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A couple of years ago I opted to change all of my flooring throughout my home. I decided to remove all of the carpets and instead install laminate flooring throughout. I decided to change to laminate flooring thinking it would be easier to clean. With two children the carpets used to get dirty and stained easily, so having wipe clean floors seemed like a good idea. I didn't consider that they would be cold. Also having a young son, my floors often have all manner of objects strewn across the floor, despite my best efforts to keep everything clean and tidy.
I like to be comfortable and warm. When at home I'm not fussed over how I look, I just like to be able to relax at home. I need to wear practical clothing and footwear. I hate the idea of wearing outdoor shoes in the home, tracking all the dirt in and whatnot. So, with this in mind, I opt for slippers or some such. Slippers are not always hard-wearing, long-lasting or the easiest for quick movement. This is needed with a boisterous, lively son who needs constant care and attention.
Another reason why I'm not so faithful and positive towards slippers is that slippers are often old and frumpy and the ones aimed at younger people are generally flimsy and are just not practical. Slippers never last that long after being machine washed they often lose their shape and eventually start disintegrating, despite the fact that the label says they can be machine washed. So, looking for something practical that would be robust, comfortable and lasting I turned to faithful Amazon to have a look.
As an alternative I happened to keep seeing Crocs come up when browsing through Amazon. When I first saw Crocs I thought they looked hideous, just an uglier version of jelly beans. Plastic shoes just don't work, do they? They seemed to have taken off though in a big way and almost every other person was wearing them from the elderly to toddlers, all in different shades some more vibrant than others. Not only did they look ugly, they also didn't match with many styles or outfits, I never once come across anyone that fashioned them well. Seeing Crocs being worn with white grubby socks didn't help matters either.
Well, I decided to take the plunge and order a pair, bearing in mind that these would never see the light of day. I was purchasing them to wear around the home instead of wearing slippers. I looked at the different options and decided to plunge for the Crocs Women's Prima Ballet Flat as these are not bulky like the original Crocs. The slim line design looked far more appealing. Knowing these were for indoor use, I decided to go for a pale shade of pink (cotton candy), simply because these were the cheapest. I hate that products change in price due to colour. Luckily in this case, the colour didn't matter.
When they arrived, I was eager to try them on. They do look ugly, and I would never wear them outside. However, they fitted well, and have a good grip underneath. The material is soft and flexible and they can easily be cleaned. They may look undesirable and not something I would choose for any other purpose other than an indoor shoe, however, they are the most comfy shoes I've ever had the pleasure of wearing! If only they could look good, too.
The nature of the material allows the shoe to conform to the shape of your foot, giving a unique fitting. The material is also lightweight and incredibly comfortable. I could easily wear these all day, and do when in the home. My feet stay warm, dry and clean without any discomfort or rubbing. The shoes do not mark the floors as advertised. I can easily see why people enjoy wearing Crocs. My feet stay at a comfortable temperature during warm and cold seasons.
Being a clean freak, I decided to bung them in the washing machine when they started to look a little grubby, with just a towel to clean them up. This isn't recommended, however, my Crocs look just like new after a quick whirl in the washing machine. Seeing as they are lightweight, and are made from one piece of material, I could see they would do no harm to my washing machine.
I've had these Crocs for over a year now. They cost less than £20, so they have been a worthwhile purchase. Despite the fact that they are the most comfortable shoe I've ever worn, I still wouldn't wear them outside. I can see why others love them, though. A pair in black would look fine under trousers I would imagine, and would make a good shoe for wearing to work. Keeping feet comfortable is important.
They may not look great, but they are everything that they say they are. Ugly, yes, but they are great for your feet. I love these for day-to-day wear around the home. I am glad to keep them indoors for pottering about in.
These and other Croc shoes are affordable, I imagine they are great for summer and would be suitable for all manner of activities. Get yourself a pair and be converted.
Crocs come in all manner of styles now, and in various different colours. Some actually look okay, and not anywhere near as hideous as the first shoes of theirs to be released. These could be great for certain occasions, and they certainly do me well for general day-to-day wear around the home.
Crocs are available for males and females, young and old. With such low prices their worth a go.
I purchased a pair of the ballet crocs in pale green around 4 years ago, when everyone was wearing crocs. They are not so fashionable nowadays, but my pair are still going strong! I wear mine as slippers, for gardening and going down to the river.
The design of the shoe: The ballet croc is oval shaped, with a large opening that reaches to just behind the top of my big toe. Inside the shoe there are small ridges, which help prevent your feet from sliding around. The shoe has a line of small holes along the font and at the heel, which serve for ventilation and are great if you walk through water in them. You also purchase and attach small shapes through these but I never have.
After 4 years of wear, the tread on the bottom is almost non-existent, but this is to be expected. I intend to purchase another pair in the summer.
They are very comfortable to wear, easy to clean and dry quickly after a wash in a bowl of soapy water. Also they are so easy to slip on to pop out to the garden etc. I love my pair and wear them most days! I believe they cost around £25, but can be purchased cheaper nowadays on the likes of Ebay.
Disadvantages: If you have sweaty feet (which I often do) then your feet will slide around, due to the sweat having nowhere to escape to in the artificial fabric. This is why I give the ballet croc a 4/5, and there are no other disadvantages as far as I have found.
I have been wearing the traditional style of Crocs since I first saw them on the market - and my evaluation of them is pretty close to everyone elses - that they are essentially ugly and clumpy, but also the most comfortable shoe on the market. So, for a while, I have been meaning to try some of the other styles of Crocs that are not quite so clumpy - and this is where my purchase of the Crocs Prima came in.
There are loads of colours to choose from - but I opted for "Pearl" which is a white with a little shimmer added to it. They are slightly shiny - unilke my original Crocs and so they are they type of thing you could wear with a more delicate or feminine outfit. As I said, there are loads of colours to choose from, including some very bright stand-out-from-the-crowd colours.
These shoes are flat without any heal and are close-toed and backed in a traditional slip-on style. The only design they have on them is 5 small holes cut out of the material on the top of the foot - and so they are unremarkable in design - and such they are a little dull looking to be honest. I know the traditional style also have no design, but I felt their clunkiness was part of their charm really.....but these are just a little boring to look at. Having said that, I don't really think anyone buys Crocs for the way they look.....
As other Crocs, these are made from the lightweight and soft foamy plastic material which are unique to Crocs. The whole shoe is made up from this materal - and so I was hoping that they would be as comfortable as the original Crocs. However, I personally didn't find this to be the case. While they are soft and spongy to stand on, I found them to be a little tight across the toes - despite them being the right size. I wore them recently when I went for a 5 mile walk over fairly flat and easy terrain and the back of the shoes were really rubbing on my heel - which I have never found with the traditional style. I also found that my feet weren't kept particularly cool - and they did become a little sweaty - which didn't help with the rubbing. I was a little disappointed to be honest.
The bonus of these shoes is that they are very light - and so great to pack for traveling. They are also waterproof and will go with most outfits without standing out like a sore thumb. The cost is also pretty good as a pair cost me £14.35 from Amazon - which is very good value. I personally will probably only wear these shoes if I am planning on not being too active - because, as I've said, I didn't find them that comfortable - but they will be okay for just general slobbing around.
Overall, I was a little disappointed as these were no where near as comfortable as the traditional Crocs - and that's a shame.
I work in a profession where i am on my feet for 12 and a half hours at a time walking and sometimes running around. I need to wear shoes that are not opentoed and are black and professional.
I used to own a pair of the original crocs, but these were slingback and also did not look to fabulous with dresses to be fair, Paddles comes to mind.
I saw these Crocs on their website and decided to give them a go, i bought mine in black.
I was not dissapointed.
The Crocs themselves are very lightweight, no more than 250g per shoe and the classic croc material. With these shoes, there are a slight tred and the only evidence that these are Crocs is on the outer edge by the ankle, the CROC name on the side. This is embelished on the side in the same colour as the shoe and therefore does not stick out like a sore thumb, handy in the profession i am in.
The internal sole is made up the same material and is full of lots of tiny 'bumps' i suppose,. little balls that help your feet to grip and also massage your feet almost, lovely!!
The tops of the crocs have 5 holes in the top, perfect if you would like to add the 'jibbitz', the badge like novelties that are easily placed onto the CROC range.
