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- Understand the files, functions and operations of the security patch. To ensure that all groups (e.g., server, application or desktop groups) comprehend the full impact of its installation, the following questions should be answered by the individuals (e.g., security team members or tool administrators) responsible for patch management:
- What problem does this patch solve?
- What systems are affected?
- What files are affected?
- Does the target system require a reboot?
- Does the target software process require a restart?
- Does the patch have an uninstall feature?
- If the patch or uninstall fails, how can the system be recovered?
- Prioritize and rate the severity of each security patch. The following table shows an example of how to prioritize patches based on criteria, along with the recommended and maximum timeframes associated with each. Some organizations prefer to use a color coding system versus a numbering scheme. The colors associated with each priority are also provided below to show how each line up. This table helps set the priority of a patch when it is released. However, if an organization already has compromised systems within their environment, this table does not apply.
- Initiate the change control procedure within the organization. The change control procedure or process is a set of documented steps that all changes must go through prior to installation on any systems or devices. Every organization should have a documented change control procedure in place that all groups within the organization must follow. Change management ensures that modifications to systems occur in a controlled environment. While initiating change control is possible after releasing a patch, it's important to complete change control prior to testing the patch and preparing it for deployment. Change control is executed according to the priority level of the patch. For example, if a patch is categorized as "Emergency" or "Red," an expedited version of the change control procedure is implemented to ensure the patch is installed within the required timeframe.
Priority | Priority Color | Criteria | Recommended Timeframe | Maximum Recommended Timeframe |
1 -- Emergency | Red | Organization is vulnerable, an exploit has been published and other organizations are being affected by the exploit | Within 6-12 hours | Within 12-18 hours |
2 -- Critical | Orange | The organization is vulnerable, but no known exploitation of the vulnerability | Within 48 Hours | Within 2 weeks |
3 -- Urgent | Yellow | The vulnerable technology exists in the environment, but the vulnerability is difficult to exploit | Within 1 week | Within 2 weeks |
4 -- Important | Green | The vulnerable technology exists in the environment, but it is difficult to exploit, and the risk to the organizations systems is limited or low | Depending on availability, deploy a new service pack or update rollup that includes a fix for this vulnerability within 1 month | Deploy the software update within 2 months |
5 -- Informational | Blue | The vulnerable technology does not exist in the environment | Depending on availability, deploy a new service pack or update rollup that includes a fix for this vulnerability within 3 months | Deploy the software update within 5 months or may choose not to deploy at all |
Maintaining the patch information within a change control system provides the required audit trail. It also provides a way to report on the status of each patch as it goes through the procedure. Once you have completed these steps you can proceed to the testing phase.
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Felicia Nicastro, CISSP, CHSP, ISSMP is a Principal Consultant with International Network Services (INS), with over seven years in the information security field. Felicia's areas of expertise include security policies and procedures, security assessments and security architecture planning, design, implementation and operation. Felicia has also authored a book on patch management, titled Curing the Patch Management Headache, which was released in February 2005. |


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post and tips or tricks or stuff that you did if your saying a secret or spoiler please put SPOILER ALERT yeah and also put it in caps so it is easy to see
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not all games are shooters this is one of them that just cause a game is not a shooter does not mean it is bad this game is special like most of nintendos games and is not a shooter
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The Wii U version is basically a remix of the Wii version. Just some new levels and a new menu layout.Come to think of it, isn't the squirrel item the only new item?
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No there are also baby yoshi's and a boost mode with the Wii U controller.SPOILER ALERT At the gate where you will battle Bowser when you enter, has 2 hidden ? boxes on both ends.
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Then finally we fought and in the tenth and final round he caught me with a good uppercut and then he hit the back of my head. I stumbled through the ropes with my head and the referee started to count. The referee may have already reached 5 or 6 when I looked into my corner. To my confusion my cornermen gestured me to take a knee - which I did then. But at that moment the referee counted 9 and 10 and stopped the fight. I had been counted out due to a misunderstanding. At my first day with my new promoter Universum they offered Clottey a rematch but he declined. What was your best fight? In January 2004 I fought against former world champion Philip Holiday in Australia. I knocked him out with a straight right hand in round four and captured the WBO intercontinental title. I believe this was my best fight. Whats more imporant for your fighting: Power or stamina? Great stamina plus technique is most important. This is more important than a hard punch. 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A veteran environmental journalist, Lisa Jones knew about Michael Soulé the "father of conservation biology" long before she knew about Michael Soulé the Buddhist ("The Buckshot Bodhisattva"). But now Jones and Soulé are both members of the same sangha in tiny Paonia, Colorado, where Jones buys the meat she eats from local ranchers, and Soulé retreats into the hills to hunt game for himself—and in his view, to restore ecological balance. "There's nothing pious or politically correct about Michael," Jones says; "he applies the same kind of boundary-busting thinking to his spiritual practice that he applies to science and environmental activism."
