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1 OnJune 25, four sole practitioners participated in a roundtable discussion about a variety of topics, including the economy, marketing and ethics. They included Nancy Bickford, a Srare Bar-certifIed specia lisr in f('lmily law; Joshua Gruenberg, who practices emplo)' mem and personal injury law; :md Jeremi;th Oay) Sullivan, :l criminal defense lawyer. The discussion was moderated by James Spievak, :l sole practitioner and fonner member of the San Diego Counry Bar Association Board of Di recrors. at rhe o ffices of\xlrighr & LEstrange. T he discussion \...:\s recorded by Janerre Dllkic of Hutchings COllrr RepoTrers. JAMES SPIEVAK: Has rhe bad economy affected YOll, Nancy? NANCY BICKFORD: No' noriceably. In family law, There is one Theory Thar says with a right eco no my, people can't afford ro get divo rced. Bur (here is rhe orher meory thar says sho rrness o f mo oe)' wirh flnanciaj difficulries is rhe main C:luse of di vo rce. JAMES SPIEVAK: Jay, in rhe crimina} arena, hns [he recession helped o r hlln roll? JAY SULLIVAN: 1 is kind of an inreresring ni che marker rhar I pracrice-milirary jusrice- no{ o nl )1 in a recession, bur also in rhe rime o f wa r and cona icr, so my pracrice has rhri ved across rhe counrry and around rh e wo rld. Though ir is a recession, it has reau)' noc had iln impact on me. JAMES SPIEVAK: Josh,,here have been
2 The Steps to Solo massive layoffs, bankruptcies, people oue of work. How has char affected your work? JOSH GRUENBERG: In rhe last two or rhree m onths, r have received calls every day from folks who are referred co me because they have becn terminared and d)ey wane co see jf tl)ey have a case. I am taking about d)e same number of cases, bur I am having to explain ro a lo r of people why rhe law doesn't allow rhem a remedy, and rhac's eh e big difference. JAMES SPIEVAK: Why did YOll choose ro have yom own firm and srarr solo? NANCY BICKFORD: I decided dm I would '''''air uthil I goe my certified famil y law specialist. I spenr about a year writing a b\1sin~ss plan. planning the fi Ilances. JAY SULLIVAN : I spent a number of years doing public se rvice as an active judge advocate, and then 1 was a public defender on the Easr Coast. I rraveled and lived around the world wirh rhe Navy. My last acrive-dmy seacion was here in San Diego, and if kind of grows o n you; I knew ] wanted 10 return (0 San Diego. I believe the SIal'S aligned. I rook a couple of high-pro file military jusci ce cases, a nd [hen it was off [0 the races, JOSH GRUENBERG: \'V'hen I C1m e our of law school, it was a rea lly tough economy. I rhink a lor of lavvyers who came ou[ in '92 and >93 had rroublc findjng jobs, a nd I didn't feci (here \... ere :t lot of doors open to me. Very early on, r re rt.l~ i7..ed chat in was going to have a good career, ir was going CO have ro be a ca reer 1 creared for myself. JAMES SPIEVAK: Do any of yoll belong to communif)' organizarions thar have helped you in your pracrice? NANCY BICKFORD: I ha ve recently joined Rotaty. I enjoy the work and the people. It is a fabulous organizarion, bur also nerworking is, obviously, going to be good for business olle way or another. JOSH GRUENBERG: I never joined any social organizarion (Q ger business. I chink people see through that, and so the organizations that I have joined are organizations that I joined because I am interested, like my cycling clubs or the San Diego Road Club. JAY SULLIVAN: I believe you can't pracrice law, devejop a practice behind the desk. You have to ger Olit and go inro rhe communii'}" I have always been involved in service and joining clubs. One of my besl frjcnds, At led me {Q the Torrey Pines Kiwani:. C lub. H e i ~ a very good friend of mine, quadriplegic Navy 5E1\,L. and we support disa bled communities. I e njoy what rhey do, a nd you meet rhe grearesr people who 3re reauy interesred in helping our community. It is good, fro m d,e hea rt, so I have me( g[ear people, grear Ja\vyers a nd friends fo r life. JAMES SPIEVAK: Whar is the biggest ehajl enge facing solos roday? Is it (h e high cosr of doing bu~ in ess? JOSH GRUENBERG: J have nevcr seen rhar as a n obsrade because from the very beginning, I sratted our very modestly, and every rime I would increase my expemes, J felr rhar 1 could handle it. I never did a busincss plan. I never mapped everyrhing out. 1 just took b:tby steps every srep of rhe way. JAY SULLIVAN: Practicing law is an easy p<lrr. You are also running a business. I do a business pla n evei'}' year and reassess and ev:t luare a.nd have goals. I think (har for sale practirione rs mday, \~'e are lucky \virh techno logy. Twice a month, I am b<lck and foi'l:h ro r.he East Coast. Thank God for laptops, PDF files, scanners, I3lackberry. You can prac[ice law anywhere in rhe world now and not be our of rouch. A checklist to turn the dream of going solo into reality BY JUDI SANZO ADM IT IT - you have been considering starting your own law practice fo r some time now. Perhaps you are a law student pending bar results who knew fro m the beginning of your education that you wanted to be selfemployed. Perhaps you a re a young associate attorney la boring for the benefit of your employer and longing for the freedom and flexibility of running you r own business. Perhaps you are a victim of law firm downsizing or location closure that caught you by surprise. Perhaps you are a government attorney prepari ng to trade financia l security fo r the autonomy, satisfaction and persona l rewards of managing your own cases. Or you may be like me - an individual with entrepreneurial spirit a nd energy who does not want to answer to anyone except her cl ie nts. Once you have admitted you are thinking about opening your own law office, your next log ical step is to read the countless good artic les about evaluating your apti tude for self-employment, measuring your business acumen, recognizing your tolerance for risk and financial uncertainty, locating and hiring key employees, developing your website and Internet marketing plan, assess ing a confidence level in your legal skills and succeeding in solo practice. Whi le these resources can be really helpful, they can also be overwhelming. A checklist is avai la ble on the SDCBA website (at WVWI.sdcba.orgj solochecklist) for setting up your new office and suggestions on managing the daunting tasks you're about to face. You should make some preliminary decisions before you begin this step-by-step approach to opening your practice. Those decisions are best reduced to writing, to focus and clarify you r objectives. Judi Sanzo is a solo practitioner in La Mesa.
