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The encyclopaedia of boy's school stories, Volume 2
Ashgate, 2000 - Reference - 385 pages
In his introduction to this important reference work, Robert Kirkpatrick traces the origins of the boys' school story back to the eighteenth century and its development and reception over the last 200 years. The contribution of women writers to the boys' school story is examined and popular topics explored. With over 500 entries, this encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive survey to date of this popular and highly collectable genre.
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Look at what we did
Came a long way from dirty ghetto kids
Yeah, look at what we did
We came a long way from dirty ghetto kids
You know what it is, haha
[Verse 1]
Well the cops didn't fine 'em for grindin', no
They kinda blew the vibe, figured it was time to go
Plus he had to be at home a long time ago
And he had made like ten dollars off the sign he wrote
It read:
"A lil hungry, and need a lil money
It's for my lil sister and her lil tummy"
Wasn't lying tho, he didn't go buy hydro
Went to the restaurant and bought two gyros
Cause he knew they wasn't cookin' where he live
The kunk-kakunk-kakunks now took him to the crib
A lil hurt from the rail he took into the ribs
Right pass the pushers who couldn't under dig
What's the use of pushin'? You ain't pushin' none of this
If I kick it with y'all I'm just pushin' for a bid
But what was on his mind, and pushed him to the lid
Their best customer wasn't cookin' for her kids
Gets up to pump, so he
[Hook 1] (X2)
Kick, push
Over his shoulders he swore he'd never look
Cause wasn't nothing back there, but the blackness
Life wasn't too attractive
Yeah, uh, and so he
[Verse 2]
Yeah, you see his mom was a crack head
And his father couldn't be contacted
He lived with being different, was combated
Amongst the other things on his young, black head
And see his girl was a white girl
But just cause she was white, see her life wasn't light world
She too had the drama thick
Had a daddy and a mama, but her daddy used to mama hit
Daddy caught something chasin' fatties, made her mama sick
Couldn't afford the medicine, pimped her to the pharmacist
Had suicidal feelings, would ride
Switch over the transition help her conquer it
Pays for mama's pills with a sponsorship
Her cell phone bill and a Honda kit
Uh huh, and that's why she skates with he
Someone to feel the pain and a place to be
That's why, that's why, that's why, she
[Hook 2] (X2)
Kick, push
Over her shoulders she swore she'd never look
Cause wasn't nothing back there, but the blackness
Life wasn't too attractive
Yeah, uh, that's why she
[Verse 3]
Yeah, a traveling band of misfits and outcasts
Nod they heads from Misfits to Outkast
A lot of scars, they did this without pads
A lot of hearts who did this without dads
One's father was filthy rich
Two was middle class, and one was homeless
Add in the paralyzed girl in the wheelchair
Who just liked to watch, and that was the whole clique
I think about 'em every time I see this old flick
That was taken in the park in front of this old bench
They wrote on the back, "You thank for push, kick
Hope you make a video, the beat is so sick"
Well I did, I hope you seen it
It's on MTV, Soundtrakk's a genius
Love from Tony Hawk, beef from the Ice Creamaz
Before we put it out, had to pay the Filipinas
Just to show 'em how you
[Hook 3]
Kick, push
Over ya shoulders you swore you'd never look
Cause wasn't nothing back there, but the blackness
Life wasn't too attractive
Track 15 off of Lupe Fiasco's debut album, "Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor" is a continuation of the original "Kick Push".
In an interview with A.V. Club, Lupe talks about the genesis of this sequel to his original "Kick, Push":
"Kick, Push II" started out as a mix-tape record. I actually did it for MySpace. Where it was just supposed to be like, "Have you ever played Dungeons & Dragons?" How can I put it? It was like booster packs, extensions. Like, once you've beaten the game and played every level, it's like a new level, instead of making a new game. It's carrying on the storyline. So "Kick, Push II" is actually, like, digging into the characters. It gives you more of an understanding of why. You just got this blank story of the one character and what he goes through, and you're introduced to his girlfriend and his crew, and then "Kick, Push II" gives you more of a personal understanding of who those people are. It wasn't meant for the album. It just turned out we should put this on the album at the end of the day.

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Halfords has commissioned a survey which asked whether the respondents were in favour of number plates for cyclists. A "convincing" 59 percent of respondents were in favour of such a measure, said Halfords, with the retailer claiming the suggestion would "encourage responsible riding."
However, the survey has been criticised by motoring and cycling groups. AA president Edmund King told BikeBiz: "The AA believes that the introduction of number plates for cyclists would be impractical and unnecessary – police already have the powers to stop cyclists."
Cycling UK's head of campaigns and advocacy Duncan Dollimore said: "[The] government has consistently reached the conclusion that such proposals are disproportionate and unnecessary." And British Cycling's policy advisor Chris Boardman said: "No country in the world requires bicycles to be registered because it does not serve the public interest – it would be hugely expensive and drastically cut the number of people who cycle."
The number plate proposal from one of the leading UK retailers of motor-vehicle number plates is included in a press release that has been teased out to the mainstream media over the last couple of days. (The embargo ended one minute ago.) It's possible that the press release will result in some negative coverage for cycling, especially following the recent blanket media coverage given to Matthew Briggs' campaign to incorporate death and serious injury cycling offences into the Road Traffic Act.
The online survey of 2,042 adults was carried out in August by YouGov and has led to the production of "Sharing the Road", a 20-page infographic-heavy report produced for Halfords by its external PR company. The document has a foreword by the retailer's chief customer officer Karen Bellairs, who said "we wanted to examine whether there was a genuine willingness among cyclists and motorists to share the road."
The survey asked whether cyclists should have to take proficiency tests before being allowed to cycle on the public highway, and also asked whether motorists should be required to ride bicycles as part of the driving test. (The answers, respectively, were 50 percent and 18 percent in favour.) Respondents were also asked whether penalties should be increased for cyclists "who don't abide by the Highway Code" and ditto for motorists who "drove aggressively near cyclists." (86 percent and 80 percent respectively.)
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While Halfords may claim that it is not itself advocating for cyclists to be forced to carry number plates, or for sanctions against cyclists to be increased, it's clear that they were the questions put to respondents by YouGov, and provided to them by Z PR of London on behalf of Halfords.
"What our new research makes very clear is that the car is still the nation's favourite means of getting around," said Bellairs, adding that "there is massive support among motorists for better training, more cycle lanes and improved facilities for cyclists." (45 percent of survey respondents said there ought to be "dedicated cycle lanes on all roads".)
Bellairs also claimed that the survey showed, with no evidence provided other than the online questioning, that there was a "genuine willingness" from Britain's motorists to "share the road." She said that this is something that "Halfords, which champions motoring as well as cycling, is very keen to foster."
The Sharing the Road report advises cyclists to "be a peacock" and to "always make sure you're wearing bright clothing when cycling, whether it's a high vis jacket or a high vis vest" but it does not contain similar advice for motorists (Halfords missed a trick here, it could have suggested motorists buy its spray-cans of yellow paint so they can make their cars more conspicuous).
The Halfords press release – which is headlined "Britons back tougher penalities for people who cycle aggressively but drivers and cyclists want to work better together" – states that "65% agree that cyclists should be required to wear reflective clothing, to give them the best chance of being seen."
Required? As in forced? That won't endear the company to many cycling customers.
There was no survey result – or, presumably, any question – about the compulsory wearing of helmets for everyday journeys, either for cyclists or motorists. However, there were questions and answers about cycle servicing. A perhaps surprising 48 percent of those asked said they could mend cycle punctures. And, in what will be news to independent bike shops, 43 percent of Brits can "tighten a loose chain"; 37 percent "know how to adjust their own brakes"; and 31 percent "can clean their gear mechanisms." (Those answers should make one wary of all the others.)
