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A column by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin
Joanne and I celebrated Joyful Night with West Virginians from throughout the state who traveled to Charleston to kick-off the holiday season. As we toured the capitol grounds to see the beautiful decorations, listen to musical selections and light the state's Christmas trees, I asked visitors to pay special attention to a new tradition.
For the first time, the Governor's Reception Room featured a 10-foot tree dedicated to honoring our military men and women. We asked folks to send in photos of their loved ones or friends who have served or are serving in the armed forces. The response was overwhelming. And in just a couple of weeks, we received hundreds of photos.
Some photos came from families who'd lost loved ones in combat, some from families with loved ones serving overseas, and others were from West Virginians who simply wanted to pay tribute to our state's proud tradition of military service. Each photo had a story of its own. But together, they represent strength, courage, honor and selfless service.
This year's military recognition tree is a reminder of the sacrifices made by our military men and women. It is a reminder of the families who wait patiently at home. And it is a reminder of the many West Virginians who have served or are serving our country, at home and abroad.
Joanne and I know the holidays can be tough, especially for those who are serving overseas-some on a second or third deployment. So as the holidays approach, we ask you to remember the men and women who work hard to defend our freedom and protect us. Please keep them and their families in your thoughts and prayers, always.


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The invention discloses a method for maximizing overall system performance among a set of computer systems which periodically run a set of jobs. It is known that some allocations of jobs to computer systems are worse than others where "worse" may mean slower or even that certain jobs are not run. What is not known is how to achieve the best or maximized job mix. However, this invention can select the best from a set of job mixes or some solution which comes within a margin of tolerance for some theoretically ideal maximum. The invention takes a novel approach to bin packing in that the items are initially ordered with most difficult to pack items first. Then, the list of items is reordered using one of a set of percolation techniques. Random processes can also be applied to the list so that from a large set of possible orders, some order will be best relative to other orders if no solution is found within the pre-specified tolerance.
1. A computerized system for packing a plurality of items into a plurality of computer systems to maximize overall system utilization, the system comprising:
a computer; and
an executable program with instructions to implement a method comprising steps of:
sorting the items into an estimated order of difficulty of packing said items into the computer systems;
packing said items in order until no more items can be packed; and at least one of
reordering the estimated order of difficulty using a percolation method in which said estimated order of packing difficulty of unallocated items is changed as knowledge of apparent packing difficulty is increased based on results of said packing step until a limit cycle occurs or the packed items run on the computer systems according to a pre-specified goal; and
reordering the estimated order of difficulty using a randomizing method.
2. A method for packing a plurality of items into a plurality of computer systems to maximize overall system utilization whereby each one of the plurality of items may have resource requirements different from at least one of the other of the plurality of items, each one of the plurality of computer systems may have resources different from at least one of the other of the plurality of computer systems, and the items are tasks to be performed periodically, the method comprising the steps of:
applying the method prior to execution of the plurality of items to determine an optimum distribution of the plurality of items to the plurality of computer systems:
establishing a hierarchical set of pre-specified goals against which a pre-specified goal of the distribution of the plurality of items is to be compared;
representing each one of the plurality of items by one vector containing said one of the plurality of items' resource requirements and creating thereby a plurality of item vectors and representing each one of the plurality of computer systems by one vector containing the one of the plurality of computer systems' resources and creating thereby a plurality of computer system vectors;
record current item order for future detection of limit cycle;
ordering the plurality of item vectors in an estimated order of difficulty of packing said plurality of items to said plurality of computer systems;
disregarding any item which cannot be packed into any of the said plurality of computer systems;
packing the one of the plurality of items with the greatest difficulty of packing to one of the plurality of computer systems with resources greater than or equal to the resource requirements of said computer system using any existing packing method;
recording in a data location the one of the plurality of computer systems to which the one of the plurality of items was packed or to which one of the plurality of items was not indicated as packed if not yet packed;
removing the packed one of the plurality of items from the ordered plurality of vectors and revising the vector for the one of the plurality of computer systems upon which the one of the plurality of items is packed;
repeating the packing, recording, and removing steps until all of the plurality of items have been packed;
comparing the packing solution against a pre-specified goal;
halting the process if the packing solution is optimum relative to the pre-specified objective, otherwise applying one of a plurality of percolation techniques to the estimated order of difficulty of packing said plurality of items to said plurality of computer systems, performing limit cycle detection, and repeating all the above steps starting with the packing step until either an optimum solution is found or a limit cycle occurs.
3. The method of
recording a history of all of said item orders processed;
comparing percolated item order with said recorded history to detect the presence of a revisited state of processed item order, that is, a limit cycle;
randomly and repeatedly reordering the current item order until some order not recorded in the history is achieved.
4. The method of
halting the process at one terminal condition selected from the list of terminal conditions comprising as follows:
a pre-specified time of day;
a pre-specified period of execution of the process;
a pre-specified number of iterations of the process; and
a pre-specified proximity of a solution to a pre-specified optimum solution.
5. The method of
move all unpacked items to the head of the order;
move one unpacked item to the head of the order;
elevate all unpacked items by a pre-specified increment in the order; and
elevate one unpacked item by a pre-specified increment in the order.
6. The method of
7. The method of
selecting the items of lowest priority to delete; or
selecting for deletion the unpacked item at the top of the estimated order of difficulty.
8. The method of
recording a history of a predefined number of the most recent item orders processed;
comparing percolated item order with said recorded history to detect the presence of a revisited state of processed item order to detect a limit cycle;
randomly and repeatedly reordering the current item order until some order not recorded in the history is achieved.
9. A method comprising steps of
sorting the items into an estimated order of difficulty of packing said items into the computer systems;
packing the items until no more items can be packed; and at least one of:
reordering the estimated order of difficulty using a percolation method in which said estimated order of packing difficulty of unallocated items is changed as knowledge of apparent packing difficulty is increased based on results of said packing step until a limit cycle occurs or the packed items run on the computer systems according to a pre-specified goal; and
reordering the estimated order of difficulty using a randomizing method.
10. A method as recited in
11. A method as recited in
12. A method as recited in
13. A method as recited in
14. A method as recited in
deleting items which cannot be packed in accordance with available resources.
15. A method as recited in
16. A method as recited in
detecting when a goal has been met,
forming a list of packed items responsive to said detecting step, and
exchanging an item in said list of packed items with an item in said relaxed list.
The present application claims priority of Provisional U.S. Application Ser. No. 60/221,328, filed Jul. 28, 2000, the entire disclosure of which is hereby fully incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to the field of computer system utilization where a number of jobs are run periodically on a number of computer systems and, more particularly, to a technique for determining some mix of assignments of jobs to particular computers that will result in near-optimal throughput for the entire set of computer systems.
