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Our insatiable appetite for coal
The state's greenhouse gas emissions are rising at a rate far faster than the rest of the nation's
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Wisconsin generates greenhouse gases linked to global warming at a rate that is about one-third faster than the national average, a Journal Sentinel analysis found.
This trend will only escalate because the state's utilities are on the leading edge of a national building boom of coal-burning power plants, fueled by an ever-increasing appetite for electricity.
Power plants under construction in Oak Creek and Wausau will cost utility customers almost $3 billion, representing the most such construction activity in any state, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Once the plants fire up, Wisconsin's coal plants will pump 10% more carbon dioxide into the air by 2012, state energy planning figures show.
And those emissions will increase. Last week, Alliant Energy Corp. of Madison announced plans to build a 300-megawatt coal plant on the Mississippi River in Grant County at a cost of nearly $800 million.
Only 12 states rely more on coal in the makeup of their power supply, the Journal Sentinel found. And in each of those states since 1980, coal has been the biggest contributor to rising greenhouse gas emissions.
The state's growing addiction to coal-based power comes as global warming has vaulted into the national conversation, thanks to warm winters, the melting polar ice cap and a growing media spotlight that includes former Vice President Al Gore's 2006 documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."
Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., took up global warming last month, introducing bills in the early days of the new Democratic-controlled Congress that called for caps on emissions. Wisconsin lawmakers also are considering controls on greenhouse gases.
Politicians are responding to a mounting body of science linking the burning of fossil fuels to global warming, even as a dwindling number of skeptics suggest that the planet is heating up for other reasons.
Wisconsin isn't alone in turning to coal. Tapping the nation's vast domestic coal reserves is seen by the Bush administration and others as helping the country become less dependent on energy sources from overseas.
Energy companies have announced plans to build 16 coal power plants in Texas alone, and the Energy Department estimated in September that 154 coal-fired power plants could be built in the United States by 2025.
"This is the path that almost every state in the nation is now taking," said Jonathan Foley, a climatologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "And as far as I am concerned, it's the wrong path."
Said lawyer Bruce Nilles of the Sierra Club, "We're at the forefront of going backwards."
But the top executive of We Energies - the utility with the most coal plants in the state - remains bullish on coal.
Chairman Gale Klappa defended the company's decision to build a $2.2 billion plant in Oak Creek. A power crisis in the 1990s and the state's ban on construction of nuclear power plants left the state Public Service Commission with few alternatives to approving construction of coal plants, he said.
Regulators "absolutely made the right call," Klappa said.
Creating greenhouse gases
Coal is chock full of carbon. Once burned, it is converted into carbon dioxide and becomes a greenhouse gas.
Carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere at historic levels, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in a report released Feb. 2.
The concentration of carbon dioxide grew at a faster rate in the 10 years ending in 2005 than at any previous period since the Industrial Revolution, the network of climate scientists said.
The scientists cited the burning of fossil fuels as a significant factor in the global warming threat.
In Wisconsin, 14 power plants burn staggering amounts of coal, which accounts for half of the heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the state.
In 2005, Wisconsin imported 27 million tons - or 270,000 coal cars - from Wyoming, Appalachia and southern Illinois to supply power for the state's 5.4 million residents, according to the Wisconsin Division of Energy.
At the We Energies Pleasant Prairie plant in Kenosha County, a Union Pacific train drops off a 1 1/2 -mile-long load of coal every day.
It takes 58 hours to move it from Wyoming's Powder River Basin to the biggest power plant in the state.
The cars - 135 of them - are parked in long strings at the utility's yard and queued up for unloading.
An operator sitting in a control room uses remote controls to inch each car forward before the contents are dumped into a 20-foot-deep hopper and fed onto an ever-shifting pile of coal that climbs six stories high.
The coal is milled at the plant until it is reduced to a fine powder and flows like a river into furnaces at more than 2,800 degrees.
The plant can burn the contents of one rail car of coal in 20 minutes.
In summer, air temperatures in the plant reach 100 degrees or more. Shoes have been known to melt on the hot metal floor.
The heat produces steam in a series of steel pipes that drive a pair of turbines and generators - each of them nearly half the length of a football field.
Giant tendrils of steam spew into the air. Pollutants that have long been regulated, and have been reduced over time, go up the stack. Carbon dioxide, which is not regulated, also is released.
Dependence on coal
As the state's biggest utility, We Energies is the largest producer of carbon dioxide. In addition to Pleasant Prairie, the Milwaukee-based utility operates plants in Oak Creek, in Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley and in Marquette, Mich.
Coal accounted for nearly half of the 122 million tons of Wisconsin's carbon dioxide emissions in 2005, followed by petroleum for cars and trucks and natural gas.
Wisconsin produces 2% of total U.S. emissions. To put it in a global context, every man, woman and child in Wisconsin generates five times more carbon dioxide on average than their counterparts around the globe.
Environmentalists have raised concerns about the state's dependence on coal for years. But the debate over building coal plants has been largely framed around other pollutants, such as mercury and sulfur dioxide, which present threats to public health.
Moreover, UW's Foley said Wisconsin hasn't done enough to cut electricity demand. He noted that California has actually reined in greenhouse gas emissions, despite a love affair with cars.
Between 1990 and 1999, California's population grew 10%. But because of energy conservation, greenhouse gas emissions increased only 3.5%.
By comparison, Wisconsin's greenhouse gases grew by 26% during the '90s, faster than the 20% increase nationally, according to the Journal Sentinel's analysis of federal Energy Information Administration data.
Now policy-makers who have embraced coal are beginning to seek curbs on carbon dioxide and other gases that contribute to global warming.
In Washington, President Bush proposed measures to improve gas mileage and add more alternative fuels to the gas tank over the next decade. Some in Congress want to go further and are holding hearings on bills regulating greenhouse gases.
In Madison, Gov. Jim Doyle, who supports coal-plant construction in the state, is getting greener, too. Last month, he formed a task force on global warming and called for spending at least $30 million to fund renewable- energy programs but stopped short of putting controls on greenhouse gases.
Milwaukee and Madison are among the Wisconsin cities that have joined hundreds of other communities committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Past power shortages
Wisconsin owes much of its reliance on coal to power shortages during the summer of 1997.
