At the betrothal ball of the man she had expected to marry herself, Lady Theresa latches on to the most dashing gentleman present, hoping to divert attention from her own humiliation. That gentleman happens to be her father's distant cousin and heir, Damian Ashby, a useless London fribble, in her opinion. He is not favorably impressed with her either.
But when her father becomes mortally ill and Damian is unwillingly obligated to spend time with her at the Earl's country estate, the two of them unexpectedly find admirable qualities in each other and discover a mutual attraction.
This story is an Elloras Cave 'Quickie' - it's longer than a short story, but not as long as an average book. It is very well-written and contains some interesting Regency phrases I have never encountered before: eg. 'dicked in the nob' I think it means he was mistaken, or have I forgotten my Georgette Heyer?
Theresa is a young woman whose beau has married another woman, her father is not only unwell but his circumstances have been reduced by the actions of an embezzling business partner. When Theresa has to face the fact her father is dying and as a result, his reduced and entailed estate will go to Damien Ashley, a man only interested in London Society who has a Darcy-esque attitude to 'country girls' i.e. they aren't worth his valuable time.
Ashley makes a dutiful and reluctant visit to Granville Hall, and what he finds there comes as a surprise.
Theresa is pragmatic about her change in fortunes and has turned her intellect to managing her father's ailing estate and has no time for small talk or flirting at tea parties.
Theresa and Damien, from initial hostility, find they are physically attracted to each other, but the circumstances of their being thrown together makes it difficult to admit that their growing feelings are genuine.
There is a little dancing around and misunderstandings, but the story, which comes to an end far too quickly, is that the pair realize that a marriage between them is not only convenient, but what they both want.
A must for Regency enthusiasts.


"Razzleberry pie" was mentioned, on October 15, 1939, in the newspaper comic "The Captain and the Kids" by Rudolph Dirks. Dirks used "razzleberry" several other times in the comic strip and might have coined the name.
"Razzleberry dressing" was mentioned in televised holiday special, Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962). In 1968, "razzleberry" was mentioned as a color in clothing design. In 1969, "Razzle-Berry" writing paper was sold.
Park Cafe at Glacier National Park in St. Mary, Montana, serves what some consider to be the best razzleberry pies. Some razzleberry pie recipes also contain boysenberry.
Razzleberry is a type of pie commonly made with raspberries and blackberries.
Reference is made to razzleberry (dressing) in the 1962 Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol.
It is also found as a flavored tea made by the company Peace Tea.
Rudolph Dirks (February 26, 1877, Heide, Schleswig-Holstein Province – April 20, 1968) was one of the earliest and most noted comic strip artists.
Dirks took time off from his Journal work to serve his country in the Spanish-American War and on other occasions. In 1912, he requested a year's leave to tour Europe with his wife. The request led to a rupture with the Journal. After a lengthy and notorious legal battle, the federal courts ruled that Dirks had the right to continue to draw his characters for a rival newspaper chain but that the Journal retained the right to the title The Katzenjammer Kids. Dirks thereupon began drawing a comic strip titled Hans and Fritz for the World, beginning in 1914. Anti-German sentiment during World War I led to the strip being renamed The Captain and the Kids.
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous short story A Christmas Carol. It was the first animated holiday special ever produced specifically for television (1962), and the only one until Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was first shown in December 1964. It later became the first episode of a TV series entitled The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, in which the Mr. Magoo character became an actor in dramatizations of various well-known stories.
Joan Gardner as Tiny Tim ("played" by the animated character Gerald McBoing-Boing) sings of "razzleberry dressing" and "woofle jelly cake." in "The Lord's Bright Blessing".
Famous flaky crust. What is the Razzle in our wonderful Razzleberry pie? It's daring. It's delightful. It's downright delicious. It's the perfect pairing of red, ripe raspberries and sweet, juicy blackberries baking together in our legendary flaky pastry crust. Berry, berry good indeed! Our story begins over 60 years ago, in 1948, when Marie Callender first baked pies for local restaurants. Baking from scratch, Marie used only the finest ingredients and put such love and care into each and every pie that people took notice. Before long, Marie began offering her good home cooking and legendary pies at a restaurant of her own. The word spread and soon Marie Callender restaurants were opened all across the West. We've been warming hearts and tummies with our famous recipes ever since. Now you can enjoy the warmth and goodness of Marie's freshly baked pies at home with our frozen bake and serve pies based on Marie's original recipes. Enjoy! Proudly made in the USA.
Filling: Blackberries, Sugar, Water, Raspberries, Apples, Dextrose, Modified Food Starch, Corn Starch, Salt, Citric Acid. Crust: Enriched Wheat Flour (Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Vegetable Shortening (Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil), Water, Dextrose, Salt, Sodium Metabisulfite.
THE SWEET SMOKE...a deliberate take-off on the gentleman's smoking jacket. This tie coat robe promises a lady-like cover-up for the dorm or home. It's a wrap-up story in a tiny designer pin dot on a cotton blend. In sunbeam, larkspur, razzleberry, key lime, and orange peel.
Maureen got the razzleberry pie ($2.50) with coffee.
Publisher: Dallas : Word Pub., ©1994.
Summary: While two guardian angels-in-training help a young boy who is afraid to face his grandfather at a family reunion, the other angels learn that Angel Abigail is not as scary as they had thought.
Cherry is sooooo good. But Apple is really good too.
But you have to try razzleberry pie! MMMMMMM! Its blackberry, raspberry, and boysenberry!
the only one I know is razzleberry pie which is blackberry and raspberries combined, double crust. it is scrumptious. Google Razzleberry pie.
East entrance: Park Cafe and Grocery in St. Mary serves possibly the best Razzleberry pie in the country (406-732-4482; parkcafe.us).
This pie is so great. First time I ate a piece was at a Marie Calendars restaurant.


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Showcase of Head Start Regulations
Policy Showcase Menu
Regulations Overview
ERSEA
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Human Resources and Professional Development
Administrative and Fiscal Requirements
Head Start Showcase: Family and Community Engagement
Introducing the New Head Start Program Performance Standards
Kiersten Beigel: We're going to talk with you about 1302 Subpart E, Family and Community Engagement Program Services. This is – in our previous regulations was 1304.40 and 41, Family and Community Partnerships, but now we have four sections that make up this new area. We essentially have 1302.50, which is Family Engagement. We have the 1302.51, which is parent activities that promote children's learning and development. The third section, 1302.52, is Family Partnership Services. And then finally, the fourth section, 1302.53, is the community partnerships and coordination with other early childhood and education programs.
So, we want to give you the highlights today. Let's get into it.
David Jones: Sure
Kiersten: Okay, let's start with the first section, Family Engagement Services. Basically, this is the front end of the section, and so it really outlines the purpose. And one of the main and most important tenets here is that family engagement strategies need to be integrated across program services and systems. And I think the Standards support this and that you will see family-related standards throughout the Head Start Performance Standards. And also, there's a new provision that relates to coordination amongst staff, particularly teachers and home visitors and family services staff. The idea being that family engagement is everybody's business – not necessarily just the family services person – but that in order to be really effective, that these strategies are kind of everybody's business. Everyone has a role to play, if you will.
