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iDefense Security Advisory 03.25.09 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Mar 25, 2009
The Sun Java JRE is Sun's implementation of the Java runtime. For more information, see the vendor's site found at the following link.
Remote exploitation of a heap corruption vulnerability in Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java JRE could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user.
Values from the GIF file are used to calculate an offset to store data in a dynamic heap buffer. These values are not validated before use, which allows an attacker to store controlled data outside of the bounds of the allocated buffer. This leads to corruption of object pointers, which can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code.
Exploitation of this vulnerability results in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user viewing the web page. To exploit this vulnerability, a targeted user must load a malicious webpage created by an attacker. An attacker typically accomplishes this via social engineering or injecting content into compromised, trusted sites. After the user visits the malicious web page, no further user interaction is needed.
Since the attacker has the ability to use Java code to carefully sculpt the layout of the heap, this vulnerability can be reliably exploited.
iDefense has confirmed the existence of this vulnerability in Java JRE version 1.6_11. Previous versions may also be affected.
Sun Microsystems reports that the vulnerability can occur in the following Java SE and Java SE for Business releases for Windows, Solaris, and Linux:
* JDK and JRE 6 Update 12 and earlier
Note: JDK and JRE 5.0, SDK and JRE 1.4.2 and 1.3.1 are not affected.
iDefense is currently unaware of any workarounds for this issue. The vulnerability occurs in a core library used by JRE, so it is not possible to disable the code.
Sun Microsystem Inc. has released a patch which addresses this issue. For more information, consult their advisory at the following URL:
A Mitre Corp. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) number has not been assigned yet.
02/18/2009 - Initial Contact 02/18/2009 - PoC Requested 02/19/2009 - PoC Sent 03/10/2009 - Disclosure Date Set 03/25/2009 - Coordinated Public Disclosure
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AP Poll Bias ... Against Cats
On the deceptively simple topic of pets, the mainstream media has a hard time getting it right. Exhibit A: The Associated Press has joined forces with Petside, the web presence of the pet-food giant IAMS, to produce idiotic polls, the results of which are disseminated as news on the AP wire. Except these "polls," and the articles they spawn, are not really news -- they're examples of really shoddy, biased reporting.
According to the latest poll, 74 percent of people like dogs a lot, and only 41 percent like cats a lot. What's more, the "poll" tells us, "fifteen percent of the adults questioned said they disliked cats a lot while the number who said they disliked dogs a lot was just 2 percent."
It's not clear what AP-Petside means by "a lot." Where did they find these people? Because according to the Humane Society of the United States, which compiled data from the American Pet Products Manufacturing Association, there are approximately 77.5 million owned dogs in the United States and 93.6 million owned cats. Thirty-three percent of U.S. households own at least one cat. Surely those millions of owned cats are liked at least a little, or they wouldn't be owned?
Another proof of just how much Americans love cats is the huge amount of cat litter sold in the United States. In ancient Egypt, cats were deified because they guarded precious granaries against marauding rodents; today, millions of ailurophiles (the ten-dollar word for cat lovers) give daily offerings to the divine feline by spilling tons of grain -- in the form of corn or wheat cat litter!
What MSM outlets rarely consider is the sad plight of animals in shelters across our country. Fanning the flames of cat-hating is such a tired story. But the MSM apparently has no shame in spreading such damaging non-news, even with literally millions of sweet, loving cats behind bars at animal shelters across this country, creatures with already-slim chances of being adopted into forever homes due to the economic crisis. "Reporting" like this comes across as an acceptable form of bias -- except, conveniently, cats can't speak up and complain about being victims of media prejudice. But the AP-Petside poll really steps in doo-doo with this "analysis" of its "findings":
Those most likely to dislike cats were blacks, Hispanics and married men. Men were a bit more likely than women to say they disliked cats.
Debi Romano, who runs the non-profit Save Kitty Foundation, is working on the humane removal of hundreds of stray cats that settled into crawl spaces at Ravenswood, a 31-building complex in New York City. The New York City Housing Authority wanted to seal up the crawl spaces, which would have trapped helpless kittens alive; Romano rightly believes that trap-neuter-return -- collecting the cats in cages, then having them surgically sterilized and returning them to live in feral colonies -- is the only effective way to cut down on the cat population. She's applied for a grant that would help fund the T-N-R- plan, and her biggest supporters in the fight to save the kitties are the Ravenswood tenants -- "90 percent of whom are black and Hispanic," Romano says.
As for men disliking cats, a man named Bryan Kortis runs the influential non-profit Neighborhood Cats, which recently helped design a more efficient trap to help volunteer rescuers humanely gather stray cats for sterilization.
AP-Petside's racial profiling is as inaccurate as it is appalling; cats and the great silent majority that love them certainly deserve better. Considering everything they do for us humans -- lowering our blood pressure; helping us to live longer, healthier lives; providing love and loyalty, regardless of a person's race or gender -- certainly animals' stories should be told with accuracy, not stereotyped generalizations.
One of the sages quoted in the AP article says: "Cats are all about cats but dogs are interested in pleasing their owners. Cats don't care if they please you or not." I can think of several instances of cats demonstrating a high level of care for humans. Just like dogs, cats can help miracles happen for people. Some cats are certified for pet-provided therapy, visiting hospitals and hospice care facilities to spread comfort and joy.


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State says Big Blue wasn't making progress on corrective action plan
Indiana this week canceled IBM Corp. contract as the prime on a $1.34 billion award to overhaul the state's applications for food stamps, Medicaid and other welfare benefits. Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) said IBM was not making enough progress to fix poor services under a corrective action plan put in place last spring. "The fraud appears to have been stopped and we're still on track to save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, but the intended service improvements have not been delivered, and that's not acceptable," Daniels said in a statement. An IBM official told the Associated Press that the company was making progress. He blamed the recession and high unemployment for putting more stress on the system and making changes more difficult. "IBM rejects the state's claims and believes the state's actions are unjustified," company spokesman John Buscemi said. The state's plan now is to use parts of its old system and parts of the modernized system that have worked well, Daniels said. Indiana also will continue to work with IBM's subcontractors such as Affiliated Computer Services Inc., the AP reported.
