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Cardiac cryoablation procedures are performed by threading electrode catheters – long, slender flexible wires – into the heart to map or locate the precise area of the heart that is causing the arrhythmia. Once an electrophysiologist – a cardiologist specializing in heart rhythm disorders – identifies the source of the arrhythmia, he destroys the abnormal heart tissue by freezing it off with nitrous oxide.
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Article 55 (2) of the Constitution states that "where the President ceases to hold office under article 110(3), the Vice President shall discharge the functions of the President until a person is elected under article 51 to the office of President"
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|Michel inauguration in 2004
(a) revoke the appointment of a Minister
(b) Invoke article 110 (Dissolution of Assembly by President)"
Then in Act 14 of 1996 there was a 4th Constitutional Amendment the relevant section is under PART IV (2) "On the resignation of the President- (which is what happened in 2004 when President Rene resigned)
(a) the person who becomes Vice President as a result of the operation of subsection (1) shall not assume the office of President under article 55 (1);
(b) the functions of the office of the President shall be discharged by the incumbent President until the election of the President but the incumbent President shall not have power to revoke the appointment of a Minister or invoke article 110"
And to make sure that there is no ambiguity in the interpretation of the above section a "note" to the amendment says "Act 14 of 1996 further provides that if the incumbent President resigns, the incumbent President shall continue to discharge the functions of President until the holding of the Presidential election but the incumbent President shall not be able to revoke the appointment of a Minister or invoke article 110: the Vice President above-referred does not assume the office of President as Vice President would ordinarily do under article 55(1)."
Unless a different interpretation can be attributed to a plain reading of the above sections what does all mean? Firstly the constitution expressly forbids the assumption of Presidential functions by "Pas baton" upon resignation there should be a Presidential Election.
Secondly and of greater importance is the fact that the first two years of Mr. Michel's "Presidency" was a constitutional nullity or put another way it was a "constitutional fraud" perpetrated on the people of Seychelles with the participation of the Head of the Judiciary at the time, Chief Justice Vivekanand Alleear, who administered the Presidential Oath, and the Oath of Allegiance during the swearing in ceremony.
Again I repeat unless there is a different interpretation to the above sections then it follows that all laws enacted and assented to, by Mr. Michel during those two years would be null and void or "no laws" at all. All treaties entered into will equally be a nullity as he was not legally and constitutionally a President.
I am attaching a document which I would like to be reproduced as part of my letter. To all those on facebook at "Lari Bazar" who wants to know why do I want to be President, "am I not the one releasing all those criminals and drug dealers"? I say this. I am a defence Attorney and the only person who can "release" or acquit a criminal or drug dealer is a judge. I will continue to defend criminals and drug dealers until there is one of those Constitutional amendments that Parti LePep is so famous for, that says that criminals and drug dealers do not have a right to be defended by a lawyer of their choice or on legal Aid. I also say this "What was the profession of Presidents Mancham and Albert before they became Presidents? As defence lawyers did they defend criminals or saints?
And if the people of Seychelles decide at the ballot box, to elect me as President they will see that in my hands I only have the tools of my profession. "a piece of paper and a pen". Based on the content of my letter and the attached document I would like to ask Mr. Michel whether what I have said together with the content of the attached document can be termed "corruption or the perception of corruption?"
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Neustar and Arbor Networks analyzed recent large-scale DDoS attacks and the implications that they have for DDoS protection solutions. In addition to looking at why some solutions work better than others, discussion points include:
- Challenges of maintaining business continuity
- Trends in DDoS attacks and the impact on businesses
- A technical look at the pros and cons of DDoS mitigation solutions: appliances, CDNs, firewalls, and cloud-based services
Video Transcript
|Steve Kovsky:
Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where in the world you happen to find yourself right now. Welcome to today's webcast "Preparing for Cyber Pearl Harbor: Recent Trends and Options to Mitigate DDoS Attacks." It's sponsored by Neustar and broadcast by Information Week, UBM Tech, and United Business Media, LLC. I'm Steve Kovsky and I'll be your moderator today.
We have just a few announcements before we start. Now you can participate in the Q&A session by asking questions and you can do so at any time during this webinar. Just type your question into the Ask a Question area and then click on the Submit button. And at this time, we do recommend that you disable any pop-up blockers that you have running in your environment. The slides will advance automatically throughout the event. You can also download a copy of the slides. Just click on the Information button which you'll find located at the bottom of your screen.
This webcast is being broadcast through a flex console and this means that you have more control over your view and over the webcast tools. So you can resize the presentation window by dragging the windows from the corners. You'll notice buttons at the bottom of your screen. You can feel free to click on any of these to open the supporting content and user tools and those will come up in different panels. And if you need any technical assistance, just submit a question and you can open the Q&A panel to see any written responses back to you. Finally, we value your feedback and we use this to ensure that our webinars improve to meet your needs, so please at some point click on the Feedback form in the Information button.
Now onto today's presentation, "Preparing for Cyber Pearl Harbor: Recent Trends and Options to Mitigate Attacks." Discussing today's topic, we have with us Miguel Ramos, who is the DDoS expert and product manager for Site Protect. Good morning, Miguel.
|Miguel Ramos:
Good morning, Steve.
|Steve Kovsky:
Good to have you with us. Also joining us is Gary Sockrider, who is a solutions architect at Arbor Networks.
Good morning, Gary.
|Gary Sockrider:
Good morning, Steve. Thank you.
|Steve Kovsky:
And finally joining us today, Jim Pasquale, who is security operations manager at Neustar. Good morning, Jim.
|Jim Pasquale:
Good day, all.
|Steve Kovsky:
And with that, I'm going to hand things over to you to get things started, Miguel.
|Miguel Ramos:
Thank you, Steve, and thank you for joining us, everyone. It's great to be able to be here and be able to share what we're seeing out there with you. We're going to speak about the state of the market when it comes to DDoS attacks, where we are today, the increase in complexity, the attacks on the financial industry, and what protections people have in place. After that, we're going to shift focus a little bit and talk about what options are available for DDoS mitigation, such as the different types of gear that are being used for mitigation, ISPs, CDN services, and client-based DDoS mitigation services. Then we'll wrap up and summarize and take some questions from you.
Let's talk about the state of the market for a little while here. As you may have heard in the news, DDoS attacks have been increasing. Those are driven by two factors, the first being more reasons for attacking. We're now seeing geopolitical attacks, online protests where groups of people have specific issues with particular companies, for example, and extortion attempts. The geopolitical and protest aspects of DDoS make the news a lot, but extortion is a significant factor in DDoS and it doesn't get reported much. This is because organizations don't really want to admit that they've been affected. Couple the increase in scope of attack motivations with an increase in availability of botnets you can write them very easily these days or control with one click and you can see how DDoS has become an extremely serious issue.
These two things have led to increased volume. We've seen DDoS attacks grow from the 10-gigabit range to the 100-gigabit range in the last five years. We have seen more complex application-based attack vectors targeting both websites, DNS, and even mail servers, and we've seen an increase in the frequency of these attacks.
You may have seen mentions of attacks on the financial industry in the news recently. These attacks caused significant issues for the effected parties. They were actually downright scary. The perpetrators were smart enough to exploit vulnerabilities in widely deployed open-source software on computers connected to enterprise networks with big Internet pipes to amplify the size of the attacks. There were major real world implications during these attacks. You probably actually know someone that wasn't able to get to their online banking that day, so significant impacts.
These attacks were reported to be in response to an anti-Muslim video, so in protest.
The banks that were going to be affected were actually announced ahead of time and there was really an unprecedented level of industry cooperation, which was really great to see. But even with the advanced notice, the damages were not actually fully mitigated.
