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Stochastic self-assembly of incommensurate clusters
Chou, Tom
We examine the classic problem of homogeneous nucleation and growth by deriving and analyzing a fully discrete stochastic master equation. Upon comparison with results obtained from the corresponding mean-field Becker-D¨oring equations we find strikin . . .
Swarming in viscous fluids: Three-dimensional patterns in swimmer- and force-induced flows
Chuang, Yao-Li
We derive a three-dimensional theory of self-propelled particle swarming in a viscous fluid environment. Our model predicts emergent collective behavior that depends critically on fluid opacity, mechanism of self-propulsion, and type of particle-parti . . .
Quantifying the Sensitivity of HIV-1 Viral Entry to Receptor and Coreceptor Expression
D'Orsogna, Maria-Rita R.
Infection by many viruses begins with fusion of viral and cellular lipid membranes, followed by entry of viral contents into the target cell and ultimately, after many biochemical steps, integration of viral DNA into that of the host cell. The early s . . .
Enhancement Of Cargo Processivity By Cooperating Molecular Motors
Cellular cargo can be bound to cytoskeletal filaments by one or more active or passive molecular motors. Recent experiments have shown that the presence of auxiliary, nondriving motors results in an enhanced processivity of the cargo, compared to the . . .
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First assembly times and equilibration in stochastic coagulation-fragmentation
We develop a fully stochastic theory for coagulation and fragmentation (CF) in a finite system with a maximum cluster size constraint. The process is modeled using a high-dimensional master equation for the probabilities of cluster configurations. For . . .
Onset, timing, and exposure therapy of stress disorders: mechanistic insight from a mathematical model of oscillating neuroendocrine dynamics
Background The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is a neuroendocrine system that regulates numerous physiological processes. Disruptions in the activity of the HPA axis are correlated with stress-related diseases such as post-traumatic stress . . .
Arrival Times in a Zero-Range Process with Injection and Decay
Hertz Shargel, B.
Explicit expressions for arrival times of particles moving in a one-dimensional Zero-Range Process (ZRP) are computed. Particles are fed into the ZRP from an injection site and can also evaporate from anywhere in the interior of the ZRP. Two dynamics . . .
Recidivism and rehabilitation of criminal offenders: A carrot and stick evolutionary game
Motivated by recent efforts by the criminal justice system to treat and rehabilitate nonviolent offenders rather than focusing solely on their punishment, we introduce an evolutionary game theoretic model to study the effects of "carrot and stick"� in . . .
Combinatoric analysis of heterogeneous stochastic self-assembly
Zhao, Bingyu
We analyze a fully stochastic model of heterogeneous nucleation and self-assembly in a closed system with a fixed total particle number M, and a fixed number of seeds Ns. Each seed can bind a maximum of N particles. A discrete master equation for the . . .


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The Victory Belles
The Victory Belles are a delightful vocal trio performing the music of the 1940s, serenading audiences at The National WWII Museum and across the globe.
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The Victory Belles are a delightful vocal trio performing the music of the 1940s, serenading audiences at The National WWII Museum and across the globe. The music of the 1940s brought hope and joy to our GIs and those on the Home Front alike—and the Victory Belles keep that tradition alive in rich, three-part harmony. Their repertoire includes all the treasured gems of the WWII era plus patriotic classics including a musical salute to each branch of the US armed forces.
Higgins: The Man, the Boat, the War
The story about the man, the myth, the legend—New Orleans boatbuilder Andrew Higgins.
Stage Door Songbook Series: Cole Porter
Join us for our first production of a brand new series, the Stage Door Songbook Series.
Songs That Won the War
The Victory Belles bring to life the songs that inspired the Allies to victory during World War II.
A new American play, Freedom tells the story of a Holocaust survivor and an Irish immigrant who meet hours before their American naturalization ceremony. Freedom looks at the ways we yearn for freedom—the freedom to face the truth about ourselves with grace, acceptance, and forgiveness.
Latin Music Dine & Dance with Muevelo
Join us for a musical journey to the Caribbean, complete with guest musicians and a special menu.
Boogie Stomp!
Join The Boogie Kings—Bob Baldori and Arthur Migliazza—for an evening of classic American piano music.
The Rat Pack Now
The Rat Pack Now is a world-class tribute show recapturing the music, style, comedy, and camaraderie of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr.
Jump, Jive and Wail: The Music of Louis Prima
An award-winning tribute to the man they called "The Wildest!" celebrates a unique New Orleans talent and features Prima classics!

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Karawang Regency is a regency (kabupaten) of West Java, Indonesia. Karawang is its capital. It has an area of 1,652.2 km2 and a 2010 census population of 2,127,791 people; the latest official estimate (for January 2014) is 2,288,254, for a density of 1,385 people per km2. The district borders Bekasi and Bogor regencies in the west, the Java Sea in the north, Subang Regency in the east, Purwakarta Regency in the southeast, and Cianjur Regency in the south. The regency lies on the eastern outskirts of Metropolitan Jakarta, just outside the Jabodetabek region, and is the site of industrial activity (like factories).
The area continues to grow which marked the establishment of new factories by domestic and multinational companies in industrial areas. However, due to ever expanding Jakarta (primarily from the eastward expansion of the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road and the Cikampek-Palimanan Toll Road), it has seen a heavy influx of housing developments as well and a surge of people.
Most of Karawang Regency consists of broad coastal plain; it lies on the northern coast and is the result of the deposition of sedimentary rocks formed by loose materials, especially marine sediments and volcanic alluvium. While in the middle of the regency are hills mostly formed by sedimentary rocks, in the south there is a mountain (Sanggabuana) with a height of about 1,291 metres above sea level.The regency is roughly equidistant from Jakarta and Bandung, and the two metropolitan areas have a combined home population of over 40 million people.
The general population is ethnically Sundanese, with Islam adherents comprising 98.17% of the population according to the 2010 census.
The football club Persika Karawang, which plays in Liga 2, is based in Karawang's Singaperbangsa Stadium. The city had also hosted the Madura United F.C. between 2010 and 2012 when it was known as Pelita Jaya Karawang.
Currently, according to the data of the Indonesian Industrial Zone Association (HKI), there are at least nine major industrial areas, namely Karawang International Industrial City (KIIC), Bukit Indah City, Surya Cipta Industrial Area, Karawang Jabar Industrial Estate, Podomoro Industrial Park, Kujang Industrial Area, Karawang Mitrakarawang Industry, GT Tech Park Karawang, and Artha Industrial Hill.
A new main airport for Greater Jakarta and the heavily populated surrounding area is planned for bids in 2014; it is located within the regency, to provide relief to severely congested Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, the nation's largest gateway, as well as overloaded Bandung Airport. The new airport is expected to have space for 4 long runways 2,136 by 19 metres (7,008 ft × 62 ft) and 2 jumbo terminals. The current airport takes up some 18 square kilometers of land, in all likelihood a similar allocation of land will be required.
Trans-Java main rail line runs across the central part of the Regency, with a stop at Karawang Station. Likewise, Jakarta's main airport is also mulled for the regency. The Jakarta–Cikampek Toll Road runs through the regency, connecting to Cipularang Toll Road which goes to Purwakarta and Bandung. This district will also be crossed by Jakarta-Bandung a fast train.
Raden Panduwinata (1942-1945), under the title Raden Kanjeng Pandu Suriadiningrat, last bupati to reside in Purwakarta, moves to Subang.
^ "Penduduk Menurut Kelompok Umur dan Agama yang Dianut - Kabupaten Karawang". sp2010.bps.go.id. Statistics Indonesia.
^ "Para Naga Penguasa Jakarta Beradu Perkasa di Karawang". Kompas. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
^ "Karawang Airport ready for kick-off in 2014". thejakartapost.com.


