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Around the Region for October 5
Volunteers for Meals on Wheels
MARTINSBURG – The Berkeley County Meals on Wheels is looking for volunteer drivers for its noon meal delivery program. Anyone interested in volunteering a few hours a month to help deliver hot meals to elderly, convalescing or handicapped neighbors should call Becky at 304-263-6622, from 9 a.m. to noon. These positions need to be filled as quickly as possible.
AdvoCare Mixer set for Sunday
CHARLES TOWN – An "AdvoCare Mixer" will be held Sunday at the Hampton Inn, 157 Pimlico Drive. AdvoCare is a health and wellness company offering energy, weight-loss, nutrition and sports performance products. The first 20 to RSVP will receive a special gift.
For more information or to RSVP, call Dave Dinges at 304-521-1501 or Brandon King at 304-676-3453.
Basic training for NFPA today
BEDINGTON – A class covering basic level training requirements for the National Fire Protection Association 1006 Technical Rescue Standard will be offered at Bedington Volunteer Fire Department.
The course, Rescue Core Prerequisites – NFPA 1006 Chapter 5, 2008 Ed. – is a basic entry level class for all emergency service personnel who plan to provide rescue services. This 34-hour class will be hosted by the Bedington VFD starting at 8 a.m. today. The class will meet today and Sunday, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 27. Additional class times will be scheduled if needed.
Books are available for use in the class at no charge, or can be purchased for $65. Course fee is $30. There is no prerequisite for this class.
For more details, visit the resa8.org website or call Dave Plume at 304-267-3595, ext. 112, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Learning to identify fraud
BERKELEY SPRINGS – Ora Ash of the West Virginia state auditor's office will make a presentation to assist volunteer board members in identifying fraud at 4 p.m. Monday in the Morgan County Courthouse, 77 Fairfax St., Berkeley Springs.
All volunteer board members are encouraged to attend; however, the meeting is open to the public as well.
Martinsburg paving projects
MARTINSBURG – Jefferson Asphalt Products Co. will be paving streets in Martinsburg over the next several weeks, which will require no parking on the streets being paved. Violators will be towed at their own expense. Work areas will be visibly posted with advisory notices before the work begins.
Starting Monday, paving will take place on Gussie Avenue from Race Street to the end of Gussie; Swartz Street between King and Burke streets; Wilson Street between Church Street and Winchester Avenue; and Valley Street from King Street to the end of Valley.
Work, including repairs, surface removal and paving, may cause traffic delays intermittently through the day. City officials urge local motorists to use alternate routes during these times.
For more information, call the city planning department at 304-264-2131, ext. 266.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – December 12, 2012 – The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is calling on the White House and congressional leaders to make cancer a top priority as negotiations continue over reducing the federal deficit.
Christopher W. Hansen, president of ACS CAN, the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, sent a letter today to President Obama and the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate calling on them to maintain the urgency of the fight against cancer, which kills 1,500 people in America each day.
"The Budget Control Act of 2011 made deep cuts in discretionary spending – $1.5 trillion over ten
years – that are already impeding our nation's capacity to undertake new and ongoing cancer research investigations in labs in every state in the country," Hansen wrote. "The potential sequestration of additional funds would have a further devastating impact on this work, cutting as much as $2.5 billion more from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including more than $450 million from cancer research specifically."
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Attention estate planners: new Medicaid asset transfer rules finally adopted
Helen W. Gunnarsson
November 2011
, Page 550
New state regulations, passed in response to federal requirements after years of delay, make it harder for nursing home care recipients to both shelter assets and stay eligible for Medicaid.
Gifts of income subject to Medicaid asset transfer policies
March 2011
Illinois Law Update
, Page 124
On December 28, 2010, the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, reversed a decision of the Circuit Court of Sangamon County, finding that "gifts of income" are subject to the asset transfer policies of the federal Medicaid statute (see 42 USC § 1396p (2006)).
Medicaid law doesn't preempt state's ability to collect for nursing-home bill
Helen W. Gunnarsson
June 2008
, Page 278
The state can go after the at-home spouse to recover the institutionalized spouse's nursing home expenses, the Illinois Supreme Court rules.
Nursing Home Care Act amended. PA 095-0031
January 2008
Illinois Law Update
, Page 16
The Nursing Home Care Act has been amended to include minimum standards adopted by the Department of Public Health for the operation of nursing homes. 210 ILCS 45/3-202.
Medicaid Planning in Illinois: Are You Ready for the DRA?
Kirsten Izatt
November 2007
, Page 586
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 requires estate planners to devise new ways to protect the assets of clients who face long nursing-home stays. Illinois hasn't implemented the law, but it will.
"Identified offender" rules repealed for under age 22 long term care facilities
July 2007
Illinois Law Update
, Page 348
The Department of Public Health has made changes to Part 390 (Long Term Care for Under Age 22 Facilities) of Title 77 (Public Health) to reflect amendments to the Nursing Home Care Act, 210 ILCS 45/2-101 et seq.
Ambulance rules passed to avoid fraudulent use - PA 094-1063
February 2007
Illinois Law Update
, Page 72
In order to prevent the fraudulent ordering of ambulances for non-emergency purposes and to greater explain the effects to those who ordered the ambulances, the Illinois General Assembly has added a new section both to the Nursing Home Care Act, at 210 ILCS 45/2-217, and to the Hospital Licensing Act, at 210 ILCS 85/6.22.
Impending Regs Affect Planning for Clients Facing Long-Term Care
Helen W. Gunnarsson
February 2007
, Page 66
The state is on track to issue new regulations that will make it harder for clients who are headed for nursing-home care to hang on to assets. Elder law and estate-planning practitioners need to be prepared with new strategies for the new rules.
Changes made to orientation and training for employees in long-term care facilities
October 2006
Illinois Law Update
, Page 526
Effective August 7, 2006, the Illinois Department of Public Health has amended part 350 of title 77, 77 Ill Adm Code 350.
Rate increases provided for developmental care facilities and agencies
August 2006
Illinois Law Update
, Page 404
The Illinois Department of Health and Family Services has amended 89 Ill Adm Code 153. The amendment grants rate increases of three percent to "intermediate care facilities for persons with developmental disabilities" (ICF/MRs) and to agencies for developmental training.
State can't dun surviving spouse's estate for nursing home bill
Helen W. Gunnarsson
August 2006
, Page 398
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the state can't seek reimbursement for long-term care from a surviving spouse's estate, making the revocable living trust an even more attractive estate-planning tool.
Winning Tax Exemption for Illinois Nonprofit Nursing Facilities: No Easy Task
Neville M. Bilimoria
August 2006
, Page 420
A little-known Illinois Supreme Court case makes it much harder for nonprofit nursing homes to get a property tax exemption.
Employees required to report misappropriation of residents' property in nursing homes - PA 094-0026
August 2005
Illinois Law Update
, Page 390
Effective January 1, 2006, the Nursing Home Care Act ("Act") is amended by adding new section 1-116.5 and altering section 3-610.
Nursing home litigation: no certificate of merit required
Helen W. Gunnarsson
May 2003
, Page 220
In a victory for plaintiffs, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that litigants need not attach 2-622 certificates of merit to suits against nursing homes under the Nursing Home Care Act.
Plaintiff asserting private right of action for personal injury under Nursing Home Care Act does not have to attach certificate and report under section 2-622 of Code of Civil Procedure
May 2003
Illinois Law Update
, Page 226
On February 21, 2003, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the appellate court that a plaintiff asserting a private right of action under the Nursing Home Care Act, 210 ILCS 45/1-101.
Trial court erred in granting state guardian authority to place disabled adult in skilled-care nursing home prior to holding involuntary commitment hearing
March 2003
Illinois Law Update
, Page 116
On December 10, 2002, the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part the order of the Circuit Court of Adams County appointing the state guardian as limited guardian of Muellner.
