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Today is the due date of the baby we miscarried during Holy Week earlier this year.
We decided to name the little one, and it has been a very healing thing to wrestle with a name. We wrestled with names for our other three--why not this one? No one in our family pictures the baby as anything other than a boy (big surprise!), so a boy name it is:
Emmanuel Micah
I (Chris) went to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in LaCrosse this weekend with Michelle. I was reading the story of St. Gianna Molla, who is a saint depicted, among others, in the beautiful shrine church. She was a pediatric physician who died in 1962 a week after her fourth child was born. She found out in her second month of pregnancy that she had uterine tumors and wanted her baby's life preserved at all costs. The baby was named Gianna Emanuela by her father. The name Emmanuel means "God with us" and it jumped out at me because it comforted me last year at Christmastime shortly after the death of my mom. As I pondered St. Gianna's passion for her child and respect for life, and the meaning of the name, it seemed right.
Guy picked the middle name. It is one we have had on the name list for every boy born so far. It's also a reminder of the first memory verse I can recall memorizing as a child, and the first one the boys memorized this year: Micah 6:8. What does the Lord require of you? To do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with our God.
We feel closer to the baby now, and look forward to being able to ask him for his prayers for our family by name. We wanted to share the name with you.


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Baima is famed among Chinese people as the country's first Buddhist temple. It was constructed in AD 68, but little of its original structure has survived.
According to legend, the Eastern Han Emperor Yongping (reign: AD 57-75) dreamed of a golden figure with a halo, which his advisers assumed was the Buddha, in India. Emissaries were sent abroad to learn more about Buddhism and they returned years later with two Indian monks on white horses, bearing sutras and statues.
Baima was constructed to honor the monks, Kasyapamatanga and Dharmaranya, and they were later buried in one of its courtyards. They translated the seminal text Sutra in Forty-two Sections into Chinese at the temple's Qingliang Terrace.
In light of its history, Baima aims to become a leading center of Buddhism in Asia and has an Indian Buddhist shrine made entirely of Indian materials, a gift from the Indian government that was completed last year. Nearby, a Thai Buddhist shrine, built in 1992, is being expanded.
Master Mingyan, Baima Temple's abbot, says foreign monks regularly visit to study and there are plans to collaborate with their counterparts in Cambodia and Japan.
"We hope all the Buddhist shrines in Southeast Asia will be displayed at Baima Temple," says Guo Hongchang, the mayor of Luoyang.
"To be the world's Buddhist cultural center ... is the ultimate goal," he says, adding the temple grounds will increase from 20 to 80 hectares.
Meanwhile, monks study and recite the sutras, the abbot practices his calligraphy and devotees light incense and pray for good fortune - just as they have been doing for centuries.
One of the few concessions to modernity, air conditioning inside the temple's receiving room, is a blessed relief on such a sweltering day.
(Source: China Daily)

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ATLANTA - The Georgia Council for the Hearing-Impaired, a nonprofit agency that provides services for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, violated federal law by subjecting an employee to retaliation after he filed a discrimination charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency charged in a lawsuit it recently filed.
According to the EEOC's suit, an outreach/training specialist was subjected to repeated acts of retaliation by the company after the employee filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC in October 2012. The employer and employee participated in the EEOC mediation process, which resulted in a mediation settlement agreement. Among other things, the company agreed to provide a neutral employment reference for the employee to all prospective employers who inquire about the employee's job history. According to the EEOC's complaint, instead of providing neutral employment references as agreed, the employer consistently provided negative job references, which sabotaged the employee's ability to obtain work.
The EEOC alleges that the employer's conduct not only constituted a breach of the neutral job reference provision of the mediation settlement agreement, it also violated the anti-retaliation provisions of Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
The EEOC filed suit, Civil Action No. 1:13-cv-03144, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The federal agency seeks back pay, front pay, compensatory and punitive damages for the employee, as well as injunctive relief designed to prevent such discrimination and retaliation by the employer in the future.
"It is unfortunate when an employer engages in conduct designed to punish a former employee," said Bernice Williams Kimbrough, district director for the EEOC's Atlanta District Office. "The EEOC will make every effort to protect an employee's right to earn a living without unlawful interference."
Eliminating policies and practices that discourage or prohibit individuals from exercising their rights under employment discrimination statutes, or that impede the EEOC's investigative or enforcement efforts, is one of six national priorities identified by the agency's Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP).
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Dominant-Male wrote:I don't think new currency is something the map needs. Getting creeps doesn't have to be a huge investment if the entire team chips in. 500 gold from each member of the team is enough for abominations for example. Pooling has been increasing over the last games I've played, it's just that earlier on people were distracted by the shiny new items.
The thing is the feel the player has: every single little gold he spent on troops, he could have used to further pimp his hero, and especially in version O there always is a way to pimp even more your hero, thus there always remains a bad taste when diverting the needed resource to other things than it, however vital to flow of later play that may be--most importantly, a trade off of which most new players are not even aware, let alone a trade off that does not work and should not be. But if what I have already explained still does not sound convincing, there is nothing else I can say.


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The County Commission approved the increase 4-1, with Commissioner Nancy Bell casting the dissenting vote. This is the first time in 18 years that dumping fees increased at the landfill. The new rates take effect Nov. 30.
Jones said the city's budget is set and the fiscal year just began. There are only about 1,000 households, she said, and the city must increase the garbage service fee to absorb the increased fees at the county landfill. She noted Williston is the last city in Levy County to have garbage service that is not a franchised operation.
Bell protested against "tipping fees" increasing so dramatically in one year, even though they remained stable for almost two decades. Government Services Group of Tallahassee created a new rate structure to meet the budgetary needs of the landfill. There was no step-method for upping the ante for garbage drop offs.
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FCC's Haller Speaks to CoordinatorsThe following is the text of the speech given by Ralph Haller, N4RH, Deputy Chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau to the nations Amateur Radio Repeater Frequency Coordinators. The speech was delivered on Saturday, October 7, 1995 in St. Charles Missouri.
"Thank you.
I appreciate the opportunity to be here with you today and I would also like to thank the League for organizing this event.
Let me kind of set the stage by saying that I'm not looking at the frequency coordination process as being broke. Rather, it is a system that has worked well for several years with relatively few problems. Hundreds of dedicated people work every year to make sure that the process works. So, if its a process that is working, then why are we here today?
First, I am here to work with you and hear from you. You are the people that have to deal with our rules on a daily basis. I need to hear from you about problems you have and are encountering with the rules as they are written today. I need to know what rule changes you might like to see that would make your jobs and your lives easier.
Your efforts have contributed to a nationwide network of repeaters that cannot be matched anywhere in the world. For the most part, these repeaters co-exist. They not only co-exist, they actually compliment each other because of the work that you have done in frequency coordination.
Such a complex system could not have developed haphazardly. Fundamental to every repeater is its frequency assignment. Mistakes cause interference, and solutions to that interference are costly. But you people have mastered the art of frequency management and thats why the system is working today.
So that brings us to the question of evaluating the system and providing minor changes that will strengthen it. That's why we are here. Not to fix a system thats in trouble, but to make a very well oiled system work even better.
In that regard, I want to share a few thoughts with you and then I am very interested in what you have to say.
