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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – If only the rest of the world could have seen how Bobby Rahal looked at a picture of Michael Andretti during his daily workouts and realized how emotionally charged their rivalry used to be.
Tense adversaries on the track, Rahal stayed motivated by hanging that picture in the gym to push him the extra little bit in his training.
The IndyCar Series sure could use some of that venom these days.
A week after NASCAR got another round of off-track drama with a Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano feud, the IndyCar Series heads into Sunday's season opener with a glaring hole in the rivalry department.
"So much is expected of us to be so PC and I'm not one to go on my Twitter and fire at people," Marco Andretti said. "We have a certain amount of mutual respect for each other in IndyCar, and the difference from NASCAR is we are open-wheel and we know the consequences. But I'm sure if we had fenders, we'd have a lot more rivals because we'd have a lot more bumping."
Although the IndyCar product is considered to be one of the best forms of racing, its lack of drama may be its biggest problem. Sure, tight title races are interesting and exciting, but that's not the stuff that sells to a mainstream audience anymore.
"We all know that drama sells in this country, how the Kardashians are so popular is proof," Graham Rahal said.
Remember, IndyCar's 2011 season peaked during the late summer when Will Power and Dario Franchitti sparred on the track at Toronto and it carried over onto Twitter after the race. Power lost his temper with Alex Tagliani in the same event, and Power was caught making an obscene gesture toward race control on live television at New Hampshire. Helio Castroneves went on an angry Twitter rant about race control after Japan.
All of this brought attention to the series, created tension between Power and Franchitti during their championship battle and gave IndyCar some much-needed momentum.
And then it fizzled out.
Why? Because every good rivalry needs a villain, and IndyCar is missing a bad guy.
"You mean like Kyle Busch?" asked Marco Andretti of NASCAR's polarizing star. "I guess I should get out and punch somebody in the face after the next race because in Kyle's case, people can be all over his case, but at least they are talking about him. Obviously, he's got a huge fan base, too. So I guess it's easier to keep the buzz going when you have a villain."
IndyCar doesn't have any obvious candidates, at least not since Paul Tracy called it a career. Tracy was comfortable playing the bad guy — he actually enjoyed it — and nobody has stepped into that role since.
"Does anybody want to be the villain? That's the thing, it doesn't sit well on just anybody's shoulders," said Franchitti. "PT loved being the villain. I've been portrayed as the villain for some things I've done in races, but it's not something I'm particularly comfortable with. Some guys love it, but it just doesn't sit well with me."
It could, however, fit Graham Rahal, the 24-year-old son of Bobby Rahal. He understands how deep the rivalry ran between his father and Michael Andretti, and how it carry upward to Mario Andretti, too. It's his duty to beat Marco Andretti on the track, and if disliking him helps the series, well, that's a bonus.
The second-generation (twice removed) rivalry almost got some legs last season when the two wrecked at Long Beach. Asked what happened, Rahal replied: "What's Marco's last name? I've said enough."
Mario Andretti took umbrage to the quote and said as much on Twitter, and the feud was nearly on. IndyCar essentially squashed it with six races of probation for Rahal for blocking and initiating avoidable contact.
Rahal said it took the wind out any potential feud for the rest of the season.
"You weren't going to see any clashes the next weekend because they said they'd sit me. If they'd let it go, who knows what would happen," Rahal said. "So in that case, the air was sucked out because I get a call with what's essentially a rest of the year penalty. So what, you want me to be a good boy the whole year?
"Drama is part of it, but our sport in many ways tries to be too clean," he said. "Not from the driver side, but from (management and race control) because anytime you did anything, even if it was small, it was a penalty. We need to let some of that go. I don't want it to get dangerous, but if we want to build drama for the sport, then they need to help."
Rahal would need a willing combatant, and there doesn't seem to be a long line of drivers looking for a good rivalry, including Marco Andretti.
"If you Google or YouTube rivalries, I think it's me and Graham that comes up and it's like one crash," Andretti said. "I don't particularly enjoy it, but man, it's crazy. People like to see that stuff. I don't show up trying to beat Graham."
And some even question how sincere some of the rivalries these days really are. Tony Kanaan said while NASCAR's incident last November between Jeff Gordon and Clint Bowyer was entertaining, he found it interesting to see the drivers joking about it last month when the series was back at Phoenix.
"Is that really a rivalry or not? Because if you want to fight with me, I will never speak to you again if you try to punch me," Kanaan said. "We have plenty of rivalries here, but the way we take care of them versus the way they take care of them — they can take someone out there in NASCAR and no one says anything. Here, we can actually hurt people pretty bad. "
Rahal is willing to do his part, with one small problem.
"My dad would kill me if I became the villain," he said.


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Genealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Local Group Focuses on Researching San Francisco Families
The San Francisco Special Interest Group (SF-SIG) meets at the California Genealogical Society (CGS) on the third Saturday of every month from 10:00–11:30 a.m. The group was established to bring together and help fellow San Francisco researchers advance their research by sharing ideas, knowledge of records, research hints, and successes. Activities are a mix between discussion group, speakers, and field trips. Participants bring their own expertise and interests to the table so that everyone can share knowledge and learn. Nancy Peterson's book Raking the Ashes is being used as the core research tool or "textbook."
The first meeting of the group was held September 15, 2012. Since then more than 80 people have signed up and attended meetings. On average seventeen people attend the monthly meetings, not including speakers and presenters. The attendees are a mix of CGS members and other researchers.
Our meetings foster a spirit of sharing our collective knowledge, such as what records are available and where, how to manage research, and suggestions on how to find information and documentation for difficult research situations. We also share photographs, memorabilia, books, recently found documents, storytelling, and historical knowledge. Sometimes for fun we have quizzes, with prizes going to the winners.
The group facilitators have collected old maps of San Francisco ranging from 1850–1924 for members to use. The facilitators also have sought out some San Francisco historical data to share with the group.
We have created a chart for our members to use as a research tool, listing each family in the group we are searching for in San Francisco. The idea behind the chart is that while we search for our own ancestors, we may run across a name or record that someone else in the group is searching for. This idea enables us to expand our individual search to have multiple persons searching.
Over the past year, group members have become acquainted with each other through sharing our families' histories, and amazingly connections between members have been identified. Some members have discovered they are distantly related or that their ancestors were business partners. We have also learned that we've lived and grown up in the same neighborhoods, and we share great stories about our experiences in San Francisco.
We sometimes invite speakers to give presentations, such as Ted Miles, the reference librarian at the J. Porter Shaw Library at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. This was a well received and well attended event. Mr. Miles discussed maritime history from 1840–1940 and focused his presentation on ships arriving on the West Coast. Ron Filion and Pam Storm, the team who operate the Web site SFGenealogy.com, have spoken about the site and how to use it, along with informing us about the latest records posted and available, such as the Catholic cemetery records provided by Holy Cross (including Calvary Cemetery transfers). And the group is particularly excited when Nancy Peterson drops by on occasion to talk about her book and field many questions. This is especially helpful for newcomers to San Francisco genealogy research.
Our commitment to bring CGS members and other researchers together to learn more about their San Francisco ancestors, to join together and share our knowledge and to learn from each other, seems to be successful. Come join us and see how we can help you research your San Francisco family. Also check out the CGS Web site for more information about the SF-SIG and other events and classes.
The SF-SIG meets at:
California Genealogical Society and Library
2201 Broadway Street (corner of 22nd Street)
Oakland, California
(510) 663-1358
The SF-SIG facilitators are:
Sandra Britt-Huber
Nancy Hart Servin
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Thank you, Janice, for the fabulous post about our group. One minor change since I wrote this: We now meet until 12:00, because our members wanted more time together for research! I look forward to seeing new attendees at our next meeting at 10:00 a.m. on September 21 at CGS.ReplyDelete
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Late last week, the United States Postal Service (USPS) rolled out proposed pricing changes that would take effect in January, if approved, and generate $2 billion in incremental annual revenue for the organization, which has been in financial dire straits.
