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McAfee Cloud Security University was launched to arm IT security professionals with knowledge around cloud computing and the controls they need to enable secure cloud usage. Here you'll find results of various McAfee research and reports as well as learn about the best practices on how to securely adopt the myriad of cloud services available.
Cloud Security 101
Welcome to the Cloud Security 101, where you'll find information about cloud computing, cloud security and the feature and capabilities needed to help protect data in the cloud.
Whiteboard Walkthroughs
Cloud Usage Growth
Similar to previous shifts in technology, such as the rise of the PC and the Internet, the cloud creates new and significant concerns among business leaders about the potential for headline-making security incidents. To better understand these trends, McAfee analyzed aggregated, anonymized cloud usage data for over 30 million users worldwide at companies across all major industries.
Cloud Security Trends
The average organization now uses 1,154 cloud services, of which, 90% are unsanctioned, which leads to a host of cloud security challenges
Cloud Security Trends
Employees store all kinds of sensitive and regulated data in cloud services, signifying an increased level of trust in cloud security
Cloud Security Trends
What's in a name? As recent high-profle data breaches demonstrate, cyber criminals are seeking out documents containing company budgets, employee salaries, and employee Social Security numbers
Cloud Security Trends
Owing to the scale of corporate data stored in the cloud today, security incidents are no longer isolated to PCs and applications on the network. The average organization experiences 19.6 cloud-related security incidents each month
Office 365 Security Concerns: Download Definitive Guide to Office 365 eBook
Office 365 Adoption Rate, Stats, and Usage
The First 48 Hours: How to Respond to a Data Breach
SharePoint Online Security Best Practices When Migrating from On-Prem SharePoint to Office 365
OneDrive Security Best Practices
Top 4 Office 365 Security Best Practices
17 Salesforce Security Best Practices
51 AWS Security Best Practices
Gartner CASB Magic Quadrant Publication Update
Survey of IT leaders uncovers cloud opportunities and risks
Cloud apps offer several benefits that include lower cost, faster implementation, and a better user experience. The line of business is driving this technology shift in an unprecedented way, with end users frequently asking IT professionals within their companies for new cloud-based applications. Companies have responded with formal programs to assess and onboard cloud services. While cloud adoption started with cloud-native systems of engagement, we're entering a new stage in which companies migrate their systems of record to the cloud.
As data leaves the company data center for the cloud, IT is caught between delivering technologies to support innovation and growth in the business and securing sensitive data against proliferating threats. This survey, conducted by the Cloud Security Alliance, asked over 200 IT and security professionals from across industries worldwide how their organizations are managing cloud adoption.
Onboarding cloud services
The CSA report found that employees and the line of business are key elements in driving corporate cloud adoption. IT professionals we surveyed receive, on average, 10.6 requests each month for new cloud services. Even considering there is likely overlap in these requests, that's a tremendous number of cloud services that must be vetted. Perhaps that's why 71.2% of companies now have a formal process for users to request new cloud services. However, these programs are still evolving. Of companies with a formal process, 65.5% indicated that they only partially follow it.
Rejecting cloud services
According to the CSA report, on average, it takes an IT security team 17.7 days to evaluate the security of a cloud provider. The most common reason for rejecting a cloud service request, identified by 55.5% of companies, is because they already have a comparable cloud solution in place (such as when a cloud collaboration service is rejected in favor of an enterprise ready service like Office 365). The next most common reason for rejecting a cloud service request is the provider is not trusted (53.6%), followed by a lack of encryption at 45.8% and a lack of data loss prevention at 43.9%. Smaller companies were more likely to decline a cloud service request due to a lack of budget (28.4%), while larger companies were more likely to reject a service because it didn't encrypt data (51.5%) or the service did not support data loss prevention (44.1%).
The next wave of cloud adoption
As more companies experience the benefits of cloud computing, they are beginning to look toward extending these benefits to their systems of record. The most common system of record to be deployed in the cloud today (36.3%) is customer relationship management (CRM).
Benefits of cloud adoption
Across respondents the most common perceived benefit is lower up-front or ongoing costs (71.8%). Nearly as many respondents (69.2%) indicated that faster implementation was a benefit while 49.4% indicated better user experience as a benefit.
Cloud Ecosystem
While not explicitly identified by respondents, another potential benefit of cloud-based systems of record is the ability to integrate these applications with an expanding ecosystem of third party apps. There are over 2,000 apps on Salesforce's AppExchange alone.
Security in cloud-based systems of record
Despite cloud security concerns, just 35.0% of IT and security professionals believe that cloud-based systems of record are less secure than their on-premises counterparts. 64.9% say that the cloud is either as secure or more secure than on-premises software.
Barriers to cloud adoption
When asked about the barriers to moving systems of record to the cloud, the primary obstacle noted by 67.8% of companies was the ability to enforce their corporate security policies. Next, 61.2% of companies said that concern about complying with regulatory requirements was a barrier. Budget-related constraints do not appear to be a major hurdle to replacing an on-premises system of record with a cloud-based one.
The role of the CISO
Recognizing the importance of security, more companies are appointing a senior executive, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), to manage the information security team. Today, 60.8% of companies have a CISO. A CISO's role can vary, but it often includes setting security policies, overseeing regulatory compliance, and taking responsibility for data privacy.
Likelihood of hiring a CISO correlated with concern for data loss
Data loss concerns and CISO
As systems of record move from on-premises data centers to the cloud, 26.3% of companies are very concerned about data loss while 32.2% are somewhat concerned about data loss. When you look at the companies that have a culture of security, or at least concern about security, these organizations are significantly more likely to have a CISO.
Company security culture and CISO
The CSA report uncovered that an impressive 65.7% of organizations that are concerned about data loss have a CISO, while only 50.0% of companies that aren't concerned about data loss have a CISO. It's not clear if a culture of security makes it more likely that a company will invest in hiring a CISO, or if a CISO instills a stronger culture of security, or if both reinforce the other.
Barriers to detecting data loss
Across the board, there's a skills shortage. Companies are finding it challenging to recruit and hire people to fill information security positions. The lack of security professionals to maximize the value of technology investments is the top barrier to detecting and stopping data loss, respondents say.
Security challenges facing companies with and without CISOs
For companies with a CISO, the lack of technology professionals is an even greater perceived barrier to stopping data loss than those companies without a CISO. This means that one of the biggest challenges of CISOs today is recruiting and retaining talented security analysts. It also means that the role of security analyst is quickly becoming a hot career path as companies invest in expanding information security initiatives, with more jobs available than qualified applicants to fill them.
Incident response plan
One of the reasons that companies with a CISO may be more confident about their internal strategy is that they are more likely to have an incident response plan. Across all companies, 82.2% have some form of an incident response plan that details how the company would respond to a serious breach, including security remediation, legal, public relations, and customer support. However, fewer than half of these companies have a complete plan that covers all of these areas.
Cyber security insurance
Companies with a CISO are also more likely to have cyber insurance to protect against the cost of a data breach. Across all companies, 24.6% have cyber insurance. However, just 17.2% of companies without a CISO have insurance compared with 29.2% of companies with a CISO.
Cyber attack preparedness
When asked how prepared their company is for a major cyber attack on a scale from 1-5, with 1 being not at all prepared and 5 being very prepared, respondents on average rated their preparedness at 3.31. However, responses varied widely depending on whether the company has a formal incident response plan. Companies with any form of incident response plan indicated they were significantly more prepared for a major cyber attack, compared with those without a plan. Companies with a comprehensive plan felt they were the most prepared.
Cyber attack concerns
The greatest concern companies have when it comes to a cyber attack is loss of reputation and trust. That's followed by financial loss, which in the case of Sony is estimated to be roughly $35 million to handle the immediate aftermath of the breach. External analysts estimate it could cost the company another $83 million to completely rebuild its damaged IT infrastructure. Next, companies are concerned about data loss and the destruction of data, followed by loss of intellectual property and manipulation of their data.
