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"Treating normal labors as though they were complicated can become a self-fulfilling prophecy."
— Judith Rooks
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The Art of Midwifery
For a tender perineum postpartum, soak a couple of cotton balls in hydrogen peroxide. Apply the soaked cotton balls to the tender place. The hydrogen peroxide brings extra oxygen to the region and feels surprisingly nice after about day four postpartum. The woman may feel some bubbling and fizzing if there is still some blood in the area, but it does feel good and is healing.
— Gloria Lemay
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According to a study published in the June issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, babies born via vaginal birth after a prior cesarean section (VBAC) have lower rates of respiratory morbidity and intensive care admissions compared with babies born by repeat cesarean section.
The retrospective cohort study was comprised of 672 women with one prior c-section in a singleton pregnancy at 37 weeks or more gestation, and compared both neonatal outcomes and monetary costs of the procedures.
Researchers found that babies born via repeat c-section had higher rates of intensive care admission and higher rates of oxygen supplementation for delivery room resuscitation than those babies born by VBAC. The highest rates of resuscitation, however, were in babies born by c-section after a failed VBAC.
And while a successful VBAC is definitely less expensive than a second c-section, the highest costs were associated with a cesarean after a failed VBAC.
The study's authors suggest that these results "[argue] for greater selectivity in performing a cesarean delivery in the first place, and certainly a greater need for counseling before a primary elective cesarean delivery."
— www.medscape.com/viewarticle/703773. Accessed 5 Nov 2009.
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Midwifery Care for the VBAC Woman
If the [VBAC] woman has dilated past five centimeters in the first birth, I plan for it to be fairly fast—like any second baby. If the woman has not gone into the birth process or not dilated past five the first time, that's all right, she'll still give birth vaginally, but we have extra midwives on call to bring fresh energy if the others get discouraged or tired. We plan for it to be like going to two births in a row. The point that the woman reached in her first birth is often a psychological hurdle for her. If she dilated to six centimeters the first time, the news that she is seven or eight will be a relief and a breakthrough. One of our clients, a minister's wife, said over and over again in her pregnancy: "I just want to feel what pushing is. If I only get to push, I'll be happy. I just want to know what other women mean when they say they had to push." She'd had a Bandl's ring in the first birth process and the cesarean was done at five centimeters. We were praying that the complication wouldn't repeat. She dilated smoothly and began to push. With each push she would exclaim "Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus!" What a wonder it was to watch her push out the baby, a girl whom she named Faith.
All humans have a certain propensity to self-sabotage, and the VBAC woman must be on guard against her own defeating patterns. The midwife must be bold in pointing out ways that the woman is repeating dumb moves—there's no place for us being "nice" if it will mean another cesarean. An example of this: If the woman had a cesarean with five support people, we won't let her have extra people at her VBAC birth.
Privacy and quiet are a must, and we will be very forceful about setting up logistics before the birth so that the woman can birth in peace. In short, the VBAC is high priority because this woman's whole obstetrical future rides on its success.
We show the couple lots of videos of beautiful VBAC births because one video is worth a thousand words. If you don't have your own, I recommend Gentle Birth Choices by Barbara Harper, which includes footage of a beautiful VBAC birth. Art therapy is helpful in creating the environment before the birth day. I place a big sheet of drawing paper in front of the father and mother with lots of colored pencils and instruct them to, "Draw your birth cave," or, "Color your birth." When they are finished, I write the date on the two drawings and put them away in my files. After the birth, we take them out and are amazed at the details that were drawn weeks before and later manifested in the actual birth.
I have longer appointments with VBAC women because they seem to need to obsess. I don't have solutions to many of their fears but it seems to help to just be able to talk to someone who cares and understands. I usually also ask them to "Tell me how you know that this time you're going to have a vaginal birth?" The answers always amaze me. One woman said, "Because this time I'm not depending on my doctor or my midwives—[I] and my husband are going to have this baby." I suggested that she give up depending on her husband, too. She looked terrified at that idea but I could see that she understood; she looked me in the eye and said, "Right!" That was the moment I knew she would do it. She's had three water homebirth VBACs since then, and after each birth her first words were, "I did it."
— Gloria Lemay
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Q: I'm curious as to how well the uterus heals after three c-sections. I've been told that the uterus heals very well—better than the scar on the outer part of the body. I'm considering a VBAC.
I've spoken to a few midwives: the nurse-midwives won't even talk to me once I tell them that I've had three c-sections. They've actually been abrupt and wouldn't even give me the time of day. The traditional midwives took the time to answer my questions and it seemed like they really love what they do and care about women and their concerns. I felt that the traditional midwives were caring and considerate whereas the others were just going by the book to cover themselves like the medical doctors.
— Anonymous
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Q: What is your best tip for shoulder dystocia?
— Midwifery Today E-News staff
A: With shoulder dystocia one shoulder is locked above the pelvic brim; it is noteworthy that the pelvic inlet can be widened by stretching the hip joints like [what] happens in a standing position. Even some over-stretching, like bending over backward, may be needed. The labouring woman often feels instinctively which position will be beneficial, provided she happens to be on her feet in the first place. This often enables her psychologically to adopt this remarkable instinctive behaviour. In my broad experience with vertical labours, the shoulders will rotate quickly and come down that way merely by gravity force. A small Chinese primi gravida just needed a very lightly applied little push behind her pubic bone, against the baby's shoulder, while she was in standing position and I had gone [to] my knees a little. She gave birth to a sturdy eight-pounder. In my view, starting the second stage in a standing position can be seen as a preventive measure against the occurrence of shoulder dystocia. If it does occur, it can be easily corrected without having to perform all sorts of heroic manoeuvres.
— Gre Keijzer, Dutch Midwife
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Think about It
Soy as a "health food" may not be all it's cracked up to be. Cultures where soy has been traditionally included in the diet have also traditionally eaten it in small amounts and in a fermented form—making it more digestible and providing probiotics. Now, with soy appearing in almost every packaged food we eat, we are learning more about its potential deleterious effects on our health.
One problem might be soy's high levels of isoflavones. Author Robyn O'Brien, as quoted in "The War on Soy: Why the 'Miracle Food' May Be a Health Risk and Environmental Nightmare," by Tara Lohan, states: "[I]soflavones' very ability to boost estrogen production can also pose hazards to our health. For example, the FDA scientists point out, during pregnancy, isoflavones could boost estrogen levels even higher, 'which could be a risk factor for abnormal brain and reproductive tract development.'"
These developments may be of particular concern to vegetarian mamas, many of whom rely heavily on soy foods to supply necessary protein.
Read the full article at: www.alternet.org/water/144074/the_war_on_soy:_why_the_'miracle_food'_may_be_a_health_risk_and_environmental_nightmare?
Russia maintained its unique traditional culture of parenting and midwifery until the early 20th century, when it was almost completely destroyed by the Soviet system. The Soviet Union needed women to be workers, not mothers. Immediately after giving birth to a child the mother went to work, passing the baby to a day care, then a kindergarten, and then to school. And the circle was repeated. The art and culture of parenting and mothering was ousted by pacifiers, strollers and breast milk substitutes, and an intimate family event turned into a bureaucratic affair.
