In my book, Silver Screen Saucers: Sorting Fact from Fantasy in Hollywood's UFO Movies, I devote an entire chapter to Hollywood's historical engagement with the concept of alien abduction. The chapter documents the evolution of UFO abduction movies over six decades; it also features interviews with selected abductees (or "experiencers"), eliciting their personal perspectives on Hollywood's depictions of a phenomenon that, to them, is closer to science fact than science fiction. One of the experiencers I interviewed is a gentleman named Peter Faust, who came to prominence in the mid-1990s following the publication of the bestselling book, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, which was written by Harvard psychiatrist John Mack and devotes an entire chapter to Peter's story. Peter was one of Mack's early patients and appeared alongside the Pulitzer Prize-winning author in a 1994 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Peter claims his experiences trace back to his youth, and his first conscious recollection of them came in 1988 at the age of 33. John Mack would later invite Peter to participate in his group therapy sessions, and it was through these, and also through hypnosis, that he began to find the missing pieces of his puzzle.
Dr John E. Mack, pioneering researcher of the abduction phenomenon. Peter Faust was an early patient of Mack's and a core case study in his bestselling book, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens.
RG: UFOs and Hollywood – what are your immediate thoughts?
PF: It seems to me that Hollywood has a history of sensationalizing the phenomenon and consistently presenting it as traumatic – that the beings are malevolent, and that there's a threat of invasion.
RG: What's your emotional state while watching abduction-themed entertainment products? Do they provoke in you a visceral reaction, or are you able to view them with detachment?
PF: They absolutely elicit a visceral reaction in me of the initial trauma and the disbelief that I felt at the time. It has been very difficult for me to watch these films without being triggered, so I avoid most of them, although I have seen a few over the years. The last one I saw was The Fourth Kind (2009).
Aside from trauma, the other reaction I have is "This is not the whole story." It's disheartening that Hollywood leaves its exploration of the phenomenon at the level of trauma, invasion, and abuse, and that it hasn't moved into the next level, which I personally have experienced, where these intelligences are trying to break through our consciousness and have a communion with us, a conversation with us, and are trying to impart a message to us.
RG: To what extent are your own experiences reflected in these products?
PF: I would say the initial aspects – the sense of "this can't be happening," "am I going crazy?, who do I trust, who do I tell?" The obsessional aspect of it – Close Encounters of the Third Kind captured that well. The complete shattering of one's belief system and a feeling of alienation, of going crazy, of losing your mind, and the effect that it has on your family and loved ones.
Richard Dreyfuss at the verge of madness in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
RG: After becoming aware of your experiences in adulthood did you find yourself drawn to UFO-themed entertainment media in the hope of finding answers?
PF: When I first went to Dr. Mack with my experiences in my 30s, he immediately said to me "Please don't read any material or watch any films on this subject, and don't talk to anybody else, so that our regression hypnosis sessions are not tainted by an overlay of what you've read or seen in the media." So I did not look at any of these films or read anything on this topic until 1995 or 1996 after John's book had come out.
RG: Are there any film or TV depictions of the experiencer phenomenon you've found to be particularly truthful or authentic?
PF: I would say that there isn't one film that I can remember that depicts all of it, although I would say there are elements in all these movies that reflect parts of the experience. Certainly Close Encounters of the Third Kind reflected the obsessional tone of it. Communion reflected another tone, and I would say that Taken reflected the feeling and importance of the individual recognizing their experiences and then finding others who have experienced the same. In that show there was a recognition among the characters that they were not alone in their experiences, that they were not isolated, that they were part of a collective experience, whereas in Communion it was more isolated to the individual.
Another movie, Knowing, was good in the sense that it depicted a consciousness trying to reach us and show us that there are worrying events occurring that they're aware of, and they're trying to connect with us. It shows an individual following the threads and coming to the point where he has actual contact with these beings.
RG: What facets of the experiencer phenomenon would you like to see filmmakers explore more in the future?
PF: What I would love to see Hollywood explore more is the arc of one person, or several people's lives, who seem to not be connected, and who individually go through the process of horror and disbelief and then move through that to acceptance, then moving to a more mutual contact with the beings to discover their true intent. I don't want to see any more straight horror films on this subject. I think the general public is ready for a film that depicts people waking up, having the experience, following the experience, people no longer traumatized by the experience, and then moving toward something larger and more profound.
A movie more along the lines of Contact. That film took it to the next level. None of the existing films show the transformation that happens for the individual. I think the subject as a whole is challenging Hollywood to explore the next arc of this ongoing story, which is 'how will the collective consciousness of humanity respond to this larger reality?' So in this sense, Contact, Knowing, and even Interstellar are the only films I can think of which depict a higher intelligence trying to communicate a message to us that's to our benefit, but their methods of communication are mysterious and sometimes scary. Contact and Interstellar actually show us going out into space to meet these higher intelligences, whereas in the 1950s movies, the aliens came to us. But now we're starting to have the technology to be able to go out there and meet them, and Hollywood is starting to depict that – that we can decipher their communication, we can decipher that they're trying to connect with us, and that they're actually trying to help us.
RG: What do you feel is the overall cultural effect of UFO-themed movies?
PF: It's been a slow process of disclosure over sixty years using the mediums of our time, the mediums of communication, which are film and television. And I think ultimately humanity is being prepared for contact.
RG: Is this disclosure a planned political strategy, or is it a natural cultural process?
PF: Yes, it's cultural. If we take a step back and put conspiracy theories to one side, I fundamentally believe that there is a collective form of preparation going on through mass media; we're preparing ourselves for the possibility of contact. The media in any of its forms, from the town crier, to the newspaper, to the radio, to film and television, to the Internet, has always been a way for consciousness to expand; for humanity to broaden its view.
RG: So, you feel that Hollywood has part to play in this process of awakening and acceptance? That Hollywood wields enough power as a medium to influence what people will think, and ultimately do?
PF: Absolutely, because all the seeds of our imagination are planted through film and television at this point in our history, and through the media more broadly. And if the seeds are "don't react with terror," "don't react with fear," "don't react with a SWAT team," then we'll be more predisposed to that.
Tens-of-thousands of individuals the world over continue to report physical and/or mental interactions with otherworldly intelligences. Regardless of one's personal perspective on this phenomenon, it is clear that, but for a few exceptions, Hollywood's treatment of the subject has been crude and simplistic. All of the UFO experiencers I've spoken with over the years share the view that the entertainment industry should move beyond the genre trappings of sci-fi and horror, past even the explicitly "alien," and focus instead on the "human;" on the frequently reported psychologically and spiritually transformative aspects of these experiences—whatever they may represent—at both individual and collective levels.


