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- 2.1. A Review of Certificate System Subsystems
- 2.2. Red Hat Certificate System Services
Every common PKI operation — issuing, renewing and revoking certificates; archiving and recovering keys; publishing CRLs and verifying certificate status — are carried out by interoperating subsystems within Red Hat Certificate System. The functions of each individual subsystem and the way that they work together to establish a robust and local PKI is described in this chapter.
Red Hat Certificate System provides six different subsystems, each focusing on different aspects of a PKI deployment:
- A certificate authority called a Certificate Manager. The CA is the core of the PKI; it issues and revokes all certificates. The Certificate Manager is also the core of the Certificate System. By establishing a security domain of trusted subsystems, it establishes and manages relationships between the other subsystems.
- A key recovery authority called a data recovery manager (DRM). Certificates are created based on a specific and unique key pair. If a private key is ever lost, then the data which that key was used to access (such as encrypted emails) is also lost because it is inaccessible. The DRM stores key pairs, so that a new, identical certificate can be generated based on recovered keys, and all of the encrypted data can be accessed even after a private key is lost or damaged.
- An online certificate status responder (OCSP). The OCSP verifies whether a certificate is valid and not expired. This function can also be done by the CA, which has an internal OCSP service, but using an external OCSP eases the load off of the issuing CA.
- A registration authority (RA). An RA accepts certificate requests and verifies, independently, whether that request should be approved. It then forwards approved requests to the CA to issue the certificate. Like the OCSP, this is a function that can be performed by the CA, but using a separate subsystem reduces the load on the CA.
- A token key service (TKS). The TKS derives keys based on the token CCID, private information, and a defined algorithm. These derived keys are used by the TPS to format tokens and enroll, or process, certificates on the token.
- A token processing system (TPS). The TPS interacts directly with external tokens, like smart cards, and manages the keys and certificates on those tokens through a local client, the Enterprise Security Client. The Enterprise Security Client contacts the TPS when there is a token operation, and the TPS interacts with the CA, DRM, or TKS, as required, then send the information back to the token by way of the Enterprise Security Client.
Even with all possible subsystems installed, the core of the Certificate System is still the CA (or CAs), since they ultimately process all certificate-related requests. The other subsystems connect to the CA or CAs likes spokes in a wheel.
As stated, the Certificate Manager is the heart of the Certificate System. It manages certificates at every stage, from requests through enrollment (issuing), renewal, and revocation. The CA also publishes certificates and lists of revoked certificates for use by clients like the OCSP or web servers.
An end entity enrolls in the PKI by submitting an enrollment request through the end-entity interface. There can be many kinds of enrollment that use different enrollment methods or require different authentication methods. For each enrollment, there is a separate enrollment page created that is specific to the type of enrollment, type of authentication, and the certificate profiles associated with the type of certificate. The forms associated with enrollment can be customized for both appearance and content. Alternatively, the enrollment process can be customized by creating certificate profiles for each enrollment type. Certificate profiles dynamically-generate forms which are customized by configuring the inputs associated with the certificate profile.
When an end entity enrolls in a PKI by requesting a certificate, the following events can occur, depending on the configuration of the PKI and the subsystems installed:
- The end entity provides the information in one of the enrollment forms and submits a request.The information gathered from the end entity is customizable in the form depending on the information collected to store in the certificate or to authenticate against the authentication method associated with the form. The form creates a request that is then submitted to the Certificate Manager.
- The enrollment form triggers the creation of the public and private keys or for dual-key pairs for the request.
- The end entity provides authentication credentials before submitting the request, depending on the authentication type. This can be LDAP authentication, PIN-based authentication, or certificate-based authentication.
- The request is submitted either to an agent-approved enrollment process or an automated process.
- The agent-approved process, which involves no end-entity authentication, sends the request to the request queue in the agent services interface, where an agent must processes the request. An agent can then modify parts of the request, change the status of the request, reject the request, or approve the request.Automatic notification can be set up so an email is sent to an agent any time a request appears in the queue. Also, an automated job can be set to send a list of the contents of the queue to agents on a pre configured schedule.
- The automated process, which involves end-entity authentication, processes the certificate request as soon as the end entity successfully authenticates.
- The form collects information about the end entity from an LDAP directory when the form is submitted. For certificate profile-based enrollment, the defaults for the form can be used to collect the user LDAP ID and password.
- The certificate profile associated with the form determine aspects of the certificate that is issued. Depending on the certificate profile, the request is evaluated to determine if the request meets the constraints set, if the required information is provided, and the contents of the new certificate.
- The form can also request that the user export the private encryption key. If the DRM subsystem is set up with this CA, the end entity's key is requested, and an archival request is sent to the DRM. This process generally requires no interaction from the end entity.
- The certificate request is either rejected because it did not meet the certificate profile or authentication requirements, or a certificate is issued.
- The certificate is delivered to the end entity.
- In automated enrollment, the certificate is delivered to the user immediately. Since the enrollment is normally through an HTML page, the certificate is returned as a response on another HTML page.
- In agent-approved enrollment, the certificate can be retrieved by serial number or request Id in the end-entity interface.
- If the notification feature is set up, the link where the certificate can be obtained is sent to the end user.
- An automatic notice can be sent to the end entity when the certificate is issued or rejected.
- The new certificate is stored in the Certificate Manager's internal database.
- If publishing is set up for the Certificate Manager, the certificate is published to a file or an LDAP directory.
- The internal OCSP service checks the status of certificates in the internal database when a certificate status request is received.
The end-entity interface has a search form for certificates that have been issued and for the CA certificate chain.
When certificates reach their expiration date, they can either be allowed to lapse, or they can be renewed.
Renewal regenerates a certificate request using the existing key pairs for that certificate, and then resubmits the request to Certificate Manager. The renewed certificate is identical to the original (since it was created from the same profile using the same key material) with one exception — it has a different, later expiration date.
Renewal can make managing certificates and relationships between users and servers much smoother, because the renewed certificate functions precisely as the old one. For user certificates, renewal allows encrypted data to be accessed without any loss.
End entities can request that their own certificates be revoked. When an end entity makes the request, the certificate has to be presented to the CA. If the certificate and the keys are available, the request is processed and sent to the Certificate Manager, and the certificate is revoked. The Certificate Manager marks the certificate as revoked in its database and adds it to any applicable CRLs.
An agent can revoke any certificate issued by the Certificate Manager by searching for the certificate in the agent services interface and then marking it revoked. Once a certificate is revoked, it is marked revoked in the database and in the publishing directory, if the Certificate is set up for publishing.
If the internal OCSP service has been configured, the service determines the status of certificates by looking them up in the internal database.
Automated notifications can be set to send email messages to end entities when their certificates are revoked by enabling and configuring the certificate revoked notification message.
A registration authority (RA) is an intermediary between a user and a CA. It accepts enrollment requests and then authenticates them locally. If the request is approved, the RA sends the request to the CA to issue the certificate and, once the certificate is issued, sends the certificate back to the user.
RAs remove some of the load from CAs by handling the validation part of a certificate request. For example, offices or organizations can validate requests locally, according to their predefined standards, using RA agents. This requires fewer CAs and allows the organization to group all of the CAs in a separate, secure location.
The kinds of certificates that can generated in the Certificate System RA are limited to the most common types of certificates: user certificates, SSL client certificates, RA agent certificates, and SCEP certificates for local routers. Users can check the RA services pages to view their certificate request status, retrieve their issued certificates, and renew their certificates.
