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Taxation is often overlooked in the shadowy world of counterfeit luxury goods, where the allure of high-end fashion meets mass production. While designer knockoff purses, shoes, and accessories may seem like harmless replicas at first glance, their presence in the market triggers a cascade of financial implications, for consumers and governments alike.
In short, counterfeit luxury goods not only undermine the revenues of legitimate businesses but also pose significant challenges in terms of taxation. And, as 'superfake' handbags – fake luxury products that are almost indistinguishable from the real thing – become increasingly popular, more and more consumers are willing to purchase impressive knockoffs.
The legend of Theseus, who sailed triumphantly home to Athens on a ship continually renovated by its citizens, offers a poignant metaphor. Just as Athenians replaced rotting planks to maintain the integrity of Theseus's vessel, tax authorities are tasked with patching up the fiscal holes created by the continued circulation of counterfeit goods.
The Tax Tango: From Production to Sale
At its core, the counterfeit industry thrives on bypassing regulations and evading taxes. Unlike legitimate luxury brands that adhere to strict manufacturing standards and tax obligations, counterfeit operations operate in the shadows, exploiting legal loopholes and slipping through regulatory cracks.
Counterfeit goods pose a significant challenge for tax authorities due to their clandestine nature and the complexity of global supply chains. Unlike legitimate businesses, including LVMH, Chanel, and Hermès, counterfeiters often operate in jurisdictions with weak enforcement mechanisms, allowing them to evade taxes and undercut legitimate businesses."
Moreover, the sale of counterfeit luxury goods typically results in a significant challenge for tax authorities worldwide. These items are often sold through informal channels such as street vendors – New York City's famous Canal Street comes to mind – online marketplaces, or underground networks, making it difficult to track sales and enforce tax collection.
As a result, governments lose out on substantial tax revenue that could have been generated from the sale of legitimate luxury goods.
Per Statista, "The global revenue in the luxury goods market was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 49.9 billion U.S. dollars (+13.53 percent). After the eighth consecutive increasing year, the indicator is estimated to reach 418.84 billion U.S. dollars and therefore a new peak in 2028."
Those numbers could be even higher if the 'superfake' market didn't exist.
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The Consumer Side: Tax Obligations and Financial Risks
From a consumer standpoint, purchasing counterfeit luxury goods can also have tax implications. While buyers may be drawn to the allure of designer labels at a fraction of the cost, they often overlook the potential financial risks associated with these purchases.
Consumers need to be aware that purchasing counterfeit goods supports illegal activities and exposes them to potential tax liabilities. Many buyers are unaware of the tax obligations associated with importing counterfeit products, which can lead to legal and financial consequences, particularly if they are the subject of a tax audit.
The Cat-and-Mouse Game: Enforcement Challenges
Despite efforts by law enforcement agencies and customs authorities to combat counterfeiting, the underground nature of this industry poses significant challenges. From counterfeiters operating in remote locations to the proliferation of online marketplaces, enforcing tax laws and intellectual property rights remains an uphill battle.
International authorities are always working to dismantle counterfeiting rings. "By attacking the distribution networks, and by disrupting production at the source, participating countries have contributed towards globally protecting people from potentially unsafe goods, and made them safer by dismantling illegal networks which are often connected to other forms of serious crime," said Tim Morris, INTERPOL's Executive Director of Police Services.
However, counterfeiters regularly alter their tactics to evade detection, making it challenging for law enforcement agencies to keep pace. Collaboration between government agencies, international organizations, and the private sector is essential to disrupt counterfeit supply chains and protect consumers.
The Solution: Collaboration and Innovation
Addressing the tax implications of counterfeit luxury goods requires a multifaceted approach that combines regulatory reform, international cooperation, and technological innovation. Governments must strengthen enforcement mechanisms, enhance cross-border collaboration, and implement stricter penalties for tax evasion and intellectual property infringement.
Furthermore, technology such as blockchain and digital authentication tools can help trace the origins of counterfeit products and verify their authenticity. By harnessing the power of data analytics and artificial intelligence, tax authorities can identify patterns of illicit activity and target enforcement efforts more effectively.
Additionally, awareness matters – when people don't understand the true cost of fake goods, it makes it easier to justify the sale of these products. As a 2011 Vogue article reported, even Jane Birkin, whose name is the moniker of the legendary Hermes Birkin bag, said, "It's very nice that everyone's got one or wants one [the Birkin]. If people want to go for the real thing, fine. If they go for copies, that's fine, too. I really don't think it matters."
Balancing the Books in Counterfeit Culture
In the complex ecosystem of counterfeit luxury goods, taxation is a critical, yet often overlooked, component. From lost tax revenue to consumer liabilities, the presence of knockoff products in the market poses significant challenges for governments, consumers, and legitimate businesses alike.
As the counterfeit industry continues to evolve and adapt, addressing the tax implications of these illicit goods requires a concerted effort from policymakers, law enforcement agencies, and technology providers. By collaborating across sectors and leveraging innovative solutions, stakeholders can work towards a future where counterfeiters are held accountable, consumers are protected, and tax revenues are safeguarded.
In the end, though, no matter how well-manufactured a 'superfake' handbag is, there's a certain je ne sais quoi about the real thing – Judith Thurman discussed the temptation of authentic luxury goods with the New York Times, saying, "There was an aura to the real thing [an Issey Miyake Bao Bao] that the fake didn't have. And if you ask me what does that mean, I really almost can't say. Part of it was the spirit of going to the shop and paying more money than I could afford."
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The following books by Hamilton alumni have been added to the Burke Library collection. We welcome other new or recent books for annotation in the Alumni Review. Bibliographic information for ordering purposes may be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com, or, preferably, copies of books to Bookshelf Editor, Alumni Review.
Anthony Bernini '71, Immediate Worlds: Poems (Troy, N.Y.: Troy Book Makers, 2011). With a preface written by Selma R. Burkom, who taught English and American literature at Kirkland College in its early days when Anthony Bernini was one of her students, this book of poetry, in her words, "transports us to a realm where apparent opposites are miraculously reconciled." He is now a lawyer by profession who composes finely crafted poems on the side. This is his second volume of collected verse (the first was Distant Kinships, published in 2002), and the epigrammatic poems it contains are beautifully evocative. Many recall, with hints of nostalgia, his native New York City, and all reflect great sensibility and depth of insight.
Janelle A. Schwartz '97, Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Pr., 2012). What is the connection between the lowly worm and Romantic culture? In this highly specialized and meticulously researched and developed monograph, Janelle Schwartz explores the influence of natural history studies on 18th and early 19th century European romantic thought, especially as reflected in literature. Professor Schwartz has taught at Loyola University in New Orleans as well as at Hamilton, where she is currently a visiting assistant professor of comparative literature.
Michael W. Sherer '74, Night Blind (Las Vegas: Thomas & Mercer, 2012). This "pulse-pounding tale of an innocent man's fight to not only clear his name, but save his own life" is the first of a new mystery series featuring Blake Sanders, a man definitely down on his luck. To compound his troubles, he is accused of a brutal murder and is on the run. It is a thriller with many surprising twists and turns by the author of the six-volume Emerson Ward series. He lives and writes in the Seattle area, the setting for this, his latest flight into fiction.
