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U.S. drivers miss out on Mercedes newest model
Mercedes introduced its newest hatchback, the A45 AMG. The car has a 2.0-litre turbocharged engine under its hood and gets nearly 41 miles to the gallon. But the car isn't expected to come to the U.S. market in 2014.
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A tailback finally showed a pulse as Tony Gregory bounced outside for a 20-yard gain. Logan Thomas converted two third downs, the first on an improvised run, the second on a read option. Marcus Davis briefly emerged, catching a 24-yard strike from Thomas.
And the defense, bless their overworked hearts, allowed nine inches per play. Not yards, inches!
"We were dominating the game at that point," Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer said of Thursday's third quarter against Miami.
Dominating and losing.
Indeed, the worst Hokies team in two decades – we can all agree on that, yes? – owned many statistical advantages against the Hurricanes. But in the season's most important game, with five extra days to prepare, Tech came up small, falling 30-12.
"It's very frustrating, very disappointing," Beamer said, "and I know our fans are disappointed. … We're trying to get this thing right. Just got to keep hanging in there and it's going to turn around."
Not this season. After gift-wrapping control of the ACC's Coastal Division for Miami (5-4, 4-2), Tech (4-5, 2-3) is relegated to playing for pride and to make a 20th consecutive bowl.
That's quite the letdown for a program spoiled by eight straight 10-win seasons and five conference championship game appearances in the last seven years.
"We're so used to winning here," linebacker Jack Tyler said. "It's kind of a weird feeling."
Thursday's third quarter was particularly weird.
The Hokies outgained the Hurricanes 107-3. They had a first-and-goal at the 5 on one drive and a first-and-10 at Miami's 30 the next.
But they scored no points.
Cody Journell missed a 47-yard field goal attempt, ending a streak of 12 straight makes that dated to the season-opener. Worse, on third-and-goal from the 1, Thomas fumbled the snap, and Luther Robinson pounced on the ball, preserving Miami's 20-12 lead.
"You really feel like if you can get the game tied up that you've got the momentum," Beamer said.
The Hokies treated momentum like radioactive waste.
They drove into the red zone on the opening possession, but Thomas short-armed a pass toward fullback Joey Phillips that Ladarius Gunter easily intercepted.
Tech trimmed Miami's lead to 7-3 but allowed Duke Johnson to return the subsequent kickoff 81 yards.
Thomas raced 73 yards untouched for the Hokies' first touchdown, but Journell missed the point-after.
A.J. Hughes' punt pinned the Hurricanes at their 4, but Stephen Morris promptly completed passes of 13, 11, 30 and 26 yards, leading to a field goal.
Tech drove inside Miami's 5 in the waning seconds of the first half, but curious clock management and play calling forced the Hokies to kick a field goal on second down.
"I was waiting for them to stop the clock to measure or give us a first down," Beamer said of a second-and-2 Thomas run that started with 59 seconds remaining. "The clock's going to stop either way. Well the clock didn't stop, and finally I called a timeout. So then they measure and now we're a little bit short … and they said they came over and asked, 'Do you want your timeout?' But no one ever asked me, so now they put the ball back in play, and they start the clock again, and we're sitting there with three timeouts. …
"We'd have had one more shot at a play there. … Just miscommunication, kind of … an unusual situation, things just not going quite right."
The Hokies' last chance was a fourth-and-1 at Miami's 39 early in the fourth quarter. Thomas' play-action fake froze linebackers, and Phillips was lonesome in the left flat, only to watch Thomas' pass sail far over his head.
"A little bit here, a little bit there," Beamer said, a refrain that's bound to irritate fans.
More like a LOT here and a LOT there.
Consider the running game. Miami ranked 119th among 120 teams nationally in rushing defense, allowing 249.3 yards per game. Tech ran for 222, but 73 were a gift as linebacker Denzel Perryman slipped and fell on Thomas' touchdown sprint.
Also recall that Perryman (lower extremity) and safety Deon Bush (head) missed considerable time. Yet the Hokies still couldn't run consistently.
"There's no question we'd like to run the ball better," Beamer said. "But we've said that for a long time, too."
What hasn't been said for a long time is that a Virginia Tech football team is below average. But that's clearly the case in 2012, and like many such seasons for other consistent top-25 programs, the decline has been sudden.
Recall that entering last season's ACC title game, the Hokies were 11-1 and ranked fifth nationally. Since, they are 3-7 against Bowl Subdivision teams, and five of those defeats were by double-digits.
With No. 9 Florida State, the ACC's best team, heading to Blacksburg next week, those numbers figure to get worse. Moreover, the program's first losing season since a 2-8-1 finish in 1992 is a distinct possibility.
"It hurts because we're so close," Beamer said. "You take four, five plays and all of a sudden that gets the game going the other way."
But when those plays go wrong most every week, the problems are systemic, and pretending otherwise is foolish.
"We haven't got it fixed yet," Beamer said, "but I'm not going to give up trying, I'll tell you that."
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Question: Is Mirroring Supported by MS Access front-end?
The following question was posted on a SQL Server discussion group. My reply follows.
Is the MS SQL Mirroring supported by MS Access Frontend (.adp) ?
We have MS SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition.
The Mirroring is configured and works fine for .Net Applications.
See for example http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5h52hef8.aspx for using Mirroring in ADO.NET
But we have also MS Access Frontend Applications. How to use the mirroring in this case?
Where the second copy of the database must be configured?
My answer:
In order to specify the mirroring partner, you have to use the SQL Server Native Client 10.0 client for the DSN and specify the database name for the connection. The generic SQL Server DSN interface doesn't support it.


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GREENVILLE, Ill. -- The men's basketball team jumped out to a 13 point halftime lead and never looked back as they rolled to a 70-59 win over Eureka on Wednesday night. Freshman Nick Trisko led Greenville with 16 points, and sophomore Tim Daniel sparked the Panthers with 15 points, all on three-pointers, in the winning effort.
Freshman Jamal Daniels also posted a double-figure scoring effort with 10 points.
Junior Ron Harris collected nine rebounds and blocked three shots.
Senior Alex Mumphard passed out five assists.
The Panthers (11-6, 7-3) sit in fourth place, one-half game ahead of Westminster, for fourth place in the conference standings. Greenville travels to MacMurray for a 3 p.m. contest on Saturday.


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The longest consecutive running arts festival in the state will showcase the work of more than 100 artists from Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi on Saturday. The 44th annual Fayette Arts Festival will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Guthrie Smith Park. Admission is free.
The longest consecutive running arts festival in the state will showcase the work of more than 100 artists from Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi on Saturday.
The 44th annual Fayette Arts Festival will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Guthrie Smith Park. Admission is free.
"The (Fayette) Art Museum started this to give artists a chance to sell and display their work and not have to put a lot of money out to do it," said Anne Uhlman, director and curator for the museum. "It helps some of the people get the confidence to do it — there are still some people who are so talented but are too shy to display their artwork, so this is a chance for them to do it in their community and feel more comfortable with it."
The festival features fine art, folk art and craftsmen's art. Uhlman said fine art consists of paintings, pastel drawings and pen and pencil drawings. Many of these works already come matted and framed. Folk artists, she said, are artists at heart without formal training who use a lot of recycled or found materials, and craftsmen use anything from wood carvings to crochet to pottery.
The festival also gives artists the chance to enter into a juried exhibit.
"If they want to enter to be judged, its cash awards for each division, first, second and third place," she said. "There is a best in show and there is an artist choice award where they vote on their peers."
Also included in the awards are a Patrons' Choice Award, Art Museum Purchase and a Young Artists Award. For the Young Artists Award, the judges are asked to pick the top artist from the four young artists featured in the Young Artists' Division.
"It's a lot of different categories, but we also have the young artists' category, and that's where we advertise in our county schools from grade seven all the way up to college and young business (people)," Uhlman said. "It's kind of like a mentorship we do with the artists. They earn tent space, and they can sell and/or display their art for free."
Students are asked to submit photos of their art to be judged by the Fayette Art
Museum board of directors, much like how a juried art show is judged. This year, four students — Savannah Williams, 14; Zandra Willcutt, 14; Summer Estavan, 16; and Mallory Barrett, 11 — earned a spot in the mentor program and a tent at the festival.
In addition to the artists, The Fayette Arts Festival also features art projects for
children, food vendors and entertainment.
This year, in addition to the traditional tie-dyed Kids Place T-shirts, children will get to participate in three new projects: Cherokee leaf pounding, shaving cream art and winter landscape paintings, which will teach them about color schemes.
"It gives moms a time to shop while children are doing their art activities," Ulhman said. "We have our local police — we always have someone on duty so no one is nervous about leaving their children while they are looking around. It's very kid-friendly."
