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VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government has strongly rejected the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, stating in a formal submission to a National Energy Board review panel that the company has not properly addressed the province's environmental concerns.
The province did not outright kill the proposed $6-billion oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast at Kitimat, but said Enbridge has left unanswered too many questions about its ability to protect marine or freshwater ecosystems in the event of a spill.
The proponents have "presented little evidence about how it will respond in the event of a spill," the province wrote in its submission to the Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel.
"It is not clear from the evidence that (Northern Gateway) will in fact be able to respond effectively to spills either from the pipeline itself, or from tankers transporting diluted bitumen from the proposed Kitimat terminal."
B.C. said Enbridge failed to explain how it would respond to a catastrophic spill.
"The project before (the Joint Review Panel) is not a typical pipeline. For example: the behaviour in water of the material to be transported is incompletely understood; the terrain the pipeline would cross is not only remote, it is in many places extremely difficult to access; the impact of spills into pristine river environments would be profound," the province wrote.
"In these particular and unique circumstances, (Northern Gateway) should not be granted a certificate on the basis of a promise to do more study and planning once the certificate is granted. The standard in this particular case must be higher," it added.
"'Trust me' is not good enough in this case."
The rejection is a major hurdle for the multi-billion dollar pipeline project, and especially for its ability to gain approval from the Joint Review Panel.
"It simply is insufficient for us to think it should go forward," provincial Environment Minister Terry Lake said in an interview on Friday.
"The company was unable to give us adequate detail about how they would respond to a spill in some of these (freshwater) locations," he continued.
"There's a lot of questions about the behaviour of this product in cold marine environments, and a recognition that more research needs to be done on whether this material would float or whether it would sink, because obviously that makes a difference in terms of any potential spill and how it would be dealt with."
Lake said the province's submission is not a death knell for the project, but does set a "high bar" for it to proceed.
"Until the National Energy Board is able to process all this and deliver a final verdict, we don't want to conclude that this is absolutely a no," he said. "But we're just saying from what we've seen to date, it doesn't meet the test."
Janet Holder, Enbridge's executive vice-president in charge of the Northern Gateway project, said the company believes it can still meet the five conditions set for new pipelines by Premier Christy Clark, adding it has made extensive submissions already, given where the project is in its development.
"We have done a lot more at this stage in the process than any other pipeline company has ever done at this stage of the process," she said.
But Holder said it is still too early for the company to get down to exact details of a response plan, like exactly what phone number to call in an emergency at a given point along the line.
"The detailed emergency response plan would get down to the detail of who you call and what phone numbers. Well, you don't typically do that years and years before you are actually operating a pipeline," she said.
"But we are committed to doing a very detailed emergency response plan as we do in all our businesses."
Holder added she remains optimistic about the project.
"The fact that we are in the process of increasing the number of resources we have here in British Columbia is an indication that we are still very positive," she added, saying the company will step up its consultation efforts with both government and the public.
Federal Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver said in a statement that his government will "review the independent Joint Review Panel's recommendation when it is published by December.
"We have been clear: Resource development will not proceed unless it is safe for Canadians and safe for the environment," Oliver said.
Art Sterritt, executive director of Coastal First Nations, said his members had expected B.C. to reject the project, but were "very happy" that the province had stated its position so strongly.
"They could very well have couched this in less assertive language," Sterritt said.
He added that B.C.'s refusal to support the project "is kind of the final nail in the coffin" for Northern Gateway.
He added that it might now be easier for the federal government, an ardent supporter of Northern Gateway, to back away from the project.
ForestEthics energy campaigner Nikki Skuce said it was "great" to see the provincial government express a view that represents "the majority of its residents."
"We agree with the province that there was insufficient evidence given from Northern Gateway on a variety of topics, including their ability to clean up oil spills from the pipelines or tankers. Northern Gateway submitted an incomplete application and made over 240 promises of things they would do once they received approval.
"As the province noted in its final arguments, 'trust me' doesn't cut it," Skuce said.
Some of the concerns voiced by the province may be challenging for Enbridge to ever effectively address.
For example, B.C. noted that travel times for responding to a spill on a remote river "do not take in account mobilization time, and assumes all roads are driveable."
B.C. goes on to say that a spill response effort could be curtailed during high stream flow events such as flood or spring freshet, and that it would be tough to contain the oil when the water is raging. The pipeline would make 764 watercourse crossings.
"At certain water velocities, (oil containment) booms become ineffective, and are potentially unsafe to operate," the B.C. submission said, adding that winter conditions such as heavy snow accumulations could be forbidding.
The province also took note of recent major spills from Enbridge pipelines, stating that "Enbridge has not demonstrated an ability to learn from its mistakes in order to avoid spills."
"While (Northern Gateway) witnesses provided lengthy statements in cross-examination about the changes Enbridge has made to its corporate culture in an effort to reduce the potential for spills in the future, given its pattern of making similar commitments in the past, there are serious reasons for concern that the commitments it has made in this proceeding will be hollow."
Not all five of B.C.'s conditions for pipeline approval apply equally to Enbridge. For example, B.C. is demanding what it describes as a "fair share of the fiscal and economic benefits" coming from sales of oil carried in the pipeline. Exporting the oil to Asia could add as much as $1.5 million in extra revenue for each shipment.
However, the beneficiaries of much of that bonus revenue as well as the baseline revenue would be the oil producers themselves, as well as the governments of Alberta and Canada — not Enbridge.
B.C. opposition leader Adrian Dix said he was pleased that the Liberal party "has come to its senses" in rejecting Enbridge's project proposal.
"The challenge, of course, is two-fold. One, because they missed the deadline for evidence in the actual hearing, this position has less weight than it otherwise would had they delivered evidence to the hearing, which they did not.
"Secondly, we're in an equivalency agreement, which means the official position of the government of British Columbia is that whatever we think about this, the actual decision of the government of British Columbia will be made by Ottawa."
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, in Vancouver this week for the annual convention of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, said that while he wasn't surprised at the B.C. response, getting oil to Asia still has to be a top priority.
"Canadian energy has to be able to get to the Pacific, it has to be able to get the Atlantic, and to the Gulf Coast. I think the medium prosperity of our country depends upon getting that right," he said.
"Now, maybe Northern Gateway is the wrong route. Maybe Enbridge didn't do a good enough job in terms of addressing a lot of the environmental concerns. I'd like to see how they are going to address them.
"But certainly we have to figure out a way to get these products access to Asian markets, and I do believe our country's prosperity depends upon that."


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From now on, the only "issue date" will be on Tuesdays. That's the day we have complete events lists ready to post, which will give would-be audience members ten full days of arts and events listing, starting on Wednesday and going through the next two weekends.
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While William and Harry played polo on Saturday, Kate was spotted on the Kings Road shopping. A writer from Grazia happened to be browsing in the same shops and revealed the Duchess was wearing a pair of tight black sports trousers, a cream cropped cardigan over a white T - shirt, a pair of casual trainers and her favourite Mulberry polly push lock bag. Kate purchased two items in French Connection. (I recently read the brand was in financial difficulty, so perhaps 'The Kate Effect' will boost sales)
Kate bought the Winter Silk Vest Top in iceberg blue. The top is currently on sale and available in a variety of colours from £27 to £49.
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Kate also reportedly bought the Tiffany Jeans in vintage wash (With many thanks to Ashley). The low rise, skinny fit jeans are $108. They have stitch detailing on the back pockets and have a faded wash. I think the jeans and top with a pair of ballet flats would look amazing on Kate, perfect casual look.
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Kate's protection officer was seen carrying an armful of bags from luxury British brand Jaeger. We mentioned the brand before as they designed the new uniforms for staff at Kensington Palace. Kate reportedly bought the Silk Printed Wrap Dress for £240. The elegant dress would be ideal for the upcoming garden party at Buckingham Palace, or perhaps Kate will save it for the tour?
