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About SIC
We are using SEP of 12.1.2015.2015. And installed SEPM and SIC server on two separate servers. Now we are running full scan on a SEP client. How can I know if my SIC server is configured properly, and there is request submitting to SIC server in current scanning process?
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you can check traffic from client to SIC server on the configured port.
Help Link: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/overview.jsp?pid=54619
The Symantec Endpoint Protection Shared Insight Cache eliminates the need to scan files in a virtualized environment that Symantec Endpoint Protection has determined are clean. Shared Insight Cache is a separate service that you install on a dedicated server or in a virtualized environment. After you install and configure Shared Insight Cache, you must configure your clients to communicate with Shared Insight Cache.
Only the clients that perform scheduled scans and manual scans can use Shared Insight Cache.
When a file is scanned and determined to be clean, the client submits information about the file to Shared Insight Cache. Shared Insight Cache adds this information to its cache. When a client subsequently attempts to access the same file, the client can query Shared Insight Cache to determine if the file is clean. If the file is clean, then Shared Insight Cache notifies the client that file is clean. The client can bypass virus scanning on that particular file. If the file is not clean, the client scans the file for viruses and submits those results to Shared Insight Cache.
By default, Shared Insight cache is setup with no authentication and no SSL. As such, the default setting for the password is null. In other words, the password is blank. If you set Shared Insight Cache to Basic authentication with SSL or Basic Authentication with no SSL, you must specify a username's password that can access Shared Insight Cache.
You can also change a user-defined authentication password if needed. But if you do, you must specify that authentication user name and password in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager so clients can communicate with Shared Insight Cache.
For more information about Shared Insight Cache, see the Symantec Endpoint Protection Shared Insight Cache User Guide.
To configure your clients to communicate with Shared Insight Cache
1. In the console, open a Virus and Spyware Protection policy and click Global Scan Options.
2. On the Global Scan Options page, under Shared Insight Cache, check Enable Shared Insight Cache.
3. Check Require SSL if you enabled SSL when you set up the Shared Insight Cache server.
If you enable SSL, the client must be set up to communicate with Shared Insight Cache. To do so, you must add the Shared Insight Cache server certificate to the trusted certificates authorities store for the local computer. Otherwise, the client/Shared Insight Cache server communication fails.
For more information about how to add a server certificate, see your Active Directory documentation.
4. In the Hostname box, type the host name of Shared Insight Cache.
5. In the Port box, type the port number of Shared Insight Cache.
6. Optionally, if you configured authentication for Shared Insight Cache, in the Username box, type the user name.
7. Optionally, if you configured authentication for Shared Insight Cache, click Change Password to change the default password (null) to the password that you created for authentication.
8. In the New password box, type the new password.
Leave this field empty if you do not want to use a password.
9. In the Confirm password box, type your password again.
10. Click OK.
To Know the SIC status you can view the traffic logs between the client and the SEPM
"Thumbs Up" to mkeil above, and just as back up, here's an article on the perfmon counters:
Note: These are for the nework-based SIC
Check these steps:
- Check to see if the Shared Insight Cache server can be reached from the client system.
- Open a command prompt and type the following command:
ping <server>
- Open a command prompt and type the following command:
If there is no response, please check your network for routing issues.
- Check to make sure the port is open on the server. (The default port for the Shared Insight Cache server is 9005.)
- Open a command prompt and type the following command:
telnet <server> 9005
- Open a command prompt and type the following command:
If no connection is made, check the server for firewalls, including Windows Defender.
If the connection can be established using telnet but the warning in the event view persists, then check the WinHTTP proxy settings on the client system. When using a proxy, you should use the fully qualified domain name of the Shared Insight Cache server in the client Virus and Spyware policy configuration. Using the IP address may not work with the proxy.
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Hope that helps!!