The move opens the way for ACS to work more closely with the state to "meet the needs of their vision to provide a program that best serves the citizens of Indiana," an ACS spokesman said. "ACS remains fully committed to the success of this project.."
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And maybe IBM had some issues with their offshore "Global Partners"?
Have to agree with Alexandria, much more behind this than we will ever know. And, the government should really have at least a couple of competent people on their payroll, not just politicians.
Not that contract companies would be fully blameless, sometimes they play politics for profit and forget the real goals but the responsibility is and should be on customer. Seen / worked too many government projects, in many countries / states, where the customer, government, has made the project fail just by incompetence. Of course, same sometimes happens in private, with internal problems in consulting company, etc. But should be cleared out before very costly and difficult cancelation / reassign of the project is needed. It's always 99% personal problems, not technical.
You don't get to offshore half of your workforce AND whine about unemployment causing you to be unable to produce. I have no pity for IBM.
IBM relies heavily on India. Though they may be compitent coders, it still requires either extremely extensive specs and business analyst who are quick to understand what is needed. Somehow either proper specs were not done or the IBM team is unable to understand or convey the problem to indian coders. If they wanted to use this model then there was certainly enough money in a billion dollar project to either move them to Indiana for a year or two, or do a better jobs in analysys and specs. You need compitent people on location with the client. Always is and always has been the problem with any project. The bigger the project, the more detached you get from the client and the less chance of success. Governments should aim at 18 month at a max.
IBM has been fired by other states for the same problems.. Indiana is just the latest who has IBM for not fulfilling the contract.
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John N. Bahcall, theoretical astrophyscist and Richard Black Professor of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study will deliver the 2003 Van Vleck Lectures.
The subject of Bahcall's public lecture will be "How does the Sun Shine?" and will be held on Wednesday, April 9th at 4:00 p.m. A reception will follow the lecture in Room 216. He will also deliver a School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium on "Solar Neutrinos" the following day at 4:00 p.m. Both Van Vleck Lectures will be held in Room 150 Tate Laboratory of Physics.


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Veterans against the F‑22
Jon Soltz over at VoteVets delivers a stinging rebuke of Congress's plans to buy more F‑22s — the $350+ million fighter aircraft designed to fight the Soviet Union, and that the Pentagon doesn't want.
If the F‑22's backers can round up the votes and the money, it won't be the first time that Congress has overruled the combined wisdom of the SecDef and the Joint Chiefs. But you'd think that by now the specious arguments that military spending is an efficient way to stimulate the economy had pretty much run their course. Alas, they haven't.
In that resepect, I think that Soltz is taking the right approach. Rather than assaulting the Iron Triangle head on, he highlights the aircraft's limited utility (as I have on this blog and in my book), and suggests that the troops in the field, and the troops who just left, won't appreciate it if Congress puts parochial interests above those of our men and women in uniform.
Whether the vet's voices are stronger than the interests who will make money off the purchase of a dozen more planes is an open question. But I hope that the anti‐F‐22 forces prevail.


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Soros Fund Management has doubled up a bet that the S&P 500 is headed for a fall.
Within Friday's 13F filings news was the revelation that the firm, founded by legendary investor George Soros, increased a put position on the S&P 500 ETF by a whopping 154% in the fourth quarter, compared with the third. (A put or short position basically gives the owner the right to sell a security at a set price for a limited time, and in making such a bet, an investor generally believes the security is going to decline.)
The value of that holding, the biggest position in the fund, has risen to $1.3 billion from around $470 million. It now makes up a 11.13% chunk of all reported holdings. It had been cut to 5.14% in the third quarter, from 13.54% in the second quarter, which itself marked another dramatic lift on the bearish call. The numbers can be found at Whalewisdom.com, which makes them slightly easier to digest than the actual SEC filing.
Writing on the Bullion Baron blog, Joseph has been quick to alert readers to the hedge fund's bets on the S&P 500, offering up a summary of changes to that call from mid-2011 onward. For the four quarters of 2013, that short has followed a pattern of big highs and big lows.
Of course, Joseph said, the bearish S&P call could be a hedge and, as it's six weeks into the next reporting period, it may have already been reduced or increased. But he said it could also be indicative of jitters: In January, Soros highlighted risks coming out of China and drew a comparison with the lead-up to the crash of 2008.
"It's possible that the SPY puts are just a hedge, weighed against other long positions he holds in specific stocks. However, the views he expressed in this article lead me to believe he thinks another crisis is brewing (led by China on this occasion) and the SPY put position could be an attempt profit from it," says Joseph.
The second- and third-biggest positions in the 13F were a fresh put on the Energy Select Sector SPDR fund and a big jump in holds of Israeli pharmaceutical maker Teva . Read about more changes in Soros's quarterly holdings here.
Soros and his hedge fund aren't alone if they're feeling unease at the bull run for markets. It's been roughly 28 months since a substantial correction for the S&P 500, which is down 0.5% for the year after having endured a pullback earlier this month, triggered in part by jitters over emerging markets. Strategists have been debating about when and how the correction is going to happen.
As for whether investors should ape the 13F followings of others, MarketWatch's Bill Watts pointed out last week that the 45-day lag in the holdings is particularly tricky when it comes to calls like a huge bearish bet on the S&P 500. And he found that while hedge funds outperform on the upside, they do far worse on the downside.
It was Soros himself who famously once said: "I rely a great deal on animal instincts." And as we all know, George's made some big, crazy, winning bets in the past.
-- Barbara Kollmeyer writes for MarketWatch. Follow her @bkollmeyer.
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The "partial withdrawal" is however allowed only after 10 years of contribution by the subscriber, said the draft guidelines by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA).
