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Simon Saunders, managing consultant, Portcullis Computer Security
The types of security programmes run by financial institutions to date have delivered a certain amount of assurance, but they are not providing protection against the most sophisticated of attacks.
There are multiple reasons for this and it is not possible to cite any one particular failing as being solely responsible. It is important to understand that assurance programmes do currently, and will continue to, deliver significant value. However, there is also the need to do more if there is an aspiration to better protect against the most sophisticated threats.
Before proposing a solution, it makes sense to first highlight what a typical assurance programme fails to cover.
Risk reviews and security testing tend to be conducted as part of project go-live and at periodic intervals thereafter, e.g. annually, for the highest priority systems. Security testing is heavily reliant on highlighting known issues and the results are only relevant to the system in the present configuration. The changes made to the system over time, and the challenge of keeping up to date with patching, mean that the historical view of system security may be steadily made less relevant. Effectively, corporate perception of system security may be out of sync with reality.
Systems tend to be put forward for security testing in a relatively isolated state; the interconnections with other systems may be overlooked, the wider infrastructure is often considered trusted, legacy components assumed secure and users assumed not to significantly undermine security. As such, security testing can be performed without context and whilst the security of a particular system may be understood, its posture in its normal operating environment is less clear. Some of the responsibility for this sits with the security testing community for not challenging clients enough on test scope. There are also the commercial and practical realities; there will always be scope boundaries and the need to control cost and time. There is also the need to reflect on how the security programmes of many organisations have become driven by the need to comply with an internal standard which addresses a generic set of threats, rather than by threats to a particular system and the data thereof.
Risk acceptance is a key component of the modern landscape. There will always be risks that are accepted for purist reasons (those that pose an acceptable risk to the business) and for reasons of circumstance (those issues that are accepted because there is not the time or money available to fix them). However, these acceptances quickly grow into hundreds and thousands across the estate of a large multinational and it is really hard to map the connections between them. Some of the most sophisticated attacks leverage a lot of low and medium level issues to create a greater, 'perfect storm', attack.
Having recognised that the traditional approach to information assurance doesn't cover all bases and that weaknesses remain which could be exploited by a sophisticated attacker, the question is 'what next'?
Intelligence-led testing, as recently highlighted by the Bank of England under its CBEST scheme, has some of the answers. The process starts by using current intelligence (as in the military intelligence sense of the word) to understand what may be targeted by whom, how and why. This intelligence is then used to shape further assurance work on the live production network where there is an opportunity to have the security testing company test those assets that are at greatest risk using the same techniques as a would-be attacker.
This overcomes the limitations regarding historical risk reviews not being current, reviewing systems out of context, limited scopes and highlighting the consequences of risk acceptance and a wide range of other deficiencies.
The aspiration is ultimately to help organisations get one step ahead of the attackers and shut down those opportunities for compromise before they occur.
As part of the intelligence-led testing, there is also an opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of corporate defences. These are often not exercised as part of a security test because, ultimately, they can only make a situation better. However, decisions do get made about the effectiveness of both technological and human measures in terms of their ability to identify and intercept attacks. As part of running intelligence-led testing, there is a chance to test the performance of these measures.
While the traditional approach to information assurance and penetration testing programmes does have its limitations, it needs to remain part of corporate culture. It covers a wide range of threats in a practical way and to move away from such an approach would be to the detriment of security. However, in recognising the limitations of this approach and filling these gaps with intelligence led testing there is an opportunity to better protect against the more sophisticated threats.


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April 11: Top Ten Of The Most Unique Books I've Read
Whilst each book is unique, there are a number of books that stick in my mind as being especially different.
1. Nod by Adrian Barnes
Right up there with the strangest books I've ever read, this novel explores the concept of societal collapse due to the inability to sleep.
2. The One Memory Of Flora Banks by Emily Barr
This YA novel follows amnesiac Flora on her day to day life: it is full of repetition (understandable given the concept), but has a great plot twist.
3. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
This YA novel utilises magical realism in order to tackle important themes including bullying and death.
4. One by Sarah Crossan
Told in free verse, this YA story tells the tale of conjoined twins, their relationship, and the challenges they face.
5. Foe by J.M. Coetzee
The magical realism featured in this novel is incredibly thought provoking: concerning what is real and what is imagined, it is open to a vast array of interpretations.
6. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
With one of the most interesting narrators, this series is amusing and holds relevant life lessons for both young and old.
7. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
That plot twist! You think you know the direction this novel is heading in, and then, bam!
8. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Whilst not an unusual YA dystopian concept, the lexis and syntax used in this book are wildly different to anything I've ever read before, which took a bit of getting used to.
9. The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Told from the perspective of a teenage boy with autism, the novel follows Christopher solving a crime.
10. Life With No Breaks by Nick Spalding
This entire book was written in one sitting: 24 hours in front of a computer is probably enough to drive anyone insane, and some of the tales in this autobiographical account are certainly hilarious.
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The tuition rate for students taking Court Reporter courses at AIB College of Business was $13,167 per year.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Purple Mountain Majesty
15 comments:
- GardenOfDaisies said...
Your photos truly show the beauty that is Nevada!
And we can only hope that the people who dumped their furniture there got a flat tire on the way home. ;-)
- March 31, 2011 at 10:54 PM
Here in our part of the country an old sofa like that is just prime for placing on a front porch. Then they sit and pick their banjos. LOL Oh wait... that's the state next door.
- April 1, 2011 at 3:50 AM
- Diane said...
Nature has a way of making everyone's home beautiful--wonderful photos!!
- April 1, 2011 at 5:51 AM
- Lisa @ Fern Creek Cottage said...
I agree, people shouldn't throw their old stuff in the desert. But that red couch shot is just too cool!!
- April 1, 2011 at 8:25 AM
- Pamela said...
Hey Becca!
That is such a national thing...dumping couches in the country! Drives me nuts . We see it all the time and on trails in the mountain! Back home is just as bad!
These photos are beautiful!!!!
But i have to say it is rougher landscapes isn't it? Like parts of Canada to me seem tough.
I don't blame you for wanting green and hydrangeas! My cousin back home lives in Northern Ontario..very cold in winter and she cannot grow hydrangeas.
They have to be one of my favourites.
Don't worry Becca God hears you!!!
Pamela xo
Oh it is pouring here today!!! Yesterday was so warm and sunny and the tree frogs oh my they drive me crazy ! 6am they start!!!!
- April 1, 2011 at 11:03 AM
- Caryl said...
It might not be that great for you but honestly it is wonderful for me to see where others live. I am living now back in the Transvaal and we have lots of rain. Yes of course we enjoy all the things that you are missing, but it gets tiresome too sometimes. ;o)
- April 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Caryl said...
It might not be that great for you but honestly it is wonderful for me to see where others live. I am living now back in the Transvaal and we have lots of rain. Yes of course we enjoy all the things that you are missing, but it gets tiresome too sometimes. ;o)
- April 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- KClark Photography said...
Wonderful images. Seeing the beauty in our everyday world takes a special eye. You've certainly caught it here.
- April 1, 2011 at 4:06 PM
- Catherine said...
