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Friday, November 6th, 2009
Teaching children to shut up
My daughter's kindergarten class received its H1N1 inoculation yesterday. Parents were invited to attend at the appointed time to help ease any fears. About one-third of the parents showed up and my daughter had no problems whatsoever.
Oh, but things weren't totally peachy. The parent(s) of at least one student declined the vaccination. A problem arose when this child began telling classmates beforehand that the vaccination would make them sick, that it would hurt them, and boy oh boy, they shouldn't get vaccinated.
And thus, at least one of the children broke out in tears (we know because we spoke to the parent of the shaken child).
I'm not debating here the parents' no-vaccination choice. It's their roll of the dice with their child. I too was fearful of vaccines at one point early in my parenting career.
However, I do take issue with young children challenging the beliefs of other children or adults. Suppose it's not vaccinations. Suppose a child is telling your kid he believes in the wrong god, or there is no god, or evolution is real or the Garden of Eden is real, there is no Santa Claus, vegetarian diets are best and Thanksgiving turkey is bad for you, or whatever hot button belief you've taught your child that is likely to cause conflict when discussed with people at large.
We're not talking about young adults able to rationalize and debate. We're talking very young children who need to understand how to react when they encounter a person who believes differently than themselves.
So, when teaching children your beliefs, also teach them that some people don't believe as you do. Teach them how to talk, and not talk, to such a person if the issue ever comes up. In the vaccine situation, it's probably best to hold your tongue, and if asked why you're not getting vaccinated, say Mom and Dad don't want me to.
I suppose, too, that it's everyone's job to teach the opposite — how to respond to the odd man out.
It's a tough situation for the one or two children who are different in a class, maybe they're sort of temporary outcasts. Maybe there's a pull on that child to 'normalize deviance,' to make the difference not so different, to defend it and/or attack the opposing viewpoint.
It seems this dilemma only gets worse as children progress from preschool through high school, with the opportunity for becoming social outcasts only greater, depending on the nature of the difference.
I don't know. What do you think? My apologies for the provocative title. I wouldn't use that word choice with a child, but it's essentially what I'd be thinking if someone was trying to persuade my daughter not to accept a vaccination that could save her life.


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Dufala, 45, has a soft spot for people in need, be it physically or emotionally. She is on the board of the local chapter of Make-A-Wish Foundation -- raising money for it every year with a celebrity-waiter dinner -- and also serves on the boards of Kati's Hope, the mesothelioma charity, and Cornerstone of Hope, a grief counseling center.
What's your favorite restaurant?
For lunch, it's Joe's Deli in Rocky River. My favorite there is the fattoush. For dinner, Nido Italia in Little Italy. Love the hot stuffed peppers appetizer.
Where do you go when you need quiet?
Huntington Beach is one of my favorite places. I spent a lot of time by the water as a teenager. I love being by the lake. It clears your mind. It's a great place for just thinking and praying.
Tell us about your first teen jobs.
My first job was at McDonald's in North Olmsted on Lorain Road. I was 16, and would go to work sometimes after my cheerleading practice. Saddle shoes were part of the uniform for cheering, but as I quickly learned, not a good shoe to wear on a slippery restaurant floor. I rounded a corner once and both feet flew in the air. Needless to say, it was tennis shoes from then on.
Also during high school, I worked at Great Northern Mall at a store called Foxmoor. At closing, we used to vacuum and count the register among other things. Well, my co-worker and I used to pretend we were in the "Sound of Music" and sing the title song from the movie really loud and off-key. One night security arrived, thinking we were being attacked.
The bakery you favor?
Fragapane Bakery & Deli's cassata cake is the best. I used to like Hough, especially on St. Patrick's Day. My mom would take me out of school and we would go downtown for the parade and share Hough Bakery chocolate-coconut squares.
Who makes the best pizza?
Gentile's on Broadview. Just plain red sauce and a little cheese.
This is the only hair question -- promise. Who does yours?
Chaz [Henline] at Charles Scott Salon & Spa does the cut. Jodi [Domino] at Charles Scott does the color. Of course, I have no gray -- as far as you know!
Tell us a funny on-the-job story.
There are so many stories, but a handful really stick in my memory. Years ago, I was at the zoo doing a story, and I was doing what we call in the business a "stand-up." That's the part of the story where the viewer sees the reporter on location.
Well, I was in front of the lion's exhibit talking to the camera when all of a sudden the male lion got a little frisky with a female. The cameraman started laughing and shaking the camera. That one made the blooper reel at the Christmas party.
What was high school like?
Where does your family like to hang out?
My husband, Ed, and I love to go to Crocker Park and take our son to the water-play area. James is 2½ now and absolutely loves the water. He's fearless -- jumps right in. We love to walk around there and get a bite to eat, too.


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It's a good thing the Syracuse University football team earned its bowl eligibility last weekend.
All the Orange earned against Connecticut were a lot of bumps and bruises.
The Huskies, needing a win to become bowl eligible, came into the Carrier Dome on Saturday and defeated the Orange 23-6 in a mistake-filled game that showed that SU still has a lot of work to do on both sides of the ball.
The loss, coupled with Pittsburgh's win over South Florida earlier on Saturday, almost certainly drops SU out of any shot at a Big East championship. The Orange falls to 7-4, 4-3 in the conference.
Connecticut, meanwhile, moves to 6-4 and 3-2 in the Big East. The Huskies, with wins over West Virginia and Pittsburgh, are still in the conference title hunt.
The Huskies, who led 10-3 at the half, scored 13 more in the second half, 10 of those courtesy of Orange turnovers.
The critical turnover came with five minutes to play in the third quarter, when quarterback Ryan Nassib was hit while trying to pass and fumbled inside the 10-yard line. UConn's Kendall Reyes recovered at the SU 4 and the Huskies' Jordan Todman plunged in for his second touchdown of the night for a 17-6 lead.
The Orange were held to just a pair of Ross Krautman field goals in one of its worst offensive performances of the Doug Marrone era.
The Huskies scored first, on an 11-play, 80-yard drive after what looked to be a promising drive by the Orange fizzled at the UConn 41.
Zach Frazer, who has had his troubles at quarterback this season, completed four passes on the drive, three of them to receiver Isiah Moore. Running back Jordan Todman did the rest, gaining 43 yards on seven carries, including the TD plunge of 1-yard.
SU answered with a nine-play, 55-yard drive from its 20-yard line to the Huskies 25. Nassib's third-down completion to Prince-Tyson Gulley was stopped at three yards short, and the Orange settled for a 42-yard field goal by Ross Krautman.
The Huskies extended their lead late in the first half after the only turnover of the half.
A Nassib pass hit off of tight end Nick Provo and deflected into the air, where it was grabbed by UConn defensive tackle Kendall Reyes at the SU 38-yard line.
Eight plays later, Dave Teggart kicked a 35-yard field goal with 0:31 left in the half and the Huskies led 10-3.


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Coolly and calmly, former New Orleans police officer Robert Faulcon testified Wednesday that he jumped out of a large Budget rental truck on the Danziger Bridge six years ago to a cacophony of gunfire, spotted two people with handguns amid a scene of utter confusion, and opened fire on a group of civilians shielded behind a concrete barrier.
The indicted officer, the first to testify on his own behalf in the federal trial of five officers, repeatedly stated that within a split second of his arrival, he perceived a threat, believing police were under siege.
But in a withering, hours-long cross-examination, Faulcon's story began to crumble. Under rapid-fire questioning, Faulcon admitted firing a shotgun indiscriminately toward civilians who might have been unarmed, and later fatally shooting an innocent man in the back. He testified that other officers continued to shoot though there was no apparent threat. And he acknowledged that all of the police reports on the incident contain lies, going so far as to agree with a federal prosecutor that there was a coverup.
