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|Sanjay Deshpande, Ganapathy Nanjundeshwar, Pat Shankar
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|Rel-Id Technologies, Inc.
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This patent is a divisional of application Ser. No. 11/611,047, entitled SECURE COMMUNICATIONS, filed Dec. 14, 2006, which claims priority from Provisional Application No. 60/807,804, filed Jul. 19, 2006, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. This patent document may show and/or describe matter which is or may become trade dress of the owner. The copyright and trade dress owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent disclosure as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent files or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright and trade dress rights whatsoever.
1. Field
This disclosure relates to secured communications.
2. Description of the Related Art
Traditionally, identity of an entity has been defined through one or more absolute labels or collections of properties of the entity. An entity is something that has objective or physical reality and distinctness of being and character. An entity has independent or separate existence from other like entities, and has a unitary and self-contained character. An entity may be a human, an animate or inanimate object, a machine or a process, and may be just one of these or a group of like or unlike entities.
Identity of an entity is typically defined in terms of a) what the entity possesses, b) what the entity knows, and c) what the entity is. Any one who can steal or possess these attributes can for all practical purposes assume the identity of the original entity. Identity can be defined by persistent qualities (e.g., a human fingerprint) and by transitory qualities (e.g., a human's current location).
Absolute and relative identity principles may be used to define an entity's identity. An individual's identity is absolute if it is defined independently of all other like entities. For example, a human's absolute identity may be defined by their name, their social security number, or their passport number. In contrast, an entity's is relative if it is defined based upon the entity's relationship with some other individual or individuals. For example, a human's relative identity may be defined by their relationship as father or mother of a particular other person, as an employee of a particular company, or a friend of some other person. As can be seen, one or more aspects of an individual's identity may or may not be unique.
An entity's interaction with other entities is based on mutual trust which is specific to that particular relationship. Historically, authentication between two individuals meant that the two individuals knew each others identity based on a previously established trust. As a result of the established trust, these two individuals would allow each other to send and receive information between each other.
While effective communications are based upon trust, modern digital communications have faced problems with identity theft. Identity theft as originally limited to theft of individuals' identities. However organizations, such as financial organizations, government agencies, military infrastructures, hospitals and educational institutions, are now also seeing their identities misappropriated.
Digital identity theft can happen surreptitiously under the stealthiest of circumstances. Organized identity theft can peel off layer after layer of the trusted identities of a typical computing environment and surroundings without the slightest warning or suspicion. With more personal data being stored electronically, many safeguards have been implemented or proposed. Yet, while these defenses have cut down on some types of fraud, they generally do nothing or fail effectively to protect against identity theft.
Advanced security solutions such as public keys, digital certificates and centralized certificate authorities have been used to provide environments of trusted identity. There have been systematic evolutionary changes in identity management over the years, through the discovery of cryptography, Shannon's theorem on perfect secrecy, the RSA algorithm, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, VPNs, CAs, the Public Key Infrastructure and the use of biometrics, amongst other things. There have also been efforts to expose the serious weaknesses of the current security infrastructure solutions by Dick Hardt of Sxip, Kim Cameron of Microsoft, Bob Blakely of IBM and Kaliya Hamlin. They proposed user centric approaches as opposed to the currently practiced certificate authority centric approaches.
Throughout this description, the embodiments and examples shown should be considered as exemplars, rather than limitations on the apparatus and methods disclosed or claimed.
Description of Apparatus
Referring now to
The computing devices 110, 120, 130 are representative of a class of computing devices which may be any device with a processing unit and memory that may execute instructions. Computing devices may be personal computers, server computers, computing tablets, set top boxes, video game systems, personal video recorders, telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), portable computers, laptop computers, fax machines, cell phones and special purpose devices. Computing devices have processor and memory. These computing devices may run an operating system, including, for example, variations of the Linux, Unix, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Palm OS, and Apple Mac OS X operating systems.
The network 150 provides a platform for communications between the computing devices 110, 120, 130. The network 150 may be or include local-area networks (LANs), wide-area networks (WANs), metropolitan-area networks (MANs), distributed networks and other similar networks in which computing devices may be linked together. The network 130 may provide lower layer network support for computing devices to interact with one another. The network 130 may be packet-switched and may comprise a common or private bi-directional network, and may be, for example the Internet. The network 150 may be wired or wireless. In addition, the network 130 may be configured based on client-server architecture, a peer-to-peer architecture, or any other distributed computing system architecture. Further, the network 130 may be configured to comprise additional components so as to ensure a scalable solution.
The computing devices 110, 120, 130 may include respective agents 115, 125, 135. The agents 115, 125, 135 may be securely bound to their respective computing devices 110, 120, 130. Alternatively, the agents 115, 125, 135 may be portable and installable on different computing devices at a user's discretion. For example, an agent or critical components thereof may be stored on a device such as a smart card or portable flash memory device, and a user may carry the smart card or portable flash memory device for use with various computing devices.
The agents of
As used herein, an agent may be or include a software module or application which may be loaded and run on a computing device. An agent may communicate with other functional units within the corresponding computing device. An agent may also communicate with agents remote to the communications device. One function of an agent is to store certain encrypted data so as to prevent the encrypted data from being accessible (e.g., viewed) by other functional units within the computing device (e.g., applications in user space). Access may be considered restricted if the agent has exclusive access or substantially exclusive access to the tools needed to decrypt the packets, such as decryption keys and software. Access may also be considered restricted if the agent has exclusive access or substantially exclusive access to the encrypted data itself.
Encrypted data is data which has been obscured to make it unreadable and unidentifiable at some level of confidence. Data which has been encrypted can be decrypted using a corresponding method or algorithm which may correspond to the method or algorithm used to encrypt the data. This data may be or may be representative of, for example, numbers, characters, audio, images, voice and video.
