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HIT Newser: An Epic Loss for Cerner & GE + Google Glass Confusion
Jan 26, 2015 • 1
By MICHELLE RONAN NOTEBOOM
An Epic Loss for Cerner and GE
Mayo Clinic announces it will replace its existing Cerner and GE systems with Epic's EHR and RCM system.
The prestigious Mayo Clinic name and clinical reputation make the win especially sweet for Epic, which is in the running for the DoD's $11 billion EHR contract. Analysts estimate that Mayo will pay Epic "hundreds of millions" over the next several years.
Google Glass Confusion
Earlier this month Google announced the end of its Glass Explorer program and sales of its existing version of Glass. Many mainstream publications carried "Glass is Dead" headlines, which is certain attention-grabbing, though not entirely true.
Individual consumers had the option to pay $1,500 to purchase Google Glass through the now-defunct Glass Explorer program. Enterprise businesses, such as HIT vendors Augmedix and Pristine, are still able to buy the existing version of Glass through Google's Glass at Work program. In other words, if you're interested in using Google Glass in a healthcare setting, that option is still available through a Glass at Work partner.
Meanwhile, Google says it is working future versions of its Glass product – though no one is saying when the next release will be.Continue reading…
HIT Newser: The Flex-IT Bill, Take 2 + Dr. Google In EHR Bid
Flex-IT Bill, Take 2
Lawmakers re-introduce the Flexibility in Health IT Reporting Act of 2015, which would shorten the 2015 MU reporting period from one year to 90 days. The bi-partisan-supported bill earned quick support from HIMSS, CHIME, the AMA, MGMA, and other professional organizations. The bill was originally introduced in September but it failed to pass.
Given the growing disenchantment with the MU program, look for this bill to pass – and hopefully give a boost to attestation numbers.
Dr. Google Joins DoD EHR Bid
Google teams up with PwC, General Dynamics, and Medsphere in their bid for the Department of Defense's $11 billion EHR bid.
Google brings name recognition and a reputation for innovation and data security. While the Epic/IBM team has been looking like the front-runner, Google puts the PwC/Medsphere/GD team back in the hunt. For those keeping score at home, other vendors in the mix include Cerner/Leidos/Accenture Federal and HP/CSC/Allscripts. A June decision is expected.
HIT Newser: A Setback for MyMedicalRecords
There's No Place Like Epic's Home
Epic reveals plans for a fifth campus, which is slated to include half a million square feet of office space and pay homage to literary classics like "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "The Wizard of Oz."
A Setback for MyMedicalRecords
A US District Court rules against MyMedicalRecords in its patent case against Walgreens, Quest Diagnostics, and others. MyMedicalRecords, a company that many label a patent troll, contends its patents covered a method of providing online PHRs in a private, secure way. However, a judge ruled that "the concept of secure record access and management, in the context of personal health records or not, is an age-old idea," and is therefore abstract.
Despite the setback, I doubt MyMedicalRecords will stop demanding organizations to pay up or risk facing a lawsuit. I predict they'll make some tweaks to their business plan, such as focusing only on organizations with not-quite-so-deep pockets that are willing to settle without a fight.
What Has $564 million Bought Us?
Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Richard Burr (R-NC), and Mike Enzi (R-WY) ask the General Accounting Office to review the ONC-funded health information exchanges to determine what exactly the exchanges created with the government's $564 million in grant money.
It's a valid concern, given the significant number of providers and regions still lacking electronic exchange capabilities and the millions that have been spent.
Physicians Reject Stage 2 Attestation
Fifty-five percent of physicians say they won't attest for Stage 2 MU in 2015, according to a SERMO survey of about 2,000 physicians. Respondents cite several reasons for not attesting including financial concerns, difficulty engaging older patients, and lack of software usability.
Given the lackluster Stage 2 attestation numbers so far, the findings are not particularly surprising. It will be interesting to see what CMS and ONC intend to do in the face of the overwhelming evidence that many providers simply don't think it is worth the effort.
On To Stage 3
The Office of Management and Budget is currently reviewing the proposed Stage 3 MU rules and will likely publish them in February. CMS states that Stage 3 will include changes to the reporting period, timelines, and structure of the program, including a single definition of Meaningful Use. CMS also adds that "these changes will provide a flexible, yet clearer, framework to ensure future sustainability of the EHR program and reduce confusion from multiple stage requirements."
Can't wait to see what is included. And, I can't help but be a little amused that it's been six years since the passage of the HITECH legislation and we are just now getting a definition for "Meaningful Use."
Allina Health and Health Catalyst sign a $100 million definitive agreement to combine technologies, clinical content, and front-line personnel.
Rush University Medical Center will implement Merge Healthcare's cardiology PACS.
Healthcare operating system platform provider Par80 closes $10.5 million in Series A funding led by Atlas Ventures, Founder Collective, and CHV Capital.
Health analytics provider Apervita, formerly knowns as Pervasive Health, completes an $18 million Series A round of funding led by GE Ventures and Baird Capital.
Teledermatology provider PocketDerm raises $2.85 million from an undisclosed investor.
Caremerge, developers of a care coordination platform, raises $4 million in a second round of funding. Investors include Cambia Health Solutions, GE Ventures, Arsenal Health, and Ziegler-LinkAge Longevity Fund.
HIT Newser: Accenture Tapped to Continue Work on HealthCare.gov
Jan 4, 2015 • 2
Accenture Tapped to Continue Work on HealthCare.gov
Accenture, the consulting firm that was hired a year ago to fix the troubled HealthCare.Gov insurance exchange, is awarded a five-year, $563 million to continue its work on the federal site. The government hired Accenture Federal Services to repair the online marketplace after dropping its original contractor, CGI Federal.
The long-term contract with Accenture also signals CMS's acknowledgement that a task as large as HealthCare.Gov is best run with leadership from an experienced, private-sector vendor.
Connecticut HIE Dissolves After Wasting Millions
A former board member for The Health Information Technology Exchange of Connecticut blames management for the failure of the entity, which was tasked to create statewide HIE but dissolved by the legislature last summer. The HITE-CT "wasted" $4.3 million in federal grants over four years "without accomplishing anything," according to Ellen Andrews, who served as the board's consumer advocate. State auditors also found deficiencies in state controls, legal problems, and a "need for improvement in management practices and procedures." The state's legislature is now developing a new exchange strategy.
Prediction: look for more HIEs to falter this year due to mismanagement and lack of sustainability.
Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances on the Rise
Electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) increased from 1,535 to 52,423 between July 2012 and December 2013, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care. The percentage of pharmacies enabled for EPCS jumped from 13% to 30% during the same period.
The next task: figuring out how to get more than the current one percent of physicians to participate.
ONC Shares Lessons Learned from State HIEs
An ONC report on state HIEs finds that many exchanges lack a critical mass of data and are struggling with data sharing. The case study also found that the technical approaches, services enabled, and use of policy and legislation varied across states; collaboration among HIE participants is critical for success; and states are leveraging a variety of policy and regulatory levers to advance interoperability and data exchange.
CMS Seeks ICD-10 Testers
CMS is seeking approximately 850 volunteers for ICD-10 end-to-end testing in April, according to a CMS bulletin. Volunteers have until January 9to submit applications to participate in the April 26-May 1, 2015 testing week.
Pediatrics Report Increased EHR Use
Seventy-nine percent of pediatricians reported using an EHR in 2012, compared to 58% in 2009, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics. Only eight percent of physicians say their EHRs include pediatric-specific functionality.
Modernizing Medicine Buys RCM Vendor Aesyntix
EMR developer Modernizing Medicine acquires Aesyntix, a provider of RCM, inventory management, and group purchasing services.
Presumably Modernizing Medicine was most interested in Aesyntix's RCM component, which may create some concern among Modernizing Medicine's current RCM partners, which include ADP/AdvancedMD, CareCloud, and Kareo.
HIT Newser: Massachusetts Modifies Meaningful Use Mandate
Dec 30, 2014 • 1
New Life for ACOs
CMS announces that 89 new organizations were selected to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings program, bringing the total number of participating ACOs to 424. The announcement comes on the heels of a recently released proposed rule that reflects an increased focus on primary care and improved incentives for participation. Were the pundits who predicted an early death for ACOs wrong?
Massachusetts Modifies Meaningful Use Mandate
The Massachusetts Board of Registration modifies a provision requiring providers to attest to Meaningful Use in order to retain their medical licenses. The final regulations establish multiple ways in which physicians can demonstrate proficiency using EHRs, including taking a three-hour continuing education class on EHR or registering with the state's HIE.
HIT Newser: Appalling Meaningful Use Penalties
Omnibus Bill Impacts HIT
The 2015 federal budget includes about $60.4 million for the ONC, which is less than the $75 million requested and on par with the 2014 budget. Congress allocated an additional $38.8 million to the HHS Office for Civil Rights, the agency that enforces HIPAA. Also in the bill: a controversial requirement for the ONC to decertify products that block health information sharing.
Appalling Meaningful Use Penalties
CMS reports that more than 257,000 eligible professionals will face penalties in 2015 for failing to meet Meaningful Use requirements. The AMA quickly announced it was "appalled by the news."
Another Call to Cut Reporting Period
A group of 30 Republican House members call on HHS to shorten the 2015 Meaningful Use reporting period from 365 days to 90 days. A number of professional groups, including the AAFP and CHIME, support the extension.
From Foes to Financiers
Former Allscripts executives Glen Tullman and Lee Shapiro invest in Lightbeam Health Solutions, a population health management solution provider. Pat Cline, the founder and former president of NextGen, is currently Lightbeam's CEO.
ATA Offers Accreditation
The American Telemedicine Association launches an accreditation program for providers offering online, real-time consults to patients.
HIT Newser: Health Data Outside the Doctor's Office Part II
Dec 7, 2014 • 0
Health Data Outside the Doctor's Office
A new JASON report offers recommendations for creating a health information system infrastructure that achieves interoperability between EHRs and integrates data from personal health devices, social media, demographics, and other sources. More details and a robust discussion from THCB readers found here.
It's the Money, Stupid
The biggest factor influencing physicians to adopt EHRs since the passage of the HITECH act: incentive payments or financial penalties. An ONC data brief reveals that 62% of providers identify financial incentives as a major motivation for EHR adoption; board certification was the second most common influencer at 39%.
HIEs Facing Financial Struggles and Adoption Hurdles
Despite $600 million in federal funding, most HIEs are not financially viable, according to a RAND Corporation study. Only 25% of HIEs consider themselves financially sustainable and most are still struggling to find a value proposition. Physicians often resist HIE use because of interruptions in workflow, interface problems, and costs, while hospitals adoption lags due to a lack of a business case, insufficient standards, and legal/ethical issues.
HIT Newser
Nov 18, 2014 • 6
By MICHELLE RONAN-NOTEBOOM
HIMSS and CHIME to HHS: ONC Needs Full-time National Coordinator
In a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, CHIME and ONC stress the need to hire a full-time National Coordinator for the ONC, should Karen DeSalvo continue to serve as both the ONC head and the assistant secretary of health:
"If Dr. DeSalvo is going to remain as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Health with part-time duties in health IT, we emphasize the need to appoint new ONC leadership immediately that can lead the agency on the host of critical issues that must be addressed."
AMA Calls for Removal of MU Penalties
The AMA calls for all MU penalties to be halted and for the program to be more flexible with a shorter reporting period. In addition, the AMA urges policymakers to refocus the MU program on interoperability and seek ways to improve product usability.
Cerner Breaks Ground at New Campus
Cerner breaks ground at a new $4.45 billion campus in Kansas City, which is expected to house 16,000 new Cerner employees within the next 10 years. The project includes about $1.75 billion in public tax subsidies.