Eligibility for admission to veterans homes expanded
January 2003
Illinois Law Update
, Page 14
The Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs has amended 95 Ill Adm Code 107 to include former members of the National Guard or Reserve Forces of the United States among those eligible for admission into an Illinois Veterans Home.
Civil monetary penalty against nursing home proper when supported by substantial evidence that Medicare regulations were violated
October 2002
Illinois Law Update
, Page 512
On August 15, 2002, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit concluded that a civil monetary penalty assessed to the plaintiff by the Department of Health and Human Services for violations of Medicare regulations was proper.
Mental health services in nursing facilities
May 2002
Illinois Law Update
, Page 232
On February 15, 2002, the Illinois Department of Public Aid adopted amendments to section 145 of the Illinois Administrative Code. 89 Ill Adm Code 145.
Claim brought pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act need not comply with § 2-622 of the Code of Civil Procedure requiring a physician's affidavit verifying the claim
December 2001
Illinois Law Update
, Page 624
On September 26, 2001, the appellate court, fourth district, answered the certified question of whether the plaintiff's negligence claim brought pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act (Act), 210 ILCS 45/3-601.
Veterans home charges
September 2001
Illinois Law Update
, Page 454
On June 29, 2001, the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs adopted amendments to section 108 of the Illinois Administrative Code.
Reporting unusual incidents
August 2001
Illinois Law Update
, Page 398
On June 15, 2001, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (department) adopted amendments to section 331 of the Illinois Administrative Code. 89 Ill Adm Code 331.
Correspondence from Our Readers
September 2000
, Page 490
Nursing home overview a "brief from plaintiff's viewpoint"?
First Things First: Evaluating a Nursing Home Case
Steven M. Levin
David H. Brinton
June 2000
, Page 349
Pointers on deciding whether to pursue, refer, or reject a nursing home case.
Illinois Nursing Home Litigation 2000
Stephen C. Buser
June 2000
, Page 302
For years lawyers ignored clients who wanted to file suit against a nursing home.
An Overview of Illinois Nursing Home Litigation
Stephen C. Buser
Harriet H. Hamilton
June 2000
, Page 316
A practice-oriented review of Illinois and federal statutes and cases governing nursing home lawsuits.
Pressure-Sore Litigation: An Overview
Paul W. Johnson
Veronica L. Armouti
June 2000
, Page 336
An exploration of the legal and medical issues raised by pressure sores in the nursing home setting.
Siderail Use and Legal Liability in Illinois Nursing Homes
June A. Braun
Elizabeth Capezuti
June 2000
, Page 324
The authors argue that routine use of bed siderails is neither good for patients nor effective defensive medicine.
Nursing home's reassignment of worker to different wing of nursing home to accommodate employee's pregnancy restriction did not constitute voluntary undertaking for purposes of establishing a duty of care
December 1999
Illinois Law Update
, Page 636
On September 30, 1999, the fourth district of the Illinois Appellate Court affirmed the trial court's grant of summary judgment to the defendants, Walker Nursing Home, finding that the defendants owed plaintiff, Javette Brown (an employee of the nursing home).
The amendment to the Nursing Home Care Act that repeals the right to treble damages applies retroactively to pending cases.
June 1999
Illinois Law Update
, Page 304
On April 15, 1999, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the appellate court and trial court, and held that the amendment to the Nursing Home Care Act (``Act'') (210 ILCS 45/3-602 (West 1996)) should be applied retroactively to prohibit the recovery of treble damages from a licensee to a facility resident.
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Recent updates to mod_fcgid are ready to test.
a quick look at Enterprise Manager with Apache
mod_whatkilledus with GlassFish Web Stack 1.5
Now that GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 is available, I thought I'd give a quick list of improvements to Apache (httpd). I'll cover some of these in more detail in later articles.
First, Apache has been updated to 2.2.11, with later security fixes. So while scheduling prevented delivery of the absolute latest version, Web Stack 1.5 includes all security fixes in the current Apache, APR, and APR-Util releases (2.2.12, 1.3.7, and 1.3.8 respectively).
drives me absolutely up the wall!!!
Basically, all I do all day is review slide decks. Day after day after day. (The paperclip icon in Thunderbird makes my heart race.) Anyway, today I'm walking through yet another slide deck when I get to a slide that starts out like this:
Apache Specific Tuning
ListenBacklog 16384
ServerLimit 8192
MaxClients 8192
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
StartServers 128
MinSpareServers 20
MaxSpareServers 128
There's no further information! That's the end! Really!
/dev/tcp is ROTFL thinking about that ListenBacklog directive. The swapper is looking for some extra volumes. fork() and kill() and exit() are trying to get a room at the beach for the weekend.
It started to feel like I had held a match in my hand way too long as I started typing a furious response (which I had to delete). I tried a slightly more tactful approach and had to delete that too. After walking around the house five or ten times, I came back in and responded with a suggestion that I could cover that material properly at the Web Stack Deep Dive session at CommunityOne West in San Francisco next Wednesday. He agreed. Wish me luck!
2010 Update: I looked for the presentation recently and couldn't find it, so I uploaded it to this blog here.
Earlier today while I was trying to poke holes in the Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux builds of the upcoming GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 release and (hopefully) figuring out how to solve a mod_perl/mod_security2 clash, my wife had lunch with friends and brought back a newly released album from an area jazz band that includes our friend Thomas Taylor.
The album is Stickadiboom by the Steve Haines Quintet + Jimmy Cobb (yes, that Jimmy Cobb). This is quite an impressive work. Steve is a string bass player, and the composer of most of the songs on the album. He has some solos that I am enjoying a great deal; some stretches remind me of the work by Eddie Gomez on Chick Corea's Three Quartets album (alas, this is perhaps because I haven't heard that much memorable, melodic bass).
All these guys are in top form, and everything fits together perfectly. The band plays really tight on these songs; I expect that this is the nature of the compositions plus a great deal of sweat. (The songs themselves are quite memorable; I'm sure that other groups will be playing some of these in the future.) We saw Steve and Thomas with a different group of musicians recently, including a few walk ons; it came together after a fashion, and everyone had fun. But with this album we get to hear them in a totally different, serious setting. These are performances to be proud of.
If you like jazz, listen to the samples on the web!
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Hello from Amsterdam! We httpd and APR developers have been busy.
On the APR side, for future APR 2.0, the separate APR-Util package is no more (its features were folded into APR proper) and APR pools now use malloc (similar to old pool debug mode). The use of malloc can result in better performance with modern heap libraries (this needs analysis!), and watchmalloc/libumem/ElectricFence/etc. can be used with APR apps much more effectively. (Joe quickly found a longstanding bug in one of the sample apps by linking with ElectricFence.)
An httpd change of great interest to me is the ability to load MPMs as DSOs via the LoadModule directive.
Traditionally you select an MPM on Unix with a configure-time option such as --with-mpm=prefork, --with-mpm=worker, etc. If you want to have multiple MPMs available you build the complete server for every MPM and switch out httpd executable files to change that. You can still do that, but now you can also specify --with-mpm=shared on the configure invocation, build the MPMs you want (via apxs right now :( ), and load the desired MPM with LoadModule.