Willingness to pay ransom
The willingness of a company to pay a ransom to stop a catastrophic release of stolen information is correlated with whether the company has cyber insurance. Companies without cyber insurance are less likely than average to pay a ransom. Just 22.6% of these companies would pay a ransom. Across companies with cyber insurance, 28.6% would pay a ransom, higher than 24.6% average. Across all companies 14% would be willing to pay a ransom in excess of $1 million to prevent the release of information.
Securing data in the cloud
As more corporate data moves to the cloud, companies are looking to enforce corporate security policies and meet regulatory compliance requirements from a single control point. One of the capabilities that respondents say is important is access control (87.3%). 83.4% indicated encryption is important for cloud security, while 73.9% indicated data loss prevention as an important element of cloud security.


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Weekend Visitors
This weekend our dear friends Adam and Sarah came up for a visit. Sarah and I have been friends for about 12 years and we're glad our hubbies have become friends too. We lived it up this weekend with a trip to SLO, cheese tasting party, make-your-own-pizza night, movie, shopping, Avila, and great conversation. We miss them already!


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In recent years, a lot of people have been concerned about the relatively low numbers of science majors among American college students.
The percentage of science and engineering graduates in the US has been far below that in China and Japan.
Why is this? Are young Americans uninterested in science?
Some new answers come from research by Todd and Ralph Stinebrickner (an academic father-and-son team).
On the basis of a unique data set, the Stinebrickners find that at the time of college entrance, students think science is an appealing major. In the study's sample, 19.8% of students believe they will choose science — a higher percentage than for any other discipline. In the end, however, only 7.4% end up majoring in it.
On this count, science stands alone. No other major displays such a large disparity between initial expectations and actual outcomes. It turns out that students who start as majors in science show an unusual propensity to leave the field, and those who don't start in science are unlikely to switch to it.
Is there something wrong with college science teachers? Are students bored by their courses?
The Stinebrickners don't have conclusive answers, but they provide strong hints. They collected data on students' expectations about their grades in specific courses and compared those expectations with their actual grades. Far more than students in other courses, science students turn out to be unrealistically optimistic about their performance. Their unexpectedly low grades appear to discourage them from continuing in science.
College teachers aren't to blame. American students aren't uninterested in science, nor are they ignorant of the professional opportunities that a degree in this field could bring. Many of them would like to major in science and plan to do so. But when they are disappointed by their own performance, they switch. The impediment is a lack of high school preparation.
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I suppose some people have that association, you know: men with goatee beards, black shirts buttoned up to the top, you know, all powerful but the modern view is that it gives you greater communication capabilities with somebody. And so, I would say more important than power to me is the feeling of euphoria I get when I help somebody make a change, particularly if it's been one that's really dramatically impaired their life.
In NLP, we learn Milton Model which is conversational hypnosis. In it, we learn how can we use hypnosis in our conversation. In its earliest stage, it was invented as Direct Hypnosis, but highly educated people had the problem with that. Being hypnotized was considered to be the sign of weak mind. To overcome that issue, Milton developed conversational hypnosis. Here you don't have to make somebody lie in the chair & hypnotize him with great effort and bring desired change, with conversational hypnosis change happens with greater ease. The question here is that do you know how to use direct hypnosis before learning conversational hypnosis? In Asian continent, possibility is rare! That's why we provide Free Training in Direct Hypnosis to our NLP practitioner participants also. It gives you the greater comfort in learning Conversational Hypnosis. This session would be conducted separately on the very first day of NLP practitioner course. After attending this half-day session you'd also get a Certification in Basics Hypnosis.
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Gates Changing Numbers, Glass for Oculus Installed and New Maintenance Complex Planned
Phase II of gate renumbering at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is completed. Gates 16-20 is now 25-29.
Phase II of gate renumbering has been completed at the Austin airport in preparation for adding nine new gates to the Barbara Jordan Terminal. Glass installed on the Oculus feature of the 9-gate terminal expansion and a new consolidated maintenance complex is planned to support airport operations.
Phase II Renumbering Completed as Gates 16-20 Change to 25-29
The second phase of the gate number changes at the Austin airport has been completed as part of the 9-gate expansion project and increasing the number of gates from 25 to 34. New gate numbers are starting to appear in the Barbara Jordan Terminal as Gates 16-20 were changed to 25-29.
Phase III will see Gates 10-15 change to 19-24 in September. Gate renumbering will continue to change until October. The remaining gate renumbering schedule is below:
- Mid-September – Gates 10-15 change to Gates 19-24
- Early October – Gates 1, 5-9 change to Gates 13, 14-18
The renumbering includes changes to all the numbers at the gates, on the concourse, jet bridges, jet parking and on the directional/wayfinding signs in the airport. Gates 16-20 changed to Gates 25-29 on Aug. 15. Gates 21-25 were changed to Gates 30-34 on Aug. 1.
To watch the arrival and installation of new number 34, click here.
Glass Installed on Oculus Design Feature
Frosted glass has been added to the Oculus moon tower design feature of the 9-gate expansion that is under construction at the Austin airport. At 8,974 square feet, the Oculus is a mezzanine-level circular design that is raised 21.5 feet high from the concourse. The upper-level mezzanine Oculus will be part of the new Delta Sky Club. Under the Oculus on the concourse level is 2,750 square feet of restaurant development space open to all passengers.
The mezzanine level of the 9-gate expansion also includes 10,179 square feet for the Custom's sterile corridor, 1,507 square feet of common area that leads to the 3,994 square foot exterior patio.
The concourse level of the 9-gate expansion includes 89,735 square feet of new gate area, hold room, restaurant, retail, other concessions and restroom space.
New Airport Consolidated Maintenance Complex Planned
The Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has plans to construct a Consolidated Maintenance Facility to provide maintenance support for airport daily operations. The new site, located off of Golf Course Road that intersects with SH 71 will serve as the headquarters for maintenance (airline, building, and field), motor pool, warehouse, trades (carpeting, mechanical, plumbing, welding, and wildlife), deicing, recycling, truck wash bay, airport police unit and police K-9 center.
Located on 29.88 acres on current airport property, the single complex design supports the need for additional maintenance facilities that are currently located at various locations at the Austin airport. It will also provide covered storage of maintenance vehicles and other important and expensive assets.
Six buildings, including maintenance headquarters, motor pool, warehouse, trades, and airport police units have been designed to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver certification.
Construction on the consolidated maintenance complex buildings totaling 133,150 square feet is estimated to begin in 2019 with an estimated completion date in 2020.
Foundation Piers Set for Administration Building Construction
Piers ranging from 2 to 4 feet wide to 71 feet deep have been set to support the foundation of the five-level, 81,800 square foot Aviation Administration Building. A total of 79 piers will be set for the building that will be located next to the new 6,000 car parking garage under construction at the Austin airport.
Austin Commercial is the lead contractor for the administration building that is designed to be LEED Gold. The building will house and consolidate administrative aviation departments including finance, properties and tenant management, enterprise business services, public information, graphic, arts, music and air service development. The building will allow airport personnel to move from the mezzanine levels inside the Barbara Jordan Terminal and make the space available for possible future development and or passenger amenities.


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Camper was founded in 1975 and has developed into a creative and contemporary casual footwear brand. Its logistics and operations are run from Spain, and its products can be ac quired around the globe from more than 400 stores across 40 countries.
Camper concentrates its operations in Barcelona, where it manages initial and replenishment orders on site. The company faced a number of challenges to improve its internal logistics processes. Firstly, it had to cope with the different dimensions of cartons that are retrieved from 60,000 locations within the warehouse. It also had to ensure that the handling of loose-lid boxes was more efficient when processing replenishment orders. These are prepared in two steps. Firstly, they are grouped in batches in three ergonomic goods-to-person stations. Secondly, the batch is then sorted to the corresponding stores. Returns also had to be factored in, which meant Camper required a flexible system that integrated within the complete solution.
Camper needed a full and flexible system that guaranteed improved efficiencies. Retrieval of different sized cartons – up to 6,000 per hour – from its six double-deep aisles had to be accurate and consistent. The processes connected to its replenishment orders also needed to be accelerated.
