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Frank X Walker on WRFL's Accents
English professor and current Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker appeared on Katerina Stoykova-Klemer's radio show called "Accents: a radio show for literature, art, and culture" on UK's student-run radio station in August of 2013. The show aired on WRFL 88.1 FM. Together they delved into excerpts from his recent work, Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers.
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College Meeting
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 1:00pm to 3:30pm
Worsham Theater, Student Center
Meet The Newest EES Faculty Member: Michael McGlue
My research aims to answer questions related to environmental change and energy resources through field and ship-based examinations of the sedimentary rock record.
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Guzman Receives NSF Career Award for Environmental Chemistry
UK chemistry professor Marcelo Guzman was recently awarded the prestigious, National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award, a five-year grant for his research, education, and outreach efforts in the field of environmental chemistry.
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Undergraduate Research Abroad Scholarship Winners to Pursue Knowledge Across the Globe
Education Abroad at UK (EA) and the Office of Undergraduate Research (UGR) awarded the three UK students with an Undergraduate Research Abroad Scholarship (UGRAS) to support their international independent research projects during the summer session.
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Reshaping Writing Instruction
Adam Banks, associate professor in the UK Division of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Media, will serve as chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), a professional organization of teachers of writing as well as scholars in rhetoric, composition and literacy studies.
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Global Mountain Regions Conference: Ann Kingsolver and Sasikumar Balasundaram
This coming October 25th through 27th, the University of Kentucky's Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies Program is set to kick-off their ambitious Global Mountain Regions Conference. The three day event is a transnational exploration and conversation of the shared economic, social, and historical challenges that mountain regions face within both national and global contexts.
Conference organizer and Director of the Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies Program, Dr. Ann Kingsolver, along with co-organizer and a postdoctoral scholar at the center, Sasikumar Balasundaram, have wrangled together a broad community of people interested in what mountain regions the world over have to contribute to each other and the global community at large.
With topics ranging from the perspective of children to the contribution of bees, each conference session pairs one member of the Appalachian community with that of others from places as wide ranging as Ecuador, Wales, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China. The conversations had in these sessions will not end there and the goal of the conference organizers is to preserve the conversations in the form of a book so that the lessons learned carry on.
For other questions about the conference, please contact Dr. Ann Kingsolver or Sasikumar Balasundaram or checkout the Global Mountain Regions Conference online.
This podcast was produced by Patrick O'Dowd.
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Storytelling Across Cultures: the Shanghai Student Summit with Michelle Sizemore
At the end of May 2012, the American Studies Center at Shanghai University hosted a three-day symposium and student summit. The summit was a two-part discussion of an excerpt from the book by Maxine Hong Kingston, "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts." The discussion was facilitated by Michelle Sizemore, an assistant professor in the Department of English. In this interview, Sizemore discusses the text, the unique dynamic that developed between students from different continents, and some reflections on the summit.
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Gender and Globalization in Appalachia: Mary Anglin
Mary Anglin, associate professor in UK's Department of Anthropology, discussed the effects of globalization on gender in reference to Appalachian women and Appalachian communities. In order to better understand the region's past and present, studies of women and gender in Appalachia should not be ignored. This field of study encourages new kinds of questions and topics for this specific culture, including the manifestations and consequences of power and documenting the impact of trans/national capital on regional settings. Anglin argues that too little attention has be given to this perspective, despite its potential value to many fields of study.
This podcast is a recording of her lecture on May 21st, 2012, at Shanghai University. The session was part of the Symposium on Globalization, Identity, and Cultural Diversity.
Produced by Cheyenne Hohman.
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Race and Appalachian Poetry: Frank Walker
Frank Walker, associate professor in the Department of English, discusses the origin of the word "Affrilachia" and how the use of the word forces the redefinition of a region traditionally described as all-white. Walker noted several key artists and intellectuals from Appalachia to illustrate the region's cultural diversity.
This podcast is a recording of his lecture on May 21st, 2012, at Shanghai University. The session was part of the Symposium on Globalization, Identity, and Cultural Diversity.
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After spending 16 years as a Principal with CMS Companies, in 2005 Peter focused primarily on ground-up tenant-driven development during which time anchored projects with Wegmans, Giant, Shop Rite, CarMax and Aldi have been developed. Peter combines a diverse development and investment background as well as a series of strong relationships in and out of the development community. This background has helped create the successful developments, joint ventures, acquisitions and non-operating real estate projects that define Carlino Commercial Development.
Peter lives in Bryn Mawr with his wife, Barbara and their two children. He has been active at Gesu School, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Philadelphia University, The United Way, St. John Vianney Church and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia among other community activities.
Upon graduating from Lehigh University in 1998, Peter started his career in commercial real estate at Grubb & Ellis New York. In his first year at Grubb, Peter was selected as the National Rookie of the year and qualified for the Circle of Excellence, a distinction reserved for the firm's top performers. In 2002 Peter graduated from New York University with a masters in real estate and then began the next chapter in his career at Carlino Development Group, where he was President from 2006-2015. Since 2003, Peter has been involved in over 40 distinct real estate development investments, totaling over 2 million square feet.
Peter lives in Berks County with his wife Alissa and their three children.
Tripp began his career working for General Electric in various financial roles and left to return to Philadelphia in 2004. He has worked in the real estate field for companies such as O'Neill Properties, Binswanger and Penn Business Credit. Tripp joined Carlino Commercial Development in 2012 and focuses primarily on the financial side of the business, but has a strong background in all phases of development.
Tripp lives in Newtown Square with his wife, Katelyn. He is a graduate of The Haverford School and Wake Forest University and continues to stay involved with both institutions.
The organization draws on the credibility and relationships forged with tenants, banks, brokers, funds and other developers over the last 30 years.
Deal flow and detailed market knowledge originate from the firm's in-house experience and relationships in the market. Carlino Commercial Development creates value through efficient deal sourcing and analysis and by leveraging development and operational capabilities. Tenant-driven development model under which Carlino Commercial Development helps its retail clients implement their store growth strategy in certain markets.
Organizational resources include in-house, accounting and property management with experience over market cycles and asset classes.
Co-investments with the development community.
No legacy problems to distract the firm.