Mark Sullivan '80, Rogue (New York: Minotaur Bks., 2012). It has been our pleasure to review Mark Sullivan's thrillers since the first one, The Fall Line, was published in 1995. This latest is his eighth, and if you like your adrenaline stimulated and free-flowing, it is the book for you. Its central character is Robin Monarch, a former CIA operative who has gone rogue as a latter-day Robin Hood stealing from the super-rich to give to the poor. International capers follow, and there is plenty of propulsive action. Sullivan, who resides with his family in Montana, is a onetime Peace Corps volunteer in Niger who became an investigative reporter before turning his talents to fiction. He is the co-author, with James Patterson, of Private Games, which led The New York Times best-seller list earlier this year.
Charles Thacher '63, Angling Books: A Guide for Collectors (Far Hills, N.J.: Meadow Run Pr., 2006). Although published several years ago, this impressive bibliographic work was only recently brought to our attention. Handsomely bound and containing physical descriptions, with estimated values, of some 15,000 books, both fiction and nonfiction, related to recreational fishing, it also provides information on availability. After his consulting business was sold in 1999, Charles Thacher, an enthusiastic angler, became hooked on collecting books on the subject, which in turn led to this 600-page bibliography, the product of much painstaking research. Specialized bibliographies may have a limited readership, but their ultimate value is beyond estimate.
Sarah J. Maas '08 and Meagan "Meg" Spooner '07 first met at Hamilton when both took a creative writing course focused on fiction in the spring of 2007. Maas was majoring in creative writing with a minor in religious studies, and Spooner concentrated in theatre with an emphasis on playwriting. They became fast friends, and their friendship has survived and flourished through their postgraduate years despite geographical distance: Maas is now in Southern California and Spooner is in Northern Virginia.
The two have something else in common besides mutual friendship, for both are the authors of young adult fantasy novels that were published this year. In addition, both of their debut efforts have been exceedingly well received and have generated quite a fan following.
Maas' Throne of Glass (New York: Bloomsbury, 2012) has been hailed as "an epic tale with all the romance of your favorite fairy tale," with a little bit of magic and lots of plot twists thrown in. Its central character, the compellingly delineated heroine Celaena, is an 18-year-old, trained as an assassin. She inhabits an ingeniously created fantasy world that, in the words of Kirkus Review, "evokes a rich alternate universe with a spitfire young woman as its brightest star."
New York native Maas first conceived of the idea for the story that eventuated in Throne of Glass when she was 16. Early versions of it, published online, resulted in a host of fans. Now that the finished version is in print, her fans no doubt look forward to more from her remarkably imaginative pen.
In the meantime, Spooner's Skylark (Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Lab, 2012) was on its way to press and publication in October. Like Throne of Glass, it is a fantasy novel with an intrepid heroine, Lark Ainsley, but the world she inhabits is more dystopian, filled with fear and foreboding. In well-crafted prose, it transports the reader into a scary future world of "magic and danger," which has been described by one reader as "multi-layered and darkly fascinating."
Spooner, who has traveled around the globe with her family and even spent a few years living in Australia, has now settled down in Virginia, where she continues to write. She, too, has developed quite a following, as reflected in rave reviews on the Internet.


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76 hungry Boko Haram members surrender to Nigerian military
Dozens of emaciated-looking Boko Haram members begging for food have surrendered in northeast Nigeria, the military and a civilian self-defense fighter said Wednesday.
Seventy-six people including children and women gave themselves up to soldiers last Saturday in Gwoza, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Maiduguri, according to a senior officer.
All are being detained at military headquarters in Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and currently the command center of the war against the Islamic extremists, according to the officer. He insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to journalists.
The detainees said many more fighters want to surrender, a self-defense civilian fighter who helped escort them to Maiduguri told The Associated Press.
Food shortages could indicate that Nigeria\'s military is succeeding in choking supply routes of the Islamic extremists who have taken their fight across Nigeria\'s borders. Some 20,000 people have died in the 6-year-old uprising. Boko Haram was declared the deadliest of all terror groups in 2014, surpassing the Islamic State group to which it declared allegiance last year.
In a separate development, soldiers from Nigeria and Cameroon rescued 701 people held captive in the Gwoza district, local council chairman Ibrahim Chikun told reporters in Maiduguri late Wednesday. He said they were freed Sunday in a joint operation.
Nigeria\'s military reported that dozens of Boko Haram fighters were surrendering in September and October last year. It promised those who give themselves up voluntarily that they will be rehabilitated through a de-radicalization program.
In the 10 months since he took office promising to halt the insurgency, President Muhammadu Buhari has replaced the leadership of the military, moved the headquarters for the fight from the distant capital, Abuja, to the heart of the northeastern insurgency and resupplied soldiers.
The military has driven the insurgents from the towns and villages where they had set up an Islamic caliphate but Boko Haram has returned to hit-and-run tactics and suicide bombings.
SOURCE: Associated Press
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July 22, 2013 - Sandy Recovery - Christie Administration Announces $100 Million Home Elevation Program To Protect Homeowners From Future Flood And Storm Damage
Christie Administration Announces $100 Million Home Elevation Program To Protect Homeowners From Future Flood And Storm Damage |
Brick, NJ – Demonstrating his commitment to protect New Jersey residents from future storms, Governor Chris Christie today joined Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Richard E. Constable, III and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Bob Martin in Brick to launch a $100 million home elevation program in the nine counties hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy.
Under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Elevation Program, eligible applicants can receive reimbursement of up to $30,000 for elevations on existing single-family homes. Beginning today, eligible homeowners can apply for elevation grant assistance at www.renewjerseystronger.org or by calling 1-855-SANDYHM (1-855-726-3946). People can also apply in person at one of the Housing Recovery Centers open in each of the nine most-impacted counties.
"This program is a critical component of my Administration's efforts to protect lives and property by making flood-prone areas of the state stronger and more resilient," said Governor Christie. "Elevation will literally raise these houses out of harm's way of potential flooding, and is an important step in preventing and mitigating damage from future storms."
The HMGP Elevation Program is a reimbursement grant program designed to help homeowners with the elevation of their primary single-family residences to meet the requirements of the flood insurance risk maps in flood-prone communities. The program is limited to the Sandy-impacted communities of Atlantic, Bergen, Cape May, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean and Union. There are no income requirements for the program and FEMA registration is not required in order to apply.
Homes targeted for buyout under the state's HMGP acquisition program are not eligible to participate. Additionally, federal regulations restrict homeowners who have already begun elevation work from applying.
"Because of New Jersey's high proportion of coastline, rivers, and streams, our state has a higher propensity for flooding. As we all know, Superstorm Sandy powerfully demonstrated this fact nine months ago," said DCA Commissioner Constable. "We are pleased to offer this assistance program because it's proven that home elevation not only significantly reduces the risk of property damage in the event of major flooding, it also provides a significant reduction in flood insurance premiums."
"This elevation program is an important component of New Jersey's long-term rebuilding phase because it gives homeowners an important financial tool to rebuild to much better elevation standards," said DEP Commissioner Martin.
The HMGP Elevation Program is part of the 'reNew Jersey Stronger' housing initiative that was launched in May 2013 with two grant opportunities: the Homeowner Resettlement Program, which is designed to encourage eligible Sandy-impacted homeowners to resettle in their homes, and the Homeowner Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, Elevation and Mitigation (RREM) Program, which is aimed at helping affected homeowners repair, elevate or rebuild their residences.
An application can be made to both RREM and the HMGP Elevation Program, but homeowners may receive a grant award from only one of the programs. If a person has an application with RREM, which offers up to $150,000 grants, and the HMGP Elevation Program offers funding, applicants will be notified and will need to decide to accept or reject the funding program offered to them at that time.
The HMGP Elevation Program application period opens today and closes on September 15, 2013. Whether homeowners apply online, over the phone, or in person at a Housing Recovery Center at any point during the application period won't affect their status or the likelihood that their application will be selected for an award.
