UK phone network O2 has scrapped unlimited data downloads for smartphone customers. All new and upgrading customers will have their usage capped at between 500 Megabytes (MB) and one gigabyte (GB) depending on their monthly tariff. Analysts said the move was 'inevitable' as more and more consumers switch to data-intensive smartphones that can surf the web and show video.
Oh no! - or that's what I first thought but when I headed over to my iPhone to see what my 'Cellular Network Data' usage was like, I was quite shocked! The figures shown here are my total use over the whole life of my phone, which currently stands at 8 months.
So it looks like I am not within the 3% that will need to be worrying about the data caps.
Thinking about when I am downloading 'big things', mainly podcasts and music, I am on Wi-Fi. When travelling to Leeds, I did use the 3G connection quite heavily but it seems that what I was doing, was not that data intensive - good to know for the future.
These caps make sure that everyone gets a fair chance to use the network without the data hoggers ruining it for everyone.
Inspired by the fitfinder site, I wanted to make use of HTML 5's Geo Location API to allow a fast way for posting a comment at your location.
I looked into how to find out the name of a place after been given GPS co-ordinates by the browser. Google has a good API called reverse geocoding which you can submit co-ordinates to and get returned a nicely formatted address.
You also may want to search for a different place or may not have a HTML 5 compatible browser (IE) so need to enter your location manually - to do this the geocoding API was used. The user starts typing a place name and a search is done, returning a place name along with it's co-ordinates.
The Maps API then displays the location along with comments posted near there, +/-0.02 of its co-ordinates. You can then submit your own comment and move the marker to exactly where you are talking about.
All that is then stored in a database is the exact co-ordinates of the comment, the text and the time.


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LondonJazz: Feature/Interview: Sarah Chaplin of JazzLondonLive
The online listings guide resulted, Sarah tells me, from "one of those four o'clock in the morning panic moments: how am I going to know what's on now that there's no Jazz In London any more?" I've been talking to… Read More ›
Match & Fuse festival in London opens tonight
Well, if you are in Birmingham this evening you should be at Birmingham Jazz Orchestra's gig at The Fiddle & Bone – but if you are in London, it's a whole different story. The Match & Fuse Festival opens at The… Read More ›
Look out for the Blue Train
By peterbacon on 2 August 2011 • ( 1 )
Midlands trumpeter Ray Butcher has alerted me to a jazz club he is assisting with down in London. It's called Blue Train, and it's at 56 Stamford St, Waterloo SE1 9LX The Jazz Lounge has live music on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and… Read More ›
Here we go loop de Loop
By peterbacon on 16 March 2011 • ( 1 )
Less than an hour to go to lift-off at The Forge in Camden, London, for the third of the Loop Collective's annual festival. The collection of young bands and musicians includes some of the most exciting currently working in Britain,… Read More ›
ECM: Heroic achievement of a man alone
By peterbacon on 4 October 2009 • ( 0 )
Keith Jarrett: Paris/London (Testament) (ECM 2709583) We've been lucky to get to listen to solo concerts from Keith Jarrett at iregular intervals down the last 40 years but not since the multi-disc releases of the 1970s has there been quite… Read More ›
Hot tip – the Dan are coming
By peterbacon on 6 March 2009 • ( 0 )
Tickets for Steely Dan's UK gigs went on sale this morning. They are playing Edinburgh on Sunday 28 June, Birmingham on Monday 29 June and London on Wednesday 1 July. Thought you would like to know…
Ray plays away – at the 606
Tuesday, fans of the Birmingham-based trumpeter Ray Butcher have an away game – at London's 606 Club. Ray will be playing a mixture of standards and originals. The club's owner, Steve Rubie, explains: "He sat in with my band here… Read More ›
London – all you might not have known
By peterbacon on 4 February 2009 • ( 1 )
LondonJazz is a new blogsite from writer and musician Sebastian Scotney which covers all the great jazz happening in London that you might not easily hear about in the more obvious places. There are lists of Recommended Gigs, loads of… Read More ›
Keith Jarrett solo gig in December
Have just heard that Keith Jarrett is playing a solo concert at the Royal Festival Hall on Monday 1 December. Tickets go on sale next Wednesday 29 October on 0871 663 2505 or here. I still hold on to this… Read More ›

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Water Rangers scheme growing and on course
An award-winning scheme launched by Northumbrian Water to help give water pollution the boot is set to grow across the North East region.
To organise a photograph in your area, for interviews or to walk a route with a member of the team, contact Paul White or Maureen Berne on 0191-3015325.
The initiative involves volunteer Water Rangers walking, weekly or fortnightly, along local public access routes next to streams, becks, burns and bathing waters which are prone to pollution. After completing their walk, Water Rangers then report on the condition of the watercourse so that any potential pollution can be dealt with quickly.
Dog walkers, ramblers, runners, cyclists or anyone who just loves the outdoors and cares about the environment are encouraged to volunteer and sign up to be a Water Ranger.
The scheme originally started in 2014 with 32 routes but has now increased to 55 routes, ranging from 210 metres to 3.6 kilometres long. The areas with new routes are; Cramlington, Ponteland, Whitley Bay, North Shields, Wallsend, Jesmond, Haltwhistle, Haydon Bridge, Allendale, Gateshead, Washington, Chester-le-Street, Hetton-le-Hole, Sunderland, Spennymoor, Greatham, Middlesbrough, Guisborough and Darlington.
Water Ranger, Peter Stone said: "I am extremely proud to be a part of the Water Rangers Scheme and feel privileged to have been a part of the scheme from the start, assisting Northumbrian Water to ensure the environment, rivers and watercourses across the region are protected by reporting any potential issues.
"Northumbrian Water act promptly when dealing with pollution incidents and when the issue is not their responsibility, will notify the appropriate authorities whose responsibility it is. The Water Rangers scheme is very proactive and it is fantastic to see Northumbrian Water expanding and developing the scheme with new routes and additional Water Rangers. I would encourage anyone who is interested in becoming a volunteer not to hesitate to join the scheme with like-minded people who are helping to protect the environment for future generations to enjoy."
Volunteer Water Rangers receive thorough training on environmental issues and what to look out for when monitoring watercourses. They are offered additional volunteering opportunities to support local community projects and work alongside key partnership groups. An annual payment and other thank you incentives, including an invitation to an annual celebration event, are also available for volunteers.
Northumbrian Water's Wastewater Director, Richard Warneford, said: "The Water Rangers initiative has been hugely successful and has helped us to spot and deal with potential threats to the environment at the earliest possible opportunity on a number of occasions. In addition, it has helped us to raise awareness of our sewer pipes, outfalls and other equipment amongst the public. This is a great opportunity to expand the scheme to work with local people to protect more of our region's watercourses through this award-winning project."
For more information about the Water Rangers scheme and to apply to be a volunteer please visit > https://www.nwl.co.uk/your-home/environment/getting-involved.aspx or alternatively e-mail waterrangers@nwl.co.uk or call 0191 301 6308.
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Criminal Law Is An Issue In Todays Society Cuny John Jay Criminal Law Essay
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Criminal Law 11/09/13
In chapter 10 it discusses and focuses on Homicide. The meaning of homicide is the killing of one human being by another. There are three types of homicide, which are justifiable, excusable, and felonious. I am going to explain and discuss how the textbook explains homicide in general. Homicide explained in the textbook is the killing of one human being by another, it not always criminal. Sir William Blackstone wrote in the eighteenth century that there were three kinds of homicide in which I listed them before. He wrote that the first involved no guilt, the second involved little guilt, and the third was the worst crime that humans were capable of committing against the law of nature.
The meaning of justifiable homicide is defined in the common law as an intentional homicide committed under circumstances of necessity or duty without any evil intent and without any fault or blame on the person who commits the homicide. Justifiable homicide also includes state executions, homicides by police officers in the performance of their legal duty, and self-defense when the person committing the homicide is not at fault. The excusable homicide is the killing of a human being, either by misadventure or in self-defense, when there is some civil fault, error, or omission on the part of the person who commits the homicide. The degree of fault, however, is not enough to constitute a crime. The criminal or felonious homicide occurs when people unlawfully and knowingly, recklessly, or negligently causes the death of another human being. The common law and the states have divided criminal homicide into the crimes of murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide.
This chapter deals with criminal homicide and the circumstances that give rise to specific charges. Criminal homicide encompasses a wide variety of acts. The acts and the intent with which they were commit...
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He has provided specialist advice on numerous geotechnical matters, including slope stability, complex soil-structure interaction problems, clay heave and numerous ground movement assessments, relating to basements, tunnels and pipelines, and has acted as an expert witness on geotechnical matters. He has also developed our methodology and led our involvement in Basement Impact Assessments within London; he has provided evidence in this respect at related planning appeals and council meetings and has provided expert advice to developers and interested third parties.
Steve has provided input to Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists (AGS) technical committees, is a member of the editorial board of Geoscientist magazine and regularly acts for the Geological Society as a scrutineer and mentor of candidates for Chartered Geologist status. He is also a member of the Bursary Management Committee for University of Portsmouth's Engineering Geology BEng course and was an invited speaker at the Engineering Geology 50 Conference, celebrating 50 years of the course and of the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology.
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November 28, 2016 | Vol. XV, Issue 100
ESSA Regulation
Today the U.S. Department of Education issued final regulations to implement provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) regarding school accountability, data reporting, and state plans. The final version features a few key changes, like giving states and school districts more time to implement their plans and start identifying the lowest-performing schools for extra support. The regulations also maintain the focus on providing states with new flexibility to ensure that every child gets a high-quality and well-rounded education, while enhancing equity and preserving critical civil rights protections for all students (including students with disabilities) in the accountability system. AUCD is still reviewing the final regulation. A comprehensive fact sheet was developed by the Department of Education. Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) already issued a statement cautiously supporting the final rule. It is unclear how incoming Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will oversee the accountability provisions in the state plans given her strong views favoring state flexibility and school choice.
Nomination for Secretary of Education
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department. According to Politico, DeVos is best known for her longtime advocacy for and funding of efforts to promote school choice, charter schools and school voucher programs which comports to Trump's plans to authorize $20 billion on block grants to expand charter and private school options for low-income children.
On November 30, the House will vote on the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 34), which provides funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as appropriations for new programs to curb the opioid abuse epidemic and promote mental health reform within government services and law enforcement agencies. The bill authorizes $4.8 billion to the NIH over the next ten years and also directs $1.4 billion for the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), $1.8 billion for the National Cancer Moonshot, and $1.6 billion for research into the BRAIN Initiative. The legislation also includes $500 million for the FDA, to be used over nine years. The bill also enables the FDA to speed up the approval process for drugs used in regenerative medicine. This provision will allow pharmaceutical companies to have their new drugs tested, approved, and put on the market more quickly, but critics have raised concerns over whether such reforms would weaken the FDA's ability to review new drugs sufficiently. The 21st Century Cures Act also provides $1 billion to address the opioid epidemic, effectively meeting President Obama's budget request earlier this year. Additionally, the latest version of the bill contains new sections that address mental health care in government agencies and the judicial system. These include grants for state and local mental health services, structural reforms to the leadership of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA), and grants to law enforcement that can be used to improve response to individuals with mental health issues. AUCD is still reviewing the final package including the mental health provisions as well as the offsets that may have been used to pay for it.
Complex Rehabilitation Technology Update
Last week, sources indicated that due to the high score of a permanent solution to keep Complex Rehab Technology (CRT) accessories out of Medicare's Competitive Bidding Program, we are likely going to get another one-year delay. The Hill seems to be leaning towards an extension of last year's delay-which only protected access to power CRT accessories (not manual). Some consumer groups ve been holding meetings with Committee staff and Committee members' offices, stressing the need to include both power and manual CRT accessories in the delay.
The Co-Chairs of the CCD Housing taskforce, of which AUCD is a member, submitted comments to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Multifamily Handbook, Chapter 2, Civil Rights Enforcement. Specifically regarding pages 4 and 16, comments highlighted examples provided when an owner/agent fails to comply with fair housing and civil rights requirements being regarded as negative sanctions and prohibitions. Whereas in certain situations, the appropriate "sanction" is a positive action.
Tuesdays with Liz: Disability Policy for All
Can you believe its Tuesdays with Liz: Disability Policy for All 100th episodes?! To celebrate this milestone, Sara Luterman, communication assistant at AUCD, interviewed Liz Weintraub, advocacy specialist about her thoughts and dreams for Tuesdays with Liz: Disability Policy for All. In case you missed last week's episode, Liz provided a preview of the upcoming AUCD Conference, which will take place from December 4-7. Liz highlights important sessions and opportunities to learn more about disability policy at the conference.
For more policy news, follow Kim on Twitter at @kmusheno