Certificate System RAs can perform either automatic approval and manual approval, depending on the configuration in the enrollment profiles. Like the CA, the RA can also be configured to send a notification when the certificate request is processed.
The RA is normally set up outside of the firewall, and the CA is set up behind the firewall. This enables requests to be made from outside the protected environment (for example, the Internet), while the CA remains under the protection of the site's security measures.
The Certificate System CA supports the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) as defined in PKIX standard RFC 2560. The OCSP protocol enables OCSP-compliant applications to determine the state of a certificate, including the revocation status, without having to directly check a CRL published by a CA to the validation authority. The validation authority, which is also called an OCSP responder, checks for the application.
- A CA is set up to issue certificates that include the Authority Information Access extension, which identifies an OCSP responder that can be queried for the status of the certificate.
- The CA periodically publishes CRLs to an OCSP responder.
- The OCSP responder maintains the CRL it receives from the CA.
- An OCSP-compliant client sends requests containing all the information required to identify the certificate to the OCSP responder for verification. The applications determine the location of the OCSP responder from the value of the Authority Information Access extension in the certificate being validated.
- The OCSP responder determines if the request contains all the information required to process it. If it does not or if it is not enabled for the requested service, a rejection notice is sent. If it does have enough information, it processes the request and sends back a report stating the status of the certificate.
Every response that the client receives, including a rejection notification, is digitally signed by the responder; the client is expected to verify the signature to ensure that the response came from the responder to which it submitted the request. The key the responder uses to sign the message depends on how the OCSP responder is deployed in a PKI setup. RFC 2560 recommends that the key used to sign the response belong to one of the following:
- The CA that issued the certificate that's status is being checked.
- A responder with a public key trusted by the client. Such a responder is called a trusted responder.
- A responder that holds a specially marked certificate issued to it directly by the CA that revokes the certificates and publishes the CRL. Possession of this certificate by a responder indicates that the CA has authorized the responder to issue OCSP responses for certificates revoked by the CA. Such a responder is called a CA-designated responder or a CA-authorized responder.
The end-entities page of a Certificate Manager includes a form for manually requesting a certificate for the OCSP responder. The default enrollment form includes all the attributes that identify the certificate as an OCSP responder certificate. The required certificate extensions, such as OCSPNoCheck and Extended Key Usage, can be added to the certificate when the certificate request is submitted.
The OCSP response that the client receives indicates the current status of the certificate as determined by the OCSP responder. The response could be any of the following:
- Good or Verified . Specifies a positive response to the status inquiry, meaning the certificate has not been revoked. It does not necessarily mean that the certificate was issued or that it is within the certificate's validity interval. Response extensions may be used to convey additional information on assertions made by the responder regarding the status of the certificate.
- Revoked . Specifies that the certificate has been revoked, either permanently or temporarily.
Based on the status, the client decides whether to validate the certificate.
The OCSP responder will never return a response of Unknown. The response will always be either Good or Revoked.
There are two ways to set up OCSP services:
- The OCSP built into the Certificate Manager
- The Online Certificate Status Manager subsystem
In addition to the built-in OCSP service, the Certificate Manager can publish CRLs to an OCSP-compliant validation authority. CAs can be configured to publish CRLs to the Certificate System Online Certificate Status Manager. The Online Certificate Status Manager stores each Certificate Manager's CRL in its internal database and uses the appropriate CRL to verify the revocation status of a certificate when queried by an OCSP-compliant client.
The Certificate Manager can generate and publish CRLs whenever a certificate is revoked and at specified intervals. Because the purpose of an OCSP responder is to facilitate immediate verification of certificates, the Certificate Manager should publish the CRL to the Online Certificate Status Manager every time a certificate is revoked. Publishing only at intervals means that the OCSP service is checking an outdated CRL.
If the CRL is large, the Certificate Manager can take a considerable amount of time to publish the CRL.
The Online Certificate Status Manager stores each Certificate Manager's CRL in its internal database and uses it as the CRL to verify certificates. The Online Certificate Status Manager can also use the CRL published to an LDAP directory, meaning the Certificate Manager does not have to update the CRLs directly to the Online Certificate Status Manager.
To archive private encryption keys and recover them later, the PKI configuration must include the following elements:
- Clients that can generate dual keys and that support the key archival option (using the CRMF/CMMF protocol).
- An installed and configured DRM.
- HTML forms with which end entities can request dual certificates (based on dual keys) and key recovery agents can request key recovery.
Only keys that are used exclusively for encrypting data should be archived; signing keys in particular should never be archived. Having two copies of a signing key makes it impossible to identify with certainty who used the key; a second archived copy could be used to impersonate the digital identity of the original key owner.
Clients that generate single key pairs use the same private key for both signing and encrypting data, so a private key derived from a single key pair cannot be archived and recovered. Clients that can generate dual key pairs use one private key for encrypting data and the other for signing data. Since the private encryption key is separate, it can be archived.
In addition to generating dual key pairs, the clients must also support archiving the encryption key in certificate requests. This option archives keys at the time the private encryption keys are generated as a part of issuing the certificate.
If an end entity loses a private encryption key or is unavailable to use the private key, the key must be recovered before any data that was encrypted with the corresponding public key can be read. Recovery is possible if the private key was archived when the key was generated.
There are some common situations when it is necessary to recover encryption keys:
- An employee loses the private encryption key and cannot read encrypted mail messages.
- An employee is on an extended leave, and someone needs to access an encrypted document.
- An employee leaves the company, and company officials need to perform an audit that requires gaining access to the employee's encrypted mail.
The DRM stores private encryption keys in a secure key repository in its internal database; each key is encrypted and stored as a key record and is given a unique key identifier.
The archived copy of the key remains wrapped with the DRM's storage key. It can be decrypted, or unwrapped, only by using the corresponding private key pair of the storage certificate. A combination of one or more key recovery (or DRM) agents' certificates authorizes the DRM to complete the key recovery to retrieve its private storage key and use it to decrypt/recover an archived private key.
The DRM indexes stored keys by key number, owner name, and a hash of the public key, allowing for highly efficient searching. The key recovery agents have the privilege to insert, delete, and search for key records.
- When the key recovery agents search by the key ID, only the key that corresponds to that ID is returned.
- When the agents search by user name, all stored keys belonging to that owner are returned.
- When the agents search by the public key in a certificate, only the corresponding private key is returned.
When a Certificate Manager receives a certificate request that contains the key archival option, it automatically forwards the request to the DRM to archive the encryption key. The private key is encrypted by the transport key, and the DRM receives the encrypted copy and stores the key in its key repository. To archive the key, the DRM uses two special key pairs:
- A transport key pair and corresponding certificate.
- A storage key pair.
Figure 2.1, "How the Key Archival Process Works" illustrates how the key archival process occurs when an end entity requests a certificate.
- The client requests and generates a dual key pair.
- The end entity, using a client which can generate dual key pairs, submits a request through the Certificate Manager enrollment form.
- The client detects the JavaScript in the enrollment form and exports only the private encryption key, not the private signing key.
- The Certificate Manager detects the key archival option in the request and asks the client for the private encryption key.
- The client encrypts the private encryption key with the public key from the DRM's transport certificate embedded in the enrollment form.
