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On Same-Sex Marriage
When it comes to same-sex marriage, is pointed satire possible - not merely on the Jon Stewart or Jay Leno TV shows but in political life? Certainly not in federal court, where the issue has taken on a life-or-death quality for gays. But the ballot box is another story.
The most important gay-rights case ever starts next month in San Francisco's federal court building. There's talk of bringing TV cameras into the courtroom, a rarity in these staid precincts and an indicator of what's at stake.
Perry vs. Schwarzenegger challenges the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California's gay-marriage ban - and much more. By claiming that homosexuality is a "suspect classification," a category that until now has been limited to race, religious groups and foreign-born citizens, the lawsuit puts homosexuality itself on trial.
Gay activists are understandably nervous. If the case reaches the Supreme Court, as generally predicted, the justices get to decide whether government has any legitimate reason to deny equal rights to homosexuals - not only marriage but all the legal entitlements, from overturning "don't ask, don't tell" to parenting, that gays and lesbians have been after since Stonewall. It's a long shot, because conservatives rule the bench, and losing the case could set back the gay-rights legal agenda by a generation.
Enough seriousness. A Sacramento Web-designer named John Marcotte is making a witty and potentially potent argument for marriage equality. The married father of two has drafted a 2010 ballot measure that would ban divorce in California, and his argument is devilishly simple - if marriage is as forever-and-for-keeps as the anti-gay-marriage contingent insists, then banning divorce will preserve its sanctity.
Getting on the ballot requires nearly 700,000 signatures, and unless you have millions of dollars to spend on signature-collectors, that's a nearly impossible feat. Hanging out in front of Walmart stores, peddling $12 T-shirts with the slogan "You said 'til death do us part' - You're not dead yet" and pitching the message that "Jesus still loves you if you get divorced - just not as much as before" won't carry the day.
But suspend your disbelief for a moment. It would be a helluva campaign if the measure actually were put to California's voters. Religious leaders who led the Prop. 8 campaign would be in a pickle.
The Catholic Church condemns the "mortal sin" of divorce. Wouldn't the clerics have to embrace an initiative that prohibits it? And what about the Mormons, who preach that divorce is the result of not living the Gospel - wouldn't they have to endorse it?
The anti-divorce idea also is pitched as a money-saver, with the real cost of divorce for California taxpayers pegged at $4.8 billion annually by the Institute for American Values. That argument could win over budget-conscious voters. Add in all those lesbian and gay voters, who get the joke, and chances of passage look even brighter.
It's a great stunt, and the campaign is getting attention, with 63,000 Google hits, an NPR piece and a Huffington Post article. That's its real purpose - to debunk, through humor, the humorless claim that the "sanctity" of marriage is the reason gays shouldn't be allowed to tie the knot - and on that score, it's mission accomplished.
But will Antonin Scalia, the justice who railed against the "homosexual agenda promoted by some homosexual activists directed at eliminating the moral opprobrium that has traditionally attached to homosexual conduct," and his ilk get the message? Don't bet the farm.


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Celebrate Mardi Gras with the RedwineJazz Band. New Orleans based Clarinetist Ben Redwine returns to the Baltimore region, reuniting the band for a swinging evening of Mardi Gras inspired New Orleans Jazz. The RedwineJazz Band was founded in 2004 and has performed nationally and in the Baltimore/DC region. Ben Redwine leads the group with John Previti playing bass and Tom Mitchell on guitar.

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On Wednesday, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office confirmed to E! News that the rapper, whose name is Robert Williams, has accepted an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, known as an ACD. Additionally, the star is required to complete 30 hours of community service (20 of which he has already completed). Once he has completed the requirements, the case will be dismissed from his record and the case sealed, as long he does not get arrested in the next six months.
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We need to think better, not more or faster. This is very well covered in this video from Epipheo.tv that talks with Nicholas Carr, the author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. He talks about how the internet is short circuiting the ability of our brains to consolidate the memories… Read more »
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My First Ten Week Course
In my quest to pivot my professional life, I decided that I need to go back to school. Sort of. I don't believe that going to a physical school will actually give me the skills or experience I want. The only thing that I think that experience would give me would be a lot of… Read more »
As the flip side to my introspection yesterday on distraction, today I'm looking at focus. It's appropriate because I'm starting Week 1 of my life pivot on Monday and one of my assignments for this week is working on my focus. How better to start the week than with focus? I can't think of anything… Read more »
This is a personal post involving some introspection on my part, so it may not be of use to everyone. If not, I apologize, but I'm going to be a bit self indulgent in this post. I am currently attempting what amounts to a "pivot" for my life in general. I have spent the past… Read more »
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I am currently reading Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody to potentially use for a paper I need to write (on (art) experts in the digital age). I came across this, and thought more about the Occupy Wall Street movement than my paper:
Collective action, the third rung, is the hardest kind of group effort, as it requires a group of people to commit themselves to undertaking a particular effort together, and to do so in a way that makes the decisions of the group binding on the individual members. All group structures create dilemmas, but these dilemmas are hardest when it comes to collective action, because the cohesion of the group becomes critical to its success. Information sharing produces shared awareness, shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.


