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WowCube raises $1.5M from Xsolla founder for its Rubik's Cube-like game device
Cubios, the creator of the WowCube handheld gaming cube, has raised $1.5 million from the founder of Xsolla, Aleksandr Agapitov. The funding is part of a total of $4.5 million raised in the company's latest round.
The WowCube is like a Rubik's Cube with displays on it. It's a simple device, and it is unique because it was conceived five years ago by a then-13-year-old boy and then built into a company by his father. The young teen asked his father if a Rubik's Cube could be made with video game displays. And so his father, Ilya Osipov, started Cubios to make it happen.
The San Rafael, California-based company wanted to break away from the usual mold of traditional game consoles, handhelds, and smartphones. And it has created a gaming device that you can twist, shake, and turn in one's hands.
Above: Tinkering with WowCube prototypes.
Image Credit: Cubios
Savva Osipov, now 17, and his family (including his father Ilya) are immigrants from Russia. Savva worked on gadgets like the WowCube, participated in Bay Area hackathons, and ran his own do-it-yourself (DIY) tech YouTube channel. That drew a lot of attention to the company, which his father helped take from idea stage to reality.
"It's definitely a lot more complicated than the initial idea and even the first prototype," said Savva Osipov in an interview with GamesBeat. "I thought it was possible and it's proven. It was a surprisingly simple idea, like a Rubik's Cube where you could play games on it. That was the idea. Who would have expected it would turn out so good."
Ilya Osipov said in an interview with GamesBeat that he thought about it for a few days and then he called a patent lawyer to do research on such inventions. They couldn't find anything else, and proceeded with the prototyping around the end of 2016. They started the company in April 2017. In 2018, Ilya Osipov showed prototypes at events and saw tremendous interest in the product. One investor put money into the company.
Above: You can twist a WowCube like a Rubik's Cube.
"It is not technologically difficult to do, but our challenge was building it all from scratch, layer by layer," he said. "It is a very unusual device with 24 screens and eight microprocessors."
With that complexity, it's a challenge to make the device cost effective for the youth market. One of the realities was that the team could create a cube with 2-by-2 squares on each side, rather than 3-by-3 like in a Rubik's Cube.
"With 3-by-3, it would be way more expensive," Ilya Osipov said.
Gleaming the cube
Above: Savva (left) and Ilya Osipov are the creators of the WowCube.
The WowCube entertainment system is in the shape of a cube made of eight connected modules. Twenty-four high-resolution screens cover the cube, converting the six side's into a gameplay field. You control the cube on each side by twisting, tilting, tapping and shaking — much like with a Rubik's Cube.
It delivers a unique user experience of interacting with the digital world as if it is a real object. Cubios is working on more than 30 different games: arcade games, puzzles, logic and strategy games, gamified educational apps, and many more for players of all ages.
In September, the company will launch a preorder campaign and open the software development kit (SDK) to third-party developers. WowCube has six approved patents and three pending applications. The patented magnetic connectors enable a continuous flow of information between the autonomous modules, ensuring a seamless gaming experience. A built-in gyroscope (it's a beta version) supports a realistic response to gamers' motions.
Getting notice
Above: Butterflies is one of the games on the WowCube.
The WowCube has won accolades such as the Last Gadget Standing, Edison Award, CES Innovation Award, and the Muse Design Award. The company said it has interest from distributors in 18 countries with preliminary orders for 155,000 devices, with the highest demand coming from Japan.
WowCube will come with several games, such as Pipes, Scrabble, Space, Puzzle, and Maze. You can load more games (up to 24) through the WowCube Store mobile app and via Bluetooth connectivity. Zeptolab, which had one of mobile gaming's early big hits with Cut The Rope, is one of the companies developing a game for it.
Ilya Osipov said Xsolla provides smart money and gives access to an ecosystem of developers through its Game Investment Platform. The investment round closes September 30.
Xsolla has faced controversy in recent weeks after Agapitov's Xsolla laid off 70 workers as the company was falling short of its 40% growth goals. That was tough for workers in part because of the cold messaging from Agapitov in a letter to the workers. Part of the controversy was that Xsolla used AI to determine if individuals were productive enough to remain employed. The company later said it was trying to be transparent and make sure it held people accountable in its processes.
Above: WowCubes are going into production.
Ilya Osipov said his own company now has more than 30 employees across many different time zones and regions. His son has stayed involved in the project, often studying for school at the company's office.
"I'm not a technical guy, but I believe my son will be," Ilya Osipov said. "He really likes to communicate with people. It's been great for him to participate in something that was built from scratch and can be sold in stores. It's a great experience."
Agapitov's Hand of Midas investment company, a sister firm to Xsolla, led the investment. Besides Hand of Midas, Other participants include Dobro Capital, Starta Capital, InvestFest Network VC, Quonota, and individual angel investors that put an additional $3 million into the current round.
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NDP wants gas drilling rules tightened
NDP critics want to tighten the rules and take a close look at the environmental effects of the newest form of deep drilling.
Dec. 1, 2011 10:00 a.m.
NDP environment critic Rob Fleming and energy critic John Horgan want an independent scientific review of B.C.'s shale gas industry.
VICTORIA – With shale gas booming and work beginning for pipelines and export facilities in northern B.C., the NDP wants to tighten the rules and take a closer look at the environmental effects of the newest form of deep drilling.
Hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" injects large amounts of water and chemicals deep underground to crack shale layers and release trapped gas. Much of that contaminated water comes back up with the gas, where it must be collected and treated.
NDP energy critic John Horgan and environment critic Rob Fleming are calling for an end to short-term water permits issued by the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission and the formation of an scientific panel to examine the cumulative effects of widespread drilling and fracking.
"I think the notion that water's free, that water is there for their use unreservedly is past, and the time for a scientific assessment of the impacts of the industry has arrived," Horgan said.
They also want a review of the carbon dioxide emissions from shale gas development, and the effect on B.C.'s greenhouse gas reduction targets.
The B.C. Liberal government has promised a health and safety study of effects of the booming gas industry on air and groundwater, to begin by the end of the year.
"Because water is the major concern at this point in time with hydraulic fracturing and the unconventional natural gas sector, we're looking at changing the way B.C. currently does business, closing some loopholes, or temporary practices that have become a standard way of doing business," Fleming said.
Horgan said the NDP is not calling for a halt to the sale of drilling rights or a moratorium on development. The scientific panel should hold public hearings in northeastern B.C. to hear from residents affected by drilling, water treatment ponds and pipelines on farmland.
Shale layers in northeastern B.C. are three kilometres or more underground. Horgan said he does not believe these deep layers represent a threat to groundwater, as with shallow coalbed methane deposits that can contaminate well water and make it flammable.
He said the B.C. government should continue to fund a farmers' advocacy group in the Peace region, and have all water permits issued by the natural resources ministry.
B.C. deficit forecast tops $3 billion
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NIGHTFORCE NXS 2.5-10X42MM COMPACT
Nightforce NXS scopes are an excellent tactical scope, but how does their compact version compare? We find out.
By Melvin Ewing March 10, 2021
Manufacturer: Nightforce Optics
Model: NXS Compact
Model Number: C461
Magnification Range: 2.5-10.0
Eye Relief: 3.5"/88mm
Click Value: .1 MIL
FOV: 44'-11' @ 100 yards
Adjustment Range: 27.3 Mil (100 MOA)
Reticle: Illuminated MIL-R
Focal Plane: 2nd
Weight: 20.5 oz (581g)
Overall Length: 11.9 in (302 mm)
Additional Notes: Zerostop and Digi-illum
We have reviewed a few other Nightforce scopes and have been impressed with their quality and features. The NXS line is very durable and rugged and they have an excellent reputation among the special operation units from around the world. Their NXS and ATACR scopes performed very well when we reviewed them and they make excellent tactical scopes. But one down side is that with their capability comes a large size. This time around we wanted to take one of their smaller and lighter scopes for a trial run and see how it would do as a tactical rifle scope. If you have followed Sniper Central over the years you have probably noticed that we have tried to keep things grounded in reality and not just get caught up with the latest trend in the commercial world. Rather, we try to evaluate the equipment based on actually using them in the field in the role of the military or law enforcement sniper. We do tend to favor smaller and more universally applicable scopes for all around sniping use and when we first started noticing the Nightforce Compact series of NXS scopes we liked what we saw. Then they came out with the improved 2.5-10x42mm version and we decided we wanted to see how this little scope would do. For the evaluation we selected the MIL-R reticle as it seemed to be especially suitable for sniping use.
It is somewhat interesting to note that this scope is marketed as a "compact" scope, but in fact it would have been considered a normal sized tactical scope just a decade ago. This gives you an idea of what the modern tactical scope has evolved into today. The packaging is typical Nightforce, arriving in a nice box with a good instruction manual, reticle detail sheet, and even a product catalog CD-ROM. There are even some nice stickers included and a set of rubber flip up scope caps included as well, but we will comment more on those later in the review.
The tube is an aluminum 30mm tube that is compact in length and that compact length does limit the mounting length to just a bit over 5″. If your rifle is a long action, the ring placement might be tight, but it should work, especially if using a single piece picatinny style rail. The entire scope has the traditional high quality Nightforce matte black finish that has little to no glare. The overall scope shape and design is attractive, especially when you look at the size and weight of the scope. It is less than 12″ in length and weights only one and a quarter pounds (just a bit over half a Kilo)
One of the big complaints we have had, as have others, with the full size NXS scopes is that the entire eye piece rotates when changing the magnification on the scope. This makes for an irritation when trying to use flip up scope caps and in most cases, users either do without a scope cap on the eyepiece, or they come up with some make-do configuration. Nightforce has always indicated that this was a part of the design as it created a much stronger eyepiece, but there are plenty of other extremely durable scopes on the market that do not have this same limitation. The good news is that with the compact NXS series, the moving eyepiece issue has been resolved. The eyepiece is a traditional design that is separate from the magnification ring and it rotates to focus the reticle. The lock ring at the front of the eyepiece is knurled and sets the eyepiece in place once it has been adjusted. The focus is a fine focus, meaning it is not a fast focus design, but allows for an exceptionally fine focus adjustment. Once the eyepiece has been focused and the reticle is a nice crisp image, the lock ring is cinched against the eyepiece locking it into place. We prefer this fine focus style as it allows for adjusting the reticle picture to be as sharp as possible. The fast focus designs are quick, but the granularity suffers and many of them do not have a means of locking them in place. The setup on this NXS compact also feels very robust and solid and we have no concerns for durability.
Directly in front of the eyepiece is the aforementioned magnification ring. This ring has the indicator marks placed at a slight slope toward the shooter which does help the operator to easily see what magnification setting the scope is set to by checking where it aligns with the single indicator mark on the tube. The ring itself has the same aggressive knurling on it that the eyepiece lock ring does and further more there are two higher raised finger protrusions that help the fingers get a good hold on the ring for adjusting it. The best part of the magnification ring is the included throw lever that threads into those protrusions. When attached (see the image above), it provides an extremely convenient lever to grab and adjust the magnification of the scope. These throw levers have grown in popularity and it is nice to have one included with the scope. The resistance on the magnification ring is on the stiff side but it is smooth through the entire range. That stiffness does keep the ring in place and also builds confidence that it too should hold up well over time and through rigorous use.
The NXS external knobs have always gotten high marks from us as the size and shape are easy to use and the clicks have always been very nice and accurate. The knobs on the compact version of the NXS are smaller than those on the full size NXS scopes, but this smaller size is in line with the smaller size of the compact scope. The shape of the knobs is similar to the full size NXS knobs but just on a smaller and shorter scale. There is the normal Nightforce knurling on top of the elevation knob and there are nice large size and easy to see tick marks on the face of the knob. There is a clear indication arrow showing which way to rotate the knob to move the bullet impact up. This arrow is placed in a very good spot that allows it to easily be seen from behind the scope. There is also a direction arrow on top of the knob as well. The full size NXS knobs have a full 20 MOA or 10 MIL of adjustment per revolution, but the smaller knobs on the compact NXS come with half as much adjustments per revolution, only 10 MOA or 5 MIL. Our test scope had MIL adjustments so there were 5 MILS per revolution with a click for each .1 MIL. This 5 MIL of adjustment per revolution will take a 308 shooting the standard 175gr bullet at 2600 fps from 100 to 600 yards in the first revolution and past 900 in the second revolution (in standard atmospheric conditions). Once the revolutions go beyond that second rotation, it can become an issue with failing to remember how many rotations the shooter has gone, but these scopes do have Zerostop as an option, which our test scope did have. If the shooter gets lost and fails to remember how many revolutions have been passed, he or she can just turn it down until it stops, which would then be their initial zero, usually at 100 yards. At that point, they can start over.
The specification sheet says that on the MIL adjustment versions of the scope there is a total of over 27 MIL of elevation adjustments and the MOA versions have 100 MOA, which should be plenty for just about any cartridge covering the capabilities of the scope. Our actual test scope had over 32 MIL of adjustment, even more than the spec sheet. The clicks are audibly muted and have a very positive click with no slop or mushiness and we would categorize the clicks as being excellent. You are able to feel each of the clicks even with gloves on and there are no questions about whether a click happened or not. There is a larger than normal single set screw at the top of the knob which makes slipping the knob for zeroing corrections very easy using the provided Allen wrench. There are horizontal lines on the turret below the knob to help track how many revolutions the knob has been adjusted, which will be handy and necessary with the limited amount of adjustments per revolution.
The windage knob is very similar in size and shape as the elevation knob, it is just slightly shorter but has all the same features like the knurling at the top and the single set screw. The markings on the knob count up in both directions and there is a little R or L indicating left or right to help remind the shooter which direction they have adjusted the scope. As is expected, the numbers overlap at 2.5 MIL, which if you are shooting our standard 308 with 175gr bullet, would allow you to shoot to about 900 yards in a 10mph crosswind before the numbers begin to overlap. The same excellent clicks that are found on the elevation knob are present on the windage knob as well. There is the same 27+ MIL/100 MOA of total of adjustments for the windage as there is for the elevation, but again, our test scope actually had more than the specifications called out for.
On the opposite side of the scope from the windage knob is the side focus knob which is a bit taller than both the elevation and windage knobs. The knob is marked with hash marks that grow a bit larger until the infinity mark is reached. There are not any other additional markings beyond the hashes and infinity symbol, which is probably fine since most all shooters just focus until the picture is sharp, regardless of what the marks might indicate. The knob rotates quiet smooth throughout the range, though the resistance is somewhat light. It is still enough to hold it in place without any concern, but it is just lighter than the rest of the controls on the scope. The full adjustment range uses about 300 degrees of rotation which allows for fairly fine adjustments for a sharp picture.
The reason the focus knob is taller is because the scope is equipped with the Nightforce Digillum system, which is their digitally controlled reticle illumination setup. The standard size NXS line of scopes has traditionally used an on-off setup where the focus knob is pulled out to turn the illuminated reticle on and pushed in to turn it off. There is no easy brightness control as that requires removing the focus knob and adjusting the brightness with tools. It is simple enough, but not something that can be done while eyes are on target. The newer digillum that is on this scope attempts to address that issue without the need of adding another illumination control knob on the scope. The way the controls work is that by pressing the botton on the top center of the focus knob once, it will illuminate the reticle. There are several different controls that can then be done, all using the same button on the top of the focus knob. Holding the button in for 1-3 seconds and then releasing it will turn the reticle off. By pressing the botton and then immediately releasing it without pause, will change the brightness of the reticle. The shooter can continue to do this to cycle through the brightness levels. Once it reaches its max level it flashes three times, and then the next time the button is pressed, it will decrease the brightness until the bottom is reach when it will flash three times again. If the operator holds the button in for 5 seconds, the reticle will change from red to green. Do it again, it changes green to red. If the button is held for 8 seconds, the reticle changes to night vision compatibility mode, which are very dim brightness levels for compatibility with night vision devices. We like all the different capabilities of the illuminated reticle, and we like that Nightforce has stayed away from adding a separate control knob for the reticle, but with only a single control (the button) remembering all the different functions might take some getting used to. Once the controls are mastered, it is becomes an effective illumination setup that seems to offer all the right capabilities for the intended role of this scope.
In front of the control knobs the tube tapers into a traditional objective lens bell housing. The bell has threads, but we do not see that Nightforce offers any sort of sunshade for the scope, which is an accessory we would like to see for tactical and practical purposes. We would like to mention that we love to see the label "Made in the USA" with the scope serial number marked on the tube, but it is a bit different to do it on the top of the tube instead of on the bottom.
With the inspection of the scope complete, it was time to perform the actual functionality test to see how it would perform in its intended role. For our shooting evaluation we mounted the scope onto a Sig Sauer SSG 3000 sniper rifle chambered in 308 Winchester. The SIG has a rail already attached from the factory and we then used a set of Leupold Mk4 steel 30mm rings of medium height to mount the scope to the rail. We then bore-sighted the scope to the rifle and headed out to the range. Our tests were all performed during a Montana winter with temperatures averaging in the mid-teens. The cold did not seem to effect the scope at all and the functionality of the controls remained good throughout all the tests.
The clicks on the control knobs continued to be a bright spot on this scope as they where easy to use even with gloves on in the cold. The throw lever on the magnification ring was also a nice addition that allows easy manipulation of the zoom power without having to take your eye away from the scope while trying to locate a good hand hold to adjust the zoom. The scope is a second focal plane scope so for any range estimation using the reticle the magnification needs to be set to 10x. This particular arrangement actual does allow the use of one of the range estimation tricks that is capable for second focal plane scopes with the reticle set to 10x. If you are looking at a 2 yard tall target, such as a 6 foot tall bad guy, just zoom in until the target measures two MILs tall on your reticle. Look at the zoom power, and that is how far away the target is in hundreds of yards. For instance, if you do the above and the zoom reading says 7.5x, then the target is 750 yards away. Crude, but quick and simple and accurate enough for quick engagements. The same trick can be done measuring a 1 yard sized target, just zoom in until it measures 1 MIL on the reticle and the same applies.
We shot the scope through the traditional box, shooting a group, then going down 2 MILs shoot another group, then left 2 MILs, shoot a group, then up and then back right. The 5th and last group should be right on top of the first with the groups all making a nice 2 MIL box, and the NXS compact did very well. We then fired a group, moved the windage over 6 MILS to the left, fire a group and then brought it back to zero and fired a last group, again, printing right on top of the first. We then measured the distance between the groups to verify the accuracy of the adjustments. At 100 yards 6 MILS should measure 21.6″. Of course there is going to be some fudge factor in the measurement due to the size of the groups and other variables when shooting rifles, but we like to see anything within 5% error, and consider 3% to be precise. When we measured the distance between the groups, it measure 21.5″ which is only 0.46% off indicating the adjustments appear to be right on the .1 MIL per click.
The optical quality on the scope is very good as well. The environment during the shooting was snow covered terrain with dark cloud cover which provides some tricky optical conditions with shadows. The scope did a good job with contrast and provided a crisp edge to edge picture. It is very difficult to compare optic quality between scopes and scope brands, but we had no complaints with this scope and appreciated the nice bright and clear scope picture that was easy to focus in with the side focus knob.
The reticle on this scope is what Nightforce calls the MIL-R and has some additional features to try and help estimate range more accurately. This is a traditional hash style MIL reticle that has larger hashes for the full 1 MIL intervals and then smaller hashes for half MIL intervals. There is a full 10 MILs below the horizontal stadia and an additional 5 MILs above it with 5 MILs both to the right and the left. To top it off, there is a small inverted T in the lower right quadrant that is 2 MILs tall and has tiny hash marks alternating on either side of the stadia at each .1 MIL mark. This is used for precise measurement to help improve range estimation measurements with the reticle. The reticle is effective and while the inverted T can obscure some of the viewable target area, it is not too bad.
The illuminated portion of the reticle is effective and there are enough brightness levels to satisfy just about every shooting condition, especially when you take into account the very dim night vision compatibility mode as well. The button control is different and we were mixed whether we liked it or not. The only real problem is remembering all the different functionality controls with that one button. With enough experience and time with the controls they will more than likely become second nature, but right now they are a bit cumbersome to use. For instance, if you discover that the reticle is a bit too bright and you want to dim it, but then press the button and discover that the next brightness level is actually more bright. Well, then you have to keep pressing the button until it reaches its max level and then keep pressing it until it comes back down to the brightness it was, and then press it again to get it to where you originally wanted to end up. This tended to drive us to just use it like the old Nightforce NXS way, press it once to turn it on. Press and hold for 3 seconds than release it to turn it off. Though if you forget and release it too soon… you just changed the brightness.
We do also need to point out that the floppy scope caps that are provided with the scope are really not worth keeping. Just plan on tossing them and replacing them with a good quality set of Butler Creek caps or something similar.
Overall, we really like this scope. We would love to see a version with a FFP reticle, but even without it, this is a very capable scope and very good for sniping work from 100-1000 yards. Its compact, light, durable and has excellent control knobs. The optics are very good and there are plenty of adjustments to shoot at long range with most any cartridge. Well beyond 100-1000 yards for the 308 even, though the max magnification of 10x will limit the distance capabilities of the scope. The illumination controls are a hindrance in some situations, but the scope as a whole will make a very effective scope for many sniping platforms. The price is on the bottom of the higher end pricing, but there is a lot of quality and capability included in this smaller package from Nightforce and its worth checking out.
Sniper Central
Tags: nightforce, sc endorsed, tactical scope
Matty Ice October 16th, 2021
What OBJ and EYE size Butler Creek caps fit this scope?