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Cullen MR. Epidemiologic methods for the study of occupational asthma: Current problems and solutions. Chest 1996;109:51(s)-54(s).
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Rabinowitz PM, Cullen MR, Feinstein RE. Commentary: Host/environment medicine. A family practice model for the future. Family Medicine 1998;30:297-300
Cullen MR. Occupational health in the 20th century: Spiraling to the future. Ann Rev Pub Health 1999:20;1-13
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Hawaiian poke is a rice bowl topped with fresh fish and lots of fun toppings, like avocado! A super simple, light meal. Look for sushi-grade salmon when shopping.
The first time I ever ate raw fish was when I was about ten or eleven years old. I was at a Japanese buffet, and my mother told me to eat only the expensive foods so we would get our money's worth, which meant seafood and sashimi. Of course, I didn't particularly enjoy raw fish, but being the dutiful daughter, I heeded her advice.
It wasn't until I started eating poke bowls a few years ago that I warmed up to the idea of dishes with raw fish!
A poke bowl (pronounced po-kay!) is a Hawaiian dish of diced fresh fish served on top of rice with plenty of extra fixings like avocado, radishes, and cucumbers.
The fish is usually tuna, but salmon and other sashimi-quality fish can be used as well. The diced fish gets tossed with a simple dressing of soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sesame oil, which makes a nice compliment to the whole bowl.
Make sure to buy only very high quality salmon since you'll be eating it raw. In Japanese supermarkets, fish is labeled "sashimi" when it's safe to eat raw. Otherwise, ask your fishmonger about the quality of the fish.
Once you have your fish, the rest of the poke bowl comes together really quickly. Just steam some rice, toss the fish with the dressing, and serve! I like to place all the extra toppings on the table so that everyone can help themselves.
If you are looking for a gluten-free poke bowl, use tamari instead of soy sauce. Tamari has a more intense flavor, so I would use only 3 tablespoons of tamari for the sauce. Also, because tamari has a much deeper color, the salmon pieces will not look as vibrant once they have been mixed with the dressing.
I use short-grain white rice (sometimes also called "sushi rice") in my bowls, but it's fine to use medium- or long-grain rice if that's what you have in your kitchen.
Gluten-free option: Substitute 3 tablespoons of tamari for the soy sauce. Because of the deeper color of the tamari, your salmon may not look as vibrant once mixed with the dressing.
1 Cook the rice: Start the rice first and prep the rest of the ingredients while it cooks. Rinse the rice a few times under cool water, rubbing it gently with your hands, until the water isn't quite so cloudy. Then cook the rice according to package instructions or in a rice cooker. Fluff and keep covered until ready to eat.
2 Prepare the salmon: Gently pat the salmon all over to make sure that there are no bones still lodged in the filet; if there are, use needle-nosed pliers to remove them. Cut the salmon into 1/2-inch cubes. Add the salmon into a medium bowl and set aside.
3 Make the dressing: In a small bowl, stir together the soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, sugar and garlic powder. The garlic powder and sugar will not dissolve completely, but that's fine.
4 Combine the salmon and the dressing: Add the sliced scallions to the bowl with the salmon, saving 1 to 2 tablespoons for garnish. Add the soy sauce mixture to the salmon and scallions. Using a large spoon or a rubber spatula, gently mix the salmon with the soy sauce mixture.
5 Serve: Divide the rice between each bowl and then the salmon. Top with the rest of the sliced scallions, sliced cucumber, sliced radishes, diced avocado, furikake and red pepper flakes, if you like. The poke bowl is best enjoyed immediately.
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Thank you for the recipe, it looks delicious and easy to do it. I am about to prepare.
I used 1/2 lb of ahi tuna for two people and a toddler, and it was plenty. Yum! I have never bought sashimi-grade fish before because too expensive, but it is totally worth it to buy a small amount and have a special meal like this now and then–definitely cheaper than eating out.
Discovered this on Pinterest, but substituted the leftover shrimp we had and the hot rice cooked in broth was just great with a tossed salad. Can see this as a quick meal in our future. Thanks for posting.
That looks very tasty; but since I'm living a low carb lifestyle, even though it wouldn't be authentic, wouldn't steamed cauliflower rice be a great substitution, and be just as tasty?
Hi, Brant! Sure, you could sub in some cauliflower rice! It won't be quite the same as a traditional poke bowl, of course, but I think it would still be pretty darn tasty. Give it a try and let us know how you like it!
This looks so delicious! What do you think the results would be if I subbed quinoa for the rice?
Hi, Amy! It's not traditional, certainly, but I think quinoa would be fantastic!
I live in Hawai'i where poke is extremely popular. Unfortunately, salmon isn't a great choice for poke right now, because tapeworms have been infesting wild salmon.