In the 1970s Russia saw the beginning of a strong movement of parents who did not want to birth their children in "prison" (the birth clinics in Russia still look more like a prison than a place for comfortable and natural birth), and a movement of midwives who did not want to work in the public system of obstetric care.
Out of this movement, Moscow's Healthy Family Club was born, founded by Alexandra Gurevich. Working actively with researcher Igor Charkovsky, several families and their children got together and played group games: running, winter swimming in the pond, walking barefoot in the snow and winter skiing. In the summer they would go to the sea. Some of these children were the first to be born in the sea. It was a powerful advance in understanding the impulse of the soul, and a revival of the traditions of the national midwifery and parenting culture.
This movement that began 40 years ago continues to exist today. Babies are born at home with midwives, who are themselves third-generation homebirths. But the activity of homebirth midwives in Russia still happens outside of the law. In order to change this situation, we must change the views of our society. We've created our magazine, Home Child, to work for this change.
The idea for the magazine was born together with Masha, our second child, who was born at home in a close and loving group of people. Our first son, Michael, had already opened huge new worlds for us, worlds called "natural parenting" and "attachment parenting."
In the Soviet Union information about natural parenting had been closed, like secret knowledge. Today, there is more than enough information available about natural childbirth, breastfeeding, using a sling, natural medicine, natural health, alternative education and a healthy lifestyle, but putting the pieces together requires an incredible amount of time and effort. At the same time, separating fact from opinion and scientific evidence from mythmaking is not as easy as it seems. This is what we offer in Home Child magazine.
We are grateful to everyone who has supported the idea of a natural lifestyle, gentle loving birth and traditional midwifery. These are the people who have made the birth of Home Child magazine possible.
We are proud to partner with Midwifery Today in bringing the "Birthing in Love: Everyone's Right" conference to Russia. We believe that this meeting will be the beginning of a spirit revolution in the Russian natural parenting and traditional midwifery movements.
— Katerina Perkhova, editor of Home Child magazine
[Editor's Note: Please visit the page on our site about the upcoming conference in Moscow, Russia.]
Luna Maya Birth Camp is a one-week intensive workshop for birth workers to explore traditional Mexican midwifery techniques and tradition as applied to modern practice. These weeks are a personalized opportunity to renew your commitment to our shared wisdom and skills for working with birth.
In 2010 the Birth Camp will be carried out from February 1 to 6, and is set in the Highlands of Chiapas, a place where traditional and contemporary healing merge into daily life. Housing is available starting the night before the program begins and through the night the program ends. Morning sessions will be held from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm and afternoon sessions will be held from 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm.
Suggested donation to cover the cost of the workshop is $900.00, but we are now offering "pay what you can." This is to honor women's capacity to participate regardless of their financial situation. We know that some women will be able to donate more and other women will be able to donate less; what is important is that we are able to come together through an intense and transformative experience and also support Luna Maya while doing so.
Come and learn from other women as well as native healers; nourish your soul; expand your consciousness.
For more information please visit our Web site at www.lunamaya.org or e-mail us directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
— Cristina Alonso, Luna Maya
The Mid-Atlantic Conference on Birth and Primal Health
What is the future of a world born by caesarean? This is the question we need to ask now that, thanks in particular to the work of Michael Stark, the c-section has become easier, faster, and safer than ever before. In this conference we will not only focus on technical advances, though…. We will also constantly make reference to recent scientific advances which suggest we should apply new criteria in order to evaluate practices within midwifery and obstetrics. For example, thanks to a large amount of data provided by developing disciplines as diverse as ethology, bacteriology, epidemiology and hormonology, it has recently been possible to confirm scientifically that…a human newborn baby needs his or her mother. After thousands of years of beliefs and rituals which have disturbed or prevented first mother-newborn interaction, modern science now has the power to reverse our deep-rooted conditioning.
We welcome all of you, participants from the five continents. We want to thank Prof. Garcia Hernandez and our friends in Las Palmas for suggesting the Canary Islands Convention Centre as a venue for this conference held under the auspices of the Goddess of Love…the Goddess born from the foam of the waves.
— Dr. Michel Odent, President, and Heloisa Lessa, Executive Secretary
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- Packaged Fiction - This is a book (or more often a series) that is produced by a book packaging company like Working Partners in the UK or Alloy Entertainment in the US. Although professional children's writers will still produce the content, all of the concepts behind the book(s) - from story idea to marketing hook - are owned and managed by the packager. Packagers rarely publish their own books, preferring instead to use fiction publishers to cover the final step to market.
- Author-led Fiction - This is the more "traditional" route to publication, where an author will conceive the idea for a book and execute it, retaining creative control of the plot, characters and prose. A publisher will still provide editing assistance and generally run the marketing side of things, but as the name suggests, the author drives the process.
The analogy I would use to illustrate this is the difference between watching a film by a separate screenwriter and director, as opposed to one by a single writer-director. The experience you get from a writer-director (or hyphenate, as they call them in the movie business) is generally much more personal and individual, but it can also be self-indulgent and pretentious. For every There Will Be Blood you get a whole steaming pile of M. Night Shyamalan movies.
Book packagers get a lot of negative press, as evidenced recently by the furore about L.J. Smith being kicked off her own Vampire Diaries series and James Frey's new YA factory farming operation Full Fathom Five. But these are businesses and they exist to make money, not necessarily friends. I'm sure a similar argument would be put forward by the likes of Martin Amis about the role of art! So I'm not here to lay into book packagers - I think they fulfil a clear business need in the industry. I also have lots of friends who work for packagers or write for them - it's not something I've chosen to do so far, but I'm not ruling it out, either. For the freelance author, writing for a packager is a dependable source of income in a difficult market.
Imagine, for a minute, that you are a publisher who has been offered two competing children's sci-fi series. One is presented by a packager, the other by a talented but relatively unknown author. Do you choose the packager - who is resourced and experienced to deliver the series on time and to budget - or the author, who may deliver more than you expected, but may also miss their deadlines and push back on every editorial request you make? On a business level, it's easy to see why there are so many packaged series out there.
It's also easy to be sniffy and declare that packaged fiction is "not as good" as author-led. Writers will often point to the proliferation of packaged series in the 7-9 market and complain that readers are being fed a bland diet of identikit fairies and white bread mythology. But children absolutely love these books - I can't tell you how excited my seven-year-old daughter was recently when she bought herself one of the Dinosaur Cove series. Book packagers do not sit in their editorial meetings and cynically plan the decline of our children's reading habits - for better or worse, they give the market what it wants.
So what to do if you're still devoted to your own fictional concepts and you want to get them published? How can you compete in a market where packagers hold so much influence? Well, maybe you aren't as powerless as all that. Author-led fiction is still seen as the prestige end of children's publishing and it is rare (though not unknown) for packaged books to feature on awards shortlists. Many fiction editors spend their days working on packaged series but dreaming of the perfect author-led project landing on their desk.
