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Can a firewall totally protect me from attacks? I guess the answer will be negative. What I want to know is: in which way someone could bypass it and how can I protect my PC?
First, welcome to AO and learn to search the forums before posting...
Second... nothing can totally protect you from attacks. And I'm not going to get into the details of how some might bypass a firewall (*cough* www.google.com *cough*) because that would be stupid on my part, but I'll tell you this, keep an up-to-date AV program and limit what goes in and out of computer while online... using the firewall of course.... and you'll be good. Sometimes bad things happen but that's a chance you take when you connect to the internet....
= Cheers, jag291 =
The AV I run is Norton 2002 and it does the job. I am not sure if Norton has put out a 2003 yet as I haven't had the need to upgrade to a different version yet. It isn't cheap, but is affective.
I must agree with you all, but I would like to add that no matter how strong your firewall, if your passwords are weak, or your computer is running excess network services, you will always be vunerable to attack. If you don't need it, turn it off (like lights when your not in the room).
$person!=$kiddie or die(\"Alas, die you hotmail hacker!!\");
when it comes to digital underground... call them hackers crackers script kiddies or what so ever they form one of the integral part of your system security scene.
what i have noticed with these persons...is that they are no longer into password guessing or password cracking...becoz of the complexities and time involved in cracking those passwords...
so now a days they rely on local/remote root exploits...with these type of exploits coming into limelight in bulk....the underground have been able to keep pace with the ever getting complex security secenario....if they are unable to locale any such hole..they move on to next target...until and unless very determined ....becoz they are "too busy" to crack the passwords
in this limelight i would suggest you to keep watch on all the exploits revealed and keep yourself updated...may be http://www.securityfocus.com is a nice place to get informed..
this doesnot at all mean you can keep your passwords very simple..so that they are very easily brute forced or gets guessed. Usually i use passwords with numerics alphanumeric and @ sign....so as to include the 3 charactersets...but the password is never so complex so that i cant recall it. Also AVs and firewall comes handy....
To be secure you will have to keep watch on all these aspects
guru@linux:~> who I grep -i blonde I talk; cd ~; wine; talk; touch; unzip; touch; strip; gasp; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; gasp; umount; make clean; sleep;
They can attack you behind your firewall even if you are not running any services.
Most attacks you'll be vulnerable to stem from either
- Bugs in client software (eg: exploits in IE, Windows media player, Outlook)
- Running untrusted executables that contain mal-ware (No, virus checkers will not necessarily protect you, they mostly only detect viruses)
- Social engineering - someone persuading you or someone inside to run something
Once inside the firewall, some mal-ware, placed by one of the three methods above, can connect out and read commands. This could be as simple as getting a web page containing a list of commands, and posting the response.
An attack I have also heard of, is a remote control program operated by email - it sits on your machine, constantly reading email through outlook. When a specially formatted message arrives, it immediately deletes it, and carries out commands contained in it, before emailing the attacker back with the results.
This is very nasty because it is difficult for even a content-scanning firewall to detect it.
However, safe computing practices can protect you from all of these - it's just about being vigilant and training your users.
ill tell you how they will find a bug in ur firewall then the hack you or they will bomb the ports till the firewall will be down they are many other reasons serch in google man
Knowlege is Power !
Anarchy RuleZ
Originally posted here by FRiZz3R
ill tell you how they will find a bug in ur firewall then the hack you or they will bomb the ports till the firewall will be down they are many other reasons serch in google man
You may want to search the dictionary, or at the bare minimum take a lesson or two in english
Originally posted here by FRiZz3R
serch in google man
GoogleMan? sounds like a super hero.
i\'m starting to think that i\'m bound to always be the first guy on the second page of the thread.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 37 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
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MWC 2012 Calling a company Antenna when what you make is an abstraction platform, rather than antennas, might not be sensible – especially at a congress stuffed with mobile techies – but what the firm actually does works well for the trend of this age. Technology follows fashion more than we'd like to admit, and apps are where it is at.
AMP Chroma lets you write once and run many. Where have we heard that before?
Just as companies in the '90s embraced DTP and had to push out a font-riddled newsletter, then a decade later a FrontPage-produced website, today it's the company app which makes the marketing director think he understands something technical.
At Mobile World Congress, Antenna is trying to lure the attention of IT departments which have to support these follies and has launched a set of tools to make it easy to deal with the marketing bods' demands. The product even comes with all the right buzzwords: "AMPchroma is a suite of cloud products to address the entire mobile life cycle". Note how they work the word "cloud" in there instead of saying "server-based".
Clients support iOS, most flavours of Android, old and new Windows phones and Blackberry. There are wizards to convert between the drag-and-drop and the Eclipse environments. There is some clever back-end stuff which means devices talk to Antenna's servers but the data that is pulled in lives on the corporate server, and there is a clear understanding that mobile devices are not always connected.
Antenna sees its system as being used by each of its customers to create a large number of apps with a view to these being aimed at both corporate and consumers. There is a system to manage this which can switch apps on and off – with hierarchy and permissions – and which can manage devices so that only the right people can use the right apps and data. If they cease to be important, both the apps and access can be terminated. This links to a storefront which sells both apps and third-party content.
As you would expect there are some solid analytics. Unfortunately this may ultimately show the firm that most corporate internal apps are as little-read as the website or newsletter ever were. ®
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The archived thread can be found here.
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Could you rename the old one please James because think Trev may have wrong URL for it and/or put the link to the new thread as the last post.
I've no idea whether Trev still needs all this doing or not but isn't worth the risk of not doing it!
A True Champion - Bob. Rest in peace. 15/04/06
"People today have too big a devil and too small a God"
- Stephen Currie
"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" Psalm 27:1
Can we have the archived ones stickied again? Or would that cause some strain on the server?
Maybe just links in the first post of this thread to them would suffice.
President of SKAS - Kat is King | Proud member of CVAAS - One of the best | LRPLTAS - Rosco rocks!
Go Tigers!
R.I.P. Fardin & Craig
Yess, Harris pops to Masterful
23. Liam Harris - 21 yo, BT Rating=85,502
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime fitness.
A defensive player with woeful leadership skills and competent experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: masterful Concentration: exceptional
Bowling: woeful Consistency: feeble
Fielding: respectable
On 1 net, would it take more than 1 season for a 21/22 yo to pop?
Managed to sell Verhoeven as well, have an 11m balance now, hoping to pick up a decent bowler.
Training was on Saturday, El ******o. (Y)
Jesus brings life eternal
Didntopenbattricksaturdayorsundayitbt.com (N)
I personally wouldn't train anyone past masterful, the wage/performance ratio goes whack around there.
Neale Gleeson (1059471)
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, invigorated fitness.
A destructive player with respectable leadership skills and proficient experience.
Plays For: Tawonga Tigers
Nationality: Australia
Age: 22 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 117,581
Wages: £50,112 p/w
Stamina: strong Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: worthless Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: masterful Consistency: masterful
Fielding: competent
Bidding on this bloke as a replacement for Verhoeven. Hoping he doesn't go for over 10.5m (have no idea, haven't followed the TM for aaaaaaaages). Would contemplate slapping a bowling net on for a season till he pops to exquisite then.
Salahuddin Inam (1578603) (£8,832,648 by Opening Balance)
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, strong batting form, competent bowling form, fresh fitness.
A steady player with proficient leadership skills and respectable experience.
Plays For: SA Redbacks
Nationality: Pakistan
Age: 20 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 75,582
Wages: £19,519 p/w
Processing ...
Stamina: superb Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: competent Concentration: competent
Bowling: sensational Consistency: exceptional
Fielding: proficient
Cheers Pete and James, found my way here okay. Only two pops, batting on 21yo Akhtar, (Now Sens/Sup Bat), and Cons on 20yo Katleho (now Wond/Prof RF). Both in need of a fielding net, currently with Akhtar until he hits Rem Conc or there abouts, then I'll transfer it over.
