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Top Influencers in Security You Should Be Following in 2015
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In December of 2011, Tripwire published a list of security's top 25 influencers. More than three years later, we are pleased to announce a new list for 2015 — The Infosec Avengers!
For each influencer whom we have selected, we include their Twitter handle, blog URL and reasoning for selecting them. We also include their answer for what infosec-related superpower they would choose to have.
This year's list (in no particular order) has some old faces and some new. Do you agree with our choices? Who else would you have chosen?
BILL BRENNER | @BillBrenner70
Blog: The Akamai Blog
Brenner is Senior Program Manager for Editorial, Information Security Group at Akamai Technologies. He has contributed much to our industry, having written for a number of tech news websites and publications, including TechTarget and CSO Magazine, and served as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Information Security Group (NAISG). Besides sharing his thoughts on infosec matters, he runs OCD Diaries, a blog dedicated to overcoming anxiety, fear, and doubt.
If you could have one infosec-related superpower, what would it be?
If I could be granted one superpower, it would be to unlock the secret to preventing data breaches. Then I would write a book on it.
WENDY NATHER | @RCISCwendy
Blog: Idoneous Security
Nather is Research Director at the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center. She has worked in all aspects of IT Security at various companies, including Texas Education Agency and Swiss Bank Corp (now USB). SC Magazine featured Nather as a "Power Player" in security in 2014. We originally featured her in our original "Top Influencers" post, and we feel she more than deserves to be listed once again.
If I had an infosec superpower, I would like it to be mind control. I could use it for social engineering pentests: "You will give me all your admin passwords, let me into the data center, and bring me pizza." I could use it on auditors: "This is not the material finding you were looking for." But most importantly, I could use it to get all the budget I wanted: "Not only can we finally afford enough staff and technology, but every member of the team gets a Tesla!"
MIKKO HYPPONEN | @mikko
Blog: Mikko Hypponen
Hypponen is a respected teacher, speaker, and commentator on all things information security. Aside from acting as the CRO at F-Secure, in the past he was part of the Conficker Working Group and participated in classified meetings on the Stuxnet worm. He has also assisted law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Europe, and other regions on cybercrime cases. Hypponen in turn uses this extensive experience to keep his followers informed about the latest trends in information security.
I'd like to be able to copy an image of anybody's hard drive or mobile phone just by waving my hand over it. That could come in handy. For example, if you lost your files and had no backup, you could always ask me for a copy.
GRAHAM CLULEY | @gcluley
Blog: Graham Cluley
Graham Cluley was inducted into the InfoSecurity Europe Hall of Fame in 2011, and was given an honorary mention in the "10 Greatest Britons in IT History" for his contribution as a leading authority in Internet security. Given his prestigious research and influence in the field, we are happy to say Cluley is a regular contributor to our blog. Most recently, he wrote an article about the hacker group Anunak.
Everyone who works in computer security is already a superhero, of course. It's just that they normally don't feel brave enough to wear their underpants on the outside.
My super power would be extrasignum complexitus. Through remote mind mesmerism, I would be able to look at any person about to sign up for a website and inject extended characters and symbols into their fingertips.
That or hypnotize them into naming their pet cat "Rif2caiLd2Or3uG4."
WIM REMES | @wimremes
Blog: Wim Remes
Remes is Manager Strategic Services EMEA at Rapid7. He is also co-organizer of BruCon and recently completed a three-year term as Director of (ISC)2. Remes has spoken at a number of conferences, such as Black Hat. Additionally, Infosecurity Magazine interviewed him this past October. In 2013, we named Remes as one of the rising stars in infosec education. We are pleased to announce that he is now one of the top names in the industry.
If you could have one infosec-related superpower, what would it be
If I had the ability to make all current and future vulnerabilities go away, life would get a little bit boring so definitely not that. I would love to have the ability to connect people across cultures and interests to make them care enough about security. With technology becoming important in all of our lives, we could no longer deny our responsibility, and owning that, affecting change, starts with caring. Caring about ourselves but more importantly about our children, about our elders and about others.
NEIRA JONES | @neirajones
Blog: Neira Jones
Jones serves on the advisory board of a number of different organizations, including Emerging Payments Association, GiveADay, and Ensygnia. Given her expertise in both information security and personal branding, we at Tripwire are glad to have gained Jones' thoughts on how to better connect security to the business back in 2013.
If I had an Infosec super power, it would be the ability to make everyone immune to phishing attacks. A sort of "activate shields!" for the chair to computer interface… Wouldn't that make a dent to ID Theft and all sorts of woes? Given that breaches with more than 10 million identities exposed grew from 1 in 2012 to 8 in 2013 (a 700% increase)*, I think that would sort out a lot of problems in one fell swoop.
(*Source: Symantec Internet Security Threat Report April 2014)
GENE KIM | @RealGeneKim
Blog: Real Gene Kim
Kim wrote the original version of Tripwire when he was an undergraduate student at Purdue University in 1992. Without him, none of this would be possible. Tripwire has since expanded, as has Kim's influence on social media within the information security community. He now blogs regularly on DevOps, organizational learning, and other topics that are central to our field.
My ideal infosec superpower would be the Justice Embodiment, so I could show infosec that DevOps is not a way for Dev and Ops to avoid security objectives. Instead, DevOps is how to finally make Dev and Ops accountable for security — and all the other non-functional requirements, as well!
KEN WESTIN | @kwestin
Blog: The State of Security
Westin is a security researcher with 14 years experience building and breaking things through the use/misuse of technology. His technology exploits and endeavors have been featured in numerous publications, and he has won awards from MIT, CTIA, Oregon Technology Awards, SXSW, and Entrepreneur. He is also a frequent contributor on The State of Security.
Seen the movie Lucy? The point where she is using so much of her brain that she can actually see data flowing through the air and extract data simply using her mind. That is the super power I want.
BRUCE SCHNEIER | @SchneierBlog
Blog: Schneier on Security
Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist. He has written 12 books, including Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Thrive, not to mention published hundreds of articles and essays. His blog has is read by over 250,000 people, and he is regularly quoted by the press. Additionally, he regularly testifies before Congress and is an advisory board member for EFF and EPIC, among other organizations.
Most superpowers are pretty lame: super strength, super speed, super sight, super stretchiness.
Teleportation would probably be the most useful given my schedule, but for subverting security systems, you can't beat invisibility. You can bypass almost every physical security measure with invisibility, and when you trip an alarm — say, a motion sensor — the guards that respond will conclude that you're a false alarm.
Oh, you want an "infosec" superpower. Hmmm. The ability to detect the origin of packets? The ability to bypass firewalls without a sound? The ability to mimic anyone's biometric? Those are all too techy for me. Maybe the ability to translate my thoughts into articles and books without going through the tedious process of writing. But then, what would I do on long airplane flights? So maybe I need teleportation after all.
LEIGH HONEYWELL | @hypatiadotca
Blog: Hypatia
Honeywell's views on security-related events, especially her perspectives on geek feminism, are invaluable in our field. We are therefore honored that PeerReach ranked us together among the Top 100 Infosec Worldwide Twitter accounts. Looking ahead, we are confident that Honeywell's voice will only grow in reach and repute as more women choose to embrace infosec.
As I sit here in Auckland airport en route home from speaking at Kiwicon, my infosec superpower would definitely be teleportation, to make it easier to get to hang out with the friends around the world I've made over my years in the field.
RICK HOLLAND | @rickhholland
Blog: Rick Holland's Blog
Holland is Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and currently serves as the Founding Board Member of the Security Advisor Alliance. He speaks regularly at a variety of security conferences, including the RSA conference and SANS summits. He also is frequently quoted by the media and is invited to speak at the University of Texas at Dallas as a guest lecturer.
