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About two years back, sold on cheap rent, a thriving social and art scene, and the city's futuristic infrastructure, a bunch of my Euro cool-kid friends began deeming Berlin the new Barcelona. Packed with spots, from Kulturforum to Friedrichshain Monument and on, one need not look further than recent adidas, Cons, and Habitat videos to see why.
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mutthunt wrote:Beretta I love the conversation. Lots of good points. I guess I don't feel maintaining/bettering the natural habitat is a pet project. It's a basic government function. Even though we, as a country, suck at it. If I thought private citizens/organizations could pony up the billions of $ needed to keep habitat I would be on board instantly (coming from a DU/PF member).
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I really wish I had the cash to go out and purchase ag land and convert it to native grass and wetland, but in some parts of the state I could afford about a half acre. I'll gladly take land the government owns/subsidizes.
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I really wish I had the cash to go out and purchase ag land and convert it to native grass and wetland, but in some parts of the state I could afford about a half acre. I'll gladly take land the government owns/subsidizes.
Good luck with that ive seen farmers bulldoze a 10 acre farm site under the ground and there was a house a huge barn grainery couple sheds and other buildings rather then sell the land.
mutthunt wrote:IIf it's not the farmers, it's the out of state money bags. I'm from NE Iowa, and so many of the land purchases are being made by millionaires form the east/west coast. They don't give a lick about the local impact, they just throw down $20,000/acre and wait to see their investment matriculate.
At $20,000/acre maybe I could take out a loan for 15 feet of fence-line to call my own.
Labs wrote:756B of a 956B farm bill goes to food stamps....what? How exactly is that helping the farmers and our environment? Nice job Washington...
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mauserfan wrote:Labs-unfortunately this is business as usual. If you can lobby, you will receive-i.e. Koch Industries. Foodstamps have been part of this for quite awhile and appears as they trimmed it back a bit. Farmers will receive differently now, which may translate to less habitat. I would be intertested to hear from direct Ag related individuals as to this bill. I have not been able to get ahold of my Ranching friends as they are busy tending cattle with this weather. There are some on this forum bemoaning the support of our ag industry and it looks like they may have possibly have gotten their wishes- unfortunately ....Keep warm...mauser
mauserfan wrote:Labs- Thanks for your input. I agree that we need a change in how things are done. Single terms, trim federal legacy benefits for non military, extinguish lobbyists and the list could go on and on. Short of a revolution, how this gets accomplished is beyond me. There are too many people making too much money in too many key positions at this stage of the game. I would still like to hear from some other Ag related individuals out there and get their impression of this bill.....mauser
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I read a comment on my twitter timeline sometime back. It read "how long before China fakes an entire city". Looking at how well someone had copied authentic Apple Store in Kunming, China, the comment wasn't really out of place. China is known for ripoffs, be it cars, accessories or mobiles. But faking an entire store, wow!
Chinese officials have now swung into action. They have visited as many as 'five' fake Apple Stores in Kunming itself and have ordered two of them to shut down. The three stores that were visited by BirdAborad have NOT been shut as they had a official license to trade and were selling official Apple products (not counterfeits).
While we see some action by Chinese officials, this is odd. The stores reported by BirdAbroad are certainly infringing Apple's IP and are imitating authentic Apple Stores. Given the fact that the shows were a total (beautiful as termed in her original post by BirdAbroad), guess Apple would sooner or later get into action in China. They have made no comments so far.
China is a $5 billion market for Apple and it's growing a massive pace given Cupertino's increased investment in China. Apple has it's own stores in Beijing and Shanghai, but they certainly have plans to go China wide soon. Apple is known to defend its IP vigorously. If I were Apple, I would be more worried about fake Apple products being sold and not the fake stores to being with.


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Alex Smith is acting like he's still the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers.
But he hasn't convinced Michael Crabtree that he's going to be back under center this season.
Crabtree joined 49ers teammates for a player-led workout on Monday that was organized by Smith. The QB is unsigned, but has said he expects to be back in San Francisco playing for new coach Jim Harbaugh this year.
Crabtree talked with reporters after the session and was asked how it he thought chemistry with the quarterback would improve by getting out and tossing balls with him.
"Who's the quarterback?" Crabtree said, via the Sacramento Bee.
Smith's name was mentioned.
"He's the quarterback? I'm just asking," Crabtree said.
The 2009 first-round pick has not yet lived up to expectations as the 10th overall pick after catching a combined 103 passes for 1,366 yards and eight TDs in two seasons.
The 49ers drafted QB Colin Kaepernick in the second round in April. But Smith, the first overall pick in 2005 by San Francisco, has a chance to remain as the steady veteran hand for a while longer.
Crabtree was asked about his feelings about Smith.
"Whoever the quarterback is, I'm gonna do my job," he said.
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Early clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord is widely practised as part of the management of labour, but recent studies suggest that it may be harmful to the baby. So should we now delay the clamping?
Early clamping of the cord was one of the first routine medical interventions in labour. Its place in modern births was guaranteed by its incorporation into the triad of interventions that make up the active management of the third stage of labour. The earliest references are clear about the other two components of active management—oxytocin to contract the uterus and prevent postpartum haemorrhage, and controlled cord traction to prevent retention of the placenta.1 But early cord clamping had no specific rationale, and it probably entered the protocol by default because it was already part of standard practice. When this package was shown to reduce postpartum haemorrhage in the 1980s early cord clamping became enshrined in the modern management of labour.
But it has not been accepted everywhere. In Europe, although 90% (1052/1175) of units recommend uterotonic prophylaxis, only 66% (770/1175) recommend early cord clamping and 41% (481/1175) recommend controlled cord traction.2 The rate of early cord clamping varies from 17% (4/23) of units in Denmark to 90% (98/109) in France.2
So what is the evidence behind cord clamping? For the mother, trials show that early cord clamping has no effect on the risk of retained placenta or postpartum haemorrhage.3 4 Evidence from a Cochrane review supports this result—prophylactic oxytocin reduces the risk of postpartum haemorrhage whether the rest of the active management package is adopted or not.5
But what about the baby? Initially, the cord blood continues to flow, sending oxygenated blood back to the fetus while respiration becomes established, ensuring a good handover between the respiratory systems. At the time of the first fetal breath, however, the reduction in intrathoracic pressure draws blood into the lungs from the umbilical vein. So long as the cord is unclamped the average transfusion to the newborn is 19 ml/kg birth weight, equivalent to 21% of the neonate's final blood volume (figure(figure).6 The final amount is unaffected by the use of oxytocics or the position of the baby relative to the placenta.6 7 Three quarters of the transfusion occurs in the first minute after birth. The rate of transfer can be increased by the use of intravenous uterotonics (to 89%), or by holding the newborn 40 cm below the level of the placenta.6 8
For the term baby, the main effect of this large autotransfusion is to increase iron status and shift the normal curve of the neonatal haematocrit to the right. This may be life saving in areas where anaemia is endemic. Here, late cord clamping increases the average haemoglobin concentration by 11 g/l at four months.9 In the developed world, however, there have been concerns that it could increase the risk of neonatal polycythaemia and hyperbilirubinaemia. Trials show this is not the case. Delayed cord clamping seems to drive up mean haematocrit values and serum concentrations of bilirubin, without increasing the number of infants needing treatment for jaundice or polycythaemia.7
For preterm babies the beneficial effects of delayed cord clamping may be greater. Although the studies are smaller, delayed clamping is consistently associated with reductions in anaemia, intraventricular haemorrhage, and the need for transfusion for hypovolaemia and anaemia.10 The one exception may be growth restricted babies who are already at risk of hypoxia induced polycythaemia.11
How should we approach cord clamping in practice? In normal deliveries, delaying cord clamping for three minutes with the baby on the mother's abdomen should not be too difficult. The situation is a little more complex for babies born by caesarean section or for those who need support soon after birth. Nevertheless, it is these babies who may benefit most from a delay in cord clamping. For them, a policy of "wait a minute" would be pragmatic.11 Indeed, this first minute is already largely spent on neonatal assessment. This could be done in warmed towels on the birthing bed or the mother's abdomen after vaginal delivery, or on the mother's legs at caesarean section. Cord clamping need only take place when transfer to the resuscitation trolley is required. For medicolegal purposes it will be important to document the time at which the cord was clamped, as delayed clamping reduces pH values in umbilical artery blood samples.12
There is now considerable evidence that early cord clamping does not benefit mothers or babies and may even be harmful. Both the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) have dropped the practice from their guidelines. It is time for others to follow their lead and find practical ways of incorporating delayed cord clamping into delivery routines. In these days of advanced technology, it is surely not beyond us to find a way of keeping the cord intact during the first minute of neonatal resuscitation.
