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Being more of a nuisance than anything, adware doesn't see as many innovations as other forms of malware. Once in a while, an adware developer surprises the security researchers.
That happened recently when two researchers working for enSilo discovered an innovation in an adware strain, known as DealPly.
As Adi Zeligson and Rotem Kerner indicated in a recent blog post, DealPly has some interesting features bolted on, which make it much more adept than most other forms of adware at avoiding detection by antivirus programs.
The adware is typically installed on a target's machine by being bundled with a legitimate app. Once it's installed, it will add itself to the Windows Task Scheduler and run every hour. Each time it runs, it will contact its command and control server and request instructions.
Here's where things get interesting. DealPly was designed modularly and makes use of Virtual Machine Detection and Machine Fingerprinting techniques.
Microsoft SmartScreen is one of two major systems used to verify the risk of files and web addresses. It's updated regularly with newly blacklisted sites. Naturally, malware authors find this to be a problem because it only gives them a limited window of time before their code and malicious URLs wind up on the list.
DealPlay, however, contains code that seems to be based on a reverse-engineering of Microsoft SmartScreen. When it contacts its command and control server, it requests a list of hashes and URLs to query using the SmartScreen reputation server. Once it has its list of queries to make, it will send a JSON request to the SmartScreen API to see if the server will respond with any of the following:
- UNKN Unknown URL/File
- MLWR Malware related URL/File
- PHSH Phishing related URL/File
Essentially, this query allows DealPly to know whether it has been blacklisted. If so, the software enters an idled state until it can be updated. This allows DealPly's developers a something close to real-time mechanism to know when they need to update their code, allowing them to stay ahead of the curve. Very clever. Very clever indeed, and troubling to IT staff everywhere. We can expect this technique to be copied by other malware developers, worldwide.


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Prepared by Kate Davis, AAVSO Technical Assistant, Web - March 2000
He who would scan the figured skies
Their brightest gems to tell
Must first direct his mind's eye north
And learn the Bear's stars well.
Located in the constellation Ursa Major and within the bowl of the big dipper, lies the semiregular variable Z Ursae Majoris. Z UMa captivates the attention of many because it is easy to find in a constellation that is friendly to northern sky observers. Its semiregular periodicity is exciting to follow and results from several different pulsation periods within the star! This variable is perfect for beginning observers to locate and monitor, and it is bright enough to be followed in small telescopes or binoculars.
Dr. E.S. King, of the Harvard College Observatory, discovered the variable Z Ursae Majoris in 1904 due in large part to its peculiar spectrum. Z UMa's spectrum reveals delta and gamma hydrogen lines in emission and the presence of peculiar molecular absorption bands such as TiO (titanium oxide). Once inspired, Dr. King had the star looked up on photographs in the Harvard collection, and on 22 Draper Memorial plates taken between the years 1897 and 1904. This led him to discover that Z UMa was a variable star with a magnitude range of at least 1.5 magnitudes.
The AAVSO historical light curve of Z UMa shows that the mean magnitude range truly varies over time. Currently the mean range appears to vary from 7.2 to 8.9 magnitudes. However, in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) Z UMa is recorded to vary in brightness from its faintest minimum magnitude of 9.4 to its brightest maximum magnitude of 6.2. The GCVS classifies Z UMa as a semiregular variable (SR) of subtype B. SRB stars are late type giant stars with an M, C, or S spectrum and poorly defined periodicity or alternating intervals of slow irregular changes. In the case of Z UMa, the spectrum is M5IIIE (a cool red giant spectrum with molecular bands and emission lines), and the mean period is 195.5 days. This is the mean period of the star, but the light curve indicates that there is more than just one pulsation period for Z UMa.
And The Beat Goes On ...
Observational evidence suggests that Z UMa has more than just one pulsation cycle, in fact it is thought that the star pulsates in high modes and that beat and resonance phenomena occur within the star. Michael K. Suchko (1980), a former AAVSO summer assistant who analysed AAVSO observations, suggests that Z UMa has two periods; one primary period of 195.5 days (the current mean period listed in the GCVS) and a second poorly defined period of about 205 days. He suggests that these two periods are beating with each other to produce another beat with a period of 4200 days. Isles (1998) also indicates that the irregularities seen in the light curve of Z UMa are the result of the superposition of several different pulsation cycles within the star.
