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February 17, 2017
TEXAS – Bob Lattimer, Eagle Forum's Science Issues Chairman, submitted an excellent article he wrote titled, "Streamlining" the Texas science standards.
The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in science dates back to 2010. While the TEKS standards were written in a materialistic paradigm, they did provide numerous opportunities for consideration of alternative explanations for phenomena in nature.
The Texas Education Agency is currently in the process of completing "streamlined" K-12 science standards. Unfortunately, the committee charged with "streamlining" the Biology standards decided to use the opportunity to delete or modify parts of the standards they didn't like – particularly those that might be critical of biological evolution (macroevolution or common descent).
The deleted standards deal with such issues as "the complexity of the cell," "molecules having information such as DNA," "examining all sides of scientific evidence," and encouraging "critical analysis by the student." The writing committee said the deletions were made "in order to streamline for time." A more honest reason, one would think, is the implication that biological complexity and information call for design by an intelligent agent rather than by mindless natural causes (i.e., evolution). There is no denying the fact that life is extremely intricate and complex, and students should be allowed to hear and evaluate evidence that an intelligent mind (such as God) might be needed to explain it all.
At the February 3, 2017 meeting of the Texas State Board of Education, some members objected to these changes, and this resulted in a clash of opinions on the issue. Some mainline scientists and educators testified in support of the revisions, saying the deleted language could open the door to creation and intelligent design in the classroom – and weaken the argument for evolution. Others argued that the deleted standards were simply presenting good science while expanding the coverage of biological evolution. In the end the state board voted 9-5 to reinstate some of the omitted phrases, and the majority board members should be commended for their action.
When the "final" TEKS standards are up for a vote in April, the majority state board members should stand their ground and retain language that calls for a critical analysis of concepts related to biological evolution. The students need to be exposed to all the evidence, not just that which seems consistent with macro-evolution. The board members might do well to heed the clause in the Biology standards that states scientific theories "may be subject to change as new areas of science and new technologies are developed."
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29.5 inches.
That's the official snow report from Keweenaw County for the last few days. I couldn't really guess how much it was when it was blowing around here because some areas drifted three feet and some were blown clean to the grass.
29.5 inches is a lot.
29.5 inches on its way
So happy winter! People are frantically trying to dig out of their houses. They are slightly worried because they didn't get their winter tires put on yet (we still need to order ours!). I don't think many people were ready for this. Luckily, fingers crossed, we have all our firewood for the winter.
If we don't, we are going somewhere tropical. Last night Aaron came in the door from the blizzard and said, "That's it! We're buying our tickets to Hawaii right now!"
Luckily he got his plow put together yesterday, so he can push that mass of snow around in the driveway. Last year winter started on Thanksgiving Day when we got that 12 inches. We'll see how all of us yoopers fair this year!
Luckily little Braeden doesn't even realize what's going on out there. Babies can't see that far out the window, let alone understand the change of seasons. Well, maybe he does. He did choose to live in Copper Harbor with us....
Today I got out for a snowshoe. Oh, man was that amazing! I even made a snow angel and watched the snow fall as I laid there enjoying the peace and wondering how I was going to get back up.
Here are some wintery shots of the scenery. Ehem. The winter scenery since it really is winter now.
A nearly frozen bog
Bareberries with a new layer
Looking southwest across Lake Fanny Hooe
A handsome beast in the wonderland
Speaking of beasts, I saw lots of deer tracks on my shoe and also a couple otter slides! The otters must have transferred from Lake Superior to Fanny Hooe. Smart little buggers.
I guess I don't have any events to report at the moment. They could possibly be going on, but I am out of the loop!
I guess it's time to dig out all my winter wear from the basement. Take care!


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It is day three! Well, presumably, I'm prewriting these so hopefully it is. This challenge is being hosted by Dominique over at Pirates and Pixie Dust. And the idea behind it is to take your favorite book - or just as book, I guess - and rewrite the synposis from the villain's perspective. So. Let's do this.
(There isn't a lot of books I read, apparently, with one focused villain. So this was harder then expected but please enjoy - I definitely went the humor route)
Spoilers for: Harry Potter (kinda?), The Grisha Trilogy,
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K. Rowling (as soon from Voldemorts POV)
This women did a thing and made it look like her baby defeated me and now I have to live on the back of a dude's head. Ow! Someone hit with me something! Ugh, I hate dealing with Snape. (This is not how I imagine Voldemort's internal monologue but it's too amusing).
Want by Cindy Pon
I am so cool. I am the coolest. The 1% with flourish in our bubbles and the peasants will die. Global warming? The skies use to be blue? HA, fantasy (why do people not believe in global warming??)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brook
(Zombies) grrrr arghhh bleeee grrrrr
The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
(The Darkling) This seems fun, let's destory the world because my mommy doesn't love me. Why do all these fangirls love me? Even though I literally want to destroy the world an am never sorry about it whoops.
Duma Key by Stephen King
Fuck that one guy in particular.
Alright, that last one is probably funny to like one person who clicks on this link but I don't care it made me laugh. Honestly, none of them are very funny. And the Grisha one is me just being salty about how much the fandom loves the Darkling (why? honestly why are you guys like this?). I don't read a lot of books with specific villains, I guess, and these were the only ones I could remmeber clearly enough to even try. And they're not really synopsis of the books, more just like internal monologue for the books.
I mean you don't really see the "villain" in Want all that much, and zombies.
Anyway - hopefully you were a bit better at this then I was, definitely link me if you did this one, I had fun!
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This challenging and competitive sport involves climbing each of the 284 peaks in Scotland that are more than 3,000ft high.
There is a particularly Scottish habit known as "Munro bagging". This challenging -- and somewhat competitive -- sport involves climbing each of the peaks in Scotland that are more than 3,000ft high. There are 284 of these "Munros", named after Hugh T Munro, the Scottish baronet and keen mountaineer who compiled the first list of them. They vary from easy day walks that barely require a map to airy scrambles, best tackled by those with climbing and navigation experience -- and a head for heights.
It is a badge of honour among hikers to have "bagged" all 284 Munros, which to the uninitiated, might sound like a joyless mountain slog. But even for non-committed trekkers, a spot of Munro bagging is an infinitely exhilarating experience in the wildest corners of the British Isles.
The six hills below are some of the most approachable and rewarding of Scotland's Munros. Included are also some of the loveliest places to stay, so you will not even have to put up a tent.
Ben Nevis
Tallest first -- at 4,409ft, this king of the Munros is a fairly straightforward, but immensely rewarding walk. In fine weather you are likely to have company on the summit: "the Ben" in the Scottish Highlands is one of the most frequented peaks and rightly so, as the dramatic views across Loch Lomond to the mountains of Arrochar are sublime. For walkers (climbers scale many different routes) there are two possible tracks: the straightforward "tourist path" which is so well trodden, little route finding is needed (unless in snowy conditions); or the less-trodden route via the neighbouring mountain of Carn Mor Dearg, which requires some scrambling.
Stay at luxurious Inverlochy Castle Hotel near Fort William, close to the foot of Ben Nevis.
