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The bank we use for our business account recently mandated the use of a product called Trusteer Rapport while accessing our information online. Although Mac OS X doesn't have any problems with "increasingly sophisticated malware in the online environment", I do need to periodically check our accounts and transactions so I proceeded with the installation.
The first warning sign was after starting the Installer: I was prompted for an administrator password indicating that this software wanted to run from protected areas of my system. Being a developer, I immediately dug into the installer scripts and configuration files to see that the app is placing items in the Rapport/bin, PreferencePanes, LaunchDaemons and LaunchAgents folders of the main system Library folder. The launch folders indicate that the software will be run whenever my Mac is restarted and will be able to do things a normal user would not (because of elevated permissions.)
I placed my security concerns aside as I need to access my bank website, so I went ahead with the installation. Afterwards, I was directed to a web page describing the new software.
Again, as a developer, my first thoughts were suspicious ones. From experience, I know that it's not easy to modify Safari's user interface in the way that Trusteer was doing. My guess that there would be a new, always active, background process was confirmed by the presence of "rooksd" in my process list.
However what happened next really opened my eyes. Safari crashed.
Of course that, in and of itself, isn't the end of the world. But I was surprised to see a new library named RapportUtil1 while looking at the Safari crash report. It was pretty clear that the new Trusteer software caused the crash. But how?
As a longtime Objective-C developer, I know a thing or two about "method swizzling". In a nutshell, this allows a developer to replace the functionality of code they don't have direct access to (typically in the system or other frameworks.)
Seeing "_nsapplication_sendEvent_override" tells me that Trusteer is using this technique to change the behavior of Safari. The function that is being affected is -sendEvent: — the part of every Cocoa application where mouse, keyboard and other input is routed.
Method swizzling is a dangerous activity. You have to make assumptions about how some other code, that you've never seen, is behaving. You also need to think about how that code might change in future versions. There are extreme cases where this technique can be effective: overriding the default behavior of my web browser is not one of them.
It's clear that the folks taking control of my browser aren't as clever as they think. Do you see a common theme when you search Apple's discussion forums for "RapportUtil1"?
Even more troubling is the method being overridden: every key press or mouse movement is first being sent to Rapport and then forwarded onto Safari. Since this happens often, the intruding software can do pretty much whatever it wants, whenever it wants. And remember that part of this package is running with elevated permissions in the background.
After mentioning my findings on Twitter, I got back some very interesting replies. Graham Lee (@iamleeg) pointed out that I'm not the first developer to question the technical merits of this software. But then Peter Hosey (@boredzo) dropped the real bomb. Trusteer tacitly admits to recording my password. That's easy to do when you take control of -sendEvent:.
Essentially, my bank is asking me to install is a keylogger. Just so they can warn me not to use the same password on suntrust.com and playboy.com.
Hopefully, the engineers behind Rapport are smart enough to be using hashed passwords rather than clear text. And hopefully none of the personal information Safari has access to is being forwarded to the Trusteer servers. And hopefully they're not recording how many times I visited playboy.com last month. But that's beside the point, because as a closed source product, no one can audit their activity. That's not true with Safari.
Oh, and there's one other thing: the Rapport software isn't supported on Lion. One of the tenets of method swizzling is to test your software early and often with any new release of the system or framework that it's modifying. As a developer, you need to be proactive about fixing any problems that pop up in the code you are overriding. Not doing so is irresponsible and puts your users at risk. The last update for Rapport was in 2009.
(One could speculate that the new privilege separation architecture for Safari in Lion is causing Trusteer's developers a lot of headaches. The other tenet of method swizzling is to remember that it's not a matter of if your hack will break in the future, but rather when it will break and how painful it will be to fix.)
Needless to say, I have uninstalled this software and will never be installing it again. I would recommend this course of action to any end user.
But that leaves me with a problem: how do I access my bank's website? I have three options:
1) Find another bank. This is a difficult choice, as there are many systems that are hooked up to this account: ACH transactions for sales via iTunes, bi-weekly payroll, automatic payments for services, etc. I'd also like to give SunTrust a chance to reconsider their position in requiring this software (they will be getting a copy of this report.)
2) Use the telephone. I can call the bank when I need the information. Sure they'll get tired of hearing from me, and it will cost them more for customer service, but it's their choice to require Trusteer Rapport.
3) Run the Trusteer Rapport software in locked down environment. Once it's supported on Lion, it should be possible to create a virtual machine that that will only be used to access the bank website. Needless to say this is inconvenient, a waste of resources, and severely limits my ability take advantage of my bank's services.
In closing, I'll leave you with one final irony: I will never be able to access my bank's website from what is arguably the most secure computing device in existence today. That's because the iPad is not a supported platform. Apple only allows third-party applications to run in a secure sandbox where they can't affect other applications or the operating system. What you've seen above is exactly the reason they've done this.


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"When I'm finished and the work is off the loom, it sits there and ruminates. Then it starts having a name in spite of myself."
—Sheila Hicks
"Part of the impetus to name things is that if you don't they get called Untitled, and that just gets to be a drag to have a thing referred to as 'untitled.'"