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"When I came to Cortland for the first time, I could just tell that everyone enjoyed being here. It might sound like a small thing, but everyone had Cortland gear on. I just liked that about the atmosphere."
Jeremy and approximately 400 other Division III student-athletes at the College seek the appropriate work-life balance between athletics and academics. In fact, the ability to pursue excellence on both levels while maintaining a fulfilling social life won him over during the college selection process.
"When I came to Cortland for the first time, I could just tell that everyone enjoyed being here," Jeremy says. "It might sound like a small thing, but everyone had Cortland gear on. I just liked that about the atmosphere."
He felt comfortable from day one, as both a capable business economics major and a reliable shooting guard on the basketball squad. And the results certainly showed it. He appeared in every game during his career, emerging as one of the team's leaders as a sophomore.
And just as Jeremy's role on the hardwood ascended, so too did his appreciation for what he learned in the classroom. A Principles of Marketing class helped him develop foundational real-world skills and interest in a future job. He now finds himself able to articulate business ideas in a presentation as easily as he can knock down three pointers in crunch time.
His calm, business-like demeanor also helped Jeremy play a pivotal role in his team's success and earn several individual honors along the way.
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Moscow is one of the world's most theatrical cities, its boulevards and squares built for performances at a large scale. One of the grandest of all these thoroughfares lined with sculptural structures is Noviy Arbat, or New Arbat Street. Cutting through one of the city's oldest neighborhoods, it delineates what the Soviets hoped would be a boundless future. Today it is a haven of capitalism, but it still retains a grandeur that rises above the shops and almost continual traffic jams. It shows that while bigger and more brutal might not be better, it can certainly create exciting and effective urbanism.
The New Arbat's roots lie in a Stalin-era 1935 plan to facilitate movement and point the way towards ex-urban expansion through roads that would radiate from the core. These roads would run past the Garden Boulevard that defined historic Moscow toward row after row of new homes, punctuated by state institutions, for the new Soviet citizen. War and subsequent shortages delayed construction on most of them; by the time Khrushchev gave the final go-ahead for the plan, in 1959, styles had changed, and what was going to be a street lined with Neoclassical walls became a row of high-rise towers behind a two-story line of stores. Its chief architect, Vasileyvich Posokhin, who was also city architect, had started as a Constructivist before working as a proper Neoclassical Stalinist. But here, he showed himself a convert to what until then was seen as a "foreign" modernism of abstract volumes and little decoration. He used a prefabrication system called tipizatsiia (prefabricated concrete panels on steel frames) to speed construction—once the State had ruthlessly cleared out the existing buildings and their inhabitants.
It could have been awful. Instead, it is dramatic. Posokhin contrasted a row of "open book" designs whose angles create an angular rhythm on the street's south side, with square towers on the north. (These were originally office buildings, but Khrushchev had them turned into apartments.) The commercial plinth brings the whole composition down to human scale, though the street's immense width—typical for Moscow—does not make you feel enclosed. There is space and movement everywhere around you, from the wing and block counterpoint to the rush of cars past you.
To mark the New Arbat's leap over the Moscow River, Posokhin designed a tower for the Council for Economic Cooperation (Comecon: a sort of anti–European Union) as a compacting of the book buildings. Its two curved wings around a central core are sleeker details than featured on many New Arbat buildings; the tower's completion came about five years after the initial construction of the Street, between 1959 and 1963. Comecon answers the Ukraina, one of the Stalinist "Seven Sisters" skyscrapers, just across the river.
I had the fortune in staying in what is now the Hotel Ukraina last week during one of my trips to Moscow as a member of the Skolkovo Urban Council. I could not help but stand in my room and stare at this magnificent prospect, so wrong in terms of everything we have been taught about making varied, small-scaled urban interventions. Here is a space that is too big and too repetitive, too singular in its functions, and too relentless in its rhythms. Yet few boulevards can match it for its ability to make you feel as if you are part of a larger place, and to make you feel like dancing, like the tower blocks. The syncopation of forms, the sheer breadth of space, and the limited amount of materials also make it feel like a different reality, wholly created by humans, that rises above the confusion of the everyday. I went downstairs, crossed the river, and walked the Street's whole length, more than a mile. I never felt tired.


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Hernando ace and USF signee Brandon Lawson was recently selected to compete in an international tournament this summer in Prague, his dad, Dave, said in an email.
Lawson will represent the United States in the United States Specialty Sports Association's tournament, from June 21-30.
The 6-foot-2, 180-pound senior was the Times' North Suncoast pitcher of the year last spring. He helped the Leopards reach the Class 5A region final by posting a 1.87 ERA with 100 strikeouts on the mound and batting in 20 runs at the plate.
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By ALLEN G. BREED and
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NEWTOWN, Conn. — Opening a long and almost unbearable procession of grief, Newtown began burying its dead Monday, laying to rest two 6-year-old boys — one who was crazy about the New York Giants and one whose twin sister survived the rampage.
Two funeral homes filled with mourners for Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto, the first of the 20 children killed in last week's school massacre to receive funerals.
The gunman also killed six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary, and his mother in her home, before committing suicide.
A rabbi presided at Noah's service, and in keeping with Jewish tradition, the boy was laid to rest in a simple brown wooden casket with a Star of David on it.
"If Noah had not been taken from us, he would have become a great man. He would been a wonderful husband and a loving father," Noah's uncle, Alexis Haller, told mourners, according to remarks he provided to The Associated Press. Both services were closed to the news media.
Noah's twin, Arielle, who was assigned to a different classroom, survived the killing frenzy by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, an attack so horrifying that authorities could not say three days later whether the school would ever reopen.
Newtown, a community of 27,000 people, will face many more funerals over the next few days, just as other towns are getting ready for the holidays.
"I feel like we have to get back to normal, but I don't know if there is normal anymore," said Kim Camputo, mother of two children, 5 and 10, who attend a different school. "I'll definitely be dropping them off and picking them up myself for a while."
Beyond Newtown, parents nervously sent their children back to class in a country deeply shaken by the attack, and in a measure of how the tragedy has put people on edge, schools were locked down in at least four places.
As investigators worked to figure out what drove Lanza to lash out with such fury — and why he singled out the school — federal agents said he had fired guns at shooting ranges over the past several years but there was no evidence he did so recently as practice for the rampage.
At Jack's Christian service, hymns rang out from inside the funeral home, where the boy lay in an open casket. Jack was among the youngest members of a youth wrestling association in Newtown, and dozens of little boys turned up at the service in gray Newtown Wrestling T-shirts.
