Britpop. Britpop defined the context of Gillen and McKelvie's story but the story, with only a minimal amount of tinkering, could apply to anything from rockabilly to grunge. The true defining aspect of Rue Britannia is about how we hold onto the things we love and how we eventually have to let them go. Most pop music belongs to a time and a place. Those things are static; our lives aren't.
Their followup, Phonogram Volume 2: The Singles Club, is a very different book. Where Rue Britannia was ostentatious and epic, Gillen and McKelvie make The Singles Club much smaller and more intimate. The Singles Club is the comic equivalent of a night out with friends and acquaintances, catching up with them and even running into people that you just don't want to see. Set just days before Christmas, 2006, there are only three rules that define the night for The Singles Club; no boy singers, you must dance and no magic. Rue Britania was epic; The Singles Club is surprisingly social.
In fact, forget about the magic. Gillen and McKelvie set up that rule as a guide more for the reader than for the characters in the book because the characters break it in almost every issue. It was easy to get lost in the "magic" of Rue Britannia, to get caught up in the endless Britpop references, sigils and musical incantations and miss what the story was really about. In The Singles Club, the magic is different; it's not about the music but more about the experience of music. The magic of music in The Singles Club is about how it passes through you, how you experience it and what it does to you. In the pages of this book, music has the power to inspire people, to make them remember, to make them forget, to dream bigger than everyone else and to just plain have fun.
Visually, the biggest change to this second book is Matthew Wilson, the colorist. His bright and vibrant colors imbue a buzzing energy over Jamie McKelvie's artwork. Through different effects, Wilson adds a rhythm and beat to this book that the first one was missing. It's easy to get lost and swept up in the color, which visually acts as the substitute for the music in this book. The hues and tones suggest the tempos and licks of the music, affecting your feelings towards a scene the same way a hard guitar riff or a sweeping piano piece can change the way you experience a piece of music.
If Wilson supplies the music, McKelvie provides the dancing. Remember the rules, you must dance. The way the characters carry their own weight and shift from side to side tells so much about them. McKelvie knows how to cock a character's head, hunch their shoulders, bite their lips or glare intently to get across just what they are feeling at that moment. So much of The Singles Club is about the character's emotions in a particular moment, their pleasure and their pain, and McKelvie catches those emotions in simple, clean and expressive lines. Half of the time, it's not what the characters are saying but how they're saying it. That's McKelvie's great strength; he knows how to show what the characters are thinking and feeling.
In Gillen's story (the lyrics to keep the metaphor going, I guess,) music becomes a social event. In the first book, David Kohl was on a very individualistic journey. The music mattered to him in very personal and specific ways. In your taste and appreciation of music, you were either with him or against him. With The Singles Club, Gillen allows us to experience the same night and the same music from seven different perspectives. He opens the book with Penny B., a character who is in every possible way the opposite of David Kohl. There's not a disingenuous bone in Penny's body; she exists in the moment and allows nothing to affect her for long. She moves along with the night, taking what it throws at her, whether it is a best friend who seems miles away or a boy she likes who shows no interest in her, and shrugs them off. The right song at the right moment takes her away from those problems and she never looks back.
The book moves along with many different characters, often doubling back on the same events but seen from a different point of view. Each chapter, except for one, circles around the characters and who they want to be for the night. They want to be the girl with the guy, the woman she is and not the girl she was, the guy who has all the brilliant ideas, the girl who wants the last name "Heaven" instead of "Evans," the guy who just wants to have a good time, or the guy who would rather forget old loves. Gillen shows us that this night is about the here and now and not about the past or the future.
There are many characters but it's the music that ties them all together. The middle chapter of The Singles Club focuses on Seth and Silent Girl, your DJs for the night. It's their club and their rules. And it's their chapter that reminds us about the magic of music, an incredible feat for an audio-less comic book. Focused mostly on their DJ booth, Gillen shows us how their direct the night, setting the music and the mood throughout the rest of the book. From their chapter, you can practically map out where all the other characters are during this night and how all of their paths intersect. The Singles Club is a giant ensemble story and this chapter ties together the fact that all of the stories are connected. It's not an accident that Seth and Silent Girl's chapter is in the middle of the book. It brings everything together and spins it all out for the end of the book. This is the chapter where Gillen and McKelvie get to make it purely about the movie and capture some of that old Rue Britannia elitism as Seth tries to make his will dominant on the night. He will not play "Pull Shapes," no matter how much Penny B. bugs him to.
So, what do you do when the music stops? When Seth and Silent Girl start putting their equipment away and everyone else has already gone somewhere else before the lights come up? Sooner or later, everyone has to go home. The question is are they the same person they were when they started out or are they someone different? Have they become who they want to be? Phonogram: The Singles Club is a celebration of comics, of music, of a night with friends and of the discovery of who you can be when you hear just the right song.
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Q: On the sparsity of the descent spectral sequence computing homotopy groups of the K(n)-local sphere There is a descent spectral sequence computing $\pi_*L_{K(n)}S^0$ with $E_2$-term
$$E_2^{s,t}\cong H^s_c(\mathbb{G}_n,(E_n)_t)$$
It is mentioned in Barthel-Beaudry (in the description of Figure 3.30) that if $p>2$ and $2(p-1)>n^2$, then there are only nonzero entries when $t$ is a multiple of $2(p-1)$.

Question. Why does it have this property?

I'm trying to figure out the reason for this, but I could not read directly from the group cohomology, nor can I find a reference for that.

A: This sparsity holds even without the assumptions that $p>2$ and $2(p-1)>n^2$. (Those are used to get a horizontal vanishing line). As in the comments, it comes down to the fact that you can use $\widehat{E(n)}\simeq L_{K(n)}E(n)$ in place of $E_n$, and $\widehat{E(n)}$ has homotopy groups concentrated in degrees that are a multiple of $2(p-1)$.
One way to get sparsity directly from the group cohomology is to use that there's a copy of $\mathbb{Z}_p^\times$ sitting inside the center of $\mathbb{G}_n$, and further sitting inside this is the subgroup $\mathbb{F}_p^\times\subset\mathbb{Z}_p^\times$ of roots of unity (the Teichmüller lifts). Because the order of $\mathbb{F}_p^\times$ is invertible in $\pi_\ast E_n$, you get an isomorphism
$$
H^\ast_c(\mathbb{G}_n;\pi_\ast E_n)\cong H^\ast_c(\mathbb{G}_n/\mathbb{F}_p^\times;(\pi_\ast E_n)^{\mathbb{F}_p^\times}).
$$
An element $\ell\in\mathbb{Z}_p^\times$ corresponds to multiplication by $\ell$ on the formal group of $E_n$, so acts on $\pi_{2t}E_n$ as multiplication by $\ell^t$. This implies
$$
(\pi_t E_n)^{\mathbb{F}_p^\times} =
\begin{cases}
\pi_t E_n &2(p-1)\mid n\\0&\text{otherwise},
\end{cases}
$$
and thus $H^\ast_c(\mathbb{G}_n;\pi_t E_n) = 0$ unless $2(p-1)\mid n$.

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Jeffrey Scott Martin ( Brill; born October 2, 1969) is a Canadian guitarist and singer, best known for fronting the rock band The Tea Party. He began his career as a solo artist in 2005, when The Tea Party went on hiatus.