My infosec superpower would be similar to perennial X-Men villain Magneto's ability to control and manipulate metal, except that my power would be over network packets. I would be able to identify and strip out any malicious packets targeting my enterprise. Given our lack of ability to detect and contain intrusions, this could be the silver bullet we have all been waiting for. If I were so inclined, I could also reverse these malicious packets and target them back at the original source in the most epic of hack-backs.
JAVVAD MALIK | @J4vv4D
Blog: J4vv4D
Malik is a Security Analyst at The 451 Group and co-founder of Security B-Sides London. His Twitter account, per his own words, represents an "unholy alliance between information security and cynicism wrapped up in storytelling and YouTube"—a truly unique and productive approach to security.
Can I name two super powers? One option could be the ability to gain root on any system. I'd be the guardian of the Internet and only say one line, "I am root." Or I'd be attribution man. I'd want the ability to attribute every ping, scan, poke, comment or any activity back to the true and original perpetrator.
JAYSON E. STREET | @jaysonstreet
Blog: f0rb1dd3n
Street is an Infosec Ranger at Pwnie Express, as well as the Founder and Hacker for Hire at Stratagem 1 Solutions. He is author of Dissecting the Hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network and has presented at a number of security conferences, including Def Con. We are grateful that Street revealed his security mentor for us in an article back in the fall of 2013.
My Infosec superpower would be communication. I would not only be able to speak in terms and ways that management, developers and users would understand. I would also be able to listen and understand what they were telling me! Which would help me be in a better position to protect and defend our networks. I think that is a super power worth having!
JENNIFER MINELLA | @jjx
Blog: Security Uncorked
Jennifer Minella is a Contributing Analyst at Securosis and currently serves on the (ISC)2 Board of Directors. She has been named among the top women in security by SC Magazine and Information Security Buzz, and in November, NCTA announced her as 2014's Tech Woman of the Year. Acknowledging her influence, we are pleased that she contributed to one of our articles about women being underrepresented in infosec.
There are so many super powers I'd love to have. Most of them would be useless 99% of the time, but fantastic parlor tricks. Like gravity control; who wouldn't love that!? For InfoSec though, I'd have to narrow the field to: precognition, time travel or skill mimicry. Skill mimicry might be too little, too late, so we turn to precognition and time travel — which would yield similar results. Both a DeLorean and Einstein have demonstrated that time travel really screws with the whole space-time continuum, so to play it safe I'd have to pick precognition. Wouldn't it be great to know what would happen and save yourself (your company, or your data) from something bad before it came to be?
BRIAN KREBS | @briankrebs
Blog: Krebs on Security
Krebs is well known as an independent investigative journalist of all things security-related. He commonly breaks stories in our industry, providing a calm, rational analysis of each and every incident. As such, he has informed numerous articles that we have published on our blog. For more of his insights, you can read his newest book Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime — a New York Times best seller.
It would be to turn any DoS or DDoS attack back on its attacker (not the hosts doing the attacking, mind you). I realize this isn't technically feasible in many cases, but you said I had a superpower so as long as we're playing make-believe, then that's what it would be. These DDoS attacks are so disruptive and time-wasting; the Internet would be a much better and productive place without them.
DAVE LEWIS | @gattaca
Blog: Liquid Matrix
Lewis is a Security Senior Advocate at Akamai who shares Tweets on security conferences and the day-to-day challenges (and humorous moments) of working in our field. We are grateful that we were able to capture a bit of his perspective when we interviewed him, along with Javvad Malik, about why conferences like Black Hat and Defcon are so important.
If I could have an Infosec super power, it would be like Wolverine, to have to ability to heal web servers and networks dynamically and then use my claws to put an end to the problem. All the while chomping on a cigar.
KATIE MOUSSOURIS | @k8em0
Blog: HackerOne
Moussouris is the Chief Policy Officer at HackerOne. She has extensive experience in the field, having worked at Microsoft and Symantec for several years. SC Magazine recently named Moussouris among 2014's Top Women in IT Security, and she has spoken at a number of high-profile conferences, including RSA.
I would like to see all the available patches for every system applied. Since most vulnerability exploitation today occurs using vulnerabilities for which a patch is already available, this action would force attackers to burn 0-day at a faster rate. Each time a new attack took place, another set of vulnerabilities could be detected and then fixed. If the cycle continued, not only would more issues be exposed and fixed, but the window of exploitation would be smaller.
JACK DANIEL | @jack_daniel
Blog: Uncommon Sense Security
A self-proclaimed "information security curmudgeon," Daniel is the Security BSides Co-Founder and a strategist at Tenable Network Security. He is also co-host of the Security Weekly podcast. Daniel has a knack for putting things into perspective, something that we at Tripwire value. Recently, helped explain on our blog that all conferences, both big and small, help to support the infosec community.
I think "InfoSec Superpower" is an oxymoron. Security needs to be an integral and a foundational part of an organization to be effective. "Superpower" implies something special, and what we actually need is to be so good we become mundane.
But, indulging in the fantasy, I would love the InfoSec Superpower of Attribution. Imagine it, FUD, misinformation, and confusion everywhere, but along comes Attribution Man, beard flowing in the breeze, streaming a trail of truth behind me. Dream with me:
"Unnamed sources say DPRK behind latest APT…" NO, that's nonsense! A smokescreen for poor security!
"An email purported to be from…" Purported maybe, but it came from a PR agency!
"Appears to be the work of Anonymous…" NO, it's a false flag event; it is budget time!
"The attack has been attributed to…" OK, look, you got one right. Great kid. Don't get cocky.
DWAYNE MELANCON | @ThatDwayne
Melancon is the CTO of Tripwire. Not only does he oversee the functions of our blog, but he has also contributed a number of posts himself. Melancon is well respected in the information security field and is a regular speaker at a number of our industry's better known conferences. On the side, he runs Genuine Curisosity, where he talks about security, tech, health, travel and other general interest topics.
I'd be one of those multi-faceted superheroes. I would have the power of proportional security response. Regardless of the threat or security issue, I'd instantly be able to marshal exactly the right type and amount of security countermeasures to mitigate the threat. Additionally, I'd have the ability to securely configure any infrastructure in the blink of an eye to make it invulnerable to attacks. I would have the ability to instantly determine who is responsible for an attack. Finally, I'd have the power to separate reality from hype and immediately get to the root cause of any situation. I like this collection of abilities because I think too much of enterprise security activities are driven by hype, focused on response (instead of preparation), and lacking in the fundamentals.
Lacking those things, I'd settle for unlimited budget and omnipotent, primary decision-making abilities.
BRIAN HONAN | @BrianHonan
Blog: SecurityWatch
An author, Founder & Head of Ireland's CSIRT, and Special Advisor on Internet Security to Europol, Honan is an internationally recognized leader in information security. His contributions help shape the world in which we live. Honan also inspires the next generation of infosec professionals by serving as an adjunct lecturer in information security management at the University College of Dublin.
My infosec super power would be the "Power of Persuasion." The reason for this super power would be to enable me to persuade board directors and senior management to take security seriously; to persuade vendors not to hype their products using FUD; to persuade computer users on how to use their computers and the internet safely; and to persuade governments, law enforcement agencies, courts, and industry leaders to cooperate and invest more time and resources into fighting online crime.
INFOSEC TAYLOR SWIFT | @SwiftOnSecurity
Blog: Swift on Security
Infosec Taylor Swift is one of the most popular infosec parody accounts on Twitter. "She" blends security sarcasm with references to the singer Taylor Swift's songs and life. Infosec Taylor Swift has been featured by numerous publications, including ZDNet and carbonated.tv. We respect the influence she commands and are grateful for making the security profession a little lighter with her posts.
If I had a superpower, I would pose this question to everyone who configures, or designs, electronic systems:
What is your job? Make a decision. What is your role in society?
Don't be hasty in a response. You have lots of power and knowledge. A gift. And gifts to give.
