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OTTAWA - Today, I am taking additional steps to protect and ensure the safety of Canadian children, by introducing changes for certain homeopathic products that fall under the Natural Health Product Regulations (NHPR). Many Canadians choose to purchase natural health products, including homeopathic products, to maintain and improve their health. The Government of Canada is committed to ensuring that they continue to have access to a wide variety of these products, however, current package labelling for some homeopathic products may not be adequate for Canadians to make informed choices. The changes apply to the labelling of some homeopathic products, specifically nosode products as well as homeopathic cough, cold and flu products for children 12 and under.
I am introducing these changes to ensure that Canadian parents who choose to use homeopathic products have the information they need to make informed health choices for themselves and their children.
Today, all nosode product license holders are being made aware of this change. They are requested to include a new statement on nosode labels: "This product is neither a vaccine nor an alternative to vaccination. This product has not been proven to prevent infection. Health Canada does not recommend its use in children and advises that your child receive all routine vaccinations." Nosode licence holders have been asked to comply with the new labelling changes by January 2016.
Furthermore, Health Canada will no longer approve specific health claims on homeopathic products for cough, cold, and flu for children 12 and under, unless those claims are supported by scientific evidence.
Companies have been asked to comply with this new labelling change by July 2016.
To date, the Department has authorised the sale of 121 nosode products and 139 homeopathic products for cough, cold and flu for children under 12. All those products are included in the scope of the labelling changes as described in the updated monographs, which are available online. The Department has also added information on its website about nosodes and other homeopathic products and how they are regulated.
Following the implementation dates for the new labelling changes, Health Canada Officials will verify that products on the market include the labelling changes and steps will be taken should they not.
As I have mentioned many times before, I continue to encourage vaccination, as it is safe and provides important benefits for our children's health throughout their lives.


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Recently it has been brought to our attention that Ken Silva may in fact cause death. Perhaps because as a fellow Truth Warrior he is so close to the Absolute Truth that he is able to absorb God's Absolute Sovereign Wrath like a lighting rod. After absorbing and storing up enough of God's Absolute Sovereign Wrath, he would then be able to reflect it like any good Static conductor of Absolute Truth will and then bounce it back off of him into those that attack our Truth.
For it is Written in the Truth Warrior Bible:
"What if God, willing to show His Absolute Sovereign Wrath, and to make His Absolute Power known has Chosen and Frozen a select few Truth Warriors to be retrofitted wth Superhuman Absolute Truth and Wrath absorbing powers so that they may endure with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction only to and all for His (God's) Absolute Glory?"
Another way Ken can cause death is by using one of our Truth Rods and smacking apostate reprobates so full of the Absolute Truth that they give up the ghost:
However we propose it is the former rather than the latter as it is also Written in the Truth Warrior Bible that:
"The Lord is so angry with apostate reprobate sinners 1 that He will kill anyone among them who attack the Absolute Truth or reach out their hands to touch His Holy annointed Arks: any of the select few specially chosen Truth Warriors that have been retrofitted wth Superhuman Absolute Truth and Wrath absorbing powers!"
Certainly Ken Silva with his closeness to the Absolute Truth is among those of the select few specially chosen Truth Warriors that have been retrofitted wth Superhuman Absolute Truth and Wrath absorbing powers that can cause anyone's death.
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Wall Street Bank Investors in Dark on Libor Liability
Wall Street Bank Investors in Dark on Libor Liability
By Andrew Harris, Christine Harper and Lindsay Fortado – Jul 5, 2012 1:47 PM GMT+0100
Barclays Plc (BARC) investors, blindsided by the bank's $451.4 million regulatory fine for trying to rig benchmark rates, saw the stock drop 16 percent a day later. Other bank shareholders may be just as surprised.
Barclays, like other lenders that help set key rates for $360 trillion in securities, has given investors scant guidance on the liability they face for alleged market manipulation. More than a dozen banks are being probed by U.S., Asian and European regulators for collusion in setting interbank lending rates. The others have mirrored Barclays on minimal disclosure.
"The automatic reaction from investors is: 'Who's next?'" said Todd Hagerman, a New York-based analyst at Sterne Agee & Leach Inc. who recommends investors remain "cautious" on the biggest U.S. banks. "It's fair to assume that legal and related professional fees and associated reserves are going to continue to remain elevated, if not increase."
Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. (C), Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and UBS AG (UBSN) are among the lenders whose participation in setting the London and Europe interbank offered rates, known as Libor and Euribor, are under investigation. None of the banks would say if they set aside reserves to cope with potential liabilities and, if so, how much.
"I believe that Barclays had previously reserved for only about one-third of their ultimate liability" in regulatory fines, Charles Peabody, a banking analyst at New York-based Portales Partners LLC, said in an e-mail. Other banks' reserves "will probably prove inadequate."
Biggest Banks
Barclays's fines were the first in a two-year, inter- continental investigation into manipulation of Libor and Euribor, benchmarks used globally for setting borrowing rates. Among the 18 lenders on the U.S. dollar panel are the three biggest American banks, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Bank of America and Citigroup, as well as Barclays and Zurich-based UBS. The 16- member British pound panel includes Barclays, UBS, JPMorgan and Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank AG. (DBK)
"The two-year investigation into banks rigging Libor, which has taken a toll on Barclays, has the potential to hurt Citigroup, JPMorgan and Bank of America," Mike Mayo, an analyst at CLSA Ltd. in New York, wrote in a July 2 research note. The banks face risks of fines, lawsuits, negative news and new regulations, according to Mayo.
"While there is no evidence that the three U.S. money- center banks did anything wrong, there is a heightened possibility of scrutiny after recent events at Barclays," Mayo said.
