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This is the second post in our Social Networking series. (Read the first one here.)
As Facebook's application platform has become more popular, the composition of applications has evolved. While early applications seemed to focus on either social gaming or extending the capabilities of Facebook, now Facebook is being utilized as a platform by major companies to foster interaction with their customers in a variety forms such as sweepstakes, promotions, shopping, and more.
And why not? We've all heard the numbers: Facebook has 800 million active users, 50% of whom log on everyday. On average, more than 20 million Facebook applications are installed by users every day, while more than 7 million applications and websites remain integrated with Facebook. (1) Additionally, Facebook is seen as a treasure trove of valuable data accessible to anyone who can get enough "Likes" on their page or application.
As corporate investments in social applications have grown, Neohapsis Labs researchers have been requested to help clients assess these applications and help determine what type of risk exposure their release may pose. We took a sample of the applications we have assessed and pulled together some interesting trends. For context, most of these applications are very small in size (2-4 dynamic pages.) The functionality contained in these applications ranged from simple sweepstakes entry forms and contests with content submission (photos, essays, videos, etc.) to gaming and shopping applications.
From our sample, we found that on average the applications assessed had vulnerabilities in 2.5 vulnerability classes (e.g. Cross Site Scripting or SQL Injection,) and none of the applications were completely free of vulnerabilities. Given the attack surface of these applications is so small, this is a somewhat surprising statistic.
The most commonly identified findings in our sample group of applications included Cross-Site Scripting, Insufficient Transport Layer Protection, and Insecure File Upload vulnerabilities. Each of these vulnerabilities classes will be discussed below, along with how the social networking aspect of the applications affects their potential impact.
Facebook applications suffer the most from Cross-Site Scripting. This type of vulnerability was identified on 46% of the applications sampled. This is not surprising, since this age old problem still creeps up into many corporate and personal applications today. An application discovered to be vulnerable to XSS could be used to attempt browser based exploits or to steal session cookies (but only in the context of the application's domain.)
These types of applications are generally framed inline [inling framing, or iframing, is a common HTML technique for framing media content] on a Facebook page from the developer's own servers/domain. This alleviates some of the risk to the user's Facebook account since the JavaScript can't access Facebook's session cookies. And even if it could, Facebook does use HttpOnly flags to prevent JavaScript from accessing session cookies values. But, we have found that companies have a tendency to utilize the same domain name repeatedly for these applications since generally the real URL is never really visible to the end user. This means that if one application has a XSS vulnerability, it could present a risk to any other applications hosted at the same domain.
When third-party developers enter the picture all this becomes even more of a concern, since two clients' applications may be sharing the same domain and thus be in some ways reliant on the security of the other client's application.
The second most commonly identified vulnerability, affecting 37% of the sample, was Insufficient Transport Layer Protection While it is a common myth that conducting a man-in-the-middle attack against cleartext protocols is impossibly difficult, the truth is it's relatively simple. Tools such as Firesheep aid in this process, allowing an attacker to create custom JavaScript handlers to capture and replay the right session cookies. About an hour after downloading Firesheep and looking at examples, we wrote a custom handler for an application that was being assessed that only used SSL when submitting login information. On an unprotected WIFI network, as soon as the application sent any information over HTTP we had valid session cookies, which were easily replayed to compromise that victim's session.
Once again, the impact of this finding really depends on the functionality of the application, but the wide variety of applications on Facebook does provide a interesting and varied landscape for the attacker to choose from. We only flagged this vulnerability under specific circumstance where either the application cookies were somehow important (for example being used to identify a logged in session) or the application included functionality where sensitive data (such as PII or credit card data) was transmitted.
The third most commonly identified finding was Insecure File Upload. To us, this was surprising, since it's generally not considered to be one of the most commonly identified vulnerabilities across all web applications. Nevertheless 27% of our sample included this type of vulnerability. We attribute its identification rate to the prevalence of social applications that include some type of file upload functionality (to share an avatar, photo, document, movie, etc.)
We found that many of the applications we assessed have their file upload functionality implemented in an insecure way. Most of the applications did not check content type headers or even file extensions. Although none of the vulnerabilities discovered led to command injection flaws, almost every vulnerability exploited allowed the attacker to upload JavaScript, HTML or other potentially malicious files such as PDF and executables. Depending on the domain name affected by this vulnerability, this flaw would aid in the attacker's social engineering effort as the attacker now has malicious files on a trusted domain.
Our assessment also identified a wide range of other types of vulnerabilities. For example, we found several of these applications to be utilizing publicly available admin interfaces with guessable credentials. Furthermore, at least one of the admin interfaces was riddled with stored XSS vulnerabilities. Sever configurations were also a frequent problem with unnecessary exposed services and insecure configuration being repeatedly identified.
Finally, we also found that many of these web applications had some interesting issues that are generally unlikely to affect a standard web application. For example, social applications with a contest component may need to worry about the integrity of the contest. If it is possible for a malicious user to game the contest (for example by cheating at a social game and placing a fake high score) this could reflect badly on the application, the contest, and the sponsoring brand.
Even though development of applications integrated with Facebook and other social network sites in increasing, we've found companies still tend to handle these outside of their normal security processes. It is important to realize that these applications can present a risk and should be thoroughly examined just like traditional stand alone web applications.


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- Before using Thrift for Objective-C
- Getting started
- Objective-C specific Notes
Before using Thrift for Objective-C
Supported Platforms
Thrift supports the following platforms as well as other platforms.
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- iOS 4 or later
cocoa represents the above platforms. The runtime library and the generated code adapt themselves to the platforms automatically. Thus, please use cocoa for them.
% thrift --gen cocoa idl.thrift
See this page.
Support of ARC
Since iOS 5 and Mac OS 10.7, Objective-C supports Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) in addition to the conventional object life cycle management by retain/release (non-ARC).
Thrift 0.8.0 does not support ARC. If you want use it within an app in ARC mode, you need to compile the thrift runtime library in non-ARC mode by specifying -fno-objc-arc flag.
Use 0.9.0-dev or later, if you need to use thrift in ARC mode. It supports both ARC and non-ARC. Both the runtime library and generated Objective-C code can be compiled both in ARC mode and in non-ARC mode. They automatically adapt themselves to the compilation modes without any switch.