While we're on the topic of videos. Did many of you see the ITV documentary 'William and Kate The First Year'. I thought it was a nice summary of the couple's first year together. If you wish to watch it, click on the links below :)
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NSA plant in San Antonio shrouded in secrecy
SAN ANTONIO - Over the past six years, the National Security Agency has quietly transformed the former Sony chip fabrication plant on the northwest side into a black-box hub of intelligence gathering and data storage.
Satellite and aerial imagery show that massive air conditioning units and backup generators have been added to the facility, which is now ringed by barbed-wire fencing. City permits and property tax records show that the complex has been dramatically expanded.
But details of the project have been shielded by a level of secrecy that is uncommon even for the NSA, an agency the U.S. government refused to officially acknowledge for decades, earning it the moniker "No Such Agency."
Longtime observers of the intelligence agency say they believe the San Antonio plant has a mission similar to the agency's other new facilities in Georgia and Hawaii, where communications intercepted by NSA are translated and then sent to headquarters in Maryland for analysis.
Tax records also show it has built a roughly 94,000-square-foot data center at the site.
With the facilities in Georgia and Hawaii, as well as with other major construction projects, the NSA included the costs as line items in the Defense Department's budget. But it hasn't done so with the San Antonio location. In a written statement, an NSA spokeswoman said funding for the project followed normal protocol. However, she did not identify the budget item that Congress approved for the expansion.
The spokeswoman said the facility became operational late last year.
No funding for plant
The agency has come under intense scrutiny since contract employee Edward Snowden leaked documents to The Washington Post and British newspaper The Guardian, revealing the NSA had systematically collected phone records from at least one telephone company and established a program, called PRISM, that swept up vast amounts of information from Internet firms.
NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander testified before a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday that the controversial surveillance programs are legal and have helped prevent terrorist attacks.
The agency has been on a publicized building spree over the last several years. It has issued press releases touting the Hawaii and Georgia projects and announced groundbreakings on a massive data center in Utah and a high-speed computing center at its headquarters in Fort Meade, Md.
Funding for those projects was included in the Defense Department's unclassified budget, making the location and amount spent part of the public record.
However, a San Antonio Express-News examination of funding for major construction projects listed in the Defense Department's budgets from fiscal years 2004 through 2013 found no appropriations for the extensive work at the old Sony plant.
"I would have thought that funding for the San Antonio facility would be handled about the same as that for Utah or Georgia, and I can't immediately think of why it wasn't," said Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' government secrecy project.
'Quaint' effort
He added that because satellite imagery from around the world is readily available these days, intelligence agencies attempting to obscure major construction projects in their budget seemed "quaint."
Matthew Aid, a historian and NSA expert, said it appeared that someone had taken care to minimize the profile of the NSA's operation at the former chip plant, noting that government and military websites returned a total of seven web pages that contained the phrase "Texas Cryptologic Center," the official name for the agency's operation in Texas.
Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT), a publicly traded company based in Maryland, owns the San Antonio facility and leases it to the NSA.
Property tax records show it has grown by nearly 135,000 square feet, from nearly 498,000 square-feet to almost 633,000. In 2008, the facility was worth $33.5 million; now it is valued at more than $72 million.
In a 2006 document related to a municipal bond sale, City Hall estimated the NSA's new investment in San Antonio could reach $300 million and add up to 1,500 new jobs. The securities filing didn't identify the site of the new investment, but the first applications for permits to begin work at the Sony plant were filed in May 2006, said Ximena Copa-Wiggins, a spokeswoman for the city's Department of Development Services.
Searching for project funding that an intelligence agency is trying to keep secret is nearly impossible, Aftergood said.
"It's the equivalent of astronomers searching for dark matter," he said. "You look for the parts of the budget that aren't accounted for, and up to a point, you can suss out some billions of dollars that aren't accounted for."
Another defense budget expert, Todd Harrison, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, agreed, offering an example: if the NSA had structured the lease in such a way that the property owner actually paid for the improvements, which the NSA then covered with a higher lease payment, the project would likely be hidden in the department's operating budget.
According to COPT's 2012 annual report, the former Sony plant was being leased for $34.69 per square foot at year's end - significantly more than the citywide average of $21.52 for office space during the last three months of 2011.
The NSA has long had a significant presence in San Antonio at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland's Medina Annex, where - as of 2005 - 2,000 military personnel and civilians translated communications intercepted by the agency. Lackland also was named home of the 24th Air Force, also known as the service's cyber command, in 2009.
Garage door openers
In 2007, Mario Hernandez, president of the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, said the NSA was looking to move its staff from the Lackland offices to the Northwest Side location. The agency confirmed Friday that the move had taken place.
When the NSA announced it had selected the Sony site in 2005, the agency initially was fairly open about the project, even holding a public job fair at a hotel to recruit potential employees.
That all seemed to change after funding for the project was put in limbo for months, beginning in 2006. When the project got the green-light again in April 2007, it was then-Congressman Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio, who announced the news.
Ever since, the NSA has maintained near-radio silence about the project. One incident, however, prompted the agency to break it.
In 2010, residents who lived near the facility complained that their garage doors were randomly opening. The NSA issued a statement acknowledging that an antenna it was using interfered with garage door openers.


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- How do I store my almonds?
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Roasted Almonds: Roasted almonds may be stored for up to one year if stored in an airtight container in a refrigerator or freezer.
Almond Paste: Under refrigeration, almond paste will maintain freshness for up to 24 – 36 months.
Optimal Storage Temperature: 32°F to 41°F, 0°C to 5°C (65% relative humidity).
- What are green almonds?
- Green almonds are available for a brief three-week period in the growing season from late April to early May, the developing almonds are considered "ripe" for harvest as green almonds. Pickling or brining green almonds will extend the shelf-life of these delicate treats.
- Green almonds have a jelly-like, soft inside and a soft fuzz on the outside.
- Due to their short life span, green almonds have always been considered a rare delicacy. They can also be purchased brined or pickled, which extends the life.
- Green almonds are used by chefs as a cooking ingredient, but also as a garnish.
- Green almonds have a distinct but subtle flavor that is hard to pin down, but has been variously described as delicate, grassy, fruity, and even green.


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If you could fill the positions within a kingdom with anybody throughout history, who would you pick? Not just 3k China, but all of world history. Of course this is with the idea that language and racism will not play a factor.
My picks:
Ruler - Charlemagne
Grand Commander of the Military - Lu Xun
Generals (2) - Shaka Zulu & Zhao Yun
Diplomat - Zhuge Liang
Ministers (2) - Confucius & Aristotle
Any thoughts or picks anybody?
Once before I started a new topic only to be shown that such a topic already existed. Hope I'm not doing that again. But I looked and didn't see anything that was like this. I saw a 3k one like this, but not for world history.


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This is a brief snippet of my Mail/Junk folder. All of this was carefully hidden from me using the power of spamassassin combined with bogofilter.
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43 N Dec 07 Angie's Genealo (1303) *****SPAM***** 422 Genealogy Databases
44 N + Dec 07 Gamers.com ( 257) Thinking Out Loud: Holiday Gaming and the
45 N + Dec 07 Gamers.com ( 159) Gamers.com's Week In Review - New Sega Ga
46 N + Dec 09 TechOnLine Webc ( 113) *****SPAM***** Upcoming Webcasts
47 N + Dec 09 TechOnLine Webc ( 113) *****SPAM***** Upcoming Webcasts
48 N + Dec 08 eBay ( 428) And now, the choice is clear...
49 N + Dec 09 BIGWORDS ( 232) *****SPAM***** It's that time again...
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51 N Dec 09 GameDAILY_Newsl (1625) Game industry news for December 9, 2002
Spamassassin is the king of pattern-matching spam filtering software. Bogofilter is one of many implementations of Paul Graham's Bayesian spam filtering detailed in A Plan for Spam. I chose bogofilter because someone has already conveniently packaged it and put it in Debian testing.
The reason why I have installed both sets of filters is simple. I was not blocking enough of my incoming spam using spamassassin alone, but I did not have a large (greater than a thousand) corpus of spam to train bogofilter on. However, I believe the results will be better than if I used either by itself.
