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What benefits do I have?
The IBC Basic plan provides a comprehensive program of health benefits including hospital, medical, mental health and substance abuse, prescription drug, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance (including Accidental Death & Dismemberment).
How can I get a new or another insurance ID card?
If you have not received an ID card for any of your benefits or need an additional ID card for a dependent please call Member Services at 800-551-3225.
How do I know if a health service is covered?
You should review your Summary Plan Description (SPD) for detailed coverage of all your benefits. If you have additional questions contact Member Services at 800-551-3225.
Are my dependent(s) eligible?
Yes, if your collective bargaining or participation agreement provides for family coverage. In general, your covered dependent(s) include your spouse and your children until they reach 26 years of age (refer to your (SPD) for more information).
What do I have to do to cover my dependent?
Call Member Services at 800-551-3225 for more information.
Click here to access the Dependent Enrollment form
What happens if I have a change in my life (like marriage, birth of a child or divorce)?
You must:
If you notify the Fund within thirty (30) days, your dependent will be covered from the date of the event (birth, adoption, marriage). If you do not notify the Funds within thirty (30) days of the event, your spouse/child will only be covered prospectively from the date you notify the Fund.
Do I need to enroll to be covered for benefits?
No, you are automatically enrolled in benefits but you will need to enroll your eligible dependents.
Which doctors can I see?
You have coverage for doctors both in-network and out-of-network. Using out-of-network doctors can be very expensive for you and is not recommended. You have access to a large network of in-network doctors with minimal co-pay costs to you through the Independence Blue Cross's (IBC) Keystone Direct Point-of-Service ("POS") network*. To find in-network doctors please go to https://www.ibx.com/providerfinder or call Member Services at 800-551-3225.
*If you live outside the IBC service area which includes the Philadelphia metropolitan area and parts of New Jersey and Delaware, you have the IBC Personal Choice PPO network and you can find a full listing of providers at https://www.ibx.com/providerfinder.
Do I need to select a Primary Care Physician (PCP)?
Yes. Each covered individual must select a PCP from the IBC POS network and advise IBC. Call IBC Customer Service at 800-275-2583 to select your PCP. This selection will be printed on your IBC identification card. Your PCP must make referrals for you for 5 services- X-Rays, physical therapy, occupational therapy, podiatry and laboratory services.
Do I need a referral from my Primary Care Physician (PCP) for other specialist visits?
No, you do not need a referral and can see all other participating specialists directly. Just make sure they are a participating IBC Keystone POS specialist to be covered with only a co-payment.
What does it cost me to see a doctor?
When you see an in-network doctor you may have a co-pay. The following chart clearly describes your co-pay based on the doctor or provider you choose.
If you see an out-of-network doctor, you will pay more. You will pay the $1000 annual deductible, 50% of the allowed amount and all charges above the allowed amount. The allowed amount is usually significantly less than what an out-of-network doctor charges so the costs to you could be significant.
What is the 5 Star Wellness Program?
This program is exclusively designed for 32BJ members & their eligible dependents with Chronic Conditions. In order to be eligible for the program, you must be diagnosed with one of the following illnesses:
To participate in the program, all your care for your Chronic Condition must be coordinated by your primary care doctor at the 5 Star Center. Once enrolled, you will pay $0 for all doctors' visits* at your 5 Star Center and receive a discount on all of your prescription drug co-payments through CVS Caremark - $5 for a 30-day supply and $10 for a 90-day supply for each medication. A typical member enrolled in the 5 Star Wellness Program saves an average of $250 per year in medical and prescription drug costs.
If I am away from home, am I covered when I see a doctor?
Yes, just make sure you see a doctor that is a participating provider in a local BlueCross BlueShield network to get the highest level of coverage.
What happens if I need care while I am traveling abroad?
If you require care while traveling abroad, call the number located on the back of your card to help you find a provider. You are only covered for emergencies when traveling outside the country. You will need to submit a claim for reimbursement when you return to the U.S.
What do I pay when I use the Emergency Room?
When you use the Emergency Room you will pay a $100 co-pay for your first visit and a $100 co-pay for a second visit during a calendar year. After your second visit in a calendar year, you will pay a $200 co-pay per visit.
What do I pay if am admitted to the hospital for an overnight or longer stay?
If you are admitted to an in-network hospital you will pay a $100 co-pay for the hospital admission. There is no additional cost to you for in-network services, but if you are seen by out-of-network doctors (including surgeons and anesthesiologists) you may receive additional bills for those doctors. We advise you to only use in-network doctors while at the hospital whenever possible. Please call Member Services at 800-551-3225 if you receive bills for out-of-network providers at an in-network hospital.
Besides in-network doctor office visit co-pays, what other co-pays will I have when receiving care from an in-network provider?
If you only see doctors that are in-network and use facilities that are in-network the following chart details all co-pays that you may have to pay. If you stay in-network you do not have a deductible or co-insurance payments to worry about.
*No co-payment for out-patient maternity services. Out-patient radiation therapy and chemotherapy limited to one co-payment per calendar year. Intensive out-patient mental health or substance abuse services limited to one co-payment per episode of treatment.
Is prior authorization required to receive services? Do I need to get permission before I can use some services?
Yes, prior authorization is required for the following services:
When you use participating providers, the provider is required to obtain the prior authorization for you.
How can I find a mental health or substance abuse provider that is in-network?
To find in-network doctors please go to https://www.ibx.com/providerfinder or call Independence Blue Cross at 800-275-2583.
What do I pay when I see an in-network mental health or substance abuse provider?
What if I or my family needs immediate mental health or substance abuse assistance?
Call IBC's Magellan Behavioral Health 24/7 at 800-688-1911.
What prescription drugs are covered?
The Plan has a formulary or list of covered generic and brand name drugs. Please call CVS/Caremark at 877-765-6294. This number is also on the back of your CVS/Caremark ID card.
What do I pay when I get a covered drug?
Do I have to use a CVS pharmacy?
For prescriptions you will only take for a limited period (60 days or less), you can use any participating pharmacy. This will include many of the large chain drug stores like Rite Aid, Duane Reade or Walgreens as well as many local independent retail pharmacies. For prescriptions that you will need long term, you must get a 90 day supply through either a CVS retail pharmacy or CVS/Caremark mail service. For all Specialty Prescription Drugs you must use a CVS pharmacy or CVS/Caremark Specialty Mail Pharmacy.
Why do I need to get a 90 day supply of my medications? How do I do this?
For maintenance drugs that you take over a long period, the 90 day supply saves you money. The co-pay is equivalent to two 30 day co-pays, but you get a 90 day supply. Your doctor should write you a prescription for 90 days with whatever number of refills he/she feels is appropriate. These prescriptions need to be filled at a CVS retail pharmacy or through CVS/Caremark mail service.