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If open platforms are beating tech's walled gardens, what does this mean for marketing?
Ad Feature from MMT Digital
By James Cannings-24 October 2018 14:42pm
Multi platforms on devices
Traditionally, marketers tend to think about channels. But as digital blurs lines between 'the product' and 'the marketing', marketers need to think harder about ecosystems - and particularly innovations like AI and voice that come with them.
Ecosystems owned by Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon control how people find and experience your brand. It becomes critical to hedge your bets and stay flexible because open ecosystems are winning - which means faster innovation, more change, and more for marketers to think about.
Remember AOL's ill-fated takeover of Time Warner 20 years ago? AOL chief executive Steve Case's vision was creating a closed "walled garden" of dial-up connections and content that web-browsers would never leave. It failed. So too did Microsoft's unsuccessful attempt to build a closed ecosystem around Windows, Xbox and Windows Phone a decade later.
Apple has made a success of closed. But with the HomePod, its voice speaker / home automation product it's gone too far. It only works with an iPhone. And if customers want to stream music by voice-control, they need a subscription for Apple Music. That's too locked-in for even the most ardent Apple fans. With the relative weakness of Siri as a voice-assisted AI technology, Apple may become more open to 'open'.
Microsoft's rapid about-turn under current CEO Satya Nadella has brought in a more open approach, where people can use its software across multiple platforms and devices, and the company has seen its fortunes transformed as a result. What does a shift to open platforms, therefore, mean for brand marketers?
Go agile to take control of your brand
With strategic technology decisions still largely the realm of CTOs, CMOs often have limited influence on digital UX - not ideal as for many of us the experience is the brand.
Switching to an agile operating mindset allows marketers to wrest control of digital UX and other digital design technologies from the chief technology officer to operate more strategically - by ensuring every experience of the brand is consistent, and tactically, by quickly iterating on the product to move with the market.
Avoid monolithic enterprise platforms to capitalise on AI, voice and whatever's next
Headless content management systems (CMS) are a major talking point in 2018. These platforms essentially separate the back-end from the front-end. But really, they are just a central part of the move towards a microservices architecture that we are seeing (and helping) many brands move towards.
Uber, for example, uses over 800 microservices to help you book a taxi from A to B. This makes their platform incredibly flexible, allowing them to innovate rapidly and switch services in and out without replacing the whole system.
Well architected microservices mean you can make new products faster and knit them together easily. We know AI is playing a bigger role in aspects of marketing and voice search is increasing. But we don't yet know how this will play out exactly.
Say Google released a voice AI smartwatch in the autumn and by Christmas it's the must have gadget. With microservices in place you can innovate much more quickly than with a single large enterprise platform so your brand wins in that context. Without that in place, you might lose out.
Prioritise open systems over closed for innovation
At home, browsing on my Samsung phone, based on Google's Android platform, I can interact with Amazon's Alexa and play music from Spotify.
Far from suffering from clunky connections between four very different technology groups, the experience is smooth and trouble-free. Open is the new norm. Pity the marketers who invested time in readying their systems for the Home Pod - a closed platform flop.
Optimising for voice will be very important. Comscore forecasts that half of all internet searches will be carried out by voice within the next three years. And the OC&C, meanwhile, confidently expects voice shopping to generate revenues of more than $40bn within a five-year timeframe.
Every brand is going to need a strategy for voice and AI and this has much wider implications than simply upskilling systems and staff.
We will be discussing some of these strategies at The Drum's Future of Marketing Conference on November 22. I am going to be joined by Jon Davies, head of digital, Vodafone; Joanne Smith, group CEO & co-founder, TCC and Recordsure ; and Jeremy Waite, chief strategy officer, IBM to discuss how AI can have a profound short-term positive impact on the performance of your business and why the marketer is best-placed to lead the AI revolution.
Remember, if you embrace open, adopt agile, and invest in architecture that supports microservices, you will be ready for whatever comes next.
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DNV GL joins Green Award scheme
Athens, 8 June 2016: DNV GL has signed a partnership agreement with the Green Award Foundation at Posidonia today to promote the highest standards of safety, quality and sustainability in shipping. DNV GL will become an incentive provider for the Green Award scheme and offer discounts for shipowners and managers who hold the Green Award certificate. The Green Award Foundation is an independent quality assurance organization that certifies shipping companies and vessels which exceed industry standards. It works with incentive providers from all over the maritime sector to offer certificate holders benefits such as discounts on port dues, products and services.
"The recognition of Green Award ships by DNV GL is a huge step towards further acceptance of corporate social responsibility principles in the industry," says Green Award's Chairman Captain Dimitrios Mattheou. "It demonstrates support to ship managers and owners prepared to invest efforts and means in better performance, and helps in making these investments economically sound. Green Award audits ships to assist in preventing incidents and improving safety. Green Award incentive providers reward efforts made by ships to meet the Green Award requirements – a great example of a joint action by the industry!"
Caption: from left to right: Keita Shinohara, Certification Manager, Green Award, Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO of DNV GL – Maritime, Captain Dimitrios Mattheou, Chairman of the Green Award and Managing Director of Arcadia Shipmanagement, Remi Eriksen, Group President and CEO of DNV GL, Ioannis Chiotopoulos, Regional Manager South-East Europe & Middle East at DNV GL – Maritime, Ioannis Kourmatzis, Senior Vice President, Advisor, Region South East Europe & Middle East at DNV GL – Maritime, and Jan Fransen, Executive Director, Green Award.
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"Enhancing the safety, quality and sustainability of ship operations is at the heart of what we do at DNV GL – therefore, working with the Green Award Foundation was a logical step for us. The scheme offers an excellent opportunity to reward companies which set best practice examples for shipping, and I hope it encourages many more companies to invest in future-proof technologies," says Ioannis Chiotopoulos, Regional Manager South-East Europe & Middle East at DNV GL – Maritime.
DNV GL will offer Green Award companies a 10 per cent discount on training courses delivered by the DNV GL Academy worldwide. The certificate holders and their vessels also receive a 10 per cent discount on audits related to environmental standards such as ISO 14000 and ISO 50001.
With its network of ports, maritime organizations, service providers, ship managers, and owners, the Green Award scheme works to enhance the environmental and safety performance of ships and to promote the highest quality standards. Its requirements cover a wide range of subjects: from emissions reduction and sewage handling to the human factor, and from noise issues and equipment maintenance to management standards on shore.
About DNV GL http://www.dnvgl.com/maritime
Driven by its purpose of safeguarding life, property and the environment, DNV GL enables organizations to advance the safety and sustainability of their business. Operating in more than 100 countries, the company's 15,000 professionals are dedicated to helping their customers in the maritime, oil & gas, energy and other industriesto make the world safer, smarter and greener.
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Jean André Sainte-Laguë (in terms familiar to English speakers, Laguë is pronounced something like 'la-goo') was born in Lot-et-Garonne in April 1882 and spent part of his youth in Tahiti. He taught in lycées from 1906 (completing a doctorate in 1924) until 1938, when he was awarded the chair in mathematics at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM). He is best known in the field of mathematics for his work in the area of graph theory. During the second world war he was an active member of the resistance and was for a while imprisoned by the German occupying forces. After the liberation, he was named a member of the provisional consultative assembly. He died on 18 January 1950.
In 1911 he wrote an article, published in Comptes Rendus Hebdomaires, outlining what has become known as the Sainte-Laguë method of seat allocation, which he developed as a means of minimising disproportionality, conceived as inequity in the degree of representation achieved by each voter. This method, known in the USA as the Webster method, is often seen as one of the 'fairest', since unlike most other methods it does not contain an inherent bias in favour either of larger or of smaller parties. An English translation of this article is included as an appendix to Arend Lijphart and Robert W Gibberd, 'Thresholds and payoffs in list systems of proportional representation', European Journal of Political Research 5:3 (1977), 219–44. An Excel file, downloadable from the electoral systems page (link below), enables anyone to work out easily the Sainte-Laguë seat allocation for any distribution of votes and any number of seats.
The details of seat allocation methods such as those of Sainte-Laguë and D'Hondt rarely generate much public interest, but in the summer of 2017 there were major street demonstrations in Iraq in protest against proposals to modify the seat allocation method used. The 'pure' Sainte-Laguë method uses divisors of 1, 3, 5, 7 ... etc. In the past some countries used a 'modified' version in which the first divisor, instead of being 1, was 1.4, which made it somewhat more difficult for small parties to win a first seat. In August 2017 the Iraqi parliament decided that the first divisor should be 1.9, and though as a result of widespread protests it reduced this to 1.7, representatives of small parties were understandably still dissatisfied and pressed for it to be reduced at least to 1.4. This may well be the first time anywhere in the world that disagreement over the size of one of the Sainte-Laguë divisors has led to street protests.
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Jamsheed K. Choksy, Contributor
Distinguished Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and Professor of Iranian Studies in the School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University
Iran, Protest, and Intelligence: Why Strategic Reports Often Get it Wrong
08/22/2009 05:12 am ET Updated May 25, 2011
A major shortcoming of private security firms and official intelligence agencies is that they frequently lack on-the-ground, in-country, sources and do not fully utilize experts who travel to and study the country. Human intelligence is woefully lacking, so too much reliance is placed on signals intelligence. Those organizations under-exploit the open source information that is readily available to them. Such reports usually are concisely written and closely argued--not long-winded like academic analyses. They are exactly what decision-makers like to read. The Strategic Forecasting, Inc., or STRATFOR geopolitical report "The Iranian Election and the Revolution Test," issued on June 22, is one example, recently, on Iran. That report is a current example of how and why such documents are off-target, and so it can serve as a foil for investigating assessments of issues in the forefront of the Iranian political crisis.
Four major issues warrant focus: (1) The Iranian government's ability to gather, transport, and count a representative sample of the 40-plus million hand-written ballots within a few hours in a country approximately one-fifth the size of the United States of America and nearly seven times the size of the United Kingdom; (2) Whether the protests really have spread beyond universities and major cities; (3) The role of technology in spread and suppression of dissent; and (4) What motivates the protestors and major political players in Iran.
The issue of ballots cast and votes tabulated, during Iran's tenth presidential election on June 12, has been much vexed. The STRATFOR Report dismissed most of the allegations of fraud. One insightful resource available to guide discussions is the careful analysis of voting patterns at chathamhouse.org. Statistical evidence of election fraud has been laid out at the Washington Post as well. Those precise investigations suggest ballot fraud did occur on a national scale and that the scheme was centrally coordinated.
Likewise, the spread of election-related protests has been debated. A fuller understanding of this specific issue warrants examination of the data gathered at irantracker.org. Public protest has been reported not only in Tehran, Isfahan, and Shiraz, but at Tabriz in the northwest, Rasht along the Caspian Sea, the holy city of Mashhad in the northeast, Kerman in the southeast, and even at the largely ethnically-Arab city of Ahvaz in the southwest. Anti-government demonstrations have occurred at Cham, Taft, and Bam among other towns and villages. The anti-government protestors are not drawn from any single social, ethnic, religious, or other type of demographic sector. The political unrest seems to have begun among and spread between a variety of public settings, not just university students and westernized elites. Again, valuable data can be found at irantracker, which should be consulted. Conclusions, such as those in the STRATFOR Report for instance, that protest is limited to universities, the "twittering classes," and other elites are based on an incomplete evaluation of available evidence.
Cell phone penetration and internet access in Iran exceeds land-line capacity and cuts across urban, rural rich, and poor divides. It is a basic means of communication not restricted to any particular socioeconomic segment of the population. Details can be gleaned from menafn.com, genderit.org, internetworldstats.com, and NedaNet. Electronic communication has become the predominant means of assembling opposition to the Iranian regime and communicating crackdowns by that regime. The Iranian government has its own reasons for not shutting-off all electronic communications. The regime in Tehran is utilizing covert technologies to locate cell phone and internet users who are protesting the theocracy and transmitting data to one another and to the outside world. On this matter, it is useful to consult WSJ.com with a response at nokiasiemensnetworks.com. The Janus-face of modern technology in tussles between citizens against the state is vividly illustrated by recent events in Iran.
It is important to bear in mind that Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, Mohammad Khatami, and even the usually conservative Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani are the symbolic standard-bearers of change. The election results were the spark, not the fuel for the protests. Thirty years of public outrage has built up slowly but steadily against repression great and small throughout the entire population of Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks only for the hard-line clerics rather than against them as, for example the STRATFOR Report among others has suggested. It is particularly telling of the mood in Iran that even the usually conservative madrassa students at Qum, Mashhad, and Isfahan are not supporting the regime through public demonstrations. Precisely because the hard-line mullahs are no longer representative of many Iranians is why Ahmadinejad's claims to victory have been widely rejected.
