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Cabrillo Musical Theatre Presents WHITE CHRISTMAS, Opens 12/26
Happy Holidays, Southern California! You are cordially invited to the theatre event of the holiday season when Cabrillo Music Theatre presents Irving Berlin'S WHITE CHRISTMAS featuring some of Cabrillo and Southern California's best loved talent. The classic Bing Crosby-Danny Kaye movie comes to life on the stage, with its delightful score enhanced by several more Irving Berlin classics and starring David Engel, Randy Rogel, Jennifer Mathews and Cassie Silva. Cabrillo's production of Irving Berlin'S WHITE CHRISTMAS, created exclusively for the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Bank of America Performing Arts Center, will open on Saturday, December 26th, 2009 and run for only seven performances, through Tuesday, December 29th, for Cabrillo Music Theatre in the 1,800-seat Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks.
Filled with Irving Berlin's songs, and featuring a new book by David Ives and Paul Blake, WHITE CHRISTMAS tells the story of two World War II veterans-turned-entertainers, who meet up with a talented pair of sisters. Together, they plot to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general. The score features a whopping 17 Irving Berlin hits. Favorites from the movie include "Sisters," "Counting My Blessings," "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing," and "Snow." Additions to the stage production include "I Love a Piano," "Blue Skies," and "How Deep is the Ocean." Topping it all off, of course, is the award-winning title tune.
"WHITE CHRISTMAS is yet another Cabrillo exclusive to appear concurrently with a Broadway production," says Carole W. Nussbaum, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cabrillo Music Theatre. "Our audience is in for a holiday treat!" Continues Nussbaum about the December 26-29th run, "Bring the kids and the grandkids to the biggest holiday party of the season... Irving Berlin'S WHITE CHRISTMAS. We've even got Santa Claus and his helpers in the lobby! Here at Cabrillo Music Theatre, Christmas isn't over until December 29th!"
In keeping with holiday tradition, Cabrillo Music Theatre's WHITE CHRISTMAS will bring together some of the biggest stars of recent CMT shows. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN stars David Engel and Randy Rogel (2008 Ovation Award winner, Best Supporting Actor) reunite in the roles made famous by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. Joining them will be Jennifer Mathews, of Cabrillo's CAROUSEL, and Cassie Silva, star of last season's 42ND STREET. With a cast of thirty, a 22-piece orchestra, lavish costumes, and a towering 12'-tall Christmas tree, WHITE CHRISTMAS promises to be a dazzling holiday entertainment. Tickets to WHITE CHRISTMAS make the perfect holiday gift. R.S.V.P. now to Irving Berlin'S WHITE CHRISTMAS. WHITE CHRISTMAS is perfect for families, and is recommended for audiences of all ages.
Todd Nielsen (Director) is happy to be joining the CMT family this holiday season and bringing this Christmas classic to the Cabrillo stage. Previously, Todd had the pleasure of directing CMT's hit production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. Since that time he has been directing up and down the West Coast as well as acting as Resident Director for the Cheetah National Tour of Disney's The Lion King. Recent projects have included Lend Me a Tenor for Chapman University, Phantom for Moonlight Stage Productions in Vista, Squabbles for the Norris Theatre, Ben Franklin in Paris for the 42nd Street Moon Theatre in San Francisco, which received three Bay Area Critics Circle nominations, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune and Tom, Dick and Harry at International City Theatre, both honored as Critic's Choice by the LA Times, Plaid Tidings for the Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Welk Resort and Disney's Beauty and the Beast for the historic Croswell Opera House in Michigan. He also acted as Associate Director for the first annual Mystery Writer's Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky. A multi-award winning Director/Choreographer, his productions of On the Twentieth Century (Colony Theatre), City of Angels, Rags, The Diviners, Working, A New Brain (West Coast Ensemble), You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, King of Hearts, The Robber Bridegroom, The Skin of Our Teeth and The Matchmaker (Colony Theatre) have all been honored. Other favorites include Honk! (International City Theatre), The Secret Garden (Glendale Centre Theatre), How to Succeed in Business, Guys and Dolls (Britt Music Festival), Nunsense (Candlelight Pavilion), Execution of Justice, See How They Run (Brea Theatre) and A Little Night Music. Todd has also directed and choreographed shows for the Musical Theatre Guild including Seesaw, Out of This World, Merrily We Roll Along, The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd, Where's Charley?, Plain and Fancy and Rags. He also works with a wonderful children's theatre group, the Nine O'Clock Players. Most recently Beauty and the Beast and The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood. Also a performer, Todd's recent appearances include the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz for Musical Theatre West and Leading Ladies at the Norris Theatre. Past productions include Side Show, An Ideal Husband, Our Country's Good, Putting It Together, How to Succeed in Business, City of Angels, Incident at Vichy and Me and My Girl. Upcoming directing projects will be the classic British farce, No Sex Please, We're British for the Norris Theatre and Charlotte's Web for the Nine O'Clock Players.
Melissa Giattino (Choreographer) was the Dance Captain for the LA production of White Christmas at the Pantages Theater. This production continued her working relationship with Randy Skinner, for whom she was the Dance Captain for the Tony Award winning Broadway Revival of 42nd Street. Her choreography credits also include the upcoming IFC feature film "Made For Each Other." Along with her dance partner, she co-created the long running Song and Dance show Two On Tap, which has been performed in numerous countries around the world, including the famed Town Hall in New York City.
Darryl Archibald (Musical Director/Conductor). Tours include: Disney's The Lion King (vocal coach/assistant conductor), A Grand Night for Singing, The All Night Strut, and Jerry's Girls. Other shows include: Wicked at the Pantages Theater (substitute conductor), Smokey Joe's Cafe (El Portal Theater), Ragtime (Musical Theatre West); Swing! (Sacramento Music Circus); A Chorus Line directed by Kay Cole, and The King and I with Deborah Gibson (Cabrillo Music Theatre); Swing! (McCoy/Rigby Ent.); Merry Me A Little - revised version (Celebration Theater); The Fantasticks with Eric McCormack, Once On This Island, Li'l Abner with Cathy Rigby and Fred Willard; Merrily We Roll Along with Teri Hatcher; I Do! I Do! with Diana Canova and Harry Groener (Reprise); My Fair Lady, 1776, Little Shop Of Horrors, Camelot, and Forever Plaid (Utah Shakespearean Festival); Ain't Misbehavin' directed by Ken Page (CLOSBC); The Threepenny Opera, Raisin and A Christmas Carol (ICT); The Fix, Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Lady In the Dark, and Sail Away (Musical Theatre Guild). Arrangement and orchestration credits include: the prime-time television special A Hollywood Holiday Celebration (ABC), The Fountain Show and Christmas Trolley Show (The Grove Los Angeles). Upcoming productions include: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (CMT), Carousel, Two By Two, How To Succeed... (Reprise), Great Expectations (USF).
David Engel (Bob). A six-time LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award winner, David starred as Don Lockwood in CMT's 2008 and 1999 productions of Singin' in the Rain. David will make a quick return to the Cabrillo stage for their next production, The Andrews Brothers. He appeared on Broadway in Putting It Together, Seussical: The Musical, La Cage Aux Folles and both stage and film versions of The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. He is most noted for creating the role of Smudge in the original off-Broadway production of Forever Plaid and its holiday sequel Plaid Tidings. Other stage credits include starring roles in Crazy For you, White Christmas, Kiss Me Kate, Children of Eden, The Full Monty, Dames at Sea, Never Gonna Dance, and Pasadena Playhouse's newly re-envisioned Can-Can. He also shares an on-screen romance with RuPaul in the musical short film "Zombie Prom." In addition to his acting career, Mr. Engel has directed and choreographed major productions of Seussical, Forever Plaid, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and collaborated with Singin' In The Rain director Larry Raben on Toronto's original production Motown at the Twilight.. David has directed the original commercials for Forever Plaid, The World Goes 'Round, and created and directed the MGM/UA Home Video "Logo-Fanfare". He produced and directed a documentary as a companion to the video release of "That's Entertainment III," and served as the Film Sequence Director for "Judy Garland, A Tribute" at Carnegie Hall, "The Busby Berkeley Suite" with The Boston Pops, and "Carnegie Hall Celebrates the Glorious MGM Musicals."