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I'm sending you this email as someone who has contacted me about the future of the Walthamstow Greyhound Stadium. It tells you how you can object to plans to turn this land into a housing estate and instead help the campaign for a better future for this area by emailing the Mayor of London – please also share this email with friends and family in both Walthamstow and London to ask them to help our campaign. You can also find information about this campaign and this letter on my website here:
With your help we can make the case for a better future for Walthamstow Greyhound Stadium!
Best wishes
Stella Creasy
Waltham Forest Council have given their approval to plans put forward by London and Quadrant Housing Association to convert the site into an estate. However they still have to be approved by the Mayor of London. He has two weeks (from receipt of all the paperwork from the Council) to make the final decision about whether L&Q's application goes ahead. He can be emailed about this matter on email@example.com.
The Mayor is only likely to intervene if he feels issues around this application are of key strategic importance to London itself, such as delivery of the right homes and jobs for the capital, and protecting and enhancing London's unique status and amenities. That is why if you think a better use could be made for this site which will bring benefits to all of London it is important to let him know your views. In particular, its important both local residents and fans of the Stadium who don't live in Waltham Forest contact the Mayor to let him know of their support for its future.
Only correspondence which addresses the planning grounds for rejecting this proposal will be beneficial to the campaign to save the Stow, so below is a suggested text for an email to send to the Mayor. This sets out two strong regional grounds for rejecting this application on planning grounds – please feel free to adapt or cut and paste into your correspondence.
Dear Mr Johnson,
Re: Walthamstow Greyhound Stadium, 300 Chingford Road, London E4 8SJ
I'm writing to you as a concerned resident of London to ask you to intervene to reject proposals put forward by London & Quadrant Housing Association to turn the Walthamstow Greyhound Stadium into a housing estate. I believe there are grounds for you to use your powers in relation to planning issues of importance to London on the following grounds:
L&Q's proposal does not preserve the original use of a heritage asset of national importance, and the jobs and economic activity associated with it.
Part 12 (Conserving and enhancing the historic environment) of the new National Planning Policy Framework states:
Where a proposed development will lead to substantial harm to or total loss of significance of a designated heritage asset, local planning authorities should refuse consent, unless it can be demonstrated that the substantial harm or loss is necessary to achieve substantial public benefits that outweigh that harm or loss, or all of the following apply:
- the nature of the heritage asset prevents all reasonable uses of the site; and
- no viable use of the heritage asset itself can be found in the medium term through appropriate marketing that will enable its conservation; and
- conservation by grant-funding or some form of charitable or public ownership is demonstrably not possible; and
- the harm or loss is outweighed by the benefit of bringing the site back into use.
The track is listed not only due to the nature of its architecture but also due to its use and the importance of this both locally and more widely. Specifically its heritage listing states that it is 'the best surviving and most architecturally interesting vintage greyhound stadium inthe country, with bold Art Deco influences in the stepped and streamlined detailing. It is also a major East London landmark, with the neon lighting of 1951 design on earlier lettering being a fitting use of such architectural advertising. Furthermore, it has special historic interest as the best surviving and most celebrated Inter-War greyhound stadium, a nationally loved building type expressive of developments in inter-War mass culture and entertainment'.
Thus the use of the site, as well as its physical state, is relevant to analysing whether any proposed application meets the test set out in Part 12 of the National Planning Policy Framework. Crucial to the Mayor intervening in this matter given the framework is whether or not there is a viable alternative proposal which is in keeping with the listed status of the building, as if there is, approval would contravene national planning policy and the comments of the Minster for Heritage Assets about the intentions of the Government in this case. An alternative, viable proposal which preserves greyhound racing, provides sustainable employment and delivers new housing on the site does exist, put forward by businessman Bob Moreton. London &Quadrant have dismissed Mr Moreton's offer to work with them and stated that they 'have absolutely no wish to sell the site'.
National planning policy stresses that where a development will cause substantial harm to or total loss of significance to a heritage asset it should be demonstrated that there is no viable alternative use. In this case there is a viable alternative proposal which preserves greyhound racing at the site. The Moreton proposal would also provide sustainable jobs and economic activity in an area suffering from unemployment.
L&Q's proposal does not create a sustainable and balanced mix of housing tenure, which meets local and London-wide housing needs.
Only 20% of the total units in L&Q's scheme are 'affordable', less than half the target of 50% set out in 'Policy CS2 Improving Housing Quality and Choice' of the London Borough of Waltham Forest's LP Core Strategy [2012]. Of these, only 40% (24 units out of the total of 294) will be for affordable rent and none will be available for a social rent. This contravenes Policy 3.11 of the London Plan which recommends that 60% of new affordable housing should be for social rent.
The housing mix offered by this development does not contribute to the Borough's housing needs properly – with only a small proportion of affordable housing and no social rented accommodation. Part 10.97.47 of the Council's officer's report to the Planning Committee states that 'The design in terms of housing unit mix and affordable housing provision is not policy compliant and this is acknowledged. 'The lack of affordable housing provided by this proposal demonstrates its very limited public benefits, which clearly do not outweigh the substantial harm and loss of significance to this designated heritage asset.
I hope you will listen to the concerns expressed about this proposal – please acknowledge my correspondence and keep me informed of your decision on this matter.
Walthamstow only has two weeks to save our Walthamstow Greyhound Stadium and secure a better future for the site. If you ever had a good night out there or believe Walthamstow needs housing and jobs please contact the Mayor of London and ask him to intervene.
Stella Creasy
Labour and Co-operative MP for Walthamstow


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5. After @Holliecatrocks went OTRB on November 26, 2010, Hollie Ferguson continued to tweet for her, bringing her great comfort.
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Monday, 1 March 2010
Perry - is it going pear-shaped?
That said, in the name of artisan produce, there has been a renewed interest in proper perry pears and more trees are being planted. Perry pears are not eaters, they have a harsh acidic taste but produce a sparkling drink that ranges from "gin bright" to golden in colour with a fragrant hedgerow aroma and a happy balance between tannins and the sweetness of unfermented sugars on the palate.
The winner of CAMRA's recent National Cider and Perry Championships 2009 is Broadoak Perry of Clutton, Somerset, which was picked from 20 perries from around the country and declared "a lovely, drinkable perry with a true pear aroma that starts with a medium sweet taste and is followed by a dry finish."
Runners up were Seidr Dai, Painted Lady Perry, from Glamorgan and Gwatkin, Blakeney Red from Abbey Dore, Herefordshire. Gwatkin's Yarlington Mill also won gold medal for best cider.
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- vavak said...
I am a perry drinker. Love the stuff. Good article .. but where is the more recent stuff ?
- 7 August 2010 at 23:57
- janson said...
This is looking good..Nice blog..
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While the pleasant subtle earthiness of the oat milk is overpowered by the strong chocolate, this is still a good non dairy chocolate milk option. I paired it with the lemon & lime and salted caramel brownie chocolates (RM6.50 each). Preferred the brownie one!
If you're hungry, go for this. Quite a big portion compared to the pasta due to the rice. Oddly, it was suppose to be brown rice but when it came, it was white rice. The lemongrass chicken was flavourful. Love the charred corn! Love this rice bowl despite the different rice.
This is RM23.50.
The pasta was al dente. The gravy was a tiny bit on the salty side for me. There are chilli flakes and red chilli in this dish but you can't really taste the spiciness. Wish there was some vegetables in the pasta. Clams were nicely cooked too. Nothing wow about it. Just as expected.
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Coconut milk with chocolate? Hhmmm....a bit dubious since I'm thinking of an overly heavy taste of coconut milk. It turned out better than expected. A unique drink for sure.
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Love this cafe! Nice interior and set up. Nicely hidden. And so many chocolate options for the choc lover.
They have many different chocolate drinks. Seeing the hot weather, I ordered the chocolate with coconut milk.
It was delicious! The sweet coconut water and the bitter dark chocolate was a perfect marriage! There were also shavings of chocolate at the bottom. Recommended!
This is RM13.80.
Refreshing on a hot day ☀ The taste of chocolate comes first followed by the underlying tartness of coconut juice which plays to its strength of being a good flavour canvas.