The current Iranian president's political mentors include Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati who is the chairman of the Council of Guardians of the Constitution that ratified the election results. So while reshuffling among the ruling classes may occur, the degree of change depends on whether fundamentalists like Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his cohorts such as Jannati and Ahmadinejad prevail or whether pragmatists like Rafsanjani, Khatami, and Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri emerge much stronger from the clerics' internal struggles. Coalitions of pragmatic politicians, public intellectuals, moderate mullahs, economically-strained entrepreneurs, democratic-minded men and women, and activist students played pivotal roles during Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and Islamic Revolution of 1979. The past indicates that, if not now then in the near future, those groups are very likely to succeed again.
Revolutions are accurately designated as such only after the fact, not when protests begin. The protests in Iran are not yet and may never become a revolution. History suggests such developments are comparatively rare as the status quo often endures. Yet, Iran experienced two revolutions during the last century--so the latest protests could very well be sowing the seeds of change again. The role of continued public protests by citizens--especially if the civic outcry remains sustained, grows again in frequency and number of participants, and continues to invigorate a wide range of Iran's socioeconomic classes--will determine if the people eventually prevail again. The variegated ways in which citizens are using technology, passive resistance, and infrastructural attacks on the regime suggests that the uprising is steadily gaining momentum on various fronts. Even then, change in Iran may not take the form of a revolution. It may produce a return to the more traditional form of Iranian statecraft where political leaders, religious clergy, government bureaucrats, and citizens are the equally important and comparably relevant pillars of a stable, outward looking nation. Intelligence estimates and conclusions need to comprehend the broader contexts of large-scale events and local incidents then analyze those within the frameworks of history, religion, sociopolitics, and culture to accurately present and predict events in Iran.
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How Amazon is building a business for the long haul
It also wants to be the rarest thing of all in the technology industry: a long-lived company.New York Times | October 12, 2015, 12:00 IST
It also wants to be the rarest thing of all in the technology industry: a long-lived company.
By Quentin Hardy
LAS VEGAS: Amazon Web Services doesn't just want to dominate the global business in selling computing online. It also wants to be the rarest thing of all in the technology industry: a long-lived company.
Its strategy hinges on an astonishing level of automation in computer programming and maintenance, coupled with offering new products and services at a rate none of the old-guard companies seem able to match.
The idea seems to be to dominate not so much by the traditional "vendor lock-in" of hooking customers on proprietary technology but by making itself the center of the styles and habits of cloud computing.
At least some of its customers seem to think that will work. On Wednesday, Jim Fowler, chief information officer of General Electric, said, "AWS will be the trusted partner that will run our company's information technology for the next 140 years." That is how long GE, founded by Thomas Edison, has been around.
Fowler was talking at the annual AWS conference, during a session in which the company indirectly made the case that it would go after all of the existing customers of some of the biggest technology companies around. Along with its other offerings, AWS plans to send customers machines that will extract an Oracle database, say, and send it to AWS to be transformed to a cheaper cloud product.
GE at one point thought of building its own cloud, but it went with Amazon in part because of this expertise.
AWS also introduced a range of new technology products, including automated creation of mobile software applications, automated large- and small-scale data analysis systems in real time, and ways of building software that can be managed easily across the globe from a single location.
There were, of course, also ways to make these parts fit together, mostly in automated forms that configured and managed most of the underlying technology.
To work with it all, last week AWS published a 56-page manual on how to build and run software in AWS.
"Cloud is the new normal," Werner Vogels, Amazon's chief technology officer, said to a roomful of several thousand software engineers Thursday. "This is how you will build your applications."
A good part of AWS software is open source, which means it could be used elsewhere, and companies like Microsoft and Google also have big clouds. But neither of them, nor IBM, which also wants the cloud business, created more than 500 new features and services last year, as AWS did.
That raises an interesting prospect. AWS does not have a lot of the proprietary technology or many of the onerous contracts that have traditionally held captive the customers of big enterprise software companies. Yet Amazon may be creating a kind of casual lock-in of its own: The automation, features and standardization of practices could mean that in several years most young engineers will know how to work in the AWS system, but no other. That's not exactly a hostage situation, but it would mean companies would have to spend time and learn skills just to get off of that cloud.
Andy Jassy, the head of AWS, said in a news conference last week that the ease of movement among companies offering cloud computing services made it impossible to lock in customers.
"We have to earn our customer business every day, every hour," Jassy said. While it's true that cloud contracts and technology make it easier to move away, it also sounds like the claims Google used to make that competition is just a mouse click away. One hears that less as the overwhelmingly dominant search company faces antitrust charges.
Jassy also took an interesting swipe at the incumbents Amazon now takes on directly.
"Most of the old-guard companies have lost the will to invent," he said. "We tend to be builders."
"We're extremely long-term-oriented," he added. "We're trying to build a relationship with our customers that will outlast all of us in this room."
One way Amazon adds so many features, although it won't talk much about this, is to contract key elements from other companies. QuickSight, the data analysis tool announced Wednesday as a competitor to Cognos from IBM, uses technology AWS hired from a startup called Zoomdata, according to people with knowledge of the technology who asked not to be named to maintain professional relationships.
AWS is rushing to offer the most powerful cloud computing possible. To that end, the company announced Thursday it would have online access to Intel's most powerful chip for computer servers, a semiconductor capable of crunching 2 terabytes of data in memory, over the equivalent of 100 computing cores, or processing centers.
"They are saying that every possible computing workload can run on their system," said Diane Bryant, the head of Intel's data center business. "This is not just about a commodity business of selling standard computing."
AWS and a few other cloud giants, like Google, Microsoft and Facebook, are in such a rush to move ahead that they typically order and install in their computing centers tens of thousands of the latest processors up to six months before they are formally released.
"They ship to themselves and sell their processing power to others — the faster they get to the next generation, the faster they can turn it into new revenue," Bryant said.
That pace is something the incumbent players, which are built on revenue from assembling and shipping computers to other people, can't match. It's likely to be a hallmark of Amazon's march to own the future.
If Amazon is successful, and so far no company can match the speed with which it is moving, the world will be in a very strange place indeed. For decades, much of the world's computing could be taking place on systems belonging to an online retailer that in 20 years as a public company has amassed less profit than Google or Microsoft has in a quarter.
Cloud computing is, of course, a fundamentally profitable part of Amazon. Maybe someday AWS will be the company that also happens to own an online retailer.
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MINI-TO-MINI…A perfectly unique MINI approach!
This week marks MINI Cooper's 51st Birthday! Happy Birthday MINI!
Truthfully, MINI Cooper continues to extend the brand experience and offer magnificent examples of establishing global connections with a most perfectly unique MINI approach.
Connectors do not always have to be in the form of b2c communications and certainly not focused on only one platform. MINI Cooper has created lasting MINI-to-MINI connections by investing in people and trusting them with the MINI brand.
Encouraging MINI-To-MINI not only creates sustainable dialogues, but also nurtures MINI owners and their role in all things MINI. Sometimes the absence of the brand's communication isn't even noticed. MINI Cooper's ability to strategically participate or stimulate discussion is brilliant.
MINI USA shaped MINI TAKES THE STATES 2010 to proactively involve MINI owners. On August 5th enthusiasts motored their way across the US with a final destination set for August 13th for a motoring festival in Denver. The rallies started in five major cities and were led by a new MINI Countryman. The goal…Bringing people together – for the love of all things MINI.
Personal accounts of "MINI Takes The States" created a genuine perspective of this motoring adventure. For those unable to attend, the personal MINI-to-MINI dialogues helped them to feel like a part of the celebrations.
MINI Cooper ranks high among owners/enthusiasts that created personal social media spaces dedicated to a MINI life.
Owners share experiences, ideas and suggestions.
Even the MINIs themselves manage to connect on a regular basis.
I was thrilled to take on the MINI Cooper exploration duties during the writing phase of Collaboration and Co-Creation. We highlight examples of MINI Cooper's smartly coordinated 50th birthday events and their ability to inspire adjacent spaces though MINI Space.
MINI Space is an urban initiative by MINI. People collectively participate in creative projects, competitions, events and parties. The mindset is nurtured and people do stay involved in "Creative Use of Space". MINI's capacity to simply connect creative people, helps them to offer emotional MINI-to-MINI connectors that a brand may not be able to offer.
iMedia shares some great ideas for connecting via Facebook.
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Why are QR codes important…NOW?
A dedicated Green Builder, Decker Homes, is preparing for The 2010 Fall Parade of Homes in their local area. They have collaborated with several manufacturers to design and construct an "ideal" energy-savvy home and anticipate strong attendance.
Traditional marketing initiatives have been outlined and are certain to serve @deckerhomes very well.
Now it's time to think about a mobile and social approach for sharing information and extending the experience beyond the tour visit.
We have advised the use of QR codes for all printed material: take-alongs and stationary signage.
Why are QR codes important?
For small businesses we strongly suggest taking full advantage of mobile tools and the integration of social platforms. These tools not only extend the brand experience, but also enable sharing.
Full use of location based tools for check-in would also be very good to see.
In addition – Facebook ads will be targeted to identify those most likely to attend The Parade of Homes; as selected by local demographics and appointed to personal interests.
How Do You Write Your Menu?
Maybe because I was in the hospitality business for over 30 years, but I often reference things in a foodie kind of way.
I have written many menus. Many, many menus! There is a knack to writing good menus. What do I mean by a good menu? You know. Sometimes a menu just doesn't fit the ambiance, theme, clientele, location or just doesn't seem to make sense for the restaurant that it is in. It may be a well thought-out bill of fare with delicious dishes, but doesn't sell for one of the aforementioned reasons. A person (chef, owner, foodie) can put together a great collection of entrees that will tickle the most finicky critic's palette, but if it isn't the right fit for that particular setting, customers will not be moseying through your entryway. If you open an eclectic high-ticket bistro in a retirement community… you may have targeted the wrong crowd and are destined for failure.
So what does all this menu/restaurant stuff have to do with your business?
It's about your menu! Are you offering the right product/service to the correct market? Do you have a great concept…but pitching it to the wrong group of buyers? If you are working on your passion in life, you want to make sure you are marketing and engaging with the correct set of dynamics for your project. Too often we have a great product/service, but are engaging the wrong sector through the wrong tools. Be aware of what you have, who you are promoting to, who will buy it, how much they will spend, how you will let the right people know, and what tool(s) you will use. It's not just having an excellent product, but getting that message to the right people and interacting with them. Do your homework. Know the answer before you ask the question!
Make sure you have a well thought-out scenario with all of the correct tools in place. Find your market dynamic. Then… Write a menu that fits your niche.
For more thoughts on this…see our Emerging Trends Report.
There is no doubt the role of images and the perception of sharing images has changed dramatically. Technology continues to inspire and enable the creative photographer within all of us.
People are photo streaming the world around them. Connecting shared passion for more than images…but places, people and life. In some countries uploading images far outweighs other social interaction as people are tagging and sharing images at an increasing rate every day.
Communication barriers are shattered with every event and every image upload. People-to-People…being naturally connected…without the disruption of media or other sources; allows them to create a personal evaluation of the event or place. Often, with a compassionate understanding of similarities rather than focusing on differences.
Image upload – fosters stronger connections.
Contests and social interaction, that encourages people to share images of the brand's role in everyday life, does more than simply foster stronger connections with people. The context identified within these images can offer brands an incredible level of insight. With receptive analysis, images can tell a new story of how brands "live" within real life.
Image-to-Image…within many image sharing platforms the dynamic of connecting is completely unstructured as people move from image to image based on similarities, but as images often include multiple tags the journey can be completely spontaneous.
Simplicity of sharing is built-in with Hipstaprints $1.99 app. The basic package has three lenses and incredible films, all with a standard flash, and enables you to shoot "RETRO" and send pics straight to Facebook and Flickr.
Ludwig Zeller created the CubeBrowser as his diploma thesis "Audiovisual Media" while attending the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.
Images offer a compelling way to share data.
I have used images to illustrate data in the form of Persona reports, a creative and often more enthralling way to share findings for data-based projects. But, the use of images and rich context within natural surroundings is an idea that we want to explore further. Images are an ideal way of communicating. Look for more in the coming days as we share a few more ideas about the role of images for truly understanding.
As the next chapter of "Oprah" begins, we are reminded of what makes Oprah such an extraordinary blessing to those inspired by all things "O"!
Listening…a unique and most humble of gifts.
No doubt the future of Oprah will be even more inspiring, as the ability for people to connect has been embraced, and listening is already a key element of the process.
and did, what I say mean anything to You…?
Simply, why is Oprah Winfrey so Respected, Trusted and Adored by millions?
"People Want To Be Heard" – Oprah Winfrey Digital Media teams may want to schedule a few Oprah sessions during the final season. Understanding why people need to be heard and just how to really listen, could offer far more value than any conference.