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ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE A social economic disaster the people of the 21st century are not prepared for. This book is an educational, practical, step by step approach, showing you how to obtain a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. It explains exactly what you need to do and questions to ask. It's all well and good being told " Go and get a diagnosis" But it is not as simple as that, as we need to know how to do things and feel as though we have some form of control over the experience. Jane Cooper the author of this book has crafted a unique approach that is easy to read, understand, and apply from her own personal experience with her father Reg.. Alzheimer's disease is a fatal brain wasting disease with age being a huge factor. So, if you want to keep your loved one for longer, then early diagnosis is the key to help you plan and structure for your future. Don't waste any more time, act now, before it's too late.


As M&A volume remains low during this early stage of the blockchain M&A market, Architect Partners will publish related market analyses and perspectives to augment the normal M&A Snapshot analysis.
Between June 2015 and April 2016, Digital Asset Holdings, LLC acquired four young blockchain startups: Hyperledger, creator of a real-time clearing and settlement technology, Bits of Proof, integrator of blockchain into financial applications, Blockstack.io, provider of "blockchain-as-a-service," and Elevence Digital Finance, developer of a language for executing financial agreements via blockchain.
Hyperledger, acquired in June 2015, built the Hyperledger Value Transfer Protocol (HVTP), which allows banks to clear and settle transactions in real-time via multiple private blockchains without the need for a central party. As on open standard for value transfer, HVTP increases liquidity and reduces costs, delays, and settlement risk. The protocol improves the transfer of multiple financial instruments, including foreign exchange, interest rate swaps, and correspondent banking. Additionally, Hyperledger does not have a built-in cryptocurrency or single public network, making it highly adaptable for different use cases. Based in San Francisco, Hyperledger was founded in March 2014 by Daniel Feichtinger, CEO, and Dan O'Prey, CTO.
Bits of Proof, also acquired in June 2015, built enterprise-grade servers to integrate blockchain technology into financial applications. Bits of Proof offered four main products: the BOP Enterprise Bitcoin Server, which provides an API for enterprise blockchain applications, myTREZOR, the backend for the first hardware Bitcoin wallet, the Bullion Bitcoin Exchange, and BopShop, a merchant bitcoin payment processor. Támas Blummer, CEO, founded the Budapest-based company in March 2013.
Blockstack, acquired in October 2015, created blockchain application development tools for financial institutions. Blockstack offered a hosted platform for financial institutions to develop applications using APIs and SDKs. Its platform provided financial institutions a customizable stack of interoperable components to build on, including a private blockchain, a colored coin issuer for representing real-world assets, a framework for smart contracts using multi-signature security, and the ability to plug in external open source components. Miron Cuperman and Lior Saar founded the San Francisco-based company in January 2015.
Elevence, acquired in April 2016, developed a modelling language for agreements between financial institutions. The language can express any contractual right or obligation, including cash, securities, and derivatives, and the code determines how these contractual relations can evolve over time. Elevence's language provides relevant parties with information on a need-to-know basis, rather than revealing confidential information as smart contracts do. The Zurich-based company was founded in 2015 by Vincent Peikert, CEO. Elevence had approximately eight employees upon acquisition.
Digital Asset develops distributed ledger solutions that allow financial institutions to securely commit transactions and contractual and legal parameters to blockchains. In December 2016, Digital Asset released a white paper detailing the Digital Asset Platform, which enables confidential sharing of financial market data infrastructure to eliminate discrepancies between siloed records while reducing errors, latency, risk, and the costs in processing financial transactions. Digital Asset also developed a Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML) that enforces logic and behavior for the DA Platform and models contractual rights and obligations adhering to market rules in executable code. DAML serves as an alternative to public smart contracts, fulfilling financial markets' need for confidential agreements and deal terms.
In September 2015, the $5 million capital investment in public opinion marketplace Pivit marked the first use of Digital Asset software in a digital securities issuance. In early 2016, the Australian stock exchange ASX awarded Digital Asset a contract to upgrade their trading and clearing and settlement systems with its blockchain-based software, which Digital Asset expects to be ready for commercial use in 2018. Digital Asset's key competitor is R3CEV, the leader of a consortium of 70 financial institutions dedicated to R&D of blockchain usage in improving financial transaction efficiency.
Donald Wilson, founder of the DRW trading company, and Sunil Hirani, founder of the Dodd-Frank compliant interest rate swap exchange trueEX, founded the New York City-based company in 2014 and currently serve as board members. In 2015, the company brought on Blythe Masters, the high-profile former J.P. Morgan executive known for engineering the credit default swap, as CEO. The company has received $67.2 million in total equity funding, making it the seventh most highly funded blockchain startup, according to CB Insights. The first Series A round in February 2016 raised $60 million from Goldman Sachs (lead), IBM, J.P. Morgan (Sanoke Viswanathan), Santander InnoVentures (Manuel Silva Martinez), ASX Limited (Peter Hiom), BNP Paribas (Catherine Flax), Deutsche Börse (Ashwin Kumar), and 8 others. In June 2016, they raised a second Series A round of $7.2 million from ASX Limited.
Deal terms relating to each transaction remain undisclosed.
Digital Asset made their four acquisitions in areas that directly complement their goal of applying distributed ledger technology to financial services, and the company has benefitted from the talent acquired from these companies. Key talent acquisitions include Daniel Feichtinger, Hyperledger CEO, who became CMO, Dan O'Prey, Hyperledger CTO, who joined as a senior software engineer, Miron Cuperman, Blockstack CTO, who joined as a senior developer, Támas Blummer, Bits of Proof CEO, who joined as Chief Ledger Architect and head of the Budapest office, and Vincent Peikert, Elevence CEO, who became Head of Digital Asset Switzerland, and James Litsios, Elevence CTO, who became Head of Development in Switzerland.
Technology from Digital Asset's acquisitions has directly contributed to the development of the company's products. Digital Asset built upon work done by Hyperledger, Bits of Proof, and Blockstack to implement Hyperledger as an enterprise-ready blockchain server with a client API, which remains a core aspect of Digital Asset's financial transaction solutions today. The company then open-sourced Hyperledger to become a collaborative effort to build cross-industry blockchain technologies. Technology from Bits of Proof and Blockstack helps Digital Asset develop software for financial institutions, with Digital Asset's resources enabling rapid scaling of the Blockstack development platform. Elevence's team worked with Digital Asset to integrate their modeling language into Digital Asset's technology stack prior to the announcement of DAML, possibly contributing to development of the language, which will power agreements made on the DA platform.
The financial industry is beginning to embrace blockchain as a technology to process transactions. Blockchains can replace clearing houses and the reconciliation process by creating a shared record of transactions that is tamper-proof and confidential, which is crucial to expediting the security purchase and sale process. This can potentially reduce investment banks' infrastructure costs by $8 to $12 billion a year by 2025, according to Accenture. Furthermore, according to research firm Greenwich Associates, 56% of 130 executives working on blockchain in capital markets said that transaction confidentiality was their top concern, which is a problem with smart contracts that Digital Asset designed DAML to solve. Digital Asset's key competitor R3CEV is also working to build confidentiality into distributed ledgers through their ledger platform Corda. With their technology's strong industry traction, Digital Asset is well-positioned to become the leading provider of blockchain-enabled financial data infrastructure, which is one industry among many, including IoT, legal, human resources, and healthcare, that blockchain is poised to disrupt.


