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Alhambra High School Art Club
Public Service Video made by students
http://youtu.be/3a_WHKenPGs
2014-15 President: Sahvannah L. Marion 11 Grade
Lead Sponsor: Mrs. Raygor-Yanez
Contact Information: Rm. 7007 raygor-yanez@phoenixunion.org
We would like to meet you! Please come and see us!
Art Club Committee Sponsors:
Textile Arts: Ms. Jacobs Rm. 7006 4 pm
Drawing and Painting: Ms. Schuster, Ms. Yoder Rms. 7008, 7009
Ceramics, 3 dimensional design and sculpture Rm. 7011
Digital Photography, Computer Art, Web Design: Ms. Raygor-Yanez Rm. 7007 3 pm
Are you interested in creating art? Do you want a place to experiment with different art forms and media? We offer a place and time for you to do that and to meet other students who also like to "get their hands dirty"! We invite you to come to any of the rooms above for a chance to have fun, to experiment and to create from your imagination.
Article I Name: Art Club
Article II Purpose or mission: The Art Club is to assemble all Alhambra High School art students, faculty and art enthusiasts for artistic development and promoting the arts through a variety of art-making activities, gallery visits, art shows and art-making trips.
The Fine Arts Club is a hands-on, active club in which students display their artistic ability through diverse projects that they do throughout the year.
It assembles all interested students, faculty and parents for artistic development and promoting the arts, through guest speakers, gallery visits, art shows and more.
We hope to bring diverse and sound art view points to Alhambra High School.
We, also, offer a means of communication between the art students, teachers and the community through awareness of area arts events, drawing together our arts community.
We offer a safe social gathering for students interested in art creation, art history and constructive criticism in a variety of media.
For incoming freshmen, we offer guidance in choosing art subjects, themes and composition through peer mentors.
It is an open to personal and group artworks. Supplies are available along with "make it and take it" activities to learn about new mediums and to exchange skills.
We would like to take some field trips to museums, art studios and locations for creating art, such as the Phoenix Zoo.
We would like to accept salvaged art supplies from donations by the community where students could find old canvas, brushes, clay, scrap paper, frames, wood, wire, scrap material, photos, etc. as well as some bought supplies.
The Art Club is sanctioned by Student Government and therefore acts on the principles of freedoms and responsibility within a democratic government.
Article III Membership. The Art Club is for anyone grade 9-12, their teachers and their parents who are interested in trying a wide array of small artistic projects including painting, photography, ceramics and 3- dimensional crafts as well as visiting galleries, museums and trying "on location" art such as drawing at the zoo.
The Art Club is designed for students interested in making art who don't usually have time, materials or the incentive of being in art class to do it.
Article IV Officers and Terms: President, Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer. Terms will be for one school year. If the officer is unable to fulfill the requirements of office for the remainder of the term, an emergency election will be held among remaining members to elect an officer to serve the remaining term. If the officer is only temporarily unable to serve, the other officers and or a volunteer from the membership will step in to substitute in the duties and responsibilities of the excused officer.
Article V Election of New Officers After suggestions are taken by a nominating committee (the officers remaining from the previous year), potential candidates are interviewed for agreement with the mission of the club and the duties of the officers. The slate is then set forth to the members for vote.
In the case that there are not enough members to vote, the leadership will be done by volunteers until such time the membership can vote. Officers are the contact for members to have their absences excused. Three unexcused months of absences may cause a member to be dropped from the membership roll sheet.
Officers include president (Pres.), vice president (VP), secretary/treasurer (S/T).
All committees report to the President. As such the Pres. also accepts suggestions for activities the club would like to do including but not limited to membership drives and fundraising events. The Pres. presides over every business meeting, calling the meetings to order and granting permission to the members to speak in regards to any motions. The Pres. works with the vice president and the sponsor to form an agenda for the business and activity meetings.
The vice president stands in for the president if he or she is absent.
Therefore the vice president helps at every meeting and confers with the president in regards to activities the group will take part in. The vice president also counts votes and takes roll of all active members, guarding that only members who have paid their dues are voting. The vice president is also in charge of contacting members and making fliers, posters and in any other way advertising the club's activities to the school during membership drives, and to the membership at other times.
Secretary/Treasurer records all agenda items motions and votes held by the club using the standard minutes form. The S/T also issues membership cards upon payment of dues. The S/T checks to make sure the president and vice president have paid their dues. The S/T works with the sponsor to make sure that the monies collected and or paid out are done so in accordance with the Phoenix Union High School District Handbook for Sponsors. The S/T also works with the president and vice president in setting a budget for the club. The S/T fills or helps with the duties of the president and VP when there is an absence.
Article VI Committees. In the event that there are enough members to allow for committees, the committees will include: social events, art activities, field trips, refreshments, nominating committee and any other committee which may be formed as needed to accomplish the club mission and or purpose.
Article VII Depositing of funds: "All funds received by the Fine Arts Club should be deposited in and expended from the Alhambra High School Bookstore in accordance with the Phoenix Union High School District Handbook for Sponsors."
Article VIII Sponsor/Custodian is a certified Art teacher and any other teacher who wishes to present, try, or chaperone the club activities or trips.
Article IX Meetings Flexible meetings dates of twice a month will allow for field trips and business meetings. Business meetings will be held once each term. Meetings otherwise will be held on the first and third Tuesday of each month, unless there is a holiday when the meeting will be moved to the closest available Tuesday. The meetings will be held after school from 3:10 to 5:00 unless the activity is a field trip, in which case the time and date will be changed to accommodate the travel and the event.
The Art Club and its members sincerely hope that all interested students listen to the daily announcements and read the hallway fliers for information about our meetings and activities so they may plan to attend.
Article X Amendments Changes to the standing constitution will be made upon recommendation by the officers to the sponsor, placed on the agenda, discussed and then put to a vote by the active membership at the following regular business meeting.
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Letter to the Manager of the Food City Grocery Store October 26, 2007
Dear Manager,
Thank you for the use of Food City's cart to be the base of our float for the Alhambra High School Homecoming Parade. As you see in the photo, the idea for the float changed from car to lion.
Here are two of the seven students who helped to make the float, Miguel Miranda (right) and Terrence Echols (left). Leo the Alhambra lion smiles in the center. He is made entirely of painted cardboard and brads. He won first prize for floats! Jordon Berry, Fabiola Esquivel, Reyes Espinoza, and I did a lion's share of the work cutting and painting. Joyce Sanchez and Adriana Mancera walked with the float.
Because "Leo" won first prize, the art club is receiving some special funding for additional art supplies. We wouldn't have been able to do this without your help.
Go Lions! Go Food City!
Marley Cullen