Again at the back of the shoe, there are another 3 holes of the same size as the front of the shoe, and these are great to keep your feet a little cooler and given them some airation.
Now tpo the actual wear of the shoe.
These are not wide fitting shoes, and my feet are a little broad, but i did not have a problem with them. Wearing these with tights were very comfortable for 12 hours although these did not stop my feet being a little on the pongy side, but that is the nature of these and tights i think.
My only grumble i suppose is that sometimes my feet get wet at work and the flooring is vinyll. If i am not careful when my feet are wet i could go skiing across the floor!! The same applies in icy conditions, so beware!!
These Crocs were reasonably priced and were £19.00 when i bought them over a year ago. The beauty of these shoes is that they can be worn and worn and do not wear on the soles for a long while, im talking years!!
All in all, great value shoes that can be used for workwear and casual wear also.
When crocs started to become fashionable I just did not understand it to me they were big looking and clumpy. When I was searching shoes on Amazon I came across some ballerina looking pumps that looked interesting so was very shocked when I seen they were actually made by crocs. I tried my original crocs shoes on and they were comfortable so I thought as I liked this style i would give them a go.
They were petite and small and took my fancy in white although there were many colours to choose from. Amazon told me that the shoes may come with American sizing on them so to try them on before I send them back so I ordered size 3 hoping they would fit.
The material is a rubber plastic type which I think is the key to making them feel so light and comfortable on the feet. I am often on my feet running round and so try to stick to flats as much as I can and these are perfect. Inside the shoe where you feet go it is so soft and comfortable. They have lasted very well 9 months so far and are still in great condition all it takes is a wipe down and they are clean again.
There are a few bad points.As they are made of the rubber type material they some times make a strange noise while I'm walking especially if I have had them on for a while. Also my feet are only petite and they feel a bit bulky in the shoe as if they are a little too shallow so not sure if people with larger feet would maybe feel a little uncomfortable in them.
To be honest I still do not understand what all the hype is about yes they are comfy and lightweight and the ballerina pump style are very lovely looking but to be honest they are still not my thing. I would recommend these if you like the style and are looking for comfort and at the £14.99 I paid for mine they last well and are good value for money.
When the original crocs were introduced to the market, I personallt thought they were horrible, and that they reminded me of those jellybean sandals, you used to get as a kid for playing at the beach with. So I definetly hadn't invested in a pair.
Then when going to the family caravan, I put on a lovely black outfit, and Arggghhh had no shoes to match with me. My auntie lent me a pair of flat black pumps, since we're the same size.
I didn't know at the time they were crocs. They were extremly comfortable, with their little cushioning nodules inside, and I commented on how good my feet felt for once after dancing all night. That was when I was extremly yet pleasently surprised to find out they were crocs.
When I got home I bought myself a pair from the crocs official website, and payed £26.00 for them, I don't mind paying a little bit more for a pair of pumps, if I know they are sturdy and will last a while.
I have mines in black, but they come in a number of colours lavender, lemon, blue, white but to name a few.
The also come in various size, including half sizes, from 3 to 8...
They like there predecessors (which I disliked so much) were again made from sturdy rubber, with the little nodules inside. The whole shoe, is in your chosen colour, no exceptions for sole, or lining.
They have little air vent holes, around the toes, and around the heel.
The style of the shoe itself, is like a ballerina style pump.
However I would advise, that with the exception of the black, these are more casual shoes, than dressy, but with the black shade they can be dressed up or down...
I have since ordered another pair, in the new silver colour. So I would definetly recommend them.
I never bought a pair of the crocs for the reasons that I found them ugly and also very chunky looking. I know everyone raved how comfy they are but I was stubborn to be honest.......
Well that was before I found these. The are just like a pair of pumps and actually quite slim. My office at work is always hot and stuffy and my feet deal with the most of it. Not wearing socks and being able to get air in them with all the holes on the heel bit and the top at the front. Very cool to wear and extremetly comfortable. They do feel like you are walking on a bouncy castle in bare feet.
The other thing I do like about crocs is because they are plastic shoes they are waterproof so great for kids to wear in the summer in the water so no more cut feet by stones or shells which can only be a bonus!!
I bought my ones like these in silver which I was very unsure about when I first bought them because they do look quite chap and nasty but once I got used to them and had worn them for a while I actually started to like the way they looked, especially with grey or black trousers.
I can see why these are such a hit with so many people. The are priced very reasonably, I bought my pair for £19.99 which I think is excellent as they will last for so long. Over time they don't look scuffed or worn either. Very impressed with them
I've never been a fan of Crocs. I think they look big and clumpy, and having size 8 feet I don't need anything that's going to make my feet look any bigger.
Friends wear them and go on about how wonderful and comfortable they are, and I've always felt a bit left out by not being in on the act.
Flicking through the latest edition of the Next Directory I spotted a pair of ballerina pump style shoes and did a double-take when I saw they were made by Crocs. I didn't know there were other styles of Crocs than the big clumpy ones, so I decided to order a pair and see what all the fuss is about.
I ordered a size 8, but when they arrived they were too small. But even though my feet were all squished up in them they were soooo comfy!
Next Directory only stocked the candy pink ones which I wouldn't have the courage to wear, and I didn't fancy paying another lot of postage costs.
I did some research on the Crocs website (http://www.crocsfootwear.co.uk/) to see if there were any local stockists. There weren't any nearby, but I was soon to be visiting relatives down in the Manchester area, so planned to hunt some down while I was there.
I found a shoe shop in the Trafford Centre that stocked the silver Prima shoes. I picked up a pair that had 9 written on the bottom and they too were too small. I tried to ignore the feeling of worry that my feet seemed to be getting ever bigger. They didn't have a bigger size in, but I figured a size 10 should easily fit.
When I got home I Googled Crocs and found a great website that stocks the full range of Crocs shoes (http://www.sweetfeetshoes.co.uk/) - there are loads of different styles.
I placed my order for a pair of black size 10 and eagerly anticipated the arrival of my new shoes. Imagine the disappointment when they arrived and were too big, quickly replaced by a feeling of elation that my feet weren't growing bigger after all.
I looked at the bottom of the shoes and saw it said size 12. Then it occurred to me. The sizes shown on the bottom are American sizes. Sheesh! Off I went to the Post Office to return them, and requested a pair of UK size 9s in their place.
Thankfully when they arrived a few days later they fitted perfectly.
Later inspection of the website lead me to discover they recommend ordering a size larger than your normal size in this style.
I have a problem with any shoe, sandal or mule that I wear without socks. They always leave me with blisters, even wearing them for a short time. I've got many pairs of shoes and sandals that I've only worn once or twice, then put away because of this. With Crocs Prima I've finally found a pair of shoes that I can wear comfortably and not end up with blisters and sore feet.
They're made of a sort of rubbery material, and have bobbly bits inside the shoe, which make them very comfortable to walk in.
They come in a range of colours including pearl white, lavender, gold, fuchsia, pink, ruby, blue, green and silver.
I may just have to get myself another pair, although I'll probably avoid the fuschia colour!
The Crocs site gives the retail price as Euro24.95. Sweetfeetshoes.co.uk sell them for £17.99, although they had a 15% sale on when I bought mine.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Duro. Muy duro. Hard. Very hard.
Apart from a simmering sense of injustice in the wake of the Snow Game, that no-nonsense evaluation of the task at hand is about the only consensus you'll find among Costa Ricans ahead of Friday's World Cup qualifier against the United States (10 pm ET, beIN Sport).
Needless to say, the locals haven't forgotten what happened in Denver back in March, nor the dramatic draw in 2009 that knocked Costa Rica out of an automatic World Cup bid. And with talk radio stoking the flames, Snow Game flashbacks on loop on local television and front pages across the country dedicated to the match, how could they?
What they can't agree on, however, is whether Los Ticos can actually reverse this spring's result. Understandably, given historic results in San Jose, most expect three points and the reward of pole position in the Hex. But plenty point to la calidad de los Americanos to justify a 1-1 draw or, in rare cases, a resounding US victory.
"We expect them to play off the emotion in all ways, the emotion of the crowd," Michael Bradley told reporters on Thursday. "In a lot of ways, their emotions left over from the game in March. Their emotions of us knocking them out of the World Cup last go-around."