And then there's one other piece I'd like to highlight here for you that has to do with the fact that we specifically call out fathers here, and the importance of engaging fathers and father figures. Okay, well, let's move on to the Parent Activities section. Do you want to give us a few highlights there?
David: Absolutely. Well, while 1302.51 focuses on parent activities to promote children's learning and development, programs should also remember to review 1302.34 Subpart C for more information about parent and family engagement in education and child development services. But as for this section, there are a few things to note. First, programs will continue to support family literacy. There's nothing really new there, this is a carry forward. Second, OHS has included a provision about engaging families around the benefits of bilingualism and biliteracy. That is, we're looking to increase the focus on how we engage families whose children may be learning more than one language.
Third, there is new language related to engaging families around child attendance. This is less about tracking child attendance and more about how to engage families in a way that best ensures children attend and receive services. And finally, there is a new requirement that programs offer parents an opportunity to participate in a research-based parenting curriculum.
Kiersten: And in addition to that particular provision, there's a little caveat that has to do with programs when they want to make an adaptation to that curriculum to better meet the needs of their community, the importance of working with an expert on that particular curriculum.
David: That's correct.
Kiersten: Yeah. Well, let's talk about the Family Partnership Services section. This is a big part of the section in a way, this subpart. And there are a lot of the same requirements here in themes that relate to how we build relationships with families in respectful ways, how we try to build mutual trust, how we strive to support family needs and trusts. And of course, the opportunity to engage in a goal-setting process is also still here.
We did have a lot of folks comment on this section as far as the proposed rule, and they didn't see the Family Partnership Agreement there, so they were concerned that that meant we were doing away with family, which was really concerning to us because that is certainly not what we intended.
David: And I mean, Kiersten, as you know families are the heart of Head Start. But you were right, there were a lot of concerns expressed that this section was overly focused on child development and learning and not enough focus on the family's needs. So our partnerships with families are ultimately about children's success. But the family partnership process, as a way to set goals with families and support family needs and interests, remains a central part of Head Start work. And programs do have some flexibility with respect to how they set up their family partnership process.
Kiersten: Yeah, it really is a central part. So what we did is we took a close look at the proposed rule and tried to make some changes to ensure that, you know, people were very clearthat this section is strong and that the family partnership still exists. Essentially, there's three parts here. One is that there's family assessment that's meant to look at family strengths and interests and needs. The second part has to do with the goal-setting process, individualized to what families', again, interests and needs are; and also that needs to result in a Family Partnership Agreement.
And then the third section has to do with how we look at the progress over time. So, how's the goal setting going? Are families' needs being met? And that kind of thing. So those are really the three parts; and I think the emphasis was really trying to look at process and outcomes more. So you'll see that in that there is a requirement that programs use their family assessment to – they basically align it, if you will, with the Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework, so those seven outcomes related to family well-being, the parent-child relationship supporting parents as educators and learners, supporting families when they transition to other programs and kindergarten. Looking at how – what parent's connections are to each other, their peers, the community. And then finally, the ways that we offer opportunities around family leadership.
So grounding the family assessment process in those particular areas is a bit of a change here. But just to reemphasize, we really feel like this Family Partnership section is very familycentered, needs to be family-centered, and ultimately, we know that this work is based on what families tell us is really important to them.
Alright, let's get to the last section, the Community Partnerships section. Why don't you go for it?
David: This section maintains provisions from the previous Performance Standards about ongoing, collaborative relationships and partnerships with community organizations. OHS did recognize and retitle this section, though. It's called Community Partners and Coordination with Other Early Childhood Education Programs. So this section actually highlights the active role programs have in promoting coordinated systems of comprehensive early childhood services. Also, the Office of Head Start added a new requirement for a memorandum of understanding with the appropriate local entity that's responsible for managing publicly funded preschool programs. This was to reflect requirements from the Head Start Act. And of course, programs have been implementing this for a while now. And this section also includes new requirements for coordination with state and local quality rating and improvement systems and state data systems. American Indian and Alaska Native programs, however, do not have to follow these rules. But you can check the showcase for specific videos describing those requirements.
Kiersten: Yeah, I would add a couple of things here, too. One is that programs should know that the Health Services Advisory Committee has actually just been moved to the Health Services section; and then also in the list of required or recommended partners, if you will, there is a mention of the Medicaid-managed care networks as important community partners, as well as any types of organizations like banks or asset-building organizations, employment, job training kinds of organizations. The kinds of partners that can help programs support family financial capability and economic mobility. So, those are a couple of new things to note in there.
Lastly, we want to leave you with a few ideas about implementation resources that have been developed through our T/TA system. So take a look at some of these resources. We have the Parenting Compendium, which can help programs learn about research-based curriculum they may be interested in offering families. We have the Head Start Family Engagement – sorry – the Head Start Father Engagement Programming Guide, which is all about father engagement. And we have a goal setting guide that may be of interest. We've included also reference to the Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework, which for a lot of newer staff may be something they want to start with.
And then finally we do have a whole series on – we call it Measuring What Matters – that is really about how we can think about understanding progress around goals related to our work with families and partnerships with families in Head Start, and some of that individual work around goal setting and looking at progress there. So those are some resources to keep in mind as you're implementing some of these Standards.
And lastly, I would just love to thank you for joining us.
David: Thanks, everyone.
Kiersten: And thanks for all that you do.
Kiersten Beigel and David Jones discuss how the new HSPPS maintain Head Start's commitment to parents. Find out how the Family and Community Engagement section sees parents as central to helping children succeed.

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QF initiative to help students choose best career options
Ideas for future of schools explored at QF's Teaching & Learning Forum
Stars of Science accepting online submissions
Texas A&M at Qatar-mentored robotics team finishes 19th worldwide
QF schools teach students on dealing with bullying
QatarDebate, US embassy conduct English language programme
Qatar Foundation QSTP Qatar Career Development Center Meshkat
*QSTP, QCDC join forces to launch 'Meshkat' pilot programme
High school students across Qatar will have access to a new support package when making important choices regarding their career options in the highly competitive world of technology development and entrepreneurship.
Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP) and Qatar Career Development Center (QCDC) – both members of Qatar Foundation (QF) – have come together to develop and launch "Meshkat" as a pilot programme for high school students for the current academic year 2020-2021.
Three activities have been created under Meshkat: first, workshops targeting school students;second, academic clinics aimed at scholastic advisors; and third, an introductory seminar on the significance of and opportunities in entrepreneurship and technological innovations.
This is along with a visit to explore QSTP's facilities, to take place in accordance with the prevailing health and safety guidelines at the time.
Pilot workshops have been so far delivered in both Arabic and English languages in three schools: Qatar Technical High School, Ali bin Jassim High Schools and Qatar Academy for Science and Technology School.