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IT'S EARLY MORNING, and the sun is just rising. Most people are still in bed on a Saturday morning in summer, but Mary Ellen Rivas and her teenage son and daughter are hard at work setting up their booth at the De Anza Flea Market, where they sell stickers, earrings and gift items.
"I like this [market] because it's once a month," Rivas says of the Cupertino outdoor market, located on the campus of De Anza College. "These are serious customers here. I try to carry quality merchandise, and here customers appreciate it."
But Rivas didn't always carry quality merchandise. Four years ago, she was caught selling counterfeit goods. Among the items she carried were faux Nike, Adidas and Warner Bros. shirts, jackets, hats and shoes--called "knockoffs"--all at unbelievably low prices.
"I used to carry knockoffs, but I changed my merchandise," Rivas says. "I got caught once, and once was enough."
Each week, thousands of fakes are still being sold at swap meets and flea markets throughout Santa Clara County and the country. At any given market, one out of every 10 items is probably a knockoff, said William Wolfe, a detective with the San Jose Police Department.
And counterfeiting is on the rise.
In 1982, the International Trade Commission estimated that knockoffs had a $5.5 billion effect on the American economy--in terms of lost profits and jobs for the original manufacturers and expenses incurred by law enforcement efforts aimed at catching the counterfeiters. The number grew to $66 billion in 1998 and has more than doubled to today's estimated $200 billion loss.
Sgt. Luther Pugh, a community services officer with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department, calls counterfeiting the most common crime at flea markets. (In earlier times, it was more common to find people hocking stolen merchandise, he says.)
In June, officers from the Sheriff's Department visited the De Anza market and arrested six vendors. Officers confiscated a truckload of goods, arrested and cited the suspects, and released them at the scene.
"The vendors make a good deal of money selling these things," Pugh says. "One of the vendors had over 600 items of clothing that were counterfeit. Just while we were observing them, they were doing a pretty brisk business. And they travel from flea market to flea market."
Identifying fakes often takes a trained eye, something local police officers don't have. That's why corporations like Nike hire private investigators to police flea markets around the country and here in Silicon Valley.
SOME FAKES are easy to spot. For instance, it doesn't take much to figure out that a "Sieko" watch is not an authentic Seiko. A smart shopper might also suspect that a Nike T-shirt with a Hanes tag on the collar probably wasn't crafted by Nike-certified laborers. And a $20 Rolex can't be the real thing.
Kris Buckner, an investigator with Southern Californiabased Investigative Consultants, says that most counterfeit products are better replicas than Siekos. With the better fakes, it takes specialized company and trademark knowledge to spot them, says Buckner, a former police officer.
"We're trained by the various companies," explains Buckner, whose client list includes Chanel, NFL Properties, Rolex, Seiko and Warner Bros., "to be able to tell apart a counterfeit from the real product."
In some cases, an investigator must know where a company manufactures its product. A Dooney & Bourke handbag with a "Made in China" label must be a fake, Buckner explains, because the company assembles its product in the United States.
Prior to contacting the sheriff's office or the SJPD, Investigative Consultants identifies vendors who are selling fake items. Then the group works with the law enforcement agencies to make arrests and issue citations.
Such a process was used during a May visit to the Berryessa Flea Market, where SJPD made several arrests.
On each trip to Berryessa, SJPD usually limits the number of arrests to three because of the time it takes to catalog and inventory the confiscated items. Also, word of SJPD's presence spreads fast and vendors often close their booths for the day.
"Most of the vendors are totally legal," he says. "Only a few sell knockoff items, but the ones that do are huge."
THE CORPORATE VICTIMS of counterfeiters insist that they are losing millions of dollars a year to cheap imitations of their products.
"It's hard to [put a number on it]," says David Simpson, security director for Nike. "If you add up everything we seize by us, police or customs, it's several million dollars. And you're just scratching the surface. There's a lot out there you don't seize."