3 Whatthe SolosS \\le asked solo practitioners: \\lhat did YOll not anticipate when YOll opened your office? DONALD SCHIFFER I wen t from working in a large corporate environment, as inhouse counsel and an executive, to a solo practice, and I did not anticipate how difficult and expensive the issue of hea lth insurance would become. In the corporate environmen t it is a given, and in the solo practice environment it is a constant battle. PAUL McMULLEN When I opened my firm a year ago, I tried to expand my client base. A friend informed me that there were lo ts of people requesting attorneys on Craigslist. I sent some s. None of the potential clients we re legitimate. Now I'm on the lists of a dozen employment placement companies. SANDRA WAGN ER I did not anticipate the amount of time it ta kes from the ac tual practice of law to do the law office management pa rt of tlaving a solo prac tice-dealing with vendors, accounting and billing issues, employee issues, etc. At a larger firm those issues are not dealt wit tl by associates, but at a solo-small fi rm those issues are ultimately deal t with by the attorney. Over the years, lhat part of my practice has become easier than it was in the beginning, but it can stili be challenging, especially when the lechnology we so depend on fails and there is no t an inhouse IT person to deal with the resulting chaos. I have been in solo practice since MAR K BLANE I did not anticipate all that was involved in setting up my own law practice. Reflecti ng back on it now, it is clear to me it was an evolving process that inoluded selecting the right location for my Jaw office after selecting the practice area (civil litigation/personal inju ry); choosing the right stan; choosing the right website and business ca rd s; choosing the rig ht malpractice insurance ; choosing when and why to incorporate my office; understanding what marketing techniques work best for me; and becoming proficient in my chosen field of practice. It was a fan tastic learn ing experience, and I would not have done it any other way; I enjoy being a solo practitioner. All of wha t I did not anticipate in opening my own law office ha s given me great confidence in my ability to practice law. I have been in practice ni ne years, four months. FREDERICK DUDEK I did not an ticipate how much time and money it takes to manage all the administrative issues of running a law practice. Complying with accounting ru les, insurance matters, gove rnment regulations, payroll reports, etc.. is still time-consuming even after six years. Hiring professionals, such as CPAs. payro ll companies, computer experts, etc., helps - bu t as the person responsible, you still need to be aware of the issues and make the decisions. I started my small law firm after working as an associate and partner in a medium-size fi rm. TH ERESA ER ICKSON I actually did not expect that I would spend more ti me running a business than pra cticing law. As law students, we are not trained in the business of business; instead, we are trained in the business of law. Being a solo is so much more. I have been practicing as a solo for almost 10 years. JAMES SPIEVAK: Which of YOll lise Bbckbcrr),s o r iphones co run yom practice? JOSH GRUENBERG: My lirrle iphone, where I receive c-m ails and texts and have all m y d iems and appoin tments :lild everythi ng, is ind ispensable. I have th ree kids-14, 12 and 9-and carrying char thing wich me allows m e to be with them more. JAMES SPIEVAK: Na ncy, wha< abour YOIl? Are you a Bbckbcrry afi cionado? NANCY BICKFORD: I am gerr ing rhere, bur 1 am ve ry lucky. I live ve ry close ro my of- flce. My office is 20 milh ues froi n any of the courtho uses mar I go ro, and I can access my o ffice fro m home, so 1 rcally use my hom e computer to mlk ro my ohice. JAMES SPIEVAK: Who uses social media for their practi ce? JOSH GRUENBERG: I don'r. r rry ro keep that very separate. I have a Facebook p ro file, anj I really try co keep ir free o f clieo{s and lawyers. JAMES SPI EVAK: Jay, do yo\l have a Facebook profr le? JAY SULLIVAN: Yes, bllr norhing, rt all),. JAMES SPIEVAK: Norhing ro do with your practice? JAY SULLIVAN: Absolutely nor. NANCY BICKFORD: My dallgh!er ser me lip o n F:lcebook. so I could go and read their profiles, and I have never logged all. JAMES SPIEVAK: How has rhe srare s fr se.1l crisis aff'ccrcd your d iencs' abi liry to get access to jusri cc? JOSH GRUENBERG: I haven'r rel r ir ar all. NANCY BICKFORD: T he CO" issue, again, 20 S AN D I E GO lawyer Se p l e mb e r / Oc to bel2009
4 San Diego La wyer thanks Hutchings Court Reporters LLP for recording and provi ding a transcript of t he roundtable discussion, James Spievak for moderating the discussion and Wri ght & LEstrange for hosting the eve nt. 22 SAN DIEGO LAWYER Se pt e m be r/octo b er 2Q09
5 "Thank God for laptops, PDF files, scanners, Blackberry. You can practice law anywhere in the world now and not be out of touch." to me is a non-issue. J am too busy gerring me motions filed. We jusl cau (he at ramey service, and the check is writren. I Jan'r pay anemion ro that. The courts are gerring more and more dogged. The casdoads are overwhelming. JAMES SPIEVAK: Josh, do you have a Web page' JOSH GRUENBERG: J think [ have had some SO H of \\7eb page for 10 years. A friend created it for me. JAMES SPIEVAK: Jay, do you have a Web page? JAY SULLIVAN: Yes, for abo ut follr years. A relative,-"ho's a Web designer developed it for me. It is a statie website online brochure. We update it perhaps once a year with content. NANCY BICKFORD: [ looked ar other \Xfeb pages throughour Ca1iforn ia and decided what design I wamed. r wrote it all myself. Ir rook a few momhs w puc it together. I had a rechnidan do me technical pans. JAMES SPIEVAK: Whar has your Web page done for you r practice? JOSH GRUENBERG: Ir is just, pj,ce where the d iems can go to check yo u o ut. T think we have to be aware rhat our d iems are Coogling tis, ~o 1 keep rabs on rhac JAY SULLIVAN: Since [ rake cases across the cdumry and overseas, it enables service members around rhe wo rld and some folks even in Iraq ro be able ro reach oue and find me and get in toudl with me. I get e-majjs from me Middle East, so it actually works very well for me. JAMES SPIEVAK: Nancy, has ir helped your pracrice? NANCY BICKFORD: T he reason,har I creared a website was pretty much what Josh was saying. If cliems wanted ro learn more about me, I ""anced ro make rhar available to tbem. It isn't so much necessary to solicit business. JAMES SPIEVAK: Have a.ny of you ever had a problem of mixing or (he confl ict between (he echies law and me business of law in your pracrices? NANCY BICKFORD: I think every day we face [hac Ethics versus zealous represenrarion is more whar I am chinking, bur 1 believe mosr of my <.:olleagues in
6 rhis specialisr area in Gmily law put their erhical obligarions first. If you don'r, and if a judge or a colleague ever finds our rhar you pushed rhe envelope or went ourside rhe envelope and s.lid somerhing disho nesr or allowed your client [Q say somerhing dishones t, char stays with you [he rest of your ca rttr. Earlier YOli asked what is one of rhe greatest chajlenges attecring sole pr<lcritioners. As we spoke, ir occurred co me rh3l probably our grearesr challenge is chac we can't even ali t the flow of work if yo u are one perso n. When the phone rings five times in a day and you have five cliems rhar are very acrive, ir is hard for one person to do all of char. Having associmes rea ll y does help a lo t co spread (he work oue. JAMES SPIEVAK: I have relied lipon a full-rime parajegaj. mosr of my career. In addirion, since I have been a sale practirioner, I have had a senior at (Orney who does not represent clients. who only does law and marion work for me and a couple of o rher lawyers, and I could never do litigation withal]( thar. They are an investmem of resources. For a sole praccicioner ro w ri re his or her own morions, co me, is SOrl'1ed1ing d1at you are going to have co spend all ni ghr doing, because YO ll have gar co go to court, and yoll have got ro wrire letrers, and you have got to wrire others. JOSH GRUENBERG : I don't rhink YOll can serve your c1iencs wel l by insisting (hac YOli d.o every til in g. You know, there are certain th ings rhat my associares can do very, very well ; there are cerrain things thar my paralegal can do well; and [here are cenain things chat I do wel l. I rhinkdi"iding up rhe work and figuring our how ro do (har is very unponanr (Q being a solo. JAMES SPIEVAK: W hat advice you wo l~cl give a new lawyer srarring am wirh his o r her own prac rice in San Diego? JAY SULLIVAN: Coming here to San Diego, I really djdn'r know anyone. 1 did have some conmcrs from my milirary. BlI[ ger involved with your com munity. JOSH GRUENBERG: J would say find somerh ing rhar you re3lly love ro do and get good ar ir; rry 110r (Q WOITY about the m oney. If you like it and you are good a[ ir, rh e money will com e laler, bur fry (Q find an area or law YO ll are passio nare abom. NANCY BICKFORD: Mwy new anorneys I see (hink rb:h because rhty are an arro mey, it is appropriate to go inro courr and act inappropriacejy or be rude or be SOrf of cocky. Read YO llr Code of Erhies, know your erhi cal standards, and neve r lose your ethical compass, b eca ll.~e if you do, yo u will nc-.'cr get anywhere in law. _... Experienced. Effective. Mediation. craighiggs.com
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The American Dream is the idea that individuals can achieve upward mobility and success if z/s/he works hard enough. The American Dream is largely considered to be a cultural myth as it does not take into account a person's social position. Many people work very hard their entire lives but do not gain upward mobility.
