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My apologies if this is a duplicate post. I tried to submit this yesterday, but never got any replies and can't find it now.
I'm contemplating a plan for NEXT winter. I would like to winter some hives in the south (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi) - up to 25 hives next winter, and possibly 100 the next. The idea would be to locate them there so that they get an earlier start with building up than they would at my home in Indiana. Then in early spring relocate them back to my home to make nucs earlier than would otherwise be possible.
Ideally, I would like to have an arrangement with some type of crop producer there that would let me keep my hives on their land in return for the pollination benefit they would recieve in the early spring, say before the end of April. The problem is, I don't have any contacts in those areas, and I don't have any idea what crops would benefit from my bees by the end of April.
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Breakfast with Doug Parker
"I really don't know what to say to you," Doug Parker began. "The part I don't know how to describe is why you're doing what you're doing." The 150+ FlyerTalkers felt the same way as they struggled to understand Parker's Darwinian philosophy about the future of the American airline industry — an oligopoly featuring permanently higher fares and restrained capacity, in which baggage fees and a la carte pricing annually deliver $400-$500 million in pure profit. "If we didn't have it, we'd be right back where we were before," he said, "barely breaking even or worse."
Parker isn't the most popular airline CEO in the FlyerTalk canon, but U.S. Airways warmly welcomed the Mega DOers to the Desert Botanical Garden, where they nibbled at a breakfast spread and drank cappuccinos (to counteract the champagne) before Parker addressed them. During final descent into PHX, we'd been scolded on the PA to "be respectful of our hosts — his name is Doug, not 'Dougie.'" But the audience was quiet and polite — or maybe just depressed after listening to Parker's worldview.
As amiably as could be, Parker laid out his bleak vision of the airline industry in which six carriers — United, Delta, American, U.S. Airways, Southwest and JetBlue — co-exist in a profitable equilibrium, one in which seat capacity is rigidly controlled to restore a measure of pricing, and consolidation continues to strip more seats out of the sky. The four things that could "screw up" this equilibrium are "loss of capacity discipline, and I don't think that's going to happen;" labor relations ("We can't give it all back"); new entrants such Virgin America ("all we'd do is spend a lot of money fighting them off") and government pressure to curb carbon emissions, leading to new taxes on aviation. Higher oil prices are less an issue than simply a fact of life, with costs being passed along to the customer.
As cynical as his formula is, it appears to be working. For the first time since industry deregulation in 1978, the airline industry is countercyclical, posting record profits while the broader economy is depressed. "Our third quarter results were the best in our company's history," he said. "What was required because of crisis is what's got us making money."
Predictably, the Mega DOers weren't exactly stirred by this call to arms. A lengthy Q&A period followed, featuring questions about when the airline will finally solve its labor issues, ending the "East/West" split (he was non-committal), international expansion (don't expect much anytime soon) and its role in the alliance. One attendee told the story of a flight last October in which she was told to "sit down and shut up" by a fight attendant during a medical emergency, and has been flying Continental ever since (from CLT to PHX, no less). Parker pleaded with her to reconsider — "You're probably waiting three hours at Houston," he said. "An hour and ten minutes," she replied — before finally resorting to "in terms of running the airline, we're doing better than they are."
But the most anticipated question came from Art Pushkin, the former U.S. Airways elite who founded what was effectively a resistance group (FFOCUS, a.k.a the "Cockroaches") before defecting to Continental and taking a hundred elites with him. By his own calculations, he has cost U.S. Airways at least $1 million since. His question: why are you alienating Chairmen by charging them for premium coach seats. Parker's answer, in a nutshell: we're selling some of them, but not all of them — and you have to get there first. "The goal is not to take them away from Chairmen and sell them to someone else — or to Chairmen. The room began to stir when Park insisted other airlines are doing the same thing — they're not — and then countered with "I know they're going to do the same thing we are." Maybe, maybe not. But no one present wanted to imagine a race to the bottom.
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Security has always been vitally important in the business world to ensure the integrity of content and transactions, to maintain privacy and confidentiality, and to make sure information is used appropriately. However, in today's web-based business environment, the means for providing that security have changed. Using physical security no longer works as well as it did in the past when all the computing resources were locked in a central computing room with all jobs submitted locally. Efforts to create a single pervasive security infrastructure do not scale effectively to the Internet, due to the heterogeneous nature of hardware and software systems and to conflicting administrative, application and security requirements. There is too much to administer, too many applications, too many variations, and too rapid a pace of technology change to design a single infrastructure to meet all requirements effectively. Extensible standards are required that can adapt to changing requirements, that can incorporate new technologies while continuing to work with legacy technologies, and that can be deployed modularly as needed without requiring use of unnecessary portions. These standards should work well together, not replicate functionality, and should fit with new technologies to enable open distributed systems, application integration and content management.
An essential requirement of new security standards is that they work naturally with content created using eXtensible Markup Language (XML). XML is being adopted widely for a growing variety of applications and types of content. It is also forming the basis for distributed system protocols to integrate applications across the Internet, such as Web Services protocols. XML languages are text based and designed to be extended and combined. It should be natural to provide integrity, confidentiality and other security benefits to entire XML documents or portions of these documents in a way that does not prevent further processing by standard XML tools [ XMLRef ]. XML Security therefore must be integrated with XML in such a way as to maintain the advantages and capabilities of XML while adding necessary security capabilities. This is especially important in XML-based protocols, such as XML Protocol (XMLProt, Simple Object Access Protocol, SOAP), that are explicitly designed to allow intermediary processing and modification of messages.
