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John Hartson
Former Wales, Celtic, Arsenal and West Ham football player and coach
John Hartson turned professional in 1992 and played for Luton Town until 1995 when he signed for Arsenal. The fee of £2.5 million was, at the time, record breaking for a teenager. John scored 14 goals in 53 Premiership games for the Gunners before being sold to West Ham in February 1997. John remained at West Ham for the next two years, but joined Wimbledon in 1999 where he became one of their most expensive signings.
John spent two years at Wimbledon which was followed by a brief spell at Midlands club Coventry. In 2001 he joined Scottish side Celtic and it was here that he enjoyed one of the most successful periods of his career. During five seasons he scored more than one hundred goals for the club, and also won the Scottish PFA Players' Player of the Year award (shared with Fernando Ricksen) and the Scottish Football Writers' Association Player in 2005. John won the hearts of the fans and became one of their most popular players.
John joined West Bromich Albion in 2006 on a two year contract and during this time spent a brief spell at Norwich City on loan. He announced his retirement from the game in 2008.
John also had a successful international career representing the Welsh national team on fifty one occasions. He is currently the strikers coach for Wales.
In 2009, at the age of thirty four, John was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Desperately ill (the cancer had spread to his brain and lungs) he had life saving surgery and spent many weeks in intensive care. Following this ordeal John underwent gruelling chemotherapy treatment. Thankfully, he has made a miraculous recovery and now devotes a great deal of time to the charity set up in his name - the John Hartson Foundation.
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Nanorobotic agents designed to travel in the human body to treat cancer (w/video)
(Nanowerk News) Fifty years to the day after the film Fantastic Voyage was first shown in theatres, the Polytechnique Montréal Nanorobotics Laboratory is unveiling a unique medical interventional infrastructure devoted to the fight against cancer. The outcome of 15 years of research conducted by Professor Sylvain Martel and his team, it enables microscopic nanorobotic agents to be guided through the vascular systems of living bodies, delivering drugs to targeted areas.
An action-packed 100,000-kilometre journey in the human body
Fantastic Voyage recounted the adventure of a team of researchers shrunk to microscopic size who, aboard a miniature submarine, travelled into a patient's body to conduct a medical operation in a surgically inoperable area. This science fiction classic has now been eclipsed by procedures and protocols developed by Professor Martel's multidisciplinary team comprising engineers, scientists and experts from several medical specialties working together on these projects that herald the future of medicine.
"Our work represents a new vision of cancer treatments, with our goal being to develop the most effective transportation systems for the delivery of therapeutic agents right to tumour cells, to areas unreachable by conventional treatments," says Professor Martel, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Medical Nanorobotics and Director of the Polytechnique Montréal Nanorobotics Laboratory.
Conveying nanorobotic agents into the bloodstream to reach the targeted area right up to the tiniest capillaries without getting lost in this network stretching about 100,000 kilometres--two-and-a-half times the Earth's circumference--is a scenario that has been turned into reality. This is an adventure-filled journey for these microscopic vehicles that must confront the powerful onslaught of arterial blood flow, the mazes of the vascular network and the narrowness of the capillaries--just like the film's heroes!
Polytechnique Montréal Nanorobotics Laboratory is unveiling a unique medical interventional infrastructure devoted to the fight against cancer. The outcome of 15 years of research conducted by Professor Sylvain Martel and his team, it enables microscopic nanorobotic agents to be guided through the vascular systems of living bodies, delivering drugs to targeted areas. (Image: Polytechnique Montréal)
"Doctors" invisible to the naked eye
To conduct this fantastic voyage, Professor Martel's team is developing various procedures, often playing a pioneering role. These include navigating carriers just a fraction of the thickness of a hair through the arteries using a clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) platform, the first in the world to achieve this in a living organism, in 2006. This exploit was followed in 2011 by the guidance of drug-loaded micro-transporters into the liver of a rabbit.
Limits to the miniaturization of artificial nanorobots prevent them from penetrating the smallest blood vessels, however. For this, Professor Martel plans to have them play the role of Trojan horses, enclosing an "army" of special bacteria loaded with drugs that they will release at the edges of these small vessels.
Able to follow paths smaller than a red blood cell, these self-propelled bacteria move at high speed (200 microns per second, or 200 times their size per second). Once they are inside a tumour, they are able to naturally detect hypoxic (oxygen-starved) zones, which are the most active zones and the hardest to treat by conventional means, including radiotherapy, and then deliver the drug.
Professor Martel's team has succeeded in using this procedure to administer therapeutic agents in colorectal tumours in mice, guiding them through a magnetic field. This has just been the subject of an article in the renowned journal Nature Nanotechnology ("Magneto-gerotactic Bacteria Deliver Drug-containing Nanoliposomes to Tumour Hypoxic Regions").
"This advanced procedure, which provides optimal targeting of a tumour while preserving surrounding healthy organs and tissue, unlike current chemotherapy or radiotherapy, heralds a new era in cancer treatment," says Dr. Gerald Batist, Director of the McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer, based at the Jewish General Hospital, which is collaborating on the project.
Professor Martel's projects also focus on the inaccessibility of certain parts of the body, such as the brain, to transporting agents. In 2015, his team also stood out by successfully opening a rat's blood-brain barrier, temporarily and without damage, providing access to targeted areas of the brain. This feat was achieved through a slight rise in temperature caused by exposing nanoparticles to a radiofrequency field.
"At present, 98% of drug molecules cross the blood-brain barrier only with great difficulty," notes Dr. Anne-Sophie Carret, a specialist in hematology-oncology at Montréal's Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine and one of the doctors collaborating on the project. "This means surgery is often the only way to treat some patients who have serious brain diseases. But certain tumours are inoperable because of their location. Radiation therapy, for its part, is not without medium- and long-term risk for the brain. This work therefore offers real hope to patients suffering from a brain tumour."
Half a century after the release of the film "Fantastic Voyage," science upstages fiction with professor Sylvain Martel's nanorobotic agents designed to travel in the human body to treat cancer.
$4.6 million in equipment for a one-of-a-kind future medical laboratory
This new investment in the Nanorobotics Laboratory represents $4.6 million in infrastructure, with contributions of $1.85 million each from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and the Government of Québec. Companies including Siemens Canada and Mécanik have also made strategic contributions to the project. This laboratory now combines platforms to help develop medical protocols for transferring the procedures developed by Professor Martel to a clinical setting.
The laboratory contains the following equipment:
a clinical MRI platform to navigate microscopic carriers directly into specific areas in the vascular system and for 3D visualization of these carriers in the body;
a specially-developed platform that generates the required magnetic field sequences to guide special bacteria loaded with therapeutic agents into tumours;
a robotic station (consisting of a robotized bed) for moving a patient from one platform to another;
a hyperthermia platform for temporary opening of the blood-brain barrier;
a mobile X-ray system;
a facility to increase the production of these cancer-fighting bacteria.
"We are pleased to contribute to the development of state-of-the-art infrastructure in Montréal that will help create medical procedures that promise to revolutionize cancer treatments," says Gilles Patry, CEO, Canada Foundation for Innovation.
For her part, Dominique Anglade, Québec Minister of the Economy, Science and Innovation and Minister Responsible for the Digital Strategy, states: "The Government of Québec is proud to support Professor Martel's work, which reflects the excellence and avant-gardist nature of Québec research in the life sciences sector. Moreover, the numerous partnerships established in the Nanorobotics Laboratory are bolstering the industry's expertise and capacity to innovate."
Dr. Gilles Soulez, whose team at the imaging research platform of the research centre of the Centre hospitalier de Université de Montréal has been the first collaborator with Professor Martel's team in the development of these protocols, states: "The nanomedicine heralded by Professor Martel's projects will enable us to improve the targeting of tumours during liver-tumour chemoembolization procedures and thereby to treat tumours more effectively while lowering systemic toxicity and reducing side effects."
Christophe Guy, CEO of Polytechnique Montréal, says: "The projects being conducted by Professor Martel and his team are representative of our institution's leadership in biomedical engineering teaching and research. They also embody our vision of an area of research that has a positive impact on society and our fellow citizens."
Source: Polytechnique Montréal
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Q: AngularJS chaining $http get requests New to angular. I am trying to call multiple $http get calls and the second call depending on the result and parsed JSON of the first one as follows:
1) Do an $http get request to get a JSON with an array of elements like ["album 1", "album2"]
2) Loop over each item in the array and do a different $http get request to get the track details for that album.
Here is the controller code for the same (incomplete) where I want to achieve this:
    var vm = this;
    vm.albums = init;
    vm.albums.tracks = albumTracks;
    vm.newFunction = newFunction;

    return init();

    return albumTracks ();

    function init(){

        $http.get('http://localhost:8080/api/albums').then(function(responseData){
            // Parse the json data here and display it in the UI
            vm.albums = responseData;
            $log.debug(angular.toJson(responseData, true));