On a steamy afternoon, July 16, 1997, José Delgado was watching demand for electricity rise as supplies ran dangerously low. The only nuclear plant owned by Wisconsin Electric - now known as We Energies - was down for lengthy repairs. And a troubled nuclear plant over the border in Zion, Ill., a longtime supplier of power to Wisconsin, had recently shut down.
Wisconsin Electric urged customers to conserve power and ordered some manufacturers to shut down. But the utility feared it would not be enough.
Delgado, the utility's assistant vice president of electric system operations, worried that he would have to turn off electricity or risk a systemwide blackout in the next 30 minutes. He was ready to call then-Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, who had long touted low electricity prices as a tool to woo companies to Wisconsin.
"I'm sitting there waiting to call Tommy," Delgado recalled.
"Tommy," he envisioned saying to the governor. "We're rotating blackouts - in Milwaukee County."
Delgado mimicked holding a phone in his outstretched arm.
"And then you just listen to the screaming," he said.
Delgado never made the call. The state narrowly avoided blackouts that afternoon. And the next day, overcast skies kept temperatures down, and demand for electricity fell.
That crisis and another the following year mobilized policy-makers to shore up the power grid. Nearly $5 billion was approved to build power plants, as well as transmission lines now operated by American Transmission Co., a power-line utility Delgado runs.
Fixing the power grid trumped concerns about the environment.
The three members of the Public Service Commission - two Republicans and one Democrat appointed by Doyle - voted unanimously for more coal plants.
The last thing they wanted on their watch was a replay of an electric system that nearly collapsed.
Commission member Bert Garvin isn't second-guessing the decisions that tied Wisconsin's future to coal.
"We made the decision at the time based on the best available technology information we had," said Garvin, a Republican.
"You can always Monday-morning quarterback decisions, but we weren't going to take a gamble and hope that the lights stay on."
The state's most expensive construction
In southern Milwaukee County, the most expensive building project in state history is rising on the shore of Lake Michigan. We Energies' $2.2 billion Oak Creek power plant will cost more than the Marquette Interchange and Miller Park combined.
Crews flattened a lake bluff to make room for the plant. Every day, more than 2 billion gallons of water will be drawn from the lake and returned for cooling. That's enough water to supply the daily needs of Chicago and 100 surrounding suburbs.
The plant will be fed by nine train shipments of coal a week, state documents show.
When We Energies decided to build the plant in 2000, one of the utility's largest customers, S.C. Johnson & Son Inc., used the star power of its chairman emeritus to oppose it.
Sam Johnson didn't want a coal plant so close to Racine. He also believed it would contribute to global warming.
"I am a U.S. industrialist who believes the world is getting warmer, and we in the U.S. are a big part of the problem, and we have to do something about it," he said at a 2001 meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
In June 2003, less than a year before his death, the 75-year-old billionaire marched in Racine with 150 people to protest the project.
"They're making a terrible choice on coal," Johnson told the crowd. "It's the difference between clean air and not-clean air. There's no way you can get all the junk out of coal."
The protests didn't stop the project. The fight went all the way to the state Supreme Court, which ruled in 2005 in favor of the plant in a 4-3 vote. Construction began the next day.
The legacy of the decision: Coal plants such as those in Oak Creek, Wausau and Cassville, along the Mississippi, are built to operate for about 50 years.
New technology not yet in use in U.S.
None of these plants will use technology to remove carbon dioxide from plant emissions. Environmentalists wanted We Energies to use a new technology at Oak Creek called coal gasification, which uses a chemical process to convert coal into gas in a way that simplifies the capture of carbon dioxide before it flows out the smokestack.
We Energies proposed using the new technology on the third and last unit of the plant. But regulators in 2003 rejected it, saying the plant wasn't needed and gasification was untested and too costly.
Today, nine projects in the U.S. - and dozens abroad - are considering the technology. Two gasification plants have been built in the U.S. but are not yet harnessing the gases as government and industry look for ways to store it - probably underground.
Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy, which serves western Wisconsin, is proposing a gasification plant in Colorado. Its chief executive, Richard Kelly, said the company will never again build a traditional coal plant.
Klappa, of We Energies, said the technology still isn't ready because no major gasification plant is generating power today. Supporters of gasification say such plants operate reliably today in Germany and the Netherlands.
The utility also opposes mandates that would order power companies to cut carbon dioxide emissions - even though a growing number of major corporations, including North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corp. and General Electric Co., support such limits.
Both Xcel and Madison-based Alliant are among utilities that want Congress to enact a national plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
But limiting emissions, in Klappa's view, would raise prices for customers and hurt the U.S. economy.
"I have a difficult time justifying to someone who is working for minimum wage in Milwaukee why he or she needs to pay more for electricity if China and India are not making an effort to help solve the problem," he said.
The utility chief also said the science of global warming isn't yet conclusive.
But UW's Foley said the science of global warming is clear.
"There is no debate in the scientific community," he said.
Indeed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which needed to find consensus before issuing its report, said scientists now believe there is a better than 90% probability that human activities are a key factor in causing global warming.
Because of this, Foley said, Wisconsin should be pushing for solutions other than coal, such as energy conservation and renewable energy.
But to illustrate the difficulty of moving away from coal, Alliant finds itself calling for limits on carbon dioxide at a time when it rejected pleas from environmentalists to use gasification. Instead, it chose the tried-and-true technology of a conventional coal plant.
Alliant Chairman William Harvey conceded the plant could be viewed as an "antiquated technology" in the years to come.
"But I don't know what else to do," he said.
Meanwhile, the coal trains keep streaming into Wisconsin, and more than ever before, utilities are thinking about how the workhorses of their systems might have to adapt.
In Pleasant Prairie, We Energies is working on a $10 million demonstration project with a French company to show that it's possible to remove carbon dioxide from the coal plant's smokestack.
But because the gas can't be stored anywhere, the only option will be to send the captured carbon dioxide back into the air.
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Volume 85, Issue 5, 01 March 1999
Transition of carrier distribution from a strained to relaxed state in InGaAs/GaAs quantum well85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.369614View Description Hide Description
This work investigates the transition of carrier distribution from the strained to the relaxed state in quantum well by measuringcapacitance voltage and analyzing x-ray diffraction. According to those results, there is carrier confinement in the quantum well with well thickness less than the critical thickness. Increasing the well thickness beyond the critical thickness leads to a significant carrier depletion around the quantum well. Double-crystal x-ray rocking curves reveal that when InGaAs well thickness increases beyond the critical thickness, the interference pattern disappears and relaxation begins to occur from near the bottom InGaAs/GaAs interface while the top interface still remains strained. Results obtained from the critical thickness determined from x-ray diffraction correspond to the transition of carrier distribution, illustrating that the capacitance–voltage measurement is a rather effective means of determining the critical thickness.