When you modify Thrift
Use retain_stub instead of retain and use release_stub instead of release inside the runtime library. The thrift compiler should generate retain_stub/release_stub instead of retain/release. See this for detail.
How to Link the Runtime Library
You need to link the runtime library of Thrift with your project. The location of the runtime library: thrift-x.x.x/lib/cocoa/src
There are two options.
- If your project is small, you can add the source files of the runtime library into your project.
- Otherwise, if you use Thrift within several sub projects, you must make a framework from the source files of the runtime library. Since ways of making a framework is a bit complicated and exceeds this guide, please consult other sites. We expect somebody will contribute a script that makes a framework automatically.
The rest of this guide assumes we directly add the runtime library into our sample project and we don't make the framework.
Getting started
This tutorial will walk you through creating a sample project which is a bulletin board application using Thrift. It consists of an iOS client app written in Objective-C and a Java server. It is assumed that you will have a basic knowledge of Objective-C and Xcode to complete this tutorial. Note that the client runs on Mac OS with small modification.
Acknowledgment: A part of this tutorial was borrowed from newacct's tutorial.
Sample Download
You can download the sample project from here. It includes:
- The whole myThriftApp project
- the runtime library in thrift/ directory from 0.8.0-dev (You should replace this with the latest one.)
- idl.thrift
Server.java and BulletinBoard.java in gen-java/ directory
Make sure that your system meets the requirements as noted in ThriftRequirements.
- Thrift 0.9.0+ (0.8.0-dev+)
- iOS 4+ or Mac OS X 10.5+
- Xcode 4.2+
The following are required for the Java server; but, not the Objective-C client.
- Java 1.4+ (already installed in Mac OS X 10.5+)
SLF4J (available at http://www.slf4j.org/download.html)
Creating the Thrift file
We will use a simple thrift IDL file, myThriftApp/idl.thrift. This defines a bulletin board service. You can upload your message and date using add() method. get() method returns a list of the struct so that we demonstrate how to send/receive an array of structs in Objective-C.
// idl.thrift struct Message { 1: string text, 2: string date } service BulletinBoard { void add(1: Message msg), list<Message> get()
- Run the thrift compiler to generate the stub files (e.g. gen-cocoa/idl.h and gen-cocoa/idl.m).
thrift --gen java idl.thrift thrift --gen cocoa idl.thrift
Create the Objective-C client app
The objective-c client is a simple app that allows the user to fill out a text field add/get them from the server.
- Create a new iOS single view project.
Product name is myThriftApp.
Check to Use Automatic Reference Counting
- Add generated files.
Right click on myThriftApp and select Add files to "myThirtApp". Choose "gen-cocoa".
- Add the runtime library.
Right click on myThriftApp and select Add files to "myThirtApp". Choose "thrift-x.x.x/lib/cocoa/src".
rename group name from src to thrift.
- Setup header search path in build settings.
Always Search User Path: YES
Framework Search Paths: add $(SRCROOT) and $(inherited)
Copy the following text to ViewController.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h> @class BulletinBoardClient; @interface ViewController : UIViewController <UITextFieldDelegate> { BulletinBoardClient *server; } @property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextField *textField; @property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextView *textView; - (IBAction)addPressed:(id)sender; @end
Open the ViewController_iPhone.xib
Place a Text Field, a Round Rect Button, and a Text View.
- Connect the delegate of the Text Field to File's Owner.
Connect the Text Field to textField variable in ViewController.h.
Connect the Button to addPressed: method in ViewController.h. Give add title to the button.
Connect the Text View to textView variable in ViewController.h. Clear the content of the Text View.
Copy the following code into ViewController.m
#import <TSocketClient.h> #import <TBinaryProtocol.h> #import "ViewController.h" #import "idl.h" @implementation ViewController @synthesize textField; @synthesize textView; - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; // Talk to a server via socket, using a binary protocol TSocketClient *transport = [[TSocketClient alloc] initWithHostname:@"localhost" port:7911]; TBinaryProtocol *protocol = [[TBinaryProtocol alloc] initWithTransport:transport strictRead:YES strictWrite:YES]; server = [[BulletinBoardClient alloc] initWithProtocol:protocol]; } - (void)viewDidUnload { [self setTextField:nil]; [self setTextView:nil]; [super viewDidUnload]; } - (IBAction)addPressed:(id)sender { Message *msg = [[Message alloc] init]; msg.text = textField.text; msg.date = [[NSDate date] description]; [server add:msg]; // send data NSArray *array = [server get]; // receive data NSMutableString *s = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:1000]; for (Message *m in array) [s appendFormat:@"%@ %@\n", m.date, m.text]; textView.text = s; } - (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField*)aTextField { [aTextField resignFirstResponder]; return YES; } @end
- This code creates a new transport object that connects to localhost:7911, it then creates a protocol using the strict read and strict write settings. These are important as the java server has strictRead off and strictWrite On by default. In the iOS app they are both off by default. If you omit these parameters the two objects will not be able to communicate.
Creating the Java Server
- cd into the gen-java directory
- make sure that your classpath is properly setup. You will need to ensure that ".", libthrift.jar, slf4j-api, and slf4j-simple are in your classpath.
create the file BulletinBoardImpl.java
import org.apache.thrift.TException; import java.util.List; import java.util.ArrayList; class BulletinBoardImpl implements BulletinBoard.Iface { private List<Message> msgs; public BulletinBoardImpl() { msgs = new ArrayList<Message>(); } @Override public void add(Message msg) throws TException { System.out.println("date: " + msg.date); System.out.println("text: " + msg.text); msgs.add(msg); } @Override public List<Message> get() throws TException { return msgs; } }
- create a file called 'Server.java'
import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol; import org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.Factory; import org.apache.thrift.server.TServer; import org.apache.thrift.server.TServer.Args; import org.apache.thrift.server.TSimpleServer; import org.apache.thrift.transport.TServerTransport; import org.apache.thrift.transport.TServerSocket; import org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException; public class Server { private void start() { try { BulletinBoard.Processor processor = new BulletinBoard.Processor(new BulletinBoardImpl()); TServerTransport serverTransport = new TServerSocket(7911); TServer server = new TSimpleServer(new Args(serverTransport).processor(processor)); System.out.println("Starting server on port 7911 ..."); server.serve(); } catch (TTransportException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } public static void main(String args[]) { Server srv = new Server(); srv.start(); } }
- compile the classes
javac *.java
This will run a server that implements the service BulletinBoard on port 7911. The service simply stores Message structures in a List and returns the list when requested.
