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Learn all about the science of reactions in this hands on workshop hosted by Impression 5 staff.
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I have long been a fan of Kevin Henkes. Two of his picture books, Owen and Chrysanthemum, are huge favorites of mine and if you haven't read them to your young child I highly recommend them! The Year of Billy Miller is a 2014 Newbery Honor winner and one of the sweetest books I have read this year. The characters are funny, the story is engaging and the illustrations are charming. Billy is about to enter 2nd grade when he has an unlucky fall and bumps his head. He begins to question whether or not he's smart enough and if the fall impacted his ability to learn and remember. Changes are happening in his family and his life and Billy is learning how to navigate many things at once. Dioramas, which I believe are a lost art, also play a part in this book and got my immediate attention!! This is a perfect short novel for the early elementary grades.
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Celebrate National Night Out at the library with our second annual Touch a Truck event.
Week 6 is all about the biology of very small things. Here come the bugs!
Loot by Jude WatsonFive Trucks by Brian FlocaChu's First Day of School by Neil GaimanMonsters Love School by Mike AustinLego Star Wars: Return of the Jedi by Emma Grange
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We're releasing the Week 4 Challenges for Fizz, Boom, Read! a bit early this week, just in case you are traveling out of town for the holiday. Also, on Tuesday, July 1 at 2pm, stop by the library to meet WILX-TV's Chief Meteorologist Darrin Rockcole, and fulfill the Week 4 Go Out Challenge. Bring your weather related questions for fun session of "Ask the meteorologist!".
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Burgis grew up in East Lansing, but currently lives in Wales with her husband and their children. Before becoming a full-time writer, she studied music as a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria and worked as a website editor for a British opera company. "Growing up in East Lansing as a book-crazy kid and wannabe writer, I spent as much time in the public library as I could," Burgis said. "It was one of the most important and beloved places in my childhood. It's still a touchstone place for me even now, when I live in a different country, because almost all the books and genres that have most influenced me as a writer were first discovered by browsing the shelves there, with the warm encouragement of the wonderful librarians."
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Long Day's Journey Into Night Act II, Scene Two Summary
- The scene, again, is the living room, about half an hour after lunch. The whiskey's gone, and the family's walking into the room.
- Unlike in the opening act, James now noticeably avoids touching his wife.
- Jamie comes in looking cynical and cool, while Edmund tries to copy him. Edmund can't quite manage it, though: he's too melancholic (plus, he's sick-looking).
- Mary begins some kind of conversational sally as a matter of routine, but neither she nor her audience is actually listening to her.
- Mary whales on Bridget, the cook (verbally, that is): Mary can't wait for the summer to end because she may have to live in "second-rate" hotels during the year, but at least she won't have to worry about the housekeeping any longer. Mary can't expect Cathleen or Bridget to treat the Tyrone family's summer house properly, since it never was, nor will it be, a real home.
- James doesn't even look at her. He mutters that it can't be a home now, but it was before.
- Mary cuts him off, launching yet again into a diatribe. Mary complains that the house doesn't feel like a home, that James always abandons her there, and that she left a great place with her dad in exchange for James's sorry excuse for a home.
- After this rant, Mary turns to Edmund, asking him to eat more. Edmund mechanically agrees.
- The phone rings, and James answers. It's Doctor Hardy, and whatever he says seems to worry James. James announces that Edmund needs to come in to Hardy's office later that day.
- Edmund can tell that this is bad news bears.
- Mary excitedly criticizes Doctor Hardy and James, accusing the former of ignorance and the latter of cheapness.
- Mary reveals that Hardy was the one who initially gave her morphine; she goes on to accuse him of humiliating and exploiting her on purpose.
- Edmund yells at her to stop, and James agrees.
- Mary asks to be forgiven and then decides to go upstairs to fix her hair and find her glasses.
- James pleadingly calls out her name, but she is mentally checked out. She smiles creepily and tells James that he can follow her upstairs if he's suspicious.
- James 1) knows she'd just put off the injection, and 2) doesn't want her to feel like he's her jailor. Mary retreats upstairs and the boys fall silent.
- Jamie breaks the silence by saying out loud what everyone is thinking: Mary went upstairs for morphine. Even though it's really, really obvious, both to the characters and to us, the readers, Edmund and James completely lose it and scream at Jamie.
- Jamie feels offended, insisting that he knows how hard she's trying. He's just expressing his frustration that the cures are no good, and they'd been fools to hope for a recovery.
- When Edmund parodies his brother's cynical attitude, Jamie retorts that Edmund's also pretty dark, based on his philosophical readings. James interrupts and accuses both of them of screwing up by abandoning the only sensible philosophy – Catholicism.
- Edmund calls Catholicism a bunch of garbage, and Jamie notes that James isn't all that devout either. James counters that, even if he doesn't always go to church, he's a strong believer.
- Edmund adds that, if James has indeed been praying for Mary, then Nietzsche was right: "God is dead."
- Ignoring this, James blames Mary's failure on her lapsed faith. He then adds that he'll never believe in Mary again.
- Edmund announces that he will try to save his mother, but Jamie's with James on this one: there's no talking to Mary anymore. She's too far gone.
- Edmund gets upset and goes upstairs to change (noisily, to make sure Mary doesn't think he's sneaking up to catch her).
- Once he's gone, Jamie asks James what Hardy said, and James acknowledges that Edmund has consumption.
- Jamie asks his father to send Edmund to a good sanatorium. Jamie really lays it on thick, insisting that James shouldn't keep thinking, like an old Irishman, that consumption is fatal. James can't dismiss proper treatments for Edmund as a waste of cash.