2. Background Description
There is a great deal of art designed to optimize throughput of a workload on a single computer or even a multiprocessor system. Much of the work on throughput optimization was done in the 1960's and little has changed. Jobs are scheduled for execution based upon a variety of factors: job priority, time of residence in the queue, deadlines, start times, facilities usage, and a host of other factors. Early in the history of writing scheduling and dispatching programs, a variety of ways were developed to assure that all jobs will eventually receive a suitable and effective share of the system resources. For example, to avoid a low-priority job being deferred for an excessive period or never reaching execution, a method of "aging" was devised. By this method, the priority of a job might be increased by some amount every time the job is passed over in the queue. Then, because the job's priority increases over time, eventually the job will be run while not significantly affecting performance of jobs of higher priority.
However, the problem becomes very different from job queuing when applied to a system of multiple computers where the issue is how to assign a number of jobs to a number of different computers so that overall system performance is optimized. Queuing or dispatching systems determine how an individual processor will order tasks to receive facilities, etc. rather than allocating a mix of jobs over a plurality of computers in a computer system or set of computer systems which may differ from each other. It is assumed in regard to such a problem that the jobs are to be run on some periodic basis, such as, once a week, or real-time jobs that are constantly executing in a computer. In such a case, it is to be expected that some allocations of jobs to particular computers will work better than others (e.g. with better utilization of available resource, greater throughput and the like). That being the case, there should be some allocation that works as well as or better than all others which would be the optimum allocation or optimum mix, even though performance may not be guaranteed to be optimum in all circumstances or even to satisfy all performance goals.
The problem of allocation of a number of objects among a number of capacities has led to a number of algorithms known as bin packing, which is well-known in the art of operations research. In the conventional process, items are packed into bins based on the unallocated capacities of the various bins. Further, in the conventional approach, the item packing order is fixed, usually by arranging the items in order of decreasing item size. The items are then packed sequentially as arranged using any one of several bin selection rules, such as, first-fit, best-fit, worst-fit, etc.
However, as applied to the packing of software applications (objects) into computers and associated peripherals of a computer system or network (capacities/bins), known bin packing algorithms are ill-suited to finding an optimum solution due to the number of criteria and parameters which characterize the capacities of a computer (e.g. processor and bus architecture, storage, memory and cache capacities and operating protocols therefor, operating systems, peripherals and interfaces and the like) and the variability of processing time for each particular application in regard to those parameters. These criteria and parameters necessarily have multiple and possibly interdependent values such as may be represented by a vector. That is, when packing scalar items into bins (e.g. when consideration is limited to a single attribute, such as, memory requirements only or, more generally, a "size") the efficiency of packing (and bin packing algorithms) relative to bin capacity is closely correlated to item size and largely independent of bin capacity if sufficient to a given item. Therefore, good results are often obtained in scalar packing by ordering items in accordance with size. However, when packing vector items, that is, when consideration is expanded to include more than a single attribute, such as, considering memory capacity and port bandwidth, among others, ordering by increasing or decreasing size does not yield comparably good results since the packing depends on numerous attributes of both items and bin capacities. Moreover, while vector attributes may each be quantified, there are no techniques of quantifying vectors in combination to yield any discernible improvement in performance of bin packing algorithms similar to the use of size in scalar bin packing and any computation to develop a quantitative evaluation would be extremely complex since both individual vectors and each combination corresponding to a respective job or task must be accommodated by the bin packing. Thus bin packing techniques become intractably difficult when plural attributes must be considered and no technique has been developed which can significantly affect the likelihood of finding a good solution or improving the efficiency or effectiveness of a bin packing algorithm for vector packing.
Given a number of computer systems and a number of jobs or "items" to be performed, there are many ways to assign the items to computer systems. As the number of systems and the number of items increases, the number of combinations of items and systems grows rapidly. When the number of systems and the number of items is more than a mere handful, there may be very many ways to allocate the items to the systems. The number may be reduced somewhat when certain items have needs for facilities that may not be available on all of the computer systems. For example, a given item may require more memory than some of the computer systems have. That item must be run, if at all, on a system with sufficient memory. Nevertheless, no system or methodology exists at the present state of the art which provides for determination of an optimal allocation of a plurality of different jobs, particularly jobs having different requirements and different performance characteristics over a plurality of computers or computer systems having different hardware and software attributes.
It is, therefore, an object of the invention to provide a system and a method for maximizing utilization of a set of computers or computer systems which are used to run a set of jobs ("items") periodically.
It is another object of the invention to provide a system and method for packing a number of jobs into a number of computer systems such that the resulting arrangement or mix is optimal with respect to time, facilities, or other criteria.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a system and method for determining an allocation of a mix of jobs among a plurality of computers or computer systems which better meets a group of goals than other allocations of jobs among the plurality of computers or computer systems.
In order to achieve the above objects, a computerized system for packing a plurality of items into a plurality of computer systems to maximize overall system utilization, the system comprising a computer and an executable program with instructions to implement a method comprising steps of packing items into the plurality of computer systems by sorting the items into an estimated order of difficulty of packing said items into the computer systems, continuing the packing until as many items as possible have been packed, reordering the estimated order of difficulty using a percolation method until a limit cycle occurs or the packed items run on the computer systems according to a pre-specified goal and reordering the estimated order of difficulty using a randomizing method.
In accordance with another aspect of the invention, a method of allocating jobs among a plurality of resources is provided comprising steps of packing items into a plurality of computer system resources by sorting the items into an estimated order of difficulty of packing said items into the computer system resources, continuing the packing until as many items as possible have been packed, reordering the estimated order of difficulty using a percolation method until a limit cycle occurs or the packed items run on the computer systems according to a pre-specified goal and reordering the estimated order of difficulty using a randomizing method.
The invention simultaneously estimates the difficulty of packing of a given item by determination of items for which a bin packing algorithm fails most often such that packing difficulty need not be quantitatively evaluated while simultaneously attempting to satisfy hierarchically prioritized goals and reorders items in approximate decreasing order of packing difficulty by a combination of percolation and random reordering techniques. The number of objectives met by a solution meeting a particular hierarchically prioritized goal is then increased, if possible, by perturbation handling to result in an allocation of items to resources which is at least as good as any other that can be found within practical constraints on the process
The foregoing and other objects, aspects, and advantages will be better understood from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the invention with reference to the drawings, in which:
The present invention determines a near optimal assignment of items to computers by ordering the items according to difficulty of packing the items jointly with assigning items to systems with sufficient facilities to execute the items. It should be clear that, at any given instant, there may be many systems with sufficient facilities. As items are assigned to computers, however, the facilities are no longer fully available. It is possible for the method to become stalled when enough facilities have been assigned to preclude further assignments of tasks or jobs while significant facilities and processing capacity remains available. In such a case, no computer system can accommodate the remaining item(s) which, if a known bin packing algorithm and an ordering strategy appropriate to scalar packing has been employed, may be highest in order of allocation difficulty or resource requirements, even though the unassigned facilities on the various computers may total well over the amount needed to assign the waiting items to at least one computer. To accommodate this possibility and provide a more thorough search for an optimal solution, the invention further includes reordering the items using any of a variety of reordering methods and deletion of items or jobs which may truncate the search or prevent the determination of an optimal solution in relatively inaccessible locations in the search space.
