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Ohio River/Lawrenceburg (July 9, 2005)
Owens wins Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League event on Ohio River
LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. — Boater Roger Owens of Monroe, Ohio, earned $6,050 Saturday as winner of the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League Buckeye Division event on the Ohio River. The tournament was the second of five regular-season Buckeye Division events and featured 130 boaters vying for the win, which earned Owens 200 points in the Boater Division.
Owens caught his winning catch of four bass weighing 8 pounds, 14 ounces on crankbaits that he threw around laydowns on the south stretch of the river. He earned $4,050 for the victory plus an additional $1,000 as winner of the Ranger Cup award and another $1,000 as winner of the Garmin Grand award.
Finishing second was Wes Campbell of Brookeville, Ohio, with three bass weighing 7 pounds, 3 ounces that earned him $2,025. Bob Robinson of Springboro, Ohio, claimed $1,325 as the third-place finisher thanks to three bass weighing 6 pounds, 7 ounces. In fourth was Gary Becker of St. Mary's, Ohio, with five bass weighing 5 pounds, 15 ounces worth $1,031, and finishing fifth and earning $847 was Steve Floyd of Sabina, Ohio, with five bass weighing 5 pounds, 14 ounces.
Gary Ginter of Maplewood, Ohio, took Boater Division big-bass award honors, earning $650 for a 4-pound, 2-ounce bass. He caught his big bass on a Zoom soft-plastic lure.
Fred Fox of Batavia, Ohio, bested 130 Co-angler Division competitors to earn $1,908 as the co-angler winner, thanks to three bass weighing 5 pounds, 14 ounces that he caught on a soft-plastic tube.
Rounding out the top five co-anglers are Shirley Richards of Harrison, Ohio (three bass, 4 pounds, 7 ounces, $954); Willie Dexter of Logan, Ohio (three bass, 4 pounds, 6 ounces, $624); Matthew Phillips of West Alexandria, Ohio (one bass, 4 pounds, $486); and Jeff Oaks of Medway, Ohio (three bass, 3 pounds, 10 ounces, $399).
Phillips earned $300 as the co-angler big-bass award winner with his 4-pounder. He caught his big bass on a spinnerbait.
The Buckeye Division's next event will be held July 30 on the Ohio River near Maysville, Ky., followed by an event on Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio, August 20. The Buckeye Division will wrap up its regular season Sept. 10-11 with a two-day Super Tournament on Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio.
Following the regular season, the Buckeye Division boater with the most points will earn $1,000 as the Yamaha "Be the Best" points champion. The co-angler amassing the most points will earn $500 as the Yamaha "Be the Best" points champion in the Co-angler Division.
Every angler who receives weight credit in a tournament earns points, with 200 points going to the winner, 199 for second, 198 for third, and so on except for Super Tournaments, which award 300 points to the winner, 299 for second, 298 for third, and so on. The top 40 Buckeye Division boaters and co-anglers based on year-end points standings will advance to the Lake Cherokee Regional near Morristown, Tenn., Oct. 4-8 where they will compete against Illini, LBL and Piedmont Division anglers for one of six slots in the 2006 All-American. With a total purse of $1 million and a potential $140,000 cash prize going to the winning boater and $70,000 going to the winning co-angler, the All-American is one of the most prestigious and lucrative events in bass fishing.
The $8.4 million Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League features 28 divisions nationwide. In BFL competition, boaters and co-anglers are randomly paired, with boaters supplying the boat and fishing against other boaters and co-anglers fishing from the back deck against other co-anglers. For more information or to enter a tournament, call (270) 252-1000 or browse FLWOutdoors.com.
Named after the legendary founder of Ranger Boats, Forrest L. Wood, FLW Outdoors administers the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League and seven other national tournament circuits offering a combined $30 million in awards through 214 events in 2005. The 27-year-old organization is the purveyor of America's largest and most prestigious fishing tournaments, including the Wal-Mart FLW Tour, EverStart Series, Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League, Wal-Mart Texas Tournament Trail, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye League, Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour and Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series.
Wal-Mart and many of America's largest and most respected companies support FLW Outdoors and its tournament trails. Wal-Mart signed on as title sponsor of the FLW Tour in 1997 and today is the title sponsor of all FLW Outdoors events. For more information on Wal-Mart, visit Wal-Mart.com.


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Historical determinism
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Historical determinism is the stance in explaining history or advocating a political position that events are historically predetermined (and/or currently constrained) by various forces. Since such explanation is the norm,[citation needed] it may be better understood in contrast to its negation, i.e. the rejection of historical determinism.
The italicized alternation (and/or) is significant because some political philosophies (e.g. Marxism) assert a form of the one and reject the other. Used as a pejorative, it is normally meant to designate an overdetermination of present possibilities by historical conditions.
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- Bad faith (existentialism)
- Determinism
- Economic determinism
- False consciousness
- False necessity
- Free Will
- Geographic determinism
- Human nature
- Marxism
- Self determination
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It is for this reason that you should never give a child your iTunes password.
The Telegraph reports that a 5-year-old named Danny Kitchen (cutest name) racked up a 1,700 pound (about $2,554) iTunes bill in just 10 minutes. His father gave him the password so he could download the free Zombie Vs Ninja game, but it was a slippery slope. After blowing his way through the free add-ons section, Mr. Kitchen found his way into the paid section, and before his mother could stop him she had an iTunes bill totaling more than most people's monthly rent.
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Social & Legal Philosophy Colloquium: A Principle of Contractarian JusticeUCL Faculty of Laws EventsWednesday, January 22, 2014 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM (GMT) |
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Social and Legal Philosophy
Colloquium Series 2014
A Principle of Contractarian Justice
Professor Albert Weale
Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL
Wednesday 22nd January 2014, 4-7pm
About this Colloquium
Scepticism about desert has been common among theorists of justice, both those who favour a social contract account and those, like Hayek, who have a different view. Yet, although the concept of desert seldom figures in contemporary contract theories of justice, it is an element in the common sense morality of modern democracies. Can we reconcile common sense thinking and social contract theory in respect of the principle of desert?