These multi-periodicities can be seen in the AAVSO historical light curve which displays data from 1934 to 2000.
Both images indicate the variable Z UMa by a red arrow and a 5.9 magnitude star by a yellow arrow. The bright star in the upper left corner of the images is delta UMa and helps locate the variable Z UMa. The image on the left shows Z UMa at minimum on April 5, 1995 JD 2449812.65, and is indicated by the first red line on the light curve below. The image on the right shows Z UMa at maximum on April 28, 1995 JD 2449835.73 and is indicated by the second red line on the curve below. | |
The light curve of Z UMa from March 1994 to December 1998. Each point is a one-day mean of amateurs' visual observations from the AAVSO International Database. Tick marks occur approximately every 195.5 days to show the mean period. The first red line marks the point in time that the above left image was taken, the second red line indicates the time of the above right image. |
The Research teams of L.L. Kiss (1999) and Percy and Polano (1998) suggest that multiple periodicities of Z UMa result from simultaneous pulsations of excited modes within the star. They indicate that Z UMa may be pulsating in the fundamental mode, the first, and even higher overtones of pulsation at the same time. Another researcher, Barnbaum (1995), proposes that mechanisms other than pulsation may drive the irregular light curve: mechanisms such as the presence of a stellar companion, distorted stellar shapes, rotation, or star spots.
Can You Find Z UMa?
Many veteran variable star observers began their careers by observing Z UMa, so we invite you to give it a try also. Z UMa glows pale orange in the northern circumpolar constellation, The Big Dipper or The Plow, and is especially easy to find this month. Unlike many other semiregular variables whose magnitude range is usually very small thus not very suitable for visual observing, this red giant varies its light output by close to two magnitudes.
To find Z UMa, look in the northern sky and locate the northern circumpolar constellation Ursa Major, or "The Great Bear". The variable star, Z UMa, sits in the bowl of the The Big Dipper, nearly 3 degrees west-northwest of the star "delta", which connects the handle to the bowl of the dipper. The AAVSO "A-scale" chart is helpful in locating delta Ursae Major, and then Z UMa. Once you have found Z UMa, the "B-scale" chart assists in getting a closer view of the variable and the surrounding comparison stars. (You can create these chart using the "AAVSO Variable Star Plotter".)
With Z UMa in the field, make an estimate of its brightness by comparing the variable to comparison stars in the surrounding area. Once you have made your observation, you may submit it to the AAVSO International Database to be incorporated into a permanent long-term light curve for Z UMa. For more information on this process, visit our WebObs page. A detailed description of the magnitude estimating process can be found in section 8.1 "How to estimate a variable: Z Ursae Majoris and the AAVSO method", of the book entitled Observing Variable Stars: A Guide for the Beginner by David Levy, January 1998. Also, look for more information on variable star observing in the AAVSO Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars.
Observing Tip:When observing red variable stars, such as Z Uma, make your magnitude estimate with a quick glance rather than with a prolonged stare. Red stars tend to excite the retina more than blue stars when they are viewed for a long time, making the red stars appear brighter than they are (Purkinje effect). |
Semiregular Variables
Z Ursae Majoris is a semiregular variable. Semiregular variables are post main sequence cool (red) giant and supergiant stars. They are classified as long period variables (LPVs), commonly called red variables, and occupy a distinct zone in the far-right region of the Hertzprung-Russel diagram. The long period variables are classified into three categories: Mira (M), semiregular (SR), and slow irregular (L) variables. The Mira variables are the most well-defined and homogeneous subgroup. They have periods longer than 60 days, amplitudes in the visual larger than 2.5 magnitudes, and show rather periodic variability. The SR variables are a subgroup that have smaller than 2.5 magnitude amplitudes and show significant inhomogeneity in their division into SRA which have periods longer than 35 days, with periodic variability, and SRB (like Z UMa) which have periods longer than 20 days, and less periodicity in their light variation. Further divisions include the SRC types, which are more luminous and the the SRD types, which are warmer variables. The slow irregular variables (L) are a subgroup that shows light variations with no evidence of periodicity, or any periodicity that is present is poorly defined or appears only occasionally.