Just trying to do some comparisons, but how does Compass treat FAR 117 extensions?
-How often do you need to extend, or are asked to extend?
-If you extend, do you get anything in return?
-If you don't extend, how is pay handled?
-If you don't extend, are there any repercussions?
-If you don't extend, are there any repercussions?Honestly, I can't answer any of these questions because Compass has never asked me to extend. I've just simply been pulled off the trip.
2.5 years and I've extended 3 times. These were all to complete a flight that was delayed. Two were extended under 30 minutes, and 1 was about 1.5 hours.
You get payed the same.
Actually if you don't accept the extension you will be forced to speak with the on duty cp and they considered it a fatigue call. The union stands behind the company on this. If you're a commute this will screw you if it's the last day of the trip. You're expected to go to the hotel for 10hrs and the company checks CASS to see if you tried to jumpseat home. Unless you can cabin jumpseat and not be CASS verified.
If you're running into an extension situation on the last day of a trip, 99% of the time you are going to be at an outstation on the last leg of the trip. Not going to happen if you're in base. If you don't accept the extension, they will have to get you a hotel, give you junior man pay and most likely have you operate the flight the next morning. They can call it a fatigue call all they want. This shouldn't have any bearing on whether or not to accept an extension.
I've been asked to extend twice - once in base and once in SFO. Told them no both times.
I've also called in fatigued once.
In all cases, I never heard anything back from the company.