The relative identity of one agent to another agent may be based on information which is unique for the relationship between the two agents. The relative identity also may be based on information which is only known to the two agents in the particular relationship. With multiple computing devices 110, 120, 130 and multiple agents 115, 125, 135, there may be multiple separate relative identities in the system 100. Thus, the first user agent has an identity relative to the second user agent and a different identity relative to the third agent. Likewise, the second user agent has an identity relative to the first user agent and a different identity relative to the third agent. Finally, the third user agent has an identity relative to the first user agent and a different identity relative to the second agent. All six of these relative identities may be distinct. In short, a relative identity uniquely identifies one particular agent's relationship to another particular agent.
Even between two agents, there may be multiple unique relative identities arising from multiple relationships between the two agents. For example, an individual may have a checking account and a savings account with the same bank. Those two accounts will have a separate account numbers. Likewise, the multiple relative identities created for two particular agents could identify the separate relationships the two agents have with each other.
Additional and fewer units, modules or other arrangement of software, hardware and data structures may be used to achieve the processes and apparatuses described herein.
Description of Processes
Referring now to
The process for establishing a communication channel between agent A and agent B is compose of two parts. The first part, from 210 to 240, establishes a relative identity relationship between agent A and agent B. A relative identity relationship means that agent A has a relative identity with respect to agent B and agent B has a relative identity with respect to agent A. Both agent A and agent B are aware of the existence of the relative identity relationship, but neither knows the relative identity of the other. The second part of the process, from 250 to 290, each agent verifies the identity of the other before opening a secure trustworthy communication channel between agent A and agent B.
Either agent A or agent B may initiate the process to establish a relative identity relationship at 210. At 220, agent A defines its relative identity with respect to agent B. The relative identity of agent A may be obtained from a third party (not shown in
Either agent A or agent B may initiate subsequent communication at 250. At 260, agent A may send first information to agent B. The first information may be derived from the relative identity of agent A in a manner that allows agent B to verify the identity of agent A without disclosing the relative identity of agent A. The first information may be derived from the relative identity of agent A and other data known to both agent A and agent B.
Similarly, at 265, agent B sends second information to agent A. The second information may be derived from the relative identity of agent B in a manner that allows agent A to verify the identity of agent B without disclosing the relative identity of agent B. The second information may be derived from the relative identity of agent B and other data known to both agent A and agent B.
The first and second information may be derived in numerous ways including using various algorithms well-known in the art of cryptography. For example, the first and second information can be generated by using one-way hash functions, modulus functions, cyclic arithmetic operations, and various other algorithms.
It should be recognized that the first and second information of this example may be distinct from each other. Additionally, both the first and second information are derived, in part, from the relative identities of agents A and B and are thus unique to the relationship between these two agents. While both the first and second information are derived, in part, from the relative identities of the agents A and B, respectively, the relative identities cannot be determined from the first and second information.
At 270, agent A uses the second information received from agent B to verify the identity of agent B. Similarly, at 275, agent B uses the first information received from agent A to verify the identity of agent A. A secure trustworthy communications channel is opened between agents A and B at 280 only if both agent A and B successfully verify the identity of the other agent. The process from 250 to 290 may be repeated for every communication session between agent A and agent B, or may be repeated only if secure trustworthy communications are desired between agents A and B.
Communications between agents A and B, including communications required to verify their relative identities, may be encrypted using an encryption key. The encryption key may optionally be a unique key which may be defined at 230.
The communication channel that is established at 280 may be described as a secure communication channel because the identity information of either agent cannot be stolen. The identity information of an agent cannot be stolen because the identity information is not transmitted, provided or released from the agent over the network. As such, the identity of the agent is protected and is not compromised. As a result, fraudulent transactions based on using an agent's identity information are prevented since an agent's identity information cannot be obtained by an unauthorized entity.
The communication channel that is established at 280 may also be trustworthy. A trustworthy communication channel is a channel which is established between authorized entities. The communication channel of 280 is trustworthy since each agent has verified the identity of the other agent. The trust that is established and verified between the agents is based on the first and second information exchanged between the agents which, in turn, is derived from the relative identity of each agent.
At 310, the agent A and agent B may be first authenticated to their respective computing devices. The agents may be authenticated to their respective computing devices in a number of ways, which may be the same or different for agent A and agent B. For example, when the local agent is under a user's control, the local agent may be authenticated using absolute identity information of the user. This could be, for example, a login ID and a password, and/or biometrics.
An agent may be authenticated to the computing device through relative identity. One technique for authenticating a user-controlled agent is to provide the computing device with an embedded master agent whose sole role is to interact with other agents installed in the computing device. Thus, for example, a user-controlled agent may authenticate itself to the embedded master agent based upon a relative identity between the user-controlled agent and the embedded master agent.
Either agent A or agent B may open a communication channel to the other agent at 320. At 330, a third party agent may optionally verify the identity of agent A and agent B and provide assurances to each agent of the identity of the other. The third party agent may be a specialized agent dedicated to verifying the identities of other agents on the network, or may be any agent that has established relative identity relationships with both agent A and agent B. The supervision of the third party agent is optional, and agent A and agent B may proceed to establish a relative identity relationship without third-party participation.
The process of
An agent's absolute key may not be transmitted or revealed to any other agent on the network. Not transmitting or revealing an agent's absolute key ensures that an agent's identity information cannot be stolen from transmission through the network since the identity information is not transmitted or revealed on the network. Since an agent has a unique absolute key for each relationship and the absolute keys are never transmitted or disclosed to other agents, each absolute key along with the partial relative key is equivalent to the relative identity of the agent for a specific relationship.