- James is super angry about the Ireland jab and says Jamie shouldn't be mocking Ireland since Jamie's so Irish himself. After taking one more cheap shot at Ireland (he isn't Irish once he washes his face, Jamie mocks), he and James decide that Jamie should go into town with Edmund to support him.
- As Jamie's leaving, Mary enters the room, seeming even more detached and brighter-eyed than she had before.
- Jamie leaves as Mary asks for her glasses.
- She and James chat about the increasing fog, but James cuts short the conversation by telling her he has to go into town for an appointment at his club.
- Mary reaches out to James and begs him not to go, since she doesn't want to be alone.
- She accuses Jamie of drinking too much and, in turn, reproaches James himself for his alcoholism.
- James gets bitter, insisting that he never gets drunk, and, even if he did, Mary is a good enough reason to do so.
- He tries to leave again, but Mary repeats her demand that he stay. James comments sadly that it's she who is leaving him.
- James suggests that Mary take a drive outside in the car, since, as she complains, she has nowhere to go and nothing to do. As he talks about the car, though, James starts getting angry, because he spent so much money on something Mary never uses.
- Mary agrees that the car was a waste of money: James bought a junky, secondhand vehicle and hired a driver who'd never been a chauffeur before, so of course it wasn't worth it. Mary further charges that the driver's wages may be low, but he's making it up with kickbacks for repair bills. Still, she acknowledges, it was a touching gesture.
- James pleads desperately with Mary, hugging her and asking her to stop now, for the whole family's sake.
- After a moment's confusion, Mary denies her drug use again, and goes back into her "we can't help the things life has done to us" speech.
- Mary can't stop now, talking about how she has no friends to go visit in their car because she married an actor (a big scandal in those days) and because said actor was sued by his former mistress.
- These two scandals were enough to make all of her friends either abandon her or pity her – which just infuriates her.
- Mary recalls that she'll be able to take that drive into town after all – she has to visit the drugstore! James realizes the obvious (that she's getting more morphine), and reminds her of the time she ran out and tried to jump off a dock.
- Mary tries to ignore this, and then begs James not to remember that event or to mention it.
- James senses he's gone too far and apologizes, but Mary's attention drifts to the past and she pretends the topic never came up.
- Before Edmund's birth, Mary recalls, she was always healthy, even though traveling with James was grueling. Dirty rooms, bad food, dealing with her children in a series of hotels – still she was healthy.
- After Edmund was born, though, she got really sick, and James hired Hardy. Hardy could only understand that Mary was in pain, which he knew how to soothe (with morphine).
- James asks her to forget the past, but Mary can't and won't.
- Mary blames herself for having another baby after her second son Eugene's death, which she had vowed not to do out of guilt.
- Mary left both Eugene and Jamie with her mother so that she could join James (who had written, complaining of loneliness) on the road.
- If she hadn't followed James, Mary reasons, she would have been there to stop young Jamie from going into Eugene's room while Jamie had the measles. In fact, she thinks Jamie infected Eugene on purpose because he was jealous of his younger brother. She is sure Jamie knew that he could kill the baby with his sickness.
- James asks her to let the baby rest in peace, but Mary goes on: she should have stayed with Eugene instead of following James just because she loved him.
- Since she did follow James, Mary continues, she shouldn't have listened when James insisted she replace Eugene with a new baby to forget the death. Mary claims that she knew that both children and mothers need proper homes to succeed in life. Eugene's death proved her poor parenting and she didn't deserve another baby.
- James pleads with her to stop in case Edmund hears and thinks she never wanted him.
- Mary cuts him off, insisting that she did want Edmund, very much, but she was responsible for his poor health and unhappiness. He was born nervous and too sensitive, which is all Mary's fault. Since Edmund's been sick, she hasn't been able to think of anything but the deaths of her father and Eugene.
- Finally, Mary snaps out of her funk and insists that Edmund will get over his cold.
- Edmund comes downstairs, dressed to go into town, and James begs Mary to act normal.
- James makes to leave, but Edmund stops him, asking for carfare to get into town.
- James begins to lecture Edmund automatically, but then realizes he ought to pity his son. He says he's proud of how hard Edmund was starting to work before he got sick, and gives his son a ten-dollar bill (way more than Edmund needs).
- Edmund is shocked by his generosity, but then realizes it probably means Hardy told James bad news about Edmund's health.
- When Edmund says this, James is hurt by the assumption that he wouldn't have been generous if Edmund's life weren't at stake, so Edmund (who seems particularly susceptible to guilt-tripping) gives him a hug and another thanks.
- Suddenly, Mary turns around, frightened and angry, demanding that Edmund stop saying that he's going to die. She blames it on the books he reads and the poems he writes. She argues that he wants to die, and it's all just a pose from his books. She thinks he just wants attention, since he's still such a baby, but that he's taken it too far, which frightens his mother.
- James figures this is his chance to exit, but suggests quietly to Edmund that he bring up the morphine with his mother now.
- Mary gets Edmund to sit down, but, when he starts to speak, she cuts him off, asking him to stay home with her instead of going into town. Seeing Hardy would just be a waste of time and money because Hardy will probably lie.
- Edmund dodges this line and tries to say what he planned to about her addiction – that she has just started using again and should try to stop.
- Mary asks Edmund not to talk about things he doesn't understand, and he gives up.
- Predictably, Mary goes into denial again and, then, strangely, begins to blame him for her return to morphine, since his sickness has upset her. She quickly asserts that she wasn't making excuses, but Edmund doesn't believe her.
- Responding to this, Mary goes into another one of her detached monologues. She doesn't blame Edmund for not trusting her; after all, she doesn't believe herself. She has become a liar, but she believes that one day she will find her soul again, once Edmund recovers and the Virgin Mary reinstates her faith.