The report goes on to claim that an "overwhelming 93% think it would be beneficial for all education on road safety to be aimed at cyclists and motorists," as if it isn't already.
Responding to the Halfords report, the AA president told BikeBiz:
"Most cyclists are drivers and many drivers are cyclists so we need to live in harmony with each other. Rather than harsher penalties all round, we believe it is preferable to promote better training, infrastructure and positive attitudes."
King said he didn't believe there was a requirement for harsher penalties for law-breaking cyclists:
"There are already penalties in place for cyclists who don't abide by the Highway Code and we believe that targeted enforcement alongside education courses are a more effective way of making our roads safer."
The AA president added that existing laws need to be enforced first.
"We would prefer to see targeted police enforcement through schemes such as Operation Safe Pass whereby the police target dangerous drivers [who pass too closely to cyclists]," said King.
While careful not to criticise Halfords directly (the retailer and Cycling UK partnered for a project earlier this year) Dollimore was critical of the report's timing: "Given the uneven tone of the current debate on cycling, it was perhaps optimistic to expect this survey would be a constructive addition to the discussion."
He added: "We already knew some people instinctively think regulation and testing of cyclists is the answer. Those people frequently fail to appreciate the practicalities of imposing and enforcing regulations on children, the costs involved, or the public health and other implications of putting up further barriers to cycling. Fortunately government has consistently reached the conclusion that such proposals are disproportionate and unnecessary.
"Ultimately, there are opinions expressed in this survey which we agree with, and others we don't, but the truth is this is merely a summary of what people said in response to a series of questions. It's far better, when suggesting a need for change, to assess the arguments for and against, and this is precisely the point we will make to government as it considers its forthcoming cycle safety review."
Boardman said "compulsory proficiency tests and number plates, are quite obviously non-starters and cannot be regarded as a serious contribution to the public debate on road safety."
He added: "The reality is that [British Cycling], and other cycling organisations, already work with groups representing pedestrians and motorists to find ways to make our streets safer for everyone. Indeed Halfords themselves are part of our #ChooseCycling Network of British businesses that strongly believe more cycling is crucial to help business thrive, to encourage people to live healthier lives and to make Britain a greener, less congested and more pleasant place to live."
Boardman – who has an eponymously named brand stocked by Halfords – stressed that "laws should be developed using evidence, focusing proportionately on those with the ability to cause most harm. Around 1,800 people die on British roads annually and more than 99 percent involve collisions with motor vehicles."
The number plate 1D was bought for a record £352,000 at auction yesterday.
Tycoon Nabil Bishara won it in fierce bidding and plans to put it on his wife's Bentley.
His £352,411 offer beats the previous £254,000 best for a DVLA sale, set by 51NGH in 2006. The DVLA's Damian Lawson said after the auction in Claverdon, Warks: We're absolutely over the moon."
Britain's priciest car reg is F1, bought privately for £440,625 in 2008 by Afzal Kahn of Bradford, West Yorks."
A high-end four-wheeler carrying an 'MLA' sticker was spotted parked in Prakashnagar, Begumpet with a fancy registration plate carrying the number AP2 AB 2222.
The vehicle was spotted by Mr Hari Satya Sandeep, a social media user who often shares pictures of traffic rule violation on the Facebook page and Twitter handles of the Hyderabad traffic police. Mr Sandeep said the car with MLA sticker was not parked properly and its fancy number plate was a violation of the rule.
"When I checked its challans on the Hyderabad traffic police e-challan portal there were no pending challans. They may have cleared the challans but in that case they would have changed the number plate if they were fined for it," Mr Sandeep said.
Asked about this, Dr V. Ravinder, joint commissioner Hyderabad traffic police, said, "As we have received the complaint we will look into the matter and will take action accordingly."
Mr Vinod Kanumala, chief functionary of the Indian Federation of Road Safety, said, "Abuse of rules by LAs is very common. The law makers are the primary law breakers." He said he had noticed a barcode number plate on a car in the city.
Number plate 2 of category 1 was the biggest attraction at the Abu Dhabi Police's open vehicle number plates auction on Saturday, sold for Dh10.1 million.
The popular auction generated a revenue of more than Dh55 million, auctioning 60 distinguished Abu Dhabi number plates at Emirates Palace hotel.
Abu Dhabi Police, in cooperation with Emirates Auction, held the public auction on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its establishment.
Organised by Emirates Auction, the auction listed the numbers on the company's website, including five double-digit plates, 15 three-digit plates, 19 four-digit and 17 five-digit plates.
Number plate 2 was the only one-digit licence plate in the auction, and was the first one-digit Category 1 number plate sold in a public auction.
Other number plates featured in the auction were 10, 60, 333, 600, 999, 1000, 1111, 5050, 6000, 6060, 6666, 9090, 9999, 10000, 55555, 60000, 66666.
WOULD you pay more than $150,000 for a piece of metal measuring just 19cm by 13cm?
That's the length to which collectors of historic South Australian licence plates are prepared to go to secure their piece of SA motoring history.
The 17 historic SA plates to go under the hammer have reserves ranging from $2999 for SA "467-470'' to $120,000 for SA "90'', right up to $149,999 for SA "29''.
Stewart Kay, proprietor of Historic Plates, said licence plates had proven to be great investments.
"In terms of their metallic value, forget gold and platinum, it's the most expensive metal in the world," he said.
"Some of the three-digit numbers we have ranging from $17,500 to $22,000 – and we've sold some three-digit numbers for more than $50,000 previously – they were $1500 only in the late 2000s, so they've increased quite significantly in that time.
"We find people are using them in their self-managed super fund or to finish off their collectable car.
"If you've just bought the latest $400,000 Porsche or Mercedes or whatever, a $20,000 numberplate is the only way to finish it off."
SA Government records show the "29" plate was first issued in 1907 to Dr E.V Fooks of Gawler, who registered it on an 8hp De Dion car.
"The reserve is $150,000 and we've arrived at that on past sales, but interestingly a couple of months ago, the number 29 Sydney plate sold in Sydney for $750,000," Mr Kay said.
"All of our plates usually sell online or the following day but we offer all our plates at a market correct reserve. But under auction, anything is possible.
"The days of a $1 million South Australian numberplate is not too far off."
So what else could you spend $150,000 on in South Australia?
According to realestate.com.au, $149,000 will buy you a three-bedroom home on 615sqm at Elizabeth East. For $149,990 you could drive away in a new 2017 Maserati Levante 3L 6 cylinder SUV.
And if you'd prefer a holiday, $150,000 will buy a couple 34 nights in the exclusive Osprey Pavillion of Kangaroo Island's luxurious Southern Ocean Lodge.
Diplomatic Plates 'D' what are they?
Diplomatic plates
Since 1979 cars operated by foreign embassies, high commissions, consular staff, and various international organisations have been given plates with a distinguishing format of three numbers, one letter, three numbers. The letter is D for diplomats or X for accredited non-diplomatic staff. The first group of three numbers identifies the country or organisation to whom the plate has been issued, the second group of three numbers is a serial number, starting at 101 for diplomats (although some embassies were erroneously issued 100), 400 for non-diplomatic staff of international organisations, and 700 for consular staff. Thus, for example, 101 D 101 identifies the first plate allocated to the Afghanistan embassy, 900 X 400 is the first plate allocated to the Commonwealth Secretariat.
T'S happened again – and set a record: Someone paid $745,000 for the numerical NSW plate '29', eclipsing the previous auction record of $689,000 paid for NSW '2' back in 2003.
It also set an Australian auction record for a double-digit number plate, topping the $530,000 paid for the Victorian plate '21' at Shannons Melbourne Winter Auction last July.