Because the HMGP Elevation Program is designed to mitigate against future flooding events, applications will be prioritized by flooding risk and then by level of Sandy-related damage. For example, a house that needs to be elevated 8 feet or higher and sustained damage greater than $8,000 will have a higher priority designation than a house that needs to be elevated 5 feet or less and sustained less than $8,000 in damage.
If the number of applications received exceeds the available funding, then an electronic random ordering of prioritized applications will be used to select applicants to move forward in the review process. It is estimated that 2,700 eligible homeowners will receive reimbursements. Homeowners can use any elevation contractor registered in New Jersey that is qualified to do the work. Once all necessary documents are received and the home elevation is completed, the homeowner will be reimbursed for all eligible expenses.
The program was developed by the DCA, DEP and Governor's Office of Recovery and Rebuilding in partnership with the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and FEMA. It is being funded through FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, which is focused on reducing the loss of life and property due to natural disasters and enabling mitigation measures to be implemented during the immediate recovery from a disaster. The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program is authorized under Section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.
For more information on the HMGP Elevation Program, including details about the application process, determination of eligibility, and award calculation, visit www.renewjerseystronger.org.


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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Search giant Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations, state attorneys general announced Monday.
The states' investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people's location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called "location history."
The attorneys general called the settlement a historic win for consumers, and the largest multistate settlement in U.S history dealing with privacy.
It comes at a time of mounting unease over privacy and surveillance by tech companies that has drawn growing outrage from politicians and scrutiny from regulators. The Supreme Court's ruling in June ending the constitutional protections for abortion raised potential privacy concerns for women seeking the procedure or related information online.
"This $391.5 million settlement is a historic win for consumers in an era of increasing reliance on technology," Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said in a statement. "Location data is among the most sensitive and valuable personal information Google collects, and there are so many reasons why a consumer may opt-out of tracking."
At a news conference, Tong urged consumers to "do a little personal inventory" of their online settings and turn them off if they don't want them.
"It is not an exaggeration to say that we live in a surveillance economy," he said. "Understand that you're being tracked every minute of every day where you are."
Google, based in Mountain View, California, said it fixed the problems several years ago.
"Consistent with improvements we've made in recent years, we have settled this investigation, which was based on outdated product policies that we changed years ago," company spokesperson Jose Castaneda said.
Location tracking can help tech companies sell digital ads to marketers looking to connect with consumers within their vicinity. It's another tool in a data-gathering toolkit that generates more than $200 billion in annual ad revenue for Google, accounting for most of the profits pouring into the coffers of its corporate parent, Alphabet — which has a market value of $1.2 trillion.
In its 2018 story, The AP reported that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store users' location data even if they've used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so. Computer-science researchers at Princeton confirmed these findings at the AP's request.
Storing such data carries privacy risks and has been used by police to determine the location of suspects.
The AP reported that the privacy issue with location tracking affected some 2 billion users of devices that run Google's Android operating software and hundreds of millions of worldwide iPhone users who rely on Google for maps or search.
The attorneys general who investigated Google said a key part of the company's digital advertising business is location data, which they called the most sensitive and valuable personal data the company collects. Even a small amount of location data can reveal a person's identity and routines, they said.
Google uses the location information to target consumers with ads by its customers, the state officials said.
The attorneys general said Google misled users about its location tracking practices since at least 2014, violating state consumer protection laws.
As part of the settlement, Google also agreed to make those practices more transparent to users. That includes showing them more information when they turn location account settings on and off and keeping a webpage that gives users information about the data Google collects.
The shadowy surveillance brought to light by The AP troubled even some Google engineers, who recognized the company might be confronting a huge legal headache after the story was published, according to internal documents that have subsequently surfaced in consumer-fraud lawsuits.
Tong, the Connecticut AG, thanked the AP for its story, which he said "set the table for the investigation by the states" and helped expose the tracking practices.
He said a new Connecticut consumer-privacy law set to take effect next year will require that people opt into any location tracking, and not have to turn it off.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed the first state action against Google in May 2020, alleging that the company had defrauded its users by misleading them into believing they could keep their whereabouts private by turning off location tracking in the settings of their software.
Arizona settled its case with Google for $85 million last month, but by then attorneys general in several other states and the District of Columbia had also pounced on the company with their own lawsuits seeking to hold Google accountable for its alleged deception.
Gordon reported from Washington, D.C. AP Technology writer Michael Liedtke in San Ramon, California, contributed to this report.
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The topic of security awareness training has floated up to the surface on a number of related topics lately and I'm compelled to comment on what can only be described as a diametrically opposed set of opinions on the matter.
Here's a perfect illustration taken from some comments on this blog entry where I suggested that many CIO's simply think that "awareness initiatives are good for sexual harassment and copier training, not security."
Firstly, here is someone who thinks that awareness training is a waste of time:
As to educating users, it's one of the dumbest ideas in security. As Marcus Ranum has famously pointed out, if it was going to work...it would have worked by now. If you are relying on user education as part of your strategy, you are doomed. See "The Six Dumbest Ideas in Security" for a fine explanation of this.
...and here is the counterpoint offered by another reader suggesting a different perspective:
Completely disagree. Of course you're not going to get through to everyone, but if you get through to maybe 80-90% then that's an awful lot of attacks you've prevented, with actually very little effort. The reason I think it hasn't worked yet is because people are not doing it effectively, or that they'll 'get around to it' once the CEO has signed off all the important projects, the ones that mean the IT Security team get to play with cool new toys.
What's my take?
I think this is very much a case of setting the appropriate expectations for what the deliverable and results should be from the awareness training. I think security awareness and education can bear substantial fruit. Further, like the second reader, if the goals are appropriately and realistically set, suggesting that 100% of the trainees will yield 100% compliance is simply nonsense.
Again, we see that too often the "success" of a security initiative is
only evaluated on a binary scale of 0 or 100% which is simply stupid.
We all know and accept that we'll never been 100% secure, so why would
we suggest that 100% of our employees will remember and act on 100% of
their awareness training?
What if I showed (and I have) that the number of tailgates through
access controlled access points went down over 30% since awareness training?
What if I showed that the number of phishing attempt reports to IT
Security increased 62% and click-throughs decreased by the same amount
since awareness training? What if I showed that the number of reports
of lost/stolen company property decreased by 18% since awareness
training? How about when all our developers were sent to SDLC training and our software deficiencies per line of code went down double digits?
What if I told you that I spent very little amounts of money and time implementing this training and did it both interactively and through group meetings and everyone was accountable and felt more empowered because we linked the topics to the things that matter to THEM as well as the company?
As to Marcus' arguments regarding the efficacy of education/awareness, he's basically suggesting that the reason awareness doesn't work is (1) human stupidity and (2) a failure of properly implementing technology that should ultimately prevent #1 from even being an issue.
I suggest that as #2 becomes less of an issue as people get smarter about how they deploy technology (which is also an "awareness" problem) and the technology gets better, then implementing training and education for issue #1 becomes the element that will help reduce the residual gap.
To simply dismiss security awareness training as a waste of time is short-sighted and I've yet to find anyone who relies solely upon awareness training as their only strategy for securing their assets. It's one of many tools that can effectively be used to manage risk.
What's your take?


