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Jet Airways plans to leverage IBM's domain knowledge of the global airline industry and its technology leadership to meet the group's business transformation objectives. As part of the deal, IBM will provide cutting-edge technology solutions to transform the airline's business areas such as airport operations, direct distribution and frequent flier programs. This engagement will help Jet Airways improve and integrate its IT systems to deliver a highly differentiated customer experience and improve its operational efficiency.
"Constant innovation to stay ahead of industry growth has been Jet Airways' operating philosophy since it commenced operations in 1993," said Nikos Kardassis, Chief Executive Officer, Jet Airways (India) Ltd. "We are delighted to partner with IBM, the world's leading IT services company, and see this as an exciting opportunity to use IBM's technology to lead business transformation in the Indian aviation sector and augment growth. This association will enable us to focus on our core business and improve our operational efficiencies, besides delivering a seamless customer experience. India, as a country, will take a leading edge position in delivering innovative ideas and solutions in the Global Aviation terrain," remarked Mr. Kardassis.
IBM will support Jet Airways with IT Infrastructure and application support services including employee transition, data center operations, central helpdesk support, server and storage operations, internet security services through the use of Tivoli suite, network management, SAP and other operating systems.
"The agreement with Jet Airways is a significant milestone for IBM in the aviation industry," said Sameer Batra, Vice President, Distribution Sector, IBM India/South Asia. "Jet Airways will have access to industry expertise and knowledge, which are essential for sustaining growth and leadership in the competitive global market."
Commenting on the relationship with Jet Airways, Ashish Kumar, General Manager, Global Technology Services, IBM India/South Asia, said, "This strategic services deal with Jet Airways will herald a new era in the Indian aviation industry. It will enable the airline to enhance its business value and gain competitive advantage through innovative use of technology. IBM will bring its global experience and expertise in this industry to deliver services and solutions to help Jet Airways achieve its mission to innovate and lead as it continues to grow and expand internationally."
The contract was signed in June 2010.
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About Jet Airways
Jet Airways currently operates a fleet of 90 aircraft, which includes 10 Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft, 12 Airbus A330-200 aircraft, 54 next generation Boeing 737-700/800/900 aircraft and 14 modern ATR 72-500 turboprop aircrafts. With an average fleet age of 4.99 years, the airline has one of the youngest aircraft fleets in the world. Flights to 65 destinations span the length and breadth of India and beyond, including New York (both JFK and Newark), Toronto, Brussels, London (Heathrow), Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Colombo, Bangkok, Kathmandu, Dhaka, Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Jeddah, Sharjah, Riyadh and Dammam.
About Jet Airways Konnect
Jet Airways Konnect is Jet Airways' all-economy service on key domestic routes, designed to meet the needs of the low-fare segment with value-for-money fares. Jet Airways Konnect links seven major metros- Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Kolkata - with several destinations across India, operating over 200 flights daily. Konnect Select' is a premium economy product introduced on certain Jet Airways Konnect flights. This new front cabin class features wider and more comfortable seats, with a 40 inch seat pitch. The services include complementary in-flight reading material, a welcome drink, and complimentary hot meals on-board.
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JetLite is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jet Airways India Ltd. and was acquired by Jet Airways in April 2007. Positioned as an all-economy, no-frills airline, JetLite operates a fleet of 22 aircraft, which includes 17 Boeing 737 series and 5 Canadian Regional Jets 200 Series, aircraft. The airline flies to 25 domestic destinations and 2 international destinations (Kathmandu and Colombo), operating over 110 flights a day, on average. Jet Airways, Jet Airways Konnect, its all-economy, no-frills service, and JetLite have a combined fleet strength of 112 aircraft and operate over 500 flights daily.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - J.J. Abrams calls getting assigned to direct the seventh live-action "Star Wars" film "as surreal as it is exciting."
The director-producer-writer spoke with a handful of media outlets on the red carpet before darting into the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday night. Abrams was there to accept the Norman Lear Achievement Award for such television works as "Felicity" (1998-2002), "Alias" (2001-2006), "Lost" (2004-2010), "Fringe" (2008-2013) as well as the current series "Person of Interest" and "Revolution."
Abrams also is proving to be a go-to director of successful new films for long-established franchises, such as "Star Trek" and "Mission: Impossible."
Last week, Lucasfilm officially announced Abrams' hiring for "Star Wars: Episode VII," which has a tentative release date of 2015. "Star Wars" creator George Lucas personally endorsed Abrams in a statement: "I've consistently been impressed with J.J. as a filmmaker and storyteller. He's an ideal choice to direct the new Star Wars film and the legacy couldn't be in better hands."
As for Abrams' plans for "Episode VII"?
"You know, obviously, it's so early," he replied. "I can just say what I want to do: I want to do the fans proud. I want to make sure the story is something that touches people. And we're just getting started. I'm very excited."


text: And we're back for Raise the Dawn, the back half of a Typhon Pact duology by author David R. George III, to be released on June 26th. In many ways following on from the author's own Rough Beasts of Empire the first installment of the two-parter, last month's Plagues of Night, continued to take the character of Benjamin Sisko down a path seen as controversial by some, and both books ushered in some of the longer review threads on the board as a result, as well as ancillary, equally intense threads. However, Plagues of Night appears to be generally well-liked so far, ranking quite high (and much higher than RBoE) in the score table. And let's not forget that we're dealing with an ongoing storyline that has yet to reach its conclusion: Signs point to finding it here, and so both fans and critics of recent events should pick this one up to learn what it looks like. And please do be respectful while debating it. Official Simon & Schuster blurb time: Sadly no excerpt link again, as the Simon & Schuster page hasn't been updated yet.


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At some point in their lives, most women decide that comfortable, practical footwear is more sensible than footwear with less health-oriented benefits, such as the shape or height of a heel; comfort and function shouldn't be sacrificed for fashion. Sky high heels and narrow soles can damage a woman's feet and cause her pain. Many women feel it has to be one or the other. They doubt that superior comfort and style can be found in the same pair of shoes.
Walking Cradles is a go to brand for women who want sensible, stylish footwear. Walking Cradles makes it possible for women to love their shoes and wear them, too. According to Walking Cradles, comfort and style are synonymous.
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Cocoa applications use the
NSImage class as the primary container for image data on MacOS X. This class supports most image formats such as JPEG, PNG and TIFF. It can load data from a local file or read it from a network session.
The class is hardware-agnostic — it can adapt its image data to suit the display device's native resolution and color model. The class can also access the image pixels and alter them by code. It even comes with a number of useful transforms and effects.
But the
NSImage class is unable to authenticate its image data. So in this article, we will learn how to give
NSImage the ability to support watermarks. We will study how a watermark affects image quality, and how well it stands up to alterations.
The Challenge of Security
Today's massive high-speed networks gave users the means to share their thoughts and ideas on a global basis. But they also allowed others to subvert those ideas, through either forgery or theft.
Consider the digital image for instance. Alice, a well-known and principled photojournalist, sends photos of a political rally to Bob, her news editor. She could post the images on a network service like PhotoBucket or e-mail them through her Gmail account. Bob can then retrieve and process the photos for the next news item.