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Protect the reservoir from heat and direct sunlight. Maintain solution temperatures between 68 and 75 degrees F. You may want to bury the reservoir to take advantage of the cool and consistent soil temperatures. You can use aluminum foil to reflect sunlight and keep the reservoir from getting too hot. In really hot climates, you can create a cooling loop, buried in the soil to dissipate heat by having the nutrient pass through it on its way to the injectors (not applicable for the hydroponic planter design). You may need to use a larger pump to overcome the extra resistance inside the additional tubing. Keep any electrical equipment protected from the rain - use only equipment suitable for outdoor use. Hire a licensed electrician to install the proper wiring and outlets to power your outdoor garden.
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Rubina Madan Fillion is the former Director of Audience Engagement at The Intercept, where she focused on social media, analytics, newsletters, comments, events, SEO, and the membership program. Previously, she spent seven years at the Wall Street Journal as a social media editor and graphics editor. She worked at the New York Times as a freelance graphics editor. She has also written for Reuters, HuffPost, the New York Post, SPIN, and the Associated Press.
She has taught graduate-level digital journalism courses at Columbia University and New York University. She was part of the 2017 cohort of the Online News Association's Women's Leadership Accelerator. Fillon serves on the board of directors of the Online News Association and is one of the organizers of its New York chapter. She is also on the board of the Deadline Club, New York's chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She has a bachelor's degree from Emory University and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.


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Selling is often considered to be a creative art which is practised by using the imagination or the original ideas of the salesperson. This needs dynamism - a forceful and energetic approach so as to convey the sales message to a potential buyer.
Selling requires an ability to persuade, motivate, manipulate and negotiate with a buyer convincing him to invest in a product, service or idea, for mutual benefit. The mutual benefit to both buyer and seller, is the objective. It is a proven fact that nothing happens in a business organisation until the sales team makes it happen.
Scarcity of skilled sales staff, particularly in field selling, is a worrying issue for small and medium scale organisations today. If questioned, many marketing organisations will reveal that they are in search of Sales staff.
Field salesmen of yesteryear were always a self motivated, committed lot, with unquestionable enthusiasm. Of late, the emphasis given to 'marketing' by various professional educational institutions, changed the mindset of the younger generation. Hence, most of them try to be in 'marketing' in a theoretical sense.
Many of them do not realise that in the SriLankan context, serious marketing activities are typically limited to large corporate companies. The vast majority of medium and small scale businesses are into 'selling' rather than marketing in a strategic sense. Therefore, marketing has a very limited number of employment opportunities whilst employment in selling has a substantial shortage.
Sales success today demands a shift from the typical 'peddler' mentality of mere demonstration. It requires treating the customer as a participant. The best salespeople regard the sales call as a two way communication. They develop active listening skills and gather information to succeed.
Although highly challenging, selling is one of the most rewarding and enjoyable professions in the world with unlimited potential to earn. A skilled salesman learns the art of selling, psychology of the human mind, and philosophy of living. Selling is the one game in town that pays Bills, that keeps the doors open and pays salaries to everyone in a business. The salesman should be trained in two main segments; 'Sales knowledge' and 'Selling Skills'. Sales Knowledge is to learn about the Company, the Sales role, product knowledge, prices and pricing, advertising and promotions, customers and their behavior, competition, related industry and the economy of the country. Selling skills are about the selling process, communication skills, Influence and persuasion skills, team work, net working, time management, negotiating skills and self promotion skills. Professional salespeople learn the sales process which comprises prospecting, pre-approach, approach, presentation and demonstration, managing objections and closing techniques.
They also learn important related soft skills which are personal attributes that enhance an individual's interactions, job performance and career prospects. Unlike hard skills, which are about a person's skill set and ability to perform a certain type of task or activity, soft skills are interpersonal and broadly applicable.
In addition, a salesman must be aware of intra-personal skills such as enthusiasm, empathy, ego drive and efficiency as the most valuable tools of the profession.
Enthusiasm relates to the belief in the product/ service. Empathy is the deep understanding of customer behaviour whilst the ego – drive is the single most important factor of one's personal desire to succeed and courage to face failure without giving up. Efficiency is about learning to win by being clever and smart. The previous myth of 'salesmen are born' is no longer valid. As depicted in Arthur Miller's famous play, 'Death of a Salesman', the cigar smoking, back slapping, joke telling salesmen do not exist any more.
The Salesman today is educated, well-trained, understanding and knowledgeable.
They learn and develop many personal traits to be a professional, through reading and by attending training programs.
Professional salesmen judge the buyer's behaviour such as personality, study his moves and adapt to the changing situation. Sales situations vary from one to another, and the process of closing the sale varies from customer to customer.
Therefore, specific techniques to manage different situations should be applied as they crop up in order to handle the objections raised by the customer.
How the salesperson controls and manages, decides the completion of a sale. Everybody, everywhere, every day is selling or buying products, services or ideas. Individuals, groups, governments and companies of every size partake in this fundamental and most important function.
The success of the sales people in an organisation, decides the existence of the business. Sales people are categorised as fighter pilots eager to go to the battle field.
They are the most rewarded lot in an organisation. Dynamism of the sales force is the key word for the success of any business entity.