What does my dental benefit cover?
The Dental Plan covers a wide range of dental services, including:
Dental benefits are subject to frequency limits and there is an annual maximum of $500 per person for dental care. Refer to your SPD for detailed information.
Which dentists can I see and what will I pay when I see a dentist?
Your Dental Plan has a large network of participating dentists which is administered by the dental administrator, Delta Dental. When you use a participating dental provider (PDP) most services are covered in full. You can find a PDP near you by searching Delta Dental or by contacting Delta Dental's Customer Service at 800-589-4627. You can also use a non-participating dentist but you will need to submit a claim to Delta Dental for reimbursement. Delta Dental will reimburse you directly up to what Delta Dental pays an participating dentist for those services. You are responsible for any balance billing from the non-participating dentist.
Consult your SPD or call Member Services at 800-551-3225 for more information.
Where can I get a vision exam and glasses if I need them?
All in-network vision coverage is provided through Davis Vision which has thousands of participating providers throughout the United States. Contact Davis Vision at 800-999-5431 for assistance in locating a Davis Vision provider near you or to find an in-network Davis Vision provider please go to Davis Vision.
There is an out-of-network benefit for participants and dependents over age 19, but you will have to pay charges in full and request reimbursement for the allowed amount.
How much will I pay for an exam and glasses?
If you use a Davis Vision participating provider, you can get an exam and glasses with no out-of-pocket cost. Your choice of frames and lenses will be limited to the Plan's wide selection at Davis Vision. If you want frames and/or lenses outside of the Plan's selection you will need to pay the difference.
If you use a non-participating provider, you can get reimbursed up to $30 for eye exams, $60 for lenses and $60 for frames. You are responsible for paying the charges in full and requesting reimbursement directly from Davis Vision for up to the allowed amounts.
Can I choose to get contacts instead of glasses?
Yes, but the maximum allowance for contacts is $120.
How often can I use my vision benefit?
The vision benefit is payable once in any 24 month period, starting with the date you first incur a vision care expense (typically an eye exam). Participants and dependents under 19 are eligible once every 12 months.
What is my life insurance benefit and how does my beneficiary claim this benefit?
You have a $10,000 life insurance benefit with MetLife. You beneficiary should contact Member Services at 800-551-3225 when filing a claim.
Do I have to file claims?
What if I have other health insurance?
If you, or your dependent(s), have other insurance, the Plan and your other plan will coordinate benefit payments. One plan will be Primary and the other Secondary. Generally, the Plan that covers you, or your dependent, through work is the Primary Plan; for example, if your spouse has coverage at work, that plan will be Primary for your spouse. The Primary Plan will pay first and the Secondary Plan may reimburse you for the remaining expenses up to the allowed amount. This process is known as Coordination of Benefits or COB (refer to your SPD for more information).
If I change 32BJ covered employers, what happens to my health coverage?
If you change covered employers and you have a break of 91 days or less in employment, your coverage will begin on your first day back to work. If there is more than a 91 day break in employment, your coverage will not begin until you complete 90 consecutive days of employment with your new covered employers (refer to your SPD for more information).
If I leave the industry, how long can I stay on the health coverage?
Your coverage will continue at no cost for 30 days after your last day
worked in covered employment. Prior to the expiration of the 30 days, you
will be offered under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
of 1986 ("COBRA") the opportunity to purchase hospital, medical, mental/
behavioral health and substance abuse, prescription drug, dental and vision
coverage for up to 17 more months.
What happens to my health coverage if I become disabled?
If you are eligible, the Fund will pay continued health coverage (Fund-paid Health Extension). This coverage counts toward the time you are eligible for COBRA. To be eligible, you must:
If you are covered by the Tri-State or Basic plan, your coverage may be extended for up to six (6) months.
What happens to my family's coverage if I die?
If your family is enrolled/covered on the date of your death, their coverage will continue at no cost for thirty (30) days. Prior to the expiration of the thirty (30) days, your family will be offered the opportunity to continue coverage under COBRA for 35 more months by paying a monthly premium. COBRA coverage is very expensive because you pay the entire premium. Before you elect COBRA, you should go to www.Healthcare.gov to learn what options may be available to you in the Healthcare Marketplace.
Who do I call if I have questions?
Call Member Services at 800-551-3225 Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:30am to 5:00pm. Or visit the Welcome Center at 25 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011, Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:30am - 6:00pm.
25 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011-4676
Member Services: 800-551-3225


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Mark Singleton will join the bookmaker as head of sportsbook marketing from 1 July.
He will lead the brand's sports-related marketing.
Singleton joins from Procter & Gamble, where he has spent the past decade working across Europe and, most recently, in the UK.
Paddy Power is now hunting for a head of e-gaming marketing for the poker, casino and games side of the business, and an international marketer.
The bookmaker also recently recruited a "head of mischief" to lead the brand's attention-grabbing PR activity.
The new position is understood to be held by former Paddy Power PR Ken Robertson. He will oversee stunts such as last week's installation of a giant imitation of Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue, with the face of England football manager Roy Hodgson, on the cliffs at Dover, Kent.
The activity forms part of the brand's ongoing comedic 'We Hear You' campaign. The work includes controversial viral ads, by Crispin Porter & Bogusky.
These include "chav tranquilliser", which featured undesirable visitors to the Cheltenham Festival shot with tranquilliser darts.
Paddy Power aims to build on its revenue growth of 28% this year compared with last. This increase was driven by online and mobile use. Rev-enue from the company's mobile betting business was up 241% year on year.
The brand's marketing team is headed by marketing director Christian Woolfenden, who joined from Bacardi at the end of 2011.


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Jewish Walking Tour of Miami Beach-September 22, 2019
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The tour includes an overview of the more than 100 years of Jewish history of Miami Beach; discussion of significant Jewish people and organizations, both present and past, in Miami Beach; and a review of various architectural styles found in the city, including Jewish contributions.
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Meeting point: Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139
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Well here is our first edition of Madness Monday. Click on the title to see all the criteria, but Thomas summed it up best with "mad ancestors or elusive ancestors that drive us mad"
Mary Jane (Vest) Hayes
I have chosen for this edition to write about my maternal 2nd great grandmother. She is a serious brick wall I am trying to break now and I have been for four years. Really she is a brick wall because I have almost no information to start with. Believe or not I have NO dates for her other than the date her son, my great grandfather Martin Hayes, was born. And only through photos and his birth certificate do we know her name. That's it! (well that was until about 30 minutes ago when I tried a different spelling of the Hayes name (Hays) and found them in the 1910 census. Hey it's a start!)