This mountain's conical shape looks eerily like a volcano when viewed from across Loch Rannoch in central Scotland. When snow-covered in winter it could double at Scotland's Mount Fuji. From the town of Braes of Foss, the route to the summit crosses grassy sheep country and climbs onto stony ground strewn with quartzite boulders. Towards the top, at 3,553ft, the path is made up of cairns. The rewards are the extensive views – especially looking west across Rannoch Moor towards the peaks of Glencoe. Even this mountain's name is enchanting: it translates as "Fairy Hill of the Caledonians".
Stay at the comfortable Dunalastair Hotel, on the main square in Kinloch Rannoch.
Ben Hope
The most northerly of the Munros, this wedge-shaped mountain stands alone at 3,041ft above the peat-covered moorland of Sutherland. The route follows the picturesque Allt-na-caillich burn (waterway), before climbing towards steep rocky crags to the gully, which gives access to the escarpment. It is a steep scramble up the crags, then a stroll to the mountain's summit. There are vertiginous views down the craggy western face and huge panoramas over much of Scotland's far north in fine weather, even as far as the Orkney Islands.
Stay at the tartan-decorated Altnaharra Hotel, near the village of Altnaharra in the Highland region of northern Scotland.
Ben More
This Munro is on the Isle of Mull, so you will need to travel by ferry to bag this one. The climb to the summit of the United Kingdom's youngest volcano (3,169 ft) starts at sea level on Loch Na Keal and follows farm tracks up the shallow valley of Abhainn Dhiseig. There is abundant wildlife here: you may spot sea eagles, otters, ptarmigan, mountain hares and red deer on the climb to the black scree-shrouded summit. Beware using a compass, as magnetic rock here makes readings unreliable.
Stay between the forest and the loch at Tioran Country House Hotel.
Located in the Cairngorm Mountains on the British Royal's Balmoral Estate, Lochnagar is the highest of a cluster of rocky peaks, gathered around a deep corrie (as a glacial cirque is known in Scottish Gaelic). Favoured by mountaineers for its spectacular winter ice climbing, Lochnagar's summit (3,789 ft) can be an uncomplicated day walk in summer -- starting on a track through fragrant pine forests and ascending up around the rim of the corrie. The view down the cliffs into the corrie itself is dizzying.
Stay at the Darroch Learg country hotel just outside nearby Ballater, whose name translates as "the oak wood on the sunny hillside". Inviting enough?
Buachaille Etive Mòr
Glen Etive and Glen Coe in the Scottish Highlands comprise some of the most spectacular and iconic mountain scenery in Scotland. Expansive, green valleys are bounded by towering peaks, like Buachaille Etive Mòr at 3,353 ft. You will have to be comfortable with walking on infinitely shifting scree to summit this mountain, but with its near-perfect pyramidal shape, standing free of the other peaks around it, the mountain offers incredible views over arguably the most gorgeous mountain country in the country.
Stay at the Kings House Hotel for warmth, atmosphere and fantastic pub food.
The article 'Bagging Scotland's Munros' was published in partnership with Lonely Planet.


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The hitachi 320 GB hard drive that came installed in our computer was damaged and needs to be replaced. Will this WD blue 1TB hard drive work? Any other considerations? I watched the replacement tutorial.
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Finally finished watching Figure Skating World Championships tonight… and I definitely saved the best for last. While I love watching the Pairs and Men's competition, Ice Dancing is my absolute favorite. (The Ladies skating is not nearly as exciting and makes me sleepy. Though Alissa Czisny is stunning and I'm always disappointed that she doesn't rank higher.)
People are criticizing Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir for their free dance (not as polished as last year's), but it's amazing how Tessa was able to bounce back from her injuries.
I was actually jumping up and down, that's how exciting they were. Aside from their superb skating skills, you can tell that they are DANCERS. The rhythm and movement was infectious.
Charlie White & Meryl Davis were perfection as usual- anything less would have been surprising, considering that they swept away the competition this season. It was actually a big contrast to Virtue & Moir's dance- Meryl & Charlie put so much emotion into each and every movement, and they are constantly in motion- it's hard not to get swept away. The US finally has their gold in Ice Dance!
Maia & Alex Shibutani were also a pleasure to watch. Very smooth and synchronized, elegant, graceful… fantastic that they received a bronze at their first World's.
I was disappointed in the Men's competition. First of all, it was a crime that Jeremy Abbott wasn't competing. And as much as I love Ryan Bradley, his performance lacked its usual spark and felt lackluster. One of my favorites, Florent Amodio skated quite well, but he never seems to catch up with the leaders. He is by far the most entertaining skater I've ever seen (sorry Ryan). I will admit that Patrick Chan is quite good, but I don't relate to his performance or style. Daisuke Takahashi is the most dynamic and his footwork is always fun to watch, so it's too bad he messed up.
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News Release
NASD Regulation Honored with Technology Awards
Washington, D.C.--The Smithsonian Institution, Microsoft Corporation, and the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) have honored NASD Regulation, Inc. with three awards, all of which recognize the self-regulatory organization's expanding use of technology for enforcement and surveillance, resulting in increased investor protection.
NASD Regulation's new Research and Data Analysis Repository (RADAR) system was honored by the Smithsonian in conjunction with Computerworld as part of the annual Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program. NASD Regulation received the award for developing "data warehouse technology that reduces the time required to gather information about a potential insider trading violation from weeks to minutes, helping to ensure a level playing field for all investors."
The RADAR system, a $4.5 million project that went on-line in December 1995, provides immediate access to market data and other related information, dramatically increasing the speed and flexibility with which large quantities of data are analyzed. RADAR assists market surveillance analysts by rapidly pinpointing the identity of the securities firms responsible for the trading, the precise time at which the trades took place, how much was bought or sold, and for whose account.
"The development and implementation of this advanced system could not have been more timely given the explosive growth of The Nasdaq Stock Market," said NASD Regulation, Inc. Senior Vice President for Market Regulation, James M. Cangiano. "With RADAR, we're able to analyze suspicious trading much more quickly than in the past."
All of NASD Regulation's materials submitted to the Smithsonian have been made part of the Institution's Permanent Research Collection, and are available at http://innovate.si.edu. NASD Regulation's award was part of the 1996 Innovation Collection In The Workplace series for Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate.
NASD Regulation was also honored for its CornerStone Examiner Training Program and Performance Support System, a combination of print- and computer-based training, along with classroom and on-the-job education. This program is augmented by mentoring and automated tools, including the Automated Examination Modules (AEM) and procedures.
AEM allows NASD Regulation's national compliance and examination staff to conduct on-site examination of members using a laptop computer applying software that contains all NASD Regulation examination policies and procedures along with on-line product information. This helps the examiner to manage every step of the process, from focusing the exam to writing the final report.
CornerStone was recognized as the Outstanding Human Performance Support System for 1996 by the ISPI, a leading international association dedicated to improved productivity and performance in the workplace.
Microsoft awarded AEM first prize for Outstanding Custom Application at the recent Windows World Open Conference in Chicago. NASD Regulation developed CornerStone in conjunction with a Denver-based consulting company, DLS Group Inc., which also shared in the awards.
CornerStone debuted in mid-1995, as the number of NASD Regulation examiners was also on the rise. Today, NASD Regulation is responsible for ensuring the on-going compliance at 5,486 broker/dealer firms.