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Q: Induced representation I'm doing the problem section of the induced representations chapter by Steinberg, and I'm having problems with the following one:
Let $G$ be a group and $H$ subgroup. Given a representation $\rho:H\rightarrow GL(V)$, let $Hom_H(G,V)$ be the vector space of all functions $f:G\rightarrow V$ such that $f(gh)=\rho(h)^{-1}f(g)$, for all $g\in G$ and $h\in H$, equipped with pointwise operations. Define a representation
$$ \varphi: G \rightarrow GL(Hom_H(G,V))$$
by $\varphi_g(f)(g_0)=f(g^{-1}g_0)$. Prove that $\varphi$ is a representation of $G$ equivalent to $Ind_H^G \ \rho$ (Hint: find a basis for $Hom_H(G,V)$ and compute the character).
If we take the whole set of functions from $G$ to $V$ as vector space, it has dimension $|G|\dim(V)$ and we can show a basis. But for $Hom_H (G,V)$ I don't know how to construct a basis. Any help is welcome!

A: Fix $g\in G$ arbitrary and ask yourself, given the intertwining condition inherent in the definition of $\hom_H(G,V)$, and knowledge of the representation $\rho$ of $H$, what other values $f(g')$ do you get automatically just by knowing the value of $f(g)$? Consider the collection of all such $g'$s; can you describe this as a subset of $G$ in terms of $g$? See if you can proceed from there.

A: Recall the definition of an induced representation.
Let a representation $\rho$ of a subgroup $H<G$ act in the space of linear operators ${\rm{GL}}(W)$, where $W$ is a linear space (e.g., that of all square-integrable functions):
$$
\sigma(h):\quad H\to {\rm{GL}}(W).
$$
The induced representation of the group $G$, denoted with
$$
\pi = Ind^{\,G}_{H}\rho\;:\quad G\to{\rm{GL}}(V),
$$
is a homomorphism acting in the space of linear operators ${\rm{GL}}(V)$ on a subspace $V\subset W$. This subspace is defined by
$$
V = \{
    F \colon G \to W
    \mid
    \text{$F(hg) = [\rho(h)F](g)$, for all $h \in H$, $g \in G$}
    \}.
$$
This definition imposes a restriction on the functions we are to use, and is sometimes called "structural condition".
Technically, the induced representation $U:\;G \to {\rm{GL}}(V)$ is implemented by
$$
[U(g) F](g_0) = F(g_0g)\quad\mbox{for all}\quad g,\,g_0\in G
$$
Without loss of generality, we can rewrite the above two formulae as:
$$
[U(g) F](g^{-1}_0) = F(g^{-1}_0)\quad\mbox{for all}\quad g,\,g_0\in G
$$
$$
V = \{
    F \colon G \to W
    \mid
    \text{$F(h^{-1}g^{-1}) = [\rho(h^{-1})F](g^{-1})$, for all $h \in H$, $g \in G$}
    \}.
$$
Now, we introduce an inversion operator $i$:
$$
i(g) = g^{-1}\quad\mbox{for all}\quad g\in G.
$$
It enables us to rewrite the above as
$$
\left[U(g) [Fi]\right](g_0) = [Fi](g^{-1}g_0)\quad\mbox{for all}\quad g,\,g_0\in G
$$
$$
Vi = \{
    [Fi] \colon G \to W
    \mid
    \text{$[Fi](gh) = \left[ \rho(h^{-1}) [Fi] \right](g)$, for all $h \in H$, $g \in G$}
    \},
$$
where $Vi$ is a notation for the space of all functions $Fi$.
Finally, denote $U$ with $\phi$, $Fi$ with $f$, and $Vi$ with $V$:
$$
\left[\phi(g) f\right](g_0) = f(g^{-1}g_0)\quad\mbox{for all}\quad g,\,g_0\in G
$$
$$
V = \{
    f \colon G \to W
    \mid
    \text{$f(gh) = \left[ \rho(h^{-1}) f \right](g)$, for all $h \in H$, $g \in G$}
    \},
$$
which is exactly the representation $Hom_{H}(G,V)$.

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Etretinate (trade name Tegison) is a medication developed by Hoffmann–La Roche that was approved by the FDA in 1986 to treat severe psoriasis. It is a second-generation retinoid. It was subsequently removed from the Canadian market in 1996 and the United States market in 1998 due to the high risk of birth defects. It remains on the market in Japan as Tigason.

Pharmacology
Etretinate is a highly lipophilic, aromatic retinoid. It is stored and released from adipose tissue, so its effects can continue long after dosage stops. It is detectable in the plasma for up to three years following therapy. Etretinate has a low therapeutic index and a long elimination half-life (t1/2) of 120 days, which make dosing difficult.

