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Marina Buzzi
Technologist, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Revised by Giovanni Vischio, HP Italy, OpenVMS Ambassador
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A digital signature can be associated with
Internet messages to guarantee sender authentication, message integrity, and
nonrepudiation of origin. The verification process for incoming
digitally-signed messages is usually performed by the email client on behalf of
the end user. However, if a digital signature is applied to data that is
subjected to automatic elaboration in order to maintain the above-mentioned
benefits, it may be convenient to automate the verification process as well.
Our idea is to implement the verification process in the email server rather
than the client.
This paper describes our experience in
designing and implementing software to automate the verification of
digitally-signed messages and web forms in order to simplify the registration
of Internet domains under the .IT Top Level Domain.
Verification of incoming digitally signed
messages is a critical operation that is usually performed by the receiver
using an email client (receiving agent). If the verification process is
unsuccessful (that is, the "from" header field does not match any of
the email addresses present in the associated certificate), the client alerts
the user. However, the user plays a fundamental role in the entire process by
doing the following:
In system design, it is
very important to evaluate the purpose as well as the context in which the
digital signature is applied. It is obvious that the automation of the
verification process is applicable only within certain contexts.
Unless a semantic relationship exists between data and sender that only the
receiver can understand, the verification process can be transferred to
automatic systems, which can process a large number of messages in a single
time unit.
The Message Verify (MV) system has been
designed to simplify the registration of Internet domains under the .IT Top
Level Domain (TLD), performed by the Italian Registration Authority[1]
Usually ISPs (or maintainers) register
domain names on behalf of third parties (organizations, associations,
individuals, and so forth) and also take charge of technical maintenance duties
such as managing DNS for the requested domain. Each domain name registration
requires a two-step procedure:
The email can be automatically generated by
filling out a web form or manually composed as a text file with
well-established fields conforming to a predefined syntax (for example,
name:value). The elaboration of these data is automatic. The software for data
processing is triggered upon message reception. It performs user access control
and verifies syntactical and technical correctness of data (for example, it
checks DNS configuration). If any control fails, an automatic error
notification is created and sent to the sender. User authentication is
performed by means of a password assigned to the ISP. This password permits the
user to access the web form for the domain registration. Alternatively, the
password can be ciphered and included in the plain text message. With the same
password, an ISP can view the status of its ongoing registrations using web
The MV system introduces the use of digital
signature instead of user/password authentication. The use of digitally signed
messages offers strong user authentication (compared to the user/password
mechanism) and guarantees data integrity as well as nonrepudiation of origin,
which is fundamental for proving data trustworthiness in case of legal problems
(for example, between the RA and its customers).
An alternative to signed emails is the use
of digitally signed web forms. Both technologies are valid. Using an email server, which is a
"store and forward" service rather than an interactive service like
the web, allows the masking of any processing delay and accidental server
unavailability from the user. However, web service offers the user more
awareness of the session progress (for example, data transmission and
Our study embraces both the design and
development of an automatic system for verifying digitally-signed messages and
web forms as well as the activation of security mechanisms to maintain an
adequate degree of operational security and reliability.
The MV system was designed to be
transparently placed between the message's arrival and the automatic
elaboration of its content. Transparency requires that the pre-existing legacy
software for automatic elaboration remain unchanged. This basic requirement was
the first constraint on the system design. Our system automatically verifies
the digital signature associated with an incoming message before transmitting
data to the process for automatic elaboration. If the verification is
successful, the request is accepted and elaborated; otherwise it is rejected
and a notification is automatically sent to the sender.
First we studied the automation of the
digital signature's verification process. This required studying integration of
Public Key Cryptography Technology with the electronic mail system and
understanding security service mechanisms based on cryptography.
Another fundamental question was how to
carry out the function performed by the user interacting with the client
software (that is, to choose trusted CAs and download certificates or CRLs). To
maintain control over the verification process, all functions the user performs
by means of an email client must be assigned under the control of a system
administrator using a simple web interface.
To perform the verification process, the
receiving agent extracts a great deal of information from the message: the
cryptographic algorithms applied for signing the message (one-way hash
function, encryption algorithm), the sender certificate, and the CA certificate
chain (if present). The verification environment is quite complex. This can be
explored in detail by following activities and studying documents by the IETF working
group: S/MIME Mail Security. However the verification process can be logically
divided into two main functions:
The operative environment consists of a
2-node SCSI cluster sharing an external disk array. Each node is a COMPAQ AS
800 5/500 (1 GB of RAM, 4GB internal disk) running OpenVMS Version 7.3-1. The
external storage is a Digital RAID7000 configured as follows:
The MV system is composed of numerous
software modules written in DCL, and utilizes the cryptography libraries of
OpenSSL(v. 0.9.6d, the openssl.org
standard distribution). It interacts with the PMDF electronic email/FAX system
(v. 6.2, http://www.process.com/) and the HTTP OSU Web server
(v. 3.9c, Ohio State University Web Server)
running on both the cluster nodes.
The OpenSSL toolkit has been fundamental for
system development. OpenSSL offers libraries for developing cryptographic
software and for managing PKI objects (certificate manipulation, basic CRL
manipulation, basic CA management, signing, encrypting, decrypting, verifying,
and so forth) as well as line-mode tools. By using these commands, the
MessageVerify system performs most controls including signature verification,
control of valid paths to trusted CAs, verification of accessibility and
validity of CRLs, control of expiration, and revocation of certificates.
The digital signature process works as
The system is composed of software modules,
databases, and web interfaces for administration and control. Each module,
which can be executed in parallel on each node of the cluster, performs one
specialized function. Figure 1 shows the logical scheme of the Message Verify
system, where processes (that is, modules in execution) are represented by
rectangles and databases are represented by ellipses.
Modules perform the following functions:
The MV system utilizes the following
The message/fax database includes both
messages and requests received by means of fax, stored as postscript files. A
global identifier is assigned to each message or fax entering the system (by
the messageor fax input processes), thus maintaining the temporal
sequence of the requests; this step is an important factor in being able to
resolve collisions on requests for the same domain name.
Certificate of trusted CAs are added to (or
removed from) the CA database by a system administrator. The system can use
certificates issued by any CA after its own and any sub-CA certificates have
been loaded in the database. The loading can occur by one of the following
CRLs are automatically
downloaded (using the Certificate's CRL Distribution Point field or one system
configuration parameter) by the CRL Manager process (which uploads the local
CRL database). LDAP query is possible but not yet implemented.
The message status cache is used for greater
efficiency and separates process information from that related to fax and
messages. It maintains temporary information on the message's status as the
message undergoes elaboration.
Management and control of the system is
performed using web interfaces.
The verification
process can fail for several reasons, including the following:
Failure can be
temporary or permanent. For temporary failures (for example, CRL is not
available) the system makes a fixed number of retries until it reaches a
threshold that is configured through the administrative interface. Both notifications
and errors are inserted into the Subject header field and into other
internal message fields (From:, Global ID:, Message ID:, Previous Message ID:,
Error-type:, Number of retries:, Cert
Issuer:, Cert Subject:).
Recently, a new component
(Form Input Process) was added to the system to accept signed web forms that
contain the domain registration data. Using a Netscape browser (4.04 or
higher), it is possible to apply a digital signature to a web form. Netscape
the user to apply a digital signature to input data. Conforming to the PKCS7
and to the cryptographic message syntax (which in part extends the PKCS7),
Netscape utilizes the external signature modality. The resulting signed-data
structure does not contain the original data, which must be dealt with
separately. In this case, the session is interactive and the user receives
acknowledgement of the signature verification process along with a unique
identifier, which can be used to access the state of the request.
To synchronize the
unique identifier among messages, fax, and web forms
(in a cluster environment) required rewriting the algorithm of allocation of
the identifier generators (msgid, faxid and globalid). The new algorithm can
manage any level of conflict of access to the identifier generator. When there is a conflict in resource
allocation, it is simpler and correct to generate an error message to the
interactive user (by web access) rather than interfere with the messaging or
fax processes. Based on these considerations, the algorithm can favor
allocation requests arriving from message or fax processes by interrupting
the concurrent CGI/HTTP process.
The MV system can be
fully configured and monitored using the web. The user or administrator
interface requires user authentication using one of the following access modes:
The configuration
interface has been designed to be highly configurable to adapt easily to
changes in organization policy.
The problem of
reducing the cost of bulk cryptographic operations (especially public key
operations, which are computationally expensive) has been treated in numerous
papers. Two approaches are widely studied: remotely keyed encryption and
server-aided cryptography.
Berson et al. proposed
providing cryptographic operations as a network service [Berson01]. Authors
designed and built a centralized cryptoserver equipped with hardware
cryptographic accelerators to provide public key operations to clients using
their internal network. Because the cost of the accelerator is shared by a
large number of clients, this system allows clients to benefit from hardware
speedups while reducing CPU load and the cost of a single cryptographic
operation. This approach differs from the previous ones because it implies that
the client must trust the cryptoserver with knowledge of his private key. This
delegation mechanism practically simplifies the design of the user-server
interaction, although it poses a security risk of private key storage and
protection. Berson observed that outsourcing cryptography inherently raises
questions about the trustworthiness of the computation. However, cryptographic
operations can be split into two categories: those requiring knowledge of the
clients private key (that is, decryption and digital signature), and the other
needing only the clients public key (publicly distributed by means of his
certificate), which are encryption and verification of digital signature. The
first category poses security issues (of secret key storage and protection) and
requires more attention than the second category. Thus, instead of building a
complete cryptoserver, it is simpler to use a subset of cryptographic
operations (encryption and digital signature verification) and limit automation
to these. In this case, assuming that the communication between the client and
server is secure, the cryptographic operations have the same degree of
trustworthiness as performing the computation locally [Berson01].
Our approach is
similar to Bersons but is less ambitious. The MV system automates only one
cryptographic function, which does not require the use of secret keys. Although
our system has this limitation, it is simpler, cheaper (being based on free
cryptographic software), and standard compared to previously discussed
schemes and is interoperable with any type of signature. Our goal is to
improve the quality of service offered to a large set of widespread users. In
our scenario, automation of the verification process is possible and appropriate
because signed data do not contain any semantic information that only the
receiver is able to understand. Therefore, the main security issue of the MV
system is its integrity. If a system is violated, the entire service can be
compromised. For example, if the legacy software receives input data that
bypasses authentication, it makes a registration invalid.
In the 2001 annual
security report, CERT affirms:
the ability to attack a system depends on the
'global' security of the Internet. For example, a DoS attack takes advantage
of other weak points in the network. This implies that at the moment there is
no way to implement a totally secure policy, but it is important to create a
strategy and use combined technologies to fend off intruder attacks. According
to this approach, in order to protect the system, different contra-measures
have been applied to build protection levels with the following features:
Software design:
Operating environment:
Protection of the network perimeter includes the following features:
Be sure to read
security bulletins and promptly apply software patches to the operating system
and applications.
Currently, a
drawback of the proposed solution is the cost of certificate creation and
distribution as well as help desk support. The solution is applied to ISPs,
which manage nearly all domain name registrations[4].
This kind of automation will be suitable for everyone when PKI technology
further penetrates e-society.
To evaluate system
performance we undertook a real test in our operating environment. The test was
split into two parts: verification, and message delivery to the software for
automatic elaboration. In operating system terminology, a job unit can involve
the execution of one or more modules. In our case the job includes all message
elaboration between its arrival in the system and its exit. A script was set up
to create and send a load of 2000 signed messages to the system.
Test results show
that better performance can be achieved by activating a single job in each node
of the cluster, with the total execution time of 1hour and 4 minutes. The
activation of more jobs on the same node (for example, multiple processes) does
not produce additional advantages, but provokes a slight increase in total
execution time, probably due to competition of processes for access to
resources. The average number of domain registrations per month in 2003 was
Considering that our
test was performed with the cluster fully operational, the results show that
the system should be able to process the current monthly load in less than 9
hours. This implies that we do not need to invest in expensive cryptographic
hardware and software.
As an
additional benefit, the use of certificates and secure mail has permitted users
to become familiar with these technologies, which have wider application
fields. Although the proposed solution implies the initial cost of certificate
creation and dissemination, in the future, when all citizens have their own
certificate to access numerous secure online services, this kind of tool can be
used to obtain strong authentication of sensitive services (for example,
accessing critical resources) directed to a large audience, such as that
offered by public administrations and health departments.
Berson, T. et al,
2001. Cryptography as a network service. Proceedings of Eighth Annual Network
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Blaze, M. 1996.
High-bandwidth encryption with low-bandwidth smartcards. Proceedings of the
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1998. A formal treatment of remotely keyed encryption. Proceedings of
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Wetzel S., 2001. Secure Server-Aided Signature Generation. Proceedings of the
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on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). NY, USA, pp. 537-540.


