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John Rozentals finds eight great things to love about Barossa Valley
1. Break some old-world-recipe fresh bread at the Apex Bakery in Tanunda
The bakery was founded in 1924 by Albert Hoffman and purchased in the 1930s by Keith Fechner, who had started working there as a 12-year-old. I was lucky enough to be shown around by one of the bakers, Corey Fechner, Keith's direct fourth-generation descendent.
Corey still uses the same wood-fired oven from 1924 and the story is that the flame has never been extinguished.
Apex Bakery: 1A Elizabeth St, Tanunda 5352; phone (08) 8563 2483; visit www.apexbakery.com.au
2. Wander through the Barossa Farmers Market
Barossa Farmers Market is probably the best place to appreciate the strength of the valley's foodie culture and is held each Saturday morning in Vintners Sheds on the outskirts of Angaston.
It's a lively, friendly place where winemakers, bakers, cheesemongers, smallgoods manufacturers, butchers, olive growers, breeders of game birds, orchardists, gardeners and purveyors of various condiments trade cheek by jowl and compete with each other in spruiking the invaluable role of the Barossa as one of Australia's premium food bowls.
Barossa Farmers Market: Cnr Nuriootpa and Stockwell Rds, Angaston 5353; phone 0402 026 882; visit www.barossafarmersmarket.com
3. Drive to the top of Menglers Hill
The panoramic lookout on one of the high points of the Barossa Ranges really puts the valley into perspective and is essential, I think, to properly appreciating it.
The valley, with its vines and rich farmland spreads in front of you, and the surrounding sculpture park is a bonus, even if Lonely Planet describes its contents as 'naff'.
4. Have lunch at Maggie Beer's Farm Eatery
Australia's favourite foodie and cook — she rejects the term 'chef' because of her lack of formal training — has certainly maximised leverage of her substantial talents and knowledge. Everything seems to be gorgeously packaged and branded with her name.
Visitors could easily spend a couple of hours browsing the shop and spending a small fortune. Chef Tim Bourke prepares food that is everything you would expect — rustic, full-flavoured and hearty. And there are also regular cooking classes.
The Farm Eatery, 50 Pheasant Farm Rd (via Samuel Rd), Nuriootpa 5355; phone (08) 8562 1902; visit www.maggiebeer.com.au
5. Take a stroll through one of the original Barossa towns…
...namely Tanunda, Angaston or Lyndoch, and marvel at the history that has made the Barossa so unique and appealing. The old churches, houses and shops have been beautifully maintained and the towns present a charming picture.
6. Tour the historic mausoleum Seppeltsfield
Seppeltsfield, dating from 1878, when Benno Seppelt, eldest son of Silesian-born founder Joseph, laid down a barrel of his best to commemorate the opening of the family's new cellar, has survived its corporate years and is back in devoted private hands.
The new owners have done a marvellous job in revitalising the place, and thankfully the lineage of ports from 1878 — believed to be the world's longest — remains intact. The Seppelt family also established impressive avenues of palm trees to maintain employment during the Great Depression and built a substantial mausoleum.
My guide for the day, Yalumba's delightful Jane Ferrari, is only half joking when she suggests a reason for the mausoleum's hill-top location — they wanted their descendants to really struggle with the caskets.
Seppeltsfield: 730 Seppeltsfield Rd, Seppeltsfield 5355; phone (08) 8568 6200; visit www.seppeltsfield.com.au
7. Sample some wine and food from an iconic Barossa name: Yalumba
There's never been much of a problem as the operation has been in family hands — most recently under the Hill-Smith moniker — since Samuel Smith planted his first vineyard in 1849.
You can pick the moment when first-time visitors will gasp. It comes just as they round the corner from the car park and confront the clock tower and old cellars. Everyone should do at least the two-hour 'Yalumba Unlocked' tour ($75 per head) and enjoy a tour of the grounds and cellars, including the cooperage and fabulous Wine Room — and, of course, a hosted tasting of some great wines.
And, if possible, have lunch in Tank 11 or 12, the old concrete-lined wine-storage units, now converted into memorable dining spaces.
Yalumba: 40 Eden Valley Rd, Angaston 5353; phone (08) 8561 3200; visit www.yalumba.com
8. Take in the remarkable rolling fields of grapes
Above all, appreciate the Barossa's gnarled old bushvines, especially of shiraz and grenache. They're essential to maintaining the valley's reputation for rich, long-living reds.
John Rozentals was a guest of Yalumba


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Southwest Florida decided to fizzle out its nice cool weather and bring back heat and humidity, this time with ominous gray clouds that–like the little devil on your shoulder–attempt to make you listen to whispers of "Florida Christmas blows."
Fine. You wanna play that way? Game on.
I'm like a ninja warrior when it comes to fighting Christmas snuffers. I'm like Harry Potter blastin' dementors. I'm like–okay, Jesus would be too far, right? My point: I happen to take great pride in the fact that I've learned to spark a Christmas fire with wet matches.
Cue vintage Christmas coloring books.
Cue a mid-afternoon cup of hot wassail (also known as, simply, cheer).
Cue Christmas red manicure.
Bracelets from The Shine Project, employing at-risk-teens. "Be the Change" bangle and Nykelle chain bracelet
And friends. Good God, I must miss my family because I cannot get enough–warning, I'm breakin' out an old church word—fellowship. My sister and I can't contain our laughter at the presentation of this word now, and I'm not sure why, other than the fact that our old church used to throw the term around a lot. As in, "Let's fellowship," "Time for fellowship," "Oh, the sweet fellowship of brethren." And if you really want to Church Lady it up, you go with the Greek interpretation of this word–Koinonia; except you throw a "dude" in for juxtaposition. Such as, "Dude, I'm majorly needing some Koinonia." Translated: I want company.
And I do. December calls for it, so I've lined up movie nights, an orange grove sunset, lunches and brunches and baby-hugging rendezvous. I want to be with my people.
And if all else fails in the heat of December, you pull a "Kids get in the car now!" And you peel out of the driveway with 106.3 Christmas carols blaring. And you don't even switch the station if it's that sad "Christmas Shoes" song or Dolly Parton's "Hard Candy Christmas." You listen and you drive and you smile and you pull over as soon as you see the first thing that says December Adventure. And you know you got it right when you land at a giant tent full of Balsam and Douglas and Frasers. You tell your kids to inhale deep. "Smell that?" you say. "That's what Christmas is supposed to smell like. That's what it smells like in Michigan. Run! Go have fun!."
You don't know how badly I want to write "Two Points for Griffindor" because it would tie in that Harry Potter reference up there so well, but no. I will not go there. I will not. Oh, but I did.
We bought a wreath–a really wonderful wreath drenched with the scent of real Christmas–and even though the suction cup I used to hold it to my mirror gave out and the wreath is still lying in a puddle of scrap needles on the floor, it still makes me happy.
Ten days in to this festive little month. Enjoy your people.
And now comes a fellow Christmas Ninja Warrior, my old friends at Blue Q. Many of you e-mailed last year that Blue Q helped you scrape up some hilarious stocking stuffers and gifts for hard-to-shop-for friends and family. Well, they're back. Before I introduce my favorite products, let me help you know them. Blue Q is a Massachusetts based company created by two brothers. They design and manufacture everything they make, and they do it carefully with much thought toward quality, labor practices, and the environment. What I love about Blue Q besides their goods? They employ a workforce of disabled and non-disabled individuals working together to create their product.
Bags, totes, tins, retro house goods, bath products, lighting–Blue Q has it all. And a crazy sense of humor that's infused in their products.
I get so many comments on our line-up of Blue Q lavoratory mists in our guest bathroom:
Which are not only hilarious, but really pretty to look at.
Other Blue Q gift faves:
Go browse the site. You will leave smiling.
Take that, Christmas snuffers.
Off to watch a Hallmark Christmas movie and pick up my fallen wreath.