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Indie game store itch.io is joining the Epic Games Store
It's a store within a store
on April 22, 2021 10:00 am
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The indie online storefront itch.io is coming as a downloadable app to the Epic Games Store.
Yes, you read that correctly. The digital storefront itch.io, a popular platform for distributing indie games of all shapes and sizes, is coming to a different storefron, along with a handful of other PC apps.
The addition will put itch.io in front of the Epic Game Store's roughly 31.3 million active daily users and bring over 200,000 titles from itch.io to Epic's customers.
"Itch.io is a collection of some of the most unique, interesting, and independent creations you'll find on the web," a representative from itch.io told Polygon via email. "Bringing the itch.io app to the Epic Games Store will give us an opportunity to widen the audience of people who can discover the diverse collection of indie works that we host."
A representative from Epic Games confirmed details of how it works to Polygon. Basically, users will download itch.io on the store as they would any other app or game. Once it's downloaded and you launch it, it's it own thing. Epic will not take a percentage of sales of those games.
Currently, developers selling their games on itch.io get to choose what percentage of their sales go toward itch.io, meaning that creators could now get the exposure of all more users on a storefront that takes a lower cut of the sales. For comparison, Steam uses a tiered system where Valve takes between a 20% to 30% cut, depending on how much money a game makes, while the Epic Games Store takes 12 percent cut.
The move affirms the idea that the Epic Games Store is moving toward creating its own app store, rather than just sticking to games. Spotify came to Epic's store late last year and was the first non-gaming app to arrive on the storefront. In addition to Itch.io, Epic's store will also add iHeartRadio, open-source web browser Brave, 2D-to-3D modeling generator KenShape, and painting software Krita.
Itch.io and the other apps roll out on the Epic Games store today.

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Hetero-sexing the athlete: public discourses on sexuality and women athletes in South Africa
On the African continent sport has, particularly in the last two decades, been hailed as a useful tool in the quest for nation building and social cohesion. A popular claim is that sport has a particularly powerful role to play in achieving gender equality and women's empowerment, and that the pride imbued in national teams and athletes can foster national unity and cohesion across historical divides. Yet, what often remains silenced in assertions about the benefits and potentials of sport, are the ways in which sport also produces and sustains exclusion, frequently along sex/gender and racial lines. Sport has social and cultural significance precisely because it provides an avenue for the reproduction of normativities of embodiment, gender, race and sexuality.
In this presentation, we will critically examine how South African public policy and sport media discourses on sport reproduce heteronormative and racialised ideas about women's sport and women athletes. Focusing in particular on representations of South African women' athletes, we will in this presentation raise questions about what type and form of visibility is afforded South African sportswomen- especially those women who do not conform to a hetero-sexy-fit mould. Using examples of public debates regarding three South African women athletes–Eudy Simelane, Caster Semenya and Portia Modise– we argue that three representational practices shape discussions of gender, sexuality and women's sport in South Africa through annihilation, domestication, and silence. In so doing, our examination will raise critical questions regarding the need to decolonise engagements with sport, gender and sexualities on the African continent.
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Interview with GameChuck after "SpeedLimit" release
Welcome my dear reader! Today, I want to share something special. Last year, I took a look at a game called Speed Limit. When I looked at the game it was still in development but a demo was released. Now, this week the full version was released on all major platforms. You can find more information on the official website and on the website of the publisher. Now, instead of writing a very same-y article, I thought it would be more fun to talk about the game with the developers. So, that's what's going to happen today. I'm going to share an interview with you guys and girls that I had with GameChunck! Thank you so much for answering my questions. Before I start, feel free to leave a comment with your opinion and/or thoughts on the interview, the game and/or the content of this article.
Jonez: Hello there and welcome. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this interview with me. So, to whom do I have the pleasure of speaking to from the development team?
Alex: Hi, I'm Alex, the CEO of Gamechuck and level designer for some small parts of Speed Limit. Most of the development was done by others but as they are too busy celebrating our pan-console release, I will try my best to tell you everything you want to know!
Jonez: So, last year a demo for Speed Limit was released. Now, we are almost a year later and the game got more development. What is new in this full version? Did the game get easier or more difficult?
Alex: The game is much bigger than the demo – it features 10 (or more, khm khm, spoilers) levels, with 5 distinct gameplay genres, while the demo is just the first three levels (side scrolling genre and top-down). Also, we used the feedback from the demo release to make the game much more enticing, but not easier per se (although we did add Easy mode in both the demo and the full game since then).
Jonez: Now, this game got released on multiple platforms like the PS4, PS5, XBOX One, Steam and Switch. What challenges did you face in porting this game?
Alex: The Switch is at the same time the most slick experience (they check on everything and give you detailed feedback on where they found which error) but also quite cumbersome as every change takes a long time to get approved. Also, the PS4 had some issues regarding how we draw shaders for light for the bike rear lights, but we fixed it using clever math so now it works as intended on all platforms!
Jonez: This game is almost one long interactive movie. I guess this game wasn't the easiest to develop since you risked to damage the flow of the game. So, what was the most challenging in developing this game?
Alex: The most difficult part was correctly figuring out how much time it will take for each feature, and since we were starting from scratch with every level (e.g. every new genre) it was really hard, but we needed to guesstimate anyway since due to porting and so on, we were operating on a schedule.
Jonez: So, can I ask if you guys have future plans for the game? Or will this game only get bug fixes?
Alex: We hope to give the game a lot of interesting updates and maybe even DLCs, because the game this well received deserves to be continually updated! I can't promise co-op mode (although I'd really like to!) but more modes, achievements etc. – definitely!
Jonez: You know, when I played the first level. I always wondered… Can you defeat those enemy soldiers?
Alex: No, but you can reach a stalemate with them, by standing at a spot where they can't hurt you and just keep shooting them down!
Jonez: It didn't take long for me to find an easter egg. The Chuck Norris easter egg was a nice gag. Are there more in the game?
Alex: A lot. Let me get back to you with an exact figure later.
Jonez: As I said earlier, this game feels like some sort of interactive action movie. How did you go about testing this game? Did you always start from the start or did you test it section by section?
Alex: We tested both specific sections and the whole game, and also used the G.Round platform for testing the game with hundreds of players prior to launch so we can iron out any big issues (there weren't any and we got incredibly glowing remarks!)
Jonez: So, an indie studio is always known for having a small team. Who were the heroes that brought this game to life?
Alex: The dev team is 7 people (artist Jurica and the game director Igor doing pixel art, Vanja and Karlo and one student Sara coding various levels and Matija doing sounds and music) and then there's me, Lucija doing PR/bizdev and Iggy doing community management. 10 people seems like a lot but bear in mind we weren't all doing the game full time and we do have a lot of other games in the pipeline!
Jonez: So, one of the biggest differences I noticed is the fact there is an easy mode. Which differences are there in the easy mode compared to the normal mode?
Alex: The difference between easy and hard is almost exclusively in the number of enemies and/or their hitpoints, and of course – the true ending is not available in Easy mode!
Jonez: It wouldn't surprise me that the game broke quite often during development. Can you share one of the funniest moments of the game breaking during development?
Alex: There were many but here's one that was quite fun:
Jonez: And my final question: You are also developing another game. Tell us more about it? Did you learn anything while develeoping Speed Limit that is going to be used in that new game?
Alex: The level designer of Speed Limit is, incidentally, also the lead writer for our narrative game Trip the Ark Fantastic. A complete departure from Speed Limit, this is a slow non-combat narrative experience about the scientific method, philosophy and cute rabbits striking for better working conditions. Now, if that didn't hook you, then the classical animation and orchestral score will!
Jonez: Thank you so much for answering my questions! I'm quite curious to see what your studio is going to publish next. I also want to thank you all for reading this article and I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it and putting it together. I hope to be able to welcome you in a future article but until then, have a great rest of your day and take care!
Also, don't forget to give SpeedLimit a try!
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Pride Publishing Group Inc. v. Edwards
PRIDE PUBLISHING GROUP INCORPORATED, PLAINTIFF,
JOHN L. EDWARDS, III AND ADRIAN J. EDWARDS DEFENDANTS.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Harry S. Mattice, Jr. United States District Judge
Judge Mattice
Before the Court is Plaintiff's Motion for Temporary Restraining Order [Court Doc. No. 6]. By agreement of the parties, the Court will treat Plaintiff's motion as seeking a preliminary injunction pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(a). For the reasons set forth below, the Court will DENY Plaintiff's motion.
I. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION STANDARD
The standard by which the Court is bound has been described as follows: When considering a motion for a preliminary injunction, the district court should consider four factors: (1) whether the movant has a strong likelihood of success on the merits; (2) whether the movant would suffer irreparable injury without the injunction; (3) whether issuance of the injunction would cause substantial harm to others; and (4) whether the public interest would be served by issuance of the injunction.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum, Inc. v. Gentile Prods., 134 F.3d 749, 753 (6th Cir. 1998) (citing Sandison v. Michigan High Sch. Athletic Ass'n, 64 F.3d 1026, 1030 (6th Cir. 1995)).
In 1990, Plaintiff Pride Publishing started an "African-American newspaper" identified by the trademark CHATTANOOGA COURIER. (Court Doc. 19, Prelim. Inj. Hrg. Tr. 21.) On June 24, 1992, Plaintiff contracted with Defendant John Edwards for "the operation of the newspaper to be called the COURIER." (Court Doc. 11-2, Contractual Agreement ("Agreement").) None of Plaintiff's owners or employees had worked with Defendant John Edwards before this date. (See Inj. Hrg. Tr. 23-24.)
At least by 1998 or 1999, Plaintiff and Defendant John Edwards began to depart from much of the Agreement. Defendant John Edwards was listed as editor and publisher on the paper's tombstone. (Id. 89.) He was responsible for funding every aspect of the paper except printing, and was compensated by advertising revenues flowing from accounts he started and maintained. (Id. 91.) In exchange, Plaintiffs were allowed advertising space in the paper. (Id. 97.) Defendant John Edwards held county business licenses and paid business taxes on the paper. (Id. 93.)
In 2005, Defendants took over the layout of the paper. (Id. 116.) From August of 2006 to September of 2007, Defendants took over printing (Id. 71, 85.) Plaintiff requested that Defendants send it a copy of each published paper for review. (Id. 85.) During this time, Plaintiff's state trademark registration lapsed. (Id. 57, 67.)
In September of 2007, Plaintiff revoked the agreement allowing Defendants to use the mark (id. 58-59). It filed the instant action on April 21, 2008.
A. Subject Matter Jurisdiction
Defendants contend that the Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the instant case because Plaintiff's mark is not registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. It is black letter law, however, that § 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §1125(a), protects unregistered marks. See Tumblebus, Inc. v. Cranmer, 399 F.3d 754, 760 (6th Cir. 2005). ...