At 340 and 345, agents A and B exchange their respective partial relative keys. At 350, agent A forms a first intermediate key derived from agent A's absolute key and a function of the partial relative keys of both agent A and agent B. As previously described, the first intermediate key may be derived in numerous ways including using any of various algorithms or functions such as one-way hash functions, modulus functions, cyclic arithmetic operations, and various other algorithms. Similarly, at step 355, agent B forms a second intermediate key derived from its absolute key and a function of the partial relative keys of both agents. The first and second intermediate keys can be defined as follows:
K I1 =f(a, q(c,d))=first intermediate key, and
K I2 =f(b, q(c,d))=second intermediate key
It should be recognized that the first and second intermediate keys of this example are distinct from each other. Additionally, both the first and second intermediate keys are derived, in part, from the partial relative keys of the local and remote agents and are thus unique to the relationship between these two agents. While both the first and second intermediate keys are derived, in part, from the absolute key of the agent that calculated the intermediate key, the absolute keys cannot be determined from the intermediate keys.
At step 360, agent A may form an encryption key KAB by combining agent A's absolute key with the second intermediate key received from agent B. The combination of agent A's absolute key with the second intermediate key may be done using the same function or algorithm used to form the intermediate keys. Similarly, at step 365, agent B may form an encryption key KBA by combining agent B's absolute key with the first intermediate key received from agent A. The combination of agent B's absolute key with the first intermediate key may be done using the same function or algorithm used to form the intermediate keys.
The function used to form the intermediate keys and the encryption keys may be an associative function, in which case the following relationship will hold:
K AB =f[a,f(b,q(c,d))]=f[b,f(a,q(c,d))]=K BA.
Thus both agent A and agent B may be in possession of an encryption key that may be used to encrypt subsequent communications between the agents. Moreover, since the encryption key can only be created through the use of the secret keys of both agents, the key cannot be recreated by either agent alone, or by any other party, even if the other party intercepts the partial relative keys and the intermediate keys during transmission between agent A and agent B. After the encryption key is formed, agents A and B may each discard the partial relative key and the intermediate key received from the other agent.
Agent A and agent B may then use the encryption key and their respective absolute and partial relative keys to authenticate one another at the start of subsequent communications. As shown in
Either agent A or agent B may open a communication channel at 420. At 430 and 435, agent A and agent B exchange their respective partial relative keys. At 440 and 445, agent A forms and sends the first intermediate key, and agent B forms and sends the second intermediate key. The function or algorithm used to form the first and second intermediate keys may be the same as those employed when establishing the relative identity relationship between agent A and agent B (at 350 and 355 of
At 460, agent A may compare the recreated encryption key from 450 with the known value of the encryption key. An exact match between the recreated and known encryption keys validates the identity of agent B to agent A. Similarly agent B may validate the identity of agent A at 465. A secure trustworthy communication channel may be opened between agent A and agent B at 470 only if both agents have successfully validated the identity of the other agent.
It must be noted that an impostor (e.g. Phisher) attempting to act as agent B must possess agent B's absolute and partial relative keys, as well as have knowledge of the functions or algorithms used to form the intermediate key and encryption key. In the optional situation where the communications between agent A and agent B are encrypted using the encryption key, the imposter would have to know the encryption key as well. Since the encryption key and the absolute key are never disclosed outside of the agent or transmitted over the network, the use of relative identity provides substantial protection against phishers and other impostors.
Steps described above may be performed consecutively or in parallel. Additional and fewer steps may be used to achieve the functionality described above. Furthermore, the process may be performed concurrently for multiple communication channels amongst numerous computing devices and agents.
Closing Comments
The foregoing is merely illustrative and not limiting, having been presented by way of example only. Although examples have been shown and described, it will be apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art that changes, modifications, and/or alterations may be made.
Although many of the examples presented herein involve specific combinations of method acts or system elements, it should be understood that those acts and those elements may be combined in other ways to accomplish the same objectives. With regard to flowcharts, additional and fewer steps may be taken, and the steps as shown may be combined or further refined to achieve the methods described herein. Acts, elements and features discussed only in connection with one embodiment are not intended to be excluded from a similar role in other embodiments.
For any means-plus-function limitations recited in the claims, the means are not intended to be limited to the means disclosed herein for performing the recited function, but are intended to cover in scope any means, known now or later developed, for performing the recited function.
As used herein, "plurality" means two or more.
As used herein, a "set" of items may include one or more of such items.
As used herein, whether in the written description or the claims, the terms "comprising", "including", "carrying", "having", "containing", "involving", and the like are to be understood to be open-ended, i.e., to mean including but not limited to. Only the transitional phrases "consisting of" and "consisting essentially of", respectively, are closed or semi-closed transitional phrases with respect to claims.
Use of ordinal terms such as "first", "second", "third", etc., in the claims to modify a claim element does not by itself connote any priority, precedence, or order of one claim element over another or the temporal order in which acts of a method are performed, but are used merely as labels to distinguish one claim element having a certain name from another element having a same name (but for use of the ordinal term) to distinguish the claim elements.
As used herein, "and/or" means that the listed items are alternatives, but the alternatives also include any combination of the listed items.