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how far a social contract theory of economic justice – specifically a social contract theory that takes a contractarian form – can accommodate a principle of desert. A contractarian theory of justice may be characterised as one in which principles of justice are defined by reference to the upshot of a procedural agreement to mutual advantage among agents located in a base-line situation of non-cooperation. Such a procedural agreement can be seen as an intellectual construct that enables us to model the conditions of justice.
How does the principle of desert fare in such a construction? The argument is that the principle of desert is not directly implied by such a theoretical construction, but that it is consistent with such a theoretical construction. In a society governed by the principles of justice that emerge in such contractarian situations, participants may meaningfully say that returns to productive effort over and above those returns that are implied by the principles of contractarian agreement are deserved. It is also possible that differential returns within the contractarian agreement can also be described as 'deserved' in a reading back into the terms of that agreement, although this latter is a more speculative possibility.
Biography of the speaker
Professor Weale was born in Brighton in 1950. In the autumn of 1967 he went to Clare College Cambridge to read Theology, graduating in 1971. In 1974 he was awarded the Sir James Knott Fellowship in the Department of Politics at the University of Newcastle. In 1976 he was awarded a Lectureship in the Department of Politics at the University of York. In 1985 Professor Weale then moved to the University of East Anglia as Professor of Politics and in 1992 he joined the Department of Government at the University of Essex as Professor of Government. In January 2010 he became Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy at UCL.
His main intellectual influences have been the work of John Rawls and H.L.A. Hart in contemporary political theory, and John Stuart Mill and Henry Sidgwick in the history of political thought.
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Munster gets county approval for May referendum
By Carrie Napoleon Post-Tribune correspondent February 19, 2013 1:30PM
Updated: February 19, 2013 4:35PM
Munster voters will get to decide May 7 whether they are willing to pay more to keep the high-achieving school town operating at status quo.
Tuesday the Lake County Board of Elections approved placing a referendum on the ballot May 7 seeking to create a new levy of 19.9 cents per $100 of assessed value to raise taxes in its general fund. The new levy would be in place for seven years and will be in addition all other existing property tax levies for the school. It will be the only question on the ballot.
The new levy is expected to raise $21 million over the seven-year period. For a house valued at $244,835, the increase would add $253 to the tax bill.
Superintendent Richard Sopko said the school system finds itself in a position where it is impossible to operate with its current general funds. Without an immediate new revenue source, cuts will have to be made to programs and staffing. The school system ranks 348th in the state in terms of dollars spent per student.
"We are in desperate need of these funds. If we wait beyond May we will have to make staffing decisions," Sopko said.
School officials have conducted about 150 one-on-one meetings with constituents, hosted public forums and have brought the issue before a variety of civic organizations and so far the support has been positive.
"The overwhelming response from the public is they do not was to see programs cut," Sopko said.
James Weiser, Democratic attorney for the board, said the school system has met all the statutory requirements to seek the referendum. The Munster School Board approved the referendum question Feb. 11 and since then the school has received approval to go forward from the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance.
Michelle Fajman, director of the Board of Elections and Voter Registration said there are 25 precincts in Munster and 13 polling places, five of which are inside Munster schools.
Polling places for the election must be determined by April 5.
If the school system wants to make any changes to the polling places those changes must be presented to the Board of Elections to be considered at the March meeting to make that deadline. Voters will then be notified of any changes.


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By Maria Miller
BOSWELL, Pa. -- The Somerset town of Boswell has dealt with flash flooding damage twice in the past two months, the most recent being Wednesday.
Town officials said the sudden problems with the flooding are because of a mandate issued last year by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
The boroughs water authority said an old, abandoned reservoir sitting in the woods above the town helped collect water from spring run-off and heavy summer downpours. Those town officials said they were told the DEP felt the reservoir posed a bigger threat should it break and flood the town below.
It was just two pipes bringing the water out of the reservoir, Tony Deluca with the Boswell Water Authority said. It never got to the top and came over the spill way. It hasn't come over the spillway in 45 years since they closed it never any blockage; never any problems.
Deluca said the DEP told the borough to spend thousands of dollars to create an emergency action plan or destroy the dam.
The DEP finally came out and told us it was going to be a $10,000 fine against us and $500 every day we didn't do something, he said. So we had to breach the dam last year.
The reservoir was a 10-million gallon retention pond, in the past used for drinking water for the borough.
They felt that if it filled up with water and the dam broke, it would flood out the borough, Deluca said. So we flooded out the borough by doing what they wanted us to do.
A DEP spokesperson contacted 6 News Wednesday afternoon. He said the dam was not designed for flood control and it was in bad shape. He said the agency worried about what would happen if the dam gave way during a bad storm.
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A cycle of investment, training and hard work completes every four years as the world comes together at the Olympic games. It is just about the same amount of time that it takes the average large scale IT project to go from start to finish. The two have a lot in common, more than you would think.
Now I am not slagging the Olympic games. The London games have captured everything that could be expected from a world-class event. Congratulations to Gerry Pennell the London 2012 CIO and his team in London – a job well done.
The similarities between the two came to mind as I was reflecting on the Games. Besides it will be at least two years and possibly four before I can reuse this post – an eternity in the blogosphere. Just kidding.
This year's London Olympics is similar to a large IT transformation project by that I mean a big, multi country ERP upgrade/deployment, CRM implementation etc. You know the projects that last multiple years, consume the attention of management and generally go off with a big bang.
Both are large and complex projects involving people, process, facilities, information and technology. While the absolute scale is not the same, nor the particular time pressure, many of the same disciplines apply to both. Each is a program/project management masterpiece in terms of scale, visibility and criticality.
Both are transformational to their respective enterprises, particularly in the short term. London and the UK will not be the same for a while after 2012 between the Queen's Jubilee, the royal wedding and the Olympics. Likewise organizations are never the same after a large transformational IT project, so the change and impact are real. Over time both seem to fade both for the host city and the enterprise. This year I visited Seoul, Barcelona, Sydney and Atlanta and you have to look to see that the games were held in these cities.