As I mentioned earlier, computers with big Internet connections were compromised and used. The attacks were able to take advantage of the fact that enterprises are not necessarily diligent when it comes to updating to the latest versions of Chapee, WordPress, Juma, with the latest security patches and that leaves them open. Sometimes it's hard for organizations to schedule software upgrades because the application needs to be fully regression tested, et cetera, so they're kind of left out there to be vulnerable.
Having this arsenal of compromised hosts with big pipes, the attackers were able to also switch up attack vectors, so we saw get and post application-level attacks on both HTTP and secure HTTPS traffic. We saw DNS query application layer attacks. We saw UDP plugs. We saw SIM plugs, et cetera, all with extremely high packet-per-second rates. It truly was multi-vector DDoS at an entirely new level. It was just amazing.
At this point, it's really not a matter of if you're going to be attacked by when. Adding to what I said earlier, there's even software out there that you can download to launch a DDoS from your cable modem with one click and you can easily get a few people together and you can cause some damage. People are using social media like Twitter, Facebook, et cetera, to organize.
Here are some examples of one-click tools that people are using. The Low Orbit Ion Cannon, which is a popular one, Silent DDoSer, twBooter. There's tutorials you can Google on how to better hide your IP address, et cetera, that's really leaving DDoS capacity at the tip of your hands, but obviously please don't try this at home, folks.
People are actually advertising their DDoS abilities on forums and asking to be hired. It's really crazy. They're even running advertising videos on YouTube. You can actually search for Gwapo's Professional DDoS Service on YouTube to view the wonderful advertisement on this slide and definitely feel free to do that.
So are we headed for a cyber Pearl Harbor? Leon Panetta referred to the bank attacks as a foreshadowing of the cyber Pearl Harbor. It's a brand new world out there, folks. These attacks have entered a dangerous new phase of size and sophistication. It really doesn't actually matter who did it. What matters is that it was done. What matters really is that people know it can be done and that other people out there have a blueprint for how to do it which is downright scary.
In August 2012, we worked with UBN Tech on a survey that explored the state of DDoS protection to gauge how organizations were protecting themselves against the threat. The data collected from 124 business technology professionals who work at companies that have been a target of a DDoS attack forms the basis of this report. Survey respondents worked in a variety of industries in companies of all sizes. More than 60 percent of respondents were IT management staff and 20 percent had senior level IT executive or corporate management titles. A significant number of organizations reported customer service issues, 69 percent. Damage to brand equity, revenue losses, and decreased customer experience were also significant factors. Two-thirds experienced bandwidth flood attacks, 41 percent experienced request floods, and 27 percent saw application level attacks. According to the survey, 54 percent of the attacks targeted the company website and revenue losses between $50,000.00 and $100,000.00 were reported.
So clearly, this problem affects a lot of people, yet a significant number of organizations are actually not adequately prepared. So we asked IT staff and management what protection they had in place to handle these attacks. 52 percent of the respondents actually told us they had a firewall in place. 15 percent said they relied on their CDN. 15 percent said that they relied on their hoster. 11 percent had a special DDoS mitigation appliance and 7 percent said they had a cloud-based service and 17 percent unfortunately said that they had no protection in place at all.
The survey also focused on the types of protection used and the results from each type of protection. Of the companies that reported they were using firewalls for DDoS protection, 63 percent of them said that they actually became a bottleneck during the attack. 16 percent told us that they were not able to detect an application-layer attack, so people thought that their firewalls would protect them but overwhelmingly, the firewalls actually failed to do what they were expected to do.
DDoS appliances, we actually saw that just under half of the respondents with DDoS mitigation appliance were able to deal with the attack. More than half had issues with the mitigation but not because of the effectiveness of the appliance. These appliances are very good. It's rather potentially a lack of training. With increased training, these DDoS appliances can help organizations effectively deal with a lot of attacks.
Of the 15 percent of companies that reported using a content distribution network, 58 percent of them actually experienced downtime due to application-level attacks. So these attacks are dynamic in nature and are designed to bypass CDN caching and go right to the origin server, and of the 15 percent of the organizations that reported using ISPs, 30 percent of them reported that they were limited to a gigabit-per-second protection, which is a big issue now because attacks are in the 10-gigabit or 100-gigabit plus range.
So I just wanted to share some snippets of the survey with you to sort of outline how organizations are not properly prepared and we'll be sending you an e-mail with a link to the full survey and report after this event. But for now, we've asked Jerry Sockrider from Arbor Networks to take us through the effectiveness of DDoS mitigation hardware and Jim Pasquale will follow up and talk about how cloud-based solutions can help mitigate the threat.
|Gary Sockrider:
Thanks, Miguel. So quickly I just wanted to provide an overview of Arbor Networks for those you who may not be familiar with us. We provide DDoS mitigation appliances to over 90 percent of the world Tier 1 service providers. We operate in over 107 countries. We have a view of over 37 terabits per second of Internet traffic, which we use proactively to analyze the threat landscape and of course to improve our products and help our customers. And then last couple of bullet points, we are the No. 1 provider in all of our market segments for carrier, enterprise, and mobile DDoS protection. We've been in business for 12 years and we have backing by a large company, Danaher Corporation.
So let's talk a little bit about traditional security hardware. As Miguel mentioned before, what we've seen as a trend over the last several years are that the current DDoS attacks are specifically designed to thwart the general _____ that these IPS and firewall and ACL and the typical types of security mechanisms that people have been using. They do this in a couple of different ways, using very large distributed botnets with tens of thousands of hosts perpetrating the attack. They're also employing low and slow application-layer attacks, which are not high volume, not high bandwidth, and they're essentially designed to sneak under the radar. And then they're combining those two for obfuscation. So we're seeing that combination. An analogy I like to use is that if someone's pounding on your door with a sledgehammer, while you're busy trying to defend that door and barricade it, someone else is slipping in the window at the back of the house, and that's these low and slow application-layer attacks.
So let's talk specifically more about why firewalls and IPS are not capable of defending against these DDoS. Now they are a very important part of your security strategy. They're designed for different purposes, however. So let's look at some of the reasons they are unable to defend against these DDoS attacks.
First of all, they're really designed to allow many of these protocols through. A firewall has to pass things like HTTP and DNS so that the end users can get to the applications, and of course attackers are leveraging these very same protocols for their attacks because they understand that they're going to be able to penetrate firewalls and IPS with these protocols.
Secondly, inline devices maintain state information and that's why we see attacks using methodologies like TCP SYN floods which are specifically designed to exhaust the state tables with these devices and compromise them.
Third, signature-based detection. So signatures that are not designed to match a specific threat are not gonna be able to stop it and really the idea behind IPS signatures is to protect the integrity of the devices. They're not necessarily looking for the application malformed packets, those kinds of things that are used in these types of attacks. They're really more focused on the server and not on the application track.
And then lastly, the detection of distributed attacks. These massively distributed attacks makes even correlation difficult in these types of devices.
So for these reasons and others, these devices really are actually targets of the DDoS attacks themselves.
All right, so let's talk about how to protect against DDoS. First, I'm gonna go through the six phases of security practice. These should be familiar in some form to most of you. They do bear repeating. It's something that we need to keep constantly vigil about.
So first of all and most important is preparation. As Miguel mentioned earlier, we've heard from customers that have deployed effective tools, however perhaps their team hadn't been practicing enough, wasn't well prepared enough in order to be able to adequately defend and react rapidly. So preparation is always key.
Next, identification. If you can't see an attack then you can't defend against it, so you have to make sure you have visibility.
Third is classification. You need to understand the nature of the attack in order to know how to react to it.
Then of course trace back, knowing where it's coming from, what parts of your network are affected.
Course reaction. That's the mitigation. That's putting a stop to the attack and understanding how to deal with it.