Ten-year-old Luke Wellman remembered a boy who loved football and wrestling and worshipped Victor Cruz, the star wide receiver for the Giants. Cruz played in Sunday's game with "Jack Pinto 'My Hero'" written on one of his cleats.
Luke said: "I'm here to support my teammate and friend."
A mourner, Gwendolyn Glover, said the service carried a message of comfort and protection, particularly for other children. "The message was: You're secure now. The worst is over," she said.
At Noah's funeral, the boy was described a smart, funny and mischievous child who loved animals, Mario Brothers video games and tacos.
"I will miss your forceful and purposeful little steps stomping through our house. I will miss your perpetual smile, the twinkle in your dark blue eyes, framed by eyelashes that would be the envy of any lady in this room," his mother, Veronique Pozner, told mourners, according to Haller.
"Most of all, I will miss your visions of your future. You wanted to be a doctor, a soldier, a taco factory manager. It was your favorite food, and no doubt you wanted to ensure that the world kept producing tacos," she said, evoking laughter from the crowd.
She closed by saying: "Momma loves you, little man."
At both funeral homes, as around the country, people wrestled with what steps could and should be taken to prevent something like the massacre from happening again.
"If people want to go hunting, a single-shot rifle does the job, and that does the job to protect your home, too. If you need more than that, I don't know what to say," Ray DiStephan said outside Noah's funeral.
He added: "I don't want to see my kids go to schools that become maximum-security fortresses. That's not the world I want to live in, and that's not the world I want to raise them in."
Around the country, school systems asked police departments to increase patrols Monday and sent messages to parents outlining safety procedures. Teachers steeled themselves for their students' questions and fears.
Richard Cantlupe, an American history teacher at Westglades Middle School in Parkland, Fla., described the Connecticut rampage as "our 9/11 for schoolteachers."
Anxiety ran high enough in Ridgefield, Conn., about 20 miles from Newtown, that officials ordered a lockdown at schools after a person deemed suspicious was seen at a train station. Two schools were locked down in South Burlington, Vt., because of an unspecified threat.
Three schools in the Tampa, Fla., area did the same after a bullet was found on the floor of a school bus, and a New Hampshire high school went into emergency mode after an administrator heard a loud bang. A police search found nothing suspicious.
Meanwhile, the outlines of a national debate on gun control began to take shape. At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney said curbing gun violence is a complex problem that will require a "comprehensive solution."
Carney did not offer specific proposals or a timeline. He said President Barack Obama will meet with law enforcement officials and mental health professionals in coming weeks.
Lanza is believed to have used a Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle, a civilian version of the military's M-16. It is similar to the weapon used in a recent shopping mall shooting in Oregon and other deadly attacks around the U.S. Versions of the AR-15 were outlawed in this country under the 1994 assault weapons ban, but the law expired in 2004.
At least one senator, Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia, said Monday that the attack in Newtown has led him to rethink his opposition to the ban on assault weapons.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who is an avid hunter and lifelong member of the National Rifle Association, said it is time to move beyond the political rhetoric and begin an honest discussion about reasonable restrictions on guns.
He added: "This is bigger than just about guns. It's about how we treat people with mental illness, how we intervene, how we get them the care they need, how we protect our schools. It's just so sad."
Authorities say Lanza shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their home and then took her car and some of her guns to the school, where he broke in and opened fire. A Connecticut official said the mother, a gun enthusiast who practiced at shooting ranges, was found dead in her pajamas in bed, shot four times in the head with a .22-caliber rifle.
Lanza was wearing all black, with an olive-drag utility vest with lots of pockets, during the attack.
Investigators have found no letters or diaries that could explain the rampage.
Debora Seifert, a spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said both Lanza and his mother fired at shooting ranges, and also visited ranges together. "We do not have any indication at this time that the shooter engaged in shooting activities in the past six months," Seifert told the AP.
In Newtown, classes were canceled Monday, and the town's other schools were to reopen Tuesday. The district made plans to send surviving Sandy Hook students to a former middle school in the neighboring town of Monroe.
Sandy Hook desks are being taken to the Chalk Hill school in Monroe, empty since town schools consolidated last year, and tradesmen are donating their services to get the school ready within a matter of days.
"These are innocent children that need to be put on the right path again," Monroe police Lt. Brian McCauley said.
With Sandy Hook Elementary still designated a crime scene, state police Lt. Paul Vance said it could be months before police turn the school back over to the district. The people of Newtown were not ready to address its future.
"We're just now getting ready to talk to our son about who was killed," said Robert Licata, the father of a student who escaped harm during the shooting. "He's not even there yet."
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Two new West Coast Express train cars are here!
Two of our new West Coast Express (WCE) train cars are now here!
We have seven of these train cars on order for 2010, thanks to investment from the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia, as well as our own funding. The two new cars are the first to arrive, and were unveiled to the media today at the VIA Rail station near Main Street. (WCE cars are maintained at VIA Rail—we're also currently investing in upgrades to their maintenance facilities.)
The new arrivals bump the West Coast Express fleet to 44 passenger cars, up from the current 37. That's room for 2,000 riders a day, which translates into a 20 per cent increase in capacity—West Coast Express currently carries a daily average of 10,500 today, more than double its initial ridership of 5,000 a day.
The two cars here are currently undergoing testing, and we expect to put them into service in early September. The rest of the cars are still being made by Bombardier in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and are slated to arrive by the end of October and start service by the end of the year.
The new cars have some new improvements, including a new paint scheme (it's blue instead of purple now), a revised bike area that provides more seating, and automatic doors to let you pass between train cars!
Check out this press release for more information, and see the rest of this post for more photos and video!
I shot the video above to give you a rough idea of how the automatic doors work. Press the button to open the first door, and the second one will open afterward via motion sensor!
As well, this year marks West Coast Express's fifteenth anniversary—they've been in service since November 1, 1995! Stay tuned for more info on how WCE is celebrating and how you can be involved :)
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By Eric B, August 26, 2010 @ 4:25 pm
I don't think I saw anything here or in the press release, but will the new cars just be added on to the existing trains? Put another way: will there be a sixth scheduled train departure for WCE?
Can't wait to see what WCE has in store for its 15th anniversary!
By Eric B, August 26, 2010 @ 4:34 pm
Thanks for the quick reply! I knew there might be some operational issues with CP for additional departures.
So is a seven-car train the maximum that can fit into station platforms?
By Daniel, August 26, 2010 @ 4:38 pm
Oh your not a dork jhennifer! When these are testing, are they going to be running on the tracks on the line?
By Ric, August 26, 2010 @ 5:54 pm
Great to hear that there are new trains arriving. I can't wait to ride on of these. It's too bad that the new trains wouldn't be able to extend the service to 6 WCE departures a day or allow the WCE to run in both directions during the day.
Here are some questions about the new trains:
1) Do the new trains have the 3D textured vinyl seats like the ones found on the new skytrains and buses?
2) Can these trains be coupled together with the older WEC trains?
3) Do these trains have LED or fluorescent lighting?
4) Are these new trains going to to replace and retire some of the older trains?
Btw, is that you pressing the door button in the video? Here is something that I wonder about. If the new trains have the new car smell, I wonder why new buses don't.
By ericmk, August 26, 2010 @ 6:01 pm
Those new train cars look great! In all but one picture (the second to last) the train colour looks purple instead of blue. Does it seem like that in real life?
By ;-), August 26, 2010 @ 7:09 pm
With the additional cars, they may end up as "sleepers"…. that is they hang off the end of the platform, but you access them through the other cars…. The current platforms are already too short for the current train lengths.
Love the automated door openers…. those train doors are heavy.
After what happened with the "fast ferries", perhaps Translink should get into the train and bus building business and build their own vehicles.
