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One of Java's main features is its ability to move code over a network and run that code. Unlike other languages, Java has been designed to do this securely. Java security has evolved over time; recent releases provide fine-grained security features that enable implementation of a flexible policy decoupled from the implementation mechanism.
Java security evolution and concepts: Read the whole series!
- Part 1: Learn computer security concepts and terms in this introductory overview
- Part 2: Discover the ins and outs of Java security
- Part 3: Tackle Java applet security with confidence
- Part 4: Learn how optional packages extend and enhance Java security
- Part 5: J2SE 1.4 offers numerous improvements to Java security
This article, Part 2 of a series, will cover the various aspects of securely running Java code downloaded from a network. Although mobile code is not a revolutionary concept, Java and the Internet present some unique challenges to computer security. The evolution of the Java architecture and its impact on security, different security APIs and tools, and applet security will be covered in this series.
This is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to computer security, a multifaceted issue encompassing several disciplines, departments, and cultures. Investments in security technologies should be followed by investments in personnel training, strict enforcement of policies, and periodic review of the overall policy.
Language vis-a-vis runtime security
Although enforcement of policies during code execution is a substantial part of security, proper security starts at the very beginning, during the generation of byte code. A language's type safety, which is enforced by the compiler and checked by the runtime environment, proves critical to an overall secure environment. Many of computing's earliest security breaches stemmed from the ability to easily overflow buffers or access memory unimpeded, situations caused in part by a language's poor type safety and inadequate enforcement in the executing environment.
Java security manifests itself in the following forms: protection built into the language, building blocks for a flexible secure environment, and protection against accidental or malicious attacks to the language and platform. Simply put, Java security should ensure that the specifications for the language and virtual machine (VM) are followed.
Despite the safety checks enforced by the compiler, the VM must still be able to deal with faulty byte code, whether generated accidentally or maliciously. Below, we'll examine the enforcement of runtime checks during execution and the evolution of the runtime environment to support the design of a very flexible security policy.
As for language security inherent in the language's design, Java's design was heavily influenced by C and C++ -- particularly their weaknesses. Consequently, the Java compiler generates warnings for uninitialized variables. The language itself is strongly typed, with many unsafe constructs omitted or modified; for example, array accesses are done with index checking. Moreover, because memory deallocation in Java is the garbage collector's responsibility rather than the programmer's, Java avoids many common programming errors in C and C++ caused by faulty memory deallocation. Finally, the compiler enforces exception-catching. This discipline of catching and fixing potential errors may not have direct security implications. However, an unhandled error might lead to unpredictable behavior, which, from a security standpoint, should be avoided.
Evolution of Java security
Some security features touted in recent Java releases were also available in earlier versions. However, using them involved a considerable amount of additional programming and a good understanding of the security model. Generally, Java has provided access to the language and the runtime environment conservatively, which is good from a security perspective, although somewhat restrictive of the ability to support different policies.
It's necessary for a security designer to understand Java security evolution, as many enterprises may have to support pre-Java-2 releases for years to come. So this article will concentrate on Java 2 Security, but only after an overview of security in previous releases.
JDK 1.0 security -- Java security hits the sandbox
JDK 1.0 featured the sandbox security model, as seen in Figure 1. The sandbox model confines Java applets, potentially dangerous or not, to a strictly defined arena where they cannot affect other system resources. (For more details of the sandbox model, including its limitations, see the "Sidebar 1: Sandbox model for security.")
Since applications load locally, they, unlike applets, need not be deemed untrustworthy and enjoyed unlimited access to all resources in JDK 1.0. A consistent security policy for applets and applications was therefore not supported by this model.
JDK 1.1 Security -- all or nothing
JDK 1.0's sandbox model provided virtually no flexibility. In an attempt to overcome this, JDK 1.1 introduced the signed applet, illustrated in Figure 2. A signed applet is an applet packaged as a Java Archive (JAR) file and signed with a private key. The signed applet enjoys unlimited access, just like a local application, provided the corresponding public key is trusted in the executing environment. Unsigned applets default back to the sandbox model.
JDK 1.1's security model was less restrictive than the sandbox model and provided for slightly more consistent treatment of applets and applications. However, it had one major disadvantage: applets either received unlimited access or were confined to the sandbox -- there was no option for selective access to resources. This model was another example of an inflexible implementation where the policy was forced by the mechanism.
Java 2 Security -- fine-grained security
The Java 2 Security model, as illustrated in Figure 3, provides for a consistent and flexible policy for applets and applications. While applications still run unrestricted by default, they can be subjected to the same policy as applets.
The Java 2 model also introduces the concept of a ProtectionDomain
, which permits a highly flexible security policy decoupled from its implementation.
Overview of Java 2 security
The various features of the Java 2 Runtime Environment's security model can be seen in Figure 4. As a general caveat, some of the issues discussed might not be part of the specification per se, but still peculiar to most implementations.
Byte-code verifier
Since Java code can be imported from anywhere in the network, it is critical to screen the code to be sure that it was produced by a trustworthy compiler. The byte-code verifier, sometimes referred to as a mini-theorem prover, tries to prove that a given series of Java byte codes are legal.
Among other things, it verifies the format of the class file - it must have the right length, the correct magic numbers, no operand stack overflows and underflows, and so on. In short, the verifier confirms or denies that the class file is consistent with the specifications. Although Figure 4 appears to indicate that byte-code verification occurs when the class is loaded, some of these checks may be delayed until just before the byte code is first executed.
Even though the byte-code verifier serves an important purpose, it is not very interesting from a programming standpoint because its behavior cannot be altered programmatically. The behavior may be altered with command line options on the interpreter, when applicable.
The ClassLoader, which loads Java byte codes into the JVM, is an important link in the security chain. It works in conjunction with the SecurityManager and the access controller to enforce security rules. Notice in Figure 4 that the ClassLoader is involved in enforcing some security decisions earlier in an object's lifetime than the security manager. Also, information about the URL from which the code originated and the code's signers is initially available to the ClassLoader.
It is possible to implement a customized ClassLoader or a subclass from java.security.SecureClassLoader
to provide security features beyond those offered by the standard Java 2 Security model.
The ClassLoader, as its name indicates, loads classes into the VM. It is also responsible for the concept of namespaces at runtime, which are created by packages. With namespaces, identically named identifiers can refer to different objects.
Since a ClassLoader is itself a class, some bootstrapping is necessary early on. The ClassLoader, referred to as the primordial class loader and usually written in a native language, loads the bootstrap classes in a platform-dependent manner.
Some classes defined in the java.*
package are essential to the JVM and the runtime system. These are referred to as system classes, loaded by the System ClassLoader. The terminology sometimes extends to all classes found in the CLASSPATH environment variable. Typically, a ClassLoader hierarchy is created as more classes are loaded.