Limited Data
Barclays shareholders were notified of the Libor probe, while getting little information on how much money was set aside for potential fines and legal costs. First-quarter operating expenses for the firm's investment bank rose 4 percent to 2.14 billion pounds ($3.3 billion), reflecting a 115 million-pound increase in provisions for legal and regulatory costs, partly offset by non-performance cost savings, the bank said in an April regulatory filing. The company didn't specify whether any of the increase was due to Libor-related provisions.
The regulatory fine is just the beginning for London-based Barclays, which is a defendant in some of the 24 interrelated Libor lawsuits that have been aggregated before U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan federal court.
"The global quantity of claims against Barclays as a result of it having manipulated Libor, it could stretch from the hundreds of millions into the billions," said Robert Hickmott, an attorney with Los Angeles-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP. He said litigation in London may follow soon.
Punitive Damages
U.S. liabilities may be higher because American plaintiffs are allowed to ask for punitive damages for bad conduct, while the British are limited to compensatory awards, Hickmott said.
Criminal liability could be added to those regulatory fines and civil lawsuits. The U.K. Serious Fraud Office said July 2 that it would decide within a month whether to open a criminal investigation into Libor-fixing. The U.S. Justice Department already is conducting a criminal probe into the attempted manipulation of interbank-offered rates.
Barclays, in its accord with U.S. authorities, agreed to cooperate with the joint British-American investigation in exchange for a two-year non-prosecution agreement.
"Barclays's cooperation has been extensive, in terms of the quality and type of information and assistance provided, and has been of substantial value in furthering the department's ongoing criminal investigation," the Justice Department said in a statement last week.
'Completely Lacking'
"Specific disclosure on litigation reserves for any Libor suit settlements is completely lacking in any regulatory filings," Portales's Peabody said, referring to all banks. "My guess is that litigation reserves for civil suits from municipalities, class action suits, etc. are non-existent."
Lawsuits could be filed "by anyone stuck on the wrong side of these transactions," said Anthony Maton, an attorney at Washington-based Hausfeld LLP, which is representing claimants in the New York litigation and working on a British case to be filed later this year. "Large corporate local authorities, other banks and financial institutions on the wrong side of the trades, pension funds, a very large variety of people that have been affected by this."
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, one of the agencies investigating the Libor manipulation, said last week that Barclays employees tried to manipulate Libor and Euribor by making false interest-rate reports to increase derivatives- trading profits and to decrease losses from 2005 to 2009.
Proof Difficult
Proving actual damages may be difficult for investors, said Brad Hintz, a Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst.
"The large fine is for attempting to move the market, not for moving the market," Hintz said. "The civil guys are going to have to prove that the market was moved here."
The extent of lenders' liability may be difficult to determine, Hintz said. Banks may argue that any derivatives trading losses must be determined on a net basis, because such trades typically are hedged.
Sterne Agee's Hagerman said he didn't think any of the big U.S. banks had set aside reserves for Libor-related costs.
For bank stock investors "it hasn't been top-of-mind," he said. "I've only received a couple phone calls about it and the reaction has been surprise."
David Kovel, an attorney who represents euro futures traders in the New York federal court litigation, proposes to represent a class including anyone involved in such trading between August 2007 and May 2010, a number of traders he said could be in the thousands. He declined to estimate the value of the alleged damages.
'Large Impact'
"Even a 2- to 3-basis-point manipulation would have a large impact on the product and the investors in that product," he said. A basis point is 0.01 of a percentage point.
Two days after the Barclays fine was announced, banks being sued in New York filed motions asking Buchwald to dismiss allegations against them. Exchange-based plaintiffs' claims are barred by lapse of time and extra-territoriality, lawyers for lenders including Bank of America and Citigroup argued in one filing.
"It is of course a mathematical truism that the published index would have been different if higher or lower rates had been reported by a sufficient number of banks," lawyers for those same lenders said in arguing against antitrust claims in a different filing. "That might impact financial results to those who chose to incorporate the index in their transactions, but that is not a restraint of trade," they wrote.
Dismissal Motion
Barclays, in its own brief, joined the other bank defendants in asking Buchwald to throw out allegations against it, excepting those contending the exchange-based plaintiffs had made a case for market manipulation.
Jeffrey Shinder, an antitrust attorney with New York-based Constantine Cannon LLP who has been following that Libor litigation, said potential bank liabilities could be "massive."
"This is potentially the mother lode in terms of potential damages," he said.
While it's not possible to predict a specific loss amount, damages could be in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars if the lenders are found liable, Shinder said.
"Everyone in the industry knows if you knock down a few basis points here and there billions of dollars shift between counterparties," Shinder said. Adjusting Libor up or down affects the interest rates on scores of financial instruments. "This is price-fixing," he said.
Some Reserves
Bank of America has said that as of March 31, costs from litigation and regulatory matters could be as much as $4.2 billion beyond its accrued liability. The firm said that it sets aside liabilities when losses are "both probable and estimable." The bank hasn't said whether Libor liability fell into that category. Bill Halldin, a spokesman for the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank, declined to say whether it had.
U.S. laws generally require companies that issue securities to disclose information that people reasonably would need to make investment decisions. Regulators typically provide guidance on their expectations without setting specific criteria on what should be disclosed.
Authorities including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board have taken steps in the past two years to pressure banks to disclose more information about potential costs from litigation as claims mounted in the wake of the subprime-mortgage crisis. FASB, based in Norwalk, Connecticut, sets accounting rules for public companies under authority delegated by the SEC.