The long period variables of low and intermediate mass red giants (like Z UMa) located in the area of the HR diagram called the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) are critical to our understanding of stellar evolution because they represent the final stages of stellar life. Observations of these stars reveal significant pulsational behaviour that advances our knowledge of the physical processes taking place within these evolved stars. It is observed that, through their pulsations, these stars lose significant amounts of mass and thus are primary sources for the enrichment of the interstellar material. Continued observations of these stars are important in understanding their long term behavior, and correlating theories of stellar pulsation and stellar evolution.
For More Information
- The Myths of Ursa Major
- Barnbaum, Cecilia; Morris, Mark; Kahane, Claudine; Astrophysical Journal v.450, 1995, p.862.
- Isles, John E. "Big Dipper Variables", Sky and Telescope, June 1998, pp 98-100.
- Kiss, L.L., K. Szatmary, R.R. Cadmus Jr., J.A. Mattei, "Multiperiodicity in semiregular variables", Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.346, 1999, pp 542-555.
- Levy, David H. Observing Variable Stars: A Guide for the beginner, Cambridge University Press, January 1998.
- Mattei, J.A., Foster,G., et al. "Classification of Red Variables", Proceedings of the ESA Symposium Hipparcos-Venice '97, 13-16 May, Venice, Italy, July 1997, pp 269-274.
- Percy, John R., Polano, S. "Pulsation Modes in M Giants", ASP Conference Series, Vol. 135, 1998, pp 249-253.
- Suchko, Michael K. "The Periodicities of Z Ursae Majoris", The Journal of the AAVSO, vol.9, No.2, 1980, pp 74-80.


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Company will become platinum sponsor of Apache Software Foundation, is contributing patch to help PHP code work better with Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft inched closer to open source with announcements made last week at the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Ore.
The company will become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation and is contributing a patch to help PHP code work better with Microsoft SQL Server. The news was announced on Friday by Sam Ramji, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy.
As a platinum sponsor to the Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft will pay "administrators and other support staff so that ASF developers can focus on writing great software," Ramji said in his blog. Platinum sponsors contribute $100,000 per year, according to the Apache Software Foundation's Web site.
The announcement adds to Microsoft's efforts to collaborate with open source, especially when it enables interoperability with some open source solutions. For instance, in March, Microsoft announced cooperation with the Apache Software Foundation by contributing code to the Apache POI project, which is an effort to create Java libraries supporting Microsoft Office document formats.
Ramji listed two other Apache projects in which Microsoft has participated, in addition to Apache POI. Those projects are Apache Axis2, which provides an interface for Web services, and Jakarta, which focuses on developing open source applications for Java platforms.
Microsoft also announced last week that it will provide code to support PHP data compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server. The company is providing a patch to a PHP data access layer called ADOdb to better enable interoperability. Ramji said the effort represented Microsoft's "first code contribution to PHP community projects but will not be last."
Microsoft has previously announced collaborative efforts with Zend Technologies, a contributor to the PHP scripting language and provider of an enterprise PHP framework and solutions. In March, Microsoft certified PHP for Windows Server 2008. The two companies have also worked together to optimize PHP for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).
Ramji also pointed to a "clarification" of Microsoft's open specification promise (OSP), in which Microsoft opened protocols and documentation for some of its core products to developers.
The clarification seems to have originated based on Microsoft's work with Apache POI. Under the OSP, developers have "the right to intentionally subset, have partial implementations, or defects in implementation of these specifications," according to Ramji.
Ramji pointed to a comment by Microsoft's associate general counsel for intellectual property policy on the clarification.
Microsoft's OSP has previously been criticized by the Software Freedom Law Center as incompatible with the GNU General Public License, largely on the basis of being able to create new versions of software incorporating Microsoft's code.
About the Author
Kurt Mackie is senior news producer for 1105 Media's Converge360 group.


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Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
As a physician, I have helped to care for many patients and families whose lives have been turned upside down by serious illnesses and injuries. In the throes of such catastrophes, it can be difficult to find cause for anything but lament. Yet Thanksgiving presents us with an opportunity to develop one of the healthiest, most life-affirming and convivial of all habits – that of counting and rejoicing in our blessings.