Since Java code can be downloaded over a network, the code's origin and author are critical to maintaining a secure environment. Consequently, the object java.security.CodeSource
fully describes a piece of code. The CodeSource encapsulates the code's origin, which is specified as an URL, and the set of digital certificates containing public keys corresponding to the set of private keys used to sign the code.
Many access-control decisions are based in part on this property.
Permission classes are at the very core of Java security and represent access to various system resources such as files, sockets, and so on. A collection of permissions can be construed as a customizable security policy for an installation.
For example, permission may be given to read and write files in the /tmp
directory. Permission classes are additive in that they represent approvals, but not denials. It's possible to explicitly permit the reading of a particular file, but not to explicitly deny the reading of that file.
A number of permission classes are subclasses of the abstract java.security.Permission
class, examples of which include FilePermission
, AWTPermission
, and even customized protections like SendMailPermission
. For an exhaustive list of permissions, see Resources for a link to Li Gong's Inside Java 2 Platform Security.
Protection domains
It's possible to associate permissions with classes; however, it's more flexible to group classes into protection domains and associate permissions with those domains. A class's mapping to a domain occurs before the class is usable and is immutable thereafter. For instance, system classes can be effectively grouped under the system domain.
This relationship between the class and the permissions via the protection domain provides for flexible implementation mechanisms.
The numerous mappings of permissions to classes are collectively referred to as policy. A policy file is used to configure the policy for a particular implementation. It can be composed by a simple text editor or using policytool
, a tool bundled with the Software Development Kit (SDK), which we'll discuss in a future article.
As seen in Figure 4, the class java.lang.SecurityManager
is at the focal point of authorization -- the implementation of the sandbox model in JDK 1.0 is a good example.
Prior to Java 2, SecurityManager
was abstract; vendors had to create concrete implementations. In Java 2, SecurityManager
is concrete, with a public constructor and appropriate checks in place to ensure that it can be invoked in an authorized manner. SecurityManager
consists of a number of check methods. For example, checkRead (String file)
can determine read access to a file. The checkPermission (Permission perm, Object context)
method can check to see if the requested access has the given permission based on the policy. This method is relegated to the access controller in the default implementation. The access controller will raise an exception if the requested permission cannot be granted. Refer to the "Sidebar 2: Security exceptions" for an overview of security exceptions.
The java.security.AccessController
class is used for three purposes:
- To decide whether access to a critical system resource should be allowed or denied, based on the security policy currently in effect
- To mark code as privileged, thus affecting subsequent access determinations
- To obtain a snapshot of the current calling context, so access-control decisions from a different context can be made with respect to the saved context
While the SecurityManager
can be overridden, the static methods in AccessController
are always available. If you wish a particular security check to always be invoked, regardless of which security manager is in vogue, the AccessController
methods should be called.
The keystore
The keystore is a password-protected database that holds private keys and certificates. The password is selected at the time of creation. Each database entry can be guarded by its own password for extra security. Certificates accepted into the keystore are considered to be trusted. Keystore information can be used and updated by the security tools provided with the SDK.
Aspects of Java 2 Security
Aspects of Java 2 Security can be broadly classified as:
- Core security: the core classes that deal with security
- Security extensions: the optional packages that supplement the platform security
- Security tools: the Java 2 Software Development Kit (SDK) tools pertaining to security
- Application, applet, and plugin security: security deployment
In this article, I have focused on core security. I'll discuss the other aspects in subsequent articles.
Core security
Java 2's security pieces reside primarily in:
Another Java 2 package, java.security.acl
, which exists for historical reasons, has been superseded by classes in the java.security
Let's examine each major security-related class in more detail.
The java.lang
package contains the SecurityManager
class discussed above, which allows applications to implement a security policy. Before performing a sensitive operation, the SecurityManager
determines the operation's identity and whether it can be performed in its security context. The manager contains many methods that begin with the word check. The invocation of such a check method typically looks like this:
SecurityManager security = System.getSecurityManager(); if (security != null) { security.checkXXX(argument, . . . ); }
The special method checkPermission(java.security.Permission)
determines whether an access request indicated by a specified permission should be granted or denied. The default implementation calls:
If a request is allowed, checkPermission
returns quietly. If denied, a SecurityException
is thrown. Refer to the "Sidebar 2: Security Exceptions" for an overview of security exceptions.
contains most security classes and interfaces. It contains classes for access control, parameters for the various cryptographic algorithms, code source, guarded objects, key management, message digests, permission, policy, protection domains, providers, secure class loaders, random number generators, and digital signatures.
The following Java code can be used to produce a permission to read files in the /tmp
FilePermission p = new FilePermission("/tmp/*", "read");
Entries in the policy file can also be used to achieve similar results. The following is a sample entry in the policy file that indicates the granularity of providing access.
// Sample policy file grant signedBy "signer_names", codeBase "URL" { permission permission_class_name "target_name", "action", signedBy "signer_names"; };
Both the signedBy
and codeBase
name and value pairs are optional. The signedBy
entry is an alias corresponding to the public key certificate of the private key used to sign the code. The alias name is mapped to the certificate in the keystore. The entry below would grant read/write access to all /tmp
files if the code were signed by "Duke"
. The URL where the code originated is irrelevant.
grant signedBy "Duke" { permission java.io.FilePermission "/tmp/*", "read,write"; };
The entry shown below would provide unrestricted access -- clearly not desirable from a security viewpoint.
grant { // Allow everything for now permission java.security.AllPermission; };
Many classes provide a Service Provider Interface (SPI) for providers to plug in their implementations. Examples include MessageDigest
, Signature
, KeyPairGenerator
, and so on.
The MessageDigest
class supports the MD5 and SHA algorithms. The getInstance()
method is invoked to select the appropriate algorithm. The method update()
is called to ready the input buffer, while the digest()
method generates a message digest, the size of which (in this case, 128 bits, or 16 bytes) depends on the algorithm (in this case, MD5). The same digest()
method would generate 160 bits (20 bytes) for the digest if the SHA algorithm was used. The code below is a complete application used to generate a message digest.