Brazil Bound: On the road in Costa Rica
In some ways, the Americans have come to represent a sort of sporting bugaboo here, a feeling reinforced by the welcoming party a few hundred deep that greeted the Yanks at the airport with chants and signs inspired what is perceived as a bogus result in March and punctuated by a few well-aimed egg missiles.
The Costa Rican federation did nothing to discredit that impression, as the US struggled to find a training site, received match balls a day late and found signs of gamesmanship around every turn, including an air-horn equipped (and, frankly, hilarious) cow mascot that disrupted their media availability on Wednesday.
The general sentiment voiced by cab drivers, construction workers, former players, barefoot kids in the countryside and just about anyone else you ask is that the US' narrow victory in Colorado was a verguenza (a disgrace) and revancha (revenge) is at stake at Estadio Nacional.
It's no exaggeration to say soccer is an obsession in this Central American country of more than four million inhabitants. In the gritty confines here of the capital city and the undulating hills and mountains blanketed in green that surround the city, there are canchas just about everywhere there's flat ground.
Kids play barefoot after the daily afternoon rain showers and men come together on small-sided fields to get in a sweat. They all express intense pride in their country, their national team and the prospect of a place on soccer's grandest stage in Brazil come next summer.
"They are very proud of what they do and they are very passionate," said US boss Jurgen Klinsmann, who was at the helm of Germany in 2006 when they played Costa Rica in a memorable tournament opener. "They are very intense. They live soccer 24-7. They want the dream of the World Cup. They want to get to the World Cup."
Of course, so do the Americans.
Unlike in years past, the US won't have to chase their first-ever victory in Costa Rica at Estadio Ricardo Saprissa. Instead, the modern Estadio Nacional – built by China at a cost of more than $100 million and with a capacity of 35,175 – will host, much to the frustration of many who hoped to repay the Americans for Denver with a visit one of CONCACAF's most intimidating venues.
That's not to say the atmosphere on Friday will be tame. Coins and disposable batteries (even in cameras) won't be allowed in the stadium, a preventive measure that's a commendable step but unlikely to eliminate projectiles should the game tilt the Americans way.
If you ask the US players, though, the passion on display here isn't just welcomed. It's practically cherished. The road to Brazil isn't supposed to be smooth, and the Costa Ricans' fixation on avenging March's disputed result promises to make for a fascinating 90 minutes.
"In some ways over the years, it's calmed down a little bit," Bradley said. "To now have one that gets kind of cranked back up, it's exciting."

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Digital Music Sales Drop in 2013; Is That Surprsing?
For the first time since digital music sales have been recorded, Billboard reports that digital track sales fell 5.7% […] while digital album sales fell 0.1%, according to Neilsen SoundScan, which tracks such sales. CD sales also dropped 14.5%.
This is no surprise. As you can see in the graphic to the left, music sales are competing with free. Spotify and other services – Pandora, Rdio, iTunes Radio – offer free ad-supported listening along with paid premium services.
As a serious, long-time music fan, I still like to own my music. But I use iTunes Radio to discover music I wouldn't have heard other than at random. (I have a $25 per year iTunes Match subscription, so I don't hear ads.) I've been fiddling with Spotify, but I'm not sure I can justify its cost. With the ad-supported "free" version, I get an ad every two or three songs. It's not that big a deal; I just press the Mute button on my remote (I mostly listen at my desk), but if I were listening more often, it would irk me.
It's fair to say that we're living in a world where people don't generally care about ads any more. My guess is that anyone who listens to enough music to be bothered by the ads will pay for the premium, ad-free service. In fact, with Spotify, 25% of users pony up, while 3/4 of listeners are ad-freeloaders. The casual music listeners – those who don't spend a lot of money on music anyway – put up with ads. But the serious listeners pay the $10 a month and stop buying CDs.
It would be interesting to try and figure out how much money that represents in lost sales. Spotify says that the average music listener in the US spends $55 a year on music. However, those who pay for streaming services certainly spend more than the average on music, and would have spent much more than the $120 they spend on Spotify. So the music industry is most likely losing out.
While I'm still not ready to move to subscription listening for a number of reasons, I spend several hundred dollars on music each year. If I were to stop buying music and pay a monthly fee to Spotify, that would be a big dip in my expenditures, and a net loss to the music industry. (And most of the music I buy is on CD, not digital.)
Some people have suggested that it's not streaming that has hurt the music industry but apps. This is foolish; people are certainly spending time with apps, but that doesn't stop them from listening to music. And it's not a question of how much money they spend on apps; the same people who listen to ads on Spotify are happy to view ads in free versions of apps. And even if they do buy apps, most just cost a buck or two.
The way people listen to music is certainly changing. It's not just streaming services, either. Lots of young people just go to YouTube to hear their favorite new songs. In many, perhaps most, cases, these YouTube videos are illegal uploads. (YouTube makes it quite difficult for record labels to take down illegal uploads.) Some of them aren't even videos; they're just a single still of an album cover with the music behind it.
The music industry has struggled for years to figure out the best way to make money, since digital music came along. It still doesn't have the answer. Streaming services most likely reduce overall revenue, and are merely a temporary band-aid. There's got to be a better way.
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Jackie:Thanks for your effort to help. The problem is, that the help for the playlist editor does work on some computers. I know what you are saying and I myself am wondering how the scripts identify the playlist window. The JAWSKey+w does work in that window.
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Jim: I've had a look at the WinAmp scripts to see what triggered the context sensitive help to speak in different windows. Basically, it gives help for either the main window or the equalizer--not the playlist & it does that by obtaining the window class of the focussed window. Does that help? On 1/25/08, Jim Noseworthy <jim.noseworthy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi folks: Excuse me, but I lost track of the thread for this subject but has anyone determined why the JAWSKey+h displays the information for the Winamp playlist on some computers while, on others, just the main window information is displayed? Actually, on most of my client's computers, it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated all over the place. Thanks.-- Jackie McBride Please join my fight against breast cancer <http://teamacs.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=1790196&pg=personal&fr_id=3489> & Check out my homepage at: www.abletec.serverheaven.net __________ View the list's information and change your settings at http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
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Was wondering if we buy a logo with normal license from GraphicRiver are we allowed to add them to our themes as example logo. Logo will be added flat and not included inside the download package.
Pure as demo purpose. Anybody done this before or know more about this.
I started this a while back…only got 1 response:http://graphicriver.net/forums/thread/logo-use-in-wp-themes/64631
Thanks AJ, that should clear things.
I think you can even contact the author, maybe he/she could be agree for a free use linking the file back on description. I've done so with some VideoHive videos for some of my old templates.
it apply the "use for preview" rules implemented by envato in February ( I think )
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ATHLETICS: A HOST of Thurrock Harriers were in action at the Southern Indoor Championships at Lee Valley.
Joe Winn was a fine fifth place in the under-17 men's high jump with a best clearance of 1.85m Alex Dargan was fourth in the under-17 men's shot-putt (8.14m) while Charlie Splarn was fifth in the same event for the under-15 boys (9.91m) and Seniz Jessener sixth in the same event for the under-15 girls (7.77m), one place ahead of team-mate Rhea Stavri (5.75m).
Stavri was also 12th in the long jump (3.58m) just behind team-mate Jessica Whitbread (ninth, 4.02m).
Beth James (under-17) was 11th in the long jump (3.68m) and 13th in the shot-putt (6.75m).
Nedum Okonyia jumped 4.26m for eighth in the under 15 boys' lon g jump while senior woman Natalie Lebeau was ninth, also in the long jump, 4.93m.


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Toys for newborns
Member comments
a BabyCenter Member says
Use the sock rattles as finger puppets. Your 2 month baby will love them. I had them pretend to sing a song from YouTube. So worth his smile.
a BabyCenter Member says
this was great im an expecting mother in 2weeks and a first so i didnt really now what to buy my lil one for his playing days to come but thanx to this i safely know what to pick out for him :-)
a BabyCenter Member says
There is a link you can click on for your baby's age.
ambrosiatony says
This is good. But since my daughter is 15 month old now, I was hoping to see some 15 month toy suggestions when I received the email..