Randy Rogel (Phil) has won three Emmy awards (ten nominations), a Peabody award, and two Annie awards for his work as a television writer, composer, and producer. He spent nine years on staff at Warner Bros before moving to the Disney studios. He helped create television shows such as Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Batman, and Histeria, and at Disney he wrote on Tarzan, House of Mouse, The Three Caballeros, Cinderella, Peter Pan- Return to Neverland, 101 Dalmatians II, Around the World in Eighty Days, and Winnie the Pooh. He is currently show runner for a new show entitled 1001 Nights. Randy's new musical, Gypsy King, premiers this March in Seattle for a ten week, two city tour. Last year Randy won the 2008 Ovation Award for Singin' in the Rain here at Cabrillo.
As an actor and director, Randy has won five Dramalogue awards and the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a musical for his portrayal of Eddie in Very Good Eddie. He has played leading roles in major theaters around the country, including the Papermill Playhouse, The Goodspeed, Seattle's 5th Ave Theater, Houston's Theater Under the Stars, the St. Louis Muni, The Benedum Center in Pittsburgh, the Seattle Repertory Theater, ACT, The Old Globe Theater in San Diego, and the Sacramento Music Theater. Randy is a West Point graduate with ten years service as a military officer in the combat arms. Seeing as White Christmas concerns an army general, you might be interested to note that Randy's classmates include Ray Odierno, the Four-Star General now commanding US forces in Iraq, and Stan McChrystal, the Four-Star General commanding US forces in Afghanistan. Randy received his Engineering Degree from the Academy and a Masters Degree in International Relations from Boston University.
JENNIFER MATHEWS (Betty) returns to Cabrillo Music Theatre in White Christmas after playing Nettie Fowler in Carousel at Cabrillo several seasons ago. Roles include Betty Haynes in the recent FCLO Music Theatre production of White Christmas, Marian Paroo in The Music Man (FCLO), Kathy Seldon in Singin' in The Rain (Saddleback Music Theatre), Martha Mills, I Can...Wholesale (Musical Theatre Guild), Guinevere in Camelot, and Elsa Shraeder in The Sound of Music (FCLO and Saddleback). Other Southern California productions: Parade, Ragtime, Allegro, The Scarlet Pimpernel and Jekyll and Hyde. Jennifer received degrees in vocal performance and creative writing from the University of California, Irvine and is originally from Fresno, California.
CASSIE SILVA (Judy) is thrilled to be back at Cabrillo for White Christmas, having been in CMT's recent productions of 42nd Street (Peggy Sawyer) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Ruth). White Christmas is very dear to Cassie as it is the first show she shared with her mother, who favors it over any other holiday show. Credits include: Meet Me in St. Louis (Esther/MTW), 42nd Street (Peggy Sawyer/Moonlight Amphitheatre), Jingle Bell Rock. Film and TV projects such as "Valentine", "Dexter", "Legally Blonde", Walk Hard", and Brenda in "Hairspray". She also takes great pride training dancers at Dance Dimensions PAC in Woodland Hills, CA.
Irving Berlin'S WHITE CHRISTMAS will open on Saturday, December 26th, 2009 and run through Tuesday, December 29th. Performances are as follows: Saturday, December 26th, at 2:00PM and 8:00PM; Sunday, December 27th at 2:00PM and 7:00PM; Monday, December 28th, at 2:00PM; and Tuesday, December 29th, at 2:00PM and 7:00PM. Members of the U.S. Military will be honored at the Tuesday, 7:00PM performance.
Tickets are on sale now and may be purchased at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Box Office located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks or through any Ticketmaster location or by phone (805) 583-8700. For groups of 12 or more, please call Group Sales, Cabrillo Music Theatre at (805) 497-8615. Ticket prices range from $25-$55. For ticket and theatre information, call (805) 449-ARTS (2787).
CABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE's 2009-2010 season continues with THE ANDREWS BROTHERS (February 2010), HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING (April 2010), and RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA (July 2010). Tickets for WHITE CHRISTMAS can be purchased as part of a season-ticket subscription, at big savings.
CABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE performs exclusively at the Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Bank of America Performing Arts Center, at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks.


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I deal with mild bouts of constipation on a regular basis, so I usually don't take any medication for it. However, I recently suffered a bout that lasted for 6 days. By the 4th day, I knew I had to do something. I already tried prunes, water, yoga, and a chiropractic adjustment, but none of them worked. I read great reviews about Colace, so I picked up a small box. I took two doses, and by the 6th day I was relieved!
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Surfak I have had IBS since childhood. Dairy, grains & alcohol were big aggravators. Before I got the symptoms under control, I had constipation to the point of developing hemorrhoids & fissures which required surgical repair. And, I suffered from frequent diarrhea. Agonizing waves of pain were disabling, at times. 240 mg Surfak caplets twice a day or 100 mg three times a day greatly helped the constipation...the generic form is pretty cheap. I have eliminated medications, now & use 3 servings a day of immune26 to decrease its severity by at least 80%, while being able to eat without restriction. I have to really overdo it to have a mild episode of brief pain & diarrhea but it is nothing compared to the hell IBS used to put me through. I just read up on the Diet: Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) & it sounds great...I bet I could eliminate all my symptoms if I also used that diet. Another, low carb diet I have tried has helped, too.
My daily "friend" I've use docusate sodium (generic) daily since entering pain management, to combat opioid-induced constipation. It doesn't entirely prevent me from producing "rocks". But I'm sure that without it, I'd go from occasionally clogging the toilet to being entirely clogged myself. If I have to go to the ER, I'd just as soon do so for reasons other than being full of "it" :-) So its docusate sodium, 3 capsules at bedtime, for me.
Relief with Docusate I have ulcerative proctitis so I use docusate sodium daily along with a dose of metamucil to help my chronic constipation, all under the direction of my gastroenterologist. Until a year ago, I only used the metamucil, but I still had bouts of constipation. Since I added the Docusate every day, I have been much more regular for almost a year. What a relief!

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Hello everyone! First up, have you checked out my new comic series, Love Not Found? It's a futuristic space romance... with botany! Next, the more relevant news...
Red String Volume 8 is close at hand. I am putting it together right now and hope to have it ready for Dragon*Con next month. This book will collect the final chapters of the series and complete the single volume book sets. This version WILL NOT be the Director's Cut. The material within is the "theatrical release" if you will. It will contain what originally posted to the Red String website during it's complete run.Those who enjoyed the end of the series AS IS will want this book. I will be taking preorders for the book as soon as it's ready to go and will let you know when that is happening.
Also! The final Omnibus book will be a "director's cut" of the series, adding in a bunch of new material to what would be Volume 7 & 8 of the single volume releases. My plan is to smooth out the end of the series. There are things that need touching up, smoothing out, and a little fixing. I have already begun making numerous notes. There will be added scenes, tweaked scenes, and at least one entire extra chapter inserted, and the epilogues. Oh, the epilogues!
