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An optical resonator is described which includes an active cladding material, the active cladding material enabling optical amplification.
1. A device, comprising an optical disk-shaped resonator, which is in the shape of a disc, formed of a silicon core portion in a silicon material, and a cladding layer surrounding said silicon core portion, said cladding layer made of an optically active material, and configured to amplify optical energy that is guided in said silicon core portion, and said silicon material fabricated to include a microelectronic structure.
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6. A method of amplifying light, comprising:
introducing light into an inactive silicon waveguide core of an optical disk shaped resonator which has an optically active waveguide cladding for said inactive silicon waveguide core; and
optically pumping the optically active waveguide cladding to amplify the light guided in said inactive silicon waveguide core in the optical disk shaped resonator.
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9. A laser comprising an optical disk shaped resonator, formed of an inactive core material surrounded by an active cladding material operable to amplify optical energy that is guided in said inactive core material, and a pump laser which drives said active cladding material until lasing occurs in said optical resonator.
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introducing light into an inactive silicon waveguide core of an optical ring resonator which has an optically active waveguide cladding for the inactive silicon waveguide core;
optically pumping the waveguide cladding to amplify resonant light guided in the optical ring resonator;
rotating the optical ring resonator; and
measuring an optical output of the optical ring resonator to determine a rate of rotation of the optical ring resonator.
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18. A device, comprising:
a semiconductor material fabricated to comprise a waveguide core and a microelectronic structure;
a waveguide cladding surrounding said waveguide core to form a waveguide resonator said waveguide cladding made of an optically active dielectric material to amplify resonant light guided in said waveguide core when optically pumped by a pump beam; and
a pump source to produce the pump beam to said waveguide cladding.
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This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/151,331 filed on Aug. 30, 1999.
It is known to use optical resonators and fibers for many purposes.
Optical resonators can take many different shapes including Bragg reflective waveguide cavities, Fabry-Perot cavities, ring resonators, and disk resonators. Each of these elements includes a resonant cavity which supports wavelength dependent resonance—the ability to constructively interfere with the optical energy of the resonant wavelength. Once optical energy of the specified resonant wavelength, e.g., light, is coupled into the cavity, the light may remain in the cavity and move over long distances within the cavity in random directions.
The present application teaches a special kind of optical resonator which includes an "active" cladding, causing optical amplification.
In a preferred embodiment, optically active cladding components are added to optical components, e.g., integrated waveguides and optical resonator structures. Applications may include optical filtering, optical switching, and optical amplification.
These and other aspects will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 shows a disk resonator being used as a filter;
FIG. 2 shows a cross-sectional view of a disk resonator being used with an optically active cladding; and
FIG. 3 shows the system configured as a rotation detector.
FIG. 1 shows a resonator being used as an optical element with an adjacent waveguide. While any resonator can be used, as noted above, the detailed description specifically refers to a disk resonator, which may be considered as one preferred way to make this system, due to its ease of manufacture and use. It should be understood that the term "resonator" as used herein, however, refers to any of the resonators referred to above.
FIG. 1 shows a disk resonator being used as a routing/amplification element. Light in 110 includes a plurality of wavelengths λ01, λ02, λ03, λ04 . . . λn. The light in 110 is coupled to an optical waveguide 115 that passes the light. The light out 120 has different characteristics than the light in. In the shown embodiment, the resonator 130 is resonant with the frequency λ1 and thereby forms a filter for λ1. A second waveguide 140 is placed in proximity with the resonator 130. The waveguide 140 produces a light output 145 corresponding to filtered out λ1. The light output 120 of the first waveguide 110 includes all of the frequencies except λ1.
If the power losses in the resonator and fiber are ignored, then the output power of the second waveguide is the same as the power coupled out of the original waveguide for that wavelength. Of course, some losses always occur. Loss mechanisms include insertion losses, waveguide and cladding material absorption losses, surface scattering losses, and device geometry induced coupling and scattering losses.
According to the present system, gain is added to the resonator system. FIG. 2 shows how the gain is added. The resonator 130 is modified to include an active cladding system 135. An exemplary active cladding system may be an erbium doped silicon dioxide material 210. The erbium doped dioxide is pumped with a pump laser to cause amplification using known effects.
The waveguide structure itself can be any material that has a higher index of refraction than the cladding. The waveguide structure must also be transparent to wavelengths that are produced in the active cladding. In the specific material example that is given, an erbium doped cladding could be used with a semiconductor material, such as a silicon or gallium arsenide waveguide. The waveguide core material which is used does not need to be optically active. Since a semiconductor material can therefore be used for the optical part, other silicon processing techniques can be used on that material. The silicon, for example, can include active microelectronic structures, or can be processed by micromachining techniques.
The cladding region requires a gain medium of sufficient length to allow optical gain. A pump source 250 for the gain medium 240 is also necessary. It is known to use erbium doped fiber amplifiers. Erbium doped fiber amplifiers may be pumped with 980 nanometer or 1480 nanometer light. These pumping devices must be relatively long, usually about one meter, in order for the light to effectively interact with the erbium-doped material. While this is still one option, the way that a resonator operates can be used to allow operation without requiring quite so long an overlap. In the integrated optics domain, gain can be added to the resonant cavities, thereby taking advantage of the increased effective path length due to the high Qs of the resonator. In this way, the interaction of the light with the amplification medium is increased. This is done by forming an active cladding layer on the resonator waveguide surface and thereby introducing a cladding based gain medium to the resonator, in order to amplify the resonant light.
Another factor which needs to be addressed is the gain of the optical amplifier. When an active waveguide core is used, this gain is dependent on the confinement factor of the waveguiding material. For example, the gain may be proportional to the power that is contained in the cladding. This proportionality, however, may be non-linear, However, the gain of the waveguide structures may also be dependent on factors that determine the amount of power in the cladding such as geometry and refractive index of the material. The active resonator which includes gain therein. This may have different applications which are described herein. These applications may also vary depending on the amount of gain which is provided by the doping. There is a certain threshold gain which can be determined by experimentation. Below that gain, the amount of amplification that occurs may not be useful for many purposes. Above the threshold, however, the active material may spontaneously emit light. This can bootstrap the cavity to an appropriate photon density which produces stimulated emission. The stimulated emission may be analogous to lazing, hence forming a laser cavity from an optical resonator. However, below the threshold, effects may also be useful for filtering optical signals, e.g., forming an add/drop system only to the frequency of interest to a specific waveguide. Unlike other systems, this system can use semiconductor materials. Since an optically inactive material such as silicon may be used for the core waveguide, this provides flexibility in the kinds of material that can be used in both over the threshold and under the threshold applications.