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NEW YORK (May. 21)
The State Correctional Facility at Auburn, N.Y., a maximum security prison, has agreed to provide Kosher food for Jewish inmates, it was announced by the American Jewish Congress and New York Board of Rabbis. Implementation of the agreement, which was reached April 30, was delayed by the prison-guard strike, which ended two weeks ago. The Jewish organizations, which worked out the settlement on behalf of nine Auburn inmates seeking kosher diets, said the kosher food program would be put into effect immediately.
The program will provide kosher TV dinners to inmates twice a day, as is the case in the state maximum security facility at Greenhaven, according to Marc Stern, staff counsel for the AJCongress, who helped work out the agreement. He said that while not all maximum security prisons in the state are covered, most Jewish maximum-security inmates will be provided with kosher food. However, prisoners in medium- and minimum-security facilities still do not have access to a kosher diet.

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My recommendation on California's propositions:
Proposition 19: No — Marijuana legalization. Do you want second-hand smoke, more drunks on the road and will drug abuse grow? Will it cause lung cancer? They're telling people to stop smoking. Is this telling them that it's all right to smoke?
Proposition 20: Yes — Redistricting. Takes the redistricting away from the legislatures.
Proposition 21: No — Vehicle license fee hike. They're too high now.
Proposition 22: No — Redevelopment agencies Protection. Redevelopment agencies can use eminent domain to take property from one private owner and give it to another.
Proposition 23: Yes — Suspends California's greenhouse gas reduction law (AB 32). A no vote will cause Massive additional job losses with businesses moving out of state at a time when we do not need job losses. It will put AB 32 on hold until unemployment rate dips back below 5.5 percent for a year.
Proposition 24: No — Increases taxes by $2 billion on California businesses, small and large. We need to keep businesses and jobs here and not drive them out. No new taxes.
Proposition 25: No — It makes it easier to grow government and raise taxes if passed.
Proposition 26: Yes — It makes it harder to raise taxes by disguising them as fees.
Proposition 27: No — This proposition would give the power back to the legislators for redistricting. This means the lawmakers can draw their own district lines in 2011, so the politicians can chose the voters instead of the voters choosing the politicians. This would eliminate the independent State Commission on Redistricting.
Bob Lentz


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Emma wouldn't like most American boys, then
All you budding Harry Potters out there interested in getting a girl like Emma Watson, take note. The 17-year-old actress tells Britain's Tattler magazine that she's into a couple specific things in her boys: "I am not really into any particular type, but I do like guys who are into sports and love it when they speak two or three different languages," she says. "Yeah, that really does it for me." That's quite the mature response from young Hermione.
[Photo: Getty Images]


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Jim Overturf to retire as IHCC softball coach
Wed, 07 May 2014 23:44:09 GMT —
Courtesy IHCC
After over three decades coaching four sports at the collegiate level, Jim Overturf has decided to retire as head softball coach at Indian Hills Community College.
Laura North, who joined the program as associate head coach prior to the start of this past season, was named to succeed Overturf
â??I just knew in my heart that itâ??s time to walk away after 32 years,â?? Overturf explained about the decision to end his coaching career that included two different stints at William Penn University, a year at both St. Maryâ??s (Minn.) and Iowa Western in Clarinda, and 14 years at the junior college level.
Those 14 years were split evenly between Kirkwood CC and Indian Hills.
He led both schools to the national tournament and put together a record of 482-253.
In the past seven years at IHCC, his teams were 202-157.
Overturf said he feels fortunate to have coached so many great student-athletes and the trips to the national tourneys (he took the Warriors in 2010) stand out among his list of career highlights.
North is looking forward to building on the strong foundation that exists with IHCC softball saying, â??I am excited to put Indian Hills back on the map as a national contender and focus my efforts on bringing in players and a coaching staff and creating additional support in order to get us there.â??
Courtesy IHCC


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News Man Arrested for Selling Pirated Gintama & Other Manga Online
posted on 2013-05-02 00:46 EDT
Japan's Association of Copyright for Computer Software reported on Wednesday that Nagasaki police had arrested a 25-year old man under suspicion of copyright infringement of manga. The man is suspected to have used a scanner in order to sell pirated manga on the Internet.
The man allegedly burned digital data of manga scans onto DVD-R and sold them to customers through a website called "50SCANNER." According to the police, the man sold volumes 1 through 45 of Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama manga on one DVD-R for 10,000 yen on January 22 to a man in Tokyo. He reportedly offered 84 other manga as well through his "retail digitizing service for grown-ups."
The copyright claim against the man was made by one of the manga creators and the publisher Shueisha.


