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A Conversation with Sarra Cardile

When I was looking for my first “up-and-coming interviewee” it was hard not to notice Sarra Cardile. Simply put, the girl is everywhere. From her impressive placement in the “Hit Like a Girl Contest” and participation in the “World’s Fastest Drummer Competition” at Summer NAMM, to her ongoing support of the “Breast Cancer Can Stick It Drummathon” Sarra is one busy drummer. Even more impressive is that fact that she has established herself as a highly respected musician at the age of 22. I came to know Sarra through my friend and co-author Rich Redmond who is her mentor. Anyone who watches her videos online can instantly tell that this girl is serious about pursuing her career. Sarra is one of the most active up-and-coming drummers on the scene. I got the opportunity to ask her some questions about how she got to where she is and where she sees herself going in the future.

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  1. Sasikumar Nethaji

    She is a good drummer my best wishes to sarra

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Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Mod is a Star Wars-themed Minecraft Mod.

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At the beginning of every minecraft world, you have to decide your destiny (Sith or Jedi):

It includes various mobs like Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker:

Vehicles and different planets like Tatooine and Dagobah:

3D waepons and also various structures:

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1) Use JEI or NEI for the different crafting recipes

2) NO multiplayer support yet

3) 1.14.4: forge 1.14.4 28.1.106 or higher

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  • 3 new structures (Dearthstar, Millennium Falcon,...)
  • some various changes and bug fixes

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  • Kashyyyk
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Taylor Swift's documentary about her career is moving forward at Netflix. The upcoming film, which is titled Miss Americana, will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020. Though not too many details have been revealed about the Lana Wilson-directed documentary, Netflix promises it will be "a raw and emotionally revealing look at one of the most iconic artists of our time as [Swift] learns to embrace her role not only as a songwriter and performer, but as a woman harnessing the full power of her voice."

Swift previously announced plans for the documentary in November when she gave fans an update on her ongoing feud with Scooter Braun and Big Machine Records' Scott Borchetta. In a lengthy post, the singer claimed that Braun and Borchetta were blocking her from using her older songs in the documentary. However, a source tells Variety that Swift's "songs have been cleared" for the film.

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The growing season is underway in parts of the U.S., primarily in the Southeast. As the world warms, the average date of that last spring freeze is occurring earlier in the year, extending that season. While the longer growing season does have some benefits, it also raises concerns about both agriculture and health.

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The National Trust has found itself in hot water over the apparent decision to drop the word “Easter” from its various egg hunts located around the country instead it would be called “The Great British Egg Hunt”. Aside from the fact that the last thing we need is more commercial ventures with the prefix “The Great British” as if Britain has been stuck in a perennial VE Day celebration and never quite got round to taking down all the union jack bunting and clearing up the trifle. But hey ho it appears the kitsch post-war aesthetic is here for the time being (Keep Calm & Hunt Eggs anyone?). Anyhow The National Trust was accused of “airbrushing faith” from the holiday as it sought to appeal to a wider audience. Soon even the PM, whom need I remind you is a vicar’s daughter nonetheless, was wading into the fray and lamenting the steady erosion of traditional Christian values.

Once all the dust had settled after a couple of days it still remained unclear about what, if anything, had actually happened. One side of the debate was taking the “storm in a teapot” stance, this includes The National Trust themselves and most of the traditionally left wing media outlets. They cite the fact that “Easter” itself was still used on heaps and heaps of the branding and paraphernalia surrounding all the various events and that it was only the name of the specific egg hunt that was changed to omit the word “Easter”, ostensibly to appeal to an audience of “all faiths or non faiths.” The other side of the debate, made up of what would be traditionally labelled more “conservative” (small C) types, have been frothing about how this is either commercialisation at its worse or a grave affront to deeply entrenched British values that it seems we’re all rather embarrassed about now.

The answer it seems, I would wager, lies somewhere between the two. Whilst I seriously doubt that the people who run the National Trust are some kind of shadowy cabal of cultural Marxists’ bent on destroying British values from within I do think that there is something to be said for increased commercialisation and a certain sidelining of faith. I would seriously disagree with anyone who dismisses these religious holidays as nothing more than old superstitions that we’ve moved past now, it’s no overstatement to say that Christianity has been the pillar upon which Western civilisation has built itself and this is no accident or quirk of history. The value structure around which Christianity has built itself, for example the notion of truth as the highest value and the idea that every human, even the worst criminals, have something unique and transcendental within them, “the immortal soul”, both contributed to England being at the forefront of developing a fair justice system that gave each man his day in court and was devoted to finding the truth, rather than just mob justice or theocratic law. In addition to this, the idea of universal human rights can be directly traced back to the Christian supposition of “the Word of God” that lies within each and every person, this hardly even sounds groundbreaking now but try telling the lords and ladies six hundred years ago that everyone has equal value and see how long it takes you to visit the dungeons. Like it or not the fact remains that Christianity remains the metaphysical bedrock of Western thought.

But hold up, I hear you cry, isn’t it true that just under half of people living in Britain report themselves as Christian and so maybe this creeping sweeping away of old values is just a sign of changing demographics and you should get with the times daddy-o. In response to that I would say that we jettison these metaphysical ideas at our own peril and it’s only once they’re gone will we realise what value they had. Don’t get me wrong I’m not advocating a return to a time of religious homogeneity across Europe, we don’t want another Spanish Inquisition after all. This is more a lamentation of the standard of discourse that usually accompanies any critique of religion more than anything else. It appears for the time being that The National Trust has swerved the worst of this scandal, after allegedly having thousands of people threaten to end their membership the Trust doubled down and released a statement confirming their commitment to the religious aspect of the Easter festival. It’s still unconfirmed whether they will be having a Muhammad pinata to celebrate Eid.

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From the first "blue box" flight simulator to the military's impetus in the transfer of modeling and simulation technology to medicine, worldwide acceptance of simulation training is growing.
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  1. Evaluation of the biological activity of MAPS-based nanoparticles on cells.
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  3. Evaluation of the therapeutic efficacy of selected designed nanoparticles in melanoma mouse model.
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In Task 4.1, the biological activity of designed nanoparticles will be tested for the selectivity in cell targeting, cell entry, presentation of antigens, cell toxicity and activation of innate immune response. Tests will be performed on different cultured or primary human or mouse cells (e.g. THP-1, RAW, PBMCs, BMDMs, BMDCs,1 HEK203 transfected with different TLRs and cells deficient in different signalling pathways).

In Task 4.2, designed nanoparticles and vesicles reinforced by MAPS will be loaded with doxorubicin or cisplatin prodrugs (for targeted chemotherapy) without and with immunomodulatory drugs/tumour cell-specific antigen (for combining synergistically chemotherapy with immunotherapy effects) and injected into mice by different routes of injection. For monitoring the circulation, biodistribution patterns and lifetimes of such minimal protocells in vivo, the constructs will be radiolabelled immediately prior to their administration. Different labelling strategies for the incorporation of the radioisotope will be assayed. The most appropriate strategy will be selected on a case- by-case basis, taking into consideration the physic-chemical properties of the nanosystems and loaded drug(s). Direct surface recognition processes, use of bifunctional chelators (BFC) for subsequent formation of a chelator-radiometal complex, incorporation of a radiolabelled tag, and formation of covalent bonding will be considered to incorporate a wide variety of radioisotopes, such as 67Ga, 68Ga, 64Cu, 89Zr, 125I, 131I or 124I. Dual labelling for determination of the biological fate and stability in vivo using a combination of imaging techniques or energy discriminant SPECT will be applied (P4). We plan to compare the effect of the designed cytoskeleton on the in vivo stability. The extracellular cytoskeleton will be decorated with peptide domains targeting the melanoma cancer cells (NIC, CICB).

