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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Governor Brad Henry has ordered all flags on Oklahoma state property to be flown at half-staff to honor Representative Terry Hyman.
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The Catholic aid agency CAFOD has launched a new food campaign to hundreds of supporters at Westminster Cathedral in London.
A new report by the ABCColombia aid consortium shows why British companies risk "reputational damage" as part of the Colombia mining boom.
Several global faith-based organizations have expressed disappointment with the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).
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Los Cabos is hot and rammed full of federal police and offshore gunships and the military atop armoured vehicles. Late last night, when the US President touched down in the local airport, the town was awash with sirens and helicopters and outriders.
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The article is just a summary of Ray Tiernan's blog articles. Ray is pushing the Intel foundry idea. I have not seen Tiernan articulate any depth of thinking on Intel outside splicing together the opinions of those analysts that he aggregates in his blog.
I think you are referring to the Ray Tiernan editorial. I subscribe to the online version and it does not have page numbers.
Intel: Building on Otellini's Legacy
Can the legendary chip giant rethink and retool itself for a smartphone and tablet universe?
My comments ...
Tiernan gives Paul Otellini credit for trigate, 56% revenue increase, 46% operating revenue increase and the agressive fab build out. I just hope that Paul's decision was not driven by health problems (him or close family member). He is well respected by the BOD and those he works with.
Tiernan suggests that Intel's ability to shop out is fab capacity "may" be the driver to Intel success in 2013. Intel will not fab for Samsung since they have their own. Apple is the other big player and Apple will use their size to drive vendor prices down. Apple will have to offer a bigger advantage than just filling Intel fabs. Just consuming fab capacity at low margins will not benefit Intel.
"Whether Intel's stock can rally in 2013 may hinge upon how successfully it deploys its manufacturing expertise to make chips for other companies, rather than on how well it pushes its own chips. That's a big shift in strategy—and one fraught with challenges—but it looks increasingly necessary. "
Tiernan suggests that Intel will have to sell lots of smartphone and tablet chips for "tens of dollars" to make up for the "lost revenue" for the Intel $100 average CPU revenue. This is very complex. People are trying to determine future Intel revenue and operating profits based on what they think is going to happen to the mix of computing devices from servers through smartphones. What are the volumes of each segment, how does each segment affect other segments and what CPU is going to be in the device. IMO, Haswell is the first Intel designed from bottom up for power efficiency to take advantage of the 22nm trigate process. The Haswell core in part or whole across the device spectrum. CES 2013 will show what that means. Surprises.
""If the PC market falters at all, it's hard to see how you can replace that revenue—it's just not there with smartphones," says the Linley Group's principal analyst, Linley Gwennap. "
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Well to start with we get our names (not my name personally) but the agency's and other social workers names splattered all in the newspapers around our county because of what people did who are no longer even with our agency did a year or so ago. Yes is was a bad decision, no I don't think I would have made those decisions, but the county has been under scrutiny of the community now and the state for some time. The supervisor who was part of the mess left the agency, a good person, likeable, I just think I would have made a different decision in the case in question. So what do our wise leaders do? They manage to get the board to approve a second supervisory position. So there were two openings. Let's see, I've been there 7 years, always done excellent work, I know how to do almost everything there other than foster care, but these positions were not over foster care. Well they choose someone who has been at the agency maybe 4 years, and for 3.5 of those years with foster care, so she knows nothing about case management, and only a little about investigations. and for the life of me I could not figure out why. Well on facebook, the female they chose has pictures of the program manager at her daughter's birthday party. Well I was very angry and disappointed about that. It was a slap in the face, not just for me, but for those who were even more qualified than I. So I'm like ok, I'll apply for the second position, and who do they choose for that position? A man, a man who has not even been with us a year. He can't screen a report, so when people make a report about child abuse, he has no fucking idea what to do about it and thinks I'm going to train him. what the fuck ever dude, you're making the big bucks now, you figure it out. And he has no idea how to take custody of a child in an emergency, yet he is a supervisor for oncall and tries passing the buck to other people who he knows are far more competent than he is. Awesome administration decision there, especially when we are being scrutinized by the state, put people in charge who are clueless. WAY to go assholes. and of course I'm diligently trying to find a job somewhere else, outside of child protective services because oncall is for the fucking birds. Last month I can't even remember how many times I was oncall. but one weekend me and another lady in her 60's who's only recently been in remission for cancer pulled 30 hours straight because our very intelligent supervisors thought it was a good idea to have social workers oncall for 3 days in a row ( after they have worked a full week) . So when I interviewed for the 2nd supervisor position and asked what I would do differently I told administration I would not have workers on call for 3 days in a row (Fri, Sat, Sun) and told them that after being up for 27 hours straight, this other worker and I had to drive children for another hour out of town to a foster home, and had we had a wreck from exhaustion, it could have been another problem for the agency. (that policy was changed that day)but I was passed up for a weiner, probably cause he has a dick and I don't. So I was oncall again tonight. I get back to the office about 5:30pm and some