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Overview of EAC
The East African Community (EAC) is a regional intergovernmental organisation founded in 1967. The work of the EAC is guided by its Treaty (2000) which established the Community.
EAC Partner States
The EAC is currently made up of six Partner States: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Admission to the Community is guided by criteria spelt out in Article 3 of the EAC Treaty.
EAC Organs
The EAC organs are the Summit, the Council of Ministers, the Co-ordinating Committee, the Sectoral Committees, the East African Court of Justice, the East African Legislative Assembly and the Secretariat.
The Secretariat
The Secretariat, as one of the main organs of the EAC, is the executive Organ of the Community.
EAC Institutions
The EAC also has eight institutions, three of which became operational in July 2015. All have their own leadership and their budgets are drawn from the consolidated, annual EAC budget.
Leadership Team
At the head of the EAC is the Summit. The Secretary-General is appointed by the Summit upon nomination by the relevant Head of State under the principle of rotation.
East African Community
EAC Close, Afrika Mashariki Road
P.O. Box 1096
United Republic of Tanzania
Tel: +255 (0)27 216 2100
Fax: +255 (0)27 216 2190
Email: eac [at] eachq.org


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Day in pictures: 02 April 2013
Twenty-four hours of news photos from around the world.
South Korean troops take part in military drills near the North Korea border. Seoul intensified its border drills after the North declared it had entered a "state of war" with its neighbour. The North also announced it would restart all facilities at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, including a reactor mothballed in 2007.
Thousands of people attended a charity music concert in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia, in aid of those hardest hit by the financial crisis. Concert-goers were asked to bring dried food for struggling families.
Some outfits shown during Fashion Week in Moscow were of slightly outlandish nature.
South Africans left messages of support outside the home of former President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg. The 94-year-old has been in hospital since 27 March to undergo treatment for pneumonia.
Palestinian girls attend school in Gaza City. Under a new law proposed by Hamas, the Islamist militant group that governs the Gaza Strip, children over the age of nine will be banned from attending mixed-sex schools.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos made his first ever visit to a poor neighbourhood known as Bronx Street in downtown Bogota. The area is home to drug users, dealers and homeless people. Mr Santos described it as a "factory of evil".
Young Slovak men traditionally splash women with water as part of celebrations to welcome spring. This year, however, the ritual involved snow as wintry weather hit large parts of eastern Europe.
No April fool: some 300 tiny acrobats of a German flea circus died after freezing to death. Luckily circus director Robert Birk was able to find 60 replacement fleas for a performance at an open-air fair. "The show must go on," he said.


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A DROITWICH man is set to take on a cycling challenge to help the hospice that cares for his son.
Father of three, Steve Clay, who works for Legal & General as a pricing developer, is set to take part in the Acorns Children's Hospice's annual Severn Valley Cycle Challenge on Sunday, August 18.
His son Oliver, brother of ten year old twin Ben and four year old Thomas, has the life limiting condition Dystonic Cerebral Palsy, and has received several short care breaks at the hospice over the years.
The whole family, including wife Sam, also receive support from a community team worker who visits them at their home in Droitwich Spa.
Family man Steve, who company is also sponsoring the event, has taken part every year since the event began and will be completing the Severn Valley Cycle Challenge's 20 mile route, although there are also 10 and 40 mile route options.
Acorns holds the annual cycle challenge to help raise funds to further its aim of helping to provide palliative care and support to the 2,000 children and their families in the region.
The scenic ride begins in the Severn Valley Country Park or Bridgnorth and ends in Bewdley.
Mr Clay said: "I'm so pleased my company is sponsoring the Acorns cycle challenge again; it means all the funds raised can go directly towards helping the children and families.
"This event is great because it's accessible and easy for people to get involved in, even if they're not experienced at cycling.
"I know first-hand how vital Acorns' work is, and they rely on fundraising to keep going, so I really hope lots of people take part this year to help such a worthy cause."
For more information or to register, visit acorns.org.uk, call 0845 985 0405 or email email@example.com


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Toledo Zoo Christmas tree gets national recognition
Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:16:34 GMT —
The Toledo Zoo has something new to brag about this year.
Not only is it one of the top zoos in the Country, but it's Christmas tree is one of the tallest in the country. The 85-foot Norway Spruce comes in sixth in the Travel and Leisure Magazine's list of the Nation's tallest trees.
Not only is their resident Norway spruce taller than Rockefeller Center's, it's decorated with more lights: some 35,000. To encourage energy conservation, the zoo is using LED lights. They've also rigged two bicycles to the energy grid, allowing visitors to help light the grounds using pedal power. With 120,000 visitors expected, they shouldn't have any problem keeping the lights on.
To view the rest of the trees on the list click here.
For more information on the Toledo Zoo click here.


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"The Jay Leno Show" will air its last episode on Tuesday, February 9, NBC confirmed to Access Hollywood.
The primetime show's cancellation comes weeks before Jay will return to his former 11:35 PM timeslot on "The Tonight Show" on March 1.
It was originally believed NBC would run "The Jay Leno Show" through February 11. However, a new programming schedule released by the network indicates a repeat of "Law & Order SVU" will air in the 10 PM timeslot on Wednesday, February 10 and two repeat episodes of "The Office" are slated for the 10 PM hour on Thursday, February 11.
Conan O'Brien left his own "Tonight Show" seat on Friday, January 22, with re-runs from his brief seven-month tenure on the show currently airing until Leno takes over.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Conan accepted a deal worth $45 million – including severance pay for a number of his show staff – to exit his contract with NBC last week. The terms of the deal permit him to return to TV in September, though his plans have yet to be announced.


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adjust (oneself/something) to(redirected from adjusted herself to)
adjust (oneself/something) to
1. Of a person, to become familiar or comfortable with something, often a change in one's life. I know you're not thrilled with this new schedule, but can you please try to adjust yourself to it?
2. Of a thing, to modify something to fit or work properly with something else. We had to adjust the office layout to create space for the new employees.
See also: adjust