Older security technologies provide a set of core security algorithms and technologies that can be used in XML Security, but the actual formats used to implement security requirements are inappropriate for most XML Security applications. One reason is that these standards use binary formats that require specialized software for interpretation and use, even for extracting portions of the security information. A second reason is that these standards are not designed for use with XML and do not support common XML technical approaches for managing content, such as specifying content with uniform resource identifier strings (URIs) or using other XML standard definitions for locating portions of XML content (like XPath [ XPath ]). In addition, some existing security technologies assume that security-specific software will be integrated with applications to enable security. In practice, this is not always the case due to the details of custom integration.
XML Security addresses these issues by defining a common framework and processing rules that can be shared across applications using common tools, avoiding the need for extensive customization of applications to add security. XML Security reuses the concepts, algorithms and core technologies of legacy security systems while introducing changes necessary to support extensible integration with XML. This allows interoperability with a wide range of existing infrastructures and across deployments.
XML Security reduces barriers to adoption by defining the minimum modular mechanisms to obtain powerful results. By employing existing technologies and enabling use of XML paradigms and tools, XML Security minimizes the need to modify applications to meet security requirements.
This document summarizes the key XML Security technologies and provides an overview of how they fit together and with XML. It should serve as a roadmap and basis for further exploration of the related specifications. Most of the specifications are early in the definition process and are currently undergoing rapid change, so the interested reader is encouraged to turn to the specifications himself to learn the latest details.
This article assumes a basic understanding of XML and security concepts, but in order to provide a starting point, it presents a very brief introduction to those two subjects. This is followed by an overview of the following core XML Security standards:
XML languages created by different people may be combined. If you define a language for expressing addresses, for example, and I define one for purchase orders, I may reuse your address language within my purchase order language. To associate elements with the appropriate schemas and to avoid conflicting elements, XML namespaces may be used. XML namespaces associate tags with unique identifiers (URIs) and may be used to avoid ambiguity [ Namespaces ]. A well-formed XML document may be processed using general XML-aware tools, including parsers that understand the general rules of XML syntax and processing. An advantage is that use of these tools does not depend on the specific vocabulary defined in a particular document. This means that once general tools have been created they may be used for many applications of XML. This allows reuse of tools and training, another advantage of XML.
Many XML languages have already been defined, including XHTML for creating web pages, DocBook for creating technical documentation, RSS for content distribution (syndication), RDF for representing information,MathML for mathematics markup, BRML for business reports, and many others.
The following example shows a language for managing office medical records, including XML elements like <PatientRecord>, <Name> and <Diagnosis>. It also shows the use of an XML Namespace associated with a lab, to allow a <lab:Diagnosis> element that does not conflict with the office <Diagnosis> element.
Security is vital to online business. Technologies designed to meet security requirements have evolved, but the requirements have remained relatively constant. These requirements include Authentication, Authorization, Integrity, Signature, Confidentiality, Privacy and Digital Rights Management and are briefly summarized below:
Traditionally, security technologies have required applications to be security or Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) "enabled". This often involves integrating specialized security code with the application in order to meet security requirements. This created a slow, cumbersome and inflexible customization process. An alternative is to create generic XML tools and generic XML Security and then allow them to be used with a variety of XML applications. This allows generic XML Security filters to be applied to arbitrary content without requiring extensive customization for each application, reducing costs and delay.
XML Security standards provide a set of technical standards to meet security requirements. These standards are designed to conform to common XML paradigms. The XML Security standards leverage existing XML standards and also enhance XML standards as follows:
Each standard defines the XML vocabulary necessary for describing the security information required for that aspect of security, as well as the processing rules necessary to understand how to apply the standard.
Electronic signatures offer the digital equivalent of handwritten signatures and may be used for a variety of purposes such as content approval, receipt confirmation, and contract agreement. Using digital signatures makes it possible to move business workflows online, without requiring manual approval steps. This can reduce the delays, costs and inconveniences caused by geographic separation and time zone differences. Digital signatures use cryptographic techniques to construct signatures that are stronger and more portable than other techniques for creating "electronic signatures".
An XML <Signature> element may be handled in different ways, based on the desired application. It may be placed in a document apart from what is signed. This is known as a "detached" signature, and is used when signing non-XML content. When XML content is signed, the <Signature> element may be added to the XML. This is convenient, since signatures may then be bundled within the content and remain embedded with it, making it easy to keep track of them. When placed in an XML document, the <Signature> element may be added to the document being signed under the document element (an "enveloped" signature). In some cases, it is useful to place the content being signed within the <Signature> element, an example being a signature property (an "enveloping" signature).
If a signature is added to the <PatientRecord> as an enveloped signature, for example, the <Signature> element would be a child of the <PatientRecord> as follows:
When a signature is added to a document as part of the document, it changes the document. To verify the signature, it is necessary to compare the original document without the signature. The XML Digital Signature recommendation defines a mechanism for removing the <Signature> as part of the verification process.
Another possibility is to create a new XML document with a <Signature> document element and to place the signed element as a child of the <Signature> element. This is usually reserved for information associated with a signature, such as the purpose of the signature, for example:
The following concepts are central to understanding XML digital signatures:
To verify a signature, a recipient must validate each <Reference> by independently generating the same digest for the item. The verifier may use the URI to aid locating the item, and the algorithm information to know how to generate the digest. If the item has not changed, the digest should be the same.
Note that there is a single reference with URI "", meaning "this document". If only the <Account> element were to be signed, it could be referenced using the id attribute value, as follows: <Reference URI="#acct">. If there was no id attribute (perhaps signing wasn't anticipated), an XPath expression could be used, producing the following <Reference>:
The owner of content may encrypt it to make it confidential. This will make the content unintelligible until it is decrypted. Encryption is generally performed using symmetric key encryption, since this is an efficient technique even for large documents. Symmetric key encryption uses the same key for both encryption and decryption. To send confidential information to a receiver, the sender must also share the symmetric key with the recipient but not anyone else. This can be difficult without person to person contact.
