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In brief, too many organizations, regulators, and government agencies waste precious time and resources devising and auditing "controls," regardless of the effect these controls have or do not have on security. They are far too input-centric; they should become more output-aware. They obsess over recording conditions they believe may be helpful while remaining ignorant of the "score of the game." They practice management by belief and disregard management by fact.
Let me provide a few examples from one of the canonical texts used by the control-compliant crowd: NIST Special Publication 800-53: Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems (.pdf). The following is an example of a control, taken from page 140.
The information system implements malicious code protection.
Control: Supplemental Guidance: The organization employs malicious code protection mechanisms at critical information system entry and exit points (e.g., firewalls, electronic mail servers, web servers, proxy servers, remote-access servers) and at workstations, servers, or mobile computing devices on the network. The organization uses the malicious code protection mechanisms to detect and eradicate malicious code (e.g., viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware) transported: (i) by electronic mail, electronic mail attachments, Internet accesses, removable media (e.g., USB devices, diskettes or compact disks), or other common means; or (ii) by exploiting information system vulnerabilities. The organization updates malicious code protection mechanisms (including the latest virus definitions) whenever new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy and procedures. The organization considers using malicious code protection software products from multiple vendors (e.g., using one vendor for boundary devices and servers and another vendor for workstations). The organization also considers the receipt of false positives during malicious code detection and eradication and the resulting potential impact on the availability of the information system. NIST Special Publication 800-83 provides guidance on implementing malicious code protection.
Control Enhancements:
(1) The organization centrally manages malicious code protection mechanisms.
(2) The information system automatically updates malicious code protection mechanisms.
At first read one might reasonably respond by saying "What's wrong with that? This control advocates implementing anti-virus and related anti-malware software." Think more clearly about this issue and several problems appear.
- Adding anti-virus products can introduce additional vulnerabilities to systems which might not have exposed themselves without running anti-virus. Consider my post Example of Security Product Introducing Vulnerabilities if you need examples. In short, add anti-virus, be compromised.
- Achieving compliance may cost more than potential damage. How many times have you heard a Unix administrator complain that he/she has to purchase an anti-virus product for his/her Unix server simply to be compliant with a control like this? The potential for a Unix server (not Mac OS X) to be damaged by a user opening an email through a client while logged on to the server (a very popular exploitation vector on a Windows XP box) is practically nil.
- Does this actually work? This is the question that no one asks. Does it really matter if your system is running anti-virus software? Did you know that intruders (especially high-end ones most likely to selectively, steathily target the very .gov and .mil systems required to be compliant with this control) test their malware against a battery of anti-virus products to ensure their code wins? Are weekly updates superior to daily updates? Daily to hourly?
The purpose of this post is to tentatively propose an alternative approach. I called this "field-assessed" in contrast to "control-compliant." Some people prefer the term "results-based." Whatever you call it, the idea is to direct attention away from inputs and devote more energy to outputs. As far as mandating inputs (like every device must run anti-virus), I say that is a waste of time and resources.
I recommend taking measurements to determine your enterprise "score of the game," and use that information to decide what you need to do differently. I'm not suggesting abandoning efforts to prevent intrusions (i.e., "inputs.") Rather, don't think your security responsibilities end when the bottle is broken against the bow of the ship and it slides into the sea. You've got to keep watching to see if it sinks, if pirates attack, how the lifeboats handle rough seas, and so forth.
These are a few ideas.
- Standard client build client-side survival test. Create multiple sacrificial systems with your standard build. Deploy a client-side testing solution on them, like a honeyclient. (See The Sting for a recent story.) Vary your defensive posture. Measure how long it takes for your standard build to be compromised by in-the-wild Web sites, spam, and other communications with the outside world.
- Standard client build server-side survival test. Create multiple sacrificial systems with your standard build. Deploy them as a honeynet. Vary your defensive posture. Measure how long it takes for your standard build to be compromised by malicious external traffic from the outside world -- or better yet -- from your internal network.
- Standard client build client-side penetration test. Create multiple sacrificial systems with your standard build. Conduct my recommendation penetration testing activities and time the result.
- Standard client build server-side penetration test. Repeat number 3 with a server-side flavor.
- Standard server build server-side penetration test. Repeat number 3 against your server build with a server-side flavor. I hope you don't have users operating servers as if they were clients (i.e., browsing the Web, reading email, and so forth.) If you do, repeat this step and do a client-side pen test too.
- Deploy low-interactive honeynets and sinkhole routers in your internal network. These low-interaction systems provide a means to get some indications of what might be happening inside your network. If you think deploying these on the external network might reveal indications of targeted attacks, try that. (I doubt it will be that useful due to the overall attack noise, but who knows?)
- Conduct automated, sampled client host integrity assessments. Select a statistically valid subset of your clients and check them using multiple automated tools (malware/rootkit/etc. checkers) for indications of compromise.
- Conduct automated, sampled server host integrity assessments. Self-explanatory.
- Conduct manual, sampled client host integrity assessments. These are deep-dives of individual systems. You can think of it as an incident response where you have not had indication of an incident yet. Remote IR tools can be helpful here. If you are really hard-core and you have the time, resources, and cooperation, do offline analysis of the hard drive.
- Conduct manual, sampled server host integrity assessments. Self-explanatory.
- Conduct automated, sampled network host activity assessments. I questioned adding this step here, since you should probably always be doing this. Sometimes it can be difficult to find the time to review the results, however automated the data collection. The idea is to let your NSM system see if any of the traffic it sees is out of the ordinary based on algorithms you provide.