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The Economics Of Roscas And Intrahousehold Resource Allocation
This paper investigates individual motives to participate in rotating savings and credit associations (roscas). Detailed evidence from roscas in a Kenyan slum (Nairobi) suggests that most roscas are predominantly composed of women, particularly those living in a couple and earning an independent income. We propose an explanation of this based on conflictual interactions within the household. Participation in a rosca is a strategy a wife employs to protect her savings against claims by her husband for immediate consumption. The empirical implications of the model are then tested using the data collected in Kenya. © 2001 the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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ive only seen one but the trees were rotten and falling over some fell over on a couple of our neighbors cows so they had good reason because the trees were already dead even before the fire was started
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Sep 3, 2012
A survey out this morning shows that manufacturing in the eurozone has fallen for the 13th straight month -- not a great start to what will be a big week for the European Debt Crisis. On Thursday, the head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, is expected to tell us what he meant when he said he'll do "whatever it takes" to save the euro.
As eurozone leaders return to work, worries resurface
Aug 29, 2012
Europe's politicians are back at work after long summer vacations, but the economic woes that beset the continent then are now back in the headlines.
Eurozone members wary of buying other countries' bonds
Aug 28, 2012
Several countries in the eurozone are preparing to borrow by selling bonds. Each nation in the bloc is becoming more wary of buying the debt of its neighbors.
German and French finance ministers meet
Aug 27, 2012
Marketplace's Stephen Beard says September is going to hold some big questions. Will the European Central Bank put together its rescue plan? Will Greece get its next chunk of money to allow it to stay in the euro?
European leaders fly to meet and plan for economic future
Aug 23, 2012
French President Francois Hollande travels to Berlin today to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. That comes a day after Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras asked for more time to get Greece's fiscal house in order. In fact, over the next few days, Europe's skies will be full of dignitaries crisscrossing the continent trying to find a solution to the ongoing debt crisis.
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Aug 20, 2012
It's vacation time across Europe, but it's not all sunshine for Greeks. The debt-laden nation has fallen behind in implementing reforms and austerity measures.
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Aug 20, 2012
This week, all eyes are on Greece. The country's prime minister is meeting with German and French officials. He's expected to officially ask for extension in meeting the country's fiscal targets.
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Happiness is relative in Europe these days: Investors are cheering news the euro area's top economies did not turn in the abysmal results many had expected. Instead, things are just "garden-variety" bad.
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Aug 8, 2012
The Bank of England forecasts this morning the U.K. economy will not grow at all in the coming quarter. Across the channel, the French central bank says the euro's second-largest economy is headed for its own recession. And Germany's being infected by all this through its exports, which fell in June.


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What an amazing holiday season it was this year! Perhaps it's because I've been settled in Ottawa for almost five years, or maybe it's due to our getting more involved with the Little Theatre community. No longer living an hour away from most friends (including a ferry ride) helps, too. Whatever the reason(s), our social calendar was packed with wonderful get-togethers over the past few weeks.
December 17th I turned 55 and was surrounded by loving energy all day. I maintain many close relationships with local friends and U.S. family and friends through Facebook, and throughout the day wonderful people sent heartfelt good wishes. Basking in their kindness, I answered each one, smiling at the memories and overflowing with gratitude. Pierre took me out to a fancy dinner on top of all of that, and we received an unexpected gift which I can't yet reveal. (It does not, thank goodness, involve babies!) Suffice it to say that it was the very best birthday I've ever had.
On the 18th, a lovely woman with whom I'm growing a great friendship, Nadine, gifted me a seat in her company's box at the National Art Centre for their production of Handel's Messiah. The view... the sound... (For a taste, and if you'd like some beautiful background music for the next 3.5 minutes, click here:
On the 21st, sixteen friends joined Pierre and me for a traditional turkey and fixin's potluck at our house. Although we've had a number of small dinner parties, this was the first big party we've held, so it was fun to see how many people our home comfortably fit. It was also a reminder of how much work throwing a party takes! I loved it, am am pretty sure everyone enjoyed themselves, but will admit to a preference for more intimate groups.
The 23rd we began a new family tradition. Pierre's son and brothers have come to our house for the previous three Christmases, to cook, eat, and drink too much. They're not a tight-knit family, so although they all live in the area, this is usually one of the only times we see them. This year I racked my brain to come up with an activity that might make our family gathering more fun for everyone. My idea of attending a hockey game together was a big hit! Pierre dubbed it the Annual Christmapuck, and not only did we all have a blast, but we're already looking forward to next year's game. Yay!