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The World Health Organization defines Disability as follows: "Disabilities is an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. An impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations. Thus disability is a complex phenomenon, reflecting an interaction between features of a person's body and features of the society in which he or she lives.'"[1]
An individual may also qualify as disabled if he/she has had an impairment in the past or is seen as disabled based on a personal or group standard or norm. Such impairments may include physical, sensory, and cognitive or developmental disabilities. Mental disorders (also known as psychiatric or psychosocial disability) and various types of chronic disease may also be considered qualifying disabilities.
A disability may occur during a person's lifetime or may be present from birth. A physical impairment is any disability which limits the physical function of limbs or fine or gross motor ability.
Current issues and debates surrounding disability include social and political rights, social inclusion and citizenship. In developed countries, the debate has moved beyond a concern about the perceived cost of maintaining dependent people with disabilities to an effort of finding effective ways to ensure that people with disabilities can participate in and contribute to society in all spheres of life.
Many are concerned, however, that the greatest need is in developing nations—where the vast bulk of the estimated 650 million people with disabilities reside. A great deal of work is needed to address concerns ranging from accessibility and education to self-empowerment and self-supporting employment and beyond.
In the past few years, disability rights activists have also focused on obtaining full citizenship for the disabled.
However obstacles reside in some countries in getting full employment, also public perception of disabled people may vary in areas.
The disability rights movement, led by individuals with disabilities, began in the 1970s. This self-advocacy is often seen as largely responsible for the shift toward independent living and accessibility. The term "Independent Living" was taken from 1959 California legislation which enabled people who had acquired a disability due to polio to leave hospital wards and move back into the community with the help of cash benefits for the purchase of personal assistance with the activities of daily living.
With its origins in the U.S. civil rights and consumer movements of the late 1960s, the movement and its philosophy have since spread to other continents influencing self-perception, organization and social policy.
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), produced by the World Health Organization, distinguishes between body functions (physiological or psychological, e.g. vision) and body structures (anatomical parts, e.g. the eye and related structures). Impairment in bodily structure or function is defined as involving an anomaly, defect, loss or other significant deviation from certain generally accepted population standards, which may fluctuate over time. Activity is defined as the execution of a task or action. The ICF lists 9 broad domains of functioning which can be affected:
(see also List of mental disorders)
In concert with disability scholars, the introduction to the ICF states that a variety of conceptual models has been proposed to understand and explain disability and functioning, which it seeks to integrate. These models include the following:
The medical model is presented as viewing disability as a problem of the person, directly caused by disease, trauma, or other health condition which therefore requires sustained medical care provided in the form of individual treatment by professionals. In the medical model, management of the disability is aimed at a "cure," or the individual's adjustment and behavioral change that would lead to an "almost-cure" or effective cure. In the medical model, medical care is viewed as the main issue, and at the political level, the principal response is that of modifying or reforming healthcare policy.
The social model of disability sees the issue of "disability" as a socially created problem and a matter of the full integration of individuals into society (see Inclusion (disability rights)). In this model, disability is not an attribute of an individual, but rather a complex collection of conditions, many of which are created by the social environment. Hence, the management of the problem requires social action and is the collective responsibility of society at large to make the environmental modifications necessary for the full participation of people with disabilities in all areas of social life. The issue is both cultural and ideological, requiring individual, community, and large-scale social change. From this perspective, equal access for someone with an impairment/disability is a human rights issue of major concern.
Some people with disabilities do not like the term "handicap" because of a belief that it originally meant someone who could not work and went begging with their cap in hand. This, however, appears to not be the true origin of the word. It originated in a lottery game known as Hand In Cap in the 1600s which involved players placing money in a cap. It moved later into horse racing where it meant bringing the strongest competitors back to the field by giving them extra weight to carry. In golf, it became the number of strokes a player could subtract from his score to give him a chance against better players, so a bigger handicap is actually an advantage in golf. Only in 1915 did it become a term to describe the disabled, when it was used to describe crippled children.[4]
The American Psychological Association style guide states that, when identifying a person with an impairment, the person's name or pronoun should come first, and descriptions of the impairment/disability should be used so that the impairment is identified, but is not modifying the person. Improper examples are "a borderline", "a blind person", or "an autistic boy"; more acceptable terminology includes "a woman with Down syndrome" or "a man who has schizophrenia". It also states that a person's adaptive equipment should be described functionally as something that assists a person, not as something that limits a person, e.g. "a woman who uses a wheelchair" rather than "a woman in/confined to a wheelchair."
A similar kind of "people first" terminology is also used in the UK, but more often in the form "people with impairments" (e.g. "people with visual impairments"). However, in the UK, the term "disabled people" is generally preferred to "people with disabilities". It is argued under the social model that while someone's impairment (e.g. having a spinal cord injury) is an individual property, "disability" is something created by external societal factors such as a lack of wheelchair access to their workplace.[5] This distinction between the individual property of impairment and the social property of disability is central to the social model. The term "disabled people" as a political construction is also widely used by international organisations of disabled people, such as Disabled Peoples' International (DPI).
Many people with autism spectrum disorders do not like people first language, because they feel that autism is a part of their personality. In their opinion, to call someone a "person with an autism spectrum disorder" implies that the ASD is somehow separate from the core of the person, or is a transitory or curable condition. [1]
Many books on disability and disability rights point out that "disabled" is an identity that one is not necessarily born with, as disabilities are more often acquired than congenital. Some disability rights activists use an acronym TAB, "Temporarily Able-Bodied", as a reminder that many people will develop disabilities at some point in their lives due to accidents, illness (physical, mental or emotional), or late-emerging effects of genetics.
According author Daniel J. Wilson, the characteristics of masculinity include strength, activeness, speed, endurance, and courage. These characteristics are often challenged when faced with a disability and the boy or man must reshape what it means to be masculine. For example, rather than define "being a man" through what one can physically do, one must re-define it by how one faces the world with a disability and all the obstacles and stereotypes that come with the disability.[6]
In Leonard Kriegel's book, Flying Solo, he describes his fight with poliomyelitis and the process of accepting his disability in a world that values able-bodiedness. He writes, "I had to learn to be my own hero, my own role model -- which is another way of saying that I had to learn to live with neither heroes nor role models" (pg. 40).[7]
Some note that women who are disabled, face what is called a "double disability", meaning they must not only deal with the stereotypes and challenges posed by femininity, but they must also deal with those posed by being disabled. Culture also tends to view women as fragile and weaker than men, stereotypes which are only heightened when the woman has a disability.[6]
According to the "Survey of Income and Program Participation", as described in the book Gendering Disability, 74 percent of women participants and 90 percent of men participants without disabilities were employed. In comparison, of those with a form of disability, 41 percent of women and 51 percent of men were employed. Furthermore, the nondisabled women participants were paid approximately $4.00 less per hour than the nondisabled men participants. With a disability, women were paid approximately $1.00 less than the nondisabled women participants and the men were paid approximately $2.00 less than the nondisabled men participants. As these results suggest, women without disabilities face societal hardships against men, but then add disability to the equation and the hardships increase.[6]
On December 13, 2006, the United Nations formally agreed on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the first human rights treaty of the 21st century, to protect and enhance the rights and opportunities of the world's estimated 650 million disabled people.[8] Countries that sign up to the convention will be required to adopt national laws, and remove old ones, so that persons with disabilities would, for example, have equal rights to education, employment, and cultural life; the right to own and inherit property; not be discriminated against in marriage, children, etc.; not be unwilling subjects in medical experiments.