Food options will include Dippin' Dots, barbecue, hot dogs and hamburgers. The Relay for Life team will hold a bake sale throughout the festival to raise money for a local 14-year-old girl who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer.
"(They'll have) homemade baked goods from all of the Fayette County Relay for Life teams," she said. "All of the proceeds will go to that family.
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9 a.m.: Welcome
9:05 a.m.: Eric Willingham, vocalist
9:30 a.m.: First Baptist Church Praise Team
10 a.m.: Bama's Cloggers and Dancers
11 a.m.: Cody Kimbrell and "Within the Walls"
11:30 a.m.: Denise Estevan, vocalist
Noon: Iva (Gardener) and Doug Wooten, keyboard and vocalist
12:30 p.m.: Arts Festival Awards presented by Mayor Ray Nelson and Festival Chair Anne Perry-Uhlman
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Harford County is one step closer to requiring defibrillators in all swimming pools, after the County Council introduced a bill requiring them Tuesday night.
The bill requires that CPR rescue masks, automatic external defibrillators and first-aid kits be provided and maintained at each public, recreational and semi-public pool.
Council President Billy Boniface said he was interested in having the local version of what is known as "Connor's Law," which relates to safety at swimming pools.
The law is being promoted by the parents of Connor Freed, a 5-year-old Anne Arundel County boy, who drowned in a pool in 2005.
An AED was available at the pool where Connor drowned, but no one was able to use it, Boniface said earlier.
Boniface also plans to put more AEDs in county government buildings. He had planned to talk to the county risk management department last month about installing AEDs in more county buildings, which does not require legislation.
He said some county government facilities, such as senior centers, already have AEDs.
Boniface said Thursday he has already talked with risk management about putting them in county buildings, which is happening on an as-needed basis for now.
"We're doing our best in having them installed in as many buildings as possible," he said.
Walmart supporters
Walmart again brought out supporters of the Bel Air store to testify before the council on Tuesday.
Several residents from the immediate area spoke out about the need for a Walmart store there and Harry Hammel, a public relations representative for the store, was at the meeting.
Elizabeth Cox said Walmart is offering to help the county and help neighbors feel safer in that area by improving traffic conditions.
She pointed out MedStar is coming as well and the county should have a more coordinated planning effort.
"Doesn't it make sense to have the county get assistance with their traffic issues that could possibly help in the solution?" she said, in reference to Walmart. "Doesn't it make sense to have everyone, Walmart, MedStar, anyone that's interested in coming into that area, to work as one to assist the county?"
Nimisha Shah, another resident, said she was mostly excited about new jobs and tax dollars.
"You can't lose if there's more tax dollars coming in," she said.
Bill Atkins said he has enjoyed seeing more shopping and development come to Bel Air, which he was reminded of after a recent trip to Baltimore.
"My wife and I went down to the stadium today," he said, in reference to the recent Ravens victory rally. "I felt so good to live in Harford County and said, boy, I'm glad I don't have to live down there."
Atkins said when his family moved to Bel Air, they had to go shopping in Towson or Baltimore, but that has changed.
"I have all the faith in the world on the progress you've made here in Harford County," he said. "Baltimore City hasn't made any progress. It's the same it was when I was a kid and lived there."
Atkins said Walmart fits in with that plan.
"It's just another part of the progress that Harford County has made," he said.
Councilman Jim McMahan said he got a question about the council's failure to send a letter to the State Highway Administration asking for access to be denied to Route 924 for the MedStar Health building.
The council sent such a letter to the SHA regarding Walmart.
McMahan said MedStar's property does not touch Route 924 anywhere and MedStar never applied for that access.
"They are on a feeder road which is an extension to Plum Tree [Road], so that has nothing to do with 924," he said.
Sandy funding
Also at the meeting, the council passed a bill revising the membership requirements of the Local Management Board to add the director of a developmental disabilities organization, private sector members and the possibility of allowing people to act as designees in their stead.
The council approved $1.2 million to fund estimated expenses attributed to Hurricane Sandy and unanticipated weather-related events.
Ryan Burbey, of the Harford County Education Association, again warned the council that times were dire for the county's school system, now that superintendent Robert Tomback and associate superintendent Bill Lawrence were stepping down.
"The future isn't quite as bright as the county's economic lens right now," he said, mentioning "an eminent funding crisis for your schools."
He said schools are losing money in state aid and are facing a budget hole of $20 million.
Burbey added he did not want to see schools close and other serious consequences because of lack of funding and support.
"I need you all to move past this idea of bricks and mortar for schools," he said. "This is definitely serious at this point."


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UH Manoa College of Education to Graduate Third Cohort in Master's Program with Middle Level EmphasisUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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The Masters of Education in Secondary Education with a Middle Level Emphasis Program (MLMED) in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's College of Education will be graduating its third cohort of participants in Summer 2002. This will bring the total number of MLMED graduates to nearly 100 since the program began in 1996. The program is developing a solid, local knowledge base, and leadership cadre in middle level education, which includes grades five through nine.
Students in the middle grades are known as "early adolescents" and undergo the upheavals of puberty while trying to navigate school. These 10- to 15-year-olds face tremendous change in all areasphysical, emotional, moral, and intellectual. Many youngsters encounter great difficulty dealing with the increasingly complex demands of this age, though most do quite well. Recent research indicates that providing a structured, nurturing, highly personal school environment, and making learning a very active and collaborative process can help adolescents develop in a healthy manner, and learn far more than in traditional, impersonal, teacher-centered schools.
"Hawaiʻi schools, both public and private, have been trying to implement developmentally-appropriate middle level education approaches since the late 1980s. However, until the MLMED program began, there was no education program in the state that focused on early adolescents and their teachers, and this remains the only such program," explains Dr. Paul Deering, associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies.
MLMED participants work full-time in middle level schools, most as teachers, and complete the program in two years by taking classes in the evenings and during summers. Besides learning how to teach early adolescents more effectively, participants are also required to step forward as leaders in their schools and beyond.
In 2001, the Department of Education adopted the Middle Level Education Policy that mandates research-based, developmentally-appropriate school practice in the middle grades. MLMED participants have taken on a remarkable degree of leadership in moving the state and the nation forward in improving the education of early adolescents; for example:
· Seven MLMED graduates teach at the college level.
· 10 MLMED participants have served on the Hawaiʻi Association of Middle Schools (HAMS) board.
· Six MLMED participants have been nominated as HAMS C.W. Stevens Educators of the Year.
· Over 20 MLMED participants have presented at national or international conferences.
· Half-a-dozen MLMED participants have served in their schools as acting administrators or counselors.
Other notable accomplishments of MLMED participants include:
· Dayni Kawamoto, Wilbert Lum, Tracy Oshiro, Ellen Owens, Lee Takagi, Sandie Yamada, and Michelle Frisbie of MLMED Cohort One and teachers at Central Middle School, helped lead school improvement initiatives that contributed to the school being named one of Frito-Lay of Hawaiʻi's Outstanding Public Schools for 2001-2002.
· Wanda Harris of MLMED Cohort Two and a teacher at Lanikai Elementary School, won the International Cyber Fair Competition in 1999 and 2000 with her sixth grade students and Consultant Lauren Apiki for their websites displaying research on local water resources.
· Carolyn Alameida of MLMED Cohort Three and a teacher at Mililani Middle School, published an article on her human body curriculum titled "Skeletons in Your Classroom" in the journal Science Scope.
The MLMED faculty come from a range of UH Mānoa departments such as Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies, Special Education, the Center on the Family, Family Resources, and the University Lab School. The program has a 92 percent completion rate, and accepts up to 20 percent of its applicants on "academic probation," and helps them to develop the skills needed to succeed in graduate school and to excel in the workplace. This has contributed to the program having nearly one-third of its participants from groups underrepresented in the state's teaching forcepersons of Hawaiian, Filipino, and other Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander ancestry.
"As MLMED Cohort Three graduates this summer, and 30 plus participants in Cohort Four begin the program, a tradition of dedication to early adolescents will continue," says Deering. "More hard-working educational leaders will be advancing to the front lines in the state's move toward effective, developmentally-appropriate schools for early adolescents. The state's 10- to 15-year-olds and all its citizens, owe these dedicated educators a big thank you."


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I went to Fatty Crab for the first time last week. My brother and I hit the Upper West Side version and we really enjoyed the food. But our waiter was overbearing–sell!, sell!, sell!–and the food was not cheap.
Then, a few nights ago, I had dinner at Lotus of Siam, the new Thai place on 5th Avenue just off 9th Street. I went with a pal and we arrived early, at 6:00. The host snarled when we told him that we didn't have a reservation.