        // For every album, do another get call in the function albumTracks
            for(var i=0; i<vm.albums.length; i++){
                vm.albums.tracks = [];
                vm.albums.tracks.push(albumTracks(vm.albums[i]));
                console.log(vm.albums.tracks);  // This prints on the console as [undefined]
            }

            console.log(vm.albums.tracks);
            return vm.albums;
        })
    }

    function albumTracks(album){
        $http.get('http://localhost:8080/api/albums/'+album).success(function(trackResponse){
            //parse each album and get the track list
            vm.albums.tracks = trackResponse;
            return vm.albums.tracks;
        })
    }

Here is how each JSON response looks like:
//http://localhost:8080/api/albums/:
 [
  "the-revenant-original-motion-picture-soundtrack",
  "twilight-of-the-ghosts"
 ]

//http://localhost:8080/api/albums/twilight-of-the-ghosts:
[
{
"fileName": "twilight-of-the-ghosts-twilight-of-the-ghosts-01-pinned-to-the-mattress.flac",
"title": "Pinned to the Mattress",
"artists": "Twilight of the Ghosts",
"album": "Twilight of the Ghosts",
"sequenceNumber": 1,
"trackLength": 274
},
 {
"fileName": "twilight-of-the-ghosts-twilight-of-the-ghosts-02-sinking-slowly-slowly-sinking.flac",
"title": "Sinking Slowly Slowly Sinking",
"artists": "Twilight of the Ghosts",
"album": "Twilight of the Ghosts",
"sequenceNumber": 2,
"trackLength": 270
}
and so on

A: Currently you will overwrite tracks with each tracksResponse. You may want to do:
vm.album.tracks = vm.album.tracks.concat(trackResponse);

Instead, you want to associate the albums and tracks, so use an array of objects for the albums instead of an array of strings:
vm.albums = responseData.map(album => ({name: album, tracks: []}));

Then, you will pass in the album object which you can update after the tracks request:
album.tracks = trackResponse;

The console.logs will not work where you have them because $http is asynchronous.
let a = "a";
$http.get(() => a = "b");
console.log(a); // logs "a" even though it was written after `a = "b"`

This means that if you are depending on the response of the $http request for anything you have to do that work in the callback of the request. You probably don't need to do that in this case, though, since updating the vm should update your templates automatically because of how Angular works.

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As per my Knowledge You may need to angular-loop instead of 'for'loop
  where you can attach trackers with out Some more coding and chaos.

vm.albumsWithTrackers = []; // New Variable Defining needed.

//http://localhost:8080/api/albums/: // it is fine Json but with some define attributes it looks good
                 [
                  "the-revenant-original-motion-picture-soundtrack",
                  "twilight-of-the-ghosts"
                 ]

      //  Albums With attributes Defined :-

        [
          "id":"the-revenant-original-motion-picture-soundtrack",
          "id":"twilight-of-the-ghosts"
         ]

        angular.forEach(vm.albums, function (album, key) {
                    album.tracks.push(albumTracks(album));  // attaching only trackers to current album on loop
                    vm.albumsWithTrackers.push(album); // pushing Album to new defined variable
                    console.log(album.tracks);
                    });
                });
               console.log(vm.albumsWithTrackers);//album with attached trackers.
            return vm.albumsWithTrackers;

    function albumTracks(album){
            $http.get('http://localhost:8080/api/albums/'+album.id).success(function(trackResponse){
                 return trackResponse; //send trackers response directly
            })
        }

I hope this approach Will help to sort Your issue  :-)
Thanks.

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The figures are according to the latest data release from Nielsen with a moving annual total of 52 weeks.
According to the report, "American whiskey is one of the stand out growth sub categories in BWS."
Primarily the growth was driven by big brands, with Brown-Forman's Jack Daniels being a 'key contributor' and the number one brand for the category.
Jack Daniels grew its value by 17% in the latest figures and was responsible for driving £154m of sales value in the category. Tennessee whiskey has saw an 18% increase in value growth for the same period.
Jim Beam the second largest American whiskey brand is also up over 50% in value over last year.
Smaller brands like Woodford Reserve, which is also part of the Brown-Forman portfolio, and Buffalo Trace are equally doing well, which is in line with consumer trends centring around more artisanal producers. Brown-Forman reported it saw 32% growth within the Woodford Reserve Family brand for the nine months leading up to its third quarter results which were announced last month.
American whiskey consumers are 'over' indexed toward younger drinkers with 17% of the value of sales coming from 18-34 year old consumers, which is significantly different compared to the 8% those same consumers are responsible for spending in the broader spirits category.
Flavoured 'whiskey' which does not meet the technical requirement of whiskey since the alcohol by volume is lower than 40% is also growing in popularity and is a space to watch according to Nielsen. Brown-Forman Q3 results saw Jack Daniel's flavoured whiskey, Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey, grow underlying net sales by 32% compared to Jack Daniels trademark which grew by 8% during the same period.


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Khammam District
Khammam is 257 km from Hyderabad, on the Hyderabad- Vijayawada section of the South Central Railway. The name Khammam is said to have been derived from the name of the temple 'Narsimhadri', later 'Stamba Sikhari' and then 'Stambadhri'. The vertical rock beneath the temple is known as 'Kamba'. The name of the town Khammam seems to have originated from the name of this rock Kamba and the district too is named Khammam.
The area covered is 16,029 sq km, which is 5.82 percent of Andhra Pradesh. The population is two and a half million.
Khammam District is very hot in summer and very chilly in winter. From mid February till the end of June, the summer season continues. The south-west monsoon�s arrival provides rain till the end of September.
The Godavari, Sabari, Kinnerasani, Muneru, Akeru and Vaira are the various rivers that flow through Khammam. Forests cover 48 percent of the district. The forest wealth consists mainly of teak, black 'maddi' and bamboo.
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A key function of Wall Street is to bring promising new companies to market to ensure that the U.S. remains competitive in new industries and good jobs and innovation. This process is called Initial Public Offerings or IPOs. But the nation was put on notice as far back as 2001 that Wall Street was more snake oil salesman than the locomotive for new business launches. The largest investment banks were calling the startups they were peddling to the public on the Nasdaq stock market "dogs" and "crap" behind closed doors while lauding their virtues in publicly released "research" announcements.
At the time Chernow wrote those words, $4 trillion had been erased from the markets. At Nasdaq's peak, set on March 10, 2000, it was at 5,048.62. Yesterday, the Nasdaq closed at 4,771.76. Our job creation engine has sputtered and backfired for a decade and a half without intervention from Congress or the White House. Wall Street investment banks are still allowed to write research reports on the same companies they are bringing to market despite the $4 trillion lesson that this is a flawed, corrupt system.
Just seven years after the Nasdaq crash, Wall Street collapsed the entire U.S. financial system and the nation's economy. We are now entering the second leg of that economic collapse as deflation takes root in major industrialized nations around the globe, supply gluts proliferate on weak demand, and oil and industrial commodity prices collapse.
Wall Street looked around for other suckers to fleece – public school districts, towns, counties, cities and states. It knew that it was only a matter of time before its massive issuance of mortgages to people who could not afford them would blow up the housing market and create a long-term downturn, bringing rates to record lows, so it sold tens of billions of dollars of interest rate swaps to these public entities. The public entities would receive a variable rate tied to Libor; Wall Street would receive a higher, fixed rate. Wall Street then proceeded to engage in a conspiracy to rig the Libor interest rate to its advantage. Typically, the public entity ended up receiving a fraction of one percent in interest, while contractually bound to pay Wall Street firms as much as 3 to 6 percent in a fixed rate for twenty years or longer. To get out of the deals, public entities have been forced to pay Wall Street tens of billions of dollars in termination fees, further fleecing the public purse.
Wall Street's overarching function today is that of an institutionalized wealth transfer mechanism, propped up by compromised regulators and a dysfunctional Congress. As the PBS program Frontline reported in 2013, if your work career spans 50 years and you receive the historic return of 7 percent on stocks in your 401(k) plan, the 2 percent typical fee charged by Wall Street mutual funds will gobble up almost two-thirds of your account.