On the witness stand, nearly six years after the incident, Faulcon expressed regret for what happened that day but offered no apologies.
"I feel horrible because of the fact, you know, in that split second when I saw guns, I might have been right or I might have been wrong," he said.
Story by Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi, Staff writers
"My heart goes out to the people that were hurt," he added. "At that time, when I saw guns, I felt my actions were justified based on what I saw in that split second."
Throughout five weeks of trial testimony, Faulcon has sat silent and expressionless at the defense table as prosecutors and former police officers have testified to his supposed misdeeds. On Wednesday, he tried to offer jurors a glimpse into his mindset on the morning of Sept. 4, 2005.
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Faulcon and prosecutor Barbara "Bobbi" Bernstein danced with language over matters such as perception and presumption, arguing about when an officer can use deadly force.
Bernstein posed several hypothetical situations. At one point, she stood straight up, her arms out like a scarecrow's, and asked Faulcon whether he could shoot her if she had a weapon in her pocket.
Faulcon, unsure, waffled, first agreeing and then disagreeing. He repeatedly answered that such decisions are based on the "totality of circumstances."
He acknowledged that his perception that day was at least partially based on assumptions. He described riding to the scene with colleagues in the rear cargo area of the speeding panel truck, expecting to get shot at, expecting the worst.
Gunfire erupted before the truck came to a halt. He said he jumped from the rear of the truck yelling, "Police, " amid the sound of bullets.
"I had already determined there was a threat," he said. He said his colleagues "were returning fire because they were fired upon."
"My belief is they were in imminent danger and that's why they were discharging their firearms," Faulcon said.
In a span he described as lasting less than four seconds, Faulcon said he assessed the scene, spotted handguns on two unidentified male civilians, and pulled the trigger.
"You fired in that direction, even though there were other people in the way who did not have guns?" Bernstein asked.
"I don't know whether they had weapons," Faulcon responded. He added later: "Just a couple of seconds -- that's all it was."
He said he fired his 12-gauge shotgun, pumped the weapon, then fired and pumped at least three more times in that four-second span.
By then, in his estimation, the "threat was neutralized."
He confessed, however, that he never saw anyone fire at police or point their weapons towards officers. Prosecutors, as well as former conspirators who have pleaded guilty, have said there were no guns in the hands of civilians. Police never recovered any weapons.
Prosecutors played a videotaped snippet of the shooting, taken that day by an NBC news crew atop the Interstate 10 high-rise, about a quarter-mile away. From the time Faulcon exited the truck, gunfire persists for more than 30 seconds, with dozens of shots fired. Most of this activity occurred, Bernstein noted, after Faulcon allegedly stopped shooting.
Faulcon could not say which other officers fired after he stopped. After the gunfire ceased, Faulcon said, he didn't check on the wounded civilians.
He looked up toward the crest of the bridge, and with co-defendant Sgt. Robert Gisevius by his side, began to pursue Lance and Ronald Madison across the bridge, over the Industrial Canal and towards Gentilly.
Faulcon testified that he never saw the Madison brothers with a gun, nor did he see them throw anything off the bridge. Police radio reports at the time implored the officers to follow the Madisons, who were alleged to have been shooters. Though Faulcon saw no need initially to fire on the Madisons, the video appears to show Gisevius firing his gun.
When the Madisons reached the crest of the bridge, Faulcon said, he heard gunfire and hopped into the passenger seat of a car driven by a Louisiana State Police trooper. The car raced down the bridge, gaining ground on the fleeing Madison brothers.
Forty-year-old Ronald Madison, who was mentally challenged, had already been struck by a police bullet, according to his older brother, Lance Madison.
Faulcon said Lance Madison ran into the parking lot of a motel at the base of the bridge. Ronald lagged a bit behind. The wounded man kept looking over his shoulder at the officers, Faulcon said.
Eventually, the police vehicle stopped near the base of the bridge. Again, Ronald Madison peered back over his left shoulder. He ran bent at his waist, Faulcon said, and had his hands tucked into his body in front of him.
Based upon the breathless reports coming across the police radio, Faulcon said he believed Madison was armed.
For a third time, Madison looked over his shoulder, Faulcon said. "He was trying to locate our location."
Yet, Faulcon acknowledged that he never yelled, "Police, " "Stop," or anything of the sort. Doing so, he thought, would "endanger" himself and too easily allow Madison to draw a bead on him.
Faulcon recalled thinking that one of two things was going to happen: Either Ronald Madison was going to turn around and shoot, or Lance Madison, who was out of sight somewhere in the motel parking lot, was going to ambush him.
"I became paralyzed with fear really that we were going to be shot at," he said.
Faulcon pulled the trigger of his shotgun. The blast peppered Madison's back with pellets and sent him sprawling. At this point, Faulcon diverted his attention elsewhere and never approached Madison again.
No one has alleged that Ronald Madison had a gun. And Bernstein, in her first question of the day, asked Faulcon bluntly: Did he agree that Ronald Madison was "an innocent man?"
"Yes," Faulcon said.
Faulcon retired from the NOPD weeks after the bridge incident and left for Texas to be with his wife, who gave birth to their child in Baton Rouge just days after the hurricane struck.
After providing an initial explanation of what happened on the day of the shooting, Faulcon said he never again talked about the incident until he gave an official statement in June 2006 to NOPD Sgt. Gerard Dugue.
Faulcon's testimony was damaging for at least one co-defendant, Sgt. Arthur Kaufman, who handled the official NOPD investigation into the incident along with Dugue. Faulcon testified that a statement attributed to him in a draft report taken by the FBI from Kaufman's computer was inaccurate. The report says Faulcon alleged that people with guns on the east side of the bridge pointed their weapons at him. Faulcon testified that he never said that.
That statement also said that Ronald Madison reached into his waistband before Faulcon shot him, a statement also in the official 54-page report submitted to the NOPD. Faulcon said not only did Madison not reach into his waistband, he never told Kaufman that it did.
"Do you agree there was a coverup in this case?" Bernstein asked.
"Based on what I learned now, yes," Faulcon replied.
When questioned by his own attorney, Lindsay Larson, Faulcon was poised and collected while talking about the stress Katrina heaped on him and his colleagues. Faulcon, the son of a Baptist minister who served stints in the Army and the Navy, testified that he and his partner took refuge in an eastern New Orleans hotel during the early flooding. They had to be rescued by fellow officers. For several days, he went on rescue missions in the same stained, wet uniform, absent any resources.
"It was just like a Third World country," he said.
Faulcon became a truck driver after his four-year stint in the NOPD. Following his federal indictment last July, he was arrested in the Houston area. He has remained jailed since.
Attorneys for the five accused officers will continue to present their case today. It is unclear whether the other defendants will testify on their behalf.
Brendan McCarthy can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 504.826.3301. Laura Maggi can be reached at email@example.com or 504.826.3316.


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Heading into its third MLS season, Portland signed goaltender Jake Gleeson, defender Ryan Kawulok and midfielder Rodney Wallace to new contracts. Additionally, the team exercised contract options on eight players from last season's roster, and declined the option for defender Steven Smith.
"(Porter) works long hours, he's always accessible, it's a passion of his," Portland G.M. Gavin Wilkinson said. "The number of hours that are being put in at the moment we hope are not going to be the norm for him, but there's an awful lot of hours going in. He's watching a lot of video, spending a lot of time with the assistant coaches and the players we have on board now, players we're acquiring, myself, the owner. He's fully engaged."