other worker's case is blowing up, (and that's my problem why? Why can't that worker handle it and let me go the fuck home?) The case involves a boy under 6 who was put into the home of parental friends because the parents too sorry to take care of their own kids. Dad's in jail for beating someone in the head with a bat, mom is MIA. Well here comes dad's father, and two sisters to DSS with the boy well call Speck. So grandpa and sisters say that this family where Speck was placed (we'll call dad of that family George, and Mom Mimi) that Mimi gave Speck aderrall that was not prescribed to him to help him go to sleep, and that they jerk him up by the arm and beat him with a board. They said he is "covered" in bruises. So we look at the kid, he's got a bruise the size of a dime on the back of his elbow and a small rectangular bruise on his lower back. This grandfather says he is taking the child home with him, We tell him he has to wait until we speak to the parents and get their permission, grandpa says he's taking the child home and gets the child by the hand and starts walking away, we tell him he will charged with kidnapping and he says he's taking him home and keeps walking towards a car, we are following him and the aunts are screaming at him and acting crazy telling him to stop, they don't want him to get arrested, but that is just egging him on, apparently he likes drama. When the child is removed from him he becomes very loud and screaming and making hostile gestures and walking towards a social worker like he is going to hit her screaming at her to the top of his lungs (with a severe speech impediment) I dial 911, they (911 operators) can hear what's being said and 3 cop cars show up and he is still doing the whole scream and take his finger and point from sky to ground in a swift motion at that poor social worker. I am standing there waiting for things to get violent and had that happened I think I would have physically tried to intervene. When the cars stopped right in front of us I motion towards pissed off elmer fudd to cops. Then I take who I thought was the mother and the child into the building so child does not see anymore of this carnival. Turns out it was a paternal aunt and not the child's mother. Child is screaming and crying he doesn't want his paw paw to go to jail. The aunt is crying and saying she doesn't want him to go jail either instead of trying to calm the child. I pat the child on the arm and tell him and the aunt that whether paw paw goes to jail or not is paw paw's decision and is going to be based on how paw paw Chooses to act. Well aunt and child calm down inside the building away from the drama. While they are in another room I ask another Social Worker to sit with them so I can call the supervisor, we'll call Mr. Prep. I'm asking Mr. Prep what do we do, take custody, and if we take custody doesn't that require that we take all the children? There was 6 in that home. I knew he didn't want to have to go through all that although the SocialWorker to whom the case belonged "Steam Pot" wanted us to take custody so she wouldn't have to deal with the family anymore, and have us be the bad guy. Mr. Prep did not give me any instructions but instead said he was coming to the office, so don't do anything yet. In the mean time I am getting calls from the Emergency Communication Center at the same time all this crazy shit is going on from people who want to make new reports of child abuse. And I have to call the family George and MiMi on whom all the current allegations were being made regarding their care for Speck. George and MiMi are people who have taken in and adopted 2 other children already and have 3 children of their own. Dad works full time as a regular laborer and doesn't make a ton of money, but they make it work. George has to miss work to do this, and the crazy ass father family's is still sitting outside in the parking lot, and are starting to pile up (more coming in to join the fight). Now we'll nickname the crazy ass father's family the Clampits. The Clampits continue to hang around and argue with whomever they see and later George and Mimi and 5 other children show up at our door, and have to stand out there with the Clampits. I direct the aunt who is inside with the child to leave because I don't want the family to run into the Clampit aunt in the building. The child sits with another Social Worker who was kind enough to hang around long enough for my "back up" worker to come in and sit with him. (she is the idiot SW I wrote about before, telling a woman who speaks spanish only to speak in English if she is going to speak, in this woman's own house) I'm trying to do 5 things at once, and the back up worker tries saying "I need to ask you some questions" UMM no, you need to sit your ass in that room with child and keep him safe and try to act like you have some sense so I can do MY JOB. I take MiMi and George into another room and interview them they say that this is all over MiMi and the Clampit Aunt, they had "developed feelings for each other" (George's words) Mimi," But we didnt do anything" George," yeah well you almost did" and Mimi broke off the "freindship" with Clampit aunt, who was stalking them, or Mimi, was coming into thier house at night and standing at thier bedroom door and rummaging throught thier things when they were asleep. I then interview the children who all tell me it was the aunt who gave Speck an adderall that was not prescribed to him, and the aunt who jerked him up by the arm once and whipped him with a belt. George and Mimi said they don't whip children, because where they lived before, it was illegal.
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FORT WAYNE – Arnie Ball needs no road map to find Happy Valley, which makes him a rarity where that famously inaccessible destination is concerned.
No, IPFW's men's volleyball coach is familiar with Penn State, just as Penn State coach Mark Pavlik is familiar with IPFW. So there'll be no secrets when the two programs square off again at Penn State tonight.
Penn State? Ball said this week. I know they're going to be bigger than us. They're always bigger than us.
They're also a team that was ranked 10th when it went down to the unranked Mastodons in Fort Wayne last season, 18-25, 25-23, 19-25, 27-25, 15-11. It was the first time IPFW had beaten Penn State since 2007, and the rematch has some cache to it as well: Both teams are ranked, IPFW at No. 14 and the Nittany Lions at No. 11.
Other than that, it's same-old, same-old for IPFW, which will again have to avoid the usual potential trap game on its Eastern swing – after the Nittany Lions, the Mastodons play a decent Saint Francis (Pa.) team Saturday.