- Mary concludes that Edmund should go to Doctor Hardy's with Jamie, because, even though she has to take a drive into town anyway, she knows that Edmund would be ashamed to go with her to the drugstore.
- Edmund's composure breaks, but Mary goes on, begging him not to drink. She pleads with him, even though she's certain he'll give up half his money to Jamie, who will get drunk.
- Jamie calls from the hall, and Edmund says good-bye.
- Mary reminds Edmund not to be home late, and the boys leave.
- Mary stares around the room, one hand drumming, the other fixing her hair.
- Mary cries out that she is lonely, but then accuses herself of self-deception since she wanted to get rid of the boys, with their contempt and disgust. Mary closes the act by asking, "Mother of God, why do I feel so lonely?"
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The crown Jewel at 710! The pictures say it all. Located in a landmark brownstone in Sugar Hill, this fabulous showplace boasts 2500 square feet on two full floors, and is probably the most beautiful rental in Harlem. Sleek, ebonized floors. Stainless steel chef's kitchen. Fabulous interior design. Two master bedroom suites of 500 square feet each! Terrace with gas grill and cafe table. Multiple living areas with two 42' HDTV flat screen televisions and high speed Internet throughout. Dishwasher and laundry. No expense spared! Half block to ABCD subway - 10 minutes (2 stops) to midtown. 24-hr supermarket, Starbucks, New York Sports Club all within 2 blocks. All with the highly regarded management and service that 710 Suites has become known for.
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Appartamento grandissimo, molto ben arredato e dotato di tutti i comfort, con la metropolitana a cinquanta metri di distanza, a un quarto d'ora da Times Square. Il proprietario è gentilissimo e prodigo di consigli. Harlem è un quartiere in cui si alternano zone residenziali e altre più "pittoresche", ci si deve un po' abituare al suo melting pot, ma vi si respira di certo un'atmosfera autentica. Nel complesso, un'ottima scelta.
This apartment exceeded our expectations. It was much larger than expected and beautifully decorated. The kitchen had all the equipment to easily prepare a meal - just like home. We were a large group of 4 adults and 3 children and found the accommodation perfect for us. In terms of location, it was easy to travel to midtown via the metro. The express trains took 10-15 minutes and the station was less than a minute walk from the apartment. Michael was also very helpful with all aspects of our stay. Thank you!
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Authorities say a co-founder of Reddit and computer activist who fought to make online content free to the public has been found dead....Swartz, co-founder of the non-profit political action group Demand Progress, was a prodigy who as a young teenager helped create RSS. He co-founded the social news website Reddit, and directed the political action group Demand Progress that campaigns against Internet censorship.In 2011, he was arrested in Boston and charged with stealing millions of scientific journals from a computer archive at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Swartz pleaded not guilty. His federal trial on computer fraud charges was to begin next month....
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Please don't dismiss his death so lightly. Watch the video I posted and try to understand what we've lost.
Professor slams prosecutors for helping drive Aaron Swartz to suicideA Harvard professor and friend of Aaron Swartz says prosecutors should feel shame for their role in driving a "kid genius" to suicide. In an angry, grief-stricken Tumblr post, activist and legal scholar Lawrence Lessig condemned "the absurdity of the prosecutors behavior" in hounding Swartz for the alleged theft of online academic articles, even though the articles' owner, JSTOR, declined to pursue the case. Lessig also wrote that any prosecutor who thought Swartzs treatment was appropriate "is either an idiot or a liar," adding that the government had pursued the open-source activist "as if it had caught the 9/11 terrorists red-handed."
Please dont pathologize this story.No doubt it is a certain crazy that brings a person as loved as Aaron was loved (and he was surrounded in NY by people who loved him) to do what Aaron did. It angers me that he did what he did. But if were going to learn from this, we cant let slide what brought him here.
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Speaking as a bipolar person who has been treated like shit because of it, I can tell you, people readily exploit you once they know you deal with a mental issue like depression. Some get their jollies with it. Some just take advantage of you. Clinical depression is pure hell, and being sad isn't depression, sadly, the folks that most need to understand are the quickest to dismiss...
I've no doubt the prosecution probably pushed him over the edge, and yes, the prosecutor is to blame for that. But it appears that he had issues long before that started.I don't want to get into a debate over what caused him to do what he did, that is something we will probably never know.
Swartz was also an information activist who often worked outside the law and suffered the consequences. He downloaded and publicly released Federal court documents stored in the governments PACER database, kicking off an investigation by the FBI. At the time of his death, Swartz was being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in connection with his unauthorized access to MITs computer network to download a large amount of files from JSTOR, an online repository of academic journal articles.Some have speculated that the specter of prosecution and imprisonment in connection with the JSTOR incident drove Swartz to suicide. Doctorow didnt discount the possibility, but also noted that Swartz had suffered with depression. Swartz himself talked about his depression and suicidal ideation publicly in comments he made after parting company with Condé Nast following its acquisition of Reddit in 2006.
The billions of snippets of sadness and bewilderment spinning across the Net confirm who this amazing boy was to all of us. But as Ive read these aches, theres one strain I wish we could resist:Please dont pathologize this story.No doubt it is a certain crazy that brings a person as loved as Aaron was loved (and he was surrounded in NY by people who loved him) to do what Aaron did. It angers me that he did what he did. But if were going to learn from this, we cant let slide what brought him here.


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What is tackier, a dry wedding or cash bar?
Cash bars are tacky.
With that said id rather attend a cash bar wedding than a dry wedding.
