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Linux, Talon and Astronomy
Putting Talon to use requires a few initial calibration items. As with any telescope, you'll need to check and adjust the polar alignment—the physical location of the telescope in relation to celestial north.
With xobs in the boot.cfg script, the main Talon screen should open right after your desktop loads. From this main screen, select Find Homes (Figure 6). As noted, this routine finds the home mark on each encoder, RA, HA and Focus. From the pop-up window, select All. The telescope should move in all axes. Each axis skips past the home mark initially, backing up incrementally until it finds the mark again. This reduction of each move to the home mark ensures that the telescope ends up precisely on the mark.
The next step is to find limits. This routine locates the telescope's physical limit switches, which prevent the telescope from damaging itself by swinging too far through the travel of each axis. When the switches at both ends of travel are found in an axis, the software writes the location (in encoder counts) to the home.cfg file. You should need to complete the find limits routine only one time.
With the telescope calibrated and aligned, it's time to take some pictures. Open the camera and xephem applications from the command line. Enable telescope control in the xephem options. Select an object by right-clicking in the ephemeris, then select Point Telescope from the resulting pop-up. The telescope should slew to the new position. Click on the camera application and select Take One. With the proper connection to the camera, you'll hear the shutter trip. Within a few seconds, an image of the selected object renders on your screen.
To set up scheduled operations, use the telsched command. In the resulting window, select the size of the mesh, remembering that the tighter the mesh is, the more images taken. Set the time for the operations to start (in UT) and save the schedule file in the default directory. Then pop back out to the main Talon screen and select batch mode. You'll receive a confirmation window. When you select Yes, the Talon application slaves to auto mode. You can cancel auto mode from the main screen. You cannot, however, operate the telescope manually from the main screen while batch mode is in use.
The Talon program is rich with features, providing complete control over the operation of the telescope. Many of the finer features are outlined in the .pdf manual provided in the Talon .tgz file. It's worth a thorough read to understand the telescope interfaces to the control boards and to the software. The manual also contains in-depth information on image processing, solving for WCS solutions, automated and remote operations and finer calibration items that are beyond the scope of this article.
Talon represents a complete leap into the open-source world for astronomers, both professional and amateur. With the robust and networkable nature of Linux, Talon provides a stable platform from which we can do what we've been doing since the beginning of time—viewing, recording and discovering the heavens.
Tony Steidler-Dennison is the director of operations for Optical Mechanics, Inc., and the author of Lockergnome's Penguin Shell newsletter, a twice-weekly tome for Linux users. He maintains Talon on Sourceforge.net and the poli-tech blog "Frankly, I'd Rather Not" at www.steidler.net. He answers all e-mail sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
I bought this issue on the news stand specifically for this article. What a disappointment to find the article was written a year ago and the software is no longer supported! I don't think I'll be buying this magazine again.
KStars can control popular telescopes
Most amateur astronomers use telescope from Meade and Celestron, the latest version of KStars (to be released in KDE 3.2 http://edu.kde.org/kstars) includes a support for such telescopes.
It seems that Talon is really great and professional, albeit it is limited to the Optical Mechanics and Oregen motion controllers.
For most of us amateur astronomers out there who own a Meade or a Celestron, KStars allow us to easily control the telescope.
Re: KStars can control popular telescopes
Most amateur astronomers use telescope from Meade and Celestron
and what makes you think that?
I know a lot of amateur astronomers, and not a single one owns a meade or celestron telescope... because they just suck.
Way too pricey for what those things offer.
Re: KStars can control popular telescopes
You're right, but the whole article is about Software Telescope Control. So maybe most amateur astronomers have Dobs or refractors, but the majority of those who have _computerized_ mounts that can be used along with a control software has Meade/Celestron.
Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
Kstars, included in KDEGames, contains telescope control software.
And the telescope control documentation:
KStars is being actively developed.
Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
A small correction, KStars in included in the KDE Eduntainment package.
Maybe Linux Journal can review KStars when KDE 3.2 is out?
Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
Interesting story, this.