With its sleek and contoured easy-grip shape, the Santevia Tritan™ Water Bottle is your perfect eco-friendly companion for the gym, hiking, or just on the go. It fits conveniently into most cup holders and bike bottle cages. It's BPA-free, hormone free, shatter and scratch resistant, dishwasher safe, and withstands freezing temperatures.


OC Parks encompasses regional, wilderness and historical facilities, as well as coastal areas throughout the County of Orange in California. Featuring 60,000 acres of parkland, open space and shoreline, Orange County's award-winning parks and programs are enjoyed by millions of residents and visitors each year, in ways as diverse as the parks themselves.
OC Parks' facilities offer something for just about everyone, whether for recreation, enjoying nature or learning about the history of Orange County. OC Parks is committed to managing land and facilities in a way that maximizes their enjoyment by the public, while properly maintaining and overseeing them so they are available for generations to come.


This can be dangerous business practice. As a broker I have had agents "front" money for repairs and never close on the property due to no fault of thier own and then never get reimbursemtent from the seller. Be careful and have a plan in place in writing that provides you reimbursement.
Another issue is if you hire someone to do repairs you may be held accountable for that contractors mistakes.
Best practice, if a client cant afford repairs have them get a credit card from a major hardware store and have you help them order and coordinate repairs and improvements.
I am not advertising for these companies, but many of the repairs / updates can be ordered stright through the hardware store with thier approved contractors.
You are exactly correct. Risky business should there be a [lull] in the market place. You end up with a real problem as it was your recommendation and now they are not netting enough. Some realtors expect their contractors to hold on the money. Then you have another even bigger issue should the listing not sell or they change their mind. I have seen that also where you fixed something on the property to enhance its value and now they like the house more and don't want to move!
Less growth for smarter growth?
Frank Reali · Commented on Will Realogy's executive shakeup reignite growth?
A positive real estate market always poses a problem with growth. Brokers who may want to sell believe their company is worth much more than it is, agents see dollars and run to the highest split many times not worried about what is available there, knowing they can make another change when the market flips a bit, wanting to take advantage of making more money. Broker to broker referrals are suffering due to the continued information on the internet many times making their oown decisions on who to work with. When you get as big as Realogy is growth just has to be slower unless money becomes a non question. When a startup can raise 30-50 million to enter the real estate market whose money are they playing with. It does appear that Realogy is being prudent with their cash, and will probably handle a little less growth for smarter growth later on.
What about the buy side?
What is missing from this discussion is the separating of the commission for buyer agents from the listing agent commission. I'm an exclusive buyer agent. The seller and listing agent have no business telling my buyer and I what I'm worth. It is time to take the buyer agent fee out of the seller and listing broker's hands. It is also time for the mortgage industry to allow a buyer side commission to be added into the purchase price so the buyer doesn't have to come out of pocket for any buyer agent fees.
A lot of this can also be addressed by utilizing some up front work in the way of scripting at the start of the visit. It's important to remember that an objection is not a no. A no, is a no, and that means you can still overcome objections by sticking with a structured approach. I always recommend at the start of the visit for realtors to ask a very important question: "What [criteria] will you be using when deciding on a realtor for your home?" They will typically come up with one or two (if at all) and this is a good opportunity for you to help them answer the question. Pull out a sheet that shows what you do for your clients (staging, repair recommendations, proper pricing, vigorous social media marketing plan, the number of likes on your FB business page, all of your 5-star reviews, etc) then ask: "If I can show you folks that I meet all of these criteria, can you see me as your REALTOR®). They will typically say yes. If they say "We still need to think about it" then you probably didn't do a good job with your warm up and they don't yet like or trust you.
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Funding is required to import Indonesian coal and export low grade iron ore fines. The company is having confirmed orders for the above products.
We want to export low grade iron ore fines to China and we want to import Indonesian coal for domestic consumption. The above orders are already finalized and we are yet to receive letters of credit from the respective parties.
The company is going to offer investors 12.5% on their investment and will hold the investment for 2 repeated orders i.e., 120 days. The company will provide necessary securities if required for both equity and debt.
The total project timeline is 40 days from the date of receipt of the letter of credit.
We require the fund to materialize these 2 orders.
The return on investment is 25% for a period of 120 days.
There are more than 100 importers and exporters but we are different from others in that we have confirmed orders with letters of credit from prime Banks of the world. Once we complete this order we will get repeated orders, as our quality and quantity of the material will be subject to the contract or agreement with buyers.
Once we fulfill our commitment of supply, we will get confirmed and repeated orders from the same customer, there is lot of demand for Indonesian coal in India and also we are having confirmed orders from Chinese importers for low grade iron ore fines.
We are having 10 years of experience in this field, so we know the genuine buyers.
We require at least $3 million which can be rotated for 3 rounds in a year.
If we get debt investment we will pay it back within a period of 12 months, and the interest rate will be 18% p.a.
If the investment is in equity form we will pay dividend of 15 % to 25%.
We would welcome both hands-on and silent investors.


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actually I would like to suggest another alternative completely. High-level assembler. start at http://www.movsd.com/masm.htm . it explains it pretty well. the advantage is that you get familiar with some of the high-level stuff with the high-level MASM syntax (which bears resemblance to C) but you'll learn assembly at the same time. there are many tutorials (see links on that page). many will disagree with me but assembly is probably the most important language to know, because once you know that, you'll realize all the other languages are just syntax variations for the same code (put _basically_). if you have the time to invest, and you're serious about programming, it'll be worth it.
I started programming in C/C++ and then Delphi but it didn't help me understand what programming was. it was basically just, i.e., if you wanna put text on screen use "cout". but it doesn't explain programming itself (i.e., how the characters actually got on the screen). ASM was the way to go for me.
but for your kind of program, considering it's not performance-inclined, you'd be good with Delphi/Pascal.
oh man, what was I thinking posting that under a "Linux" board lol?!
there are still some good assemblers for linux (FASM, NASM) though, and I know FASM's macros got some people working on high-level syntax which works very well. still a thing to consider.