Gratitude's benefits
Research shows that grateful people tend to be healthy and happy. They exhibit lower levels of stress and depression, cope better with adversity and sleep better. They tend to be happier and more satisfied with life. Even their partners tend to be more content with their relationships.
Perhaps when we are more focused on the good things we enjoy in life, we have more to live for and tend to take better care of ourselves and each other.
When researchers asked people to reflect on the past week and write about things that either irritated them or about which they felt grateful, those tasked with recalling good things were more optimistic, felt better about their lives and actually visited their physicians less.
It is no surprise that receiving thanks makes people happier, but so does expressing gratitude. An experiment that asked participants to write and deliver thank-you notes found large increases in reported levels of happiness, a benefit that lasted for an entire month.
Philosophical roots
One of the greatest minds in Western history, the Greek philosopher Aristotle, argued that we become what we habitually do. By changing our habits, we can become more thankful human beings.
If we spend our days ruminating on all that has gone poorly and how dark the prospects for the future appear, we can think ourselves into misery and resentment.
But we can also mold ourselves into the kind of people who seek out, recognize and celebrate all that we have to be grateful for.
This is not to say that anyone should become a Pollyanna, ceaselessly reciting the mantra from Voltaire's "Candide," "All is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds." There are injustices to be righted and wounds to be healed, and ignoring them would represent a lapse of moral responsibility.
But reasons to make the world a better place should never blind us to the many good things it already affords. How can we be compassionate and generous if we are fixated on deficiency? This explains why the great Roman statesman Cicero called gratitude not only the greatest of virtues but the "parent" of them all.
Religious roots
Gratitude is deeply embedded in many religious traditions. In Judaism, the first words of the morning prayer could be translated, "I thank you." Another saying addresses the question, "Who is rich?" with this answer: "Those who rejoice in what they have."
From a Christian perspective, too, gratitude and thanksgiving are vital. Before Jesus shares his last meal with his disciples, he gives thanks. So vital a part of Christian life is gratitude that author and critic G.K. Chesterton calls it "the highest form of thought."
Gratitude also plays an essential role in Islam. The 55th chapter of the Quran enumerates all the things human beings have to be grateful for – the Sun, Moon, clouds, rain, air, grass, animals, plants, rivers and oceans – and then asks, "How can a sensible person be anything but thankful to God?"
Other traditions also stress the importance of thankfulness. Hindu festivals celebrate blessings and offer thanks for them. In Buddhism, gratitude develops patience and serves as an antidote to greed, the corrosive sense that we never have enough.
Roots even in suffering
In his 1994 book, "A Whole New Life," the Duke University English professor Reynolds Price describes how his battle with a spinal cord tumor that left him partially paralyzed also taught him a great deal about what it means to really live.
After surgery, Price describes "a kind of stunned beatitude." With time, though diminished in many ways by his tumor and its treatment, he learns to pay closer attention to the world around him and those who populate it.
Reflecting on the change in his writing, Price notes that his books differ in many ways from those he penned as a younger man. Even his handwriting, he says, "looks very little like that of the man he was at the time of his diagnosis."
"Cranky as it is, it's taller, more legible, and with more air and stride. And it comes down the arm of a grateful man."
A brush with death can open our eyes. Some of us emerge with a deepened appreciation for the preciousness of each day, a clearer sense of our real priorities and a renewed commitment to celebrating life. In short, we can become more grateful, and more alive, than ever.
Practicing gratitude
When it comes to practicing gratitude, one trap to avoid is locating happiness in things that make us feel better off – or simply better – than others. In my view, such thinking can foster envy and jealousy.
There are marvelous respects in which we are equally blessed – the same Sun shines down upon each of us, we all begin each day with the same 24 hours, and each of us enjoys the free use of one of the most complex and powerful resources in the universe, the human brain.
Much in our culture seems aimed to cultivate an attitude of deficiency – for example, most ads aim to make us think that to find happiness we must buy something. Yet most of the best things in life – the beauty of nature, conversation and love – are free.