In the snippet of my Mail/Junk folder above, messages beginning *****SPAM***** were tagged by spamassassin. The remaining messages were caught by bogofilter. To understand the difference between the two, let's examine the first message, 43, and the last message, 51, in more detail.
The first message is generic unsolicited bulk email. It's from someone I don't know about a service I don't care about. This is classic spam. Spamassassin is really very good about catching this sort of thing. It's from a known abusive relay and has red HTML. I'll probably never hear from this spammer again.
The last message is a spammer who has been sending me email for months. I don't want the damn "Game industry news". Somewhere along the line they got my email address. I can't even remember if I gave it to them or not. All I know is I don't want to look at these messages anymore. However, these messages look like solicited newsletters and dlists to spamassassin. It lets them through. However, I have accumulated enough of these particular messages to train bogofilter to spot them. As a result, bogofilter catches all of them, even though spamassassin thinks they're legit.
Conversely, when I receive email from a new spammer about a new service or product, bogofilter simply won't know what to do with them. If I had a really large training set, maybe I could get bogofilter to spot them based on the characteristic language. I don't, at the moment. Hence, the two-pronged approach.
Currently, I let spamassassin process all my email, then bogofilter. I then decide whether to filter it based on the bogofilter score. I am experimenting with the spamassassin score. I have been using it as well to filter email, but I am going to start relying completely on the bogofilter score. Theoretically, bogofilter should start to recognize spamassassin's output as a clear indication of spam and send it on its merry way to Mail/Junk.
I haven't had a test case yet, but I am hoping this approach will result in fewer false positives. That is, bogofilter may one day overrule spamassassin if it determines that it really is a real email. If I do get a false positive or a false positive save, I'll make that known.
I am using procmail to do my mail filtering. Eventually, I hope to eliminate the middleman and use bogofilter and spamassassin in my MTA (exim) at SMTP time, so I never even accept spam and my email address get taken off lists. I'm waiting on a Debian exim4 package for this. In the interim, I use the following procmail recipe, gleaned from spamassassin and bogofilter documentation:
Currently I still receive some spam, perhaps a couple per month. For instance, I received a perfectly legit and well-formed email from a website claiming to be a monthly update and containing information supposedly specific to me. That was a lie. It also contained language about making money by becoming an associate. This is the type of spam that a well-trained bogofilter ought to catch. Unfortunately, I'm still building up my database, and it slipped through.
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Sometime later I'll update this with further results.
New versions of Mozilla Mail incorporate Bayesian filtering. There's also a Bayesian filter for Outlook called Spammunition.
Spamassassin is a perl module and can be run on any system that supports perl. Even better, the spamassassin website lists products that have integrated spamassassin support. The list includes a POP3 filter, IMAP filter, Outlook filter, and Eudora filter.
Update: I use Comcast's built-in spam filter as my main source of filtering. Bayesian filtering obviously caught on in a big way since this article was first posted. I use Evolution's built-in Junk Filter, but I get most of the junk mail on my Hiptop anyway so it's not terribly useful.


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PENTAGON (펜타곤 ) OFFICIAL THREAD - Thank you, Jinho! Serve well!
LavelyShai posted a topic in k-popGroup name: PENTAGON Nickname: Tentagon/10tagon Debut Date: October 10, 2016 Debut Song: Gorilla Members: 10 (Hui, Hongseok, Jinho, Shinwon, Yan An, Yeo One, Yuto, Wooseok, Kino) Debut Album: PENTAGON Official Fanclub: UNIVERSE Official Color: UNINAVY (Pantone 282 c) Official Twitter Official YouTube V App Channel Official Instagram Official Weibo Fancafe Members Name: Jinho Birth Name: Jo Jin Ho Birthday: April 17, 1992 Height: 168cm Weight: 52kg Position: Main Vocal Skills: Composer, Songwriter Facts: Former SM trainee & SM The Ballad member Was a vocal coach before entering CUBE BFF is Hongseok Eldest in Dorm A (has his own room) Name: Hui Birth Name: Lee Hwi Taek/이회택 Birthday: August 28, 1993 Height: 173cm Weight: 57kg Position: Leader, Main vocal, Hongseok's husband Skills: Composer, Songwriter, Piano Facts: Was a JYPE Trainee (Auditioned in 2010 7th Round for vocal team and won #1 for male vocal) Modern K Academy 14th Batch In an open audition in 2013, after leaving JYP, he was the only participant selected by all three entertainment agencies. (Cube, Sonic Music, and Nega Network) Appeared in G.Na's MV for "Pretty Lingerie" and live stages Participated in Rainbow Concert for mentally disabled children Appeared in episode 3 of "Rain Effect" Loves all his members especially E'Dawn Eldest member in Dorm B (has his own room) Name: Hongseok Birth Name: Yang Hong Seok/양홍석 Birthday: April 17, 1994 Height: 181cm Weight: 64kg Position: Lead Vocal, Mom Skills: Composer, Songwriter Facts: Former YGE trainee & appeared on Mix & Match Attended Cube Japan incorporation ceremony with G.NA and CLC Yoojin. Modeled alongside Hyuna on CLRIDE.N Loves to read Is extra 99.999999% of the time Loves Ironman BFF is Jinho Has his own room (Dorm A) Name: Shinwon Birth Name: Ko Shin Won Birthday: December 11, 1995 Weight: 68kg Height: 184cm Position: Vocals, Self-proclaimed Visual, Nudity King Skills: Piano, Songwriting Facts: Worked part time in BWCW store Was cast as street model for LEFAS Scared of animals BFF with Wooseok & Yuto Fave food is hamburger Roommate: Kino (Dorm A) Name: Yeo One Birth Name: Yeo Chang Gu Birthday: March 27, 1996 Height: 179cm Weight: 60kg Position: Vocals Skills: Songwriting Facts: Participated in Rainbow Concert (held for mentally disabled children) Modeled alongside Hyuna on CLRIDE.N Appeared in 2016 web drama "Spark" alongside No Jong Chan and Nam Bo Ra Roommate and Lifetime friends with Yan An (Dorm B ) Soft church oppa Was in a band Name: Yan An Birth Name: Yan An Birthday: October 25, 1996 Height: 186cm Weight: 70kg Position: Vocals Skills: Songwriting Facts: From Shanghai, China Trained for a little over a year Originally wanted to be air steward 2nd tallest in group Called Yeo One his lifetime friend "Annyeong chingudeul" Originally was a rapper Roommate: Yeo One (Dorm B ) Name: Yuto Birth Name: Adachi Yuto Birthday: January 23, 1998 Weight: 63kg Height: 182cm Position: Rapper, Maknae Skills: Songwriting Facts: Is from Japan Appeared on ISAC 2015 Chuseok Specials with BEAST Doojoon Yoseob and Roh JiHoon (Unconfirmed) Attended Cube Japan incorporation ceremony with G.NA, CLC Yoojin and Yang Hongseok Roommates with Wooseok and close with Shinwon "I want to curse" Roommate: Wooseok (Dorm B ) Name: Kino Birth Name: Kang Hyung Gu / 강형구 Birthday: January 27 1998 Height: 177cm Weight: 62kg Position: Vocals, Dance, Maknae SoundCloud: knnovation Skills: Composer, Songwriting, Choreography Facts: Was a JYPE trainee before entering CUBE in April 2013 MC Rainbow Concert Appeared in G.Na's MV & stages Appeared in "Rain Effect" Episode 3 Dance King Roommate: Shinwon (Dorm A) Name: Wooseok Birth Name: Jung Woo Seok/정우석 Birthday: January 31, 1998 Height: 190cm (and still growing) Weight: 70kg Position: Rapper, Maknae Skills: Songwriting Facts: Attended School of Performing Arts Seol (SOPA) Roommates with Yuto and self-proclaimed besties with Shinwon Evil Tallest member (wants to stop growing) Likes anime Plays violin Roommate: Yuto (Dorm B ) Discography Album: PENTAGON Title Track: Gorilla Release Date: October 10, 2016 Track list: Wake Up (intro) Pentagon Gorila 미지근해 Smile 귀 좀 막아줘 (Organic Song) (이던, 유토, 우석 With 후이) You Are (진호, 후이, 홍석, 신원, 여원, 옌안, 키노) Album: FIVE SENSES Title Track: 감이 오지 (Can You Feel It) Release Date: December 7, 2016 Track list: 감이 오지 (Can You Feel It) Engine 예쁨 풀러 정신 못 차려도 돼 Album: CEREMONY Title Track: 예뻐죽겠네 Release Date: June 12, 2017 Track list: 예뻐죽겠네 Lucky 소중한 약속 (To Universe) Nothing 스펙터클 해 고마워 (진호, 후이) Beautiful (Prod. by 정일훈 Of BTOB) Profile info credit to loveindacube cr yeochanggudotcom On 3.07 CUBE announced the fandom name as UNIVERSE Follow All K-Pop and General Forum Rules


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Grading the Public Schools: What It Means
How good are the schools in your neighborhood? Are they getting any better? This report card tells all.