Biography

Early years
Martin began playing guitar as a child and in his adolescence played in bands The Shadows, Modern Movement, and The Stickmen. In 1988, Jeff graduated from Sandwich Secondary School along with future Tea Party bandmates Jeff Burrows and Stuart Chatwood. He went on to study music at the University of Windsor before leaving his studies prematurely due to philosophical differences with his music professor.

Martin has perfect pitch, as highlighted on "The Science of a Rock Concert", an episode of Daily Planet on Discovery Channel Canada. He also has synesthesia, as heard during an Alternate Tunings Guitar Workshop for Maton Guitars.

Professional career

The Tea Party (1990–2005, 2011–present)
Forming The Tea Party in 1990 after a marathon jam session at the Cherry Beach Rehearsal Studios in Toronto, Martin produced all of The Tea Party's albums, including their debut album in 1991, distributing it through the band's own label, Eternal Discs. In 1993 The Tea Party signed to EMI Music Canada and released their first major-label recording entitled Splendor Solis. Martin employed open tunings to imitate Indian instruments such as the sitar, something he has continued to employ throughout his career. Further developing The Tea Party's sound in 1995, The Edges of Twilight was recorded with an array of Indian and Middle-eastern instrumentation while Martin drew lyrical inspiration from occult themes and pagan influenced literature.

Upon returning from tours in Canada, Europe and Australia in 1996, The Tea Party went on to record Alhambra, an Enhanced CD which features acoustic re-recordings of songs from The Edges of Twilight, followed by a brief tour around Canada known as "Alhambra acoustic and eclectic".

Transmission, filled with dark and angry music, was released in 1997; it included Martin's first foray into electronica. Triptych followed in 1999; the first single "Heaven Coming Down" rose to #1 on Canadian radio. Lyrically, Martin was less enigmatic than he was on previous albums:  on Triptych he wrote about the experiences of his years in the band.

In 1999, Martin performed as part of The White Ribbon Concert at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto. After releasing Tangents, a singles compilation, in 2000 and Illuminations, a DVD compilation of music videos which Martin remixed in Surround sound, The Tea Party released The Interzone Mantras in 2001 and Seven Circles in 2004. In October 2005, The Tea Party disbanded due to creative differences.

The band members regrouped in 2011 for a series of shows in their native Canada. The success of these dates led to The Tea Party reforming.

Solo career (2005–2008)

Martin's debut solo album titled Exile and the Kingdom was released in Canada and Australia in 2006. Among those who worked with Martin were Michael Lee and Ritesh Das (Toronto Tabla Ensemble). The first single, titled "The World is Calling", is an open letter to the Bush administration. During this time Martin was supposed to collaborate with Scott Stapp but it did not ensue. In November 2006, Martin released a live album recorded that September, titled Live in Brisbane 2006. The two-disc album features Ritesh Das and the Toronto Tabla Ensemble, and consists of both solo and Tea Party songs. The album is a complete recording of a live performance full of Jeff's banter with bandmates and the audience, including his thoughts on the disbanding of The Tea Party and where he sees himself in life. In May 2007, Martin released his second live album Live in Dublin recorded with drummer Wayne P. Sheehy, while Martin's first solo music DVD Live at the Enmore Theatre was released through Shock DVD in July 2007.

The Armada (2008–2010)
In early 2008 Martin (lead vocals, guitars) and Sheehy (drums) formed The Armada. The band's debut album, which features a similar sound to the Tea Party, was released on November 4, 2008.

Jeff Martin 777 (2010–present)
In 2010, Martin began work on new music with Jay Cortez and Malcolm Clark (formerly of The Sleepy Jackson) for a new album to be entitled "The Ground Cries Out" under the new band name of Jeff Martin 777. On January 10, 2011, the title track from the album was released on Martin's Myspace page. The Ground Cries Out was released in Canada on March 1, 2011, and has subsequently been released in Australia. Following a Jeff Martin 777 Canadian tour, the band toured Australia from May 2011. During the tour Martin announced a reunion of The Tea Party for some Canadian shows in July and August. Following the success of those shows, The Tea Party announced the reunion was permanent.

As a record producer
Martin was nominated as producer of the year at the 2000 Juno awards.
Martin has produced albums for Hundred Mile House's EP, The Jay Murphy Band's Propaganda, The Eternal's 'Under a New Sun' and Tenth Planet's The Prophet Curse EP. He also played upon Roy Harper's The Green Man. Martin recently produced the new album for Australian dark rock band The Eternal called 'Under A New Sun'. The album features a duet with singer Mark Kelson on the track 'The Sleeper'. Martin worked with emerging Australian band Lepers and Crooks to produce their debut album in 2016.

Martin's most recent work as a producer was with Australian indie-folk / rock duo Secret Solis. Jeff produced their debut EP, 'Deep Down' at River House Studios lending the band his instrumentation and voice as well. Martin plays all the heavy guitars, Hurdy Gurdy and synths including his Theremin.

Equipment

Guitars
1916 Gibson Harp guitar
1964 Gibson J-50 acoustic
Gibson 12-string
Three Les Paul Classic 1960 reissues
Gibson 1971 Les Paul Recording
Gibson EDS-1275
Gibson Explorer
1971 Fender Telecaster Parsons White B-Bender
Fender Stratocaster XII twelve string guitar
Rickenbacker 360/12 JetGlo
Danelectro
Ellis Guitars 7 string resonator guitar
Maton 12 string electro-acoustic guitar

Effects
Dunlop Cry Baby
Early 1970s Memory Man analog delay unit
Reissue Small Stone
Early 1960s Echoplex
Matchless line switcher (with valves)
DigiTech 2112 Effects processor unit
TC Electronic G-Natural
TC-Helicon VoiceWorksPlus

Amps
Two Fender 100 watt combo
Four Matchless Superchief 120 watt
No Name 1960's Tube 25 watt
Chute CC-04
Urei 1176 leveling amp
Teletronix LA-2A

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Video albums

Extended plays

See also
 The Armada
 The Tea Party

References

External links
Jeff Martin official website
Martin's Ellis seven-string resonator guitar at the Ellis Guitars website

1969 births
Living people
Canadian expatriates in Australia
Canadian male guitarists
Canadian male singers
Canadian record producers
Canadian rock guitarists
Canadian rock singers
Canadian songwriters
Musicians from Windsor, Ontario
Sarod players
The Tea Party members
Autoharp players


The 8000-ton water IMB nucleon decay detector has good sensitivity to the neutrino burst associated with the collapse of stars. It is particularly sensitive to the ve charged current interactions with protons but can also record other neutrino interactions through ve scattering. Signal, noise, physics objectives, and detector modifications that would enhance burst detection are discussed. The objectives include astrophysical questions about the pulse structure and power. It also may be possible with a distant source to study neutrino masses and neutrino oscillations.