But first, Penn State, which presents the usual problems with a lineup that features eight players who are 6-foot-7 or taller.
They're difficult to play at their place, because they always serve the ball very well, Ball says. They've always been a strong serving team and a strong blocking team.
We really can't practice against their size, because we really don't have anyone in our gym that's that big. But we do have, right now, some guys who have real good serves, so we can concentrate on that. That's the part where we're going to spend some time this week.
The Mastodons are 2-0 as they head East, having brushed aside Sacred Heart 25-19, 25-18, 25-20 in their home opener last week. Eddie Rivera led the way with 12 kills, but IPFW got its usual balanced attack with Bryan Saunders and Ramon Brugos checking in with nine kills apiece and Elon Fyfield adding six more.
Now it's on to Penn State and Saint Francis for a veteran team that, like their coach, knows the way.
Our kids having been ranked for a couple of weeks in the poll, so now they've got their sights set on Penn State, Ball says. And, of course, being Penn State, it's easy to get motivated. As everybody knows in sports, you know it's that next one you really have to work on getting the kids up for because it's not quite as glamorous or it's not quite as exciting – and Saint Francis actually has a very nice volleyball team.
But the fact we have an experienced squad makes it easier in preparation, because they understand just a little bit what you're trying to prepare for.


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Yeah that does sound like a great price on Craigslist
Little Concerned about buying something that expensive off Craigslist though.
You must have a big trailer to put 10 to 200 watt panels on it.
Mine is a little toe behind 26 footer
I think I might be able to put 5 100 watts on it.
I'm thinking or hoping the 1 100watt panel will keep my two batteries charged.
With your system can you run the AC though?
If so I might pick up Moore that would be cool.
I'm thinking to run the AC on an RV you would have to have a lot of batteries.
I currently have two 12 volt deep cycle batteries. might be able to squeeze two more in storage compartment oh I'm sure that's probably all I could do!
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Something you can do to give you a better idea of what you need would be to have a couple of solar installers come out and bid on your system. tell them what you would like to do and they will design the whole system. They do it for free (I had probably 5 or 6 bids on my system and went with a Sunpower contractor). I also used the bids to put together a shopping list to see what it would cost to do it myself. When you have them come out tell them you want to do your trailer too and they can design that system too!
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In regards to my RV I do think the 100 watt panel will be good enough for me I don't need to run the air conditioner
Well for now I don't
I normally camp way up in the hills where its usually a lot cooler.
Now since solar power is not my expertise
I was going to get bids if not to have them do it maybe to get more educated.
Diesel pushers are obviously very nice
This is my second year camping so trailer was a starter lol
Went the trailer rout cause I do have 3 diesel trucks.
I do not need another vehicle to register lol.
We bought our RV with the intention of spending a significant amount of out time traveling the country and home schooling on the road, so we needed a little more liveable space. Circumstances have changed though so we don't use it much these days. I might even be using it to live in soon. The only problem is that the size limits where you can go sometimes. Though I have driven it over Ebbetts Pass with a trailer behind it with a Jeep on the trailer, so we were about 52 feet overall. They have warning signs stating that vehicles over 25 feet in length are not recommended. It was no big deal though. We camped at Lake Alpine that time.
My best friend just bought a 5th wheel so he can go camping with us.
But the reason I'm telling you this is he has a trailer that he tows behind his 5th wheeler so he can put our Harley's on it.
I was very hesitant to put my Harley on there!!!
Definitely a weird site to see going down the road. he does have a class a license
Oh I know it be okay it's just a weird site to see going down the road.
I don't worry about the Harley got insurance lol.
But I think you need something bigger than a half ton 1976 Chevy lol.
He's a tad bit on the oki side.
OK, Check that. It is not OK behind a half ton truck. He is undoubtedly exceeding the tow capacity of the truck with those trailers. I think the mid-70's Chevies had an 8000lb towing capacity if the trailer has brakes.


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Exxon vs Gold: Which One Is a Better Investment?
Posted by: Todd Sullivan (IP Logged)
Date: October 3, 2012 07:41AM
There has been a substantial portion of advisors over the decades who have recommended gold as a primary investment for portfolios. The chart below compares the weekly closing price of the London 3PM pricing of gold (GLD) (left scale) to Exxon Mobil (XOM) (right scale) and a gold indexed XOM created by pricing XOM to the $301.76 Jan. 11, 1985, price of gold (left scale).
It is important to note that gold does not pay a dividend while XOM has paid a dividend for all of the history shown here and currently at $92.47 carries a 2.47% dividend yield. The return shown in the chart does not include the XOM dividend return to investors. If I had included the dividend, XOM indexed to gold would have exceeded $6,000 by my estimate.
Gold is one of many commodities which receive investment capital during periods of high financial stress when investors worry that capital may be eroded by inflation or currency debasement. Gold and XOM have experienced identical environments the past 32 years. The difference between these two investment choices is that gold's appreciation is not due to any inherent return to investors. Gold does not meet society's needs through a productive and evolving value creation process. Gold does not earn a rate of return nor does it pay a dividend. Gold is only up when fears are strongest, but it falls when market psychology once again believes that society will not implode and investors are able to focus on true investment returns.