Instead of trying to compete with the packagers, revel in your uniqueness and play to your strengths. Here are a few things that you can do to get ahead:
- Have Vision - Own your world and your story in a way that nobody else can. Fill your brain with it, until there seems to be no room for ordinary household chores, sleep or eating. Daydream your way to fiction nirvana.
- Innovate - Originality is hard. Believe me, I know this. But you can do it. Ignore the current trends, turn off your Bookseller Twitter feed and believe in your ability to generate ideas until you get to the one that really puts you ahead of the crowd. Book packagers thrive on their ability to chase a trend, to quickly put together a project for the publisher who is saying, "Why haven't I got a vampire/wizard/pirate series?" You probably can't move that fast on your own.
- Take Risks - As a sole author, you have a lot more latitude to take risks with a project, to write without a plot outline, to follow your muse wherever it goes. Why not innovate in form as well as content? What's the worst that can happen?
- Write Standalone Fiction - Book packagers are interested in long-running revenue streams, especially where they can merchandise characters and use them in other forms of media. Why not write a really superb but self-contained book? This is a great way to push your creativity to the edge and avoid that urge to hold back on story in the hope of sequels.
- Take Your Time - As an amateur or semi-professional author, you're probably not relying on writing as an income stream. So slow down and get things right.
- Be a Little Bit Crazy - Some of the most distinctive authors are a tad, well, unhinged. Not in a screaming-and-smashing-up-their-publisher's-office way, but in terms of their personality and how they present themselves to the world. Having a unique outlook and voice is so, so important in author-led fiction, and being slightly bonkers is a good way to achieve that. I think it would be unfair of me to give any examples. *cough* Philip Ardagh *cough*.
- Don't beat them, join them - If all this sounds too far outside your comfort zone, that's fine. Why not write for a packager yourself? You can easily apply to be added to their author list and pitch to write one of their books. Working in this way is a marvellous opportunity to hone your craft, see yourself in print and get a good upfront payment. It's like a modern writer's apprenticeship.
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The members of the reorganized San Juan Capistrano City Council took their seats Tuesday night with kind words at first, including a warm welcome for newly elected member Roy Byrnes. But when it was time to select a mayor pro tem, divisions among the council members quickly surfaced.
The council unanimously voted to appoint Councilman John Taylor as mayor for the next year. But there was tension after Byrnes suggested Councilman Derek Reeve for mayor pro tem. Byrnes, who was a San Juan councilman and mayor in the 1970s, and Reeve have been critics of council decisions and are viewed as the minority on the panel.
"The only person who has not served as mayor pro tem is Mr. Reeve," Byrnes said. "My feeling is that it's not a matter of somebody's turn or not turn, but I think that for the growth of a councilperson it's appropriate that they be given this opportunity to grow (as) either mayor pro tem or mayor."
The council instead voted 3-2 to select Councilman Sam Allevato, a member since 2004 who won re-election in November, to serve as pro tem, with Byrnes and Reeve dissenting. Allevato was mayor as recently as 2011.
The council majority was critical of Reeve, saying it could not support him as mayor pro tem. The harshest criticism came from Councilman Larry Kramer, who was mayor until Tuesday.
"I just have too many issues that you and I cannot agree on," Kramer said, citing their differences on the groundwater-recovery plant that supplies the city with 70 percent of its water but critics like Reeve say is largely responsible for plunging the city's water enterprise into debt. Kramer has supported funding and expansion of the plant, while Reeve has not.
Kramer, Taylor and Allevato said Reeve's statements in the media criticizing the council and its members also were reasons not to vote for him.
"I would love to see Derek do this, be the mayor pro tem … but when you are up here working together collegially on Tuesday night and then you read in the paper on Thursday or Friday personal attacks on your character from that same person, that does not read camaraderie, does not read teamwork," Allevato said.
Reeve said he did not expect to be selected as mayor pro tem but said he didn't understand why his comments are so controversial, since rhetoric goes both ways.
Byrnes said he was a "little surprised to hear such frank expressions of opinion, but this is the new look. Everybody's expressed themselves, and I hope we can just accept the views we've had. … There's nothing else to say."
While many believe that the position of mayor is largely ceremonial, San Juan Capistrano Councilman Larry Kramer, who served as mayor the past year, and newly appointed Mayor John Taylor gave their thoughts on what it means to be the leader of the City Council.
Taylor has been a resident of San Juan since 1983 and has lived the past 23 years in the city's Los Rios Historic District. He will be the mayor for the next year. He previously was mayor pro tem.
Q. What is the biggest difference between being mayor and a regular council member?
A. Kramer: You spend a lot more time because you work on all the agendas with the city manager. You're also expected to go to a lot of events and represent the city. A lot more people seem to contact you … you feel a much greater sense of responsibility.
Q. Do you have any advice for John Taylor as he takes over as mayor?
A. Kramer: Keep smiling and enjoy it and know you can't please everybody. … Work closely with the city manager. … I also learned to listen to those who I think I will disagree with. Just keep listening, because they may have an idea you do agree with.
Q. How do you feel about being mayor?
A. Taylor: I'm excited. It's an incredible acknowledgment from my colleagues. I really am looking forward to working with all five of us. … I didn't lobby for this position, but I'm just tremendously proud to represent San Juan Capistrano.
Q. What will holding the title of mayor mean for you?
A. Taylor: Being mayor may help my work with the economic development in the city.
He also said it would give him more credibility when talking to outside agencies and that he would add to his involvement in the community.


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By Steve Neavling and Bernie Woodall
DETROIT, March 11 (Reuters) - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, once seen as a rising star in Democratic Party politics, was convicted on Monday on two dozen federal charges of corruption and bribery during his seven-year tenure.
U.S. prosecutors accused Kilpatrick, 42, of widespread corruption, extorting bribes from contractors who wanted to get or keep city contracts, and turning the mayor's office into "Kilpatrick Incorporated" from 2001 until he resigned in 2008.
Kilpatrick could face prison sentences of up to 20 years for the most serious charges for steering more than $83 million worth of municipal contracts to his friend Bobby Ferguson, a city contractor, who shared some of the money with the former mayor.
"Kwame Kilpatrick didn't lead the city. He looted the city," Barbara McQuade, the U.S. attorney in Detroit, told a news conference. "While Kwame Kilpatrick enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, he watched the quality of life erode for the people of Detroit."
Many people in Detroit believe Kilpatrick contributed to the decline of the city, home of the U.S. auto industry. The verdict was handed down as Detroit's financial crisis was nearing a new low, with Michigan state soon expected to appoint an emergency financial manager, a move that could lead to the biggest municipal bankruptcy in the United States.
The 12 jurors, who deliberated for 14 days from mid-February in a U.S. District Court trial that started last September, returned a sweeping verdict against Kilpatrick following the biggest public corruption probe in Detroit in decades.
Jurors found Kilpatrick guilty of racketeering, extortion, bribery, mail and wire fraud, and tax charges.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds ordered Kilpatrick and Ferguson, who was found guilty of racketeering, extortion and bribery, immediately taken into custody pending sentencing after a hearing on Monday afternoon. Both men had been free on bail during the trial.