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Forty Years Later And Still Growing
Apr 15, 2013 in News
Jacobsburg Historical Society was an idea born in the Fall of 1972. Members of various community groups worked together for a common cause – to preserve the beauty of the Bushkill Creek Valley – particularly the Henry's Woods area; and to also bring to life the rich history and culture of a long lost industrial community area, namely Jacobsburg, Filetown, and Boulton.
What appeared to be a great idea of creating a new State Park, ran into immediate opposition from almost all corners of the community. The fisherman opposed the proposed lake (all PA state parks must have lakes) because of trout habitat destruction; boaters opposed the small lake and wanted a much larger one for power boating; hunters did not like the loss of prime small game hunting fields. Everyone was opposed to flooding Henry's Woods and nobody wanted the campgrounds, concession stands, the swimming pool, and especially the SEWER LINES to support all of this development.
There is a lot more to the story, and we will visit it in future newsletters and on our website. The resulting journey brought many, many people from all parts of the community together to support the preservation of the history and the unique geographical area now primarily encompassed by theJacobsburg Environmental Center and also preserved and interpreted by the Jacobsburg Historical Society. We are two distinct entities. JHS is a non-profit organization and JEEC is a PA state agency. This endeavor has been very cooperative over the years.
Our Society is recognized not only as the repository for many unique and rare firearms in our PA Long Rifle Museum, but also for the interpretive and educational exhibits that document the history of this truly early American industry and art form. JHS is also working to preserve the history of a community that was very important in the early days of the start of our great Nation
Many people have been involved in these efforts over the last 40 years and we will highlight and chronicle some of these efforts in our newly redesigned web pages. We have accomplished much, but we still have much to accomplish. To do this, we need more resources. We need more volunteers and more financial help.
Jacobsburg Historical Society has been very fortunate in the past, receiving much support from the community and many generous individuals, but we need to do more, if we are going to continue to offer the educational resources to future students of history. We thank those that have helped in the past and thank you in advance for your willingness to continue to support our commitment to the community.


