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Google Inc. is developing a videogame console and wristwatch powered by its Android operating system. WSJ's Amir Efrati reports. (Photo: Getty Images)
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BankID OIDC consists of a modern industry-standard REST API in front of the regular BankID Service as illustrated below. The REST API is based on OpenID Connect 1.0 being a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol. The resulting BankID OIDC Service enables merchants to start using BankID with minimum effort compared to the legacy integration path (ie. install BankID Server, add a BankID merchant certificate and integrate towards the proprietary API of BankID server).
Applications using the BankID OIDC Service are hereafter referred to as BankID OIDC Clients, as opposed to the legacy term BankID Merchants. Note that BankID OIDC is a multi-tennant service having the capability to host several BankID merchant certificates. In its default configuration all OIDC Clients share a common BankID merchant certificate associated with the BankID OIDC Service itself.
BankID OIDC is an identity provider in its own capacity but is also designed to be an identity provider for Microsoft Azure AD B2C.
BankID OIDC also integrates with a service to provide additional information like private address and phone number for the end-user being authenticated.
The BankID OIDC Service comes with a default GUI experience including dialogues for BankID netcentric and BankID on Mobile along with a selector dialog allowing the end user to choose between these two alternatives. The default GUI experience also contains a consent dialog allowing the user to accept or deny use of any additional information the BankID OIDC Service may provide. The default GUI experience is redirect-based, thus hosting the dialogues on a landing page separate both from the OIDC Client and the OIDC Service. An OIDC Client may override the default GUI experience and provide its own customized dialogues hosted at any URL.
The following sections describes the BankID OIDC Service in further detail.
Availability and access
The BankID OIDC Service is available in different environments. Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com to request access. See BankID OpenID Connect for further description of configuration information that needs to be supplied.
Example/demo web applications (ie. BankID OIDC Clients), with corresponding source code on GitHub, are available to start exploring the BankID OIDC Service.
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This section outlines how web applications constituting BankID OIDC Clients can obtain a secure BankID authentication of its end users and also let users decide what information/resources the web application gain access to. The below role names are used based on definitions in the OAUTH2 standard (see OAUTH2 RFC6749 and OpenID Specs for more info):
- Resource Owner - This is the end user. The user owns resources that the client application wants access to. During the protocol steps Resource Owner is asked to give consent to letting the client application have access to the needed resources.
- User-Agent - A browser, or a browser window in an application, that Resource Owner is using to display the Client Application. Many of the protocol steps are achieved through redirection of requests through the User-Agent.
- Client - The application which needs to gain access to Resource Owner's resources. With addition of the OpenID Connect extensions the Client even gets to know the identity of its user through an issued id_token.
- Authorization Server - The Authorization Server is a trusted service that authenticates Resource Owner in order to open access to his/her Resources. BankID OIDC is such an Authorization Server.
- Resource Server - This is a service that operates on the resource. To gain access to Resource Server the Client needs an AccessToken issued by Authorization Server. BankID OIDC has a Resource Server called UserInfo which returns information on the BankID authenticated user (Resource Owner).
A short description of the protocol steps follows:
Pre condition: Resource Owner starts Client with a request from the User-Agent. The Resource Owner is not previously authenticated.
A: Client redirects the User-Agent to Authorization Server with an authorization request. Parameters to the request identifies Client, lists resources needed (scopes), supplies an URL to where control is to be returned - to name a few.
B: Authorization server triggers display of end-user dialogues to complete authentication. The dialogues shown will depend on any login_hint provided by the Client. BankID OIDC currently supports both BankID på mobil or Banklagret BankID. (Note: The Client is kept out of this dialogue - this is intentional so the Client cannot replay an authentication at a later stage.)
C: Authorization server returns to Client with authorization_code and id_token - if Client is authorized for openid extention. Id_token contains claims with identity info so the Client may know the identity of its user. The authorization_code is used to obtain access to resources
D: The Client requests for an access_token used for sending requests to Resource Server. Client needs to supply with Client_id, client_secret (password), authorization_code, redirectURL (for control purposes) and some more. (Note: This request does not go through the User-Agent. This is a security feature. The client_secret and the returned access_token is not exposed to the User-Agent.)
E: Authrorization Server responds with an access_token and a list of resources (scopes) that are available with the user's consent.
F: The can request resources with the access_token as a proof of authorization (bearer token).
G: Resource Server validates the access_token by caling the introspect endpoint of the Authorization Server and gets metadata from the access_token in return. In case of BankID OIDC this is user information and a list of audience (allowed resources).
Steps F and G can be repeated on several Resource Servers until the access_token expires. (Note: the BankID OIDC Service does currently not support refresh_tokens)
Implementing an OIDC Client
Please see source code on GitHub for examples on how to implement a Client for the BankID OIDC Service.
A BankID OIDC Client will follow these steps to authenticate an end user:
- Send an authorization request to BankID OIDC Service and wait for response on the redirectURL address. A scope parameter supplied with the request should contain "openid" and response type should contain "id_token", The id_token is as JSON structure containing user info from the authentication. The request may optionally include a login_hint parameter to request as specific type of BankID authentication (netcentric or mobile) and/or to pre-feed the user id (National Identity Numer and/or Mobile Number).
- When the end user has authenticated the BankID OIDC Service sends a response to the Client. The response body should contain the id_token.
- The Client now has the identity and other properties of the current user. The property/claim named "sub" contains a unique BankID GUID of the current user (also referred to as BankID PID or SERIAL)
- An access_token is required to enable the Client to get the Norwegian National ID Number (fødselsnummer) by requesting the UserInfo endpoint. In the authorization request scope must contain "nnin" and return type should be "code id_token". The response body, from point 2, will additionally contain an autorization_code. This authorization_code is used to call the Token endpoint (client_id and client_secret is used for basic authentication of the request) to obtain an access_token.
- Use the access_token in the authorization header as a "Bearer" token to request the UserInfo endpoint. The response will contain a JSON structure which is much like the id_token, but with addition of "nnin" (client must be approved to use scope "nnin").
Note: Id_tokens should be validated for security reasons. There are several frameworks for working with OIDC. Some fameworks have automatic support for validating the id_token before getting access to it, and some publish example code for doing so. The published examples may be used as a template.
Below is an example id_token as returned from BankID OIDC Service in pre-production:
"preferred_username":"Testesen, Test",
"name":"Testesen, Test",
"nonce":"63621460527719310(abriviated for display)c0NDk1NDIz",
Enrolling an OIDC Client
Please contact email@example.com to request access to the BankID OIDC Service and enroll an OIDC Client.
The following information must be supplied by the application owner to configure the application as a BankID OIDC Client. Sucessfull enrollment will result in the return of a client_id and a client_secret to the application owner.
- Description on what the Client is going to be used for
- Contact information for both technical and commercial requests.