"Did that guy just snarl at us?" I said to my friend. "The dining room is half-empty and he"
It was a chilly way to start the evening. Then our waitress…oh, the waitress. "She's young," my pal said. I tried to sympathize even though she was either overwhelmed or simply not especially interested in her job. But at $26 an entree, man, I want the service to be welcoming, informative, at least competent. I can deal with rude, like if an old Jewish waiter spills soup on you and then balls you out, but aloof, I can't abide.
The food was yummy but the portions were small and it was not cheap. Worst of all, I didn't leave the place feeling happy. I left longing for SriPraPhai in Queens, for a place where the food is great, the prices reasonable and the atmosphere something less than smug.


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Tonight on the program, we examine charges against the IRS for unfairly auditing conservative groups and the call for more transparency. Also: the Justice Department seized AP phone records to track leaks, sparking enthusiasm for schools in India, a U.S. diplomat is arrested in Russia on accusations of spying, and arguing that technology helps the little guy.
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Red Hat Acquiring Cloud Storage Company Gluster 34
Julie188 writes "One of the more interesting aspects of Red Hat's acquisition of virtual storage vendor Gluster on Tuesday is how it drags Red Hat into bed with its cloud competitor OpenStack. Red Hat made waves over the summer in the open source community when one of its executives threw punches at OpenStack's community, saying the community amounted to not much more than a bunch of press releases. In July, Gluster contributed its Connector for OpenStack. It enables features such as live migration of VMs, instant boot of VMs, and movement of VMs between clouds on a GlusterFS environment. While Fedora has already said that its upcoming Fedora 16 would support OpenStack, Fedora is a community distro and not beholden to Red Hat. However, Red Hat today promised that it would continue to support and maintain Gluster's contribution to OpenStack. It didn't, however, to promise to quit the smack talk."


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I was a fan of Jesse Williams from Alabama (well Australia anyway) who has been making pretty big waves (tidal waves even...) in the press over here. Saw a photo today close up - has "YOLO" tattooed in front of his ear. Gutted. Worse than the day my pants split.
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Also, carn Ray Lewis, do it for Smooteh.
Though I think Niners will win tonight, I'll be rooting for the Ravens. Can't have the Niners with more SB wins than the Cowboys you see.
San Fran getting their ass whipped.
Although the score is closer than it feels.
:laugh: Enjoying this so much.
My cousin who used to live in Baltimore for several years, up until recently, and hates the Ravens with a passion is absolutely losing it at the moment.
How many touch downs has Omar scored?
This just in: Jay-Z has an awesome *** life.
Lol, game over?
Oh man, it's a massacre.
109yd touchdown return in a Superbowl. Eek!
Lol epic. That surely has to be it.
Yeah unless they score on this drive, this is over.
What the hell is going on right now? No lights in the stadium and no sound on the announcement team.
Edit: Baneeeeeeeee!
This happened in the only other 49er game I watched this season.
A bit of a momentum stealer.


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Filmmaker Discusses Experiences Growing Up in China During Cultural Revolution
April 07, 2010
Filmmaker Dr. Carma Hinton recalled some of her experiences growing up in China and as a teenager during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution before presenting her two-hour documentary, 'Morning Sun,' at Mount Union College on September 20.
Dr. Carma Hinton (left) is introduced by Dr. Liangwu Yin, associate professor of history and director of the non-western studies program at Mount Union College.
'Morning Sun' attempts to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1964 ' 1976). The documentary provides a perspective of the period through the eyes of people born around the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, who became teenagers during the Cultural Revolution.
Hinton was born to American parents living in Beijing in 1949. It was not until she came to the United States to study, at the age of 21, that she learned to speak English. Growing up as a Chinese-born American, as she refers to herself, has made Hinton's perspective very different from others, and she believes it has affected her outlook on life in general.
'I see things in many shades of gray,' said Hinton. 'Most people simply see things from one perspective.'
She recalls initially being 'thrilled' by the Cultural Revolution, but said eventually 'horrible things began to happen.'
'It was liberating to realize we could challenge the powers that be,' recalled Hinton. 'But then things began to go way beyond the boundaries.'
The Cultural Revolution is something that is still not talked about in China, according to Hinton, so making the documentary required her to do her research and interviews quietly.
Hinton, who has taught Chinese language, history and culture at Wellesley College, Swarthmore College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), says that there is something for everyone to learn from the events of the Cultural Revolution, particularly in light of current events.
'This lesson goes way beyond China,' said Hinton. 'In every culture and every part of this world this type of extreme persecution can happen. I have seen some events recently in the United States that remind me of my experiences in China, where people are reacting with distain for others who have a different opinion than they do. This is America! There is supposed to be open debate and dialogue. But this clinging to a single-minded ideology is an all-too-human impulse, and we should all guard against that.'


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Unless somebody has proof that somebody was trying to create a back door then stop with all of the "X-Files" shit. It could have been a hacker trying to put that code in. How was the system that hosted the CVS repository managed? Was it hacked? Was there any investigation or was it possibly somebody that did something stupid and now everybody thinks it's somehow tied to the NSA?!?!?
Let's just go forward with what we know and stop the speculation, that is unless somebody has some hard facts like an IP address that belongs to the government or a chain of evidence.
There's a 50% chance it was aliens. Either it was aliens, or it wasn't aliens.
Bored enough to know how to stealthily insert their modified code into the CVS repo.
That eliminates most script kiddies...
In 2003, there wasn't even near the IDS/IPS technology of today. Firewalls were in place, but some places still have not moved to internal segments with firewalls on the internal networks.
This could have been anyone. Yes, it -could- have been the Greys, the NSA, the CIA, MI5, Elbonia's secret police, or the Illuminati, but right now, it was a detected hack attempt, and anything more is pure rumor unless there is something definitely specified in the papers Snowden sold to the Guardian.
Unless somebody has proof that somebody was trying to create a back door then stop with all of the "X-Files" shit. It could have been a hacker trying to put that code in. How was the system that hosted the CVS repository managed? Was it hacked? Was there any investigation or was it possibly somebody that did something stupid and now everybody thinks it's somehow tied to the NSA?!?!?
Yes, there was an investigation [indiana.edu]. The name attached to the log entries belonged to someone who said he didn't make the changes.
L. McVoy...
It's not a big deal, we catch stuff like this, but it's annoying to the
CVS users.
My Favorite from A. Walrond..
Somebody getting access to and inserting exploits directly into the linux
source is not something we should take lightly. Whilst we understand the
limits of the problem, the fact that it happened at all could get
all proportion and be used to seriously undermine linux's reputation
Note, back in 2003, "/.'d out of all proportion..." which is exactly what this article is all about.
The name attached to the log entries belonged to someone who said he didn't make the changes.
Well, it also had the fact that CVS was just a read-only clone. If you wanted to make a change, you can't submit it to CVS - you had to submit it up the change and eventually it would hit the BitKeeper repo first, then propagate to CVS.
So oddball entries like that mean it not only is a change that doesn't end up back in the BK tree (because there's no pointer back to the BK changeset), so something strange is going on.
Of course, this only affected CVS users - it would not affect BK users (as the CVS was a one-way clone of the BK tree that was autogenerated), so the change not only was only in CVS, but there is no corresponding change in the BK tree to be linked with anyone.
Unless somebody has proof that somebody was trying to create a back door then stop with all of the "X-Files" shit. It could have been a hacker trying to put that code in.
Which is pretty much the same thing, isn't it?
'Somebody' or 'a hacker' or 'an unnamed government agency'
That the NSA has been motivated to do stuff like this is readily apparent unless you've not listened to any news in the last several months. Whether they did it or someone else did, who knows.
But it's hardly a wacky assertion that it could have been the NSA. It also could have been me, but I'm not telling.
I do listen to the news, so prove to me that it was the NSA rather than some bored college student looking to inject some mayhem? During my first two years of college, I worked as a Systems Operator. We had students who pushed the envelope on APIs, system calls and other things. They'd come up with strange things and bugs and report them to us. "I created this 128 character string and it had somebody's name in it when I printed it out." Well that's what it was like in the late 70s, when memory wasn't
I do listen to the news, so prove to me that it was the NSA rather than some bored college student looking to inject some mayhem?
And why would I seek to prove something to you that it says right in the damned article that nobody knows who did it, or why, or how? I certainly never claimed it was the NSA, and even TFS suggest that, while it could have been the NSA, they don't know.
There is direct proof someone tried to insert a back door, but as far as who did it, nobody fucking knows, and TFS even says that.
Given what the NSA is doing lately, they're a plausible guess, but, there is no proof to suggest what entity did that
You're asking for proof of something that people are only suggesting as a possibility, not claiming as fact. Which means you're not even debating the article, you're debating something the article didn't say but you're acting as if it did.
You're tilting at windmills there dude.