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Q: Is there any way I can get to the network traffic being done by the JavaFX WebView control? Is there any way I can get to the network traffic (requests and responses) being done by the JavaFX WebView control? From what I gather this is pretty much all native webkit, not even URLConnection is used, but maybe someone has a good idea.
I'm specifically interested in capturing the location header transmitted between two redirect responses (302), not the location the redirects will eventually be send to. So there is a request, it gets a 302, the new URL gets a 302 as well, and then the end location. I either need the location header in the first 302 response, or the second request's URL before it gets redirected.

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Identification and classification of insects. Curation of insect collections.
Clark SM, Gilbert AJ. 2019. A new species of Phaedon Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1823 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) from Utah and Colorado, USA. The Coleopterists Bulletin. 73(1):193-199.
Sánchez-Reyes UJ, Niño-Maldonado S, Clark SM, Barrientos-Lozano L, Almaguer-Sierra P. 2019. Successional and seasonal changes of leaf beetles and their indicator value in a fragmented low thorn forest of northeastern Mexico (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). ZooKeys. 825:71–103.
Sandoval-Becerra FM, Sánchez-Reyes UJ, Clark SM, Venegas-Barrera CS, Horta-Vega JV, Niño-Maldonado S. 2018. Influence of habitat heterogeneity on structure and composition of a Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) assemblage in a temperate forest in northeast Mexico. Southwestern Entomologist. 43(1):115-130.
Niño-Maldonado S, Sánchez-Reyes U, Clark SM, López-Mancilla A, Martínez-Sánchez I. 2018. New records of Uroplata fusca Chapuis and Pseudispa sinuata Staines for Mexico. Southwestern Entomologist. 43(3):807-810.
Clark SM, Terry TJ, Furth DG. 2017. The first report of Lupraea elongata (Jacoby, 1891) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) from the USA. The Coleopterist Bulletin. 71(2):351-356.
Clark SM, Heninger AJ. 2016. A flightless new species of Graphops LeConte, 1884 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) from Utah, USA. The Coleopterists Bulletin. 70(1):171-176.
DeWalt RE, Grubbs SA, Armitage BJ, Baumann RW, Clark SM, Bolton MJ. 2016. Atlas of Ohio aquatic insects: Volume II, Plecoptera. Biodiversity Data Journal. 4(e10723):1-70.
Niño-Maldonado S, Sánchez-Reyes UJ, Clark SM, Toledo-Hernández VH, Corona-López AM, Jones RW. 2016. Checklist of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the state of Morelos, Mexico. Zootaxa. 4088:91-111.
Martínez-Sánchez I, Niño-Maldonado S, Lara Villalón M, Romero Nápoles J, Clark SM. 2016. Crisomélidos asociados a recursos forestales maderables y no-maderables en Victoria, Tamaulipas. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Agrícolas. 7(8):1945-1957.
Sánchez-Reyes UJ, Niño-Maldonado S, Barrientos-Lozana L, Clark SM, Jones RW. 2016. Faunistic patterns of leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) within elevational and temporal gradients in Sierra de San Carlos, Mexico. ZooKeys. 611:11-56.
Chaboo CS, Clark SM. 2015. Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A survey of the families. Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae (not including Alticini). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 88(3):361-367.
Konstantinov AS, Linzmeier AM, Clark SM, Ivie MA. 2015. Review of the West Indian genus Monotalla Bechyné (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini) with description of five new species. ZooKeys. 505:117-136.
Clark SM, Rattu A, Cillo D. 2014. Monoxia obesula Blake, 1939, a species native to the U.S.A. and adventive to Sardinia, Italy (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Galerucini). Zootaxa. 3774:83-89.
Bosio G, Massobrio V, Chersi C, Scavarda G, Clark SM. 2014. Spread of the ragweed leaf beetle, Ophraella communa LeSage, 1986 (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae), in Piedmont Region (northwestern Italy). Bollettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana. 146(1):17-30.
Clark SM, Lillrose T, Belo Neto LA. 2013. Leaf Beetles of the Cayman Islands (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Insecta Mundi. 0279:1-41.
Shin C, Chaboo CS, Clark SM. 2012. Revision of the endemic Hispaniolan genus Asteriza Chevrolat, 1836, with descripition of two new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Ischyrosonychini). Zootaxa. 3227:34-53.
Gilbert AJ, Clark SM. 2012. Synetocephalus penrosei Gilbert & Clark (Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Luperini), a new species from California, U.S.A. Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 88(2):122-129.
Barney RJ, Clark SM, Riley EG. 2011. Annotated list of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Kentucky: subfamily Cryptocephalinae. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. 72(1):3-23.
Barney RJ, Clark SM, Riley EG. 2011. Annotated list of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Kentucky: Subfamily Eumolpinae. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. 71:3-18.
Chaboo CS, Clark SM. 2011. The beetle spawn of John Wilcox: Shawn Clark. Chrysomela Newsletter. 53:14-16.
Clark SM, Belo Neto LA. 2010. A remarkable teratological specimen of Pseudoluperus longulus (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Utah, U.S.A. Coleopterists Bulletin. 64(4):383-385.
Barney RJ, Clark SM, Riley EG. 2009. Annotated list of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Kentucky: Subfamily Galerucinae, tribe Alticini. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. 70(1):29-55.
Barney RJ, Clark SM, Riley EG. 2009. Annotated list of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Kentucky: Subfamily Galerucinae, tribes Galerucini and Luperini. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. 70(1):17-28.
Goodman MH, Clark SM. 2009. Geographic variability in Calligrapha verrucosa (Suffrian 1858), a willow-feeding leaf beetle from western North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Insecta Mundi. 0092:1-11.
Gilbert AJ, Clark SM. 2008. A new species of Acalymma Barber, 1947 (Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Luperini), from southeastern Arizona and New Mexico, U.S.A. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 83(4):289-295.
Barney RJ, Clark SM, Riley EG. 2008. Annotated list of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Kentucky: Subfamily Chrysomelinae. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. 69(2):91-100.
Clark SM, Olsen AB, Goodman MH. 2008. The subfamily Donaciinae in Utah (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist. 4:1-37.
Clark SM, Johnson RL. 2007. Absence of metathoracic wings and corrections to the description of Chaetocnema labiosa White, 1996 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Western North American Naturalist. 67:318-321.
Barney RJ, Clark SM, Riley EG. 2007. Annotated list of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Kentucky: Subfamily Cassidinae. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. 68(2):132-144.
Clark SM. 2002. Color forms of Monocesta coryli (Say) in West Virginia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Insecta Mundi. 15:70.
Riley EG, Clark SM, Gilbert AJ. 2002. New records, nomenclatural changes, and taxonomic notes for select North American leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Insecta Mundi. 15:1-17.
Clark SM. 2001. The western North American genus Androlyperus Crotch, 1873 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Insecta Mundi. 13:217-227.
Clark SM. 2000. An annotated list of the leaf beetles of West Virginia (Coleoptera: Orsodacnidae, Megalopodidae, Chrysomelidae exclusive of Bruchinae). Occasional Publications of the West Virginia Department of Agriculture. 1:1-93.
Clark SM. 2000. Color morphs of the larger elm leaf beetle, Monocesta coryli (Say), in West Virginia (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science. 72:11.
Clark SM, Jolivet P. 2000. Timarcha lives (in Montana)!. Chrysomela Newsletter. 38/39:3.
Clark SM. 1998. Descriptions of new luperine genera and species from Mexico, with keys to related taxa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Insecta Mundi. 12:189-206.
Clark SM. 1996. The genus Scelolyperus Crotch in North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Insecta Mundi. 10:261-280.
Clark SM, Cavey JF. 1995. A new species of Calligrapha (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from eastern North America. Insecta Mundi. 9:329-333.
Clark SM. 1993. A new genus and two new species of Luperini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Costa Rica. Insecta Mundi. 7:215-218.
Virkki N, Santiago-Blay JA, Clark SM. 1991. Chromosomes of some Puerto Rican Disonychina and Oedionychina (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae: Oedionychini). Psyche. 98:373-390.
Hall JE, Amrine JW, Gais RD, Kolanko VP, Hagenbuch BE, Gerencser VF, Clark SM. 1991. Parasitization of humans in West Virginia by Ixodes cookei (Acari: Ixodidae), a potential vector of Lyme borreliosis. Journal of Medical Entomology. 28(1):186-189.
Clark SM. 1990. A historical summary of pear thrips in West Virginia. Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin. 697:67.
Clark SM, Johnson G, Ivie MA, Jensen GL. 1988. Common aphids on small grains in Montana. Montana State University Extension Service, Extension Bulletin. 39:1-4.
Clark SM. 1987. An unusual new genus and species of galerucine beetle from Haiti (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Coleopterists Bulletin. 41:167-170.
Clark SM. 1986. Occurrence of Monocesta coryli (Say) in Ohio (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Ohio Journal of Science. 86:213.
Clark SM. 1983. A revision of the genus Microrhopala (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in America north of Mexico. Great Basin Naturalist. 43:597-617.
Olsen AB, Clark SM, Nelson CR. 2004. Donaciinae of Utah (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). The Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 81:300.
Clark SM, LeDoux DG, Seeno TN, Riley EG, Gilbert AJ, Sullivan JM. 2004. Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Sacramento, CA: The Coleopterists Society. 1-476 p.
Riley EG, Clark SM, Seeno TN. 2003. Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Sacramento, CA: Coleopteists Society. 1-290 p.
Smith EH, Clark SM, Furth DG, Chaboo CS. 2013. 2012 Entomological Society of America annual meeting of chrysomelid colleagues.
Clark SM, Anderson ER. Biology and taxonomic history of Triarius and related genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomological Society of America, Annual Convention. Denver, Colorado. 2017 .
Clark SM. Introducción a la familia Chrysomelidae. Curso-taller Internacional de Insectos de la Reserva de la Biósfera "Barranca de Metztitlán". Metztitlán, Mexico. 2017 .
Clark SM, Nelson CR. Proposal to include Brigham Young University in the network. Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network. Phoenix, Arizona. 2012 .
Clark SM. Here today and gone tomorrow: Honeybee colony collapse. Tanner Lecture. Provo, Utah. 2010 .
Clark SM, Hinkson HR, Anderson VJ. Estudios de entomología. Taller Entomológica. Ibarra, Ecuador. 2009 .
Clark SM, Mower RC, Anderson VJ. Estudios de entomología. Taller Entomológica. Ibarra, Ecuador. 2008 .
Goodman MH, Clark SM. One of these beetles is not like the other: Geographic variation vs. sub-speciation in willow-feeding Calligrapha (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Annual Meeting, Entomological Society of America. Indianapolis, Indiana. 2006 .
Clark SM. La clasificación mundial de los crisomélidos (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Taller Internacional de Sistemática y Ecología de Insectos de la Reserva de la Biófera El Cielo, Tamaulipas. Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. 2006 .
Clark SM. Los géneros de la subfamilia Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Taller Internacional de Sistemática y Ecología de Insectos de la Reserva de la Biófera El Cielo, Tamaulipas. Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. 2006 .
Clark SM. Los géneros de la subfamilia Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Taller Internacional de Sistemática y Ecología de Insectos de la Reserva de la Biófera El Cielo, Tamaulipas. Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. 2006 .
Clark SM. An overview of classification and identification in the subfamily Chrysomelinae (Coleptera: Chrysomelidae). Southern Plant Protection Diagnostic Network Workshop. Blacksburg, Virginia. 2006 .
Clark SM. An overview of classification and identification in the subfamily Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Southern Plant Protection Diagnostic Network Workshop. Blacksburg, Virginia. 2006 .
Clark SM. An overview of leaf beetle classification and identification (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Southern Plant Protection Diagnostic Network Workshop. Blacksburg, Virginia. 2006 .
Clark SM. Leaf beetles of Puerto Rico (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Southern Plant Protection Diagnostic Network Workshop. Blacksburg, Virginia. 2006 .
Goodman MH, Clark SM. Systematic and biological studies of willow-feeding Calligrapha (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomological Society of America, Annual Meeting. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 2005 .
Clark SM, Von Dohlen CD. Overview of insect collections at Utah State University and Brigham Young University. Entomology Collections Network, Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah. 2004 .
Guptill J, Bingham A, Clark SM, Baumann RW, Nelson CR. Macroinvertebrates of Timpanogos Cave National Monument. Utah Chapter of the Wildlife Society, Annual Meeting. Provo, Utah. 2004 .
Clark SM. Leaf beetle hosts. Entomological Society of America, Annual Meeting. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 2002 .
Clark SM. Biology of leaf beetles. Brigham Young University, College of Biology and Agriculture, Seminar. Provo, Utah. 2001 .
Clark SM. Color morphs of the larger elm leaf beetle, Monocesta coryli (Say), in West Virginia (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). West Virginia Academy of Science, Annual Meeting. Fairmont, West Virginia. 2000 .
Clark SM. A historical summary of pear thrips in West Virginia. Regional Pear Thrips Conference. West Burlington, Vermont. 1989 .
Clark SM. Classification and biology of chrysomelid beetles. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Entomology, Seminar. Blacksburg, Virginia. 1989 .
Clark SM. Distribution and biology of Russian wheat aphid in Montana. Russian Wheat Aphid Workshop. Denver, Colorado. 1988 .
Clark SM. The biology of non-leaf beetles. Ohio State University, Department of Entomology, Seminar. Columbus, Ohio. 1986 .
Clark SM, Needham G. Use of color video presentations to bring the insect world to the classroom. Entomological Society of America, Annual Meeting. Hollywood, Florida. 1985 .