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I've been mulling over the Google Pixel 3 launch these past few days and one thing struck me more than anything else. Google looks less like the Google of old (who made Nexus phones, for example) and now looks much closer to its big rivals, Amazon and Apple.
No, I'm not talking about the cliche presentation phrases, over-reliance on pop music videos, and the use of celebrity feature endorsements — although those are all terribly irritating imitations too. Google's hardware is expensive and sleek (just look at that overpriced Pixel Slate Pen), but the company is finally coalescing around its core software services to offer this "Google experience," much like Apple and Amazon.
The Pixel 3 launch event was as much about pushing subscription services as it was about pitching new hardware. Google Maps, Photos, and even YouTube have always been a pre-installed and useful extra part of Android, but they've never been a core selling point for a product. This time, Google didn't even really mention Android during the presentation, but its subscription apps came up a lot. Not just for the Pixel 3 but across the Pixel Slate and Home Hub too. The event was an ecosystem pitch.
YouTube TV and Premium bundled in with the new Slate and Home Hub, and the continuation of two-year unlimited photo uploads for Pixel customers are pretty good value, but it's also a stepping stone to increase the subscriber base of these platforms longterm. The Home Hub perhaps embodies this move the best, using YouTube for its most useful recipe and music functions, and introducing the Home View dashboard for Nest branded smart home products. It's all about linking a hardware purchase to another product or subscription purchase in the future.
Amazon has a very similar approach, albeit at a cheaper price point. You buy a Kindle, Fire TV, or Amazon Echo and the expectation is that you'll eventually subscribe to Amazon Music, Movies, Cloud Drive, or broader Prime services. This web of integration has even spread over as far as Twitch. Despite its premium hardware price tags, Apple is selling a wider ecosystem of software products and subscription services too. Overpriced wireless headphones and expensive dongles are a given, but Apple Music, TV, and iCloud are all considered part of the Apple experience too.
Perhaps in the modern hyper-competitive hardware market, software and subscription-based products are one of the few highly profitable section of the market left. Apple has been making plenty of money from app and subscription sales in the past few years and Microsoft too has gradually switched over to a focus on a broader platform over individual products.
The race for the smart home makes the ecosystem game paramount. Familiar voice assistants and cross-platform services are often the deciding factors when picking a platform. Part of the reason Google managed to close the gap on Amazon's early lead is that consumers use Google Assistant on their phone rather than Alexa. With Maps, YouTube, Photos, Nest, and more functionality shared across platforms, the choice for Android users seems obvious.
Google hasn't talked Pixel sales, and the emphasis on premium services could be a sign that it needs to extract more revenue from a smaller consumer base.
Google's vision for its products and technologies is clearly growing distinct from Android's original purpose, yet the operating system is still key for most of the industry's smartphone, smartwatch, and smart home products. This could lead to trouble. Samsung is never going to embrace Nest on behalf of Google over its SmartThings platform, for example, and there's already clearly tension between Assistant and Bixby. So where does this leave the Android/partner relationship going forward?
We appear closer than ever to a fork in the road. Android 9.0 Pie represents the closest melding yet between Google Assistant and the Android operating system. Assistant is Google's key technology unifying all of its and many third-party products. However, it's unclear how keen some of Android's larger partners are on this being a core part of their products too, especially now that Google is using Assistant as a hook into its wider product portfolio. Also, how much Google do we as consumers really want in our Android products?
I asked this question shortly after the presentation — does the Pixel 3 showcase the best of Android or the best of Google? I think it's an important distinction. Google seems to be shifting from simple OS curator to an Amazon or Apple-eqsue ecosystem player.


Google Now Has 1 Billion Users - Surprised?
Google Now Has 1 Billion Users – Surprised?
Judging from these figures it looks as though Facebook is likely to catch Google up in a few years time, it looks as though Yahoo and Microsoft might, but based on Google's innovation, I think this is unlikely – when people start switching operating systems (I will be) they'll find less people have Bing/MSN set as their home page. If you're like me, you setup FireFox/Chrome as soon as you install windows and you don't even bother to configure IE because you're not going to use it.
Just goes to show that even if Facebook beats Google in one month, it has a long way to go before it's top dog. Although it seems rumors on the death of Facebook have been greatly exaggerated.
Those figures are across the companies entire networks though arent they? For example YouTube etc, not just the search engines?
Haha, that's what I do too whenever I do a clean Windows format.
Yeah, the comment above from Chris, they are probably across the entire network of owner properties – right?
Either way, with $8 billion in revenue per quarter, it's really hard to be surprised by anything Google does nowadays. Other than the awfulness that appears to be Chrome OS.
On the whole, I feel google will always be the benchmarker. There are many other search engines and there are many on the up but I feel google is the most user friendly and simple of the lot; this is what has made google what it is. It is good though to see they are facing more and more competition!
Sure is going to be interesting to see what Microsoft does; I can't see them being happy with falling market share however they still have a massive volume of unique visitors!
I think Microsoft still has a high market share because of its long time Windows brand, but what I admire the most about Google is that it created itself a huge brand from nowhere.
What I think about Facebook or any other social networking site is that it is never for a long run, people get bored from networking sites or move on to something. That's what happened with Orkut! Few more years before it happens to Facebook unless it has something extremely new or exciting to offer, but still I never see facebook or any other sites being a threat to Google's market share for a long time.