The moves came in advance of the league's re-entry draft. As expected, Portland passed on its pick in the first stage on Friday and will have the third pick for the second stage Dec. 14. Earlier this week, the Timbers acquired defender Michael Harrington from Sporting KC and midfielder Will Johnson from Real Salt Lake in other moves.
For full coverage of Caleb Porter and the Portland Timbers, visit our friends over at OregonLive.com.
-- Brian Straus, Sporting News. This article originally appeared on SportingNews.com.


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To the Editor:
Regarding the article headlined "Child Support Warrant Sweep nets 760 delinquent parents (statewide)" in the July 21 print edition:
This article broke down the arrests by county in the six southernmost New Jersey counties, with the amount of support each county collected immediately.
I used my hand-dandy calculator and came up with 303 parents served with warrants in the six counties. The Times reported that sheriff's departments collected a total of $27,173 — only $89.67 per parent!
One wonders what the cost was of serving these 303 warrants. One begins to think that perhaps the sweep was not for the children, but for headlines.
A smarter approach would be to have the courts fashion child-support payments that are within the ability of parents to pay, so that huge delinquencies could be avoided and children would actually be supported.
For example, the "sweep" in Salem County collected only $1,685 against support orders totaling nearly $600,000. Burlington County reportedly collected a whopping $140 on payment orders of $612,000, Cumberland County gained $240 against orders of $534,000.
This "sweep" seemed to be mostly a joke on the courts, not a collection event for the children.
When enforced collections with the full force of the law — including loss of driver's license, jail time and more — yield so little against the overall debt, math and logic says that child-support orders are way too high.
Reducing child-support orders to within the range of parents' actual ability to pay would end the wasted expense of "child support sweeps" that produce essentially no money.
The Legislature soon may revise child-support guidelines downward to bring them into the real world. If so, all taxpayers, and supporting parents and their children will surely benefit. I hope the Times will keep a supportive eye on developments to bring child support orders in line with actual ability to pay.
Steve Gregory
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Daily Dialogue — March 15, 2013March 15th, 2013 by Scott
QUILTY: Hello.
HUMBERT: You're addressing me? I thought perhaps there was someone with you.
QUILTY: No, I'm not really with someone. I'm with you. I didn't mean that as an insult. What I meant was that I'm with the State Police here, and…when I'm with them, I'm with someone, but right now I'm on my own. I mean, I'm not with a lot of people, just you.
HUMBERT: I wouldn't like to disturb you. I'll leave you alone if you prefer it.
QUILTY: You don't really have to go at all. I like it. I don't know what it is. I get the impression that you want to leave but you don't like to……because you think I think it looks suspicious, me being a policeman and all. You don't have to think that because I haven't got a suspicious mind at all. A lot of people think I'm suspicious, especially when I stand on street corners. One of our boys picked me up once. He thought that I was too suspicious standing on the street corner. Tell me, I couldn't help noticing when you checked in tonight… It's part of my job, I notice human individuals…and I noticed your face. I said to myself when I saw you, there's a guy with the most normal-looking face I ever saw in my life.
HUMBERT: That's very nice of you.
QUILTY: Not a bit. It's great to see a normal face, 'cause I'm a normal guy. Be great for two normal guys to get together and talk about world events, in a normal way.
HUMBERT: There's nothing I would like better than that, but I don't have much time.
QUILTY: It's a pity, because, may I say one other thing to you? I've been thinking about it a lot. I noticed when you was checking in you had a lovely little girl with you. She was really lovely. She wasn't so little, come to think of it. She was fairly tall, taller than little, you know, but she was really lovely. I wish I had a pretty, tall, lovely little girl like that…
HUMBERT: That was my daughter.
QUILTY: Your daughter? Isn't it great to have a lovely, tall, pretty, little daughter like that? It's wonderful. I don't have any children or boys or little tall girls. I'm not even… Are you married?
HUMBERT: Yes, I'm expecting my wife, perhaps, to come here.
QUILTY: May I say something? I thought you looked uneasy at the desk. I was thinking that you want to get away from your wife. I don't blame you. If I was married I'd take every opportunity to get away!
HUMBERT: Yes. No, that was not it at all. As a matter of fact, it's possible that my wife won't join me because when I left home she was not well.
QUILTY: What was the matter with your wife?
HUMBERT: It's not important… She had an accident.
QUILTY: She had an accident! That's terrible! Fancy a normal guy's wife having an accident like that! What happened to her?
HUMBERT: She was hit by a car.
QUILTY: No wonder she's not here. You must feel pretty bad about that. What's happening? Is she coming later, or something?
HUMBERT: Well, that was the understanding.
QUILTY: What, in an ambulance? I'm sorry I said that. I shouldn't say that. I get sort of carried away, being so normal and all. When you were at the desk checking in with the night manager, Mr. George Swine, who I happen to know as a personal friend, I was wondering if he fixed you up with a good accommodation here.
HUMBERT: Yes, they were extremely cooperative.
QUILTY: You sure? Because I could easily have a word with George Swine. He's a really normal, nice sort of guy and I've only got to have a normal word in his ear and you'd be surprised what things could happen. He'd probably turn some troopers out, so you could have a lovely room, a bridal suite, for you and your lovely girl.
HUMBERT: I don't want you to take any trouble on my account. We're perfectly comfortable.
QUILTY: It's his job to fix you up with something nice. He gets paid for doing that and when he sees a guy like you, all normal with a lovely girl, he should say to himself: "I got to give that guy a lovely sort of comfortable, foamy bed to sleep in." I don't like to hear things like that, 'cause I could go and take a swipe at him for not giving you a lovely, comfortable, sleepy, movie-star bed. You know what I mean? What has he got you on the floor or something?
HUMBERT: Well, the little girl is probably asleep already in the bed and… I don't know why we're discussing…
QUILTY: Why don't you let me have a look at the accommodation that you have, and take it in for a second, then I can have a word with George Swine? It would be simple.
HUMBERT: No, you really shouldn't worry about either of us. Which reminds me, I should go upstairs now.
QUILTY: You're going because you think that me being a policeman, I'd think you were sort of suspicious? I don't think that at all. I think you're really normal. You don't have to go because of that.
HUMBERT: No. It's been very nice talking to you.
QUILTY: Before you go, I was wondering whether maybe in the morning, you know, me being lonely and normal…
HUMBERT: We have to get up at the crack of dawn.
QUILTY: We can have breakfast.
HUMBERT: That's very nice, but…
QUILTY: I can arrange it with George Swine. He could have it laid out.
HUMBERT: Well, thank you so much. Goodnight.
QUILTY: You have a most interesting face. Goodnight.
— Lolita (1962), screenplay by Vladimir Nabokov and Stanley Kubrick (uncredited), based on the novel by Nabokov
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is innuendo, suggested by Hawkewood. Today's suggestion by JasperLamarCrab.
Trivia: Vladimir Nabokov's original screenplay diverged greatly from the novel, but only a portion of it was used by Stanley Kubrick, even though Nabokov gets screen credit. Nabokov later published it as "Lolita: A Screenplay". The unused screenplay featured an Alfred Hitchcock-like cameo for Nabokov, who is referred to as "that nut with a butterfly net" (Nabokov was well known as an amateur lepidopterist). Although he generally admired the movie adaptation of his book, Nabokov regretted the waste of his time in writing a screenplay which was altered so drastically during filming.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Jasper: "By the end of this barrage of innuendo, we're both laughing and wincing at the word "normal," which in this context gets virtually re-defined as "completely perverted."