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Q: How can I terminate a MathKernel that is running an external program after a timeout? I'm using ParrallelDo to parallel run another program (windows executable) in 8 subkernels. Sometimes a SubKernel freezes. What I see in the task-manager is that one or two of the MathKernels don't finish executing but build up page faults. The task of the external program has already finished by then. I then terminate the MathKernel with the task-manager by hand and ParallelDo redistributes the tasks - sometimes successful.
The external program is not written by me - so you can view it as a black box. I call it about 300-2000 times for one simulation which in total can take up to 8 hours - so I want to automatize this process. I want to terminate a subkernel after a specific time (i.e. four times the average time of the last program calls) in order to give ParallelTable a chance to redistribute the tasks.
Is this possible? And is this a good approach?
I tried TimeConstrained[] after I saw Pillsys answer but it didn't work for me.
Here are the relevant code snippets:
ParallelDo[
    ...
    PutAppend[...first comment...];
    TimeConstained[RunB["program.exe"<>item],600];
    PutAppend[...second comment...];
    ...
,{item,items}]

with
RunB[cmd_String]:= Module[{shell},
    shell=NETLink'CreateCOMObject["WScript.shell"];
    shell@run[cmd,0,True]
];

After a while I see this in the taskmanager ("Seitenfehler" means page faults):

but the program.exe does not appear in the list so it should have finished. However, Mathematica doesn't reach the second comment so it must still be within the TimeConstrained[] command.
Any thoughts/ideas to how I can kill the task?

A: Without the program in question, I had to fake it using sleep (which may not even exist on Windows), but here's a rough outline that I believe will work for your needs. I've been working on this sort of problem a lot recently, for similar reasons, so this is all going to be a little on the elaborate side.
Here's a shell command that will invoke it on Unix-y systems, but I hope the idea translates:
ClearAll[sleepy, timeQ, toSeconds, timeConstrainedProcess];

timeQ[q_Quantity] := UnitDimensions[q] === {{"TimeUnit", 1}};
toSeconds[q_Quantity?timeQ] := QuantityMagnitude[q, "Seconds"];

sleepy[q_Quantity?timeQ] := sleepy[toSeconds[q]];
sleepy[seconds_?NonNegative] :=
  StringTemplate["sleep `` && echo 'awake now!'"][seconds];

Then it looks like TimeConstrained will indeed work, and at least on the Mac, the offending process will be killed.
TimeConstrained[
 RunProcess[{$SystemShell, "-c", sleepy[Quantity[1, "Seconds"]]}], 10]
(* <|"ExitCode" -> 0, "StandardOutput" -> "awake now!\n",
     "StandardError" -> ""|> *)

TimeConstrained[
 RunProcess[{$SystemShell, "-c", sleepy[Quantity[1, "Minutes"]]}], 10]
(* $Aborted *)

To check your use case, I went ahead and tested it out with parallel kernels; however, I had the TimeConstrained be part of the expression passed to the subkernels, which worked like a charm.
LaunchKernels[];
DistributeDefinitions[sleepy, timeQ];

I don't know for sure why I had to distribute timeQ to the subkernels, but it wasn't automatically distributed. I'll have to search the SE archives later. Now for the moment of truth:
ParallelMap[
  TimeConstrained[
    StringTrim@
     RunProcess[{$SystemShell, "-c", sleepy[#]}]["StandardOutput"],
    10] &,
  {1, 5, 15, 25}] // AbsoluteTiming
(* {10.0157, {"awake now!", "awake now!", $Aborted, $Aborted}} *)

UPDATE: I did a little more experimenting, and one thing I found is that Run does not work properly with TimeConstrained, unlike RunProcess. This probably falls short of being a bug, but it's surprising and dubious, IMO.
TimeConstrained[Run["sleep 10"], 5] // AbsoluteTiming
(* {10.0079, 0} *)

TimeConstrained[RunProcess[{"sleep", "10"}], 5] // AbsoluteTiming
(* {5.00194, $Aborted} *)

Replacing Run with RunProcess may resolve your issue.