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When someone goes on a killing spree, there is always one question at the back of everyone's minds: why did they do it? Was it something from their childhood that pushed them over the edge, or is it something in their head that just isn't connecting right? Could it be both? In some cases, like with John Wayne Gacy, the atrocious acts that are committed are because of the nature of his brain, coupled with an abusive childhood and many emotionally traumatic events.
On March 17, 1942, John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois. Throughout his childhood, he was severely abused by his father and was faced with many exterior problems. Gacy's father was an alcoholic, and Gacy himself wasn't exactly a social butterfly; he was overweight, he didn't fit in with the athleticism of the rest of his class, and he was born with a heart condition that severely limited his activity. These imperfections simply gave his father more reason to beat him, further severing his connection with reality and his sanity. Gacy was molested from the age of 9, but did not tell anyone because he was simply too afraid. After he went into fourth grade, he began experiencing seizures, which even more so made him a social outcast. His physical appearance, abuse by his father, and medical problems lead to Gacy dropping out of high school and becoming a salesman in Springfield, Illinois. He later met Marlynn Myers and married her in 1994.
Gacy and Myers moved to Iowa shortly after their marriage, where Gacy quickly worked his way up to manager positions at multiple Kentucky Fried Chicken establishments. To Gacy, this was the climax of his life; his father had finally accepted him, and he had a wife and kids that loved him and that he loved dearly. However, this period of happiness didn't last too long. Shortly after he was promoted to manager, he became entangled in the web of drugs and prostitution, where he had his first homosexual encounter. The drugs and prostitution that he was exposed to lead to the deterioration of his marriage, and he opened up a "club" in which he could socialize with underage boys and sell them alcohol. This club, seemingly just a getaway for teenagers with drinking problems, provided much more of a problem for Gacy than he could've thought. This club is where Gacy was convicted with his first of many accounts of sexual assault, against Donald Voorhees. Voorhees reported the assault to his father, who got Gacy charged for oral sodomy. This charge also lead to a sexual assault charge on Edward Lynch. Despite denying these charges, and attempting to clean his record by forcing Voorhees to deny the claims, Gacy was sentenced to ten years in the Anamosa State Penitentiary. This can be argued as the breaking point in Gacy's life, because on this day, his wife petitioned for divorce, and took full custody of his children. After serving 18 months in jail, Gacy was released with a year of probation. He moved to Chicago with his mother, remarried, and started his own private contracting company, leading a seemingly normal life.
A year after he was released, Gacy fell into the pit of sexual assault again. However, the charges pressed against him were dropped when the boy failed to appear in court. Because of his nearly $200,000 gross profit margin per year from his contracting life, Gacy began to get involved in a non profit organization: the "Jolly Joker Clown Club." Gacy's clown persona, Pogo the Clown, was much scarier than the other clowns in the organization; he had much sharper makeup lines, especially on his smile. People claimed that he looked like an "evil clown," and many urban myths were made up about Pogo. In early 1975, Gacy announced to his wife that he was bisexual, and that he would no longer have sex with her. This revelation caused an abrupt end to his second marriage, resulting in divorce and starting his killing spree.
The factors leading up to this point in his life affected him in the most awful way possible. Gacy's childhood, his two divorces, and his pornography addiction, coupled with his mental and physical disabilities, lead him to murder and rape 33 young boys and men. Some may argue that there was just something not right in his head, but it is very apparent that it both involves the nature of his brain, and his upbringing as a child. Cases like these include many serial killers, but most notably, Perry Smith. Smith was in "In Cold Blood," a true-crime novel by Truman Capote, and many of the aspects of Smith's life are similar to Gacy's.
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Leading neuroscientists and Buddhists agree: "Consciousness is everywhere"
by Sam Littlefair| January 8, 2017
Neuroscientist Christof Koch discusses scientific theories of consciousness with the Dalai Lama.
New theories in neuroscience suggest consciousness is an intrinsic property of everything, just like gravity. That development opens a world of opportunity for collaboration between Buddhists and neuroscientists.
"The heart of consciousness," says neuroscientist Christof Koch, "is that it feels like something. How is it that a piece of matter, like my brain, can feel anything?"
In 2013, Koch, one of the world's leading experts on consciousness, went to a monastery in India to discuss that question with a group of Buddhist monks. He and the Dalai Lama debated neuroscience and mind for a full day.
They had different approaches. Koch offered contemporary scientific theories on the subject, and His Holiness countered with ancient Buddhist teachings. Yet, at the end of their discussion, the two thinkers agreed on almost every point.
"What struck me most was his belief in what we in the West call 'panpsychism' — the belief that consciousness is everywhere," says Koch. "And that we have to reduce the suffering of all conscious creatures."
Panpsychism, the idea of universal consciousness, is a prominent thought in some branches of ancient Greek philosophy, paganism, and Buddhism. And it has been largely dismissed by modern science — until recently.
In his work on consciousness, Koch collaborates with a researcher named Giulio Tononi. Tononi is the father of the most popular modern theory of consciousness, called Integrated Information Theory (IIT), which Koch once called "the only really promising fundamental theory of consciousness."
Tononi's theory states that consciousness appears in physical systems that contain many different and highly interconnected pieces of information. Based on that hypothesis, consciousness can be measured as a theoretical quantity, which the researchers call phi.
Tononi has a test for measuring phi (the amount of consciousness) in a human brain. It is similar to ringing a bell; scientists send a magnetic pulse into a human brain and watch the pulse reverberate through the neurons — back and forth, side to side. The longer and clearer the reverberation, the higher the subject's amount of consciousness. Using that test, Koch and Tononi can tell whether a patient is awake, asleep, or anesthetized.
There are already pressing and practical needs for a way to measure consciousness. Doctors and scientists could use phi to tell if a person in a vegetative state is effectively dead, how much awareness a person with dementia has, when a foetus develops consciousness, how much animals perceive, or even whether a computer can feel.
"That's more urgent," asserts Koch. "We're witnessing the birth of computer intelligence. Is a machine conscious? Does it feel like anything? If it does, it may acquire legal rights, and I certainly have ethical obligations towards it. I can't just turn it off or wipe its disc clean."
Christof Koch speaking at TEDxRainier Seattle.
IIT also marries these practical applications with profound ideas. The theory says that any object with a phi greater than zero has consciousness. That would mean animals, plants, cells, bacteria, and maybe even protons are conscious beings.
Koch sees IIT as promising because it offers an understanding of panpsychism that fits into modern science. In an academic paper, Koch and Tononi make the profound statement that their theory "treats consciousness as an intrinsic, fundamental property of reality."
Modern research and recent dialogues between Buddhists and scientists have focused mainly on understanding the physical brain. But scientists have barely begun to develop an understanding of mind — or consciousness — itself.
On the Buddhist side, however, this is a discussion that has been going on for thousands of years. Buddhism associates mind with sentience. The late Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche stated that while mind, along with all objects, is empty, unlike most objects, it is also luminous. In a similar vein, IIT says consciousness is an intrinsic quality of everything yet only appears significantly in certain conditions — like how everything has mass, but only large objects have noticeable gravity.
In his major work, the Shobogenzo, Dogen, the founder of Soto Zen Buddhism, went so far as to say, "All is sentient being." Grass, trees, land, sun, moon and stars are all mind, wrote Dogen.
Koch, who became interested in Buddhism in college, says that his personal worldview has come to overlap with the Buddhist teachings on non-self, impermanence, atheism, and panpsychism. His interest in Buddhism, he says, represents a significant shift from his Roman Catholic upbringing. When he started studying consciousness — working with Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick — Koch believed that the only explanation for experience would have to invoke God. But, instead of affirming religion, Koch and Crick together established consciousness as a respected branch of neuroscience and invited Buddhist teachers into the discussion.
At Drepung Monastery, the Dalai Lama told Koch that the Buddha taught that sentience is everywhere at varying levels, and that humans should have compassion for all sentient beings. Until that point, Koch hadn't appreciated the weight of his philosophy.
"I was confronted with the Buddhist teaching that sentience is probably everywhere at varying levels, and that inspired me to take the consequences of this theory seriously," says Koch. "When I see insects in my home, I don't kill them."
The theory of IIT shows promise for the future. With more research, Koch and Tononi could better test consciousness, to prove scientifically that all beings are sentient. Meanwhile, Buddhists around the world are constantly working to develop an understanding of the mind. Traleg Rinpoche said that analytical methods can only go so far toward understanding the mind. Instead, he says, by resting his or her mind and contemplating it, a meditator can develop an understanding of the nature of mind and how it relates to everything else.
Critics of IIT argue that the theory fails to explain where consciousness comes from. Science writer John Horgan argues, "you can't explain consciousness by saying it consists of information, because information exists only relative to consciousness."
Understanding the source of consciousness is an extremely difficult hurdle, but Koch is up to it. He says that his ultimate goal is to understand the universe. Some say that the best way to do that is to look inside your own mind. Maybe Koch is on to something.
About Sam Littlefair
Sam Littlefair is the editor of LionsRoar.com. He has also written for The Coast, Mindful, and Atlantic Books Today. Find him on Twitter, @samlfair, and Facebook, @samlfair.
Topics: Atheism Agnosticism & Secularism, Christof Koch, Consciousness & Experience, Dalai Lama, Mind, Pan-Buddhist, Science, Teachings, Wellness
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Hawke's Bay Or Hawkesbay is a beach in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan located 20km at south-west of Karachi.
This beach is known as after Bladen Wilmer Hawke, who managed a beach house within 1930s. Hundreds of folks click here daily for going swimming, camel and horseback riding and for trips.