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The planning process for the library included strong participation from the community, and included visioning sessions with the Chinatown community and key stakeholders to create design goals and a spatial program concept. dbHMS' integrated design approach leveraged waste heat from a small on-site generator that further reduced energy consumption through a radiant tempering system. These systems are all proven, "state-of-the-art" technologies, yet needed to be tuned to work in harmony with one another to create an incredible environment that maintains the high standards set by the architectural design and are required by the Public Building Commission of Chicago, which developed the project on behalf of its client, Chicago Public Library. The library is designed to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED©) NCv2009 Gold level certification.


Nailways has a new the stamping plates collection MONSTERS. The collection consists of the four stamping plates Halloween, Aliens, Video Games and Robots. Nailways sent it as present for my birthday, isn't that nice!
Always fun to work with the Nailways stamping plates, because the result is always very good! Besides that my creativity can get wild with these paterns.
sizes. Of course I started with a good basic (Base Coat - Pink 15 ml ).
I polished my nails two layers of the light orange color (Gellook - 133. Ponytail ). I think this color is the most pumpkin like of all the Nailways colors. It covers very well and has a high glossy finish.
With dark green (MDU - 48. Military Green) stamping polish I stamped the trees. With white (MDU - 1. White) I stamped the ghosts in differend sizes.
I used the (Fast&Easy - Finishing Wipe) and the (XXL Marshmallow Stamper Transparent - Sticky).


Arthur Rank Hospice Charity is thanking guests who attended their Sparking Afternoon Tea on Friday 29 March.
It was a gloriously sunny afternoon full of delicious treats, laughter and generosity, as over £3,000 (still counting) was raised for the Charity; each year the Hospice provides essential care and support to 3600 patients living with a life-limiting illness and their families, free of charge.
The Sparkling Afternoon Tea has long been a favourite of supporters who enjoy a spot of indulgence and luxury.
Due to demand and its obvious popularity (and to console those who might have missed out) Arthur Rank Hospice will be hosting a second Sparking Afternoon Tea on Friday 7 June.
Senior Events and Marketing Office, Tasha Hills, explains how important the event has become to the Hospice, which needs to secure £8.25 million this year: "Since Afternoon Tea started in 2010, it has raised over £25,000 for the Hospice. This would not have been possible without our wonderful guests, who not only booked their places, but also generously bought raffle tickets and made bids in the silent auction, to help boost the total raised.
"We had a lovely afternoon and were delighted to welcome some familiar faces and some new. One family we hadn't met before had experienced the Hospice's support for their relative last year and were delighted to be able to 'give something back'. Huge thanks to all of our guests, who helped make it such a memorable and enjoyable afternoon."
Greeted with a glass of prosecco upon arrival, guests at the Sparking Afternoon Tea were invited to browse boutique stalls including jewellery by Tricia Taylor Design's, hand-made bags, toys and gifts on The Friends of Margaret Warner stall, greetings cards from Flamingo Stationery and specially selected Arthur Rank Hospice merchandise, during the afternoon.
Guests are treated at Quy Mill Hotel's Sparkling Afternoon Tea - and served a delicious array of delicate finger sandwiches, mouth-watering desserts, clotted cream scones and cups of tea - whilst enjoying the good company of friends and family.
On Friday, a winning bid of £335.00 for a special silent auction prize, was made by a lady who is planning to surprise a loved one (so her identity and the item are being kept secret for now).
Following the success of this event, the Hospice's fundraising team are preparing for another Afternoon Tea on 7 June: 50 places have already been booked, so guests are encouraged to sign up soon to avoid disappointment.
If you would like to donate a prize for the auction or raffle, please contact Arthur Rank Hospice Charity's fundraising team on 01223 675888, or email tasha.hills@arhc.org.uk.
Bookings for the June event are limited to approximately 120 places and can be made using the link below.