Exxon Mobil is a company which is managed by individuals seeking investment returns, part of which is paid to investors in the form of a dividend. The management culture has been such that successive CEOs have maintained a combined approximately 14% compounded growth rate comprised of approximately 11.5% of common stock growth and approximately 2.5% dividend yield since 1985. Exxon Mobil, which has a history of being managed by competent individuals, has continuously adjusted to changing business conditions. The current CEO is Rex Tillerson, and he seems to be on the same pace as his predecessors.
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In my experience, anticipating changes in market psychology as it pertains to investment opportunities is nigh impossible. But being able to identify the better CEOs is something that is possible. Rather than attempt to gauge when changes in market psychology are likely to occur, what one can do is (by being attuned to the various economic trends) enter a particular asset class when most investors are very pessimistic and hold till investors have turned more optimistic. This coincides with the broad economic cycle and is the reason it is called "business cycle value investing." It is easier in my opinion to buy something like Exxon Mobil which has an identifiable investment growth record when few want to own it and hold till the market sentiment re-prices the issue higher than try to judge how the price of gold with sentiment changes.
My advice always recommends well-managed commodity companies versus the commodities themselves. This is not a recommendation to buy Exxon Mobil, but meant to show the value of investing in well-managed companies. In my experience well-managed investments outpace commodity related investments over the long term. Exxon Mobil is a well-known example.
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Chrome to weed out dodgy website SSL certificates by itself
Google will drop online checks for revoked website encryption certificates in future versions of its Chrome browser after it decided that the process no longer offers any tangible benefits. For about a decade now, browsers check the validity of a website's secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate by polling online revocation …
Faulty logic
It strikes me that the revocation check logic is wrong. There are three possible results:
(a) Revocation check OK; certificate not revoked -> OK, proceed to the site;
(b) Revocation check OK; certificate revoked -> warn the user (or block the site and tell the user why);
(c) Revocation check fails (no result) -> warn user but allow the user to proceed "under caution" to the site.
Perhaps the URL bar background could be GREEN, RED and AMBER respectively in the three cases.
That would make too much sense
It seems the prevailing wisdom these days is that users are idiots who should not be giving any choices or information. Thus (c) clearly is an unacceptable solution.
Most users are idiots when it comes to security. C would be unacceptable in any firewalled environment as the browser would never be able to check for revocation and so the user would always get an error message. The biggest problem with giving a choice using UAC as an exmaple is that the user will almost always press Yes.
Paris: Because she'll say yes to anything.
Just how long...
... before someone crafts malware to mess with the revoked certificate list locally to whitelist their nefarious certificate for www.almost_but_not_quite_the_real_domain_for_a_bank.com
as far as I know the CRL's are signed by a the CA. So this would require the hacker to also be emulating the root ca. In that case surely they might as well just man in the middle with a cert that looks genuine.
If they can sign one in a M-i-t-m attack...
... then they can spew it widely making it harder to eradicate.
You said "Halting access to a HTTPS-secured website if a revocation check failed would leave users unable to connect to sites if the relevant CA was down for any reason, another bad idea."
How did you come to that conclusion? If you are simply referring to the inability of CAs to scale their CRL servers appropriately to handle the traffic; that doesn't make it a bad idea, but simply a poor, but typical, implementation. If not, then you've just said that security can be unimportant.
Also, I surmise that Google is doing this in order to be able to to deny the CA's the ability to track the use of their customers' websites, which they can do by the number of CRL queries (kind of).
Apple was heavily criticised - by the likes of Sophos, etc - for not turning on automatic OCSP certificate checks on Safari by default, until they changed that setting in OSX Lion.
Now Google goes and turns it off in their browser...
They're relying on the browser to know what's good and what's bad. Every time something like this blows up it takes a few days for an update to be pushed out and you're open to attack until the next browser update. It also takes a few days for the press to get hold of it.
I've got Options > Advanced > Encryption > Validation > "When an OCSP server connection fails, treat the certificate as invalid set" set and if something fails I turn it off for a short while (after trying again and checking the IT news). Paranoid, much?
Oh, that's Firefox...
So, they complain about a seatbelt that snaps in SOME crashes ... and replace it with a pre-snapped one guaranteed to have failed already regardless? *headdesk*
Catching the use of a revoked certificate is good. Even if it sometimes fails, it's better than nothing! I'm wondering if Google have an ulterior motive of sorts here, given their recent obsession with speeding up HTTPS and SPDY, including taking interesting shortcuts in SSL?
Maybe their system is wonderful - but I'd still rather have my browser check for revocation than not. Defence in depth.
@James: What Google Wants
Is to track behaviour as closely as possible. All major browsers already post each and every URL to either Google or Microsoft, including Firefox, btw. All in the name of "phishing protection", of course. Don't believe it ? Do a little wiresharking.
I guess what they want to do is to redirect the revocation traffic to a Google datacenter. And mine all the server names, of course.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
At what point does Chrome's update system get subverted and the certificate list get manipulated?