I would probably be more apt to name the Chinese or the Russians before the NSA, after all, the Chinese have a decent financial stake in linux development, and have had for some time. Red Flag Linux (est. Jan 2000) has it's roots in Chinese state-funded computer science.
I would probably be more apt to name the
In the absence of evidence, I would be more likely to refrain from naming anybody.
Some unknown actor did it, how and for what reasons is completely unknown. Had it worked it would have resulted in a backdoor.
Listing shady entities it could have been might be a fun game, but it's meaningless. And TFS pretty much says that.
There is direct proof someone tried to insert a back door,
Or there was a coding error. After all, one single missing "=" makes its effect that of a back door, even if that had not been the intent.
One wonders just how many of this type of "back door" actually exists in the mountain of source code.
The unique thing about this incident is that it was only found by some random diff, not someone reading validly submitted code and saying "oh wait this is a back door".
Given all the massive patches and totally new sections of code that get submitted each year, its apparen
Or there was a coding error.
A coding error, which got into CVS and bypassed BitKeeper, for which there's no commit logs to account for it? And which by sheer fluke would also have been an exploit?
Sure, it could have been a coding error, but the description of how they found it and what they couldn't subsequently find would strongly suggest that this got in there by some really, er, 'unusual' mechanism.
It sounds like they did the forensics at the time, and that it didn't come in through any mechanism any of them could account for.
If I understood correctly, this didn't get into CVS from a commit, it just ended up in there. And in many years of working with CVS, I'm pretty sure I've never seen that happen.
The fact that
strongly suggest that this was a deliberate feature, and not a casual error. I've done a lot of security audits of mission critical systems in my time and I've seen a lot of potentially catastrophic casual errors. You can always see what (innocent) thing the programmer intended to do. There's no 'innocent' thing this change could do. This is intended.
Who intended it? That's another question.
Actually in this very specific case the Occam razor's version of event was a malicious attempt.
Just the other day I arrived at work to find traces of my externally accessible office door being jimmied. Now what is more likely (1) that the janitors lost the master key and forced their way in to vacuum clean or (2) that someone (likely a petty burglar) opened it and took my missing radio?
There is a suid exploit inserted in an unauthorized way. The simplest explanation is a backdoor attack. The subsequent investigation seems to support this further, even though we still do not know with certainty since the guilty person was never caught. However we can operate on the assumption that this was a malicious attack and discuss it as such.
Actually in this very specific case the Occam razor's version of event was a malicious attempt.
What's Jodie Foster got to do with this?
Yeah, Yeah, that movie sucked!
was not the claim that someone was trying to insert a backdoor into the Linux kernel, but that that someone was the NSA, as there is zero evidence to point to any suspect
Except nobody is saying "it was the NSA".
In fact, the last sentence of TFS says
Bould this have been an NSA attack? Maybe. But there were many others who had the skill and motivation to carry out this attack,' writes Felton. 'Unless somebody confesses, or a smoking-gun document turns up, we'll never know.'
Which means all arguments which foll
Unless somebody has proof that somebody was trying to create a back door then stop with all of the "X-Files" shit.
The code snippet is an obvious attempt at a backdoor. What more "proof" do you need?
It could have been a hacker trying to put that code in.
So? How does that make it "not a backdoor"? The code is the same regardless of who put it there.
Some obvious lessons from this are:
1. Run your compiler with the warnings on.
2. Use lint.
Either of these would have flagged this problem.
When run with "gcc -Wall", this warning is produced: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value.
> The code snippet is an obvious attempt at a backdoor. What more "proof" do you need?
Actually, the code snippet, without context is not an obvious attempt. It is a cleverly hidden attempt that COULD be a genuine error.
However, having no approved submission to track it back to, that makes it an obvious attempt, even more so with evidence that the hosting system was compromised.
I would even call it obvious if they had an approved submission if the submitter didn't have some good justification for mucking with an error handler for a case that shouldn't happen, those tend to not need much maintenance.
Let's just go forward with what we know and stop the speculation
Skip that. How about we go with "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." We're talking about a single character that turns what everyone seems to agree would be an error-check, into an exploit. This sort of thing happens all the time, and nobody says the butler did it, in the observatory, with the lead pipe, when it does. They say "Hey, man, your last diff patch might have a bug." (explains bug)
then stop with all of the "X-Files" shit.
What if I told you all of the "X-Files" shit comes quite close to actual recent events.
Unless somebody has proof that somebody was trying to create a back door then stop with all of the "X-Files" shit.
Yes. Never try to think that anyone would be interested in compromising a very popular OS. Always assume that it was just a simple mistake, and the fact that safety precautions to avoid this kind of mistake were also bypassed: it's always co-incidence. Never suspect anyone, ever. Security by hiding your head in the sand is the best security ever. By the time you realize they chopped your head off, you're already dead, so you have never have anything to worry about.
After all, what possible kind of advantag
Unless somebody has proof that somebody was trying to create a back door then stop with all of the "X-Files" shit
It was put in surreptitiously, is that not enough to conclude it was intentional? Its one thing to be a skeptic, but it is quite another to ignore facts.
This has been posted plenty of times on here, and this article has no new information on the backdoor attempt. About the only thing is the spurious claim the NSA was behind hit. Geez.
You're forgetting that the NSA is in the news right now, which creates an entirely new angle on it.
I was able to get a copy of the original submission:
Ed Felton writes about an incident, in 2003, in which someone tried to backdoor the Linux kernel, a key component of the GNU/Linux operating system. As you know, Apple just released a new operating system called iOS 6. Is it possible that an NSA contractor, paid in Bitcoins raised through an anonymous Kickstarter project to avoid detection, placed an exploit in the new iPhone 5S? And if so, should the government immediately investigate Google who might have used the feature to implement some sort of tracking bug for people using their iPhones in their Teslas?
I can see why the original submission was edited.
No mention of a Raspberry Pi.
Not just in the news, but documented as having worked with software companies to inject backdoors into software, and hints that they may have specifically solicited Linus to do that with Linux.
Thank you!
I just won another round of conspiracy theory bingo. It's like the regular bingo that grandma likes, with a lot more "Ha! I knew it!"s just for grandpa.
OMG Thank you.
I have often seen this form, not just in C but elsewhere. I always thought it was more a formatting preference for readability (often the variables being tested part of the equation doesn't change, so move the part that does change closer towards the start of the line)
I never considered that it might help catch or mitigate this sort of error. Truely 0 = uid, while also quite bad yet legal C*, doesn't reassign the UID.
* I always thought this was legal, but now that I try it, I find this gives a compile time error - "error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment". Currently gcc is the only compiler I have on hand, so i can't check some of the much older ones.
I think I read the same thing, or something about the same issue. I always remember seeing some examples of this and the odd and what it would lead to. For some reason, I remember C being the language in question, but maybe not.
Truely 0 = uid, while also quite bad yet legal C*, doesn't reassign the UID.
* I always thought this was legal, but now that I try it, I find this gives a compile time error - "error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment". Currently gcc is the only compiler I have on hand, so i can't check some of the much older ones.
No, assigning to a non-lvalue (where lvalue is defined, essentially, as "something that can be assigned to") has never been legal C or C++.
What would it even mean?
"Unfortunately there's a lot of old code that doesn't do this..."
Nice implication that this is a standard rather than a preference. A lot of new code "doesn't do this" either because a lot of people don't feel like you do, myself included.
Writing expressions backwards hampers the readability of code and only theoretically catches problems. I can count on one hand the times in my career I've suffered this particular fate and I'm not going to pay a price every day for a structural "solution" to a problem I don't have. I've been working with programmers that do this for 20 years and have never found it to be anything but a nuisance. If it works for them, fine, but it doesn't go into my work. I'm not weak but if you are then by all means, use your crutch.
Sometimes the answer is be better at what you do. Once upon a time you could declare a local variable in a switch statement without explicitly limiting scope. Now you must incur the wrath of the nanny compiler or pollute your code with compiler-pacifying turds. This could be made to work right but the same people who think we need shit like this can't be bothered doing a proper job of implementing it. We have attitudes such as yours to thank for crap like that.
At my new job there are debates on what compiler warming levels to adopt. The reason is the release process enforces a no-tolerance policy for warnings and there's a large code base that will never be warning-free at higher levels. This is what you get when you create compiler-enforced "rules" rather than focus on skills and better code quality, particularly when you abdicate to tools you don't control or even understand.
Unfortunately there's a lot of old code that doesn't do this
I still write new code that doesn't do this. I think about people like you every time I do it though, so at least I'm thinking of you. That's something.
Personally if I was designing a language I'd ban the single = operator and use
In hindsight this is one of the things that I wish Kernighan & Ritchie (the original authors of C) should have considered.