The hype is tremendous, the expectations and benefits growing in proportion and response to the size of the investment with the benefits realized to be a different matter. Consider the revelation that retailers in London, particularly the west end, are losing business during the Olympics rather than generating the economic lift that has been expected.
Not everyone you expect shows up. In London, the ticketing scheme was the subject of some debate. In an IT project not everyone invited attends creating empty hours in the project plan where the business is expected to contribute to the project teams and participate in the projects.
Requirements are difficult to understand. London 2012 logo, which I cannot show in the post, is an example. The logo is open to interpretation, reconfiguration and just plain bewilderment. The same often goes for the requirements associated with large IT transformation projects. Everyone has an idea, an opinion, or a belief and all of them are partially correct.
People are human. Business people and Badminton players try to circumvent the rules and game the system. Others challenge the competence of officials and IT professionals . Thinking of the Fencing competition where the assumption was that measuring things in full seconds was sufficient. The 'compensation' for the fencer victimized by the officiating – a special "good sport" metal rather than a guaranteed silver metal. It sounds like the pat on the back someone gets for 'taking one of the team' on a big IT project.
Everyone is watching and everyone is a critic. Both of the Olympics and of large scale IT projects. People keep score about everything, even though officially it's not about keeping score. The medal count is an artificial creation of the media. The Olympic Committee does not keep a medal count per se as it is counter to the goals of the Olympic spirit. Likewise, the winners and losers on a big IT project.
Finally, both draw to a close often with a flurry of activity, a final closing ceremony and a collective look to the future. This will happen soon in London and people will look forward to Rio in four years time in the same way that those completing a big IT project can imagine when it will happen again. There is a little Olympian in all of us.
Thanks London, for being a superior host and bringing the world a terrific Games.
Thanks to all of you, the day-to-day technology Olympians who should also take a bow and be recognized for making technology faster, reach higher and deliver stronger results.
"Citius, Altius, Fortius" or as my spell checker wants to say "Citrus, Atlas, Forties" to all!
What can you say its technology.
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What should we do about Somalia?
Introduction: Chet Richards (Colonel, USAF, retired) originally posted at Defense and the National Interest. Everything he writes is worth reading; this is one of his best.
Beats hell out of me. First, it's not clear that there really is a Somalia — the CIA World Factbook identifies the Republic of Somaliland and a self-declared autonomous state of Puntland as making strides towards legitimate, representative government. New states, in other words.
Second, the only reasons most Americans care at all about Somalia, other than those with relatives in the area, are 1) pirates, and 2) terrorists. Pirates are the current news filler nowadays, so lets look at terrorists.
As former FBI manager Ali Soufan explained in an article in the Wall St. J. last week, there are groups in Somalia whose leaders had received some level of training by al-Qa'ida. Presumably that training ended more than seven years ago, so any success these groups have achieved recently have been through their own efforts.
The important question is what we do next. Soufan engages in the usual recipe that is notable for not having worked anywhere on the surface of the planet:
A comprehensive international diplomatic push to stabilize Somalia is crucial. In the meantime, the U.S. has to put in place a regional strategy that encompasses diplomatic, economic, intelligence, law-enforcement and military initiatives aimed at weakening the terrorists and enhancing living conditions for civilians.
The plan may include covert actions against al Shabab leaders and camps; apprehension and prosecution of wanted operatives; increasing aid to the president and his allies if they are determined to be trustworthy; increasing aid to Kenya to help it better police its borders; and an effort to bring neighboring Eritrea and Ethiopia on board.
Tom Barnett is ready to unleash AFRICOM on the territory:
Think AFRICOM won't be important over the long haul?
Think again.
Unfortunately, Tom doesn't explain what AFRICOM is going to do. Put Somalia back together? That would solve the problem, if only we knew how to do it. The last group that tried, the Ethiopians, are scurrying back across the border even as we speak.
Throw a ton of money at the place? Can you spell "corruption"?
It's tempting to think that we should just put a strongman in control — there were no pirates or terrorists in Iraq under Saddam — but this is a form of mental weakness on our part. Most caudillos quickly become corrupt, leaving their countries in even worse shape. What's important is that the people of that region evolve the type of government(s) that will suit them, and it's not our job to try to do it for them.
All I can think of is that we work with the proto-states of Somaliland and Puntland however we can. This won't be easy, as our experience in much of the Balkans (which are, culturally, vastly closer to us than are Somali societies) indicates. As for the rest of the country, we need to cooperate with and develop any sources of stability we can find. It's worth warning, again, that this is a very difficult game to play because once money starts to flow, jockeying for support by folks claiming to represent this or that constituency will be frenetic. [Check out Tom Wolfe's classic Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers for a description of how this works, and that in our own country.]
So we need to develop some level of expertise in dealing with the region, and perhaps that's what Tom means when he invokes AFRICOM, which bills itself as "a different kind of command," although still a command of the Department of Defense headed by a four-star general. What we must avoid at all costs, though, is another large-scale occupation of a foreign country in an attempt to remake it into whatever image we think is appropriate.
And it would also help if we quit acting scared to death of a few criminals with a religious veneer ensconced in a poverty-ridden "country" some 8,000 miles away. Terrorists are going to strike us again — there's no way to prevent it — but in the meantime, just to put the threat into perspective, we lose more than 3,000 people to traffic accidents and 1,500 to homicides every month.
If you legitimately want to scare yourself, you might pick a real threat, like the one Fabius Maximus identifies in his blog today.
houswife permalink21 April 2009 4:58 pm
it would be much simpler, cheaper to restore to the Somalis the fishing opportunities they used to have(suggested a French naval officer, who knew, this was coming): give them a NATO or US Coast Guard, fending away European trawlers and the Somali pirates would revert to fishing(well, let's hope, after all fishing doesn't earn nearly as much as pirating).