- After approving the certificate request and issuing the certificate, the Certificate Manager sends it to the DRM for storage, along with the public key. The Certificate Manager waits for verification from the DRM that the private key has been received and stored and that it corresponds to the public encryption key.
- The DRM decrypts it with the private key. After confirming that the private encryption key corresponds to the public encryption key, the DRM encrypts it again with its public key pair of the storage key before storing it in its internal database.
- The Certificate Manager issues two certificates for the signing and encryption key pairs and returns them to the end entity.
Both subsystems subject the request to configured certificate profile constraints at appropriate stages. If the request fails to meet any of the profile constraints, the subsystem rejects the request.
The DRM supports agent-initiated key recovery. Agent-initiated recovery is when designated recovery agents use the key recovery form on the DRM agent services page to process and approve key recovery requests. With the approval of a specified number of agents, an organization can recover keys when the key's owner is unavailable or when keys have been lost.
Through the DRM agent services page, key recovery agents can collectively authorize and retrieve private encryption keys and associated certificates in a PKCS #12 package, which can then be imported into the client. (This is explained in more detail in the Certificate System Agent's Guide.) To authorize key recovery, the required number of recovery agents access the DRM agent services page and use thebutton to enter each authorization separately.
In key recovery authorization, one of the key recovery agents informs all required recovery agents about an impending key recovery. All recovery agents access the DRM key recovery page. One of the agents initiates the key recovery process. The DRM returns a notification to the agent includes a recovery authorization reference number identifying the particular key recovery request that the agent is required to authorize. Each agent uses the reference number and authorizes key recovery separately.
The DRM informs the agent who initiated the key recovery process of the status of the authorizations.
The page that the first agent used to initiate the key recovery request keeps refreshing until all agents required to authorize have performed the authorization. It is important that the first agent does not close this browser session until the authorization is complete. Otherwise, the key recovery request needs to be started again.
When all of the authorizations are entered, the DRM checks the information. If the information presented is correct, it retrieves the requested key and returns it along with the corresponding certificate in the form of a PKCS #12 package to the agent who initiated the key recovery process.
The PKCS #12 package contains the private key. To minimize the risk of key compromise, the recovery agent must use a secure method to deliver the PKCS #12 package and password to the key recipient. The agent should use a good password to encrypt the PKCS #12 package and set up an appropriate delivery mechanism.
The key recovery agent scheme configures the DRM to recognize to which group the key recovery agents belong and specifies how many of these agents are required to authorize a key recovery request before the archived key is restored.
The Token Processing System (TPS) serves as the conduit between the Enterprise Security Client and the other subsystems (CA, TKS, DRM) in the Certificate System and is the only means for the client to communicate with the other subsystems. It provides the following functionalities for users managing their smart cards through the Enterprise Security Client:
- Working with multiple instances of a subsystem
- Formatting smart cards
- Resetting the PIN on smart card tokens
- Upgrading the applet for smart card tokens
- Enrolling smart cards through the Enterprise Security Client
- Performing LDAP authentication
- Managing the token database
- Logging token events
The TPS must be configured to work with two Certificate System subsystems: the CA, which will process all of the certificate enrollment and revocation requests initiated through the Enterprise Security Client, and the Token Key Service, which generates a master key which is used to derive secret keys specific to each smart card, which are used to wrap (encrypt) the certificates and commands transmitted between the TPS and the client. The TPS can be optionally configured to work with a DRM instance, which will perform server-side key generation and key archival and recovery for the keys and certificates stored on the smart cards.
The Certificate System Token Management System consists of three components, the Token Processing System (TPS), the Token Key Service (TKS), and the Enterprise Security Client. This section explains the TKS, which manages the master keys required set up a secure communication channel between the TPS and the client.
A TKS manages the master and transport keys required to generate and distribute keys for smart cards or tokens. A master key is a Triple DES symmetric key stored either in software or hardware token. When supplied with the token CUID, a TKS can derive the corresponding three symmetric keys ‐ authentication key, Mac key, and key encryption key (KEK) ‐ on each token. This effectively shares secrets between the Certificate System and the token without having to store these symmetric keys on the server.
The Certificate System TPS subsystem uses the TKS subsystem to generate the token keys the TPS uses to communicate with the Enterprise Security Client. The TPS communicates with the TKS over SSL. The TKS provides the security between tokens and the TPS since the security relies on the relationship between the master key and the token keys.
The functions provided by the TKS include the following:
- Helps establish a secure channel (signed and encrypted) between the token and TPS.
- Provides proof of presence for the security token during enrollment.
- Supports key changeover when the master key changes on the TKS. Tokens with older keys get new token keys.
- Helps generate a symmetric session key for the DRM to wrap (encrypt) the entity's private key for (optional) server-side key generation, where the entity's encryption keys are generated on the DRM
Because of the sensitivity of the data that the TKS manages, the TKS should be set behind the firewall with restricted access.


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Mr. Haim Romano noted: "The Company is operating under two main brands and adhered to its customer centric strategy, its dedication to excellent service and its commitment to offers tailored to customer needs. The Orange brand provides customized solutions with maximum availability in all customer interfaces, physical and digital, and was ranked first among all major cellular operators in Israel in the "Market-test index for customer experience". The "012 mobile" cellular services are based mainly on self-service through a website at attractive prices.The Company will continue to implement the "clear" policy, which is unique to the Company, and is based on simplicity, fairness and clarity in all the Company's interfaces, under which the same plans are offered to new and existing customers and which contributes to the creation of customer loyalty over time." Mr. Haim Romano concluded: "the Company will continue to adhere to the customer centric strategy and with the consistent investment in the Company's assets: customers, employees and the Orange brand." Mr. Ziv Leitman, Partner's Chief Financial Officer commented on the quarterly results: "The financial results of the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to the previous quarter reflect the downward pressure on revenues resulting from increasingly intense competition in the telecommunications market, which was partially offset by the continued impact of efficiency measures implemented by the Company over the course of the past year. During the fourth quarter of 2012, the Company continued to implement efficiency measures and to adjust its cost structure to adapt to the new level of revenues. In the fourth quarter, operating expenses (excluding cost of equipment revenues, depreciation and amortization) decreased by approximately NIS 50 million compared to the third quarter of 2012, mainly reflecting the impact of efficiency measures. The Company began to implement significant efficiency measures five quarters ago and operating expenses in the fourth quarter of 2012 was lower by NIS 145 million compared with the fourth quarter of 2011. The Company plans to continue in the coming quarters to implement additional operational efficiency measures in order to further reduce operating expenses . As part of the efficiency measures, the Company has continued to adjust its workforce to the changing market conditions and in the fourth quarter of 2012, the number of positions (on a full time equivalent (FTE) basis) was reduced by approximately 700. In total, during 2012, the number of reported positions was reduced by 2,495 positions, or 32% of the Company's workforce, principally by lowering the level of new recruits. The number of employees on a FTE basis at the end of December 2012 was 5,396.
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A nicely detailed kit of the Swedish "S-Tank," the Strv. 103B. This unconventional tank was notable for its lack of a turret, with the L-74 105mm main gun fixed solidly in the hull. Aiming this fixed gun was accomplished via the tank's suspension, which could pitch forward or backward thanks to an intricate system of hydraulics to elevate or depress the gun. Traverse was accomplished by turning the vehicle. It sounds crazy, but given the intended strategy of being a defensive weapon, the lower silhouette achieved by the turretless design more than compensated for any lack of gun laying.