Abstract: The external envelope of steel framed industrial buildings normally involves the use of purlins and rails spanning between the main hot-rolled frames to support the roofing/cladding. These purlins are typically light-gauge cold-formed steel members of complex shape for which the thin-walled nature of the material means that local instabilities will significantly influence their structural behaviour. Economic design should be based on failure of the system, recognising the opportunity for redistribution of moments. This paper presents the findings from a numerical investigation of the degree of moment redistribution in continuous cold-formed steel beams subjected to a downward (gravity) uniformly distributed load (UDL). Three types of nonlinear finite element analysis were validated against previously reported physical tests: (i) continuous two-span beams subjected to a UDL, (ii) single span beams subjected to a central point load producing a moment gradient and (ii) single span beams subjected to two point loads producing a central region under pure bending. The interior support moments from the continuous beam models were compared against reference moment capacities from the three-point bending models. Based on various different section sizes, covering a range of cross-sectional slenderness, full moment redistribution with no drop-off in moment at the interior support was found to be possible only for stocky sections but not for slender sections. In the case of slender sections, local and distortional buckling caused a reduction in interior support moment prior to failure of the system. Hence a design formula is proposed to estimate the post-peak reduction of interior support moment from its initial peak, and this reduced moment capacity is then used in conjunction with the full span moment to determine the load-carrying capacity of the system. Comparisons show the proposed approach to offer accurate prediction of observed system failure loads.


Development policy financing (DPF) has evolved from supporting structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and 1990s to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the 2000s. It has been considered by multilateral and bilateral donors as one of the instruments that would best enable the realization of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. However, the use of Show MoreDevelopment policy financing (DPF) has evolved from supporting structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and 1990s to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the 2000s. It has been considered by multilateral and bilateral donors as one of the instruments that would best enable the realization of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. However, the use of budget support as a preferred aid modality has been diminishing, especially among European member states. This evaluation is expected to inform decisions on the use of Development Policy Financing (DPF) in IDA countries by providing evaluative insights into drivers of success and risks. This is pertinent in the context of the record replenishment for IDA18 in the face of a declining share of DPF in IDA commitments during the last three IDA cycles. In this context, it is worthwhile to examine the factors that have driven DPF success in the past so as to inform decisions on the role of this development financing instrument in IDA countries going forward.
This evaluation is a corporate-level assessment of the role and effectiveness of IFC in its support to its clients' inclusive business models. It also identifies implications and options for IFC's future support to inclusive business. The evaluation uses a two-pronged approach based on: (i) a review of IFC's entire portfolio (comparing inclusive business projects with the rest of IFC's portfolio Show MoreThis evaluation is a corporate-level assessment of the role and effectiveness of IFC in its support to its clients' inclusive business models. It also identifies implications and options for IFC's future support to inclusive business. The evaluation uses a two-pronged approach based on: (i) a review of IFC's entire portfolio (comparing inclusive business projects with the rest of IFC's portfolio), integrating IEG's relevant evaluative evidence across different sectors and themes; and (ii) a focus on the agribusiness sector.