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Keybase.io
PGP Pub Key
Documenting Breaches With H Diagrams
Apr 17, 2019 #security #post #evergreen #systems #product
1500 words, 6 minutes.
"For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number by the letter e" - Leonhard Euler, Mechanica. 1736.
What if you could understand and explain any breach 10x faster?
Security breaches are a staple of mainstream news. In the past, details only emerged through technical analysis, research papers, and the forensic review of press releases. Occasionally we'd be gifted with a customer letter or the suspicious timing of a patch or update. A rumour, a leak, a resignation. Sometimes the first clue would be the appearance of huge data sets on the dark web. We'd have to put the pieces together ourselves. Today, news organisations and publishers have dedicated Cyber Security correspondents and legislation makes large breaches a notifiable event. Some victims even manage to be pro-active in their disclosure and details of the clean-up. Somehow breaches became a drama.
"A dull, dry technical breach, enabled by simple negligence becomes a story about an embattled CEO's fight for survival. A partial leak of personal financial data becomes a story about corporate power and regulation. A hack of dating profiles becomes a tale of gender discrimination. Apologising won't shift you out of the blast zone." - Breach Handling & The High Ground, The Eutopian, Oct 2017.
There's a downside to breaches becoming a mainstream drama. Most publications are advertising supported and articles are spread over multiple pages. They're often longer than necessary and less information dense. All of this is an expected consequence of the subject matter moving into the mainstream. I find some of those practices tiresome but forgivable. However, I've noticed some more serious problems with recent coverage:
The headline is plain wrong, sometimes the opposite of reality.
The lede imbricates more than the facts can support.
The narrative is more creative-writing than certitude.
Advertised participants turn out not to be participants at all, name-dropped for clicks. Stories are embellished with elements of the milieu of the sector, geography, and politics of the time. Finally, there's the ridiculous imagery used throughout this industry. I've written about that before. I recently had to read through a 10 minute, multi-page article twice just to understand:
Who has been breached?
What mechanism was employed?
What data was involved?
What happened to that data?
Who the perpetrator was?
Hold The Baloney
The facts were scattered and surrounded by baloney and plot-lines. Could I imagine something better? There's no standard way of describing a breach in terms that are simple, clear, and easy to communicate to others. How would I provide this information in such a way that would allow experts to instantly understand it while a wider audience enjoys the creative writing in the rest of the article?
Sometimes it helps to imagine how someone else would approach a problem, someone whose methods are proven but in a different discipline. To whom should one look for inspiration? They'd have to be good at explaining from first principals. Someone who can simplify without dumbing-down to the extent that the explanation becomes wrong. An educator, a communicator. Someone interesting and energetic. Someone able to turn esoteric into exoteric.
"I like cross-discipline learning that improves my ability to try-out different lenses on problems and therefore gain a greater understanding and find better solutions" - Arrival, The Eutopian, May 2017.
Richard P Feynman1 was a theoretical physicist. In the 40s and 50s, he devised simple, intuitive diagrams2 to show interactions between particles. Even a relative novice can understand a Feynman diagram at its most basic level. Yet the same diagram can also convey interactions in a way that Nobel Prize-winning physicists find useful. They take relatively complex equations and make them simple. Can Feynman help us explain breaches?
The Particle Physics Of A Breach
A breach is defined by at least one interaction between at least two entities. That interaction occurs via some method. It results in a change of state in those entities. That state change often relates to data one of them holds. The interaction may consist of one or more steps. It may lead to further interactions and changes of state in other entities unrelated to the original breach. In this way the effects of the original breach "scatter". In this attempt to simplify and explain breaches we are now moving from wordy descriptions towards tighter and more structured language. Let's review that language:
One or more interactions.
Between two or more entities.
Each interaction has a method.
As do subsequent interactions (if any).
There is a change of state concerning data or systems or both.
The changed state may go on to impact other entities.
My theory is that we can translate this language into simple diagrams that can be usefully understood by experts and novices alike.
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are, or what your name is. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." - Richard P. Feynman.
Time for an experiment. The test of a good diagram is that it works without any words. Most of the information is intrinsic. These breach diagrams are read left to right as the arrows suggest. Time only runs forwards. By convention, I've placed the attacker above the victim in simple 2-entity diagrams. I think of them as having a 2-dimensional Rube Goldberg quality.
Experiment 1.
Sales Exec (not InfoSec). No technical interest or knowledge
Question Can you describe this breach?
Answer "It's a phishing attack"
"Some data was copied"
"Then they went on to hack 2 other companies using keys"
Verdict Thank goodness, I may be on to something.
"Something was cut off from the victim"
"The attacker could access it though"
"The victim sent money to the attacker"
"Then the victim could access his data again"
Verdict Success!
Answer "It was a USB attack"
"Eventually a Windows machine was infected"
"Then it got to step 7, whatever that is"
"Then it went to S7-300, whatever that is"
"Something attached to S7-300 was broken"
Verdict Acceptable. It was an ambitious goal.
For each of the unlabelled diagrams above, click to reveal the annotated version. They are in order:
2011 RSA token database breach, attacks on Lockheed Martin and L3.
2017 NHS WannaCry ransomware (or any similar incident).
2010 Stuxnet attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Tools > Pictures > Words
The value of Feynman's diagrams was that they simplified complex equations. Not only did his doodles convey helpful information, but they were also derived from real theories about the way particles interact. They were rooted in measurable, observable phenomena. How can we make our breach diagrams more than just doodles, more than just simplified infographics or timelines? How can they become a tool as well as a visual representation?
When a diagram becomes a tool it breaks free of the page. It becomes a weapon in the hands of the reader. Suddenly they realise a picture can make things happen in the real world. That realisation is the same jolt the audience feels when a stage actor breaks the fourth wall. It's the most powerful effect any diagram can have.
Can we make breach diagrams more real?
Can we associate them directly with data?
Can we generate such diagrams programmatically?
Most security documentation is done by hand. Most of it could and should be generated programmatically. I've alluded to a system for programmatically documenting compliance and attestation before.
In the last 20 years, automation of security has improved. From 1990s-era reflexive access lists, automatic IP address banning, dynamic email filtering, to some of the more sophisticated products and services around today. For the most part, we're still trying to counter an industrialised adversary by using cottage industry methods. This mismatch extends right through to how we generate documentation.
The groundwork for programmatically generated breach diagrams has already been done. Initiatives like MITRE ATT&CK™ and CVE could be incorporated within an ontology. That ontology could be used to derive breach diagrams from real data. I'm going to experiment with this idea. I'm hopeful that out of those experiments will emerge that ontology and with it a set of symbols.
The hard part will be maintaining simplicity and correctness while resisting embellishment. On my side is my interest in semiotics and my lack of ability at drawing.
All that remains is to choose a name for these doodles. I can't call them Feynman diagrams. Hutton diagrams? For now, I'm shortening that to H diagrams. Re-reading the quote at the top of this post, I think Euler would have approved. As for Feynman, I'd like to think he'd appreciate their simplicity. I've deliberately left the specification of H diagrams vague. Experiment with them yourself. Send me your contributions. Just make sure you adhere to the license.
This post is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license by the original author, Nick Hutton.
My friend Richard Feynman, TEDx Caltech, Jan 2011 - Leonard Susskind, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Stanford University. 15 minutes on the personality, character, and humour of Richard Feynman. Guaranteed baloney free. [return]
Feynman Diagrams, Fermilab, Feb 2016 - Don Lincoln, Researcher, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. 6-minute explanation on the construction and significance of Feynman diagrams. [return]
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AUDITIONS: Skeem Saam Is Holding Auditions In Johannesburg and Hammanskraal
SABC1's latest soapie, Skeem Saam, is looking ton cast for new characters on the show. The Show will be holding open auditions in Hammanskraal and Johannesburg.
The new characters will join the show in 2015 when the lead characters leave high school for university.
They're going to form an integral part of a new, additional Johannesburg world that some of the characters will relocate to.
These are the characters the show's looking to cast:
Young vibrant students (aged 18 – 25)
Lecturers (30 and older)
Tutors (24 and older)
Security guards (25 and older)
University Staff (25 and older)
Pairings for possible parents (40 and older)
Who is the show looking for?
Talented performers who are driven, passionate, dedicated, disciplined and have a fervent desire to be on the show.
Skeem Saam is primarily a Sepedi show, based in Turfloop, Limpopo but producers say that the Johannesburg world will be as true a reflection of the diversity of Johannesburg as the show is able to create. It'll be populated by people from all over the country, and people from different parts of the continent and abroad.
To achieve this, the show is looking to cast males and females of all the language groups in South Africa.
Audition dates and venues
Hammanskraal
Date: Friday 31 October and Saturday 1 November 2014.
Venue: Mandela Village
Address: 532/3 Hammanskraal Community Hall/ Sports grounds, Lovelane Road, Mandela Village
Time: 8am - 5pm.
Date: Friday 7 November 2014 and Saturday 8 November 2014
Venue: The Bassline
Address: 10 Henry Nxumalo Street, Newtown, 2119
What must I do for the audition?
You need to prepare a two-minute monologue of your choice. It could be from a stage play, a TV show or a movie. Audition scenes will also be available at the auditions on the day.
You should dress for the part so that you look like the characters as much as possible.
It's great to see a show going outside the usual urban pool to look for talent. Good luck if you are going.
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We finally had a break in the cold weather this past weekend, which gave me the opportunity to get back out on the water and hopefully find some hungry fish. The water temps were still hovering from 47-51 degrees, which is a little cooler than normal for this time of year, and certainly a sign of all the cold weather we've had recently. Fortunately, after a lot of riding and checking different spots, we were able to find some nice redfish in 24-27 inch range that were willing to bite and provide us with some action. Several other friends of mine had similar success on the reds over the weekend, and there were even a few trout caught as well, so hopefully we will soon see some warmer temperatures which will certainly lead to even more active fish. So be patient, and hopefully some great spring fishing will be here before we know it!