To help combat counterfeiters, Nike also hires private investigators to protect its trademark through criminal and civil investigations. The majority of the fake Nike apparel sold in the United States consists of T-shirts and sweatshirts. Knockoff Nike footwear is generally distributed outside the United States.
"We've taken action at the San Jose flea markets," Simpson says. "But it's a tough deal. You have to go in and try to pursue the people, what they are selling, and then work backwards and try to see who their suppliers and manufacturers are."
According to the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition, the largest multinational organization to represent companies that suffer from product piracy and counterfeiting, most knockoff merchandise made in the United States is produced in Los Angeles and New York. Overseas, the groups says, Taiwan is a major source of pirated goods.
The IACC estimates that the fraud costs the economy more than $200 billion a year in lost jobs, taxes and sales.
The knockoff business is so lucrative that organized crime has gotten involved and fake brand names are even making their way into regular retail stores, according to David Quam, executive director of the IACC.
"[Swap meets and flea markets] are just the tip of the iceberg," Quam says. "There's a whole industry involved outside of the flea markets and street vendors. There are stories of counterfeit items making it onto legitimate store shelves. We have to combat this on all levels."
Some of the larger retail chains have purchased counterfeit Nike merchandise in the past, Simpson acknowledges.
The number of counterfeit items available on the open market has increased due to improved technology that makes it easier and cheaper to produce authentic-looking merchandise.
The problem is so pervasive that companies are pushing for harsher punishment of counterfeiters. Quam, for one, thinks vendors selling knockoffs should get jail time.
"The problem with civil remedies is they get fined or sued," Quam explains. "Counterfeiters take that as a cost of doing business. It's a fine or risk they take. That's why we push for criminal remedies. You can't get out of serving jail time, and in areas with criminal punishments, people are leaving the area."
Recent changes in California's anti-counterfeiting laws have imposed stiffer penalties on individuals arrested for selling or manufacturing knockoffs. In 1996, individuals caught selling knockoffs in California received citations unless they had a prior counterfeiting conviction. If they had priors, they were charged with felonies. Today, individuals arrested for selling knockoffs valued at greater than $400 are charged with felonies, which include jail time.
But vendors are mobile, so making an arrest isn't always easy.
And even if a vendor gets cited and evicted from a market, there's always someone else to take their place, San Jose police detective Bill Wolfe says. "They usually get their stuff from Los Angeles and they don't give out the information on who they get it from."
While companies like Nike and Rolex have a clear financial interest in putting counterfeiters out of business, consumers don't necessarily feel victimized when they buy a fake. Often they already know, and they buy the item because of its low price.
THE DISPLAY SIGN advertised Dooney & Bourke purses--high-end handbags which usually cost more than $200--for only $20. When Sgt. Luther Pugh and other officers peeked inside the De Anza Flea Market vendor's nearby van, they saw a man gluing home-made Dooney & Bourke insignias onto generic purses.
While searching the vendor's haul, Pugh found that two women who had bought the purses had paid with a check. Pugh called the phone numbers on the checks and informed the consumers that they had bought fakes.
But they weren't upset, Pugh recalls. After all, they only paid $20. The beauty of it was that no one else would know how much they paid. Everyone would just think the $20 purse was an authentic Dooney & Bourke.
"Some people just don't care," Pugh says.
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Development works across the city and World Classical Tamil Conference related-works in and around the CODISSIA trade fair complex are progressing as per or even ahead of schedule and will be completed well before the conference, said Chief Secretary K.S. Sripathi here on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters after inspecting the works, he said, "I am not able to see any sluggish pace or let down in efforts."
The review meeting was attended by Special Officer for Tamil Conference K. Allaudin; Secretary to Government for Information Technology P.W.C. Davidar; Director of Information and Public Relations C. Kamaraj; Vice-Chancellors C. Swaminathan (Bharathiar University) and M. Rajendran (Tanjore Tamil University); Collector P. Umanath; Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra; Airport Director M.R. Vasudeva; District Revenue Officer S. Murthy; Officer on Special Duty for Conference S. Prabakaran; Commissioner of Police - Coimbatore City C. Sylendra Babu; and Inspector-General of Police - West Zone P. Sivanandi.
"Efforts are on to have the works relating to the Avanashi Road median and streetlights completed well ahead of mid-April; railway authorities have agreed to complete the Hope College railway bridge by April-end. Similarly, works relating to the airport are being expedited", said Mr. Sripathi.