Yet another application is in rotation sensing as shown in FIG. 3. The Sagnac effect as used in a ring laser gyroscope relies on the interference of counter propagating beams. A resonator 310, such as a disk resonator, is driven as described above operate over the lazing threshold. Light from source 300 is coupled via waveguide 305 to form counter-propagating light in many different directions within the resonator 310. If the disk is rotated, the counter propagating light will interfere based on the rotation according to the Sagnac affect. The rate of rotation can then be sensed as a function of the intensity coupled out of the resonator to the adjacent waveguide 315, and a sensing element 320.
Another rotation sensor can be formed based on the wavelength dependence of the resonator. When the resonator is operated as a filter, its wavelength dependence will vary based on rotation. In this embodiment, source 300 is a frequency tuned stabilized light source. The intensity of the coupled light then varies as a function of the rotation of the resonator. If the light source has a smaller line width in the passband of the filter, and is slightly detuned, the response in the positive and negative direction can be made linear.
Another embodiment uses the same feature without an active cladding. However, in this alternative embodiment without the active cladding, the gain may be small.
Yet another embodiment uses a partially coupled concentric ring resonator. This effect is even further enhanced by this system, since a longer path length and longer cavity photon lifetime is provided. Some phase modulation or tuning of the effective length may be necessary in this system.
Although only a few embodiments have been disclosed in detail above, other modifications are possible. For example, although we have only described certain resonators, other resonators are also possible. Other materials can be used as the active layer. In addition, other applications of the laser system may be predictable.
All such modifications are intended to be encompassed within the following claims.
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I would suggest opening a case to get this looked at. In the meantime, you may need to temporarily disable the firewall. This was also an issue back in 12.1 RU2 MP1, which was fixed in RU3.
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Thanks. We are using Windows Firewall on all of the VMs for now. I've posted this issue a while back but haven't heard of any resolution. I'm just hoping Symantec is working on it as I find the Symantec firewall easier to configure fo my needs but the Windows one will do as we have Sonicwalls well configured at each location.
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HEBRON ESTATES - It wasn't the worst of times for the North Bullitt football program in 2009, but it could have been a better.
The expectations were not high for this group and head coach Brett Newton said when the season began that he just wanted to see improvement each week for him to be a happy camper. Midway through the season the coach was happy, but then things began to stagnate.
SHEPHERDSVILLE - Exploding for 47 points in the first half, the Bullitt Central Cougars opened the 2009-10 season with a bang on Monday as they rolled past visiting Evangel 77-62.
Bullitt Central led 22-16 after the first quarter and with the first ten points of the second frame took control of the opening game of the season for both teams. The maroon and gray led by 15 points at halftime and by as many as 16 in the second half. Evangel made a late surge to get within nine points late in the game, but they could get no closer.
HEBRON ESTATES - All veteran basketball coaches have their 'best of times; worst of times' stories. It comes with the territory.
For first-year North Bullitt Lady Eagle coach Amber Courtney, she might well start out filling the 'worst of times' category first.
The former Bullitt Central player (Amber Coy) inherits a program almost void of upperclassman. In fact, the Lady Eagles won't just count on middle school age girls, but they will start eighth-graders this season. The varsity roster even includes a seventh-grader and a sixth-grader.
SHEPHERDSVILLE - On a varsity high school basketball team with only two seniors and one junior, fans might be worried about a lack of experience at the start of the season.
Not the case with the Bullitt Central Cougars. Veteran head coach Joe Pat Lee has a lot of worries heading into the 2009-10 season, but his team does have quite a bit of experience.
MOUNT WASHINGTON - On a night when the offense struggled mightily, both from the field and at the foul line, the Bullitt East Lady Chargers let their defense do the talking in a 58-33 victory over visiting Pleasure Ridge Park on Tuesday in the first game of the 2009-10 season.
The Lady Chargers allowed just five points in the first quarter and the red and gold led 27-14 at halftime before coasting to the easy victory.
MOUNT WASHINGTON - While high expectations are nothing new for the Bullitt East Lady Chargers, only a handful of times over the past 30 years have they been as high as this season.
Already, the team has been ranked as high as tenth in the state in a recent coaches' poll. Led by senior guard Kayla Thacker, the 13th ranked player in the state, the Lady Chargers are favorites to capture their first-ever Sixth Region title and advance to the State Tournament for the third time in the program's history.
MOUNT WASHINGTON - On a team with nine of the top 12 players from a year ago needing to be replaced, most coaches would enter this season with at least a somewhat cautious tone.
Not veteran Bullitt East head coach Troy Barr as he enters his eighth year leading the Chargers. Barr feels that his team can return to the district championship game and the regional tournament, after missing out on those big events last season.
FRANKFORT - A furious fourth quarter rally came up just short for the Bullitt East Chargers as they opened the 2009-10 basketball season with a 60-55 loss at Franklin County High School.
The Chargers trailed by 14 points early in the third quarter before narrowing the gap to two points down the stretch. Bullitt East even had possession of the ball down by two points, but could not convert.
SHEPHERDSVILLE - Once again, the Bullitt Central Lady Cougars expect to be amongst the top teams in the Sixth Region and they have a lot of reasons to believe that.
Coach Bryan Bates' team has experience, depth and even adequate size to be one of the top five teams in the region. Once again, the maroon and gray will do it with only one senior.
Last season, the lack of a big group of seniors was not a problem as senior Lindsay Hester had a remarkable season, averaging just over 20 points a game and leading the younger players to a 19-8 campaign.