- run the server
java Server
Build and run the myThriftApp in the iPhone simulator. Since it tries to connect to localhost, you need to run it in the iPhone simulator rather than an iPhone.
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Objective-C specific Notes
Method signature
When a service with multiple arguments is compiled, argument names are omitted.
// IDL service TestService { void method(1: i32 value1, 2: i32 value2), }
void method:(int)value1 :(int)value2; // [server method:24 :33];
Struct members can be accessed via attributes of an instance.
// IDL struct Person { 1: string name, 2: string city, }
Person *p = [[Person alloc] init]; p.name = @"HIRANO"; p.city = @"Tsukuba";
Since 0.9.0 (0.9.0-dev), initialization of struct and const is supported.
// IDL struct Person { 1: string name = "your name", 2: string city = "your city", } const list<Person> MyFamily = [{name: "Satoshi", city: "Tsukuba"}, {name: "Akiko", city: "Tokyo"}]
String type
string is converted into UTF-8 encoding before sending. The UTF-8 encoding is converted to NSString* after receiving.
Note all language versions convert encoding automatically. For example Python does not do encoding conversion. (Thus, you need to do conversion by yourself).
Binary type
Thrift for Objective-C supports binary type as NSData*.
// IDL struct Person { 1: string name, 2: binary photo, service TestService { void register(1: Person person), }
Person *p = [[Person alloc] init]; p.name = @"HIRANO Satoshi"; NSImage *image = [NSImage imageNamed:@"hirano.png"]; // load an image NSData *tiffData = [image TIFFRepresentation]; // obtain data p.photo = tiffData; [server register:p];
Collection types
The objective-C version supports collection types, list, set and map as NSArray, NSSet, and NSDictionary.
// IDL struct TestData { list<string> listData, set<string> setData, map<string, string> mapData, }
TestData *t = [[TestData alloc] init]; t.listData = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"a", @"b", nil]; t.setData = [NSSet setWithObjects::@"e", @"f", nil]; t.mapData = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"name", @"HIRANO", @"city", @"Tsukuba", nil];
Client Side Transports
You can mainly use the socket transport and the HTTP transport.
Here is a client side example for the socket transport.
#import <TSocketClient.h> #import <TBinaryProtocol.h> - (void) connect { // Talk to a server via socket, using a binary protocol TSocketClient *transport = [[TSocketClient alloc] initWithHostname:@"localhost" port:7911]; TBinaryProtocol *protocol = [[TBinaryProtocol alloc] initWithTransport:transport strictRead:YES strictWrite:YES]; server = [[BulletinBoardClient alloc] initWithProtocol:protocol];
Here is a client side example for the HTTP transport. You may use https. You can connect to Google App Engine for example.
#import <THTTPClient.h> #import <TBinaryProtocol.h> - (void) connect { NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://localhost:8082"]; // url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://myapp145454.appspot.com"]; // Talk to a server via HTTP, using a binary protocol THTTPClient *transport = [[THTTPClient alloc] initWithURL:url]; TBinaryProtocol *protocol = [[TBinaryProtocol alloc] initWithTransport:transport strictRead:YES strictWrite:YES]; server = [[TestServiceClient alloc] initWithProtocol:protocol];
Asynchronous Client
The asynchronous operation means that an RPC call returns immediately without waiting for the completion of a server operation. It is different from the oneway operation. An asynchronous operation continues in background to wait for completion and it is possible to receive a return value. This feature plays very important role in GUI based apps. You don't want to block for long time when a user pushes a button.
Unlike Java version, Objective-C version does not support asynchronous operation.
However, it is possible to write asynchronous operations using NSOperationQueue. The basic usage of NSOperationQueue is like this. Your async block is executed in a background thread.
[asyncQueue addOperationWithBlock:^(void) { // your async block is here. int val = [remoteServer operation]; }];
There are some points to be considered.
Your async blocks are done in asyncQueue, an instance of NSOperationQueue.
Strong objects may not be accessed from a block. Since self is also a strong object, we need to avoid to access self within an async block. We use weakSelf, a weak reference to self.
GUI operations must be in the main thread. For example, uilabel.text = @"foo"; must be done in the main thread and you may not write it in the above async block. A block that handles GUI is added to the mainQueue which represents the main thread. We use weaksSelf2 in the nested async block.
- Exception handling is also needed.
Here are the fragments of ThriftTestViewController class.
// IDL service TestService { i32 sum(1: i32 value1, 2: i32 value2), }
@interface ThriftTestViewController : UIViewController { IBOutlet UILabel *msg; } @property (nonatomic, retain) UILabel *msg; @property (nonatomic, strong) TestServiceClient *server; @property (nonatomic, strong) NSOperationQueue *asyncQueue; @property (nonatomic, strong) NSOperationQueue *mainQueue;
- (void )viewDidLoad { asyncQueue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init]; [asyncQueue setMaxConcurrentOperationCount:1]; // serial mainQueue = [NSOperationQueue mainQueue]; // for GUI, DB NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://localhost:8082"]; // Talk to a server via HTTP, using a binary protocol THTTPClient *transport = [[THTTPClient alloc] initWithURL:url]; TBinaryProtocol *protocol = [[TBinaryProtocol alloc] initWithTransport:transport strictRead:YES strictWrite:YES]; // Use the service defined in profile.thrift server = [[TestServiceClient alloc] initWithProtocol:protocol]; NSLog(@"Client init done %@", url); } -(void)doCalc { __unsafe_unretained ThriftTestViewController *weakSelf = self; [asyncQueue addOperationWithBlock:^(void) { __unsafe_unretained ThriftTestViewController *weakSelf2 = weakSelf; @try { weakSelf.msg.text = nil; int result = [weakSelf.server calc:24 :32]; [weakSelf.mainQueue addOperationWithBlock:^(void) { weakSelf2.msg.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", result]; }]; } @catch (TException *e) { NSString *errorMsg = e.description; NSLog(@"Error %@", errorMsg); [weakSelf.mainQueue addOperationWithBlock:^(void) { weakSelf2.msg.text = errorMsg; }]; } }]; }


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Debunking Glenn Beck's cap and trade conspiracy theory
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Over the last few days, Glenn Beck has been laying out a vast conspiracy theory, linking together President Obama, Al Gore, Goldman Sachs, Van Jones, various unions, the Joyce Foundation, Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae, and various other progressive individuals and organizations in a sinister plot to pass cap-and-trade legislation in order to generate profits and redistribute wealth. My colleagues Simon Maloy and Brian Frederick have done an excellent job of taking apart various pieces of Beck's theory; today, I'll show why its central premise is based on one big lie.