—John McCracken
I'm one of those writers who likes to come up with the title for the piece first and then write the thing. That's how my last two books worked, but now I'm working on this new book, and nobody can agree on any of the titles I've come up with so far.
In My Life in France, Julia Child writes about what a pain in the ass it was to come up with the title for Mastering The Art of French Cooking. She and her husband Paul debated "the merits of poetic titles versus descriptive titles." They made lists and lists of titles, trying to come up with the right "combination of words and associations" that would work.
Editor Judith Jones (who got the original manuscript with the title "French Recipes for American Cooks") finally came up with the title after "playing with a set of words like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, trying to get them to fit together." (Dramatized in the movie, Julie & Julia.) This seems to me like a totally sensible approach, so I'm stealing it: I'm writing words I like on index cards, and shuffling them around.
Still, even if you come up with a great title, there will be Unbelievers. Alfred Knopf, when he heard Jones' title, supposedly shook his head and said, "I'll eat my hat if anyone buys a book with that title!"
Above: pages from Every Day a Word Surprises Me and quotes from Art is the Highest Form of Hope.

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Free printable: city stationery set
While digging through folders on my computer, I found this city design from awhile back. It's got squirrels, pigeons, cars, clouds, and buildings. (Items not to scale! Those would be some terrifying squirrels.) I adapted it into a printable freebie just for fun: a sheet of notepaper and a matching envelope.
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The post "Azure Functions and Serverless Computing" appeared first on MSDN Azure Development Community.
In my previous blog post, WebJobs in Azure with .NET Core 2.1, I briefly mentioned Azure Functions. Azure Functions are usually small (or somewhat larger) bits of code that run in Azure and are triggered by some event. Azure takes complete care of the entire infrastructure of your Functions making it a so-called serverless solution. The only thing you need to worry about is your code.
The code samples for this post can be found on my GitHub profile. You shouldn't really need it because I'm only using default templates, but I've included them because I needed them in source control for CI/CD anyway.
Serverless computing
Before we get into Azure Functions I'd like to explain a bit about serverless computing. Serverless computing isn't completely serverless, your code still needs somewhere to run after all. However, the servers are completely managed by your cloud provider, which is Azure in our case.
With most App Services, like a Web App or an API App, you need an App Service Plan, which is basically a server that has x CPU cores and y memory. While you can run your Functions on an App Service Plan it's far more interesting to run them in a so-called "Consumption Plan". With a consumption plan, your resources are completely dynamic, meaning you're only actually using a server when your code is running.
It's cheap
Let me repeat that, you're only actually using a server when your code is running. This may seem trivial, but has some huge implications! With an App Service Plan, you always have a server even when no code is running. This means you pay a monthly fee just to keep the server up and running. See where this is heading? That's right, with a consumption plan you pay only when your code is running because that's the only time you're actually using resources!
There's a pretty complicated formula using running time, memory usage and executions, but believe me, Functions are cheap. Your first million executions and 400,000 GB/sec (whatever that means) are free. Microsoft has a pricing example which just verifies that it's cheap.
It's dynamic
Price is cool, but we ain't cheap! Probably the coolest feature about Functions is that Azure scales servers up and down depending on how busy your function is. So let's say you're doing some heavy computing which takes a while to run and is pretty resource intensive, but you need to do that 100 times in parallel… Azure just spins up some extra servers dynamically (and, of course, you pay x times more, but that's still pretty cheap). When your calculations are complete your servers are released and you stop paying. There is a limit to this behavior. Azure will spin up a maximum of 200 server instances per Function App and a new instance will only be allocated at most once every 10 seconds. One instance can still handle multiple executions though, so 200 servers usually does not mean 200 concurrent executions.
That said, you can't really configure a dynamically created server. You'll have to trust Microsoft that they're going to temporarily give you a server that meets your needs. And, as you can guess, those needs better be limited. Basically, your need should be that your language environment, such as the .NET Framework (or .NET Core) for C#, is present. One cool thing though, Next to C#, Functions can be written in F# and JavaScript, and Java is coming in v2. There are some other languages that are currently running in v2, like Python, PHP, and TypeScript, but it looks like Microsoft isn't planning on fully supporting these languages in the near future.
Azure Functions in the Azure Portal
Let's create our first Azure Functions. Go to App Services and create a new one. When you create an App Service you should get an option to create a Function App (next to Web App, API App, etc.). The creation screen looks pretty much the same as for a regular web app, except that Function Apps have a Consumption Plan as a Hosting Plan (which you should take) and you get the option to create a Storage Account, which is needed for Azure to store your Functions.
This will create a new Function App, a new Hosting Plan, and a new Storage Account. Once Azure created your resources look up your Function Apps in your Azure resources. You should see your version of "myfunctionsblog" (which should be a unique name). Now, hover over "Functions" and click the big plus to add a Function.
In the next form, you can pick a scenario. Our options are "Webhook + API", "Timer" or "Data processing". You can also pick a language, "CSharp", "JavaScript", "FSharp" or "Java". Leave the defaults, which are "Webhook + API" and "CSharp" and click the "Create this function" button.