// Simple application that generates a Message Digest import java.security.*; import java.io.*; public class md5 { public static void main(String args[]) { try { if (args.length != 1) { System.out.println("Usage: java md5 < some_string >"); System.exit(1); } // Create an output file "digest" FileOutputStream digestStream = new FileOutputStream("digest"); // Use the MD5 algorithm. SHA will work as well MessageDigest md=MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5"); byte buf[] = args[0].getBytes(); // Update the data and digest it md.update(buf); digestStream.write(md.digest()); } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println(e); } } }
The Signature
class supports digital signatures. The signature algorithm can be, for example, DSA (digital signature algorithm), with SHA-1 (secure hashing algorithm) as the hashing algorithm. (See Part 1 of this series for more on algorithms). The DSA algorithm using the SHA-1 message digest algorithm can be specified as SHA1withDSA
. In the case of RSA, there are multiple message digest algorithms possible, so the signing algorithm could be, for example, MD2withRSA
, MD5withRSA
, or SHA1withRSA
. The algorithm name must be specified, as there is no default. Fragments of code to generate a signature are illustrated here:
// Use SHA-1 as the hashing algorithm with DSA Signature sig = Signature.getInstance("SHA1withDSA", "SUN"); // Initialize with private key sig.initSign(privKey); // Update the buffer with the message sig.update(buffer, 0, len); // Generate the signature String sigString = sig.sign();
Fragments of code to verify the signature are illustrated here:
// Use SHA-1 as the hashing algorithm with DSA Signature sig = Signature.getInstance("SHA1withDSA", "SUN"); // Initialize with public key sig.initVerify(pubKey); // Update the buffer with the message sig.update(buffer, 0, len); // Verify the signature boolean verifies = sig.verify(sigToVerify);
Notice that the signature is generated with the private key and verified with the public key. For more code samples, see Mary Dageforde's tutorial in Resources.
Wrap it up: java.security.cert
, java.security.interfaces
, and java.security.spec
The java.security.cert
package deals with certificates. It provides, for instance, an abstract class to import, generate, and verify X.509 certificates. The java.security.interfaces
package is a set of interfaces used to generate DSA and RSA key pairs. Finally, the java.security.spec
package may be used to control the parameters for various algorithms, like DSA or RSA, and their corresponding keys.
In this article, we saw the different aspects of Java security, starting with its evolution. We looked at the different components of Java 2 Security and saw how they work together to support the design of a flexible policy.
In my next installment of this series, I'll discuss Java security extensions and the tools available as part of the platform. Finally, I'll touch on issues that affect applet security -- that is, the relationship of browser security to Java applets.
Learn more about this topic
- "Java Security Evolution and Concepts," Raghavan N. Srinivas (JavaWorld):
- Part 1Learn computer security concepts and terms in this introductory overview (April 2000)
- Part 2Discover the ins and outs of Java security (July 2000)
- Part 3Tackle Java applet security with confidence (December 2000)
- Part 4Learn how optional packages extend and enhance Java security (May 2001)
- Part 5J2SE 1.4 offers numerous improvements to Java security (December 2001)
- JavaWorld security-related articles and resources
- "AESCryptography advances into the future," Raghavan Srinivas (JavaWorld, April 2000)
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-04-2000/jw-0428-aes.html - "A security roundup," Raghavan Srinivas (JavaOne Today, June 2000) -- highlights of JavaOne sessions and BOFs on topics relating to Java security
http://www.javaworld.com/javaone00/j1-00-security.html - JavaWorld's Java Bookstore security page can point you to numerous security-related books
- java.sun.com security-related resources
- For comprehensive Java security information, read java.sun.com's Java Security API page
http://java.sun.com/security - For the latest documentation on Java security, read the documentation that is part of Java 2 v1.3
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/security/index.html - "Security on the Java Platform," Li Gong (JavaOne, 1999) -- Slides from a technical session covering Java security
http://java.sun.com/javaone/javaone98/sessions/T101/index.htm - More JavaOne 1999 Java security information
http://industry.java.sun.com/javaone/99/tracks/ - "Low Level Security in Java," Frank Yellin (December 1995)
http://java.sun.com/sfaq/verifier.html - For Java security Q&A archives, see
http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/java-security.html - "Frequently Asked Questions -- Java Security" (java.sun.com)
http://java.sun.com/sfaq/ - "TrailSecurity in Java 2 SDK 1.2," Mary Dageforde (java.sun.com)
- Useful security-related books, documentation, and Websites
- Inside Java 2 Platform SecurityArchitecture, API Design, and Implementation, Li Gong (Addison Wesley, 1999)
http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0201310007 - The University of Princeton's highly regarded Secure Internet Programming Website dedicates itself to computer security, especially mobile code such as Java
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip - Read about the University of Washington's "Kimera -- A System Architecture for Networked Computers" site
http://kimera.cs.washington.edu - A comprehensive list of security problems with suggested remedial action, known as CERT advisories
http://www.cert.org - Applied CryptographyProtocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, 2nd Ed., Bruce Schneier (John Wiley and Sons, 1996) -- a fascinating book on the science and politics of cryptography
http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0471128457 - Find information and news about the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) at the "AESCrypto Algorithm for the 21st Century" page
http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/ - Download RSA Labs's FAQ about today's cryptographyftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/labsfaq/labsfaq4.pdf
- X.509 standard for certificates


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National Database and Registration Authority, NADRA has issued 300,000 Watan Cards to flood affected families ensuring a transparent disbursal of 20 thousand rupees per family as announced by the Government of Pakistan and so far 225,000 families have drawn more than Rs 2.5 billion, this was stated by Tariq Malik Deputy Chairman NADRA in a statement issued on Monday.
He said NADRA staff is consistently serving the people in the affected areas through 45 centres in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa and Sindh while similar efforts in the remaining areas are likely to be initiated by the end of the week. He said NADRA's role at these centres is restricted only to verify affected people according to the lists and data provided and notified by provincial governments while ensuring law and o respective order situation and providing security at the centres is of responsibility local administration and provincial Governments.
He said that NADRA is striving on zero error policy to ensure that only deserving families are issued Watan Cards enabling them to draw benefits announced by the Government. The system does not allow any human intervention giving space to corruption.
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Who Is Majid Jordan, Drake's 'Hold On, We're Going Home' Collaborator?
The question is actually, "Who are Toronto's Majid Al Maskati and Jordan Ullman?"
Yesterday, Drake dropped a new song out of the blue: "Hold On, We're Going Home," a dreamy, 100-BPM cut that nicely split the difference between synth-soaked R&B (think Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do with It") and slow-motion deep house (Disclosure's "Help Me Lose My Mind"). The track features someone named Majid Jordan, prompting one feverish question: Who is Majid Jordan?
A good question, but it turns out that the grammar is all wrong. We should be asking, "Who are Majid Jordan?" According to a thread on the Kanye to The forums, the name is a hybrid of Majid Al Maskati and Jordan Ullman, a pair of Toronto producers formerly known as Good People. (Their YouTube page has been stripped, but Tha Good Life Reviews turned up audio of their song "Chill Pad Deluxe.")
Some corroborating evidence turns up in the form of a tweet from one Iman Almaskati: "Drakes new song 'Hold On Were Going Home' is perfect! So proud of my cousin for helping produce it and his vocals are amazing."