The article was written nearly a year ago. Since that time the company, Optical Mechanics, Inc., has shifted its focus to high precision optics and away from telescopes. I, in the meatime, have gone to work for a presidential campaign in Little Rock, AR. The Talon project on sourceforge has, to say the least, languished.
As the result of the article, I've had several offers to help rebuild the project page and continue development on Talon. You can expect to see a new project page within the next week or so (as of December 7), and an initial release of Talon shortly thereafter. The software is available now via CVS on sourceforge.
It started strong, faded, and looks to soon be revived by the open source community. Keep an eye open.
Tony Steidler-Dennison
Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
I'm in the proccess of building my observatory to house my 10" Meade. I would really like to use all of the capabilities of this software.
Another good piece of software is "The Sky" for Linux and "Satalite tracker". Both are easily found threw a "google" search.
Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
Hi Tony
I've just downloaded your first source release from the Sourceforge site...Like others on this list, the setup I'm using is an LX200, (with a Robodome arriving in the Fall, hopefully).
I'm interested in seeing something like Talon being used for my setup, as I'd like to run it all under Linux....I'll email you to chat further.
Dez Futak.
Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
Thanks for the info, Tony. I was able to find a page
for Talon on sourceforge at:
I too am very interested in seeing this project move
forward. I am building a robotic telescope and plan
on contributing to the community both the mechanical design of my mount and my coding efforts on a resurrected Talon project.
Tom Bartol
Talon Development
Hi Tom,
Myself and my partner are currently working on compiling the Latest Talon Software and porting it at the University of Toronto's Observatory. We are both students from the University of Toronto and we are trying to standardize the code so that it would work on all LX200 telescopes on Linux Enterprise 3.0. We are currently facing problems compiling, and we would like to know how far you have gone with this code. Please let us know if you would be interested in working together.
Fabian Lim
Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
Ilooked for this software, too. Not only is it missing from the claimed spot, it is not available from the optical company, nor is it even mentioned on the author's website. So, what gives? if it is a product, that fact should have been stated in the article. If it is freeware or shareware, that too should have been stated. I'm seriously disappointed, as I have a potenitial use for Talon. Too bad.
Don Latham
Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
The source code for Tolon is located at "www.sourceforge.net". Just type Talon into there search window. I've downloaded it, unpacked it, and now trying to install it
Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
The source code for Tolon is located at "www.sourceforge.net". I've downloaded it, unpacked it, and now trying to install it
Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
Has anyone successfully downloaded this code? I was curious
enough to want to poke around at it a bit, but http://observatory.sourceforge.net/ is an empty directory, and the
sourceforge project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/observatory/
claims not to have released any files. Am I missing something?
Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
The project is still there, and indeed the latest version is 0.85, Dec 29 2003. But it has moved - observatory.sourceforge.com is now an empty directory. The new URL is:
Re: Linux, Talon and Astronomy
Interesting story, this.
The article was written nearly a year ago. Since that time the company, Optical Mechanics, Inc., has shifted its focus to high precision optics and away from telescopes. I, in the meatime, have gone to work for a presidential campaign in Little Rock, AR. The Talon project on sourceforge has, to say the least, languished.
As the result of the article, I've had several offers to help rebuild the project page and continue development on Talon. You can expect to see a new project page within the next week or so (as of December 7), and an initial release of Talon shortly thereafter. The software is available now via CVS on sourceforge.
It started strong, faded, and looks to soon be revived by the open source community. Keep an eye open.
Tony Steidler-Dennison
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Release Date: 04/15/2014 | Tracklist
Davey Boy STAFF (1.5)"Get up" & "bounce", because "the realest motherf*ckers in the game" are back ...Jeremy Wolfers (1.5)Sometimes to appreciate the truly good, one has to look to the truly bad to compare it to....John Anderton (2)Predictably disappointing....Jared Floryan (1.5)If we're keeping it real, then Frankie and his bros at Emmure must be keeping it fake....
Nocturnal (2)Diagonal ass niggas and time vampires watch the fuck out....
Album Rating: 2.5Three Emmure reviews on the user review column in a row.