The changes, which, if approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission, would take effect on January 26, 2014, are:
-a 3 cent increase on letters (1 ounce) to 49 cents and for letters additional ounces a 1 cent increase to 21 cents;
-letters to all additional destinations (1 ounce) to $1.15;
-a 1 cent increase for postcards to 34 cents; and
-an average increase for Package Services of 4.3 percent, among others
The USPS is requesting that price increases are exigent—or filed above the rate of inflation, whereas typically that are capped at the rate of inflation as measured by the CPI-U (Consumer Price Index), it said.
In a letter to customers, USPS Chairman of the Board of Governors Mickey Barnett highlighted that due to its severe financial conditions, which include a $15.9 billion net loss for fiscal year 2012 and an expected loss of $6 billion for fiscal year 2013, the USPS has an intolerably low level of financial liquidity even after defaulting on its Congressionally-mandated obligation to make prefunding payments for retiree health benefits.
Ongoing volume declines in First Class mail, the largest revenue generator for the USPS, are due in large part to an ongoing diversion from paper to electronic communications, including e-mailing business documents and online purchasing orders, as well as other electronic mailing processes.
Barnett said in the letter that as a result of these limiting factors and urgent financial needs, and in order to address the extraordinary and exceptional circumstances which have occurred, the Governors have directed the Postal Service to file pricing adjustment requests with the Postal Regulatory Commission by September 26 that include a 1.6 percent increase in market-dominant products (First-Class Mail and Standard Mail) consistent with the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The Postal Service will also file a request for an additional 4.3 percent price increase in market-dominant products, which is subject to a 90-day review, and which is necessary in order to ensure that the Postal Service will be able to maintain and continue the development of postal services of the type and quality which this country needs. These adjustments are designed to raise $2.0 billion in incremental annual revenue, he said.
"Due to the price sensitivity that exists throughout the mailing industry and among users of the mail, we believe seeking a 4.3 percent adjustment above the CPI-U increase for market-dominant products is a moderate course of action given the financial challenges we face," he explained. "We believe this prudent price adjustment request is reasonable, equitable, and necessary, and it is far less than the double-digit increase that is authorized under the law to help the Postal Service to recover from the extraordinary and exceptional circumstances that have confronted us."
Jerry Hempstead, president of Orlando, Fla-based Hempstead Consulting explained that the USPS has been the ongoing victim of the lack of action by elected officials who have not addressed the fundamental budgetary items which Congress imposed upon the USPS having to do with the funding of Retirement, Retiree Health, and Workmans Compensation.
"If you back out retiree health, workmans comp, and pay back the overpayment to the retirement plan and allow the USPS to pay off its debt then the USPS is in good shape financially," he said.
"However, our Congress spent the overpayment to the retirement plan and they count in spending the $5.5 billion due for the pre-funding of retiree health. No other commercial enterprise is forced to fund and finance these line items as our Congress has done to the USPS."
And Rob Martinez, president and CEO of Shipware Systems, a San Diego-based parcel consultancy, said that these proposed increases only have limited value in generating additional revenue in that the higher pricing makes the products less attractive, subsequently leading to further postal volume declines.
"The area that is growing and shows promise is the shipping segment. However, first-class mail is nearly 10 times more profitable then shipping packages," he noted. "It will take a comprehensive set of solutions to shore up financial deficits include rate increases on certain products where they remain attractive and price competitive, restructuring postal facilities to reduce redundancy and improve efficiencies, elimination of Saturday delivery, moving from door deliveries to cluster boxes, Technology advancements and outsourcing components of mail distribution to the private sector, retiring more of the current workforce, but most importantly, Eliminating the need to pre-fund postal pensions into the future."
As previously reported by LM, in order for the USPS to recoup its significant losses in recent years, it maintains that it needs to accelerate the implementation of its USPS five-year business plan, which it said would reduce annual costs by at least $20 billion by 2015. And along with its goal of $20 billion in annual reductions by 2015, the USPS would like to see annual savings rise to $22 billion by 2016. The plan's goals include:
-eliminating the fund to pay future retiree health benefit premiums and is proposing to provide employee health benefits independent of federal programs, which it said would save the USPS $7.1 billion annually;
- moving from six days per week delivery to five days per week, which would result in an annual cost reduction of $2.7 billion; and
- pursuing the realignment of its mail processing, retail, and delivery operations, which would result in a savings of $8.1 billion annually and also seek other significant cost reductions to grow or retain revenues within its current business model.
Of the $20 billion in targeted savings within the next five years, the USPS said about $10 billion requires legislative action.
USPS officials said the PRC will review the prices before they are scheduled to take effect on January 26, 2014 and must agree that they are acceptable with applicable law.


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I want to build a new website. How much will it cost? Isn't that a loaded question? We've seen the exact same website project estimated $20,000 apart by two different companies. Why the disparity? It's all in the original understanding of the scope of the website. That's why detailed site-maps that explain the purpose and scope of every project are so important. Like building a house, things will change as you go from pouring a foundation to adding a roof to finishing the basement. Also like building a house, a good web developer and a good contractor will manage the process from beginning-to-end according to plan and according to budget.


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Assigned to: Athlete Ambassador - JapanTeam USA – 2002-2004 (Senior Team), 1999-2000 (U22 Select Team)Medals won: 2004 IIHF World Women's Championship (Silver)…2002 Winter Olympic Games (Silver)Other Hockey Experience: Princeton University 1998-2003…leading scorer for four consecutive years…All-ECAC and All-Ivy for four consecutive years…Top 10 finalist for the 2001 and 2003 Patty Kazmaier Award…Played for 27 yearsPersonal Information: Currently resides in Saranac Lake, NY with husband Dan, daughter Stephanie (3) and son Thomas (1)…Head Coach and College Guidance for Northwood School, 2007-PresentWhy have you joined AMP? I'm hoping that through my involvement with the Athlete Ambassador program, I will help develop girls' and women's hockey talent throughout the world. I was privileged to have incredible support throughout my own athletic career, and I'd like to offer similar support to the next generation of women hockey players.


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Thirty-five years ago, the U.S. government built a fleet of cars that were safer than anything on the road. Twenty-five years ago, the government shredded them in secret. Two escaped the crusher. This is their story.
As Congress and the auto industry wrestle with another round of tougher safety standards, nothing on the menu comes close to setting up the federal government's own vehicle design business. Yet that's exactly what Congress did in 1966.
With the furor from Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed still fresh, the original act creating the Department of Transportation also ordered it to build its own experimental vehicles for testing new safety devices, and swap notes with 13 other countries. The young faces at the new agency farmed out the first set to three companies, including General Motors.
The result: Three swamp-monster sedans of more than 5000 pounds apiece that did double-duty as safe transportation and appetite suppressants. The October 1972 issue of Popular Mechanics laid out the details: Roof-mounted periscopes; bumpers wide enough to haul Dom Deluise; and in the GM model, a rear-seat "credenza," so back-seat passengers would be protected in crashes by smacking into a vinyl-covered bosom.
Unsatisfied with the vault-on-wheels solution, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration changed course. It held a bake-off in 1975 for what a safe car in 1985 might look like. Ford and Volkswagen offered ideas, but NHTSA awarded what would become a $30 million contract to two independent engineering firms, Calspan and Minicars.
While Calspan modified French-built Simcas donated by Chrysler, Minicars designed a new model from scratch, aiming to build a four-passenger small car that could protect all its occupants in a 50-mph crash from either the front or side while burning as little fuel as possible. The result looked like an AMC Pacer worked over by the set designers of Battlestar Galactica.
For a piece of American-built iron from the depths of the Carter administration, the 14 Minicar Research Safety Vehicles had a massive amount of technology. The fender and front fascia were plastic composites that could take a 10-mph smack unscathed. Under the plastic body of the most advanced version were run-flat tires, anti-lock brakes with crash-sensing radar and dual-stage airbags. The front seats were attached to the roof with a see-through plastic shield, so they wouldn't collapse in a rear-end collision.