By Jim, August 26, 2010 @ 8:12 pm
Hey Jhenifer,
Great post and your not dork like at all on the contrary your very normal and with out you we wouldn't all get these fabulous photo you take and post so if anything your doing a superb job and I am enjoying very much checking out all the pictures. Will you be doing a future post on the refurbishing of the WCE trains once that is under way? Would love to see the before and after and find out what they plan on doing to the train cars that are being refurbished.
By Tim, August 26, 2010 @ 9:43 pm
The West Coast Express ridership is going to vaporize when riders transfer onto the SkyTrain at the new Evergreen Line in Coquitlam in 2014.
The original cars were bought used from the Government of Ontario so I suppose these will end up replacing them, and the old cars eventually used for spares.
By Matthew Buchanan, August 26, 2010 @ 11:07 pm
You're not a dork Jhen, thanks for the pictures! I got off VIA's Canadian on Monday morning and noticed them on the other platform, I thought they might be new as I didn't see any dust on them! To me the blue/purple looked the same as the old cars.
Tim: The original cars weren't bought used from the Govt of Ontario, they were new from Bombardier.
Ric: they are compatible with the old cars, They're pretty much exactly the same.
By Elfren Ordanza, August 27, 2010 @ 6:35 am
What an impression of the new West Coast Express cars.
I can't wait to ride in one of those new trains. :)
When I first looked at them, I thought the paint scheme was the same until I read the part that the pain scheme is Blue instead of Purple. Nice new cars though.
By Elfren Ordanza, August 27, 2010 @ 6:40 am
Does the old West Coast Express cars have the automatic doors between the cars?
By rubai, August 27, 2010 @ 7:23 am
thanks for the great pictures, jhen! :)
By JustMe, August 27, 2010 @ 8:13 am
wow.. they look so shiny!
By Nick, August 27, 2010 @ 9:36 am
what do you mean, 5-car sets? The train I take in the morning has 9 cars! I can't imagine adding 2 more cars to this set, as it's already far longer than the platform as it is.
It would be so much nicer if they could've added another full train.. :(
By vfk, August 27, 2010 @ 7:05 pm
I love panoramas…. it gives a better perspective of what's avaialble. It's so easy with Photoshop…. don't hesistate to make more.
By Donald, August 28, 2010 @ 7:41 am
@Tim Ever after the Evergreen Line opens, West Coast Express ridership will NOT vapourize. If anything it may even increase ridership east of Coquitlam.
Coquitlam to Waterfront on West Coast Express: 30 minutes.
Coquitlam to Waterfront via Skytrain: 44 minutes plus transfer time
Most of the cars were purchased brand new from Bombardier, a few were leased from Florida before we bought it outright. For quite a number of years these cars had their original Florida paint scheme with the West Coast Express logo slapped on top of it before they got repainted to the West Coast Express paint scheme when we officially owned them.
By Donald, August 28, 2010 @ 7:44 am
Oh and from what I heard, they were going to add a car to each of the sets. Just a rumour though. The 9-car train runs are also overcrowded with quite a few standees so lengthening them to 10-cars would mean they would overhang the other way. No biggie.
By Jacob, August 28, 2010 @ 9:56 am
Actually Donald,
Coquitlam center to Waterfront on West Coast Express: $6.75, 30 minutes.
Coquitlam center to Waterfront via Skytrain: $5.00, >45 minutes
Coquitlam center to Burrard on 190: $5.00, 25 minutes
You see, the 190 can save you time and money.
By Eric B, August 28, 2010 @ 10:49 am
@Jacob: Where do you get 25 min for the 190? The only westbound trip takes 55 min: http://www.translink.ca/~/media/Route_Files/66/timetables/tt190.ashx
And I'm not sure how attractive SkyTrain would be from Coquitlam to downtown, regardless of travel time, if it requires a transfer at Lougheed (or Broadway/Commercial), when WCE/160/190 takes you there directly.
By fishbowl, August 31, 2010 @ 8:26 am
donald: AFAIK the Florida cars were themselves GO Train castoffs, and were used only by WCE temporarily. They were incompatible with WCE cars so were confined to run alone on train W1/E5 which was three cars long. When the 3xx cars were delivered they left WCE property. My claim to fame was filling in a comment card regarding the awful pink end walls — within two weeks, WCE had applied blue vinyl to them to modernize the appearance. How's that for customer service!
Other tidbits – they had tinted windows for the Florida sun, something missing at 6am/6pm on a winter's day here! Many times the train was late because the doors were jammed or similar, and if I recall correctly one car was unfit for service towards the end, leaving only a two-car train. When they went back, WCE held a celebration, amongst other things passengers received a ballpoint pen in the shape of a palm tree.
By Jacob, September 2, 2010 @ 10:20 am
The 6:11 190 bus takes 45 minutes, and the time I took it, it was 15 minutes early!!!
By Elfren Ordanza, September 2, 2010 @ 6:40 pm
Will some of the new cars be connected to the old cars?
By mtn, September 13, 2010 @ 4:10 am
Elfren: Answer is yes, rode train #4 in on Friday, and it had new cars #401 and 402 in the middle
By Donald, September 13, 2010 @ 12:28 pm
@Jacob there is NO WAY the 190 can get from Coquitlam to Waterfront in 30 minutes. Everytime I've taken the 160(AM) and 190(PM) it takes a minimum 40 minutes in the AM toward from Port Moody to Vancouver and 50 minutes in the PM towards Port Moody. You may have travelled on an exception day… Once the 791 took less than 25 minutes to get from Pitt Meadows to Braid Station, about 20 minutes quicker than scheduled, but a feat that's never been reproduced. On a good day the bus arrives on schedule, on a bad day the bus arrives 15 minutes late. 98% of the time the West Coast Express arrives as scheduled from Port Moody to Waterfront in 25 minutes.
Anyway, it seems that trains #3 and #4 (AM and PM) have been lengthened from 9-cars to 11-cars.
By Donald, September 14, 2010 @ 3:19 pm
Whoops yea my bad, they are 10-car not 11-car!
By Ric, September 20, 2010 @ 1:21 pm
Is the West coast express automated like the skytrain or is there a driver?
By ;-), September 21, 2010 @ 12:46 am
WCE's have a driver…. trains that have pedestrians and vehicle crossings are best with a driver….
By TheAverageJoe, October 5, 2010 @ 11:51 am
The Tri Rail cars where never from GO transit but built to GO transit specs as the Flordia line was only to be in service during highway work but they ended up keeping the line in service. Reason why it was painted in GO like colours was in case they didnt keep the line up and the cars could be sold to GO
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I have done pretty much everything, as you can see i have a hatch, ive put rubber tubing in between, tightened every dang screw and even zip tied part of it but no matter what i do my sub rattles the license plate...any tips to stop it?
i used to fold up business cards on my 2003. others use tampons. lol. whatever gets the job done
Make the liscense plate heavier ( dynamat or something helps)...Also attach it at all 4 corners if need be
You need a little soundproofing without a doubt.
dynamat the back of the plate and inside the hatch. that will help, but may not get rid of it with just that. depends what your setup is, but it could take a lot to completely get rid of all the rattle in the hatch.
my plate doesnt rattle. dynamat the license plate and the hatch door. before dynamating the hatch door fill the door with expandle foam. pop the license plate lenses out and just let them hang there. put some tape over the opening for the lenses. this keeps the wires from getting stuck in the foam, might have to dig a little foam out to make the lights fit in. just make sure there is some room for the light so they dont get to close to the foam. open the hatch and take the plastic panel of the door. cover all the small holes with tape and then start filling the door with foam. once the door is full of foam use card board and tape the block of the holes and it will take a good amount of time to dry. with temps around 60-70 degress here it wook about 1-2days untill it was fully cured. i just simply stripped my hatch from all carpet and plastic trim peices and closed the door and drove around like that. after its fully dried you will need to clean up the extra that makes it way through an gaps you didnt see. adds weight and strengtens it. actualy got rear ended and no damage was done. got lucky and didnt even get a scratch.
takes about 2-3 cans and can be bought at walmart or any home repair store such as home depot or lowes
wow thats a great idea alaskan...but a little too much work...maybe if i get a better system one day but for now i think dynomat should work
Dynamat is over-priced. There are cheaper more effective deadeners out there.