"This withdrawal may be treated as partial withdrawal and whereby the subscriber can withdraw not exceeding twenty-five percent (25%) of the contribution made by the subscriber...," the guidelines said.
As of now, partial withdrawals are not permitted and an NPS subscriber has to completely exit the scheme for withdrawl before maturity. NPS is a long-term, retirement savings product which accumulates and generates maximum pension wealth. NPS is mandatory for all central government employees who joined services after April, 2004 and is open to other citizens also.
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Soundscape labeled 'good event,' despite noise complaints
Horizon Casino Resort has deemed Soundscape 2014 a positive event, despite experiencing some issues with Stateline's latest three-day music festival.
The event, which began New Year's Eve and ended outdoor music activities Jan. 2, attracted about 2,500 people each day, Horizon General Manager Corinna Osborne said.
"Overall, it was a good event," she said. "Unfortunately we did get some noise complaints."
Both Horizon and Douglas County received several complaints related to loud music at the concert, according to officials. The noise complaints were made while DJs performed at Soundscape's main stage, located outdoors in the Horizon's back parking lot.
Complaints made to the county were from a number of South Lake Tahoe residents and at least one Stateline business, County Manager Steve Mokrohisky said.
"The concerns that were raised with us were related to noise and the volume of the noise — bass in particular," he said.
But the county also had an issue with Soundscape overstepping its permit and playing music later than its 11 p.m. cutoff time Jan. 1, Mokrohisky said.
County officials spoke to Soundscape organizers after the incident and requested that music be turned down earlier on Jan. 2 in a show of good faith, he said. Soundscape officials complied with the request, but the county is still "disappointed" that the event caused noise disturbances in the community, Mokrohisky said.
Summer Winter Action Tours, the organization that presented Soundscape, did not return phone calls for comment by deadline.
Osborne said the only other issues with the festival stemmed from excessive drinking around New Year's.
"Whenever you have concerts of this magnitude," she said, "there's some over-consumption of alcohol on New Year's."
However, she said the issues were minor and that New Year's Eve was in fact quieter at Horizon than it was in previous years.
Still, the resort managed to rent out every available room on Dec. 31, Osborne said, but few of those bookings were attributed to Soundscape festivalgoers.
"(Horizon) would have sold out regardless," she said.
Instead, Soundscape proved to be a major benefit on Jan. 1 and 2, she said. New Year's Day and the few that follow are typically a slower time for the resort, but the concert brought appreciated business.
As for allowing Soundscape's return, Osborne said the Horizon would "consider it with some changes."
Mokrohisky said further evaluation of the festival is needed before the county approves permits for another Soundscape.
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Posh's new hair won't smile
The Beckhams were courtside at the Laker game the other night. As you can see, Posh is trying out some soft waves on her growing bob. Looks good. Really good. She was very pretty that night. Would have been prettier if she'd let herself smile. But of course not. There were too many cameras around.
You will note, even in the photo with David and Romeo and Cruz, all three of them sharing a laugh, Victoria sits between them totally refusing to join in. She is a resolute bitch. And the willpower, I admire it. She applies the willpower to not eating, and she also applies it to not smiling. I am the exact opposite. I cannot starve and I cannot hold back a giggle. I am the worst at not laughing. I was almost thrown out of Chanel one night 3 years ago at TIFF for not being able to not laugh after a ridiculous interview with Woody Allen during which I had to shout in his ear, bent over in my sky high heels, practically nestling my head into the crook of his neck to make sure he could hear me. Sorry, I digress.
We were admiring Posh's ability to not smile. Brava.
Now I'm admiring his hand on her thigh. It's a classic Beckham pose. Jacek and I play this at the hockey game all the time too. I've mentioned it before, the Beckham Game, so much fun. Jacek will indulge me if I'm extra bored during an ultra defensive game. I'll say "let's do the Beckhams" and automatically he'll know to put his warm hand on the inside of my thigh and squint a little. Usually it's cold inside the arena too so there's a functional component to the exercise. Everybody wins in the Beckham Game, see?
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It's garden show season again.
As February and March temperatures see-saw between chilly and nice, garden shows around the state remind us that the growing season is just around the corner. Got the urge to go out and plant something? Maybe get that one big yard project finally done this year?
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You won't get a one-hour free consult at a garden show display, but you can still get quick advice on a problem.
> Look for pros who say more than, "oh, yeah, we do that." Even in a short chat you might get useful advice about the complexity of your problem or one small tip that confirms you're headed in the right direction.
> Look for clues that indicate the "expert" really is one. Pay special attention to the pros who answer your question with another question. If they need to know more about your problem to give good advice, then they're probably worth listening to. And if they say "I don't know," that could indicate integrity more than stupidity.
With most of the state in a serious drought and water restrictions pending, what are exhibitors saying about water conservation?
> Do they know about possible rebates from the city for sprinkler upgrades?
> Are they showing off cool technology that saves water?
> Do their signs and materials mention xeriscape, water conservation or sustainable landscape practices?
> Do they showcase low-water plants in their displays?
These are a few things to keep in mind as you stroll through the displays at the garden and home shows. Enjoy your brief brush with spring and be inspired for the season ahead!
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According to a report from local Rivals.com recruiting expert Adam Munsterteiger of buffstampede.com, Colorado men's basketball coach Tad Boyle and his staff are closely watching the progress of 6-foot-9 junior Kaileb Rodriguez of ThunderRidge High in Highlands Ranch.
Rodriguez said he has been to CU several times, including an unofficial visit last fall.
No offer has yet been extended. However, Rodriguez said "I think CU is pretty high on me. I talk to them, and they also talk to my parents a lot. So we'll have to see (about an offer)."
Rodriguez told the website that he has the most interest in CU, California, Nevada and San Francisco.
It is known that CU also has shown interest in two big high school juniors in Colorado Springs: 6-9 Josh Scott of Lewis-Palmer and 6-7 Wesley Gordon of Sierra.