Power came via four-cylinder engines pilfered from 1977 Honda Accords, mounted in a mid-rear layout driving the back wheels through a 5-speed automated manual transmission. Test drives scored about 32 miles to the gallon, but test crashes suggested passengers might walk away from most crashes up to 50 mph with minimal injuries. NHTSA officials claimed thousands of lives a year could be saved if Minicar tech became standard.
And of course it had gullwing doors. Don Friedman, who managed the project for Minicars, said the idea was simply to look as stylish as the concept being cast around the same time by John DeLorean.
By 1979, NHTSA decided to convince U.S. automakers that safety could be sold as effectively as CB radios and Corinthian leathers, putting the Minicar RSV up at auto shows and county fairs to make the point. Ben Kelley, then working as the research director for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, decided to make a public service announcement for the effort, and convinced Lorne Greene to donate a day in his best white suit:
"The safest automobile ever created," Commander Adama intoned. "There's one slight catch: You can't buy it." Viewers were told to call NHTSA to voice their approval.
About 10,000 did.
The Minicar was far from showroom ready. Gullwing doors of the 1970s were as reliable as Billy Carter the week before St. Patrick's Day. And for all its safety kit, the Minicar lacked one standard: front seat belts.
Airbags weren't new technology, but Detroit automakers were resisting using them in all but the largest or most luxurious models. NHTSA and the RSV teams wanted to show how well their advanced bags could work in small cars, especially if the riders weren't belted. Friedman noted that only 13% of Americans were using seat belts in 1980, and that wasn't expected to change much before 1985.
Armed with data from 59 RSVs from Minicars and Calspan/Chrysler, NHTSA chief Joan Claybrook was ready to press on in 1980 with a new generation of safety vehicles, setting a target of a 2000-lb. car that could seat four and pass a battery of 40-mph crash tests.
All that ended in January 1981, when the "Morning in America" team from the Reagan administration halted the RSV work and promptly fracked the Lorne Greene promos. Two years later, Kelley would tell Congress that by safety standards all new U.S. vehicles were "obsolete the moment they roll off the assembly line." Thanks to Americans' general dislike of buckling up, the government's experts were forecasting 70,000 auto deaths a year by 1990.
The few remaining safety cars moldered away in the Department of Transportation's basement until 1990, when safety advocates such as Clarence Ditlow and the then-Republican controlled agency began a long-running feud over whether tougher fuel economy rules would lead to more deaths from smaller vehicles. After exploring whether the Smithsonian wanted any of the RSV cars (they did), NHTSA revealed under a Freedom of Information Act query that it had quietly sent all remaining cars to be destroyed. On July 1, 1991, the RSV showcar was crashed into a barrier at 50 mph with no dummies inside, and its airbags shut off.
Then-NHTSA chief Jerry Curry contended the vehicles were obsolete, and that anyone who could have learned something from them had done so by then. Claybrook, the NHTSA chief who'd overseen the RSV cars through 1980, told Congress the destruction compared to the Nazis burning books.
"Junking those cars was a terrible idea," said Kelley, who now teaches at Tufts medical school. "What is the benefit of keeping anything that's historically important? The future wants to know more about the past, and when you destroy the past, you destroy the future's access to knowing about it."
"I thought they were intentionally destroying the evidence that you could do much better," said Friedman.
What the government didn't know was that it had lost count.
When the Reagan crew shuttered the RSV program in 1981, Minicars still had two cars in its shop; one mostly built, the other without an engine. Over the years, the cars were stored and ignored until a California man named Frank Richardson bought them in 1996 from an asset sale he used to set up his own crash-test business.
Last year, Richardson and Friedman revealed to NHTSA that the Minicars still existed, and the agency paid for a refurbish. The one intact Minicar needs a water pump, but otherwise runs.
"If somebody wanted to buy them, the price would be very high," Richardson said.
Like other American inventions such as the VCR, the lithium-ion battery and David Hasselhoff, many of the RSV's technologies only prospered overseas. Anti-lock brakes and air bags were standard on European cars first; Japanese automakers put the first crash-sensing brake system on the market in 2003, nearly 25 years after the RSV sported it. Yet those five-star ratings from NHTSA that have become standard for front crash safety in U.S. cars come from tests at 35 mph, still 15 mph shy of the RSV bar.
Last year, traffic deaths fell to their lowest level since 1961 at 33,963, after remaining stuck at roughly 40,000 for decades, in part because a modern car has more in common with the RSVs than ever before. With smaller cars, tougher fuel rules and bigger worries about oil on the horizon, that 1985 target date for the program may have been set about 30 years too early.
"I don't think that RSV had much influence in its time," says Friedman. "It is a precursor of the performance we're going to see in the future."
Justin Hyde is a reporter in Washington.
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SP 2020 : IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
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Call For Papers
Call For Papers
Please note that revisions for papers submitted to the 2019 Symposium need to be submitted to the S&P 2019 submission site.
Since 1980 in Oakland, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for computer security research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of security or privacy. Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of secure systems.
Topics of interest include:
Access control and authorization
Application security
Attacks and defenses
Blockchains and distributed ledger security
Censorship resistance
Cloud security
Cyber physical systems security
Distributed systems security
Economics of security and privacy
Embedded systems security
Hardware security
Intrusion detection and prevention
Malware and unwanted software
Mobile and Web security and privacy
Language-based security
Machine learning and AI security
Network and systems security
Privacy technologies and mechanisms
Protocol security
Secure information flow
Security and privacy for the Internet of Things
Security and privacy metrics
Security and privacy policies
Security architectures
Usable security and privacy
Trustworthy computing
Web security
This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; S&P is interested in all aspects of computer security and privacy. Papers without a clear application to security or privacy, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.
Systematization of Knowledge Papers
As in past years, we solicit systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers that evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge, as such papers can provide a high value to our community. Suitable papers are those that provide an important new viewpoint on an established, major research area, support or challenge long-held beliefs in such an area with compelling evidence, or present a convincing, comprehensive new taxonomy of such an area. Survey papers without such insights are not appropriate. Submissions will be distinguished by the prefix "SoK:" in the title and a checkbox on the submission form. They will be reviewed by the full PC and held to the same standards as traditional research papers, but they will be accepted based on their treatment of existing work and value to the community, and not based on any new research results they may contain. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings.
Ongoing Submissions
To enhance the quality and timeliness of the scientific results presented as part of the Symposium, and to improve the quality of our reviewing process, IEEE S&P now accepts paper submissions 12 times a year, on the first of each month. The detailed process is as follows.
A rolling deadline occurs on the 1st of each month, at 3:00 PM (UTC-7, i.e., PDT). This deadline is strict and no extensions will be granted.
Within two months of submission, author notifications of Accept/Revise/Reject decisions will be sent out.
Within one month of acceptance, all accepted papers must submit a camera-ready copy incorporating reviewer feedback. The papers will immediately be published, open access, in the Computer Society's Digital Library, and they may be cited as "To appear in the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 20XX".
A limited number of papers will be invited to submit a revision; such papers will receive a specific set of expectations to be met by that revision. Authors may take up to three months from decision notification to produce a revised manuscript and submit it as part of the standard deadline on the 1st of the month. Authors will receive decisions on revisions within one month. See below for additional details on the resubmission procedure.
Rejected papers must wait for one year, from the date of original submission, to resubmit to IEEE S&P.
A paper will be judged to be a resubmit (as opposed to a new submission) if the paper is from the same or similar authors, and a reviewer could write a substantially similar summary of the paper compared with the original submission. As a rule of thumb, if there is more than 40% overlap between the original submission and the new paper, it will be considered a resubmission.
All papers accepted by February 1st, 2020, or that are submitted as a revision by February 1st, 2020 and the revision is then accepted, will be included in the proceedings of the symposium in May, 2020 and invited to present their work. Other papers will be included in the 2021 proceedings.
As a result, for authors who anticipate using the full three months to respond to a Revision decision, the final submission deadline for possible inclusion in the 2020 proceedings is September 1st, 2019.
For authors who anticipate using only one month to respond to a Revision decision, the final submission deadline for possible inclusion in the 2020 proceedings is November 1st, 2019.