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A man in his 30s sits down to write his autobiography. He knows that doing so is a rather silly proposition. After all, what does a man in his 30s know? What has he lived through worth retelling? What experiences can he recount, what knowledge can he impart, that others will find meaningful or useful? So he sits there for a while, ponders the blank sheet before him, and begins furiously scribbling all the reasons no one will care about his life story. He then decides to include these 30 or so pages at the beginning of his autobiography -- not so much to apologize for thinking he's cool or interesting enough to merit being the subject of his own book, but to create enough ironic distance from the subject to let people know that he knows that what he's doing is, well, rather silly. See, it's a joke ... and it's not. (See the section about "the knowingness about the book's self-conscious aspect," page xxvi.)
You must understand that this man, being in his 30s and well-educated and media-wise, knows there is nothing more pathetic in this world than an "artist" who wastes other people's time by recounting his tales of woe and misery. But still, he has convinced himself -- despite the taunting of friends who find him "narcissistic" -- that, yeah, the world does need one more story about dead mothers and absent fathers and tragic-twisted-abandoned-dead siblings. And if the world doesn't, then the author does, which is the whole damned point. (See the section about "memoir as act of self-destruction," page xxx.)
It pays to be young, tragic, and talented in the '00s. A couple of years ago, perhaps, our generation frowned upon the lay-me-bare memoir or the confessional song. The mere mention of such things conjured horrible images of James Taylor turning his heroin addiction into nursery rhymes. The notion of someone telling all held all the allure of a stranger sitting down next to you at a bar, spilling his guts as the bartender yelled, "Last call!" Now, look around you: They won't shut up. Suddenly, our tightlipped generation, weaned on irony and between-the-quotation-marks detachment, can't stop talking about our agony, our heartbreak, our mommies and daddies. Who needs therapy when there's a computer or a microphone or a camera waiting to document your every word and whimper? An analyst? Dude, try an audience.
Look no further than your TV set: There's Christopher Titus, the 30ish Los Angeles-based standup whose new self-titled Fox series chronicles "the heartbreakingly hilarious world of his dysfunctional family," which consists of an alcoholic dad and a mentally ill mother confined to the "wacko basket." Or take Dave Eggers, author of the much-lauded A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. The former Might magazine founder and McSweeney's editor's autobiography recounts his family's tragedies (Eggers lost both his parents within five months to cancer), how he was forced to raise his 8-year-old brother pretty much by himself, and how he went on to hang with the leading postmodern (i.e., footnote-fetishistic) authors of his me-so-smart generation. The book, which does indeed feature introductory sections with such titles as "The telling the world of suffering as means of flushing or at least diluting of pain aspect," comes complete with a thematic diagram that begins with "THE DEATHS." It then allows you to choose two separate paths, one of which deals with "Much thinking about the triumph of the human spirit," while the other offers "Much thinking about the inevitability of decay, and early and random death and the short life of anything real or beautiful." (Laughter and tears! Bring on the movie!)
Beneath that, perhaps, should be a picture of Mark Oliver Everett, a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter whose last album, 1998's electro-shock blues, and new album, Daisies of the Galaxy, chronicle how he has spent the last handful of years dealing with his mother's death (again, from cancer) and his sister's mental illness and suicide, and how he, at the tender age of 36, is the sole surviving member of his family. You do not need to struggle to decipher Everett's albums -- all recorded under the name E and released under the name the eels -- because the man hides nothing. His language is so plain, Raymond Carver's novels read like binary code in comparison; the music, which ranges from a lone distorted guitar to an emotive string section, also doesn't conceal a single feeling. Then there are the song titles from electro-shock blues: "Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor," "Going to Your Funeral Part I," and "Hospital Food."
Sometimes, Everett will slip into character: He is Elizabeth, singing about how "waking up is harder when you wanna die." More often, he is just the observer, the last man standing: "Going to your funeral now and feeling I could scream/Everything goes away." Parts of it are morbid; others, almost funny. More often, it's a little bit of both: "Grandpa's happy watching video porn with the closed caption on/Father knows best about suicide and smack." Everett even now can't understand why people like to describe electro-shock blues as "depressing." He insists it's an upbeat record about how when there's nothing left to lose, the only thing left is hope.
"I'm proud of what I did with electro-shock blues, proud that it deals with what it deals with," Everett says over the phone from Germany, where the eels began their European tour this month. "I actually think it's the most positive record I'll ever make. I think it's mistakenly thought of as a depressing thing, but to me it's not. Also, people mistakenly will refer to it by saying I deal with the topics with a certain detachment, which I think is absolutely wrong. To me, it's the opposite of detachment. It's complete immersion in the subject, because it was my life, and if that's your life, it just seems normal to you. You're human, so you laugh, you cry, you eat, you sleep, you do all the things you do every day, and those things are going on during all of that, so you apply all of that to those subjects. If you're around someone who's dying -- and I've been around a lot of dying people and a lot of ill people -- they're just people, and you talk to them like regular people. You joke and you have fun and you even joke about dying. I don't know why it's such a strange thing for other people."
Everett can't stop talking about himself, his family, and his pitiable life. Every time someone switches on a tape recorder, he talks endlessly about his sister's suicide, his father's genius, his mother's drinking problem and her illness -- and how all three of his family members are now dead. In 1996, he told one journalist that Beautiful Freak, the eels' debut album, was borne of his being from a "fucked-up family": His father, who died of a heart attack when Everett was in his teens, was a brilliant physicist. His sister suffered from mental illness. His mother fought cancer. As a result, Everett liked to say, he had to wrestle with "a lot of demons."
"Now, they're a fucked-up dead family," Everett says four years later. "Little did I know where it was heading."
He continues. "The thing is, I get inspired by certain things in my life or whatever. Like in the case of electro-shock blues, I get inspired by these things, and some of the songs directly deal with those things in plain language, where it's all out there." He pauses for a moment. "But if I want to write a tribute to someone, I write it in their voice, rather than have it be about them. I write in the first person, because I think that's the best way to pay tribute to someone -- to try and really understand them and what it's like to be them. There's a song on the new record, 'I Like Birds,' which for me is a tribute to my mother, but no one would ever know that if I didn't tell you that. It's much more meaningful that it's something she would say, rather than me singing a song, 'Oh, my dead mama, I miss you,' or whatever. We don't need any more of that.
"The new record came really natural to me, because of what was going on in my life. I'd felt like I hadn't been to a funeral for a while" -- he laughs -- "and I moved into a different house, and I felt like, 'Okay, it's a new beginning, and it's time to put all that behind me for now.' It felt like today was the first day of the rest of my life, and that was reflected in the songs I was writing."
Everett, in trying to pitch his new record, can't stop talking about his last one. But there is a good reason: Daisies of the Galaxy is a sequel to electro-shock blues; it's the album on which Everett is, well, born again, picking up where its predecessor left off. electro-shock blues ended with Everett moaning, "I don't know where we're going/I don't know what we'll do," before he finally exhaled his last gasp: "And maybe it's time to live."
Daisies begins with the fading echoes of a funeral: The opening strains of "Grace Kelly Blues" sound not too unlike the introduction to Randy Newman's "Louisiana 1927," horns moaning and drums rat-a-tat-tatting -- a wake (at last). From there, Everett goes on to sing of how he needs "a broom to sweep up all the troubles you and I have seen"; how he hopes to "never [make] another sound of fear"; how a handful of daisies can cheer you up; and how "it's a motherfucker being here without you" (that song is an homage to Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today"). He writes songs to his mother as his mother; and he writes of how, when he grows up, "I'll be an angry little whore/I'll give you all the finger/I'll sell you all what for."
He then concludes by insisting that "Something Is Sacred." (The final song on the disc is actually a hidden track, "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues," which is being released as the album's single; Everett didn't think it fit with the rest of the disc, though DreamWorks insisted it remain somewhere on Daisies.) Everett points to "Sacred" as perhaps the album's most meaningful song. After all, a young man who has survived his parents might be tempted to think nothing is sacred, that everything around him is "shit and piss" (to quote from electro-shock blues). But the survivor knows better.
"[DreamWorks boss] Lenny Waronker calls Daisies 'a wonderful walk in the park where you're occasionally stung by a bee and bitten by a snake,' which I think sums it up pretty well," Everett says, laughing slightly. "To me, it's just about life. It's the sequel to electro-shock blues, but it's about the living, where electro-shock blues was about the dying part of living. If there's one thing in there that might be the point -- and I might be wrong about this -- but there's a song on there toward the end called 'Something Is Sacred' that's basically about the times we live in and how nobody cares about anything. It's saying you have to believe in something. We live in the nothing-is-sacred society, and I'm the king of it; nothing is sacred as far as my sense of humor goes. But deep down, you've got to care about some things and hold some things sacred. Once everything truly is not sacred, then we're fucked."
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In his 1975 book Mystery Train, critic Greil Marcus, when describing the work of Everett's role model Randy Newman, wrote of how rock 'n' roll was in the midst of a confessional crisis; 25 years later, his words still resonate. "Truth telling is beginning to settle into a slough where it is nothing more than a pedestrian autobiography set to placid music framed by a sad smile on an album cover," Marcus wrote. "This is about as liberating as thinking typecast movie stars are 'really like' the roles they play." Everett could well have fallen victim to this type of thinking: It's not necessary to know his story to appreciate his work -- indeed, loss is the most universal of subjects -- but it certainly helps.
Everett once thought of keeping the personal stuff very private. He, like Dave Eggers, is media-literate enough to know that confessions very often ring hollow and phony and desperate. But he can't stop himself, so he keeps on writing about life and death and life after death. For himself, yeah -- and for anyone interested in hopping a ride to the cemetery.
"When I was actually working on electro-shock blues, I was very happy," Everett says. "I was very excited artistically about it. Like most people, I never thought about writing about those things. It never occurred to me to be inspired by so-called tragic events, and they were so personal that I thought, 'Aw, I'm not going to use that as fodder for my music.' And then this light bulb went off over my head one night, and I realized, 'Oh, I can try to make something beautiful out of all this misery, and even better, I can explore it and see what it means on a bigger scale.' And I got very excited from an artistic point of view, and I'm so lucky that I had that, ya know? But the thing is, if going to therapy and getting better and having a happy ending to my life was at the expense of writing songs and making music, that's fine with me. I truly want a happy ending. I'm really trying to have a good life."