I will be working on the Omnibus material as the year progresses and will be SHOWING YOU that material on my new Tumblr blog dedicated to the director's cut. I will be posting notes, thoughts, changed pages, the added scenes, and even the entire added chapter I mentioned.
AND THEN I will be running a kickstarter for the Omnibus book (and if there is enough interest a directors cut version of Volume 7 and Volume 8). I am hoping to launch it later in the year. I look forward to this last big journey into the series.Comments | Add Comment
Posted 2013-12-02 10:00
It's finally time! The Erstwhile vol.2 kickstarter has launched. For those of you who are not familiar with my other work, Erstwhile is an anthology series adapting the lesser-known Grimm's Fairy Tales into comic form. I collaborate with two other awesome female comic artists and we each take turns illustrating a story. This is a FULL COLOR HARDCOVER book and collects six complete tales.
Posted 2013-10-16 12:00
We are pleased to announce that our Amazon store is now live. There are a lot of books in there already and there are more that will be added in the future. The great part of this is that now you can buy Gina's books through Amazon and your order can qualify for free shipping if you are an Amazon Prime member.
Gina's adult titles are not listed in the Amazon store just now, but they are available directly through the Amazon Createspace store. All of the naughty goodness is now available for you to have in printed form, including the newest book, Riding Hood 2, which continues the adventures of Red and the Wolf.Comments | Add Comment


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Your Guide To Growing Carrots
Carrots are fun and easy to grow—but you have to be patient.
How To Plant Carrots: To produce the best crop possible, double-dig your planting area or build up a raised bed. Loose, rock-free soil is the goal. If you have heavy soil, add plenty of mature compost.
Start sowing this cool-weather crop 3 weeks before the last expected frost; plant again every 2 to 3 weeks after that. Most cultivars take 70 to 80 days to mature, so sow your last planting 2 to 3 months before the first expected fall frost. In Zone 8 and warmer, plant carrots in fall or winter.
Rake the soil free of lumps and stones. Broadcast the tiny seeds, or for easier weeding, plant in rows. Put a pinch of about six seeds to the inch. They will take 1 to 3 weeks to sprout (they germinate more slowly in cold soil than in warm), so mix in a few quick-growing radish seeds to mark the rows. Cover with ¼ to ½ inch of screened compost, potting mix, or sand—a little more in warm, dry areas—to make it easier for the delicate seedlings to emerge. Water gently to avoid washing seeds away; keep the soil continuously moist for best germination.
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Growing Guidelines: Thin to 1 inch apart when the tops are 2 inches high, and be thorough, because crowded carrots will produce crooked roots. Thin again 2 weeks later to 3 to 4 inches apart.
As the seedlings develop, gradually apply mulch to maintain an even moisture level and reduce weed problems. It's best never to let young carrot plants dry out. However, if the soil dries out completely between waterings, gradually remoisten the bed over a period of days; a sudden drenching may cause the roots to split. Carrots' feeder roots are easily damaged, so hand pull any weeds that push through the mulch, or cut them off just below the soil surface. Cover carrot crowns, which push up through the soil as they mature, with mulch or soil to prevent them from becoming green and bitter.
Related: Roasted Carrots With Mint And Honey
Problems: The biggest threats to carrots are four-footed critters such as deer, gophers, woodchucks, and rabbits. For controls, see the Animal Pests entry. Otherwise, carrots are fairly problem free.
Keep an eye out—particularly in the Northwest—for carrot rust flies, which look like small green houseflies with yellow heads and red eyes. Their eggs hatch into whitish larvae that burrow into roots. Infested roots turn dark red and the leaves black. Infestations usually occur in the early spring, so one solution is to delay planting until early summer, when damage is less likely. Or cover plants with a floating row cover to keep flies away.
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Parsleyworms are green caterpillars with black stripes, white or yellow dots, and little orange horns. They feed on carrot foliage, but they are the larval stage of black swallowtail butterflies, so if you spot them on your carrots, try not to kill them. Instead, transfer them to carrot-family weeds such as Queen Anne's lace, and watch for chrysalises to form, and later, beautiful butterflies!
The larvae of carrot weevils, found from the East Coast to Colorado, tunnel into carrot roots, especially in spring crops. Discourage grubs by rotating crops.
Nematodes, microscopic wormlike animals, make little knots along roots that result in stunted carrots. Rotate crops and apply plenty of compost, which is rich in predatory microorganisms. (For more controls, see Plant Diseases and Disorders.)
Related: How To Start Carrots Outdoors
Leaf blight is the most widespread carrot disease. It starts on leaf margins, with white or yellow spots that turn brown and watery. If leaf blight is a problem in your area, plant resistant cultivars.
Hot, humid weather causes a bacterial disease called vegetable soft rot. Prevent it by rotating crops and keeping soil loose. The disease spreads in storage, so don't store bruised carrots.
Carrot yellows disease causes pale leaves and formation of tufts of hairy roots on the developing carrots. The disease is spread by leafhoppers, so the best way to prevent the problem is by covering new plantings with row covers to block leafhoppers.
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Harvesting: Carrots become tastier as they grow. You can start harvesting as soon as the carrots are big enough to eat, or leave them all to mature for a single harvest. Dig your winter storage crop before the first frost on a day when the soil is moist but the air is dry. Since spading forks tend to bruise roots, hand-pull them; loosen the soil with a trowel before you pull. Watering the bed before harvesting softens the soil and makes pulling easier.
Once you learn how to plant carrots, you'll get to enjoy them both fresh and cooked. Note that purple-rooted varieties will lose their purple pigment if cooked in water, but tend to keep it when roasted.
To save harvested carrots for winter use, prepare them by twisting off the tops and removing excess soil, but don't wash them. Layer undamaged roots (so they're not touching) with damp sand or peat in boxes topped with straw. Or store your fall carrot crop right in the garden by mulching the bed with several inches of dry leaves or straw.


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Wolves Nation didn't get through 24 hours of the Kevin Love to Cleveland news before another wrinkle to the story broke. Bob Cooney of the Philadelphia Daily News reported that the Wolves would then send Anthony Bennett and a 1st round pick to the Sixers in exchange for Thad Young.
Let's just hope that this is posturing from the Sixers front office through the media. First, there is no reason for the Wolves to include a 1st round pick in the deal. The Wolves hold the advantage here and should not cave in. Repeat, there is absolutely no reason for the Wolves to be including a draft pick in the deal. Second, I sincerely hope that VPBO Flip Saunders and Coach Flip Saunders do not believe in the fact that Thad Young could be Kevin Love's replacement.
Thaddeus just turned 26 years old and is coming off one of, if not his best seasons in the NBA where he averaged 17.9ppg and 6.0rpg. One could be quick to point out that these stats could be called into question given how bad the Sixers were last season. However, I choose to point out the misguided judgment of considering Young as Love's replacement.
Young's 6.0 rebounds per game average was tied for fourth on the team – behind Spencer Hawes, Henry Sims, and Michael Carter-Williams, while tied with Evan Turner (during his tenure with the club). Kevin Love averaged 12.5 rebounds per game, i.e. more than double Young's production, in only ~2 minutes more time on the floor per game. Unequivocally, Thad Young is not replacing Kevin Love.
I do not believe Anthony Bennett is going to be Love's replacement either, but I would rather wait and see what he becomes vs. flipping him over for two years of Thad Young. The added benefit is that Bennett is just in the infancy stages of his rookie contract and under team control through the 2016/17 season. The Wolves of course could simply not pick up his options or sign him to an extension prior to this, depending on how his career projects over the next two seasons.