The final submission deadline for possible inclusion in the 2020 proceedings is December 1st, 2019, but only for papers accepted without revision.
Revised Submissions
As described above, some number of papers will receive a Revise decision, rather than Accept or Reject. This decision will be accompanied by a detailed summary of the expectations for the revision, in addition to the standard reviewer comments. Authors may take up to three months to prepare a revision, which may include running additional experiments, improving the paper's presentation, or other such improvements. Papers meeting the expectations will typically be accepted. Those that do not will be rejected. Only in exceptional circumstances will additional revisions be requested.
Upon receiving a Revise decision, authors can choose to withdraw their paper or not submit a revision within three months, but they will be asked to not submit the same or similar work again (following the same rules as for Rejected papers) for 1 year from the date of the original submission.
Revised submissions should be submitted on the first of the month, just as with new submissions. Revisions must be accompanied by a summary of the changes that were made.
Submission Statistics
Statistics on the submissions and decisions made thus far are available here.
Student Program Committee
Following a successful model used at last year's conference, as well as other premier technical conferences, some paper submissions will be reviewed by a "shadow PC" of students and junior researchers. For more information see https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2020/studentpc.html.
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Prague, Czech Republic - May 15, 2017 /MarketersMedia/ —
In 2016, one out of every four college students enrolled in at least one online course, and nearly half of all Fortune 500 companies were using computer-based training for employees. Research shows that e-learning is not only a cost-effective alternative to traditional education, but it is also highly effective. Learners in online or computer-based courses have a higher retention of the material and learn up to five times more material than students in traditional face-to-face classes. To support educators in creating engaging and effective online courses, Training-Online.eu has announced a FREE e-learning platform.
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Next week, two proposals for a new, smaller SIM card, dubbed nano-SIM–one backed by Apple and the other by Nokia, Research In Motion and Motorola Mobility–will go head to head as ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standards Institute) decides which card future smartphones and tablets will use.
The vote is scheduled for March 29, according to a spokesman at Giesecke & Devrient, which manufactures SIM cards. The decision was supposed to have been made by the end of last year, but was pushed to March, he said, without elaborating on any disagreements that may have caused the delay.
The companies involved in the process are keeping a low profile. Apple isn't commenting, while Motorola only confirmed it is working with RIM and Nokia, which said that it obviously believes the proposal it backs has significant technical advantages.
When ETSI, whose membership includes both vendors and operators, makes its decision, the standards organization may decide to go with one of the proposals, both or none of them, it said.
As patent licensing becomes more contentious, the development of standards has become more important, according to Pete Cunningham, principal analyst at Canalys.
If there are patent claims essential to implement the nano-SIM standard, ETSI would request that they be licensed under so-called fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. If a company with patents doesn't agree to that, the proposal would have to go back to the drawing board, according to ETSI.
But the companies involved came in to process knowing that, ETSI's Ultan Mulligan said.
However, that is no guarantee for a smooth licensing process. Motorola and Samsung Electronics are both using essential patents in their respective legal battle with Apple.
Also, recently a disagreement flared up between Google, which is in the process of acquiring Motorola, and Apple over how essential patents should be licensed.
Apple wants to change the way they are licensed. The company's suggested new terms include the promise to not try to block the sale of products when negotiations have failed. Meanwhile, Google wants to continue in Motorola's footsteps and act aggressively to capitalize on its patents.
When the nano-SIM card eventually becomes standardized, its smaller size will free up room for additional memory and larger batteries, helping phone vendors create thinner devices, according to Giesecke & Devrient.
Measuring approximately 12 millimeters by 9 millimeters, the new SIM will be about 30 percent smaller than the micro-SIM. The thickness of the cards has been reduced by about 15 percent, according to Giesecke & Devrient. The nano-SIM is also approximately 60 percent smaller than traditional-size SIM cards, which are still used by a majority of phones, the company said.


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Whole books have been devoted to the subject. Techniques have been handed down through the generations, and different cultures have distinct charcuterie traditions. So what is this mysterious "charcuterie"? Pronounced shahr-kyut-uh-ree it is a French word that comes from chair "flesh" and cuit "cooked." It refers to cooked, cured or smoked meats such as bacon, ham, sausage, terrines, rillettes, galantines, pâtés and dry-cured sausage. Charcuterie has been considered a French culinary art since at least the 15th century. The specialized store in France is also called a charcuterie and will have confits, foie gras and a selection of ready-to-eat dishes.
Germans sell their cured meats at a delicatessen, and Italians purvey salumi in a salumeria. In America many of the Italian salumi products are familiar, such as prosciutto, salami, pepperoni, sopressata and mortadella. If you've ever eaten antipasto you already know about charcuterie. Been to the deli and ordered a liverwurst sandwich? How about a cold cut sandwich? Both are charcuterie. Even baloney is charcuterie.
Spain is legendary for dry-aged aging hams from heritage breed pigs. Germany is noted for the frankfurter and Braunschweiger, among a myriad of sausages produced there. Poland offers the smoked kielbasa. And in the United States there are many that swear by the flavor of smoked and cured Virginia ham. Call it what you will, charcuterie is universal.
A Little History
Food traditions are often best understood in the context of history. With charcuterie it's necessary to go back to the origins of Homo sapiens. Since every culture preserves meat in some form, it appears to be a foundational element of human survival. Imagine hunting, gathering and having to eat everything before it spoiled. This process would ensure a nomadic lifestyle and subsistence diet. However, if you could store food for later, you might settle down, build a shelter and put in roots. Since the origins of cooking meat are lost in our prehistoric past, it's only conjecture that early man might have hung fresh meat near the fire to protect it, and discovered that it cured over the smoke and tasted quite good the next day.
Whenever it was that humans started to cook and cure meat, it has not stopped since. Sausage recipes date to before the golden age of ancient Greece, and traditional sausages have been made for over 2000 years in both Rome and France. The Romans set standards for raising, killing and cooking pigs, and they regulated the process. Centuries ago, Germanic tribesmen made fortunes selling salted hams made from acorn-fattened boars that were hunted in dense forests. But charcuterie really comes into its own in France during the Middle Ages.
In France, pigs were raised by virtually every household and slaughtered when the chill of autumn took hold, to fill the larders for the winter with lovely bacon, ham, potted pork and lard. To this day in the French countryside the pig slaughter and resulting day of cooking that follows is taken on as a communal ritual. And no part of the pig is wasted, from the intestines to the hooves.
Today, in the United States there is plenty of old-world style charcuterie available, both in restaurants and stores, and DIYers are rediscovering the joy of making charcuterie at home.
Making a Charcuterie Plate
Just like a cheese board, a charcuterie platter is an ideal way to serve a party and please all palates. Arranging a charcuterie board is easy. It should have a range of items representing the various styles of preparation from cooked to dry-cured. The meats should be complemented by something acidic, like cornichons (tiny French pickles). Whole-grain mustard makes a nice accompaniment, as do olives or even black truffle butter. Allow two ounces per person, and serve with a rustic country bread, or good quality, plain crackers. A hearty red wine (but not too heavy) will make a good accompaniment, such as Côtes-du-Rhône, Gigondas or Madiran.
A charcuterie board might display:
Pâté de Campagne is a rustic, coarse pork pâté and is a staple in France
Pheasant Terrine Herbette, another coarse pâté made of pheasant, pork and fennel
In the dry-cured family Jambon de Bayonne, a thinly-sliced pork product is perfect
Saucisson sec is a dry-cured sausage, similar to salami, made of pork or sometimes wild boar
Mousse Truffée is a spreadable turkey/chicken liver mousse with black truffles
Smoked duck breast is air cured and smoked over natural wood


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Haitian Immigrants in the United States
Immigrants from Haiti represent a small but growing share of the total foreign-born population in the United States, tripling in number between 1990 and 2012. Haitian migration to the United States was very small several decades ago, with the population estimated at approximately 5,000 in 1960. Haitians began arriving in the United States in larger numbers after Haiti descended into chaos following the collapse of the Duvalier dictatorship in the late 1980s. The Haitian immigrant population stood at 606,000 in 2012, up from 200,000 in 1990; Haitians now constitute 1.5 percent of the total U.S. foreign-born population.