In 1976, the United Nations launched its International Year for Disabled Persons (1981), later re-named the International Year of Disabled Persons. The UN Decade of Disabled Persons (1983–1993) featured a World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons. In 1979, Frank Bowe was the only person with a disability representing any country in the planning of IYDP-1981. Today, many countries have named representatives who are themselves individuals with disabilities. The decade was closed in an address before the General Assembly by Robert Davila. Both Bowe and Davila are deaf. In 1984, UNESCO accepted sign language for use in education of deaf children and youth.
Under the Ley de Igualdad de Oportunidades (Law of Equal Opportunities), no person can be discriminated by their disabilities if they are equally capable as another person. This law also promotes that public places and transport should have facilities that enable people with disabilities to access them.
May 28 is the Día Nacional de la Persona con Discapacidad (National Disabled People Day) to promote respect for these population.
Currently the political party Partido de Acceso Sin Exclusión (Access Without Exclusion Party) fights for the rights of disabled persons, and one congressman, Oscar López, who is blind.
Under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) (1995, extended in 2005), it is unlawful for organisations to discriminate (treat a disabled person less favourably, for reasons related to the person's disability, without justification) in employment; access to goods, facilities, services; managing, buying or renting land or property; education. Businesses must make "reasonable adjustments" to their policies or practices, or physical aspects of their premises, to avoid indirect discrimination.[2]
A number of financial and care support services are available, including Incapacity Benefit and Disability Living Allowance [3].
The Employers' Forum on Disability (EFD) is a membership organisation of UK businesses. Following the introduction of the DDA the membership of EFD recognised the need for a tool with which they could measure their performance on disability year on year.
In 2005 80 organisations took part in the Disability Standard benchmark providing the first statistics highlighting the UK's performance as a nation of employers.
Following the success of the first benchmark Disability Standard 2007 saw the introduction of the Chief Executives' Diamond Awards for outstanding performance and 116 organisations taking the opportunity to compare trends across a large group of UK employers and monitor the progress they had made on disability.
2009 will see the third benchmark, Disability Standard 2009. EFD have promised that for the first time they will publish a list of the top ten performers who will be honoured at an award ceremony in December 2009.[9]
The US Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires all organizations that receive government funding to provide accessibility programs and services. A more recent law, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which came into effect in 1992, prohibits private employers, state and local governments, employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, compensation, job training, or in the terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This includes organizations like retail businesses, movie theaters, and restaurants. They must make "reasonable accommodation" to people with different needs. Protection is extended to anyone with (A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of an individual, (B) a record of such an impairment, or (C) being regarded as having such an impairment. The second and third criteria are seen as ensuring protection from unjust discrimination based on a perception of risk, just because someone has a record of impairment or appears to have a disability or illness (e.g. features which may be erroneously taken as signs of an illness).
According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the African American community has the highest rate of disability at 20.8 percent,[10] slightly higher than the overall disability rate of 19.4%.[10] Although people have come to better understand and accept different types of disability, there still remains a stigma attached to the disabled community. African Americans with a disability are subject to not only this stigma but also to the additional forces of race discrimination. African American women who have a disability face tremendous discrimination due to their condition, race, and gender. Doctor Eddie Glenn of Howard University describes this situation as the "triple jeopardy" syndrome.[11]
The US Social Security Administration defines disability in terms of inability to perform substantial gainful activity (SGA), by which it means "work paying minimum wage or better". The agency pairs SGA with a "listing" of medical conditions that qualify individuals for benefits.
Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, special educational support is limited to children and youth falling into one of a dozen disability categories (e.g., specific learning disability) and adds that, to be eligible, students may require both special education (modified instruction) and related services (supports such as speech and language pathology).
It is illegal for California insurers to refuse to provide car insurance to properly licensed drivers solely because they have a disability.[12] It is also illegal for them to refuse to provide car insurance "on the basis that the owner of the motor vehicle to be insured is blind," but they are allowed to exclude coverage for injuries and damages incurred while a blind unlicensed owner is actually operating the vehicle (the law is apparently structured to allow blind people to buy and insure cars which their friends, family, and caretakers can drive for them).[13]
The demography of disability is difficult. Counting persons with disabilities is challenging. That is because disability is not just a status condition, entirely contained within the individual. Rather, it is an interaction between medical status (say, having low vision or being blind) and the environment.[citation needed]
Estimates of worldwide and country-wide numbers of individuals with disabilities are problematic. The varying approaches taken to defining disability notwithstanding, demographers agree that the world population of individuals with disabilities is very large. For example, in 2004, the World Health Organization estimated a world population of 6.5 billion people, of those nearly 100 million people were estimated to be moderately or severely disabled.[14] In the United States, Americans with disabilities constitute the third-largest minority (after persons of Hispanic origin and African Americans); all three of those minority groups number in the 30-some millions in America.[14] According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, as of 2004, there were some 32 million disabled adults (aged 18 or over) in the United States, plus another 5 million children and youth (under age 18). If one were to add impairments—or limitations that fall short of being disabilities—Census estimates put the figure at 51 million.[15]
There is also widespread agreement among experts in the field that disability is more common in developing than in developed nations.
Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the World War I permanently disabled by injury or disease.[16] The number of disabled U.S. veterans has jumped by 25% since 2001 — to 2.9 million.[17]
After years of war in Afghanistan, there are more than one million disabled people.[18] This is one of the highest percentages anywhere in the world.[19] An estimated 80,000 Afghans have lost limbs, mainly as a result of landmines.[20]
Disability benefit, or disability pension, is a major kind of disability insurance, and is provided by government agencies to people who are temporarily or permanently unable to work due to a disability. In the U.S., disability benefit is provided within the category of Supplemental Security Income, and in Canada, within the Canada Pension Plan. In other countries, disability benefit may be provided under Social security systems.
Costs of disability pensions are steadily growing in Western countries, mainly European and the United States. It was reported that in the UK, expenditure on disability pensions accounted for 0.9% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 1980, but two decades later had reached 2.6% of GDP.[21][22] Several studies have reported a link between increased absence from work due to sickness and elevated risk of future disability pension.[23]
A study by researchers in Denmark suggests that information on self-reported days of absence due to sickness can be used to effectively identify future potential groups for disability pension. [4] These studies may provide useful information for policy makers, case managing authorities, employers, and physicians.
Private, for-profit disability insurance plays a role in providing incomes to disabled people, but the nationalized programs are the safety net that catch most claimants.
Assistive Technology (AT) is a generic term for devices and modifications (for a person or within a society) that help overcome or remove a disability. The first recorded example of the use of a prosthesis dates to at least 1800 BC.[24]
A more recent notable example is the wheelchair, dating from the 17th century. The curb cut is a related structural innovation. Other modern examples are standing frames, text telephones, accessible keyboards, large print, Braille, & speech recognition computer software. People with disabilities often develop personal or community adaptations, such as strategies to suppress tics in public (for example in Tourette's syndrome), or sign language in deaf communities. Assistive technology or interventions are sometimes controversial or rejected, for example in the controversy over cochlear implants for children.