Annettej1 says
Very informative and practical suggestions and ideas for baby's development
starlet422 says
Mom at the top...try a sling to give your arms a rest. They can take a little getting used to, but if your baby loves to be held, this will give you a break and keep him happy. I recommend any ring sling that does not have elastic on the rails. Also since your baby is a little older now, a Moby wrap would be a great option as well.
a BabyCenter Member says
My 2 month old is not entertained by anything. I've bought toys, I've got cute chairs with hanging toys and layed him on a blanket to play with him. He crys at every attempt until I pick him up and bounce him while walking, but I can't rely on that for hours. He won't even settle if I play with him on my lap. I don't know what to do. Nothing entertains him long enough to give my back nor arms a rest.
a BabyCenter Member says
I have a big mirror at her changing table and she LOVES to look at herself....she just turned 4 months and has been delighted with doing this for a while now. It's hysterical because she smiles and squeals when she sees herself...
a BabyCenter Member says
at what month will a child beging to see
a BabyCenter Member says
I have a big mirror in my bathroom. When ever it is bath time he sits and stares at himself, he doesn't even remember his taken a bath!
CrazyMama0286 says
My son has this toy elephant that jingles he can't hold it yet but we sit it in his lap and he seems to calm down. It was actually mine when I was little and I saved it and am passing it on to him.
a BabyCenter Member says
same thing goes for me... i get nothing from my baby when he wears his rattle! it seems rattles don't get his attention too.
luckycharms0210 says
None of my kids ever paid any attention to the sock and wrist rattles. I was always so dissapointed cause at first I'm excited thinking, "Yeah, they're gonna love this!" then I get nothing. It's like they don't even notice them. They are so cute and I put them on them anyways.


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German 380. Identity and Difference in German Culture
What does it mean to be a German today? Recent political, cultural and literary debates in Germany have addressed the question of who is allowed to claim Germany as their "home," their Heimat. Literary (prose, poetry) and nonliterary (film, popular music, journalism) texts by intercultural writers and artists of the last two decades challenge the narrow and exclusive concept of "Germanness." This course will explore important moments in the history of their struggle and responses to these challenges.


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Gotye, Band of Horses to Perform on LIVE ON LETTERMAN Webcasts
This September, CBS Interactive's award-winning concert webcast series, LIVE ON LETTERMAN, presented by AT&T, will showcase GRAMMY®-nominated indie rockers Band of Horses and electro-pop sensation Gotye in live webcasts from the world-famous Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City. The webcasts will be streamed live on CBS.com and VEVO, with Band of Horses performing live Monday, Sept. 17 (8:00 PM, ET/5:00 PM, PT) and Goyte performing Monday, Sept. 24 (8:00 PM, ET/5:00 PM, PT).
Band of Horses will perform songs from throughout their career, including new music from their forthcoming album, Mirage Rock, which will be released on Sept. 18, the day after their LIVE ON LETTERMAN performance. Gotye will play songs from his recent album, Making Mirrors, which includes the hits "Somebody That I Used to Know" and "Eyes Wide Open."
The LIVE ON LETTERMAN franchise, which has surpassed 120 million views to date on CBS.com and VEVO, has hosted some of the most established bands and musicians across the globe, staged in an intimate and dynamic setting for worldwide followers to enjoy.
Fans can watch Band of Horses' and Gotye's webcasts live or on-demand on CBS.com at: http://www.cbs.com/late_night/liveonletterman/. Additionally, the show is available live and on-demand through CBS properties, broadcast on select CBS RADIO stations, viewable live on CBS's JumboTron in Times Square, as well as via a live audio stream on Radio.com's mobile applications. The webcasts are also offered on VEVO, the world's leading all-premium music video and entertainment platform, VEVO.com and its free mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. The on-demand performances are available across the entire VEVO platform, including VEVO.com, mobile web, mobile and connected TV devices and syndication partners.
Band of Horses is singer/guitarist Ben Bridwell, drummer Creighton Barrett, multi-instrumentalist Ryan Monroe, bassist Bill Reynolds and guitarist Tyler Ramsey. The Charleston, S.C., outfit emerged with their first full-length album, Everything All The Time, featuring the epic "The Funeral," which appeared in numerous television shows and commercials. Their 2007 sophomore effort, Cease to Begin, included the band's first charting single, "Is There A Ghost," and the stunning "No One's Gonna Love You," while 2010's Infinite Arms reached #7 on the Billboard 200, received a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Alternative Album and featured "Laredo," one of Rolling Stone's "50 Best Songs of 2010." The group's latest single, "Knock Knock," precedes their fourth album, Mirage Rock, which will be available in stores on Sept. 18. Band of Horses has spent the summer touring as special guests of My Morning Jacket, performing at numerous festivals and preparing for a worldwide tour in support of Mirage Rock, including a run with Willie Nelson on the 2012 Railroad Revival Tour.


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Elearning Africa Helps Teachers In Dakar 2009
Africa has entered e-learning. The entire program, known as eLa, helps educators in Africa and allow them to become familiar with distance learning tools. I've worked with DonorsChoose in order to help over 900 kids in need and raised a lot of money for them, and I really feel that using the internet for education […]
More Triplets (1 Of 2)
Triplets are the concept of fitting "3 notes in the space of two". So in a measure of 4/4, we all know that quarter notes get the beat. As a result, there would be 2 eighth notes for every beat. But now if I fit 3 eighth notes in a beat rather than 2, I […]
Difference Between Bass And Guitar
What are the differences between Bass and Guitar? Bass has 4 strings (E A D G), Guitar has 6 strings (E A D G B E) Bass is tuned 2 Octaves lower than Guitar Guitar usually plays chords, whereas Bass usually plays single notes.
Go Powerful. Not Big. Guitar Trick
I notice guitar players CONSTANTLY trying to go big. The truth is, that a lot of times going softer is more effective and powerful than simply turning the dynamics on full blast. But this is true for ALL aspects of life – whether it be public speaking, creating a painting, or recording technique. Salvador Dali […]
DADGAD And GGDGBD Tunings!
[display_podcast] There are Six strings on the guitar (EADGBE) but if you tune them accordingly to DADGBE, then that is called DAD-GAD tuning. Likeso, taking those same strings you can tune them to any notes you want, but another tuning is GGDGBD. Try your own tuning and see what you come up with!


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Mike Burger wrote: > > Pentium II 300MHz, 256MB RAM, /home is approximately a 14GB partition, but > with only 2.4GB used. Running the kernel-2.4.14-SGI_XFS_1.0.2 rpm > downloaded from SGI. > > xfsprogs-1.3.13-0, xfsdump-1.1.7-0. > > The tape drive is an HP Colorado 8GB IDE drive, being accessed via the > ide-scsi module. > > I can "mt -f /dev/nst0 erase" without any errors. > > I'm running the following command (please note that "slide" is an sudo > like utility), and getting the following output: > > [mburger@burgers mburger]$ slide xfsdump -m -b 4096 -o -l 0 -F -f /dev/nst0 > /home > xfsdump: version 3.0 - Running single-threaded > xfsdump: WARNING: no session label specified > xfsdump: saving user quota information for: /home > xfsdump: WARNING: overwriting: /home/xfsdump_quotas > xfsdump: WARNING: most recent level 0 dump was interrupted, but not > resuming that dump since resume (-R) option not specified > xfsdump: level 0 dump of burgers.bubbanfriends.org:/home > xfsdump: dump date: Thu Jan 17 17:21:49 2002 > xfsdump: session id: c941cbfd-b628-403d-819d-b9f1ee1796a5 > xfsdump: session label: "" > xfsdump: ino map phase 1: skipping (no subtrees specified) > xfsdump: ino map phase 2: constructing initial dump list > xfsdump: ino map phase 3: skipping (no pruning necessary) > xfsdump: ino map phase 4: skipping (size estimated in phase 2) > xfsdump: ino map phase 5: skipping (only one dump stream) > xfsdump: ino map construction complete > xfsdump: estimated dump size: 2570099456 bytes > xfsdump: preparing drive > xfsdump: WARNING: media may contain data. Overwrite option specified > xfsdump: WARNING: no media label specified > xfsdump: creating dump session media file 0 (media 0, file 0) > xfsdump: dumping ino map > xfsdump: drive_minrmt.c:1862: do_get_write_buf: Assertion > `contextp->dc_nextp < contextp->dc_recendp' failed. > Aborted (core dumped) > > I'll be more than happy to send the core file if you folks want to look at > it. > > Thanks. > > --Mike I had a very similar error with xfsdump with a HP Colorado 8GB parallel tape drive that turned out to be a problem with the driver. Basically the weof ioctl was broken. I don't know if that is also your problem but the problem I posted (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=99535721114946&w=2) did at least prompt an upgrade to the xfsdump code so that it doesn't core dump when it hits that problem. You should definitely upgrade. Russ -- Russel H. Ingram Unix Systems Administrator Institute for Scientific Computation University of Wyoming/Math Dept. Phone: (307)766-6546 E-Mail: ringram@xxxxxxxx
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Sunday, 12 August, 2001, 19:25 GMT 20:25 UK
Timetable of an exams crisis
It has been a turbulent year for Scotland's exams body.