The fundamental claim of Beck's conspiracy is that carbon trading is a "scam," and cap and trade is the method the scamsters have come up with to sell their schemes and get rich. Here's Beck laying this out on April 29:
If you know anything about cap and trade -- anything at all -- you probably noticed that Beck left out something rather important in his rather bizarre description. "You have to ask why" progressives are "pushing for cap and trade," Beck asks. But he never gets around to explaining why progressives say they support cap and trade.
This is somewhat odd, because progressives' rationale for cap and trade is no secret: The purpose of cap and trade is to reduce carbon emissions and thus reduce the impact of catastrophic global warming. And that's where the wheels come off the wagon for Beck, because he doesn't even acknowledge the existence of man-caused global warming.
If you don't believe the Earth is warming, then it's easy to come to the conclusion that cap and trade is a "scam." Unfortunately, you're arguing from a faulty premise.
Beck falsehoods: Carbon dioxide isn't harmful, global warming has halted, cap and trade is a "scam," and its supporters may be traitors
All you need to do to understand where Beck is coming from on cap and trade is to watch Beck's April 28 Fox News program. During that show, Beck stated, "I'm going to harm the planet. I'm going to give some CO2 off," and then exhaled. In case his audience wasn't getting it he added, "Dangerous. That should have been bottled and kept away from the planet because" -- and he exhaled again -- "that's a dangerous gas."
Beck has repeatedly claimed that the Earth has seen no warming in the past decade. He's falsely claimed that Arctic sea ice is increasing. He's suggested that snowstorms in Washington, D.C. and New York, as well as cooler temperatures in New York during one summer, undermine the case for climate change.
When he's not lying about the evidence for climate change, Beck is stoking fears over efforts to stop it. He has promoted British lord Christopher Monckton's bizarre claim that a proposed U.N. treaty on climate change would undermine U.S. sovereignty in favor of "a communist world government." He's falsely claimed that cap and trade legislation would give the president "emergency powers" to "take over industries." He's stated that the U.S. is "now an Axis country" on climate change, "on the wrong side of history. " And he's said that the "global warming movement" is "about population control" and that "some" cap and trade supporters are "treasonous."
Back in reality: Scientific consensus confirms Earth is warming, cap and trade meant to stop it
A robust scientific consensus supports the theory that the Earth is warming due to man-caused excessive discharges of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Notably, in its 2007 Synthesis Report, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that "[m]ost of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic [human-caused] GHG [greenhouse gas] concentrations." The report defined "very likely" as ">90%." Since then, scientists and scientific organization have confirmed that this scientific consensus remains intact.
Cap and trade is intended to limit the rise in global temperatures by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A January 2008 Center for American Progress fact sheet describes cap and trade:
The cap: Each large-scale emitter, or company, will have a limit on the amount of greenhouse gas that it can emit. The firm must have an "emissions permit" for every ton of carbon dioxide it releases into the atmosphere. These permits set an enforceable limit, or cap, on the amount of greenhouse gas pollution that the company is allowed to emit. Over time, the limits become stricter, allowing less and less pollution, until the ultimate reduction goal is met. This is similar to the cap and trade program enacted by the Clean Air Act of 1990, which reduced the sulfur emissions that cause acid rain, and it met the goals at a much lower cost than industry or government predicted.
The trade: It will be relatively cheaper or easier for some companies to reduce their emissions below their required limit than others. These more efficient companies, who emit less than their allowance, can sell their extra permits to companies that are not able to make reductions as easily. This creates a system that guarantees a set level of overall reductions, while rewarding the most efficient companies and ensuring that the cap can be met at the lowest possible cost to the economy.
In Beck's world, the only reason anyone could want to limit the production of harmless "puffs of air" is to make money for somebody. In the real world, lawmakers are trying to prevent environmental catastrophe.
Beck's conspiratorial web of connections
From that basic, flawed premise, Beck spins off his conspiracy threads. There's a Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) that trades carbon credits. Obama was on the board of the Joyce Foundation that issued grants that helped that exchange get off the ground. Al Gore founded a company with some former Goldman Sachs employees that invested in CCX. Fannie Mae patented technology used for carbon trade swaps.
All of these ties are self-reinforcing. Obama is evil so CCX must be evil; CCX is evil so Obama must be evil. Goldman is evil so the employees are evil so their new group is evil, Gore is evil so CCX is evil, and all the way back. Fannie's patent demonstrates both cap and trade's evil and Fannie's evil.
But it all comes back to global warming being a myth. If global warming is actually happening, people are backing cap and trade, at least in part, in order to stop it. And Beck looks like, well, an idiot.
Beck's poor grasp of his theory's details
Beck defends his conspiracy theory by claiming that Rupert Murdoch is really rich, and thus would never let Beck say "completely wrong" stuff on the air. Alas, Murdoch has not kept falsehoods and misleading claims from infiltrating Beck's glorious theory. For example:
- Beck misleadingly claims Gore-founded group is "fifth largest investor" in conspiracy-linked climate exchange. Beck claimed on the April 26 and 29 editions of his Fox News program that Generation Investment Management, which was co-founded by Gore, is the "fifth largest co-owner," "fifth-largest shareholder," and "fifth largest investor" in CCX. He is very careful never to state how big GIM's investment actually is. Generation Investment Management owned only 2.98 percent of CCX's parent company, Climate Exchange PLC, as of January 29, according to Climate Exchange's website.
- Beck's Patent Office sub-conspiracy doesn't make sense. On the April 29 edition of his show, Beck suggested that the date on which a patent for technology used for carbon trading was assigned to Fannie Mae was significant in that it was the day after the November 6, 2006, midterm elections. According to Beck: "As soon as the Democrats are elected -- in fact, this technology receives its patent the day after in 2006, the very next day that Congress was taken over by the Democrats. What a weird coincidence, hmm? I'm sure that's all it is." Beck did not explain how a shift in the partisan makeup of Congress would have any impact on the patent-assigning processes of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which is administered by the Commerce Department, which remained under the control of the Bush administration. Moreover, if the shift of power in Congress were to somehow influence the Patent Office, it is not clear how the Democrats could have exerted that influence the day after the election, given that they didn't actually assume control of Congress until January 3, 2007.