After identification of the best construct based on in vitro activity studies and in vivo behaviour, the anticancer efficacy will be evaluated in tumour-bearing mice (task 4.3). The selected experimental model is the syngeneic B16 melanoma model transfected with OVA (B16-OVA), which is widely used as a tumour model to investigate tumour immunity and in which effective treatment is notoriously difficult. It is also susceptible to different chemotherapy treatments. To study the effect of the immunization with MAPS-derived systems, tumour size will be measured twice a week and tumour metabolism will be measured by administration of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) – a standard probe in the diagnostic and therapeutic management procedure in clinical oncology, which has also been applied successfully for monitoring immune responses in mice. The chemotherapeutic effect will also be analysed by the study of apoptotic cells by TUNEL assay and proliferating cells will be detected by the expression of Ki-67 in the nuclei. The immunotherapeutic properties of the designed systems will also be analysed by the study of the innate and adaptive immune responses induced in tumour-draining lymph nodes and tumour infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) (CICB). In addition, the frequency of different cell populations will be determined, including that of myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSC), cells that are involved in tumour progression.


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Brain Scans Yield More Clues to Autism

Children with autism show abnormalities in a deep brain circuit that typically makes socializing enjoyable, a new study finds.

Using MRI brain scans, researchers found that kids with autism showed differences in the structure and function of a brain circuit called the mesolimbic reward pathway.

That circuit, located deep within the brain, helps you take pleasure in social interaction -- something that people with autism struggle with, the study authors explained.

Experts said the findings, published July 17 in the journal Brain, offer insight into what's happening in the autism-affected brain.

One of the hallmarks of the disorder is difficulty with recognizing and responding to other people's social cues. The new study suggests that, due to brain wiring, those interactions just do not feel as rewarding to people with autism.

If a young child does not feel the inherent pleasure of socializing, the researchers said, he might avoid it -- and then miss the chance to develop complex social skills.

However, the findings do not definitively prove that the brain abnormality causes social difficulties, said Kaustubh Supekar, a research scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine who worked on the study.

The researchers scanned children who were ages 7 to 13. And it's possible, Supekar said, that the brain circuit did not develop normally because the children lacked years of typical social interactions.

On the other hand, he said, there is animal research suggesting the brain differences might be the cause: If you disrupt the mesolimbic reward pathway in lab mice, they become less social with each other.

None of that means children with autism cannot learn social skills, said Dr. Xavier Castellanos, who directs the Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at NYU Langone Medical Center, in New York City.

In fact, he said, there are established therapies centered on the idea that using "rewards and positive reinforcement" can encourage children with autism to become more socially engaged.

But if researchers can gain a greater understanding of the brain mechanisms related to autism, they may be able to develop more -- and more refined -- therapies, said Castellanos, who was not involved in the study.

"I think that's the most important thing we can be doing, scientifically," he said. "The more we understand the brain, the more inventive we can be in designing new therapies."

For the study, Supekar's team examined functional MRI brain scans from 24 children with autism who were "high-functioning" (meaning the disorder was less severe), and 24 children without the disorder. Functional MRI scans chart blood flow in the brain, as a measure of brain activity.

Overall, the study found, children with autism showed distinct differences in the mesolimbic reward pathway. The nerve fibers there tended to be thinner, and there were signs of weaker connections among brain cells.

And those abnormalities, Supekar said, were more pronounced in kids who had greater difficulty with socializing.

The researchers then performed the scans in a second group of 34 children, and found the same patterns.

It's important that the findings held up in that second group of children, Castellanos said. But, he added, additional studies are still needed to confirm that the patterns are consistently seen.

And then, Castellanos said, the question will be whether dysfunction in the brain pathway actually helps cause social difficulties.

If it does, Supekar said, that would raise the possibility of developing treatments that somehow "manipulate" the pathway.

But any such therapy would be far into the future. More immediately, Supekar said his team wants to look at whether current "reward-based" therapies for autism actually alter the mesolimbic reward pathway.

If that's the case, it would raise another possibility, Supekar said: Doctors may be able to use MRI brain scans to see whether a child's therapy is having an effect.

"Behavior, itself, can take a long time to change," Supekar said. But if changes in brain function can be picked up earlier on, he explained, that could serve as a "biomarker" that progress is being made.

Behavioral therapies that use rewards work for some children, but not others, Castellanos said. Right now, there's no way to predict whether a child will ultimately benefit or not.

More information

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on autism therapies.

SOURCES: Kaustubh Supekar, Ph.D., research scientist, Translational Neurosciences Incubator, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif.; Xavier Castellanos, M.D., director, Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Child Study Center, NYU Langone Health, New York City; July 17, 2018, Brain, online
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We are glad to have another travel blogger on board! Say hi to Fox Adventurer, a gracious animal with golden fur and sharp mind. …or just Liz. Liz is both an experienced traveler and UX designer, always with an eye for something amazing, beautiful and inspiring. Enjoy her travel tips from her trip to Germany and the Netherlands!

My small winter tour around Europe started with a thought “I wish Christmas came faster! What if I went to a Christmas market?”

So I packed my small pink bag, embarked on a plane to Amsterdam and flew in search of new adventures.

Christmas markets in Maastricht and Aachen

I should note that this year the Netherlands have unusually warm, dry and sunny weather unlike in the previous several years.

I was thinking a lot in which cities and countries Christmas markets will be the most vivid and the most memorable, so I was drawing lists of possible towns and creating itineraries. However, as it happens more often, the first town found me all of a sudden. So, the first destination is a German town of Aachen.

From Amsterdam you can reach Aachen only with a few changes. First you need to get to Maastricht, then go on bus. This trip will cost you 35 euro. All 3 hours of the train trip I was admiring beautiful Dutch landscapes, so time flashed.

Christmas markets in Maastricht and Aachen

After nice weather in Amsterdam, Maastricht greeted us with a grey sky and fog.

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Some brief information about the town. Maastricht is located at the border between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany and this, quite possibly, affected the way it looks. In my opinion, it is the most Western-European and the most non-Dutch town of all the towns in the country. It doesn’t have neither usual houses that look like doll’s houses nor the canals’ net. One can understand that is still in the Netherlands only because of the language which is different from all the other languages and is heard from all the corners.

Initially we considered this town only as a “terminal base”, but since we were there, it would be a sin not to look around! We had one hour for the town. We walked everywhere and nevertheless it was pretty, still we were heading for magic and beauty, so we needed to hurry up.

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Oh, we were so wrong! We decided to reach the bus station with another itinerary, we rounded a corner, and there was…

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an unbelievable Christmas market on Vrijthof square with a beautiful view on the castle, with an ice skating rink and even a Ferris wheel. Later we learned that “Magical Maastricht” is one of the best Christmas markets in the Netherlands. They carefully preserve old Christmas traditions and hand them down from generation to generation.

So, one hour became two hours and then even three hours spent in the town.

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Fox’s advice: when you are in the Netherlands, spend one or better two days in Maastricht. Believe me, this town deserves it.