If the problem is with what to do with checks that fail because they can't be completed then you need to reengineer that path. Caching might be part of the solution and the browser makers are indeed in a good position to be part of a public key infrastructure to distribute and update such lists or CA public keys, much as they now provide synchronisation services. Of course, any such approach is also open to subversion at some point in the chain. So, just as browsers are eminently suited to being gatekeepers they just as suitable to be the target for attacks through malware. Currently, I can't think a of a truly secure way to bootstrap the process without using an external channel such as a smartcard.
Bzzztttt - WRONG....
" "Microsoft, Opera and Firefox also push software updates for serious incidents rather than rely on online revocation checks."
Chrome is basically doing when Opera has done for a long while.
Except they're not
If I understood that Opera blog post correctly, they're basically saying that their browser does perform CRL and OCSP checks, and does "downgrade the security level" of a site if revocation checks cannot be performed (in contrast to the default settings in Chrome and Firefox, which carry on regardless if a revocation check cannot be performed).
However, all that happens when a site has its security level "downgraded" is that the address bar doesn't show a padlock. This doesn't actually stop people from using the site anyway, or stop scripts from running, etc. - so, basically Opera might as well do nothing at all.
They're all currently worse than useless (at default settings, at least - Firefox *can* be configured to treat OCSP responder failures as fatal), but the solution is simply to make CRL and OCSP checks mandatory, with browsers throwing up errors if the checks can't be performed. Google are re-inventing the wheel, when really all they need to do is take the one they've got and sand it down a bit so it rolls more smoothly.
Very disturbing and illogical move.
The reasoning behind this change makes some sense IMO. If you cannot rely on the CRL distribution points being available then it makes sense to try and solve this problem. We all know that Google has bandwidth to spare here.
However; this also poses the question how these certificates got into Chrome in the first place. Or maybe even raises the question why they haven't been removed as soon as it became apparent that these CA's used unreliable CRL distribution points?
This is a disturbing move from Google because it totally negates the intended effect of these CRL lists in the first place. Namely: giving CA's a 'last resort' to revoke certificates ASAP. As soon as a CA discovers a major hole somewhere then there is no time to wait for a browser manufacturer to push its next update. We need those warnings instantly!
A lot of people are full of talk when it comes to internet security, but when the big bucks start talking it all becomes different again... How surprising indeed!
Instead of working around these problems I think Google would have been better off by enforcing their security policies. If your aim is security and someone involved doesn't meet the required expectations then normally you don't lower your standards; you tell the involved parties to stick with the program instead!
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1. Suggestion: make mention of Diginotar a link to an article about it (like http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/diginotar_bankrupt/ )
2. In "Langely is proposing a more lighter weight method of ...":
"more lightweight" or "lighter-weight" would be more better English.
Look people, we're 50ms faster than rivals on HTTPS
Come on Google... Don't be evil ?
SSL is mostly money for old rope
The non-EV/domain verified SSL business is a right old rip off and a big cartel designed to allow a few heavy weights to roll in the cash.
If I can buy a basic SSL certificate for any domain name that has a registrar published owner name, address and postcode and have it in my paws inside 10 minutes, with bugger all checks, why do we need to pay Verisign et al for the pleasure of renewing it every year. It's a joke.
If all you want is a secure channel and don't give a crap about verification then why should users have to pay for something as basic as that? Surely that should be a basic function of the web these days now without having to pay for it. I don't pay anything for SSH why should I pay for basic HTTP encryption.
I can understand paying for EV SSL's, you need to have humans (hopefully) involved in the screening process, but then how good is the screening process?
Also when average Joe happens to look up at the green EV indicator next to the address bar does he even comprehend what it means?
I think it's time to re-think the whole SSL infrastructure because it's rotten to the core.
SSL and SSH
But it's essentially the same if you self-sign your SSL certificates, for free.
First time you connect to a new SSH server the client asks if you trust it's key. A web browser does the same if you connect to a web server with a self-signed certificate (with a few more checkboxes and warnings)
The issue is the same, there's no good way for the user to trust the other side's certificate without someone/something else vouching for it. That's what you pay for.
yeah but sort of
1 - if all you want is encryption. No need to to bother with a CA.
2 - the purposes of the CA is to establish trust - the encryption is a by product really. However the sales and marketing beef sell "secure / encryption blah blah" because its difficult to sell certified assurance/trust.
The certificate is meant to give assurance that the entity you are sending data to has had its identity validated by a trusted third party. The third party is "trusted" because they are audited annually and have to provide those reports to the browser programmes for their roots to be in the browser.
in relation to 2. the limited identity validation by low end certs is a real pain and should be stopped.
The other approaches are dependent on what the CA puts in its CPS and/or relying party agreements. So then end user should only "trust" based on what the CA has done to validate the identity. - Almost no-one does this. I know very few places that have read a CPS or the relying party agreements. Average Joe certainly doesn't if ever to my knowledge.
The core does have problems. For instance, legacy roots provide ubiquity across browsers and this creates a cartel scenario to some extent. IMO all roots in the browser program should have a shelf life (and actually expire and be removed), and that all CA's operate on a level playing field by standardising validation procedures for SSL certs.
Hearing about CA's that bought other CA's for their root certs that "still work in IE3/4" is nuts. Those browsers shouldn't be the reason we have certs that are so old still in use.