A number of symbols are in use to indicate whether certain accessibility adaptations have been made [5].
The Paralympic Games (meaning "alongside the Olympics") are now held after the (Summer and Winter) Olympics. The Paralympic Games include athletes who have a wide range of disabilities. In many countries, organizations exist to organize competition in the Paralympic sports on levels ranging from recreational to elite (for example, BlazeSports America in the United States).
In 2006, the Extremity Games was formed for people with physical disabilities, specifically limb loss or limb difference, to be able to compete in extreme sports. The College Park Industries, a manufacturer of prosthetic feet, organized this event to give disabled athletes a venue to compete in this increasingly popular sports genre also referred to as action sports. This annual event held in the summer in Orlando, FL includes competitions in skateboarding, wakeboarding, rock climbing, mountain biking, surfing, moto-x and kayaking. Non-profit organizations have created programs to advance adaptive sports for regular recreation and sport opportunities.
As the personal computer has become more ubiquitous, various organizations have formed to develop software and hardware to make computers more accessible for people with disabilities. Some software and hardware, such as SmartboxAT's The Grid, and Freedom Scientific's JAWS has been specifically designed for people with disabilities; other pieces of software and hardware, such as Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking, were not developed specifically for people with disabilities, but can be used to increase accessibility.
Furthermore, organizations, such as AbilityNet and U Can Do IT, provide assessment services that determine which assistive technologies will best assist an individual client. These organizations also train people with disabilities in how to use computer-based assistive technology.
The LOMAK keyboard was designed in New Zealand specifically for persons with disabilities.
The Internet is also used by disability activists and charities to network and further their goals.
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Quotes about disability.
- Neil Marcus
~Susan Wendell, The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
– Martina Navratilova
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People with disabilities try to live just like other people do. They sometimes need special equipment such as special cups to drink from. They like to use accessible buildings (with ramps, elevators, wide doorways and plenty of room beside the toilet, for example).
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Fishes to Fishes
"I'm going somewhere tropical for Christmas," Chris said. It was November and the holidays were coming. "You want to come?"
It wasn't sensible, or affordable, or maybe I just wondered if I was reliving my escapist fantasies of other years when I would geographically flee my problems only to discover myself in the arms of new ones. But the wheels began to move without me: Mom sprung for tickets for all of us, even Chris, though he's not her son. "You've all just had a helluva year" she said. "We want you to have a break for a few days." So we all packed up and flew out Christmas day, loaded with little but sunblock. We didn't even own shorts. La
Chris and I cracked the canned Mai Tai's on the plane, squeezed into our seats like all the other Christmas schmucks. We'd never fancied ourselves Hawaiian tourists but we were going to embrace the experience, including the sticky rum drinks, especially if they had fruit and umbrellas. Clouds fell in cascades of misty drapery around our flight, hiding the monotony of the endless ocean below. "I brought Dad along," I said.
"I was wondering," Chris said. "Where is he?"
"In one of the pockets of my suitcase," I said. "Just a little. He's in a plastic bag."
"I guess the vase would be heavy," he agreed.
"I thought about it!" I said.
"We'll leave him in Hawaii," Chris said. "He'll like it there."
We spent our time in Hawaii ignoring the holidays altogether. Our resistance to staying in the rainy Northwest had far less to do with the weather, since we're used to it, and far more to do with not being reminded of how much us heathens loved the holidays, Dad as the fulcrum of our gaiety and laughter, eating too much food and giving each other a lot of books as gifts. Spending our first holiday without Dad—knowing there would never be another—was too much.
On the other hand, we didn't dwell on Dad either. Chris had planned to party and surf away his eight days, but he got mugged Christmas night, so he chose to take a quieter vacation, spent more often with us as a family. We saw Pearl Harbor and the Battleship Missouri, went snorkeling, looked for food which didn't cater to tourism, and hung out in funny resort bars with terrible but expensive drinks. We all drove to the North Shore together to watch the winter surf, take in roaring nature. We laughed a lot.
We went snorkeling in Hanauma Bay, a spectacularly obvious volcanic land mass, and host to an easy reef for fish-gazing. Taking after the lame side of my family and not being a strong swimmer, I was remarkably adept at wandering the shoals with Chris, who has the confidence of an athlete in the waves. We went far and wide in the shallow reef over two different days, pointing out Humuhumu-nukunuku-apua'a and needle-thin Cornet fish, spotted eels and Christmas Wrasse to each other.
It was only in our quest to find sea turtles that Chris and I overplayed our hand. In a second of absentmindedness, we got swept out fifty feet past the safety buoys in a rip tide as we simultaneously realized my snorkel was faulty and I was breathing sea water instead of oxygen; my weak swimming skills came to save me in a moment of sheer wonder at the speed with which life could end. Chris and I dragged ourselves back to shore, Milo insisting he didn't want me to die (had he seen something from the beach, or was I just a deeper shade of pale stumbling up to the beach towel?) while I had a renewed sense of the awesome crush of nature.
Adrenaline and near-death aside, the trip was full of the wonder of the natural world, which Dad recorded so diligently in his paintings over the course of his life. Now it was time to wave goodbye. Lars pulled Milo on his boogie board, and Chris and I clutched two fistfuls of Dad in our hands above the water as we wandered into the reef.
We found a shallow sandy spot between the coral where we could look upon the fish darting in groups of three and four, their festival colors shifting and breaking in the ambient reflections. A shrug from Chris, a moment of quiet, and we placed our hands into the salty sea, Dad falling through our fingers in clouds of glittering bone and ash. Dad fell much slower than I would have thought, each piece of bone tacking this way and that in the quiet water, until the confetti that once was Dad was gone.
Our last morning in Hawaii, Chris noted that Dad really needed to be on Waikiki. While it was true that Hanauma Bay was sublime in its natural aspect, Waikiki was host to the most ridiculously beautiful bodies in the world. Chris felt we weren't honoring the most basic part of Dad if we gave him the natural landscape in Hanauma but not the human landscape of Waikiki. So we packed Dad up with our towels, sunblock and three cups of coffee and took him to the beach by our hotel.
By nine the shore was filled with tanned beauties soaking up solar radiation and bouncing their way into the surf with boards under their arms. A bronzed vanity project was rubbing herself with tanning oil and doing ab crunches; my belief that everyone now rubbed themselves with SPF 400 was incontrovertibly disproven on Waikiki where you can still buy Hawaiian Tropic Tanning Oil, evident in the wrinkled, ochre complexions of retirees wandering her shore. But this woman was lovely now, not a dimple or pucker on her tanned and toned body. Dad would be pleased with this tableau.
After a morning playing in the surf with Milo and drinking sandy coffee with Lars, Chris and I took small fistfuls of Dad and walked toward the ocean. Chris had gotten a tattoo memorializing Dad and couldn't go in the water, so he walked along the wave break where little brown crabs darted and hid. I waded in the shallows next to him. We released Dad back the sea from whence we all came, fishes to fishes and dust to dust, my clutch of Dad drifting into a school of tiny silver Tilapia shimmering in the clear morning sun.