Really??? Someone just dumped a couch off in the middle of the desert??? Oh my stars!
But I must say, it did indeed make for a very interesting photo! Excellent!
Happy Weekend Becca!
xo Catherine
- April 1, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- Linda @ Itsy Bits And Pieces said...
Beautiful photos, Becca...you really captured the colors and shadows...
- April 1, 2011 at 7:57 PM
- ain't for city gals said...
We are having free dump days this weekend and everyone is certainly taking advantage of it! Sometimes I think if they didn't charge so much for taking things to the dump people wouldn't dump in the desert. Anyway, love the backlight on the mountains (that is what we call it in AZ)..my e-mail is email@example.com Need to talk to you about something concerning pay it forward...
- April 2, 2011 at 6:27 AM
- lilylovekin said...
We drive 8 hours almost every other week-end to spend time in the Mojave Reserve-not far from where you live. We find the country beautiful. I know it is not green and lush but there is a stark beauty there and you capture it well. People are jerks to leave their trash like that! It makes me angry. Your post got my emotions going in many ways.
- April 2, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- Unknown said...
Hello girlfriend..
What great photos. It is really hard to make that desert look good. But you have certainly done just that..
Your photo's look great. I know it sucks that people just throw there junk out in the desert but I think that couch looks pretty cool...
Hope you are enjoying you day!! It was so hot here yesterday.. YUCK!!
No fun!! I hope it is cooler today!
Hugs, Linda
- April 2, 2011 at 9:01 AM
- Lisa Gordon said...
These are truly majestic Becca.
Beautifully done!
- April 2, 2011 at 12:38 PM
- Jillayne said...
It is beautiful Becca and you're right, it's that which is right in front of us that we don't see, or don't appreciate. It's as though we see it for what it isn't rather than what it is.
Your photos are beautiful, once again.
Thanks for sharing them, jillayne
- April 3, 2011 at 11:11 PM


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Most things in life have some level of danger. Driving your car. Jogging in the park. Opening your door when the bell rings.
We all do various safety checks depending upon our activities. We drive the speed limit and wear our seat belts. We carry pepper spray when jogging. We look through the peephole before opening the door.
There are "rules" when handling a firearm as well. The NRA has 3 Fundamental Safety Rules for safe gun handling -
- Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.
- Always keep your finger off the trigger until you're ready to shoot.
- Always keep the gun unloaded until ready to use.
But what happens when the rules are broken? There is a saying I follow quite closely: "Expect the best, prepare for the worst".
I can't tell you how many times I have seen people break these rules - primarily the last two. People will be at the range in a shooting lane chatting with someone else, while their finger sits idly on the trigger. Or they'll set down a loaded gun on the shooting bench.
I used to just keep an eye out to ensure the muzzle never left the shooting point. It made for a very unenjoyable time at the range.
Nowadays, I'll go over, introduce myself and speak with the person. Most times when I'm at the range, I'll be wearing my NRA Instructor gear. I'll speak with them and offer them some suggestions. So far, the suggestions have been appreciated and taken to heart.
But things can still go wrong. Last week in one Northern California town, a man went into a range, rented a gun, and took his own life. Thankfully, he waited until the range was empty before he shot himself in the head, so no one else was injured.
While this is an extremely rare incident, I still plan for something like this happening - an accidental shooting or even an intentional one. Attached to my range bag is a first aid kit for gunshot trauma. The intent is to help stabilize the individual until medics can arrive. It contains large gauze bandages, tape, gloves, etc.
It also has eye rinse, cleansing wipes and regular Band-aids for more common injuries like fingers or skin getting caught in the slide. Before every class or individual training session, I let my students know about the kit - I could be the one accidentally injured!
The kit is like a life insurance policy. Things can happen that you don't expect. I've never needed to use it, and probably never will. But it's there, just in case.
Accept The Challenge
If you're going to handle a firearm, get proper training. Learn how to safely operate and store it BEFORE you use it. When you own a firearm, you are responsible - like it or not. Most firearms "accidents" are preventable. Excuses won't go very far if there is an injury due to your lack of safety knowledge.
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Live sports have long gotten the credit for keeping cable customers subscribing. With almost everything else streaming on websites such as Hulu, sporting events have often resisted the call of the web. That has been changing, little by little. Earlier this year, the Super Bowl was streamed live on the web, and now, NBC is upping its streaming game during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The network announced earlier this year that all 32 Olympic events will be streamed on NBCOlympics.com. While this is great news for cord-cutters and those looking to view their favorite events on their smartphones and tablets--and at work--NBC's decision does come with a few caveats.
Big rating events, such as Michael Phelps going for his 15th gold medal, will be streamed only after its prime-time debut. Still, the embrace of digital viewership will provide NBC and its advertisers with an unprecedented look at how a range of spectators are viewing the games.
For the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, NBCUniversal, Inc. (NBCU) created what it called The Billion Dollar Lab. Of the 32 events covered, 25 were streamed in high definition and with multiple camera angles that spectators could control. For this year's games, NBCU will continue to provide the same great coverage, now with an almost 60% increase in streaming coverage, as well as providing content for smartphones, tablets, and other devices. According to Troy Dreier, senior associate editor of Streaming Media magazine, the games provide a great opportunity for innovation. "Companies who have the rights to [the Olympics] seem to challenge themselves to provide even more access, even more sports, even more camera angles. It does create a wonderful calling card to the online industry to see what it can do."
Calculating the number of unique viewers will be tricky since viewers will be using multiple devices. NBCU has teamed up with Google and comScore, Inc., a databased infrastructure service provider, to help accurately count viewers and to see where they're coming from.
Google and comScore will analyze "single source" consumption, unduplicated viewership patterns, across content shown through television broadcast, mobile devices, computers, and, for the first time ever, tablets. According to an NBCU February press release, "[T]he Google project will feature a panel of approximately 3,000 respondents who have agreed to participate. The project will also utilize a number of proprietary algorithms developed specifically for this project by Google."
And while consumer tracking isn't new, comScore's initiative will bring in data on a wide and diverse set of Olympic enthusiasts. "The comScore initiative will tap into the company's new 10,000 member single source TV/Online panel," announced NBC. "[Single source data is] considered the 'holy grail' of media measurement."
These initiatives are great news for cord-cutters, who will now be able to see all 3,500 hours of Olympic coverage. And NBCU sees the value in developing its relationships with online-only consumers. Alan Wurtzel, president of research and media development for NBCU, said via press release, "Since we first began the Olympics Billion Dollar Lab, non-linear video consumption has increased dramatically." NBCU is reaching out to these consumers, hoping to ride the technology wave to increased ratings and revenue streams.
Right now, providers are looking for more ways to integrate and monetize multiscreen distribution. It is a race that few content providers know how to efficiently run. If The Billion Dollar Lab provides the detailed data it promises, it will prove to be a successful experiment. As of right now, online viewing is mostly seen as marketing. Last year's French Open semifinal between Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic was streamed live on the West Coast and then televised on tape delay. As a result, the West Coast ratings were higher than the East Coast numbers, where the match was broadcast live. NBCU will be looking at how to bring in significant revenue from both live streaming and prime-time broadcasts.