- Beck falsely claims Gore's partners were active Goldman employees, before quickly backtracking. On April 26, Beck highlighted three of Gore's partners at GIM -- David Blood, Peter Harris, and Mark Ferguson -- stating that each "works for Goldman Sachs." Following the commercial, Beck stated that they were Gore's "former Goldman Sachs buddies." Indeed, they left Goldman in 2004, which significantly undermines Beck's smear: Beck used their purported current status at Goldman to falsely link CCX to the civil suit against Goldman Sachs. But that suit deals with financial products the firm structured and marketed in 2007 -- well after the three had left Goldman.
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There is no doubt in my mind that both Ron and Rand Paul will vote for Romney-Ryan on November 6th. But the jury is still out on what Paul supporters will do.
As father Ron Paul prepares to retire, leaving behind a political career that spans nearly forty-years and passing the libertarian torch to son Senator Rand Paul, can Rand fill Dad's shoes? As Rand attempts to deliver the libertarian vote for Romney-Ryan in 2012, will his father's biggest fans follow Rand's lead?
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At a time when the nation is unifying to remove the most dangerous administration in U.S. history from power, can Rand Paul convince his father's angry followers to become a grown-up productive part of solutions for America? Or, will he lose them to ideological bickering, backstabbing and protest votes in November?
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Rand Paul will try to get his father's supporters to leave all of these protest options behind, and bring them into the mainstream where their ideas and votes can have some impact. Does he have the political clout to pull it off?
Ron and Rand both realized that they could not affect anything from the outside looking in with a critical eye. They both realized that they had to be in the game to affect the game. Many Rand Paul supporters realized the same thing when they chose to make Rand a Senator. Nobody would even know Ron Paul's name had he not left behind 3rd Party fantasies and joined the Republican Party in order to become a member of congress.
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We showed you this house back in December, when it was originally listed to sell for $45 million. It appears that since no one is buying, they're trying to rent it out to make some cash.
This massive six-story 1862 limestone TriBeCa loft is one of Manhattan's priciest rentals on the market, going for $100,000 a month, according to Curbed.
Inside this 30,000 square-foot loft are eight bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, an elevator, a private gym, and half basketball court. The home is six stories, two underground.
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The Lions have made another addition to their coaching staff, with the hiring of John Bonamego as special teams coordinator.
Bonamego comes from the Jaguars, where he was the special teams coordinator last year. In Detroit he replaces Danny Crossman, who left to join his friend Doug Marrone and become the Bills' special teams coordinator.
The Lions' special teams were terrible last season, and they were due for a change, although the Jaguars' special teams weren't great, either.
However, Bonamego was well regarded as a special teams coach in other stops prior to Jacksonville last year. He's been a special teams coach in New Orleans, Miami and Green Bay. Bonamego is a Michigan native who played his college football at Central Michigan.


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The big challenge for dramas about family life—your thirtysomethings, your Parenthoods—is that mass audiences, generally, don't find family life dramatic. It's a reasonable concern: shows like that do tend to do better when the family is also involved in politics, or crimefighting, or the mob.
It's also, when you think about it, kind of ridiculous. Does your family life lack drama? You fall in love, people break your heart, there are wedding and financial crises and, bonus, it all ends with you and everyone you ever loved dying. Of course, a lot of that is what people watch TV to escape, which is why this sort of drama can either be a downer or end up ginning up the stakes unrealistically to keep the plot moving and maintain interest.
Parenthood has had to negotiate all these issues, and generate enough ratings to stay on air to boot. It's always been a good show, but it's had issues that kept it shy of greatness: a lot of Braverman storylines to juggle, characters getting lost in the shuffle or relegated to comic relief, and a tendency to be emotionally manipulative. Right now, though, Parenthood is the best it's ever been. It's mastered its tone, its fantastic cast is getting well-used, and it's jerking tears (and laughs) honestly. (Parenthood comes from producer Jason Katims of Friday Night Lights—another show about the emotional entanglements of community—and it's taken that show's place as what I like to call "Daddy's Cry Time.")
This isn't just because of Kristina's breast-cancer storyline, but I'll focus on that because so many of the other stories inevitably get pulled into it. Yes, giving a main character cancer is an easy way to boost the stakes, but it's hardly an unrealistic one: if any family survives long enough, there are going to be health crises.
One reason the story has worked so well is that it hasn't taken over or changed Parenthood but played off its central theme: the way family places you at the nexus of a web of competing needs and responsibilities, none of which magically go away because another one comes along. Kristina gets cancer, but there's still Max's election at school, and Haddie's adjustment to college, and the baby, and Adam's* business. Adam persuades Kristina not to postpone her surgery for anyone else's sake, but the other problems are still there. (In fact, there's just the barest hint, as she prepares for a terrifying surgery, that it's a little bit of a blessing to be able to focus, through Max, on someone else's problem for a moment, even as she prepares to miss his speech for surgery.)
But this isn't the only way in which Parenthood has played out this theme. When the series started, I thought Julia's was the weakest part of the story, a little too typically "Can women have it all?" But the way the show played out her being overwhelmed at work (making a huge error from lack of focus) and at home (with the adjustment to Victor's adoption) felt more real and universal.
Parenthood is constantly reminding us of a simple fact that it would make us all a little better to remember: you have no idea the things that the other people around you—the people who screw up, annoy you, disappoint you—are going through. That same message was echoed in the conflict between Crosby and Adam over Crosby's salary, Crosby unaware the entire time that Adam is coping with his wife's cancer diagnosis.
All this came together a couple weeks ago in "There's Something I Have to Tell You," for my money probably the best hour the show has ever done. The episode went in fine detail through Kristina and Adam's process of having to tell the family—Haddie, Max, and in a here-come-the-waterworks last scene, the larger assembled Bravermans. (The scene in which Adam breaks the details of the diagnosis to Haddie at college—composed, purposeful, but quietly breaking up—was an Emmy clip for Peter Krause if the Emmys starting giving this show recognition.) For all that's going on, it's time for Kristina to put herself and her treatment first. And yet there are other people to think about. There are always other people. Even as she readied to go into surgery in Tuesday's episode, one of the last things she said to Adam was "Eat something. Please." That impulse too, went into Adam and Kristina's questionable decision to lie to Haddie that her mother was totally cured, to ensure she went back to college.