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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
•Syracuse and Kansas are both very good. The Orange handled Michigan State, and the Jayhawks took care of business with Memphis. Both are undefeated. If this were college football, one would meet Duke next week in the championship game, and the other would inexplicably get Cleveland State.
•The Mavericks are also very good, and their ten consecutive wins are against NBA teams, to boot. That's got to count for strength of schedule.
•Iowa's all-time leading receiver Derrell Johnson-Koulianos was arrested yesterday after being charged with a number of things, including "one count of keeping a drug house." So, yeah, party at Johnson-Koulianos's.
•Oh look, Murray Chass is making shit up again.
•Clayton Kershaw got married. Did his bride wear a Dodgers dress? You'd better believe it.
•A (barely) 19-year-old rookie defenseman finally found the net, as the Ducks down the Oilers in the tenth round of a shootout. It's just like that hockey movie...the one with the kids...you know the one: Most Valuable Primate.
(h/t to Braden for the photo of Blue Jays catcher J.P. Arencibia.)
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I know it's wrong.
But I feel sorry for O.J.
There. I said it. I can't help it. I just do. I don't know why.
I know he's a murderer. But I always feel sorry for the wrong people.
Anybody else? Or am I a MONSTER?
Monday, December 8, 2008
Shortest Post in Crabmom History
I know it's wrong.
9 comments:
- B, Esq. said...
I'm with you.
My husband thinks I'm crazy, but I really feel bad for OJ. I was in college when the murder happened, and, many years later, I'm now a lawyer, and really believe that he was acquitted, and should not have been treated by a complete outcast--because our system, a jury of his peers, found him not guilty. Yet the same system allowed him to be financially liable to the families of the victims because the standard of proof is lower.
Then, OJ makes a bad decision, the guys who took his stuff even said they didn't want him to go to jail, and he gets 15 years.....rough. Seeing him teary on TV made me feel bad.
- December 8, 2008 at 4:05 PM
- Amanda said...
Let me be clear: I think he IS a murderer. But I still somehow feel slightly bad for him. And it's not right and I don't know why I feel sorry for crazy murderers but every now and then...Can't explain it.
- December 8, 2008 at 4:17 PM
- Amanda said...
Let me be clear: I think he IS a murderer. But I still somehow feel slightly bad for him. And it's not right and I don't know why I feel sorry for crazy murderers but every now and then...Can't explain it.
- December 8, 2008 at 4:17 PM
- Dto3 said...
Funny, haven't even cared. Karma is a funny thing though.
- December 8, 2008 at 9:40 PM
- tonypark said...
Who is OJ?
- December 8, 2008 at 11:45 PM
- Emily L. said...
Of course you feel sorry for him!
He was The (black) Man of his era. Woopsy. Did I say something about race?! Well, the acquittal turned him white. So now, as a first time offender facing an unfair sentence...I guess he's black again!
- December 9, 2008 at 9:21 AM
I don't feel sorry for this homicidal maniac at all ... call it what you will: karma, poetic justice, irony, whatever...he finally got a fraction of what he deserved 12 years ago.
- December 9, 2008 at 11:50 AM
- laure92 said...
I wouldn't say I feel sorry for him. However, I sure think he is stupid. If I was him, after I was acquitted I would have just hidden out of the public eye and enjoyed the rest of my life.
B, Esq, I totally agree. I will never understand a legal system where you can sue someone for something they were previously acquitted for. Also, as for suing someone for murder, how can money get back the person you lost?
- December 10, 2008 at 6:24 PM
i DON'T feel even slightly sorry for him. and i feel really sorry for anyone who does because you've clearly lost your perspective. what if he had killed YOUR son or daughter? how quickly we forget. he is a cold blooded murderer. PERIOD. feel sorry for his kids - they get to hear about how their dad nearly decapitated their mother because she tried to get on with her life. if you were sucked in by his crocodile tears, you need to reevaluate your ability to tell sincere people from snakes in the grass, or some day you (or your child) may get taken in, and later taken advantage of, by someone just like OJ. It makes me SICK to see things like this - especially from WOMEN! get in touch with your GUT, you know, the thing where the baby came from? if you do, the very sight or sound of someone like OJ will turn your stomach faster than morning sickness. unbelievable!
- December 26, 2008 at 3:45 PM


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A notorious former Vancouver lawyer who has served more than 10 years in American federal prison on money-laundering charges may be closer to freedom here in Canada after a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled his "Kafkaesque" detention in the U.S. violated his Charter rights.
Martin Chambers, now 74, is serving a 15 year sentence. He was caught in Florida in 2002 during a joint FBI-RCMP sting in which he agreed to launder millions of dollars for undercover officers, who were posing as agents for Colombian drug lords, and took delivery of $700,000 cash.
Judge Arne Silverman ruled last week that Chambers "has been and continues to be unlawfully detained according to Canadian law," but he refused to compel the Correctional Service of Canada to process his transfer application.
"He has already served longer than the maximum sentence would have been had he been convicted in Canada," Silverman stated, according to his online ruling.
Last fall, American authorities approved Chambers' transfer to a Canadian prison — where he would likely be released upon his arrival for already serving the maximum sentence of 10 years — but the Correctional Service of Canada ruled Chambers couldn't be transferred because he needed to have "at least six months left to serve in order to transfer."
"In my view, the correct interpretation of the (International Transfer of Offenders) Act does not act as a bar to a prisoner being eligible for transfer as a result of his having less than six months remaining to be served in Canada or, for that matter, as a result of there being no sentence left to serve at all," Silverman ruled.
On Monday morning, Chambers will take his case to Canadian Federal Court to try to force the Correctional Service of Canada to process his application, according to his lawyer John Conroy.
"They know that one of their own citizens would be released if returned and the (public safety) minister has yet to make a decision," Conroy said.
The RCMP, along with the FBI, had been after Chambers for years when they arrested him after a two-year undercover operation in August 2002.
Chambers's capture and conviction was a major coup for the RCMP, which alleged that Chambers had been dealing with Hells Angels, Russian mobsters and other undesirables for years.


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Many major lenders have quietly eliminated their stated incomeprograms or are tightening their lending review process for self-employed individuals. This move comes with the growing fear around household debt and CMHC's recent announcement that they are reaching the $600-billion cap for mortgage insurance set by the Federal Government.
The stated income programs were originally introduced to deal with the unique situations that self-employed residents have with the large amount of write-off expenses they have. Since self-employed individuals are able to write-off many expenses such as car payments or housing payments, their claimed income does not really reflect their financial situation. Permanent residents with over 3 years of business operation and a good Canadian credit history were eligible for the stated income program. Based on this program, lenders ask borrowers to state their income instead of providing the traditional forms of proof of income, like pay stubs or income tax returns.
By not being able to verify the income claimed by a self-employed borrower, the fear of clients over-committing financially increases. With worries that our housing market will "burst" like it did in America has prompted banks to be more stringent with whom they give mortgages out to.
Mortgage regulations around stated incomes had already been tightened in 2010. Self-employed borrowers who received a mortgage through the program were expected to put 10% down instead of the minimum 5% for a conventional mortgage. Refinancing a mortgage through the program was limited to 85% loan-to-value ratio (LTV). LTV represents the amount of the mortgage loan compared to the value of the property.
Self-employed individuals should expect a more extensive mortgage review process and be prepared to show documented proof of their income.
If you're self-employed and thinking of purchasing a home, come talk to one of our mortgage specialists to help you find the mortgage that's right for you.