International Probe
Royal Bank of Scotland, which is majority owned by the U.K. government, acknowledged the ongoing international probe in a February report and said it's cooperating with authorities including the CFTC and Justice Department, the Financial Services Authority and Japanese regulators.
"It is not possible to estimate with any certainty what effect these investigations and any related developments may have on the group," Edinburgh-based Royal Bank of Scotland said in a statement at the time.
UBS and Credit Suisse Group AG, Switzerland's biggest banks, declined to say what, if any, reserves they had set aside for possible Libor-related liabilities. Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest lender, also declined to comment on whether it has set aside reserves.
Plaintiffs seeking to prove their cases against the banks may be aided by studies whose "results imply that the Barclays manipulation was probably successful and further imply that more than just one bank was involved in the scheme," Bernstein analysts led by Hintz said in a June 29 report. Barclays and regulators haven't said the attempted manipulation succeeded.
"This is a major regulatory issue for the Libor banks that will likely generate significant civil claims over the next four to five years," the analysts wrote. "Investors should not minimize the importance of this matter."
Barclays fell less than a percent to 165.25 pence at 1:41 p.m. in London trading.
The multidistrict case is In Re Libor-based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litigation, 11md2262, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan).


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Guarding Our Nation's Melon Supply (Mar, 1940)
Actually, this is 10% about the melon cops and 90% a plug for the "professional, scientific", melon farming industry.
G-Men of the Fields
By ARTHUR A. STUART
FROM a dark side street, the two inspectors watched the caravan of ancient touring cars and sedans pull out of the big garage. They tailed the procession to the edge of the city. When it was plain that the gang was headed for the coast, the officers speeded ahead to the Jacumba, Calif., checking station, where they waited. Twenty minutes later, the first of the cars came in sight and the flash lights of the officers signaled it over to the side of the road.
"What's the matter?" whined the driver. "I'm just going to visit my brother. Look at my outfit."
He jerked a thumb toward an army cot and a couple of suitcases piled across the canvas-covered rear compartment. But the inspector lifted the edge of the canvas and sniffed a ripe aroma.
"Bootlegging melons, eh? Well, mister, if your brother wants to see you, he'll have to look you up in our county jail!"
Within ten minutes the inspectors had the whole caravan lined up along the roadside and every member of the Imperial Valley's biggest ring of melon bootleggers was in custody. Their racket was to get truckloads of condemned melons from the packing sheds for "hog food," reload them into passenger cars, and then run the inspection blockade which halts every truck leaving the valley. This time, a secret tip had put inspectors on their trail and led to their capture.
From early May to mid-September, the men who guard the nation's melon crop are busy supervising the picking, grading, and packing of the 400,000,000 cantaloupes that American families will eat during the season. They run laboratory tests for sugar content, confiscate inferior melons, and crack down on bootleggers who seek to smuggle "hot" melons into retail channels. Their work makes possible an amazing multimillion-dollar "deal" in which whole trainloads of melons are purchased, sight unseen, by men who lay down spot cash for them clear across the continent, before ever a crate of cantaloupes begins to roll on its way!
From seed to the fully ripened, golden-meated melon on your table now is a rapid-fire agricultural process speeded up at a hundred points by mechanical and laboratory developments. In Imperial Valley, a rich, ancient sea bottom 200 feet below sea level, scientific farmers get double crops by beating the seasons and turn melons out by the million, as uniform as automobiles from the factory production line.
The 1940 streamline cantaloupe comes from "air-conditioned" fields planted in November by machines which rapidly spray seeds thickly along the south side of each long row. Behind follow men who stoop every three feet to push down a wire staple like a croquet wicket, then deftly fold a square of glassine paper until it makes a neat tepee. When the tiny plants push through the soil, thinners hoe out all but two plants to each hill, then replace the little tents, to shut out the chill northwest frosts, leaving the east end open to admit the morning sun. Water is measured out at intervals from irrigation ditches so that each row is kept moist just above the seed line. In March, the tents are removed. Six weeks later begins a feverish day-and-night drive that stops only when the last melon has rolled off the busy production line for shipment.
At daylight the pickers are in the fields, each carrying a strong canvas bag with a trapdoor at the bottom. As fast as the field boxes are filled, trucks rush them to the big, open packing sheds where graders inspect the melons as they pass along conveyor belts; discard damaged or substandard fruit; grade the others according to size, and send them on to a scrubbing machine, which sterilizes and waxes the melons against decay.
Now the conveyor belt carries them on to the packers, who work with almost incredible speed. One hand grabs a melon from the conveyor belt while the other snatches a square of colored tissue paper; one rapid twirl wraps the melon neatly and it goes into the crate. Farther down the line, a power press gently but surely compresses the boxful, forcing the contents tightly down. Automatic hammers instantly nail fast the bulging slats on the boxes. Meanwhile, freight cars wait on the siding where huge "precooling" fans are sending chill air currents through them. Overhead, conveyor belts bring up an endless stream of 300-pound ice cakes, which are mechanically shattered and the cracked ice shoveled down through the roof hatches into bunkers at each end. The crates of melons are stacked to shoulder height, with cleats between layers and plenty of room above for air to circulate. In some sheds, doors and hatches are closed and hoses attached to a machine that pumps in a gaseous mixture known as nitrogen trichloride, which kills fungi but does not harm the melons.
Within a few hours, the cars have chilled to the shipping temperature of forty-five degrees. The big circulating fans are removed, the ice bunkers refilled to the brim, the cars sealed and started on their way.
Through the night the trains roll endlessly out of Imperial Valley, sometimes pulling as many as 600 cars of melons daily. A single day's work would fill a train of box cars seven and a half miles long.