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The A's unveiled a throwback 'Wild Elephant' cap that pays homage to the 1920s
By Adrian Garro
Think about the A's. What comes to mind? Probably the color scheme green and gold, and probably also an elephant. As one of the oldest franchises in baseball, theirs is a rich history that has spanned decades, cities and several different jerseys over the years, with those two aesthetics (A's-thetics?) remaining firmly in the forefront.
On Thursday, the A's unveiled their official caps that the players will wear for Spring Training (which is coming up in just a few short weeks, finally!) and batting practice throughout the upcoming season, and this new edition pays homage to the 1920s, when they were known as the Philadelphia Athletics.
Taken from the 1920s, the Wild Elephant will be the official Spring Training and batting practice cap for the 2019 season.
The caps are available at the Hohokam Team Store now. They'll be available at the Coliseum Team Store beginning next week and online Monday morning. pic.twitter.com/LJ0Si79mdG
— Oakland A's (@Athletics) January 31, 2019
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Topics offered this Spring Summer term include Gaa-Bi Kidwaad Maa Nbisiing: The Stories of Nbisiing Anishinaabeg, Canadian Social History, The British Slave Trade in the Atlantic, Intro to American History, Introduction to the Muslim World, Pontiac's War: Crucible of Early Indigenous Resistance.
Studying in the History program at Nipissing will open the door to the past, and help you to understand the present.
The Department of History provides a personalized student experience within a collegial learning community dedicated to creativity, innovation, and excellence in teaching, research and scholarly activities.
The social history of Canada from New France to the twentieth century is examined using concepts such as gender, class, region and ethnicity. Family, religion, public health, crime and punishment, urban life, working class culture, education, social reform and domestic work are some of the topics examined.
This course looks at British involvement in The Middle Passage: the kidnapping and subsequent transportation of captive Africans across the Atlantic where they were then sold into slavery in the Americas.
American history is largely a debate over what it means to be American. Students engage this debate by studying the major events and themes of the American past and exploring how different groups accommodated the forces of change. Students consider how various peoples accepted and resisted institutional change, cultural and social development, and political evolution from Raleigh to Reagan, from colonies to Cold War.
Introduction to the Worlds of Islam and Muslim Expansion This course is an introduction to the Muslim Worlds in the plural, or the "states, societies and cultures of the medieval Muslim world". Students acquire knowledge of the history of the Muslim worlds, become acquainted with the great historical milestones in certain areas from Arabia to Africa to the Far East (Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan) and develop a critical reading of the evolution of Muslim societies.
In the summer of 1763 thirteen indigenous nations launched coordinated, attacks against thirteen, British forts in the Great Lakes region. Reduced to a footnote in, history, a "failed rebellion,", Pontiac's War, more properly Obwandyag's War, forced a turning point, in North American, colonial policy.
Our faculty study and teach a variety of fields in North American, European and World History. We have expertise in Canadian political and social history, modern and early modern European and British history, the Middle Ages, the colonial and antebellum United States, the Second World War and its aftermath, the history of genocide and war crimes trials, Russian/Soviet history, 20th century International history, and more!
Our students attend two hours of lecture and one hour of seminar per week. During the small weekly seminars students critically discuss the course material which includes historical documents. The seminar instructors also offer skills training to help students master university-level essay writing. The seminars are designed to help students get comfortable with expressing their ideas.
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Founded in 1922, the Canadian Historical Association / La Société historique du Canada is a bilingual not-for-profit and charitable association devoted to fostering the scholarly study and communication of history in Canada. It is the largest of its kind in the country.
The Association seeks to encourage the integration of historical knowledge and perspectives in both the scholarly and public spheres, to ensure the accessibility of historical resources, and to defend the rights and freedoms of professional and emerging historians in the pursuit of historical inquiry.
Nipissing University's History department hosts a seminars series, featuring panel discussions, debates and presentations.
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My experience with the History Department at Nipissing has completely changed the way I view the world around me, particularly concerning indigenous/non-indigenous relations in Canada. As I work toward a career in the social services sector, my background in Canadian History will be extremely valuable, and a minor in History is an ideal complement to a Social Welfare degree.
The professors in the History Department have challenged me to critically examine the world that I live in, and have provided me with tools and feedback that have helped me to greatly improve my communication skills.
With your critical thinking skills and the ability to speak and write eloquently, you will have many career options to choose from. History graduates find work in a variety of sectors of the economy, including civil service, the university sector (administration, recruitment, marketing), law, business and consulting. They find jobs in these areas because they have advanced communication and literacy skills. The ability to read, synthesize and analyze a significant body of work.
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The very first Bentley Bentayga rolled off the production line in Crewe today, in what has been a very exciting day here at the factory, marking the culmination of 4 years hard work by everyone involved. This also marks the first time that Bentley has had 3 product lines available for sale. The other two being the Continental and Mulsanne ranges.
This has been one of the biggest investment programmes in the company's history and is a massive success story for the factory in Crewe and for the local economy. The first Bentayga's will be available for customers in early January.
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Digex CSO Pamela Fusco: The Best Security Defense is Action
The best defense isn't sitting around with your fingers crossed. Digex CSO Pamela Fusco would rather take the battle to the hackers.
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although when the comment is relayed to Fusco, her response is to quip, "Really? Remind me to restrict his network access." Fusco is chief security officer at Digex, an Internet hosting company headquartered in Laurel, Md. She's a Navy intelligence veteran, married to another security professional, and she talks about the challenges of information security with unabashed enthusiasm. So is it surprising that Fusco and Digex don't sit back and wait for trouble to find them?
Digex prepares for attacks by conducting a full security audit every 24 hours and actively gathers information on exploits and vulnerabilities. The company uses this data to not only identify common attacks but to trace the source of the hostile actions, block them and then try to identify the attackers. Fusco and her group use honeypots, digital forensics tools and an active incident response team, and they share their data with law enforcement where Digex's clients deem it appropriate.
"Aggressive? Perhaps," says Fusco, when asked to describe her approach. "Mission-oriented, definitely." But maintaining that attitude involves a new set of expenses and risks. Jeff Moss, president and CEO of Black Hat, a computer security consultancy and training company, estimates that less than 5 percent of all companies even have an incident response group that can preserve evidence and collect a chain of forensic information to assist in investigating hack attempts. Where Digex's policies have a search-and- destroy flavor, the prevalent infosecurity approach in today's corporate world might be better described as hide-and-hope. Fusco admits the aggressive tack isn't necessarily right for everyone, but CSOs should consider whether, for their particular businesses, the payoff might be worth the extra effort.
Fusco's team has an obvious motive for pursuing world-class network security. At Digex, the network is the business. The company provides managed-hosting and connectivity services. Its 768 employees and four global operations centers support 509 clients in industries as wide ranging as finance and education. In addition to hosting, Digex also develops and manages enterprise applications, firewalls, e-mail servers and databases. If the network is unreliable or customers find their data is getting poached, Digex won't hold those clients for long.
It's a high-pressure environment. A passionate, energetic and no-nonsense woman, Fusco radiates exactly the kind of can-do attitude that nervous clients would want at the helm of the security effort. After working for U.S. Navy intelligence, Fusco was hired by EDS for its government business branch. Fusco says she and her husband, a retired U.S. Marine, are constantly interchanging their security strategies and designs. And Fusco pays attention to details and is irritated by avoidable mistakes.
She notes, for instance, that companies should make sure that their machines are patched and not granting access via vendor default passwords that come packaged with commercial software. "Come on folks!" says Fusco in a tone that she might reserve for an inattentive sailor. "Start with the basics!"
As Fusco recalls, when she arrived at the company in 1998, Digex had to do exactly that. There was no security team, and Digex needed to take baby steps "to get a grip on what we had within our data centers, detail the network and incorporate security at every layer" just to get out of constant fire-fighting mode. But after only a few of months on the job, Fusco says, she got charged up and decided that she wanted to go well beyond the basics and make dramatic improvementsnot only at Digex, but also in the larger security community.
Flash-forward to today: Digex has arrived at a strategy that incorporates aggressive techniques on top of a sound architectural base. She has presented her security strategies to a number of organizations, including the Electronic Crimes Task Force, Internet World and the RSA Security Conference.
For starters, Fusco created the Systems Security Operations (SSO) team by leveraging 300 or so security full-timers. This group's work is augmented by the company's internal operations, engineering, product development and client services staff, plus input from clientsin all, more than 1,000 contributors help design and maintain the company's security plan. Fusco says this extended community helps Digex and the SSO accomplish the security agenda without exhausting their funding and resources. At the same time, with so many chefs stirring the broth, accountability is key. Every security system or process has an owner within Digex who is responsible for auditing, upgrading and redesigning his piece of the plan. "So many organizations procure exceptional security software and hardware, but there is no one allocated to ensure the ongoing capacity and reliability of their security program," says Fusco.
SSO monitors security data at several levels: system, application and network. Round-the-clock collection and analysis of audit data raises a red flag if servers and peripheral devices on the company's network are experiencing performance issues or otherwise behaving irregularly. The team then correlates this data with internally developed analysis techniques in a database dubbed SecAudit, which contains definitions of known infosecurity threats and vulnerabilities. The SecAudit database also has a profile of each server within the Digex network and details the type of operating system and applications each is running.
This systems and application-layer monitoring is further matched to information detailing network traffic. Fusco says the company uses digital forensics and real-time network intrusion detection systems, or IDS, at all four of its worldwide data operation centers. Data from these monitoring systems is correlated with internally developed analysis techniques and code that define known exploits and vulnerabilities. Fusco won't reveal all the details about the specific weapons in Digex's defense arsenal, but she says the group has customized open-source tools such as Snort, a popular IDS used to identify and curtail network traffic deemed potentially malicious. The Digex group has also written its own custom forensics tools.
At the network and infrastructure level, Fusco says, the Digex security team tracks data on the volume of potential incidents it has thwarted. The group also notes which attempted exploits it has blocked and why, where that network traffic has come from, and what type of traffic it is, using IDSs and data from the network switches. Since the IDSs function in real-time, she says, Digex can compile data for any network entry or exit point at any moment. This approach served the company well when the SQL virus emerged earlier this year. Fusco says her team recognized an increase in attempted attacks and was able to quickly double-check its defenses. Unlike so many companies, Digex says it suffered no damage.
Monitoring isn't Digex's only defense, of course. Standard operating procedure includes modifying the default configurations set by the company's IT vendors to enhance the security of everything from applications to operating systems. The security team has designed "Digex security standard build" configurations for Windows, Solaris and Linux. Digex conducts analysis and testing on software purchased from other companies in support of patch deployments and security fixes, and Fusco says company engineers will often reengineer the products and disable services that violate the company's security policies. Typical changes include renaming files, renaming or removing certain service accounts, removing services on the system that are not required for that particular system to function, and disabling file transfer protocol, or FTP. At the policy level, Digex pursues certifications and standards such as BS7799.