Drakes new song "Hold On Were Going Home" is perfect! So proud of my cousin for helping produce it and his vocals are amazing
— Iman Almaskati (@HerNames_Iman) August 6, 2013
Another, unrelated tweet connects the links between Jordan Ullman, Majid Al Maskati, and Majid Jordan.
Congrats @jordan_ullman and @majidalmaskati you guys did it! @majidjordan
— Rob Ronco (@robbyboombatz) August 6, 2013
So who, then, are Majid Al Maskati and Jordan Ullman? This is where it gets really interesting. Googling "Jordan Ullman SoundCloud" turns up the Toronto producer ClassAct.; his SoundCloud and Facebook pages have lain dormant for a while, but a year or so ago he was doing re-edits of Zedd and Deadmau5. A Toronto producer named Majid Al Maskati, meanwhile, turns up with a SoundCloud page chock full of exactly the kind of downtempo and deep house that seems to have influenced Drake's "Hold On, We're Going Home." His "Pool Party" playlist, uploaded a month ago, breezes through cuts like Les Sins' "Grind," Pepe Bradock's "Deep Burnt," Soul Capsule's "Lady Science (NYC Sunrise)," and Andrés' "New for U."
What might be most surprising about all this is how totally unknown both Ullman and Al Maskati would seem to be on their own, with just handfuls of followers on their respective social media accounts.
Majid Jordan's Twitter account, meanwhile, remains barren, save for a link back to Drake's OVOSOUND.COM. Given the rapturous response to "Hold On, We're Going Home," don't expect them to stay dark horses for much longer. It'll be interesting to see if Al Maskati's record collection continues to rub off on future Ovosound releases.


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Woody Elephant Training
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Address: 53/3, Chang Rd., Kuet Chang, Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150 Thailand See map
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Woody Elephant Training takes very good care of elephants, is a family run business and goes into great detail explaining the good and bad that is going on with the elephants around Thailand. There, visitors can learn some commands in Thai (since the elephants don't understand any English), gather food and feed them, learn how to mount and dismount, and go for a stroll up a mountain or down a river.
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Two days after the 35W bridge memorial opened, someone pried 22 letters off its granite wall.
Construction worker Rob Bailey went to the Mississippi River on Monday evening, as he had every Aug. 1 for the previous three years, to remember his co-worker and friend Greg "Jolly" Jolstad.
He watched as a new memorial to the 35W bridge collapse was unveiled about a quarter-mile upstream from the site of the tragedy.
"I go down there to pray every year at 6:05 p.m.," said Bailey, who had just stepped off the bridge moments before it collapsed.
Two days after making his pilgrimage, he was stunned to hear that the memorial had been vandalized, with 22 stainless steel letters ripped out of a message affixed to the memorial's granite wall.
"How can we deface a public monument?" he asked on Wednesday morning, shortly after the vandalism was discovered. "It pains me that people would honestly do that."
The vandalism took place just two days after the opening of the I-35W Remembrance Garden along West River Parkway. A tall steel fence that had secured the site while it was under construction was removed Monday.
The theft brought statements of outrage from visitors, some of whom looked at the incomplete message Wednesday morning in apparent confusion before figuring out what had happened.
"Disgusting," said Mary Shovein of Eagan, who was on a bike ride with her husband, Mike, when they stopped by.
Mayor R.T. Rybak, who made a noon appearance at the memorial to condemn the vandalism, said, "It's beyond description how wrong this act is, but it does not change the thousands of acts of compassion and support that this community has shown."
The remaining letters were removed Wednesday morning by Mike Sullivan, a project manager from McGough Construction, which built the memorial. He said it didn't make sense to confuse visitors with an incomplete message.
Future safeguards
Each letter had been screwed to the granite wall with up to three 3-inch pins. Scratches on the wall made it look like someone used a crowbar to remove the missing letters, he said.
The cost of replacing the missing letters may be covered by insurance, said Paul Miller, the city's project manager for the Remembrance Garden. If not, it will come from money set aside for the memorial's long-term maintenance.
The memorial was paid for with $1.5 million of the $52.4 million settlement from URS Corp., a San Francisco-based engineering firm hired to evaluated the bridge before it collapsed. The firm settled a lawsuit earlier this year brought by some 130 people affected by the tragedy. After design and construction costs, as much as $800,000 of the memorial fund remains, Miller said.
Designed by Minneapolis landscape architect Tom Oslund, the project sits on a patch of river bluff parkland across the street from Gold Medal Park.
The memorial includes a row of 13 vertical steel I-beams, each engraved with the name of someone who died in the collapse and a personal tribute written by relatives.
The names of 171 survivors of the collapse are engraved on a stone wall, which has a sheet of water flowing over it. The wall featured this message -- the one damaged by vandals -- written by survivors of the collapse:
"Our lives are not only defined by what happens, but by how we act in the face of it, not only by what life brings us, but by what we bring to life. Selfless actions and compassion create enduring community out of tragic events."
Two weeks to replace
A spokesman for the maker of the letters, Designer Sign Systems of Blaine, said the company will investigate ways to make them more difficult to remove. Company Vice President Tim Wirtz said his best guess was that someone stole the letters to sell to a metal scrap yard for salvage.
"We're just heartbroken," he said. "Our entire shop took pride in them."
It took two weeks to build the original set of letters, he said, and will take two more to make a replacement set.
"We, along with McGough, are investigating additional ways to secure the letters so that it doesn't happen again," he said.
Police asked that tips about the missing letters go to the property crimes division in the department's First Precinct at 612-673-5701.
Matt McKinney • 612-217-1747


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The Granary Resort
Categories: Accommodation > Hotel
Address: Sanpesua Rd., San Phi Suea, Muang Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai 50000 Thailand See map
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The Granary Resort is located in the Mueang district of Chiang Mai on Sanpesua Road. This resort offers accommodations in the form of teak wood houses. Furnishings inside these houses also reflects the Lanna style of wood and art. Guests can enjoy leisurely walks along the Ping River, smell the scent of the thousands of orchids in the gardens, take a cool dip in the swimming pool or any other number of relaxing activities provided by the resort.
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Thomas Parish Murphy (b. 27 Apr 1840, d. 04 Dec 1915)
Thomas Parish Murphy
(son of
William Murphy
Ellen White
) was born 27 Apr 1840 in Villierstown Co., Waterford, Ireland, and died 04 Dec 1915 in Murphy Farm, Macon Township, Harvey Co., Kansas. He married
Margaret Elizabeth Hogle
, daughter of
Isaac Newton Hogle
Barbara Smith
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Thomas Parish Murphy
Kansas Legislators Past and Presenthttp://www.kslib.info/ref/legislators/membm4.html
Name: Thomas P. Murphy
Born: April 27, 1840
Died: December 4, 1915
Occupation: Farmer
County: Harvey
Town: Halstead
Party: Republican
District: 70
Chamber: House 1905, 1907, SS1908
District: 30
Chamber: Senate 1909, 1911
Source material:Some information courtesy of Jane Colvin, Mr. Murphy's great-great granddaughter.