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Gold Flatware
Growing collection of gold flatware, most of which is vintage. Some matte finish, some shiny - mix up styles and finishes for a whimsical tabletop.
Mixing and matching a fork, spoon, and knife will currently net you around 75 place settings. But our collection continues to grow, and we will be happy to scout out more to meet your needs.


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do a bad job(redirected from done a good job)
do a bad job
To do something poorly. Geez, I did a bad job of parking the car—I doubt I could get any further away from the curb.
do a good, bad, etc. ˈjob (on something),
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In the last post I was telling you about the mini series of posts that I am creating. For the first post of the series, I have decided to write about psychoanalysis, as it is probably the oldest theory in psychotherapy, and the most known.
It is, however, very misunderstood by the lay people, because of the multiple references to it in pop culture and movies.
Sigmund Freud is known as the founder of this theoretical orientation, and he developed it partly practicing with himself. He is most known for his psychosexual development theories, that were, and still are, controversial for many people. However, he did contribute many things to the field of psychology, creating a shift towards therapy that wasn't so focused on the brain and the science behind our behavior.
I believe one of the most important contributions of psychoanalytic theories was the introduction of the unconscious. The unconscious would be a part of ourselves that we do not know, but that impacts greatly in the way we feel, think and behave. Through analysis, Freud believed, we can start to unwrap some of the mysteries of the unconscious, and create change by learning the truth of ourselves.
He also created the theory of personality, which you have probably heard or read about: the id, ego and superego (click here for extended info).
He and his followers also believed in the importance of childhood and parents. Thus, analysis would focus most of its time in learning about past experiences that might have created problems for our present self.
From Clínica Picazo
If you are thinking about engaging in this kind of therapy you should know that this is generally a long term therapy, with usual meeting sessions every week or twice weekly.
The classical psychoanalytic or psychodynamic therapists are trained to be a blank slate and to not self disclose anything. This might come off as coldness, but they believe that by being completely blank, the client will project their own life's characteristics and problems into the therapist.
What the therapist wants from the client is for them to talk openly all the time. By talking without any context or questions, the client engages in a process of free association, which psychoanalysts believe is important to obtain the information that the unconscious is trying to hide.
*Modern approaches- psychodynamic orientations
After Freudian psychoanalysis, there were many other theories that evolved from it like attachment theories or object relationship theories. The more modern approaches of the practice are not as orthodox regarding self disclosure or being completely blank. What's more, many therapists of other orientations use psychodynamic understandings for their practice.
American Psychoanalytic Association
For more info on the theory: APsA.
To find a therapist: find help.
If you have any questions, as always, contact me.


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Password-based authentication doomed by inherent flaws
The password-based authentication model is plagued by weaknesses in theory and, as demonstrated by countless hacked accounts, in practice as well. The time for ubiquitous two-factor authentication and password managers is now.
Authentication in computing – the process by which the identity of users is verified – has long relied on passwords as the primary (and often the only) mechanism for account holders to identify themselves. Even the most casual computer users are familiar with the process: when you power on your device or visit certain websites, you often need to enter credentials (i.e., usernames and passwords) to access your files and utilize your account capabilities, and you assume that you are the only one who knows your passwords. In an ideal world, knowledge of passwords would be restricted to the rightful account holders and therefore the entry of valid credentials would be assumed to verify the identity of the user in question. As such, this authentication model seems simple and reliable enough. However, thousands of individuals have had their money and identities stolen, credit cards used, private files accessed, and private emails viewed because the reliability of password authentication failed them. We are going to examine why the practice of logging in to computers and websites with passwords is prone to violation, how these weaknesses are exploited, and what can be done to lower the risks facing our user accounts.
- The problems with passwords
- Multi-factor authentication
- Password managers
- Recommendations for password requirements
- Archive of infamous password hacks
- Further reference
- Recommended reading
The problems with passwords
User verification by passwords is sound only if your passwords are known by you alone, and they cannot be acquired by others without monumental effort. Theoretically, if you are the only one who knows the password to your Gmail account and you adhere to prudent password guidelines by keeping the password strictly private and nearly impossible to guess, then you could reasonably be assured that your Gmail account was safe from prying eyes. Unfortunately, as detailed below there are simply too many ways for passwords to fall into the wrong hands, and even experienced security professionals have fallen victim to password violation.
Problem #1: Ease of sharing
Simply put, passwords are too easy to share. Although they are intended to be known by only the rightful users, passwords are often shared with others for the sake of of some convenience. These situations can occur when account holders are in a position where they cannot access computing resources, so they contact others who are better situated to provide assistance. For example, imagine a situation in which you have a file which contains your vacation itinerary. You leave for your trip only to realize that you left your itinerary on your work PC. In order to complete your vacation as intended, you phone a co-worker and ask him to log in to your computer and email the file to your personal email account. In order to accomplish this, you give him your network password. You get your schedule, but you have disclosed your password to another individual who can now access your files, read your emails, impersonate you, or give your password to others. Long story short: the sharing of passwords among friends, family members, co-workers, and couples is a recipe for trouble.
Problem #2: Theft of passwords
Even users who endeavor to keep their passwords private are still at risk of password theft, which occurs when people with malicious intent steal your passwords using various means: some very technical, others stunningly simple.
One way to steal passwords is sniffing data traffic on unencrypted wireless networks: wireless users who enter their credentials into websites that do not obscure authentication transactions (with encryption such as SSL) can have their passwords recorded by sniffing software on a device running a sniffer program such as Wireshark or Cain & Abel. Remember that when you are connected to one of those "open" wireless networks, all data transfers you make (the websites you visit, the emails and messages you send, etc.) can be easily captured and viewed by others unless your communication stream is cryptographically obscured.
Another threat which users face is the possibility of keystroke loggers installed on their devices. If another individual (such as a personal enemy, a feuding colleague or a jealous romantic partner) gets access to your computer, he can install hardware- or software-based keystroke loggers which will record all the keystrokes you enter on your keyboard. This threat is even more serious with publicly shared PCs and kiosks, such as those in hotels and airports. You should avoid logging into web services on devices which you do not own unless a serious situation warrants it. Fully updated antivirus or "endpoint security" applications are a decent way to help prevent the covert installation of software-based key loggers on your own computing devices.
Third, if a hacker runs a packet sniffer or breaches a server which processes user logons, he can acquire password hashes, copy them to his machine, and run offline attacks against them to reveal the associated passwords. This process, called password cracking, can be carried out in various manners. One method for extracting passwords from hashes is the dictionary attack, which uses all words in a dictionary or a given text file. Another cracking method is known as a hybrid attack, which builds extends the dictionary method by adding numeric and symbolic characters to dictionary words. Hybrid attacks can attempt several variations, such as using common substitutions of characters and numbers for letters (e.g., p@ssw0rd). The brute force method generates all possible passwords up to a certain length and their associated hashes. Short, non-complex passwords do not withstand the brute force technique for long but the real danger of this type of attack is the fact that, given enough time and computing power, brute force attacks on password hashes are always guaranteed to succeed, especially since advances in technology such as ever increasing CPU speeds are further aiding password crackers.