Etretinate has been replaced by acitretin, the free acid (without the ethyl ester). While acitretin is less lipophilic and has a half-life of only 50 hours, it is partly metabolized to etretinate in the body, so that it is still a long-acting teratogen and pregnancy is prohibited for two years after therapy.

Precautions
Etretinate is a teratogen, and may cause birth defects long after use. Therefore, birth control is advised during therapy, and for at least three years after therapy has stopped.
Etretinate should be avoided in children, as it may interfere with bone growth.
If a patient has ever taken etretinate, he or she is not eligible to donate blood in the United States, the United Kingdom, or Québec, due to the risk of birth defects. In Japan, people may not donate blood for two years after ceasing to use the medication.

Side effects
Side effects are those typical of hypervitaminosis A, most commonly
 bone or joint pain, stiffness; in long-term treatment diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
 muscular or abdominal cramps
 dry, burning, itching eyelids
 unusual bruising

History
The drug was approved by the FDA in 1986 to treat severe psoriasis. It was subsequently removed from the Canadian market in 1996 and the United States market in 1998 due to the high risk of birth defects.

In Japan, the drug remains on market branded Tigason.

See also
 Isotretinoin
 List of withdrawn drugs

References

Retinoids
Withdrawn drugs
Ethyl esters
Phenol ethers
Polyenes

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The network icon appears to be missing from the taskbar on my PC upgraded to Windows Vista. But, there is no issue in connecting my PC to internet. What should I do to restore this icon?
Navigate into Start->Run and press the 'OK' button after entering regedit into the corresponding field. Once you get into the Registry Editor window, go to the left side bar and get into HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion \TrayNotify. Then, you need to delete both 'IconStreams' and 'PastIconsStream' values. Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc key to launch the Task Manager and press the 'Processes' tab. Choose 'Explorer.exe' and click on 'End Process' button. Press the 'Applications' tab and select 'New Task..' option located at the bottom right part of the window. Type 'explorer.exe' into the message box and hit the 'OK' button. This will reload explorer.exe and restore Network icon on task bar.
Start -> Control Panel -> View by Small icons (Top Right Side) -> Notification Area Icons -> You can see Turn System Icons ON or OFF (Down Left Side) -> You May Click ON by Network Icon Behavior.
Open Task Manager(Press CTRL + ALT + DEL) -> Processes Tab -> Select "explorer.exe" -> End Process -> Application Tab -> Click New Task -> (Create New Task Window Open) -> Type explorer.exe -> Click OK.
Note : Always Update with your Registry Cleaners.
Then click on Appearance and Personalization..
Next select and enable Network icon..
2.Then a task manger will open.
3.There you go to the 'Processes' tab.
4.There you can see the option 'explorer.exe'.
5.Select the file and click 'End Process'.
6.Then go to the option 'File'.
7.There you click on 'New Task(Run)'.
That's it by doing as i said you can i hope you ca resolve your problem.
3. Delete the values "IconStreams" and "PastIconsStream"
4. Now open up the Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc), go to the "Processes" tab, select "explorer.exe" and click "End Process"
5. Now open the "Applications" tab and click "New Task..." at the bottom-right of the window.
6. In the message box that pops up type in "explorer.exe" and hit "OK"
7. Explorer.exe will reload, and the missing icons should now be back in the system-tray where they belong.


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People don't have time anymore. If you try to make an appointment, they open their agenda and all you see is coloured blocks taking up all possible time slots up to three weeks in the future. If you try to agree upon a deadline, they sigh and say they don't know when they can do it. If you're unlucky, they will try to re-arrange their agenda and three hours later come back that it should be possible now. And still, you can be pretty sure that they will contact you a little later to do the same with your newly stated agreement. These people stress out but only get moving when the deadline has passed. But they're so nice and kind to assure you that they added your questions or task to their never-ending to do lists.
It's frustrating, not only for you, it's also for them. Setting priorities, committing to deadlines, reserving time to handle unexpected things, … It almost seems that these people don't want to have time. In my opinion, people grew a societal conscious that busy-ness is acceptable and appropriate behaviour… It became a strategy for people that want to feel important but in fact have little self-control and respect.
This kind of fake productivity kills more than you think apart from the fact that it annoys most of us. So let's help them a bit.
There is a simple life hack that helps people to get their things done. It requires a little planning, some focus and most importantly no excuses. It's called 'Eat That Frog', introduced by Brian Tracy. It focusses on doing stuff and the energy one gets out of it.
Firstly map what do you want/need to do? Use the important/unimportant metric to set priorities. And most importantly set the hardest task on top (eat that frog first and you will get energy. If you don't, it will drain you).
Secondly, make it actionable. What needs to happen to achieve that goal? Do you prefer to take small steps (split up) or a big leap (block enough time) to finish a task at once?
And lastly; just do it.
Run it through at the end of every day. In your sleep your mind does halve of the work so it takes less long when actually executing tasks with focus.
It helps if you look at it with three goggles; With the first goggles you focus on the next day solely. With the second one you focus on the next week upto ten days. With the third one, you look at your long term goals and planning.
Music, mails, sms, documents, maps, movies,… Everything gets synced back and forth between your house (home entertainment system) and your car (entertainment system).
Sometimes you see to much on your phone what you don't want the people around you to see. For text messages on iphone it's possible to amend that but for most apps, you don't control it. The notification scrambling app enables you to define whether you want to see the type of message, the sender and/or not the contents.
It's a modern, stylish purse or handbag where your cards, money, beauty and other stuff can be stored simple and you can find anything back by it's screen on top that shows you in 3d where a specific card is located. While everything needs to be equipped with RFID tags, the purse itself can be located via an app or by simply whistling, than it returns a sound, so you can locate it.
This idea started out as a Home phone redirect app.I don't want to have a home phone anymore but sometimes there are some advantages you can't ignore. I call for free with my home number but I don't have a phone to call with it. What would be nice is a home phone number that i can control via a dedicated app. It could turn on when I enter my house, and send me subtle notifications when I'm out of home.
It would be the start for accumulating all your phone numbers. Your office phone, your fax, your skype, your google hangouts, your home phone etc would be centralised in the app and with strict rules you control what number one can access between certain times, locations etc.


Renew Oil blend is a synergy of oils high in retinols and alpha hydroxyls to regenerate and slow the signs of aging skin, scarring and promote healing by oxygenating, hydrating and reducing inflammation. This blend does not contain essential oils and is perfect for sensitive skin and skin rashes.
Renew Butter is Renew Oil with Shea Butter for added skin protection and hydration.
Directions: Gently pat small amounts into treatment area.
Ingredients: Rosehip, Avocado, EVOO; and/or Shea Butter.


"Scientists have developed a topological photonic chip to process quantum information, promising a more robust option for scalable quantum computers.
The research team, led by RMIT University's Dr Alberto Peruzzo, has for the first time demonstrated that quantum information can be encoded, processed and transferred at a distance with topological circuits on the chip. The research is published in Science Advances.
In collaboration with scientists from the Politecnico di Milano and ETH Zürich, the researchers used topological photonics – a rapidly growing field that aims to study the physics of topological phases of matter in a novel optical context – to fabricate a chip with a 'beamsplitter' creating a high precision photonic quantum gate.
"Topological photonics have the advantage of not requiring strong magnetic fields, and feature intrinsically high-coherence, room-temperature operation and easy manipulation" says Peruzzo.
"Previous research had focussed on topological photonics using 'classical' –laser– light, which behaves as a classical wave. Here we use single photons, which behave according to quantum mechanics" says lead-author Jean-Luc Tambasco, PhD student at RMIT.
"This work intersects the two thriving fields of quantum technology and topological insulators and can lead to the development of new materials, new generation computers and fundamental science" says Peruzzo.


This print is a parody of The Potted Trees (Hachi-no-ki), a Nō play by Zeami Motokiyo (c. 1363 - c. 1443). In Zeami's original story, a mysterious stranger knocks on the door of an impoverished samurai's home one cold winter night, and in order to make his unexpected guest comfortable, the samurai reluctantly sacrifices the last of his beloved bonsai trees to kindle a fire. To the samurai's delight, the guest reveals himself to be a wealthy official who lavishly repays the samurai for his generosity and selflessness.
In Masanobu's modernization of the tale, the guest's identity has been changed to that of a wakashū, for whose attentions the host goes to extraordinary lengths. The host's home is decorated with items that, though damaged in one way or another, reveal his highly refined tastes: a coat of Hachijō silk, a hanging scroll by the Hishikawa School, and even a lacquer inrō pouch attributed to Yoshida Kenkō (1283?-1350?), one of the forefathers of classical Japanese aesthetics. As the handsome wakashū sits quietly observing him, the host prepares kindling for the fire by chopping up his bamboo flute (shakuhachi), an act loaded with obvious sexual implications.


USB Audio Player Pro APK is a must have for every HiFi enthusiast, bypassing all audio limits of Android. Without a USB DAC, the app is still one of the highest quality media players around. Note that you need a USB OTG cable to connect your DAC, any class-compliant USB audio device should work."Before this, I was happily flirting between Neutron Player, Jet Audio Player Pro, PowerAmp and the new Sony Music App.
Added 'Master Quality Audio Albums/Playlists' to Tidal Home section.
Added a button 'Bit-perfect' to the 'Volume' dialog for faster switching between bit-perfect modes.
Added HiRes support for S10/S10e/S10+, BPhone B1114, HTC One A9, Sharp Aquos SHV34, and Redmi Note 3/PRO/5.
Starting playback from network streams should be a bit faster.
Plays wav/flac/ogg/mp3/DSD/aiff/aac/m4a/ape/cue/etc. files (even 24-bit or 32-bit).
Plays natively up USB Audio Player Pro APK to 32-bit/384kHz or any other rate/resolution your DAC supports by completely bypassing the Android audio system. Other Android players are limited to 16-bit/48kHz, even on Android 5.