As with Julia's story, this is something that could get into female-stereotype territory: the self-sacrificing mom who puts everyone else's needs before hers. But again, it feels like something more universal about—well, parenthood, and family generally. Male or female, married or single, once you have children—once you have anybody in your life, period—your life doesn't belong to you alone. Nor does your illness, or your death.
And just as you don't belong to yourself alone, you also own the lives and problems of everyone you love as well, which is why the timing of Max's speech, just as Kristina was going under, was so agonizing. I was reminded of a line from the same night's Ben and Kate, in which Kate tells her brother that her daughter is like her own heart, outside her body, out in the world where she can never be entirely sure of protecting it.
A truism, maybe, but true anyway. It's as true in a sitcom or a family drama like Parenthood as it is, say, in Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which was not just a drama about the apocalypse but a story about parenthood in its primal essence: a man trying to keep himself alive until his son is ready to keep himself alive.
All of that is why Max's speech—just before the hammer-blow that Kristina will need chemo—was about more than Max (though it would have been moving enough in itself). After getting the thumbs-up assist from his sister, he improvs a talk about his Asperger's, how he knows that it makes it hard for him to deal with people but also means he will focus on those vending machines like a laser beam. "I'm glad I have it," he says, "because it's my greatest strength."
That's what Parenthood is saying so well right now, and with such admirable subtlety, about family. It can be overwhelming, it can be a burden, it can make you vulnerable. But it's also your greatest strength. To which I can only answer, like Haddie: thumbs way the hell up.
*Update: I corrected the earlier version of this post, in which I referenced Adam as "Nate," which is of course Peter Krause's character on Six Feet Under. I originally had a section in this review in which I compared those characters, and compared Parenthood's low-key style to the heightened drama of SFU, so I clearly still had that on the brain. Also, I'm an idiot! Thanks for bearing with me.


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accessibility, adaptive design, arthritis, building code, Carla Kienast, universal design, Vancouver
I learned something new yesterday. (As you get older this happens less and less. Also if you're 20 years old and know everything …). I learned that Vancouver is the only city in Canada with its own building code.
Vancouver has taken these powers to ban doorknobs from future housing projects. Instead, lever-type handles are mandated. What does Vancouver have against doorknobs? Probably nothing personal, but they're simply not as accessible for many people (like people with RA who have difficulty grasping and turning a standard knob). Vancouver is using its unique powers and building code to move toward universal design rather than adaptive design.
Most construction is adaptive. That is, you build something, then you adapt it to whatever is needed. Kind of like building a house then installing a wheelchair ramp. Universal design looks at the needs of those who will use it and incorporates those features into the initial design — like putting in levers rather than knobs.
RA's super hero, Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy, has a strong architectural and design background. He has written often about his dream that building design would incorporate just this kind of thinking. Well, kudos to Vancouver. They're not all the way there, but taking a step like this is proof positive that people who have the power to make changes are actually thinking about things like this. (There's a lot of free thinking out there on the left coast of North America. Some of it is actually brilliant.)
I don't know why this news makes me so incredibly happy. Maybe because I'm married to an architect so I get a first-hand look at some of the archaic and convoluted building (and even ADA) codes out there. And once these codes are accepted, inertia alone makes them difficult to change. It may only be one candle in the darkness, but I am hopeful that other cities and government agencies can see the amazing clarity of Vancouver's approach.
I hope whatever doors open in your life today bring you welcomed surprises. Thanks for checking in.


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Kommissarie F. Curiosa is a female detective in her mid-twenties delving into the baffling yet somehow tantalizing mystery of the Swedish male in Sweden's chilly capital city. She's a modern-day Mata Hari, infiltrating the grisly underworld of dating in a foreign country.
During the course of her investigation, Curiosa discovered that blogs about dating are an excellent way to get dates. Of course, none of her dates were actually with the strong, silent, Nordic type. Her romantic attention was soon captivated to a fellow expat blogger, who took the interesting and unconventional approach of writing odes to Ullrick. Turns out, the way to a girl's heart is through her cat.
This resulted in a suspension of Curiosa's investigation of the strong, silent Nordic type, but not to fear, her new relationship provides plenty of 'blog fodder', much to the dismay of her significant other.
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I recently wanted to enhance Sonix 3.40 to have a Note Tempo setting in the Pattern Editor.
This requires 4 changes.
A change to the Pattern Editor to detect the additional key to place the note tempo command.
A change in the Pattern display routine to show the Note Tempo Command.
A change in the player to change the tempo on the occurrence of the command.
A change to the compiler to change the tempo on the occurrence of the command.
The upshot is that it is very very difficult to modify unknown (or in my case forgotten) code so i then decided the best answer would be to disassemble the program to xa cross asm format on the pc, which would then make amendments much easier to do.
But how do we do it?
Well first i saved the complete Sonix file to a tape file..
Then removed the header
HEADER -h0 SONIXZ.TAP SONIXZ.BIN
Now this was just a flat file on the PC. So i found DIS6502..
I then loaded Raw, removed System and user Equates (in Labels) and saved the generated disassembly to SONIXMC.S
This generates the disassembly as a number of files. I am still unsure why a number just one file isn't generated by no matter. From Command prompt i combined these files (which always ended in the extension as a sequence number and began with SONIXZ.)..
The generated file was not far off what i wanted, but there was still some formatting errors in the listing.
So i wrote a utility to convert most of the formatting issues.
The utility also scans a File that holds location labels as a list of #DEFINE statements and replaces the generated LXXXX with the label.
This has saved an awful lot of work.
I will upload and link this utility as soon as i am able(Windows).
The second problem is that the listing contained alot of table areas, some of which DIS6502 had converted to CODE (Incorrect).
This is the stage i am currently at. Manually editing the code is now an option, and any large areas known to be tables or data can be seperately converted to .byt blocks by saving them to tape (from Euphoric), removing the header and finally running BIN2TXT which converts the binary file to a text file with .byt statements.