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Realtime CPU benchmark for BFME2 owners
Ok since i got my E6700 i couldnt really tell how powerfull it is because i couldnt see any real benefit in real games since most of them are usually GPU limited. i mean yeah i get higher scores in SuperPI & 3DMark , but thats nothing if theres no significant advantage in real-world games.
anyway long story short i took LOTR : Battle For Middle Earth 2 for a spin with the new Conore CPU to test it againest the 4800+ .. i asked my friend to make a savegame with insane amount of army to see how the processors with cope with their AI & pathfiniding .. etc
FYI BFME2 is very CPU demanding esp when you build a large army & get into battles.
i took the savegame & with little mod i turned it into a CPU benchmark & here are some quick results :
1) notice the test will stress only the CPU , the GPU seems to have no effect ( i made sure of that by running the bench on both 800x600 & 1280x1024 res .. exact same results ).
2) Idnetical settings used & high-end GPUs.
3 systems where used .. 2 of mine & 1 of my friend's .
4400+ @2.3Ghz = 8fps
4800+ @2.4Ghz = 9fps (~12.5%+ over email@example.com)
E6700 @2.7Ghz = 14fps ! (55.6% + over 4800+)
Now if there are enough members here interesed on contributing on the benchie i'll be happy to upload the savegame & give instructions on how to do it .. & i'm sure this bench will be
helpfull for overclockers to test o/c advantage in a
bench aswell as getting ready for C&C3 which will be using the same engine.
if there isnt enough people interested in this (or dont have the game actually to test) .. well i'll leave it at that in hope that some readers can make use of it or take notes.
EDIT : see post #6 for the savegame & instrcutions.
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George Meany
|George Meany
President of the AFL–CIO (1955–1979)
|William George Meany
August 16, 1894
Harlem, New York City
|January 10, 1980
(aged 85)
Washington, DC
|Labor leader
|Eugenia McMahon Meany
|Michael Meany and Anne Cullen Meany
William George Meany (August 16, 1894 – January 10, 1980) was an American labor union leader for 57 years. He was a key figure in the creation of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, and served as the AFL-CIO's first president from 1955–1979.
Meany's father was union plumber, and like his father, he became a plumber at a young age, but moved on to became a full-time union official twelve years later. As an officer of the American Federation of Labor, he represented the AFL on the National War Labor Board during World War II. He served as president of the AFL from 1952 to 1955. He proposed its merger with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1952, and led the negotiations until the merger was completed in 1955. He then served as president of the combined AFL-CIO for the next 24 years.
Meany had a reputation for integrity and consistency in his opposition to corruption in the labor movement,[1] and uncompromising anti-communism. He was called the "most nationally recognized labor leader in the country for the more than two decades spanning the middle of the 20th century."[2]
- 1 Early years
- 2 Rise in union leadership
- 3 Merger of the AFL and the CIO
- 4 Campaign against corruption in the Teamsters Union and other unions
- 5 Democratic economic planning
- 6 Legislative agenda
- 7 Vietnam war
- 8 Civil rights movement and conflict with Walter Reuther
- 9 Opposition to the New Left
- 10 1972 Presidential election
- 11 Public image and cultural controversies
- 12 Later years
- 13 Legacy
- 14 See also
- 15 References
- 16 External links
Early years[edit]
Meany was born into a Roman Catholic family in Harlem[3] in New York City on August 16, 1894, the second of 10 children.[4] His parents were Michael Meany and Anne Cullen Meany, who were both American-born and of Irish descent.[2] His ancestors had immigrated to the United States in the 1850s. His father Michael was a plumber and a "staunch trade unionist" who served as president of his plumber's union local.[5] That union had been formed in 1889. Michael Meany was also a precinct level activist in the Democratic Party.[6]
He grew up in the Port Morris neighborhood of The Bronx, where his parents had moved when he was five years old.[6] Always called "George", he did not know that his real first name was William until he got a work permit as a teenager.[6] Following in his father's footsteps, Meany quit high school at the age of 16[7] to work as a plumber's helper,[4] served a five-year apprenticeship as a plumber, and got his journeyman's certificate[5] in 1917 with Local 463 United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters of the United States and Canada.[2]
Michael Meany died suddenly of a heart attack in 1916 after a bout of pneumonia. When George Meany's older brother joined the United States Army in 1917, George became the sole support for his mother and six younger children.[6] He supplemented his income for a while by playing as a semi-professional baseball catcher.[6] In 1919, George Meany married Eugenia McMahon, a garment worker and a member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.[2] They had three daughters.
Rise in union leadership[edit]
In 1920, Meany was elected to the executive board of Local 463 of the Plumber's Union. In 1922, he became a full-time business agent for the local, which had 3,600 members at that time.[6] In 1923, he was elected secretary of the New York City Building Trades Council. He won a court injunction against a lockout in 1927, which was then considered an innovative tactic for a union.[6] In 1934, he became president of the New York State Federation of Labor. In his first year of lobbying in Albany, 72 bills he supported became law, and he developed a close working relationship with the governor, Herbert H. Lehman.[4]
He developed a reputation for honesty, diligence and the ability to testify effectively before legislative hearings and speak clearly to the press. In 1936, he co-founded the American Labor Party along with David Dubinsky and Sidney Hillman, partly as a vehicle to organize support for the re-election that year of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and mayor Fiorello La Guardia among Socialists in the union movement.[8]
Three years later, he moved to Washington, DC to become national secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Labor.[7] where he served under AFL president William Green. During World War II, he was one of the permanent representatives of the AFL to the National War Labor Board.[6] During the war, he established close ties to prominent anti-communists in the U.S. labor movement, including David Dubinsky, Jay Lovestone and Matthew Woll.[6] In 1945, he led the AFL boycott of the World Federation of Trade Unions, which welcomed participation by communist labor groups from the Soviet Union.[6]
The strike wave of 1945-1946, led to a large extent by CIO unions, resulted in passage of the Taft Hartley Act in 1947, widely perceived as anti-union in its effects. One provision required union officials to sign loyalty oaths affirming that they were not communists. Opposition to signing the oath was led by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers Union. Meany, in a blow against Lewis and other left-wing union leaders, replied that he would "go further and sign an affadavit that I was never a comrade to the comrades."[4]
When William Green's health declined in 1951, Meany gradually took over day-to-day operations of the AFL.[9] He became president of the American Federation of Labor in 1952 upon Green's death.,[7] which occurred just 12 days after the death of Congress of Industrial Organizations president Philip Murray. Meany immediately advocated the merger of the two rival U.S. labor federations. Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers became president of the CIO, and he too supported a merger.