Out of this valley, only sixty miles long by twenty wide, last year went 10,800 cars of cantaloupes and honeydew melons— enough to lay down a continuous line of melons, three deep, from coast to coast. When you next dip your spoon into the golden meat of a cantaloupe, it's a fifty-fifty chance that it will be from these air-conditioned fields far below sea level at the bottom of the United States.


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Friday, February 28, 2014
FALL 2014 Ready-To-Wear featuring Alexandre Vauthier
FALL 2014 Ready-To-Wear featuring Balmain
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|This is the beautiful Alexandre Vauthier Fall 2014 RTW Collection. There is not one look of this collection that I don't love.
The black leather pants mixed with a blazer or fur jacket looks chic and sexy. The impressive attention to detail of the leather dresses is absolutely amazing. The use of animal prints with the skirt, dress, and jacket, create a stunning modern look. The whole collection makes a statement.....sexy, sophisticated and fabulous!


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The end of days. The Southshore Summer Swell was still pumping strong this morning...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Summer Swell...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
As the remains of the day quietly slip into Twilight...
And the Sun burrows into the glowing embers of my heart...
Somewhere across the World...
Lost in the cold darkness of night...
Emerges the morning rays of love's enraptured dawning...
In all the promise, hopes and gentle dreams...of you...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Little Mustard plant seeds sprouting up a storm in the wet paper towel and plastic cup environment...
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Friday, August 26, 2011
Rest your weary head World. Close your eyes. Drift into sweet safe slumber as you quietly slip into Twilight's gentle embrace. I will be right here when you wake up. I am not going anywhere...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
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A flash of rainbow colors in the clouds above Mauna 'Ala. The Royal Mausoleum holding our beloved Ali'i...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Faded Dreams...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Ke Akua's Love...
Meredith has finally made it. After losing her job and a bad divorce ten years ago, she finally got off the street Thursday night after eight years being homeless with the last two living on the sidewalk in front of the District Court building at Hotel and Alakea Street. Much Aloha to John and his street ministry for helping find her a bed in their home. She called me Wednesday to help her get some of her bags into storage which she had saved money for. She had so many suitcases and trashbags filled with all her Worldly possessions. It took two days to get her bags sorted. She was able to throw away a lot but still had a lot.
Her beautiful friend, Renee, who is deaf, guarded her bags while we transported them back and forth to Richards Street to fill the car. I had to push a cart filled with bags and suitcases for about 75 yards. People were staring at me because I was dressed somewhat nicely but looked like I was homeless pushing my cart down the street. Meredith and I had to laugh. An attorney friend of mine drove by and yelled out the window. I didn't have time to explain to her what I was doing. She probably thought I had hit hard times.
There were so many mo'o, or lizards, in her bags and mo'o eggs stuck to things when we pulled the tarps and trash bags off of her belongings. I told her they were her protectors. She left her canned food at the Bus Stop for others to pick through at night. We filled my car to the brim. I still don't know how I stuffed everything into my backseat, plus her and her bags in the front seat. We couldn't fit her camping chair in my car, the chair she slept in for a few years, which was given to her by a Hawaiian trash collector who felt sorry for her. We passed it over the fence by 'Iolani Palace to a man and woman living on a blanket and they were so grateful to have a chair to sit in. We went to the McDonald's drive-through to get her dinner and had a nice time talking. It seemed like I had known her forever. She told me much more of her story. She is so courageous.
While she had a steady group of well-wishers and small circle of friends watching out for her, she had her share of evil. From the guy who threw a flammable liquid on her while she was sleeping to light her on fire, melting one of her suitcases with her papers inside, to the guy who threatened her that he would hit her on her head with a hammer while she slept. She ended up wearing a hardhat while she slept but someone stole it a few nights ago. Another woman, a city employee according to Meredith, expressed it was her "life's mission" to get rid of Meredith. She was also mean to a Salvation Army kettle ringer too as Meredith learned from others. Then there was the postal employee, in uniform, who smiled and introduced himself to her after work to see if she was okay, and then who showed up at 3:00 a.m. the next morning to proposition her for sex. Meredith's unwavering faith in Ke Akua kept her safe in my belief. She had many Guardian Angels and ancestors around her.
When I took her to her new home, she couldn't believe it. I left her there last night after meeting John, her new Kahu. This morning, I picked her up and took some more of her bags, which she kept with her to sort, to the storage locker. She said she took a hot shower, the first in as long as she could remember and loved her bed but her back hurt because she had slept sitting up in her folding chair for so many years now. She had to prop herself up with the pillows and sleep sitting up a little. She just can't believe that she finally is off the street.
When I spend some time with Meredith, we laugh and share so much. When we depart, I am so ramped up with the 'uhane hemolele that I feel so alive with so much spirit. I am so blessed to have our paths crossed. Sometimes in life, you just need to reach out to someone with a smile or a hello. It can change your whole World…
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Friday, August 19, 2011
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
As a father, with all the electronic and computing distractions today, this scene makes me very happy...
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Monday, August 15, 2011
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
Ephemeral Life...
Tonight I felt an urge to go by Punahou to see if the Night Blooming Cereus were unfolding. I was astonished to see so many beautiful blossoms spread out under the beautiful Moon of Hina...
Such fragile delicate beauty...
Framed by the Moon peering through the background...
Like a fragile unfolding love living a full lifetime in a single night of ephemeral beauty...
People out exercising asked themselves what is that crazy bald man doing...lol...
Mahina slowly emerged from the center of love's nocturnal blossom...