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Sudden Goodbye: How TV Shows Like Riverdale Have Responded to the Shocking Deaths of Their Irreplaceable Stars
by Billy Nilles | Wed., Apr. 24, 2019 3:00 AM
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It's almost time to say goodbye to Fred Andrews.
Over a month after the world lost a TV icon with the sudden and tragic passing of Luke Perry on March 4 due to complications from a massive stroke he'd suffered in his home days prior, the time has come for the last episode of Riverdale he will ever film to air.
"This week's Riverdale is the last episode Luke filmed," creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa tweeted on Monday, breaking the news to fans everywhere. "As always, Fred's imparting words of wisdom to Archie. A beautiful, true moment between a father and his son," Aguirre-Sacasa said. "Wish these scenes could go on forever..."
Aguirre-Sacasa has previously taken to Twitter in the recent weeks since Perry's passing to pay tribute to the beloved actor, writing on April 14, "Truly an honor attending a tribute to Luke at WB yesterday. Amazing stories told by his brave family and lifelong friends. This still is from this week's #Riverdale. These next few episodes are bittersweet. He's gone and with us at the same time. Miss you and love you, Luke."
Celebrity Deaths: 2019's Fallen Stars
While it remains to be seen how Riverdale will handle losing Perry and his character, the unique and emotional situation is not without its precedent. Sadly, there have been a handful of TV shows to find themselves forced with an impossible decision to make after the tragic and sudden passing of one of their own, losing not just a character, but a cherished member of the family, as well.
To see how those shows handled their tragedy, while also getting a sense for how Riverdale might move forward without Perry, read on.
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Phil Hartman, NewsRadio
NewsRadio had already aired its fourth season finale when star and former SNL funnyman Phil Hartman was tragically killed in his sleep by his wife Brynn Hartman, who shot him three times in the early hours of May 28, 1998 after an argument in which he'd threatened to leave her if she began using drugs again. She was intoxicated and had recently ingested cocaine prior to the murder. She later locked herself in the bedroom and shot herself in the mouth, killing herself as well. When the show returned for season five in September, his character Bill McNeal was revealed to have died of a heart attack, while the other characters reminisced about his life. Hartman's friend and former SNL colleague Jon Lovitz joined the cast the following episode and remained on the series throughout the season, which would prove to be the NBC critical darling's last.
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Nicholas Colasanto, Cheers
By the time Nicholas Colasanto was cast as Coach Ernie Pantusso on the seminal NBC sitcom Cheers, he'd already been diagnosed with heart disease, which had been exacerbated by his alcoholism. By season three, his health had worsened and he'd noticeably lost weight, though he kept the severity of the matter a secret. Shortly after Christmas 1984, he was admitted to a hospital due to water in his lungs. After a two week stay, he was released in the week of January 28, 1985 and his doctor recommended that he not return to work. He would die of a heart attack in his home on February 12. Though he appeared in the season finale's cold open, through the use of discarded footage, his last full episode was filmed in late November 1984. (It aired on April 11, 1985). His character's absence throughout the rest of the season was either explained away through jokes or not acknowledged. When the show returned for season four, Coach's pen-pal Woody (played by Woody Harrelson) arrived for a visit only to learn Coach had died. As result, Ted Danson's Sam Malone offers Woody a job tending bar. When the show signed off after 11 seasons in 1993, Sam is seen straightening a portrait of Geronimo that once belonged to Colasanto, hanging in his dressing room.
John Spencer, The West Wing
When journeyman actor John Spencer died of a heart attack on December 16, 2005, four days before his 59th birthday, he'd filmed two of the five West Wing episodes there were in post-production at that point in the show's seventh season. His character, Leo McGarry, had kicked off a bid for Vice President alongside Jimmy Smits' Congressman Santos after years of serving as chief of staff and, later, counselor to President Bartlett (Martin Sheen). With the character coincidentally surviving a near-fatal heart attack during season six, Spencer's death was written into the show, with McGarry said to have died of a heart attack on election night. His name was kept in the opening credits for the remainder of the season, which would prove to be the show's last.
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Miguel Ferrer, NCIS: Los Angeles
When Miguel Ferrer passed away in his home on January 19, 2017 after a battle with throat cancer, his illness had allowed the writers on NCIS: Los Angeles, which he'd recurred on for two seasons before becoming a series regular in season five, to make a plan for his character, Owen Granger. Much like the man who portrayed him, it was revealed in season eight that Granger was dying of throat cancer, too, potentially as a result of exposure to Agent Orange. He was initially written out by saying he'd left the country to deal with unfinished business. His last appearance was in the February 19 episode. The show wouldn't confirm the character's death until the 15th episode of season nine, having died peacefully under a tree overlooking a valley.
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Lynne Thigpen, The District
After she endeared herself to millennial gumshoes everywhere as The Chief on the classic '90s game show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego, Lynne Thigpen took a starring role on this CBS procedural starring Craig T. Nelson that debuted in 2000. Playing crime analyst Ella Mae Farmer, she appeared on the show for three seasons until she died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in her home after complaining of a headache for days. She was only 54. In the show's season finale, Ella was killed off in similar sudden fashion. "We decided to let the audience experience what we experienced, which was the shock," executive producer Pam Veasay told the Los Angeles Times in May 2003, "finding out something as simple as she has a neck ache. Then that person's died." Already renewed for a fourth season, Veasay wasn't sure what the show would do next. "That's the challenge," she added, "trying to continue without Lynne Thigpen. We haven't taken her name down [from the character board] because she's still very much with us as a writing staff. I assume next year we'll take her name down and get used to that. But for now, there's a great comfort in seeing it up there, still seeing Lynne as a part of our cast." The District ended with season four.
Larry Hagman, Dallas
When TNT revived Dallas in 2012, it was a thrill to see Larry Hagman don J.R. Ewing's old cowboy hat and chew the scenery once more. Around the time the show was given the greenlight, however, he'd been diagnosed with stage 2 throat cancer. After having an acorn-sized tumor removed from his tongue in 2011, his cancer was said to have gone into remission. But a month after the premiere, in July 2012, he was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndromes (formerly known as preleukemia). He died four months later, while production on season two was underway. As a result, J.R. finally met his maker too, though the producers kept his presence on screen in season three by making use of unused footage of the actor. The show was canceled once the third season wrapped.
Carol Ann Susi, The Big Bang Theory
Though she was never seen on screen, Carol Ann Susi was an indelible part of the fabric of The Big Bang Theory, as she voiced Debbie, the oft-heard mother of Simon Helberg's Howard Wolowitz, for eight seasons until she passed away from cancer on November 11, 2014 at the age of 62. To pay tribute to both Susi and the character, the show killed Debbie off as well, with Howard receiving a phone call in a February 2015 episode informing him that his mother had died while visiting family in Florida. The remainder of the season saw Howard dealing with the aftermath of losing his mother, ensuring that Susi wasn't forgotten.
Bill Paxton, Training Day
Training Day, CBS' 2017 adaptation of the iconic Denzel Washington film, had only been on the air for four weeks when its star Bill Paxton passed away suddenly at the age of 61 after complications from a surgery to replace a heart valve and repair damage to his aorta caused a stroke. Because the midseason debut had already completed production on its entire 13-episode order prior to its debut, it meant that Paxton fans would get to spend nine more weeks watching the actor in action. It also meant that the show, which debuted to soft ratings, would not live to see a second season.
Anton Yelchin, Trollhunters
When Anton Yelchin died tragically on June 19, 2016 at the age of 27, after being found pinned between his Jeep Grand Cherokee and a brick pillar outside his home in what was described as a freak accident, he left behind a lot of projects, including voice work in Netflix's then-upcoming animated series from Guillermo del Toro, Trollhunters, which dropped that December. Having recorded enough dialogue to be used for the show's first two seasons and some of its third, Yelchin was only replaced for portions of that final season, with Emile Hirsch taking over the role of Jim, the first human Trollhunter. Upon its completion in 2018, the entire season was dedicated to Yelchin.
Nancy Marchand, The Sopranos
By the time creator David Chase has cast Nancy Marchand in his HBO magnum opus as Livia Soprano, the tough-as-nails mother to James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano, he knew that their days together would be limited. "She had cancer the whole time we worked with her, but it was not spoken of," co-star Edie Falco told Vanity Fair in 2012. "Nancy said to David, 'Please keep me working. That's keeping me alive.'" When Marchand eventually did succumb to her lung cancer and emphysema in 2002, Chase and his writers were already at work on scripts for the third season. With Tony's relationship with his mother so central to his story, he felt compelled to write her death into the show. And rather than have it happen entirely off-camera, the show got creative when it came time to put Livia's final scenes on screen, using outtakes of old scenes while also CGI'ing Marchand's head onto another actress' body. The technological gamble, which wasn't entirely well-received by critics, was one of the first instances of using CGI to solve the problem of an absent actor.
John Ritter, 8 Simple Rules
When the legendary John Ritter died during surgery to repair a sudden aortic dissection, he had just begun the second season of his ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. In fact, he began experiencing the chest pains, vomiting, and profuse sweating that prompted a trip to the same hospital he'd been born in 55 years earlier while rehearsing on set for the season's fourth episode. Considering he played the patriarch on the family sitcom, not to mention the fact that all involved were grieving the loss, the show went into a month-long hiatus to figure out what, exactly, they'd do. The first three episodes aired, each with an introduction from his co-star Katey Sagal, and when the show returned two months later, it incorporated Ritter's death into the story, having his character die a similar death. The first four episodes, which featured the family reacting to the death, were filmed without a live audience. James Garner and David Spade, as Sagal's father and nephew, respectively, were added in starring roles to fill the void left by Ritter. Changing its name to simply 8 Simple Rules, the show was canceled after a subsequent third season.
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Cory Monteith, Glee
When Cory Monteith sadly passed away from an accidental overdose in July 2013 after years of struggles with substance abuse, he was just weeks away from beginning work on the fifth season of Glee. As a result, Ryan Murphy was left with an impossible decision to make. "When you're faced with something so sad and so shocking, what do you do? Do we cancel the show? Do we start shooting in January? What do we do?" he told The Hollywood Reporter. "Ultimately, we decided the best thing for everyone is to get back to work and be around people who knew him and loved him so that everyone can grieve together." So after consulting with leading lady Lea Michele, who was dating Monteith at the time, he and the network decided to push the season premiere back a week, allowing production to begin in August. With the first two episodes already written, the third served as a tribute to Monteith, with "The Quarterback" focusing on the death of his character Finn Hudson. The show went on hiatus afterwards, allowing Murphy and his writers time to decided how to proceed. When the show resumed airing in November, life went on for the students of McKinley High, but Finn (and Monteith) were not forgotten. "I just made a decision that we keep mentioning Finn. We don't just say this is done and we're never going to go back to it, so that resonates throughout the year," Murphy told E! News at the time. "We're trying to be sensitive and also have some fun and go back to some optimistic stories. I think he would have wanted that, he always loved that about the show."
Lee Thompson Young, Rizzoli & Isles
Lee Thompson Young, who rose to fame on the Disney Channel series The Famous Jett Jackson, was in the middle of production on the fourth season of TNT procedural Rizzoli & Isles in August 2013 when he failed to show up to work. After the landlord at his Los Angeles apartment was called to perform a well-being check on him, he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities would later reveal that Young had a history of bipolar disorder and was taking medication for the condition when he shot himself. Production on the drama was suspended in the aftermath of his death and ultimately, they opted to have his character, Det. Barry Frost, die as the victim of a tragic car accident, with the episode featuring a funeral service for Frost, allowing his co-stars to grieve on camera. A new character, played by Idara Victor, was introduced, but she wasn't a direct replacement. "Obviously you can't replace Lee and the Barry Frost role on the show, and in making the decision to really live in the dramatic impact of the loss, we ended up creating some new dynamics within the existing characters," executive producer Jan Nash told TV Guide.
Luke Perry, Riverdale
After suffering a massive stroke at his home in Los Angeles on February 27, 2019, Luke Perry passed away from complications on March 4 at the age of 52. His final episode of Riverdale, upon which he'd starred as proud papa Fred Andrews for three seasons, will air on Wednesday, April 24. With only two episodes left in the season after that, it remains to be seen how producers will handle the loss of the TV icon.
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Design Icon (and Icon Designer) Steff Geissbühler Still Wants Your Business
Steff Geissbühler
Logo for NBC (National Broadcasting Network) designed by Steff Geissbühler, Chermayeff & Geismar Inc., 1979. Courtesy of Steff Geissbühler
To me, it's all about making connections. We designers connect words and images, visual ideas and concepts. We use associations and our imaginations. We create and innovate. We often make the invisible visible. To us, a letter is an image of form and counter-form. We see it as a sculpture; it has character and expression, and yet it's just one of many to form a word, a headline, a text, and a message. We make connections with symbols, colors, icons—and we invent new ones. We show the familiar in a new way. We aim our work at people and hope they see what we see.
If we can teach our students, clients, and audiences to see things differently, then we've made the world a better and richer place.
I love to make connections. I'm very connected to design, designers and, yes, to AIGA. Neither AIGA nor I recall exactly when I became a member, but we recently settled on 1974. To me, that means 40 years of a great support group: like-minded people, competitors, and best friends, vendors, conferences, events, and board meetings. I've judged and been judged by my peers, fairly or not. I even received a lifetime achievement AIGA Medal.
I imported myself to the United States from Switzerland with not much more than a great education, three years of experience, and a will to succeed. I was given the chance to teach and work at the same time. After seven years of teaching and freelancing in Philadelphia, I moved to the Big Apple, where I've remained for the past 40 years. I've been employed, worked with partners, and colleagues, even formed a new firm. Now I'm on my own again, just the way I started. I've been given a lot of opportunities to hone my craft (I still see it that way), make connections, and work with—and for—extraordinary people.
Some people think I'm famous because I designed the NBC peacock, the Time Warner eye/ear logo, and other fairly visible icons. In fact, I was mostly lucky to have been in the right place with the right solution at the right time. I still get my biggest kicks from learning about my clients' services, processes, and know-how. I'd even venture to say that I got my professional education while doing what I like best.
I'm passionate, I love what I do, and I'm proud of what I've done. But I still want to do that most amazing thing. So call me.
This essay was published as part of AIGA's Centennial celebration of the past, present, and future of design.
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VMware sysadmins, get patching: the virtualisation outfit has released updates to its ESXi, Fusion, Player and Workstation software to block out a privilege-escalation vulnerability.
CVE-2015-6933 is a kernel memory corruption vulnerability in the tools' Shared Folders feature that can be exploited by software to escalate its privileges within a guest. VMware notes that the programming blunder cannot be exploited to escape from a guest to a host.
It was picked up by Secunia's Dmitry Janushkevich, and the CVE (common vulnerabilities and exposures) database entry was reserved in September 2015.
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"Момичето, което обичах" () е турски драматичен сериал, излязъл на телевизионния екран през 2011 г.