- Optionally a BankID Merchant certificate to be used for the Client, thus replacing the default certificate of the OIDC Service itself.
- Requested user properties or resources (scopes).
- The redirectURL where control will return back to the client. There may be more than one URL registered. It's not possible to use a redirectURL that isn't registrered on the client for safety reasons.
- Application name that will be displayed as header in the (default) BankID OIDC dialogues.
- The optional address of a custom GUI for BankID OIDC dialogues.
The REST API
The BankID OIDC Service currently consists of 6 end-points as further described in the following
Discovery/meta data.
Anonymous requests are allowed.
This end-point returns a JSON-formatted response containing key properties of the BankID OIDC Service.
Among other things this end-point is used to prepare for token validation.
Example response from /openid-configuration
"standard_bankid", "address", "phone",
"nnin", "openid", "profile",
"code", "token", "id_token",
"id_token token", "code token", "code id_token",
"code id_token token"
"query", "fragment", "form_post"
"RS256", "none"
"client_secret_post", "client_secret_basic"
"preferred_username", "name", "sub",
"iat", "iss", "auth_time",
"exp", "birthdate", "nonce",
"amr", "azp", "bid_code",
"aud", "at_hash", "c_hash",
"nnin", "address", "phone"
"login_hint_supported":"[BIM|BID][:\\d{11}][:\\d{8}][:\\d{6}] for respectively client_type, nnin, phoneNo, birthday",
"serverVersion":"bankid-oauth-api 1.2.0"
Getting keys to sign tokens
Anonymous requests are allowed.
This end-point returns the public part of keys used for signing tokens. The keys are later used for token validations.
Example response from /jwk:
"n":"khw6L8E9GwwTu5AUclp (abbreviated ...) OM0MdzrKLLrmgiYVi",
Initiate authentication and authorization
This is a browser redirect end-point that is thoroughly described in the OIDC/OAUTH2 standards. The following query parameters pertaining to the BankID OIDC Service can be used:
|This is a unique ID for the calling OIDC Client. May also use bid_client_id (mandatory when passing through AAD B2C which have its own client_id).
The discovery endpoint (see example above) returns
profile and email are part of the standard scopes, but are currently not supported by BankID OIDC Servoce
address and phone is supported as additional info if the Client is configured to allow for such information.
nnin - the Norwegian National Identiy Number (fødselsnummer) is supported as additional info if the Client is configured to allow for this information.
A standard_bankid scope is used for clients with default scope of nnin, but currently don't want nnin to be added in the UserInfo response.
Three alternatives (associated with autorization code OAUTH2 flows) are currently supported:
The following alternatives (associated with implicit OAUTH2 flows), are currenly not supported:
This is how the response redirect is done. These alternatives are supported: query, fragment, form_post.
Note: The .NET/C# example GitHub uses the OWIN framework. OWIN only accepts form_post response mode.
This parameter may be used to set choice of BankID authentication (netcentric or mobile) and, if known to the Client, nnin, mobile phone no, or birthday of the user.
An emtpy login hint implies that the default (or customized) GUI takes care of all interaction with the end-user to determine necessary login details.
The discovery/metadata endpoint returns: "login_hint_supported":"[BIM|BID][:\\d{11}][:\\d{8}][:\\d{6}] for respectively client_type, nnin, phoneNo, birthday"
Here are some examples with explanation:
In example no 5 the user is prompted for choice of BankID version, but Norwegian national number is used for BID and birthday is used for BIM (first 6 digits).
|May be used to set a language preference for GUI handling. The default GUI experience supports nb (Norsk Bokmål) and en (English)
Note: When response_type contains both id_token and code, the authorization_code is duplicated into bid_code claim in the id_token to avoid conflict with authorization_code issued by AzureAD B2C. AAD must copy the claims from BankID OIDC id_token to the one issued by AAD. The client must get an access_token from the token end-point of the BankID OIDC Service in order to use resources managed by this service. This includes the UserInfo end-point.
Requires basic authentication with client_id and client_secret in the Autorization header,
This end-point is used for exchanging an authorization_code with an access_token. The access_token is used for accessing resources like userinfo and potential other resource servers. The access_code exchanged was created by the authorization endpoint with a response_type containing "code"
The request should be a POST with parameters sent as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" data.
- code=<value from authorization>
- grant_type=authorization_code
- redirect_uri=<redirect_uri used in authorization request>
Return is a JSON structure with name/value pairs.
Retrieve UserInfo
BankID OIDC has implemented an UserInfo enpoint. It is implemented as a resource server and expects an access_token as a Bearer token. There are no parameters. This service is the only way to get the nnin (fødselsnummer) of the authenticated user.
Example response from /userInfo:
"sub": "9578-6000-4-127698",
"iss": "https://preprod.bankidapis.no",
"iat": 1485866449,
"exp": 1485870048,
"preferred_username": "Testesen, Test",
"name": "Testesen, Test",
"given_name": "Test",
"family_name": "Testesen",
"birthdate": "1980-03-09",
"nnin": "09038000010"
Validate access_token - introspect
In return the resource server get claims from the access_token including its expiration time. The return is in JSON form with a list of name/value pairs.
Characteristics of BankID OIDC access_tokens
Resources managed/authorized by the BankID OIDC Service get a "public" access_token ("one access_token to rule them all"). When an OIDC Client uses scope (or default scope) to define what resources it needs authorization for, the issued access_token can be used for all those resources. The resources must call the introspect endpoint in order to verify that it is the correct audience/resource for this access_token as well as getting returned the access_token contents/claims. Resources are expected to cache/cookie this information so there's no need to call introspect for every incoming request with the same access_token.
The introspect endpoint demands basic authentication with the resource's client_id and client_secret so that it knows what resource it is dealing with.
Another policy is to have "private" access_tokens. That means each resource has their own access_token issued and encrypted with their client_secret/resource_secret. This would remove the need to call introspect in order to validate and get claims, but it will be difficult for the client to keep track of all the access_tokens issued to individual resource services. AAD is doing this and using the refresh_token to ask for more scope (new resources). This would work as long as the refresh_token is issued for the same resource owner (end-user).
"Private access_tokens" are currently not supported. Refresh_tokens are also not implemented. The rationale is that the supported "public" implementation is considered to more efficient (provided the caching we mentioned).
The current implementation of BankID OIDC has no database to persist tokens. All tokens and session data resides in memory. Persistence is centralized and we aim to utilize database later. HttpSession or cookies are not in use.
Customizing the GUI experience
The default GUI experience of the BankID OIDC Service can be overridded and replaced by a customized implementation as described in the following.
Please see source code on GitHub for an example on how to implement such a GUI customization. (TODO: Publish such an example)
GUI customization demands that OIDC Client is configured with a specific "presentationURL" paramter with the OIDC Service overriding the URL of the landing page for the default GUI.
