The Bermuda Long Riders Motorcycle Club and Association [BLRMCA] hosted a Harley Davidson ride today [June 21] with members from ETA Motorcycle Cruises arriving on the Explorer of the Seas cruise ship this morning joining the local riders on a tour ride across the island. After fueling up their cycles at Boaz Island Shell, the […] (Click to read the full article)

Her Majesty the Queen has recognized a number of Bermudians in her annual New Year’s Honours List, with Dennis Tucker, Edward Ball Jr, Shawn Caisey, Gladstone Thompson, and Christine Wetherhill all being honoured for their contributions. Her Majesty the Queen has recognized the following people in her New Year’s Honours List: Member of the Most […] (Click to read the full article)

The Insurance Insider, an insurance news organisation, has shortlisted two people from Bermuda – Melanie Lopes from Third Point Re and Sean Ramlal from Ascot Re – as finalists in the Underwriter Rising Star category in their inaugural US Honors Awards. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on April 23 in New […] (Click to read the full article)

Kaden Hopkins, Dominique Mayho, Nicholas Narraway and Caitlin Conyers all began competing in the Valley of the Sun Bike Race, which is a three-day event in which Professional and Amateur Road Racing Cyclists of different categories. During the Time Trial Pro 1 Men’s Division, Hopkins finished 16th clocking a time of 29:45.440, Mayho finished 57th […] (Click to read the full article)

Kaden Hopkins, Dominique Mayho, Nicholas Narraway and Caitlin Conyers recently concluded competing in the Valley of the Sun Bike Race, a three-day event in which professional and amateur road racing cyclists take part in different categories. The third and final stage was the criterium. In the Pro 1 Men’s Division, Hopkins clocked a time of […] (Click to read the full article)

Bermuda cyclists Dominique Mayho, Kaden Hopkins, and Conor White have teamed up with Julian Molina, Julian Otero, and Brian Leon as they continue competing in the Vuelta Independencia 7 day stage race in the Dominican Republic. Stage two saw the cyclists compete over a 162K course. Mayho was fourth across the line with the same […] (Click to read the full article)

Bermuda cyclists Dominique Mayho, Kaden Hopkins, and Conor White have teamed up with Julian Molina, Julian Otero and Brian Leon to compete in the Vuelta Independencia 7 day stage race in the Dominican Republic. Stage three was a 133.1K course, with Mayho moving up to eighth place overall. Hopkins is in sixth place overall and holds a […] (Click to read the full article)

Bermuda cyclists Dominique Mayho, Kaden Hopkins, and Conor White have teamed up with Julian Molina, Julian Otero and Brian Leon to compete in the Vuelta Independencia 7 day stage race in the Dominican Republic. Stage four was the Circuito Villa Altagracia 138K race. Hopkins leads the Bermuda riders and is in 6th place overall, he […] (Click to read the full article)

Bermuda cyclists Dominique Mayho, Kaden Hopkins, and Conor White have teamed up with Julian Molina, Julian Otero and Brian Leon to compete in the Vuelta Independencia 7 day stage race in Dominican Republic. Stage Five was a 136K Mountain Stage, and Hopkins continues to lead the Bermuda riders and is in 8th place overall, and […] (Click to read the full article)

Bermuda cyclists Dominique Mayho and Kaden Hopkins, continued teaming up with Julian Molina, Julian Otero, and Brian Leon to compete in the Vuelta Independencia 7 day stage race in the Dominican Republic. Stage six was a 130K race, with Otero finishing 4th, while Hopkins crossed the line 8th and Mayho was 9th, all had the […] (Click to read the full article)

Bermuda cyclists Dominique Mayho and Kaden Hopkins, continued teaming up with Julian Molina, Julian Otero, and Brian Leon to compete in the Vuelta Independencia 7 day stage race in the Dominican Republic. The final day saw the cyclists compete for an 84K ride through Santo Domingo. Hopkins finished 8th overall, with a combined time of 23 […] (Click to read the full article)

18 local cyclists took part in the USA Cycling Dadurday Chase Virtual Race. Leading the way was Alexander Miller who competed in the A Division, finishing 9th clocking a time of 47:50, Tommy Marshall was the top B Division rider crossing the line 24th with a time of 51:15. Tim Madeira won the C Division race […] (Click to read the full article)

Bermuda’s Shiona Turini continues to build her fashion credentials, with her latest accomplishment being working as a stylist for superstar Beyonce’s latest video ‘Formation’, which has just been released, attaining some 6 million views on Youtube in the first 24 hours. “Beyoncé employed a cadre of stylist — among them Shiona Turini, Zerina Akers, Ade […] (Click to read the full article)