Lastly, it is not much of a challenge for motivated hackers to trick users into voluntarily revealing their passwords by utilizing social engineering techniques which can be performed through nefarious software (such as fake login pages included in phishing scams) or even phone calls. The sad truth is that it's ridiculously easy to convince users to willingly divulge their passwords, especially when they are confronted by someone operating from a real or feigned position of trust or authority. If you ever get requests for your password in an email or on the phone from "tech support" or "the IT department", you know you are dealing with a scammer.
Problem #3: Easily guessed passwords
It has been proven time and time again that a significant percentage of computer users habitually choose passwords that are easy to remember, and hence easy to guess. Common techniques for generating passwords include common phrases and terms (see spreadsheet below), names of spouses, children and pets, birth dates, wedding dates, and dictionary words (which are vulnerable to dictionary attacks). Numerous account compromises have revealed that some passwords are used very frequently, and that users almost never choose passwords which could be considered strong (longer than eight characters with lower case letters, upper case letters, numbers, and special characters).
I studied some of the most notorious breaches in recent years and assembled this alphabetized list of passwords you definitely want to avoid.
The Top 100 Passwords In Use Today (alphabetized)
For the purposes of cracking, password lists are available elsewhere such as Dazzlepod (19.5 MB .txt and 21 MB .txt), O'Reilly (3.33 MB .zip) and Packet Storm.
Problem #4: The unintended consequences of mandating strong (complex and long) passwords
A fourth challenge facing password authentication is the irony that strength requirements can often increase the rate of password compromise. In response to the threat posed by easily guessed credentials, cautious account holders and system administrators often seek to make passwords unguessable by implementing strict complexity and length requirements. Passwords then need a mix of characters – lower case letters, upper case letters, numbers, and special characters like question marks – to be considered complex. Additionally, they need to conform to a minimum length standard as well. The problem with this approach is that when users are faced with challenging password length and complexity requirements, they are much more likely to write their passwords down on paper or store them in clear text in a digital document or spreadsheet. Passwords existing in such a state are much easier to exploit than those stored in a hashed manner.
Restricting passwords to time-based lifespans also results in the same dilemma. Administrators may implement password expiration which forces users to create new ones after a certain amount of time has passed. The primary reason to give passwords expiration dates is to cut short the amount of time a compromised password can be used by someone else. If a password expires after thirty days, then a hacker can get at most thirty days' worth of benefit out of it. After that span of time, the password becomes useless. If the hackers acquires a victim's password at say, day 28 of a 30-day validity period, he will only get two days' worth of use. A disadvantage of this strategy is that if you force people to change their passwords frequently, they become more likely to choose easy-to-remember passwords (which are easy to guess) than they are if they can use the same passwords indefinitely. Therefore, any password-changing policy needs to be evaluated in awareness of this user habit.
You may wonder which is more important to creating strong passwords: complexity or length. The verdict is in, and it's length.
The 'Too Long; Did Not Read' version of Problem #4, courtesy of XKCD.
Problem #5: Password reuse
Because modern computer users must log in to so many differing environments and services, we often resort to using only one or two passwords for all authentication purposes. This trend is especially true for people who use computers both at home and in the workplace. At work we must remember passwords to log in to our PCs and multiple applications and websites (for IT professionals, the number of passwords to remember can be daunting). At home, we have password-based accounts for the myriad of ubiquitous websites we have come to rely on: Amazon, eBay, PayPal, online banking, blogs, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, LinkedIn and other career websites, discussion forums…the list goes on and on. Remembering unique passwords for each site is mental task that is simply too challenging, so users often rely on one password for all. This is a major risk because if your one password gets compromised, the attacker has access to not just one service you use but to all of them.
Problem #6: Password reset
Most account-based web services (email, blogs, online banking and shopping, etc.) provide a way for users to reset their passwords should they be forgotten. Usually a user needs to provide his username and answer a few questions regarding personal details, such as mother's maiden name, city of birth, name of first pet, high school name, etc. In this day and age, however, persistent online searching courtesy of Google and perusal of social media profiles can reveal such "personal" details. Consequently the "reset your password" feature is often a valuable tool in a hacker's arsenal.
Password weakness summary
Problems 1 – 6 above are major challenges to the password-based authentication model because passwords are a single point of failure. In other words, user's accounts and resources usually need to suffer only one compromise (hacked passwords) to be completely exposed. This method of granting access is known as single factor authentication because all that is required is the presentation of one form of a credential (the password). As such, single factor authentication lacks depth and resilience.
Multi-factor authentication
Two-factor authentication has the potential to wipe out the aforementioned weaknesses of password reliance. If you have a bank card which you use to access automated teller machines, then guess what? You are already using two-factor authentication; it utilizes something you know (your PIN) and something you possess (the bank card). You need both your PIN and the card to access your account; they are ineffective on their own. The most stringent form of multi-factor authentication is three-factor, which combines something you know, something you possess, and something you are (such as your fingerprint).
Two-factor authentication can be applied to computing as well. The 'Know + Possess' model can be achieved with PINs/passwords and objects such as smart cards or hardware tokens. The 'Know + Are' model can be achieved with a password or PIN combined with a fingerprint scanner.
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Smart cards are plastic cards that contain integrated circuit cards, digital certificates and users' private keys. They not only augment user authentication but can perform public key cryptography operations, such as digital signing (of emails, for example) and key exchange. To allow a device to utilize smart cards, a smart card reader must be installed. To use a smart card, the user inserts it into a smart card reader that is attached to a computer and types the PIN when prompted.
You may be wondering why numeric PINs are used with smart cards instead of strong passwords. Despite containing only numeric characters, PINs are actually the more secure choice. Unlike passwords, PINs never traverse network links so they cannot be sniffed. Furthermore, dictionary attacks and brute-force attacks are infeasible as they can be attempted only by someone in possession of the smart card. However, even when an attacker has the card in his possession, the smart card locks after a few failed attempts at guessing the PIN. If an attackers captures a PIN, it is useless without also acquiring the card.
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Smart cards are a viable option for authentication to networks utilizing public key infrastructure and enrollment stations. They seem to fall short, however, for authentication to web services. While it practical to use one smart card to provide access to a corporate network and its resources, attempts to replicate the same functionality for dozens of unrelated account-based websites would be unrealistic. Would we be able to handle having separate smart cards for Facebook, Gmail, Amazon, eBay, banking websites, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.? Probably not, and the organizations behind these web services would not be willing to manufacture and ship millions of smart cards to their users.
In such situations, the Google Authenticator app can take the place of smart cards to provide two-factor authentication. The Authenticator works like a hardware token which displays a random codes which change at certain intervals, but it can be used to access multiple websites such as Dropbox, Outlook, WordPress, and several others.
Password managers
A password manager is an application which lets you store and organize your login credentials in a safe way. Additionally password managers usually have the ability to generate strong passwords to save you the trouble of creating them yourself.
To launch these applications, you must enter a master password which permits full access to stored credentials. Therefore, it is of paramount importance that you do not forget this master password, and that you keep it as private as possible. Password managers store your passwords locally in encrypted format. You can make a copy of the local password database and open it on other hosts using the same password manager program.
Below are some screenshots of RoboForm, a commonly used password manager.