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This image was centred around the idea of scale. It is an idea from a story of my own creation, a narrative about a boy who is very small, and his relationship with other very large things that he explores in the book. In this scene he meets a whale. I spent a lot of time trying to design the image in a way that would express this issue of incomprehensible size. A lot of on site drawing at Manchester Museum supported this work and enabled me to play with this idea.


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Ashley Tisdale and Boys Like Girls lead singer Martin Johnson picked a very special occasion to make their red carpet debut as a couple.
The two stars, who began dating in January, showed up arm-in-arm at the 20th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards viewing party at The City of West Hollywood Park in Beverly Hills Sunday.
Tisdale, 26, was dressed to the nines in a red hot Maria Lucia Hohan dress, Jerome C. Rousseau heels, House of Lavande earrings, Arunashi and MEUS rings and an Edie Parker clutch.
Tisdale and Johnson first met when Tisdale starred in Boys Like Girls' "Love Drunk" music video in 2009; the former High School Musical star was dating music video director Scott Speer at the time.
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The Bush Capital Gains Tax Cut after Four Years: More Growth, More Investment, More Revenues
No. 307
Thursday, January 10, 2008
by Stephen Moore and Tyler Grimm
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- The Capital Gains Tax and Revenue
- How the Capital Gains Tax Is Unlike Other Taxes
- Recent Trends in Capital Gains Tax Rates and Receipts
- Some Effects of the 2003 Capital Gains Tax Rate Cut
- Did the 2003 Tax Cut Increase the Budget Deficit?
- The Lock-in Effect of Capital Gains Taxes
- Was the 2003 Capital Gains Tax Cut "Fair"?
- Is It Fair to Tax Gains Due Solely to Inflation?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- About the Authors
"Lower capital gains tax rates increase asset values and encourage investment."
By every objective measure, the 2003 capital gains tax cut has had positive economic and fiscal effects. Even the argument that the capital gains tax change would only benefit rich people has been proven to be inaccurate given that more than half the tax returns with capital gains income are from filers with adjusted gross incomes of $50,000 or less. Whether the tax cut will pay for itself in the long term is an open question, but what is irrefutable is that the capital gains cut, so far, has increased collections from this tax after four years. The stock market and real estate market booms have been the major factors in the doubling of capital gains revenues, but the higher asset valuations have been partly due to investors seizing on the lower taxes on capital assets.
The Treasury Department recently provided a concise summary of the 2003 capital gains cut experience:
The lower tax rates on dividends and capital gains lower the cost of equity capital and reduce the tax biases against dividend payment, equity finance and investment in the corporate sector. All of these policies increase incentives to work, save and invest by reducing the distorting effects of taxes. Capital investment and labor productivity will thus be higher, which means higher output and living standards in the long run.31
The Treasury's analysis is by no means a modern revelation. In 1963 President John F. Kennedy clearly understood the fundamental importance of capital investment's role in the economy:
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital . . . the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.32
"Congress should permanently reduce taxes on capital gains."
Finally, circumstantial evidence suggests that the political uncertainty of the direction the capital gains tax is headed may now be hurting the stock market and reducing the value of U.S. assets, which may be exacerbating the dollar's fall relative to the euro and other currencies. After 2010, the capital gains tax is scheduled to rise back to 20 percent. This reduces the value of stocks today, because the after-tax rate of future returns on stocks is lower with the possibility of this coming tax hike. Moreover, the Wall Street Journal reports that investors are already beginning to sell stocks and other assets in anticipation of the higher tax rate in 2011.
In our opinion, it is not only critical that Congress extend the life of the tax cuts by making them permanent, but also vital to do so sooner rather than later. This would help boost the economy now and reduce the bearish nature of economic and fiscal policy uncertainty.
NOTE: Nothing written here should be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the National Center for Policy Analysis or as an attempt to aid or hinder the passage of any bill before Congress.


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Wise women and men from across the marketing ecosystem agreed that an ad impression, as a metric for exposure, must be defined as a viewable impression. The reason is simple: brand advertising is based on the notion that the delivery vehicle for the ad must provide an "opportunity to see."
Some of you may be asking why digital ads have not been providing this opportunity all along. The answer is simple, too. The technology needed to serve, see and measure viewability was not ready. Converting to a viewable impression currency is not simple. It takes new technology, testing, resources and business process change. At this point, the marketplace is rapidly moving to the critical moment when the currency will switch. At the end of this quarter, when the Media Rating Council completes its work on the viewable impression standard, currency for display brand advertising will actually be a viewable impression.
But the work of 3MS is nowhere near complete once that transition takes place. Once we can measure and transact on viewable impressions, we can start counting across media, using equivalent units of exposure. And then, once we develop a standard for digital media reach (GRP), we can develop a standard for cross-platform reach (GRP).
In so doing, we can then count how many unique (unduplicated) people in a given demographic or market segment saw an ad how many times across media Like viewability, the standards for GRPs will be overseen by the MRC. Some initial work on this front has already begun.
Assuming that we can measure exposure and count across media platforms, we still need to provide a deeper understanding of how specific advertising campaigns work. As devices, content creation and consumption proliferate, basic counting is simply not enough. New opportunities to build awareness, reposition brands, drive trial and loyalty, etc., will emerge.
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We should not be limited by the wrong metrics, nor by metrics that are generated simply because the technology permits it. This is why 3MS calls for identifying metrics of interactivity that build brands. What is unique about interactivity that differentiates the brand advertising experience? We started by investigating engagement. Cognitive, emotional and behavioral/physical involvement with advertising off and online on different devices are part of engagement. A new paper was released last week to serve as a baseline for future standardization work.
We know that the industry is anxious to see all that 3MS is offering take hold. But what can we expect in the near term and foreseeable future? Viewability will be implemented soon. GRP standards are coming on the heels of viewability. Standardization of engagement and brand advertising metrics will begin. Dollars will move across media as dictated by the needs of brands to create consumer experiences that build their businesses.
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In the Taskbar and Navigation properties, is there an option to "turn off" or hide the new Start button?
Installed the 8.1 Preview on my SurfacePro.. Did the lack luster messaging app go away.... and there isn't a replacement in 8.1? I don't see it anywhere and it isn't in the store.
List of failures:
1. Metro apps -> every one of them useless
2. No option to do local account during Windows install. After installation you have to disconnect Microsoft Account and create local, what a fucking hassle. Not sure how will people with no intention to have Microsoft account install this.
3. Only way to do search and stay on desktop is to invoke charm, click search -> another fucking hassle
4. Overall looks ugly -> we need AERO, I could give a fuck if some stupid ass tablet can't handle it. My PC is worth $4000 and I want fucking AERO on it.
5. No Start Menu -> could fucking care less about fucking shit called start button which bring me back to the ugliest fucking interface I have seen
6. Sorry for all this swearing cause Microsoft dropped it again...no fucking 8.1 will be installed
7. Conclusion -> this will be another failure for Microsoft. I want to see their reaction in 8 months, it will be priceless.
Bing Health & Fitness Metro App...and that's what Microsoft came up with after so many years of doing business...fucking joke.
One thing I've always found a shame about this website is that you don't allow expansion of your pictures... I'd love to see some full screen. Is there a reason you purposely don't have this option?