What problems are you solving with those gifts? And whose problems are they? Is your neighbor any more secure by the things you build and the things you preach? Or do you betray them from your ivory tower by abandoning them to the wolves you empower?
What is a gift, used only to build things the common cannot operate? Tools by which they are victimized for thinking you built a tool to serve them, rather than people only like yourself?
Building that isn't a gift. It's a curse. So tell me again. What is your job?
JOSH CORMAN | @joshcorman
Blog: Cognitive Dissidents
Corman is Chief Technology Officer at Sonatype. His experience in the field is extensive; he spent several years in management roles at IBM Security Systems, the 451 Research Group, and Akamai Technologies. Given his level of expertise, Corman has been invited to speak at RSA and Def Con and has been featured by CSO Online, among other publications.
Empathy. Security is great at finding WHAT is flawed or HOW we broke it, but less so WHY it matters. We're weaker at listening, compromising, translating, or being ambassadors to stakeholders out of the echo chamber. When launching our cyber safety initiative "I am The Cavalry", @k8em0 said: "If we're going to change the world, we need to change ourselves. We have an Empathy Deficit." Empathy is a muscle; you can build it. We've succeeded by meeting others at their level/terminology and internalizing their realities. Bonus: Empathy makes us more effective at work and with our loved ones. This super power is available to anyone.
Don't forget to follow these influential infosec leaders on Twitter. You can find a Twitter List with all 22 here!
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JWF Bullfighters
Posted on December 5, 2022 by Las Vegas NFR
No one has spent more time in the Wrangler Rodeo Arena the past four days than Jose Cano, Ethan Cook and Connor Quezada. And that has to be a sense of relief for the bull riders at the Junior World Finals.
From Left to Right: Ethan Cook, Connor Queszada and Jose Cano stand for a photo inside the Wrangler Rodeo Arena on Sunday. | Photo By: Jack Nowlin
Cano, Cook and Quezada got the nod as the bullfighters for this year's JWF. Cano is here for the second year in a row, while Cook and Quezada are making their first appearances. It's definitely not their first time working together, though.
"This time I was lucky enough to get my buddies involved," Cano said. "These guys are my best friends. We usually don't get to fight together at a hired event, so to do it here in Vegas at the world finals means a lot.
"We work really well together as a team."
The three, who have been working together for "five, six years," believe that familiarity plays a big role in keeping the bull riders safe.
"No one is in each other's way and everybody is where they're supposed to be," Cook said. "We all read each other really well.
"When you work with new guys you have to adjust and kind of figure out how they fight. We already know how each other works, so we can rely on our instincts and just flow."
That was evident Sunday, when Gray Court, South Carolina, bull rider Colton Hughes, competing in the 12-13 division, got hung up at the end of his ride. Hughes covered the bull through the first two jumps out of the chute, but lost control when the bull started spinning away from his hand and was hanging off the bull as it continued to spin. Cook, who was near the chutes, raced over to free Hughes' hand as Cano distracted the bull.
Hughes received a no-score, but the bullfighters made sure the bull rider walked out of the arena.
Bullfighters race in to help a bull rider after he was bucked off Sunday. | Photo By: Jack Nowlin
"We've worked so much together that we can always be in the right spot," Quezada noted. "No one is trying to be the hero. It just so happened that Ethan had a lot of saves today on hang-ups."
"Right spot, right time," Cook said with a shrug.
Cook, Quezada and Cano are all former bull riders who are more than content with their current status in the rodeo world.
"The adrenaline lasts a little longer," Cano admitted. "When you ride you're out there once or twice, but when you're fighting you're out there the whole time. Instead of getting one or two bulls during a performance, you get them all."
Cook agreed with Cano's assessment but admitted there's more to it than the adrenaline rush.
"This is more fulfilling," he said. "If you go out there and ride a bull you get a pat on the back. Here, we have a totally different purpose. I'm here to keep these kids safe and help keep their dreams alive. To me, that is more fulfilling than riding a bull or winning a couple of thousand dollars. That's a good feeling, but this is a way better feeling."
Besides, bullfighting helps pay the bills.
"I make more money fighting bulls than I did riding bulls, that's for sure," Quezada laughed.
The three never intended on being bullfighters but ended up doing so out of necessity.
"We started fighting bulls because we got on some in practice pens and we didn't have bullfighters," Cook stated. "When Connor was riding I would step out there and try to bullfight. And then when I was riding he was doing the same thing for me. We did that for a year or two.
"We were getting on really mean bulls and we decided that we needed to learn how to fight bulls if we were going to be bullfighters. And we ended up being pretty good at it."
The bull riders at this year's Junior World Finals would agree. And Cano, Cook and Quezada realize the importance of what they do every day they step into the arena.
"These kids are the future of the sport," Quezada said. "So the biggest thing is to keep these kids safe and healthy and not letting them get scared of the sport. We want them to know that there are guys out here to keep them safe so they can do their job on the back of the bull. We don't want them to worry about anything other than that."
A bull rider hangs on as the bullfighters move in to free him on Sunday. | Photo By: Jack Nowlin
Jose Cano
"This time I was lucky enough to get my buddies involved; these guys are my best friends. We usually don't get to fight together at a hired event, so to do it here in Vegas at the world finals means a lot. Nigel Harvey's wife had a baby this year so he recommended these guys.
We work really well together as a team … five-six years.
The adrenaline lasts a little longer. When you ride you're out there once or twice, but when you're fighting you're out there the whole time. Instead of getting one or two bulls during a performance you get them all."
Ethan Cook
"No one is in each other's way and everybody is where they're supposed to be. We all read each other really well. When you work with new guys you have to adjust and kind of figure out how they fight. We already know how each other works, so we can rely on our instincts and just flow.
Right spot, right time.
We all have the same goal and that's to keep the bull rider safe. After that, it's to keep our buddies safe.
What makes this harder is these kids try harder; they don't look off or jump off. A lot of adults, when they get in a tough position on a bull's back, they'll swing their leg and jump off. These kids don't quit. They tie themselves in like big kids do and they don't give up. They want this more than anything. That's where we might have to do a little more work. It still comes down to the fact that it's still bullfighting.
It's straight adrenaline for two hours.
I rode bulls for 12 to 14 years. We started fighting bulls because we got on in practice pens and we didn't have bullfighters. When Connor was riding I would step out there and try to bullfight. And then when I was riding he was doing the same thing for me. We did that for a year or two … We were getting on really mean bulls and we decided that we needed to learn how to fight bulls if we were going to be bullfighters. And we ended up being pretty good at it.
This is more fulfilling. If you go out there and ride a bull you get a pat on the back. Here, we have a totally different purpose. I'm here to keep these kids safe and help keep their dreams alive. To me, that is more fulfilling than riding a bull or winning a couple thousand dollars. That's a good feeling, but this is a way better feeling."
Connor Quezada
"We've worked so much together that we can always be in the right spot. No one is trying to be the hero. It just so happened that Ethan had a lot of saves today on hang-ups.
These kids are the future of the sport so the biggest thing is to keep these kids safe and healthy and not letting them get scared of the sport. We want them to know that there are guys out here to keep them safe so they can do their job on the back of the bull. We don't want them to worry about anything other than that.
I make more money fighting bulls than I did riding bulls, that's for sure."
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What I Learned from Reading the Islamic State's Propaganda Instruction Manual
By Charlie Winter
Sunday, April 2, 2017, 10:00 AM
Photo Credit: Islamic State Salahuddin Province via Charlie Winter and Jihadology
Editor's Note: The Islamic State has long issued a steady torrent of sophisticated propaganda to demonize its enemies, inspire its followers, and advance its cause in general. How does the Islamic State think about its own propaganda efforts? Through serious sleuthing and impressive analysis, Charlie Winter of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation has unearthed the Islamic State's media guide for its own operatives and explains to us its three-pronged strategy.