Later, Trev
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Let's kick off with the bad news: Crysis 2 is flawed. It has been streamlined and dumbed down in its transition to consoles, and the results will inevitably disappoint some fans of the PC-only original. The vast open jungles, swamps and icy wastes of Crysis and Crysis: Warhead have been rejected in favour of the tighter urban spaces of New York. There's less in the way of fully-interactive, fully-destructible scenery, and the AI oscillates between ingenious, dumb and downright buggy. The storyline is over-complicated, and will make virtually no sense to newcomers (and probably not a whole lot more to existing fans). The characters are less vibrant and less interesting this time around.
Everyone clear? Now let's get real. By any yardstick, this is a phenomenally exciting FPS. Crytek has made some sacrifices bring Crysis to the console platforms, but the team has still done a miraculous job of making one of the most demanding games on a PC work on platforms with a lot less processing horsepower. Crysis 2 is an incredible-looking game, often matching Killzone 3 as the best-looking console FPS, and it's an absolute blast to play. While all the flaws mentioned above are very real, they only mar rather than wreck the blockbuster experience.
The game's change of tack is obvious from the start. First of all, the action moves from the islands of South-East Asia to a near-future New York, where a dodgy private military forces, known as Cell, patrol the streets of a city ravaged by an alien virus, and under attack from Crysis's extra-terrestrial menace, the vaguely octopoid Ceph. You are Alcatraz, a US marine sent on a mission to rescue a renegade scientist, but within the opening minutes you'll find yourself meeting Prophet, the squad leader from the first game, and donning Crysis's signature nanosuit. And that's where the fun begins.
As before, the nanosuit augments your already formidable physical and combat skills. You can boost the armour to repel bullets or survive huge falls, run at inhuman speeds and leap vast distances, grab massive objects or punch and throw foes for dozens of metres using superhuman strength. You can even cloak yourself in near-invisible camouflage.
These powers haven't changed that much since Crysis: Warhead, but the way that you use them has. Crysis used separate modes for each core power, meaning you could use super-strength, armour, stealth or agility, but not two at the same time. Crysis 2 effectively gives you just two of these basic modes - stealth and armour - but you can use the strength and agility powers in conjunction with them, just by holding the action buttons or clicking down the thumbsticks. It's a more flexible system, and one that encourages you to mix and match abilities instead of favouring one mode over the rest.
And you will need all of them, because the basic level plan of Crysis 2 is to place you in what amounts to an arena packed with Cell goons or Ceph marauders, with the odds stacked severely in their favour. Your task then becomes finding some way to get from point A to point B in one piece, destroying anyone and anything in your way. While old-hands will miss the massive jungle areas of Crysis and the wider range of blast-able, wreck-able and chuck-able scenery, it has to be said that some of these areas are still pretty big, with multiple floors and rooftop levels or sections of street and plaza, and that the game discretely pushes hit and run tactics over straight out assaults. Sometimes you're the predator, dropping out of camouflage to notch up a few quick kills, then racing back into hiding while you rest and recharge. At other times you're a terminator, switching up the armour, blasting everything that moves, then retreating into cover to recuperate. Your suit's charge is relatively short and your enemies, en-masse, are lethal, so you need to think, plan and move decisively at every turn. And the more dynamic your solution to each problem is, the more interesting and exciting Crysis 2 gets.
This is the best thing about the Crysis sequel; it makes you work. For too long we've been playing FPS games full of narrow corridors, scripted sequences and predictable duck, peek and fire combat. Crysis 2 opens things up, pushing you to make your own way through each encounter and try out a range of tactics. The more you play, the more the excellent and reconfigurable weapon set and a system of ability upgrades expands your toolbox and adds new tactical options to the mix. When Crysis 2 is running at full tilt, it feels dangerous, unpredictable and incredibly exciting - and that's exactly what you should want from an FPS.
Things are spoilt occasionally by the interface and the AI. At first it's hard to locate where shots are coming from, and throughout the game you'll find yourself amazed by the eagle-eye markmanship and suspiciously uncanny perception of some foes. You'll also find the occasional Cell troop jogging on the spot while faced into a corner, or a whole squad struggling to navigate a simple barrier. Let's not go crazy here. On balance, the AI is mostly pretty sharp, but you can't help wishing that Crysis 2's AI was consistently as good as that of Crysis 1, or of Halo: Reach or Killzone 3, now we come to mention it.
One thing that isn't in doubt is the slickness of the presentation. While Crysis 2's visuals don't look quite as clean as Killzone 3's, it's a worthy rival. Superb natural lighting and some excellent texture and particle effects combine to create a New York that looks like a living, battle-torn Big Apple, and it comes crammed with enough heavily armed ETs and epic explosions to fill a major blockbuster action movie. Much as we miss the lush jungle scenery and tropical beaches of Crysis and Crysis: Warhead, Crysis 2 still looks like an urban Crysis. It's a dazzling achievement, though there's one thing we should make clear: having reviewed the Xbox 360 code, we've yet to see it running on the PS3, and there are mixed reports about how well this version holds up.
The action movie comparisons hold a lot of water. Cinematic moments are tossed in from time to time, but they're used well, and the surging orchestral score helps bring it all to life. Yet, every time, what hits you about Crysis 2 is that it isn't an interactive action movie where you simply go through the motions, shooting the right people as directed - it's an interactive action movie where you're helping to create the action as you go along. While there are big set-pieces, vehicle sections and massive showdowns, there are also plenty of big moments that you can create for yourself.
That's the single-player campaign, but what about the multiplayer mode? Well, Crysis's multiplayer options have got better with each new version, and Crysis 2's - developed the ex-Timesplitters team at Crytek UK - are no exception. It's fast paced, the nanosuit abilities are well-integrated, and there's a good working structure, with new classes and play modes unlocking as you go up the ranks, ensuring that players will have a reasonable idea of what's going on by the time they tackle the more complex objective based game modes. It's good, but we're not sure that it's great. There's still something about Crysis 2's multiplayer that doesn't 100% gel in the way that Halo: Reach or Killzone 3's multiplayer modes do, and that's before we start talking about Bad Company 2 or Black Ops. It's enjoyable and addictive, and curiously old-fashioned in its speed and furious pacing, but it's missing a distinctive character - and you can guarantee that there will be moans about the opportunities for cheap kills and camping that the nanosuit provides.
Crysis 2 isn't perfect, and despite Crytek's claims there has been a reduction in scale to cram it onto the console formats. All the same, it's a game that rises above its flaws, for the simple reason that there aren't many shooters of recent years that can match Crysis 2's fast-flowing, freeform FPS gameplay. It might not come together instantly, but once it does it remains compelling until the end. With a little more tightening this could have been a classic, but as it is it's a must-have for action gaming fans.


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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
I'm BAAAAAAAACK!
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having problems loading your new site! :(
- Tue Dec 29, 09:28:00 PM 2009
Same here.
- Tue Dec 29, 09:44:00 PM 2009
I'm so gald that you're back! I too am unable to go to your new site. I will keep trying.
- Tue Dec 29, 09:45:00 PM 2009
Did I miss where anyone said there was a new site????
This is the first I've heard of it, I hope you don;t lose followers in the transition.
- Tue Dec 29, 11:20:00 PM 2009
I have been to the new site
I like this site better keep it.
I love it!!!!
- Wed Dec 30, 12:17:00 AM 2009
- AJ said...
So glad to see you back. I was getting worried. I check your site several times a day and was praying that it would be back up and running soon. Thanks for all that you do!