There are many ways to cultivate a disposition of thankfulness. One is to make a habit of giving thanks regularly – at the beginning of the day, at meals and the like, and at day's end.
Likewise, holidays, weeks, seasons and years can be punctuated with thanks – grateful prayer or meditation, writing thank-you notes, keeping a gratitude journal and consciously seeking out the blessings in situations as they arise.
Gratitude can become a way of life, and by developing the simple habit of counting our blessings, we can enhance the degree to which we are truly blessed.
Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Various surveys, economic growth projections, and market risk indicators continue to indicate U.S. economic growth and financial system stability for the foreseeable future.
However, there are various indications – many of which have been discussed on this site – that this very widely-held consensus is in many ways incorrect. There are many exceedingly problematical financial conditions that continue to exist, some of which have grown in severity. As well, numerous economic dynamics continue to be worrisome and many economic indicators portray facets of weak growth or outright decline.
Of paramount importance is the resulting level of risk and the future economic implications.
From an "all things considered" standpoint, I continue to believe the overall level of risk is at a fantastic level, one that is far greater than that experienced at any time in the history of the United States.
Cumulatively, these highly problematical conditions will lead to future upheaval. The extent of the resolution of these problematical conditions will determine the ongoing viability of the financial system and economy as well as the resultant quality of living.
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My analyses continues to indicate that the growing level of financial danger will lead to the next stock market crash that will also involve (as seen in 2008) various other markets as well. Key attributes of this next crash is its outsized magnitude (when viewed from an ultra-long term historical perspective) and the resulting economic impact. This next financial crash is of tremendous concern, as my analyses indicate it will lead to a Super Depression – i.e. an economy characterized by deeply embedded, highly complex, and difficult-to-solve problems.
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Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1967 for Live or Die.
[edit]- We are all writing God's poem.
- As quoted by Erica Jong, in "Into the lion's den" in The Guardian (26 October 2000)
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
[edit]- Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.- "Elegy in the Classroom"
- Referring to Robert Lowell
- Love your self's self where it lives.
There is no special God to refer to; or if there is,
why did I let you grow
in another place. You did not know my voice
when I came back to call. All the superlatives
of tomorrow's white tree and mistletoe
will not help you know the holidays you had to miss.- "The Double Image"
- I rot on the wall, my own
Dorian Gray.- "The Double Image"
- I imitate
a memory of belief
that I do not own.- "The Division of Parts"
- I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.- "Her Kind"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
[edit]- All who love have lied.
- "The Operation"
- Fact: death too is in the egg.
Fact: the body is dumb, the body is meat.
And tomorrow the O.R. Only the summer was sweet.- "The Operation"
- Need is not quite belief.
- "With Mercy for the Greedy"
- Dearest,
although everything has happened,
nothing has happened.- "Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound"
- A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children and islands
weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips
and vegetables were never enough.
She thinks she can warm the stars.
A writer is essentially a spy.
Dear love, I am that girl.- "The Black Art"
- It would be pleasant to be drunk:
faithless to my tongue and hands,
giving up the boundaries
for the heroic gin.
Dead drunk is the term I think of,
neither cool nor warm,
without a head or foot.
To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.
I will try it shortly.- "Letter Written During a January Northeaster"
- And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in their stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.- "The Truth the Dead Know"
- In a dream you are never eighty.
- "Old"
Live or Die (1966)
[edit]- I was spread out daily
and examined for flaws.- "Those Times..."
- I grow old on my bitterness.
- "Two Sons"
- Love! That red disease —
- "Menstruation at Forty"
- Why have your eyes gone into their own room?
- "Your Face on the Dog's Neck"
- But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.- "Wanting to Die"
Love Poems (1969)
[edit]- My mouth blooms like a cut.
I've been wronged all year, tedious
nights, nothing but rough elbows in them
and delicate boxes of Kleenex calling crybaby
crybaby, you fool!- "The Kiss"
- I am alive when your fingers are.
- "The Breast"
- As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.- "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife"
- You said the anger would come back
just as the love did.- Again and Again and Again"
- He puts his bones back on,
Turning the clock back an hour.
She knows flesh, that skin balloon,
the unbound limbs, the boards,
the roof, the removable roof.