Here is a sample apxs invocation to build the "Simple" MPM. prefork, worker, and event are similar:
$ cd server/mpm/simple
$ ~/inst/23/bin/apxs -ci -o mod_mpm_simple.la -n mpm_simple_module \\
simple_api.c simple_children.c simple_core.c simple_event.c \\
simple_io.c simple_run.c
Now add something like this to httpd.conf:
<IfDefine WORKER>
loadmodule mpm_worker_module modules/mod_mpm_worker.so
<IfDefine EVENT>
loadmodule mpm_event_module modules/mod_mpm_event.so
<IfDefine SIMPLE>
loadmodule mpm_simple_module modules/mod_mpm_simple.so
<IfDefine !WORKER>
<IfDefine !EVENT>
<IfDefine !SIMPLE>
<IfModule !prefork.c>
loadmodule mpm_prefork_module modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so
Start with
$ apachectl -k start -DEVENT (or -DWORKER or -DSIMPLE)
It defaults to prefork if you omit the -Dmpmname parameter.
If the install forms work but you get the error "PHP does not have MySQL support enabled.", install SUNWphp52-mysql and restart Apache.
$ pfexec pkg install SUNWphp52-mysql
$ svcadm restart apache22
hello, world using CGI.pm, run by mod_perl
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Apache HTTP Server and mod_disk_cache can be used to cache dynamic content, and reduce load on web applications to improve server performance and user response time.
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Your Big Screen Super Bowl Party May Be Illegal
Super Bowl fans may have something to worry about after reading this post by an Ars Technica writer, who ponders whether watching the Super Bowl on a TV 55-inches or larger is committing a federal offense.
It seems that TV broadcasts and movies can only be displayed if "no such audiovisual device has a diagonal screen size greater than 55 inches, and any audio portion of the performance or display is communicated by means of a total of not more than 6 loudspeakers."
There are other factors that matter like whether the games are shown in a large public gathering place. So most super bowl watching fans should be safe.
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Preseason action continues with interleague play between the Farrington Governors and the St. Louis Crusaders Thursday night at Aloha Stadium.
Former University of Hawaii football player Matt Wright made his head coaching debut with St. Louis.
Governor running back Abraham Silva ran away from the Crusader defense for a 52-yard touchdown, as Farrington strikes first with a quick 6-0 lead.
The Crusaders strike back -- Robert Faleafine to Jeremy Tabuyo, who is committed to Texas A&M. That also went for 52 yards to put St. Louis up 7-6.
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This website presents includes images and transcriptions of fourteen newspaper essays by Benjamin Franklin, written in 1722 under the pseudonym Silence Dogood. Concise explanatory essays provide information about the setting in which Franklin composed what became his first published prose--his apprenticeship to his brother James, the printer of the Boston newspaper, The New-England Courant. Web presentations of the full issues of the 14 newspapers also are available allowing web users to examine the context in which the Silence Dogood essays appeared.
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Online displays of maps depicting North America around the time of the French and Indian War, 1754 to 1763. The maps in this web exhibition are drawn from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society and provide valuable information about the planning and conduct of the war; commanders on both sides relied on maps as they made their decisions about troop and fleet movements, where to engage the enemy, and what territory to try to hold.
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I was watching a new show on TLC tonight called "Extreme Couponing" about these people who save a butt load of cash on groceries, but end up buying so much stuff that their groceries take over their houses and they look like organized hoarders. Is it really necessary to buy 30 bottles of mustard? It doesn't matter because that's not the point of this post. Have you seen this commercial for colorful bubbles by Crayola?
Who could have possibly thought this was a good idea? Probably someone who doesn't have kids and doesn't do laundry. Are clear bubbles not good enough anymore? Supposedly these new colored bubbles are washable (it's in the name), but my favorite part is the fine print that pops up at 0:23 that says, "May need repeat washings." Fabulous. Thanks for the warning, Crayola. Now I definitely won't be purchasing your product. Every mom (and laundry-doing dad) will be thrilled to have to wash their kids clothes multiple times to get the colorful fun out. I have 1 word for this: OxyClean.
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Has anyone bought products from this website? Can you share your experience?
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By Paula Cronic: PNT Staff Writer
Students who love to sing in choir, love learning about music and the concepts of sight-reading came from all over the state to participate in Eastern New Mexico University's Choir Camp this week.
Director of Choral Activities Jason Paulk said the camp is in its 15th year. He said the camp usually generates between 40 and 50 students but a total of 85 students have participated in the camp this year.
Students, who range from freshman to graduating seniors, are participating in the camp, which gives the students exposure to a wide range of ages and abilities.
"I've learned a lot on how to perform better, how to prepare myself for performing and how to sight-read music," Janet Walker, a Portales High School student said.
Walker will be a senior this coming school year and will also be co-president of the high school choir. She said working with other choir students from around the state has been an amazing experience.
The camp charges a fee and is available for any high school choir student interested. Those who pay an extra fee are given private voice lessons in addition to their participation in the camp.
Mackenzie Kennedy, another PHS student took private lessons.
"They went really well, I was shown how to control my voice better," she said.
Teachers from around the state as well, came to help with the choral camp. Also assisting with the camp were four voice professors from ENMU, a professor of music from Kilgore College in Texas and five music counselors who are also ENMU students.
"Those teachers and the student counselors make it possible for them to stay in the dorms because they act as chaperones," Paulk said. "The camp could not function the way it does without the support of the choir teachers that come here."
The camp also helps the students prepare for all-state and solo and ensemble festivals in which the students will participate with their choirs in the regular part of the academic year.
Students were grouped into four voice classes and each of those classes will perform during the concert held today at 2 p.m. in ENMU's Buchanan Hall in the music building. Paulk said the students also worked together as an ensemble group and will perform music which was mostly chosen by next year's all-state repertoire.


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Gigantic robots fighting each other rule. This is a fact of Man's existance that can be proven by both Science and Alchemy. So it would be easy for the makers of Transformers: Dark of the Moon to simply throw a bunch of battlin' 'bots in their movie game and go home to their wives and kids. But they didn't. They went that extra mile for your...
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For Audrey Thompson, Karen Woodcock and Debbie Gayman, it's never too early to be thinking about the Fourith of July.
The three businesswomen are once again in their annual ramp-up to Eatonville's Independence Day celebration. The three-woman organizing committee is laying the groundwork for the festivities, which include a professional fireworks show and other entertainment on July 3. And that means raising enough money from the community over the next month or so to foot the bill.
The goal is $9,000 to cover fireworks, insurance, the cost of renting portable toilets for the public's use, and other expenses. Donations are gladly accepted by the organizers, who also are selling $1 raffle tickets for a drawing for a 1988 Ford Ranger pickup truck, which was donated with the help of Eatonville Auto, Eatonville Collision and Eatonville Towing. As of May 17, about 300 tickets had been sold, "and that's with very little advertising," Thompson said.
A vehicle was raffled last year, too. Money has also come in past years from businesses, groups and individuals – sometimes in the form of a handful of change.
Raffle tickets, plus information on how to make donations and for vendors to reserve space for booths at the festival, is available from Thompson at Thompson's Licensing (253-832-8366) and from Woodcock at All About You Salon (253-832-1722).
Fireworks, live entertainment and games for kids will be staged in the ballfield near Eatonville Middle School. The event is organized to give people two days of celebration. After the fireworks extravaganza on July 3, the parade is held the next day at noon in downtown Eatonville. That allows time for people to have their private celebrations after the parade, Thompson noted.


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WASHINGTON -- Joan of Arc has her sword back, just in time for her 600th birthday next year.
For years, those who have gazed out over the skyline of the nation's capital from Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park have likely noticed Paul Dubois' equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, a 1922 gift to the women of the United States from the Le Lyceum Societe des Femmes de France.
But the bronze statue -- a copy of an original that's located outside Reims Cathedral in France -- has been missing its sword for years.
Prince of Petworth's "jaw hit the ground" when the neighborhood blogger recently saw that the sword is now firmly in place in Joan's right hand.