I hope to discover places and dates for all the vital events in her life, birthday, marriage and death. Heck I'd even be happy if I could find her and the family in a census record. No I haven't even found one yet!
What I do have is this:
- According to the 1910 census Mary (Mollie) is 42 years old, so that would put her birth at about 1868 and it states she is married in MO.
- James Martin Hayes married Mary Jane Vest about 1899 (this is based off of data from 1910 census.)
- 1907 - Martin Hayes is born to James Martin Hayes and Mary Jane Vest on the April 4th in Homeney, OK. He is my great grandfather.
- 1910 the family is in Black Dog, Osage, Oklahoma. They have her name as Mollie, not Mary, but the rest of the family fits and I was able to determine that for both James and Mary this is a second marriage. (children listed below for Mary)
- Martin has three sisters, Gloria, Pearl, and Opal. He also had three step siblings, Anna Knott, Nannie Knott and Charlie Knott. So Mary was first married to a man by the last name of Knott.
- According to my Aunt Mary Jane (yes who was named after Mary) and my Aunt Dawna, Mary lived to be about 104 and died somewhere in OK in the 1980's.
- I've looked in the Social Security Index on line for and Mary hayes that died in Oklahoma, only to find none of them wer 104 years old and many of them where born too close to the time her son Martin was born therefore ruling them completely out.
- I've searched the census records for her husband (and her) from 1900-1930 in OK, TX and CA. If they were in any other states I don't have that, but I also did search nation wide just in case. Until about 30 minutes ago when I spelled the Hayes name as Hays and finally after four years found them in the 1910 census as James and Mollie Hays. Mollie is either a nickname or a mistake.
- I posted her photo on Dead Fred and recently had a possible hit from a Vest family member who thinks Mary looks a lot like her family. My draw back is that they are from AL and AR. We were told that she was German. I'm thinking now that means she is of German descent. But still I have her as born in MO, her father born in IN and mother in KY (all from 1910 census). So I still don't see a conection at least not yet.
- I've looked on Find-A-Grave for a burial/headstone, but no luck there either.
- I've looked online for a marriage records of her marriage to James Martin Hayes, but no luck.
- I do know that Annie married a Clark (ironicaly there is a Clark family on the 1910 census. I'll pursue that later), and that Opal married a Haile, but I know nothing more of their family or spouses.
- My Aunt Dawna is looking for a funeral card that she believe was in my grandma's things for Mary Jane Hayes. I hope that will lead to more informaiton, especially around her death.
- I will now go back and research other records using the alternate spelling of Hayes as Hays.
- I need to find Mary's first marriage as well to Mr. Knott, and I'd like to find James' first marriage that I didn't know about until now.


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If you don't have any compelling offers on your site, you're ignoring a huge opportunity to grow the size of your email list. This is true whether you're a B2C or a B2B company - offers are one of the most effective ways to harvest email addresses and leads from your site traffic. You'll want to note that a boring quarterly newsletter is NOT featured below.
Here are 4 ways to create offers that can help dramatically increase the size of your email list and lead conversion volume.
Educational / How To Offers
These type of offers are valuable to B2B's because you are giving them valuable information. These can also be good for B2C's because those are most time "How To's". Regardless of B2B or B2C, you are offering a "way" to do something.
- eBooks – "Download our comprehensive guide to inbound marketing and ecommerce"
- Whitepapers – "Understand how to nurture your email list"
- Buyer's Guides – "Which LED underbody kit is right for you?"
- Fact Sheets – "10 facts you need to know before purchasing a used car"
- Checklists – "The 5 key steps to preparing your IT department for the iPhone 4"
Free Stuff Offers
Everyone loves free stuff. Every week, I get a free offer from "All You". Whether I need it or not, I submit my info to receive my free sample.
- Contests - "Send us your cutest dog picture; cutest picture wins free doggy day care!"
- Sweepstakes – "Enter for a chance to win a free copy of the book!"
- Giveaways – "Register for your free welcome gift of a free keychain!"
- Quizzes –"Who was Warren G. Harding's dog? Let us know and two lucky history buffs gets a free dog bowl!"
- Surveys – "Take our survey and get $10 off your first order!"
Coupons and Deals
Like with the free stuff offers above, everyone likes to feel as though they are getting a good deal. Running special offers for a discount is always a great way to get more customers:
- Coupons for dollars or percentage off – "Sign up for future offers and savings to receive 10% off your next order today!"
- Free shipping – "Create an account today and get free 2-day shipping through March 1st!"
- Time-sensitive discounts – "Save 20% on flower arrangements through February 14th – order soon, roses are going fast this year!"
- Bundled deals – "Fill out the form to get a free iPad if you sign up for our service in the next 2 weeks!"
Events can create huge engagement from your interested prospects and customers. Because events require your prospects to physically show up at a certain place at a certain time – even if that "place" is online – event registrations indicate serious fans of your brand, products, and services. Think creatively about what constitutes an "event" for you: consider sponsoring charity events, conducting in-house mini-events, and use your site to collect registrations with names, emails, and other pertinent information.
- Webinars – "How to get more leads using Email Marketing"
- Off-site events – "Meet us at the Fine Arts Center for a fundraising event on Tuesday"
- On-site / in-store events – "Come in every Friday for free drinks, snacks!"
Spin up a few new landing pages on your site and start experimenting. You will quickly find which have the best traction among your traffic and customer base if you keep an eye on your offer's performance metrics. Encourage your new email signups to share your offers on social media, email the offer to a friend, and get the word out to exponentially increase your offer's reach.
Tell us how you grow your email list?


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Kindness: New Resident
- Tagged Riverside Juniors, Riverside, Kindness Committee, RJWC
Riverside Junior Woman's Charity, a 501(c)3 organization, strives to build a stronger community by fostering friendships amongst our neighbors, addressing the needs of others and improving the quality of life in our township and the surrounding areas.
Riverside Junior Woman's Charity is a 501(c)3 approved organization.
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Who: Travis d'Arnaud, No. 15. Catcher. Hits right, throws right. 6'2, 195 LBS. 23 years old. Five minor league seasons in the systems of the Phillies and Blue Jays.
Provenance: Long Beach, California. Drafted in the first round (supplemental) of the 2007 amateur draft by Philadelphia. Acquired by Toronto with a bunch of other guys in exchange for Roy Halladay.
Prospect Ratings: Ranked 26th best prospect in the game by John Sickels, 17th by Baseball America, 16th by Kevin Goldstein at Baseball Prospectus, and 6th by ESPN's Keith Law.
Other Notable Skills: Master of the "Oppo Taco".