Recommendations for password requirements
Until two-factor authentication becomes standard, you can reduce the likelihood of successful attacks targeting your passwords by following a few simple guidelines.
1. Your password should be ten or more characters in length. Ten is a happy medium between high resistance to brute force attacks and the inability of most people to remember long strings of characters. Each character you add to a password makes it an order of magnitude harder to crack via brute force attacks.
2. Insert a mix of lower case and upper case letters, numbers, and special characters in your password. There are 26 lower case letters, 26 upper case letters, 10 digits (0-9) and 32 special characters in the standard keyboard layout. According to elPassword, there are 59,873,693,923,837,895,000 possible password combinations if you choose a ten character password with this level of complexity. Not bad!
3. Ensure that your password does not contain consecutive characters comprising a name, a slang word, or any word in any dictionary. It should not include any part of your name, family members' names, pet names, or your e-mail address.
4. Use a different password for the various important websites you use, such as your social media accounts, banking and financial websites (including PayPal), major online shopping (such as eBay and Amazon), and web email. These are the websites that, if compromised, will do this most damage to you in terms of financial loss, identity theft, and embarrassment. However at this point you are faced with the 'complex password paradox' mentioned above: how are you going to remember various strong passwords for even a handful of websites? That's where password managers come in.
IT security decision makers and system administrators can significantly harden their networks against password attacks by enforcing password policies based on the following guidelines.
1. Require strong passwords. If you allow your users freedom to create password according to their own preferences, it is very likely that they will choose weak passwords. To negate this tendency, require that passwords be strong (long and complex).
2. Implement an organization-wide policy forbidding the sharing and writing-down of passwords, whether on paper or in digital documents or text files.
3. Employ aggressive mechanisms against brute force attacks to detect and mitigate these attacks on login credentials. You can make these attacks too cumbersome for realistic purposes by putting obstacles in the way brute force style attacks, such as logon restrictions and account lockout settings.
4. Enforce a password change policy which requires to change their passwords after a certain amount of time. Be cautious that you do not make this policy too stringent or users will become much more likely to write their passwords down, especially when you are enforcing complexity.
5. Encourage the selection of passphrases instead of passwords. A passphrase is a sentence or phrase that functions like a password. Passphrases are more resilient to compromise because of their greater length. Modern operating systems will have no problem accommodating most long passphrases.
Administrators configure password policies for Windows domains via Group Policy objects using the Group Policy Management Console. For Windows hosts which are not joined to a domain, you can configure these settings in the Local Security Policy MMC snap-in (secpol.msc) or the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc). Navigate to Computer Configuration->Windows Settings->Security Settings->Account Policy->Password Policy, as depicted below.
For Linux-based hosts, password parameters are configured in
/etc/login.defs and in
/etc/pam.d/system-auth or
/etc/pam.d/common-password depending on your Linux distribution. Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a web-based interface for password settings.
Archive of infamous password hacks
Sarah Palin email hack (Wikipedia)
Monster Says Hackers Stole Data From Users' Accounts (Bloomberg)
Gawker Media Websites Hacked, Staff and User Passwords Leaked (Wired)
32 million RockYou passwords show most users careless about security (ArsTechnica) (passwords)
LulzSec releases 62,000 passwords (RafeKettler)
PlentyofFish.com Hacked (Krebs)
Sony Hack Reveals 'Seinfeld' as Most Popular Password (Time)
LulzSec Dumps 26,000 Porn Site Usernames And Passwords (Forbes) (passwords)
Hackers post 450K credentials pilfered from Yahoo (CNET)
What the Last.fm, eHarmony, and LinkedIN password leaks mean to you (CNET)
8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, eHarmony (ArsTechnica)
Update: LinkedIn hacked passwords from 2012 up for sale in 2016 (Motherboard)
Hackers stole account details for over 60 million Dropbox users (Motherboard)
The most common pin numbers (The Guardian)
YouPorn passwords available for download, thousands of users exposed (Sophos) (passwords)
2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen in massive hack (CNN)
Analysis reveals popular Adobe passwords (BBC)
Top 100 Adobe Passwords with Count (Stricture Group)
Just how bad are the top 100 Adobe passwords? (ZDnet)
Russia gang hacks 1.2 billion usernames and passwords (BBC)
Nude celebs? Blame the passwords (Politico) (Wired)
Ashley Madison hack – Top 100 Passwords (Ars Technica)
Further reference
ArsTechnica.com, 25-GPU cluster cracks Windows passwords in under 6 hours
ArsTechnica.com, How a security ninja cracked the password guarding his most valued assets
ArsTechnica.com, How elite security ninjas choose and safeguard their passwords
ArsTechnica.com, Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords
ArsTechnica.com, Why passwords have never been weaker and crackers have never been stronger
CMU.edu, Of Passwords and People: Measuring the Effect of Password-Composition Policies (478 KB PDF)
Computer.org, Improving Compliance with Password Guidelines: How User Perceptions of Passwords and Security Threats Affect Compliance with Guidelines (227 KB PDF)
Computer.org, Passwords, Privacy, and Policies: Can They Do Business Together? (1.1 MB PDF)
Computer.org, Revisiting Defenses against Large-Scale Online Password Guessing Attacks
Computer.org, Twelve Random Characters: Passwords in the Era of Massive Parallelism
Doug Vitale Tech Blog, Default device passwords
EthicalHacker.net, John the Ripper – Why You Are Doing It Wrong
FirstLook.org, Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can't Guess
Foofus.net, fgdump, password auditing tool for Windows
Github.com, IsItCompromised.com source code
HackingDojo.com, Local password attacks (video)
Hashcat.net, oclHashcat: the world's fastest password cracker
No.Spam.ee, Distribution of passwords between men and women
NTDSXtract.com, Active Directory Offline Hash Dump and Forensic Analysis (237 KB PDF)
PaulDotCom.com, Safely dumping password hashes from live domain controllers
PlainTextOffenders.com, Websites storing user passwords in clear text
PwnedList.com, Breached credential database
Research.microsoft.com, It's no secret: Measuring the security and reliability of authentication via 'secret' questions (182 KB PDF)
Skullsecurity.org, Evil password resource page
TeamSID.com, Worst Passwords of 2015
ToolsWatch.org, Default Password Enumeration Project
Wired.com, Google declares war on the password
Xato.net, 10,000 top passwords
Recommended reading
If you found the content of this article helpful and want to expand your knowledge further, please consider buying a relevant book using the links below. Thanks!
Basic Security Testing with Kali Linux Violent Python: Cookbook for Hackers
Pen Testing: Hands-On Intro to Hacking Hacking Exposed 7
The Hacker Playbook: Practical Guide to Pen Testing CISSP Study Guide
Computer & Technology books on Amazon


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Did I make some workout ?? mmm... in some days I cranked up the pace, but nothing really structured
Now my focus is to pick up a nice marathon for next spring...
A runner from South China. The title of my blog comes from my habit to run very early in the morning and be back home by 7am. Running in China can be very challenging at times and requires a lot of determination, but is also a good way to make yourself at home here...
By 7 congrats on the new born baby !
I also had the same problem with you where the stride on one leg is shorter than another since I picked up the injury.
yes, so now I am working on 3 fronts:
1) torture (deep tissue massage) on the right leg's muscles to relax the muscle
2) an exaggerated amount of stretching for gluteus, hamstring, etc (always right side)
3) strengthening exercises for the core (TA muscles) and the large glueus muscles
(I should do daily, but well... for sure If I am still in office at 19.30 ....)