- Conduct manual, sampled network host activity assessments. This method is more likely to produce results. Here a skilled analyst performs deep individual analysis of traffic on a sample of machines (client and server, separately) to see if any indications of compromise appear.
In all of these cases, trend your measurements over time to see if you see improvements when you alter an input. I know some of you might complain that you can't expect to have consistent output when the threat landscape is constantly changing. I really don't care, and neither does your CEO or manager!
I offer two recommendations:
- Remember Andy Jaquith's criteria for good metrics, simplified here.
- Measure consistently.
- Make them cheap to measure. (Sorry Andy, my manual tests violate this!)
- Use compound metrics.
- Be actionable.
Controls are not the solution to our problem. Controls are the problem. They divert too much time, resources, and attention from endeavors which do make a difference. If the indications I am receiving from readers and friends are true, the ideas in this post are gaining traction. Do you have other ideas?


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Reference about Manta Point or Karang Makassar
North west from Komodo, near Batu Bolong and the two Tatawa , there is Karang Makassar: a strong current large 5-15 m deep shoal with just a few living corals and some rocks. This description is not very attractive for what actually is one of the most interesting places of Komodo archipelago.
In fact, it is just here that mantas use to come. For feeding maybe? For being cleaned? Or playing? Why the come here is not clear, but this is definitely the place to go to spot them. It is possible to spot them here anytime, although it is easier to see them at the high tide and in strong current condition.
We will start diving down to 8-10 m at about a few hundreds meters east from a green little Island that marks the south end of Manta Point. We will be drift by the current at a short distance from the bottom not deeper than 15 m.
With the high tide, although the current is strong the dive is not difficult. For inexperienced divers it is a perfect start for drift diving. In this strange place, that looks poor of species at first glance you can actually meet sea turtle, white or black tip sharks and huge trevallies. Recently bamboo sharks, the uncommon in this area, have been spotted here.
The visibility is generally good, exception made during the rainy season (January-February) Excellent Snorkelling with the same probabilità to see the mantas.
Tour Name : Komodo Dragons and Manta Rays Snorkeling Adventures Trip
Rate : USD 550/person (Cabin with Air condition and share bathroom/shower)
Participant : Minimum 4 person
Duration : 04 Days 03 Nights
04 Days 03 Nights Komodo Dragons and Manta Rays Snorkeling Adventures Trip
We take you to do the adventures in Komodo and Rinca Islands including to the World Best Snorkeling in Red Beach, Manta Rays Garden, Sabita Bays and Tatawa Island, All best snorkeling experience you ever made
Tours Itinerary
Day 01 : Labuan Bajo-Kelor Island-Rinca-Kalong Island
Pick up at your hotel or Airport, directly transfer to your boat in Labuan Bajo harbor and sail to Kelor island for your fist snorkeling, enjoy the beautiful underwater of Kelor island and white beaches.
After snorkeling, we take you to Loh Buaya ( Crocodile Bay ) Ranger Station in Rinca Island, check in at the park while all tickets and entrance fees included and search for Komodo Dragons ( Varanus Komodoensis ) which can grow up to 3 meter in length and over 90 Kg's in weight.
Also search for Timorensis Deer, Wild water buffaloes, Wild horses, Crab eating macaques and birds. Return to your boat and sail to Kalong island where you can see millions of FRUIT BATS during sunset. Overnight at Kalong Island Bay.
( Lunch and Dinner )
Day 02 : Kalong Island-Red Beach-Komodo Village-Komodo Island Bay-Sabita Bay
After breakfast, leave the island and sail to Red beach for spectacular snorkeling in Komodo, enjoy the beautiful underwater of Red beach. After lunch sail to Kampung Komodo or Komodo Village to see the local habitat and how the survive living with the DRAGONS ( Optional ) continue sail to Loh Liang Komodo Ranger Station for another great trekking to search for Komodo Dragon and other wildlife.
( Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner )
Return to your boat after trek and sail to Sabita Bay near Karang Makassar ( Manta Point ) for Manta Rays Adventures. ( Change to see this Manta is 75% )
Day 03 : Sabita Bay-Manta Point or Karang Makassar-Sebayur Island-Bidadari Island
Morning snorkeling to see Manta Rays at Karang Makassar, the change to see is 75%, sometime you see the schooling of Mantas in this reefs. before lunch, sail to Sebayur Island for another snorkeling adventures, Coral reefs and fishes in Sebayur Reefs is also spectacular. in the afternoon sail to Bidadari or Kanawa Island and overnight.
(Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner)
Day 04 : Bidadari/Kanawa-Labuan Bajo-Airport
After breakfast, leave Bidadari or Kanawa island and transfer to Labuan Bajo and by our car directly transfer to the airport of your flight. ( Breakfast Only )
Option: if you have flight at noon, you can make another snorkeling in Bidadari/Kanawa before transfer to the airport.
Rate included
- Airport pick/hotel transfer
- Bunk Cabin boat with share bathroom
- All meals during the trip ( breakfast, Lunch and Dinner ) as per tours itinerary
- English speaking guide
- Entrance fees in the park
- Ranger fees
- Snorkeling gear
- Mineral water, Coffee and teas
- Snack and fruits
Rate excluded
- Return air tickets to and from Labuan bajo
- Airport taxes
- Airport porters
- Alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks
- Laundry
- Additional tipping
- Phone call
- Meals that not stated in the itinerary
- Diving
- Komodo diving tags @USD 15/person when dive in the park area
- Any personal expenses


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Getting started on managing SQL databases in C#
Azure Storage sample for managing SQL Database -
- Create a SQL Server along with 2 firewalls.
- Create a database in SQL server
- Change performance level (SKU) of SQL Database
- List and delete firewalls.