"It definitely does provide buzz to put something online," says Dreier. "Even more than that, it creates a bigger audience that will then tune in to the regular broadcast show." This is exactly what many content providers use online viewership for: buzz. Televised events are now discussed and debated in real time via social media.
For that reason, NBCU has been quick to realize the value of online viewers versus traditional broadcast viewers. "What you can do with real precise analytics online is so much greater than with TV advertising," says Dreier. The Olympics experiment is poised to provide advertisers with an unprecedented view of where best to spend their dollars. "I think it won't be long before ads for online viewing will charge more. Because they can tell who exactly is watching and they know something about that person and they can target the ad to the viewer in a way that TV will never be able to do."
NBCU's plan does not come without risk. The network provided live streaming for this year's Super Bowl, which drew in 2.1 million unique viewers. However, the game was plagued by what Kevin Monaghan, managing director of NBC Sports Digital Media, called "connection issues." This year's Olympic games are 17 days long, and 24-hour viewership is expected. Any failures will be discussed loudly and at length via social media.
Dreier says he doesn't expect that will happen. "We've seen great things with streaming from the previous Olympics. I believe they'll improve on the experience this time." A similar pattern was seen during this spring's March Madness NCAA tournament, where viewers watched live games on their smartphones and tablets during off-peak hours. NBC received rave reviews for the quality of support. "It's a great showcase, a great opportunity and they're pulling out all the stops to make it really good. I think people will be really happy with their online video experience."
Will NBCU's Billion Dollar Lab provide the missing key to monetizing online and platform content? Probably not. But NBCU's dedication to the experiment will provide them with data from a unique and vast viewing pool, the likes of which have never been seen before. Luckily for all content providers, NBCU, Google, and comScore have no intentions of keeping their findings under wrap.


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After the main Google app and Google Keyboard are updated, here's a new Messenger app from Google. This is a new app that is meant for SMS messaging so you can stay in touch with family and friends all the time. This also allows MMS messaging to any phone, as well as, group texts. If you still want to share more media, you can do so and send photos, audio messages, and videos.
The Google Messenger app also allows easy searching through conversation threads and contacts. You are sure to find what you're looking for simply by typing a word or key phrase.
Of course, this new app will feature Google's latest Material Design so expect a more fluid, delightful, and more intuitive design. We don't clearly know what that means but we'll sure know once more Material Design-based apps are introduced.
As with any messaging software, you can choose to block other SMS senders you don't want. This way, you'll have more control of the messages you see on your phone. Texting is also more fun and at the same time convenient now because of message archiving, colored text threads, emoji support, and audio messages.
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This grower is sure of this plant identification.
Deep blue flowers, very large heads, tall. Jul-Sep.
African lily, Lily-of-the-Nile, Love flower
Agapanthus genus (African lily). These are clump-forming perennials, some of which are evergreen with upright stems. The leaves are strap-shaped; the narrow-leaf forms are frost hardy and the broad leaf ones are half hardy. They will produce large umbels of bell to tubular-bell shaped or trumpet shaped flowers, that will bloom in shades of white, blue and purple. The seedheads are also ornamental.
Protect crowns in the winter with a mulch. Suitable for coastal conditions.
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The T.A.M.I. Show and The Big T.N.T. Show out on Blu-ray DVD
By Harvey Kubernik c 2016
Fans of classic rock and soul rejoiced when the legendary concert Steve Binder-directed film T.A.M.I. Show made its DVD debut on Shout! Factory in 2009.
Now that landmark film made its Blu-ray debut, along with its long-lost—and much requested—follow-up, The Big
TNT Show, directed by Larry Peerce, on December 2, 2016, as part of the 2-disc Blu-ray set T.A.M.I. Show / The Big T.N.T. Show Collector's Edition, from Shout! Factory. The Big T.N.T. Show was also released as a standalone DVD on the same day.
The package contains all the bonus features from the T.A.M.I. Show DVD, plus new interviews with The Big T.N.T. Show performers Petula Clark, Henry Diltz and John Sebastian. The product is mastered from a High-Definition transfer.
The Big T.N.T. Show was filmed in Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. on November 29, 1965 and stars some of the biggest acts of the day, including the Byrds, in their original line-up of Gene Clark, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, Michael Clarke, and Roger McGuinn, perform two # 1 hits, "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season.")
One of the most acclaimed rock events ever captured on film, the 1964 concert known as T.A.M.I. Show [Teenage Awards Music International] presented a lineup like no other, the Rolling Stones, James Brown, the Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, the Miracles, the Supremes, Chuck Berry, Lesley Gore and other acts took the stage one after another rehearsed and recorded over two days and nights on October 29 and 30th on Pico Blvd. at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Marshall Berle, Howard Wolf, John Landis and David Cassidy were in the audience.
I was literally across the street, with my surfer pal Peter Piper during one afternoon at the Con Surf Board shop and too busy buying paraffin wax for my skateboard to even realize what was happening inside that venue.
Aside from the five rock groups, all the performers were backed by a band assembled by musical director Jack Nitzsche. Including Hal Blaine, Glen Campbell, Tommy Tedesco, Don Peake, Barney Kessel, and Leon Russell, along with Fanita James, Jean King, and future solo star Darlene Love, billed as the Blossoms, provided backing vocals.
Director Steve Binder, a native of Los Angeles, departed the University of Southern California just before graduating to apprentice under host Steve Allen, who pioneered a variety show.
Binder, barely in his twenties, then took on Jazz Scene USA, bringing live performances by musical masters to a
network audience. Binder understood the unique requirements of lighting and blocking for musicians in an optimal setting. Once The T.A.M.I. Show was screened theatrically in 1965, the flick informed every subsequent rock concert movie.
"Going back to Steve Allen and Hullabaloo where I was collecting people all the way through my career that I wanted to have in my team and work together with," Binder explained to me in a 2008 interview.
"And in those days, technically, union wise, you unless you had a union card you weren't supposed to participate. I learned together the difference between making records and television audio. It was a perfect marriage. Even in lighting I would bring in rock 'n' roll guys who did concerts with guys bred on television and movies. All of a sudden they were learning about the contemporary music business."
Binder would go on to direct many music TV specials, including the seismic Elvis: The '68 Comeback Special.
"I met the Stones in 1964," Jack Nitzsche told me in a 1988 interview. "Andrew Loog Oldham called me up. He and the group had met Phil Spector and Andrew and the Stones wanted to meet me. Brian Jones was in a three piece suit and tie. It was at RCA studios and I was working with Edna Wright, Darlene Love's sister.
"A little later, the Stones started working at RCA.
"I got them into The T.A.M.I. Show. I put the band together and did all the arrangements. I was the musical director. I had told the producer, Bill Sargent, the Stones were going to be big. I felt the Stones could close the show.
"Bill said 'James Brown is going to close the show.' We all stood at the side of the stage watching James Brown do
his act. People were standing and screaming for James. (Legend has it that James told the Stones, 'you'll never be able to follow this.'). Then the Stones came out and all the girls started crying. It was a whole new emotion!