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Ilios Apt old town,roof terrace,balcony,view!
Ilios Apt old town,roof terrace,balcony,view!
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In the medieval city of Rhodes a ''cozy nest ''perfect for couples in a quiet and sun filled place, just a few meters away from the central port of Rhodes and about 100 m away from the old town's market place. The maisonette was bought and renovate in 2005 under the provision of archaeological department of Rhodes because of it's historical value. Rebuilt with new modern appliances in the unique traditional style of the area because of the Surrounding by the Byzantine Church of Saint Fanourios ,the Temple of Panagia Bourgou and the Medieval Moat. The maisonette enfolds about 40 sq on two floors,a balcony on the first floor and a 15 sq roof terrace on the top. TV, satellite, DVD player and free WiFi are offered.
The ground floor includes kitchen corner full equipped with a small sitting-area , a big wardrobe and the bath room. On the first floor is the bedroom with a romantic balcony . A small wooden stairs leads to the roof terrace where you can enjoy a wonderful view of the old ,the new city of Rhodes and the harbor of the island. Just a few meters away is a place for free parking, a mini market and public playground as well many traditional Greek Taverns and International restaurants, cafes and other entertainment places , museums etc. Also you can go on daily trips to other Dodecanese islands or to one of the beaches on Rhodes island.
Long Term Rent welcome, please contact us. If you want to spend your vacation in a group of friends the apartment and the ''Ilios House '' gives accommodation for up to 7 persons
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text: PLYMOUTH - Nancy J. (Thornburg) Martin of Valparaiso, Ind., formerly of Plymouth, died Saturday in St. Margaret-Mercy Hospital South, Hammond, Ind., of natural causes. Survivors include two daughters, Stephanie R. Johnson of Terre Haute, Ind., and Julia M. Hosch of Hobart; her father, James O. Thornburg, Donaldson, Ind.; a sister, Carol L. Jeffirs of Plymouth; and a brother, Mark J. Thornburg of Zionsville, Ind. Services will be at 7 p.m. (Tuesday in Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home, where friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday.


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AS I accidentally cut up the Mercedes behind me, the driver leaned on his horn. It was enough for me, I nipped out of the way and the little car I was driving would have smirked if it could.
What the Chrysler Ypsilon lacks in size, it makes up for in attitude. For one of the superminis, this is a tough little cookie.
In looks alone, it fairly growls at you and among its peers, it is quite distinctive. In Italy, under the Lancia badge, it is apparently sought after by stylish women. But, for my money, it resembles the cocky little lad in the playground, willing to take on all comers.
I was driving the basic model, the 1.2S, priced from £10,695, but it felt neither cheap nor rattly. It has a solid feel – not always the case in a small car – and with that comes the feeling of safety. It's not going to win any battles with a HGV. But in a one-to-one situation, it's robust enough to hold its own.
It is a bit bigger than your average supermini at 3.8 metres and inside the front seats are roomy. My basic model came with a fabric finish, which was fine, but you can upgrade to leather.
The console is racily placed above the dash, adding to the Ypsilon's character and it is very easily read. The rest of the instruments – heating, wipers, lights, radio with MP3 and CD and electric windows – are in line with the basic model and are, well, basic. But what more do you want?
I liked the way this car drives. It is easy to get around in town and there is a "city" button for easier parking and the lock is terrific.
It zips along and doesn't shudder or get noisy at top speeds. My version can do 0-62 in
14.5 seconds with a top speed of 101mph and about 57mpg. Its CO2 emissions put it in the £30-a-year road-tax bracket.
The 1.3 turbo-diesel version has a top speed of 114mph and does 0-62 in 11 seconds. But it also does 74.3mpg and has CO2 emissions of 99g/km, which makes it exempt from road tax. However, the purchase price is higher.
There is also a TwinAir model, which comes in automatic, too.
To my mind, though, the Ypsilon must be a top contender as a first car for youngsters who are looking for something a bit different from their friends. The boot space is adequate and there's room for a couple of pals in the back.
The price is good and the running costs are low, plus it has that extra protective toughness.
But to the acid test – my daughter, who had a Vauxhall Corsa for her first car. After a good look round outside and inside, she was impressed with the style and content. So there you have it – one great little car.


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Cheshire Police set up teacher 'sex abuse' hotline
Police investigating sexual abuse allegations against a former teacher at a Cheshire school have set up a hotline for anyone with information to call.
Detectives are looking into claims four boys were abused at Terra Nova School near Holmes Chapel in the 1970s.
Keith Cavendish-Coulson, of Crookham Hill, Thatcham in Berkshire, is charged with 19 counts of indecent assault on four boys aged nine to 12 at the time.
Officers said they are continuing inquiries into his career as a tutor.
A force spokeswoman said: "The investigation is continuing and is focused upon Cavendish-Coulson's employment both as a public school teacher, and a private tutor at establishments across the country over the course of his working life."
Mr Cavendish-Coulson is due to appear at Chester Crown Court in January.
A dedicated hotline number, 01606 362472, has been set up by police.
Specially-trained detectives will be available to support potential victims and witnesses, the Cheshire force said.


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Yeo & Yeo Medical Billing & Consulting is Celebrating 20 Years!
Yeo & Yeo Medical Billing & Consulting is proud to be celebrating our 20th anniversary. Established in May 1998 as an affiliate of Yeo & Yeo CPAs & Business Consultants, we are proud to have grown into a leading provider of medical billing and practice management consulting services, helping physicians, group practices, and healthcare organizations throughout Michigan to thrive.


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A trip to Camden on a weekend requires a zen-like tolerance at the best of times, but during Camden Crawl weekend taking a deep breath before counting to ten is essential currency. Not only is NW1 awash with the usual stag dos and tourists with unnecessary DSLRs, but there's the added legion of indie types staring at huge line-up sheets, left to fend for themselves.
Camden's relevance as an alternative hub is a memory on par with Empire and red telephone boxes, yet there's still a hubbub of mystique about it. Yes, East London is where the Macbook posing hipster-blogs like to buy their lattes and listen to Soundcloud, but Camden has the golden touch.
You see, it still feels like a place where a young musician can turn up with a guitar and a crumpled fiver, and within three months be on a stage with the next band to change the world. Despite the crowds and generic MSG noodles, if you think of London's music scene, Camden comes to mind first.
Camden Crawl was the original urban multi-venue festival, a model which has been regurgitated to tedium. While SXSW and The Great Escape are wonderful for The Biz, and Dot to Dot caters for the provinces, Camden Crawl is for the fans and retains its excitement.
If there's one thing Camden does well it's carefree fun, so Imperial Leisure are the prefect start to the weekend with ska horns and sing-a-long punk anthems feeding our inner Madness. Eight members on a tiny Wheelbarrow stage may have been a bit tight, but it's surely a bridge to bigger platforms. The anti-fun, however, should have been standing at the drizzly, Red Bull Jam outdoor stage, for Japanese noise rock sludgers Bo Ningen, but their psychedelic stoner drone was truly energising.
Returing indoors, watching Three Trapped Tigers in a sparse Koko is a unique experience. The level of tight musical proficiency between their raging synths and Bonham drumming is unparalleled and produces a rampant thunder akin to a jazz-metal Battles or F*ck Buttons.
In need of aural recuperation The Monarch gifts the Crawl Brighton's Fear Of Men and our own Echo Lake, both purveyors of art school lo-fi shoegaze yet with their own lofty sentiments. Echo Lake adopt a dreamlike approach to their ethereal guitars and gentle keyboard soundscapes, which allows their music to weave you in cloud of dust like a late 80s 4AD record. Fear Of Men, however, use soft jangly guitars to build an image of hazy afternoons in an indie pop meadow, which is delightfully uplifting.