To avoid this problem and make it easier to share confidential content with a number of people, asymmetric or public-key cryptography was designed. Public key cryptography uses a matched pair of keys, one for encryption and one for decryption. This allows the sender to encrypt using the recipient's public key, a key that can be shared widely. Decryption requires use of the recipient's private key, known only to them. This helps address the difficulty of establishing confidential communication. Because public key cryptography is less efficient than symmetric cryptography, they are typically used together. The symmetric key is used to encrypt the content, and then the symmetric key is encrypted using public key cryptography. Both the encrypted content and encrypted symmetric key are then sent to the recipient.To summarize, the sender may send content confidentially using the following steps:
There are additional security issues raised by XML Encryption, particularly those of "known plaintext attacks". If it is known that particular text was encrypted, such as an element (such as <Visit>, for example) it can make it easier to break the encryption. Because XML is verbose, and the names of elements may be known from the schema definition of the XML vocabulary, it is more likely that plaintext attacks are possible. As a result, additional care must be taken in choosing the encryption algorithms and their parameters to prevent use of this information from removing confidentiality.
Use of both <EncryptedData> and <EncryptedKey> elements may be summarized using the previous example where the account information is encrypted for confidentiality. Additional information on the EncryptedData and EncryptedKey portions of this example are explained in the XML Encryption candidate recommendation [ XML Enc ]:
The XML Key Management Specification (XKMS) [ XKMS ] defines protocols for Public Key management services. Public Key management includes the creation of a public and private key pair, the binding of this key pair with identity and other attributes, and the representation of this key pair in different formats, such as by key name, digital certificate or key parameters, to give some examples. Public key technology is an essential part of XML Digital Signatures, XML Encryption and other security applications. When signing, the private key is used to sign and the public key is used to verify signatures. When encrypting, the public key is used to encrypt and the private key is used to decrypt. In either case the private key must be maintained under control of the owner and the public key may be shared with others. XKMS is designed to help manage the sharing of the public key to enable signature verification and encrypting for recipients.
Public Key management usually requires a registration step in which the key pair is generated and some sort of token is issued to associate the public key with the identity and other attributes of the owner. This registration step usually incorporates some sort of due diligence to reduce the risks of associating the public key incorrectly, since people will rely upon the key pair later. Management also includes the ability to revoke the association of information with the key pair should circumstances change, such as the theft of the private key or a change in the owner's attributes (no longer an employee, for example). Likewise, information bound to the key pair may be updated. Traditionally, such bindings were managed using X.509 Digital Certificates, specialized protocols and public key infrastructures. XKMS defines XML message formats to support requests and responses for public key management, including registration, revocation and updates. This eliminates the need for applications to support other specialized public key registration and management protocols.
Once registration is complete, a public key pair may be used for signing and verification or encryption and decryption. The <KeyInfo> element defined in the XML Digital Signature recommendation may be used to provide information to the recipient of a digital signature or encrypted data block about the key needed to process that content. This information may take on a number of different forms, such as a key name, a digital certificate containing the public key, a set of key parameters, or a URI indicating where to obtain the public key. Given the variety of choices for providing information about a key to a recipient, it may be hard for an application to process and locate a key. In addition to the difficulty of anticipating all formats, some, such as X.509 certificates, require special cryptographic code and logic for processing. XKMS provides an XML message format to allow this processing to be performed by a service which will sort through the various options, determine the one that was used, and provide the key information to the recipient in a useful form.
The registration service supports the binding of information with a public key pair, either one generated by the server or by the client. The binding associates information with the key pair, creating a <KeyBinding> element. This binding may have a validity period associated with it and may be reissued or revoked. The private key associated with a key binding may also be backed up recovered if the local copy is destroyed (as when an operating system requires reinstallation).
The key information service allows a client to request information associated with a <KeyInfo> element. This may include:
The Protocol Bindings specification defines mechanisms for meeting security requirements, including mechanisms to ensure message confidentiality, integrity, and security. This includes the following definitions:
A client might generate a key pair and wish to register it with a trust server, as in this example. (Complete examples are provided with the XKMS specification):
The server responds with the information requested with <RespondWith>:
A client could request an identity validation:
The following response indicates that the certificates are valid:
Authentication is the process of establishing identity. This is required to limit access to resources, to identify participants in transactions, and to create seamless personalization of information based on identity. A means of sharing the fact that authentication has been performed successfully is necessary to allow "single sign-on" as well as to allow third party authentication services.
An example is a travel portal offering destination information, flight schedules, the ability to make reservations and other services. To a customer, it should appear as a single web site, but in fact different systems may be cooperating to implement the service. For usability and transparency, a customer should only need to authenticate once to the portal, and information on the successful authentication should be shared with the different underlying systems, with some validity period. A general requirement when using multiple networked systems is "single sign-on" - authenticating once and then sharing the result of authentication with multiple systems to avoid repeated authentication.
Related to authentication is authorization, the process of determining whether an authenticated party should be able to access a resource or perform an action. To give an example, human resources salary information may only be accessible to certain employees of a company, or only to members of the HR group. Such access control is based on the authenticated identity of an individual. To give another example, only specific individuals or individuals acting in specific roles should be able to enter into high value transactions on behalf of a company. Access control rules may be based on authenticated identity, the resource or action and other information, such as the time of day, day of week, or content of transactions.
The XML Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) defines an XML vocabulary for sharing security assertions, including authentication and authorization assertions, enabling "single sign-on" and third party management of these functions. It also defines a Request/Response protocol definition and an XML protocol (SOAP) binding. The SAML specification defines a general assertion framework, allowing assertions to be given validity time periods, and allowing assertions to be targeted to specific audiences (avoiding the potential for misuse). Assertions are associated with a given "subject" or named entity.
A SAML AuthorizationDecisionStatement may be used to assert that a request by a subject to access a specified resource has resulted in the specified decision, and may optionally include evidence to support the decision.