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Trump's Boy Scout Speech Drove Liberals Nuts
RUSH: You know the best way to illustrate the reaction here? Trump goes to the Boy Scout National Jamboree yesterday. There's 30,000 or 40,000 scouts there. They all have parents that send them there, and you know, for the longest time the left hated the Boy Scouts. The Boy Scouts were rooted in Christian morality, good deeds, manners. The left decided, "We can't have this! That's an obstacle in the direction we want to go." So they started pressuring the Boy Scouts to begin to accept gays and the Girl Scouts to accept lesbians.
Now they're demanding that transgenders be admitted to the Scouts. The left has never loved the Scouts, and they still don't. But let Trump go speak to them and let 30,000 Boy Scouts go nuts seeing Trump and start shouting, "We love Trump! USA! USA!" and they're now having another one of these out-of-control, irresponsible, unhinged reactions precisely because of what it means. So what we're getting now is, "This was unseemly. This was over the top. Trump is not supposed to do what he did. The Boy Scouts are not supposed to be politicized."
They've gone out and they got a bunch of former Eagle Scouts and a bunch of media people to tweet, "I'm quaking in my boots at what I've seen here! Trump is making a political speech to the Boy Scouts. I'm fearful for the future of the organization. (Gasp!) I don't know how it can survive." These are the same people who have been trying to tear it down from the first moment they began to consider it a threat. So Trump goes out and he starts talking about fake news, and the Boy Scouts start cheering! He talks about what's going on in Washington, and they loved it, for the most part.
Not everybody loved everything, but I mean the overwhelming reaction you could see was upbeat and positive. And the left is having its typical cow over this — and the reason why? They're not offended that Trump violated some tradition of sacrosanct status. They don't have any massive respect for the Boy Scouts. They tried to undermine 'em and put 'em out of business not long ago. They are upset that Trump is his own guy and flaunts their way of doing things — openly and in their face — and gets cheered for it. That just will not do. I did a Google search. Three straight pages of links to stories!
I should have them printed out and read some of the links to you, but I didn't on purpose 'cause I didn't want to infuriate you. But you can imagine. (phone ringing) Every story has as its premise that (ringing) executives and officials and responsible people everywhere (ringing) are simply… (interruption) Let me deal with this. Nobody ever calls me. Look at that. That's a wrong number. I don't recognize it. Screw you. That's what happens. So they look at this and they think Trump's just violating every code of conduct, every standard — every this, every that — and it's only because he's succeeding with it. (interruption)
What are you laughing at in there? (interruption) Yeah, it is kind of funny. I thought I had the "do not disturb" on. (interruption) Well, maybe it's a scammer, but who knows. You know, the iPhone is great. It has a feature. To show you how fast computer processing has become, if you have a large address book — or an address book, period. If you've got people's name and phone numbers in it, if you get a call from somebody whose number is not in your address book, it then searches your email to see if that number is in an email.
And if it is, it will identify who sent you the email and associate it with the number, on the screen where your phone shows when it's ringing. (interruption) No, no. This has been around since iOS 8, iOS 9. It happens now. The point is, it's a protection against getting calls from people you theoretically don't know. If they're not in your address book, you don't know them. But in some cases you might; you might have not made an address book entry. So it will search every email that you have on your servers, on your device, and if it finds the email from which the call comes…
All this happens before your phone rings, and if it finds the number in an email that's not in your address book, it will put the name associated with the email on the screen so you'll know who is calling you. If it doesn't find a name, it just shows you the number, and if you understand that, that tells you that your phone has no idea who this is. Meaning you don't know who it is. Which means you hit the power button and you zap 'em straight to voice mail. And that's what I just did. 'Cause I got a call from somebody I don't know, and my phone told me I don't know 'em.
You don't have to remember anybody's number. All you have to do is make sure you have an address book contact for everybody you know, their phone number. (interruption) No, because when they call, it says "unknown." That's how you know to answer it. When it says "unknown." Or if they're blocked, it'll say "caller blocked." But even if that number that's blocked is in an email, it'll display the number, the theory being you don't know who it is and the phone's trying to tell you who it is to assist you in whether or not to answer it.
At any rate… You think I've lost my place here, but I have not. I'm telling you this episode that Trump had with the Boy Scouts — and he's going back out tonight. He's got a three o'clock press conference today. After that, he's heading back to Youngstown. They're upset with him that he addressed the Boy Scouts and he did a rally. "You're not supposed to do a rally. You're supposed to tell the Boy Scouts about clean living and virtue and honesty, doing the right thing. You're not supposed to politicize it!"
Imagine the left telling somebody you're not supposed to politicize something! That's all they do, and the reason the left doesn't like the Boy Scouts is precisely because of message and clean and reverent and respectful virtue and morality. That's what they hated about the Boy Scouts to begin with! That flies in the face of their objectives of turning our culture upside down and getting rid of those characteristics as defining aspects of our culture.
So this idea that they have some great respect for the Boy Scouts and that President Trump went in there and somehow besmirched it? It's a joke, it's a laugh, because the people mounting this criticism are the very people that have been trying to undermine the Boy Scouts for what is it, at least 15 years now, and maybe more than that.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I went back, I printed out these Google search headlines on Trump Boy Scout. I got three pages of 'em here. I'm just gonna randomly read some. "Trump Boy Scout Speech is Nazi Hitler Youth Rally." That's in Newsweek. "Trump Goads Boy Scouts to Boo Obama at National Jamboree." That's in The Root. That's Skip Gates' publication there. "Trump's 'Embarrassing Spectacle' At Boy Scout Jamboree Panned By Former Scouts," Huffing and Puffington Post. "Veteran Scoutmaster Slams Trump on Twitter After Speech to Boy Scouts." "Donald Trump Makes Boy Scouts Chant For Him, Regales Them With Yacht Sex Story." That's what the headline is.
"Trump Launches Into Political Tirade at Boy Scouts Jamboree." "Donald Trump Got Weird And Political At The Boy Scouts' Jamboree." "Trump Boy Scout Speech Broke With 80 Years of Tradition." "14 Most Inappropriate Moments From Trump's Boy Scout Speech." "Trump Boy Scout Jamboree Speech Angers Parents." "Trump Slams GOP Senators, Dishonest Press, Obama, and Clinton to Boy Scouts." "All the Ways Donald Trump Violated the Boy Scout Law Last Night."
I have this story from the Grooveyard of Forgotten Show Prep. This is August 18th in 2000, Washington Times: "Democrat delegates boo the Boy Scouts of America at their convention." The Algore Democrat convention of 2000, the Boy Scouts of America were booed. And now these people come up and claim to be holier-than-thou supporters of the Boy Scouts. It's all a big lie.
RUSH: No, no, it's in Newsweek. "Trump Boy Scout Speech is Nazi Hitler Youth Rally." And they even have pictures of Hitler speaking to his brown shirted youths in the story. Meanwhile, who was it that organized little school kids singing songs of devotion to "Barack Hussein Obama, yay, yay, yay, Barack Hussein Obama, we love him." It was all over the place in 2009. Kids out there being forced to sing these Obama anthems. Hitler youth, my sizable rear end.
RUSH: My grandfather, my maternal grandfather was devoted to the Boy Scouts, was actively involved in the Boy Scouts of America. I was a Boy Scout. I was a tenderfoot for a year. You're a tenderfoot when you join. That means I accomplished nothing. The only award I won was a gold brick as the most useless guy in the troop on a campout. (interruption) Well, I didn't want to be there. I wanted to… I didn't want to be there. But nevertheless, I had the uniform, and I became an expert in tying the handkerchief. You know, all the outdoor appearance things, I had 'em down pat.
The meetings were at the church. It was always a church-related organization, and when the Boy Scouts were founded — and there have been many presidents who were deeply involved. I think Teddy Roosevelt was and some others. But before it, in the earliest days of the Boy Scouts, they always… The Boy Scouts of America named the president of the United States as the honorary president every year that he was in office. Barack Obama never once accepted the invitation from the Boy Scouts to go speak.
Even after they had been forced to admit homosexuals, he never once accepted the invitation, because I'm telling you, folks — and particularly you Millennials — the Democrat Party has had no use for the Boy Scouts. They have no use for valor and honor and manners and morality. God? That was the big obstacle for the left is the Boy Scouts' roots, R-O-O-T-S, in the God of the founding of the United States. They just couldn't abide it. As I say here, this is from the Washington Times, August 18th of 2000. This is during the Algore Democrat convention:
"Democrat Delegates Boo the Boy Scouts of America." They hated 'em, and I'm not saying that with any exaggeration. To the left, hard-core leftists, the Boy Scouts represent an obstacle and a threat. They would not admit women. They had to go to the Girl Scouts. They would not admit homosexuals. They would not admit transgenders. Now those two groups have been forced in via pressure brought by the left, and even after that Obama would not deign to accept an invitation to go speak at the national jamboree. Trump did, and he went out and he gave them who he is. They asked Donald Trump to come speak, and President Donald Trump showed up.
And the left has flipped a gasket, now comparing it to a "Nazi youth rally" in Newsweek magazine. It's not Trump who's unhinged. And, by the way, this may come back and bite me, but a brief little observation. We're told every day by the Drive-By Media that the left… I take that back. We're told by the Drive-Bys that the people of this country regret their vote, right? We're told that an increasing number of Americans are very, very disappointed in Trump. We're told that a vast number of voters for Trump wish they could take it back. They wish they could vote for somebody else.
The only other person would have been Hillary, of course. We're told that this number of people dissatisfied, embarrassed of Donald Trump is growing. But have you noticed something? It was known that Donald Trump was gonna go to the Boy Scouts for a while. Where were the protesters? If there is so much opposition to Trump, and if it is spontaneous and if it is organic — and if it is not being bought and paid for — where are they? Because it sure does appear to me that the left has, in the past month or two, decided to stop spending money on anti-Trump rallies, because there aren't any.
And if there aren't any anti-Trump rallies, it means the protesters are not being paid, and they're not being bused. Have you seen any big anti-Trump rallies lately in the past month or so? Can you name any? There might have been. You know, the feminazis are always on the march out there doing something and angry about something. Now they always relate it to Trump. But the stuff that we saw in the first month, like when the travel ban was announced and these millions miraculously (chuckling) appear at every airport. Bought and paid for. The point is that what they're telling us about public opinion and Trump is not represented in day-to-day life.
RUSH: We have a lot of audio from Trump at the Boy Scout jamboree and I want to play just an opening bite here. We've got four or five of these. But here's just one to get started. Old time Trump performance before a huge crowd. It's said to be 30,000, maybe 40,000 Boy Scouts. Remember, they all have parents and family. Here's the Trumpster.
THE PRESIDENT: In order to succeed, you must find out what you love to do. You have to find your passion, no matter what they tell you. If you don't — I love you too. I don't know. Nice guy. (cheers) Hey, what am I gonna do? He sounds like a nice person. He. He, he, he. Thank you. I do, I do love you. (crowd chanting "we love Trump") By the way, just a question. Did President Obama ever come to a jamboree? (crowd booing)
RUSH: I'm counting here. I'm counting, 14 seconds, and that's where we cut it, 14 seconds of boos, for those of you in Rio Linda, for Barack Hussein O who never once in eight years accepted the invitation from the Boy Scouts to speak to their national jamboree. And this is what Newsweek has described as a Hitler youth rally conducted by Donald Trump. It totally, totally shook them up. In their minds they've destroyed this kind of appreciation for Trump.
RUSH: Back to audio sound bite number 17. Donald Trump speaking to the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree in Glen Jean, West Virginia, yesterday. It's the 2017 National Jamboree. Here Trump is telling a story about a businessman who lost his momentum.
THE PRESIDENT: There was a man named William Levitt. He was a homebuilder, became an unbelievable success, and got more and more successful. Then he was offered a lot of money for his company, and he sold his company for a tremendous amount of money. And he went out and bought a big yacht. And he had a very interesting life. But what happened is he bought back his company, and in the end, he failed and he failed badly. Lost all of his money, he went personally bankrupt, and he was now much older. And I saw him at a cocktail party. And I said, "What exactly happened? Why did this happen to you?" And he said, "Donald, I lost my momentum. I lost my momentum." I tell you, it was very sad, and I never forgot that moment.
RUSH: Now, that is insightful. I'm sure Trump critics don't hear anything worthy of note in that comment. "I lost my momentum." You know, folks, momentum shifts are one of the most inexplicable things in human behavior. Let's take a look at a football game. In fact, let's look at last year's Super Bowl. You have the Atlanta Falcons, the New England Patriots. And we all know, those of us who watch the game, that the Patriots were out of it at halftime.
The Falcons had something like a 26-3 lead in the middle of the third quarter, and they lost the game. Among other things that happened, they lost their momentum. I once asked the old coach of the Houston Oilers, Bum Phillips, why does it happen? Every football game you can see the momentum shift. You can see one team gets jazzed and ready to go, and the other team's kind of getting flat.
He said, "Rush, if I could answer that question, I would have never been fired." Meaning momentum, these momentum shifts, they're inexplicable. They are determined by stimuli that a coach cannot just guarantee with a fiery speech, a motivating speech to reignite momentum. It usually takes a successful, in the game of football, a successful player or two, conversion of a third down against long odds. The other team could screw up and that causes a momentum shift. You can't predict them, and you can't cause them.
So what's Trump talking about here? I think when he says that he learned this tremendous lesson of never losing momentum, what he means is you don't stop. You don't rest on your laurels. You don't take time off to assess. You just keep going. This man lost his momentum when he sold the company and changed his lifestyle to cruising the Mediterranean on his yacht. He got bored with that, wanted to go back to his business, but he'd been there and done that and just wasn't able to recapture the momentum.
Trump is saying, once you find out what you love, just keep doing it because it isn't work. He said that in the next bite. I don't have time to play it right now, but that's right out of my playbook. If you do what you love, it will never be work. There may be arduous days, but you're never gonna get up wishing you didn't have to do it. As I say, there may not be days where certain things are gonna happen, but when it's what you love, it's not work.
And I can't tell you what kind of motivating characteristic that is and what kind of freedom that that creates. Loving what do, having a genuine passion for it. Most people, a lot of people never discover it. They force themselves. I knew when I was eight what I wanted to do. I knew why I wanted to do it. I hated school. The guy on the radio was having fun and I was looking at nine hours of being effectively in a prison, plus I loved it per se.
Newsweek: Trump Boy Scout Speech Is Nazi Hitler Youth Rally, Left Says
The Root: Trump Goads Boy Scouts to Boo Obama at National Jamboree
LA Times: Trump Slams GOP Senators, 'Dishonest' Press, Obama and Clinton in a Rambling Speech to National Boy Scouts Jamboree
Washington Times: Democrat Delegates Boo the Boy Scouts of America at Their Convention - 08.18.00