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As we reported back in April, the sixth season of Project Runway is moving from Bravo to Lifetime. Despite a Lifetime exec's pledge "to keep the show exactly the way it is," if host Heidi Klum is to be believed, our favorite design show is in for some potentially awful changes.
First up on the list is switching coasts. Since its inception, PR has been filmed in New York at Parsons The New School For Design, with the finales taking place during NY Fashion Week. When Runway moves to Lifetime, production will be packing up and moving to L.A. as well. To be fair, Los Angeles does, in fact, have a fashion week, but it's a fashion week that nobody gives a crap about because it's filled with like, Ed Hardy, tube tops, sparkles and clothing lines from the "stars" of The Hills.
According to an interview she gave with Forbes.com, the train wreck does not stop there. Laughing in the face of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," Project Runway is getting a face-lift. "The concept will be the same," she promises, but (and there's always a but) "the look of the show will change a little bit." Klum doesn't get too specific regarding the "little bit" of changes, but says that there will be "different catchphrases" and that the show will have a shudder "Hollywood flair."
I understand that Lifetime needs to set itself apart from Bravo and make Project Runway its own, but couldn't they have done that with, I don't know, a fancier set or some new graphics? Moving to L.A. and injecting Hollywood flair into a show with Tim Gunn just seems wrong. Besides, have you seen him when he visits finalists who live in sunny climes? Tim Gunn's skin does not do well in the sun, people! He will get sunburned and hot in his suits, and a show that makes Tim Gunn uncomfortable is not a show for me.


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Guinness Warld Records (Inglis: Guinness World Records), kent frae its inception in 1955 till 1998 as The Guinness Beuk o Records (Inglis: The Guinness Book of Records) an in previous U.S. edeetions as The Guinness Beuk o Warld Records (Inglis: The Guinness Book of World Records), is a reference beuk published annually, leetin warld records an naitional records, baith o human achievements an the extremes o the naitural warld.
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Kurt Gottschalk reviews Tea Music (Allos Documents), the forthcoming debut release from clarinetist/composer James Falzone's quartet KLANG, in the August issue of AllAboutJazz-New York.
The group features vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Tim Daisy.
"The conceptual framing here is the love for a cup of tea," he writes, "and the music is appropriately cerebral yet relaxing…the quartet…works exceedingly well together as a group. With 12 tracks and three of the four members contributing compositions, they maintain a nicely coherent feel throughout."
Earlier in this same issue, David R. Adler chose the disc, which officially hits the streets on August 25th, as one of his six recommended new releases of the month.
A mainstay at various festivals, concert series and venues around Chicago since 2006, KLANG will celebrate the Benny Goodman centennial at the invitation of the Chicago Jazz Festival on September 6th, mark the release of Tea Music at The Hideout on September 23rd and then embark on its first tour in mid-November.


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From the moment you first step through our doors, you will be surrounded by inspirational, thought-provoking and often world-renowned artwork. The Burchfield Penney features more than 30 exhibitions annually. While many are curated from our extensive collections, we often bring new work into the museum through temporary exhibitions and works on loan. As a result, no visit to the Burchfield Penney is ever the same. We encourage you to become a member and return often to experience everything the Burchfield Penney has to offer.
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*Updated (24.7.08)* I realised that this dough is still spreading among the Catholic faithfuls, so I've decided to move it up to the top of the posts. I sincerely hope that this post and its comments will be able to help those who heard or received this dough to make decisions. God bless.
I have posted on the miraculous dough which many local parishioners believe and even 'shared' with their friends. I took some home too, nope I didn't bake it nor followed its instructions; I just kept it there and let it be. After a while, I forgot about it totally.
When I suddenly realized that presence of the dough and the cake which I've brought back, it was already moulded. That was only two weeks after I brought them back. The pictures below were taken when I found them to be moulded.
I did a little bit of 'decoding' of the mystery behind the so-called "Miraculous Dough". It's based on my personal theory, so it might not be right. If you do not agree or have a better idea/explanation, feel free to leave them in the comment box.
The use of clean wooden spoon: No special purpose, but probably to avoid contact of dough with surfaces that might cause moulding, as it was to be kept for 10 days before it is baked.
The smell of the dough:
Its odour and form gives one an idea that it has yeast even though it does not.
I don't believe it is true. The smell might have come from a very small amount of yeast or/and a large amount of yogurt. Yogurt might be the reason for the dough to last for more than a week.
It will never mould:
Even though it is kept out of fridge it never moulded.
Look at the two photos above, and tell me, do you think this is true?
The history / origin:
It is also known as Pope Pius bread. The story is told that an Italian woman who was suffering all her life from illness that she could not even do her house chores. One day her daughter asked to bake her a cake. She refused more than once because she was unable to do it. The daughter insisted so much taht the mother felt she needed to bake that cake. She asked the aid of the Virgin Mary. As soon as she started to prepare the cake, the Virgin Mary appeared and she herself prepared the cake for the woman...
Again, I doubt it's true. I found out that the Amish Friendship Bread is quite similar with the preparation of this "miraculous dough". I had a discussion with a good friend, and both of us suspected that somebody adapted this Friendship bread and turned it into some kind of Marian devotion, for the purpose known only to that person who created it.
A few friends of mine, after reading my previous post on this dough and cake, told me that their mothers (strange, why is it always mothers and ladies who believed?) also took some home and bake it for the family. I got the dough and the cake from a physically sick sister-in-Christ. I even heard that this 'recipe' has spread to other churches in Kuching.
One vivid conclusion which we can make from this incident is that people are hungry for God. They are so hungry and desperate that they took the wrong measures to obtain His grace and blessings. They grab anything that claims to earn or that can bring His blessings without first investigate its validity.
I guess that the only way to prove it to those who believed is by showing these evidence to them.
Let us keep in our prayers all our brothers and sisters that our risen Lord Jesus Christ would send us His wisdom to show us the right path to the Father.