The project aims to engage students through virtual and digital platforms and, via field trips to schools, QSTP's headquarters, and Multaqa (Education City Student Center). More workshops are yet to be delivered throughout the ongoing academic year, and all schools interested in participating in the project are invited to get in touch with QCDC at [email protected] .
Yosouf al-Salehi, Executive Director, QSTP said: "Meshkat is the perfect word for this programme, as it is the Arabic word for a wall niche that used to feature lamps. So, it carries a beautiful connotation, suggesting that this scheme offers an accommodating space that embraces inventors and sponsors innovations that will contribute to positive change and scientific breakthroughs beneficial to society at large."
Al-Salehi continued: "We are delighted to be offering all high school students in Qatar a chance to become involved in Meshkat. This initiative will raise awareness among our nation's young people of the various career options that technological innovation and entrepreneurship offer. It will also equip them with the necessary knowledge to explore the digital entrepreneurship world and highlight the ideal environment Qatar provides for budding tech entrepreneurs. We at QSTP are extremely proud to be at the forefront of an environment which helps transform innovative ideas into successful projects, businesses, products and services that provide effective solutions to various existing challenges, as well as contributing to Qatar's economic diversification."
QSTP is part of Qatar Foundation Research, Development, and Innovation (QF RDI) division which is leading the charge across the fields of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), energy, environment, and healthcare, in bringing new technologies, products, and services to the marketplace for national benefit and global impact.
Abdulla al-Mansoori, Director, QCDC, said: "The pandemic has brought with it real challenges that have dealt a strong blow to companies that failed to embrace remote work, highlighting the importance of embracing technological innovation in these difficult circumstances.
"Our latest initiative, Meshkat, embraces and empowers young innovators to contribute their novel digital-first solutions for local and global challenges, taking advantage of Qatar's role as a hub for technological innovation in the region. Through workshops and insights, the initiative will encourage high school students to embark on their digital entrepreneurship journeys and transform their innovative ideas into successful projects that contribute to Qatar's economic diversification and prosperity."
QCDC, a member of QF for Education, Science and Community Development, aims to help the youth, particularly but not restrictedly students, across all Qatar's education system's tracks and stages, including the youth with special needs, to identify and fulfill their education and career goals.
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There were two main takeaways from this part of the drive. A) Big Sur is a nice coastal drive, and B) Don't do it on a Monday.
A) Big Sur is a nice coastal drive.
Yes, it is. I mean, a huge long stretch of crashing waves, cobalt-blue seas; on a clear day like the one we enjoyed, it looked lovely. The problem I have with it is that people go on, and on, and on about it. Like, seriously, on and on and on. It's supposed to be the best coastal drive ever. But it's not. Have you ever driven down the Mornington Peninsula in Australia, for example? The Great Ocean Road? Heck, even T, who is from the gloomiest of the gloomy boonies in England (sorry T, just trying to make a point), has been on drives just as nice. I've come up with a theory about this.
My theory is that America is such a vast country, and there are just two coasts. The one on the east is usually too cold and gloomy, so that leaves the one on the right. And indeed, it's pretty. But because most people don't live near the sea, or a coast of these proportions, they're going to think it's the best thing ever. Everything is relative, and yes, it could well be the best thing they've ever seen. Because America is such a vast country with such an established market of their own, they don't realise that people from overseas read their articles (and yes, we read your kind of English, absent "u"s and all).
Us people from overseas go. Some of us, especially if we're Japanese, write ever so polite things about it and use our super-honed, laser-focused photography skills to take stunning photos. Others, who are cynical and not particularly interested in nature, come back and tell you that it's just because Americans have just one pretty coast that they wax lyrical about it.
I don't mean to be nasty. As I said, it was a nice drive. I'm just sick of hype.
We stopped in Carmel, probably best described as a wealthy retirees' paradise. The weather is mild, the houses medium-sized and wannabe European (reminds me of similar places in Australia actually), you can buy expensive arts and crafts, and you're serviced by a labour force of young, eager, but not always capable college kids. The food was very average.
It was lunchtime when we arrived in Carmel. We walked into AW Shucks, I wasn't that hungry so I just had half a dozen oysters. They were all from the immediate area and therefore very fresh. T couldn't eat much raw stuff, so had the crab chowder. I took a sip - it was savoury gloop. She ordered an iced tea. They said they only had unsweetened iced tea and if you wanted it sweet, they could only offer sweetener. You get the idea. But just in case you didn't, we also walked a couple of steps down to Carmel Coffee Roasting Company for caffe lattes. The espresso machine was leaking, but the baristas - a couple of gossipy college girls - didn't skip a beat. One of them half-heartedly poured heated (heated, not textured) milk onto my non-existent espresso. I should have said something.
Anyway, the weather was lovely so I wasn't too bummed about getting back on the road, plus I had Big Sur Bakery to look forward to.
... because I found that at least 2 potential food-focused stops aren't open on a Monday. One was Manresa, half way between SF and Carmel, and the second was Big Sur Bakery. The Bakery itself is open, but the restaurant/cafe isn't.
We got the coffees that we never had in Carmel, as well as pretty much what was left of the bakery shelf.
I couldn't eat everything before we were due to drive off again. In fact, these goodies became my snacks and even a last breakfast in Vegas.
The Bakery was closing, so we sat at the tables just outside, on the patio, watching people drive in for gas, pick up their kids from the very eco-hippy-looking school next to the restaurant and looking at some greenery while we finished our coffees.
Perhaps I'll check out the stuff inland in America one day. There's so much land that for it to be considered the "best", it must be pretty good, right?
Back in the car then, continuing on our way down Highway 1 to Pismo Beach.
Cracked crabs, bugs, shrimp etc.
By the time we arrive at Pismo Beach to check in, it's full-on dark. Pismo Lighthouse Suites, where we stayed, is kind of like a motel, but it was clean, huge, and had free WiFi (such a nerd). After lazing about in our respective rooms (yes, we got a 2 bedroom apartment for 2 people - it was cheap!) I finally got my act together (and got off the internet) and we drove a few hundred metres down into the Beach's main street for some dinner.
The Cracked Crab had actually gotten some favourable write-ups on Chowhound, so seeing as we were by the sea, it seemed perfect.
It was not. The seafood was tasteless and cheap. There was no real cooking required - all they had to do was put the damn thing in a bucket and parboil it. It would have been fine if it was good seafood, but none of it had that fresh taste of the sea. To make matters worse, they put this stuff in called Old Bay seasoning. Way too much of it. My fingers smelled of them even after we got to Vegas. The corn was probably the best thing in that bucket, but it too was plagued with Old Bay.
Bellies full but hardly satisfied, there was nothing much more we could do but go back to our 'suite' and sleep. We woke at 6am and got ready to leave. This was taken the morning of our departure. Kind of looks like a retirement complex, doesn't it? From here, it was a long drive directly inland towards Vegas (as direct as you can be through those desert valleys...). I think it was an 8-hour drive. Whoah. I'm glad we did it, but don't think I'll be doing this ever again, at least not on a Monday*!