Editing and running your Azure Functions
You now get your function, which is a default template. You can simply run it directly in the Azure portal and you can see a log window, errors and warnings, a console, as well as the request and response bodies. It's like a very lightweight IDE in Azure right there. I'm not going over the actual code because it's pretty basic stuff. You can play around with it if you like.
Next to the "Save" and "Run" buttons you see a "</> Get function URL" link. Click it to get the URL to your current function. There are one or more function keys, which give access to just this function); there are one or more host keys, which give access to all functions in the current host; and there's a master key, which you should never share with third parties. You can manage your keys from the "Manage" item in the menu on the left (with your Functions, Proxies, and Slots).
Consuming Azure Functions
The Function we created is HTTP triggered, meaning we must do an HTTP call ourselves. You can, of course, use a client such as Postman or SoapUI, but let's look at some C# code to consume our Function. Create a (.NET Core) Console App in Visual Studio (or use my example from GitHub) and paste the following code in Program.cs.
If your Function returns an error (for whatever reason) your best logging tool is Application Insights, but that is not in the scope of this blog post.
Of course, if you have a function that's triggered by a timer or a queue or something else you don't need to trigger it manually.
Azure Functions in Visual Studio 2017
Creating a Function in the Azure Portal is cool, but we want an IDE, source control, and CI/CD. So open up VS2017 and look for the "Azure Functions" template (under Visual C# -> Cloud). You can choose between "Azure Functions v1 (.NET Framework)" and "Azure Functions v2 Preview (.NET Standard)". We like .NET Standard (which is the common denominator between the .NET Framework, .NET Core, UWP, Mono, and Xamarin) so we pick the v2 Preview.
Again, go with the HTTP trigger and find your Storage Account. Leave the access rights on "Function". The generated function template is a little bit different than the one generated in the Azure portal, but the result is the same. One thing to note here is that Functions actually use the Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs namespace for triggers, which once again shows the two can (sometimes) be interchanged.
When you run the template you get a console which shows the Azure Functions logo in some nice ASCII art as well as some startup logging. Windows Defender might ask you to allow access for Functions to run, which you should grant.
Now if you run the Console App we created in the previous section and change the functions URL to "http://localhost:7071/api/Function1" (port may vary) you should get the same result as before.
Deployment using Visual Studio
If you've read my previous blog posts you should be pretty familiar with this step. Right-click on your Functions project and select "Publish…" from the menu. Select "Select Existing" and enable "Run from ZIP (recommended)". Deploying from ZIP will put your Function in a read-only state, but it most closely matches your release using CI/CD. Besides, all changes should be made in VS2017 so they're in source control. In the next form find your Azure App and deploy to Azure.
If you've selected Azure Functions v2 earlier you'll probably get a dialog telling you to update your Functions SDK on Azure. A little warning here, this could mess up already existing functions (in fact, it simply deleted my previous function). As far as I understand this only affects your current Function App, but still use at your own risk.
Once again, find your Functions URL, paste it in the Console App, and check if you get the desired output.
Deployment using VSTS
Now for the good parts, Continuous Integration and Deployment. Open up Visual Studio Team Services and create a new build pipeline. You can pick the default .NET Core template for your pipeline, but you should change the "Publish" task so it publishes "**/FunctionApp.csproj" and not "Publish Web Projects". You can optionally enable continuous integration in the "Triggers" tab. Once you're done you can save and queue a build.
The next step is to create a new release pipeline. Select the Azure "App Service deployment" template. Change the name of your pipeline to something obvious, like "Function App CD". You must now first add your artifact and you may want to enable the continuous deployment trigger. You can also rename your environment to "Dev" or something.
Next, you need to fill out some parameters in your environment tasks. The first thing you need to set is your Azure subscription and authorize it. For "App type" pick the "Function App". If you've successfully authorized your subscription you can select your App Service name from the drop-down. Also, and this one is a little tricky, in your "Azure App Service Deploy" task, disable "Take App Offline" which is hidden under the "Additional Deployment Options". Once you're done, and the build is finished, create a new release.
When all goes well, test your changes with the Console App.
If everything works as expected try changing the output of your Function App, push it to source control, and see your build and release pipelines do their jobs. Once again, test the change with your Console App.
Working around some bugs
So… A header that mentions bugs and workarounds is never a good thing. For some reason, my release kept failing due to an "invalid access to memory location". Probably because I had already deployed the app using VS2017. I also couldn't delete my function because the trash can icon was disabled. Google revealed I wasn't the only one with that problem. So anyway, I am currently using a preview of Azure Functions v2 and I'm sure Microsoft will figure this stuff out before it goes out of preview.
Here's the deal, you probably have to delete your Function App completely (you can still delete it through your App Services). Recreate it, go to your Function App (not the function itself, but the app hosting it, also see the next section on "Additional settings"), and find the "Function app settings". Over here you can find a switch "~1" and "beta" (which are v1 and v2 respectively). Set it on "beta" here. Now deploy using VSTS. Publishing from VSTS will cause your release to fail again.
Bottom line: don't use VS2017 to deploy your Function App!