In essence, the invention exploits an observation by the inventor that ordering by size in scalar bin packing algorithms is, in practical effect, an ordering by packing difficulty. Further, a basic principle of the invention is that while quantification of packing difficulty for vector packing is computationally difficult and appropriate criteria for evaluation of particular vectors have not been developed, a measure of packing difficulty can be inferred, without quantitative evaluation, from the number of iterations of a bin packing algorithm which fail to allocate particular tasks. These unallocated tasks can then be reordered (in descending order of apparent packing difficulty; possibly opposite to the preferred order for scalar packing) by a number of techniques which the inventor has discovered will substantially increase the efficiency of the bin packing algorithm as well as the quality of the result. The result can then be improved in many cases by perturbation processing of exchanges between allocated and unallocated tasks.
One reordering method used by the invention is "percolation". In percolation, items already ordered in order of estimated packing difficulty are reordered as knowledge of apparent packing difficulty is increased. An item that appears more difficult than originally estimated may be moved all or part way to the top of the order and the process restarted. Percolation can be applied multiple times in different ways to result in differing orders of allocation which may reflect difficulty of packing in numerous different ways. As the order of items on the list changes, the mix will change.
Another method of reordering the list is to apply some random technique to arranging the order of items, much as in shuffling a deck of cards. Then, the method is applied again. This also presents a different order of items to be assigned but with no consideration of packing difficulty.
Attempting to satisfy requirements that cannot be satisfied, however, might prevent other items from being assigned. The technique for avoiding this condition is to delete one or more items from the ordered list by moving them to a "relaxed list"; after which the item or items may be reconsidered in a search for exchanges between the current list and the relaxed group (the perturbed mode).
These reordering and item deletion techniques are a distinctive departure of the invention from queueing and bin packing techniques which assume and utilize a certain order of items in accordance with one parameter or only a few parameters of the item and which are used to express the goal of the solution (e.g. maximum items packed, priority between items, and the like). Variance in order of consideration of the items to be packed with differing degrees of importance given to particular parameters in accordance with the invention provides for a far more thorough and efficient search of the search space and a much enhanced likelihood of determination of an optimal solution.
The invention, as noted, is practiced before items are run. This is another distinction between the invention and the prior art. A user or user site is assumed to want to find the item mix that will lead to optimum system usage. What is optimum is determined by the user. It is well-known in the art that it is not always possible to assign all items or to complete all items in a given time frame. Sometimes getting specific items to run ("depth penetration") means accepting a smaller total number of running items and vice-versa. The user may decide that one or the other sacrifice is the one to be made.
Further, it is well-known in the art that it is effectively impossible to prove that a given mix is the absolute optimum mix or even that an optimal mix will satisfy all desired objectives. Thus, rather than set some absolute criterion as the standard for success, a set of hierarchically prioritized "goals", initially comprehensive but progressively eliminating and/or relaxing individual desired criteria, are pre-specified. When such hierarchically prioritized goals are considered in order beginning with the initial objective of satisfying the most comprehensive goal, if one mix comes within the current goal, that condition is considered sufficient to stop the process of searching for an optimal mix. If a current goal cannot be achieved within a pre-established level of effort, the next successive goal is used. Eventually, some goal is reached unless other factors, as described below, terminate the process.
It is important to keep track of the best order to date. At some point, each new attempt will result in solutions that are less optimum. This would indicate that an optimal mix may have been found. To make sure that a given solution is not as good as one run earlier, it is necessary to keep information on earlier solutions.
One problem that can occur involves what are called "limit cycles". It is possible that some ordered lists result in a return to a previous state. This causes a limit cycle of a pattern of previously visited states to repeat indefinitely. Once a limit cycle is reached, the method will not progress closer to the goal. So, the attempt is halted, the list is reordered, and the method restarted.
Although the method will eventually attain one of a progression of objectives and halt, there are provisions to terminate and halt the process to meet other problem constraints. In particular, because the process may be used to arrange an item mix due to be run at a pre-specified time, there must be some way to halt the process at another pre-specified time. It is also possible to halt the process after the process has run a pre-specified length of time or number of iterations. It is also possible to halt the process after a pre-specified proximity of a solution to the goal.
Referring now to the drawings, and more particularly to
It should be understood that
At 300 (FIG. 1), the best solution, in terms of the defined goal and objective function, is updated at each iteration. This function is achieved in a simple and straightforward manner by following the hierarchical prioritization of the list of goals in determining the current objective and scoring the solution in accordance with the current goal. This insures that the final solution is always the best found and therefore never under performs the Sequential Assignment solution used for initialization. It is imperative to keep track of both the solution (list of assignments) and the evaluated score.
At 500, Percolate Unassigned, the order of the items being processed is altered so as to elevate those items which were not successfully packed. The elevation consists of moving the unassigned items up in the list so they will be processed earlier in the next Sequential Assignment cycle 200. The elevation may be for any combination (from one to all) of the unassigned items and the movement may be as small as one step up to stepping all the way to the top of the list. Selection is governed by a trade: Moving multiple items and using longer steps speed the transition to a nearly randomized search but may miss some possibly optimal list orders.
For most iterations, sequential assignments and percolation proceed without interruption. However, to avoid being caught in a limit cycle, to avoid stalling on unattainable objectives, and to improve upon solutions which attain a reduced objective short of the most comprehensive goal, additional logic, as described in 600-1000, is added to percolation.
In view of the foregoing, it is seen that the invention provides a relatively simple technique and apparatus for optimal allocation of jobs or tasks among computers or computer systems to achieve maximal throughput and/or maximal resource utilization. A more thorough search of the search space while avoiding processing difficulties that limit the search or cause unproductive processing time are avoided through flexible reordering of items to be allocated and item deletion from the list of items to be allocated. The invention is thus enabled to accommodate complex item and capacity vectors such as are particularly characteristic of data processing resources of extensive computer systems and networks and, by the same token, are applicable to complex matching problems in other fields.
While the invention has been described in terms of its preferred embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that the invention can be practiced with modification within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
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What about corruption in the Palestinian Authority in the territories they control?
- Frankly, the Palestinian Authority, which is corrupt and cavorts with terror… is not the basis for a Palestinian state moving forward. [National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, San Jose Mercury News, June 15, 2002]
Since its creation in 1994, Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority has presided over the collapse of the Palestinian economy. He was given billions in aid, and squandered what he and his cronies didn't steal. With GDP down nearly 70 percent, Palestinians have seen their collective national net worth reduced by more than two thirds. Virtually nothing remains of a once reasonably vibrant private sector. Corruption exists on a scale that even the normally approving Europeans cannot abide. Public infrastructure has disintegrated. Public health standards, in 1993 the highest in the Arab world, are among the lowest. And the disastrously self-destructive terrorist war against Israel that Arafat started in September 2000, has reduced Palestinians to the most desperate conditions they have seen since the creation of Israel in 1948.