I have never been particularly comfortable with the notion that there was no official recognition for the coordinator in a given area. Under our rules, most anyone could claim to be a coordinator. Now, that has happened very few times, but unfortunately, it has happened.
So, just as a precaution as we move into the future, I would like to provide a recognition mechanism for coordinators. You have devoted time, money and resources into the development of the coordination data bases that you have in place today. Nobody wants a fly by night interloper to come in and be able to issue a faulty coordination just because a couple of other amateurs in the area happen to agree with that person.
I don't necessarily have the best answer for how to do this, but I have envisioned the possibility of some type of umbrella organization of coordinators across the country -- not necessarily one entity -- but you as a group working together in a formal or informal umbrella organization that would serve two purposes.
First, it would be a single point of contact for the FCC to deal with Amateurs on coordination matters. Second, it would be a group that would keep track of recognized coordinators throughout the country and serve as a second level review of contested coordinations. After all, I think it is far better to solve such within the Amateur Radio community than it is to take those conflicts to the Federal environment. We might also see this group eventually develop a coordination manual to help memorialize the collective knowledge that you have gained over the years.
I've also thought about what incentives we might offer to help make this program a success. First, the certainty of who is the coordinator should be a fairly big incentive to most everyone in this room. Now, I am not necessarily suggesting that we should have a process that excludes other people from coming in and doing coordination. But, I think when you have more than one coordinator that you need a process to force these coordinators to work together.
How about implementing a simplified repeater licensing program? No, I don't mean sending off tower heights and ERPs and coverage maps to the FCC. But suppose that once a repeater was coordinated by this umbrella group we assume that in itself would be sufficient for a repeater callsign. Perhaps a "KR" callsign to be issued to truly coordinated repeaters. The basic operating authority for a repeater has and will continue to come from the trustee's license which is issued directly by the commission. But, we might be able to come up with a process whereby this umbrella organization would actually be able to issue the "KR" callsigns and then just advise the commission to update its database.
Depending upon what we come up with, it may or may not require rule making. I have no pre-conceived notions there. I am really interesting how you feel about bringing repeater licensing back. We are about to start the vanity callsign program. We have one little hurdle left which is to get the Office of Management and Budget to approve the form. But if we are going to do vanity callsigns for individuals, then I think that the time has come to look for a process whereby repeaters can be licensed once again with their own callsigns.
I believe this is a win-win situation for the Amateur community and for the FCC. I have wanted to resume issuance of repeater callsigns for years, but never had the resources. With many of the resources coming from your efforts, I think we can now accomplish this repeater licensing program.
In addition to that, we have new equipment and software in place a the commission that instead of manually processing these special callsigns permits us to do it electronically. As you know, in the VEC program, most of that information is coming to us electronically and I foresee that we can continue into other areas to receive information electronically which in turn minimizes our processing.
Over the next several years we expect the Gettysburg facility where your licenses are processed to decrease in size, but I do not expect the services to the public to decrease. Rather, I want services to the public to increase. But the only way we are going to see that happen is for us to become more efficient and for us to rely much more on you -- the users of the FCC services to take on some of the responsibilities that have traditionally been government responsibilities.
I am looking to you for other ideas here today, or to tell me that mine are fairly stupid -- and I do not mind hearing that if they are.
That's why we're re here. This is the first meeting of its kind. This is the first time that some of you have met each other. I hope that it is not the last time, because you are the ones out there performing a great service on a day to day basis, with relatively little recognition and lots of problems.
We would like to help that and smooth that. The commission can become the final arbiter in disputes. This relieves some of the risk that you have today.
I don't know what the new process should look like. I don't know if we should even make any changes. But I think it is appropriate that, after the frequency coordination system has been in place for the number of years, we at least talk about the process.
This is not an FCC meeting. It is your meeting. I am here as an observer. I am here to try to answer your questions. We are not going to resolve all the answers today, but we can certainly determine what the problems are and at least set a course to change those things that need to be changed.
When the current system was put in place, none of us knew whether it would work. It has worked because you people in this room made it work, not because we back in Washington had created such visionary rules. Now that your program has matured, let's put the finishing touches on it.
Nothing that I am suggesting in any way removes any autonomy that you currently have, but it gives you some protection. It adds no technical complications, but it does give some incentives and rewards.
I would like to open these thoughts up to general discussion. I have no preconceived notions on what the outcome of today will be or where we will be headed. But I am delighted that you have taken time from your schedules to be here, and that you have shown so much interest in this matter that you would come to St. Louis on a Saturday.
I would like ask that we try to stay focused. In talking to you, I know that a number of you in this room have lots of other concerns. Enforcement. Changes in the Volunteer Exam Program. But that is not what today's meeting is about. Today's meeting is about frequency coordination. It's an opportunity for you to get to know each other and to bring frequency coordination to a higher plateau.
So, during the day, let's stay focused on the real issues of why we are here. Let's not get sidetracked on other issues that can easily take up the day. Lets stay focused on frequency coordination.
This is a truly historic day in the history of amateur radio. It's your meeting though, so please take advantage of it and lets make the most of the time that we have together.
Thank you."
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The nations repeater frequency coordinators have met with the ARRL and the FCC in St. Charles, Missouri. It was a politically charged meeting that has changed the face of VHF operation forever. This is because there is now a tentative agreement by which the American Radio Relay League has tentatively agreed, subject to board approval, to represent the nations coordinators to the FCC. This, in exchange for the commission recognizing the work of the coordinators and possibly making their decisions binding on the ham radio community.
The meeting was held at the Best Western Noah's Ark motor hotel not far from the St. Louis Airport. About fifty of the nations sixty five recognized repeater coordinators were present. Also in the room were representatives of packet radio, amateur television and other modes that use the VHF and UHF spectrum, but from the outset it was made clear that this meeting was to discuss the problems of FM voice repeater coordination only. Even though he was there unofficially, the tone of the meeting was set by the keynote speaker Ralph Haller, N4RH, Deputy Chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau:
"I'm particularly delighted that all of you have taken time from your schedules to be here and you have shown so much interest in this matter, that you would come to St. Louis on a Saturday.
I would like to ask that we try to stay focused. In talking to you, I know a number of you in this room have lots of other concerns. Enforcement, changes in the volunteer examine program, but that is not what today's meeting is about. Today's meeting is to talk about frequency coordination. An opportunity to get to really get to know each other. And it's an opportunity to bring frequency coordination to yet a higher plateau. So during the day let's stay focused on the real issue of why we are here. Let's not get side tracked on other issues that can easily take up the day. Let's stay focused on frequency coordination. This is a truly historic day in the history of Amateur Radio." Haller, N4RH.