With a promise given to ourselves to come back, we made a photo to remember that day and hurried for the bus.

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We reached Aachen by bus at around 4 pm, the trip took up about one hour. Upon arrival we immediately noticed the difference: instead of fine French houses there were panel buildings, all shops were closed and streets were almost empty. Well, so this is how a border town in Germany looks like on Saturday evening, huh? But we decided to give a chance to Aachen. In 20 minutes along empty streets we found the main cathedral. At that moment we understood where all the town dwellers were lost.

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Christmas markets in Germany amaze with their scale and festive atmosphere. It is a great event for every town. People can go to the Christmas market in the morning and leave it only in the evening with big bags full of gifts, candies and souvenirs. And they will never pass by one stall even twice during the day.

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By the way, Christmas markets offer food that cater to every taste. These are traditional German sausages with cabbage, hot dogs, apples in caramel sauce, and even roasted chestnuts. Personally, I couldn’t pass by tastiest traditional Lebkuchens. So I tried them and bought a few of them for my friends in Minsk.

Aachen Christmas travel blogger

And don’t forget to warm up with a drink! Coming to a Christmas market and not treating yourself with a cup of gluehwein is a real crime! If the dark side offered the gluehwein that I tried in Aachen, I would have joined it, I swear!

Fox’s advice: if you are not a wine fan or if you treat yourself with gluehwein since the beginning of winter, take an eierpunsch (literally “egg punch”) with whipped cream. Believe me, it is worth 3,5 euro!

Aachen Christmas travel blogger

By the way, don’t be scared if you will be asked to pay 6 euro instead of 3,5. All the heating drinks are poured in special souvenir mugs. It is up to you: whether to keep it with you as a pleasant memory about the trip or to give it back and return 2,5 euro.

Happy, sated and a bit tired we headed home because the next day was Sunday. And it means that another city and new adventures are waiting for us!

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Friday, April 29, 2016

First FISC Phone Records Ruling Post-USA FREEDOM Exposes Shortcomings of Reforms

First FISC Phone Records Ruling Post-USA FREEDOM Exposes Shortcomings of Reforms

The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) had its first opportunity to review a government request for telephone call records since the enactment in June 2015 of the USA FREEDOM Act, which placed some restrictions and oversight on the NSA’s surveillance powers. Unfortunately the results of this first post-USA FREEDOM FISC review are not pretty, and remind us all that there is still much work to be done.

In approving a request for “call detail records” by the FBI, Judge Thomas Hogan allowed the FBI to get people’s call records even in the absence of any belief that those records will be relevant to an investigation, and let the bureau keep records with no foreign intelligence value for 6 months or longer even though USA FREEDOM requires “prompt” destruction of such records. He also declined to take advantage of the new provisions that allow him to appoint an amicus to help sort through the new statute. The opinion, issued on December 31, 2015, was made public April 19, 2016.

We Pay Millions to “Ghost Teachers” Who Don’t Teach

We Pay Millions to “Ghost Teachers” Who Don’t Teach

The Philadelphia school district is in a near-constant state of financial crisis. There are many factors contributing to this sorry state — particularly its governance structure — but it is compounded by fiscal mismanagement. One particularly egregious example is paying six-figure salaries to the tune of $1.5 million a year to “ghost teachers” that do not teach.

Why Do We Believe These Pathological Liars?

Why Do We Believe These Pathological Liars?

How do you feel when someone lies to you?

It probably depends on who is doing the lying. A stranger’s fabrications may not phase you, but dishonesty from a friend or lover can end the relationship. The more you feel the liar is supposed to be “on your side,” the more his or her deceptions feel like betrayal — unless, it turns out, the lies come from a politician you support.

When I shared a link on Facebook to Rick Shenkman’s article “Why Are Trump Voters Not Bothered by His Lies?” someone immediately replied by asking, “Why are Hillary voters not bothered by her lies?” Why, in other words, focus on only one mendacious candidate when lying to voters seems like a prerequisite for running for office?

Shenkman, who is the editor of and the author of Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics, might respond with his claim that Trump “has told more lies than any other leading political figure probably ever has.” But his article is in fact about neither Trump’s astonishing number of fibs nor his supporters’ astonishing tolerance for them; it is about how widespread both such lying and such tolerance are across party lines and throughout the era of mass-media mass democracy.

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Space Coast Nerd Fest 2016 - Geekapella - John Williams Is The Man

Space Coast Nerd Fest 2016 - Geekapella - John Williams Is The Man

Geekapella perform a Star War/John Williams medley at the 2016 Space Coast Nerd Fest inMelbourne, Florida.

The Ugly Truth About A $15 Minimum Wage

The Ugly Truth About A $15 Minimum Wage

The Service Employees International Union spent 2015 expanding its campaign for a $15 minimum wage to other industries. In recent nationwide protests, the union focused again on its original target: Fast food companies, and McDonald’s  in particular.

I worked for the company for three decades, and served as its USA President for 13 years. I can assure you that a $15 minimum wage won’t spell the end of the brand. However it will mean wiping out thousands of entry-level opportunities for people without many other options.

The $15 minimum wage demand, which translates to $30,000 a year for a full-time employee, is built upon a fundamental misunderstanding of a restaurant business such as McDonald’s. “They’re making millions while millions can’t pay their bills,” argue the union groups, suggesting there’s plenty of profit left over in corporate coffers to fund a massive pay increase at the bottom.

In truth, nearly 90% of McDonald’s locations are independently-owned by franchisees who aren’t making “millions” in profit. Rather, they keep roughly six cents of each sales dollar after paying for food, staff costs, rent and other expenses.

Let’s do the math: A typical franchisee sells about $2.6 million worth of burgers, fries, shakes and Happy Meals each year, leaving them with $156,000 in profit. If that franchisee has 15 part-time employees on staff earning minimum wage, a $15 hourly pay requirement eats up three-quarters of their profitability. (In reality, the costs will be much higher, as the company will have to fund raises further up the pay scale.) For some locations, a $15 minimum wage wipes out their entire profit.

Recouping those costs isn’t as simple as raising prices. If it were easy to add big price increases to a meal, it would have already been done without a wage hike to trigger it. In the real world, our industry customers are notoriously sensitive to price increases. (If you’re a McDonald’s regular, there’s a reason you gravitate towards an extra-value meal or the dollar menu.) Instead, franchisees can absorb the cost with a change that customers don’t mind: The substitution of a self-service computer kiosk for a a full-service employee.

In higher-cost European countries, these kiosks are already the norm. In 2011, the company ordered more than 7,000 of them to replace entry-level employees. They’ve been tested successfully in a number of markets in the U.S., and now the company is even testing self-serve McCafe kiosks where a customer can prepare and customize their own coffee beverage.

Hoggetowne Medival Faire 2016 - The New Minstrel Revue - Step It Out Mary

Hoggetowne Medival Faire 2016 - The New Minstrel Revue - Step It Out Mary

The New Minstrel Revue performs 'Step It Out Mary' at the 2016 Hoggetowne Medieval Faire in Gainesville, Florida.