Microstructural study on the C49-to-C54 phase transformation in formed from preamorphization implantation85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.369615View Description Hide Description
Microstructural characteristics of in narrow lines have been investigated by transmission electron microscopy. The formed by a preamorphization treatment exhibits small grain size and heavily faulted structures. C54 grains are also observed sporadically in the C49 matrix in spite of relatively low temperature range. Moreover, defects circularly distribute around a less-defective region in the vicinity of the C54 grains. The C49 grains in these regions are well aligned with identical crystallographic orientations. These results indicate two-dimensional growth of and the circular defects are introduced by internal stress associated with the growth process. Also the internal stress is considered to enhance the heterogeneous C54 nucleation.
Connection between hydrogen plasma treatment and etching of amorphous phase in the layer-by-layer technique with very high frequency plasma excitation85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.369616View Description Hide Description
The formation of microcrystalline silicon was investigated employing the layer-by-layer technique with very high frequency plasma excitation. Etching of the deposited layers was found to be a dominant effect during hydrogen plasma treatment. Microcrystalline growth occurred when the thickness of the deposited layer was reduced to a certain value in each cycle. The etching stopped when a noticeable crystalline volume fraction was produced; for long hydrogen treatment times no film growth was observed.
Device simultaneous determination of the source and cavity parameters of a microcavity light-emitting diode85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.369617View Description Hide Description
Detuning between the emission line and the Fabry-Pérot wavelength is a critical parameter for microcavitylight-emitting diode (MCLED) design with regard to the efficiency and emission directionality. We present here a method to measure simultaneously the detuning and the linewidth of the source emitter on the device itself. This method uses numerical simulations and a fitting procedure with the angular emission pattern measured on the MCLED. It is accurate, nondestructive and easy to implement.
Temperature-dependent photoluminescence of self-organized quantum dots85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.369618View Description Hide Description
The photoluminescence spectra of large ensembles of self-organizedquantum dots were studied. The spectra reveal a number of sharp peaks with energy separation and full width at half maximum values of ∼20 meV for Significant changes are observed in the luminescencecharacteristics with varying temperature, which are attributed to a changing distribution of photoexcited carriers between dots.
In situ reflection high-energy electron diffraction observation of epitaxial thin films85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.369635View Description Hide Description
Epitaxial (LNO) thin films were grown on (001) substrates by laser molecular-beam epitaxy. The growth process of the LNO films was monitored by in situreflection high-energy electron diffraction(RHEED). Clear RHEEDpatterns and the intensity oscillation of RHEED were observed during the epitaxialgrowth process. The morphology of the films was studied by atomic force microscopy. The results show that the filmsgrown by this method have a nanoscale smooth surface with the root-mean-square surface roughness smaller than 7 nm on an area of X-ray diffractionpatterns indicate that the crystalline LNO films exhibited preferred (00l) orientation. The resistivity of the thin film is 0.28 mΩ cm at 278 K and 0.06 mΩ cm at 80 K, respectively.
Chemical trends for acceptor impurities in GaN85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.369619View Description Hide Description
We present a comprehensive investigation of acceptor impurities in GaN, based on first-principles total-energy calculations. Two main factors are identified that determine acceptor incorporation: the strength of chemical bonding between the acceptor and its neighbors (which can be assessed by comparison with existing compounds) and the atomic size match between the acceptor and the host atom for which it substitutes. None of the candidates (Li, Na, K, Be, Zn, and Ca) exhibits characteristics which surpass those of Mg in all respects. Only Be emerges as a potential alternative dopant, although it may suffer from compensation by Be interstitial donors.
High resolution x-ray analysis of pseudomorphic InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells: Influence of Si doping concentration85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.369620View Description Hide Description
We report the structural properties of InGaN/GaN/AlGaN multiple quantum wells(MQWs) by means of two-dimensional reciprocal space mapping (RSM) of high resolution x-ray diffraction. The influence of Si doping in GaN barriers on the characteristics has been studied for 12-period MQWs grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition, which have different Si doping concentrations in the GaN barriers ranging from to Information on the structural quality of these MQWs was extracted from the linewidth broadening of the higher-order superlattice satellite peaks, as well as from the presence of Pendellösung oscillations. The measured diffraction curves were modeled using kinematic diffraction theory. From the symmetric and asymmetric RSMs around (0002), (0004) and reflections, we found that the InGaN/GaN/AlGaN MQWs are grown coherently on the GaN base layer. Better interface properties are achieved with Si doping. Our results indicate that Si doping in the GaN barriers affects the interface quality of the InGaN/GaN MQW systems, and thus, also influences the optical properties.
Two-channel AlGaN/GaN heterostructure field effect transistor for high power applications85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.369621View Description Hide Description
We report on a double-channel AlGaN/GaN heterostructurefield-effect transistor(HFET) for high power applications, where the bottom channel is formed by a GaN/AlGaN/GaN semiconductor–insulator–semiconductor structure. The band structure and the charge distribution are strongly influenced by the piezoelectric effect caused by the mismatch between AlGaN and GaN. This new design demonstrates that the current carrying capability of AlGaN/GaN HFETs can be enhanced using multichannel structures.


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Xx_King_Beef_xX 2 years ago#2
I would suggest starting off with FFXIV. I played it on PS3 and I loved it. Unfortunately, I don't have a PS3 anymore and I most likely won't be getting a PS4 until February so I'm stuck waiting until then to play it again. That's where ESO on Xbox One comes in for me. To at least have something to hold me over until then. From what I'm seeing and hearing of it, it seems more like a regular Elder Scrolls game that you play online than your typical MMORPG. That's fine with me because I love the Elder Scrolls, but it sounds like it isn't going to totally scratch the itch that has been left after playing FFXIV a few months back.
I would go ahead and pick up FFXIV if I were you and just wait on ESO until it actually releases and there are some critic/user reviews out that might make your decision on it easier. I don't think player population on the Xbox One is going to be a problem, I'm just worried that it might not be all that great.
