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A Sandwich a Day: Lobster and Crab Roll from Harraseeket Lunch in South Freeport, Maine
A different sandwich profiled every single day.
A fresh lobster roll in Maine never sounds like a bad idea, but it sounds ridiculously necessary after a morning of kayaking with the LL Bean Outdoor Discovery School in Freeport. We hopped into the SE Ford after paddling on the water near Wolfe's Neck Park and headed to Harraseeket Lunch and Lobster. Your smart phone may not be smart enough to find it at first—it's tucked into a small marina in South Freeport.
Order at the window then wait for your number to be called, taking in the crisp harbor air to pass the time. You're literally on the docks (you could touch a boat if you wanted to). Seats are at a premium, so grab a picnic table as soon as one frees up.
The $14 lobster rolls are served on the classic New England split-top bun, brushed with butter and griddled so the outside gets crisp while the interior is soft and steamy. The sweet lobster lumps piled inside aren't dripping with mayo, thankfully; just enough to keep it all together. It's a fresh, unfussy roll served in an idyllic outdoor setting that'll make you feel like you're in a postcard from the Vacationland state.
We also got a crab roll ($9.75) so it didn't feel left out. While it's no lobster roll (breaking news, I know) it comes with a generous pile of fresh crab shreds that are spilling out the same griddled and buttered bun. It's a good, fresh-tasting second roll to munch on after the lobster roll is no more.
There are a couple windows for ordering. The one with the long line is for most of the menu: the rolls, seafood chowder, fried clams, fishwiches, onion middles, fries, etc. But the second one, sometimes with no line at all, is for dessert like their fresh-baked blueberry pie and crisp, and the Big Mac-sized whoopie pies. We could barely finish half of the whoopie. It's a two-handed job and requires some serious jaw-stretching.
Harraseeket Lunch and Lobster is cash only and BYOB, so pack the Allagash and blueberry soda. But don't delay! The season ends October 15th. They re-open in May.
Harraseeket Lunch and Lobster
36 Main Street, South Freeport ME 04078 (map) 207-865-4888
Note: Harraseeket is located in South Freeport on the Freeport Municipal Wharf, just off Main Street. It's about a ten minute drive from Downtown Freeport, which also has a Main Street, which can lead to confusion.
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And happy 88th birthday Little Grandma!
This is our 9th Thanksgiving spent together. It would be 10th if we hadn't skipped 2000. Also 9 years ago today we decided to start dating. Pretty crazy.
Girls Weekend: Part 2
2 years ago
L: (pretending to talk on the phone) heyo, apple deuce?
Luke is holding the phone, we are going to call Grandma B: Now dial seven L: nine B: seven L: nine
M: Luke, do you want a graham cracker?
L: (holds out his hand in a stop signal motion) No! I want mama! (he wanted to be picked up)
L: (while M was singing him a song before bed) boom, boom, boom!
M: (helping L to pray, listing things we're thankful for) ...and Kiree. L: Jaide M: and Kiree. L: no, Jaide
K: (singing) ...oh what time it takes to ride in a one horse open sleigh!
J: Mommies have 30 years of experiments.

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In a story that manages to make American politics actually look pretty normal, the president of Nigeria has assured residents of the country that he was not secretly replaced by a doppelganger impersonating him. Muhammadu Buhari reportedly made the remarks over the weekend in response to a bizarre conspiracy theory that has been circulating on social media in Nigeria for the last year or so. Following a stint in a British hospital in 2017, rumors began to spread online that Buhari had actually died and Sudanese lookalike had been inserted in his place.
Speaking to a group of Nigerians at an event in Poland, the beleaguered leader saw fit to finally address these claims, much to the amusement of his colleagues in attendance. "It's the real me, I assure you," Buhari declared, "I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and I will still go strong." He also expressed sympathy for his Vice President, who had purportedly been pestered by ambitious politicians hoping to take his job since they believed the stories about Buhari's untimely demise.
More on this strange story at the Coast to Coast AM website.


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District staff will review the material and approve or deny based on the flyer policy and regulations. Once approved, your flyer will be emailed to all parents and posted online. Please submit your flyer by Wednesday of each week. Flyers will be distributed to parents on Fridays. Digital flyers will be sent directly to parents as visually engaging images right on their smartphone or computer screen. Peachjar fliers are featured both on the District website and our mobile app.Please note that Peachjar charges a fee for this service.
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I was reminded of a perennial problem when I started up one of the computers in our LDS Stake's Family History Center and saw "Windows 95" appear on the computer screen. The problem or challenge (or learning experience as they called our tests in High School) is keeping our equipment and our software, particularly operating systems, up to date and reflecting current conditions. Let's just say that among other problems, older Windows versions each had their random access memory problems (RAM). The summary of this problem is that for Windows 95 systems, in reality no more than 1 or 1.5 GB of memory was addressable and Windows may not even start if more than that amount of memory was available in the computer. The amount of memory the computer can address is determined by both the physical limitations of the processor and the operating system. Although Intel 386 processors could theoretically address 4 GB of RAM, the typical RAM limit was 32 MB. To give some perspective, Mac OS X 10.6 has a 64 GB RAM limit but the Core 2 Duo processor can address 256 TB of RAM. Translated into English this means that older computers and older operating systems were and are considered very limited in today's Web based world of graphic applications. If you would like to see a comparison of memory usage see "Road to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 64-Bits" from the AppleInsider.
OK, you say, so what? I don't use any graphics applications. Umm? What about FamilySearch's Record Search application. Maybe you didn't realize that Record Search uses the latest version of Adobe's Flash, a multimedia platform that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Some of the most productive searching we now do on the Internet involves images of documents, including U.S. Census records, in order to view these documents online, all of the components of your computer systems need to support some of the latest innovations in graphic technology. Absent those upgrades, your system may work either very slowly or not at all. My last computer was not that slow, it was an Intel Pentium 4 but I was noticing a decided slow down with all of the graphic intensive programs I was using. I tried increasing the RAM but that only helped for a short time. With all the work I do online, I finally bought a much faster computer.
Maybe I can give an example from my distant past what it is like living with a slow machine. When I was in high school, our family owned a stodgy 4 door, 4 cylinder car. This car would likely do 0 to 60 in roughly 2 to 3 minutes. Even is those slower, older days, it was a menace to drive on the highway. Top speed was just over 60 mph (downhill) and that was when Arizona had no set speed limits on most of the highways. In other words, if I was going 55, there was no acceleration at all. Nothing. Now, what if I had kept the car? Where could I safely drive that car today (no seat belts, no air bag, etc.)? Using a computer with Windows 95 is sort-of like driving a our old car would be today on the freeway in Phoenix where the traffic moves considerably faster than that car's top speed.
But, you say, I can't afford to upgrade either my computer or my operating system and anyway I would have to upgrade my version of Microsoft Word 95 also. (Why am I even worried about talking to this person? Oh, I remember, there is a copy of Windows 95 on the computer at the local Family History Center). Many people spend more on soft drinks at the local convenience store over a few months than the cost of a new really fast computer including a newer operating system. Also, there are now free alternatives to buying an expensive office suite (word processing, spreadsheet etc.) For example, an HP Phenom 8400 Desktop Computer System is on sale for $479 including the monitor, keyboard, mouse and Windows Vista Home Premium. OK, you might find a better deal than that! You can also use a free office suite, such as OpenOffice.
Now, where were we? Upgrading computers and software. One of the common questions I received when I teach a class on any of the newer genealogical database programs is "Don't we have to pay for that program and how much do we have to pay for upgrades?" Why do you think that Personal Ancestral File (PAF) has not been upgraded since about 2002? Why do you think PAF is free or nearly free? If I made my living writing software for genealogists, why would I rewrite my program for a new Microsoft operating system if I could not charge for all my work? There is a huge online movement of people who believe that we all "deserve free software." Maybe I will write a post on free software issues, but for right now, the question is should I use proprietary software and if so, should I upgrade the software? I think both answers are yes, but the reasoning will have to wait to another day. My perspective probably comes from using software in a business environment where I can't sit around and wait for someone to develop a "free" software program that will perform the complex tasks involved in a law firm or graphics design business.
So let's say you buy a program like (fill in the blank) and then Microsoft or Apple comes out with a new operating system and your program no longer works with the new system. You may grind your teeth a little (or a lot) but if you want to continue working you have to come up with the price of the software upgrade. I suppose you could drop out of the system and stop using computers and go back to a paper based system, but in our present genealogical work environment, computers are very useful and necessary tools. Just as I "need" a newer car than my old sedan from the 60s, I need to have an operational and functional computer system if I want to continue to work through the massive amount of family history sitting in boxes in my house.
So, bite the bullet, you need to upgrade your computer and your software. If you don't you may never realize the advantages you are missing.
Friday, July 2, 2010
On updating computer equipment and software for genealogy
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I hate to say it but one of my biggest fears is buying a new computer....will everything run okay? will it be compatable with my exisitng programs...ReplyDelete
I am paranoid about it! My old Windows XP laptop and desktop has me fairly happy but lag is noticable on the desktop and windows 7 is knocking on my door.
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Prosecutors say a shooting at a wood-processing company in central Switzerland has left three people dead and seven injured, some of them seriously.
The shooting occurred shortly after 9 a.m. at the premises of Kronospan, a company in the small town of Menznau, west of Lucerne.
"There were three dead and seven injured, some of them seriously injured," prosecutors' spokesman Simon Kopp told Swiss newspaper Blick. He says the assailant is among the dead.
The local Neue Luzerner Zeitung newspaper cited a witness as saying that the shooter opened fire in the company canteen. It was not immediately clear who the shooter was, what the motive might have been or whether the assailant worked for the company.