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Check out the mobile broadband cards that each telco has to offer. All three cards, namely MaxMobile Prepaid, M1 Prepaid Broadband and SingTel Prepaid Broadband on Mobile with unlimited data access for three days with speeds of up to 7.2Mbps. Both M1 and Singtel offer cards priced at S$18, but for Starhub, there are options for the heavy user and the light user - the heavy user gets 7.2 Mbps for the price of S$20 and the light user 2.0Mbps for the price of S$12.
|Mobile Providers
|Data Plans
|M1 Prepaid Broadband
|SingTel Prepaid Broadband on Mobile
|MaxMobile Prepaid
|S$12 or S$20
|Data Access
|Upload speeds
|7.2 Mbps
|2.0Mbps or 7.2Mbps
For local and overseas calls, buy a prepaid card. Usually the prepaid card will cost something like S$8 (SingTel), S$15 (M1 and StarHub). Be sure to check out the different costs per minute of outgoing calls. SingTel and M1's charges are 8 cents per minute from 8pm to 7.59 am on weekdays and the same rate on weekends. From 8 am to 7.59 pm, calls are charged at 16 cents per minute. Starhub charges 22 cents for the first minute of the call and 8 cents for subsequent minutes. Free incoming calls can be activated, though they are chargeable at a rate of about 60 cents per day.
|Mobile Provider
|Prepaid Cards
|S$8 or S$15
|Call charges
8 pm - 7.59 am on weekdays and all day on weekends - 8 cents per minute.
8 am to 7.59 pm on weekdays - 16 cents per minute
8 pm - 7.59 am on weekdays and all day on weekends - 8 cents per minute.
8 am to 7.59 pm on weekdays - 16 cents per minute
22 cents per first minute
8 cents for subsequent minutes
|Incoming calls
|60 cents per day; must have a minimum of 60 cents in the card.
|60 cents per day; top up S$10 with the top-up card to get free incoming calls for 10 days or S$20 for 20 days.
|59 cents for activation, thereafter 59 cents per day, must have minimum of S$1.
Free to several countries, special rates for Indonesia and Philippines.
Free IDD 021 is applicable for voice calls made to any residential line in Australia, UK, and New Zealand.
|Free to several countries, special rates for Indonesia and Philippines.
|Free to several countries, excluding Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom
5 cents per local message
15 cents per global message
5 cents per local message
15 cents per global message, except for Telkcomcel simPATI subscribers which is 5 cents per message
5 cents per local message
15 cents per global message
10 free SMSes for every 5 sent globally or locally
|Top Up Cards
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Normal Top Up Cards -
Hot $55 easy mobile, Hi!Top Up, Bonu$30, Super Hot $128
- Get additional talktime or free SMSes with these prepaid cards
Kababayan SIM card, SimPATI Kangen SIM card and Sawadee hi! Card - offering special low rates to Philippines, Indonesia and Philippines and Thailand respectively.
Top up your cards with any amount and get more credits and SMSes free.
Top up cards available - Happy Stars - S$17 and Happy $128 - a card with S$128 value that costs S$28.
Save on international calls with free IDD to several countries, including Australia, United Kingdom. SMS rates are 5 cents per local message and 15 cents per global message, except for global messages to Telkomcel simPATI subscribers which are at 5 cents per message. StarHub offers 10 free SMSes for every 5 sent globally or locally.
Get the cards from any convenience store in Changi Airport, including 7-Eleven, Cheers and FairPrice Xpress before you head to the city to quickly get a data plan and a local number. If you've forgotten to get the card before leaving the airport, there are plenty more convenience stores around Singapore to pick up your prepaid cards.
Should the card run out of money, you can top up the card with top-up cards by the service providers. There are three cards which offer you about S$130 worth of value for a payment of S$30. Depending on your requirements, you could also buy a top-up card to call your loved ones in Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand from SingTel for a value of S$10.
|Mobile Provider
|S$12.60 (top ups start from S$10 for 2 days)
|Data Access
|Unlimited for 3 days
The iPhone 4, with its numerous apps, may be a handy device to have with you in your travels to Singapore. However, staying connected locally may be a bit of a hassle since the iPhone 4, with its unique MicroSIM, has no voice plans that would allow you to call Singapore numbers. Instead, get an iPad plan. SingTel's plans start off the cheapest with S$12.60 for three days of unlimited data access, which can be topped up should your stay be longer than that. StarHub and M1 both have a fixed rate of S$32 and S$20 for 2.5GB and 1GB of data access respectively. If you need to make calls to local landlines, make use of technology and call using Skype or go old-school and use the payphones around Singapore
Another alternative would be to simply turn on your wireless on your smartphone and find the wireless network [email protected] This network, which provides free wireless access at most major locations in Singapore, allows you to register using your personal details and create a username and password. You will need a Singapore number to authorise the sign up so remember to get a prepaid local SIM card beforehand. This will allow you to have virtually unlimited access to the Internet. However, as [email protected] is an unsecured account, do remember to log out of your accounts to prevent session hijacking, whereby anyone sharing the network with you would be able to read the web traffic you've accessed.
If you're using an iPhone, the SingTel branches would be able to help you reshape the size of the card to operate on your phone for free, though some other regular phone shops might provide such similar service at a small fee. There is no limit to how many megabytes one is able to use, though the usage of the data plan will expire after 24 hours upon activation. Top-ups are at a flat rate of US$12 (that's S$15* in Singapore) can be done online or on the installed hotline; 'Topup 1day' in your Bridge AsiaRoamData SIM phonebook.
Stay connected and in touch with friends and family even as you go overseas and avoid astronomical bills by tapping into local resources.
* The Sing Dollar is loosely tied to the US Dollar which has remained fairly constant over the years. Rates shown here were accurately calcualated on 27 January 2011 rates.