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Robin_Mask 2 years ago#3
Wait for ESO to get fixed or something, been hearing it is a big let down.
When it comes to MMOs, look up the reception at release and see if there are major problems. They are more than likely going to get fixed later.
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"This isn't even apples to oranges. More like toast to bears." - Bloodychess
The Problem with ESO is it doesn't have endgame
It is more like a "Singleplayer MMO" > Max Level and you are done or doing stuff that doesn't really keep you progressing to make you better(than others)
While in other MMORPGs leveling is just a small part of the game while you get excited for Endgame...Usually PvE Raiding,Gearing up or Competitive PvP.
For example upcoming Wildstar on PC has everything directly from the start.
FF14 was fun but i didn't play it longer than 2 weeks after the PC Release of Realm Reborn.
Reching max level and gearing up with the little endgame the game had at that moment was a nice experiencing.Though grinding fates back then was something not everyone will enjoy.
The thing with ESO is...You can't say how long people will keep playing.
I had the 5 days headstart on PC and reached max level 2 days after that...So 3 days before the game officially launched i had nothing left to do.Though im a person only interested in endgame in MMORPGs...For example in Wildstar Top Raiding guilds already recruit and filter people for progression raiding cause the developer is all about Endgame and keeping the people hooked.
In ESO i did some PvP which isn't competitive at all in the game or has any chance to ever be like that.Its just tons of randoms doing what ever they like and not working together.
The feeling you will have most of the time - Even the few dungeons you will experience through leveling are just there to fake "Group play" - It isn't really main factor of the game.
If you enjoy questing and stuff it is maybe for you - You will spend maybe 100-150 hours if you take your time to reach max level but after that there isn't CURRENTLY much to do.
60$ or whatever it will be on console for 100-150 hours of gametime you could enjoy if you don't expect endgame is a good deal IMO.
But you can definitely waste time in that game if you are happy with voiced over quest dialogue and all those things.
Sadly a MMORPG has to have the content to keep people playing from the start otherwise after the free month people won't subscribe to keep playing > FOr what reason if there isn't stuff to do?
I don't know what they have planned for ESO in the coming months but i and probably many people currently don't care anymore.
Maybe they will release content and competitive PvP in the near future but i don't think so.
Without the Elder Scrolls Name in it the game would have been forgotten already especially by people which like MMORPGs.
For FF14...Well i heard they are adding here and there stuff.
SquareEnix is in general with their MMORPG stuff pretty good at staying healthy - They do their own thing and not really compete with the big shots in the MMORPG market.Just look at FF11 and how long this game worked.FF14 will do the same.
But seriously > Get a PC and look into the MMORPGs there.The variety there is huge.
Upcoming WIldstar probably the most promising MMORPG since World of Warcraft Burning Crusade in the eyes of a player who wants to keep playing AND experiencing new and challenging content all the time for years.
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ItIsAPsyBorg 4 years ago#31
MP40 wasn't even a problem on the PC version from what I understand, and tanks are easily taken out with satchels and sticky grenades.
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I know. It's completely baffling why people wouldn't like W@W. They must just suck.
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I know. It's completely baffling why people wouldn't like W@W. They must just suck.
I think that most people can't immediately get a feel for WaW as naturally as they can with other CODs and it also happens to be "more of the same old" in the eyes of people who haven't really given it a try. It's a game that rewards strategic map usage and proper distancing / intelligent rushing, and that's not something you can do when you first pick up the game.
the maps for me. Best maps in the series. The gameplay was simpler. They are too convoluted now.
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Because they're all the same, but 4 is more than 1, 2, and 3.
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mostly nostalgia
I just bought Call of Duty 4 about a year or less ago, and it was great, not because of nostalgia(obviously)
Anyway, to the topic question.
I think it was/is the best because bullets actually hit what you aim at, and you don't get killed at a place where you where not at.
Unlike CoD 6+...
Also, the maps are pretty good(though they feel a bit...boxed, but that's to be expected since it was released when it was), and the weapons felt pretty balanced(I could actually use most of the weapons)
I will say though, the amount of modded lobbies(run speed, infinite ammo, etc.) is somewhat amazing, but a welcome change of pace every once in a while(or every two games...)
singhellotaku 4 years ago#39
I always hear people say that they liked mw2 best despite all the wacky bs that went on, don't you think that it the insane nature of mw2 that truly made it great? My biggest problem with BO1 was that it went to enormous lengths to be balanced, famas and aks74u aside, and that made it kind of boring.
AlleRacing 4 years ago#40
It was the best because it was the first CoD most people played. I had the most fun in CoD2.
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For those that spent their long weekend hunting moose in Ontario's season opener, there is a good chance they may go home empty handed. The unseasonably warm weather for the opening weekend has kept the moose more stationary. With cooler weather the animals move around more and make themselves more visible. With the warm weather, if a moose is killed it also becomes a race against time to get the animal taken care of before the heat spoils it.
Locals can usually wait for the cooler weather before going out on their moose hunt. Hunters that have traveled to Ontario and can't wait around for the cooler weather, good luck and safe travels.
The regular moose hunting season began on Saturday and will last into December. From CBCNews.com.
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Submitted by GooseHunter Jr on Thu, 2011-10-13 11:59.
That darn wamwer temps are really starting to get to hunters all over. This year my be one of those years that the harvest numbers are down unless we get some colder weather and maybe the rifle hunters will have a good year. I know the early rifle hunters ion my area last benefited from a warmer archery and muzzloader season and then it cooled off for them but they may just get a bit wartmer temps than they did last year. Maybe us second season hunters will get all the benefits of the crappy warm werather early in all the seasons!
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Submitted by hunter25 on Tue, 2011-10-11 17:46.
I looks like the warm weather curse for hunting season can get you no matter where you live or hunt. Foryunately they have a very long season to change the plans and go later if needed, at least for the locals anyway. I think if I was spending that much money and going that far I would try to plan a trip when the weather should normally be much more conducive to good hunting. Even though the weather can go to extremes here it will usually be better for hunting the later in the year your hunt is.
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Man the weather all over the place this season so far has been very odd. I feel bad for the people who traveled to hunt the opening weekend and probably got skunked. Hopefully the weather will be more sutible for moose hunting soon and we can read reports of record book animal coming out of there. The weather for my hunts around home was hot. That makes it for some tough hunting however it still can be done with a little extra effort. Atleast the season is long enough for some hunter to get a second chance at it. Good luck to all who are unting moose in Onterio and lets hope for some better conditions.