"I put Leon Russell in The T.A.M.I. Show band. He's all over the soundtrack. I met him with Jackie DeShannon; she introduced me," Jack Nitzsche explained to me in our interview.
"Leon at the time was playing piano in a bar in Covina. He was an innovative piano player. He was good. I heard him on a Jackie DeShannon record. In those days it was real hard to find rock 'n' roll piano players who didn't play too much. Leon talked the same language.
"I had met Don Randi a long time ago. He was a pianist at a jazz club on La Cienega," recalled Nitzsche in our conversation. "He was cool. He looked like a beatnik. His hair was right. He had the attitude. He didn't smile when he played."
"In a stunningly monochromatic case of Life imitating Art imitating Pop and Soul. The TAMI Show is the living, beating, in-the-flesh reincarnation of all those cavalcades of stars Alan Freed would assemble during the closing reels of most each and every Fifties B-flick beginning with the word 'Rock.' Indeed, in TAMI we can still see Gerry Marsden in a guitar duet to the death with none other than Chuck Berry, Mick Jagger wisely conceding to take on the blue-flaming Butane James Brown, the Barbarians' five-fingered drummist practically inventing Garage Rock, Marvin Gaye hitch-hiking after Diana Ross' supreme eyeful, and to top it all – to HOST it all, no less – those Clown Princes of Surf 'n' Roll themselves, Jan and Dean!
"Steve Binder recorded absolute history with this screaming little film; even the briefest glance towards Dennis Wilson's moptop during 'Surfin' USA' will tell you why," is how music journalist Gary Pig Gold described the legendary sight and sound collaboration in 2005
In 2004 I interviewed Andrew Loog Oldham, the manager/producer and publicist for the Rolling Stones, and I asked him about The T.A.M.I. Show.
"Why it works for me is the fear and loathing in Santa Monica There you go. Come on man, it's a magic moment.
"Seeing the Motown acts was terrific. Seeing Jack Nitzsche and Dave Hassinger. It was the film within the film. 'Isn't
it nice to be in this business? Everyone is working together for one thing. The Beach Boys' shirts were horrendous. Isn't it nice we're all here?' The Stones were becoming successful, and getting good, and wait a minute, we gotta follow James Brown?
"Bill Sargent did The T.A.M.I Show and the black and Electronovision Harlow with actress Carol Linley."
In the early sixties, engineer Sargent with Joseph E. Bluth developed an electronic camera system with better resolution than traditional television cameras known as Electronovision technology. Bluth served as technical director on the Los Angeles television station KTTV 1950-1951 TV series, The Buster Keaton Show.
In November of 1974 for Melody Maker, I interviewed Bobby Rogers, a founding member of the Miracles with his sister Claudette Rogers, Ronnie White, Pete Moore, and William "Smokey" Robinson.
"I really loved touring with the English groups, back in 1963 and 1964. We used to tour with the Rolling Stones and people like Georgie Fame. During the breaks from touring, a lot of the groups would ask questions about certain songs on our albums. I remember when we filmed The TAMI Show, Mick Jagger would ask me about what I'd thought of the album James Brown Live At The Apollo, which was his favorite LP. One time on a tour he mentioned that he'd like to record a Marvin Gaye song for the next Stones album. A month later, 'Hitch Hike' was being played all over Detroit radio," marveled Rogers.
In According to the Rolling Stones, published by Chronicle Books in 2003, Keith Richards remembered The T.A.M.I. Show as "really kaleidoscope. It had never been done before, and it's never been done since."
In a 2001 interview I had with Bill Wyman, I asked him about The T.A.M.I. Show and the stage presence of the Rolling Stones. "The band was great live always. Always. The Stones were a better live band than any other band at that time. I'm not saying they were the greatest songwriters or the greatest recording artists, but they were the best live band wherever you went. You could go up on stage and blow everybody away no matter who they were.
"As long as me and Charlie could get it together, then the rest of the band could do what they'd like and it worked. And that's what happened in the studio, and that's what happened live. Me and Charlie were really always on the ball, always straight, always together and had it down."
In 2001, I spoke with dancer Toni Basil, who helped choreograph The T.A.M.I. Show with David Winters.
"I said to myself, 'How can anybody follow James Brown?'
"Anyway, Jack [Nitzsche] pointed this out to me, and I later heard as well, that Andrew Loog Oldham was so smart
that he staged a massive equipment breakdown as well as suggesting some camera angles. I just knew that Andrew was saying that the Stones' equipment broke down and they had to wait for stage set up. We knew it was some time would pass after James Brown's performance.
"So, finally, maybe the tune was 'It's All Over Now,' where there is a big cymbal crash in the opening of the song and Mick had a tambourine in his hand and I wanna tell you simultaneously with that crash in the music Mick jumped up in the air, and as he jumped up in the air, Brian Jones turned his back to the audience, which was the first rebellious piece of theater I had ever seen in my entire life.
"I come from vaudeville. My parents were in vaudeville, on stage shows. You never turned your back to the audience. So, Mick was jumping in the air, Brian had his back to the audience, and Mick hit the ground in a crouch. Not one person ever remembered James Brown again. And neither did I.
"Mick's moves were fantastic. What is this? What is he doing, ya know? As a trained dancer and even as a Go Go dancer and a street dancer, I had never seen such moves in my life. I mean, what they really were post-modern and right on the beat.
"It doesn't matter what physically you're doing as long as you're grabbing the beat. But Mick was doing physical moves that no one had ever seen before. In the same way James Brown was doing physical moves that no one had ever seen before. And Brian [Jones] had his back to the audience for a lot of the set. He was a rebellious comet and hardly turned around which made it extremely powerful. It helped this rebellious theater. I really did.
"If Brian would have faced front, it would be great, and Mick would have been great but there was a theatrical ambience that Brian brought because he turned his back. And the Stones didn't take a bow, which I thought was
shocking. I mean, even James Brown came on and took a bow.
"Elvis Presley, James Brown and Mick Jagger had some similarities regarding dance. They moved exactly to the beat. They understood the back beat. And James of course, understood it from a Gospel sense. But Mick, even though his moves were very abstract, and they were almost like where white boys do that can't dance to the beat, but the difference with Mick is, he did dance to the beat.
"What Elvis, James and Mick had in common was that they were nailing the beat. They were all physically dancing to the beat. They weren't like guys who came before them like Frank Sinatra, or those people who would move to the lyric. Their movements came about from the story. Their movements didn't come about the story. Their movements
came because of the music.
"One more thing about The TAMI Show. When Smokey Robinson and the Miracles earlier did 'Mickey's Monkey,' I lost my mind. That was really something. And Jack Nitzsche was brilliant. He was the one who called the shots of what order people went in. And man, he didn't make a mistake. How did he know he could put the Stones on after James Brown? To this day I didn't know how he had the balls to do that and how he had an idea that it could be pulled off like it was."
Don Randi was the musical director for The Big T.N.T. Show taped in 1965 in Hollywood that Phil Spector produced and Larry Peerce directed, who would eventually helm the feature movie Goodbye Columbus.