Vanderlande's solution ensures cartons of different dimensions are handled smoothly through its BARRACUDA load-handling device. This can grip variable dimensions in a form-locked, positive way – guaranteeing maximum availability.
Vanderlande modified its POSISORTER to ensure a smooth handling of loose-lid boxes. The chutes were also engineered to ensure hassle-free consolidation and shipment.
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Escape to a world of fantasy, thrilling adventure, and magic warms the heart!
Dateline: Atlantis
by Lynn Voedisch
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
Published by: Fiction Studio Books
Publication Date: April 2, 2013
Number of Pages: 277
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The story starts out being told by a young woman's journey in the journalism world as Amaryllis Lang with pen name of Amy Quigley. As stated this is a work of fiction, and names, characters, places, and incidents are all fictitious. This book was dedicated to adventurers who endeavor to expand the human knowledge by searching for traces of ancient civilizations.
The twists and turns with possibly finding evidence of Atlantis, kidnapping, and switching back in time with the murder of her archeologist parents—and they may be the same villains who are working against her own efforts to bring the Caribbean discovery to light. Dancing into the night, and into the arms of a man and then… and then… a triangle of romantic involvement.
Enter the FBI as they think she is an important witness to a crime, but then let's not forget about The Sphinx that needs decoding. Storms, and earthquakes uncovering historical evidence to only cover it up again with another quirk from Mother Nature. The story goes on to a climaxing ending.
MY THOUGHTS and OPINION
I was amazed when I requested to review this book because I am not an avid reader to be quite honest with you. Therefore, I felt not being one, this book should and will get a very honest opinion. In reading the brief synopsis of this book it was about all the things that I knew would interest me, and keep me awake (reading puts me to sleep). I have been interested in Atlantis since high-school when I first found out about it. This young woman that tells the story seems to me she's an adventurous, and very independent, and a determined young lady to get what she really wants. When I started to read about her I became one in the same with her being like her when I was young, and facing the world.
As I read this story it became more of a place that I could go to, and forget about reality, and hide within the realm of the author's fantasy. The author had a way to pull you in with emotional thoughts, and exciting scenes, but yet keep you on the edge of your seat with twists & turns of excitement, and mystery. At times they were a bit complex, but as you read on you were back in a comfort zone smiling and giggling at the author's whimsical way of explaining a scene sometimes, and then being taken as if Alfred Hitchcock himself stepped in, and wrote a chapter or two I was awaken by the mysterious changes at every page after page. I still believe whole heartedly if walls could talk.
I personally cannot wait to see if there is going to be a Part II because I'm going to be first in line. This book was highly entertaining in a sense that you could actually feel like you were watching a movie. The author definitely has a way with words to hold your interest, and I hated to put the book down when I had to stop for a moment for the real world's chores. Many a time I thought oh this might happen next or that was going to happen next, and I was always wrong. Many times I was in awe at such a turn in the story, and never would've though it would lead to such a fabulous end. Did you ever read a book or see a movie that you said, "Oh, it should have ended this way or that". Not this story! They should definitely make a movie out of it.
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According to the British newspaper The Independent, Cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed believes the attempt to behead a British soldier in London can be justified "under certain interpretations of Islam."
Bakri Mohammed, who was banned from Britain for "extremist activities," is believed to have influenced London attacker Michael Adebolajo through his sermons.
The cleric said when he saw the video of Adebolajo holding a knife and a cleaver in his blood-soaked hands after the attack, he thought Adebolajo to be "very courageous."
Bakri Mohammed added: "Under Islam this can be justified, he was not targeting civilians, he was taking on a military man in an operation."
"To people around here [in the Middle East] he is a hero for what he has done." The cleric said Adebolajo had "a lot of anger about the Iraq war and the war on terror."
As these wars were going on, a 2007 recording of Bakri Mohammed revealed him saying, "When you meet [Westerners], slice their own necks," and "make the blood spill all over." He implied that doing so would tire out the Western enemies and force them into ending the wars.
Added Bakri Mohammed: "Use the sword and remove the head of the enemy."
The cleric, now residing in Lebanon, named one of his sons Osama Bin Laden.
British Prime Minister David Cameron continues to claim Islam was not the cause of the London attack.


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Red Planet Mars Movie
An American astronomer obtains images of Mars suggesting large-scale environmental changes are occurring at a pace that can only be accomplished by intelligent beings with advanced technology. Scientist Chris Cronyn (Peter Graves) and his wife, Linda have been contacting Mars by a hydrogen powered radio transmitter, using technology based on the work of Nazi scientist Franz Calder. They communicate first through an exchange of mathematical concepts, like the value of pi, and then through answers to specific questions about Martian life. The transmissions claim that Mars is a utopia, which has led to great technological advancement and the elimination of scarcity, but that there is no fear of nuclear war.


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The site of Pasargardae in Iran is host to the tomb of Cyrus the Great and is also the site of the ancient Persian Gardens known as Paridaeza (Paradise). The term "Paridaeza" (which roughly means "enclosed encampment" in ancient Median) has linguistic relations with the Indo-European term "Perimeter".
There are reports of yet another interesting discovery near the site of Pasargardae dated to the Achaemenid dynasty (550-330 BC): an ancient dam.
A partial view of the dam excavated by a Franco-Iranian archaeological expedition in February-March 2008. The site is approximately 30 kilometers distant from Pasargardae.
This was discovered by an archaeological team of Iranian and French researchers. The team excavated the Achaemenid dam which is located about thirty kilometres to the northeast of the Pasargadae site.
Interestingly, the French archaeologists have also been involved in the excavations of an Achaemenid palace (attributed to Cyrus the Great) in the Tang e Bolaghi Valley.
Iranian archaeologist Hamidreza Karami, who is a specialist of Pasargadae, reported on these findings on April 1, 2008. Karami noted that the team had actually discovered two dams dated to the Achaemenid era: (approximately 2500 years) at Tang-e Hanā (Hana Pass). It is believed that the dams had been constructed during the earlier days of the Achaemenids.
The archaeologists excavated the first dam in February-March 2008 but the second dam awaits a separate excavation project.
According to Karami the dams were most likely constructed to power some type of industrial projects. One possibility according to Karimi was that the dams were powering mills. This is possible as there were no agricultural works in the area that depended on irrigation 2500 years ago.
Karimi also added that one of the purposes of the dams may have been to prevent floods from the Sivand River from swamping the area. As noted by Karimi, the water channels of the second dam are lower than the first dam. Also, the reservoir that would have been formed by the second dam would have been larger than the first dam.


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In a season rich with nostalgia and tradition playing out against a backdrop of crackling fires, twinkling lights and tidings of comfort and joy, the marketplace was clamoring for something mas.
And that something was taco-scented wrapping paper.
So many people, in fact, recognized that wrapping gifts in paper that looks and smells like a Taco Bell Crunchwrap was an awesome idea that supplies quickly ran out. That is what happens when you take something as popular as a taco and you create a multisensory experience around it. Who wouldn't want to wake up on Christmas morning and follow the smell of tacos to a stack of gifts wrapped in five layers of paper taco ingredients?
As the latest in a string of quirky, branded holiday products, Taco Bell – with an assist from the H&H Graphics special effects team – released wrapping paper infused with the scent of its Triple Double Crunchwrap. With sheets designed to look like beef, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes, tostadas and a tortilla, the limited edition scented paper was offered exclusively on Amazon by Taco Bell Canada and sold out within 48 hours.Continue Reading >>


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Checking in on… the WCCPosted by Michael Vernetti on January 7th, 2014
Looking Back
Where's the threat? Gonzaga was apparently in a fragile position as last week's conference play ensued. Archrival Saint Mary's was coming to town, and Zag starters' Sam Dower and Gary Bell, Jr. were sidelined with injuries, Kevin Pangos continued to struggle with turf toe, and even gritty former walk-on David Stockton was said to be iffy because of the flu. Panic? Meltdown?