(page 1 of 5)
This is our second report card on the quality of Hawaii's 256 government-run public schools. The results run from page 32 to page 42 of this issue. When we debuted this report last year, it was the first of its kind, combining teacher, parent and student satisfaction with student performance on math and reading tests to determine a single score for each school. Since then, the state Department of Education has released new information in all the categories we draw from, so we thought it only fair to update our report card to see if anything has changed.
What's the bottom line? We added a column showing each school's rank last year, for easy comparison. Some schools improved. Some got worse. Most stayed the same. Overall, the average score slipped a bit, from 49.0 to 48.8. That's a long way from 100, the score a school could get if all of its constituents felt it worth recommending, and if all of its students at least met the state's minimum standards for proficiency in math and reading.
Readers interested in the nuts and bolts of where we got our numbers will want to read the last section of this article, "Our Sources," on page 124.
A Problem with Privacy
Some schools shot up on the chart from last year to this year, solely because the DOE has withheld their math and reading test scores, which in last year's chart had shown them as performing much more poorly. For example, Liliuokalani Elementary ranked No. 193 and got a D+ in our analysis last year. This standing was largely due to test scores—only 11.1 percent of students met or exceeded proficiency in reading, 17.6 percent in math. This time, the DOE report on Liliuokalani's test results read, "Less than 30 students tested—data left blank for confidentiality purposes."
Perhaps we should have given Liliuokalani Elementary an "incomplete" for its concealed math and reading scores. However, to apply our method consistently, we averaged the scores that were available (teacher, parent and student satisfaction) and, as a result, Liliuokalani Elementary this year gets a B+ and stands at rank No. 42. We trust our readers to take the gaps in DOE reporting into account. Just watch for the tell-tale "NA" for "not available."
According to Jim Dannemiller, of SMS Hawaii Market Study, 30 is a common threshold for invoking the confidentiality argument. Clients of his, ranging from HMSA to the state Department of Health, argue that below 30, one could link statistical data to specific individuals.
"Would that argument stand if you pushed it hard? Probably not," he says. "The more valid concern is that with small samples, the mean could move very quickly. But arguments about standard deviation are complex. It's easier for people to just say omitting small samples protects confidentiality."
In our view, it disserves the public to withhold test results. Test scores aren't sensitive, private information the way, say, medical conditions might be, and they do not reflect solely on the student.
Nevertheless, in its release of the 2003 Hawaii State Assessment math and reading scores, the DOE used "confidentiality" to conceal 47 sets of reading scores and 53 sets of math scores. The public is left without any meaningful measure of how well these schools are doing. And the secrecy is increasing—when it released the 2002 Hawaii State Assessment scores, the privacy cutoff was 10 or fewer students, not 30 or fewer.
The biggest anomaly on our chart is the results for Keanae Elementary, here shown getting a perfect score and an A+. But this school is very unusual. It had, as of fall 2002, the most recent figures available, exactly three students and one teacher. The DOE withheld the math and reading test results, didn't administer the School Quality Survey to students, didn't get the surveys back from the two parents who received them and the school's lone teacher gave Keanae perfect marks on nearly every measure of the SQS.
But this is not typical. In most schools, the SQS is administered to dozens, if not hundreds of teachers, parents and students.
Views from the top
When we analyze this official DOE data, combining satisfaction measures with academic achievement, we find that the average public school in Hawaii earns no better than 48.8 out of a possible 100 points. What does the DOE have to say about such performance?
When we showed state schools superintendent Patricia Hamamoto our latest findings for her comment, she asked if we had heard of Mark Hunter.
"He's a retired banker who works out of Tampa, Fla.," explained Hamamoto. "He's worked with some of our schools. He came up with what's called an opportunity index. It's an econometrics model based on eight factors beyond the control of the schools."


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Three very prominent symphony conductors have been involved with the Olympics this week. At the opening ceremony, Sir Simon Rattle "conducted" the London Symphony. The reason I put "conducted" in quotes is that there is a controversy about the orchestra pre-recording the music. The logistics of amplifying a symphony orchestra and the logistics of the Olympics aren't a good mix. If they hadn't "lip-synced" the segment, it probably would have sounded horrible on TV.
The second conductor featured in the opening ceremony was Daniel Barenboim. Barenboim is the former music director of the Chicago Symphony and currently the music director of La Scala and the Berlin State Opera. He carried the Olympic flag, with other noted humanitarians, in honor of his creation of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. This is an orchestra that features musicians who are Egyptian, Iranian, Israeli, Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian. Barenboim described his project:
"The Divan is not a love story, and it is not a peace story. It has very flatteringly been described as a project for peace. It isn't. It's not going to bring peace, whether you play well or not so well. The Divan was conceived as a project against ignorance. A project against the fact that it is absolutely essential for people to get to know the other, to understand what the other thinks and feels, without necessarily agreeing with it."
The San Antonio Symphony's very own Bassam Nashawati is a member and currently touring as Associate Concertmaster and Principal Second Violin with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Bassam was born in Damascus, Syria. He has toured with the orchestra since 2004.
The third famous conductor at the Olympics was Esa-Pekka Salonen, principal conductor of the London Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Esa-Pekka ran and carried the Olympic torch about 300 yards on Thursday. The LA Times ran this quote from the Maestro:
"I do run regularly, so it was not a running challenge in that way," Salonen said afterward. "My whole worry was whether my pants would stay up, because the outfit was kind of one-size-fits-all. That certainly would have made things exciting!"
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Special Collections
This area contains 200 manuscript collections, comprising nearly 1800 linear feet of material, plus a number of individual manuscript items. Each of these collections is described in brief on ODYsseus the Libraries' online catalog. Additionally, many have detailed finding aids, searchable here. Others will be added to this list as they are completed. If you find you have questions about the collections after you have read the catalog entries or finding aids, please contact us.
Paul Doty, Interim Librarian for Special Collections & University Archives Voice: (315) 229-5483 e-mail: email@example.com
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Collection Number: 133Collection Length: 0.50ftPeriod: 1862 to 1867
The 16th New York Infantry regiment consisted of 1247 men from three counties in Northern New York State. These included companies A, B, F, G, H, and K from St. Lawrence County, C, D, and E from Clinton County, and I from Franklin County. The regiment would serve two years in the United States Army and was mustered in on May 15, 1861, in Albany, NY. The majority of the 16th infantry was mustered out on May 14, 1863. One hundred and twenty-six members of the regiment were assigned to the 121st New York Regiment to complete their service. This collection consists of two series.Finding Aid: MSS133fa.pdf
Collection Number: 121Collection Length: 0.25ftPeriod: 1875
Personal diary kept by unidentified student/teacher in Canton area of St. Lawrence County, N.Y. in 1875.