The Big T.N.T. Show was filmed at the Moulin Rouge in Hollywood, where portions of the Ross Hunter-produced and Douglas Sirk directed Imitation Of Life motion picture starring Lana Turner, Sandra Dee and Susan Kohner were lensed.
Many girls in my Los Angeles junior high school homeroom class were invited to the affair while the boys were encouraged not to attend.
One afternoon in 1976 at Phil Spector's mansion in Beverly Hills while doing an interview with him for Melody Maker, I asked Phil about his monumental catalog as well as the music he produced in live settings as exemplified in The Big T.N.T. Show.
"The musicians I have never outdo me. I'm not in competition with them. I'm in complete accord with them. You need the ability so you hire the best. I have the creativity. I know what I want.
"I always thought I knew what the kids wanted to hear. They were frustrated, uptight. I would say no different from me when I was in school. I had a rebellious attitude. I was for the underdog. I was concerned that they were as misunderstood as I was."
During The Big T.N.T. Show, Ray Charles gives a rousing performance of "What'd I Say" and "Let the Good Times Roll." A sultry performance by The Ronettes on "Be My Baby" is met with impassioned screams from the audience; The Lovin' Spoonful perform their Top 10 hits "Do You Believe in Magic?" and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice"; and Bo Diddley delights the crowd with "Bo Diddley" and "Hey, Bo Diddley."
To close the show, The Ike & Tina Turner Revue give an electrifying recital, spotlighting "I Think It's Going to Work Out Fine" and "A Fool in Love."
Also on the stage that evening was Petula Clark, performing her No. 1 hit "Downtown"; Roger Miller, playing his biggest hit, "King of the Road"; Donovan, opening his set with Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Universal Soldier"; and the reigning queen of folk, Joan Baez, reflecting the continuing popularity of the genre as the Vietnam War escalated. Phil Spector also played piano for Joan Baez's rendition of the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'."
Donovan would remain in Hollywood after the taping, and soon record "The Trip" and "Season of the Witch" at the Columbia studios on Sunset Blvd. later sequenced into his Sunshine Superman album.
Performing to the side of the stage in between acts, but not seen in The Big T.N.T. Show film, was the Modern Folk Quartet. Made up of songwriter/producer Chip Douglas, Lovin' Spoonful member Jerry Yester, rock photographer Henry Diltz, and songwriter/musician Cyrus Faryar, with session player "Fast" Eddie Hoh on drums, the band closed the evening with the show's Harry Nilsson-composed theme song "This Could Be The Night."
To this day, it is the opening theme to the weekly DJ Rodney Bingenheimer's Rodney on the ROQ radio shift on
Originally billed as a companion piece to The T.A.M.I. Show after that event's success, The Big T.N.T. Show holds up as an essential time capsule from its day.
David McCallum, a rising star appearing in the new TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E., was tapped to emcee. Filmed at what was then the Moulin Rouge nightclub on Sunset, footage also includes shots of the Hollywood haunts Chateau Marmont, Ben Frank's coffee shop, and fleeting hot spot The Trip nightclub.
Frank Zappa, Sky Saxon, Mary Hughes, Rodney Bingenheimer, Johnny Legend and Ron and Russell Mael [later of Sparks] are shown on screen in The Big T.N.T. Show audience.
"I went to the taping. There was an open-door policy," volunteered Bingenheimer. "I might have gotten tickets at Wallichs Music City on Sunset and Vine.
"Phil Spector was around. Backstage there was food and all the cool bands from the Sunset Strip were there. This was the event of the sixties. In a theater with a revolving stage.
"I spent some time with David McCallum. We talked about music. His father was a classical musician in England. I was introduced to Donovan. And I sat in the middle of the audience when he sang on a stool. It was cosmic!
"The Ronettes were amazing. I loved Ray Charles. To this day, his LP, Ray Charles Sings Country and Western is one of my favorites," he enthused.
"We were watching this mind-blowing show in color but we knew the movie from it was going to be in black and white. What was really nice about the whole thing, and this what Hollywood was like during 1965-1967, was that many of the acts at the show hung out in the lobby and talked to fans and signed every autograph. I had already seen the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl and this event was just as incredible.
"Man, I have been waiting a long time for this official retail release."
This sanctioned commercial Big T.N.T. Show product has been hailed as one of the definitive music flicks from the coast with the most.
"We did The Big T.N.T. Show with Phil," offered Don Randi in a 2008 interview I conducted with him. "And, on all our dates, we all could read, except maybe a few of the guys who were brought in as players and specialists. All the guys could always read chord charts. That's for sure. I had Barney Kessel on The Big T.N.T. Show.
"My guys in the studio could play live anywhere," stressed Randi. "They were capable musicians. The Big T.N.T. Show was fantastic because of Phil. And he gave me the opportunity, 'cause otherwise I could have taken another date. But when Phil calls, he was 'first call' for me. If I were going to do something else many times I would move things around to accommodate him.
"You've got to remember that most of the guys that were in 'Phil's band' especially were all jazz players and rock 'n' roll was a living for them. And a lot of them didn't like it as much as I did. I have to be very frank about it. I always liked the rock 'n' roll part of it. I thought it was great fun and sometimes very musically interesting. Not all the time. 80 per cent of the time. We got to do some things on rock 'n' roll dates we could not do in jazz and studio settings. It's an interesting concept but those guys were very capable. They were the best musicians and still are the best musicians," Randi boasted.
Randi's principal stagehand was Robert Marchese, a record producer, who later won a Grammy for producing the first live Richard Pryor comedy album from The Troubadour. Marchese previously engineered some sessions for Spector.
At the taping, Marchese observed a conversation between Spector and Ray Charles.
"Don Randi got me the gig as his assistant," recalled Marchese. "I was setting up the stage and working with the orchestra in the pit," Marchese relates from Pittsburgh, PA.
"The arranger/producer) Arif Mardin was there and gave me a copy of the Otis Redding album, Otis Blue. I saw Joe Adams, who was a well-known radio DJ in L.A. (The Mayor Of Melody) and an actor (Carmen Jones, among other credits).
"He was also Ray's right hand man. I told Joe I wanted to shake hands with Ray Charles. He said 'sure.' I said hello to Ray, and then he motioned to Joe and me to take him to 'meet' Phil Spector, who was overseeing the whole ball game. The Byrds were setting up. Ray says to Phil, 'Are you Mr. Phil Spector?' 'Yes.' 'Are you the Boy Genius?' 'Yes.' 'Are you the inventor of the Wall Of Sound?'' 'Yes.' 'Are you the guy who had over 20 hit singles in a row?' 'Yes'" 'Then Mr. Spector, how come there's no toilet paper in the bathroom?'"
"The then King-Of-All-Media-in-waiting Phil Spector not only fully launches action with the ultra Modern Folk Quartet's 'This Could Be The Night' – setting composer Harry Nilsson's career on its way in the process," underscores writer and archivist Gary Pig Gold, "not at all coincidentally – but stuck all the way round to produce the T.N.T. to boot; glimpse his ivories right beside righteous Joan Baez f'rinstance.