Asked whether the current pace of work would be adequate to have the infrastructure in place by June and whether there was any need for additional manpower or funds, Mr. Sripathi said the pace of works was being monitored and additional manpower or funds would be considered, depending upon the situation.
To a query on Southern Railway's plan for additional entry and exit subway at the Coimbatore Junction, Mr. Sripathi said there was a small hitch. Soon an amicable solution would be hammered out.
At the review meeting, he exhorted officials to concentrate on fire safety and effective traffic management. He also discussed the need for expediting the works relating to six sites identified for temporary bus stations for the benefit of people visiting Coimbatore for the Tamil conference.
He asked the airport authorities to expedite the works and expressed confidence that the approach road works would be completed soon. Officials informed Mr. Sripathi that tender formalities would be completed by the month-end with regard to widening and strengthening of Mettuppalayam Road.
He also visited the proposed scheme road/link road sites and the 40-odd acre vacant land in the prison compound identified for the first phase of the botanical garden.
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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 637839, 8 pages
Acid Treatment of Titania Pastes to Create Scattering Layers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
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In dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) scattering layers are used to increase the path length of light incident on the TiO2 film. This is typically achieved by the deposition of an additional TiO2 layer on top of an existing transparent film and designed to trap light. In this work we show that a simple acid pretreatment can lead to the formation of a scattering "skin" on the surface of a single TiO2 film performing a similar function to a scattering layer without any additional depositions. This is important in increasing manufacturing throughput for DSCs as further TiO2 depositions require additional materials and heat treatment. The pretreatment leads to self-assembly of a scattering layer of TiO2 which covers the surface on short-term immersion (<30 min) and penetrates the bulk layer upon longer immersion. The method has been shown to increase the efficiency of the device by 20%.


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PDP leader and Bangalore serial blast accused Abdul Nasir Maudany has been shifted to Manipal Hospital for an MRI scan after he complained of dizziness. Hospital authorities said he underwent some tests and an MRI scan on Saturday and will be discharged on Sunday.
Mr. Maudany, a diabetic, was being treated at the Soukya International Holistic Health Centre where he was shifted from jail early this month.
Sudarshan Ballal, medical director of Manipal Hospital, said: "His condition is stable and we will discharge him tomorrow (Sunday). He is not in the ICU."
Isaac Mathai, who runs Soukya, said: "His condition has improved after he came to our centre and his BP and sugar levels are normal now. He will be brought back here on Sunday after a day's observation at Manipal Hospital." He added that the leader would have his eyes tested at a hospital on Monday.
Dr. Mathai said Mr. Maudany had developed several complications such as diabetic neuropathy and retinopathy. He has no vision in the right eye and just 20 per cent vision in the left. He has spondylitis, hypertension, and renal, cardiac and other diabetic complications, he said. "He is responding well to our integrated treatment and his condition is much better now," he added.


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The stuff dissolves with water-soaking it woud get the mastic off the sheets---but it may loosen the tiles from the backing----I'd try sanding the dried adhesive .
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There are some things that anybody who is thinking about using OmniGrip should really know. So as briefly as i can i will try to lay out the basics of what i wish had been spelled out on the container or that i had just known before i used it. This can be an great product if you know how and where to use it.