- Wed Dec 30, 07:24:00 AM 2009
- *mander said...
SOOOOOO glad to have you back! Looking forward to a new year with Hip2Save!
- Wed Dec 30, 09:29:00 AM 2009
I just came from your new site to see!! Yay!! I'm so glad that you are back. I kind of like the new site too. either way you rock!!
- Wed Dec 30, 04:52:00 PM 2009
- Dara said...
I think her new site is on overload right now since she was able to post a link here... it normally isnt slow!
- Wed Dec 30, 06:22:00 PM 2009
Can't get the new one to load! But I LOVE this one so much better so not a bad situation hehe ;)
- Wed Dec 30, 07:43:00 PM 2009
I too am having trouble loading the new site. Today is the 1st day I have had this trouble. I could easily view your "new" site since inception, prior to today.
- Wed Dec 30, 10:54:00 PM 2009
I was freakin' out. Didn't remember you saying you weren't going to blog anymore. Even called my sister to see where your site went. I'm so glad you got it back up. Thanks for all of the "bargains"!
- Thu Dec 31, 06:03:00 AM 2009
I am so glad you are back! Thank you for all the good deals! :)
- Thu Dec 31, 07:07:00 PM 2009
I am so glad you are back. I have been checking out this website for nearly a year and I have loved it. Thanks hip to save!
- Fri Jan 01, 09:33:00 AM 2010
- Unknown said...
:) Made my day!
- Fri Jan 01, 07:20:00 PM 2010
I have problems accessing your site too sometimes. It's usually hit or miss. I'm glad you are back, but I didn't ever have problems when you wre on blogger. :(
- Sun Jan 03, 07:39:00 PM 2010
Your new site continues to load very very slowly... :(
- Sun Jan 03, 08:46:00 PM 2010
- Unknown said...
I want your site to load faster....what is causing it to be so slow. I check your site multiple times a day!
- Sun Jan 03, 08:55:00 PM 2010
I also like this site better...much easier to navigate. Either way, I love the blog.
- Tue Jan 05, 08:11:00 AM 2010
I'm so glad you are back, I love this site better than the new one, but i will follow your blog at either site because your is my favorite. I am a lot sad to see this one go. If it has too. :( God bless you and yours, Darlene
- Tue Jan 05, 04:23:00 PM 2010
I like this site better
- Wed Jan 06, 07:52:00 PM 2010
Hello everyone!
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For several years , I earn money with the help of these programs.
I don't have problems with money now, but there are heights that must be conquered . I get now up to 2G a day , and I started with funny 500 bucks.
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- Tue Jan 12, 01:51:00 PM 2010
Sent a question to your website and I got this back. I used your form to send the question about CVS. I'm sending you this via your blog and hope you get it. I don't want any more contact because I have to work on this machine and I can't afford it going down. Anyway here is what I got.
My name is Nicole,
it`s about you? http://protect.cbx.ru/precedences.html
Good bye ;-)
Looks too much like a virus for me to open it. It was from firstname.lastname@example.com
Anyway I hope you don't have someone that hacked in or have a virus yourself. It, unfortunately, is my 'good' email, the one I use for family and friends that I check daily. Oh well I learned my lesson about using it with strangers.
- Thu Jan 14, 07:35:00 PM 2010
nice read. I would love to follow you on twitter. By the way, did anyone learn that some chinese hacker had hacked twitter yesterday again.
- Mon Jan 18, 02:53:00 PM 2010
Hello everyone!
I would like to burn a theme at this forum. There is such a nicey, called HYIP, or High Yield Investment Program. It reminds of ponzy-like structure, but in rare cases one may happen to meet a company that really pays up to 2% daily not on invested money, but from real profits.
For several years , I make money with the help of these programs.
I'm with no money problems now, but there are heights that must be conquered . I make 2G daily, and my first investment was 500 dollars only.
Right now, I managed to catch a guaranteed variant to make a sharp rise . Visit my blog to get additional info.
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- Sun Jan 24, 04:11:00 AM 2010
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- Sun Jan 24, 04:16:00 PM 2010
- Thankfully Thrifty said...
Glad you made the switch! I did too. Blogger was causing too many issues by shutting down great blogs.
- Fri Jan 29, 03:52:00 PM 2010
Good day, sun shines!
There have were times of hardship when I felt unhappy missing knowledge about opportunities of getting high yields on investments. I was a dump and downright stupid person.
I have never thought that there weren't any need in large starting capital.
Nowadays, I feel good, I begin to get real income.
It's all about how to choose a correct partner who uses your funds in a right way - that is incorporate it in real business, and shares the profit with me.
You can get interested, if there are such firms? I have to tell the truth, YES, there are. Please be informed of one of them:
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- Mon Feb 01, 05:16:00 PM 2010
My friend and I were recently discussing about technology, and how integrated it has become to our daily lives. Reading this post makes me think back to that debate we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as technology further innovates, the possibility of downloading our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's a fantasy that I daydream about all the time.
(Posted on Nintendo DS running [url=http://kwstar88.livejournal.com/491.html]R4i[/url] DS FPost)
- Wed Feb 03, 12:38:00 AM 2010
My friend and I were recently talking about technology, and how integrated it has become to our daily lives. Reading this post makes me think back to that debate we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as the price of memory decreases, the possibility of copying our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could encounter in my lifetime.
(Posted on Nintendo DS running [url=http://does-the-r4-r4i-work-with-the-new-ds.onsugar.com/Does-R4i-R4-actually-work-7232282]R4 SDHC[/url] DS ZKwa)
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A clunker is in the eye of the beholder. For people with old pickup trucks, SUVs and gas-guzzling sedans to get rid of, the government's Cash for Clunkers program was a godsend. It allowed them to collect a government subsidy of $3,500 to $4,500 for trading their clunker in exchange for a more efficient vehicle.
For libertarian and small-government advocates, Cash for Clunkers was an abomination -- soiling the sanctity of the free market with government payments designed to spur the sales of carmakers, some of whom happened to be majority owned by ... the government.
For Republicans, it was a fine target to deride and criticize -- until they realized how popular it was and decided to favor it.
For many Democrats, it at first didn't do enough for the environment -- until they, too, realized how popular it was and decided to favor it.
For car dealers, it was the program you hated to love. It got buyers into showrooms, but it forced the dealers to do mounds of bureaucratic paperwork and to await their slow-coming welfare checks. It could only remind these evangelists of free enterprise that they were feeding at the government trough.
For both economists and environmentalists, Cash for Clunkers was a mixed bag (more on that in a moment).
For me, it looked a bit like a methadone clinic. Congress found a way to get us to part with the gas-guzzling SUVs we'd become addicted to over the last couple of decades -- by turning them in for slightly less harmful vehicles. But, as with methadone clinics, the scene was kind of pathetic. And, as with methadone clinics, there are some who argued that the program did more harm than good.
The truth is we won't actually know for at least a year whether Cash for Clunkers was a net gain for either the economy or the environment. Even then, the point will be arguable.
Take the economy: Its advocates sold Cash for Clunkers as pump primer -- a vehicle to get the economy, and particularly the ailing automobile sector, rolling again. It was kind of an afterthought to last winter's stimulus bill.
But Cash for Clunkers never was going to be cheap, because it involved direct payments of $3,500 to $4,500 for each vehicle. The idea was, however, that it was perfect as a stimulus, because it was structured in a way that would naturally encourage more consumer spending: People who traded in their vehicles also had to pull out their wallet to buy a new car.
Suddenly, showrooms were crowded again. The program quickly ran out of its first billion dollars, so Congress appropriated another $2 billion. The results: At least 690,000 clunkers were brought in, and presumably 690,000 new, more efficient vehicles were purchased in exchange.