That's a solid foundation on which to build, but Digex's security tactics go further. Since 1999, Digex has also deployed honeypots on its network. Honeypots are lightly defended systems that are set up specifically to allow the owner to spy on network intruders. A hacker who penetrates a honeypot thinks he has compromised the network and may proceed with whatever mischief he intendedbut, in fact, the honeypot will block and record the hacker's every move, whether he attempts to copy files or create unauthorized user accounts.
Honeypots are less widely used than IDSs and firewalls, and more controversial. Proponents say they offer unique capabilities and can help cull through possible false alerts from IDSs; detractors say honeypots are an unnecessary expense and, if configured carelessly, can actually create a vulnerable point in the network. Fusco herself agrees that a company without a honeypot can often gather the information it needs with a good firewall, IDS, server logs, and vulnerability and assessment scans. According to Fusco, the device should restrict access to other corporate resources and networks. Further detection devices and an alerting mechanism need to be configured in a stealth mode on the honeypot so that the security team can be alerted without tipping off the intruder that he's wandered into a trap. Ironically, Fusco emphasizes that companies must make sure that patches on honeypots, security platforms and network IDSs are up to date to ensure that these machines are not compromised in unintended ways. "Some people patch all of the other systems and forget to patch the security systems," says Fusco. (For more on honeypots, see "You Can Catch More Spies with Honey," available at www.csoonline.com/printlinks.)
Even with all this network armor in place, Fusco's SSO group maintains a Security Incident Response Team and always generates an "after action analysis" following a security eventeven one that was successfully blocked. "With each new incident or attempted exploit, we improve our security structure," says Fusco. "No one on this team is on a 9-to-5 mentality." Daily security reports are e-mailed to Digex executives and key operations personnel, documenting each system's patch level, services, applications, versions, functionality, address and host names. The daily reports are archived for historical and forensic purposes, and the entire security lifecycle of each server is retained within a restricted database. Fusco says this system lets the company capture the status of each system and provide current, in-depth data to customers and executives.
So why don't more companies take an aggressive posture toward information security? The biggest obstacle is simply that it's too costly. Network service providers live moment-by-moment by available, airtight networks. Even in today's Web-enabled world, relatively few industries have the resources to throw at honeypots, in-house forensics tools and the like.
Black Hat's Moss says it typically costs about $100,000 to set up and monitor honeypots. He also says dedicated incident response, legal and forensics teams are rare, usually seen only in government organizations and banks, which are required by law to collect this type of information. Moss believes that the only people with any business running honeypots are research institutions, the military or the government; otherwise, he says, honeypots are a waste of time and energy. "You only have so many security dollars. It will get attacked and someone will break in, but [typically] by a script kiddie. Are you going to go after him with a $100,000 investment?" asks Moss. "Why not take that $100,000 and invest it in better people and become more secure with better host-based security, better antivirus software, better firewalls. That gets more bang for the buck." Honeypots, he notes, can create a variety of problems, including potential confusion for auditors or managers who might mistake them for a vulnerability. Some administrators have been known to call a poorly secured machine a honeypot just to protect themselves. Misconfigured honeypots can also be taken over by intruders and used to harm other computer assets. "The myore simple the honeypot, the more secure it is, and the less risk it is to the system," agrees another expert, Lance Spitzner, author of Honeypots: Tracking Hackers.
Fusco concedes that measures such as honeypots and digital forensics are not appropriate for every company. Organizations that keep their most sensitive information on back-office networks have different threat models to ponder, she says. In such organizations, it is typically more critical to audit user accounts and resource logs to ensure that employees are abiding by internal security policies. Honeypots, Fusco says, are better for dealing with malicious external threats than internal policy infractions.
Even though Digex's network security is mission-critical, its defense funds are not unlimited. In fact, as of this writing, Digex's recent financial performance has been poor, and an acquisition offer from MCI was on the table. Fusco won't share the hard numbers in her budget and cost-justification process but does say that the company's leadership agrees it's money well spent. On the soft side of the benefits equation, Fuscoand her superiorsbelieves proactive information security enhances customers' trust in Digex. According to Fusco, security issues started to get more board-level attention just prior to Y2K, when companies began to pay closer attention to the security requirements of their enterprise clients. Digex's customers, especially those in finance, e-business and insurance, began to challenge Digex to adopt a strong security presence, says Fusco. Even so, turning the tide to get buy-in to enforce and implement security within the Digex corporate confines required "a dig in and be persistent strategy," says Fusco. Metrics have also played a pivotal role. Once basic monitoring efforts were in place, Fusco had ammunition, showing executives samples of daily threats and intrusion attempts. She also gave straightforward calculations of costs incurred and avoided. "You have to provide them with the facts and the aspects and the reality of what is lurking around the corner as a result of a weak security platformno fluff and no exaggerations," Fusco says.
If more CSOs did so, perhaps aggressive defense wouldn't be universal, but it also might not be quite so rare.
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AU now has Northern Europe's most modern dissection facilities
After several years of construction work, the Department of Biomedicine's new dissection facilities have been inaugurated. Following a renovation costing more than DKK 40 million, and including a new operating theatre, the university now has the most modern facilities in Northern Europe at its disposal.
2016.11.15 | Mette Louise Ohana
The new operating tables provide better conditions and new opportunities for the surgeons who take further and continuing education courses at AU. Photo: Lars Kruse, Aarhus University
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A hearse regularly parks in front of a garage on Bartholins Allé. Otherwise, there is not much to indicate what goes on in the basement under the anatomy building, also called Grønnegården. On 3 November, the doors were thrown open to an inauguration, where anyone with an interest had the opportunity to see the basement, which is now ready after several years of renovation.
This work has resulted in new dissection facilities for the medical students, who learn about how the human anatomy looks in reality already during the second semester of their degree programme.
"For many people, this is a place that seems slightly mysterious and scary. But for us and our medical students, it is a very central part of the medical degree programme – and, not least, a central part of the formation of the coming medical doctors. This is where they come into direct contact with human body for the first time, and where they have those first important experiences on the educational journey that leads to becoming a skilled doctor," said Thomas G. Jensen, department head at Biomedicine, during his speech at the inauguration.
Operation-like facilities for surgeons
With the renovation, there is now space for a new operating theatre with operation-like facilities. Here, surgeons can train on deceased persons who have donated their body to research and teaching, before the doctors face living patients on the operating table.
There are nine custom-made operating tables designed to resemble everyday clinical reality as much as possible, while at the same time being practical in relation to handling the deceased. The tables are narrow like proper operating tables, they can be raised and lowered, have operation lamps and can also be x-rayed, making it possible to see the result of an operation. The operations can also be streamed to large screens in the room and in an adjoining lecture theatre, so the training can be followed by others.
So far, otorhinolaryngology doctors and orthopaedic and abdominal surgeons from Denmark and abroad have utilised the opportunity to try out or learn new surgical techniques, refresh skills, or use the facilities for research.
"The new facilities provide new and improved opportunities to offer increased further and continuing education for surgeons. This is an area that we wish to further develop over time," said acting dean of Health, Ole Steen Nielsen, during the inauguration.
Significantly improved work environment
The reason behind the renovation was a wish for a better work environment for the sake of the medical students and, in particular, for the employees who work in the basement on a daily basis.
"I am pleased that the employees who do such a great and tremendous job every day now have modern facilities, which ensure a good work environment with less heavy lifting and better ventilation. Furthermore, we now have Northern Europe's most modern dissection facilities at our disposal," said Ole Steen Nielsen.
Training and further and continuing education of medical doctors is possible thanks to the many Danes who donate their body to education and research. There have been dissection facilities at AU since probably the 1950s. However, dissection first became part of the medical degree programme in the 1970s.
Department Head Thomas G. Jensen
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The Nickle Numismatic Collection
The Nickle Numismatic Collection is the most important academic money collection in Canada.
Online Numismatic Lectures
Ancient Greek Coins
Ancient Roman Coins
Islamic Coins
Notgeld (German Emergency Money)
Canadian Money
Pre-Coinage Currencies
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The Nickle Numismatic Collection is the leading academic numismatic collection in Canada, consisting of over 23,000 objects including coins, paper money, tokens, medals, and pre-coinage currencies, from the 7th century BCE to the present day, with a focus on the ancient Greek and Roman coinage. The Nickle curates annual exhibitions, organizes public talks, workshops, lectures, and works closely with students, faculty, and the wider campus community. Website: https://nickle.ucalgary.ca/
The large founding donation of 10,000 ancient coins was presented to the University of Calgary in 1980 by Carl O. Nickle, and has since been enlarged through the generosity of The Nickle Family Foundation and others.
Carl O. Nickle (1914 - 1990)
Carl O. Nickle was born in Winnipeg in 1914, and came to Calgary with his parents, Sam and Olga Nickle as boy. The family was far from wealthy. In 1937, with sixty-five dollars in capital, Carl launched a newsletter, Nickle's Daily Oil Bulletin. In 1948 Carl began a second publication, Oil in Canada. Carl was elected to the House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative member in a 1951 by-election, and was re-elected in 1953, retiring in 1957. He formed his own oil and gas company, Conventures, and served on the boards of directors of many companies in Canada and the U.S. Carl's first love was numismatics and he created a major collection of ancient coins. In 1970 he donated the main part of the collection to The Nickle Arts Museum. In 1955 he established The Nickle Foundation, and in 1971, merged that foundation with one his Father, Sam, had founded to create The Nickle Family Foundation. In 1979, Carl Nickle – like his father before him – was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Calgary, in recognition of his great contributions to the Calgary and University communities. Dr. Carl Nickle died in December 1990.
Samuel C. Nickle (1889 - 1971)
Samuel C. Nickle was born in 1889 in Philadelphia. The family soon moved to Winnipeg. Shortly after Sam and Olga Simonson, a concert violinist, were married, Sam saw First World War service in the United States Coast Guard. Rejoining the family in Calgary, he entered the shoe business with his father, operating The Nickle Boot Shops. Later Sam established his own store, the Slipper Shop on 8th Avenue. In the 1920's, he first caught the "oil bug", investing in oil exploration in the Turner Valley and Athabasca areas. A few years later, Sam Nickle decided to devote his career to oil exploration. Using his Turner Valley leases as collateral, he formed Northend Petroleums. In 1944 he founded Anglo American Oils and ventured into oil exploration in other provinces. Past the age at which most men retire, he continued building and finally merged his businesses into Canadian Gridoil Limited. As he reached his 80th birthday, he decided to donate one million dollars to the university's special building fund for the construction of an arts museum. This amount was matched by the Alberta government. At the University of Calgary's Spring Convocation in 1971, Samuel C. Nickle was awarded an honorary doctorate in recognition of his community service. Shortly afterward he died at the age of 81. The Nickle Arts Museum was the first building at the University of Calgary to be constructed as the result of a private donation.
LINK: The Nickle Foundation gift correspondence, November 1970
The Nickle Coin Collection is one of the most important numismatic collections in Canada. It is a rich teaching and research resource, providing for the interest and enjoyment of the University and the community as a whole.
The large founding donation was presented to the University of Calgary in 1980 by Carl O. Nickle, and has since been enlarged through the generosity of The Nickle Family Foundation and others.
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Subjects: Archaeology, Art & Art History, Greek & Roman Studies, History, Humanities-General, Museum & Heritage Studies, Religious Studies
Tags: ancient coins, Ancient Greek coins, coins, money, museums, Nickle Galleries, notgeld, numismatics, paper money, Roman coins