*Now open for lunch Mon-Fri, dammit!


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LANL researchers garner fellows prize
The Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows organization has selected five researchers as recipients of the 2010 Fellows Prizes, which honor exemplary scientific research and leadership. The Fellows organization includes some of the Laboratory's most prominent scientists. (Full Story)
Lab completes new monitoring wells
Efficiencies in contracting and construction scheduling saved sufficient funds to construct additional wells.
Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed 16 new groundwater monitoring wells funded with $45 million from federal economic-stimulus money.
The wells are part of a system the lab installed to monitor aquifers for possible contaminants from legacy Manhattan Project waste and current LANL operations. (Full Story)
The Associated Press also covered the well story.
Safety Engineers host symposium, take a fresh look at safety
Todd Conklin. LANL photo
Keynote speaker Dr. Todd Conklin, a renowned authority on organizational behavior from Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, will provide attendees with a look at human performance and why changing perceptions of human error is key to enhancing safety. (Full Story)
Pulitzer winner explores world without nukes
Richard Rhodes, author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." Random House photo.
The question posed by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Saturday at the end of a talk about his most recent book was this: Can we, should we, will we get to zero nuclear weapons?
Terry Hawkins, a senior manager in the Global Security directorate at LANL, warned about "a new country developing around the world." He said the new world is called "Cyberia." (Full Story)
Greenland ice drips away at record speed
Melting Greenland ice runoff.
Research scientist Sebastian Mernild of Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US said his calculations show that 540 cubic kilometres of inland ice, weighing approx. 500 gigatons, have melted this summer, which is 25-50% more than in a typical year. (Full Story)
From nukes to teeth implants . . .
A three-year effort by experts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, several Russian scientific institutes and tech firm Manhattan Scientifics led to the use of nanotitanium, a super-strong metal, to make dental implants that are more reliable and longer-lasting. (Full Story)
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Consortium to design human trials of mosaic HIV vaccine
Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Bette Korber is part of an international team of investigators working to design and implement the first human trial of a mosaic HIV vaccine candidate.
Mosaic vaccines are composed of many sets of synthetic, computer-generated sequences of proteins that can prompt the immune system to respond to a wide variety of circulating HIV strains (full story).
News coverage also appeared in the Los Alamos Monitor.
Scanner would allow liquids to pass through airport security checkpoints
The latest airport security technology being developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory could open the door for airline passengers to bring their soft drinks and full-size shampoo bottles on board again.
Homeland security officials put the latest generation of the bottled liquid scanner to the test Wednesday during a demonstration at Albuquerque's international airport (full story).
Stories about the MagViz scanner also appeared in numerous other places, including Jane's and on ABC News.
View LANL's own YouTube video about the technology demonstration:
Weapons technology repurposed
A group of ground-breaking American and Russian scientists are taking Cold War weapons technology and repurposing it for peaceful use in medical prosthetics and dental implants.
Nanotitanium is the product of a collaboration of U.S. scientists at LANL and Russian weapons technology scientists who teamed together under direction from the U.S. Global Initiative for Proliferation Prevention at the U.S. Dept. of Energy (full story).
MORE CONTEXT: TV coverage from last year about LANL's agreement with Manhattan Scientifics, which paved the way for further development of nanotitanium technology is available here.
Watch NASA's Mars Rover being built via live "curiosity Cam"
Includes LANL's ChemCam instrument.
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New scanner aims to make liquids on planes safer
MagViz technology is explained by Stephen Surko, a Homeland Security program manager. AP photo.
Los Alamos scientist Michelle Espy said she knows what it's like to be in a checkpoint and have her young daughter's bottle taken away. "This would be a very great solution, a quick solution," she said. "Obviously, the end goal is to be able to seamlessly, without slowing anything down, just let people take their liquids on." (Full Story)
Liquid scanner could hit airports
LANL's Michelle Espy demonstrates the technology to reporters. From KRQE-TV.
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists showed off a machine Wednesday that could give back some freedom to travelers who must obey strict restrictions when flying.
LANL scientist Michelle Espy showed off a liquid scanner at the Sunport that reads through bottles and even aluminum cans without opening the containers. The machine tells security whether a liquid is safe or not. (Full Story)
Additional television coverage includes stories from KOB-TV and KOAT-TV in Albuquerque.
Bombing Earth-bound asteroids a viable option, experts say
The asteroid Itokawa, as seen by the Hayabusa spacecraft in 2005. Sensor data courtesy JAXA.
Considering the damage a large asteroid strike could do to humanity, bombing any so-called near-Earth objects, or NEOs, headed our way might be a viable last resort "if we have the international political will," said Robert Weaver of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Catherine Plesko, also of the Los Alamos lab, and her colleague Don Korycansky of the University of California, Santa Cruz, used computer programs to model the explosion of a rubble-pile asteroid a half mile (one kilometer) wide, which is large enough to cause global destruction when intact. (Full Story)
Solar winds research could improve outer-space weather forecasts
Plasma particles spiral off from the sun in a network of tubes, depicted here in blue. LANL image.
"There's about 10 particles per cubic centimeter, protons and electrons," said Joseph Borovsky, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who has analyzed 81/2 years of data from the Advanced Composition Explorer satellite. "It's hot — about 200 degrees — and fast. It adds up to a lot of mass per second," Borovsky said. (Full Story)
New kind of uranium could power your car
Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory have created a long-sought molecule known as uranium nitride. Besides offering cheaper and safer nuclear fuel, the new molecule could extract more energy from fossil fuels. (Full Story)
New class of metal for dental prosthetics to be introduced
Nanotitanium is the product of a collaboration of American scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Russian scientists to repurpose weapons technology for peaceful means. According to co-inventor Dr. Lowe, it is a breakthrough advancement for the prosthetics and medical device industry. (Full Story)
2 New Mexico nuke sites get awards
Also named to receive [pollution prevention] awards were New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. The Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California also received awards. (Full Story)
Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory have created a long-sought molecule known as uranium nitride. Besides offering cheaper and safer nuclear fuel, the new molecule could extract more energy from fossil fuels, making cars more fuel-efficient, and could also lead to cheaper drugs.
"Actinide nitrides are candidate nuclear fuels of the future," said Jaqueline Kiplinger, a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory who led the team of researchers on the recent Nature Chemistry paper (full story).
Supercomputers assist cleanup of decades-old nuclear waste
A research team led by Peter C. Lichtner of Los Alamos National Laboratory is using the Oak Ridge Jaguar supercomputer to build a three-dimensional model of an underground uranium waste plume at the Hanford Site's 300 Area.
A better understanding of the underground migration properties of uranium, which has infiltrated the Columbia River, may aid stakeholders in weighing options for contaminant remediation (full story).
National Network of Digital Schools launches STEM planet
The National Network of Digital Schools is proud to announce the launch of STEMplanet.org, a new and innovative forum website designed to spark interest in and prepare today's students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
For over 2 years, NNDS has been at the forefront of STEM education in America. Through collaboration with scientific staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory, they have developed the Cutting Edge Science program (full story).