Two years ago, the Islamic State published a video about its propaganda operations. The 12-minute clip, which was produced by its Wilayat Salahuddin Media Office, celebrated strategic communication in a manner that was unprecedented. It framed offensive and defensive "information jihad" as an aspect of the Islamic State's warfare that was easily as important as any of the material battles it was waging at the time.
The video wasn't just interesting because of its hyperbolic exaltation of propaganda—there was something else, too. Right at its outset, a young man—one of the Islamic State's media officials—was shown casting his eyes over a pocket-sized booklet titled Media Operative, You Are a Mujahid, Too. It was the self-proclaimed caliphate's field guide for information warfare, a document that I'd heard rumours about, but never actually seen. After this video finally confirmed its existence, I spent months trawling through encrypted chatrooms and password-protected forums looking for it, but to no avail. Until, that is, 2016, when its second edition finally appeared on of the Islamic State channels I monitor on Telegram.
If the international community is ever to meaningfully challenge the so-called caliphate's information supremacy, it must begin by better comprehending the strategic logic that underpins it.
Media Operative makes for fascinating reading. The authors use the 55-page Arabic-language monograph to wax lyrical about information warfare, offering theological exhortation and strategic advice in equal measure to their target audience, the media operatives employed by the group to document battles, produce radio shows, photograph schools, and film ultraviolence. Its authors don't just contend that information warfare is instrumental to jihad—part and parcel of Islam for over a thousand years—they give advice as to how Islamic State media operations should actually be constructed. In so doing, they shed light on the very essence of its propaganda strategy, a tripartite approach to communication that has given the group an edge over its rivals and transformed its war against the rest of the world.
If the international community is ever to meaningfully challenge the so-called caliphate's information supremacy, it must begin by better comprehending the strategic logic that underpins it. To that end, I put together a research paper on the matter, using the Media Operative document's innumerable insights as a lens through which to dissect its component parts.
Broadly speaking, the Islamic State has three information principles. First, present an alternative narrative, a comprehensive offer of existence; second, counter the "intellectual invasion" being conducted by the mainstream news media; and, third, launch propaganda "projectiles" against the enemy. Combined, these three facets form the foundations of the group's propaganda strategy.
The Islamic State Alternative
Regarding the first principle, the authors write that the Islamic State brand must be implicitly positive, an offer of an attractive lifestyle as well as an outright rejection of the status quo. "The Islamic ummah [community of believers] today," they write, "is waiting for you to lead it by its hands to the sharia and rid it of the inferiority and injustice from which it suffers." If presented with the "right" information and the "correct" narrative, they contend, Muslims everywhere will inevitably end up rallying around the caliphate's banner.
In this pursuit, the authors repeatedly call upon media operatives to transmit "to the simple people a true picture of the battle without exaggeration and with no lies" to "paint a brighter picture" of the jihad without dwelling on any one issue. It is this idea that underpins the Islamic State's remarkably comprehensive utopian propaganda, which ranges from depictions of grazing livestock, bustling markets, and sunsets, to dentistry clinics, mosques, and public amputations. According to Media Operative, propaganda must simultaneously address and water down the negative aspects of living under the Islamic State, while also conveying a rose-tinted image of its positive facets. In this way, the Islamic State can sell itself as a utopia to which Salafi-jihadists can go to live as heroes, rather than an insurgent group to which new adherents go to die as martyrs.
Undermining the Global Conspiracy
The next component consists of propaganda that directly "responds to the frenzied media campaign" and "deceptive ways" of the "enemy," and "exposes the deviances of secularists and hypocrites, responding to those who dishearten, alarm or discourage the Muslims [and] call for tolerance and coexistence with the unbelievers." In other words, it is propaganda explicitly designed to counter and discredit narratives about the Islamic State promoted by its opponents in the West and in the Muslim world.
The authors note that, while a positive central narrative is a necessary foundation upon which to build the caliphate brand, this counter-propaganda is an "especially critical" complement to it "given the rise and acceleration of the propaganda war that the Crusaders—led by America and its allies—are waging against the Islamic State today." Media operatives are obliged to work to form a reservoir of arguments and rebuttals with which to repudiate claims made about the organization. In recent weeks, this kind of media has been more salient than ever, chiefly appearing as a way for the group to navigate through its seemingly inevitable undoing in Mosul.
With this in mind, the "monotheist media operative" who "says what is just and true in an era in which there are few companions of the truth and even fewer sincere ones," is regarded as being on the intellectual frontline, charged with working constantly to counter the "daily lies and professionalized falsification" of the modern mainstream media.
Media Projectiles
The final prong of the Islamic State strategy—media "projectiles" —is regularly referenced in the document. These "weapons" are "anything that angers the enemies of Allah," from ultraviolent videos like the Mohammed Emwazi beheadings to statements and videos put out in the wake of terrorist operations.
If launched effectively, they assert, "media weapons [can] actually be more potent than atomic bombs."
The authors explain that these explicit and incendiary messages can "shatter the morale of the enemy," noting that a well-conceived media "bomb" has the power to complement, and sometimes even substitute for, military operations. Indeed, if launched effectively, they assert, "media weapons [can] actually be more potent than atomic bombs." Not only do media attacks offer a way to "intimidate and threaten with violence," they can make the Islamic State's adversaries act irrationally by "infuriating them" and ensnaring them in ill-conceived knee-jerk responses.
To this end, the Islamic State uses offensive information warfare to attack not only military targets, but civilian ones, too. After all, in its eyes, there is no such thing as civilian status beyond the caliphate's boundaries. Thus, its media "missiles"—be they video executions or mass-mediated terrorist attacks—are calibrated to strike disengaged publics as much as they are towards hitting engaged militaries.
This form of propaganda has emerged as one of the most important components of the Islamic State's asymmetric arsenal and, through it, portions of the global media and even some within the analyst and academic community unwittingly end up being co-opted as conduits for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's media puppeteers.
By stripping away the field guide's exhortative veneer, it is possible to illuminate the strategic underpinnings of the Islamic State's staggering outreach success, not to mention forecast what might happen in the months and years to come.
While many interpret the group's dwindling territorial prospects, diminished recruitment of new members, and disintegrating leadership as indicators of its impending demise, it would be wrong to imagine a post-Islamic State world at this time.
The organization has systemically used propaganda to cultivate digital strategic depth and, due to this, the caliphate's ideas will be able to exist long after its proto-state collapses. In years to come, this resilience will enable the Islamic State to prolong—and perhaps even worsen—the terrorist menace it already presents.
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Charlie Winter is a senior research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, which is based at King's College London. He studies terrorism, insurgency, and innovation, with a focus on online and offline strategic communication. He is also an associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter Terrorism in The Hague.
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Anyone that has been struggling with unwanted weight will tell you that the most difficult thing to do is to stop eating fast food. When i say fast food, i mean all manner of food bought outside the home(pastries most especially) . To me, as long as its store bought, its fast food. lol. Fast food and weight loss are sworn enemies, Let me analyse 2 major items that are thought to be healthy and sold in food stores.
1. Salads: If you are buying salads from outside you got to be sure its not mixed with junk. Loads of sugar,cream and mayonnaise get mixed with these salads that if they were to list the ingredients down, some of us would faint, wake up and faint again! I personally, when i'm too busy i prefer buying the unmixed ones that is just plain chopped veggies, then add my own mayo or home made salad dressing to it. That way, i am sure of what i'm putting in my system.
The difference between the plain unmixed salads and the already mixed salads, could be over 100 calories, we are talking 50 squats here! Choi! Can you imagine. Little things can actually make a difference. Did you know that the calories in a teaspoon (about 5g) of store bought mayo is a about 34 calories? And i use about that amount for a serving of salad. at least i am sure of what I'm eating. u get? but the readily mixed salads in stores and eatries are well bathed and soaked in mayo and sugar!!