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If I had my way around here, I'd go gateless all day!
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I have never been so jealous of the rest of the Three Marm team as right now. Due to living in Nebraska, I was unable to take part in the tasting of our newest beer "Trugger," which was brewed in collaboration with Adam Draeger of Inventors Brewpub. The Three Marm team members who were able to partake described "Trugger" (our unofficial "place-holder" name for our new lager) as both reminiscent of a summer hike in the woods and a beer you would have on a winter evening with warm stew by the fire, and as having a pine flavor that is a great palette cleanser.
Here's what each team member had to say when they reported back to me with their findings.
I know I can't wait to try it during my visit to the next Brewfest! In the meantime, we'll be sharing updates when this beer is ready for distribution.


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Video Game Firsts: First Political Controversy Surrounding A Video Game
Geek Dave places his 10p on the machine and eagerly waits his turn...
For almost as long as there have been video games there has been controversy surrounding them. Advocates of the medium have emphasised their use as an expressive outlet, arguing for their protection under the laws governing freedom of speech and also as an educational tool. But not everyone agrees, and many groups and organisations have presented societal and scientific based arguments about whether the content of video games change the behavior and attitudes of a player, and whether this is reflected in video game culture overall.
Detractors argue that video games are harmful and therefore should be subject to legislative oversight and restrictions. New investigations into the positive or negative characteristics of the medium seem to always be undertaken, and the results of links between video games and addiction, aggression, violence, social development, and a variety of stereotyping and sexual morality issues have been debated by many a government worldwide.
The first ever video game to attract political controversy was the 1978 arcade game Space Invaders. In 1981, a political bill called the "Control of Space Invaders (and other Electronic Games) Bill" was drafted by British Labour Party MP George Foulkes in an attempt to ban the game for its "addictive properties" and for causing "deviancy". When raising his proposed bill in Parlement Foulkes said,
"I have seen reports from all over the country of young people becoming so addicted to these machines that they resort to theft, blackmail and vice to obtain money to satisfy their addiction. I use the word "addiction" not in its increasingly common misuse, as being generally fond of something, but in its strictly correct sense of being so attracted to an activity that all normal activity is suspended to carry it out.
That is what is happening to our young people. They play truant, miss meals, and give up other normal activity to play "space invaders". They become crazed, with eyes glazed, oblivious to everything around them, as they play the machines."
Conservative Party MP Michael Brown was quick to respond,
"The measure proposed by the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Foulkes) is outrageous and ridiculous. If I have glazed eyes, it is perhaps because I am the one hon. Member who is an avid player of "space invaders". I make no apology for the fact that before I came to the House early this afternoon I had an innocent half pint of beer in a pub with a couple of friends, put 10p in a machine, and played a game of "space invaders".
The machines—in amusement arcades, in seaside resorts and even in pubs—provide genuine, harmless entertainment for young people."
Thankfully the bill was defeated, albeit narrowly, by 114 votes to 94 votes, and so we can still derive "harmless entertainment" from video games today.
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I feel like I have been away on vacation, but I haven't been. School started a couple of weeks ago and we are all transitioning from summer schedules to school schedules with three different co-ops and homeschooling.
My daughters have fallen right back into their old routines since they homeschooled last year. My son on the other hand is having a hard time with the transition to homeschool from private school. I really thought it would be much easier for him since we have always supplemented along the path of education at home. But he is struggling with this new school routine and I have been needed in the roll of teacher and mom much more these past few weeks for him.
I'm happy to help him along the way because I truly feel this Classical approach to education will serve him better in life. That being said, I have been out of the loop while aiding my son on this change in his education path.
I've been stuck in my home classroom from early morning until after dinner. My son is miserable and I am draining of positive notes to tell him all day. I'm hoping this next week will be much easier for all of us. I've been taking photos when I can, but have had no time to edit anything. I took a break today from being a mom for a much needed couple of hours and just did nothing but rejuvinate my brain.
We are heading to the city tomorrow for a fun filled day full of activities at Navy Pier. My children love this location and I am hoping to bring a smile back to my son's face.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful long weekend . . . Enjoy my photos.