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Lois Rideout
Sport/Event >
Netball Talent League
Date and Place of Birth >
1991 Bournemouth, UK
Height > 1.82m
Coached by >
Jean Davies
Occupation/School/College Student >
Millfield School
Course of Study >
A level- PE, Drama, Psychology, Media
Clubs >
Team Bath
Representative Honours and Competitive Record >
England U17 long squad
(Talent 1) Extension Centre
Emily Rose
Sport / Event >
Date and Place of Birth >
1986 Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK
Height > 180cm
Weight > 70kg
Coached by >
Jess Garland, Denise Ellis, Emily Perry
Date Arrived at Team Bath >
September 2005
Course of Study >
Masters in Pharmacy
Length of Course >
4 years
Clubs >
Team Bath Toucans
Previous club: Just Ahead Netball Club
Occupation >
Natalie Seaton
Sport/Event >
Netball, Position: Wing Defence, Goal Defence, Centre
Date and Place of Birth >
1982, London, UK
Height > 1.78m
Coached by >
Jan Crabtree and Lyn Gunson
Biography >
Natalie was a member of the England Squads at the Netball Europe U19 and Open competitions in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Natalie played for TeamBath in the SuperCup in 2003 and 2004...
Alexandra Sinclair
Sport/Event >
Netball, position: Goal Keeper, Goal Defence
Date and Place of Birth >
1991, Christchurch, UK
Height > 1.84m
Coached by >
Jess Garland and Jan Crabtree
Clubs > Team Bath
Occupation > Student
Biography >
Netball has given her the opportunity to aim for a standard and a chance to compare her play with that of the senior international players.
Alex aspires to play in the World Youth Championships 2009 and England...
Gemma Sole
Sport/Event: Netball
Date and Place of Birth: September 1990, Scotland
Date arrived at Team Bath: September 2009
Course of Study:
Modern Languages and European Studies
Occupation: Human Resources professional, International netballer
Representational honours: Scotland
Sporting excellence runs in Gemma's family. She is the daughter of the Grand-Slam-winning former Scotland rugby captain David Sole, who was part of the victorious British Lions squad of 1989. Gemma followed in her father's footsteps, becoming a full Scottish international, although this time on the Netball court, not the rugby pitch.
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Snow parking ban to take effect this week
By KEVIN NEVERS
It's that time of year.
At its meeting Monday night the Chesterton Town Council voted 5-0--at Street
Commissioner John Schnadenberg
Under that ban, on-street parking in the Downtown is prohibited from 12 to 8
a.m. on the following roadways during or after a snowfall of two inches or
* South Calumet Road from Porter Ave. to the Norfolk Southern
* Broadway from South Calumet Road to Sixth Street.
* Second and Third streets from Broadway to West Indiana Ave.
Leaf Program Over
In other business, Schnadenberg announced the end to this year's leaf
collection program. Residents may still dump leaves at the municipal
yard-waste facility at 1490 Broadway (entrance off 15th Street).
Brush collection, however, continues. Call 926-2222 to request a pickup.
Sidewalk Repairs
Schnadenberg also promised Yost Brownie Troop 366 to take under advisement a
list which it submitted of sidewalks and crosswalks in need of repair.
Schnadenberg thanked the Brownies and said that their suggestions would be
incorporated into his 2014 sidewalk list.
Westchester-Liberty Trail
Meanwhile, members took under advisement a large stack of proposals
submitted by firms interested in doing the hard engineering for Phase II of
the Westchester-Liberty Trail, which will extend the sidewalk along the
north side of 1100N from Rosehill Estates to Fifth Street.
Submitting proposals were the following:
* Weaver Boos Consultants of South Bend.
* Lawson Fisher Associates of South Bend.
* SEH of Indiana.
* American Structurepoint Inc. of Indianapolis.
* Robinson Engineering of Merrillville.
Because the engineering costs will be defrayed from a $405,834 grant in
federal transportation funds administered by the Northwestern Indiana
Regional Planning Commission, Town Attorney Chuck Lukmann and Town Engineer
Mark O'Dell will evaluate the proposals under guidelines issued by the
Indiana Department of Transportation.
Town Website
Members voted 5-0 to approve a three-year contract with CivicPlus of
Manhattan, Kan., to manage the municipal website at
That vote was conditional on CivicPlus submitting an acceptable contract. "I
expect one to be worked out," Lukmann said. "But we won't know this until I
see the last couple of points."
Town Manager Bernie Doyle estimated the cost of the contract at around
$25,000 over three years.
Member Nick Walding, R-3rd, noted that CivicPlus manages the websites of
something like 1,600 government entities and said that the firm would not
only "take care of potential security risks" but also provide the "current
version of software at no additional cost."
Local 4600 Contract
Members also voted 5-0 to renew the town's agreement with International
Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local 1400, representing the
firefighters of the Town of Chesterton. The previous agreement, expires on
Dec. 31.
Lukmann told the council that the renewed agreement is identical to the old
Among other things, the agreement provides for the following: Local 4600
members may meet at the fire station, may post notices on a bulletin board
at the station, may hold elections at the station, and shall have their dues
deducted from their paycheck and remitted by the town to IAFF.
The agreement also binds both labor and management to I.C. 36-8-22-15, which
prohibits public safety employees from engaging in work stoppages, strikes,
and walkouts.
Posted 12/10/2013
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In 1852, Costa Rica had just declared its independence from Spain and would soon need to defend itself from American imperialists. During a relative political lull, Juan Manuel Mora Porras, Costa Rica's president, prepared for diplomatic visits from the United States and Great Britain. He realized that the country was ill-prepared to receive foreign visitors, because it had no national anthem. The president quickly commissioned an anthem to be performed for the visitors.
At the time, Manuel María Gutiérrez was the director of San José's military band, and he dashed off the music to the anthem in time for the official visits. Although Gutiérrez was a consummate musician, he was not a lyricist; he wrote only the rousing music to the national anthem. Its words would not be written for another fifty years.