Whether any of the trio ends up at CU remains to be seen. But it's a promising sign about the upcoming talent produced along the Front Range.
They can sign as early as November during college basketball's early signing period.


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To celebrate the launch of our Ten Green Bottles collaboration, we went over to Diageo HQ for some lovely elderflower and strawberry G&Ts.
Here's the Conran work in pride of place in Diageo's reception:
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They're not just for freeway driving anymore.
Those self-driving cars from Google are now roaming city streets, whirling through boulevards, and using technology to avoid obstacles in their path.
Google let us roll around in the latest driverless vehicles, with Chris Urmson, director of the Self-Driving Car Project, who pointed out that, while new technology makes people nervous, "after five minutes, people will say, that's all it does? This will be common, once you get used to it."
Strangely, the self-driving update happened on the same day the authors of the book "Freakonomics," Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, released their own questions (from their newest book) about the driverless cars. For example: How many jobs will they eliminate? And will we "binge drink" because we won't have to drive?
Well, we asked.
According to Alain Bertaud of NYU, some jobs will likely be lost, "especially, taxi drivers at airports," but not for some time -- after all, he says, self-driving cars will take awhile to catch on.
As for the drinking, Susan Shaheen, the Co-Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at UC Berkeley, says, "If someone wants to drink, this allows them to drink safely, without affecting other individuals."
Basically, Google is asking for patience as the cars gradually become part of our lives. Patience, and acceptance. They claim self-driving cars will be much safer, once we give the technology a chance.
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It has been a long while since our last update. Well, that's because we are now back in Malaysia :) But of course, a part of our heart is still in Melbourne (and it's currently Autumn now over there, my favourite season of all!). There are still some posts of halal eateries and places of visit pending to be posted, but we'll slowly and gradually share them when time permits. In the meantime, you can still reach us via email at blogwalkwalk[at]gmail[dot]com . We still sell the Walk Walk Melbourne CBD Halal Map, now in also in e-map version. Please email us if you're interested in purchasing.
Meanwhile, we'll leave you with some photos of May last year in 2011. Oh, Autumn! :)
Swanston St sidewalk (before the new renovation) in front of the State Library
A walk through Centre Place
Milky Joe's Coffee from QV food court
p/s: looking at these photos now remind me of the sunny, windy, cool and sometimes rainy Autumn Melbourne weather. for my friends who are still there, I'm sure all of you are enjoying snuggling in your scarves and sipping those hot coffee ;)


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Hello everyone everywhere!
I'm back…here, but not home! It's a few hours after the last show which is show #30 on this "Night of the Proms" tour. I must say that this is a well-oiled machine. This last week is a different city each day usually adding up to a late night and early morning. Thank goodness that we have no sound checks at all! That means an afternoon nap comes in handy.
It has been a blast getting to know all the artists, musicians and crew on the tour. Some of us have made friends, probably for life. Plenty of singing, dancing (after the show!) discussions, go karting, eating and traveling for a lifetime of memories.
It all started at the top of November in Antwerp, Belgium with about four days of rehearsals. Those days paid off and everything has gone super smooth since. This is our first time doing our "all vocal" made for N7 arrangements with a 68 piece orchestra. I really enjoy it. I'm glad we get a chance to do "Wall of Sound" by ourselves and other sections of the other songs, "In the Air Tonight", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" but I also really like the power of 75 musicians on stage. We've been blessed to be really well received each night with nearly every city chanting along to one or more songs.
If you haven't seen a show in person or online, check out "The Battle". Total high energy! Six songs over eight minutes. I'm usually ready to drop after the song. It's a good thing that the audience takes so long to quiet down…it's a huge chance to catch our breath before sliding into the next ballad which is bare bones…old school a cappella for the first minute before exploding into a full blown anthem with everyone on deck! This is a duet with John Miles and the song is "Music". We return to the stage twice more to sing with a duet with Mick Hucknall (only four of us) and then we all return for "Hey Jude" the finale.
I'm not sure if I like a standing or sitting audience…we've had both on this tour. And they both have advantages and disadvantages. But in general, they both work well with the show. I've almost seen the full show twice, but it's impossible being in it to see it for real. It's kind of strange to see the mixture of pop and classical and still have such high energy. Of course compared to doing our own show…this is a walk in the park, but a walk we welcome.
Because it's 32 shows, many of the orchestra members only do half the tour as they have to sometimes get back to their full time jobs (teaching, playing, etc.). So this has created even more faces to remember. We were told that the orchestra would create choreography for many of the songs in the show and at first this wasn't happening. So I assumed it wouldn't happen…but little by little they added more and more moves and now it is so much fun to watch them. They tell us that it is fun to watch us. We've even received a little instruction from one or more members on the proper way we should hold our invisible instruments :-)
Some of you know from my Tweets and Facebook posts that I got to meet The Jacksons on the first half of the tour. This was a nightly treat for me and Warren. We both grew up listening to all their music. And when I say "all" I mean "all". Not to be confused with being a Michael Jackson fan please! Those are two different things completely! Ok, not completely, but you know what I mean :-).
They performed with us for 12 shows…so I saw…yes, you guessed it…12 shows! The music sounded so good with the 68 piece orchestra! They were a perfect match. We traded info with them and the musicians and hope to see a full show sometime in March in London (opposed to the five songs they did for Night of the Proms).
The only four constants have been Anastacia, John Miles, Remy (a Harpist) and us for all the dates. In each country they've added an artist from that country which has been a very nice touch.
We've since become friends with Remy who is an amazingly talented Harpist. We had hoped to do a song together in the set, but timing didn't work out…so we decided to do something together for YouTube. Look out for that in 2013…it really sounds nice. Voices doing what they are not ordinarily doing…so why not the same for a harp? :-)
On these types of runs, you always have to be careful that you get enough sleep! I woke up to my alarm yesterday and it took me about 20 seconds to figure out if it was day or night. "Is it time to go to breakfast or is this show time?" That was a record for me. I couldn't believe it once I figured out it was 5pm!