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Major Nelson's blog dropped a bit of info that may interest gamers who still have yet to take the "Xbox 360 plunge". As of today Best Buy and GameStop will be carrying the $99 4GB Kinect Xbox 360 package. This pilot program that was exclusive to Microsoft stores will now be available at both retailers across the country.
Some of you may remember a few weeks back when we confirmed that select Microsoft retail stores would be offering a cheaper alternative to ponying up $250 required to own an Xbox 360. For just $99 and a two year commitment or contract, consumers could walk out with a 4GB Xbox 360 that included the Kinect peripheral.
This may be a great deal for someone who is short on the cash upfront and wants a top notch gaming experience. The real question here is will consumers bite on investing in a system that is soon to have a replacement announced and the overall cost raises some questions. By the time you add up the 2 years of service and upfront fee consumers have shelled out almost $460 dollars, which is about what 2 systems would cost you new.
What if the new Xbox is announced and released within this two year contract cycle? Am I going to be able to move on to newest Xbox without getting an early termination fee? There are a lot of questions surrounding Microsoft's choice to drop yet another bundle option and we will make sure to keep you all informed as things unfold.
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Olympic may be "The Graveyard of Champions" but talking about the favorites isn't a fruitless exercise.
After all, it's not preordained for an underdog to win at Olympic, just a prevailing trend.
So, what will the favorites do this week?
Who will step up to the plate and contend for the title? Who will be the lame ducks who barely make an appearance on the weekend? Will any of these top players miss the cut?
These are questions to be resolved here. Before you is a list of 14 favorites and the forecast for their chances at the Open.
From best to worst, players' chances can be extremely good, very good, good, decent, OK, bad, very bad or extremely bad.
No player gets worse than bad on this list, but it is a wide-ranging set after all.
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Rapper B.G. Sentenced To 14 Years In Federal Prison
Rapper B.G. has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars for possession of a firearm and conspiring to obstruct justice.
The hip-hop star, real name Christopher Dorsey, pleaded guilty to two counts of gun possession and one of witness tampering in December stemming from his 2009 arrest in Louisiana, when police found three loaded firearms in his vehicle.
He was also hit with a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice after he tried to convince his associate, Demounde Pollard, to accept responsibility for the guns.
Sentencing him on Wednesday in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. District Judge Helen Berrigan ordered Dorsey to serve 14 years in prison, and also recommended three years of supervised release once his jail term is over.
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On the outlook for livestock…
"On the livestock side of things, it's a more mixed picture. 2009 was a dreadful year for most livestock producers with continued high cost of production for feed and other inputs.
"At the same time, the prices for their products fell. In part, that was due to the recession. So, 2009 was a very bad year for farm income on most livestock operations.
"2010 was a little bit better for livestock. In part, that's because a slow-down in supplies of a lot of livestock products. That meant less available for the markets and, as demand picked up, prices improved a bit. We're seeing more of that trend in 2011.
"The challenge in 2011 is feed – grain and soybean meal prices have shot up again. So, even though livestock producers are getting more for their cows, chickens, pigs and milk, the cost of producing is up rather sharply. Net profits still aren't at the level livestock farmers can be happy with."


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The first Matt the Miller's Tavern opened in Dublin in October 2008, which means the timing couldn't have been worse.
But everything worked out, and the burgeoning chain is accelerating growth plans.
"It was the very first restaurant I had opened on my own, ... and I thought I was going to have a heart attack," said longtime restaurateur Craig Barnum, who made the move just as the recession turned uglier.
But Barnum's model for a "tweener" restaurant seems to be working. He has opened two more Matt the Miller's — in Grandview Heights and Carmel, Ind. — and plans to add four restaurants in the next two years
Barnum has consolidated his three Matt the Miller's restaurants, which had different investment groups, into a single holding company, CLB Restaurants, and secured what he called "a substantial loan" that will provide capital for the new restaurants.
"The goal is $30 million in sales a year by 2015," he said.The first new Matt the Miller's will be in the Polaris area and is expected to open in the spring of 2014. Other possible locations include Indianapolis, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Louisville, Ky.
A "tweener" restaurant fits between traditional casual restaurants such as Max & Erma's and Applebee's and more-upscale, chef-driven restaurants, such as a Cameron Mitchell restaurant or the Short North's Rigsby's Kitchen.
This restaurant segment also is called upscale casual. "It is doing well," said Ron Paul, president of Technomic, a restaurant-research firm based in Chicago.
"People are tired of traditional casual — like Red Lobster or Ruby Tuesday — and want something new," he said.
Cheesecake Factory and P.F. Chang's also are considered upscale casual restaurants.
"The fact that they were able to raise money and get a loan indicated they're doing well," Paul said of CLB Restaurants and its Matt the Miller's concept. "If you're able to raise money, you have to have a track record that supports the investment."
Barnum also owns Tucci's in Dublin, and was part of the Historic Dublin Restaurant group, which operates Oscar's and Brazenhead.
"We want to create a nice environment and a reason for people to come back," he said of the Matt the Miller's concept.
This translates into a large bar area, featuring 26 craft beers, an outdoor patio and specials such as Winedown Wednesdays, ladies' nights and a Sunday brunch buffet. The menu includes the Matt burger ($9.99), Ahi tuna flatbread ($15.99), shrimp and grits ($15.99) and Tavern sirloin ($19.99).
Some of the other upscale casual restaurants — and the competition — in Polaris include Brio Tuscan Grill and BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse.
"We're very excited about going to Polaris," Barnum said. "There are a lot of good restaurants there, and if we're not any good, we won't be successful, and we shouldn't be successful."


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Norton Readies for Fight on D.C. Marijuana Legalization Vote
James Wright | 8/6/2014, 1:08 p.m.
The D.C. Board of Elections certified a pro-marijuana legalization initiative to appear on the Nov. 4 general election ballot Wednesday, and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) is ready to take on Maryland Rep. Andy Harris (R) if he tries to block city residents from taking up the vote.
"We will not let history repeat itself," Norton said. "Republicans tried to prevent D.C. from voting on an initiative in 1998 to legalize medical marijuana and after voters approved it, blocked its implementation with an appropriation rider for more than 10 years. Many Republicans abandon their professed support of local control of local affairs when they have an opportunity to bully the residents of the District, who cannot hold them accountable at the ballot box."
If District voters approve the measure, the city will join the states of Colorado and Washington that have legalized the drug despite its status as illegal by federal law. Harris recently sponsored an amendment to the fiscal 2015 D.C. Appropriations bill that blocks the city from spending its own money to decriminalize marijuana.
Norton said that she has contacted allies to fight Harris's efforts and "to protect the will of the D.C. voters."


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On Wednesday night we'll be playing a couple of movies in the prime dome.
|Movie: Hackers
The Thursday talks will happen inside the prime dome.
|ToorCamp Introduction
|KEYNOTE: Berit Anderson & Brett Horvath
|Michael Ossmann & Dominic Spill – Hacking the CampCopter
|Ben Kurtz – RatNet: Flood-Routing Middleware for Covert Channels
|Topher Timzen – Reverse Engineering and Attacking .NET Applications
|hex – Secret Caching in the Linux Kernel: key resolution
|Richard Johnson – Go Speed Go: Trace Guided Fuzzing
The Friday talks will happen in the prime dome.
The Saturday talks will happen in the prime dome.
Berit Anderson
Berit Anderson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Scout, which combines near-term science fiction with reporting to cover the intersection of technology, economics, and morality.
She is the former managing editor at Crosscut.com, a Seattle-based local news site read by 1.6 million people in the last year, where she followed environment, tech, culture, media, and politics. While there, Berit created the Community Idea Lab, a new way of doing journalism that inspires and incubates solutions to local problems. In 2015, the Community Idea Lab won the Society of Professional Journalists' 2015 Western Washington Innovation in Journalism award.