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NSF funds computer systems research center at New Mexico Consortium in Los Alamos
The National Science Foundation has announced a $10 million award to the New Mexico Consortium at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Utah to build and operate the Parallel Reconfigurable Observational Environment (PRObE), a one-of-a-kind computer systems research center. (Full Story)
The math and science of baseball
The Boston Red Sox meet the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park in 2008, the 456th consecutive sellout, setting a new MLB record. Reuters photo.
Major-league baseball teams play 162 games in the regular season. While that may sound like a lot, it isn't nearly enough to ensure that the best team in the league ends the season with the best record [according to] a pair of physicists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Their statistical analysis indicates that for the best team of any league to be assured of having the best win-loss record, the number of games on the schedule should be roughly the number of teams cubed. (Full Story)
Meltdown in Greenland: inland ice drips away at record speed
Melting water runs off a glacier in Greenland. AP photo.
The Danish research scientist Sebastian Mernild of Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US told national daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten that his calculations show that 540 cubic kilometres of inland ice have melted this summer, 25-50% more than in a typical year. (Full Story)
How to land on a comet: Go south, approach with caution
Artist's concept of the Rosetta spacecraft approaching Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ESA illustration.
A spacecraft that's been chasing a comet for six years should drop its lander on the ice ball's southern half when it finally catches up, a new study suggests.
"Southern sites appear to be both the safest and the most scientifically interesting," study co-author Jeremie Lasue of Los Alamos National Laboratory said in a statement. (Full Story)
Los Alamos National Laboratory selects SGI Altix XE
to support scientific research
SGI today announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, has selected SGI to provide a computing solution to enhance an existing unclassified institution-wide computing capacity. (Full Story)
JPL gets 'photon gun' to study Martian rocks
Roger Wiens, ChemCam principal investigator, examines the rover's calibration target. LANL photo.
The ChemCam instrument has completed the first short leg of its long trip to Mars, arriving at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from Los Alamos National Laboratory for installation aboard the next Mars rover, due to launch in 2011.
The NASA Mars Science Laboratory Project's rover, Curiosity, will carry the newly delivered laser instrument to reveal which elements are present in Mars' rocks and soils up to 7 meters (23 feet) away from the rover. (Full Story)
Lab starts demo work at TA-54
Dome 281 formerly housed a low-level waste compactor. LANL photo.
Los Alamos National Laboratory recently began to demolish Dome 281 — a 4,100-square- foot metal and fabric dome at the lab's Technical Area 54.
It's the next step in LANL's multi-year closure plan for TA-54, which must be complete by 2015 under the Consent Order cleanup agreement with the state of New Mexico. (Full Story)
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Uncategorized Mayo Clinic Minute: Keeping those who are medically vulnerable safe from COVID-19
If you or a loved one are immunocompromised, and therefore at a higher risk of becoming severely ill from COIVD-19, it's more important than ever to plan ahead for upcoming holiday gatherings. Among those at heightened risk are cancer and transplant patients who are taking immunosuppression medication, in addition to patients with advanced and untreated HIV/AIDS.
In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Raymund Razonable, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases physician who works with transplant patients, will explain the steps patients and their loved ones can take to reduce their risk of getting infected with COVID-19 during the holiday season.
Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute.
Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1:29) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo Clinic News Network." Read the script.
When it comes to protecting those with weakened immune systems from COVID-19, people can take several steps.
"The No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 (things are) vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. Get vaccinated," says Dr. Razonable. "That's still the best measure to prevent infection."
He recommends that patients who are immunocompromised receive three doses of the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine or two doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
It's also just as important to keep a circle of safety around you. In other words, ensure family and friends you come into contact with also are vaccinated.
"I usually advise my patients that if you love your relatives who are immunocompromised, then get the vaccine because this will make it less likely for you to get the virus. And if you're around them, that means you are less likely to transmit the virus," says Dr. Razonable.
Keeping track of COVID-19 case counts in their local community can help when deciding risks associated with various activities.
"If the transmission in the community is pretty high, then this is probably not the best time to go out in public areas. If you really have to go out, make sure you know to mask up and try to kind of stay away from large gathering as much as possible," says Dr. Razonable.
Finally, if immunocompromised patients are exposed, they should contact their health care provider right away, even if they don't have symptoms.
Learn more: Expert Alert: 5 ways immunocompromised patients can help protect themselves from COVID-19.
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Q: How can i stop and start a logic app on azure using powershell? I want to stop and start ie restart a logic app on Azure using Powershell
I have looked at the documentation and it shows the following:
Stop-AzureRmLogicAppRun -ResourceGroupName "ResourceGroup11" -Name
"LogicApp03" -RunName "08587489104702792076" -Force

But where can i find the -RunName on Azure ?

A: Runs appears in the Runs history:

The RunName is just the run identifier.
So you can get it from azure portal or you can get runs history using powershell with Get-AzureRmLogicAppRunHistory (or Get-AzLogicAppRunHistory if you're using the new az powershell module).
To get all the Running runs, you can try this command:
Get-AzureRmLogicAppRunHistory -ResourceGroupName <rg name> -Name <logicapp name> | Where {$_.Status -eq 'Running'}
Also if you want to disable a logic app, you use this command:
Set-AzureRmLogicApp -ResourceGroupName <rg name> -Name <logicapp name> -State "Disabled"

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Rebellion: An Overview
If there has been one constant in the history of slavery, from the time of Moses and the exodus from Egypt to those caught in the modern sex trade, it has been that those held in bondage will in some way or another seek their freedom. The slave society of North America was no different and daily acts of individual resistance were the rule rather than the exception. Forms of subversiveness varied, but were most commonly embodied in acts of noncooperation that had potential economic impact on the plantation, such as deliberately working at a slow pace at harvest time or by breaking tools. More overt incidents of resistance, such as arson, individual slaves running away, fighting, or even murdering a particularly cruel overseer, were less common. Only occasionally did acts of resistance flair into outright rebellion and, when they did, they were met with brutal repercussions so as to discourage future uprisings and preserve the slave society. Incidents of insurrection were not limited to the antebellum South, with documentary evidence indicating that attempted uprisings occurred almost as soon as Africans were brought to the continent; in fact, the colonial period as a whole witnessed several notable revolts, including the 1739 Stono Rebellion in South Carolina and uprisings in New York in 1712 and 1741.