How about domination? The Zags simply throttled Saint Mary's, holding the hot-shooting Gaels to a 32 percent field goal performance and a pathetic 1-of-12 from three-point range (supposedly the Gaels' strength) on the way to a 73-51 romp. Zags' sophomore Prezmek Karnowski not only got in Brad Waldow's face, he apparently got in his mind, too, blocking seven shots and holding him to five points and three rebounds.
Gonzaga continued the week with an equally-dominant win over Pacific, 86-64, completing a four-game conference homestand at 4-0 and holding all four teams to fewer than 65 points. The Zags' injuries? Turns out Dower is okay after injuring his hip against Kansas State; Stockton should contact the medical establishment about a cure for flu; and Pangos limped to 31 points in the two games, playing more than 30 minutes in each. Bell remains sidelined for at least another month with a broken hand, but former subs Drew Barham and Kyle Dranginis have stepped up admirably and the Zags seem strong enough to stay atop the WCC.
Power Rankings
- Gonzaga (14-2, 4-0)
- Saint Mary's (11-4, 2-1)
- Pepperdine (10-6, 3-1)
- San Francisco (10-6, 3-1)
- Loyola-Marymount (10-6, 2-2)
- Santa Clara (9-8, 2-2)
- Portland (9-7, 1-3)
- Pacific (9-5, 0-3)
- San Diego (9-7, 0-3)
News & Notes
- The only potentially dark cloud in Gonzaga's immediate future is the prospect of leaving Spokane for the first time for a short plane trip to Portland and a Thursday match-up against the Pilots, who have made little of their opportunity to open the season at home as the Zags did. Gonzaga is rolling at a peak of efficiency equal to or better than any previous season, and seems unlikely to have its streak of 22 consecutive WCC wins broken anytime soon. Overconfidence is the only malady capable of slowing down this version of Mark Few's juggernaut.
- After a routine pasting of NAIA school William Jessup on Monday night, Saint Mary's settles into a five-game home stretch against mid-tier opponents. Maybe Randy Bennett, who returns to guide the Gaels against San Francisco next Saturday after a five-game NCAA-imposed suspension, can use this period to eliminate the many glitches that have popped up in his team's play. Inconsistent defense and rebounding, combined with a stop-and-start offense, have hampered the Gaels twice in the early-season going, and reduced their chances for an at-large NCAA bid if they can't pull off the improbable feat of wresting the automatic NCAA bid from Gonzaga. The brightest spot in the Gaels' halting play last week, which included a 72-63 win at Portland, was the improvement of Aussie reserves Dane Pineau, a 6'9" true freshman forward, and Matt Hodgson, a 6'11" fifth-year senior post man. Both showed stretches of excellence that could bode well for an improvement in the Gaels' frontcourt depth.
- Marty Wilson's Pepperdine Waves could be looking at sharing the WCC lead with Gonzaga except for a woeful second-half performance against San Francisco on Saturday. Leading 27-19 at the half and completely shutting down the Dons' offense, the Waves gave up 57 points in the second half and lost 76-66. It didn't help that the Waves' sharp-shooting guard Malcolm Brooks rolled his ankle just before halftime and didn't return. Brooks, last week's WCC Player of the Week, was 4-of-4 with eight points when he went down, and there has been no announcement about his potential return. Another bright spot for Pepperdine was the play of UCLA transfer Brendan Lane in the Waves' 70-61 victory over Santa Clara. The 6'10" Lane dominated with 27 points and 17 rebounds against the Broncos.
- San Francisco continues to challenge the axiom that smooth sailing is the best course to success in college hoops, moving to 3-1 with victories over Pepperdine and LMU. No one is raising "Cody who?" signs at War Memorial Gymnasium, but the Dons are rallying behind stalwarts Cole Dickerson (20 points against LMU), newcomer Kruize Pinkins (19 points, 11 rebounds against Pepperdine) and transfer Matt Glover (a double-double – 12 and 11 – against LMU).
- Loyola Marymount found life outside Gersten Pavilion very unfriendly, dropping both games against Bay Area foes Santa Clara and San Francisco after opening with two wins at home. Senior standout Anthony Ireland was at his best against Santa Clara, scoring 34 points including a jumper with 12 seconds left to force overtime. But Ireland and the Lions ran into an even hotter hand in the extra period, as Santa Clara freshman Jared Brownridge scored five of his team's first seven points in overtime en route to a 29-point performance of his own.
- Santa Clara's 70-61 loss to Pepperdine was a microcosm of the Broncos' season so far: high-scoring guards Brownridge, Evan Roquemore and Brandon Clark combined for 47 points, while its front court tandem of Jerry Brown, John McArthur and Yannick Atanga accounted for just 10 points, while Pepperdine's Lane had his way in the paint. Kerry Keating has gone a long way toward replacing the output of departed Kevin Foster with the hot-shooting Brownridge, but the painted area underneath the basket remains a no-fly zone.
- BYU quietly made one of the most significant moves in WCC play so far this season by benching usual starter Matt Carlino against San Diego in its only game last week. Transfer Skyler Halford started in place of Carlino, and responded with a game-high 28 points as the Cougars bounced back from their 0-2 opening week performance to beat the Toreros 87-53. Carlino ended up playing only a few minutes fewer than Halford (21 to 26), but the symbolic importance of not starting one of BYU's mainstays for the past three years can't be ignored. Carlino can be maddeningly inconsistent, forcing bad shots and committing turnovers, so maybe Dave Rose had had enough and is opting for more predictability in his backcourt. It could be just a one-game wake-up call, however, which makes BYU's upcoming game against Pepperdine even more intriguing. Halford earned WCC Player of the Week honors for his effort against San Diego.
- Portland salvaged the first win in its season-opening five-game homestand by riding double-doubles from Thomas van der Maars (18 and 13), Ryan Nicholas (17 and 12) and Bryce Pressley (12 and 10) to a 72-64 win over Pacific last Thursday. The Pilots couldn't capitalize on a Gonzaga-ravaged Saint Mary's squad on Saturday, however, falling to the Gaels 72-63, and now must face the Zags at home before heading out on the road.
- Pacific is finding the WCC inhospitable upon returning to the conference in 2013, dropping all three of its first league contests. The Tigers hope for better results in this week's home games against San Francisco and Santa Clara.
- Aside from ending BYU's streak of giving up more than 80 PPG, San Diego has little to remember from its 87-53 loss in Provo. The Toreros are home against southern California rivals Pepperdine and LMU this week.
Looking Ahead
Thursday's BYU-Pepperdine match-up, which unfortunately is being televised only over the BYUtv network, is interesting for several reasons. For one, BYU has to continue to show the end-to-end effort on both offense and defense that it demonstrated against San Diego last week if it is going to be considered a force in the WCC. For another, Pepperdine has an opportunity to show its opening three-game win streak wasn't a fluke. The game may well hinge on whether Waves' guard Brooks recovers from an ankle injury suffered against San Francisco. Also of note: whether Matt Carlino starts his second straight game on the bench.


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- National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Cory Gardner called on Roy Moore to drop out of the Alabama special election.
- If Moore does not drop out and still wins, Gardner is demanding the Senate expel him from office.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, called for the Senate to expel Alabama candidate Roy Moore if he wins the election on December 12.
Gardner issued a statement Monday condemning Moore, who has been accused of sexual misconduct with multiple teenagers. A woman came forward on Monday and accused Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager.
"I believe the individuals speaking out against Roy Moore spoke with courage and truth, proving he is unfit to serve in the United States Senate and he should not run for office," Gardner said. "If he refuses to withdraw and wins, the Senate should vote to expel him, because he does not meet the ethical and moral requirements of the United States Senate."
The allegations against the Republican candidate, which included sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl when Moore was 32, have resulted in a snowball of withdrawn endorsements, including from Sens. Steve Daines and Mike Lee.
Last week, the NRSC withdrew from the joint fundraising agreement between Moore's campaign, the Republican National Committee, and the Alabama GOP.
And on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he believes Moore's accusers and that he should step aside from the race.