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When we just think how fast the Nissan GTR is `on his own`, one would think that there is nothing else in this world that a gearhead could wish or want in the world of need for speed. And when on top of all that, you add the cutting edge technology of the renown Ivey Technologies, the company who had proved itself in tuning different kinds of sports cars and achieving amazing results, than you start to put the pieces together and get the picture what kind of a GTR monster you get. The following video that you are about to see is the best proof of everything abovementioned. What we have is a Nissan GTR R35, equipped with IveyTune`s 4.1 liter Alpha GTR doing tests on the drag strip, at the 2014 DSM/EVO/GTR Shootout, side by side with other, `regular` GTR. The result is damn impressive – all races are bellow 9 seconds, and the best achieved time is incredible 8.4 sec pass, at 176.70 mph. You have got to admit, even with the legendary reputation of the GTRs, this is really an impressive result. Just watch the video and see how it looks like, especially compared with the other GTR R35.
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Technically I'm writing this on Monday, but I was thinking it last night as I reflected on the day's Upward Sports celebration.
Honestly, I need to think more about the season and reflect on what I learned.
But I know one thing - I did this for the kids.
A dad sent me this video, and it's just a taste of the season. (If you look closely at the beginning you'll even see me!).
Just look at the determination and pride on the kiddos faces.
That alone makes Upward priceless.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Sunday Thoughts: Upward
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My mother has been in an out of abusive realationships since I was 11 or so. It all started when she had an affair and left my dad. She has no desire to be single and claims she doesn't know how. I have tried giving her numbers and pamphlets on places to get help. But, to my dismay, she never does!
I am a newly-wed, mother of one, and I recently found that I am expecting. I cannot handle her silly ideas of "love" anymore. I have tried breaking communications and ties, giving her a choice to get healthy or not have us in her life. All she does is send pictures and harrassing messages to my husband saying he took me away.
Last night she went to a new low, going on a date, while she is also in a unhealthy realationship, with a guy who supposedly has been trying to get her attention online for four years! I am afraid they are going to find my mother in a ditch raped and murdered one day. But she will not admit she has a problem.
Should I just back out of her life all together or try and get a referral for an intense co-dependency and depression program? I do know my family, the whole family, has been trying to get thru to her for years! I have to get this stress out of my life!
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Another security flaw has been discovered in Facebook
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There's been a new security flaw that's been discovered yesterday in Facebook that could have inadvertently compromised the contact information of over 6 million users, a Facebook company representative said.
The security hole, which has since been apparently repaired, was part of the Download Your Information tool, which lets Facebook users export all the data from profiles, such as posts to their timeline and conversations with friends.
People using the tool may have downloaded inadvertently the contact information for people they were somehow connected to, although the extent of the damage still isn't known at this time.
Some people usually upload their contact lists or address books to Facebook, which the company then uses to suggest new friends they can connect with who are already using the service, and whom users could be interested.
Although the number of people impacted is sizable, the actual reach of their contact information appears to be limited. The phone numbers and email addresses were not exposed to app developers or posted publicly.
It's only shown to people they had at least a tentative connection with, and who may have already had their contact information. Even in that context, it was only exposed to people who had used the data-exporting tool, Facebook reassured.
"For almost all of the email addresses or telephone numbers impacted, each individual email address or phone number was only included in a download once or twice. This means an email address or phone number was only exposed to one person, it is hoped" Facebook's security team said.
Facebook added that it has no evidence that the security flaw was exploited maliciously and that there have been no complaints so far. (!)
Facebook announced the security flaw yesterday afternoon. The problem was discovered by a third-party security researcher who submitted it through Facebook's White Hat program.
The program is set up so that people such as security researchers can report any vulnerabilities they find on the social network and get a reward for $500 and up in return. These types of programs are common at Internet companies.
"Your trust is the most important asset we have, and we are committed to improving our safety procedures and keeping your information safe and secure," read the post.
People who were affected by the security hole will receive an email from Facebook, the company reassured.
In other internet security news
A nasty IT oversight released hundreds of photos of suspected criminals on the web. But it got a lot worse when the details of the British citizens who reported them over the internet got published as well.
The Facewatch website, which allows police and businesses in Britain to upload and share evidence of alleged petty crimes, was left wide open thanks to a nasty web server misconfiguration.
The error allowed anyone to easily access a huge trove of CCTV footage, including images and information about companies that sign up to the service.
We were able to look through about 4,250 records containing photos and videos of suspects dating back to March 2011.
We saw shoplifters stealing various merchandise from department stores, a man waving a long stick inside a check cashing service outlet, and people looking rather suspicious in some packed pubs presumably just before a crime took place.
Some of the images even had names on them, which would be legally problematic for the site's owner (s) if those pictured turned out to be innocent.
We also saw long lists of stores around Britain which have signed up to Facewatch, along with the names and contact details of their security guards and managers. This could come in handy for any potential criminal wishing to intimidate a witness or cause some kind of revenge on the person who reported them to the police.
Big high-street names whose staff details were available for anyone to look at include the Carphone Warehouse, Lloyds Bank and Ladbrokes, which runs a nationwide chain of various betting offices.
Publicly distributing images of suspected criminals could cause a legal headache due to strict rules on defamation and contempt of court. Publishing evidence of a person apparently committing a crime risks prejudicing a jury, should the case ever come to trial, or it could simply ruin their reputation for a very long time.
Blighty's privacy watchdog - the Office of the Information Commissioner - told us it was beginning inquiries that could lead to a formal investigation.
A spokesman said-- ìWe have recently been made aware of a possible data breach which appears to involve the Facewatch website. We will be making enquiries into the potential breach of the Data Protection Act before deciding what action, if any, needs to be taken.î
The website boasts it was declared "secured by design" by a police-run body that recognises products or businesses that meet the "Police Preferred Specification" on security. This badge of honour is normally given to secure buildings or products, such as window locks and burglar alarms, but Facewatch was awarded the online equivalent.
But now with a gaping security hole in its website, this could make businesses think again about how stringent this standard actually is.
Worse-- you didn't have to be a small time thief or an expert hacker to get into the sensitive files. All that was required was changing "http" to "https" in the website's address and all the information was there to be accessed.
Specifically, the Nginx software running the HTTPS site was incorrectly configured to list the contents of file directories on the web server rather than serving the intended web pages. Visiting http://facewatch.co.uk/ redirects to http://facewatch.co.uk/cms/ but this didn't happen on the HTTPS site, which instead revealed the index of the server root directory, which could be explored to find a lot of website code, databases of users and various folders packed with hundreds of images.
We were told about the security flow by a source who was trying to report a crime. While trying to find the address of a HTTPS-encrypted server to send the images to, we found https://facewatch.co.uk/ and it gave us full read-only access to Facewatch's file tree.
We reported the security flaw to Facewatch, which closed the hole immediately. The organization's chairman told us the "accessible code was related to a previous version" of its website software. And he argued the long lists of email addresses we saw were in the public domain already and could be "accessed by the public in order for people reporting crimes to contact those who reported a crime on their behalf."
The chairman admitted that contact details of security staff were left visible but they were people who took "all necessary precautions to protect their personal safety".
He continued-- "We have undertaken some strong penetration testing to ensure that the data stored in the Facewatch systems is very secure and we can confirm that all personal data is secure and that our systems are safe. The URL to which you referred us has been closed as this is no longer in use."