- Create another firewall in the SQlServer
- Delete database, firewall and SQL Server
Running this Sample
To run this sample:
Set the environment variable
AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION with the full path for an auth file. See how to create an auth file.
git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/sql-database-dotnet-manage-db.git
cd sql-database-dotnet-manage-db
dotnet build
More information
Azure Management Libraries for C# Azure .Net Developer Center If you don't have a Microsoft Azure subscription you can get a FREE trial account here
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact email@example.com with any additional questions or comments.


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The dazzling "ring of fire" seen in the Australian Outback was produced when the moon moved between the Earth and the sun. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
SYDNEY — Skygazers across the Australian Outback were among the lucky few to witness a solar eclipse on Friday as the moon glided between Earth and the sun, blocking everything but a dazzling ring of light.
The celestial spectacle, known as a "ring of fire" eclipse, was the second solar eclipse visible from northern Australia in six months. In November, a total solar eclipse plunged the country's northeast into darkness, delighting astronomers and tourists who flocked to the region from across the globe to witness it.
Friday's eclipse, also called an annular solar eclipse, was not considered as scientifically important or dramatic as November's, because the moon is too far from Earth — and therefore appears too small — to black out the sun completely. Unlike a total solar eclipse, which essentially turns day into night, an annular eclipse just dims the sunlight.
"A total eclipse is overall far more spectacular, far more emotional," said Andrew Jacob, an astronomer at Sydney Observatory. Still, he said, Friday's eclipse provided "a nice ring of sunlight in the sky."
At remote outposts across Australia, scientists and spectators watched as the eclipse cast an approximately 200-kilometer-wide (120-mile-wide) shadow at dawn over Western Australia. The moon's shadow moved east through the Northern Territory and the top of Queensland state, then across Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the tiny island nation of Kiribati. The show ended at sunset over a largely uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean.
Nicole Hollenbeck
The annular solar eclipse blazes in the morning sky south of Newman, Australia. The "second sun" is a lens effect. For more about Nicole Hollenbeck's photo, check SpaceWeather.com.
Joerg Schoppmeyer
A filtered view of the annular solar eclipse highlights the "ring of fire" effect. Click on the picture for more eclipse views from photographer Joerg Schoppmeyer.
Geoff Sims
Photographer Geoff Sims captured this view of the annular solar eclipse from a ridge west of Plutonic Gold Mine, about 120 miles (200 kilometers) from Newman, Australia. "The horizon was perfectly clear - what an amazing sight seeing the squished sun in annular eclipse," Sims wrote in his Facebook posting. He's working on a collaborative imaging and time-lapse program with colleague Colin Legg. Click on the image to see more of Sims' work at https://www.facebook.com/BeyondBeneath
David Gray / Reuters
Women wear protective glasses as they gaze at Friday's solar eclipse from Sydney's Observatory Hill.
David Gray / Reuters
A telescope set up on Sydney's Observatory hill projects an image of the partial solar eclipse onto a screen.
Skywatchers in Australia catch a "ring of fire" eclipse. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
The eclipse lasted between three and six minutes, depending on its location, and blacked out around 95 percent of the sun at its peak. A partial eclipse was visible to people in other parts of Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
Astronomer Jay Pasachoff, who traveled from Williams College in Massachusetts to Australia to view his 57th solar eclipse, drove to a remote hill in the Outback about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, where he and around 100 others enjoyed one of the best and longest views of the eclipse in Australia.
Amateur astronomers clicked away on cameras, and local high-school students measured the drop in temperature as the moon moved in front of the sun and blocked out much of the light. The moment, Pasachoff said, was magical.
"The color of the light changes in an eerie fashion, and you sense that something very strange and weird and wonderful is going on," Pasachoff said.
More about the solar eclipse:
- The science behind the 'ring of fire'
- Two solar eclipses in six months!
- Flash interactive: What causes a solar eclipse
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It's the Original Edition of the Hobbit. It has some variations from the book we all know.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill—The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden, and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.
This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may have lost the neighbours' respect, but he gained—well, you will see whether he gained anything in the end.
The mother of our particular hobbit—what is a hobbit? I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they call us. They are (or were) a little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves. Hobbits have no beards. There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off. They are inclined to be fat in the stomach; they dress in bright colours (chiefly green and yellow); wear no shoes, because their feet grow natural leathery soles and thick warm brown hair like the stuff on their heads (which is curly); have long clever brown fingers, good-natured faces, and laugh deep fruity laughs (especially after dinner, which they have twice a day when they can get it). Now you know enough to go on with. As I was saying, the mother of this hobbit—of Bilbo Baggins, that is—was the famous Belladonna Took, one of the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took, head of the hobbits who lived across The Water, the small river that ran at the foot of The Hill. It was often said (in other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife. That was, of course, absurd, but certainly there was still something not entirely hobbitlike about them, and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures. They discreetly disappeared, and the family hushed it up; but the fact remained that the Tooks were not as respectable as the Bagginses, though they were undoubtedly richer.
Not that Belladonna Took ever had any adventures after she became Mrs Bungo Baggins. Bungo, that was Bilbo's father, built the most luxurious hobbit-hole for her (and partly with her money) that was to be found either under The Hill or over The Hill or across The Water, and there they remained to the end of their days. Still it is probable that Bilbo, her only son, although he looked and behaved exactly like a second edition of his solid and comfortable father, got something a bit queer in his make-up from the Took side, something that only waited for a chance to come out. The chance never arrived, until Bilbo Baggins was grown up, being about fifty years old or so, and living in the beautiful hobbit-hole built by his father, which I have just described for you, until he had in fact apparently settled down immovably.