"You showed disregard and contempt for the people of the city of Detroit, and a willingness to lie," she told Kilpatrick.
No sentencing dates have been scheduled.
Kilpatrick's father, Bernard Kilpatrick, who was also charged in the corruption case, was convicted on a single count of signing a false tax return.
Edmunds, before reading the decisions, said the jurors reached the verdicts late on Friday, but "wanted to go home and sleep on it" until Monday. They were unanimous on 40 of the 45 charges against the three defendants.
Kwame Kilpatrick, who wore a dark suit and patterned tie in court, was quiet as the verdicts were read, resting his chin on folded hands. At times, Kilpatrick shook his head.
Lawyers for the three men had argued that the government's case was built on weak evidence and witnesses who lied to gain favor with prosecutors in their own public corruption cases.
James Thomas, Kilpatrick's attorney, said he would argue for a relatively light sentence and planned to appeal.
"We came here with a lot of baggage," Thomas said after Kilpatrick was taken into custody. "It was a tough case."
"He might not show it, but obviously this is affecting him," Thomas said of Kilpatrick.
Ferguson's attorney, Michael Rataj, told reporters after the verdict that it was too soon to talk about possible appeals.
Jurors told reporters the deliberations were intense at times. They asked not to be identified for privacy reasons.
"There was always respect, (but) sometimes arguments got a little heated," one juror said.
Another juror said she had twice voted for Kilpatrick for mayor, but changed her mind about him after hearing the evidence.
"I saw a lot that really turned my stomach, and I couldn't believe this type of thing was going on," she said.
Few people awaited the verdict outside the courthouse in downtown Detroit. A handful of passersby spoke to reporters.
James Jones, 42, and Arthur Bryant, 59, both lifelong Detroit residents, stood across the street from the courthouse and yelled encouragement to the former mayor.
"It's not like this is the first time," Jones said. "There has been pay-to-play in every city, every state, for a long, long time. They are singling him out because he's a black man. Why aren't they going after the ones who paid him?"
Others supported the prosecution and verdict.
"I'm not happy that he's guilty, but I'm happy that we are getting justice," Asaeli Giles said. "It would have been a travesty if they had gotten away with this."
Kilpatrick was elected Detroit mayor at age 31 in 2001 and re-elected in 2005, but his tenure was marked by accusations of cronyism, nepotism and lavish spending. The allegations spanned Kilpatrick's tenure as mayor and the year before and after.
Witnesses in the trial included a top former mayoral aide, a mayoral fundraiser and a former city contractor. The evidence ranged from text messages to bank checks, federal wiretaps and surveillance video.
Former Detroit Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel, who teaches Detroit political history at Wayne State University, has said she believes the culture under the Kilpatrick administration exacerbated the city's already deeply compromised financial infrastructure.
Detroit has lost more than half of its population since the 1950s, it had about 706,000 residents according to the 2011 U.S. Census, leaving it with a shrinking tax base and huge debts.
The verdict is seen as a major victory for prosecutors, who have now racked up 35 convictions since 2008 from investigations aimed at purging Detroit's cash-strapped government of graft and corruption. A previous trial for Ferguson resulted in a mistrial after a lone juror held out and deadlocked the jury.
Kilpatrick resigned in 2008 and pleaded guilty to charges that he lied on the witness stand in a civil lawsuit over the firing of a police officer unrelated to the current case.
He later served 14 months in prison for violating his probation for concealing assets to avoid paying restitution to the city of Detroit.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said in a statement that he was pleased the trial was over and "we can finally put this negative chapter in Detroit's history behind us.
"It is time for all of us to move forward with a renewed commitment to transparency and high ethical standards in our city government," Bing said.


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Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 15:27
Post subject: Warning.....
I tried this with a Precise 5.5 and it installed without any complaints.
Both versions 6.1 and 7 does nothing. Nothing at http://localhost:8069/, before or after boot, pressing the desktop icon.
But what it DOES, is that it prevents 5.5 to finish of the savefile process at shutdown, making all or whatever you did to you desktop go back to default, once you have powered off your puppy by holding the power button untill its brutally forced to stop.
Its seems to be like the SFS is not really uninstalling. you need to power off the machine the brutal way there as well...
I suggest one plays with this using separate puppy and not your well established one, as it messes with things for sure.
That said... this is what happen to me and it might be happy hour for others:-)
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Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 16:14
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Weird things happen also after i got rid of the sfs.
Do not install unless you made a protected enviroment or backup of your Precise 5.5.
Goes for both versions...
Sorry to the author... This gave me like one hour of headace only.
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Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 23:28
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My apologies, this package has not tested on Precise Puppy 5.5
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Posted: Thu 21 Mar 2013, 10:36
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ITs ok.... It just went banans, so for those that has only got one puppy installed and have done some work to get it set up, etc, its better to make a separate puppy installation to test this within 5.5.
No harm done... I did the test and for me it did not work. Might even be me doing something wrong, for all i know
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Posted: Sat 19 Oct 2013, 10:37
Post subject: open ERP : Who works with it ?
Subject description: I/W stock y ventas
open ERP : Who works with it ?
Just wait and see.
I will soon test 'Stock y Ventas' I got it installed on Slacko 5.5.
Before getting really involved in this matter, i want to be sure my work will not be a loose of time. Because I have now heavy doubts about the interest of Puppy lovers for that kind of products.
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Posted: Mon 21 Oct 2013, 12:16
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Once upon a time i made a little 5.2.8 with LHMP and Joomla/ WebERP.
It can be made again.
There are lots of free software that can replace the cost of OpenERP as i see it.
If one likes to make a "Business Server" i think that can be very relevant to small business owners in various places and situations as its free as in a free beer:-)
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Posted: Wed 18 Jun 2014, 17:48
Post subject: How much is it ?
12€ monthly by set off applications.
"Free as in "Freedom", not free as in "Free services"
Fabien Pinckaers (fp)
May 2013"
ERP is an empty shell
Unless you pay modules.
As a summary, to build a great product, you need:
Customers: to finance the improvements (through services to partners for new features, through OpenERP Publisher's Warranty for long term maintenance and evolution)
Partners: to develop new features and support customers (mainly points 1 and 3)
Community: to continuously improve the quality of the software, by providing constant feedback and contributions
OpenERP: to improve the product (mainly points 2 and 3)
But even if it was free, Puppy's users don't use that...
They are lot of bugs. see ERP forum.
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Posted: Mon 08 Sep 2014, 10:49
Post subject: Better : try 'stock y ventas'
Better : try 'stock y ventas'. The app works in Slacko 5.5. But i have nothing to sell. I'am not a business man, not a teacher, i am a retired man.
Damned Puppy, stay plugged with Papa
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Posted: Thu 30 Jul 2015, 05:43
Post subject: OpenERP : use windows !
OpenERP : use Windows ! Business in Puppy is a waste of time...