2011 Stats: .311 AVG, .371 OBP, .542 SLG, .914 OPS in 114 games at Double-A New Hampshire. Won Eastern League MVP, and named as Topps Double-A All Star.
Using Counting Stats for Perspective: Ranked 12th in runs, 13th in doubles, fourth in homers, 6th in total bases in the Eastern League as a catcher. His OPS was also good enough for fourth overall in the league.
Looking Back: It didn't take long for distant tales of Travis d'Arnaud's exploits to begin to seep into our consciousness after he was acquired in the Halladay deal.
While Kyle Drabek and Brett Wallace ('memba him?) were the marquee parts of the deal, we heard within that first spring of how d'Arnaud might turn out to be the real find.
Of course, we've heard many a tale of the "Catcher of the Future", so we attempted to temper any such expectations initially. d'Arnaud's first season in the system was a fairly pedestrian one in the Florida State League. Even though the elements and parks in that circuit are known to deflate offensive numbers, it's hard to stare at a .726 OPS in an injury-shortened season in Dunedin and figure that it will sprout into something more grand. The thought of him as a "catch-and-throw guy" started to settle its way into our thought process.
Move ahead to 2011, and d'Arnaud's offensive explosion at Double-A was a bit of a revelation. Sure, he's played well before, but to add 180 points of OPS while moving up a level was a remarkable feat. Moreover, d'Arnaud received a season of tutelage from former catcher Sal Fasano, which we would imagine can only help him going forward.
Looking Forward: J.P. Arencibia's rookie season and the acquisition of Jeff Mathis have likely penned in d'Arnaud to a role in Triple-A Las Vegas. This is perfectly reasonable, as an added year of seasoning can only help d'Arnaud's progress. At the same time, it will be quite a task for Jays fans to hold their breath and wait for d'Arnaud, especially if he posts outrageously inflated numbers in the offensive environments of the Pacific Coast League.
Last year, the Jays managed to get through an entire season using just two catchers, which is pretty amazing when you think about the beating that they take. Is it plausible that they could manage such a feat two years in a row? At present, the Jays have only those three catchers on their 40-man roster. Should an opening arise due to injury early in the season, it will be interesting to see whether if the Jays prefer to find anyone else to fill the void. They could lean back on Brian Jeroloman, who is still in camp as a non-roster invitee.
But if it is Arencibia who misses any amount of time, we wouldn't be surprised to see d'Arnaud eased into a role on the major league club. As much as everyone professes to love Jeff Mathis, it's hard to conceive of him as an everyday starter for an extended period of time.
2012 Expectations: At the very least, we expect that we'll see Travis d'Arnaud in September of 2012. But we have a sneaking suspicion that the Jays would love to take any opportunity to bring him up if they get the chance. Part of his process over the next two years will involve getting to know the team, the staff, the pitchers and the standard operating procedures. With that in mind, d'Arnaud's apprenticeship might be advanced more effectively in Toronto.
In either case, there are few players outside of the 25-man roster who will be monitored as closely this year.
Friday, March 16, 2012
30 Jays in 30 Days - Travis d'Arnaud is (Almost) Here
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I'm beginning to get concerned that we won't be seeing an in depth look at Mike McCoy...
- March 16, 2012 at 7:22 PM
I'm visualizing d'Arnaud as the everyday catcher in the future, perhaps 2013, with JPA as the primary DH, occasional 1B to spell Lindy-Loo against tough lefties and backup C to give d'Arnaud rest.
- March 19, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Hey Tao. Just wanted to remind you that you aren't doing this just for yourself. Amongst others, I'm reading too.
- March 22, 2012 at 11:30 AM
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In preparation for next year's presidential election, the DPP has decided its campaign strategy: drawing a battle line between the pro-reform and anti-reform sides. With this strategy, the DPP can advance or retreat freely, while pushing the pan-blue camp into a defensive position.
Viewed from an offensive perspective, the DPP can emphasize its efforts to boost the economy and enact a referendum law (
Judging from the overall situation, I believe that the momentum of the KMT-PFP alliance has weakened -- because the alliance has repeatedly failed to dominate political issues. Plus, due to the unhappy marriage of the two political parties, the possibility of a split has gradually emerged in the pan-blue camp.
The blue camp's campaign strategy mostly focuses on creating the false impression of a united KMT-PFP alliance. This thinking is shaped by historical factors, as the two parties believe that the DPP will have no chance to win if they do not split apart. As a result, the blue camp is making all efforts to pretend to be united. Naturally, such unity is a hardship, because both the KMT and the PFP clearly know that the basis for unity does not exist.
The cooperation between KMT Chairman Lien Chan (
Indeed, the split of the blue camp before the 2000 presidential election three years ago was crucial to the DPP's victory. However, there were many other reasons that contributed to the victory, among which the DPP's reform promises were a key to its success. The DPP has been flexible and vigorous at all times, and marched forward in line with the dynamic of the entire society. Besides, the DPP does not have the baggage of any party-run businesses, and it's incapable of moving money from state coffers to itself -- not to mention that it has no record of corruption. What deserves our attention is that the DPP has repeatedly proposed new reform issues recently. Such reform issues echo the drastic changes of society.
Historically, the blue camp is hardly able to confidently say it can satisfy people's demand for reform. Both Lien and Soong are merely playing the role of political commentators. The establishment of the KMT-PFP alliance has shown that it's more suitable for the blue camp to remain in opposition. Since the outward appearance (Lien) of the alliance does not correspond with the inner (Soong), it has failed to dominate political issues. It seems to me that the pan-blue camp is doomed to be led by the pan-green camp.


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Roast beet: Heat oven to 425 degrees. Toss beet with oil in a baking dish and season with salt and pepper. Cover tightly with foil and roast until tender, 45 to 60 minutes. When cool enough to handle, peel skin and slice.
Spread hummus on bread. Top one slice toast with beet slices, feta, and arugula. Top with second slice.


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In a sign of the times, 600 advisors at an Investment Management Consultants Association conference recently crammed into a training session called "Get Linked In, Not Left Out: Compliance Friendly Ways to Harness Social Media's Power in Your Practice." That's no typo: 600.
As presenter Kip Gregory, a social media expert, puts it: "It points to the level of interest people have — and the desire for clarity and background. It encapsulates the single issue that most advisors are centering on: How do I use this in a way that (A) is relevant to my business and (B) doesn't get me in trouble?"
Over the past months, firms such as Guardian Life, Securities America, American Portfolios and, notably, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, have joined early adopters in embracing social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. But there has been a little hiccup.
As Stephanie Sammons, CEO of Dallas-based Wired Advisor, observes: "The majority of the financial advisor population out there are scratching their heads wondering: Is it going to be worth my time? They're not really ready to jump in yet. They are still very much trying to understand the value of all this."