As soon as the Wolves realize they are not competing in the Western Conference in 2014/15, the better. The hamster wheel approach of "rebuilding, but not really blowing things up" is the worst approach that the franchise could possibly take right now. The Western Conference is stacked. Let's take the long term approach and do this the right way. With Andrew Wiggins and Zach LaVine on board, there is new life and blood in this franchise and the excitement of the product on the floor is going to be (relatively?) high. Build off of this with one or two more minor moves (JJ Barea & Kevin Martin specifically) and keep an eye on potential moves for Nikola Pekovic going into the trade deadline or next offseason.
Circling all the way back to the rumored trade with Philadelphia, there is reason to still believe that this deal won't happen, per Jon Krawczynski:
I don't foresee Bennett going to Philly to get Young, but I guess you never know. So far, Wolves seem to want to keep him.
— Jon Krawczynski (@APkrawczynski) August 7, 2014
Here is to hoping that Jon's senses are correct and the Wolves do the right thing (to me at least) and hold onto Anthony Bennett. Lord help me if this deal happens and a 1st round pick is sent to Philadelphia.
Let's go Wolves!


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Mysterious watches flash messages by O.D.M.
I love how this watch is not common place and spreads positive messages to the world around you, but is also functional at the same time. Basically this watch flashes messages such as, "love and peace, save the forest, save the ocean, passionate about life, tough times never last". The design is very modern and stands out from today's bla watch designs.


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Youth Speaks students talk to Radio Redshift
10:00am Thursday 6th March 2014
10:00am Thursday 6th March 2014
POLITICS students from Sir John Deane's College joined Radio Redshift to discuss competing in the Youth Speaks Competition.
Karolina Dimitrova and Luke Robinson talked about winning the regional final, which put them through to the next stage of the competition.
The students, including Matt Lynes who was unable to attend the radio interview, will be representing SJD's in the Wales and North of England final to debate 'what are the fundamentals of a good education,' on Saturday, March 29 at Glynwr University in Wrexham.
It was also a double celebration for Luke as he showed off his public speaking skills and won best overall speaker in the competition.
Paul Allanach, head of humanities, said: "The competition enabled the students to improve their self-confidence and skills to present their ideas to an audience.
"The trio are fantastic representatives of the college and have performed exceptionally well so far in the competition and are now looking forward to competing in the next round."
Run by the Rotary Club in Great Britain and Ireland, the competition is aimed at 11 to 18 year olds to encourage public speaking, formulate ideas and further presentation skills.
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Today I am pleased to post the first of a two-part interview with David Swartz, author of the newly released Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism (University of Pennsylvania Press). David is an assistant professor in the History Department at Asbury University in Kentucky, and he began this project while working with George Marsden at Notre Dame.
I first encountered David's work just after each of us defended our dissertation on the evangelical left in 2008. You can imagine our surprise—and initial consternation!—to discover that another scholar was working on the same general topic with many of the same materials. But as we communicated and read each other's work, it became clear that our studies would be complementary rather than directly competing or conflicting. My own forthcoming book analyzes the public theology that inspired the political positions and persistent activism of progressive evangelical leaders from the 1960s through the present. David's book analyzes the genealogy of the evangelical left beginning in the mid-twentieth century; its trials in the 1970s and 1980s; and why, despite initial promise, it failed to take substantial shape electorally as the Religious Right rose in prominence.
As the first scholarly treatment of the evangelical left, Moral Minority is already receiving lots of attention (see, for example, Molly Worthen's review in the New York Times). I'm pleased that David took time to answer these questions. Come back tomorrow for the second part of the interview.
Brantley Gasaway (BG): Many people are interested in how authors come to study their subjects—tell us what led you to write about the evangelical left.
David Swartz (DS): Like any enterprising graduate student slogging through comprehensive exam lists, I was on the lookout for a gap in the scholarship of American religious history—and archival materials to exploit that gap. When I read a piece by progressive evangelical activist Ron Sider online suggesting that some "enterprising graduate student" take a look at the Evangelicals for Social Action archives, I knew immediately that I had a project.
On a more personal level, this project was an attempt to figure out my own parents (history is ultimately autobiography, right?). They had grown up in the 1970s. They ran a pretty egalitarian marriage. They sang "They Will Know We Are Christians by our Love" during worship services and would have been dismayed by an American flag in the church sanctuary. I ate food my mother (and father!) cooked out of More-with-Less, a cookbook with lots of vegetarian recipes. And I knew many like them, church-goers who were not comfortable with the idea of American as a Christian nation, a budget that prioritized the military over poverty, a punitive criminal justice system, and the like. And yet they shared their faith and lived out the kind of warm piety so common among evangelicals. This was an idiosyncratic combination that I never read about in news reports and scholarly books. I was curious about how typical they were—and why they seemed so marginalized in the public eye.
BG: Over the past several decades, the Religious Right has loomed large not only in popular perceptions but also in the historiography of evangelicalism. What factors beyond the greater visibility and apparent success of conservatives have led to the lack of research on the evangelical left?
DS: You're right that the historiography has been preoccupied by research on politically conservative strains of evangelicalism. It makes sense. Scholars have been working in the midst of a resurgent conservative movement. The administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush have had close ties to right-wing evangelical activists. But this weight of journalistic and scholarly attention has effectively created a caricature of evangelicalism as a monolithic political bloc. On the other end of the spectrum, historians have ably charted religious progressivism within mainline Protestant, Catholic, and Quaker circles. These discrete historiographies obscure connections between progressive politics and evangelicalism.
All this, of course, is getting problematized. The rise of cultural history and lived religion is slowly bringing with it non-electoral emphases. And so more attention is being paid to the activities of evangelicals involved in local, regional and international acts of compassion; human and civil rights activism; campaigns for voluntary simplicity; intentional communities; attempts to carry out a consistent life ethic; and so on. These sensibilities increasingly find resonance among politically conservative and progressive evangelicals.
Last spring readers of the U.S. Intellectual History blog (here and here) and this blog (here) were treated to a lively conversation about research on progressive Christianity. Poor Ray Haberski innocently asked where the historiography of the religious left was, and he got hammered with 14 comments saying that it's on the way! If you look at the comment section of these posts, you'll see a lot of content that goes beyond voter registration and political action committees. Here are just several examples of the exciting work that is incubating: Shawn David Young on Jesus People U.S.A.; Adam Parsons on the Christian World Liberation Front; David King on World Vision; Mike Clawson on emerging evangelicals; and the terrific work of Brantley Gasaway, whose manuscript on progressive evangelicalism will be published next year with University of North Carolina Press. While electoral politics is still a sexy topic (as the well-deserved attention of recent studies of the religious right shows), it is good to see new attention on activities that have occupied the energies of millions of non-rightist American evangelicals. [Note: for a sample of articles on progressive evangelicalism by several of these authors, see the current special issue of Religions for which I am serving as guest editor. BG]
BG: Both scholars and many evangelicals themselves debate the definition and boundaries of evangelicalism. You argue that "the reality of a politically diverse and fluid evangelicalism is, in fact, embedded in the tradition's very structure." How does understanding the history of evangelical left since the mid-twentieth century helps us understand the evangelical movement as a whole?
DS: Many in the 1970s saw moderation as the future of evangelicalism. Among other things, shifting electoral realities ensured evangelical loyalty to the Republicans over the Democrats. But the persistence of moderate and progressive strains among significant swaths of evangelicals is yet another reminder of just how varied a movement evangelicalism is. The National Association of Evangelicals proper consists of 43 member denominations. Scholars consider at least a thousand more of the nearly 4,000 Protestant denominations in the United States to be theologically evangelical. Many evangelicals now identify primarily with social service agencies, missionary organizations, colleges, individual congregations, or even evangelical celebrities. These varied loyalties leave a lot of room for political and cultural diversity, and evangelical gatekeepers have difficulties enforcing their orthodoxies. They try: Harold Lindsell did with Battle for the Bible in the 1970s in defense of biblical inerrancy as an evangelical litmus test, and John Piper tweeted "Farewell Rob Bell" in response to Bell's ostensible promotion of universal salvation in his recent Love Wins. But there really aren't any effective mechanisms for reinforcing porous borders around a group without any clear structure.