For the record, I would just like to note that Peter Sellers is my favorite comic actor and Kubrick knew how to use him brilliantly both here and in Dr. Strangelove.


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Gifs are one of my favorite products of the internet. Useless and silly, they are nearly always amusing.
But when you mix gifs and puppies?
I hunted all over the web to bring you some of the cutest puppy and gifs out there. Hopefully they will inspire you to run out and adopt your own puppy from a shelter this weekend. (Yes, I always have underhanded motives: *insert evil laugh*.)
Bichon Puppy! 1 of 10...and he says, "I'm a gonna GET THAT CAMERA!"
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Ebony… and Ivory! 2 of 10Living together in perfect harmony.
As long as you consider "chewing on each other's faces" perfect harmony.
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Workout Pups 3 of 10These corgi pups are all about getting in shape. Having a workout buddy helps, of course.
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The butt curl? OMG. *dies*
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Naptime 5 of 10... is SO over.
I think I might need their alarm clock.
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How much is that puppy in the mirror… 6 of 10I'm a gonna get him! I'm a gonna get him! I'm a gonna get him!
This time I MEAN IT.
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Keeping Warm 8 of 10And I just LOVE the breeze in mah hair!
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Wha???? 9 of 10The President said he supported gay marriage? For reals?
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White Pug Puppy OMG 10 of 10That finger is his ENEMY. Must ATTACK.
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Park district loses $40,000 in first season of pool management
The Vashon Park District lost approximately $40,000 during its first summer managing the Vashon Pool, about $36,000 more than the $3,700 loss the park district projected when it figured its 2010 budget in January.
Wendy Braicks, the park district's executive director, said King County knew Vashon would need some help when it took over management of the pool last year. The county gave the park district $75,000 to get it through its first few years of running the pool — funds the district will now rely on to fill the pool's large deficit.
"That will help us get through the first few years. … We expected to take a loss the first few years until we get on our feet," Braicks said.
A number of unforeseen factors contributed to the larger-than-expected shortfall, Braicks said. Among them, the district had to cover several unexpected repairs and one-time purchases — such as a $3,000 pool vacuum and $3,700 for employee uniforms.
In addition, the district discovered a need to hire cashiers to work the front desk, adding employee wages not figured into the original budget. "Aside from the one-time expenses, the major difference is we had more employees than we expected in our original plan, and we had to pick up a few things," she said.
Also contributing to the district's loss was low attendance during the unusually poor weather the Island experienced this summer. "We definitely feel that the weather was a negative impact for us. … We had some of the those rainy, cold days and we had 20 people at the pool," she said.
Lessons weren't as popular as the district had hoped either, bringing in only about half of the $32,000 in projected revenues.
While the funds from the county will cover the pool's losses this year, Braicks and other park district officials are already looking at ways to cut costs and increase revenues at the pool next year. Like the park district's 2011 operating budget — which officials are working to cut by 10 percent — Braicks said they are looking at the pool's budget from all angles, having taken some lessons from this summer's experience.
As part of the process, Braicks said, a park district committee created to help shape the pool's direction is considering some 40 comment cards that Islanders turned in. While feedback was positive overall, several Islanders identified areas that could use tweaking.
"Most of the users were very, very happy" Braicks said, "Some people were unhappy with the schedule."
Robert Brooks, who volunteers on the pool committee and helped create the pool's schedule, said that while the park district offered longer swim times than the county did, it sometimes had to close the pool during peak hours due to rental agreements the county had made with various groups before the park district took over its management.
"They honored that commitment and that was important, but that's something we can schedule and work around next year," he said.
In addition, Brooks said, he believes the committee will work to schedule swimming lessons at times that work better for families and coincide less with popular swim times. "It's a small facility for a lot of people who want to use it. … It's great a job to marry all those interests into a successful solution," he said.
Park district commissioner and pool committee member LuAnn Branch said that despite the pool's steep losses, she believes the first season was an overall success. "I think it was a good summer," she said. "I think the community feels a sense of ownership of the pool. I sense that already."
Both Braicks and Branch said that although the district is using over half of the $75,000 provided by King County to supplement pool expenses this year, they aren't worried about the pools future.
"As our learning curve of how to operate the pool more efficiently gets better and we find out what works for our community, we'll get better," Branch said.
Braicks said both she and board of commissioners are now taking a realistic approach to the pool's budget, understanding that public pools rarely make money and often don't break even either. She said her early estimates project that the pool will lose around $20,000 next season, a number she hopes to see shrink each year.
"Maybe it will never break even, but hopefully it will be more affordable for the community to maintain," Braiks said.
Branch believes that as long as the community shows support for a pool, the district will find a way to sustain its operations.
"This isn't the most plush time for everyone, so we have to be prepared to step up and decide what our priorities are as a community," Branch said. "And the park staff thinks the community wants a pool. We're hearing that resoundingly."
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- On October 28th 2013, I was rear ended by a 70 yr old guy in a brand new Buick LaCrosse. The damage was so severe that the truck lid was stuck shut, passenger rear door was buckled, whole quarter panel was twisted and the fuel tank vent system was breached. Many warnings lights was on, parking sensors malfunction, fuel tank system warning, etc. The car wasn't drivable.
The insurance carrier of the person that rear ended me is State Farm. I filed a claim through my insurance company (Esurance) and with State Farm. Esurance claims representative called me back and said he wanted to make sure State Farm is handling this because they're the party at-fault and is 100% responsible. While I cannot talk about the injuries I have per my attorney, I will tell you how State Farm handled the repair of my 2007 BMW 328xi.
I brought my car to North State Custom bodyshop in Bedford Hills, NY because they're trained and certified by BMW to repair their cars. I told them only OEM parts can be used to repair the car. I made it a point that they need to contact me and discuss before repairing the car as I know it doesn't look good. A week later I get a message on my answering machine from State Farm saying the car is repairable and it costs approx $9,000. I called State Farm back and like expected, no one picked the phone up and they want to have a voicemail left. Approx 2 weeks later, more damage was found during dis-assembly. The bodyshop had to make a supplement twice.
I called State Farm and again no one picked up the phone. I stayed on the line and demanded someone pick up this claim right now. The lady who read out my claim said my car was flagged for a total loss and it costs $13,600 total for the repairs. She went on to say she doesn't know why they repaired my car because it was supposed to be a total-loss and she doesn't know who authorized the repairs. I told her I need copies of all the documentation and records on this.
She kept telling me she's not authorized to do that and will have to send me to my claim representative **. Her position is total-loss department. I finally got through to her and she told me my car is only $900 away from total-loss but it was flagged for a total-loss. She said they use 75% rule to determine if the car is a total-loss. I told her the car blue book is only 12-13 grand. She tells me they don't use the "blue book" way and they have a different system of valuing the car. I asked her what the car's value per State Farm is. She told me they value the car at $17,300. I said why wasn't it not totaled then? "Because the damage is severe and there's frame damage."
She basically stonewalled me at this point and said because it's only $900 away from total-loss and went on to tell me it didn't meet the total-loss per the car age and value. Said they're taking 100% responsibility for this accident and handling this case, thus telling me good luck at this point. State Farm closed the claim saying there's nothing they can do about this now. Esurance has keep their claim open because the problem with State Farm is not resolved.
To date I have not received any copies of documentation and explanation on how they came up with that value of $17,300. I got a copy of the estimate papers and it shows that recycled and parts from a similar year model is used and new parts are substituted with aftermarket parts and not all parts are new.