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Every small community has an annual event of some kind to gather and celebrate something… anything. Vankleek Hill, with a total population of roughly 2,100 interesting people, happens to have several of these annual events, a number of which bring in thousands of people from other communities. Just recently, for example, we put on the '169th Vankleek Hill Agricultural Fair'.
It's the oldest Fair of its kind in this region, and most others across this part of Canada. I wouldn't be surprised if the final four-day attendance total was more than 12,000 people.
On its face the Fair is about a demolition derby, a few concerts, some rides and some games that may, or may not be, completely rigged. There's even a new demolition derby on opening night involving old combine-harvesters… which was as nuts as it sounds.
But there's still competitions for 'best seeds', 'best corn cobs', 'best hay', 'best whatever stuff', sheep, horse pulls, light horse shows… it's still the place where the people who grow the things we eat gather to watch fifty-year old tractors try to get to the end of a 200-foot track while dragging 6,000lbs.
For a lot of the old guys and their wives, I'm pretty sure this is it… the one or two days out of the year where they get a day off to not be in the field or in the barn.
I took photos on the last day for the local paper. Mostly of the light horse competitions, a volleyball tournament and the firefighter's combat challenge. But then I watched the old tractors fighting their way up the track, and couldn't resist.
The trick, I discovered, to dragging 6,000lbs of concrete 200-feet, using thirty- or fifty-year old tractors, is to deflate the back tires until they're pancakes, and go slow.
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#DPF2015 Exhibition: The Album – Family & Friends
anuragbanerjee26 / October 26, 2015
Raghu Rai catalogues decades of photographing his loved ones.
This edition of the Delhi Photo Festival will be exhibiting never-seen-before work by Raghu Rai.
"You can't escape Raghu Rai's work whether you are a photographer or not. That is his strength," said DPF core team member Sohrab Hura in an interview with Invisible Photographer Asia. Over the last five decades, Raghu Rai has been documenting India relentlessly. The Bangladesh war of 1971, the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984, the numerous visual stories in India Today. The sheer volume of work that Rai has built over the years has ensured his name becoming synonymous with Indian photography.
The one aspect that the world has not had a glimpse of as yet, seen is a look into Rai's own life. The first photographs that he made of his personal life were that of his brother, S. Paul. "You never stop being a photographer," Rai reminisced in an interview after a recent book launch of his, "you keep shooting."
The images in this exhibition have a certain tenderness about them: an ever-so-slight smile on Rai's face, the gentleness with which he holds his children in an early selfie. Still, what is unmissable is the control over his craft, the way he sees light, the way he frames his images.
In 2011, co-founder of the Delhi Photo Festival Prashant Panjiar (who had worked with Rai at India Today) approached Rai. He knew that Rai had been photographing his friends and family for a long time and wanted him to do a show with those personal portraits at the festival's inaugural edition. At the time, Rai was prompt to dismiss him saying that it would be too self-indulgent.
Earlier this year, Panjiar visited Rai again and was pleasantly surprised. Rai had taken his suggestion and compiled moments out of his personal life into a dummy book. The idea of a personal project had obviously taken germ in Rai's mind.
And so, for the first time this year at the Delhi Photo Festival, we shall get a look into Raghu Rai's personal life. Was his approach to shooting his family different than that of five years of documenting a nation? "Na ji na," said Rai, "The only thing is that I responded differently because different situations [give rise to] different emotions and energies. You have to put your heart into the sensor of the camera for anything."
Born in 1942, Raghu Rai's first job as a photojournalist was with The Statesman. In 1977, Henri Cartier-Bresson nominated Rai to Magnum photos. From 1982 to 1992, he was the director of photography for India Today. He served on the jury of the World Press Photo Awards from 1990 to 1997. He has had numerous exhibitions all around the world and has published many books. In 1992, Rai was awarded the Padmashree.
The Album – Family & Friends is part of the print exhibitions line-up for this edition of the Delhi Photo Festival starting on October 30 at the IGNCA, Delhi. Raghu Rai also launches his magazine Creative Images on October 30 at the venue at 12:30 p.m.
Whats your favorite exhibit?
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Highlights of day one at #DPF2015 →