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ARTICLES CELEBRITIES 5 PEOPLE WHO RODE DORKY HOBBIES TO ROCK-STAR STATUS
5 People Who Rode Dorky Hobbies to Rock-Star Status
Eli Yudin
The past decade or so in society has seen a wholesale social glow-up in hobbies that used to be the social equivalent of crapping your pants in Spanish class. Gone are the days where playing Magic: The Gathering is likely to have you with the waistband of your jockeys mounted on your forehead. High schools and colleges now have esports teams, and by all reports, their practice rooms aren't stink-bombed with regularity. Also, these days, football and basketball superstars, the kings of Jock Mountain, are running water-cooled PC rigs and discussing AMD versus Intel.
However, both now and before nerds grabbed the world by the repaired bridge of its horn-rimmed glasses, certain people have ridden decisively lame hobbies to shocking amounts of fame. Please know, too, that I use the word "lame" here out of the deepest endearing love. It's like a big brother telling his younger sibling "good luck, loser" when he drops him off at a Halo tournament. All I'm saying is, please don't DDOS me or hack my MTG Arena account and delete my deck builds. I'm on your side.
Here are five people who have ridden deeply dorky hobbies to rock-star status…
5 Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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Space is an OG dork fascination. For a long time, obsession with space was only about one step above being obsessed with dinosaurs. After all, what is a telescope if not the most powerful pair of glasses of all? Space, especially monster-less, non-fictional space that revolves around knowing stuff like the name of Pluto's moons, is lunch-money stealing territory.
Yet somehow, Neil DeGrasse Tyson managed to turn a love of the stars into something that brought him and his vests into the national eye. Hosting series like Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and StarTalk somehow drilled an interest in astrophysics into the layman's brain, instead of that man's brain creating dismissive jokes about Tyson not getting laid. Hell, in 2015, Tyson received a medal for "exciting the public about the wonders of science," which basically says, "Somehow you got people to give a shit about stars."
4 Jackson Galaxy
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The ownership of cats, especially significant numbers of them, has been historically linked with being the end of a bloodline. There's no doubt that they're a very popular pet amongst people who hate their drinking glasses and like to feel lightly haunted in their own home, but they're still not considered a "cool pet." So it's a little shocking that a man named Jackson Galaxy, possessing the facial hair of a man who would call himself Jackson Galaxy, was able to ride cat ownership to fame.
Do you understand the sheer uphill battle that is? Telling people your name is Jackson Galaxy, growing and debuting that facial hair or talking non-stop about cats should each individually be enough to clear out a lunch table for individual use in perpetuity. Yet somehow, Galaxy managed to walk this tightrope to become a sort of feline Guy Fieri, whose countenance is used to sell cat asshole wipes or whatever at your local Petco.
3 Matt Mercer
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No domain of nerdom has recently had the level of mainstream invasion as Dungeons & Dragons. For a game that, as I was growing up, basically came packaged with a retainer, it's still a bit shocking to see how much of a cultural phenomenon D&D has become. At the tip of the spear (1d6 piercing) of this movement is voice actor and tabletop RPG phenomenon Matt Mercer.
Besides a face and chiseled jaw straight from the cover of a romance novel, Mercer is through and through, a D&D player. Again, I'm not looking to cut him or his success down, just to emphasize that this isn't somebody like Henry Cavill revealing they're secretly a Witcher fanboy, this is a classic fantasy guy, leather wristbands and all, who somehow raised a tabletop game full of people doing weird old-timey voices to mainstream relevancy.
2 Jim Henson
Let's throw it back a little bit to an old-school cultural icon, rest in peace. The domain of the puppet show was forever that of birthday parties with a late-notice clown cancellation. Between puppeteers and ventriloquists, creepy talking toy-based hobbies were something that kept both your social calendar and your bed notably empty. But by creating the Muppets, Jim Henson somehow brought puppetry both into mainstream and adult-age relevancy with a single green frog.
Henson's legacy lives on today through a collection of beloved movies and television shows, and it's not a long shot to allow him a good portion of the credit when it comes to adult animation. The line from Henson to BoJack Horseman might not be direct, but it's hard not to argue that one might have paved the way for the other (at least in a small way).
1 Weird Al Yankovic
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It feels like the only rational choice is to finish off this list with the OG famous dork: Weird Al Yankovic. Like I said previously, do not confuse my tone here for derision. The first CD I ever purchased was Running With Scissors, and I was once specifically told by my parents that I had too much Weird Al on my bar mitzvah party playlist. (Which, fair.)
Love for Weird Al aside, becoming a bona-fide rock star while being the amalgamation of things that were worthy of a cafeteria roast session is incredible. Especially during the 1990s, when cultural cool was the outwardly macho iconography of barbed-wire tattoos and beanies that looked like they were on fire. Weird Al walked in with what I'd call a "relaxed Afro," Hawaiian shirts and a fucking goddamn accordion, and rang the Billboard charts like a dinner bell for over a decade. In the world of Weird, Al is forever an icon.