A week later I got a call from my bodyshop saying my car is fixed. It was in the shop for over a month, it needed over 100 manhours to fix it. I asked them who authorized the repairs because I never gave the go-ahead and the car was supposed to be totaled. They looked at me like they're in shock. They told me the State Farm appraiser told them to go ahead and repair the car. I found out State Farm sent the check directly to the bodyshop, very disappointed no one contacted me about this.
I had to return the rental car and pick up my car, it was close to closing time at the body shop and it was a Friday. The shop told me the car frame had to be pulled back to specs and the damage was so severe that the car that hit me probably did not use any braking. On the drive home, I hear a whirring noise under the car. Sounds like a wheel bearing or the transfer case. When I go highway speeds, there's bad vibration. The car never did this before the accident.
I noticed there are areas of the car that was not repaired to the way it was before the accident, such as the trim on the top of the bumper has a slight curve to it and it wasn't like that before the accident. Also the gap between the trunk lid and the bumper is bigger than before while the top part of the trunk lid is flush with the quarter panels. The replacement battery they used in the repair of the car is smaller than the OEM battery.
On the morning of January 22nd, I turned the windshield defroster on and made a right turn getting onto the parkway, I heard a cracking noise a few minutes later. There's a long crack on my windshield starting from the bottom of the driver's side and runs all the way to the bottom of the passenger side up a slight curve. Upon examination of the windshield from the exterior, there's no impact point or damage that could have caused it to crack.
At this point I'm thinking since the frame was pulled, it stressed out the windshield thus causing it to crack eventually. I contacted Esurance about this and the claims representative told me they will contact the bodyshop and ask them if they feel the frame pulling has caused this to happen. I know the shop will try to play it down. I filed a complaint with the Insurance department on this already. I contacted my insurance (Esurance) and they're trying to find out who dropped the ball at State Farm. But so far no luck because State Farm is not returning calls. I told them (Esurance) they need to push harder and get State Farm to fix this because the car should've been totaled.
A customer of theirs backed into my sons car at a gas station. Got out of their car, gave my son their name, cell number and my son got the license plate. Before he could get any more info, this person left the scene. My son went to the local police station and filed an accident report. I called our insurance co. told them about this. The customer service representative checked on her computer and confirmed that the info my son gave her matched identically to what she saw as the owner of the car and that they are insured by State Farm.
A claim was filed with them. They have dragged their feet for almost 5 weeks without any settlement. Their customer never filed a counter accident report even though the police contacted them saying one was filed against them. They have 3 different stories that they have told. The simplest one, and the only one that State Farm seems to think is the best to support their side is their customer saying "I didn't do it."
Let me ask anyone out there reading this... have you ever gotten out of your car at a station and given a stranger there your name and cell number for just for the heck of it? Maybe this is standard practice for State Farm, not paying legitimate claims. I mean you need to get the money from somewhere to cover the costs of all those TV ads.
Here is the latest. The final lie from the person who hit my sons car and State Farm Insurance who is backing this ** you know what. He allegedly didn't have permission to drive the car so they are not responsible to pay the claim. How did he get the car, the keys and a credit card for the gas? Now I have to pay the deductible to cover damage caused by someone else while they and State Farm walk away scot-free and after 9 weeks of stringing us along.
CINCINNATI, OHIO -- A lady ignorantly pulled out of a stop sign when I had the right way and caused an accident which has resulted in 3 surgeries and probably more to come. Of course she State Farm so we all know how this ends. She walked away with no injuries, got herself a new car and like nothing happened. She was cited, paid the ticket and life was great.
I however, was 22 at the time and a college student working 2 jobs working through depression from the accident, injuries so bad resulting in 100's of hours of Physical Therapy, Surgeries, Time off work, etc. State Farm still to this day has not paid for anything except my totaled car while trying to bankrupt me so I'd settle for an insulting amount that won't even cover my first surgery.
CORAL SPRINGS, FLORIDA -- State Farm was my first insurance company when I turned 16 till recently at 23. When I lost my job and had some issues it was sad to see how this office could not help me since they have collected thousands of dollars from me. My monthly payment was 430 when I first started and was like that for years in till going down to 200. I received the worst customer service from ** and now as I am no longer with State Farm I tell everyone that I can two things.
One stay away from ** office on sample and university because you guys do not give a damn about people. And two if you are with this office leave or transfer to another office. I have waited on a call for the agent ** and never received it. You guys may have dropped me but I will never forget to pass the message to my friends and family. Very sad when it is only about money and no customer service.
EVERETT, WASHINGTON -- Dec 22 2012 we left on a 28 day cruise, (50th anniversary) returned home Jan 17 2013. We noticed a big increase in propane, Feb the same thing. March 4 utility room floor was buckling. We then found a hot water pipe spraying hot water into the 8 inch insulation, which it melted. Called plumber fixed pipe. Called agent they had Servpro come dry out the crawl.
Two days later adjuster shows up he says "we won't cover this" (reason it's a maintenance problem) so we contact state insurance commission. What a joke. The CEO of State Farm he sends in another adjuster. "We won't cover this. It should be reported earlier (but we were not here)." End of story. I have been with this company 41 yrs first claim filed. Total bundled premiums 3K per year. This denial of coverage cost me 16K out of pocket. This company has many complaints against it in this state.
LANSING, MICHIGAN -- State Farm Insurance has given me the run around for two months while trying to switch insurance companies. After finally getting it straight and getting on the insurance. We were informed today we were getting cancelled because they can not obtain a "Letter Of Experience" from our last insurance company. We had contacted our old insurance several times and they have no idea what this letter is.
We have given State Farm the number of the old insurance company and have asked them to contact them so we could get it fixed. We sent them all the paperwork we could obtain but still got cancelled. Of course we had sent them a payment and they accepted it so now we have no extra money to pay another agency to obtain insurance. The insurance agents name is Michael ** and they are based from the Lansing office.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- I have been with State Farm insurance for over 40 plus years. I carry auto, property, and life insurance policies with this company, and recently I had a property claim filed with this company. State Farm has now taken to operating a less than up front business. Upon filing my claim I was forced to go through my agent and several adjusters and finally was directed to a so called underwriter who informed me that some 10 years ago there was a very small clause change in my property policy.
This clause change would require me to list all unscheduled personal property and then insure it up to 80 percent of market value, which would increase my premium by a significant amount. Bottom line is that after being run around for several weeks State Farm refused to pay the claim, yet they have no problem billing me monthly for coverage. I am suggesting anyone dealing with this company seek alternative coverage or else get an attorney to read your policy carefully.
I work for State Farm, claim representative for homeowners claims. I am not a fan of the company, only because it does not fit me and the "workflows" / customer service policies. Sorry, State Farm policyholders, not what you think... all they (State Farm) think about is trying to improve customer service (yet I think many processes are not helping.) Well, I do think they under pay employees, have a horrible rating system for employees, and micro-manage (and getting worse) their employees.
But as to what this web-site is for... hating State Farm for not paying money for claims. The policyholders need to read their policy and understand what it covers and does not cover, if you don't know (b/c it does look like reading a law review) ask your Agent, yet I feel most Agents don't know squat.
For everyone (I know and will discuss homeowners policies) your policy does not cover flood. It does not cover water that enters your home seeping through a wall or floor, running under doors (flooding, you want water running or seeping through walls, floors, doors, windows covered... you need flood insurance!!!! Even if you don't live in a flood plain and your mortgagee doesn't require it). The policy does not cover FLOOD, or water that backs up from a sewer or drain (read the policy).