She is his selection, part time.
You know the story too! Look,
when it is over he places her,
like a phone, back on the hook.- "You All Know the Story of the Other Woman"
- Catch me. I'm your disease.
- "Eighteen Days Without You": December 18th
Transformations (1971)
[edit]- Beauty is a simple passion,
but, oh my friends, in the end
you will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.- "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
The Book of Folly (1972)
[edit]- With a tongue like a razor he will kiss
the mother, the child,
and we three will color the stars black
in memory of his mother
who kept him chained to the food tree
or turned him on and off like a water faucet
and made women through all these hazy years
the enemy with a heart of lies.- "The Wifebeater"
- In my sights I carve him
like a sculptor. I mold out
his last look at everyone.
I carry his eyes and his
brain bone at every position.
I know his male sex and I do
march over him with my index finger.
His mouth and his anus are one.
I am at the center of feeling.- "The Assassin"
- My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
- "Killing the Spring"
A Small Journal (1974)
[edit]ed. Howard Moss
- It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
- "The Poet's Story," January 1, 1972 entry
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)
[edit]- The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood.- "The Dead Heart"
- I am, each day,
typing out the God
my typewriter believes in.
Very quick. Very intense,
like a wolf at a live heart.- "Frenzy"
45 Mercy Street (1976)
[edit]- What can I do with this memory?
Shake the bones out of it?
Defoliate the smile?
Stub out the chin with cigarettes?
Take the face of the man I love
and squeeze my foot into it,
when all the while my heart is making a museum?
I love you the way the oboe plays.
I love you the way skinny dipping makes my body feel.
I love you the way a ripe artichoke tastes.
Yet I fear you,
as one in the desert fears the sun.- "Waking Alone" from The Divorce Papers
- I am murdering me, where I kneeled at your kiss.
I am pushing knives through the hands
that created two into one.
Our hands do not bleed at this,
they lie still in their dishonor.- "Killing the Love" from The Divorce Papers
- I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.- "Killing the Love"
- There is rust in my mouth,
the stain of an old kiss.- "The Lost Lie" from The Divorce Papers
Words for Dr. Y (1978)
[edit]- Death,
I need my little addiction to you.
need that tiny voice who,
even as I rise from the sea,
all woman, all there,
says kill me, kill me.- "Letters to Dr. Y."
- I begin again, Dr.Y,
this neverland journal,
full of my own sense of filth.
Why else keep a journal, if not
to examine your own filth?- "Letters to Dr. Y."
- God is only mocked by believers.
- "Letters to Dr. Y."
- Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
- "Letters to Dr. Y."
- Here in the hospital, I say,
that is not my body, not my body.
I am not here for the doctors
to read like a recipe.- "August 17th" from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems
Poems 1971-1973 (1981)
[edit]- We all walk softly away.
We would stay and be the nurse but
there are too many of us and we are too worried to help.
It is love that walks away
and yet we have terrible mouths
and soft milk hands.
We worry with like.
We walk away like love.- "To Like, To Love"
- Earth, earth
riding your merry-go-round
toward extinction,
right to the roots
thickening the oceans like gravy,
festering in your caves,
you are becoming a latrine.- "As It Was Written" from Last Poems
- To love another is something
like prayer and it can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.- "Admonitions to a Special Person" (1974) from Last Poems QOTD 2007·11·09 Sound file


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Authentication using Delegation Tokens in Confluent Platform¶
Authentication based on delegation tokens is a lightweight authentication mechanism that you can use to complement existing SASL/SSL methods. Delegation tokens are shared secrets between Apache Kafka® brokers and clients. Delegation tokens can help frameworks to distribute the workload to available workers in a secure environment without the added cost of distributing Kerberos TGT/keytabs or keystores when bidirectiona TLS is used.
The typical steps for delegation token usage are:
- You authenticate with the Kafka cluster via SASL or SSL, and obtain a delegation token. You can do this using the
AdminClient APIs or the
script. - You provide the delegation token to Kafka clients securely for authenticating with the Kafka cluster.
- The token owner or renewer can renew or expire the delegation tokens.
Token Management¶
A primary secret key is used to generate and verify delegation tokens. This is supplied using config
option delegation.token.master.key
. The same secret key must be configured across all the brokers.