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Cars of the future could allow drivers to simply enjoy the ride
UMKC professor's U.S. Air Force research could produce vehicles with minds of their ownIf Professor Vijay Kumar's project goes as planned, maybe texting while driving will not be the issue it is today. An automatic system would guide cars on their way, leaving the "driver" free to text, shave or even nap! Such a system could be used for national defense purposes, as well.
This summer, University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Computing and Engineering (SCE) Professor Vijay Kumar is designing and developing a prototype of a "self-synchronizing moving objects" system under the summer fellowship program at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, N.Y. In the fall, Kumar said he will seek funding from AFRL and other sources to complete the prototype at his SCE lab.
"It will be similar to an automatic pilot, as in an airplane," Kumar said. "Initially, a voice-activated system will give commands to the driver that he or she will follow. Later, a fully-automatic system will be developed in which the driver would not have any role to play, except to just enjoy the drive!"
Kumar and his team will investigate how cars can self-synchronize to move along roads and through intersections without conflict. System tests will be conducted with programmed toy cars. Thus, instead of controlling traffic with traffic lights and stop signs, Kumar's system would install traffic management logic and functionality in every vehicle. Each vehicle would be fitted with sensors that can communicate position, speed and direction with other vehicles, allowing the vehicles to make informed decisions.
After developing expertise in two-dimensional spaces, such as vehicles on a road, Kumar would expand the system to handle multi-dimensional spaces, such as airplanes in the sky. Kumar's Ph.D. student, Amol Khedkar, is working to expand the scheme to three-dimensional spaces.
Eventually, the team plans to demonstrate the system to the Missouri Department of Transportation.
"We are quite optimistic that this will work, because it works in a simplified manner for unmanned automatic vehicles, such as the Predator," Kumar said. "Eventually, all cars could be managed by our scheme. By that time, the majority of cars will have electric engines, which will make it easier to deploy sensors that are an essential component of our scheme."
In addition to developing a self-synchronizing scheme for vehicles, Kumar is involved in the development of an object tracking system to track any desired vehicle at AFRL. The system will first identify the vehicle to track and then initiate the tracking process. Such a tracking system would help the ground command control a hijacked plane's movement, for example. Improving the system, Kumar said, would increase national security and allow pilots to successfully complete mission-critical projects.
The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), one of four University of Missouri campuses, is a public university serving more than 14,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UMKC engages with the community and economy based on a four-part mission: life and health sciences; visual and performing arts; urban issues and education; and a vibrant learning and campus life experience.
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Treasurer Tim Nicholls has seized on reports from prominent rating agencies to argue the government is taking the right steps to improve the state's budget position.
"I have just received reports from both Moody's and Standard and Poors, who were both concerned at the state of Queensland's finances," Mr Nicholls told a state budget lunch at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
"And now neither of them are predicting a further downward slide unlike South Australia, which yesterday lost its AAA credit rating.
"As a matter of fact, in the medium to longer term, we are looking at an upward path of getting our AAA credit rating back."
Moody's yesterday cut South Australia's rating to A1, blaming persistent deficits and mounting debt.
The same ratings agency said the Queensland government would have "considerable challenges"' achieving projected spending targets. Moody's, which has Aa1 rating on the state, says Queensland needs to make structural changes to meet the shortfall between government revenue and spending.
Another ratings agency, Standard & Poor's, said an improvement in Queensland's existing AA+ rating was unlikely in the short term as the outlook for royalty revenues and GST payments remained uncertain.
In an address today to a somewhat subdued crowd, Mr Nicholls acknowledged a lot of work still needed to be done.
"But at least we are looking up, rather than looking down," he said.
It was almost as if there was an alternative Brisbane at lunchtime on the south side of the Brisbane River where Mr Nicholls presented the traditional state budget lunch for the party faithful.
In contrast to the noisy protests in the CBD involving between 8000 and 10,000 people concerned about public sector job cuts, about 800 LNP members, politicians, private sector firms and their guests very quietly dined as Mr Nicholls summarised his 2012-13 budget.
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{"result": {"seebug": [{"lastseen": "2017-02-11T08:59:28", "references": [], "description": "\nDetails: \nTicketbleed (CVE-2016-9244) is a software vulnerability in the TLS stack of certain F5 products that allows a remote attacker to extract up to 31 bytes of uninitialized memory at a time, which can contain any kind of random sensitive information, like in Heartbleed. If you suspect you might be affected by this vulnerability, you can find details and mitigation instructions at [ticketbleed.com](https://ticketbleed.com) (including an online test) or in the [F5 K05121675 article](https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05121675). ! [](http://paper.seebug.org/content/images/2017/02/ticketbleed--1-.png) In this post we'll talk about how Ticketbleed was found, verified and reported. ## JIRA RG-XXX It all started with a bug report from a customer using Cloudflare [Railgun](https://www.cloudflare.com/website-optimization/railgun/). > **rg-listener <> origin requests fail with \"local error: unexpected message\"** > > A PCAP of the rg-listener <> origin traffic is attached and shows a TLS alert being triggered during the handshake. > > Worth noting the customer is using an F5 Load Balancer in front of the Railgun and the Origin Web Server: `visitor > edge > cache > rg-sender > F5 > rg-listener > F5 > origin web server` > > Matthew was unable to replicate by using a basic TLS. Dial in Go so this seems tricky so far. A bit of context on Railgun: Railgun speeds up requests between the Cloudflare edge and the origin web site by establishing a permanent optimized connection and performing delta compression on HTTP responses. ! [](http://paper.seebug.org/content/images/2017/02/railgun-diagram-how-it-works-with.svg) The Railgun connection uses a custom binary protocol over TLS, and the two endpoints are Go programs: one on the Cloudflare edge and one installed on the customer servers. This means that the whole connection goes through the Go's TLS stack, crypto/tls. That connection failing with `local error: unexpected message` means that the customer\u2019s side of the connection sent something that confused the Go TLS stack of the Railgun running on our side. Since the customer is running an F5 load balancer between their Railgun and ours, this points towards an **incompatibility between the Go's TLS stack and the F5 one**. However, when my colleague Matthew tried to reproduce the issue by connecting to the load balancer with a simple Go `crypto/tls. Dial`, it succeeded. ## PCAP diving Since Matthew sits at a desk opposite of mine in the Cloudflare London office, he knew I've been working