I still wish Microsoft would allow us to change the color of individual tiles. I hate the orange color they use for some of the tiles.
Also, the Metro apps still have too much white space. I'd also like the option to choose either a light or dark background for apps (like we can on Windows Phone). Personally, for many apps, I prefer a black/dark background.
Just curious as to whether you could stick with Windows 8 when this releases. I actually find Windows 8 find by itself. Will it still be supported, or will Microsoft force people to upgrade?
Hey, it's Orange Paul! I though he only was appearances on Windows Weekly! ;-)
Paul, does 8.1 have a Settings option to show more tiles on the Surface Pro, e.g. 4 rows of tiles rather than the 3 in your screenshots?
I am seriously disturbed about what Microsoft is doing with this OS and what funky ideas they have about what they think customers want. My review of 8.1 has further confirmed my fears they are deep into the twilight zone on this one.
They are clearly copying the Apple store success with their own store and suddenly Technet is being abandoned. A seriously bad mistake.
This is what Larry did with Solaris, I can see the Windows OS shrinking to unheard of use percentage wise.
I think, based on the evidence in this client OS that I will be delving deeper into Open Systems going forward.
If I am going to deal with an OS like 8.1 I would prefer ANY UNIX variant instead.
This all smacks of Novell all over again. Who'd have thunk it???????
BTW, great work over the years Paul!! I will miss it........
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THE £600 million Mersey Gateway has reached an important milestone with work starting on the construction of a temporary trestle bridge at Wigg Island in Runcorn.
The structure will stretch across the River Mersey providing construction teams access to the estuary so that they can start building the new bridge.
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Halton Council leader, Clr Rob Polhill said: "It is great to see the first real signs of construction activity taking place.
"The Mersey Gateway is becoming a reality. However it's important to remember that it's not just a physical structure. The bridge will transform our local area, connecting communities and bringing regeneration and investment opportunities throughout Halton and the Liverpool city region."
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Engineers will start work on the trestle bridge on the northern side of the river at Spike Island later this month. The two structures will meet in the middle of the river in early 2015.
Hugh O'Connor, general manager for the Merseylink Consortium, said: "This is a significant event for Merseylink and highlights the progress we are making in our challenging three-and-a-half-year construction programme."
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WWE missed the opportunity to really get WM going into full gear. The Old School theme was great and the theme music, the ring was an awesome throwback hommage. Then they went and screwed everything up as they are compentently doing these days.
First off, Punk's promo was very good and giving him a reason to wrestle and end the streak. His streak was ended because the fans wanted the Rock to win and now he can stick it to the fans and end the Taker's streak. If he ends the streak, then he does what nobody else could and he did it straight edged. Orton comes out and delivers a weak reason for why he should be given the chance to end the streak. Sorry but if you can't even have a decent feud over the last couple of months then you have no shot of wrestling the Taker. Then, what is worse, the Big Show shows up and god knows that Taker Show is a brutal match at the best of times, now with Taker being banged up that match would be awful! Sheamus comes out and his reason has some credence but he has fallen out of the main event picture since he dropped the title to Show. I know that they needed a main event but this was weak in putting it together.
Then Cesaro has to job to Ryback again. It was nice for him to get in some offence but this is ridiculous that a champion has to continue to lose. The same thing can be said about Barrett but at least he loses to the WH champ which makes it more credible. Ryback is doing nothing and continues to win, the crowd not nearly as supportive as they were before, and it appears that he will wrestle Henry at WM which is a decent prospect of strength vs strength. I guess Jericho vs Henry may have got scrapped. Cesaro is a legit wrestler who has been reduced to jobbing to people with half his talent and even less on the mic. RYBACK CAN'T WRESTLE!
RYBACK CAN'T TALK! Neanderthal was a great line from Ceasro!
Speaking of jobbing, why is Ziggler losing to the Miz. The guy is supposed to be winning the title although this becomes hard to swallow when he can't beat the Miz. I don't know if this is WWE way of making him pay his dues or backstage politics but this is just stupid. The briefcase and his push mean crap when he constantly jobs to anyone on the card not named Kofi. The Miz can't get over as a heel or face and now pairing him with Flair is just to try and get him over since he failed on his own. I don't have anything against the Miz, he can wrestle but his mic work needs improvement and he should not beat Ziggler, let alone on the figure four leglock that Flair barely won with as his move.
Rock Cena was one of the worst promos I have witnessed in awhile. Their build up to this rematch of Redemption vs Greatness needs to step up as that was lame. Really Cena, for over a year you could not get over the loss both professionally and personally. Rock, you need this more, why don't you both just say it as it is. This is the best way for both of us to make the most cash. Last year, there was at least some animosity between the two. Also, there was some doubt who was going to win, now there is nothing between these two as that promo lacked passion and intensity. This could be an awful feud leading up to WM especially as it is the Main Event. This is not a knock on either Rock or Cena but just stating the truth. There is no chemistry between the two like last year and their reasons for the match just plain suck. Cena winning does nothing for him and Rock losing has no impact on him. Just a waste of a match and feud.
Kofi can't even get a match because of Fandango. This gimmic appears to be sucking worse than his promos. Take your Dancing with the Stars gimmic and hit the bricks. Fandango can disappearo quicko.
Swagger ADR scrap in the back is really the only interesting feud going on right now. They are building this up very well; however, how does a guy who fails the Wellness Policy suffer no penalty and if he serves it after WM then that shows how little backbone WWE has as it does not enforce its own policy. This sends the wrong message to everyone. As always, I am just saying what needs to be said, and not what people want said. You're Welcome!


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REDWOOD CITY — About 150 lucky young people will form the ranks of a new Green Job Corps in San Mateo County this fall, one of several "green collar" pilot projects around the Bay Area to receive a first flush of federal stimulus dollars.
San Mateo County will apply its $936,429 in grant funds — awarded by the state, who selected each recipient — toward on-the-job training for the youths, who will learn everything from how to deconstruct a building and recycle the pieces to how to make a home more energy-efficient. Three other grants of similar size were awarded to community colleges in the Bay Area: Peralta Community College in Oakland, Evergreen Community College District in San Jose, and City College of San Francisco.
In San Mateo County, participants ages 16 to 24 will earn a salary of as much as $10 an hour as they cycle through a series of part-time jobs designed to arm them with the theoretical learning and practical skills to appeal to a future employer in the growing "green collar" market.
"Everybody's talking about the 'green revolution,' and this is our chance for moving the youth forward in that," said Dennis Myers, who submitted the grant application on behalf of the Human Services Agency Workforce Investment Board.
Just how widely the notion of a "green" job has expanded in the past few years is obvious from the range of work available to the 150 youths, who all will be recruited based on their family's low-income status, lack of a formal degree, and lack of access to a good-paying job.
Training in the position most commonly thought of as a "green" job, solar panel installations, will not be offered. Instead, program participants will learn how to take apart an old computer donated to Redwood City's Goodwill and put it back together again with parts that work, earning a technician's certificate in the process. They will do trail maintenance with the Student Conservation Association and learn to work as a team.
In Pescadero, an often-forgotten part of the unincorporated Coastside, young adults will receive money as they learn how to construct an organic, water-saving garden — the kind popular with residents who are willing to pay for their help. In South San Francisco, participants will visit the homes of low-income families and analyze cost savings from installing modern appliances and other simple changes to insulate and cool the home — a process known as an energy audit, a job skill very much in demand by companies such as PG&E.