Other strong number plate sales were $82,000 paid for NSW '9191' and $35,000 for NSW '85758', taking total sales on the night for the six heritage plates on offer to $956,000.
Classic motorcycles were also hot property, topped by $37,000 paid for an 'as new' 1975 Norton Commando Mk3 850cc with just 29km delivery on its odometer, and a 1950s Austin J40 pedal car sold for $9300.
Other impressive results from the auction included a restored 1964 Porsche 356C Coupe which went for $137,000, a restored 1949 48-215 'FX' Holden which commanded $46,000, a 1962 MGA 1600 sports car fetched $52,000 and a stately and exceptionally low mileage Mercedes-Benz 300B 'Adenauer' limousine first owned by the Victa lawnmower family sold for $50,000.
As well, a superbly-restored 1970 Ford XY Falcon GT sedan sold for $180,000.
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A shortage of vehicle number plates has hit the Kenyan market, causing a backlog in the clearance of cars at Mombasa port.
The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) attributed the shortage that started two weeks ago to increased registration of cars that has outpaced supply of number plates.
"Demand is far much higher than supply. There are just too many vehicles being imported into the country, especially second-hand cars," NTSA director of registration and licensing.
She added that the supply issue will ease after Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, where the number plates are manually made, increases supply.
The law mandates the prisons department to make the plates.
Official data shows that Kenyans bought 15,858 used vehicles in the first quarter of the year, compared to 14,346 units in a similar period of last year, representing a 10.5 per cent growth.
It is mandatory for imported second hand vehicles to be fitted with number plates before leaving the port.
The country imports about 6,000 second hand cars monthly, according to dealers.
Dealers said that the shortage had hit them hard as they were forced to incur storage charges at the port amid cash flow hiccups due to delays as some had taken loans.
"We are incurring heavy storage charges as the cars are detained at the port despite having paid duty and customs clearance cash in advance," said Charles Munyori, the secretary-general of Kenya Auto Bazaar Association, a lobby for second hand car dealers.
The storage charges are based on the volume of vehicles and the number of days they take at the Mombasa port or at container freight stations.
Industry insiders, however, said the number plate problem normally occurs every time a new registration number comes up as importers delay registration to take advantage of the newest numbers.
By 1982, the year suffixes had reached Y and so from 1983 onwards the sequence was reversed again, so that the year letter - starting again at A" - preceded the numbers then the letters of the registration. The available range was then A21 AAA to Y999 YYY, the numbers 1-20 being held back for the government's proposed, and later implemented, DVLA select registration sales scheme. Towards the mid-1990s there was some discussion about introducing a unified scheme for Europe, which would also incorporate the country code of origin of the vehicle, but after much debate such a scheme was not adopted due to lack of countries willing to participate. The changes in 1983 also brought the letter Q into use - although on a very small and limited scale. It was used on vehicles of indeterminate age, such as those assembled from kits, substantial rebuilds, or imported vehicles where the documentation is insufficient to determine the age. There was a marked increase in the use of Q registrations
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Of course, the human body is not made of dust; it comprises mainly water, proteins, fats and mineral nutrients. These substances are in turn made up of chemical elements, or different 'atom types', which are primarily hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen. But where did these chemical elements come from – how were they created?
The Greek philosopher Democritus, who was born in the 5th century BC, postulated that the whole of the natural world is made up of small indivisible units – atoms. Their name is derived from the Greek word for 'indivisible'. Today, we know that atoms are made up of smaller components and that they are divisible. An atomic shell made of negatively charged electrons encircles a tiny nucleus, which comprises positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons. The number of protons in the nucleus determines which chemical element the atom is.
Around one second after the Big Bang, the cosmos was already filled with protons, neutrons and electrons. They were in a sea of 'photons', or radiation particles. This high-energy radiation initially prevented the formation of hydrogen atoms from protons and electrons and heavier nuclei from multiple protons and neutrons. It was only in the following minutes that the nuclei of the two lighter elements helium (two protons) and lithium (three protons) were formed.
Stars as the birthplace of chemical elements
Even today, the majority of matter in the cosmos exists in the form of hydrogen and helium. However, without the variety of atom types that is shown in the periodic table of the elements, the existence of planets and human life would not be possible. Surprisingly, most of the elements were formed inside stars. In their interiors, hydrogen fuses to form helium and, in higher-mass stars, nuclear fusions of this type also lead to the creation of carbon, oxygen and heavier elements, including iron. Elements that are heavier than iron are formed when additional neutrons and protons become attached. For this to happen, physical conditions such as those that occur only during supernova explosions and inside red giant stars are necessary (see the astronomy question from week 27: How long will the Sun continue to shine?).
Afterwards, supernovae and stellar winds distribute the newly formed elements into space in the form of 'stardust'. If new star systems are later created from this dust, planets can also be formed from the heavier elements that are now present. This is when life originated – at least on planet Earth.


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There's nothing worse than having to get a car repair done, and then it costs too much and/or isn't done properly. Not surprisingly, these are the top two complaints of respondents in a new survey from Consumer Reports.
Wait, there's more. Of the 13 reasons given for being less than "very" or "completely satisfied" with a repair, after price too high (38 percent) and did not fix problem properly (28 percent), the next three highest were: took longer than expected to complete the work (21 percent), had to bring the car back because the repair did not "hold up" (18 percent), and price was more than originally estimated (11 percent).
In fact, the entire list of reasons for customer dissatisfaction with car repairs reads like a litany of complaints that many a household experiences. We're all holding on to our vehicles longer, nearly six years, on average. That means more eventual trips to the dealership or independent shop or franchise chain such as Midas or Sears for repair work of a major or minor nature.
In the latest survey, Consumer Reports for the first time recontacted some 5,400 respondents to ask about their specific car repair gripes. Dealerships came out on the worst end here relative to high prices, with 42 percent of respondents, while independent shops were at 32 percent. As for the problem not being fixed properly, the criticism reported was at the same rate for both dealerships and independent shops.
2012 Chrysler Town & Country
Another interesting survey finding is that most car owners are taking their vehicles to independent shops for repairs, rather than dealerships. This is consistent with past years' findings. Who prefers independents the most? According to the survey, owners of Chrysler, Dodge, Jaguar, Jeep, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo are less satisfied with dealership repairs than owners of most other vehicle brands.
Reasons cited for ditching a mechanic
Delving a bit deeper into recontacted consumers' dissatisfaction with a shop, the reasons for switching to another shop was similar to their top complaints about car repairs. Here, however, the number one and two reasons were reversed. Fifty percent said the problem wasn't fixed properly and 34 percent said the price was too high.
Tied for third place, at 23 percent each, were "had to bring the car back because the repair did not 'hold up,' and "sold me unnecessary parts or service." Next came a three-way tie, at 19 percent each, for "treated poorly by staff," "took longer than expected to complete the work," and "price was more than originally estimated."
What consumers can do to get car repairs done right
It's one thing to complain about high prices and shoddy repair work, but what can consumers do about it? Consumer Reports offers five tips to aid in getting car repairs done right:
- Describe the problem fully. Be specific on when, where, under what circumstances, and what you see, hear and smell when the problem occurs.
- Forget offering a diagnosis. You're not a mechanic, and you might incur needless repair charges for the mechanic trying to fix your idea of what might be causing the problem.
- Ask for a test drive with the mechanic – if the problem only occurs when the car is moving.
- Be sure to get an estimate. This way, you have a base-line for what the repair should cost. Request the shop call you for approval if the repair is expected to go over the estimate.
- Look at the evidence. Ask to see the old parts, especially if you're not happy with the diagnosis.
We might add one more point to consider. If you have to bring your car back numerous times for the exact same problem, and it remains unfixed, you must document everything properly, including getting written estimates and copies of repairs performed, so that you have evidence to support a claim under your state's Lemon Law statute.