Fabius Maximus replies: Good point! Most articles about the Somali pirates assume that they watched "Captain Blood" and said "That's cool; let's do it." As usual, the War Nerd gives the important details:These guys used to be humble fishermen, till the Taiwanese and Korean trawlers took advantage of the fact that Somalia has no government to scoop every last sculpin out of the waters they used to fish. No government means no coast guard, so who was going to stop them? Well, karma went out and traded in its fishing boats for a few fast outboards and some Yemeni guns, and made a career move into the piracy business. Now they are what the NT would call "fishers of men." And getting rich off it, bling and all the nomad girls you can buy.
anna nicholas permalink21 April 2009 10:52 pm
I thought they had a new , reasonably popular government that looks very promising – under Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed – an ex teacher with experience in the ( effective but defunct ) Islamic Courts administration .
Unless someone's bumped him off already , I guess he'll try to deal with the issue of piracy as soon as he can . He does have other pressing issues to deal with too ….LikeLike
Pete permalink22 April 2009 6:56 am
Question: What should we do about Somalia?
Answer: As little as possible.Somalia is the prototypical failed state, one in which we have already tried unsuccessfully to intervene during the 1990s. As Mark Bowden's brilliant book "Blackhawk Down" makes clear, American and U.N. forces entered Somalia with the intent of preventing genocide and feeding the hungry, but ended up fighting a 4th generation conflict instead. The road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions, and no good deed goes unpunished. Cliches? Of course, but aplpicable in this case.
Sometimes, the dragon wins. Americans are a can-do people accustomed to rolling up their sleeves and tackling tough situations. It offends our optimistic national nature to acknowledge that some geopolitical problems are beyond our reach, and cannot be solved. Haven't we yet learned this lesson, after nearly a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan? We would be wise to be humble about the limits of our power. As with an illness, sometimes events have to be allowed to run their course.
Lind suggests that the primary challenge facing first-world nations today is that of failed states. The former are (relative) centers of order, the latter of disorder. Since failed states often export 4GW, still-functioning nations must localize the problem as much as possible, while taking steps to improve whatever is within their reach to influence. It must be borne in mind that some problems will prove intractable to outside solutions, and can be solved only by those directly affected – in their own time, in their own way.
America is half-way around the globe from Somalia, and should only be involved there when U.S. interests are directly at stake, such as in the hijacking of U.S.-flagged ships by pirates. Somalia's neighbors are better-equipped culturally to assist that nation, with the next-most-qualified being regional European powers such as Italy (which colonized Somalia for many years) or France. Economic and other non-military tools are preferable, but if military action is needed, it should follow 4GW theory; either overwhelming force applied quickly and ruthlessly, or by forces leaving as light a footprint as possible. Expeditionary punitive raids are another possibility, provided they get in and get out quickly. It is also very important to leave a face-saving "out" for an eventual end to the fighting, and to strengthen the hand of those Somalis trying to build a better life and nation for themselves. Strengthen your allies, divide and weaken your foes. Under no circumstances should we have a permanent military presence in Somalia.
Pete permalink22 April 2009 6:58 am
Somalia (continued):
I wasn't aware of the presence of Taiwanese and Korean fishing vessels off the coast; if these are depleting Somalian fishing stocks, crowding out local vessels, or operating inside Somali waters without permission, then the Somali government (or its nearest equivalent) has a legitimate grievance to put before the UN. Either the Somalies should be fishing there, or royalties should be paid for local fishing rights. Even if such fees are pocketed by tribal leaders, at least the developed nations are acting justly, and keeping the all-important moral high ground. The developed nations must not act or be seen to act as neo-colonizers, taking local resources without compensation. Securing just fishing rights for the Somalis is just the sort of "carrot" the developed nations should be pursuing, to the extent that such measures are available.
Offer the carrot, but be prepared to use the stick just in case. International law is quite clear on the rights of mariners concerning piracy; summary execution is permitted of such high-seas brigands and has been for centuries. To the degree that the developed nations do not take forceful, direct action against piracy, I believe Lind would argue that this is a symptom of the decay of the state.
Nicholas Weaver permalink22 April 2009 3:28 pm
Why not ALMOST ignore it? With the exception of terrorism and piracy, Somalia doesn't matter to the US interests. So we should focus only on the areas which matter: For terrorism, monitoring and local intelligence: somali-americans with briefcases of money seems like one of the only options. Known, monitored, and tracked terrorists are not the threat.
For pirates, you have to attack the economic system:
a) For any vessel where a ransom was paid to release the vessel, if the vessel reaches US or european waters, the vessel should be confiscated and destroyed: this removes a major economic incentive for piracy. A ship owner can pay the ransom or not pay, either way, the boat is gone. So just don't pay.
b) For any hostage negotiation, play nice until you can storm the vessel and kill the pirates in the process (a'la the French and US Navies), to remove the other economic incentive for piracy.
(Where does economics fit on boyd's spetrum of "Physical, Mental, Moral?" I'd assume mental and moral, or somewhere in between, depending).
Vito permalink22 April 2009 4:29 pm
Pete: "I wasn't aware of the presence of Taiwanese and Korean fishing vessels off the coast;"
Not to mention the dumping of toxic waste by (it appears) primarily European corporations in Somali waters, either illegally, or by payment to warlords. (Some of which washed up on shore during a 2005 tsunami). See Google.
The comment by housewife to restore the fishing industry is the preferable direction, in addition employ Somalis in a coastal waters clean up. Humanitarian efforts of the 90's turned into 4th gen warfare, maybe we can effect some change by confining ourselves to the littoral, restore the fishing industry, clean up Somali waters and provide ocean protection while training Somalis to do same. It is doubtful that order will spread from the sea to the rest of the country overnight, but it might just be the beginning of a very slow process towards helping Somalia dig itself out of failed state status.
Two points to contemplate:
1. The US killing 3 pirates must raise the violence stakes in the piracy game. I expect piracy to become more deadly as pirates are more serious about security and more suspicious.
2. There surely has to be an interest in piracy by Al Quaida, the US may push these two groups together, be it a common enemy, or a mutual interest.LikeLike
Arms Merchant permalink22 April 2009 7:20 pm
You need to have a link here to your previous posts:
* All about Pirates!