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Liesbeth Reneman is a Neuroradiologist at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) at the Univeristy of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She obtained her Ph.D. degree cum laude on neuroimaging of the potentially neurotoxic effects of ecstasy in 2001. She was trained as a radiologist from 2001 to 2007 and subsequently did a European fellowship in neuroradiology (2006-2007). Over the past decade, she developed her own initiated ground breaking translational line of research directed toward the effects of psychotropic drugs on the (developing) brain using neuroimaging techniques, MRI in particular. Her current line of research involves the effects of psychotropic drugs on brain development in a large project in which the effects of fluoxetine and methylphenidate on brain development and behavior are investigated in randomized clinical trials (the ePOD project: http://www.epod-study.nl) and animals. Dr. Reneman is the PI of the Drug Research and Brainimaging group at the AMC, in which 12 Ph.D. students and postdocs take part. To set up this line of research at the AMC, personalized funding was obtained in 2007. In addition, she received funding from other competitive funding agencies including an EU FP6 project from ERA-NET PrioMedChild (2010) of which she is the coordinator. In addition, she is the cofounder and managing body of the Brain Imaging Center (BIC) at the AMC (http://www.lebic-amc.nl).
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The world needs more producers like Cook Classics. Possessing the ability to right or left, gully or polished, you don't need to know his face more than you know the sounds of his beatwork. Although he may moonlight as an alternative producer from time to time, Hip-Hop is his forte and with that expertise, he's bringing the akaline tenfold with his debut album Recharged.
If you think your favorite producer/DJ is dropping a LP with a guest list that measures up to Cook's, you may want to check up his lineup. Recharged features an exceptional array of artists in Freddie Gibbs, Diz Gibran, Sean Price, Aloe Blacc, Emilio Rojas, TiRon and Ayomari, Miguel, Tunji, Sha Stimuli, Amanda Diva, CyMarshall Law, Shawn Jackson, Avriel Epps, Boog Brown, Buff1, Inverse, Sene, and Peter Hadar.
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As I had predicted, there are a lot of Milwaukee County employees looking at retiring before the end of this year or at the very beginning of the next year. They also see how Scott Walker is going to have a scorched earth campaign and that the County will be the earth that gets scorched. They also see it is going to be so bad that some of them are even considering an early retirement even though they will be greatly reducing their benefits by doing so.
Many of them attended a retirement seminar earlier in the week. A number of them have approached me this week to make sure that I was aware that one of the first things that Walker's HR people were telling the prospective retirees was that one of the first things they should do when they retire is look at moving out of Wisconsin.
Nice way to Believe in Wisconsin, eh?
As one friend put it: What good it is to save a couple of bucks in taxes when you spend ten times on the basic services that aren't as good as they in Wisconsin?
My question is whether this was a symptom of Walker having his HR people taking not so subtle jabs at Governor Doyle (we already know that Walker has no qualms about using county time or personnel for campaign purposes), or that they were warning people that they think that Walker actually could win?
Friday, November 20, 2009
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Let me start by saying that Chicago is truly my kinda town. It is the only city in the US, other than my hometown New York, where I would want to live. That being said, despite all of its cultural, culinary and architectural treasures, this is my Top 5 list of things NOT to do in Chicago:
1. Do NOT rent a car. Chicago has a great transportation system. It runs well and links even the outlying suburbs in direct routes. Renting a car will only bring you grief and waste precious vacation time in Chicago because the Windy City's traffic makes NYC rush hour look like a walk in the park.
2. Do NOT park in Chicago. For those of you visiting with your own car, I understand you will have the need to park it; however, be prepared to pay the equivalent of your child's first semester college tuition for one night's parking in Chicago.
3. Do NOT rely solely on your GPS to get you in or out of downtown Chicago. There is some sort of magnetic maze around the city's outer rim and in the blink of an eye that automatic compass in your GPS will send you hither and thither and you'll be crying for an old fashioned map to help you escape some bad areas. No one told me that I could bypass Austin when driving to and from the lovely Oak Park of Frank Lloyd Wright fame!
4. Do NOT visit Chicago during the winter unless you are a moose. No amount of clothing or shrink wrap can prepare you for the howling, biting winds and snow. Wait until the spring thaw to enjoy this wonderful mid-western town.
5. Do NOT think the best pizza is in Chicago. Anyone who's ever been to New York knows better. We just humor them with out-of-town politeness!