The good news for the advisor: Regulatory compliance, a chief concern, should become clearer when FINRA expands upon its social media guidance later this year. Also, firms such as Socialware, Erado, Arkovi and Actiance are rolling out new and improved technology solutions to help advisors stay compliant as they tweet, blog and connect.
Socialware, which has client relationships with more than 100 FINRA-regulated firms, raised the bar recently when it launched a software product that drives business leads to advisors. And, importantly, forward-thinking financial services firms are providing vetted marketing content that advisors can use as profile material or status updates as they build their online presence.
"People inherently know in their gut this is big. Like the Internet, like email, this will forever change the way advisors do business," notes Socialware CEO Chad Bockius. "But it's not enough to simply deploy some technology. From the business side, you really do need education. And anyone who is doing this without a business strategy is missing the mark."
If it all seems a bit overwhelming, it is.
But as Gregory, who heads the The Gregory Group in Washington, D.C., likes to remind advisors: "It's really not about social networking. It's about what this technology can do for you as a business-building tool to create a systematic approach to marketing, selling and relationship management. It's putting together a cohesive strategy where you can, as an individual, create a guerrilla marketing and selling capability — and it doesn't cost you a fortune. You could never have done 10 years ago what you can do today for free. And this isn't a Chia Pet. It's here to stay."
What do experts in the social media space describe as top of mind as advisors navigate this new terrain? Here is what they're thinking:
Develop a social media strategy. What do you want social media to do: Generate referrals? Drive traffic to your website? Build your brand among existing clients? "The questions I'm getting now remind me of questions I was getting 15 years ago around the Web. Should we have a website? Yes, everyone should be online. What's your website's strategy? You need a social media strategy that spells out what you're trying to do," states Lee Kowarski, a principal with kasina, the consulting firm. "That strategy will determine which mediums to use and how."
A social media strategy or policy should also cover how you behave online. Additionally, he says, it's important to be mindful of the distinctive mix of content and tone at the various social media sites. Advisors may use Facebook, for example, to communicate a softer side such as their community involvement. Meanwhile, they can use Twitter to disseminate news and a blog to offer in-depth analysis. "What's your mix and balance?" Kowarski asks. "That's going to determine what kind of conversations you get started."
Mind your etiquette and attitude. As in any community, there are dos and don'ts when it comes to general etiquette. On LinkedIn, as an example, Gregory recommends reaching out first to the people you know best. "The interesting thing about social media is it's a give-to-get environment," he says. "If you come at it with a what-am-I-going-to-take-away-from-this attitude, you are already behind the curve."
Instead, think in terms of what you can add to the dialogue or the relationships you have. Build a "golden Rolodex" as a way of making yourself more valuable to your contacts and connections. Your Rolodex might include a wedding planner, divorce attorney, local tennis pro, top leasing agent at the Lexus dealership — whoever serves your audience. "Human connections are where these relationships get cemented," Gregory contends. A cautionary note: Don't send generic invitations to connect. It can make you look like you're "shotgunning" everyone. Instead, he suggests, take 10 seconds and remove the doubt by writing something like: "I found you on LinkedIn. Let's catch up."
Protect your online reputation. You want your online reputation to match your offline one. Therefore, it's critical to develop a strong and positive online presence. "The fact of the matter is people will Google you and having a social media presence boosts your credibility online," observes Marie Swift, president and CEO of Impact Communications in Leawood, Kan.
Also, if someone is badmouthing you on a public discussion board, you want to be the first to know it. Swift suggests using Google Alerts or SocialMention.com, services that will alert you when your name is mentioned on the Web. Your options if you do find out someone is defaming you online: ask the discussion board host to remove the offending comments, file a defamation suit or drown out the negative with a positive such as a search engine optimized press release that salutes your accomplishments and thought leadership.
Two tips from Sammons: (1) Stay away from social media sites when you are feeling emotional. "Intelligence goes down when emotions are high," she says. (2) Avoid jumping into discussions involving politics or religion.
Keep it compliant. The SEC's sweeps early this year of social media use by advisors put compliance on center stage but experts say you can steer clear of trouble by paying attention to the basics. For starters, don't accept recommendations on LinkedIn. They are considered testimonials, a no-no. In fact, Bockius says, you can disable the "Like" or "Recommendations" functions with a software solution. Any "advertisement," such as your profile, must be pre-reviewed by your compliance department. Everything else must be post-reviewed, an archiving function typically handled by software provided by your broker/dealer. Also: Don't use words like "guarantee" or "risk" in your posts and never promote products or investment strategies.
Build a blog. If you have the time and talent, blogging is a terrific tool for building your online thought leadership, according to Sammons. "Websites are static. They sit there and often don't get traffic," she says. "A blog puts you in the midst of social networking. It allows you to be visible and valuable to your niche market." A blog can involve mixed media: video, text, audio, images — whatever the advisor is comfortable with. And once you write a post, you can take the link and distribute it for extra mileage on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Sammons recommends spending at least one hour a week blogging. "It doesn't have to be a 1,000 word article but a 250-word insight here or commentary on a news item there." The more you blog, she says, the better the result. The ultimate goal: a blog that will draw people to your website — and to you. For a look at successful financial advisor bloggers, Sammons suggests checking out blog.bradpine.com, womenmoneyanddivorce.com, blog.froehlichfinancial.com and ofindependentmeans.com.
Use your time wisely. As Swift bluntly puts it, social media can be a "time suck." But there are some easy fixes. HootSuite, a social media dashboard, allows you to get feeds from your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts all in one view. Instead of visiting each website, you work from a single interface. Swift also likes the Friday morning peer-to-peer social media discussion board on Twitter hosted by linkedFA, the social networking site for financial professionals. "It's very useful, a great way to see what other advisors are doing," she says.
Also, Swift recommends hiring a ghost tweeter or ghost blogger. "Writing is writing. Get someone who can write in your voice. The most important thing is voice and message," she adds. "The rest can be learned." Video, audio and podcasts are other digital assets that don't take up a lot of time. Still, a successful use of social media does require time. How much? Swift says it's important to use your social networks daily and to mix up the content at each one of them. "You know you're doing it right when people start to engage with you on whatever the medium is," she adds. "If it's not building real connections, it's a waste of your time."
Nurture your networks. The bottom line: Use it or lose it. "You really have to show up," according to Kristen Luke, principal of San Diego-based Wealth Management Marketing. "You can't be a member of an organization and expect to build business and not go to the meetings. This represents a progression of technology and the way we communicate. This medium is here to stay."