Christmas Eve Pierre and I enjoyed a quiet, comfy evening at home.
Christmas Day we joined my dear friend, Val, aka THEATREGIRL3, and her mom, siblings, and their kids for their annual family luncheon. They're a great bunch!
The evening of the 26th Val, Nadine, and I took a yoga workshop (intense flow yoga -- WHEW!) where my favourite yoga teacher didn't lead the class, but instead accompanied it along with her band Bhavan2 and friends. Live, delicious music + yoga = AHHHHH! If you'd like to hear some of what we heard in that class, you can go here: (music starts at 1:40)
The 26th was also the day I began the MyYogaOnline 8-day cleanse, which included kitchari, juices, no processed foods, and a daily yoga video.
And that's not ALL! For the first time in at least ten years, P&I went OUT for New Year's Eve. Another theatre couple, Jenn & Don, invited us to a dinner party to ring in 2014. I introduced the group to southern-style beans and greens (kale, collards, or chard + black-eyed peas + bacon + vinegar + Tabasco), a traditional good-luck new year's dish, which most folks liked. And, I brought a candle and bowl for those who wished to do a burning ritual. We relaxed and visited and even stayed awake to watch the Time's Square ball drop on t.v..
If you've made it this far, you may be as tired as we were on New Year's Day! It's now a week further on, and our social life has calmed down to its usual maybe one evening a week outing. Feels like stepping back into a comfy set of jammies! In the midst of this whirlwind I gained and lost a couple of pounds, and hopped back into this community to help keep me in maintenance mode. Thanks for still being here!
I'd love to hear about your holiday highlights if you'd like to share.
To a fabulous year of health and happiness!
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Hello! I'm not sure how I missed this post (I thought I was subscribed to all your wonderful posts!) but I loved this newsy update and to hear about your NY ritual. I love the candle and bowl ritual and will be doing this in the future. I love the cleansing feel of it, just reading about it!
Happy new year, my friend, and all the best to you, Pierre, Copper & Penny in 2014!!
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Sounds just lovely for you! Happy Birthday, so great that you could spend it with family and friends. Great ritual for New Years, mine was really quiet but I usually like it that way, so it was really nice for me. But it's nice to have a lot of social activity going on too. Good for you and Happy New Year too! xo
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Marvelous end to a marvelous year!
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Wow... what fun you have!
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You had an amazing 55th birthday and a fun Christmas season with friends. That's what life is all about! Cheers and happy birthday!
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Glad you had a wonderful holiday.
I wish I saw the new moon quotation on the first. - There is a second new moon this month on the 30th... I wonder if it would work then?
Happy New Year!!!
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In "Mitt the Insurgent" The Putz says a third Romney run is a bad idea, but it's hard to see what harm it can do. He has a delicious description of the 2012 Clown Car, in which he calls them "a collection of dwarves and hobbits." These are the same people he was writing puff pieces about then… In "Not Just a Movie" MoDo says the truth of the strategizing on civil rights between President Johnson and Dr. King was dramatic enough. Why twist it? Mr. Kristof says "Smart Guns Save Lives. So Where Are They?" He points out that we protect our cellphones with a PIN or a fingerprint, so why not do the same with firearms? Mr. Bruni considers "Mark Wahlberg, Penance and Pardons" and says the actor wants his criminal record wiped clean. But what kind of message would that send? Here's The Putz:
The idea of yet a third Mitt Romney campaign for the presidency, once the idle dream of a few Romney bundlers and now apparently something embraced by the Man From Bain Capital himself, has been greeted by most Republicans with a mixture of horror, exhaustion and embarrassment. The polite ones sound like a girl before the senior prom who can't believe that the stumblebum date who ruined her last school dance is in line first to ask her again: No, please, not this time. The rest sound like the characters in the third act of a horror movie, confronting a shambling revenant that just keeps coming: How do we kill this thing?
And these attitudes are understandable. Romney was not, perhaps, quite as terrible a presidential candidate as memories of his worst moments might lead one to believe: He ran ahead of many Republican Senate candidates; he had the most successful presidential debate performance in recent memory; he persuaded the public that he was closer to the ideological middle than President Obama.