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Hollywood is calling junior Malaya Tina Watson.
After successful American Idol auditions, the singer received the "golden ticket" and is still in the running to be the next American Idol.
She is among the top 30 finalists after passing two individual auditions and the small group audition with her singing.
Watson is the long-haired hyperactive, bubbly Phillipino girl who is often singing tunes in the school hallways during passing time. Or maybe you've seen her playing her tuba during halftime at football games with the Marching Blue Jays band.
"Malaya is a really gifted musician, and she never stops perfecting her skills," said band director David Miller.
Choir teacher Alan Warmenen said, "Malaya has a wonderful voice with an excellent vocal range, excellent control, and her pitch is very centered."
Besides singing and playing the tuba, the multi-talented Watson also plays the piano, guitar, and drums.
She says she isn't the only one in her family with a knack for music. "Music flows through my family stronger than the blood does," Watson says. Her father plays the guitar, her grandfather plays several instruments and sings, and she has cousins who play a range of instruments.
The day after her first American Ido audition aired, she said hundreds of people asked her questions and congratulated her on making it to Hollywood. She says she felt "like a celebrity." She could not believe she made it on American Idol. "Actually seeing me on TV, knowing all of America was watching, that's crazy."
The auditions were relatively easy for her, she says. "I sing in front of people all the time, but singing in frontof famous people is what made me a little nervous.
She says life is pretty much the same now that her face has been plastered all over television andthe Internet. The only thingthat is different now is how people treat her.
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A bill introduced by Secretary of State Kris Kobach that would allow the governor to distribute 12 big-game hunting permits at his discretion appears to have missed its mark.
Kobach testified in support of the legislation, which would be a major change from the way the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism distributes its special permits, during a hearing Thursday in the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.
But the committee's chairman, Larry Powell, R-Garden City, said there isn't much support for it outside of Kobach's office.
"Wildlife and Parks is against it, and we talked to some of the governor's people, and they're against it," Powell said. "So we probably won't work the bill."
Kobach didn't respond to a request for comment on the bill.
The department of wildlife currently distributes seven big-game permits a year — one to each of its commissioners. The permits allow for one whitetail or mule deer, with or without antlers, statewide in any season. The commissioners generally give them to conservation groups, such as Pheasants Forever, which auction them off to support their missions.
Wildlife and Parks Secretary Robin Jennison said Kobach, "a great outdoorsman," asked him months ago if he would like to take over the distribution of the permits and use them as a promotional tool for the state, possibly by giving them to television shows.
"I said 'Kris, I don't want to touch that,' " Jennison said. "I said those things are great in theory, but in practice they're difficult, because you've got to make a subjective call (on who should get the permits)."
Jennison said he told Kobach the pressure to do something that smacked of favoritism would be too strong. He said Kobach then asked him if the governor could have control of the permits instead.
"I said, 'Well, you guys need to talk to the governor himself, to make sure he wants to do it,' " Jennison said. "Then, when I saw the bill introduced, I had not talked to the governor either, but I'd talked to some of his folks, and they indicated that the governor, to their knowledge, had not heard about it. I think had they called the governor, the governor probably would have called and asked what we thought about it."
Jennison said his office opposes the bill in part because other states have tried similar projects and had been challenged on them.
At an unrelated news briefing Friday, Gov. Sam Brownback was asked what he would do with the 12 permits on the off-chance that the bill passes.
"I don't think I want to speculate on that right now," Brownback said.
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Supreme Court Declines To Hear Nancy Benoit Appeal
– The family of the late Nancy Benoit will not have their appeal of a dismissed judgment against Hustler magazine heard by the US Supreme Court. The AP reports that the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, which was an attempt by Nancy's family to have a judgment that was dismissed on appeal reinstated.
The lawsuit was over the fact that Hustler published nude photos of Nancy a year after she and Daniel Benoit were murdered by Chris Benoit. The pictures were from a private modeling session done when Nancy was young and she believed they had been destroyed at her request. The family had initially received a $20 million judgment, but it was reduced and then dismissed in appeals. It was argued by Hustler that the photos were newsworthy and those protected under freedom of the press.
It is worth noting that this could bode poorly for Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, as Gawker has been making the same argument over posting a small clip of Hogan's sex tape that Hustler did. The Hogan lawsuit has not been going well for him, as he has had temporary injunctions denied that demanded the removal of the clip from the website.
Must-read news from around the site:
* Ian McKellen: "The Hobbit films will have a different tone from Lord of the Rings"
* New trailer released for Will Smith's After Earth
* Check out a new TV Spot for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
* Samuel L. Jackson wants to return for Star Wars: Episode VII
* Karissa Shannon and a friend put their booties on display in tight outfits
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The Pope's clear line against sexual abuses of minors will help the Church resolve the "delicate problem" of pedophilia, said Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone in an interview upon his return from an official visit to Chile. The cardinal highlighted the major elements of the Pope's strategy for preventing further abuses within the Church and for protecting young people.
Cardinal Bertone was in Chile from April 5-15 to visit areas affected by the recent earthquake, to express the Pope's solidarity with the people of the nation and to deliver a statue of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel blessed by the Holy Father.
In an interview granted to the Vatican's television and radio stations and newspaper, the prelate first spoke about the "great affection, communion, (and) solidarity" of the people of Chile with the Holy Father. He said that as he brought the Pope's message of solidarity to the people there, they expressed their reciprocal feelings, prayers, recognition and support for his mission and "his meek, courageous and convincing teaching."
Among questions regarding the trip, the cardinal was asked how he thought the Church would emerge from the "delicate problem" of sexual abuse of minors by clergy members. Cardinal Bertone explained that it would be by following Pope Benedict's "very clear line" in which certain practices are "deepened" and emphasis is given to "great commitment of fidelity to Christ ..."
Cardinal Bertone pointed out three major tenets of the Pope's approach, the first being "purification and ... penance," to take on decisively our mission according to God's plan. Secondly, he observed that "a courageous and strong educational commitment" to the formation of youth and educators is need to give them values that nourish their lives and behaviors.
"The renewal of the priestly mission" is the third element, Cardinal Bertone said, adding that it must take place "according to the project of Christ, who is the model of every priest," using "the great messages the Pope has given in this Year for Priests."
Answering other questions in the interview, the Vatican secretary of state highlighted the historic presence of the Church in Latin America and emphasized the importance of maintaining the centrality of the human person in economics.
Having returned from Chile on April 15, Cardinal Bertone was also able to join Pope Benedict in visiting Malta this past weekend.