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Speaker at Cattle Industry Summer Conference Reflects on Drought in Southeastern Colorado
DENVER, Colo. – Drought has devastated a big part of the West, and the impact it has had on real people has recently become especially significant to Steffan Tubbs. Tubbs, a radio and television reporter in Colorado, was keynote speaker during the 2014 Cattle Industry Summer Conference in Denver July 31. The conference will run through Aug 2.
"Within the last year, your industry has become more meaningful to me," Tubbs told the more than 600 producers attending the Opening General Session and lunch. "Farmers and ranchers are important to this country."
About a year ago Tubbs recognized the stories reflected in the drought in Southeastern Colorado, and undertook a documentary on the topic called Droughtland. Tubbs interviewed numerous cattlemen and women for the documentary, a portion of which was previewed at the lunch. Droughtland is expected to be released this fall.
Tubbs is a well-known reporter on KOA radio and co-host of a community affairs program on Colorado Public Television. He has nearly 25 years of news experience and has received the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award four times.
Recognizing Southeastern Colorado is not the only part of the country facing a drought, Tubbs noted that about 58 percent of California is experiencing exceptional drought conditions. When he asked how many of his audience had experienced drought at some point in the recent past, many hands in the room went up.
Tubbs also encouraged his audience to share their stories with media. Though he said that not every story could or would be reported, he did say most cattle producers have interesting stories that deserved to be heard.
General Session I and Lunch kicked off the Summer Conference, which includes meetings of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Cattlemen's Beef Board, American National CattleWomen and National Cattlemen's Foundation. Among the purposes of the yearly conference is to create a framework for checkoff and policy efforts on behalf of U.S. cattle producers for the 2015 fiscal year, which for NCBA and the Cattlemen's Beef Board begins Oct. 1.
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KDE 3.3 Usability Study and Review
Celebrating one month of KDE 3.3 out in the wild, userinstinct put together a usability review with user testing. "Based on feedback from our test group, the default settings for a number of KDE parameters differ from what is usually expected and desired by users. Providing better defaults would reduce the time users spend looking for configuration settings and would provide a better "out-of-the-box" experience."
Re: A different approach
Just a little add-on. I'm talking about wizzards.
A first desktop wizzard. User decides not just about window manager styles (Windoze, MacOS, KDE etc.), he/she decides everything:
1. kicker or not
2. icons on desktop or not (I wouldn't choose icons)
3. antialiased fonts or not (I would choose antialiasing)
4. how many entries in main menu (I wouldn't, for example choose games nor edutainment)
5. how many entries in right mouse button click
The same at application level.
By wygiwyg at Wed, 2004/09/22 - 5:00am
Re: A different approach
It's an interesting idea. The user would build the environment from ground-up to suit his or her needs. Unfortunately, it wouldn't work.
What you are suggesting would mean that it would take the user HOURS just to be able to use the environment! With all the clutter KDE has right now, the user can still use it.
If the user is overwhelmed now, imagine how overwhelmen they would be with this system! First boot: "Huh? How many menu-entries? What kind of Kmenu? Icons or not? what apps to display? Kicker or no Kicker? What's a Kicker?... There, now I can use the desktop. Let's try email.... Argh, same questions again! How many menu-entries, toolbars or no toolbars, what icons in the toolbar...."
What I would like to see is bare minimium of enabled features and UI-elements. As little as possible, but enough for the UI and the apps to be usable. The user could then enable more elements and features as he sees fit. This way we would have streamlined UI that is suitable for novices. More advanced users (and novices as they progress) could then enable additional functionality.
That would basically mean that the environment grows as the skills and abilities of the user grows. You have a foundation, and you build up from there as you see fit. Right now in KDE, you have everything turned on and with all the options visible. The user has to trim down the environment in order for it to suit his needs.
By Janne at Wed, 2004/09/22 - 5:00am
Re: A different approach
kpersonalizer could ask users running kde for the first time, about their "level of experience" in computers. for example options could be:
By yemu at Wed, 2004/09/22 - 5:00am
Re: A different approach
long as you can do that .. and keep it to 3 or less options so as not to overwhelm them. Although it may still piss off those with an option-tolerance of 0-2...
By JCorey at Sun, 2004/09/26 - 5:00am
Reduce configuration options per view!
On my home PC I use KDE with resolution of 800x600. Some apps and configuration dialogs are fine, but some - a pain in da *. IE. panel configuration dialog doesn't fit on 800x600 screen - I cannot see "OK" button. I always need to configure panel using ControlCenter. And so on.
My 2 cents.
By MZM at Wed, 2004/09/22 - 5:00am
Re: Reduce configuration options per view!
If you come across dialogs that don't scale to 800x600, please report them as bugs using the proper way (bugs.kde.org).
That you don't check the many configuration options available is in my view your own problem. Less options per tab results in more tabs if the current congurability is to be maintained (which IMHO, it should). Would you check more tabs?
By André Somers at Wed, 2004/09/22 - 5:00am
Re: Reduce configuration options per view!
I dont have internet @home - so I always forget to report such stuff, but reporting from w2k isnt fun :)
I also understand that we need lots of configuration options but the question is - how to make it user (lamer) frendly. If tab content can be guessed by its name, users will look inside it. It is always possible to add advanced tab or button so g33ks will feel comfortable too.
Not checking all options and not reading long texts is not mine problem only. Think about Joe AverageUser. How many times he reads a bit more than 2 - 3 sentences, if he isn't intrested in it? 5 to 8 optins per tab IMHO are OK, but not more.
By MZM at Wed, 2004/09/22 - 5:00am
Re: Reduce configuration options per view!
It means that those dialog do not conform to the KDE Styleguide. Hey, KDE even has a styleguide! ;-)
(Yes sometimes it's true for Quanta dialogs as well...)
By Andras Mantia at Wed, 2004/09/22 - 5:00am
Tip: hold Alt key to drag panel
Won't fix the usability issue, but will allow you to use the panel.
By Leon Brooks at Thu, 2004/09/23 - 5:00am
The Konqueror claims in the report are true
One thing should be clear, I hope: something needs to be done to Konqueror. There are _so_ many things that seem odd to both beginners and experienced users. I didn't even use Konqueror until a few months ago, as it did and still does look a like a developer's version which has no usability thinking applied.
Let's start with the menus: Location, Edit, View, Go, Bookmarks, Tools, Settings, Window, Help. It's an awful lot of menus that can be confused one with another. Why couldn't we just combine some of those? Like...
- Location and Go? Aren't those about the same thing, the location we are currently or are changing to?
Of course, at the same time, each menu's entries should be reconsidered/ordered. And there are too many icons like has been pointed out.
Maybe there are just too many flaws in Konqueror right now, that people are scared to think how the UI should be redone? People are scared to remove all those icons which just clutter the UI, because they think that the few people who have learned them (though they could be similarly or better productive by other shortcut methods) would yell if they were removed?
By tj at Wed, 2004/09/22 - 5:00am
Re: The Konqueror claims in the report are true
Please try the "SimpleBrowser" profile of konqy (which comes with 3.3). What do you think ?
By aleXXX at Wed, 2004/09/22 - 5:00am
Re: The Konqueror claims in the report are true
Well, I didn't notice anything different, apart from that it closed all my tabs. And that's not + for usability.
The only problem I see is the file browsing profile. It has maybe few too many buttons to understand if you can't read. Really, at first I also thought Konqueror was too bloated, but then I started to read what the different widgets said. It took me about 30 seconds to learn the system, and now it's not too complicated for me at all. In fact, in my opinion it's quite smart.
I have only one real complaiment: some options and features can be accessed through too many places. That's what makes the system really bloated. One feature, one button. That's the way it should be.
By Jouni H. at Wed, 2004/09/22 - 5:00am
Re: The Konqueror claims in the report are true
> I didn't notice anything different, apart from that it closed all my tabs. And that's not + for usability.
KDE 3.3 asks you if you really want to load another profile if you have tabs open.
By Anonymous at Wed, 2004/09/22 - 5:00am
Re: The Konqueror claims in the report are true
I noticed that now, but apart from that how does the "Simple browser" differ from the default browser profile?
By Jouni H. at Thu, 2004/09/23 - 5:00am
Re: The Konqueror claims in the report are true
Try starting konqy directly with this profile e.g. from the kicker button.
By aleXXX at Thu, 2004/09/23 - 5:00am
Re: The Konqueror claims in the report are true
Wow! That's what I wouldn't call simple but smart, because you can gain access to those stupid widgets anyway. With few improvements this should be set as default!
By Jouni H. at Sat, 2004/09/25 - 5:00am
Learn from OS X's Eyecandy
I think OS X has a lot of nice eyecandy features that would be good to implement into KDE:
More meaty changes:
The guys working on KDE do a incredible job, and it is fantastic that they've achieved so much. Now all that needs to be done is these and perhaps other minor tweaks before KDE becomes the best darn desktop (free or proprietary) out there!
By Vlad at Fri, 2004/10/01 - 5:00am