And of course the post mortem, which is how effective were we? What could we do different? How could we do better in the future? Of course, this is all a continuing process. We have to continue to be vigilant.
A few industry current best practices. Again, these should be some familiar data points but they bear repeating. The real lesson here is that you have to combine a defense in-depth or a layered approach in order to be fully effective. All of these things are important in order to be successful and beat off mitigation. There's really no single silver bullet. We know that we can deploy these practices and we know that they can be deployed in a number of places. They can be deployed in the network. They can be deployed in the cloud. They can be deployed on premise. And really the best advice is to make sure you're deploying all of the best practices at every layer wherever possible.
So how do we do intelligent DDoS mitigation? This is basically how does the technology of mitigating these attacks work? So what you're seeing on the right-hand column are a list of countermeasures. These are just samples. This is not a complete list by any means. Examples of specific countermeasures that stop specific types of attack behaviors, so this is behavioral-based identification of attacks and then these countermeasures can be layered as you can see in the graphic at the bottom on the left. We're layering different countermeasures to stop different types of bad traffic so that we can allow the good traffic to get through.
The real point here is this is about availability. One of the problems that we see with traditional security when it comes to these DDoS attacks is that they have a very defensive posture. In other words, they're all about keeping bad stuff out but with DDoS mitigation, it's really more about acceptability. It's making sure that the applications stay up, that they're accessible. So it's sort of a different approach. You want to fail open in the case of a DDoS attack whereas a firewall would want to fail closed, and that's why when those stake tables get overwhelmed and the device fails closed, well, you've just completed a DDoS attack. So it's a different approach, different technology. They are very complimentary and should always be used together.
Quickly, I just want to talk about our solutions and how we deploy those. So we have two different methodologies. One is network-based DDoS mitigation. The other is premise-based or appliance-based DDoS mitigation. So in the network, what we would do is deploy these devices, have a broad view of the network, have the ability to stop attacks before they reach their intended target, so stopping them in the cloud before they reach their destination. And then secondly, we have the ability to do inline, on prem appliances which can also stop attacks and they can have potentially a better view of the traffic closest to the target devices. They can also signal back to the network-based mitigation devices. So we have the ability to have more detailed information back to the service provider as well as to have a fail over if the premise-based device is overwhelmed so that mitigation can be pushed up and completed in the cloud.
So that's it for me and now I'll hand it over to Jim.
|Jim Pasquale:
Thank you. Good day, all. What I'd like to spend a few minutes on is talking about a DDoS attack has taken your website down. Obviously the financial distress on your business is great as well as brand reputation damage. You do have options to mitigate these attacks today. What I want to do is talk about the three options that exist today and then spend a couple of slides taking you through our cloud-based solution.
So from a teleco perspective or from a carrier ISP perspective, you have the option of simply adding it on to your current system or service. This will give you limited DDoS attack expertise. This is not a core competency for your carrier or for your ISP so they have limited staff that can handle DDoS attacks. This is also available just for network-based attacks. They will not handle the sophisticated attacks such as application layer, something to keep in mind, as well as if you have more than one ISP or more than one carrier, you'll need to get filters implemented across all of those and that can take time. This is really a best effort approach for dealing with those attacks.
Similar on the CDN side or your content delivery network side. There's benefits, but they're extensive, the overages you pay by using a CDN when you suffer a DDoS attack are significant, so significant financial investment needed on the CDN.
And then finally, there's a cloud-based service which requires no investment upfront. You can get the skills that you need by leveraging cloud-based dedicated service around DDoS detection or mitigation. This will direct the dirty traffic to a scrubbing center and I'll get into that, what that means, in a minute but really scrubbing the dirty traffic and keeping your website up by delivering clean traffic back to your customers.
Next slide, please. The target of these attacks, as we've talked about, are varied, but it starts with attacking a specific web application or DNS service. When that gets mitigated, the attacker moves on. What we've seen recently and what Miguel had alluded to is some very complex attacks that are volumetric in nature, not just trying to fill the circuit or fill the pipe but also going after the gear that's in back of the circuit, whether that's a firewall, an IPS, or maybe it's an Arbor network appliance. But all of those attacks are plentiful these days.
Now the approach there is just enough is good enough. They'll keep going back and forth across packets per second and across gigabits of traffic, mixing in some application-layer web DNS attack until they reach the desired result, which is a down website and an impacted service for you.
Next slide, please. I want to highlight our solution, the Neustar SiteProtect product, which is an on-demand, cloud-based, DDoS mitigation service that scrubs the website traffic and returns to your customers clean, legitimate traffic. So as the picture shows you, on the left side of the picture you'll see malicious traffic coming towards your web server on the right side and in the middle there is a SiteProtect scrubbing center and we will cleanse the traffic, putting the bad aside and funneling to your websites clean, good, legitimate queries and traffic for your customers.
Next slide. What we do with SiteProtect is we can deploy it in two different architectures today. The first one speaks to a proxy DNS proxy service, and as you walk through this slide going through our ultra DNS cloud and into the DNS resolution of a query would be redirected through the Neustar SiteProtect cloud in this case where your website might be under attack. The good traffic is passed to the web server and responses back to customers around the world. The bad traffic is offloaded into the bit bucket. And I say that but that means that there's a 24 by 7 staff expert sock that's in the cloud as well looking at that traffic as the attack is happening, making recommendations, putting in mitigations and counter measures and assessing that traffic in real time, a big benefit of the cloud-based approach.
The next slide talks about another paradigm we can bring together for customers and this is a DNS redirect using CDNs and you'll see the CDN cloud is inserted into the same workflow that I just took you through. Your DNS requests go through the ultra DNS cloud destined for the consumer webs content, is redirected through the Neustar SiteProtect cloud where malicious traffic is discarded. Good traffic is passed on to your CDN to your web server. It's hosted in the CDN and the good return traffic goes back to your customers keeping the service up.
That's a quick look at our SiteProtect offering. I'm going to turn it back to Miguel now to bring us home.
|Miguel Ramos:
Thank you, Jim. Appreciate that. Hopefully what we've spoken about today has given you a little food for thought, so to speak. The size and scope of the problem has increased and attackers are getting smarter and smarter. We talked to you a little bit about some of our survey results and they really showed that organizations think they have a strategy in place but that the strategy actually is not as successful as what was hoped when they put it in practice. As you plan out your business continuity strategy and examine how to mitigate the risk, purpose built applications for DDoS mitigation offer, along with a cloud-based approach, offer the best protection. So a combination of on-premise hardware and leveraging cloud-based DDoS solutions or infrastructure as a service, if you will, adding cloud capacity and specific expertise when you need it, make a lot of sense.
But remember, it's really key for you to be prepared. It's very key for you to be proactive and it is also very important to review and update your plans regularly.
So with that, I'd like to take some questions from people.
|Steve Kovsky:
Okay, fantastic. Thank you, Miguel. Thank you to all of our presenters. Now before we start with the Q&A, please fill out the feedback form that you'll find located in the panel on your console and I want to thank you in advance for filling that out. Your participation in the survey allows us to better serve you in the future.
Now onto the question and answer portion of the event. As a reminder, to participate in the Q&A, just type your question into the text box and click the Submit button and we will address as many questions as we can in the time that we have remaining. Now a couple of questions have come in already for several of our presenters and the first one up, I believe this is from I'm sorry, my screen is switching around Susan in the audience and the question is directed at Gary. Why is prem or premises-based device necessary when DDoS attacks happen at the ISP level? Arbor has a cloud-based solution but why would a customer prem-based box also be required?
|Gary Sockrider:
Sure, I'm happy to answer that. So a couple of different reasons. First of all, having a device on prem allows for you to have visibility into your own network and to see it as close to the applications that are under attack as possible. Secondly, having that view can facilitate a quicker response, quicker notification, quicker realization there's a problem. And then third, it's going to make it easier to get the telemetry you need to more effectively defend against application layer attacks. So it is complimentary with a network-based solution but it will provide an overall enhanced level of mitigation capacity and improved reaction time.
|Steve Kovsky:
Okay. I think that's very helpful for Susan.