Berit consults and partners with Strategic News Service, a predictive newsletter read by Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Michael Dell, as well as the SNS Future in Review (FiRe) conference, which brings together C-level technology executives, world-class scientists, and Oscar-winning documentary film-makers to discuss how science and technology are reshaping our world. In 2015 she was invited to join the World Economic Forum's Global Shaper program. Previously community manager of the Tribune Company's Seattle blogging network, her work has appeared in YES! Magazine and on HuffingtonPost.com, Geekwire, and television and radio properties.
Brett Horvath
Brett is the co-founder of Scout, which combines near-term science fiction with reporting to cover the intersection of technology, economics, and morality. He is also an instigator who has worked in the realms of technology policy, interaction design, climate risk, artificial intelligence, and disaster response. Brett regularly consults with corporations, universities, political campaigns, and governments.
In 2007, Brett launched America's first online voter registration platform, Your Revolution, which allowed voters in Washington state and Arizona to register to vote instantly from their Facebook profiles. In 2008, Brett directed Online Organizing and Social Media for T. Boone Pickens' "Pickens Plan" campaign. He helped the campaign sign up over 1 million members in four months, and by the end of his involvement was responsible for managing a community of 1.8 million members, who in turn sent more than 8 million letters to Congress. Then-Seattle mayor Mike McGinn asked Brett to head his Government 2.0 Task Force to create strategies for innovating government and the civic process. The task force helped launch Seattle's Code for America project.
Brett has also worked with the International Centre for Earth Simulation based in Geneva, Switzerland, working directly with founder Bob Bishop to evaluate pilot projects deploying supercomputing centers to conduct climate risk modeling. Brett is also a co-founder of Lumana Credit, a micro-finance cooperative based in Ghana.
Hacking the CampCopter
Low cost microcontrollers show up everywhere these days. Devices that once used non-programmable logic now contain turing machines, often with integrated digital radios. We'll show you how to reprogram the microcontroller in a popular toy quadcopter, changing its behavior according to your whim.
But wait, there's more! Many of these devices use radio control systems that are easily reverse engineered with readily available tools. We'll show how you can use tools such as HackRF One or Ubertooth One to interface with the control system of the same quadcopter, even without modifying the firmware.
Michael Ossmann
Michael Ossmann is a wireless security researcher who makes hardware for hackers. Best known for the open source HackRF, Ubertooth, and Daisho projects, he founded Great Scott Gadgets in an effort to put exciting, new tools into the hands of innovative people.
Dominic Spill
Dominic Spill is the lead maintainer of Ubertooth and full-time malingerer.
RatNet – Flood-Routing Middleware for Covert Channels
This talk will present a novel design for an onion-routed anonymity network, designed for deployment across mesh-routed low-cost microcontrollers, regular PCs, and Android phones. This new network is more similar to FidoNet or UseNet than Tor, and can be easily embedded into a cross-compilable application.
The Tor anonymity network has problems being deployed on embedded devices and high-latency network connections. Tor's reliance on the bidirectional socket model also leaves it open to timing correlation attacks. RatNet solves those issues by making a drastically different set of design assumptions.
We need some peer review! If you're the sort that loves picking apart other people's attempts to use crypto, this is the talk for you!
Ben Kurtz
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Reverse Engineering and Attacking .NET Applications
This talk will demonstrate reverse engineering and attacking .NET applications. I will start by discussing reverse engineering as it pertains to .NET and show how to get a glimpse into a binaries code base. Moving forward I will show how to modify running applications with advanced .NET and assembly level attacks using open source tools I developed. By discussing internal framework structures you will leave understanding why and how these attacks work. You will also be able to implement defense and attack scenarios in test cases.
You will leave with an overview of how to use reverse engineering to discover weaknesses in .NET applications and how to leverage those as an attacker.
Topher Timzen
Topher Timzen has had a research emphasis on reverse engineering malware, incident response and exploit development. He has instructed college courses in malware analysis and memory forensics. Currently a Security Researcher at Intel Topher is working with the dark insides of hardware and has presented past research at DEF CON, BsidesPDX and SecTor.
Secret Caching in the Linux Kernel: key resolution
Within the Linux Kernel there's a secret caching service. The construction of this service allows for some interesting behavior that can be used to improve the security of many applications. This talk will cover how to use keyctl, how to write "key resolvers", and some interesting things you can do with these.
This talk also touches on a solution to a problem that has plagued the Linux world for years: secure key storage on Linux.
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Go Speed Go: Trace Guided Fuzzing
The past few years have seen a leap in fuzzing technology. The original paradigm established a decade ago resulted in two widely deployed approaches to fuzzing: sample based mutation and model based generation. Thanks to ever-increasing computational performance and better engineering, newer guided fuzzing approaches have proven to be supremely effective with a low cost of deployment. This talk will explore a few different approaches to guided fuzzing through dynamic analysis including code coverage analysis, constraint solving, and sampling/profiling based feedback mechanisms.
Novel contributions in this talk include:
- Opensource Windows Driver enabling Intel "Processor Trace"
- DBI based tracing engine for Windows/Linux/OSX binaries
- American Fuzzy Lop with full support for Windows binary targets
Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson is a computer security specialist with a focus on software vulnerability analysis. Currently the Research Manager of Talos Group for Cisco, Richard offers 15 years of expertise and leadership in the software security industry. Current responsibilities include research and development of advanced fuzzing and crash analysis technologies facilitating the automation of the vulnerability triage and discovery process. Richard has presented annually at top-tier industry conferences worldwide for over a decade and was co-founder of the Uninformed Journal.
Vulnerability Scanning Performance
Network Scanning for Mapping and indetifying Vulnerabilities is a time-consuming affair. While there is a tool for everything, it's a hard job for pentesters to focus on truly testing. Customers often don't understand their own network and running automated tools in corporate networks is a delicate situation without interference or interruption of any systems. Reports always have to be done yesterday, and in no time. This talk goes into performance of network mapping, vulnerability scanning automatisation and improvement of results for large scale networks.
Jens "ryd" Muecke
Jens is a German hacker living in Beirut, Lebanon. He's a co-founder of the attraktor hackerspace in Hamburg, Germany as well as one of the founders of KRYPTON Security, an information security comapny based out of the middle-east. He's also a member of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), and a conferance speaker. In his spare time, Jens builds things with micro-controllers and travels to hackerspaces and interacts with different communities around the globe. He also has a special place in his heart for Seattle, having lived there for many months.
Fundamentals of Ruggedized Semi-Electromechanical Crossbar Emulation Switching
Shadytel network engineers explain the principals of operation and design of a new generation of cost-focused PSTN switching technology, and discuss its performance in hostile environments.
FalconK, Shadytel
FalconK is a Shadytel tactical lineman (and a security consultant at Leviathan).
Maya's Veil: Advances in Linux binary protection and anti-exploitation technology
Maya's Veil is a binary protector that I designed for ELF binaries. It is a combination between anti-tamper and anti-exploitation. Imagine being able to instrument any program you want with an intelligent runtime engine who's sole purpose it is to dynamically arm the program against reverse engineering and exploitation. This is what Maya's Veil does, with features such as on the fly function decrypt/re-encrypt, encrypted heap implementation, advanced anti-debugging, protection against code injection, and binary instrumented control flow integrity that prevents ROP attacks. In short, Maya is possibly the most advanced userland binary protector for Linux.
Ryan O'Neill (elfmaster) is a computer security researcher at Leviathan Security Group with a strong interest in researching many areas of computer security including binary protection, exploitation mitigation, and memory forensics. These interests have all led to research and development efforts, some of which can be found on http://www.bitlackeys.org.