Поради нисък рейтинг в Турция сериалът не бива подновен с нов втори сезон въпреки първоначалното намерение епизод 39 да бъде финален за първи сезон. Така сериалът остава без завършек.

Сюжет
Сериалът разказва за трагичната съдба на младо момиче – Мине, от патриархално семейство, което се разделя с първата си голяма любов – Синан, заради социалните норми.

Мине е на 17 години и живее в Истанбул със семейството си. Тя е най-малкото дете в семейство от средната класа. Синан е единственият наследник в заможно семейство. Двамата млади са силно влюбени въпреки принадлежнотта си към различни обществени прослойки.

Мине забременява от Синан, което не се харесва на неговите родители. Те го изпращат да завърши образованието си в САЩ, скривайки от него, че ще става баща. Така Синан две години не знае, че любимата му Мине е родила момче.

В същото време, за да запазят семейната си чест, родителите на Мине взимат решение и я омъжват за Тимур – собственик на автокъщата, в която е нает баща ѝ. Въпреки трудностите на новия семеен живот, Мине постепенно свиква да съжителства със съпруга си.

След завръщането си в Истанбул, Синан започва да работи в компанията на баща си. Семейството му се опасява, че рано или късно той отново ще потърси контакт с Мине, поради което взема решение да го сгоди.

Актьорски състав
 Бюлент Инал – Тимор
 Четин Текиндор – Туран
 Гюлджан Арслан – Мине
 Хакан Курташ – Синан
 Шефика Юмит Толун – Есмахан
 Онуряй Еврентан – Емине
 Арзу Гамзе Кълънч – Сюрея
 Гюлчин Сантърджъоглу – Себахат
 Инан Улаш Торун – Ердал
 Мюжде Узман – Дерин
 Езги Челик – Айтен
 Джансу Коч – Фунда
 Бюлент Алкъш – Керем
 Илайда Алишан – Мевре
 Сайдам Йениай – Бекир
 Мине Тюфекчиоглу – Седа
 Уур Демирпехливан – Севим
 Йит Кутлу Йозтюрк – Дениз
 Айбарс Картал Йозсон – Хасан
 Хюсейн Таш – Бербер
 Деря Бешерлер – Нарин
 Гьоркем Тюркеш – Серкан
 Уфук Ашар – Шюкрю
 Серап Ейюбоглу – Санийе

В България
В България сериалът започва на 9 декември 2013 г. по Диема Фемили и завършва на 3 април 2014 г. На 7 ноември започва повторно излъчване по Нова телевизия и завършва на 25 януари 2015 г. Ролите се озвучават от Ася Братанова, Ани Василева, Лиза Шопова, Димитър Иванчев, Стефан Сърчаджиев-Съра и Александър Воронов.

Източници

Турски сериали

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John Surtees, the only person to win world championships on both four and two wheels, has been awarded a CBE in Britain's New Year's Honours list 2016.
The Order of the British Empire "recognizes distinguished service to the arts and sciences, public services outside the Civil Service and work with charitable and welfare organisations of all kinds." After being made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in 1959 and an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in 2008, the 81-year-old has now been honoured with Commander of the British Empire.
John Surtees enjoyed a glittering competitive career dominating the British circuits in 1954 and 1955 before starting his World Championship career on two wheels with winning the 500cc Isle of Man TT and the 500cc World Championship for the first time. John had ridden Triumph, Vincent, REG, NSU and Norton before joining MV Agusta. He recorded 38 motorcycle grand prix wins..
He finished second in the 1966 Formula One World Championship driving two marques of car after his split from Ferrari and his joining the Cooper Maserati team. He won the prestigious inaugural Can-Am Sports Car Championship Series in America driving a Lola T70.A move to Honda followed for 1967 and with the RA 301 in which John played a large part in its development; he won the 1967 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
The Henry Surtees Foundation was inspired by motor sport legend John Surtees OBE, following the tragic death of his son Henry, killed aged just 18 years old whilst competing in Formula 2 race at Brands Hatch in 2009.


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Pastoralist Knowledge Hub
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FAO is committed to ensure the systematic consideration of rangelands and pastoralists in its programmes
"Sustainable Livestock for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" was at the core of the 27th session of FAO's Committee on Agriculture (COAG), which was held virtually from the 28th of September to 2nd October 2020. The COAG is one of FAO's governing bodies that convenes over 100 member nations and meets biennially to provide overall policy and regulatory guidance on issues relating to agriculture, livestock, food safety, nutrition, rural development and natural resource management. Importantly, one of the key agenda items on livestock discussed was FAO's work on rangelands and pastoralism, and a proposal for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP).
The speculated number of people raising livestock globally in pastoral and agro-pastoral systems is likely to be greater than 200 million. They are located in approximately 75 percent of countries and their practices vary according to the diversity of ecosystems. Healthy pastoralist systems and rangelands have great potential to deliver on the SDGs, contributing to reducing poverty (SDG 1) and hunger (SDG 2), as well as ensuring life on land (SDG 15).
Yet, rangelands are facing unsustainable land-use change due to unbalanced and short-term options of land management, including cropland expansion. Breakdown of common tenure rights resulting in conflicts and disruption of mobility and access to natural resources. Sedentarization programmes, urbanization, extractive industries and wildfires are other threats to the productivity and ecological integrity of these lands and pastoralism.
FAO contributes to addressing some of these challenges by working on sustainable management of rangelands, governance, data and knowledge generation, and supporting pastoralists' advocacy initiatives. However, to enable a long-term and coordinated approach sustaining the natural and cultural values of rangelands and securing the pastoral systems, it is important for FAO to mainstream rangelands and pastoralism to ensure their systematic consideration in technical and policy programmes for their sustainable management and development.
FAO's work on rangelands and pastoralists was discussed on 1st October 2020 by the COAG. Importantly, the Committee acknowledged the key role of rangelands and pastoralism in contributing to national economies and supporting livelihoods and food security of millions of people, as well as ecosystem services they provide, particularly in arid and semi-arid lands and mountainous areas. Recognizing the challenges faced by pastoralists and rangelands, the Committee requested FAO to mainstream its work to ensure their systematic consideration in its technical and policy programmes.
Moreover, the Committee endorsed the proposal initiated by the Government of Mongolia on the establishment of an IYRP in 2026. This proposal by the Mongolian government received overwhelming support globally from over 55 countries, including the EU and 153 organizations from civil society to local and international NGOs, research centres and international institutions. The proposal then received further support from FAO member nations during the discussion at COAG 27.
The IYRP is meant to raise awareness on the perceived natural and cultural values of rangelands and pastoral livelihood systems. It would increase global understanding of their importance to global food security and environmental services, highlighting valuable traditional knowledge. Also, it would foster innovation towards sustainability and overcoming poverty of pastoralists and boost efforts for investment in pastoral systems and restoration of degraded rangelands. Being endorsed by COAG, the proposal will now be submitted for consideration by the FAO Council and, later, for adoption by the FAO Conference in June 2021.
With the SDGs promising to achieve universal benefits and leave no one behind, the emphasis on sustainability, equity and inclusion makes this acknowledgement by COAG a highly significant turning point for FAO's work on pastoralists and rangelands. It will allow for a wider awareness about the importance of rangelands and pastoralists for nutrition, healthy ecosystems, income and employment generation and other relevant dimensions of sustainable development, thus leading to better policies and programmes at national, regional and global level.
Report – COAG 27
International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists Initiative