Any GUI implementation (called "BidViewer" in the below diagramme) will interoperate with the BankID OIDC Service (the "BINAS Realm") as following:
The authentication alternatives are
- BIM: BankID på Mobil and
- BID: Netcentric BankID.
The initial request to BidView will contain two parameters:
- sid - a session ID which must be used in all communication with BankID OIDC.
- oidcAuthenticationUrl - base address of the BankID OIDC API. The GUI implementation must use REST-services exposed by this API.
Here is a list of REST endpoints to be used by BidView (GUI) whith explanations:
This is a polling function to be notified when a BankID på Mobil authentication has ended (hopefully with success).
Http status code 200 is used to indicate that BankID OIDC has got the terminating "verifyAuth" or "handleError" notifications.
Http status code 204 is returned while the authentication is still in process.
When the BidView (GUI) is called, with sid (session ID) as parameter, it can send a queryGUI request to get session based info in return:
Start the merchant back end session for Banklagret BankID.
Input parameters:
Returned parameters:
Initiate a BankID på Mobile authentication
When the GUI shall build the consent screen this REST-call is needed to retrieve information.
Input: sid -session ID
This is used for handling the user canceling out of BankID authentication or concent screen notifying BankID OIDC backend.
Input is sid - session ID.
To be able to display a concent screen like the one below, some extra information needs to be stored connected to each scope used by the OIDC Client. BankID OIDC will only give a list of scope names/IDs that requires user's consent. A description for each of those needs to be provided in the appropriate locale.
Using BankID OIDC as an identity provider with Microsoft AzureAD B2C
BankID OIDC has been tested with success as an identity provider for Azure AD B2C via a private preview service from Microsoft.
When Azure AD B2C becomes generally available (tentative Q217) this documentation will be updated on how to use BankID OIDC in such a context.
Applications connecting via Azure AD B2C can be offered the same set if services from BankID OIDC as for those applications that integrate directly with BankIDOIDC.
Some notes on usage:
- Authorization request must contain bid_client_id: Meaning the client_id given by BankID OIDC. The client_id value will be treated as an intermediate client (ex: MS Azure). Legal scopes are openid pluss all scopes registered for the BankID OIDC client. The resulting id_token returned to Client holds a value bid_code which is an authorization_code for accessing UserInfo on BankID OIDC (provided that scope and return_type is correct) . Resulting audience in id_token will be set to bid_client_id and client_id of the AzureAD requestor in combination.
- Some parameters may need to be prefixed with "bid_" in order to pass through AAD B2C. AAD B2C is also a OIDC Service and parameters are part of the standard.


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The "twin problem" is one of the most difficult for a voice biometrics system to handle—and no wonder, as the physiology of the two speakers is almost identical. But for everyone else, the voice is unique, like fingerprints or snowflakes. The voice is produced by a delicate combination of hundreds of features ranging from the length of the vocal tract to the shape of the vocal cords to the size of the sinus and mouth cavities. The tiniest variation in these details gives each voice a particular sound that is then combined with learned speech habits and vocal tics to generate speech.
Differences between genders, thought by many to be simply a matter of pitch, are actually a matter of physiology; the female vocal tract is 2cm shorter on average than the male. Humans can actually pick out these differences to identify the gender of speakers without seeing them, even if both speak at the same pitch—a pretty useful skill, when you stop and think about it.
Voice biometrics creates its "voiceprints" by analyzing the minute differences between voices. One system, from the UK-based Voice Vault, claims to make more than 100 separate measurements of each human voice. These kinds of measurements mean that voice biometrics goes far beyond simply comparing voice files to look for matches. Because it "understands" how a person's voice sounds, a biometric system can identify individuals regardless of what words they are saying. This "understanding" is then compacted into a set of data points called a voiceprint that can take up as little as a few kilobytes of storage space.
This means that voice biometrics systems can be "text-independent"; that is, they verify voice characteristics only, not attempting to understand what was said. But voice biometrics make a natural fit with speech recognition, and this pairing is termed "text-dependent." What a person says and how he says it are both measured in text-dependent systems, providing two-factor authentication from a single speech fragment.
Two ways to fail
Voice verification can fail in two different ways: by clearing impostors to proceed (false accepts) and by denying legitimate users access (false rejects). As the voice software is tuned, the two parameters move: tightening the algorithm decreases false accepts, but frustrates a higher number of legitimate users. Loosening the algorithm would make more users happy, but even a single imposter who gets through can cost a bank plenty of money.
If the false reject rate and the false accept rate are graphed on a chart, the point at which they intersect is called the "equal error rate," or EER. It's the point at which the values of both parameters are equal, and it's widely used in the industry as a metric for gauging particular voice biometrics systems. In a perfect world, the EER would be zero; in the world we've got, it can vary from less than one percent to more than 10 percent under bad conditions.
Current voice biometric technology is robust, and has few problems when presented with clean samples. Unfortunately, the prime delivery mechanism for voice samples is the telephone network, and telephones are notorious for not delivering clear signals. Even high quality wired phones simply lop off portions of the frequency spectrum, but the problem gets far worse when mobile phones are taken into account. Bad connections are always an issue, of course, but phones also use digital compression on voices. The end result can be a low-quality sample, and the problems only get worse when background noise is thrown into the mix.
David Nahamoo of IBM
It's a tough problem, but research into voice biometrics has been going on for decades in the lab. David Nahamoo, the CTO for speech at IBM Research, said that his company has been looking into it for nearly 50 years. IBM's research began in the 1960s and continued throughout the 1970s, but was halted in the 80s because it simply wasn't ready. The technology was not advanced enough to deploy in any sort of production environment and research was shelved until the late 1990s, when the development of new algorithms and the advent of faster computers made voice biometrics more practical.
According to Nahamoo, IBM's tech is mature but is still undergoing a "hardening" process in field trials throughout the world. "We've had a lot more knocks on her door the last four or five months," he said, but acknowledged that IBM has seen few major rollouts of its system, which has an average EER of around three percent. But Nahamoo also cautioned against using EER as a measure of any system's success (good news for banks, where a three percent false accept rate could cost millions of dollars). The final error rate of a voice biometric system is generally reduced by several orders of magnitude after combining the voiceprint analysis with a second mode of identification (password, PIN number, etc.)
We spoke with other conference attendees from major US financial institutions who preferred to remain off the record, but they pointed out that in the banking industry, algorithms would not be tuned for the EER, but would be biased toward fewer false accepts. That may prove more frustrating to customers who resent having to repeat their credentials to an automated voice, but it only makes sense in an environment where so much money rests on proper identification.


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If there's one thing that can be said about Roku devices — set-top boxes that stream Internet video to TV sets — it's that they're easy to use.
Which is why it's surprising that Roku is complicating its newest device by attaching it to a technical standard that's not yet widely adopted.