Historic yes, but not without its problems. For a while, the entire proceeding seemed to be slipping away as the political differences between various coordinators and between some coordinators and the ARRL took center stage. As a result, much of the early discussion derailed into matters of finite detail rather than the general picture that Haller had requested. So, not unlike other legislative bodies in a state of conflict, the group recessed. It was when the meeting reconvened that headway began. Owen Wormser, K6LEW, the president of the Mid Atlantic Repeater Council was the person who brought it back on track:
"For the sake of a beginning can we agree that those that are listed in the current ARRL Repeater Directory as coordinators for their specific areas etc. are in fact the baseline from which we can begin. Perhaps, but not the final solution, perhaps not the end of it, but can we agree that that is at least the beginning. Because where the next point goes is, if that is agreed then we have something else to say. And that is that in the longer term our objective is to produce the white paper which will be delivered by a committee from this organization. Not an ad hoc committee. This is our organization. So our committee will deliver to Mr. Haller the white paper. That white paper out of our consensus down stairs will address the specificity of a single point of contact, an organization, not a single individual paralleling very closely the commercial representation to the FCC in the form of a single point of contact. And that in order to get some recognized coordinators to single point of contact, there is a lot of specificity that must be put into this white paper." Wormser, K6LEW
Owen Wormser set the stage for the group to arrive at a consensus, but it would be many more hours before this would happen. A turning point came with the comments of Jim Fortney, K6IYK, who chairs Southern California's 220 MHz Spectrum Management Association. If Owen Wormser gave the assemblage its direction, it was Jim Fortney that added purpose:
"It has become very clear to me and I hope it would be clear to the majority of the rest of you, that the environment that the FCC finds itself in no longer allows us to use the methods and techniques that we have used in the past to deal with them. And that in fact that we better look at some new approaches. And one of those approaches that is being used elsewhere and has been suggested from a variety of directions that would be advantageous to us is if we, and I am talking about amateur radio, not repeater coordination necessarily, but amateur radio in total, we amateur radio had someone who represented us to the FCC." Fortney
Discussions and debates lasted another four hours. In the end it was decided to name the American Radio Relay League as the single point of contact, or spoc, between the nations frequency coordinators and the FCC. A committee chaired by Owen Wormser, K6LEW was empowered to draft a white paper setting forth the goals of the spoc. This paper will be circulated to all the nations recognized frequency coordinators listed in the ARRL repeater directory for comment before a final version is submitted. All of this seemed to please the FCC's Haller:
"Clearly this afternoon, I think tremendous progress has been made. And I look forward to continuing to work with this group and your representatives who will ultimately be working with us directly in Washington. I think this is a giant move forward for Amateur Radio and I think it says a lot that all of you come here with such diverse views and in the course of a few short hours reach this kind of consensus." Haller
There is still a lot to be done before recognition of the work of coordinators becomes reality. Two of the biggest hurdles are drafting a white paper acceptable to most coordinators and for the ARRL's Board of Directors to vote on whether or not it really wants the spoc job. The latter will happen in mid January.
But assuming both of these tasks are accomplished, it may eventually mean that the average ham, people like you and me who simply operate FM with a mobile rig or an HT can be assured that the day of the so-called pirate repeater will come to an end. That our ability to communicate through our favorite repeater with a minimum of interference from another uncoordinated and unwanted repeater on the same channel pair, will be assured. And from a users point of view, what more can an FM enthusiast want.
Also making news in St. Charles is an announcement by the giant Mid America Coordination Council. The big MACC, as it has become known, has swallowed up two more regions. Not surprising was the decision by Eastern Washington state and the Idaho Panhandle to fall under the MACC umbrella. What caught everyone by surprise was an announcement by California's Northern Amateur Relay Council that it too was joining MACC. Don Smith, W6NKF, the President of NARC says its time that hams in California drop their isolationist policies:
"The way that coordination and everything else is going to go. If we have a united front, we have a better of than if we are a bunch of splinters. And I think we need, in this point in time, a united front." Smith
Does this mean that Southern California is next? Probably not. This is because frequency coordination in Southern California is by several different organizations acting as caretakers for various repeater subbands. Also, there is the turmoil on two meters as to who really is the frequency coordinator with nine groups challenging the long term coordinator for that position. Southern California will have to solve a lot of regional problems before any umbrella group will bother to give it an ear.
Meantime, the Mid America Coordination Council is now a consortium of 22 amateur radio frequency coordination entities serving 18 states and portions of 3 others. Each entity is autonomous within the MACC organization with all MACC frequency coordination policies and guidelines being advisory only. In addition to providing mutual recognition of frequency coordinators, MACC provides in house technical assistance and dispute mediation to those regions and entities requesting such services.
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By krys January 5, 2012
I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way: I hate carpet. An area rug here and there is one thing, but wall-to-wall carpet throughout the home (with the exception of the kitchen and bathroom, of course) has really started to drive me crazy. Our last place had hardwood floors, and I miss them dearly. We have already made a vow to never move into a place again with carpet. In the meantime, though, I just need to make the best of it and try to make it look as nice as I possibly can.


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Over the weekend, the CEO and chairman of RadiumOne, Gurbaksh Chahal, was fired from the company he founded.
The board opted to remove him after the Internet exploded when Chahal pleaded guilty to one count of domestic-violence battery and one count of battery. He had also allegedly hit a former girlfriend 117 times in half an hour in August, and the alleged incident had been recorded on security cameras.
Chahal says that while he lost his temper with his former girlfriend, Juliet Kakish, he didn't hit her 117 times. He also says that he became angry when he learned she was "having unprotected sex for money with other people."
Kakish has not made public statements throughout the controversy. In a blog post over the weekend, Chahal claims she was "appalled by the false allegations made by the police." Ultimately, Chahal avoided jail and got all 45 felony charges against him dropped.
Kakish is a cosmetologist who owns a salon in Los Angeles; she has not commented on Chahal's prostitution claims.
This isn't the only legal battle for Chahal. Last summer, Chahal sued his executive assistant, Rafael Rojas, and his driver, Erdogan Aksu, accusing them of embezzling significant sums of money from him and defaming him by alleging he'd engaged in immoral conduct.
Chahal asked to have the suit dismissed in August, indicating it may have been settled, but there were a number of interesting court documents filed while the litigation was still active.
One court filing by Chahal indicates that Rojas warned board members that the RadiumOne CEO was participating in a number of "illegal activities," including prostitution.
The email was sent to RadiumOne board member Bill Lonergan, who is now CEO of the company, on June 9, 2013. Here's an excerpt from the email, which was included in Chahal's court filing (the full thing is below):
"As you know Gurbaksh has pushed the line before, particularly with prostitutes. But now like I told you he is getting into drug use, including trying to get me to get him Adderall and other drugs illegally. He has also tried to get me to drug girls (without them knowing) so to make sure they don't get pregnant."
Chahal denied those allegations, telling the court in his filing:
"The remarks contained in this [email] correspondence, specifically those about illegal drug use, prostitution and theft of intellectual property, are not true but are a cover-up to where the actual funds went. They are also defamatory statements intended to attack my credibility and reputation within the company and elsewhere."
It's not clear that there's any tie between this lawsuit and the alleged incident with Juliet Kakish that happened later that summer. When Chahal was arrested last summer, Kakish reportedly told police Chahal had beaten her prior to his Aug. 5 arrest, and that he busted her lip on July 4, 2013. A civil lawsuit against Rojas and Aksu seems to have been dismissed on July 5, 2013.
Here's the email Rojas sent to Lonergan, as well as Chahal's response. Chahal, Rojas, and Lonergan have not immediately responded to requests for comment.
And here's how Chahal responded once Lonergan presumably forwarded him the email:


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The 10th annual Block Kids event will take place at noon on Saturday, Jan. 28, in room S102 of the Pittsburg State Kansas Technology Center.
Free and open to the first 100 students in grades first through sixth, the event challenges kids to build, in one hour, a construction-industry-related project using building blocks.
Registration opens at noon, and the contest will commence around 12:45 p.m. The winners will be announced shortly before 3 p.m.
Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place in each class. An overall prize also will be awarded. Dennis Audo, assistant professor in the School of Construction, said each prize will relate to the construction industry.
"This is a fun event for the kids, and it just keeps getting more popular by the year," Audo said. "We want to expose the kids to the field of construction and have a good time while we're at it. The prizes will include things like age-appropriate tools and toolboxes."
Block Kids is a free event conducted by the National Association of Women in Construction Chapter 120 and the Pitt State School of Construction.


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Dear Slice: 'How the NYC Trip Turned Out'
Slice mail answered.
As you may recall, "TJ" wrote in for some Slice advice on where to eat pizza during a trip to the NYC area. Here's a followup from his trip. --The Mgmt.
I was only able to get to Di Fara. What an experience—very, very good pizza, but not nearly the best ever. Enjoyed the experience. I did not like that they par-bake the square pies in advance, and though they are a better value purely in terms of amount of food for your dollar, all three of us present vastly preferred the round pie. [Me, too. —The Mgmt.]
I did during this trip encounter the very best pizza I have ever eaten—at Frank Pepe's. I did consider your advice and we did indeed walk down to the street to Sally's, but Sally's is closed on the day of our arrival—Monday—making the choice of Pepe's much easier. Just out-freaking standing. The three pies we had now occupy the number 1, 2, and 3 spots of best pizzas I have ever had.
Aside for AHT—I know that the Luger burger is loved by many and not so much by others. Put me 101% in the former camp. I did indeed find as many have that they don't seem to cook it to the right spec—my medium-rare came out more medium to medium-well—but it was nonetheless the best burger I have ever eaten, and one of my fellow diners concurred wholeheartedly. That, and for 10 bucks, one of the best values around.
So—I intend to get the family over to NYC in the next 2 to 3 years, and Patsy's is next on my list—and a return to Luger's.
Finally, thanks again for all the help. Slice and AHT are daily must-reads for me and they always will be.
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Being Alive
(from "Company")arr. Mac Huff - Hal Leonard Corporation
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From the 1970 Broadway musical "Company," this is the Act II "summing up" number sung by the character Robert, who finally learns that "alone is alone, not alive." Set over a chaconne-like ostinato accompaniment, the melody builds from an introspective solo line into full-voiced, dramatic choral harmonies. This deeply moving song from one of the most enduring works of modern musical theater is a top choice for treble, male or mixed choirs!
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John Hunt publishing is ahead of its time. What I love about John Hunt Publishing is its transparency. I published my first book with John Hunt Publishing and I have now had 6 books published them. I am completely happy with all aspects of this business which is why I have stayed with this company. Hilary H. Carter.
Mentoring has been an absolutely invaluable help in getting my book ready for publishing. It can be difficult to spot mistakes and even trickier to know how to change them, but Maria Moloney is excellent at doing both! It's clear how much work she puts into the edits, and I liked how she explained her reasons for changing things so that I knew how to correct similar errors later on. Thank you! Mary Johnson author of Boundary (Lodestone Books).
John Hunt Publishing has been such a fabulous experience with immediate results. My first book hit #2 in Beauty and Fashion category on Amazon and received International attention on news wires, websites and a mention in their quarterly newsletter. The book cover design is exceptional, while the production process is effective and speedy. But most of all their marketing team is incredible! Machel Shull, Middle Age Beauty (Ayni Books).
JHP makes available more information to its authors - print runs, monthly sales figures, marketing initiatives etc. - than probably any other publisher. It also pays royalties promptly when due. JHP has published two titles for me, and I'm very pleased with the result. Tim Heaton, author of, Long Road to Heaven and The Naturalist and the Christ (Circle Books).
Having come from another publisher, I found JHP's approach to publishing a breath of fresh air. The whole production process is entirely transparent (and what a relief this is); all the dates, stages, missing pieces etc etc are on the company database visible equally to author and production team alike. No more wondering. No more need for phone calls to the publisher which begin, 'didn't we agree that....' All in all, an intelligent system intelligently run by committed professionals: it works. Michael Tobert, author of Cryptogram (Cosmic Egg Books).
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JHP is a straightforward, honest, and helpful publisher for an author. With two books accepted by them and many questions, JHP has always responded very promptly and been extremely helpful. Barbara Tako, author of Cancer Survivorship Coping Tools (Ayni Books) and Clutter Clearing Choices (O Books).
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will give Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's administration around $100 million (63 million pounds) in tax revenues that had been withheld in retaliation for his statehood bid in the United Nations, Israeli officials said on Wednesday.
The sum is roughly a third of the funds Israel is meant to have transferred to the Palestinian Authority (PA) since November under interim peace accords, but has instead kept.
Israeli officials describe the handover as a one-time deal, signalling rightist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not formally scrapped sanctions that have hurt the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank and worried world powers.
The decision follows surprise setbacks for Netanyahu in a national election this month that, while giving him enough of a lead to head the next Israeli government, also set the stage for more moderate statecraft by boosting centrist challengers whom he must now consider as coalition partners.
Israel collects some $100 million a month in duties on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, money Abbas badly needs to pay public sector salaries. It began withholding the funds after Abbas, sidestepping stalled diplomacy, secured a Palestinian status upgrade at the United Nations in November.
PA tax authority official Ahmed al-Helou told Reuters that Israel spent the October levies to help pay off $200 million it says the Palestinians owe the Israel Electric Corporation.
Israel said last month it would withhold revenues from the PA until March at least.
The PA's economic troubles were raised this week in a meeting between Netanyahu and Tony Blair, peace envoy for the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia, an Israeli official said.
Following those talks, the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity, "we have agreed to transfer one month's payment, because of the difficult financial situation there."
"This is a one-time decision and there is no decision yet on what will happen next," the official said.
Al-Helou said he expected Israel to renew normal payments in mid-February, when the Palestinians hope to get back $114 million owed from December.
An Israeli Finance Ministry spokeswoman said she knew of no such decision. The handover of money announced on Wednesday, she said, represented January's levies.
Asked when the $100 million payment would be made, the spokeswoman said "possibly as soon as today".
Israel has previously frozen payments to the PA during times of heightened security and diplomatic tensions, provoking strong international criticism, such as when the U.N. cultural body UNESCO granted the Palestinians full membership in 2011.
Abbas's U.N. victory was a diplomatic setback for the United States and Israel, which were joined by only seven other countries in voting against upgrading the Palestinians' observer status to "non-member state", like the Vatican, from "entity".
Hours after the U.N. vote, Israel said it would authorise 3,000 new settler homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and expedite plans for thousands more in a sensitive area close to Jerusalem. Critics say these plans would kill off Palestinian hopes of a viable state.
Netanyahu's government looks likely to be replaced with a coalition more accommodating of the Palestinians. The runners-up in the January 22 vote, the centrist Yesh Atid and left-leaning Labour parties, both demand Israel try to revive stalled peacemaking.
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Goldeyes Spoil Canaries' Second Straight Sellout with 11-3 Victory
SIOUX FALLS, SD -- A sellout crowd turned out for the second consecutive night at Sioux Falls Stadium, but the Winnipeg Goldeyes beat the Sioux Falls Canaries with an 11-3 victory.
The Goldeyes remained 1 ½ games behind Gary SouthShore in the wildcard race while clinching the three-game series before 4,656 fans at the Birdcage.