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Standard Chartered Plc will start Islamic private banking services in Asia and CIMB Group Holdings Bhd. plans to roll out new products for the wealthy as they target rich Muslims who have limited investment options.
The UK's second-largest lender by market value will offer Shariah-compliant products tailored to meet the needs of people who have at least $2 million (Dh7.35 million), Wasim Saifi, the Kuala Lumpur-based global head for Islamic consumer banking, said………………………………………..Full Article: Source


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ATHENS, OHIO: Around 100 protesters have been escorted from a public forum over injection gas drilling in southeastern Ohio.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that it happened Wednesday night in Athens. A group protesting a proposed waste well for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, were removed after chanting and shouting their opposition during what state officials had called an �open house� on the proposal.
The opponents were already angry that the state decided to conduct the public forum instead of a formal hearing where their statements would become part of the official record.
The protesters escorted out of the meeting regrouped with others outside to continue the demonstration.
The plan faces strong opposition from some in Athens County, who fear it could contaminate drinking water. The state says that risk is minuscule.


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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Sports News
Northern Arizona routed 93-50 by No. 9 Arizona
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[November 29, 2012]
TUCSON, Ariz.
(AP) -- Speaking in the hallway with his mentor just a few feet away, Northern Arizona coach Jack Murphy relived his return to Arizona's McKale Center.
Catching up with friends before and after the game? That was great.
While the ball was bouncing around? That didn't go so well.
A former student manager under Arizona coach Lute Olson, Murphy had a difficult return to his old stomping grounds, watching helplessly as the ninth-ranked Wildcats ran over his Lumberjacks 93-50 on Wednesday night.
"It's like going to a service academy: It's great before and great after, but during it was awful," Murphy said as Olson leaned against a wall waiting to speak to him.
Arizona (4-0) rolled through its first three games, but hadn't played since beating Long Beach State on Nov. 19.
Showing no signs of rust from an eight-day break, the Wildcats overwhelmed the Lumberjacks from the get-go, dropping in 3-pointers and soaring in for dunks while building an 18-point lead in the first half.
After a few defensive breakdowns in the first half, the Wildcats shut down Northern Arizona in the second, holding them to 9-of-29 shooting.
When they were through, the Wildcats had their fourth straight lopsided victory, a nice way to kick off a stretch of four games in 11 days that continues with their first road game, against Texas Tech on Saturday.
Mark Lyons led Arizona with 18 points, Solomon Hill added 17 and Nick Johnson had a superb all-around game, with 10 points, seven assists and four steals.
"Whether we played well tonight or not, I would have said the same thing: Our team really tried to work hard during this break," Arizona coach Sean Miller said. "It's not an easy time to not play a game because there's so many holiday tournaments it almost feels like your season's not going while theirs is."
The Lumberjacks (2-4) never really stood much of a chance in Murphy's return.
The new NAU coach spent eight years under Olson and had been looking forward to his return to Tucson.
While the game was being played, Murphy wasn't so pleased, left only to watch as the bigger, faster Wildcats shot 58 percent, made 12 of 21 from 3-point range and had 22 assists on 30 field goals on their way to a 29th straight win over the Lumberjacks.
Dewayne Russell had 13 points and Blake Hamilton 11 for Northern Arizona, winless in 24 all-time games against ranked opponents.
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"Whoever their shooting coach is, I need to pick their brain," Murphy said. "They hit a lot of shots."
During his time under Olson, Murphy worked his way up from student manager to director of operations. He later spent time as an advance scout for the NBA's Denver Nuggets under George Karl and was an assistant to Josh Pastner at Memphis, so he had worked for some of the best minds in basketball.
Murphy will need that knowledge to turn around Northern Arizona, a program that lost its coach last season and its final 16 games to finish 5-24.
The Lumberjacks did manage to pull off a big upset during their forgetful 2011-12 season, knocking off Arizona State 69-68 in Tempe when Stallon Saldivar hit a 3-pointer with less than a second left.
The Wildcats gave them no shot of a repeat, spoiling Murphy's return shortly after the opening tip.
Arizona scored the game's first nine points and had a 16-point lead midway through the first half.
Johnson was the catalyst early, forcing a turnover to set up a breakaway dunk and sailing in for a dunk on an alley-oop pass from Jordin Mayes to score seven quick points. He also gave NAU trouble by repeatedly getting into the lane, setting up Grant Jerrett for a dunk with an in-traffic bounce pass for one of his four first-half assists.
The Wildcats had 10 assists on their 15 first-half field goalsin 27 shotsand led 39-26 after NAU's Russell hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Arizona kept knocking them down, building the lead to 53-28 in the first 4 minutes after Lyons hit two 3-pointers.
The Wildcats' defense, led by Lyons and Johnson up top, never gave Northern Arizona a chance to even think about a comeback.
Just like the opening possession of the game, Arizona forced the Lumberjacks to turn it over to start the second half and forced them to miss 16 of their first 20 shots.
Arizona's backcourt helped force NAU's top four guards into 10 of the team's 15 turnovers. The Wildcats' long-and-deep frontcourt made it tough to even get shots off, helping to hold Northern Arizona to 36 percent shooting on the night.
"Our second half was really good," Miller said. "Our effort level was good across the board. We helped, recovered and did the things we need to do defensively."
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09 November, 2017
JTThis was my first U2 gig at the tender age of 16.....very memorable.....right at the front....would love to see any images of the gig
25 August, 2015
MCNice way to spend my 18th birthday, my first U2/Waterboys gigs. The first of many!
11 June, 2015
Ruth & SarahUnforgetable
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20 May, 2010
AstoundingFirst time I saw U2. The Waterboys as support ! Discovered that night and ever since one of my favourite bands. U2 were incredible. I have seen hundreds of bands in the years since but NEVER anything like that. It was bordering on religious hysteria! People left at the end stunned. I've been to the NEC many times but have never seen anyone "shrink" the place like you were in a small club. The songs, the band, the occasion were just too big for a venue that rarely does anyone any favours. I will never forget it.
09 May, 2010
U2 virginity lost.My first concert, The Waterboys alongside, i Knew then that i would see these again!


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The essay below was a tribute to the month of May by Gertrude Victor. Gertrude Victor, born Gertrude Nash, was the wife of
Sandusky tavern keeper,
Henry Victor. She was the mother of author and editor, Orville James Victor. Gertrude Nash Victor died in 1882, and she is
buried in Sandusky's . Oakland Cemetery
Hail lovely maid!
We thy fond even passions
now before thee with humble reverence bearing flowers we approach
thee for they are first emblems of your own freshness and bloom; yet although
at present like these, we fondly hope that your fate may not be as evenot ___
& transient as theirs – for the evening sun shining on them, their tints &
colors will be fading' wilst the morrow's sun will see them with
ired and dead forever – but for you, fondly do we hope that the future may
but add new grasses to the changes of the present and that the fruit
may e'en be fairer than the flower. With faces bedecked with smiles
and wreathed with flowers we salute thee our melody created sovereign.
True sovereign of our hearts, for thou art the sovereign of our love. Isle
among sovereigns dost thou sustain they power, and by force but by the
soft voice of kindness & charity which, as the warm rays of the sun do
melt by their soft and genial influence, the icy mounts which but presented
a firmer & more solid frost, as the ____ of North writing blast razed in
___ jury against them, but which, losing their rugged temper before the
mild & insinuating embraces of the genial sun, repent, after and dissolve
themselves into tears of sorrow for their own ungovernable temper, penetrate
and instill into our hearts the soothing feelings of love's youth is the
season of flowers and with us all is gaiety and joy. The dark clouds of adieu
____ may in the future lower over our paths – but even so why trouble the
happiness of the present with dark forebodings of the future – why dim the
mirror of childhood with the shadow of age – Nay! Nay! Far from us let us drive
all such chilling thoughts for in nature also it is the season of happiness
and bloom. Removed alike from the chilling frosts of winter and
the arid beats of summer nature himself is bedecked and wreathed with
flowering smiles; - and the earth sends up her flowery messengers to
welcome the advent of spring in as she comes tripping along
thousands of perfumed harebells & primroses & daisies spring forth
to catch our glance of her bewitching eye, and to inhale the cheering
incense of her fragrant breath. Thus in the season of Nature's
bloom, have met to enjoy our innocent pleasures and to
check our queen of May- Then bend your head sweet maid
and on our your fair brows, I will place in the name of my companions,
a flowery crown, that which there are none less weights &
less free of care, and which we fondly hope will be as it
has been in the past & present, the emblem of your future life – and thus crown
thee queen of May –
Salute, dear friends, our beauteous queen,
The fairest I know that e'er we've seen:
Crowned with flowers and wreathed with smiles
The ___ of Nture the fairest child.
May the bloom in thy cheek n'er fade
May sorrow n'er visit the dear Maid
But as the sparkling rays of a sunny day
So mays't they future be, the Queen of May!
G.H. Victor