In 1953, under Meany's leadership, the International Longshoremen's Association, accused of racketeering, was expelled from the AFL. This was an early example of Meany's long personal battle against corruption and the influence of organized crime in the labor movement. After bitter internal reform struggles, the union was readmitted[4] to the AFL-CIO in 1959. Meany also fought against corruption in the AFL affiliated United Textile Workers of America, starting in 1952. In 1957, Meany reported that the president of that union had been "stealing the Union's money to the extent of well over a quarter of a million dollars", and he appointed an independent monitor to oversee reform of the union.[1]
Merger of the AFL and the CIO[edit]
Meany's "first official act" after becoming head of the AFL in 1952 was to put forward a proposal to merge with the CIO.[10] Meany took firm control of the AFL immediately upon being elected president, but it took a bit longer for Walter Reuther to solidify his control of the CIO. Reuther was a willing partner in the merger negotiations.
It took Meany three years to negotiate the merger, and he had to overcome significant opposition. John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers called the merger a "rope of sand", and his union refused to join the AFL-CIO.[11] Jimmy Hoffa, then second in command of the Teamster's Union, protested, "What's in it for us? Nothing!",[11] but the Teamsters went along with the merger initially. Mike Quill, president of the Transport Workers Union of America also fought the merger,[11] saying that it amounted to a capitulation to the "racism, racketeering and raiding" of the AFL.[8]
Meany's efforts came to fruition in December, 1955 with a joint convention in New York City that merged the two federations, creating the AFL-CIO, with Meany elected as president.[12] Meany's "greatest achievement",[13] the new federation had 15 million members, while two million U.S. workers were members of unions outside the AFL-CIO.[11]
Campaign against corruption in the Teamsters Union and other unions[edit]
Concerns about corruption and the influence of organized crime in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters under the leadership of Dave Beck led Meany to begin an anti-corruption drive in 1956. In 1957, in the midst of a fight for control of the union with Jimmy Hoffa, Beck was called before the United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management, commonly called the "McClellan Committee" after its chairman John L. McClellan of Arkansas. Robert F. Kennedy was chief counsel of the committee.
Televised hearings in early 1957 exposed misconduct by both the Beck and the Hoffa factions of the Teamsters Union. Both Hoffa and Beck were indicted, but Hoffa won the battle for control of the Teamsters. In response, the AFL-CIO instituted a policy that no union official who had taken the Fifth Amendment during a corruption investigation could continue in a leadership position. Meany told the Teamsters that they could continue as members of the AFL-CIO if Hoffa resigned as president. Hoffa refused, and the Teamsters were ousted from the AFL-CIO[7] on December 6, 1957. Meany supported the AFL-CIO's adoption of a code of ethics in the wake of the scandal.[14]
Meany also led campaigns against organized crime leadership and corruption in the International Jewelry Workers Union, the Laundry Workers International Union, the AFL Distillery Workers, the AFL United Auto Workers, and the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union. He was willing to demand the firing of corrupt union leaders and internal reorganization of the unions. When some unions resisted, he organized their ouster from the AFL and later from the AFL-CIO, and even set up rival unions.[1] He set up an AFL-CIO Committee on Ethical Practices to investigate misconduct and insisted that unions under investigation cooperate with its inquiries. According to John Hutchinson, a professor at UCLA, "few American union leaders have such a public record of repeated and explicit opposition to corruption."[1]
Democratic economic planning[edit]
In the midst of the Great Society reforms advocated by President Lyndon B. Johnson, Meany and the AFL-CIO in 1965 endorsed a resolution calling for "mandatory congressional price hearings for corporations, a technological clearinghouse, and a national planning agency".[15] American Socialist leader Michael Harrington commented that the AFL-CIO had "initiated a programmatic redefinition that had much more in common with the defeated socialist proposal of 1894 than with the voluntarism of Gompers"[15] referring to Samuel Gompers, the founder of the AFL, who had openly opposed socialism for decades. The 1965 resolution was part of the AFL-CIO's ongoing support for industrial democracy. Despite Meany's support for reform policies that were sometimes called "socialist", he also said that "I very much agree with the free market system,"[4] pointing out that "When you don't have anything, you have nothing to lose by these radical actions. But when you become a person who has a home and has property, to some extent you become conservative."[4]
Legislative agenda[edit]
As AFL-CIO president, Meany was an advocate for raising the minimum wage, increased public works spending, and protection of union organizing rights. He also supported universal health care. He backed the two party system, and believed in "supporting your friends and punishing your enemies."[4]
Vietnam war[edit]
Meany defended the stated goals of President Lyndon B. Johnson's policy in the Vietnam War. He criticized those labor leaders, including Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers, who called for the U.S. to withdraw its military forces from Vietnam, a policy that he predicted would lead to a communist victory in South Vietnam and the destruction of its free trade unions.[16]
In 1966, Meany insisted that AFL-CIO unions give "unqualified support" to Johnson's war policy. AFL-CIO critics opposing Meany and the war at that time included Ralph Helstein of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, George Burdon of the United Rubberworkers and Patrick Gorman of the United Auto Workers. [17]
Charles Cogen, president of the American Federation of Teachers opposed Meany in 1967 when the AFL-CIO convention adopted a resolution stating "we pledge the continued support of American labor in Vietnam". Walter Reuther stated that he was busy with negotiations with General Motors in Detroit, and could not attend the convention. "Sniping" at Meany, Reuther issued "demands" "to make the AFL-CIO more 'democratic'".[18] In his speech to the convention, Meany said that, in Vietnam the AFL-CIO was "neither hawk nor dove nor chicken",[16][19] but was supporting "brother trade unionists" struggling against Communism.[16]
Meany's support for the Vietnam war effort continued even in the final days before Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese in April, 1975. He called for President Gerald Ford to provide a U.S. Navy "flotilla" if needed to ensure that hundreds of thousands of "friends of the United States" could escape before a Communist regime could be established.[20] He also appealed for the admission of the maximum possible number of Vietnamese refugees to the United States. Meany blamed Congress for "washing its hands" of the war and of weakening South Vietnam's military forces, damaging their "will to fight".[20] In particular, Congress had failed to provide adequate funding for U.S. troops to stage an orderly withdrawal, Meany stated.[20]
Civil rights movement and conflict with Walter Reuther[edit]
Despite their cooperation in the AFL-CIO merger, Meany and Walter Reuther had a contentious relationship for many years.[21] In 1963, Meany and Reuther disagreed about the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In an AFL-CIO executive council meeting on August 12, Reuther's motion for a strong endorsement of the march was supported only by A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, who was the titular leader of the march. The AFL-CIO endorsed a civil-rights law and allowed individual unions to endorse the march.[8] However, when George Meany heard Randolph's speech, he was visibly moved. Thereafter, he supported the creation of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, to strengthen labor unions among African Americans and to strengthen ties with the African American community. Speaking of Meany, Randolph commented "I have never doubted that he had the moral conviction that racial discrimination was wrong."[4]
Reuther resigned from the AFL-CIO executive council in February 1967.[8] In 1968, Reuther led the UAW out of the AFL-CIO, and the UAW did not re-affiliate until after Reuther's death in a 1970 plane crash.