No names of any crime victims were hosted on the site due to ICO rules that state they should be deleted within 36 hours of recording them.
The chairman added that some 63,000 people have downloaded Facewatch's smartphone app and its images have been viewed nine million times. As far as allowing officers and authorizeed people to upload files, Facewatch authorizes British citizens to use their mobile phones to view CCTV still shots and other images of people wanted for questioning by the police.
Facewatch's Gordon claimed that some of the images we found on the server were part of that public mug-shot gallery.
"Some residual photos of individuals that the police would like to contact in relation to certain reported crimes were in fact available. Those images had been made available to see if members of the public would be able to help with their identification," Gordon added.
In other internet security news
According to a new study from the University of Erlangen in Germany, Apple's iPhone devices being used as Wi-Fi hotspots are open to hacker's attacks because of weak security protocols in the automatic password generation system Apple has in place.
Called "Usability vs. Security-- The Everlasting Trade-Off in the Context of Apple iOS Mobile Hotspots," the paper reveals that the seemingly random password iOS generates for hotspots is very simple to hack into.
It consists of only four to six characters followed by a four-digit number string. As a test, the team downloaded a 52,500-word dictionary from an open source version of Scrabble, added number-generating code, and cracked the iOS password system every time, although the team points out it isn't suggesting Apple used the same dictionary.
Using an AMD Radeon HD 6990 GPU, the average time to crack was just 59 minutes. So the team then reverse-engineered the iOS word list used for password generation, using "static and dynamic analysis," tools like GNU Debugger, and by manually going through the ARM disassembly of the relevant iOS frameworks.
They discovered that Apple uses English-language words of between four and six letters from a dictionary made by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products.
"Only 1,842 different entries of that dictionary are taken into consideration," the paper states. "Consequently, any default password used within an arbitrary iOS mobile hotspot, is based on one of these 1,842 different words. This fact reduced the search space of our initial brute force attack by more than 96 percent and thus increased the overall cracking speed significantly."
Additionally, the selection of words picked for passwords was skewed. For example, the word "suave" was used 0.08 percent of the time, while "subbed" cropped up 0.76 percent of the time and "head" 0.53 percent-ñ ten times the frequency they should have had under a random selection.
By frontloading these selections into any attack code, the chances of cracking the system quickly are greatly increased.
The team also decided to upgrade their hardware to bring down search times and built a box with four AMD Radeon HD 7970 units that could burn through 390,000 guesses per second. This cut the time to crack automatically generated passwords down to 24 seconds, or 52 seconds using a single AMD Radeon HD 6990 GPU. Users should specify their own, the team recommends.
As a test case, the security team built an iOS application dubbed "Hotspot Cracker" which could be used to try out an attack of the target phone. This was limited by the processing power of the smartphone, but can be used in conjunction with a cloud password cracking service.
Once the password has been compromised, the operator can piggyback on the hotspot's bandwidth, stage a man-in-the-middle attack for eavesdropping, and then get access to files stored on the device.
Jailbroken iPhones are extra risky since they could even allow access to the basic iPhone system services code. While the researchers concentrated on Apple, they noted that other mobile operating systems could also be affected as well.
To be sure, Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 uses a similar password system that doesn't even use words, relying instead on eight-digit number strings alone.
Android is somewhat better, but there have been cases of manufacturers such as HTC dumbing down password generation for some handsets, the University says.
"The results of our analysis have demonstrated that the mobile hotspot feature of smart devices increases the attack footprint in several ways," the team concludes.
"As the default password of an arbitrary iOS hotspot user can be revealed within seconds, attacks on mobile hotspots might have been underestimated in the past and might be an attractive target in the future," the report added.
In other internet security news
A hacker says he's published what he claims to be three telephone numbers belonging to Philippine president Benigno Aquino, including his private mobile number, in a bid to urge voters to confront their leader directly.
Going by the pseudonym ì#pRis0n3rî, the hacker posted the numbers to his 10,000+ followers on Facebook on Friday night, alongside the presidentís home address and the address of Aquinoís office in the House of Representatives Batasan building.
Beneath the numbers is the message ìThis is now the chance for your voice to be heardî, alongside an Anonymous logo.
There was no confirmation as to the veracity of the phone numbers but an Aquino spokesman, Ricky Carandang, didnít sound too happy about that.
"It's cyber vandalism plain and simple," he told AFP. "We're dealing with it. That's all I can say for now."
When the news wire tried to contact the numbers on Saturday morning they had apparently stopped working. There was no further information on the Facebook page of #pRis0n3r as to exactly how he obtained the numbers, but in a message sent to a local paper, the hacktivist claimed he was ì100 percentî sure they were Aquinoís.
He also complained that the president was "very silent when it comes to national issues", adding, "We want to hear him."
The group Anonymous has had several run-ins in the past with the Acquino administration, most notably in January when it defaced several government web sites in response to the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
Local hacktivists claiming to be affiliated with the group have also been involved in a bitter online battle between Filipino and Malaysian hackers which erupted after bloody clashes in the northern Borneo region of Sabah, and in tit-for-tat exchanges with patriotic Chinese over the disputed group of rocks known as Scarborough Shoal.
In other internet security news
Yesterday's Patch Tuesday update for Microsoft Windows OSs all over the globe went pretty well, and was rolled out with five bulletins, including a single critical security update that deals with flaws in all supported versions of Internet Explorer.
Available at 1.10 PM EST, the IE update (MS13-047) deals with no less than nineteen security vulnerabilities and covers all versions of Internet Explorer from IE6 to IE10 and on all supported versions of Windows, from XP to RT.
It's just the sort of thing that might be latched on by hackers as part of drive-by-download attacks, based on malicious scripts on compromised websites, and therefore needs to be patched sooner rather than later.
The other four security bulletins this week all cover lesser flaws, rated "important" by Microsoft. The most noteworthy of these is (MS13-051) which covers Microsoft Office 2003 on Windows and 2011 for Mac OS X and tackles a parsing vulnerability for the PNG graphic format that has already cropped up in a limited number of active attacks.
"The attack arrives in an Office document and is triggered when the user opens the document," writes Wolfgang Kandek, CTO at cloud security firm Qualys.
"Microsoft rates it only as 'important' because user interaction is required, but attackers have shown over and over that getting a user to open a file is quite straightforward," he added.
The remaining three security bulletins rated "important" tackle an information disclosure vulnerability within the Windows kernel, a local privilege escalation vulnerability within the print spooler components in Windows, and a DoS issue in the TCP/IP stack of newer Windows systems.
Taken altogether it's a fairly quiet month. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday bulletin for June can be found on its site. June's patch update from Microsoft omits to fix a recent 0-day security vulnerability discovered by Google's Tavis Ormandy.
The 0-day vulnerability allows an attacker already on a Windows machine to gain admin privileges. In related patching news, Adobe is pushing out an updated version of Flash (APSB13-16), that will be released to Google Chrome and Microsoft IE10 users via an automatic update.
In other cases, the cross-platform update (which covers versions of Flash Player on Windows, Macs and Linux as well as Android smartphones) will need to be applied separately.
Meanwhile, server and data centre system admins would be wise to pay particular attention to the release of a security bulletin from VMware, covering a vulnerability in handling file uploads by the vCenter Chargeback Manager that poses a remote code execution risk on unpatched systems.