Standardised validation, "legal opinion" option should be phased out. You either prove your identity or you don't get a EV cert. validation is substantial and the CA's do take it really seriously. However EV also introduced new roots. If all other SSL certs could be switched off. We could re-engineer our CA's only to issue EV without necessarily having to cling on to CA's that are not doing a good job.
I don't want to choose!
I'd like to see both. I'd like google to roll up the revocation lists and distribute them via software update so they can be checked first *and* I'd like the online checks made.
Is that so hard?
But but but
"The median time for a successful OCSP check is ~300ms and the mean is nearly a second. This delays page loading and discourages sites from using HTTPS. They are also a privacy concern because the CA learns the IP address of users and which sites they're visiting.
That's 300 ms extra that Google can use to push even bigger ads to you!
Not to mention only Google should be allowed to record the IP addresses of its users.
Google has just found another way to track your online activity
Why ask the CA if a certificate is valid sending it the URL you're visiting? Tell Google instead...
How about
What if the current certificates were replaced with ones that only last for 24 hours; the logic would be that the server, which should have better access to the internet than the client, has to renew every 24 hours in order to stay "Certified Genuine".
This would mean that the current browser logic can be simplified to "if certificate expired, then [warn]/[don't connect]".
The infrastructure for key maintenance would increase traffic a little, but the total would decrease because the browser doesn't need to make multiple connections to validate the certificate.
Certificate costs would need to increase a little, but security isn't free and the certificate authorities would at least have more to do than just renew every year/decade.
The old and new systems can coexist, with browser logic warning based on certificate expiry date: long expiry being not as good as <24 hour expiry.
High security applications could even step up to one or two hour recycling to increase trust levels.
The original system was based on poorer bandwidth and less browser traffic, and the browser doing a lot of the work; this would move the load to the certificate servers and the web servers, which should both have rock solid connectivity or they wouldn't be able to do their jobs.
SSL is BROKEN
SSL is broken; the 600+ CAs, in whom we are supposed to trust implicitly forever, are not all trustworthy. Perhaps a new method of certificate verification, such as Convergence, http://convergence.io, would help.
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Q-Zyme (OmegaZyme):
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Lactase - May be beneficial for those suffering from irritable bowel syndrome.. . .
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Poten-Zyme Cats Claw Extract - Cats claw has been used . . . as a treatment for . . . urinary track infections and arthritis.
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[Been shown to drastically reduce populations of yeast, parasites and bad bacteria in the intestines.
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Powerful Anti-Candida Formula
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Taken together, statements in this document imply that the product will treat Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). For example, the section titled, What is Candida states [yeast overgrowth.. .is especially prevalent in hyperactive children and those with ADD and ADHD, and the section titled, A Word on Diet states that [t]he powerful ingredients in Fungal Defense are specifically targeted to destroy yeast.. .
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Raisin: contain . . . a phytonutrient shown to have cancer-prevention effects. Raisins are a rich sources of polyphenols and proanthocyanidins, which are recommended in prevention and treatment protocols for cardiovascular disease, cancer.. . asthma, diabetes, liver disease, cataracts, and macular degeneration.
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Original Medicine Wholefood Nutrition brochure:
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Mushrooms and other foods have been used for centuries to defend against disease.
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Countryside is an amazing school with amazing support from the parents and the community. The class sizes are small and so each child has more individual attention and instruction. In addition, many children have extra literacy and math instruction from the extended and specialized teaching staff. I believe this is one of the few school districts remaining that have an active gifted program and the only public school with an active Mandarin immersion program. Most importantly, our children are happy to go to school each day and they get off the bus with smiles on their faces. We are very happy to be at Countryside.
We recently moved to the area from Chicago and have been so thoroughly impressed with the school! Our son's teacher is excellent, the school environment is safe an welcoming and the facilities are spectacular. I would have loved to attend school in such an idyllic setting! My son will joining the Chinese immersion program currently being offered at the school, which gets great feedback from existing students and parents. We could not be more pleased with the school and the education it is providing our son. We plan to stay here and send our other child to this school as well. As a parent who always attended private Catholic schools I must say I am very much impressed by District 220 and think that they offer so much more than what any private school could offer. They very much have their eye on the ball and basically all the schools in the district are excellent.
I have two students that attend this school. All the teachers & staff so far have been excellent! My son is very gifted and both teachers he has had have given him extra/harder things to challenge him. This school has the best teaching tools, computers, etc. The new prinicipal is very approachable & enthusiastic, nurse is great, and the building itself is very nice. Kids love the playgrounds!
My child is currently in fourth grade and finds all the teachers to be positively rewarding. His teacher challenges him and makes learning enjoyable. He loves going to school each day and has grown so much since the beginning of the year. Overall the staff and building are out of this world!
My child find the classes more relaxed at Countryside than at his/her previous school-He/she finds the work to be non-challenging- While I really like his/her teacher, I am not impressed by the 5th grade curriculum.