The SAML security considerations document discusses issues of security and privacy associated with SAML. For details see the SAML specifications [ SAML ].
The following simplified authentication assertion example states that John Doe was authenticated using SSL client certificate authentication:
The SAML specifications allow more complicated authentication statements, including the ability to include information needed to confirm subject identity, such as <KeyInfo> - see the SAML specification for details [ SAML ].
The following example shows a response permitting John Doe to access a web resource:
To make this concrete, consider the following rule taken from the XACML draft. This example will grant read access to records documents on the medico web site only if the SAML subject is the patient:
Rules may be combined, and the XACML includes a specification on how this is done. In addition, rules may be collected into policy statements, including a target, rule-combining algorithm specification, a set of rules, and obligations. The target of a policy statement is used to determine where the policy is applicable and may be stated explicitly or derived from the targets of the policy rules. An obligation is an action to be performed once the authorization decision is complete. An example is sending a patient a notification email each time his or her record is accessed.
Web Services rely on XML Protocol ( SOAP) messages to link applications within an enterprise or across enterprises in an interoperable, platform-independent and programming language-neutral manner. This allows applications to be loosely coupled and integrated much more easily, inexpensively, and quickly than before. Ensuring that these interconnections are secure is essential to the future of Web Services.
Microsoft and IBM have released a Web Services security architecture and roadmap [ WebSvcSecRoadmap ] that outline a strategy and series of specifications to bring together different security technologies. The aim is to provide a unified, flexible and extensible security framework for Web Services. This architecture defines higher-level security requirements and terminology to allow those requirements to be met using one or more different security technologies. This use of high-level abstraction supports the goal of compatibility with existing and emerging security technologies.
The WS-Security specification outlines how XML Digital Signatures and XML Encryption may be used with XML Protocol (SOAP) messages as well as how security claims (such as identity credentials, for example) may be included with a message. This security mechanism goes beyond the SSL/TLS [ SSL-Intro, TLS-RFC ] transport security mechanism, since it defines an end to end security mechanism and provides support for intermediary security processing.
The other specifications will be rolled out in a two-phase process. The first phase will include specifications necessary for Web Services Security across trust domains:
The second phase is intended to include those specifications for meeting more advanced requirements, specifically:
One of the fundamental aspects of the Web Services Security Architecture is to define general terms for concepts, enabling the Web Services security standards to allow for different diverse security technologies, such as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) as well as symmetric key systems such as Kerberos. Some of the concepts defined in the architecture include:
Note that having a token is often not enough - a signature is also required to demonstrate proof of possession of material associated with a token. An X.509 certificate, for example, may serve to demonstrate the binding of an identity with a public key, but proof of ownership of the corresponding private key may be provided by including a signature using that private key.
The architecture defines two base aspects of Web Services Security that are addressed. First is end to end message integrity and confidentiality, including consideration of the implications of intermediary processing. Second is the definition of secure web services endpoint processing, based on the ability to require some set of claims (a policy) to be met before performing processing. The message security model has been outlined in the WS-Security [ WS-Security ] specification. The roadmap outlines a number of other specifications and how they will relate to each other and potential scenarios.
WS-Security defines how to extend SOAP to provide integrity and confidentiality and how to include security tokens in messages. This includes defining how to encode binary formats, including X.509 certificates and Kerberos tickets. The latest version of the Web Services Security Language (WS-Security) specification supersedes earlier specifications, including SOAP-SEC, WS-Security and WS-License from Microsoft. The specification addresses explicit requirements for supporting multiple security tokens, trust domains, and encryption technologies as well as supporting end to end integrity and confidentiality.
SOAP messages are defined to include a header and a body. Generally the payload is carried in the body of a SOAP message, and control information, such as that needed for intermediary processing and routing, is carried in the header. The WS-Security specification defines a <Security> XML element to be used in the SOAP message header to meet the SOAP security requirements. Thus, a simple SOAP stock quote request might be structured as follows, using an example given in WS-Security:
This example shows use of a binary security token in the SOAP header. Used to convey key information, it includes the following identifying information:
Confidentiality of header and body elements may be provided using XML Encryption. As discussed in the previous section on XML Encryption, the encrypted element or element content is replaced by an <EncryptedData> element. Whenever an element or element content in a SOAP message is encrypted, a sub-element is required to be added to the <Security> element in the SOAP header:
An <xenc:ReferenceList> element may be added, giving the Id (fragment URI) of the <EncryptedData> element. This is most useful when key information is shared out of band. An example is:
Attachments are possible using the same mechanism for providing email attachments, multi-part MIME (Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions). Such attachments may be encrypted using XML Encryption.
The WS-Security specification gives detailed processing rules, examples and information about special issues such as canonicalization, so for more information refer to the specification [ WS-Security ].
Privacy is about controlling access to personally identifiable information, and, to a large degree, this is a human policy issue of ensuring that organizations and individuals with legitimate access to that information do not misuse that privilege. To give an example, although a medical office staff may have knowledge of a persons medical records, this does not mean they should share this information with others for profit or other purposes.
A P3P site policy indicates what information is collected and for what purpose, where to locate a human-readable policy, how the site manager may be contacted, and what assurances are made regarding privacy. P3P defines categories of data to be collected and provides the means to associate policy information with portions of a web site, URLs, and other information (such as cookies).
A site may associate privacy policies with different portions of the site. This is done by defining privacy meta information using an XML language defined in the P3P specification and either storing it at a well known location on the site, linking to it from an HTML or XHTML document using the link tag, or by referring to it in a special HTTP header defined in the P3P specification.