Protecto Enterprizes

Protecto Enterprizes

Monday, April 25, 2016

Secret Court Takes Another Bite Out of the Fourth Amendment

Secret Court Takes Another Bite Out of the Fourth Amendment

Defenders of the NSA’s mass spying have lost an important talking point: that the erosion of our privacy and associational rights is justified given the focus of surveillance efforts on combating terrorism and protecting the national security. That argument has always been dubious for a number of reasons. But after a November 2015 ruling by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) was unsealed this week, it’s lost another chunk of its credibility. The ruling confirms that NSA’s warrantless spying has been formally approved for use in general criminal investigations. The national security justification has been entirely blown.

EFF and ACLU Expose Government’s Secret Stingray Use in Wisconsin Case

EFF and ACLU Expose Government’s Secret Stingray Use in Wisconsin Case

Thanks to EFF and the ACLU, the government has finally admitted it secretly used a Stingray to locate a defendant in a Wisconsin criminal case, United States v. Damian Patrick. Amazingly, the government didn’t disclose this fact to the defendant—or the court—until we raised it in an amicus brief we filed in the case. In the government’s brief, filed late last week, it not only fails to acknowledge the impact of hiding this fact from the defendant but also claims its warrantless real-time location tracking didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment.

Thursday, April 21, 2016

The Minimum Wage Makes Teens Unemployable, So Taxpayers Are Paying $5.5 Billion to Find Them Jobs

The Minimum Wage Makes Teens Unemployable, So Taxpayers Are Paying $5.5 Billion to Find Them Jobs

In February, the Obama administration proposed a “First Job” initiative. The main goal of the aptly titled initiative is to help unemployed young people obtain their first job by spending $5.5 billion on grants, training, and direct wages. Unfortunately – but unsurprisingly – the press release failed to acknowledge the most significant factor impeding employment in this age group: the minimum wage.

App Store Censorship and FBI Hacking Proposed at Congressional Crypto Hearing

App Store Censorship and FBI Hacking Proposed at Congressional Crypto Hearing

Tech experts and industry representatives squared off against law enforcement officials in two sessions of lively testimony today in front of the House Energy and Commerce committee. Today’s hearing is the latest in the ongoing battle in the courts and legislature commonly called the second “Crypto Wars,” after a similar national debate in the 1990s.

UnitedHealthcare Is the Canary in the Obamacare Coal Mine

UnitedHealthcare Is the Canary in the Obamacare Coal Mine

With Congress limiting the bailouts of insurance companies for two years in a row, business is not looking good for the industry that lobbied for Obamacare. The latest casualty is UnitedHealthcare, which announced that it is withdrawing from most of its 34 Obamacare exchanges next year.

Friday, April 15, 2016

Microsoft sues U.S. government over data requests

Microsoft sues U.S. government over data requests

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) has sued the U.S. government for the right to tell its customers when a federal agency is looking at their emails, the latest in a series of clashes over privacy between the technology industry and Washington.

The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in federal court in Seattle, argues that the government is violating the U.S. Constitution by preventing Microsoft from notifying thousands of customers about government requests for their emails and other documents.

The government’s actions contravene the Fourth Amendment, which establishes the right for people and businesses to know if the government searches or seizes their property, the suit argues, and Microsoft’s First Amendment right to free speech.

The Department of Justice is reviewing the filing, spokeswoman Emily Pierce said.

Microsoft’s suit focuses on the storage of data on remote servers, rather than locally on people’s computers, which Microsoft says has provided a new opening for the government to access electronic data.

Using the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the government is increasingly directing investigations at the parties that store data in the so-called cloud, Microsoft says in the lawsuit. The 30-year-old law has long drawn scrutiny from technology companies and privacy advocates who say it was written before the rise of the commercial Internet and is therefore outdated.

“People do not give up their rights when they move their private information from physical storage to the cloud,” Microsoft says in the lawsuit. It adds that the government “has exploited the transition to cloud computing as a means of expanding its power to conduct secret investigations.”

The lawsuit represents the newest front in the battle between technology companies and the U.S. government over how much private businesses should assist government surveillance.

By filing the suit, Microsoft is taking a more prominent role in that battle, dominated by Apple Inc (AAPL.O) in recent months due to the government’s efforts to get the company to write software to unlock an iPhone used by one of the shooters in a December massacre in San Bernardino, California.

Apple, backed by big technology companies including Microsoft, had complained that cooperating would turn businesses into arms of the state.

“Just as Apple was the company in the last case and we stood with Apple, we expect other tech companies to stand with us,” Microsoft’s Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith said in a phone interview after the suit was filed.

One security expert questioned Microsoft’s motivation and timing. Its lawsuit was “one hundred percent motivated by business interests” and timed to capitalize on new interest in customer privacy issues spurred in part by Apple’s dispute, said D.J. Rosenthal, a former White House cyber security official in the Obama administration.

As Microsoft’s Windows and other legacy software products are losing some traction in an increasingly mobile and Internet-centric computing environment, the company’s cloud-based business is taking on more importance. Chief Executive Satya Nadella’s describes Microsoft’s efforts as “mobile first, cloud first.”

Its customers have been asking the company about government surveillance, Smith said, suggesting that the issue could hurt Microsoft’s ability to win or keep cloud customers.

In its complaint, Microsoft says over the past 18 months it has received 5,624 legal orders under the ECPA, of which 2,576 prevented Microsoft from disclosing that the government is seeking customer data through warrants, subpoenas and other requests. Most of the ECPA requests apply to individuals, not companies, and provide no fixed end date to the secrecy provision, Microsoft said.

Monday, April 11, 2016

Mom Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to McDonald’s Around the Corner

Mom Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to McDonald’s Around the Corner

A South Carolina mom who let her 9-year-old nephew walk her 3-year-old son to the McDonald’s less than a quarter mile away has been—I’m sure you can finish this sentence in your sleep by now—arrested and charged with child neglect.

The reason? According to WSPA News 7:

The officer says the boys had to cross a street and pass several businesses and homes to get to the eatery, putting their safety at risk.

The mom, Tiesha Mesha Hillstock, 24, told the police the unthinkable: She had trusted the older boy to “take care of his cousin.”

Which, apparently, he was doing. Nonetheless, when the kids were spotted without an adult, or drone, or armored tank to keep them safe, the cops swooped in and accompanied them back to their home. Then the Spartanburg police department then issued an arrest warrant for mom.

Because anytime a child is unsupervised, a parent must be arrested.

Hoggetowne Medieval Faire 2016 - The New Minstrel Revue - The Blackwater and the Lee

Hoggetowne Medieval Faire 2016 - The New Minstrel Revue - The Blackwater and the Lee

The New Minstrel Revue performs 'The Blackwater and the Lee' at the 2016 Hoggetowne Medieval Faire in Gainesville, Florida.

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Whatsapp adds end-to-end encryption

Whatsapp adds end-to-end encryption

With end-to-end encryption, messages are scrambled as they leave the sender’s device and can only be decrypted by the recipient’s device.

It renders messages unreadable if they are intercepted, for example by criminals or law enforcement.

Whatsapp, which has a billion users worldwide, said file transfers and voice calls would be encrypted too.

The Facebook-owned company said protecting private communication was one of its “core beliefs”.

Encryption was thrown under the spotlight after the FBI asked Apple to help it access data on an iPhone used by California gunman Syed Farook.

Whatsapp said: “The idea is simple: when you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to. No one can see inside that message. Not cybercriminals. Not hackers. Not oppressive regimes. Not even us.”

Users with the latest version of the app were notified about the change when sending messages on Tuesday. The setting is enabled by default.

Amnesty International called the move a “huge victory” for free speech.