My child has had an overall good experience here. I am glad we are now in middle school, but besides that one year, and all the damage done, Countryside was a positive experience
My son has attended this school for 2 years, 4th & 5th grades. We have been a corporate re-lo family, so the starting over process is not new to us. The school has a motivated & enthusiastic principal at the helm. His commitment to the children filters through into the classroom. You can look at test scores & the school measures up quite well. My son was inspired daily. His 4th grade teacher saw potential in the creative side of my son. She maximized that and helped him use it to his benifit. She stayed in close contact with me as we watched my son explode in the areas of English and Liturature. He has developed a love of writting fiction, and a love of learning. I give this school a big thumbs up.
Our son is attending a 5-year-old program at Countryside. The school is quite large with 3 playgrounds and an area for soccer. The parking is lacking, in that when you drop or pick up your child many parents have to park on County Line Road, which is a major thorough fare. The library is our son's favorite room. While the teachers are very good with all of the children, the rooms are almost too large, which sounds strange. However, a child needs guidelines and the children have few to follow, save for circle time and snack time. My son has changed since attending Countryside, he is not as gregarious or happy go lucky as he was last year while attending Woodland Elementary. Curious considering that they do not have air conditioning and no designated areas for soccer. Perhaps less is more? Time will tell.
until this year thought the school and staff were great. What a difference one teacher can make! We are very disappointed in the quality of my child's current teacher. Grading is not being done, and the children are constantly being humiliated in front of classmates for low grades, missed homework, etc. We are used to a strong parental involvement at this school, and this is currently being discouraged. Many parents have gone to the principal, with little or no results. We will not be sending the rest of our children here.
Strong parental involvement coupled with an excellent staff make Countryside a wonderful school. The students and staff are lucky to have a beautiful new building with ample room and resources to encourage student growth and development. We have enjoyed each teacher and consider our children lucky to be part of such a strong and respected school.
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Barrington, IL 60010
Phone: (847) 381-1162
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About two-thirds of women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer want to take part in making decisions about their treatment, according to a new survey of patients from five different countries.
Some of these women want complete control over making treatment choices while others want to share the decision with their doctor -- yet only a minority of them actually get the level of involvement they are hoping for.
"Physicians should be trying to elicit patient preferences," said Richard Brown, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Brown's team asked 683 women who were recently diagnosed with breast cancer what kind of role they would like to have in making decisions about their treatment: would they like to have total control, a shared role with their doctor, or have the doctor make the choices.
After the women met with their physicians, the researchers followed up to ask how their visit went and whether their preferences for how involved they would like to be in the future had changed.
Only 28 out of every 100 women initially wanted to delegate the decision to their doctor, but 46 out of every 100 reported that their doctor ended up making the decision.
"I think it's not so surprising that the actual decision making tended to be more doctor-directed than the patients wanted," said Dr. Michael Barry, president of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, who was not involved in this study.
"I think sometimes clinicians think most patients don't want to participate in decisions, particularly around serious things like cancer, and that's not the finding here or in previous studies," he told Reuters Health.
Among the 282 women who changed their preference after the consultation with their doctor, a little more than half of them shifted toward a greater involvement.
A third of them originally wanted their doctor to make the decision and later preferred to either share it or take control themselves, and one in five who originally wanted to share the decision later preferred to make the choice on their own.
When women had more involvement than they originally intended, they "were less conflicted over the decision, more satisfied with their ultimate decision, more satisfied with the consultation communication" than women who had less involvement, the authors write in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Barry said the findings make sense for women with early-stage breast cancer, because there are often multiple, effective options for treatment.
For instance, the risk of death might be the same if a woman has her breast removed compared to having her breast preserved, but one woman might prioritize keeping her breast and be more willing to go through the extra surgeries and radiation.
"When patients then understand there are multiple reasonable options for treatment of early stage breast cancer...usually you'll see more desire for participatory decision making," Barry said.
After they had the consultation with their doctor, about a third of the women in the study continued to want their physicians to have control over the decision.
"The preference to leave the decision to the physician is a perfectly reasonable decision to make," Brown told Reuters Health.
He and his colleagues note in the new report that they intend to pursue future studies of patients with other cancers, especially those with limited treatment options.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/xp9ulx Journal of Clinical Oncology, online February 6, 2012.
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Obama could stand to be a little more like LBJ
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On Thursday, President Barack Obama joined other dignitaries at a civil rights summit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson's signature accomplishment as president – passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. And in a nod to the shoulders that he stands on, Obama said, "I have lived out the promise of LBJ's efforts."
But some Americans, particularly those who lived through LBJ's presidency, wish that President Obama not only reaped the rewards of President Johnson's leadership but also led more like him. And to that point, I recently attended the critically acclaimed Broadway play All the Way, in which "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston portrays the president during the year in which he struggled and eventually triumphed in his efforts to pass the Civil Rights Act.
Seeing the production, two things became obvious: Cranston will get a Tony Award nomination for his performance, and the president he portrays is very different from the president we have today. After I saw the production with a family member who lived through the civil rights movement, she couldn't help remarking about how different Johnson – one of the presidents she admires most—is from the current president, whom she also admires greatly.
And she also couldn't help wondering if things today might be different if President Obama had a little bit more of LBJ in him, so to speak.