"There are a number of 'green' elements that we've targeted — there might be windows to replace if they have broken, leaky windows," said Norma Fragoso, redevelopment manager for South San Francisco. "It helps them see how construction projects get scheduled and helps them implement a significant-sized, energy-saving project in the community."
One of the most creative projects open to participants is learning how to responsibly deconstruct a building so different parts can be recycled, a program of Oakland-based nonprofit The ReUse People.
Ted Reiff, the group's president, joked that they had been doing "green-collar" work 16 years before the term was coined.
"By deconstructing a building and being trained how to do it, it gives them all other trades that are involved — electric, plumbing, cabinet making, windows. "… So that when they go to get hired by a contractor, they're not some day laborer in the street, not knowing one end of a screwdriver from another. They have some really solid skills," he said.
From the start, the notion of a "green collar" job was one that would put at-risk youths on a path to a high-skilled job and a livable wage while working to benefit the environment.
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Ever since I dropped out of my university on the East Coast to migrate to Hillcrest, my life has been put on a pedestal — with stark lighting to allow all the voices in my mind to appraise it.
The peanut crowd in my head is full of all sorts of nuts, and the biggest one is, of course, the family tree. For example, it was highly interesting telling my mother about my transfer.
"You're leaving college to move? And where?" she demanded, with the urgency only an Ashkenazi Russo-Polish New York Jew could know.
I watched her breathe heavily in the small room. I replied, "To the grit and glamour of the nation's best gayborhood: Hillcrest." I couldn't help but smile.
My mother whipped her head around. "Gayborewho?"
"It's a place, not a face, mum."
She stared at me and took a long pause. She was summoning forth enormous energy for questions she must voice, not to mention preparing herself for the answers. Like a scrunchie, her face suddenly tightened into unbelievable forlorn.
"What's going on, my second son? Why do you do this to me?"
She started to stride around the room, stuck between the bronze piano, blanketed bed, and stocky dressers. She halted at the window and made a gesture as if she were swallowing the whole view with her arms.
"Why do you want to leave our familial home abreast the deep-blue Atlantic?" My mother has a penchant for referencing nature when it is to her advantage.
"Mother, the Pacific is both deep and blue."
"No," she cut in. "Not deep nor blue enough." She spoke with darkness, as if foreshadowing all the worry I would force upon her if I still chose to move.
"I am going to San Diego's Hillcrest."
"How are you getting there?"
"Hoovin' it."
"How are...you...getting there?" She was breathing irregularly.
"How are you going to pay?"
"What about your belongings?"
"What if you regret your decision?"
"I swear on my mother's grave I won't."
An uncomfortable, though humorous, silence. Then, the blitzkrieg.
"Do you have work in San Diego? A place to sleep? Contacts? What will you do for food? You're on a special diet — do you know if you can eat in restaurants down there? Why not San Francisco? Or New Jersey? Will your friends miss you? Are you feeling okay, because yesterday I noticed that your left eye was flickering oddly. Is this contributing to your feelings maybe? You can tell me. Or, if you prefer, your father. Do you think your new diet is affecting your eye? Remember, you said it's perfectly fine, as long as I ask only once...."
My body tightened and tightened.
"I am going to gayborhood," I commanded.
"I am sure," she stated, "that whatever gay boars you want to find in that hood of yours, New York's will be better. New York is omnipotent."
I could not respond. I wanted to laugh, cry, scream, and push her all at once. She continued.
"Don't you want the best boars? Sue — my friend from group — she told me, and you can of course ignore this if you want to, it's really up to you, but I need to tell you that she said that you have to be careful about...since they just found out that...and that was reported to lead to..."
My ears were starting to become deaf with the blood and pain my heart was pumping. What can I do to which my mother will respond with contentment? Anything I could do would be subsumed under that all-encompassing, vicious anxiety my mother sold her soul to. It's a perpetual, tiresome vacuum.
Do you understand that my family loved? Or, at least, it had to be called love since we grew up together. Yet it was love, in the fractional degree, the smallest most precise degree: love that passes through a strainer before being given.
"You can run," my mother finally concluded, "but you can't hide. You will always be my little boy." She exhaled, kissed the top of my head — which made it burn — and slowly slipped out of the room.
I thought, How can such cruel disrespect be cloaked in feminine care and love?
That evening, my mother came into my room to apologize. She says she knows, she knows — she does things that hurt me, but she's trying to remember. It is, and she smiles as she pulls out a piece of paper, a long list. Anyway, here is a going-away gift for you. I thanked her, and we hugged.
And so my mother bought me my first and only farewell gift! As my family did our rituals and hugs (brother: brief, father: medium, mother: long and vampiric), my gift was held inside the breast pocket of my coat.
Dear mother! You don't know the half you've given me and only focus on the thousandth I want to be rid of! But I dutifully and wistfully carried the gift with me, always checking in on it, as I made my way trans-nation.
I admit, my dear Hillcrest, before I arrived upon you and legally or illegally wedded you, I had these flaming fortnights with some others. On my pilgrimage from New York to California, I stopped at a couple of other sacred sites: the gayborhoods of Washington, DC, and Chicago, Illinois. They are more astringent and sour than you, not to mention that I was arrested in both. After that I swore abstinence for the rest of the 2000 miles — no more gayborhoods until I reach the promised land.
And so I have. I have entered the balmy, sultry, and frosty city of Hillcrest, San Diego! Thank you for opening space for me. I hope I won't wake up in a doorway and a policeman knows my name.
As I have established myself here, I realize how my mother was right in the dropping of one of her platitudes: I can run, but I can't hide. For better or for worse, she's in my bones and in my breast. She is both on the pedestal in my head and in the audience applauding it, as the critic analyzing it, and as the very neurons processing it because my God, my brain matter, comes from inside her.
So...I'm just another Jewish boy with a mother problem. But I'm special, yet. I may have maternal molestations on the mind, but I'm among gaylords and drag titans, jesters and asses, wolves in sheeps' clothes, queer queens — and boys, girls, and you — in all the colors of the jelly beans, taste the rainbow. As my mum said, let's hope my special diet doesn't get in the way.
If there's anything da gays know how to fix, it's family.
"'You can run,' my mother finally concluded, 'but you can't hide. You will always be my little boy.' She exhaled, kissed the top of my head which made it burn, and slowly slipped out of the room.
I thought, How can such cruel disrespect be cloaked in feminine care and love?"
How was this disrespectful?
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Oedipus, you whip the language like a jockey whips a horse.
How did I miss this? Congrats on your win!!
Some great writing here, and I hope you write some more!
Being Italian, and having grown up on the East Coast with similar suffocating parents, I REALLY appreciated this! And the writing...ah, the writing...it was so good, it made me high.


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A Celebration of Life of Una Jordan, will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 19 at the Cone-Kimball Plaza, Main and Walnut streets, Red Bluff.
Red Bluff Rotary is sponsoring this community event, Sunrise Rotary is providing drinks, and Tehama County CattleWomen have been requested to provide desserts.
Retired Judge Richard Schueler will speak and music will be by the "Loosely Strung Band."
Everyone is invited.