Yet here comes Eve, who hacks into Alice's network account. She alters the photos, either by blurring or deleting certain details. Then she replaces the originals with her altered copies. Both Bob and Alice remain unaware that the photos have been compromised.
Then there is Frank. He, too, hacks into Alice's network account and copies her photos. He sells them to his news editor, assuring the latter that the photos are his. Not only is Alice robbed of the credit; she is also faced with the problem of proving her ownership.
Choices of Security
Now Alice has a couple ways to protect her work against such incursions. One way is to write copyright information to the photo's metadata. Metadata is a reserved block of bytes that appears before or after the image proper. It is added by digital cameras and scanners, and used to hold information like color depth, model number, and pixel resolution.
But metadata is easy to forge, easy to remove. A skilled thief need only use the right image editor to alter or replace a photo's metadata. Metadata also come in a wide range of competing formats. Some formats are unique to specific hardware vendors; others have limited data capacities. Furthermore, metadata are useless in measuring image use.
Another way to protect her work is to sign them with a watermark. Watermarks are personalized data embedded directly into the image. In short, they become part of the image itself. Any attempt to alter or remove a watermark is difficult without affecting the surrounding image. Plus, copying the image, or parts of it, also copies the watermark itself.
Some watermarks are visible to the naked eye (Figure 1).
The mark, which may be a company name or logo, or even the user's own name, appears as a translucent distortion on top of the target image. Visible watermarks are quite easy to apply and verify. Their presence is often enough to deter casual theft. On the other hand, if the watermark has simple design, it can be easily forged. Or if the watermark is a complex one, it could obscure key image details
Other watermarks are not visible. In such cases, the mark itself is mixed into the image pixels. This makes it difficult to forge, especially without the original mark and image on hand. Specialized software is needed to apply and verify this type of watermark. Moreover, invisible watermarks can be vulnerable to certain image transforms and effects. It is common for some images to use both visible and invisible watermarks as a security measure.
Extension by Category
As stated earlier, the
NSImage class is unable to apply a watermark to its image data. We could supply this ability by extending the class using a category. In Objective-C, a category is a collection of methods that supply a specific service. It attaches to the target class when an instance is created, and stays attached for the lifetime of that instance.
Categories have a number of advantages over other mechanisms like inheritance and protocols. Unlike inheritance, a category treats the class as an opaque construct. It can be compiled separately from the class, and it does not require prior knowledge of the class source. Unlike protocols, a category can be disabled without affecting the target class.
Category methods have access to all class properties, even private ones. If a category method and an instance method have the same name, the category method overrides the one from the instance. On the other hand, a category cannot add new properties to the target class.
An Objective-C class can attach to two or more categories. But a category can attach to only one class. This quirk allows categories avoid the same fragile base problems that plague multiple inheritance. Categories can be available on a per-application basis or globally. In the latter case, the categories are usually stored in a framework bundle.
Listing 1 shows how we declare the category
StringHash. This category will attach a single method named
digest(). Its
@interface header names a target class, which is
NSString. The category name is enclosed with
'<...>' and placed after the class name. Two header files are imported for this category: Cocoa.h, which holds the
NSString class; and md5.h, which supplies the hash routines.
Listing One #import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h> #import <openssl/md5.h> @interface NSString (StringHash) - (NSData *)digest; @end
Listing 2 shows how we declare the next category
ImageSign. This one will attach three methods to its target class
NSImage. But it imports just the header file Cocoa.h, which holds just the target image. Notice all three methods have the same argument
aMrk, of the same object type
Listing Two #import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h> @interface NSImage (ImageSign) - (NSImage *)apply:(NSData *)aMrk; - (BOOL)verify:(NSData *)aMrk; - (NSNumber *)coverage:(NSData *)aMrk; @end
The Watermark Algorithm
There are several ways to apply a watermark to the target image — one is with the LSB algorithm (LSB meaning "least significant bits"). This algorithm divides the watermark into its constituent bits. It then embeds the bits into the color bytes of each image pixel. The result is a subtle color shift, too subtle to be detected easily.
To demonstrate, assume the image uses a 24-bit RGB color model (Figure 2). The first image pixel has a teal green color (
0x008080), while the first watermark byte is
0xDC. First, we divide the image pixel into its constituent bytes of red, green, and blue.
Then we divide the watermark byte into pairs of bits.
Next we embed each bit pair into bits 1 and 0 of each color byte. So the red byte (
0xDC => 11 01 11 00
0x00) becomes
0x03, the green byte (
0x80) becomes
0x81, and the blue byte (
0x80) becomes
0x83. We then use these modified bytes to recolor the image pixel. The new pixel color, however, seems to be the same teal color (Figure 3).
Then we divide the watermark byte into pairs of bits.
Next we embed each bit pair into bits 1 and 0 of each color byte. So the red byte (
Note also that there is still a bit pair left over from the watermark. This pair goes into the red byte of the next image pixel. The bit pairs for the green and blue bytes of that same pixel will then come from the next watermark byte. It takes three watermark bytes to cover four image pixels in succession. Afterwards, the first bit pair from the next watermark byte will go to red byte of the next image pixel.
Additionally, the aforementioned process reads the watermark bits in a little-endian direction, and it reads the color bytes big-endian. Bits 6 and 7 go into the red byte, bits 5 and 4 into green, and so on. But the same process can work with different endian directions. For instance, it could read the watermark bits big-endian, the color bytes little-endian. Provided the same endianess is observed when verifying the watermark, choosing which endian direction to use is pretty much a user preference.
The data size of an LSB watermark is limited by the size and color depth of the target image. Consider again a 24-bit RGB image of height
H and width
W. The maximum watermark size, in bytes, can be computed with the equation in Figure 4. So for an image 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels high (about 0.3 megapixels), the largest watermark it can have is about 225 kilobytes.
In practice, however, smaller marks are applied repeatedly on the same target image. This makes the marks harder to remove and it aids in estimating fair use.
Preparing the Watermark
For our example, we'll make a watermark in the form of human-readable text. We also will render the text into a hash digest for better security. The
NSString class comes with its own hash routine. That routine, however, emits hashes as signed integers, which may be enough for indexing and comparison, but not for secure processes. So, we will use the
StringHash category to allow
NSString to use the MD5 hash routine.
Listing 3 shows how we define the
digest() method in the
StringHash category. The method begins by storing its string data into an
NSData object (line 12). Note it encodes the string using UTF-8 characters.
Listing Three #import "StringHash.h" @implementation NSString (StringHash) // Generate a watermark signature - (NSData *)digest { const char *tHsh; NSData *tDat; NSUInteger tLen; // prepare the string for hashing tDat = [self dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; // generate the MD5 hash tHsh = (const char*) MD5([tDat bytes] , [tDat length], NULL); tLen = strlen(tHsh); // store the watermark signature tDat = [NSData dataWithBytes:tHsh length:tLen]; // return the watermark signature return (tDat); } @end
Next, the method calls the
MD5() function from the OpenSSL library (lines 15-16). It passes the raw byte stream from the NSData object, the stream size, and a
nil. The
MD5() function then returns the hash value as a 16-byte string.