And then there's the hotel room deal. The day before yesterday I could swear my room number was 416, and after lots of up and down, it came to me that 416 was the room from the day before. Then I did it again today…I couldn't remember what room…guessed 177…but the door wouldn't open. I assumed I got it wrong and asked reception if they would kindly tell me. Answer: 177. I said, "I just tried that (showing my key). You're probably mixing me up with my brother." She answered, "No, that's your room…but you might want to try using our hotel key!" Embarrassing to say the least, but I did smile and nod.
So here I am with two more shows to do…do I miss home? "Miss" isn't the word. I cannot find the best word to describe it…but I can't think on that with two more days in front of me. I plan on giving them all I've got and then Christmas, here I come!
I am very thankful to make it home for Christmas Eve (night)…that would hurt to miss that special night with my family. When I get home my youngest will be exactly five months to the day! And I hear she's doing a lot of smiling now :-). I told Lynette make sure she saves some smiles for me for Christmas and she answered: "She doesn't have to save them, they're made right here at home!"
Well everyone, if I don't see or hear from you between now and Christmas (which is highly likely)…may God Bless you immensely!
Merry CHRISTmas!
Roger, over and out!


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Doctoral Degree Commencement Ceremony
The Doctoral Degree Commencement will be held on Saturday, May 16, 2020, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, located in downtown Rochester. This ceremony will begin at 9:00 a.m. for all doctoral candidates from the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, Eastman School of Music, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education, School of Nursing, and William E. Simon School of Business Administration.
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Doctoral Degree candidates must arrive to the Grand Balcony of the Eastman School no later than 8:00 a.m. to allow sufficient time for robing and assembly of processional columns. Candidates will be lined up in alpha order within their degree (Ph.D., D.M.A., Ed.D., D.N.P.).
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Guests may enter through the main entrance to Eastman Theatre. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. for guests. Tickets are not required for this ceremony.
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Grey decor builds a cool modern base, but what if your personality seeks something a little stronger" Turn up the energy inside your home by introducing solid accent pieces in shades of red, which is thought to promote feelings of strength, determination, power, passion and even love. There are many ways to succeed with a lively red and grey colour combo, from scattering a few star accent pieces into a predominantly neutral design, to building fearless colour saturated spaces. We?ve selected these two apartment designs to help you out in your quest to a red hot home, as they come chock full with inspiration for colour balance?plus some nifty ideas for stylish home layouts to boot.
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A grey ceiling creates an awesome zoning technique in the living room of a 86 square metre apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine. Lighting inside this darkened area is reduced to an atmospheric haze, promoting a cinematic ambience around the TV. Other lighting in the open plan room presents as dazzling spotlights in crisp white planes.
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Undergraduate Research 2013-2014
The first annual University of Louisiana System Academic Summit was held on Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13, 2013 on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Monroe. This two-day event showcases academic excellence across the nine UL System universities by combining service learning, visual and performing arts, and undergraduate research.
Faculty, staff, and student leaders from the University of Louisiana System attended and participated in the event.


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Switzerland: UN Chief Enlists ABB CEO to Boost Global Compact
DAVOS -- United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan called here on Sunday
for more corporations to get serious about environmental protection,
human rights and labor standards -- and lobbied them to come on board the
UN's Global Compact for corporate responsibility.
The UN chief also announced that he had enlisted the help of a top
executive, Goran Lindahl, former President and CEO of the Swiss company
ABB, Ltd., to recruit more businesses to join the compact.
The Compact is set of nine principles on environmental protection, human
rights and labor standards that was born out of a speech the Secretary
General delivered at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in 1999.
Annan asked business leaders on Sunday to not wait for governments to
establish laws in these areas but to adopt their own code of conduct
based on the Compact's principles.
''Global systems of rules to protect intellectual property are stronger
than rules to protect human rights,'' Annan said.
The UN has set the target of trying to get 1,000 corporations to endorse
the Compact by 2002. So far it has been endorsed by about 300 companies.
Annan also announced the convening of a meeting in March to work on how
corporations can behave responsibly in zones of conflict. He said that
UN agencies on the ground in areas of conflict would work with companies
operating in those regions.
Georg Kell, Annan's top adviser on the Compact, told the Forum News
Daily in an interview at his office at UN Headquarters in New York that
the 1999 speech was so well received by governments that they lobbied
Annan to take the Compact beyond words even though it was only intended
to give a boost to the elements of the UN system that watch over these
areas: the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights (UNHCHR) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
If the Compact's principles appear to be vague or obscure, then Kell and
his associates at the UN have accomplished their mission. According to
Kell, the goal was to provide a ''broad tent'' which companies could work
under as they shape their practices, taking into account their own
The Compact is not a code of conduct, Kell said. Companies do not have
to report on their compliance with it. The UN has neither the mandate
nor the resources to hold the companies accountable, said Kell.
Among the Compact's signatories are 40 top-flight companies (including
BP Amoco, DuPont, Unilever and Nike), several business associations
including the International Chamber of Commerce, and NGOs such as
Amnesty International and the World Wildlife Fund.
Many of the signatories say they have been busy trying to incorporate
the principles into their business practices, and some are even acting
as publicists for the Compact.
Volvo Car Corp. has helped build a ''Scandinavian Network'' of companies
in the region that have met to discuss best practices in following the
Compact's principles, according to Kaarina Dubee, a Corporate Diversity
Manager with Volvo.
''We wanted to create a forum for sharing of best practice and
experiences,'' she said, ''because it is extremely complex for a company
that is not used to thinking about human rights. When it comes to human
rights and labor standards, companies tend to work at a very local
level, following the laws. But things are changing so quickly.''
The network includes the Norwegian energy company Statoil, ABB and
regional offices of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. According to Dubee,
getting corporations, particularly high-tech companies, to think about
human rights and labor standards is more difficult than getting them to
think about environmental issues. A high tech company may have to look
far down its supply chain to be sure that its suppliers are not
violating human rights, labor or environmental standards, said Dubee.