Josh Mazzola opened the game's scoring with an RBI single in the top of the second inning, and Casey Haerther made it 2-0 while grounding into a double play. Winnipeg (51-41) led the entire way after that, piling up nine more runs in the middle three innings.
Canaries starter Adam Champion (6-10) was roughed up for the loss, allowing a season-high 11 runs and 13 hits in six innings. He walked three and struck out two.
The Canaries (38-54) had no trouble putting runners on base with 14 hits, but they stranded 15 men, including 10 in scoring position. Every man in the lineup had a least one hit. Reggie Abercrombie, J.P. Ramirez, Marcos Rodriguez and Anthony Trajano all had multi-hit nights.
For Winnipeg, Haerther was 2-for-4 with four RBI.
Despite giving up nine hits, Chris Salamida (6-0) held the Canaries to one run in six innings to notch his sixth win in seven starts. He walked one and struck out two.
The finale of the series is at 1:05 p.m. on Sunday at Sioux Falls Stadium.
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Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
The Initial Training Networks (ITN), part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, offer early-stage researchers (ESR) the opportunity to improve their research skills, join established research teams and enhance their career prospects.
What' s in it for young researchers?
European Training Networks (ETN):
It takes two to tango but three to network. So, at least three participants from different countries (preferably up to 10) join together to propose a coherent programme for an ETN. The participants can be public or private universities, research organisations but also private companies, NGOs and international organisations. Each beneficiary must recruit and host at least one ESR and the involvement of organisation from different sectors is essential.
European Industrial Doctorates (EID):
In the case of an EID, only two participants from different countries are needed: one academic participant and one participant from the private sector. However, one of the conditions is that the researcher will have to be enrolled in a doctoral programme of the academic participant. The researcher will also spend at least 50 % of his/her time within the private sector.
Joint Doctoral Programmes (JDP):
At least three beneficiaries established in different countries join together to create a joint doctoral programme. They award a joint doctoral degree and share the recruitment of the researcher.
What does the funding cover?
All Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions have a bottom-up approach, including all domains of research and technological development. Applicants should make appropriate reference to interdisciplinary and newly emerging supra-disciplinary fields in their proposal.
Successful researchers are recruited for a period between 3 and 36 months.
Who can apply?
Organisations can submit their proposals through the Participant portal. Please note that individual researchers are not eligible to submit a proposal for this call.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are part of Horizon 2020, the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020).
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We've talked about magazines this past year until we were blue in the face. We've mourned them all: Cottage Living, domino, Country Home, House and Garden, Western Interiors, Home Companion, Vogue Living, Blueprint, O at Home, shall I go on? Southern Accents. It hurts just to type that one. But for all those that are now gone – the ones left are mostly wonderful: House Beautiful continues to amaze each month, it just gets better and better under Stephen Drucker's leadership, and Elle Decor is now the elder stateswoman – having just celebrated her 20th year in publication. Veranda has shed its southern beat and is going national while World of Interiors is full of either fabulous quirky houses or even more fabulous castles. And of course the British and French design magazines have always been worth their high price tag. Rumor has it that while national magazines are dropping off like flies, the regional and local design mags are doing just fine. But still, would you be just a little half crazy to launch a magazine in this current climate? Just ask Dot and Dana, the dynamic mother-daughter team who are doing just that with their baby, Antiques Shops & Designers. Published by a veteran in the business, Alexander Molinello, the fourth issue of AS&D has just reached the stands and it's their best effort yet. Although it's based out of Houston, you don't need to be a Texan to enjoy it, all you need to be is a lover of design, antiques, arts, travel, and food. Dot and Dana, as they are affectionately called around town, have all those subjects covered, thank you very much! AS&D is a true family affair: Dot Dimiero, President, and her daughter Dana Aichler, Vice President are joined in the venture by another daughter, Lori Johnston, as Executive Sales Director/Writer and her husband, Doug Johnson, Historian. For the most part, the writers are local – designers, antiquarians, artisans, restaurateurs, and even a blogger! Yes, yours truly is now on the official list of "Writers and Contributors."
Dot and Dana – and don't ask which one is the mother and which one is the daughter! It's hard to tell, they are both so darling!
When they aren't busy running the magazine, Dot and Dana head Twenty Six Twenty, a charming antique store filled with European antiques and a well edited collection of objets d'art. Besides the shop, Dot and Dana have also been busy with e-Antiquing.com – an online marketplace for dealers to sell their wares. Be sure to visit it HERE. But for right now, Dot and Dana's main focus is the magazine. They know the local design scene well which works in their favor when choosing topics to cover: each issue highlights just the house you want to see the inside of. AS&D is truly a perfect reference manual – a sort of address book of the best of the best in the design business, be it art restorers or landscapers, painters or decorators. But beyond all that – the magazine is just plain beautiful, true visual eye candy where the ads are lingered over and studied as works of art themselves. Nowhere are advertisements any prettier than here - photographer James Farmer, himself a well known artisan, is responsible for all the mouth watering images. As an avid fan of AS&D ---I was thrilled when Dot and Dana asked me to join them in their exciting venture and, to date I contributed articles for the last two issues. I've been on pins and needles waiting for the online version of AS&D to go live so I could share it with you and it finally has! What this all means is that now no matter where you live in the world, you can enjoy the magazine too. To read the newest issue and any of the previous ones – go HERE. Below are a few of my favorite images from the latest issue. Enjoy!
Bill Gardner
What can you say when the ads are just as good as the articles? AS&D is known for their beautiful ads, many of which showcase local interior designers and antique stores. Bill Gardner, one of Houston's top antique dealers, had his own house featured in issue #1. Gardner is also on 1st Dibs.
Carol Glasser
OK, OK – I know I talk about Carol Glasser a lot – but do you blame me? I mean – look at this ad!!! Is this not the most gorgeous image? Leave it to Carol to get every detail so perfect which is exactly why her style is sought after. That mirror! That wallpaper! That console – isn't it to die for, I could cry it is so beautiful! The blue and white is divine – it's the real thing, not that cheap stuff I have all over my house. Note to self: get some REAL blue and white, will you please? Enough of that junk you buy at Hobby Lobby – you really aren't fooling anyone, you know? Dufus! OK. Back to Carol Glasser's perfection. Those roses, can we talk about the roses with their divine shade of cream that matches the cream in the wallpaper, only Carol would think to do that. I would have used pink or lilac roses, but what do I know? I buy blue and white at Hobby Lobby for God's sakes! And finally (I really couldn't take much more to tell you the truth) – that candlestick. The lovely water gilded lone candlestick – not two, just one. And notice the candle, the shade of the taper. Glorious! Even the name of her company is perfect: Carol Glasser. Interiors. You should see her card stock. If you can afford Glasser and you don't hire her, you are a fool!
OK, OK - I'm not quite done yet. I wonder if this picture was taken at Glasser's new house? If you have been LUCKY enough to visit it, leave me a comment and put me out of my misery. Because I'm in misery right now. If I could be one person other than my own dufusness, it would be Glasser. Oh yes, of course, she is beautiful too! Could you hate her?