Now a question came in for Miguel. Is this really an arms race? Can an organization win in this kind of a scenario we find ourselves in?
|Miguel Ramos:
That's a really good question. The answer to that I would say yes on both questions. It is an arms race but an organization can actually win. I think the key here is to know and recognize and understand your limits and mitigate the risk with additional protection where necessary. So what I'm speaking about here is, yes, attacks get larger and larger as an example and yes, it doesn't necessarily make sense for an organization to keep buying bandwidth to be able to take in even the largest of attack traffic and mitigate it in house. The key is going to be to ensure that you've got that on-premise solution to deal with it up to the capacity that is available with your bandwidth.
It doesn't really make sense to over provision bandwidth and have hundreds of gigabits of capacity just to use when there is an attack. It's not economically feasible.
So if you look at combining your perimeter devices and mitigation capacity with the additional cloud-based fail over, you can really use the additional capacity on a non-demand basis when you need it. It is an arms race but at the same time, you don't necessarily need to be focused on winning it. There are services that you can use for that additional protection to deal with the problem when it gets very large.
|Steve Kovsky:
Okay, very good. A question has come in for Gary. This is from Vernon in the audience. Do you think that the attacks are more facilitated by individuals or governments?
|Gary Sockrider:
That's an interesting question and there has been a lot of speculation on that.
What I can tell you is we don't have any solid evidence at this point to easily differentiate those and let me explain what I mean by that. When you hear comments, for instance, I think there has been a U.S. politician saying that attacks are coming from Iran. Well, it's accurate to say that attacks came from Iran because some of the compromised servers were hosted in a web hosting facility in Iran. But does that mean that the government of Iran was behind the attacks or does that mean that individuals or organizations within Iran were behind the attacks? Well, the answer is not necessarily because a server that's compromised could be compromised from anywhere.
From our perspective, we don't actually put too much effort into attribution, in other words, who's behind the attacks. We hand that off to law enforcement. We do see a lot of clues and indicators that tell us various things. We see attacks come from lots of different sources. We see different attack tools being used. We know for instance in these latest financial attacks, they were custom built attack tools just for the attacks. But in order to say whether it's more from individuals or governments, it's not something that I can speak well to today. What I can tell you thought is that the attacks are escalating. They're getting more sophisticated and they're getting more frequent.
|Steve Kovsky:
A quick follow-up question. Are there some best practices that you recommend for people to help facilitate law enforcement to do their job, for them to do the forensics and go after the perpetrators?
|Gary Sockrider:
Well, certainly we encourage cooperation with law enforcement when these events happen and of course we do the same. Providing as much information as you can to law enforcement, providing upon request and again, depending on the sensitivity and the nature of the data, but providing logs, providing post mortem, doing debriefs. These can all be very helpful for law enforcement.
|Steve Kovsky:
Okay, very good. A question's come in for Jim. Is it realistic or important to have offensive capabilities as well as defensive strategy?
|Jim Pasquale:
Yes. I think it's important to have both and I think there needs to be a program in place to look at the tactical alerts that are coming into your enterprise every day and the real threat that they pose, but also be looking at the landscape of these new attacks and looking at ways to prepare before you get hit by those attacks, so it's important. We talked about planning and we talked about being proactive. There's certainly a big piece to anyone's program that has to be part of that, but also the reactive piece is never going to go away. The attacks continue to change. But your best defense in a lot of ways, is a good offense.
|Steve Kovsky:
Okay, excellent. A question for Miguel. How is DDoS mitigation actually performed?
|Miguel Ramos:
That's a good question and I'd like to say that it's a combination of art and science. So the science aspect of it is having the right infrastructure in place to help detect DDoS attacks or at least a significant slice of the attack vectors that are out there. There's those out there that build great gear like Arbor Networks to help in this. The art aspect of it is in some cases, especially with the application-level attacks that can potentially be custom designed for the attacked infrastructure or against the attacked infrastructure, what you really need beyond the hardware is operations staff that knows how to deal with these attack vectors.
So it's a key to really have the capability of the people that have been in the trenches for a while, have seen DDoS attacks, have lived and breathed DDoS attacks and DDoS mitigation and know what to do when they see a very complex application-level DDoS attack. So it's a combination of having the right infrastructure and having the right team and obviously the infrastructure and then the cloud-based _____ where you have the additional capacity from a vendor who specializes in DDoS mitigation is very important.
|Steve Kovsky:
Okay, Miguel, thank you. A question has come in for Jim. How would a cloud-based DDoS mitigator handle an SSL Layer 7 DDoS attack?
|Jim Pasquale:
Yeah, as Miguel said there's a lot of art and trained eye to the work of looking at the payload that's coming across the wire and making that determination of what is the malicious piece to this. Because at the end of the day, you want to do as surgical a job as you can by stripping off the bad and preserving the good traffic. So while we do have some purpose built technology that helps with some of the heavy lifting, it does require the trained eye to look and find those needles in a haystack and to find an application-layer attack and to very surgically mitigate it. It's really the art of security, as we say.
|Steve Kovsky:
Okay. Very good. Another question and I think this might be a good question for Miguel. Do Neustar and other mitigation vendors use the same ISPs globally or how do they alleviate carrier saturation?
|Miguel Ramos:
Sure, that's a good question. With a DDoS mitigation cloud, you want to make sure that your provider has diversity in its carriers, so you want to make sure that their attack capacity, so their available bandwidth to handle even the largest attack, is spread out across multiple providers so that the traffic can come in through multiple doors and not just potentially through one door. You definitely don't want to be in situations where you saturate carriers. Typically, the DDoS mitigation provider has very extensive partnerships and deep partnerships with their upstream carriers to be able to plan in advance and ensure that saturation does not happen.
But absolutely, diversity in carriers is very important and ensuring that you have high level relationships with carriers is very important and your DDoS mitigation should have both of those things.
|Steve Kovsky:
Okay, excellent. Reminder to the audience, if you have a question, get it in now. We'll get to as many as we can during the course of this live webcast. If for any reason we can't get to your question during the webcast, you can rest assured that somebody is going to follow up with you and make sure you get the answers that you need.
Now another question has come in. If making a DNS change takes 24 hours, wouldn't it be too late to turn on a cloud-based DDoS mitigation solution, and secondarily, is traditionally free DNS a security vulnerability as well? And Miguel, maybe you could address that.
|Miguel Ramos:
I can. So DNS changes are one way to redirect the traffic through a cloud-based DDoS provider. So without getting too technical, there's a thing called time to live and you can or the customer in question should hopefully for their critical pieces of infrastructure have their DNS TTL set extremely low, hopefully under five minutes. And the idea there is that if your time to lives are low, if you make a DNS change to an alternate IP or an alternate provider, that change will spread across the Internet quite quickly. So you want to make sure that as an organization, it is probably good for you to proactively ensure that your DNS time to lives are set low for crucial pieces of infrastructure that you don't want to tolerate a lot of downtime on. So that's one thing.
The second part of that question which is is DNS a security vulnerability as well, I'll say that we've certainly seen an increase in attacks at the DNS level and it is an oft forgotten piece of the infrastructure pie for a lot of organizations. It's something that they tend not to think about. But these days, if your web infrastructure is being attacked, the attackers might switch and try to attack your authoritative DNS. These are things that are happening. DNS attacks are on the rise.