If the secret is not set or is set to an empty string, the brokers will disable the delegation token authentication.
In the current implementation, token details are stored in ZooKeeper and they can be used in Kafka
installations where ZooKeeper is on a private network. The primary secret key is stored as
plain text in the server.properties
configuration file.
A token has a current life, and a maximum renewable life. By default, tokens must be renewed once every 24 hours
for up to 7 days. You can configure the token life by using the delegation.token.expiry.time.ms
config options.
You can also explicitly cancel tokens. If a token is not renewed by the token's expiration time or if token is beyond the maximum life time, it will be deleted from all broker caches and from ZooKeeper.
Creating Delegation Tokens¶
You can create tokens by using AdminClient APIs or by using kafka-delegation-tokens
Delegation token requests (create/renew/expire/describe) must be issued on SASL or SSL authenticated channels.
Tokens cannot be requested if the initial authentication is done by using a delegation token.
script examples are given below.
Create a delegation token:
kafka-delegation-tokens --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --create --max-life-time-period -1 \
--command-config client.properties --renewer-principal User:user1
Renew a delegation token:
kafka-delegation-tokens --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --renew --renew-time-period -1 \
--command-config client.properties --hmac ABCDEFGHIJK
Expire a delegation token:
kafka-delegation-tokens --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --expire --expiry-time-period -1 \
--command-config client.properties --hmac ABCDEFGHIJK
Existing tokens can be described using the --describe
kafka-delegation-tokens --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --describe \
--command-config client.properties --owner-principal User:user1
Token Authentication¶
Delegation token authentication piggybacks on the current SASL/SCRAM authentication mechanism. You must enable SASL/SCRAM mechanism on Kafka cluster as described here.
Configuring Kafka Clients¶
You can configure the JAAS configuration property for each client in producer.properties
or consumer.properties
files. The login module describes how the clients like producer and consumer can
connect to the Kafka broker. The following is an example configuration for a client for the token authentication:
sasl.jaas.config=org.apache.kafka.common.security.scram.ScramLoginModule required \
username="tokenID123" \
password="lAYYSFmLs4bTjf+lTZ1LCHR/ZZFNA==" \
The options username
and password
are used by clients to configure the token ID and
token HMAC. And the option tokenauth
is used to indicate the server about token authentication.
In this example, clients connect to the broker using token ID: tokenID123
. Different clients within a
JVM may connect using different tokens by specifying different token details in sasl.jaas.config
Procedure to Manually Rotate the Secret¶
You must redeploy your Kafka cluster when the secret is rotated. During this process, currently connected clients will continue to work, but any new connection requests and renew and expire requests with old tokens can fail. Here are the steps:
- Expire all existing tokens.
- Rotate the secret by rolling upgrade.
- Generate new tokens.
Notes on Delegation Tokens¶
Currently, you can only create a delegation token for yourself. Owner and renewers can renew or expire tokens.
Owner and renewers can describe their own tokens. To describe others tokens, you must add DESCRIBE
permission on Token Resource.


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David J. Neff has been doing things that have never been done in nonprofits for the last 10 years. He is currently the creator and CEO of the nonprofit Lights. Camera. Help., a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging cause-driven organizations to use film and video to tell their stories. He is the current President of the Social Media Club Austin, as well as a Senior Digital Strategist consultant for a variety of startups and nonprofits and a co-founder of internet start up HelpAttack! He was the American Marketing Association Nonprofit Social Media Marketer of the year for 2009 as well as being named one of the top 20 Social Media people in the state of Texas for 2009 by the Austin American Statesman. | |
Randal C. Moss pioneered the use Virtual Worlds for raising revenue, driving brand recognition, and managing relationship for nonprofit organizations. He was a national presenter for the American Marketing Association from 2006-2008, and a 4 time presenter at SXSW. Randal is involved in the Cincinnati Social Media Club, and the Social Media lead for TEDxCincinnati. He has consulted with Johnson and Johnson, the State Department and testified to the U.S. Congress on digital media marketing. Randal is currently the Social Media and Digital Marketing Manger at MWV. |
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At J Edwards, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional standards and the very best of care to our bereaved families and their loved ones. We believe that this is only possible if we have the right people to help us achieve this.