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Here's the latest article from the Sandwiches site at BellaOnline.com.
Read about a Marinated Vegetable Salad Recipe.
Greetings from the Land of OZ!
It's hard to believe that we have left summer behind, and we are charging through fall.Before we know it, the holiday season will be upon us. Holidays bring a renewed interest in gathering with friends and family to share meals. This week's recipe works well for a sandwich buffet.
Here is a tasty marinated vegetable salad that pairs with a sandwich to make it into a complete meal. Try scooping the marinated vegetables with their lovely dressing onto a plain bowl of salad greens. Wow! Suddenly, those greens are no longer plain!
This link to the Marinated Vegetable Salad Recipe is provided for your convenience:
Lately, I've been thinking about writing an E-book. The working title will be Sandwiches, Sides, and Soups. The sandwiches articles are written, and now I'm working on the the recipes for the sides and soups. Are there certain sandwiches, soups and sides that you would like to see in a book? Post your ideas in the forum.
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Man (34) 'critical' after stabbing attack
A 34 year-old man is critical in hospital after a serious attack this morning.
The man was discovered with serious stab wounds on Rockwood Parade in Sligo at around 10am today.
He was removed to Sligo Regional Hospital and he was later airlifted to University College Hospital, Galway.
Gardaí in Sligo are now investigating the serious assault, and the scene has been preserved for a technical examination.
Gardai have appealed for witnesses who were in the Rockwood Parade area this morning before 11am, or to anyone who can assist with this investigation, to contact them.
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A little book with a huge heart, it's full of insights and exercises that will help you discover more about yourself and what will make you happy. It will boost your self-belief, get you motivated and help connect you with a more creative and inspired version of yourself.
Read it from cover to cover or dip in and out whenever you need a lift – if Believe in Yourself & Do What You Love does not improve your life in some way, you can have your money back.


text: By now, we've all seen plenty of imagery surrounding Nike's forthcoming "Black History Month" Collection. And as retailers begin to receive stock of the February-dedicated kicks, Nice Kicks comes through with footage of the unboxing of the Air Force 1, Zoom Kobe VII, Zoom KD IV, and LeBron 9. Take a look, and remember, the set becomes available on February 11. [via Nice Kicks]


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The world is full of strange and wonderful things; although the world may just seem ordinary to you. We see color because of how wavelengths of light are reflected off of an object. Sea turtles always return to where they hatched to lay their eggs. The sun, an ordinary middle-aged star, gives life to a world that could have never been.
A world that is truly unique.
A world that gave life to Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Leonardo DiCaprio, me, and you.
There are so many people in this tiny world that it's understandable to feel so small, and you know what? We are. We are all small, but that shouldn't take away your importance.
There are times when you feel small, insignificant, and useless, but you should know that those feelings are normal.
But you? You aren't normal.
You are unique.
Yes, there are more than 7 billion people living in this world, and you are bound to met people who are similar to you. BUT they cannot experience the same things you do or feel with the same intensity that you do, so let the world see how unique and amazing you are.
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You are a star within yourself.
Don't ever be afraid, and if you feel weak just remember that even the strongest flame flickers in the wind.
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Last week we told you about Frozen's unsettling poster and now we've got the trailer for the latest from director Adam Green. Perhaps it's just because I have a major hatred for the cold, but this looks really freaky. In last week's article, Will really hits the nail on the head likening Frozen to Open Water.
It shows you what happens when three skiers (Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell and Kevin Zegers) are forgotten and left dangling in their chairlift seats. No big deal. Someone will realize they're there, right? Nope and on top of that, the ski resort isn't set to reopen until the following weekend. It's time to take some drastic measures or risk frostbite, hypothermia and eventually freezing to death.
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Lyrics Depot is your source of lyrics to Disciple Of Abhorrence by Malevolent Creation. Please check back for more Malevolent Creation lyrics.
Disciple Of Abhorrence Lyrics
Artist: Malevolent Creation
Album: Stillborn
The brain reels with pain
Immobilized,laying in wait
Entranced by what you feel
Sent forward to uphold hate
Feel to urge exasperation
Do you suffer are you crazy now
Heavy breathing craving hunger
Dispense pain disciple of abhorrence
To feel nothing abstain from any love
To kill all life you live to abhor
To kill end life for spite
Hate fuels your vexation
Growing inside you
Swelling beyond control
Emanate your sickness
To dark takes its toll
Living for nothing more that hate
Your life committed ensures its fate
Miscreant living out your dream
Ending life with all its misery
A force you have created from
The ashes of your mind
Feel it taking over as it grinds your soul
Never escape its anguished blow
Lifelong curse silenced with death
How you long to crush out life
Satisfaction with your every act
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German Keyboard without äöü-keys
Apple ships four German Layouts with the iPad. The one I prefer is QWERTZ, which has no keys for ä, ö and ü. This layout is similar to the iPhone and makes it easier to switch between the devices.
I miss this layout in padkeys.
Thanks for your thoughts. I'm just wondering though, what would be the purpose of using PadKeys in this case? Why not just use Apple's keyboard?
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I don't need PadKeys for the äöü, cause one of the Apple Layouts includes them.
So the question reduces to "Why to use PadKey in general?"
I thought it would be clear: The keys to move the cursor. The permanent row with the numbers.