Not everyone can afford an open bar wedding. And I would hate to attend a dry wedding. I think having a cash bar will make your guests a little more responsible with how much they consume since they are paying for their own drinks. There is nothing worst than having to babysit a bunch of drunk wedding guests (who got that way on YOUR dollar)
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I think whatever the couple feels is right for them is fine. Neither is tacky.
If I had a wedding with guests, it would have been dry because dh has some alcoholics in his family that tend to get out of hand.
My dad would've covered alcohol had I let him....
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BANGALORE: Indian wheel-chair tennis player, Boniface Prabhu will play in the Korean Open wheelchair championship scheduled to be held at Seoul from May17 to 23.
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At UFC 98 on May 23rd, Evans is set to make his first title defense against undefeated Brazilian Lyoto 'The Dragon' Machida, a fighter looking to solidify his place amongst the elite.
The UFCWhat made you want to get into the sport of fighting?
I was a rowdy kid when I was younger so I got into a lot of fights and back then I studied karate and did some wrestling, but I was a big fan of the sport since the first UFC. After I met someone in college that was part of MMA I knew that I just had to do it, and I got my opportunity with a spot in The Ultimate Fighter as a Heavyweight.
Which of your teammates pushes you the hardest?
Keith Jardine pushes me the hardest because we're in the same weight class and we get competitive with each other, we make sure we're in shape and ready to compete.
What do you think of Lyoto Machida's elusive fighting style?
He's got an interesting fighting style, but like any fighting style there's definitely holes in his game and I'm sure I will be able to exploit them.
A lot of people are placing you as an underdog in this fight, what are your thoughts on that?
I don't really think about that too much, I mean it's not something that I'm unfamiliar with either. It's just not really something that affects my training or anything. I don't even listen to what people say because they are always counting me out especially in this sport.
It seems like things were getting heated between you and Rampage Jackson after his fight against Keith Jardine. Is there anything about Rampage that bothers you on a personal level?
I would love to fight Rampage, it would be dessert after the Machida fight. I like him on a personal level, I think he's a great guy, funny and everything — but I really just wanna whoop his ass.
The Light Heavyweight championship has changed hands in two title fights in a row. How important is it to defend the title at this point?
I don't really think about the title, to be honest with you. I'm just going to go in there and fight. I'm a proud champion, but at the same time I'm not really fighting for the belt. I'm fighting because I love to fight and don't wanna lose and I don't like to lose. The belt is there for motivation and it's motivation for other fighters to come and get me.
What do you think of Shogun Rua? Would you say he became yet another major competitor in 205 pounds?
I always thought he was a major competitor, he just started off slow and didn't have the proper motivation. Now he's been properly motivated and healthy and he's figured things out so he will be a problem for fighters.
Check out what Rashad Evans had to say about his training...
Which fighting styles do you focus on the most when training for an upcoming fight?
I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.
Can you describe for me what you do in one full week of training?
A little bit of everything. At 10:30 a.m. we cover any one of the many areas in the mixed martial arts world, so one day it could be Chute boxing, punching, takedowns, another day it could just be wrestling and wrestling takedowns and then another day it could be only stand-up fighting, it varies throughout the whole week. I always hit mitts in the evening and work on my conditioning after that. Tuesdays and Thursdays I get up early in the morning and do strength conditioning which usually consists of a lot of explosive movements.
How long do you normally train in a day?
I train between six and eight hours a day.
How long a break would you take between fights before getting back to your training?
Depends on how banged up I am but I usually take a week off after a fight before getting back to my training.
What kind of diet are you on when training for a fight?
I try to stay away from high sodium and high sugar. I keep track of my protein, but I try to eat really clean more than anything. No fried foods, no fast food, no cheat days, not even a little. I actually had fast food a few weeks ago and I felt like I just had sex with a dirty prostitute and I felt awful. I was like, why did I just do that.
You still have a long career ahead of you in MMA, but do you have any plans for the future? Is there something you would like to pursue outside of MMA?
Acting would be something challenging to do after MMA. It's really tough and it takes a lot of skill and I'm a very competitive person and a perfectionist so it would be great to try it out. With the fight game, no matter how successful you are, you're always one fight away from your last fight so I always keep that in mind and I always think about what I can do next.


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Beginning with volume XLIII of Proceedings of the Theology Institute, Children of a Better God: Technology and the Next Humanity," selected papers from the Villanova University Theology Institute will be online, in pdf format. Earlier volumes can be obstained by writing directly to the Institute.
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Essays from the 2012 Conference, (vol. XLIV) are now available here. They explore the interplay of faith and reason in our capacities to know and communicate the truth in our experiences of mystery. Primary essays are by Jean-Luc Marion, William Desmond, and Amy Hollywood. In addition, several Villanova Faculty and graduate students have written responses to the essays. Feel free to read, browse, and enjoy any or all of the essays.


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INDIANAPOLIS -- A witness to mystery.
That is how Indianapolis Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein described Bishop Christopher J. Coyne in a homily that he delivered just minutes before he ordained the Boston archdiocesan priest as the first auxiliary bishop for the church in central and southern Indiana since 1933.
"In a secularized world that believes only in what it sees, by your consecration and by what you do, Bishop Coyne, you will be a witness to mystery," Archbishop Buechlein said during the March 2 liturgy at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. "The very life and identity of a bishop -- and of priests -- are rooted in the order of faith, the order of the unseen and not in the secular order of values."
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DETROIT (AP) — In a story July 25 about the performance of air bags in some Chevrolet Impalas, The Associated Press reported erroneously that federal safety regulators had opened a formal investigation into the matter, based on incorrect statements from an agency spokeswoman. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is informally looking into the matter, but no decision has been made on a formal probe.