“Whatsapp’s roll out of the Signal Protocol, providing end to end encryption for its one billion users worldwide, is a major boost for people’s ability to express themselves and communicate without fear,” the organisation said in a statement.

“This is a huge victory for privacy and free speech, especially for activists and journalists who depend on strong and trustworthy communications to carry out their work without putting their lives at greater risk.”

Whatsapp’s decision was also welcomed by security professionals.

“Wire-tappers lament, law-abiding citizens rejoice, for WhatsApp’s latest update is a victory for communications privacy,” said Lee Munson, a security researcher for Comparitech.

“With the ability to access data removed even from the company behind the app, only ill-informed law enforcement agencies are likely to mutter ‘terrorists’ as the masses enjoy the encrypted text messages, photos, video and phone calls they’ve been demanding ever since Edward Snowden blew the lid on government surveillance.”

The move is likely to irk law enforcement agencies, particularly the US Department of Justice which has recently expressed concern over “unreachable” information contained in devices. The DoJ did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment on Tuesday.

Indeed, FBI attorney James Baker has reportedly criticised the move saying encryption threatens the work of law enforcement.

“It has public safety costs. Folks have to understand that, and figure out how they are going to deal with that,” he said, according to the US News and World Report news site.

Panama Papers Are About Government Corruption, Not ‘Tax Evasion’

Panama Papers Are About Government Corruption, Not ‘Tax Evasion’

The “Panama Papers” are the largest leak in world history, revealing millions of documents related to the offshore accounts of politicians, former politicians, and billionaires around the world.

Despite much of the media’s focus on tax evasion as the primary theme of the Panama Papers story, which embarrassed governments are happy to adopt as the primary theme as well, the question is one of official corruption.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) itself, which first published the data, says it reveals the holdings of “drug dealers, Mafia members, corrupt politicians and tax evaders–and wrongdoing galore.”

Yet the numbers they offer tell a different story. According to ICIJ, 214,000 entities are described in the Panama Papers. They include the off-shore assets of 140 politicians and other public figures (including 12 current or former heads of state or government), as well as 33 people and companies that were “blacklisted by the U.S. government because of evidence that they’d been involved in wrongdoing, such as doing business with Mexican drug lords, terrorist organizations like Hezbollah or rogue nations like North Korea and Iran.” Yet The Economist counts 33 Forbes list billionaires to the 140 politicians in the Panama Papers.

The prime minister of Iceland, for example, resigned earlier today over revelations that he owned a shell company in the British Virgin Islands. Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson insists he’s paid his taxes and done nothing wrong. Yet his shell company, according to CBS News, “held interests in failed Icelandic banks that his government was responsible for overseeing.”

In general, this is why politicians have off-shore accounts, to hide wrong-doing, and not just to “evade taxes.” Iceland has instituted capital controls, under Prime Minister Gunnlaugsson, so the prime minister appears to have run afoul of that. But the insinuation that anyone who decided to move their money oversees is “evading” an obligation is tired and backwards. A person’s money belongs to them, not the government, just as their bodies and their freedoms do.

NSA Will Spy for Local Cops Under New Obama Administration Rules

NSA Will Spy for Local Cops Under New Obama Administration Rules

New rules under development by the Obama administration will make it even easier for federal agencies like the FBI and DEA to access troves of phone calls, emails and location data collected by the NSA on millions of people, including Americans, and pass it on to local cops for everyday investigations, or basically any other purpose that suits them.Proponents of federal spying inevitably defend any objection to mass warrantless surveillance by playing the terrorism card.The NSA must be able to sweep up virtually everybody’s electronic data to protect America from terrorist attacks, so the argument goes. This carries a great deal of weight, especially in the wake of tragic bombings in Paris and Brussels. Many Americans brush off the constitutional violations and invasion of privacy inherent in NSA spy programs because they honestly believe they only target terrorists.But in fact, the vast majority of information dredged up by the U.S. spy apparatus ends up in the hands of state and local law enforcement for use in routine criminal investigations. Instead of “fighting terrorism,” the American surveillance state primarily serves as a way to circumvent the Fourth Amendment and prosecute the unconstitutional “War on Drugs.”We’ve known for several years that a DEA Special Operations Division utilizes warrantless data collected by the NSA for routine drug investigations. Reuters revealed the extent of NSA data sharing with state and local law enforcement in an August 2013 article. According to documents obtained by the news agency, the NSA passes information to police through the SOD. These cases “rarely involve national security issues.”

Former NSA technical director William Binney said the feds share information gathered without a warrant and direct the local police force to make an arrest. Using a process known as “parallel construction,” investigators then build their case using normal policing techniques, getting warrants for information they’ve already obtained. The process serves to hide the illegally gathered information, creating the illusion of a legitimate case.

As Washington Post columnist Radley Balko put it, parallel construction is “a bureaucratically sterilized way of saying big stinking lie.”

Binney called this “the most threatening situation to our constitutional republic since the Civil War.”

A new policy quietly under development by the Obama administration will make it even easier for the NSA to share this information with no privacy screening. According to a New York Times report, “Robert S. Litt, the general counsel in the office of the Director of National Intelligence, said that the administration had developed and was fine-tuning what is now a 21-page draft set of procedures to permit the sharing.”

Under the proposed rule changes, federal agencies such as the FBI would gain direct access to streams of information gathered by the NSA, including emails, phone calls and location data. They would then be free to pass along this information to state and local law enforcement.

All of this can happen without any congressional or judicial oversight under a Reagan era executive order known as EO 12333.

Monday, April 4, 2016

What life is like after police ransack your house and take ‘every belonging’ — then the charges are dropped

What life is like after police ransack your house and take ‘every belonging’ — then the charges are dropped

A self-described Michigan “soccer mom” who had “every belonging” taken from her family in a 2014 drug raid has been cleared of all criminal charges, 19 months after heavily armed drug task force members ransacked her home and her business. But in many ways, her ordeal is only beginning.

Annette Shattuck and her husband, Dale, had been facing felony charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession with intent to manufacture marijuana and maintaining a drug house. But last month, Michigan Circuit Court Judge Daniel Kelly threw out all criminal complaints filed against the Shattucks “on the grounds of entrapment by estoppel,”according to court filings. Entrapment by estoppel occurs when a government official leads a defendant to believe that their conduct is permissible under the law.

In 2014, the Shattucks were starting up a marijuana dispensary under Michigan’s medical marijuana law. They worked to ensure every last detail was in full compliance with the law as they understood it: They obtained the permission of the landlord of the building where the dispensary, called the DNA Wellness Center, was to be housed. They went to local planning commission meetings to obtain the proper permits and licenses. They discussed business hours, security measures and even signage requirements with the planning commission.

The town building inspector checked the property and approved the signage. The chairman of the planning commission publicly thanked the Shattucks for working within the allowed legal framework. According to court documents, the Shattucks even went so far as to call the local sheriff’s Drug Task Force to invite them to inspect the property and verify their compliance with the law.

“We really went above and beyond,” Annette Shattuck said in an interview. “We asked for help. We went out of our way to make sure that everything was legit.”

But the Task Force never inspected the property. Instead, acting on an anonymous tip that marijuana was being sold at the location, agents of the St. Clair County Drug Task Force conducted a number of “controlled buys,” where informants with medical marijuana cards entered the dispensary and purchased marijuana under the guise of medical use. That gave them enough probable cause to execute a raid.