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pfmod - STREAMS Packet Filter Module
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pfmod is a STREAMS module that subjects messages arriving on its read queue to a packet filter and passes only those messages that the filter accepts on to its upstream neighbor. Such filtering can be very useful for user-level protocol implementations and for networking monitoring programs that wish to view only specific types of events.
pfmod applies the current packet filter to all M_DATA and M_PROTO messages arriving on its read queue. The module prepares these messages for examination by first skipping over all leading M_PROTO message blocks to arrive at the beginning of the message's data portion. If there is no data portion, pfmod accepts the message and passes it along to its upstream neighbor. Otherwise, the module ensures that the part of the message's data that the packet filter might examine lies in contiguous memory, calling the pullupmsg(9F) utility routine if necessary to force contiguity. (Note: this action destroys any sharing relationships that the subject message might have had with other messages.) Finally, it applies the packet filter to the message's data, passing the entire message upstream to the next module if the filter accepts, and discarding the message otherwise. See PACKET FILTERS below for details on how the filter works.
If there is no packet filter yet in effect, the module acts as if the filter exists but does nothing, implying that all incoming messages are accepted. The ioctls section below describes how to associate a packet filter with an instance of pfmod.
pfmod passes all other messages through unaltered to its upper neighbor.
pfmod intercepts M_IOCTL messages for the ioctl described below. The module passes all other messages through unaltered to its lower neighbor.
pfmod responds to the following ioctl.
struct packetfilt {
uchar_t Pf_Priority; /* priority of filter */
uchar_t Pf_FilterLen; /* length of filter cmd list */
ushort_t Pf_Filter[ENMAXFILTERS]; /* filter command list */ };
The Pf_Priority field is included only for compatibility with other packet filter implementations and is otherwise ignored. The packet filter itself is specified in the Pf_Filter array as a sequence of two-byte commands, with the Pf_FilterLen field giving the number of commands in the sequence. This implementation restricts the maximum number of commands in a filter (ENMAXFILTERS) to 255. The next section describes the available commands and their semantics.
A packet filter consists of the filter command list length (in units of ushort_ts), and the filter command list itself. (The priority field mentioned above is ignored in this implementation.) Each filter command list specifies a sequence of actions that operate on an internal stack of ushort_ts ("shortwords") or an offset register. The offset register is initially zero. Each shortword of the command list specifies an action and a binary operator. Using _n_ as shorthand for the next shortword of the instruction stream and _%oreg_ for the offset register, the list of actions is:
ENF_PUSHLIT 2 Push _n_ on the stack.
ENF_PUSHZERO 1 Push zero on the stack.
ENF_PUSHONE 1 Push one on the stack.
ENF_PUSHFFFF 1 Push 0xFFFF on the stack.
ENF_PUSHFF00 1 Push 0xFF00 on the stack.
ENF_PUSH00FF 1 Push 0x00FF on the stack.
ENF_LOAD_OFFSET 2 Load _n_ into _%oreg_.
ENF_BRTR 2 Branch forward _n_ shortwords if
the top element of the stack is
ENF_BRFL 2 Branch forward _n_ shortwords if
the top element of the stack is zero.
ENF_POP 1 Pop the top element from the stack.
ENF_PUSHWORD+m 1 Push the value of shortword (_m_ +
_%oreg_) of the packet onto the stack.
The binary operators can be from the set {ENF_EQ, ENF_NEQ, ENF_LT, ENF_LE, ENF_GT,ENF_GE, ENF_AND, ENF_OR, ENF_XOR} which operate on the top two elements of the stack and replace them with its result.
When both an action and operator are specified in the same shortword, the action is performed followed by the operation.
The binary operator can also be from the set {ENF_COR, ENF_CAND, ENF_CNOR, ENF_CNAND}. These are "short-circuit" operators, in that they terminate the execution of the filter immediately if the condition they are checking for is found, and continue otherwise. All pop two elements from the stack and compare them for equality; ENF_CAND returns false if the result is false; ENF_COR returns true if the result is true; ENF_CNAND returns true if the result is false; ENF_CNOR returns false if the result is true. Unlike the other binary operators, these four do not leave a result on the stack, even if they continue.
The short-circuit operators should be used when possible, to reduce the amount of time spent evaluating filters. When they are used, you should also arrange the order of the tests so that the filter will succeed or fail as soon as possible; for example, checking the IP destination field of a UDP packet is more likely to indicate failure than the packet type field.
The special action ENF_NOPUSH and the special operator ENF_NOP can be used to only perform the binary operation or to only push a value on the stack. Since both are (conveniently) defined to be zero, indicating only an action actually specifies the action followed by ENF_NOP, and indicating only an operation actually specifies ENF_NOPUSH followed by the operation.
After executing the filter command list, a non-zero value (true) left on top of the stack (or an empty stack) causes the incoming packet to be accepted and a zero value (false) causes the packet to be rejected. (If the filter exits as the result of a short-circuit operator, the top-of-stack value is ignored.) Specifying an undefined operation or action in the command list or performing an illegal operation or action (such as pushing a shortword offset past the end of the packet or executing a binary operator with fewer than two shortwords on the stack) causes a filter to reject the packet.
The packet filter module is not dependent on any particular device driver or module but is commonly used with datalink drivers such as the Ethernet driver. If the underlying datalink driver supports the Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI) message set, the appropriate STREAMS DLPI messages must be issued to attach the stream to a particular hardware device and bind a datalink address to the stream before the underlying driver will route received packets upstream. Refer to the DLPI Version 2 specification for details on this interface.
The reverse ARP daemon program may use code similar to the following fragment to construct a filter that rejects all but RARP packets. That is, it accepts only packets whose Ethernet type field has the value ETHERTYPE_REVARP. The filter works whether a VLAN is configured or not.
struct ether_header eh; /* used only for offset values */ struct packetfilt pf; register ushort_t *fwp = pf.Pf_Filter; ushort_t offset; int fd; /*
* Push packet filter streams module.
*/ if (ioctl(fd, I_PUSH, "pfmod") < 0) syserr("pfmod"); /*
* Set up filter. Offset is the displacement of the Ethernet
* type field from the beginning of the packet in units of
* ushort_ts.
*/ offset = ((uint_t) &eh.ether_type - (uint_t) &eh.ether_dhost) / sizeof (us_short);
*fwp++ = ENF_PUSHWORD + offset;
*fwp++ = ENF_PUSHLIT;
*fwp++ = htons(ETHERTYPE_VLAN);
*fwp++ = ENF_EQ;
*fwp++ = ENF_BRFL;
*fwp++ = 3; /* If this isn't ethertype VLAN, don't change oreg */
*fwp++ = ENF_LOAD_OFFSET;
*fwp++ = 2; /* size of the VLAN tag in words */
*fwp++ = ENF_POP;
*fwp++ = ENF_PUSHWORD + offset;
*fwp++ = ENF_PUSHLIT;
*fwp++ = htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP);
*fwp++ = ENF_EQ;
pf.Pf_FilterLen = fwp - &pf.PF_Filter[0];
This filter can be abbreviated by taking advantage of the ability to combine actions and operations:
*fwp++ = ENF_PUSHWORD + offset;
*fwp++ = ENF_PUSHLIT | ENF_EQ;
*fwp++ = htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP);
*fwp++ = htons(ETHERTYPE_VLAN);
*fwp++ = ENF_BRFL | ENF_NOP;
*fwp++ = 3;
*fwp++ = ENF_LOAD_OFFSET | ENF_NOP;
*fwp++ = 2;
*fwp++ = ENF_POP | ENF_NOP;
*fwp++ = ENF_PUSHWORD + offset;
*fwp++ = ENF_PUSHLIT | ENF_EQ;
*fwp++ = htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP);
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This weekend is Mother's Day and over the next few days I will be trying out some new recipes for breakfast in bed for mom or a special brunch and up first is this sweet and savoury strawberry strata! (A strata is essentially a bread pudding where bread is soaked in a custard filling of milk and eggs and baked until it sets.) For this strata I was going for aspects of both sweet and savoury by combining strawberries with bacon and goat cheese. I start the recipe off with a loaf of King's Hawaiian Sweet Bread which is perfect as it's sweetness complements the strawberries! This recipe is super easy to make; once you have everything mixed up you simply need to bake it; anyone can make it for mom! The strata is finished off by topping it with fresh sliced strawberries and a balsamic syrup made by reducing balsamic vinegar and sugar until it thickens and it's sweetness and tartness perfectly complements the sweet and savoury strata.