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National Real Estate News
94% Of Mall Owners Are Rebranding And Rejuvenating Dated Properties
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November 9, 2017 Lara O'Keefe, Bisnow National
Mall owners are not throwing in the towel just yet.
In fact, in response to current industry headwinds, more than 94% of mall owners and operators are giving properties a facelift to enhance their appeal and attract shoppers, JLL reports.
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Most are focusing on improving common areas with renovations to lobbies, the addition of more comfortable seating, free WiFi, better-lit walkways and improved wayfinding. Others are shifting their focus to improve the tenant mix, honing in on apparel retailers that will attract millennials such as H&M and Zara, as well as luxury and fitness retailers.
Some malls are even rebranding to market the property as a luxury destination, as is the case with Copley Place in Boston, which now houses retailers including Jimmy Choo, Versace and Louis Vuitton.
Though it has less to do with physical appearance, many owners are also opting to remove "mall" from their property names, recognizing the stigma now attached to it. Instead, owners are rebranding centers with names like "Shoppes," "Towne Center" and "Village" in an effort to create the feeling of a more modern, intimate community center that will appeal to today's consumers.
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Biografia
Ha studiato medicina presso l'Università di Lipsia, dove nel 1892 ha ottenuto la sua abilitazione per la medicina forense. Fino al 1894 ha lavorato come assistente sotto il patologo Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld. Per la maggior parte della sua carriera (1894-1931) divenne associato con l'ospedale della città di Dresda (Krankenhaus Dresda-Friedrichstadt).

Schmorl è ricordato per il suo lavoro nel campo dell'istologia e negli studi dello scheletro umano. Ha creato una macchia istologica appositamente progettata per mostrare i canalicoli e le lamelle del tessuto osseo. Egli ha anche descritto le sporgenze del disco intervertebrale e nel corpo vertebrale. Queste sporgenze sono ormai note come ernia di Schmorl. Poco prima di morire, Schmorl ha pubblicato Die Gesunde und Kranke Wirbelsäule. È morto a causa di una sepsi dovuta a un'infezione a un dito.

Nel 1904 Schmorl ha coniato il termine kernittero per descrivere l'ittero nucleare dei gangli. Questa condizione è stata identificata in precedenza nel 1875 dal patologo Johannes Orth (1847-1923).

Opere
 Ein Fall von Hermaphroditismus. Virchows Archiv 113, 2, 229—244 (1888) DOI:10.1007/BF02360124
 Carl Karg, Georg Schmorl: Atlas der pathologischen Gewebelehre. Leipzig: Vogel, 1893
 Pathologisch-anatomische Untersuchungen über Puerperal-Eklampsie. Verlag FCW Vogel, Leipzig; 1893
 Die pathologisch-histologischen Untersuchungsmethoden. Leipzig, 1897 (15. Auflage 1928)
 Bode E, Schmorl. Ueber Tumoren der Placenta. Archiv für Gynäkologie 56, 1, 73-82 (1898) DOI:10.1007/BF02018897
 Stereoskopisch-photographischer Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie des Herzens. Munich, 1899
 Zur Lehre von der Eklampsie. Archiv für Gynäkologie 65, 2, 504—529 (1902) DOI:10.1007/BF02007170
 Zur Kenntnis des ikterus neonatorum, insbesondere der dabei auftretenden gehirnveränderungen. Verh Dtsch Pathol Ges 6, 109—115 (1904)
 Bemerkungen zu der Arbeit von Ribbert: Die Traktionsdivertikel des Oesophagus. Dieses Archiv Bd. 178, Heft 3. Virchows Archiv 179, 1, 190—193 (1905) DOI:10.1007/BF02029816
 Die pathologisch-histologischen Untersuchungsmethoden (FCW Vogel 1907)
 Über die Beeinflussung des Knochenwachstums durch phosphorarme Ernährung (1913) DOI:10.1007/BF01865422
 Die pathologische Anatomie der Wirbelsäule. Verhandlungen der Deutschen orthopädischen Gesellschaft 21, 3-41 (1926)
 Über Dehnungs- und Zerrungsvorgänge an den Bandscheiben und ihre Folgen. Zentralblatt für allgemeine Pathologie und pathologische Anatomie 40, 244—246 (1927)
 Kurze Bemerkung zur Arbeit von R. Probst über die Häufigkeit des Lungencarcinoms (1927)
 Die Pathogenese der juvenilen Kyphose. Fortschr. geb. Rontgen (1930)
 Junghans J, Schmorl CG. Die gesunde und kranke Wirbelsäule im Röntgenbild. Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Röntgenstrahlen 43 (1932)
 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Spondylolisthese. Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery 237, 3, 422—428 (1932) DOI:10.1007/BF02796845
 Schmorl, G. Ueber ein pathogenes Fadenbacterium (Streptothrix cuniculi). Deutsch Z. Thiermed. 17:375-408. 1891