Michigan’s existing voter-approved medical marijuana law doesn’t address the legal status of dispensaries, leaving room for conflicting interpretations. The Shattucks’ case is an example of what some drug policy experts say are the shortcomings of writing drug policy via ballot initiative. A more carefully considered piece of legislation may have clarified the gray areas that led to the raid on the Shattucks’ home and business, for instance.

 Technically, Shattuck’s dispensary should not have been approved by the town planning commission, because the law does not provide for selling marijuana in dispensaries, Guilliat said. “I think the township probably thought they were doing the right thing, without knowing what the law says,” he added.

On July 28, 2014 — not long after the couple reached out to them to perform a compliance check — task force agents raided both the dispensary and the Shattucks’ home. In addition to charging the Shattucks with a variety of marijuana-related drug crimes, they took a lawnmower, a bicycle, their daughter’s birthday money, their marriage certificate and numerous other belongings, according to Annette Shattuck’s testimony before the Michigan House last year.

But Judge Daniel Kelly ruled last month that, because the town planning commission had signed off on the dispensary, and because the Shattucks “would not have called [the Drug Task Force] and invited law enforcement to their compassion center for an inspection unless [they] believed in good faith” that they were operating within the bounds of the law, “basic principles of due process preclude prosecution in this case.” In short, the government can’t prosecute you for operating an “illegal” business if another arm of government has given you the green light on it.

Annette Shattuck says “it’s beyond exciting” to have the criminal charges cleared. But the tough work of getting her forfeited property back has only just begun.

Under asset forfeiture laws, police are allowed to seize and keep property suspected of involvement in a crime, regardless of whether the property’s owners are ever convicted — or even charged, in many cases. Michigan’s laws are particularly skewed against property owners, according a 2015 report from the Institute for Justice. The nonprofit civil liberties law firm gave Michigan a D- on its forfeiture laws, citing “poor protections for innocent property owners” and policies that allow police to keep up to 100 percent of the proceeds from forfeited property, creating a profit motive for seizing belongings.

Annette Shattuck says that since the charges have been dismissed, the Drug Task Force has returned some of her property. But much of it is damaged. Electronic items are missing power cords and remotes. Her and her husband’s phones were smashed. They returned her husband’s guns and the safe he stored it in, but they didn’t return the key. Two of the kids’ insurance cards are missing. Shattuck says her marriage and birth certificates haven’t been returned, and since the Task Force does not itemize seized documents in its paperwork, it has no record of taking them in the first place.

“We had plans to get the property back and sell a lot of it to pay for legal fees,” she said. “But now we can’t.”

Sheriff Tim Donnellon, who oversees the drug task force involved in the raid, said his office has “no vendetta” against the Shattucks, and that if any items or components are missing from their returned property, it wasn’t intentional. He said the Shattucks should get in touch with the police supervisors overseeing the return. “We’ll make things right for her,” he added.

Donnellon agrees with Guilliat, the assistant prosecutor, that murky statute language has made things difficult, not only for medical marijuana patients and caregivers but for law enforcement officials as well. “Medical marijuana in Michigan is a nightmare,” he said in an interview. “It’s really shifting sand. It changes continually. It’s really an Achilles heel for law enforcement.”

The tension between strict federal prohibition and state-level legalization is likely only to grow as more states consider changing their marijuana laws this year. “Medical marijuana policy in the United States is putting Americans at risk,” the Brookings Institution’s John Hudak warned last week. Medical marijuana patients are often “victimized by an unjust, arbitrary, and downright harmful system that hinders access to a clinically proven medical benefit,” according to Hudak.

The Shattuck family has experienced this harm first-hand. Beyond the financial burden, the raids have left the family with considerable emotional trauma as well. When the task force raided her home, Shattuck’s mother was  babysitting her four children, who were all under age 10 at the time. “During the dynamic entry, armed DTF officers wearing ski masks separated the children from their grandmother at gunpoint, shouting at her to get the dog under control or they would shoot it,” a court briefing filed by the Shattucks’ lawyer alleges. “The deputies kept the children lined up on the couch at gunpoint, refusing even to remove their masks to help calm the kids.”

Donnellon called this a “misrepresentation of the incident.” During raids like this, he says, it’s standard for officers to enter with weapons drawn. “If you come in at a dynamic entry raid, you’re going to aim that gun at the parents. Children are going to be sat at a couch. There’s absolutely no way in hell would we point a gun at child on a couch,” he said in an interview.

He added that his officers typically don’t wear ski masks, either. “These guys on the SWAT teams are dads, too,” he said.

After the raid, the officers left devastation in their wake, according to the family’s account.

“They had Annette’s lingerie strewn everywhere,” Annette Shattuck’s mother said in the briefing. “From the ceiling fan… Boxes and bags of food had been pulled from the cabinets and stepped on with their big boots.“

The description goes on: “They took everything, the birth certificates, the adoption papers. There was nothing that they didn’t destroy, they ripped off facings of the cabinets, every picture was off the wall.”

Sheriff Donnellon has previously disputed the Shattucks’ characterization of the raid, saying that it wasn’t as confrontational or disruptive as the Shattucks or their lawyer presented it.

Now, “if my kids are outside in my yard, they run into my house if they see a police officer,” Shattuck said. “They’re petrified.” Her 10-year-old daughter has been in counseling for a year and a half.

The pending charges had made it difficult for the Shattucks to find work. Annette’s husband Dale had worked in construction before starting up the dispensary. But since the police seized all his tools, he had difficulty returning to his old line of work. They turned to borrowing money from friends and family. “We owe a lot of people a lot of money,” Shattuck said. “We depended on the kindness of relatives. If we didn’t have them, we wouldn’t have been able to do anything.”

Video Surfaces of Bernie Sanders Praising Breadlines and Food Rationing

Video Surfaces of Bernie Sanders Praising Breadlines and Food Rationing

Vermont’s Democratic socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has sought to separate his views from those of tyrannical socialist regimes throughout history. The problem is that back in the 1980’s Sanders was outspoken in his support of communist dictator Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet-aligned Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

In fact, recently discovered video shows Sanders praising food lines as a good thing. Sanders asserts that countries where people don’t line up for food that the poor are starving to death because “the rich get all the food.”

The lack of logic here is astounding. In America and individual can buy a meal for under $2 if you’re not picky, and everywhere we go we are surrounded by stores stocked full of food.

Friday, April 1, 2016

Hoggetowne Medieval Faire 2016 - The New Minstrel Revue - That Was The Day

Hoggetowne Medieval Faire 2016 - The New Minstrel Revue - That Was The Day

The New Minstrel Revue performs 'That Was The Day' at the 2016 Hoggetowne Medieval Faire in Gainesville, Florida.

Game Players – February 1993

Game Players – February 1993

Japan’s lost black hole satellite is back online, still tumbling through space

Japan’s lost black hole satellite is back online, still tumbling through space

In late February, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, launched its next-generation X-ray observatory. This satellite, Hitomi, was designed to be the sixth in a series X-ray satellites whose operational histories stretch back to 1979. Hitomi could measure objects an order of magnitude fainter than its predecessor. The initial February 17 launch went smoothly, but Japan announced on March 27 that communication with the satellite had failed just as it was scheduled to begin its operational cycle. Initial attempts to reestablish communication with the satellite failed, but scientists were able to make brief contact with the craft as of Wednesday, March 30.