You might have heard of the Roku Streaming Stick: We've covered it (here and here) before. Essentially, it's Roku's top-of-the-line 2 XS box compressed into a tiny dongle, one not much bigger than a thumb drive. The dongle plugs into a port on the back of your TV to offer you the same streaming video apps you'd get from the bigger box. Like magic, it transforms your "dumb," or non-Internet-connected TV, into a "smart TV."
The Streaming Stick, which Roku has been teasing since this year's Consumer Electronics Show in January, is finally coming to market in mid to late October, the company said yesterday in an interview. It costs $99 and comes with a remote. Even better, it has dual-band Wi-Fi, for faster, higher-quality HD streaming, and has double the onboard memory of the Roku box.
But don't throw your Roku box out the window just yet, because there's a catch: The Streaming Stick works only with MHL-equipped TV sets. MHL is a relatively new technical standard set by a consortium of electronics makers in December 2010. So far, about
100 160 manufacturers worldwide are deploying MHL smartphones and TVs. The MHL estimates that more than 200 million MHL-enabled products will have shipped worldwide by the end of 2012, and Roku believes consumers can expect to see more MHL devices coming out of next year's CES.
But, in the case of the Streaming Stick, Roku says there are currently only two MHL-friendly Insignia TVs — Best Buy's in-house brand — available on the market. In the coming weeks, seven MHL-equipped Hitachi TVs will become available, followed by four Apex TVs.
The Streaming Stick can also work with select Blu-ray players, but Roku hasn't announced any compatible models yet.
So, why would Roku go with the MHL standard? Well, the California-based start-up has a few compelling reasons. While the MHL port looks the same, physically, as an HDMI port, the MHL port channels power from the host device to keep the connected device running. So, the TV will juice the Roku Streaming Stick, which means there are no wires attached to this device. If the area behind your TV looks like mine, with its spaghetti-like pile of wires, a wire-free device is welcome.
The Roku Streaming Stick's remote also controls the volume and other functions on MHL-equipped TVs, so, theoretically, you could pare down your stockpile of remotes and maybe use just one (or two). And when you first plug in the Stick, it fires up the Roku app on the TV without forcing you to switch inputs. The same goes for when you're watching live TV and want to switch to Roku. Users can hit the "Home" button on the Roku remote — or their standard MHL TV remote — and Roku launches.
Lastly, Roku is making the argument that even if you invest in a new, expensive, smart TV, it will become outdated in just a few years, whereas the Roku Streaming Stick offers an inexpensive upgrade option, provided that the company continues to upgrade its device and its app platform.
Roku currently streams content from Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video and MLB.tv — and Vudu, its newest partner — to name a few. Today, the company also introduced a new mobile app that works like Apple's AirPlay, controlling and streaming content from your iPhone or iPad to the Roku app on your TV set.
While Roku certainly has a nifty idea with the Streaming Stick — one that sets it apart a bit from the existing set-top boxes on the market — it's hard to say how quickly this will catch on when relatively few consumers have the TV sets to support it.
Update: An earlier version of this article stated that 100 electronics manufacturers are currently shipping MHL-equipped devices; The MHL consortium says it has more than 160 licensed manufacturers supporting the MHL standard.


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This month's lobby display features books and publications about museums in the Houston Museum District. With a location in the heart of the Museum District, the UST campus provides students with easy access to 19 museums within a 1.5 mile radius. Most offer a student discount for entry, so there's no better time to take advantage of what the area has to offer than during your time as a member of the UST community.
Houston Museum of Natural Science – Since its founding in 1909, the goal of the Houston Museum of Natural Science has been to educate the public with knowledge in natural science and related subjects. Dinosaur skeletons, gemstones, and a garden full of butterflies are just a few of the exhibits visitors can explore.
Museum of Fine Arts Houston – Opened in 1924, the Houston's Museum of Fine Arts was the first art museum in Texas. With over 300,000 square feet of display space and 18 acres of gardens, it remains one of the largest art museums in the United States and welcomes over 2.5 million visitors each year.
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens – Bayou Bend is the MFAH house museum for American decorative arts and paintings. Displayed in the former home of Houston civic leader and philanthropist Ima Hogg (1882–1975), the collection is one of the finest showcases of American furnishings, silver, ceramics, and paintings in the world.
Buffalo Soldiers National Museum – Houston's Buffalo Soldier Museum is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers, the last of which served during World War II.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston – The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a non-collecting institution dedicated to presenting the best and most exciting international, national and regional art of the last 40 years. Founded in 1948, the Museum prides itself on presenting new art and documenting its role in modern life through exhibitions, lectures, original publications and a variety of educational programs and events.
Asia Society Texas – Asia Society is the leading global and pan-Asian organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of the United States and Asia. Visit the Center throughout the year for performances, art exhibits, craft activities, and lectures.
The Menil Collection – The Menil Collection opened in 1987 to preserve and exhibit the art collection of John and Dominique de Menil. Considered one of the most important privately assembled collections of the twentieth century, the Menil hosts a diverse collection of both modern art and ancient artifacts, housed in a building designed by architect Renzo Piano.
The Rothko Chapel – The Rothko Chapel, founded by Houston philanthropists John and Dominique de Menil, was dedicated in 1971 as an intimate sanctuary available to people of every belief. A tranquil meditative environment inspired by the mural canvases of American painter Mark Rothko, the Chapel welcomes over 60,000 visitors each year, people of every faith and from all parts of the world.
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When you own a business in West Hartford, Connecticut, you are responsible for a great many things, from getting the payroll done on time to making sure you have enough materials on hand to run your operations. As a business owner, you are also responsible for the health and safety of the workers you employ. If you fail to keep those workers safe, you could face serious civil and even criminal penalties, even if you were unaware of the threat when the damage took place.
That is why so many West Hartford, Connecticut business owners are having their factories, offices, warehouses and other commercial buildings tested for vapor intrusion. If you are familiar with the radon problem afflicting many homeowners, you already have a basic understanding of what vapor intrusion is and what makes it so dangerous. Like radon, vapor intrusion can seep into West Hartford, Connecticut buildings through contaminated soil and groundwater. But unlike radon, vapor intrusion includes a number of gasses, including volatile organic compounds that can cause cancer, petroleum hydrocarbons and other contaminants commonly found in the soil, particularly around commercial sites.
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You may think that you are safe from vapor intrusion if you had your West Hartford, Connecticut facility tested before you began building, but that may not be the case. While it is always important to have the soil and groundwater tested prior to any building project, that testing is not necessarily enough to protect you from vapor intrusion. That is because the petroleum distillates, hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds in the soil can migrate over time. As time goes by, those dangerous chemicals can make their way through the contaminated groundwater and soil, slowly finding their way into your building and causing serious health problems for your workers. These chemicals can cause everything from strange rashes and coughs to serious breathing problems and even cancer. If you fail to take the proper precautions and have your West Hartford, Connecticut commercial facilities tested, you are putting yourself, your workers and your very business at risk.