Figure 1. Haitian Immigrant Population in the United States, 1980-2012
Source: Data from U.S. Census Bureau 2006, 2010, and 2012 American Community Surveys (ACS), and 1980, 1990, and 2000 Decennial Census.
The Haitian immigrant population in the United States is the fourth largest immigrant group from the Caribbean after immigrants from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. Click here to view how the number of immigrants from Haiti and other countries has changed over time.
The vast majority of Haitian immigrants are in the United States, with populations also in France (77,000), Canada (74,000), and the Bahamas (40,000). Click here to see where immigrants from Haiti have settled internationally.
Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, which claimed many tens of thousands of lives (estimates vary from 46,000 to 316,000) and displaced more than 1.5 million people initially, Haiti was added by the U.S. government to the list of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designated countries. TPS beneficiaries are temporarily granted relief from deportation and given work authorization until their TPS designation expires. For Haiti, TPS has been extended through January 22, 2016. To date, TPS has been offered to about 58,000 qualifying Haitian immigrants living in the United States. The population growth detected in the 2011 and 2012 American Community Surveys (ACS) taken by the U.S. Census Bureau would suggest that concerns that the earthquake would prompt mass emigration from the devastated country have not materialized.
Employing the most recent data available from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, this spotlight provides information on immigrants from Haiti, examining the size of the population, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics. The article also uses World Bank data to highlight remittances trends.
Click on the bullet points below for more information:
- Distribution by State and Key Cities
- English Proficiency
- Educational and Professional Attainment
- Income and Poverty
- Immigration Pathways and Naturalization
- Health Coverage
- Diaspora
- Remittances
The foreign born from Haiti residing in the United States were most concentrated in Florida and New York. These two states were home to more than 70 percent of Haitian immigrants in the 2008-12 period.
Visit the MPI Data Hub Population Distribution for Regions and Countries of Birth by State and Country Map to view the states and counties in which immigrants from Haiti reside. Select Haiti from the dropdown menu.
The major metropolitan areas where Haitian immigrants resided include the greater Miami, New York, Boston, Orlando, and Atlanta areas. These five metro areas accounted for nearly three-quarters of the total immigrant population from Haiti residing in the United States.
Figure 3. Top Destination Metropolitan Areas for Haitian Immigrants in the United States, 2008-12
Source: MPI tabulation of data from U.S. Census Bureau pooled 2008-12 ACS.
Top Haitian Concentrations by Metropolitan Area
Source: MPI tabulation of data from the U.S. Census Bureau pooled 2008-12 ACS.
Click here to view the interactive map showing population distribution for regions and countries of birth by metropolitan statistical area. Select Haiti from the dropdown menu.
In 2012, the share of population (ages 5 and older) that was Limited English Proficient (LEP) was higher for immigrants from Haiti than those from the Caribbean overall (54 percent versus 43 percent). The LEP share for the total foreign-born population was 50 percent.
(Note: The term Limited English Proficient refers to any person age 5 and older who reported speaking English "not at all," "not well," or "well" on their survey questionnaire. Individuals who reported speaking only English or speaking English "very well" are considered proficient in English).
Educational and Professional Attainment
In 2012, approximately 18 percent of Haitian immigrants in the United States ages 25 and over had a bachelor's degree or higher. This proportion is nearly equivalent for the Caribbean immigrant population overall (19 percent) although lower than the corresponding share for the total foreign-born population (28 percent).
About 79 percent of Haitian immigrants were of working age (18-64) while close to 14 percent were ages 65 and older in 2012. The median age for Haitian immigrants was 45 years; slightly older than the overall foreign-born population (43 years).
Data from the Institute of International Education show that 934 students from Haiti were enrolled in U.S. universities in the 2012/13 academic year, a 5 percent increase from the 2011/12 academic year. This share represents approximately 8 percent of the total student population from the Caribbean (11,100).
Figure 4. Employed Immigrant Workers in the Civilian Labor Force (Ages 16 and Older) by Occupation and Origin, 2012
Source: MPI tabulation of data from the U.S. Census Bureau 2012 ACS.
More than 40 percent of immigrant adults (ages 16 and older) from Haiti were employed in service occupations, compared to 25 percent of all immigrant adults.
The overall labor force participation rate of Haitian immigrants (16 and older) was only somewhat higher than that of all immigrants (71 percent versus 68 percent). However, Haitian immigrant women were much more likely to be engaged in the civilian labor force than all immigrant women (67 percent versus 56 percent).
Haitian immigrants were as likely to live in poverty (i.e., with incomes below 100 percent of the federal poverty level) as immigrants from the Caribbean (about 21 percent each). The share in poverty was slightly lower for the overall foreign-born population (19 percent).
Immigration Pathways and Naturalization
In 2012, approximately 606,000 Haitian immigrants resided in the United States. Of them, 50 percent were naturalized citizens, which was higher than the 46 share naturalized among all immigrants.
Figure 5. Haitian Immigrants in the United States by Period of Arrival, 2012
Source: MPI tabulation of data from the U.S. Census Bureau 2012 ACS.
The majority of Haitian immigrants arrived in the United States before 2000 (61 percent), 30 percent between 2000 and 2009, and fewer than one-tenth since 2010.
DHS data show that on January 1, 2012, 260,000 of the 13.3 million lawful permanent residents (LPRs) residing in the United States (or about 2 percent) were from Haiti; 160,000 of these green-card holders from Haiti were eligible to become U.S. citizens but had not done so as of that date.
Most Haitians who received LPR status in 2012 were immediate relatives of U.S. citizens or other family-sponsored immigrants.
Figure 6. Immigration Pathways of Haitian Immigrants in the United States, 2012
Notes: Family-sponsored: Includes adult children and siblings of U.S. citizens as well as spouses and children of green-card holders. Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens: Includes spouses, minor children, and parents of U.S. citizens. The Diversity Visa Lottery: The Immigration Act of 1990 established the Diversity Visa Lottery to allow entry to immigrants from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. The law states that 55,000 diversity visas are made available each fiscal year.
Of the 23,000 Haitians who received their green cards in 2012, the majority were much more likely to immigrate to the United States as spouses, minor children, or parents of U.S. citizens (50 percent) or other family-sponsored immigrants (37 percent) than the U.S. foreign-born population overall (46 percent and 20 percent, respectively). In contrast, virtually no Haitians received LPR status through employment-based pathway or by winning the Diversity Visa Lottery, while 14 percent and 4 percent respectively of all immigrants gaining LPR status in 2012 entered via those pathways.
The foreign-born population from Haiti was almost as likely to be insured as the overall immigrant population. Haitian immigrants were less likely to have private health insurance coverage, but more likely to have public health insurance coverage than the total foreign-born population in the United States.
Figure 7. Haitian Immigrants in the United States by Type of Health Coverage, 2012
Note: The sum of shares by type of insurance is likely to be greater than 100 because people may have more than one type of insurance.
The Haitian diaspora in the United States is comprised of approximately 954,000 individuals who were either born in Haiti or report Haitian ancestry, according to tabulation of data from the Census Bureau's pooled 2008-12 ACS.
According to World Bank data, total remittances sent to Haiti via formal channels equaled $1.6 billion in 2012, representing 21 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The amount of remittances received by Haiti increased tenfold since the late 1980s.
Figure 8. Annual Remittance Flows to Haiti, 1970-2012
Source: MPI tabulations of data from the World Bank Prospects Group, "Annual Remittance Data," October 2013 update.
The Haitian diaspora in the United States transferred about $1.1 billion in remittances to Haiti in 2012.
Visit the Data Hub's collection of interactive remittances tools, which track remittances by inflow and outflow, between countries, and over time.
Federal Register. 2014. Extension of the Designation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status. 79 Federal Register 11808-11814, March 3, 2014. Available Online.
Institute of International Education. 2014. International Students: All Places of Origin, 2011/12 - 2012/13. Available Online.
Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics. Various years. Yearbook of Immigration Statistics. Available Online.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). 2013. Estimates of the Legal Permanent Resident Population in 2012. Available Online.
World Bank Prospects Group. 2013. Migration and Remittances Data, October 2013 update. Available Online.
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San Juan Islands Kayak Solo, a Chance Trip Report
The timing was perfect: two weeks of mid to high
60's and sunshine almost every day. The weather would allow a wonderful circular
route from North Beach on Orcas Island, to Matia, Sucia, Patos, down to Stuart,
across to Posey and then on to Jones, and finally, back up the west side of
Orcas to North Beach. That was the plan. Too bad it didn't happen.
The adventure was supposed to be prefixed with classes in Combat Roll and Rescues by Rogue Wave Adventures in Seattle, followed by a peddle upgrade for my two kayaks by AltaKayak on Orcas, then I'd be off.
However, with Class rescheduling and a question about available parts for the kayak upgrade, the days marched forward while I stayed in one place (except for my Middle Sister Climb posted earlier). Once the parts were in, I jumped to Orcas and had the modification done, then back to Seattle for the rescheduled classes. Finally, two weeks from my intended departure, I could take off. The weather was "iffy" at best.
I stored one boat with a friend in Seattle. Not wanting to loose a kayak partner, he made me promise him I wouldn't go out if the winds got over 15 knots (sort of a promise I make myself anyway). That meant staying several nights on Orcas waiting for a good weather window. My budget didn't allow for "indoor living".
I camped at Twin Lakes – a great place for hammocks because of the tree layout and diameters. You get there by taking the road (Olga) to Moran Park. On that road, in the park, take a left fork starts the uphill to the top of Mount Constitution. Along that route there is another fork to the right that goes to Twin Lakes. The road passes a park official's cabin and is narrowed by bordering threes. Just before it ends at a boat ramp, there is another fork to the campsites on the right. I found sites #129 and #130 to be ideal.
Now during the normal season, those sites might need to be reserved, or maybe they are only for "groups". But with the park half closed, I was the only one there.
Each day I drove to the library parking lot in town, and used their wireless Internet access to check the weather. Additionally, I listened to the forecast on my Marine Radio. I like to have two sources for things – agreeing with each other.
What before was going to be two weeks of play had now shrunk to a 24 hour window. I could leave early Wednesday; return by about noon on Thursday.
Given that timetable, I scratched Stuart/Posey/Jones off my list and planned a counter clockwise route to the islands immediately north of Orcas.
While I was unloading the car, a local resident bicycled up and started asking friendly curious questions about my boat and the logistics of kayak camping. I need to find a proper balance in my response. I don't want to ignore a friendly overture, but I also need to really focus on what I'm doing. As it was, I made a misstep in grabbing food and paid for it later. I also took off about an hour later than intended.
Rolfe Cove at Matia, about 3.7 miles, was my first goal. Direct line is a little shorter but there's an area called Parker's Reef that needs avoiding. The cove presented a floating dock and gravel beach. I could have climbed from the kayak to the dock – a vertical distance of about 2 feet from the water - but preferred the beach. The dock extended to a metal ramp continuing up a steep bank to the campsites; I was sure there would be a trail if I landed on the beach and I found one to the left of the ramp. On the way back to the boat, I saw the easy, "That's the way to do it." path on the ramp's right side (viewed from the water). Use that one.
Matia had about three campsites, two had good hammock trees. There was a pit toilet but no water. Time to move on; the day was young.
I jumped back in the boat and continued west about 3 miles to Fox Cove at Sucia.
Many people had told me the Sucia was for power boaters. On this day, I was the only one there. I landed on the south side of a finger that makes the cove (instead of paddling round it), and got out to reconnoiter. This would be a great place to hammock. There was water from a faucet – but it is turned off in October - and a fancier pit toilet. The ground at the sites is short grass and there are fire rings. However, I could see that the openness also removes privacy and I'm sure it could be crowded in the summer.
Checking my watch showed I had two hours of daylight left. At a cruising speed of a little over 3 knots I knew I could make the 4 mile passage to Patos Island and have enough time to set up camp – doesn't take long to string a hammock (if there are trees) – and fix a meal before it got really dark.
Following the recommendation of my chart, I passed between Sucia and Little Sucia Island. I hugged the shore until I could peek into Shallow Bay, then I headed to the east side of Patos. I followed Patos's south shore and passed within 20 yard of an eagle standing on the bank above me.
I pulled into Active Cove pretty much on schedule and quickly set to work at camp craft. The boat was emptied, hammock hang, boat put above high tide (always a good thing) and tied off, and I started boiling water for dinner.
That's when I realized that in my distraction during packing, I'd put in the pre-cooked brown rice but forgot the topping. While eating straight, plain, warmed up brown rice, I reflected on how lucky I was to be able to have such an adventure and how there were many, many people in the world who would love to have the meal I was "enjoying". I ate one of my energy bars for desert.
Patos had pit toilets but no water.. Knowing this, and that by October, none of the "water provided" sites have water, I carried several liters with me. I also had food for a few more days (instant mash potatoes for dinner – again, no topping).
Before calling it a day, I strung an MSR tarp over the picnic table and my drying gear. With the wind I felt on my face, I was sure most items would be "blow dried" by morning.
The next day I checked the weather radio again to make sure I still had my window. All was fine if I left by mid-morning. So I had time to explore a little. I hiked the trail to the Patos Island Light House and saw two better campsites along the way. That is, they were better for hammocks, privacy and view. But a longer distance to haul gear from the boat on the cove beach. However, below the sites, there was a small patch of sand that wasn't covered by high tide – and we had a real high, 8+ feet, high tide the pervious night. Using a line and pulley setup, you could hoist gear from the boats up the to the tent area. Or you could be young and full of energy and just make a few trips from the main cove beach were I originally landed.
If I missed my departure window, there was a good possibility I'd be on Patos for three more days waiting for the impending storm to pass. So back at camp, without interruption, packing went quickly and I was on my way.
The crossing to Doughty Point was about 5 miles. I angled around West Bank Reef and ran into a few rip currents. There were some white caps and mostly quartering seas. But at least they were from the front so I could see them coming.
At this point I should note that I can roll and self rescue, I was wearing a dry-suit and I carry a Marine radio and a Spot device that updates a web site with real time tracking of my position on the water. Though I was solo, I feel I was safer than some people I've seen in slides/videos of "guided" adventures who are just wearing tee shirts and shorts.
I looked at the sites at Doughty Point – they are hammock-able but the might be a little dark for extended stay. I'd use the Point as a lunch stop or for a short, one-night, stopover if I wanted to get an early start on a longer trip.
I was told – local knowledge – that an ebb tide causes a flood eddy along Orcus's North coast. I was counting on that so I could lazily paddle from Doughty Point back to the North Beach launch. But looking at the kelp tails, there was no eddy assist that day.
Soon enough I was back at North Beach. Amazingly, the same local who pestered me (in a nice way) with questions before the trip was there again. This time I accepted his offer of help to bring up gear from the beach and load the kayak on the jeep.
In Bend, I am used to weather reports that mostly miss and are repeated until they are correct. Day 1: It's going to rain, … oops, Day 2: it's going to rain, … oops, Day 3: it's going to rain, … oops, Day 4: it's going to rain - oh, it started raining, we were right. But these NOAA Marine forecasts were right on. They said showers in the afternoon – it was 1:45 – 2 pm and here came showers. I was glad to be in the warm shelter of my jeep and heading down to catch the 3:30 ferry.
Except it turns out the 3:30 ferry only runs on Sunday in the Fall. So I had another hour or two wait. I used that time to change out of my wet paddling gear into dry clothes, and even shave, in the restroom by the ferry dock.
I consider it a very successful trip because 1) one went out and one came back (always a good thing) and 2) I accomplished what I set out to do – to check out the outer San Juan Island for potential adventures.
In the future I'd skip Matia – unless I needed it as a waypoint to Clark Island. I'd definitely consider Fox Cove on Sucia if I could do it mid-week or off-season to avoid crowds. And I'd consider Patos as a part of a loop from Deer Harbor to Jones Island, up the Presidential Channel,
Maybe someday I'll get to Stuart but now that I've mostly seen what I wanted to
see in the San Juans, I'll probably spend more focus on the Gulf Island and
Broken Group in BC.