I had interviewed just about every possible candidate for the job. After several weeks of desperately searching LinkedIn, and sending emails to all relevant professional contacts, I had come out empty handed. Until finally I found the perfect candidate – competent, young and confident, he had the exact set of skills I was looking for. I was excited at the possibility that finally the team would be whole. Several interviews later, however, something did not feel right; despite desperate attempts, I just couldn't find in him a passion about our mission that was so critical for an early member of the leadership team.
So I was considering making the heart-breaking decision to say no, which would mean going back to square one. All those weeks of hard work…in vain.
Saying no to him would, in all likelihood, push us back months on our product roadmap. And quite possibly, we would not get another person with the skills of this candidate. I was worried how my team would react to this news. So I decided to ask them for their votes.
I had expected mixed reactions, half-hearted statements to the tune of "I don't know…can we try a little harder…maybe he could become passionate if he met the people we were trying to serve?" Or "I know he is not perfect, but the pilot would really suffer if we didn't build the product on time!" I expected to have to convince them of my decision before going ahead with it.
And my previously sunk heart lifted immeasurably in spirits. I knew at that very moment that we were on the right path. We had succeeded in building a team that is as wise as it is competent, as idealistic as it is practical. That even if I was ever dwindling between the right choice and an easy one, my team would be my North Star.
So I gathered myself up and started looking again. Building this dream team will surely not be easy. It will be filled with desperate moments and heart-aches, emotional hills and valleys. And I will have to largely shoulder the brunt of it.
But at least, thanks to my team, I am now wiser and stronger.
I'm impressed with the activities & target of Jeeon. Really is it possible to make a difference health care system in Bangladesh !?? I'm very happy to visit Jeeon's blog & definitely very impressive Team.
I'm eagerly waiting to join Jeeon's team . It will be a great achievement of my life.I love to care my patients with not only my knowledge but also my heart. I'm very much passionate about my profession.
Personally I believe that Physician can build a strong mental ability of his/her patients that's more important than medicine.


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Philadelphia CryptoParty is a chance to meet other people interested in cryptography and computer security. The event will be open to those wanting to learn, teach, or a little of both. There are no prerequisites - if you know absolutely nothing (or absolutely everything) about cryptography this is the event for you. All are welcome!
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world. ~Cypherpunk Manifesto
1.1 Proposed Speakers and Sessions
1.2 Preparation
3 Getting Involved
It is our intention that the Philly CryptoParty be a recurring forum scheduled regularly.
Type: Meet & Greet @ 12th Street Music Festival
Time: September 22, 2012, 1-4 PM
Place: The Institute Bar / PhilaMOCA
This is just an informal meet-and-greet amongst enthusiast in an atmosphere where the taps are flowing and live music is right outside. Just look for the table with the CryptoParty logo on it inside the Institute Bar.
Type: Conference and Party
Time: October ?, 2012
Place: TBD
This will be our first major event, with notable speakers and sponsors, and is still in planning. It aims to be an informal conference where you can learn from speakers and attendees alike.
We are still considering a few locations for our first major event. To be contacted, for information please comment here or contact CryptoPartyPHL, Brian, Kenneth, Joanne, Tim, or Dustin on twitter.
Proposed Speakers and Sessions
If you would like to lead a session, or have an idea of something you would like to learn, please add it below.
Session: Occupy Tracking Speaker: Tim Libert
Activist websites have a special responsibility to secure the privacy and anonymity of their visitors. However, most activist websites today are divulging data about their visitors to corporations and law enforcement. This session will focus less on raw cryptography, and more on practical steps to take when securing a website. Will be based primarily on this work: OccupyTracking.
Session: Bitcoin
Speaker: Brian Cohen
A short overview and introduction to Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer digital currency invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. I will talk about what it is, how it works, the history of the idea, and about the economics of it.
Session: Tor Browser Bundle
Speaker: TBA (If no takers, Tim can do it)
From the Tor Website: Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.
This session will give a brief introduction to Tor and show how to download the software, verify the download has not been tampered with, and how to use it.
The CryptoParty isn't an extension of any org, entity, or agenda. We are all stocked up on canned heat and want to learn from each other.
No special equipment will be necessary, though bringing a laptop or other device is a good idea.
We also recommend you bring a 4 - 8 GB USB (for a portable Linux Operating System) flash drive and a minimum 700 MB CD-R for Hiren's Boot Disk)
If you wish download and bring your own OS .iso please do so - basic installation help will be available for most common builds and distributions. Portable Windows USB tutorial will employ the Hiren's Boot Disk, which contains a streamlined "mini-XP" with a comprehensive tool-bench of PC utilities.
For those running Mac OS's, I will personally take a self-directed crash course on Mac programming - at this stage I'm confident that someone with real competence will step forward to provide solid guidance.
I will have .iso's and working installs of both BackBox linux (penetration testing distribution) and the Hiren's Boot Disk - we'll try to have extra CDs and USB but definitely bring your own if you expect to leave with a working OS on disk.
Please sign up for the wiki and add your own contact information in this space if you'd like to get involved.
Concerned citizens in the Philadelphia Area are meeting to share ideas and experience in personal computing. This is not a seminar, we are some of us professional, others laymen, the format and location will be informal. This is not a "hacking course" or a "hackathon," although you may expect to learn the basic operation of some information security tools.
From CryptoParty article by Parker Higgins of the EFF
"...a set of global get-togethers where more experienced users can teach beginners how to use the commonly available tools that tap into the incredibly powerful technology of cryptography. I hope that a beginner walks away from a #CryptoParty with an understanding of not just PGP, OTR, and the like, but with an idea of why threat models are important, what attack vectors she ought to consider, and — most importantly — a network of people and resources she can contact for even more knowledge."
CryptoParty has become a global movement, and the notion is frankly extant truant. While we are often keenly aware of being eavesdropped-upon when surveillance technology is thrust upon us in select environments, the tremendous power and potentially catastrophic ubiquity of electronically transmitted communication remains a remote concern to most but unfortunate victims of such naivete. The words and images on your screen are not simply pixels-lights that appear/disappear/reappear in the LCD - when you browse the web - Amazon, for instance, you are not simply navigating to web page views, you are generating multiple documents, locally and remotely, some of which may be retained indefinitely.
The mushrooming of open-source software has made applications which help inoculate PC-use against machine-generated critical exposure available for free and accessible for use by novices.
Higgins notes in his article on the Stanford Cryptography class:
"It's useful to gain a more complete understanding of the theoretical background, but for most it suffices simply to be literate. For everybody, but especially for people in high-risk situations — people who face threats from sophisticated, even state-level attackers — it's important to know how to use the sophisticated tools that are available."
Privacy-enhancing platforms like Tor are available pre-installed and configured and require the user only to change his/her browser settings.
from [Tor was originally designed, implemented, and deployed as a third-generation onion routing project of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. It was originally developed with the U.S. Navy in mind, for the primary purpose of protecting government communications. Today, it is used every day for a wide variety of purposes by normal people, the military, journalists, law enforcement officers, activists, and many others.
From the Torproject Overview
Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information...Journalists use Tor to communicate more safely with whistleblowers and dissidents...A branch of the U.S. Navy uses Tor for open source intelligence gathering, and one of its teams used Tor while deployed in the Middle East recently. Law enforcement uses Tor for visiting or surveilling web sites without leaving government IP addresses in their web logs, and for security during sting operations.
While the focus of CryptoParty is educational awareness in privacy-enhancing security measures such as PGP, it is our belief that the foremost requisite of safety is information. Philadelphia's CryptoParty will feature various penetration testing application and "how-tos" on using the internet to access information only obscured by discrete APIs.
We intend to operate as a static outreach resource to assist beginners with basic competence in information technology toward the end of a networked environment where private citizens' revelation of personal information is a matter of discrete, informed volition.
See Also Philly Contacts
To be contacted, or for information, please comment on the contact page or send a tweet to CryptoPartyPHL, Brian, Kenneth, Joanne, Tim, or Dustin.
(There is a google form to send your contact information as well)
Retrieved from "https://cryptoparty.org/index.php?title=Philadelphia&oldid=1986"


Great tab! Very accurate! @yosi.oren There are 3 parts of Another Brick on the Wall on The Wall album. This is the first part which is the followed by "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" which is then followed by part 2 which is probably what you were looking for.
fake. only small part of the beginning of the song. waste of money. ripoff.


Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, Tomari No.3 in Hokkaido, went offline on 5th May for mandatory routine maintenance. The nation undergoes situation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years. This is because restarts of nuclear power plants are difficult.
Restarts of nuclear power plants are possible if authorized by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) upon application by power companies. Local officials located near nuclear power plants, however, have opposed restarts because of widespread anxiety of Japanese people after the Fukushima nuclear accident.
Further, former Prime Minister Naoto Kan required rigorous stress tests before restarts for power companies last year without due process of low. Demands and supplies of electricity will be tight by stopping nuclear power plants nationally, especially during summer time when the demand increases.
1) GEPR interviewed Mr. Kazuo Ishikawa, a former elite bureaucrat of METI. Mr. Kazuo Ishikawa involved in the electrical management law revision team, and management team of energy policy. He expressed a calm and balanced opinion.
2) A lot of people went into a state of panic for radioactivity after the Fukushima accident. A woman expressed her experience to a GEPR staff.