Finally, the
digest() method stores the hash value into a separate
NSData object (line 20). And it returns that object to the calling routine.


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Jeffrey Tambor Exits 'Transparent' After Sexual Harassment Allegations. @DeadlineDominic reports https://t.co/DqBmIdAnrq— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 19, 2017
- Jeffrey Tambor has decided to leave the Amazon series "Transparent" after allegations of sexual harassment against the actor.
- He has denied the allegations and says that this is not the job he signed up for four years ago. He thinks the politicized atmosphere has "afflicted" the set and has decided not to return. Tambor stated that he would never deliberately harass anyone and it is simply untrue. Amazon is investigating the allegations and Holloway just yesterday said she could not speak about the allegations due to the investigation.


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The Hollywood neighborhood emerged as a small village in the late 19th century and was incorporated as its own municipality in 1903. But for most people in the world, "Hollywood" is synonymous with the commercial American film, which established itself there first in an area that came to be known as "Gower Gulch."
Before Hollywood emerged as a film-making hub, various companies produced films around the country – especially in Chicago, Florida, California and especially New York. In Los Angeles, the first filming was done by Thomas Edison's company around 1898 on South Spring Street, in Downtown.In 1909, William Selig and actor director Francis Boggs moved their company, Selig Polyscope Co, to the Edendale neighborhood (in what's now Echo Park). Bronx Films, Fox Film Corporation, French & Forman, Keystone Studios, New York Motion Picture Company, Norbig Film Company, The Pathé West Coast Film Company, Reaguer Productions, Western Arts, Westwood Productions, and other studios followed, in the process turning Edendale into the capital of American film production, taking the title from New York City in 1915.


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Why is it so many pundits—and some economists—continue to be pessimistic about 2012 growth? Business and Wall Street economists in particular are predicting just 2 percent GDP growth for all of 2012, according to a recent CNBC report.
Why such pessimism? The reason cited is that "the improving data masks unsustainable fundamentals — an unusual drop in the savings rate, a jump in auto purchases due mainly to a recovery from Japan's natural disasters last spring, and a surge in inventories".
Firstly, there is not an "unusual" drop in the savings rate (which is really dependent on household incomes, let us not forget). It is slightly under 4 percent, and had dropped to 1 percent during the bubble years of early 2000, before rising to 6 percent during the Great Recession. Consumers are just beginning to spend again after paying down their debts for the past 3 years (2009-11), in other words. And consumer spending makes up 70 percent of economic activity.
Graph: Calculated Risk
This is while the "jump' in auto purchases just brings it back to more historical levels of 13-14 million sold, but not to the bubble years of 16 million. And there is no surge in inventories. They are still at historically low levels, as businesses are still overly cautious because aggregate demand for their products and services is still weak.
Graph: Econoday
So business inventories are anything but surging. Inventories rose 0.3 percent in November as did business sales, keeping the stock-to-sales ratio unchanged for a fifth straight month at a lean 1.27, said Econoday.
It is understandable that businesses have just been through the greatest recession since the Great Depression—which lasted 10 years, and took a world war to cure. But there are many more tools to stimulate growth since then. And we know what stimulates growth—government spending; including for the safety nets (social security, unemployment benefits, Medicare), and investments in infrastructure and research—in order that consumers can continue to spend and businesses invest.
Most economists have to know this, so there has to be another reason for their pessimism. Banks in particular are lobbying for more Federal Reserve, as in QE3, to boost the housing market. "Obama Administration officials have come to realize that the ongoing dysfunction in the mortgage market is a key impediment to sustained expansion," Vincent Reinhart, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley, said in the CNBC article.
"Their problem is that there is no chance of coming to terms with the Congress to fix the mess," Reinhart added. "The result is that the administration is moving toward mortgage modification, but not decisively. Purchasing MBS is a way that the Fed can support that movement and signal the seriousness of the enterprise."
But Congress isn't the only reason for housing's problem. The Obama Administration is still not serious about either their HAMP or HARP II loan modification programs. They had set aside some $11 trillion from the ARRA legislation back in 2009 that hasn't been spent! Why? We are not sure, but know Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is a great friend of banks. Neither he, nor the Office of Thrift Management (OTC) that overseas banks are requiring the banks and loan servicers modify eligible mortgages on their books, when the Executive Branch, has the power to do so.
So the banks and Wall Street have come begging to the Federal Reserve once again to provide stimulus by buying up to as much as $1trillion more of mortgage-backed securities. But why not first get rid of the excess inventory of bad mortgages and foreclosed properties banks are holding on their books? There have been several suggestions on how to do this, including by the Fed in a recently published White Paper to Congress: "The U.S. Housing Market Current Conditions and Policy Considerations". That is, there are other solutions. But even with the huge TARP bailout and growing profits, banks and Wall Street still want government to continue to pick up their tab.
Existing-home sales have just jumped, by the way, which bodes well for housing in 2012. The latest monthly data shows total existing-home sales rose 5.0 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.61 million in December from a downwardly revised 4.39 million in November, and are 3.6 percent higher than the 4.45 million-unit level in December 2010.
Graph: Econoday
Total housing inventory at the end of December dropped 9.2 percent to 2.38 million existing homes available for sale, which represents a 6.2-month supply at the current sales pace, down from a 7.2-month supply in November. Home sales are now back to a 1998 sales' level, before the housing bubble took off. Maybe that is where it will be for some time to come. Therefore shouldn't Banks and Wall Street get over their hangover from the housing binge they profited so well from?
Harlan Green © 2012


text: abees 115 Posted May 26, 2012 Hadn't seen a thread for this?.. saw the page yesterday on facebook, can't wait to see it - https://www.facebook.com/TattooNationMovie "New Feature Documentary Film, Coming October 2012 Tattoos used to be a sign of rebellion. A middle finger salute to the rest of the world. Outlaw bikers got tattoos. Sailors on leave in Singapore got tattoos. Lifers in the joint got tattoos. Now, your mother's got a butterfly on her ankle and your kid's sporting a tramp stamp. What happened? How did tattoos go from the renegade, readymade, carney cartoons inked as fast as possible to the art form they've become today? That transformation is the subject of the new documentary film, TATTOO NATION. TATTOO NATION tells how a few incarcerated but very talented Chicano artists changed the world of ink forever. It follows three tattoo pioneers, Charlie Cartwright, Jack Rudy and Freddy Negrete, and shows how a new, fine line style using detail and shading to achieve a remarkable realism revolutionized the world of ink. In 1975, Cartwright and Rudy boldly opened the first tattoo parlor in the heart of East LA's Chicano community. They hired a recently paroled teenager who, while in jail, unknowingly established iconic images that spoke to an entire generation of Chicanos. Freddy Negrete became the first professional Chicano artist employed by a mainstream tattoo parlor - a tattoo parlor that was embraced as a new vehicle for self-expression by the Chicano community in East Los Angeles. For the first time, these legendary figures tell their stories in a feature-length documentary film. Included are other important figures such as David Oropeza and "Chuco" Caballero, winners of many prestigious tattoo competitions. Their victories brought international recognition to the uniquely American approach known as "Black & Grey". The world of tattoo, and the way we regard tattoo, was forever changed." 10 PhilB, Duffa, eisen777 and 7 others reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Cody Allen was ready to close for the Indians after the club cut ties with Chris Perez over the offseason. The young right-hander also prepared himself for the possibility that Cleveland might go in a different direction.