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DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government's highway safety agency is looking into air bag failures in some Chevrolet Impala full-size cars made by General Motors.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it is informally checking out the problem after receiving a petition from Donald Friedman of Xprts LLC, a Santa Barbara, California, company that examines crashes.
Friedman examined an April 2011 car crash in Hidalgo County, Texas, that severely injured an elderly man named Roberto Martinez. His wife Aurora was driving their 2008 Impala when it was hit by an SUV and forced into a concrete highway divider and a fixed barrier in front of the car. The passenger air bags didn't deploy, and Roberto suffered permanent brain injuries, according to a lawsuit filed by the couple against GM. He died about 10 months later.
Friedman alleges that because Roberto Martinez was bounced around during the incident, the weight sensor in the passenger seat misread his weight and didn't fire the air bag. The air bag is supposed to inflate for anyone other than a child or small adult.
The petition, filed last November, asked NHTSA to investigate and recall the cars that use the same computer to sense a passenger's weight. It says GM used the same system in other models from 2004 through 2010. The inquiry covers about 320,000 Impalas from the 2007-2009 model years. Friedman says the cars should be recalled and the computers reprogrammed.
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What Exactly is Whaling & Why is it Successful?
Similar to spear phishing, whaling is a highly targeted attack that goes after an organization's "big phish." Big phish are high-value individuals whose credentials or access to resources, if compromised, could endanger the entire business. In whaling attacks, big phish are carefully chosen because of their position within the organization. Whaling attacks also may differ from phishing attacks in terms of scope. The number of emails distributed is very small compared to a massive phishing campaign that might involve hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands or more e-mails being sent. Whaling attacks can be more difficult to detect because they are stealthier and fewer in number. Attackers favor senior executives, high level officials in private businesses, or even those with privileged access to government information.
Often the content of whaling emails is high level, specifically designed for senior management, and can even take the form of an official report, containing highly confidential information. Sometimes emails can contain extremely personal content certain to appeal to the individual. Whalers also make proper use of corporate logos and leverage real spoofed phone numbers. Because of the high value targets, whalers can afford more time and effort into crafting the attack for far higher chances of success.
Unfortunately, any executive with high-level corporate access runs the risk of being targeted in a whaling attack. To complicate matters, executives who have not had proper training will often not be as keen at picking out seemingly legitimate email based attacks. Due to dispersed geographic location and a plethora of tools used for communication (email, IM, Skype, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Lync, Google+ etc.) there is a decrease in personal interaction and an increase in new attack vectors to carry out whaling attacks.
Social Media – Foundation for a Whaling Attack
The foundation for a successful whaling attack is information about the intended victim. Powered by corporate databases and social networking sites, any bit of information an attacker can find will be useful. At the very minimum, most whaling attacks involve the name, job and some very basic details about the targets. However, whalers will try to have more than just the basic information , for example, if a whaler can find out about a specific hobby or charity that an executive is involved with, the attacker can craft a personal email that the unsuspecting victim is highly likely to click. Executives with open public profiles are ground zero for whaling attacks. Whalers can use birthdates, addresses, obituary notifications and more to siphon information on targets and entice them to click. The source of information, however, is not limited to OSINT. Sometimes attackers will target third-party companies to get their foot in the door or even begin with a phishing attack to gather general information that can be used to escalate an attack to primary targets.
Whaling attacks are a very targeted type of phishing attack, and phishing attacks aren't going away anytime soon – they're far too effective. A recent McAffee quiz presented 10 email messages, which were a mixture of genuine messages and phishing campaigns to test business users' ability to detect online scams, and a whopping 80% of participants failed to detect at least one of seven phishing emails. When armed with real information, these types of attacks are extremely difficult for the uneducated user to detect.
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First and foremost, every corporate executive should have their social media profiles locked down. This doesn't mean refrain from using social media, but it does mean implementing privacy restrictions to prevent unknown individuals from viewing what could be sensitive information. If for some reason your job means you have to be in the public eye, then at the very least you need to be educated on how that information can be used against you.
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In this video by DMPranksProductions, strangers witness either a businessman or a homeless man fall to the ground. Both actors perform their fall ten times each and yield dramatically different results. The businessman was helped every time; the homeless man was helped twice. This might not be surprising but it is a good example of people making risk assessments and acting in what they feel is in their best interest.
Whether or not a homeless man is more dangerous than a man in a suit is not the point; the point is that people perceive giving assistance to a homeless man invites more risk into their lives. This dictates their behavior. The homeless man, to most people, automatically represents something less approachable solely due to his appearance. This alone makes people less likely to share time and energy, not to mention other complicating factors such as tribe mentality and bystander apathy.
The variables within a social engineer's control should be considered and adjusted to reasonably lower perceived risk and maximize opportunities during an engagement. Depending on both the social engineer and target's age, gender, physical stature or personality, there can be many different considerations. Remember, as white hat operators, the use of influence is preferred over manipulation. We want clients to leave feeling better for having met us, and make the decision to "help" us.
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How exactly is a multifaceted social engineering attack executed?
One method we have seen is when attackers send rogue invoices or some other form of attachment loaded with malware programs. These malware programs allow the attacker to steal access credentials,enough sensitive information to conduct a perimeter break in, or transfer funds out of the organization by abusing the accounting system. To ensure the attachment is downloaded or the invoice is opened,, the attacker will follow with a phone call, usually within a minute from when the email is sent. The caller impersonates an authority figure and requests immediate action. This results in a high-pressure situation in which staff feels obligated to comply with this important request.
In May of 2013, Symantec publicly unveiled an example of this type of multifaceted social engineering attack dubbed Operation Francophoned. In this dual-pronged attack, multiple organizations received both direct phone calls and spear phishing emails from what they thought to be a well-known French telecommunications provider. The attackers responsible had conducted thorough due diligence, gathering published phone numbers and company emails, to establish contact within the organization to make multiple requests.