"Uncle Phil also graciously allowed Ronnie out to front her fabulous Ronettes …while keeping both ears keyed onto Ike and especially Tina Turner too, you can bet.
"Meanwhile, a still freshly-flying Byrds were counseled backstage by no less than Roger Miller to stick to their countrypolitan guns, Petula Clark can be seen serenading Sky Saxon (as a somewhat dejected F. Zappa sulks elsewhere within the Moulin Rouge), and ingenious-as-ever Ray Charles adds full frug to his American International Ingredients for Soul. Dump into the gloriously mono mix Donovan, Diddley, Illya Kuryakin and a positively scene-stealing – thanks to Canucklehead-in-residence Zal Yanovsky, naturally – Lovin' Spoonful and, lighting its stick and letting off one brash bang indeed, The Big T.N.T. Show in many ways somehow even managed to one-up its big T.A.M.I. brother!"
For further revelations and insights into both of these history-making game and frame films, bundled together on Blu-ray, I readily suggest reading Rock 'N' Film: Cinema's Dance With Popular Music, a terrific book penned by Dr. David James, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press.
In addition, there is also my own 2005 title, Hollywood Shack Job Rock Music In Film and On Your Screen, published by the University of New Mexico Press.
(Harvey Kubernik has been a music journalist for over 44 years and is the author of 8 books. During 2014, Harvey's Kubernik's Turn Up the Radio! Rock, Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles 1956–1972 was published by Santa Monica Press.
In September 2014, Palazzo Editions published Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows, a coffee—table—size volume written by Kubernik, currently published in six different foreign languages. BackBeat/Hal Leonard Books in the United States.
Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik wrote the text for photographer Guy Webster's award-winning first book for Insight Editions published in November 2014. Big Shots: Rock Legends & Hollywood Icons: Through the Lens of Guy Webster. Introduction by Brian Wilson.
In March, 2014, Kubernik's It Was 50 Years Ago Today The Beatles Invade America and Hollywood was published by Otherworld Cottage Industries.
In November of 2015, Back/Beat/Hal Leonard published Harvey's book on Neil Young, Heart of Gold).
During 2017, Sterling will publish Harvey Kubernik's 1967 Complete Rock Music History on the Summer of Love).


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I went over to my parents' house for Easter and tried watching Jessa and Ben's wedding there. I got about 40 minutes in (right before they were pronounced husband and wife) when my dad made me turn it off.
Daddy issues, amirite???????????????????????????????????
And I've tried watching it someway somehow since then, but ultimately gave up. I watched some clips online but not the whole thing. I'm tired of waiting so here's my halfass recap. Enjoy.
The start of the episode is Jessa and Ben sitting down with their pastor and he asks if there's anything stopping them from getting married the following day. They of course say no because duh.
SIDE ACTUAL NOTE: Had a dream last night that there were five forgotten Duggars who the family disowned. There was Joanie, who was a lesbian, there were three other girls who were quadruplets with Jinger. They joined a punk band but still wore the long denim skirts. And then there was this older autistic male brother, who married into a couple. Like he was married to the husband and wife.
ANYWAY. The preacher talks about how they are saving their first kiss for marriage and how it isn't a command in the Bible to do so but they are choosing to do it anyway blah blah blah.
"It's not too hard. You kids will figure it out." -Jim Bob. It's what he says all the time. And then he kisses Michelle. And then she pops out another baby. And then we kill ourselves.
Then the producers interview all the kids and have them use one word to describe Jessa and Ben's relationship.
Peace of mind- a random boy I have never seen before
Sierra is the wedding planner and she was the wedding planner for Jill and Derick, too. So she has a death wish. They sent out 800 invitations to this wedding and are expecting 1,300 people to show up. Let's talk about wedding now that we're on the subject.
Moving on.
The wedding planner is trying to make Jessa's dream of shabby chic come to life. I don't know what that means but it sounds like they are just trying to DIY the crap out of everything and make it look nice.
The wedding rehearsal is the size of an actual wedding but that's because they have 98 siblings between the two of them. They eat ice cream instead of cake because Jessa is trying to be unique and different.
Jinger gives a speech and cries and it is actually sad because you can tell Jessa is the only one she likes. Especially since her three quadruplet sisters went off and joined a punk band without her. HAHA DREAMS ARE WEIRD.
While Jinger is giving the speech or something, Jessa and Ben drink out of the same cup. And I guess I'm just confused. YOU CAN'T HUG BUT YOU CAN DRINK OUT OF THE SAME CUP???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? YOU ARE BASICALLY SWAPPING SALVIA RIGHT NOW?????????????????????? WHERE IS YOUR CHAPERONE???????????????
So then the next day is the wedding and Jessa and Ben are all like, hahaha we are different we are totally going to see each other the day of the wedding and I'm Jessa and I'm going to do Ben's hair for him because I'm a good fiance and hahaha this is so much fun.
Then Jessa gets in her dress and I don't like what I'm about to say.
It's actually gorgeous. Like stunning. And I hate weddings and I hate wedding dresses and I hate America. But this dress is beautiful. It's not white, which is funny because I don't know if you've noticed but virgins never seem to wear white wedding dresses. It's always the hookers in the bright white dresses and you're like mhm.
Anyway, she walks down the aisle and that's when my dad made me turn it off.
So I'm relying on a clip.
They decided not to kiss in front of everyone because it was their first kiss and I'm not sure how I feel about that. Like, yes, please make me come to this wedding and sit through your personal vows but I don't even get to see the awkward first kiss. I would be mad. And rumor has it that Jim Bob was mad. Apparently he freaked out but then begged TLC to make it look like he knew what was happening all along.
But idk idk. I'm glad Jessa and Ben didn't want to kiss in front of us. That was nice of them. THREE WEEKS LATER...
|he looks comfortable.
So they were pronounced husband and wife and then they RAN out of the room because when you've waited a year to kiss, those extra few minutes will actually kill you.
So they ran to a coatroom, I'm assuming and kissed and touched each other and idk idk idk.
That's all I saw. I also watched another clip where the family predicted what was in store for Jessa and Ben and YOU. WILL. NEVER. GUESS. WHAT. THEY. SAID.
"Family predicts what's in store for Jessa and Ben and the answers will shock you." -BuzzFeed
They predicted kids because lol what else is Jessa good for besides popping out babies.
I hate this show.
Josie word count this episode until I stopped watching: 23 words too many


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Hi Caitlyn! :) Methinks you are my only reader, so why not send a shout out to you!?
I wore this crazy polish a few weeks ago; it's crazy because my camera (or my lack of skills) could not capture the accurate colour of the polish. It is a deeper pink, but it definitely rocks purple tones.
This just looks hot pink! Ah well. It applied nicely in two coats, as do about 99% of PPs. As for my accent nail, I'm not exactly sure, but I believe it is Glam Too Glam to Give a Damn. Glam creates some awesome holo glitter creations, but after a while, the silver-based ones all begin to look alike. #firstworldproblems
Picture Polish Wanderlust (index, middle, pinky)
Glam Polish Too Glam to Give a Damn (ring) ??