2. Moi moi: At first i thought i wasn't doing any wrong when i whenever i was out and a friend would say, "ok take moi moi, at least its not fattening" Like waaattt??!!! Yes, tastes great but lets get real here, do we know how it is prepared and what is added to it. Moi Moi is one of those meals that you don't really get to know what was added to it cus its all blended up. For instance butter, oil etc can be added to moi moi without us knowing the quantities in which they were added. The difference between your home made low fat moi moi and a store bought moi moi could be over 120 calories (a table spoon of veg oil). That's an extra 10mins of workout.
This is just Salad and moi moi, so you can now imagine what meat pie, fried chicken, fried plantain and co can do to our weight loss efforts. These things do a lot to hinder weight loss, worst of it all is that it goes and settles in the tummy or bum bum region depending on you body type. Lmao! Don't get me wrong sweets, i am guilty of these things too, this is reality check for me. Lets stay strong and do the right thing most of the time. God bless.
NB: I want to do a week of 'no-carb' from next week. who is in on this with me? Looking to lose at least 2kg. I will give details on this soon. Have a blessed weekend.
This is my first time reading your blog and it's really inspiring. I'm in the journey of losing some weight too. I weigh 60kg at the moment and I'm 5ft 2. My major problem is portion control and the whole eating 5 times a day, with the our Nigerian cuisine it's very challenging. Need some advice on this. I also need a good meal plan. Thank you so much.
Hello, this is my first time reading your blog, it's truly inspiring. I'm in the journey to shed some pounds, I'm 5ft 2 and weigh 60 kg at the moment. My main problem is portion control and this whole eating five times a day. With our Nigerian cuisine it's very challenging i need some advice and would really love to know how i can plan my meals, what to eat and how to eat it. Thanks in anticipation.
Hi Chineme. Thanks for reading thru the blog. Portion control can be tough but I always advise using a baby size platr for all ur meals, that way u stay within the range. Another thing is to use ur palm and fist as a guide, ur portion of carbs must not be bigger than ur fist, ur portion of proteins must not be bigger than ur palm. U musnt eat 5 times if ur not hungry but u know what? If u are eating the right portion of food per meal, you should feel hungry every 2 to 3 hours of day the day making it about 6 meals in total. To make it easy for you, I have a fat loss amd detox diet plan on this blog. The diets plans have helped a lot of people. I plan to update it soon. Pls stay in touch and lets know how ur doing. Nigerian cuisine generally isnt that bad o, they are good and can help with weight loss, at least it worked for me. but u got to eat them in the right portions but stay away from some really starchy foods. Luv to hear from I soon dear.
Good morning it's me again, could you please send me a link to the food plan or email it to me memeokafor@gmail.com. I would also like to know how I can get workout dvds for toning and losing belly fat. Those for strength training and cardio also. Thanks.
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The 11 Biggest Drinkers in Football
Micky Bumbar (Lords of the Drinks) / November 22, 2012
Paul Gascoigne in action.
They say that in order to be a top athlete you need to cut down on drinking and smoking. This is simply not true, since some of the greatest heroes in sports were more than just good drinkers. Of course we don't claim that the alcohol helped them to achieve the top, but it didn't slow them down that much either. Here's a list of the biggest drinkers in the history of football.
1. Garrincha (1933-1983)
In his homeland Brazil often mentioned as the greatest football player ever, before his countryman Pele. Garrincha, who won the World Cup with Brazil in 1958 and 1962, dedicated most of his life to alcohol and women. Got involved in numerous drunken car crashes. He died from a liver disease in 1983 while being in an alcoholic coma, leaving behind 14 (known) children.
2. George Best (1946-2005)
A Northern Irish superstar, who had his best years as a talented striker at Manchester United, with whom he won the European Cup I (today's Champions League) in 1968. Best also got famous for his frequent appearance in the nightlife of Manchester. His lust for alcohol and women gave him the status of a rock star. Got a liver transplant in 2002, but kept on drinking. In 2005 Best died after several internal infections.
3. Paul Gascoigne (1967-….)
One of the most talented (English) football players in the late 80's and early 90's. But even better known for his taste for every kind of addiction. Gazza loved eating, gambling, drugs and mostly alcohol. This led to multiple incidents and even suicide attempts. However Gascoigne is still holding on.
4. Ladislao Kubala (1927-2002)
Born Hungarian from the great generation of Ferenc Puskas, although he never played for the national team of his motherland. He did play for Czechoslowakia 11 times since he moved there as a youngster. When Kubala returned to Hungary he was sent to a prison camp by the communistic regime for treason. Once he regained his freedom the striker moved to Spain in 1950, where he would be safe. He was supposed to play for Real Madrid, but people from FC Barcelona snatched him away at the airport before their rivals could. Completely drunk he was put on the train, barely able to stand and convinced he was heading for the Spanish capital. When he sobered up the next day he heard to his surprise that he signed for FC Barcelona. In the next eleven seasons he grew out to be a legend at Barcelona and the Spanish national team. Both because of his brilliance on the pitch as his drinking skills beside it.
5. Diego Armando Maradona (1960-….)
Probably the best football player ever. Worldwide known for his cocaine addiction, but in his biography Maradona revealed that he was quite the drinker too. He said he could have been way better if he didn't drink a bottle of whiskey every night. Still he managed to lead his 'small' Italian team Napoli to 2 national championships (hereby breaking the dominance of the Northern Italian teams) and a UEFA Cup. His biggest achievement was when he almost single handedly made his country Argentina world champion in 1986.
6. Tony Adams (1966-….)
For years a top defender for both his club Arsenal and the national team of England (66 appearances). Also labeled as an alcoholic. From the mid 80's Adams was caught up in many bar fights and other incidents. In 1990 he got sentenced to four months in prison for drunk driving. In 1996 he turned his life around and started to fight alcoholism. His autobiography Addicted was a bestseller and he has his own addiction and recovery facility for sportsmen.
7. Socrates (1954-2011)
Another Brazilian who loved the good life just a little too much. A liver transplant in 2011 could not fix the stomach problems he was suffering from because of alcohol abuse. Later that year he died. For the fans he is still known as a brilliant playmaker in the samba style of Brazil. In 60 appearances for his country Socrates scored 22 goals.
8. Jimmy Greaves (1940-….)
The 3rd all time topscorer of the English national team with 44 goals in 57 matches. In the 70's Greaves openly fought against his alcoholism, while he was still playing. He quitted drinking in 1978 and actually made a career as a TV host.
9. Adriano (1982-….)
Had everything a modern striker should have: speed, technique and an enormous strength. This Brazilian was a true sensation in the Italian Serie A and for the national team (51 matches/31 goals). He was destined to follow in the footsteps of countrymen Romario and Ronaldo and become a national legend. However Adriano found too many temptations in life. He showed up at practice drunk and tired from clubbing numerous of times. His last contract was at his youth love Flamengo in Brazil, where he didn't manage to play a single match.
10. Artem Milevskiy (1985-….)
This Ukrainian boy wonder was destined to follow in the footsteps of countryman Andrey Shevshenko. However Milevskiy never left Ukraine and even at his club Dinamo Kiev he is not always in the starting line-up. The reason why Milevskiy never lived up to his potential is easy. The Ukrainian wodka and women apparently are way more interesting than a blooming football career. And since the salaries for football players are sky high in Ukraine, Milevskiy lives like a God in Kiev. Who can blame him?
11. Roman Shirokov (1981-….)
Probably not the worst alcoholic in Russian football, but at least representative. Shirokov is a star player of Russian top team Zenith St. Petersburg since 2008. However before that he switched clubs almost every year. CSKA Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Istra, Vidnoye, Saturn Moscow, Rubin Kazan and Khimki all eventually got fed up with the defender's love for alcohol and its side effects. Shirokov played 30 matches for Russia in which he scored 10 goals.