Kansas Voter Registration Lists, 1854-56 Record
about Thomas Murphy
Name: Thomas Murphy
District/County: 14
Precinct/Township: Doniphan
Election Date: March 30, 1855
Page #: 487
Marriage: married Feb 16,1880 at Winterset, Madison Co. Iowa (Margaret)Married: Sept 14, 1893 in Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO (Sarah Hogle)
BIOGRAPHY: Mother died in 1853 at 45 y/o, father died in 1862 at 47 y/o. Thomas lived most of his boyhoood at the home of Judge J
Birth: Jan. 12, 1827
Roane County
Tennessee, USA
Death: Feb. 22, 1901
Jasper County
Missouri, USA
Mary Gertrudohn Kimball Parish, whose name he took as his own middle name.
Thomas was served in the Civil War. He was made a corporal on August 14, 1861 (ARMY).
Thomas was wounded in the latter part of April, 1862 and went home on a furlough.
1862 Thome, James W., Clarence E., Francis Wilton, Lee H., Aduella Belle, Fannie C., John Thomas, unnamed triplets, Richard and Joseph D.
Geneology of Charles Kron http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ckron&id=I20065&ti=4300
Title: Pedigree Resource File CD 06
Publication: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999)
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Media: Book
Title: MERCKLIN-PRF.GED
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Text: Date of Import: May 22, 2000
Thomas was at Gettysburg, Fredericksburg and a lot of the big battles. He met President Lincoln too.
Source: birthdates/date of death of children furnished by Mrs. Rhoda Fone
http://www.hchm.org/index.htm Harvey County Historical Society
(Family notes re-typed by Jane (Hayden) Colvin
Thomas Parish Murphy, son of William and Ellen White Murphy
Thomas was born in Villierstown, Waterford County, Ireland, April 27, 1840. He had one brother, Patrick Henry Murphy born January 5, 1838.
The Murphy's came to the United States in 1841 and settled in Vermont, near the towns of Roxbury, Fairfield and Raldolph.
Life on the Vermont farm was hard. Thomas told of how hard he had to work for his father. After their mother's death the boys must have lived with other families. Thomas lived for a time with a family by the name of Mc_____, but most of his boyhood was spent at the home of Judge Jacob Kimball Parish, whose name he took as his own middle name. The Parish boys were named for the books of the Bible, and the boys at school used to shout, "Mark, Luke and John, went to bed with their breeches on". This provoked many a school fight. Judge Parish believed in the dignity of family gatherings and the dinner table was no exception. One day a Frenchman, who was just learning the English language, was a guest at the Parish board. Judge Parish asked him if he wanted some cabbage. "I believe I'll take a few" was the reply, and the boys had a hard time choking back the laughter.
Thomas went to Boston before the Civil War and attended Business College. He had to pay his father one hundred dollar a year for his time, in addition to supporting himself. In those days you stayed at boarding house in Boston, and you had to have references. If you were thrown out of a boarding house without references you were hard put to find other lodgings. The boys where Thomas stayed had been wrestling in their rooms and had been warned to desist. One night one of the youths was demonstrating how to do a back flip. He lit on the bed, which collapsed with a loud noise. The landlady immediately told the guilty party to leave, without references. The boy begged and pled to be allowed to remain. Finally, the landlady told him he could stay if he would apologize publicly. Here was his apology: "If I've done anything to be sorry for, I'm glad of it", to which the good woman replied, "That's perfectly all right, Mr. _____, that's perfectly all right".
(During the War) Thomas Murphy was at Randolph on furlough, due to his wounded arm. A minnie ball entered his arm and the surgeons could not locate it. All of the surgeons wanted to operate and remove his arm, save one. He allowed cold water to run on the wound, days on end, and thus saved the arm. Thomas carried the slug in his arm to the day of his death. The accident made his arm stiff and forced him to write with a full-arm movement, and he wrote a beautiful hand. While at Randolph he received a letter from his step-mother, Margaret Cashen.
Thomas was wounded again in the face and was finally discharged from the Army in 1864 with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in Company B, 6th Vermont Volunteers.
(After the War) After Thomas left the Army in October, 1864, he went to Boston, attended business college again, and worked for some time for Hart, Taylor and Company, furriers. The company gave them all huge fur collars as an advertisement of the firm. They all began to have bad colds and the doctor ordered them to quit wearing the neck pieces. The colds cleared up at once.
Thomas went to Denver in 1866. Exact knowledge of his life for the next four years is lacking. However, we do have individual instancces of the fact that his life was far from drab. He freighted to Santa Fe, New Mexico and to old Fort Bridger in Wyoming. He also hauled hay to the railroad during the construction of a railroad in Colorado {Union Pacific}. Herein are recorded a few instances of the adventurous life he led.
One year Thomas and his partner were freighting from one station to another. They came to the first station. The attendant had been killed and the station was on fire. At the next station, the attendant was killed, but the building had not been on fire. However, their luck held and they did not see an Indian.
Another time, the two men were getting breakfast. Indians on the warpath came to their cabin and the two came in. The partner went on getting breakfast while Murphy held a gun and stood in the corner of the room. Finally the Indians left, and the two men were not harmed.
Murphy told of mountain streams where the trout were so tame they would take the bare hook. The railroad men would keep camp in fish with little effort.
One paymaster wore a suit with twenty dollar gold pieces for buttons. He made his money by putting ficticious names on the payroll and collecting the money. He invited Thomas to go in on the scheme but was refused.
At one time Murphy and his partner got a hundred dollars a ton for hay, but the cost of living was proportionally high, and there was little margin of profit.
Murphy told of a running gun fight in Dodge City, between four desperados and the arm of the law. The town marshal had a shotgun and a rifle. He killed three of the men and the fourth boarded a train with his shoulder full of buckshot. Murphy told of gambling establishments with the silver dollars heaped high on the gambling tables.
On Thomas' first trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico as a freighter, the old hands dwelt at great length upon the fine milk to be found at the journey's end. It sounded just a little too good. When the men, famished after the long trip, landed in Santa Fe, the new hands greedily gulped down the milk. But Thomas held back as he did not see any of the old hands taking any of the goat milk. Next day he learned the reason. When the goats were milked, they were milked from behind, not the side. As goat droppings fell in the pail, they were skimmed off and thrown aside. That was the milk the Mexican milkmaids were selling to green teamsters.