Jane Moore
Jane Moore, sweet Jane Moore – another fine interior designer from Houston with a cute as can be shop where she specializes in Swedish and French antiques with wonderful painted finishes. I'm liking that mirror, and the console, and the sconces. Moore's wonderful kitchen is featured in this month's issue – here's a sneak peek:
Jane Moore's kitchen – yes, this is not an antique store, it's a kitchen, is in her new house, right down the street from her office/shop. You see, this is how the most creative of Houston's designers live – they live out people like me's fantasies. If you read about someone bombing their kitchen in West University, you can assume it will be my kitchen, even though I just remodeled it. Seeing this image of Moore's kitchen just proves I have a lot left to learn. I might even learn to cook if this was my kitchen! Besides her life as an interior designer and shop owner, Moore is active in her daughter's business, Wisteria, where she helps find and develop their fabulous merchandise.
Twenty Six Twenty Antique Store
Dot and Dana's own ad for their shop Twenty Six Twenty. Dana also has a pillow business where she creates pillows out of antique textiles – to see her wares go here.
Caroline Ellsworth's Advertisment
Caroline Ellsworth sells her antiques at Twenty Six Twenty. I'm in love with that table! And I'm wondering if I have a place for that armoire? (I'm dreaming here – go with it!)
Marburger Farm Antique Show
Round Top is just around the corner and this image from Marburger Farm is making me wish Round Top was this weekend! I spy a million things I could use in this booth!
Home Staging
I love this ad – two designers who do home staging. This sure doesn't look like the home staging I've seen on HGTV! I don't know who the designers are, but their work is beautiful!
The Fab Flea
Readers of Cote de Texas are familiar with The Fabulous Flea and know all about my futile attempts to take pictures inside Mary's fab house – but Dot and Dana were more lucky than I was! Here is just one of the pictures of Mary's house from the new issue – the kitchen. And of course it's fabulous! Notice the light fixture – I love that! btw, The Fab Flea has a new shipment in. To make an appointment to see it, go HERE.
Pat Monroe Antiques Advertisement
Another ad that made me stop and gaze awhile is Pat Monroe's from Austin's Whit Hanks. Pat has a wonderful array of antiques and I try to stop by her space each time I'm in town.
Chateau Domingue
In the new issue, there's a large article on Ruth Gay's Chateau Domingue which is not to be missed. Ruth's eye is incredible and her shop is a must see, especially if you are remodeling or building.
Found For the Home
Found always has the best ads! I love that framed sign – they are so hot right now! Leave it to Aaron and Ruth to have just what everyone is looking for. And notice the light fixture that they create – perfect to mix in with dressy antiques.
Segreto Finishes
Leslie Sinclair whose company Segreto Finishes does the best faux painting in town, is also a contributor. You may remember that Segreto did all the painted finishes in the famous Octagon House, HERE.
What's this? Story by Joni Webb?
Yep, that's me! In Issue 3, I wrote two stories for Antique Shops & Designers and Dot and Dana were nice enough to have me back. For Issue 4, I interviewed famous Houston restaurant owner Elouise Adams, aka Ouisie, to accompany the pictures of her incredible steel house.
And I also wrote another, personal story "To Clutter or Not to Clutter" for the "back page." I've been told that may become a regular feature, believe or not! To read the article go HERE and to read the entire magazine, go HERE.
And finally, a special thank to you Dot, Dana and Alexander for inviting me to be a part of your magazine – I am more than flattered and am sincerely very appreciative of your support!


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Spend some time listening to Mix 106.5 recently and you'll likely hear an unshakable Bruno Mars hook, Taylor Swift's surprising dubstep leanings and even Britney Spears' voice on a will.i.am song.
But in a twist that could only happen in a football-crazed city like Baltimore, you will likely also hear motivational soundbites from Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis' laid over a Phil Collins classic.
While Ravens fans probably don't need more hype or motivation going into Saturday's playoff game in Denver, the mash-up (using Collins' "In the Air Tonight") has become -- unsurprisingly, given the circumstances -- a hit on Mix 106.5. You can download the track here.
Talking to CBS Baltimore about his creation, Jon Boesche (a member of the morning show team) said: "The reaction has been incredible, bigger than I thought. Somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 hits on our pages, it's just been crazy."
Last Wednesday, Lewis -- who has played for the Ravens for his entire 17-year career -- announced that he would retire at the end of this season. Last Sunday's AFC Wild Card win over the Indianapolis Colts was Lewis' first since returning from a torn triceps injury.
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An Ohio woman involved in a classroom brawl with a teenage girl accused of bullying her daughter was sentenced to probation Friday after being convicted of assault but acquitted of trespassing at the school.
CINCINNATI (AP) ? An Ohio woman involved in a classroom brawl with a teenage girl accused of bullying her daughter was sentenced to probation Friday after being convicted of assault but acquitted of trespassing at the school.
Jurors reached that unanimous verdict after three days of testimony in the trial of Precious Allen, who had pleaded not guilty in the Feb. 7 fracas also involving her daughter and a 15-year-old girl at Withrow High School in Cincinnati.
Judge Melissa Powers said Allen, 31, could face up to six months in jail if she violates the terms of her probation. Allen could have faced a year of jail time if convicted on both counts.
"I respect the judge and the jurors, and I'm grateful for them listening to my story," Allen told The Associated Press after the verdict was read. "I thought everything was fairly done."
Allen said she'll now focus on work and family, and said her daughter is doing fine in another school. "She's grateful to have her mom home with her ? she cried full of joy," Allen said.
Allen's attorney, Eric Deters, said he was pleased with the verdict and that Powers' sentence was "justice and mercy."
"Judge Powers got to hear, during the course of the trial, that she's in a lot of pain emotionally, she lost her job, she was publicly humiliated and she's got five children," he said. "She's probably a classic example of someone that deserves a shot at probation."
Deters said that "the jury was obviously convinced that she shouldn't have been in that room."
"She admits, if she had to do it over again, she wouldn't have gone in the room and gotten herself in a pickle," he said.
In finding Allen guilty of assault, jurors agreed with prosecutors that she knowingly caused or helped cause harm to the 15-year-old. In rejecting the trespassing charge, jurors sided with defense attorneys that Allen likely did not go to the school that day intending to commit an assault.
When she testified earlier Friday, Allen tearfully told jurors that the 15-year-old girl had been bullying her daughter and started the fight by cursing at her, calling her names and shoving her face with an open hand, knocking her down.
"I was shocked when she did it and I fell back," Allen said. Before she knew it, her daughter and the other teen were fighting, she said.
She said she immediately yanked her daughter away and took her into the hallway, after which the other teen "burst through then swinging."
Allen's daughter testified that she didn't want to get in a fight that day but that she hit the 15-year-old girl because the teen had hit her mother first.
The other teen testified Thursday that Allen's daughter is the one who hit her first, and that Allen soon joined the fray.
In closing arguments, prosecutor Eric Cook criticized Allen's statements that she was only at the school to withdraw her daughter from classes and pick up her things.
"This parent acted like a child," Cook said. "Each step she had a chance to act like an adult and step back."
Deters told jurors that it makes no sense that Allen would want to fight the 15-year-old that day, since she was in a hurry to get to work and didn't even know the other teen was in the classroom.
Deters also said it defies logic that Allen would plan to cause a fight at a public school with surveillance cameras and in front of a teacher and students, and where a police officer always is nearby.
"Precious is not some crazy parent," he said.
In three days of testimony, Allen and the six other witnesses offered differing accounts of the fight.