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CHAPTER SUMMARIES WITH NOTES
When Lee returned to the Trasks in 1915, he settled in for good. He unpacked his books, fixed up his room, and started spending Adam's money on household appliances, including an icebox. Adam became fascinated with the idea that ice preserved things. He read of the discovery of a frozen mastodon whose meat was still fresh after centuries. Adam then began to study refrigeration. He invited Will Hamilton over to discuss the idea of shipping produce to the northeast under refrigeration. In typical fashion, Will told him the idea was ridiculous and that it would surely fail. He said Adam should plant beans on his farm and forget about shipping perishable goods. When Will left, Lee encouraged Adam. He told him he could plant beans after he bought the ice plant.
Adam decided to give his idea a try. Using money from his inheritance, he packed loads of lettuce on a train bound for the east and labeled the cars with banners that announced "Salinas Valley Lettuce." A series of mishaps made the project fail. The lettuce arrived in New York weeks after it was due, and it was all rotten. Everyone began to call Adam a fool. When Adam asked Lee how much money he had left, Lee told him he had only nine thousand dollars and the ranch. When Adam said he would figure something out, Lee said to figure something that did not cost money.
The twins, now fifteen years old, were worried about the family's financial situation. They were also teased about Adam's failure. At school, the students called them Aaron and Cal Lettuce. Aaron was particularly concerned. He told Abra he was no longer worthy of her because he was just another poor boy. Abra said she did not care and promised to stay by his side. She even suggested that they go back to the farm and run it after they got married. Aaron protested, saying he was not going to be a farmer and she was not going to be a farmer's wife.
Since Aaron and Abra spent a lot of time together, Cal felt left out and lonely. When he tried to win Abra for himself, Cal was totally unsuccessful. When he tried to join with them, it was clear that they were not interested in his company. As a result, Cal was very restless.
Since Adam had fallen out of favor with the town, people began to gossip about the family's past.
When Abra heard some of the rumors, she suggested that Aaron directly confront his father about his mother. Aaron rejected the idea. It was obvious that he did not want to face the truth.
This chapter develops plot, character, and theme. Fully alive once again, Adam becomes interested in refrigeration. He invests a large sum of money to send California produce to the East Coast in a train car that is poorly refrigerated. The lettuce rots on the way, and everyone calls him a fool. Even the fifteen-year-old twins are teased by their fellow students and called lettuce heads. Since Adam has fallen out of favor in Salinas, people once again begin to gossip about his past. Abra hears some of the rumors and encourages Aaron to confront his father about his mother. Aaron, fearing the truth, rejects her idea.
Cal is deeply affected by the closeness of the relationship between his brother and Abra. They spend all of their free time together and even talk about the future when they will be married. At first Cal tries to steal Abra for himself, but she has no interest in this secretive twin. Cal then tries to join with Abra and Aaron, but they have no interest in his company. As a result, he feels left out, lost, lonely, and restless. There is a sense of trouble brewing.
The theme of progress is interwoven with the Trask family history within the chapter. Adam's experiment in refrigerated shipping indicates that technological advancements are an important part of the early twentieth century. When his project fails, the townspeople band together in an almost evil plot and reject Adam. They also begin to spread rumors about his past, which are sure to hurt the twins. Steinbeck never veers far from his theme of good vs. evil.