The allegations have also tightened the gap between Moore and his Democratic challenger, Doug Jones. One poll conducted after the sexual misconduct claims even showed Jones taking a slim lead.
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Exploring The Power of Networked Improvement Communities
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The key resources for fixing troubled schools are the people who already inhabit them.
That's a bald statement, and it rings too much of a crazed street evangelist with a long beard holding a sign saying "Heal Yourself." But consider what we know about approaches to fixing failing schools.
For almost a century, American public education has operated according to the industrial precepts that outside experts could import proven programs, and that they would turn around failing schools. These practices have left an expensive trail of tears and frequent recrimination.
For the past 20 years, industrial fix-it strategies have been joined by the accountability movement's belief that calling students, teachers, and schools a failure will motivate and empower them to succeed.
Neither has worked well.
Carnegie's 'Networked Improvement Communities'
Instead, I'm attracted to the Networked Improvement Communities techniques developed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. I've written about the Carnegie Summit, and last month I visited their Palo Alto headquarters to learn more about how aspiration links with method.
High above the Stanford golf course, their modernist headquarters looks toward San Francisco Bay with sweeping views that give rise to thoughts of "how does anyone get work done here?" But they do.
Under the leadership of Anthony Bryk, who blended his analytical expertise with boots-on-the-ground experience in Chicago's school reforms, Carnegie has devoted itself to the learning-to-improve method since 2008. Its essential steps are captured in the chart below, on the foundation's web site, and in the book that Bryk co-authored with Louis Gomez, Alicia Grunow and Paul LeMahieu.
The sixth of the Carnegie learning-to-improve principles is acceleration through a Networked Improvement Community (NIC): moving from what an individual educator knows to what thousands of educators know, combining and focusing their knowledge on specific problems.
Carnegie adopted the name from Douglas Engelbart, a pioneering scientist credited with inventing the computer mouse, whose work ultimately led to social media and cloud computing. Later in his career, he concentrated on how to build systems that help people get smarter about their work.
Building Blocks of Improvement
Consider the basic building blocks. There's what you know. Then, there's what you and your colleagues know. In education, just moving from the typically isolated teacher to a group of teachers is a huge reach. Learning Walks, Teacher Study Teams, and the Professional Learning Community are built to accomplish these interactions.
Now suppose that it were possible to connect what you know with what thousands of others know. Carnegie is building an alternative to the industrial-era knowledge transfer, consultants or academics distill knowledge and pass it back to teachers in bite-sized bits via professional development. As fifth grade teacher Jackie Funkhouser, whose reaction to working in a networked community is captured on the foundation's web site, puts it, "I thought a researcher was someone who collected data, wrote about it, and told me what worked. Then I was the person who took the information and used it. Now I see that I'm a researcher too. I can collect data and use it in my teaching to make it better."
Networks at WorkThe foundation's work provides several examples of NICs at work. The Math Pathways projects focus on the student graveyard of developmental math: those often awful courses that students who haven't been successful at math are required to take in order to get into credit bearing math courses. They're "where aspirations go to die," said Bryk.
Math Pathways have engaged 20,000 students in 15 states, and have produced double or triple the success rates of conventional developmental programs.
For other applications of NICs, see the Student Agency Improvement Community (funded by the Raikes Foundation) and the Building a Teacher Effectiveness Network. A new report shows how the Fresno Unified School District used a NIC to expand college access for their graduates, expanding the range of schools students applied to by more than 50 percent.
Carnegie has been connecting the network improvement idea with online computer technology to allow teachers and other educators to try multiple plan-do-study-act cycles, essentially little experiments that can be repeated or abandoned, depending on the results. Jojo Manai and Susan Haynes, two of the developers, guided me through the system, which is called NILS, shorthand for Networked Improvement Learning and Support platform.
NILS helps in "surfacing tribal knowledge" Manai says. Teachers carry around a great deal of tacit understanding about their craft. The NILS protocols help make what teachers know both concrete and public.
Haynes and Manai demonstrate the system's structure using the example of the Tennessee Early Literacy Network, formed to improve the proficiency of the state's third graders. The network's designers hypothesized that there would be three primary drivers: the way that schools related to families and communities, standards-aligned instruction, and support for struggling students.
Feeding into these are secondary drivers (see screenshot from NILS demonstration) and specific change ideas. One of these is the student journey map, essentially a careful chronology of a student's struggles to read. Collected from students throughout the state, the maps included the usual background issues—homelessness, death or disability of a parent, and drug or alcohol abuse—and also interviews with students about their experiences learning to read and write.
The maps revealed common problems, such as the lack of coordination between educators, but also problems specific to individuals. One student had no books at home, so the teacher started sending them home with the child.
A member of the Tennessee project, or someone like me, who is trying out the system, is invited to initiate his or her own small experiment by initiating a plan-do-study-act cycle, a tool of improvement science that dates back half a century to the work of Edwards Deming.
I tried it, posing the question of whether I would get better results in getting parents to come to meetings if I invited them personally rather than sending out a broadcast email or note. I vowed to keep track of participation at the next meeting.
Playing With The System
Then, the system worked to keep me on track by asking me when I planned to complete this experiment, how I would carry it out, and what resources I would need. It kindly provided me with some resources from the people at the hub of the system at Carnegie. I didn't have to pay any attention to them, but I could.
In the 'Do' phase of the experiment, NILS works like an on-line lab notebook, providing me a date to enter the data I had promised to collect: how many people came to the meeting, and allowing me to make any observations I wished. I saw that not all the parents knew one another, and that those who were isolated seemed uncomfortable.
By the time that I got to the 'Study' part of the cycle, I realized that there was a big flaw in my method. Just counting attendance didn't distinguish between those who were personally invited and those who got the email, and I hadn't kept track of how many people I had personally invited who had not attended, and some of the people I had invited to the first meeting didn't show, but they came to the second meeting.
In the "Act" section, I concluded that the process was encouraging and that I should adjust it a bit and try again.
All Together Now
Now, imagine this all connected. My little experiments may resonate with an educator across the state, and I may learn from someone in the next county or country. Haynes provides the example of the Student Agency Improvement Community. Its Stress Reappraisal Activity has been tested across schools in New York, California, Virginia, Minnesota, Georgia, Washington, Hawaii, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Delaware, beginning in one classroom with one teacher, and expanding to whole grades and schools.
"Teachers adapted the change idea's implementation in their classrooms to correspond with certain times of year, when students received the most benefit from learning about how reappraise stress, such as before taking an exam, prior to a public speaking event," said Carnegie staff member Rachel Beattie.
The specialists at the Carnegie network 'hub' then "curate this wisdom and share it back with the network, which prompts ideation for further changes," she added.
When this happens, structured networks can spread and scale improvements.
The secret is in the iteration, little things leading to big ones. As Manai told me, getting people to "break through the chains of accountability and see the system," requires that teachers and other front line educators see the connectedness of their work.
The cycle of experiments also requires honesty. Some, probably many, of the little experiments don't work. It's hard for educators to admit that something isn't working. As systems learning expert Peter Senge, who spoke to the Carnegie Summit in March said, if you say you don't know the answer, "it's like undressing in public."
Taking Practitioners Seriously
As I talked with Bryk and LeMahieu in their offices I was taken with the dignity and status that the Networked Improvement Community approach offers to practitioners. When teachers work on a project at Carnegie, they are not simply stakeholders; they are valued as knowledge producers. They work together and learn from each other in ways that are rare in today's top down education establishment.
I believe the Carnegie approach can add heft to the series of reforms that the folks in Sacramento call 'The California Way,' this state's departure from leading reforms with test-and-punish accountability. Think what applying the Math Pathways techniques could do for the 1.37-million English Learners in California public schools.
There's an understanding at Carnegie that massive changes are needed, are on the way, in education, and there's also a method for getting there.