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1. Have sticky notes and a pencil on hand as you read.
Try to get in to the habit of keeping supplies on hand for this active reading technique.
2.Stay alert for important or pivotal information. Learn to identify meaningful statements in your book. There are often statements that sum up a list, trend, or development in a textbook. In a piece of literature, this may be a statement that foreshadows an important event or a particularly beautiful use of language.
3.Mark each important statement with a sticky flag. Place the flag in position to indicate the beginning of the statement. For instance, the sticky part of the flag can be used to underline the first word. The "tail" of the flag should stick out from the pages and show when the book is closed.
4.Continue to mark passages throughout the book. Don't worry about ending up with too many flags.
If you own the book follow up with a pencil. You may want to use a very light pencil mark to underline certain words that you want to remember. This is helpful if you find that there are several important points on one page. Don't mark a book that doesn't belong to you.
5.Once you have finished reading, go back to your flags. Re-read each passage that you have marked. You'll find that you can do this in a matter of minutes.
6.Make notes on a note card. Keep track of all your readings by creating a collection of note cards. These can be valuable at test time.
7.Erase the pencil marks. Be sure to clean up your book and remove any pencil marks. It's O.K. to leave the sticky flags in.
p/s : You may need them at finals time! try it for our coming day..
Friday, February 22, 2008
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Its wedding season and you have chosen to have a destination wedding. Now its time to pick your wedding dress. Will you chose an informal wedding gown with spaghetti straps and a cowlneck back that will show off your sun-kissed skin? This style is perfect for a beach wedding. Maybe your destination wedding is on a hillside in the mountains? With a long-sleeved formal gown shimmering with crystals and sequins strategically placed thru your gown to catch the sunlight or the twinkling lights from the stars on a moonlit evening?
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July 19, 2013
Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, has threatened to hold up the renomination of Gen. Martin Dempsey as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff following a verbal clash between the two during a committee hearing.
McCain grilled Dempsey and Navy Adm. James Winnefeld. The senator is irritated that the United States has not entered the Syrian war or provided CIA mercenaries operating there with arms to depose the Syrian government and defeat its well-trained and disciplined army.
"I must tell both the witnesses at the onset I'm very concerned about the role you've played over the last two years," groused McCain. "General Dempsey and Admiral Winnefeld, do you believe the continued cost and risk of our inaction in Syria are now worse for our national security interest than the cost and risk associated with limited military action?"
"Senator, as we've discussed—" Dempsey tried to respond
"I'd like to know an answer rather than a filibuster," McCain growled. "I have six minutes and 10 seconds."
"With all due respect, Senator, you're asking me to agree that we've been inactive, and we have not been inactive," Dempsey replied.
In May, McCain allegedly ventured to the Middle East to meet with the public relations wing of the so-called rebels, the Free Syrian Army, the mercenary unit with a dismal field record.
"We can identify who these people are. We can help the right people," McCain told CIA asset Anderson Cooper, an anchor at the Pentagon's psychological operation headquartered at CNN.
McCain said only a small portion of the so-called rebels are radical jihadists fighting to convert Syria into failed state dominated by Sharia law. In fact, the CIA sponsored "rebels" are largely radical Sunni Salafists who behead Christians and feed them to dogs.
Remarkably, McCain said al-Nusra only accounts for 7,000 of the 100,000 mercenaries inside Syria. In fact, al-Nusra and al-Qaeda dominate the effort to topple al-Assad. "Every single day, more and more extremists flow in… They're flowing in all the time, these extremists. But they still do not make up a sizable portion," he said.
"Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of," the New York Times reported in April. "The Islamist character of the opposition reflects the main constituency of the rebellion," the newspaper stated, explaining that this fact is due to "the failure of more mainstream rebel groups to secure regular arms supplies," in other words supposed ambivalence on the part of the United States has resulted in a failure to more actively support the Free Syrian Army, initially a hodgepodge of secular Syrians who were woefully ill-prepared to fight al-Assad's well-trained army. Earlier this month, it was reported that FSA mercenaries are defecting to al-Nusra and the radical Muslim groups in record numbers.
During Dempsey's interrogation by McCain, the general stressed the government is concerned about al-Qaeda and other Salafist groups attempting to overthrow the al-Assad regime in Syria.
In June, we reported on comments made by Sheikh Nabil Naiim, considered to be the historical leader of the Islamic Jihadist movement in Egypt. Naiim, who led the Safwa al-Qaeda training camp where he allegedly met Osama Bin Laden and later worked with al-Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri in Yemen, said he believes al-Nusra is led by the CIA.
"I personally believe that the leader of the Nusra Army (Mohammed al-Jawlani), who declared his support for Ayman Al Zawahiri, is a CIA operative in the al-Nusra," he said.
Naimm said he believes the CIA allowed al-Qaeda to operate in Afghanistan and were being manipulated. He told al-Nusra members in a video dispatch that it is "fighting the war in Syria on America's behalf" and that eventually will "be called terrorists and you will be killed or put in prison just like what happened to us after Afghanistan."
"These leaders are manipulating you, you will find yourself dying and the Americans fulfilling their goals not yours," Naiim added.
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Milwaukee County Courthouse cafeteria still closed after fire
The cafeteria in the Milwaukee County Courthouse remains closed after an electrical fire last month.
The closure is sending thousands of staffers, jurors and the public in search of alternative eats.
Four weeks after the courthouse fire, the cafeteria remains a hard hat zone.
In the weeks after the fire, court services, child support and weddings all resumed slowly, but the county said the cafeteria was low on its priority list.
That's left a stream of cafeteria refugees looking for lunch. WISN12 News found courthouse employees Tina Lausier and Peggy Kubricky at the nearby Public Museum Café.
It was standing room only at the Gouda Girls sandwich truck, where the closed cafeteria means a new business opportunity.
"We're glad we can help them out in their time of need, said Katherine Tonn of Gouda Girls.
The county arranged for food trucks to feed the masses there until the cafeteria reopens.
"I would be happy to be here every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (and) Friday," Tonn said.
The county said the cafeteria management wanted to wait until the building's electrical power issues were resolved before restocking refrigerators. The county will also ask the Milwaukee Health Department to give the restaurant its OK before bringing back the food.
A county spokesman said the cafeteria could be open by the end of the week.