Pascal and Ada both use ":=" as an assignment operation and "=" for testing equality, so this type of error is a non-issue in these languages. Furthermore Pascal (1970) actually predates C (1972) by two years, so it bears consideration why K&R overlooked this possibility.
That said, nearly all modern compilers (incl. GCC) do print a warning if you use a "=" operation in a if() or
The difference between linux and closed source OSs is that on linux you may be able to identify malicious code in the kernel and remedy this situation. For closed source solutions you're truly fucked through and through. You seriously think Microsoft and Apple haven't backdoored their OS ? Just one more reason to stop using closed source software if you value your privacy, your secrets etc...
I hope the Linux team, which has the security of billions of people in their hands, uses far better security than Felton's article implies. (And for all I know it is.)
The excerpt above suggests that someone happened to notice a change that wasn't pointing to an approval record. What if nobody happened to notice? What if the attacker also created an approval record? And was there a serious effort to find the exploit used and close it, and find the perpetrator?
I hope the Linux kernel's integrity is monitored
It is monitored more carefully. Notice that the backdoor was only introduced into the CVS copy, which wasn't the official copy used to create kernel releases. It never made it into the official copy in BitKeeper, because to get there it would've had to go through the official review and approval process that would've caught and rejected it. And without making it into the BitKeeper repository it never would've been used by any major distribution, only by developers and private distributions that pulled from the CVS copy because of objections to BitKeeper.
And today even that unofficial copy is gone. With the change to git I believe there aren't any secondary copies in other version-control systems except maybe private ones developers keep for whatever reason which wouldn't be able to feed changes back into the main repository without going through the review and approval process every submission has to go through.
Long and short, the Linux kernel repository's no more vulnerable than the internal repositories for Windows or the Oracle database system, and it's probably less vulnerable. Microsoft or Oracle's repositories will take commits from any random contractor that's been hired to work on the code, regardless of their background or history. The Linux repository... it may accept submissions from anyone, but the degree of review before approving the submission depends heavily on how well the project maintainers know the submitter. The first submissions from someone the maintainer doesn't know are going to be reviewed with a fine-toothed comb and a skeptical eye, and very few black-hats are going to be willing to spend years submitting high-quality code to build up enough of a reputation with the maintainer to be able to get code in with only a cursory review. It's the difference between a development team and a developer community.
Thanks for the explanation. One point I don't quite agree on:
very few black-hats are going to be willing to spend years submitting high-quality code to build up enough of a reputation with the maintainer to be able to get code in with only a cursory review.
I think you are underestimating the value to attackers of compromising Linux, and therefore everything that runs on Linux. Paying someone over several years to build a reputation in a community is nothing for a state intelligence budget or even unusual activity (based on my very limited knowledge).
Also, in IT security, insiders are often considered the greatest security threat. Established community members can be compromised; maybe they need mone
Why didn't
Doesn't GCC warn for this by default? I'm pretty sure I remember getting compiler warnings from it in cases when I deliberately had an assignment operator in an if conditional.
If it was the NSA, it'd be hard to trace now. Especially as this is going back to 2003, prior to all this excitement. It doesn't matter. It didn't work, and the NSA is suspected of perpetrating more recent attacks at a different level in the chain.
But this example brings up a good point, which is how vulnurable C and C++ code is in general to obfuscation. It is a known security risk and attack vector, but programmers tend to gloss over it, mainly when they can't accept that they are just as capable of makin
I'm suprised that no one mentioned the Underhanded C Contest
http://underhanded.xcott.com/ [xcott.com]
Quoting their web site:
"The goal of the contest is to write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should do something subtly evil. "
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Tallahassee, FL – Noel Gonzalez remembers crossing the street on Capital Circle and Woodland and was suddenly hit by a car without its lights on going close to about 50 miles an hour in the dark. He admits "I didn't even see it coming and the next thing I know, I'm waking up in the hospital." Noel Gonzalez is one of many people going through the rehab program at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, however, this particular program offers recovery with the help of a four legged companion. According to Jim Tebo, a Physical Therapist at the TMH Rehabilitation Center, "it just allows people to relax and they can have a chance to laugh for a few moments then forget about what their problems are at the time."
Tallahassee Memorial Animal Therapy uses animals to calm, motivate and engage patients. Program Coordinator, Stephanie Perkins, says there are a lot of things that people will do for animals that they won't do for humans. Perkins admits "we can use the animals as a conduit for mobility. People with mobility issues they can grasp a brush maybe in the hand they are having problems using or the arm they are having problems moving and they can use that brush to maybe brush the dog gently."
The TMH Animal Therapy Program visits 50 facilities in the Big Bend area. Perkins says "we visit children, seniors and adults, The children we visit can be child victims of violent offenses, that's at the courthouse, we do go into criminal cases as well as dependency court to support the families and children going through issues there. We visit the schools as part of the Reading Education Assistance Dogs program, and that is where the children read to the dogs or cat, we actually have a cat participating now which is really neat."
Bogey, a Boykin Spaniel, is one of the dogs involved in the program. About 2 and a half years ago, Bogey went through rehab therapy herself. Richard Gardner, Bogey's owner and handler says, "Bogey and I are made for it, I'm a cancer survivor and Bogey, she had neurological issues, she went through therapy for 4 months, 3 or 4 days a week." Hundreds of clinical trials show that petting an animal helps reduce stress and anxiety, helps reduce blood pressure and can assist in pain management. Tebo says "over time they look forward to the dogs and you can see there's like a little bond that starts and it helps."
Noel has had 11 surgeries so far and has one more to go. He says spending time with Bogey and the other therapy animals has helped him heal. He says "just as much as she likes the petting, I probably like to pet her just the same."
Do you think your pet might be a good fit for the program? It only takes a few steps to find out. First we have an initial screening, We basically have an overview of the temperament of the team, animal and handler which takes 10 minutes, it's really quick. Then they sign up for classes. We have a one day workshop that's all people, all information that we just throw information at people, after that, 5 weeks of classes with your animal.
As for Bogey, I asked how long will she be working with patients in the pet therapy program? Gardner's response while looking down at Bogey was "as long as both of us are healthy we'll be here, won't we baby."
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Hump Day looks like it will be a nice, but cold one. Highs settling in the 30s with a few 40s down south. We will have mostly sunny skies through the afternoon with a nice westerly breeze. Going into the Thursday we need to keep a close eye on because that will be when our next system streams our way. Most of the day on Thursday appears dry, but come late Thursday we will start seeing rain increase from the west. This will be a system to break down as it approaches in the next 24 hours because we could see a wintry mix out of it, which includes possible freezing rain. Timing on this will be Thursday night into Friday morning.
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Saints to make Baton Rouge stop on 3-day caravan
By SHELDON MICKLES
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New Orleans Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis and coach Jim Haslett will head up the team's third annual Western Regional Caravan, a three-day event which includes a Thursday stop in Baton Rouge.
Loomis and Haslett will be joined on the five-city tour by defensive end Darren Howard, cornerback Ashley Ambrose, and wide receiver Jerome Pathon. They will meet and greet fans at the Mall of Louisiana, 6401 Bluebonnet Blvd., from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The Baton Rouge stop comes on the second day of the tour, which begins Wednesday afternoon with a visit to Monroe. On Thursday, the group makes a stop in Natchez, Miss., before heading to Baton Rouge.
On Friday, the caravan will conclude with visits to Lake Charles and Lafayette. This is the first time a Saints' caravan will visit Monroe, Natchez and Lake Charles. An Eastern Regional Caravan to Mississippi and Alabama will be held June 23-25.
Each of the caravan stops will feature an autograph session, an overview of the upcoming season and a question and answer session. Drawings will also be held for Saints merchandise, memorabilia and information on season and group ticket sales will be available.
The public meeting at the Mall of Louisi-ana will be the second of three events in Baton Rouge, but the only one open to the public. The Saints will be introduced to state legislators at the Capitol from 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. and visit with lawmakers again at a private residence from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
"We are expanding our efforts to reach out to our fans throughout the Gulf South, and this caravan will give supporters in five cities the opportunity to get to know our team and organization up close and personal," said Arnold D. Fielkow, the Saints executive vice president of administration. "We are looking forward to meeting Saints fans from all over the region, and we're especially excited about making first-time stops in Monroe, Natchez and Lake Charles."
Fans can visit with the Saints in Monroe at the Holiday Inn Holidome from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Wednes-day and from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Thursday at Bowie's Tavern in Natchez. The Saints will also visit the Natchez Regional Medical Center and Natchez Community Hospital from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
In Lake Charles, the group will be at the Prien Lake Mall from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday. They'll wind up the tour with a news conference at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. and visit with fans at Acadiana Mall from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
JOINING IN: The Saints have committed $20,000 to the Tulane "Green Team" campaign, with Loomis and Haslett using personal funds to help spearhead the drive throughout the organization.