The Compact has also caught on with corporations in developing
countries. Some 220 Brazilian companies and a local business association
have expressed support for the Compact, said Kell. In the Asia-Pacific
region, 19 employers' organizations have voiced their support of the
Compact, as have business leaders in Malaysia and India.
Some companies have tried to improve the conditions of the countries in
which they operate. Statoil donated $115,000 to the Norwegian Refugee
Council to support refugees and displaced persons in countries where it
operates, including Angola, Azerbaijan and Georgia. WebMD, which
operates Internet sites providing health care information, is in the
process of launching 10,000 online ''tele-medicine'' sites in developing
While many groups have supported the Compact, including some of the
toughest critics of many of companies that have also endorsed its
principles, it does have its critics.
Among them is CorpWatch, which says these companies are
getting a free ride by not being held accountable for how they follow
the Compact's principles in their operations. It argues that if the UN
does not have the ability to enforce its principles it should not work
with these companies.
The Compact's ''vague and voluntary character means that it will likely
do more harm than good,'' writes Corporate Europe Observer, a corporate
watchdog group. ''Annan has made it no secret that the Global Compact is
a chance for corporations to improve their public image and counter the
backlash against trade and investment liberalization,'' it wrote. ''It is
certain that through the Global Compact the UN will contribute to the
largely incorrect impression that corporations are on the way to
becoming socially and environmentally responsible actors.''
Kell said this argument is weak. Many of the companies that are
endorsing the Compact were not on the radar screens of NGOs and the
media, he said, adding that when these companies publicly endorse the
Compact they open themselves up to scrutiny. These companies can ''no
longer just look at the financial bottom line,'' said Kell. ''You can make
change only where there is a need for change.''
When the British mining giant Rio Tinto said it wanted to start mining
uranium out of Australia's Kakadu National Park, environmental groups
cited the company's endorsement of the Compact as a reason they should
abandon the project, according to Kell.
Another charge leveled by these groups is that the companies get to
''wrap themselves in the UN flag.'' Kell conceded that, in terms of public
image of the Compact, he and his colleagues had been naive. Since this
criticism was raised, Kell has made it clear that the UN flag or logo
may not be used by any company without clearance from the UN Legal
Critics of the Compact have also focused on the natural resources
extracting companies that have endorsed the principles Rio Tinto, Royal
Dutch/Shell Group, Statoil and Norsk Hydro. Such companies are among
those most likely to be working in conflict zones, and in many cases the
tax revenues they generate for local governments has exacerbated
conflicts. Annan cited how the South African diamond cartel DeBeers was
working to ensure it was not purchasing diamonds from areas where there
is reason to believe the money would be used to fuel conflict and buy
''Because the oil companies are sometimes among the first foreign
investors to arrive in a country,'' said Geir Westgaard, Statoil's Vice
President for Country Analysis and Social Responsibility, ''we tend to
lead the charge in terms of opening the country to integration into the
world economy.''
Westgaard said that oil companies are increasingly being asked to take
on responsibilities beyond the scope of their ability, such as ensuring
that revenue generated by their operations is used by governments for
the public good.
''While we don't want to be seen as shirking our corporate social
responsibilities,'' said Westgaard, ''we are not at all comfortable with
expectations that we should tell our host governments how to spend their
revenues. I believe it's important to acknowledge and draw some clear
distinctions between the roles and responsibilities that can and should
be assumed by business, NGOs, governments and the UN system
Kell and his colleagues at the UN say they agree with this position.
Kell has said that governments must not divest themselves of
responsibility to their citizens to protect the principles outlined in
the Compact.
''Already governments are divesting responsibilities, and there is a
temptation to use the notion of corporate citizenship or social
responsibility to justify this,'' said Kell. ''But governments continue to
hold the key to unlocking economic opportunities; leaders failing their
own people continue to constitute the single biggest source of human
- 101 Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN


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*Story Update*
Thousands of people attended Sunday's B/CS Christmas Parade.
While there were nearly 100 entries and thousands of participants, one group is getting a lot of the attention.
Freedom of and from religion has become a talking point throughout town after an atheist group openly expressed their beliefs during Sunday's B/CS Christmas Parade.
18 people made up the Atheist Vuvuzela Marching Band which paraded down Texas Avenue while playing "Jingle Bells" on vuvuzela horns.
News 3 spoke with the leader of the group who said they weren't protesting Christmas or the parade but were there to announce their presence in the community.
The decision to parade though didn't sit well with many of those in attendance.
"Wasn't exactly happy about the Christmas Parade this year, I spent many years teaching my children to love and respect other people and to love the fact that they were children of God and I don't feel that they should be influenced in any other way especially not at a Christmas parade," said Tina Corgey, who is a lifelong Bryan resident.
Corgey brings her three kids to the B/CS Christmas Parade every year.
She said she was disgusted by what she saw on Sunday.
"If you have younger children they weren't going to understand but I have older children, a teenager, 8-year-old and they were curious and they asked questions and it was hard for them to believe and understand that there are actually people out there that don't believe in God," Corgey said.
"We just wanted to say hey, were here, its' ok, you know. We didn't intend to be specifically offensive to anyone you know we just wanted to say we're here too," said Keri Bean of the Brazos Valley Atheist Vuvuzela Marching Band.
Bean organized the Brazos Valley Vuvuzela Marching Band and said they chose to perform "Jingle Bells" to stay with the Christmas spirit of the parade.
"When we were walking around we would say, 'Merry Christmas' or 'Happy Hanukkah', 'Merry Kwanzaa', there's a whole bunch of different holidays that happen now, so we wanted to make sure that everyone was represented," Bean said.
"They followed through and they did what they said and they paid the entry fee and so from that standpoint they did as any other participants did in the event," said Penny Zent, Station Manager at KAMU-FM.