Finally, and this goes without saying – but we'll say it anyway, if you manage to find a mechanic or shop that you trust and that consistently does excellent work, keep using them. Done right the first time and at a fair price should be right at the top of your must-have list for car repairs.
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The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) held its annual Writers Conference last week at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. The conference featured more than 80 sessions covering a wide variety of topics, from how to write a book proposal to how to break into magazines. I was fortunate to attend the conference and will be recapping several of the sessions here over the next few days.
While the sessions were targeted to freelance writers, the information is also helpful to PR professionals looking to get their clients in these publications. Not only does it give you an inside look into what the publications look for, but it also gives you an idea of what freelancers need in order to pitch these publications successfully.
The first recap is of the "Women's Markets 101" panel:
Getting a great gig with a women's market is easier than you think. Four top editors dished on how to grab their (and other editors') attention with a killer query, and offered a behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in their editorial offices.
The panelists were:
- Sarah Burns, health editor, All You magazine
- Heather Graham, deputy health editor, iVillage
- Barbara Brody, health director, Shape
- Celia Shatzman, associate editor, Family Circle
Following are highlights of the panel discussion:
Celia Shatzman, Family Circle
As an associate editor at Family Circle, Shatzman works on general features covering everything from parenting and family to entertaining and pets. She got her start as an editorial intern at Glamour, and has been a research editor at Lucky and an editorial assistant at Weight Watchers Magazine.
Family Circle is a women's service publication aimed at mothers of tweens and teens, so any pitch has to have a family angle.
Shatzman offered these tips for freelancers pitching the magazine:
- Have a well-crafted pitch with a hook, and include statistics/facts that make it current. Why is the story important now?
- Write a lead that would be used as the lead for the article.
- Pitch your ideas 4-6 months in advance. Family Circle has a very long lead time.
- Don't send PDFs or attachments on initial contact. When you do send clips, attention to detail is very important – make sure the clips aren't grainy. "Take the time to make them look good," said Shatzman.
- Don't pitch simultaneously to several publications.
- Don't pitch to several editors at the same publication.
- In your pitch, be very direct in how you would execute the article. Mention any past experience that ties into what you're pitching. "If you have written for another publication I know, then I know you are aware of the steps that are involved," said Shatzman.
- Include a subject line that makes it clear you are a writer, and not in PR. "I am more likely to open pitches from writers than PR people," said Shatzman.
- If your pitch is not accepted, "be gracious," said Shatzman. "Don't argue with us," or you will risk your chances of being picked for a future article.
Family Circle pays $1-$2 per word, depending on the writer's experience and how much reporting is required.
Barbara Brody, Shape
Brody is the health director at Shape and was previously the health editor at Woman's Day, where she worked on the print magazine, blogged for WomansDay.com, and hosted audio podcasts and Web videos.
While more of the magazine's articles are done in-house than before, there are still places for freelancers to pitch.
"The best place [to pitch] is a feature," said Brody, who also shared what she looks for in pitches:
- Be creative. Health is such a big topic, you can come up with a health slant for many non-health stories. But always keep the audience – active women – in mind.
- Think about the big picture. Don't pitch one study – see if there is a trend.
- Be dramatic -- dramatic stories are popular with readers.
- Don't say, "I want to do a story about sleep." Point out what's different about your story.
- It helps if you include a working headline/subhead for the story.
- Keep it short, at least on first contact. "You don't have to have the concept entirely fleshed out, as long as the concept spark is there," said Brody.
- Don't pitch more than once a month, as the magazine is published monthly.
- Give her time to review your pitch. "Don't be a stalker. I try to get back to everyone, but it could take a few weeks. If you haven't heard after two follow-ups, it probably won't work."
Shape pays "at least $1.50 per word," depending on the freelancer's experience and how much reporting will be done.
Heather Graham, iVillage
Graham is the deputy health editor at iVillage. She got her start as an intern for Paper Magazine's website in 1998, and has spent most of her career in digital media. In addition to freelancing for outlets such as Mediabistro, New York Moves, DailyGlow.com and LifeScript.com, Graham was on the editorial team that launched EverydayHealth.com.
iVillage is the largest content-driven community on the Web, said Graham. The site has a very classic women's lifestyle model and caters to women who are married, busy, budget-conscious, young mothers. The tone/voice of the site is as if the writer is your best friend who just happens to be a doctor, sex therapist, etc.
Graham said she depends mostly on freelancers for iVillage content and offered the following tips for pitching successfully:
- Be familiar with the content. "I can tell immediately when someone hasn't read the site," said Graham.
- Be creative. "What works for me is a new, surprising thing – something with a twist," said Graham. She's interested in things that aren't usually covered, or a study that turns something on its head.
- Weight loss is a very popular topic on iVillage, but you have to come up with a creative slant, such as, "Seven surprising ways to lose 200 calories."
- If you have a website with clips, don't just include a link to the website – include links to your three best pieces. This will give her a sense of your writing.
- Include the word "Pitch" in the subject line of your email. It helps her identify which emails are pitches from freelancers.
- If pitching a service-oriented slideshow, pitch with a hook, but keep it short. What's the slideshow about? What's the headline? What are five out of the 20 or so slides? You don't have to include completed slides themselves, but she does need an idea of what the slideshow will be about.
iVillage rates for freelancers vary, depending on whether the article is for the blog or a slideshow, how much reporting the freelancer will do, and how much experience the freelancer has.
Sarah Burns, All You
Burns, health editor at All You magazine, has worked for a variety of award-winning publications, including Prevention, Self, Fitness, Glamour, Natural Health, Good Housekeeping and Fitness. She was also a deputy health editor at iVillage.
All You is sold exclusively at Walmart and is also subscription-based. Because it is a value-driven publication, much of the content is rooted in value and how people can save money. The magazine does occasionally cover home and travel, but most of the content is focused on health. The average reader is a middle-income woman, 30-55 years old, that has a fit lifestyle and is either very active or aspires to be.
While FOB (front of book) and short items are written in-house, Burns said All You uses a lot of freelancers, mostly for features, which typically consist of several sidebars.
Burns offered the following tips for pitching articles:
- Read the magazine so you can package your pitch in a unique way that speakers to All You's audience. "It's all about the packaging," said Burns.
- Sourcing is important, so give her an idea of the caliber of experts you plan on using.
- If you were referred by a writer that has already worked with Burns, include the writer's name in your pitch.
- Don't include more than three story ideas per email, and keep each story idea to one paragraph or less.
All You pays $1.50 per word for freelance articles.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Attention Target Management: Pay No Attention To Analysts Begging for Buybacks
Big Buybacks Begin to Haunt Firms
More Cash on Hand Might Have Protected Freddie, Fannie Shares
—By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN, KAREN RICHARDSON and JUSTIN LAHART
Driven by billions of dollars in share buybacks, record-setting buyouts and a wave of mergers, the amount of stock in the market shrank by hundreds of billions of dollars in the past four years.
With the supply of stock down and demand strong, the market rallied. Now, as the economy slows and credit markets buckle, high-profile companies are cutting back on buybacks, and some wish they held on to the cash they gave back to shareholders.
—Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2007
So says today's Wall Street Journal, although this is not news to readers here at NotMakingThisUp (see "The Shareholder Letter You Should, But Won't, Be Reading Next Spring" from August 8, 2007.
Nevertheless, lest anyone think the Journal is making much ado out of nothing, I would say the Journal goes too easy on those Captains of Industry who chose to pump up their stocks for short-term gain and fleeting kudos from Wall Street's very fickle Finest.
After all, today's story politely leaves out one of the all-time great admissions of regret—ranking right up there with Chamberlain after Munich, business-wise—which came yesterday morning from one of the most aggressive practitioners of the "return value to shareholders" school of balance sheet destruction: Steve Odland, the CEO of Office Depot.