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This year, from 27th October until 5th November 2017 the grand Autumn Fair in Paris will be presented at the Parc des Exhibitions at Porte de Versailles.
It is THE meeting point where one can indulge in the numerous aspects of lifestyle and comfort. Discover the latest trends regarding decoration, gastronomy, hand crafts and well-being. The idea is to always be able to improve the home environment, the Autumn Fair promises an experience which will blend all of the above plus a convivial and interactive atmosphere ! The three important points « organise your home interiors » « improve home environment » and « enjoy » this will allow you to discover new trends for your home and enjoy the refreshed ideas you can take onboard.
In 2017, the 350 exhibitors will come together to assist you create your style.This year, the Autumn Fair will be the " Fair of Paris – Special Home issue ".
If you already have ideas for your project at home, don't hesitate to speak to the exhibitors and to ask for an opinion. In partnership with "Rencontre un archi ", you can take advantage of expert advice to cultivate your thought's and idea's. Architects, interior designers and decorators will be present to answer any questions. The individual discussions are available every day from 5 pm till 7 pm. Don't forget to reserve a 30 minute on-line or on-the-spot meeting.
You will also have the possibility to take part in an architectural seminar to discuss the five different aspects of home living.
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In an organization I was performing SAP / Informix DBA duties, we had the following types of skillsets represented within the group and two people to fill each position:
1. Basis Administrators,
2. Database Administrators,
3. System Administrators.
For SAP Security and for the Storage Manager Administrator positions, only 1 person was in each of these positions. Their skillsets were cross-trained and handled by either the Basis Administrators or the Database Administrators during their absences.
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Create hand-stamped escort cards for your wedding with a vintage feel
What do you think of these luggage tag escort cards in their shades of salmon pink and soft orange? I know in the UK we tend to have table plans, but I think escort cards (although I'm not so keen on the name!) are a fun alternative and there are lots of ideas on how to display the cards.
I'm pretty sure that the number stamps used on these luggage tags are a set from Cavallini & Co. (if you haven't discovered them yet do check out their website, you're bound to fall in love with their products). I bought a set of these vintage number stamps, as well as their alphabet stamps in capital letters. They also do a set of alphabet stamps in lower case letters, and if you like the hand-stamped look I can highly recommend investing in a good set of rubber stamps.#
You can buy a wide range of Cavallini & Co. products from UK website The Paperie, including the rubber stamps.
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There's something in the water.
And it's making salmon go crazy.
OK, maybe not crazy, but new research shows salmon that have been exposed to algal neurotoxins such as domoic acid, saxitoxin and brevetoxin exhibit changes in their behavior and brain activity.
The study, published online June 25 in Science Daily, also found small doses of the toxin can affect how salmon interact with other fish.
So, what happens when the salmon ingest these toxins? Fish can lose balance and begin to swim "aimlessly," according to the research.
During the study, saxitoxin and domoic acid were given in doses too low to cause changes in the salmon's swimming, but it did cause the fish to relate differently to new fish introduced into their tank.
These toxins also can cause human illness when a person ingestsseafood containing the toxin. In particular, domoic acid can cause amnesic shellfish poisoning. In the first 24 hours after ingesting the toxin, a person who has ingested the food will suffer gastrointestinal symptoms. Other symptoms, including dizziness, disorientation, headache, and permanent short-term memory loss, also can occur. In the most extreme cases, a person may experience seizures, paralysis and death.
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It wasn't until a few years ago that I'd even heard the term "Adaptogenic Herbs" and when I did I still wasn't quite sure what they were or what they did. Adapt means to modify, change or restructure. Adaptgenic herbs have the amazing ability to modify, change and restructure our body at a cellular level.… Continue reading Adaptogenic Herbs: Mother Nature's Secret Medicine
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Why I Believe in Functional Fitness
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What IS Gluten Anyway?? – Digestive Health Lesson #4
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My Family's Grocery List
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Forbes magazines has rated the Palm Beach County School District as the nation's 70th-best employer in a ranking of what it considers the 500 best large workplaces in the United States.
The list, originally published in March, is based on anonymous surveys of more than 30,000 employees in organizations with at least 5,000 employees. It pegged the county's school district as the second-best public school system to work at in the nation, behind Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools.
With nearly 22,000 employees, the school district is Palm Beach County's largest employer and one of the 12 largest public school systems in the country.
Topping the Forbes list was Marathon Petroleum, followed by Google and Costco Wholesale.
The top-ranked Florida employer was Publix Supermarkets, which placed 17th.
The Montgomery County, Md., public school system rated 31st.
In an article accompanying the list, Forbes explained that it created the ranking in collaboration with an online statistics company and used a simple methodology — asking employees how much they liked where they worked:
"Working with online statistics provider Statista, Forbes asked more than 30,000 U.S. workers employed by companies with more than 5,000 staff members to determine, on a scale of zero to 10, how likely they were to recommend their employer to someone else. Further, how did they feel about the other employers in their industry?"
It may be best to take the rankings with a grain of salt. Forbes published few other details about its methodology or the extent to which it tried to survey employees at all large school districts. If only 30,000 employees were surveyed nationwide, it is likely that many companies and government agencies did not have an opportunity to be rated.
It was not clear how many school district employees were surveyed, how they rated the district, or what their rationale in doing so was.
It was also not apparent how many employees of other large school districts were surveyed or to what extent Forbes attempted to determine whether the surveyed employeess feelings reflected the sentiments of the entire workforce.


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8. Sychryd All-Abilities Trail, Waterfall Country
This linear, 400 metre long, level route winds its way through the narrow wooded gorge carved by the river -Afon Sychryd - at Pontneddfechan. With the river on one side and a rock face towering above on the other it makes for a spectacular short walk.
Further information
The route is mainly compacted stone-dust with some short stretches of compacted earth, which can get muddy after long spells of rain. There is a short ramp leading up to the main path from the car park. This route is also close to the Powder Trail (also known as the Gunpowder Works).
For more details please contact the Forestry Commission on 0845 604 0845 or visit the Dinas Rock recreation information page.
Brief Location
The site is next to the Dinas Rock car park at Pontneddfechan(location map). Pontneddfechan is located at the northern end of the Vale of Neath. At the traffic lights on the A4109/B4242 crossroads in Glynneath follow the signs on the B4242 for Pontneddfechan. Once in the village the road forks next the Craig-y-Dinas pub - take the road directly in front of you and not the road heading up the hill. The starting point for the walk is about 1/2 mile from the pub.
Ordnance Survey: Explorer Map OL12 or Landranger Map 160 - Grid Reference: SN 912 079
Parking: The car park is mainly surfaced with compacted stone.
Toilets: There are public toilets near the Waterfalls Centre in Pontneddfechan, although the closest disabled access toilets are at Cwmporth Car Park near Ystradfellte or at Aberdare. There is an accessible toilet located in the community cafe/hall (part-time opening hours).
Facilities: There is a combined village shop and Post Office in Pontneddfechan as well as several pubs and the Waterfalls Centre for information and ideas and housing a new exhibition about the formation of the waterfalls and the wider Geopark.