CheapBugs.net : No Bugs Left Behind!
CheapBugs.net is a community driven program with the singular goal of proving a minimal baseline incentive for people to report the bugs that are currently flying under the radar. Come learn about the history of bug bounties and bug markets, the existing gaps, and what we have been working on to close them.
Dean Pierce
Dean Pierce is a security researcher in Portland Oregon. In his 15+ years in the information security community he has worked towards diminishing infosec disparity and increasing consumer confidence in the security of emerging technologies.
Hacking .NET/C# Applications: Runtime Hacking Memory
This talk will cover hacking .NET Framework applications and how to rapidly bend applications and malware to do as you wish.
This will focus on executing BlackBox security reviews and putting back doors in applications.
This should be understandable by the average programmer, and be repeatable by a average .NET/C# developer. The tools we produce and use are all free and open.
Jon McCoy/DigitalBodyGuard
I focus on Hacking .NET applications both on disk to in memory. With a background in Software Engineering I am responsible for building defensible software systems.
I have released a number of innovate tools/techniques focused on .NET application security.
From BlackBox security reviews to securer application design and defense, I get my hands dirty with the day-to-day implementation of security solutions.
C Language Parallel Extensions
Cilk Plus and OpenMP are parallel language extensions for the C and C++ programming languages. The CPLEX Study Group of the ISO/IEC C Standards Committee is developing a proposal for a parallel programming extension to C that combines ideas from Cilk Plus and OpenMP. We conducted a preliminary comparison of Cilk Plus and OpenMP in a master's level course on security to evaluate the design tradeoffs in the usability and security of these two approaches. The eventual goal is to inform decision-making within the committee. We
found several usability problems worthy of further investigation based on student performance, including declaring and using reductions, multi-line compiler directives, and the understandability of task assignment to threads.
Robert C Seacord
Robert is a Principal Security Consultant with NCC Group where he works with software developers and software development organizations to eliminate vulnerabilities resulting from coding errors before they are deployed. Previously, Robert led the secure coding initiative in the CERT Division of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Robert is also an adjunct professor in the School of Computer Science and the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Robert is the author of six books, including The CERT C Coding Standard, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2014) Secure Coding in C and C++, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2013), and Java Coding Guidelines: 75 Recommendations for Reliable and Secure Programs (Addison-Wesley, 2014). Robert is on the Advisory Board for the Linux Foundation and an expert on the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 international standardization working group for the C programming language.
Activate Engineer Powers! Creating a Real-Life Creaturepod
What happens when your kids have an idea for a project? Help them turn it into reality! In this presentation, Joe details the design, testing, and building of the Creaturepod, a walkie talkie based on the fictional Creaturepod from the popular children's television show, Wild Kratts. The project came to life with an Arduino, LCD, ham radio transceiver, and a host of other components. His kids, aged 3 and 7, were involved in every step along the way and learned that while engineering can be hard (and sometimes boring), creating a project from scratch is exciting and rewarding.
Joe Grand
Joe Grand (@joegrand) is a hardware hacker, product designer, runner, daddy, and washed-up TV host.
Resurrecting a vintage scanning electron microscope
In 2014 I acquired a defunct and decommissioned FEG scanning electron microscope manufactured in the early 1980s. This is the story of its glorious resurrection.
From repair of analog circuit boards covered in mouse urine to capturing megapixel images with an audio card, enjoy this epic tale of sub-nanometer hackery.
Rob Flickenger
Bioinformatics hacker, lightning enthusiast, and aspiring mad scientist.
Toor Tor Tour
Tor is a critical piece of infrastructure for online privacy, anonymity, and censorship circumvention. From new applications designed for Tor to upgraded hidden services, the tor project is building exciting new tools to preserve the world's privacy.
This talk will cover the technical progress on and around Tor and our efforts to fight back against attacks on the network, our users, and our values.
Beyond just writing software, the Tor Project is a community doing incredible work for human rights around the world. I'll share my experience in joining this community, and how everyone can join us to preserve privacy online.
John Brooks (special)
John is a Tor core developer working on next-generation hidden services, and the developer of Ricochet, a metadata-resistant messaging system built on Tor hidden services.
Capture the Flag: An Owner's Manual
Capture the Flag is a genre of hacking competitions that turn vulnerability research into a real-time multiplayer game between teams of experts. Competing in a CTF is extremely challenging and demanding, and organizing one immediately presents a greater challenge: how do you run a competition for clever and creative computer hackers that love nothing more than breaking rules, voiding assumptions, and infiltrating infrastructure? It's complicated.
This talk explores what it takes to build a team, design principles for a fun contest, the art of starting on time, and keeping momentum for successive contests. We'll also be looking at the differences between CTF organizing teams, CTF competing teams, and modern commercial devops teams, and some of the common ways all these teams mature, grow, and change over time.
vito genovese
Vito Genovese is a founding member of Legitimate Business Syndicate, organizers of DEF CON Capture the Flag starting in 2013. Vito's work includes building infrastructure for distributed software development, designing and building both cloud-based and on-site scoring systems for cybersecurity games, visual design and branding of competition materials, picking fonts, sourcing coffee and other beverages, and writing public material for the Legitimate Business Syndicate blog and Twitter accounts.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly: AWS Account Takeover via IAM Instance Roles
Over the past year and a half I have been able to get to know Amazon Web Services (AWS) through the eyes of an attacker. Red teaming AWS accounts has become both a learning experience as well as a deep dive into the Identity and Access Management (IAM) aspects of AWS. AWS IAM is an awesome tool that can help make your account and instances more secure. However, when used without granularity and thought the use of IAM instance profiles can lead to a full AWS account compromise. This talk will focus on the offensive side of IAM hacking and show how AWS instances with bad IAM roles can lead to a full AWS account takeover. I'll go over some of the good, bad and ugly things that can be done with AWS IAM and demonstrate a full AWS account takeover through overly permissive AWS IAM permissions.
Ian Allison/evade
Ian has been working in the offensive security field for longer than he wants to admit. When he's not helping put up the Mega Dome at Toorcamp he likes to do infosec research, play with his kids and help further the work of DevSecOps.
Packet Spoofing as a service
The talk will start with the design of SP^3 (https://github.com/willscott/sp3), a system that opens up the ability to spoof packets – to send traffic on the Internet that appears to come from a different source. From there, it will explore some of potential of this capability: You can use the ability to send data from arbitrary sources to design protocols that are much harder to surveil or learn active participants. You can also use them to make TCP connections between NAT'ed devices almost possible / practical, and to check routing policy of your network. Apart from these mechanisms, I'll talk about the concerns that have existing around spoofing, and how SP^3 was designed to make it more accessible while mitigating the potential for DDOS and malicious traffic using the mechanism.
I am a fifth year graduate student in the networks lab at the University of Washington. I've also spent time over the last three years teaching computer science in Pyongyang.
My research centers on how to make a more resilient web, through working with in-browser peer-to-peer and caching, and applying operating systems lessons to web frameworks.
I'm a Seattle native, taught skiing for a few years, speak some Chinese, and enjoy playing with fire.
Green Thumbs and Black Terminals: Personal Agriculture For Geeks
Want to grow your own food? Live in an apartment or have a tiny yard? Have trouble keeping houseplants alive? Concerned about monoculture and unsustainable agribusiness?
In this talk we'll cover the basics of hydroponics, aquaponics, system maintenance & automation, and how small-scale personal agriculture can help the environment and support food sovereignty.
Pavel Kirkovsky
Pavel is a collector of hobbies, ranging from vintage synthesizers to nuclear physics to pottery.
Exploiting The North American Railways
With over 139,679 route-miles of railway in the United States alone there are many ways to gain free transport, and even supplies from workers on these railways. I will explain the basics of exploiting this system to get around for free.