An example meta file from the P3P specification is:
The P3P specification also defines an XML language for writing a privacy policy, such as the following:
Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to controlling the use of content to conform to license policies, such as allowing single use, repeated use, no sharing with others and so on. Uses of DRM include control over movies, books, software and other electronic media. The general mechanism is to include usage rules with the content and then to enforce these rules in the applications that allow use of the content. This control mechanism is designed to be effective regardless of who is using the content, dynamically adjusting to the user. As a result, controls remain in place for copies and also adjust for content that is moved in a workflow among multiple users.
Digital rights management technology is an emerging technology. Use of a common language for rules would not only enable interoperability among "viewers" but also allow content to be passed through a workflow with multiple participants and applications. An emerging XML language for digital rights management is XrML 2.0, the extensible rights Markup Language [ XrML ]. This language is based on the Xerox PARC's Digital Property Rights Language (DPRL), first introduced in 1996 and converted from LISP to XML in 1999 and championed by ContentGuard.
XrML defines a framework and language for expressing rights, a definition of terms (a common set of meanings), and a set of processing rules.
Core concepts defined in XrML include the following:
XrML uses XML Schema to define types and to provide for extensibility. XrML uses XML Namespaces to avoid name conflicts. XrML also uses XML Digital Signature to create signed licenses.
Here is an example from the XrML use cases document where the consumer pays $5.99 to play an eBook for one year and print up to 5 copies. In this example, detailed conditions are stored in a Web Services directory (UDDI) and referred to by a unique identifier(UUID):
The XML Security standards define XML languages and processing rules for meeting common security requirements. For the most part, these standards incorporate the use of the other XML Security standards, especially the core XML Digital Signature and XML Encryption standards. Another example is the sharing of policy statements by SAML and XACML. This set of interlocking standards has emerged quickly, and, since it is based on a foundation of accepted practices and technologies, should mature quickly. This article has presented a brief introduction to the set of standards and how they work together.
XML Security standards will be essential to moving business online as XML technologies are adopted for Web Services, Digital Rights Management and other emerging applications. Understanding of how XML may meet authentication, authorization, confidentiality,integrity, signature and privacy requirements will be essential. This paper has provided an introduction to these topics.


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For 90 years, Regional Plan Association has been an indispensable source of ideas and plans for policy makers and opinion shapers across the tri-state region.
RPA is America's most distinguished urban research and advocacy organization. RPA works to improve the prosperity, infrastructure, sustainability and quality of life of the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan region. Some of the region's most significant public works, economic development and open space projects have their roots in RPA ideas and initiatives, from the location of the George Washington Bridge to the revitalization of downtown Brooklyn, Stamford and Newark to the preservation of open space and development of parks in the Palisades, Governors Island and Gateway National Recreation Area. RPA has pursued these goals by conducting independent research, planning, advocacy and vigorous public-engagement efforts. Every year, the most pressing challenges facing the region are debated at RPA's spring conference, the Assembly, which draws leaders and professionals from government, business, civic groups and the media. Recent Assemblies have featured former Vice President Joe Biden, former United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and New York City Transit president Andy Byford. A cornerstone of our work is the development of long-range plans and policies to guide the region's growth. Since the 1920s, RPA has produced four landmark plans for the region, the most recent was released in November 2017.


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Saturday was Sugarbird Cupcakes' debut appearance at Wilmslow Artisan Food Market, offering our lovely cake pops to the people of Wilmslow. My very first market stall experience was a fantastic one. We arrived bright and early at 8am ready for set up, and after a little confusion managed to find out stall and start making it pretty. The table was dressed with first a white tablecloth and then a pink and white polka dotted wipe-clean tablecloth. The stand for the cake pops matched the tablecloth well, being polka dotted and checked, and all the little pops looked adorable in their stands. Somehow I managed not to forget anything, thanks to the checklist I'd made and the day ran smoothly.
I did receive wonderful feedback on the cake pops as people nibbled on the tasters, and although I think that many people still do not know what cake pops actually are, I think I have won over a few hearts and tastebuds to the world of the cake pop.
The flavours I took along were strawberry cheesecake filled, caramel apple, cappuccino and lemon and the strawberry turned out to be a firm favourite, selling out long before the other flavours. Mental note: make more strawberry next time!
One thing I loved about doing the market stall was seeing people's reactions to cake pops. They are not nearly as well known here in the UK as they are in the States, but people were very open to trying them once they realized that they were not in fact lollipops! I especially loved seeing how the children respond to tasting new things. A few little boys and their mums/dads would end up in front of the sample plate on my stall, and although I could see that they wanted to taste, they were often overcome at the last minute by bouts of extreme shyness that left them hiding behind their mum's skirts or their dad's jeans, with just one big, nervous eye peeking out, looking nervously between me and the cake. Sometimes the desire for sugar would overcome and they would reach a tentative little hand out and quickly snatch a (always the largest) piece before retreating back to the safety of their parents shadow to devour the treasured morsel.
It was a lovely day and I met many lovely people and hopefully scored one point for the cake pop on UK soil. I look forward to the next market which I have been told I am allowed to bring cupcakes to as well as the regular cupcake vendor sold out this time, so there seems to be a large market for the cupcake. Excellent! Hope to see you there.
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It's down to four, and not surprisingly, down to the four best debaters – who were all on the stage Thursday night in Charleston. In the highlight, Newt took the open-marriage question and hit it about 400 miles. It will take weeks for John King to recover from the whiplash. Meanwhile, Rick Santorum slammed Gingrich for grandiosity,and Newtie deftly tried to claim the word for his own.
It was the end of a remarkable day, in which Rick Perry dropped out and endorsed Gingrich, Santorum learned that he had won in Iowa and Marianne Gingrich went on ABC to say that Newt was even worse than we thought. Speaking of which, Mitt Romney still doesn't know what to say about his taxes, except that he's rich and the rest of us must be envious.
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Fischer said the trauma from rape interfered with normal physiological processes that occur during conception, which "may make it impossible for her, or difficult in that particular circumstance, to conceive a child."