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I'll be glad when the elections are finished; I'm getting tired of computer calls and assholes trying to tell me who to vote for. I have been looking up candidates' records to make my decisions; I refuse to watch debates on TV; all they amount to is a long session of "Dueling Douchebags", only without the banjo music.
Personally, I don't think any president can get us out of the rut we're in; I think we've gotten to the place where nature is going to have to take its course, and all the taxes and promises from representatives won't help.
Just my opinion.
I was looking in my spam folder to make certain it wasn't snagging legitimate emails, and I have to wonder who the hell comes up with those email headers. Ninety percent of the emails express concern about the proper growth and management of my wedding tackle, and have the most ridiculous titles I've ever seen:
"Give her a whopper in the bedroom!"
"Be the envy of the locker room!"
"Become the neighborhood stud!"
Really, people? I'd be willing to bet most of them are bad translations from some other language (my bet is on Asian based on the structure of most of them), and they come off like a bad spiel from a carny barker with a limited education. I don't know if they can help anyone ("She will scream loud with delight!"), but they give me quite a few laughs reading them.
Some of you out there might wonder how close the Southpark gravatar I use actually looks like me.
My wife took this a few weeks ago up in the mountains. Notice the vest, hat, camera and beard. I don't have my shotgun as in the gravatar, and you can't see my gold earring in the photo, but I think it is a fairly close match.
A few pictures of our mountains that I took about a month ago, we've been getting bits of snow up there for some time now. Click to enlarge.
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San Miguel - Around Town
Friday, January 27, 2017 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:58 PM 0 comments
San Miguel Botanical Gardens
This was a great out of the city spot. They even had a small kids park, so we will be here again for sure!
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:55 PM 0 comments
San Miguel ATV Adventure
Please enjoy of few photos of our ATV adventure!
This was a great way to see not only the city, but also the area beyond the city. Highly recommended!
Sunday, January 22, 2017 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:58 PM 0 comments
Mexico Trip!
We finally made it on our ten year anniversary trip - it happened to be three years late, but it was well worth the wait!
Instead of capturing images and then doing a big "picture dump" when we return, we opted to post via Instagram throughout the trip. Please follow adam_brodd at Instagram to view them!
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North Shore
Our 2nd annual late summer trip to the North Shore was filled with fantastic weather and family fun!
We stopped at Spirit Mountain on the way up to do the alpine slide and the zip line. The girls really enjoy the slide, but I don't think we will do the zip line again. The line is too long for the 15 seconds of excitement.
We met up with the extended family at the cottages. While Adam spent the day fishing on Lake Superior, the rest of the crew headed up to the Falls.
The water was even warm enough to wade in... We did see some people swimming, but no one in our group was brave (stupid?) enough to do that!
We even had time to stop at Tom's Logging Camp on the way back home. Blake and the girls had a great time finding the hidden horseshoes and also feeding the critters...
We can't wait until next summer, when we attend the 3rd annual north shore trip!
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State Fair
Catching up (again) on some older posts that we never published.
The girls joined Grandma for the annual State Fair day. The weather was perfect and the girls had plenty of energy to last all day long.
I am sure when State Fair time rolls around again in 2017, the girls will once again venture out and dad will enjoy a nice day away from the crowds!
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Happy 8th Birthday Sylvia!
Sylvia turned 8 this year! While summer birthdays can be tough to schedule with friends, we were able to get a few to come over to celebrate this day with her. This year's theme - Sushi!
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"There's definitely a sense of youth and trying to find your place in the world in a lot of those films."
From 93 countries, a common theme emerges for Living Skies film festival
Luke Halyk and Morgan Jones noticed a theme as they sifted through more than 1,000 submissions to the Living Skies Student Film Festival.
"There seemed to be a lot of coming-of-age type young adult stories, where younger adults coming out into the world and dealing with the struggles of that age group in the modern world," said Halyk, one of seven University of Regina film students to help co-ordinate the 31st annual film festival, which starts Thursday.
"There's definitely a sense of youth and trying to find your place in the world in a lot of those films," said Jones, a fellow festival organizer and fourth-year film student.
It was a common thread in many of the approximately 1,200 films from 93 countries that were in the running for festival selection.
"The people that are just graduating and leaving university, young adults, are trying to find themselves in the world and they're trying to make films that reflect their experience," said Halyk.
"It's interesting to see these common themes kind of resonate from those countries. And I think it speaks a lot to how people are experiencing and it is kind of a connected tissue."
U of R film students Jacob Farrell, D.J. Carnegie, Harlea Price, Jessica Davidson and Austin Nygaard also helped select the 48 films being screened this weekend — from countries including the United Kingdom, Portugal, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, Slovakia, Taiwan, Israel, Iran, India and South Africa.
One that resonated with both Halyk and Jones is Heartburn (Mal de coeur) by Quebecois filmmaker Franie-Eleonore Bernier.
A man named Ghislain (portrayed by Pascal Contamine) "knows that everything in the world is just going wrong, so his heart starts falling out of his body and his brother has to try and make him laugh to fix it," said Jones.
"It's kind of a more dramatic piece, but it has a touch of light humour and it has to do with the setting in of depression and kind of overcoming that," said Halyk. "But it has a really nice light tone despite dealing with that subject matter."
Nine films by U of R students will screen, including two winners from the Saskatchewan Independent Film Awards in November: Joel Makar and Kenton Evenson's film, Beta Test, and Matthew Ripplinger's film, Sir Bailey.
The films are in competition in five categories: graduate, fiction, animation, documentary and experimental, with winners to be determined by jurors Eric Hill, Janine Windolph and Alex Rogalski.
Most of the films are not available online, and many are having their premiere at this festival — two reasons, said Halyk, for people to attend the festival.
Plus, "One of the best parts about watching short films is … there's such a different format fundamentally from features or TV even, because typically you're only dealing with, in this case, a three- to 15-minute run time.
"To tell a full and intricate story in that amount of time is difficult and it's pretty impressive and it can be really inspiring the way that some of these filmmakers are pulling it off."
The Living Skies Student Film Festival takes place this weekend, March 14-16, at the University of Regina Language Institute.
Screenings are: Thursday, 8-10 p.m.; Friday, 5-7 p.m.; Saturday, 2-4 p.m.
The festival's special events include: From the Gut filmmaking workshop, Thursday at 6 p.m.; An Evening with Zarqa Nawaz, Friday at 7:30 p.m.; a SuperGrid film screening Saturday at 6:30 p.m.; and the awards gala Saturday at 8 p.m.
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Francona told the right-hander in the dugout Tuesday before Cleveland played the Kansas City Royals.
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I confess it took me a few dozen pages to figure out that I was enjoying A Sense of Direction and about a hundred to realize how terrific and original and entertaining it is. I don't know that Gideon Lewis-Kraus built that delayed pleasure into the writing or if it's simply that the better we know him the more we enjoy him.