Additional settings
There's just one more thing I'd like to point out to you. While Azure Functions look different from regular Web Apps and Web APIs they're still App Services with a Hosting Plan. If you click on your Function App you land on an "Overview" page. From here you can go to your Function app settings (which includes the keys) and your Application settings (which look a lot like Web App settings). You'll find your Application settings, like "APPINSIGHTS_INSTRUMENTATIONKEY", "AzureWebJobsDashboard", "AzureWebJobsStorage" and "FUNCTIONS_EXTENSIONS_VERSION".
Another tab is the "Platform features" tab, which has properties, settings and code deployment options (see my post Azure Deployment using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and .NET Core for more information on deployment options).
Wrap up
Azure Functions are pretty cool and I can't wait for v2 to get out of preview and fully support .NET Standard as well as fix the bugs I mentioned. Now, while Functions may solve some issues, like dynamic scaling, it may introduce some problems as well.
It is possible to create a complete web app using only Azure Functions. Whether you'd want that is another question. Maybe you've heard of micro-services. Well, with Functions, think nano-services. A nano-service is often seen as an anti-pattern where the overhead of maintaining a piece of code outweighs the code's utility. Still, when used wisely, and what's wise is up to you, Functions can be a powerful, serverless, asset to your toolbox. If you want to know more about the concepts of serverless computing I recommend a blog post by my good friend Sander Knape, who wrote about the AWS equivalent, AWS Lambda, The hidden challenges of Serverless: from VM to function.
Don't forget to delete your resources if you're not using them anymore or your credit card will be charged.
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Maternal deaths drop in Offinso Municipality
Maternal deaths in the Offinso Municipality saw a significant drop last year, Ms Beatrice Appah, the Municipal Health Director, has announced.
From the year 2011's high of 14 cases, it came down to six as of the end of year 2012.
She gave some of the causes of those deaths as ruptured uterus, anemia, eclampsia complications, and excessive bleeding.
She said their goal was to achieve zero deaths of mothers during childbirth and that they would work hard to realize.
Acting jointly with the Better Ghana Management Services and the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), both NGOs, they have been carrying out intensive health education to aid pregnant mothers to regularly attend antenatal clinic and early referral of complicated deliveries to the hospitals.
Ms Appah was speaking at the 12th annual performance review conference held by the Municipal Health Directorate at Offinso.
She told the meeting that family planning acceptance went up from 3,954 to 4,910, representing an 18 per cent increase.
Malaria continued to top the commonly seen diseases at the Out-Patients Department of the facilities – a total of 44,864 cases were recorded.
She said to help bring this down they had distributed 52,000 treated nets to 26,995 households.
Ms Appah expressed worry about the increasing cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the area, which rose from 75 to 99 cases during the period.
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Mr Adam Mohammed Baba, the Municipal Coordinating Director, praised the health professionals for hard work and dedication and assured them that the assembly would give them the needed support.
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Part I - Chapter IV
The Sea-Chest
I LOST NO TIME, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position. Some of the man's money—if he had any—was certainly due to us, but it was not likely that our captain's shipmates, above all the two specimens seen by me—Black Dog and the blind beggar—would be inclined to give up their booty in payment of the dead man's debts. The captain's order to mount at once and ride for Doctor Livesey would have left my mother alone and unprotected, which was not to be thought of. Indeed, it seemed impossible for either of us to remain much longer in the house; the fall of coals in the kitchen grate, the very ticking of the clock, filled us with alarm.
The neighborhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor floor and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror. Something must speedily be resolved upon, and it occurred to us at last to go forth together and seek help in the neighboring hamlet. No sooner said than done. Bare-headed as we were, we ran out at once in the gathering evening and the frosty fog.
The hamlet lay not many hundred yards away, though out of view, on the other side of the next cove; and what greatly encouraged me, it was in an opposite direction from that whence the blind man had made his appearance, and whither he had presumably returned. We were not many minutes on the road, though we sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and hearken. But there was no unusual sound—nothing but the low wash of the ripple and the croaking of the crows in the wood.
It was already candle-light when we reached the hamlet, and I shall never forget how much I was cheered to see the yellow shine in doors and windows; but that, as it proved, was the best of the help we were likely to get in that quarter. For—you would have thought men would have been ashamed of themselves—no soul would consent to return with us to the "Admiral Benbow." The more we told of our troubles, the more—man, woman, and child—they clung to the shelter of their houses. The name of Captain Flint, though it was strange to me, was well enough known to some there, and carried a great weight of terror. Some of the men who had been to field-work on the far side of the "Admiral Benbow" remembered, besides, to have seen several strangers on the road, and, taking them to be smugglers, to have bolted away; and one at least had seen a little lugger in what we called Kitt's Hole. For that matter, anyone who was a comrade of the captain's was enough to frighten them to death. And the short and the long of the matter was, that while we could get several who were willing enough to ride to Doctor Livesey's, which lay in another direction not one would help us to defend the inn.
They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; and so when each had his say, my mother made them a speech. She would not, she declared, lose money that belonged to her fatherless boy. "If none of the rest of you dare," she said, "Jim and I dare. Back we will go, the way we came, and small thanks to you big, hulking, chicken-hearted men. We'll have that chest open, if we die for it. And I'll thank you for that bag, Mrs. Crossley, to bring back our lawful money in."