Disassembling Oric Programs to XA Source code
Here you can ask questions or provide insights about how to use efficiently 6502 assembly code on the Oric.
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Two French skydivers jumped off the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet set a new Guinness World Record for tallest BASE jump from a building, with their leap this week. The Burj Khalifa is 2,700 feet tall, standing more more than half a mile tall.
BASE jumping refers to jumping off stationary objects and is an acronym for these objects: building, antenna, span and Earth (such as a cliff). Before the jump Monday, the duo practiced for a week jumping off a mountain near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, which is almost the same height as the Burj Khalifa, according to the Guinness World Record website.


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We were deeply saddened by the negative press given to the Ringsted City Council following the recent school board meeting.
In reading the article, you were led to believe that the Council had indicated a desire to purchase the school building and surrounding property when, in fact, the Council has never indicated a willingness to risk taxpayer funds to buy the school. It sounds like a "no-brainer" when it's possible the city could pay as little as one dollar to purchase the school. However, what is never discussed is the amount of money it would take to maintain temperature control in the building during winter, mowing costs in summer, repairs from possible vandalism, etc. Nor is it discussed about the costs the City would incur should it become necessary to demolish the building.
Now it seems that there might be some funds available from Emmet County which could either be used to heat the building in the winter or assist with possible demolition. On September 10th the City Council met with representatives from the School Board and the Save the School committee where we all discussed whether or not the City had the financial resources for redevelopment of the school building and/or costs associated with demolition. The City Council indicated they did not wish to purchase the school, and nothing was said about the possibility of available funds to help with expenses the City might face.
We were saddened and disappointed with the negative attitude presented by a group, which is trying to accomplish something positive. There have been instances in the past when members of the "Save the School" committee expressed concern that the City does not support their cause. In truth, we support their efforts wholeheartedly and want to help where possible to return the school building to a productive element within the City. But this support has never included the purchase of the school. Support does not necessarily mean financial risk.
As elected officials of the City of Ringsted (as well as taxpaying citizens), we feel an obligation to be good stewards of the funds entrusted to us. We have been steadily improving the infrastructure of our city with street improvements, storm & sanitary sewer improvements as well as cosmetic improvements in the form of demolishing abandoned, unsightly and unsafe buildings. These infrastructure projects take time & money and the City has to prioritize them -- and yes, economic development is one of the priorities of the City.
If the County Supervisors would like to approach the City Council to present information about these funds and their possible use, we would be more than happy to take that meeting.
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Jodie A. Bridges-White, Wayne A. Kruse, William D. Hansen, Darryl Anderson, Kennith Lowery -- Ringsted City Councilpersons and Dan Jorgensen, Mayor


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A diploma from Barnard College is, in itself, its own special reward, but at Reunion, the College celebrates those outstanding alumnae who have made the entire community proud. To determine the winners, the Alumnae Association's Reunion committee culls class members' recommendations and, after some head-scratching, votes on the honorees. During the Reunion weekend, awards are presented at the Friday luncheon and Saturday dinner.
Some notes on the awards: The Woman of Achievement Award dates to 1979 and acknowledges not only achievement but dedication—to career, quality of life, and improvement of society. It is one of the Association's highest honors. The Distinguished Alumna Award, instituted in 1967, goes to someone who personifies the ideals of a liberal-arts education and has achieved public and/or professional distinction in her field. The Award for Service to Barnard honors tireless and devoted volunteers. These last two categories permit multiple awards. First granted in 2002, the recipient of the Young Alumna Award must have graduated five, 10, or 15 years before Reunion; the newest, the Millicent Carey McIntosh Feminism Award, is given to an alumna who exemplifies the strong, independent traditions of Barnard.
Woman of Achievement Award
Dr. Alison Estabrook '74
Chief of breast surgery and director of the Comprehensive Breast Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital…Professor of clinical surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center…Associate director of the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Medical Center…Co-founder of Women at Risk, which offers medical care to women at the highest risk for breast cancer...Creator of support groups, a resource library, and lecture series for high-risk women… Named a top doctor in New York, in the U.S., and for women
Distinguished Alumna Award
Maria Hinojosa '84
Award-winning (including a 2008 Emmy) journalist and author, senior correspondent for PBS news magazine Now since 2005…Anchor and managing editor of NPR's Latino USA, a program devoted to Latino news and culture… Former CNN correspondent… Acclaimed memoir, Raising Raul: An Adventure in Raising Myself and My Son (1999), explores her role as Mexican- American career woman, wife, and mother…One of Hispanic Business's "100 Most Influential Latinos in the U.S."
Young Alumna Award
Joya Banerjee '04
Double-major, human rights and political science, now a master's candidate in the department of global health and population at Harvard School of Public Health…Internship at Amnesty International…Co-founder of the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/ AIDS, a network of 6,000 young people addressing the virus in 150 countries… Initiated Columbia University student organization Columbia Global Justice, to promote awareness of HIV/AIDS and of health care as a human right
Millicent Carey McIntosh Award for Feminism
Professor Estelle Freedman '69
Women's history and feminist studies historian…Honors in history at Barnard; PhD, Columbia…Teacher, Princeton and Stanford...Co-founder, Program of Feminist Studies, Stanford…2009-10 Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavior Sciences…Author of several books including, No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women; editor, The Essential Feminist Reader, anthology of feminist history primary documents
Millicent Carey McIntosh Award for Feminism
Ann Brashares '89
Philosophy major...Author who began her first novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, in 2000…Three sequels, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Girls in Pants, and Forever in Blue, followed in the next five years…Sisterhood became a feature film released by Warner Bros. in 2005, a second film appeared in 2008…Fifth novel, The Last Summer of (You and Me), published in 2007...3 Willows published in 2009...All six books have been New York Times bestsellers
Distinguished Alumna Award
Honorable Margot Botsford '69
Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court…Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, Barnard; JD, Northeastern University law school; MPA, Harvard's JFK School of Government…Named associate justice of Massachusetts Superior Court in1989; Gov. Deval Patrick appointed her to the Supreme Judicial Court in 2007…Taught at Northeastern University, Boston University, and others…Winner of many awards for judicial excellence and distinguished judicial service
Service to Barnard College
Daphne Fodor Philipson '69
European-history major with a master's from Columbia's business school… CPA in the State of New York…Former partner at E.M. Warburg Pincus & Co. focused on investor relations…Retired in 1998 to do volunteer work…Member and former chair of the board of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic…Member, Leadership Council of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America…Member, AABC Fellowship, Leadership Council, Barnard Fund committees...Fund chair for the Class of 1969
Service to Barnard College
Arlene Kelley Winer '54
Teacher, Westchester County, 37 years…History major with a master's from Columbia's Teachers College…Class President since 1994…Board member, Barnard-in-Westchester Club; former member, Reunion and nominating committees; member, Project Continuum subcommittee...Preserved Barnard memories through two oral histories of alumnae who served in World War II, and outstanding alumnae and leaders, including Millicent McIntosh, in honor of Barnard's Centennial
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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara women's track and field team leads the Big West Championship after the first day at the Northridge Track and Field Complex, and the Gaucho men's team is second. Cal Poly leads the men's competition while Hawaii is second in the women's.