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DirecTV and Suddenlink signed on Monday to carry the SEC Network when the ESPN-programmed channel launches Aug. 14, boosting the network's initial audience to 87 million households.
The Suddenlink announcement, which affects customers in the Kingwood area and other parts of Houston and in Bryan-College Station and other markets around the state, was part of a larger agreement between the St. Louis-based company and Disney that includes, among other channels and services, ESPN's University of Texas-themed Longhorn Network and the Watch ESPN app.
SEC Network, which will be available at launch, and Longhorn Network, which will be available beginning with the beginning of college football season, will air on Suddenlink's expanded basic service.
The DirecTV agreement for SEC Network was a standalone announcement and did not address Longhorn Network or Watch ESPN. SEC Network will air on DirecTV's Choice service and on higher packages in SEC states, including Texas.
"This was a deal specific to SEC Network," an ESPN spokeswoman said. "We are committed to Longhorn Network distribution, which has nationwide availability through other providers including Dish, and continue to conduct ongoing conversations with Comcast and other distributors for carriage of Longhorn Network."
Texas A&M at South Carolina on Aug. 28 is the first of at least 45 SEC football games this fall on the new network.


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You've seen the screens, now catch live scenes from the upcoming downloadable map, coming February 21 to Call of Duty: Elite members on the Xbox 360.
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Manager Joe McEwing said that there was other cause for celebration last night, although Dash fans might not share as much enthusiasm. Three players — closer Kyle Bellamy, shortstop Eduardo Escobar and reliever Chris Sale — all will move up the Chicago White Sox ladder today.
Escobar, who hit .285 and scored a team-leading 57th run last night, and Bellamy, who improved to 5-0 with a 1.52 earned-run average with a victory in relief last night, have been reassigned to Class AA Birmingham. Sale, a first-round pick in last month's major-league draft, is being bumped up to Class AAA Charlotte.
"This is the fun part of the job," McEwing said. "To see the kids get closer to their dream is pretty rewarding."
UPDATE: Sale's reaction:
"I was stunned at first," said Sale, who gave up two runs, one earned, in his one inning of work." They said, 'You did fine and got yourself out of a jam.' Then they said, 'You're going to Triple A. Congratulations.' It was like, 'Wow.' "


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In Oklahoma, one of the 10 states with the highest teen pregnancy rates, the need to teach youth to make better sexual choices is urgent. Sheila Cavallo coordinates the Oklahoma Institute of Child Advocacy's POWER Through Choices project, which receives funding from the Family and Youth Services Bureau's State Personal Responsibility Education Program. Cavallo recently ran the 10-session evidence-based curriculum at a group home for boys in Oklahoma's child welfare system.
"This particular group of boys comes with a whole host of behavioral issues, which made facilitating curriculum in their home particularly challenging," Cavallo says.
Cavallo recounts that one boy in particular, who had been in the foster care system since he was two years old, was difficult to engage. "He has a completely understandable distrust of adults, and this leads him to be reserved."
Until Cavallo made a breakthrough at a session not long ago.
"I greeted him, and although he was polite, I found him to be as distant as in the weeks past. Minutes later, he called to me: 'Sheila, I had a situation when I was on home pass this weekend. It could have gone the wrong way… I could have made a bad decision. But I remembered what I learned in Power Through Choice, and I made good choices that kept me safe.'"
"I must have lit up like a Christmas tree," Cavallo says, "breaking into a huge smile and saying, 'Great job! I'm so glad you were able to use what you learned to keep you safe.' He answered me in kind, with one of only two unguarded smiles he's ever offered."
"I was relieved to know that we did have impact, that our messages did get through and translated to real world behavioral change that supports positive development," Cavallo says. "But more than that, I was thrilled that this young man is creating change for himself, realizing his own power and putting it to work in the service of both his present and his future."