The station helped sponsor the parade.
"You've heard the phrase, "What would Jesus do?" and so that was something that was mentioned today and the thought was that Jesus probably would have wrapped his arms around 'em and welcomed 'em to the event and so I hope that our community will be big enough to rise above this and do exactly the same thing," Zent said.
Tina Corgey believes the paraders performed in bad taste.
"It just ,I think it could have been done somewhere else," Corgey said.
Corgey said she still plans on attending the parade in the years to come and News 3 also learned Monday evening the Atheist Vuvuzela Marching Band is considering participating in the Christmas Parade next year.
*Sunday's story*
Holiday spirit filled the air Sunday afternoon in Bryan/College Station as thousands of people lined up for the annual Christmas parade.
Nearly 100 different groups took part in the parade which included the Texas Aggie Band, area high school bands, the Grinch and everyone in between.
Even Santa stopped by to say hello and gather Christmas wish lists along the route.
This year's theme was Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree.


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TSA Agent Lets Rapper Keep His Weed?
Some people clearly think Transportation Security Administration officers are drunk on power, terrorizing old ladies and all that. A bill was even introduced this week that seeks to strip them of their police-like trappings. But it seems there's an inner "cool dad" inside at least some TSA agents. This week, a rapper found a "Notice of Baggage Inspection" in his suitcase. But his large bag of weed was fully intact, and scrawled on the note were the words: "C'mon son."
Freddie Gibbs, who recently formed the hip hop group P.O.C. (Pulled Over by the Cops) with a couple guys from The Cool Kids, tweeted the picture. "The TSA found my weed and let me keep it. They just left me a note. 'C'mon Son'. Lol."
There are some serious doubts about the story's veracity. But this isn't the first time a TSA officer supposedly has taken some liberties. In October, a traveler reportedly also found a personal note scrawled on her baggage inspection notice. It said: "Get your freak on girl." Presumably, someone had found her vibrator.
Of course, smuggling marijuana across state lines is a federal crime. Taking a sex toy on vacation is not.
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Prime time seeks a future in a when-you-want-it world
- Technology is hastening the fall of real-time prime-time viewing
- In a survey of 2,000 viewers, only 42% watched a new show in its scheduled slot
- Netflix and Hulu are developing their own original programming
Stephanie George-Morgan, 33, barely knew anything about ABC's long-running Grey's Anatomy when she stumbled upon reruns of the medical drama on Lifetime last summer. But "before I knew it, I was hooked," says the stay-at-home mom from Jackson, Miss.
So she briefly signed up for Netflix and caught up with all eight seasons of the show, and is now a loyal viewer of new episodes on ABC. Except that she skips all the ads, using a digital video recorder she got six months ago when she switched cable providers. "I'm a DVR freak!" she says. "I record all of my favorite shows to watch later," often in bunches. "That way I'm not left hanging for another week."
Technology has been kind to viewers. But it also is hastening the end of the kind of mass-audience, gather-round-the-tube appointment TV that networks have counted on and Americans have scheduled their lives around for more than half a century.
Beyond the cultural upheaval, it's upended the economics of the $70 billion TV business, which depends heavily on advertising to pay for Grey's and other shows. It's sent those networks and advertisers scrambling to find new ways to get a handle on, and profit from, a viewership that is dispersing at an accelerating rate. And it's put a premium on sports and reality TV, which are more immune to the shifts.
This fall, 38% of young-adult prime-time viewing on the major networks (and 23% of all viewing) consists of previously recorded shows, Nielsen says. That's up from nearly zero a decade ago. "This year has really sort of been the tipping point that we've been expecting," says Leslie Moonves, chairman of CBS Corp., which owns CBS, Showtime and half of CW. Increasingly, "overnight ratings don't mean anything."
It's not just DVRs, now in 46% of homes, that are upsetting TV's ecosystem. The dying DVD business has been replaced by a host of new options:
Free streaming. Hulu, the 4-year-old streaming service owned by the parents of Fox, NBC and ABC, offers viewers recent episodes. Cable's video on demand offers an increasing array of new TV shows. And networks' own websites are another reminder that viewers don't need to bother tuning in at their favorite show's regular time; they can be watched later, anywhere.
Online purchases. Apple's iTunes store sells past season episodes for $3 apiece. For $8 a month, rival Netflix offers unlimited streaming commercial-free, encouraging binge viewing of serialized shows on a laptop or Internet-ready TV. And a paid version of Hulu offers a trove of former series.
Mobile. All that content can be watched in more places: not just on laptops but also on tablets, smartphones and other devices for which viewership isn't currently measured, making it harder for programmers to profit from them and for advertisers to know whether they're reaching potential customers.
"Everything is being disrupted by technology," says Tim Spengler, CEO at New York ad firm Magna Global. "Television is very effective for advertisers, (but) we just can't rely on it to do the whole job the way we used to. What advertisers are forced to do is look at a much more diverse mix" of media, and "the younger the target audience, the more diverse the mix needs to be."
TV ratings slump
Nearly two months into the new TV season, ratings for three of the four big networks are down 10% to 30% from last fall, and off-channel viewership is only one reason. The crop of new series just hasn't excited viewers, and there's stronger competition from cable, where shows such as AMC's The Walking Dead and FX's American Horror Story have led many of their big-network rivals among key audiences.
One cause for alarm is that overall TV usage by young adults ages 18 to 24 is down 9% since this time last year, more than any other age bracket. That group is most likely to watch elsewhere, a habit fueled by TV studios' sales of their content to online destinations.
"Nothing is a free lunch," says Michael Nathanson, media analyst at Nomura Securities. "All these guys who sell their content to Netflix" have to realize that "users paying for subscriptions find it valuable, and that's sucking time away" from TV watching.
While "top streamers are watching the least amount of television," counters Dounia Turrill, senior VP of consumer insights at Nielsen Co., "they're still watching 12 times more television than streaming content."