Collection Number: 90Collection Length: 1.00ftPeriod: 1980
This collection consists of transcripts and tapes of an oral history project documenting the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY. Interviews are mostly with North Country individuals involved with the local organization of the games. Project headed by Jonathan Rossie, SLU History Department.Finding Aid: MSS90fa.pdf
Collection Number: 130Collection Length: 10.25ftPeriod: 1975 to 1980
The North Country Defense Committee and the coalition Upstate People for Safe Energy Technology (UPSET) were the most prominent groups that opposed the implementation of the 765 kV power line by the New York State Power Authority. For a five-year period, between 1975 and 1980, these two groups and some 20 others fought the construction of a 150 mile high voltage power line in Northern New York State. In addition to the power line controversy, a priority of the NCDC was to inform the public of the possibility of the construction of a nuclear power plant in Upstate New York.Finding Aid: MSS130fa.pdf
Collection Number: 89Collection Length: 1.50ftPeriod: 1895 to 1910
The collection consists of 136 glass plate negatives taken between 1895-1910 by Jameson of Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. The negatives depict families and scenes in the Ogdensburg-Black Lake area.Finding Aid: MSS89fa.pdf
Collection Number: 156Collection Length: 2.00ftPeriod: 1800 to 1991
Dorothy Hall, a retired New York Telephone Employee, was an avid collector of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia. Featured in the Watertown Daily Times, Hall recounted her love of building her collection with her husband Kenneth Hall. Mr. Hall died in 1972 and Mrs. Hall continued her journey of collecting Lincoln and Civil War related ephemera, dedicating and entire room in her Copenhagen, NY home to Lincoln. Dorothy passed away in 1992 leaving her books and collectables relating to Abraham Lincoln to St Lawrence University.Finding Aid: MSS156fa.pdf
Collection Number: 32Collection Length: 5.00ftPeriod: 1848
The Adirondack Collection consists of ephemera, promotional literature, maps, magazines, commercial photo albums, picture books, Seneca Ray Stoddard photographs, and 2 groups of unidentified photographs. Also included are the records of Citizens to Save the Adirondack Park, from 1975-1982.Finding Aid: MSS32fa.pdf
Collection Number: 29Collection Length: 3.60ftPeriod: 1963 to 1983
The Adirondack Park Agency was created July 1, 1971 by executive law article twenty-seven program bill #102. The purpose of the APA was to insure conservation, protection, preservation, development and use of the scenic, historic, ecological and natural resources of the Adirondack Park. Collection consists of the papers of George Davis who served as Wildlife Ecologist for the Temporary Study Commission on the future of the Adirondacks. Mr.Finding Aid: MSS29fa.pdf
Collection Number: 213Collection Length: 6.00ftPeriod: 1960 to 2010
BiographicalFinding Aid: mss213fa.pdf
Collection Number: 189Collection Length: 2.50ftPeriod: 1974 to 2013
This collection contains information about the contemporary issues of the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory. There are a variety of pamphlets, informational packets, articles, newsletters, newspapers and handouts all with information that pertains to the Mohawk reservation. The issues these resources cover span from environmental initiatives to public school education to the annual powwow.Finding Aid: mss_189_fa.pdf
Collection Number: 154Collection Length: 0.25ftPeriod: 1985 to 2010
Alan Casline graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1973 and received his PhD from SUNY Albany. He established Rootdrinker Institute in 1973 and began publishing Rootdrinker magazine in 1975. He has championed local culture, art, music, poetry, organics, and a "back to the land" philosophy through the Rootdrinker Institute and Benevolent Bird Press, as well as through talks, lectures, concerts and other events.Finding Aid: MSS154fa_1.pdf
Collection Number: 4Collection Length: 1.00ftPeriod: 1903 to 1969
The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials by and about Alexander Black. It also contains the papers of Edith O'Dell, including materials from the McClure Syndicate, the P.E.N. Club, the O'Dell New Service and Golden Book Magazine, as well as other business and personal correspondence and biographical material. Finally, it contains a series of letters written to Ms. O'Dell's colleague at The World, Pomeroy Burton, and a collection of the correspondence of editors of the North American Review.Finding Aid: MSS4fa_0.pdf
Collection Number: 135Collection Length: 4.25ftPeriod: 1927 to 2009
The AAUW was founded by a group of 17 college women in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1881. During that period of time women were hindered by many barriers that prevented them from pursuing both higher education and obtaining work in specialized fields. The primary objective of AAUW was the betterment of women's lives and their personal growth and that a greater number of college-educated women would be of benefit to society in general. On May 4, 1927, the St. Lawrence County Branch of AAUW was formed in Canton, New York at the home of Mrs. Harold Bergman.Finding Aid: MSS135fa.pdf
Collection Number: 169Collection Length: 0.40ftPeriod: 1936 to 1946
Universally regarded as one of the finest screen and stage directors and producers of the 20th century, George Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1915. Welles made his stage debut in Ireland in 1931 and by 1933 he was touring off-Broadway.Finding Aid: MSS169fa.pdf
Collection Number: 196Collection Length: 9.25ftPeriod: 1900 to 2013
The Native American tribal confederacy known as the Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee consists of six tribal entities or nations, primarily located in New York State and Canada. The tribes share similar language and formed a five-member tribal affiliation before contact with Europeans. Today, the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy consists of the Mohawks, Onondagas, Senecas, Cayugas, Oneidas and the Tuscaroras, with the latter tribe joining later.
Biographical:Finding Aid: mss196fa_1.pdf
Collection Number: 220Collection Length: 0.50ftPeriod: 1965 to 1967Finding Aid: mss220fa.pdf
Collection Number: 220Collection Length: 0.50ftPeriod: 1965 to 1967Finding Aid: mss220fa.pdf
Collection Number: 67Collection Length: 10.50ftPeriod: 1807 to 1989
G. Atwood Manley, author, newspaperman, raconteur and outdoorsman, was born on October 31, 1893 and died September 6, 1989 in Canton, New York. He graduated from Canton High School in 1912 and from St. Lawrence University in 1916. While a student he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and was involved with the college newspaper. Later he became the secretary of the Alumni Association from 1917 to 1944, and an alumni trustee from 1940 to 1950.Finding Aid: MSS67fa.pdf
Collection Number: 162Collection Length: 0.25ftPeriod: 1938 to 1945
Basil Watson (1919-1970) a native of Madrid, NY served in the United States Army from October of 1940 to January of 1946 in Company 2nd Battalion 358th Infantry. While in the military Basil held 3 ranks from Private, Private First Class, and Technical Sergeant. His last rank in the military was Administrative N.C.O.: Basil was assigned to a military police unit and worked in Provost Marshall Office of the 3rd Army. Mr. Watson supervised 5 men and was responsible of office handlings such as prisoner of war camps, civilian internment camps and displaced persons.