But his failures were … conspicuous. There was the threadbare policy agenda, linked to a self-defeating theory that the election would be decided by the unemployment rate alone. There were the various rich-guy disasters that played into the White House's effort to portray him as the candidate of the richest 0.47 percent. And most unforgivable, given his promise of a ruthless private sector competence, there were the polling failures and ground game debacles that let Obama coast to victory.
What would Romney re-redux offer? Nothing obvious: Romney's a decade removed from elected office, with nothing on his résumé since except the permanent campaign. As a white, superrich, late-60-something male, he's the walking embodiment of his party's image problems. He won the last nominating contest because on the debate stage he looked like Aragorn son of Arathorn among a collection of dwarves and hobbits (plus Jon Huntsman's elf lord and Ron Paul's Gollum). Unless meteors strike several state capitols and the United States Senate, that won't be true this time.
So a third Romney run will almost certainly be a blind alley for a man who should be thinking of a better way to serve his country and his fellow man.
But should Republicans actively fear a Romney run? I think not: If the conventional wisdom is correct about its folly, it's hard to see what harm it can do, save to Romney's own ego and self-image, to have that folly ruthlessly exposed.
Another run would be genuinely frightening for Republicans — and this is probably why the reaction against it has been so intense — if there were any chance of Romney doing what he did in 2012: monopolizing fund-raising to a point where other potentially electable candidates stay out; carpet-bombing his opponents with attack ads; and essentially forcing the party faithful to accept him, flaws and all.
But unless G.O.P. power brokers are truly crazy — and based on the response to Romney's trial balloon they aren't — that isn't going to happen. Not even close. Instead, a Romney candidacy would depend on a small circle of backers while ceding immense fund-raising territory to Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio … the list goes on. He wouldn't quite resemble his old rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, each of whose insurgent campaigns were floated by a single megadonor, but he would be closer to their position than to that of the commanding Mitt of old.
And he would resemble Gingrich and Santorum in other ways. In 2008, he had the backing of key voices in the conservative movement; in 2012, he had the establishment (however reluctantly) behind him. In 2016, he would be on his own, hanging out in Iowa living rooms and New Hampshire diners, trying to win primaries on the basis of debate performances and flesh-pressing and even (gasp!) ideas, like any other long-shot candidate.
Which is why, purely as human drama, Romney 3.0 could actually be interesting to watch. Maybe he'll campaign more openly as a Mormon, running ads like the moving testimonials that aired just before Clint Eastwood's prime time weird-out at the Republican convention, in which his faith and works are played up rather than hidden. Maybe he'll roll out a sweeping policy agenda on poverty, as he claims he wants to do, amid incredibly awkward but maybe touching photo ops with the rural unemployed and inner-city kids. Maybe he'll sock Mike Huckabee in the jaw during a debate.
Or maybe he'll be wooden, clueless and entitled; finish sixth in Iowa and fourth in New Hampshire; and drop out. In which case he'll lose some dignity, but we won't lose anything at all.
So Mitt, it's your call. I wouldn't do it, you won't win it, but I respect a Romney's right to choose.
Now if only Mitt, Putzy, and the rest of the occupants of the 2016 Clown Car would respect MY right to choose… Here's MoDo:
I went Friday morning to see "Selma" and found myself watching it in a theater full of black teenagers.
Thanks to donations, D.C. public school kids got free tickets to the first Hollywood movie about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday weekend — an effort that was duplicated for students around the country.
The kids did plenty of talking and texting, and plenty of fighting over whether there was too much talking and texting. Slowly but surely, though, the crowd was drawn in by the Scheherazade skills of the "Selma" director, Ava DuVernay.
The horrific scene of the four schoolgirls killed in the white supremacist bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church stunned the audience. One young man next to me unleashed a string of expletives and admitted that he was scared. When civil rights leaders are clubbed, whipped and trampled by white lawmen as feral white onlookers cheer, the youngsters seemed aghast.
In a delicately wrought scene in which Coretta Scott King calls out her husband about his infidelities, some of the teenage girls reacted with a chorus of "oooohs."