Gregory's advice? "You've got to be in it to win it." Don't create a profile on LinkedIn and let it atrophy. Search among your online connections for life events that are money-in-motion triggers: a job change, a relocation, a retirement, a promotion. "It's not like you're dumpster driving in their trash. They're putting it out there," he says. "The smart people are using the information that crosses their screen every day to reach out to people and to recognize windows of opportunity while they are open, or even before they open." Or combine it with traditional methods. Identify prospects in the business pages of your local newspaper and plug their names into LinkedIn to see if a connection path exists. In all likelihood, he says, it will. "It's incredibly powerful," he adds. "Frankly it's jaw-dropping."


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GODORT Chair
Communicating with ARL
It was good to see so many of you at FDLC this past week. Although there is a lot that I need to follow up on I wanted to let you know that Cass and I had a very good meeting on Wednesday afternoon with Prue Adler, Associate Executive Director of ARL. She had a number of suggestions and ideas about GODORT and government information many of which were in line with my own stated goals for GODORT.
I know that in the past the Roundtable's relationship with ARL has been a matter of concern with many of our members and I want to assure you that I will be taking Prue's recommendations to heart. One area that I will try to immediately work into my routine is to share with Prue issues that may directly affect ARL libraries but I need those of you in ARL institutions to help me recognize those issues.
As always I welcome your recommendations on how to work more effectively with those organizations that I am not directly "plugged into." By working together with our fellow professional organizations we can build a stronger GODORT and more effectively influence the future of access to government information.
Thanks, Bill
I had a chance earlier in the month to travel to GPO (the advantages of being in Baltimore) and see a brief presentation - "proof of concept" - of the FDSys for agencies. It was very well thought out and seemingly effective. The biggest concern expressed by those who attended seemed to be less about the product and more about the inability of GPO to get the agencies to participate. As suggested by one GPO official a change in how Title 44 is applied would help this but I, for one, am reluctant to open up Title 44 for revision until we have a closer agreement on what sort of outcome we would like. Getting back to FDSys another concern was the creation of two silos of data. While GPO officials claim that a search in the Catalog of Government Publications would turn up FDSys publication submission data they were not exactly clear on how, or at what point in the process it would happen.
Still, they are clearly on the right track product wise and it was gratifying to see even a small portion of the effort getting underway.
How Do Journalists Use Government Information?
Ever wonder how journalists find and use government information? On October 15, New York Times reporter Scott Shane (http://tinyurl.com/2nfugw) and Washington Post research editor Alice Crites, MLS (http://tinyurl.com/2mrybn) will address this question and related issues. Join us for a lively program sponsored jointly by ALA's Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) and SLA's Government Information Division (DGI).
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Introductory comments from ALA Annual 2007
Thank you for the opportunity to serve as the Chair of GODORT. It is indeed an honor and I appreciate the trust that you have placed in me. As many of you already know if you read my nomination statement when I ran for Chair and I hope that only a few of your are hearing this for the first time. I really intend for my tenure as Chair to be focused on positioning GODORT for the future. To that end I want to encourage all of you to think seriously about the type of organization we want GODORT to become in the next few years. The implementation of virtual membership, decreasing the number of meetings at annual 2008 (perhaps by relying more on e-mail and the GODORT Wiki in-between Midwinter and annual) and increasing the education and training opportunities for our members will be my priorities in the coming year. One very important effort that has just gotten underway is our Roundtable's strategic planning effort. The strategic planning process will be lead by Linda Johnson and Marianne Ryan and includes a mix of "old hands" and newer GODORT members who have been asked to focus on the needs of the organization and to help us improve our services and outreach efforts. As part of this process the Membership Committee will be sending out a survey to evaluate our services and mission. I know that many of us are bombarded with survey requests but I really want to encourage each of you to respond to this survey. It will help us to better prepare a plan for the future if we know with some degree of assuredness what our members value (or not) about GODORT. We will also be working with ALA to get the survey out to former members as well. Another challenge that I have asked Steering to consider is the question of virtual membership. I had several people ask me about this as an option when I approached them about serving in GODORT and it quickly became apparent that our organization must explore this opportunity for membership. I am calling on each Committee and Task Force Chair to communicate with your members about this so that by Mid-Winter we might be in a position to move forward on a plan to share with membership. Although you have been kind enough to elect me as your Chair I want to stress that I do not claim to be an expert on ALA or on the myriad of government information issues we will likely face in the coming year. I not only welcome in-put and guidance from the membership I will require it if we are to be effective. So please feel free to call on me if you have questions or just want to talk as I will certainly be calling on you. I am looking forward to a truly collaborative year. Bill Sleeman[2]
An excellent proposal for the future of government information can be found in Congressional Information & the Internet from the "Openhouse Project." [3]
This is a conversation that GODORT might want to be more involved in.
I wanted to let you all know that we had a very good meeting with staff from the Joint Committee on Printing on Tuesday during the ALA Day on the Hill event. Both Matt McGowan and Mike Harrison participated and the discussion was quite good. They were both engaged in the conversation and the Q&A was wide ranging. While I am not so naive as to believe that they rushed back to their office to change their approach I do think that they heard us and appreciated our frank comments. I hope that we can build on this initial successful contact in order to give JCP access to some new voices on the issue of access to government information.
I want to express my appreciation to Lynne Bradley and Tara Olivero for setting the meeting up and I hope that you will too if you have a chance.
If you have not taken a look at the July 2nd report from the National Security Archive on FOIA you should. Like all of their efforts this it is an excellent review of the challenges faced in getting FOIA requests filled. 40 Years of FOIA, 20 Years of Delay[4]


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In its first multi-event weekend of the spring season, the No. 17 Harvard coed sailing team turned in two top-five performances in two teams races. The Crimson claimed fourth at the Team Race Invitational and took fifth at the 54th Jan T. Friis Trophy.
At the Team Race Invitational, hosted by Boston College, Harvard finished fourth in the six-school field with an 8-7 ledger. At the end of Saturday, the Crimson sat fourth at 4-4 with victories against Cornell, Coast Guard, and the hosts Eagles. Harvard picked up wins over Bears, the Big Red and the Midshipmen on day two to conclude the two-conference competition. The Hawks went unbeaten on day one, 8-0, en route to a 12-3 victory.
Harvard saw eight different sailors take Dorchester Bay. Juniors Michael Drumm and Marek Zaleski and freshmen Juan Carlos Perdomo and Matthew Mollerus skippered the Crimson boats. Seniors Luke O'Connor and Isabel Ruane and freshmen Emma Wheeler and Olivia Kjorlien raced as Harvard's crew.