A few months ago, I thought I would try a rounded nail shape; I'm not sure if I like it on me. I think they would definitely look better on nails with longer nail beds. Oh well. Amazing thing about nails is that they grow out! Have a wonderful Easter weekend. :)


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The library is situated in the Strahov Monastery near the Prague Castle. It is a seat of the Premonstratensian Order since the 12 th century. It is one of the most famous historical buildings in Prague. There are lots of valuable documents and books in the Strahov Library. Earliest prints and more are kept in the Baroque Theological Hall from 1671. The oldest parchment gospel-book is from the 9th century. There are also Dutch globes from the 17 th century in the hall. The main hall of the new classicist library building is the Philosophical Hall. There are 50 000 books kept there. The ceiling is covered with amazing fresco painting by A. Maultbertsch. Library is open to the public between 9 am and 5 pm every day the whole year. It is not possible to take books outside the monastery, because of their great value, but you can read them in the study hall.
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"How many I/O slots do we need to provide, and for which type of I/O cards?" asked my R&D project manager.
In a previous life, I spent many years as a marketing planner for large computer systems. What this really entails is giving guidance to the R&D, manufacturing, support and other teams about what products to build. I was frequently peppered with questions like, "What databases will the users have?" and "How many concurrent users must we support?" The questions were endless and covered a broad range of issues. Now of course, the R&D folks had every reason to ask me those questions—it was my job to understand how customers used our systems and make sure we designed products that met their needs. But how was I supposed to know that level of detail? And if I answered those questions, why would the engineers believe me?
As it turned out, I could answer those very detailed questions. My secret was Contextual Design—I had met Karen and Hugh and they had coached me and my team for a large project. We had gathered customer data and captured that information in various work models, including an affinity and physical model. So when my engineers came asking questions, I'd say, "let's look at the data we have and see what it tells us." Suddenly we were getting answers from our users, not from 'Marketing'. The engineers loved it. They could get details—and engineers love details. The structured capture of information in different work models provided a language that I used to communicate exactly the level of information different groups in my organization required.
I've used numerous marketing processes and many development lifecycles during my career but it wasn't until I encountered Contextual Design that I fell in love. Yes, I'd call it love because once I learned the process, I've stuck with it and used it in some fashion ever since we first met in the mid-1990s. For me that's a long term relationship—okay, that's a different blog. Colleagues frequently ask me what it is about CD that hooked me. My answer is simple—the real difference between CD and all other processes I've used is the capture of detailed data in work models and how those can be used for communicating to the larger organization. Of course going into the field and gathering appropriate data is important—that's a no-brainer—but the discipline and structure of having that data captured explicitly in various work models filled a gaping hole I had found with other processes.
The first project I did using Contextual Design provided me with an understanding of how our customers used our large computer systems. I used that data for almost 5 years, answering questions and helping different R&D teams better understand how customers installed, configured and managed their large systems. We found the physical model to be of great use to us because it captured specific information about where these systems were located, in relation to storage, printers and other systems, how they were connected, etc.
We were now able to make informed decisions and choose trade-offs with much more confidence. I was no longer trapped in endless meetings as different people argued for their opinion, based on something they read or heard from a customer. I could now talk with confidence and with the work models we built from user data I was able to easily communicate what I and the team had learned with my executives. We spent much more time discussing how to deliver things rather than debating what to deliver.
An interesting thing happened to me after that. I spent much less time worrying about and investigating what competitors were doing. I didn't need to. With the customer knowledge I had gained accompanied by the visioning we did, I knew exactly where we could and should go with our product roadmap. If we could execute against that roadmap, we would satisfy our customers and differentiate ourselves significantly. Now I worried about our ability to execute. As long as I could deliver what we knew our customers would need, taking advantage of technology advances and making it all easy for our customers, we'd be golden. My biggest fear was always that a competitor would beat us to market. And unfortunately, that did sometimes happen. I'll share my thoughts about an organization's ability to execute another time.


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July 29, 2010
On vacation (or when you get home), play this game to sharpen your mental skills and help you collect memories for the future.
There are two parts to this post's Take-a-Break: curiosity and memory.
Develop Curiosity
An illustration for this first part is a picture I took while flying over the alps from Italy to Munich in early November 2007. I was puzzled by the patches of white against the dark ground. It looks as though this is snow on a hiking trail, or perhaps on a ski run, but it is only the beginning of November. Yet if it is snow, why would there be only white in these lines but not in the deep valleys?
There isn't much snow yet on the peaks, so why are there breaks in the white, as though there are a deep holes filled with snow? If there wasn't much snow on the mountains as a whole, why did the "snow" create a pattern like this? There are other areas that are in the shadow more than these appear to be and I assume they would continue to have snow, so what makes these areas special?
My interest in the photo is a little like that of members of the Google Earth Community who examine Google Earth pictures to find anomalies that are interesting to them. Look at an enlarged picture if you think that would help — and tell me if you have the answer.
Of course, there are many who would look at this and only think of it as a beautiful mountain scene. If they noticed the white at all, they would ignore it or file it as an-unknown-thing-not-worth-pursuing. Yet doesn't it puzzle you? Don't you wonder what it means?
What I'd like to suggest is that whatever you look at this summer (and of course, for the rest of the year as well), you look with questioning eyes. This could include pictures in print and on TV. Then, when you see something that is a puzzle, try to find out what it is.
There are a zillion things that I don't know the why of, but whenever I take the time to see what they might be, when I ask questions about "why" they are the way they appear — even if I don't find the answer — the mere fact that I've tried enriches my life.
Pay attention to at least one thing that you haven't known how it is made, why it looks the way it does, or its possible purpose. Then pursue the answer.
Memory Recall Suggestion
The second suggestion for this take-a-break is to test your recall memory. For example:
If you look out the window of a plane, take a moment (15 seconds will do) to capture with your mind as much as you can. Then close your eyes and see how much you remember and open them again to notice what you missed. You'll have to do this quickly, of course, since the plane is going so fast.
This is an interesting way to sharpen my mind when it's feeling a little sluggish. And I think it helps when I play a game called pelmanism on the Internet that you may also enjoy. This is a memory card game in which a pack of cards is spread out face down and players try to turn up pairs with the same symbol. I use the easiest form with 12 pairs of animals. It helps me to make up a story about them as I go along, usually based on the first animal that appears. Try it. Keep your brain cells engaged.
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The McMillan Firearms extended long range training course, offered this year in Phoenix, AZ, is designed to show students that the boundaries they once thought impossible can easily be broken. McMillan's basic large caliber course is designed to teach students the fundamentals of long range marksmanship with magnum caliber rifles.
The course covers rifle/scope setup and variations, differences in reticles first focal, second focal planes, and implementing MOA, Mil, and other style reticles. The course includes basic ballistics and what affects bullet flight, including how to compensate for wind. Students work with members of the McMillan training cadre to help master the craft of long range precision shooting. In this advanced shooting course, students will push their capabilities far beyond what they thought possible engaging targets out to 2,000 yards with .338 – .50 caliber rifles and everything in between. Contact McMillan to schedule your spot. The course is sure to fill up fast.