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text: Bovis ISSN 2398-2993 Mastitis: Streptococcus dysgalactiae Synonym(s): Summer mastitis complex Contributor(s): Peter Down , Anja Sipka Introduction Pathogenesis Diagnosis Treatment Prevention Outcomes Introduction Cause: Streptococcus dysgalactiae. Signs: mastitis. Diagnosis: bacteriology. Treatment: antibiotics. Prognosis: good. Pathogenesis Etiology Strep. dysgalactiae is typically classified as an 'environmental' pathogen but some strains are known to behave in a contagious manner. Widely distributed in the cow environment and most new infections will be acquired via the environment. Predisposing factorsGeneral Poor environmental hygiene. Poor teat condition. Pathophysiology Bovine strains of S. dysgalactiae are a homogeneous group of non-hemolytic or α-hemolytic cocci. Several cell-associated and extracellular factors of S. dysgalactiae have been identified but the relative importance of these factors in the transmission and pathogenesis of mastitis caused by S. dysgalactiae are not understood. Streptococcus dysgalactiae can interact with several plasma and extracellular host-derived proteins such as immunoglobulin G, albumin, fibronectin, fibrinogen, collagen, vitronectin, plasminogen, and α2-macroglobulin. Also produces hyaluronidase and fibrinolysin, which may be involved in promoting dissemination of the organism into host tissue. Streptococcus dysgalactiae adheres to and invades bovine mammary epithelial cells. S. dysgalactiae may survive within mammary epithelial cells for extended periods of time. There is only limited information on the role of bacterial and epithelial cell factors during the early stages of host-pathogen interactions. Epidemiology This organism has characteristics of both a contagious and an environmental pathogen. It has been isolated from infected mammary glands and teat injuries and transmitted during milking. It has also been detected in cattle tonsils, mouth and vagina, and dry period infections in herds with no previous history of S. dysgalactiae IMI have also been demonstrated, thus highlighting the potential for environmental transmission. S. dysgalactiae is also involved in the 'summer mastitis complex' which affects dry cows and heifers during summer months. It has been isolated from the common cattle fly Hydrotaea irritans Cattle flies, which may play a significant role in establishment and maintenance of bacterial contamination of teats of healthy cattle. Streptococcus dysgalactiae is considered to be the first bacterial species to colonize the bovine teat, and is thought to provide a favorable environment for colonization by Truperella pyogenes T. pyogenes mastitis and anerobic bacteria such as Peptostreptococcus indolicus and Fusobacterium necrophorum Fusobacterium necrophorum. Diagnosis This article is available in full to registered subscribers Sign up now to purchase a 30 day trial, or Login Treatment This article is available in full to registered subscribers Sign up now to purchase a 30 day trial, or Login Prevention This article is available in full to registered subscribers Sign up now to purchase a 30 day trial, or Login Outcomes This article is available in full to registered subscribers Sign up now to purchase a 30 day trial, or Login Further ReadingPublicationsRefereed Papers Recent references from PubMed and VetMedResource. Huijps K, Lam T J & Hogeveen H (2008) Costs of mastitis: facts and perception. J dairy res 75, 113–20 PubMed. Calvinho L F, Almeida R A & Oliver S P (1998) Potential virulence factors of Streptococcus dysgalactiae associated with bovine mastitis. Vet microbiol 61, 93–110 PubMed. Kossaibati M A & Esslemont R J (1997) The costs of production diseases in dairy herds in England. Vet J 154, 41–51 PubMed. Cruz Colque J I, Devriese L A & Haesebrouck F (1993) Streptococci and enterococci associated with tonsils of cattle. Lett appl microbiol 16, 72-74 PubMed. Madsen M, Sorensen G H & Nielsen S A (1991) Studies of the possible role of cattle nuisance flies, especially Hydrotea irritans, in the transmission of summer mastitis in Denmark. Med vet entomol 5, 421-429 PubMed. Madsen M, Sorensen G H & Aalbaek B (1990) Summer mastitis in heifers: a bacteriological examination of secretions from clinical cases of summer mastitis in Denmark. Vet microbiol 22, 319-328 PubMed. Bramley A J, Hillerton J E, Higgs T M & Hogben E M (1985) The carriage of summer mastitis pathogens by muscid flies. Br vet j 141, 618-627 PubMed. Bramley A J & Dodd F H (1984) Reviews of the progress of dairy science: mastitis control- progress and prospects. J dairy res 51, 481-512 PubMed. Schalm O W, Carroll E J & Jain N C (1971) Bovine Mastitis. Lea and Febiger, 360.


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Congratulations to the three recipients of the 2017 MNI Strategic Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarships.
The MNI Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarships are made available to support students who have demonstrated that they are outstanding graduates in their discipline. For 2017, three strategic Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarships were made available to MNI by the University, which we refer to as "MNI Strategic Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarships". The scholarship comprises $3,000 as a scholarship top-up (stipend) for the successful student to assist with living expenses during their PhD candidature, plus $2,000 made available to the students' host laboratory, for each year over 3 years.
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1. Laura Ellet – (Department of Pathology): "The role of prion strain in disease progression and pathogenesis"
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Congrats @Ev! Twitter CEO Welcomes New Baby
Last night, we reported that Twitter CEO Evan Williams' (@ev) wife Sara (@sara) was in labor, a story we've naturally been tracking via Twitter. Now, we have some happy news to report: the couple have given birth to a healthy baby boy.
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Tamagotchi Meets and Tamagotchi M!x
DeepFriedBacon posted a topic in Help For Tamagotchi OwnersSo, for a while I've thought the Tamagotchi m!x was the newest Tamagotchi at the time, but I've just been hearing about the Tamagotchi Meets. I wanted to know, what is the difference between these two Tamagotchis? Is the Meets entirely different than the M!x, or are they similar?
Acid Leak
Rel95 posted a topic in Help For Tamagotchi OwnersI just received a Sanrio M!x in the mail and it has a small amount of battery acid/dust on all of the metal contacts and prongs. The Tama turns on alright but I was wondering what a good way to clean it was without hurting it further.
Does the Tamagotchi M!x have a pet system?
beaubun posted a topic in Help For Tamagotchi OwnersHi! I'm literally very new to this; I've searched a few times and no answer has come up. I assume that the tamagotchi m!x doesn't have a pet system, can someone confirm this?
Unlocking Berrytown on M!X:
Verklighet posted a topic in Help For Tamagotchi OwnersI am trying to make my Tamagotchi M!X hungry so I can unlock Berrytown. Two questions: 1. If I feed it under ten times and then it evolves, will I loose my progress of how many times I fed it? 2. I remember on the 4U+, you could play the exercise game at the park to make it loose weight/become hungry, but what about the M!X? I can't seem to find any methods to make him hungry.. Just to not feed him.
Fan made M!x characters
goweegee1 posted a topic in What's On Your Mind?In my free time I've come up with two different characters (both made extremy far apart from each other which is why the first looks a lot nicer then the second). One of the charicters is a m!x between Gozarutchi and Masktchi, the second is a m!x between Gozarutchi and Androtchi! I hope you like them!