Ten teams competed at the Jan T. Friis Trophy, which was originally scheduled to take place on Mystic Lake, but was moved to the Charles River due to icy conditions. On day one, the Crimson posted a 5-4 mark including triumphs over Michigan, No. 8 Navy, No. 5 Boston College, No.10 Brown and top-ranked Yale to sit sixth after the first day on the water. The Crimson opened the second day of facing with wins over No. 9 Roger Williams, No. 15 Tufts and Vermont, but its 8-6 record wasn't enough to land in the top for and Harvard went onto consolation races against the Catamounts. Harvard split its two consolation meetings with Vermont to post a 9-7 record to take fifth overall. Roger Williams posted a 13-4 record to win the event.
The Crimson was represented by six different sailors at the team race that is held in honor of Jan T. Friss, the head builder of the Tufts boathouse in 1948. Juniors Gram Slattery and Brian Drumm and sophomore Andrew Mollerus severed as skippers, while sophomores Jacob Bradt, Sydney Karnovksyand freshman Julia Lord competed as crew.
The Crimson coeds continue their spring season with three regattas March 29-30 as Harvard hosts the Central Series Three and sails at MIT's 33rd Marchiando Trophy Team Race and the BU Trophy hosted by the Terriers. Next week Harvard's women's squad will take the water for the first time in 2014 at the 28th Dellenbaugh Trophy at Brown.


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Creative Inspirations
The Night Angel
"You have to jump, Sam!"
His dying brother cried
As Sam thought of his punishment
For refusing to abide
He was on a crowded train
Headed towards an inescapable fate
His only choice was to jump
Before it was too late
Wind soared through Sam's face
As he slammed onto the ground
And looking back at his family
He could not make a sound
Sam looked for anywhere
To make a new start
He was just a homeless boy
With an empty, broken heart
Then he found a ghetto
With people like him
Whose hope had been drained
And their feelings turned grim
Grim at a world
Who had turned on their friends
Grim at their neighbors
Who had not a hand to lend
Sam lived on his own
And hid his belief
So he could bring food to the hungry
And see joy and relief
The Night Angel
Is how he was known
Helping those who were scared
Left cold and alone
The Holocaust ended
And the ghettos did too
Then Sam left for America
Where his dreams would come true
And there Sam lived
A man who survived
Because of his hope
And will to stay alive
- Matt Cohen
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My name is Gertrude Kitongo. I am one of the 10% international students at the CIDA (Community and Individual Development Association) City Campus in Johannesburg. I am Kenyan born and raised, but my father is Ugandan. I first heard about CIDA when I visited my aunt in South Africa.
I finished my high school - or what we call form 6 - in 2006. That year my father had lost his job and my mother became really ill from stress related illnesses. They asked me to drop out of school because there was not enough money to send all of us to school, and when I could go, I was constantly being sent back because of school fee debts.
To help raise cash, I decided to do petty jobs like babysitting. I also studied late at night but prayed even more that I could save up enough to be able to register for the final exam. It was all I lived for at the time. Imagine, as a young person being stuck at home, and seeing everyone else leave to go about their business - leaving you in the house to cater to household chores. It broke my heart and I promised never to put myself - or anyone else - in that situation ever again.
Around this time I lost all sense of self confidence: I gave up on myself and left my hair in a mess, and just didn't care about how I looked. After all, I was now a perfect description of a house girl. Aunty Winnie heard about how miserable I was and she invited me to come visit her for a month. She got a free ticket to come back to Uganda for the holidays but instead sent it to me to visit her.
She so desperately wanted to send me to school or help out in any way - but the financial demon always awoke when I needed to pay for registration. Irregardless of my good grades, there was no way I could be admitted to any place without paying the horrific large amounts of registration fees.
One day, on our way back home, we passed the CIDA CITY CAMPUS (CCC). My aunt asked me to walk in and make some inquiries. I did and luckily enough, the security guard took us in to the 5th floor and we got application forms. We knew this was honestly our last resort.
Two weeks later, a Mr. Gitonga - the campus registrar - called to inform me that I'd been admitted to the campus but I had to do the pre-university work. I did not care about that. All I knew is that I had been given a chance to something I would never have dreamt of. This was and will always be the happiest day of my life because it meant that I had a chance to make something of myself.
CIDA is an amazing place to be. All of us are from previously disadvantaged families and this makes it very easy for us to relate with each other. The spirit of UBUNTU here is so real and even though I haven't been back home since December 2007 I often forget the pain because of the love and unity shown here. This place is more than I ever bargained for, awesome people, awesome country, and an awesome campus. I intend to graduate in majoring in Marketing and Human resources. My long term vision is to start CIDA East Africa and likewise help people who are academically deserving but their situations do not allow them access to further their education.
CIDA City Campus (CIDA), based in Johannesburg, is the first virtually free higher education institution in South Africa, offering holistic education to historically disadvantaged youth who would not otherwise be able to access higher education. With the cost of higher education in South Africa spiraling out of control, CIDA has emerged as the abiding hope for underprivileged students who have a desire to pursue a university level education. The university is driven to develop the infinite potential of every student regardless of his or her background. Oprah Winfrey and Sir Richard Branson are both major funding supporters of CIDA through the CIDA Foundation and the university has been visited and praised by many luminaries including entrepreneur Russell Simmons, the Dalai Lama, and Nelson Mandela.
Please follow the developments at CIDA on their website at: http://www.cida.co.za/
--the author is a student at CIDA City Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa writing for HUMNEWS.
The elimination of school fees is a perquisite for education systems to become inclusive, equitable and sustainable. However policies across Africa range widely - from zero fees in Lesotho to heavy fees in Swaziland.
"School fees are keeping children out of the classroom, and many of these are the most vulnerable children in our societies," said Dr. Cream Wright, UNICEF Education Chief. "Fees consume nearly a quarter of a poor family's income in Sub-Saharan Africa, paying not only for tuition, but also indirect fees such as PTA and community contributions, textbook fees, compulsory uniforms and other charges. The increasing numbers of orphans and vulnerable children, including those affected by HIV/AIDS or trapped in domestic labour, makes it imperative to abolish fees."
UNICEF says eliminating fees leads to a surge in enrollment: In Tanzania in 2001, primary school enrollment grew by 50%, from 4.4 million in 2002 to 6.6 million in 2003. In Kenya in 2003, enrollment grew from 6 million to 7.2 million in a matter of weeks.
Survey of School Fee Policies in Selected African Countries
The Government of Lesotho introduced Free Primary Education (FPE) in 2000. This policy has been implemented progressively by removing fees in phases from Grade 1 in 2000 to Grade 7 in 2006
Under the National Policy on Education, free basic education - including six years of primary education and three years of junior secondary school education - is compulsory.