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Actually, OpenERP was rebranded long time ago to Odoo:
My partner's family actually ran their business using OpenERP ver 7 for some years (was very stable and came with all the modules required and more). I installed it for them on Ubuntu originally and later on DebianDog.
By the way, Odoo is free to use if you download everything yourself and run it on your own server. It only costs if you use want to use the online servers of Odoo company. That's what the 'free trial' given via Odoo website is all about. The code itself is free and downloadable. The source code is also open. Of course, Odoo would like to make some money... so they don't say much about getting the software - rather they concentrate their marketing on their online paid for service - but you don't need to buy into that...
The only problem is if you want to upgrade your whole company database (it uses Postgres underneath) to new Odoo version (assuming you have installed Odoo to your own server, which is free as I say) - the scripts that Odoo themselves can use to do this are not freely available. But, as I said, Odoo (ERP software) is totally free to download and use, and it is fantastic software - I doubt you could get it working easily on Puppy though - hence my using DebianDog when I installed it; it will be even easier to install on MintPup because Ubuntu is the preferred platform.
Odoo is also available for MS Windows platform and I did try an install on that during testing. However, personally I would never use a Windows platform for business purposes though 'perhaps' MS WIndows server OS is more secure than its desktop versions...(?)
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Posted: Sun 16 Aug 2015, 02:11
Post subject: Odoo 8 (was OpenERP) installation
Is there someone who can do an updated sfs for Odoo?
The old one did not work for me and taking into account that the version has moved on to 8 I rather would invest the time on a working new installation.
Is there someone interested on making
8 sfs package or work together on getting this done?
Links that might be relevant for this project:
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Post subject: ERP by Puppy Linux ? ????
Odoo is also available for MS Windows platform and I did try an install on that during testing. However, personally I would never use a Windows platform for business purposes though 'perhaps' MS WIndows server OS is more secure than its desktop versions...(?)
Never ERP app was installed on Puppy, in my knowledge, even if they work... See forum Business by Musher0. I believe that himself does not run applications he proposes.
I have Open Concerto running in my Windows 7.
you can get help from Musher0 here.
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Samsung Updates Exynos 5 Octa (5420), Switches Back to ARM GPUby Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 7/22/2013 11:52 PM EST
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watersb - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkNice catch. Stunning that the CCI shipped. Reply
Sivar - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkNot at all.
Remember Samsung Galaxy S? It shipped with an obviously broken GPS. No replacement offered.
Remember the Galaxy X III and its rash of mainboard failures?
Remember the class action lawsuit over Samsung LCD TV failures? Their refrigerators?
This is par for Samsung. Reply
steven75 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkPart of the problem with Samsung's "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" approach is that some of it *won't* stick. Reply
chizow - Thursday, July 25, 2013 - linkYes, Samsung's approach is certainly "if it's broke, we'll fix it in the next iteration", but that has led them to continuously innovate, like clockwork. You can expect an update from Samsung in a year, sometimes even less. But ultimately, if a feature is that important to you, make sure it is working when you buy the product from Samsung, as their support and backward compatibility track record is pretty poor. Reply
theduckofdeath - Monday, September 02, 2013 - linkIs it better to offer a free bumper to the first few hundred thousand victims for a design failure, and after that just insist you're holding it wrong?
It is really rare that companies calls back all devices to fix issues that can be worked around. IT would take a successful class action lawsuit, which does happen in the industry from time to time.
I really don't see what your point is trying to single Samsung out with a behaviour that all companies have? Reply
jameskatt - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkIt is stunning that Samsung would break quality and ship an obviously buggy product without offering a replacement. Reply
jjj - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkWith the 5410 at 122mm2, I wonder how big this one is. Reply
twotwotwo - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkHuh. There were bench #s posted before where the Exynos wasn't much faster than Snapdragon; wonder if that changes when/if the coherence bug is fixed. Also, wonder what the target device is. A Note III could have a bigger battery than most phones, so maybe clocking a little higher than usual might work there. The amount of GPU would seem to suggest full-size tablet, though, since the T604 was enough for the very-high-res Nexus 10. Color me confused (and interested to see what's next), I guess. Reply
sherlockwing - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkNote 3 seem like the likely target if this chip will launch this year(Nexus 10 refresh also a likely target), however there have been rumors about Note 3 using Snapdragon 800 as well. Which side is more powerful & which side end up with the design win will be interesting to watch. Reply
jjj - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkSamsung is using Snapdragon in LTE markets not on perf, it's just more practical.
Mass production is in august and others don't like to buy from Samsung so it's safe to assume that this will go into non-LTE Note 3 -if they don't use it there is no point making it - and maybe some updated version of S4 , if there is one. A tablet, maybe a Chromebook could also show up with it, we'll see. Reply
thexile - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkGalaxy Note 2 LTE is using Exynos 4412. Reply
MrCommunistGen - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkThe Note 2 was surprising (at least to me) in that the SoC didn't vary by market as is the case with a number of Samsung devices. The US variant of the original Note used a Snapdragon... MSM8660 I think. Most international variants used Exynos 4210. The gist is that its still a crapshoot what Samsung decides to deploy in the Note 3 and if it will vary based on the market.
Being a Note 2 owner myself and having used the original US LTE Note for more than a month, I'd be happy to see either Snapdragon 800 or this new Exynos 5420 in the next Note. Reply
speculatrix - Thursday, July 25, 2013 - linkmy Note2, N7105 (European/ETSI bands for GSM, 3G/UMTS-2100 and LTE) is an exynos 4412. Reply
aicom - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkThe main memory flush penalty is only paid when switching CPU islands, so it should happen very infrequently during the benchmarks. It probably wouldn't make much of a difference unless the benchmarks were pathologically switching CPU complexes. Reply
tuxRoller - Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - linkI doubt the benchmarking would change much since the CCI bug should only rear its head whem moving between core types and benchmarks should be keeping the cores pegged mostly. Reply
coolcfan - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkAn article I read recently said the switching does happen during Benchmarking.
Benchmark --> high load on A15 --> a lot of heat --> lower frequency --> lower frequency, still a lot of heat --> switch to A7 --> switch back to A15....... Reply
jokeyrhyme - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkThis still seems like really ingenuous marketing: calling it "Octa" but really only ever having 4 cores active at a time. As the author suggests, wake me when big.LITTLE MP is available. :) Reply
steven75 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI think "misleading" is a better descriptor than "ingenious." Reply
FowLang - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkeven still, its only misleading if you dont read about it right ... everyone that complains about it knows whats really going on. so it isnt really ... its a 4+4 which is 8 cores ... they make no claim about how the 5410 has all 8 cores active. Reply
phillyry - Thursday, July 25, 2013 - linkBut misleading, by definition, means leading people in the wrong direction. In this case, that would be accurate. Samsung's branding leads people to initially believe that the Octa parts are eight core, simply by its name. So, the point stands. Reply
Krysto - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - link"Samsung's new Exynos 5 Octa (product code : Exynos 5420), based on ARM Mali™-T628 MP6 cores, boosts 3D graphic processing capabilities that are over two times greater than the Exynos 5 Octa predecessor"
The GPU seems to be 2x faster than the PowerVR one in Octa. Also could it be that the CCI bug came from the fact that Mali is more optimized to work with that than the old PowerVR chips are? So we might not see the same bug again. Reply
alex3run - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkThe new Mali T628 has twice the count of ALUs inside and the clock speed is supposed to be a bit higher. Don't forget that SGX 544 is an old GPU, which is not blazing fast. Reply
darkich - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkCan't wait for this to show up in Note 3, with the performance and battery life to scream in Anand's face.