Hurry up sunshine I am tired of this long winter lol. Hope you like this quick little painting.
Yes, love the greens and the bright sunshine. Very cheerful Katie!
Wonderful Katie and I can feel the warmth, now if it would hurry and get here.
That's wonderful Katie....I love it!
Excellent use of atmospheric perspective!
Thanks for your kind comments Sandra, Valerie, Peter, Fire and Jibes, hopefully the warm weather isnt toooooooooooo far away.
Citrus. . . I think your inner navigator may be fearing scurvy without it, if I'm any judge of Art, by Gadfrey.
Apples and lemons say the bells of St. Clemens. . .
Oranges and limes say the bells of St. Ives. . .
Lemons and lime. Which one says that? I believe it's St. um. . . St. Seven-Up, isn't it?
Cheers, Ms. Coops. Take your vitamins. It's still snowing today off to the North East USA. I hope your wish is granted for you soon.
Thanks for you kind words dear Mr AKey and summer will come OHHHHHHHHHHHHH yes lol, right now I am off to bed to dream of warm summer days.
Very inspiring! Very nicely done!


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Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany on Monday took her first concrete steps to move away from political life, saying she would give up leadership of her conservative party while vowing to finish out her term in 2021.
Merkel made her announcement, in a meeting of conservative leaders, after two disastrous results in regional elections that saw her party and its allies slump to near-record lows. Many observers, including in her own party, doubted that she could hang on as a lame duck until 2021 and speculated that elections could come sooner.
She also said she would not seek any other political office.
Merkel's fractious coalition government, which took six months to cobble together and nearly collapsed twice since then, has long lost its majority in opinion polls.
On Sunday, Merkel's conservatives won just 27 per cent of the vote in the central state of Hesse, down from 38 per cent five years ago — their worst showing in the state since 1966. Two weeks earlier, her conservative allies in Bavaria suffered a similar blow.
But in defeat, the chancellor, who has seemed weak and on the defensive for months, showed the kind of quiet cunning that was once her hallmark by trying to dictate her own exit strategy.
The conservatives will hold a two-day party conference starting Dec. 6 in Hamburg, where they are due to elect a new executive board and leader. Merkel had repeatedly said that she would run again for the position, but she reversed that stand Monday, telling board members that she would step down.
Merkel said she would seek to remain as chancellor until 2021, when the current legislative terms end, but many analysts and politicians, even in her own party, question whether she will stay in power that long. Her setbacks have emboldened critics in her party, and her governing partners, the Social Democrats, whose recent losses were even worse than those of the conservatives, might pull out of the coalition. That could lead to early elections.
Previously, only relatively unknown conservatives had announced their candidacy for the party leadership. But with Merkel out of the running, the names of possible successors are being floated.
Among those seen as strong contenders are Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the party's secretary-general, who was tapped this year to help rejuvenate the conservatives and pave the way for a post-Merkel era; Jens Spahn, Merkel's health minister and one of her strongest critics from the right; and Armin Laschet, governor of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, since June 2017.
Friedrich Merz, a former leader of the conservative group in Parliament who quit the party but remained a staunch critic of the chancellor, indicated Monday that he would run for the position, German news outlets reported.