Beyond that, you want to make sure that your DNS infrastructure is a part of your business continuity plan. If your DNS is down, you're down professionally, so it's something you want to give some thought to, definitely.
|Steve Kovsky:
Okay, very good. Well, what I'd like to do is start kind of wrapping up here and if I could ask each of our presenters to give us the one or two take-aways, the one or two points that you really would like the audience to take home with you. I'm gonna go back in sort of reverse order and start with Jim Pasquale. And Jim, as you look at the message from today's webcast, what would you really like to drive home and make sure that the audience walks away with an understanding of today?
|Jim Pasquale:
Sure, thanks. I would make sure everyone understands these attacks are growing. They're growing in sophistication and complexity. You can no longer ignore the risks to your business. You need a solution, hopefully a cloud-based solution like SiteProtect.
|Steve Kovsky:
Okay, very good. Short and sweet. I like that. Gary Sockrider, what would you like to make sure the audience takes home with them today?
|Gary Sockrider:
I'd just like to reinforce the message that this really requires vigilance. It requires sense and depth. It requires a well-prepared response team and this is not something that we can just flip a switch or throw in a single piece of equipment and think that we have this problem solved. It's ever evolving and changing and we need to be constantly vigilant.
|Steve Kovsky:
Okay, thanks very much, Gary. And Miguel, if you would, kind of bring it home for us. What would you like to have as our parting words on today's webcast?
|Miguel Ramos:
Thank you, Steve. I'd like to piggyback on some of the things that both Jim and Gary said and say to our audience be prepared. Take a look at your plan. If you don't have a plan currently, take a look at building a plan. If you have a plan now, take a look at it and review it and see if there are any gaps. See if there are things that you're missing. See if potentially you're relying on things like firewalls, et cetera, where you might think that you've actually got a level of protection that you may not necessarily have.
So review your plans. If you don't have them, make a plan and be proactive and be prepared. I think those are the key take-aways for me.
|Steve Kovsky:
Okay, obviously a growing problem when we have our Secretary of Defense giving us a warning that we could be looking at a cyber Pearl Harbor situation, something to take very, very seriously and something that should be top of mind as we transition into the new year.
I would like to thank our audience today. I would also like to thank our guests. Now if you would like more information related to today's webcast, please visit any of the resource links that can be opened by clicking on the Information icon at the bottom of your screen. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a personalized follow-up e-mail with details and a link to today's presentation on demand.
With that, I'd like to thank you for attending today's presentation, "Preparing for Cyber Pearl Harbor: Recent Trends and Options to Mitigate DDoS Attacks." It was brought to your by Neustar and broadcast by Information Week. This webcast is copyright 2012 by United Business Media, LLC. The presentation materials are owned by or copyrighted, if that's the case, by Information Week, UBM Tech, and United Business Media LLC., Neustar, also, who are all responsible for their content and the individual speakers who are responsible for their content and their opinions.
On behalf of our guests today, Miguel Ramos, Gary Sockrider, and Jim Pasquale, I'm Steve Kovsky. Thanks for your time and have a great day.
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The Journey Continues: Letters Home from Philosophy Studies, 1965 – 67 – Part 11
As indicated in the previous letters, the philosopher is beginning to tire of 'studies'. But there is excitement for the completion of the new swimming pool and the joy of the visit of Father Farrell, someone from home. His 24th birthday slips by and Easter, and he is beginning to look forward to graduation, and to the priesthood with minor orders impending!
Mount Saint Michael
Spokane, Washington 99207
March 7, 1967
Dear Mum and Dad,
Thanks very much for the letter. As usual my letter is late in getting off. Right now I just got through a term paper and was too tired to plough through any more of Kant (a 19th Century Philosopher), so I thought it a good time to write a letter.
It's too bad you are having such terrible weather. Right now the skies [in Spokane] are sunny and they have been that way for the past two weeks. It is really funny how we almost lost the sun over the winter, and with the middle of Feb., the skies cleared and the world is bright and cheery.
I hope your weather improves for Easter. Last night I noticed that the tulips are already 2 inches out the ground down at Gonzaga. They will probably be blooming by Easter.
You will have to send me a picture of Matt in his new shirt. It was sort of a surprise to realize the Matt isn't such a little brother really. . . . I mean he'll be 14 in May. I remember when I was 14. I certainly didn't consider myself young then. But now I have to or I'd have to consider myself on my last leg.
Did I tell you about that rock crushing plant they were going to set up on the hill opposite to our graveyard? We fought to keep it from going up with any reasonable legal method we could, but we weren't successful. They were just going to go ahead with the project.
Well, they brought up their cats and trucks to the hill and began to dig and bore holes into the rock to find out how thick the rock really was. To their surprise and our joy, they found out there was only a cap of rock on the top of a hill of clay.
Since this would not be enough to make the project pay off, they abandoned it. They joked about it in the paper saying they wondered how much rock there would have been on that hill three months ago before the Fathers on the mount began praying.
The plasterers were a little late in coming so the finishing of the [swimming] pool has been delayed a little. We're hoping to be in in about 6 weeks.
Thanks very much for the recipe for cheese perogys. I'm going to have to try to make them myself out at the villa at Easter time. Making a little batch doesn't look too hard. (I supposed that's always what an amateur cook says when he looks at a recipe.)
There was something I was going to tell you but can't remember right now. I'll tell you first of the St. Patrick's deal and maybe it will come [back to mind]. We got together a choir to sing a couple songs at the St. Pat's Show at G.U. on the 16th.
The first song is a song called "Maria" (with a long I) it is a sort of western song. The other one is "The night She Cried in my Beer", a Barber shop quartet type of song with funny words. The "Woof 'n Warps" are going to do a couple songs also. We haven't got them down to perfection yet, but considering we only started learning them a few days ago, they're not bad.
I did remember. You remember Father Farrell who was rector at Campion when I was in Grade 11, and rector at Guelph while I was there. His is now mission director for our Province [of the Society of Jesus in English speaking Canada].
During the past half year he visited our missions in India and Canada and is now travelling to all the houses where Canadian Jesuits are staying to tell them about the missions. He was here this past weekend to talk to us. They are now starting a new policy on the missions.
Anyone can be sent to the missions now, and even for regency (the three years teaching [scholastic Jesuits formation] before going to [study] theology). So who knows. I might end up even in India some day. The night before Father left, we had a little party.
We left for Gonzaga at about 5:30 and Father said Mass for us (we had a folk Mass). After Mass we had a lovely little supper (Pizza and fried chicken cooked by one of the lads here, Peter Byrne. You wouldn't believe how well he cooks, mum. He said he learned when he was at college. He lived in an apartment or something and so he ended up learning to cook for himself.)
We talked for a long time after dinner. Father told us all about his adventures in Egypt and Rome on his trip back. After that we hauled out the musical instruments and sang a few songs. It was really an enjoyable evening. It was nice too getting all the Canadians together. We haven't done anything like that since Juniorate at Guelph, that is, with this particular group of Canadians.
Well, I'd best be back to my dear Kant [a philosopher]. The paper is due on the thirteenth and the rate I'm working, it won't be done by the thirteenth of next month. I will try to write sooner next time. You are always in my prayers. I count on yours.
[Hand written]
P.S. You asked what were my majors. I will get my B.A. with a major in Philosophy, but I will also have a major in English Literature. So I will probably teach English in regency + also some Latin. I could also teach a general science course to lower high school (9 + 10) for I have quite a few credits in that field too. That's what happens when you spend so many years in college.
Mount Saint Michael
Spokane, Washington 99207
March 22, 1967
Dear Mum, Dad and all,
Well here I am, still alive after those miserable exams. I wouldn't have believed it possible to get through them (and I'm not certain I did get through one of them– we shall hope.)