Early studies of slavery are notable for their almost complete silence on the subject of resistance and rebellion, making the fundamentally racist argument that slaves quietly acquiesced to the care of benevolent masters and that the violence that did occur on the plantation was nothing more than expected criminal activity. It was not until Herbert Aptheker, writing in his influential American Negro Slave Revolts, identified over 250 slave "revolts and plots" within the bounds of the modern United States that historians began to acknowledge that "discontent and rebelliousness were not only exceedingly common, but, indeed, characteristic, of American Negro slaves" (Aptheker 1969, p. 374). What Aptheker acknowledged is that slaves were people with the same range of emotions, values, and aspirations as whites and whose natural response was to escape from the conditions in which they found themselves. Subsequent scholars have compared the behavior of newly arrived slaves to that of second- and third-generation slaves, arguing that the violently rebellious instincts of the newly arrived slaves was largely tempered by the more survivalist instincts of the American-born slaves. Other historians, most notably Richard Dunn (1972) and Stanley Elkins (1959), have attempted to explain the failure of slave uprisings by stressing the role that diverse African heritages played in hindering the development of cohesive resistance movements and in determining the types of rebellion in which slaves engaged. This thesis has only recently come under challenge through the work of Walter Rucker (2006), who has made a convincing case that, far from creating obstacles, the rich African culture nurtured by many slaves facilitated the creation of a strong collective movement.
Ultimately, the overwhelming political, military, and economic advantages of southern slaveholders doomed every attempted slave rebellion to failure. Yet the resistance that slaves demonstrated every day in the face of overwhelming odds is testament to their indomitable desire for freedom.
Aptheker, Herbert. American Negro Slave Revolts [1943]. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.
Dunn, Richard S. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.
Elkins, Stanley. Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959.
Genovese, Eugene. From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
Rodriguez, Junius P. Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Rucker, Walter C. The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
Simon J. Appleford
Gale Library of Daily Life: Slavery in America
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Miles Kimball answers tough interview questions concerning his idea that a sovereign wealth fund would help stabilize the U.S. economy by taking the political heat off the Fed and making a profit that can reduce the national debt. [His article in Quartz](http://qz.com/40235/why-the-us-needs-its-own-sovereign-wealth-fund/) motivated the CNBC interview.


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Rock-Paper-Scissors Robot
How in the world did I not know about this for three years?
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a robot that always wins at rock-paper-scissors. It watches the human player's hand, figures out which finger position the human is about to deploy, and reacts quickly enough to always win.
infossl June 12, 2019 games, robotics, Security technology Read more >
More Attacks against Computer Automatic Update Systems
Last month, Kaspersky discovered that Asus's live update system was infected with malware, an operation it called Operation Shadowhammer. Now we learn that six other companies were targeted in the same operation.
As we mentioned before, ASUS was not the only company used by the attackers. Studying this case, our experts found other samples that used similar algorithms. As in the ASUS case, the samples were using digitally signed binaries from three other Asian vendors:
Electronics Extreme, authors of the zombie survival game called Infestation: Survivor Stories,
Innovative Extremist, a company that provides Web and IT infrastructure services but also used to work in game development,
Zepetto, the South Korean company that developed the video game Point Blank.
According to our researchers, the attackers either had access to the source code of the victims' projects or they injected malware at the time of project compilation, meaning they were in the networks of those companies. And this reminds us of an attack that we reported on a year ago: the CCleaner incident.
Also, our experts identified three additional victims: another video gaming company, a conglomerate holding company and a pharmaceutical company, all in South Korea. For now we cannot share additional details about those victims, because we are in the process of notifying them about the attack.
Me on supply chain security.
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Hacking the McDonald's Monopoly Sweepstakes
Long and interesting story — now two decades old — of massive fraud perpetrated against the McDonald's Monopoly sweepstakes. The central fraudster was the person in charge of securing the winning tickets.
infossl August 6, 2018 fraud, games, hacking, Security technology Read more >
Using In-Game Purchases to Launder Money
Evidence that stolen credit cards are being used to purchase items in games like Clash of Clans, which are then resold for cash.
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Fraud Detection in Pokémon Go
I play Pokémon Go. (There, I've admitted it.) One of the interesting aspects of the game I've been watching is how the game's publisher, Niantic, deals with cheaters.
There are three basic types of cheating in Pokémon Go. The first is botting, where a computer plays the game instead of a person. The second is spoofing, which is faking GPS to convince the game that you're somewhere you're not. These two cheats are often used together — and you see the results in the many high-level accounts for sale on the Internet. The third type of cheating is the use of third-party apps like trackers to get extra information about the game.
None of this would matter if everyone played independently. The only reason any player cares about whether other players are cheating is that there is a group aspect of the game: gym battling. Everyone's enjoyment of that part of the game is affected by cheaters who can pretend to be where they're not, especially if they have lots of powerful Pokémon that they collected effortlessly.
Niantic has been trying to deal with this problem since the game debuted, mostly by banning accounts when it detects cheating. Its initial strategy was basic — algorithmically detecting impossibly fast travel between physical locations or super-human amounts of playing, and then banning those accounts — with limited success. The limiting factor in all of this is false positives. While Niantic wants to stop cheating, it doesn't want to block or limit any legitimate players. This makes it a very difficult problem, and contributes to the balance in the attacker/defender arms race.
Recently, Niantic implemented two new anti-cheating measures. The first is machine learning to detect cheaters. About this, we know little. The second is to limit the functionality of cheating accounts rather than ban them outright, making it harder for cheaters to know when they've been discovered.
"This is may very well be the beginning of Niantic's machine learning approach to active bot countering," user Dronpes writes on The Silph Road subreddit. "If the parameters for a shadowban are constantly adjusted server-side, as they can now easily be, then Niantic's machine learning engineers can train their detection (classification) algorithms in ever-improving, ever more aggressive ways, and botters will constantly be forced to re-evaluate what factors may be triggering the detection."
One of the expected future features in the game is trading. Creating a market for rare or powerful Pokémon would add a huge additional financial incentive to cheat. Unless Niantic can effectively prevent botting and spoofing, it's unlikely to implement that feature.
Cheating detection in virtual reality games is going to be a constant problem as these games become more popular, especially if there are ways to monetize the results of cheating. This means that cheater detection will continue to be a critical component of these games' success. Anything Niantic learns in Pokémon Go will be useful in whatever games come next.
Mystic, level 39 — if you must know.
And, yes, I know the game tracks works by tracking your location. I'm all right with that. As I repeatedly say, Internet privacy is all about trade-offs.
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Denuvo DRM Cracked within a Day of Release
Denuvo is probably the best digital-rights management system, used to protect computer games. It's regularly cracked within a day.
If Denuvo can no longer provide even a single full day of protection from cracks, though, that protection is going to look a lot less valuable to publishers. But that doesn't mean Denuvo will stay effectively useless forever. The company has updated its DRM protection methods with a number of "variants" since its rollout in 2014, and chatter in the cracking community indicates a revamped "version 5" will launch any day now. That might give publishers a little more breathing room where their games can exist uncracked and force the crackers back to the drawing board for another round of the never-ending DRM battle.
BoingBoing post. Slashdot thread.
Related: Vice has a good history of DRM.
infossl October 20, 2017 cracking, drm, games, Security technology Read more >
Friday Squid Blogging: Squids from Space Video Game
An early preview.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
infossl June 16, 2017 games, Security technology, squid Read more >
Card Game Based on the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
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A High-End Card-Reading Device
An impressive Chinese device that automatically reads marked cards in order to cheat at poker and other card games.