The stars of the day are the solo artists, modern day one-man bands confidently doing it themselves. This is literal with Sweden's Loney Dear; the sole presence on Dingwalls' stage, with a guitar, bass drum and hi-hat, all playing consecutively. No, it isn't a drum on the back and cymbal on the head affair, rather he overdubs live loops, to create mountainous aural collages which sweep and swoon. My Heart is gradually built up and sounds astonishing. Swayat Jazz Café doesn't bother with such subtleties, a DJ and the fastest tongue in the (north)west is all he needs to create a frenzy of arm waving, bass bouncing and smiles all round.
Kwes, although solo, is backed with a drummer and synth-master allowing his bass to pulse and gentle voice to thrive. Live he lacks the enthralling layering of his records, but this is made up for by the sheer simplistic majesty of his songs which develop their own life live. The crammed Black Cap audience are captivated by Bashful's elegance and confirms his as the rightful owner to Ghostpoet's crown.
Unfortunately traditional bands can't live up to the level set by soloists. Koko hosts the most tedious of the weekend's music, first with The Big Pink playing their first home town show in months. From the whining bagpipes of opening track Gold they are nothing but insipid. Their anthemic mid-tempo stadium rock is more akin to The Script than their electro-noise peers and lack any imagination, even Robbie Furze's crowd hugging is from the How-To-Be-A-Rockstar 1987 handbook. It is, however, surprising how many songs are recognisable and Hit The Ground is truly thunderous.
Even for The Futureheads the Crawl failed them. They bravely preform a capella, with minimal acoustic instruments, in promotion of their excellent record Rant. But, come on, this is Koko, in Camden, on a Saturday night, it's not the time to show off how clever you are, nor win people over. A drunk swagger lad at the side correctly summed it up, heckling: "Boo, plug yer guitars in ya northern buggers."
After a Sunday morning nursing one's calves it's a relief to start the day gently with acoustic sessions for the media dahlings by Kids in Glass Houses and Niki and The Dove, more of whom later. However, it was Toy in a tiny chapel in St Michaels Church which really started Sunday with relentless fuzz-gaze reverberating around the appropriate surroundings. Equally as uplifting, but much more rawkus were Rolo Tomassi at Koko, who obliterated any hazy heads with their phenomenal math-hardcore. They would later repeat their pounding angular growls at the end of the night at Jazz Café.
Counteracting Saturday's guitar band failure, Evans the Death and Johnny Foreigner light up the DIY stage at The Wheelbarrow. The former show there's still life in 90's fuzz guitars and louche vocals while JoFo proved why their probably Britain's best, yet underappreciated, band. They're fast paced, energetic and in Alexei Berrow have a bona fide guitar hero in their midst. They start with Berrow and Kelly Sothern duetting a capella in the crowd to hushed appreciation, before their guitar riot sucker-punched the throbbing crowd. Fanzine at Enterprise would later reaffirm the guitar's reinvention with a wonderfully breezy take on fuzzy 90's college grunge.
Back in the Crawl's best venue, The Black Cap, our Ones To Watch, NZCA/Lines, ooze a slick synth sheen veering between oriental tinkling and sweeping RnB electronica, while managing to muster a groaning bass. Main man Michael Lovett has become suave and bold as he leans back and flicks a Jarvis-esque finger to the crowd while he sings. Ending with Atoms and Axes he uses his vintage Korg like a one handed guitar while jamming out. This is followed by goth-lite grunger FOE¸ with a set appealing to 14-year-old's wanting some entry level sanitised angst, and middle aged blokes.
Over at Jazz Café, a little tear is shed while the legendary Raincoats play Don't Be Mean (I'd waited 18 years to hear it live- DN), after a much delayed wait. While at Koko, Spector perform their indie-for-the-masses guitar pop near-hits, and The Cribs confirm themselves as a proper rock band. A Cribs' set is always mixed, their shouty feedback often descending into monotony, but tonight they're an invigorated and lively spectacle.
Sunday, however, belongs to Niki and The Dove. For two years they're been bubbling under, amassing an avid following of hipster fans, and they're now set to go nova with their earth shattering debut disc Instinct. At the Crawl they look like superstars, their tribal drums and piercing bleeps capturing the hearts of Koko. Their epic anthems are the soundtrack to a cool World Cup, a universal sound which empowers the body and stirs the soul. They were on at 7pm, and the venue wasn't full — this won't happen again — their majestic sound matched only by their inevitable accolade. London is a second home to Niki and the Dove and the city is theirs to own.
Best stage: DIY at Wheelbarrow - Bravely supporting innovative guitar music.
Best venue: The Black Cap – Tiny cabaret stage for the drummer while the band play on the floor.
Best band: Niki and the Dove – Just perfectly rousing pop.
Come again next year? Sure — as long as all the paving works by Camden tube are completed.


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So today at lunch I walked over to a MLCC to pay for a liquor permit and order the different types of alcohol, only to be told that the permit holder can't drink on the night of the permit, which excludes me since I'm sure I will have more then one. But this is definitely one responsibility that my Mr can take on, as he doesn't drink, ever, and neither does two of his groomsmen. They suggest that someone either then the bride or groom get the permit as we will possibly be busy when they come to inspect, so I might get his groomsman that live two blocks from us to go and sign the permit.
Apparently I have 10 business days to apply before the event which means TODAY! Luckily the MLCC by our house is open until 10pm today.
The type of Sales Permit I need is called a Family Oriented Event and costs $50.
The quantity of liquor that we can order is based on maximum allowable units, which is calculated as the number of adults attending / 5. (We have 375 capacity/5 = 75 units)
One Unit of Liquor =
- one bottle containing not more than 750 ml of spirits or fortified wine;
- 24 bottles or cans of beer each containing not more than 355ml;
- 3000ml of wine or less (3 x1L bottles or 4x750 ml bottles; or
- 24 bottles or cans of coolers or ciders each containing not more than 355ml.
So my MOH K and I have come up with the following liquor order, hopefully it covers our attendees' preferences:
- 120 Bud Lite = 5 Units
- 120 Lab Lite = 5 Units
- 108 Budweiser = 4.5 Units
- 108 MGD = 4.5 Units
- 72 Kokanee = 3 Units
- 72 Fort Garry Dark = 3 Units
- 10 bottles of Absolut Vodka = 10 Units
- 15 bottles of Club Whiskey/Rye = 15 Units
- 11 bottles of Barcardi Rum = 11 Units
- 7 bottles of Beffeater Gin = 7 Units
- 3 Raspberry Sour Puss = 3 Units
- 14 Yellow Tail Sauv Blan & 2 Yellow Tail Cab Sav 750ml bottles = 4units
The venue is providing us with pop for mix (Coke/Sprite/etc) but this weekend I also plan to pick up Cranberry Juice, Orange Juice, Tonic, and Clamato/Tomato Juice as additional mix for drinks. As well as limes, lemons, Worcestershire and Tabasco Sauce. Socials that I have attended with these extras have always gone over well and make people happy. Hopefully happy enough to buy more drinks!
Expected profit from alcohol sales = $1500 - 3000.
Do you have to go through a similar process in acquiring alcohol for your wedding where you live?