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This site is the archived OWASP Foundation Wiki and is no longer accepting Account Requests.
To view the new OWASP Foundation website, please visit https://owasp.org
OWASP Newsletter 2
Sent to owasp-all mailing list on 16th Jan 2007
OWASP Newsletter #2 – January 8th 2006 to January 15th 2006
Hello, here is another newsletter with tons of links and information about what is happening at OWASP. If you want something to appear in the next version, please add it to OWASP Newsletter 3
Dinis Cruz Chief OWASP Evangelist London, UK
- 1 OWASP News
- 2 Featured Projects
- 3 Featured Story: Two free Java EE filters for CSRF, Reflected XSS, and Adobe XSS
- 4 Featured Story: "Automated Scanner vs. The OWASP Top Ten"
- 5 Latest Blog Entries from blogs.owasp.org
- 6 Latest additions to the WIKI
- 7 OWASP Community
- 8 Application Security News (from Owasp.org)
- 9 OWASP references in the Media
OWASP News
- ORG (OWASP Report Generator) - New release of ORG Installer (1/15/2007)
- OWASP Live CD Beta Release - Download it from http://www.packetfocus.com/hackos
Featured Projects
- OWASP WebScarab NG Project - Rogan has been very busy on the new version of WebScarab, which is not complete, but is already in a very usable state (I already prefer it to the current version). Rogan needs your help in testing this version and sending in your comments. Quote from OWASP WebScarab NG Project: WebScarab-NG is a complete rewrite of the old WebScarab application, with a special focus on making the application more user-friendly. To this end, WebScarab-NG makes use of the Spring Rich Client Platform to provide the user interface features. By using the Spring Rich Client Platform, WebScarab-NG automatically gains things like default buttons, keyboard shortcuts, support for internationalisation, etc.
- Category:OWASP Testing Project - As per my last email to you, we have started a review process for new version of the OWASP Testing Guide v2 (which you can you can read it on line Testing Guide v2 wiki - 'Release Candidate 1' or view it in in Adobe PDF format or Ms Doc format). If you want to participate in this review see the OWASP_Testing_Project_v2.0_-_Review_Guidelines page.
- Category:OWASP CAL9000 Project - This project is a great resource to (amongst other things) understand and exploit XSS. Quote: CAL9000 is a collection of web application security testing tools that complement the feature set of current web proxies and automated scanners. CAL9000 gives you the flexibility and functionality you need for more effective manual testing efforts. Works best when used with Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Featured Story: Two free Java EE filters for CSRF, Reflected XSS, and Adobe XSS
OWASP contributors from Aspect Security have developed two new Java EE filters to protect against common web attacks. Just add a few lines to your web.xml file and enjoy the protection.
- CSRF and Reflected XSS Filter for Java EE
- This filter adds a random token to forms and URLs that prevent an attacker from executing both CSRF and reflected XSS attacks.
- Adobe XSS Filter for Java EE
- This filter protects against the recent XSS attacks on PDF files. By using a redirect and an encrypted token, this filter ensures that dangerous attacks are not passed into the Adobe reader plugin.
Featured Story: "Automated Scanner vs. The OWASP Top Ten"
Apart from some shameless marketing plus and its real intention with this paper, WhiteHat Security has published a good paper on the limitations of Web Application Security Scanners capabilities to detect the [OWASP_Top_Ten_Project OWASP Top 10] vulnerabilities (which btw, all vendors claim they do). I actually think that the examples are quite basic, but they are good enough for the argument presented.
You can download this paper from [1]
Quote: "The OWASP Top Ten is a list of the most critical web application security flaws – a list also often used as a minimum standard for web application vulnerability assessment (VA) and compliance. There is an ongoing industry dialog about the possibility of identifying the OWASP Top Ten in a purely automated fashion (scanning). People frequently ask what can and can't be found using either white box or black box scanners. This is important because a single missed vulnerability, or more accurately exploited vulnerability, can cause an organization significant financial harm. Proper expectations must be set when it comes to the various vulnerability assessment solutions."
Note: I haven't seen any Web App Scannor vendor responses, so if you spot it let me know.
Latest Blog Entries from blogs.owasp.org
- from Eoin Keary blog
- OWASP Testing Guide v2.0, January 11th, 2007
- OWASP Code review Guide, January 3rd
- innerHTML and eval - Javascript/Ajax attacks - 101, January 3rd, 2007
- What Next for App Sec (Contd) - Gmail exploit, January 2nd, 2007
- OWASP Live CD, January 2nd, 2007
- What next for app Sec, January 2nd, 2007
- from Life of an OWASP Chapter Leader blog
- The OWASP Chapter Leader Handbook, January 6th, 2007 by
- PHP (in)security, December 15th
- Poll results of last year, December 15th
- So you want to become a chapter leader?, December 14th
- from On Security blog
- Good Development Leads to Good Security, January 9th, 2007
- from HTTP SOAP Pen Testing blog
- Pen Testing Web Services, December 13th
Latest additions to the WIKI
New pages
- OWASP Testing Project v2.0 - Review Guidelines - Support page for the OWASP Testing Project V2.0 Review effort where you will find more details on how to participate in this collaborative review process.
- Chapter Leader Handbook - Handbook for new and experienced chapter leaders on leading an active chapter community.
- OWASP WebScarab NG Project - Rogan details his work on the new version of WebScarab
- Phoenix/Tools - Good list of Web App Sec tools
- Eoin has been quite busy this week working on the new version of theCategory: OWASP Code Review Project
- Logging issues
- Reviewing Code for Buffer Overruns and Overflows
- Reviewing Code for OS Injection
- Reviewing Code for Data Validation
- Reviewing Code for Logging Issues
- Reviewing The Secure Code Environment
- Chapters Assigned
- just starting SQL Injection Cookbook template, SQL Injection Cookbook - Oracle, Preface , Reasons for using automated tools,Education and cultural change, Tool Deployment Model
Edited Pages
- OWASP_AppSec_Conference_Sponsors - for you if you want to sponsor one of the next OWASP conferences. Quote from page: "OWASP is accepting sponsorships for the 2007 OWASP Conferences. Financial sponsorship for a conference will help defray the non-profit OWASP Foundation's expenses to prepare for and hold this conference."
- Chapter updates: New_Zealand , Denver, Washington DC
- Membership
- Securing tomcat
- Cross-Site Request Forgery
- Chapter Rules
- OWASP Autumn of Code 2006 - Projects: Web Goat
OWASP Community
- Feb 13 (18:00h) - Ireland chapter meeting
- Feb 6 (18:00h) - Melbourne chapter meeting
- Jan 31 (15:00h) - Mumbai chapter meeting
- Jan 30 (11:30h) - Austin chapter meeting
- Jan 25 (14:30h) - [email protected] Rome
- Jan 23 (18:00h) - Belgium chapter meeting
- Jan 22 (18:00h) - Rochester chapter meeting
- Jan 17 (18:30h) - Denver chapter meeting
- Jan 16 (17:45h) - Edmonton chapter meeting
Application Security News (from Owasp.org)
- Jan 10 - Vulnerability Disclosure: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- More than a decade into the practice of vulnerability disclosure, where do we stand? Are we more secure? Or less?, three good articles: Microsoft: Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Protects Users , Schneier: Full Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities a 'Damned Good Idea', The Vulnerability Disclosure Game: Are We More Secure? and The Chilling Effect
OWASP references in the Media
- Automated Scanning vs. The OWASP Top Ten, Help Net Security, Croatia - Jan 11, 2007
- AJAX, Design, and Mobile Devices, SYS-CON Media, NJ - Jan 10, 2007
- Hot or Not: Web application vulnerabilities, SC Magazine, UK - Dec 28, 2006
- Sprajax Author – AJAX Security Tool – To Speak at AJAXWorld 2007, SYS-CON Media, NJ - Jan 13, 2007
- Web application security vulnerabilities by the numbers, ComputerWeekly.com, UK - Jan 11, 2007
- This one is actual an mistake from PSC Group LLC, since there is currently no relationship with them an OWASP (note: I emailed them and they corrected this on their website) Fujitsu's GlobalSTORE Software Completes Visa's Payment ..., Business Wire (press release), CA - Jan 9, 2007 (there is a major typo in this article (OWASP related), see if you can spot it :) )
- WhiteHat Security Announces Risk-Free Competitive Trade-Up Program, PR Newswire (press release), NY - Jan 9, 2007