In 1903, the Costa Rican government, headed by President Ascención Esquivel, sponsored a lyric-writing contest for the national anthem. The poet, José María Zeledón, won the contest's 500-colón prize with a passionate poem about peace, national bravery and the good hearts of the country's laborers. Interestingly, Zeledón used the pseudonym of "Campesino"—a reference to Costa Rica's honorable labor force and to one of the country's true ideals—when he signed his name as the anthem's lyricist.
Costa Ricans heard the complete national anthem—and Zeledón's lyrics—for the first time on independence day, September 15, 1903.
Listen to the Costa Rican national anthem.
Read more about the history of the Costa Rican national anthem.
Read more about the American imperialists and Juan Santamaría, the Costa Rican hero who defeated them.
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Australian Hotels Association chief Brian Kearney slammed tax hikes of up to 80 per cent in coastal regions saying they would lead to hotel closures and the loss of hundreds of jobs.
"Hotels play an important social and economic role in the life of small coastal communities and they should be exempted like the caravan parks," he said.
"Land tax takes no account of a business' ability to pay - it is an anti-business tax that strikes at the very heart of the small business operators.
"Hotels all along the coast from the South Australian border to the Gippsland Lakes are being hit hard. We are still assessing the impact, but we know from anecdotal evidence that it will be considerable," he said.
Last week, The Sunday Age revealed that small business operators, large property investors and holiday home owners faced land tax increases of up to 100 per cent in 2005 and 2006.
The rises are expected to wipe out the benefits of land tax reforms announced by Treasurer John Brumby in April and force hundreds of owner-operated businesses to close.
John Ribbands, the owner of the Metung pub, put his hotel on the market last week saying he could not pay a $43,000 land tax bill for this year and another bill of $80,000 next year. "It's all over as far as I am concerned. John Brumby and Steve Bracks have put me out of business. My dream is dead," he said.
Prahran furniture shop proprietor Kevin Wilson said yesterday his hopes of running a small business until his retirement had been shattered by a succession of hefty land tax bills.
An ALP voter most of his life, Mr Wilson said he was angry and disappointed about tax increases that jumped from $4900 last year to $18,000 this year. "I basically bought the business to give myself a job after being without work and now I am faced with this flipping disaster," he said.
Mr Wilson, who owns Rabenalts Furniture House, called on the Government to review the tax for small and medium-sized business. "You cannot have a tax forced on people regardless of their capacity to pay or what use the land is being put to. What other tax in Australia can go up 400 per cent in a year?"
Michael Drapac, the managing director of Drapac Property, which has a development portfolio of more than $100 million, criticised the tax saying it would place serious pressure on developers with extensive borrowings and lead to a dramatic drop in the quality of housing developments.
Mr Drapac said some developers were paying $5 million a year tax on land that might not be offered for sale for another five or six years.
"With sales falling, it is rapidly getting to a point where developers are not getting a return on capital. Land tax is chewing up margins." He feared some developers might start cutting back on the quality of developments to stay afloat financially. Last week, Mr Brumby ruled out any further relief for the 160,000 Victorians who pay land tax.
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Lamar Elem. receives state's top school rating
Saltillo only local district to earn 'recognized' status
By FAITH HUFFMAN, News-Telegram News Editor
August 19, 2008 - Saltillo ISD was the only district in Hopkins County to earn a "recognized" rating and Lamar Elementary the only school campus to earn "exemplary" marks from Texas Education Agency, based on its most recent round of accountability data.
The six other school districts located within Hopkins County -- Sulphur Springs, Cumby, North Hopkins, Miller Grove, Como-Pickton and Sulphur Bluff -- received academically acceptable ratings, as did nearby Yantis, Cooper and Winnsboro school districts.
North Hopkins and Cumby received campus ratings for high school and elementary, and were all academically acceptable. Como-Pickton's main campus, plus Holy Highway, was also academically acceptable.
Lamar Elementary in Sulphur Springs Independent School District was the only school in Hopkins County to receive an exemplary rating. Early Childhood Learning Center, which was paired with Lamar, also was considered exemplary. Only 20 campuses in the Region 8 Education Service Center, which covers Hopkins and other counties in North and East Texas, earned exemplary ratings, and 16 of those were elementary campuses.
Three other campuses in SSISD -- Travis and Bowie Elementary schools and Douglas Intermediate School -- were "recognized," the second-highest possible rating. The middle school, high school and Austin Elementary were all rated academically acceptable.
But how well did they really do? What were their strengths and weaknesses?
First, know that campus and district accountability rankings are based on percentages of students passing Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills tests, as well as class completion and drop out rates.
District tallies on the five testing areas -- Reading/English language arts, Writing, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Science -- are listed below, as well as how their pass percentages compare to the previous years, what the minimum pass threshold was for each campus/district and how the local results compare to regional and state percentages.
Reading/English language arts
In order to receive a passing or "acceptable rating" on reading/English language arts tests, the state requires a passing rate of 70 percent by all students testd in a district. Across Texas, 91 percent of the students tested in reading/ELA passed the test.
Of the students tested in Region 8, 93 percent passed reading/ELA tests.
Sulphur Bluff's R/ELA rating improved 3 points to 94 percent from 2007 to 2008, with 125 of the 133 students tested passing.
Three other Hopkins County school districts -- Sulphur Springs, Miller Grove and North Hopkins -- improved their R/ELA ratings by one point from 2007 to 2008. Sulphur Springs' students surpassed the regional average, with 94 percent passing the reading/ELA test, as did Miller Grove students who also had a 94 pass percentage. North Hopkins students rose one to 90 percent in 2008.