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Suspected email hackers for hire charged in four countries
By Lucian Constantin
CSO Senior Writer, IDG News Service |
Eleven people were charged in the U.S., India, China and Romania for their suspected involvement with websites offering email hacking services.
Mark Anthony Townsend, 45, of Cedarville, Arkansas, and Joshua Alan Tabor, 29, of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, were charged with a felony offense for hacking into nearly 6,000 email accounts, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California announced Friday. Authorities believe Townsend and Tabor operated a website called needapassword.com through which they offered to obtain, for a fee, the passwords to email accounts supplied by other users. The payments were received via PayPal.
Three other U.S. residents were charged with misdemeanor offenses for hiring email hackers from foreign countries. John Ross Jesensky, 30, of Northridge, California, is believed to have paid $21,675 to a Chinese website to get email account passwords. Laith Nona, 31, of Troy, Michigan, and Arthur Drake, 55, of Bronx, New York, are suspected to have paid $1,081 and $1,011 respectively for similar services.
The five defendants are expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
The cases are related to an international law enforcement operation in four countries that also resulted in the arrest of six people in India, China and Romania.
Prosecutors from the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, known as DIICOT, charged and detained four people who are believed to have offered email hacking services through several websites: zhackgroup.com, spyhackgroup.com, rajahackers.com, clickhack.com, ghostgroup.org, and email-hackers.com.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the scheme run by the Romanian suspects affected around 1,600 email accounts between Feb. 2011 and Oct. 2012. However, a news release Friday from DIICOT that only mentioned house searches said the suspects hacked into over 2,000 email accounts for fees between $50 and $200.
In India, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a man named Amit Tiwari for running the websites www.hirehacker.net and www.anonymiti.com, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Searches have also been executed at his and associates' residences.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation didn't name the arrested suspect in its own news release Friday but said that he is from Pune. The suspect and his associates are believed to have gained unauthorized access to over 900 email accounts between February 2011 and February 2013 for fees between $250 to $500, the CBI said.
In China, the Ministry of Public Safety arrested Ying Liu, also known as Brent Liu, under the suspicion that he operated a website called hiretohack.net. Liu is believed to have gained access to over 300 email accounts without authorization between January 2012 and March 2013, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
"For India's CBI, China's MPS, Romania's DCCO [a division of DIICOT], and the FBI to cooperate together on a single case is without precedence," Gary Warner, the Director of Research in Computer Forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said Saturday in a blog post. "A great sign towards a bad future for cyber criminals."
The arrests come after earlier last week DIICOT arrested a person suspected to be the celebrity hacker Guccifer who hacked into the email addresses of many U.S. and foreign public figures including former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and members of the former U.S. President's George W. Bush family.
Lucian Constantin is a senior writer at CSO, covering information security, privacy, and data protection.


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4 days, 15 venues and 30 English-friendly shows – here are 4+1 highlights of dunaPart5!
2019.11.25., 11:51
How to see Budapest's National Gallery in 90 minutes
Photo : Sándor Csudai / We Love Budapest
Petra Berende
05/3/2019, 10:49 PM ● 8-minute article
Defining the landscape of Castle Hill, the Hungarian National Gallery contains the cream of Hungarian art from medieval Gothic to 20th-century avant-garde and beyond. To navigate this vast permanent collection spread across several wings of the former Royal Palace can seem daunting. We provide a guide to see the highlights in just 90 minutes.
Beckoning to sightseers on the Danube Promenade in Pest, it's hard to miss monumental Buda Castle across the river. Topped by a somewhat discoloured green dome, the Royal Palace is the city's crown jewel. Once the seat of Hungarian monarchs, the building was badly damaged during World War II and then rebuilt in Neo-Baroque style, eventually becoming a World Heritage Site listed by UNESCO.
Photo: László Balkányi / We Love Budapest
Comprising several wings and spread across multiple levels, this landmark has been home to the Hungarian National Gallery since 1975, containing an overwhelming collection with thousands of artefacts presenting Magyar art history in chronological order.
Photo: Sándor Csudai / We Love Budapest
Building C is where you'll find the main entrance. Here, an information desk provides tour details, with English-language audio guides available at the adjacent ticket counter. Themed guided tours are also offered with prior registration.
Standard admission for the impressive permanent collection is 1,800 forints, the recommended viewing time 90 minutes to three hours. To scoot round quickly, here are some pointers.
Upon ascending the grand stairway inside the building, your 90-minute tour starts in front of a large-scale illustration showing heroic scenes. The artwork is by renowned painter of historical events Gyula Benczúr and depicts the recapture of Buda Castle from the occupying Ottomans in 1686. Benczúr achieved international success for his work portraying the baptism of King Stephen, also on view as the next stop on your tour.
Neon-tube installations are mounted on the wall along the aisle that you need to cross for the section dedicated to Gothic and medieval art. Take a closer look at The Visitation by Master MS, depicting the Virgin Mary and St Elizabeth with poetic intimacy.
In the adjacent halls, visitors can examine winged altarpieces, the earliest found in Transylvania and dating back to 1543. Some 500 years ago, such religious illustrations represented the highest form of art, but many were demolished by the Ottomans.
To fast-forward to the 19th century, you'll have to return to the museum's central area on the same floor, and its Magyar art from the 1800s. Interconnecting halls present scenes of the Italian and Hungarian countryside, masterpieces by eminent landscape painters, including Károly Markó and his son, Ferenc. This collection illustrates an era when picturesque lands and those of historical significance became the focus of attention.
Known for his elaborate frescoes enhancing the Hungarian State Opera, Károly Lotz was also a representative of the landscape genre and one of his works focused on Hungary's Great Plain is on show here. Nearby, the convivial Wine Harvest near Vác captures a classic Hungarian countryside event by Austro-Hungarian artist Ágost Canzi.
From the 1860s, Hungarian arts societies organised fairs to showcase and sell the hundreds of artefacts that were now being produced every year. A sample display within the National Gallery gives a taste of what these exhibitions looked like, with a wall showing manifold paintings grouped together.
Five steps from this historical reconstruction, a brightly hued item usually attracts viewers. Named Picnic in May, this 1873 work by Pál Szinyei Merse stood out even more when it was conceived. Back then, it received plenty of criticism for its vibrating tones and light theme.
It took 20 years for Szinyei's progressive approach to gain acceptance by the Hungarian art scene. This master's incredible legacy also includes the Lady in Violet, a dainty depiction of the painter's wife. Part of the collection is The Balloon, considered a harbinger of abstract art for its geometrical formations.
Proceed to the portrait of Pope Leo XIII that earned László Fülöp the Grand Gold Medal at the Paris International Exhibition in 1900. Known as Philip de László in England, he was a celebrated portrait artist of his time with commissions by the British royal family and American presidents. The gallery also exhibits Hofbräuhaus by Fülöp that shows his wife, Lucy Guinness of the illustrious Irish dynasty, visiting the historic beer hall in Munich.
Literary illustrations and pictures covering poverty, death and prostitution are also part of the 19th-century collection. Your tour of this period would not be not complete without visiting the separate room dedicated to Mihály Munkácsy, the most celebrated painter of his day, who gained international fame for his genre pictures and large-scale biblical themes.
The first major work by this Paris-based Hungarian artist, The Condemned Cell, now hangs on the National Gallery wall to surprise art lovers with its unique theme, found exotic by people at the time.
Also on view is the artist's most reproduced work, Woman Carrying Faggots, whose well-preserved colours make it the jewel of Munkácsy's whole oeuvre. While here, examine the elaborate details of the Churning Woman and some of the painter's late pieces depicting an affluent Parisian lifestyle.
Now head towards fin-de-siècle art, documenting everyday life in provincial Hungary. Sunday Afternoon by genre painter Sándor Bihari is a prime piece among these visual studies of ethnography: men smoke pipes, drink wine and play cards, while the ladies of the house enjoy their afternoon tea, all in a traditionally furnished home.
On the way out of this section, you'll pass by an artfully lit chamber exhibition of nude sculptures – then take the stairs to the second floor to view 20th-century art.
At the top of the steps, you stand before one of Csontváry's finest works. Travelling around the world, this master of the avant-garde movement was inspired to compile such vibrant works as the Ruins of the Greek Theatre at Taormina, bidding farewell to the darker colour scheme that defined art up to that point.
Climb another flight of stairs for József Rippl-Rónai, a Paris-based representative of Art Nouveau. He was known for turning the simplest themes into influencing art, creating fine outlines of his models, figures that are clearly identifiable even from afar. The Woman with the Birdcage is an excellent example of this technique.
Art collectors in the 1900s often commissioned contemporary masters for home decoration. Here the villa of wealthy entrepreneur and patron of the arts Miksa Schiffer is evoked on monochrome photos juxtaposed with the original artworks that enhanced his house.
Moving on to Cubism, discover József Nemes Lampérth, whose oversized signature, bold brushstrokes and thick application of paint make the artist's dynamic and restless personality almost tangible.
You'll also find examples of Bauhaus, a school of applied arts established in Germany and noted for its refined functionalist approach to architecture and industrial design. A key Hungarian exponent was painter and photographer László Moholy-Nagy, whose works are also shown here.
The rest of the 20th century covers the third floor, right beneath the grand cupola. Here, a surrealist homage to the 1956 Revolution, Great Purifying Storm, features a cornucopia of typically surreal motives as drawn by Tamás Lossonczy, who kept creating art until shortly before he passed away at 105.
In Communist-era Hungary, when artworks had to align with government propaganda, surrealism was left out of the frame. A photo-realistic portrayal of a Stakhanovite working in a furniture factory is an idiosyncratic representation of the era, an incredibly precise painting by László Félegyházy.
A blend of surrealism and naturalism is what artist Ákos Szabó is representing with Kitchen, a play on wealth and poverty: the old-school fittings are in sharp contrast with the abundant foodstuffs laid out on the dining table.
The desire for consumer goods was strong in Soviet-ruled Hungary. This is what contemporary artist László Gyémánt captured in Cosmopolis, highlighting a cacophony of global brands, like Coca-Cola and Triumph.
Experiments with photographic tricks also feature, as a snapshot of an era when technology was more limited. In a world of countless smartphone apps, these illusionary images might make you smile.
To observe photo art, take a closer look at July 5, 1975, a work by László Haris. The artist captured Pest's Mázsa tér with his camera positioned at the same angle over 24 hours to create the most objective storyboard, ending up with no story. Haris was only 13 when he produced a photo documentary of the 1956 Revolution, but later burnt his works out of fear.
Complete your tour around Hungarian art with a truly contemporary installation. This sacred composition by Imre Mariann is a manifestation of St Cecilia's body as it levitates in front of your eyes. This modern take on the original statue created by the Italian Stefano Maderno demonstrates that art is timeless.
To round off your visit to the National Gallery, descend to the first floor to view the big international names such as Monet, Gauguin, Cézanne, Rodin and Baselitz.
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Okay, it's high time I get this logo contest kicked off.
The Contest: A logo for the Indie Game Reading Club's new website, which I will use at indiegamereadingclub.com and possibly future promotions.
The Prize: A phat stack of games from my collection that needs a new home. You won't know what you're getting! But I guarantee it'll be worth well more than $100. Probably a lot more. +Andi Carrison did exactly this for me at the dawn of the Club, gifting me with tons of games, all interesting, some garbage, some indispensable. You will obviously need to provide a mailing address if you find you've won this box of kindling amazing loot.
Also eternal glory will be yours! I will sing your praises far and wide. In fact everyone who submits a design will get to show off their stuff here on the Plus. Yes, this is the exposure part of the contest.
Sorry about the no money thing. So far I've scored US$1.00 in donations on the website (thank you +Brian Kurtz!). Hopefully when the site stabilizes and I start posting more exclusive content there, folks will step up. But I'm already $120 in the hole.
You will submit a .png file at least 1000px square. Yes, this strongly implies I'm looking for something square-ish, or at least a similar width to height.
Email submissions to pbeakley at gmail dot com.
Set the background to transparent.
Don't violate anyone's copyright, trademark or other legal protections.
And finally: the winner agrees to grant me all possible rights to use the logo.
Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2019, midnight. I and a blue ribbon panel of influencers will make our final decision by January 20, 2019.