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Meaning of Malayalam Online Chat Term OMKV Explained! Enthaanu OMKV!
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BEIJING, Aug. 29, 2017 -- India pulled back personnel and equipment from Dong Lang (Doklam) region on Monday afternoon, ending a two-month military stand-off triggered by India's illegal incursion.
It is the correct choice of India to return to abiding by international law.
The Doklam area is undisputed Chinese territory with a clear history and legal basis. The Indian military trespass grossly encroached on China's territorial sovereignty, and trampled on the fundamental principles of international law and basic norms governing international relations.
Over the past days, China has demonstrated its determination to safeguard its territorial sovereignty and legitimate rights. Chinese troops have also taken countermeasures.
The Chinese side has exercised the utmost restraint, communicated with the Indian side through diplomatic channels, and shown maximum sincerity in resolving the dispute via peaceful means.
There is no room for the slightest ambiguity regarding historical issues that concern the principle of right and wrong.
For China and India, close neighbors and the world's two largest emerging economies, their common interests far outweigh their disputes. China has been building friendly ties with India, and safeguarding the overall interest of bilateral ties, on a basis of respect for each other's territorial sovereignty.
As India's gambit comes to an end, China will continue to patrol the Doklam area and safeguard territorial integrity, as approved by border agreements.
It is expected that India will continue its correct attitude and to meet China halfway to put China-India ties on a healthy track.


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Q: No route matches [POST] "/organizations/new" In my rails app I got quite a few resources and have created a few forms already - but for some reason I don't seem to get one specific form for a new object to work. I am not sure if it is because I am using a three-way has_many :through relationship or because I am just overlooking something else
Here's how my routes looks like
  resources :users, shallow: true do
    resources :organizations, :notifications
  end

  resources :organizations, shallow: true do
    resources :plans, :users, :notifications
  end

My organizations_controller looks like this:
 def index
    @user = current_user
    @organizations = @user.organizations.to_a
  end

  def show
    @user = current_user
    @organization = Organization.find(params[:id])
  end

  def new
    @organization = Organization.new
  end

  def create
    @user = current_user
    @organization = Organization.new(organization_params)
    @organization.save
    redirect_to @organization
  end

On my organizations index page I link to this:
<%= button_to 'New Organization', new_organization_path, :class => 'btn btn-primary' %>

which should lead to my new.html.erb:
<%= form_for (@organization) do |f| %>
    <%= render 'layouts/messages' %>

      <%= f.label :name %>
      <%= f.text_field :name, class: 'form-control' %>

      <%= f.label :website %>
      <%= f.text_area :website, class: 'form-control' %>

    <%= f.button :class => 'btn btn-primary' %>
<% end %>

Every time I click on "new Organization" I get following error:
No route matches [POST] "/organizations/new"

Which is correct - I do not have a new_organizations_path that accepts POST requests. I know I can manually change the method of the form to GET but shouldn't it work the way I did it? I have another form that follows the same principle just for a different resource and it works perfectly.
Thanks for your help in advance!

A: button_to would always send a POST request unless something else is specified.
On the other form, you must be using link_to and not button_to which is why its working there.
You can change the button_to in two ways, pick the one that suits you:
Option 1: Use link_to
<%= link_to 'New Organization', new_organization_path, :class => 'btn btn-primary' %>

Option 2: Use button_to with method: :get
<%= button_to 'New Organization', new_organization_path, method: :get, :class => 'btn btn-primary' %>