"All the Way," and the countless historical accounts and documents it is based on, make it abundantly clear that Johnson wasn't someone you'd typically call a "nice" guy. But he was a man who got things done. He would employ charm when necessary, asking allies and adversaries about their wives, children and hobbies if he thought it would advance his agenda. But in the next breath he would threaten to cripple them financially or politically if it meant the difference between getting a piece of legislation he cared about passed and not.
To illustrate that point, one of the photos selected for Johnson's Wikipedia page shows him physically in the face of Georgia Sen. Richard Russell with a caption that reads, "President Johnson giving 'The Treatment' to Senator Richard Russell in 1963." That became journalistic and political shorthand for how Johnson handled people from whom he wanted – and ultimately expected – something. The New York Times also has an amusing gallery of Johnson giving "the Treatment."
Let's just say every tip our parents gave us for polite interactions with people, Johnson regularly ignored. He was willing to both intimidate and ultimately alienate Russell – a fellow Southern Democrat, as well as a lifelong friend and mentor – in his obsessive pursuit of passing the Civil Rights Act. Russell was far from the only one.
In one of the more chilling accounts of his role in civil rights, the president is portrayed as threatening one of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s chief financial backers in an effort to pressure the civil rights activist, and other black activists, to compromise and support some of his less popular political maneuvering. To paraphrase Johnson as portrayed by Cranston, "Politics is war by other means. Actually, politics is just war."
President Obama was elected in part because he has never discussed – nor does he see – politics in those terms. He speaks of a world in which politics is not about war and enemies but about finding those areas of common ground in which we might all be allies. That used to be one of my favorite qualities about him, and I once wrote a column that irritated some of my more activist friends in which I likened Obama to quiet, unassuming African-American tennis great Arthur Ashe.
I argued that occasionally that demeanor is more effective in the world, particularly for people of color, than comporting oneself like the more voluble Serena Williams. But "All the Way" reminded me that sometimes you have to throw a racket or two to get things done.
It isn't always pretty, but sometimes it's effective. As my mother has said, "Sometimes you have to go down to people's level for them to know that you'll go there, and ultimately for them to respect you or fear you enough that they won't ever provoke you into going there again."
Jonathan Alter, bestselling author of "The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies," which chronicles the Obama era of American politics, described to me that Johnson and Obama, and the eras in which they led, are so different that it isn't fair to compare the two. "It's an unfair comparison because the times are so different. LBJ had huge Democratic majorities and could use pork – projects in districts – in exchange for votes."
But Alter explained that one of Obama's shortcomings is something that has been reported to be one of Johnson's strengths. "If Obama schmoozed more, as I note in 'The Center Holds' in a chapter called 'Missing the Schmooze Gene,' he would help himself at the margins, which is where a lot of politics play out. It might not get many Republican votes, but he could win a few more small battles."
Even when dealing with those who hated him, Johnson and his wife were known for their attention to detail, asking about family members, remembering favorite recipes when someone visited the White House, and so on. These are qualities that the president, unlike his most recent predecessors – Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton – isn't known for, and they're not really qualities that can be faked or taught.
But despite all that, Alter ultimately concluded that there are many more reasons to be grateful for an Obama presidency. "It's a good thing he's not more like LBJ on foreign policy, where we lost tens of thousands of American lives in Vietnam for nothing."
(Keli Goff is The Root's special correspondent. Follow her on Twitter.)


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Get It Now - GSNH Fall Newsletter Issue #86 - September 2014
The Geological Society of Maine - Fall Meeting
Surface Water and Groundwater Investigations and Studies in Maine
November 6th 1-5 pm
Augusta Civic Center, Augusta Maine
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GSNH Legislative Tracking has been updated!Please view the list of Pending Legislation (as of June 2014) by visiting our Legislative Updates Page.
GSNH Winter Dinner Meeting - TBD.
Grand Canyon Rafting Trip
July 6 to July 12, 2015
summer (2015), Fred Beck (Geological Society of Maine) and Alison Jones (GSM
and Geological Society of Arizona) will be leading a raft trip through 188
miles of the Grand Canyon - - a 7 day trip on 2 motorized 34-foot inflatable
rafts. This will be the 7th
trip for Alison and 6th for Fred.
We will be going "down section" from the late Permian into the
Precambrian, and making numerous geologic and just fun stops along the
way. We will be camping out each night
on sandy beach deltas. As in the past,
our trip will be run by Hatch River Expeditions, the oldest raft concessionaire
in the Grand Canyon.
provides everything; two rafts which
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experienced guides who run the boats, do the cooking, and assure that everyone
will have the experience of a lifetime.
In the past we have had about 50% geologists and the rest spouses,
teen-aged children, or just people who want to learn about geology in perhaps
the grandest classroom in the world. It
may be that this trip would qualify for continuing education credits for those
who need these credits.
trip has proved very popular and the available spots usually are all filled by
late summer or early Fall. A deposit of
$500 is required to hold a spot. The
balance of $2450 is due in March. In
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filled. Since we always have had a
waiting list, we've never failed to fill vacated spots. For more detailed information, contact Fred
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It's that time! Yes, time to renew your GSNH membership!
Keep current and enjoy the good karma. Please renew your membership for 2014 with our one-page Membership Form.


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