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HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER - Haw
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"Haw" is the name of a river that flows through North Carolina. At the same time it denotes a part of the Sioux tribe that once pitched its tents there. M. C. Taylor takes the landscape around the Haw, where he lived with his family for a long time, as a background for a concept album about this area. In fact, "Haw" is a flawless alternative country album, with an emphasis on country. Because many songs are arranged quite conventionally, so that they rather remind of Nashville legends like Willie Nelson or Waylon Jennings than of the following indie generation around Wilco or Ryan Adams. Nevertheless, HGM is miles away from the commercial backwoods sound, but plays solid, acoustically instrumented music that really grabs you when melancholy dominates ("devotion"). But many pieces have to be approached first, whereby it helps to have a picture of the larger whole in one's head: The landscape, its people, their family and friendly ties. Only then does the album unfold its true power and let the listener sink into the vastness of America.
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March of the Penguins (documentary)
Released: June 24, 2005
Consider the emperor penguin. Go ahead, I'll wait. Turns out the tuxedoed waiters in "Mary Poppins" weren't far off from nature. Real penguins look alike, goof around with each other, and are oddly human in their movements and mannerisms. The word "waddle," if not coined specifically to describe the way penguins walk, certainly describes them better than it describes anything else.
This is good news for "March of the Penguins," a rather straightforward documentary that tells us, in simple terms, what penguins do. They spend several months in the ocean near Antarctica eating and playing, then return in the winter to their breeding grounds. There they pair up, mate, and produce an egg, whereupon the mother heads back to the ocean to eat — she's famished by now — while the father cares for the egg. When it hatches, Dad hopes Mom shows up with food for Junior before cold and hunger claim them both. Then Dad goes back to the ocean to eat while Mom tends the kid, and, once Junior is old enough, he or she and Mom head for the ocean, too, to reunite with Dad and be a family. And the circle of life continues.
And yet it is so much more dramatic and fascinating than that! There are pitfalls at every turn. While Mom is in the ocean replenishing her strength to return to Dad and the newborn, she could be eaten by a leopard seal. While trekking back to the breeding grounds, she could be waylaid and not return in time to save the baby from starvation. Heck, even transferring the egg from its perch on top of Mom's feet (protected by the warmth of her underbelly) to the same location on Dad is fraught with peril: Penguins don't have hands to assist them in the process, remember. If the egg rolls away, they have about five seconds to retrieve it before the bitter, sub-zero cold kills it.
Of course, it would all be much simpler if the penguins' breeding grounds weren't 70 miles from the ocean. Morgan Freeman, in his kindly, authoritative narration, doesn't tell us how long it takes a hungry penguin to waddle 70 miles over ice and snow, but it must be weeks, and everyone makes the round trip twice a year. As someone interested in efficiency, this process baffles me. Who is leading these penguins? Why doesn't he propose reforms? Is there an evolutionary hand at work, intentionally making the breeding process absurdly perilous to prevent the continent from being overrun with more live penguins than it can sustain?
What "March of the Penguins" does is present all of this in basic terms that will hold the attention of anyone with even a mild love for animals. The fact that filmmaker Luc Jacquet got himself and his crew to Antarctica during the winter — when the temperature can be nearly 100 degrees below zero — is impressive enough. Then witness the mournful cries of a mother whose chick has been claimed by the elements, the sweet, picturesque sight of a mother, father and baby standing as a family, the comedy of penguins slipping on the ice and knocking each other over — it's all here. Except for the part where sometimes leopard seals eat them, penguins are just like you and me.
B (1 hr., 20 min.; G, with nothing more alarming than what's in (spoiler alert!) 'Bambi'.)


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There are moments when technology combines function and grace in such a way that the only fitting human response is "wow". It could be a car or some striking of modern architecture or design. Increasingly, it has been my reaction, when looking at some of the more sophisticated Internet web sites. But it happens all too rarely when looking at software, and in particular, software for research. That is, until I got my hands on a copy of Memphis Survey Explorer. This is a new end-user analysis package designed especially for market research from Icelandic software producer Memphis International. It could have been Norman Foster Associates.
Benedikt Hreinsson, Memphis's Director of Sales and Marketing explained that their aim was to produce a tool that could be used by both researchers and clients or end-users. They commissioned Scantel International to conduct . "We found that 86% of market research companies surveyed here were interested or very interested in an interactive tool to analyse their data, but only 50% were certain that their clients would be interested. But our experience in Iceland has been that, after seeing it, none of the clients wanted to go back to receiving their surveys as printed tables, given the alternative".
The most striking feature of the new Memphis Survey Explorer is its user interface. It is quite unlike any other application I have seen. Gone are the dreary grey boxes, stark menus and lumpen toolbars. Survey Explorer's interface is a statement about design - and that design is taken straight from the Internet. Just about everything you need to use to create tables or charts is presented as a single screen, or "home page", if you are thinking in Internet terms. As you roll the mouse around this screen, hot-spots reveal themselves, icons change colour and text fragment appear, tempting the user to explore and see what options lie in wait. The main screen is essentially a tool to allow you to choose what you want analysed. They use the terms "analyse" and "categorise". You can also select and create filters. You pick the questions from lists which are grouped hierarchically to make selection much easier.
Once you have selected what you want to see, you choose one of the four main viewing tools: bar charts, pie charts, tables and "compass diagrams", for target market definitions. It will not produce every type of chart imaginable, nor every type of table. But what it does is present information in a way that market researchers want to get to it. The "default" chart is the clustered bar chart, the graphic equivalent of the cross tab. A single mouse click alters the basis of the chart from real value to percentage within group or percentage within category, to give you real side-by-side comparison.
They seem to have made exploring the data as natural and effortless as possible. For example, if you know what information you are looking for, you can perform a word search on the questions, and it will present a reduced list of questions that contain that word or phrase. It is hard to grasp that this package has such a wealth of features and options, since they remain invisible until they pop up at the moment you need them. Creating complex filters; merging categories, handling missing information, performing transformations on the data, adjusting the appearance of the output, changing titles, headings, adding annotations - it is all there in the ever-changing right mouse button menu. It is also very fast, offering instantaneous analysis of thousands of cases.
In terms of getting the data into Memphis, they have embraced the Triple-S standard, and also provide a translator from SPSS. Sigfus Halldor, Memphis's software designer told me they aim to provide translators for all the major packages in the next year. You then use their Survey Transformer tool to create the Memphis database. Its main function is to allow you to create the question groups to simplify question selection for the end user. Once the survey has been "transformed" in this way, the end user no longer has access to individual records, and cannot alter the data in any way. Memphis feel this is an important security feature for research agencies wishing to deliver their surveys to clients.
Kristinn Olafsson, Project Manager at Gallup Iceland, has been using the Memphis package since it was first developed two years ago. He has been working closely with Memphis on the new version, and is very satisfied with the outcome. He says: "We think it is a very good product, easy to use and user friendly. People in business have very little time to learn new programs like this. If it takes more than 5 minutes to get it running and to use it, it is too complicated to use."
Gallup have found clients to be most accepting of delivery by Memphis on two types of study: the large syndicated or TGI-like studies, and on what they term "top of mind" studies, or month-on-month tracking studies. Kristinn Olafsson continues: "We are doing a lot of top of mind studies and delivering the new data by e-mail, so that the client builds up a database on their computer" We find that it is much more the bigger companies that are doing serious marketing that are using this product. It is very handy for them to have a system like this because they are always examining a lot of data and they find this very useful to get answers that they don't get from hardcopy."
What this does mean is that the relationship between the researcher and the client starts to change. This can make researchers nervous if they perceive their value as being in explaining the findings to their clients - what role will they have if all they do is collect the data and hand it on to the client? Gallup's experience in Iceland has been of much greater loyalty from its clients. Presentation still take place, and the researchers also use Memphis to gather key findings. But they spend less time running extra analyses for their clients, which are inefficient and unprofitable.