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- "This is a two-way mirror, I've got the other one of the pair. If you need to speak to me, just say my name into it; you'll appear in my mirror and I'll be able to talk in yours."
- —Excerpt from a note of Sirius Black to Harry Potter[src]
A two-way mirror is one in a pair of mirrors that are magically connected. This allows people to communicate with each other whilst in different locations.
- "James and I used to use them when we were in separate detentions."
- —Excerpt from a note of Sirius Black to Harry Potter[src]
During their years in school, James Potter and Sirius Black used a pair of two-way mirrors so they could talk to each other while they were in separate detentions. Sirius later gave James's mirror to Harry in 1996.[1] After Sirius' death, his mirror came into the possession of Mundungus Fletcher, who sold it to Aberforth Dumbledore.[2]
Harry smashed his mirror in 1996, after finding that he could not contact Sirius's spirit using it, since Sirius did not have his mirror with him when he died. In 1997, before Harry left the Dursleys' house, he emptied his school trunk and cut his right ring finger twice on a shard of the mirror.[3] Despite the apparent uselessness of this shard, Harry kept it with him in his mokeskin pouch during his search for Voldemort's Horcruxes.[4]
Aberforth's possession of one of the two-way mirrors became a great help to Harry and his companions in 1998. After being kidnapped by the Snatchers and brought to Malfoy Manor, Hermione was tortured by Bellatrix Lestrange, who wanted to know how Godric Gryffindor's Sword had come into their possession. Experiencing no success with his Golden Snitch and his broken phoenix wand, Harry grabbed the mirror shard and saw a gleam of bright blue eye and thought that it was Dumbledore's. He called for help, and Aberforth managed to send Dobby to rescue them.[2]
Behind the scenes
- The mirror does not appear, but Harry and his friends see Aberforth buying it from Mundungus Fletcher in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
- When Sirius gives Harry the mirror in a badly wrapped package, Harry vows to himself he will never use it, not wanting to lure Sirius from his place of safety. Ironically, if he had used it rather than Dolores Umbridge's fire to contact his godfather, Kreacher would not have been able to lie to Harry about where Sirius was, and thus Harry would never have gone to the Department of Mysteries and Sirius would not have died. This unhappy truth does not seem to occur to Harry in the novel (and the mirror is not in the film version), though arguably, he needs no more reasons to lay blame for Sirius's death at that point. Also, there is no way of knowing if using the mirror would have helped, unless Sirius kept it on his person at all times.
- The mirror could possibly be charmed with a Protean Charm, like the one used by Hermione on the Dumbledore's Army Galleons, or at least a variation of the same spell.
- The two-way mirror was never seen in the films before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and its origin and significance are not explained. These are explained in Part 2.
- Two-way mirrors may be considered a subtype of enchanted mirrors.
- Phineas Nigellus Black was cut from the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Hence, it is unclear how Severus Snape found Harry and Hermione in the Forest of Dean. Since Harry was looking at the mirror shard before Snape's Patronus appeared, and the inside of the Hog's Head was seen, the most likely explanation is that Aberforth was working with Snape, and that Albus may have told him of Snape's true allegiance before he died.[5]
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 23 (Malfoy Manor)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 2 (In Memoriam)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201607/faq#.2.1.35


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Tom Hall
Where are they now? The dissipation of id Software
Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake and Rage. With three of the biggest shooter properties in gaming (and also another one), id Software has clearly housed some of the industry's brightest stars. Where is this talent now?
Tom Hall headlines
id Software vet Tom Hall joins PlayFirst as principal designer
PlayFirst has announced that Tom Hall has joined the company as a principal designer.
Worlds of Wander: Commander Keen's legacy lives on
id Software's Commander Keen series never continued thanks the rise of Doom and Quake. Studio co-founder Tom Hall tells Dave Cook why his new project keeps Keen's spirit alive.
Id Software co-founder launches Kickstarter for dev tools
Tom Hall, one of Id Software's founders and the creator of Commander Keen, has debuted a new project on Kickstarter. Called Worlds of Wander, it's a platformer creation tool designed for making precisely the kinds of games Commander Keen fans love. Hall is seeking $400,000 for the suite of tools and a game built with […]
Shaker - Old-School RPG Kickstarter cancelled by Brathwaite and Hall
Shaker, the Kickstarter project known as Old-School RPG, has been cancelled by its creators Brenda Brathwaite and Tom Hall.
John Romero's new studio Kickstarting an old-school RPG project
Brenda Brathwaite, founder of Wizardry, and wife of ex-id Software developer John Romero, has teamed up with Ion Storm co-founder Tom Hall on a new Kickstarter project. It's an old-school RPG and they're looking for $1 million in funding.
Tom Hall latest
id Software vet Tom Hall joins PlayFirst as principal designer
Shaker – Old-School RPG Kickstarter cancelled by Brathwaite and Hall
John Romero's new studio Kickstarting an old-school RPG project


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Van Roekel: It Is Our Time to Lead
NEA President Calls on Educators to Keep Up the Fight for Public Education
July 02, 2011
By Tim Walker
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel kicked off the 2011 NEA Representative Assembly (RA) on Saturday with a vigorous call for educators everywhere to stand strong in the face of continuing, relentless attacks on public education, their profession and working families across the nation.
In his keynote speech (which began with a tribute to the "oldest life member of NEA in the hall today" – Dennis' mom, age 97), Van Roekel reminded the 8000 delegates that NEA has seen trying times in the past. The Association stood up then and will continue to stand up today.
"Today we are at another crossroads, another moment in history. A moment that compels us to stand up for our values and our worth … to speak out for our students and our profession," Van Roekel said.
In 2011, state lawmakers, emboldened by victories in the 2010 elections, launched an all-out assault on the rights of public workers, targeting educators with particular ferocity. Legislation gutting collective bargaining and slashing education funding was introduced in statehouses across the nation – hallmarks, Van Roekel told the delegates today, of an "extreme agenda" that has nothing to do with improving public education.
Van Roekel singled out governors Chris Christie of New Jersey, John Kasich of Ohio, Rick Scott of Florida, and Scott Walker of Wisconsin (the delegates responded to each name with a chorus of boos) for their slash-and-burn policies designed to please powerful political benefactors.
"Their political donors - like the Koch brothers - want to silence us because they know that we are a strong voice for middle class families in this country. They know that we'll fight any agenda that puts corporate CEOs in the front of the line and working families and students at the end."
It is students, especially those in greatest need, that are victims of these politicians' destructive so-called "reform" agendas , which try to persuade Americans that poverty plays no role in student achievement. Educators across the nation know better, Van Roekel said today.
"Any teacher or para who has watched a student's head drop in fatigue because they're tired and hungry… knows that poverty matters. Any educator who notices a child can't read the board but doesn't have the money for glasses… knows that poverty matters."
Through the Priority Schools Campaign, NEA is empowering those very schools that serve these students and placing itself on the frontline of real, proven education reform.
Van Roekel also called for a comprehensive overhaul - as spelled out in NEA's proposed Policy Statement - of both teacher evaluation and accountability systems-systems that are designed to advance learning. The Policy Statement also calls for the NEA to take responsibility for ensuring the development, implementation, and enforcement of these high quality systems.
"As teachers, we know what evaluation and accountability should look like if they were really designed to improve professional practice and student learning."
The voice of teachers and educators must be heard everywhere by everyone – especially on Election Day, Van Roekel said, and called on delegates to send a message at the ballot box in 2012. Although he acknowledged differences with the administration over specific ideas, Van Roekel urged delegates to vote to recommend President Barack Obama for a second term.
"President Obama is the candidate for President who shares our vision for this country," Van Roekel said. "He has never wavered from talking about the importance of education – from pre-K to college, fighting for Pell grants, fighting for the DREAM Act, fighting for struggling students."
The message NEA needs to send, Van Roekel told the delegates, is not to our political allies, but to Scott Walker, Chris Christie and other extremists.
"Our message to them is simple: We care about every student… we care about public education… we care about this country… and we are closing ranks."
Video Highlights of Keynote Speech
- Speech Text as Prepared for Delivery
- NEA president urges educators to stand strong for students (Press Release: July 2, 2011)