How he fails to see the amazing big.LITTLE potential is beyond me.
He's not even interested in this top of the shelf ARM SoC!
While Bay Trail with its FAR inferior(likely) GPU and tripple the price gets him all excited.
Get a grip, mister.
flyingpants1 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkAnand likes Intel a lot. Reply
ancientarcher - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI wonder why...
Anand, do you have a commercial relationship with Intel? Reply
krumme - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkObviously the prior A15 version was not working. Performance a few percent over s600, and bad battery life as shown by gsmarena benchmarks. I doubt the memory bug is the only reason for it? The process needs maturement or perhaps 20nm, and the software side needs to mature too?
But besides that, this concept have great potential in reducing fab cost and helping battery life, moving complexity from production to design. Never in history have that been more important. And in perspective ARM and Samsung is working to fix the bug, while Intel is in the process of positioning Bay Trail against A12 while fixing benchmarks the usual Intel way; Look we came here first, and look we are way faster. Its a total disaster and and its a pain to watch. My eyes bleed watching this old style spin machine. Deliver the results or shut up.
This time, Intel is not the gorilla, but a tiny unimportant player, still working to get its old monopoly, with a proven record of failures on the mobile side. Intel better used their ressources on building the business side, and on the cloud and server side instead of this old battling AMD habbits. Reply
Ortanon - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkLet's not get crazy; Exynos 5 Octa has a higher IPC than Snapdragon 600, but the Snapdragon has higher battery life. Since Snapdragon isn't weak in CPU, having better battery life makes it a better phone part. After throwing so many CPU cores at the Battery Problem and still coming up short, it really isn't all that difficult to imagine someone being disappointed in the 5 Octa. Reply
lmcd - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkThe new Octa should fix that. That's the point. It'll be able to switch CPU clusters quickly and aggressively and save more power. Reply
Krysto - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI see people making this mistake a lot, but - Bay Trail is NOT A SMARTPHONE CHIP. It's a tablet chip. Merrifield is the one that will be in smartphones, and it won't be until Q2 2014 most likely.
And I agree the GPU will be much weaker than ARM competition, too, even though it will use SNB GPU architecture (but not as many cores, or as high clock speed). Reply
Krysto - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkMali cores usually came in 2x numbers compared to PowerVR anyway. The cores are no equivalent, so that's not where the "2x" performance comes from. It most likely comes from the increase in Mali T628's architecture performance, and also because of the higher clock speed.
Oh, and I think the GPU was at least as fast as the one in iPhone 5 and as Adreno 320, so I disagree that it wasn't fast. Reply
lmcd - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkA bit weaker than Adreno 320, and iPhone 5 does well against Adreno 320 in most tests I believe. Reply
Łukasz Markiewicz - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkDoes anyone have a link to a write up on the cache coherency issue? Can't find anything on Anand under the "exynos 5 octa" tag, but I'm sure this has been mentioned before. I vaguely remember hearing about it on one of the podcasts. Maybe around the time of the S4 review, though Anandtech's reviews was of the S600 version. Hmm... Reply
mrtanner70 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI think the bug might actually have been more of a deliberate cripple to match the s600. It would have been a marketing disaster in LTE markets for Samsung to have the international version of the s4 show any serious advantage. They had the CCI working fine for demos months earlier and it's a big issue to get through if not by design....if it was deliberate they would certainly not talk about it. Reply
mrtanner70 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkAnd for Anand, 8 cores may well be visible.
http://www.cnx-software.com/2013/07/23/samsung-unv... Reply
rd_nest - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkSome info here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2...
Andrei always has good knowledge on Exynos SOCs. He even mentioned the 5420 info before it was officially announced. Reply
yowanvista - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkIt appears that the 5420 can effectively use any combination of the eight CPU cores at a time if Global Task Scheduling is used instead of In-Kernel Switcher. Of course that's up to Samsung.
http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2013/07/10/big-l... Reply
rd_nest - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkAndreiLux says GTS is working.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4... Reply
FowLang - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkThe HMP (Linaro) would be dependent on which kernel they would be running if im not mistaken. I think that it was implemented in 3.9, so until Android (the assumption here is that these SoC will be used in the Note and an updated S4) upgrades from 3.4 or whatever it is at now, this wont be possible, unless Samsung can port/patch the implementation in their build of the OS. Hopefully the CCI-400 issue is resolved. Reply
Krysto - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkBtw, now I think I know why Samsung went with PowerVR. I don't think they had a Mali alternative for the late spring 2013 launch. There was Mali T604 in fall 2012, and Mali T628 in fall 2013, and I don't think Mali T624 was ready either.
So that's why they probably went with PowerVR "all of the sudden" (it surprised everyone), and probably why the cache coherency didn't work too well, either, because I think ARM mainly optimized it for its Mali chips, and Imagination, if anything, will optimize for that in PowerVR Series6, and didn't revist the old PowerVR 5 to make it work well with ARM's cache interconnect. Reply
aegisofrime - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI'm a prospective Note 3 buyer... So this concerns me personally I guess.
So, the problem with big.LITTLE from an Android perspective is not just that the Linux scheduler can't take full advantage of it, but also there's a hardware bug causing performance and power efficiency to suffer? Reply
vcarvega - Thursday, July 25, 2013 - linkI'm REALLY hoping for the Snapdragon 800 in the Nexus 10 refresh. But I guess we have just a few more months to find out either way. Reply
spinportal - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkWhen can we see pound for pound CPU benchmarks of Nvidia Tegra 3 vs Tegra 4 vs Intel Atom Z2580 (Clovertrail+) vs. Atom Z2760 (Clovertrail) vs i5 4200U vs i5 4650 vs Qualcom APQ8974 (Krait 800) vs APQ8064T (Krait 600) vs APQ8064 (S4 Pro) vs AMD Jaguar Kibini & Temash A6-1450 (silicon 5/23) vs... Reply
0xF2 - Friday, October 11, 2013 - linkfrom userland, how can one tell which of the two sets of cores is currently in use? And, is there a way to trigger the migration from the userland, other than manipulating load (perhaps CPUfreq, or something of the kind)?
Best -OxF2 Reply
Wolfpup - Monday, July 20, 2015 - linkI care very little for Android at all, but really can't care about tablets that won't be safe to use online after what, like 6 months? The state of Android is a disgrace. Hell, it took six months for my Nexus 7 to get updated, and it's a freaking Nexus! Reply


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PHILADELPHIA - Junior Alyssa Baron's 1,000th career point came at a huge moment as the University of Pennsylvania women's basketball team held off La Salle, 65-56, in the Big 5 opener for both teams Friday night at The Palestra.