Collection Number: 2Collection Length: 0.50ftPeriod: 1861 to 1864
Alvah and Enos Beach of Russell, NY, and their brother-in-law David Robinson fought on the Union side in the Civil War. The collection consists chiefly of letters written by Alvah and Enos Beach of Russell, N.Y., while they were in the Union Army during the Civil War. The collection also includes two photos of Alvah Beach and some material relating to David Robinson, including letters concerning his death in the Battle of Antietam. The collection was donated to St. Lawrence University by Atwood ManleyFinding Aid: MSS2fa.pdf
Collection Number: 44Collection Length: 0.40ftPeriod: 1807 to 1846
Benjamin Clark settled in Malone, NY in 1815. He had three sons and one daughter; his son's names were Samuel S., Benjamin W. and Charles. Clark was the first judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1825-1828. In 1819 he was appointed to a building committee to raise funds to build a fireproof clerks office. He also served as Superintendent of the Poor in 1830. From approximately 1826-1851 he and Jacob Wead were one of the principal merchants in Malone owning Clark & Wead, which after Wead's retirement became Benjamin Clark & Sons.Finding Aid: MSS44fa.pdf
Collection Number: 88Collection Length: 13.00ftPeriod: 1902 to 1935
Benjamin M. Kip was born August 27, 1871 in Canton, N.Y. and died October 1, 1957 in Canton. He attended Canton schools and graduated from New York Art School. From 1898 until 1948, when he retired, he was a photographer in Canton. The collection consists of glass plate negatives and various prints that belonged to Benjamin Kip, a photographer in Canton, N.Y. These negatives were used in published souvenir books of Potsdam, Canton, and Gouverneur, N.Y. in the late 1800's.Finding Aid: MSS88fa.pdf
Collection Number: 158Collection Length: 7.50ftPeriod: 1987 to 2007
This collection contains records and papers pertaining to Birdsfoot Farm. Box 1 contains a brief history of the beginnings of Birdsfoot from 1972-1975. Within the collection are meeting minutes, financial records, and land trust agreements (1988-2007) pertaining to the Birdsfoot community. While Birdsfoot was founded in 1972, this collection mostly documents the activities from 1987 through 2007. The disposition of records for the period 1972-1986 is currently unknown.Finding Aid: MSS158fa_0.pdf
Collection Number: 112Collection Length: 6.00ftPeriod: 1940 to 1970
Harold C. Bohn was a member of the English dept. at Montclair State College in the 1940's through the 1960's. Collection contains clippings, playbills and epherera related to productions of the plays of William Shakespeare. Clippings and ephemera are organized by play and the plays are alphabetized. Also includes thesis and typescript on teaching Shakespeare in secondary school.Finding Aid: MSS112fa.pdf
Collection Number: 170Collection Length: 0.25ftPeriod: 2010
This collection consists of two 1-page narratives by two U.S. Army soldiers from A Company, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, NY following their return from deployment in Kunduz province in Afghanistan. The narratives were written in April 2011, while their deployment was from April 2010 to March 2011. The first narrative is by Spc. Jorge Maya and is type-written. The second is by Spc. Jeremiah Bostic. Both are stationed with the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum.Finding Aid: MSS170fa_0.pdf
Collection Number: 14Collection Length: 2.00ftPeriod: 1800 to 1865
Jacob Jennings Brown founded the village of Brownville NY. After outstanding service during the War of 1812, he was made general-in-chief of the army, a position he held until his death. His son-in-law Edmond Kirby also had a distinguished army career. He also was active in founding a number of businesses in and around Brownville, including the Jefferson Woolen Mill in Dexter. The collection consists of both personal and business correspondence of Jacob Jennings Brown, his son-in-law Edmond Kirby, and their families.Finding Aid: MSS14fa_0.pdf
Collection Number: 37Collection Length: 3.50ftPeriod: 1812 to 1916
Henry Nielson Brush was born March 12, 1810 in New York City. He was educated at Columbia College, moving to the town of Moira, Franklin County, New York where he owned two large farms, a stone grist-mill and a sawmill. He was the founder of Brush Mills, which today is called Brushton. He married Juanilla Marie de Jouve of Cuba in 1831. Henry was an active member of the Whig party and was postmaster for several years. Brush died November 2, 1872 in Brushton. This collection consists of correspondence, deeds, land contracts, financial records and their wills.Finding Aid: MSS37fa.pdf
Collection Number: 55Collection Length: 0.50ftPeriod: 1837 to 1965
The Canadian Rebellion of 1837 was a movement in Lower Canada toward establishing a French Republic on the St. Lawrence River that was led by Louis Joseph Papineau. During the same year William Lyon MacKenzie led a similar armed revolt in Upper Canada which failed, he then fled to the United States and established headquarters on Navy Island on the Canadian side of the Niagara river and tried to continue the rebellion with the aid of sympathizers from the United States.Finding Aid: MSS55fa.pdf
Collection Number: 159Collection Length: 0.50ftPeriod: 1956 to 2007
Founded in Buffalo in 1956, the Canal Society is a not-for profit educational organization that brings together canal enthusiasts from across the state to learn about the history, development and ongoing activities associated with numerous New York canal systems. This collection consists of ephemeral material related to the New York State Canal system and individual canal structures.Finding Aid: MSS159fa.pdf
Collection Number: 140Collection Length: 13.50ftPeriod: 1874 to 1914
This collection consists of abstracted articles of the Commercial Advertiser, which began in the village of Norwood (Potsdam Junction). The paper later relocated to the village of Canton. Issues in our collection run from 1874 through 1914.Finding Aid: mss140fa.pdf


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If you thought it was strange that California's U.S. senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, attacked the sponsors of the tax-hike-for-schools initiative Prop 38 last week, a new poll provides an explanation.
Prop 38 is gaining.
The latest in a series of polls from Pepperdine University and the California Business Roundtable show that Prop 38, a 12-year income tax hike to create new moneys for schools, is gaining. It is the first of the three polls when there were more "yes" supporters than "no" supporters in the poll.
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News from around the country and around the globe
The poll, taken late last week, came as Feinstein, Boxer and legislative leaders sent a letter to the California PTA, which is sponsoring the measure along with wealthy civil rights attorney Molly Munger.
The letter urged the PTA to stop being negative about Prop 30, the competing temporary tax measure backed by Gov. Jerry Brown and organized labor.
It was a strange letter, since it came from politicians with a history of negative attacks and was delivered to the California PTA, the sort of organization politicians tend to court, not criticize.
But the letter, accompanied by a missive to Brown supporters from campaign consultant Ace Smith, was not really a plea for peace -- it was a way to slow down a competitor in Prop 38 by putting out a public message that Prop 38's backers aren't playing nice.
The PTA, to its credit, refused to back down or be pulled into the phony non-aggression pact suggested by Feinstein and Boxer.
The letter, and the attack on Prop 38, was a great compliment to an initiative that has appeared likely to lose. Prop 30, on the other hand, has mantained steady if not overwhelming support--a majority of voters.
But those dynamics might be changing.
The letter, a strange and desperate sort of act, was one bit of evidence of that change. This poll is another.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
Send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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Farming in the Time of Climate Catastrophe – Gary Paul Nabhan – The Atlantic
Facing wild weather and dwindling water resources, a pepper grower says it's time to rethink agriculture
It is spring, and I am kneeling with a few friends in front of the composted soil of the hillside terraces in my orchard-garden in the desert borderlands of Arizona. It is planting day, and as we place each variety of pepper plant into the moistened earth, we say its name aloud, as if reciting a prayer in the face of uncertainty: Chiltepin, Chile del Arbol, Tabasco, Jimmy Nardello, Datil, Beaver Dam, Yellow Hot Banana, Chimayó, Sweet Chocolate, and Sheepsnose. We hand-water each member of this tribe of peppers, place a frost-resistant row cover over it like a monk's hood, and move on to the next, hoping for the best.
If you have farmed or gardened in the desert for any length of time, you sooner or later learn—in a thousand humbling ways, as I have—that you are not in control of even half of the most essential variables that most converge if you are to return in late summer to harvest a crop. In the face of accelerating climate change, my capacity to control critical factors and predict the outcome of my labors seems ever more limited.
Read the whole article at Farming in the Time of Climate Catastrophe – Gary Paul Nabhan – The Atlantic.


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It's no secret that Ars readers like to accumulate information and knowledge, not unlike the Borg. Altruistic Borg, of course. Would it be fun (and accidentally educational) to drop the occasional pop quiz on you? We think so, so we're pleased to invite you into a little experiment. No, no, this isn't some Stanley Milgrim test meant to see if you'll inflict pain on lesser mortals. That's still in development. What we have for you today is a first look at the Ars Quiz Challenge! We're eager to hear your feedback, because we're excited about the prospects of the AQC beta.
Today we offer two new quizzes to test your knowledge of stories recently covered here at Ars Technica. Dive in and let us know what you think. Our launch quizzes are a bit diverse: we've got one one on Anonymous, and another on dark matter. In the future, we hope to touch on everything we do: science, gaming, IT, and more.
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD - (Dec. 6, 2013) - When Nelson R. Mandela died Thursday, two Delmarva news organizations knew they could turn to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore for perspective on the anti-apartheid crusader's long, colorful life.
Dr. Kathryn Barrett-Gaines and her history department colleague, Dr. Joshua K. Wright, were interviewed by The Daily Times newspaper and WBOC-TV, respectively.