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These are all the Logan History Blog posted on Monday, 19 December, 2011.
Logan Historical Newspapers
Recently an editorial in the Herald Journal revealed the existence of the Cache-American Newspaper which ran during the 1930's and 1940's here in Logan. As was reported, the Logan Library has the newspaper on microfilm for patrons to use. What was not mentioned was that there have been a number of newspaper titles in Logan over the years.
Check out the list of titles below:
There likely were other titles which ran for a short time. Many of the titles listed above are available in the library on microfilm.
~ Jason, Special Collections Librarian
Posted By Logan Library - Logan History at 1:02 PM in Category:History Tidbits
The Latest Tidbits!
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» Logan Chapter - Service Star Legion Mar 15, 2018
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(NNPA)—In their zeal to reach the 60-vote margin needed to end an expected Republican filibuster of the health care bill now snaking its way through the United States Senate, Democrats are courting four moderate or conservative party members opposed to the public option provision at the expense of the majority of senators—and the nation—who favor such an alternative.
Essentially, a public option is a government-sponsored insurance plan, similar to Medicare, that would compete with private insurers in hopes of driving down the cost of premiums. Even though the plan advanced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., allows states to opt-out of the plan, a handful of Democrats still oppose the bill.
We've seen this scene before: The Obama administration, obsessed over gaining Republican support for its stimulus plan, made sure that the concerns of Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe were addressed before pushing the legislation through Congress. Now, we're having a replay. The difference this time, however, is that less progressive Democrats seem to be in the driver's seat.
This became clear when a procedural vote was held Saturday night to allow the bill to reach the Senate floor for debate and amendments. Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Democrats from two of the poorest states in the nation, held out until the last minute before siding with their party.
On a strict party-line vote, Democrats prevailed 60-39. In addition to the two wavering lawmakers, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who usually caucuses with Democrats, stated that although they went along with the procedural vote, neither would support a health reform bill that includes the public option. Two other Democrats, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Evan Bayh of Indiana, may also balk.
As Senator Majority Leader Reid tries to garner support for final passage, he and other leaders are huddling with the wayward Democrats and Maine's two senators in hopes of fashioning a compromise that will win them over.
The one favored by Olympia Snowe features a trigger mechanism that would be activated when private insurers fail to provide affordable choices.
Like President Obama—who has vacillated from calling the public option essential to health care reform and later dismissing it as a "slither" of a larger process—Sen. Dick Durbin, the assistant majority leader, is apparently willing to capitulate to the vocal minority in his party.
In an appearance on "Meet the Press," he said, "There are many variations on the theme. We are open because we want to pass this bill." But at what cost?
Almost overlooked in the debate is that most Americans, upset with rising health premiums and mounting restrictions, favor a public option.
A recent USA/Today/Gallup poll found that 50 percent of the public favors a public option and 46 percent oppose it. A CNN poll found even stronger support, with 61 percent in favor of an insurance option administered by the federal government and 38 percent opposed.
Although moderates and centrists are at the center of this debate, progressives are finally pushing back, letting Reid and the Obama administration know that their support is not automatic.
"I don't want four Democratic senators dictating to the other 56 of us and to the country, when the public option has this much support, that it's not going to be in it," Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
Senator Roland Burris of Illinois and Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, said they will not vote for any bill without the public option.
"The overwhelming majority of Americans want to be able to choose between a strong public option and a private insurance plan," Sanders said. "Without that competition, there is very little in this bill that would keep health insurance premiums from escalating rapidly. This legislation cannot simply be a huge subsidy to private insurance companies that will get millions of new customers and be able to raise their rates as high as they want."
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts that because the public option will be restricted to those who are not covered by their company's insurance plan, only three to four million people will participate in the plan. And because the pool being insured is likely to have a higher percentage of sicker people, the premiums might actually be higher than those charged by private companies.
Some health care reform advocates don't feel the legislation goes far enough, arguing that it's not true health reform if states have the option of rejecting coverage for their residents.
After the Senate vote Saturday, Harry Reid said, "We can only see the finish line. We have not yet crossed it."
If Democrats end up crossing the finish line without a robust public option, it will be a Pyrrhic victory.
(George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine and the NNPA News Service, is a keynote speaker, moderator and media coach. He can be reached through his website, www.georgecurry.com You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge.)


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Adventure games have already proved to be a perfect genre for the iPhone. And just imagine how much better they would be on the iPad? Well, you don't have to! Without any publicity or even an early hint Telltale games – the pioneer of episode based adventure games on the PC – have already released the first episode of Season 3 of their Sam & Max series on the iPad! You can grab it using the link below or check out after the gap for the description and screenshots. And no, Telltale has confirmed that no plans exist for an iPhone version.
Telltale Inc, Sam & Max Episode 1: The Penal Zone for iPad – $9.99
In addition some hot news from the recently interviewed Charles Cecil from Revolution – they are hard work on a special high quality iPad version of the best adventure game, currently on the AppStore (as per our The App Store's Best Adventure Games) – Broken Sword: Director's Cut! Unfortunately it's still a bit too early for any screenshots, but we'll deliver them to you as soon as they become available! And a definitive answer to some of the rumours floating out there regarding an iPhone/iPad version of Broken Sword 2 – at the moment there are no plans for it – Charles is hard at work with Dave Gibbons on his next adventure game he hinted at during the interview.


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There's no hiding the fact that paint and bodywork aren't cheap. In one form or another, it's going to cost you. Just take our '66 El Camino for example. Like most first buys, our Elco was a solid 20-footer and its history was questionable. It was only when we dropped it off at Rubio's Autobody in Sun Valley, California, that we realized the true condition of the body.
After the initial onceover, it was fairly obvious that the poor thing had already seen shoddy bodywork at some point of its life. The previous owner had filled the gaps, cracks, fist- and foot-sized holes that riddled the car with cardboard and body filler, truly signs of botched craftsmanship. It was then when owner Joe Rubio decided that in order to save time, new panels (where applicable) would be the most viable option to revive our bucket.
While we hadn't planned on stripping the exterior to the metal, it was the correct way to fix our problem. And just when we thought it couldn't get any worse, we removed the rear window, known to be a common rot area on El Caminos, and it got worse.
This is the kind of bodywork we would never attempt on our own. However, Rubio has years of talent backing him and an extraordinary amount of experience building coachlike vehicles from the '30s on, '60s muscle cars, and even classic air-cooled exotics. "I'll take it to the frame if I have to," said Rubio while using what seemed like X-ray vision to investigate the remainder of the chassis.
To say that we were in the right place to get our vehicle back to prime Grade A condition would be an understatement. Rubio's Autobody took quick action and transformed our Elco from an almost painful-to-look-at state to a more recognizable muscle car that was ready for primer and paint. So break out a mask and sandpaper as we prepare this sled for paint.
Quick Notes
What We Did
Stripped the Elco to a shell, fixed the rust, and added a new hood, fender, and patch panel from Original Parts Group.
Bottom Line
The body was a complete mess and required substantial work.
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Over the years I've had many of earphones of various prices, fit comfort, and quality. I don't prefer them to standard full sized headphones, but they do the job while commuting, working out or traveling. I find that once you get in the $50-$100 price range a set of Grado SR60 or similar headphones to be much more open, give a better tonal balance, and sound stage, even if they tend to lack the sub level lows that earphones can produce.
But with pleasure, I can tell you the $60 for the iM-590 would be money well spent.
The earphone drivers of the iM-590 are 9mm neodymium with a sensitivity of (1KHz, 0.1V):>100dB, with a 12Hz-22KHz range, which puts them inline with most earphones of equal value. The iM-590 are rather revealing though. I'll explain more in a bit.
After letting the earphones burn in, per the manufacturer suggestion, for 8-10 hours, I plugged them into my desktop Dell PC at the office. I'm going to make the assumption that most 99.9% of the people who will purchase these earphones are not going to have a pre-amp or headphone amp, so I plugged them straight into the headphone jack on the PC, and heard a troubling amount of noise on the line that was not apparent in less revealing earphones. I've recently been using a $40 pair of Sony MDR-EX76 earphones as my workout earphones and sometimes used them at the office. Those rolled off the highs at a comfortable level which hid the line noise from my PC. The iM-590 headphones though did not. And you know what, that was welcoming. I knew immediately that these did not roll of the highs and would present a good sound stage. Granted, the line noise was irritating, but it isn't the headphone's fault.
So out of the PC and into my iPod. Ah clean sound at last. But not truly tested. The MP3s on my iPod are not even close to being of 320 kbit/s quality but they all sounded better than the day before when using the Sony earphones. But here is the catch, or rather, something I was not expecting. Because the iM-590 are so revealing, they made the standard EQ setting of 'none' much too bright. I spent some time finding a good EQ setting on the iPod that would work well with the iM-590. Alas, Apple is irritating and so many of the EQ settings are completely worthless, especially on a very clear and sensitive set of earphones. Eventually I found the a setting that worked for me, either 'acoustic or R & B' depending on the album.
So out of the iPod and into my Van Alstine Omega III for some real listening. This is where these earbuds sounded best. Out of a flat and clean pre-amp. The sound stage is surprising good for earphones. Sound didn't appear to be just left, right and center. But cymbal crashes across my mind and slightly off set toms where actually off set, just like on my floorstanders.
Listening to Miles Davis's A Tribute to Jack Johnson, John McLaughlin's guitar echoing around the recording studio, and Miles's horns sway this way and that way. Solid, full and not piercing. The clean fuzz and power of Michael Henderson's electric bass had my mind bobbing my and my toes tapping. The music kept it's airy but powerful presence and I really could tell where the walls in the recorder studio were. These still aren't as good as real speakers, or high end phones/earpones, but they present the best sound stage I've ever heard in their price range.
Next on the play list was Massive Attack's Mezzanine. I wanted to know how clean and extended the bass response was. With-in 30 seconds the back or my eyes were rumbling and and fluctuating to the heavy bass intro of Angle. The bass came on clean and didn't over power the rest of mids or distort the highs. The earphones never cracked or showed massive signs of distortion. Even when I was going through iPod EQ settings and had on 'bass booster' the iM-590s managed to produce a clean the low end very well.
The nice thing about isolating earphones and you don't have to fight outside noise and can keep the volume lower. This helps to reduce strain on the ear and distortion of the earphones.
As far as comfort in your ear go, the iM-950 were good for me. There are 4 sizes of ear tips to choose from and the plastic molds fairly easily to the ear for good comfort.
The iM-590 come with 4 ear tips, Shirt clip, airline dual-plug adapter, 2.5mm plug adapter, 2-ft extension cable and carrying case.
The earphone cable is not that cheap plastic stuff either, it is a nice fabric like cord protecting the sensitive parts on the inside. It is strong and can take some abuse. The cable never crimped in a way that severed the electrical wires on the inside and the attachable shirt clip was very handy.
So what does this all mean for the average listener who wants a good set of isolating earphones without spending too much hard earned cash? It means the iM-590 are definitely worth checking out but might not be for everyone. Because the iM-590 are very revealing I found that my taste for the earphones really varied with what I had them plugged into. I even tried them on my T-Mobile G1, rocking out to White Zombie's La Sexorcito at 320k/bits. And though the fast kicks of drummer Ivan DePrume were clean, solid and had a nice pop, and Sean Yseult bass guitar was audible. The combination of album being mixed without much of a low end, and the headphones not making up for that, no EQ settings on the G1… and I couldn't take much more. But that doesn't mean anything because I found a comfortable EQ setting for the iPod and they sound great for $60 earphones on the Omega III. Give'm a shot.
iMetal iM-590 product page and where to buy.