The Government has implemented a policy of free primary education in which school fees have been abolished and replaced by a capitation grant, which increased to 2,500FRw (USD 4.50) in 2006. Shortfalls in financing at the school level nevertheless persist, with parents typically being asked to contribute to finance this gap. Non-fee barriers remain, such as school uniforms and learning materials, and these affect access to education. Rwanda also provides three years of free post-primary education, where students undertake a common-core syllabus, according to the Ministry of Education.
Universal Primary Education (UPE) is a priority of the Swaziland National Education Policy. Free primary education was to have been instituted last year. In Swaziland 16 percent of children are not receiving an education, according to UNICEF. School fees range from E2000 a year to E10,000 and often much more (the average daily income in Swaziland is about E6)


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Internet Explorer Zero-Day Flaw Exploited by Same Java Gang
Attackers are exploiting a new security vulnerability in Internet Explorer and security experts are recommending users stop using IE until the flaw is patched.
The attack code was found on some infected servers associated with the group behind the recent attacks against Java, Eric Romang, a Luxembourg-based IT security advisor at ZATAZ.com, wrote on his blog over the weekend. The Metasploit team worked with Romang to verify the use-afer-free vulnerability in Internet Explorer and has already released an exploit to the open source penetration testing framework.
Victim computers are compromised just by visiting a malicious Website, which gives attackers the same privileges on the machine as the current user, Metasploit exploit developer "sinn3r" wrote on the Rapid7 blog. The security hole exists in Internet Explorer 7, 8, and 9, and the Metasploit team was able to take over a Windows 7 machine with IE 9 installed, and Romang saw the exploit work on a fully-patched XP SP3 system and an up-to-date Adobe Flash Player.
"There is no way to tell at this time how long it has been used in the wild," Tod Beardsley, Metasploit Engineering Manager, told Security Watch.
The pool of potential users is pretty large, with Rapid7 pegging the number close to 41 percent of Internet users in North America. Since Microsoft has not released a patch for this vulnerability yet, Internet users are strongly advised to switch to other browsers, such as Chrome or Firefox, until a security update becomes available.
Security Watch has reached out to Microsoft for a statement and will update when we hear back.
At the moment, the exploit in the wild appears to target only IE 7 and IE 8 on Windows XP systems only, Jamie Blasco, a researcher at AlienVault, wrote on the AlienVault Labs blog.
Anatomy of the Attack
Romang was monitoring several infected servers associated with the group behind the attacks exploiting the recently disclosed Java security flaws when he came across a help directory containing four files, he said in his blog post. The files, which included two HTML files, an encrypted Flash file, and an executable, made up the attack code against IE, he said.
The attack itself seems pretty straightforward. The first HTML file loads the Flash file, which when decompressed in memory, uses a technique called a heap spray to launch an iframe attack to trigger the use-after-free flaw that drops the executable on to the compromsied computer, Blasco said. The executable appears to be a new variant of the Poison Ivy Remote Access Tool.
The second HTML file checks to see if the attack site is listed in the Flash Storage settings. If it is, the victim computer will not be re-infected despite additional visits to the site, Blasco said.
None of these files were detected by any of the major antivirus tools listed on VirusTotal at the time Romang discovered them. The Flash file was also encrypted using popular encryption tool DoSWF, which has been seen in several other attacks recently. DoSWF makes it difficult to decompile and reverse engineer the Flash file.
"I can confirm, the zero-day season is really not over yet," Romang wrote.
The latest vulnerability is another example of how organizations maintaining proper patching and system updating processes can still be compromised, Marc Maiffret, CTO of BeyondTrust, told Security Watch. Romang saw the attack work on a fully patched Windows XP system with an up-to-date version of Flash.
Same Team as the Java Attacks
The team who developed the exploit "were not happy" to be caught, as all the files were removed from the server two days later, Romang said. A variant of the Java exploit was also removed from the server, Romang said.
The fact that the IE 0-day exploit was found on the same server as the attack code for Java is a strong hint the gang used both attacks, Beardsley said.
It's possible the group may not be resposible for actually developing the actual exploit, but the two attacks are closely related. They both download Poison Ivy RAT onto infected machines, and AlienVault said the same domain name is being reused.
"You'd think the 0-day attack from the same malicious group might cool down a little after that incident... well, you'd be wrong," sinn3r wrote.
Maiffret was also concerned that this new vulnerability will soon be added to exploit toolkits, thus expanding the number of attacks. As reported earlier, the Java vulnerability was added to Blackhole shortly after it was publicly disclosed.
"When these zero-days become leveraged in exploit toolkits the threat becomes even more severe given the average organization is already not equipped to handle zeroday that well, let alone wide spread un-targeted attacks across all levels of businesses and consumers," Maiffret said.
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Harvard played its first home game of the season before starting the Ivy League season on the road this weekend (photo Harvard Athletics Communications).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Harvard baseball team had its two-game win streak snapped and The Joseph J. O'Donnell '67 Head Coach for Harvard Baseball, Bill Decker, had his home debut spoiled, as Holy Cross topped the Crimson, 9-4, Wednesday afternoon at O'Donnell Field.
The Crusaders jumped out to an early advantage, scoring eight of their nine runs in the first five innings, before holding off a late Harvard (3-15) comeback attempt to spoil the Crimson's 2013 home debut.
Brandon Kregel collected two hits, including a triple, scored a run and plated another to pace the home offense. Carlton Bailey and Tanner Anderson both had RBI doubles, while Bailey also scored a run. Martin added a single, a RBI and a run for the Crimson, who finished with eight hits in the game.
After Holy Cross struck twice in the second inning on a two-run double by Nick Lovullo, Harvard responded with a run in the bottom of the frame. Kregel and Ethan Ferreira both singled to start the inning before DJ Link grounded into a double play to move Kregel over to third. Anderson followed with a RBI double to left center, but he was left stranded there to keep the deficit at one.
The Crusaders struck for single tallies in the third, fifth and seventh, but it was their four-run fourth that broke the game open. Lovullo picked up a RBI single, Evan Ocello had a two-run triple and Brandon Cipollo drove in a run with a double to account for the offense in the frame.
Harvard's bats went quiet until the seventh inning when the Crimson scored three runs. After Nick Saathoff got things going with a single, Bailey ripped a double down the left field line. Following a ground out, which moved Bailey over to third, Martin reached on an infield single to the shortstop to drive in Bailey. Kregel then ripped a triple to right center to score the junior, but reliever Ryan Filipowicz was able to escape without further damage to keep Harvard at bay.
Neither team would score the rest of the game to allow Holy Cross to walk away with the victory.
On the mound, Matt Sanders hurled two innings of scoreless relief, and Peter Kaplan tossed one perfect frame for the Crimson.
Harvard returns to action Saturday at Columbia to begin Ivy League play. First pitch is slated for 12 p.m.