DuVernay sets the tone for her portrayal of Lyndon Johnson as patronizing and skittish on civil rights in the first scene between the president and Dr. King. L.B.J. stands above a seated M.L.K., pats him on the shoulder, and tells him "this voting thing is just going to have to wait" while he works on "the eradication of poverty."
Many of the teenagers by me bristled at the power dynamic between the men. It was clear that a generation of young moviegoers would now see L.B.J.'s role in civil rights through DuVernay's lens.
And that's a shame. I loved the movie and find the Oscar snub of its dazzling actors repugnant. But the director's talent makes her distortion of L.B.J. more egregious. Artful falsehood is more dangerous than artless falsehood, because fewer people see through it.
DuVernay told Rolling Stone that, originally, the script was more centered on the L.B.J.-M.L.K. relationship and was "much more slanted to Johnson."
"I wasn't interested in making a white-savior movie," she said.
Hollywood has done that with films like "Mississippi Burning," which cast white F.B.I. agents as the heroes, or "Cry Freedom," which made a white journalist the focus rather Denzel Washington's anti-apartheid activist, Steve Biko.
Instead of painting L.B.J. and M.L.K. as allies, employing different tactics but complementing each other, the director made Johnson an obstacle.
Top Johnson aide Jack Valenti told Michael Beschloss, the presidential historian, that L.B.J. aspired to pass a Voting Rights Act from his first night as president. Valenti said that his boss talked to him about it the night of J.F.K.'s assassination in the bedroom of Johnson's house in D.C., The Elms, before the newly sworn-in president went to sleep.
On the tape of a phone conversation between President Johnson and Dr. King the week of L.B.J.'s 1965 inauguration, the president said that he indicated the time was yet ripe to ask Congress for it, and he made it clear that they both needed to think of something that would move public opinion more than a presidential speech.
"Johnson was probably thinking, at least in part, of the spring of '63, when J.F.K. was privately saying the public wasn't yet politically ready for a comprehensive civil rights bill," Beschloss said. "Then came the May 1963 photograph of Birmingham police setting dogs against African-American demonstrators, which helped to move many white Americans who were on the fence about the issue.
"Once Selma happened, L.B.J. was, of course, horrified, but he knew that the atrocity would have an effect on white Americans similar to Birmingham that would make it easier for him to get a Voting Rights Act from Congress."
In an interview with Gwen Ifill on P.B.S., DuVernay dismissed the criticism by Joseph Califano Jr. and other L.B.J. loyalists, who said that the president did not resist the Selma march or let J. Edgar Hoover send a sex tape of her husband to Mrs. King. (Bobby Kennedy, as J.F.K's attorney general, is the one who allowed Hoover to tap Dr. King.)
"This is art; this is a movie; this is a film," DuVernay said. "I'm not a historian. I'm not a documentarian."
The "Hey, it's just a movie" excuse doesn't wash. Filmmakers love to talk about their artistic license to distort the truth, even as they bank on the authenticity of their films to boost them at awards season.
John Lewis, the Georgia congressman who was badly beaten in Selma, has said that bridge led to the Obama White House. And, on Friday night, the president offset the Oscar dis by screening "Selma" at the White House. Guests included DuVernay, Lewis and Oprah Winfrey, who acts in the film and was one of its producers.
There was no need for DuVernay to diminish L.B.J., given that the Civil Rights Movement would not have advanced without him. Vietnam is enough of a pox on his legacy.
As I have written about "Lincoln," "Zero Dark Thirty," and "Argo," and as The New York Review of Books makes clear about "The Imitation Game," the truth is dramatic and fascinating enough. Why twist it? On matters of race — America's original sin — there is an even higher responsibility to be accurate.
DuVernay had plenty of vile white villains — including one who kicks a priest to death in the street — and they were no doubt shocking to the D.C. school kids. There was no need to create a faux one.
Next up we have Mr. Kristof:
Just after Christmas, Veronica Rutledge of Blackfoot, Idaho, took her 2-year-old son to a Walmart store to spend holiday gift cards. As they strolled by the electronics section, according to news reports, the toddler reached into his mom's purse and pulled out a handgun that she legally carried. He pulled the trigger once and killed her.
The previous month, a 3-year-old boy in Washington State was shot in the face by a 4-year-old. Earlier, a 2-year-old boy in Pennsylvania shot and killed his 11-year-old sister.