with the Go's TLS stack for our TLS 1.3 implementation. We quickly ended up in a joint debugging session. Here's the PCAP we were staring at. ! [](http://paper.seebug.org/content/images/2017/02/pcap.png) So, there's the ClientHello, right. The ServerHello, so far so good. And then immediately a ChangeCipherSpec. Oh. Ok. A ChangeCipherSpec is how TLS 1.2 says \"let's switch to encrypted\". The only way a ChangeCipherSpec can come this early in a 1.2 handshake, is if session resumption happened. And indeed, by focusing on the ClientHello we can see that the Railgun client sent a Session Ticket. ! [](http://paper.seebug.org/content/images/2017/02/ticket.png) A Session Ticket carries some encrypted key material from a previous session to allow the server to resume that previous session immediately instead of negotiating a new one. ! [](http://paper.seebug.org/content/images/2017/02/TLS-1-3-010.png) _To learn more about the session resumption in TLS 1.2, watch the first part of [the Cloudflare Crypto Team TLS 1.3 talk](https://blog.cloudflare.com/tls-1-3-explained-by-the-cloudflare-crypto-team-at-33c3/), [read the transcript](https://blog.cloudflare.com/tls-1-3-overview-and-q-and-a/), or the [\"TLS Session Resumption\" post](https://blog.cloudflare.com/tls-session-resumption-full-speed-and-secure/) on the Cloudflare blog._ After that ChangeCipherSpec both Railgun and Wireshark get pretty confused (HelloVerifyRequest? Umh?). So we have reason to believe the issue is related to Session Tickets. In Go you have to explicitly enable Session Tickets on the client side by setting a `ClientSessionCache`. We verified that indeed Railgun uses this functionality and wrote this small test: `` package main import ( \"crypto/tls\" ) func main() { conf := &tls.; Config{ InsecureSkipVerify: true, ClientSessionCache: tls. NewLRUClientSessionCache(32), } conn, err := tls. Dial(\"tcp\", \"redacted:443\", conf) if err != nil { panic(\"failed to connect:\" + err. Error()) } conn. Close() conn, err = tls. Dial(\"tcp\", \"redacted:443\", conf) if err != nil { panic(\"failed to resume:\" + err. Error()) } conn. Close() } `` And sure enough, `local error: unexpected message`. ## crypto/tls diving Once I had it reproduced in a local `crypto/tls` it became a home game. `crypto/tls` error messages tend to be short of details, but a quick tweak allows us to pinpoint where they are generated. Every time a fatal error occurs, `setErrorLocked` is called to record the error and make sure that all following operations fail. That function is usually called from the site of the error. A well placed `panic(err)` will drop a stack trace that should show us _what_ message is unexpected. `` diff --git a/src/crypto/tls/conn. go b/src/crypto/tls/conn. go index 77fd6d3254..017350976a 100644 \\--- a/src/crypto/tls/conn. go +++ b/src/crypto/tls/conn. go @@ -150,8 +150,7 @@ type halfConn struct { } func (hc *halfConn) setErrorLocked(err error) error { \\- hc. err = err \\- return err \\+ panic(err) } // prepareCipherSpec sets the encryption and MAC states `` `` panic: local error: tls: unexpected message goroutine 1 [running]: panic(0x185340, 0xc42006fae0) /Users/filippo/code/go/src/runtime/panic. go:500 +0x1a1 crypto/tls. (*halfConn). setErrorLocked(0xc42007da38, 0x25e6e0, 0xc42006fae0, 0x25eee0, 0xc4200c0af0) /Users/filippo/code/go/src/crypto/tls/conn. go:153 +0x4d crypto/tls. (*Conn). sendAlertLocked(0xc42007d880, 0x1c390a, 0xc42007da38, 0x2d) /Users/filippo/code/go/src/crypto/tls/conn. go:719 +0x147 crypto/tls. (*Conn). sendAlert(0xc42007d880, 0xc42007990a, 0x0, 0x0) /Users/filippo/code/go/src/crypto/tls/conn. go:727 +0x8c crypto/tls. (*Conn). readRecord(0xc42007d880, 0xc400000016, 0x0, 0x0) /Users/filippo/code/go/src/crypto/tls/conn. go:672 +0x719 crypto/tls. (*Conn). readHandshake(0xc42007d880, 0xe7a37, 0xc42006c3f0, 0x1030e, 0x0) /Users/filippo/code/go/src/crypto/tls/conn. go:928 +0x8f crypto/tls. (*clientHandshakeState). doFullHandshake(0xc4200b7c10, 0xc420070480, 0x55) /Users/filippo/code/go/src/crypto/tls/handshake_client. go:262 +0x8c crypto/tls. (*Conn). clientHandshake(0xc42007d880, 0x1c3928, 0xc42007d988) /Users/filippo/code/go/src/crypto/tls/handshake_client. go:228 +0xfd1 crypto/tls. (*Conn). Handshake(0xc42007d880, 0x0, 0x0) /Users/filippo/code/go/src/crypto/tls/conn. go:1259 +0x1b8 crypto/tls. DialWithDialer(0xc4200b7e40, 0x1ad310, 0x3, 0x1af02b, 0xf, 0xc420092580, 0x4ff80, 0xc420072000, 0xc42007d118) /Users/filippo/code/go/src/crypto/tls/tls. go:146 +0x1f8 crypto/tls. Dial(0x1ad310, 0x3, 0x1af02b, 0xf, 0xc420092580, 0xc42007ce00, 0x0, 0x0) /Users/filippo/code/go/src/crypto/tls/tls. go:170 +0x9d `` Sweet, let's see where the unexpected message alert is sent, at `conn. go:672`. `` 670 case recordTypeChangeCipherSpec: 671 if typ != want || len(data) != 1 || data[0] != 1 { 672 c. in. setErrorLocked(c. sendAlert(alertUnexpectedMessage)) 673 break 674 } 675 err := c. in. changeCipherSpec() 676 if err != nil { 677 c. in. setErrorLocked(c. sendAlert(err. (alert))) 678 } `` So the message we didn't expect is the ChangeCipherSpec. Let's see if the higher stack frames give us an indication as to what we expected instead. Let's chase `handshake_client. go:262`. `` 259 func (hs *clientHandshakeState) doFullHandshake() error { 260c := hs. c 261 262 msg, err := c. readHandshake() 263 if err != nil { 264 return err 265 } `` Ah, `doFullHandshake`. Wait. The server here is clearly doing a resumption (sending a Change Cipher Spec immediately after the Server Hello), while the client... tries to do a full handshake? It looks like the client offers a Session Ticket, the server _accepts it_, but the client _doesn't realize and carries on_. ## RFC diving At this point I had to fill a gap in my TLS 1.2 knowledge. How does a server signal acceptance of a Session Ticket? [RFC 5077](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5077), which obsoletes RFC 4507, says: > When presenting a ticket the client MAY generate and include a Session ID in the TLS ClientHello. If the server accepts the ticket and the Session ID is not empty, then it MUST respond with the same Session ID present in the ClientHello. So a client that doesn't want to guess whether a Session Ticket is accepted or not will send a Session ID and look for it to be echoed back by the server. The code in `crypto/tls`, clear as always, does exactly that. `` func (hs *clientHandshakeState) serverResumedSession() bool { // If the server responded with the same sessionId then it means the // sessionTicket is being used to resume a TLS session. return hs. session != nil && hs. hello. sessionId != nil && bytes. Equal(hs. serverHello. sessionId, hs. hello. sessionId) } `` ## Session IDs diving Something must be going wrong there. Let's practice some healthy print-based debugging. `` diff --git a/src/crypto/tls/handshake_client. go b/src/crypto/tls/handshake_client. go index f789e6f888..2868802d82 100644 \\--- a/src/crypto/tls/handshake_client. go +++ b/src/crypto/tls/handshake_client. go @@ -552,6 +552,8 @@ func (hs *clientHandshakeState) establishKeys() error { func (hs *clientHandshakeState) serverResumedSession() bool { // If the server responded with the same sessionId then it means the // sessionTicket is being used to resume a TLS session. \\+ println(hex. Dump(hs. hello. sessionId)) \\+ println(hex. Dump(hs. serverHello. sessionId)) return hs. session != nil && hs. hello. sessionId != nil && bytes. Equal(hs. serverHello. sessionId, hs. hello. sessionId) } `` `` 00000000 a8 73 2f c4 c9 80 e2 ef b8 e0 b7 da cf 0d 71 e5 |. s/........... q.| 00000000 a8 73 2f c4 c9 80 e2 ef b8 e0 b7 da cf 0d 71 e5 |. s/........... q.