This highly targeted, persistent and successful attack resurged even more strongly in February 2014. Attackers distributed a new payload from a number of freshly compromised domains, resulting in a sudden increase of infected organizations. While Operation Francophoned presently only targets French-speaking organizations, we have observed a growing number of multifaceted social engineering attacks targeting organizations from a wide range of sectors including manufacturing, energy, government, research, education, financial, automotive and healthcare.
Social engineering attacks of any kind tend to be highly successful, but against an organization with uneducated and untrained employees, these attacks are lethal. By combining phishing and vishing attacks, social engineers take advantage of existing vulnerabilities such as a global company with multiple departments in dispersed geographic locations. They bounce from department to department targeting different employees until they gather enough pieces of information to complete an organization's puzzle.
The only way to combat these types of attacks is to develop awareness and training programs, and proactively test susceptibility to attacks. Employees who are aware of non-technical attack vectors and understand the value of the information they hold can serve as an organization's first line of defense against social engineering attacks.
Are you interested in testing your organization's susceptibility to social engineering attacks or implementing training and awareness exercises? For more information on our real world social engineering services check out our services page. 'Til next time….
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Recently there has been a scandal in the NFL dubbed "deflate-gate" where the Patriot QB, Tom Brady, is being accused of knowingly having the footballs deflated below regulation. Both he and the coach held press conferences on this matter and I must say, what was NOT being said was quite telling.
In this post I will not be talking about guilt or innocence but only what emotion is being leaked out through the face and body that is not being said.
I did my first ever video blog, and, while I know there can and will be improvement in how they are done, I hope you enjoy them and find them educational.
Feel free to post any questions you may have and if you can, "like" them. If you want leave a comment or thought.
Part I: Analyzing the Nonverbals of Bill Belichick
Part II: Analyzing the Nonverbals of Tom Brady
Thank you and stay tuned for more.
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Cyber criminals have figured out how to target the human element of organizations, and they are evolving techniques to use an organization's own employees as the first point of entry. No company, no matter the size or prestige, is immune to these types of attacks. In 2014 Microsoft employees fell victim to several targeted phishing attacks in which attackers were able to compromise internal email access in addition to social media and blog accounts. Recently, the Sony attack has been a stark reminder of the public humiliation a company can face in the wake of a security breach. The reputational fallout could be irreparable.
Gone are the days when phishing emails consisted of broken English, poor grammar, or simple "click now" to win this outrageous prize offerings. In fact, the most skilled phishers are now able to send highly sophisticated emails that appear to be from a legitimate source. In fact, some of the most effective phishing emails are now sent from a "fellow employee," a specific department such as HR, or even a third-party partner. They leverage everything from organization's logo, layout, and internal lingo. Highly targeted spear phishing attacks go after a specific individual's personal interests. These days, phishing emails are so good that they establish immediate credibility, and users don't even think twice before acting. One of our clients just told us how they were duped by the attackers actually sending emails from their very own domain! By then it's too late.
Train the way you fight, because you will fight the way you have trained.
It's time for businesses to take a page from martial arts when it comes to training for security breaches. By putting effort into the way employees are trained, organizations equip their employees with the skills to help defend the organization's intangible assets. In martial arts, sparring is a mechanism for testing techniques learned in the studio. A martial arts practitioner may master a technique standing still but find the technique much more difficult to execute when facing a moving opponent. When an individual experiences a real world attack, they go into flight or flight mode. Someone who masters martial arts practices, but has never executed against a determined aggressor, may find those skills difficult to apply in the heat of the moment. This can be likened to a well crafted phishing email. An employee may know better, but when faced with an authentic looking email, sent from an internal source, that confirms submission of incorrect information, the individual's initial reaction may be to respond and hand over the "correct" data.
In sparring, some techniques work better when combating tall people but don't work too well when combating a more compact and more robust individual. Martial artists must learn to continually adapt. Sparring not only enables martial artists to grow confident with learned techniques, but it affords them the opportunity to grow from actual mistakes. An organization can sermonize the importance of security until kingdom come, but until employees are actually faced with a believable attack vector, they will not learn how to adequately respond.
With the roll out of our new Phishing as a Service (PHaaS) offering for 2015, the team at Social-Engineer, Inc. is committed to helping organizations combat sophisticated, targeted threats.
Just like military experts train their soldiers to fight in a worst-case scenario, organizations can also educate and train staff to detect social engineering attacks to improve overall security. While the concept of phishing your own employees has been around for a few years, the concept of a custom and continuous Phishing as a Service offering is new. From start to finish, Social-Engineer helps an organization's most unpredictable asset (the human) become the first line of defense. If an employee understands the value of reporting suspicious activity to their internal security department, they will likely react to real world scenarios the same way. Rather than simply training staff to look for suspicious activity, the Social-Engineer team teaches users to apply critical thinking and teaches to recognize phishing emails and how to properly report and respond to them. It's important for employees to understand the assets they are responsible for protecting and how they can better protect them. Security starts with each individual user.
By sending an initial wave of well crafted, phishing emails, Social-Engineer creates a baseline for an organization's susceptibility to these types of attacks. From there, our team conducts a thorough debrief focusing on remediation and education. This process is repeated with enhanced and advanced methods of phishing awareness education. By conducting ongoing and regular phishing campaigns, organizations can quickly begin the process of phishing awareness and education. Our service can also provide advanced metrics such as click and reporting rates, repeat offenders, and trend data in order, to identify specific areas of improvement and eventually, ROI.