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EDGEWOOD, Md., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Smiths Detection reports its mobile weather information systems will be used by U.S. Marines to support mission planning and operations.
The order for additional METMF NEXGEN systems was made by the U.S. Navy for use by the Marines' Air Ground Task Force and worth $9 million.
"We have provided sophisticated meteorological systems to the military for more than 60 years," said Smiths Detection Vice President for Sales Bob Bohn.
"Smiths Detection's advanced technology and integration experience, coupled with an intimate understanding of customer needs, allows us to deliver a maximum-value solution that provides the optimum environmental picture of a battle space."
The systems are mounted on a truck and provide tactical meteorological support by continuous observations, satellite imagery and forecasts within minutes, the company said.
Smiths Detection said the systems ordered by the Navy will be delivered by next year.


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As the director of the Pentagon Papers project, and as one of the very few actually to have read all the roughly 7,000 pages, I'm fed up with the recent commentary about it, and how it compares to the WikiLeaks disclosures.
Let me get right to the particular irritant.
Sure the Pentagon Papers tell us a lot about the evolution of America's involvement in Vietnam, but they don't tell us the most important point about President Johnson's thinking on the war. In several taped phone calls now public, he confided this tragic bombshell: "I can't win, and I can't get out." He was trapped between his awareness that victory was impossible at any reasonable price, and his fear that losing would be catastrophic for the United States… and himself. LBJ was stuck, and so was the United States.
So, what was so profound about saying, "I can't win, and I can't get out"? Well, it summed up the trap President Johnson was caught in then—and pretty much captures President Obama's dilemma today.
The 36 authors of the papers and I were not aware that Mr. Johnson said anything like this. We did not have access to White House documents, and we did no interviews anywhere in the government. We simply worked from secret documents (plus a few books and newspapers). I made that severe limitation of sources crystal clear in my letter of transmittal to the then-Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and to his predecessor Robert McNamara, who had launched the project. Commentators over the last 40 years have consistently ignored this significant limitation.
So, what was so profound about saying, "I can't win, and I can't get out"? Well, it summed up the trap President Johnson was caught in then—and pretty much captures President Obama's dilemma today. The truth of the matter was that neither LBJ nor his predecessors, nor his successor President Nixon, were actually trying to win. They all understood pretty well that the force they were applying would not be sufficient to overcome a highly motivated North Vietnam and their Viet Minh allies in South Vietnam. They had the force of nationalism on their side, and the South had the noose of corruption and inefficiency around its neck. Sound familiar? Not exact, to be sure, but familiar?
Thus, what the presidents were all seeking was not really to win, but to avoid losing. Why? Because they all believed that American security hung in the balance in Vietnam. They believed it was a war of necessity. Indeed, all presidents say when they commence wars that they are necessary. They never say they are doing so out of "mere choice." Almost all government officials, and almost all foreign-policy experts, believed that Vietnam represented the cockpit of competition between communism and the free world—between the Soviet Union and China on the one hand, and the U.S. on the other. They also believed in the domino theory, namely that if Vietnam fell to communism, so would most of Asia and perhaps areas beyond that.
By the end of Johnson's tenure, there were defectors from this consensus. But it's critical to realize that these defectors and other opposition came slowly—very slowly. And it is equally critical to realize that Obama and most American foreign-policy experts and politicians rejoiced when the United States attacked Afghanistan and throttled the Taliban government there that had given safe harbor to the very al Qaeda chieftains who had ordered the 9/11 massacre. It was seen as a war against international terrorism, a war that had to be won to prevent further massacres. Almost the whole American nation believed then, and many still believe now, that the fight against international terrorism has to be won—and won in Afghanistan.
• Philip Shenon: The Scramble to Save Afghan Informants• Leslie H. Gelb: What the WikiLeaks Documents Really Reveal• Shenon: The Pentagon's WikiLeaks Breakthrough• Full coverage of WikiLeaksThough President Obama himself and General Petraeus, the NATO commander in Afghanistan, still call for victory there, it is probably true that Obama and maybe even the general have come to LBJ's conclusion: "I can't win, and I can't get out."
Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon were no fools. In time, at least, they came to know they could not win. They understood well the strengths and weaknesses of both sides. They knew that even if they escalated, the other side could find a way to respond effectively and create a new stalemate at a higher level of cost to all. They knew that when all was said and done, the North Vietnamese lived there. Obama and his top aides know the same thing. But like all their predecessors, they are determined not to lose.
President Nixon and Henry Kissinger found a way "not to lose" and to withdraw. They did it far too slowly and at great cost, but they did it. They gradually drew down U.S. forces from their high of 550,000 over four years. Democratic Congresses foolishly made this process more difficult by cutting off funds for the air war and later military aid for South Vietnam. The withdrawals continued and gave time for the South Vietnamese to ready themselves to fight on their own. Many in the South Vietnamese armed forces fought well, but not enough to overcome the basic deficiencies in their own government.
Equally vital in the Nixon-Kissinger strategy was that they drowned the expected costly effects of withdrawal and even possible defeat in Vietnam in a sea of brilliant diplomatic power: the opening to China, the staging of triangular diplomacy with China and the Soviet Union with the United States as the pivot, the great Middle East agreement that paved the way for peace between Israel and Egypt, and the push to reestablish American credibility throughout the rest of Asia. World leaders soon forgot the ill effects of Vietnam, and soon recognized, once again, the unique power and position of the United States.
President Obama can do as much. U.S. withdrawal should begin in July 2011, as promised—and go down to 15,000 or so over, say, two years. This would leave a residual force to train Afghan forces and provide them with logistical and intelligence support. Further firepower and commando capabilities should be readied to deal with international terrorist threats that will pop up. All this adds up to a powerful deterrent capability.
He should then underline America's continuing commitment to Afghans ready to fight terrorists by instituting a plan to provide economic and military aid. In particular, funds and arms should be directed to the tribal leaders and warlords willing to fight the terrorists—and support should be given to efforts to divide Taliban leadership and attract Taliban fighters away from their cause.
Then, he needs to build a containment policy against the Taliban with Afghan's neighbors. This includes Russia, India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and yes, Iran (which helped us in the beginning of the war). All share strong interests in preventing the spread of Taliban influence and curtailing the drug trade.
Like President Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Obama and his team can drown the aftereffects of Afghanistan in powerful diplomacy and continued, focused commitment to Afghans. In these ways, he can both continue to protect against terrorism in Afghanistan and start strengthening efforts against the new homes for terrorists—in Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and in American cities.
This approach is not a cop out. It is a way to redefine victory. It was done in Vietnam. And people forget that the president of Vietnam visited George W. Bush in the White House during his last year in office. People hardly noticed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just visited there. People hardly noticed that Vietnam now looks to the United States as a protector against China.
If President Obama is also creative in the use of America's power, we can mostly withdraw from Afghanistan—and not lose.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.