Of course I said I would go with my mother and of course they all cried out at our foolhardiness; but even then not a man would go along with us. All they would do was to give me a loaded pistol lest we were attacked; and to promise to have horses ready saddled, in case we were pursued on our return; while one lad was to ride forward to the doctor's in search of armed assistance.
My heart was beating fiercely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture. A full moon was beginning to rise and peered redly through the upper edges of the fog, and this increased our haste, for it was plain, before we came forth again, that all would be bright as day, and our departure exposed to the eyes of any watchers. We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift, nor did we see or hear anything to increase our terrors till, to our hugr relief, the door of the "Admiral Benbow" had closed behind us.
I slipped the bolt at once, and we stood and panted for a moment in the dark, alone in the house with the dead captain's body. Then my mother got a candle in the bar, and, holding each other's hands, we advanced into the parlor. He lay as we had left him, on his back, with his eyes open, and one arm stretched out.
"Draw down the blind, Jim," whispered my mother; "they might come and watch outside. And now," said she, when I had done so, "we have to get the key off that; and who's to touch it, I should like to know?" and she gave a kind of sob as she said the words.
I went down on my knees at once. On the floor close to his hand there was a little round of paper, blackened on one side. I could not doubt that this was the black spot; and, taking it up, I found written on the other side, in a very good, clear hand, this short message: "You have till ten tonight."
"He had till ten, Mother," said I; and, just as I said it, our old clock began striking. This sudden noise startled us shockingly; but the news was good, for it was only six.
"Now, Jim," said she, "that key!"
I felt in his pockets, one after another. A few small coins, a thimble, and some thread and big needles, a piece of pigtail tobacco bitten away at the end, his gully with the crooked handle, a pocket compass, and a tinder box were all that they contained, and I began to despair.
"Perhaps it's round his neck," suggested my mother.
Overcoming a strong repugnance, I tore open his shirt at the neck, and there, sure enough, hanging to a bit of tarry string, which I cut with his own gully, we found the key. At this triumph we were filled with hope, and hurried upstairs, without delay, to the little room where he had slept so long, and where his box had stood since the day of his arrival.
It was like any other seaman's chest on the outside, the initial "B" burned on the top of it with a hot iron, and the corners somewhat smashed and broken as by long, rough usage.
"Give me the key," said my mother, and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.
A strong smell of tobacco and tar rose from the interior, but nothing was to be seen on the top except a suit of very good clothes, carefully brushed and folded. They had never been worn, my mother said. Under that, the miscellany began—a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells. It has often set me thinking since that he should have carried about these shells with him in his wandering, guilty, haunted life.
In the meantime, we had found nothing of any value but the silver and the trinkets, and neither of these were in our way. Underneath there was an old boat-cloak, whitened with the sea-salt on many a harbor-bar. My mother pulled it up with impatience, and there lay before us, the last things in the chest, a bundle tied up in oil-cloth, and looking like papers, and a canvas bag that gave forth, at a touch, the jingle of gold.
"I'll show these rogues that I'm an honest woman," said my mother. "I'll have my dues, and not a farthing over. Hold Mrs. Crossley's bag." And she began to count over the amount of the captain's score from the sailor's bag into the one that I was holding.
It was a long, difficult business, for the coins were of all countries and sizes—doubloons, and louis-d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight, and I know not what besides, all shaken together at random. The guineas, too, were about the scarcest, and it was with these only that my mother knew how to make her count.
When we were about half-way through, I suddenly put my hand upon her arm, for I had heard in the silent, frosty air, a sound that brought my heart into my mouth—the tap-tapping of the blind man's stick upon the frozen road. It drew nearer and nearer, while we sat holding our breath. Then it struck sharp on the inn door, and then we could hear the handle being turned, and the bolt rattling as the wretched being tried to enter; and then there was a long time of silence both within and without. At last the tapping recommenced, and to our indescribable joy and gratitude, died slowly away again until it ceased to be heard.
"Mother," said I, "take the whole and let's be going," for I was sure the bolted door must have seemed suspicious, and would bring the whole hornet's nest about our ears, though how thankful I was that I had bolted it, none could tell who had never met that terrible blind man.
But my mother, frightened as she was, would not consent to take a fraction more than was due to her, and was obstinately unwilling to be content with less. It was not yet seven, she said, by a long way; she knew her rights and she would have them; and she was still arguing with me, when a little low whistle sounded a good way off—upon the hill. That was enough, and more than enough, for both of us.
"I'll take what I have," she said, jumping to her feet.
"And I'll take this to square the count," said I, picking up the oilskin packet.
Next moment we were both groping down-stairs, leaving the candle by the empty chest; and the next we had opened the door and were in full retreat. We had not started a moment too soon. The fog was rapidly dispersing; already the moon shone quite clear on the high ground on either side, and it was only in the exact bottom of the dell and round the tavern door that a thin veil still hung unbroken to conceal the first steps of our escape. Far less than half-way to the hamlet, very little beyond the bottom of the hill, we must come forth into the moonlight. Nor was this all; for the sound of several footsteps running came already to our ears, and as we looked back in their direction, a light, tossing to and fro and still rapidly advancing, showed that one of the new-comers carried a lantern.