A: cmd script
I tried Pillsys Method but didn't have any success. So I tried a different route by writing a batch file that will monitor the MathKernels and kills them if they have a page fault of over one million. Credit goes to DavidPostill for pointing me to Sysinternals (see here).

*

*Download Sysinternals Suite from https://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx

*Make the programs visible by adding the folder (in my case ";d:\scripts\SysintervalsSuite\") to the PATH variable in Windows

*Add the folowing script in "d:\scripts\checkmathkernels.bat":
@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
REM Dieses script soll MathKernels schließen die eine zu hohe (>1M) page fault haben. Es prüft alle 60 Sekunden.
REM Der folgende Aufruf liest alle MathKernel Prozesse aus. PIDs sind an Stelle 2. (Page)Faults sind an Stelle 7.
REM pslist -m -nobanner MathKernel | findstr /C:"MathKernel"
:start
set "output_cnt=0"
for /f "tokens=2,7 " %%e in ('pslist -m -nobanner MathKernel ^| findstr /C:"MathKernel"') do (
    set /a output_cnt+=1
    set "pids[!output_cnt!]=%%e"
    set "faults[!output_cnt!]=%%f"
)
REM Ausgabe:
echo PID  faults
for /L %%n in (1 1 !output_cnt!) DO (
    if !faults[%%n]! GTR 1000000 (
    call taskkill /f /PID !pids[%%n]!
)
echo !pids[%%n]! !faults[%%n]!
)
timeout /T 60
goto start

*Call bat from Mathematica or start it with a doubleclick
PowerShell
If you want to avoid using Sysintervals you could use the following PowerShell Script (tested on Win7 SP1, PowerShell v5):
$counter = 0;
Do {
$pr = Get-WmiObject -Query "select * from win32_process where name='MathKernel.exe'"
foreach ($i in $pr) {
    Write-Output "Process $($i.Handle) has $($i.PageFaults) PageFaults"
    If ($i.PageFaults -ge 1000000) {
        Stop-Process $i.Handle -Force
        $counter++
        Write-Output "Process $($i.Handle) stopped"
    }
}
Write-Output "$($counter) processes stopped so far"
Start-Sleep -Seconds 60
} Until ( $Host.UI.RawUI.KeyAvailable -and ($Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("IncludeKeyUp,NoEcho").VirtualKeyCode -eq 27 ) )

If you save it as "pf1.sh1" you can call it from a bat file in the same directory with
powershell.exe -noprofile -executionpolicy bypass -file %~dp0\pf1.ps1


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Police Finally Throw Out Old, Embarrassing Evidence From '80s
MEMPHIS, TN—Shaking their heads at how things used to be while they filled up trash bags in the station, members of the Memphis Police Department had reportedly finally gotten around to throwing out a bunch of old, embarrassing evidence from the 1980s, sources confirmed Tuesday. "Oh my god, how terrible does all this evidence look in 2021? We can't show this to anyone!" said Sgt. Peter Mackey, tossing a stack of documents and bags of old forensic evidence into a trash bag, adding that he hadn't seen any of that stuff for 30 years and didn't like being reminded of it. "Can you believe we were into collecting this kind of evidence back in the day? How mortifying. It totally made sense back then, but now it makes me cringe. We thought it was soooo important in 1986, but today it just looks completely outdated, kind of tacky even. Quick, get rid of it all before anyone sees it." At press time, Mackey was feeling completely embarrassed after discovering a piece of hideous '80s crime scene photographs that were totally exonerating.
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Introduction: Several common alleles have been shown to be associated with breast and/or ovarian cancer risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Recent genome-wide association studies of breast cancer have identified eight additional breast cancer susceptibility loci: rs1011970 (9p21, CDKN2A/B), rs10995190 (ZNF365), rs704010 (ZMIZ1), rs2380205 (10p15), rs614367 (11q13), rs1292011 (12q24), rs10771399 (12p11 near PTHLH) and rs865686 (9q31.2). Methods: To evaluate whether these single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with breast cancer risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers, we genotyped these SNPs in 12,599 BRCA1 and 7,132 BRCA2 mutation carriers and analysed the associations with breast cancer risk within a retrospective likelihood framework. Results: Only SNP rs10771399 near PTHLH was associated with breast cancer risk for BRCA1 mutation carriers (per-allele hazard ratio (HR) = 0.87, 95% CI: 0.81 to 0.94, P-trend = 3 x 10(-4)). The association was restricted to mutations proven or predicted to lead to absence of protein expression (HR = 0.82, 95% CI: 0.74 to 0.90, P-trend = 3.1 x 10(-5), P-difference = 0.03). Four SNPs were associated with the risk of breast cancer for BRCA2 mutation carriers: rs10995190, P-trend = 0.015; rs1011970, P-trend = 0.048; rs865686, 2df P = 0.007; rs1292011 2df P = 0.03. rs10771399 (PTHLH) was predominantly associated with estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer for BRCA1 mutation carriers (HR = 0.81, 95% CI: 0.74 to 0.90, P-trend = 4 x 10(-5)) and there was marginal evidence of association with ER- negative breast cancer for BRCA2 mutation carriers (HR = 0.78, 95% CI: 0.62 to 1.00, P-trend = 0.049). Conclusions: The present findings, in combination with previously identified modifiers of risk, will ultimately lead to more accurate risk prediction and an improved understanding of the disease etiology in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
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Q: Middleman and Github pages I'm trying to create a static site using Middleman. The git repo master has the source files. The static files are generated in the build folder which is in .gitignore. I have a branch gh-pages for Github pages. How do I setup things such that the gh-pages has contents of the build folder of master.
Thanks.

A: Looks like this gem provides an elegant solution:
middleman-gh-pages

A: I've started using the same technique as Octopress uses, it works great for Middleman.
Basically I use two git repositories, one inside the root folder and one inside the build folder. The root repository pushes to the develop branch on the GitHub remote and excludes the build directory. The repository inside the build directory pushes to the master (or gh-pages) branch of the same GitHub remote.
To automate the pushing of the new static pages, I use the following Rakefile:
desc "deploy build directory to github pages"
task :deploy do
  puts "## Deploying branch to Github Pages "
  cp_r ".nojekyll", "build/.nojekyll"
  cd "build" do
    system "git add ."
    system "git add -u"
    puts "\n## Commiting: Site updated at #{Time.now.utc}"
    message = "Site updated at #{Time.now.utc}"
    system "git commit -m \"#{message}\""
    puts "\n## Pushing generated website"
    system "git push origin master"
    puts "\n## Github Pages deploy complete"
  end
end

A: Another good gem is middleman-deploy. After you have installed it and configured everything, you can simply run
$ middleman deploy

and your build directory will be pushed to GitHub pages. You can specify which branch you push to in the config. I also have a blog post here regarding switching from Jekyll to GitHub pages and it talks a little about deployment.