In a press release last week, after the program ended, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood claimed Cash for Clunkers "created or saved 42,000 jobs." Some industry experts now argue that the program's end will be horrible for the industry, because so much of the fall's demand for new cars was met during the summer.
"During the second half of August you'll see pull-ahead demand -- people who would have been buying in November or December," George Augustaitis, a market analyst for an auto consulting firm told the Chicago Tribune. "What I think could be scary for the industry is when ... there is no Cash for Clunkers program come October."
Sorry, George, that dog don't hunt. Sounds to me like an ungrateful industry whining. Sure, fewer folks will be buying cars in the fall than were stampeding to showrooms over the last month -- probably fewer than would have come in November had Cash for Clunkers never happened.
But the law of supply-and-demand argues that subsidizing a market by $3 billion -- so that the actual cost to the consumer drops -- actually increases demand. And from a cash flow standpoint, getting the business now is better than getting it later. Besides, just the economic activity generated by Cash for Clunkers had to be stimulative for the overall economy, and what's good for the economy is good for automakers and car dealers.
But is what's good for the auto industry good for the environment? Well, that depends on a lot of things that we don't yet know. Some environmentalists criticized Cash for Clunkers early, arguing that simply trashing vehicles that might otherwise not be trashed was wasteful. It didn't help from an environmental perspective that Cash for Clunkers came along shortly after GM, which was emerging from bankruptcy, had abandoned a program designed to recycle mercury and other toxic materials from junked vehicles.
But all along the big environmental issue with Cash for Clunkers revolved around climate change and carbon. Environment-friendly lawmakers tried to keep the program more energy friendly. Citing the amount of carbon emitted during the manufacturing process, they wanted Cash for Clunkers to make up for that by requiring the new cars to get around 13 miles per gallon more than the clunkers did. But dealers used their formidable clout to knock that gap down to 10 miles per gallon.
In other words, the nationwide fleet of vehicles after Cash for Clunkers would be more efficient than the fleet before -- but it wouldn't be as big a jump in efficiency as environmentalists had wanted.
According to the Transportation Department's end-of-program statistical roundup, the clunkers that were turned in averaged 15.8 mpg, while the new cars averaged 24.9 mpg -- about a 60 percent jump in efficiency. Was that enough to make Cash for Clunkers a net carbon reducer?
According to one formula, absolutely. Figure that manufacturers release eight tons of carbon dioxide for each new vehicle. A car that's driven 15,000 miles each year, would release around three-and-a-half tons less each year for every 10 miles per gallon improvement in efficiency. Under that simple formula, carbon savings would eclipse the amount released to make the new cars in just over two years.
The truth is that analyzing such a program is a lot more complicated than that. There are other questions to ask: Will the new car be driven a lot more than the old car? Would a lot of these transactions be going on anyway? Could the money that was used on clunkers have been better used elsewhere (much of it came from an Energy Department grants for innovation grants program)?
But the unrelenting sexiness of the story -- mad photos of cars being crushed, high emotions by dealers frustrated with red tape, excited consumers driving off in new cars -- have locked popular impressions long before any sober analyses can be completed. And I suspect that impression will be much like my own: On balance, it seems to me that the methadone clinic did its job well this time around.
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The George Washington Law Review and the Washington Area Legal History Roundtable present "Judicial Review: Historical Debate, Modern Perspectives, and Comparative Approaches," to be held on Friday, October 16 at GW Law School, 2000 H St., N.W., Washington, D.C. This symposium takes up the history and contemporary practice of judicial review and is inspired by two new books: Philip Hamburger's Law and Judicial Duty and Barry Friedman's The Will of the People. Each will have its panel; a third panel will be devoted to "contemporary and comparative judicial review."
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9:00am-10:30am Panel I: Law and Judicial Duty
Jacob Burns Moot Court Room, Lerner Hall (L101)
Renée Lettow Lerner
Associate Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School
Ann Althouse
Robert W. & Irma Arthur-Bascom Professor of Law
University of Wisconsin Law School
Mary Sarah Bilder
Professor of Law
Boston College Law School
G. Edward White
David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
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Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
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Jacob Burns Moot Court Room, Lerner Hall, L101
Peter J. Smith
Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School
Jenna Bednar
Associate Professor
University of Michigan Department of Political Science
William E. Forbath
Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law
The University of Texas School of Law
Richard Primus
Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
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Barry Friedman
Vice Dean and Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law
New York University Law School
2:00pm-3:30pm Panel III: Contemporary & Comparative Approaches to Judicial Review
Jacob Burns Moot Court Room, Lerner Hall, L101
David Fontana
Associate Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School
Principal Speakers:
Nelson Lund
Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law & the Second Amendment
George Mason University School of Law
Ayelet Shachar
Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism
University of Toronto Law School
Vicki C. Jackson
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law and Associate Dean of
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Georgetown University Law Center
Mark Tushnet
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law
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The students ran or walked the first 25 miles of the marathon over the past three months under adult supervision. The final 1.2 miles of the marathon took place Sunday at West Valley Community Park, KNDO-TV reported.
Students in Camille Rimmer's first-grade class at Summitview Elementary in Yakima have been practicing for the event. Every morning, Rimmer and the students go on a half-mile run around the school, up a small hill, around a berm and back to the classroom, The Yakima Herald-Republic reported.
Rimmer herself runs about 50 miles a week, and completed the recent Boston Marathon in 4 hours, 18 minutes, 5 seconds. She also rides a bike and lifts weights in a gym about three hours a week.
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In March 2007, the Washington state legislature passed a law establishing goals for youth nutrition and access to physical fitness, the newspaper reported. The law also launched the start of efforts toward comprehensive school health reform.
In January, the Yakima Health District was awarded a three-year, $150,000 grant for a program called Rev It Up, which connects the health community with schools, teaching kids to eat better and exercise more.
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Relive the B-picture zombie movies of the past with Vampire Night. You play a vampire hunter in this shoot-'em-up, which can be played with light-gun controllers or a standard Dual Shock. Six chapters and a finale tell the story of a town infested by the undead. You can play straight though in standard mode, or change to special mode, which has some RPG elements such as money and weapon upgrades. Training exercises and mini-games round out the package.
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• This week marked the first time UCF has ever been ranked in the college-football polls. This first-time ranking will probably expire by mid-afternoon.
• As with every week, I'll be watching Kent State with fingers crossed for some hurt. Go Army.
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Greencastle TOPS news
The best "loser" for November for Greencastle TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) 1003 was Regina Hann. In other news for the month, the club welcomed two new members and two returning members. Trudy Rowland and Larry Witmer were recognized for being a KOPS (Keep Off Pounds Sensibly) for one year. Rella Keller reached her goal and became a KOPS and was honored with yellow roses and a charm. Kathy Tabler was recognized for losing 100 pounds.
The contest, There's No Place Like Home, led by Jen Myers, ended with winners Rella Keller, TOPS; and Gloria Stahl, KOPS. On the Yellow Brick Road chart, Darlene Wenger had the most "bricks."
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"The men were relentless," assistant coach Mike Sherman said. "Every single match, singles and doubles, was a fight to the finish. I am proud of the guys, and this is something we can build on for the rest of the year."
The Bisons took an early 1-0 lead on the Mocs by picking up the doubles point after winning two of the three doubles matches.
Oliver Strecker, a second semester transfer from Auburn, and senior Joe McArdle posted a win for the Bisons at the No. 1 doubles spot. Strecker and McArdle defeated Trent Cobb and Jackson Tresnan in a tiebreaker 9-8 (2).
Sophomores Tanner Brown and Colby Shaw sealed the doubles point for Lipscomb with a 9-8 (4) win at No. 2 over Roberto Viera and Chris Smith.