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Very nice long moose season they have there! If you have the ability just wait another week or two or another month - just like the locals. Easy for me to say.
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"It means nothing to us right now," said quarterback Ell Roberson, who threw three touchdown passes to James Terry and ran for another score in Saturday's 38-10 win over Baylor. "We've still got some games ahead of us that we've got to knuckle down and win."
Voters in The Associated Press' weekly poll were similarly indifferent. The Wildcats, ranked No. 6 before a three-game skid knocked them out of the standings entirely, got only a handful of votes in the latest poll that came out Sunday.
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"We're in the exact same position that we were three weeks ago," defensive end Thomas Houchin said. "If we win out the rest of the year, we'll be in Kansas City."
The Wildcats haven't played in the conference title game, which this year is set for Dec. 6 at Arrowhead Stadium, since 2000. In the first half against Baylor (3-6, 1-4), they didn't look too anxious to break that drought.
Inefficient on offense and woeful on special teams, Kansas State trailed 10-7 early in the second quarter when Baylor's Robert Quiroga returned a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown.
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As announced at last week's #HITB2012AMS, I'll describe the fuzzing steps which were performed during our initial research. The very first step was the definition of the interfaces we wanted to test. We decided to go with the plain text VMDK file, as this is the main virtual disk description file and in most deployment scenarios user controlled, and the data part of a special kind of VMDK files, the Host Sparse Extends.
The used fuzzing toolkit is dizzy which just got an update last week (which brings you guys closer to trunk state 😉 ).
The main VMDK file goes straight forward, fuzzing wise. Here is a short sample file:
# Disk DescriptorFileversion=1encoding="UTF-8"CID=fffffffeparentCID=ffffffffisNativeSnapshot="no"createType="vmfs"# Extent descriptionRW 40960 VMFS "ts_2vmdk-flat.vmdk"# The Disk Data Base#DDBddb.virtualHWVersion = "8"ddb.longContentID = "c818e173248456a9f5d83051fffffffe"ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 94 23 7b c1 41-51 76 b2 79 23 b5 3c 93"ddb.geometry.cylinders = "20"ddb.geometry.heads = "64"ddb.geometry.sectors = "32"ddb.adapterType = "buslogic"
As one can easily see the file is plain text and is based upon a name=value syntax. So a fuzzing script for this file would look something link this:
name = "vmdkfile" objects = [ field("descr_comment", None, "# Disk DescriptorFile\n", none), field("version_str", None, "version=", none), field("version", None, "1", std), field("version_br", None, "\n", none), field("encoding_str", None, "encoding=", none), field("encoding", None, '"UTF-8"', std), field("encoding_br", None, "\n", none), [...] ] functions = []
The first field, descr_comment, and the second field, version_str, are plain static, as defined by the last parameter, so they wont get mutated. The first actual fuzzed string is the version field, which got a default value of the string 1 and will be mutated with all strings in your fuzz library.
As the attentive reader might have noticed, this is just the first attempt, as there is one but special inconsistency in the example file above: The quoting. Some values are Quoted, some are not. A good fuzzing script would try to play with exactly this inconsistency. Is it possible to set version to a string? Could one set the encoding to an integer value?
The second file we tried to fuzz was the Host Sparse Extend, a data file which is not plain data as the Flat Extends, but got a binary file header. This header is parsed by the ESX host and, as included in the data file, might be user defined. The definition from VMware is the following:
typedef struct COWDisk_Header { uint32 magicNumber; uint32 version; uint32 flags; uint32 numSectors; uint32 grainSize; uint32 gdOffset; uint32 numGDEntries; uint32 freeSector; union { struct { uint32 cylinders; uint32 heads; uint32 sectors; } root; struct { char parentFileName[COWDISK_MAX_PARENT_FILELEN]; uint32 parentGeneration; } child; } u; uint32 generation; char name[COWDISK_MAX_NAME_LEN]; char description[COWDISK_MAX_DESC_LEN]; uint32 savedGeneration; char reserved[8]; uint32 uncleanShutdown; char padding[396]; } COWDisk_Header;
Interesting header fields are all C strings (think about NULL termination) and of course the gdOffset in combination with numSectors and grainSize, as manipulating this values could lead the ESX host to access data outside of the user deployed data file.
So far so good, after writing the fuzzing scripts one needs to create a lot of VMDK files. This was done using dizzy:
./dizzy.py -o file -d /tmp/vmdkfuzzing.vmdk -w 0 vmdkfile.dizz
Last but not least we needed to automate the deployment of the generated VMDK files. This was done with a simple shell script on the ESX host, using vim-cmd, a command line tool to administrate virtual machines.
By now the main fuzzing is still running in our lab, so no big results on that front, yet. Feel free to use the provided fuzzing scripts in your own lab. Find the two fuzzing scripts here and here. We will share more results, when the fuzzing is finished.
Have a nice day and start fuzzing 😉
Daniel and Pascal
SQL Injection Testing for Business Purposes Part 2
0 Comments | Posted by Michael Thumann
Take Care of the Database
There are some database specifics, every pentester should be aware of, when testing for and exploiting SQLi vulnerabilities. Besides the different string concatenation variants already covered above, there are some other specifics that have to be considered and might turn out useful in some circumstances. For example with Oracle Databases, every SELECT statement needs a following FROM statement even if the desired data is not stored within a database. So when trying to extract e.g. the DB username using a UNION SELECT statement, the DUAL table may be utilized, which should always be available. Another point, if dealing with MySQL, is the possibility to simplify the classic payload
' or 1=1 --
' or 1 --
One important difference regarding totally-blind SQLi are the different ways for an equivalent MS-SQL "
waitfor delay" in other database management systems. For MySQL (before 5.0.42), the benchmark function may be used. E.g.:
For later versions:
Respectively, Oracle supports an HTTP request function, which is expected to generate a delay if pointed to a non existing URL:
utl_http.request('http://192.168.66.77/'). Alternatively, the following function may be useful:
Using database specific test and exploit signatures will also help to identify the used database, which makes all further tests much easier.