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California drought: As land sinks, farmers' brainstorm on water
Growers begin looking at ways to store more, recharge supply
Los Banos, Merced County --
Case Vlot pulls up groundwater through deep wells to keep his corn and alfalfa crops alive. Chase Hurley runs a water company nearby that sells river water to farmers who can't depend on wells. Normally the two would rarely talk to each other.
But that was before the drought, and before the land began to sink beneath their feet.
Now they and every farmer for miles around are talking to each other all the time, brainstorming in ways they've never had to before.
The ground is sinking because farmers and water agencies throughout the Central Valley are pumping groundwater heavily from far beneath the Earth's surface to make up for the lack of rain. The problems caused by this sinkage are many, with no easy fix in sight.
Vlot's wells are collapsing, crushed by the shifting soils. The dam Hurley depends on to divert water into the company's canals from the San Joaquin River has sunk so far - about 3 feet in just five years - that the river is threatening to spill over. If that happens, he'll have less water to distribute to farmers who grow cotton, tomatoes and a range of other crops.
The deepwater aquifer being tapped by thousands of wells throughout the valley will take generations to restore, experts say. And if the sinking isn't stopped, everything from house foundations to railroad lines - such as the high-speed rail planned for the valley - could suffer.
It's often said in farm country that whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting. But when the common foe is nature itself, the fight creates uncommon allies.
"We're all in the same boat here, and we have to work together on this," said Vlot, 43, who farms his 3,500 acres in Chowchilla (Madera County) to supply feed for his family cattle ranch. "A lot of us need to pump groundwater to survive, but now we can't just depend on that in the exact same way we always did before. We have to figure out how to store more water and to get more surface water.
"It's not easy, but we can figure it out. We're farmers and ranchers and that's what we do - we get things done."
Damaged dam
Hurley, who as general manager of the San Luis Canal Co. delivers water to more than 90 growers for 45,000 acres of land, echoes the sentiment.
Another couple of years of ground sinkage caused by groundwater pumping, and he will have to rebuild at least part of his Sack Dam. In the meantime, drought restrictions have forced him to quadruple water rates to many of his customers.
Federal water officials are shipping none of their normal allotment this year for most agricultural use, and state officials are shipping just 5 percent. Some agencies such as Hurley's get more - he's receiving 65 percent of normal, his lowest allocation ever - because of historic water rights dating back as many as 100 years. But if the drought persists, harder change will come to those users, too.
"It's just become something that none of us can ignore," Hurley said as he drove through his district to check on his canals.
Hurley began to cast about for community conversation about drought challenges a little more than a year ago, and he connected with Vlot. The two have been helping lead talks since then with 25 groundwater-dependent farmers in the Los Banos-Chowchilla area to come up with solutions to their mutual problems.
Deep water layer siphoned
Vlot, whose family has been farming and ranching since the 1970s, runs 30 wells. Twenty of those go down only a 100 feet or so into a shallow aquifer, but the other 10 dip several hundred feet farther - past the vast and very tough clay layer that lies below much of the 450-mile-long Central Valley.
That's been a common farming technique for decades throughout the valley, the most productive agricultural region in the nation. But between the three-year drought and increased plantings of thirsty crops such as almonds, the deep-water layer is being siphoned up in bigger quantities than ever.
Dipping so much into that water with no rainfall to recharge it is causing the clay layer to collapse, which in turn makes the land on the surface sink. The area around Los Banos has subsided more than most areas of the valley, according to maps compiled by the California Water Foundation.
Until a few years ago, Vlot said, the annual maintenance cost on his wells was about $200,000. As the land subsidence began to crush well tubes, that tab has skyrocketed to more than $600,000 a year.
Foremost among the solutions being discussed by Vlot, Hurley and the other farmers is storing more water from rain when it does fall. Since there aren't enough reservoirs or ponds for that storage, the ad-hoc group plans to pick several fields among themselves to lay fallow so they can absorb the water and stow it underground.
"We're willing - I and others - to set aside good farm ground to be used as recharge ponds, but we do realize it's a dice roll for when that recharge will happen," Vlot said. "You're dependent on Mother Nature for the rain, and there's no way of predicting when that will come."
The main challenge is making sure that those who voluntarily leave their fields fallow are compensated for their crop loss by neighbors who benefit from the stored water.
"Farmers are being crushed by this issue, and I am facing some real trouble in the years to come if we don't do something, so there is really no choice," Hurley said. "Taking legal action against people, if anyone went that route, would be a very tough row to hoe. So we are all taking neighborly action."
Other remedies being considered include trying to capture more floodwaters in a really big rain, installing stingier irrigation methods and pushing for new reservoirs - never an easy fight, given environmental opposition.
But recharging the aquifers is the group's top priority. Doing so won't raise the land level again - once it sinks, that's it. However, adequate recharging can prevent further sinkage.
Underground recharge
Nobody knows exactly how big the valley's draw on the deep aquifers is, since California is the only Western state that doesn't regulate its groundwater. But overall, groundwater supplies nearly two-thirds of the state's water, and scientific studies tracking the drought unmistakably tie the usage to the land subsidence.