By some curious chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when there was less noise and more green, and the hobbits were still numerous and prosperous, and Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)—Gandalf came by. Gandalf! If you had heard only a quarter of what I have heard about him, and I have only heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be prepared for any sort of remarkable tale. Tales and adventures sprouted up all over the place wherever he went, in the most extraordinary fashion. He had not been down that way under The Hill for ages and ages, not since his friend the Old Took died, in fact, and the hobbits had almost forgotten what he looked like. He had been away over The Hill and across The Water on businesses of his own since they were all small hobbit-boys and hobbit-girls.
All that the unsuspecting Bilbo saw that morning was an old man with a staff. He had a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, a silver scarf over which his long white beard hung down below his waist, and immense black boots.
"Good morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.
"What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"
"All of them at once," said Bilbo. "And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain. If you have a pipe about you, sit down and have a fill of mine! There's no hurry, we have all the day before us!" Then Bilbo sat down on a seat by his door, crossed his legs, and blew out a beautiful grey ring of smoke that sailed up into the air without breaking and floated away over The Hill.
"Very pretty!" said Gandalf. "But I have no time to blow smoke-rings this morning. I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone."
"I should think so—in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them," said our Mr Baggins, and stuck one thumb behind his braces, and blew out another even bigger smoke-ring. Then he took out his morning letters, and began to read, pretending to take no more notice of the old man. He had decided that he was not quite his sort, and wanted him to go away. But the old man did not move. He stood leaning on his stick and gazing at the hobbit without saying anything, till Bilbo got quite uncomfortable and even a little cross.
"Good morning!" he said at last. "We don't want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The Water." By this he meant that the conversation was at an end.
"What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off."
"Not at all, not at all, my dear sir! Let me see, I don't think I know your name?"
"Yes, yes, my dear sir—and I do know your name, Mr Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don't remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me! To think that I should have lived to be good-morninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!"
"Gandalf, Gandalf! Good gracious me! Not the wandering wizard that gave Old Took a pair of magic diamond studs that fastened themselves and never came undone till ordered? Not the fellow who used to tell such wonderful tales at parties, about dragons and goblins and giants and the rescue of princesses and the unexpected luck of widows' sons? Not the man that used to make such particularly excellent fireworks! I remember those! Old Took used to have them on Midsummer's Eve. Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!" You will notice already that Mr Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers. "Dear me!" he went on. "Not the Gandalf who was responsible for so many quiet lads and lasses going off into the Blue for mad adventures? Anything from climbing trees to visiting elves—or sailing in ships, sailing to other shores! Bless me, life used to be quite inter—I mean, you used to upset things badly in these parts once upon a time. I beg your pardon, but I had no idea you were still in business."
"Where else should I be?" said the wizard. "All the same I am pleased to find you remember something about me. You seem to remember my fireworks kindly, at any rate, and that is not without hope. Indeed for your old grandfather Took's sake, and for the sake of poor Belladonna, I will give you what you asked for."
"I beg your pardon, I haven't asked for anything!"
"Yes, you have! Twice now. My pardon. I give it you. In fact I will go so far as to send you on this adventure. Very amusing for me, very good for you—and profitable too, very likely, if you ever get over it."
"Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not today. Good morning! But please come to tea—any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Come tomorrow! Good-bye!" With that the hobbit turned and scuttled inside his round green door, and shut it as quickly as he dared, not to seem rude. Wizards after all are wizards.
"What on earth did I ask him to tea for!" he said to himself, as he went to the pantry. He had only just had breakfast, but he thought a cake or two and a drink of something would do him good after his fright.
Gandalf in the meantime was still standing outside the door, and laughing long but quietly. After a while he stepped up, and with the spike on his staff scratched a queer sign on the hobbit's beautiful green front-door. Then he strode away, just about the time when Bilbo was finishing his second cake and beginning to think that he had escaped adventures very well.
The next day he had almost forgotten about Gandalf. He did not remember things very well, unless he put them down on his Engagement Tablet: like this: Gandalf Tea Wednesday. Yesterday he had been too flustered to do anything of the kind.
Just before tea-time there came a tremendous ring on the front-door bell, and then he remembered! He rushed and put on the kettle, and put out another cup and saucer, and an extra cake or two, and ran to the door.
"I am so sorry to keep you waiting!" he was going to say, when he saw that it was not Gandalf at all. It was a dwarf with a blue beard tucked into a golden belt, very bright eyes under his dark-green hood. As soon as the door was opened, he pushed inside, just as if he had been expected.
He hung his hooded cloak on the nearest peg, and "Dwalin at your service!" he said with a low bow.
"Bilbo Baggins at yours!" said the hobbit, too surprised to ask any questions for the moment. When the silence that followed had become uncomfortable, he added: "I am just about to take tea; pray come and have some with me." A little stiff perhaps, but he meant it kindly. And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?
They had not been at table long, in fact they had hardly reached the third cake, when there came another even louder ring at the bell.
"Excuse me!" said the hobbit, and off he went to the door.
"So you have got here at last!" That was what he was going to say to Gandalf this time. But it was not Gandalf. Instead there was a very old-looking dwarf on the step with a white beard and a scarlet hood; and he too hopped inside as soon as the door was open, just as if he had been invited.
"I see they have begun to arrive already," he said when he caught sight of Dwalin's green hood hanging up. He hung his red one next to it, and "Balin at your service!" he said with his hand on his breast.
"Thank you!" said Bilbo with a gasp. It was not the correct thing to say, but they have begun to arrive had flustered him badly. He liked visitors, but he liked to know them before they arrived, and he preferred to ask them himself. He had a horrible thought that the cakes might run short, and then he—as the host: he knew his duty and stuck to it however painful—he might have to go without.