"I remember when he was released from prison and became the president of South Africa, and how that was such a momentous occasion even though at the time I was young," Wright told WBOC. "I knew this was a big moment."
The government of South Africa jailed Mandela for 27 years, charging him with sabotage for leading civil disobedience in opposition to oppressive segregation policies and laws.
Barrett-Gaines, a frequent traveler to Africa, where she is well-known, learned of Mandela's passing, ironically, as she was about to begin teaching her class in Modern African History.
"It was the final class for the semester, and it was a nice moment when students who at the beginning of the semester didn't know much about Africa, told me he had died," The Daily Times quoted Barrett-Gaines as saying. "That meant something because it indicated they knew something about Africa."
Barrett-Gaines directs UMES' African-American studies program, so her students are exposed to big-picture lessons and discussions about important historical figures, including Mandela.
Wright worries those without the advantage of taking a class like the kind taught by Barrett-Gaines might not grasp why Mandela's death is generating so much attention and reflection.
"I think for a lot of young people, they may not be familiar with Mandela," Wright said in his TV interview. "Unfortunately a lot of our young people don't keep up with history, whether it's U.S. or world history, as they should."
Wright predicts 2013 will be remembered as a year of reflection on the meaning of civil and human rights.
America this year took note of the 50th anniversaries of Dr. Martin Luther King's March on Washington and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The nation also remembered the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address authored by President Abraham Lincoln.
Mandela's stand against apartheid, a system of discrimination based on race practiced by a white-dominated government, set an iconic standard people around the world - and history - should not overlook or discount.
"When I think of Mandela. I think of two words … empowering and … reconciliation," Wright said in his TV interview.
"When you look today at someone like Barack Obama becoming president here a few years ago, you know it had that same type of feeling, a nation that was once divided that was able to come together and put those past differences behind themselves," Wright said.
Barrett-Gaines also pointed to Obama, indirectly, when she said she believes Mandela will be remembered for another admirable quality.
"A lesson we can learn most from him is patience, that change cannot come instantly," Barrett-Gaines told The Daily Times. "When we can't sign up for health care in five minutes, we get mad. We have no patience. But Mandela led a revolution that took decades. He was a lawyer, and lawyers know change happens slowly."
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An Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot locked the pilot out of the cockpit, hijacked a plane bound for Italy and diverted it to Geneva, where he asked for asylum, officials said.
One passenger said the hijacker threatened to crash the plane if the pilot did not stop pounding on the locked door. Another said passengers were terrified "for hours" as the plane careened across the sky.
The Boeing 767-300 took off from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on an overnight flight to Milan and Rome, but an Ethiopian official said it sent a distress message over Sudan that it had been hijacked. Once the plane was over Europe, two Italian fighter jets and later French jets were scrambled to accompany it.
The plane, which was supposed to go to Milan first, landed in Geneva at about 6am local time (0500 GMT). Officials said no one on the flight was injured and the hijacker was taken into custody after surrendering to Swiss police.
"The pilot went to the toilet and he (the co-pilot) locked himself in the cockpit," Geneva airport chief executive Robert Deillon told reporters. "(He) wanted asylum in Switzerland."
It was not immediately clear why the co-pilot, a 31-year-old Ethiopian man, chose Switzerland, where voters recently demanded curbs on immigration. Italy, however, has a reputation among many Africans as not being hospitable to asylum seekers.
Ethiopian Airlines is owned by Ethiopia's government, which has faced persistent criticism over its rights record and its alleged intolerance of political dissent. Geneva police said the co-pilot claimed he felt threatened in Ethiopia.
An Italian passenger on board, Francesco Cuomo, told the Italian news agency ANSA that some passengers woke up shortly after midnight when the plane started to "bounce".
"The pilot was threatening to open the cockpit door and tried to knock it down without succeeding," said Mr Cuomo, a 25-year-old economist.
"At this point, a message was transmitted by the loudspeakers in poor English, but the threat to crash the plane was clearly understood," he added.
Oxygen masks then came down, he said, making everyone on the plane very tense.
"We had no clue about the hijacking, but got scared when the plane suddenly started diving, it seemed like it was falling from the sky," Italian passenger Diego Carpelli, 45, told the Corriere della Sera newspaper. Mr Carpelli was returning to his native Rome from a holiday in Kenya with his family.
"Someone in an intimidating tone said we should put on our oxygen masks," Mr Carpelli said, adding that he was terrified for the rest of the flight.
Ethiopia's communications minister, Redwan Hussein, named the alleged hijacker as Hailemedhin Abera and said the man had worked for Ethiopian Airlines for five years. He said Ethiopia will seek his extradition.
"His action represents a gross betrayal of trust that needlessly endangered the lives of the very passengers that a pilot is morally and professionally obliged to safeguard," Mr Redwan said.
Mr Redwan said the plane was carrying 200 people, including seven crew members. They included 139 Italians, 11 Americans, 10 Ethiopians, five Nigerians and four French citizens.
Swiss authorities at first thought the Ethiopian plane just wanted to land in Geneva for an emergency refuelling before realising it was being hijacked, Geneva police spokesman Eric Grandjean said.
A few minutes after landing in Geneva, the co-pilot left the cockpit using a rope, then went to police forces close to the aircraft and "announced that he was himself the hijacker", Mr Grandjean said.
Police escorted the plane's passengers out one by one, their hands over their heads, from the taxied plane to waiting vehicles. Geneva airport was closed down for about two hours.
Geneva prosecutor Olivier Jornot said the co-pilot will be charged with taking hostages, a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. The Swiss federal prosecutors' office said later that it had taken over the case.
Mr Jornot said the hijacker's chances of winning asylum were slim.
"Technically there is no connection between asylum and the fact he committed a crime to come here," he said. "But I think his chances are not very high."
Both Italy and Switzerland, however, do not extradite those who may face the death penalty at home.
The leader of Ethiopia's opposition Blue party, Yilikal Getnet, said he believed the hijacker was trying to make a statement about the political situation in Ethiopia, where the late strongman Meles Zenawi's party has dominated politics since the 1990s.
"I think he took the measure to convey a message that the ... government is not in line with the public," he said.
Human Rights Watch says Ethiopia's human rights record "has sharply deteriorated" over the years. The rights group says authorities severely restrict basic rights of freedom of expression, association and assembly. The government has also been accused of targeting journalists, opposition members and minority Muslims.
There have been at least eight hijackings by Ethiopians or involving Ethiopian planes in the last 25 years.
The deadliest came in 1996, when hijackers stormed the cockpit of a flight from Ethiopia to Ivory Coast via Kenya, demanding that the plane go to Australia. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed off the island nation of Comoros, killing 125 of the 175 people aboard.
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Most Patriots fans I know spent the majority of this week reluctantly admitting that they got beat fair and square by the Jets on Sunday. No bad calls. No freakish luck. The Jets outplayed them, outcoached them, and were flat out better. It's the way every fanbase should handle a loss. It happened, it can't be undone, and all your pointless braying about what could have been only makes you look like a sore loser.
But if you're the type of fan who simply cannot accept the reality of losing to an underdog, if you desperately need a viable excuse for losing that allows you to envision an alternate, more legitimate dimension in which your Pats won, then quarterback Tom Brady has just provided you with one: Foot surgery. HE WAS HURT! IT WAS THE ONLY POSSIBLE EXPLANATION!
Brady played the entire 2010 season with a stress fracture in his right foot. The source said it's "no trivial injury" and became "very, very painful in the middle of the season."
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Despite the fracture, Brady was brilliant during the course of the regular season, justifying his eventual MVP award. He practiced all week leading up to the Jets game, so there's nothing to indicate the injury was substantially more bothersome before the game began. After kickoff though, who knows? The Jets hit Brady like crazy in that game, far more than he was used to during the course of the regular season. So perhaps an injury that didn't bother Brady when his jersey was kept clean became a wee bit more agonizing once he hit the deck.
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Legacy Interactive has signed a licensing agreement with Universal Partnerships & Licensing to create a new video game based on the popular television series Pysch. This game will be the newest addition to Legacy's "Hollywood Hits" game series, which includes House M.D. and Criminal Minds.