The Indians then signed John Axford to be their new closer and Allen accepted that he would return to the setup role he filled so well last season.
"I was [ready to close]," Allen said. "But I also know that [manaager Terry Francona] is going to put us in the best position to succeed -- individually and as a team. So, if that's me closing, or pitching the eighth, or the seventh -- whatever it is -- he's going to put me in a position to succeed and help the team win."
Francona said part of the reason Cleveland signed Axford was due to Allen's ability to be a kind of stopper for critical points prior to the ninth inning.
"There's no doubt Cody could handle being a closer," Francona said. "So could [Bryan] Shaw. But you can win and lose games before the ninth. [Allen would] come in with men on base. Your closer has the luxury of coming in and starting a clean inning."
In 77 games for Cleveland last season, the 25-year-old Allen fashioned a 2.43 ERA with 88 strikeouts and 26 walks in 70 1/3 innings. Allen's 88 strikeouts were the most by a Tribe reliever since 1999 (Paul Shuey, 103) and his 77 appearances were the second-highest single-season total in team history (Bobby Howry had 79 in 2005).
Allen held hitters to a .205 average with runners in scoring position, a .232 average with runners on base and a .154 average with the bases loaded.
"We talked over the offseason," said Allen, referring to Francona. "He explained things to me and I'm totally on board. There was no, 'Why are we doing this?' Or, 'I dont think we should do this.' I trust him. Whatever role I'm pitching in, it's because that's what's better for the team."
Francona likes Allen right where he is for now.
"Whenever we were in a bind, we went to Cody," Francona said. "Really, whether it was against a lefty or a righty, when the game was on the line, we went to Cody. I think that when you dole out bullpen roles, I don't think that necessarily has to be an inning. ... You want to leverage your best pitchers in the situations where there game is on the line."


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Rarely has the political class whipped itself into a lather that has abated so quickly. After the Newtown, Conn., massacre, so many invested so much hope in President Barack Obama's pledge to "use whatever power this office holds" to pass new gun-control laws.
The president has certainly done his part. He has held rallies. He has used children as props. He has held events with parents of the little victims of Newtown. He has shamed the nation for its alleged forgetfulness over the terrible events of that day.
Yet the needle of public opinion is moving the wrong way. CBS News found that support for stricter gun laws dropped from 57 percent to 47 percent, and CNN from 52 percent to 43 percent. The headline on a CNN story on the latest polling was titled "Polls Suggest Congress Might Have Waited Too Long on Gun Control." It has waited all of four months.
But the assault-weapons ban has been deep-sixed by Democrats in the Senate. Same with any limit on the size of magazines. The argument now is all about increasing the reach of background checks, although any bill that can pass Congress will be much less extensive than the president or his supporters would like.
The gun-control debate has shown the president again to be hopelessly detached as a legislative mechanic and ineffectual as a shaper of public opinion. Before writing rhetorical checks that his own party's majority leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, couldn't cash, the president might have at least consulted with the wily old son of a gun about what was plausible and adjusted accordingly.
It is true that 90 percent of Americans support universal background checks. Who can be against background checks? Heck, even the National Rifle Association wants states to keep more complete records of who is forbidden from purchasing guns.
But it gets complicated quickly when you try to control almost every transfer of a gun. Sen. Chuck Schumer's current version of the bill would forbid a "temporary transfer" to a friend for target shooting if the range is not "owned or occupied by a duly incorporated organization organized for conservation purposes or to foster proficiency in firearms." Got it?
Surely, we can figure out a way to do more at gun shows. But despite the obsession with them, gun shows are beside the point. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, "In 1997, among state inmates possessing a gun, fewer than 2 percent bought their firearm at a flea market or gun show, about 12 percent from a retail store or pawnshop and 80 percent from family, friends, a street buy or an illegal source."
Gun control always founders on the paradox that it is possible to write new laws for the law-abiding but difficult or impossible to reach criminals who don't care about laws. Michigan has required a permit to purchase a handgun since 1927. The rule has evidently made no impression on those bent on doing harm to others in Detroit or Flint.
The gun-control debate has subtly shifted away from Newtown even though the president keeps bringing his case back to that atrocity. Nothing that happened in Newtown had anything to do with background checks. No background-check law will ever prevent someone like Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza's mother from buying guns unless the parents of children with autismlike symptoms are to be banned from owning firearms.
The president's push for new gun laws looks, at this juncture, like a complete fizzle. He has failed to sway red-state Democrats and failed to maintain the heightened public support for new gun-control laws. The most concrete effect of his advocacy has been, if the anecdotal evidence is to be believed, to stoke increased gun purchases on fears that the government wants to ban guns. He set out to lead a great crusade for gun control and ended up the best friend the gun industry ever had.
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This is strange.
Did you know that you can't send batteries in the post?
I intended to send the shaver that I bought my father by EMS from Japan to Australia. They ALWAYS ask at the post office if there are any batteries. I feigned ignorance and persuaded them to accept the package. Time was tight and I had to get to work. I didn't want to waste time.
I checked the tracking and my heart stopped when I saw "Return To Sender". I immediately thought I'd wasted all this money on a shaver that was un-sendable, or somehow unscrewing it to remove an non user-serviceable internal battery.
Strangely though, the problem they had was just the cleaning alcohol. I removed it and it was magically back on its way. Originally posted Tuesday the 10th (and resent on the 12th), arrived a whole week later on the 17th!
Now that I'm using my GH1 as my main camera, I decided to send my old Nikon back home. I thought if the shaver got through, I'd try not only the camera, but my iPhone 3G as well.
Again I checked the tracking and BAM! Return to Sender again..
I got the call on Saturday that it was in Shinjuku, so I diverted my drinking plans to make an emergency rendezvous with my package. Of course this time it HAD to be the battery.
Again strangely it was ONLY the iPhone that was red-marked as undeliverable. Looks like with their x-rays they could tell. With a crossing of his hands to say no, the post clerk told me "Smartphone". Once again removing the iPhone, the camera was allowed through. I was relieved that at least the camera could go. May 19th arrived May 25th - Not too bad but it would've got there quicker without this debacle.
I don't get it. Why can you fly on a plane up to your eyeballs with mobile phones, laptops, and bottles of intoxicating, yet flammable alcohol, yet with the post they make you jump through hoops trying to send them?
My guess is a curbing of overseas parallel imports, and international internet auctions. Sure, there was a case of exploding laptop batteries in a Sony laptop years ago that might have prompted this, but what doesn't have a battery these days?
Crazy. Seems like it's not just Japan though. In Australia lithium batteries can only be send by road with Australia Post.
What a headache.
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
The Battery Hazard
This is strange.
Posted by Jimmy In Japan at 11:59 pm
2 comments:
- Adam Smith Lieberfarb said...