This pattern was entrenched through the democratizing impulse of the Second Great Awakening in the early nineteenth century. The "priesthood of all believers" theology that emerged now undergirds the contemporary movement and encourages evangelicals to shun hierarchical systems of governance. And so throughout American history, there have been both evangelical conservatives and dissenters. In the eighteenth century, British abolitionists challenged the slave trade. In the nineteenth century, some American evangelicals dissented from the Whig establishment to establish communitarian utopias. At the turn of the twentieth century, North Carolinian populists for a time challenged Jim Crow. Others worked on social issues such as temperance, abolition, industrialization, suffrage, and civil rights unionism.
This unpredictable and strikingly variable politics also persists globally. In contemporary Brazil, for example, evangelicós have participated substantially in all the major political parties. And global evangelicals are carrying more weight within the United States, especially as the nation has increasingly opened to non-white immigration since the Immigration Act of 1965. Many combine conservative theological and moral stances with progressive economic and foreign policy views in ways that defy the Western imagination. This should be no surprise for such a decentralized religious movement.
BG: You analyze a wide variety of influences upon the left-leaning evangelicals who came together as a loose coalition to issue the 1973 Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern. How would you summarize the social, political, and theological factors that inspired the rise of the evangelical left in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
DS: I'll highlight just three. In the 1950s neo-evangelicals began making a theological case for increased social engagement. Carl Henry's TheUneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism contended that the world could be redeemed—at least a little. Others, such as Donald Dayton, called for evangelicals to return to nineteenth-century patterns of evangelical social action in support of abolition and women's suffrage. Many repudiated the dispensationalist formulation that souls were all that mattered. Whether this social engagement took rightist or leftist shape was secondary to the more fundamental call for evangelicals to go public with their spiritual commitments.
This theological trajectory coincided with rising levels of education among neo-evangelicals. Faculty at Wheaton and Fuller were amassing impressive credentials from and being exposed to progressive thought at Ivy League institutions. Evangelical college students were reading works such as The Other America, Soul on Ice, and the Kerner Report that questioned the conservative and apolitical assumptions of their parents. As a whole, evangelicals who would form the core of the evangelical left began to think less individualistically and more structurally about poverty, war, and the ways in which government might address social problems.
And finally, the evangelical movement at midcentury was expanding its constituency with confessional religious conservatives emerging out of ethnic ghettoes. Dutch Calvinists, Swiss-German Mennonites, and lots of evangelical immigrants from around the world were joining the National Association of Evangelicals. Many of them—such as Samuel Escobar from Peru, the Reformed thinker Richard Mouw, and the Mennonite Ron Sider—shaped the evangelical left in significant ways.


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TROWBRIDGE are one win away from a dream appearance at Twickenham after clinching the South West Intermediate Cup in dramatic style at Doric Park on Saturday.
Steve Ojomoh's side continued their fairytale cup run by reaching the national last four as tries from captain Matt Howard and Mark Durant saw off Western Counties West leaders Ivybridge in a thoroughly absorbing tie.
The Wiltshire men now await the winners of the London & South West tournament, the semi finals of which took place at the weekend, with Old Priorians beating Rochford Hundred 28-12 and Guildford edging past Sevenoaks 27-25, at a later date.
The home side thoroughly deserved their triumph in front of a large phalanx of spectators, victory being built around a supreme forwards effort and a all-suffocating defence that kept the Devon side away from their try line.
Ivybridge, through the precision boot of fly-half Matt Grieveson, set up a grandstand finish as they ate into Trowbridge's lead but, despite possessing a potent-looking back line, came up short against a rearguard that simply refused to yield.
With the wind in their favour in the first half, Trowbridge looked to establish field position but it was the visitors, who started better, Grieveson escaping through the middle but then missing a close-range penalty to the right of the posts.
Trowbridge had lock Alan Chadwick harshly sin-binned by referee Simon Walker for scragging galloping full-back Tom Scoles by the collar, but the hosts' forward power was always much in evidence.
With number eight Adam Sullivan rampaging from number eight, they earned a penalty from which centre Lloyd Davis kicked them into the lead and, despite being a man down in the scrum, Trowbridge shunted their rivals backwards on frequent occasions.
The home side lost centre Dan Smith after a blow to the head, but the pattern remained undisrupted in the forwards as Ivybridge were forced onto their heels.
Davis doubled his side's advantage with a superb wind-assisted penalty from halfway before Grieveson immediately replied.
Both sides went close as half time approached, Ivybridge butchering a clear overlap with the line beckoning before the under-pressure visitors showed commendable defensive attributes to repel wave after wave of Trowbridge attacks from close-range scrummages.
Trowbridge were immediately on the offensive as Ivybridge botched the seconnd-half kick-off and scrum-half Kyle Knight was held up just short.
The try the home side craved arrived 12 minutes in to the second period as Howard expertly clawed in a lineout throw and sent substitute back row Shane Johnstone charging towards the line. The big man was held up but slipped the ball back to Howard who forced his way over.
Davis converted for a ten-point lead, but Grieveson landed an excellent long-range penalty to keep his side in touch.
The home side appeared to have wrapped up the win on the hour mark as Ivybridge erred on their own lineout throw near their own line and the pack drove over the whitewash, Durant emerging to receive the back-slaps of his teammates.
Davis added the extras and, with a 14 point lead, Trowbridge looked almost home and dry.
But Grieveson ensured a tense finale, landing three penalties - two from long range - to cut the gap down to five.
Trowbridge threatened to wrap matters up as they pounded the Ivybridge line in the final 10 minutes before the attacks came to nothing as the ball went wide.
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It was 44 years ago, in 1970, that James Taylor last played in Bangor. It was at the old Bangor Auditorium, on a double bill with Carole King. Four and a half decades after that concert, Taylor finally returned to Bangor for a nearly sold-out show at the Cross Insurance Center on Sunday night.
"It's been a good long time since I saw you last, hasn't it?" said Taylor, during a concert that showcased many of Taylor's sixteen studio albums, from "Sunshine Sunshine" from his first self-titled studio album, released in 1968, to "Copperline" from his 1991 album "New Moon Shine," to a brand new, still-unreleased song, the country-tinged "Today, Today, Today."
Though he's been writing, recording and performing for nearly 50 years, his voice still sounds near-identical to the songs people first heard in the late 1960s and early '70s.
"I was in college when I first heard his music," said Anne Dutton of Brunswick, who came to the concert with her husband. "He's been a part of my life for a long time. I played his music for my children when they were growing up."
Taylor was in a chatty mood, telling many stories behind the songs he performed, such as one about a song he wrote in the late 1970s called "Millworker," and how the writer Studs Terkel and his book "Working" inspired the song. A cheer went up when he mentioned the writer.
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He related one story early in the concert, about the song "Something In The Way She Moves," from his first album, and how it was that song that he performed for Paul McCartney and John Lennon in a small room.
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Late starts to the Mexican and Coachella Valley grape deals and an expected early start in the San Joaquin Valley should translate into very aggressive promotions in June.
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THE $75 million outgoing BHP Billiton chief executive Marius Kloppers will retire with is ''obscene'', says Australian Greens leader Christine Milne.
Mr Kloppers, who announced his retirement on Wednesday after almost six years at the top, will leave with a package of cash and shares almost equalling the $77 million BHP Billiton paid in mining tax in the second half of 2012. The tax raised a total of just $126 million in its first six months.
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''The package makes a lie of the claims by these companies that they can't afford to pay the mining tax,'' Senator Milne said. ''If they have a spare $75 million to pay Marius Kloppers they have more than enough to pay the Australian community for resources that belong to us.''
Australian Shareholders Association spokesman Stephen Mayne said Mr Kloppers' remuneration had a strong mandate from BHP's investors. The association voted against BHP's remuneration report between 2008 and 2011 but swung in behind the company in 2012 after it adopted five-year performance hurdles for payment of long-term incentives.
Mr Kloppers' pension was a defined contribution plan and he did not receive any kind of severance payment, Mr Mayne said. ''[He] is not getting a payout as such, he's simply collecting his entitlements. It's not a golden handshake.''


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A bit about the NX bit; Virus Protection Woesby Kristopher Kubicki on 10/11/2004 11:53 AM EST
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Andyvan - Saturday, November 20, 2004 - linkI have three quibbles about the article:
1) "As the program starts flipping through the code in its array (which is actually called a stack), it reaches the function gets()."
I think you've mixed a couple of concepts together here. The code is *not* in the stack. They're two different sections of memory.
I would reword this as:
"As the program starts executing the code of the main routine, it reaches the function gets()."
2) "And since line exists inside a stack in memory, writing past the end of line actually starts to overwrite critical pieces of the program!"
This may be more of a nit: I would say that it will overwrite data critical to the program. The code proper is not in the stack, and so you can't actually overwrite the *code* when you go off the end of 'line'.
I'll understand if you don't accept this quibble.
3) "When a program begins to load an array, a special byte after the array (called a return address) tells the computer to go back to the code segment and continue to run the program."
I don't believe the return address is actually a byte, as that would only support an address with an 8-bit range. Isn't it a four byte value?
-- Andyvan Reply
sluramod - Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - linkMaybe it is offtopic, but...
What are the good reasons for abandoning segmentation and segment protection on x86? Sorry if this is a stupid question...
Alexei. Reply
emboss - Sunday, October 24, 2004 - linkIf you're going to be picky on terminology, at least get it right :) Segmented memory hasn't been used since Windows 3. The correct term to use is sections ("All memory is divided up into several SECTIONS").
Also, the 286 most definately did not support a NX bit for pages. Primarily because the 286 didn't do paging. What was introduced with the 286 (and still remains on modern CPUs) is segment protection (executable, writable, readable, plus a few less-easily expained attributes). However, since segmentation has been abandoned (with good reason) and the flat address space model has taken over, this "protection" is of no use.
Finally, a system with NX ideally shouldn't be any more stable than a system without it. User-space programs are isolated the kernel (and other user-space programs) so any damage they do is limited to themselves. In which case terminating the program immediately just speeds up the process of ending the program when something gets corrupted :)
And if a kernel-mode component gets killed because it violated NX protection, then you're gonna get a BSOD or equivalent, so again, you're not much better off.
The one thing it MAY help is stopping corrupted data from getting written to disk. But overall I don't think it would have much of an effect from this point of view either. Reply
Bitpower - Sunday, October 24, 2004 - linkWhat I was trying to say was that a computer system that has NX on it, would be more 'stable' then a computer system without it, since another important side effect of NX is that besides protecting you against viruses, it also will protect you against certain program crashes where there is a buffer underrun. Reply
Pax Team - Sunday, October 24, 2004 - linksoftware bugs vs. exploit techniques:
in a reply above you suggested that instead of relying on 200,000 programmers to fix their bugs we should rely on NX and similar hardware features. i.e., it appeared to me as if fixing bugs and intrusion prevention techniques were mutually exclusive (wouldn't be the first time i've misunderstood someone ;-).
as for my comment: software bugs (or let's just talk about memory corruption bugs) come in many flavours, such as various forms of buffer overflows (stack or heap based, linear or non-linear, single or multiple), integer handling bugs (that can create buffer overflows in turn), user-supplied format strings, etc. these bugs can be fixed (for good) by reading the code, finding them and modyfing the code properly. this is what needs many eyes (and lots of time and expertise) and in practice it's never been 100% efficient, hence the need for intrusion prevention technologies that try to prevent or mitigate the effects of bugs.
orthogonal to bugs there are exploits that make use of the bugs by exploiting the level of access they (inadvertantly) give to the attacked program. memory corruption bugs can give at most arbitrary read-write access to the target program's memory (e.g., a user-supplied format string bug comes very close to giving this level of access while a 'traditional' strcpy() based stack overflow provides only limited write access).
an exploit technique describes the way a given bug is made use of. note that this implies that a given bug can be exploited by different techniques and a given technique can make use of different kinds of bugs - hence my saying that these categories (bugs vs. exploit techniques) are orthogonal (and one can and should attack this two-dimensional problem space from either dimension).
what exploit techniques can we speak of? this normally depends on how your defense mechanisms (intrusion prevention system) work. in PaX we assume arbitrary read-write bugs (i.e., the most powerful category, every memory corruption bug falls within), and this allows us to split the exploit techniques into 3 main categories only, you can read about them at http://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/pax.txt .
PS: your guess about Intel/AMD beginning to work on NX in mid-2003 is not quite correct, amd64 (the architecture) has always had NX, at least since 2000 i guess. linux itself didn't make use of it until late 2002 though: http://www.x86-64.org/lists/discuss/msg03016.html .
PS2: contact email address is on the PaX homepage. Reply
Bitpower - Thursday, October 21, 2004 - linkMake a couple typos.
EDITED VERSION OF MY LAST COMMENT (read this one instead):
Just curious, but why in the above article, doesn't the author address the other very important advantage of NX, which has nothing to do with viruses? I would think that it is one of the most important advantages of NX is it would make your computer a lot more stable. And this advantage is totally seperate and has nothing to do with virus protection.
Did you ever had an application or game that you use cause your computer to totally crash and lock up, and the only way out of it was to reboot? Then from the description of NX above, it would also protect you against certain crashes. So it would also act like a "crash guard", thus preventing poorly written programs or programs that have bugs from accidentally overwriting its own code with random junk and causing your machine to totally crash.
I think its ability to act like a crash guard is as important, if not more important, then its ability to virus protect. So while virus protection is a very important ability of NX, I would also think NXs ability to act like a "crash guard" for your system is just as important.
Am I the only person who thought of this second advantage of NX, as a crash guard? Myself, I don't care about the virus protection since I constantly scan my computer. But I would be very interested in the abillity to use NX for crash guarding and helping to increase the stability of my machine against programs that are buggy. Reply
Bitpower - Thursday, October 21, 2004 - linkJust curious, by why in the above article, doesn't the author address the only very important advantage of NX, which has NOTHING to do with viruses? I would think that one of the MOST IMPORTANT advantages of NX is it would make your computer a lot more stable. And this advantage is totally seperate and has nothing to do with virus protection.
Did you ever had an application or game that you use cause your computer to totally crash and lock up, and the only way out of it was to reboot? Then from the description of NX above, it would also protect you against certain crashes. So it would also act like a "crash guard", thus preventing poorly written programs or programs that have bugs from accidentally overwriting its own code with random junk and causing your machine to totally crash.
I think its ability to act like a crash guard is as important, if not more important, then its ability to virus protect.
Am I the only person who thought of this second advantage of NX, as a crash guard? Reply
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, October 21, 2004 - linkPax Team:
Correct about W^X and Execsheild; same for NX as well too.
"Prescott supports the NX - for 'no execute' -- feature that blocks worms and viruses from executing code after creating a buffer overflow on the machine", said Paul Otellini, Intel's COO.
The scope of the article was to show that NX doesnt do what Intel's COO even believes it does.
I am a little confused about your second paragraph though, can you please elaborate? Thanks for the feedback. Please email me when you get a chance.
Pax Team - Sunday, October 17, 2004 - linkOpenBSD's W^X is only a subset of what PaX has implemented for 4 years now, but thanks for the praise anyway ;-). As for ExecShield, it doesn't implement W^X, data and bss sections in libraries remain both writable and executable. And both OpenBSD and ExecShield are vulnerable to executing existing code that can trivially circumvent W^X separation and execute injected shellcode.
Also, you're mixing up software bugs (that your 200,000+ programmers can fix) with exploit techniques (some of which properly used hardware features can prevent). The two sets are orthogonal, not mutually exclusive.
As for MIPS, as far as i know, none of them has true hardware NX bit support, although on some models it might be possible to simulate the behaviour, but it's lots of hacking and is mostly an academic exercise only, not useful for production. Reply
KristopherKubicki - Saturday, October 16, 2004 - linkWarcraftIII: Although I agree with your comments on programming error, let's look at the last 20 years of programming as an example. If we have the ability to stop Buffer Overflows do we rely on 4 processor makers or 200,000+ C programmers to fix the problem; either of which can fix the errors with equal amounts of work?
NX is OK, I am just illustrating it doesn't do what it says. It might have stopped some older worms, but when the next worm hits that moves around the eip to somewhere it shouldn't and "buffer overflows" all those NX protection machines don't you think people are going to be upset?
Most RISC and MIPS processors have utilized some form of NX protection since their inception, by the way.
Finally, I would like to add that OpenBSD's w^x protection (writeable xor execute; no execute on any writable segment) is probably the most elegent solution yet to the buffer overflow issue. It still is vulnerable to maliciously modified return pointers, but it doesnt advertise that it isn't.
bobbozzo - Saturday, October 16, 2004 - linkDo the 32-bit versions Windows Server 2003 support this on AMD Opterons?
WarcraftIII - Friday, October 15, 2004 - link"Well, maybe not. In fact it seems that NX provides several layers of false security, particularly since it only stops some buffer overflows and whether or not it stops any viruses has yet to be seen yet."
Why start off by questioning whether NX will even be able to stop any exploits? You only have to look back at what viruses rely on executable stack memory to see how useful this can be, not wait around to see if anyone ever comes up with one.
Of course it doesn't stop all buffer overflow exploits. It could be as simple as entering machine code into an input that will be placed on the heap. At a later point in the program a stack-based buffer overflow could overwrite a return address or a function pointer variable with the appropriate address. You could conceivably avoid the stack altogether where a buffer on the heap overflows onto a function pointer variable stored on the heap. It doesn't change the fact that this can stop a lot of exploits, and probably the simplest and most successful exploits because positioning of items on the stack is a lot more predictable and you are a lot more likely to guess a close enough to correct return address (you can guess an offset from other addresses obtained off the stack).
Why does this article try to present buffer overflow exploits as being due to inherent problems with x86? The usual calling conventions on pretty much any architecture involve storing return addresses on the stack which makes exactly the type of exploit the NX bit stops a possibility. Where one is provided, the contents of the return address register need to be saved to memory if you're doing calls more than one level deep.
"in reality NX behaves more like an emergency patch for an easily exploitable architecture"
Is x86 really any more exploitable than anything else? The memory model you described is not x86-specific.
Why do so many other architectures support an NX bit?
"both started working with Microsoft to patch the x86 architecture itself. The inherent flaw is two fold; for one, malicious code should not write past the end of an array like line from fingerd, and second the computer should not continue to happily execute the machine code on the stack."
The computer is doing exactly what it has been asked, and it will do exactly the same thing whether you're using an x86 or not. This code SHOULD write past the end of the array if the user enters a lot of characters because that is what the programmer has written. This is due to the design of C, not x86. If this is not supposed to happen (as it obviously isn't in the example) it is solely due to programmer error, it is not the fault of x86. If you want bounds checking use Java, if you want speed write decent C/C++ code whether you're using x86 or not.
I'm sorry if I sound overly critical and I guess I may be wrong in some of my assertions since I haven't done much assembly programming for a fair while. However, it seems to me that the point of the whole article was to criticise the NX bit as a relatively useless hack (or "emergency patch") useful more for marketing than for security purposes, and I believe this to be incorrect. Reply
Foxbat121 - Friday, October 15, 2004 - linkNX bit is nothing new. It existed in Intel 80286 processor and no body liked it back then. So Intel took it out.
On the other hand, the NX protection is XP SP2 is only limited to stack memory only. In WinXP 64bit extention for x86-64, Microsoft extends protection to all memory segments that is marked for NX, not only stack memory. Reply
KristopherKubicki - Friday, October 15, 2004 - linkFixed.
Kristopher Reply
reever - Thursday, October 14, 2004 - linkTypo: All memory is divided up into several SEGEMENTS; Reply
Pythias - Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - linkNo kidding! Our surfing/email habits have as much to do with our security as any piece of software in the world. Reply
TrogdorJW - Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - linkOf course, this is to say nothing of the difficulty of stopping dumb people from launching any number of Trojan horse type applications. "Hey, pictures of [insert celebrity name]! I gotta see this!" We need an NM bit: No Morons. ;) Reply


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Our two story house (small for all the living and the lives it con- tained) was seldom quiet but actually more orderly than you would assume. We had a spare room, the living room and kitchen down- stairs and two large bedrooms upstairs. Mommy and daddy were buying this house on contract and we moved in when I was only two years old. We had coal stoves for heat and no inside facilities save the cold running water at the kitchen sink. Linoleum floors were always cold on my little feet in winter.
Although poor, we were happy and our family grew. Mommy always said she wanted six children and all to have the same daddy. About the time I was five we received the blessing of a new mem-
ber. A curly dark haired cherub to be named Shay. At first I wasn't really cracked up on sharing the limelight I had owned for so long and was heard to advise people coming to see the new baby to play with me instead as Shay was red, ugly and always crying. I later learned to be a good big sister. Good thing cause before I knew it we had another sister named Beth. Now she was a redhead and a bit of a loner right from the start. Soon I had become an old hand at sharing and settled right in with along came Becky and just one short year later Maria, arrived by now we were quite a crew and daddy had all but given up on having a son, but remembering mommy's wishes for six children they tried again. This time a son named Marcus was born. Daddy had his son and mommy her six children and life was very good. Times were hard but love flowed freely and this is the preface to the tales of good times and bad to be shared in the pages of this book.
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James Kitching: fossil hunter of the Karoo
Not only did James Kitching find thousands of important pre-dinosaur fossils from more than 250-million years ago, but he also helped prove the theory of continental drift: that southern Africa was once part of a much larger land mass that included Antarctica, parts of the Americas and Australia. more
Shaun Tomson
Surfer Shaun Tomson is one of South Africa's finest sporting heroes. After winning the IPS World Championship in 1977 he went on to become one of the most influential surfers of his time. He is also an environmentalist and successful businessman as well as an author and sought-after motivational speaker. more
Yvonne Chaka Chaka
Yvonne Chaka Chaka is an acclaimed singer-songwriter whose music has found favour across the African continent. Using her position in society as a platform for change, Chaka Chaka is also a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and United Nations Children's Fund Goodwill Ambassador for malaria in Africa. more
Godfrey Mokoena, Olympic long-jumper
Known as Africa's most famous jumper, Godfrey Khotso Mokoena has been taking the athletics world by storm in the past decade, culminating with a silver medal for the long jump at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But the Mokoena Magic still continues, and Godfrey has his sights set on new records all the time. more
Thomas Bain
The multi-talented Thomas Bain was one of the shining stars of Victorian-era South Africa. Not only did he supervise the building of a score of Cape mountain passes, but his passions spread to botany, archaeology, art, water research, administering the law and raising a large, happy family. more
Esther Mahlangu
When BMW asked Esther Mahlangu to decorate a so called BMW "art car" in traditional Ndebele design in 1999, she stepped into the league of Andy Warhol and David Hockney (world-renowned artists who created previous art cars for the company). She was the first woman artist to have been honoured as such. more
Dick King
Riding on horseback for 10 days through hostile territory from Port Natal to British forces in Grahamstown to bring word of pending Boer attacks on his home garrison, Dick King's epic journey through hostile territory nearly killed the frontiersman and his Zulu companion, who rode with him for part of the way. more
Icons of the Arts
South Africa has produced icons of the arts from an array of disciplines. Celebrated at home and abroad, these visual artists, writers, dancers, musicians and performers represent the country's diversity as well as its creative potential. They are all heroes of the arts. more
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner has produced some of the world's most pioneering medical research. With a keen interest in genetics, Brenner was responsible for developing a new DNA sequencing technique and demonstrated the cause and effects of genetic mutations, research which contributed to him being awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. more
George Pemba
George Pemba (1912-2001), teacher, clerk and shopkeeper, and throughout a revolutionary South African art hero. When he died in 2001, he was revered for his exceptional contribution to South African art. more
Mark Shuttleworth
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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JRR Tolkien
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?The Liberation Struggle Heritage Route tells stories of South Africa's liberation struggle through a network of heritage sites.
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Whether it's following a Hindu procession down the streets of Durban during the festival of Diwali, meeting a sangoma (traditional healer) at a traditional cultural village or learning all about kwaito (African house) music at a local township shebeen.
We South Africans don't fall neatly into a kind of national stereotype – we are a diverse bunch of folk, united by our differences, yet constantly open to new ways of thinking, feeling and being.
So, who are we? Well, we speak 11 official languages. Some of us come from far away, across borders and oceans, while others have always lived on the southern African soil.
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SWIMMERS from across West Somerset made waves at the Rotary Club of Minehead and Quantocks 2014 Swimathon.
Minehead Swimming Club's 'Tornadoes Boys' won the best team of the year, finishing with 207 lengths.
They held off a challenge from the Butlins Splash 'Bhoys' who finished on 189 lengths.
West Somerset College's Year 9 team, 'The Titanics', recorded 183 lengths, resulting in third place for the Bowden Cup and the Eaton Shield for Best Year 9 team.
'Oasis' were Best Year 10 team, coming fourth overall, with Fuzzy Ducks the Best College Senior Team on 162 lengths.
'St Audries' won the Year 5/6 category for Danesfield School for the sixth year in a row while 'Trevelyan' were best in the Year 7/8 category.
At Minehead Middle School, 'Barle' won for Year 5/6 and Year 7/8 while 'Lyn' took the honours for Dulverton Middle School.
Other category winners included the First Alcombe Guides, Minehead Youth Football Club and Williton Surgery.
In total, 118 teams took part in the event, held over six evenings.
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The event was held at Butlins Splash Pool and there was also a first school category.
Dunster Dolphins led the way with 93 lengths to win the West Somerset Sports Council Shield with Old Cleeve Speedy Squids and St Michael's Stingrays winning second and third place.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - At 11 years old, John Ramsey has been through a lot.
"I kept on going to new places because my family didn't treat me correctly," John said.
Moving around all the time, he says, was hard.
"Confusing, majorly confusing," John said.
In just a couple months, St. Augustine Youth Services should be opening its new facility, complete with pine trees, a swimming pool and basketball courts. It's a move John can't wait for -- 12 acres to run around, his own room, a place to play.
"I just love that. I like going swimming, basketball courts, and mostly, you know what Ms. Schuyler's going to do? Make us a fishing pole," John said.
The group home helps troubled boys who were abused or neglected get on a path for a brighter future.
"How to control your anger, how to calm yourself down, it made me very happy," John said.
The new home was supposed to be the boys' Christmas present, but someone broke into the facility in August and stole copper wiring, causing $10,000 in damage.
"Thankfully, no one else has stolen from us since then, so we are counting our blessings for that," said Schuyler Siefker, of St. Augustine Youth Services.
Now volunteers are back to business, delivering kitchen cabinets and sanding panels for the showers. The home will be much bigger, safer and able to house more boys.
"For them to be able to have a safe place to live and know that people are going to care for them and that they're going to be OK is a tremendous gift," Siefker said.
It's a gift the kids are so grateful for, a gift that will help lead them to a successful future.
"I feel like a very proud kid that someone actually cares about us," Antoine Howell said.
If you'd like to help plant the pine trees at the new facility, you can help out either this Saturday or next starting at 8:30 a.m. The facility is located next to the public library at State Road 206 and U.S. 1. Volunteers are asked to bring gloves, shovels and a bagged lunch.
St. Augustine Youth Services has raised more than $2 million in donations. The organization still needs another $600,000 to pay for the new facility.
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Sydney FC have slammed the decision to clear Western Sydney striker Brendon Santalab of racially vilifying Ali Abbas.
The Football Federation Australia (FFA) disciplinary committee on Thursday decided to drop the charges of racial abuse against Santalab, citing a lack of evidence and the possibility that Abbas may have misheard the comments made.
The decision comes over a month after Abbas claimed he was subjected to slurs against his culture and religion during the heated Sydney derby at Allianz Stadium on March 8.
Santalab has always denied the allegations.
Sydney FC chief executive Tony Pignata said Abbas and the club were very upset with the finding but were now solely focused on Sydney's crucial clash with Perth on Sunday, where a win will secure a finals berth.
"Sydney FC and Ali Abbas are extremely disappointed with the decision of the independent FFA Disciplinary Committee," he said in a statement on Thursday.
"Ali stands by the comments he made after the game and Sydney FC fully support him in this.
"We would like to reiterate that we believe racial vilification has no place in football or in society.
"The last few weeks have been very testing times for Ali through which he has shown great strength of character and continued to perform to his best.
"Ali has an extremely important game this Sunday and would like to focus on that and helping Sydney FC reach the A-League finals series."
The disciplinary committee met with Santalab, Abbas, their legal representatives and officials from both clubs for over 11 hours across two hearings but they could not find any grounds to prove the allegations.
"Brendon Santalab accepted that Ali Abbas genuinely believed that the offensive word had been used and did not challenge the fact that Ali Abbas believed he had been the subject of racial abuse," the committee said in a statement.
"The credit of Ali Abbas was not under challenge.
"(But) having regard to the circumstances surrounding the incident particularly the undisputed high noise levels and in the absence of other eyewitness or corroborative evidence, it was possible that Ali Abbas may have misheard what was said by Brendon Santalab.
"Therefore the committee was not satisfied to the necessary standard of proof that the offending words were used by Brendon Santalab and dismissed the matter."
Abbas made the claims in a post-match interview just minutes after he was visibly furious and seen having a heated exchange with Santalab.
When asked about the outburst he said it was due to comments that were made about his ethnic background and his religion.
"We are not here to attack religion or culture, we are here to play football," he told Fox Sports.
"I come from a different country, I respect everyone here. I should get it back. If I don't get it back, I'm going to attack.
"That's what happened.
"If people attack religion, if people attack culture - I'm against that.
"We need to stop that."
No one from the Wanderers was available for comment.