University of Northern Colorado [UNC] Swimming and Diving continued its academic excellence during the 2019-20 season with 13 student-athletes including Bermuda’s Madelyn Moore earning Academic All-WAC honors announced by the conference. Sophomore Moore, has competed in the World Junior Youth Commonwealth Games, Youth Olympics, World Championships and Pan American Games. Moore holds the 50 Meter […] (Click to read the full article)

[Updated] Emergency services responded to a collision this evening [Feb 28] on Camp Road in Warwick which appeared to involve a motorcycle and van. Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service, police and an ambulance attended the scene where a man was cared for before being transported to King Edward Memorial Hospital for treatment. Traffic was diverted […] (Click to read the full article)

Social media sensations The Bucket List family have sent their legion of online fans a pair of video postcards from Bermuda after arriving on the island last week. After he sold his mobile app development company to Snapchat in a multi-million dollar deal, American tech entrepreneur Garrett Gee, wife Jessica and their children set off […] (Click to read the full article)

PlayList Management [PLM], a local talent management and development company, has joined forces with Studio 27, an Atlanta-based talent/development company. This partnership was created during PLM’s annual Developing Artists Program 2014, which was recently completed in Atlanta. A spokesperson said, “Studio27 Model and Talent, founded by director and owner Cheryl Harris, is a full artist […] (Click to read the full article)

With the Land Valuation Department set to prepare a new Valuation List to be published on December 31, 2020, land taxpayers on the island will be receiving residential, commercial and tourist survey forms this month. A Government spokesperson said, “The public is reminded that the Land Valuation and Tax Act 1967 requires the Land Valuation […] (Click to read the full article)

Cyclists and noncyclists have a wide range of perceptions of on-street bicycling facility designs — including sharrows, bike lanes, and buffered bike lanes — along a variety of roadway types, with and without curbside automobile parking. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 941: Bicyclist Facility Preferences and Effects on Increasing Bicycle Trips provides insights from communities where on-road cycling for transportation is less common, particularly in the South...

Adult On-Road Cyclist Injury in Victoria, 2008/09 to 2017/18: A Report on Ambulance Attendances, Emergency Department Presentations, Hospital Admissions and Deaths , released by Monash University

A 40-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving after a collision in Hamilton parish early this morning [Jan 7]. A police spokesperson said, “Around 1:40am Tuesday, January 7th police and fellow first responders were dispatched to a reported two vehicle collision on North Shore Road in Hamilton parish near the junction with Coney […] (Click to read the full article)

Two women were transported to hospital following a collision last night [Jan 12] in Devonshire, with one woman “sustaining injuries including a potentially life threatening head injury.” The collision involved two vehicles, and the motorcyclist fled the scene and police said “efforts are ongoing to locate the other motorcycle and its rider.” A police spokesperson […] (Click to read the full article)

A 51-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving following a collision early this morning [Jan 31] on North Shore Road in Devonshire which resulted in a female motorcyclist being taken to hospital. A police spokesperson said, “Around 12:50am Friday, January 31st police and fellow first responders attended a reported two vehicle collision on […] (Click to read the full article)

[Updated] A serious collision has occurred in the Middle Road, Verdmont Road area of Smith’s parish, apparently involving a heavy truck and a motorcyclist. A police spokesperson said, “A reported serious collision has occurred in the Middle Road, Verdmont Road Smith’s parish area – apparently involving a heavy truck and a motorcyclist. “Motorists are advised […] (Click to read the full article)

I started 132 books this year and finished 127. New this year: a twitter thread of everything I read in...

The EARN IT Act is dangerous. It threatens speech on the internet and tech companies' ability to provide secure communications for their users. There may not be anything about encryption in the dry text of the bill, but the threat is there all the same. No one knows what "best practices" the law will demand from online services, but the bill's focus on child porn strongly suggests any platform that "allows" this information to be transmitted using encrypted communications will be targeted by the government.

Bill Barr and Chris Wray have made it clear encryption is the enemy. Both have advocated for encryption backdoors, even if they're both too cowardly to use that term. No one thinks the government and service providers shouldn't do all they can to prevent the sharing of child porn, but undermining encryption isn't the solution. It may shield some child porn producers and consumers from detection, but the government's efforts in this area show encryption hasn't posed much of a problem to investigators and prosecutors.

Encryption protects people who aren't criminals. As Runa Sundvik explains for TechCrunch, targeting encryption via the EARN IT Act also threatens some of the foremost beneficiaries of the First Amendment: journalists.

[T]echnology experts warn the bill not only fails to meet the challenge, it creates new problems of its own. My job is to enable journalists to do their work securely — to communicate with others, research sensitive stories and publish hard-hitting news. This bill introduces significant harm to journalists’ ability to protect their sources.