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Strawberry, Bacon and Goat Cheese Strata with Balsamic Syrup
A sweet and savoury strawberry strata with bacon, goat cheese, pecans and a balsamic syrup.
- 1 loaf King's Hawaiian Hawaiian Sweet Bread, cut into 1 inch cubes
- 1 pound strawberries, hulled and sliced
- 8 ounces goat cheese, crumbled
- 4 strips bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 1/4 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
- 5 eggs
- 2 cups whole milk
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- Mix the bread, strawberries, goat cheese, bacon and pecans and place in a lightly grease baking dish.
- Mix the eggs, milk, honey, vanilla extract and nutmeg and pour it over the bread mixture in the baking dish making sure that all of the bread gets moist.
- Bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven until puffed and lightly golden brown, about 45 minutes, remove from oven and let cool.
- Meanwhile, simmer the balsamic vinegar and brown sugar over medium heat until it reduces and thickens, about 5 minutes, let it cool and then drizzle it over the strata when serving.
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Gaby Barrett performed the Journey classic "Don't Stop Believin'" on this season's American Idol finale last night, never knowing that former singer Steve Perry was hidden in the audience. You can watch her performance, along with the pair's meeting, below.
Barrett sang for a judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, plus a studio audience, in the first part of a two-part special which aired last night (May 20). "Don't Stop Believin'" was one of three tracks she sang, along with Miranda Lambert's "Little Red Wagon" and an original song titled "Rivers Deep."
"It was the most amazing version I've ever heard," Perry told Barrett. "Swear it. Beautiful, just beautiful. Thank you so much. And I got to meet your parents too – they love you. They love you!" Pointing to the judges he added: "And they love you. And I love you!"
Journey's Jonathan Cain told Songfacts that this stand-out track from 1981's Escape "was the first attempt to bring an audience into the band's world." He added: "We're singing for you. We're singing about your world now. So, it was a departure from what they had been doing before. What I wanted to do was get a little Bruce Springsteen going on. Bruce was the master of that, bringing his audience into his songs. I was a huge fan of Bruce's."
It was actually a busy weekend for "Don't Stop Believin'": The song also turned up in the cold opening of the season finale of Saturday Night Live as Alec Baldwin portrayed President Donald Trump in a parody of the famous series-ending scene from The Sopranos.
The second half of the American Idol finale is broadcast tonight on ABC, when the winner will be revealed. Barrett is set against two other finalists, Caleb Lee Hutchinson and Maddie Poppe – who performed a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide," which you can watch below.
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Can anyone suggest a relatively gentle linear algebra text that integrates vector spaces and matrix algebra right from the start? I've found in the past that students react in very negative ways to the introduction of abstract vector spaces mid-way through a course. Sometimes it feels as though I've walked into class and said "Forget math. Let's learn ancient Greek instead." Sometimes the students realize that Greek is interesting too, but it can take a lot of convincing! Hence I would really like to let students know, right from the start, what they're getting themselves into.
Does anyone know of a text that might help me do this in a not-too-advanced manner? One possibility, I guess, is Linear Algebra Done Right by Axler, but are there others? Axler's book might be too advanced.
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BUSCH (Bush)This German surname, coming for a topographic name, ?busch?, for someone who lived near a bush or thicket has been in some cases assimilated to the English surname Bush, of like derivation, in the U.S.A. Büsch and Busche are variants.
In Germany the surname ranks as 84th most common, with a population of, approximately 29, 930 bearers. In present times it is to be found mostly in the provinces of Nordrhein-Westfalen and Niedersachsen.
As with other German speaking immigrants, New York was the arrival point for many Busch families; and New York State (348 families), together with the states of Ohio and Illinois, was the preferred place of settlement (1920 Federal Census). It might be apposite at this point to record that the spelling Bush shows in large numbers in the states of New York (1,292), Pennsylvania (1,024) and Ohio (704).
In modern times in the U.S.A, the surname Busch occupies 1, 935th place in the rankings, with a population of 17, 089 bearers, whereas Bush ranks at 346th with a population of 81, 524 bearers. Now some of these latter would be of English origin, but many would be true German Busch.
The 17th century German work on coats of arms, Siebmacher?s ?Wappen? shows the arms for (Vom) Busch as a lion rampant, emerging from a forest on a blue shield, with a crest of three feathers red, green and blue.
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Adolphus Busch (1839-1913): born in Hesse, Germany, co-founder with another German, Ebehard Anheuser, of the largest brewery in the world: Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. Busch developed a light beer called Budweiser, claiming it would be better tasting than the dark beers then prevalent. Persuasive!
Fritz Busch (1890-1951): born in Siegen, Westfalen, Germany, he was a great German conductor. He was dismissed from his post at Dresden State Opera by the Nazis in 1933; the reasons were political- he numbered Jews among his friends, and his views on dictators were not concealed! Among his many appointments just prior to and after the war were the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Danish State Orchestra, the Stockholm Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Opera in England. His brother was the great violinist Adolf Busch (1891-1952), who married a Jewess, and was also vilified by the Nazis.
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To avoid carbon debt, CRP beats fields of corn, soybeans
Farmers and policymakers should wait before converting Conservation Reserve Program land to corn and soybean production, according to a Michigan State University study.
The study, which appears in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on CRP land, a federal program encouraging farmers to grow natural vegetative cover rather than crops, and its role in the production of biofuels. A team of MSU researchers shows directly for the first time that the carbon costs of converting these lands to corn and soybeans is high – even when care is taken to protect soil carbon from loss by using no-till cultivation practices.
Carbon debt results from carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released when land is converted from natural vegetation to agriculture. It's called debt because until a new biofuel crop creates enough renewable fuel to offset the lost CO2, the new biofuel crop has no climate benefit. In fact, it's the same as burning fossil fuel as far as the atmosphere is concerned, said Ilya Gelfand, MSU postdoctoral researcher who worked with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center.
"Conversion creates carbon debt, which must be paid off before the biofuel crop can provide climate mitigation benefits," he said. "No-till practices (planting without plowing) reduced by two-thirds the amount of debt created by the conversion, but still it would take 29 to 40 years for it to be repaid by growing corn and soybean for biofuel."
Alternatively, growing CRP grasses harvested for cellulosic ethanol would create no debt and provide immediate energy and climate mitigation benefits, he added.
"The conversion of CRP lands to corn and soybean production has a larger climate consequence than has been previously estimated," Gelfand said. "And much of the debt comes from the loss of soil carbon that would have been stored in CRP land in the future had it not been converted."
Nationally, more than 30 million acres are set aside as CRP land, and they provide significant climate, wildlife and other conservation benefits, said Phil Robertson, a co-author and MSU professor of crop and soil sciences.