Jon Sonesen / Little John
I am new to software engineering professionally. At 24 I have travelled all of the lower 48 US states as well as most of the Canadian provinces by freight train in lieu of attending high school. I like punk rock, infosec, mountains, and software engineering.
The return of the revenge of Hackerboat
Hackerboat is an ongoing project to build an autonomous boat capable of circumnavigating the globe. Last Toorcamp, we did an unsuccessful ocean test. We're back to talk about what we've learned and the current state of the project and our future plans. We'll be doing some day-long autonomous trips during Toorcamp.
Pierce Nichols
I build things. Sometimes they're interesting.
Questions and answers about dbiua
A brief intro about dbiua and the opportunity to "ask anything" about out member isp.
Chris Sutton
Founder of dbiua.
Lightning Talks!
Here's a list of the submitted 5 minute talks. If you want to give a lightning talk, please just show up with a laptop and we'll do what we can to let you show what you've been working on.
The woodgas adventure
Did you know you can run an engine on wood? Starting with plans from FEMA and wanting to stay one step of the zombie apocalypse, this talk will describe the adventures of creating a practical wood gas generator out of stuff you can find at your local hardware store and use only commonly available hand tools. We will be building from scratch v3 of this woodgas generator design at Toorcamp.
Franklin Hu
Franklin Hu is a mid mannered software engineer by day, but by night becomes a mad scientist fighting scientific dogma where ever it may occur. He loves to tinker and build, creating practical inventions which are simpler and less expensive than anything else out there.
Hello Darkness, My Old Friend
Most of us live in parts of the world that are inundated with light pollution (excessive light sources). It affects natural ecosystems, our sleep cycles, and our view of the night sky. This talk will briefly go over why it happens, what the effects are, and offer ways we can mitigate this (both for ourselves and more broadly). For extra effect, maybe ToorCamp will go dark for a few hours, then we can all look up and see what we've been missing.
Luke Gotszling
I'm the founder of Peruse.io, we're creating AI that replies to your emails. Growing up, I've always liked to take things apart to see how they work, and even sometimes successfully put them back together. I like to dabble in new technologies and computer security. I'm currently training for my tenth half-marathon and looking forward to my second ToorCamp.


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The Sheridan-Johnson County chapter of the Wyoming Archaeological Society will meet Thursday.
Commencing at 6 p.m. in the Le Gourmet Room at the Sheridan Holiday Inn, the meeting is free and open to everyone.
Dinner can be order from the menu but is not required to attend.
At approximately 7:15 p.m. Forest Service Archaeologist Pat Bower will give a presentation regarding his archaeological work on Easter Island.
Reservations are not required to attend.
For more information call Scott Burgan at 673-5997.
The Holiday Inn is located at 1809 Sugarland Dr.
The Friendship Club of Sheridan (formerly the Sheridan Newcomers Club) will host a Get Acquainted Tea on Feb. 7.
From 10 a.m. to noon at the Inner Circle in Sheridan Fulmer Public Library women of all ages are welcome to enjoy punch or tea and cookies.
The tea is a chance to get to know the group, which meets for lunch the fourth Thursday of every month and offers subgroups including a book club, a Bunco group, a Pinochle group and the potential for future additions like a walking group.
For more information call Elaine Burke at 673-7321.
The WYO Theater will present "Live from The Met: Dvorak's 'Rusalka'" on Feb. 8 at 11 a.m.
The performance is part of the series "The Metropolitan Opera: Live in High-Definition" which transmits opera performances to movie theaters and other venues around the world as part of The Metropolitan Opera's efforts to reinvigorate opera and reach out to a broader public.
The program allows audiences to experience the production at the same time as the audience in New York.
"Rusalka" stars Renee Fleming in one of her signature roles alongside Piotr Beczala, Dolora Zajick and maestro Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Tickets are $18 for adults and $9 for students. Tickets may be purchased online at www.wyotheater.com, on the phone at 672-9084 extension 100 or in person at the box office, which is located inside the theater at 42 N. Main St.
The national Alzheimer's Association is hosting a rally for its Wyoming volunteers and the general public on Feb. 15.
The event will take place at the Historic Plains Hotel at Central Avenue and Lincolnway in Cheyenne from 9 a.m. to noon.
Participants will be treated to a complimentary breakfast, lunch, give-aways and door prizes.
There will also be a support group offered during the event so caregivers, their loved ones, and volunteers from throughout the state are encouraged to attend.
Agenda topics will include the Alzheimer's epidemic in Wyoming,, the latest research findings, services and support the association offers, public policy and special events in local communities and the association's future plans for the state.
Attendees are asked to RSVP by Monday to Glenda Berry at email@example.com or to Anne Aquin at 550-3618.
The disease affects 10,000 people in Wyoming and its impact extends to additional thousands of friends and family members.
The Brinton Museum, Science Kids and the Big Horn Audubon will present the next monthly "Birding at the Brinton" on Saturday.
This free morning of bird watching will run from 9-11 a.m at The Brinton Museum.
All ages and abilities are welcome to join.
Participants are encouraged to bring binoculars if they have them.
For more information see www.thebrintonmuseum.org. The museum is located at 239 Brinton Road, Big Horn.


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As a capital city, the area has long attracted prominent African Americans, including civic leaders and artists. Slaves in the District of Columbia were freed before the Emancipation Proclamation, African American men had voting rights before those elsewhere, and institutions such as Howard University have been a draw as well. But the vestiges of this history won't always be found in statues or memorials. Here are some eye-opening objects that have their own stories to tell.
The "I have a dream" etching
It's startlingly easy to overlook the five short lines of text carved into the granite on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Every day, feet tromp across those words: "I HAVE A DREAM," they begin.
The stern figure rising out of rock on the edge of the Tidal Basin wasn't the first tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Mall. The elegantly etched words at the Lincoln Memorial came before, marking the spot where King rallied an estimated 250,000 people on Aug. 28, 1963, during the March on Washington.
It wasn't until 2003, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the march, that local stone carver Andy Del Gallo was enlisted (after a law was passed by Congress allowing the addition) to etch the words that stretch no more than two feet wide. Yet they're transportive: To plant your feet on the spot is to imagine yourself there in 1963, looking out as King might have, to the people gathered as far away as the Washington Monument -- and seeing all the promise.
"The Death of Cleopatra"
In a sculpture-filled hall of the American Art Museum, there's a work on the second floor that tour guides like to stop and point to: Cleopatra.
Carved from marble, she's limp in her throne, her neck thrown back, her face frozen in unmistakable calm. Set off from the rest of the wing and displayed in its own nook with dusky purple walls, "The Death of Cleopatra" was the work of a young sculptor named Edmonia Lewis. African American and Native American, Lewis was considered to be the first professional black sculptor in U.S. history; she showed so much promise that a sponsor sent her to Rome to pursue her art, and newspapers noted her work widely. Her "Cleopatra," weighing nearly two tons, may have been her most notable piece, causing a stir when it was displayed at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876.
But the sculpture didn't arrive at the American Art Museum in style. Shortly after its early exhibitions, it turned up at a Chicago-area racetrack, where it was a grave marker for a horse and remained for nearly a century. Until, that is, it was moved unceremoniously to a salvage yard in the 1970s. When it finally arrived in the hands of American Art, it was in shambles, requiring reconstruction of the queen's nose, hands and breast, while the asp in her hand (which Cleopatra famously used to commit suicide) had to be replaced before it was unveiled by the museum in 1996. But move in close and you can still see the statue's strange journey in the worn, pocked stone.
Children regularly scramble onto the carousel on the Mall for a three-minute thrill, one which the rapidly whirling merry-go-round with the faded paint and kitschy ponies never fails to deliver.