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December 4, 2017 – An AWC was issued in which Bataille was fined $5,000, suspended from association with any FINRA member in all capacities for 10 business days, and required to pay $2,200, plus interest, in disgorgement of commissions received. Without admitting or denying the findings, Bataille consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that he recommended the purchases of convertible notes without a reasonable basis to conclude they were suitable for any investor. The findings stated that at the time Bataille recommended and sold the notes, he had performed very minimal due diligence and did not know whether information provided by the issuer was accurate. Bataille also recommended and sold the investment while his member firm's due diligence was ongoing. Bataille recommended and sold $50,000 of the notes to a customer of the firm, who was an accredited investor. For this investment, Bataille received $2,200. The suspension was in effect from January 2, 2018, through January 16, 2018. (FINRA Case #2014041862704). Bataille has been affiliated with Spencer Edwards, Inc. since 1999.
In a related matter, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on December 4, 2017 against DONALD E. MacCORD, JR., SHANNON D. DOYLE, and DIGI OUTDOOR MEDIA, INC. ("DOM"). The SEC complaint alleges inter alia that the DOM securities offering was fraudulent and that in February 2015, Digi filed a registration statement with the Commission, seeking to sell shares of the company to the public. The registration statement painted a misleading picture for prospective investors about Digi's ability to generate revenue, its financial condition, and its prospects for success. See, https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2017/comp24001.pdf.


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Erasable Permanent Tattoos May Become Reality in 2016
If you ended up hating/regretting/changing mind about your tattoo removing it now is a lot of pain and requires multiple laser sessions. But a team behind Ephemeral Tattoos says it's working on a unique tattoo ink that is permanent but also erasable. What?
There isn't much info about the project but the team claims that their ink will come with a complementary removal solution that can safely erase your tattoos in full or partially in case you change your mind about the entire thing or just have a minor problem (misspelling?) with your design.
Botany Nerd Tattoo Trend Goes Viral
Tattoo artist Rita "Rit Kit" Zolotukhina uses real flowers and plants as stencils to create botany nerd tattoos
Speaking of tattoos an artist Rita "Rit Kit" Zolotukhina is using real flowers and plants as stencils for her works. The result? Realistic-looking botany samples on your arms, legs, and back. What do you think?
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text: London based charity, Made in Europe, have appointed Dezign Fanatics to help develop their brand and core fundraising campaign. "MADE", is much more than a regular charity. It's main aim is to encourage young muslims to put their faith into practice and provides resource for campaigning, educating and volunteering, to address global issues such food crisis, infant deaths, climate change etc. The project involves branding philosophy & identity guidelines, and a concept which aims to change behaviour, attract volunteers and request donations. A restricted budget adds to the challenge of the project, but one the Fanatics could not resist due to the mirroring belief that charity on its own, for which the muslim community is extremely generous with, is not enough on its own.


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Zimmer NexGen Knee Problems
Orthopedic Surgeons Claim Zimmer NexGen Knee Problems Go Beyond Recalled Components, Studies Showing Higher Than Usual Failure Rate
Additionally, Senator Charles Grassley of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over Medicare and Medicaid programs that provides healthcare coverage to over 100 million Americans, weighed in on Zimmer knee problems in June of 2010 with a letter to Zimmer's President and CEO after reading the New York Times article "Surgeon vs. Knee Maker: Who's Rejecting Whom" regarding a respected orthopedic surgeon's allegations of one of Zimmer's NexGen knee replacement systems problems. Senator Grassley questioned Zimmer's handling of Zimmer NexGen knee problems and the company's relationships with paid consultants.
Prominent publications such as the New York Times and the British Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery have published the results of studies that have shown that as many as 20% or more of Zimmer NexGen Legacy Posterior Stabilized (LPS) Stabilized-Flex Fixed total knee replacements become loose at the femoral component and require revision surgery to be corrected. The most common Zimmer NexGen knee problems include loosening, resulting in pain and stiffness in the knee, osteoarthritis, instability (mobility and stability are the primary functions of a healthy knee), infection, dislocation and persistent pain.
NexGen CR-Flex Porous Knee Replacement System ProblemsZimmer NexGen knee problems were first brought to the public spotlight in the June 2010 New York Times article "Surgeon vs. Knee Maker: Who's Rejecting Whom" which detailed the dispute between Zimmer and prominent orthopedic surgeon Dr. Richard A. Berger. The New York Times reported that in March of 2010, Dr. Berger presented the results of a study showing about a 9% failure rate of Zimmer NexGen CR-Flex Porous knee replacement systems that required revision, or replacement, surgery. Zimmer vigorously denies this allegation, as well as Dr. Berger's other claim that another 36% of those in his study showed loosening of the implant but not to the point of requiring revision surgery. The article went on to state that Zimmer's response after Dr. Berger brought the NexGen knee problem to their attention in 2006 was to blame his procedures, somewhat hypocritically since Dr. Berger was one of Zimmer's most praised and highly paid consultants (more than $8 million over a ten-plus year period) who had trained hundreds of surgeons in his advanced techniques. This article even led to an inquiry from the U.S. Senate (see U.S. Senate Finance Committee Questions Zimmer's Corporate Behavior below).
NexGen Legacy Posterior Stabilized (LPS) Flex and Flex Fixed Knee ProblemsThe British Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery published the findings of two professors at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Seoul National University College of Medicine regarding what the article called a "high incidence of loosening of the femoral component in the (Zimmer NexGen) legacy posterior stabilised-flex total knee replacement". This article stated that 38% of the patients in their study had loosening of the device in less than 3 years and 21% required surgery to correct the problem in less than 2 years.
U.S. Senate Finance Committee Questions Zimmer's Corporate BehaviorWhen Senator Charles Grassley, the Ranking Member of Senate Finance Committee at the time, sent a letter to the President and CEO of Zimmer, Inc. on July 29, 2010, he raised questions about what the New York Times article might indicate was a pattern of ignoring the concerns of medical professionals over select devices marketed by the company. Senator Grassley's letter to Zimmer did not focus on the NexGen knee replacement systems, but rather the company's overall policies for ensuring that its devices are safe. In that letter he also referenced Zimmer's deferrered prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice and the requirement that Zimmer be more transparent in its dealings with consultants.
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RMG Independent End Time message leader Robert Martin Gumbura has been convicted of four counts of rape and one on possession of p*rnographic material.
The matter has been stood down to 2.15pm today for aggravation and mitigation.
The sentencing has been postponed to Monday.
Gumbura, who has been in custody since November last year, denied the charges.
Judgment was postponed on January 8 - the initial verdict date - when the court inspected Gumbura's Marlborough mansion.
Regional magistrate Mr Hoseah Mujaya then set January 24 as the judgment date but ruling was again deferred as the magistrate said he was not feeling well. The State closed its case after leading evidence from 12 witnesses, including the alleged victims.
Gumbura, who has 11 wives and 30 children, claims the s*xual encounters with the complainants were consensual. His lawyers, Ms Rekai Maposa and Mr Emmanuel Samundombe, said Gumbura intended to marry the women.
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