Pysch blends light adventure game play with challenging hidden object searches modeled after the character Shawn Spencer, who uses his own finely tuned observational skills to solve police cases. The game, featuring two all-new episodic cases, will be carried by top retailers nationwide and will be available for download to a PC or Mac at www.legacygames.com. Gamers can also find a free 30-minute trial of the game at www.characterarcade.com.


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The software giant Microsoft today said it will commit to a three-year philanthropic effort to help one million U.S. students from low-income families get broadband access to the Internet. The aim is to help bridge the so-called "digital divide," a blanket phrase that's used to sum up the social and economic difficulties some people face when they don't have the same easy access to the Internet that so many people almost take for granted.
Microsoft made the announcement at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, the philanthropic organization run by former President Bill Clinton. The meeting is getting underway today in New York.
The problem Microsoft is trying to solve is sometimes called "digital exclusion." Think about how much you rely on day-to-day access to the Internet at home to do your job, and then imagine your life without it, or with only spotty access. There are lots of families with school-age children who are at a disadvantage because they don't have access at home, or because their families can't afford computers or the monthly fee for broadband.
Lacking that access has a lot of long-term economic repercussions, none of them good. Without access, kids don't perform as well in school, because they don't have the Internet to help them with homework. And while there are usually other socioeconomic forces to consider in these cases, having not done well in school, these children have a greater tendency to not finish high school; therefore they don't go on to college, and later on have a harder time finding meaningful work.
There have been lots of attempts to count all these unconnected households. The FCC estimates that there are 100 million people in the U.S. without access to broadband. Some lack access because of where they live, while others simply can't afford it. Within that number, there is thought to be some 9.5 million school-age kids who are effectively "digitally excluded."
The irony, of course — at least to anyone who remembers how Bill Clinton's Justice Department so vigorously pursued Microsoft through the courts during the 1990s — is how friendly Clinton and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates seem to have become in public. The photo is from Gates's appearance with Clinton at last year's CGI meeting.


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Father from whom my life did sprout
very proudly from the rooftops I shout
what an exceptional father "thou art"
our Heavenly Father did set you apart
to fulfill a strenuous multitask
raising 9 kids, what more could you ask.
you forgot about yourself completely
you lived your life very discreetly
it was all about us, your kids
never about you, Heaven forbids
father, thru all the years of hard labor
you never acted as a ferocious dictator
you loved us with all your might
having you as our dad was a delight
everybody could always count on you
you never said no even if you wanted to
father, the one we always relied on
except now that you are gone
to join our mammie your beloved wife
forever together now in the afterlife
telling you "I love you" the pain does soften
I wish I would have told you this more often.
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These photos were taken at the Alberta Family Histories Society display booth at the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) Staff Convention February 11, 2010.
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This is Bill Campbell sharing his wonderful sense of humour while teaching Genealogy 101. Mertie Beatty (in purple jacket) mans the laptop controls. Both are long time AFHS volunteers. Mertie makes wonderful family history books for her family.
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First of all, take a deep breath. If you stay vigilant during a cloud breach -- and have a proactive security model in place -- you'll weather the storm. The first step is to be prepared.
The preparation
There are a lot of similarities between a physical breach and one that happens in the cloud. Some of the preparation mechanisms remain the same. The big difference comes in the toolset. Lots of cloud service providers (CSPs) offer very granular log aggregation, visibility into virtual networks, and even the ability to create cloud-ready audit trails. To be completely ready, here's what you need to organize in advance:
The immediate response
There are three mandatory rules you must follow immediately, particularly if your workload is a VM or is residing in the cloud: Do not alter the condition of the VM or cloud instance. If it's off, leave it off; If it's on, leave it on. Avoid attempts to access files, and do not change settings.
The follow-up
These seven steps will take you from breach to remediation.
Step 1: Create snapshots of VMs, virtual appliances, and configurations. This can include screenshots, log dumps, or configuration collections. In some cases you may need to take written notes on what appears on the monitor, management screen, or any other output device. Active programs may require more extensive documentation of the virtual machine's activity. At this point, it is imperative that you do not make any state changes to the cloud instance or VM, as it could significantly alter your research. The machine should remain active until you have the snapshotting process,
Step 2: Protect perishable data, both physical and virtual. Is there a drive attached to a server? Is DAS being used? Perishable data (both physical and virtual) should be immediately secured, documented, and/or snapshotted, and in some cases physically photographed. If an end-point using a cloud service becomes compromised, make sure to include the power supply and ensure these devices remain plugged in, even when in storage.
Step 3: Properly take down the physical resource or virtual instance. There are ways to take down a physical machine -- and ways to take down a virtual instance. Both are critical processes during a breach. Regardless, prior to changing the state of the physical or virtual instance, document and snapshot everything! Because most VMs and cloud platforms utilize shared storage, you may have some extra work here. Massive breaches can force you to take your storage platform offline temporarily for snapshots and evidence gathering. Document the LUNs, connections, and even disk aggregates that were used for that VM; create a snapshot of the assigned virtual disk(s); and make sure to document all processes during your investigation.
Step 4: Identify all incoming network lines, connections, virtual interfaces, and ports assigned to the VM or cloud instance. You will need to work with security, network, storage, and infrastructure teams to document and understand how all configurations impact the state of the breached cloud or VM instance. Collaboration during a breach is absolutely critical. Plus, your CSP should have dedicated teams to reference as well.
Step 5: Collect and label all media used during the response process. Just because your breach happened in the cloud doesn't mean you won't have physical documentation. Massive breaches still involve digital photographs, paper trails, and governance documentation. You will have digital and physical media that will be collected from the breached instance. Fortunately, cloud management tools can help with log aggregation and VM state identification and can even help provide historical reporting.
Step 6: Seal all collected devices, drives, and evidence in a secured area. Proper protocol will dictate that any and all evidence gathered must be locked down and secured. At this point in the process, you've taken your snapshots, pulled necessary physical components, and gathered as much data as possible. Now you absolutely need to lock it down for analysis and evaluation.
Step 7: Remediate and respond. You're not happy -- you just experienced a breach. At a high-level, you understand where the breach came from. So your final task is to now to lock down ports, services, or other affected areas. But, if you followed my earlier advice, you're also staying calm and looking at better ways to secure your cloud for the future.
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When a shiny new car driven by an Arab pulled up at the Erez checkpoint on its way to Gaza, the soldiers on duty made their routine inspection to determine that it was not a stolen vehicle. The driver produced the proper documents and the soldiers were about to let him drive into Gaza when they suddenly heard the checkpoint commander order them to wait.
Coming from behind the car the commander approached the Arab and demanded to know whether the vehicle was his. When the suspect insisted on the validity of his documents, he was warned by the commander that if he did not immediately admit to theft his punishment would be more severe. His self-confidence thus shattered, the Arab confessed that he had stolen the car and its documents in Ma'aleh Adumim.
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When you think of a common hobby, you often think of photography. Popular, yes, but there are a few creatives that go above and beyond. They see the world through a unique lens and produce stellar pieces of work. Photographer Erik Johansson (@tackochgodnatt) is an individual who takes photography and flips it on its head. Don't believe us? For starters, check out the Creative Cloud logo he reimagined below.
If there is anyone who can create surreal images, but captured in a realistic way, it's Erik. A native to Sweden currently living in Berlin, Erik has the luxury of having two distinct environments at his fingertips to inspire and capture some amazing photographs. Berlin, described by Erik as a "hip place," has a large photo and art community, which enables him to be surrounded by other creatives. When he is in search for unique landscapes and scenes, he heads home to Sweden.
After receiving his first digital camera at age 15, he wanted to do something above and beyond with photography. It was then he discovered photo manipulation. Combining his love for drawing and photography, Erik would begin a project with a sketch, shoot some photos, and then head into post production using his tools of choice, Photoshop and Lightroom. Having these tools and more at his disposal with Creative Cloud has enabled him to do anything.
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