Another important difference is the missing MS-SQL "
xp_cmdshell" on other DBMSs. However, there were some talks in the past (e.g. at Black Hat Europe 2009 by Bernardo Damele A. G. the author of sqlmap) about the possibility to execute code with MySQL respectively PostgreSQL under certain circumstances (sqlmap supports upload and execution of Metasploit shellcode for MySQL and PostgreSQL). This table summarizes useful SQL functions.
How to Exploit SQL Injection
After identifying vulnerable parameters it is time for exploitation. There are some basic techniques for this task, which will be explained in the context of an Oracle DB. As for data extraction one of the most useful statements is
UNION SELECT. However, the
UNION SELECT approach doesn't work in all situations. If,for example, injecting right after the select statement (e.g. "
SELECT $INPUT_COLUMN_NAME FROM tablename;" ) and not after a
WHERE clause, trying to extract data with
UNION SELECT leads most likely to an SQL error if you are unaware of the exact query. In this simple but sometimes occurring scenario, one solution would be the use of subselects. The advantage of subselects are the fact, that in many cases it is not necessary to know anything about the surrounding query. So supplying
(SELECT user FROM DUAL)
the SQL query doesn't get broken and ideally prints the desired information. However if the payload is injected into a string, the previously covered string concatenation gets useful. So with a similar query, the attack string could look like:
'|| (SELECT user FROM DUAL) ||'
The previous examples depend on any form of results from the application. In case the application doesn't print any results of the SQL query, it may still be possible to gather database information if the application behavior can be influenced.Given a registration form, where the supplied username gets checked for existence in the database, the used SQL query might look like:
SELECT username FROM users WHERE username = '$NEW_USERNAME';
This kind of vulnerability is a boolean-based blind SQLi. It is not possible to print any SQL query results, but the application logic can be exploited. So the payload in this case might be:
'|| (SELECT CASE WHEN (SELECT 'abcd' FROM DUAL) = 'abcd' THEN 'new_username' else 'EXISTING_USERNAME' END FROM DUAL)||'
Or in pseudo code:
If abcd equals abcd
return new_username
return EXISTING_USERNAME
Obviously this payload does not provide any useful information by now, but it illustrates the possibility to make boolean checks on strings which will be helpful later on during/for extracting real data from the database.
How to get around Web Application Firewalls
In some situations, the application might filter specific attack strings or a Web Application Firewall (WAF) is deployed in front of the web servers/applications. In these cases, being creative is essential. For example, instead of injecting
' or 'a'='a
we already circumvented a WAF by supplying a slightly modified version of this payload:
' or 'a='='a=
If dealing with a MySQL database, using the previously mentioned attack string might also (and did already in practice) help to deceive some filters:
' or 1 --
It is also very likely, that one single quote doesn't cause any reaction, as of false positive prevention. If it does, the following variation could also help to get through the WAF:
In general, using short test strings (and some brainpower) might help to not trigger any filtering rules.
If unsure whether a WAF is in place or not, it is advisable to first verify its existence with some fingerprinting tools. One of them is wafw00f which supports many different vendors. Another tool is tsakwaf, which supports less vendors but includes additional features for WAF circumvention like encoding capabilities for test signatures, that might be useful for SQL injection testing, when a WAF is in place.
… to be continued …
Have a great day and enjoy trying 🙂
Michael, Timo and Frank from the Appsec Team
VMDK Has Left the Building – Slides available
2 Comments | Posted by Florian Horsch
A quick update on the workshop we've just finished at Hack in the Box 2012 Amsterdam:
Due to popular demand we decided to bring the slides online without wasting any more time. The official website of the conference is currently experiencing some problems due to high interest in all the stuff what was released in the last two days. Great conference!
Here you go: HITB2012AMS ERNW VMDK Has Left the Building [PDF, 6MB, link fixed]
Enjoy and feel free to express your thoughts in the comments.
Best greetings from Amsterdam,
Florian & the crew
VMDK Has Left the Building — Some Nasty Attacks Against VMware vSphere 5 Based Cloud Infrastructures
20 Comments | Posted by Matthias Luft
Update #1: Slides are available for download here.
In the course of our ongoing cloud security research, we're continuously thinking about potential attack vectors against public cloud infrastructures. Approaching this enumeration from an external customer's (speak: attacker's 😉 ) perspective, there are the following possibilities to communicate with and thus send malicious input to typical cloud infrastructures:
- Management interfaces
- Guest/hypervisor interaction
- Network communication
- File uploads
As there are already several successful exploits against management interfaces (e.g. here and here) and guest/hypervisor interaction (see for example this one; yes, this is the funny one with that ridiculous recommendation "Do not allow untrusted users access to your virtual machines." ;-)), we're focusing on the upload of files to cloud infrastructures in this post. According to our experience with major Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers, the most relevant file upload possibility is the deployment of already existing virtual machines to the provided cloud infrastructure. However, since a quick additional research shows that most of those allow the upload of VMware-based virtual machines and, to the best of our knowledge, the VMware virtualization file format was not analyzed as for potential vulnerabilities yet, we want to provide an analysis of the relevant file types and present resulting attack vectors.
As there are a lot of VMware related file types, a typical virtual machine upload functionality comprises at least two file types:
The VMX file is the configuration file for the characteristics of the virtual machine, such as included devices, names, or network interfaces. VMDK files specify the hard disk of a virtual machine and mainly contain two types of files: The descriptor file, which describes the specific setup of the actual disk file, and several disk files containing the actual file system for the virtual machine. The following listing shows a sample VMDK descriptor file:
# Disk DescriptorFile
# Extent description
RW 33554432 VMFS "machine-flat01.vmdk"
RW 33554432 VMFS "machine-flat02.vmdk"
For this post, it is of particular importance that the inclusion of the actual disk file containing the raw device data allows the inclusion of multiple files or devices (in the listing, the so-called "Extent description"). The deployment of these files into a (public) cloud/virtualized environment can be broken down into several steps:
- Upload to the cloud environment: e.g. by using FTP, web interfaces, $WEB_SERVICE_API (such as the Amazon SOAP API, which admittedly does not allow the upload of virtual machines at the moment).
- Move to the data store: The uploaded virtual machine must be moved to the data store, which is typically some kind of back end storage system/SAN where shares can be attached to hypervisors and guests.
- Deployment on the hypervisor ("starting the virtual machine"): This can include an additional step of "cloning" the virtual machine from the back end storage system to local hypervisor hard drives.