And some see a silver lining in the wider array of viewing options, funneling new viewers back to TV the way George-Morgan, the Mississippi mom, came back to ABC for Grey's.
A day before The Walking Dead began its third season earlier this month, the zombie hit's previous season was released exclusively on Netflix, and a couple hundred thousand subscribers watched all 13 episodes in one day.
While the number is tiny by TV standards, it's an extreme sign of fan devotion, and in a small way it might have helped prime the pump for the show's new-season opener, which set a cable-drama record the next night with 12 million viewers.
"It's canary-in-the-coalmine behavior," says Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, and "an indicator of a massive shift in consumer behavior around television," especially among the young viewers most in demand by advertisers. "The more you live your life online, the more you have an on-demand expectation" to watch what you want when and where you choose.
"The network challenge is, how do you value and monetize the network (programming) off the network, which sounds crazy, but it's what everyone's facing," says Mark Ghuneim, president of Trendrr, a social-media tracker.
And the habits are spreading: Because of its younger audience, "We were the first ones to feel it," says CW chief Mark Pedowitz of a shift that helped send its traditional TV ratings plummeting. But every demographic is behaving more like millennials, he says.
Fewer quick hits
TV networks have encouraged this behavior. In marketing stunts, first episodes of more new shows were available online or on demand, often weeks before their official premieres, dampening the hoopla surrounding official premiere week.
CBS polled 2,000 viewers and found just 42% tried a new show in its scheduled broadcast slot in September, down from 53% just a year ago, while their dependence on DVRs, streaming and video on demand climbed, sometimes sharply.
Such dispersed viewing, however, makes it harder to generate quick hits in a business that depends on them, even with social media as a megaphone for fans to proselytize.
"There are so many things now that collectively upset the sense of urgency," says Fox entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly, conceding that while "you can't turn back the clock" on technology, "some of our efforts in general have probably exacerbated the problem." (His boss, Rupert Murdoch, tweeted last month that DVRs are "giving networks fits.")
NBC's Revolution is the top new show this season among young adults and is averaging about 13 million viewers. But nearly a third of that audience — 4.4 million viewers — time-shifts the drama to another night, up to a week after its Monday premiere. All told, 14 network shows add 3 million or more viewers apiece when seven-day viewing is added, representing a net gain of 20% to 55%.
The networks point to so-called DVR "lifts" as evidence that TV remains a hugely popular source of entertainment. And that extra viewing has helped extend the lives of marginal ratings performers such as Fox's Fringe and NBC's Community that previously would have been sure-fire bets for cancellation.
Problem is, networks get paid for few of those dallying viewers. That's because, in a compromise worked out years ago between Madison Avenue and Hollywood, advertisers pay only for eyeballs that pause to watch the commercials, and then only for the first three days after they air. (In an uphill battle, network executives are now angling to base ad rates on seven-day viewing, citing growth in DVR usage.)
That's why the cost to televise (and sponsor) major sports is soaring: Unlike most other programming, they are almost always watched in real time. "There's more of a reliance on sports, because it is sort of technology-proof," Spengler says. Ad rates for sporting events "are going up faster than for anything else" on TV. Competition-reality shows like The Voice and American Idol also are recorded far less frequently than sitcoms and dramas.
Nielsen estimates that only half the ads are skipped in recorded shows. Still, programmers are leaving wads of cash on the table.
Many, in what's perhaps wishful thinking, view DVRs as a transitional technology that will eventually give way to video-on-demand services offered through cable and satellite providers. Like streaming, on-demand viewing doesn't require viewers to plan ahead and choose shows to record. But it also prevents them from skipping commercials, beefing up Nielsen ratings.
For that reason, Nathanson says, programmers would be better off if on-demand activity eclipsed DVRs, and if a slow-starting initiative dubbed TV Everywhere — in which cable systems stream shows to their customers on other devices — proved more popular than Netflix. "But the genie is not going back in the bottle."
A customer and competitor
Netflix is both friend and foe to commercial networks. It's a big source of revenue, paying hundreds of millions for the right to stream recent TV episodes to its 25 million customers. (TV now represents 70% of its streaming activity.) But it marks yet another destination for viewers no longer beholden to what's on TV now, and it will further invade their turf with big-budget original programming.
House of Cards, produced by The Social Network's David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey as a scheming congressman, is being adapted from a British miniseries, and Netflix will release the first of two 13-episode seasons all at once on Feb. 1. Three more series will follow, including new episodes of cult comedy Arrested Development, canceled by Fox in 2006.
"I honestly think we're in some beautiful sweet spot of being both a competitor and a source of improvement to the business models of the networks," Sarandos says.
Hulu is also airing original shows and acquiring titles from overseas broadcasters, and Google is investing $100 million in YouTube channels featuring original content.
Pay channels such as HBO and Showtime are making shows more widely available, on demand and on free mobile apps such as HBO Go, which offers every episode of nearly every series ever aired on the channel. About 7 million of HBO's 30 million subscribers have signed up for the free app, which is unavailable to those who don't pay for the channel.
But because HBO sells no advertising, the network doesn't care where their viewers watch. "What we're always trying to do is add value to the subscription," says HBO chief operating officer Eric Kessler. "We not only need to have great programming, but we need to deliver it on devices they choose to want it on, and that's particularly true of the younger generation."
On average, just 20% of HBO's viewership comes from initial Sunday night episodes of such series as True Blood and Boardwalk Empire. But Girls, an Emmy-nominated new comedy about twentysomething friends, counts just 14% of its audience that way; 22% watched on DVRs, 6% on HBO Go.
Moonves is optimistic that more viewing options will ultimately help, not hinder, TV networks. For young-skewing CW, "Netflix and Hulu (revenues) put us into profit," he says. "That's a totally different strategy than CBS," which until now has been reluctant to sell shows to online outsiders.
"All this stuff is going to be a big positive," Moonves says. "But we need accurate measurement, because people are watching all over the place. I want to get to the point where I'm platform-agnostic."