"Subsidence is a serious issue, and we have to think about every technique we can," said Thomas Harter, a UC Davis professor who specializes in groundwater issues. "And one of those is how to take advantage of the flood flows we get - such as the ones we had in 2011 when a lot of water flowed out of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers and could have been stored."
Using "the agricultural landscape" to store groundwater, as Vlot and his neighbors are planning, "is hugely important, and I'd like to see it on a very wide scale," Harter said.
"Whatever we do, we can't just stand by."
Another solution being bandied about is finally putting groundwater in California under state regulation.
Two bills making their way through the Legislature would create a regulatory system, and though most farmers would rather avoid the intrusion, others say it is necessary for the future health of California's water supplies.
"We have a groundwater crisis in California, and if we're not coming up with ways to reduce its use in wet years to allow it to rebound, we are going to be in trouble," said Andrew Fahlund, deputy director of the California Water Foundation, which studies water management issues and supports regulation. "And groundwater storage is exactly the kind of project we need to see more of."
To see a video that accompanies this story, go to http://sfchron.cl/1ntsVcH.
For more on the state's water issues, go to www.sfgate.com/drought.
Kevin Fagan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @KevinChron


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643master wrote:Mayville and Hillsboro used to be a rivalry but since getting rid of beaur (sp?) I cant remember the last time Hillsboro went to state, back in the day coles and paulson made it tough and prob even pulled a game out once or twice from mayville but lately Hillsboro hasnt made a run at state. Another good one would be mpcg vs finely...
ndfan wrote:Mayville and Hillsboro play today probably one of the biggest rivalrys in the state if not the biggest. You better get there early if you wanna get a seat. Another big one i know of is Cavalier vs. North Border neither teams wants to lose to the other in anything. Any other good ones out there?
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BURLINGTON, Vt. – Sophomore forward Hannah Armstrong tallied a pair of goals as the University of New Hampshire women's hockey team rallied past the University of Vermont, 4-2, Saturday afternoon.
The win improves the Wildcats to 11-14-2 on the year and to 7-7-1 in Hockey East action while the Catamounts fall to 7-16-3 overall and to 5-7-3 in conference action.
Vermont's Kellie Dineen gave the Catamounts an early 1-0 lead just 38 seconds into the first period as she tallied her fifth goal of the year. Gina Repaci tallied the first assist on the play as Erin Wente notched the second. Armstrong responded at the 7:08 mark of the first with her sixth goal of the season on a power play. Senior Kailey Chappell started the play as she sent the puck to classmate Kristina Lavoie. Lavoie found Armstrong who then put it away to level the game at 1-1.
Armstrong and Lavoie connected again at 15:23 of the second period when Armstrong tallied her second goal of the game and seventh of the year. Lavoie tallied her second assist of the game and twelfth of the season on the play.
The Catamounts opened up the third period with goal number two at the 2:02 mark of the stanza. Valerie Stoul recorded her first goal of the season on the play while Repaci tallied her second assist of the game and Delia McNally notched her first.
Arielle O'Neill gave the Wildcats a 3-2 lead with a power play goal at 13:04 in the third period. Sara Carlson and Kristine Horn each registered assists on the play. Lavoie gave the Wildcats some extra breathing room with 36 seconds left in the game when she tallied her seventh goal of the season on an empty net. O'Neill and Chappell assisted Lavoie on the play. As the clock struck zero, the Wildcats picked up a 4-2 victory over Vermont.
Jenn Gilligan started the game in net for New Hampshire but was replaced by Marie-Eve Jean after 38 seconds of play. Gilligan made two saves on the three shots she faced. Jean made 18 saves in relief on 19 shots faced and picked up her first win of the season, improving her record to 1-1-1. Vermont's Roxanne Douville got the loss in net after making 29 saves on 33 shots faced. Her record falls to 5-13-3 on the year.
The Wildcats took advantage on the power play, registering two goals in four opportunities while Vermont was held to 0-for-4 with the advantage.
New Hampshire returns to the ice naxt Saturday at Boston University, 3 p.m., to wrap up the season series with the Terriers.
Stony Brook edges UNH men
DURHAM — Senior Chandler Rhoads scored 12 points to go along with seven rebounds and three assists, but the University of New Hampshire men's basketball team dropped a 56-54 decision to Stony Brook in Saturday's America East contest at Lundholm Gymnasium.
New Hampshire fell to 6-15 overall and 2-7 in conference action, while Stony Brook improved to 17-5 on the season and 8-1 in league play.
Ferg Myrick added 10 points, four assists, two blocks and two steals.
Dave Coley led Stony Brook with 13 points and eight rebounds, while Anthony Jackson and Jameel Warney added 11 points apiece.
The Wildcvata are back in action Wednesday at Vermont.
'Cat women fall to Seawolves
STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Cari Reed recorded 14 points and six rebounds in the University of New Hampshire women's basketball team's 60-47 America East conference loss to Stony Brook University at Pritchard Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon.
UNH's two-game winning streak ended as the Wildcats moved to 8-13 overall and 3-6 in America East. SBU, which built an 11-point halftime lead on the strength of 56.7% shooting from the floor in the first half, improved to 12-10, 4-5 by sweeping the season series against UNH.
Reed, who went 5 of 5 from the foul line, also tallied three assists, three steals and one block. Morgan Frame was the only other Wildcat in double digits with 10 points.
Sabre Proctor (17 points), Chikilra Goodman (11 pts, six rebounds) and Jessica Previlon (nine pts, eight rebs) led the Seawolves, who committed just 10 turnovers in comparison to UNH's 22.