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Mithril.js – The Smallest, Fastest SPA Framework You've Never Used
by: Jarek Wojciechowski
What is Mithril.js?
What Does Mithril Solve?
What Does Mithril Look Like?
I love exploring new libraries and frameworks to see where the next big trends or patterns might be. I don't know how I came across Mithril.js, but I'm glad I did. Mithril brings something new to the table — it's minimal and fast.
I'm going to explore how Mithril is different from React (my favorite framework and the one I have the most experience with). Why? Mithril's strengths mirror React's weaknesses. I don't expect React to go away anytime soon, of course. Mithril shows a well-crafted path in a different direction.
Mithril's makers call it a "modern client-side JavaScript framework for building Single Page Applications." Their definition of "SPA framework" includes rendering, XHR, routing, and state management. Mithril's main attraction is its fast rendering, but they didn't stop at making a rendering library.
Building a framework feels like the correct choice when compared to React's ecosystem. React is billed as a "rendering library," but React is treated as a proper framework along with the likes of Angular and Vue.
Performance and Size
Front-end frameworks aren't known for being "slim" or "quick to load," especially once you start piling on libraries for selects and every other input element.
With a package size of 9.5 kb (that's 1/4 the size of Vue + basic libraries), Mithril laughs at other libraries. It's just 1/13 the size of Angular. When comparing update speeds, Mithril wins by a margin of 50-100%, with even larger differences on initial startup time.
Simple Defaults
A complaint about React is that it doesn't "come with the batteries," meaning all the tools you need to make a modern SPA. React is often packaged with Redux, React-Router, and Fetch, but they don't come included for free. Also, that's far from the only React tech stack; there are more permutations of simple React setups than I would care to count.
Mithril recognizes that the purpose of the library is to make SPAs, even if its focus is advanced rendering. Mithril keeps it simple and comes with simple utilities to make XHR requests, route between pages, and store app state.
Small API
Having such a small file size comes from an earlier design decision: write less code. Mithril offers a very concise API.
React's ecosystem is more modular, but it comes at a cost; each library's API has to account for a breadth of use cases, like a Swiss army knife of library functions. Mithril's parts don't need to interface with other libraries, so there's no need to build functionality for every situation.
Looking at this example from the Mithril docs, we can take a step into understanding Mithril:
var root = document.body
var count = 0 // added a variable
var Hello = {
view: function() {
return m("main", [
m("h1", {
class: "title"
}, "My first app"),
m("button", {
onclick: function() {count++}
}, count + " clicks")
m.mount(root, Hello)
First, let's review the results of this code. We get two HTML elements, a heading saying "My first app" and a button that says "# clicks." The number magically ticks up from zero each time you click the button.
This snippet gives us a brief introduction to a few concepts in Mithril: VNodes, Components, and Mounting.
m("h1", { class: "title" }, "My first app")
This is our first example of a vnode. Vnodes represent a portion of the DOM, with the smallest unit being a single HTML element. In this example, the vnode is an HTML element, but vnodes include Mithril Components. In this code, m is a utility that creates vnodes. The arguments set the node type (either component or HTML element), the attributes of the node, and the contents of the node.
Hello is our simplest example of a component in Mithril. It's nothing more than an object with a view function that returns vnodes. Mithril's components, like many other "components," carry the job of splitting up complexity in the front end. Components also support many lifecycle methods that you'll be familiar with if you've experienced other SPA frameworks.
The last piece in our SPA framework is the mount function. Mithril uses a redraw system that triggers after certain actions. The mount function allows that vnode tree to be redrawn automatically when a relevant action is triggered. One of the redraw triggers is an event. In the above example, Mithril will redraw after the OnClick function triggers on our button. You can learn more about Mithril's redraw system at their site.
Congrats, you know enough to start writing a Mithril app! There's still more to learn (the Mithril website is a great resource), but this minimal introduction gives you a head start into Mithril's patterns. If you build something cool with Mithril, I'd love to hear about it!
Jarek Wojciechowski
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Olpat says:
A little slideshow with mithril it's an extension of this example:
https://raw.githack.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/master/examples/animation/mosaic.html
mithril is a fantastic framework indeed !!
https://mtnoble.ch
Monikao Donnell says:
Great content! This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. Thanks for your help :)


My Great Aunt Vulla was an interesting character. She was a midwife who'd assisted hundreds, maybe even thousands of babies; black, white, and so forth, into this world. She assisted my mother in bringing me here. Aunt Vulla "midwifed" me into the world right there in Gramp's house on a "miraculous" summer day in 1961. I'm told that when I came into the world, I didn't cry. They wrapped me in a blanket and laid me in front of the fireplace. I lay there peacefully, growling instead of crying. I don't remember when I first cried, but immediately succeeding my birth was not that time.
Gramp and Aunt Vulla used to get together at Gramps house from time-to-time. Aunt Vulla would bring her quilting materials. She was a master maker of beautiful, heavy, warm quilts. Her "materials" consisted of needles, thread, thimble, and an immense bag full of cloth scraps of all shapes, sizes, textures, and colors. I don't think she ever passed by a swatch of cloth that she didn't save to be used in one of her many and variably wonderful quilts. Over time, she had managed to accumulate a mountain of scraps that would one day become parts of exquisite quilts. Just like she put that rainbow colored, jigsaw puzzle of cloth together into a beautiful quilt, she and Gramp would weave tales from their past; wonderful little anecdotes full of colorful characters, as varied and as interesting as the colors and shapes of the scraps which lay at Aunt Vulla's feet.
In their telling, they introduced me to a word they often used when describing people of less than stellar mental acumen. That word was "Stornado". A "Stornado Fool" was a distinct and separate class of fool. A "Stornado fool" was a fool above and beyond any foolishness you might imagine. One of the sisters might say, "Child John is a straight fool.", then the other would dovetail onto that statement with, "Honey, yes! A Stornado fool!" then they'd whoop with laughter. Man, you could bet that fellow didn't have sense enough to pour pee out of a boot if it had a sign on it that said "turn upside down" (this, by the way, was another of their sayings). I never knew the origins of "Stornado". It seemed to be a combination of storm and tornado.
Another type of fool that Gramp used to mention a lot was the "Educated Fool". This type of fool was not quite as bad as a "Stornado", but was a disgrace in his or her own right. She seemed to have a particular disdain for an "Educated Fool". To her, it was especially shameful to waste such a prized and expensive gift on someone who was determined to remain a fool despite being educated; for you see, Gramp had been a teacher for some 30 plus years and knew intimately, the value of an education. She didn't feel that such a valued gift should be taken lightly.
Thanks to Gramp and Aunt Vulla I learned that: not everyone thought to be a fool is a fool; I learned that some so-called intelligent people can also be fools; I learned that, by any means necessary, avoid "Stornado Fools"; and if I'm ever called a "Stornado Fool", it is time to take a serious look in the mirror; a penny for your thoughts?
There are a couple of good stories about some "foolish" people that I heard while sitting at Gramp's and Aunt Vulla's feet. In honor of Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday is today, and who once said, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt,"let me tell you about a boy named "Man" and a man named "Boy!" –Next week!
Ron, Urban Dictionary defines an educated fool as a person that is filled with book knowledge but is lacking in "common sense".
Ron, you aced this bad boy! Today, I called a friend and read this post to her because she was driving.
BIG mistake! The poor girl was laughing so hard that she almost ran a light!
Do not operate heavy machinery while reading this story!!!


Congratulations to 98 member Kate Hilliard on demolishing her previous 2000m Ski Erg World Record by 11 seconds at the 98 members testing day. Her time was 7:11.5. Another impressive effort from her. I definitely see a sub 7:00 minute in the near future.
Special mention also to Tom Synnott. He bagged the Australian Mens 30-39yrs record with a PR of 6:48.1. Massive effort.


On Wednesday evening, Entercom announced Kirk Minihane will host a new radio show, podcast and column on RADIO.COM.
The show will be free and is set to launch in early 2019. Minihane will be searching for a permanent co-host or rotating co-hosts, and it's unclear what time it will air, but it likely will not be from 6-10 a.m.
Minihane said the hope is for the show to similar to what Kirk & Callahan was like.
Minihane has been away from the airwaves for a few months due to mental health issues. He detailed what he did during his time away and also said he's feeling better.
Minihane will be on WEEI's Morning Show from 8-10 a.m. Thursday to discuss everything from Wednesday.


Naturopathy is a specialised field of health care that draws from a rich history of traditional medicine practices and combines it with modern scientific research, encompassing both nutrition and herbal medicine.
The recorded use of plants as medicine dates back 5000 years when the Sumerians detailed the well-established medicinal use of thyme, caraway and laurel. Without exception, herbs have been used as medicine in every different culture in the world.Herbal medicine remains one of the oldest and most utilised forms of medicine in the world today. Modern herbal medicine uses plant materials sourced from around the world, which are produced using pharmaceutical grade manufacturing practices. These plant medicines contain multiple active constituents that can have beneficial effects across multiple body systems.
Herbal medicines are prescribed on an individual basis and usually combine several herbs in one formula to target specific areas of health, while supporting the body's natural regulatory systems.
Naturopathic treatment is the ultimate in preventative healthcare. Not only can we alleviate your symptoms in the short term, but we focus on providing you with a personalised nutrition and lifestyle plan that will serve you now and help prevent health problems in the future.