A sober Mr. Odland, formerly hailed as the savior of that once-proud office products retailer following a highly successful stint spent largely buying back stock and occasionally running stores at AutoZone, told Wall Street's Finest:
We are very disappointed in our third-quarter results and remain concerned about the economic environment over the next few quarters. We are also very unhappy with our stock price.
Unfortunately, we have cleared the balance sheet of cash, and our operating cash flows declined, so we don't have the opportunity to buy back shares at a time when we believe they are a huge value. [Emphasis added.]
Specifically, Office Depot "cleared the balance sheet" of $200 million this fiscal year by buying 5.7 million shares at $35 a share.
While that doesn't sound like much, it came after "clearing the balance sheet" of $971 million in fiscal 2006 by buying 26 million shares at an average price of $37 per share. (Last trade--you don't wanna know.)
Where this leaves Office Depot as a stock, we express no opinion, but management at Target ought to think twice about listening to the barking seals otherwise known as Wall Street's Finest—the analysts who applaud companies such as Office Depot for giving short-term oriented shareholders short-term rewards such as high-priced stock buybacks without any notion of the kind of painful long-term consequences now being suffered by Office Depot's shareholders:
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Target Corp., the second-largest U.S. discount chain, posted an unexpected decline in quarterly profit after consumers facing higher mortgage payments and gasoline expenses cut spending. The retailer also said today it will buy as much as $10 billion of its stock, which lost almost a quarter of its value since reaching a record in July….
``It's the right thing to do to leverage up their balance sheet and buy back stock in the face of slowing overall sales growth,'' [emphasis added] said Jeffrey Klinefelter, an analyst at Piper JaffrayCos. in Minneapolis, who recommends investors hold their shares.
I'd like to see Mr. Klinefelter tell that to a room full of Office Depot shareholders, and get out alive, or, at the very least, with his flippers still attached.
Our metaphorical hat goes off to the Wall Street Journal for flagging a timely and important topic...but how they left out the best part of the Office Depot call is beyond us.
Jeff Matthews
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12 comments:
- Tianming said...
I disagree with your opinion. Stock buyback should be done if price paid is less than the intrinsic value. If that's the case, even though the stock price can furthur drop dramatically after your buyback, it's still a smart thing to do. No one knows how the stock market is going to do; you should do what's good at the moment.
I have no comment whether ODP or target should buyback though as I have no idea what their IVs are.
- Harleydog said...
As usual another great post on a subject I(among others)have been critical of for some time.
Good trading to you and enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday.
- Len said...
I think you're right on the money.
As a shareholder who's taking the hit, I wonder how much better off Citigroup shareholders would be today if the former management and current board had planned for the "worst case" out come and sat on some of the cash they used to buy back all the shares they did over the last couple of years.
If your holdings in the stock decline by 10%, does it feel the same to the guy who starts at $100 million in the stock as it does to the guy who starts with $1 million in the stock?
- Bud said...
Stock buybacks may well work for some companies with sound cash flow and the room for more leverage. However, I think we are now seeing the impact of leverage coming back to bite companies, especially financials, that must raise more equity to support their flawed investment decisions.
Good work as always, Jeff. Regards, Old Native
- David said...
I gotta think that you're kidding here. I'm gonna echo tim - don't you think share buybacks are good at a certain price (less than intrinsic value) and bad at a certain price (more than intrinsic value). I've got no opinion on ODP, but would you say Eddie Lampert is a jackass for buying back SHLD shares at 150 just b/c the stock is at 110 now? What if its RE value really is close to $1000/share as Bill Ackman has hinted. What is it's only a quarter of that? Would share buybacks be the right move? I'm surprised about this one from you, 6 months of stock performance doesn't prove anything...
- smithycroftman said...
Tim and David,
I've got to side with Jeff on this one. Tim you say no one knows what the stock market will do but working out Intrinsic Value is a mighty hard thing to pin down too. Management should be held to account for how they reinvest cash flow, if they waste it on takeovers hold them accountable, if they buy their stock and it halves again they should be held responsible, we shouldn't just nod and say whither the stock market. I don't hear too many people telling Uncle Warren to gear up and buy back Berkshire stock, but seeing as his total comp isn't boosted by some nice little, or not so little, options package, I doubt he'd listen anyway.
- Sam E. Antar said...
To all CEO's and CFO's:
Never have your company buy back stock while your company commits fraud.
Never personally buy your company's stock while if you are committing fraud.
I did both.
Those so-called confidence building measures don't work in the run long.
They will come came to haunt you.
I am not making this up!
Sam E. Antar (former Crazy Eddie CFO & convicted felon)
- Invictus said...
Just goes to show how terrible a medium-term forecast stock buybacks tend to be. Long-run ODP & the plethora of other companies may will be right, but using stock buybacks as a guide to anything but short-term stock price floors is just silly.
Now the question is with much of corporate stock repurchasing buying power diminished and the credit markets hesitance to provide the capital to loan companies for more stock-buybacks, and diminished leverage by quant and hedge funds, and private equity where is the new floor for stock prices?
- Jeff Matthews said...
Tim and David misconstrue the point. The point is that buying stock back for the sake of buying stock is stupid, pointless, and good only for the investment bankers.
But they do raise a good one of their own: there's no reason management shouldn't buy stock back when it represents true value.
Bob Shaw did it in 1990, as I pointed out in the Buffett series, when Wall Street would have nothing to do with carpet stocks. He was dead right, and created tremendous value for Shaw shareholders.
And yes, Eddie Lampert bought Sears when it was misunderstood and roundly hated. He saw value and was proven right.
But neither Eddie or Bob was buying for the sake of getting rid of cash. They were buying cheap. They weren't doing simply "what's good at the moment," in Tim's words: they were doing what they knew would be good in the long run.
What ODP, Home Depot, Scott's Miracle-Gro, Dean Foods and others have done is the opposite: they bought stock at demonstrably high prices simply to rid the balance sheet of cash supposedly to "enhance shareholder value" at a time when the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at or near its all-time ever record.
They were not taking advantage of a market crash or an earnings-miss related stock drop. They were buying momentum.
Think about that: it is the opposite of smart. It is dumb. It is buying high...so that they do not have the ability to buy low.
Some smart academic is going to have a field day computing how much value management teams have destroyed "enhancing shareholder value."
- Andy Tabbo said...
Stock buybacks are a ridiculous use of cash by management. If managment feels compelled to return cash to shareholders, they should do it with dividends. Period. End of story. With today's tax treatment on dividends, there should be no other option than a dividend. For a management team to buy back it's own shares, they must make the following assertion: Our stock is the best asset to buy in the entire world! Let the shareholders decide how the excess cash should be spent. If shareholders feel that the stock is the best asset to buy in the whole world, then the shareholders will buy more stock with the dividend.
- 120wallace said...
I think you may want to add DPZ to the list of managements that burned through cash. Although they did the special dividend they are now being impacted by the increases in commidities and a slow down in spending.
- Anonymous said...
"Stock buybacks are a ridiculous use of cash by management."
Respectfully, I strongly disagree with this statement. Only recently has the tax treatment on cash dividends changed to the point where the tax-rate on dividend income is similar to that of capital gains from stock buybacks.
When companies initiate stock buybacks, however, there are many more benefits than paying cash dividends. Stock buybacks, when done at the right price, can reduce outstanding shares, raising the value of exisiting shares and options. In addition, retained earnings should, in theory, rise if sales and earnings remain the same.
Cash dividends are income which is double taxed, once at the corporate level and again at the personal level. Stock buybacks generally get better tax treatment and, thus, are a better use of company cash, but only if the buyback is done at the right price.