Lighting of the blade
The lighting of the State Theatre blade was the highlight Saturday night after the members enjoyed many different, delicious appetizers from Rolling Hills Casino, and a no host bar with live jazz music by John Gonsalves and friends.
We enjoyed the beautiful new patio and tall fence by the Green Room, and the new paving in the alley between the two buildings. Unfortunately I didn't have a note book with me, and can't remember all the generous community members' names who made this possible.
It was "slow time" when it came time for the flipping of the switch in the lighting ceremony since 9 p.m. became 9:45 before we could "ooo-ah" the colorful neon lights on the blade.
Many people were waiting for the lights to brighten the street, as we came outside for the count-down.
Honored by flowers
I was the honored recipient when FFA members Danielle Mueller, Jenny McCluskey and Gaby Madonna dug up a bulb bed, and planted my dahlias that had been in pots for a month or more.
The girls also weeded a flower bed in the garden. This was part of the Red Bluff FFA "Make A Difference Day."
Salvation Army writing group
My mother, Anne Willard McNabb was a member of the Salvation Army writing group, and this is her undated memories of a high school teacher who also taught me how to type, twenty years later at Red Bluff High.
"Mrs. Edith Adams, a Red Bluff High School teacher in the late 1920s, taught in the Commercial Department; shorthand, typing, bookkeeping. I was a transfer student from four other high schools. Van Nuys, Sebastopol, Los Molinos and Phyllipsburg, NJ. Not one of her best qualified — however, I got a job. A secretary for Raymond Whitney, Insurance Agent, 700 block Main St., Red Bluff.
"Mrs. Adams was thoroughly surprised and wondered, how? There were others better qualified.
"Mrs. Adams was a quiet, interesting person. Once we both happened to be walking, opposite to each other on Market Street in San Francisco. She evidently looking at people on the street -when we met almost shoulder to shoulder. Mrs. Adams said 'Anne Stone.' I immediately caught her eye, recognized her. We stepped aside to chat a moment.
"Over the years in Red Bluff we would meet now and then to say hello and update her on my daughters, sewing projects, spending the summers at the mountain sheep camp.
"It was at one of these, stop for a moment, Mrs. Adams gave me a half finished quilt top. She said 'I have worked on, too long,' and a silver thimble engraved A.
"I was so pleased she had thought of me. She, a lovely childless teacher had thought of me; after a couple of years in business education school classes. She had kept in touch through my early married life, a homemaker.
"I have kept the ranch books over 66 years."
Jean Barton has been writing her column in the Daily News since the early 1990s. She can be reached by e-mail at email@example.com.


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Durban - More than 1400 people died on South Africa's roads during the festive season, Transport Minister Dikobe Ben Martins said on Thursday.
"According to the SA Police Service, it is estimated that approximately 1465 people lost their lives," Martins said in announcing the preliminary road death statistics in Durban.
He attributed the deaths to drinking and driving, speeding, dangerous overtaking, failure to use seatbelts and vehicle unroadworthiness.
He said the deaths occurred in 1221 fatal accidents between December 1 and January 8, and that about 40 percent had involved pedestrians, most of whom had walked onto roads while drunk.
Martins called for a ban on alcohol advertising to prevent motorists drinking and driving.
Road Traffic Management Corporation acting CEO Collins Letsoala said alcohol contributed to 60 percent of road accidents a year.
These cost the economy R180 billion of the R306bn lost every year to road deaths.
He said that this festive season, 1 282 586 vehicles were stopped and checked, and that 226 major operations were conducted.
A total of 3944 people were arrested: 2856 of them for drinking and driving, 116 for speeding, 146 for reckless or negligent driving, and 826 for other offences.
He said 135 vehicles were impounded and 242 were discontinued.
Letsoala said the focus now would be on corrupt driving schools and officers.
In October and November, 35 people from private testing centres were arrested in Gauteng. - Sapa


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MUKACEVO, Carpatho-Russia, Hungary (Nov. 6)
Rigorous anti-Jewish measures by the Hungarian Government have reduced the 160,000 Jews in this area to starvation and beggary. Completing a survey of the district, which until the Munich pact was the Carpatho-Russian section of Czechoslovakia, this correspondent found that mere bread is a luxury to its Jewish population.
Since annexation by Hungary, all Jews have been deprived of their artisans' license and their trading permits have been annulled. Since Nov. 1, even professionals, including doctors and lawyers, have been forced to give up their practice.
This correspondent saw fathers and mothers looking with envy upon their children, who receive daily a glass of milk and a small portion of bread in kitchens supported by the Joint Distribution Committee. Some of the children hide their small piece of bread to bring it home to share it with their hungry and less fortunate parents, for whom no free kitchens as yet exist.
All efforts to bring the plight of these people to the attention of the Hungarian authorities, to effect a more tolerant attitude toward a peaceful, labor-loving and strictly religious group, have thus far failed.
It took highly placed Hungarians to obtain from the Government a three-month extension of some of the cancelled trade licenses, but this period of grace is expiring and no further extensions will be granted. Thus, the Hungarian authorities have sentenced to despair and hunger 85,000 Jews in the acquired territory now known as Upper Hungary and the 75,000 in the annexed territory of Carpatho-Russia.
The situation of the Jews in Carpatho-Russia is especially precarious, since they have been barred by the Hungarian authorities even from the hard physical labor with which they had been earning their living for generations–such work as chopping timber, road construction, etc. This type of work is now monopolized by the Hungarian Government.
Employment in private enterprises is made practically impossible for the Jews by various Government regulations.
The thousands of families who have been deprived of work and of the right to work sometimes taste no food for days on end. Their main nourishment is bread made of maize and potatoes, but even this is a luxury which they do not enjoy every day.
Undernourished and constantly hungry, the Jews are crowded into hovels where they live ten to 15 in a room. Their sanitary conditions are below any imaginable standard. Barefooted and in rags, the fathers of families wander from township to township and from village to village, begging for food to bring their families over the week-end.
Representatives of the Jewish Community in Budapest are surveying the positon of these unfortunates in order to establish what can be done for them. It is clear that whatever measures may be taken in their behalf will depend on charity as long as the Hungarian Government continues to deprive them of the right to work or engage in trade.


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Bexhill Rotary Club welcomed a new member of the 2013/14 Rotary year when Ian Edwards was inducted at their first meeting this month on March 4.
Ian was born in London within the sound of Bow Bells, making him a Cockney.
He attended South East Essex County Technical High School where he ran, swam and played football for not only the school but for Barking as well, he finished up at the school as Head Boy gaining 12 'O' levels and 3 'A' levels.
Since starting his working life as an accountant, in his time he has been a man of a good many parts.
He has worked in IT for Unisys and Canada's Northern Telecom before setting up his first company in computer maintenance. Seven years later he along with a friend set up Toy Box, a charity to help disadvantaged children in South America, after which he was involved with founding a number of small businesses, went to live in Spain for a while and then returned to the UK to start a recruitment company.
He met wife, Jenny, on a boating holiday and they were married in 1970 and, as Ian has put it, are still married after 44 years! Ian has two grown up daughters and three grandchildren.
He's been a lifelong fan of West Ham United and in his earlier years when a member of Harpenden Round Table was involved with charity events including half-marathons and even cycled on one occasion to Belgium! Nowadays he enjoys shooting, sailing, golf and reading (not necessarily in that order or, for that matter, all at once!) but he says that he doesn't enjoy watching west Ham wrestling with relegation year after year.