A: I couldn't find a clean way of doing this. This is a script I've been using:
bundle exec middleman build
mv build /tmp/

git checkout gh-pages
git rm -rf .
cp -r /tmp/build/* .
git add .
git commit -m "Update site"

rm -rf /tmp/build

git push
git checkout master


Succotsash comes from a North American Indian word for 'broken kernels'. The dish gained popularity during the great depression. It was a staple dish when meat was scarce and expensive. There is no set recipe and you can add what you like to create this tasty broth. In Zacry's we often use lobster stock for fish based versions to add sweetness and complexity.
Put a pan of water on to boil and place the beef tomato in the water for 15 seconds, refresh in iced water.
Remove and discard the skin, cut in half and remove the seeds, roughly chop the flesh and reserve.
In a large pan add the sliced chorizo and place over a low heat for the fat to render, cook slowly for 5 minutes until cooked and the chorizo has given up its oils.
Add the chicken stock and bring to a simmer, add the corn, peas, chopped tomato, both the beans and continue to simmer for a couple of minutes.
Check the seasoning and adjust with the salt and paprika.
Roll the monkfish in the breadcrumbs and ideally grill over charcoal with a lid covering to take on hints of smoke.
If you are panfrying place a large frying pan on a moderate heat and add a little pommace oil, add the coated monkfish and colour evenly on all sides until golden. Then add a knob of butter and baste until the butter has browned.
Whichever way you cook your monkfish give it a minute to rest before serving to allow the flesh to relax.
While this is happening, re-heat the succotash, chop the herbs and add to it.
Place the mix into four bowls, top with the monkfish and serve.
I like this dish with some crusty bread to mop up the juices.


The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies--two subjects seldom theorized together--signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the "question of the animal," challenging the philosophical idealism that has dogged the question by tracing how the politics of capital and of animal life impinge on one another in market cultures of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
What is the role of government in protecting animal welfare? What principles should policy makers draw on as they try to balance animal welfare against human liberty? Much has been written in recent years on our moral duties towards animals, but scholars and activists alike have neglected the important question of how far the state may go to enforce those duties. Kimberly K. Smith fills that gap by exploring how liberal political principles apply to animal welfare policy. Focusing on animal welfare in the United States, Governing Animals begins with an account of the historical relationship between animals and the development of the American liberal welfare state. It then turns to the central theoretical argument: Some animals (most prominently pets and livestock) may be considered members of the liberal social contract. That conclusion justifies limited state intervention to defend their welfare - even when such intervention may harm human citizens. Taking the analysis further, the study examines whether citizens may enjoy property rights in animals, what those rights entail, how animals may be represented in our political and legal institutions, and what strategies for reform are most compatible with liberal principles. The book takes up several policy issues along the way, from public funding of animal rescue operations to the ethics of livestock production, animal sacrifice, and animal fighting. Beyond even these specific policy questions, this book asks what sort of liberalism is suitable for the challenges of the twenty-first century. Smith argues that investigating the political morality of our treatment of animals gives us insight into how to design practices and institutions that protect the most vulnerable members of our society, thus making of our shared world a more fitting home for both humans and the nonhumans to which we are so deeply connected.
Animals hate captivity; they tell us all the time. We just aren't listening.


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Add bacon, garlic, and Ranch Mix. Stir in well.
Fold in green beans and heat through, simmering, stirring gently and occasionally so that you don't wreck them.


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Tags: James Gates Percival, Poetry, Galena, Book, Christian Narkiewicz - Laine
ISBN: 0-935119-68-X
Two hundred years ago, the great American poet, James Gates Percival, published his first book of poetry, Prometheus in two parts, together with several poems he included as "lesser works." In his early 20s, the quixotic and hopelessly possessed Percival, who had just graduated from the School of Medicine at Yale University, was enormously prolific, producing Prometheus and other poems published several years later, perhaps some he wrote as early as a young teenager. His new work quickly propelled him into international fame as one of America's leading new poets.
Originally born in Connecticut, the poet relocated to the Upper Mississippi River Valley in the 1850s to pursue work as a geologist in the Galena mining region and became the first poet of Illinois and Wisconsin. Two hundred years ago, the great American poet, James Gates Percival, published his first book of poetry, Prometheus in two parts, together with several poems he included as "lesser works." In his early 20s, the quixotic and hopelessly possessed Percival, who had just graduated from the School of Medicine at Yale University, was enormously prolific, producing Prometheus and other poems published several years later, perhaps some he wrote as early as a young teenager. His new work quickly propelled him into international fame as one of America's leading new poets. Originally born in Connecticut, the poet relocated to the Upper Mississippi River Valley in the 1850s to pursue work as a geologist in the Galena mining region and became the first poet of Illinois and Wisconsin.
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The RETROFIT 2050 Urban Foresight Panel – a group of leading experts from industry, academia, government and civil society organisations - met at the Royal Society, London on October 6th 2011 for the first of three participatory scenario workshops. The workshop process will produce a set of contextual scenarios for the systemic urban retrofitting of core UK city regions. These scenarios will then be tested and evaluated through the project's detailed modelling and case-study research in Greater Manchester and Cardiff/SE Wales.
An overview of the Retrofit 2050 scenario building framework is available as a project working paper. A report from the October workshop will be published shortly.


Pepi Pescollderungg was born in Stern/Abteital and attended the art school in Selva and the Art Institute in St. Ulrich. Since 1977 he has worked as a freelance sculptor.
Pescollderungg works primarily with wood. Among his numerous works, there are those of great abstraction, but at the same time there are delicate sculptures with traditional subjects such as the religious art. Such as the representations of the Holy Family and nativity scenes he skilfully carves from a single massive block of wood. Also abstract work has its place in his repertoire. His oak sculpture that marks the end of the sculpture trail in Reckental was designed to be both: a form study with possibilities to sit or lie, giving the viewer the opportunity to reflect in a peaceful environment on what they have seen.
Pepi Pascollderung is an ever learning artist. He attaches great importance to the confrontation with fellow artists and has participated in a variety of sculpture symposia over the years. He has also been involved as a lecturer for many years: as an art educator and teacher at the carving school in St. Jakob near Ahrntal.


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East Carolina Fans Boo Marching Band For Kneeling During Anthem
Emma Baccellieri
Several members of the East Carolina marching band knelt during the national anthem, and a number of fans did not take kindly to it.
Band members took a knee while playing the anthem before Saturday's home football game against the University of Central Florida. Some fans responded to the peaceful demonstration by booing loudly during the band's halftime performance:
In the past two weeks, band members at Southern Methodist and the University of North Carolina have also knelt in protest during the anthem. Later Saturday afternoon, members of North Carolina State's band protested in the same fashion.
Shortly after halftime, East Carolina's chancellor released a statement acknowledging the "disappointment" that Pirate fans expressed but upholding the band members' right to engage in protest:
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New developer APIs for iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 appear in open-source WebKit
- Jun. 2nd 2014 8:03 am PT
The code shows that this is a new addition for OS X 10.10 and iOS 8.
Slightly ahead of the keynote later today, Apple has pushed some of its new APIs for developers into the open-source channels. The class in question is a new view that appears to replace the current iOS and OS X WebKit implementations, which enables apps to show webpages and other content inline.
The new framework seems to indicate a focus on cross-platform API compatibility, between iOS and OS X. The leaked framework seems to be fully feature-compatible across platforms. This differs to the situation today, where developers must use the 'WebView' class for OS X and 'UIWebView' for iOS. This should help developers write more reusable code.
The new class still uses different view classes between the two platforms, which indicates that Apple has not ported UIKit over to the Mac, as some developers hoped for.
WebKit uses an open-source license that means Apple must contribute its additions to the framework back into the community. Usually, Apple holds back on releasing the commits until it announces the new tools and frameworks.
In this case, however, Apple engineers seems to have jumped the gun a little early, with the timestamp for the commit saying the code was pushed a few hours ago. No doubt Apple will talk about changes to WebKit and other frameworks in the sessions this week at the conference.
Apple's tablet debuted in 2010. Since the original version, it's expanded into multiple screen sizes and Pro and non-Pro options.
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Kannan Family
These materials were donated by Matthew Kannan.
Matthew Kannan descends from Charles Kannan and Nora Rabil Kannan, immigrants from Lebanon who settled in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The two had seven children before Charles' death on January 6, 1929: Addie, James, Magdaline, Kattie, Louis, and Francis. On his mother's side of the family, Matt Kannan is descended from Shickrey Baddour, a businessman who immigrated from Hammana, Lebanon in 1893, and Victoria Alkazin. The two moved to Goldsboro, North Carolina, from Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1915. The Kannans, Baddours, and Rabils all had their origins in or near Hammana, Lebanon. The three families remained close for decades and generations after their immigration, creating the Hammana Club together in order to preserve their shared cultural origins and support their patriotic, enterprising, and communal participation in American and North Carolinian life.
Shickrey and Victoria's youngest son, Mitchell David Baddour, was the grandfather of Matthew Kannan. Mitchell served in the United States Navy from 1943 until March 19, 1946, when he was honorably discharged due to injuries sustained in service in the Mediterranean, Southern France, North Africa, and Sicily. Mitchell attained the rank of Quartermaster 3rd class, and received the American Campaign Medal, the Europe-Africa-Middle East Medal, and the Victory Medal of World War II. After his service, Mitchell returned to North Carolina to attend college. He married Doris Baddour in 1953, and the two had four children together: three sons Michael, Paul, and Tony, and one daughter, Mary Anne "Pixie" Baddour Kannan.
Pixie Baddour married Charles Louis Kannan, the son of Marguerite Rabil Kannan and Louis Joseph Kannan. Louis Kannan was one of the youngest sons of Charles and Nora Kannan; though born in North Carolina, he raised his family Franklin, Virginia. Charles and Pixie had two children together: Matthew and Mariam Kannan.
This collection contains studio portraits and family photographs of individuals and groups from the Baddour, Kannan, and Rabil families; material relating to Mitchell Baddour's service in the United States Navy during World War II; and material documenting the Hammana Club in North Carolina.
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A photograph of a U.S. Navy Land Craft taken by Mitchell Baddour during his time serving in the US Navy.