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How important are human capital, physical capital and total factor productivity for determining state economic growth in the United States: 1840-2000?
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This paper introduces new data on state-level physical capital by sector and land in the farm sector for the states of the United States from 1840 to 2000. These data are incorporated into aggregate accounting exercises, with the aim of comparing cross-state results to those found in cross-country samples. Our aggregate results agree closely with the cross-country literature: input accumulation accounts for most of output growth, but variation in the level and growth of TFP accounts for most of the variation in the level and growth of output per worker.
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Vision • Jun 29, 2018
With the research, development and ecosystem around the IOTA project really beginning to flourish, and with nearly three years having past since it was first announced to the world, I thought it would be a good time to reflect back on how we got here. This blog post aims to shed some more light on the history of the IOTA project and why we have chosen the research and development approach that we have.
The Tangle White Paper — Version -3.0
It was around four years ago when some of the ideas around a distributed ledger architecture based on a Directed Acyclic Graph (as opposed to a chain) began to be discussed on various Nxt and Bitcointalk forums. The blockchain scaling problem which really came to a head many years later was already well understood at the time. It is not incredibly hard to see that the chain of blocks of finite size, which can only be produced at regular discrete time intervals, produces a throughput bottleneck and leads to high transaction fees that need to be paid to the miners (which is by design). If you wanted to remove the fees and allow the system to scale, the natural idea would thus be to eliminate the bottleneck and the miners.
This is, of course, easier said than done — it raises all sorts of new questions. Where should the next block/transaction/vertex be attached? Who will vet the transactions for consistency and why? How can it be secure against possible attacks? How will consensus be achieved? These questions don't have trivial answers. It was only after over a year of intense thought, discussion and deliberation that the IOTA founders came up with the idea for an architecture which could potentially resolve these issues. In this system, each transaction (represented by a vertex in the graph) would approve two previous transactions it selects using a particular class of random walk. This became the mathematical model we now all know as the Tangle and it serves as the foundation for the IOTA core protocol. It has been almost three years since the first draft of the Tangle white paper describing this mathematical model was published and it has since taken on a life of its own — the original white paper has gone through many revisions thanks to the many people who suggested numerous improvements (see the "Acknowledgements" section in the end — I take this occasion to give thanks to all people who provided invaluable feedback), it has been cited quite a few times in other research papers, and has spawned an ever expanding number of follow-up papers written by both researchers at the IOTA Foundation and independent ones further investigating the properties of this unique architecture.
The goal was to create a decentralized system which could scale and eliminate transaction fees — no easy task. To eliminate the transaction fees, we had to first eliminate the miners — after all, if you want to design a feeless system, you cannot have a dichotomy of "miners" who serve the "simple users". This bifurcation of roles between the miners and transactors naturally leads to transaction fees because the miners have some kind of resource that others don't have and they will use this monopoly power to extract rents (in the form of transaction fees, block rewards, or both). Therefore, to eliminate the fees, all the users (i.e. you) would have to fend for themselves. Our idea was to come up with a system where the main principle is "Help others, and others will help you" (you can think of it like a pay-it-forward model).
You can help others by approving their transactions; others can help you by approving your transactions. Let us call 'tips'the transactions which don't yet have any approvals; all new-coming transactions are tips at first. The idea is that, by approving a transaction, you also indirectly approve all its "predecessors". It is intuitively clear that to help the system progress, the incoming transactions must approve tips because this adds new information to the system. However, due to the network delays, it is not practical to impose that this must happen — how can you be sure that what you believe to be a tip has not already been approved by someone else maybe 0.1 seconds ago?
Instead, it is all about the approval strategies— sometimes (well, in fact, most of the time) we use the term "tip selection", but it is important to note that the participants of the network are not obliged to select the tips; we would like to impose that everybody should do so, only we can't. If everybody collaborates with everybody — only approving recent and good(non-contradicting) transactions, then we are in a good shape. On the other hand, for someone who only cares about themself, a natural strategy would just be to choose a couple of old transactions and approve them all the time without having to do the more cumbersome work of checking new transactions for consistency thereby adding new information to the system. If everybody behaves in this way, then no new transactions will be approved, and the network will effectively come to a halt. Thus, if we want it to work, we need to incentivize the participants to collaborate and approve each other's recent transactions.
Yes, once again,in the end, it is all about the incentives. Everybody wants to be helped by others, but, not everybody cares about helping others themselves. To resolve this without having to introduce monetary rewards, we could instead think of a reward as simply not being punished by others. We need to slightly amend our main principle — it now reads: "Help others, and the others will help you; however, if you choose not to help others, others will not help you either". When a new transaction references two previous transactions, it is a statement of "I vouch for these transactions which have not been vouched for before, as well as all their predecessors, and their success is tied to my success." Unfortunately as humans, none of us can choose our parents and ancestry, but in the world of IOTA you can — so choose wisely 😉. In the IoT environment it is reasonable to assume that a good proportion of the network participants will follow the "recommended" (by whom? by m̶e̶ ̶C̶o̶m̶e̶-̶f̶r̶o̶m̶-̶B̶e̶y̶o̶n̶d̶ the IOTA Foundation, of course 😊) tip selection strategy. Our task is thus to design this strategy in such a way that it is advantageous for everybody to use it as well (provided that at least a good part of the others do as well). After many discussions and failed attempts, we concluded the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) tip selection algorithm (more precisely, the family of tip selection algorithms) at the heart of the Tangle would have these properties.
A Formal Definition of the Tangle Mathematical Model
The Tangle as a mathematical model is both very simple and incredibly complicated. It is very simple because there is only one rule which is really imposed: a transaction must approve (validate) two older transactions. It is incredibly complicated because the nodes of the network are free to choose these two transactions in any way they like, and this can make the topology (i.e. grosso modo, the way how the transactions are connected to each other) of the Tangle very messy. Even if we assume that everybody follows the same tip selection strategy, the resulting graph is random, with a structure which is quite difficult to access. As argued in the paper, a good choice of the tips selection strategy is doing a "random walk towards the tips" (a.k.a. MCMC) — so, mathematically speaking, we are dealing with Markov chains in random environments, and models of this sort are notoriously difficult. Believe me, Markov processes in random environments are one of the main topics of my "pure math" research, so I do know a fair bit about this.
If anyone thinks it is actually not so difficult — try to prove the stability of the number of tips for alpha=0. To be precise, assume that the tip selection is made by a simple random walk towards the tips(so it is independent of cumulative weights), and prove that the expected number of tips at time t is uniformly bounded by a constant. It is something that seems to be almost intuitively obvious, and it is indeed confirmed by simulations, but try to prove it rigorously. This can be done — my former student,Darcy Camargo, was able to do it just recently (a very impressive display of his mathematical prowess). And, if the above is too easy for you, then try to prove Conjecture 1.1 in Equilibria in the Tangle.
But on the subject of proofs — as you may know, I am a research mathematician working in the area of Markov processes and related things. I have proved many theorems in my life. Coming from me, this may sound particularly surprising, but still:do not overestimate the importance of mathematical proofs in the real world. OK, proofs are important, and, even more importantly, proofs are frequently beautiful. But, to prove anything, you need first to set up a mathematical model based on assumptions, and these models never reflect the reality in a completely accurate way. The real world is too messy and complicated for these simplifying assumptions. The other founders behind the IOTA project and I have always appreciated that in order to engineer and build something for the real world, an iterative development process would be necessary, bootstrapping the development with certain safety rails along the way (e.g. the Coordinator), while continuously analyzing, critiquing and improving our understanding of the system. This is simply the nature of engineering. A protocol like IOTA doesn't live on a piece of paper or on a whiteboard, but in real world where many of the assumptions of an abstract mathematical model — the Tangle — fall apart.
Wright Brothers First "Flying Machine" Blue Print
Mathematical models, proofs and theorems can be extremely valuable, but it is also very important to appreciate their limitations. Any white paper which claims to have proven everything about the behavior of a system which will exist not as an abstract idea, but rather as a real world implementation, is either clairvoyant or (more likely) just naive. One can try to write technical specifications and prove every aspect about the design and safety of an airplane, but until it has actually been built and you can see it fly, caution must be exercised before making any sweeping claims about its flight-readiness.
Besides, even in the context of mathematical models, it is not unusual that a statement is widely believed to be true but no proof is known — there are numerous examples of these in mathematics and mathematical physics (also, may I humbly remind that all of today's public key cryptography relies on unproven assumptions?). To complicate the situation just a little bit more, in our context quantitative results are needed. It is not quite enough to prove that, for example, "with probability 1, any transaction will be eventually confirmed". To illustrate what I mean here, consider the following "proof" of the statement "Bitcoin is broken": Indeed, given an address, one can just keep randomly guessing the corresponding private key; since there are finitely many of them, eventually one succeeds, with probability 1. 😎
Please don't get me wrong: the above is not, by any means, license to not care about proofs.
But when we don't have a completely rigorous mathematical proof of a desired statement such as "The Tangle is provably secure", (or maybe we do, but in the context of oversimplified mathematical model), this means that we have to work hard to find nonmathematical ones, run many simulations of everything, construct other mathematical models which are more adequate and/or tractable, imagine every possible kind of attack on the system and figure out why they will not work (or figure out why they will and then make amendments to defend against them), and so on. Also, we need to incentivize the external research on all this (expect interesting news in this direction soon).
Speaking of amendments to the mathematical models, some of you may have noticed the paper "Local Modifiers in the Tangle" which recently was published on the Academic Research page at www.iota.org. It is a draft that has been circulating in the Foundation for a several months; the version we posted was stripped of some serious-but-unfinished math and "internal-use" comments. The paper's abstract reads:
As of today, there are many cryptocurrency systems around. They mostly share one common feature: all participants of the network interpret the same ledger in the same way. In this paper, we introduce the idea of local modifiers: the nodes of the network can interact with the ledger in different ways, depending on various kinds of information locally available to them. We then argue that such an approach permits to increase the security and the scalability of the Tangle.
Asof today, there are many cryptocurrency systems around. They mostly share one common feature: all participants of the network interpret the same ledger in the same way. In this paper, we introduce the idea of local modifiers: the nodes of the network can interact with the ledger in different ways, depending on various kinds of information locally available to them. We then argue that such an approach permits to increase the security and the scalability of the Tangle.
Visual Representation of a Parasite Chain Attack
What we seek to do in that paper is to further strengthen the tip selection algorithm, introducing also the "local view of the nodes" (specifically, the time when a node received a particular transaction) into play. This approach seems to be quite effective against many attacks of the type "do-something-secretly-then-broadcast" (these include the double-spending "parasite chain" attack and also the "splitting attack" described in the Tangle white paper). It is important to stress that we do not seek to replace the MCMC tip selection algorithm, but rather, in the spirit of iterative development, to amend it in our never-ending pursuit to improve the protocol and make it more secure.
While there is still more research to be done on Local Modifiers before we can confidently say whether they are an improvement to the existing tip selection algorithm and that they will be incorporated into the recommended IOTA tip selection strategy, we share our research and development early and often in the spirit and ethos of open source. By doing so, we give an opportunity to our amazing ecosystem of researchers and developers to help contribute to the protocol's evolution. Indeed, the IOTA project would be nowhere today if it were not for these contributions to the project from the IOTA Ecosystem.
Building a protocol to enable secure, feeless, and decentralized value and data exchange for the Internet of Things is not something that happens in a night, in a year, or even three years. It is not something where all of the desired properties (security, "good" Nash Equilibrium, scalability, etc.) can be proven in a white paper. And it is not something that can be done in the Cathedral. The ideas described in the Bitcoin white paper were truly brilliant and it is absolutely remarkable to see what the manifestation of those ideas have become today. But even the great Satoshi Nakamoto (whoever he/she/they may be) failed to consider some crucial flaws in Bitcoin's design. For us to achieve our vision to make IOTA the backbone protocol for IoT, we, the researchers and engineers at the IOTA Foundation, as well as all the independent researchers and engineers in the IOTA Ecosystem contributing to the project, must do everything we can to make sure the IOTA core protocol is truly built to last. Like the Internet Protocol itself, the research on the IOTA protocol will continue, there will always be room for improvements, and it will need to evolve to meet the changing demands of a constantly evolving world. This is simply the nature of any protocol because a protocol is nothing more than a shared language — a commonly accepted set of rules to allow us to share information, and in the case of IOTA, also value. Like any language though, these are living things and they evolve over time. With the incredible team being assembled at the IOTA Foundation along with the burgeoning ecosystem of researchers, developers, corporations and other contributors to the project, we know we can build IOTA to meet the needs of Internet of Things industry and help it to evolve to power the machine economy of the future.
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Daily emollient during infancy for prevention of eczema: the BEEP randomised controlled trial
Joanne Chalmers, Rachel H. Haines, Lucy E. Bradshaw, Alan Montgomery, Kim S. Thomas, Sara J. Brown, Matthew Ridd, Sandra Lawton, Eric Simpson, Tracey Sach, Carsten Flohr, Eleanor J. Mitchell, Richard Swinden, Stella Tarr, Susan Davies-Jones, Nicola Jay, Maeve Kelleher , Michael Perkin, Robert John Boyle, Hywel C. Williams
Norwich Medical School
Norwich Clinical Trials Unit
Public Health and Health Services Research
BACKGROUND: Skin barrier dysfunction precedes eczema development. We tested whether daily use of emollient in the first year could prevent eczema in high-risk children.
METHODS: We did a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial in 12 hospitals and four primary care sites across the UK. Families were approached via antenatal or postnatal services for recruitment of term infants (at least 37 weeks' gestation) at high risk of developing eczema (ie, at least one first-degree relative with parent-reported eczema, allergic rhinitis, or asthma, diagnosed by a doctor). Term newborns with a family history of atopic disease were randomly assigned (1:1) to application of emollient daily (either Diprobase cream or DoubleBase gel) for the first year plus standard skin-care advice (emollient group) or standard skin-care advice only (control group). The randomisation schedule was created using computer-generated code (stratified by recruiting centre and number of first-degree relatives with atopic disease) and participants were assigned to groups using an internet-based randomisation system. The primary outcome was eczema at age 2 years (defined by UK working party criteria) with analysis as randomised regardless of adherence to allocation for participants with outcome data collected, and adjusting for stratification variables. This trial is registered with ISRCTN, ISRCTN21528841. Data collection for long-term follow-up is ongoing, but the trial is closed to recruitment.
FINDINGS: 1394 newborns were randomly assigned to study groups between Nov 19, 2014, and Nov 18, 2016; 693 were assigned to the emollient group and 701 to the control group. Adherence in the emollient group was 88% (466 of 532) at 3 months, 82% (427 of 519) at 6 months, and 74% (375 of 506) at 12 months in those with complete questionnaire data. At age 2 years, eczema was present in 139 (23%) of 598 infants with outcome data collected in the emollient group and 150 (25%) of 612 infants in the control group (adjusted relative risk 0·95 [95% CI 0·78 to 1·16], p=0·61; adjusted risk difference -1·2% [-5·9 to 3·6]). Other eczema definitions supported the results of the primary analysis. Mean number of skin infections per child in year 1 was 0·23 (SD 0·68) in the emollient group versus 0·15 (0·46) in the control group; adjusted incidence rate ratio 1·55 (95% CI 1·15 to 2·09).
INTERPRETATION: We found no evidence that daily emollient during the first year of life prevents eczema in high-risk children and some evidence to suggest an increased risk of skin infections. Our study shows that families with eczema, asthma, or allergic rhinitis should not use daily emollients to try and prevent eczema in their newborn.
FUNDING: National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment.
10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32984-8Licence: CC BY
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Tracey Sach
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Health Economics - Member
Norwich Clinical Trials Unit - Member
Public Health and Health Services Research - Member
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Chalmers, J., Haines, R. H., Bradshaw, L. E., Montgomery, A., Thomas, K. S., Brown, S. J., Ridd, M., Lawton, S., Simpson, E., Sach, T., Flohr, C., Mitchell, E. J., Swinden, R., Tarr, S., Davies-Jones, S., Jay, N., Kelleher , M., Perkin, M., Boyle, R. J., & Williams, H. C. (2020). Daily emollient during infancy for prevention of eczema: the BEEP randomised controlled trial. The Lancet, 395(10228), 962-972. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32984-8
Chalmers, Joanne ; Haines, Rachel H. ; Bradshaw, Lucy E. ; Montgomery, Alan ; Thomas, Kim S. ; Brown, Sara J. ; Ridd, Matthew ; Lawton, Sandra ; Simpson, Eric ; Sach, Tracey ; Flohr, Carsten ; Mitchell, Eleanor J. ; Swinden, Richard ; Tarr, Stella ; Davies-Jones, Susan ; Jay, Nicola ; Kelleher , Maeve ; Perkin, Michael ; Boyle, Robert John ; Williams, Hywel C. / Daily emollient during infancy for prevention of eczema: the BEEP randomised controlled trial. In: The Lancet. 2020 ; Vol. 395, No. 10228. pp. 962-972.
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Chalmers, J, Haines, RH, Bradshaw, LE, Montgomery, A, Thomas, KS, Brown, SJ, Ridd, M, Lawton, S, Simpson, E, Sach, T, Flohr, C, Mitchell, EJ, Swinden, R, Tarr, S, Davies-Jones, S, Jay, N, Kelleher , M, Perkin, M, Boyle, RJ & Williams, HC 2020, 'Daily emollient during infancy for prevention of eczema: the BEEP randomised controlled trial', The Lancet, vol. 395, no. 10228, pp. 962-972. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32984-8
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In: The Lancet, Vol. 395, No. 10228, 21.03.2020, p. 962-972.
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Chalmers J, Haines RH, Bradshaw LE, Montgomery A, Thomas KS, Brown SJ et al. Daily emollient during infancy for prevention of eczema: the BEEP randomised controlled trial. The Lancet. 2020 Mar 21;395(10228):962-972. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32984-8