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Below is a comprehensive monthly review of the news and other media's coverage of CVE. A brief summary of each news item is listed with its title, author (if identified), date, and media source.
Government Computer News, September 23, 2009
An article about CVE's 10-year anniversary entitled "CVE: Ten years and more than 38,000 vulnerabilities catalogued" was published in Government Computer News on 23 September 2009. The article talks about the origins of CVE, how it has grown over since it launched on 29 September 1999, and how it has inspired new efforts such as CWE and its Top 25 list. The article also includes quotes from CVE Co-Creator and Technical Lead Steve Christey and CVE Compatibility Lead Robert A. Martin. The article was written by William Jackson.
CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Engineering, September/October 2009
An article entitled "Making Security Measurable and Manageable" by CVE Compatibility Lead and CWE/CAPEC Program Manager Robert A. Martin was published in the September/October 2009 issue of CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Engineering.
The article explains how measurable security and automation can be achieved by having government and public efforts address the creation, adoption, operation, and sustainment of their information security infrastructures in a holistic manner and by using common, standardized concepts to define the data (CVE, CCE, CPE, CAPEC, CWE, etc.), communicating this information through standardized languages (OVAL, XCCDF, CEE, etc.), sharing the information in standardized ways (OVAL Repository, NVD, etc.), and adopting tools and services that adhere to these standards.
Computerworld, May 11, 2009
CVE was mentioned in an article entitled "How SCAP Brought Sanity to Vulnerability Management" in Computerworld on May 11, 2009. The main topic of the article is the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP).
CVE is mentioned when the author explains that "SCAP is part of the Information Security Automation Program and is made up of a collection of existing standards. These standards include some that many of us are already familiar with, such as the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). Additionally, it includes the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE), a standard to describe a specific hardware, OS and software configuration. This is helpful for enumerating assets, giving you your baseline information to apply all of this data; the Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE), very similar to CVE but dealing with misconfiguration issues; the Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL) to provide schemas that describe the inventory of a computer, the configuration on that computer and a report of what vulnerabilities were found on that computer; and Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF), a description language to help you apply your technical policies and standards to your scanning tools."
The author also provides an example of SCAP in action: "Let's see how this helps me in building a real solution. As a head of a vulnerability management program as discussed earlier, I am sitting on data from application security assessment tools, host and network scanners, and database vulnerability and configuration scanners. In reality, this includes multiple products and services for application security, as well as multiple tools for host and network assessments. I set out by taking advantage of APIs when available from the assessment tool providers as well as XML data feeds. Utilizing the code I've just written to automate the movement of the data, I now need to map this information to a normalized schema, taking advantage of the SCAP standards. This is a big deal! I now have a common way to describe the vulnerabilities. I can eliminate duplicates that reference the same CVE on the same platforms."
The article was written by Ed Bellis.
Government Computer News, May 7, 2009
CVE was mentioned in an article entitled "Draft guidelines issued for using SCAP to automate security validation" in Government Computer News on May 7, 2009. The main topic of the article is the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Special Publication 800-117: Guide to Adopting and Using the Security Content Automation Protocol that specifies how enterprises can use its Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), and a revised version of its testing requirements that security products using SCAP must meet to achieve SCAP validation entitled Draft NIST Interagency Report 7511: Security Content Automation Protocol Validation Program Test Requirements, Revision 1.
CVE is mentioned in the article as one of the six open standards SCAP uses for enumerating, evaluating, and measuring the impact of software problems and reporting results: "Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, a dictionary of names for publicly known security-related software flaws." The other five standards are Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL), Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE), Common Platform Enumeration (CPE), Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF), and Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). CVE is mentioned a second time when discussing NIST's recommended guidelines for using SCAP: "Organizations should use SCAP for vulnerability measurement and scoring. SCAP enables quantitative and repeatable measurement and scoring of software flaw vulnerabilities across systems through the combination of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), CVE, and CPE."
Comments on draft guidelines 800-117 are due to NIST by June 12, 2009 and should sent to email@example.com and include "Comments SP 800-117" in the subject line.
The article was written by William Jackson.
DarkReading.com, April 8, 2009
CVE was mentioned in an article entitled "The Rocky Road To More Secure Code" on DarkReading.com on April 8, 2009. CVE is mentioned as follows: "Steve Christey, principal information security engineer for MITRE, who also works on the Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE) program, says CVE data shows vulnerabilities in major software products, such as those from Microsoft, are becoming less rampant. "Vulnerabilities in products from major vendors like Microsoft still get announced every month. But it's often very difficult to detect [these vulnerabilities], and they require a large amount of time and investment from the people who discover them. That's one way to measure that software is becoming more secure: It's taking longer to find significant vulnerabilities in software." Christey says the good news is these more obscure bugs are more difficult to detect and, therefore, more difficult and expensive to exploit. The bad news is that has put the bull's eye on third-party applications, especially in the Web 2.0 space: "Web 2.0 doesn't have a culture of security from the moment of conception of an idea all the way to deployment," he says. "Software assurance needs to be a holistic approach that crosses all phases of development. But many of the third-party developers have not gone down this road."
SANS Web Site, January 23, 2009
CVE was mentioned in Draft 1.0 of the "Twenty Most Important Controls and Metrics for Effective Cyber Defense and Continuous FISMA Compliance" consensus list released by a consortium of federal agencies and private organizations on February 23, 2009. The document, which uses "knowledge of actual attacks and defines controls that would have stopped those attacks from being successful," includes 15 critical controls that are subject to automated measurement and validation and an additional 5 critical controls that are not.
CVE is mentioned as follows in a section about why the list is so important for chief information security officers (CISOs), chief information officers (CIOs), federal inspectors general, and auditors: "This effort also takes advantage of the success and insights from the development and usage of standardized concepts for identifying, communicating, and documenting security-relevant characteristics/data. These standards include the following: common identification of vulnerabilities (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures-CVE), definition of secure configurations (Common Configuration Enumeration-CCE), inventory of systems and platforms (Common Platform Enumeration-CPE), vulnerability severity (Common Vulnerability Scoring System-CVSS) and identification of application weaknesses (Common Weaknesses Enumeration-CWE). These standards have emerged over the last decade through collaborative research and deliberation between government, academia and industry. While still evolving, several of these efforts in standardization have made their way into commercial solutions and government, industry, and academic usage. Perhaps most visible of these has been the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) which leveraged the Security Content Automation Program (SCAP)."
The draft is available for public review and comment at www.sans.org/cag, www.csis.org, and www.gilligangroupinc.com until March 23, 2009.