Blag Dahlia answered the following questions by email, with answers received on 5/29/13. This was for a preview article for the show by The Dwarves on 6/6/13 at Velvet Jones in Santa Barbara.
Jim Heath is the singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Reverend Horton Heat, a band which updated the sound and energy of rockabilly for the alt-rock era and beyond.
Reverend Horton Heat hit the ground running with their first album, 1992's Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em, which has gems like "Bad Reputation", "Marijuana", and "Psychobilly Freakout". They're still going strong ten albums and countless live shows into their career, with Heath's twisted humor taking a front seat on songs such as "Please Don't Take the Baby to the Liquor Store" and "Death Metal Guys" from their latest album, 2009's Laughin' and Crying'.
This interview was done by phone on 12/19/12 for a preview article on the 12/30/12 Reverend Horton Heat concert in Ventura, with special guest Jello Biafra joining in for a few songs.


Well, I've finally been able to finish RiME. It is curious that I am still drying my tears and the only thing that a priori appears to me introspective, is that I really do not find it easy to talk about the game. Not especially because I did not like it; However it is rather the opposite. I loved it. And among other things, from my point of view, I find it difficult to talk about RiME mainly because this new production of Tequila Works (some real geniuses in case you did not know yet) on several occasions schematizes the equation with narrative nuances somewhat dissimilar, Know what you want to achieve and what you want to achieve, with the whole compound. In addition, in small punctual situations, some elements advance to opposing measures, thus entangling the entanglement between them. Finishing by deriving into small dissonant fragments that are difficult to swallow; Nevertheless, we shall speak of all this later; Although it is worth mentioning in advance that the balance is not very much imbalanced either.
However, I must admit that I am writing these lines still very excited, given that after having reached the end of the adventure carried out by that featured guy, I have hardly words to describe how incredible it is to witness an audiovisual show as hyper-estetified as Turns out to be RiME. A title that relives the most spectacular essence that I have only enjoyed in video games (and curiously all of them influences for this work) of the same nature: communication from silence.
We start the game and the first thing that appears before us is a vast starry sky that invites us to settle in our chairs; To prepare ourselves for what lies ahead, demonstrating that the confines (and limits) of this journey are not only limited to a physical environment and / or visible to our human capacity. Metaphorically speaking the adventure goes beyond what is simply presented to us; Transcend from the most minutely simple to a certain climax, reaching the climax of any possible sensation.
The central mechanism that promotes this new work of Tequila Works is a sound element, simple but effective: the voice. But not any voice; The voice of silence, the voice from the silence. Our protagonist will interact with the environment as follows: it will emit a humming or a nice and simple singing. It will be the main voice (or main sound) that we will listen during the whole adventure – taking the fantastic soundtrack that will accompany us at all times – and that will somehow open doors and allow us to open the way before a great Mass of complexity that is all the paradise that contours us. The environment that surrounds us is beautiful, yes, but its nature in itself is complex – by this I do not mean that the puzzles that RiME gives us are cumbersome; In fact, I go further – because we are never going to unveil in a concise and precise way what it is, or what it is, all that scenario. Explicitly they will not tell us. And there will be when our free interpretation comes into play, once we reach the end of everything and, through certain revelations, we begin to give way to our deduction and appreciation of the same facts.
The almost perpetual silence we perceive in RiME, and the one that frames it, does not annihilate the word: it engenders the possibility of polysemy in front of its multiple elements. The opening to silence determines the aesthetic event. Silence speaks of imminence, a revelation not yet produced, but we know that at one time or another will happen … The audiovisual section and its aesthetics have the mission of transcending the voice of the boy, placing it in a space of plural significations. In this way, not making explicit what that word, that succinct meaning longed for by the players, becomes a more radical way of communicating. The suggestion is, from this perspective, the only way to create multiple senses by overcoming, in the silence of the word, the limits to which the inherent structure of language and words submits us.
The great influences that have been deposited in RiME jump to the first one of change. All you have to do is take a look at it, and you can see that you breathe part of the essence of Journey (the journey and its implications), as well as its very "purpose". And then on the other hand, we will also notice (and above all we will be able to account for the protagonist boy's dress) that TeamICO's magic and art are wide, although bearing the own Tequila Works label, having shaped that Mediterranean essence So unique in his new work.
As we mentioned before, RiME is a video game of simple and simple puzles, and pretends to be. Far from trying to evoke convoluted, complex problems, with anagrams or the like; The game is limited to offer us a system in which we will have to organize to activate several statues at the same time, or find the key pieces to activate the opening of a hallway. I have not been bothered by the simplicity of the system that presents to keep the player active, in addition from a narrative point of view quite agrees with that innocent view (see things from the point of view of a child) that aims to convey. There is a story to tell, and the video game focuses exclusively on being able to achieve and achieve that. In getting us to get his voice.
The pace of events is somewhat accelerated, it is true, but I think it succeeds in being effective – with some buts that I will explain later. As you progress you get to worry about the boy, who overwhelmed by everything around him is constantly fighting against a seemingly unfriendly environment, but that will gradually become a slope of darkness and despair. Drowning in a crude reality that will make us fly our heads. On the other hand, the design by subtraction with which captivates us the title of Tequila Works is excellent, a successful bet, as well as necessary, that they have been able to supply in a great way. I love that perspective they wanted to give to the adventure; That perspective of being seen from the innocent eyes of a boy.
The only weak point I find in Tequila Works' new work – as I mentioned at the beginning of this text – is that despite focusing on telling a story (without going through the branches and providing good points of interest that can later Being a source of replayability), it gave me the feeling that some sentimental moments are treated with a lack of sensitivity. Everything progresses at a rapid pace, and in those moments where a well-centered rhythmic dedication would be of vital importance, the key moments pass as very unnoticed. They are not reached until the final stretch, where the arrow shoots and pierces the soul, – so it was with me. I think that if throughout the course of the work the respective factors and elements had come together at the same rate, it would have given the impression that the video game progresses at a more dedicated, delicate and more leisurely pace. No hurries.
Visual narrative for a very emotional story.
It's a sin not to include photo mode!


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Q: HTML Input[Date] defaulting to mm/dd/yyyy despite locale settings I am using a html date input in an ng-repeat scenario, and it seems to default to mm/dd/yyyy despite my computer regional settings being set to dd/mm/yyyy.

    <input class="form-control" type="date" ng-model="attendee.Dob"/>

Is there an easy way to re-format this? I can't seem to find anything that works, as everything suggests that the <input> element should use my local datepicker settings.
Sorry if I have missed something here.

A: From the Docs:

Date inputs sound convenient — they provide an easy interface for choosing dates, and they normalize the data format sent to the server regardless of the user's locale. However, there are currently issues with <input type="date"> because of its limited browser support.
Unsupporting browsers gracefully degrade to a text input, but this creates problems in consistency of user interface (the presented controls are different) and data handling.
The second problem is the more serious one; with date input supported, the value is normalized to the format yyyy-mm-dd. But with a text input, the browser has no recognition of what format the date should be in, and there are many different formats in which people write dates.
At the moment, the best way to deal with dates in forms in a cross-browser way is to have the user enter the day, month, and year in separate controls, or to use a JavaScript library such as jQuery date picker.