Lawlessness in the Territories
Ahmad Tabouk. leader of the armed militia group Fatah Hawks,ruled Nablus after Israeli troops withdrew, as agreed under the Oslo Accords. Insisting that they were acting in the name of Arafat, they settled squabbles with the other militias by engaging in running street battles. But they came to specialize in gunning men down in broad daylight. They shoot lesser offenders - drug users or men accused of committing "moral" crimes - in the legs. They kill people who they believe have provided the Israeli army with information that has led to the death of wanted Palestinians. Palestinian gunmen killing so-called "collaborators" reached new high levels in 2002 in conjunction with Israel's Operation Defensive Shield against terrorist infrastructure in the territories.
Corrupt Administration of the Palestinian Authority
In addition to outright theft or misappropriation of funds, there is also faulty administration and a bloated public payroll. One of the chief consumers of funds in the chronically deficit-ridden Palestinian budget is the "police force" that exceeds 2% of the population, a size far above the limits imposed by the Oslo agreements, a force that is armed with weapons that are illegal under those agreements. Notwithstanding the large size and excessive armament of the force, it has not created the security environment that was its raison d'etre. In fact, the Palestinian police -- really Arafat's army -- are implicated in terrorism against Israel.
There are many documented reports of rampant corruption and misuse of funds within the Palestinian Authority and its related governmental bodies. For example, in 1997, the PA received $548,727,000 from the international donor community. It also received more than $800 million in tax revenues collected by Israel from Palestinian Arabs. At the end of 1997, when the PA released its annual financial report, $323 million - nearly 40% of the annual budget - was "missing." Yasser Arafat is believed to have personally benefited, possibly with billions of dollars flowing into personal accounts. Yet, the world community continues to make donations to Arafat's organizations in order to try to buy peace, a process that is usually called extortion. Arafat and his coterie of unofficial economic "advisors," in the words of David Hirst:
- ... have thrown up a ramshackle, nepotistic edifice of monopoly, racketeering and naked extortion, which merely enriches them as it further impoverishes the society at large.
The embezzlement of US taxpayer funding, on a vast scale, by Yasser Arafat and other members of the Palestinian Authority is detailed in the report "Corruption within the Palestinian Authority", referenced below.
An investigation by Newsweek in 2000, on the brink of the Camp David talks, revealed abuses at almost every level of the Palestinian Authority. Said Newsweek:
- Many top ministers staff their offices with cronies, dole out valuable contracts without oversight and create their own monopolies, which crush competition and drive up prices paid by hard-pressed consumers. The courts are powerless because Arafat simply ignores any inconvenient rulings. His 14 separate police forces enforce the whims of PA officials rather than laws aimed at protecting ordinary Palestinians. "It's a mafia state," says Abdul Jawad Saleh, a former Agriculture minister who was beaten by security forces recently for leading an anticorruption protest.
Muhammad Rashid, Arafat's economic adviser, is vice president and one of the principle stockholders in Paltel, the monopoly set up by the PA and the Palestinian Development and Investment Co. (Padico) to run the telephone service.
In an investigative report from December 1998, The Financial Times reported that Rashid and Paltel were deeply involved in stealing the $160 million Gaza Employees Pension Fund, which was transferred to the PA by Israel in 1994 and emptied of its funds by Rashid between early 1996 and late 1997. Freih Abu Medein, the PA's justice minister told the paper at the time the money had been invested in telecommunications projects.
The Palestinian Mortgage Housing Corporation was involved in scandal in 1998, when the EU discovered that $20 million it had donated for the construction of low-cost housing in Gaza had been used instead to build luxury apartments for wealthy supporters of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.
After eight years of the Palestinian Authority, by 2000 the average Palestinian in the West Bank or Gaza had a lower income and worse condtions. It is possible that Arafat walked away from Camp David so he could continue to use Israel as a scapegoat rather than face the mounting problems of the Palestinians under his rule.


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"Messiah" composed by George Frederic Handel is a Toledo holiday tradition that has been performed locally since 1919.
Handel's Messiah will be performed by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and the combined choruses of the Toledo Choral Society and BGSU at the Toledo Museum of Art's Peristyle on Dec. 5 and 6. More than 200 singers and nearly 100 musicians will perform the famous oratorio before an expected sell-out audience of 1,750 people.
Tickets for the popular performances at $25 and $30 each would make ideal gifts for classical music lovers. Discounted tickets are available for groups of 10 or more and student tickets for $10 each.
People attending Messiah this year will hear a slightly different version than in the past. The symphony wants to perform the original orchestration Handel composed, rather than the newer and more familiar Mozart edition of it, according to Sam Szor, who has conducted the holiday production for more than 50 years.
"We'll treat it artistically and are adding some choruses that are not usually heard," said Sam, music director and conductor of the Toledo Choral Society. "Unlike many operas, it's all in English, so people can understand the scriptures from the Bible."
Sam said that Handel performed the original oratorio playing the harpsichord with a smaller orchestra that did not include clarinets, flutes or French horns. His son, Tom Szor, will play the harpsichord for the local performances.
Sam will conduct the Dec. 6 performance at 2 p.m. in the Peristyle. Mark Munson, conductor of the BGSU Chorus, will conduct the performance on Dec. 2 at Kobacker Hall in Bowling Green and Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. in the Peristyle.
Soloists for the performance of Messiah at the Peristyle include John Glann, bass; Joe Diehl, tenor; Catherine McKeever, mezzo soprano, and Peggy Dwyer, soprano.
Messiah is an oratorio, or opera without the staging, that tells the story of the prophecy, birth, suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus from scriptures of the Old and New Testament of the King James Version of the Bible.
Messiah includes the highly recognized "Hallelujah" and "Great Amen" choruses that are among the best know choral selections ever performed, according to music historians.
Part one includes the prophecy of the coming of the messiah through the birth of Jesus. The overture, written in a minor key, depicts the gravity of the world waiting for the birth of its Savior.
Part two presents the suffering, crucifixion and death of Jesus, but concludes with the triumphant Hallelujah chorus and his resurrection.
Part three is reflective on the life of Jesus and a celebration of his overcoming death with a glorious homage to Him with the appropriate "Amen" chorus.
The premiere of Messiah was performed by Handel in Dublin, Ireland on Good Friday, April 13, 1742. He conducted the piece annually at Easter. His last performance was at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a little more than a week before his death on Good Friday, April 14, 1759, the 17th anniversary of its premiere.
The Toledo Choral Society is the area's oldest continuous musical organization founded in 1919 when the first local performance of Messiah was presented in the Scott High School Auditorium. The Toledo Symphony Orchestra has been performing for 65 years.
Tickets for Messiah are for sale by calling the Toledo Symphony box office at (419) 246-8000 or ordering online at www.toledosymphony.com/ordertickets. For group tickets, call (419) 418-0024.