--Paul Chance, Bend Oregon
Copywrite© 2012 by Paul Chance. All Rights Reserved.
The Rest of the Story
My MENSA friend Paul Chance, has become domesticated with Joy.
While he has not given up bagging peaks, see his 2012 solo summit of Middle Sister after the Fire , he has recently pursued the sport of Sea Kayaking.
He has created a completely upgraded Classic 4Wd Jeep Cherokee Sport outfitted with custom roof racks for two best-brand and best-model kayaks (one for Joy). He has installed Expert Class Amateur long distance radio communications, satellite radio for tunes driving to Puget Sound and GPS vehicle navigation. He has subscribed to all of the best magazines and blogs about sea kayaking and is a regular contributor on the sport's websites.
Some of Paul's technical writing will be added to www.TraditionalMountaineering.org.
Is Sea kayaking a part of Traditional Mountaineering?
Yes, indeed! Traditional Mountaineering is an aerobic sport. It includes jogging, running, hiking the hills, backpacking, climbing, mountain biking, back country skiing, snowshoeing, telemark skiing, sea kayaking and similar sports, all acting together to improve aerobic capacity, strength, balance and athleticism. Long distance sea kayaking is an aerobic sport involving balance, learned techniques, safety skills requiring the Basic Responsibilities and the Ten Essentials Systems. The world of the sea kayaker requires fast individual recovery from a catastrophic roll by a rogue wave, prevention of hypothermia from very cold water - inches from the hatches, camping on storm swept isolated beaches, Wilderness First Aid for self and companions and much more. Navigation by coast piloting and GPS plotting with nautical charts and tide tables is a advanced skill.
--Robert Speik
Puget Sound Sea Kayak Trip Reports From Paul Chance
North Beach, Matia, Sucia, Patos, Doughty Point, North Bea
Gulf Island Trip Report
N Beach, Matia, Sucia, Patos, N Beach
Having a Field Day atr Hosmer Lake off Cascades Lake Highway
A fine kayak adventure on Puget Sound with Paul Chance
Ocean Kayaking has inherent dangers that can, only in part, be mitigated


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Keansburg DWI Refusal Lawyer
Charged With DWI Refusal In Keansburg? Call us at 732-747-1844.
New Jersey law requires that any person who operates a motor vehicle in the State shall be deemed to have given consent to the taking of samples of his or her breath for the purpose of determining sobriety. The purpose of the refusal statute is to encourage all suspected drunk drivers to take the breath test when requested to do so. If you or someone you know is charged with a DWI Refusal in Keansburg, it is imperative that you have an experienced Keansburg DWI Refusal lawyer by your side.
The Mollo Law Firm, New Jersey DWI attorneys, has experience handling cases of this nature in Keansburg and throughout New Jersey.
To get a conviction for DWI Refusal in the Keansburg Municipal Court, the Keansburg Municipal Prosecutor is required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that (1) the Keansburg arresting officer had probable cause to believe that defendant had been operating a vehicle in Keansburg while under the influence of alcohol, (2) defendant was arrested in Keansburg for driving while intoxicated, and (3) defendant refused to submit to a breath test.
New Jersey DWI Refusal Law
New Jersey's DWI Refusal statute is written as follows:
39:4-50.2 Consent to taking of samples of breath; record of test; independent test; prohibition of use of force; informing accused.
(a) Any person who operates a motor vehicle on any public road, street or highway or quasi-public area in this State shall be deemed to have given his consent to the taking of samples of his breath for the purpose of making chemical tests to determine the content of alcohol in his blood; provided, however, that the taking of samples is made in accordance with the provisions of this act and at the request of a police officer who has reasonable grounds to believe that such person has been operating a motor vehicle in violation of the provisions of R.S.39:4-50 or section 1 of P.L.1992, c.189 (C.39:4-50.14).
(b) A record of the taking of any such sample, disclosing the date and time thereof, as well as the result of any chemical test, shall be made and a copy thereof, upon his request, shall be furnished or made available to the person so tested.
(c) In addition to the samples taken and tests made at the direction of a police officer hereunder, the person tested shall be permitted to have such samples taken and chemical tests of his breath, urine or blood made by a person or physician of his own selection.
(d) The police officer shall inform the person tested of his rights under subsections (b) and (c) of this section.
(e) No chemical test, as provided in this section, or specimen necessary thereto, may be made or taken forcibly and against physical resistance thereto by the defendant. The police officer shall, however, inform the person arrested of the consequences of refusing to submit to such test in accordance with section 2 of this amendatory and supplementary act. A standard statement, prepared by the chief administrator, shall be read by the police officer to the person under arrest
Keansburg NJ DWI Refusal Penalties
The penalties for a DWI Refusal in Keansburg are severe. New Jersey statute 39:4-50.4a. establishes penalties for Refusal in Keansburg:
a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, the municipal court shall revoke the right to operate a motor vehicle of any operator who, after being arrested for a violation of R.S.39:4-50, shall refuse to submit to a test provided for in section 2 of P.L.1966, c. 142 (C.39:4-50.2) when requested to do so, for not less than seven months or more than one year unless the refusal was in connection with a second offense under this section, in which case the revocation period shall be for two years or unless the refusal was in connection with a third or subsequent offense under this section in which case the revocation shall be for ten years. A conviction or administrative determination of a violation of a law of a substantially similar nature in another jurisdiction, regardless of whether that jurisdiction is a signatory to the Interstate Driver License Compact pursuant to P.L.1966, c. 73 (C.39:5D-1 et seq.), shall constitute a prior conviction under this section.
The municipal court shall determine by a preponderance of the evidence whether the arresting officer had probable cause to believe that the person had been driving or was in actual physical control of a motor vehicle on the public highways or quasi-public areas of this State while the person was under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a narcotic, hallucinogenic, or habit-producing drug or marijuana; whether the person was placed under arrest, if appropriate, and whether he refused to submit to the test upon request of the officer; and if these elements of the violation are not established, no conviction shall issue. In addition to any other requirements provided by law, a person whose operator's license is revoked for refusing to submit to a test shall be referred to an Intoxicated Driver Resource Center established by subsection (f.) of R.S.39:4-50 and shall satisfy the same requirements of the center for refusal to submit to a test as provided for in section 2 of P.L.1966, c. 142 (C.39:4-50.2) in connection with a first, second, third or subsequent offense under this section that must be satisfied by a person convicted of a commensurate violation of this section, or be subject to the same penalties as such a person for failure to do so. For a first offense, the revocation may be concurrent with or consecutive to any revocation imposed for a conviction under the provisions of R.S.39:4-50 arising out of the same incident. For a second or subsequent offense, the revocation shall be consecutive to any revocation imposed for a conviction under the provisions of R.S.39:4-50. In addition to issuing a revocation, except as provided in subsection b. of this section, the municipal court shall fine a person convicted under this section, a fine of not less than $300 or more than $500 for a first offense; a fine of not less than $500 or more than $1,000 for a second offense; and a fine of $1,000 for a third or subsequent offense.
b. For a first offense, the fine imposed upon the convicted person shall be not less than $600 or more than $1,000 and the period of license suspension shall be not less than one year or more than two years; for a second offense, a fine of not less than $1,000 or more than $2,000 and a license suspension for a period of four years; and for a third or subsequent offense, a fine of $2,000 and a license suspension for a period of 20 years when a violation of this section occurs while:
(1) on any school property used for school purposes which is owned by or leased to any elementary or secondary school or school board, or within 1,000 feet of such school property;
(2) driving through a school crossing as defined in R.S.39:1-1 if the municipality, by ordinance or resolution, has designated the school crossing as such; or
(3) driving through a school crossing as defined in R.S.39:1-1 knowing that juveniles are present if the municipality has not designated the school crossing as such by ordinance or resolution.