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Commuters on Monday waded through traffic snarls, hopped on buses or ferries, or opted simply to stay home as two of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit's largest unions went on strike, halting train service for the first time in 16 years.
No BART trains ran on Monday, and the walkout derailed the more than 400,000 riders who use the nation's fifth-largest rail system and affected every mode of transportation, though the congestion, most agree, could have been worse.
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Transportation officials said another 60,000 vehicles likely headed out on the road, clogging highways and bridges throughout the Bay Area. Early Monday, that was true in parts of the Bay Area, especially Insterstate Highway 580 westbound. BART stations effectively looked like ghost towns by the middle of the morning.
Before the sun came up, though, there was plenty of activity. Union members marched around the BART station near Oakland's Lake Merritt, and one picketer, Ron Smith, called the unusual strike very "unsettling."
The news could have been worse, though, AC Transit workers, who also planned to possibly strike on Monday, did not. Lines snaked around corners at 20th and Broadway in Oakland about 8 a.m. as commuters were trying to board AC Transit buses to get to work.
On the first day of the strike, at least one commuter appeared to be nonplussed about his longer travel time.
"You just have to go with the flow," said Oakland commuter Matthew Robinson, who was at least 30 minutes late for work when he spoke with NBC Bay Area.
IMAGES: BART Workers Picket, Commuters Find Alternate Routes
Commuters in Fremont hopped on charter buses that came to the BART station in that city, about 10 miles north of San Jose. The buses took riders to Oakland, where passengers had to board yet another bus if they wanted to get to any other destination. One woman fell as she was trying to get on a bus.
During the evening commute, freeways, buses and ferries were overloaded throughout the region.
However, an NBC Bay Area live cam found traffic to run smooth once commuters crossed the Bay Bridge from San Francisco toward Walnut Creek.
One commuter, Prachi Bora, said she didn't mind that BART workers were striking for better pay; she only wished she knew about the transportation stoppage earlier.
BART spokesman Jim Allison told NBC Bay Area that BART was operating at "1 percent capacity," and he vowed that management and the union would go back to try to "work things out." At the end of the morning commute, BART spokesman Rick Rice apologized, but blamed the union for the problems.
"We are sorry peoples' lives have been disrupted by the union strike," he said in a statement. "The strike is not necessary."
The strike was called Sunday after an 11th-hour effort to resume negotiation failed to produce a new contract by the deadline of midnight. Both the unions and management said they were far apart on key sticking points including salary, pensions, health care and safety. In the Monday BART statement, Rice said that management is "prepared to negotiate the significantly improved proposal we delivered on Sunday."
"A strike is always the last resort and we have done everything in our power to avoid it," said Josie Mooney, a negotiator for Service Employees International Union Local 1021.
"I'm deeply disappointed it has come to this," said Antonette Bryant, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, at a midnight news conference.
Bryant said the union's members "aren't interested in disrupting the Bay Area, but management has put us in a position where we have no choice."
These competing sides came to a head Sunday night with BART accusing negotiators of walking away from the bargaining table, while the SEIU countered in a statement that management "threw in the towel."
MORE: Reaction of #BARTStrike on Social Media
Bay Area residents fell on both sides of the coin regarding the strike. Michael Giannini posted on NBC Bay Area's Facebook page that he hoped "they bust this strike. I'm all for livabile wages but these people deserve no sympathy."
Conversely, Linda Pallotta posted that she thought BART workers definitely deserve to earn more money. The average salaray for a train operator is about $60,000.
PLAN YOUR COMMUTE: BART Strike Resources
The unions, which represent nearly 2,400 train operators, station agents, mechanics, maintenance workers and professional staff, were asking for a 5 percent raise each year over the next three years. BART said that train operators and station agents in the unions average about $71,000 in base salary and $11,000 in overtime annually. The workers also pay a flat $92 monthly fee for health insurance.
Rice said the agency had up its original offer of a 4 percent pay rise over the next four years to 8 percent. The proposed salary increase is on top of a 1 percent raise employees were scheduled to receive Monday, Rice added.
The transit agency also said it offered to reduce the contribution employees would have to make to their pensions, and lower the costs of health care premiums they would have to pay.
Bryant said Sunday that BART's latest proposal is not an actual pay increase, calling it "surface bargaining."
BART's last strike lasted six days in 1997. The transit agency handles more than 40 percent of commuters coming from the East Bay to San Francisco with the Bay Bridge handling another 50 percent said John Goodwin, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
NBC Bay Area's Damian Trujillo, Mike Inouye and the Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Here and there
Placido Polanco will sign autographs (first 500 guests) on Saturday in the Majestic Clubhouse Store at Citizens Bank Park;12 noon until 1:30 p.m. . . . Phillie Phanatic and Phillies ballgirls will be there. Free parking in Lot P on Darien Street.
Sunday night is the first showing of the Phillies 2009 Video Yearbook, Legends of the Fall. It will take place at the Broadway Theatre in Pitman, NJ. Writer and producer Dan Stephenson will be there. Video Dan has again produced a classic. Tickets are on sale now at https://secure.mlb.com/phi/ticketing/y2010/dvd_screening_form.jsp.
Scouting director Marti Wolever and his assistant, Rob Holiday, met with the scouting supervisors this week in Omaha to begin plans for the 2010 scouting season that leads to the annual First-Year Player Draft in June. Phillies have the 26th selection in the first round, I believe.
Ruben Amaro Jr. has been here there and everywhere this month. Went to MLB meetings in Arizona, the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation's annual awards banquet in LA, the Baseball Assistance Team banquet in NY, the opening of the Phillies new baseball academy in the Dominican Republic. Tonight, he's attending the Reading Phillies banquet. Thanks to cell phones, text messaging and his staff, he was able to conduct his normal baseball business while on the go.
Ruben also participated in the first-ever two-day Prospect Education Program held at Citizens Bank Park.
Robin Roberts (Scout's Dream Award) and Bill Giles (Bud Selig Award) were honored at the banquet in LA . . . Brad Lidge was honored at the BAT banquet for his contributions to the community.
First spring training workout for pitchers and catchers will take place in Clearwater, FL, three weeks from today!
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Saw the Yearbook on the Phillies Cruise…it was really great, as they are every year. Hey, are you going to the PSWA dinner next week? It won't be the same without Harry :O( I have his name tag from last year's event that he gave to me after dinner…signed it for me too. That was the last time I got to talk to him, so this year will be rough. Looking forward to hearing Todd speak though. If I don't see ya there, I'll be posting info on my blog about it on Tuesday.


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R. Davidson [Jr.] pole raising, Masset Q.C.I.
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Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows part of the crowd, including a number of individuals wearing ceremonial dress.
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