A long while ago I was inspired by Cajsa Lilliehook of It's Only Fashion, to make a Flickr Group. So what is so different about this Flickr Group than others you may ask? Well it is called SL Stock Images, which might actually give you a clue of its purpose. The reason it was inspired by Cajsa, is that she is one of those bloggers that can find the most amazing of locations to shoot her images, and actually compiles a notecard, which she updates often, and sends out to the other blogger groups. But when "I" – this is one of those moments you want to make the word I bigger than it is – try and shoot on location, I can never find the right looking sim, or get my lighting sorted, or not crash a million times, or just everything works against me, that hours go by and I just end up tping back to my VR Studio and taking all my pics there and working on them in PS.
But when I am NOT looking to shoot something, I find awesome locations, or get inspired by just the way a planter pot is leaning against a wall of some delapitated shed somewhere. Somewhat like the things you see when you actually google stock images, that you may want to use for post processing, and often the ones that would be perfect are not free to use, so you end up back where you started.
So I made the group, and then Hair Fair and other things distracted me, and with Cajsa being not so well lately, I felt it was time to actually do something with the group. So today I went to a location that I knew was kind of interesting, and took some pictures, with various lighting and shadows…and uploaded them to the group. Once the pictures are put in the group they are for anyone to use, in Second Life ads, photography, blog pics and so on, they are not to be used commercialy or given away, and to submit pictures in the group means that you took them yourself, or made the backdrops in PS/Gimp yourself.
I could have take a picture in this wonderful location while I was there, dressed as I am, but decided to instead do my own merging using the stock image. So you can see the blending of the image above with the pic of me in the VR Studio, and then the after work and final image. I hope many contribute to the group, and find some inspiration to use the stock images for their own work…if you are a location photographer blogger, consider every time you shoot a scene doing one or more pics without you in them, and adding them to the group. They could even come in handy for you yourself to use again in the future, or even if something goes wrong, you can use them to mend your other work.


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Web3 Developer Salary: How Much Do Web3 Developers Make?
According to an industry report, the world's web3 market will be worth over $81 billion by 2030. This prediction is positive news for people looking to start a career in web3 or want to switch from Web2. A fast-growing market means there would be an increased need for more workers. But you'll want to know how much web3 developers make and whether it's worth your time before making the jump.
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In this article, we'll be exploring the top web3 developer jobs and their average salary. We'll also offer insights into how much you can expect to make as a web3 developer in specific regions or countries.
How Much Do Web3 Developers Make?
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As we've stressed earlier, several factors, including experience level, job position, and location, can affect a web3 developer's salary. However, you can make between $100k and $150k yearly as a web3 engineer or developer with 1-2 years of experience.
According to Web3.Career, the average yearly salary for a blockchain developer is $100k. Highly experienced blockchain developers earn up to $230k yearly. On the other hand, new entry blockchain developers would make at least $40k annually.
The above figures are for blockchain developers; however, there are many more web3 job positions you can explore. We'll talk more about how much you can earn in other areas of the web3 industry later in this article. But before we get into that, let's answer a question that might have been bugging your mind.
Are Web3 Developers in Demand?
Due to the industry's explosive market growth, there's a massive demand for web3 developers and engineers. Many web3 companies are looking for highly-skilled web3 developers or engineers that would help them create dApps and blockchains. While experience is essential, the basic requirement for most companies is a solid theoretical grasp of how web3 technology works.
If you're considering a career as a web3 developer, the best place to start is by learning relevant programming languages. Proficiency in Python, Rust, Solidity (for creating smart contracts), and JavaScript (+ React framework) is crucial to becoming a web3 developer. In addition, knowledge about the zero-knowledge proof theory, metaverse, and blockchain technology would be an advantage.
Top 7 Web3 Developer Job Salaries
Below is a list of the seven most lucrative jobs a career in the web3 space can get you.
Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer
Blockchain infrastructure engineers are responsible for building the blockchain protocol. However, depending on the organization or specific project, the role of a blockchain infrastructure engineer can widen. For example, they might create the chain's consensus mechanism by writing smart contracts.
Required knowledge: Proficiency in multiple programming languages such as C++, Rust, Python, Go, or Solidity would be a huge advantage. It would allow flexibility with the type of blockchain you can work with. For example, if you want to work on the Ethereum blockchain or an L2 like Arbitrum, you'll need to know Solidity.
Additionally, common knowledge of computer science would help you understand the high-level design protocols, security, and architecture involved in creating a blockchain better.
Average Salary: The average salary of a blockchain infrastructure developer is $185,000, with a high of $200,000 and a low of $150,000.
Web3 Developer or Blockchain Software Developer
A web3 developer or blockchain software developer is in charge of creating applications that use the blockchain and its back-end technologies. While there might be some similarities between this position and a Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer, they are different responsibilities.
Required Knowledge: You should learn web development technologies and smart contract languages to work as a Web3 Developer. The language you'll learn will depend on the blockchain you will work with. For example, a web3 developer that wants to work on Stacks would need knowledge of JavaScript and Clarity to create Stacks-based applications.
Average Salary: The salary of web3 developers ranges from $70k to $350k annually, depending on their position, level of experience, location, etc.
Smart Contract Developer
Smart contract developers are tasked with writing immutable, openly accessible, and blockchain-based smart contracts.
Required Knowledge: The programming language a smart contract developer would need to learn would depend on the blockchain ecosystem they choose. Generally, Solidity, Rust, and Clarity are the most popular languages for blockchain development.
Average Salary: An average smart contract developer makes $120,000 per year. But your location and experience level could see this amount going as high as $147k or as low as $112k.
Elegance designs and functionality remain significant determinants of a good application in the metaverse. And since it's not going to change anytime soon, there is a constant need for front-end Developers in the web3 world.
Front-end developers are responsible for creating the entire user interface (illustrated parts) of dApps which allows users to communicate with smart contracts or blockchains.
Required Knowledge: You'll need knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to get started as a front-end developer. Also, learning about the fundamentals of blockchain technology would be helpful as you'll be interacting with it frequently.
Average Salary: The base yearly salary for front-end developers ranges from $106,922 to $130,083, with an annual average wage of $119,224.
Cybersecurity Specialists
The potential of blockchain technology is ridiculed, with security issues threatening the web3 ecosystem. Web3 companies rely on cybersecurity experts who can recognize and address blockchain security vulnerabilities.
A cybersecurity specialist is responsible for evaluating and revising smart contract code in search of potential security flaws and fixing them. Penetration testers, which imitate real-world attacks, are also used by web3 and blockchain companies to pinpoint an organization's vulnerabilities.
Required Knowledge: Cybersecurity specialists are usually well-versed in smart contracts and blockchain development complexities to identify potential vulnerabilities and build fixes. Most of the time, cybersecurity specialists have intermediate to expert-level experience as smart contract developers.
Average Salary: The average yearly salary of a web3 cybersecurity specialist is $130,700, although the normal range is between $116,200 and $145,300.
VR/AR Game Developer
Web3, metaverse, and blockchain technologies are gaining ground in the gaming industry. This development opens job opportunities for game developers to develop games using VR/AR technologies. A VR/AR game developer would be responsible for building the 3D virtual environments where the games occur.
Required Knowledge: You don't necessarily need to have experience developing smart contracts for blockchains if you're a game developer interested in Web3. Your knowledge of game development would earn you a job in the web3 industry.
Average Salary: On average, VR/AR game developers in the web3 industry earn between $70k – $130k yearly.
Developer Advocate
Aside from the coding and design aspect, there are other web3 job opportunities related to developer relations, outreach, and education. A developer advocate's responsibilities are to watch for developers' happiness and success as they build on Stacks. This can mean holding workshops, creating tutorials, or speaking with developers directly to resolve specific problems.
Required Knowledge: A portfolio of your written tutorials, blogs, or even videos would give you an edge in a web3 developer advocate interview. An easy way to build a strong developer advocate portfolio is to take the initiative to learn new topics about web3 and then produce content based on what you know.
Average Salary: The yearly salary of a web3 developer advocate globally is between $60k – $180k, with an average annual salary of $104,585.
Factors That Affect a Web3 Engineer's Salary
Several factors can influence a web3 developer's salary. These include:
Experience: Similar to other jobs, experience is king in the web3 industry. Your chances of making money are better if you have first-hand expertise using this technology and have previously worked on various projects.
Job Location: Web3 developers' salaries are higher in tech-savvy cities. You will have more opportunities to highlight your credentials if you are adaptable enough to relocate to a new, more technologically advanced job location.
Expertise: Knowing a platform's functions, model, components, and everything related to it inside and out signifies having expertise. If you can prove your professional expertise, Web3 companies will be more inclined to increase your pay.
Certifications and Specialization: Another factor attracting high-package jobs is certifications from reputable web3 or blockchain organizations. These programs enable you to demonstrate your genuine abilities, stand out from the competition, and gain industry recognition.
Web3 Developer Salary in the US
The average yearly salary for blockchain developers in the United States is $137,000.
Web3 Developer Salary UK
The average yearly salary for web3 engineers in the United Kingdom is $155,000.
Web3 Developer Salary in India
In India, the average annual income for a Web3 developer with 0 to 2 years of experience is ₹801,938 ($11,000), and it rises to $40,000 for workers with six or more years of experience.
Web3 Developer Salary in Canada
For developers with 3-5 years of experience, the base salary ranges from $55,000 to $91,000 annually in Canada. The average yearly salary for web3 developers in Canada is $73,300.
Becoming a web3 developer now is like investing in Bitcoin while it was worth $10. The career prospects for web3 jobs are enormous, and they will be highly lucrative with the increasing adoption of web3 technologies and solutions.
There is always time to get started if you're considering a developer career path in the web3 industry. Learning about web3, blockchain, metaverse, and relevant programming languages would be a great start. You can find some fantastic courses and resources online that would help you become a web3 developer.
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is the regular Ki-Pro going to support DNxHD ?
I saw the announcement about the Mini supporting DNxHD but does anybody know, or care to speculate, whether the regular Ki-Pro is going to be able to record to DNxHD, or anything other than ProRes, anytime soon.
Re: is the regular Ki-Pro going to support DNxHD ?
It is my understanding that the original KiPro will Not support DNX encoding.
[gary adcock] "It is my understanding that the original KiPro will Not support DNX encoding."
We have a few, and am liking them much better then the Ki. They also support DNxHD.
We have a few, and am liking them much better then the Ki. They also support DNxHD."
After learning that the Ki would not support DNxHD we did some research and had a meeting about Sound Devices this morning. The cons are the expensive proprietary SSD drives and the lack of the control software that AJA provides. Despite that, we're probably going with the Sound Devices recorders.
From what I read and hear, the Sound Devices product records the DNx as .mov file, not .mxf files. This is not the optimal workflow for Avid as I assume you know. Strikes me as odd that that is how they do it.
I have not seen / heard anything about this important detail for the AJA product. And seeing as how it is no longer Q4 2011, details should be coming quite soon I hope.
[Jef Huey] "From what I read and hear, the Sound Devices product records the DNx as .mov file, not .mxf files."
I believe that's because the .mxf is proprietary even though the DNx codec is now available to everyone. I would imagine re-wrapping to .mxf would be near instantaneous, also I might be heading PPro's way but would still like to use the DNx codec.
Well, DaVinci Resolve is writing DNxHD .mxf files. In fact, they can't handle QT DNx!! And there is a free version of Resolve doing this.
So I don't think it is a proprietary issue.