Similarly, students R/ELA ratings at three other Hopkins County school districts dropped marginally. Cumby's R/ELA pass rate dropped one point to 89 percent for 2008, while Como-Pickton's rate dipped two points to 93 percent passing. Saltillo's R/ELA pass percentage dropped one percent to 94 in R/ELA in 2008, which is still above the state and regional rates. Yantis, located in Wood County, but which serves some Hopkins County students, had a 95 percent pass rate, 1 point less than in 2007.
Across the region 94 percent, or 6,388 of the 6,783, of the students tested in writing passed. At the state level, 93 percent percent of students tested met the 65 percent minimum passing requirement on TAKS writing tests.
Locally, five districts serving Hopkins County children improved their pass rating by at least 1 percentage point, while three others declined.
Sulphur Springs students improved their pass rating 2 points for an overall pass rate of 97 percent in writing for 2008. Both Miller Grove and Como-Pickton districts had a whopping 99 percent passing writing. C-P's rating increased 7 points from 2007 to 2008 while Miller Grove's went up 8 points. North Hopkins rate rose four points to 95 in 2008, and Sulphur Bluff's pass percentage in writing increased one point to 97 percent in 2008.
Yantis had a 93 percent pass rate, dropping from 97 in 2007. Saltillo's rating dropped from 92 percent passing in 2007 to 86 percent passing in 2008, and Cumby's writing percentage dropped 1 point to 83 in 2008.
Social studies
State-wide, only 65 percent of students in each district were required to pass the TAKS social studies tests. Overall, 91 percent of Texas students passed, up from 87 percent in 2007. Schools in Regional 8 for the most part did even better than that. Ninety-three percent of students in Region 8 tested in social studies on the TAKS test passed, up from 86 percent in 2007.
Locally, seven of the eight schools serving Hopkins County students improved their social studies ratings from 2007 to 2008.
Sulphur Springs pass percentage jumped a whopping 7 points from 84 percent to 91 percent in 2008, and North Hopkins escalated nine points from 83 percent passing social studies in 2007 to 92 percent in 2008. Sulphur Bluff also jumped considerably in social studies, up six points to 96 in 2008. Cumby had the second highest increase, 8 points for a 90 percent pass rating in 2008.
Yantis students improved their pass rate by three points in 2008, up to 92 percent passing social studies. Miller Grove's social studies rating increased from 90 percent passing in 2007 to 92 in 2008.
Saltillo's social studies pass rating dropped significantly, from 94 percent passing in 2007 to 87 percent in 2008.
Region 8 schools continue to outpace the state pass averages in mathematics, with an overall 82 percent of Region 8 school passing math compared to 80 percent across the state. The regional average improved 2 points and the state average was up three points from 2007 to 2008. Overall, only 50 percent of the students in each campus and district were required to pass the test in order to meet minimum requirements.
Sulphur Springs improved its rating by 1 point to 81 percent in 2008 Como-Pickton also had an 81 percent pass rate in math, but their score dropped one point in math.
Yantis students didn't fare as well in 2008 as in 2007 in math. YISD's overall pass percentage dropped from 75 percent to 65 percent. Miller Grove had a 76 percent pass rating, down 4 percentage points from 2007. Saltillo's rating dropped five points but still was ahead of the other area schools at 84 percent in 2008. Sulphur Bluff had 82 percent pass the TAKS math tests in 2008, down 2 points from 2007. Cumby had an 80 percent pass rating in 2007, six points higher than in 2008. North Hopkins ratings also dipped a bit in mathematics, down 4 points for an overall 65 percent passing math.
Across the region 76 percent of all students tested on TAKS science passed, up nine points from 2007. Across the state, 74 percent of the students met minimum science requirements, up 8 points from 2007. The minimum pass requirement was 45 percent passing at the campus and district levels.
All except 2 districts showed good strides of improvement in science in Hopkins County. Miller Grove students dropped 14 points in 2008 to 63 percent passing science. Yantis' rating in 2007 was 78, 4 points higher than in 2008.
SSISD's 73 percent pass rate was six points higher than in 2007, C-P CISD's rating rose 4 points to 72 in 2008, NHISD rose 7 points to 61 in 2008, Sulphur Bluff rose 9 points to 69. Cumby and Saltillo showed the largest strides of all Hopkins County Districts as far as science pass percentages go. Saltillo had the best rating by far with 83 percent of all students tested passing the science test in 2008, up 14 points from 2007. Cumby's scores rose 12 points from 57 percent passing science in 2007 to 69 percent passing in 2008.
Grades 9-12 Completion Rates/Annual Drop Out Rates Grades 7-8
Also factored into the accountability rating are high school completion and dropout rates. Across the region, fewer students completed class requirements in grade 9-12 in 2007 than in 2006, 90.9 percent in 2007 compared to 92.5 percent in 2006. That's a bit better than the state average. Across the state, 86.7 percent of the class of 2007 competed classes, compared to 88.9 percent in 2006. TEA data notes that decreases in completion rates may be due to significant changes in the dropout definition beginning with the 2005-2006 school year.
Due to small class sizes, only Sulphur Springs ISD and Como-Pickton CISD's completion data counted toward the school's accountability rating. Annual drop out rates were not counted toward accountability ratings for any of the 8 school districts serving Hopkins County students "due to small numbers or no data."
Sulphur Springs class of 2007 had a 96 percent completion rate, a 1.8 percent improvement over 2006. Como-Pickton's 2007 completion rate of 84.6 percent was 0.8 percent better.
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2) Advanced to the NESCAC Tournament Championship Game with a 3-0 home win over Williams College in the quarters and a 3-0 win over Bowdoin College in the semis.