Odd Rainbow Pixels on M!X:
Verklighet posted a topic in Help For Tamagotchi OwnersI've been running my Spacy M!X version for a while and have come to notice an odd line of pixels appearing near the lower right of my screen. The odd line is horizontal and it like rainbow colors. I turn my Tamagotchi in the light the colors will change. The rainbow colors are faint as the screen itself still broadcasts it's normal color or whatever color is should be showing, but there's like a rainbow filter over it. Does anyone know what this is and how I could fix it? ~Verk
Hi everyone, and welcome to my Tama log! I've been wanting to do one of these for, well, literal years, but couldn't drum up the motivation to actually bother, until a rather momentous Tamagotchi-related occasion happened a few days ago. You see, after fifteen consecutive generations, I got my first not-so-cute character on my Spacy M!X. I'd heard of this happening to others, but it never happened to me.... until now. Meet MameGuriritchi, a.k.a. Harris: Harris looks like someone took Mametchi's head and plopped it onto the bottom half of an acorn. The effect is rather...unnerving, to say the least. I try to convince myself that he's kind of cute in a bizarre sort of way, but the disembodied-Mametchi-head just gets me every time. Gah. And you know how, in a large family, one kid will take after mum, another will take after granddad, and yet another will totally have great-aunt Doris' eyes? And then, there's always one child who doesn't resemble ANYONE, simply because their physical characteristics have skipped too many generations for anyone to remember? Yup. That's Harris. The only Mametchi in the family was FIVE GENERATIONS AGO, but the Mame genes are going STRONG in him. Anyway, while genetics were not so kind to poor Harris, he's still my Tamagotchi, and I still adore him. Besides, he's really quite sweet - he likes nothing more than relaxing in the Patchi Forest Onsen and drinking tomato juice (....tomato juice?!?). Also, did I mention he's the worst hide-and-seek player ever? Evidence below: EVERYONE CAN SEE YOU, HARRIS. I hope you'll keep reading as I chronicle the adventures of my awkward acorn! This won't be a daily log, but there will likely be updates here every few days or so! Until next time! ~TheYatagarasu
The Great Tamagotchi M!x Poll
TheYatagarasu posted a topic in What's On Your Mind?Hey guys! So, a very dear friend of mine is moving to Scotland at the end of the school year, and I want to get her a very special gift to commemorate our 15 years of friendship. Seeing as we first bonded over Tamagotchi at recess in first grade, and either of us never really stopped collecting, I'm going to get her a Tamagotchi M!x !!! She doesn't have one of those yet, but I have no idea what version to get. I would ask but I REALLY want it to be a surprise. I have three versions and think they're all fantastic. It would be a huge help if you could choose which Tamagotchi M!x version is your favourite, and even add a little comment why! Is it the characters? The features? The pretty shell? Personally, I'm partial to the Dream M!x, because I love Dream Town and all its inhabitants and Yume Kira Dream is my guilty pleasure show, yes I watch children's anime okay shhhhh but I'd love to hear what you think!
Hello! I'm starting to collect Tamagotchi after so many years without caring about it. My last Tamagotchi was a V4 one, so it's been a while since then! I'm planning on starting with a M!X one, as I love the character mix concept! However, I don't know which version to pick... The most important thing & the one that will make me go with x version is that it includes Mimitchi on it. Mimitchi is my favorite Tamacharacter, so I'd love to start with her. I've checked a chart with the available M!X versions and which characters do they include, and Mimitchi only seems to appear in the 20th Anniversary one. However, I don't know if this means that she's raisable ONLY in the 20th Anniversary, if she's only available for mixing my Tamagotchi with her (aka she's non-raisable) OR that she doesn't appear at all on the rest of versions. This is the chart I've checked: http://www.vpets.org/images/guides/Sanrio-Mix/MixVersionList.png I've also read that there was a new Tamagotchi M!X coming on November but I don't know anything about it. So yeah, tl;dr, my question is: Does Mimitchi only appear in the 20th Anniversary Tamagotchi M!X as a raisable Tamagotchi? Or does she appear in any other newer M!X Tamagotchi? (Like the one coming out soon)? I also want to know where can I find Tamagotchis available for my future purchases. Thanks!
Tamagotchi Mix Blank/White Screen?
Chenanigans posted a topic in Help For Tamagotchi OwnersEarly yesterday morning, our Tamagotchi suddenly was left on this blank screen. You can still do everything with it (feed it, connect, etc) and you can hear all the sound effects, but the screen is all blank like in the image above. Does anyone know anything to do to fix it?
COMMENTS OK shima-chan's tama log
shima-chan posted a topic in Tamagotchi LogsHi everyone! I've been a tamagotchi fan since the connection, but I haven't really played with tamagotchis since music stars, and even then I hardly played with it. But anyway, I recently found my v4.5 and it got me thinking about tamagotchis again. I did some research and whoa!! tamagotchi's have gotten craaaazy since the TMGC+C. I recently found out about the tamagotchi m!x and decided to pick up the 20th anniversary edition because it has shimashimatchi, and mimitchi! I'll try and update with pictures and other things as I update but for now I'll just do a quick written entry just to get the ball rolling. My v4.5 is the blue marble design and currently it's on generation 1 and I've got a two year old ura young mametchi. I'm trying to get an ura kutchipatchi from this but, we'll see how that goes... I've always managed to get mametchi in each of my first gens on my v4.5s so I'm trying to get some of the characters I never got in years past. I've also just received my tamagotchi m!x today in the mail. I was so excited! This is my first ever color tamagotchi and omg it's so fun!! I bought the 20th anniversary edition in the white design. It's so sleek and shiny and pastel-y and I looove it! Right now I have a male ahirukutchi and he's still 0 years old. He's also stained red because I thought I could unlock the train to makkakka town, but turns out you need to be on your third generation. Instead I was able to unlock Flower Hills and Rainbow Hills so far, which are both super fun locations. I'm happy that Rainbow Hills unlocked a new minigame, beacuse the paparazzi/photo one was getting a bit tried... In addition I just spent today exploring the various parks at each location trying to make friends. I'm hoping to marry off this tamagotchi with Mimitchi because she's one of my favorite characters. I also played a TON of mini games and changed my wallpaper and bought my lil guy some toys. Okay! That's really all for now, I'm not sure how life cycles work in the color editions but tomorrow my v4.5 should evolve and ~maybe~ so will my m!x...? We'll just have to stay tuned. I'll be taking photos when I can from here on out so I hope to share those with you all soon!
Leave Tamagotchi M!X in Day Care
WaffleDonut22 posted a topic in Help For Tamagotchi OwnersI wanted to ask, can I Leave Tamagotchi M!X in the Day Care if i dont have work and dont have time to play with it and how do i send my tama to the day care??? Thanks.
Tamagotchi M!x Sanrio Berry Town Unlock
Jellytchii posted a topic in Help For Tamagotchi OwnersHi everyone, I've manage to unlock all locations on my Sanrio M!x except for berry town. There are no berry sundae in the restaurant on device, but I know this is a location because of a guild from Fuzzy n Chic. If anyone can tell me how, I would greatly appreciate it. Also, are there any additional content available online or any way to get on the tamagotchi m!xland to connect to PC from device?
I have ordered my first color Tamagotchi!! After reading a few reviews I decided to go with the M!x 20th Anniversary. I was torn between the Tamagotchi P's and the M!x, but the idea of breeding tamagotchis sounded very appealing. When I was looking at the P's, I really liked the Royal pierce. There was another one I liked as well, but now I can't remember the name of it! I do know that the color Tamagotchis come in Japanese; I plan on googling manuals, and I'm sure I will get the hang of buttons as I play. Is there anything I should know before starting it? Any tips? I am so excited! I definitely plan on ordering a Tamagotchi P's in the future too!
Author's note: Sadly, no pictures this time until I can figure out how (plus my phone's memory space is low), so enjoy what I have to offer for now. And this has been highly requested, so here ya go, no more waiting! As I opened my box on the day it came, I was astonished. It was beautiful, and it never ceased to amaze me. I did the usual set up, even if it was in Japanese, as I could understand it. My username was UTALE (short for Undertale, it also had two Tamagotchi symbols in the beginning and end of my username). As I finished setting it up, the egg aimlessly wandered onto my screen. I was waiting for the egg to hatch, wondering if it was a baby boy or girl. It then began the hatching process. I waited in anticipation. Out hatched a perfectly healthy baby boy (Tamabotchi), named Sans. I had fed him several baby bottles until he refused to have another. I then fed him some packets of teething biscuits to raise his happiness a little bit. I then saw him at the corner of the screen, looking miserable. The poor skele-gotchi child was so sullen, I had to play with him a little bit. As we all know, babies love rattles. Just once did I shake it, and Sans was overjoyed. I pressed the C button and he was waddling around the room, looking cute. Just a few second after he went back to looking sad again. One rattle, shaken not stirred. I saw him make an odd face and then some lines in a wavy pattern appeared beside him. I thought clicking the toilet icon would help, and apparently he had to use the potty. Didn't know babies could be trained so fast. When he evolves into a toddler, maybe he can finally talk? I guess that's up for nature to decide. As I was pondering all of that, poor little guy got sick. Luckily I gave him some meds, and he was fine! After a few hours of having fun, he evolved into Mittsupotchi (which I assume was due to low happiness) and went to sleep. Tune in for the next post on what happens next to our dear Sansy.