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
 Pioneers in the Scientific Study of Neonatal Jaundice and Kernicterus Pediatria / agosto 2000 Volume 106 / Edizione 2.
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So to speak
Klenz, Steffi (2018) So to speak. [Book art/Artist's book]
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Bleeding White by Steffi Klenz
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Bleeding White by Steffi Klenz, selected by Mustafa Hulusi for billboard project, London
So to speak - front cover
So to speak - inside page
So to speak - page 2
So to speak - page 10
Phoetry exhibition
Klenz, Steffi
The book So To Speak presents imagery that use digital photographic technologies such iPhones and consumer-grade Epson printers and its printer profiles – as tools to create imagery that generates fresh and critical perspectives of the photographic medium as a medium that communicates across and through technology and technological language systems such as codes and printer profiles.
The book tells the story of a couple's separation through photographic imagery and fragmented reflective text pieces highlighting the couple's inability to communicate effectively with each other.
The writing and photographs are the product of the period of one year of grief Klenz experienced after the moment her long-term relationship ended and while still living in the same house as her former partner. Klenz used her daily walks as a quotidian ritual to enter into a dialogue with the spaces she encountered: buildings, objects and places acted as triggers for her memory. The buildings and architectural scenes provided a means to harness her internal thinking, allowing her to be with and in architecture, meeting herself at the same time.
The book installs the textual reflections and imagery together and aims to question the role of communication in photography, focusing on dichotomies of image and text. Klenz is interested to explore these two language systems — visual and verbal- in her book, highlighting the inherent limitations of both photography and words as "descriptive systems" to communicate effectively in their singular form. So To Speak explores the translations that occur between systems of communication and dissemination of information: between a couple and between the photographic and the textual.
Art/Design Item
Locations / Venues:
Group exhibition "Phoetry / Poetography / Photographic Literature" - annual visual literature exhibition at The Museum of Futures, London, UK
One piece 'Bleeding White' from the book was selected by artist Mustafa Hulusi for his billboard intervention project, 2 Hoxton Street, London, UK
Edition: 200.
Metallic + 4 colour print throughout on satin coated paper.
Photographic image 'Bleeding White' by Steffi Klenz selected by artist Mustafa Hulusi for his billboard intervention project in London.
From the early 2000's Hulusi has been selecting artists to show visual artworks for one week only in the public outdoor context of a billboard positioned at 2 Hoxton Street in London.
Previous artists include: Mat Collishaw, Ryan Gander, Salvatore Arancio, Simon Popper, Gavin Turk, Sue Webster, Bedwyr Williams and many more.
School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography
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https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/4948
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Easy Solutions data scientists, including the author of this article, will present extensive research on the use of deep neural networks to detect phishing sites.They will share their expertise at the prestigious APWG eCrime 2017 Symposium on Electronic Fraud Research today in Scottsdale, Arizona. The article below details some of the findings our experts will discuss at the symposium.
In a recent research paper, we showed how we are able to detect with a high level of accuracy if a website is a phish just by looking at the URL. This post lays out in greater detail how, by using a deep recurrent neural network, we're able to accurately classify more than 98 percent of URLs.
Phishing attacks are a growing problem worldwide. According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), the number of phishing websites increased by 250 percent during the last quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016, targeting more than 400 brands each month, the most APWG has seen since it began tracking and reporting on phishing in 2004. The use of phishing by a criminal is focused on using social engineering schemes to steal consumers' personal and financial information. The attacks are designed to trick consumers into giving financial data–such as usernames and passwords–to fake websites purporting to be legitimate businesses.
Phishing attacks can be launched from anywhere in the world by people with little to no technical skills at insignificant costs. Organizations trying to protect their users from these attacks have a hard time dealing with the massive amount of emerging sites, which must be identified and labeled as either malicious or harmless before users access them.
There are many methods used by phishers to distribute their attacks, and various strategies are used to make the site resemble a legitimate site while evading detection techniques. However, all of them rely on URLs to direct their victims to the phishing website. Resemblance to a legitimate site's URL is the most common social engineering method used by phishers to lure victims to their websites. Therefore, the use of URLs to filter potential phishing websites from legitimate websites is a good first step when it comes to blocking phishing.
Being able to determine the maliciousness of a website just by looking at its URL provides a major strategic advantage: the number of victims can be reduced to nearly zero while simultaneously minimizing operational efforts by avoiding the massive use of more complex methods such as content analysis. In this work, we focus on classifying phishing sites using only the URL with machine-learning techniques. In particular, we compare the performance of a combination of lexical and statistical analysis of URLs as input to a random forest (RF) classifier against a novel approach using recurrent neural networks, specifically a Long Short Term Memory network (LSTM).
Machine-learning classifiers with manually created features, such as RF, have been widely used for classification problems. Moreover, this method has been successfully applied to identifying phishing URLs. Last year we published a blog post on the use of this strategy to detect phishing sites (https://blog.easysol.net/the-technical-side-of-phishing/).
An attacker's objective when crafting a URL for a phishing site is to confuse users into thinking it is a legitimate website. In attempting this, the cybercriminal hopes to trick users into giving their personal data and financial information. In order to do that, the attackers tend to follow some patterns which can be uncovered by an experienced analyst. In collaboration with security analysts at Easy Solutions, Inc., we identified a set of features that can be used to create a lexical and statistical analysis of the URLs.
Once the features are extracted, a binary classifier is trained using the URL features presented. To achieve this, we use a RF method, a classification algorithm that relies on weaker models to build a stronger model with the average of the weaker models' responses. The weaker models it uses are classification trees. Each classification tree recursively splits the data set based on the feature values and stops the current split when all the input instances belong to the same class. We chose RFs since they are widely used and can be trained to(?) run in parallel.
In the previous section, we designed a set of features extracted from a URL and fed them to a classification model to predict whether a URL is a case of phishing. We now approach the problem in a different way: instead of manually extracting the features, we directly learn a representation from the URL's sequence of characters.
Each sequence of characters exhibits correlations, meaning nearby characters in a URL are likely to be related to each other. These sequential patterns are important because they can be exploited to improve the performance of the predictors.
A neural network is a bio-inspired, machine-learning model that consists of a set of artificial neurons with connections between them. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are a type of neural network able to model sequential patterns. The distinctive characteristic of RNNs is that they introduce the notion of time to the model. This allows them to process sequential data one element at a time and to learn their sequential dependencies.
One limitation of general RNNs is that they cannot learn the correlation between elements distanced by more than five or ten time steps. A model that overcomes this problem is LSTM. It can bridge elements distanced by more than 1,000 time steps without loss of short time lag capabilities.
An LSTM is an adaptation of an RNN, where each neuron is replaced by a memory cell that, in addition to a conventional neuron that represents an internal state, uses multiplicative units as gates to control the flow of information. In particular, a typical LSTM cell has an input gate that controls the input of information from outside, a forget cell that controls whether to keep or forget the information in the internal state, and an output gate that allows or prevents the internal state from being seen from the outside.
Each input character is translated by a 128-dimension embedding. The translated URL is fed to an LSTM layer as a 150-step sequence. Finally, the classification is performed using an output sigmoid neuron. The network is trained by backpropagation using a cross-entropy loss function and dropout in the last layer.
To train both models, a dataset of real and phishing URLs was constructed. In total, 2 million URLs were used in the training–half of them legitimate, and half of them phishing. The legitimate URLs came from the Common Crawl, a corpus of web crawl data. The phishing URLs came from Phishtank, a website used to submit phishing URLs.
In the following table, a sample of 10 legitimate URLs and 10 phishing URLs are shown.
Note how similar the legitimate and malicious URLs can be. This is expected as the objective of an attacker is to confuse the web user by making the phishing site looks as legitimate as possible.
In order to evaluate the performance of the models, we used a 3-fold cross-validation strategy. This process consists of splitting the data into three folds, then training the data using two folds, with the remaining one used for validation of the model. This process is repeated three times, using each fold only once for validation. In the end, all the performance metrics on the validation folds are averaged. This way the variance is reduced, and we can get a better estimate of the model's performance.
We compared the accuracy of the two methods and found that the difference between them is consistent across folds. On average, the LSTM network has an accuracy rate of 5-percent higher than the feature engineer model with RF.
We also compared the accuracy of the models using different numbers of URLs for training. For this experiment we randomly selected 200,000 URLs and used them to test the different models. Then, we selected samples sizes of 1,000, 5,000, 10,000, 50,000, 100,000, 500,000 and 1,000,000, and trained the two methods in each sample. The results are summarized in the following figure.
The LSTM model consistently outperforms the RF model. Further, the LSTM network improves its performance faster than the RF as the number of URLs used for training increases.
Lastly, we compare the training and evaluation time for both models. As can be seen in the table below, the LSTM model requires significantly more time to train. On average, using 2 million URLs, the RF is trained in less than 3 minutes, but the LSTM requires 238 minutes. Moreover, it is also interesting to observe that once the models have been trained, the RF methodology is able to evaluate 942 URLs per second, compared to 281 URLs per second by the LSTM. However, the memory requirements of the RF model are almost 500 times those of the LSTM due to the complexity of storing the models' parameters.
We have explored how well we can discern phishing URLs from legitimate URLs using two methodologies: feature engineering using a lexical and statistical analysis of URLs with a random forest (RF) classifier, and a novel approach using a Long Short Term Memory neural network (LSTM). Both models showed great statistical results–the RF had an accuracy of 93.5 percent, and the LSTM had an accuracy of 98.7 percent.
With these results, one can conclude that discerning URLs by their patterns is a good predictor of phishing websites. The results indicate that instead of doing a full content analysis, creating a proactive phishing detection system using the URL is a feasible approach. In comparison, the latter system exhibits faster responses since full content analysis doesn't have to be performed. RF and LSTM are able to evaluate URLs at a rate of 942 per second and 281 per second, respectively. However, there is a significant difference in the memory requirements of the models. The RF uses 288.7MB of memory versus 581KB of the LSTM. This is very important as there are applications that are memory restricted, such as mobile apps; in that case the RF model is unpractical and the LSTM should be used.