Same thing happened to me when I bought a defective replacement battery for my Powerbook in the States. When trying to send it back to the US, the post office sent it to the return address by mistake. The entire staff of my local post office all bowed in apology when I went round to sort it out. Of course they offered to resend it, but when they asked was it was, I was told they CAN'T ship it. Ditto for FedEx and UPS. Solution: write "computer parts" on the description instead of battery! Stick a needle in my eye...
- 2 June 2011 at 14:39
- Jimmy In Japan said...
I've heard of that solution.They got me to write "no battery", but if they want to send it back they will. Bit of hit and miss by the sound of things.
- 2 June 2011 at 17:41


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Greetings! Many of you already know me as Miss Amy, especially if you are under three feet tall and have attended a storytime at Montclair Branch, the Main Library Children's Room, or Eastmont Branch in the last six years. I'm one of your friendly children's librarians, and in this series I will discuss a topic that drives children's librarians and keeps us invested in our profession. A thing that keeps us hard at work, hour upon hour, day after day, and I'm not talking about googling "is Kadir Nelson married*"-- no, it's our guiding principle, the beacon we follow when all else is dim.
It is the concept of the right book for the right reader.
What does this mean?
Well, basically, the "right book for the right reader" means that for every person out there, there is a book that they will love so much that they will become convinced that reading is fun, and they will seek it out as an activity to engage in by choice. Children's librarians work with a lot of what we call "reluctant readers"-- kids who can read, but don't like to, and won't do it unless compelled to by a teacher, parent, or other adult. In theory, there is a book out there for every reader, no matter how reluctant, that they will love.
I'm not sure I believe in "the right book for the right reader."
I sure believe in matching everyone with the best books possible for their tastes; book + person matchmaking is one of my favorite tasks as a librarian. But I don't know if it's true that every single person would become a reader if they found just the right book. Some people don't like to read, and that's cool.
And yet for every child who comes to us with crossed arms, a stormy face, and mumbles of "have to read something before school starts," we start up the chase. It's kind of our white whale-- the right book for that reader may or may not be out there, but we'll pursue it until one or both of us dies from exhaustion or the kid's parents take them home.
A children's librarian perishes in pursuit of the perfect book for a child
I have a collection of memories that make me think this white whale exists-- times when I've seen a child (or adult) connect with a book in a way that changes everything. These are the stories I'll be sharing here, and my spyglass is trained to the sea for more**, so feel free to leave your own stories in the comments. What was the book that made you a reader? Mine was TROUBLE IN DEVIL'S BAYOU, which I remember looking at while lying on the living room floor at age three (or so they tell me) and suddenly all the words made sense. Yarrr, a fine book, that.
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Some days are just etched in your mind, for one reason or another.
There are the usual suspects, Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Labor Day and Memorial Day, and then there are others like Valentine's Day and Halloween, and still others that some of us always know are coming up on the calendar.
For me, I always know the first full week in April the Masters will be played, and the first Saturday in May is the run for the roses.
During the past decade I've had another significant event branded into my brain, and it happens every year on the third Saturday in May.
Giving thanks has come and gone and now's the time to hang our stocking from the mantle with care.
But I'm not here to talk about the fourth Thursday in November or Dec. 25.
It's the time of year when we get together to start planning the annual Walk Through The Park.
I usually don't write about it this early, since it is the third Saturday in May, but since the upcoming walk is going to be something special I thought I would put together a few words of encouragement so we can get more walkers than ever out to Stanbridge Park, just behind the East Norriton Township building.
This will be the 10th anniversary of the Walk Through The Park (that's the something special part), and we want to make it one to remember.
I've been involved since the beginning, as has my good friend, Norristown Ambassador Hank Cisco. We met last week at the new Einstein Medical Center Montgomery to plan the 2013 walk with some new faces, and with some who have been around for the past several years, including Laura McFarland-Bickle and Pete Scattergood. We're now connecting with some new friends who have come on board through Einstein, like Leroy Howell, and we're really looking forward to what we can do to make the walk even more successful than last year's, which, by the way, was the most successful so far.
The walk (Did I mention it is on the third Saturday in May?) is only successful because of all the good people on the committee that are so committed they meet in December for an event that is six months away.
The first meeting is usually pretty casual, but we jumped right in this time, talking about how we can get even more people out on the third Saturday in May, and what we can add to the event to make it more enticing to more people. Hank came up with an idea that I think is going to do a lot to get a whole new group of folks out. He's going to reach out to his brothers in arms, police officers from all around the area, to form their own teams.
We're hoping for a little friendly competition between Norristown, East and West Norriton, Lower Providence and Plymouth, to see which department can get the most walkers.
The Walk Through The Park, which, if you haven't heard, is the third Saturday in May, was established to help raise money for the cancer programs at Montgomery Hospital, now Einstein Montgomery, and while that will always remain the core goal, we also want to start promoting healthy living as well. Police officers need to be healthy. Physical activity is part of their job. And as I'm typing this I see no reason why we can't expand the challenge out to our local firefighters to come up with their own friendly competition among the local departments.
But why stop there? What about all the local service clubs doing a little throw down of their own? The Norristown Rotary Club (where I belong) could challenge the King of Prussia Rotary Club to raise the most money.
Come to think of it, it doesn't even matter if you belong to an organization at all, challenge your neighbor.
So don't be shy, go ahead and mark your calendar for the third Saturday in May. We'll be walking through the park once again, and this time around will be our 10th consecutive year, something we can all be proud of.
You see, part of my job as a member of the walk committee is to publicize the event as much as possible to get more people to come out and participate. And a great way to get people involved is to make sure they know when something is taking place. Once they get it cemented into their subconscious it's almost like they can't help but be there.
So, did I mention the walk is on the third Saturday in May?
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and speaking of summer
taken last summer in the small illinois town where my parents live and I swear to you, when I look at this, I can practically hear the cicadas. I can feel how thick the air is and I want to get on a plane and go home.
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much as my mother drives me insane, i can't imagine living far away from her. the husband and i talk about moving but...i'm not sure if we'll ever go through with it.ReplyDelete
get on the plane girl! <3
- AnonymousJune 24, 2011 11:20 PM
I don't want to be nosey, of course, but I live in Illinois and I went to college in a small southern town in IL as well, just curious what town?ReplyDelete
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ha, I live in small town il and you forgot to mention the swarms of mosquitos ;)ReplyDelete
I'm from a small Illinois town and lovelovelove this photo :) Cicadas and fireflies... summertime at its best!ReplyDelete
i grew up in Wisconsin and spent a great deal of the summer with my grandparents in Chicago...so i know what you mean!!ReplyDelete
Mmm, I was just back in the Midwest and it was gloriously hot and humid. So nice to visit -- I felt like I was soaking up the mugginess through my skin -- and then it was refreshing to come back to the June Gloom in SoCal. =)ReplyDelete
What a great picture!ReplyDelete
I can feel that small town feel too. I'm from a small Georgia towm...*deep breath*ReplyDelete
yes! i have a similar photograph. the emotion and even the scents that explode my heart with total homesickness. gets me every time.ReplyDelete
i hope you enjoy a trip "home" soon. xoxo
Mmmm, I love the sound of cicadas, and I, too, grew up in a small town. I absolutely LOVE your blog and look forward to your posts! Please keep them coming!ReplyDelete
ah, i know those elusive yet so deep feelings for a certain Home.ReplyDelete
great shot!ReplyDelete
i am going back home this weekend to small town indiana - cannot wait!!!!ReplyDelete
i miss that, that sense of a different home- that place where mom once was. what a wonderful feeling, that yearning, and that a single photo can evoke so much emotion in a person...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 30, 2011 1:31 PM
that's a good pictureReplyDelete
reading your post from a small illinois town... listening, of course, to the cicada symphony. & right now, nope, i wouldn't trade it :)ReplyDelete
this is so beautiful, my friend.ReplyDelete
... yes to home.