On Dec. 4, we received an email invitation with the subject line "Going to Winter OR?" Naturally, with trade show season approaching, we opened the email, finding a cheery greeting. But after reading the message, we found more to jeer than cheer.
"Hello, Are you going to OR this year? If so, book a time to meet with XXXX*. By now you may have heard about XXXX…." Then the email went on to list testimonials from consumers that implied rave reviews were de rigueur.
"We will also announce exciting new partnerships and the launch of our first interactive consumer website! XXXX is holding meetings at the Hotel Monaco -- mere steps away from the exhibit hall. Come chat with the CEO and nosh on food that's bound to be better than what's on the show floor."
Really? You want to take me off the trade show floor to walk to the Monaco in the winter in who knows what kind of weather simply because your company was too cheap to exhibit at Winter Market? Ahh…sorry…I just noticed you likely blew your trade show booth budget on food to nosh on.
Who at the company, in a meeting to discuss good trade show strategy and excellent PR, decided it was a solid idea to travel all the way from the East Coast to Salt Lake City, book a hotel room, invite media (and, we would suspect, other key accounts) to your hotel room and not take a booth?
People! This kind of move is an insult to exhibitors who are taking the time and energy and making the financial commitment to support the outdoor industry's national trade show. This kind of behavior is in fact an insult to any trade show, as well as to media and other exhibitors. Yes, we might have understood this move a bit more if the show were, in fact, sold out and your company was on a long waiting list. FYI, the show is not sold out (we checked) so that excuse won't fly.
For the record, SNEWS never has and never will support the decision of any company that decides it is in its best interests to forego trade show attendance and instead exhibit in an adjacent hotel room. Such a move essentially leaches from all the goodwill and energy of a national trade show. It is not good for the industry, any industry. It is not good for the trade show. And, frankly, it is ultimately not good for your business. One executive at a manufacturer we know uses the term "ground feeder" to describe a company who does this, literally sucking off the others who do pay to exhibit and attract retailers and the media.
If you are not on the trade show floor -- stay home. If connecting with media and other attendees of a national trade show is so important to your business, then either fly everyone out to your company headquarters or take some booth space.
*Company name removed to protect the guilty.