Dividends have always been a "signal" to investors that the "growth story" in earnings is over and that there is no better use for cash to either buy back stock or improve its operational efficiencies.
One other company you can add to the stock buyback list is TGT's competitor, WMT. Is it me or is WMT issuing a lot of commercial paper recently to pay down exisiting long term debt, and issuing more long-term debt to fund both its stock buybacks and its dividend increases?
I recently noticed that WMT's been buying back stock at an average price of about $47-$48 per share and the share price is "hanging around" the same price range today.
Two questions immediately come to mind about WMT and its stock buyback program:
A) Are stock buybacks better when done with debt as opposed to being internally funded (i.e., from existing cash flow) when done at the right price?
B)What factors would cause a company to use commercial paper from cash flow for financing operations (i.e., GE)?
Just curious...


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"You are our future and we want to help you take that future into your own hands," IOC President Jacques Rogge said. "From this moment on, young people around the world have a chance to participate in a global forum that combines sport, education and culture."
The vision of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) was to inspire young people around the world to participate in sport and adopt and live by the Olympic values. It was during its Session in Guatemala City in July 2007 that the IOC decided to create a new sporting event to educate, engage and influence young athletes inspiring them to play an active role in their communities.
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Likewise on the track, the athletics section proved to be a strong force, bringing home one gold (Nicholas Hough - hurdles), three silver (Brandon Starc - high jump, Michelle Jenneke - hurdles, Liz Parnov - pole vault) and one bronze (medley relay as Oceania).
On the picturesque Marina Bay Resevoir, the rowing and canoe/kayak events took place. Medals were aplenty for Australia with the men's and women's pairs both reaching the dais, winning bronze and silver respectively in the rowing and Jessica Fox brought home gold in the women's canoe/kayak slalom.
Other medal performances were Tom McDermott who won silver in equestrian as part of Team Australasia, silver to the women's 3-on-3 basketball team, bronze to Angela Donald in the women's artistic gymnastics beam discipline and a gold and bronze to Damien Hooper and Brett Mather respectively in the men's boxing.;
The final event for the Aussies was the men's hockey final. Going through the tournament undefeated, the Kookaburras in training produced a nail-biting final to beat Pakistan in the dying minutes to win gold.
Sixteen-year-old pole vault star, Liz Parnov, made history as the Australian flag bearer in the Games opening ceremony. There were no flagbearers in the closing ceremony.


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We were really proud to be partake in the Moston Festival of Film which is a completely new, built from scratch, cinema that has slowly transformed over the past six months from a burnt-out and disused section of the the Moston Miners Welfare Club into a multi functional arts space by our friend Sam Meech and a trusty crew of committed volunteers (including a couple of small efforts by Chris) from the very welcoming community surrounding the venue.
The project has an inherant legacy and sustainability and we greatly enjoyed our dates on Monday 29th and special Halloween session on Wednesday 31st which was followed by screenings of 'Monster House' and 'The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue'.
We are looking forward to many future visits to come. Congratulations again to Sam and the team for building this so successfully, a truly remarkable achievement - we salute you!
Check this link to re:dock's photos from the Monday workshop here and the results of the monday session on vimeo:.
Unravel Film at the Miners Cinema from Small Cinema on Vimeo.


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Red Alert
Today the house must not winby David Cunliffe
New Zealand is a small, remote country with an unfortunate reliance on imported capital to maintain our standard of living. A crucial insurance for the economy is New Zealanders' hard-earned reputation for having the lowest level of government corruption in the world.
Or at least that's something we had.
I write this post with the heaviest of hearts because I know how completely National has jeopardised the economy. I know how foreign investors will be frightened by the truth. Their reaction could see more hardworking and innocent Kiwis turfed on the unemployment scrapheap.
Ultimately, though, there is an overwhelming public interest in having on record just how low Prime Minister John Key and his factotum Steven Joyce have sunk in their bid to trade our country's laws for a casino's cash.
Yesterday the Deputy Auditor-General released her report into the tender process for the SkyCity convention centre. At 71 pages it is among of the longest and most damning auditor's reports I have seen. John Armstrong, writing in the New Zealand Herald, assessed the tender as "verging on banana republic kind of stuff without the bananas."Armstrong was too polite.
Labour leader David Shearer summed the report up more completely: "Kiwis know [Key] was donkey deep in this entire process. The deal with SkyCity was his idea. He knew exactly what was going on and was pulling the strings behind the scenes."
I have followed the convention centre tender since it first came to public light in 2010 – months after John Key had a cozy dinner with the casino company's board and (in the PM's own words) "discussed a possible National Convention Centre and they raised issues relating to the Gambling Act 2003".
As time has passed I have become more and more outraged by what was transparently a stacked process seemingly designed to ensure SkyCity was the only tenderer left standing at the end.
All throughout the National Government have obfuscated, played cat-and-mouse games with the Opposition and the media, and denied multiple Official Information Act requests on the most specious of grounds.
Not only did ministers refuse to answer more than 100 of my parliamentary questions on the SkyCity deal – but they even took to using the SkyCity deal as a supposed reason to refuse answering dozens of questions which were quite unrelated to the casino!
The Commerce Select Committee (which I am a member of) even had to take the most extraordinary step of recalling Ministry of Economic Development/MoBIE officials to a second testimony session, following their failure to answer legitimate questions as part of the committee's 2011/12 financial review.
As the years passed and the stench of the rotten tender grew overpowering, the sole explanation Key and Joyce offered for their preference for SkyCity was that taxpayers wouldn't foot the bill for the conference centre. But that was an outright lie – $2.1 million of your dollars were diverted from the Christchurch earthquake recovery effort and other economic development programmes to support the convention centre design!
Finally, when the Deputy Auditor-General prudently announced a probe into the whole sordid affair, Steven Joyce vowed to push on in contempt of her. In my time in Parliament I have never seen anything like it.
But now the auditor has published her report. Her findings are damning and they back up what I have been saying and what my Labour colleagues have been saying since 2010. It is beyond comprehension that Steven Joyce did not resign from the ministry immediately after receiving the report.
The Deputy Auditor-General's findings include (and I quote):
- We do not consider that the evaluation process was transparent or even-handed (p5).
- SkyCity was treated very differently from the other parties that responded [to the tender] and the evaluation process effectively moved into a different phase with one party… the steps that were taken were not consistent with good practice principles of transparency and fairness (p5).
- The Prime Minister/Minister of Tourism… annotated the [tender] briefing [paper by hand, stating that "we should close off the SkyCity angle first" (p15).
- It was well known among officials that SkyCity had met with various senior Minister in the previous months. In our view, there was an obvious risk that SkyCity would have a better understanding of the Government's thoughts than other participants (p45).
- There were a number of flaws with the way the evaluation process unfolded during 2010 (p50).
- Given the nature of the responses, it is likely that the SkyCity proposal was always going to be the most attractive (p51).
So what are the broad consequences for New Zealand?
Has the opaque and unfair SkyCity deal been scrapped? No.
Instead National has thumbed its nose at the auditor's office and is about to restart the negotiations. They have to finalise pesky details such as how anyone will receive the television news once a hulking great pokie palace is plonked where our state broadcaster has some of its studios.
Has the Government promised not to change the law to flood central Auckland with very low-taxed pokies, while taking money out of high-taxed pub pokies which fund kids' learn to swim programmes and quit gambling programmes?
It's a no to that too.
As my Labour colleague Ruth Dyson succinctly put it "The convention centre will not be 'free'. The social cost for New Zealanders and their families battling problem gambling will be significant."
So National seem quite happy to plough along with their trade in our laws, whatever the consequences. Well Labour will fight them every step of the way. I can only hope that the government's support partners in the Māori and United Future parties will do the right thing and join us.
Ultimately, though, this is not only about one shady deal – although one shady deal is clearly one too many.