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Framework Outlines How Companies Should Talk About Breaches
Investigating and recovering from security incidents are extremely stressful and time-consuming. Talking about what happened poses a different set of challenges, and many organizations struggle with effective communication.
Organizations are increasingly developing incident response playbooks to plan out in advance what steps to take in case of a security breach—such as an employees accessing files without authorization, a lost computer, or a server compromised by outside attackers. In many cases, these playbooks focus heavily on the technical details and the operational tasks needed to recover and get back to business, and don't always go in-depth on how to communicate what is happening. A recent paper in the Computers and Security journal from a team of academics from the United Kingdom's University of Kent and University of Warwick laid out a framework for how organizations should communicate after a security incident.
Some organizations respond to security incidents better than others. Very few organizations are able to talk about security incidents well—where they explain what is happening, what they are doing, and what people can explain. And whether or not the organization is perceived as doing a good job of handling the incident is often tied to their communications. In fact, an organization handling the public discussion poorly can make the situation worse, the team said in the paper.
"The way that businesses communicate to their customers and external stakeholders following a data breach can impact their share price and reputation to such an extent that they can be considered cyber crises...these also have further implications for the business' continuity and resilience," wrote Jason Nurse, an assistant professor of cybersecurity at the University of Kent, and Richard Knight, of University of Warwick.
The full framework covers a range of questions to ask before a security incident and during an incident. (Source: Computer and Security Journal)
The massive data breach at Equifax in 2017 was bad enough in the number of individuals impacted (143 million people), but the company's communications missteps did not inspire confidence in its ability to handle an incident of this magnitude. For example, the company created a brand-new website to provide information about the breach instead of posting on its site, causing confusion among people whether the site was legitimate or now. The company's Twitter account repeatedly told users to go to the wrong domain to get information about the link—users were mistakenly sent to a fake domain set up specifically to show why the domain name was problematic.
Poor communications doesn't just impact the company's reputation or perception of how well it is handling the crisis. The drop in stock price could be "the 'knee jerk' reaction of ill-informed investors," the researchers wrote.
Blaming partners may incite public disagreements which may be considered an ill-advised crisis strategy.
One of the challenging aspects of discussing a breach is the fact that the organization has to straddle a fine line between being the victim (the breach happened) and being responsible for the incident (a mistake was made which made the breach possible). While the organization may be inclined to view itself in the first group, consumers for the most part do not.
"With incidents involving an unintentional exposure of data, typically the organisation (via its employees or stakeholders) is indisputably at fault and thus cannot reassign blame away from itself or act as a victim," Nurse and Knight wrote. Ticketmaster initially attempted to shift blame for its data breach to the third-party supplier for a faulty software component on its website. That strategy backfired on the company because the supplier noted that Ticketmaster should never have used the software in the manner it had, and had the supplier been aware of it, would have advised against doing so.
"Blaming partners may incite public disagreements which may be considered an ill-advised crisis strategy," Nurse and Knight wrote.
While blaming others is tempting, it can be "detrimental to a business' attempt to protect its reputation," they wrote in the paper. When organizations take responsibility and are seen to be proactively trying to address the problem, such as through "the use of apologies and actions to mitigate the risk of harm to the data subject," are perceived in a more positive manner. The paper also noted the risk of taking responsibility, since it may open the door to lawsuits. However, the regulators don't hestiate to impose "onerous sanctions" if the organization seems to not be following their obligations.
Organizations will be skwered for not disclosing promptly—and regulations such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation that will result in hefty penalties for not doing so—but they will also be criticized if they are perceived as not knowing enough, or holding information back. BA had to revise the number of people affected from 380,000 to 429,000, prompting concerns that the company did not take the time to understand the situation or to provide accurate information.
"The risk of litigation is now outweighed by the positive effects of organisations taking responsibility for the crisis and the reduced risk of fines from relevant Data Protection Authorities," the paper said.
Nurse and Knight development a framework to provide guidelines to organizations on what to think about when making decisions on how to communicate. The "comprehensive playbook" considers what organizations should think about "Before Cyber Crisis"—such as knowing what industry-specific regulations to be concerned about and the disclosure benchmarks, identifying decision makers, and putting security controls in place—and "Cyber Crisis Response"—which covers the questions to ask during the actual incident. The "Before" section also asks organizations to consider before getting in crisis mode its goals post-breach, since its communications strategy would be different if the intent is to protect sales and stock market price, as opposed to meeting legal obligations.
The "Response" section focuses on four questions: Whether to disclose, what to disclose, when to disclose, and how to disclose. Each section is broken down into more questions. The flowchart steps through each step of the decision-making process. For example, an organization has to decide whether to disclose—and the first question is whether it is mandatory. If it is, there are specific information to provide. If it is not mandatory, the next question asks, "Should we disclose anyway?" (The flowchart says, "Yes.")
The final step, "How to disclose" explores different methods to use and includes additional questions to consider in order to make that decision. The framework could provide "a codified structure to facilitate the rollout of crisis communication capability," the paper said.
Incident response playbooks should contain information such as who to call to get outside help—such as the ISP during a distributed denial-of-service attach—as well as technical details on things to do during the course of the investigation. The playbook also needs to consider communications activities, such as setting up a mechanism for affected consumers to ask questions or to get additional information, or how ongoing updates are provided. Organizations should plan beforehand which departments and key personnel would be involved in crafting and disseminating public statements, and who would decided what information can be shared, and when.
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The dark history of Kitchissippi's shanty town
By editorkitchissippicom on July 26, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )
By Dave Allston –
A piece of Kitchissippi's past has slipped away with time, so shocking in its tragedy that it is almost unbelievable. This story has never been written about in any book or blog and has almost been deliberately erased from history. Few who experienced it are still alive, and aside from a few photographs buried in a family album and the depths of the city archives, hardly a trace remains of the Tunney's Pasture shanty village that existed for 25 years.
In the early 1930s, the north end of Tunney's along the Ottawa River was far from the scenic parkway and path space it is today. The rocky shoreline led to an uneven sun-dried field covered largely in bush and scratchy sod, a few trees, and muddy creeks. The land sat undeveloped in its natural state. Various ideas for industrial, residential and government use were proposed.
Meanwhile, the Great Depression, WWII, and a housing shortage crisis in Ottawa made hard times even harder for many families. Neighbourhoods like Mechanicsville and Hintonburg already had significant numbers of residents who struggled to get by, even at the best of times. The poorest residents of the community fell victim to homelessness, often out of their own control. A lost job, illness, or a greedy landlord could send a family out on the street and there were very few social services to help.