The Smithsonian carousel was built in the 1940s by the Allan Herschell Co., but its history is far richer than the families who frequent it might suspect.
Before the carousel arrived on the Mall, it was a popular attraction at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Woodlawn, Md., one of the region's most booming parks. Gwynn Oak was, as many amusement parks were at the time, whites-only.
But in September 1955, as a wave of integration efforts was beginning to effect change in schools, restaurants and public services, a group of 40 protesters from a group known as the Congress of Racial Equality arrived at Gwynn Oak to ask why black people weren't allowed in the park, author Amy Nathan writes in her new book, "Round & Round Together." The book chronicles the carousel's place in the local civil rights movement and the broader effort to integrate amusement parks.
Protesters had begun to target the parks in part because, Nathan says, turning away children had a particular sting -- it was an injustice that clergy and political leaders couldn't ignore, and many joined the picket line.
It took years of tenacious protests, till Aug. 28, 1963, before Gwynn Oak opened its gates to all visitors. (By contrast, Glen Echo's desegregation protests began in 1960 and were successful by 1961.) The first African American family to enter the park that day were the Langleys; the ride that they chose for their wide-eyed toddler, Sharon, was the carousel.
Now, there are no signs noting that history, but "riding the merry-go-round today can give you a link to that era," Nathan says. "They got nowhere, for years, but they kept persisting and changing their strategies till it paid off."
The African American Civil Museum is dedicated to telling the story of black people in the Civil War, but the first display at the newly expanded museum starts much earlier, with the arrival of enslaved men and women on these shores. There, on a wall, you'll find the shackles.
Not more than a foot long, the small restraints -- "ship shackles," as they are known, because they were used on men and women in the belly of slave ships sailing from Africa to the West -- came to the museum from an anonymous donor who had gotten them in Ghana. They date back to the 18th or 19th century, but little else of their provenance is known.
Though the most famous slave shackles surfaced from the sunken slave ship the Henrietta Marie (the artifacts of the 1700 shipwreck became part of a popular traveling exhibit), there's something particularly haunting about the ones in the Vermont Avenue museum: You can put your hands on them, feel the cool iron, imagine how cruel it might have been to wear them or to have placed them on another human.
That, says Hari Jones, curator of the museum, is what the museum is after. "We want people to be able to touch the history. It's a connection. You can't touch the person, but you can touch the object."
Jones likes to pull an old musket from the museum's collection -- a piece that he says represents how African Americans served in the Union Army and fought for their own emancipation -- and show it to young people who come through, as a sort of addendum. "One of the things I often do with the shackles is I say, 'You can touch them, but you can't leave the museum til you appreciate how those shackles were gotten rid of.'?"
Greensboro Lunch Counter
The slab of a counter prominently displayed on the second floor of the American History Museum is eight feet long and unassuming, with just four art-deco stools -- two covered in mint-green vinyl, two in salmon-pink. It was in those seats, at that counter in an F.W. Woolworth store, that four Greensboro, N.C., college freshmen planted themselves on Feb. 1, 1960, and ordered. When employees refused to serve the young African American students, the men refused to leave. For nearly six months they continued their sit-in; they were joined by other students and supporters who eventually would occupy nearly all of the other stools at the counter, draining the restaurant of its revenue. The Greensboro sit-in was one of the watershed moments of the civil rights movement, inspiring dozens of similar sit-ins across the country. On July 25, the retailer relented, and four African Americans became the first to break bread at the newly integrated restaurant. But they weren't the Greensboro Four. They were four Woolworth employees.
The best time to see the counter (located on the second floor in the east wing) is Fridays and Sundays, when 20-minute programs with protest songs and discussions throughout the day highlight the history of the sit-in and allow guests to experience it for themselves.
In a public square next to the Cosi on 11th and G streets NW, the handful of towering bronze sculptures might go unnoticed by harried shoppers and lunchtime crowds. But the sculpture garden, a commission by African American artist Richard Hunt, one of the most prolific public sculptors in the United States, is among Washington's artistic treasures.
"I've been following his work 20 years, as a book collector," says the historian McQuirter, who chanced upon an exhibit of Hunt's work in Washington decades ago and was instantly struck by it. "I've always been attracted to abstract art, but what's interesting is that usually the artists you hear the most about are ones who deliberately depict African Americans in some way."
Not so with Hunt, who rose to wide fame in the 1970s and '80s with steel abstractions that are full of feeling, if not message. Hunt, who is based in Chicago, has a deep relationship with Washington: An exhibit organized by then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on the White House grounds included a work by Hunt, and a bronze piece, "A Bridge Across and Beyond," is installed at Howard University. And Hunt also was a member of the highly exclusive jury that selected Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
The objects at Metro Center, installed in 1992, are some of the most accessible markers of his legacy. "It's huge, gorgeous and lyrical," McQuirter says of his work. "It's like wings -- it's hopeful."
"Storming Fort Wagner"
Inside Cedar Hill, the astonishing Anacostia mansion that belonged to abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass late in his life, there are dozens of items -- books, portraits of high-profile Americans, even a set of dumbbells Douglass used to stay fit -- that could qualify as treasures. The framed, yellowed print in the foyer barely registers.
Yet it has a story to tell: The 1890 lithograph, "Storming Fort Wagner," depicts the African American 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment entering into battle with Confederate forces at Fort Wagner in July 1863, not far from Charleston, S.C.
In the image, the men make a bold advance on the white Confederate troops; their leader, Col. Robert Gould Shaw, raises his sword toward the sky in a battle cry.
Among the soldiers that day? Sgt. Maj. Lewis Douglass, one of Douglass's sons, who survived, though the unit was defeated. Another son, Charles, also was a member of the 54th, the first unit of its kind in the Civil War. Douglass, it's said, hung the piece in the home himself before his death in 1895.
As for the 54th, you might know its story: The unit inspired the movie "Glory."
The D.C. Emancipation Act at the Capitol Visitor Center
The signature on the D.C. Emancipation Act says it all: "Approved, April 16, 1862. Abraham Lincoln."
More than eight months before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in January 1863, Congress and President Abraham Lincoln turned the District into a kind of trial run, freeing nearly 3,000 people. With the act, Lincoln made the unusual promise to compensate slave owners for lost property, explains Jane Freundel Levey, chief historian for Cultural Tourism DC. "The abolition movement focused on getting Washington to free the slaves as an example," she says. "Washington has always been a laboratory for the Hill." A commission was created by the D.C. act to evaluate slave owners' claims, and 930 petitions for compensation were approved.
Some of the particulars from the D.C. Emancipation Act never made it into the Emancipation Proclamation, including the payments to slave owners, and an option to pay $100 to former slaves who chose to leave the United States after attaining their freedom.
The earlier document is at the National Archives, where it, like the Emancipation Proclamation, is only occasionally on display. But come March, to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, it will be part of an exhibit at the Capitol Visitor Center for nearly six months. Make a point of seeing it.
(On display March 12-Sept. 8)
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Thomas Carnwath, '73, was recently appointed chief information technology officer (CITO) for The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He is the first CITO for the university. He is charged with developing a centralized information and technology services division and is leading a strategic planning initiative to develop a technology blueprint for future advances in technology supporting the arts.
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Marsha Gentry Pointer, '73, is a travel agent for Marlynn Global Travel, which she began in 2006. She previously worked as an educator for 33 years, retiring from the Denver Public Schools in 2005. Marsha worked as an administrator, assistant principal, and principal. She has traveled to Alaska, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Canada. Marsha was named to Who's Who in America in 2004. She was also listed in Who's Who in Education from 2002 to 2005. In 2001 to 2004, she received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She and her husband, James, moved to St. Louis, MO, in 2006.