The policy is not maintenance plan. If water leaks (pretty much anywhere, especially the roof) continuously or repeatedly it is obviously a maintenance issue, or negligence (b/c you didn't bother to fix it). Thus brings to me to... rot and mold. For things to rot or mold it has to have water affecting it for a long (loonngg) time. The policy covers damage that happens... boom, one time, right now. Thus... Accidental Direct Physical Loss (ADPL)... to me, this means (boom) happened right now. Hail hit your home, wind hit your home, tree fell on your home, wind may has blown rain into your home... ADPL.
Yes your roof decking (1x's or plywood or OSB) maybe rotted, but sorry it was apparently leaking for a long time, does it have to be fixed or replaced... yes, but insurance can't pay for it. Rot and mold does not happen after a couple of days or weeks (especially rot), thus why they are not covered (ADPL), you got to stay on top of what is happening at your home. Sorry for the rant. State Farm pays for what is damaged. Sorry but if only parts of your home is damaged, they are only going to pay for damage. If there is only damage to one slope of your roof, or 1 or 2 elevations of your home, they only owe you for that. Sorry it doesn't match, but... policy pays for (say it with me) ADPL.
When the wind blows or hail falls it typically (typically) comes from one direction, thus you will only have damage (typically) from on 1 side of your home. (By the way people can not see (AND AREN'T LOOKING AT) multiple sides of your roof or elevations at one time, so matching is a poor excuse.
HAIL - everybody loves it for insurance. Hail will effect every roof differently. (Although your neighbor got a new roof, you may not.) Older the roof more likely to get damage, (but color of roof, tree coverage, steepness, quality of shingle and direction of house will affect how quickly the roof ages), the steepness of roof, direction hail blew in it at, tree coverage, and quality of roof (funny how that hail damage is related to the factors that determine how quickly it ages) will determine if you have hail damage.
By the way Independent Adjusters get paid based on how much they pay you, so if they don't pay something they are taking money out of their own pockets, so what since does it make for them to pay for 1/2 a roof, unless there is not damage. (I spite those guys, they make WAY more money than us.) I really do hate my job. It is just not a fit for me. I am a home builder by schooling (Bachelor degree) with 9+ years of practice, and now stuck under fluorescent lights and a micro-managed schedule (to benefit the customer). But you got to know...
Something to keep in mind, there are 4 types of contractors (for insurance purposes): Contractor charges same (honest price) no matter what; Contractor who knows Insurance pays a lot more than normal and will accept the Insurance price (correct and fair price for damaged items); Contractor who doesn't know Insurance process, but knows Insurance pays a lot, so will nearly double price because they think Insurance will pay it; The dirt bag Contractor, who always rips off customers and will try to rip off customer and Insurance company. (Keep in mind Insurance Adjusters make mistakes (a lot of mistakes) so they miss items, miscalculate, invert #'s or just don't know.
If you were to have a contractor to your house and say how much for a new roof, (as example) contractor #1 will say $9,000 (or you don't need it) & #2 & #3 will say $10,000, and #4 will say $14,000+. Tell same contractors you got to Insurance claim: #1 will say $9,000 (or you don't need it), #2 will say how much will Insurance Co. pay?, #3 will say $12,000, and #4 will say $16,000+. By the way to replace the roof is probably $9,250. (#1 is just too honest).
Well, nobody will probably read this so I guess I will quit typing now, but before I am done, I hate my job (I am trained, not used to being micro-managed, under paid (used to make double salary with old career), and don't agree with how much money State Farm pays out for claims (too much)). We, State Farm, tries its very best to pay claims, and always bends the rules (policy) in the favor of the customer, any grey area of policy means pay the claim. But if policy says,"not covered" can't pay. PERIOD. So if you can't afford to pay for "some" damage to your home (without insurance) or pay your deductible (including Hurricane or Wind/Hail deductibles) don't own a house.
You fools are probably the people who put this real estate / home value / foreclosure / "bad market" into a downward spiral, thanks... I am now doing a job I hate, and you fools are filing claims for 3 shingles missing from your roof (buy a hammer, buy a friend, or have $250 in your checking account) in hopes to have something positive happen your lives... an insurance check (and now that you are laid off b/c of the bad market, you attributed to, you just want the money.) ** - if I ever handled your claim, or if you work with me, you know me (because I am blatantly honest all the time to everybody), and know this is all the truth.
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN -- When my bill goes up there was never an explanation if it's a rate increase or expected savings either due to increasing deductibles or agreeing to using "In Drive". Should I not be entitled to hear any change on premium first from the Corporate HQ prior to seeing it on my bills? Is it possible that your agent does not know how to factor out any increase/savings from your regular monthly charges? Do you agree with his answer "I do not know what the real savings were... or I don't know how to figure it..." but he knows how much rate increase six months from now, explicitly accurate on each of 2 cars? Don't I have legal rights to know the truth and only the truth?
QUITMAN, TEXAS -- My Agent in Quitman TX was great. He did all he could do. They are great people. But as State Farm corp. office SUCKS!!!! They cancelled my auto insurance for a claim they never paid. They ask me to put all my insurance together so I did and then cancelled my auto and never told me even my agency. He did not know. I had no insurance for 3 month and did not know. When trying to talk to the corp office they referred me back to local office. Hell they tried to get answers as well but could not. So as I see it the local office GREAT State Farm Insurance SUCKS. I would not recommend them to anybody not even my worst enemy.


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Last week, Jason Collins, an NBA player who at 34 years of age is primarily a bench player, openly admitted he was gay.
News outlets such as ESPN and Sports Illustrated jumped on the story and placed Collins on a pedestal. Social media went out of control as Collins became the first athlete in a major North American sport to admit he was gay while still currently playing in the league. Some are viewing Collins as somewhat of a pioneer, but Collins isn't the first to walk this path.
In 1981, tennis legend Billie Jean King openly admitted she was gay, but that was because her former girlfriend, Marilyn Barnett, filed a 'palimony' suit against her. When King was asked why she had not come out earlier, she said, " Do you realize what 1980 was like? The 1970's? It was completely different than what it is now. It is a better time than ever, and tomorrow will probably be better."
The funny thing about Jason Collins to me is the fact that if he hadn't admitted openly that he was gay, none of us would know who he is. He's not a star in the NBA; in fact, this past season he played only 330 minutes for Boston in 39 games, and when he was traded to Washington he played only 54 minutes in eight games. Imagine if this was a player named Kobe Bryant or LeBron James.
Robbie Rogers. Ever heard of him? He is an American-born soccer player who, on Feb. 13 of this year, retired from the game of soccer at the age of only 25. Rogers and his former club Leeds United FC of the English Championship division reached a mutual consent agreement to be released from the club. After being released, Rogers openly admitted he was gay.
Rogers wasn't looking for fame nor was he even looking for an interview. He just wanted to be Robbie Rogers. ESPN didn't come knocking at his door and Sports Illustrated didn't write a story about him. Is it because he's a soccer player?
Robbie Rogers has had quite a fine career up to this point. Rogers began playing soccer at the age of 4, starting in the American Soccer Youth Organization. Rogers would eventually attend the University of Maryland in 2005 and helped lead the Terrapins to a National Championship.
His play was so impressive, that it attracted the attention of Dutch club Hereenveen. Rogers was offered a three-week trial with the club and he jumped on the opportunity. Hereenveen would eventually sign him to a two-year deal.
In 2007, Robbie would come back to the United States and join the Columbus Crew of the MLS after a mutual consent to leave Hereenveen. 2008 was his breakout season. Rogers played a major part in the Crew's march to the MLS Cup finals, where they defeated the New York Red Bulls 3-1 to claim the title.
Rogers also reached the highest honor in the sport. He represented his country in the U18s, U20s and U23s.