Hitomi (originally referred to as Astro-H pre-launch) is designed to explore how matter behaves when falling into black holes, the distribution of dark matter across galactic clusters, and to keep an eye on supernovae if and when they are detected. X-ray astronomy is one of the types of astronomy that can’t be performed on Earth, since our atmosphere absorbs X-rays before they reach the surface. Since no one has figured out a way to lift Mauna Kea into geosynchronous orbit, we have to do this kind of observation with specialized satellites, and Hitomi was meant to be a critical next-generation observatory. After the satellite went dark three days ago, it was thought to have been destroyed — except now it’s making intermittent contact with JAXA.

The current thinking is that the satellite is now spinning wildly — an opinion lent credence by a video shot by astronomer Paul Maley and reported by Gizmodo. That video shows the satellite moving at fairly high speed, but with wildly irregular brightness, as though it were caught in a tumble. The irregularity in its brightness is caused by light reflecting off different areas of the observatory, possibly including its solar panels. According to Maley, the damaged [satellite] appears to undergo one full rotation every 23.5 seconds.


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Me in the Middle of #atozchallenge ~ Letter L

My theme for the A to Z Blog Challenge @AprilA2Z during the month of April is ~ My Life Is My Masterpiece ~ Lessons Learned

Letting Go

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It was this poem about Letting Go, written by a friend of mine, that inspired my sketch. It spoke to me of the process that we need to go through when traumatic events come into our lives and knock us off our course.

 Me in the Middle of Letting Go

(Complete Poem ~ Letting Go ~ Click on link above)

Time To Let Go And Fly!

The 2016 A to Z Challenge #atozchallenge@aprila2z  is 26 Days in April (No Sundays) of blogging using each letter of the alphabet as a prompt for each blog.  My theme for this Challenge is My Life is a Masterpiece ~ Lessons Learned

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* Note:  My letter sketches were made from ideas I found on Google Images. *

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  1. Reblogged this on Me In The Middle and commented:

    Last year, in the middle of April, I was well on my way to completing the A to Z Challenge 2016! At this point the A to Z bloggers are gaining confidence that they’re going to make it to the end. I can’t help but be with them in spirit as I following along and visit some of their websites.
    Today is Letter L ~ Here’s a reblog of my 2016 A to Z Letter L:

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    • Hi Meg! I just found this comment! I agree that ‘letting go’ is a necessary part of life yet not always easy. For me it’s an ongoing process and we get there by reminding ourselves to return our thoughts to the present when we find we’re spending too much time thinking of the past. 🙂

    • I wonder if WordPress has a way we could take a poll to find out which Letter AtoZ post bloggers liked? It would be fun to know. Thanks, Ally! 🙂

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This morning I visited the Royal North Shore Hospital to get a little more on paper about my Hyper-mobility.  Up until recently I have been relying on my physio to tell me what it is that is the problem.  However my doctor wanted a little more information before looking into treatment and management of Hyper-mobility.   So the good news is I do have Benign Hyper Mobility which is what we thought.  The other great news is at this stage it looks like I do not have any of the major side affects.  I guess you are wondering what it is?

“Benign hypermobility joint syndrome — or BHJS — is a common source of joint or muscle complaints by children and young adults. Benign hypermobility describes looseness of joints that may be associated with daytime pain, nighttime awakening, or discomfort after exercise. People with the condition generally report prolonged pain. In the past, this type of general pain often was called “growing pains” or “limb pain,” which can be similar. Both, though, are different disorders. The term “benign” has been used to differentiate the BHJS from other similar disorders that also involve other organs such as the eyes and heart.

 How Is Benign Hypermobility Joint Syndrome Diagnosed?

Assessment of children or young adults suspected of having BHJS does not require special equipment. Testing the range of motion of your child’s joints will determine if they are more loose than normal. Several specific mobility tests are used for diagnosing BHJS, including:

  • The wrist and thumb can be moved downward so the thumb touches the forearm.
  • The little fingers can be extended back beyond 90 degrees.
  • When standing, the knees are abnormally bowed backward when viewed from the side.
  • When fully extended, the arms bend further than normal (beyond straight.)
  • When bending at the waist, with the knees straight, the child or adult can put his or her palms flat on the floor.”  linky for this info

Where to next?

So from here the next step is to keep going as normal.  Lots of pilates and physio which unfortunately come at a cost which is hard when working for a small family business.  Plus now I can speak to my doctor about how to better manage the pain side of it.  The Fatigue is an interesting side affect also.  I am hopeful that as ALL of my muscles get stronger through Pilates it will help with the fatigue that I sometimes feel.   It is good to know that some of the things I have come across over the years were indeed all side affects of the Hyper Mobility including my low blood pressure and dizzy feelings when I was a teenager.  People used to laugh when I would eat salt!  Guess I really am a salt water baby after all! haha.

It turns out I should have kept sailing 5 days a week and hitting up the gym a couple of days also.  Not sure how I was meant to fit that in with life and work!   The main reason I was not diagnosed when younger like most is because I was so strong and that kept the pain away!  So once this core of mine is a bit happier I am definitely going to be back out on the water.  Sailing is clearly going to be part of the management process of my hyper mobility.

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Doctor Who Scream of the Shalka DVD

scream-shalka-dvdDoctor Who Scream of the Shalka DVD

Released on 16th September 2013

Starring: Richard E. Grant, Sophie Okonedo, Craig Kelly, Sir Derek Jacobi

The TARDIS lands in a small English village in 2003, where the population is living in fear from a malevolent alien force.

With the help of UNIT and his new friend Alison, the Doctor discovers that a race called the Shalka are residing underground, preparing to strip away the earth’s ozone layer and embark on a full-scale invasion of the planet.

Categorised under: Doctor Who DVDs, DVD

  • Cyber lords

    October 13th, 2013 - 7:27pm

    Is there am Easter egg on this

  • CallumEales

    September 14th, 2013 - 10:56am

    is this any good?

  • The TARDIS

    September 5th, 2013 - 6:13pm

    I think that when The Great Intelligence goes into The Doctor’s timeline, he causes the Doctor to regenerate into Richard E. Grant, the Shalka Doctor. Who then gets older and becomes John Hurt.
    If that were true, then I wouldn’t mind Moffat fiddling around with established Doctor Who history.

  • connor

    August 26th, 2013 - 12:43am

    my theory is that the 8th doctor regerated into the shalka doctor but somtime after the events of this he broke the promise and he no longer thought of that incarnation as the doctor so when he regenerated again he thought of that as the 9th, if you look at it the shalka doctor looks a bit like a younger john hurt

  • Sammi Carter

    July 31st, 2013 - 8:56pm

    The region 2 cover has been announced at

    • Sammi Carter

      July 31st, 2013 - 8:58pm

    • skaroman

      August 11th, 2013 - 8:28am

      Looks okay, I think the caption for ‘starring richard e. Grant’ is too big.

      It’s not the best cover in the world, but I’ll still buy it.

    • Sammi Carter

      August 11th, 2013 - 10:01am

      I saw interesting tweet from outpost skaro where they said: who thinks scream of the shalka is a red herring for a surprise enemy of the world DVD release?

      Could this be an hint that enemy of the world might be getting announced for DVD release?