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"We've never had anybody hurt, but you could go out tomorrow and pack that powder and get a freak spark and blow your face off," says eight-time Super Modified champ Jerry Hinton. "It doesn't have anything to do with an anvil coming down on top of somebody."
At the Mountain Man Rendezvous, Wilkinson demonstrates for the audience how he ensures that an anvil will land close to its launching point. He drops two circular steel plates to serve as a sturdy base, then sets a level on top of them to make sure they're parallel to the ground. "You don't want it to be too perfect," Wilkinson explains. "Otherwise the top anvil could come back down and land on the bottom one and cause some serious damage. It's pretty hard to tear up an anvil, but that'll do it."
Launching pad suitably prepared, Wilkinson packs his anvils with black powder and seals them shut in the traditional manner. "Anybody know what brand of peanut butter this is?" he asks rhetorically. "It's Peter Pan. It flies higher than Jif."
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SOUTH WHITLEY — After spearheading two large-scale park renovations, Katey Till announced she was stepping down from the South Whitley Park Board.
Till, a South Whitley resident, is a mother, wife and active volunteer.
With so much on her to-do list, she told South Whitley Town Council members at a meeting in November that she would be resigning her seat on the board.
"It's time," Till said. "I've done what I wanted to do."
Official resignation of Till's spot will be Friday. Her departure is in addition to another vacant seat needing to be filled.
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When Michael Owen's characteristically predatory instincts allowed him to score twice in the opening half hour of England's Euro 2008 qualifier against Russia at Wembley in September 2007, two things appeared certain.
First, England were going to coast into their first tournament under new coach Steve McClaren.
Secondly, Owen - then on 40 goals - was destined to get the 10 more required to eclipse Sir Bobby Charlton as the most prolific goalscorer in Three Lions history.
That the initial aim did not come to pass remains a matter of regret for McClaren but no one else. That the second didn't is far greater cause for lament given it prevented one of the finest players of his generation from fulfilling his immense ability.
Owen would argue that it is not as simple as that.
In the six years since that night under the massive Wembley arch, he got his hands on the Premier League title, won the League Cup, was on the bench for a Champions League final and scored a goal against Manchester City that will go down in Red Devils folklore.
Those three years at Old Trafford alone are more than most players will ever achieve.
But Owen was never most players.
Not from his emergence as a teenager at Liverpool, not after that goal against Argentina at France 98.
The sight of Owen slaloming past Roberto Ayala and Jose Chamot before rattling home a stupendous finish, aged just 18, is an indelible moment of English football history.
That England drew that match and went out of the tournament on penalties is a mere side issue. Owen's popularity was confirmed and he finished the year as BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
As Owen's career continued, the goals and the honours piled up.
He had already scored on his Liverpool debut and won the Premier League's Golden Boot prize, an accolade he retained the season after that epic World Cup moment.
In 2001 Owen scored in the UEFA Cup final, and twice in the FA Cup final as Liverpool recorded their historic Treble under Gerard Houllier.
After that came his momentous contribution to that jaw-dropping 5-1 win over Germany in Munich, a hat-trick voted amongst the top 20 moments of the decade by one leading newspaper.
Owen's abilities had now gripped a continent, allowing him to become the first English winner of the European Footballer of the Year award since Kevin Keegan.
Yet the injuries that would ultimately become as synonymous with Owen's career as anything he did on the pitch were also starting to bite.
It started with a hamstring tear suffered at Leeds before Owen had even celebrated his 20th birthday.
The problem kept him out for five months, and started what was to be a recurring theme.
Owen didn't like it of course. Players hate the label 'injury-prone' and for good reason.
But how else do you assess repeated hamstring problems, an ankle injury that kept him out for three months and affected him for some time afterwards, a thigh injury that ruined the start of his Newcastle career, snapped cruciate ligaments at the 2006 World Cup and surgery on a double-hernia.
It is a measure of Owen's abilities that Sir Alex Ferguson was prepared to overlook all this to sign him in 2009, allowing the Chester-born player to get his hands on the league title that eluded him for so long.
Yet the brutal truth is that since he returned to England from Real Madrid in 2005, Owen has featured in just 138 Premier League games, a pitiful figure over such a long period of time.
Various theories have been put forward for such a chronic return, most notably being so significantly over-played during those crucial formative years.
Always the most level-headed of characters, Owen has long since outlined a disinclination to drop down through the leagues in his latter days, preferring instead to concentrate on his love of horse racing and the training empire he is building in rural Cheshire.
He has also branched out into media work and is making a name for himself as a perceptive pundit.
It is only to be expected of someone who reached a peak so high few will ever reach.
Yet as the news sinks in that his last days will be spent at Stoke, where he probably won't play much, Owen's career is one tinged with regret.
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Newsletter Archive: Spring 2002
Positive Attitudes towards Negatives
About two years ago I was handed a negative and asked what I thought of it. It was from the Princes Gate Collection, Berthe Morisots Girl Sewing. Its two surfaces were crazed, (fig.1), I found it both wonderful and grotesque but I was deeply smitten.
Acetate Negative
My initial interest became more purposeful last year when, together with my colleagues, I realised that we had a problem, the so-called "vinegar syndrome", the result of the deterioration of acetate negatives. Routine processing of photographic orders revealed that some valuable negatives from the 1950s had deteriorated within the past twelve months. For example, negatives from the 1956 survey of Chartres, the 1957 Photographic Survey of Petworth and our Gallerys Lee Collection photographed in 1958. All of these negatives were totally unusable. Whilst it is possible to replace our Gallerys negatives by photographing the paintings, photographic trips to Chartres and Petworth would doubtless prove more difficult.
Acetate film often referred to as "safety film", was used predominantly between 1950 and 1970, replacing the less stable nitrate-based film. Polyester eventually replaced acetate. When kept at room temperature acetates have a life of about forty years before the layers of acetate and gelatin separate. We have now reached that time threshold. At first the negative looks quite normal but the pervasive smell of ascetic acid is obvious, hence "vinegar syndrome". Thereafter deterioration accelerates and the familiar crazing develops. When acetate negatives are stored in cool conditions deterioration can be delayed, indeed if kept sub zero they can survive in excess of 3000 years.
An air conditioning unit had been installed in the negative room but the very cool air felt moist. The Relative Humidity (RH) in the negative store had reached levels in excess of 65%, perfect for people but death to negatives. Dehumidifiers were installed to reduce the RH within the acceptable 30%-40%. Through the generous support of the Brindsley Ford family we were able to invest in a digital device to monitor the RH and we have achieved levels of 31% — 35%. Jolly well perfect!