The Bisons sole doubles loss came at No. 3 where freshman David Salazar and senior Mario Hernandez fell to Stephen Crofford and Sam Parfitt 8-6.
With a 1-0 lead, the Bisons went on to pick up three singles wins to secure the victory.
Strecker posted a win at No. 1 singles with a 7-6(0), 6-1 win over Cobb. UTC battled back with a win at No. 2 where Brown was defeated by UTC's Viera in a three setter, falling 6-4, 5-7, 6-1.
Salazar added another win for the Bisons at No. 3 with a 6-4, 6-4 solid win over Tresnan. Smith picked up another win for UTC with their second three-set victory, this win coming at No. 4 over Shaw 5-7, 6-3, 7-5.
McArdle defeated Crofford at No. 5 6-3, 7-6(4), while Hernandez fell at No. 6 to William Disterdick 3-6, 6-2, 10-8.
With the Bisons' three singles wins, they took the match 4-3 over UTC. The three losses all came in three sets, proving the Bisons' perseverance to set the tone for the rest of the season.
The Bisons will be back in action Saturday when they take on No. 39-ranked Vanderbilt at 2 p.m. at the Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Tennis Center.
: Doubles:
Oliver Strecker/ Joe McArdle (LIP) def. Trent Cobb/ Jackson Tresnan (UTC) 9-8(2)
Tanner Brown/ Colby Shaw (LIP) def. Roberto Viera/ Chris Smith (UTC) 9-8(4)
Stephen Crofford/ Sam Parfitt (UTC) def. David Salazar/ Mario Hernandez (LIP) 8-6
Oliver Strecker (LIP) def. Trent Cobb (UTC) 7-6(0), 6-1
Roberto Viera (UTC) def. Tanner Brown (LIP) 6-4, 5-7, 6-1
David Salazar (LIP) def. Jackson Tresnan (UTC) 6-4, 6-4
Chris Smith (UTC) def. Colby Shaw (LIP) 5-7, 6-3, 7-5
Joe McArdle (LIP) def. Stephen Crofford 6-3, 7-6(4)
William Disterdick (UTC) def. Mario Hernandez (LIP) 3-6, 6-2, 10-8
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Wednesday, September 29
Southern California Is Sizzling
Southern California meteorologists are giddy.
Lately they've been able to do something they usually only fantasize about: talk about actual weather. For most of the year, everyday is the same here: a sunny, 68 degree day in July looks and feels exactly the same as a sunny, 68 degree day in January.
For the last few days, however, its been more like New England style weather -- cold then hot then humid. Temperatures reached a fiery 112 degrees in parts of San Diego just a few days ago.
Used to saying, "It'll be another sunny day here in Southern California," meteorologists have been using words they haven't used since their days in school -- barometric pressure, cloudy skies, drizzle, and humidity.
That's why instead of my original idea to post a recipe for autumn-friendly belly-warming boozy chili or comforting mac 'n cheese, I'm posting on a cool Spicy Avocado and Orange Smoothie. Made with creamy avocado, frozen banana, and nutty almond milk, this smoothie is packed with health-boosting potassium, omega-3 fatty acids, lean protein, and complex carbs. But I'd better drink them quick; it'll be sunny and 68 again in no time.
Spicy Avocado and Orange Smoothie
Makes 1 serving
Print recipe only here.
1/2 medium ripe avocado, squirted with lime juice
1/2 small frozen banana
2/3 cup orange juice, preferably freshly squeezed
1/2 cup almond milk (or milk product of your choice)
1 teaspoon honey
A pinch of cayenne pepper
1. Place all ingredients in a blender and puree until smooth. Add more orange juice of milk if you like it thinner.
Variations: Feel free to play around with ingredients. Instead of banana, try mango, fresh pineapple, ripe pear, or frozen raspberries. Like it sweeter? Skip the cayenne and add a little extra honey, or use agave nectar. Don't like orange juice? Replace it with apple or pomegranate juice or milk of your choice such as skim, soy, rice, or nut milk.
You might also like these recipes featuring avocados from Food Blogga:
Roasted Tomatillo Guacamole
Watercress, Avocado, and Orange Salad
Breakfast Egg Sandwich with Avocado and Chipotle-Mayo
You might also like these sweet avocado recipes:
Avocado Cake recipe from Accidental Hedonist
Banana Avocado Bread recipe from Tasty Kitchen
Avocado Coconut Milk Ice Cream from Peter via The Perfect Pantry
21 comments:
- The French said...
I've got everything but the almond milk, but somehow I'll pull this off. It's so hot!
- September 29, 2010 at 8:45 AM
- Jessica @ How Sweet said...
I love avocado in smoothies! In the winter I get some frozen avocado at Trader Joe's since I can't find it here.
And I can't believe how hot it is there!
- September 29, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- Satya said...
wow delicious smoothie ...looks healthy n filling too
- September 29, 2010 at 8:57 AM
- Roxan said...
Ooh thanks for this. I live in west LA and work downtown where we had that record high on monday, I could totally go for a refreshing cool drink.
- September 29, 2010 at 9:04 AM
Hi Susan,
you have a lovely site
absolutely love your smoothie with all bright flavors.
M a big fan of tropical drinks
- September 29, 2010 at 9:37 AM
- Erin said...
I have always wanted to try avocado in a shake or smoothie.
My next grocery cart will include almond milk and avocados. Thanks for the inspiration!
- September 29, 2010 at 9:49 AM
- Joanne said...
I will GLADLY trade you some of my northeast weather for some 68 and sunny. Anyday. As long as I get the smoothie too. That seems like a fair deal, yeah?
- September 29, 2010 at 10:13 AM
- Unknown said...
This looks so good, I live in San Marcos and it got be 105!
- September 29, 2010 at 11:35 AM
- Nisrine said...
I make avocado smoothie on a regular basis. I like this version with a kick. It must be delicious. I will try it:)
- September 29, 2010 at 1:04 PM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
I can feel the Califorbia breezes now.
- September 29, 2010 at 1:54 PM
- AllThingsYummy said...
Avocado in a smoothie? huh? Ok, I'll try anything once, and I just happen to have a few ripe avocados waiting for me.
- September 29, 2010 at 3:27 PM
- Maria said...
What a refreshing smoothie! I hope fall temperatures come soon!
- September 29, 2010 at 5:37 PM
Great smoothie recipe. I have to try to buy almond milk. Like the addition of the pepper.
- September 29, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- Debbie said...
Looks delicious and refreshing! We've also had insane weather here in Virginia. Record heat last week and now a ton of rain.....
- September 30, 2010 at 3:48 AM
- Johanna GGG said...
sounds like the weather we have in Melbourne - they say that if you don't like it here just wait 5 minutes and it will change - summer is coming and I am sure we will have need of such cooling drinks very soon
- September 30, 2010 at 5:29 AM
- LyB said...
Just the name of this smoothie has me craving one! I would not have thought to put avocado in a smoothie, but I can totally imagine it would be delicious.
- September 30, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Irvine said...
it look's delicious,i would like to have that avocado in smoothies! :)
- September 30, 2010 at 9:01 PM
- Serena said...
Oh, what a lovely smoothie. Avocados are the best! thanks for the yummy recipe.
- October 1, 2010 at 7:26 PM
- The Italian Dish said...
I cannot believe the weather you guys have been having!
- October 3, 2010 at 5:32 PM
- Justin said...
I had this smoothie for dinner the other night. It's delicious! I doubled all the ingredients and subbed oranges for the OJ. It was a feast in a cup.
- October 7, 2010 at 8:35 AM
- Hettar7 said...
hrm...... I'm normally not a healthy smoothie type of person, but this looks interesting enough I just might try it. Thanks for sharing.