One Mormon was expostulating with Murphy on his single blessedness. Murphy informed him that he could not afford to support a wife. "I don't support them," said the husband of three wives, "they support me". Murphy told of seeing Jim Bridger and Kit Carson and other noted scouts.
Thomas was especially fond of tomatoes. He would heap a plate with sliced tomatoes, cover them with pepper, salt and vinegar, and eat them with great relish. This is how he acquired his liking for them. He and his partner had been out on the road, freighting, for a long time. When they hit town, tired and thirsty, the first thing they found was canned tomatoes. They knocked the ends out of the can and drank and ate the tomatoes without any preparation. From that time on, tomatoes were his fresh fruit favorite.
One winter Murphy came upon a great herd of buffalo at a river. Ice had started to form and the herd would not venture out upon the ice, not strong enough to bear it's weight. Hunters killed for days, taking only the hides and livers. It was estimated that the herd contained ten thousand animals and the greater part of this herd was killed in wanton destruction.
Murphy used to tell two stories of Civil War life, which were his favorites.
It seemed that the officer's latrine and the latrines for the other men were side by side. Each was a hole with a pole across it. The only difference was that the officers' latrine had a backrest. One night a general came into camp, considerably worse for wear, having had one too many drinks. Waving aside the proffered assistance, he weaved his way to the latrines, went into the wrong one, and leaned against the back support that was not there. Attracted by his loud yells, the men fished him out with a pole, decorated with much more than his gold braid.
The army commissary, as we know it today, did not exist, and the men were often hungry and faced with food shortages. Foraging in the countryside by individuals was forbidden, but the order was sometimes ignored. One of the men had found a sheep and the squad had butchered it after dark and hung it in the tent to cool. As luck would have it, one of the headquarters officers came along, happened to step into the tent and saw the carcass. Roundly upbraiding the men for disobeying orders, he had the sheep taken to the officers' tent, where the staff dined on mutton. The next day, the boys found a huge Newfoundland dog, killed that day by a stray bullet. They dressed it out and hung it beside the tent. Again the officer came along, and again the carcass was confiscated. Once more the staff dined upon the "mutton" which the men had butchered, and thought it was a fine treat.
During the fighting in Pennsylvania, most of the horses were taken by Confedereates, who were very short on horse-flesh. One Pennsylvania Dutch farmer was bemoaning the loss of his mare. "Tree wifes I haf had", he cried, "And I vouuld not trade dot mare for de lot of dem".
The life he led on the frontier is well illustrated by a letter which T.P. wrote to Luke Parish in Vermont. {See letters section}.
Thomas Murphy went to Harvey County in 1870 and took up the first claim in Macon Township. He and a neighbor by the name of Huffman worked and cooked together. They constructed dugouts along East Emma Creek, but missed their own farms by several hundred feet. Murphy had his dugout on Huffman's farm and Huffman was on the William Chapple place, across the creek from Murphy. The outlines of the old dugouts are stil plainly visible in the creek banks. {I am not sure when this was written or by whom, but I believe Donald D. Murphy, his son from his marriage to Sarah wrote it}.
One morning the creek was very high, due to heavy rains farther north. Huffman was on one side and his breakfast was on the other bank of the creek. Finally the two men constructed a ferry, by tying two long ropes to a dishpan and placing the food in the pan. the food reached the far shore without mishap.
When the grasshopper plague came, the settlers were made almost destitute. Everything in the path of the insects was consumed. Huffman had a family, Murphy did not. So, Murphy gave his partner what provisions he had and went to Iowa, where he worked for the Beerbowers near Winterset. Fred Beerbower said that T.P. Murphy was the readingest man he ever saw. Here Murphy met Margaret Elizabeth Hogle, whom he married in 1880. Thomas was a fine figure of a man. Tall, straight, with a military bearing that he never lost, and even when wearing a fine beard, he really made the girls' hearts flutter {So said Sarah who was a little girl at the time}.
The coal house on the Murphy farm was Margaret's kitchen in the early days. They had one other room. When the house was remodeled, every bit of the old original room that was the first house could be used for, for it was all soft white pine, held together with old wrought iron nails. And in the walls was an old paper, lost there years before.
When Thomas arrived at his place in 1870, the whole place was covered by hay stacks, put up by a cattle company, which had its camp near the place where the twin bridges now stands, two miles from the place. In the Kansas census of 1875, T.P. Murphy is listed as an owner of 160 acres, value $1,500. He is not listed as a resident, so he must have left soon after the grasshopper disaster of 1874. All people reported fences but there were no fences in Macon Township in 1875. They were required to have so much fence for each farm, in accordance with claim laws, so they just listed them on paper. Thomas was in Adair County, Iowa on January 23, 1876. He was in Jackson Township on December 17 of that year.
Thomas was back on the farm in 1879, September 28. He mentioned the trip President Hayes and Mrs. Hayes made to Kansas and their stopover in Newton. He also mentioned the Farmers' Club, the forerunner of the Farm Bureau. Corn was selling for 85 cents per bushel. He had corn growing in Iowa, so he must have returned to Kansas in the spring of 1879. He mentioned how hard it was to find water for his team on the trip to Iowa. He told of a Quaker settlement northwest of his farm. He married Margaret Elizabeth Hogle and they came to Kansas in the spring of 1880. They were married February 16, 1880. Margaret was born May 21. 1852, Coshocton County, Ohio.
The next few years were hard ones for Margaret. She used to walk to the Shafer place, hungry for companionship. They apologized for the fact that they had no extra food to offer, as they had children to feed and little with which to feed them. She told them she did not care for food, she only wanted to sit and talk to another human being. One winter she took Will and went back to Iowa to visit. Riding in a spring wagon, she threw her shawl about him and her wedding ring was pulled off, falling in the muddy road under the wagon. Failing to find the ring, she finally picked up a stick in desperation, and ran it down the wagon track in the muddy water. When she brought it up, there was the ring on the end of the stick. Maggie, as they called her, was the family favorite. She ran a dressmaking shop in Winterset in Winterset until T.P. Murphy married her, and she made the finest buttonholes in the community.
Emporia was the closest place where supplies could be secured in the earliest days. It was ninety miles, and everything had to be hauled by wagon. The Santa Fe built a road through the place, and, by means of threats, secured a free right of way. Corporations were not inclined to be benevolent in their dealings in those days.