I remember reading about Queen Lili'uokalani traveling to Punahou to view the Night Blooming Cereus. Several years ago, I used to bring her one during the Summer when they were in bloom. I wasn't able to for a few years. Tonight, I resumed my tradition of Aloha again. After selecting a beautiful blossom, I drove to the Capitol. As I was driving, I stopped at a stoplight and held the blossom up to my nose and closed my eyes. Inhaling the subtle fragrant flower's essence... As I sensed the same smell Lili'u enjoyed 100 years ago during her pain... I burst into tears...
Lili'u remains lovingly proud and dignified...
I sang her a song honoring Ke Akua and her in the still of the night... There wasn't a soul around the whole time I was there taking photos...
The beauty will fade by morning as the blossom ends its ephemeral existence...
The beautiful Night Blooming Cereus of Punahou. Framed by the beautiful glowing Moon of Mahina. A beautiful gift fit for a Queen...as she watches vigilantly for her people. Bearing witness. Continuing to lead from the Otherside...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Creative Power...
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It is a rare opportunity in this life to behold the magic of Creation such as with akua Pele at Halema'uma'u crater in Kilauea Volcano...
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Monday, August 8, 2011
Hoa Aloha...
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
Still Life...
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Friday, August 5, 2011
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The expanse of the Heavens this morning at Hawaiian Memorial Park as we prepared to honor a beautiful hulu kupuna. Aloha piha e Kunuiakea...
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This Hōʻailona showed up around the time there was a controversy with culling sharks in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands who had acquired a taste for endangered baby Hawaiian Monk Seals...
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These rainbows followed me from Waimea Valley to Honolulu. A much needed sign after an intense draining spiritual experience...
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Microsoft Windows Everywhere Campaign
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(August 10, 2009) — For the second consecutive year, Forbes.com has ranked New College of Florida among the top five public colleges in America in its annual report on America's Best Colleges. In its 2009 report, New College was also named the second "best college buy" in the country among all public and private colleges.
New College came in No. 5 in a list of top 100 public colleges and universities in the United States. Only one other non-military school made the list of top five public colleges – the College of William and Mary in Virginia, at No. 4. The top three spots went to the United States Military Academy, the United States Air Force Academy and the United States Naval Academy. Among all public colleges, the University of Florida was ranked No. 21 and Florida State University came in at No. 33.
When it comes to value, New College ranked even higher at No. 2, behind Berea College and ahead of all three military academies. This exceptionally high score, which reflects both public and private colleges, reinforces New College's consistent ranking as one of the best values in America by such entities as Kiplinger's Personal Finance and The Princeton Review/USA Today.
Among the list of 100 public and private colleges, New College was ranked No. 61.
This is the second year that Forbes.com and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity have compiled a list of top colleges. The 2009 report ranked 600 undergraduate institutions based on the quality of the education they provide, the experience of the students and how much they achieve. The entire report is heavily weighted toward the student's point of view.
In an online story filed on August 5, Forbes.com editors wrote, "To our way of thinking, a good college is one that meets student needs. While some college rankings are based partly on school reputation as evaluated by college administrators and on the amount of money spent, we focus on things which directly concern incoming students."
According to Forbes, 25 percent of the rankings were based on 4 million student evaluations of courses and instructors, as recorded on the Web site RateMyProfessors.com. Another 25 percent was based on post-graduate success, equally determined by enrollment-adjusted entries in Who's Who in America, and by a new metric, the average salaries of graduates reported by Payscale.com. An additional 20 percent was based on the estimated average student debt after four years. One-sixth of the rankings were based on a formula reflecting four-year college graduation rates.
The last component was based on the number of students or faculty, adjusted for enrollment, who won nationally competitive awards like Rhodes Scholarships or Nobel Prizes. New College has graduated one Rhodes Scholar and has one of the highest per-capita rates of Fulbright scholars among all colleges and universities. New College had a record eight Fulbright scholars in 2009.
Forbes.com America's Best Public Colleges 2009
|College Name
|Public College Rank
|Overall Rank
|U.S. Military Academy
|New York
|U.S. Air Force Academy
|U.S. Naval Academy
|William & Mary
|New College of Florida
Forbes.com America's Best Buys College 2009
|College Name
|Berea College
|New College of Florida
|U.S. Military Academy
|New York
|U.S. Air Force Academy
|University of Wyoming
For more information about New College of Florida and its inclusion in this year's Forbes.com rankings, please contact Jake Hartvigsen, director of public affairs, at (941) 487-4150.
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Belgium Events 2013
These are the 2013 events of the OWASP Belgium Chapter.
Previous year: 2012. Next year: 2014.
- 1 Previous Meeting (17th of December 2013) in Leuven
- 2 Previous Meeting (8th of October 2013) in Diegem
- 3 Previous Meeting (6th of June 2013) in Leuven
- 4 Previous Meeting (5th of March 2013) in Leuven
Previous Meeting (17th of December 2013) in Leuven
17th of December 2013 (18h00 - 21h00)
Jointly organized with (ISC)2.
Hosted by iMinds-Distrinet Research Group (KU Leuven).
Department of Computer Science (foyer at ground floor)
Celestijnenlaan 200 A
3001 Heverlee (google maps)
Routemap: https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/about/route/
The agenda:
- 18h00 - 18h45: Welcome drink and Pizza (sponsored by F5 Networks)
- 18h45 - 19h00: OWASP / ISC2 Update (by Sebastien Deleersnyder, OWASP Belgium Board & Lode Vanstechelman, ISC2 Belgium Board)
- 19h00 - 20h00: Augmented reality in your Web Proxy (by Roberto Suggi Liverani)
- Abstract: This talk intends to demonstrate how to improve web application security testing by combining browser automation framework and web proxy API.