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Democrats End 25-Hour Plus Protest to Demand House Gun Votes
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have ended their 25½-hour sit-in on the chamber's floor that they've been staging to demand votes on gun control.
With just a few interruptions, Democrats commanded the House floor since 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. The protest was broadcast live to the world over social media.
There are no indications that Republicans — who control the House — have met the Democrats' demands.
Democrats wanted votes on bills strengthening background checks and barring firearms sales to people on the government's no-fly list.
Still, Democrats are declaring victory anyway.
One of the protest leaders, civil rights veteran and Georgia lawmaker John Lewis of Georgia, says: "We are going to win this struggle."
The sit-in was well into its 10th hour, with Democrats camped out on the floor stopping legislative business in the House, when House speaker Paul Ryan stepped to the podium to gavel the House into session and hold votes on routine business. Angry Democrats chanted "No bill, no break!" and waved pieces of paper with the names of gun victims, continuing their protest in the well of the House even as lawmakers voted on a previously scheduled and unrelated measure to overturn a veto by President Barack Obama.
Ryan attempted to ignore the outbursts and announce the business of the day, pounding down his gavel over shouting. "Shame! Shame! Shame!" Democrats yelled, but Ryan left the lectern and the voting continued. Then Democrats began singing "We Shall Overcome," still holding up the names of gun victims.
The scene presented a radical, almost shocking departure from the normal orderly conduct of the House. Around 3:15 a.m. Thursday Republicans adjourned the House until after July 4th over Democrats' protest and ignoring their demands, but Democrats stayed on the floor.
Republicans hoped to present themselves as soberly attending to business and Democrats as disruptive. Democrats said they would stay until Republicans yielded to their demands to hold votes on bills to strengthen background checks and prevent people on the no fly list from getting guns in the wake of last week's massacre in Orlando, Florida.
"Are they more afraid than the children at Sandy Hook?" asked Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., referring to the 2012 shooting that killed 26 people, including 20 elementary school children, in Newtown, Connecticut. "What is so scary about having a vote?"
Rep. John Lewis, a veteran civil rights leader, asked what Congress has done, then answered his own question: "Nothing. We have turned a deaf ear to the blood of innocents. We are blind to a crisis. Where is our courage?"
Ryan dismissed the protest as "nothing more than a publicity stunt," and in an interview with CNN, made clear there would be no vote.
"We're not going to take away a citizen's constitutional rights without due process," he said.
The protest began around 11:30 a.m., interrupted briefly when Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, tried to start the House's work at noon. The customary prayer and Pledge of Allegiance went ahead, but Poe was forced to recess the House when dozens of Democrats refused to leave the well.
By evening, 168 House Democrats — out of 188 — and 34 Senate Democrats joined the protest, according to the House minority leader's office. One after another, they spoke of the need for gun control and talked of constituents who had been killed.
Scattered around the House floor were signs reading "Disarm Hate." Visitors watched from the galleries. A crowd of several hundred gun control advocates gathered outside the Capitol and cheered as Democrats addressed them.
Congress remains gridlocked over gun control, a divide even more pronounced in a presidential election year. The sit-in had the feel of a 1960s-style protest, as some lawmakers sat on the floor, others in their seats.
Republicans had staged a similar protest in 2008. Democrats controlling the House at the time turned off the cameras amid a GOP push for a vote to expand oil and gas drilling. Republicans occupied the floor, delivering speeches after then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the House on its August recess. Pelosi ordered the cameras turned off.
Republicans ultimately forced the drilling provision to be attached to a stopgap spending bill.
C-SPAN, a cable and satellite network that provides continual coverage of House and Senate floor proceedings, does not control the cameras. They're run on authorization by legislative leaders.
Although the cameras were turned off Wednesday, lawmakers relied on social media to transmit video, using Facebook, Twitter and Periscope. C-SPAN broadcast live video streamed on Periscope and Facebook from lawmakers' accounts. Democrats posted the Capitol's main telephone number, which was overwhelmed, and urged constituents to call and request a vote. They also encouraged tweeting under the hashtag #NoBillNoBreak.
Democratic senators joining the protest included Minority Leader Harry Reid, Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who had waged a nearly 15-hour filibuster last week to force votes in the Senate on gun legislation. Those votes failed Monday night.
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The contents of a highly sensitive hard drive belonging to a division of the National Security Agency have been left online.
The virtual disk image contains over 100 gigabytes of data from an Army intelligence project, codenamed "Red Disk." The disk image belongs to the US Army's Intelligence and Security Command, known as INSCOM, a division of both the Army and the NSA.
The disk image was left on an unlisted but public Amazon Web Services storage server, without a password, open for anyone to download. Unprotected storage buckets have become a recurring theme in recent data leaks and exposures. In the past year alone, Accenture, Verizon, and Viacom, and several government departments, were all dinged by unsecured data.