Margaret's father and mother, Isaac and Barbara Smith Hogle, came to spend the winter of 1885 on the farm. Sarah, Margaret's sister, came with them and taught school at District 30. It was an unusually severe winter and Margaret died on March first of that year, 1886, leaving four motherless children. Sarah took the two youngest, James Charles and Bessie, back to Iowa and the two oldest, William Pitt and Walter Hogle Murphy, stayed to live with their father. Will Hogle, met her at Greenfield, Iowa when she arrived with the two children. Charles used to have a picture of his father, whom he scarcely remember, if at all. He used to sit in the home at Winterset and say "I don't have a Daddy. I just got a picture of a Daddy". After Isaacs, death, Sarah and her mother went to Winterset to live with Aunt Betsy Ruby, but the children made her nervous, and the two women moved to Evanston, Illinois, where William Nelson Hogle also lived for a time.
More notes: William and Walter spent a lot of time at the William Chapple family farm after their mother died. Sarah had been teaching both at Winterset and as a substitute teacher at Evanston. The first Christmas after Sarah came back was described as a very joyous one. The Reverend that married Thomas and Sarah was Sarah's brother. They went to the Chicago World's fair for their honeymoon.
Edward Dunkelberger tells of his father's attending Margaret's funeral in the early Kansas home. The coffin was a rough board affair and it was carried to Cemetery by means of a lumber wagon. There were few niceties in the pioneer days.
Life was very hard on the farm. Will and Walter awakened one morning to find their father gone. They tore out of the house in panic and started north across a field of lister ridges to the Biggerstaff home, where "Grandmother" Biggerstaff gathered them in, clad only in their night shirts.
The boys stayed for a while at William Chapple's, where they worked very hard. Grandma Biggerstaff told of stopping them on their way to school, of dumping out the cold pancakes which their dinner buckets contained and filling the buckets with "some real food". She came to Harvey County a widow with small children, accompanied by her brother, Major Pickerel and was a great friend to the Murphy's.
The two younger children lived with Sarah and her mother in Winterset, Iowa and then moved to Evanston, Illinois. In 1892, Thomas was elected County Clerk, and he asked Sarah to come to Newton and keep house for him. They did and the family was reunited. He and Sarah B. Hogle were married in 1893, September 14, at Kansas City, Missouri, at the Bonaventure Hotel and made the Chicago World's Fair their honeymoon. Sarah has been engaged to a man in the community when Maggie died and she told him he would have to wait until Maggie's kids were older, which he refused to do.
Times were hard for a while, when the family moved to the farm in 1900. Sarah had an old black velvet skirt, which she wore to Church. A new shirt waist was her new spring outfit. Crops were bad and help hard to find and she often chopped sunflowers out of the corn so that the crop might mature.
Thomas died in 1915 and Sarah in the spring of 1943. Sarah and Thomas had one son, Donald Dudley.
Thus ends the family history as far as the early days of Kansas is concerned. The horse and buggy gave way to the motor car and the mules made way for the tractor, as electric lights glow in the house once lit by coal oil lamps. An era has passed, but the old farm is still in Murphy hands and the old elm, ancient in 1870, still spreads it's shade over the banks of the West Emma Creek on the old homestead.
Another story of T.P. I have that was passed down from his son Donald.
Thomas was in the courthouse one day when W.H. Von der Heiden, Newton Attorney, came in and started to "josh" him. T.P. told him he would put him in the wastebasket if he did not stop pestering him. Von laughed and invited him to try, only to find himself firmly deposited in the wastebasket. It turned out that T.P. was the champion wrestler of his regiment in the Civil War.
Mrs. Mort was a neighbor who talked very much to the point, but did not always say what she meant to say. She came one day to ask T.P. Murphy to be superintendent of the Sunday School. Father held back but she clinched the argument by saying "The reason we want you, Mr. Murphy, is because you can say all you want in a short while".
Hay was scarce one year and Father told a neighbor he could have all the prairie hay he wanted, but not to take any alfalfa. Dad came home to find the man covering a load of alfalfa with the bluestream prairie hay. He told him off properly, while the man pitched the alfalfa back into the barn. Just then Mother {Sarah} came out to say that the man's wife and children were there and that they would stay for supper. The perfect host, Dad laughed and joked throughout the meal and it was not until later that Mother learned of the true state of affairs.
Donald, or one of the kids, stated that their father never mentioned his family in his later years. He was very proud of his Irish ancestry, however, and liked to have people twit him about being Irish. Thomas would rub his finger along his nose when he was in deep thought. The only mannerism that he had. His face was grave but his eyes twinkled. They say he was very close-mouthed. When Sarah would tell him some exciting bit of neighborhood gossip, he would nod and grin. It often happened that he had known it for some time but kept his mouth shut. Thomas read everything, then would discuss it before the family. It seemed strange that there were so few papers in other homes of the community. We had papers and magazines, come what may, says Donald. Sarah kept the facts of life away from the children and was shocked when she found they had learned them at school.
One halloween night Don wanted to have some fun so he went out and got some chickens and turned them loose in the house. Thomas and Sarah did nothing, just laughed, showing an understanding that few parents possess. If you wanted to do something, you got your decision at once and there was no appealing. If there were tasks to be done, they were done before play. Sarah could work faster and turn off more work than any other woman I ever saw. She organized the first farm woman's club in that section, the Wimodausis, an organization that is still going strong in the community. She was President for years.
Thomas P. went to Old Settlers once and was on the reception committee. There was also a meeting at Hutchinson and the Governor of Virginia came to Halstead and stopped with the speaker. When the Governor left, he turned to Thomas and said "Come to Richmond to see me sometimes". Thomas said "I don't know about that. I was in a little party of men once who spent four years trying to get to Richmond and we never did get there". The Governor laughed and said "Try again, this time will be different".
Thomas liked all his children but the sight of Bessie just softened him all over. Maybe he looked for Margaret in his daughter but Bessie was his pride and joy. Bessie did not like to be called "Bess" but her Dad always called her that and she liked it tremendously.
Box suppers were the peak in social events. The boys all took their girls and the boxes were an artistic triumph. Some were in the shape of school houses, some like big, red velvet hearts and some were just plain. The girls oftentimes did not tell their beaux what was the shape of their boxes, just giving them the chance to guess. When the girls did tell, the boys were supposed to buy the box, no matter what its cost. The boxes often cost the boy fifteen or sixteen dollars. Box suppers often bought all the books for a country school and education could not have been carried on without them. One night Walter Murphy took Elizabeth Royer to a box supper and the stags framed him. They bid the box up to seventeen dollars and Walter let them have it. Then, after the food was eaten, Walter took her home.
Thomas was a man of his word. His integrity was unquestioned. If T.P. Murphy gave his word, it was as good as a legal document. He never preached. He smoked a long, black cigar and swore just once, when a tenant tried to cheat him after Father had helped him out in lean days. One day in December he called his family in and said "I guess it's time now. I'm not afraid to die. Goodbye". And so he passed on. He never did make a show of his religion, but let each man decide for himself what was right. No great "testifier" in church, he just lived his life and let that speak for itself. But if there is no place in heaven for a man like that, then let the Methodists have it and we will all have a swell time in Hell.