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Forex Trading – For beginners only
The Forex market can be the most important market for you and your family. Forex trading that occurs almost every day on Forex, determines the amount of purchasing power that money represents in your pocket. This makes learning about forex trading crucial for you and your family. Trying to understand the Forex market can be confusing at first. Uncommon terms such as technical analysis, graphic Forex charts and financial leverage can cause you frustration before even starting your learning curve. However, if you can get a little knowledge about Stabilis Lucra market, it will help you understand how Forex affects your family in a real way.
Forex is the largest market in the world. It is traded for up to $ 2-3 trillion a day, 6 days a week, 24 hours a day. Simply put, this is where the owner is. The use of commercial currencies requires large amounts of money to enter the game, in addition to only banks that have the ability to make deals. Even if you have a lot of money for adventure and you have a fixed relationship with a large bank, you can not trade Forex. Of course the internet is all that by providing direct access to financial markets all over the world through your desktop. Computer technology advanced in the late 1990s and led to the development of online trading platforms that can be installed on your computer. Today only anyone can trade currencies anywhere in the world through the computer and access to the Internet.
As a result, Stabilis Lucra Review foreign exchange market burst from a $ 1 billion market a day in 1970 to a $ 1 trillion market a day. While the sheer size of the market represents the greatest opportunity for financial gain, it also represents an equally significant opportunity to achieve financial loss. If you plan to trade in the Forex market, it is recommended that you learn as much as possible first in order to maximize your chances of success and reduce the risk of failure. We hope that reading this article is your first step towards this important goal.
The first concept that you should understand is that while the Forex market involves currency trading in international capital markets, the vast majority of deals occur without the transfer of material. All Forex transactions are made in pairs of currencies and the buyer or seller does not really care to hold the actual currency. To achieve this set of conditions, the Stabilis Lucra Review foreign exchange trade already consists of contracts to buy and sell currency pairs at a fixed exchange rate. The rate of this fix often fluctuates randomly during the day and is generally established by the market itself and more specifically by the broker you negotiate with on the terms of your individual contract. The size of the Forex market, the amount of people involved and the amount of money that is transferred every day make Forex a very attractive place to do business. There will always be good potential for profit.


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An outage at an Amazon Web Services has caused service disruptions across the Internet at popular sites, such as Reddit, Quora and Hootsuite, that rely on AWS for their hosting services.
According to the AWS Status Health Dashboard, an Amazon data center in Northern Virginia took a hit around 1:41 a.m. PDT on April 21, disrupting the company's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service.
At 1:41 a.m., Amazon's status dashboard said, "We are currently investigating latency and error rates with EBS volumes and connectivity issues reaching EC2 instances in the US-EAST-1 region." That hit led to further service disruptions at popular sites, including Foursquare, Reddit, Quora and Hootsuite.
Affected companies began issuing comments to inform users of their status.
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A note on Quora's site said: "We're currently having an unexpected outage, and are working to get the site back up as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience."
Reddit said: "Reddit is in -emergency read-only mode' right now because Amazon is experiencing a degradation. They are working on it, but we are still waiting for them to get to our volumes. You won't be able to log in. We're sorry and will fix the site as soon as we can."
And Hootsuite said: "We are having troubles. Oh no! It seems much of the Internet is struggling today due to widespread outage problems. We're working diligently with our upstream providers to resolve the conundrums so we can be back online as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience."
Although Amazon's health dashboard continued to report gradual improvements in the health of the system, a status update as late as 11:09 a.m. PDT said: "A number of people have asked us for an ETA on when we'll be fully recovered. We deeply understand why this is important and promise to share this information as soon as we have an estimate that we believe is close to accurate. Our high-level ballpark right now is that the ETA is a few hours. We can assure you that all-hands are on deck to recover as quickly as possible. We will update the community as we have more information."
Meanwhile, in an April 21 blog post, Andy Singleton, president of Assembla, a software development tools and services provider that uses Amazon EC2, said, "Some Assembla Subversion repositories are currently inaccessible. This is because of problems in the EC2 storage architecture that we use. The same problem is affecting services like Reddit and Quora. Those services are completely down. At Assembla, the majority of our services are working normally. However, the svn outage is very difficult for the people who can't code..."
Singleton further explains, "We made the decision to leave Amazon EC2 a few weeks ago because of this storage problem. We are currently setting up dedicated servers with hard-wired storage."
However, Singleton also said:
"We use Amazon EC2, and we recommend it because their truly on-demand server resources make it possible to rapidly try things, fix things and innovate. Innovation speed is important. We recommend Amazon because they have done the most to deliver -on demand.'"


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Gingrich: 'Fake News' Phenomenon Is 'Extraordinarily Dangerous'
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Monday on "Hannity" that "fake news" is a threat to honest discourse "because it teaches people things that aren't true."
Gingrich called the phenomenon extraordinarily dangerous" and said it is based on "fake education."
Malkin: Mainstream Press 'Still Suffering from Post-Election Indigestion'
Ingraham: Trump Is Fulfilling His Promise to Crack Down on Illegal Immigration
He said that some of the fault for "fake news" comes from what he considered superficial courses and concentrations taught at American colleges.
"How do you have a serious conversation where the elites think Iran is OK, when Iran paints 'death to Israel' on its missiles?" Gingrich asked, referring to Hollywood's applause for an Iranian filmmaker who did not attend the Oscars in protest of President Trump's travel ban.
Gingrich traced so-called "fake news" back to the 1960s when Ronald Reagan remarked that "it is not what liberals don't know is dangerous, it is what they know that isn't true is dangerous."
He and host Sean Hannity also commented on President Trump declining to attend the annual White House Correspondents Dinner later this Spring.
Starnes on Trump: Most Incredibly 'Deplorable' Speech in Presidential History
Cain: 'I Heard Liberals' Heads Exploding' During Trump's CPAC Speech
Hannity at CPAC: For Trump to Be Successful, He Needs Your Help


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Winter 2003
Collecting Our Thoughts
As we entered our fifth year of publication, we reviewed all past issues and realized that a number of articles are timely and timeless and could be grouped together for greater meaning.
The Violent Heart
The story of humanity is in large part the story of animosity and violence. What is it about people that leads them to treat one another as adversaries?
Taming the Monster Inside Us
In this interview with Jonathan Glover, which first appeared in the Summer 2001 issue, the British ethics professor addresses the human proclivity for cruelty.
The Origin of Evil
The "problem of evil" has frustrated philosophers for millennia. How do you reconcile the presence of evil with the existence of a loving God?
Marriage: Mystery and Meaning
Marriage is as old as humanity itself. But how relevant is it today?
A Culture of Divorce
More and more couples are willing to endure the pain of ending a marriage, a fact that is reshaping society itself, according to experts.
Parental Guidance Required
Children are shaped by many outside influences. Where should parents begin in reclaiming their role as authority figures and moral guides for their children?
Taking the Bounce Out of Boys
Vision contributor Thomas Fitzpatrick interviews author Christina Hoff Sommers about the upbringing of boys.
A Crisis of Identity
A look back at Christianity's departure from its Hebrew roots.
An Empty Shell
Why is the Bible silent on one of traditional Christianity's most important celebrations?
Groundless Claims
Where was Jesus buried and does it really matter?
Islam: Putting the Pieces Together
Vision speaks with Malise Ruthven, a noted authority on Islam, about the events of September 11, 2001.
Peace Be Within Your Walls
Vision publisher David Hulme interviews Shimon Peres, former prime minister of Israel, member of the Knesset, and founder of the Peres Center for Peace.
The New War?
David Hulme spoke with military historian Sir John Keegan soon after 9/11. Vision revisits their discussion on the changing face of war.