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Who Will Bell the Cat, written by Patricia C. McKissack and illustrated by Christopher Cyr, is a new take on an old tale. Based on one of Aesop's fables, the story comes to life through the beautiful illustrations. With a big bad cat and lots of cute mice, this one is sure to get little ones excited. It might be because it's written in the style of old fables, but it does have the feel of older picture books which have more text and dialogue than newer picture books. The additional text will likely please adults reading this aloud as they won't be forced to make up any stories to fill in sparse text.
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Maybe they're not...Here where I saw they were...But you're right...no where on Ford's website it says they are FFV compatible.
Last edited by OCMike; 01-22-2018 at 03:23 PM.
Bo M. from FB posted: "I have an ecoboost with all the mods and I'm planning to sell it and buy a 2018 with this setup (5.0 with whipple supercharger).
Trust me not all of us ecoboost guys are idiots."
I'd like to see the torque numbers as well.
On the 11-17's you can no longer run e85 once you install the whipple. The fuel system would be grossly undersized. It takes a LOT of e85 to make that kind of power. The stock fuel pump works with e85 at stock power levels so you don't have to change it with the kit and e10.
With the 12:1 compression I don't think we will be running 13 psi on 93 octane.
Did you say the tq numbers?
There's a pic on FB...it's definitely the big TB.
Thanks Mike for clarification, that makes sense. I did find a window sticker for a RCSB that's equipped almost identical to what I ordered that does say it's FFV compatible so I wasn't going crazy. Obviously it will not be not with a Whipple installed for the reason you've given.
Edit: Lethal published this teaser on YouTube today.
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If you look at my window sticker is does not show as a FFV. I wonder what would cause one to be a FFV and one not to be a FFV. Either way it doesn't matter since I preordered a 2018 Whipple on Black Friday through Stage3.
Last edited by Brand; 01-22-2018 at 10:48 PM.
That is odd...Maybe it has something to do the truck I posted the window sticker and maybe mine are more designed as a work truck and sold in the Midwest where E85 readily available.
EDIT: The work truck theory got shot down. I guy in the VIN tracking thread posted a sticker for his Platnum and it's a FFV truck. It must be delivery location. It really doesn't matter if you're installing a Whipple, just interesting.
I know Ford does change the standard equipment on Powerstroke Superduty trucks where the Trucks built for northern states are equipped with an electric supplemental heater, so perhaps it's something like that. Maybe even something to do with having the larger fuel tank were standard cabs only come with the smaller tank.
I also have my Whipple pre-ordered from Lethal Performance but I didn't order until the day after Christmas when they had the 15% off sale. With Lethal I added in the big throttle body and fan option then they discounted 15% off the total. It didn't look like Stage 3 discounted the options, not a big deal either way.
Interestingly when I checked Whipple's site for the 2018 F150 SC they don't show the electric fans as an option on the 2018, I'm not sure what's up with that?
Last edited by OCMike; 01-23-2018 at 10:16 AM.
Great numbers for 91 oct. I bet it will pick up 200 whp on e85.