Thomas Murphy's children are listed below.
Children with Margaret
William Pitt Murphy born December 10, 1880 at the Murphy family farm.
Walter Hogle Murphy born December 6, 1881at the Murphy farm.
Bessie Parish Murphy born December 16, 1883, died August 26, 1945 at the Murphy farm.
James Charles Murphy born June 14, 1885 at the Murphy farm.
Child with Sarah Bashaba
Donald Dudley Murphy born October 22, 1898.
Halstead Independent, Thursday, December 16, 1915
Obituary of T.P. Murphy
Had long been a prominent figure in the affairs of this country.
T.P. Murphy was born in Waterford, Ireland, April 27, 1840 and departed this life December 4, 1915.
When but one year old, he emigrated with his parents to America, settling in Orange County, Vermont. Early in life Mr. Murphy started in pursuit of knowledge, but his aims in that direction were given up when the nation called for defenders in 1861.
Under the call he enlisted in Company H, 6th Vermont Infantry, and served until mustered out, October 15, 1864. While fighting in the Union Army he was twice wounded. April 16, 1862 in front of Yorktown, he was shot in the arm while carrying the regimental flag. At Fredericksburg he was again wounded. His last engagement was at Fisher's Hill under General Sheridan, September 19, 1864. When mustered out of service he had attained the rank of First Lieutenant. His first vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
He came west in 1866 from Boston direct to Denver, coming to Harvey County in 1870. In 1880 he was married to Miss Margaret E. Hogle of Winterset, Iowa. To this union were born four children:
William P., of El Reno, Oklahoma; Walter H. of McNeal, Arizona; Mrs. Edward Dunkelberger of Witchita and J. Charles Murphy of Manhattan, Kansas.Their mother was called to her reward in 1886. In 1893 he was joined in marriage to Miss Sadie B. Hogle of Evanston, Illinois. To this union was born one son, Donald D. The widow children still survive.
But few men are called upon to serve their country in time of war or peace as was the deceased. In 1892 he was elected county clerk of Harvey County and was re-elected in 1894. His service as county clerk was one marked with years of great efficiency in the conduct of the affairs of the county. He served in the legislature as a member from Harvey County from 1904 to 1908 and in the state senate from 1908 to 1912.
Mr. Murphy was a scholarly man of mental attainments and much breadth of character. He always made it a point to keep posted on current events, especially those affecting the welfare of the state and nation in which he lived. He was not a casual reader, merely he was a student, and he studied the questions confronting the American people, and particularly those of Kansas with thoroughness.
Even more important was Mr. Murphy's excellent moral character. No man stood higher in the estimation of his fellow citizens in this respect than he. In his private life, as in his official duties, his rugged honesty and his rare conscientiousness were marled traits of his character.
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Headlines: Was A Pioneer Thos. P. Murphy, Soldier, Statesman, and Honored Citizen Answers the Final Call
Thomas P. Murphy of Macon township, who was probably as well known over the county as any citizen in it, died at his home three miles east of Halstead, Saturday evening at 6 o'clock, after an illness which has extended over a period of several months.
Mr. Murphy was one of the earliest settlers of Harvey Couty, having taken as a claim in 1871, the farm on which he died and which he had continuously called his home since entering a soldier's filing on it at that early date. He was a resident of Newton for several years, however, while serving four years as Deputy County Clerk under R.H. Farr and four years as County Clerk. He also represented Harvey county in the State Legislature two terms as a member of the House and later served a term of for years as State Senator.
He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Ed Dunkelberger, of Wichita, and four sons, Charles, of Manhattan, Will of El Reno, Okla., Walter of Arizona, and Donald who is at home.
The funeral services were held from the late home and from the Evangelical Church in Newton, Tuesday afternoon. There was a large attendance of his old friends and neighbors, while the members of the Grand Army were very much in evidence, Buford Post of Newton, of which he had long been a leading member, having charge of the burial service. Interment was made in the family lot in the Newton Cemetery.
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Arrival: 1841
Date born 2: 1840, Ireland.
Date born 3: 1840, Ireland.
Date born 4: 1840, Ireland.
Date born 5: 1841, Ireland.
Date born 6: 1841, Ireland.
Date born 7: 1841, Ireland.
Burial: 07 Dec 1915, Greenwood Cem., Newton, Kansas.
Record Change: 24 Feb 2006
Residence 1: 1880, Macow, Harvey, Kansas, United States.
Residence 2: 1910, Macon, Harvey, Kansas.
Residence 3: 1910, Macon, Harvey, Kansas.
Residence 4: 1910, Macon, Harvey, Kansas.
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A performance analysis of channel fragmentation in dynamic spectrum access systems
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Dynamic Spectrum Access systems offer temporarily available spectrum to opportunistic users capable of spreading transmissions over a number of non-contiguous subchannels. Such methods can be highly beneficial in terms of spectrum utilization, but excessive fragmentation degrades performance and hence off-sets the benefits. To get some insight into acceptable levels of fragmentation, we present experimental and analytical results derived from a mathematical model. According to the model, a system operates at capacity serving requests for bandwidth by assigning a collection of one or more gaps of unused bandwidth to each request as bandwidth becomes available. Our main result is a proof that, even if fragments can be arbitrarily small, the system remains stable in the sense that the average total number of fragments remains bounded. Within the class of dynamic fragmentation models, including models of dynamic storage allocation that have been around for many decades, this result appears to be the first of its kind.
In addition, we provide extensive experimental results that describe behavior, at times unexpected, of fragmentation as parameter values are varied. Different scanning rules for searching gaps of available spectrum, all covered by the above stability result, are also studied. Our model applies to dynamic linked-list storage allocation, and provides a novel analysis in that domain. We prove that, interestingly, a version of the 50 % rule of the classical, non-fragmented allocation model holds for the new model as well. Overall, the paper provides insights into the behavior of practical fragmentation algorithms.
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The Wii has cost $250 since its 2006 launch, while Xbox 360 prices, following a series of reductions, range from $200 for a simple version with no hard drive to $400 for the "Elite" version that comes bundled with games. The basic PS3 model remains more expensive than the cheapest versions of its counterparts.
The PlayStation price cut will also help, as would cuts from the other console makers. Analysts also expect Nintendo to bring down the price of the Wii, though it might be in the way of keeping the price tag at $250 but throwing in more free games.
Tretton compared the spring and summer to the NFL preseason when it comes to video game sales, in that "no one pays attention and no one keeps score."