The system was plunged into crisis last year when thousands of pupils were left with incomplete or inaccurate results.
BBC Scotland News Online looks back at how the saga has developed over the last 12 months.
26 June 2000: The Scottish Qualifications Authority admits to "teething problems" but says it is committed to getting results out on time.
9 August: SQA admits some pupils may receive Higher certificates with results missing.
10 August: Many youngsters receive incomplete results. Some schools will not receive results for four days.
12 August: SQA chief executive Ron Tuck quits, accepting responsibility for "this unfortunate episode".
Scottish Executive dismisses SNP calls for Education Minister Sam Galbraith's resignation. The SQA insists the problem is over data, not the underlying marking.
13 August: Almost 150,000 results are to be rechecked. All sides insist that the problem is one of "missing data", not inaccurate results.
14 August: Bill Morton is appointed as interim replacement for Mr Tuck.
15 August: 5,000 discrepancies have emerged and the SQA says it will know the extent of the problem by the end of the week. Students are told that no marks will be downgraded.
18 August: Ucas admits that some of the 5,000 Scottish students whose exam results were affected will have missed out on university places.
20 August: SQA says more than 2,000 of the 5,000 youngsters affected will have their positions clarified by the next day, while the rest can expect clarifications "in a matter of days".
21 August: No letters arrive.
22 August: The SQA sets itself a deadline of 20 September for handling priority appeals.
27 August: SQA finishes compiling the missing Higher and CSYS results.
28 August: Mr Morton announces an internal review of the SQA.
29 August: Nearly 5,000 mistakes affecting 4,264 students are discovered in Standard Grade results following preliminary checks.
31 August: Mr Galbraith admits he is "angry" about the SQA's handling of the crisis.
27 September: The Scottish Parliament's education committee begins its inquiry into the exam chaos.
29 October: Jack McConnell takes over as education minister in a cabinet reshuffle which sees Mr Galbraith move to environment.
31 October: It emerges the SQA has missed another deadline for processing non-urgent Higher appeals - and that Mr Morton was not told the deadline had been missed.
2 November: In public, First Minister Henry McLeish tells MSPs that Mr McConnell will take "tough action". In private, SQA board members are asked to resign by Mr McConnell.
3 November: Results of Deloitte Touche inquiry made public, listing a catalogue of management failures by the SQA.
9 November: Mr McConnell reveals the make-up of the SQA's interim board, featuring only eight of the 24 members who were in place before the crisis. Interim chairman John Ward replaces David Miller.
25 November: The SQA says it will start sending out revised certificates to those students caught up in the fiasco - three months after they should have received the correct ones.
30 November: A report by the Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee clears Henry McLeish and Sam Galbraith of blame for the crisis, but describes the SQA's handling of the fiasco as "fundamentally negligent".
7 December: The Headteachers' Association of Scotland voices concerns that so few exam result appeals have been granted. The organisation alleges that hundreds of youngsters have lost out.
8 December: The education committee report calls for a new culture of transparency at the SQA and says the results system came within a whisker of collapse.
10 December: Mr McLeish pledges there will be no repeat of the exams crisis in Scotland.
23 February: The SQA confirms that it is to move the exam results back by a week, from 9 August to 14 August.
5 April: Mr McConnell tells MSPs that the SQA still needs to find more than 2,000 markers - only four weeks before the exams began.
19 April: A task force is set up to help avert a repeat of the exams fiasco.
1 June: Mr McConnell announces that enough markers have been recruited to deal with exam papers.
3 August: The SQA says it is confident that results will be delivered accurately and on time - although checks still have to be carried out on the results of 2,500 students.
10 August: It emerges that the final bill for avoiding another exams fiasco could top £11m.
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Securities and derivatives
The introduction of the euro has promoted efforts to reshape and harmonise the market infrastructure for financial instruments in the euro area. The introduction of the euro has also resulted in markets becoming larger and more liquid.
It is essential for the Eurosystem that the financial market infrastructure is safe and efficient. This is necessary for the integration of money and capital markets, the smooth execution of monetary policy and the maintenance of financial stability.
Consolidation is an essential element of the integration and rationalisation of market infrastructure in the euro area. Both horizontal and vertical consolidation have been seen. Horizontal consolidation takes place within a particular level of activity, be it trading, clearing or settlement, while vertical consolidation integrates functions at different levels of activity.
Trading is an agreement between counterparties with the objective of buying and selling financial instruments. Each trade can be considered to be a contractual agreement to exchange a certain amount of financial instruments for a certain amount of cash or other assets.
Trading venues
The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) distinguishes between three kinds of trading venue:
- traditional exchanges (called "regulated markets" in MiFID);
- multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), a new category of trading platform created by MiFID in order to compete with exchanges;
- "systematic internalisers" – i.e. firms which deal on their own accounts on an organised, frequent and systematic basis by executing client orders outside regulated markets and MTFs.
In some cases, traditional exchanges hold licences as regulated markets in certain market segments (e.g. equities and derivatives) and in parallel own and/or operate MTFs.
Role of the ECB
The ECB only monitors developments in the trading infrastructure.
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Clearing is the process of transmitting, reconciling and, in some cases, confirming financial asset transfer instructions prior to settlement, possibly including the netting of instructions and the establishment of final positions for settlement. As an alternative to netting, trades can be settled directly one by one on a gross basis.
Clearing services
Clearing services may be provided by:
- clearing houses;
- central counterparties (CCPs);
- securities settlement systems (SSSs);
- clearing members
Clearing houses
A clearing house determines the respective obligations and it calculates the amounts to be settled. The settlement is typically carried out via a securities settlement system.
Central counterparties
Central counterparty clearing refers to situations where the clearing house interposes itself as a buyer to the seller and as a seller to the buyer. Thus, it creates two new contracts that replace the original single contract. The legal process of replacing the original contracts is called "novation". Central counterparties (CCPs) are used for the clearing of obligations arising at various organised trading venues for securities and derivatives. Recently, they began providing their services to over-the-counter (OTC) markets.
Securities settlement systems
Similar to clearing houses, a securities settlement system determines the respective obligations of buyers and sellers which it then settles.
Clearing members
Generally speaking, a member of a clearing house (e.g. a custodian bank) may clear in the clearing house, in addition to its own obligations, those of its clients. In cases where both the selling and buying clients keep both cash and securities accounts with the custodian, trades between the two clients can be cleared and settled in the books of the custodian.
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Settlement is the act of discharging obligations, i.e. through funds or securities transfers, between two or more parties. The settlement of a securities trade typically involves two delivery processes: the transfer of the securities from the seller to the buyer, and the transfer of funds from the buyer to the seller.
Settlement providers
Settlement services are offered by central securities depositories (CSDs) and international central securities depositories (ICSDs), which operate securities settlement systems (SSSs). Sometimes an intermediary (e.g. a custodian) can effect settlement internally in its own books.
Central securities depositories
A central securities depository (CSD) is an entity for the issuance and holding of securities, which enables securities transactions to be processed electronically by book entry. Physical securities may be immobilised by the depository or they may be dematerialised (in which case they exist only as electronic records). In addition to safekeeping, CSDs also perform a notary function, i.e. the registration of ownership of securities on a legal record. CSDs have different types of holding structures: they may hold accounts for all final owners of securities ("direct holding"). Alternatively, in a tiered structure, intermediaries ("custodians") hold accounts with the CSD, while themselves holding accounts on their books for final owners ("indirect holding"). CSDs were originally set up to serve their national markets.