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When it comes to design, you can take two approaches; complex or simple. A simple approach would look something like the nike logo, or a minimalistic mockup. This can be very appealing and definitely has its time and its place.
But on the contrary is a more complex design. An example of this would be something like the Starbucks logo, or a detailed sketch. Again, more complex designs definitely have their time and place.
I've gone ahead and put together a collection of detailed designs as examples to use for your inspiration. Enjoy!
credit:Matt Wilson & ? Studio—JQ ?


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Super tax policy benefits economy, says ASFA
Taylee Lewis
Superannuation promotes Australia's economic stability and growth as well as providing investors with a diversified nest egg, says the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA).
In a recent report by the ASFA, the research group found that superannuation tax policy has had a positive impact on investment in Australia.
"The growing superannuation pool has contributed to Australia having a high savings rate, relative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average, which is reducing Australia's reliance on foreign capital, reducing both the risk and the cost of investment in Australia," the report said.
Increased domestic savings reduces the reliance on foreign capital, which is a key risk to the security of the Australian financial system, said ASFA.
ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said: "The primary purpose of superannuation is to improve the retirement of Australians, however, compulsory superannuation has had a number of positive effects for individuals and the economy.
"While companies in other countries had difficulty finding funding during the GFC, superannuation funds provided an important source of capital for Australian companies refinancing during the GFC," she said.
Ms Vamos said these effects must be considered in the tax white paper process.
Despite criticism regarding the inequity of the current tax incentives applied to super, Ms Vamos reinforced that the current system and tax policy benefits the economy.
Ms Vamos said Australians are invested across a variety of asset classes.
"Over the past two decades, compulsory and voluntary superannuation savings have transformed the assets Australians hold. In 1990, Australians' savings consisted almost entirely of real estate and cash," she said.
"Today, through their superannuation, Australians are investing in a diversified range of assets, including domestic and overseas equities, fixed interest, infrastructure and commercial property."
The review into APRA's capabilities has been released and the review has singled out APRA's handling of superannuation as an area that n...
One Australian super fund has invested in new energy loans via a peer-to-peer lender in what is touted as an Australian super fund first. ...
APRA updates MySuper application
APRA has updated the approved form and instruction guide for applications for a MySuper Product authorisation. ...


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The website for Reporters Without Borders was booby-trapped to deliver malicious software using the latest Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, security vendor Avast said on Tuesday.
Reporters Without Borders, based in Paris, is an international advocate for press freedom. Avast, which discovered the site had been tampered with, said the group's profile makes it "an ideal target."
The group could not be immediately reached, but JindYich Kubec of Avast wrote: "We've contacted the [Reporters without Borders] webmaster, and the code should be already removed."
Security researchers have noticed a prevalence of hacking campaigns that seek to compromise prominent websites with a certain demographic. The hacked websites are loaded with attack code and infect computers belonging to people with specific interests in a so-called "watering hole" attack.
Reporters Without Borders' website had exploit code that used a recent Internet Explorer vulnerability (CVE-2012-4792), which has been patched. It also used a Java vulnerability (CVE-2013-0422), which was patched in Oracle Java 7 Update 11.
If a vulnerable computer visited the website while the attack was active, it would download two RATs (remote access tools), Kubec wrote.
Several vulnerabilities have been found recently in Oracle's Java programming language and framework, which is ideal for hackers to try and attack due to its broad installation on computers worldwide.
Although Microsoft quickly patched the IE vulnerability, all users may have not been updated yet, posing an opportunity for hackers. The vulnerability was present in IE 6, 7 and 8 and could be exploited by merely visiting a website, known as a drive-by download attack.