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How You Can Follow Bruce's Example To Build Your Own Cult Following
For great content strategy, look to Bruce Springsteen.
Bruce has been in the business in a big way since 1973. This month, in fact, marks 41 years of Bruce music. If you have been to a Springsteen concert recently, you know that even though he is 64, he is anything but washed up. Yes, he's aged, and his music has certainly matured, but he has a growing cult following.
I love Bruce's older music. The first album is bliss: creative, poetic, unexpected. The second album, also released in 1973, is different, but in some ways better. It houses genius jazz riffs and rock anthems that remain unmatched.
Come 1975, Born to Run was released. It is still considered one of the best albums ever recorded. It has a narrative feel that the first two do not. When you listen, you almost feel like you're on a Harley on a turnpike in New Jersey on a humid summer night.
Fast forward to 1983. Nebraska, Springsteen's sixth studio album, was a masterpiece. Dark and sad, it stirs a whirlwind of emotions that teeter between hope and despair.
Then, the next year, he released Born in the USA, a secondary breakout album that was wildly popular, upbeat and fun, and oddly misunderstood.
Time-warp over 20 years in time to Wrecking Ball (2012) and High Hopes (2014), his last two albums. Bruce's seventeen studio albums display an incredible evolution that maintains a common thread of style and theme over four decades. The music has changed, and yet it's all undeniably Bruce.
Bruce has never been known for rich, sultry vocals. Lots of people really don't care for his voice. His lyrics, however, are in a class of their own. Those lyrics have caused Springsteen's massive fan base to rise up (excuse the pun). Springsteen the lyrical poet is a content master.
When you create a content strategy, think like Springsteen.
1. Be unmistakably you.
What is your brand?
Hint: Don't use adjectives to describe it. Adjectives are the usual suspects that water down your branding. Words like creative, fast, cutting-edge, or sophisticated describe millions of brands. You don't want to get lost in a sea of mediocre competition, and that's what you'll get if you try to describe yourself that way.
Think about Springsteen's brand. He speaks to (and for) middle class America, people who want the American dream but find it elusive. He is a storyteller of the American everyman. He taps into hope for something better while acknowledging the struggle, the sweat and tears. He sings about failed marriages, messy family relationships, unemployment, injustice, 9/11, teenage fun … teenage pregnancy. Know anyone whose lives have been affected by any of these?
That's Springsteen's brand.
What's yours?
Are you the designer who is a color maestro, who has an eye for combinations that are unexpectedly dazzling?
Are you the programmer who can do in 5,000 lines of code what it takes other programmers 2,000 lines? Are you the anti-bloatware code writer?
Do you give a haircut that grows out magnificently for weeks? Do your clients rave about your mad razor-cutting skills?
Do you have a Middle Eastern decorating style that has people driving miles and paying a premium to get a slice of your fabulous taste in their home?
Are you the attorney that has a way of coming up with a sneak attack during cross examination that the opposing counsel never saw coming?
Let's take the last one. You don't want to call yourself a "premiere lawyer specializing in business," or even just that you "get results."
No matter what your business, whatever you do, don't use the words 'getting results.' What results? Laser focus on what you mean by that. Is it:
~An average 43% lift in response?
~Project management that saves an average of 8% in expeditures over your competitors?
~Identifying and moving on mutual funds that beat the other money managers' picks year after year?
But that's only part of your brand.
Why do your clients like you? Are you funny, fast, easy to talk to? Think about your personal style. Join those qualities to the strengths of your work and voila! You have the start of a solid brand.
2. Evolve, and then evolve some more.
Your brand is the common thread, your theme, as it were. It serves as a framework in which you'll create. That work you create needs to constantly evolve. If you're stagnant, you'll become a one-hit-wonder. If you're growing by trying new things, exploring your field, finding holes in the typical approaches, and bravely chancing failure, you're on your way to becoming a living legend in your niche. Don't stop.
Do some research so that you can launch a new project or service.
Change your website.
Grab some new spices and create a dish with them. Maybe no one's ever thought of it. Maybe it'll be a colossal failure. Maybe it'll steer you down a new path. Who cares? Give it a whirl. Success or failure, you're sure to learn something.
Take something you've been doing the same way for years, and force yourself to rethink it. How can you do it differently? Don't put the header at the top of the website this time. Add lace to the dress, even if you have never used it before. Write short, spunky chapters in your book this time. Buy stemless glasses instead. Brainstorm ways to simplify your app for your users. Put your next white paper content into Prezi. Silver instead of black. You get the idea.
3. Produce content consistently.
Springsteen puts out albums every few years, and he has for almost a half a century. Put this lesson in your context. Be realistic about your content calendar; pick a pace and stick with it. For example, two blog posts per month is fine as long as you are prepared to make those posts without fail for years. YEARS. The key is to generate a lot of content over time. It's a marathon. You're in training.
If you're researching and evolving the development of your business as outlined in #2 above, you'll have plenty to write about.
Springsteen's consistent album release schedule has created freight train momentum. If he had stopped putting out new music for a huge chunk of years, there may have been a fade in his following. His body of work is massive enough to warrant his having his own station on SiriusXM. Think about that. What will your work and your content win for you if you stay with it long enough? What can you do to earn your own channel (however that looks) in your niche?
4. Be real.
Springsteen's rich, raw portrayal of life in the post-industrial information age resonates with people all over the world. He tells the truth, even when the truth is ugly. He is true to himself by telling the story of America as he sees it. As it turns out, he talks about themes that we all experience but rarely talk about. His fans beg for more.
Be the farmer who talks about corruption in agriculture.
Be the image consultant who talks about the fine line between genuine and saccharine.
Be the architect who refuses to applaud the building designs that other people praise but you can't stand.
It's okay to say you think Hemingway is overrated.
It's okay to say you love savory apple pie more than sweet.
It's okay to re-upholster the second-hand store couch instead of buying a new one at Ikea because you love the way the old, springy cushions feel.
It's okay to let yourself go grey.
Do it your way. Talk about it. It will make you magnetic. A magnetic brand: that's the goal.
5. Prepare for disdain.
Some people practically worship Springsteen, while plenty of people can't stand him. That's the nature of the beast. If you differentiate, develop a powerful brand, and give the world your authentic self in your content, someone's going to be repulsed. Brace yourself.
Thick skin will save you some heartache, so grow it. When the naysayers argue (and they will), be ready to defend your position or at least agree to disagree. Resistance is a good thing: It sharpens your logic and gives you an opportunity to articulate your opinions.
And laugh about it. Springsteen does, and it works for him.
The Worst Kind of Content
I hate throwing up when I have the flu. Don't you? Regurgitation is gross.
I repeat: Regurgitation is gross.
Don't regurgitate the content you have read in the latest books and articles. Plain vanilla is not a brand, and I promise, it is not you. Easy, yes, but not you.
Instead, give your brand authority by voicing your opinions about what you're reading. Question industry leaders. Poke holes in the latest trends. Make predictions. Synthesize.
Regurgitation is old and stale. Make your content new.
Springsteen's music doesn't sound like anyone else's. If you apply that principle to your content andinvest in your content over the long haul, you'll build an audience that will pay to show up, just like Bruce. It gives a whole new meaning to "be your own Boss." (That's pun #2.)
Kari Matthews is a Springsteen fan who writes content and copy for tech companies. Give her a shout at karimatthews.com.
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The idea of arming educators to combat crime in schools makes every bit as much sense as arming bank tellers, mall-store clerks, church ushers, and the kid selling your Happy Meal to make our everyday lives safer.
Which is to say, none at all.
So it was a little surprising to see it reported widely that St. Louis County Chief of Police Tim Fitch was calling for this strategy in response to the tragedy of Sandy Hook Elementary School. As one who has admired Fitch for his bold ideas—but certainly not this one—I called him.
It turns out that arming teachers isn't really what the chief has in mind, although in fairness to the media, he was more misunderstood than misquoted. If you tell us 10 things and only one of them is newsworthy, we won't put the non-newsworthy nine in the headline. And we might leave out phrases like "as a last resort."
Fitch says that his strong preference and "first priority" is for all schools to have uniformed law enforcement officers present at all times. His second choice would be trained, professional security officers at the schools.
That all makes good sense, and I'd prefer Fitch had stopped there, albeit headline-free. Instead he offered his newsmaking bad idea: to recruit one or two gun-savvy volunteers who work at the school (teachers, principals, counselors, whatever), to have them trained extensively by county police on responding to a crisis before and after police arrive, and to provide a firearm that would be locked in the school for use only in a crisis.
Fitch repeated the phrase "only as a last resort" at least six times in our brief telephone conversation. He mentioned "voluntary" at least four times to reinforce that schools cannot be compelled to do anything.
That was pretty much what he said in local radio interviews, except for the part about the guns being locked up, which I didn't find on the tapes. That's a significant point, because there's a big difference between teachers packing heat and teachers having a hidden, locked gun to be accessed in an emergency. But I don't like either.
Fitch admits his idea isn't perfect—that "last resort" thing is all over it—but he says that the lesson of Newtown is that something has to be done "to meet force with force" in the five to 10 minutes that it takes for law enforcement to respond to an emergency call. Fitch defiantly says, "Tell me a better idea if you don't like this one," because doing nothing is not an option.
Well, the better idea is to have a solid and well-rehearsed plan of emergency preparedness, crafted in consultation with police, using every security tool available to lock down a school in the rare event of an intruder on the premises (or any catastrophic event). Steps also should be taken to assure that every possible second is shaved off emergency response times.
That's not sexy, but it's real, and I doubt that all schools are doing it.
Fitch's idea is not so real because of a ridiculous premise: that the backup security person could get to the scene faster than police responding to a 911 call. Consider what has to happen: After an intruder is seen, the busy teacher or principal would have to receive notification without a general public-address announcement alerting the criminal and panicking the kids (that would take time); then, wherever they might be in the school, they'd have to rush to wherever the emergency firearm is locked up (that would take time); unlock and retrieve it (that would take time); and find the crime scene and make a quasi-professional judgment as to the proper position for apprehending the bad guy (that would take time).
It's not as if these educators, focused on their daily tasks, would have been waiting around like firemen at the station house, or even security guards whose primary focus is security, not teaching. If the purpose is to bridge the first five minutes of a crisis, it won't work.
Now, as some think Fitch is saying—and as some ridiculous legislators are definitely saying—the idea is to turn our teachers into heat-packing Dirty Harrys, ready at all times to unload hellfire on a suspicious actor. Then we really have a problem here. If you think that will work, you've seen too many action movies.
The idea of arming teachers is probably more dangerous to kids than all of the other school dangers combined. The prospect of stolen guns, misidentified bad guys, innocent bystanders (likely children) being killed or maimed by stray gunfire, and, yes, dead teachers, sort of outweighs that one wonderful moment that Johnny's teacher interrupts the heavily armed bad guy's soliloquy and kills him with one remarkably accurate bullet to the 3 square inches on his body that were unprotected.
Speaking of suspending reality, if the idea is to make schools Adam Lanza-proof, forget about it. If a deranged and suicidal madman armed with powerful military weapons and protected by body armor is storming your school, dial 911 and pray. Thankfully, there's less than a one-in-a-million likelihood of that happening, but the possibility cannot be eliminated unless you're thinking every school can be fortified like the White House.
The very existence of Fitch's flawed idea would work against his good one, which is to have law-enforcement or other trained security professionals present at all the schools. The last thing to do is give schools a low-cost option to opt out of the real solution.
If the safety of our schools isn't worth paying for, what is?
The value of an officer's presence is hardly limited to responding to the extremely unlikely occurrence of a shooting incident. It's about preventing or combatting school violence of all kinds—illegal gun-possession being high on the list—as well as deterring child predators. And keeping the peace in general.
That might not make for great headlines. But it also doesn't make for scary policy.


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When exactly the artistic expression of permanently inking one's skin made the crossover from edgy to Ed Hardy is unclear, though the internet can trace it at least back to this 2006 Associated Press article, titled simply, "Tattoos now part of mainstream culture."
The article quotes a Pew Research study that says in 2006, 36 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 had at least one tattoo. The New York Times cited that same study in 2008, when it noted that while tattoos are gaining popularity in the mainstream culture, they are still taboo among some of the nation's stuffier employers.
At the 18th Annual Motor City Tattoo Expo in the Renaissance Center this weekend, artists mostly shrugged off the advent of tattoos as mainstream, or welcomed it.
Mark Heggie, who owns Signature Tattoo in Ferndale and Big Top Tattoo in Utica, said he was happy to take the additional business that comes with the growing popularity of ink.
"I'm not arguing with it," he said of the increased business.
Heggie has owned tattoo shops in the area for 20 years. He said a "small percentage" of tattoo artists are still doing original, quality work, but there are also a lot of amateurs emerging from the woodwork.
"It's like being a rock star," Heggie said. "It's the cool new job, everybody wants to do it. Well, back in the day, in the 80s, being a rock star was unattainable. And then the internet came out and Pro Tools, now everybody has a band and there's no underground anymore. It's the same premise."
"But I would say that there's still like a core group of people that do it legit, like all the way, based on the traditional styles and aspects and kind of like unwritten laws," Niederkorn said. "Those people are probably the same number of people that have always been."
As for the Motor City Tattoo Expo, which runs through Sunday, it was buzzing Saturday night, but attendees said it didn't seem much larger than years past. Niederkorn said it appeared to be the same size as previous years, Heggie said that traffic was down.
Pete Terranova, a Las Vegas-based artist who goes to about 30 tattoo expos a year, said it is a necessary stop on his tour of ink country.
"It's a good show," he said. "It's not the biggest show but on a ratio of artists-to-customers, it's a great show."