In 2008, he reached the dream of every American soccer player: He was called up to the senior team by then head coach Bob Bradley for a World Cup qualifier against Trinidad and Tobago, but had to back out because of an injury to his back.
Rogers would eventually get his chance to represent his country in 2009 against Sweden, his first official cap. Rogers would play for the United States in the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, and play again in the WCQs leading up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Rogers would be named to the 30-man preliminary squad, but was one of the seven players cut by Bob Bradley.
Rogers is one of the finest young soccer players that this country has developed in the last 20 years. He has put on the red, white and blue to represent our great nation and played for clubs all over the world.
Rogers never asked for an interview, he was never contacted by any major media outlet for his story. He didn't need it; he is who he is.
Just recently, Rogers has been working out with the L.A. Galaxy. Rogers admitted that he really had no intention of playing soccer again, but like any athlete, it's hard to get that smell out of your nose. Rogers might even play in the MLS this season. Rogers said that he needs more time to evaluate and see how things play out.
Has anyone heard anything about this story? Has Oprah called him? Has ESPN contacted him for a one-on-one interview? Nope. Why?
My problem with Jason Collins is that I believe he did what he did because he needed to be something. His career in the NBA is coming to an end. It seems like certain people just need attention.
Robbie Rogers is a good example of not needing that attention.
Here is Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America's take on Robbie Rogers.
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The Winter Olympics will be here in less than a year. It marks the opportunity for athletes in lesser-known sports like luge, curling, and bobsled to gain fame. Figure skaters can become legendary. Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, and Kristi Yamaguchi still reap the benefits from their gold medals. Even skiers who don't win can make big bucks from commercials. Remember Suzy "Chap Stick" Chaffee?
Lindsey Vonn was poised to join their pantheon in 2014. Lindsey was storming through the European ski circuit this year until she was waylaid by a serious knee injury. Still, her "up close and personal" story line promised to capture the hearts of the public and the wallets of advertisers as she gamely recovered. "American girl overcomes adversity to triumph over those European amazons with names like Hildegarde and Brunhilda. USA! USA!"
Lindsey blew it this week. She and Tiger Woods confirmed that they are dating. Good old "repeatedly cheated on his gorgeous Swedish wife and precious children and has no personality" Tiger Woods. There could be worse choices for a paramour, but not many. That Syrian president who is slaughtering his own people would top the list. Too bad that Saddam Hussein and Osama aren't around any more. They could sink Lindsey's popularity in a heartbeat.
But running around with Tiger Woods is about as good a way of ruining your post-Olympic endorsement chances as when Tonya Harding's husband decided to cripple Tonya's chief rival Nancy Kerrigan back in 1994. You didn't see Tonya's picture on boxes of Wheaties. You may see Tiger and Lindsey on the cover of "People", but you won't see Lindsey posing with Maybelline cosmetics on the advertising pages.
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The deadline for the Forensic Challenge 2010/5 - Log Mysteries is quickly approaching. It seems like this challenge is a hard nut to crack as we only received a few submissions so far. If you like a challenge, give it a try. The deadline is September 30th 2010. You can access the challenge at http://honeynet.org/challenges/2010_5_log_mysteries. Did I mention there are prizes?
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After a short break, I am pleased to announce the next forensic challenge: Forensic Challenge 5 - Log Mysteries. This challenge takes you into the world of virtual systems and confusing log data. Figure out what happened to a virtual server using all the logs from a possibly compromised server.
Challenge 5 has been created by Raffael Marty from the Bay Area Chapter, Anton Chuvakin from the Hawaiian Chapter, and Sebastien Tricaud from the French Chapter. It is a bit more open ended than the last challenges, so I am really looking forward to some creative answers!
Submission deadline is September 30th and we will be announcing winners around October 21st. We have a few small prizes for the top three submission.
I'll tell you the truth: Export Address Table Filtering, the feature of the upcoming release of EMET, "designed to break nearly all shell code in use today", intrigued me a bit. Read more »
A new improvement in PHoneyC DOM emulation code was committed in SVN r1624. The idea is to better emulate the DOM behaviour depending on the selected browser personality. Let's take a look at the code starting from the personalities definition in config.py.
The Discoverer module (see zhongjie's blog entry) has been completed.
It consists of 2 programs, the Format Discovery and Pre-Replay processing.
Format Discovery is pretty much what i've blogged about in my earlier post.
Since that entry, I've completed the to-do tasks:
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I've been working on the GSOC Project 14 in recent months. We are meant to start a new tool which can replay the collected exploit traces.
We know that during the process of exploit replay, there're many fields need to be changed in the original application messages. Some of them are platform independent, and the others are platform specific. Platform-independent variables are those changed each time we exploit, like timestamp, cookie, length, etc. And platform-specific variables are those changed only if the target system is changed, like target address, return address point to the shellcode. Read more »
"Dionaea is meant to be a Nepenthes successor, embedding Python as scripting language, using libemu to detect shellcodes, supporting IPv6 and TLS" (taken from Dionaea homepage). Besides being the most interesting project for trapping malware exploiting vulnerabilities, Dionaea supports a really cool feature which allows it to log to XMPP services as described here. TIP now exploits this feature receiving and storing such logs (really thanks to Markus Koetter for his help and support). Read more »
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The first part to the format discovery is 90% completed.
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Wedding Images of 2009
As each year comes to a close, I always enjoy reviewing my work over the past 12 months and reliving some of these captivating moments. Please enjoy this small selection of images which have
The Cecil Family
I love this time of year! Not only because of the holiday cheer, but also because I get to shoot so many fun family sessions! It allows me to make connections with new clients and re-connect with old
Lisa's Baby Bump
I'm very excited to share with you about a maternity session I photographed this last Tuesday. I traveled to Lisa's parents house in Calabasas, Ca and set up a "mini studio"
Baby Zachary
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This article was updated at 11:15am to more accurately reflect that most of the proposal will be a tax shift in the short term.
Michigan House Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, and his fellow Republicans have introduced a new road funding proposal that would spend an extra $450-500 million per year. This is mostly a tax shift rather than a tax hike, but even modest tax hikes often fare poorly with Michigan's fiscally-conservative lawmakers. Before shooting this proposal up too quickly, the limited-government set should look down range a few years at the bigger budget picture.
No serious person believes roads have been over-funded or are in good shape. Instead, the thoughtful rebuttal from tax-averse conservatives runs like this: "State spending from state resources is now north of $29 billion each year, so new road funding should come from somewhere else in that big pile, rather than new taxes."
But fiscal conservatives should look to tomorrow's taxes. The big picture they may be missing is called the Headlee Revenue Limit. Approved as an amendment to the state constitution in 1978, Headlee caps the total amount of taxes state government may take each year to 9.49 percent of total state personal income. If the revenue limit is exceeded by one percent or more, state politicians are constitutionally required to send refunds to Michigan's income and business taxpayers.
The Headlee limit was hit just three times (fiscal years 1995, 1999, and 2000), and only once by enough to force rebates. In 2009, we fell nearly $8 billion below the Headlee limit as Michigan's economy hit rock bottom.
But this is changing: Witness the unanticipated budget surpluses announced for this year and next. Continued recovery will push us closer to another breaching of the revenue limit. An increase in gasoline taxes for roads crowds out other spending under Headlee.
Roads are a good deal. Unlike other big forms of taxation, you (for the most part) get what you personally pay for with fuel taxes. If you consume more, you pay more for the roads. It's more a user fee than a tax.