Market at PSU tomorrow 9-2. Just in time, I just used my last market egg yesterday. I know the store sells them, but it's not the same. A duck egg from The Dancing Chicken Farm, Tillamook white cheddar and bread – sometimes it's from the Pearl; others its Dave's Killer Bread – It's my NW sandwich, and a damn good way to start the day. Long live local foods.
Believe it or not, there are more than eggs at the Market. Two Tarts Bakery or possibly 2.0 Tarts Bakery returns to where they started: making baked goods exclusively for the Market. They aren't the only Bakery – Mio's Delectables fusing Japanese flavors with Parisian technique.
It's not all just cookies – Linda Brand Crab, for the new year – both Calendar and Lunar, the Year of the Goat (Sometimes Sheep) is a month away but it's never too soon to start celebrating. Pono, Deck Family, Pine Mountain and Sudan will be there with roasts, steaks, sausages and maybe if mood strikes you Osso Bucco.
And what goes better with a roast than mashed or roasted potatoes. Thanks Rossi Farms.
All in all t here will be 60 vendors there selling everything from a bite for now and those hearty greens that you promised yourself would be the backbone of your healthy 2015. Eat your greens and eat what you enjoy; we'll see you at Portland State on Saturdays this year, all year.
It would be nice if a full list of the vendors who will be at the Farmers Market in these winter months was posted on the site.


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Play to Learn: Discussion
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Why Movement is Essential in Early Childhood With so few years under their belts, my 3- and 6-year-old daughters are still learning to inhabit their bodies. They are learning how to maneuver themselves physically, how to orient themselves in space. As Vanessa Durand, a pediatrician at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, says, freedom of movement is necessary for children to meet their developmental milestones: "Children learn by experiencing their world using all of their senses.
The Brain-Changing Power of Conversation The Science Researchers used highly faithful audio recorders — a system called Language Environment Analysis (known as LENA) — to capture every word spoken or heard by 36 4–6 year olds from various socioeconomic backgrounds over two full days. The recordings were analyzed to measure the number of words spoken by each child, the number of words spoken to each child, and the number of conversational turns — back-and-forth exchanges initiated by either adult or child. Comparing those measurements with brain scans of the individual children, the analysis found that differences in the number of conversational turns accounted for differences in brain physiology, as well as for differences in language skills including vocabulary, grammar, and verbal reasoning. Read the MIT News story for a fuller summary of the research. The Takeaways
21 of the Best Early Years Books for International Friendship Day We know that skills like empathy aren't fully developed until later in a child's life, which is why there are so many stories on friendship and how to treat people aimed at Early Years. International Friendship Day, then, is a great opportunity to share some of these amazing books with your children. It does, however, fall on Sunday 30 July. So celebrating on the day itself is going to be difficult, doubly so for Reception classes who are on summer holidays. Here are our picks for some top tales that touch on various aspects of friendship that kids will love. The cognitive benefits of play: Effects on the learning brain © 2008 - 2014, Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved Science supports many of our intuitions about the benefits of play. Playful behavior appears to have positive effects on the brain and on a child's ability to learn. In fact, play may function as an important, if not crucial, mode for learning. Want specifics? Here are some examples.
Convention on the Rights of the Child Text in PDF Format Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989 entry into force 2 September 1990, in accordance with article 49 Preamble The States Parties to the present Convention, Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Bearing in mind that the peoples of the United Nations have, in the Charter, reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person, and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Primary school shake-up to focus on 'play-led' learning Children at primary schools would not study traditional subjects until as late as 10 years of age, under proposals being considered by policymakers. Instead, there would be a much greater emphasis on creative play during the early years of primary school, and broader areas of learning in later years. The reforms are based loosely on some of the features of top-performing education systems in countries such as Finland, as well as new research on how children learn. The proposals, drafted by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), represent some of the biggest proposed changes to teaching and learning at primary level in more than two decades.
How can parents and teachers best educate young children? What principles can both teachers and parents bring to the education of very young children? Gillian Craig, who was part of the Learning Time with Shaun and Timmy writing team, explains. As teachers and parents, we follow certain principles in our roles. Often though, these principles overlap and all we need to do is recognise and reinforce these areas. This 'Kindness Curriculum' Is Free And Should Be Used In Every Classroom When it comes to holiday shopping, there are two kinds of people. There are the ones who manage to find the perfect gift for everyone on their list by December 1st every year. And then there are the rest of us. Scientists Say Child's Play Helps Build A Better Brain : NPR Ed Deion Jefferson, 10, and Samuel Jefferson, 7, take turns climbing and jumping off a stack of old tires at the Berkeley Adventure Playground in California. The playground is a half-acre park with a junkyard feel where kids are encouraged to "play wild." David Gilkey/NPR hide caption toggle caption David Gilkey/NPR Deion Jefferson, 10, and Samuel Jefferson, 7, take turns climbing and jumping off a stack of old tires at the Berkeley Adventure Playground in California.
Importance of play for babies & children Play is more than just fun for babies and children. It's how they learn best, and how they work out who they are, how the world works and where they fit into it. You can read this article in a selection of languages other than English. The importance of play The cognitive benefits of play: Effects on the learning brain © 2008 - 2014, Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved Science supports many of our intuitions about the benefits of play. Playful behavior appears to have positive effects on the brain and on a child's ability to learn. In fact, play may function as an important, if not crucial, mode for learning.
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Social Media remains elusive for brands for good reason; it's always changing.
A new survey shows that once dominant social media channels including Instagram and Facebook appear to be losing their luster for brands. It also confirms what many already know: some industries fair better on certain sites than others.
The assessment, which involved an analysis of more than 40,000 companies in 130 industries during the first half of 2016, is worth noting--particularly if you rely on engaging with customers through social media sites.
Among other revelations, Instagram stands out as the platform with the best engagement ratio per brand. Users engage 10 times more with brands on this site than on Facebook, according to the survey out today from software platform TrackMaven. "Engagement," in this case, refers to the number of likes and comments generated by a post.
Still, the social media site is losing some of its oomph. The engagement ratio per brand--that is, average interactions per post per brand per 1,000 followers--decreased on Instagram by more than 25 percent. That trend is also seen at Facebook and LinkedIn, though to a lesser degree. Engagement with brands on both sites dropped about 8 percent.
By contrast, engagement on Twitter ticked up, if only slightly, by 1 percent.
The decline, on Instagram, could be related to its quest for monetization. In the first half of 2016, the picture-focused site introduced a new ranking algorithm and business profiles for brands. Still, for companies within industries including music and entertainment, consumer electronics, sporting goods, and luxury goods should continue to favor the site, according to the survey.
Companies in industries such as animation, sports, legal services and food service should stick with Facebook, where the researchers found users engaged with these brands the most. Twitter catered best to businesses in online gaming, sporting goods and, surprisingly, farming industries.
It should be noted that these findings, while interesting, don't factor in shares or clicks, which are two essential metrics for companies. So, take these stats in stride and be sure to keep your own metrics too.