CURING: Definitely the downside of this product As previous posters have mentioned in this forum, this product can have a :dry time" 4-30 times longer than regular thin-set. if you don't have the time to let it do its thing curing this isn't for you. The 3 major determining factors in the drying process will be: 1.What you set it on, 2.what size of tile, and 3.climate conditions. 1. If your using this product on Wood or Drywall it obviously will cure faster than on Plastic laminates or existing Ceramic tiles. 2. If you use this on thicker (thicker than 1/4 inch) tiles or tiles bigger than about 6x6" Its going to start taking longer, i wouldn't use this on anything bigger than 12x12" @1/4 inch thickness, or it may never cure. 3. 80-90 degrees with low humidity will dry faster than 50 degrees with high humidity. As previously mentioned it can take 4(Minimum)-30 days to cure to the point you should crawl on it to grout. I love OmniGrip for the walls, especially for rock/brick veneer/mosaic tile patterns. Or for the floor in high traffic areas where you are going to do a mosaic. This may just be me, but i don't like OmniGrip on concrete if i can help it, for some reason, perhaps counter intuitively it seems to take considerably longer to cure. APPLICATION: If you need to get a specific thickness after your tile is set, you should know that because OmniGrip is so thick, if you are going to use a 3/8x1/4 inch trowel it will roughly be as if you were using a 1/4x1/4 trowel. Meaning that your finished thickness will be closer to 1/8" on under after tile is compressed, instead of 3/16 which you would get with regular thin-set if you were to use your tool 90 degrees to get the maximum thickness. To get the actual 3/8 inch thick trowel effect you would have to go to 1/2"x1/2", which is the thickest i would recommend you go. Now it is true that OmniGrip will break down with water after being set, HOWEVER OmniGrip will not clean up easily with water, so in other words.. if you are not able to keep your surface and cracks pretty clean, if your planning on floating a lot of high and low spots and compressing the tiles till the OmniGrip comes through the cracks. This may not be the best product for you. You can do it, but it will be some serious work and eat a lot of time. Just grab a thin margin trowel if you dare.. squeeze out your sponger really well and get to work. You will want to use a bit of soap in your water bucket for your tools when you are done. You can use OmniGrip on walls and your pieces will stick where ever you put them. You may even have a hard time prying them off if you need to re-stick them, or even moving them around after and hour or two of being up there. I would try to avoid it, but you can adhere OmniGrip to the dried version of itself if you have already set tiles down and had to pull them back out. I wouldn't recommend sanding with this stuff though as it will just gunk the sandpaper, just try to scrape the high spots with a margin trowel as best you can, and as long as it doesn't leave your floor lipping or you trying frantically to excessively float your floor (and it will be frantically with this stuff) you'll be good to go. It wont scrape, you might try going at carefully with a wire wheel on a drill. Just be careful of the edges and always remember your safety glasses haha. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH OMNIGRIP: That being said, this product is great. It is considerably lightweight, flexible, and strong. I just did a 3 matching Tile mosaic table top project, using alternating 2" and 1" @ 1/4" thick pieces. I used a 1/2"x1/2" trowel leaving it 3/16 inch set and done. And finished it with a 2 part epoxy grout. And it is strong to say the least. It was great for this because the table will see a lot of movement an vibration, perhaps people standing on it, and who knows what else. I see OmniGrip as a great solution for specialized area projects such as back splashes/mosaics/veneer/stone. If you wanted to make a crazy strong floor, you could use OmniGrip with a 2 part epoxy grout. And whoever/if ever someone had to rip it out, they would hate you. When demo guys remove tile, usually they will use a combination of scrapers built for prying and a 20 pound sledge hammer they drop from a few feet straight down on the tile. Because OmniGrip is so flexible, if you use a 2 part epoxy grout with it(which is difficult to use, but if used will probably be the only part of your house left in a thousand years when archaeologists are sifting through rubble wondering what the strange intact grid is, sitting on its own without tile) when it is impacted the force isn't transferred straight down and through to the sub-floor it is spread out over the entire floor almost like landing on a trampoline compared to the ground. With the right sub-floor your likely to see the hammer bounce lol. I've actually seen one bounce from a waist high drop and it bounced to knee height without cracking the tile. It was on a floor I did when part of the house had burnt down 2 years later. After being heated from the intense fire it was hit with cold water from the firemen, it was in the middle of January and sat exposed to the elements for months, a layer of ice freezing and thawing on it day after day. When they finally got the hammer to break through, it busted a hole the size of the hammer head through the tile, through the thinset, the hardibacker and through the subfloor, and did not crack any of the tiles around that one. The insurance company soda blasted some of the grout and found that water had not penetrated the grout. If you want to know what i did setting that floor, i'll tell ya a little secret... Use at least a 1/4" hardibacker, dont worry about thinsetting underneath it. Ignore the screw points on the board, on my own house i do drywall screws with the automatic screw gun about every six inches in a grid. Use flexbond thinset with 25-30% Liquid Acrylic Mortar Admix (AMA) making sure to thoroughly mix it, and when setting (regular ceramic tiles or whatever) make sure to press them down until you can see on the edges that the trowel lines have fused together, lay the tiles to the wall (underneath cabinets and what not) and even try to squeeze your thinset to the base plate underneath the edge of the drywall if you can . Use regular grout and when it cures use an artists paint brush to soak it with a super penetrating sealer (the expensive stuff from the tile specialty store) until it looks wet. And you will have an amazingly strong and resilient floor with the greatest overall price-time/effort combo, that is what i recommend. That is what i would do in my own house. You could do epoxy grout with this, and they can do some cool things with it like glow in the dark/fluorescent . But it is incredibly difficult to lay down and there is no room for error or failure with it. Also while some may disagree with me, I believe that something like a 1/3 staggered pattern on a 45 with the room is a stronger pattern than a standard grid set, but either way, follow this advice and you'll be set. Until you have to rip them out LOL Well not to brief but Hope this Helps, Good Luck! |
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I'll just add to this flogging of a dead horse....