Tests followed to quantify the extent of the deterioration. Most of our pre-1950 negatives are glass and easily identified. It is not so obvious to differentiate acetates from polyesters but a simple test can help determine this. When polyester negatives are placed between two polaroid filters and viewed through transmitted light, colours appear (birefringence, like oil in a puddle). I calculated the Institute ceased to use acetates in 1973. Acetates I considered to be most at risk fall between 1955 and 1969. We have a total of over 22,500 negatives from this period and 550 were selected for testing. Groups of negatives were taken at regular intervals along the shelves, selection was thus both calculated and random. There were negatives of medieval door knockers, marble statuary, Duncan Grant paintings and portrait miniatures. The negatives were placed individually into polythene bags with an A-D Strip (film based deterioration monitor).
The results were alarming, recording levels of up to 100% loss for 1955-1959, dropping to 58% for 1960 and gradually reaching a 100% healthy for 1968.
Everything I have read suggests that the problem will not disappear when we reach the 1960s. If we were to repeat this exercise twelve months hence we could expect the proportion of negatives seriously affected to rise.
What about nitrate negatives? We hold negatives dating from the late 19th century and all literature suggests that any "soft" negative dating before 1940 is almost certainly nitrate. Nitrate negatives deteriorate differently from acetates, the negative becomes brittle and turns brown. Eventually the negatives crack, split and disintegrate. (fig.2) Alarmingly nitrate negatives are purported to self ignite and it is highly recommended that nitrate negatives are stored apart, kept very cool and in fireproof storage. In case I leave you in any doubt, that is to stop the fire getting out not in. A further series of experiments are in progress to calculate our numbers of nitrate negatives. When a slither from a nitrate negative is dropped into trichlororthylene it will sink, acetates will float. The chemical is a bit hazardous to slosh around in the Witt so I opted for "plan B". A slither of nitrate when burned will splutter like a sparkler (firework) whereas acetate will melt. All "soft" negatives tested from the early 1930s have proved to be nitrate.
Nitrate Negative
The problems have made us realise just how rich and unique parts of our negative collection are. We have Conway photographs of early 20th century Russian architecture photographed by Robert Byron. These are tremendously beautiful as photographs and irreplaceable as documents of social history. Many will remember The Golden Road to Samarkand, the exhibition of superb photographs taken by the brothers T.E. and A.W. Lawrence and Robert Byron. I could list many "special collections" of Conway negatives notwithstanding the invaluable archive acquired from our field trips throughout Britain and Europe.
Similarly, the Photographic Survey Department holds a large collection of negatives built up throughout the 20th century, a unique archive representing painting, miniatures and drawings held in private collections throughout England, Wales and Ireland. The survey covers collections both large and small, for the most part unrecorded elsewhere and often unknown outside the owners family circle. Collections come and go, they are dispersed and "lost", but we are fortunate in having a record at a point in time. En masse the scope and coverage of the Photographic Survey, is impressive and formidable.
All photographs made from the negative holdings of the Witt and Conway Libraries, Photographic Survey and of our Gallery form part of the unique and enviable study and research tool available to students and staff of the Institute and to scholars and the academic community at large.
How do we preserve the negatives so that material will be available for study throughout the 21st century?
We are well on the way to realising the extent of the problem and we have learned a lot in the past few months but now need to take the "next step". We must separate the nitrate negatives, our oldest and dearest, and move them to a place of greater safety, for them and for us and segregate the deteriorated acetate negatives from the others to prevent the spread of "vinegar syndrome". We need to extend their life by freezing them, giving us time to plan for their future. The cool and dry conditions in our negative store are perfect for healthy negatives as we practice good husbandry in the future. Deterioration under our present conditions will slow down but those affected will last a maximum of 10 years depending on their present age. Refridgeration will buy us time.
Lastly we need to think seriously as to how we preserve and conserve our negatives for practicable use in the long term. Do we digitise the negatives and freeze the originals for perpetuity as objects of desire? Make prints from the negatives whilst we can and discard them when they finally "go"? Replace what negatives we can by photographing original works, in the Gallery for example? All of these options will inevitably incur financial outlay. If we take the route of digitisation we will need to regularly upgrade equipment and carefully manage the collections in their digital negative store.
I recently asked of the British Library if I might visit their negative store. This proved to be difficult because the negatives are stored in a cave in Wiltshire. I feel this is something to aspire to. If anyone has a cave begging with high speed underground links to wc2 please make contact.
BARBARA THOMPSON — Witt Librarian Designate


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Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site, in cooperation with the Silver Bluff Audubon Center and Sanctuary, is offering a special tour of the Silver Bluff Slave Cemetery, also known as Cohlvin Cemetery, this upcoming Saturday at 10 a.m.
The burial site of more than 250 individuals enslaved at Silver Bluff Plantation in the early 19th century, today the cemetery is little more than an expanse of forest with unmarked depressions in the ground to represent the gravesites, according to Redcliffe Plantation. Participants will learn about black burial practices, the history of Silver Bluff Plantation and about the lives of the individuals actually buried in the cemetery.
"This tour celebrates a very special anniversary," Park Interpreter Elizabeth Laney said. "One hundred and fifty years ago on Aug. 9, 1864 an enslaved laborer named Alonzo died at Redcliffe Plantation just three months before his owner James Henry Hammond passed away. Our tour of the Silver Bluff Slave Cemetery is in honor of the life of Alonzo and recognition of the anniversary of his death. We'll be holding a tour of the Hammond family cemetery later in October in honor of the anniversary of the death of James Henry Hammond."
There is an $8 charge per participant and registration is required. Please call Redcliffe at 803-827-1473 or email email@example.com to register for the program. Program details will be sent out to registered participants before the program.
Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site is located in Beech Island. Completed in 1859, it was the home of S.C. Gov. James Henry Hammond and three generations of his descendants, as well as numerous generations of black families who lived on the plantation as slaves and later as freedmen. It was donated to the state of South Carolina in 1975 and is managed today by the S.C. State Park Service. It is located on Redcliffe Road about three miles from Beech Island off Highway 278.
Silver Bluff Audubon Center and Sanctuary is situated along 2.6 miles of the Savannah River and comprises 3,250 acres of upland pine forest, hardwood bottomlands, open fields, lakes and streams. The property is actively managed for sustainable forest products revenue. A Revolutionary War skirmish was fought on the high bluff overlooking the Savannah River, and Audubon protects an antebellum slave cemetery containing over 200 burial plots.
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DNS and forensic tools resources
• DNSMap - DNS Subdomain Brute-force Tool
• Dnsgrep - DNS Enumeration Tool
• txdns - Aggressive Multithreaded DNS digger/brute-forcer
• Mscan 1.0
• FoFuS - PoC bot using DNS cover channel
• spoofer2.pl.txt
• dnsstat
• Tools to manage DNS
• DNSSEC Software, DNSSEC Tools, DNSSEC Utilities
DNS Dump
Google CodeSearch
Google CodeSearch
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Forensic Tools
"Illicit traffic is not about products, it's about transactions." - Moisés NaÃm, Illicit
• veresoftware.com
Vere Software is dedicated to creating a "more safe" online environment. We specialize in software applications that can be used to help your investigations maintain structure while properly gathering evidence that can be used in court. Our clients include law enforcement agencies and special investigators. Our products are designed as a tool for the investigator to collect evidence of online criminal activity. We will help you, the investigator, "make the internet your regular beat" .