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"Errata to Cloth Seals: An Illustrated Guide to the Identification of Lead Seals Attached to Cloth"
If you have spotted a mistake please let me know - email@example.com.
p.7 While the BSG.CS.00001, Strasbourg seal is heavier than any in the British Museum, a cloth seal from Hamburg dwarfs this at 63mm & 160g. - p.27-28, Ansorge,J., 2009, Die Ausgrabungen fur das Stralsunder OZEANEUM - Einblicke in den Haf eneiner Hansestadt.
p.57 - Lion is rampant not passant, see BSG.CS.00229
p.91 - BSG.CS.00155 This may or may not be from a Canterbury seal. This disc appears on other Commonwealth alnage seals, see BSG.CS.01406 a Worcester Commonwealth alnage seal.
p.102 Northampton - This is more probably a Norwich seal, see BSG.CS.01459, which clearly shows the lettering around the date to be NORIM rather than NORAM.
p.143 - Yorkshire - MOL 78.227/15 - "William Power was an alnager for stockings in Yorkshire from 1618 to 1624." It should be added to this that while no definite connection can be made with the WP initials shown between the K & C, dating to the first part of the 17th century is correct for this type of seal.
p.194 - London Clothworkers' Company Arms "An even better example of the arms of the Clothworkers' Guild can be seen on MOL 79.428/1, shown below in the 'Clothiers' section." 79.428/1 should read 79.428/2.
p.246 Searcher's Seal, PAS NLM-4F984C IOSEPH / NECKER should read IOSEPH / ARCHER (with thanks to Paul Cannon) The following is taken from the orders books for Wakefield District:
"Ordered that the several persons following be appointed and sworn Narrow Cloth Searchers for the year ensuing for the several salaries and at the several mills and places hereafter mentioned (that is to say): Pontefract 23 April 1759, Joseph Archer: Hobson's Battys, Oxsprings, dyers, Hunshelf: £16.0".
Joseph Archer is one of twenty nine narrow cloth searchers recorded for that year.
See PAS LIN-57C813 for searcher's seal for Richard Grice and PAS SUR-AD5735 for another for James Kershaw.
p.268 - MOL 79.428/4 Clothier's Seal, John Draper, Image by S.F. Elton, Unknown find spot, 49mm, 68.3g. MOL 79.428/4 should read MOL 79.428/2.
p.281 - Germanic Merchants' Seals - see BSG.CS.01539
p.298 - Augsburg, OX, - "No speculative lions have so far been found." But see BSG.CS.01162, Cloth Seal, German, Ulm, Lion.
p.307 - "BSG.CS.00518 & MOL 90.342/1 are examples of a rare variety with a lion rampant on a crested shield on one side and GROS / HART / ANS / ? on the other." These seals are now known to be from the German municipality of Großhartmannsdorf. See BSG.CS.00518 and BSG.CS.00520
p.27 Cloth Seal Matrices - PAS SOM-A3D47E maybe another example. See also PAS NFAHG-C241B0
p.41 Berkshire - see also BSG.CS.01401
p.87 Kent - see BSG.CS.01353
p.92 Sandwich (Kent) - see BSG.CS.01502
p.93 Lancashire - see PAS NARC-81F314
p.139 Worcestershire - see also BSG.CS.01406
p.145 Yorkshire (Stuart Arms, Unusual seal) - BSG.CS.01524
p.152 Seals of Known Monarch - possible seals of Henry VI, VII or VIII, see BSG.CS.01180 and BSG.CS.00797
p.166 Anne - Inscriptions found around busts of Anne include: FIDEI. DEFEN (see BSG.CS.01442)
p.171 Anne, Armorial Seals - see BSG.CS.01511
p.267 Clothiers' Seals - Edmund Cock Junior, Exeter, see BSG.CS.01181
George Poe, Exeter, - BSG.CS.01373
John & Jeremiah Naylor & Co., Wakefield - Unique Identification Number - BSG.CS.01365
p.302 Ulm - see BSG.CS.01162, Cloth Seal, German, Ulm, Lion.
p.312 Leiden, BSG.CS.00099 (@ symbol) See BSG.CS.01429.
p.324 St Gallen See also BSG.CS.01508
p.351 Appendix 2: Types of Cloth, Long ell: a kind of perpetuana - "measuring twenty-four yards long by thirty-one inches wide, and weighing twelve pounds apiece, long ells (or sandfords as they were sometimes called - a variety of serge) had historically been the speciality of the Ashburton area." [Maunder, P., 2018, p.327] Towards the end of the 18th century the East India Company traded large quantities of this cloth to China in exchange for tea.
p.372 List of Alnagers Known by their Initials - EM see BSG.CS.01548, RH see BSG.CS.01375 & BSG.CS.00405
p.373 List of Alnagers Known by their Initials - RV see BSG.CS.01406
p.384 Distinctive Identification Features on Cloth Seals - Keys - Avignon; Comines-Warneton; Reichenbach im Vogtland; Salzwedel; Trier; (Keys crossed) - Lubań, Poland; Babimost, Poland; Vatican City State
p.384 Fleur-de-Lis, Ubiquitous – especially on French and Low Countries seals and was part of England's arms pre 1800. The fleur-de-lis has not been found on any English seals, other than in the English arms, prior to the badge and emblems used under the Stuarts.
P.385 Tree - Bocholt see BSG.CS.00671


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Reports swirling around David Hasselhoff drinking over the weekend are false, a source close to the star told Access Hollywood.
Radar Online's reporting of a Hasselhoff psychiatric hold is "completely untrue," the source told Access.
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The source confirmed that the star had spent a day and a half in the hospital for a medical condition. Alcohol was not involved. He was released on Sunday.
"He is home, working in his home studio, recording" with his two daughters, the source told Access.
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A Hasselhoff lawyer confirmed that the star was home.
"David is totally fine and home with his kids," his lawyer said in a statement to Access.
Radar Online previously reported that the "America's Got Talent" judge was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Friday morning after suffering seizures and held on a 5150 — an involuntary psychiatric hold — before being released on Sunday afternoon.
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In related news, according to TMZ, David's ex-wife, Pamela Bach, was arrested on DUI charges on Saturday night — and she told TMZ that David had indeed recently been in the hospital.
"I am remorseful and mortified," she was quoted as telling TMZ. "I am going through a really difficult time between David being in the hospital and dealing with the divorce."
Pamela was reportedly released on Sunday and told the site she would be attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting later in the day.
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