- October 9, 2010 at 9:14 PM


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Well, it was supposed to happen on 1. April 2012, the change from CCBYSA 2.0 to odbl, however it took much longer than anticipated, but since Wednesday, the bots is throwing out data. Therefore todays map updates, will be the last one under CCBYSA 2.0. The bot is expected to take several weeks, so I will try to render those countries that failed (especially some continents) since some time if somehow possible.
Over the next two weeks therefore probably I won't make any changes. Once the bot has finished, and the license change is through, I will post the next map updates under odbl. I will however leave the CCBYSA 2.0 maps online for some more month parallel to the odbl maps. Depending on the country region, the old maps will continue being better. Especially for countries like Poland, Australia and New Zealand - due to the big amount of only CCBYSA 2.0 published data, it may take several month, if not years until the old quality is back.
Last week I spend several days on multithreading the map generation, as it took about 40 hours to render all maps. It goes a bit quicker on the server now, but I noticed that the main problem is disk bound, not CPU limited, but I cut down maybe 20% of map compilation time. Also I finally managed to change the way maps are uploaded, so there are no more broken/incomplete map updates - as maps are mirrored now.
For the next weeks I will try to put a few days work again in slimming down POI symbols, and attack the new routing algos Garmin introduced over the last months - which will be a tedious task to analyse and of course also continue to work on maps for oruxmaps.
Apart from Openmtbmap two more things happend. Google Maps published yesterday bicycle maps and routing for many European countries, I must say I'm not impressed at all however by the outcome. They should have bettered switched to OSM instead of focussing on google map maker and their own data which leads them nowhere.
On the other hand, and that is something which bugs me much more, the German state of Hessen is underway to take into effect the probabely strictest and most stupid anti-MTB law worldwide. Effectively they want to forbid mountainbiking on all ways, that cannot theoretically used by a 2WD car all year round. Meaning no more singletrails, not even anymore streets with bad surface. Yeehaa, those Germans politicians are completly nuts (well no surprise). Effectively this would mean, more than 75% of all ways and trails in Hessen would become illegal for biking, with fines up to 100.000€.
I would therefore ask everyone, if he hasn't done yet, to sign the Open Trails Petition in Hessen. Else maybe more German states, or other countries could get the idea to effectively forbid mountainbiking.


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2010 State Department Human Rights Report on Haiti – by Stephen Lendman
Haiti's human rights history is long and abusive, alleviated only during Jean-Bertrand Aristide's tenure. Besides achieving impressive social, economic and political gains, he respected and promoted justice and human rights initiatives.
For the first time ever, those arrested had formal hearings before a judge in two days. In 1995, a school for magistrates was opened. Courthouses and police stations were constructed and refurbished. Protecting children became paramount, including laws prohibiting all forms of corporal punishment.
A new law repealed child (mostly chattel) domestic service, and another one prohibited trafficking in persons. Haiti's hated military was disbanded. Ordinary Haitians experienced unprecedented free speech, assembly, and personal safety. A National Commission for Truth and Justice was created to investigate and report on crimes committed during the 1991 – 94 coup period. As a result, former soldiers and paramilitaries were tried, those found guilty convicted in fair proceedings.
Compared to pre and post-Aristide years, it was a renaissance period, erased after the February 29, 2004 coup, ousting the man 90% or more Haitians love, their only leader who cared since their 1791 – 1804 liberating revolution.
Last November, sham presidential and parliamentary elections prevented real democratic change. Stealth Duvalierist Michel ("Sweet Micky") Martelly, an anti-populist former Kompa singer, was named president in a March runoff against Mirlande Manigat, wife of former right-wing president, Leslie Manigat.
In both rounds, around 80% of Haitians abstained, knowing no candidate represented them. Orchestrated in Washington, the result both times was fraudulent, illegitimate, and predictable, assuring continuing repression and human rights abuses for another five years, even with Aristide home from exile.
Each year, the State Department publishes human rights reports for over 190 countries. Its complete Haiti one can be accessed through the following link:
It covers disturbing human rights violations, explained by category, despite attempts to downplay them.
Arbitrary or Unlawful Deprivation of Life
Haiti's National Police and UN Blue Helmet paramilitaries commit regular abuses, including random and extrajudicial killings with no accountability. Most often, investigations are shams. Vigilante incidents also occur in some areas, including beatings, shootings, and other abuses. Though dozens of instances were documented, "police made no arrests."
Current and former police officers participated in kidnappings, nearly double the 2009 total. Over 120 were reported, though true numbers were likely much higher.
"Gonaives Police Commissioner Ernst Dorfeuille Bouquet (was) arrested and charged (with) kidnapping and killing Monica Pierre" (in 2008). In 2010, he awaited trial. Other police officers are part of gangs responsible for multiple kidnappings.
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Numerous instances occur, notably in Haiti's notorious prisons. Moreover, UN Blue Helmets sexually exploit and abuse children, besides numerous other offenses, including killings and other forms of mistreatment.
Prison and Detention Center Conditions
"Prisoners (report) physical abuse by correctional officers," at times using lethal force to quell disturbances. Overall, prisons are severely overcrowded, poorly maintained, dangerous, unsanitary, damaged by Haiti's 2010 earthquake, staffed by repressive guards, and run by repressive officials.
Moreover, "(s)ome prisons (have) no beds for detainees; some cells (have) no access to sunlights. Many prison facilities (lack) basic services" for healthcare, water, electricity, and isolation for contagious inmates, putting them all at risk to disease and death.
Detainees also lack basic hygiene, proper food and enough of it, minimal healthcare, time of out cells for exercise and fresh air, or other basic services. "In some prisons….AIDS, malaria, and drug-resistant tuberculosis (are) serious problem(s)." In addition, Haiti's cholera epidemic gravely harmed inmates.
At year end 2010, Haiti's prison population in 17 facilities was triple their capacity. Moreover, pretrial detention in overcrowded conditions is a major unaddressed issue.
Many untried and convicted prisoners are incarcerated for months or years in temporary holding cells. In some cases, male and female prisoners are held together for lack of space, and children 16 or older are confined with adults. However, some as young as 10 are imprisoned, leaving them especially vulnerable to sexual and other abuses.
Overall, Haitian prison conditions are appalling by any standard, affording no safety or justice to those interned.
Arbitrary Arrest or Detention
Despite laws prohibiting arbitrary arrest and detention, as well as the Aristide era requirement to grant detainees a judicial hearing within 48 hours of arrest, "(o)fficials frequently (do) not comply (in) practice."
Role of the Police and Security Apparatus
UN Blue Helmets (MINUSTAH) and Haiti's police are responsible for law enforcement and maintaining order. However, both authorities commit numerous human and civil rights violations, as well as other criminal acts.
Arrest Procedures and Treatment While in Detention
Often, warrantless arrests are made on unspecified charges. Judicial hearings aren't provided. Pretrial detention is a serious problem, in some cases "up to five years – without being informed of charges against them."
Moreover, few Haitians can afford attorneys, and none are provided free. Overall, "discriminatory practices include arbitrary arrests, false accusation, (and) extortion attempts against (detainees) and their families."
At year end 2010, of the (reported) 5,331 persons in custody, only 1,722 were tried and sentenced. Of those awaiting trial, one-third have been incarcerated for a year of longer. Moreover, prison populations don't include many others held in police stations for prolonged periods with no hearings or filed charges.
Denial of Fair Public Trials
Although an independent judiciary is mandated, "in practice the executive and legislative branches exert significant influence on the judicial branch." In addition, judicial corruption is common. Longstanding problems include poorly trained judges, justices of the peace, and prosecutors, as well as failure to convene court sessions on schedule as required. In fact, the nation's entire criminal justice system affords little to ordinary Haitians.