Strip communications platforms of their encryption and you make it that much easier to expose journalists' sources and snoop on their communications. This isn't an existential threat. It's an actual threat. The FBI has spied on journalists and several successive presidential administrations have made rooting out leakers a priority.

But it does more than harm journalists. It also harms the people they're trying to reach: readers. Encryption protects readers who visit news sites utilizing HTTPS. That's almost all of them at this point. This ensures their connection is shielded from people trying to snoop on their web activity. More importantly, it ensures the sites they reach are legit and the content originating from the journalists the site says it is.

If EARN IT becomes law, whistleblowers and other sources will see their secure options disappear. Tor, Signal, etc. will be considered nothing more than aiders and abettors of criminal activity. Anything secured by encryption will be treated as a virtual dead drop for criminal content.

Protecting children from exploitation is important. But the tradeoff legislators are demanding isn't actually a tradeoff. The American public will receive no net benefit from this tangential attack on encryption. Very often we're first informed about serious government misconduct by journalists. Destroying this outlet works out well for the government so often exposed as untrustworthy, but it does nothing for the governed.

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While the pandemic has been chipping away at the furry convention scene, other furs have stepped forward to try and give those in the community events to look forward to over the now dormant weekends. This had started with a group of Furnal Equinox members creating a digital replacement for their late March convention called Keep Calm and Carry Con - Furnal Isolation. More have started to spring up this spring.

They can have internet dealers dens, streaming dance competitions, and other staples that conventions are known for. Accessible from the safety of your own home.

Below is a comprehensive list of conventions. Last updated May 2nd, 2020 12:18 ET.

Please feel free to place any not listed here in the comments below and we will look into adding it if it appears legitimate.

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Video and transcript of Farron Cousins' discussion of Hillary Clinton's fake populism on Ring of Fire TV, May 18, 2015. Continue reading →

The DNC is a one big capitalistic gangbang of Democrats and corporate donors and lobbyists. Guess who is getting screwed? Continue reading →

NEWS 8 IS YOUR LOCAL ELECTION HEADQUARTERS…. AND TONIGHT…VOODOO ECONOMICS! CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT MARK DAVIS TELLING US HOW REPEALING THE STATE INCOME TAX IS THE LATEST HEATED TOPIC BETWEEN THE CANIDATES FOR GOVERNOR.   DEMOCRAT NED LAMONT IS OPENING A … Continue reading →

IBM inventors received a record 9,043 patents in 2017, marking the company’s 25th consecutive year of U.S. patent leadership and crossing the 100,000-patent milestone. The new patents were granted to a diverse group of more than 8,500 IBM researchers, engineers, scientists and designers in 47 different U.S. states and 47 countries.

Los inventores de IBM (NYSE: IBM) recibieron un récord de 9,043 patentes en 2017, lo que marca el 25º año consecutivo de liderazgo en Estados Unidos y supera el hito de 100.000 patentes. Las nuevas patentes se otorgaron a un grupo diverso de más de 8,500 investigadores, ingenieros, científicos y diseñadores de IBM en 47 países, Latinoamérica incluida, región que contribuyó con cerca de 100 patentes al registro de 2017.

Hace posible el cifrado en tiempo real sobre todas las transacciones móviles a escala. Primer sistema mainframe con análisis integrado que proporciona conocimientos de transacciones en tiempo real, 17 veces más rápido en comparación a sistemas competidores en una fracción del costo.

IBM today announced that it set a new U.S. patent record in 2011, marking the 19th consecutive year that the company has led the annual list of patent recipients. IBM inventors earned a record 6,180 U.S. patents in 2011, more than quadrupling Hewlett-Packard’s issuances and exceeding by six times those of Oracle/Sun.

Los inventores de IBM recibieron un récord de 9.100 patentes en 2018, marcando el 26º año consecutivo de liderazgo en patentes de la compañía en Estados Unidos. IBM lideró la industria en el número de patentes de Inteligencia Artificial (IA), computación en la nube, seguridad y computación cuántica.

IBM reveló un nuevo estudio acerca de la manera en que los profesionales de marketing y ventas están adoptando soluciones cognitivas o de Inteligencia Artificial (IA). A pesar de que el 64% de los Directores de Marketing -CMOs por sus siglas en inglés- y líderes de ventas encuestados cree que sus industrias estarán listas para adoptar ese tipo de tecnologías en los próximos tres años, sólo 24% de los encuestados cree que tiene una estrategia establecida para hacerlo en la actualidad.