"My dear," said my mother suddenly, "take the money and run on. I am going to faint."
This was certainly the end for both of us, I thought. How I cursed the cowardice of the neighbors! how I blamed my poor mother for her honesty and her greed; for her past foolhardiness and present weakness! We were just at the little bridge, by good fortune, and I helped her, tottering as she was, to the edge of the bank, where, sure enough, she gave a sigh and fell on my shoulder. I do not know how I found the strength to do it all, and I am afraid it was roughly done, but I managed to drag her down the bank and a little way under the arch. Farther I could not move her, for the bridge was too low to let me do more than crawl below it. So there we had to stay—my mother almost entirely exposed and both of us within ear-shot of the inn.


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President Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden will each hold a virtual huddle with grassroots supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire on the states' respective caucus and primary nights next month, campaign officials say.
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Teaching students to locate, read, and analyze primary sources is a critical challenge in any history class. The challenge is compounded in courses with transnational dimensions, because most sources are in languages other than English, university library collections are more limited, and fewer foreign sources are available in electronic collections. An approach to teaching political history that uses digital resources can address these limitations by guiding students to research materials offering new perspectives on United States relations with the world.
This article draws upon the experience of teaching a research seminar for history majors on United States policy in the Middle East. The main assignment was the completion of a term research paper. Students chose topics that ranged (chronologically) from U.S. policies toward Iran and Lebanon in the 1950s through the "global war of terrorism" following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
As historians know all too well, the digital revolution has profoundly transformed student approaches to research assignments, because of the seeming totality of information available through Google or the easy summaries available on Wikipedia. Requiring students to use primary sources is one strategy to push students past these easily accessible, yet often superficial, ephemeral, or simply incorrect, materials in order to read texts created at the time by individuals or institutions involved in significant processes. As I observed students struggling with their research, I found, somewhat to my surprise, that the digital revolution can be embraced (if cautiously) rather than resisted or repudiated, as long as students are trained to engage more intensively with a more extensive range of source materials.
An important source for studying U.S. policy towards the Middle East is the words of presidents, from Harry Truman to Barack Obama. Excerpts from key presidential statements, such as Dwight Eisenhower's comments on the Suez crisis, Jimmy Carter's remarks on the Camp David negotiations, or George W. Bush's statements on September 11, are available in some document collections. Although these remarks are vital for understanding U.S. policy, they are not sufficient for a research paper. An online database, the American Presidency Project hosted by the University of California at Santa Barbara (www.presidency.ucsb.edu), offers instant access to the complete presidential papers. The search function allows students to define the chronological parameters and locate key terms. Most importantly, the comprehensive nature of the online resource allows students to examine an expanded range of texts in which presidents discussed the Middle East. To take an obvious example (and a topic that several students researched), a search for the word "Iran" during the two weeks before and after the seizure of the embassy on November 4, 1979, yields just 25 "hits." Perhaps surprisingly, in our age of the immediate news cycle, the first reference to Americans being held captive came only five days later, on November 9, 1979, in a carefully worded White House statement, declaring that "the most important concern for all Americans at this moment is safety [sic] of our fellow citizens held in Tehran…The President knows that no matter how deeply we may feel, none of us would want to do anything that would worsen the danger in which our fellow Americans have been placed." For students who grew up in the post-9/11 era, Carter's cautious response may seem misguided and even pitiful, whereas a careful reading of presidential statements reveals the limited options and incomplete information available to policy-makers. The easy availability of presidential papers thus has the potential to encourage students to read more broadly and more deeply for their research.
A second major source for researching U.S. policy in the Middle East, the multi-volumeForeign Relations of the United States, is available electronically from the United States Department of State (https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments) and the University of Wisconsin library (https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/). The annual editions include sections on most Middle Eastern countries, as well as entire volumes devoted to significant topics. For students researching the Eisenhower administration's response to the Suez crisis, for example, the complete volume is available online, all 1,000 plus pages of diplomatic notes, reports, speeches, and more. Although print versions of these documents should be available in university libraries, using the online version means that a researcher, from any location with an internet connection, can read, and easily download, the entire text in a pdf file. This access is especially helpful when advising students, because the instructor can easily reference the materials and guide the student through key themes and challenging interpretations.
More intriguing, however, is the question of how the full text search capacity can actually enhance research strategies. Searching the electronic version of the volume on Iran (covering the period 1952–1954), for obvious key words (Shah, Mossadeq, oil, or majlis) generates thousands of records, thus illustrating the significance of these terms for United States policymakers. At the same time, a search for the word "democratic" in this volume yields just six records. For students accustomed to the American claims to wage war in the Middle East in the name of democracy, the relative infrequency of this term can be cause for curiosity and informed conjecture. In contrast, the words "communism" and "communist" generate nearly 200 hits, thus suggesting that fear of Soviet influence was probably a larger factor in motivating American intervention. Perhaps most surprisingly, "Islam" and "Moslem" produced fewer than 10 records. The conclusions drawn from key word searches—that the United States government prioritized the struggle against communism, while neither democracy nor Islam received significant attention—are consistent with historians' interpretations, but can now be rendered visible to students by the familiar methods of digital searching. The challenge for the instructor, as discussed below, is getting students to see the "hits" as a starting point, a guide to further reading and intensive study, rather than an end point.