- The goal of this research is to bring a web proxy as close as possible to a browser to achieve a better security testing coverage, especially when dealing with complex client-side technology.
- The presentation includes a montage of real case scenarios, showing how this approach can lead to the discovery of vulnerabilities which might otherwise go unnoticed.
- Bio: Roberto loves breaking applications for fun and profit. In the last years, Roberto has been involved in the infosec community by founding the OWASP New Zealand chapter and by publishing vulnerabilities affecting major software products. Roberto has been a guest speaker at global security conferences, including HITB, EUSecWest, DEFCON, Ruxcon, Kiwicon and HackPra AllStars.
- Roberto tweets from @malerisch and his blog can be found at: http://blog.malerisch.net
- 20h00 - 20h15: Break
- 20h15 - 21h15: If You Tolerate This, Your Child Processes Will Be Next (by Bart Leppens)
- Abstract: Browser 0-days are very expensive and thus not available for the common attacker. Therefore an attacker may switch his focus from exploiting the browser towards exploiting the browser's internal network infrastructure. A normal webbrowser can serve as a pivot to attack the company's internal network. Internal networks are generally less protected and are potentially less segregated in terms of security, so pivoting through the browser can help the attacker to reach those otherwise unreachable targets.
- The Browser Exploitation Framework, aka BeEF, is a professional security tool that can help you during a pentest performing these kinds of attacks.
- Bio: Bart Leppens is one of the BeEF developers. During his talk he will introduce you to BeEF, Inter-Protocol Communication (IPC) & Inter-Protocol Exploitation (IPE). If you're thinking about buying an expensive firewall, it's advisable to wait until after his talk. There is a risk you might want to throw it all away.
Covered by Xavier Mertens: http://blog.rootshell.be/2013/12/18/owasp-belgium-chapter-meeting-wrap-up-using-browsers-otherwise/
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Previous Meeting (8th of October 2013) in Diegem
8th of October 2013 (18h00 - 21h00)
Hosted by Ernst & Young.
Ernst & Young
De Kleetlaan 2
B1831 Diegem
Location: Google Maps.
The agenda:
- 17h30 - 18h15: Welcome & sandwiches
- 18h15 - 18h30: OWASP Update (by Sebastien Deleersnyder, OWASP Belgium Board)
- 18h30 - 19h30: NoScript for Developers (by Giorgio Maone)
- Everything security-conscious web developers should know to make their creations safer and more accessible for NoScript users, plus an overview of current and upcoming technologies inspired by NoScript which can be leveraged server-side to enhance web applications' security.
- Giorgio Maone is a software developer and security researcher born and living in Palermo, Italy. He's member of the Mozilla Security Group and invited expert in the W3C's Web Application Security Working Group. In 2005 he created the NoScript browser security add-on, which still today absorbs most of the time and energy left by his main job: parenting 3 little children.
- 19h30 - 19h45: Break
- 19h45 - 20h45: JSMVCOMFG - To sternly look at JavaScript MVC and Templating Frameworks (by Mario Heiderich)
- There is a way to build common, classic web applications. You know, servers, databases, some HTML and a bit of JavaScript. Ye olde way. Grandfather still knows. And there is a way to build hip and fancy, modern and light-weight, elastic and scalable client-side web applications. Sometimes with a server in the background, sometimes with a database - but all the hard work is done by something new: JavaScript Model-View-Controller and templating frameworks.
- This talk will show you how those frameworks work, how secure their core is and what kind of security issues spawn from the generous feature cornucopia they offer. Do their authors really know the DOM well enough to enrich it with dozens of abstraction layers? Or did they open a gate straight to JavaScript hell introducing a wide range of new injection bugs and coding worst-practices? Well, you'll know after this talk. You'll know...
- Mario Heiderich is founder of the German/UK pen-test outfit Cure53 and a Microsoft security contractor. He focuses on HTML5, SVG security, script-less attacks and believes XSS can be eradicated by using JavaScript. Maybe. Some day. Actually quite soon. Mario invoked the HTML5 security cheat-sheet, the Alexa Top 1x search engine Crawly and several other projects. In the remaining time he delivers trainings and security consultancy for larger German and international companies for sweet sweet money and the simple minded fun in breaking things. Mario has spoken on a large variety of international conferences - both academic and industry-focused, co-authored two books, several academic papers and doesn't see a problem in his one year old son having a tablet already. There you have it.
xme's write-up on blog.rootshell.be
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Previous Meeting (6th of June 2013) in Leuven
6th of June 2013 (18h00 - 21h00)
This chapter meeting is part of the OWASP Europe Tour 2013
Hosted by iMinds-Distrinet Research Group (KU Leuven).
Department of Computer Science (foyer at ground floor)
Celestijnenlaan 200 A
3001 Heverlee (google maps)
Routemap: https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/about/route/
The agenda:
- 17h30 - 18h15: Welcome & sandwiches
- 18h15 - 18h30: OWASP Update (by Sebastien Deleersnyder, OWASP Belgium Board)
- 18h30 - 19h30: Needles in haystacks, we we are not solving the appsec problem & html hacking the browser, CSP is dead. (by Eoin Keary, CTO and founder of BCC Risk Advisory Ltd.)
- 19h30 - 20h30: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Securing Development with PMD (by Justin Clarke, Director and Co-Founder of Gotham Digital Science)
- Using static analysis to identify software bugs is not a new paradigm. For years, developers have used static analysis tools to identifying code quality issues. While these tools may not be specifically designed for identifying security bugs. This presentation will discuss how custom security rules can be added to existing code quality tools to identify potential software security bugs. Writing custom software security rules for the popular Java code scanning tool PMD will be the focus of the presentation.