"Growing CRP grasses rather than using the land for corn or corn-soybean production could maintain these benefits indefinitely while providing a valuable bioenergy feedstock," he said. "It could be a win-win for farmers and the environment once a market for cellulosic biofuel develops."
The GLBRC team also included MSU researchers Poonam Jasrotia and Stephen Hamilton as well as scientists from the University of Toledo. The study was performed at Michigan State's Kellogg Biological Station in partnership with MSU's Long-term Ecological Research program funded by the National Science Foundation.
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The National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) released its findings in July for the investigation into a train wreck where a Metro-North Railroad train hit an SUV in 2015.
According to The New York Times , the driver of the SUV, Ellen Brody, 49, got out of her vehicle to inspect it after a crossing arm came down. Then she got back inside and suddenly drove her vehicle forward into the path of the oncoming train. The collision killed the driver along with five passengers on the train. It was the worst accident in the history of Metro-North Railroad history.
The driver's husband filed a wrongful death lawsuit that alleged the railroad was to blame for inadequate signs and flaws in the signal systems at the railroad crossing. However, the NTSB investigation did not find the signal systems to be faulty or that signs were the reason. They concluded that the driver caused the accident, but they could not discern what she was thinking when she drove the car forward.
Investigators devoted considerable time to trying to discover what the driver's mindset could have been. They questioned the husband about her sleep habits, state of mind, stress, fatigue and alcohol or drug use. She had no alcohol or drugs in her system when the crash occurred, and phone records indicated she was not using her cell phone. Why she got out of the car and then drove it forward remained a mystery.
The NTSB did evaluate that a third rail was responsible for the train being so badly damaged, however. The rail penetrated the railroad cars during the accident, but they should have broken away and not have remained intact. As a result, more than 650 passengers were trapped aboard the train.
This factor is left for Metro North to further look into so that the current third rail system does not pose a risk for severe damages and injuries when accidents take place at or near grade crossings.
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3. Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.
4. Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.
5. Success stops when you do.
6. When your ship comes in…. make sure you are willing to unload it.
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8. Life is a journey…not a destination. Enjoy the trip!
9. The biggest lie on the planet When I get what I want I will be happy.
10. The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.
11. I've learned that ultimately , 'takers' lose and 'givers' win.
12. Life's precious moments don't have value, unless they are shared.
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14. We often fear the thing we want the most.
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18. Life is what's coming….not what was.
19. Success is getting up one more time.
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With the current Western war in Mali (in simple terms, blowback from our intervention in Libya), who and what exactly is the West supporting in the Muslim world? Patrick Cockburn writes in Counterpunch that hypocrisy is name of the game:
It is a ferocious war waged by assassination, massacre, imprisonment and persecution that has killed tens of thousands of people. But non-Muslims – and many Muslims – scarcely notice this escalating conflict that pits Shia minority against Sunni majority.
The victims of the war in recent years are mostly Shia. Last week a suicide bomber walked into a snooker club in a Shia district of Quetta in Pakistan and blew himself up. Rescue workers and police were then caught by the blast from a car bomb that exploded 10 minutes later. In all, 82 people were killed and 121 injured. "It was like doomsday," said a policeman. "There were bodies everywhere."
Responsibility for the bombing was claimed by the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni fundamentalist group behind many such attacks that killed 400 Shia in Pakistan last year.
The dead in Quetta come from the Shia Hazara community, many of whom migrated from Afghanistan in the last century. "They live in a state of siege," says Ali Dayan Hasan, of Human Rights Watch. "Stepping out of the ghetto means risking death. Everyone has failed them – the security forces, the government, the judiciary." In this they are little different from the 30 million Shia in Pakistan who are increasingly beleaguered and afraid in the midst of a rising tide of anti-Shia sectarianism.
The atrocity in Quetta will soon be forgotten outside the area ,but the victims were not the only Shia community to come under attack last week. In Bahrain, where the Shia majority is ruled by the Sunni al-Khalifa royal family, the high court confirmed prison sentences – including eight life sentences – on 20 activists who took part in the pro-democracy protests in 2011. This happened even though the original sentences were passed by military courts using evidence extracted by torture.
The sectarian nature of what is happening in Bahrain has never been in doubt. At the height of the crackdown the Bahraini security forces bulldozed 35 Shia mosques, husseiniyas (religious meeting houses) and holy places. The authorities claimed that they were inspired by a sudden enthusiasm to enforce building regulations despite the political turmoil.
Sunni-Shia friction has a long history but took its most vicious form after the overthrow of the Shah by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 and the creation of a revolutionary theocratic Shia state in Iran. The Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88 appeared to end Iranian hopes of spreading the revolution to its neighbour, but after the US invasion of 2003 – to the dismay of the White House and to the horror of Saudi Arabia – Iraq became a Shia-run state. "We are the first Arab state to be controlled by the Shia since the Fatimids ran Egypt 800 years ago," one Iraqi Shia activist exulted to me at the time.
As a result of the Sunni-Shia civil war in Iraq in 2006-07, Baghdad became an overwhelmingly Shia city. The Sunni in the capital increasingly lived in ghettos. The government, army, police and judiciary came under Shia control. Across the Middle East, the Shia appeared to be on a roll, exemplified by Hezbollah's success in withstanding the Israeli attack on Lebanon in 2006. In Afghanistan the traditionally down-trodden Shia Hazara community flourished after of the defeat of the Taliban. However, the overall extent of the Shia success was exaggerated: in most Muslim countries the Shia form a vulnerable minority. In the last two years the Shia revolution has been succeeded by a Sunni counter-offensive. The Shia democratic uprising was crushed in Bahrain, and Hezbollah wonders how it will fare if, in future, it faces a hostile Sunni government in Damascus. Until a few months ago the sectarian and ethnic balance of power in Iraq looked stable, but prophecies of a Sunni takeover in Syria are having destabilising consequences.
The uprising in Syria is not so far wholly sectarian, but is on its way to becoming so. Shia and Alawite villagers flee as the rebel Free Syrian Army moves in. A video posted on YouTube shows rebels ransacking and burning a Shia husseiniya outside Idlib in north-west Syria.
All this leaves the US and its Western allies with new dilemmas. In 2003 the US found that in Iraq it had opened the door to Iran by overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Its solution was to try to keep power itself in Iraq through an old-fashioned occupation, but this failed disastrously. From 2007 it adopted a new strategy known by some in the White House as the "redirection", making US policy more militantly anti-Iranian and pro-Saudi and, therefore, inevitably more pro-Sunni and anti-Shia.
In a revelatory piece in the New Yorker in 2007, Seymour Hersh described how this "redirection" has moved "the United States closer to an open confrontation with Iran, and, in parts of the region, propelled it into a widening sectarian conflict between Shia and Sunni Muslims". Iran, strengthened by the outcome of the US invasion of Iraq, was demonised as a greater threat than the Sunni radicals. Its allies, Hezbollah and Syria, were targeted for clandestine operations. Hersh says "a by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to al-Qa'ida."
In fact the main al-Qa'ida franchises in Iraq and Pakistan have always been more enthusiastic about killing Shia than killing Americans. The success of the Arab Spring movements was in part owing to the new willingness of Washington to tolerate the Muslim Brotherhood taking power, judging that this would not open the door to jihadis seeking to wage holy war.
The logic of the US policy of covertly co-operating with fundamentalist Sunni groups has reached its logical conclusion. There is now "good" al-Qa'ida on our side and "bad" al-Qa'ida fighting on theirs. In Syria, the former operates under the name of the al-Nusra Front, labelled by the US as the Syrian branch al-Qa'ida, and is the main fighting force of the rebel National Coalition. This is recognised by the US, Britain and many others as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
Meanwhile, in Mali an advance last week by the forces of the local al-Qa'ida franchise, of whom we don't approve, led to immediate action by the French army and air force against them. The hypocrisy of it all is baffling.