Penn (1-3, 1-0 Big 5) earned its first victory of the season as all four games have been decided by single digits. The Quakers are alone atop the Big 5 standings as La Salle falls to 1-6 overall and 0-1 in the historic Philadelphia basketball conference.
Baron became the third-fastest Quaker to reach 1,000 career points (60 games) at an important juncture of the Big 5 contest. La Salle led for just 19 seconds in the first half and took its largest lead of the game, 46-44, with 8:37 to play. But that last just 13 seconds when Baron sunk her milestone basket with a go-ahead three-pointer. Penn never trailed again.
Except for a brief moment at the end of the contest, Penn led by single digits throughout the entire contest. Sophomore Kara Bonenberger had 10 of Penn's first 12 points and single-handedly had the Quakers up 12-6 just six minutes into the contest. But she would receive a lot of help offensively the rest of the way.
La Salle tied the game at 18-18 at the 6:10 mark of the opening half, but sophomore Renee Busch and freshman Rayne Connell hit back-to-back threes for a six-point edge. The Quakers had built the lead without their leading scorer, but Baron knocked home her first basket of the night at the end of the half - a three that gave the Red and Blue a 29-21 advantage heading into the break.
It was a long process, but La Salle slowly chipped away. Over a six-minute span, Penn never relinquished the lead, but was never ahead by more than two possessions. La Salle finally tied the game at 44-44 with 9:03 to go and went on top for that brief moment before Baron's three changed momentum.
After Baron's historic basket, junior Courtney Wilson scored on back-to-back trips and the quakers led 51-46 with 6:58 to play. The teams shared a few baskets before Wilson hit a free throw and Busch connected on another three for a 57-51 edge with 3:21 remaining.
Baron then blocked a three, was fouled in the race for the loose ball and sunk two free throws. That all but sealed the game as the Quakers hit their free throws and salted away the final few minutes.
The win was the second straight over La Salle at The Palestra and marked the first Big 5 win since that victory over the Explorers on Jan. 19, 2011. Penn had gone five seasons without a Big 5 win, but under head coach Mike McLaughlin, the Quakers snapped a 24-game losing streak and have two wins in the last two years with three more Big 5 matchups left this season.
Bonenberger finished with a team-high 16 points on 8-of-9 shooting. Baron finished just shy of a double-double. Fittingly, in the game in which she scored her 1,000th career point, she added a career-high nine assists and had just one turnover with 15 points in 37 minutes. Busch was 4-for-4 from three for 13 points, while freshman Keiera Ray added seven points and a team-best eight rebounds. All seven of Wilson's points came down the stretch as she added a career-best and game-high four blocks.
Penn shot 46 percent (23-of-50) to La Salle's 30 percent (18-of-60). Both teams were efficient from beyond the arc as Penn was 7-of-18 (38.9%) and La Salle was 8-of-18 (44.4%). The Quakers had 19 assists to 10 for the visitors. Penn also had just 10 turnovers to La Salle's 14. The Explorers won the rebounding battle, 41-34, which included 19 offensive rebounds.
Penn played without junior Meghan McCullough for the first time since the 2009-10 season finale - a span of 59 straight games. McCullough was injured during Penn's game at Army on Nov. 18 and she is expected to miss the remainder of the 2012-13 campaign.
Baron, who had played with McCullough in all 59 of her career games prior to Friday, is now No. 18 in scoring all-time at Penn with 1,005 career points. She passed Colleen Kelly (1995-98), who finished with exactly 1,000 points in her Red and Blue career.
Penn has a busy stretch coming up before the holiday break. The Red and Blue host Bucknell for the first time since 2000 on Monday at 7 p.m. Then its a pair of games in New York City, the first against St. Francis (N.Y.) on Wednesday and the next against LIU on Sunday, Dec. 9.
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PHILLIPSVILLE: A man got in a domestic dispute with his girlfriend and was stabbed with a pitchfork.
Law enforcement say the incident took place on Saturday April 19th just before 2 in the afternoon. Sheriff's Deputies got a call of a stabbing that occurred in the 400-block of Phillipsville Loop Road in Phillipsville. A 66-year old victim was bleeding from a stab wound to his arm. He told the investigating deputy he got into an argument with his girlfriend, 45-year old Paula Sue Darling. Darling allegedly grabbed an ax and the victim kicked it out of her hand. She then grabbed a pitchfork and stabbed at his torso. The victim put his arm up to protect himself and that is when his forearm was injured. He declined medical attention.
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opinions on a subject with a heavy hand. With the spring primary around
the corner, I figure everyone has just about had their fill of
commercials and other politico drones. I have pretty strong opinions
based on what is most important to me, so I'll leave it to someone else
to help you make up your voting mind if you can't make up your own on
May 6.
However, recent developments in the custodial world force
me to climb atop the keyboard that is my soapbox. I imagine we've all
grown accustomed to public toilets that flush at random. Some even spit
like frightened venomous snakes, forcing the unfortunate user to recoil
from the plumbed pit viper. I accept that automatic paper towel
dispensers are too technologically advanced for me. Someday there will
be a dance craze inspired by these devious devices. You wave your right
hand up, you wave your left arm out, you wipe your hands on your pants
and you shake them all about.
No two water faucets can be counted
on to operate in the same manner, either. If there is actually soap in
the liquid soap caddy, can the rinse water be accessed by a foot pedal
at the base of the vanity? Do you wave your sticky hands under the
faucet from left to right or forward and backward, and for how long? Or
must one look directly into the red-eyed sensor at the faucet base and
whisper the secret password? I don't know. Must be a gimmick to sell
clip-on hand sanitizer.
As I was leaving a public restroom not too
long ago, I heard a soft 'pfft' overhead and felt a light mist descend
upon my shoulders. Aside from the uck-factor of any unidentified liquid
raining in the loo, the fog smelled like pineapple coconut.
entering the season of vacations. With the price of gas, more people are
hitting the roads on day trips. State parks and campgrounds will be
packed to the gills, as will communal commodes along the highways. As we
stop to relieve ourselves of caffeine, do we really want to buy an ice
cream sundae that smells just like the restroom we visited a moment
Enough is enough. Right here, right now, I officially
launch a campaign to ban food-related fragrances in public restrooms. If
I walk out of one more lavatory with the scent of Bubblicious in my
nostrils and on my person, I cannot be responsible for my own actions.
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Hello !
Well, I am using user's password as Private Key to encrypt the user's sensitive data. Hence, the key is only known by user. I want to know/learn what is the best practice for keeping the private keys.
1) The way I am doing it, is it fine ?
2) Shall i store private keys in a file that is 1 level up to the public_html folder ?
3) What are the other options for this ?
Please guide !
You never want to encrypt passwords. The problem with encryption is that it's a two (or more) way street, in other words, you can both encrypt a password AND decrypt it. Even the best encryption algorithms are feasibly subject to brute forcing.
Hashing on the other hand is a one way street. Once a password is hashed, it can never be recovered.