- Justin Clarke is a Director and Co-Founder of Gotham Digital Science. He is the lead author/technical editor of "SQL Injection Attacks and Defense" (Syngress), co-author of "Network Security Tools" (O'Reilly), contributor to "Network Security Assessment, 2nd Edition" (O'Reilly), as well as a speaker at numerous security conferences and events such as Black Hat, EuSecWest, ISACA, BruCON, OWASP AppSec, OSCON, RSA and SANS. Justin is the Chapter Leader for the OWASP London chapter in the United Kingdom.
- 20h30 - 21h30: Vulnerability Prediction in Android Applications (by Aram Hovsepyan, Ph. D.)
- We present an approach to predict which components of a software system contain security vulnerabilities. Prediction models are a key instrument to identify the weak spots that deserve special scrutiny. Our approach is based on text mining the source code of an application. We have explored the potential of the bag-of-words representation and discovered that a dependable prediction model can be built by means of machine learning techniques. In a validation with 10 Android applications we have obtained performance results that often outclass state-of-the-art approaches.
xme has blogged about the meeting on his /dev/random blog
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Previous Meeting (5th of March 2013) in Leuven
5th of March 2013 (18h00 - 21h00)
This chapter meeting is co-organized with SecAppDev.
Both speakers are faculty of the Secure Application Development course which is held in Leuven from 4 March 2013 until 8 March 2013. OWASP Members get a 10% discount to attend the course.
Hosted by Distrinet Research Group (K.U.Leuven).
Address: UPDATED!
Welcome & Sandwiches:
Department of Computer Science (foyer at ground floor)
Celestijnenlaan 200 A
3001 Heverlee (google maps)
Celestijnenlaan 200L, Auditorium L.00.06
3001 Heverlee (google maps)
Routemap: http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/about/route/
The agenda:
- 18h00 - 18h30: Welcome & sandwiches
- 18h30 - 18h45: OWASP Update (by Lieven Desmet, OWASP Belgium Board)
- 18h45 - 19h45: 25 Years of Vulnerabilities (by Yves Younan, Senior Research Engineer at Sourcefire)
- This talk will take a look into the interesting world of vulnerability statistics. We have examined data for the last 25 years and used it to map out trends and general information on vulnerabilities in software. Some of the questions we look at are "What were the most popular vulnerabilities? Which had the most impact? Which vendors and products suffered from the most issues? Etc. While some of the statistics are predictable, others are surprising. This data was first introduced at RSA Conference San Francisco 2013.
- Dr. Yves Younan is a Senior Research Engineer in the Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) at Sourcefire where he works on vulnerabilities and mitigations. Prior to joining Sourcefire, he worked as a Security Researcher with BlackBerry Security at Research In Motion. Before joining RIM, he was an academic, founding the Native Code Security group within the DistriNet research group at the KU Leuven in Belgium. He received a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and a PhD in Engineering: Computer Science from KU Leuven. His PhD focused on building efficient mitigations against vulnerability exploitation, several practical mitigations were published and presented at international conferences.
- 19h45 - 20h00: Break
- 20h00 - 21h00: Banking Security: Attacks and Defences (by Steven Murdoch, Senior Researcher at University of Cambridge)
- Designers of banking security systems are faced with a difficult challenge of developing technology within a tightly constrained budget, yet which must be capable of defeating attacks by determined, well-equipped criminals. This talk will summarise banking security technologies for protecting Chip and PIN/EMV card payments, online shopping, and online banking. The effectiveness of the security measures will be discussed, along with vulnerabilities discovered in them both by academics and by criminals. These vulnerabilities include cryptographic flaws, failures of tamper resistance, and poor implementation decisions, and have led not only to significant financial losses, but in some cases unfair allocation of liability. Proposed improvements will also be described, not only to the technical failures but also to the legal and regulatory regimes which are the underlying reason for some of these problems not being properly addressed.
- Dr. Steven J. Murdoch is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Security Group of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, working on developing metrics for security and privacy. His research interests include covert channels, banking security, anonymous communications, and censorship resistance. Following his PhD studies on anonymous communications, he worked with the OpenNet Initiative, investigating Internet censorship. He then worked for the Tor Project, on improving the security and usability of the Tor anonymity system. Currently he is supported by the Royal Society on developing methods to understand complex system security. He is also working on analyzing the security of banking systems especially Chip & PIN/EMV, and is Chief Security Architect of Cronto, an online authentication technology provider.
The slides are available online!
- OWASP Update (by Lieven Desmet) (PDF)
- 25 Years of Vulnerabilities (by Yves Younan, Sourcefire) (PDF)
- Banking Security: Attacks and Defences (by Steven Murdoch, University of Cambridge) (PDF)
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2 birthdays in 3 days!! Wow!!
Today is another special occasion on this blog,
The birthday of my brother, mohamad ihsan bin ahmad nordin.
felt like yesterday I was in my pampers, in my dad's car, going to see my newlyborn brother (that was 17 years ago) at Pantai Medical Centre in Bangsar.
And from then on I became along. And for 4 more years it was only the two of us, me and adik. (That's what I call him, my dad occasionally calls him adik botak because he was lacking in hair when he was small)
And he used to be very robust when he was a kid. Once his fingernail came off because it was stuck in a folding chair. Another time he fell down and had his eyebrow stitched. Another time we played remote control cars and he fell down and the antenna got lodged in his eye. Another time we played wrestling and his arm broke. I was often there but he seemed to be the one getting all the injuries.