"It is important that Tulane remain a Division I-A athletics program and this is something we felt was the right thing to do, to show our support," Loomis said of the initiative to keep the school from dropping to Division III status.
"We felt it was important that we show our commitment," Haslett said. "Tulane's been a model Division I-A program and our relationship with (football) coach (Chris) Scelfo gets stronger each year. It is critical that we show our support for something that has been a part of New Orleans as long as Tulane has."
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Monday, March 26, 2012
I will continue to post occasionally on my own blog, and I've actually got quite a bit of stuff written that I hope will eventually be released. That will depend on many things.
I want to thank my fellow Novelnaughts for inviting me here in the first place, and for your support. I've enjoyed very much getting to know you and getting to read your work. And thanks to all those who have visited and commented on my Novel Spaces posts, as well as those of my fellow writers. I hope all of you will continue to support this great site.
Take care.
Charles Gramlich
13 comments:
- Jewel Amethyst said...
Oh Charles, I am so sorry to see you go. You have added that extra "umph" to the blog with your great insights, comments, and your large following. We at novelspaces will miss you terribly. I hope someday soon you will return to this blog.
My prayers and thoughts are with you.
- March 26, 2012 at 9:32 AM
- Liane Spicer said...
Charles, so very sorry to see you go. We'll miss you. A lot.
Thank you for your sterling contribution to the blog over the past two years. Hope you return some day.
We'll be thinking of you and sending our prayers and best wishes.
- March 26, 2012 at 10:12 AM
- Ty Johnston said...
Sorry to see it, but it's completely understandable. You'll be missed at this site, Charles.
- March 26, 2012 at 10:19 AM
- oceangirl said...
I shall miss learning for you are a great teacher.
- March 26, 2012 at 11:03 AM
- BernardL said...
It's always a pleasure to read your posts anywhere, my friend.
- March 26, 2012 at 11:40 AM
- Alex J. Cavanaugh said...
Your posts here were always insightful, but you have more pressing matters now.
- March 26, 2012 at 11:41 AM
- Charles Gramlich said...
Thanks everyone. I very much appreciate all the support and kind words.
- March 26, 2012 at 12:10 PM
- Tyhitia Green said...
I love reading whatever you write because it's so insightful. :-D
I'll visit your site like I always do.
- March 26, 2012 at 1:23 PM
- KeVin K. said...
Going to miss you, Charles. Always enjoyed your work and your insights. But I completely understand the need to prioritize.
We are writers, we will always write. But always writing does not mean always writing this blog. I know I'll be seeing more of your work in the future. I look forward to it.
Meanwhile, stay in touch.
- March 26, 2012 at 1:59 PM
- Erik Donald France said...
Understood. Best wishes,
of course ~~ and more beyond that.
- March 26, 2012 at 4:03 PM
- Marissa Monteilh said...
Charles, your posts were excellent, we will miss you but understand what really matters in life and that is love, health and happiness. Blessings to you my brother-in-pen, and to your lovely wife and family!
- March 26, 2012 at 4:13 PM
- Lynn Emery said...
Like others I'll miss your insightful posts. Saying prayers for your wife and family.
- March 27, 2012 at 9:52 PM
- Shauna Roberts said...
You'll be missed.
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The current season for "spooky" stuff brings to mind a time honored classic – Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. Oldfield was an unknown English teenager in 1973 when the haunting opening sequence from his highly acclaimed debut gained worldwide attention as the backdrop for Friedkin's film version of William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.
Since that time, Oldfield has revisited the Bells structure and themes for a host of sequels and alternate interpretations, including an orchestral version, various remixes, reissues, live and demo recordings. (Six different packages were released this summer alone!) The piece has also received several inspired (re)interpretations by others, including a 2008 recording for piano ensemble, and a wonderful version by the California Guitar Trio.
While trolling the murky depths of the internet this weekend, I ran across an interesting video of Oldfield performing the first segment of Tubular Bells for the BBC-TV on November 30, 1973, along with a rather stellar cast of accomplices...
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As it turns out, this was only the second first public performance of Bells – the first having occurred on 25 June 1973 in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, just a month after the album's release. The reclusive Oldfield was so shaken by the public reaction to his initial concert that he avoided the live stage for several years. What's truly "scary," however, is that some 26 albums and three-and-a-half decades later, this stunning debut still holds up.
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Hi, i am taking the medications Lamivudine(300mg)/Tenofovir(300mg) combo and Neveraphine 200mg, i take the Tenofovir/Lamivudine combo once daily specifically 9pm while i take the Neveraphine twice daily 9am and 9pm, what i need to know is if i can combine 2 pills of Neviraphine(200mg x 200mg) and take all my medications once daily by taking them all at same time instead of taking the Neviraphine twice daily while the Tenofovir /lamivudine combo is taken once by taking them all together once a day will be more convenient for me pls let me know, i am writting from Nigeria thanks
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Yes, since nevirapine can be taken once daily, you could take all of your medications (2 x 200 mg nevirapine and the tenofovir/lamivudine combo) all together, once daily.
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This tutorial demonstrates how to create a smoother reveal mobile menu using CSS3 rather than animating it with JavaScript. Once you click the menu icon, the click event will assign the class of active to the drawer container which alters the translate value to bring the drop-down menu nice and smoothly into view.
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OK I know this is an old post, but I'll add my experience on the topic anyway. I started into windsurfing decades ago because I flew stunt kites and saw how much more fun was being had off the beach. Who knew what the future held?
My first advice: lose the directional and get a twin tip.
I switched over by taking lessons in South Padre, Texas with Brett at Air Padre; they use a boat and radio helmets and you can stand everywhere - he had me waterstarting the first day. It's more like wakeboarding than windsurfing, and the board skills are akin to snowboarding. The wind knowledge from windsurfing will help on an intuitive level, but once you're riding then it's kite handling, kite handling, kite handling.
Before starting I practiced with a stunt kite and watched videos and observed friends kiting and just went to the beach and asked lots of questions and listened. Also followed friends kiting in the swell in a kind of "monkey see monkey do" game; watched where they put the kite and how they varied bar pressure.
One point that I think kiters who've never sailed or windsurfed miss is that lessons tend not to teach you "the rules of the road", so I've seen too many instances where kiters heading at each other don't know which one should pass upwind, for example. Also who was taught that a kiter passing downwind should drop his kite and the upwind rider raise it? Beyond basic watercraft etiquette there are also kite movement and wave practices that aren't always imparted (Common sense isn't always common!), but initial lessons are key for basic safety (as kiting is inherently more dangerous than windsurfing).
Once you're confident with the kite and start getting bored with the twin tip then take the directional back out of the closet...


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Next time you're at the gym or the salon or the grocery, and someone says it's a sacrilege to mix Scotch into a cocktail, promise me you'll grab that person, take him or her out back, and...
Nah, never mind. Promise me you'll just chuckle and move on with your day. I mean, your buddy is kind of right, I guess, though maybe only superficially so. What they usually mean is, Scotch is too good to mix with other things. I don't agree with that.
Scotch is a hard ingredient to mix with, that much is true. Most cocktails that call for Scotch call for a good blend (instead of a single malt), and a good blend of Scotch has a mix of malt, smoke, heather, and herbal flavors. You don't want all those flavors to get lost, but there are quite a few great drinks that show off Scotch well.
This week, I'll provide four classic Scotch cocktails, and one that's a modern classic, and I'll describe what makes them work, and why maybe your gym or salon buddy needs to give Scotch drinks another chance.
One note: I do suggest buying a blended Scotch for these drinks, but I also suggest a robust blend. I recently re-tested a couple of these with Dewar's and, frankly, they reminded me why I'm not a fan of Dewar's; it's little too My First Scotch for my tastes, and I find that it emphasizes a sweet floral character, when what I want is something malty and with a layer of smoke. Though Dewar's might be fine for sipping on its own, these drinks want your dram to be robust.
I suggest Famous Grouse (the original); its sibling, the smokier Black Grouse; or—yes—any of the Johnny Walkers that fit your budget.
Rob Roy
I'll start with the grandfather, the Rob Roy. Essentially a Scotch-based Manhattan, the Rob Roy is a reliably tasty drink, and one that's hard to screw up. I tend to order them out more often than I do Manhattans. Unless I ask the bartender for a specific whiskey for my Manhattan, I usually wind up with a cheap, sweet bourbon; the vermouth then just makes it taste cloying. With a Rob Roy, though, at least you have the Scotch providing a little extra backbone.
Blood and Sand
Thought to be named for a 1922 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino as a bullfighter who embarks on a destructive affair with a wealthy widow, the Blood and Sand is an unlikely combination of ingredients: Scotch, cherry liqueur, orange juice, and sweet vermouth. For the Scotch, pick something robust. For the liqueur, Cherry Heering's your best choice. For the juice, it might seem tempting to use something from a carton, but squeezing it fresh is a better choice. (Better writers than me have suggested using blood oranges. If you can find them, do it.)