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MINING magnate and coalition donor Clive Palmer has denied any prior knowledge of a politically damaging court case brought against former federal speaker Peter Slipper.
But Mr Palmer does admit two weeks before the sexual harassment claims were taken to the Federal Court in April he discussed Mal Brough's candidacy for Mr Slipper's Queensland seat of Fisher with the former Howard government minister and shadow treasurer Joe Hockey.
His comments came after Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said he had not read the judgment, which says Mr Brough helped Slipper staffer James Ashby with his case and dismissed the court action as an abuse of process.
Mr Slipper on Wednesday applied to the court for Mr Ashby to pay all of his costs and also took the unusual step of making a costs application against his accuser's legal team, Harmers Workplace Lawyers.
This means Mr Ashby and Harmers could face a costs bill in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Federal Court judge Steven Rares last week found Mr Ashby acted "in combination" with another staffer, Karen Doane, and Mr Brough to willingly act against Mr Slipper and advance Mr Brough's political interests as well as those of the Queensland Liberal National Party.
Mr Palmer is mentioned in the judgment seven times, in relation to Ms Doane's request Mr Brough help her secure a job at the billionaire's Sunshine Coast resort after the dust settled on the court action.
Mr Palmer told reporters in Brisbane on Wednesday he met with Mr Brough and Mr Hockey at his resort at Easter, two weeks before Mr Ashby lodged his court documents on April 21.
But he said he only learned of the claim through the subsequent media reports.
Mr Palmer said Mr Brough had called the meeting to discuss his potential Liberal candidacy for the federal seat of Fisher, which Mr Slipper holds.
"At no time did I encourage anybody to pursue Peter Slipper for anything," Mr Palmer said.
"I made it quite clear to all members of the LNP, as far as I was concerned, Peter Slipper was innocent of any crime and should not be pursued."
Mr Abbott said he was confident Mr Brough had "acted rightly at all times".
Asked why he hadn't yet read the judgment, the opposition leader told reporters in London: "Because I am doing very important things for the people of Australia here in this country right now."
"I look forward to having Mal as a colleague of mine again," he said.
Attorney-General Nicola Roxon said Mr Abbott's admission he had not read the court judgment was "staggering".
The matter will be heard by the court in Sydney on Friday.
A spokesman for Mr Ashby declined to comment.
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If you're reading this magazine, then chances are you're a young learner of English as a Foreign Language, and are probably interested in reading too. So why not go one step further, and read novels in English? As a native English speaker who has learnt French, I have used this tactic to help improve my own language ability, and when done correctly, reading will not just help your comprehension, but your overall language use.
Why will reading in English help your writing and speaking, as well as your reading? It might sound very uncool, but one of my speaking techniques is to read aloud. By myself of course! But reading aloud means I can take as long as I like to get the correct pronunciation, intonation and meaning. I really believe it is one of the best tricks, and I will always be thankful to the friend who put me on to it. Where your writing is concerned, seeing the language in its written form is very helpful. The more you see something, the more you understand, especially as most humans are visual learners. So now, I want to help you choose your literature.
Everybody knows Harry Potter, right? So why not take a story that we all know and love, and read it in English? If you already understand the story, you'll be able to absorb the vocabulary with ease. The beauty of Harry Potter is that you can start with book 1, The Philosopher's Stone, which is short and simple, then you can progress all through the stories, up to book 7 with approximately 600 pages of complicated plot. Perhaps you're too cool for Harry Potter though.
For the girls, how about Twilight? And for the boys, what do you make of Lord of the Rings? Reading sequels provides you with ample material, and all three titles that I've suggested have been made into films. So after reading the book(s) you can watch the films in English too! In my quest for reading material in French, I stumbled across other such examples, like The Devil Wears Prada and The Kite Runner.
Using Amazon's recommended reads is also a great idea. If you run a few searches for books you already like (in English of course), Amazon will throw loads of new titles at you. This is a sneaky trick to get you to buy more from their website, but naturally, you're not obligated to. There's no law against running searches! If any of you have specific interests, feel free to comment on this blog post and I'll try to recommend books for different interests. I love to read, and would encourage young language learners to dive right into the world of foreign literature as soon as possible.
I realy love reading books in english language....
i like reading books in foreign language,especially in english
I like reading book in a forign language but my favorite is english...
Hi b'dudek and other reading fans!
Great to hear that you are all such keen bookworms. Reading is such a pleasure, and a really excellent way to improve your English. There are lots of good graded readers available so that you can read at your level. If you're loooking for authentic novels in English, you could try The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon. Or have you read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne? Maybe you saw the film, which will help you to understand the book.
If anyone else has recommendations of good books to read in English, please share them.
Happy reading!
Joanna (LearnEnglish Teens team)
hi i love to read loadz of books im of 16 nd i wanna master over the british vocabulary so if u can give me some book suggestions so that i can go along wih it..:)
i love reading it is part of my life i reading all day !! sometimes i reading different books on english , azerbaijan , russian and sometimes spanish books ! now im reading "Crime and Punishment"
Hi guys,
I think the most important thing in reading English books (if you're foreign) is patience. Every time that I open a book, hard vocabularies make me cry! :)
I LOVE reading Fantasy & Sci-fi. I've read the Lord of the rings trilogy (All three books), The Silmarillion and The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien, and also watched the new "Hobbit" (Which is brilliant). I like the "Harry Potter" and "Eragon" series too. And i found "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" very enjoyable.
I am going to read "Eat pray love" and then watch it!
I love reading. Especialy reading fantasy.
But I´m afraid I won´t undrestand the plot or that if i won´t understand the word I can´t like a book so much...
Until now I´ve read one book in english and I don´t like that book so much and I think that it can be because I can´t enjoy the story (or maybe it´s just because of the book) ... but it is just my opininion and in future I want try to read any other book in ebglish.
The other problem is that I don´t remember any new words from books. I don´t know why, but I can read one word for five times and I must always search it in dictionary.
PS: Thanks for this article anyway :)
Hi there !:)
I like reading a lot either in my native language or in the two foreign languages I quite know : English and French... I speak French much better than English I actually have read a lot of books in French and indeed it helped me a lot improving my speaking and writing skills but unfortunately I've never read an entire book in English I just read articles and texts and I really want to read a book one day and as you suggested those books I'll tray to read them I'll probably start by harry Potter because I've already watched the movie and I think that I'll find it really easy to understand .
Concerning reading out loud , I'd like to say that's really a useful way to learn the pronunciation and it helped me personally .