Think of the password as a piece of paper, encryption as a paper shredder and paper as my hungry stomach. If you pass the paper through the shredder, you can piece it back together through trial and error - or if you left clues on the paper (an encryption key) and someone knew the clues it would be even easier.
Hashing on the other hand is like feeding me a piece of paper. I'll gobble it up, it'll go through my empty stomach, get churned up, broken down by my nasty stomach acids, and pooped out. It can never be recovered, ever. However, if I ate another piece of paper in the same exact way under exactly the same circumstances my poop will come out looking exactly the same. This is how hashing works.
However, if even one molecule was off or if in my furious consumption a drop of salty sweat fell on the paper the poop would come out completely different. Hashing works in this way too. Hashing makes use of something called SALT, which is a random string of characters that get sent into the algorithm with the password, to make it even more random.
The problem with Hashes is that they are fixed length. And although the length can be of any size, the length is still fixed. This means that a table of all possible outcomes could be created for any given algorithm and a hashed password could be compared with this table. Even a SALT of one character will render a rainbow table (as they are called) completely useless.
PHP has a function called md5, and it's really easy...you just do $hashed_password = md5($password . "R4nd0m cH4raC1er2"); and BAM! you have an impossibly irreversible password. You might be wondering...well how does a user log in!?
You store the hashed password in your now secure database. When a user logs in, you hash their password in the same way as above and compare it with the hashed password in the database. If they match then you can let them log in!
For more information, see this awesome post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4948322/fundamental-difference-between-hashing-and-encryption-algorithms
Which... is fine, but he didnt say he was sending the password. He said he was sending sensitive data. AKA stuff that will have to be decrypted on the other end because it needs to be readable.
OMGCarlos !
Thanks YES, I know about hash and most of the time I use that. But as StarLion picked the point, I want it to be 2 way. Say, I want to store the credit card info that will be used again for a recurring fee. Also, the administrator of the site wants to see the card info even something like ****-****-****-4545. So if we do hashing there, it can not be recovered. So these is a need of some cipher/decipher. That needs a private key. That is what I am asking about. Where to store that ?
Never store CC info. Ever. Unless you're working for a major company that can comply with every regulation regarding storing CC info in your host country (which... 99.99999% of sites CANT), use an external service. Because if your security does get breached, you're on the hook for potentially millions of dollars, even if your little store only sells 1.99$ items.
You should always use SSL, you should always use a hash on the key (the password should be hashed already, right?), and use the hashed value as the private key. Both sites will have to have the keys stored. As for where to store them.... either in a database, or in a file not accessable through the web. There will always be a 'what if _____ gets hacked". There's no foolproof answer.
Humm, thanks !
but suppose, I have a requirement to charge the user's credit card recurring ? Or say user does not want to enter the CC info again and again, and wants an account created with us, so that he can download some updates / etc as and when required ? Like the Apple Store ?
Set up an account with Paypal, and have your subscribers run through that. Or any of the other billing services available on the web that allow recurring payments. They hold the CC info, so you dont have to, and with a properly set up IPN/API integration, you get all the information you need.
Hi !
Well, you are right. However, there are some situations where we need to store some sensitive information in the database. I hope that many other coders will agree to this point. What OMGCarlos suggested (HASH) seems to be the good option, but HASH should not be relied on only.
What I am doing now is that, using a SALT with the hash. So my encrypted string is like SALT+(SALT.SHA1()).
This solution worked and I hope this is ok. What would you say ? I have a complex algorithm that generates that SALT, and collect that SALT from the encrypted string.
What do you think?
Anything sensitive that you do NOT NEED TO REPRODUCE should be hashed. With a salt.Anything that you DO need to reproduce (for display, for example) CANT be hashed. The idea of the hash is that it's one way. It CAN be encrypted.
Passwords can be (and should be) hashed because you can hash the input using the same algorithm, and compare the resultant hashes.
What StarLion just said is key, just mind the situation.
Also, you don't need to create a complex algorithm for Salts...in fact, it doesn't even need to be secret! You can store them in Plaintext without a problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_tables#Defense_against_rainbow_tables
What you could do to increase security, however, is generate a salt each time the user logs in. Rehash the password, and store both the hashed password and Salt in the database. Each time the user attempts a log in, just hash their password with the stored Salt and compare the two passwords.
To go a step further, you could rehash the password 1000x (or 100,000). This will not make the password itself more "secure", but will increase the amount of time it takes to hash the password.


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Tuesday, April 23rd8pm Bowker AuditoriumFelipe Salles & Tom Giampietro, co-directors
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Saturday, April 27th8pm Kendall Studio Theater, Mt. Holyoke CollegeNew works by senior dance majors Rachel Aylward, Tara Brown, Bridget Cronin, Melissa Frascella, Megan Kelly, Brittney Laquidara, Katie Lovell & Rebecca Steinberg, with topics ranging from psychological disorders to the integration of art forms
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Friday, April 26th8pm Kendall Studio, Mount Holyoke CollegeNew works by senior dance majors Rachel Aylward, Tara Brown, Bridget Cronin, Melissa Frascella, Megan Kelly, Brittney Laquidara, Katie Lovell & Rebecca Steinberg, with topics ranging from psychological disorders to the integration of art forms
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Friday, April 26th 8pm Bowker AuditoriumJeffrey W. Holmes, directorGuest singer Sheila Jordan, 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Masters Honoree & vocal jazz icon, will perform & record live with these ensembles featuring new/reworked orchestrations by Holmes & studentsTickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
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Saturday, April 27th4pm First Congregational Church, 165 Main Street, Amherst
The University ChoraleStephen A. Paparo, conductorHyeseung Seo, pianistGuest artists: Lisa Lehmberg and Lance Lehmberg, steel drumsMusic by Smith, Rutter, Pottle, Lauridsen, Bloch & McClure
UMass Recital ChoirSarah Bowe, Joshua Harper, Geoffrey Herrmann, Nhung Truong, graduate conductorsMusic by asia mei: Jacob Dreams of Angels, Samuel Barber: Sure On This Shining Night, Paul Hindemith: La Biche
UMass Womens ChoirSarah Bowe, Geoffrey Herrmann, Nhung Truong, graduate conductorsMusic by Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea; Mozart: Alleluia from Exultate Jubilate &Gwyneth Walker: Crossing the Bar
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Paul Pinard, violin
Monday, April 22, 6pmImmanuel Lutheran Church867 N. Pleasant St., Amherst
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Ryan McNeice, JazzMonday, April 22, 7:30pmReading Room, Campus Center
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Joon Sang Ko, pianoBen Lary, pianoTuesday, April 23, 8pmBezanson Recital Hall
Andrew Licht, violinWednesday, April 24, 6pmImmanuel Lutheran Church, 867 N. Pleasant St., Amherst
Christopher Horte, clarinet
Saturday, April 27, 2pmImmanuel Lutheran Church867 N. Pleasant St., Amherst
Aaron Stewart, saxophoneSaturday, April 27, 7pmBezanson Recital Hall
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