To analyze this process more thoroughly, we built a small lab based on VMware vSphere 5 including
- an ESXi5 hypervisor,
- NFS-based storage, and
- vCenter,
everything fully patched as of 2012/05/24. The deployment process we used was based on common practices we know from different customer projects: The virtual machine was copied to the storage, which is accessible from the hypervisor, and was deployed on the ESXi5 using the vmware-cmd utility utilizing the VMware API. Thinking about actual attacks in this environment, two main approaches come to mind:
- Fuzzing attacks: Given ERNW's long tradition in the area of fuzzing, this seems to be a viable option. Still this is not in scope of this post, but we'll lay out some things tomorrow in our workshop at #HITB2012AMS.
- File Inclusion Attacks.
Focusing on the latter, the descriptor file (see above) contains several fields which are worth a closer look. Even though the specification of the VMDK descriptor file will not be discussed here in detail, the most important field for this post is the so-called Extent Description. The extent descriptions basically contain paths to the actual raw disk files containing the file system of the virtual machine and were included in the listing above.
The most obvious idea is to change the path to the actual disk file to another path, somewhere in the ESX file system, like the good ol' /etc/passwd:
# Disk DescriptorFile
# Extent description
RW 33554432 VMFS "machine-flat01.vmdk"
RW 0 VMFSRAW "/etc/passwd"
Unfortunately, this does not seem to work and results in an error message as the next screenshot shows:
As we are highly convinced that a healthy dose of perseverance (not to say stubbornness 😉 ) is part of any hackers/pentesters attributes, we gave it several other tries. As the file to be included was a raw disk file, we focused on files in binary formats. After some enumeration, we were actually able to include gzip-compressed log files. Since we are now able to access files included in the VMDK files inside the guest virtual machine, this must be clearly stated: We have/can get access to the log files of the ESX hypervisor by deploying a guest virtual machine – a very nice first step! Including further compressed log files, we also included the /bootbank/state.tgz file. This file contains a complete backup of the /etc directory of the hypervisor, including e.g. /etc/shadow – once again, this inclusion was possible from a GUEST machine! As the following screenshot visualizes, the necessary steps to include files from the ESXi5 host include the creation of a loopback device which points to the actual file location (since it is part of the overall VMDK file) and extracting the contents of this loopback device:
The screenshot also shows how it is possible to access information which is clearly belonging to the ESXi5 host from within the guest system. Even though this allows a whole bunch of possible attacks, coming back to the original inclusion of raw disk files, the physical hard drives of the hypervisor qualify as a very interesting target. A look at the device files of the hypervisor (see next screenshot) reveals that the device names are generated in a not-easily-guessable-way:
Using this knowledge we gathered from the hypervisor (this is heavily noted at this point, we're relying on knowledge that we gathered from our administrative hypervisor access), it was also possible to include the physical hard drives of the hypervisor. Even though we needed additional knowledge for this inclusion, the sheer fact that it is possible for a GUEST virtual machine to access the physical hard drives of the hypervisor is a pretty big deal! As you still might have our stubbornness in mind, it is obvious that we needed to make this inclusion work without knowledge about the hypervisor. Thus let's provide you with a way to access to any data in a vSphere based cloud environment without further knowledge:
- Ensure that the following requirements are met:
- ESXi5 hypervisor in use (we're still researching how to port these vulnerabilities to ESX4)
- Deployment of externally provided (in our case, speak: malicious 😉 ) VMDK files is possible
- The cloud provider performs the deployment using the VMware API (e.g. in combination with external storage, which is, as laid out above, a common practice) without further sanitization/input validation/VMDK rewriting.
It must be noted that the hypervisor hard drives contain the so-called VMFS, which cannot be easily mounted within e.g. a Linux guest machines, but it can be parsed for data, accessed using VMware specific tools, or exported to be mounted on another hypervisor under our own administrative control.
Summarizing the most relevant and devastating message in short:
VMware vSphere 5 based IaaS cloud environments potentially contain possibilities to access other customers' data…
We'll conduct some "testing in the field" in the upcoming weeks and get back to you with the results in a whitepaper to be found on this blog. In any case this type of attacks might provide yet-another path for accessing other tenants' data in multi-tenant environments, even though more research work is needed here. If you have the opportunity you might join our workshop at #HITB2012AMS.
Have a great day,
Pascal, Enno, Matthias, Daniel
Releasing dizzy version 0.6
0 Comments | Posted by Daniel Mende
Hi @all,
today im releasing a new version of our famous fuzzing framework, dizzy. The version counts 0.6 by now and youll get some brand new features!
see the CHANGELOG:
– ssl support
– server side fuzzing mode
– command output
– new dizz funktions: lambda_length, csum, lambda_csum, lambda2_csum
– recursive mutation mode
– new dizz objects: fill
– new interaction objects: null_dizz
– reconnect option
– additional fuzzing values
find the sources here (90397f9ec11c8ec3db7f14cb4d38dd39e30f9791)
SQL Injection Testing for Business Purposes Part 1
0 Comments | Posted by Michael Thumann
SQL injection attacks have been well known for a long time and many people think that developers should have fixed these issues years ago, but doing web application pentests almost all the time, we have a slightly different view. Many SQL injection problems potentially remain undetecteddue to a lack of proper test methodology, so we would like to share our approach and experience and help others in identifying these issues.
Slides from Troopers Telco Sec Day Online
0 Comments | Posted by Enno Rey
As I mentioned the Telco Sec Day in the last post… for those who missed Flo's announcement: in the interim all slides of the Telco Sec Day are available online here.
Obviously, given I initiated the event, I'm biased 😉 but to me it provided great insight from both the talks and the networking with other guys from the telco security field, and it did actually what it was meant for: fostering the exchange between different players in that space, for the sake of sustainably improving its' overall security posture.
A number of participants suggested performing it again which we hence plan to do, at next year's Troopers (probably happening in the week 03/12-03/16 [calendar week 11]).
See you there, all the best
IPv6 Privacy Extensions
0 Comments | Posted by Enno Rey
Last week Christopher Werny and I gave a talk on IPv6 Privacy Extensions at the Heise IPv6 Kongress. As our slides were not included in the event's material here's the presentation's slide deck.
As in 2011 we really liked the conference; there was a number of interesting talks and we met quite some fellows from the IPv6 security space. Btw: we plan to organize a dedicated IPv6 security summit in late 2012 (probably on 6th and 7th of November) in Heidelberg, similar to the Telco Sec Day at Troopers. We'll annouce details as for this one in some weeks.