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THIS WEEKS ESSENTIAL NEW RELEASES Friday 5th April 2019
Posted: April 5, 2019 in ALBUMS, MUSIC, THIS WEEKS ESSENTIAL PURCHASES
Tags: David Bowie, Drums, Gurr, Karen Dalton, lady Lamb, Luke Sital Singh, Matthew Sweet, New Order, Priests, Rozi Plain, Shana Cleveland, Son Volt, The Proper Ornaments, Weyes Blood
it's just over *One* week now till Record Store Day 2019 and the excitement is palpable. People are already eyeing up the sacred list, marking down their order of priorities, and what a bumper year it is this year too – with an unbeatable set of rarities, exclusives, fancy editions and downright collectables to feast your eyes and ears on.
Notable releases this week : music fans were rewarded with some of the most exciting new releases of the year so far. Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, has released a career-defining LP, Titanic Rising, one of the highest-rated albums of 2019 so far. also received this week the highly-anticipated sophomore LP from D.C. rockers Priests, The Seduction of Kansas. In terms of track releases, we heard new singles from Vampire Weekend, The National and Big Thief plus some great cuts from Julie Shapiro, Field Medic and Porridge Radio.
The David Bowie 'Spying Through The Keyhole' 7″ box set looks great!
Circa Waves bring out a brand new record – limited blue vinyl.
There's a new Weyes Blood album that has had excellent reviews – limited red vinyl.
the New Order 'Movement' box set looks nice – weighs a ton too.
A second set of Motorhead reissues.
Limited coloured vinyl from Music On Vinyl for Matthew Sweet and Within Temptation reissues.
Black vinyl for The Wannadies 'Be A Girl' .
W.H Lung's dinked n limited "Incidental Music" should be first album of note to receive the attention combining it does, the thrust of Krautrock, the shimmer of psychedelia and all the gung-ho decadence of space rock.
W H Lung – Incidental Music
W. H. Lung's arrival at their debut album has been less conventional than most. A trait shared with the music they make, which weaves between shimmering synth pop and the infectious grooves of 70's Berlin. The band never had any intention of playing live when forming, aiming instead to be a primarily studio-based project.
That approach was challenged when they released their debut 10" ('Inspiration!/Nothing Is') in 2017, which meant that they were quickly in demand. Booking requests started to flood in and W. H. Lung found themselves cutting their teeth on festival stages that summer. Though whilst some new bands may have let that interest change the course of the project, W. H. Lung stayed true to their original reticence and worked mainly as a studio band with their formidable live shows kept sporadic.
W. H. Lung have allowed this album to naturally gestate over the course of two years . The result is a remarkably considered debut – the production is crisp and pristine but not over-polished, the synths and electronics radiate and hum with a golden aura and the vocals weave between tender delivery and forceful eruptions. There is a palpable energy to the songs, as experienced in 10 glorious minutes of opening statement 'Simpatico People'.
"I think it's important to erase the distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture," states Joseph E. This colliding of worlds not only exists in the potent mix between whip-smart arrangements, lyrics and seamlessly danceable music but also in the fact that they are named after a cash and carry in Manchester. As Tom P. explains, "I thought it was funny juxtaposing those kind of austere associations with W. H. Auden and other initialed poets, writers, artists, etc. with the fact that it's really just a Chinese supermarket."
Rozi Plain – What a Boost
Rozi Plain has been making music since her brother taught her a few chords on the guitar aged 13. Raised in Winchester, she spent a few years studying art and painting boats in Bristol, where she began collaborating with long-term friends Kate Stables (This Is The Kit) and Rachael Dadd among many others on a thriving local scene. It was there that Rozi made her first two albums, 2008's Inside Over Here and 2012's Joined Sometimes Unjoined, each works of deliciously sad and beautiful pop full of heart-wrenching harmonies dotted with unexpected instrumental flourishes. Released in April 2015 on Lost Map and featuring contributions from Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor among others her last album Friend was a deeply meaningful and wonderfully measured ode to memory, place, companionship and music's remarkable power as an emotional salve. A companion album of remixes, unreleased tracks and radio sessions, Friend Of A Friend, was released in 2016.
Luke Sital-Singh – A Golden State
Luke Sital-Singh releases his third album A Golden State on Raygun Records. The album was produced by Tommy McLaughlin (Villagers, Soak), who also produced Luke's last album, 2017's Time Is A Riddle, and recorded in Portland's Jackpot Studios, famously set up by Elliott Smith, where alumni include R.E.M., Stephen Malkmus, and The Decemberists. A Golden State contains new single Los Angeles, plus the 2018 singles The Last Dayand Love Is Hard Enough Without The Winter.
At its most basic, A Golden State is album of California dreaming. The songs therein reflect a new chapter, and a new mindset for Luke. "Overall, there is this ethereal, positive vibe – without being too cheesy," he says. "There is an Americana fantasy, of wanting to escape to this gorgeous place – but also about what I'm escaping from." The cover artwork, created by Hannah, a four-colour lino cut of the Venice Beach canals, is taken from her upcoming art book, Coastline.
Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
The phantom zone, the parallax, the upside down—there is a rich cultural history of exploring in-between places. Through her latest, Titanic Rising, Weyes Blood, a.k.a. Natalie Mering, has designed her own universe to soulfully navigate life's mysteries. Maneuvering through a space-time continuum, she plays the role of melodic, sometimes melancholic, anthropologist. Tellingly, Mering classifies Titanic Rising – which was written and recorded during the first half of 2018, after three albums and years of touring – as the Kinks meet WWII or Bob Seger meets Enya. The latter captures the album's willful expansiveness ("You can tell there's not a guy pulling the strings in Enya's studio," she notes, admiringly). The former relays her imperative to connect with listeners. "The clarity of Bob Seger is unmistakable. I'm a big fan of conversational songwriting," she adds. "I just try to do that in a way that uses abstract imagery as well." The Weyes Blood frontwoman grew up singing in gospel and madrigal choirs. (Listen closely to Titanic Rising, and you'll also hear the jazz of Hoagy Carmichael mingle with the artful mysticism of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the monomyth of scholar Joseph Campbell.) "Something to Believe," a confessional that makes judicious use of the slide guitar, touches on that cosmological upbringing. "Belief is something all humans need. Shared myths are part of our psychology and survival," she says. "Now we have a weird mishmash of capitalism and movies and science. There have been moments where I felt very existential and lost." As a kid, she filled that void with Titanic. (Yes, the movie.) "It was engineered for little girls and had its own mythology," she explains. Mering also noticed that the blockbuster romance actually offered a story about loss born of man's hubris. "It's so symbolic that The Titanic would crash into an iceberg, and now that iceberg is melting, sinking civilization." Today, this hubris also extends to the relentless adoption of technology, at the expense of both happiness and attention spans. But Weyes Blood isn't one to stew. Her observations play out in an ethereal saunter: far more meditative than cynical. To Mering, listening and thinking are concurrent experiences. "There are complicated influences mixed in with more relatable nostalgic melodies," she says. "In my mind my music feels so big, a true production. I'm not a huge, popular artist, but I feel like one when I'm in the studio. But it's never taking away from the music. I'm just making a bigger space for myself."
Priests – The Seduction Of Kansas
What is at stake in the seduction of Kansas? Like a gavel or hammer, the question rattles across the second LP from Washington, D.C. rock iconoclasts Priests: Entering their eighth year as a band, Priests—drummer Daniele Daniele, vocalist Katie Alice Greer, and guitarist G.L. Jaguar—remain an inspired anomaly in modern music. A band on its own label—jolting the greater music world with early releases by Downtown Boys, Snail Mail, Sneaks, and Gauche—they are living proof that it is still possible to work on one's own terms, to collectively cultivate one's own world. Priests enlisted two primary collaborators in writing, arranging, and recording The Seduction of Kansas. After playing cello, mellotron, and lap steel on Nothing Feels Natural, multi-instrumentalist Janel Leppin (Mellow Diamond, Marissa Nadler) returned to breathe air into Priests' demos, serving as primary bassist and a fourth songwriting collaborator on The Seduction of Kansas.
The band also found a kindred spirit in producer John Congleton (Angel Olsen, St. Vincent), recording for two weeks at his Elmwood Studio in Dallas. It marked the band's first time opening up their creative work to collaborate with someone outside of their DC-based community—a decidedly less hermetic approach. Priests found a third collaborator in bassist Alexandra Tyson, who has also joined the touring band. The songwriting process found the group once again analyzing the textures and scopes of albums as aggressive as they are introspective, like Massive Attack's Mezzanine, Portishead's Third, and Nine Inch Nails' Downward Spiral. The first single, "The Seduction of Kansas," is Priests' purest pop song to date. It is dark and glittering—though there is still something fantastically off about it, decadent and uneasy at once.
As journalist Thomas Frank explored in 2004's What's the Matter With Kansas?, the ideological sway of Kansas has often predicted the direction in which the U.S. will move—whether leaning socialist in the 1800s or going staunchly conservative in the 1980s. Illustrating Kansas' potent place in our national imagination—as well as "a chorus of whoever is trying to persuade the social consciousness of Kansas"—Greer sings brilliantly of a "bloodthirsty cherub choir" in a cornfield, of "a drawn out charismatic parody of what a country through it used to be," beckoning that "I'm the one who loves you." The song does what Priests do best: They make us think, stir us with complexity.
Son Volt – Union
Led by vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Jay Farrar, Son Volt became one of the leading bands in the alternative country community, attracting critical praise and an audience that was loyal if not always large. Farrar has collaborated with Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), Steven Drozd (The Flaming Lips), Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) and several other well respected artists / musicians. Union is the bands 10th studio album and mixes present and past into strong confluence. The thirteen new songs written by Farrar confront our turbulent politics and articulate the clarity and comfort music can offer in the tumult.
Lady Lamb – Even In The Tremor
Even in the Tremor marks Spaltro's latest full-length LP following 2015's After and it's a remarkable achievement because, among other things, it's the first time in her career that Spaltro is singing explicitly about herself. Between confessing a tantrum in a batting cage (Little Flaws), telling the story of her parent's kiddie-pool baptism (Young Disciple) and singing openly about untangling her girlfriend's wet hair (Deep Love), Even in the Tremor is deeply rooted in the people and places, extraordinary and mundane, that have shaped Spaltro into the self-determining artist she is today. Known for her keen observations of others, Spaltro now turns her multifaceted ruminations inward; She calls out from dreams, peers into churches, has fits of rage, and struggles to get out of her head long enough to love herself and those around her. Commitment to creating only what is necessary and urgently felt is the key to appreciating Spaltro's fearless songwriting, as emotional as it is philosophical. Even in the Tremor signifies the arrival of her most sonically soaring and brutally honest album to date.