International central securities depositories
The two international central securities depositories (ICSDs) in Europe are Euroclear Bank and Clearstream Luxembourg. They were originally created to clear and settle Eurobond transactions. Over time they have come to provide a wide range of services for the clearance of domestic and international securities. They also provide value-added services such as collateral management, securities lending and the provision of cash credit. CSDs and ICSDs have developed links with each other to facilitate cross-border settlement.
Custodian banks
Custodian banks are intermediaries which provide investors with custody, clearing and settlement services in their local market. Some have their own internal infrastructure allowing them to clear and settle transactions in-house (internal clearing/settlement) when both counterparties of a trade hold accounts with the same custodian bank. Global custodian banks have extended their range of services in order to cover several national markets. They do so by using a network of sub-custodians (local agents), providing investors with a single gateway for the cross-border holding and settlement of securities.
Securities settlement systems
In a securities settlement system, membership is governed by access criteria. Investors which buy and sell securities will generally employ different intermediaries for the settlement of such transactions.
Trades can be settled on a continuous basis, one by one, with securities and funds being transferred on a gross basis for each trade. Often, however, settlement takes place at a given point in time for a "collection of trades".
Both securities and cash may be delivered on a gross or a net basis – i.e. in accordance with different settlement models, such as "gross-gross", "gross-net" and "net-net" models.
In a securities settlement system, settlement takes place between settlement members. Membership is governed by access criteria. Investors which buy and sell securities will generally employ different intermediaries for the settlement of such transactions.
Interaction between SSSs and payment systems
When securities and funds are exchanged, delivery-versus-payment (DvP) mechanisms are generally in place. These mechanisms ensure that the final transfer of securities is carried out only if the final transfer of funds occurs.
When providing DvP facilities in central bank money, SSSs rely on two main models :
- Interfaced settlement model : the securities leg of a transaction is settled in the SSS once the cash leg has been settled in the real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system. Each settlement requires that the two systems exchange messages with each other via a communication interface.
- Integrated settlement model : both central bank money and securities accounts are held in the SSS. Consequently, both the securities leg and the cash leg can be settled in accounts held by the SSS. An interface enables the transfer of cash between the central bank money accounts in the RTGS and the cash accounts in the SSS.
Links between CSDs
Links between central securities depositories (CSDs) are legal and technical arrangements that enable securities to be transferred between CSDs through book-entry processes. This allows securities which are issued in the CSD of one country to be transferred to the CSD of another country which has an active secondary market for those securities.
A link takes the form of an omnibus account held by one CSD (the "investor CSD") with another CSD (the "issuer CSD"). A link requires the establishment of an IT interface for the transmission of instructions related to securities eligible for transfer through the link.
Links can be used to deliver securities on a free-of-payment (FOP) basis or on a delivery-versus-payment (DvP) basis. When a DvP link is used, securities are usually first delivered free-of-payment from one CSD to the other. The DvP settlement is then performed using the local DvP settlement procedures.
In a direct link, there is no intermediary between the two CSDs and the omnibus account opened by the investor CSD is managed by either the investor CSD or the issuer CSD. In an operated direct link, a third party (i.e. a custodian bank) opens and operates an account with the issuer CSD on behalf of the investor CSD. However, responsibility for the obligations and liabilities associated with the registration, transfer and custody of securities must remain with the two CSDs from a legal perspective.
Relayed links are contractual and technical arrangements for the transfer of securities which involve at least three CSDs: the investor CSD, the issuer CSD and the "intermediary CSD".
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Operators of systems can contract all or part of their operations (e.g. their IT infrastructure) for the handling of payments or financial instruments to third-party service providers. These are of critical importance for the functioning of those systems.
For the Eurosystem, a key principle is that individual system operators retain full responsibility for any activity that is material to their operations. This also includes the responsibility for ensuring that the service provider complies with applicable oversight policies.
In the field of payments and securities handling, the perhaps most prominent example of a third-party service provider is SWIFT, which provides financial messaging services. Another type of service provider can be found in the field of derivatives. Here, trade repositories aim at providing transparency on all relevant economic and legal information related to derivatives contracts.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) is a limited liability cooperative company incorporated in Belgium and owned by its members. It is the most widely used service provider for financial transactions messaging in the world. ( Swift )
SWIFT supplies secure messaging services and interface software, contributes to the greater automation of financial transaction processes and provides a forum for financial institutions to address issues of common concern in the area of financial communication services.
Over the years SWIFT has gradually expanded its business, starting in payments, moving into securities, and more recently extending to investment institutions and corporate organisations.
The Group of Ten (G10) central banks, including the ECB, perform a cooperative oversight on SWIFT. Given that SWIFT is incorporated in Belgium, the Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique acts as lead overseer.
Trade repositories
A trade repository is a support infrastructure that serves as a central registry (in the form of an electronic database) for economic and legal information related to derivatives contracts.
Information on trades is sent to the trade repository at the time of confirmation at the latest. A trade repository is a key tool for storing relevant market information and making this information available to public authorities, market participants and other interested parties. Third-party providers which offer automated services in various post-trade stages can connect to the trade repository and base their services on the records maintained by the repository. Trade repository data may also be used by central counterparties (CCPs).
Once a complete record of a contract (a "golden record") has been established, it can then be updated with any relevant new information. This means that up-to-date information required for the processing of payments, clearing, settlement and other post-trade events over the life of a contract can be obtained from the trade repository, depending on its business model.
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I am sojourned right now and unavailable to work on codex. This is due to a major release in progress at work, I'll be back when the release is finished towards the end of july. Twistedraisin 13:45, 28 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The life of a twisted, twisted raisin (Build 1700)
I am a non-traditional univeristy student, attending classes in the evening and on weekends, as well as on-line, so as to work around my day job, Sr. Software Engineer for a retail services company. I have been writing software for nearly 17 years, beginning with several dialects of basic, then pascal, c, c++, perl, python, php, vb, and c#. I'm not sure I should, but I guess I'll even admit to Java.
I enjoy contributing to open-source projects, though in the past my interest has waned. I've been using WordPress for a long while now, and enjoy its ease-of-use and customizability.
I have several soon-to-be released plugins that include a variety of functionality.
1) wp-shoutabout
2) wp-dotplan
3) wp-wishlist
I am currently attempting to help out with the current events and tweaking the codex here and there.


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Mix the dramas leading up to a wedding with extreme plastic surgery and what do you get? A bridal reality TV show in which the final surprise is saved for at the altar.
Cable network E! has announced a new show "Bridalplasty" in which 12 engaged women live in a mansion together and compete in "wedding-themed" challenges to win plastic surgery procedures from each bride's wish list.
Each week one bride-to-be will be voted off until the winning bride reveals her post-op body to her groom at the altar in the finale of the 10-episode series hosted by former Playboy model Shanna Moakler.
"Viewers will witness his emotional and possibly shocked reaction as they stand at the altar and he lifts her veil to see her for the first time following her extreme plastic surgery," the network said of the series that premieres on Nov 28.
Writing by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Dean Goodman


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Here we are December! What usually comes to mind if this month is Christmas, a season to shop here and there, right? Just correct me if I am wrong folks. I love shopping and I am pretty sure you do too. After processing my important transactions of my whereabouts the last few days I went shopping at SM for my kids. It was a holiday so there were lots of people shopping here and there. There was a long line at the counter and also at the fitting rooms. I don't like shopping in a scenario like that but I was just grabbing the opportunity while I was there in Cebu at that time.
Anyway, for my little daughter I bought her toys and clothes, and she loved all of them. What a sweet smile from my little girl!
some of the outfits I bought for her. (leggings and mini-dress)
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From Eric Sink, via Dana Epp:
And Dana's original article:
From Eric Sink, via Dana Epp:
And Dana's original article:
Basically shipping products with bugs (known or unknown) is lame - it's tolerated only because otherwise, it would lead to cost explosion - it is already very costly to buy and use any software with even a small level of complexity.