After three straight runner-up finishes, UC Santa Barbara is poised to win its first women's conference championship meet since 2005. The Gauchos made a late charge and assumed the lead with 50.50 points.
The Mustangs collected 82.50 points for the lead, finishing ahead of the 51 points that second place UCSB accumulated. Long Beach State is in contention for the title with 49.50 points for third place, and the host Matadors are fourth with 25. Fifth belongs to UC Davis with 20.50, with UC Riverside (18), Cal State Fullerton (13.50) and UC Irvine (13) completing the men's standings.
Hawaii, in its first Big West championship appearance, came in second with 46.50 points. UC Davis sits in third with 38.5 points, followed by Cal Poly in fourth with 35. Host CSUN finished fifth with 32 points with Long Beach State right behind in sixth (31). UC Riverside (23.5), UC Irvine (11) and Cal State Fullerton (5) rounded out the women's standings.
The majority of Friday's action concentrated on the prelims, but scoring took place in the field events as well as the steeplechase and 10,000-meter run. The men completed field events in the discus, pole vault, long jump and javelin, while the women battled in the hammer, long jump, high jump and shot put.
The Gauchos utilized Irene Kujore's two wins in the hammer and shot put for the second straight year. The Gaucho senior tossed 51-07.75 in the shot and heaved a mark of 191-08 in the hammer, bettering her performances from the 2012 meet.
On the men's side, Derek Masterson, who won the decathlon a week earlier at the Big West Multi Events Championship, won the javelin on Friday. He recorded a throw of 218-04.
Cal Poly picked up big points with senior John Prader winning his second straight conference pole vault competition. He cleared 17-07.25 to earn 10 points for the Mustangs. Freshman Nick Woolf won the 3,000 meter steeplechase with a time of 9:01.33 as teammates Blake Ahrold (9:02.70) and Michael Johnson (9:17.02) racked up additional points with second and fourth place finishes, respectively.
The Mustangs collected an additional 23 points in the 10,000 meters as junior Chris Frias crossed the final line in 30:46.27 with teammates Sean Davidson second in 30:47.07 and Mitch Moriarty fourth (31:16.80).
For the men, field event winners included Jacob Fraser of Long Beach State in the discus (178-11) and UC Riverside's Ted Hooper with a school record leap of 25-08.00. Hooper captured the gold in the event for the second straight year.
Women's field event winners included Hawaii senior Samantha Balentine, who won the high jump with a clearance of 5-10.75. The victory came on the heels of her triumph in last week's heptathlon competition, which also helped play a role in the Rainbow Wahine's second place showing.
UC Riverside freshman Phoenisha Schuhmeier posted a lifetime-best mark of 19-08.00 to win the long jump.
The strong running corps from UC Davis flexed its muscle on Friday with wins in the steeplechase and 10,000 meters. Sophomore Katie Fry scored first-place points for her squad with a time of 10:44.54 in the steeplechase. Senior Sarah Sumpter captured her second consecutive 10,000 meter title with a time of 35:08.93.
UC Davis sophomore Ashley Marshall flirted with a couple of meet records as she won her preliminary races in the 100 and 200 meters. Her time of 11.39 in the 100 just missed the record of 11.36 set by Cal Poly's Tamatha Jackson in 1999. Marshall then ran a 23.33 in the 200 as the top qualifier, narrowly missing the record of 23.23 that Utah State's Ladonna Antoine established in 1997.
The final day of the Big West Track and Field Championships begins Saturday at 9:00 a.m. with the men's hammer. Fox Sports Prime Ticket will televise the track events live beginning at 2:00 p.m.
Women's Standings (thru 7 events)
1. UC Santa Barbara - 50.50
2. Hawai'i - 46.50
3. UC Davis - 38.50
4. Cal Poly - 35.00
5. Cal State Northridge - 32.00
6. Long Beach State - 31.00
7. UC Riverside - 23.50
8. UC Irvine - 11.00
9. Cal State Fullerton - 5.00
Men's Standings (thru 7 events)
1. Cal Poly - 82.50
2. UC Santa Barbara - 51.00
3. Long Beach State - 49.50
4. Cal State Northridge - 25.00
5. UC Davis - 20.50
6. UC Riverside - 18.00
7. Cal State Fullerton - 13.50
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I'm passionate about, and not necessarily in this order:
1. Perserving the past! This includes the history of those who have gone before us, whether they be my ancestors or your ancestors. It includes their stories and their footprints in the world. . . .and because they were somebody who meant something to somebody else, it includes their final resting spots as well.
2. I'm passionate about my family and I will love them and talk about them to anybody who will listen or read my blogs.
3. Correctness. It is not worth the time to do something if it is not worth the time to do it correctly! That includes writing, recording facts or housecleaning. It is all the same. Why do something wrong, when you are going to waste time to go back and correct it?
4. Beauty. I see beauty in things other people kick aside. Leaves on sidewalks, leaning headstones, old men sitting on park benches.
5. Organization. Organization in my kitchen, my office and my life. It saves a lot of time and looks great, too!
and most of all, I'm passionate about making sure my footprints on this planet have meant something to somebody. Hopefully, I will be remembered as a caring, compassionate person who has made a little difference in the lives of just a few I have come in contact with. . . .


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Adam, If you do manage to get hold of any Broadfield House images, I would really appreciate it if you could forward them to me.
Now we need to encourage everyone we all know to sign.
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