I'm a first time user of Omnigrip, I'm putting 12X12 Granite tile right over the exciting laminate counter top, " I'M DOING WHAT!!!" I'm on a very limited budget, and I've talked to some pro's that have done this before with great results, preparing the surface is the most important step. I was told to use OmniGrip Maximum strength adhesive, this stuff and be used in areas that are wet but not submerged in water, perfect for kitchen counter tops. I did a test spot to see if it would grip as well as it claims, and to my surprise, after only 10 hours I wasn't able to get it off, I had to grind and sand it. Applying it, it didn't act like regular thin-set, it was a little clumpy when using the notch trowel, but workable and held the tiles firmly and held the back splash very well. Clean up was a bit of a pain, this stuff seem to setup under water, I left a trowel in a bucket of water for later clean up and it seem to be firmer than before it was put into the water. All the work is done and I'm ready to apple the grout when I noticed dark areas through out the tiles, that were not there before, is this the moisture from the thin set? coming up, and will it go away? Last edited by brimest0ne; 09-03-2012 at 12:07 PM. Reason: spelling error |
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not a bad product for the weekend warrior, but oil-base mastic is always preferred by professionals. i made the mistake of re-tiling the only shower i have,so all the tiles were falling when the cement board got wet. in other words, the product returns to its original state [ re-emulsify] when it encounters water.
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...so i ended-up using 100% silicone. it stays pliable,and fairly cheap.
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You've resurrected an old thread and gave people some really bad ideas. But welcome anyway. Tell us about yourself, projects, hobbies, etc. You said we should use an oil-based mastic for wet areas. That's WRONG. Not a good idea at all. You're correct about regular mastic though, it can re-emulsify if it gets wet. You should use thin set mortar which comes ONLY in powder form in a bag. You recommended using silicone instead. WRONG. The adhesive, (thin set mortar) needs to be spread so that you get 95% contact/transfer. In your method you'll have mostly voids, making it ripe for a science experiment. The "5-spot method can work on walls that are not near water sources. BTW, What Brimstone above did, is totally a bad plan. Jaz Advertisement
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John Keats
His Last Sonnet - Poem by John Keats
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art! -
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors -
No -yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever -or else swoon to death.
Comments about His Last Sonnet by John Keats
John Richter (10/6/2014 12:43:00 PM)
Immensely sensual..... Young man wishing to adore the most beautiful things of life with the constant ability as a star in heaven, sleepless, only to realize that such ability would be best used to adore his lover, something he wishes to do forever.... Am I wrong in recognizing this as a rather powerful love poem? Though somewhat lacking of the usual mastery of assonance I have become accustomed to in Keat's writing. Dare I assume Keats was a young man when he wrote this? (Report) Reply
Kay Staley (10/6/2014 11:05:00 AM)
To envy the characteristics of being a star...fading into talking about the poets musings and his love..what a nice and old fashioned sonnet. (Report) Reply
Naida Nepascua Supnet (10/6/2014 5:37:00 AM)
WHo would not fall in love for Keats' verses
just marvelous ones (Report) Reply -
Anthony Di''anno (10/6/2014 4:17:00 AM)
John, would I were a crevice in your heart,
That held a bright cinder lost in the night,
I would warm you through and ne'er depart,
Mind your fevered brow through each tortured fight,
Fetch all that your condition's needs would ask,
And also fetch the things you needed more,
I would be equal to every task,
Let you trespass my thirsty human shore,
For I would abandon respectable,
And be a fool at my love's own behest,
So when they drummed and tolled your sad death knell,
I had met each and every request,
Your whispers linger, tender taken breath,
Your Bright Star ever, lures swoons to their death. (Report) Reply -
Frank Avon (10/6/2014 3:01:00 AM)
Anyone who knows me (or follows my comments on sites like this one) is likely to know that my favorite poets of all time are the British Romantics, and that Keats has been a favorite longer than any other. I became an English major and an English teacher and a lover of poetry after discovering Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn and reading Earl Wasserman's The Finer Tone (I hate not being able to italicize) . 'Bright Star' may very well be the most nearly perfect sonnet in the English language - yes, Petrarchan or Italian, which probably is even more difficult than the Shakespearean or English form. After almost sixty years of reading and teaching this poem, I am still as moved by it as when I first encountered it as a sophomore in college, maybe even more so. And, yes, it has autobiographical overtones. And, yes, the voice heard in the poem is the voice of the poet, Keats himself. Of course, the speaker of every poem is a persona, a mask if you will. But that's true of anything anyone ever says. What we say, if we are not being deceptive or are not self-deceived, reflects who we are at that given moment - maybe not yesterday, maybe not tomorrow, but nevertheless autobiographical. And, no, Keats I am relatively certain would NOT have wanted this poem entitled his Last Poem. How he hoped against hope that it would not be.