• Maresware/dmares.com
Maresware: The Suite
Maresware: Linux Computer Forensics
Validation Tools and other products
• ProDiscover/Techpathways.com
Incident Response
Other tools
• Paraben Corporation/paraben.com
P2 Power Pack
Hard Drive Forensics
Forensic Replicator Complete bit-stream acquisition software for hard drives and media
P2 eXplorer Mount almost any forensic image as a virtual drive
Forensic Sorter Save time by sorting your evidence into workable categories
E-mail Examiner A full featured e-mail examination tool for over 30 popular e-mail formats
Network E-mail Examiner Examine large network e-mail stores including Exchange, Notes, and GroupWise
Text Searcher Perform advanced, fast text searching through indexing
Registry Analyzer Analyze entire Windows registry files
Chat Examiner Examine chat log files for Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, and more
Decryption Collection Break passwords for over 35 types of encrypted files
Case Agent Companion View over 250 different file formats for detailed analysis & reporting of digital evidence
Enterprise Forensics
Enterprise Forensics
Moble Devices
Cell Seizure v3.0 ADVANCED MOBILE PHONE FORENSIC SOFTWARE
SIM Card Seizure v1.0.2131
ComputraceComplete laptop security
Computrace Data Protection
• Guidance Software/guidancesoftware.com
EnCase Enterprise
Field Intelligence Model
• AccessData Corp/accessdata.com
The Ultimate Toolkit
Forensic Toolkit
Password Recovery Toolkit
Registry Viewer
• Wetstone/wetstonetech.com
Gargoyle Investigator
• Determina/determina.com
Determina VPS
Determina Memory Firewall
Determina LiveShield
• EnterEdge/enteredge.com
Intrusion Protection Solutions
EnterEdge Vulnerability Management Service (VMS)
• Digital Intelligence/digitalintelligence.com
Intrusion Protection Solutions
EnterEdge Vulnerability Management Service (VMS)
• DocuLex/doculex.com
Litigation Support
Electronic Discovery
• snort.org
In 1998, Martin Roesch wrote an open source technology called Snort, which he termed a "lightweight" intrusion detection technology in comparison to commercially available systems. Today that moniker doesn't even begin to describe the capabilities that Snort brings to the table as the most widely deployed intrusion prevention technology worldwide. Over the years Snort has evolved into a mature, feature rich technology that has become the de facto standard in intrusion detection and prevention. Recent advances in both the rules language and detection capabilities offer the most flexible and accurate threat detection available, making Snort the "heavyweight" champion of intrusion prevention.
• bleedingthreats.net
Bleeding Edge Threats is a center for Open Security Research. We produce data feeds regarding new and up to the minute threats and research, and a number of other related security projects. Bleeding Edge Threats brings together the most experienced, and the least experienced security professionals.
• wiresharktraining.com/wiresharkU.com
The Wireshark Certification Program strives to test a candidate's knowledge and ability to troubleshoot, optimize and secure a network based on evidence found by analyzing the traffic.
• cacetech.com
CACE (Creative, Advanced Communication Engineering) Technologies is dedicated to enhancing the Wireshark user experience. Our staff of accomplished computer scientists and engineers has created Wireshark®, the world's most popular network analyzer, WinPcap™, the industry-standard open source packet capture library for Windows, and AirPcap™ Product Family 802.11 WLAN packet capture devices for Wireshark. Our collective experience and talents combine to offer exciting networking products as well as a broad range of engineering, development, and consulting services.
• packet-level.com
The four Wireshark University courses were written by Laura - these courses include new trace files, more details on troubleshooting techniques and case studies. In addition, Laura has hand-picked instructors to teach the courses - these instructors have years of packet-level experience and are some of the best instructors in the industry. Laura (and the WSU advisory committe) are developing the certification test to validate candidate capabilities in the area of troubleshooting and securing networks using Wireshark. Laura works closely with Gerald Combs (original author of Wireshark) and Loris Degioanni (original author of WinPcap) to build the most current and complete educational materials to support Wireshark.
• insecure.org
Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and both console and graphical versions are available.
• netscantools.com
NetScanTools Pro is an ideal tool for those who work in the network security, administration, training, internet forensics or law enforcement internet crimes fields.
• mjmenz.com
"Finding the Truth, One bit at a Timeâ€
• cyberevidence.com
CyberEvidence, Inc. is a leading provider of computer forensics. The concepts of digital data investigation and security will be an ever expanding part of the future.The need for professional, proficient and highly trained investigative resources dedicated to this fast developing industry is evident. CyberEvidence, Inc. addresses this need in three primary ways:
1. providing clients with a range of digital data incident response, investigative and consulting services;
2. providing industry leading training to individuals and organizations involved in digital forensics; and
3. developing partnerships with institutions of higher learning to help move the digital forensics industry into the academic mainstream.
• infobin.org
DeepDarkAbyss, ForensicsWeb, and the main Infobin site, as well as an updated Jatero.Com site.
• hightechcrimecops.org
To train, support and encourage investigators through information sharing to preserve, recover, and analyze digital evidence in a forensically sound manner for criminal, civil and administrative purposes. To provide digital crime prevention education to the public. To promote knowledge of the impact of digital crime among senior leaders, both in the public and private sectors.
• tucofs.com
TUCOFS, or T.U.C.O.F.S., stands for The Ultimate Collection of Forensic Software. This site places all Law Enforcement Personnel in touch with the latest and greatest Internet based resources for High Tech Law Enforcement purposes. Resource types include files, sofware, websites and documentation. TUCOFS can be used as an index pointing you to various resources, allowing you to quickly find exactly what you are looking for.
• wotsit.org
Programmer's file and data format resource. This site contains information on hundreds of different file types, data types, hardware interface details and all sorts of other useful programming information; algorithms, source code, specifications, etc.
• DFLabs
DFLabs is an ISO9001 certified consulting company founded by Dario Forte, CISM, CFE, specializing in Information Security Risk Management. Our mission is: Supporting Information Security Strategies and Guarenteeing Business Security.Proud of its professional experience, DFLabs provides consulting services in the following areas: Information Security Strategy, Incident Prevention and Response, Digital Forensics, Infosecurity Training, Intrusion Prevention, Log and Vulnerability Management. We are based in Northern Italy, and we perform our operations worldwide.
• PTK a new advanced interface for "The Sleuth Kitâ€
PTK is an alternative advanced interface for the suite TSK (The Sleuth Kit). PTK was developed from scratch and besides providing the functions already present in Autopsy Forensic Browser it implements numerous new features essential during forensic activity. PTK is not just a new graphic and highly professional interface based on Ajax technology but offers a great deal of features like analysis, search and management of complex cases of digital investigation. The core component of the software is made up of an efficient Indexing Engine performing different preliminary analysis operations during importing of every evidence. PTK allows the management of different cases and different levels of multi-users. It is possible to allow more than one investigators to work at the same case at the same time. All the reports generated by an investigator are saved in a reserved section of the Database. PTK is a Web Based application and builds its indexing archive inside a Database MySQL, using thus the construction LAMP(Linux-Apache-MySql-PHP).