Digging: Sigur Ros - ( )
Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound OffI'm thinking of bringing another one into the ring
Digging: Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Album Rating: 2.5Lol, Emmure's album is gonna have so many pages of reviews.
Album Rating: 1.0BANDWAGON BANDWAGON BANDWAGON! I was holding this review off for tomorrow, but considering two users along with a staff member beat me to the punch I might as well upload it now. Also damn, you guys are quick, 42 views and not even two minutes have passed XD The full album can be streamed, if you really hate yourself that much, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmfScKO8Zqo
4 reviews of this album in total on the front page maybe more later idk
Watch La Gargola lose its title of most discussed album to this trite by tomorrow morning
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its a good thing this got all these negative reviews, i was definitely gonna check it out but now i wont.
Album Rating: 2.5I have so many Emmure things in my Discussions tab now damn.
what the fuck how many fucking reviews have been posted for this in the past hour
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Album Rating: 1.0Man I knew Victory Records had some pretty bad artists lined up, but I never imagined THIS was on the label. Hopefully one day Streetlight Manifesto and A Day To Remember will be able to get off the label so they stop dragging em down.
Album Rating: 2.5Streetlight and ADTR are both off Victory already I think.
i never actually listened to a full emmure album cuz lmao its emmure but now i'll give em a chance just for fun
Album Rating: 1.0Have fun, I wasn't joking when I said I got a headache from this album.
holy fucking shit i'm having too much fun
Album Rating: 1.0@Snide Techincally, despite theyre contracts saying there free to leave after four albums thats sadly not the case. Because the laywers at Victory got sneaky and looped holed it by NOT releasing their albums. The Hands That Thieve and Common Courtesy have technically not released because Victory refuses to release them. THTT had to be leaked by the bands members online in order to get it into fans hands and Common Courtesy was leaked by the band, thus Victory is suing them for putting it on stores without their OK. I hate Victory a lot.
good album
Album Rating: 2.5Wow, Victory records are a bunch of scumbags.
I've only heard one song off of felony, and that was MORE than enough i needed to ever hear from this band.. but to be honest, does this band have ANYTHING that's worth listening to?
@jasf7: Goodbye To Gallows has a few good tunes
Album Rating: 1.5yeah goodbye to the gallows is the closest this band ever came to being decent
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Thread: Will Haloti Rebound?
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Re: Will Haloti Rebound?
yea it really sucks haloti is been innjured on and off the last 2 years we need him to get better...how has mcphee looked since he came back from injury?
Re: Will Haloti Rebound?
Yeah I know that, Docket was one of the best 5 technqiues in the league, he's seemed to have taken a slight nose dive recently though. But IF McPhee can come back healthy, and with another season under his belt, I think he can get better than what he was in his rookie year, and get to that kind of level.
Ngata will be fine.
He needs an off season of dropping a few pounds (the reason, IMO, he's been injured as often as he has) and healing up a few nagging injuries.
Remember, he's playing with a dinged up knee right now. You're not going to get that explosive push or lateral movement when you constantly have to worry about not snapping your MCL.WARNING: This post may contain material offensive to those who lack wit, humor, common sense and/or supporting factual or anecdotal evidence. All statements and assertions contained herein may be subject to literary devices not limited to: irony, metaphor, allusion and dripping sarcasm.
Re: Will Haloti Rebound?
People forget that spraining your MCL is a significant injury, especially for someone who plays a high amount of snaps at DT. I still think he can contribute down the stretch, and is probably better used as a NT at this point, as it is a need in it's own right.
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Re: Will Haloti Rebound?
It aint Haloti when hes's getting double and some times trippled guys like Cody need tot ake advantage of those one on one matchups, have you seen Athur Jones lately? he's been sucking up those one on one matchups when they come the guy is in the back field automatically when he gets those matchups. Imagine if we had a good D coordinator? Jones would be looking really good right now
Re: Will Haloti Rebound?
Below average? Maybe in someone's dreams do DT's average playhing that well...