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NASDAQ at the forefront of innovations in healthcare. Avalon GloboCare Corp. (NASDAQ:AVCO): AVCO's Filtration Tech Could Help Stop Life-Threatening Cytokine Storm in COVID-19 Patients
AVCO's Chairman Converts $3.0 million of debt into common stock at $1.25 per share showing continued confidence and support of the business
FREEHOLD, N.J. – Dec 22, 2021 – Avalon GloboCare Corp. (NASDAQ: AVCO) a clinical-stage global developer of cell-based technologies and therapeutics, today announced the Company's Chairman, Daniel Lu, has converted $3.0 million of debt owed to him under the Line of Credit into 2.4 million shares of the Company's common stock at $1.25 per share. The conversion price represents a 45% premium to yesterday's closing price.
"We are grateful for our Chairman's continued support and tremendous confidence in the outlook for the business, as illustrated by his willingness to convert his loan at a significant premium to market, thereby further strengthening our balance sheet," said David Jin, M.D., Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Avalon. "We continue to make rapid progress advancing our immune effector cell therapies, including CAR-T and CAR-NK, our S-layer coated emulsome technology (SLET), our exosome-based regenerative therapeutics (ACTEX™), as well as our liquid biopsy diagnostic and drug delivery platforms. Importantly, we look forward to reporting a number of important milestones that we believe will drive significant shareholder value heading into the new year."
Clinical-Stage CellTech Developer Dedicated to Immune Effector Cell Therapy and Exosome Technology.
Introducing Life Saving COVID-19 Diagnostics and Therapeutics.
New Treatment for Deadly Cytokine Storm in COVID-19 Patients.
Novel Technology to Efficiently Synthesize & Study Previously Difficult to Work With Drug Targets.
Technology Will Facilitate Drug Design for Cancer & Immune Diseases.
Study Published in September 2021 Issue of Journal Membranes.
Advanced Filtration Tech Could Help Stop Life-Threatening Cytokine Storm in COVID-19 Patients
Cytokine storm has made frequent appearances in the news lately as a life-threatening complication in patients suffering from COVID-19. The condition is an inflammatory syndrome triggered by hyperactivation of immune cells that can significantly impact the patient's chances of making a full recovery or surviving the infection at all.
Fortunately, AVCO has already been developing a range of therapies that have the potential to help target cytokine storm and other risk factors that make the widespread virus so difficult to get under control.
What Is Cytokine Storm?
The immune system uses cytokines to perform a variety of important tasks from clotting blood to triggering antibody production. When overworked — as can happen when the body is fighting off an aggressive, difficult disease like COVID-19 or is being treated with therapies designed to activate an immune response — that same immune system can end up producing too many cytokines. When the ones that trigger an inflammatory response are produced in excess, the cytokines trigger severe inflammatory symptoms, damage healthy tissue, and can even cause multiple organs to fail, leading to death.
AVCO AVA-Trap™ Already Targets Cytokine Storm
Because cytokine storm is a common risk factor in many cancer therapies, the oncology-focused AVCO was already hard at work on a way to calm down cytokine storms. The AVCO AVA-Trap™ therapeutic program was developed to target this potentially fatal complication. By using cytokine receptor proteins, the AVA-Trap™ program could dampen the release of cytokine, essentially filtering out the excess cytokines.
When COVID-19 started to spread through populations around the globe in 2020, doctors soon realized that the virus could induce a cytokine storm and that, when it did, the chances of that patient surviving grew slim. AVCO moved quickly to file and expanded patent for the proprietary filtration technology so it could be used to help COVID patients increase their chances of recovering from the disease.
AVCO Launches Full-Scale Plan to Tackle COVID-19 Pandemic
In addition to leveraging its existing AVA-Trap™ program to help combat cytokine storm and improve patient outcomes, AVCO also began working on a slate of other tools doctors can use to keep the evolving virus at bay.
In partnership with Adial Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ADIL), AVCO is distributing a rapid diagnostics test that can detect multiple COVID antibodies with between 92.9% and 98.6% accuracy in just 10 minutes. Using the AVCO existing global distribution network, the 2 companies are able to make this rapid and highly accurate test available to healthcare providers worldwide.
In another partnership with Austria's University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), AVCO is working on an intranasal spray vaccine for COVID-19. Based on innovative S-layer technology that creates uniform, repetitive protein structures, the vaccine could become a highly effective formula in a format that people could self-administer — reducing the burden on healthcare providers to individually vaccinate the world's population and reducing barriers to access for people with mobility challenges or who live too far from the nearest vaccine administration site.
Finally, AVCO began practical testing for its allogeneic MSC-based cellular therapy (ACETEX™), which could treat the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and multisystem inflammatory syndrome that can also come with severe cases of COVID-19 infection and, like cytokine storm, significantly increase the risk of mortality. ARDS alone has been the cause of death in 70% of fatal COVID-19 cases where an aggressive inflammatory response happens.
ACETEX™ uses mesenchymal stromal cells taken from bone marrow, fat tissue, or other tissue types and adapts them to help moderate the body's immune system response. Because cytokine storm, ARDS, and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in COVID-19 patients are all triggered by a hyperactive immune response, the potential ACETEX™ has for better regulating the immune response could offer a reliable treatment option to stop these complications in their tracks and prevent them from progressing to a fatal stage.
AVCO and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Co-develop Innovative In-Silico Technology, Enabling the Design and Synthesis of Novel Cell Membrane Receptor Targets for Cancer and Immune-Related Diseases
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The malware is potentially a rehash of an old Windows DNS hijacker.
A researcher has discovered a strain of malware in the wild which targets Mac OS X users.
The malware, dubbed MaMi, was first spotted by security researcher Patrick Wardle.
The researcher spotted a forum post on Malwarebytes in which a user said a colleague "accidentally installed something" and this led to DNS hijacking.
Despite the user removing the DNS entries, the address changes, 82.163.143.172 and 82.163.142.174, remained persistent.
The only indicator spotted by Malwarebytes software at the time was reported as "MyCoupon" software, which is often labeled as nuisanceware. However, the hijack of DNS entries suggested that something more sinister was happening.
MaMi is not sophisticated. The unsigned Mach-O 64-bit executable has been marked as app version 1.1.0, which suggests the malware is fresh from development.
However, the creator of MaMi has included functionality including DNS hijacking, screenshot capture, generation of simulated mouse events, the download and upload of files, the execution of arbitrary code, and may also persist as a launch item.
In a blog post, Wardle said that while infection methods remain a mystery, the malware is hosted on a number of domains.
The researcher found it to be a "trivial" affair to decrypt the malware's configuration data and discovered MaMi also installs a certificate through the Keychain Access app, which would allow for Man-in-The-Middle attacks (MiTM).
After consulting another researcher, an article titled, "The mystery of 82.163.143.172 and 82.163.142.174, related to the hijacked DNS addresses, came to light.
This research has created the theory that MaMi malware is a rehash of the 2015 Windows-based DNSUnlocker malware which has been known in the past to hijack DNS addresses on the Windows operating system.
At the time of the blog post, all 59 engines on VirusTotal marked the file as "clean." However, antivirus products have now begun to detect and block the malware, and 26 out of 59 engines will block MaMi malware from infiltrating OS X systems.


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Washington, DC — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) today granted relief to non-US counterparties who enter into swaps with International Financial Institutions (IFIs), such as development banks.
"International financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund and North American Development Bank play a vital role in the global community by promoting infrastructure projects, encouraging employment, and reducing poverty," said DSIO Division Director Matt Kulkin. "DSIO is providing relief so that these entities can more easily access over-the-counter derivatives markets to hedge risk associated with financing projects in developing countries in order to promote global economic growth."
In the no-action letter, released today, DSIO announced it would not recommend that the Commission take action if non-U.S. persons do not include swaps with IFIs when determining whether such non-U.S. persons meet or exceed agency-prescribed registration thresholds. The relief granted today is consistent with the Commission's prior treatment of IFIs for purposes of foreign futures and options transactions, the swap dealer definition, and mandatory clearing.
The IFIs referenced in the no-action letter include the North American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, African Development Bank, African Development Fund, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Bank for Economic Cooperation and Development in the Middle East and North Africa, Inter-American Investment Corporation, Council of Europe Development Bank, Nordic Investment Bank, Caribbean Development Bank, European Investment Bank and European Investment Fund. The IFIs listed in this letter are the same international financial institutions referenced in the Commission's Cross-Border Guidance, with the addition of the North American Development Bank.
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No-Action Position: Relief for Certain Non-U.S. Persons from Including Swaps with International Financial Institutions in Determining Swap Dealer and Major Swap Participant Status
Summary of Request for No-Action Position
Based on representations by the Requestor, DSIO understands certain facts to be as follows. The Requestor is incorporated in the Netherlands and is regulated by the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets pursuant to the laws and regulations of the European Union and the Netherlands.
The Requestor is not currently registered, and is not required to be registered, with the Commission as an SD or as an MSP. The Requestor is a Non-U.S. person. The Requestor is also neither guaranteed by a U.S. person, nor a conduit affiliate of a U.S. person. The Requestor plans to enter into swaps with certain IFIs (as defined below). To the extent an IFI is incorporated in, or has its principal place of business in, the United States, it could be considered to be a U.S. person for purposes of the Cross-Border Guidance, and therefore the Requestor may be required to include swaps with such IFI for purposes of determining whether it is required to register as an SD or MSP. In addition, to the extent an IFI is or becomes guaranteed by a U.S. person, the Requestor may be required to include swaps with such IFI for purposes of determining whether it is required to register as an SD or MSP.
DSIO No-Action Position
Based on the facts presented and representations made by the Requestor, and consistent with certain regulatory exceptions provided by the Commission and Commission staff to the IFIs in similar contexts, DSIO believes that no-action relief is warranted. Accordingly, DSIO will not recommend that the Commission take an enforcement action against a Non-U.S. person that is neither a guaranteed affiliate nor conduit affiliate of a U.S. person if it does not include one or more swaps entered with IFI counterparties in determining whether it is (i) deemed to be an SD pursuant to the criteria set forth in the Commission's definition of "swap dealer;" or (ii) an MSP pursuant to the criteria set forth in the Commission's definition of "major swap participant."