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Attempted a fix. Can't test because I have no Chateau.
Attempted a fix. Can't test because I have no Chateau.
It seems to have worked. Thank you.
Noted. Galaktik availability is assumed in a lot of places and I have not found a quick fix. But I am looking. Thank you.n kingdom of explothing doc galactic is unavailable. So if you run out of other restorers and it tries to resort to buying from galactic it gives the following infinite loop
Make a bool called galaktik_avail which is used in various galaktik bought restorers to check if galactic is available.
on running the script it can check if my path is exploathing, and if it is then set galaktik_avail to false. otherwise set it to true. (it will pretty much need to be checked every time it is run, because breaking prism makes it available again)
If other paths are added in the future that block galactic, they can be added to that check
You can disable the use of, most restorers, from Doc's in the relay settings for the script.
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Essays in the Category "Psychology of Security"
Stop Trying to Fix the User
Every few years, a researcher replicates a security study by littering USB sticks around an organization's grounds and waiting to see how many people pick them up and plug them in, causing the autorun function to install innocuous malware on their computers. These studies are great for making security professionals feel superior. The researchers get to demonstrate their security expertise and use the results as "teachable moments" for others. "If only everyone was more security aware and had more security training," they say, "the Internet would be a much safer place."
Enough of that.
Living in Code Yellow
In 1989, handgun expert Jeff Cooper invented something called the Color Code to describe what he called the 'combat mind-set.' Here is his summary:
In White you are unprepared and unready to take lethal action. If you are attacked in White you will probably die unless your adversary is totally inept.
In Yellow you bring yourself to the understanding that your life may be in danger and that you may have to do something about it.
In Orange you have determined upon a specific adversary and are prepared to take action which may result in his death, but you are not in a lethal mode.
Our Decreasing Tolerance To Risk
We're afraid of risk. It's a normal part of life, but we're increasingly unwilling to accept it at any level. So we turn to technology to protect us. The problem is that technological security measures aren't free.
The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On
It is easy to feel scared and powerless in the wake of attacks like those at the Boston Marathon. But it also plays into the perpetrators' hands.
German translation
As the details about the bombings in Boston unfold, it'd be easy to be scared. It'd be easy to feel powerless and demand that our elected leaders do something—anything—to keep us safe.
It'd be easy, but it'd be wrong. We need to be angry and empathize with the victims without being scared.
On Security Awareness Training
The focus on training obscures the failures of security design
Should companies spend money on security awareness training for their employees? It's a contentious topic, with respected experts on both sides of the debate. I personally believe that training users in security is generally a waste of time, and that the money can be spent better elsewhere. Moreover, I believe that our industry's focus on training serves to obscure greater failings in security design.
Unsafe Security: A Sociologist Aptly Analyzes our Failures in Top-Down Protection
Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger, by Harvey Molotch, Princeton University Press, 278 pages, $35.
Security is both a feeling and a reality, and the two are different things. People can feel secure when they're actually not, and they can be secure even when they believe otherwise.
This discord explains much of what passes for our national discourse on security policy.
The Importance of Security Engineering
In May, neuroscientist and popular author Sam Harris and I debated the issue of profiling Muslims at airport security. We each wrote essays, then went back and forth on the issue. I don't recommend reading the entire discussion; we spent 14,000 words talking past each other. But what's interesting is how our debate illustrates the differences between a security engineer and an intelligent layman.
Drawing the Wrong Lessons from Horrific Events
Horrific events, such as the massacre in Aurora, can be catalysts for social and political change. Sometimes it seems that they're the only catalyst; recall how drastically our policies toward terrorism changed after 9/11 despite how moribund they were before.
The problem is that fear can cloud our reasoning, causing us to overreact and to overly focus on the specifics. And the key is to steer our desire for change in that time of fear.
Detecting Cheaters
Our brains are specially designed to deal with cheating in social exchanges. The evolutionary psychology explanation is that we evolved brain heuristics for the social problems that our prehistoric ancestors had to deal with. Once humans became good at cheating, they then had to become good at detecting cheating -- otherwise, the social group would fall apart.
Perhaps the most vivid demonstration of this can be seen with variations on what's known as the Wason selection task, named after the psychologist who first studied it.
Worst-Case Thinking Makes Us Nuts, Not Safe
At a security conference recently, the moderator asked the panel of distinguished cybersecurity leaders what their nightmare scenario was. The answers were the predictable array of large-scale attacks: against our communications infrastructure, against the power grid, against the financial system, in combination with a physical attack.
I didn't get to give my answer until the afternoon, which was: "My nightmare scenario is that people keep talking about their nightmare scenarios."
There's a certain blindness that comes from worst-case thinking. An extension of the precautionary principle, it involves imagining the worst possible outcome and then acting as if it were a certainty.
Nature's Fears Extend to Online Behavior
It's hard work being prey. Watch the birds at a feeder. They're constantly on alert, and will fly away from food -- from easy nutrition -- at the slightest movement or sound. Given that I've never, ever seen a bird plucked from a feeder by a predator, it seems like a whole lot of wasted effort against a small threat.
People Understand Risks -- But Do Security Staff Understand People?
Natural human risk intuition deserves respect -- even when it doesn't help the security team
This essay also appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Age.
People have a natural intuition about risk, and in many ways it's very good. It fails at times due to a variety of cognitive biases, but for normal risks that people regularly encounter, it works surprisingly well: often better than we give it credit for.
This struck me as I listened to yet another conference presenter complaining about security awareness training.
Security, Group Size, and the Human Brain