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We will train you to the highest standards through our in-house academy programme. All of our Funeral Co-ordinators and Funeral Assistants join us through our apprenticeship scheme so you will have a step by step learning journey, adapted to complement your learning style. We will support and encourage you to develop your skills, helping you to progress your career.
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Our Funeral Co-ordinators provide a warm, compassionate and comprehensive choice of services to families during their time of need. They take care of all aspects of arranging a funeral, with no detail too small and no challenge too big.
Why I love my job? – No two days are the same; you are meeting different people every day. One friend said to me won't it all be too sad? It's really not but if you do find things hard, there is a brilliant bereavement team to help you with additional support.
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Our Funeral Assistants provide a prompt and professional service to our families. They help to bring a loved one into our care with sensitivity and respect. They take care of preparations and assist on the day of the funeral to ensure everything runs seamlessly and to the highest standard.
My Job as a Funeral Assistant consists of anything from driver to pallbearer, taking care of loved ones including the transportation and preparation for chapel visits. My job is very satisfying and I enjoy every aspect. I love working as part of Southern Co-op, it is a very rewarding company to work for and we have a great team.
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"There have been few more dramatic moments at the World Health Organization than the late-night gathering on April 29 when Dr. Margaret Chan, its powerful director general, declared that the human race was in peril. ...
In the days since her announcement, concerns about the swine flu outbreak have eased around the globe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised that schools reopen. And coverage of the flu outbreak no longer dominates cable news shows.
But Dr. Chan has yet to relax the alert level of the organization, the public health arm of the United Nations. That is because the warning system is based on how far the virus has spread, not its lethality. While most praise the actions of Dr. Chan and the W.H.O. in the current outbreak, some have said that the organization needs to adjust its warning system to reflect what is known about the severity of the spreading illness."
Gardiner Harris and Lawrence K. Altman report for the New York Times May 9, 2009.
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John Daly is free to ride a cart during the week of the British Open -- just not at Royal Portrush.
Daly's manager said Tuesday he is likely to play the Barbasol Championship next week in Kentucky, and the two-time major champion with osteoarthritis in his right knee already has been granted a cart to use in the PGA Tour event.
Andy Pazder, the chief tournaments and competition officer for the PGA Tour, said Daly late last year was approved to use a cart through 2019 at PGA Tour events and PGA Tour Champions events that require walking.
Daly, who has not played a regular PGA Tour event since The Greenbrier last summer, also is contemplating the Barracuda Championship in Reno, Nevada, the following week.
The R&A announced Tuesday that Daly had withdrawn from the British Open "due to a medical condition."
The nature of that condition -- be it his arthritic knee or a spider bite -- was not entirely clear.
Daly has been dealing with arthritis in his knee, and he says he also was diagnosed as diabetic. That led him to request a cart for the PGA Championship at Bethpage Black under the Americans with Disabilities Act, which the PGA of America approved after Daly submitted the required medical information.
The R&A rejected his request for a cart over the weekend, saying it felt walking was an integral part of the tournament. "We must also ensure, as far as possible, the challenge is the same for all players in the field," it said.
Pulling out of the British Open, however, might also be linked to a social media post from Daly on Sunday.
In a Twitter note that he described as "My life chapter 84k," Daly says he was on vacation in England last week when he was bitten by a spider without realizing it. He was taken to an emergency room on Friday -- apparently at Uniontown Hospital in Pennsylvania, north of the Nemacolin Resort -- and taken straight into surgery to remove a major infection in his abdominal area. He says he also was treated for early sepsis from a brown recluse.
His post included hashtags that say he was in some serious pain, glad to be alive and the photos were too graphic.
Daly won the PGA Championship in 1991 at Crooked Stick, making him exempt from qualifying for as long as he wants. He won the British Open at St. Andrews in 1995 and is exempt for that major through 2026 when he is 60.
He still has past champion status on the PGA Tour, allowing him into tournaments that have room in the field.
This story has been corrected to show that Daly is exempt for the British Open through 2026, when he is 60, not through 2031, when he is 65.