| 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| `` Ah. The F5 server is padding the Session ID to its maximum length of 32 bytes, instead of returning it as the client sent it. crypto/tls in Go uses 16 byte Session IDs. From there the failure mode is clear: the server thinks it told the client to use the ticket, the client thinks the server started a new session, and things get unexpected. In the TLS space we have seen quite some incompatibilities like this. Notoriously, ClientHellos have to be either shorter than 256 bytes or longer than 512 [not to clash with some server implementations](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=315828). I was about to write this up as just another real world TLS quirk when... `` 00000000 79 bd e5 a8 77 55 8b 92 41 e9 89 45 e1 50 31 25 |y...wU..A..E. P1%| 00000000 79 bd e5 a8 77 55 8b 92 41 e9 89 45 e1 50 31 25 |y...wU..A..E. P1%| 00000010 04 27 a8 4f 63 22 de 8b ef f9 a3 13 dd 66 5c ee |.'. Oc\"....... f\\\\.| `` Uh oh. Wait. Those are not zeroes. That's not padding. That's... memory? At this point the impression of dealing with a Heartbleed-like vulnerability got pretty clear. The server is allocating a buffer as big as the client's Session ID, and then sending back the always 32 bytes, bringing along whatever unallocated memory was in the extra bytes. ## Browser diving I had one last source of skepticism: how could this not have been noticed before? The answer is banal: all browsers use 32-byte Session IDs to negotiateSession Tickets. Together with Nick Sullivan, I checked the NSS, the OpenSSL and BoringSSL to confirm. [Here's BoringSSL, for example](https://github.com/google/boringssl/blob/33fe4a0d1406f423e7424ea7367e1d1a51c2edc1/ssl/handshake_client.c#L1901-L1908). `` /* Generate a session ID for this session based on the session ticket. We use * the session ID mechanism for detecting ticket resumption. This also fits in * with assumptions elsewhere in OpenSSL.*/ if (! EVP_Digest(CBS_data(&ticket;), CBS_len(&ticket;), session->session_id, &session-;>session_id_length, EVP_sha256(), NULL)) { goto err; } `` BoringSSL uses a SHA256 hash of the Session Ticket, which is exactly 32 bytes. (Interestingly, from speaking to people in the TLS field, there was an idle intention to switch to 1-byte Session IDs but no one had tested it widely yet.) As for Go, it's probably the case that client-side Session Tickets are not enabled that often. ## Disclosure diving After realizing the security implications of this issue we compartmentalized it inside the company, made sure our Support team would advise our customer to simply disable Session Tickets, and sought to contact F5. After a couple misdirected emails that were met by requests for Serial Numbers, we got in contact with the F5 SIRT, exchanged PGP keys, and provided a report and a PoC. The report was escalated to the development team, and confirmed to be an uninitialized memory disclosure limited to the Session Ticket functionality. It's unclear what data might be exfiltrated via this vulnerability, but Heartbleed and the [Cloudflare Heartbleed Challenge](https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-results-of-the-cloudflare-challenge/) taught us not to make assumptions of safety with uninitialized memory. In planning a timeline, the F5 team was faced with a rigid release schedule. Considering multiple factors, including the availability of an effective mitigation (disabling Session Tickets) and the apparent triviality of the vulnerability, I decided to adhere to the [industry-standard disclosure policy adopted by Google's Project Zero](https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/feedback-and-data-driven-updates-to.html): 90 days with 15 days of grace period if a fix is due to be released. By coincidence today coincides with both the expiration of those terms and the scheduled release of the first hot fix for one of the affected versions. I'd like to thank the F5 SIRT for their professionalism, transparency and collaboration, which were in pleasant contrast with the stories of adversarial behavior we hear too often in the industry. The issue was assigned CVE-2016-9244. ## Internet diving When we reported the issue to the F5 I had tested the vulnerability against a single host, which quickly became unavailable after disabling Session Tickets. That meant having both the low confidence in the extent of the vulnerability, and no way to reproduce it. This was the perfect occasion to perform an Internet scan. I picked the toolkit that powers Censys. io by the University of Michigan: zmap and zgrab. zmap is an IPv4-space scanning tool that detects the open ports, while zgrab is a Go tool that follows up by connecting to those ports and collecting a number of protocol details. I added support for Session Ticket resumption to zgrab, and then wrote a simple Ticketbleed detector by having zgrab send a 31-byte Session ID, and comparing it with the one returned by the server. `` diff --git a/ztools/ztls/handshake_client. go b/ztools/ztls/handshake_client. go index e6c506b..af098d3 100644 \\--- a/ztools/ztls/handshake_client. go +++ b/ztools/ztls/handshake_client. go @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ func (c *Conn) clientHandshake() error { session, sessionCache = nil, nil hello. ticketSupported = true hello. sessionTicket = []byte(c. config. FixedSessionTicket) \\- hello. sessionId = make([]byte, 32) \\+ hello. sessionId = make([]byte, 32-1) if_, err := io. ReadFull(c. config. rand(), hello. sessionId); err != nil { c. sendAlert(alertInternalError) return errors. New(\"tls: short read from Rand:\" + err. Error()) @@ -658,8 +658,11 @@ func (hs *clientHandshakeState) processServerHello() (bool, error) { if c. config. FixedSessionTicket != nil { c. resumption = &Resumption;{ \\- Accepted: hs. hello. sessionId != nil && bytes. Equal(hs. serverHello. sessionId, hs. hello. sessionId), \\- SessionID: hs. serverHello. sessionId, \\+ Accepted: hs. hello. sessionId != nil && bytes. Equal(hs. serverHello. sessionId, hs. hello. sessionId), \\+ TicketBleed: len(hs. serverHello. sessionId) > len(hs. hello. sessionId) && \\+ bytes. Equal(hs. serverHello. sessionId[:len(hs. hello. sessionId)], hs. hello. sessionId), \\+ ServerSessionID: hs. serverHello. sessionId, \\+ ClientSessionID: hs. hello. sessionId, } return false, FixedSessionTicketError } `` By picking 31 bytes I ensured the sensitive information leakage would be negligible. I then downloaded the latest zgrab results from the Censys website, which thankfully included information on what hosts supported Session Tickets, and completed the pipeline with abundant doses of `pv` and `jq`. After getting two hits in the first 1,000 hosts from the Alexa top 1m list in November, I interrupted the scan to avoid leaking the vulnerability and postponed to a date closer to the disclosure. While producing this it I completed the scan, and found between 0.1% and 0.2% of all the hosts to be vulnerable, or 0.4% of the websites supporting Session Tickets. ## Read more For more details visit the [F5 K05121675 article](https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05121675) or [ticketbleed.com](https://ticketbleed.com), where you'll find a technical summary, affected versions, and mitigation instructions, a complete timeline, scan results, the IPs of the scanning machines, and an online test. Otherwise, you might want to [follow me on Twitter](https://twitter.com/FiloSottile).\n", "edition": 1, "reporter": "Root", "published": "2017-02-10T00:00:00", "title": "F5 TLS vulnerability (CVE-2016-9244)\n(Ticketbleed)", "type": "seebug", "objectVersion": "1.2", "bulletinFamily": "exploit", "cvelist": ["CVE-2016-9244"], "modified": "2017-02-10T00:00:00", "id": "SSV-92673", "href": "https://www.seebug.org/vuldb/ssvid-92673", "cvss": {"score": 0.0, "vector": "NONE"}, "hash": "ba2a168859d510785c998dc295616d65843a11cf348c5c9ab9926dc9138fb3fd"}, {"lastseen": "2016-07-27T21:15:07", "references": [], "edition": 1, "description": "Summary: \nVLC Media Player is a free media player.