Opposition to the New Left[edit]
An anti-communist who identified with the working class, Meany expressed contempt for the New Left, which from the start had criticized the labor movement for conservatism, racism, and anti-communism and which in the late 1960s and early 1970s included many supporters of Communist movements, such as the Viet Cong. In the aftermath of the violence by anti-war demonstrators and police at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Meany sided with the police, calling the protesters a "dirtynecked and dirty-mouthed group of kooks." [13] A cultural conservative, Meany ridiculed a proposal for same-sex marriage.[22][23]
1972 Presidential election[edit]
Meany opposed the anti-war candidacy of U. S. Senator George McGovern for the Presidency against incumbent Richard Nixon in 1972, despite McGovern's generally pro-labor voting record in Congress. He also declined to endorse Nixon. On Face the Nation in September 1972, Meany criticized McGovern's statements that the U.S. should respect other peoples' rights to choose communism, because there had never been a country that had voted for communism; he accused McGovern of being "an apologist for the Communist world".[24] Following Nixon's landslide defeat of McGovern, Meany said that the American people had "overwhelmingly repudiated neo-isolationism" in foreign policy. Meany pointed out that the American voters split their votes by voting for Democrats in Congress.[25] According to Meany, class resentment was a major reason that Nixon won 49 states against McGovern, despite the dislike of the Vietnam War by a majority of American voters.
Public image and cultural controversies[edit]
President John F. Kennedy established the Presidential Medal of Freedom on February 22, 1963. Two weeks after Kennedy's assassination, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded it to Meany and 30 others on December 6, 1963.[26] In granting the award, President Johnson said of Meany, "Citizen and national leader, in serving the cause of labor, he has greatly served the cause of his Nation and of freedom throughout the world."[27]
Meany was well known as a cigar smoker,[8][28] and appeared twice on the cover of TIME magazine with a cigar in his mouth both times.[29][30] Meany stated that he had never walked a picket line,[6][8] explaining that his union never needed to form a picket line, because the employers made no attempt to replace the workers.[31]
Later years[edit]
By the mid-1970s, Meany was past his 80th birthday and there were increasing calls for him to retire and hand leadership of the AFL-CIO to a younger man.[32] In his final years, Meany took up amateur photography and painting as hobbies.[5]
Meany's wife of 59 years, Eugenia, died in March 1979, and he became ""despondent".[7] He injured his knee in a golfing mishap a few months before his death, and was confined to a wheelchair.[7] In November 1979, he resigned from the AFL-CIO after 57 years in organized labor. He was succeeded by Lane Kirkland, who served as AFL-CIO president for the next 16 years.
Meany died at George Washington University Hospital on January 10, 1980, from cardiac arrest.[4] The AFL-CIO had 14 million members at time of death. President Jimmy Carter called him "an American institution" and "a patriot".[7] He was interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland.[33]
The AFL-CIO established the George Meany Center for Labor Studies in Silver Spring, Maryland in 1974; the Center was renamed the National Labor College-George Meany Campus in 2004.[34][35] Since 1987, the Meany Campus has housed the George Meany Memorial Archives, which holds all of the AFL-CIO records going back to the founding of the AFL in 1881.[35]
George Meany Plaza was dedicated in Jerusalem in 1980. Among those attending the ceremony were AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland, Israeli Labor Party leader Shimon Peres and Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek.[36]
On the 100th anniversary of his birth in 1994,[37] Meany was pictured on a United States commemorative postage stamp.[38]
Also in 1994, Meany was featured on The Simpsons episode "Bart of Darkness." A black-and-white rerun of an old Krusty the Klown TV show features the clown in a business suit interviewing Meany.[39]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d Hutchinson, John (Winter 1971). "George Meany and the Wayward". California Management Review (University of California, Berkeley) 14 (2): 51–60. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
- ^ a b c d Meagher, Timothy J. (2005). The Columbia Guide to Irish American History. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-12070-8.
- ^ "An Interview with George Meany". Black Enterprise (New York City). June 1975. p. 106. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Flint, Jerry (January 11, 1980). "George Meany Is Dead; Pioneer in Labor Was 85". New York Times. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
- ^ a b c Stetson, Damon (1971). A Blunt Labor Leader: William George Meany. The New York Times Biographical Service. Volume 2. New York Times and Arno Press. p. 3637.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Zieger, Robert (1987). "George Meany: Labor's organization man". In Dubofsky, Melvyn; Van Tine, Warren R. Labor Leaders in America. University of Illinois Press. pp. 324–332. ISBN 978-0-252-01343-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ullmann, Owen (January 11, 1980). "George Meany, Labor's 'Giant' Is Dead at 85". Nashua Telegraph (Nashua, New Hampshire). p. 1. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f Lichtenstein, Nelson (1997). Walter Reuther: the most dangerous man in Detroit. University of Illinois Press. pp. 88, 323. ISBN 978-0-252-06626-9.