• 10-23 On-Scene Investigator
This toolkit was created for the non-technical first responder to a computer incident involving a Windows computer. It is remastered from Knoppix a bootable distribution of Linux. The toolkit runs completely off of the CD and out of RAM and does not touch the suspect hard drive(s). This was verified by SHA256 hashes of before and after the toolkit was used on a Windows system. As reported by Ernie Baca here there is an issue with Linux (and therefore KNOPPIX) where a bit is changed on journaling filesystems when mounted (even read-only). Therefore caution should be exercised when using 10-23 on a Linux system.
• THE FARMER'S BOOT CD (FBCD)
FBCD provides you with an environment to safely and quickly preview data stored within various storage media (hard drives, USB thumbdrives, handheld music players such as iPods, digital camera media, etc.), enabling you to identify and locate data of interest.
• crackpdf.com
PDF Password Cracker is an utility to remove the security on PDF documents (of course, you should have the right to do it, for example, in case of forgotten user/owner password). Only standard PDF security is supported, neither third-party plug-ins nor e-books.
• americantower.com
Locate Cell Phone Towers
• cellreception.com
Find Cell Tower Locations
• searchbug.com
Find and investigate people, locate businesses, verify phone numbers and addresses
• techcrime.com
Massive list of useful sites
• KBSolutions Inc/kbsolutions.com
KBSolutions provides computer forensic investigations as well as consultation and training in various aspects of cyber crime. We specialize in sex offender management as it relates to cyber criminal activities. We do not provide forensic services in civil matters or do defense work.
• wigle.net
Wireless Geographic Logging Engine
• OnScene Investigator/forensicsmatter.com
OnScene Investigator is a cost effective, simple to use tool for quickly searching and/or imaging computers (in Encase format). It is ideal for on scene triage of computers to identify relevant evidence before imaging . OnScene Investigator is suitable for all Intel PCs, especially Apple Macbook, Macbook Pro and PPC Imac and Powerbook G4.
• zillow.com
Zillow.com is an online real estate service dedicated to helping you get an edge in real estate by providing you with valuable tools and information.
• centralops.net
This site is a collection of Internet utilities developed by Hexillion using its HexGadgets components. Most of the utilities have ASP or ASP.NET source code available.
• ic3.gov
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C).
• Better Business Bureau
U.S. and Canada
United States
• Cell Phones
• Computer Forensics
Maresware Training Seminars
Mississipi State Center for Computer Sercurity Research
Apple Mac OS X
CCE Bootcamp
• Fingerprints
FBI Fingerprint Training
• Hacking Investigations
• Security
Learning Tree
• Steganography
FBI Computer Analysis and Response Team
Back to Information Security Basics
NSA Information Assurance
Hetherington Information Services
Laboratoire d'EXpertise en Sécurité Informatique
PEI Systems
AlliedBarton Security Services
Mandiant(formerly Red Cliff)
Mares and Company
Medford Police
LAPD Online
LAPD Crimemaps
CygnaCom Solutions
Password Recovery Pro recovers hidden passwords by simply holding the mouse cursor over the asterisks field
Hidden Keyboard Memory Mod
• Computer Forensics
Maresware Training Seminars
Mississipi State Center for Computer Sercurity Research
Apple Mac OS X
CCE Bootcamp
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DURHAM, N.H. – Senior Kate Early (Corning, N.Y.) and junior Keely Maguire (Georgetown, Mass.) of the University of New Hampshire women's track & field team were named the recipients of the University's Dean Williamson Award and Parent's Association Award, respectively, announced by the Student Awards Committee on Tuesday.
The Dean Williamson Award is presented annually to "that senior who has been outstanding and well-rounded in extracurricular activities, scholarship, athletics, and loyalty to the University." Early, who is the second-straight member of the women's track & field team to receive the honor, truly demonstrated the nature of the Dean Williamson Award as she displayed a commitment to success in the classroom, in athletics and in the community.
Early, a multi-events specialist, finished third in the heptathlon at last weekend's America East Championships with 4,621 total points. Early, who was a four-year member of the UNH women's basketball team from 2007-11, also enjoyed an impressive indoor season, headlined by a runner-up performance in the pentathlon at the New England Championships.
Early, a hospitality management major and two-time member of the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll, was instrumental in the growth of the Student Athletic Advisory Committee as she worked with both the track & field and women's basketball programs through camps, clinics and community outreach programs.
The Parent's Association Award is presented to sophomore and junior-level students "who have shown an understanding and appreciation of the value of a university education, and who have accepted the responsibility to share their education to better the community in which they live."
Maguire, a political science major and distance runner on both the cross county and track & field teams, finished fifth in the 1,500 meters at the conference championships over the weekend. Maguire, who also set a school record in the 3,000 meters at the Penn Relays, enjoyed a strong cross country season as she earned America East All-Conference and NCAA All-Northeast Region accolades.


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Children's 'hedgehog football' game is condemned
Posted: November 29, 2012|
Children as young as 11 are using hedgehogs as footballs in Axbridge.
The beastly practice was condemned by town councillor Pauline Ham after one group of children were caught in the act.
A passerby confiscated the hedgehog which ultimately ended up with expert carers but later died.
Mrs Ham claimed there had been two other cases of "hedgehog football" and told Axbridge Town Council at last week's meeting: "I'm lost as to the mentality of anyone, any age, who thinks that's a good game.
"I'm concerned that it's not considered wrong. I appeal to parents to instil respect in to their children towards all living things.
"Hedgehogs are a protected species and this is just not an acceptable way to behave. If we discover who is responsible there will be consequences."
Hedgehogs should be hibernating at this time of the year. If they are seen out and about during daylight hours then something is wrong as they are nocturnal.
One such case garnered national headlines for Prickles Hedgehog Rescue of Cheddar when it was called in to free one of the prickly mammals from a crisp packet in Weston-super-Mare last month.
The celebrity hedgehog, now called Crispian, has his own blog – crispianhedgehog.wordpress.com – where the hog who blogs ponders on such issues like do hedgehogs have tails and the dangers of milk.


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The Claire Lynch Band Concert
Grammy nominee and IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year Claire Lynch has long been at the forefront of women pushing bluegrass boundaries. This stellar ensemble delivers a personable, high-energy performance including tender country ballads, hard-driving bluegrass, swing, and even some Southern Appalachian clog dancing.
Occurs once: Mar 8, 2014 (7:30 PM to )
Historic Fifth Street School
Historic Fifth Street School
401 S. 4th St., Las Vegas, Nevada
Ticketing Phone: (702) 229-3515