I'd like to thank you a lot for this article .
hi everyone i have learnt alot to0 your ample comments.Firstly i would like to thanks everyone.My english is badly week but i have keen intrested in english language and i take a english classes as well.what will you advise me,how can i improve my english language,i have been practicing on bc site for a months....and i love reading but i can't understand properly sometimes!
oh really sorry, I WROTE :you are write instead of you are right!OMG!what a mistake!
it's okay, just an accidental mistake. don't worry, that happens to everyone.
The blog is intresting!as you mentioned many facts..
you know, learning new languages is crucial! and luckily its one of my favorite hobbies in my life,especially learning English and French and Spanish, but unfortunately a big group of problems follows me every where when I want to improve my language skills.
Throughout five days of being a member in LearnEnglishTeens I have learnt many new words aproximately 300 words, but and try to use them and practice them ,but sadly I forget the new words!
I do not know what to do! I think that my english is really simple and basic,apart from these my listening is extremely bad! when I listen to a video and try to understand the words ,I think I can just understand 25% of the video but when I read the transcript I see that I can understand more than 50%.
So I saw that our education wasn't proper, cause our pronunciation was really bad.As a result when I learn a new word before knowing its meaning I listen to its pronunciation.
Have you tried writing down the new words to memorize them better? It's really helpful, I do that all the way. You could write them into a special copybook or on the pieces of paper, and then you'll have your own vocabulary.
I agree with you about pronunciation, it's really important to understand the spoken language. Maybe listening to English songs can also help? I mean, that way you'll be able to hear compare different accents and pronunciation.
Well, I'm just trying to advise you the things that help me in language learning. I hope something of this will be useful to you! Thx 4 attention.
Hi scarlette lady!
Well, you are write about writing down the new vocabulary, but you know , my mother tongue isn't English and we don't use English !Just in school! and that is actually bad! so the biggest problem is that I cant practice my Engilsh not with my family and nor with my friends.And in University my Engilsh will be written and the vocabulary is all about Medicine ,very different from spoken Language!
I love listening to english songs but not to much!but it is definitely helpful for listening ! I will work on that.
Thanks a lot for your comment and advice !
I agree with you that it's difficult to learn a foreign language when you don't have much practice but I think you need to work on spoken English too. Who knows, maybe you will travel to English-speaking countries in the future, and in that case you'll definitely need this knowledge. About ur English in university... maybe try to find some special English literature in the internet (if you know exactly what you need)?
And the most important: don't give up! You'll succeed if you want to :)
first of all, i would like to thank you alot for for your magnificent website. Actually i do like you to inform me about some novels of adventure, i mean recommended novels, with complex plots.
Looking forwads to hearing from you soon.
I love reading! I've read a lot of books in English, such as "Winnie the pooh", "Pinoccio" and some others. I've also read "Harry Potter and the deathly hallows" in original. That was great! I enjoy reading detective stories such as "The adventures of Sherlock Holmes". My favourite books about Sherlock Holmes are "The spackled band" and "A study in scarlet". I also like "The adventure of the beryl coronet". Last year I read a book called "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins. Now it's my favourite book! I've read all these books in English, and I understand almost everything! I'm so proud of myself! But I'd like to read some more. Do you know any interesting books? Thank you. :)
I found a great tool to help you with this. Amazon has a Reading List tool, so you could go on, enter your favourite books, and it should compile a list of similar books for you to read. Obviously, it wants you to buy from them, but you do not have to do that! Congratulations on reading so many good books, and understanding them. You're right to be proud, because it's a real achievement! Maybe you could read The Hunger Games? Personally I haven't read it, but it sounds like you enjoy adventure stories, and it is supposed to be excellent. To follow it up, you could then watch the movie :).
Great advice (:
OMG! I love reading! I've been reading Jane Austen's books (sense and sensibility and pride and prejudice). I'm loving those books. But unfortunately in Colombia you can't find many books in foreing languages without paying them! Also the literature is expensive over here!
Can you advice me some humour books? Thank you (;
P.S.: Sorry if I've made a mistake on what I've written, please let me know if I did it!. Lots of love from me (:
Hi there,
Sorry it took me so long to reply to your message, I haven't been checking my blog very frequently over the summer. I know, books in foreign languages can be very expensive. There are plenty of free internet sites that you could read articles on, while you save up for books though. Obviously there is this magazine. You can also use the BBC website, which has a section for English as a Foreign Language. And you could check out some magazine websites, aimed at teenagers. A good example for a girl could be Miss magazine, or Glamour if you're a bit older. Don't worry about making mistakes when you write in these comments - everybody here is used to teaching English abroad, it's completely natural to make mistakes and you'll only get better with practice. The important thing is that the other person understands what you're saying, and I did, so that's perfect.
So you like humour and comedy. If you've heard of Mr Bean, you could try some storyboards of those stories.
I hope this helps!
Thank you so much :) I'll try those books.
I've read a book in English before, and its title is "General Giap : His Youth". It's published by a Vietnames publisher. That's the only English book I've read. I love reading books, but I just like to read the book I can understand whole of it. I prefer read a text in English or a book that gives me knowledges to read a novel.
I never read a whole book in english. I'm bought books with lessons of drawing, so I can improve my english and my ability of drawing in any time. I'm reading them, but they have many words that I don't know.
The articles of this sites are helping me a lot! Thank you very much!
Hello Rachel.
Your article was very good for me. I'm learning English for some time, but I never read a book in English. The vocabulary some books are difficult. I like you talk me about book for beginners, vocabulary more easy. Harry Potter is good, but I don't like Twillight too... What others you indicate for beginners?
And so talk me your tip for watch movies in English. I watch first with subtitles in my language? Or audio in my language an subtitles in English?
Thank you and congratulations for your Blog!
As well as you, I LOVE reading. Either in the original or in translations. But surely it's much better 2 read books in the language they were written in, and I've already tried to read books in English. As I'm quite a young learner, I didn't read too much. But anyway, I finished "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, "The Austere Academy" by Lemony Snicket, "451 Fahrenheit" by Ray Bradbury and some other ones - don't remember them now. I have also watched movies in English. Every summer I and my friend (who comes 2 visit me only once a year, as she's from the US) come together and watch some films in English - e.g. last year it was "Tangled", and before that - the third part of "High School Musical". This year, I started watching a BBC film "My Family And Other Animals" by the contents of Gerald Durrell's book. I also watched online the second season of a popular teenage series - "House of Anubis". I enjoy this show, and I was just too bored to wait for it 2 be shown in my country in Russian, so I just found all the episodes in the Net in English. And it was a lot more fun.
I've got some questions to you Rachel:
Which books in English would you advise me to read (including those facts that I'm a girl, don't like Twilight, like novels about teenagers, science fiction and good humour)?
Which movies in English could I watch (including the same information)?
Thanks beforehand. And good article, by the way!