About 20 children and teenagers are shot daily in the United States, according to a study by the journal Pediatrics.
Indeed, guns kill more preschool-age children (about 80 a year) than police officers (about 50), according to the F.B.I. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This toll is utterly unnecessary, for the technology to make childproof guns goes back more than a century. Beginning in the 1880s, Smith & Wesson (whose gun was used in the Walmart killing) actually sold childproof handguns that required a lever to be depressed as the trigger was pulled.
"No ordinary child under 8 years of age can possibly discharge it," Smith & Wesson boasted at the time, and it sold half-a-million of these guns, but, today, it no longer offers that childproof option.
Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?
Which brings us to Kai Kloepfer, a lanky 17-year-old high school senior in Boulder, Colo. After the cinema shooting in nearby Aurora, Kloepfer decided that for a science fair project he would engineer a "smart gun" that could be fired only by an authorized user.
"I started with iris recognition, and that seemed a good idea until you realize that many people firing guns wear sunglasses," Kloepfer recalls. "So I moved on to fingerprints."
Kloepfer designed a smart handgun that fires only when a finger it recognizes is on the grip. More than 1,000 fingerprints can be authorized per gun, and Kloepfer says the sensor is 99.999 percent accurate.
A child can't fire the gun. Neither can a thief — important here in a country in which more than 150,000 guns are stolen annually.
Kloepfer's design won a grand prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Then he won a $50,000 grant from the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation to refine the technology. By the time he enters college in the fall (he applied early to Stanford and has been deferred), he hopes to be ready to license the technology to a manufacturer.
There are other approaches to smart guns. The best known, the Armatix iP1, made by a German company and available in the United States through a complicated online procedure, can be fired only if the shooter is wearing a companion wristwatch.
The National Rifle Association seems set against smart guns, apparently fearing that they might become mandatory. One problem has been an unfortunate 2002 New Jersey law stipulating that three years after smart guns are available anywhere in the United States, only smart guns can be sold in the state. The attorney general's office there ruled recently that the Armatix smart gun would not trigger the law, but the provision has still led gun enthusiasts to bully dealers to keep smart guns off the market everywhere in the U.S.
Opponents of smart guns say that they aren't fully reliable. Some, including Kloepfer's, will need batteries to be recharged once a year or so. Still, if Veronica Rutledge had had one in her purse in that Idaho Walmart, her son wouldn't have been able to shoot and kill her.
"Smart guns are going to save lives," says Stephen Teret, a gun expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "They're not going to save all lives, but why wouldn't we want to make guns as safe a consumer product as possible?"
David Hemenway, a public health expert at Harvard, says that the way forward is for police departments or the military to buy smart guns, creating a market and proving they work.
An interfaith group of religious leaders is also appealing to gun industry leaders, ahead of the huge annual trade show in Las Vegas with 65,000 attendees, to drop opposition to smart guns.
Smart guns aren't a panacea. But when even a 17-year-old kid can come up with a safer gun, why should the gun lobby be so hostile to the option of purchasing one?
Something is amiss when we protect our children from toys that they might swallow, but not from firearms. So Veronica Rutledge is dead, and her son will grow up with the knowledge that he killed her — and we all bear some responsibility when we don't even try to reduce the carnage.
And now we get to Mr. Bruni:
Every time I read about the actor Mark Wahlberg's bid to be pardoned by the state of Massachusetts for crimes he committed in his youth, I flash back to the days I spent with him for a Times magazine profile just before "Boogie Nights" came out. I remember a specific detail.
He was then trying to pivot from being Marky Mark, the trash-talking rapper and underwear model, to being a serious actor. Over lunch one day, I asked him about his bulky eyeglasses, which sent a signal of studiousness that struck me as too emphatic. They weren't familiar from any old images of him that I'd seen.
Was he nearsighted?
No, he said.
So what were they for?
He stalled and squirmed a bit. Then he conceded that they were just for effect.
In the story I submitted, I fleetingly mentioned the glasses. A fact checker questioned my description of them as "nonprescription," because Wahlberg's publicist, a savvy one, had insisted to her that it was an error and that we must take it out. But I had Wahlberg on tape. The description stayed.