He begins by introducing us to his dissipated late-20s artistic life in San Francisco and Berlin, where his ambitions as a writer have drifted into aimlessness: "As it became increasingly clear that my era of inconsequence was not going to end in Berlin ... I began to hope that it might end with Berlin. If moving to Berlin had not left me altered, alert and grateful and decisive, perhaps moving away would." He and another writer decide the Buen Camino pilgrimage in Spain could be amusing, might give them "a sense of direction," and so they venture off onto it. The satisfaction of grinding through a pilgrimage certainly includes the awareness that one doesn't have to: "What makes it meaningful is that it's really hard but it's something anybody could do if he or she made the commitment to do it."
The son of rabbis, Lewis-Kraus is ashamed of his ignorance of all matters religious, but he loves the directed-path ritual, which requires not believing but doing. As his younger, more even-keeled brother Micah reminds him, "You are not doing this to have fun or not have fun, you are doing this to see why other people do it, and why most people, at least sane people, do not do it. Don't forget ... you did, after all, choose to do this.... Every time you don't stop and come home you're choosing to continue."
Though we come to see that Lewis-Kraus is brilliant and funny, modest and earnest, he is also one of those attractive personalities who can rub friends and family the wrong way. "[O]ne of your problems," his brother scolds him, "is that your hopes and expectations are consistently unreasonable. You think there's going to be one moment where everything is finally going to be okay, once and for all."
During his 40-day, sore-footed journey across northern Spain, he hears about a temple-tagging pilgrimage on a remote Japanese island and decides that's what he wants to do, sort of. He has to keep moving; there's a rhythm, despite the pain and discomfort of long hikes and awkward accommodations, that he likes, that responds to his brainwaves: "We're walking quickly but time has begun to lengthen. Time has acquired a strange and spacious irrelevance, as if we could turn around in it. As long as we keep moving, time is kept at bay; when we stop, it catches up in a rush."
Finally making choices that limit what he can do makes him more productive and purposeful as a writer. That is, he needs to write this book, but as is the case in other of my favorite travel books – from James Boswell's "Tour to the Hebrides" to Vivian Gornick's "In Search of Ali Mahmoud" to Ian Frazier's "Travels in Siberia" – what interests Lewis-Kraus and us is less the places and roads he treks than he himself, the frustrated, skeptical seeker and the company he keeps: "I dislike travel writing about temples, or churches, or mosques, or architecture in general, or, for that matter, trees, or trains, or roads, and especially the Khyber Pass, in fact I think I only like travel writing when it's not about travel at all but rather about friendship, lies, digression, amateurism, trains, and sex."
His experiences during the first two grueling pilgrimages in Spain and Japan are profound; but they only resound after the fact. That is, in Japan, he spends a lot of his miserable time remembering – with terrible fondness – his miserable time on the Buen Camino, minus the misery: "For two days what I mostly think about is the Camino. More specifically, I try to remember if it was ever this bad in Spain. I forget the plot of any given movie within hours of seeing it, but I can remember an almost alarming level of detail about the Camino, every village we passed through, how long we walked each day, where we stayed, where we met Tim and Roman and Nora and Alina."
His third "pilgrimage" is his attempt to dissolve or unloose his gnawing resentment against his father, a resentment that has been darting in and out of Lewis-Kraus's thoughts from the opening pages – a real but unsatisfactory and unhappy resentment because there's so little he can hang it on. His father only came out as gay at the age of 46, when Lewis-Kraus was 19. The father has, to his son's annoyance, been revitalized in his gay identity, as if making up for lost time.
Lewis-Kraus and his brother meet their father in Ukraine for a Holocaust memorial gathering. The Lewis-Kraus contingent do not fit in with the thousands of Hassidic participants during Rosh Hashanah, but on a walk through a Jewish graveyard they are able to finally have "the talk" the writer has been seeking – a discussion that Lewis-Kraus has been hoping will clarify the meaning of the family's emotional upheaval that came with the father's new life.
One of our happiest pleasures is witnessing Lewis-Kraus's continual uneasy revelations, his continual lively, cantankerous conversations with friends and family, his less-continual distracting side-interests, including the young woman from Shanghai who doesn't want to be the muse of his pilgrimage-obsession. He has to sort through his confusion by his lonesome, but one of the graces of his narration is that he usually gives everyone else – fellow pilgrims, friends and family – the best and most clear-sighted lines: "I wondered then if the difference between people who believed in preparation and those who believed in proof, like the antagonism David described between those who believed in rehearsal and those who believed in spontaneity, wasn't the difference between those who worked constantly for something that would endure and those who sought to capture something that occurred once." Lewis-Kraus simultaneously accomplishes both on the page: catching what will endure and what will only happen once.
I'm a convert, not only to pilgrimages but to this first-rate book. Lewis-Kraus has helped me realize, in my own case, some of the mysterious attractions of difficult traveling in Russia, and to understand why my pilgrimages to discover the long-gone Tolstoy and Chekhov are frustratingly incomplete in the moment but emotionally rich ever after.
Bob Blaisdell reviews books for the Monitor and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has edited dozens of anthologies for Dover Publications.


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Professors for Quality Education (PQE)
Professors for Quality Education (PQE) is the Glendale College Guild's political action committee. It seeks to assist candidates for the board of trustees who will support the college and its mission.
- PQE Contribution Form (pdf)
Charter of the "Professors for Quality Education" Political Action Committee
Article I Purpose
The purpose of Professors for Quality Education (hereafter, "PQE") is to participate in the political process to further the causes of the Glendale Community College Guild (hereafter, "Guild"), which is PQE's sponsor.
These causes include educating the public about community college issues, ensuring that Glendale Community College improves continuously, and, foremost of all, encouraging strong candidates to run for the Glendale Community College District Board of Trustees.
Article II Voting Membership
All Guild members and only Guild members may vote on decisions related to PQE.
Article III Endorsement Procedure
A. In anticipation of each election for the Glendale Community College District Board of Trustees, a PQE Campaign Committee shall be formed. The committee shall interview the candidates, deliberate, and decide based on approval which candidate(s) to recommend for endorsement. In addition, all candidates shall be invited to a forum open to all members of the campus community during the first week of the Spring semester. The recommendations shall be brought to the Executive Committee of the Guild, who shall discuss them and where, after careful deliberation, the Executive Committee shall decide by approval voting on PQE's recommended endorsement(s). Executive Committee's recommendation shall be brought to the next membership meeting of the Guild. Only after the Executive Committee's recommendation(s) have been given, and after a motion to endorse a given Trustee candidate has passed by a majority of those voting at the membership meeting, shall the candidate have earned PQE's endorsement.
B. For political positions other than Board of Trustee elections, if 2/3 of the Executive Committee declares the proposed position urgent, PQE's endorsement may be immediately given if approved by 3/4 of the votes cast at a membership meeting. If the proposed position is not declared urgent, PQE's endorsement may only be given if the position is proposed at the regular membership meeting immediately prior to one in which it is approved by 3/4 of the votes cast.