This speaks to the whole world about what sort of country New Zealand is in our collective soul. It speaks to the truth about whether we have a clean government which stands up and stops corruption wherever its finds it. Or whether we don't.
And it speaks to our longstanding core values of egalitarianism and equality. Labour MPs face the human casualties of the National government's economic mismanagement in our electorate offices every week. We know the despair felt by ordinary, honest kiwis who can plainly see that John Key's 'brighter future' means one law for them and sweet deals for his mates at the big end of town.
The casino deal is a total disgrace. Clearly John Key and Steven Joyce don't care.
So, in light of the Deputy Auditor-General's report, I am publicly calling on SkyCity to formally withdraw their current tender. That should trigger the entire process to restart from the beginning, so it can be run fairly and transparently.
I look forward to SkyCity's quick, positive and public response.


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Seddon and Ward, premier towns - Roadside Stories
A Manatū Taonga audio guide to Seddon and Ward
Check out the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's audio guide to Seddon and Ward in the Video tab.
The Marlborough towns of Seddon and Ward are named after New Zealand premiers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries – and are built on land made available by the Liberal government's policy of subdividing large estates. 'King Dick' Seddon was a popular and charismatic figure, who died in office and was succeeded by businessman Joseph Ward.
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Awatere valley
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Richard John Seddon
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Richard Seddon and his cabinet, 1906
Roadside Stories are a series of audio guides to places of interest on major road trips in New Zealand. Each guide tells the story of an attraction along the way – its people, its history, its cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit http://www.mch.govt.nz/roadside/


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This chapter describes how to add, delete, and edit the users and groups who can access your server.
The Administration Server provides access to your application data about user accounts, group lists, access privileges (ACL), organization units, and other user- and group-specific information.
User and group information is stored either in flat files in text format or in a directory server such as the Sun Java System Directory Server, which supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). LDAP is an open directory access protocol that runs over TCP/IP and is scalable to a global size and millions of entries.
A directory server such as the Sun Java System Directory Server enables you to manage all your user information from a single application. You can also configure the directory server to allow your users to retrieve directory information from multiple, easily accessible network locations.
In Web Server 7.0, you can configure three different types of directory services to authenticate and authorize users and groups. If no other directory service is configured, the new directory service created will be set to the value default, irrespective of its type.
When you createa directory service, the server.xml file is updated with the directory service details.
The different types of directory services supported by Web Server 7.0 are:
LDAP — Stores user and group information in an LDAP-based directory server.
Key File — A text file that contains the user's password in a hashed format, and the list of groups to which the user belongs. The users and groups stored in a key file are used for authorization and authentication by the file realm alone; these bear no relationship to system users and groups.
The key file format can only be used when the intent is to use HTTP Basic authentication.
Digest File — Stores user and group information based on encrypted username and password.
The digest file format is meant to support using HTTP Digest authentication. It does, however, also support Basic authentication, so it can be used for both authentication methods.
If you want to set up distributed administration, the default directory service must be an LDAP-based directory service.
A user is an individual in your LDAP database, such as an employee of your company. A group is two or more users who share a common attribute. An organizational unit is a subdivision within your company.
Each user and group in your enterprise is represented by a Distinguished Name (DN) attribute. A DN attribute is a text string that contains identifying information for an associated user, group, or object. You use DNs whenever you make changes to a user or group directory entry. For example, you need to specify DN information each time you create or modify directory entries, set up access controls, and set up user accounts for applications such as mail or publishing.
The preceding figure shows a sample DN representation. The following example represents a typical DN for an employee of Sun Microsystems:
uid=doe,firstname.lastname@example.com,cn=John Doe,o=Sun Microsystems Inc.,c=US
The abbreviations before each equal sign in this example have the following meanings:
uid: user ID
e: email address
cn: the user's common name
o: organization
c: country
DNs may include a variety of name-value pairs. They are used to identify both certificate subjects and entries in directories that support LDAP.
If you do not currently have a directory, or if you want to add a new subtree to an existing directory, you can use the Directory Server's Administration Server LDIF import function. This function accepts a file containing LDIF and attempts to build a directory or a new subtree from the LDIF entries. You can also export your current directory to LDIF using the Directory Server's LDIF export function. This function creates an LDIF-formatted file that represents your directory. Add or edit entries using the ldapmodify command along with the appropriate LDIF update statements.
To add entries to the database using LDIF, first define the entries in an LDIF file, then import the LDIF file from Directory Server.
The Authentication Database, also referred to as auth-db, represents a database of known users and the mechanism for authenticating client requests against that database. The server can have multiple auth-db entries configured at the same time and these may be of the same type. The auth-db user databases are used by the ACL processing module.
The server supports the following authentication databases:
LDAP — The user data is stored in an LDAP directory server, such as the Sun Java System Directory Server.
File — The user data is stored in a disk file. This auth-db is particularly convenient for development or small deployments where no centralized user management is available (or desired). The file auth-db supports several different file formats:
keyfile — The keyfile format stores a list of users (and optional group memberships for each user). The password is stored as a one-way (unrecoverable) hash. This is the default format.
digestfile — The digestfile is very similar to the keyfile and also supports the HTTP Digest authentication method.
htaccess — The htaccess is a legacy format and should never be used for new installations or adding new users.
PAM — PAM is the new auth-db supported by Web Server . The PAM auth-db delegates the authentication to the Solaris PAM stack, this enables existing Solaris users on the web server system to authenticate to the web server as well.
PAM auth-db is only supported in Solaris 9 and 10 (or higher) and the web server instance must be running as root.
FTo create an authentication database through the Administration Console, click Configurations > Configuration Name > Access Control > Authentication Databases > New button. Check out the Administration Console Inline help for field descriptions. Based on the selected Authentication Database, the fields change. For example, for PAM based Authentication DB, only the authentication DB name is required.
The options required to create an Authentication Database are enumerated here:
Key FIle
Digest File
To create an authentication database through CLI, execute the following command.
wadm> create-authdb --user=admin --password-file=admin.pwd --host=serverhost --port=8989 --config=config1 --url=ldap://ldapserver.com:20002/dc=xxx,dc=sun,dc=com LDAP1
See CLI Reference, create-authdb(1).
In the previous example, a URL has been specified for the authentication database. The type of authentication database is specified in this URL scheme. For example, ldap://ds.example.come/dc=example,dc=com configures an LDAP directory server as an authentication database.
The Administration Server enables editing user accounts, group lists, access privileges, organization units, and other user- and group-specific information for both LDAP and File auth-db types.
Click the Configuration tab to see a list of users and select the configuration you need.
Click the Access Control > Users tab.
Click the New button.
Add User Information.
Enter the user id and password. Optionally enter the group which the user belongs to. The user ID must be unique. In case of LDAP based authentication DB, the Administration Server ensures that the user ID is unique by searching the entire directory from the search base (base DN) down to see if the user ID is in use. Be aware, however, that if you use the Directory Server ldapmodify command line utility (if available) to create a user, that it does not ensure unique user IDs.
Using CLI
To create a user through CLI, execute the following command.
wadm> create-user --user=admin --password-file=admin.pwd --host=serverhost --port=8989 --config=config1 --authdb=KEYFILE1 --full-name=keyfile-config1-u1 keyfile-config1-u1
See CLI Reference, create-user(1).
Select the configuration from the configuration list. Click Configurations tab to get the list.
Click Access Control > Groups tab.
Click the New button.
Enter the Group Name.
From the Add Users To Group section, search and add existing users to the group.
Creating a group in an authentication database like keyfile or digestfile requires atleast one user to be specified.
Using CLI
To create a group through CLI, execute the following command.
wadm> create-group --user=admin --password-file=admin.pwd --host=serverhost --port=8989 --config=config1 --authdb=LDAP1 group1
See CLI Reference, create-group(1).