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25 Group Games for Teens
Posted by Julie David
Group games are a great way to turn your meeting with teens from crickets to crazy fun! Whether you like games for the whole group or played in rounds to determine a final winner, there is something for every situation. We've even included last-minute, no-materials-needed ideas! Try some of these fun games to get your next teen group gathering up and energized.
The Cups and Downs of Life
Materials Needed: Plastic cups
Set Up: Divide your group into two teams (or more if using multiple colors of cups). Start with twenty (or more) plastic cups turned on their sides.
Play: At the start of the game, one team tries to turn all the cups upside down while the other team simultaneously tries to turn them right-side up. When the time ends, whichever team has the most cups going their direction wins. For a large group, you can have four teams and two colors of plastic cups.
Materials Needed: Clipboards, pens, paper, poster board
Set Up: Divide into groups of 10 or so, give each team a clipboard, pen and paper. Put five categories on a poster board (ex. Farm Animal, Fruit, City, Famous Band) and then the leader announces a letter of the alphabet.
Play: Teams then try to work as fast as possible to come up with a noun that starts with the letter for each of the five categories. Once they have their list complete, someone on the team runs to the leader yelling "Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!" Teams get a point (or five) when they come up with a list for the letter and play continues until a certain point threshold is reached.
Worm Relay
Materials Needed: Sleeping bags
Set Up: For this game, you will need several donated sleeping bags that won't be missed if they get torn. Break your group into relay teams and have them split between two ends of the playing area.
Play: When the game starts, one player gets in the sleeping bag headfirst, then gets on the floor and "inches" their way down the playing field towards their teammates on the other side. Keep your playing field narrow because part of the hilarity is watching the worms crawl over and around each other to get to the other side. Players have to start over if they let their sleeping bag get up over their waist and start to crawl - they must move worm-style! Once they reach the other side, the next team member puts on the sleeping bag and races towards the other end until all members of the team have had a turn.
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Banana Pass
Materials Needed: Bananas
Set Up: Divide the group into two teams. Players lie down on the grass, head to toe in a straight line with toes about a foot from the teammate's head. The person at the start of the line puts their feet up in the air and a leader places a banana between their feet.
Play: Then the team must pass the banana with their feet by putting their feet over their head to the next person's feet. The last person to get the banana has to eat it and run back to the starting line. Tip: make sure the last person likes bananas and/or has a strong stomach for squishy things!
Noodle Nugget Battle
Materials Needed: Pool noodles
Set Up: Slice a pool noodle into 2-inch "pucks." Then cut a separate bunch of pool noodles in half to make "swords" for each person in the group.
Play: Each person holds their sword in one hand and turns the other hand palm-side down and places one puck on the top of their hand. The goal is to slap the pucks off everyone else's hand with your sword until everyone's puck is off. You can play a few rounds (like groups of four at a time, male vs female, etc.) for extended play.
Backward Names
Materials Needed: None
Set Up: Have your group get in a circle.
Play: When the leader says go, students must go around the circle saying their full name as fast as they can - the catch is they have to say it backward (last, middle, first). If anyone pauses or hesitates, they have to sit down. Keep subsequent rounds going by using the name of someone in your family, another group member's name, or a famous two-name artist or athlete.
Materials Needed: Flashlight
Set Up: For this group game, you will need one or more flashlights, taken apart, the parts spread out around your playing area.
Play: This is a version of freeze tag where the person who is it (the Grog) runs around tagging people and freezing them, while the rest of the players try to assemble the flashlight in order to shine it on the Grog and defeat the Grog! Depending on how many players you have, you can have multiple Grogs (and multiple flashlights). Players can untag each other and work together. If everyone is tagged before the flashlight gets assembled, the Grog wins.
Birdie on a Perch
Set Up: Have your group divide into partners (an A and B) then have A's form one circle and B's form another (either one inside the other or next to each other if you have space).
Play: Start the music and when it stops, the leader yells "Birdie on the Perch!" and partners need to find each other and one partner takes a knee and the other sits on it. The last ones to pair up are out and the game continues until one pair is left.
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Seated Basketball
Materials Needed: Beach ball, laundry baskets
Set Up: Everyone will need a folding chair or you can play on your knees in a large open space. Make rows of equal people but separate out two people to be the "goalkeepers" who will defend the goal. Place laundry baskets on a table (or have a brave volunteer hold them high enough to be thrown into) at each end of the room. Have every other person turn around and face the opposite direction in their chair or on their knees. The people facing one direction are on a team, and those facing the other are on a team (a sort of human foosball table).
Play: Players must remain seated (or kneeling) and face the direction of their basket, working as a team to get a beach ball into their basket. You can play for 5-minute "quarters" or till a team gets to a certain number of points. Assign a "referee" to whistle in case players are blatantly out of their seats or get off their knees to try to score. Keep it interesting by adding in more beach balls and by allowing teams to move their chairs/positions between quarters but stay facing their designated direction.
Wagon Wheel Relay
Set Up: Divide your group into four teams and each team forms a line with one end of each line coming together in the middle to create a plus sign with the four teams. The leader stands at the intersection of the four teams.
Play: Students on each team are given a number and the leader will call out a number. That numbered person from each team leaves the line, runs one lap around the entire group, then crawls through the legs of their teammates to reach the leader. The first one to touch the leader's foot gets a point for their team. The game ends when one of the teams reaches a predetermined point total.
Bendy Ball
Materials Needed: Medium-sized ball
Set Up: Have the group stand in a circle with legs in a wide "V" stance, feet touching the person next to them so the circle is tight.
Play: Throw a medium-sized ball into the middle and players try to hit the ball through other players' legs, scoring a "goal" when they do. The person who has a ball go through their legs has to put one hand behind their back. If they get two goals scored through their legs, then they have to step out of the circle. The rest of the group tightens the circle until the act of bending over would mean bumping heads - the game can stop and the final few players are crowned Bendy Ball champs!
Find My Bestie
Set Up: The leader says they are looking for a new bestie and it's someone in the group! Have everyone stand up.
Play: The leader starts listing things and group members sit down if they don't agree or haven't done it. The leader should write these "qualities" beforehand and keep adding, for example, "My new bestie loves the snow." Then, "My new bestie loves snow and has read all the Harry Potter books more than once." Make the statements go from general to more specific. The leader might even before the game starts, have one person in mind, and end with something like "My bestie just moved here one week ago" - a great way for the group to see who is new or meet someone who has a fun and unique story!
Materials Needed: Paper, pens, bowl
Set Up: The short synopsis is two teams describe the same set of words three times: First by giving verbal clues, round two is charades, round three is one-word clue only. First everyone writes down a single word on paper, folds it and puts it in a large bowl: these can be things all the same color, cities to visit or favorite foods (you will have some repeats). Split into two teams.
Play: A player from team A is given one minute on the timer to describe the words they find in the salad bowl with verbal clues only (can't say the actual word). If team members guess correctly, move on to another word in the bowl. One point per word guessed correctly. At the end of the minute, the player from team A holds on to correct answers and hands the bowl to team B. Team B is given a chance to do the same with the one-minute time limit. Play goes back and forth until all the words are gone from the salad bowl. Add up total team points and put all the word papers back in the salad bowl. Round two starts, but this time each player must only use charades to get correct guesses from their team within the one-minute time limit. Count up how many papers/correct guesses each team has, put papers back in the bowl and start round three which is a one-word clue only. The team with the most points after all three rounds wins!
Pass the Motion
Set Up: Have your group get in a circle but facing to the outside of the circle (so there is not a clear view of others in the circle).
Play: Have one person start by giving a sign/motion to their neighbor (keep it appropriate, please!) and then everyone "passes" it around the outside of the circle (make sure others don't cheat by turning around to watch what's happening). The last person shows the sign/motion to see if it was right. Another variation is a speed round where you give the group a set number of seconds to pass around the sign/motion before the time runs out
Baby in the Air
Materials Needed: Water balloons
Set Up: You may want to play this one outside as it involves water balloons and the breaking of said water balloons! Fill at least 10 balloons with water. The group stands in a circle and every person is given a number.
Play: One person is selected to be in the center and calls out "Baby in the Air, I call number ___" and throws the water balloon up at the same time. The person whose number has been called has to run to catch the "baby" before it hits the ground and breaks (if it doesn't break, you can still allow them in the game if you wish). If the balloon hits the ground and breaks, they are out. If the person in the middle deliberately does not throw it high enough to give time for a person to catch it, they are out. Play continues with the next water balloon until the final two people are left to save the baby!
Ringmaster vs. Mastermind
Set Up: Have your group form a circle, either standing or sitting in chairs.
Play: Have one person go out of the room (the ringmaster) and the leader selects someone (the mastermind) who will instigate a series of actions (patting knees, patting head, turning around in place) for the rest of the circle to mimic. Have the mastermind start the first action and bring the ringmaster back in and put them in the center of the circle. The ringmaster tries to spot the mastermind and gets three guesses to figure out who is instigating the action. When they guess, they must point and call out in a hero-like voice, "YOU are the mastermind!" Play continues with new people chosen as the mastermind and the ringmaster. A great game where no materials are needed and you can pick the same mastermind several times to crown the most sinister mastermind of all! Bwah-ha-ha!
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Crazy Hockey
Materials Needed: Pool noodles, beach ball
Set Up: You will need a beach ball, three pool noodles and an open space. Divide into two teams and stand in two lines facing each other, each person is assigned a number (so both teams have a one, two, three and so on). Assign each end of the playing area as the goal area for one of the teams.
Play: The leader will call out three numbers and those three numbers from each team run out, grab a pool noodle and try to hit the beach ball into their goal. After 30 seconds or so of play, the next three numbers are called and players keep switching until time is up or all players have played.
Shoulders, Knees, CUP!
Set Up: Everyone in the group pairs up (or you could have a group of three as well).
Play: Students face their opponent with a cup in the middle on the floor and the leader shouts out commands. Players have to obey commands such as, "Head, Toes, Elbows, Ears, Hair" and then "CUP!" The first person to grab the cup wins (and their opponent is out) and finds a new partner until there are two left. Last one with the cup wins!
Foot, Cockroach, Nuclear Bomb
Set Up: A fun twist on rock, scissors, paper! Foot beats cockroach, cockroach beats nuclear bomb (ew, but it's probably true), and nuclear bomb beats foot.
Play: Have groups of two come to the front and play in elimination rounds but when you are eliminated, you must cheer for the person who defeated you.
Questions Only
Set Up: Have two members of the group go to the center of the circle.
Play: When the leader says "go", pairs take turns saying a statement, but the catch is that they can ONLY say a question. The partner doesn't answer the question, but then asks another question. The first person to stall with no question, to accidentally answer the question, or to accidentally repeat a question is out. Play continues until you are down to the final two people in your group.
One-Two-Three-Four-Let's-Have-A Sock-War!
Materials Needed: Socks
Set Up: Grab enough pairs of longer socks (calf-length) at a dollar store for about half your group (or for everyone if a smaller number). In your activity area, create a 12' square with painter's tape on the floor.
Play: The object of the game is to be the last person with their socks on. Four to six players in the square at a time works well and players must stay on their hands and knees, no kicking allowed. Players are not allowed to hold onto their socks or pull up partially removed socks. Play in rounds until a sock champ is declared. Let the kids keep the socks as a bonus prize (if they are still in one piece; the socks, that is!)
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Finish the Lyric
Materials Needed: Dry erase boards or thick paper, markers
Set Up: Have two to four people from your group upfront and give them a small dry erase board or piece of cardstock and a marker.
Play: They are given the first few words of a song or phrase that most of the group will know and asked to finish by writing the word or words on their paper. When the host says "Show your guess", the contestants flip over their guess as to how the lyric or phrase is finished. For example, from the Star Spangled Banner: "Complete this lyric: 'Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the ___ fight'." Try to pick obscure parts of songs so it's not too easy. If your group is a sports team for a school, use parts of the school's fight song. If it's a church group, use a popular worship song. If a theater group, use lines from the last play your group performed. Or for a holiday, give lines from popular holiday-related songs.
Crowd Charades
Set Up: Divide the group into two teams and have teams send their best "guesser" to the front. Before gathering, the leader/host should write up a set of words to be acted out by the teams on a large pad of paper.
Play: The guesser turns toward their team and the host holds up the word, and the entire team then acts out the word. Teams get a point if their guesser is the first to guess correctly. A new guesser then comes up and play continues until a point value is reached or you run out of words! You can use words that are related to your group's purpose or theme-related.
Impossible Shot
Materials Needed: Hula-Hoop, foam projectiles
Set Up: If you do a web search, you will even find a "hype" video to use when you introduce the game. If you do this for a one-time event, you could play in rounds and anyone who hits the "impossible shot" gets a prize. Or if your group meets weekly, you can use it over and over or play in elimination rounds with two people playing each other.
Play: For the first three shots, the leader holds a Hula-Hoop on stage, across a room or outside, while the student or students try to make the shot with three different projectiles like a foam bow and arrow set, foam football, and frisbee. The final "impossible shot" involves a Hula-Hoop hung in the far corner of the room. You can only imagine how crazy teens go when someone actually makes the final shot!
Donuts on a String
Materials Needed: Glazed donuts, string, long rope
Set Up: Tie donuts to a string and then tie all the donuts to a pole or strong rope running the length of the playing area (or have volunteers hold the ends).
Play: Contestants should kneel with hands behind their back and attempt to be the first one to eat the donut off the string. You will have to decide if it falls to the floor, if eating it off the floor still counts (ew, but also funny)! You can play this in rounds to determine who has donut dominance in your group.
A good group game is like sneaking delicious veggies into the mac and cheese, not only will the games enhance the enjoyment of the meeting, but you sneak in a great team-building opportunity for your teens as well!
Julie David is a freelance writer, educator, and worship pastor's wife from the Midwest who likes warm hugs.
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Q: Temporarily disable a button in as3 I am just playing with flash cs5.5 (as3) and movieclips as buttons and have come across a problem.
I want to assign a listener to a movieClip, using addEventListener, this works fine:
myClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, menuEvent, false, 0, true);