Shana Cleveland – Night Of The Worm Moon
Shana Cleveland has been beguiling listeners for years in her role as the superlative front woman for elastic surf rockers La Luz. Now Cleveland is evolving her sound on the new solo full-length Night of the Worm Moon, a serene album that flows like a warm current while simultaneously wresting open a portal to another dimension. As much a work of California sci-fi as Octavia Butler's Parable novels, Night of the Worm Moon incorporates everything from alternate realities to divine celestial bodies. Inspired in part by one of her musical idols, the Afro-futurist visionary Sun Ra (the album's title is a tip of the hat to his 1970 release Night of the Purple Moon), the record blends pastoral folk with cosmic concerns. Cleveland dreamt up this premise while living in Los Angeles, a city where – as deftly explored on La Luz's recent Floating Features – reality and fantasy casually co-exist.
Abetting Cleveland during the recording process was a familiar gallery of co-conspirators: multi-instrumentalist Will Sprott of Shannon and the Clams, original La Luz bassist Abbey Blackwell, Goss, pedal steel player Olie Eshelman, and Kristian Garrard, who drummed on Cleveland's previous solo effort (with then-backing band The Sandcastles), 2011'sOh Man, Cover the Ground. But whereas that album was internal and contemplative, Night of the Worm Moon occupies a different, vibrant kind of headspace. UFO sightings, insect carcasses, and twilight dimensions are all grist for Cleveland's restless creativity, and they and other inspirations collide beautifully on the album's 10 kaleidoscopic tracks–a spacebound transmission from America's weirdo frontier.
Gurr – She Says
Gurr return with a new 7 track EP "She Says" released in April 2019. Recorded with New York producer Mathew Molner (Sunflower Bean, Friends) and Berlin based producer Tobi Kuhn at the UFO studios in Berlin.
"We met Sunflower Bean at Latitude Festival in UK and asked them who produced their album "Human Ceremony" as we liked how it sounded retro and modern, they connected us with Mathew and we brought him to Berlin to record with us" says Andreya Casablanca... "After 'In My Head' was recorded all in analogue we definitely wanted to have a little bit more room for the production in these songs. We were adding guitars, small synth lines and sounds after laying down the basic tracks."
The writing of the EP was heavily influenced by the big transitions in the lives of Laura Lee and Andreya Casablanca in the 12 month period after the release of 'In My Head', which can be heard in the fake highs of optimism of tracks such as "Of Hollywood" and "Bye Bye", the melancholia of "She Says" and "Hush" and the angst of Middleton Mall but musically the band draws inspiration across genres, from contemporary dream pop wonders Beach Fossils to psychedelic classics such as The Velvet Underground.
David Bowie – Spying Through a Keyhole
With 2019 marking 50 years since David Bowie's first hit, Space Oddity, Parlophone release a 7″ vinyl singles box set of nine previously unreleased recordings from the era during which Space Oddity was first conceived.
The title Spying Through A Keyhole is a lyric taken from the previously unknown song, Love All Around, and though most of the other titles are known, these versions have never been officially released until late last year. Most of the recordings are solo vocal and acoustic home demo performances, unless otherwise stated.
The design of each single label is presented to reflect the way David sent many of his demos to publishers and record companies, featuring his own handwritten song titles on EMIDISC acetate labels. The singles themselves are all mono and play at 45 r.p.m.
Due to the nature of some of the solo home demos where Bowie accompanied himself on acoustic guitar, the recording quality isn't always of a usual studio fidelity. This is partly due to David's enthusiastic strumming hitting the red on a couple of the tracks, along with the limitations of the original recording equipment and tape degradation. However, the historical importance of these songs and the fact that the selections are from an archive of tracks cleared for release by Bowie, overrides this shortcoming.
The Proper Ornaments – 6 Lenins
'Six Lenins', the third album release from The Proper Ornaments, sees the band master their seemingly effortless but finely-wrought sound as their songwriting prowess refuses to plateau. Fresh from an US tour in Autumn last year, the London jangle pop group led by James Hoare (also of Ultimate Painting/Veronica Falls) and Max Claps (Toy) went into James' home studio in Finsbury Park, London and made their finest recordings to date on a newly-installed 16 track Studer machine – joined by Danny Nellis (Charles Howl) on bass and Bobby Syme (Wesley Gonzalez) on drums. Having escaped deep, twisting tunnels of illness, divorce and drug abuse to release their second record in January 2017, it's unsurprising they sound sunnier this time around. What their supremely melodic work suggests is a nonchalance or naivety but is in fact an expensively bought slice of coherence and clarity within a constantly shifting backdrop to their lives and landscapes. The band exists as an unassuming and resilient organism in a fiercely competitive, trashed environmental niche. Throughout their years of hard-edged music industry Darwinism, they've shown longevity and growth scuttling from the wreckage of their previous guitar bands to become one united organism. "We started writing new songs in the Summer. I was in bed recovering from hepatitis and very broken and tired so couldn't do anything else apart from playing guitar," says Max, "and the songs slowly started to appear. In August we realised we had five new songs each and free time, so we decided to record them. The actual recording only took two weeks and it was considerably easier than our previous recordings." The speed with which "Six Lenins" was made suggests the two songwriters managed to keep a keen focus on what they wanted to achive, further finessing the balance of conflict and collaboration that lends their sweet, succinct tunes their nervous energy. Well-crafted songwriting and a controlled sonic despite a zealous analogue sensibility. The opener 'Apologies', sets out stridently and the mood and momentum, even as we weave through some more sombre moments, never dips before soaring with the Velvets-y propeller riff of live favourite 'In the Garden' to end the record.
Circa Waves – What's It Like Over There?
The new studio album from Circa Waves, titled What's It Like Over There? via Prolifica Inc. / [PIAS]. Recorded in just one month, and renewing their blossoming co-producing relationship with Alan Moulder (Foals, The Killers), What's It Like Over There? is an album that's creatively unshackled and refuses to stay still. It fuses the visceral thrill of rock music with a slick pop sound, its themes of modern ennui, emotional fragility and all the inside-outs and upside-downs of relationships making it a record that could only have been made now. Whilst the anthemic Movies will appeal to the band's long-standing fan base, the likes of Sorry I'm Yours and Be Somebody Good see Circa Waves experiment with a new progressive sound that will surprise and delight in equal measure. Me Myself and Hollywood touches on the band's love of R&B, whilst Times Won't Change Me is a piano-led, Beatles-inspired future hit. What's It Like Over There? always manages to sidestep genres and easy pigeonholing, but what remains constant is Circa Waves' ability to create the kind of infectious music that is propelling them towards the top tier of British music.
The Drums – Brutalism
Brutalism is quite possibly the best collection of songs in The Drums' ten-year career. The album is defined by growth, transformation and questions, but it doesn't provide all the answers. Brutalism is a form of simplistic architecture defined by blocks of raw concrete. Brutalism is rooted in an emotional rawness but its layers are soft, intricate and warm, full of frivolous and exquisitely crafted pop songs that blast sunlight and high energy in the face of anxiety, solitude and crippling self-doubt.
Even the fact that Brutalism sounds intentional, focused and efficient is a symbol of how Pierce's prioritizing of his own health and wellbeing has bled into how he makes music. For the making of this album, between his lake house in Upstate New York and a studio in Stinson Beach, California, Pierce was more open than ever, keeping his control freakery at bay, working with others to produce and record the album. He brought in Chris Coady (Beach House, Future Islands, Amen Dunes) to mix it. If there was a guitar part he wanted to write but couldn't play, he brought in a guitarist. It's also the first Drums record with a live drummer. Delegating freed up Pierce's time to produce a more specific vision.
Molly Tuttle – When You're Ready
Award-winning guitarvirtuoso Molly Tuttle, whose debut album, 'When You're Ready' is an insightful, gifted album from a songwriter who was crowned "Instrumentalist of the Year" at the 2018 Americana Music Awards on the strength of her EP Rise, Tuttle has broken boundaries and garnered the respect of her peers, winning fans for her incredible at picking guitar technique and confessional songwriting.
Graced with a clear, true voice and a keen melodic sense, the 25-year-old seems poised for a long and exciting career. 'When You're Ready', produced by Ryan Hewitt (The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers) showcases her astonishing range and versatility and shows that she is more than simply an Americana artist.
Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend
Matthew Sweet is an American singer-songwriter and rock musician. He was part of the burgeoning music scene in Georgia during the '80s, before gaining commercial success in the '90s. In 1991 Matthew Sweet released Girlfriend, the pop-rock album which was widely considered an artistic breakthrough. It quickly garnered impressive sales, spawning a top 10 single with the title track. Girlfriend is Sweet's most commercially and critically successful album to date. Both the title track and Divine Intervention did well on the charts. The album was included as number 61 on Paste's list of "The 90 Best albums of the 1990s".
LP – Limited edition of 1.000 individually numbered copies on 180 Gram pink vinyl with Insert.
New Order – Movement – Definitive Edition
Out of the ashes of Joy Division, the remaining members decided to carry on recording under the name of New Order. The band's debut album Movement recorded between 24th April to the 4th May 1981 at Strawberry in Stockport and featuring all new material, produced by Martin Hannett was released in 11th November 1981 on Factory Records. TheMovementboxed set includes the vinyl LP with its original iconic sleeve designed by Peter Saville, original album CD in replica mini album sleeve, a bonus CD of previously unreleased tracks, DVD of live shows and TV appearances plus hard backed book all housed in a lift off lid box. The vinyl LP of the original album is cut on 180 Gram and features the 2015 remastered audio, presented in a replica of the original sleeve. The second CD includes 18 completely unreleased tracks made from Demos, Sessions, Rehearsal Recordings and an Alternative 7" version of Temptation Accompanying the set is a 48 Page hard back book which features photos and an essay.
Karen Dalton – The Karen Dalton Archives Box
Packaged in Ampex studio tape style carboard box. Including for the first-time ever on Vinyl – 3 LP : the 1962 double live album Cotton Eyed Joe remastered…. and the 1963 home recordings album Green Rocky Road remastered. 4 CD – same albums and 1CD of unreleased home recordings including a mesmerizing take on God Bless The Child – 52 Page Book with scans of Karen Dalton Personal archives (writings, photographs, memos) disclosed here for the first time. It also comes with a Large T-shirts and a Download Card.
Fake Laugh -Honesty / Surrounded
Hot on the heels of his debut LP and follow up 7", Fake Laugh AKA Kamran Khan delivers yet two more bangers for the kids, in the form of another double A-Side. The driving, dream-pop bop that is Honesty features guest vocals from Poppy Hankin of previous tour-mates Girl Ray, whilst the skittish, social commentary of Surrounded hurtles along set against a backdrop of razor-sharp melodies and instant-hit hooks.
HOOVER III – " Fathom "
UMMAGMA – " Caravan "