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NOVI, Mich., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- A biotech start-up company, Molecular Innovations, Inc., broke ground Wednesday on its first wholly-owned state-of- the-art research and development laboratory and production space, it was announced today.
The 12,600 square-foot facility, located in a Novi technology park, is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2007. About 100 people, including Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, joined President & CEO Duane E. Day for the traditional earth moving ceremony.
"This is truly a dream come true," said Day, who built the company from scratch and housed the once fledgling business in his garage. "To have our own facility designed and built to our custom specifications to further our scientific research and expand our product offerings is simply fantastic.
"This facility is at the cutting edge and symbolic of Mr. Patterson's vision of emerging sectors companies like Molecular creating a stronger biotechnology presence in Michigan," said Day. "I am grateful to Oakland County, the State of Michigan, our loyal customers and dedicated employees for helping to make this day a reality."
Other dignitaries attending the event included: Senator Nancy Cassis; Michigan House Speaker Craig DeRoche; and Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who could not attend due to schedule conflicts, but did send an aide and a congratulatory note to Day honoring the company's investment in Michigan.
The contemporary building, designed by Synergy Group, Inc. of Bloomfield Hills, features unique lab space custom designed to meet the research, business and operational needs of a biotech company that produces proteins for academic, institutional and commercial pharmaceutical uses. The company also does research on gene cloning of cells.
The state-of-the-art lab building will include:
* Offices comprised of approximately 4,000 s.f.
* 1 Protein Chemistry Production Lab
* 1 Molecular Biology lab/clean room
* 2 Cold Rooms (storage)
* Fitness Center/Showers/Lockers
Building features include multiple private offices. The facility features a lunch room and lounge, fitness center, lobby, storage and an enclosed truck dock for shipping and receiving. The building is sited in a technology park that backs up to a wooded, wetland location, affording offices and the lunchroom areas a view of a natural woodland setting.
"I wanted to build this first building in Novi because of the quality of life here and in Oakland County," said Day. "The reception by the community has been great. Our central location to Ann Arbor and Detroit and ability to ship product anywhere makes this area very desirable."
The Novi planning commission and City Council unanimously approved the project and welcomed Day and the company's high-paying, skilled jobs. Molecular was assisted in obtaining support for the project by the Oakland County Economic Development Department, Michigan Economic Development Department and private-sector financing through Ann Arbor Commerce Bank.
CONTACT: Bruce Babiarz of BAB Associates, LLC, +1-248-890-5030,firstname.lastname@example.com , for Molecular Innovations, Inc.


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I don't see Collins being successfully primaried in Maine. They will probably try, but their tea-bagger governor left a bitter taste in everyone's cup.<quoted text>
Oh I have comple faith they will indeed "blow it again". Look for more teabaggers to challenge any Republicans in primaries who agree to the coming tax increases- i.e. Susan Collins- Maine.
Trust me, they'll blow it again.
But maybe a strong Democratic challenger will emerge. Collins could really hurt herself with this Susan Rice nonsense and with coming tax and debt votes.


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Wyama Agnes Shipman Via, 77, of Pine Bluff, died Thursday, October 24, 2013.
Wyama Agnes Shipman Via, 77, of Pine Bluff, died Thursday, October 24, 2013.
She was born August 28, 1936 in Wilmar, daughter of Edward Shipman and Geneva Hendon Shipman Haggard.
Mrs. Via worked as a cook for Jefferson Regional Medical Center for many years. She was a member of River Road Church of God in Redfield. Mrs. Via enjoyed cooking, reading, babysitting and going to rummage sales.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Via; daughter, Linda Via; her parents; two brothers, Carroll Shipman and Edward Shipman; and three sisters, Martha Reed, Edna Hardin and Verna Prince.
Survivors include three sons, Tony (Mary) Via of Redfield, Larry (Sandra) Via of Grapevine and Donnie (Nancy) Via of Redfield; two daughters, Kathryn Collette of Siloam Springs and Rita Moseley of Pine Bluff; brother, James Shipman of Star City; sister, Joann Green of Centerton, Ark.; ten grandchildren, April Grinstead, Jason Owens, Keith Collette, B.J. Collette, Josie Dowdy, Jamie Kay Collette, Angela Moseley, Donovan Via, Tyler Via and Logan Via; eleven great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be 3 p.m., Saturday, October 26, 2013 in the Chapel of Ralph Robinson & Son with Reverend John Threat officiating. Burial will follow in Graceland Cemetery. Visitation will be Friday evening from 5-7 p.m. at Robinson's.
Online register: www.ralphrobinsonandson.com


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National museum Te Papa plans to split into two parts; one part capturing the current operation's focus and a new "Museum of the Future".
Staff and collection areas will be loosely split between the Museum of Living Cultures and the Museum of the Future, according to documents obtained by the Dominion Post.
The living cultures museum "largely captures what [Te Papa] is currently doing", while the future museum intends to "challenge and empower people to have a positive impact on the future".
Te Papa chief executive Michael Houlihan said the new structure would mean a greater turnover and more interactive exhibits.
Art and New Zealand's contribution to science would get more space, Mr Houlihan said.
While the change will future-proof the museum, it is also partly to reduce costs.
Te Papa receives $32.5 million in government funding each year and $2.25m from Wellington City Council and has been under pressure to streamline its operation.
Between 115 and 137 jobs have been disestablished and about 123 created.
Te Papa spokeswoman Tina Norris said it was too early to say how many people would be made redundant.
But Service and Food Workers Union spokesman James Sleep said he suspected the process had been muddied to obscure the number of eventual redundancies.
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SCB Spot for iPad
By Siam Commercial Bank PCL.
This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
SCB Spot is a lifestyle application suitable for both SCB Credit Card customers and others who would like to have the convenient of being able to search for restaurants, shops, hotels, and many other places in Thailand on your devices according to your lifestyle. For simplicity, SCB Spot organizes SCB Credit Card promotions and benefits into categories such as Dine, Shop, Travel, and Deejung Installments.
+ Easy to use. With over 1,500 participating shops nationwide, search for shop listing, discounts and offers according to each type of SCB credit card on a friendly interface.
+ Convenient service with Nearby Spots. Locate promotions and benefits around your location wherever you are.
+ Accommodating. Display promotion and benefit details, telephone numbers, and location on Maps for each shop.
+ Up-to-date Promotions. Keep up with new and exciting promotions from SCB with Inspire Me.
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- Free
- Category: Finance
- Released: 08 March 2011
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 3.4 MB
- Language: English
- Developer: Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Limited
- © Siam Commercial Bank PCL 2011. All rights reserved
Compatibility: Requires iOS 3.2 or later. Compatible with iPad.


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August 26 2012
Update: Day makes FedExCup move
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- With the leaders less than an hour away from teeing off, a few of the early players have made moves up the leaderboard in Sunday's final round of The Barclays.
Jason Day shot a 5-under 66 that included an eagle at the par-5 seventh when he rolled in a putt from outside 40 feet. That leaves him at 1 under for the tournament.
The 66 ties Day's lowest round of the year and might just be enough to get him inside the top 100 cutoff for next week's Deutsche Bank Championship. The Australian started the week ranked 113th in points and was outside the top 100 projections after shooting a third-round 77. But the 66 now has him projected at 94th in points.
Bud Cauley is 4 under through 14 holes and 3 under for the tournament.
Graham DeLaet is also 4 under on his round through 15 holes, having eagled the par-4 15th when he holed out from 152 yards. He joins Cauley in the group at 3 under. DeLaet started the week ranked 106th in points but is currently projected at 77th.
Josh Teater is in the process of solidifying his spot in next week's event. He's 3 under through his first seven holes and 4 under for the tournament. Starting the week ranked 94th in points, he's currently projected at 58th.
Click here for live FedExCup points projections