- ^ "Murray, Green Deaths Likely To Bring New Era: Top Union Official Sights Possibility Of CIO-AFL Unification". Toledo Blade (Toledo, Ohio). November 22, 1952. p. 3. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
- ^ "Mr. Meany And Merger". Toledo Blade. November 28, 1952. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
- ^ a b c d "New Affluence, Unity for Labor". LIFE magazine. December 12, 1955. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
- ^ Walker, Norman (November 28, 1955). "Meany And AFL-CIO Merger: A Plumber's Dream". Meriden Journal (Meriden, Connecticut). Retrieved November 6, 2011.
- ^ a b "Labor's Voice is Stilled, George Meany: 1894-1980". Time. January 21, 1980. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
- ^ Cherny, Robert W.; Issel, William and Taylor, Kieran Walsh (2004). American labor and the Cold War: grassroots politics and postwar political culture. Rutgers University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-8135-3403-9.
- ^ a b Boyle, Kevin (1999). The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945–1968. Cornell University Press. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-8014-8538-1.
- ^ a b c "Meany Backs Viet, Slaps at Reuther: Neither 'Hawk, Dove—Nor Chicken' AFL-Boss Says In Convention Keynote". Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). December 7, 1967. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
- ^ "George Meany's on the Spot For Loyalty to the President". Miami News (Miami). February 13, 1966. pp. 18A. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
- ^ "AFL-CIO Backs LBJ on Vietnam". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). December 12, 1967. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
- ^ Dumbrell, John (1990). The making of US foreign policy: American democracy and American foreign policy. Manchester University Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-7190-3188-5.
- ^ a b c Sperling Jr., Godfrey (April 14, 1975). "Meany urges massive U.S. effort to rescue endangered Vietnam". The Beaver County Times (Beaver, Pennsylvania). Retrieved October 23, 2011.
- ^ Carew, Anthony (1993). Walter Reuther. Lives of the Left. Manchester University Press. p. 77.
- ^ Sidey, Hugh (July 14, 1972). "The human side of discord". LIFE magazine (New York City). Retrieved October 23, 2011.
- ^ Horowitz, Rachelle (2007) [2005], "Tom Kahn and the fight for democracy: A political portrait and personal recollection" (PDF), Democratiya (merged with Dissent in 2009), 11 (Winter): 204–251
- ^ "Meany hits McGovern as red apologist". Milwaukee Sentinel (Milwaukee). September 4, 1972. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
- ^ "Meany's observations". Boca Raton News (Boca Raton, Florida). November 9, 1972. pp. 4a. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
- ^ "Presidential Medal of Freedom". John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
- ^ "Lyndon B. Johnson: Remarks With Under Secretary of State George W. Ball at the Presentation of the Medal of Freedom Awards, December 6, 1963". The American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
- ^ Sidey, Hugh (November 19, 1971). "For George Meany, life begins at 77". LIFE magazine (New York City). Retrieved November 15, 2011.
- ^ "A.f.l.'s george meany". TIME (New York City). March 21, 1955. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
- ^ "Labor in the Freeze: George Meany". TIME (New York City). September 6, 1971. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
- ^ Robinson, Archie; Meany, George (1981). George Meany and His Times: A Biography. Simon and Schuster. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-671-42163-2.
- ^ Dobkin, Robert A. (September 8, 1977). "Union power passing to young, better educated generation". Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Retrieved June 15, 2013.
- ^ Bredemeier, Kenneth (January 16, 1980). "Labor, Politicians Eulogize Meany". The Washington Post.
- ^ The Meany Center was renamed as the National Labor College in 1997 by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney. It was renamed the George Meany Center for Labor Studies—the National Labor College (GMC-NLC) in 2000 and then the National Labor College-George Meany Campus in 2004.
- ^ a b "Campus History". National Labor College. 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
- ^ "In Israel". The Ironworker (International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers). 1980.
- ^ Kronish, Syd (August 29, 1994). "Stamp Honors Labor Leader Meany on 100th Birthday". Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Retrieved November 15, 2011.
- ^ Sine, Richard L.; Galpin, Jonathan. "Commemorative issue: George Meany". U.S. Stamp Gallery. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
- ^ Alberti, John; Arnold, David L.G. (2004). Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 12. ISBN 0814328490.
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- George Meany (1894–1980) AFL-CIO biography
- George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archives at the University of Maryland's Hornbake Library (since 2013 when it moved from the National Labor College)
- John F. Kennedy Library & Museum: Presidential Medal of Freedom (awarded to George Meany and 30 others)
- A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with George Meany (September 26, 1952)" is available for free download at the Internet Archive
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Don Barone introduces us to Bassmaster Elite Series rookie Joe Sancho.
When the 35th edition of the Bassmaster Classic ended, a pair of highly accomplished pros found themselves in very familiar positions. Classic XXXV was held July 29-31, 2005 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
The Bassmaster Elite Series pros are no strangers to tidal rivers, but few of them have faced the dramatic tidal fluctuations that await them at the Delaware River. One of the few is New Jerseyan Michael Iaconelli who has fished the Delaware for over 30 years.
When the 2014 Elite Series schedule was released, it contained lots of the usual suspects, big bass factories in towns that have experience hosting big tournaments ... but the one that intrigues me most is stop No. 7, the Delaware River, hosted by the City of Brotherly Love.
I believe life happens at 1/1,000 of a second. Our minds make it a movie; our hearts make it a photograph. Tell me this has never happened to you, one special moment in time just seems to linger, to stretch, to stop. Freeze frame.
To the 100 Elite anglers out on the Sabine today, know this ... AOY begins, TODAY!
There are a lot of nervous unknowns surrounding the start of Bassmaster Elite Series Toyota Trucks All-Star Week. For Mike Iaconelli, his thoughts are 832 miles away in Runnemede, N.J., where his beloved wife Becky could give birth to their second child at any hour.
B.A.S.S. writer Don Barone talks with All-Star Fan Favorite Gerald Swindle about what it means to be voted into All-Star week by his fans.