How blessed we all are - how blessed the world is - that he wrote, that he let it reflect some of what he must have been feeling at that time, and that it was preserved for us to read for all time to come. (Report) Reply -
Sagnik Chakraborty (10/6/2014 2:10:00 AM)
The beautiful imagery leaves a lasting impression on the mind of the poetry lover. Keats at his sensuous best! (Report) Reply
Michael Pruchnicki (10/6/2009 6:53:00 PM)
Sometimes I wonder about the misconceptions some of you have about poetry and poets, but your garbled interpretations cause my wonder to dissipate in the fog of incomprehension I detect in your postings!
Alert to Albert Ahearn- 'His Last Sonnet' by John Keats is NOT a Shakespearean sonnet. Fourteen lines make a sonnet, OK! But when divided into an octave (eight lines rhyming ABABCDCD) - art / night / apart / eremite / task / shores / mask / moors // and a sestet (six lines rhyming EFEFGG) - able / breast / swell / unrest / breath / death, it is a PETRARCHAN sonnet! Remember that your high school teacher impressed upon your adolescent mind that Shakespeare wrote sonnets composed of three quatrains (four lines each) and a couplet (two lines) that summed up or resolved the problem raised in the three preceding quatrains!
The poet differs from the persona, the 'I' character in the sonnet that the poet creates to express the thoughts and feelings that many unwary readers take to be the poet expressing himself as the lover or whomever he pretends to be. Recall if you can that teacher who told you that the term 'persons' literally means 'mask! '
And forget Fanny Brawn or whomever else your restless mind and imagination construes as Keats's love interest in real life. Cite your sources, boy! Your vulgar line about the half-naked wench stretched out on the couch leaves most of us in the dark! (Report) ReplyFrank Avon (10/6/2014 3:17:00 AM)I appreciate your comment, and the time it must have taken you to share it with PH readers.
I'm not sure whose 'fog of incomprehension' you are referring to. I've read eleven current comments, and though most are not as perceptive as yours, they don't sound all that garbled to me. Admittedly, I have not found Albert Ahearn's. Perhaps it has been withdrawn. Perhaps that is what you hoped for.
But how do you know the voice of the poem is not the voice of the poet, Keats himself? And how do you know for sure the poem does not refer to Fanny Brawn as 'my fair love'? If a poem is autobiographical - if the poet speaks with his own voice, or attempts to, does that mean it is not true poetry. Or that it is not good poetry? Or, simply, that it is not poetry written according to your dictates? What about the confessional poets of the 1960s? Or Walt Whitman's extraordinarily personal and idiosyncratic passages? Or your own poems? Is no single one of them autobiographical? Do you not speak with your own voice in any one of them?
By the way, I've read several of your poems, and will certainly read more, and many of them I like very, very much. Many of them - with a good editor or proofreader - are certainly publishable in respected periodicals, by respected presses. Perhaps you are already a published poet. I hope so. As soon as I finish on this site, I'll go to Amazon.com to see if any of your volumes are available there.
But, among us amateurs on PH, perhaps you could be a bit kinder, a bit more encouraging. If you find this offensive, forgive me. Just let me know, and I will comment on your work no further.
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Tai Chi Italy (10/6/2009 3:29:00 PM)
For me Keats is the most romantic hero in poetic terms. If this was infact his last sonnet before his death at such a young age, then it is written in the heightened spirit of his inspirations muse! Love and Death...our greatest preoccupation in life, the closer we get, the more inspired we are. When I read him in the 90's, that is when I realised what poetry was all about. Not actively constructed, but euphorically inspired, by death, by love, by life.