Newspapers represent a third major primary source for studying U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. The digital revolution has vastly expanded access to American newspapers, including those with extensive international coverage. The "advanced search" function of the online New York Times (www.nytimes.com) allows students to select a "custom date range." For students researching U.S. policies toward Iran from the Clinton administration until September 11, a search for the key words "Iran reformers" generates nearly two hundred results. One article easily located through this search is a November 7, 1999 editorial, "Conflicting Voices from Iran," which situates statements by the reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, in relation to persistent disputes about sanctions, terrorism, and nuclear weapons. Although the same article could be found using a print index and microfilmed articles, the online format makes it much easier for students to find relevant, as well as substantive, primary sources.
Yet the easy and extensive access to these kinds of sources only compounds the challenge of locating sources from outside the United States. My assignment specifically requires that students use primary sources representing "non-American" points of view. Although students now have access to online newspapers and other media from the Middle East, including many English-language materials, the "archives" for these materials usually only extend back a few years. Students may have luck with Google searches, locating, for example, translated speeches by Ayatollah Khomeini on the web site of the Iranian radio service (www2.irib.ir/worldservice/imam). Although these online materials are actually more extensive than the books available in our library, the lack of contextual information makes this source questionable for a research project.
More reliable sources for exploring Middle Eastern perspectives are the series of Daily Reports issued by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service of the Central Intelligence Agency. Many university libraries have the weekly editions on microfiche from the 1970s through the 1990s, which provide English translations of articles and broadcasts from world regions. On November 1, 1978, for example, theNear East Daily Report provided more than 100 translated articles, editorials, and cartoons illustrating responses to the Camp David negotiations from Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, and 10 other Arab countries. These sources are very important for courses on diplomatic history, because they document perspectives of other countries—or at least other governments—to regional and international disputes. Unfortunately, because there is no cumulative index, the table of contents for each edition must be searched separately, which becomes a tedious and inconsistent process, given the microfiche format. The recent development of a full-text database should provide greater accessibility, but high subscription costs may limit access to the electronic version.
The capacity to do full-text searching of primary sources creates great possibilities, as well as complications, for research projects. Students can easily pin-point the location of key words; a broader challenge is teaching critical reading skills, so that the complexity of the contextual meaning of key words can be understood. Because I am curious about the implications of the digital age for learning strategies and outcomes, I asked my class to complete a brief anonymous survey at the end of semester. When asked whether they used sources in electronic or print form, the answer was resoundingly clear: most students preferred the electronic form.
But the more interesting responses came to an open-ended question which attempted to gauge not just access, but actual use: "Did having access to an electronic version of the source, with the capacity for full-text searching, lead you to either (A) readmore or less of the source (by using searches to find only the pages or sections that you needed), or (B) read the source at greater or lesser depth (skimming vs. reading thoroughly)?" Student responses are suggestive of the possible advantages of embracing (critically) the digital age. One student described how the electronic sources encouraged a sequential approach: "Full-text searching allowed me to sift through greater amounts of information. It allowed me to read less (skimming) of the source initially to determine its relevance, then read in greater depth after determining its relevance." In a similar manner, another student wrote: "Full-text searching helped me find sources that were much more relevant to my subject than others. I read documents with more hits more thoroughly, and skimmed the ones that appeared to be less relevant due to less hits on key words." Several students observed that full-text searching allowed them to "find only the pages or sections that I need," "read more or less using only what I needed," or this terse, yet somehow encouraging, response: "read more, greater depth."
What does this sample of responses reveal about teaching political history in a digital age? Expanded access to electronic materials may actually encourage students to do more research, if in fact they "read more" and at "greater depth" by focusing on the most "important" and "relevant" sources. The task of the instructor is thus to ensure that easy access is accompanied by depth of analysis. The real challenge of the digital age, ironically, may be to keep reminding students to slow down in their research, and to think more thoroughly about connections and context in order to understand the complex meanings of key words.
E. Thomas Ewing is associate professor of history at Virginia Tech. An earlier version of this article was presented at the symposium, Close Reading and Pedagogy in a Digital Age, at the University of Virginia, in April 2010. He teaches courses in world, Russian, Middle Eastern and gender history, and his research examines changes in communication technology and information networks, 1870s–1910s.
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Kilmer rapidly makes you forget Roger Moore's Simon Templar, a.k.a. the Saint, who wafted his cologne on the late-'60s The Saint TV show and creased his dimples on cue. Before Moore there was, most notably, George Sanders playing the Saint in a string of entertaining RKO programmers in the late '30s and '40s. Sanders gave Templar a brittle suavity that had its own trace of lewdness. Reputedly he came closest to the character first created by British author Leslie Charteris, who introduced Templar in 1928 and went on to write more than 50 volumes of Saint novels and stories. Kilmer has something like Sanders's gift for sly snideness, but he's a lot funkier.