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Hacking Bridge-Hand Generation Software
Interesting:
Roughly three weeks later, there is a operation program available to crack ACBL hand records.
Given three consecutive boards, all the remaining boards for that session can be determined.
The program can be easily parallelized. This analysis can be finished while sessions are still running
this would permit the following type of attack:
A confederate watch boards 1-3 of the USBF team trials on vugraph
The confederate uses Amazon web services to crack all the rest of the boards for that session
The confederate texts the hands to a players smart phone
The player hits the head, whips out his smart phone, and …
infossl September 16, 2016 cheating, cryptography, games, hacking, Security technology Read more >


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As previously announced, Southern Lord and The Power Of The Riff have announced a series of events scheduled to attack the West Coast this August. The lineup for the second annual all-day TPOTR festival kicking off the four-show venture in Los Angeles on August 13 was just expanded, adding Eyehategod, Black Cobra, Baptists, Seven Sisters Of Sleep and others to the phenomenal list of bands already scheduled to play, also including Pentagram, Winter, Pelican, Trap Them, All Pigs Must Die, Acephalix and more! An additional The Power Of The Riff event will be scheduled in Los Angeles, this same week, so stay tuned for the details to be announced shortly.
Following the festival in L.A., the TPOTR hits San Francisco for two full nights of mayhem. The first night will see Winter, Noothgrush, Trap Them, Black Breath, All Pigs Must Die, Acephalix and more hitting the stage at Elbo Room, and the following night will see Pentagram, Pelican, Alpinist, Masakari, Early Graves, Baptists, Aeges and more storming The Mezzanine.
Moving further north, on August 18, Seattle's infamous Neumo's will showcase Winter, Pelican, Noothgrush, All Pigs Must Die, Alpinist, Masakari and Aeges hitting the stage together. AND, a SECOND Seattle-based TPOTR event has also just been announced, with a d-beat lineup set to bring down the roof of The Highline on August 20, with From Ashes Rise, Black Breath, Trap Them and Baptists hitting the stage, and with more bands to be announced soon!
Flyers and ticket info for all confirmed TPOTR shows can be located HERE.


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Sedona Westerners in the Red Rock News
The Sedona Westerners "get" Grand Canyon Geology
by Karen Schudson
On September 14, 2011, a small group of the Sedona Westerners Hiking Club had the pleasure of joining Sedona geologist Paul Lindberg as he shared his knowledge of the rock formations and layers of the Grand Canyon. Paul is known and respected for his many years of research and "mapping" of the geology of northern Arizona. He is long-time member of the Sedona Westerners, and in his "retirement" is generous to us with his time and expertise. He still covers more ground on foot than most of us, mapping and watching, for example, the developments at the several sinkholes in the Sedona area, among other interests.
Braving a day of intermittent rain, the "Trackers" group met at Posse Grounds and carpooled to the Cameron Trading Post. From here, Paul explained, the Little Colorado River gorge proceeds west into the Kaibab Uplift. After viewing the shallow canyon formations that eventually lead to the Grand Canyon, the group toured the Trading Post and surrounding buildings. Paul pointed out that many tourists often miss the superb craftsmanship of early Arizona architects who preserved treasures of prehistoric rocks by incorporating real fossils, dinosaur tracks, pictographs and petroglyphs into the stones of their buildings.
The Trackers group of the Sedona Westerners gathers with geologist Paul Lindberg at Lipan Point on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Lindberg explained for the group his model of the basalt and granite and sediment layering that forms the the rock layers. The clouds and threatening rain provides drama and keeps the group alert.
After leaving Cameron, the Trackers drove along the Little Colorado River canyon's south rim. A few miles west on Highway 64, they encountered a prime example of Kaibab monocline. A monocline is a step-like fold in rock strata formed when overlying younger sediments are draped over ancient faults. Paul explained that Kaibab limestone formed 252 million years ago. When viewed from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, this layer of cream to grayish-white rock resembles a bathtub ring around the entire Grand Canyon.
At the next stop, the Little Colorado River gorge viewing area, one could clearly see the unusual monocline features of the Kaibab limestone. Fossilized brachiopods, coral, mollusks, sea lilies, worms and fish teeth can be found within this marine stone. The Kaibab Sea was the last ocean to cover Arizona and much of the southwest.
Continuing west, the Trackers encountered an ever- deepening Little Colorado gorge and a climb to higher elevation where a beautiful piñon-juniper forest emerged. Here, the Westerners officially entered the Grand Canyon National Park. President Theodore Roosevelt, a major proponent of Grand Canyon preservation, visited it frequently to hunt and enjoy the scenery.
Paul pointed out that Cedar Mesa, a remnant of the Mesozoic strata that once covered the entire area, lies to the east. The Mesozoic Era refers to a geologic period from about 65 to 250 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the world. Many geologists suggest that this era ushered in modern animal life.
Moving on to Lipan Point, the Westerners experienced one of the Grand Canyon's most breath-taking vistas. The skies cleared as Paul set up his interactive geologic model, demonstrating how each Canyon rock layer developed. The last stop brought the group to Shoshone Point, a lesser-known area within the national park. Hiking an easy mile, the Trackers gazed once more upon the Canyon's fascinating jumble of rock formations.
The Grand Canyon is neither the deepest nor widest canyon in the world, but its overwhelming size, intricate colors and beautifully preserved and exposed ancient rock layers are breath-taking. With Paul's geological explanations and rain rolling in and out all day, the Westerners enjoyed new knowledge, colors, sun and shadows of the dancing storms.
The Westerners always welcome new members. If you are interested in joining the club, log onto our website, www.sedonawesterners.org., for membership information. You may also join at one of our monthly meetings. Our next one will be on Thursday, Nov. 10, beginning at 7p.m. at the Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley Center, 100 Meadowlark Drive, Sedona.


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One Direction Electrifies Manila's SM Mall of Asia Open Grounds With HARMAN's JBL VTX Line Arrays and Crown I-Tech HD Amps
I-Tech 12000HD
I-Tech 4x3500HD
Four-channel, 4000W @ 4Ω Power Amplifier
PASAY, Philippines — They may be named One Direction but the pop boy band is heading to stadiums everywhere as they continue their unstoppable success with their "On the Road Again" tour. One Direction thrilled their fans in the Philippines during two recent sold-out appearances at the 20,000-seat SM Mall of Asia open grounds in Pasay, with audio for the concerts provided by Manila tour sound contractor SoundCheck and a HARMAN Professional system featuring JBL VTX line arrays and Crown I-Tech HD Series amplifiers.