Two teenagers testified for the prosecution on Thursday, painting Allen and her daughter as the instigators. But under cross-examination, Deters pointed out that their own handwritten statements after the brawl said that the 15-year-old hit Allen first.
A police officer testified that now-missing surveillance video of part of the fight showed Allen grabbing the 15-year-old and slamming her to the ground. The teacher who was in the hallway at the time and the two teenage witnesses said they never saw that.
Deters suggested the surveillance video was deleted intentionally because it showed that the alleged victim was the aggressor. Allen has filed a still-pending federal lawsuit against police and the school over the missing video.


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AVONDALE, Ariz. - Another Nationwide Series race, another Kyle Busch win.
Busch picked up his 12th win of the season Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway, leading a race-high 169 laps. Now, a year after he went winless in the Nationwide Series, Busc
AVONDALE, Ariz. - Another Nationwide Series race, another Kyle Busch win.
Busch picked up his 12th win of the season Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway, leading a race-high 169 laps. Now, a year after he went winless in the Nationwide Series, Busch can match his career best 13-win 2010 season with a victory in next week's finale at Homestead.
"Just looking forward to the rest of this year, there's only one more left," said Busch, who has a record 63 victories in the series. "We look forward to going to Homestead, that's a place we've run well in the past in the Nationwide cars. This year we need to lead the most laps and win the race to have a shot at winning the owners' championship."
Busch's victory, coupled with Brad Keselowski's 19th-place finish, sliced Penske Racing's lead in the race for the owner championship to four points over Joe Gibbs Racing. Keselowski's day was ruined when contact from Brian Scott sent him spinning into the wall.
"Just disappointed for Roger Penske," said Keselowski, who will turn the car over to Joey Logano at Homestead. "Some things you can control, some things you can't. That was just a situation with no control."
Busch took no joy in Keselowski's trouble.
"I hate it that he had trouble when both of us are racing well and racing potentially for a win together," Busch said.
The battle for the more prolific driver championship stayed close, too, as Austin Dillon finished third to maintain his points lead over Sam Hornish Jr. Dillon takes an eight-point lead over Hornish into the finale, but it could have been more if he had not been caught for second place by Justin Allgaier on the final lap.
Dillon wasn't pleased with Allgaier and leaned inside his window for a chat after the race.
"They are going to race hard, it's just in the nature of race car drivers," Dillon said. "I can't get too upset. It's just we're running for a championship."
Hornish was satisfied with his finish considering how hard his Penske crew worked to make his ill-handing car manageable to drive.
"It wasn't a fifth-place car, so to be able to get a fifth-place out of it was really good," Hornish said. "Eight points is a little bit more than I would like to have to overcome, but from the time that the race started today until lap 200, it's better than I thought it was going to be, so I'm real happy with the determination that everybody put up."


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Plastic dreams: synthetic visions in design
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Over the past 150 years, the role of plastics within the field of design has been fundamental to the development of the manmade environment. Synthetic polymers have quite literally molded the modern world, transforming utopian dreams into three-dimensional realities. Indeed, the impact of plastics has been felt in every area of human life, from healthcare and food distribution to communications, transportation and financial transactions. Plastic Dreams: Synthetic Visions in Designtells the fascinating story of these truly wondrous materials, charting their evolution from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, across a huge range of landmark product types, from Wells Coates' iconic AD 65 radio to Konstantin Grcic's MYTO stacking chair, and from Bakelite in the 1920s to today's latest techno-polymers. A fully illustrated reference resource, this volume raises our aesthetic perception of plastics and celebrates their nobility as materials. An introductory essay traces the fascinating history of plastics and assesses their decisive role in industrial design, while an extensive glossary of materials and processes will help the plastics neophyte distinguish their Jaxonite and Xylonite from their polyethylene and ABS. As a final design flourish, Plastic Dreamscomes with a specially designed orange plastic slipcase by Edson Matsuo of Melissa.
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Mennonite farm, Christian County, KY
This set of new farm buildings belongs to a Mennonite family. It's one of dozens that have sprung up around Christian County (KY) in the twenty years that we've lived here. This farmstead has appeared in the last year or two along Pilot Rock Road. The low, wide building at right is probably a dairy barn. The big, square, 2-story house is classic Mennonite architecture -- utilitarian, no waste on ornamentation.
Everything in the photo is not new, though. The silos and corn cribs may be 50 years old or more. The Mennonites often purchase old, unused silos and grain bins at "English" farms, tear them down, move the pieces, and rebuild them.


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The Neil C. Young Trio are "full of soul and energy" which "touches your heart and sets your hair on fire!" so says, Critical Jazz.com and Just Jazz Guitar Magazine. Neil C. Young has gained long listed Grammy nominations over the recent years with previous album releases and this year will see the latest release of original material.


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Defenders News Briefs: Spring 2010
EPA Upholds Pesticide Ban—Lions Still Imperiled
Responsible for killing millions of migratory birds, contaminating drinking water and causing health problems in exposed workers, the deadly pesticide carbofuran is no longer legal to use on U.S. food crops. Defenders fought for years to have the insecticide banned. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agreed in 2008. But the manufacturer, FMC Corporation, pressured the EPA to reverse its decision. Last October, the agency announced it would stick to its guns and a ban on food uses went into effect December 31 (although FMC is still fighting the decision). Here's the bad news: The deadly neurotoxin is still being manufactured in the United States for export and is widely used in Africa, where it is decimating already-endangered lion populations.
North Carolina Bridge Goes Nowhere
It's not the road less traveled but it could be called the road most washed out: Highway 12 across North Carolina's Pea Island. Following another wash-out caused by last fall's tropical storm Ida, Defenders is again calling for state officials to build a safer emergency route for Outer Banks residents and tourists—one that is not dependent on the section of highway running through Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. One of the country's last undeveloped barrier islands—which protect coasts from storms—Pea Island serves as habitat for sea turtles and migrating birds. They are dependent on the island's marshes, which need periodic flooding to replenish nutrients. The state spends up to $1 million a year keeping the road navigable. In 2003 government agencies agreed that a bridge bypass made sense and would be cheaper in the long run, but political pressure eroded the plan for the bridge.
Defenders Sues to Protect Water and Wildlife
Defenders called the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to task in September, announcing its intent to sue based on the agency's 26-year delay to set more stringent limits on coal ash discharges—as required under the Clean Water Act. Coal ash is a hazardous byproduct of coal-fired power plants notorious for contaminating groundwater and surface water. It has particularly devastating effects on aquatic creatures and other animals that feed on these creatures.
Defenders Receives Nature's Path Award
Nature's Path Organic Foods is helping Defenders of Wildlife continue on its path to protect endangered species by awarding Defenders a 2009 EnviroKidz Giving Back Award. The award goes to nonprofits that work to help endangered species and their habitat. Says company president and founder Arran Stephens: "We are extremely proud to be able to give back to this dedicated and hard-working group and are grateful to the consumers who have supported our EnviroKidz line and made this possible."


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Secure Design Principles
Security Features Do Not Imply Security
Using one or more security features in a product does not ensure security. For example, suppose a password is to be sent from a client to the server, and you do not want an attacker to be able to eavesdrop and see the password during transmission. You can take advantage of a security feature (say, encryption) to encrypt the password at the client before sending it to the server. If the attacker eavesdrops, what she will see is encrypted bits. Yet, taking advantage of a security feature, namely encryption, does not ensure that the client/server system is secure, since there are other things that could go wrong. In particular, encrypting the client's password does not ensure protection against weak passwords. The client may choose a password that is too short or easy for the attacker to obtain. Therefore, a system's security is not solely dependent upon the utilization of security features in its design, such as the encryption of passwords, but also depends on how it is used.