Securing Your Organization with Social-Engineer's Phishing as a Service
When it comes down to it, employees who know they are being tested are more apt to report and respond appropriately to questionable emails and activity. By keeping employees on their toes, organizations are able to vastly improve overall security posture. Organizations who have implemented our PHaaS program have experienced:
The results are real, but don't just take our word for it.
The chart below illustrates data from one of our clients who implemented PHaas in July 2014. Prior to working with Social-Engineer, this organization was running a phishing education program on their own using a popular phishing tool. They were sending out regular emails and testing their whole population. On the surface, everything was the way it should be for a phishing program. After one year of trudging through it on their own they contacted Social-Engineer to offer assistance in enhancing their program.
What were the results?
More than a 370% increase in catching phishing emails.
This particular organization came to Social-Engineer after spending a year of trying to maintain their own internal phishing program. Despite efforts, the organization simply did not experience the results they thought they would. This chart demonstrates the tremendous value of the Social-Engineer phishing program after just one month's time. Now, over 6 months into the program, the organization continues to experience tremendously successful results.
Businesses spend hundreds of thousands on IDS systems, firewalls and other protection mechanisms to monitor the network, but one skilled phishing attack can lead to total devastation without the attacker having to hack one thing. It's a matter of when, not if, your organization will be targeted. Implementing a well-managed phishing and education program is a cost-effective mechanism for preparing your employees for real world situations and keeping your business out of headlines. For more information on Social-Engineer's Phishing as a Service offering, please visit http://www.social-engineer.com/phishing-service/ or email email@example.com
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What does it mean to use "right" terminology? Social engineers use social proof as one way to build credibility. They need to convince their targets that they're insiders, a member of the tribe. Regardless of the organization, division or industry, rest assured every single one has a unique language. By using certain terms, phrases, euphemisms and acronyms, social engineers can build credibility with employees of target companies. If an attacker sends an email requesting information for a technical upgrade and correctly references the internal name of the corporate Intranet, it is highly likely the employees will believe the email is authentic. If it is a vishing attack, the correct terminology accompanied by rapport-building will likely lead to the target into accidentally divulging information.
Social engineers must be chameleons. They must adapt to the culture they are trying to penetrate; they have to think, and act, walk and talk like a normal employee. The best social engineers gather, share and store information over time, talking to different people and filling in pieces of the puzzle. It is not imperative for the target to disclose corporate trade secrets during the information gathering phase. Attackers can call into five different departments, have five different conversations and have five different pieces of information to help validate themselves for when they do want to obtain an employee ID, or access network credentials. One great example I think about is from the film, "Catch Me if You Can." There is a scene in which Leonardo DiCaprio's character Frank Abignale decides to become a lawyer. He observes a television show about a trial and hears words such as client, objection, jury and charge. In his first confrontation with a judge, he recites the same speech he had seen in the film, but he did not use them in the correct portion of the hearing, incorrectly addressing the jury when there was no jury present.
Suppose your organization refers to employee ID numbers as "V" numbers, short for Verified Employee Identification. If I were to call your organization or send an email from "corporate" HR asking to verify your employee ID chances are a red flag will go off because you don't ever hear that term. But suppose I call, verify some additional publicly available information and then ask for your "V" number? The chances of you providing me with this information are far greater because I have provided affirmation of my legitimacy. Words are powerful, and using them the "right" way can have serious rewards (if you're a social engineer) or repercussions if your organization is the target of a social engineering based attack.
Looking at FIN4, it's not surprising that they've been effectively operating for over a year. They are likely are working as a team, slowly and steadily contacting different individuals to gather bits of information from and taking the time to formulate an iron clad pretext for when they want the valuable information.
Unfortunately these attacks are highly successful and they are on the rise. It's time to ask yourself the tough questions: Are your employees adequately equipped to handle outsiders pretending to be insiders? Do employees know proper protocols for reporting suspicious activity? Does your organization have a process for verifying outside callers before providing any information? Do you have security awareness programs in place? If the answer to any of these questions is "no," we can help. Social-Engineer can evaluate your organization's overall susceptibility to social engineering and phishing attacks by conducting simulated insider attacks via phone, email and in person. We can also conduct comprehensive virtual perimeter assessments or identify areas of vulnerability based on publicly available information such as social media to baseline and then improve your organization's security posture with ongoing corporate training and awareness initiatives. Sophisticated attackers are leveraging social engineering to attack all industries, not just banking and finance. It's time to make yourself and your employees part of the defense mechanism to protect the integrity of information assets.
For more information on security testing and training services provided by Social-Engineer, please visit: Our Services Page or email email@example.com.
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The great thing about the proliferation of social media involves how much more connected we feel as humans. We are, after all, social animals. We share photos of our children, updates about how we're feeling and funny cat videos. Social media works not because of the technology involved (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, etc) but because of our innate desire to share things amongst each other.
Why is this important to understand? Because social media has changed many of us in very fundamental ways. Because we feel safe behind the polished glass of our computers, we are now more likely to share things online than we ever would offline. How many times have you shared a photo you snapped off your mobile phone within seconds of it being taken? Did you know that embedded within that photo's metadata are GPS coordinates of the exact location where the photo was taken? The barriers of entry into the online social world are so low now that we don't take the time to adequately think through what we're sharing and what consequences that sharing could bring.
Within the past year, I have seen a massive shift in the consumption and broadcast habits of people who use social media. A random scroll through my Twitter stream reveals fewer genuine conversations between people and more headlines, marketing spam, and people talking loudly for no particular reason. The great echo chamber of social seems to be getting quieter. I think this is because to some degree, the novelty of the instant share reflex has finally worn off. People are waking up to the reality of all that social media data they have strewn about them on the internet, and realized the unforeseen second order effects of their actions Who can remember everything they've said or shared for the past several years? Was any of it damning personally? Did any of that content pose a risk to the poster's security, familial or otherwise?