I then use myClip.mouseEnabled = false to temporarily disable the button, but the button still works!
Any ideas why this is so?

A: I think it is just myClip.enabled = false, if myClip is a button of course!

A: myClip.mouseEnabled = false;
myClip.mouseChildren = false;

This will ensure that not only the top level clip, but all of it's children will be mouse-disabled as well.

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Water is essential for life. On this we all agree. Where opinions differ is how best to protect and improve the quality of this precious resource.
Some contend a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme accompanied by arbitrary goals and time tables for improvement holds the most promise.
The Iowa Soybean Association joins those who advocate a pragmatic approach — one that empowers those who work the land to select and use practices proven to have a quantifiable impact on environmental performance.
That's because the use of cover crops, bioreactors, buffer strips and better nutrient and drainage management have improved the quality of water coming from the agricultural landscape.
There is no such proof for a regulatory scheme.
We don't make this assessment lightly. As farmers, we have a direct and significant stake in this discussion. We also know that agricultural productivity and environmental stewardship go hand in hand.
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Diverse and ever-changing biological systems and Mother Nature don't react to threats of litigation. Unlike water utilities and sewage treatment facilities, agriculture is not a closed system. Extreme weather events combined with tremendous variability in soil types, hydrology and geology create a unique and unprecedented mix of factors that must be managed.
And nowhere more than in Iowa. For example, millions of acres comprise the Des Moines Lobe (nestled just north and west of Des Moines) and hold tremendous natural fertility extremely suitable for agriculture. It's a system brimming with energy. Farmers work carefully to transfer that energy into calories to power life. Liberating that energy while, at the same time, completely confining it to the crops grown on the land is an enormous challenge. Because we struggle with this challenge at times, however, does not imply malice, negligence, ignorance or malfeasance.
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In addition, nearly 2,400 farmers and land owners invested $22.5 million on conservation practices last year to prevent soil erosion and improve water quality. Of that total, $13 million came out of farmers' own pockets.
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We remain committed to this effort because it's the best approach for Iowa and a model for the nation, today and for generations to come.
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