He started out the season, YET AGAIN at a DPOY candidate, and slowed due to injuries. As has been mentioned by many, if we can get deeper on the DL and limit his snaps some, and keep him healthy, he's a DPOY candidate each and every year in which he can remain mostly healthy. He is amongst the very best FEW defensive players in the entire league. He is quite possibly the most effective defender in the run game at any position in the entire league. He's double and triple teamed on every snap, even when hampered with a pretty serious knee injury. He beats double teams as often as anyone in the league, despite a major knee injury...
I see the point of the thread, as he hasn't been able to stay healthy recently, btu despite that he continues to play, and play at a high level, and high snap count, game after game, year after year. He's a complete BEAST.
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Re: Will Haloti Rebound?
Okay, guys. Go back and re-watch the game tape, paying close attention to the line play, of the last 3 games. Ngata isn't getting double teamed anymore. He's getting taken out of plays completely by single blocks. That doesn't mean he's doing NOTHING, but he's just not the dominant force he used to be and other teams know that, hence the fact that they're not even bothering to double him anymore.
The ONLY guy on the Ravens DL who's really seeing double teams at all right now is Kruger, and that's usually an OT and TE. Part of the reason why teams are running so well on the Ravens is that they can just single-block the DL, send the C to the second level, and control any blitzers with backfield protection. You've got to actually watch the games, the tape don't lie...


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CORNERSTONE DAIRY ACADEMY™ will be held March 17 & 18 in conjunction with the 2015 Business Conference. Focusing on the training and development needs of farmers or other industry professionals needing to communicate, collaborate and lead more effectively, as well as, students pursuing dairy related careers and individuals wanting to retool because they are at a crossroads in their dairy career.
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OPTION 1: INFLUENTIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership, Interaction and Influence
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Good leadership is ethical leadership. Discover who you are as a leader and identify which of your character strengths can positively influence others to succeed in business. Then take those strengths and weave them with the mega forces and trends of agriculture as presented by Dr. David Kohl. You'll discover how to be an impact player who leads others through a turbulent, changing global economy.
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For more than 20 years, dairy leaders and decision makers have counted on PDPW's Business Conference for the best information and resources in the dairy industry. Explore the latest technologies, learn about the newest research, be inspired by world-class speakers and rub elbows with dairy industry influencers.
Open application period closed February 15, 2015. For a quality experience, this is an application-based program with a limited number accepted into each program. If accepted, pay just $100 to attend. Support from the Professional Dairy Producers Foundation covers the balance of your registartion, including meals and room-share lodging (value $500). Applicants will be notified of acceptance by February 27.
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PDPW Board Candidates
March 18-19, 2015 | Madison, Wisconsin
PDPW Board of Director Candidates
PDPW is a dairy producer-led organization—founded by producers, led by producers and serving producers.
PDPW bylaws allow one vote per dairy membership. PDPW's Board of Directors has three available positions, and each PDPW dairy farm member may vote for up to three candidates.
You can cast your ballot in one of two manners:
- Attend and submit at PDPW's Business Conference, March 18-19, in Madison, Wis.
- Mail your marked ballot to PDPW. Must be postmarked by Monday, March 2, 2015. Mailing address: PDPW, 820 N. Main, Suite D, Juneau, WI 53039
All votes will be kept confidential and will be counted by the PDPW ballot clerks at the 2015 Business
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If you have questions about the process, candidates or your ballot, please call PDPW at 800-947-7379.
Transition Cow Conference
April 7, 8, 9, 2015; 9:30am-4:00pm | Appleton, Fennimore, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Exceptional attention to details in your transition cow program is the difference between surviving in the dairy business and your dairy business thriving. Take a day to fine-tune your transition cow knowledge and gather new insight that you can apply immediately. PDPW's has gathered the industry's dream-team on transition cow research and knowledge – making this one-day Conference a must attend if your business is dairy farming.
This one-day workshop is designed to help take cow management skills from excellent to exceptional. It is for dairy cow experts pursuing the latest research, insight and techniques for furthering transition-cow management abilities.
- Dairy owners and herdspersons responsible for the transition cows
- Dairy veterinarians
- Professional dairy nutritionists
The PDPW Transition Cow Conference will be held in three locations:
- April 7: Fox Valley Technical College, D.J. Bordini Center, 5 N. Systems Drive, Appleton, Wis.