In a television interview over the weekend, Akin claimed women could not become pregnant after being raped because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
Akin has been widely denounced for the outrageous claim by Democrats, fellow Republicans, rape victims and others. Akin, who is running for Senate in Missouri, has apologized for the use of the phrase "legitimate rape" and acknowledged that a woman can become pregnant as the result of a sexual assault.
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The BBC's new director general provoked derision from MPs today after spending most of two hours explaining why he had failed to follow up information, as well as having to answer questions about BBC decisions. Entwistle came across a polite man, but no leader, and the picture of the BBC that emerged was more surreally bureaucratic and inert than a TwentyTwelve-style parody.
George Entwistle was appearing before the Culture, Media and Sport select committee in a one-off evidence session on 'the Jimmy Savile case'. Select Committees often flunk it with grandstanding, or more often, failing to ask follow-up questions. The grilling today was persistent and on-topic.
An outsider may have been able to breeze through by expressing dismay and promising to investigate. However Entwistle has been at the BBC for 23 years and became the chief executive last month, ran BBC TV (or 'Vision', in BBC-speak) and spent most of his 14 years at Newsnight or Panorama, the corporation's two flagship TV news programmes.
The session started badly and didn't improve. Entwistle told the committee he hadn't been briefed on how many sexual abuse cases are reported at the Corporation, and explained why he failed to act on several pieces of information he received, saying that he did not wish to interfere with internal BBC processes. This was plausible up to a point, but as a blanket excuse, was ill-advised. Ninety minutes into the session, this was causing mockery from his interrogators. MP Philip Davies said this showed a "lack of curiosity... for a journalist".
Incurious George.
Entwistle confirmed that he had been told of the Newsnight investigation into Savile as head of TV, but had not enquired further. He also confirmed that he had been told this month that Newsnight editor Peter Rippon's subsequent explanation of the cancellation of the Savile investigation was inaccurate, and had not made further enquiries.
More damagingly perhaps, Entwistle told MPs he saw nothing wrong with last night's Panorama about Savile - which we now know, withheld important corroborative information from the viewer. As a consequence, attention was deflected from the current management onto past crimes, and from senior management onto Rippon, who began to look like a convenient fall guy. Another Panorama into why this Panorama failed to give us the true picture is a possibility.
On being warned informally on 2 December that Newsnight's investigation into abuse by Savile may have consequences for the BBC's Christmas schedule, Entwistle had failed to enquire, or ask others to enquire. He explained this inactivity was the desire to allow programme-makers to remain free from interference.
"So, 'Thanks Helen what are you looking at' would have been interpreted as interfering?" asked one MP.
"Perhaps I was being over-sensitive," Entwistle replied.
The level of bureaucratic dysfunction was also glimpsed.
"Our systems need to be more carefully calibrated," said the director general at one point. He also promised "an amendment to our guidelines".
In a classically dysfunctional bureaucracy, nobody takes personal responsibility, and the machinery of administration itself substitutes for individual moral judgments. New task forces are created, new procedural rules are drawn up, and the 'chain of command' is invoked. Entwistle deployed all three numerous times.
Few characters emerge from this with any credit. One is Louis Theroux, who did what no news and current affairs reporter or manager had been able to do, by confronting Savile with the allegations while he was still alive.
Newsnight producer Meirion Jones and reporter Liz Mackean, who both worked on the canceled Savile film, both deserve enormous credit. It took no little courage to leak internal evidence this month that embarrassed their superiors.
Some credit should also go to the Corporation for belatedly airing the accusations in a Panorama, but not as much as it would have liked. It made for disturbing and enthralling TV - and the belated self-criticism might have helped to restore the BBC's reputation. But the film became a symptom of the problem it was describing. The inference ensured blame was deflected from the management: the Best Bits were Censored. ®
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There are two actors in the first half hour who can speak in character without appearing to think about it. There is a red herring in the first ten minutes, which as a bonus turns the only really intense moment into a fake out. There is no bad guy or set of bad guys. They try to create tension and mistrust within the primary characters right off the bat with the most obvious alternative available, but they have structured the thing in such a way that only one of them can be mistrusted based on the big mystery. It was not written in a smart way.
Imagine a show written and directed by someone who didn't like or understand the appeal of Firefly or Farscape* but wanted to try to sell something to the audience for those shows. This writer-director also doesn't understand subtlety, the slow roll, or how to build a long term story arc without a routine application of dues ex machine. In other words, written by an Shonda Rimes without her sense of humor working and directed by Brett Ratner (ptuui.)
*really it is just ripping off Firefly with e smarts, depth, or humor. I just love Farscape and much like an Ivy Leaguer will shoehorn it in there where it doesn't necessarily belong with no prompting whatsoever.
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If you have Amazon Prime, "The Man in the High Castle" is incredibly cool if you like the idea of alternate realities when it comes from the history of WWII. The premise is controversial and based on a book, but the drama is pretty darn good, IMO. Being a nut about history myself, the way the Axis are portrayed is pretty darn good.
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Damages just ended in 2012, so its not that old, but I do need to get back to it. Season 1 was great, I lost track with it in season 2 and need to find my way back.
Netflix - How to make a murderer
It's the flavor of the week so I assume most have heard about it. It's a 10 part documentary series about a guy who was wrongfully convicted of one crime and later charged with another. Well worth watching, a lot of drama. Be forewarned, it's not at all objective.
Jessica Jones. I tend to watch, but not love, the super hero shows and movies. They're good time wasters to watch on the treadmill. I'm only 3 episodes in but this one seems to be better than most.
I'll second Polish's recommendation of Man in the high castle. I'm only 2 episodes in because that's all they'll let me download to watch offline and my non-airplane viewing time is obviously limited right now but I like what I've seen so far. Probably binge watch it once the season's over.
haven't watched Making of a Murderer, but continue to hear great things about it.