An amazingly sad and beautiful read.
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Kerry O'Connor (10/6/2009 10:16:00 AM)
Considering the fact that Keats died at 26 years old after a long, malingering battle against TB, his preoccupation with death and his imminent separation from his beloved Fanny Brawn is quite understandable and sensitively penned. (Report) Reply
Kevin Straw (10/6/2009 6:04:00 AM)
In Keats there is a melancholy (sometimes conscious, sometimes unconsciously expressed) that pervades much of his work. This melancholy proceeds from his frustration at his impending death which will cut off the full development of his poetry, and his sexual frustration. In this poem there is the paradox that he would exchange his eternal genius for love, but love which is like that of the lovers in the Ode to A Grecian Urn - eternally the same, never fully realised, but at the same time never frustrated. It is the poem of a man who passionately wants full sexual love, but at the same time fears it, and it is no less a poem for that. Compare the poem 'When I have fears that I may cease to be...' which deals with both frustrations. (Report) Reply
Joseph Poewhit (10/6/2009 6:02:00 AM)
Sort of brings to light, the depth of character in steadfastness, a shining star in the heavens. (Report) Reply
Ramesh T A (10/6/2009 3:17:00 AM)
A sensuous sonnet heightened to the stature of steadfast Star shows how passionate Keats is! No lover in the world would ever forget this great poet forever! (Report) Reply
Daphne Grant (10/6/2007 5:52:00 PM)
The poet is stating that he wished he could be as constant as the eternal star, and he says it in his own inimitable way.The message is summed up in the line, awake forever in a sweet unrest. Awake like the constant star, or if not and so live for ever - or else swoon to death. He is in such a state of joy, that he wished he could remain so forever; as the constant star. It is a very beautifull poem.
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A conversation on a Usenet group brought up an observation I've noted about the classical liberal/libertarian movement that has persisted over the course of the now more than 20 years I've been involved. There are, and have been, a goodly number of prominent gay men in both the academic and policy sides of the movement for many, many years, and the Libertarian Party has had a gay rights plank and gay men involved for many years as well. And in the more recent past, there's been a flourishing of openly gay conservative men. All this is to the good I think. But it raises an interesting question: why don't we see many (any?) prominent libertarian lesbians?
Now perhaps they are there and I just don't know about them, and if so, mea culpa, and please don't name names! Still, given the increasing numbers of libertarian women in the academic, policy, and political worlds, it's surprising that open lesbians remain so few in number or at least so far below the radar.
Obviously, I'm not trying to out people, but it is curious and the real question to me is whether or not there's something about the way libertarianism is couched, or about the underlying ideas (perhaps maybe the focus on rights?) that makes it far more attractive to homosexual men than women. I'm also not interested in launching a recruiting drive; nonetheless, it remains a fascinating question about the culture of the libertarian movement and the broader culture as well. (I also think a parallel argument can be made about the conservative movement.) It's the question of"why" that I find fascinating. Of course I may start hearing that I need to check my premise here! If my initial assumption is wrong, I'm happy to hear about it.
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Boo Boo Kitty - 8/15/2006
Camille Paglia?
Plus, *I* might be famous one day...
Though, you are right. There aren't many lesbian libertarians.
Proof...I am single, good-looking, and successful, yet I'm perpetually single. Not for lack of opportunity, rather, I simply can't be with someone whose politics I don't respect. So, I'm up at 3AM, typing 'lesbian libertarians' into a search engine.
Mark D. Fulwiler - 1/10/2004
I can't tell you the reasons, but libertarianism in general is much more attractive to men than to women. Check out the male to female ratio at ANY libertarian event. It's usually about 10-1. And the ratio of gay men to lesbians in the general population is about 2-1, so one wouldn't expect many lesbian libertarians. Still, the almost total lack of lesbian libertarians is a puzzle.
I did have an openly lesbian libertarian professor in college, who was not politically active, but I can't think of one even ~semi-famous~ openly lesbian female libertarian --- EVER.
I used to have an informal gay libertarian "social" every so often at my apartment here in San Francisco. Never had a lesbian show up.
At the 2000 LP convention in Anaheim, there was one transgengered female who showed up for the gay party, and a few straight women.
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