* More about pirates: why we no longer "hang them high"What to do? It's just a question of collective will.
Fabius Maximus replies: There is more to it than collective will, esp for such a small problem.LikeLike
Nicholas Weaver permalink23 April 2009 5:29 pm
To followup to myown and Mr Richards and Fabius's responses:
I think it depends on how economic warfare is conducted. What Fabius Maximus described was physical: destruction of the means of support. What the disrupt the economy of piracy (John Rabb I think is the big advocate in the "disrupt the ransom" camp, but I can't remember for sure) want would probably be considered mental or moral: disruption of the reason for one side in the conflict.
Also, a good general report on the economics of piracy: "Pirates Have Timesheets", Planet Money, NPR, 22 April 2009 — video, no transcript.
Captain Ramen permalink23 April 2009 11:34 pm
The cost benefit analysis of using billion dollar destroyers to patrol the area comes up short. What about PT boats? I am no expert but it seems to me that for the cost of one destroyer, we could have more than enough PT boats to patrol the littoral off Somalia. Hell, we could find a (relatively) friendly faction over there, give them the PT boats, and put them in charge (bribe) of protecting our shipping. You put a kill switch in there, such that they need to receive an update from a satellite every so often to continue functioning.
Fabius Maximus replies: We no longer have PT boats. The closest the US Navy has are its Littoral Combat Ships at $500 million per. For more about this nonsense, see "Why Terrorists and Pirates Are Not About to Team Up Any Time Soon", John Feffer, posted at TomDispatch, 21 April 2009.LikeLike
Captain Ramen permalink24 April 2009 12:45 am
Of course our special interest over bloated pentagon wants to spend half a billion dollars on a ship. But I think we could easily buy something off the shelf, up armor it and slap some .50s on there for a million bux or less.
Fabius Maximus replies: You must realize by now that the Pentagon buys what it wants, not what we need.LikeLike


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10 inches Medium Truck (3 1/2 tons)
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15 inches Heavy Truck (10 tons)
20 inches 25 tons
25 inches 45 tons
30 inches 70 tons
36 inches 110 tons
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One question sports keep asking this time of year is a constant: How much ice is enough ice? The answer: It depends on who you ask, and what kind of ice you're talking about.
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIFW) includes a handy ice chart in its ice fishing rule book, but a quick look at three sources will show you that the "estimates" offered on any chart are just that: estimates. For instance, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says a single person on skis only needs 13/4 inches of ice, if they're moving, to remain safe. The DIFW chart, which is credited to the American Pulpwood Association, says one person on foot should have 2 inches of solid blue ice underneath them. And according to the Northwest Territories Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development Department, a single person ought to have 3.9 inches of solid ice beneath their feet. Who to believe? It's your life. Isn't worth a bit of extra caution?
A few pieces of information, courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory:
- Contrary to what many people think, a rapid and large change in air temperature causes an ice sheet to become brittle, and may cause it to become unsafe for up to 24 hours.
- Cracks in the ice surface are either wet or dry. If dry, they do not penetrate the ice sheet and are not a problem. If wet, the ice may be half as strong as charts suggest.
- Ice thickness near shore may be either thinner or thicker than the ice on the rest of the body of water.
If the air temperature stays above freezing for 24 hours or more, the ice begins to lose strength, and charts or tables no longer represent safe conditions. Even though the ice may retain adequate thickness, the strength is quickly lost the longer the air temperature is above freezing.
And according to the Northwest Territories Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development Department:
- Driving fast over thin ice can create a wave similar to a boat wake, which, under the right conditions can crack the ice ahead of the vehicle.
- Driving over a bump or sudden braking increases the effective weight of a vehicle. Drive carefully and slowly.
- Frequent and repetitive loading of the ice can drastically weaken it.


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The ability to describe and forecast the weather may have changed as we forge into the future, but the facts remain. It is cold! And as we in Bradley County and the surrounding areas prepare and continue to function as a community, it is important to remember a "Baker's Dozen" ideas to keep us all safe:
1. Take personal responsibility to protect yourself and your loved ones. It is impossible to help others when you are sick, injured or hurt. Limit exposure to the extreme cold temperatures, if possible. And if you have to be outside in the elements, please dress appropriately and remain hydrated with ample amounts of water.
2. Make it a point to personally check on family members, neighbors and those you know who may have limited ability or resources to help themselves remain warm. Protection from the elements is mandatory and if they are unable to help themselves, please help them yourself or contact the numerous agencies in our area that are able to help.
3. Animals that are to remain outside, from livestock to pets, need to have adequate protection from the elements as well.
4. Be proactive in having needed supplies and alternate forms of heat available as well as the contact information to reach your utility provider before there is a need.
5. If using alternate forms of heat, always follow standard safety protocol with regard to exhaust fumes, proper storage of fuel and placement of space heaters at least three feet away from anything even remotely flammable. Do not use extension cords to plug in electrical heaters, and routinely check electrical cords and outlets for damage. If damage is found, please have it professionally repaired or replaced if possible.
6. Have a plan, before needed, to have at least two ways to get out of your home in case of a fire. Practice this plan with your family and have a designated place to meet far from the building. Make sure all know how important this is to family safety.
7. Make sure your home address is visible from the road and easily identifiable for all emergency personnel. We have the best in our community working to keep us all safe. Their constant training is limited in use when they have a difficult time locating an address, through no fault of their own. "Put yourself in their shoes" and try to find an address that you may not know already. Now add the adrenaline of knowing that seconds truly can make a difference in saving lives and then try to find a house or apartment from the road with no sign of an address visible. Let us all help them, and please tell them they are appreciated.
8. Have a plan for communicating with family or loved ones if separated by a weather event or other emergency need. Practice to make sure your plan works and that all understand when and how to use this to communicate with each other.
9. Have supplies for emergency use such as water, food that is edible without refrigeration and ways to keep warm. Have these ready and available at your home and also your form of transportation, if possible.