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It seems like everyone is talking about female libido these days. Apparently there is a rumor going around that a lot of women have low sexual desire or low libido. I have to be honest: I am not sold on this latest "epidemic."
The women I work with in my sensuality and intimacy coaching practice really don't have low sexual desire. What they really are struggling with is what I would call "desire untapped."
Now that is language I can wrap my libido around ... because that's what I once was — a woman who didn't understand my own sexual desire. I knew that I had it, but it felt more like a simmering pot — close to boil, but not quite. And I wanted to boil, as so many of us do. I wanted to feel like those women look in Sex And The City, but I wasn't them. I would never be them. I was a mid-life Riverdale housewife and a fertility advocate. I had to find my own way, and I did. But along the way I learned a lot about how women tick.
I became fascinated with what turns us on as sexual creatures. I realized that I really didn't understand how most women's sexual desire worked. For instance, did you know that women's sexual desire is considered by many sexologists as responsive desire, while male sexual response is usually characterized by spontaneous desire? I didn't. And franklyl, I was not sure that I loved that language, either. It made me feel like a receptacle of male desire instead of having my own.
According to "Sex Nerd" Emily Nagoski on her blog:
"Responsive desire" is when the motivation to have sex begins after sexual behavior has started. As in, you're doing something else when your partner comes over and starts kissin' on ya, and you go, "Oh yeah! That's a good idea!" Or you and your partner set aside Friday night as "sex night," and then "sex night" gets here and you're like, "Oh, sex night. But I'm so tired ..." But you made a deal, so you get started ... and before long you've forgotten you were tired.
This is contrasted with spontaneous desire, more typical of male sexuality, which works more like this: you're walking down the street and for no immediately obvious reason you think, Hm. I'd like to have sex! Or you're taking a shower getting ready for bed and you think, Hm. I'd like to have sex!
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Mike Yawney reviews the Ninetendo Switch
Two years after introducing the ground-breaking Switch, Nintendo has released an updated version of the popular console. The Nintendo Switch Lite cuts back on some of the features, but in return eases the burden on your wallet. We've had a chance to use the new system over the past week. Read our review to decide if the Lite version is right for you and your family.
Smaller and Lighter
Nintendo has created a more compact version of the Switch, making it ever so smaller, and lighter. The Switch Lite comes in at roughly 120 grams lighter than the original. On paper, it doesn't seem like a lot, but it's noticeable. Size-wise, imaging removing one of the Joy-Cons from the original Nintendo Switch. This gives roughly you the footprint of the new version.
It's surprising to see how the subtle changes in size and weight make such a big difference on how it feels in your hands. Switch Lite feels much more like a portable console compared to the original Switch. Part of the reason is it's more stable. Since the Joy-Con controllers can't be removed you don't get the slight wiggle that you did on the original Switch.
D-Pad Makes a Comeback
Dual analog sticks have become the norm of modern-day consoles. While they work great for shooters and adventure games, the accurate control needed to play older 8-bit, even 16-bit just Isn't there. Thankfully Nintendo has reintroduced the classic D-pad into the design of the Switch Lite.
If you tried playing some of the classic NES and SNES games on the Nintendo Switch you may have noticed the controls feel slightly off. The D-pad makes playing those classic titles much more enjoyable, Even newer versions of classic games like Tetris 99 just play better with the D-pad.
The Screen
Sure, smaller footprint means a slightly smaller screen. The screen size has dropped from 6.2 inches down to 5.5 inches. Will you notice it? Probably not. The resolution remains the same. It still looks beautiful
Just how good the battery life on the Nintendo Switch Lite is compared to the Switch really depends on which model of Switch you own. The original Switch, released back in 2017 held 2.5 to 6.5 hours worth of charge. Recently Nintendo launched a newer version which has a better battery life of 4.5 to 9 hours. The Switch Lite will get you anywhere between 3 and 7 hours. A slight upgrader if you owned the original
Strange to say this but if you are thinking about buying the Switch Lite you need to know that not all games are playable on the system. There are a few games that simply don't support handheld mode which is the ONLY mode supported by the Switch Lite.
Games like 1-2 Switch, Just Dance and Nintendo Labo/Labo VR all require either HD Rumble or motion control. This is not an option on the Switch Lite. The Joy-Cons are non-detachable. The number of games that you cannot play is few, however, they do include favorites like Super Mario Party.
Game Sharing
This could be an issue for families with more than one Nintendo Switch. Nintendo forces you to dedicate one Switch in your home as a primary Switch. Any other Switches in the household will be considered secondary Switches. While you can transfer digital games, even saves from the primary Switch to a secondary Switch, the secondary Switch MUST be connected to the internet to play these titles. If you cannot connect at least once every three hours, you will not be allowed to play the game. You can also ONLY play games through the account that originally purchased them, which could be problematic if parents are buying games for kids from their account.
Some users (including myself) have found that dedicating your Switch Lite as the primary console alleviates this problem as it won't have to go online for authorization…but if someone back home wants to play they would have to play through the owner's account, not their own. This could cause problems for cloud saves if they did log into the game owner's account.
Another workaround is to buy physical game cartridges instead of digital files. The only downside here is you have to carry those little things around with you wherever you go…and hope no one loses or misplaces one.
No Docking Allowed
This may be a deal-breaker for some. The Original Switch was called Switch for a reason, You could place the portable console in a docking station and use it like a traditional console along with your television, This latest version can't be connected to a TV. It's portable only. For some, it may not be a big deal. Personally I use my Nintendo Switch on the go and have maybe only docked it one or two times in the past two years.
The Bottom Line
Nintendo's new Switch Lite feels much more like a portable console than the original Switch ever did. It's more compact, more stable and has quickly become my go-to for gaming on the go. If you want to play your favorite Nintendo games on the go then this is the console for you! It feels like the perfect portable gaming machine. It just becomes problematic in households with multiple Switch consoles and multiple gamers. You'll need to come to an agreement on who plays what games and where so you don't have to buy multiple copies of digital titles.


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Finally seated in the crowded auditorium at Blackhat 2011, our first keynote speaker, Cofer Black, a veteran government intel mainstay, regales us with the US threat stance and endeavors, mostly in the physical arena of combat and operations. Then he relates it to the cyber arena. Referencing the U.S. Government's highest priority threats, which used to be abbreviated: "CBRN" (Chemical, Bacteriological, Radiological, Nuclear). Now he says the priorities have changed, and are now abbreviated "KBC", (Kinetic, Bacteriological, Cyber). He attempts to elucidate the cybercrime factor, and tries to hand the cyberwar fighting batton to the crowd of hackers he hopes to encourage, specifically citing Stuxnet as a touchstone for things to come. When hackers attempt to affect physical infrastructure, he says, they are very close to being classified as a more traditional military arena. He was also quick to point out, despite all his experience, the crowd would understand more about defending against this than his typical cohort trained in the physical combat arena. He also thought it may be more difficult to defend in some ways than physical war. He labels this new direction "code war", and thinks that while Al Queda seems (in his mind) to be fading from prominence, this arena will be escalating. He then warns about the potential "false flag" in the cyber arena, where a surrogate group affects the nastiness, and then governments have to determine credibility, attribution, and then calculate an appropriate response – and hope they're right.
Around midstream in the talk, right near the point about hackers affecting physical infrastructure and critical systems, the building FIRE ALARM WENT OFF, complete with announcements, sirens, flashing strobes, a minute of awkward silence by the speaker, and then a voice announcing the alarm had been investigated and resolved. But the alarm doesn't go off, it keeps going. Eventually they get it shut off. This has to be out of a movie, right? Well, you had to be there. Elaborate ruse? I don't Caesar's Palace would stand for something like that. Case in point for hacking infrastructure? I'll let the reader decide.
Regardless, what a way to kick off the conference. We'll be blogging about the sessions throughout the conference, when we're not ducking and running out of the building after fire alarms
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