"Come along in, and have some tea!" he managed to say after taking a deep breath.
"A little beer would suit me better, if it is all the same to you, my good sir," said Balin with the white beard. "But I don't mind some cake—seed-cake, if you have any."
"Lots!" Bilbo found himself answering, to his own surprise; and he found himself scuttling off, too, to the cellar to fill a pint beer-mug, and then to a pantry to fetch two beautiful round seed-cakes which he had baked that afternoon for his after-supper morsel.
When he got back Balin and Dwalin were talking at the table like old friends (as a matter of fact they were brothers). Bilbo plumped down the beer and the cake in front of them, when loud came a ring at the bell again, and then another ring.
"Gandalf for certain this time," he thought as he puffed along the passage. But it was not. It was two more dwarves, both with blue hoods, silver belts, and yellow beards; and each of them carried a bag of tools and a spade. In they hopped, as soon as the door began to open—Bilbo was hardly surprised at all.
"What can I do for you, my dwarves?" he said.
"Kili at your service!" said the one. "And Fili!" added the other; and they both swept off their blue hoods and bowed.
"At yours and your family's!" replied Bilbo, remembering his manners this time.
"Dwalin and Balin here already, I see," said Kili. "Let us join the throng!"
"Throng!" thought Mr Baggins. "I don't like the sound of that. I really must sit down for a minute and collect my wits, and have a drink." He had only just had a sip—in the corner, while the four dwarves sat round the table, and talked about mines and gold and troubles with the goblins, and the depredations of dragons, and lots of other things which he did not understand, and did not want to, for they sounded much too adventurous—when, ding-dong-a-ling-dang, his bell rang again, as if some naughty little hobbit-boy was trying to pull the handle off.
"Someone at the door!" he said, blinking.
"Some four, I should say by the sound," said Fili. "Besides, we saw them coming along behind us in the distance."
The poor little hobbit sat down in the hall and put his head in his hands, and wondered what had happened, and what was going to happen, and whether they would all stay to supper. Then the bell rang again louder than ever, and he had to run to the door. It was not four after all, it was five. Another dwarf had come along while he was wondering in the hall. He had hardly turned the knob, before they were all inside, bowing and saying "at your service" one after another. Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin, and Gloin were their names; and very soon two purple hoods, a grey hood, a brown hood, and a white hood were hanging on the pegs, and off they marched with their br...
J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy featuring cover art by Caldecott Honor winning children's book illustrator Peter Sís, this edition of The Hobbit has been specially formatted for young readers. Larger print size and wider margins provide reading ease for the youngest Tolkien fans. This quality digest edition also includes interior maps and original interior illustrations by J.R.R. Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his journey to the Lonely Mountain he will encounter both a magic ring and a frightening creature known as Gollum.
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Rivals is coming to the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and the PC. The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC version are on track for a November release, with the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 version to follow later on. No Wii U version was announced, and this is not really a surprise since the game is powered by the Frostbite 3 engine.
Rivals is a new entry into the Need for Speed franchise, and will offer the freedom to seamlessly go from single player to co-op to multiplayer modes, which provides a new wrinkle from drivers. Rivals is said to feature a new gaming experience, but it will offer many of the advances we have seen in previous Need for Speed titles like Autolog. Ferrari will also return to the Need for Speed franchise as part of the release of Rivals.
Look for EA to fill in some more of the specifics when the show off Rivals at E3.


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There has been much talk about when or if the European Union will start speaking with one voice internationally and in foreign affairs. A lot of things instantly come to mind – energy policy, Human Rights, multilateral trade agreements, military activity – the list goes on.
The EU is a global player, with its own economic and geopolitical interests. If the EU were to protect these interests, that are EU citizens' interests, we have to be able to speak with one voice with our partners.
The European External Action Service was created with the Lisbon Treaty. Baroness Catherine Ashton was chosen as the first High Representative of this institution and of the EU's foreign affairs. Hopefully she will not fail in her assignments to co-ordinate and stand for agreed positions of the Member States. Otherwise Europe's international influence will fade indefinitely and the EU dissolve internally. Such a situation could then be characterised by an already existing anecdote – Hillary Clinton dials Cathy Ashton's number. An answering machine picks up the phone. The following message is read out: "You have called the High Representative of the EU Foreign Affairs. Unfortunately our working day is finished. If you have a question and wish to know the position of France, dial 1; if you wish to know the position of Germany, dial 2". And so on…
Hopefully the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) can help in avoiding this scenario. The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) is also a part of this. There is already in place the Crisis Management and Planning Directorate (CMPD) that gives Members States and non Member States alike the chance to co-operate on different security related issues. The institution is also responsible for designing the EU's political and strategic concepts regarding CSDP missions and operations. The latter is going to be the heart and basis for the EU's External Action Service, concentrating on preventing and reacting on civilian crises (e.g. natural disasters) here and abroad.
In addition we have the European Defence Agency, whose assignment is to develop a functioning system to satisfy the needs of the CSDP. Also, it fosters EU co-operation on weaponry and defence equipment.