Thank you very much for your letters, your birthday cars, your Easter cards and especially for the gifts. The shirt is absolutely beautiful and the pyjamas are just perfect. It was all a delightful surprise. You are just too good to me.
And the food was delicious. The fudge disappeared very quickly, and the cake, pop-corn balls, and (I don't know what the name of the squares are) followed suit soon after. You received many compliments mum.
It doesn't look as though things are going to slow down here until I leave. We are just finished exams, but now I have to get busy and write three more term papers and prepare for two 30 minute reports. Besides that I have to prepare for an hour oral exam on all the philosophy we covered in the past two years. This exam is at the end of May.
So you see two months is not very much even for just this school work. Right now we are having Minor Orders classes, and in the beginning of May we will receive the tonsure and the other minor orders. It's sure a reminder that Major Orders (subdeacon, deacon and priesthood) are not very far away now, only 6 years. (That's not very long when one considers it's already been six years.)
We are also starting to bear down on our play [Henry IV part 1 by Shakespeare] which will be presented in the beginning of April. Instead of going to villa many of us will practice at home during the Easter holidays. That will also give me a chance to get some of my papers started for the second half of the semester.
Remember I was telling you about singing at the St. Pat's show on the 16th of March. Well, the choir did very well and so did our little group, "6 of the Woof 'n Warp." Joe Keenan's Dad came up to visit him from Winnipeg that week end and invited us to come down to sing for him at his motel the evening of my birthday. We had a lovely time.
When he came he brought each of the members of our little singing group a box of 25 matches with gold letters on them saying "6 of the Woof 'n Warp". We were really tickled with the gift. I'll enclose one in this letter.
Well, I'd best be off. I have a few daily ordos [the detailed instructions for the activities of the day] to type up for the Easter weekend that have to be posted today and a few other little odds and ends that are part of my "beadle" job.
May God bless all of you this Easter. You will be in my prayers during the next few days especially. As always, I count on your prayers.
P.S. I hope the weather improves there. During the past few days it has been rainy here. Maybe it will clear up for Easter.
Photos courtesy of Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ


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Google Cloud will open Netherlands and Montreal regions in the first quarter of 2018, followed by Los Angeles, Finland, and Hong Kong. Then, in 2019 Google will commission three subsea cables: Curie, a private cable connecting Chile to Los Angeles; Havfrue, a consortium cable connecting the U.S. to Denmark and Ireland; and the Hong Kong-Guam Cable system (HK-G), a consortium cable interconnecting major subsea communication hubs in Asia.
Existing Google Cloud Platform regions and upcoming GCP regions
The main difference the Public Internet and Google network is that the second offer "better reliability, speed and security performance as compared with the nondeterministic performance of the public internet, or other cloud networks."
The Google network consists of fiber optic links and subsea cables between 100+ points of presence, 7500+ edge node locations, 90+ Cloud CDN locations, 47 dedicated interconnect locations and 15 GCP regions.


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These types of pistachio kernel are normally produced through cracking and peeling process of closed shell pistachio which is belong to the special region in Iran and also some percent of them obtained from the pistachios when they are still raw (Kaal) which means before the pistachios become completely ripe.
Green Peeled kernel is known as the most premium and expensive among all types of kernels, due to costly process.
Iranian Green Peeled Pistachio Kernels are known as luxury food ingredient, which are used in various industries such as: pastries, chocolate, ice cream, sweet desserts, sausages and ham.
The peeled kernels are separated according to the color of the kernel to Green, So, Green Peeled kernels can be classified into 5 types, which can be differentiate from the percentage of green color in them, for instance dark green, green, greenish, yellow and light yellow.
Green Peeled Kernel:
Color: Dark Green to Light Green and Yellow.
Grade: A, B, C, D, E, F, G
Packing in Bulk: 10kg and 12kg vacuum packing in carton.
Green Peeled Pistachios Kernel


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Chillin, gots work to do
Ok, so I don't have to go to court today – water main break at the courthouse – amazing. Justice just stops. Such a scary thought, we rely on the most basic things sometimes. Oh well. Had a good nights sleep. Will be doing paperwork at the desk and setting up visits for the weekend, run a few errands and go to the office. John … Continue reading Chillin, gots work to do


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Just a programmer who likes to write games and hack Lisp code :).
Contact me at email@example.com. Homepage: http://jacek.zlydach.pl.
I maintain a website with translations of pg's essays to polish language, http://esejepg.pl/.
I do software nowadays, but I'm constantly looking for opportunities to do something actually useful for humanity. If you know of some, please let me know - especially if they involve biotech, cleantech or NewSpace industry.
(see also: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2018-01-06-going-far-going-small.html)
I'm trying out this Mastodon thing that seems to be so in vogue these days. @email@example.com.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/temporal_pl; my proof: https://keybase.io/temporal_pl/sigs/UZusPNANjk6FHPTgTnS6F8-eyYYGwsOt8J2KSm2zp5o ]


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Our gender reveal party was tonight!
I don't really have any filler because I'm just TOO STINKIN' EXCITED!
Jarrett and I got our wish! IT'S A BOY! You have NO idea how happy we are!
Here are a few pictures from our night. I tried to only include ones of Jarrett and I since I don't have permission from any of our family or friends to put their pictures on my blog.
These are the important ones anyway:
This is when we opened our box! Obviously, blue balloons popped out!
Proof of our happiness 😀 I love him so much!
This is my favorite from tonight! Jarrett is holding our balloons, of course and I have the ultrasound pictures that proved that our little guy is, well, a guy. This now both of our profile pictures on Facebook, haha.
Anyway, he already has a name, which some of you might know since I posted our possibilities on the "About Us" page.
His name is Bodhi H C E.
Obviously, you don't get to know the whole thing, guys, but I'll tell you more about his name.
Bodhi has been a love of mine for years. I'm incredibly lucky that Jarrett ended up loving it too! It's pronounced boh-dee. This is the original spelling of the name, which is Sanskrit and means "awakened, enlightened". I like that is sounds nice and southern, but has that hippie vibe that's so… Me. Jarrett likes that aspect too. It fits our little family perfectly.
H is my maternal grandfather's name. He was the only constant grandparent I had (my nana lived 6 hours for most of my life, my paternal grandmother doesn't like my family and paternal grandfather's wife didn't like his kids, only her own…) and he passed away in December of 2012. I told myself that if I ever had a son I'd name him after my grandfather, who'd always LOVED the idea of having a H L S the Second. Jarrett REALLY likes his name and even suggested that we use it as a first name. I just… Don't know if I could say H every day without feeling a bit sad. Middle name it is!
C is Jarrett's older brother. He's a Corpsman in the Navy and a very devoted husband and father. He is Jarrett's ultimate best friend. He was Jarrett's rock while they were growing up and even though he probably doesn't know it, I will be forever grateful for who he helped Jarrett become.
There you go. All of the info. It's late and I would greatly enjoy an eight hour nap!
Thank you all for reading and I hope you have a FANTASTIC day tomorrow!