B.A.S.S. writer Don Barone salutes the work ethic of anglers like Elite Series pro Jamie Horton, who hold down full-time jobs while simultaneously pursuing their professional angling dreams.
Muddy water, big fish and stout tackle are the presumed recipe for a Red River victory but a number of contenders in this Classic are hoping to turn that alleged truism on its ear.


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Am I right in assuming that I may not build a bolt pistol from an existing rifle.Tell me about "substantially modified".
Am I right in assuming that I may not build a bolt pistol from an existing rifle.Tell me about "substantially modified".
A rifle receiver cannot be made into a pistol, it would be a short bbl rifle and subject to NFA registration and tax.
The only legal way to build a pistol on a rifle type receiver is to start with a new receiver that has never been assembled as a rifle, or use an existing receiver that was previously assembled as a pistol.
"substantially modified" in regards to?
What makes it a pistol if someone will refresh mine and my Dad's memory. I would assume the lack of a buttstock and the short barrel, but which would it be. Say you had a rifle that was over 26 inches long and had a pistol grip and no butt. Is it still a pistol?
I think I know what Dad is getting at and any links to the NFA law where the spec are provided would be nice as well.
That is what got me into building AK pistols. started out I wanted to build a 3 0r 4 shot mauser action hunting pistol in some thing like 308 or 30-06. I was told the same thing you can not convert an exsiting rifle reciver into a pistol. if the action had a short barrel it would be illegal. my under standing is that a pistol is one made /built as one first, it can have any length barrel no stock and no forward vertical grip. It,s my understanding that you may then take a pistol and add a legal length (if nessacry) barrel and then ad a stock and call it a rifle. so I started looking into home made recivers and now I got more ak kits and parts than I know what to do with. I would like to see concrete in writting from the atf on a lot of these gun laws along with side bars that explained to the layman what you can and can"T do. I remember that there was a legal case with thompson contender conversions to rifle some time back and thompson won in court I will see if I can find those links. I may some day buy a new mauser action and register it as a pistol. I dont know what your dad wants to do but I bet it involves a cheap $90 rifle that looks like a TC for under $100 Thats what I wanted any way.
Under fed law a pistol is a firearm designed to be fired with one hand. ATF interprets this as a gun with one pistol grip on it. Beyond that, anything goes. Bbl can be as long or short as you want.
"(29) The term ?handgun? means? (A) a firearm which has a short stock and is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand; and (B) any combination of parts from which a firearm described in subparagraph (A) can be assembled. "
A rifle without a butt is still a rifle if it was originally made as a rifle. Removing the butt does not change it's status. If it is over 26" overall and over 16" bbl it is a legal rifle whether the buttstock is on it or not. Below those measurements, it's an SBR and subject to the NFA regs.
"(7) The term ?rifle? means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of an explosive to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.
(8) The term ?short-barreled rifle? means a rifle having one or more barrels less than sixteen inches in length and any weapon made from a rifle (whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise) if such weapon, as modified, has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches. "
NFA definitions:
Please not that the term "firearm" in this section does not mean a "normal firearm" but an NFA regulated firearm.
"Normal" firearms defined:
Thompson Center case analyzed by the lawyer who argued for TC:
If you are using a receiver that is normally used for "rifle" type guns, it has to be a virgin receiver if you want to build it into a pistol. It can never have had a buttsctock installed on it.
Yes you are right .You cant modified or not. Must be built on a receiver that has never ever had a stock mounted on it.Originally Posted by Old Sang
Find a remington xp-100 and go from there. I had 2 of them years ago. one in 7mm TCU which was .223 necked up to 7mm and a 7mm imca which was .35 savage necked down to 7mm. both were accurate and packed alot of punch. the xp was also made in 7mm 08 a potent round.


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Battlefront: Evolved slightly improves the models and textures, and other small things like that.
This is awesome.
compared to all the other ben's or Obi's in the game this looks Amazing!
in-fact it looks better than any Jedi in this game and many mods!
Much better than the original moddel.
The description says Jedi knight 3, had no idea that game existed.
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this is a jedi academy port
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After widespread complaints about excessive noise from a recent riverfront music festival, the City Council wants a larger role in deciding whether such events will be permitted.
The Times-Picayune reports (http://bit.ly/104YZ7W) the council directed city departments to notify council members when any outdoor music event is planned within four blocks of either side of the Mississippi River.
The measure was proposed by councilwomen LaToya Cantrell and Kristin Gisleson Palmer after they received numerous complaints about the BUKU Music + Art Project held earlier this month at Mardi Gras World on the east bank riverfront.
The motion said the event's amplified music could be heard for miles, reaching from Bywater to the Garden District on the east side of the river and residents of Algiers and Gretna on the West Bank.
David Baird, owner of Le Citron Bistro in the Lower Garden District, told WWL-TV shortly after the festival that the walls of his building shook as the BUKU music blared from 1,000 feet away. The noise, litter, lack of parking for patrons and concerns about security prompted him to close for the weekend, he said.
Across the river, Gretna resident Edna Centola told the station the noise was unbearable. "It sounded like it was right in the house with you," she said. "You didn't sleep, I did not sleep at all. I was up until after midnight."
Palmer said the council action is a first step "toward a more comprehensive permitting process for outdoor music."
Councilwoman Jackie Clarkson said "sound over water gets louder when the river gets quieter," such as when ship traffic decreases at night. She said another problem arose when the BUKU festival featured music from disc jockeys. She said she knows from experience in the French Quarter that "the disc jockeys' amplification is more highly personified and carries louder than live bands."
Palmer said the city no longer has employees trained to take decibel readings to determine accurately how loud music and other sounds are.
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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 126.96.36.199
Forum Moderators: Ocean10000 & incrediBILL
I'm going to ban the IPs and see what happens.
See if it comes back at me with new ones.
Anyway, can't be up to any good, right?
I can always unban the IPs if I find out it's a charity organization and all sweet stuff.
But I do appreciate the help on an identification. Nobody else seems to know anything about this.
Admittedly, I'm no expert, but I don't ever recall seeing a "user agent" farming a website using assorted ISPs. Off and on we had 8 of those on at the same time. That would either be one very sophisticated bot program, or very low tech manual work. No?