Article IV PQE Campaign Committee
A. Each PQE Campaign Committee must include the Public Information Officer of the Guild, as well as a minimum of 4 other Guild members.
B. Guild Executive Committee shall select the other members of each PQE Campaign Committee with the goal of creating an effective committee, that is also balanced in all relevant aspects.
C. Each PQE Campaign Committee shall be retired after its election is over, so that a new one may be formed for the next campaign. There are no restrictions against members serving on multiple campaign committees over time.
D. No PQE Campaign Committee member shall be held liable for any action taken or omitted in good faith, nor for acts of any agent of the committee, nor for any act or omission of any other committee member. The committee is authorized to provide indemnification for any member of the committee from liability on any claims or proceedings instituted against him or her as a result of their work on the committee, and to hold such persons harmless from any expenses connected to the defense, settlement, or payment of monetary judgments on such claims or proceedings.
Article V Expenditure Authorization
A. The Treasurer of the Guild shall also serve as the Treasurer of PQE, and shall be responsible for all official filings related to PQE.
B. The signature of both the President and the Treasurer of the Guild shall be required on all PQE checks. Expenditures of PQE money may only be made in support of positions endorsed by PQE following the processes described in this charter.
C. In Board of Trustee elections, individual expenditures up to $500 may be approved by the Campaign Committee acting on its own. Expenditures between $500 and $2500 may be recommended by campaign committee, but may not be made until approved by the Executive Committee of the Guild and must be recorded in the official minutes of that body. Expenditures of more than $2500 may not be made until approved by the Guild membership.
D. In support of positions other than Board of Trustee elections, expenditures may only be authorized by 3/4 of the votes cast at a membership meeting of the Guild.
Article VI Termination
A. PQE may only be terminated by 2/3 of the votes cast in a secret ballot vote distributed to all Guild members.
B. In the event that PQE is terminated, its leftover funds shall be donated to the COPE fund of the California Federation of Teachers.
Articles VII Amendment Procedures
A. Amendments to this charter may be proposed to the membership if approved by 2/3 of the Guild's Executive Committee.
B. If 2/3 of the Executive Committee also declares the proposed amendment urgent, it may be immediately approved by a 3/4 vote of the Guild members present at a membership meeting. If the amendment is not declared urgent, it may only be approved by 2/3 of the votes cast in a secret ballot vote distributed to all Guild members.
C. Amendments shall take effect immediately upon their adoption, unless their effective date is otherwise specified in the proposed amendment.


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Gabi Seligsohn Appointed CEO of Kornit Digital
"…We seek to further enhance Kornit's market position in the emerging digital printing market for textiles."
Kornit Digital has announced the appointment of Gabi Seligsohn as the chief executive officer of the company. Ofer Ben-Zur, Kornit's founder, will remain the president and CTO of the company.
Seligsohn joins Kornit from Nova Measuring Instruments, where he served as the president and CEO until August 2013. Prior to becoming Nova's CEO, Seligsohn served in several positions at Nova, including EVP, Global Business Management Group, president of Nova's US subsidiary, and VP, Strategic Business Development. Seligsohn joined Nova after serving as a sales manager for key financial accounts at Digital Equipment Corporation.
"Over the last several years, Kornit has been revolutionizing the textile printing industry by leading the transformation from silk screen printing to digital," says Yuval Cohen, chairman of the Board of Directors of Kornit. "As founder and CEO of Kornit, Ofer did a fantastic job, taking his initial idea from concept to what has become a global company, with multiple products, leading-edge technology, and a strong and innovative team.
"I have all the confidence that Gabi, together with Ofer and the rest of the management team, will continue to further enhance the company's growth rate and profitability well into the future. Gabi's track record in successfully driving growth through strategic initiatives will be extremely valuable, as we seek to further enhance Kornit's market position in the emerging digital printing market for textiles."


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Imaginary Friends
Obtaining an Imaginary Friend[edit]
After Disco was born, we received an alert from the push notifications that a "distant relative" sent the new baby a present, which was in the mail. Saint interacted with the mailbox with a simple "Get Mail" command, and a doll appeared in Disco's inventory.
This entire process is completely random. There are no cheats to get the doll, and there is no way to influence getting one. Any child has a chance to acquire a doll right after they're born, but luck wasn't on the side of Felix Carwin or Felicia Day Carwin.
As a baby, Disco can't do anything with the doll, and it can't be removed from her inventory. As she ages up however, the doll will start to take on a life of its own... literally.
Disco doesn't gain any special powers from the doll, and is in fact just a normal toddler. Between learning how to walk and talk, Disco (as the active Sim) interacts with her doll in her inventory. Her first act is to name it, and you can choose to give it a "Girl's Name" or "Boy's Name." You can actually name it whatever you want, but choosing the type of name also chooses the doll's gender. Disco gives her doll the boy's name "KF Fighting."
Disco can play with KF Fighting any time by simply interacting with it from her inventory. This fills her Fun and Social meters, but nothing else. If you're concerned with job skills, it's better to have your child play with the block toy or toy xylophone.
That said, you're on a little time limit here. As Disco plays with KF Fighting, their relationship goes up, but there is no indication of their relationship. We won't know if it's high enough to proceed until Disco ages up to a child. Just to be sure, Disco plays with KF Fighting every chance she gets, although she does take a little time to play with her block toy to gain some Logic skill.
Once they play together for a long time, KF Fighting becomes a "special toy," indicated by a push notification. Disco continues to play with KF Fighting anyway, which does further increase their relationship. We still can't see what their relationship is exactly yet, but we will soon.
A Life of His Own[edit]
A week later, Disco ages up to the child stage. We get a new notification that KF Fighting "wants to come out and play." Pretty creepy since he's just a doll, but Disco is nothing if not adventurous. After her first day of school, Disco stands in the middle of the living room and click-drags KF Fighting out of her inventory. KF Fighting sits on the carpet, and Disco uses the "Play With" command.
Disco hugs it, and we immediately cancel the command. Once KF Fighting is back on the carpet, the game takes control of the camera, and we get an animation that looks similar to when a Sim kid ages up. KF Fighting becomes sentient!
KF Fighting remains out of direct control, but he has a few special commands. Disco can order him to get her a snack, or even to clean up the house. All normal social interactions for children are available, and she can give him the "Leave Me Alone" interaction so he becomes a doll again. She can then use the "Apologize" command to the doll to let him live again. KF Fighting will also turn into a doll while Disco sleeps or leaves the lot, but in that case, he'll automatically gain life again when she's available again.
The strangest (or coolest) part of KF Fighting is that he is, indeed, an imaginary friend, only residing in Disco's imagination. As a doll, anyone can see her playing with him. However, compare the two screenshots below: the one on the left features Disco playing with him as the active Sim, and the one on the right is the same moment with Nikita as the active Sim...