Through the month of March we learned a lot about money and opened our extended day store. The children continue to earn money, buy doing jobs around the classroom. When the children earn money, they deposit it into their "checking accounts." The children then update their statements with their balance and are able to spend or save their money. We will continue money management through the rest of the school year.
April came very quickly for us, and continues to fly by! This month we will be recognizing signs of spring and discussing the change of season. Kids continue to earn wish days which will be fulfilled during out wish day week April 9th to April 13th.
-April 22nd is Earth day, during the week of April 23rd-April 27th, we will be discussing ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle. As well, we will be creating crafts from recycled materials.
-Wednesday, April 4th-Early Release, Field trip to The Waterworks Museum. Slips due by Tuesday April 3rd.
-Thursday, April 12th-Early Release, 2nd graders field trip to the Aquarium. Slips due by Wednesday April 11th.
-Friday, April 13th- We will be watching: The Invention of Hugo Cabaret. We will start the movie at 3pm and it should be over by 5:15, please plan pick-up accordingly if your child is interested in watching the movie.
-Monday, April 16th-Friday, April 20th -April Vacation, No school. If you are traveling we wish you a fun and safe vacation!
-Wednesday, April 25th- Early Release, Picnic and filed games at Eliot field!!


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We shoot some demons and mutants in VR
QuakeCon: Doom and Fallout 4 show the promise of VR
We take virtual trips to Hell and apocalyptic wastelands.
Paul Acevedo
Here at QuakeCon, Bethesda's annual fan convention, the publisher of Doom and Elder Scrolls is showcasing some of its latest games and projects. These include Virtual Reality demos of Doom and Fallout 4, some of the hottest games of this generation.
Both VR demos take place using the HTC Vive Headset. Players stand up and use the Vive's twin controllers to interact with the games. A stereo headset pumps the game audio into your ears and further blocks off the outside world. Thus, the immersion begins.
Preparing for Doom
A Baron of Hell in Doom
At the beginning of the Doom demo, players select a character from an assortment of characters, mostly monsters from the campaign. I went with the Revenant, a skull-headed zombie who wears twin shoulder-mounted rocket launchers. We then have a chance to look around the room of the doomed Mars-based research facility and become acclimated with the demo's motion controls.
The left controller handles movement. Point it at a spot on the floor and your character will appear there. This takes some getting used to, but it's probably the best solution that doesn't require a treadmill or something. You look around with your head, of course – that's the whole appeal of VR. After a few minutes with Doom, I was hopping around to move and turning my head and body to rotate, just like a pro.
The right controller aims your gun. The demo provides access to several Doom weapons, including the Pistol, Heavy Assault Rifle, Pulse Rifle, and Rocket Launcher. To switch weapons, you just tap left or right on the controller's trackpad. All of the guns are a blast to fire in VR, but it's a shame Bethesda didn't include the Chainsaw in the demo. Virtual Reality and chainsaws were made for each other.
Your VR avatar also carries a grenade in his off-hand. Grenades replenish automatically, just like gun ammo – the demo doesn't mess around with item pick-ups or anything. To throw the grenade, you make an overhead tossing motion with your off-hand while pressing the trigger button. This didn't work too well for me. I kept tossing grenades directly in front of my feet, where they exploded harmlessly.
Demons all around you
The Spider Mastermind in Doom
After the short preparation phase comes to an end, players begin the first of the Doom VR demo's three phases. This portion takes place in the corridors of the UAC research facility. Things have just gone south for the researchers, and zombies now roam the halls. Your job, of course, is to shoot them into pieces. After a few sweeps of the halls, the next phase begins.
The demo's second portion takes place in Hell itself. The player stands high above a barren, rocky area. No monsters can reach you all the way up there, but you can certainly blast away at them. A variety of demons run around on the ground and cliffs below, firing back as you rain death upon them. Several larger enemies appear in this section, although they don't look so huge from a distance. I quite enjoyed taking down a floating Cacodemon.
The third and final phase begins with the player surrounded by more big uglies, including a Baron of Hell. The best thing about VR is the scale it lends to scenarios like this. The Baron literally looms above you, more massive and frightening than he could ever be when confined to a television screen. But you don't actually fight him in the demo.
The monsters surrounding the player suddenly explode, killed by some outside force. I look up and see a towering Spider Mastermind! This creature is an unholy merging of cybernetic, taloned legs and a fleshy organic portion with an oversized exposed brain. During this battle, it delivers deadly swipes with its legs, fires bolts of energy, and summons pillars out of the ground to obstruct your view.
The Spider Mastermind battle is incredibly frantic (and a bit frightening) when the beast takes up so much of your field of view. Although I kept plugging away and dodging its attacks, I wasn't able to kill the beast before the timed demo came to an end.
Falling Out in VR
Dogmeat in Fallout 4
The Fallout 4 VR demo begins at a burnt-out Red Rocket gas station set within the desolate post-apocalyptic world. In your right hand, you carry a pistol. Your left hand is invisible, other than the virtual Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV.
The Pip-Boy is a "Person Information Processor," a wrist-worn device that displays health and status information of the user as well as maps, inventory, and other useful information. Pressing left and right on the Vive controller's trackpad switches between various menus on the virtual Pip-Boy. Although the VR Pip-Boy would be more convincing if we could see the arm it's attached to, being able to realistically move a working Pip-Boy around in a 3D space still impresses.
Pistols aren't as much fun to shoot with as larger, explodier guns, though. Several more weapon sit on a nearby table, including a laser rifle, a double-barreled shotgun, and a Fat Man mini-nuke launcher. To pick up these weapons, you point at them and press the Grip button on the side of the Vive controller. I chose the Fat Man because I came to the post-apocalypse to blow stuff up and chew bubblegum. The Red Rocket was all out of bubblegum.
Players don't have to experience the Fallout 4 VR demo alone. Everyone's favorite canine companion Dogmeat comes along for the ride. Dogmeat behaves much the same as he does in the full game, automatically attacking enemies who threaten his owner. Pointing at him and pushing the Grip button will get the dog's attention, but I couldn't find a way to give him orders.
A Deathclaw in Fallout 4
The Fallout world is a dangerous place, and soon a gang of Raiders launch an attack on the player. Combat works the same as in Doom, with players naturally aiming their main-hand controller and squeezing the trigger to fire. The four directions on the trackpad switch to the weapons you pick up. You move by pointing the off-hand controller, hitting the trigger, and teleporting to your destination. Fallout 4 is the most action-packed game in the series, so these controls fit the VR version like a glove.
After the Raiders to smithereens, a pack of Feral Ghouls emerges from the woodwork. These horribly irradiated former humans have lost all cognitive abilities. They live out their nightmare existences in search of meat, human or otherwise. They blow up easily enough, though.
Finally, we battle a gigantic Deathclaw – a boss monster made of horns, claws, teeth, and meanness. Again, the size of the creature really impresses in a VR environment. At close range, you have to look up to see its fanged maw. And by that time, you're in trouble. Luckily, the player can't be harmed in the demo. Eventually we frag the beast and the demo ends.
A dark and promising future for Virtual Reality
Out of all the Virtual Reality demos I've played at trade shows, Doom is easily the most promising. Fallout 4 is no slouch either, but the demo lacks the role-playing part of Fallout that fans love. Doom is more of a pure shooter, an experience that adapts very well to VR. Teleporting around instead of walking takes some getting used to, but that's a small price to pay for greater immersion.
The Doom and Fallout 4 demos show a lot of promise. Bethesda just needs to make full games out of them, with all the objectives, narrative, and content that gamers expect from AAA games. The adoption rate of the HTC Vive and other headsets probably needs to grow quite a bit before publishers are willing to spend the money on larger VR games. But even now, these demos make a great case for bringing established games to the virtual realm.


655 views, seriously? You chose this moment to make me popular again?!
Well thank you for choosing this moment to show it. FYI, that was a sarcastic thank you.
Hahahahaha, let's say you got what you wished for!! has your Miss picked a date for your punishment yet?
This was not my idea! The weekend I think but whenever she decides to spring it on me really.
Yeah to be fair that would have been horrendous!
Yes I suppose every fan of you has made his best to access your blog again and again. Hoping to see at least one pic of your breasts with 655 needles in them.
I subscribe to this petition! your small breasts with 655 needles in them must be an impressive sight! And it will show how good at Tetris your Miss is!
You have and always will be popular, you just forgot silly girl.
Hmm, it's different, I'll try and explain how when I write about it.
Glad you will have physical proof that we want more of you. Your blog really is fun.