Remote working in stable industries used to be a luxury reserved for people at the management level or above, then the business world caught up with the possibilities of the internet — and now it's fairly common to have some kind of flexible work from home option, whether you're working from home all the time or just on occasion. And then there are the entrepreneurs who go solo, if only for the opportunity to work in their pajamas.
But an environment that's great for living and relaxing in won't necessarily be as good for getting things done, which is fairly important if you intend to be productive. Even the most brilliant mind can't nail spreadsheets and absorb daytime soaps at the same time.
OK, so plenty of regular offices don't have this — that's true. Lots of cubicle-dwellers across the nation will readily attest to suffering under fluorescent lights. But at least circumstances require them to spend some time outside while heading to and from the workplace. If you work from home, and you're particularly dedicated to your job, the hours can blur together. You can look up from your latest figures to realize that you've spent the entire working week in your apartment.
Why is this such a big deal? Well, sunlight is kinda important. It regulates your sleep, improves your health (in usual amounts!), and significantly boosts your mood. If you hit Wednesday and you feel half-dead, you might have failed to get enough sunlight.
Look for a place with lots of natural light during the day, and good coverage throughout (there's only so much you can do to brighten a place up with color). Avoid the disastrous architectural scenario of one searingly-bright spot in which you can't actually see anything and murky grey shadow everywhere else.
I'm sure that triple-width bed you're gazing at longingly is extremely comfortable to sleep in, but if you try to write while lazing on it, you're just going to pop right through the page and leave ink scrawlings on your sheets. And your spine will probably collapse in short order.
You don't need a separate room to work in, though that would be the ideal setup. You really just need a small area you can effectively cordon off to serve as your workstation. What it will consist of will depend on the nature of your work — if you draw, or write by hand, or build models, then you'll need a large desk or table. If you tap away at a laptop, you'll need light in the right direction (to avoid glare) and room to keep your arms in comfortable positions.
From time to time, you can work from the breakfast table. It isn't impossible. It's just very difficult to maintain a consist working procedure when you're in the immediate vicinity of Captain Crunch at all times. After all, productivity is all about achieving focus.
There's a reason that noise torture has been deployed by military forces worldwide in an effort to break wills. When our hearing gets overloaded, we struggle to form coherent thoughts. Our brains are reactive pattern recognition machines beneath all our sophistication, and it just takes a handful of noises from the street to get our algorithms trying to figure out what's going on.
This is particularly important if you do any kind of creative work because you'll be reliant on a flow state of sorts — taking time to settle into a rhythm, then working through bursts of strong productivity. If a dog barks outside and totally disrupts your thought patterns, it's all ruined.
Steer clear of apartments near airports, busy bars, sporting venues, and any other places that are consistently loud. You're unlikely to be able to go for somewhere totally off the beaten path (for a reason we'll look at shortly) but aim for somewhere in a quiet neighborhood with solid sound insulation and windows you can close securely.
Something particularly exciting about becoming untethered from the conventional 9-to-5 workplace setup is the prospect of upping sticks and heading to pastures new. For many dreamers, that will involve sun-soaked beaches and city hotspots — but before you head online to order designer shades and find a Miami business for sale, cool your jets and think about how fun you'd really have in the sweltering Florida heat with a sun-facing view and janky AC.
Yes, it's actually quite difficult to focus on work when it's so hot that you can't breathe and your brain begins to melt and ooze from your ear canals. So if you're going to be living in a hot state, make sure there's powerful and reliable AC, plenty of shade, and good ventilation — and if you're aiming at somewhere like Alaska, look for strong central heating and great insulation. (If you pick for somewhere relatively clement like Washington DC, good choice: check out some swanky DC apartment options).
Internet access is the key ingredient of remote working, and it's somewhat challenging to get anything done without it. Even if your work itself doesn't require consistent access, you'll presumably need to be dealing with clients, employers, employees, contacts, sources, and many other people besides. Do you intend to do it all over the phone?
Ideally, you'll want to find a place that has access to several service providers, so that you have bargaining power if the one you use fails to perform adequately well. If you find somewhere with highly-regarded internet access but only one provider, you'll be somewhat stuck if the service suddenly declines.
This part is admittedly becoming much less of a concern as time goes by because mobile data options are becoming more robust. It may already be perfectly viable for you to get a substantial mobile data plan and use that instead of getting a stable internet connection at your apartment. But since signal strength can vary, phones can break, and rates are still fairly steep, you're better off sticking with the usual setup.
Do your research to find an apartment with all of these things, and you'll have everything you need to work and live comfortably from the one location — and say goodbye to the commuting nightmare as a result!
Kayleigh Alexandra is a content writer for Micro Startups — a site dedicated to supporting startups and small businesses of all shapes and sizes. Visit the blog for the latest entrepreneurial news and side hustle tips. Follow us on Twitter @getmicrostarted.


December 9, 2010: Ultimately the system decides if it will allow one to be part of it, but it cannot really stop one from trying to reform it.
One cannot change the system from outside. One can keep criticising it but to really make a difference one has to be part of the system. I am not sure who offered me this piece of wisdom for the first time. Probably it was my school librarian who, though always exceptionally kind, used to resent a pointlessly rebellious streak in me. The years have hopefully made me less annoying but the first memory of that nugget of wisdom still wafts, perhaps because I have been confronting the same commandment every now and then ever since.
So last week it came from an eminent conservationist, the big boss of a green NGO, who divided fellow humans into the talkers and the doers. Talkers or critics, he said, always had it easy. The doers, on the other hand, roughed it out risking failures and criticism. But, at the end of the day, the doers made all the difference.
There was, however, a sub-text. The doers, in order to get the opportunity to do something and thus qualify as doers, must not utter a word against the system that decides who gets to do something and who does not. The commandment seems watertight because the talkers anyway forfeit their chances of becoming doers the moment they become talkers by opening their mouth against the system. Quite a neat little postulate that warrants the doers total immunity because even if they fail doing whatever, not even a fellow doer can hold them accountable. The moment a doer tries doing that, the doer becomes a talker and gets kicked out of the system.
I tried to put the big boss in context. He was referring to the recent setback to the tiger reintroduction project in Sariska. I understood that reintroducing tigers to a reserve was always a high risk proposition and death of a reintroduced tiger was always a possibility. Of course, it was sad, worth a stunted shrug, but anything more, certainly a few harsh words spoken in despair or anger would make one a talker, a useless critic.
I looked around. This was the big boss presiding over a function in his own plush office. Still someone somewhere in the gathering had to flinch. Surely, a few pairs of eyes caught mine. It was unfair that even the big boss could not have sorted those eyes in his two slots. Those wicked eyes were actually doing the talking.
But then, even Jairam Ramesh, minister for Environment and Forests, offered pretty much the same stuff the other day at Roosevelt House at a dinner hosted by the US ambassador. He noted that though people often criticised the Sariska experiment but the show would go on because nothing ventured, nothing gained. I did not remember if any talker had actually wanted the show closed but the doers at Sariska were certainly not ready to get over with their dumb clown act and display a few true skills.
Then, the minister decided to turn the table. As the ladies and the gentlemen in the audience looked in indulgence and awe, he nudged his critics, the talkers, by complaining that they never talked about so many tiger cubs born all over India.
I remember gulping down my drink. Was the honourable minister demanding that the talkers give him credit for those cubs in an equal measure to offset the criticism for frequent poaching and poisoning of tigers? I admit I was at a loss. The criticism in question was triggered by too many unnatural tiger deaths. But tigers breed naturally; in fact, like all cats, they are quite prolific. But then, only unnatural births, I wondered, could fittingly compensate unnatural deaths. Did I miss a story of test tube cubs or something? The minister would not tell.
But I did not resent the minister for pulling another fast one. Why, he even manages to remain a doer while being a talker. Is he not the rare one who takes measured pot shots every now and then at the very system that lets him do, and talk, so much.
Our big boss, though, is nothing like the minister. He worships the system that is generous enough to let him do this and that, and he talks only to defend the system against the talkers. But he has always been a gentleman host. So after his defining speech that day, he also offered the gathering some tea.
Halfway down the cupful, I met an old acquaintance known for his revolutionary angsts. Minutes into a conversation, he quoted someone he did not remember. It went something like "knowledge required to change a system must come from outside that system". Demanding, I thought, as he looked around for a patty.
In a brief debate over another cupful, he dismissed my argument that one needed to be part of a system to understand it and that there is no changing a system without understanding it completely. He proudly told me he was better off being a talker and would never be a doer if that required doing something wrong. I felt it was a good choice but not an argument. Now the unpronounceable names he was quoting started confusing me. I told him as much. He gave up and started munching on a samosa.
Back home, I got a call from him. He said he had figured out how to convince me. Newton, it turned out. He reminded me that one could not move a chair while sitting on it. I did not want to get into electrodynamics to force a debate. So we laughed and hung up.
Late that night, I sent a brief text message, telling him, yes, one could, if one had one's feet firmly on the ground.
Now, now, I do not have anything against high chairs or short statures. Deep, yes, metaphors usually are.
Source: Jay Mazoomdaar, The Bengal Post.