Benedikt Hreinsson described the situation facing most clientside researchers as "drowning in data but doesn't have any information to use". Perhaps the ultimate "wow" of this product will be not what it looks like, but what it lets you see.
Memphis Survey Explorer 3.0 is due for release on 1 September. Contact Memphis International on 0171 345 1322.
Published in Research, the independent voice of market research, August 1998, Issue 387.
© Copyright Tim Macer 1998. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission.


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Located in Oakland, California, the Chabot Space and Sciences Center is a science learning facility with exhibits, planetariums, a large screen theatre, hands-on activities and three powerful telescopes.
The Centre is a further expansion of a public observatory providing astronomy and science education initiatives for San Francisco Bay schools and residents since 1883. It is named after Anthony Chabot, father of hydraulic mining and charity at the original Oakland Observatory. The center has been located on the western edge of Redwoods Regional Park since 2000.
The Oakland Observatory opened in 1883 with a donation to the City of Oakland from Anthony Chabot. In the immediate vicinity of downtown Oakland the Oakland original Observatory was used for the dream of the residents. For decades, she also served to measure time with its transit telescope as the official timekeeping station for the entire Bay area.
In 1915, due to rising light pollution and urban congestion, the observatory moved to the site of its Mountain Boulevard. The plant was expanded greatly in the mid-1960s. In this time, Oakland Unified School District staff and volunteers staffed primarily the Chabot Science Center, as it was called. Seismic safety concerns closed access to the original observatory by public school students in 1977. Observatory buildings were open to the public, but school events were limited to outskirts and the planetarium.
In 1989, the Chabot Science Observatory and the City of Oakland, the Oakland Unified School District and the East Bay Regional Park Distrikt, in partnership with the Eastbay Astronomy Society, acknowledged the need to re-establish complete access to the facility, whether through repair or relocation. In 1992, they were acknowledged as a non-profit organization. Chabot 's CEO Dr Michael D. Reynolds led the project, and the building of a new 88.000 square meter (8,200 m2) Science Center began in May 1998. The project started in October 1996.
The company changed its name from Chabot Observatory & Science Center to Chabot Space & Science Center in January 2000, announcing the opening of the new building. To explain both the wide-ranging and technical progress to the new science Center, the new name was chosen to help reflect the organization's emphasis on astronomy and space science.
Main Attractions
Two planetariums: a "full dome digital projection system" with various shows running daily, and a Zeiss Universarium fiber-optic projector with weekly shows.
The Tien MegaDome Theater, a 70-foot (21 m) dome screen auditorium which presented various IMAX-like shows.
The Challenger Learning Center, a hands-on simulated space mission environment where 8 teams work together to complete a mission.
Many changing exhibits, full of hands-on displays, that highlight space and science topics. As of August 18, 2006, there are nine open exhibits.
This amazing museum is perfect for active kids and is located near the following must-see museums near Walnut Creek, California:
Lindsay Wildlife Experience
Mount Diablo Summit Museum
Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts
Shadelands Ranch Museum
Habitot Children's Museum
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Gardens at Heather Farm
All of these wonderful attractions are located just a short drive from our location near Downtown Walnut Creek, California on Locust Street. Stop by for a visit anytime!


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Q: Does adding a directory as a resource in Maven include all subdirectories? With Maven, when you add a directory as a resource (in the POM - therefore adding it to the projects classpath), are all sub-directories automatically added too?
Example:
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If the directory resources has an XML file called A.xml in it, and a folder (called moreResources), which contains files B.xml and C.xml, will all the XML files be accessible to my project?

A: Yes, <directory> specifies a root resource directory, and all the subdirectories are included.

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Why is the doctor performing this procedure?
Catheter ablation is a procedure that allows energy to be delivered, through a catheter, to a portion of the heart. A catheter is a 3-4mm wide tube which may be either hollow or wire-filled. The catheter tip may have anywhere from two to ten electrode pairs that allow for the measurement of electrical force, as well as the delivery of radio frequency energy.
A physician guides a catheter with an electrode at its' tip to the area of heart muscle where there is an accessory (extra) pathway. The catheter is guided with real-time, moving x-rays (fluoroscopy) displayed on a video screen. The procedure helps the doctor place the catheter at the exact site inside the heart where cells give off the electrical signals that stimulate the abnormal heart rhythm. Then a mild radiofrequency energy (similar to microwave heat) is transmitted to the pathway. This destroys carefully selected heart muscle cells in a very small area (about 1/5 of an inch). That stops the area from conducting the extra impulses that caused the rapid heartbeats.
A large variety of these rhythm problems utilize an abnormal electrical pathway. This abnormal pathway may frequently be abolished by applying radio frequency energy to the specific area of the heart where the pathway lies.
In the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory (EP Lab).
Catheter ablation may take anywhere from one to three hours.
Please call our cardiac services staff with any questions or to schedule an appointment.


Project Citizen National Showcase Results Are In! The Center is pleased to announce the rankings for the 2018 Project Citizen National Showcase, which was held July 25–26 in Calabasas, California. Sixteen projects in both the traditional and digital formats were submitted, dealing with a variety of topics from housing to creative city recycling.
Project Citizen is aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies. These draft correlations were performed by the Maryland State Department of Education. The correlations are available for download here.
Welcome, click here for information on how to promote youth civic engagement and participate in the Project Citizen program.
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It's the Year of the Pig. Chinese New Year, which starts on Feb. 5, is the most important traditional holiday in China. This easy New Year menu features three recipes that highlight classic ingredients like garlic, sesame oil, and ginger.
Health, wealth, longevity and good fortune to you and those you love–that is the true meaning behind the festivities and dishes enjoyed during the Chinese New Year. Also known as the Lunar New Year, the holiday features several symbolic recipes and ingredients making it the perfect reason to host a delicious gathering for family and friends.
Noodles are one of the most important ingredients used during the holiday as their length represents a long and healthy life. A whole chicken is often served during dinners as a symbol of family togetherness and unity. We've taken the traditional chicken lettuce wrap as inspiration, but substituted in healthful kale and rotisserie chicken for speedy preparation (although we would never dream of omitting those noodles).
These little dumplings symbolize wealth and are made using wonton wrappers. You can boil them or pan fry (as we've done). The wrappers can be found in Asian markets or major grocery store chains, often located near the tofu or produce aisle. There are several ways to fold your dumplings–the easiest way is to simply fold in half. We've used a pinch pleat method for this batch.
This dish brings together familiar flavours from Chinese cuisine, namely sesame oil, soya sauce and garlic. Prawns or shrimp are said to represent happiness and joy and make for a beautiful presentation against the crisp, green snow peas.


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The observable trends of higher expectations towards the gaming industry continuously strengthen the drive to create games that are more complex and contain a more faithful virtual reality. The most important requirement of the field is, however, to minimize the noticeable software bugs and make them invisible to the player if possible – since these have a negative impact on the overall gaming experience. The resulting requirements imply that the architecture of the newer and newer software solutions call for an increasingly complex design in order for them to be cost effective and preferably reusable in the future.
In my thesis I targeted the development of one such gaming software that tries to comply with the needs mentioned above, with an architecturally well-designed solution. The game itself is built around a labyrinth, with most of the conceptual ideas taken from the movie "The Maze Runner". I created the application building on the Unreal Engine game engine.
During the course of this paper I discuss the established gameplay, and I also greatly stress the architectural design involved in the process with an emphasis to keep as great a portion of the codebase that is to be implemented platform-independent as possible. I also elaborate on the mathematical problems that arise with the creation of the labyrinth in detail.
The completed architecture is based on the Model-View-Presenter pattern, with which only the implementation of the View component is platform-dependent. With the separation of concerns the rest of the components can be covered with unit tests, that may lower the amount of bugs present in the code. To achieve platform-independence a series of utility classes – like containers and helper classes – are indispensable that I implemented in order to solve the task.