For its part, Apple pushed out its own quarterly security updates last week, with a new version of Safari and Mac OS X addressing numerous and some very critical security vulnerabilities.
Those security updates are unrelated to the new versions of Mac OS X and Safari announced at this week's WWDC in San Francisco, which will not be released for some time yet.
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A new exhibit at the Art Gallery of Windsor is honouring the city's most influential women.
A grand opening was held Wednesday night for 'Women of Windsor'.
The exhibit is the work of local photographer Mike Kovaliv and features black and white photos of 20 women who have had a major impact on Windsor.
Outgoing Director of the Hospice of Windsor and Essex County Carol Derbyshire is one of the women included in the showcase. She says it was a unique experience to be part of. "It was interesting because none of us knew who was involved. So it was fun to find out who else was involved and I think it's a wonderful idea. He has done a beautiful job capturing people's inner personality." Derbyshire says events like this are important.
"It's always a good thing because it encourages young people to step up because we need that. Many of us, like me, are getting older and it's time for somebody to step up and take my place in the community and others. So hopefully this will encourage them."
The owner of the Lifetime Wellness Center, Dr. Michelle Prince, is part of the exhibit as well and says it's an honour to be included in such a high-profile group of women.
"It's a little staggering to be included in such an honourable group of women, people who have really changed the face of our community in large and small ways. Sometimes the smaller ways can be magnificent and I think this group speak volumes for what Windsor has in its population."
In addition to Derbyshire and Prince, Sheila Barker, Sherrilynn Colley-Vegh, Patti France, Andrea Grimes, Nour Hachem, Leigh Ann and Tereza Hello, Amber Hunter, Jennifer Jones, Janice Kaffer, Doris Lapico, Maureen Lucas, Federica Nazzani, Yvonne Pilon, Micheline Rawlins, Martha Reavley, Chantal Vallee, Sheila Wisdom and Stephanie Zekelman are recognized as well.
'Women of Windsor' will be on display at the art gallery until October 14.


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Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell, said to be a moderate Republican, attempted at the end of June to bring together under the state GOP's big tent abortion advocate Jennifer Blei Stockman, the recipient of this year's prestigious Prescott Bush Award, and possible Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, governor of Massachusetts.
A Greenwich resident, Stockman is the wife of Ronald Reagan's former budget director, David Stockman, and co-chairwoman of The Republican Majority for Choice. Romney was featured as a presidential possibility in the June 20, 2005 issue of National Review under the title "Matinee Mitt."
Attendance at the dinner was considerably lower this year than in previous years. The event usually draws about a thousand Republican stalwarts. This year, only 550 Republicans showed up.
Surveying the crowd, Rell said,"I think we have excellent attendance. She noted that some people had come expressly to see Stockman.
At least one Greenwich Republican begged to differ. Sam Romero, who frequently attends the event, boycotted it this year he said, because "For them to honor Stockman is an insult. Mrs. Pro-abortion herself; she doesn't represent me and a lot of Republicans on her stance. Doesn't this fly in the face of George Bush's conservativism? He's definitely a committed, pro-life president. How could I go, in good conscience, to that dinner?"
Stockman begged to differ with Romero. Rell had called Stockman about the award. The Republican governor had shown leadership by offering the Prescott Bush olive branch, the Hartford Courant reported, to "socially moderate Republicans at a time when the national party has consistently pushed a platform that is against abortion rights."
The presentation of the Prescott Bush award to a prominent socially moderate abortion activist followed the governor's successful attempt to push through the legislature a bill legalizing civil unions for gays. Connecticut may now boast it is the first state in the union to provide legal rights for gays without having been forced to do so by overreaching courts.
Said the Prescott Bush award recipient, "she was very courageous in giving me this honor. It was an important statement that Governor Rell wanted to do what she thought was right. There are governors in other states doing exactly the opposite."
Other Republicans begged to differ, some insisting that the governor had shown a lamentable lack of courage on several fronts. Rell approved a new Democrat proposed gift and estate tax on property worth more than $1 million. Homes that sell for more than a million are common in most affluent towns in Connecticut, Greenwich among them. It would have taken some courage to buck majority Democrats in the state who hope to finance their inflated spending plans by imposing new taxes on the sort of people who regularly attend Republican political affairs in Greenwich.
Taxing the rich, after all, is a politically problem free solution to a spending binge that more than doubled the state's budget since former Gov. Lowell Weicker, a longtime "moderate" Republican, forced a new income tax through Connecticut's legislature.
So unpopular was the 2005 budget among Republicans that only one GOP senator and three House members voted for it.
As Rell inches leftward on social policy, some Republicans are beginning to wonder whether it might be advantageous for the state GOP, now perceived as a handmaiden to Democrat Party interests, to distinguish itself from its titular head.
In the short run, Republican resistance to Rell's attempt to swing her party towards a "center" that for some time has been moving at a rapid pace to the left may cost them the governorship. In the long run, Republicans may develop an identity that will stand them in good stead in future elections.
It is impossible to assert the principle that excessive spending drives budgets continually upward when the titular head of the party arranges with Democrats to ameliorate the end result of profligate spending, ever increasing budgets, by disproportionately taxing the wealthy so as not to inconvenience and alarm the majority of voters in the state – who certainly will end up footing the bill if Democrats are unsuccessful in imposing a millionaire's tax on Gold Coast residents.
Stockman and Romney, yielding to political etiquette, avoided a direct confrontation at the Prescott Bush awards dinner. But the Republican Party in the state has never advanced very far by supporting the unprincipled programs of its compromising governors, and it may be time for the party to present a more principled and united front to the public by breeching the usual etiquette.


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Brakes feel like there is nothing there. The pedal almost goes down as far as the clutch, yet there is no problem with the brake pads or discs.
The steering wheel has so much play in it; it's like driving a car from an American movie.
All the trim pieces inside rattle.
The stalks to control the wing mirrors broke. And the wing mirrors shake like mad when the engine is on idle.
The steering wheel shakes at 30mph, even through it has had the wheels balanced too many times.
The gearbox will not work unless it is warm, and changing gear when it is cold is so hard; you have to almost jump on the gear stick to put it into gear.
The outside temperature gauge has never worked from new.
The spark plugs need replacing regularly, and on the H.T leads the rubber has rotted away.
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The suspension is so soft, even though it has new shock and springs, it's like riding a pogo stick.
Trying to stop is scary; you get brake fade from stopping from 30mph.
The seats, well you might as well sit on a piece of wood, it's that bad.
It's so slow from 0-60mph, I think I could push it faster.
Fifth gear has now become 3RD gear, so every time you change up to fifth, you hit 3rd and rev the crap out of it.
Press the horn for the first time in the day; it sounds like an old man farting. Press it again and it sounds like a choir boy.
The car has no rust and no damage, it's not been treated badly, it's just terrible.
Please buy it off me someone, I'm looking for £300 for it.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? No
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A life between childhood and adulthood, embracing the best of both to discover who we were and who we can become is a challenge we all face as we pass through life stages and something that our growing community of millennial Chattanoogans explores daily. As we explore a contemporary painting that suggests this transitory state, Nooga Columnist Meghan O'Dea as we travel along this space in between.
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