The price has declined sharply over time. The 19-cents per gallon gasoline tax set in 1997 has been unchanged since. Because it's not a percentage based on the price of fuel, the value of this funding source has dropped off a cliff since 1997. The 19 pennies per gallon would need to be 27 pennies today to keep pace with inflation, but is instead lagging inflation by nearly 30 percent.
Consider K-12 spending, the largest state budget funded directly by state taxpayers. Despite our "lost decade" economy causing taxpayers to be poorer, K-12 spending in 2013 compared to 1997 still exceeded inflation by about $100 million.
The Bolger proposal will change the user fee going to roads today so that it grows with the economy and price of gasoline over time. Rather than a flat fee per gallon, it sets a sales tax on the total fuel sale. If Headlee is hit in the future, this will literally force future lawmakers to crowd out other spending in favor of roads, and may even force rebates to income taxpayers.
The Michigan Municipal League is not yet supporting Bolger's plan, citing concerns about its "effect on the overall budget" and the "bigger picture." Translation: They're worried about road spending crowding the money they'd like to ask for.
When spending lobbies worry, fiscal conservatives should take this as a good sign, think about the Headlee picture, and not be too quick to dismiss Speaker Bolger's idea. Unlike K-12 spending and other items, road funding has been a poorly fed orphan bearing the brunt of our bad economy. If more road spending causes a Headlee violation, forcing lawmakers to finally eliminate totally wasteful programs such as corporate welfare for Hollywood film producers, that wouldn't be a bad thing.
Ken Braun was a legislative aide for a Republican lawmaker in the Michigan House and worked for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He has assisted in a start-up effort to encourage employers to provide economic education to employees, and is currently the director of policy for InformationStation.org. His employer is not responsible for what he says here, on Facebook, or Twitter ... or in Spartan Stadium on game days.


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As parents, my husband and I are trying to introduce our daughter to this real and fragile world. We teach her everyday that it is important to recycle some materials to not destroy the environment.
So we decided to make the piñata, the decorations and the surprise presents for the guests out of recyclable materials that we had around the house.
I took us around two days to finish the Piñata. We covered the balloon with little pieces of news paper, I glued them together using the paper maché technique, using our home-made glue with flour and water, which then gets cooked until it turns a little translucent. We call that glue "engrudo" in spanish. After it was dry I cut a hole on top of the piñata so we could put the presents inside. After that the top was closed with more paper and gesso,
She made and glued the ears, eyes, arms and legs. She wanted to have a cat Piñata but when the piñata was done it resembled a puddle instead of a cat. :-))) It was funny!
For the surprises we just bought some candy and we handmade the rest. She made special and wonderful necklaces and I made cute little heart magnets. We used recycled craft felt to make them. Take a look!
We decided that we were going to eat the cake without utensils, other than your mouth. Why do kids love getting al smeared with chocolate? hmmm that must go back a ways.
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Amanda's View: Champion
By Amanda Knox
A world away, I still heard the stories. My friends wrote me letters. January to June, my childhood best friend was deep in Hillary Clinton's primary campaign, extolling her virtues to folks who still owned a home phone. Other friends were all about Obama. After years of economic difficulty and military involvement abroad, Obama was a vision of hope and change, the vehicle for progressivism. Not to mention, Obama was also the most eloquent rhetorician and charismatic public speaker EVER, hadn't a grey hair on his head, and upon earning the Democratic nomination, was the first black man to ever run for president. People were discussing politics over family dinners, in the hallways between class, over rounds of beer pong. They were going on marches and making art. On social media, they cried out "Yes We Can!" and on November 4th, 2008, my friends were dancing in the streets along with the rest of them.
Amanda's View: Photo Sphere
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The first Photo Sphere I ever saw transported me to the Valle de Cocora. I was standing in the middle of rolling hills so green they looked radioactive. I turned around myself, slack-jawed and gazing up at impossibly tall palm trees with bright white trunks and pom-pom heads. The sky was a happy Pantone 292, stretching out forever, pierced only by a burst of white gold that was the sun. It was a scene straight out of The Lorax, but all green and white and real.
I didn't even know there was a place in the world that looked like the Valle de Cocora. I had never seen anything even close, and I've traveled to Germany, Mexico, Italy, Canada, Japan… And this wasn't like looking it up on Google and looking through the postcard perfect images. This Photo Sphere felt like stepping into the paradise frozen in time. And it was. This was from Chris's trip to Colombia—a moment he documented in every direction.
Amanda's View: Costumes
By Amanda Knox
It was partly travel fatigue, but mostly the placement of the the TV screens. Splitting huevos rancheros for breakfast at the airport, Chris and I kept catching ourselves trailing off in conversation and looking over each other's shoulders. A game show called "Let's Make a Deal" was on. A pretty woman wearing a midnight blue gown, a pageant sash, and a tiara was debating whether to risk her winnings in order to go for the dining room set. In the background, the rest of the audience was in costume too—there were cowboys, clowns, robots and Peter Pans. I gave myself over to it.
"It's remarkable how much people in costume look like people in costume," I said.
"You mean, instead of looking like the thing they're dressed up as?" Chris said.
"Yeah. Like that Roman gladiator in the back row with the plastic shield and helmet all askew."
"Is this a Halloween edition? They probably just gave all the audience members cheap costumes as they walk in the door."
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SALEM -- In order to help curb the threat of vandalism in local cemeteries, the Genealogical Society of Salem County is holding its first-ever candlelight vigil, appropriately scheduled for Mischief Night Oct. 30.
The main purpose of the vigil is to preserve family history which, at this time of the year, becomes the target of vandalism because people come into the cemeteries and desecrate the tombstones.
"We have never done anything like this before," said Beverly Stanley, vice president of the Genealogical Society. "No one likes to read about a post-holiday story that a cemetery was vandalized. On Mischief Night we will choose a cemetery that we feel is especially vulnerable or one that we have a church relationship with. Our members are on their own to choose and put
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Volunteers that are interested in taking part of the vigil can pick any cemetery in the area to visit. Some may choose to volunteer because they have a close connection with someone buried in that cemetery or because they'd like to learn the history of the cemetery, said Bill Stoms Jr., president of the Genealogical Society.
Members of the Genealogical Society are still not exactly sure which cemeteries will be visited and only the volunteers participating will be contacted about those chosen sites. Stoms suggested this is a good way to protect against threats.
Volunteers and members of the Genealogical Society will split up in groups of two and begin their visits at dusk and will try to spread out as much as possible.
"Certain cemeteries are being documented and restored and a few tombstones have been toppled over," said Stoms. "They snap (at) the base. It's not just older stones either -- I've seen modern ones kicked over."
The reason these cemeteries are so important to the Genealogical Society is because their research for family history begins there. Anyone who wants to learn about their family history
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"Local researchers know the cemeteries that are the most unprotected by traffic or light" said Stanley. "If we have a connection with that church cemetery or have loved ones buried there we would care that all visitors have good intentions."
Since genealogists are closely connected to cemeteries, they also know how to keep them maintained and know that most destruction is irreparable. In the spring, the Genealogical Society plans to hold a clean-up in the cemeteries.
As far as the candlelight vigil goes, they hope to find success in it and plan to hold more in the future.
"This idea is to do a specific neighborhood watch," said Stanley."We can have an impact."
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Japanese classes have continued to grow at Western Michigan University since the major was added recently. Mlive's Yvonne Zipp also looked at how Japanese language books have come to WMU by way of Japan, thanks to the help of an associate professor in an article Tuesday. [Western Herald]
A new pavilion is coming to St. Joseph's Lion Park Beach. It should be ready by Memorial Day and the start of the summer tourist season in St. Joseph. [Herald Palladium]
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