The success of the final architecture is practically proven by the minimal amount of platform-dependent code that I had to write in order to make it functional with the Unreal Engine. The flexibility of the architecture may also be warranted further by a well-thought test suite and the implementation with the use of a different game engine. Furthermore, to improve upon the gaming experience, it would be beneficial to extend the software with additional elements.


The summary for the List of Classified Structure Update for Chesapeake & Ohio Canal NHP and George Washington Memorial Parkway NP grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Park Service, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.
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This funding announcement is not a request for applications. This is a single source award to the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.


Come visit one of Hanover's oldest traditions, visiting Santa Claus in Center Square at the Santa's Cabin! This over 80-year-old tradition has been kept alive through the donation of the Hanover Eagles with a brand new log cabin built to house Santa while he greets his visitors. Families can come for free throughout the holiday season to visit with Santa and ask for all kinds of goodies. Photography is also free and can be taken with any personal cameras desired. Santa gives out Utz Potato chips and the traditional candy cane to all child visitors. Come during any of Santa's hours during the holiday season, he will certainly bring a smile to any child's face.
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Why Matthew's Resurrection Account is Garbage
There's a meme called "When You See It". You're given a photo that looks pretty mundane, but once you've spotted a particular detail, the picture shifts from mundane to hilarious (or maybe horrifying). You can never go back to seeing the picture the way you first did. In the same way, my feeling is that once you've seen the gaping flaws in the Gospel of Matthew's resurrection account, you'll never go back to thinking it's anything but garbage.
Lawrence v. God
In 2003, more than a decade before it legalized gay marriage, the Supreme Court declared all anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional. The United States could no longer punish a same-sex couple for engaging in homosexual acts. And that, combined with Roe v. Wade, is when America ceased to be a Christian nation.
Chris Pratt and Profaning the Sacred
Why do we keep the sacred separate from the profane? So we don't dirty up the clean things. The clean things won't make the dirty things any cleaner, but the dirty things sure can mess up the clean things. So we keep them separate. If we don't, we're left with nothing but dirty things. And this holds just as true for concepts as it does for objects.
The Naaman Excuse
You have a choice whether to participate in the public sin of others. If you join it, you show others that you approve of that sin, and you encourage them to do the same. Which is why Christians must refrain to the best of their ability from participating in gay weddings.
"God Has a Plan for Your Life!"…So What?
"God has a plan for your life!" Okay. Say God does have a plan for your life. Does that matter when you don't know what the plan is? God had a plan for Robert Godwin's life. And the last line of that plan read, "Apr. 16, 2017 – Gets shot in the face at random; dies."
Harambe, Abortion, and Our Appalling Lack of Neighborliness
A significant segment of the population has gotten to the point they feel more kinship with animals than with their fellow human beings. Gorillas are their neighbors; children aren't. But is this any surprise? In the U.S. we kill nearly a million unborn children a year. How does this happen if not by withholding empathy from them? And you can't develop the lack of empathy needed to kill the unborn without losing empathy for the born.
What the Worst Things Teach Us
Every religion contains some expression of our desire that good be rewarded and evil be punished. Eastern religions generally look to reincarnation; Western religions look forward to a resurrection and final judgment. But both paradigms are built on the recognition of a stark truth: "What goes around comes around" is usually not a given in this world. We live in a world of loose ends.
Olympus Didn't Fall
You might be willing to suffer torture or even give up your own life to keep your enemies from getting what they want. But if your child's safety or life is on the line, you'll just fold like a house of cards, won't you? You'll do anything to keep him or her in one piece…or will you? What if there's a fate to be avoided that's worse than death?
What FOX's "Lucifer" Gets Wrong…and Right (Part 3)
"Lucifer" is a fun show to watch so long as you take it as it is — a work of fiction borrowing heavily from religion — and while it's troubling to think unsuspecting people might receive their first impression of the devil from it and think, "Hey, the devil isn't all that bad!" recognize that most of our first impressions of religious figures — angels, Moses, Jesus, God, Muhammad, etc. — don't come from original sources and have been distorted in some way.
Lucifer has a "super-power": he can compel people to tell uncomfortable, inappropriate truths about themselves. (Enjoy kitten crush videos? You'll tell him. You'll *want* to.) Here we touch on one of the darkest aspects of the Internet: anonymous confession. How much evil has been unleashed in people's hearts since they're now able to freely confess evil desires behind a veil of anonymity and, worse, find others who are like-minded?


A good time to deal with and treat your Viral Pneumonia is to start working on your condition and seeking relief starting today ... Viral Pneumonia is an inflammation, which is an irritation and swelling of the lungs caused by infection with a virus.
Pneumonia is an infection of the lung. Pneumonia affects roughly 1 of 100 people annually. Viral pneumonia is caused by one of several viruses, which includes influenza, para influenza, adenovirus, rhinovirus, herpes simplex virus, respiratory syncytial virus, hantavirus, and cytomegalo-virus.
Most cases of viral pneumonia are mild and improve without treatment, but some cases are more serious and require hospitalization. People at risk for more serious viral pneumonia typically have impaired immune systems such as people with HIV, transplant patients, young children that have heart defects, elderly people, and those taking medications to suppress their immune systems in the treatment of autoimmune disorders.
Antibiotics are not effective in treating Viral Pneumonia. Some of the more serious disease forms may be treated with anti-viral medications. Other supportive care for viral pneumonia includes use of humidified air, increased fluids, and oxygen. Hospitalization can be necessary to prevent dehydration and to help the patient with breathing if the infection is serious.
Most episodes of viral pneumonia improve without treatment within 1-3 weeks, but some episodes last longer and cause more serious symptoms requiring hospitalization.
More serious infections can result in respiratory failure, liver failure and heart failure. Sometimes, bacterial infections occur during or just after viral pneumonia, which may lead to more serious forms of pneumonia, including lung disease.
Call your doctor or health care provider if symptoms of viral pneumonia develop.
Vaccines are available for influenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus for people at high risk of these forms of viral pneumonia. A more serious form of pneumonia is bacterial pneumonia, which is also treatable.


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So many sequins! Dolly Parton has kept her favorite dresses and costumes
Dolly Parton's closet is a magical place!
Dolly Parton is never afraid of a few sparkles ... or color or fringe for that matter.NBCU Photo Bank/ Getty Images
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Jan. 9, 2019, 6:19 PM UTC / Source: TODAY
By Lindsay Lowe
Dolly Parton has an apparently endless collection of sparkly outfits, and that includes many of the dresses she's worn throughout her decades-long career.
"I probably have a hundred dresses from over the years," the singer wrote recently on Instagram, posting a throwback photo of herself wearing a glittery dress and her signature, big curls. "I just can't seem to let go of my favorites!"
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsZPHSqgIHm
And why would she get rid of such a fabulous collection? Every now and then, she treats her social media fans to her favorite outfits from years past, and her looks are always amazing.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqBHwLVAK7s
No one rocks glitter and sequins quite like Dolly Parton.
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Or 6-inch-heel boots, for that matter.
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Parton has lost track of a few favorite outfits over the years, like this sparkly red dress. But as she revealed on Instagram, she has held onto many of her favorite pieces.
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Plenty of Dolly Parton fans would just love to peek inside the singer's sparkly closet, and Reese Witherspoon lived out that dream last year as part of her TV series, "Shine On With Reese."
Watch Reese Witherspoon live the dream and raid Dolly Parton's closet
"I always imagined Dolly's apartment's closet opens, and sequins come flying out!" Witherspoon said, as she admired the singer's vast collection of stage costumes embellished with sequins, glitter and rhinestones.
Parton clearly has a sentimental spot for all the fabulous outfits she's worn over the years, and it doesn't sound like she'll be parting with them anytime soon!