Ah, Hollywood. It's a place where reinvention rules supreme; where truth is often whatever script you can convincingly perform and persuasively sell; and where any details or bits of the past that run counter to your purposes are annoyances to be deleted. That applies both to what's put on-screen — as "Selma," "American Sniper" and a few of the other movies nominated for a Best Picture Oscar last week demonstrate — and to what you're putting out there about yourself.
Elsewhere life is less easily manipulated. Wahlberg is confronting that now.
While there's not yet been any decision about his pardon application, which was filed late last year, it has drawn no small measure of extra attention to him, much of it rightly negative.
What I wish it would do is amplify and broaden a conversation in America about the contradictions in the way we treat people who've done their time.
Generally, we send them back out into the world with the exhortation that they build or rebuild productive lives, which we're invested in having them do. But we simultaneously saddle them with a dizzying range of restrictions, varying from state to state, that make that significantly more difficult.
We deny them kinds of government assistance available to others. We prevent them from engaging in all sorts of business transactions and jobs, and some of these prohibitions make little or no sense.
"We have people with real talents who aren't able to employ those talents," Mark Osler, a law professor who is an expert on pardons, told me. If our goal is to prevent recidivism, this isn't a smart way to go about it.
Pardons eliminate many restrictions. And for people who've served their sentences, they should be more common. But they're granted in a small enough minority of cases that it's impossible to argue that Wahlberg's should be one.
He's 43 now. His crimes occurred at 16, in Dorchester, Mass. On a night when he has said that he was heavily intoxicated, he used a stick to hit a Vietnamese man on the head with such force that it knocked him unconscious. As he fled the police, he punched another Vietnamese man in the eye. All the while, he used racial slurs.
It wasn't out of character. When he was 15, according to court documents, he was involved in two incidents of using racial slurs as he physically threatened black children. That matter was referred to civil court and he got off with a warning.
For the subsequent crimes, he served 45 days in prison, and he has said in interviews over time that once he got out, he was determined to be a different man.
That transformation was gradual and fitful. As Marky Mark in the early 1990s, he was known for using crude language about women. He was implicated in brawls.
He dedicated an autobiographical picture book to his penis.
Since then there have been many fine movies, an Oscar nomination, a wife, four kids. Several prominent Hollywood producers with whom I spoke last week said that his reputation in the industry today is sterling. They praised him as a joy to work with: sincere, diligent, humble.
In his pardon application, he said that he tried to get to church almost daily and that he devoted considerable time to working with troubled kids through the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation, which has raised about $9.6 million over the years.
But he can afford that in a way that very few ex-cons can. And, oddly, one of many reasons Wahlberg cited for wanting a pardon has to do with money. He and his brothers are expanding their chain of Wahlburgers restaurants, and licensing in some states is complicated by his record of a felony conviction.
Advocates for Asian-Americans have complained that before filing his pardon application, Wahlberg never reached out to the Vietnamese community in Dorchester or to the victims of his crimes.
Some good could come from his appeal. "It shines a light on a beneficent power that has atrophied in Massachusetts," Margaret Love, a lawyer with extensive knowledge about the pardon process, wrote in a recent blog post. With any luck, she added, it will encourage pardons "for the dozens of ordinary individuals whose futures may depend on it."
But nothing that Wahlberg has said publicly suggests that he was motivated by that. He declined to be interviewed for this column.
And when I spoke with Love, asking her about the proper fate of his particular request for a pardon, she said, "Given the irregularity and the absence of pardons, I think it would be a very bad idea to single out someone of such a high profile."
That's exactly right. In Massachusetts, just four pardons have been granted over the last dozen years. If Wahlberg got one of the next ones, it would be going to a person whose unpardoned offenses don't shadow him the way most former prisoners' do. He's the wrong poster boy for the right cause.
Financial generosity shouldn't be a factor in his (or anyone else's) favor: That's just the criminal-justice system's version of income inequality.
In his application he argued that getting a pardon could be an inspiration to people trying to turn their lives around and hoping for forgiveness. But to the less advantaged of them, it would be the opposite: a confirmation that being white, rich and famous earns you special treatment.