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A few weeks ago I posted a review of Dave Ramsey's College Planning Service. You all had mixed reviews of the product, and many people have come down hard on Dave for the product.
So, because I am not Dave, and because I do not have a cushion of millions to fall back on if a product/idea goes bust, I wanted to float an idea by you all before pursuing it any further.
Considering a FAFSA Prep Service
A coworker of mine was talking to me recently about how the lines at our local community college's financial aid office are out the door each semester. Their office is woefully understaffed and the people who truly need help filling out a FAFSA, or answering their financial aid questions, are swamped.
Do you think these same people would pay to have help completing their FAFSA? Rather than wait in a long line in a financial aid office, would they rather go sit in a cushy chair across from a personalized advisor, and pay to have help filling out the FAFSA?
Consider this, FAFSA.com, the non-government entity run by Student Financial Aid Services, Inc. completes tens of thousands of FAFSA applications each year and they charge $79 for each application. People still pay this fee even though the FAFSA can be completed for free at www.fafsa.ed.gov.
Why do people pay this? To be fair, I know that many folks stumble across FAFSA.com and think it is the official government site, even though it clearly states it is not. SO a portion of these customers are there because of a lack of knowledge.
The rest however, have made it very clear that they are willing to pay for this professional service, and to have personalized assistance in completing their FAFSA.
In talking with a number of these folks, they view it as no different than paying someone else to complete their taxes each year. They know they could do it themselves for free, but they are too busy/confused/lazy to do it themselves.
Does it Defeat the Entire Purpose of Financial Aid?
Does a service of this kind defeat the entire purpose of financial aid? Most often, the people submitting a FAFSA application are the ones who need to qualify for need-based aid. They don't have $79 lying around to throw away on professional FAFSA assistance.
Would it be highway robbery to provide this service at a cost to college students and their parents?
These are the questions that I am wrestling with. There are many other physical limitations to a service of this kind, but before I move any further in the planning phase of this business, I need to iron out the ethical dilemmas.
I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts!


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Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
July 02, 2014
By: Mindy A. Cockeram, LCCE | 0 Comments
By Mindy Cockeram, LCCE
Today's blog post is a repost of one of the most popular posts ever shared on our blog. It is written by Mindy Cockeram, LCCE. Mindy explores the 'mystical' red/purple line that has been observed to provide information about cervical dilation without the need for a vaginal exam. Have you seen such a line. Do you have other ways of identifying dilation that do not involve cervical exams? Please share in the comments- Sharon Muza, Science & Sensibility Community Manager.
When couples in my classes are learning techniques for coping in labor, such as the Sacral Rub (sacrum counterpressure), Double Hip Squeeze and Bladder32 accupressure points, I always talk about the great position the partner is in for spotting the red, purple or dark line (depending on skin color) that creeps up between the laboring woman's buttocks and how - by 'reading' that line - he or she may be able to assess more accurately the woman's cervical progress than the health care providers! This empowering thought is often met with smiles and laughter especially when I translate 'natal cleft' into more recognizable words like 'butt cleavage'. Strangely, I've never had anyone in class mention having heard of this 'thermometer' for accessing cervical dilation by sight and I find this interesting considering the number of medical professionals that come through my classes.
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I first came across this body of research as an Antenatal Student Teacher with the National Childbirth Trust in London. The article I was reading was in Practising Midwife and was a 'look back' at the original article (Hobbs, 1998) published in the same magazine. The original Practising Midwife article was based on a letter referencing a small study by Byrne DL & Edmonds DK published in The Lancet in 1990.
In the 1990 letter to The Lancet, Byrne and Edmonds outlined and graphed 102 observations from eighteen midwifes on 48 laboring women. It states 'The red line was seen on 91 (89%) occasions, and was completely absent in five (10.4%) women and initially absent in three (6.25%).' The report then goes on to talk about the 'significant correlation between the station of the fetal head and the red line length.' Later the authors write: 'To our knowledge, this is the first report of this red line. We believe that it represents a clinical sign which is easy to recognize and which may offer valuable information in obstetric management.'
So how does this line work? And why does this it appear? Practising Midwife Magazine presented a graphic which I have attempted to recreate here. Basically as the baby descends, a red/purplish (or perhaps brown depending on skin color) line creeps up from the anus to the top of the natal cleft in between the bottom cheeks. When the line reaches the top of the natal cleft, 2nd stage is probably a matter of minutes away. A line sitting an inch below the natal cleft is probably in transition. A line just above the anus probably signifies early labor.
Byrne DL & Edmonds DK, the authors of the original study, surmise that the cause of the line is 'vasocongestion at the base of the sacrum.' Furthermore, the authors reason that 'this congestion possibly occurs because of increasing intrapelvic pressure as the fetal head descends, which would account for the correlation between station of the fetal head and red line length.' Fascinating and logical!
Interestingly, I came across a 2nd Scottish study from 2010 published by BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth: (Shepherd A, Cheyne H, Kennedy S, McIntosh C, Styles M & Niven C) which aimed to assess the percentage of women in which a line appeared (76%. ) The study cited only 48-56% accuracy of vaginal examinations to determine cervix diameter and fetal station. So why aren't clinicians using this less invasive visual measure - especially considering how much some women may dread vaginal exams in labor?? Wouldn't the thought of using a methodology to lower infection rate after rupture of membranes has occurred enthuse Health Care Providers instead of using higher risk techniques? Or how about using the accuracy of the line at the natal cleft to know when a women using epidural should really be coached to push?
My educated guess is that this information has not yet reached Medical Textbooks and non-standard practices can take years to become mainstream (for example. delayed cord clamping) - and then only if or when women request them or media sensation activates them. In addition, since laboring women are only intermittently attended by Labor & Delivery staff during early and active labor and often encouraged to 'stay in bed,' Health Care Providers aren't necessarily faced with a woman's buttocks in labor. Also vaginal examinations are considered 'accurate' so staff have no need to peek between a woman's natal cleft. However both these studies, paired with the roughly 50% accuracy rate of manual vaginal exams, show that there is potentially a more accurate and less invasive way ahead.
In The Practising Midwife (Jan 2007, Vol 10 no 1, pg 27), Lesley Hobbs writes 'Accurate reading would seem to the key to this practice. I sometimes notice in myself a wish to see the line progressing more quickly than it actually does; when I do this - and check with a vaginal exam - only to find the line is right, I get annoyed with myself and wish I'd trusted my observations.' Later she goes on to say 'I can now envisage a time when I shall feel confident enough to use this as my formal measurement mechanism and abandon intrusive and superfluous vaginal exams.'
Licensed Midwife Karen Baker from Yucaipa, CA commented 'The purple line is a curious thing. It's definitely not present on everybody but is more prominent on some than others - especially right before pushing. It tells us when she's in full swing if we are in a good position to spot it!'
I often urge couples to send me a picture of the so called 'purple line' which I promise I will use only for educational purposes but so far a picture is as elusive as the Loch Ness Monster. So, as I say in class, 'show me your purple line'!
Are you a midwife, doctor, nurse or doula who has observed this in a client or patient? Partners, have you seen this when your partner was in labor? Has anyone heard of it or witnessed it? If you are a childbirth educator, do you feel this is something that you might mention in your classes? Do you think that the families in your classes might be likely to ask for this type of assessment if they knew about it? Please comment and share your experiences.