    • booboo

      August 11th, 2013 - 11:00am

      So they think BBC Worldwide would market an item and allow every retail site such as Amazon, BBC shop etc etc etc to take pre orders and in some case money for it only for it to be a red herring?

    • Sammi Carter

      August 11th, 2013 - 1:41pm

      its beginning to sound like bbc worldwide might announce something maybe this week

    • booboo

      August 11th, 2013 - 1:47pm

      All i see is people trying to get one over on the other one, site bickering and people claiming to know stuff but wont say anything.

      If the BBC officially announce something fine until then i will let the children play their games

  • Timelord63

    July 9th, 2013 - 11:58am

    Has anybody noticed that Amazon has this listed twice – one at £15.24 other at £19.99 – both region 2. Does anyone know if there are 2 versions of this coming out-a collectors edition?

    • Sammi Carter

      July 17th, 2013 - 12:58pm

      i saw that too . but now they both around the £15 mark. i’m wondering if dimensions in time is coming to dvd this september.

      also what the coming soon expected to be on this dvd release?

    • Some bloke

      July 17th, 2013 - 5:25pm

      we will won’t be getting dimensions in time ever! Something to do with the fact it was made for children in need and stuff. Also the coming soon trailer on this will be for terror of the zygons

    • celestial toymaker

      July 20th, 2013 - 12:41pm

      why can’t this be blu rayed?

    • the doctor

      July 21st, 2013 - 2:07pm

      I do hope they put dimensions in time out on dvd .

    • Some bloke

      July 28th, 2013 - 1:25pm

      as I said above, Dimensions in time will NEVER be released on DVD!

    • Sammi Carter

      July 29th, 2013 - 8:00am

      They lowed the price to £14.28. So I do believe we might get announcement in August about 90 missing episodes recovery that was rumoured last month.

      What do you lot think?

    • Some bloke

      July 29th, 2013 - 9:34pm

      doubt it!! If it is true then they’re likely to announce it around the october/november time I reckon

  • StarkBoy

    July 7th, 2013 - 4:02pm

    Where can I get this ?

    • Trenzalore

      July 7th, 2013 - 4:03pm

      It’s not out yet, read the writing

  • Harold Saxon

    July 4th, 2013 - 9:44pm

    Is Derk Jacobi master similar in this to his appearance in utopia?

    • 76 Totters Lane

      July 31st, 2013 - 9:24pm

      Not really.

  • josh smith

    June 30th, 2013 - 7:12pm

    is this the R2 cover?

    • booboo

      June 30th, 2013 - 7:13pm

      no R1

  • RastonEd

    May 23rd, 2013 - 8:44pm

    I watched this when it came out, but last night I just went onto dailymotion and watched it for nothing. Personally, Richard e grant is better at the great intelligence than his Dracula-doctor. The angles were also really messed up

    • McGann is the Doctor

      May 24th, 2013 - 12:16pm

    • josh smith

      May 27th, 2013 - 4:46pm

      Richard E grant is nothing special really. Tom baker is a better actor.

  • pathdw98

    May 23rd, 2013 - 2:51am

    Booboo, has the release date for this been changed? BBC shop saying 2nd september, but amazon still saying 16th.

  • POW

    May 22nd, 2013 - 8:58pm

    But after the events of The Name of the Doctor, when the Great Intelligence stepped into the Doctor’s time stream (as played by Richard E Grant) and this Doctor is voiced by Richard E Grant and is modelled on Richard E Grant, then this could now be considered as a canon adventure in which the Doctor/Great Intelligence embarked on a whole series of adventures. Maybe he was influenced by Clara to do good! 🙂

    • videogamemad00

      May 22nd, 2013 - 9:14pm

      BEST.THEROY.EVER. i don’t normally like theories because they are usually really stupid. This is actually plausable.

    • MasterKasterborous

      May 23rd, 2013 - 9:30pm

      That was my first thought when I watched him step into the rip in time. You didn’t get that off GB by any chance did you…

    • Caitlin

      June 15th, 2013 - 10:50am

      A better theory is that the john hurt doctor first regenerated into a Richard E grant Doctor, but events in the time war being wibbly as they are the events causing the regenerating were undone and when john hurt doctor regenerated again it was into Eccleston doctor. THe timeline with Grant Doctor became redundant and he all but faded from time but the Idea of him remained…the idea became the Great intellence.
      Why else would he be so intent on destroying the doctors past and future

  • Anonymous

    May 22nd, 2013 - 8:36pm

    Scream of the shalka should have been the offical continuation of dr who

    • Floppy Who

      May 22nd, 2013 - 9:43pm

      It was intended by the BBC to be the official continuation of the series when it came out in 2003. Then a few weeks later, the new series was commissioned and it all changed…!

    • MAXP

      May 23rd, 2013 - 4:17am

      There was a book released where he was presented/ considered as the 9th doctor.

    • AlphaOmega

      May 24th, 2013 - 5:22pm

      You never know, they may still consider him for one of the Final Doctors…

  • MasterKasterborous

    May 22nd, 2013 - 7:01pm

    Don’t get too excited for Dimension in Time as when it was made the contract stated it would only be broadcast once and won’t be put on sale on any format.

  • drjakeyoung

    May 22nd, 2013 - 6:13pm

    no, it’s colour. (it was 2003)

  • thedaleksdeath

    May 22nd, 2013 - 5:08pm

    Yeah it’s on the Doctor Who offical site I think

  • Sam Bentley

    May 22nd, 2013 - 4:38pm

    Was the Doctot in the image of Richard E. Grant? As I’ve never been able to tell…

  • cyberman2

    May 22nd, 2013 - 4:27pm

    watched on youtube. was brilliant. so getting this

  • Anonymous

    May 22nd, 2013 - 3:43pm

    Do you think the shalka doctor should be the offical 9th doctor?

    • The master

      May 22nd, 2013 - 4:00pm

      really yeah he should be

  • AlphaOmega

    May 22nd, 2013 - 3:39pm

    So getting this – no matter what! 🙂

  • drjakeyoung

    May 22nd, 2013 - 1:46pm

    amazon are pricing the dvds really high!

    • Anonymous

      May 22nd, 2013 - 1:48pm

      Try the BBC Shop…£13.99 and free delivery

    • drjakeyoung

      May 22nd, 2013 - 1:50pm

      just pre ordered all the dr who dvds for this year from them, much better.

  • Mels

    May 22nd, 2013 - 11:55am

    Oh nice! This has been a long time coming.

  • Rooners

    May 22nd, 2013 - 11:11am

    BBC Shop is selling it for £13….its only Amazon with the ridiculous price….so I think the BBC are free of blame here 😉

  • Time Lord 85

    May 22nd, 2013 - 11:02am

    Maybe getting a bit too fannish here, but i’ve always seen this as the timeline that was supposed to be if the Time War hadn’t happened. It does have more of a classic series feel to it, you could say this was the true final end of the classic series format.

  • TheWhomobile

    May 22nd, 2013 - 10:34am

    Is this going to be part of the classic DVD range or a separate release on its own?

      May 22nd, 2013 - 10:48am

      A separate release, since it’s not really part of continuity within the series.

      I wonder if they’ll also do the 6th Doctor web-cast story ‘Real Time’ as well on DVD. The one with the Cybermen with red eyes.

    • Time Lord 85

      May 22nd, 2013 - 10:54am

      It is actually being sold as part of the classic releases, even if it doesn’t follow the new series continuity.

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