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Emma most of all. Their kissy confabs coax Templar's crisis of conscience -- how can he steal her cold-fusion formulas if he's in love with her? It's difficult to gauge how seriously we're meant to take this stuff. After all, Pussy Galore and Honey Ryder and all the rest didn't get all dewy-eyed about 007; they didn't proffer poetry by Byron.
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Greater Barghest | |
Size/Type: | Large Outsider (Evil, Extraplanar, Lawful, Shapechanger) |
Hit Dice: | 9d8+27 (67 hp) |
Initiative: | +6 |
Speed: | 40 ft. (8 squares) |
Armor Class: | 20 (–1 size, +2 Dex, +9 natural), touch 11, flat-footed 18 |
Base Attack/Grapple: | +9/+18 |
Attack: | Bite +13 melee (1d8+5 |
Full Attack: | Bite +13 melee (1d8+5) and 2 claws +8 melee (1d6+2) |
Space/Reach: | 10 ft./5 ft. |
Special Attacks: | Spell-like abilities, feed |
Special Qualities: | Change shape, damage reduction 10/magic, darkvision 60 ft., scent |
Saves: | Fort +9, Ref +8, Will +10 |
Abilities: | Str 20, Dex 15, Con 16, Int 18, Wis 18, Cha 18 |
Skills: | Bluff +16, Climb +17, Concentration +15, Diplomacy +8, Disguise +4 (+6 acting), Hide +10*, Intimidate +18, Jump +21, Listen +16, Move Silently +14, Sense Motive +16, Spot +16 Survival +16 (+18 following tracks), Tumble +16 |
Feats: | Combat Casting, Combat Reflexes, Improved Initiative, Track |
Environment: | An evil-aligned plane |
Organization: | Solitary or pack (3–6) |
Challenge Rating: | 5 |
Treasure: | Double standard |
Alignment: | Always lawful evil |
Advancement: | Special (see below) |
Level Adjustment: | — |
A barghest that reaches 9 Hit Dice through feeding becomes a greater barghest.
A greater barghest is a lupine fiend that can take the shape of a wolf or a goblin. In its natural form, it resembles a goblin–wolf hybrid with terrible jaws and sharp claws. As whelps, barghests are nearly indistinguishable from wolves, except for their size and claws. As they grow larger and stronger, their skin darkens to bluishred and eventually becomes blue altogether.
A full-grown barghest is about 6 feet long and weighs 180 pounds. A barghest's eyes glow orange when the creature becomes excited.
Barghests speak Goblin, Worg, and Infernal.
Barghests can claw and bite, no matter what their form, and usually disdain weapons. Though they love killing, they have little stomach for direct combat and attack from ambush whenever possible. Barghests start a combat by using crushing despair and charm monster to keep opponents off balance. They try to stay away from the enemy's main strength.
A barghest's natural weapons, as well as any weapons it wields, are treated as evil-aligned and lawful-aligned for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. Its natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
Spell-Like Abilities: At will—blink, levitate, misdirection (DC 14), rage (DC 15); 1/day—charm monster (DC 16), crushing despair (DC 16), dimension door. Caster level equals the barghest's HD.
The save DCs are Charisma-based.
Feed (Su): When a barghest slays a humanoid opponent, it can feed on the corpse, devouring both flesh and life force, as a full-round action. Feeding destroys the victim's body and prevents any form of raising or resurrection that requires part of the corpse. There is a 50% chance that a wish, miracle, or true resurrection spell can restore a devoured victim to life. Check once for each destroyed creature. If the check fails, the creature cannot be brought back to life by mortal magic.
A barghest advances in Hit Dice by consuming corpses in this fashion. For every three suitable corpses a barghest devours, it gains 1 Hit Die, and its Strength, Constitution, and natural armor increase by +1. Its attack bonus and saves improve as normal for an outsider of its Hit Dice, and it gains skill points, feats, and ability score improvements normally.
The barghest only advances by consuming the corpses of creatures whose Hit Dice or levels are equal to or greater than its own current total. A barghest that reaches 9 Hit Dice through feeding immediately becomes a greater barghest upon completion of the act. A greater barghest can reach a maximum of 18 Hit Dice through feeding.
Change Shape (Su): A greater barghest can change shape into a goblinlike creature of Large size (about 8 feet tall and 400 pounds) or a dire wolf. In goblin form, a greater barghest cannot use its natural weapons but can wield weapons and wear armor. In dire wolf form, a greater barghest loses its claw attacks but retains its bite attack.
Pass Without Trace (Ex): A barghest in wolf form can use pass without trace (as the spell) as a free action.
Skills: *A barghest in wolf form gains a +4 circumstance bonus on Hide checks.
Spell-Like Abilities: In addition to the spelllike abilities all barghests possess, a greater barghest gains the following abilities. At will—invisibility sphere; 1/day—mass bull's strength, mass enlarge person. Caster level equals the greater barghest's HD.
Occasionally, a greater barghest uses a magic two-handed weapon in combat instead of its claws, giving it multiple attacks (attack bonus +13/+8). It can also make one bite attack (attack bonus +8) each round. The save DC against a greater barghest's spell-like abilities is 14 + spell level.
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