For more information, please read:
- Council of Europe – Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
- European Security Strategy of 2003 and its revision in 2008:
European Security Strategy: A secure Europe in a better world (EN, Brussels, 12 December 2003)
- External Relations Council meeting – Ministerial Declaration:
ESDP Ten Years – Challenges and Opportunities (November 2009)
- "The Crisis Management and Planning Directorate: recalibrating ESDP Planning and conduct Capacities"
- Report on the Implementation of the European Security Strategy: Providing Security in a Changing World (Brussels, 11 December 2008, S407/08)
- External Relations: Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) for the European Union
- CSDP information by the Council of the EU: Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP)
- Implementation of The CFSP and CSDP
- CSDP structures and instruments
- Headline Goal 2010 (PDF)
- Presidency Report on ESDP (CSDP), June 2009 (PDF)


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Young women have lower numeracy skills than young men, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Young women lag behind young men on numeracy skills, but perform well on literacy
However, ABS Director Myles Burleigh said that when it comes to literacy skills, young women were doing just as well as young men.
"The survey measured participants skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving in technology-rich environments and assigns them to a number of different levels.
"The higher the level, the better your skills, so Level 2 represents higher skill levels than Level 1, and so on. Level 3 or above for literacy and numeracy represents relatively advanced skills.
"For numeracy, 45 per cent of young men aged 15 to 19 ranked at Level 3 or above, compared with 39 per cent of young women.
"However, for literacy, 56 per cent of young women and 53 per cent of young men ranked at Level 3 or above."
Mr Burleigh said that the survey also found that Australians with a non-school qualification are much more likely to have high levels of literacy and numeracy than those without a qualification.
"Amongst people with a non-school qualification, 62 per cent were assessed as having literacy skills at Level 3 or above, compared with 44 per cent of those without a qualification.
"For numeracy, 52 per cent of those with a non-school qualification were ranked at Level 3 or above, compared with 34 per cent of those without a qualification."
The survey was undertaken as part of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, which was conducted in 24 countries around the world, co-ordinated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Further information can be found in Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (cat. no. 4228.0), available for free download from the ABS website www.abs.gov.au.
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DOVER — Saturday's charrette has been postponed due to the impending blizzard.
The Planning Department held the first of two charrettes, or brainstorming sessions, last Saturday, where the public expressed how they felt about the downtown and what they believe could be done to make the area and its gateways more effective.
The second charrette was supposed to be held this Saturday, Feb. 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Director of Planning and Community Development Christopher Parker has rescheduled for March 2.
The session will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the McConnell Center Room 306.
Between now and the upcoming charrette, all residents and visitors of Dover are invited to participate in a short online survey located on the Planning Department's home page at www.dover.nh.gov/planhome.htm. After completing the survey, there is an opportunity to enter a raffle to win a $50 Main Street gift card.
Dover charrette for Saturday postponed until March
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Flores, Labuhan Bajo Bayview Garden Hotel
|This small boutique-hotel, owned and managed by a dutch- indonesian family, brings the best of two cultures together: Western comfort and hygiene in an abundant tropical ambiance. We speak Dutch, English, German and Indonesian. It's the only hotel in the surroundings where you get the feeling of living in a botanical garden, with more than 400 species of fruit-trees, flowers, herbal plants, vegetables, cacti and so on, ingeniously terraced to follow the steep slope. More a guest house than hotel, the rooms are immaculate and well kept. Its nothing like an international hotel, but we really enjoyed the open air living room with a stunning ocean view. The bedroom is air-conditioned and a nice retreat. Upon check in, a thermos of hot water and a variety of coffees are delivered in a basket with some local peanuts. Adrien, the owner, is very kind and helpful. He helps make arrangement for dinner, which can be delivered from any of Labuan Bajo's few restaurants. Adrien delivered a couple of bottles of ice cold Bintang to our room, which we drank will taking in the incredible view. We just sat on the veranda for two hours watching the happenings in the port, and enjoying the slow sun set behind Komodo National Park. Fantastic!!! Breakfast is ordered the day before on a white board near the entrance and is delivered to the guest room exactly when requested. The continental breakfast is simple and delicious. The hotel also offers an Indonesia breakfast as well. The main strip of Labuan Bajo is a 10 minute walk down a hill. Getting back up the hill can be sweaty, so its best to take a bemo for about 1-2,000 rp, which stops right at the hotel entrance. We would definitely stay at The Bayview Gardens Hotel and Viewpoint again, and highly recommend it for the gracious hospitality of the owner and his family, the welcoming spirit we received, and the incredible view of Labuan Bajo and Komodo National Park. At 60 meters above sea-level the view from every room over the old fishermen-village, the harbor, the bay and the islands in the Komodo-archipelago is undisturbed and breath-taking. And so are the red sunsets in the rainy season. Some of the rooms have an indoor open living-room next to the small sleeping-room and the bathroom; others have a private terrace outside the more spacey sleeping-room and bathroom. All have hot and cold water, AC, a lot of fans and a safe, spring beds and good sound-isolation. Privacy is the key-word. An extensive western breakfast is included in the price. The eco-character is fully optimized by saving and cleaning the rain- and wastewater, recycling all that's edible by our life stock and making compost. On request we serve an extensive lunch and dinner (set menu) or, for more than four people, an indonesian buffet, rijsttafel, which will please your throat. Get surprised! The room-rates Standard : US$ 70/Night/Single or Double including breakfast and taxes Family Villa ( 02 Bed Room ): US$120/Night/Single or Double including breakfast and taxes High and peak season surcharge USD 10/night/room apply from July to August and Dec to January
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Exactly one hundred years ago, the state government of Colorado and the Rockefeller owned CFI company, (Colorado Fuel and Iron), committed an atrocity against poor striking workers – even before the Great Slaughter of World War I. This terrible atrocity possessed the infamous name of the Ludlow Massacre.
What was amazing about this particular miners' struggle was that they represented various nationalities and cultures: Eastern European, German, Greek, Mexican, Anglo-American, Irish, Italian, New Mexican, British, French and even a few African-Americans. This motley ethnic group had finally had enough with the mining system practiced in the state of Colorado at the turn of the century.