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Q: Parallel Tasks Priority (JAVA) Need help with parallel tasks. I need to make NO a priority in case one of the actors says no. Preventing the instance from getting stuck.
Make some changes to the process (BPMN) for consistent use of the parallel task.
I got some feedback from the workbench forum, giving me advice to use "send signal", but it still doesn't work and no working example.
Framework: Cuba Platform
Programming language: Java
Instance Stuck Sample:

Process:

Send Signal Idea:

Been more specific need this idea to java.
import org.flowable.engine.ProcessEngines

def runtimeService = ProcessEngines.getDefaultProcessEngine().getRuntimeService();

//Ermitteln der wartenden Execution des Auftragsprozesses
def executions = runtimeService.createExecutionQuery()
     .signalEventSubscriptionName('InputB-Signal')
     .processInstanceId('d87fe3bf-bc44-4061-48ca-56860e4b6d57')
     .list();

def variabeln = [
    'hallo' : 'Welt',
    'Java' : 'Duke'
]

//Benachrichtigung an den Auftragprozess
executions.each { execution ->
    log.debug("Execution ${execution.getId()}")
    runtimeService.signalEventReceived('InputB-Signal', execution.getId(), variabeln)
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Some people are so passionate about cosplays that they have made cosplaying a career! Many of us are curious about cosplays, but the interest is often put down by the time and money we need to invest in making an attractive cosplay costume. What if we tell you that you can still cosplay and gain publicity without needing to spend a dime? Meet Anucha Saengchart, a 26-year-old man from Thailand who runs the Facebook Page #Lowcostcosplay. He works for an elderly care, and in his free time, he cosplays popular cartoon, television, and movie characters. Look at the 12 cheap yet funny Anucha cosplays that are sure to crack you up!
With this outfit, he has clearly put a lot more thought into its development, but that does not mean that it is any good. Instead, the outfit itself is still pretty rubbish, but at least it made us smile.


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Q: How to get child elements that descend directly from parent with Jsoup? U use Jsoup to fetch a website. The website has multiple div classes such as:

Category: American (New)

Categories:
Breakfast & Brunch,
American (Traditional)

and so on.
If I use the following query selector:
categories = doc.select("div[class=itemcategories] > a[class=category]");

each child element that descend directly from div class="itemcategories" parent is stored in the next index of the categories Elements object. So I have no way to determine which children belong to which parents. Is there a way to 'concatenate' all the children from each div class and save them in a separate indices of the Elements object?

A: How about doing it in two steps?
Elements parents = doc.select("div.itemcategories");
for (Element parent : parents)
{
    Elements categories = parent.select("a.category");
    // do something with categories
}

Note use of .foo instead of [class=foo] selector syntax.
N.B. I'm not terribly familiar with jsoup's API so this code may not be exactly correct.

A: In additon to @Matt Ball solution I have figured out one step solution:
// Select the parent's
categories = doc.select(".itemcategories");

and then simply use children() method to get the children and text() method to get the desired text:
categories.get(counter).children().text();


When disasters strike, companies have a unique opportunity to earn goodwill by stepping up and pledging time, products, or cash toward relief efforts. When Hurricane Sandy struck the eastern seaboard of the United States and decimated waterfront towns, charities played a huge role in helping people get back on their feet. Through a combination of individual and corporate giving, 80 nonprofit agencies in the region reported raising $658 million through the beginning of 2014 to go toward the continuing cleanup and recovery. Times of disaster are often when charity scams also rise in number, but the greater movement toward altruism tends to pull people, and businesses, together for a cause.
Such is the case following the weeks heavy rains and subsequent flooding in Oklahoma and Texas, putting cities like Houston underwater. According to the Associated Press, 31 deaths have been attributed to the floods that began over Memorial Day weekend and continued for about a week. In Houston alone, the damages are estimated to cost about $45 million, including $25 million to damage for public utilities and infrastructure. As part of the relief efforts to various parts of the region, Anheuser-Busch is using its plant in Cartersville, Ga. to can water distributed by the Red Cross.
In the case of canning water for the Texas and Oklahoma disasters, the plant ran its water packaging line all day on Thursday, May 28, Newsweek reports. Earlier in May, the company had already sent more than 2,000 cases (or 51,744 cans) of the water to Oklahoma for victims of tornados and other severe storms. The donations are sure to be just a few of numerous ones coming in to help flood victims and those rebuilding after tornados struck this spring. But the case does bring up an important discussion about charitable giving among some of the country's largest corporations, and why they do it.
"There is no simple answer to why corporations support nonprofit organizations and their causes. Many contribute out of a combination of altruism and self-interest, and it is nearly impossible to determine where one leaves off and the other begins," according to a blog post on Grant Space, a website run by the philanthropy-based Foundation Center. It's true that many CEOs with power and money are able to effect change through charitable giving and altruism. However, since those company leaders and the companies themselves also have the bottom line in mind, it's hard to know if the causes they support are passion projects, efforts to earn positive press, or a combination of the two.
In order to know the pure motivations of corporate giving, we'd likely have to be able to read minds. But it's helpful to balance the competing motivations for ourselves to make educated inferences about those corporations. Ethical consumerism is alive and well, and companies realize their values — often shown through donations or gifts of time — can attract or repel customers. However, it's extremely rare when charitable giving is a company's first priority.
"Grantseekers should remember that corporations, unlike foundations and other charitable groups, do not exist to give away money. Their allegiance, instead, is to their customers, shareholders, employees and, most of all, to the bottom line," the Grant Space blog also says. In other words, companies will care about their profit margins much more than their charitable giving scorecard. This holds up in data about donations to charity, as only 5% of donations made in 2013 were from corporations. Seventy-two percent, in contrast, came from individuals.
Anheuser-Busch is so big that it might not have a lot to gain or lose by a few charitable endeavors. The beverage producer controls 46.4% of the beer market in the United States, and has even higher market shares in countries like Brazil and Argentina. The company has a market cap of more than $191 billion, and has plenty of profits to go around. According to the company's annual report, profit attributable to the company's shareholders in 2014 was $9.2 billion.
However, the company is proving that charitable efforts can still go a long way when they benefit from a company's strengths. It probably did very little to the bottom line to switch one line in one plant to water packaging. According to one manufacturer that sells canned water for emergency preparedness, the shelf life on cans is 30 years or more, compared to plastic bottles that are only good for a few years. This means that if the cans aren't used by the Red Cross immediately (which seems unlikely), they'll be fine to save for another time.
Anheuser-Busch has already perfected their manufacturing lines to efficiently distribute thousands of cans. And since they're already preparing cans of water during other times of the year, it's an easy fit to start up the lines for other relief efforts. Though it's probably not a big deal for the company as a whole, it is an example of a corporation using its resources, putting in a little bit of effort, and creating a product that ends up having a much larger impact on people who otherwise wouldn't have access to those necessities.
If the end result is that a company gets some good press out of that, so be it. It doesn't make Anheuser-Busch automatically the most philanthropic beer distributor, but a good reputation is an even trade for providing disaster relief.


Anniina Mikama (b. 1977) is an illustrator and author living in Helsinki. She loves comic book superheroes, old mechanical machinery and the secret world of theatre that hides behind the stage curtains.
The Illusionist and the Thief is Mikama's debut title. It launches a magical trilogy teeming with trickery, collusion, and suspense. The second book in The Illusionist Trilogy is The Conman's Apprentice which shall be published by WSOY in March 2019, and the third and final part will be published in March 2020.
Anniina Mikama is the winner of Topelius Prize 2019 with The Illusionist and the Thief, her debut title. The book was also the winner of the "Best Couple in a YA Novel" Prize at HEL-YA Readers' Vote 2018!


I would like to buy a bank owned house that needs some work. I want to buy the house for $100,000 but take out my mortgage for $118,000 and get back at closing $18,000 so i can make the repairs that is needed. Is this possible and how can I make this deal work.
Even though many mortgage products which existed a year or so ago are now gone the way of the dodo bird, the product which would help you accomplish your objective still exists and is doing very well. Basically, what you are looking for is an acquisition/rehabilitation loan. Given the amount of money you are looking to spend on repairs, probably the best program around right now is a loan insured by the Federal Housing Administration called the Streamline 203(k).
With the Streamline K you can finance 97% of the total of the purchase price plus the cost of repairs – 96.5% after October 1, 2008. The loan cannot exceed 110% of the projected value of the house after the work gets done. In your case, since the total is $118,000, an appraiser will have to agree that the house will be worth at least $107,272 after the work is done.
FHA guidelines do permit "self-help," i.e., they say that it is OK for you to act as your own contractor. If you are planning on doing the work yourself, you have to demonstrate that you are qualified to do so, i.e. that you have contracting and construction experience -- "I did some drywall and painting work in college" won't do. Furthermore, if you act as your own contractor, you can only seek reimbursement for materials. However, not all lenders who offer the Streamline 203K allow this. You will have to check with the lender who offers this loan to see if they will let you act as your own contractor.
More complex types of work or work requiring architectural plans and drawings, however, are not eligible; if required, such repairs must be done through the more complex "traditional" 203(k) program.
Hopefully the foregoing will help you along your path to buying and fixing up that home. With so many foreclosures on the market, I bet you will see a lot of people taking the same path as you.
So, find yourself a lender that offers FHA loans and ask about the Streamline K. I think you'll be glad you did.