Another example involves the interaction between a web client and a web server. You may decide to use SSL. SSL is the Secure Sockets Layer protocol that is used to secure communications between most web browsers and web clients. SSL allows the web client and web server to communicate over an encrypted channel with message integrity in which the client can authenticate the server. (Optionally, the server may also authenticate the client.)
import java.security.*; import javax.net.ssl.*; // ... some code excluded ... private static final int PORT = 443; private static SSLServerSocket dServerSocket; public SimpleWebServer () throws Exception { SSLServerSocketFactory factory = (SSLServerSocketFactory)SSLServerSocketFactory.getDefault(); dServerSocket = (SSLServerSocket)factory.createServerSocket(PORT); // ... some code excluded ... public void run () throws Exception { while (true) { /* Wait for a connection from a client. */ SSLSocket s = (SSLSocket)dServerSocket.accept(); // ... some code excluded ... } // ... some code excluded ...
|Some additional code is also required for the server to read a public key certificate as well as a "private" key in order for it to authenticate itself to clients that connect to it. The additional code is available from www.learnsecurity.com/ntk.
Now, for a client to connect to the server, it would connect to port 443, execute an SSL "handshake", and start exchanging HTTP messages over an authenticated, encrypted channel with message integrity in place. A browser that wants to connect to the server would use a URL such as https://yourcompany.com. The s in https signifies that an SSL connection on port 443, by default, should be used.
You may decide to take advantage of SSL as a security feature in SimpleWebServer, but using SSL does not ensure security. In fact, using SSL in the preceding code does not protect you from all the other threats (directory traversal attacks, DoS attacks, etc.), even though the client and server might communicate over an SSL connection using this code. Taking advantage of SSL security as a feature may prevent an attacker from being able to snoop on the conversation between the client and server, but it does not necessarily result in overall security, since it does not protect against other possible threats. For instance, if you did not canonicalize the pathname in the HTTP request, an attacker could steal the server's /etc/shadow file over the SSL connection. The security of a system cannot be guaranteed simply by utilizing one or more security features.
So, once you have fixed all the implementation vulnerabilities described earlier in this article and added SSL support to SimpleWebServer, is it finally secure? Probably not.6 There may very well be a few additional vulnerabilities in the code. We leave it as an exercise to the reader (that's you!) to find the extra vulnerabilities.
|In general, you don't really know that any piece of code is actually secure. You either know that it is not secure because you found some security bugs that you have not fixed yet, or it is inconclusive as to whether it is secure. You can say what you have tested for to provide a risk assessment, but that doesn't mean it is 100 percent secure. It turns out that for very small programs, it is sometimes feasible to construct mathematical proofs that the program has certain security properties. But that is mostly of theoretical interest. From a practical standpoint, it is usually impossible to say that a program or software system is secure in any absolute way-it is either insecure or the assessment is inconclusive.
Based on how much testing you have done and what you have tested for, you may be able to provide your management with a risk assessment. Generally, the more testing, and the more diverse the testing, the less risky-but all it takes is some discrete hole and all security is blown.
To quote Bruce Schneier, "Security is a process, not a product" (Schneier 2000). Security results not from using a few security features in the design of a product, but from how that product is implemented, tested, maintained, and used.
In a sense, security is similar to quality. It is often hard to design, build, and ship a product, and then attempt to make it high-quality after the fact. The quality of a product is inherent to how it is designed and built, and is evaluated based on its intended use. Such is the case with security.
The bad news about security is that an attacker may often need to find only one flaw or vulnerability to breach security. The designers of a system have a much harder job-they need to design and build to protect against all possible flaws if security is to be achieved. In addition, designing a secure system encompasses much more than incorporating security features into the system. Security features may be able to protect against specific threats, but if the software has bugs, is unreliable, or does not cover all possible corner cases, then the system may not be secure even if it has a number of security features.
- If you wanted to design an even better valet key system for an automobile, you could limit the number of miles that could be driven with the valet key (but that could introduce other safety issues-for instance, if the car would come to a dead stop upon reaching the limit).
- There have been known attacks in which attackers take control of the account used to run the web server and then exploit a vulnerability in the operating system to take control of other accounts that have more privileges. However, if there was only a vulnerability in the web server and not an additional one in the operating system, the least privilege approach would prevent the attacker from being able to obtain additional privileges.
- A root account is one that gives a system administrator complete access to all aspects of a system.
- Note that getCanonicalPath() may not work as expected in the presence of hard links.
- If robbers know that they might be given dye-laced cash, this may also serve as a deterrent, or a preventive measure, since the only way to check for dye-laced cash may be to open the briefcase. Why go through the trouble of robbing the bank if they may not be able to get usable cash? At the same time, the dye-laced cash is not a pure recovery measure, since it doesn't help the bank get the money back; it only makes it useless (in the case that real cash is in the briefcase).
- Actually, there definitely are additional vulnerabilities in SimpleWebServer-we are just being facetious.
About the Authors
Neil Daswani has served in a variety of research, development, teaching, and managerial roles at Stanford University, DoCoMo USA Labs, Yodlee, and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies). His areas of expertise include security, wireless data technology, and peer-to-peer systems. He has published extensively in these areas, frequently gives talks at industry and academic conferences, and has been granted several U.S. patents. He received a Ph.D. and a master's in computer science from Stanford University, and he currently works for Google. He earned a bachelor's in computer science with honors with distinction from Columbia University.
Christoph Kern is an information security engineer at Google and was previously a senior security architect at Yodlee, a provider of technology solutions to the financial services industry. He has extensive experience in performing security design reviews and code audits, designing and developing secure applications, and helping product managers and software engineers effectively mitigate security risks in their software products.Anita Kesavan is a freelance writer and received her M.F.A. in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She also holds a bachelor's in English from Illinois-Wesleyan University. She specializes in communicating complex technical ideas in simple, easy-to-understand language.
Source of This MaterialFoundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know
By Neil Daswani, Christoph Kern, Anita Kesavan
Published: February, 2007, Paperback: 320 pages
Published by Apress
Retail price: $39.99, eBook Price: $20.00
This material is from Chapter 3 of the book.
Reprinted with the publisher's permission.
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The purpose of the American Diabetes Association, Northern Illinois Area Day Camp is to provide a unique recreational and educational experience for children with diabetes. With guidance from the camp staff, day campers can to participate in various camping activities and develop independence and confidence in caring for their diabetes. Sharing experiences with other youngsters who have the same lifestyle encourages acceptance and promotes a positive self-image. Diabetes education sessions teach campers about nutrition, exercise, insulin, highs and lows and blood sugar testing. Children, grouped by age and activities, are supervised by trained certified health professionals and counselors.
Children are asked to bring a sack lunch each day. Snacks, milk and water are provided. Information sessions with leaders in the field of diabetes will be hosted as sharing time for parents at the start of each camp day.
The camp fee includes medical supervision, snacks, American Diabetes Association camp t-shirt, supervised program activities and most diabetes supplies.
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