What concerns me is whether this was specifically targeted at only my site. If so, then I won't be getting feedback from anyone else having seen this happening on their site.
Why would somebody target me specifically? Good question. Maybe it's love.
But it seems odd, and when it comes to security "odd" worries me.
Some of the scrapers or spam email harvesters uses a wide range of user agents and rotate them randomly attempting to find one that gets past your security.
However, you could also be seeing a very new crawler that's too naive to know any better than crawl through proxies all over the place, this technique is known as proxy hijacking where you claim another sites content by redirection.
That's from two sites that I checked these addresses on. I'll go further, if needed, but I'd like to know if "proxy hijacking" can be accomplished from addresses that are not proxies?
I can provide my full list of the results from the two sites for each address, if the rules here allow it.
By the way, <incrediBILL>, I've been studying your posts from back in 2007 and since and some other sites, and the more I read the more confused I get about the actual definition of "proxy" in the expression "proxy hijacking" so please allow me to apologize for not yet getting the picture clear in my mind and asking what may seem to you to be stupid questions. I am trying.
Here's a crawl example:
Googlebot -> exampleproxy.com -> examplesite.com
Googlebot asks for a page via exampleproxy.com via some link like:
So Googlebot has now crawled a page from examplesite.com using exampleproxy.com to deliver that page, and now exampleproxy.com *MAY* be credited as the source of the page instead of it's rightful owner examplesite.com
Does that make sense?
It doesn't happen often anymore, at least not that I'm seeing in Google or Live.
Google [Bot] IP: 126.96.36.199 ╗ Whois
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Reading topic in Politics Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:39 am
I am afraid I don't understand where the "exampleproxy.com" is located in that information above.
In fact, since we started keeping records a month or so ago I think my people have identified about 15 "user agents" that are listed on <honeypot> and <stopforumspam> as being problems.
I was just trying to match that list with the one you have as a sticky above and it seems we are doing something wrong. or something different.
But, back on-topic, it's that Charlotte bla.bla we're focusing on here. If the addresses aren't proxies, then is it still proxy hijacking? If not, what might we be seeing?
I was just wondering if anyone else had seen this so I could assure myself that it was not targeted only at my site.
I'm afraid I picked up a few "enemies" over the years while running another rather large site and that's why I wondered if somebody was up to more than just no good -- like real bad stuff.
I've got a post about this over on phpBB, so between here and there and keeping an eye out on some other known "we ID baddies" sites I'll see in a week or so if anyone else has seen this mystery gal named Charlotte. Hope I don't get in trouble before then.
My Moderation Team Leader informed me yesterday my site has been listed on some sort of blacklist, so I've got to figure that out next.
But like I indicated above, the more I seem to learn, the more questions seem to come up. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have brick-and-mortar work to deal with, as well.
But if you are really <icrediBILL> with super incredible powers, Bill, you could slow down the rotation of this planet and get us all a few more hours per day, right? Then you would be famous off the Net, as well.
But if you are really <icrediBILL> with super incredible powers, Bill, you could slow down the rotation of this planet and get us all a few more hours per day, right? Then you would be famous off the Net, as well.
LOL - My powers are the ability to work at home and avoid a corporate job which already gives me a few extra hours per day everyone else wastes getting ready for and going to/from that job, so technically I have a few more hours in my day.
About the crawler, I wouldn't be too concerned, I get literally hundreds of things like this daily and if I stopped to worry about them all I'd never get anything done whatsoever so I have firewalled my site to the best of my ability and if anything does get through, they're more determined than I am at that point.
FWIW, there is a very big internet "black market" that makes money leeching the content of others so if you're being targeted it means you're successful and probably a leader in your field as these people don't waste their time scraping losers.
FWIW, there is a very big internet "black market" that makes money leeching the content of others so if you're being targeted it means you're successful and probably a leader in your field as these people don't waste their time scraping losers.
In that case, there are some really stupid people out there, because I doubt my site is the leading anything. Down the road, maybe, but not now.
Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to help me out here.
I am fairly certain these are coming from botnets. Most are from domestic IP blocks, some of which are running a primitive server of some kind, suggesting a proxy has been installed or (more likely?) someone was careless installing their OS.
Purpose: No idea. Possibly scraping content for use in hyping their trojanned sites but at least several of the targetted sites use querystrings so possibly the bots are looking for vulnerable servers.
Full reverse DNS that identifies the crawler like the big SEs:
The following UA:
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Charlotte/1.1; [searchme.com ])"
Operating from the following location:
network:Org-Name:Kavam, Inc.
Anything else should be treated as a spoof, fake, whatever you want to call it.
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OrgName: Searchme,ĀInc.
OrgID: KAVAM
Address: 800ĀWĀElĀCaminoĀReal, SuiteĀ100, MountainĀView, CA 94040
NetRange: 18.104.22.168Ā-Ā188.8.131.52Ā
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; [url]Charlotte/1.0b; [searchme.com...]
robots.txt? YES
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; [url]Charlotte/1.0t; [searchme.com...]
robots.txt? NO
OrgName: Abovenet Communications, Inc
CustName: Kavam
Address: 1735ĀLundyĀAve, SanĀJose,ĀCAĀ95131
NetRange: 188.8.131.52Ā-Ā188.8.131.52Ā
[edited by: incrediBILL at 11:32 pm (utc) on Mar. 15, 2009]
[edit reason] fixed urls [/edit]
I'm wondering why some of the IPs you referenced aren't set up for reverse DNS yet?
Are those older IPs no longer in use as all the current ones hitting my server provide reverse DNS as I showed above.
2.) I can't really discuss the reverse DNS thing, sorry -- I'm a Web geek, not a Network geek:)
But I can tell you that on 02-16-09, the second IP I mentioned, 220.127.116.11, hit as a bare address. No hostname. The other address-only hits date back to 09-08 and I got their what-where data from WHO*S today. In between, I've seen host hits akin to your mention:
3.) Hmm. I wonder if the address-only hosts are sandboxes vis-a-vis the 1.0b and 1.0t versions? At this end, a quick skim suggests that the searchme.com host hits used 1.1 exclusively. (Haven't grepped for 0.05.)