< br/>VLC media player in parsing malformed cue file exists stack overflow vulnerability, the following are modules\\access\\vcd\\cdrom. c file in the vulnerable code snippet: \n[...] \n913 /* Try to parse the i_tracks and p_sectors info so we can just forget \n914 * about the cuefile */ \n915 if( i_ret == 0 ) \n916 { \n917 [1] int p_sectors[100]; \n918 int i_tracks = 0; \n919 int i_num; \n920 char psz_dummy[10]; \n921 \n922 [2] while( fgets( line, 1024, cuefile ) ) \n923 { \n924 /* look for a TRACK line */ \n925 if( ! sscanf( line, \"%9s\", psz_dummy ) || \n926 strcmp(psz_dummy, \"TRACK\") ) \n927 continue; \n928 \n929 /* look for an INDEX line */ \n930 [3] while( fgets( line, 1024, cuefile ) ) \n931 { \n932 int i_min, i_sec, i_frame; \n933 \n934 [4] if( (sscanf( line, \"%9s %2u %2u:% 2u:%2u\", psz_dummy, &i;_num, \n935 &i;_min, &i;_sec, &i;_frame ) != 5) || (i_num != 1) ) \n936 continue; \n937 \n938 [5] i_tracks++; \n939 [6] p_sectors[i_tracks - 1] = MSF_TO_LBA(i_min, i_sec, i_frame); \n940 msg_Dbg( p_this, \"vcd track %i begins at sector:%i\", \n941 i_tracks - 1, p_sectors[i_tracks - 1] ); \n942 break; \n943 } \n944 } \n[...] \n[1] This stack buffer can be overflowed \n[2] + [3] the cue file in the user control data stored in the line \n[4] parse user-controlled data and copy to i_min, i_sec and i_frame \n[5] i_tracks counter is incremented \n[6] from i_min, i_sec and i_frame the user to control the data copied to the stack buffer p_sectors and i_tracks used as an array index. Due to the i_tracks no upper limit, can be in the cue file specified in a large number of tracks overflow p_sectors stack buffer.< br/>in addition, VLC media player in parsing malformed rt subtitle file when there is another stack overflow. 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Since the buffer is located in the stack, the super long folder name can lead to overwriting the stack data.\n", "reporter": "Root", "published": "2014-07-01T00:00:00", "title": "VLC Media Player < 0.9.6 (CUE) Local Buffer Overflow PoC", "type": "seebug", "objectVersion": "1.0", "bulletinFamily": "exploit", "cvelist": ["CVE-2008-5032"], "modified": "2014-07-01T00:00:00", "href": "https://www.seebug.org/vuldb/ssvid-66894", "id": "SSV-66894", "cvss": {"score": 9.3, "vector": "AV:NETWORK/AC:MEDIUM/Au:NONE/C:COMPLETE/I:COMPLETE/A:COMPLETE/"}, "hash": "07f1e926d80cde26022be4db3e6c6eebd78f34dba9e19a640fd36c751620d0f7"}]}}


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The latest news says that cuts to spoil are no longer acceptable in Jism 2 according to Pooja Bhatt.
The actress turned director aims to get a law judgments when it comes to altering her story. She also twitted that cuts will no longer be accepted but if it will work then it shall be gracious.
Jism 2 is now an epilogue of the 2003 film and the second one is surely a lot bolder with the participation of the Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone. He is now taking the lead role for the said movie.
Ten years ago, two of the part that was cut is now acceptable. The movie is made aesthetically and is ready for release on the 27th of July.


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Hey guys, just figured id post since i got a new car and im kinda new to this forum.. its a 2004 subaru wrx with 58k miles. im not new to the game, but am definately new to subarus so any tips, any pointers would be greatly appreciated
i like to sit a little low, but i know subarus arent meant to be low, so maybe a nice spring for now.
i hear down pipe is a good upgrade from the stock.
and question is, since i never owned a "turboed" car, and i came from hondas, the car feels like it takes a second to get its groove on, if that makes since. other then my honda, it just went.
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Ukraine coach wants F. Islands game called off
Ukraine coach Oleg Blokhin wants Saturday's Euro 2008 Group B qualifying match in the Faroe Islands to be postponed after officials expressed concern over the state of the pitch due to snow.
"How should I feel about a postponement? I proposed long ago postponing this match until August, but the French and the Italians rejected that," Blokhin said yesterday.
"The weather conditions on the Faroes are now typical for this time of year. I will be very pleased if the match is postponed. A match should be played in acceptable weather conditions."
"I cannot rule out a situation in which we would fly in for the game, go on to the pitch only to be told by the referee that it is impossible to play and then have to fly home," Blokhin added.
Officials in the Faroes said the pitch was in poor condition after several days of snow. A decision on whether to postpone the match in Toftir will be made today.
"It snowed for three or four days and now it's raining," said Isak Mikladal of the Faroe Islands FA. "Right now it's impossible to play on that field."
In a statement, the Ukrainian soccer federation said it would agree to a postponement.
"If UEFA agrees with the proposal we are prepared to accept your idea and play the match in question on Aug. 22 without seeking any compensation for our losses," the statement said.
Ukraine are fourth in the seven-team group with six points from three games. The Faroes are in last place. Scotland, France and Italy occupy the top places.
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The latest poster to stem from the exclusive collaboration between Tech N9ne and renowned artist, director and writer, Rob Prior, is being released and you can only get it right here from Strange Music! This piece, entitled "Mother", is a limited edition piece from a painting Rob Prior created, live on stage, during a Tech N9ne performance.
Available in 2 sizes:
The 11"x17", of which only 500 were made, is the most recent interpretation of Tech N9ne.
The 18"x24" is the exact same image, but the most limited version - only 175 were made and then Tech and Rob signed all of them!
These will not be reprinted - when they're gone, they're gone!
So pick which size poster you'd like to add to your collection:
• the 11"x17"
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and place your order soon - these will surely sell out! Get yours before they're gone!


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Live updates
Three arrested over helicopter drug smuggling attempt
Three people have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to smuggle millions of pounds worth of cocaine and heroin into the UK by helicopter.
The arrests follow a joint operation involving the National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service which saw MPS officers seize around 40 kilos of cocaine and 60 kilos of heroin from a car on the M26 in Kent yesterday.
A 38-year-old man from the North Kensington area of London was arrested. A short time later NCA officers moved in to arrest two Dutch nationals aged 26 and 27 at Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey.
The pair had flown in to Redhill in a helicopter from Belgium earlier in the day.
All three are now being questioned by investigators items seized during the operation are being examined. The helicopter has also been impounded.
Travel: TRAINS - 50 minute delays at Reading
Delays of up to 50 minutes on First Great Western between Reading and Redhill, and between Reading and Gatwick Airport due to emergency engineering works.


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Barack Obama added to his victory total by overwhelming Hillary Clinton in voting held by Democrats Abroad. Over 20,000 Americans living in 164 nations cast their ballots either in person or via the Internet as part of an effort to involve each and every American citizen in a new effort to transform US elections into a global outreach. They voted in a pub in Ireland or in hotels or at a Starbucks coffee shop in Bangkok. The world wide contest results were:
Obama — 65.6%
Clinton —-32.7%
The remaining votes were cast for a variety of candidates like John Edwards. This vote may well constitute an important new trend which now allows any American citizen anywhere in the world to vote for delegates to the convention as part of a separate entity known as Democrats Abroad. Obama wowed them in Bangkok and Clinton fell flat in Moscow.