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GMavenPlus 1.6.2 has been released. GMavenPlus Plugin is a rewrite of GMaven, a Maven plugin that allows you to integrate Groovy into your Maven projects. Basic usage can be found on the usage page, with additional usages on the examples page. For more information, consult the wiki.
That's great news. I've been waiting on this version.


Today, we are happy to announce our partnership with another fantastic New York company, TxVia. In the BankSimple stack, there are three core players: ourselves, our partner banks and our processing partner. We offer the user-facing applications and customer support, our partner banks provide FDIC-insured products for our customers, and our processor handles financial transactions between BankSimple and 3rd parties, including the card associations, ATM networks and bill processors. Over the past year we've developed a deep relationship with TxVia and are proud to have them as our core processing partner.
When we began working on BankSimple, we examined many different processing providers. We met the team from TxVia early last year and fell in love. Whereas other processors built their technology on top of legacy systems, TxVia is the most modern & well-designed system that we have seen. Using TxVia's flexible model-driven architecture, robust security implementations and real-time processing capabilities, we are able to build an experience that is both compelling and unique.
The majority of banks in America use one of three main processing platforms. These systems were designed decades ago and have been very slow to adopt modern features. And customers have had to suffer as a consequence with system outages, delayed processing, and a lack of innovation. Recognizing these problems, the prepaid card and alternative payment industry has developed their own modern processing systems designed to minimize the technical requirements for banking partners, while leveraging new technologies.
By partnering with TxVia, we are able to concentrate on user experience, while TxVia provides a unified interface to legacy payment and banking systems. Our vision for BankSimple requires a flexible processing architecture that allows us to model our own requirements in a holistic fashion. Although other processors offer APIs, TxVia's API, database grid replication and message queues allow us to give our customers better visibility into how they save and spend. It also allows us to dynamically re-route transaction flows to maximize financial efficiency for our customers. In short, their system rocks.
Just as we rely on our partner banks for FDIC insurance, we rely on TxVia for industry-leading availability, integrity, throughput and security. TxVia already has over 50 million cards using its platform and the company powers some of the largest card programs in the United States. We look forward to growing with them over time.