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Change is the truth – everything changes to something new and strange
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It seems a pleasure to watch the seasons alter undulating gradually from the frosty cold winters to the sultry swelter of summers. The bright azure blue sky of autumn with its fluffy clouds belies the soggy and damp monsoons brooding with dark, grey and heavy rain filled clouds. Change creeps in unnoticed into the world that envelopes us only ruled by the revolving hands of a clock. All of a sudden a child changes in body and mind to stand on the threshold of teenage. Puberty leaves its mark in molding the body and shaping the mind to learn the ropes of a challenging and varied juncture in life. The adolescent blues, its uncertainties and mood swings subtly begin to show like the dew drops left upon the leaves on a chilly morning. The garden suddenly bursts into roses in every hue as one stands at the verandah overlooking it to realize with a start that another winter has stepped in. Change leaves its imprint on us as peeping into the mirror to reveals a grey hair veiled within the folds of one's hair upon the head. It then suddenly springs to mind that it was just the other day, a step backwards, a moment in time when having borne an infant it felt as if life had changed forever. Carrying the cute bundle of joy homewards accompanied by the loved ones, no one can but spare a thought at their growth and the world around them. Some defining moments call for envisioning a future while soaking themselves in the lingering moments etched upon the mind either with pleasure or deep sorrow. Many a traumatic experience leaves us gasping while instances of great elation like graduating or marriage invokes deep introspection mingled with bubbling expectations. Life blossoms like the myriad colors on a delightful spring morning but is well lived only by those who work hard to invest on their present. The past and future are like lumps of clay that can be cast into utensils, images or used to grow plants when nourished with fertilizers. It depends upon the toil and determination to carry out mere wishes on the tarmac of the present. Time is usually celebrated when new years approach or right on the brink of birthdays and anniversaries and definitely during a special occasion but seconds pass us by remaining the silent witness throughout the span of life. To a student commencing a year, school seems like taking the same train at the same time while being seated upon a different class. When a bolt of lightning sparkles upon the sky spreading out like the roots of a growing herb in soft mud one dwells upon the question as to where had all the time gone. It is at these very rare flashes that equations begin to arise from the depth of our heart forcing us to perceive the changes from within and around. However it the true bliss of nature that these analyzing patches are followed by trials and tribulations of our daily chores. Loneliness is evaded with thoughts keeping company like the subdued stepping of each dawn and dusk that are omnipresent. Why then is change so hard? Most of leisure is in anticipation of change. Change is always forbidding and complicated. It can be best visualized through changing seasons. Nothing stays the same with time bringing each thing to its...
Traveling leads to self discovery
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Traveling is pleasure combined with a sure shot way to learn about how one fares at handling situations which suddenly stare at our face. Traveling or visiting unknown destinations is an imperative part of our education. This is the only sure shot way to accept any fact as true by absorbing it with our senses wholeheartedly. It is through traveling alone that one can fill the void left by our modular pattern of education. The world has become a very small place with the unbelievable advancement made by means of transportation systems and telecommunication. We are spoil for choice as far as different modes of travel are concerned. Availability, comfort and furious speed have completely altered the traveling scenario in the recent age. The supersonic jets sailing above the clouds were out of the imagination for most people of the world even about a century ago apart from a few visionaries and scientists who dreams about it then. Panipat, Nalanda, Konark, Kurukshetra or Kanya Kumari are places in India which are historically significant luring the contemporary and candid visitor to seek them out in reality by personally visiting them. Traveling is a passion for some while a compulsory bitter pill to swallow for others and still better off are those who recreate themselves through vacations spent with family, relatives and friends. Sightseeing renders a unique opportunity for individuals to smell and taste the plethora of cultures, traditions, languages, culinary delights, languages and ways of living of the people inhabiting the world. Each monument or structure and its intricacies visible to the naked eye are forever etched in the visitor's memory. The toil, determination, money and drama that lies beyond each can also be glimpsed upon by mind's eye only when one stands amidst the concerned surroundings feeling its vibe. Traveling if affordable must be a exercised as a permanent way for spending holidays and leisure even if for a very short stint. It opens our mind rejuvenating it aiding to flush our gloom and disappointments that surmount within us as a part and parcel of leading a monotonous and rigorous work schedule. It is an adventure leading to self discovery as we can be astute about molding ourselves only amidst the calm and serene ambiance of any unknown spot to evolve as better humans. A visit to a place imparts practical knowledge of important places, persons, things and the nature of people. The recollections of the past certainly flash over one's mind as one visit some historical monuments. Besides this by visiting places, the vision of an individual becomes enlarged just as by sitting at a small place makes one's vision narrow. The business people are made aware of the natural products of different countries by traveling. The intellectual outlook of students is heightened by traveling. We derive the benefit of getting ourselves acquainted with the characteristics of foreign people. The world outside becomes clearer than what it would have been under other circumstances by traveling. The superimposition of traveling remains on the fact that too is better than books. In different countries we come across people of different tastes, fashions, caste, creed, and color. Once we know their ways of living it arouses a sense of brotherhood in us for them. By traveling we avail of the scope of making a change of thing. By Visiting Mountain and forest area we enjoy the wild beauty of nature. Those who lead their life in a populated city get free air and enjoy beauty by traveling. By visiting places of natural beauty our thought process is transported to a new region. We are capable of moving round the globe within...
Travel Rongey in east Sikkim and Discover yourself in serenity
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Rongey in east Sikkim, has become the heartthrob for the travelers, who look forward to spend a couple of days in the lavishness of serenity. Bengal Tour club, the pioneering travel agent of kolkata has added Rongey in their Sikkim tours. Today, you get a chance to enjoy the delightful notion of hills and mountains at Rongey. If the green capped hills allure you, the Rongey travel of Bengal Tour Club will allow you to stay even in Hotel Chalet Orchid, nestled in a forest reserve for a perfect enjoyment. As usual, Bengal Tour Club has arranged everything that you might need to plunge into the extravaganza. The mouth watering quality dishes play pivotal roles. The boarders enjoy a cordial but effective service. The travelers may be amazed to know that well furnished floors and gorgeous rooms of the Hotel Chalet Orchid are ready to enhance your experience. Since ancient times, people have been traveling various parts of Sikkim to enjoy the serene place and the hills that mostly look fresh with dew drops and blossoming flowers. While most of the favorite tourist spots of Sikkim have been fully explored, you get a chance to expedite at Rongey, a comparatively newer travel point. Bengal Tour Club will remain with you through out to make Rongey travel an unforgettable journey. While addressing the demands of their discerning customers, Bengal Tour Club has empowered you with the golden opportunity to stay in such an wonderful ambiance at an unexpected price of Rs.1,000 only. Students can enjoy even further discount. Why don't you contact Bengal Tour Club today to make your Rongey travel...
Dol Utsav: The inspiring festival
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There can be hardly any better way to welcome the most wanted spring than celebrating Dol Utsav. Whether you throw Abir or stain the faces of others by ridiculous color, Dol Utsav remains enjoyable for people across the countries of India. Perhaps it becomes more interesting in West Bengal, where each one gets involved in the holistic festival irrespective of caste, creed and sex. Dol Utsav in a village becomes more inspiring to the city dwellers, who want to get relieve of the strangulating city life for a couple of days. With due diligence to the sentiments of the people, Bengal Tour Club has heralded a new dimension by organizing the Dol Utsav 2011 in a remote village called Nasibpur. The village is in Hooghly District, West Bengal and yet not a far cry from the city of Kolkata. People not only will be enjoying the Dol Utsav, but they will be also living in tents, which comes as an extra bonus for the travelers. Bengal Tour Club has shown traits in tours and travel segment that have made them credible. People have admired their tours that boast of multitude of excitement, thrills and relaxations. Whether it is a family travel of an education travel, Bengal Tour Club keeps enough provision for recreation and relaxation. When you travel after a prolonged hectic schedule, you should feel comfortable and Bengal Tour Club always makes the tours spacious so that you get ample opportunity to rejuvenate. While announcing the Dol Utsav 2011, Bengal Tour Club has also focused on endless recreation and relaxation. You are taken to the spot of Nasibpur in the evening and you are only to watch the Neda Poda. Relax in the rest of the evening before looking for a distinctive tent living. The twittering of birds will sound like Jingle Bells in the morning and there are plenty of birds to wish you good morning. The main dol Utsav is an event where everybody can really enjoy. You are allowed to relax for the rest of the day, upon the mattress that will be laid out on the grass. You will be back to the City on the following morning. No hectic schedule will be waiting for you. The Dol Utsav 2011 is full of enjoyment and relaxation – courtesy Bengal Tour...