Paul Clarke's recipe, linked below, calls for equal parts Scotch and orange juice; with all regards to Paul, I prefer a little more Scotch. Eric Felten's piece, linked above, contains my preferred proportions.
The film, incidentally, was based on a Spanish novel called Sangre y arena, and if you're thinking that would make a great name for a Blood and Sand variant, well, you're not alone. Here's a link to a mezcal version that sounds fabulous.
The Penicillin Cocktail. If you hear of this without having tasted it anywhere, you might think it's an old-time cocktail, invented perhaps shortly after Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered its namesake in 1928. You might even have the inkling to comb through the Savoy or other Prohibition-era cocktail manuals to track it down.
But no. The Penicillin was invented in New York in 2005, at Milk and Honey, by the bartender Sam Ross (who now co-helms Attaboy, in the same location as the original Milk and Honey). Ross's creation calls for blended Scotch, lemon juice, a honey-ginger syrup, and a float of a rich and peaty Islay single-malt, such as Laphroiag.
In place of the honey-ginger syrup, Paul Clarke suggests using honey syrup and a little muddled ginger. I like to grate the ginger and then use a fine-mesh tea strainer to double-strain the solid ginger bits out.
Modern No. 2
Earlier, I suggested that you seek out a robustly flavored Scotch for these cocktails. Here's the point of the article where you'll really thank me. This recipe calls for one ounce of Scotch, and two ounces of sloe gin. Trust me: if you buy a dud Scotch, this cocktail will turn cloying after about the third sip. If there were a cocktail that called out for Black Grouse, this is it.
Nevertheless, here's another splendid example of a recipe looking like a Kardashian marriage on paper, but tasting surprisingly wonderful in the glass. Provided you've chosen well at the liquor store, that is.
Rusty Nail
Perhaps your grandfather drank this combination of Scotch and Drambuie (itself a mix of Scotch, honey, herbs, and spices). Perhaps your grandmother drank them between Camels. Nevertheless, you probably think of this as an old person's drink. Doesn't have to be. Drinks with these two ingredients date to the 1930s, under a variety of names, as David Wondrich recounted for Esquire.
Though the modern version calls for equal parts, earlier versions were drier, calling for substantially more Scotch. This is where you'll start. David suggests 2 ounces Scotch to 1/2 ounce Drambuie, a 4:1 ratio. That's what I like, too. Dash some Angostura in there? Trust me, it won't hurt a thing.
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Jim Nantz is still a ****.
Jim Nantz is still a ****.
Pats punter.
Whadddya know, America's sweetheart Lewis... with a helmet to helmet Personal foul. Did Jeebus make you do it, Ray?
What the **** Flacco put some more goddamn air under it why don't you.
WOOT ****ing finally
Ok, so does anyone here actually watch these crappy shows on CBS?
****ing defense and all that jazz. Flacco has got to answer right back here thats how u break that ***** brady
If ravens are going to keep getting personals fouls, at least do it to Brady.
Nantz should be hanged
that was the worst slide ever LOL
C'mon ravens you fvckers. Kick em in the teeth.
Why do the Patriots have to defile the colors of the United States Of Ameria? i want to retch
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BOSTON — Forrest Gump's Bruins were at it again tonight.
You never know what you're going to get with this team period to period — never mind game to game — and what the Bruins produced against Anaheim at TD Garden was enough to make a box of chocolates taste like week-old liver.
In what might have been the weakest 45-shot performance in the NHL in years, Boston was shut out 3-0 by Jonas Hiller and the Ducks.
The Bruins actually attempted 88 shots, but 23 missed the net and 20 were blocked by Ducks players. If that isn't a tell-tale sign of lack of focus and effort, I don't know what is.
Here's a glance at the rest of the box score:
•Dennis Seidenberg was on the ice for all three goals, including a shorthanded score by Corey Perry. So the Bruins defenseman was minus-3.
•Michael Ryder led the team with seven shots on goal. Maybe one of them was a solid scoring threat, however.
•Tim Thomas' save percentage took a beating with three goals allowed on just 25 shots. He now leads Atlanta's Ondrej Pavelev .948 to .943 for league lead in that department. Those two goaltenders could match up Thursday at TD Garden.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Aug 2009 14:22 UTC, submitted by Christian Rosentreter
The team behind MorphOS has just announced the release of MorphOS 2.3 for the PowerPC-based platforms, the Pegasos and the Efika. This new release comes with a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements, but also packs a number of new features.
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If you do not mind building your own system, you could buy an Efika mainboard ($99), case + PSU ($99) and a low-profile graphics card ($39) at the Directron website.
For a pre-assembled system, you might want to contact AusPPC (google the name).
If you do not mind using a second-hand system, you should consider buying a MacMini with G4 processor (and preferrably 64MB of graphics memory). MorphOS should become available for this platform in the forseeable future. If you do not like to wait, you could hunt for a Pegasos mainboard / system at the usual places (ebay, et al).
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De Mello Costa, M. F. and Pereira, J. N. P. and Anderson, G. A. (2008) Efficacy of first time furosemide use in thoroughbred racehorses in Brazil. In: EIPH Havemeyer Foundation Monograph. Havemeyer Foundation. (In Press)
Gibson-van Marrewijk, Kelly and Hipkins, Rose and Stewart, Jane and Dannenfeldt, Gudrun and Stewart, Kevin and McHaffie, Jackie (2008) Addressing obstacles to success: Improving student completion, retention and achievement in applied health programmes. In: NZARE National Conference 2008: Education in change: Policies, research and practice to improve student outcomes. New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Wellington, New Zealand.
Xie, Congmin Z. and Healy, Terry and Robinson, Peter and Stewart, Kevin (2008) Determination of EDTA in dairy wastewater and adjacent surface water. In: Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, pp. 50-54.
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Eames, Chris and Stewart, Kevin (2008) Personal and relationship dimensions of higher education science and engineering learning communities. Research in Science & Technological Education, 26 (3). pp. 311-321. ISSN 0263-5143 (print) 1470-1138 (online)
Van der Colff, L. and Podivinsky, E. (2008) Cooking DNA: The effect of 'domestic' cooking methods on detection of GM potato. International Journal of Food Science & Technology, 43 (12). pp. 2105-2112. ISSN 1365-2621
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Gibson-van Marrewijk, Kelly and Stewart, Jane and McHaffie, Jackie and Stewart, Kevin and Dannenfeldt, Gudrun and Hipkins, Rose (2008) Addressing Obstacles to Success: Phase one - What science do midwives really need in practice? In: 28th Triennial International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Conference, 1-5 June, 2008, Glasgow, Scotland. (Unpublished)
Petcu, Miruna (2008) Molecularly imprinted polymers: Applications in anaesthetic monitoring. In: New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Meeting , August, 2008, Hamilton, New Zealand. (Unpublished)
Roundhill, Sally and Lowry, David (2008) Microbiological survey of supermarket surfaces and sanitation procedures. In: NZMS Conference 2008 - "Germs and Genomes in the Garden City, 18-21 November 2008, Christchurch, New Zealand. (Submitted)


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Daily Double: AlphaBattle, UniWar for Free
EA Games continues with their ten-game sale 'til Christmas, while the Appvent Calender is featuring a word game called AlphaBattle. We also have a bonus freebie: UniWar, an excellent turn-based strategy game from Xpressed.
Is this the first word game we've seen from the Appvent Calender? Wow. Here's the developer's description of the game:
Make the best and longest words with the letters available, as fast as you can, before the Vowels and Consonants reach the touch line and become unavailable. AlphaBattle combines your word skills from games like Scrabble and Wurdle with your quick thinking and strategic reasoning from games like Tetris and Bejeweled, and adds some intuitive power-ups to the mix, to create a new and unique word puzzle game.
It looks like a pretty good twist on the usual word-building game, and I'm always up for a lexical challenge!
We first looked at UniWar back in April, giving it a 4-star rating and highly recommending it. UniWar isn't particularly original, but it's a great turn-based strategy game with support for online multiplayer. The Push Notifications added this fall just makes it better than ever. In our review, we praised it as "a deep, addicting strategy title that's sure to please anyone with even a faint interest in games of this type." Here's a snippet explaining how the game works:
"You play as one of three races (just like genre mainstays such as Advance Wars), and your goal is to capture all of the enemy's bases while defending your own. Combat and maneuvering are turn-based, and as the genre title suggests, strategy is a must. You won't see anything exceptionally new here, so veterans will be able to jump in immediately.