3) Fell to eventual National Champion Middlebury College 4-3 in overtime in the NESCAC Tournament Championship Game to narrowly miss an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
4) Finished 2-0 against Williams and 1-0 against Wesleyan to claim the outright Little III Championship.
5) Entered the NESCAC Tournament on a four-game winning streak and finished the season with 10 wins in their last 12 games.
6) Also claimed the Ben McCabe Tournament Championship with wins over Trinity and Conn. College.
7) Finished second in the nation in scoring defense (2.12 gpg), third in power play percentage (.299), fifth in winning percentage (.750), sixth in penalty killing percentage (.880), eighth in scoring margin (2.42) and 10th in scoring offense (4.45 gpg).
8) Ranked sixth in the nation according to the final US College Hockey Online Division III poll.
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*Finished third in the NESCAC, led the Jeffs in scoring and was the top scoring defenseman in the conference (13 goals, 25 assists & 38 points).
*Finished 20th in the nation in assists per game (0.96).
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*Earned NESCAC and U.S. College Hockey Online National Player of the Week honors after back-to-back hat tricks in wins over Hamilton and Skidmore Colleges in late January.
*Finished fifth in the NESCAC in scoring (14 goals, 18 assists & 32 points).
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*Tabbed First Team All-NESCAC and named to the ECAC East/NESCAC All-Star Team.
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*Second leading goaltender in the NESCAC (1.91 GAA).
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Vivitek QUMI Q2 LED DLP Pocket Projector Review
Vivitek QUMI Projector - Brightness
The QUMI is rated at 300 lumens. As there is no zooming ability, all measurements were taken with the projector displaying a 60" diagonal image with the projector set at a distance of about 7.5 feet from the screen. Consistent with other reviews, our measurements were taken at the brightest point of the image (in this case near the right center of the image).
Selecting the Bright picture mode (the brightest), we measured a high of only 169 lumens, quite a bit less than advertised. However, when the QUMI is connected via its Universal HD input to a computer VGA output, the lumen output increases to 198 lumens. This is because with this connection Brilliant Color is increased from 8 to 10 (the maximum). Using Presentation mode, the output dropped to 149 lumens. User, Game and Movie modes were identical to Presentation mode in lumen output at 149 lumens. sRGB mode (which like Bright mode has Brilliant Color set to 8) came in at 165 lumens. TV mode measured the lowest, at 145 lumens.
In addition to the above picture modes, the QUMI also has an Eco mode for its LED light source. In Presentation mode, using the Eco setting reduced the lumen output from 149 lumens to 59 lumens. Other than the power savings of Eco mode, there seems little reason to use it as the drop in output is so great.
Vivitek QUMI Projector - Audible Noise
As the Vivitek QUMI uses LEDs rather than a lamp, heat generation is kept to a minimum and the exhaust ports keep the QUMI relatively cool. Vivitek rates the noise levels (primarily of the exhaust fan) at 32 dB (when in "Boost" mode, which appears to occur in Bright mode) and 28 dB for normal modes. The higher level is noticeable, but not objectionably so. The normal level is barely audible. The QUMI has a built-in one-watt speaker that can overcome the higher noise level, but you'd probably want to use externally powered speakers for any presentation with sound.
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Subject: Re: [D-Col] Re: Harmon ABell b abt 1811 in New York
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:45:57 -0500
Lorine, Mary,
I am a descendant of Stoffel Janse ABEEL. I have never seen any changes of
this family name into ABEL. I would not trust Pearson on this one, although
the way he bolds the first entry, I think he means this to be a separate
family from the ABEELs listed just above.
The Abeel and Allied Families, compiled by Henry Whitmore, 18 Rose St, NY,
1899 [Reprinted by Higginson Genealogical Books, Salem, MA. carries many
of the lines well into the Nineteenth Century, and the name is always
spelled ABEEL.
I believe that ABEL or ABELL is a completely separate family.
For ABEL, Pearson lists:
Abel, Jacob, and Elizabeth Humbert. Ch: Johan Hendrik, bp. Jan 13, 1754.
Abel, Andries, m. Annatie (Johanna) Marshall, Aug 24, 1771. Ch: Hendrick,
b. May 25, 1772; Annatie, b. June 19, 1774; Johannes, b. Jan 1, 1777;
Andries, b. Mar 12, 1779; Elizabeth, b. Apr 6, 1784; Geertruy, b. Oct 7,
1788; Peter, b. Apr 25, 1793.
I would look into this family as possible ancestors of Harmon ABELL, and dig
further into the Albany DRC records. I find no Harm(on) or Herm(an) among
my ABEEL descendants
Bob Protzmann
From: Lorine McGinnis Schulze [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 6:36 AM
Subject: [D-Col] Re: Harmon ABell b abt 1811 in New York
On 21 May 2002 at 10:36, mary k mccashland wrote:
> everyone,
> I am looking for birth, siblings, etc. information about Harmon
> ABELL who was born abt 1811 somewhere in New York. Several of
> us have always thought that he was of Dutch ancestry, but *all
> of his children* said that he was born in New York when they
> replied to the 1880 census. There was an adult
> baptism/christening of Harmon ABELL in Schagticoke, New York,
> into the Dutch reformed church. But I don't know if he was
> 'my' Harmon ABELL or not.
> 1st - does this sound like a Dutch name to any of you ??
Dear Mary,
You may wish to take a close look at the Albany settler,
Stoffel Janse ABEEL who came to Beverwyck as early as 1653. In
1670 he made his will, mentioning 4 children - 3 daughters and
a son Johannes.
You can read more about Johannes Stoffel Abeel at
Johannes and his wife, Catalina Schuyler, had several children
baptised in both Albany and New Amsterdam/NY Dutch Reformed
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