For more information, see

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*MDN HTML Reference - <input type="date"> Browser Support

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         <input type="date" name="bday"  ng-model="attendee.Dob" required pattern="\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}">

 Date :  {{attendee.Dob | date:'MM/dd/yyyy'}}


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Queen Elizabeth National Park About Queen Elizabeth NP – Location – Getting There – Attractions & Activities – Accommodation
Queen Elizabeth National Park, which is described as "Uganda's Great Rift Valley" by Andrew Roberts, is the second largest and it is almost 1,978 sq. km. This largely savanna national park is located in the south western part of Uganda and it's ranked among world's most bio-diversified parks housing incredible species of wildlife. It is bordered in the West by Lake Edward and in the North by the Rwenzori Mountains, and is divided in two sectors, the North and South. This fertile equatorial area has a very nice scenery comprised of Tropical Rain Forests and two lakes connected by a channel over looked by a high peninsula. The beauty is simply staggering with sprawling cacti, savannah, forests, rivers and lakes.
QUICK FACTS ABOUT QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK
The Queen Elizabeth National Park is a world bio-sphere reserve (UNESCO, 1979), includes a RAMSAR wetland site and is a classified Important Bird Area (IBA) by Bird life International. The park has over 568 of Uganda's 1017 species of birds (over a quarter of Africa's bird species), more than any other park in Africa.
In the Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP), you may see Crater Lakes filled with huge flocks of Flamingos. You will spot Eagles soaring and Vultures perching.
The park is known for its Fauna, although many animals were filled in the Uganda-Tanzanian war. Many species have recovered, including hippopotamuses, elephants, leopards, chimps and lions. It is now home to 95 species of mammals.
Explore Queen Elizabeth National Park
The town of Kasese lies on the Northwestern edge of the park. The park is verily one of the very few remaining pristine wildlife Sanctuaries in the world.
The park is rich in wild game including the big five mammals except the rhinos which are only hosted in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary along the way to Murchison Falls National Park. Other interesting game in the park include various species of antelopes, warthogs, hyena among many others. Reaching the park, it's just a drive of about 5-6 from Kampala to the park.
Many safari activities are arranged at the park including wildlife viewing and primate watching, the park is a home to over 6 species of primates the most common is the chimpanzee the closest relative to human. Queen Elizabeth National Park also houses the rare tree climbing lions in the Ishasha sector of the park. However, taking a visit to the Kazinga channel is ranked among the must do activities while at the park.
The National Park includes the Maramagambo Forest and boarders the Kigezi and Kyambura Game Reserves. The parks nearby neighbors include Kibale National Park in Uganda and the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tourist Activities in Queen Elizabeth Park
Maramagambo Forest walks
There are three guided walks. The trail is a round the Forested shore of Lake Kyasanduka, then the second trail leads to a huge bat cave and python and the third one is around the back of Lake Nyamusingiri, which will give you an opportunity to se snowy-headed robin-chat, Scaly-breasted illadopsis and Chestnut wattle-eye. You will have an opportunity to see monkeys like red-tailed and vervet, black and white Colobus, L'Hoest's monkey, leopard if lucky, Forest birds and the amazing chimps.
Launch Cruise on Kazinga Channel
In Queen Elizabeth, the launch trip takes place on the Kazinga Channel. The boat usually leaves daily at 09:00hr and 14:00 and takes 2-5 hours tour on the waters. While on the Launch Cruise, the professional guides will be able to give you useful information and answer your queries. With his help, you will have a great opportunity to view the wonderful scenery and variety of animals and birds. One should come with cameras and binoculars.
Game Driving
The game viewing circuit lies on the north side of the Kazinga Channel. With the help of the professional guide, you will have a wonderful opportunity to see Lions, Crocodiles, Hyena, Buffalos, Antelopes, Hippopotamuses, Leopard, Giant Forest hog, Elephant, Cape buffalo, Defassa, Waterbuck, Uganda Kob, Bushbuck and Topi – in their natural habitat.
Chimpanzee Tracking in Kyambura Gorge
With the help of the professional guide, you will be taken for Chimpanzee Trekking in Kyambura Gorge. The Gorge creates the boarder between the Kyambura Wildlife Reserve and Queen Elizabeth National Park. This Gorge is where you can get a large community of chimps. They can be tracked within the confines of a forested river gorge carved into the surrounding flat savannah. The scientific name of the chimpanzee is
Pan troglodytes. The wild chimpanzee rarely lives past the age of 40, while those in captivity live up to the age of 60 years.
If you are a bird watcher, Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of the most interesting destinations. You can see more than 610 bird species while on the Kazinga Channel Launch and on the Game drives. The park is teeming with a variety of birds like yellow-billed stork, plovers, pink-backed pelicans, white-bellied pelicans, white-bellied Cormorants, black-headed Gonolek Inter-alia.
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package picard.illumina.parser;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.stream.StreamSupport;

/**
 * Parse various formats and versions of Illumina Basecall files, and use them the to populate
 * ClusterData objects.
 */
public abstract class BaseIlluminaDataProvider implements Iterator<ClusterData>, Iterable<ClusterData>, AutoCloseable {

    protected final int lane;
    /**
     * Calculated once, outputReadTypes describes the type of read data for each ReadData that will be found in output ClusterData objects
     */
    final ReadType[] outputReadTypes;
    /**
     * Number of reads in each ClusterData
     */
    final int numReads;

    public BaseIlluminaDataProvider(final int lane, final OutputMapping outputMapping) {
        numReads = outputMapping.numOutputReads();
        this.lane = lane;
        this.outputReadTypes = StreamSupport.stream(outputMapping.getOutputDescriptors().spliterator(), false)
                .map(rd -> rd.type).toArray(ReadType[]::new);
    }

    @Override
    public Iterator<ClusterData> iterator() {
        return this;
    }

    public abstract void close();

    /*
     * Methods for that transfer data from the IlluminaData objects to the current cluster
     */
    protected void addData(final ClusterData clusterData, final PositionalData posData) {
        clusterData.setX(posData.getXCoordinate());
        clusterData.setY(posData.getYCoordinate());
    }

    protected void addData(final ClusterData clusterData, final PfData pfData) {
        clusterData.setPf(pfData.isPf());
    }

    protected void addData(final ClusterData clusterData, final BarcodeData barcodeData) {
        clusterData.setMatchedBarcode(barcodeData.getBarcode());
    }

    protected void addReadData(final ClusterData clusterData, final int numReads, final BaseData baseData) {
        final byte[][] bases = baseData.getBases();
        for (int i = 0; i < numReads; i++) {
            clusterData.getRead(i).setBases(bases[i]);
        }
    }

    protected void addReadData(final ClusterData clusterData, final int numReads, final QualityData qualityData) {
        final byte[][] qualities = qualityData.getQualities();
        for (int i = 0; i < numReads; i++) {
            clusterData.getRead(i).setQualities(qualities[i]);
        }
    }

    protected void addReadData(final ClusterData clusterData, final int numReads, final CbclData cbclData) {
        final byte[][] bases = cbclData.getBases();
        for (int i = 0; i < numReads; i++) {
            clusterData.getRead(i).setBases(bases[i]);
        }
        final byte[][] qualities = cbclData.getQualities();
        for (int i = 0; i < numReads; i++) {
            clusterData.getRead(i).setQualities(qualities[i]);
        }
        clusterData.setPf(cbclData.isPf());
        clusterData.setX(cbclData.getPositionInfo().xQseqCoord);
        clusterData.setY(cbclData.getPositionInfo().yQseqCoord);
    }

    abstract void seekToTile(int seekAfterFirstRead);
}