From here on out, KF Fighting will grow with Disco; when she ages up to a teenager, so will he.
If she wants to take the next step and make him really real, there are two ways to do it. First, she might get a special opportunity to deliver a rainbow gem to the Science Lab. If your family goes on World Adventures, you stand a good chance of finding one while you're Tomb Raiding.
No one in the Carwins goes on any adventures though, but there is an alternative. Someone in the family will have to know Chemistry. Check out that section for more details!
If an imaginary friend is indeed turned into a real person, they'll draw their gender from the last type of name you chose. You can do this as much as you want up to actually converting them. Once an imaginary friend is turned real, they'll convert to your family's control and will be a permanent member of your family like any other Sim. They won't be related to anyone, and can even romance or marry anyone they wish!


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Bataan Travel Information
Bataan is a province rich in heritage and history, with beaches along peninsular coast.
Why Go
Bataan is located in Central Luzon, bordered by Zambales and Pampanga to the north and facing the Manila Bay and South China Sea to the east and west respectively. It is famous for its beaches and for being a big player in WWII as the starting point of the Bataan Death March. It was a strategic area even before the Second World War, being the landing site of Dutch invaders in 1647, as well as the launching point of the pirate Lim Ah Hong's unsuccessful conquest of Luzon.
When to Go
It is best to avoid the rainy season, which, like most of Luzon, starts in May and ends in October, with typhoons concentrated in the months of June to September.
What to Do
Beaches - Bataan's temperate coastline means that the area has a lot of beaches-and beach resorts. Areas known for their shorelines include Bagac, Limay, Morong, Mariveles, and Orion.
Churches - Bataan has many beautiful churches of historical importance, including the Church of Abucay in Abubacay, which was the site of a between Pampango defendres and Dutch invaders; the Balanga Catholic Church Belfry in Balanga, which was used as the site for the Japanese artillery bombardment of Mt. Samat; and the Church of Orani in Orani, which was damaged by earthquake and fire before being rebuilt in the 1930s.
Ecotourism - Bataan is a birdwatcher's haven, with ornithologists gathering in Sibacan, Pto. Rivas, in the City of Balanga-a site with one of the highest waterbirds counts in the country. People interested in marine conservation can drop by the Pawikan Conservation Center in Nagbalayong, Morong.
Festivals & Cultural Attractions - One of the biggest cultural events in Bataan is Holy Week, when the whole province celebrates the death and resurrection with activities that start on Palm Sunday all the way to Easter. Another famous one is Bataan Day. Celebrated every April 5, it honors the soldiers who gave up their lives for freedom in the various wars fought in the province. Of course, there are the feast day fiestas that each town has to celebrate their respective patron saints.
Historic Sites - Bataan's history as a strategic location during WWII means that the province has a lot of historical sites for WWII buffs to visit. Three examples are the Shrine of Valor (Dambana ng Kagitingan) in Mt. Samat in Pilar that commemorates the soldiers of WWII; the Zero Kilometre Death March Marker in Bagac that marks the start of the march, and another one in Mariveles that marks its end; and the Maria Canon Statue in Sibul in Abucay, which was raised by the Japanese to invoke the repose of the souls of those who died in the War.
Man-Made Attractions - Perhaps the most famous man-made attraction the province of Bataan has ever produced is the infamous Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, which was never operational and has since been turned into a tourist attraction.
Mountaineering and Trekking - Part of Bataan is mountainous, thus offering numerous climbing trekking opportunities. Mt. Natib, located in the Bataan Natural Park in Brgy. Tala in Orlani is a dormant volcano and also the highest peak in the area. Located in the Morong part of the park is Mt. Silangan, which has an 80-ft. waterfall. The Tarak Ridge Trek offers trekkers five to six hours of beautiful views that include forests, rivers, and seven waterfalls.
Mountain Biking - Mountain biking is quite popular in Bataan, with a local club having mapped out trails that range from easy to extremely difficult.
War Games - Another activity that is gaining popularity in Bataan is Airsoft war games, which is similar to paintball. The province has different areas for airsoft campaigns situated in Pulong Bato in Orion, Mt. Samat in Pilar, and Sitio 31 in Brgy. Biaan in Mariveles.
What to Buy
Dried Mangoes - Dried mangoes are tasty examples of the result one gets when a province's agricultural and industrial activities merge.
Tinapa - Bataan is famous for its tinapa (dried fish), partly because the fish used are caught within Bataan itself.
Coco Jam - Another Bataan delicacy is coco jam. Brown, gooey, and very sweet, it is made from coconuts harvested and processed in the province.
Getting There
By Bus
The Philippine Rabbit and Pantranco Bus Liner have routes that go from Manila to Bataan, while Victory Liner has a route that goes from Olongapo to Bataan.
By Sea
There are ferrys that travel from Manila to Mariveles and Orion, the latter more scenic as the ferry departs from the CCP Terminal and crosses the Manila Bay. The trip takes about 45 minutes.
Getting AroundLocal public transportation include mini-buses, tricycles, and jeeps that ply the routes between towns and barangays.
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Have you ever seen a house like the one below before? Of course you have—not in reality but in logo design. The world of real estate logos is littered with sloping roofs and square windows, suspended in abstract space or agglomerated onto one another in physically baffling clusters. They're ubiquitous, they're boring and they make for an awfully generic brand mark.
Let's be real about this. Many designers and real estate agents, in a moment of failing inspiration, have fallen back on such a generic concept. It happens. But that's no excuse to settle.
Like all business, those in the real estate realm should be seeking uniqueness, clarity and memorability in their branding. So how do you go beyond the overused and generic images of houses, skyscrapers and rooftops? Here we've got lots of creative examples of people who got creative with their real estate, property and mortgage company logos.
In a creative rut? Looking to company initials is often smart, as letterforms can open up a number of interesting possibilities. Of course, don't just stop at the initials themselves; use them in a novel or unexpected way! Are there details from a specific type of property you can bring into the logo? If you manage an Art Deco building, then perhaps you should have a logo inspired Art Deco architecture!
Some logo trends transcend industry. Vintage lettering, logo badges, line art… if you want to look hip give one of these logo styles looks a try. These can be especially impactful if they pair with your brand identity. A vintage logo might not be great for a commercial mortgage broker, but could be perfect for a property company specializing in historic homes.
A sense of place
Most real estate firms basically do the same thing; this much cannot be denied. So when you're searching for a unique visual identity, consider your company's local culture, skylines and iconic architecture. This will often produce the unique real estate logo and brand identity you're looking for.
What's in a name?
Tired of finding unique ways to incorporate buildings into your real estate logo design? Switch gears and play with your company's name instead. Plenty of real estate companies have noteworthy names—why not have some fun with that instead?
This article was originally published in 2015. It's since been updated with new information and examples.