All photos in this post, with the exception of the first one, are by Angus Kennedy.
The recent #fieldworkfail Twitter fad reminded me of something I heard back in January. I was attending a careers workshop at an academic conference and they had a panel of people who conduct job interviews giving advice to us future job seekers. One panellist shared one of her favourite interview questions, which I don't remember verbatim but went something along the lines of "Describe an incident where something went wrong during your fieldwork and how you dealt with it." This is a very fun question because many things go wrong in the field, and the solutions can come from anywhere. Often times, when something goes wrong in the field, there's no one there to tell you how to fix your problem, and you learn just how resourceful you can be when push comes to shove.
I thought I'd share the biggest catastrophe that happened to me during fieldwork and how we dealt with it, to pre-empt any future interviewers and because Angus got some excellent pictures of the disaster in progress. For the first two years of my fieldwork, we had a little blue trailer that we towed behind our Landcruiser. It was kindly loaned to us by a professor in the Plant Sciences department at ANU. This is the story of how I managed to destroy it. Or, if I'm feeling charitable to myself, how it managed to destroy itself despite my best intentions.
Our beloved, but ultimately doomed little blue trailer. Photo taken during this other catastrophe.
The Landcruiser is a great fieldwork vehicle for many reasons, but trunk space is not one of them. While in the field I always had up to three volunteers with me, and four people in the Landcruiser leaves little room for storage (and the more people, the more stuff there is that needs to be stored). Our beloved little blue trailer was very useful in transporting all the stuff that comes along with moving a bunch of people through remote areas. Everyone has their own massive backpack filled with personal stuff, their own tent or swag for sleeping, plus we needed to move massive amounts of food and water, a kitchenette with which to prepare meals and eat them, and a propane tank to run the camping stove. Really, the amount of stuff we needed to haul around with us to keep ourselves alive far exceeded the amount of stuff we needed to haul around to do the fieldwork. And that's why we needed that little blue trailer.
At each field site our field camp came tumbling out of the little blue trailer.
The trailer successfully survived my first field season without any major problems. Sure, it needed some repairs when we got back, mostly to the electrical wiring and peripherals, but it survived intact and without any hint of major structural problems. However, my second field season was another story. Before we left, we took the trailer to get a check-up and it turned out the axle bearings needed to be replaced, and so they were. However, a month into our fieldwork the owner of the station we were working at noticed that the grease caps had come off the trailer. The grease caps protect the ends of the axles, preventing stuff from getting onto the bearings inside. Where we do fieldwork the roads are all dirt, and there is a lot of dust. I took the trailer into Alice Springs right away, but it was too late. Dust had gotten into the axles and the bearings had to be replaced AGAIN. They also put new grease caps on. I was assured that grease caps rarely have to be replaced, and that the trailer would now be fine.
In the Outback everything gets covered in red dust. In addition to axle bearings this includes the inside of vehicles (left) and my face (right).
However, not two days later, and after only travelling on paved roads, I notice that the grease caps had once again come off. I thought they must have been put on incorrectly in Alice Springs. We were in Yulara, which luckily has a mechanic's shop despite being not much more than a tourist resort. I got them to put new grease caps on the trailer, asked them put them on "extra tight" and I also asked to buy all the shop's extra grease caps. They looked at me weird when I said I wanted to buy all of their caps, and assured me that grease caps don't just come off and that the trailer would be fine. I bought all their grease caps anyway.
That night driving south I noticed that the grease caps were already starting to come loose. I tried my best to bang them back into place, but by the time we got to Coober Pedy the next day they were gone. At the mechanic's shop in Coober Pedy they cleaned and lubricated the bearings and affixed two more of my grease caps to the axels.
By this time I knew the caps wouldn't stay on. I just wanted to get to Port Augusta, where we could leave the trailer in storage and continue our fieldwork without it. Unfortunately, less than 80km south of Glendambo and only 200km for Port Augusta, the trailer came apart. The trailer's right wheel came completely off the axel and flew off into the bush. My volunteers Angus and Mitch later recovered it, apparently 50m off the road! The axel dug into the Stuart Highway, taking a decent-sized gouge out of the road and shooting up an impressive display of sparks while I tried to slow down and pull over as quickly and safely as possible. When I went back to inspect the trailer the remaining wheel had smoke coming out of the axel, and no grease cap in sight.
The next hour or so was quite demoralising. I had to use the satellite phone to call up my supervisor and the department's fieldwork coordinator to report what had happened. We were essentially stranded. It's illegal to abandon vehicles and equipment by the side of the road in Australia, and punishments are severe (abandoning vehicles in the Outback, usually after covering them in gasoline and lighting them on fire, is something of a shameful tradition in Australia). A call to our insurance provider, the NRMA, confirmed what I suspected: only the Landcruiser was insured, not the trailer, so they weren't coming to get us. The cops came by to check out the situation but weren't about to volunteer to transport our disabled trailer anywhere.
Without any other options, I left Angus and Mitch to watch over the trailer and I drove back to Glendambo. My run of bad luck continued, the only guy in Glendambo with a flatbed truck was out of town for the week. However, I noticed a flatbed parked at the Glendambo roadhouse with a wrecked car as cargo. I went into the petrol station and found the driver: an old, grizzled, significantly bearded guy who looked like he'd been driving outback roads since coming back from serving in the second world war, eating a standard roadhouse meal and watching TV. I tried to ask him if he'd help, but he took one look at me and told me to wait until he was done his dinner. An awkward silence ensued. Finally, after he finished, he explained how much of a hassle it would be to offload his current cargo, drive all that way, and how much behind schedule it would put him. I thought he was going to refuse, but it turned out he was just trying to soften me up for how much he wanted to get paid: $200 cash. Given the circumstances, he could have charged a lot more, and I was happy to hand it over*. The truck driver off-loaded his wrecked car and followed me back down the Stuart Highway to the wrecked trailer. He loaded up the trailer, which looked sad and small lopsided on the huge flatbed, and drove off. By this time it was about 11pm, and we set up camp on the side of the Stuart Highway.
The next morning Angus, the best chef of the three of us, cooked breakfast, which we ate sitting on the highway, getting up for the occasional car or truck zooming past. The Stuart Highway is so straight and flat that there's plenty of warning whenever anyone's approaching, even at 110km/h.
We packed everything into the Landcruiser, an extremely tight squeeze. If I remember right, we ended up with the propane tank on the floor where the front passenger's feet should go, which did not seem very safe to me. There was absolutely no room in the back, so all three of us had to sit in the front, with Mitch sitting in the middle, crotch-to-gearshift**. We got to Glendambo and were able to throw out enough non-essential stuff to clear space for one person to squeeze into one of the middle seats, though whichever unlucky person sat there was jabbed in the back by lizard-catching rods for the entire ride.
The truck driver said he was going to dispose of our trailer at the Glendambo dump. When we got to our next field site, a sheep station near Lake Everard, and we explained what had happened, the station manager's eyes immediately lit up. All that had happened was one wheel came off? The missing wheel was inside the trailer? The axle was only bent, not broken***? He called up one of his mates to recover the thing from the dump, apparently it was recoverable enough to be useful pottering around the station. I never did hear whether they were able to find it at the dump, or whether it ever became useful again.
This disaster left me with two questions. The first is why did the grease caps keep coming off? While I don't really understand why they kept coming off when I was told repeatedly they very rarely come off, there was evidently some structural abnormality with the trailer that made it easy for the caps to come off. When we took the trailer in for a check-up prior to my second field season, the mechanic pointed out steel plates attached to the wheels. He said he'd never seen anything like them before. He also said they were not properly secured to the wheels and therefore liable to come off unexpectedly, and possibly on the highway, making them quite dangerous. He recommended, and we agreed, to remove them. I now think that these plates were holding the grease caps in place.
Two pictures of the same trailer wheel. The left photo, taken during my first field season, shows the steel plate bolted over the grease cap. The right photo, taken during my second field season, shows that the steel plate has been removed and the grease cap is exposed.
My second question is why did the wheel come off on the highway? It doesn't seem evident to me that the wheel coming off is directly related to the grease cap problem. The wheel came off less than a week after the bearings were replaced in Alice Springs and within that week three separate mechanics had looked at the trailer and deemed it roadworthy. Less than 12 hours before the wheel came off the mechanic in Coober Pedy had cleaned and lubricated the bearings. I genuinely have no idea why the wheel came off. If you have any idea, please let me know.
Campfire with the trailer during happier times.
*Normally expenses during fieldwork get reimbursed, but there was never going to be any sort of receipt or official documentation of this expense. The $200 was my personal penance for the trailer destruction.
**There is actually a seat there, I assume meant for children.
***Though I didn't look, the axle was likely bent when it dug into the Stuart Highway going 110km/h.