Trial Procedures
"In practice, authorities widely ignore" constitutionally mandated fair trial provisions, including the right to counsel.
Political Prisoners and Detainees
Claiming "no reports of political prisoners or detainees" is patently false in a country notorious for holding many hundreds, including Aristide Fanmi Lavalas supporters.
Civil Judicial Procedures and Remedies
Legal redress for civil and human rights abuses is difficult to impossible for most Haitians even though numerous cases proliferate.
Freedom of Speech and Press
Though mandated by law, activists, human rights workers, independent journalists, and pro-democracy advocates face possible harassment, arrest, or assassination. It bears repeating, important gains achieved during Aristide's years were lost post-coup. Democracy eludes Haitians, because Washington's iron boot, allied with local oligarchs, denies them.
Internet Freedom
Though unrestricted, most Haitians can't afford access. In addition, poor infrastructure limits others.
Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association
Though mandated by law, only demonstrations by hard to get permits are allowed. Violators are routinely assaulted, arrested, or otherwise abused.
Freedom of Movement, Internally Displaced Persons, Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons
Those challenging government authorities face losing all their rights, including to life.
Internally Displace Persons
Haiti's January 2010 earthquake displaced 1.5 million or more. To date, little has been done to help them, those affected forced to mostly survive on their own, as well as cope with an ongoing cholera epidemic.
Protection of Refugees
Rarely is refugee status or asylum granted.
Respect for Political Rights: The Right of Citizens to Change Their Government
Understating Haiti's repressive governance, the State Department said Haitians aren't "always able….to change their government" freely. In fact, "November elections were marred by fraud, flawed voter registration lists, ballot stuffing, intimidation, and some violence at the polls."
Elections and Political Participation
Serious irregularities make Haiti's electoral process illegitimate, including by banning its most popular party by far – Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas.
Official Corruption and Government Transparency
"According to the World Bank's worldwide governance indicators, government corruption (is) a severe problem." In fact, it's "widespread in all branches and at all levels of government." However, few are held accountable.
Governmental Attitude Regarding International Nongovernmental Investigation of Alleged Violations of Human Rights
"The Chamber of Deputies and Senate (have) human rights committee(s)." However, neither published any reports or introduced relevant legislation.
Discrimination, Societal Abuses and Trafficking in Persons
No law prohibits discrimination with regard to race, gender, disability, language or social status. Moreover, trafficking in various forms is rampant, especially affecting women and children. Rape is also a major problem, notably in quake affected areas. Women are mostly unprotected, on their own, and extremely vulnerable.
Persons with Disabilities
Laws don't protect hundreds of thousands of physically, emotionally or mentally disabled persons. In fact, only 3% of disabled children have access to schools.
Other Societal Violence or Discrimination
Haiti's large HIV/AIDS population faces considerable discrimination, especially affecting women.
The Right of Association
Though nominally Haitians may form and join unions, mass privatizations dilute effective representation. According to some, Haiti is now a laboratory for neoliberal politics and the interests of multinational corporations, affording none to impoverished workers. Moreover, mass unemployment negates the right to organize and bargain collectively. As a result, employers set wages and establish working conditions arbitrarily.
Prohibition of Forced or Compulsory Labor
Though prohibited by law, violations are commonplace, including against children afforded no rights in practice. Moreover, under Haiti's century-old Restavek system, impoverished families unable to adequately provide for their children send them to live with better off ones in return for food, shelter, education, and a better life in return for forced servitude – de facto slaves subjected to verbal and/or physical abuse.
As a result, some as young as three are beaten, required to do anything asked, request nothing, speak only when spoken to, display no emotion, and receive none of the benefits parents expect, just exploitation and often severe mistreatment, including from relatives.
Afforded no government protection, they experience horrific treatment, including whippings, days without food, being attacked by rodents during sleep or street predators any time, and being easy prey for kidnappers who seize them for prostitution or forced labor, internally or abroad. Haiti's January 2010 earthquake exacerbated conditions.
Working Conditions
Haitians are the region's lowest paid, earning sub-poverty wages for those lucky enough to have jobs with no rights afforded them with regard to health, safety and other workplace conditions.
A Final Comment
Overall, the State Department's report reveals disturbing civil and human rights violations, despite understating them. As a result, ordinary Haitians are at risk in a nation spurning democracy because Washington and local oligarchs won't tolerate it.
At least for the next five years, expect no change under Martelly, America's selected stooge in Port-au-Prince.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at email@example.com. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.


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Confessions Of A Hedge Fund Analyst
New Internationalist 358 July 2003
Corporate crime / CASINO CAPITALISM
A year-and-a-half ago there was an opportunity to make money on the shares of a troubled energy company. Enron was being taken over by Dynegy and the bonds were trading cheap. I thought it sounded crazy – Enron was clearly bankrupt – but the hedge fund's two other analysts, healthy MBAs from the Midwest, liked to gamble. Returns were hard to come by in a saturated Mergers and Acquisitions market, so our boss, the portfolio manager, went for it too. The next day, the fund lost $800,000 when the bonds were sold in a panic.
'You can't score if you don't shoot,' and 'You've got to be in it to win it,' were repeated daily by three analysts, two traders from New Jersey, and our portfolio manager, the doppelgänger of Ariel Sharon. With thousands of funds chasing meagre returns, bets kept getting riskier. For 11 hours a day we searched for a windfall, staring at stacks of computer screens without blinking.
It wasn't the life I had planned. I graduated film school with enough debt to consider a field about which I knew nothing. While temping at a hedge fund, an unregulated investment pool with lofty fees and million-dollar investment minimums, I accepted a full-time position. Three years later I became a vice-president at a larger one with $400 million in assets. We were Risk Arbitrageurs, investing in mergers and take-overs. We tried to work ourselves into a position to earn the 'spread' in share value between the start and the completion of the deal. And deal closing was everything.
All news was bad news and would provoke a variety of over-reactions. Rumour of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation or antitrust (ie a government-ordered break-up of a monopoly) ruling would be yelled across the room. The analyst whose position was in flames would scramble to consult the boss before instructing the traders to buy or sell. The traders had their own ideas and like dogs could sense your fear or uncertainty. After eye-rolling they might execute your order by jamming their keyboard or bawling into a headset. In the face of a major disaster, the portfolio manager emerged from his office to pace and fret. 'Do we own any of this?' or 'What's the downside?' he would bark before mandating liquidation.
We sat in one big room and there were no secrets. They shared arguments with my mother; I overheard grumblings about immigrants and taxes. Once we had to summon a unionized technician to adjust the thermostat – evidence of the bloodsucking tendencies of the working class. 'Here go the liberals,' my boss often complained. There was lengthy discussion of weekend golf injuries and the acquisition of tickets to Broadway shows was very competitive.
I was accused, only partly in jest, of being a Communist. It was never clear if it was because I was born in Canada, my father was from India or I was a vegetarian. After 11 September 2001, a giant American flag was tacked above my desk. I spent nights distraught about wasting my life and was ashamed to tell people what I did for a living. But I took the money, free dinners at unaffordable Manhattan restaurants, box seats.
Eventually it became too painful, the decimation of Wall Street on 11 September, the politically virulent environment that followed and the market volatility. My disillusion was growing and I was relieved when they laid me off with a generous severance. After five years near the centre of capitalism, I'd learned a small lesson: that the correlation between making vast sums of money and satisfaction is a myth.
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Directors at Kwantlen Polytechnic University hoped to use funds intended for student bursaries and awards to pay the school's president $100,000 more than the salary he was allowed under provincial law, emails obtained by The Province show.
The idea was discussed by several members of KPU's board of governors — including Amrik Virk, who was vice-chair of the board before becoming B.C.'s minister of advanced education — according to a 2011 email by board chair Gordon Schoberg to the university secretary.