SoundCheck was a logical choice for the events, having provided live sound reinforcement for previous SM Mall of Asia shows and other major concerts and artists in the Philippines for more than 20 years. The One Direction system featured 16 JBL VTX V25 line array elements per side for the main PA. The main PA system was configured to deliver plenty of low-frequency SPL, thanks to eight VTX S28 subwoofers hanging. An additional six S28 subs and six JBL VERTEC® VT4880A subwoofers per side were all ground-stacked two boxes high. Another set of eight V25 loudspeakers on each side at 35 degrees off-axis was set up for the out fills.
Eight V25 loudspeakers on each end of the stage provided out fill and eight JBL VRX932LA Constant Curvature cabinets handled front fill. Two stereo sets of delay towers with 12 V20 loudspeakers per tower completed the system. Crown I-Tech 12000HD amplifiers powered all the V25 line arrays and S28 subs, while all the V20 arrays were driven by Crown I-Tech 4x3500HD amps. JBL HiQnet Performance Manager™ software was used to set up, calibrate and control the entire system.
Soundcheck had used the VTX and Crown combination with great success in the SM Mall of Asia before, and knew it would deliver exceptional sound – and overcome the high noise level of 25,000 screaming fans singing along to every word. Since adding VTX and I-Tech to the company's inventory Jaime Godinez, Owner and Chief Engineer of SoundCheck, had come to more and more appreciate the system's ability to deliver output, coverage and intelligibility far better than that of previous – and larger – line arrays, with a more even tonal response throughout the speakers' coverage area.
The sound system of choice was initially in question, but having pushed for the VTX system, Godinez naturally was more than a little curious to find out how the artist's system tech and sound engineer would feel about the system. "They got in and heard the setup well before show time and they were pretty happy that we had already had the whole system aligned and ready to go," noting that JBL Performance Manager, their previous experience with the venue and the VTX's rigging-friendly design made the setup process relatively easy for them.
"Fast forward to the first concert – three numbers into the show, and we know we had made the right decision," Godinez concluded. "Even with such high stakes, with a system like VTX I knew I wasn't taking much of a gamble."
For more information on SoundCheck, please visit www.soundcheck.com.ph


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To Lex Luthor there was Superman. To Chatbots there is Engage (humans).
Some of the world's largest companies have hired tens of thousands of workers to build AI and chatbots. There is a coming wave of disintermediation where conventional interactions that would otherwise call for humans will now be replaced with bots. The team here at Engage simply asked, are all bots good?
There are certainly situations where programmatic, homogenized bots may make sense: such as in binary, redundant, or commoditized transactions. But, we think that there will never be a replacement for qualitative dialogue between two human beings.
We believe that people still buy from people they know and trust, and that BOTS ARE NOT PEOPLE.
Engage exists to help humans (specifically salespeople) to do a better job of being accessible and communicating in new ways with today's digital customers. We are more than a hedge bet against bots, but also a new form of conversational commerce built on the thesis of curating real salespeople for transparent and authentic digital interactions. As a result, we're helping salespeople to be more competitive while preserving the great cultural traditions of commerce that date back more than 5,000 years.
Why Can't Bots Just Be People?
While fully engineered and deployed by humans, bots will never BE people. Bots will have a place in the business world, but purely from an augmentation standpoint. Bots lack people skills, chemistry, compassion. These salient human qualities can not be programmed into a bot. There is tremendous value in humans we need to recognize and honor, and so to say that 'bots can do what people do' fails to account for the true uniqueness and amazing capabilities of the species.
Bots imitate and are insensitive. Humans innovate and are empathetic.
We challenge you to question your bot communications and how they often detract from meaningful human experiences. We ask that you examine at what cost do inorganic interactions displace real people; those with true tacit and experiential knowledge? You vote with your wallet and so if you believe in the power of human, please chose to do business with companies that hire, employ and empower real people.


The secret to speeding up your results and getting strong abs? These six weighted exercises.
Bored with your usual bodyweight core routine? Amp it up by making it a weighted abs workout! You'll force your muscles to work even harder to help stabilize your trunk while performing moves that closely mimic everyday activities (climbing a ladder, holding onto objects while sitting up in bed, or reaching for the top shelf in your closet). Plus, the extra effort required to move that additional weight means you'll burn more calories and flatten your stomach faster. So grab a set of dumbbells and give this weighted abs workout a go!
How it works: Do 1 set of the prescribed number of reps for each exercise, moving from one to the next with little to no rest in between. Do the full circuit 1 to 3 times, depending on how much time you have. It's great after a cardio session, during a strength workout, or on its own for a killer core workout.
You'll need: A set of dumbbells heavy enough to challenge you by the final rep of each set (5 to 10 pounds, depending on level); you may want a mat or towel for the floor work.
Stand with feet slightly wider than hip width, knees bent, holding one dumbbell in front of chest with both hands, elbows bent. Lower into a squat as you rotate your torso to the left and straighten both arms, reaching right hand to the floor and left hand (holding the dumbbell) to the ceiling. Look up at top hand.
Maintaining upper-body position, raise halfway up out of squat (think of pressing up with the left side of torso), and then lower back to touch the floor with right hand. Return to start. That's one rep. Do 15 reps, and then repeat on opposite side.
Grab a pair of dumbbells and stand on right leg with left toe pointed out to the side, lightly touching the floor. Bend right arm, bringing dumbbell to just outside of shoulder, and extend left arm up, palm facing forward.
Press right arm overhead and bend left elbow as left knee lifts up toward chest. You should feel your left obliques working to lift knee as high as possible. Return to start. Do 15 reps, and then repeat on opposite side.
Grab a pair of dumbbells and get into squat position, hinging forward at hips, lowering chest, and reaching arms to the floor. Bend knees a little deeper and open arms into a "bow and arrow" by reaching right arm to the ground and bending left elbow back behind body, twisting torso slightly to the left during the pulling action.
Immediately switch sides, rising slightly up out of squat as arms change position, lowering back into squat as right elbow bends back and left arm extends. Do 20 reps, alternating sides each time.
Begin in a full plank position with a dumbbell on the floor a few inches away from the outside of right hand. Engage abs to keep torso steady and reach left arm under right to grab dumbbell. Pull the dumbbell across the floor to the left side of body, releasing it just outside of left arm, and then return to plank. That's one rep. Do 20 reps, alternating sides each time.
Grab a pair of dumbbells and lie faceup on the floor, arms extended straight out above chest, palms facing away from head. Lift head and neck off the floor, looking up to ceiling, and press right arm up, lifting head and right shoulder blade off the floor.
Immediately lower right shoulder and repeat the lift on left side. Avoid letting elbows bend as you lift and lower. Do 20 reps, alternating sides each time.
Grab a dumbbell in left hand and lie faceup on the floor, left arm extended straight out from shoulder, right arm by side on the floor. Extend right leg out straight and bend left knee, placing left foot flat on the floor. Brace abs in tight and roll up through spine (keep left arm reaching straight up to ceiling the entire time). Reach right arm forward in front of shoulder.
Round back and brace abs in tight to slowly roll through back and return to start. Do 15 reps, and then repeat on opposite side. Too tough? Keep right arm on the ground for more support as you do the sit-up and lower down.
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