Families who found themselves out of options began congregating at Tunney's, constructing makeshift homes with found materials. What began as a short-term summertime solution for the most desperate turned into long-term urban blight, which authorities were unable, or unwilling, to fix.
"Houses" of cardboard, tarpaper, and occasionally framed with wood were built with earthen floors, no electricity, no water, and no sewer. Families with 8-10 children lived in these structures year-round, heated only by a stove in the middle of the room and crudely vented through a wall. Entire families shared one mattress and sometimes kids just slept on the floor. Residents scoured Hintonburg and Wellington Village for anything they could use to improve their home.
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Ottawa Citizen photo of the interior of the Lanoutte home from October 26, 1950.
Clipping from an October 26, 1950 edition of the Ottawa Citizen.
Clipping about the Boyer house fire from the Ottawa Journal, December 2, 1952.
Clipping from the Ottawa Journal on December 3, 1952.
North end of Parkdale Avenue in 1960. Photo CA-18439 courtesy of the City of Ottawa archives.
North end of Parkdale Avenue. Photo CA-19802 courtesy of the City of Ottawa archives.
North end of Parkdale Avenue shanties. Photo CA-19803 courtesy of the City of Ottawa archives.
Irene Fex, daughter of Honore. Photo courtesy of Carole Fex.
The men of the shanty village. Photo courtesy of Carole Fox.
One disastrous fire occurred in December 1952. A fire tore through a 10'x14' one-room shack occupied by Fred and Annette Boyer. Their two-year-old daughter Linda didn't make it out alive.
Gone swimming. Photo courtesy of Carole Fex.
Clipping from the Ottawa Journal, August 15, 1942
View of the Kitchissippi shanty village
Hardly a trace remains of this village of homeless families at Tunney's Pasture.
Flooding occurred each spring, and fires – always a threat – could incinerate a house in seconds. At its peak in 1952, "Le Port" as it was nicknamed, had 27 families and well over 100 residents, mostly children. An Ottawa Citizen reporter noted it was "like a visit to another world. A rather unpleasant sort of world" he wrote. "More than a score of tar paper shanties, some of them pretentious and some of them only bits and pieces of cardboard boxes are constructed in this area."
Many were built by the river, others in thickets amongst the shrubs to be hidden from view. Sympathetic neighbours in Mechanicsville, some who were barely above poverty themselves, delivered food, clothes, and water when they could. Shockingly, an Ottawa Water Works engineer stepped in when it was discovered that non-taxpaying families of four veterans living in shanties were obtaining eight pails of water each day from nearby houses. Notices were sent to the households ordering them to stop.
Children from Le Port attended local schools and it was known they were very poor. Nuns at the Catholic schools reportedly provided exceptional care and breakfast and lunch.
The seven daughters of Honore Fex and Yvonne Jodoin. Photo courtesy of Carole Fox.
The Fex and Jodoin families were two of the first to arrive in the 1930s, while the Bourguignons, Landrys, Clermonts and Alberts were residents for more than ten years.
The population increased in the late 1940s as veterans returned to their old neighbourhoods to find little vacancy, or at least nothing affordable, and were thus forced to build shanties.
The village also became a temporary home for transients who rode freight trains and jumped off approaching the yard at Bayview (often for fear of being caught).
These men joined the village for shelter and roamed Mechanicsville looking for food or money.
Only one disastrous fire occurred during the lifespan of Le Port. In December 1952, a flash fire tore through a 10'x14' one-room shack occupied by Fred and Annette Boyer. Their two-year-old daughter Linda didn't make it out alive.
Over the years, authorities attempted unsuccessfully to have the squatters removed. There simply was nowhere else for them to go. By 1951, the FDC (now NCC) began charging families $10/month to live on the land but residents banded together and refused to pay. The shanties remained in place through the early construction of the government buildings.
By the mid-1950s, the Parkway was coming, and the FDC removed the villagers, noting on one eviction notice that "the shack spoils the view from the Champlain Bridge." Rental housing and social services had improved enough to ease the transition, though for a family like Mathias Bourguignon's – who lived in a shack for 15 years and saw the birth of four of his eleven children here – it certainly would have been a difficult adjustment.
Living year round in Le Port was about as difficult an existence as one could imagine. Yet, in most of the photos that survive, the residents still appear smiling and happy. "I guess they were happy," noted descendant Carole Fex-Webster. "They had never really known any different. I think they were good people and very religious." A true triumph of the spirit in a harsh era that so many years later is almost incomprehensible.
Dave Allston is a local historian and the author of The Kitchissippi Museum. His family has lived in Kitchissippi for six generations. Do you have early memories or photos to share? Send your email to stories@kitchissippi.com.
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The UK left the European Union (Brexit) on 31 January 2020 and entered into a standstill transition period until 31 December 2020, as part of the UK-EU negotiated Withdrawal Agreement.
Most EU, EEA and Swiss nationals (and relevant family members), who are already residents in the UK before the end of the transition period, will need to apply for permission to remain in the UK with their rights protected in order to continue living in the UK.
This permission is called Settled Status or Pre-Settled Status and is granted under a application to the EU Settlement Scheme.
Most EU, EEA and Swiss nationals (and relevant family members) who are not already resident in the UK before the end of the transition period, will need to enter the UK with the relevant immigration permission under the UK immigration rules and may require a visa.
The deadline to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme is 30 June 2021. If you are currently absent from the UK because of remote study due to Covid or for another important reason, you may still be able to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme even if you are not currently in the UK. The UK government recently updated the guidance for EU Settlement Scheme applicants which makes some allowances for absences from the UK due to a Covid related reasons including remote study because of Covid. Please see our updated guidance for applications to the EU Settlement Scheme below
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Lyman Eugene Whipple (Jr.)
BIRTH: 21 Jun 1861, , , Wisconsin
DEATH: 2 Aug 1910, Lynden, Whatcom, Washington
BURIAL: Lynden Cemetery, Lynden, Whatcom, Washington
Father: Lyman Eugene Whipple (1816 - 13 Jun 1894)
Mother: Cheney Maria Heath (1825 - Oct 1864)
Family 1: Teresa Aurora Scho (2 Nov 1862 - 11 May 1947)
MARRIAGE: , , Wisconsin
Louisa E. Whipple (Jul 1891 - 22 Apr 1977)
Mae D. Whipple (10 Aug 1892 - 8 Apr 1950)
Aurora M. Whipple (ABT 1893 - AFT 1910)
Raymond L. Whipple (Jul 1894 - 12 Jul 1941)
Charles M. Whipple (Nov 1896 - Nov 1973)
+Thersea Libbie "Libbie" Whipple (15 Jan 1899 - Sep 1981)
Olive I. Whipple (ABT 1901 - 3 Nov 1918)
Ruth Marie Whipple (11 Nov 1902 - 31 Jan 1988)
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!SOURCE: "Descendants of John Whipple Captain," email from John Whipple (undisclosed at example dot net) to Weldon Whipple, 8 Apr 2007.
!SOURCE: Email from Donna Mayer-Polk (undisclosed at example dot net) to the Whipple Website, 15 Oct 2007. Identifies mother as Catherine (Becker) Phillips Whipple.
!SOURCE: Email from John Mosher (undisclosed at example dot net) to the Whipple Website, 19 Nov 2008. He writes:
Maria Heath was the mother of all of Lyman's children. He married Catherine Becker after Maria died in 1864.
!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 30 Aug 2014. Cites Find a Grave Website, Lynden Cemetery, Lynden, Whatcom, WA
George H. Whipple {108682} b. WI 1854 d. Jun. 14, 1932 in Lynden, Whatcom, WA
Alnetta Mador Phillips {108702} b. IL 1855 d. Apr. 22, 1920 in Northwood, Whatcom, WA
Lyman Eugene Whipple {108687} b. WI Jun. 21, 1861 d. Aug. 2, 1910 in Lynden, Whatcom, WA
!SOURCE: Email from Janice (undisclosed at example dot net) to the Whipple Website, 8 Sep 2014.
!SOURCE: "Descendants of Lyman Eugene Whipple," email from Janice (undisclosed at example dot net) to Weldon Whipple, 18 Jan 2015.