Jessica Jones, as someone who loves the Marvel Cinematic/TV Universe, I actually found this to be one of my least favorite entries to it. I wasn't a big Kristen Rytter fan going in, but she grew on me. David Tennant on the other hand is one of the best villains Marvel has put on screen yet. For some reason, something just felt missing though. A lot of it had to do with the directing and style choices. It had the style/tone of a cheesy 80's private eye (complete with the voiceover narration) that just seemed to rub me the wrong way. It didn't feel modern, as opposed to DareDevil that managed to be dark and gritty, but still feel like 2015.
1. Jessica J9nes. Didn't make it 3 minutes. A few things they did, I just cannot stand. Voice over 81 the first minute telling me who I am seeing and what they are doing. I would rather discover. Woman on toilet, the u started well by having her on the phone, but stayed ten seconds after she hung up.
2. Pitch Perfect 2. Pacing issues, some self indulgent directorial choicss, not enough singing, BUT the good outweighed the bad.
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May 17, 2011: Ernst Pollmann, an active spectroscopist in Germany and leader of Active Spectroscopy in Astronomy, has requested the assistance of AAVSO photoelectric photometry (PEP) observers in a campaign to observe the S Doradus variable P Cygni through the 2011 observing season.
PEP data are needed for correlation with spectra of P Cyg obtained by Ernst and other spectroscopists as they study this very interesting star.
AAVSO observer Raymond Winslow (Win) Jones passed away on 28 February 2007 at age 98.


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WE ALL KNOW ABOUT the 72 wins, the 10 majors and the $23 million in career earnings, a Hall of Fame career that may or may not be over. It all went exactly as planned by Annika Sorenstam, the undisputed queen of golf. Well, no, actually it didn't.
Presented by equipment sponsor Calloway and looking relaxed in a pink pullover and black slacks, Annika sat on stage today at the PGA Merchandise Show and recounted a career that was filled with surprises and accomplishments beyond her wildest dreams. I had a front-row seat.
Golf was her parents' game, Annika said, so she followed them to the golf course, even though she would rather play soccer or tennis at a young age. But golf got under her skin (in a good way) because it was "so tough." "That was the beauty of it," she said. Plus she could practice without needing a partner.
Leaving Sweden to attend the University of Arizona in Tucson was a major adjustment, but Annika adapted and excelled at the college level. Maybe she could succeed at the pro game, although she didn't know if she could win.
The first win "caught me by surprise," Annika said. That initial title was the U.S. Women's Open, a major victory that literally made her ill. Annika told how she had to retreat from the world for a few weeks until she could get a better handle on her success and the public adulation.
(In a later anecdote, Annika shared how her shyness caused her to intentionally three-putt to avoid winning tournaments. Why? She didn't want to give a speech. One of her coaches noticed the trend, so the coach had first, second and third give speeches, which solved the problem.)
When asked about her friendship with Tiger Woods, Annika said, "I'm not sure how the texting got started." The two have practiced together and got in the habit of texting each other when they won a major. "I think he's kind of competitive," she said, sparking audience laughter.
As for her current status, Annika said she is not using the "R" word, instead calling her break from the game "stepping away." With that kind of talk, it sure sounds like she'll be back.
More Tidbits
• "My drive is stronger than ever," Annika said. She is channeling it into her academy, golf course design and other projects.
• When asked for her dream foursome, Annika didn't specifically name anyone, saying it could be people from all walks of life who she would enjoy and learn from.
• She was once caught at an exhibition with dirty laundry in her golf bag.
• The USGA has made her the first female ambassador of the game.
• An Annika wine is in the works.
• A 54 is definitely possible, Annika said. She took the audience through her round of 59 on March 16, 2001. She was 12 under after 13 holes and rimmed out her putt for 58 on the final hole.
−The Armchair Golfer
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PGA Merchandise Show: Annika Sorenstam Takes Stage
4 comments:
- Bedlam said...
great post Armchair, I got a feeling that she will not be gone long.
- The Reverend said...
Annika kicks ass!
I envy you getting to hear her talk about her time on the tour and her life. She will be a winner, no matter what path her life carries her down. Great post.
- The Armchair Golfer said...
Like all the great ones, she is very focused.
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Maria Coulson October 06, 2012John, I can see it would be difficult to take this picture with all the different lights. But you did very well. It caught my eye. and congrats on the EP. #1490660
Michelle Alton October 16, 2012You did BEAUTIFULLY with this, John. I stood on the same spot abut two weeks later and did not do this well. Colors were different on the Comcast building. Bright PINK, I suspect because October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pink is EVERYWHERE! GREAT job. #10372005
John Singleton October 16, 2012Thanks Maria and Michelle. It was great fun. Very difficult as Michelle found out. Not bragging, just know how many pics I took before getting two or three that worked. LOL> #10372100
Must check this out online. Open Air in Philadelphia. Very difficult to take these due to the bright ambient lights in the immediate foreground and around me. Taken from the steps of Art Museum of Philadelphia, 23 September.
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Very rarely has a person reflected so many purported supernatural gifts as did Therese Neumann, a 20th century German mystic and stigmatic. Her renown nearly rivaled that of St. Padre Pio. Their gifts supposedly included bearing the sacred stigmata (the wounds of Christ), visions, bilocation, reading hearts, healings and conversions, among other phenomena. However, unlike St. Padre Pio who was canonized June 16, 2002 by Pope John Paul II, the Roman Catholic Church has not yet officially recognized Therese Neumann as a saint. She was known as a joyful woman who loved animals and flowers, and was particularly despised by the Nazis. By most accounts, Therese Neumann was an extraordinarily holy laywoman, as well as a Third Order Franciscan, who displayed a great devotion to Jesus and the Church. She truly lived as a "Servant of God." After an investigative period for some years after her death, the Vatican officially opened proceedings for her beatification on February 13, 2005 by Bishop Gerhard Mueller of Regensburg, Germany. The process remains open to this day.