What he's asking for isn't just an image overhaul, a routine Hollywood rewrite.
If he can't see that, he needs better glasses.


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Will treatment be more complex, with longer and poorer recovery, more invasive with longer stays in acute settings, higher risk of infections and other unintended consequences? Will it then be more expensive for everybody?
Might undetected cancer be given time to spread or untreated cholesterol turn into life-threatening artery blockages, or high blood pressure evolve to a stroke?
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Eddy Merckx Gran Fondo - entries available on the day
You'll need to bring cash though, as there's no credit card facilities on the day
If you haven't got any riding planned this weekend and you're within striking distance of Cricket St Thomas down in Somerset, then there's still places available at this weekend's Gran Fondo Eddy Merckx, where the man himself will be riding. There's 64- and 104-mile options available, both of which offer some testing riding; there's 2,000m of climbing in the long route and 1,400m in the short one.
You can register on Saturday or Sunday for a £40 on-the-line fee. There's a trade village at the event with new product from Merckx 2011 (natch), Zipvit, Fulcrum, Campagnolo, Northwave, 3T, Continental, Deuter and more, and a pasta parta on the Saturday evening to which all riders are invited. There'll also be a draw of four Quick Step jerseys signed by Merckx; every rider gets a ticket.
The ride rolls out on the Sunday from 8am and registration is open from 7; there's full electronic timing and signposting, plus Fulcrum neutral service. And Eddy, of course. After your ride there's more pasta and massages available. You'll get a goody bag too, and there's spot prizes on the day.
For more info head over to www.granfondoeddymerckx.co.uk
Where were you all?
It was a fantastic day with gorgeous weather only marred by my appalling lack of fitness.
Seriously, guys, the Cannibal himself turned out.
Still, there's always next time.
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2nd August 2011 - 16:57
I was saying goodbye to my bro, who's off to live in sweden. otherwise i'd have been riding it fixed with jezzzer...
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The legacy of President Obama's time in office has been an unprecedented expansion of the federal government. A perfect example of this is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which is part of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law. Even though this brand-new bureaucracy opened for business in July, most Americans have never heard of it - and they won't so long as it remains leaderless.
Senate Republicans held strong against the possible nomination of Elizabeth Warren, Mr. Obama's presumed first choice to run this $329 million drain on taxpayer resources. If there was ever any doubt about Ms. Warren's status as a political lackey, her latest move has been to run as a Democrat for the Massachusetts Senate seat held by Republican Scott Brown. Earlier this month, however, the Senate Banking Committee voted 12-10 along party lines to approve the nomination of someone who may be even worse: Richard Cordray.
In his brief time as Ohio's attorney general, Mr. Cordray distinguished himself before the trial bar by filing a class-action lawsuit against the likes of Bank of America over the drop in value of the company's stock. No doubt this has trial lawyers around the country salivating at the possibility of getting someone on the inside with nearly unlimited power. Forty-four Republican senators signed a letter refusing to confirm anyone until this structure is changed.
The law as it stands gives the new agency's director the unchecked power of banning any bank offering that he personally deems to be "unfair, deceptive or abusive." This differs from the other independent financial regulatory agencies, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve, the National Credit Union Administration and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where authority is distributed through a bipartisan board of directors.
While CFPB is supposed to protect the public from predatory Wall Street financial products, a look at the agency's job listings shows it represents another cushy lifetime gig for the self-enrichment of 883 new bureaucrats. While ordinary Americans have had to make do with less, those same oppressed taxpayers will fork over up to $187,800 per year for a CFPB "policy analyst." Program analysts can make a more modest $123,250, and procurement analysts pocket $149,0356. This doesn't count the retirement package, 36 days of paid time off each year, bonuses, Metro subsidies and generous health benefits.
Long after the Obama administration has left town, Americans will be left paying these salaries and obligations as well as those of all the other duplicative and wasteful programs fueled by this White House's $4.2 trillion borrowing-and-spending binge. It's too late to close this particular agency's doors, but Senate Republicans have a unique opportunity to make a difference if they hold firm against the urge to compromise by denying Mr. Cordray - or anyone else - the director title.


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