After being formerly welcomed by President John Cooper who presented Ian with his shiny new Rotary lapel badge, in a short speech he said he is looking forward being actively involved with Bexhill Rotary Club and all its many projects.
If you want to know how to get involved with Bexhill Rotary Club and all its activities, then all you have to do is log on to www.bexhill.rotaryweb.org.


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This is the intro to a press release I just received. What amazes me is how unamazing this disclosure is… doesn't everybody?
What do celebrities Kim Kardashian, Matthew McConaughey, Nicolas Cage and Raquel Welch all have in common? They all have either recently purchased or are selling their homes — and each of their homes have wood flooring. If this is something that is of interest to you, the full press release is below.


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As part of an ongoing project, I have been collecting people's money confessions. Some of the more interesting ones I share here. This is confession number 64 in the series:
"I wish I had the guts to pay my taxes in pennies."
Other confession already listed:
- The First 25 Confessions
- Confessions #26 – #50
- Wedding
- Paycheck to Paycheck
- Money from Purse
- Tax Cheat
- Baby Clothes
- Rainbow
- Parking Meters
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- Generosity
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ROUND LAKE, N.Y. – It was a two-hour wait at Corpus Christi in Round Lake Friday evening, to pay respects to 17-year-old Christopher Stewart.
Green and blue ribbons symbolizing "Shen and Shaker United" were on cars in the parking lot, as well as Stewart and Deanna Rivers' sports numbers.
The signs of support were abundant, spreading beyond Clifton Park.
Leeann Innace of Glens Falls drove to Round Lake for the calling hours even though she does not know the Stewart family.
"We're so sorry for their families and their loss," she says. "My heart goes out to them. I have kids myself, and it's hard. It's touched everybody."
Students from surrounding schools in the Capital Region also showed support on Friday. Adam Hoffman and Matt Christian, two seniors from LaSalle Institute in Troy say they were compelled to come.
"It's tough, because I haven't experienced something like this before, so it's a reality check that it can happen," says Hoffman. "I feel awful. It's really sad."
"Everyone is coming together to show their support," adds Christian.
"He's one of those kids you'd be around and it could be one of the worst days of your life, but he'd get a smile out of you, no matter what it took," says Alex Derusso.
Derusso is a 2012 Shenendehowa graduate and played football with Chris Stewart for two years. Derusso says there isn't a bad thing anyone could ever say about Stewart, the news of his death a huge shock. Derusso was away at Utica College when it happened.
"It was a tough night," he says.
But Derusso and others News 10 spoke to outside the wake say what has made this tragedy a little easier is the support from the community and beyond.
"I am just blown away, I feel like his life has, and will touch people for a long time," says Deborah Zawtocki, a friend of the family. "I cannot imagine the heartbreak and I think it's particularly overwhelming in the sense that the family has had to greet so many people. But God bless them, they are trudging through this. They are wonderful people, all of those people are wonderful people."
"Everyone says they're in a better place now and they'll always be with us," adds Derusso. "You have to think of it that way."
A memorial Mass will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m at Corpus Christi for Stewart.


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what are the pros of getting an ffl?
I havent done much research but always wondered why having an ffl was a good thing. I know you can have gun shipped to your house and you can sell them but what else is good about having an ffl? how does it help you?
Self employed, retirement supplement, doing what you love, handling all kinds of guns on a daily basis. Unless your a C&R FFL and then it's about discounted guns for your collection shipped to your door thus saving you money.
There are about 11 different Federal Firearms Licenses (FFLs). ONE is for a Collector of Curio and Relic Firearms. That allows me to buy a firearm that is 50 yrs old, or guns named as collector items by the ATF, and have them shipped directly to me. Saves me about $40 per gun that I buy. Allows me acquire older guns that are a bit scarce at the local gun shop. Cuts my paperwork to just about zero when buying a C&R gun (only) from local gun shop.
The other TEN versions are for people "engaged in the business" of making, buying and selling, importing guns or ammunition. It is a business license you must have to do those things, and are only available to a business, not a hobbyist. All licensed gun dealer have an 01 FFL. Pawn shops that handle guns have an 02 FFL. Gun manufacturers, importers, makers of ammunition, etc each have their license. PS- and you have to be 21 to get one. Sorry, Beast.
It helps to pay for my toys!
I know you have to be 21 :( but my dad can still get one if he wanted to. I wanted to get one when i was older but im not sure how they would help me but it would be pretty damn fun to sell guns compared to other lines of work. My main questions are what officially makes me a buissness? Am i required to have a store? I have seen cheaper than dirt,impact guns,gunbroker etc and they all sell firearms but they need to be shipped to an ffl so if i have an 01 or 02 can i have the guns shipped directly to my house? Also what license is required in order for me to be able to build firearms and silencers? type 10 ffl?
The ATF has a website and look for "Firearms" (yeah, there are a lot of areas in that too).
The nice thing is that you can contact them directly and ask such questions.
Also, your county has "zoning" and has restrictions on what can be done within each zone. Check with them.
The fun of selling firearms? You have to be knowledgeable on what firearms you sell or deal with. There are people who have no idea on how to hold one, much less, how to be safe with them.
but like i said, what makes me considered a business? whats required? How can i get guns shipped to my house for a personal collection? What license is needed to make silencers,firearms, etc?
Dealing with firearms for profit (or as a learning experience when starting out) is business.
You have to transfer firearms from your FFL to yourself if you want them in a personal collection (and you cannot sell them for at least 1 year after transfer.)
Class 3 is required for silencers (suppressors is the correct name). The class 3 info (as well as info on manufacturing) is on the BATF website and can also be obtained by talking with an agent.
Wait i still need to transfer firearms from my ffl even if i am an ffl? That makes no sense. So in order to make suppressors i need to have a class 3 ffl?
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Expect the San Jose Civic Auditorium to get a new name next year, just shy of its 80th birthday. The city's taken the first steps toward selling naming rights to the refurbished downtown venue to City National Bank for $1.2 million. The five-year deal includes sponsorship rights to the Center for the Performing Arts.
Preservationists may lament the Civic's municipally minded moniker being thrown into the dustbin of history along with San Jose Arena — and the convention center, airport and chamber of commerce all have the city sharing name space with McEnery, Mineta and Silicon Valley. Personally, I think the most logical potential name — the City National Civic — doesn't provide much sense of place.
Then again, I didn't cough up $1.2 million to pick a name I like.
GOOD DEED DEPT.: Hats off to Yuki Sushi, which has locations in Santa Clara and San Jose, for helping out the family of Rory Park-Pettiford, the 22-year-old carjacking victim who was killed during that senseless crime spree on Nov. 16. Last Tuesday, the restaurant donated 20 percent of its proceeds to help the family pay for funeral expenses.
Kathy Hogan, Rory's elementary school principal, went by to get food for her family and neighbors and was thrilled by what she saw. "It was packed with diners and members of Rory's family," she said.
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Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese, San Jose Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen and Milpitas Mayor Jose Esteves are expected to be there.
Interestingly, the group isn't just for women, and it's not just for Realtors, either. Founded in the 1930s, it's evolved into a networking group of female and male real estate professionals of various specialties. A 3 p.m. reception at the swanky Vbar at Santana Row follows the installation lunch, and it's open to the public for $20, which covers a drink and appetizers.
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