With each passing turn, your bases generate credits that can be used to beef up your army, which is composed of individual units. The units are dependent on which race you're playing. The humans Sapiens, for example, can have Marines, Tanks, Helicopters, among others. Regardless of the label applied to the unit, they're classed as Ground Light, Ground Heavy, Aerial, or Aquatic."
UniWar was a steal when it was $0.99 and the current "price" is almost criminal. Make sure to grab it while it's free, because this one is too good to miss.


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Collections Demography: Modelling of Collections for Improved Management
Friday, April 27, 2012
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Collections of heritage objects have a specifically dynamic evolution: they constantly grow and degrade depending on use, environment, and material properties. Understanding of these dynamics is currently lacking, yet could significantly optimize collection management. To do so, significant reference points in an object's life, such as "the point of failure," need to be defined; therefore, a framework defining (un)acceptable levels of change -- and consequently, of damage -- is necessary.
An extensive set of experiments exploring rates of degradation of historic paper was designed to explore material susceptibility to various agents of change: temperature, humidity, and pollution. The established functions of change (dose-response functions), based on agents such as environment, use, and inherent chemical properties of objects, will be overlaid on existing and new collections survey data (census data). Coupled with an improved understanding of user values and time preferences, damage functions will be developed.
The Collections Demography modelling tool will be based on a holistic understanding of the changing value of collections. It will enable exploration of various environmental and management scenarios and the effect of these on the lifetime of collections, and thus significantly improve sustainable collection management.
The project partners are University College London (UK), University of East Anglia (UK), the National Archives (UK), English Heritage (UK), the Library of Congress (USA), and Nationaal Archief (NL).
Matija Strlic, Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Heritage and Course Director of the MRes Heritage Science, University College of London Centre for Sustainable Heritage
William Lindsay, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Collections Demography project, National Archives, UK
Catherine Dillon, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Collections Demography project, University College of London Centre for Sustainable Heritage
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To set the ground rules, we're concerned with how the GPU would behave in multiplayer mode where there's much more units to handle than in a single-player campaign mode. To measure performance in Starcraft 2, we'll be playing a replay of a 4v4 match in Ultra quality setting and recording its frame rate using FRAPS. The 4v4 replay features an intense face-off involving many units, which will tax the system sufficiently to let us have a good idea of how each graphics card will handle Starcraft 2. Such a setup should probably give you an idea of the worst-case scenario that your system should be prepared for if you indeed want to ensure the smoothest game play at the best settings possible at all times.
The game doesn't support anti-aliasing, but you can force it on the driver level with both NVIDIA and ATI cards. Previously, ATI didn't support anti-aliasing for Starcraft 2 at all, but it got recently implemented it in their Catalyst 10.7a driver suite.
Here are the specifications of our testbed and also the list of graphics cards tested and the driver versions used:
- Intel Core i7-975 (3.33GHz)
- Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P motherboard
- 3 x 1GB DDR3-1333 OCZ memory in triple-channel mode
- Seagate 7200.10 200GB SATA hard drive
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From ATI:
- Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 (Catalyst 10.7a)
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From NVIDIA:
- GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 (ForceWare 258.96)
- GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 (ForceWare 258.96)
- GeForce GTX 460 1GB GDDR5 (ForceWare 258.96)
- GeForce GTX 260+ 896MB GDDR3 (ForceWare 258.96)
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After Jonathon Niese was scratched from today's start, the New York Mets moved up Zack Wheeler against the Houston Astros.
Wheeler was shut down last summer by a combination of a tight shoulder and innings count. All reports have him throwing well this spring.
With Matt Harvey out for the season, Wheeler will draw the bulk of the focus when it comes to the Mets' pitching. However, Wheeler grabbed his fair of attention last summer, going 7-5 with a 3.42 ERA in 17 starts that spanned 100 innings.
Wheeler cited improved fundamentals as his 2014 goal, saying earlier this spring: "Just being more consistent, throwing more strikes and stuff.''
In addition:
* Kyle Farnsworth, John Church, Vic Black, Adam Kolarek, Scott Rice and Cory Mazzoni are also scheduled to pitch.
* Ike Davis, who was scratched from yesterday's game, is expected to play. Also expected to play is shortstop Ruben Tejada (tight left hamstring) and Eric Young (tightness in his side).
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$2 million for Center for Korean Studies chair endowmentUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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HONOLULU, HAWAII – In 2006, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Center for Korean Studies partnered with the Korea Foundation in a campaign to create an endowment that would ensure the steady growth of Korean studies at the university. By leveraging the Korea Foundation's generous $1 million challenge grant, the center has successfully raised an additional $1 million from a wide range of other donors.
The resulting $2 million endowment, to be known as the Center for Korean Studies Rotating Chair Endowment, will be used to expand the teaching of Korea-related courses beyond those already offered. Focusing on the humanities and social sciences, the center will work with various departments in rotation to establish new tenure-track faculty positions in disciplines currently not taught at UH Mānoa.
"We are grateful to the Korea Foundation for its visionary gift that enabled us to launch this project," said Professor Yung-Hee Kim, director of the Center for Korean Studies. "We are equally thankful for the support of the local community and the many individual friends of the center in Korea, whose generosity made it possible for us to meet the Korea Foundation challenge," she added.
The Center for Korean Studies coordinates and develops resources for the study of Korea at UH Mānoa. Established in 1972, it brings together one of the largest concentrations of scholars of Korea outside of Korea itself. The center conducts scholarly conferences; sponsors research projects; presents seminars and lectures; publishes significant research on Korea; and supports the university library's Korea collection. The center's faculty members are drawn from diverse disciplines, including communication, dance, economics, ethnomusicology, history, language, linguistics, literature, political science, sociology, and urban and regional planning.
"The Korea Foundation is pleased to have contributed, in part, to the creation of the Korean Studies Rotating Chair Endowment at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa," said Dr. Byung-Kook Kim, president of the Korea Foundation. "I would like to express our sincere appreciation to the university for the diligent efforts to reinforce its Korea Studies program. I firmly believe that this chair will contribute greatly to the advancement of Korean Studies at the Mānoa campus, and eventually throughout the U.S. academic community. We look forward to our continued partnership with the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa."
"We are so very grateful to the Korea Foundation for its continuing support," said UH Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw. "Thanks to the support of the Korea Foundation, UH Mānoa's Center for Korean Studies offers the most versatile and diversified Korea-related course offerings and degree programs in the United States."
Established in 1991, the Korea Foundation is a nonprofit organization affiliated with Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade that aims to enhance Korea's global image, in an effort to bolster its cooperative relations with the international community through the promotion of academic and cultural programs.
For more information on how you can support the Center for Korean Studies, please contact Harriet Cintron at (808) 956-3594 or firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also make a gift to the Korean Studies Chair endowment online at www.uhfoundation.org/GiveToKoreanStudiesChair.
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|Service Record Entry
First, we see the important, significant entry: Estel was aboard on 3 Sep 1942 when the USS Brooklyn, as part of Task Force 38, was involved in the rescue at sea of 1173 survivors of the USS Wakefield, which experienced a major fire onboard. As one of the diesel mechanics onboard the Brooklyn, my grandfather was essential in ensuring that the ship was in good running order to assist in rescue of the troops on the Wakefield, which was serving as a troop transport. It took damage control people over four days to finally put out the fires on the Wakefield.
Fire is one of the worst events on a ship at sea, as there is nowhere to escape the fire. Virtually everyone on modern Navy ships goes through some sort of firefighting training and is assigned at some point to damage control parties that would be responsible for fighting fires in case of emergency. I personally went through Shipboard Aircraft Firefighting school not once, but twice during the three and a half years I was on Sea Duty. I was trained in use of 1.5" and 2.5" high pressure hoses and a variety of firefighting chemicals.
The next event we see on this page is a transfer to US Naval Training Station in Norfolk, VA, to attend Diesel Engine School (Surface). As you can see, this happened on 27 Sep 1942, a couple of weeks after the end of the Wakefield rescue. This was in the works before the incident, but the record does not say this directly. It is hinted at in that the authorization listed is a letter of 4 Aug 1942. As part of the transfer, we see the Ship or Station being the new command, or N.T.S., NOB Norfolk (the Navy loves acronyms! This one means Naval Training Station at the Naval Operations Base in Norfolk, VA), and the Ship From is listed as USS Brooklyn, where he was stationed. This sort of transfer for schools happened fairly often, and was usually for a period of a few weeks or a couple of months, and then the service member would return to their originating ship or station. Sometimes the training was in conjunction with permanent transfer to another ship or station to report to a new job with fresh training.
These two events add more data points to the timeline we can develop from study of a service record. Are you beginning to see some value to ordering a copy of a service record? While they can be fairly expensive, there is a lot of information you won't find anywhere else about your military relative!