If the size of your company grows past 150 people, it's time to get name badges. It's not that larger groups are somehow less secure, it's just that 150 is the cognitive limit to the number of people a human brain can maintain a coherent social relationship with.
Primatologist Robin Dunbar derived this number by comparing neocortex -- the "thinking" part of the mammalian brain -- volume with the size of primate social groups. By analyzing data from 38 primate genera and extrapolating to the human neocortex size, he predicted a human "mean group size" of roughly 150.
How Science Fiction Writers Can Help, or Hurt, Homeland Security
A couple of years ago, the Department of Homeland Security hired a bunch of science fiction writers to come in for a day and think of ways terrorists could attack America. If our inability to prevent 9/11 marked a failure of imagination, as some said at the time, then who better than science fiction writers to inject a little imagination into counterterrorism planning?
I discounted the exercise at the time, calling it "embarrassing." I never thought that 9/11 was a failure of imagination. I thought, and still think, that 9/11 was primarily a confluence of three things: the dual failure of centralized coordination and local control within the FBI, and some lucky breaks on the part of the attackers.
The Kindness of Strangers
When I was growing up, children were commonly taught: "don't talk to strangers." Strangers might be bad, we were told, so it's prudent to steer clear of them.
And yet most people are honest, kind, and generous, especially when someone asks them for help. If a small child is in trouble, the smartest thing he can do is find a nice-looking stranger and talk to him.
Does Risk Management Make Sense?
This essay appeared as the first half of a point-counterpoint with Marcus Ranum. Marcus's half is here.
We engage in risk management all the time, but it only makes sense if we do it right.
"Risk management" is just a fancy term for the cost-benefit tradeoff associated with any security decision. It's what we do when we react to fear, or try to make ourselves feel secure.
How the Human Brain Buys Security
People tend to be risk-averse when it comes to gains, and risk-seeking when it comes to losses. If you give people a choice between a $500 sure gain and a coin-flip chance of a $1,000 gain, about 75 percent will pick the sure gain. But give people a choice between a $500 sure loss and a coin-flip chance of a $1,000 loss, about 75 percent will pick the coin flip.
People don't have a standard mathematical model of risk in their heads.
The Difference Between Feeling and Reality in Security
Security is both a feeling and a reality, and they're different. You can feel secure even though you're not, and you can be secure even though you don't feel it. There are two different concepts mapped onto the same word -- the English language isn't working very well for us here -- and it can be hard to know which one we're talking about when we use the word.
There is considerable value in separating out the two concepts: in explaining how the two are different, and understanding when we're referring to one and when the other.
Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security Professional
Uncle Milton Industries has been selling ant farms to children since 1956. Some years ago, I remember opening one up with a friend. There were no actual ants included in the box. Instead, there was a card that you filled in with your address, and the company would mail you some ants.
The Psychology of Security (Part 2)
Return to Part 1The Availability Heuristic
The "availability heuristic" is very broad, and goes a long way toward explaining how people deal with risk and trade-offs. Basically, the availability heuristic means that people "assess the frequency of a class or the probability of an event by the ease with which instances or occurrences can be brought to mind."28 In other words, in any decision-making process, easily remembered (available) data are given greater weight than hard-to-remember data.
In general, the availability heuristic is a good mental shortcut. All things being equal, common events are easier to remember than uncommon ones.
The Psychology of Security (Part 1)
Security is both a feeling and a reality. And they're not the same.
The reality of security is mathematical, based on the probability of different risks and the effectiveness of different countermeasures. We can calculate how secure your home is from burglary, based on such factors as the crime rate in the neighborhood you live in and your door-locking habits.
The Evolutionary Brain Glitch That Makes Terrorism Fail
Two people are sitting in a room together: an experimenter and a subject. The experimenter gets up and closes the door, and the room becomes quieter. The subject is likely to believe that the experimenter's purpose in closing the door was to make the room quieter.
This is an example of correspondent inference theory.
Don't Look a Leopard in the Eye, and Other Security Advice
If you encounter an aggressive lion, stare him down. But not a leopard; avoid his gaze at all costs. In both cases, back away slowly; don't run. If you stumble on a pack of hyenas, run and climb a tree; hyenas can't climb trees.
Virginia Tech Lesson: Rare Risks Breed Irrational Responses
French translation
Everyone had a reaction to the horrific events of the Virginia Tech shootings. Some of those reactions were rational. Others were not.
A high school student was suspended for customizing a first-person shooter game with a map of his school.
Psychology of Security
The security literature is filled with risk pathologies, heuristics that we use to help us evaluate risks. I've collected them from many different sources.Risks of Risks Exaggerated Risks Downplayed Risks Spectacular Pedestrian Rare Common Personified Anonymous Beyond one's control More under control Externally imposed Taken willingly Talked about Not discussed Intentional or man-made Natural Immediate Long-term or diffuse Sudden Evolving slowly over time Affecting them personally Affecting others New and unfamiliar Familiar Uncertain Well understood Directed against their children Directed toward themselves Morally offensive Morally desirable Entirely without redeeming features Associated with some ancillary benefit Not like their current situation Like their current situation
When you look over the list of exaggerated and downplayed risks in the table here, the most remarkable thing is how reasonable so many of them seem. This makes sense for two reasons.
Why the Human Brain Is a Poor Judge of Risk
The human brain is a fascinating organ, but it's an absolute mess. Because it has evolved over millions of years, there are all sorts of processes jumbled together rather than logically organized. Some of the processes are optimized for only certain kinds of situations, while others don't work as well as they could. There's some duplication of effort, and even some conflicting brain processes.
In Praise of Security Theater
Portuguese translation
While visiting some friends and their new baby in the hospital last week, I noticed an interesting bit of security. To prevent infant abduction, all babies had RFID tags attached to their ankles by a bracelet. There are sensors on the doors to the maternity ward, and if a baby passes through, an alarm goes off.
Infant abduction is rare, but still a risk.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.