Regardless of the Church's final ruling on Therese Neumann, we must recognize that the mystical component of her life falls squarely under private revelation, which no one in the Church is forced to accept. The Catechism states in no uncertain terms that the deposit of faith is closed, and there will be no further public revelation. (CCC 67) In certain limited instances the authority of the Church recognizes private revelations that are in line with magisterial teachings, in order to help the faithful "live more fully" the gospel. The Church obviously treads very carefully in these matters, so as to root out frauds and impostors. Indeed, the focus should never be directed towards sensationalism, but always towards faithful obedience to Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church. Still, in reviewing Therese Neumann's purported mystical gifts, we may find inspiration for our own lives.
Therese was a stigmatist, that is, she bore the wounds of Christ on her own body. There have been numerous people in the history of the Church who have officially had the sacred stigmata, including St. Francis of Assisi and St. Padre Pio, and perhaps even St. Paul himself, as he suggests in his letter to the Galatians. (Gal. 6:17) In March 1926, during Lent, as Therese began to have ecstatic visions of Jesus in His Passion, she concurrently began to have the stigmata. The wounds of Christ began to appear on successive Fridays: first the wound to her side, just over her heart; then the next Friday, the wounds to her hands; and finally, on Good Friday, all five wounds. Months later, on Friday November 5, 1926, Therese received the full complement of Jesus' wounds from His Passion: holes in both hands; holes in both feet; the wound to the side above her heart; nine wounds around her head from the crown of thorns; and wounds to her shoulders and back from the scourging and the Cross. It is estimated that she bore at least 45 wounds in total, meaning she bore the full wounds of Christ's Passion, not just the Crucifixion. Perhaps even more shocking, the wounds never left her from that moment in 1926 until her death in 1962. As one biographer, Adalbert Vogl, put it, "Not one of the wounds ever disappeared; they never healed, and they were still imprinted on her body at the time of her death."
Therese's sufferings and visions conformed exactly to the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church. Just as she received the wounds of the Crucifixion on Good Friday, so also were her visions and ecstasies aligned to the liturgical calendar. For example, when she initially received the sacred stigmata, it was during the liturgical season of Lent. Although Therese had the wounds of the Passion for the rest of her life, she only experienced the ecstasies of the Passion on Fridays, and only on Fridays during Lent and Advent, and on some of the sorrowful octaves. Thus, her experience of the Passion was connected only to the relevant liturgical days, and never during joyful seasons, such as Christmas or Easter. On the Fridays when she did not endure the Passion ecstasy, she would have a vision of the death or martyrdom of the saint whose feast day it happened to be, in recognition of the liturgical calendar. On All Saints Day, November 1st, she would have a 24-hour ecstasy and see souls of saints from Heaven, and similarly on All Soul's Day, November 2nd, she saw saints from Purgatory. Based on the timing of the mystical experiences of Therese Neumann, it seems heaven honors with great respect the liturgical calendar; perhaps we should pay close attention to this as well.
One of the most remarkable aspects of Therese Neumann's mystical experiences is that she evidently lived without food or water for much of her life. This supernatural phenomenon is known as inedia. It is not unheard of in ecclesiastical history, particularly with stigmatists, as reported in the life of St. Catherine of Siena, who supposedly ate no food for the last seven years of her life. Therese herself stopped eating food in 1922, and then stopped drinking nearly all water in 1926, and continued this way until her death in 1962. Her sole sustenance for 36 years was the Holy Eucharist. As part of this experience, she had no desire whatsoever to eat food or drink water. Solid food or liquids would be immediately expelled from her body, save her daily Holy Communion. Her physical sustenance depended directly on her reception of the Eucharist. If she did not receive the Eucharist on a given day, she would have an extreme hunger and fatigue until she received Him. Once when asked how she could live just on the Eucharist alone, she responded, "The Savior can do all things. Did He not say that "My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink?"" (Jn. 6:55)
For 15 days in 1927, Therese was placed under strict observation and investigation at the behest of the Archbishop of Regensburg. The investigation was directed by a non-Catholic professor of Psychiatry, Dr. Ewald, and a prominent Catholic physician, Dr. Seidl, as well as four nuns, who were trained nurses. Their strict instructions were to work in two-person teams, never leaving Therese alone, day or night. They were to record, measure and photograph everything that happened over the course of the investigation. At the end Dr. Ewald reported Therese's complete abstinence from food and minimal water intake to swallow Communion (about 45cc of water, although this was apparently discharged too). Despite losing some weight around the time of her Passion ecstasy, she then regained the weight back over the next few days. Her weight was the same, 121 lbs., on July 28th as it had been on July 13th, despite not eating anything.
The supernatural phenomenon of inedia highlights in a literal way the words of the Lord regarding the Bread of Life. Jesus said in the Gospel of John, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger; and he who believes in Me shall never thirst." (Jn. 6:35) There seems to be a mystical connection between the sacred stigmata and embracing the Passion of Jesus, and inedia and living strictly off the body and blood of Jesus in the Eucharist. In consuming the body and blood of Jesus in the Eucharist, His Passion and sacrifice of the Cross may come to life in the events of our ordinary lives. In some extreme instances, the Passion and sacrifice of Christ come to life in an individual's life in an extraordinary way, such as with Therese Neumann. The Eucharistic life is a life of redemptive and vicarious suffering. It is an embrace of the Cross of Christ. Therese Neumann lived this life of divine union par excellence. As St. Paul said "it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me." (Gal. 2:20) This suffering is not without meaning. We know that we who suffer with Christ, for this short while, will also rise with Him to eternal life.