The idea appears to have been rejected after the president of the B.C. Association of Institutes and Universities (BCAIU) offered an opinion that using money from the Kwantlen Foundation to get around a salary cap would, if discovered, result in an "extremely negative reaction" from government.
On Thursday at the B.C. Legislature, Opposition MLAs tried to connect Virk to the KPU executive compensation scandal during Question Period, suggesting that as vice-chair he should have known what was happening. Virk responded by saying the matter is being investigated by the Public Sector Employers' Council (PSEC) Secretariat.
PSEC oversees compensation plans for executive employees at public institutions to ensure they fall under a government-mandated salary cap.
Advanced education critic David Eby tabled two emails Thursday in the Legislature that appear to show KPU executives discussing the practice of hiding wages above the cap by characterizing them as other expenses.
In one, KPU human resources manager Ellen Hill explains to an unknown recipient that she omitted references to former vice-president Anne Lavack's annual research allowance and administrative leave in her employment contract, because "her compensation level is such that it requires contract disclosure" to PSEC.
The email obtained by The Province is dated Nov. 8, 2011, when KPU was recruiting for a new president. In it, vice-president of finance Gordon Lee asked Ruth Wittenberg, president of the BCAIU, for an opinion on how the government might react to an idea for the "new president to be compensated up to the PSEC limit by the university and a supplementary amount ($100,000) by the Kwantlen Polytechnic University Foundation."
The foundation's priority, according to its website, is to support students with scholarships, bursaries and awards.
Wittenberg's negative response appeared to sink the idea. Board chair Schoberg asked the university secretary to forward Wittenberg's "sobering" opinion to "Amrik and Scott, since we spoke about this last Friday."
Earlier this month, Eby questioned Virk about $100,000 in "payments to senior (KPU) administrators by recording them in their financial reports as payments to suppliers of goods and services.
KPU's financial report for the year ending March 31, 2013, lists remuneration and expenses for new president Alan Davis totalling $161,773, but also includes a separate entry indicating he was paid $50,000 as a "supplier of goods and services."
KPU issued a statement on behalf of the university and its board of governors saying it "welcomes" the PSEC review and is "co-operating fully."
Asked for comment by The Province, Virk provided an emailed statement saying "government takes the matter of executive compensation very seriously ... The (PSEC) review is currently underway and is looking at the payments themselves, the public disclosure of those payments, and whether the compensation was consistent with government's compensation guidelines."
Eby said the review should be passed to the Auditor General.
"I think there are employees at Kwantlen who want to come forward ... but they're not going to be comfortable coming forward to a (PSEC) investigator who reports to Mr. Virk's colleague the minister of finance."


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(Windsor, Ontario, Canada) November 30, 2008 - With the recent creation of the Colosseum Theatre at Caesars Casino Windsor, the city has been revitalized with an onslaught of entertainers performing on its stage. From Billy Joel to Bill Cosby, residents have been rescued from crossing the international border to Detroit, Michigan to feed their theatrical and musical appetites. Not only providing world-class acts, gaming and nightlife, Caesars also gives back to its community. This year their donation of $34,000 divided equally between eight local food banks brought hope and the spirit of the season to those truly in need.
Stepping inside the beautiful Colosseum Sunday night was like entering the mind of a child only restricted by his/her own imagination. The evening featured the intriguing Blue Man Group; an act which stretches the boundaries of theatre, art and music while incorporating the wonder of science. It was both intellectually intriguing for adults and visually mesmerizing for youngsters. The extravagant grease-painted trio best recognized for their splattering of paint, primal drumming rhythms, vaudeville-style stage antics and multimedia images amazed all in attendance. They are truly a one-of-a-kind entertainment phenomenon. Worldwide, the act has been viewed by an estimated 12 million people with current productions running in New York, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Orlando, Berlin and Tokyo.
The performance is actually quite difficult to explain and in fact it is more of an 'experience' than a show. Miming their way through the entire evening the group portrayed a childlike innocence and often communicated to each other through inquisitive facial gestures. It was as if we were witness to a group of aliens' first visit to planet Earth and their curiosity regarding all of its wonders.
Reminiscent of the Marx Brothers style of comedy, laughter often preceded the occasional gasp from audience members as they recruited individuals to participate in the show. From turning them into human targets on the wrong end of a visit from a paint-filled water balloon via gigantic slingshot to using them as paint brushes as they were hurled in bodysuits upside down onto large canvases, the group was riveting. The latter, an obvious stage trick pre-recorded and shown on a screen to convince onlookers that the spectator was in fact taken backstage to create the latest Blue Man masterpiece.
The emphasis on colour and a well lit and designed stage show complete with background musicians, brought the visual appeal to another level. Giant drumheads covered with multicoloured paint released from bodysuits ignited into fireworks as it was propelled into the air through a well choreographed percussion ensemble. Also, the group's ability to pitch and catch gumball-sized paintballs to one another from incredible distances and later spit them out onto canvases to create art was enough to make the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey rethink their "Greatest Show on Earth".
From creating music through PVC tubes to gorging themselves with Captain Crunch cereal, the trio will no doubt continue to amaze crowds both young and old for years to come. This brand of entertainment is unique to any other and should be a catalyst in inspiring others to further stretch the boundaries of theatre and entertainment. In fact, the highest of accolades should be granted to those who are most willing to step outside the proverbial box. It is truly an art in itself to be slightly off centre, to imagine the unimaginable and create that which is yet to be created.


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The election is over, and yes, California has a new governor--well, actually a previous governor back for another turn.
Jerry Brown will return to the state's highest office but in a radically different political setting. Term limits, federal mandates, and tough requirements for raising taxes have created a political environment that makes it almost impossible for any governor to govern, yet that is what Brown must do.
Brown re-enters the office under conditions similar to those encountered by his predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger: fiscal crisis. To some, this almost sounds like the boy who cried wolf--surely we must have solved the revenue and spending problem
by now.
But we haven't. Current projections show California about $15 billion in the red for the new fiscal year, perhaps more. This after several years of draconian cutbacks.
At the center of it all is the state's "commitment" to K-12 public education, which consumes approximately 40 percent of the general fund, the greatest percentage of any policy area. That might seem like a lot, but with so many students, California has an abysmally low funding rate. Education Week, a leading periodical in the field, finds that when controlled for cost of living, California ranks 47th in per capita public education expenditures. That's $1,900 below the national average and more than $3,000 less than states like New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.
Our test scores reflect that disparity, hardly surprising given that California has the highest student-to-teacher ratio in the nation. To catch up with the leading states would require upwards of an additional $10 billion annually.
What can we do? This isn't rocket science, we have two choices. We can stay the course and continue to produce students who will be unable to compete with others in the nation and in the world, for that matter. Or we can generate new revenues either from existing tax sources (think tobacco and liquor for starters) or untaxed sources (think oil). We can also close massive loopholes.
All of these changes mean rocking California's political boat. Then again, we can do nothing and guarantee disaster for future generations in the name of fiscal frugality.
Congratulations on your election, Mr. Brown. You have a lot of work ahead with enormous stakes.


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Today would be the birthday of my maternal grandfather Frederick Sinclair. I loved him very much and still miss him terribly.
He loved to keep scrapbooks and had loads of them. It was always a delight when I was a child and older, poring through them. Grandpa would put anything and everything in them, there did not seem to be an order of topics. If he liked the look of it he would cut it out of where he saw it and stick it into his scrapbook. There were also news items, photographs, all sorts.
The photos of Grandpa that I show here have been on the blog before, but I have very few photos of him, so hope I am forgiven for showing this again. (It was used for the Carnival of Genealogy – Scrapbooking Your Family post).