- April 8, Southwest Wisconsin Technical College, 1800 Bronson Blvd., Fennimore, Wis.
- April 9, Sleep Inn and Suites Conference Center, 5872 3rd Ave., Eau Claire, Wis.
The PDPW Transition Conference is an accredited training programs with the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine (UW-SVM) and veterinarians may receive up to 5.4 CEUs for this one-day Conference. The Conference has also been approved by ARPAS and attendees will receive up to 4.0 CEUs for this one-day Conference.
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2015 Youth Leadership Derby
April 18 - 19, 2015 | Waupun, WI, Wisconsin
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS......Ready for an amazing weekend? Want to Dive-In, Dissect and Discover Dairy? How about a chance to meet Greg Peterson? Greg and his brothers are known for their agriculture music parodies on YouTube!
Join PDPW for a two-day, overnight educational experience at Youth Leadership Derby! Youth Leadership Derby is for high school students like you - students wanting to dive into and explore future career opportunities. With hands-on, lab dissection and exposure to diverse careers,you will see the opportunities agriculture has for you. Take the next step to grow your leadership, communication, technical and life skills.
Top Reasons YOU Should Attend:
- Explore more than 20 dynamic agricultural, science and dairy industry careers.
- Dissect alongside veterinarians and dairy experts at Hilltop Dairy.
- Dig into your choice of sessions from sire selection, seed technology, social media advocacy, financial basics, dairy food science and more.
- Get inspired by world-class key note speakers including YouTube Sensation Greg Peterson, from the Peterson Farm Brothers music parodies, and the energetic and engaging, Ed Slowikowski, who represented the USA at the 1987 Pan Am games and 1990 USA Track and Field Team in London England and who held the fastest college indoor mile (3 minutes 58 seconds) record in the nation in 1990.
- Ask questions and learn as you talk with an Agriculture Career Panel
- Connect and have fun with students with similar interests.
- Take the next step towards your school and career goals.
This youth-focused event is designed for students between the age of 15-18. Students are asked to bring a sleeping bag, towels for showering, and necessary toiletries. Participants are also strongly encouraged NOT to bring any valuables to this overnight event. A parent signed waiver will be required of each participant.
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2015 Barnstorming with PDPW
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We want to hear your ideas and find new ways to help fellow dairy farmers succeed. You must be a PDPW member to attend.
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Enhanced Internship Program
Year-Round | Wisconsin
Are you interested in making a difference for a student interested in pursuing a profession in the dairy and food industries? Or, are you a student looking for that once in a life time opportunity to apply your skills and knowledge onto a dairy farm? Now's the time!
The purpose of this program is to provide a platform and resource for collegiate-level students to partner with an active dairy producer in order to participate in an educational, hand-on, on-farm professional experience. This program is limited to those interested in pursuing a profession in the dairy and food industries.
The internships are designed to be a win-win experience for both the host farm and student. This program tailors to all the needs of the student and mentor. Students should gain an array of experiences including: business management, special project and hand-on farm experience.
For additional information regarding the Enhanced Internship, or to learn more about PDPW, feel free to contact PDPW at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 1-800-947-7379.
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Have you attended PDPW Business Conference in the past? Thinking about attending in the future? Take the opportunity to be exposed to your industry's leading experts and most demanded motivational speakers. Make connections and realize the greatest innovations our industry has to offer. Take all of your learnings back to your farm to increase efficiencies and overall profitability.
PDPW's premier educational event is the place to share best practices, build relationships with your peers and continue to grow your farms professional portfolio. You won't be disappointed.
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�Ma'am, have you signed the Cuba Affidavit stating that you or anyone you are associated with are not conducting business with Cuba?� I asked.
�I don't know,� she said. �What is that? I don't do business with Cuba.�
�Great!� I responded. �I just need you to sign this affidavit to that effect so you'll be compliant.�
�I don't do business with the county either,� she snapped, looking impatient. This officer explained that simply paying the toll is completing a transaction and is then, technically, �doing business� with the county. Before I could obtain her signature, though, she sped off. (Note: This officer again requests permission to carry a firearm!)