Here's an example of using the same footprint and just making it look a whole lot better. This Interlocking Concrete Paver project, located in Los Gatos near Saratoga Road, shows that you don't always have to change the shape of the existing hardscape. In terms of design, I spent some time on this one, sketching out several options. Curves are great, no doubt about it, but I really like the squares on this property and no matter how many times I tried to change it I kept coming back to the original.
So, keeping in line with the original shape, I tried to make it look more interesting by adding two borders and making the inside border a different color. I like to think that this made the project really stand out. As with all of our projects we like to focus on the details. The more interesting the project looks the happier we are.
The interlocking concrete paver we used for this project has a combination of colors: a couple of earth tones and a terracotta color that is pretty unique color. It also has a natural texture and its uniquely attractive cleft surface sets it apart from other interlocking pavers. The texture of this paver resembles old world charm and invokes a traditional convention.
For the stairs we also stayed with the same footprint. We just tore out the dated looking concrete and replaced it with pavers and added a Retaining wall with a matching wall cap along the sides. The steps and walls were created with not only aesthetics in mind, but also function. One could sit on each level comfortably. This particular wall can be build as a retaining wall, which is what is on the house side, and as a sitting wall. The main difference is that the retaining wall is built to, well - as you guessed it - retain. The back of the retaining wall is flat and industrial looking, whereas the sitting wall is constructed to be visually appealing on both sides.
After the pavers and wall were installed, some flowers were added and - Voila, our clients now have an awesome front yard!
If you're thinking about upgrading your driveway adding a retaining wall or any paver project, don't hesitate to give us a call.