Our trip took us to the Aboriginal community at Looma (on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert), a mission enterprise in Derby and the indigenous communities of Lombadina, Ngamakoon and One Arm Point on the Dampier Peninsula. There we made our base at Kooljaman, a camping ground and resort owned and managed jointly by Lombadina and One Arm Point. We talked with missionaries, educators, locals and traditional land keepers. We also talked amongst ourselves, reflecting on what we were learning. It was easy to be diverted by the spectacular features of the country we were in ( I'll put selected photos on Flickr later today). But we anticipate sharing some stories and reflections from our pilgrimage in the morning service at Wembley Downs Church of Christ on Sunday, September 6th.
Picturs now uploaded, not on Flickr, but here.


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Now this is just going to be a quick tip about a tiny pitfall in the amazing extension system for CodeIgniter: Sparks.
Turns out, there is a very easy fix for that, which I just didn't expect to work that way.
and it works like a charm. I'm not sure if this is intended behavior in the ways of convention over ease of use, because surely I have to update the loading of sparks with updates, or if it's something that both accidentally both on my Macbook and my Linux VPS does not work, even though it should, but including the version number is essential.
Well, maybe me reporting an issue about Sparks isn't the greatest introduction to CodeIgniter and Sparks, but the project is really cool and makes use of developers own git repositories and not a sluggish central service like WordPress Plugin repository. I can only recommend this if you work with CodeIgniter and want to open source some of the stuff you have done or if you're looking for some cool existing solutions to help you get done faster and with less brain pain.


Here we are. The last of the 52 photo project. I have really enjoyed participating. I think I have captured some really lovely moments and I have also just grabbed a shot or two off of my iPhone. But all in all I believe it was a great way to document the small moments with my son. I am looking forward to compiling all of the images and printing then off. I have not decided if I will do it again this year, but I suppose I have to make up my mind right quick.
Below are a few more pictures from recent shenanigans.
I know I've said it before but one of the best parts of the museum of science is the kinetic ball machine.
Mr. Pout....ummm hello 14 year old?!
Out for a chilly stroll.
Ready to bring on 2014!


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Spring is just around the corner, which means wedding season is swiftly approaching. The newness of spring beckons brides choosing a wedding date, and venues with dates available for spring or summer weddings start disappearing as soon as a year beforehand. While planning a wedding can be an exciting process, it can also be incredibly stressful, whether due to a short engagement, limited budget, or specific expectations. One of the most difficult things for a bride, other than finding the perfect dress, is selecting where her envy-inducing, dream-fulfilling, fairy tale wedding is going to take place.
Until recently, brides in Stillwater were presented with a limited selection of venues if they dreamt of keeping the wedding festivities local. Churches and a handful of other places in Stillwater house ceremonies, but you'd be hard-pressed to find more than a couple of locations that host wedding ceremonies and receptions, have a contingency plan for the unpredictable weather of Oklahoma, and are large enough for an expanded party; an outdoor wedding is lovely, but wind and rain can ruin months of planning in minutes, and electricity and facilities can pose problems as well. Brides of all ages seeking style, elegance and that Oklahoma charm on a budget had few places to turn; however, that is changing.
In October of 2015, Ryan and Shelby Rogers opened Rosemary Ridge, a wedding and event venue on their family property. Located on West 6th Street, just outside Stillwater, this charming barn venue offers indoor and outdoor ceremony options, and a spacious reception hall. Engaged in spring of 2013, Ryan and Shelby wanted to get married on his family's property, but had many things to consider, such as electricity, seating, and facilities, not to mention accommodations for the weather. The couple prayed about building a wedding venue on this property so they could bless others with a beautiful place to celebrate the joy of marriage, and two years later their venue, Rosemary Ridge, is up and running. While operating a wedding venue is not what they had in mind for their future, they are so thankful for Rosemary Ridge and excited for all that is to come.
Sparrow is another new wedding venue that will be opening in Stillwater. Located off 177, this venue offers a modern, yet rustic barn in a peaceful countryside setting. Sparrow was founded by Susan Hartford, a mother who had two daughters get engaged around the same time. Susan and her daughters Katie, Shelby, and Jessica had many ideas and expectations of perfect weddings, but soon discovered there was not a place in Stillwater to meet their vision; instead of becoming discouraged, these determined women found a piece of land and made their vision a reality. Construction began in early February and the venue is scheduled to be up and running by late November or early December, just in time for gorgeous winter weddings.
If you are a bride looking for a charming wedding venue in Stillwater, Oklahoma, you now have two more beautiful options to consider!


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Look up SIS or sis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sis or SIS may refer to:
People[edit]
Michael Sis (born 1960), American Catholic bishop
Places[edit]
Sis (ancient city), historical town in modern-day Turkey, served as the capital of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.
Kozan, Adana, the current name of the Armenian town of Sis in Cilicia, Turkey
Sis, Armenia, a village in Armenia
Sis, Azerbaijan, a village in the Republic of Azerbaijan
Sis, Iran, a city in East Azerbaijan, Iran
Sis, Kurdistan, a village in Kurdistan, Iran
Sis Rural District (East Azerbaijan Province), in Iran
Sis Rural District (Kurdistan Province), in Iran
Mountains of Sis, a range of the Pre-Pyrenees
Intelligence[edit]
Schengen Information System, in Europe
Security Information Service, Czech domestic information intelligence agency known as BIS
Secret Intelligence Service, UK intelligence agency, also known as MI6
Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Australia's national intelligence service
Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's national intelligence service
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government
Finnish Security Intelligence Service, the intelligence agency of Finland in charge of national security
Slovenská informačná služba, Slovak Intelligence Service
Special Intelligence Service, a secret FBI intelligence agency operating in South America during World War II
Signals Intelligence Service, the former United States Army codebreaking division
Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova, the principal intelligence agency of Moldova.
Serviço de Informações de Segurança, a Portuguese intelligence agency
Survey of India Service, formerly the Great Trigonometric Survey
Special Investigations Section, a section of the Los Angeles Police Department
Signals Intelligence Section, involved with the Magic project during World War II
Businesses[edit]
Silicon Integrated Systems, an electronics manufacturing company
Satellite Information Services, a news service company
Siemens IT Solutions and Services, a service provider which is part of Siemens AG headquarters
SIS (motorbikes), a Portuguese manufacturer of motorcycles
Schools[edit]
Shekou International School, in Shekou
Singapore International School, in Hong Kong
South Island School, in Hong Kong
United States[edit]
School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C.
University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences
Other schools[edit]
SIS Swiss International School, a group of 15 private day schools in Switzerland, Germany and Brazil
McGill University School of Information Studies, Canada
School of International Studies of the Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Singapore International School Mumbai, India
Surabaya International School, Indonesia
Seoul International School, South Korea
Stockholm International School, Sweden
Sharjah Indian School, United Arab Emirates
Other organizations[edit]
Sisters in Islam, an organization based in Malaysia
Swedish Institute for Standards
Specialized Information Services, a division of the United States National Library of Medicine
State Information Service, official media and public relations apparatus of the Egyptian state
Information processing[edit]
SIS (file format), Symbian OS filename extension
Short integer solution problem, a problem in lattice-based cryptography
Single-instance storage, information-storage space-saving mechanism
Strategic information system, a part of corporate strategy
Student information system, a software application for education establishments to manage student data
Sequential Importance Sampling
Biological sciences[edit]
Small intestinal submucosa, transplantation tissue
Second-impact syndrome, synergy in concussions
Sex in space, an area of biological research
Healthcare[edit]
Saline infusion sonography, a test used to diagnose uterine polyps
Shoulder impingement syndrome, tendinitis of the shoulder
Technologies[edit]
Selective inverted sink, frost protection device
Safety instrumented system or safety instrumentation system
Space Infrastructure Servicing, a robotic spacecraft for in-space refueling of communication satellites
Other uses[edit]
SIS (group), South Korean girl group founded 2017
SiS (TV series), a morning talk show
Supervised injection site
Sister, a female sibling
Sissy, a pejorative term for a boy or man who violates or does not meet the traditional male gender role
Shimano Index Shifting, bicycle transmission design
Single-image stereogram
Superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunnel junction
Swedish National Board of Institutional Care, abbreviated SiS
SIS 18, an accelerator at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
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The summer school will be held on the Bay Campus, a brand new £450M development. The lectures and lab classes will take place in School of Management (building number 5 on the campus map shown below).
There will be a reception on the evening of Monday. Summer school dinner is on Thursday in Swansea Meridian Tower at Swansea Marina. The restaurant boasts a unique view of Swansea sea front and the city.
Click here to download the Bay Campus Map.
Conference dinner is in Swansea Meridian Tower.