We are finally beginning to ask these questions of each other instead of blindly vomiting new photos of the last time your buddy got drunk and wet his britches. This is a good thing. Our great experimental phase with social is over, and we're all finally asking ourselves why we care about this great big social media enterprise. Why are you friends with your boss on Facebook? Are you really friends or did that connection just happen? Why not connect with them on LinkedIn instead, which is much better suited to professional relationships (and less risky in case you do have that photo album full of vomit fails)? Have we diluted the once sacred definition of "friend" to a meaningless click reflex?
Ask yourselves these questions before the next time you tweet. Even the ambient sounds of tweeting birds soothe for a time until their noise grows into cacophony.
Written By Chris Dufour
Chris Dufour is Director of Operations at White Canvas Group, an Alexandria, VA-based technology and training firm. He has trained hundreds of marketers, executives and military personnel in social media marketing, digital influence, geosocial marketing, cyber security, reputation management, and strategic campaign planning. For more on WCG's SEcureCog course in integrated cyber security, visit http://whitecanvasgroup.com.
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The link above outlines the specifics of the study; how the children were selected, what adult models were used, etc. Bottom line is that it was significant because it was a demonstration of how humans as organisms (along with some other animals species, as we've found) don't have to be directly reinforced or punished to learn behaviors.
When you think to applications, this speaks volumes for human responses empathically as well as the argument for the need for greater compassion. All of us learn through observing the actions of others. Since we at SECOM stress the idea that we want people to feel better for having met us, one of the ways we can do that is by modeling positive behavior even in situations in which we're trying to get them do something they shouldn't. Empathy and compassion can be modeled and learned; consider this on your next engagement or even in real life.
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Many people probably don't think about the concept of obligation being an aspect of influence. However, what is obligation? Typically, it's a feeling based on norms, morals, even manners and roles we play in life. These feelings will often spur action. If we accidentally bump into someone, we feel we should apologize as a polite member of society. Or, as a spouse or parent, we will (hopefully) feel compelled to look after our family members.
We regularly see obligation used as an instrument of influence. Think about how connections are made in social media. Receiving an invitation to "friend" someone or connect professionally usually creates a need to respond and social media sites use this to rapidly grow their networks. Or how often have you accepted a flier from someone just because it was offered to you? Most people feel like it's rude not to accept. It's the nature of humans as social beings as well as how we've been taught to behave.
A recent and heinous example is the grandparent scam. Conmen posing as the grandchildren of seniors have scammed them out of millions of dollars, relying in part on their feelings of obligation as grandparents. "You don't want any harm to your grandchild" as one man reported.
Understanding just how strong feelings of obligation can be and how they affect decision making is a critical skill for social engineers. We talk about this and the other aspects of influence in our 5-Day Advanced Practical Social Engineering class.
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The field of social engineering deals heavily with human motivation. In order to influence people's behavior and feelings it is useful to be familiar with some basic theories and research on this subject. As motivation is a vast topic, we are only highlighting a few simple ideas and studies in this blog.
Emotion can play a large role in the formation of a person's motivation. When asked by researchers, subjects report a more positive view of their life when it is sunny and a more negative view when it is rainy. Something as simple as the weather can impact perspective enough that the difference between sunny or rainy skies can change a person's view of his or her life. This effect is clearly temporary but the way people feel in the moment impacts how they think and act then.
Researchers have shown us that a good or bad mood can effect whether or not people think they are more or less likely to win. Our emotions point us in certain directions and when we feel good we are more likely to think we can succeed. Bad moods lead us to believe we will be less fortunate.
Positive and Negative affect have also been shown to influence whether or not individuals believe good or bad things will happen them. Research participants that have been shown positive news articles will overestimate the likelihood of pleasant events and a diminished caution for risk. Conversely, the subjects shown negative articles consisting of both fatal and nonfatal accidents are likely to overestimate the frequency of negative events and perceive an increased sense of risk.
The more you pay attention to the way people feel the more information you have to work with. Creating smart pretexts and being personable can definitely be helpful in the social engineering field, but don't forget to pay attention to simple details like a person's mood and what that can mean to you.
This topic ties in nicely with Chris Hadnagy's new book, Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Side of Security.
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If two programs access the same Enhanced Metafile (EMF) file in Microsoft Windows 2000, and that .emf file is stored in a shared folder on a server that resides on either your local area network (LAN) or your wide area network (WAN), the image may be slow to render. In other words, it takes longer than expected for the image to display in the program.
For example, you may experience these symptoms in the following scenario:
This problem occurs after you install the update that is described in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
835732The MS04-011 security update introduces a regression. This regression causes the client computer to send additional Server Message Block (SMB) packets to the server.
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/835732/ )MS04-011: Security update for Microsoft Windows
Hotfix informationA supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.
If the hotfix is available for download, there is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, submit a request to Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix.
Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=supportNote The "Hotfix download available" form displays the languages for which the hotfix is available. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language.
PrerequisitesThis hotfix requires Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4).
Restart requirementYou have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.
Hotfix replacement informationThis hotfix does not replace any other hotfixes.
File informationThe English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.
Date Time Version Size File name ------------------------------------------------------ 19-Aug-2004 06:33 5.0.2195.6969 231,696 Gdi32.dll 19-Aug-2004 06:33 5.0.2195.6898 37,136 Mf3216.dll
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
For additional information about how hotfix packages are named, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
816915For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816915/ )New file naming schema for Microsoft Windows software update packages
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824684/ )Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates
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