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Kenyon, Tania M., Doropoulos, Christopher, Wolfe, Kennedy, Webb, Gregory E., Dove, Sophie, Harris, Daniel and Mumby, Peter J. (2022). Coral rubble dynamics in the Anthropocene and implications for reef recovery. Limnology and Oceanography, 68 (1), 110-147. doi: 10.1002/lno.12254
Stella, Jessica S., Wolfe, Kennedy, Roff, George, Rogers, Alice, Priest, Mark, Golbuu, Yimnang and Mumby, Peter J. (2022). Functional and phylogenetic responses of motile cryptofauna to habitat degradation. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91 (11), 1-17. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13809
Wolfe, Kennedy and Roff, George (2022). Global predictions of coral reef dissolution in the Anthropocene. Communications Earth and Environment, 3 (1) 42. doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00363-3
Wolfe, Kennedy and Byrne, Maria (2022). Overview of the Great Barrier Reef sea cucumber fishery with focus on vulnerable and endangered species. Biological Conservation, 266 109451, 109451. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109451
Wolfe, Kennedy, Kenyon, Tania M. and Mumby, Peter J. (2021). The biology and ecology of coral rubble and implications for the future of coral reefs. Coral Reefs, 40 (6), 1769-1806. doi: 10.1007/s00338-021-02185-9
Romanó de Orte, Manoela, Koweek, David A., Cyronak, Tyler, Takeshita, Yuichiro, Griffin, Alyssa, Wolfe, Kennedy, Szmant, Alina, Whitehead, Robert, Albright, Rebecca and Caldeira, Ken (2021). Unexpected role of communities colonizing dead coral substrate in the calcification of coral reefs. Limnology and Oceanography, 66 (5), 1793-1803. doi: 10.1002/lno.11722
Bresnahan, Philip J., Takeshita, Yuichiro, Wirth, Taylor, Martz, Todd R., Cyronak, Tyler, Albright, Rebecca, Wolfe, Kennedy, Warren, Joseph K. and Mertz, Keaton (2021). Autonomous in situ calibration of ion-sensitive field effect transistor pH sensors. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 19 (2), 132-144. doi: 10.1002/lom3.10410
Pratchett, Morgan S., Caballes, Ciemon F., Cvitanovic, Christopher, Raymundo, Maia L., Babcock, Russell C., Bonin, Mary C., Bozec, Yves-Marie, Burn, Deborah, Byrne, Maria, Castro-Sanguino, Carolina, Chen, Carla C. M., Condie, Scott A., Cowan, Zara-Louise, Deaker, Dione J., Desbiens, Amelia, Devantier, Lyndon M., Doherty, Peter J., Doll, Peter C., Doyle, Jason R., Dworjanyn, Symon A., Fabricius, Katharina E., Haywood, Michael D. E., Hock, Karlo, Hoggett, Anne K., Høj, Lone, Keesing, John K., Kenchington, Richard A., Lang, Bethan J., Ling, Scott D. ... Wilson, Shaun K. (2021). Knowledge gaps in the biology, ecology, and management of the pacific crown-of-thorns sea star, Acanthaster sp., on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Biological Bulletin, 24 (3), 330-346. doi: 10.1086/717026
Wolfe, Kennedy, Deaker, Dione J., Graba-Landry, Alexia, Champion, Curtis, Dove, Sophie, Lee, Raymond and Byrne, Maria (2020). Current and future trophic interactions in tropical shallow-reef lagoon habitats. Coral Reefs, 40 (1), 83-96. doi: 10.1007/s00338-020-02017-2
Wolfe, Kennedy, Desbiens, Amelia, Stella, Jessica and Mumby, Peter J. (2020). Length–weight relationships to quantify biomass for motile coral reef cryptofauna. Coral Reefs, 39 (6), 1649-1660. doi: 10.1007/s00338-020-01993-9
Frade, Pedro R., Glasl, Bettina, Matthews, Samuel A., Mellin, Camille, Serrão, Ester A., Wolfe, Kennedy, Mumby, Peter J., Webster, Nicole S. and Bourne, David G. (2020). Spatial patterns of microbial communities across surface waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Communications Biology, 3 (1) 442, 442. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01166-y
Wolfe, Kennedy and Mumby, Peter J. (2020). RUbble Biodiversity Samplers: 3D‐printed coral models to standardise biodiversity censuses. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11 (11) 2041-210X.13462, 1395-1400. doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.13462
Champion, Curtis, Broadhurst, Matt K., Ewere, Endurance E., Benkendorff, Kirsten, Butcherine, Peter, Wolfe, Kennedy and Coleman, Melinda A. (2020). Resilience to the interactive effects of climate change and discard stress in the commercially important blue swimmer crab (Portunus armatus). Marine Environmental Research, 159 105009, 105009. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105009
Wolfe, Kennedy, Nguyen, Hong D., Davey, Madeline and Byrne, Maria (2020). Characterising biogeochemical fluctuations in a world of extremes: a synthesis for temperate intertidal habitats in the face of global change. Global Change Biology, 26 (7) gcb.15103, 3858-3879. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15103
Puk, Laura D., Cernohorsky, Nicole, Marshell, Alyssa, Dwyer, John, Wolfe, Kennedy and Mumby, Peter J. (2020). Species-specific effects of herbivorous fishes on the establishment of the macroalga Lobophora on coral reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 637, 1-14. doi: 10.3354/meps13262
Wolfe, Kennedy, Anthony, Ken, Babcock, Russell C., Bay, Line, Bourne, David G., Burrows, Damien, Byrne, Maria, Deaker, Dione J., Diaz-Pulido, Guillermo, Frade, Pedro R., Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel, Hoey, Andrew, Hoogenboom, Mia, McCormick, M. A.R.K., Ortiz, Juan-Carlos, Razak, Tries, Richardson, Anthony J., Roff, George, Sheppard-Brennand, Hannah, Stella, Jessica, Thompson, Angus, Watson, Sue-Ann, Webster, Nicole, Audas, Donna, Beeden, Roger, Carver, Jesseca, Cowlishaw, Mel, Dyer, Michelle, Groves, Paul ... Mumby, Peter J. (2020). Priority species to support the functional integrity of coral reefs. Oceanography and Marine Biology, 58, 179-318. doi: 10.1201/9780429351495-5
Wolfe, Kennedy and Davey, Madeline (2019). Localised high-density population of a sea cucumber on a Malaysian coral reef. Coral Reefs, 39 (1), 33-38. doi: 10.1007/s00338-019-01877-7
Budden, Claire, Butler, Ian, Wolfe, Kennedy, Deaker, Dione, Sweatman, Hugh and Byrne, Maria (2019). Effect of sublethal predation on reproductive output of the crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster sp., with an overview of arm damage. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 629, 103-116. doi: 10.3354/meps13111
Bradford, Thea, Wolfe, Kennedy and Mumby, Peter J. (2019). Preferences and perceptions of the recreational spearfishery of the Great Barrier Reef. PLoS One, 14 (9) e0221855, e0221855. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221855
Clements, Matthew, Wolfe, Kennedy, Schwartz, Kit and Byrne, Maria (2019). Forever fissiparous: asexual propagation and stable demography in a tropical and geographically isolated asterinid sea star. Marine Biology, 166 (6) 69. doi: 10.1007/s00227-019-3518-0
Balogh, Regina, Wolfe, Kennedy and Byrne, Maria (2019). Gonad development and spawning of the Vulnerable commercial sea cucumber, Stichopus herrmanni, in the southern Great Barrier Reef. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 99 (2), 487-495. doi: 10.1017/S0025315418000061
Carrier, Tyler J., Wolfe, Kennedy, Lopez, Karen, Gall, Mailie, Janies, Daniel A., Byrne, Maria and Reitzel, Adam M. (2018). Diet-induced shifts in the crown-of-thorns (Acanthaster sp.) larval microbiome. Marine Biology, 165 (10) 157. doi: 10.1007/s00227-018-3416-x
Albright, Rebecca, Takeshita, Yuichiro, Koweek, David A., Ninokawa, Aaron, Wolfe, Kennedy, Rivlin, Tanya, Nebuchina, Yana, Young, Jordan and Caldeira, Ken (2018). Carbon dioxide addition to coral reef waters suppresses net community calcification. Nature, 555, 516-519. doi: 10.1038/nature25968
Wolfe, Kennedy, Vidal-Ramirez, Francisco, Dove, Sophie, Deaker, Dione and Byrne, Maria (2018). Altered sediment biota and lagoon habitat carbonate dynamics due to sea cucumber bioturbation in a high-pCO2 environment. Global Change Biology, 24 (1), 465-480. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13826
Wolfe, Kennedy and Byrne, Maria (2017). Biology and ecology of the vulnerable holothuroid, Stichopus herrmanni, on a high-latitude coral reef on the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs, 36 (4), 1143-1156. doi: 10.1007/s00338-017-1606-5
Wolfe, Kennedy, Graba-Landry, Alexia, Dworjanyn, Symon A. and Byrne, Maria (2017). Superstars: assessing nutrient thresholds for enhanced larval success of Acanthaster planci, a review of the evidence. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 116 (1-2), 307-314. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.12.079
Wolfe, Kennedy and Byrne, Maria (2017). Population biology and recruitment of a vulnerable sea cucumber, Stichopus herrmanni, on a protected reef. Marine Ecology, 38 (1) e12397. doi: 10.1111/maec.12397
Byrne, Maria, Gall, Mailie, Wolfe, Kennedy and Agüera, Antonio (2016). From pole to pole: the potential for the Arctic seastar Asterias amurensis to invade a warming Southern Ocean. Global Change Biology, 22 (12), 3874-3887. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13304
Kwiatkowski, Lester, Albright, Rebecca, Hosfelt, Jessica, Nebuchina, Yana, Ninokawa, Aaron, Rivlin, Tanya, Sesboüé, Marine, Wolfe, Kennedy and Caldeira, Ken (2016). Interannual stability of organic to inorganic carbon production on a coral atoll. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (8), 3880-3888. doi: 10.1002/2016GL068723
Albright, Rebecca, Caldeira, Lilian, Hosfelt, Jessica, Kwiatkowski, Lester, Maclaren, Jana K., Mason, Benjamin M., Nebuchina, Yana, Ninokawa, Aaron, Pongratz, Julia, Ricke, Katharine L., Rivlin, Tanya, Schneider, Kenneth, Sesboüé, Marine, Shamberger, Kathryn, Silverman, Jacob, Wolfe, Kennedy, Zhu, Kai and Caldeira, Ken (2016). Reversal of ocean acidification enhances net coral reef calcification. Nature, 531 (7594), 362-365. doi: 10.1038/nature17155
Wolfe, Kennedy, Graba-Landry, Alexia, Dworjanyn, Symon A. and Byrne, Maria (2015). Larval phenotypic plasticity in the boom-and-bust crown-of-thorns seastar, Acanthaster planci. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 539, 179-189. doi: 10.3354/meps11495
Wolfe, Kennedy, Graba-Landry, Alexia, Dworjanyn, Symon A. and Byrne, Maria (2015). Larval starvation to satiation: Influence of nutrient regime on the success of Acanthaster planci. PLoS ONE, 10 (3) e0122010, e0122010. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122010
Hardy, Natasha A., Lamare, Miles, Uthicke, Sven, Wolfe, Kennedy, Doo, Steve, Dworjanyn, Symon and Byrne, Maria (2014). Thermal tolerance of early development in tropical and temperate sea urchins: Inferences for the tropicalization of eastern Australia. Marine Biology, 161 (2), 395-409. doi: 10.1007/s00227-013-2344-z
Byrne, Maria, Foo, Shawna, Soars, Natalie A., Wolfe, Kennedy D. L., Nguyen, Hong D., Hardy, Natasha and Dworjanyn, Symon A. (2013). Ocean warming will mitigate the effects of acidification on calcifying sea urchin larvae (Heliocidaris tuberculata) from the Australian global warming hot spot. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 448, 250-257. doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2013.07.016
Wolfe, Kennedy, Dworjanyn, Symon A. and Byrne, Maria (2013). Effects of ocean warming and acidification on survival, growth and skeletal development in the early benthic juvenile sea urchin (Heliocidaris erythrogramma). Global Change Biology, 19 (9), 2698-2707. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12249
Wolfe, Kennedy, Smith, Abigail M., Trimby, Patrick and Byrne, Maria (2013). Microstructure of the paper nautilus (Argonauta nodosa) shell and the novel application of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) to address effects of ocean acidification. Marine Biology, 160 (8), 2271-2278. doi: 10.1007/s00227-012-2032-4
Wolfe, Kennedy, Smith, Abigail M., Trimby, Patrick and Byrne, Maria (2012). Vulnerability of the paper nautilus (Argonauta nodosa) shell to a climate-change ocean: Potential for extinction by dissolution. Biological Bulletin, 223 (2), 236-244. doi: 10.1086/BBLv223n2p236
Wolfe, Kennedy, Worjanyn, Symon A. D. and Byrne, Maria (2013). Thermal and pH/pCO2 fluctuations in the intertidal habitat of Heliocidaris erythrogramma: Effects on post-metamorphic juveniles.
Desbiens, Amelia, Roff, George, Razak, Tries B., Wolfe, Kennedy, Emslie, Michael J., Hoey, Andrew, Kennedy, Emma V., Thompson, Angus, Adams, Matthew P., Baird, Mark, Chaloupka, Milani, Diaz-Pulido, Guillermo, Mongin, Mathieu and Mumby, Peter J. (2021). Integrative carbonate budget model of the Great Barrier Reef. Cairns, QLD Australia: Reef and Rainforest Research Centre.


You may have heard a clip of this on the KQ Morning Show this week. Here is the full song.
Atlanta stone/progressive metalheads Mastodon released their cover of "Stairway to Heaven" as Record Store Day exclusive on April 13.
In early September 2018, we lost one of our closest friends and our biggest fan, our manager Nick John. He was essentially the band's Dad. From our highest highs to our lowest lows he was always there. Every single move we made went through him first as our trust in him was marrow deep. His favorite band besides us and Gojira, was Led Zeppelin. We were asked to perform "Stairway to Heaven" at his funeral. Afterward, finding out that someone had recorded it, we figured we should record a studio version and release it on Record Store Day as a tribute to Nick with all the proceeds to be donated to pancreatic cancer research. We would not be the band we are today without the help of Nick John. We miss him dearly and think of him always. We love you buddy.