Select the configuration from the configuration list. Click Configurations tab to get the list.
Click the Access Control > Users tab.
Select the authentication database from which you need to delete the user.
Enter the User ID in the Search Users text box and click the Search button.
Select the user from the UserID column and click the Delete button.
Deleting users from a keyfile or digestfile authentication database will delete any associated groups even if the groups contain no members. Groups without members are not allowed in keyfile or digestfile authentication databases.
Using CLI
To delete a user through CLI, execute the following command.
wadm> delete-user --user=admin --password-file=admin.pwd --host=serverhost --port=8989 --config config1 --authdb KEYFILE1 user1
See CLI Reference, delete-user(1).
Select the configuration from the configuration list. Click Configurations tab to get the list.
Click the Access Control > Groups tab.
Select the authentication database from which you need to delete the group.
Enter the Group Name in the Search Users text box and click the Search button.
Select the group from the Group Name column and click the Delete button.
Deleting a group does not delete the users belonging to the group. You have to delete the users manually or reassign groups.
Using CLI
To delete a group through CLI, execute the following command.
wadm> delete-group --user=admin --password-file=admin.pwd --host=serverhost --port=8989 --config config1 --authdb LDAP1 group1
See CLI Reference, delete-group(1).
A group is a set of objects in an LDAP database. In Web Server 7.0 a group consists of users who share a common attribute. For example, the set of objects might be the number of employees who work in the marketing division of your company. These employees might belong to a group called Marketing.
For LDAP services, there are two ways to define membership of a group: statically and dynamically. Static groups enumerate their member objects explicitly. A static group is a CN and contains uniqueMembers and/or memberURLs and/or memberCertDescriptions. In static groups, the members do not share a common attribute except for the CN=<Groupname> attribute.
Dynamic groups allow you to use a LDAP URL to define a set of rules that match only for group members. In Dynamic Groups, the members do share a common attribute or set of attributes that are defined in the memberURL filter. For example, if you need a group that contains all employees in Sales, and they are already in the LDAP database under
"ou=Sales,o=Airius.com," you'd define a dynamic group with the following memberurl:
This group would subsequently contain all objects that have an uid attribute in the tree below the "ou=Sales,o=sun" point; thus, all the Sales members.
For static and dynamic groups, members can share a common attribute from a certificate if you use the memberCertDescription. Note that these attributes will only work if the ACL uses the SSL method.
Once you create a new group, you can add users, or members, to it.
For LDAP services, the Administration Server enables you to create a static group by specifying the same group attribute in the DNs of any number of users. A static group doesn't change unless you add a user to it or delete a user from it.
Consider the following guidelines when using the Administration Server forms to create new static groups:
Static groups can contain other static or dynamic groups.
You can optionally also add a description for the new group.
If any organizational units have been defined for your directory, you can specify where you want the new group to be placed using the Add New Group To list. The default location is your directory's root point, or topmost entry.
A dynamic group has an objectclass of groupOfURLs, and has zero or more memberURL attributes, each of which is a LDAP URL that describes a set of objects.
For LDAP services, Web Server enables you to create a dynamic group when you want to group users automatically based on any attribute, or when you want to apply ACLs to specific groups which contain matching DNs. For example, you can create a group that automatically includes any DN that contains the attribute department=marketing. If you apply a search filter for department=marketing, the search returns a group including all DNs containing the attribute department=marketing. You can then define a dynamic group from the search results based on this filter. Subsequently, you can define an ACL for the resulting dynamic group.
Web Server implements dynamic groups in the LDAP server schema as objectclass = groupOfURLs. A groupOfURLS class can have multiple memberURL attributes, each one consisting of an LDAP URL that enumerates a set of objects in the directory. The members of the group would be the union of these sets. For example, the following group contains just one member URL:
This example describes a set that consists of all objects below "o=mcom.com" whose department is "marketing." The LDAP URL can contain a search base DN, a scope and filter, however, not a hostname and port. This means that you can only refer to objects on the same LDAP server. All scopes are supported.
The DNs are included automatically, without your having to add each individual to the group. The group changes dynamically, because Web Server performs an LDAP server search each time a group lookup is needed for ACL verification. The user and group names used in the ACL file correspond to the cn attribute of the objects in the LDAP database.
Web Server uses the cn (commonName) attribute as group name for ACLs.
The mapping from an ACL to an LDAP database is defined both in the dbswitch.conf configuration file (which associates the ACL database names with actual LDAP database URLs) and the ACL file (which defines which databases are to be used for which ACL). For example, if you want base access rights on membership in a group named "staff," the ACL code looks up an object that has an object class of groupOf<anything> and a CN set to "staff." The object defines the members of the group, either by explicitly enumerating the member DNs (as is done for groupOfUniqueNames for static groups), or by specifying LDAP URLs (for example, groupOfURLs).
A group object can have both objectclass = groupOfUniqueMembers and objectclass = groupOfURLs; therefore, both "uniqueMember" and "memberURL" attributes are valid. The group's membership is the union of its static and dynamic members.
There is a server performance impact when using dynamic groups. If you are testing group membership, and the DN is not a member of a static group, Web Server checks all dynamic groups in the database's baseDN. Web Server accomplishes this task by checking if each memberURL matches by checking its baseDN and scope against the DN of the user, and then performing a base search using the user DN as baseDN and the filter of the memberURL. This procedure can amount to a large number of individual searches.
Consider the following guidelines when using the Administration Server to create new dynamic groups:
Dynamic groups cannot contain other groups.
Enter the group's LDAP URL using the following format (without host and port info, since these parameters are ignored):
The required parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter Name
The Distinguished Name (DN) of the search base, or point from which all searches are performed in the LDAP directory. This parameter is often set to the suffix or root of the directory, such as "o=mcom.com".
A list of the attributes to be returned by the search. To specify more than one, use commas to delimit the attributes (for example, "cn,mail,telephoneNumber"); if no attributes are specified, all attributes are returned. Note that this parameter is ignored for dynamic group membership checks.
The scope of the search, which can be one of these values:
Search filter to apply to entries within the specified scope of the search. If you are using the Administration Server forms, you must specify this attribute. Note that the parentheses are required.
This parameter is required.
Note that the <attributes>, <scope>, and <(filter)> parameters are identified by their positions in the URL. If you do not want to specify any attributes, you still need to include the question marks delimiting that field.
You can optionally also add a description for the new group.
If any organizational units have been defined for your directory, you can specify where you want the new group to be placed using the Add New Group To list. The default location is your directory's root point, or topmost entry.


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St Marys Senior High School
'Art is a deliberate re-creation of a new and special reality that grows from our response to life.' Using different mediums has allowed me to create a work that embodies these diverse aspects of life. I was also able to discover the relationship between subject and style through the use of the repeated image coupled with varying techniques: from spontaneous use of line, to a more detailed analysis of light and shape. My artwork has allowed me to explore the concepts that define my view of life, my art-making practice and 'the dance we do', the rhythms of life.


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Listen to a memory of Graham's as prisoner of war.More about Graham Howarth
The Museum prepared itself for World War II by ensuring its specimens were protected. This involved a process of removing as many as possible, particularly the type specimens, to a place of safety. As a result, those seeking a sanctuary at the Museum may indeed have found themselves sitting amongst butterfly cabinets in its air-raid shelters.
Many Museum staff were drafted for the War and have since spoken of the unimaginable horrors of warfare. Listen as Graham Howarth talks about his ordeal as prisoner of war in Changi, Singapore, during his military service.
Listen to a memory of Graham's as prisoner of war.
Listen to Graham describing life as a prisoner of war.
Discover how the Museum protected important specimens during the war.


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