Which maybe a reason why he's headboy now, because he's much tougher than me. Waaa, dah besar dah (you're all grown up). I doubt you'll reading this blog, but if you ever do, things are gonna get tougher after secondary school but just bear with it because I know you can :)
Happy birthday ihsan/adik :D
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
On another birthday
2 birthdays in 3 days!! Wow!!
Posted by The Author at 11:16 PM
1 comments:
- nadia said...
and that's what we usually call him..
though ade ilham n izhar pon..
we never failed to call him adik..
skrg..adik head boy! :p
- March 16, 2011 at 8:49 AM


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I've been in hiding. I know that is really no excuse for the lack of posts the past few months but that's the best one I've got.
This summer was absolutely amazing, to say the least. I had the most fabulous internship and spent the summer months wiling the days away at photo shoots, late nights in Brooklyn and weekends in Cape Cod. But a break was needed. And so I fled. Took a Virgin Airlines flight to London and decided to study abroad for a semester at the University of Westminster.
So here I am now, in London, and completely in love.
It took me a few days to get over culture shock. Taxis, money, and pizza were among my biggest concerns but I am proud to say that I have moved on and adapted pretty well to this new culture.
Case in point, yesterday I was bored, so I dyed the ends of my hair lavender.
The area I am living in is the Lower East Side equivilant so granted that may have had an effect on my choice of color.
My weekends have taken me to Paris, Wales, Belgium, and Amsterdam (see photos below), I honestly couldn't be luckier.
I miss New York (and obviously my friends and family) more than I can say. Yesterday my mother sent me a care package consisting of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, candy corn, the New York Times Magazine (food & drink issue) and T Magazine (winter style issue). I devoured the magazines, read them cover to cover, and a few articles twice. I didn't realize how much I had missed the style of writing and journalism I had grown so accustomed to in America.
But enough about New York, I will be back in a few months, and I just know I will be longing for London, so for now enjoy the pictures from Wales, Brussles, and Amsterdam (London ones will be up shortly).
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Daily Slice: Alforno in Old Saybrook, Connecticut
A different slice profiled each day.
Daily Slice gives a quick snapshot each weekday of a different slice or pie that the folks at the Serious Eats empire have enjoyed lately.
Originally inspired by its thin-crust neighbor to the west, New Haven, owners Bob Zemmel and Linda Giuca have set out to create thin crust pizzas reminiscent of the pies they love on Wooster Street. Almost twenty years later these pies stand strong and beloved by the Connecticut shoreline communities (and you thought they only ate lobster rolls) alongside a self-described menu of "Florentine" favorites.
Alforno's white, red and "famous" pizzas are thin, crispy New Haven-style pies, the result of a three-day fermentation. They are evenly crisp and a bit charred, thanks to the gas-powered brick oven, and finished with a heavy hand on ingredients, and a bit of grated cheese.
The white pies, especially the Bianca a la Romana, embodies this approach. Caramelized onions, bacon, and fresh thyme compete for attention with the crust. The flavor of the pork pairs nicely with thyme and the not-so-subtle sweetness of the caramelized onions.
Over in red territory, I tried the Gourmet Veggie Pizza, a combination of artfully arranged asparagus, portobello mushroom, spinach and garlic. The pile of vegetables certainly looks threatening, but the formidable Alforno crust manages to hold up to the weight of the vegetables. In this case the entire pie is made stronger by the addition of the sweet San Marzano-based sauce.
Inspired by New Haven but fully in its own league, Alforno proves the CT shoreline has much more to offer than lobster rolls and summer shore traffic.
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As I've mentioned on my blog time and time again I'm an absolute makeup hoarder and I often solely buy products because I want them to be part of my collection and not necessarily because I need them. Not very smart I know. I feel like especially in the past two years I've become so obsessed with high end makeup and rarely ever buy makeup from the drugstore anymore, which is such a shame because it seems that I'm missing out on some amazing products.
Recently a prominent drugstore chain opened up a new store close to where I live, so naturally I had to go and at least check it out. While I was browsing through their makeup aisle I stopped at the Makeup Revolution counter to look at their products, because I absolutely loved Makeup Revolution when I first started university. They had a sale on one of their highlighters so I couldn't resist and before I knew it I had added one more highlighter to my ever-growing collection.
The highlighter I bought is the Makeup Revolution Skin Kiss highlighter in Ice Kiss, which is the lightest shade they offer within this line. I'm very fair so when I find a highlighter suitable for pale skin my brain automatically tells me I need it. Ice Kiss is a very light icy yellow gold, so it definitely is a nice highlighter for pale skin tones. What I like about it is that its very shimmery without being glittery and chunky. In fact, it has a nice and smooth texture, that feels nice on the skin as well. I dislike highlighters that just sit on the skin but fortunately this one blends into the skin nicely.
While the actual content of the product is what counts the most of course I still consider packaging to be pretty important. For a drugstore brand I think this highlighter is beautifully packaged. It comes in a shiny rose gold compact, which even includes a huge mirror. Of course it goes without saying that this packaging can't compete with luxurious brand such as Chanel or Tom Ford but I do think its looks very chic and high quality, unlike a to of products from the drugstore.
Another bonus is the size of this highlighter, which is pretty big, as it contains 14 grams of product. In comparison a Becca highlighter only contains around 8 grams. The only downside is that its size makes it a little less travel friendly but I don't really mind that.
Although I got this on sale for 4€ I still think it's an absolute bargain even at it's normal price for around 6-7€ and I'm actually really happy with this impulse buy. Now I feel like I definitely need to get back into playing around with more makeup from the drugstore because you can find some real gems for very little money.
What are some of your favorite drugstore makeup products?
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