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The 2018 Heilbronner Neckarcup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Heilbronn, Germany between 14 and 20 May 2018.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings are as of May 7, 2018.

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Dominik Köpfer
  Rudolf Molleker
  Marvin Möller
  Tim Pütz

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Benjamin Hassan
  Daniel Masur
  Igor Sijsling
  Bernabé Zapata Miralles

Champions

Singles

 Rudolf Molleker def.  Jiří Veselý 4–6, 6–4, 7–5.

Doubles

 Rameez Junaid /  David Pel def.  Kevin Krawietz /  Andreas Mies 6–2, 2–6, [10–7].

External links
Official Website

2018 ATP Challenger Tour
2018
May 2018 sports events in Germany
2018 in German tennis

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Minutes of the Regular Council Meeting of the Rural Municipality of Mountain held Wednesday, May 23, 2018 in the R.M. of Mountain Council Chambers in Birch River, Manitoba.
CAO Paige Larocque was present and acted as secretary.
The meeting was called to order at 10:15 A.M. by Reeve Marvin Kovachik, quorum being present.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Agenda for the May 23th, 2018 Regular Meeting of Council be adopted as presented.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Minutes of the regular meeting of Council held May 9th, 2018 be adopted as presented, all requirements having been complied with.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Council of the Rural Municipality of Mountain hereby uphold the charge of $100.00 and deem the animal in question as a dangerous animal and subject to all provisions of By-Law No. 04/18.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the unpaid accounts receivable accounts, presented in Schedule 'A' attached hereto, be added to the real property tax account of each account holder.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Council of the Rural Municipality of Mountain approve the purchase requests as per Schedule 'A' attached hereto.
RESOLVED THAT Cheque Nos. 20180532 to 20180574 amounting to $130,191.48, including Direct Deposit Payroll in the amount of $5,034.89, attached hereto as Schedule 'A', be approved for payment.
RESOLVED THAT the additional accounts, attached as Schedule 'A', be approved for payment.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT Council of the Rural Municipality of Mountain hereby approve work orders #43/18 to #51/18 attached hereto.
AND THAT expenses be allowed for same.
AND THAT Reeve and CAO be authorized to sign on behalf of the municipality.
AND THAT the CAO and Reeve be authorized to sign on behalf of the municipality.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT Council of the Rural Municipality of Mountain hereby amend the Lease Agreement policy as per Schedule 'A' attached hereto.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT Council of the Rural Municipality of Mountain hereby authorize the request of the Birch River Busy Beavers 4H Club for a donation towards the 4H Club Award Evening in the amount of $200.00.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Regular Meeting of Council of the Rural Municipality of Mountain be adjourned to meet again on June 13th, 2018.
Meeting adjourned at 2:48 P.M.


Sculptors at Work: Interviews About the Creative Process by Victor M. Cassidy is now out!
It may have been all the way back in 2008 that Victor first asked to interview me for this project. When I heard who else he would be speaking to, I couldn't wait to have a copy in hand. Many of the artists included have profoundly inspired me -it is truly an honor to be included in their company.


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Metal listener, software developer, gamer, and open source contributor.
I am a twenty-something year old computer science graduate living in the West Midlands of the United Kingdom, in a town called Redditch. I previously studied Computer Science at the University of Exeter. I originally hail from South Gloucestershire, north of Bristol, where I had lived all my life until September 2010. My family originates from the North East of England, Gateshead more specifically; and in the South East, London in fact. I attended Marlwood School and Sixth Form, for both my compulsory secondary education and advanced level studies.
Why cs278.org?
I have been running my weblog for over five years now, I started out using a DynDNS domain and hosting it from my bedroom. Time passed and I took the plunge and decided to purchase myself a domain and some hosting to go with it, but I needed a domain name. I'd recently started at university and had been assigned the username cs278 so I stuck with it.
I'm very keen on my music and I am almost always listening to something. I am without a doubt a Rock and Heavy Metal fan, although I am fairly open to other genres. I do occasionally listen to some classical music and the odd pop track. I have been scrobbling my music for over 15 years and in that time I have listened to approximately 631404 tracks or about 1754 days of music! Gigs are a big part of my musical experience and I have been fortunate to see some brilliant performances, those that are especially memorable:
SOiL — Bristol Bierkeller
Nightwish — Greek Theatre, Los Angeles
Foo Fighters — National Bowl
David Gilmour — Royal Albert Hall
I love watching films; but I rarely have any recollection of the films I've seen. In addition to films I am very fond of some TV series, those that stand to mind are; QI, House, Top Gear, Line of Duty, Bones, and CSI. All of which are vastly improved by the ultimate audio visual indulgence; a series marathon!
Finally nothing can beat a good old frag–fest, I have enjoyed video games since I was a child. My favourites include KSP, Borderlands 2, Killing Floor, Rocket League, Supreme Commander, Unreal Tournament, Left 4 Dead, Diablo II, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Plants vs. Zombies, and Grand Theft Auto. My Steam library is quite extensive and time consuming.
I have been an active member of a number of projects over the years, some of which are defunct now and no longer grace the Earth with their presence. I was a core contributor to phpBB as a member of their development team. I was previously involved in my universities student media website – X-Media Online.
After gaining employment my open source contributions are no longer stable but I contribute infrequently to a wider variety of open source projects, including the likes of Composer, Symfony, and Kohana.
This website stands on the shoulders of open source giants (and minnows.)
I can be emailed using the easily guessable address: chris@….org.
Alternatively you may try (and fail) to attract my attention on Twitter: @cs278.
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