10. Have your automobile serviced regularly. Make sure your antifreeze protection is adequate and that your tires are at the proper tire pressure and tread depth. And when in doubt about the safety of roads, please stay home, if possible. Remember, you may be the safest driver possible but we all share the road with those who are not so safety conscious.
11. After the cold passes and the weather permits, please take the time to open the windows and "air out" your home. Newer construction practices have made our homes more energy efficient. While this is good, it is also important to remember that there is very little chance for any impurities to exit homes on their own. And if you are prone to use strong chemicals to clean surfaces, clothes and even drains, these may emit particles and fumes that you will breathe. Opening your home on occasion helps to limit the risk of allergens or even toxic fumes building up over time.
12. We are also in the EPA Radon risk area. Bradley County is a "Zone One" area that makes us at the highest ranking level for radon exposure. To determine a radon level, five factors are used to determine a potential for risk. Know your home's risk and plan accordingly. The five factors are: a) indoor Radon measurements (from a kit purchased to evaluate level); b) geology; c) aerial radioactivity; d) soil permeability; and e) foundation type.
13. Remember that we are "all in this together."
I want to say "thank you" to each and every citizen of this amazingly great community. While disaster has struck here and will again, we have a community that is resilient and resourceful. From the Blizzard of '93 and the tornadoes of 2011 and 2012, we have proven that we are there for each other and that we are thinking about, and are in the process of rebuilding, while most other communities are still assessing damages.
This does not happen by chance. It takes dedicated and professional personnel at many agencies. It also takes places of worship that are always ready to lend a helping hand and prayer. And finally, it takes an excellent group of residents that call Bradley County, Cleveland & Charleston their home.
Thank you for the honor of being your Bradley County mayor, and be safe!


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place, such as the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program, Ecology of Infectious Diseases (National Science Foundation [NSF] and NIH), National Plant Genome Initiative (NSF, NIH, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, DOE, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Office of Management and Budget) and the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Program. An advantage of interdisciplinary programs is a shared contribution of several agencies to the funding needed for ambitious and expensive projects that likely will be necessary to enable the space mission. It would be valuable to strengthen and sustain the historical collaborations of NASA with agencies such as the NIH in life sciences, and to expand them in physical sciences to other agencies such as DOE and the Department of Defense (DOD). These collaborations can build on such efforts as the Memorandum of Understanding between the National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for Cooperation in Space-Related Health Research, which went into effect in September 2007.10,11 This agreement established a framework of cooperation between the NIH and NASA to encourage (1) communication and interaction between the NIH and NASA research communities to facilitate space-related research and to integrate results from that research into an improved understanding of human physiology and human health; (2) exchange of ideas, information, and data arising from their respective research efforts; (3) development of biomedical research approaches and clinical technologies for use on Earth and in space; and (4) research in Earth- and space-based facilities that could improve human health on Earth and in space. In the physical sciences area there have been and are ongoing collaborations between NASA and other space agencies, such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Space Agency (DLR). Examples include a joint experiment on the ISS with DLR on capillary channel flow, a microheater array boiling experiment with ESA, an advanced colloids experiment with ESA, and in the non-Newtonian fluids area, the Observation and Analysis of Smectic Islands in Space experiment with DLR. NASA would benefit from further expanding such collaborations in the future.
The United States has enjoyed a leadership position in space exploration due to its long and successful history of space missions. However, during the coming decade, it is likely that significant efforts in this area will be initiated by other nations. Because of unresolved problems in ensuring safe and successful long-duration missions that affect all nations attempting human spaceflight, a convergence of efforts would likely be of universal benefit. Similar steps as discussed above regarding interagency collaboration within the United States seem logical to explore in support of international scientific projects designed to resolve issues relevant to technological challenges and to astronaut health, safety, and performance. The research community that deals with life and physical sciences in space has remained quite robust internationally, even as NASA has reduced its support in this area. Investigations in Japan, Europe, and Russia have continued, with new results being published regularly.
To regain stature as the leader of the global scientific team in life and physical sciences in space, NASA needs to increase international scientific activities through interactions with such organizations as, but not limited to, the International Space Life Sciences Working Group (ISLSWG). Such cooperation worked well in the decades before 2000 and will undoubtedly reduce subsequent costs to NASA. As noted, in the physical sciences area, there are existing collaborations between NASA and such agencies as ESA, and these could be expanded. New partnerships, such as with India, Australia, and China, are possible. Strong interactions with groups such as the ISLSWG and the offering of joint research announcements with international partner agencies will aid discovery and internationalize space life and physical sciences, offering opportunities for collaboration in ground-based and flight experiments.
• In accord with elevating the priority of life and physical sciences research, it is important that the budget to support research be sufficient, sustained, and appropriately balanced between intramural and extramural activities. As a general conclusion regarding the allocation of funds, an extramural budget would need to support a sufficiently robust extramural research program to ensure that there will be a stable community of scientists and engineers prepared to lead future space exploration research and train the next generation of scientists and engineers.
• Research productivity and efficiency will be enhanced if the historical collaborations of NASA with other sponsoring agencies, such as the NIH, are sustained, strengthened, and expanded to include other agencies.


text: How's this for a Thanksgiving menu: marble rye, gourmet soup, suspiciously rich low-fat yogurt, and Pez. Yep, it's a Seinfeld Thanksgiving. NBC has announced it will air a Seinfeld reunion special on the night of the holiday, Nov. 25. Called ''The Seinfeld Story,'' the hour-long special will be hosted by Jerry himself and will feature clips and new interviews with costars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards, as well as series co-creator Larry David. ''This special will focus on the early days of Seinfeld, and how it all began when it was the darkest of dark horses and had to overcome many obstacles, including poor media reviews," NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly told Variety. Not coincidentally, the special is timed to air two days after the series makes its DVD debut, with the first three seasons of the classic sitcom being released on Nov. 23. Hey, and it's also just in time for Festivus.


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Catherine Hennelly
From Ballotpedia
Catherine Hennelly was a Republican candidate for District 67A, Minnesota House of Representatives in the November 2, 2010 state legislative election.