America's business elites had badgered the federal government for a more 'disciplined and compliant' workforce, so the US state apparatus willingly allowed millions of immigrants to enter its borders. The mine owners preferred to hire the newly arrived immigrants due to their willingness to accept low wages and that they all spoke different languages. Unions had troubles organizing against the mine bosses. Those mine bosses also built company towns. Sometimes they literally took over a town with a pit mine in it, and later, transformed the village into a mining town.
In the mining towns, the mine workers and their families lived in shacks without the basic hygienic systems. They had to pay high rents, and buy their basic supplies from the company stores, meaning clothes, foodstuffs and the basic articles for survival. The company stores nickel and dimed the workers on shelf items, and the workers had to use worthless company scrip papers. Sometimes, the mine company paid the workers in those worthless papers, instead of the regular notes.
Workers had to inform the mine company guards when leaving or arriving. The mine company guards ran the towns like the prisons. These legal criminals even murdered or tortured the uncooperative and rebellious workers in the dead of the night. There was really nothing the miners could do, since the main mining outfits had monopolistic owners, such as the Rockefeller family. The Rockefeller's 40 room villa was all the way on the other side of the continent anyway – Tarrytown, New York!
Mining was a very dangerous job. The mining schedule was a seven-day a week back and neck destroyer that went from sun up to sun down. Back then, accidents, explosions and mine disasters were quite common. Miners died through simple overwork, lung emphysema, suffocation-drowning through getting buried alive or due to flash flooding in the tunnels, or just having their bodies blown into various pieces due to sudden explosions. There was no compensation for any mining accident. A dead miner had to pay for his own burial, or the other miners just threw the dead weight into the common garbage ditch.
In Ludlow, the miners and their families created their own alternative town. They armed themselves with guns, set up a functioning mutual aid system at the campsite, squatted on the land, and the men wore ripped pants, overalls, caps on their heads, and red bandanas around their necks. This was the true origin of the term 'redneck,' yet in the current Amerikan Empire, racists and reactionaries have taken the class war term 'redneck,' as their own.
The state of Colorado and the Rockefeller monopoly counterattacked with allowing the company mine guards to join the Colorado State Militia. They too had guns – and cannons – and bombs. On April 20th, 1914 they fired upon the tent colony and burnt up the Ludlow miners-squatters camp, murdering around 20 people, most of whom were women and children.
This was not the end of the story. The men of the red bandanas moved the offensive into the Colorado hills. They killed mine guards, worker narc-snitches, and mine pit bosses. The actual number of killed company thugs is still unknown to this day. The miner-guerrillas were so successful in exterminating the mine managers and company town goons that Liberal Democrap, President Wilson sent into federal troops to intimidate the fighters.
Soon, the IWW solidarity union, or the Wobblies, joined with the miner-fighters, while the Rockefellers tried their hands at 'company unions' in order to squelch the mutual aid and solidarity networks. Eventually, the mine owners had to settle for union organization with the United Mine Workers. Now the miner job pays well, has some worker compensation packages, and there are less mine pit hours.
The miners had moved onto the war of offense because they had nothing else to lose. They had realized that they had become wage slaves.
Capitalism owes its evil birth from the rotting flesh of slavery. Capitalism and Slavery are historically intertwined like moss growing on an old stone building. We understand this history of Capitalism thanks to the nineteenth-century intellectual, Karl Marx.
Karl Marx was however wrong about his general theories of history. Marx stated in his 1848 writings that all culture and history, called the 'superstructure of society,' came out of the 'productive base of labor and work.' This theory is incorrect. He was mistaken because he was a philosopher trying to become a historian. History is not a social science but an art of interpreting human struggles and violence. Like artists, humans simply create their own history, and make up their own culture.
Karl Marx was actually quite brilliant in describing the brutality of the capitalist system. Capitalism spreads like gangrene, and grows into monstrous monopolies, while it becomes ever more contradictory as it expands out into the farthest reaches of the planet. This tendency to overproduce, to over-control, and to over-extend leads into the contradictory world of class conflict over wage slavery.
Class conflict or class struggle is simply the continual and incessant changes coming from the owners-bosses in demanding more brutal work output from the workers. The owners want the workers to produce more and more until the poor laborers drop dead because the owners run the businesses for the sake of profit. 'Profit' comes from the French verb, 'profiter,' which implies, 'to take advantage of someone.'
Yet the workers only want to work the least amount as possible, since they have to give up their lives, their time and their energy for a survival wage. This is the contradictory condition within all 'businesses,' both large and small, imprisoned inside the capitalist beast.
The worker or laborer transforms into the wage slave because he or she must have some income, or wage salary, in order to pay government taxes and rent-utility bills for shelter, and then pay for foodstuffs and clothes. Marx correctly surmised that all working people laboring for a wage have to then 'sell themselves' to the owners on the capitalist market. The owners hire managers or company commanders to hire out for them. The plantation boss used overseers to manage labor discipline. The wage slaves, like the slaves of ancient times, must willingly give up large portions of their personal time and strength in order to receive this survival wage or slave wage.
This particular labor-slave cycle continues until they are too old, badly injured, or simply worthless, within the general labor pool. Once they go, then the owner can easily find a younger and more compliant worker to replace the labor loss. When the slave never woke up from sleep or died while working, the plantation owner then visited the slave market for a replacement.
The company owner reviews the labor market through hiring managers that do the employment screening. It is the not the tyranny of useless money that eventually kills the spirit of the average worker-laborer-employee, rather it is the tyranny of the cruel labor market represented through a fetid pool of applicants.