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You'll need a vaccine shot to eat in city restaurants starting Tuesday, Aug. 17. | Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY
At the Riverdale Diner in The Bronx, manager Joe Saka began asking for proof of vaccinations Monday morning, and wound up turning away a few customers by midday.
Saka, like many others New Yorkers, thought the new city mandate that requires nearly everyone to have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine to enter certain businesses began on Aug. 16, But the requirement officially starts Tuesday.
The customers he kept from his Kingsbridge Avenue eatery "weren't angry, they understood," he said. But the mandate, Saka believes, will hurt business if he keeps having to bar his doors to the unvaccinated.
"There's a lot of people who don't believe in it," he said of the COVID-19 vaccines. "They're not with it."
Business owners and employees across New York City have been preparing for this week's new vaccine mandate, which Mayor Bill de Blasio officially kicked off Monday by signing an executive order.
But enforcement — backed by conflict-resolution training for business owners and staff — won't begin until Sept. 13.
After the nearly month-long grace period, any business that doesn't check vaccine status will face a $1,000 fine for the first infraction, with penalties increasing for repeated violations, according to a City Hall spokesperson, who noted that employees of the establishments also must be vaccinated.
People using phony vax cards could get into big trouble, warned Dr. David Chokshi, the city's health commissioner. "A fake vaccination card constitutes fraud and will be prosecuted as fraud by that individual," he said.
Motivating the Masses
As of Monday, nearly 63% of New Yorkers had received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with 56.4% fully vaccinated, according to the city's health department. But more than one-third of people in that age group have yet to get their shots.
"I am absolutely certain this is going to motivate a lot of people to get vaccinated," de Blasio said of the mandate during a news conference Monday morning. "It's going to be a reason for people to get vaccinated, particularly young people."
The city's push to get more people vaccinated comes as it balances a continued reopening from the pandemic and a surge of new cases driven by the Delta variant of COVID-19.
The Javits Center was turned into a medical center during the coronavirus outbreak, March 30, 2020.
Events like the New York Auto Show at the Javits Center are being canceled again due to rising health concerns. And parents and educators have also expressed concern over the reopening of schools next month amid the uptick in cases.
"We know one of the biggest areas of concern is reaching younger New Yorkers, our 20-somethings, 30-somethings who need to be convinced that it's so powerful to be vaccinated," de Blasio added. The mandate "is going to be one of the ways we do it."
But for those working on the frontlines of vaccine-rule enforcement — the general manager of a gym, a maitre d' or a bar bouncer, for example — there's concern for their own safety and the reaction from people who don't want to comply.
'On the Frontlines'
In addition to a $10 million media campaign on the new rule and canvassing to every business across the five boroughs, the city is also offering conflict-resolution training starting this week.
The training will be overseen by the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearing, the city agency that uses mediation and conflict resolution to address various municipal disputes, as well as disciplinary hearings for civil servants.
Officials did not say how many people they expected to sign up.
The city's social-distancing ambassadors — who hand out masks in public — and some other employees have already gone through this type of training, according to a spokesperson for OATH.
The lessons teach employees how to "positively engage with people using positive nonverbal language" as well as "cross-cultural communication and cultural sensitivity," according to the spokesperson.
But the pandemic has added "enforcer" to many job descriptions.
Restaurant and bar workers have "been on the frontlines of public health and culture wars in some ways," said Andrew Rigie, the executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance.
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From mask compliance to taking customers' temperatures and contact tracking information, to serving food at bars that didn't have any, the industry has had to adjust to new roles and regulations.
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"If this is able to keep our workers safe and customers safe, we'll avoid having to revert to harsher restrictions, then that will be important," said Rigie, though he noted that restaurants and bars in neighborhoods with lower vaccination rates could face bigger challenges.
Chris Panayiotou, who owns the Gee Whiz Diner in Tribeca, said Monday afternoon that he hadn't encountered any issues with unvaccinated customers. But he called the mandate another burden for a struggling industry.
"I feel like it's more work to hurt us than it is to help the small businesses," he said.
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Once a notorious hub for pirate gangs, Port Royal was once branded 'the most wicked city in the world'. That went on until June 1692 when a massive 7.5 earthquake shook the island of Jamaica, sucking Port Royal into the ocean and killing over 2,000 of it's inhabitants. Was this earthquake a natural accident or was it retribution for all the sins committed there?


Alabama game design schools offers the potential game design student a course that will set them up in a career that could give them immense satisfaction in the medium they choose as well as being financially lucrative.
Alabama is a very interesting place to live, work and study, with much of interest to suit most people, miles of beautiful beaches to temp those who love beach scene, nature walks at the Ben Secour National Wildlife Refuge, sailing and diving, plenty of shops and ample entertainment in the form of museums, galleries, theatres and various events throughout the year, biking and running are additional attractions, a place that old and young alike will feel at home.
Choosing to study at an Alabama Game Design School, the student will be able to choose from schools and colleges who specialize in game design. Once a student has obtained a Game Design Degree, they will qualify to be able to apply for entry level employment at digital entertainment companies or companies who specialize in game design, a qualified student can expect to find work at testing, developing, designing and producing video games.
A career in game design requires a passion for all aspect of games and how they are played. Many of the courses provide the student with excellent grounding in digital game design, gaming technology, level design, animation and 3D scenes. The video gaming industry is growing by leaps and bounds, and game design companies are always looking for talented people improve their staff complement.
Alabama has a wealth of schools and collages that a student can choose from, getting an excellent education and perfect grounding in game design with all the usual student facilities that makes life for the student most exciting.
Programming: it requires a lot of programming to create a game.
Design: many games require several designers; this can be a very rewarding aspect of game design.
Producing: People are required to manage the whole process, don't overlook this aspect the producer gets oversee the project from beginning to end.
Graphics: No game is complete without graphics, if your talent is creating graphics this can be very satisfying aspect of game creation.
Sound: Games today have sophisticated sound added to them this can be a whole unique area that could be covered on its own.
Testing: All games need to be tested before they are marketed.
Writing: The dialogue and scripts required to be written by designers and technical writers.
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Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, Naked Raygun formed in 1980 to bring their unique brand of melodic punk rock to underground music fans worldwide. The group's initial run lasted through 1992 when they then took an extended hiatus. Though they played a few one-off reunions in between, it wasn't until 2006 that Raygun reunited to perform at Riot Fest and have remained active ever since.
Although they are still making and playing music, Naked Raygun's legacy is already rooted deeply in the contemporary punk rock community. Many artists have cited Naked Raygun as influential including Alkaline Trio, Lucky Boys Confusion, Rise Against, Fall Out Boy and Green Day. Recently, Foo Fighters paid their homage to the group by including Raygun in their Sonic Highways documentary series and inviting them to perform at Chicago's historic Wrigley Field as part of the Foo Fighter's upcoming 2015 tour.