Hennelly ran for election to the District 67A seat in 2010. He had no primary opposition. He was defeated by Tim Mahoney (DFL) in the general election on November 2, 2010.[1]


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Awesome new changes to Windows Prefetch in Win8 by @jaredcatkinson | http://t.co/poFYJoZ7XF #DFIR
— Chad Tilbury (@chadtilbury) October 8, 2013
SANS recently posted a webcast I recorded on memory forensics. While the presentation is from early 2012, the concepts are solid and this deck was eventually expanded to the full day of memory forensics training present in the updated Forensics 508 course.
Despite being written in 2006, Chris Ries' paper Inside Windows Rootkits is still surprisingly relevant. About the only thing missing is a discussion of new(er) x64 mitigation techniques like Kernel Mode Code Signing and Kernel Patch Protection (aka PatchGuard). Few resources have explained rootkit internals so simply. As an example, Figure 2 from the paper neatly ties together the rootkit hooking universe:
The original PDF is a little hard to find these days, but here are a couple of links:
Memoryze 3.0 is out. It supports Windows 8 x86/x64 and Windows Server 2012. Output compatible with Redline. https://t.co/4y39MKD10v
— Jamie Butler (@jamierbutler) July 24, 2013
With Memoryze 3.0, the folks at Mandiant hit their mid-summer goal to roll out memory analysis support for Windows 8 (x86 and x64) and Server 2012 (x64). While support has not yet been rolled into Redline collector scripts, data collected by Memoryze can be loaded and analyzed in the Redline interface. This is no real surprise since Memoryze is the back-end collection and analysis tool that Redline relies upon.
You can dump Windows memory and process your memory image with the following commands (run MemoryDD.bat from a removable device and Process.bat on your forensic box): Continue Reading…
Microsoft Trustworthy Computing recently released several installments in their Targeted Attacks Video Series. While the short videos are largely low-tech, the accompanying documents provide detailed mitigation strategies. Mike Pilkington wrote an excellent review of the 282 page Best Practices for Securing Active Directory document on the SANS Forensics blog. The Mitigating Pass-the-Hash (PtH) Attacks and Other Credential Theft Techniques deck is also worth a read. Interestingly, Microsoft lists common mitigation techniques like "smart cards and multi-factor authentication" and "jump servers" as having only minimal effectiveness.
Like many of you, I have been watching the development of memory forensics over the last two years with a sense of awe. It is amazing how far the field has come since the day Chris Betz, George Garner and Robert-Jan Moral won the 2005 DFRWS forensics challenge. Of course, similar to other forensic niches, the majority of progress has been made on Windows memory forensics. There is good reason for this. Memory can be extremely fickle, with layouts and structures changing on a whim. As an example, the symbols file for Windows 7 SP1x86 is 330MB, largely due to it needing to support major changes that can occur in every service pack and patch. The fact that we have free tools such as Volatile Systems Volatility and Mandiant Redline supporting memory images of arbitrary size from (nearly) every modern version of Windows is nothing short of miraculous.
Nowhere is it more obvious how far the memory analysis field has come than looking at the recent innovations in Mac and Linux memory forensics. Examiners of these less popular platforms have had to sit patiently for years as Windows memory forensics moved from being feasible for OS internals experts to being approachable for the masses. Against all odds, Linux memory analysis has recently seen rapid innovations. If support for the various Windows versions came slowly, imagine the complexity posed by the myriad flavors of Linux and the long list of possible kernel versions. It turns out that the Volatility framework is particularly well suited to tackle this Hydra with its abstraction layers facilitating everything from different image formats to swappable OS profiles to rapid plugin development.
A nice introduction to reflective DLL injection.
Reflective DLL Injection with PowerShell | http://t.co/7iOzFrCy1b #malware
— Chad Tilbury (@chadtilbury) July 3, 2013
In case you missed it over on the SANS Computer Forensics blog, we recently updated our memory forensics cheat sheet. Not a lot has changed other than updating a few parameter options, adding Michael Cohen's WinPmem (live memory analysis with Volatility!), and reflecting a few of the changes in the upcoming 2.3 Volatility release (including body file format in Jamie Levy's timeliner plugin)
(click for PDF)
Windows 7 Jump List file names and AppID calculator | http://t.co/JcSRRjn4A4 <- Impressive research by @Hexacorn
— Chad Tilbury (@chadtilbury) June 11, 2013
The GUI control panel is a long-standing feature of Microsoft Windows, facilitating granular changes to a vast collection of system features. It can be disabled via Group Policy but is largely available to most user accounts (administrative permissions are required for some changes). From a forensic perspective, we can audit control panel usage to identify a wide range of user activity:
- Firewall changes made for unauthorized software (firewall.cpl)
- User account additions / modifications (nusrmgr.cpl)
- Turning off System Restore / Volume Shadow Copies (sysdm.cpl)
- System time changes (timedate.cpl)
- Interaction with third-party security software applets
While identifying individual system modifications is difficult, at a minimum we can show that a user accessed a specific control panel applet at a specific time. Context provided by other artifacts may provide further information. As an example, imagine you were reviewing control panel usage on a system and came across Figure 1.
Context is critical, and, while access to the Windows Security Center might not normally be particularly interesting, the fact that it was accessed immediately following the execution of a known (router) password cracking tool might make all the difference.


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The Two-Year Home-Country Physical Presence Requirement
For those individuals who entered the United States on a J-1 training visa, you may be subject to the "two-year (212(e) home country requirement". This requirement bars you from changing status in the United States, other than an O, E or B visa holder, until such time that you have returned to your country of origin for a period of at least two years. Fortunately, this requirement on a J-1 visa is not absolute and can be waived.
Not all recipients of a J-1 visa are subject to the two-year home country requirement. Typically, a notation will be made on the individuals PS 2019, IAP-66 or passport visa form when they receive the J-1 visa as to whether or not they are subject to the two-year home country requirement. However, this notation is not binding and should only be used as a primary indication.
The two-year home country requirement applies in the following situations:
- If the individual's participation in the J-1 program was financed, in whole or in part, by any government agency, whether it be the individual's home country or the United States government.