The first capitalist systems in the late medieval period, such as Islamic culture and the Venetian Empire needed an easy and compliant labor source too. They used what all empires have used throughout history: the capture, kidnapping and slow murder of slaves. The Muslim caliphates raided the pagan coasts of East Africa and the Christian Balcans, while the Catholic Venetians raided Muslim and Orthodox Christian territories in Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, and parts of North Africa. During the fifteenth and sixteenth-centuries, (1400s and 1500s), the newer Atlantic world empires of Spain and Portugal would also raid North Africa for a ready supply of slaves. Eventually they would both go deeper into the African continent.
The other Atlantic world empires followed them, such as the Dutch, (Netherlands), with France and Britain in the seventeenth-century, (1600s). Following the Brazilian Portuguese use of captured slaves from the Tupamori Nation, the Spanish soon became the leaders in the use of captured native slaves from the Mapuche Nation of central Chile, the Guarani Nation of Paraguay, and the Apache Nation in the Red Rocks, or 'Colorado' frontier of Nuevo Mejico, (New Mexico). In the 18th century, (1700s), the British Empire would even overtake both the French Empire and the Portuguese Empire in becoming world history's greatest kidnapping-mass murder-slave trade potentate from Africa to Asia to the Americas.
This imperial political-economic system transformed into Mercantile capitalism. The royal state with favored investors, usually aristocrat-noble relations or court favorites, controlled joint stock companies and the profits of final sale. Meanwhile, the slave planters had to bear numerous credit-debts through purchasing slaves and dealing with cash crop fluctuations in the market, such as sugar, tobacco, coffee, chocolate, tea, opium and cotton.
Due to this capitalistic 'mercantile' monopoly, a new group of outlaws emerged in order to take fast money and loot for themselves, commonly called back then, 'pirates.' But for the West Indian 'white' planters, slaves were an excellent resource because they could also resale such movable capital. In the case of the Africans, they were the victims of kidnapping slave traders in Africa, and they had no legal resources. They were socially dead human waste.
Britain was also notorious for using just as many 'white slaves,' as their 'black or African ones.' The white slaves were often the victims of kidnapping rings found all over England and occupied Ireland. When the white slaves began to fraternize with the African ones, then African slavery began to have more ominous, permanent tones.
Britain's world-wide kidnapping-slave-mass murder system was so successful that it freed up a special commandeering class of scientists, inventors and investors to fund and experiment in technological advancement. It is no coincidence that during this same eighteenth-century, Industrial Capitalism came into fruition.
But the old system of plantation agriculture slavery in the American colonial-settler states, with its numerous inefficiencies and ugly brutality – had to go. Industrial capitalism valued the factory system, which produced a lot more, and hid its brutalities under smoke stacks and within inferno like worker dungeons. A new slave economy was necessary.
Instead of the owners paying for the worker-slaves' crap food and flea infested huts, they could pay the losers a 'wage.' Now, the lowlifes had to pay their own way through life – and literally beg for a 'job.' They were technically free – but like any slave, they permanently lost their honor and dignity.
We have returned full circle to the slave trade of Ludlow. These terrible relations between capitalism and slavery still breathe their noxious fumes as I write.
Now capitalism functions under even greater duress, and its contradictions are so much more intense due to the actual extremes of global monopoly capitalism. Even the technically skilled or PhDs, such as myself, have to suffer under the indignity of permanent unemployment or underemployment. Billions of us currently experience life as capitalism's victims. Even if we don't work for 'The Man,' we still slave under the mental guilt of not having any good employment prospects. Unless we have family money to support us, we must continually resell ourselves on the slave labor market for survival.
If we really own property, which means no mortgage debts or property taxes whatsoever, then we are all technically homeless. We give dirty stares to the pathetic 'home bums,' or permanently homeless, on the street corners; yet, their numbers will only continue to grow. Some of us reading this essay, will also end our lives down there – dying slowly in the hopeless gutter.
For the rest of us that are 'lucky to have work,' our 'freedom' comes at a terrible price. A good chunk of our time and our lives goes to the owner's personal profit margin, while our general quality of life suffers. We also live impaired under the political-cultural ideology of global monopoly capitalism, called Neo-Liberalism. Most of us live in overcrowded and unhealthy cities, where most of our 'wage money' goes into a toilet drain of rent housing.
In order to live economically, many of us have to consume crappy genetically modified food. Meanwhile, both our minds and stomachs have to tolerate regular scam artistry, ubiquitous, large public signs that warn and threaten with the smoldering potential of violent street crime. All of us must endure the institutional violence of petty felony laws, common deceitfulness between neighbors, continual advertising overload, and pathological lying from politicians. Like the old saying goes, 'slavery has never ended.'


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Stuttgart is home to two of the leading names in the automotive world, Daimler-Benz and Porsche – both of which have erected spectacular museums in the city.
The breathtaking Mercedes-Benz Museum looks back on some of the finest feats from the world of mobility. No fewer than nine floors are needed to display a total of more than 1,500 exhibits tracing the unique history of the brand. Visitors can learn all about the legendary Porsche marque at the Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen. The exhibition space at this dazzling white museum is held up by just three pillars and looks as if it is about to take off. Even during construction, its bold architecture grabbed the headlines. Read more
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Man charged in Shippensburg shooting
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A 25-year-old man has been charged in a shooting near Shippensburg University that sent one man to the hospital.
Darrel Hill, 25, of Shippensburg, has been charged with aggravated assault and a firearms violation.
Police said a group of men and women approached 45 Sunbeam Court in Shippensburg Township about 1 a.m. Saturday. They wanted to start an altercation with another man they thought was inside the residence.
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