Hi there :)
That's great that you're doing all that reading in English already. Wow about Wuthering Heights - I tried to read that (in English!) and gave up after a couple of pages. So to try to answer your questions:
Have you tried reading Jane Austen novels? I'm thinking that if you liked Wuthering Heights, Jane Austen's books are another "classic" period selection. Other good teenage books could include the Sisterhood books (I think the first one is called The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants). I enjoyed those, and they're written for teenage girls. Science Fiction is a bit harder, but if you're interested in sci-fi TV shows, I would recommend Doctor Who. If you don't know it, it's a great BBC series dating from years ago, but it has been redone in recent years and is really good fun! All about time travel and different species but with enough of a real plot too. So I've kind of started answering your second question there. Other good films in English could include: The King's Speech, St Trinian's (the new one), Billy Elliot, musicals like Mamma Mia, maybe some Batman for your sci-fi... there's a great wikipedia page under British Film, which I recently used to base a presentation around for my students - you could check that out for more ideas.
I'm glad you liked the article, and I hope I've given you some helpful information!
I love books they teach me a lot of things
Thank you so much!! I read Jane Austen novels in Russian, they're great, maybe now I'll try reading them in original. The same thing is with The Sisterhood novels, I read them before in translations and enjoyed them a lot. And the Wikipedia page is also exciting, I hope it'll help me.
Thanks again! You gave me A LOT of helpful info!
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The Stinger library is a full J2EE Validation Engine which strongly adheres to the principal's outline in the [http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Validation_Documentation_Project Validation Documentation]. More information can be found on the Stinger Project page at http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Stinger_Project
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Most web application platforms do not include features to validate user input. This leaves many organizations to craft their own validation mechanisms, often incomplete, flawed, and inefficient.
The OWASP Validation Project was created to provide guidance and tools related to validation. Our philosophy is that validation is required for every part of the HTTP request, including headers, query string, cookies, form fields, and hidden fields.
Currently, there are several projects underway to create validation technologies for various platforms. The long term goal is to provide a detailed guide for implementing proper input validation as well as provide validation engines for popular web application environments.
The OWASP Validation Project was created by Jeff Williams and is currently maintained by Eric Sheridan.
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We hope you find the OWASP Validation Project useful. Please contribute to the Project by volunteering for one of the Tasks, sending your comments, questions, and suggestions to [email protected] To join the OWASP Validation Project mailing list or view the archives, please visit the subscription page.
OWASP Stinger Project Needs Your Help! - 16:37, 12 September 2006 (EDT)
One of the new features available in Stinger 2.0 is the ability to apply a negative security model on top of a positive security model. There are cases when the positive model becomes too open and a negative security model is necessary. The OWASP Stinger Project is in need of regular expressions which can be used to thwart potential input validation attacks, such as cross site scripting and SQL Injection. One such example would look for the words document.cookiein the parameter value. This obvious cross site scripting attack would then be caught by the negative security model and the appropriate action(s) taken place. If you have any regular expressions which you would like to donate to the OWASP Validation Project, please contact Eric Sheridan.
OWASP Validation Documentation now maintained in Mediawiki! - 16:18, 12 September 2006 (EDT)
In an attempt to fully open the validation documentation to the OWASP community, the paper will now be maintained via Mediawiki. The online version of the validation documentation can be found here. We encourage contributions and edits. We will periodically build word document version of the validation documentation when appropriate.
Announcing Minor Releases for both Stinger and the Validation Documentation - 11:15, 14 August 2006 (EDT)
The OWASP Validation Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of maintenance releases for both Stinger and the Validation Documentation.
Check out their respective project pages for more information.
Stinger 2.0 Beta I and OWASP Validation Documentation Released! - 18:53, 4 August 2006 (EDT)
The OWASP Validation Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Stinger 2.0 Beta I as well as a rough draft of the OWASP Validation Documentation. Both projects are the result of a tireless effort to provide a clear and defined process of implementing input validation in web applications. The Validation Project would like to thank everyone for their continuing support. More information on can be found at the Stinger project page and the OWASP Validation Documentation project page.
- Note: These projects are still in the development stage. Testing and feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Fortify Software Donates Vulnerability Research Project - 09:35, 31 July 2006 (EDT)
Fortify software as graciously donated a comprehensive set of software security research material to OWASP. The research material provides an in-depth analysis of 115 software vulnerabilities which can be found at the OWASP Honeycomb Project homepage. The category of particular interest is, of course, the Input Validation Vulnerability. The OWASP Community is strongly encouraged to donate to this milestone project. Once the current set of projects is completed, it is the goal of the OWASP Validation Project to contribute to the vast and quickly growing OWASP Honeycomb Project.
OWASP Validation Documentation Delayed - 09:07, 23 July 2006 (EDT)
Unfortunately, the OWASP Validation Documentation has been delayed for roughly a week. The good news, however, is the reason for the delay. A new project, entitled Poseidon, is currently in development. Poseidon will greatly simplify the generation of an SVDL file through the use of your own web based application! Look for a rough draft of the validation documentation near the end of the week.
Project Stinger 2.0 is Underway! - 11:44, 10 July 2006 (EDT)
One of the goals of the OWASP Validation Project is updating and improving the Java validation engine, Stinger. This update will include the many submitted ideas/patches over the past several years on top of a completely rewritten engine. If you have any ideas/patches that you would like to have reviewed for submission, please contact Eric Sheridan.
OWASP Validation Finds a New Project Lead - 11:44, 10 July 2006 (EDT)
Thanks to Jeff Williams, Eric Sheridan is now the lead of the OWASP Validation Project. The project will be moving forward in the next few weeks. Refer to the road map for short term goals and deadlines. Stay tuned!
Project Roadmap
The three major goals of the OWASP Validation Project are the following:
- build an input validation guide
- provide and implement input validation mechanisms for various platforms
- rewrite Stinger to incorporate the design principals in the guide
The OWASP Validation Roadmap contains the latest information as to project goals and targeted release dates.
Guide to Building Input Validation
One of the major goals of the OWASP Validation Project is to provide clear and detailed documentation on building input validation mechanisms for your web application needs. In the near future, this section will contain such documentation. Check back soon!
The second major goal of the OWASP Validation Project is to provide input validation mechanisms which adhere to one or more of the design principals outlined in the 'Input Validation Guide'. If you have a project which fits this requirement, please submit it via email to the project lead.
OWASP Validation Documentation
The primary purpose of the OWASP Validation Documentation project is to provide the design principals necessary to build an effective input validation engine. More can be found here.
The Stinger library is a full J2EE Validation Engine which strongly adheres to the principal's outline in the Validation Documentation. More information can be found on the Stinger Project page at http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Stinger_Project
Most modern Java web frameworks include their own data validation features. All of these can validate user data in GET and POST requests, but usually do not validate cookie data. Web frameworks that provide their own validation features include:
One of the goals of the OWASP Validation Project is to implement Stinger 2.0 on the .NET platform.
If you are interested in leading this project, please contact Eric Sheridan.
Please refer to the project road map for an estimated time of arrival.
The PHP Filters Project provides an API framework for validating input for various purposes. The project can be found here.
OWASP Recently released the OWASP Top 5, an article illustrating several attack vectors against PHP applications.
The majority of the PHP Top 5 can be alleviated with a solid and well defined validation mechanism.
RegEx Repository
The OWASP RegEx Repository contains a multitude of regular expressions for common data types. Developers implementing input validation engines should review these regular expressions. Save the time of developing a complicated regular expression that currently exists!
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