Declares Intent to Break the Exaflop Barrier; Develops Exascale Research Collaboratory in Dublin

IBM today announced that it received a record 6,478 patents in 2012 for inventions that will enable fundamental advancements across key domains including analytics, Big Data, cybersecurity, cloud, mobile, social networking and software defined environments, as well as industry solutions for retail, banking, healthcare, and transportation. These patented inventions also will advance a major shift in computing, known as the era of cognitive systems.

Hope Kahn is a Maryland-based journalist who is doing all of the sorts of things I was doing at her age: honing her writing and reporting skills, putting out a student newspaper, and always scrambling to find a good local story.

But that's where the similarities stop. Over the last couple of years she's been punching way above her weight class, having been published in national outlets such as Ms. and The New York Times. Suffice to say those are not exactly things I had accomplished before graduating high school.

More important, she writes about subjects that are touchstones for her generation. Her work with #SinceParkland is a great example of someone from Generation Lockdown working to effect change for her peers.

Recently we did some head shots. The idea was to help her with visually branding herself as the serious, thoughtful journalist she is fast becoming. The setup we used was classic Lighting 101 head-shot-in-a-corner fare, with an L102 and L103 twist. Read more »

COVID-19 Update:

Things are kinda crazy right now. And as a result we have temporarily suspended our workshop program until it is safe to resume them. But we'll be back! And if you think you night want to join us, make sure to add your name to the list below.

Thanks,
David

I very much enjoy teaching small-class lighting workshops. But because of time constraints they only happen about once or twice a year.

When workshops do open up, they fill very quickly — often before many people even know they were available. So I have decided to create an interest list to help make notification of an upcoming workshop a much fairer process.


About the Classes

Strobist^® Lighting Workshops are held as both single- an multi-day events. They have small class sizes and feature lots of time behind the camera. In the longstanding tradition of Strobist.com, our goal is to deliver as much value and knowledge as possible while keeping the costs economically accessible.

We work in an environment of rotating small teams, with lots of one-to-one instruction. We have fun, and I can guarantee you'll have a solid understanding of lighting principles before you leave. Or I won't let you leave.



Single day workshops are usually held near my home base in the Baltimore/Washington area, but are occasionally held elsewhere. That is why I am also collecting geo-information, so I can notify people if a one-day workshop would be occurring near their home.

Extended lighting workshops (usually 2-3 days in length) are generally held in an area that is both economically accessible, and very much worth the trip. Because if you are going to travel for something like this, why not go to a cool destination?

The goal for multi-day workshops is a fast-paced/fun/firehose weekend, in a fantastic setting, while working to keep everything to a manageable cost.


Might Be Interested? Let Me Know.

The interest sign-up list approach has proved to be both fair and efficient for our X-Peditions trips. So I am going to use that approach for single- and multi-day small-class lighting workshops as well.

Here's how it works.

1. If you think you even might be interested in a single- or multi-day lighting workshop, please submit your name and email below. This confers no obligation on you whatsoever.

2. I will only use your email for the purpose of giving you advance notice for small-class lighting workshops. I do not sell, rent or otherwise share your email. Because I hate companies who do that.

3. When I have an upcoming workshop, you'll get an email notice well before it is publicly announced. In fact, because of this interest list, future lighting workshops likely won't be publicly announced at all.

4. Make sure to include your city/state/country. If I suddenly find I have 30 people from Pitchfork, Nebraska who are interested, it may well make sense to reach out to those people and work out a nearby location.

That's it!

Thanks,
David

My student, Jaume de Dios, has set up a web site to collect upcoming mathematics seminars from any institution that are open online.  (For instance, it has a talk that I will be giving in an hour.)   There is a form for adding further talks to the site; please feel free to contribute (or make […]

Eeeeeeep!!! A STARRED REVIEW from Booklist for CATALYST, my next kids book, out 6/9! Thanks for brightening my day, Booklist!

https://www.booklistonline.com/Catalyst-Sarah-Beth-Durst/pid=9729210

 

Woohoo!!! SPARK made the Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2020-21 list! Thanks so much, Florida librarians! You have absolutely made my day!

https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra.html 

 

As I was driving back from Kate’s house after a three-day Thanksgiving trip (as opposed to a nine-day one which is my usual MO) I was thinking of a list I’d put here. Whether I’m online or off, I’m usually thinking of lists. To do lists, reading lists, library lists, “crap to fix in my […]

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A psychopathic hairstylist collects scalps and wears them — in an attempt to escape herself.

Divestment is “more urgent” in Toronto than NYC

A growing list of large institutional investors around the world – state and provincial pension funds, university endowments, and most recently, New York City itself, have been aggressively divesting from fossil fuel investments so as to do their part in mitigating against climate change. Here in Toronto, it’s been a different story. Prominent institutional investors, […]

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