Byrne DL, Edmonds DK. 1990, Clinical method for evaluating progress in first stage labour.Lancet. 1990 Jan 13;335(8681):122.
Downe S, Gyte GML, Dahlen HG, Singata M. Routine vaginal examinations for assessing progress of labour to improve outcomes for women and babies at term (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2012, Issue 9. Art. No.: CD010088. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010088.
Hobbs 1998. Assessing cervical dilatation without Vaginal Exams. Watching the purple line. The Practising Midwife 1(11):34-5.
About Mindy Cockeram
Mindy Cockeram is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator teaching for a large network of hospitals in Southern California. She has a BA in Communications from Villanova University and qualified as an Antenatal Teacher through the United Kingdom's National Childbirth Trust (NCT) in 2006. A native of the Philadelphia area, she spent 20 years in London before relocating to Redlands, CA in 2010.
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Research Aircraft
Scientists sometimes travel in airplanes that carry weather instruments in order to gather data about the atmosphere. These research aircraft bring air from the outside into the plane so scientists can sample it and make measurements. Some research airplanes also carry radar and other special instruments.
Airplanes can collect information about many different parts of the atmosphere, including tiny particles called aerosols, clouds, winds, and radiation. They can also carry camera to take photographs of clouds from up in the air. Scientists use the information gathered by aircraft to learn more about topics like how clouds form, the effects of air pollution, and what causes turbulence.
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Pentecostal/Orthodox meeting at the Coptic Centre
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Unprecedented meeting of Orthodox and Pentecostal Church leaders at The Coptic Orthodox Church Centre
7 June 2016
As part of a Churches Together in England (CTE) initiative, The Coptic Orthodox Church Centre in the United Kingdom hosted an unprecedented meeting of Orthodox and Pentecostal Church leaders on 6 June 2016. The fraternal meeting, which aimed to build relationships, as well as discuss the issues of the persecuted Church and mission, was facilitated by His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, Bishop Dr Eric Brown, Pentecostal President of CTE, and Bishop in the New Testament Church of God, and The Very Revd Archpriest Maxim Nikolsky of the Russian Orthodox Church.
In his welcome, Bishop Angaelos, stated the importance of the common witness of the Christian family regardless of differences of expression and denomination, saying:
"There is such value in collaboration, and this historic meeting is the first of its kind in England, the United Kingdom, and possibly worldwide. While we all come from our particular backgrounds and theological understanding, today is a day to build bridges and to strengthen them."
Going on to comment on the persecuted Church, he said:
"In seeing the persecution of our brothers and sisters around the world, and in speaking about mission, we must recognise that this is a time, more than ever, for us to stand together. We must continue to be advocates for all who are persecuted regardless of their faith or ethnicity. As countless thousands continue to be persecuted for their Faith, we must speak out when there is injustice, following the example of Christ, the Chief Advocate, Who came to indiscriminately provide hope and salvation for all humanity."
During the morning session Bishop Eric Brown said:
"Today is a historic day, it is the coming together of the Pentecostals and Orthodox in this country, and essentially we are seeking ways in which we can jointly lift up the name of Jesus and to make Him known in a more powerful way in this nation. Hopefully we can get some consensus as to how we might address the issue of persecuted Christians worldwide."
Bishop Dr Joe Aldred who works primarily with Pentecostal Churches in CTE, and who was the instigator of this meeting, said:
"Today marks a momentous and significant meeting point and a beginning I hope of a lasting fellowship and friendship between leaders. I hope that we can develop a better understanding of what Christians around the world are experiencing, and continue to dialogue and take action where possible together. The other strand of this meeting is mission, and how that mission of Christ in England is better done together than apart."
Father Maxim Nikolsky said:
"It is important to meet people who certainly share much in common; to meet, to understand some of their way of thinking, and to see what it is that is common to us."
When asked about the persecuted Church, he continued:
"That is a very important topic especially in the modern day, and we need to see if there is anything that can be done on a personal level, and as a community. We read and deliberate on the subject, but we must look at what we can really do to help our fellow Christians, and all who are persecuted for their faith."
As part of the closing session a discussion was held on ways to collaboratively tackle national and international issues of concern, including religious freedom in England, and the Middle East. It was agreed to establish a working group to develop partnership in fellowship and actions, and a provisional time was set for the next meeting of the group.
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Lyrics Depot is your source of lyrics to Sari by Nellie McKay. Please check back for more Nellie McKay lyrics.
Sari Lyrics
Artist: Nellie McKay
Album: Get Away From Me
Sometimes I feel like I shouldn't apologize so much
that it's jive it's a crutch
I just used when I'm judged
bein' fudged by a face I can't erase and can't see
cuz I misplaced a dossier or Monty Python CD
or somethin' stupid like that
but jesus is that so bad
to make my ego go splat
like a tire goin' flat
or fat on a big mac
I'm bein' attacked
tit for tat
you fuckin' bureaucrats
you can just apologize back
But I don't know when it comes and it goes
all the highs and the lows
in this motionless psychosis
ieeieei and I die fadin' straight away
ieeieei and I cry every waking day
I don't know what else to say
I'm sorry for the mess
the stupid way I'm dressed
I guess I failed my test
oh don't you know I'm sorry for my views
I musta been confused
and yet you know that really I'm sorry for you
Well now I don't mean to offend, much
just comprehend
when you're female and you're fenced in and
phen-phened to no end
and no zen guide to men will help you fend off the brethren
and then the pen appears
and better than the oxygen network
or the sword or the spear or the fork
or the bored pork-fed horde
it's a mooring post
the whore you'll miss the most when you're away
when you're in Snowshoe PA
doin' some play from Backstage
that deals with AIDS and race and gays and
relationships and ballet
and then you're like €œhey yay what'd you say?
I can just sing my troubles away?€?
but then you're fucked
'cause you gotta make a buck
and the whole world sucks
and you're like a lame duck
that's lyin' dyin' tryin' to sell out
but there's no one buyin' and there's all this doubt
and you can preen and dream and scream and shot
but your life's affliction is the fiction of Faust
I'm sorry for the time
the stupid way I rhyme
I knew I shoulda chose a life of crime
I'm sorry for my blues
I guess it's all old news
and yet you know that really I'm sorry for you
I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry
I also mirror this apology
this idealogy of sorry
in part of the liberal theology that's leading us to hari-kari
it's like a mythology, almost
like a malingering ghost
as we slowly decompose
writing in the grave of the polls
cryin' for Senator Wellstone and then proceeding to moan
at our own supposed sabotage of the elections at home
€œoh somebody phone home!
the American people have spoken!€?
now is that certain?
maybe those nice Midwestern folks were just jokin'
in any case there's no use in dopin' chokin' mopin' and sobbin'
come on you disheartenin' dobbins
sayin' sorry is my problem
so to conclude
I'm a little of a prude
so it's difficult for me to have to allude
to all this rude crude verbal baggage
but I manage cuz I'm a savage inside
I may listen to Enya's greatest hits
and try to control my hissy fits with pride
won't get my hair dyed
but oh the onus of lyin' all the time
I don't wanna say, €œdiiiie motherfucker!€?
but I wouldn't mind if you did
Janet Reno has no ego when devoured by the id
and so before I flip my lid my crib
and get myself out of this bind
you can hear what's on my lips but you don't know
what's in my mind
I'm sorry for you I'm sorry for you
aww, I'm sorry
eh shit
Nellie McKay Lyrics
Nellie McKay Get Away From Me Lyrics
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