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Pelling, a picturesque town at 2,000 meter above the sea level always magnetizes maddening rush from all parts of India and even abroad. When most of the hill stations like Darjeeling or Gangtok have been crowded by tourists and business houses, Pelling can be your abode of peace with its unending scenic beauty. Bengal Tour Club, the leading travel agent, with its exuberance had discovered the beautiful city under the lap of Himalayas and have been continuously conducting Pelling tours for long. It is not only the majestic mountain, Naresh Jain, the chief of Bengal Tour Club also recommends the tourists to visit the exciting Alpine forests. Spending a couple of days at Pelling means to remain very close with the nature. When you are at this zone of Sikkim, your days boast with bountiful of waterfalls and swirling cloud, which never happens in your city life. The Khecipuri Lake and the Singhshore bridge also feature in the Pelling travel of Bengal Tour Club Bengal Tour Club always wants you to fully enjoy your leisure. They organize even picnic in a nice point, where you can optimize your relaxation. None of the travel plan of Bengal Tour Club becomes hectic as you get enough time to cherish the beauty of nature. The pelling travel of Bengal Tour Club is the right mix of driving, traveling, rafting with a flair of relaxation. Why not to discover your inner potential under the lap of majestic mountains at Pelling with Bengal Tour...
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I am still fighting battles with The Domain Registry of America, (the good old Yanks!) to allow the domain to be re-hosted back in the UK through a company called www.easily.co.uk who have been brilliant at traying to help. Apparently we have all done everything necessary for the switch and we now just have to wait up to 2 weeks for the switch to take place before I can then re-point the domain to my website. I'll keep people posted!


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80% is not full funding!
A few years ago I met a missionary who wanted to increase his support. "We don't ask. We just minister to people and some of them give. God is taking care of us," he said proudly.
"You must be up to 100% of budget," I said.
"No," he replied, "we are at 80%."
What I wanted to say, but didn't say, is "God is taking care of you—except for 20%!"
My friend hit the 80% glass ceiling! At 80% you can pay your bills—you can "get-by!" Around the world it is common for gospel-workers to think that 80% is the same as full funding. But it is not.
Here are two dangers of stopping at 80%.
1. At 80% you won't save for emergencies
Many Gospel-workers say, "We don't receive enough money to save." Or, "Saving is a luxury—it's impossible for mission workers."
Impossible? Will you ever have an emergency? Does your car have eternal life?
Proverbs 21:20 says, "There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man swallows it up."
The wise don't spend all their treasure—they gradually accumulate. Accumulation is not necessarily a sin. Spending 100% of what you earn is a sin—at least it is called "foolish."
But how to save?
Years ago Alma and I tried to save whatever we had left at the end of the month. But nothing was ever left! Then we launched PYF—pay yourselves first. We took a few dollars out of our paycheck the day it arrived and put it in a savings account at a bank. We thought we were going to die because we couldn't do without that few dollars. At the end of the month we were broke as per usual, but we had a few dollars in the bank.
We tried it again the next month. We were still broke at the end of the month, but now we had a little more in savings. It worked! PYF—pay yourself first.
But many mission workers choose not to save. When they have a financial emergency, they write their mailing list or text a few friends. Giving partners are glad to help, but they are not willing to do it month after month or year after year. And if the appeal is for personal family needs—that is your responsibility, not your donors!
At 80% you are not able to be like the Proverbs 20:21 wise person.
2. At 80% it is difficult to expand your ministry.
If a ministry opportunity comes your way that requires travel or buying extra food for Bible study snacks, you'll hesitate to "expand." I confess that in my early days I held back on thinking big about ministry expansion because I was not fully funded.
And it happens in small ways too.
For example, Gospel-worker "Megan" was starting a new ministry on a tough campus—students didn't seem interested. Finally, she met a young woman who said, "Yes, I want to hear about Jesus." They set an appointment in three days at the Student Union. Megan was excited.
But the next day Megan canceled the appointment. Why? Because she didn't have $4 to buy this searching student a coca cola.
The Gospel suffered because of 80% funding.
It is time to shatter the 80% ceiling. 80% is not the same as full funding! God is well able to provide another 20%!
What hinders you from moving from 80% to 100%?


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Since basically the day after Ryan met me he has been wanting to take me camping with him. For months I've been able to come up with suitable excuses like, "It's too cold," "It's too hot," "I don't have any gear," and "I don't want to get eaten by a bear." Always the gracious and patient husband that he is, Ryan put up with my rejection, but after his recent and successful rock climbing trip, demanded that we go because it's not too hot, or too cold, we have the gear and he swore that no bears would get me.
The trip started out on the rough side, as we had to head back home after only 20 minutes on the road due to forgotten pillows. Then, while heading into the foothills, the automatic window in the back seat of the car broke and would not roll back up (much to the dog's delight). After a few stops and some handiwork with duct tape, we were back on the road. We made the long and curvy drive into the park, and then headed down an even curvier dirt road, where we finally arrived at our destination (somewhere near Chimney Rock) – the same place Ryan and his friends camped a few weekends ago. It was a great spot, complete with a rock that had a face! 🙂
We got our tent and gear set up. Well, I should say that Ryan got our tent set up, along with the rest of the camping essentials. We rested for a bit and then headed out on a hike. I love my husband very very much, and I love that he thinks I'm a sort of Superwoman, but this hike almost killed me. I love walking. I love nature and the outdoors. I love the mountains. I HATE hiking. As my heart pounded and I sucked in every precious breath, Ryan and Jackson darted up the [ridiculously steep and treacherous] hill like ravenous squirrels.
Ryan promised that the view would make it worth it. I'll let you decide…
Jackson really seemed to enjoy it. It was a beautiful spot, I must say. After seeing the spot that Ryan and his friends climbed in person, I must say that he is AMAZING. I felt dizzy with vertigo just standing at the top of the mountain. I'm in awe of him after seeing the rock they climbed. It took 47 minutes to climb that mountain… and 12 minutes to make it down. 🙂 Thank God for downhill!
We rested a bit more, gathered a ton of firewood and then built our fire. Ryan is amazing at making fires and there is just something calming and hypnotic about a [contained] fire in the mountains. We made a delicious dinner of spaghetti and garlic bread and talked until the sun went down. As boredom overtook us, we decided to head to bed… way too early. Next time we will bring games, friends or S'more fixin's… or all of the above.
I slept for two hours and then promptly awoke and laid for hours and hours, and at one point felt scared half to death by the sound of something crashing through the trees in the distance. As the dog started to growl, I prayed and prayed to forget about it and fall asleep.
By 3 am I was almost in tears because of the lack of sleep and the only sounds filling my ears was husband and dog-snoring. Sleeping in a sleeping bag takes some getting used to, as does sleeping in the cold. Ryan had pity on me, crept out into the cold night and retrieved some earplugs from our car. He re-stoked our fire and sat by it to give me enough time to fall back asleep in our tiny tent. I finally fell into a deep sleep until about 7:30 in the morning. Rough night.
We awoke the next morning, cold and only slightly rested. We had a quick breakfast and then started to clean and pack up our stuff. It seemed to be over so quickly! But, we had a great time soaking in the beauty of God's creation and the precious quality time together. My husband is my hero and I hope to "get up to speed" so that we can spend many more times like these in the mountains together.
P.S. I conquered my fear and "did my business" in the wild!!! 🙂 I was proud… and relieved that I didn't pee on myself.