That does not of course mean that shipping *bug free* software is impossible - that's an huge insult of Engineering profession. (Imagine Aeroplanes, Nuclear Power plants etc. built and commissioned with bugs, even consider CPUs - for the complexity, they have far less number of bugs than any operating system.)
Software Engineering could benefit hugely from having completely effective processes, intelligent tools and engineers who religiously follow them. Any one who ships buggy products is missing at least one of the above.
The cost of a fix that these articles talk about directly depends on how much the code is garbage to begin with. It is never zero but it is far greater for MS than it should be. Instead of committing 100% of your resources to pushing the next big wave of unreliable crap (aka .NET) concentrate on techniques to write robust code. This will decrease your bug fix times and costs and change the balance in the equation. Note that "robust" is more than "secure". The security scrub you went through is just the tip of the iceberg.
Economics? I've had enough previous employers where the cost of fixing a bug was blamed on the person who reported the bug. After seeing a posting by one of your colleagues who was penalized for helping to improve bug reporting, plus a few comments on MiniMsft's site, it sort of looks like Microsoft is par for that course.
There are more than two groups of software engineers. Some have different opinions than others about what kind of bug should be considered a show-stopper. Some have different opinions than others about whether warranty service should be provided.
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I find this discussion amusing as it is more than 10 years old, and still hasn't really been put to bed yet.
"Responsible disclosure" requires "responsible software vendors".
When vendors do not fix their software, we get people pushing out exploits prior to fixes being available - a lose-lose situation.
When vendors exploit a disclosure policy to put off doing the right thing, we all lose. Back in the day, SGI used to be the boogyman. CERT would sit on vulnerabilities literally for years until the vendor notified CERT that they had a fix and had spread it around their customers. SGI exploited CERT's policy. full-disclosure@... was born out of that *failed* "responsible disclosure" policy.
By common assent, bugtraq mostly adheres to RFP's disclosure policy to *encourage* vendors to fix and test in a reasonable time frame.
However, I know how hard moderating a high volume list can be as I look after webappsec. I do not let 0days out on my list, but I allow discussion which may lead to new attack types. This is responsible as if the security professionals are thinking about it, you can bet your bottom dollar that attackers are thinking about it, or already have.
I strongly advocate development of preventative measures along with pure attack paths. Without preventative measures, we will just become more and more vulnerable as time goes on. That's why I re-wrote the OWASP Guide 2.0 to be a positive book, and minimized the total number of negative "thou shalt not" entries.
However, getting back to the original topic. In 2002, I presented a talk to linux.conf.au stating unequivocally that if you use dangerous languages like C or C++, you are responsible for not releasing code which has buffer overflows and other preventable flaws. Most user land utilities and applications could be recoded with some effort in C#, which is for the most part unaffected by buffer overflows.
Dana has a point, but it's a very naive point of view. We need to have *some* pressure on vendors as they have shown to be less than forthcoming in the past (SGI, Cisco), otherwise we all lose. But we also need to allow security researchers to freely communicate their findings and research so that we can develop techniques to prevent security flaws.
till_pero, clearly you've never worked as a professional software developer (or at least not on any project of reasonable complexity).
There are NO projects that ship without bugs. None. Even mission critical ones like the projects that run airplanes, nuclear power plants and space ships. Those applications have a very low tolerance for bugs, and have a massive amount of overhead associated with ensuring that the project have as few defects as possible, but they still ship with bugs.
The problem is that most bugs can't be foreseen. Who knows how a system is going to act when it's living in the wild, when it's performing with input that it wasn't tested against, when the components are grinding against each other in ways they never have before. Until we come up with a way to test against all possible input cases imaginable (ha!), or adopt formal code proofs as the norm (double ha!), software with bugs will ship.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." – Dijkstr
"...how much the code is garbage".
No, it is how complex the code is already.
Nobody with a sane mind *WANTS* to ship a product with bugs. The visibility is more in systems that exposes an API to an external team or a component.
People who compare engineering to software engineering and claim that since bridges don't fall down on a regular basis software should be flawless bother me.
Tell you what, when you're told to design a car that one month later has to be able to go under water, then 6 months later, right before it's due to ship, also has to be able to go into outer space, then we'll talk.
Engineering has a set number of variables whereas software has a (practically) unlimited number of code paths.
Given a limited amount of resources one has to determine where efforts should be directed to.
Larry - makes me wonder if you read my post at all. Ok, let's get this straight - it's this attitude of MS that has caused it to ship products with *nasty* bugs that explode and cause you *loss*.
I call it a bug when a *normal* use of the product causes loss of _some_ kind for which there is no work around.
(Mind you Windows has plenty of such bugs)
Going by your negligent statement, we must have seen loads of air craft crashes every day. Aircraft software does NOT have bugs that occur with normal use of the aircraft and heck may be even abnormal one. PERIOD. Mission critical s/w that ships with bugs either ships with enough prevention mechanism to avoid the circumstances causing the bugs - meaning it no longer is a bug but reduced functionality which is acceptable.
I don't recall nuclear power plant explosions caused by bugs - it performs exactly per specification.
Those applications have a very low tolerance for bugs, and have a massive amount of overhead associated with ensuring that the project have as few defects as possible, but they still ship with bugs.
In engineering there is always an tolerance it's either very low or very high or somewhere in between. We are discussing of bugs - which are caused by non/mal-function of the software which in turn is caused by Higher tolerance.
Saying low tolerance is still tolerance and is comparable to high tolerance is funny. Latter causes you loss and classifies as 'does not work per specification' == BUG, but the former, despite of being a little off than specification, doesn't cause you any loss - it's acceptable.
Now give me an example - what bug(s) a mission critical s/w shipped with and if it did why was it call 'mission critical' at all. I tell you no real mission critical s/w did - all of them performed 'well within specification' under all practical circumstances. That is NO bug at all.
Makes me wonder however, if Boeing sells Aeroplans with the kind of NO WARRANTY OK ANY KIND clauses that MS ships their OSes with!
> ill_pero, clearly you've never
> worked as a professional software
> developer (or at least not on any
> project of reasonable complexity).
So you're a "professional software engineer"? Does that mean you've taken an exam provided by the state and are legally liable for any damages caused by errors in your code?
> There are NO projects that ship
> without bugs. None. Even mission
> critical ones like the projects
> that run airplanes, nuclear power
> plants and space ships.
Yes, but if an airplane or nuclear plant somehow has an error that causes millions of dollars in damages, the company has to pay. So they are very careful to avoid such things.
Microsoft, on the other hand, can cause millions of dollars of lost time and money (see the spyware problem and virus problem) and for reasons I don't understand no one ever sues.
It's not as if MS doesn't bring in enough profits to fix most of their critical bugs if then wanted to.
there's a difference between:
- shipping products with bugs.
- shipping products with *known* bugs.
It is possible to ship even large systems without known bugs. Im not talking about the kind of bugs you get due to a defective (or even non-existant) QA, but the kind of bugs that slip by even extensive (but provably not extensive enough) QA.
There are many reasons products ship with known bugs, but usually it boils down to engineers and developers being overruled by the ones wanting to make a quick buck. But whatever the reason, it's always a deviation from good business ethics - at best.
Yes, the POC should have been sent to Microsoft privately before (shall we say, MONTHS before) being released into the wild.
My question, though, is this...
How much effort does Microsoft make to investigate whether known bugs are more serious than they at first appear?
Clearly, not enough.
If someone points out that there's a crack in the dam, then calls the person who built the dam and says "look at the crack, it's leaking water", whose responsibility is it to check whether that crack is a minor inconvenience (leaking water) or a sign of major structural damage?
The person who noticed the crack, or the person who built the dam?
It AMAZES me that this person was able to discover a working exploit, even without access to the code.
Microsoft should have been able to assess the risk of a possible exploit much more easily. Not only does Microsoft have access to the code, but they don't even have to make the exploit work... they just have to think "hey look, there's a potential buffer overrun here."
Easy fix.
Food for thought:
"... if a man builds a house badly, and it falls and kills the owner, the builder is to be slain..."