A second county employee, a female, entered the tollbooth. She asked to see my authorization. This officer pointed to my CACA badge and explained that I simply was ensuring the law is being upheld. I also noted that traffic was beginning to back up. This officer waved the next car up to the gate.
�I'm in a hurry. Can I sign it on the way back?� said the male driver when I sought his compliance.
�Sir, I don't think that's a good idea,� I said. �I think in order for you to legally cross the causeway, you should sign now.� The gentleman signed, though he did not print his full name or his address.
Throughout this exchange the female tollbooth employee kept pestering this officer for �authorization.� She informed me that her �manager� was on his way over from his headquarters at the Rickenbacker Causeway tollbooth. Rather than wait for someone I assumed would be a county police agent, I mentioned that I too am in a hurry. I returned to my vehicle and proceeded across the causeway.
NARRATIVE: Under the Cuba Ordinance as written and still in force, certain airlines are exempt from strict compliance. But this free pass does not apply to the shops and restaurants that sell sticky buns and I "heart" Florida keychains at the airport. During my regular morning phone calls, a spokesman for the airport explained that the proprietors of every gift shop and restaurant at MIA, from Cinnabon to Burger King to the sushi vendor near the airport's hotel lobby, has signed the Cuba Affidavit.
This officer wondered how the restaurants ensure total compliance with the county's law. The affidavit explicitly states that all entities doing business with the county cannot do business with anyone who does business with Cuba. Are the restaurants ensuring that everyone who purchases, say, a frozen yogurt from the airport TCBY, has not illegally traveled to or is not doing business with Cuba? A direct inspection was merited.
At approximately 3:51 p.m. this officer conducted surveillance under the yellow neon sign of the California Pizza Kitchen. (The aroma of the Thai chicken pie almost compromised this officer's objectivity.)
Not one restaurant employee asked if customers were in compliance. This officer could no longer stand idly by. I approached the subject, who claimed to be a stewardess. She had just purchased a barbecue chicken pizza. I asked her if she had ever signed the affidavit. Subject had no idea what I was talking about.
�How do I know you do not do business with Cuba?� I inquired. �Do you fly to Cuba?�
�No, I don't,� she huffed, growing angry, clearly unimpressed with my authority. �Look, I have to work with idiots on the planes. I don't want to deal with idiots here.�
Other customers were confronted. Yet less than three minutes after questioning began, a California Pizza Kitchen employee approached this officer. Employee declined to give name or answer questions about the ordinance. She said compliance wasn't her responsibility. Suspecting she might fear reprisal from her superiors, I leaned closer.
�Look,� I said in a low whisper. �This is an airport. A lot of people are flying to different countries. Some of them may be going to Cuba in violation of the embargo. What if one of them eats a pizza while illegally visiting Cuba?�
�So what if they eat a Cuban pizza?� asked a second employee (possibly manager, refused to give name). �So what if they then come here and eat a pizza? What's the problem?�
�Then they just did business with Cuba, and now they're doing business here,� I explained. �I'm sure the county would not be happy.�
Manager (??) asked if I worked for the county. Explained CACA and my duties. He repeated his question. I repeated my answer. With talks stalled, I approached another customer to ask him if he engages in business with Cuba. He ignored me.
�Do you have permission from the county?� interrupted alleged manager, asking the same question for the third time.
�No, I'm just here to help out,� I repeated, maintaining my composure. �I'm just a concerned citizen.�
�Why are you trying to get people to sign things by saying you're with the county?�
�I never said I was with the county.�
�You said the county would not be happy.�
�I'm sure the county would not be happy if your customers are indeed doing business with Cuba.�


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"He was an authentic American original. He was a brave hero of World War II, flying far more dangerous missions than he was required to. He loved his country and he hewed to all the greatness that his country and its people have to offer. He gave his voice to those without voice or clout in the halls of policymaking. He challenged the conventional wisdom during a difficult period in our history when many lives might have been spared if his wisdom had been heeded.