Stay tuned & have a great week everybody


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Robert Toombs Museum, Washington, Georgia.
Wilkes County was created in 1777 from ceded lands of Cherokee and Creek Indians. People who resided in Wilkes County are also found in Warren and Oglethorpe Counties. Between 1790 and 1854, the legislature took land from Wilkes County to form Elbert County (1790), Oglethorpe County (1793), and Lincoln County (1796), and to help form Warren County (1793) and Taliaferro County (1825). The county seat is Washington, Georgia. Lincoln County should always be researched along with Wilkes. Many of the first settlers came from Virginia and North Carolina to take up the ceded lands (from the Indians) during the late 1700's. Early Settlers: John Heard, William Rasberry, James Gray, David Montgomery, John Marks, Bernard Zimmerman, George Bailey, William Mathis, Solomon Ellis and others.
Wilkes County Records Available to Members of Georgia Pioneers
Indexes to Probate Records
Digital Images of Wilkes County Wills, Bk C, 1786-1806
- General Index to Wilkes County Estates, A-G.
- General Index to Wilkes County Estates, H-L.
- General Index to Wilkes County Estates, M-Q.
- General Index to Wilkes County Estates, R-Z.
- Index to Wilkes County Will Book C, 1786-1806
Testators: Bailey, George; Bowen, John; Cochran, Samuel; Cochran, Samuel (2); Daniel, William; Ellis, Solomon; Evans, Susannah; Gibson, Walter; Gooden, William; Gray, James; Heard, John; Lunceford, William; Marks, John; Mathis, William; Montgomery, David; Rasberry, William; Rice, Nathaniel G.; Smith, John; Tatum, Peter; Thomas, Philip; Zimmerman, BernardMarriages
- Wilkes County Marriages from newspapers 1885-1886.
- Map of Wilkes County, 1955.
- Map of Original Wilkes County.
- Map of Wilkes County Settlers.
Images of Miscellaneous Wills & Estates
- Origins of Early Settlers to Wilkes County
- Members of Sardis Church Members in 1805.
Images of (select issues) Newspapers
- Anthony, Joseph, Estate (1815) of.
- Arnold, Moses, Estate (1810) of.
- Favor, Henry, guardianship of.
- Favor, John, Sr., Estate (1833) (Image).
- Favor, John, Estate (1850) (Image).
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- Favor, Matthew, Bond for Estate of John Favor Sr., 1829 (Image).
- Favor, Sanders, Guardians of (1819).
- Keith, George W., Annual Return for the minor children of William A. Keith, deceased, 1850 (Image).
- Marks, John, estate (image) (1800).
- McLane, John, LWT, Bk 1792-1801, pp. 115-117.
- McLane, Mariney, LWT, Bk 1792-1801, pp. 240.
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Shot, Hanged and Frozen: The Struggles of an American Pioneer
By Jeannette Holland Austin
The father of Samuel Whatley was killed by Indians at Cherokee Corner on the Clarke-Oglethorpe Counties Line when he was fourteen years old. Samuel Whatley served in Georgia under Capt. Micajah William of the Mounted Militia in the Regiment of Colonel Clarke and fought in the battle of Long Cane on December 10, 1781. It was during the siege of Augusta when he was shot in the left arm, for which he loss the use thereof. He was betrothed to Catharine Anglin before he left on his South Carolina Campaign and returned home with his wounds to be married before old Squire Biddle in Wilkes County. Whatley was known to be a loyal Whig and before he reached majority was twice frozen, once hung and twice shot while in the defense of liberty. In 1786 he was retired from service due to injuries sustained during the Revolutionary War. His wife, Catharine Whatley, wrote a letter to Senator R. W. Habersham of Georgia stating that at the time of the Revolutionary War her father, James Anglin, had removed from North Carolina to Georgia settling near Washington, Georgia. He brought with him seven sons and Catharine, a "motherless" daughter about thirteen years of age. After the death of her husband, Catharine went to live on the plantation of her son, James Whatley. The affidavit of Henry Anglin Sr., attached to the application of Samuel Whatley for a pension, stated that Whatley was wounded at Long Canes, South Carolina and taken prisoner four to five months and that when he returned home the soldier had wounds all over his body. The Battle of Long Canes was fought in McCormick County on December 12, 1780 when a force of four hundred to five hundred men defeated Colonel Elijah Clarke and 100 Americans.
The Revolutionary War Pension usually provides information as to where soldier was born, resided and died as well as personal details. Study the pension, dates of service and battles helps the genealogist to know where the soldier was during different time periods and where to search the State and County records. Most soldiers traveled extensively during the war, and did not always return to the place or birth, but moved into other States to accept land grants for the service.
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The Rink Pavilion, Mussoorie
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Main amenities
- 22 guestrooms
- Restaurant
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- Airport shuttle
- 24-hour front desk
- Daily housekeeping
- Garden
- Laundry service
- Meeting room
- Free newspapers in the lobby
- Luggage storage
- TV in a common area
For families
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Private bathroom
- Television
- Garden
- Daily housekeeping
What's around
- Gun Hill (1.1 mi / 1.8 km)
- Municipal Garden (2.7 mi / 4.4 km)
- Bhata Falls (4.7 mi / 7.5 km)
- Jharipani Falls (6.3 mi / 10.1 km)
- Kempty Falls (10.3 mi / 16.5 km)
- Dehradun (DED-Jolly Grant) 113-min drive; 35.4 miles/57 km
- Free self parking
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
- Train station pick-up (surcharge)
The Rink Pavilion, Mussoorie
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The hotel entrance road is through a small dirty lane. Though the room we stayed was one of the best, the chairs were torn,poor quality cable TV, clean bathroom needing maintenance, the buffet dinner and breakfast is actually a set 3 course and there is no power back up during power cuts. Our room was one of few rooms with a great view of the hills, the service was not bad, friendly staff, walking distance to Mall road.
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Billy Boyd, actor and vocalist/guitarist for Scottish indie alternative band Beecake, was the recent guest for an installment of The Recording Academy's 5 Questions With … series. Held at The Academy's headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., Boyd discussed managing an acting and music career, his songwriting process, advice for aspiring artists, and starting a band, among other topics.
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