St. Francis Dam - worst civil engineering disaster in US history
"... On the morning of March 12, Harnischfeger discovered a new leak and worried that it was undermining the dam. Mulholland, his son Perry, and assistant Harvey van Norman investigated. Perry thought the leak looked serious, but Mulholland felt it to be typical of concrete dams, and declared the leaks safe.
The dam finally crumbled at 11:57 p.m. on March 12, 1928, scarcely 12 hours after Mulholland had inspected it.
Maurits, that's a good point. Personally, I classify this in the same category as off-by-one overruns and heap overruns.
Two years ago, if you'd asked a security professional, they would have told you that a one byte overrun of the stack wasn't exploitable. Then the hackers showed how it was exploitable. Similarly with heap overruns.
Our knowledge of what is exploitable and what is not exploitable constantly changes over time. This is why Microsoft requires that developers take ANNUAL security training - because the exploit landscape constantly changes.
From what little I've seen about this particular problem, it appears that something like that happened here - a condition that was previously thought to be unexploitable was shown to be exploitable.
Monday, November 28, 2005 11:10 AM by vince
> and for reasons I don't understand no one
> ever sues.
Legal proof is far far harder than engineering proof. Even when you can accomplish legal proof, it's rare for awards to even cover the expenses. The outcome shown in "A Civil Action" is more common than "Erin Brockovich", but more common than both is for the case to just be abandoned because victims can't afford to produce legal proof.
Monday, November 28, 2005 5:52 PM by Maurits
> http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html
> "... if a man builds a house badly, and it
> falls and kills the owner, the builder is to
> be slain..."
Yeah, but if the builder can afford better lawyers, and if the builder isn't stupid enough to do something like telling the truth in court, then how are you going to prove it...
> Two years ago, if you'd asked a security
> professional, they would have told you that a one
> byte overrun of the stack wasn't exploitable. Then
> the hackers showed how it was exploitable. Similarly
> with heap overruns.
Hm, it's a bit longer then 2 years tho, it's 6:
The timeline surrounding new bugclasses (or partial new bugclasses) is interesting tho. Usually they are known for a very long time to a select group of people and it's not untill someone raises a big stink about it that other people know or care about it.
A good example is formatstring bugs, they've been documented since adleast 1988 (The C programming language 2nd edition). Very few people knew about it untill 2000 when all hell broke lose and everything turned out to be vulnerable to it.
Whenever the public at large is introduced to a new bugclass it's always interesting to go look if you can find earlier references to it. You usually can! it's just that no one seemed to care about it back then.
The thing is most bugs have the potential to be security bugs when placed in the right context. It's just expensive to think about a bug (that's not yet seen as a security bug) for a while and try to come up with a security sensitive context for it.
I agree with larry that constant dev. education regarding security is needed. He's absolutely right, the exploit landscape is constantly changing and it's changing more rapidly then it did a decade ago !
Sometimes I wonder if people just need a target to rant against! Seriously ... relax, people. Speaking from 20 years in IT, MS is by no means the worst bug shipper/admit-er/fix-er. All other vendor provide shoddy support from time to time ... in my opinion the cumulative worst is another major sw/hw/services vendor.
Building software is not easy. It is a complex task. There will always be bugs. You say it is lame to ship with bugs (known and unknown). First, if it is a unknown bug, you didnt know it existed when you shipped the product, so there is nothing that could have been done about this in hindsight. As regards known bugs - again, it depends on the severity/priority of the bug. If you take the position that you will never ship software with a known bug, then very few projects will get to customers. The reason? Fixing bugs sometimes introduces more bugs. Also, QA tests are sometimes not complete, so they dont catch all the bugs in software. Also, you get to the point of diminishing returns after some point. Do you want to hold up a product ship just because the "OK" button in a dialog box is off by one pixel?
Let us talk about mission critical software. I dont have the link offhand, but if you go to slashdot, you can search for one of the posting which listed 10 top bugs of all time. There have been incidents where people were injected with the wrong dose by a medial device because of a bug in the software. NASA lost the Mars Observer, because one contractor was working in metric units while the other was working with inches. It was a bug in the process!
Having said that - is there room for improvement? Absolutely - and we are doing it everyday. Sometimes we are successful and sometimes not, but I can say with confidence atleast about my team that we are focused on delivery quality code.
I wanted to add to my post on this subject. Another bug that hit a mission critical piece of software was with the first Mars Rover. They had a bug in the software that did the scheduling, and it caused the Rover to malfunction. It was a very subtle bug, I grant you that, and they could fix it remotely as well. Anyway, the reason I brought this up was to give another example of a bug that hit a critical piece of software.
I would also like to add that sometimes mistakes do get made. People make the wrong judgement about a bug and dont realize the impact it might have down the road. So, yes, sometimes software does get shipped with "known" bugs. However cases like this should not be very many. No project manager, whether at MS or elsewhere wants to ship software that will have bugs in mainline customer scenarios. And where this happened, managers are made accountable. Now, again, as I said previously, there are definitely instances where this process does not work perfectly. However there shouldnt be too many of these instances.
Bottom line is - there are other alternatives now. We know that if we dont do a good job and ship shitty bug ridden software, then customers will vote with their dollars and go elsewhere.
Interesting... we keep coming back to market impact as the driver for bug fixes. Many businesses do not have this vaunted ability to "vote with their dollars". Consider that there is a cost attached to system migration, and that such a cost might be so high for technically-reliant businesses that they will surely go under if the migration is undertaken. A business in such a position will stick with the buggy system they have and pray.
I see these "economics of software design" themes fairly frequently in the MS blogs, and why not? That is the the model that MS approaches business with. Eric Lippert's "How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lightbulb?" is a somewhat more humourous article in a similar vein. Unfortunately, I see a few people missing from Eric's list, like the number of marketing people involved in promoting said new feature, or the number of people making said feature accessible for his blind Catalan-speaking Spaniard, who happens to be a deaf quadriplegic as well.
All this brings up a point that occurred to me: what if all that effort devoted to market-broadening localization, accessibility, and marketing were put into software development instead? As someone once mentioned, "Fewer clients, less money". Not that the disabled or those who don't speak English don't deserve great software, it's just that they (and everyone else) don't deserve to have to wonder if their computer will be working tomorrow.
Of course, if Microsoft did anything that increased quality at any cost to their customer base or advertising juggernaut (and hence to their bottom line), some other voracious being would just step in and start it all over again. These tradeoffs are made not to stay in business, but to remain on the top.
As some of my comments on my blog point out in the original article, I agree that we need to place pressure on the vendors from time to time. My point though is that pressure needs to be applied through a responsible workflow. If security researchers really wish to protect the safety and security of their clients while elevating their own credibility in the industry, they must follow responsible disclosure practices.
Researchers have every right to be able to disclose their findings. The balance is doing so while respecting the well-being of the rest of the Internet. This wasn't the case. They didn't even make an effort to notify MIcrosoft beforehand.
And I am not absolving Microsoft from responsibility here. They have a TERRIBLE track record when it comes to responding to some threats (see EEyes Upcoming Advisories on just a few examples of vulnerabilities going on over 200 days now). But its hard to work on those when they have to respond to new attack patterns that are in the wild.
Further to this, Microsoft showed their human frailty in their security response practices with this incident. During triage of the original bug a threat model would have been performed and it is apparent this attack vector wasn't even considered. And it should have been. But now its a moot point. Now they are in defensive response mode in an effort to protect all their clients.
How does the irresponsible disclosure benefit us as the user? It doesn't. It actually put us all at MORE risk. And that's not acceptable.
Naive? Perhaps. But that's because I believe in the disclosure process. It requires both sides to work. When either side collapses, the whole thing is shot. This incident is proof of that.
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"Yer looked it," retorted tusker, his face scowling horribly.
Right opposite tusker Joe a solitary individual sat awkwardly on a rough bench.
Thar was five hundred miners thar, and one of 'em was tusker Joe.
His rifle was some distance away, and before he could reach it the tusker would probably overtake him.
However, tusker improved to such an extent that it became possible to move him.
Bluff and brag at his best, tusker Joe was in those days too young a man to carry off such a situation with absolute tranquillity.
But thar's more to tell, tusker; more as has ter do with your actions.
tusker Joe had got the drop on his comrades in the saloon, to use a mining expression.
I fired again, and the tusker, checked in his rush, swung off to one side.