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Keep Urgency Up: Creating a Culture that is Conducive to Continuous Change
John P. Kotter
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An organization that can sustain a high sense of urgency over time has the potential to become a high-performance machine, where results go from good to great and beyond. But sustaining urgency over time requires that it not only be created, and created well, but that it be re-created again and again, becoming firmly ingrained in an organization's culture.
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I. TSA Uses Unencrypted Barcode Info to Designate Not-so-Random "Random" Searches
That's why the findings of an aviation blogger -- John Butler -- are particularly troubling. They represent a serious compromise in security procedures by allowing passengers to know, via inspecting their barcode, whether they will be subject to conventional screens.
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The flaw is specific to the TSA's pre-screening program. That program allows frequent fliers to pay a fee to get to skip certain digital screening requirements. Passengers who pay the fee get to carry on approved liquids in their luggage, don't have to remove their personal electronics, and can keep their belts/shoes on, when travelling through the scanners.
The idea is that the passengers are pre-screened to try to weed out potential violent threats, and then to use the possibility of random screens to deter any would be terrorists from going to great lengths to try to exploit the program.
Except the screens weren't random. According to Mr. Butler, they appear to be pre-determined, and worse yet the barcode on your ticket tells -- without encryption -- whether you will be screened.
The decoded contents of Mr. Butler's boarding pass. [Image Source: PuckInFlight]
The majority of the barcode encodes your name, flight number, departure city, destination city, seat number, etc. But the final encoded number is a mysterious '1' or '3'. The number encodes a number of beeps that prompts the TSA agents -- in predetermined fashion -- whether to screen the passenger (1 beep means no conventional pre-check, 3 beeps means to do a conventional pre-check).
II. Want to Illegally Skip Security? Print a Modified Boarding Pass
As Mr. Butler points out, a malicious flyer could read their bar code information, then re-encode a new bar code with the '3' replaced with a '1'. The blogger summarizes:
What terrorists or really anyone can do is use a website to decode the barcode and get the flight information, put it into a text file, change the 1 to a 3, then use another website to re-encode it into a barcode. Finally, using a commercial photo-editing program or any program that can edit graphics replace the barcode in their boarding pass with the new one they created. Even more scary is that people can do this to change names. So if they have a fake ID they can use this method to make a valid boarding pass that matches their fake ID. The really scary part is this will get past both the TSA document checker, because the scanners the TSA use are just barcode decoders, they don't check against the real time information. So the TSA document checker will not pick up on the alterations. This means, as long as they sub in 3 they can always use the Pre-Check line.
Sterling Payne, in
a comment to
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According to
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, many boarding passes come with verification codes, which could prevent the attack from being carried out. However, the publication notes that some boarding passes are marked as "unverified" and appear to still be validated. As boarding passes can be printed up to 24 hours in advance, attackers could have a window of opportunity to analyze and modify an unverified pass.
A modified unverified pass could offer a free pass through security.
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Chris Soghoian
, an advocate at the
American Civil Liberties Union
, said poor security is nothing terribly new for the TSA. He created a website back in 2006 that allowed people to create fake boarding passes to test TSA security.
He comments on the latest hole, "If you have a team of four people [planning an attack], the day before the operation when you print the boarding passes, whichever guy is going to have the least screening is going to be the one who'll take potentially problematic items through security. If you know who's getting screened before you walk into the airport, you can make sure the right guy is carrying the right bags."
The temptation, he points out, might be to use profiling or other tactics, but he notes the ACLU opposes them. He says such methods are unnecessary, if the TSA just did its job and encrypted the information on the passes. At the end of the day that's the same conclusion Mr. Butler came to.
Both men made it clear that they did not test the attack by printing fake boarding passes. Mr. Butler stated that he believed that was a "legally grey area and morally black one", while
The Washington Post
suggests, "[It] is illegal to tamper with a boarding card under U.S. law."
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It's probably not a good idea to forge info on your boarding pass, but immoral? Only if you're a terrorist. Hypothetically, if someone who is not carrying anything dangerous were to tamper with their boarding pass to avoid being searched, there would be nothing particularly immoral about it.
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