- If at the time the individual obtained the J visa his/her home country had listed the individual's field or skill as one that is in need in the home country. This is determined by the United States Department of State's skills list.
- If the individual received clinical graduate medical training or education as part of their educational program while in the United States.
Waivers for the Two-Year Home-Country Requirement
The process of removing the two-year home country requirement is a complex task that requires applications with the United States Department of State, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS"), as well as multiple Interested Government Agency's. Waiver of the two-year home country requirement can be accomplished through the following means:
- "No Objection Letter": Should the individual's home country agree to waive the two-year home country requirement, and if the United States Department of State agrees, this can be the basis of an application with USCIS. This avenue is generally not available for physicians who have received clinical graduate medical training or education in the United States as a J-1 visa holder; although in certain circumstances a modification to this strategy may be available to physicians.
- Hardship or Persecution Waiver: If the individual can show that by returning to his/her home country it would cause extreme hardship to his/her United States Citizen spouse or child, or if it can be shown that should the individual be forced to return to his/her home that he/she would be subject to persecution based on race, religion, or political opinion, then the two-year home country that requirement can be waived.
- Interested Government Agency: If an agency of the United States Government agrees to sponsor an application for a waiver of the two year home country requirement on behalf of the J-1 visa holder, the two year home country requirement can be waived. This is often the best option for physicians.
- Conrad State 30 Program: The Federal Government allows each state to grant J-1 waivers to thirty qualified physicians each year, provided that these physicians agree to work in a federally designated medically underserved area for a period of three years.
- Impossibility of Performance: If the individual can prove that he/she is unable to return to his/her home country because the government of the home country refuses to allow him/her entrance into the country, then the two-year home country requirement can be waived.
Throughout the past three decades, Teplen Law Group, PLLC has shown an exemplary level of success in applications to waive the two-year home country requirement and has assisted on the drafting and administration of waiver programs. Our experience with applications for waiving the two-year home country requirement for physicians has been extraordinarily well received. Teplen Law Group, PLLC, is associated with several hospitals, clinics, research scientists, and private practices in New York and across the nation.
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Elizabeth Truslow Mrs. Truslow received her Master's in Psychoanalysis from BGSP and is currently pursuing her doctorate at BGSP. "My experiences as a student at BGSP have led me on a journey of exploration of the internal world of mental processes in my own life and in my clinical work. My research is leading me around the world to explore the experiences of other analysts in their work with children with Asperger Syndrome."
Before studying psychoanalysis, Mrs. Truslow worked in early childhood special education for many years, first in New York City and then in Vermont. While pursuing her doctorate at the Vermont campus, Mrs. Truslow was selected as a Fellow in the Psychoanalytic Research Training Program at the Anna Freud Centre Program at the Yale Child Study Center. There she presented her doctoral research on a psychoanalytic perspective on working with autism, a work in progress and worked with faculty mentors and other fellows on further development of her research ideas.
Mrs. Truslow now has a private practice in St. Johnsbury, VT where she sees children, some with autism, families, adolescents and adults. She also works at the Health and Counseling Service at Lyndon State College.
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Got an idea for a multiplayer RPG
-Could someone tell me how to make a map link with other maps so you can have a huge world? (if it is possible to do)
-Also, would it be possible to make something like an npc for unreal? I have an idea for how there might be dialogue if you use the voice chat menu, since bots respond to the orders, maybe you could have them respond to everything else. -There already is different species and statistics, and I got a pretty good idea how to change the stats, so I could probably make Dwarves, Gnomes, Elves, Orcs, etc (if I had the models). -Even if you can have only 16 or 32 players (I'm not sure which), if you add some npcs and monsters it could be pretty fun. You might only have enough players for an adventuring party or two, but I think it would be pretty fun. -Maybe if I incorperated something similar to the Content Mania thing into it, you could have something similar to a Dungeon Master. -Even if I can't get all these ideas into a gametype, just a map and/or mutator that lets you buy different weapons would be good. I'm only just starting to design maps and I made a few weapons, but I'm not very skilled at editing in Unreal. If anyone could tell me or help me do anyone of the things mentioned above, I would be extremely greatful. By the way, I'm working on a dungeon map that has a pretty cool feel to it, but the monsters I put in it spawn at the player start locations. Last edited by Xavious_Luthian; 29th May 2005 at 09:24 PM. |
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Lifespan Personality & Health Research (002606-2012)
Responsibilities: One two-year Postdoctoral Fellow position in lifespan personality and health research is available at Purdue University, working with Professor Daniel Mroczek. This position is sponsored in part by a grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and in part by Purdue University. August or September 2012 start date is preferred. The Fellow's work will use two large-scale, long-term longitudinal studies: the Normative Aging Study (NAS) and the Midlife in the U.S. (MIDUS) study. The Fellow will engage in collaborative and independent research using these data, and write papers with Dr. Mroczek as well as other scholars who are involved with the NAS and MIDUS. The Fellow's research will be primarily analysis of existing NAS and MIDUS data, and therefore the successful candidate must have very strong data analytic skills. Knowledge of one or more of the following is desirable: multilevel modeling, survival analysis (e.g., Cox models), or structural equation modeling. The Postdoctoral Fellow will also receive training in advanced statistical techniques, longitudinal design, gerontology, and health and personality Psychology.
Qualifications: Candidates must have a recent doctorate in psychology, human development, sociology, or a closely related field that included coursework in longitudinal methods, measurement, and statistics. Demonstrated interest in personality, aging, and health research is necessary. U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is required
Applications: To apply, send a cover letter describing research and professional goals as well as one's statistical skills; CV; and contact information for three researchers familiar with the candidate's scholarship to: Dan Mroczek, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Center on Aging and the Life Course, 1200 W. State St., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Review of applications will begin March 15, 2012 and will continue until the position is filled. Competitive salary and benefits. For additional information, contact Dan Mroczek (firstname.lastname@example.com). A background check will be required for employment in this position
Purdue University is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access/Affirmative Action Employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce.