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|Clifford F. Sharp, Susan P. Dark
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|Sharp Clifford F, Dark Susan P
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This Application is a divisional application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/078,386 filed on Feb. 20, 2002, which is a Continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/875,319 filed on Jun. 6, 2001, which is a Continuation-in-part of United States Patent Application filed on May 17, 2000, which is now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,058,976 issued Jun. 6, 2006, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
This invention relates to data network control systems and more particularly to a system and method for monitoring and filtering traffic to maintain a constant stream of data flowing in and/or out of a particular location and more particularly to a system and method for detecting and protecting against IP spoofing.
Data flow in and out of a data processing location is vital to the proper operation of many enterprises. When this data flow is interrupted, even for the briefest of intervals, a major problem exists. One way to interrupt such data flow is by flooding any communication line (or any network device on the pathway) with so many data packets that the device simply clogs and ceases to function properly. In such a situation, data can be lost, transactions not completed and the flow of commerce halted.
Companies are getting attacked via data flooding by a wide range of flooding mechanisms, including certain types of Denial of Service (DOS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks that are not specific to an application, but exist in the network.
One known solution to this particular type of problem is manual intervention by a system administrator scrolling on access control list screen to manually select and block an offending IP address.
This, of course, presupposes that the operator even knows which sending IP address(es) is causing the problem. If the rogue sending address and/or addresses keep changing, the operator (network administrator) is at a loss. There are today remote intrusion detection sensors that provide manual notification that an attack has been detected and lists the known offending IP address. A third solution is remote monitoring of network conditions. The problem with the solutions to date is the fact that by the time a human can respond to the existing condition, it is already beyond his/her ability to control the traffic and the network is brought down by the intruding traffic overload.
For example, even assuming a modest speed of, let's say a 1,000 packet/second, about half of the maximum data rate of a T1 channel, the human eye cannot respond that fast to read the IP addresses, digest the information and act before many, many packets enter the system and cause damage. Typical enterprise can receive a million hits in an hour, made up of perhaps 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 packets. Such large numbers of packets, when backed up, cause the system to stop functioning.
Another type of attack on a network is IP Spoofing where one computer assumes the identify (IP address) of another computer for a period of time. Usually, the computer which has had its IP address "spoofed" is not even aware of the spoofing.
Ethernet NIC cards in computers have both a hardware address and a software address. The software address is called the TC/IP address, which can be thought of as the commonly known address. If the ethernet card in a computer were to be thought of as a house, the mailing address would be the TC/IP address. The physical address of that house could also be stated in terms of coordinates on a plat map showing where the house is physically located. Deeds to homes usually speak in terms of "Legal Description", i.e., a certain lot in a certain block on a certain plot map. The rest of us refer to a house by its mailing address. Spoofers randomly generate IP addresses (the software and TC/IP address) from their computer, or they change their IP address in the computer to the IP address of a target computer from which they want to steal or generate traffic, since most systems respond to TC/IP address.
The present invention is directed to a system and method which includes several techniques that are used to detect and prevent spoofing. One technique is to use the MAC or hardware address on every Ethernet card that's burned into the card and compare that address to the IP address to see if a match condition exists in a particular database. This is akin to matching the "Legal Description" against the mailing address of each sent letter before delivering that letter to a destination. In operation, the system would store hardware and software addresses as they are generated. When a new packet arrives it is checked against a validity database. If suddenly the hardware address and the IP address doesn't match, then the system knows that there is a high probability that an address is being spoofed.
Another technique is to send requests to the domain name server tables throughout the Internet to validate whether an IP address exists in the tables. If the answer comes back saying, "No, it's not in our tables," there again is a high probability that the system is dealing with a spoofed address.
Another technique is to use the ID numbers contained in the IP header of packets arriving at or leaving a destination. As computers are exchanging data, these ID numbers get advanced higher and get exchanged so both computers (the sender and the receiver) know the sequence of data packet addresses arriving at or leaving. If suddenly, the expected sequence of numbers follows some unexpected sequence, there again is a high probability that the system is dealing with an invalid packet.
One embodiment of this invention includes a system which implements a three tiered architecture where the database runs on one computer, or across multiple computers, and the kernel and all of its intelligence runs on a separate computer while the applications and management tools run on other computer(s). The system is designed to monitor every TCP/IP packet directed toward a company and to keep track of each packet from each IP address, including all of the bytes of information associated with each packet. The goal of the system and method is to prevent flooding which is defined as a threshold above which data throughput or packet throughput must not go.
If desired, the system can have several threshold's, each dynamically changeable, when a threshold is reached. Threshold, in this context, means that the number of arriving data packets and the accumulated number of bytes of information during a preset time period, (called a primary time slice (PTS)) has met a limit. When this happens certain packets are scanned, captured, and prevented (temporarily) from passing through the system. When the traffic rate falls to the threshold level these captured packets are allowed to then flow through the system. The captured packets are selected based on a comparison of information "sniffed" by the monitor against certain criteria, such as number of packets and the accumulation of bytes per PTS coming from a particular IP address; a known "bad" IP address; and known bad data patterns.
Generally, when it comes to flooding, there are four (or more or less) threshold levels which exist which are percentages of the total maximum band-width of the network. The thresholds can be for example 20, 30, or 40 percent of maximum. If the traffic flow is under the lowest threshold, everything runs smoothly. Once the number of arriving packets and/or accumulated bytes violate a threshold, the system begins, automatically, the process of choking or holding certain packets and sends alarms and notifications to predetermined lists of people. If higher thresholds are violated then more and more severe action is taken i.e., more and more packet(s) are prevented from flowing through the system and additional alarms and notifications are sent.
One embodiment of the system includes several real time displays, or tools, to analyze, manage, and monitor the data bases, the kernel, and the whole system. One visual display of data and addresses shows the packets that have been choked and, optionally could show why. This information can be displayed locally and can be communicated remotely to any terminal or communication device anywhere in the world. Thus, a user, operating from any terminal with the appropriate user ID and password can make adjustments to the system by changing the different parameters allowing more or less data flow. The operator can, if desired, adjust the criteria for choking data.
The foregoing has outlined rather broadly the features and technical advantages of the present invention in order that the detailed description of the invention that follows may be better understood. Additional features and advantages of the invention will be described hereinafter which form the subject of the claims of the invention. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the conception and specific embodiment disclosed may be readily utilized as a basis for modifying or designing other structures for carrying out the same purposes of the present invention. It should also be realized by those skilled in the art that such equivalent constructions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims. The novel features which are believed to be characteristic of the invention, both as to its organization and method of operation, together with further objects and advantages will be better understood from the following description when considered in connection with the accompanying figures. It is to be expressly understood, however, that each of the figures is provided for the purpose of illustration and description only and is not intended as a definition of the limits of the present invention.
For a more complete understanding of the present invention, reference is now made to the following descriptions taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which:
Turning now to
If desired, a spoofing detector and control 120 can be added to applications 107 or could be stand alone (as shown) and can be added where desired prior to intranet 13. Also, one or more controls 120 could, if desired, be placed after intranet 13 to internally protect the network. The operation of control 120 will be detailed hereinafter with respect to
Those packets that manage to make it through security system 200-1 are delivered to enterprise internal (intra) network 13, firewall 108. Connected to intranet 13 can be other intranets, local or remote. For example, intranet 13-N is connected to intranet 13 via medium 17. Connected to any of the intranets can be any type of device such as routers 102, gateways 103, servers 104, PCs 105, voice-over IP, protocol systems (VoIP) 106, or any type of devices 0.01.
The system is designed having a back up line T1-2 so that, if the user desires, information is always delivered from the external network for example from internet 18, over data lines T1 and T2. The packets that come via T1-2 are processed in a similar way as those coming via T1-1, except they do not pass through security system 200-2 until security system 200-2 gets notified that security system 200-1 is not functioning or overloaded. In such an event the information stops flowing from T1-1 and starts flowing from T1-2. This is a back-up system and security systems 200-1 and 200-2 can, for example, communicate with each other over medium 109. Database 19 advantageously is connected to both systems 200-1 and 200-2 and is used to store the information analyzing every packet that comes via T1-1 or T1-2.
Applications 107 can be remote from security systems 200-1 and 200-2 if desired and, connected via intranet 13, or they can be local to security system 200-1. The preferred arrangement would be for applications 107 to be in a separate CPU from the one processing system 200-1. They can be run from a location via internet 18 if needed. In that case, the information would come in on modem T1-1 and T1-2 as any other information would come in to the system. This, as will be discussed, allows a user to remotely access the system, monitor the system and make changes to the system as desired.
Data from applications 107 is advantageously binary encrypted so when it's run from anywhere, it is difficult to decrypt. As data flows into security system 200-1 (200-2) the packets are analyzed and do not pass to router/Gateway 12 unless they are logged through the system as will be discussed hereinafter.
Commands interface is a Unix shell and/or DOS shell command line interface to the system. Interface allows external issue of commands that change the internal configuration parameters of the system. Along with changing the internal configuration, the configuration database is updated simultaneously and automatically. The following is a partial list of configuration items that can be altered:
Status—tells the system to list all the configuration items that can be altered and their current status
Email—turn on/off email alerts;
Pager—turn on/off pager alerts;
Iptrack—turn on/off writing to the iptrack database;
Ipchoke—turn on/off writing to ipchoke database;
Ipicmp—turn on/off writing to ipiemp database;
Message—turn on/off message, log reporting and change the message reporting level;
Trace—turn on/off error log reporting and alter the trace level reporting
Ptslice—modify the PTS period; and
Threshold s 1-4—turn on/off each threshold level.
Analysis 304 involves determining if the number of packets and the accumulated bytes per IP address over each PTS, taken as a whole, is enough to violate any of the four preset threshold levels.
Analysis 304 also determines, on a continuous basis, if the packet byte accumulation rates warrant the addition or subtraction of IP addresses to the list of chokes as compared to each threshold level and preset packet rate.
Threshold compare 305, compares the number of bytes during the last PTS where it first sorts the total number of bytes to each IP address by descending number of bytes. In other words, the highest number of bytes by IP address gets sorted to the top. If the threshold has been violated box 306, if the total number of bytes that came through for all IP addresses during that PTS is greater than one (or more) of the threshold levels or if the packet rate violates a preset packet rate threshold. When a level of violation happens, 307 a determination is made as to which level has been violated. If any threshold is violated, then certain data packets are choked from flowing through the system.
Once a threshold is violated the system begins to disallow packets from certain IP addresses to pass through the system. Since the system has already and continuously, keeps track of the total bytes as well as the number of packets for every IP address sorted in descending order it now uses that tally to choke a certain percentage of traffic. The system does this by looking at packets from IP addresses that are known to have sent bad packets in the past. If choking only these packets is not enough to bring the bandwidth down below a particular threshold level, the system chokes the next IP address on the list having the largest data volume per PTS. If this total accumulation of bytes as well as the packet rate for this IP address brings total bandwidth down to threshold level then the system stops adding IP addresses to the choke list. If the throughput still remains over threshold, more and more IP addresses are added to the choke list until the proper throughput is achieved.
During this time the system is simultaneously determining if there is a violation of any other thresholds. If the next higher threshold has been violated, then the system goes through the same process, but looking for a higher percentage level to choke. If the system goes down a threshold, then some of the IP addresses on the choke list are removed. Where the threshold levels are lowered, the cached (choked) addresses are allowed through. Once the database and cache are emptied for that threshold level, then if need be, more addresses are removed from the choke list. Process 309 & 311 control storage of data, while process 310 sends unchoked data through the system.
Another process that happens at every threshold level simultaneously is anytime a move up or down in threshold level is made, a determination is made to see if bytes that are currently being choked are still active. If they are active, then we leave them on the choke list at the next higher level. Active means that the IP address has accumulated bytes and/or packets during the last PTS. If that IP address is inactive for a PTS, meaning it has not accumulated any bytes or packets in the last PTS, then it is removed from the choke list before other IP addresses are added or removed.
Two important parameters of the system are 1) threshold percentages and 2) primary time slice. Everything happens brand new for every time slice, which advantageously is two seconds but could set to any length desired. Then the way the system prioritizes how traffic is choked is by determining how many bytes and packets are accumulated, if any, during the last PTS for each IP address.
The reason for checking to see if an IP address is still active is to prevent an attacker from continuing to change IP addresses, which could occur if "dead" IP addresses were not removed quickly from the choke list.
The parameters for disc storage for the database storage can be determined on a customizable level, whether a user needs to store data for an extended period of time beyond the PTS expiration of active or inactive packets. The user could determine the amount of time and volume of data that they need to store and for how long and for how many PTS.
Parameters for database storage and back-up will depend upon the amount of bandwidth that is being recorded and will depend upon when the inactive list is available such as by the hour increments or daily or weekly increments to be backed up to maintain database levels for constant writing during any time of flooding traffic.
Down (in red)—the component is down and NOT working—needs HELP.
Init (in blue)—the component is working and has been initialized but is currently NOT active.
Idle (in yellow)—the component is working, initialized, and running but is currently not processing data.
Run (in green)—the component is working, initialized, running, and actively processing data.
603 is the total bytes the system has processed starting when the system was initially started.
604 is the total number of packets the system has processed starting when the system was initially started.
605 is the total number of bytes the system has choked starting when the system was initially started.
606 is the total number of packets the system has choked starting when the system was initially started.
700 a is the IP address.
700 b is the domain name associated with column 700 a's IP address up to the current PTS.
701 is the total accumulated bytes that has been processed for IP address 700 a.
702 is the total accumulated bytes during the current PTS for IP address 701 a.
703 is the total accumulated bytes during the last PTS for IP address 701 a.
704 is the accumulated bytes for IP address 701 a up to the last PTS.
705 is the date in which the IP address 701 a was first logged.
706 is the date the IP address 701 a was last updated.
801 is a pull-down menu of data which is associated with this system's configurations.
There can be many different configurations associated with this system.
Turning to
If, as discussed above, the DNS search was inconclusive then process 904 searches local database 905, to see if the IP address (both software and hardware) is in the local database. If so, the system checks for a "good" or "bad" determination via process 908. A mismatch determination results in a spoofing determination 911 via process 910. If there is no match, via process 908, the system is indeterminate, box 909, and care must be taken. If a match is found in the local data base, via process 908, then a good address signal is returned via 907.
Turning now to
If the address pair is in the database, as determined at step 1004, then the system compares the newly arriving address pair with the last arrived (and stored) pair to determine if a proper relationship exists. If, at process 1004, a comparison reveals a proper relationship, it is good traffic and the data is passed on via process 1006. If, on the other hand, the sequence (or date/time) is wrong, it is possible spoofing (process 1007). At this point the system is unsure since the user could have recently swapped out their hardware cards or switched machines. The system, via process 1008, then compares the time stamps, the quantities, and/or the sequence numbers of the stored entry with the new entry coming in. If the time stamp (TS) has changed and remains changed and if the dates have changed and are not going back and forth, then the presumption is that somebody has changed his/her, and the system assumes that it is good traffic via process 1009. If, however, there has been a fluctuation of hardware IP address associations back and forth over a short period of time, the assumption is spoofing, box 1010.
Procedure 1008 also checks to see if one hardware address is being associated with multiple IP addresses over a predetermined time interval. If so, the presumption is that that IP address has been spoofed.
Turning now to
When the IP address comes from a local (within the same system) hardware, an optional method of determining if an equipment address is valid with respect to an associated IP is to send a Reverse Address Resolution Protocol request to all hardware on the local subnet. Each piece of hardware will then reply immediately with its hardware address. This allows for an association to be made immediately between the hardware address and the IP address.
The processes discussed with respect to
Thus, when different thresholds of throughput arise, the amount of certainty (or uncertainty) of a spoofed address with respect to a certain packet can be used, if desired, to help select which packets are stored in temporary storage and which are allowed to pass.
Also, once data is sent to temporary storage and the thresholds have been reduced, decisions may be made as to which data, if any, should be allowed into the system. This also can be decided based upon a "probability" of spoofing for each packet as determined by the processes described in
Although the present invention and its advantages have been described in detail, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Moreover, the scope of the present application is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments of the process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, means, methods and steps described in the specification. As one of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate from the disclosure of the present inventions processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps, presently existing or later to be developed that perform substantially the same function or achieve substantially the same result as the corresponding embodiments described herein may be utilized according to the present invention. Accordingly, the appended claims are intended to include within their scope such processes machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps.
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Maangchi, Or anyone willing to help,
I just have taken out my wisdom teeth yesterday and haven't eaten for 26 hours and the orthodontist suggested to start eating soup then soft food. I was wondering if there is any soup/soft food that is healthy and suitable for my recuperation, which is about a week for me. So I thought since summer is approaching, are there any cold Korean soup that I can eat perhaps??? Thanks a lot!
P.S. An easy recipe could help since I am a high school junior…
ouch! I hope you are still wise even though you lost your wisdom teeth! : )
How about making pine nut porridge and black sesame seeds porridge?
Regarding cold soup, I recommend oinaengguk (cold cucumber soup side dish) and gajinaengguk (cold egg plant soup side dish). They are a little salty, so you will have to eat them with rice. https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/gajinaengguk
Or make shikhye (rice drink punch) and keep it in the fridge and enjoy the cold drink until it runs out. https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/sikhye
My recent recipe potato pancake is super easy and delicious. https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/gamjajeon
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Kasaragod: Six of a family died in a ghastly road mishap at Bekal Pallikere in the district around 6-45 pm on Monday, June 13.
The incident took place near the Pallikere panchayat office where widening and renovation work is in progress on the Kanhangad-Kasaragod road. The family involved was of Hameed from Chetukundu Uduma.
The family members were on their way from Chetukundu to take part in 'iftar' meet to mark of the breaking of Ramadan fast for the day at a relative's house in Kasaragod.
The man at the wheel is said to have lost control over it and the vehicle rammed into a culvert and a tree. Hameed's wife Sakina (39), their children Sajeer ()18) and Saneer (16), Sakina's brother's wife Khairunnisa (24) and her daughter Fatima (2) and Ramzeena (25), wife of Irfan, died on the spot.
Sakina's son Ajmal (4) and Irfan's 8-month-old child have been injured. Two of the occupants – Sajeer who was driving the car and Khairunnisa – who were critically injured died on the spot. Four others died on the way to the hospital. The eight-month-old child got thrown out of the car and survived with minor injuries.
The car ended up in an extremely mangled state. The police, fire brigade and the immediate neighbours struggled to extricate the dead and the injured.
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An effective technology plan for registration as an RIA should begin with a baseline current-state assessment of IT policies, procedures, risks and control activities.
The ultimate goal of this assessment is to identify and document necessary improvements in the key compliance technologies and related processes that your RIA compliance program.
When reviewing IT's current capabilities and capacity, focus on the following areas:
Successful regulatory compliance requires a sophisticated ability to archive, maintain, report on and recall relevant operational data. Of all the IT focus areas, records management will likely be the most complex and challenging.
It entails capturing written and electronic records, historical data, data acquired through acquisitions and multiple copies of the same files that reside in different locations throughout the company. From the outset, compliance, operations and other stakeholders must work with IT to determine which systems contain the official books and records, a process that can be challenging.
Working with stakeholders throughout the company, IT should review its data protection and security and privacy policies to identify any gaps between existing security policies and SEC requirements.
With this information, IT can create a risk-based remediation plan to address these gaps through technology enhancements and procedural adjustments, such as expanding entitlement reviews to cover additional systems and privileges.
IT should track the progress of its remediation efforts closely to ensure that all procedural/ technology gaps are closed.
RIAs must be able to archive all email and instant message communications. Companies that do not have archival tools or third-party service providers in place should look to acquire these tools or contract with a specialty third-party service provider that can meet compliance's needs.
These tools should work seamlessly with existing security and archival systems and provide monitoring of load status, data purges and changes to key logging and retention settings.
Companies typically create business continuity plans for moments of crisis or temporary technological interruption, and IT is usually the steward. As the organization changes systems and procedures to support SEC compliance, it must update its business continuity plans to ensure that these changes are addressed.
A robust business continuity plan begins with the execution of a business impact analysis (BIA), updated periodically when changes to the business occur. The results of this BIA can be used to drive the development of the plan and to identify gaps in existing plans.
IT can then work with the business to prioritize remediation efforts, assign ownership and track progress made toward closing the gaps.
IT should make certain that it has formal and evidenced control processes in place for change management, logical and physical security administration, job/process scheduling, operations management, backup and recovery.
Working closely with members of the compliance team, IT must also create mechanisms — such as internal audits or risk and control self-assessments — to periodically evaluate the design and operation of these controls in order to continually identify potential regulatory gaps and close them.
IT general controls, security, business continuity planning and records management assessments should, naturally, include an examination of those third-party service providers currently working with the company.
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Little League International Mourns the Passing of John Christensen, California District 52 Administrator
John Christensen, who served as California District 52 Administrator for more than 10 years and a Little League umpire for nearly 40 years, passed away on Saturday. He was 72.
Mr. Christensen of Belmont, Calif., was an accountant and insurance broker.
A native of Elkhorn, Iowa, Mr. Christensen umpired his first Little League games in 1973, and he has the distinction of umpiring in all four of Little League Baseball's World Series.
Serving as Assistant District Administrator for California's 52nd District until his election as District Administrator in 2001, Mr. Christensen was responsible for 16 Little Leagues. He also previously served as a Little League coach and a league president.
Funeral services are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Friday, April 30, at the Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church, 600 West 42nd Avenue, in San Mateo, Calif.
Survived by two children, Todd and Andrea, Mr. Christensen's family has requested that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to California District 52.


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4:33pm Wednesday 26th March 2014
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4:33pm Wednesday 26th March 2014
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Tyldesley 15 Northwich 23
NORTHWICH continue to plot a course towards a promotion play-off following a routine victory, their 10th in succession, on Saturday.
It leaves Blacks five points better off than third-placed Anselmians, conquerors of Douglas at the weekend, with three matches left.
They trailed inside five minutes in Greater Manchester when a loose ball from a ruck was pounced upon by the hosts who played in their winger.
A second try followed midway through the first half, this time when a kick towards the line prompted a mix-up between winger Andy Chubb and full back Robin Houghton that ended with neither grounding the ball. Tyldesley's task to score was simple.
It jolted Northwich into action.
A solid scrum allowed Gareth Davies to send the backs on their way, and player coach Sam Naylor fed Houghton to claim a try. Richard Dale added the extras.
He slotted a penalty to make it 10-10, only for Tyldesley to edge ahead again when they notched an interception try.
Naylor broke clear of the home team's defence to haul Northwich level for a second time, Dale's conversion edging them ahead.
He made sure of victory in the second period with two penalty kicks, though the afternoon ended on a negative note when replacement Jack Last was taken to hospital after suffering a back injury.
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Schneider Electric Relay Competency Center (SE Relays LLC)'s Zelio RSL slim interface relay saves space in automation control panels, machines and equipment.
Schneider Electric Relay Competency Center (SE Relays LLC) today announced compact solutions with Zelio RSL slim interface relays for general purpose relay requirements. At only 6 mm wide, the Zelio RSL frees valuable panel space for OEM panel builders. The Zelio RSL slim interface relay is ideally suited for densely populated automation control panels, assembly machines, packaging equipment, conveyors and food and beverage equipment, the company says.
Terry Harmon, product manager, Schneider Electric, says, "Zelio RSL meets the needs of distributors and customers," available as a pre-assembled relay and socket to reduce installation time. Both components can be obtained individually to seamlessly replace worn out, competitive products. Optional accessories include bus bars and print labels to facilitate parallel wiring and provide quick identification. The relay has a 6A load rating and comes with reinforced printed circuit board (PCB) pins. The universal ac/dc socket has built-in surge protection and an LED indicator and arrives ready for DIN rail mounting. Sockets also are available as screw terminal and spring clamp models. www.serelays.com has product selection tools, downloadable 2D and 3D models, and specifications.
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Metadata is a funny thing... In an effort to make the complex simple we often go down this road of building a generic-meta-data-driven-solution-thingy and end up shooting ourselves in the foot. For example, COM+ has support for transactional semantics which are controlled by meta-data. This is all well and good until someone who doesn't understand the implications of changing these semantics decides to change them.
The idea was pure goodness but the implementation broke down because we did not think of the difference between developer oriented meta-data and admin oriented meta-data. The first problem is that once you take the meta-data out of compiled code, you have placed it into a realm where it becomes "configurable" by the administrator who is like a "god" on that production machine. You can write memos email, comments etc. but nothing can prevent that admin from changing the meta-data once it leaves the confines of your assembly.
The first decision point we need to consider is what makes meta-data admin oriented vs. developer oriented. Both will have an effect on program execution and for good reason but in my mind there are certain things that should never be left up to the admin. The problem is that there is no clear way to draw that line.
You could say...
Anything that can break the developer's fundamental assumptions should not be left in the hands of the admin.
The admin can control a great number of things
- The install location
- The privileges, memory pool size etc.
But there are some things that the developer assumes when writing their code
- Transactional semantics
- Exception behavior
Some folks who were reviewing our upcoming Enterprise Library complained that the new Exception Handling application block externalizes the exception handling behavior into admin configurable meta-data. They said that this use of meta-data clearly crosses the line and...I have to agree. I must say I should have known better or thought through this more deeply.
My first thought was to make this meta-data read only at deployment time. Effective but easily overridden by "god". Then it hit me that the only way I can make meta-data safe at runtime and in a form that even "god" won't mess with is to put it into an assembly.
There are a couple of ways I can think of right off the bat to do this...
1. Attributes
2. Static structures
The more I thought about our configuration system I realized that it would be possible to create a config provider who wrote config to a static structure but read it from a compiled assembly thus creating a read only assembly based store for safe meta-data storage.
Now is this strange or what? Who knows it could be fun. I'm going to explore solutions for both of these in the coming days.


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Economic Crime and Justice Studies at Utica College
The Department hosts a suite of programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as research centers and the Economic Crime and Cybersecurity Institute. Our faculty is truly interdisciplinary and has advanced degrees in business, computer science, criminology, education, electrical engineering, history and policy, and law.
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ECI Conference features latest on cybersecurity, ID theft, economic crime
Utica, NY (10/16/2009)- On the heels of the Department of Homeland Security announcing the creation of up to 1,000 new cybersecurity jobs, the upcoming 20th Economic Crime Institute of Utica College conference, highlighting the latest trends in the detection and prevention of identity theft, cybersecurity and economic crime, looks to be the most successful event in the organization's history.
"Extraordinary Circumstances: Combating Fraud and Corruption in Hard Times" will feature keynote speaker Cynthia Cooper, CEO of The Cooper Group LLC and author of Extraordinary Circumstances. Cooper is best known for leading the team who discovered and reported some $3.8 billion in accounting fraud at WorldCom. Martin Biegelman, director of Microsoft's financial integrity unit, will keynote on the second day of the conference.
Bringing together corporate, government/law enforcement and academic experts, the conference will be held Oct. 20-22 at The Bolger Center, Potomac, Md.
Sponsors of the conference are: Allen Corporation of America, BNY Mellon, Cisco, Daylight Forensic & Advisory, Hage & Hage Law and Consulting, JCPenney, McKesson, TransUnion, Van Scoyoc Associates, and Wilson & Turner Investigative Consultants.
This year, for the first time, conference attendees can choose tracks on ID theft, cybersecurity, or economic crime. Breakout sessions include discussions of authentication tokens to protect identity for online transaction, cross-border cybercrime, data security, mortgage fraud, organized crime, and much more. There will also be discussions of investment schemes, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and electronic evidence gathering. Attendees are also eligible for up to 16 CPE credits.
Utica College, a longtime leader in economic crime education, is home to both the Economic Crime Institute and the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP), which has garnered national attention for its landmark study of closed Secret Service identity theft cases. Utica College offers bachelor's degrees in economic crime investigation and cybersecurity – information assurance, as well a master's degree in economic crime management, MBA in fraud management, MBA in professional accountancy, certificate in financial crimes investigation, and a master's degree in criminal justice administration.
Networking at the conference will also celebrate the 20th anniversary of the undergraduate economic crime investigation degree, one of the first such programs offered, as well as the 10th anniversary of the master's program.
For more information, visit www.utica.edu/eciconference.
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It's the latest word on an old theme, the price increases by the fabric manufacturers.
FYI: South Sea Imports has raised their prices another 15-20 cents per yard, and Fabri-Quilt is going up 15 cents / yard at the end of the month.
Fabri-Quilt further said that their sources (the mills, I presume) are raising their prices another 15% at year-end, so we can expect still more prices.
Ok. Anybody planning on making their next quilt out of their husband's/sons used boxers? :|


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Clothing drive set for those seeking employment help
Cleaning out your closets? Suits don't fit anymore?
The United Way's Emerging Community Leaders group is organizing a professional-clothing drive and a job-tips booth to help people who need jobs or clothing to wear to work.
The clothing drive is scheduled from Oct. 11 to Oct. 16 and will benefit the Center for Women in Transition and the Salvation Army.
Danville firm celebrates anniversary of partnership that kept it alive
DANVILLE – One year ago Thursday, Brad Irle and a group of private investors took over ownership of Th Snyder, a custom woodworking business that creates cabinetry, moldings, doors and more for high-end residential projects.
Production to start by early spring at shuttered Rantoul pork plant
RANTOUL – Production at the Rantoul pork plant – which has been shuttered for a year and half – is projected to start in late winter or early spring.
Kurt Irelan, construction manager for new owner Trim-Rite Inc., said the company plans to expand the west Rantoul plant, which encompasses 12,000 square feet.
Consultant hired to do area labor survey
CHAMPAIGN – The Champaign County Economic Development Corp. has hired a consulting firm to survey area employers about their work force.
The firm, Growth Services Group of Jefferson City, Mo., is expected to send the survey to employers electronically next week, said Erik Kotewa, deputy director of the economic development group.
Joliet firm picks up Coldwell Banker franchise
CHAMPAIGN – A Joliet real estate firm will pick up the Coldwell Banker residential franchise in Champaign, Peoria and Springfield that Devonshire Realty has had.
Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell, which operates in the southwest and western Chicago suburbs, will expand operations to central Illinois as a result of the move, the company announced this week.
Unemployment drops throughout area for August
CHAMPAIGN – Unemployment rates fell in August throughout East Central Illinois, but Champaign County's rate remained higher than it was a year earlier.
All 11 counties in East Central Illinois enjoyed month-to-month declines in August.
Blue Cross to close Champaign office
CHAMPAIGN — Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois plans to close its Champaign office and have the 90 employees either work from home or the Danville office, the company said Wednesday.
Jimmy John's workers in Minneapolis aim to unionize
Employees of a Jimmy John's franchise in Minnesota have organized a union and are seeking better pay, better working conditions and more benefits.
Right now the campaign is focused on organizing employees in the Minneapolis metropolitan area. The Jimmy John's sandwich chain, which has over 1,000 stores across the country, is headquartered in Champaign.
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Working Americans are the foundation of our Nation's continued economic success and prosperity. From constructing the first transcontinental railroad to shaping our city skylines, they have built our country and propelled it forward.
Labor Day: Trades not being passed to next generation
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ORLANDO -- NASCAR pundits have been looking for the next Jeff Gordon for nearly a decade. There hasn't been one. But now comes Kasey Kahne.
Numerous candidates have arisen since the late 1990s, but none have approached, let alone sustained, the dominance of the Wonder Boy.
Not that they have been flops -- Tony Stewart, Matt Kenseth, Ryan Newman, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Jamie McMurray and others have done well.
It's just that no one has soared above, and stayed above, all the rest, like Gordon did in the '90s.
This year the planets are aligning again. All the ingredients that went into Gordon are in the mix, here, now.
"I'm a decent driver," Kahne, who will turn 24 on Saturday, says with Gordonesque humility.
But his rookie success -- three second-place finishes, one third and a 13th that was in some ways more impressive than those top fives -- is due, he thinks, to "all the people surrounding me, and Ray Evernham has taught me a lot."
Evernham is Jupiter in the alignment. Kahne's team owner has a prodigy to mentor again, just as when Evernham was the crew chief who guided Gordon to stardom at Hendrick Motorsports in the 1990s.
Who got Kahne and Evernham together? Why, John Bickford, quite naturally. After training stepson Gordon from age 4 in quarter-midgets all the way to the big time -- and indeed insisting that any Cup team interested in Gordon hire Evernham as well -- Bickford turned his attention to other young drivers, nationwide, and emerged as NASCAR's sharpest eye for rising talent.
Kahne hasn't won a Cup race yet. But Gordon didn't win in his rookie season, '93, either. Even winless in Cup, Kahne roundly is considered the man to beat by the other teams.
He dominated at Texas Motor Speedway last Sunday before a late rash of cautions a) dropped him back in the field and b) cost him sufficient green-flag laps to run down eventual winner Elliott Sadler.
Kahne comes from the richest training ground of all for NASCAR in recent years, open-wheel sprint, midget and USAC Silver Crown cars.
Specifically, Kahne is out of the stable of team owner Steve Lewis, who also nurtured Gordon, Stewart and Newman on the rough-and-tumble dirt and short asphalt tracks of the Midwest.
And that brings us to the essence of Kahne's promise, and makes all the other similar circumstances more than merely circumstantial: Car control.
I would define "car control" as the ability to make the car behave as an extension of the driver's body -- transforming the car into an athlete.
The late Dale Earnhardt had it. Al Unser Jr. had it, and might have been an enormous success in NASCAR if he had not followed his family into Indy cars.
Gordon showed it immediately upon his arrival in NASCAR.
They all developed this almost-metaphysical talent on dirt. Accustomed to a car sliding sideways, loose, on dirt, they never panicked when a car went sideways on dirt. They always felt in control, and so they always were.
Now comes Kahne, in control even when he appears to be out of control.
That's why his 13th-place finish at Darlington, S.C., on March 21 just might have been a clearer look at Kahne than any of his top-fives.
Twice that day he spun through no fault of his own -- once because of a shredded tire and once after a nasty nudge from behind by Stewart -- and neither time did he allow his Dodge even to scrape the wall. This, at warped old Darlington, with new SAFER barriers taking 30 more inches off the racing surface. That's car control.
To project as a dominant force in NASCAR, the very best driver must have the very best equipment. Kahne has, just as Gordon had, cars prepared under the relentlessly meticulous eyes of Evernham.
And then there's the coaching: "It's like, man, it doesn't quit with Ray," Kahne said.
Although reluctant to compare the two jockey-size drivers, Evernham does note that Kahne weighs 138 pounds, where Gordon arrived in NASCAR weighing 142.
Now why would Evernham notice something like that? First, it's an indication of physical conditioning -- Kahne, like Gordon in his youth, trains hard throughout the week. But mainly, to the great stickler for detail, that's 4 pounds of weight difference, in a 3,400-pound car.
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Disappearing bodies, peeping toms and a very handy handyman make for lots of laughs in Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore's "Wrong Window."
The seldom-performed spoof on Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers is well written with lots of references to the master's films plus physical comedy to keep the audience entertained.
Nicely directed by Jill Gelster and Mya Guitron, the Orinda Starlight Village Players' production runs through Aug. 23, at the Orinda Community Center Park Amphitheater, 28 Orinda Way in Orinda.
The convoluted plot involves a New York couple who enjoys checking out their neighbors activities via binoculars. While peeking out the window one night, they catch a husband and wife in an adjacent apartment having a violent fight. The next morning, the wife turns up missing, and the couple goes on a mission to discover what happened.
As the plot thickens, other neighbors as well as the police become involved. The creative set adds to the fun as it features one apartment in the front of the stage and another apartment in the back of the stage glimpsed through a large picture window. The actors cleverly move furniture to switch the apartments around, adding to the confusion and fun.
While the Starlight production would benefit by a quicker pacing, it's still lots of fun. If you go, bring warm clothing and try and sit in the middle of the amphitheater for the best view into both apartments. Shows are at 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Aug. 23, with a performance at 4 p.m. Sunday Aug. 17, and at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21. Call 925-528-9225.
Terrence McNally couldn't have written a more sympathetic criminal than Frank Abagnale Jr. in "Catch Me If You Can."
Based on a true story, Abagnale Jr. is the product of a broken home and a father with questionable parenting skills.
Leaving home in his midteens, he poses as a Pan Am pilot, doctor and more, and manages to pass millions in bad checks all by his 19th birthday. But, he's such a sweet kid, that you can't help but hope he can outrun the FBI agents on his trail.
Made into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, the story is now a delightful musical premiering in the Bay Area at Woodminster Amphitheater, 3300 Joaquin Miller Road in Oakland.
Directed by Joel Schlader with music direction by Ben Prince, knockout choreography by Christina Lazo, and an amazing number of period perfect costumes by Lisa Danz, this production features a solid cast led by Nikita Burshteyn as Abagnale, Jr. (Contra Costa audiences may remember him as Benny Southstreet in Diablo Theatre Company's "Guys and Dolls.")
Burshteyn certainly has the acting, singing and dancing chops to make this demanding role his own.
While the entire cast does a great job, special kudos go to the talented dancers and to Taylor Chalker, who as Abagnale Jr.'s love interest, brings the house down with her gospel inspired "Fly, Fly Away."
"Catch Me If You Can" continues at 8 p.m. Aug. 14-17. Go early and enjoy a picnic and gorgeous view of Oakland and (on a clear night) San Francisco. Call 510-531-9597 or go to www.woodminster.com for tickets.
Help out the Clayton Theatre Company and enjoy a good meal at the same time.
From 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Aug. 19, Ed's Mudville Grill in Clayton will donate 20 percent of all pretax receipts to the company.
To get a flier, which needs to be presented when dining, go to www.claytontheatrecompany.com.
Several auditions are on the horizon for those of you who prefer to be on the stage rather than in front of it. Alameda's Altarena Playhouse holds auditions for "Little Shop of Horrors" beginning at 7 p.m. Aug. 24- 25.
Fred Chacon directs the show which plays Oct. 10-Nov. 23.
Performers should prepare a legato Broadway or rock song and be prepared to do a dance combination and a cold read from the script. Pianist provided. For more information, go to www.altarena.org.
Contra Costa Civic Theatre will audition for "To Kill a Mockingbird" from 1 to 5 p.m. Sept. 7, and from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 8. Directed by David Bogdonoff, the show runs Nov. 21—Dec. 14, at the company's El Cerrito Theater.
CCCT will also audition for "Doubt: a Parable" from 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 28, and 7 to 10 p.m. Sept. 29. Daren A.C. Carollo directs. The show runs Feb. 13—March 8.
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But I had to check the calendar to verify the year)
On what claims to be a news site, and a major one, I fear—
They debated the reality of Hell
I thought Hell was merely fiction; just a myth from long ago
An adapted form of Hades, which the Greeks saw down below
For an educated person, this is something you should know
It's a story that the ancients used to tell
In our modern world, the concept of a Heaven or a Hell
Or creation in a paradise from which our species fell
Is a sign that the believer isn't thinking very well—
Those are remnants of beliefs from way back when
Or at least that's how it should be; I was truly shocked to see
In our age of information (and so much of it is free!)
Such an ancient and outdated view—so how, then, could it be
On the home page—yes, today—at CNN?
Ah, but on the story's page itself, the title is a bit less sensationalistic: Different Takes: Should we abandon idea of hell?
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There was no warning, not even a whiff, of what was developing on the campus of Henderson International this week.
As normal, the 10 teenage boys who make up the vaunted Findlay Prep basketball squad attended classes and then practiced for Friday's night game against a team from Arizona. If anything was in the air, the young athletes — among the best in the country — may have been indulgently looking ahead to April, when they will play in the ESPN National High School Invitational in Washington.
This was old school for them. Findlay won the national prep basketball title last year and is ranked No. 3 nationally by USA Today. It was making everyone's list of standout high school programs, and for good reason.
Findlay is a basketball factory.
It has lost only three games in the past three years. A 45-game winning streak was snapped this season.
Its players are rated as the best in their recruiting class, and alumni are thriving at respected universities such as Texas, Kentucky, Florida State and California.
But the really remarkable thing about Findlay is that these ballplayers are students first. And it was just as likely that the members of the squad, The Ten, were just as focused on their classes this week as they were on their basketball drills.
At Findlay Prep, academics are as important as athletics, books as valuable as the boards.
And life seemed good Friday, until after classes were done for the day and the e-mails arrived on home computers. Parents swallowed hard and their lanky sons wondered what would come of them and their team.
"I'm writing you today with some difficult news," said the e-mail from Brian Siegel, head of schools for Henderson International, which serves students from preschool through high school.
And the news, on reflection, seemed inevitable. Findlay Prep had finally confronted an adversary that was unbeatable and instead of being called the Tigers or the Bears or the Wildcats or Eagles, this one was called the Great Recession, and it had finally snatched the great Findlay Prep and the rest of the 102 high school students attending Henderson International.
Yes, just 102 students.
And that, you see, was the problem. Even with tuition at more than $17,000 a year, the revenue wasn't sufficient to keep the high school a viable institution. It would have to be closed, Siegel told his school family in e-mail that was as compassionate as e-mail can be. Instead, he said, all attention would turn to the children, the students in preschool through eighth grade.
"This decision came after much thoughtful consideration," he wrote. "The extreme economic challenges facing Las Vegas — including record number of foreclosures, high unemployment, and relocation of many families out of the area — have taken their toll on many Henderson families and also resulted in lower demand for our high school."
There was a glaring omission in his e-mail, not that it really mattered: Even as the campus struggled for more students, there was plenty of competition to be accepted into the school's basketball program — called Findlay Prep. It took its name from Cliff Findlay, the Las Vegas automobile magnate and former UNLV forward who was the team's primary benefactor, right down to offering full-ride scholarships to The Ten.
Every year, 500 kids or more would write letters to Findlay Prep, seeking admission. And the school would only take three or four or five, however many needed to replace the graduating seniors.
To get admitted, these kids would first have to get past Daron Gallina. He's not the coach, or an assistant coach, or even the chaperon at the house across the street where the boys live during the school year. (That task goes to an assistant coach and his wife.)
Gallina is the team's academic adviser. He goes over the candidates' academic transcripts and weighs in on whether the boys might have a chance at Henderson International — not on the basketball court, but in the classroom.
They won't need him anymore.
But maybe another school, somewhere, can mimic the model built at Findlay Prep, a program that benched you were you to fall behind in your studies. Gallina wouldn't care how many three-pointers you could toss if you couldn't maintain a 3.0 grade-point average on your college-prep coursework.
Tristan Thompson knew this when he arrived.
He's a 6-foot-10 senior forward who's on the 24-man McDonald's All-American team and is rated as one of the nation's top 20 college prospects by several evaluating services.
And Thompson says he came here as much for the academics as for the athletics.
"Education is the key for me," he says. "It's just as important as basketball. For me, it starts with my mom. She will call coach (Mike) Peck to see how I'm doing in school. If he tells her that I'm struggling, I can't play. She wants me to get a bachelor's and master's degree."
This is how savvy, how balanced, this kid is: "You can't play basketball forever. The ball starts dropping when you are around 34 years old. You still have 40 years of life after that."
Thompson won't be affected by the school's closing. He's signed on at Texas.
But consider the plight of 15-year-old Nigel Williams-Goss, who moved here from Portland, Ore., to join the Findlay team last summer. His parents came too, and bought a house — hey, the economy works both ways and houses are a lot cheaper here than they used to be.
"Going to school here is a lot tougher than people think," Williams-Goss said earlier in the week, before anyone knew that this would be his first — and last — year at Henderson International. "I came from a public school and the teachers there didn't have the time to give you individual attention. I felt like I was behind when I got here."
The school will have its legacy, at least, and it will extend beyond the bright lights of a professional sports career.
All 17 players who have graduated from the program in Peck's three years have been academically qualified to play Division 1 collegiate ball based on grades in 16 core classes and standardized test scores.
"I'm the first one to say the credit has to go to the guys," Peck said earlier in the week, not betraying whether he knew what was in store on Friday. "I'm not the one taking the tests."
If another school adopts the ethic that was embraced at this one, there will be no tolerance for slackers; thanks to rigid daily monitoring reports signed by teachers in every class, a late homework assignment, a poor test score, poor classroom participation or bad behavior would catch up to the player before he hits the court for practice that afternoon.
And once a week, an assistant coach would check in on the players' grades, e-mailing their teachers for updates.
"The kids have to be self-motivated," Peck said. "If you don't do the work and if you don't study, guess what, you aren't going to qualify."
Once in the door, the players received all the tools to get the work done. Each athlete was equipped with a laptop computer — valuable for coordinating with teachers during road trips — and there were 90-minute study hall sessions most evenings after practice. The school also enlisted tutors to help the athletes prepare for college exams.
Before he knew that he'd be looking for another job, math teacher Charles Allen said he relished teaching potential professional basketball players.
Those boys will remember the biggest lesson of all for young athletes: "I tell them that there are a lot of people out there whose sole objective is to keep you from your money," Allen said. "Even if you are an NBA player, you would sure like to be an educated NBA player."
That may be one of the enduring legacies of Henderson International School and the stars of Findlay Prep: They came to play, but they also came to learn, and they did both, very well.
And suddenly, that ESPN invitational in Washington in April seems very, very important to 10 very good, and smart, ball players in Henderson.


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While picking up offer after offer from schools across the country (including most of the Pac-12 conference) Redlands (Calif.) running back Craig Lee, a four-star 2013 prospect, has kept his college preference a secret.
Things were no different on Saturday at the Gridiron Kings event in Orlando, Fla. but he did offer one small nugget. A decision is on the horizon.
"I'm going to make my commitment on my birthday, Aug. 15," Lee said.
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When asked to narrow down his list to five or even 10 schools, Lee declined, only saying, "they're all in there."
That leaves schools like UCLA, Oregon, USC and Notre Dame waiting, while Lee mulls his choices for at least two more weeks.
Lee did list a few attributes he's looking for in his school choice.
"The community and the people I'm going to be with for four years (are important)," Lee said. "Education is important as well and the coaching staff."
The only school Lee did comment on was UCLA, which he has visited this year.
"It's great," he said. "I love the coaching staff. They're very welcoming and the players are, too."


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A New York bowling alley uses rape as part of their marketing ad.
Bowlmor Lanes created an ad with the featured tagline: "Getting jumped in an alley has never been this much fun."
The ad has created controversy as Manhattan's incidents of rape and attempted rape has increased in recent years.
NOW-NYC has criticized Tom Shannon, the company's CEO, and the MTA for the ads. However, Shannon sent them a letter stating, "The ads are humorous and flirtatious… NOW's position on this is extreme and laughable."
The company seems to stand by the ad.
Meanwhile, New York Times reported that a group of politicians held a news conference to discuss the increase in sexual violence in the city.
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Legislation to support building safety re-introduced
New legislation to establish a competitive grant program in the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development to help local governments with enforcement of residential, building, fire, energy, plumbing, and related codes was introduced in the U.S. Senate.
A federal grant program to assist communities across the country as they adopt and administer construction safety codes that protect property and the public has been re-introduced in the U.S. Congress with bipartisan support. The House passed a similar measure in the last legislative session, but the measure derailed as Congress turned its attention to battling the economic crisis.
"The aim of the program is to provide desperately needed resources to many vulnerable communities that do not have the trained personnel or tools to translate safety codes into compliance," said International Code Council [http://www.iccsafe.org/] CEO Richard P. Weiland. "In too many communities, there simply aren't enough resources for building safety. This legislation will provide the needed resources."
New legislation (S 970) to establish a competitive grant program in the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development to help local governments with enforcement of residential, building, fire, energy, plumbing, and related codes was introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Mel Martinez (R-FL), Tim Johnson (D-SD), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT). A companion bill (HR 2246) was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representatives Dennis Moore (D-KS), Judy Biggert (R-IL), and Dina Titus (D-NV).
The Community Building Code Administration Grant Act authorizes $20 million annually from 2010 to 2014 for the grant program. For every $1 the federal government spends on enforcement of federal standards on mitigation and flood elevations, taxpayers save nearly $4 in disaster assistance costs. A study by the World Watch Institute said that every dollar spent on disaster mitigation and preparedness saves $7 in disaster-related economic loss. Other economic benefits of building to the latest codes can include energy savings, reduced maintenance costs, lower insurance premiums and fewer safety concerns.
In addition to the International Code Council, other supporters of the grant include the American Institute of Architects, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the International Fire Code Council, the Alliance to Save Energy and the National Institute of Building Sciences.
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Strengths: Very strong hub and smooth bearings. I can actually notice when riding my other wheels that bearings on these Hive hubs are very high quality and roll great. I've used these for races, longer XC rides, and very rocky descents and they are solid. Due to the larger flanges, I guess it builds a stronger lateral stiffness in a wheel but it also depends on spoke type and lacing you use. You can build 3x with these and I might even try 2x next time. I got one of the first gen hub sets released and was waiting anxiously for several mths and when they arrived I was amazed at the lightness and quality of them. The Ti bolts are very smooth, light, and stay tight when tightened. Questions I've had have been handled pretty quickly from the folks at the Hive.
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