A map or true copy of a map depicting the location and boundaries of the area on or within 1,000 feet of any property used for school purposes which is owned by or leased to any elementary or secondary school or school board produced pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1997, c. 101 (C.2C:35-7) may be used in a prosecution under paragraph (1) of this subsection.
It shall not be relevant to the imposition of sentence pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of this subsection that the defendant was unaware that the prohibited conduct took place while on or within 1,000 feet of any school property or while driving through a school crossing. Nor shall it be relevant to the imposition of sentence that no juveniles were present on the school property or crossing zone at the time of the offense or that the school was not in session.
Defending DWI Refusal Cases in Keansburg
If you are charged with DWI Refusal in Keansburg, it is imperative that you know your rights and have an experienced attorney acting on your behalf. Indeed, potential defenses may exist to Refusal charges in Keansburg.
An experienced Keansburg DWI Refusal attorney will evaluate all of the evidence the Keansburg Municipal Prosecutor has against you. The Keansburg prosecutor is required to produce discovery prior to trial. The discovery may reveal important facts that are central to a potential defense. Your Keansburg DWI Refusal lawyer will evaluate whether the arresting officer had probable cause to arrest you, whether the officer requesting the sample had reasonable basis to believe you were operating the motor vehicle, whether insufficient breath samples ("short samples") rise to the level of Refusal, and many other issues.
We are experienced DWI Refusal attorneys. We will vigorously pursue all available legal options in an effort to obtain a favorable result. We provide sophisticated energy and fresh ideas for every client, every day. Please contact our office at 888-356-4529 or e-mail Al Mollo directly at email@example.com. Thank you.


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"On ne saurait faire une omelette sans casser des oeufs." Translation: "One cannot expect to make an omelette without breaking eggs."
With those words in 1790, Maximilian Robespierre welcomed the horrific French Revolution that had begun the year before. A firm believer in using government to plan the lives of others, he would become the architect of the Revolution's bloodiest phase"The Reign of Terror" of 1793-94. Robespierre and his guillotine broke "eggs" by the thousands in a vain effort to impose a centrally planned, utopian, "omelette" society.
But, alas, Robespierre never made a single omelette. Nor did any of the other thugs who held power in the decade after 1789. They left France in moral, political, and economic ruin, and ripe for the dictatorship of Napolean Bonaparte.
The French experience is one example in a disturbingly familiar pattern. Call them what you willutopian socialists, radical interventionists, collectivists, or statistshistory is littered with their presumptuous plans for rearranging society to fit their vision of "the common good," plans that always fail as they kill or impoverish other people in the process. If socialism ever earns a final epitaph, it will be this: "Here lies a contrivance engineered by know-it-alls and busybodies who broke eggs with abandon but never, ever, created an omelette."
Every collectivist experiment of the twentieth century was heralded by socialists as the Promised Land. "I have seen the future and it works," the intellectual Lincoln Steffens said after a visit to Stalin's Soviet Union. In The New Yorker in 1984, John Kenneth Galbraith argued that the Soviet Union was making great economic progress in part because the socialist system made "full use" of its manpower, in contrast to the less efficient, capitalist West. But an 846-page authoritative study published in 1997, The Black Book of Communism, estimated that the communist ideology claimed 20 million lives in the "workers' paradise." Millions more died in places like China, Cambodia, and North Korea.
Additionally, all of those murderous regimes were economic basketcases; they squandered resources on the police and military, built vast and incompetent bureaucracies, and produced almost nothing for which there was a market beyond their borders. They did not make "full use" of anything except police power. In every single communist country the world over, the story has been the same: lots of broken eggs, no omelettes. No exceptions.
For a time, socialist intellectuals embraced "the Swedish way" as a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic alternative to the harsh brutality of the communist state. Then Sweden, after exhausting the incentives and resources of the creative class through redistributive welfarism, fell prey to high rates of brain drain, unemployment, inflation, and suicide. Once again, lots of broken eggs but no Swedish omelette. Nobody today thinks Sweden produced much of a model for anyone to emulate.
"Yugoslavian worker socialism" had its day in the sun as well. Planners everywhere thought Tito had found the Promised Land through a kind of decentralized central planning. But then it too fell apart like the "Yugo," the celebrated lemon on wheels that Tito's factories dumped in Western markets. A Yugoslavian omelette has yet to appear on the menu of nations and recent events suggest it never will.
The list is endless: Canadian health care, European welfarism, Argentine Peronism, African post-colonial socialism, Cuban communism, and so on. Nowhere in the world has the socialist impulse produced an omelette. Everywhere, it yields the same: eggs beaten, fried, and scrambled. People worse off than before, impoverished and looking elsewhere for answers and escape. Economies ruined. Freedoms extinguished. Lives taken.
Socialists have no successful model to point to, no omelette they can present as the pièce de résistance of their cuisine. Not so for those of us who believe in freedom and free markets. Indeed, economists James Gwartney, Robert Lawson and Walter Block in their survey, Economic Freedom of the World: 1975-1995, conclude that "No country with a persistently high economic freedom rating during the two decades failed to achieve a high level of income. In contrast, no country with a persistently low rating was able to achieve even middle income status. . . . The countries with the largest increases in economic freedom during the period achieved impressive growth rates."
Freedom works. Socialism does not. It is as simple as that. What a tragedy that so many people have had to lose their lives or fortunes to prove what ought to be taught as common sense in every fifth-grade classroom.
(Lawrence W. Reed is president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research and educational institute headquartered in Midland, Michigan. More information on economics and economic history can be found at www.mackinac.org. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is hereby granted, provided the author and his affiliation are cited.)
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a nonprofit research and educational institute that advances the principles of free markets and limited government. Through our research and education programs, we challenge government overreach and advocate for a free-market approach to public policy that frees people to realize their potential and dreams.
Please consider contributing to our work to advance a freer and more prosperous state.


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Command Line installation of Roles (ServerManagerCmd.exe) in Windows 2008
In Windows 2008 Components like IIS, DNS etc. are called as Roles and you can add these Roles from Server Manager >> Roles >> Add Roles and then you have to follow the steps to install the desire components. This process is a bit lengthly as you will have to go through the steps. You can automate and eliminate these steps by using Command Line utility called "ServerManagerCmd.exe".
ServerManagerCmd.exe is a tool or command which Installs and removes roles, role services and features. Also displays the list of all roles, role services, and features available, and shows which are installed on this computer.
-help | -?
Query ROLES
"-query" parameter is used to see all the available and installed ROLES of components on the server. The installed modules are are shown in Green Color (which can bee seen in below image)
Install ROLES
To add additional roles to the server, "-install" or "-i" parameter is used. You can install a ROLE by using "-i" which will install all the components which are required by the component.
Also you can mentioned all the Components separating them with SPACE which will install all the modules you have listed (it will save time)
You can find more information about the ROLES and "Command value" (Component name) on Microsoft Technet Website
Remove ROLES
Roles which are already installed on the server can be removed with the help of "-remove" parameter. Using this, complete ROLE and it's dependencies will be un-installed from the server.
Additional Options
This parameter is used to check the ServerManager version
-help or -?
Display Help for ServerManagerCmd.exe in the command window.
C:\>servermanagercmd -?
NOTE: There are some roles which requires Reboot after installation or removal, in such cases you can add "-restart" at the end of install or remove option. This will reboot the server after completion of task if required.
C:\>servermanagercmd -remove Web-Server -restart


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There is hereby created as a unit of the Martin County Library System the Martin County Law Library, which shall be located in appropriate quarters in the Martin County Courthouse, or if no such quarters are reasonably available, in such location as designated by the Board of County Commissioners. The Martin County Law Library shall be under the administrative jurisdiction of the Director of the Martin County Library System; though, as provided herein, the Martin County [Law] Library shall be, whenever feasible, a separate unit of the Martin County Library System.
The Committee shall consist of five members: A Circuit Court judge appointed by the chief judge of the judicial circuit who is a resident of the County, or, if no person satisfies this criteria, is assigned to the court in Martin County; One member of the Board of County Commissioners of Martin County, Florida, to be chosen by said Board of County Commissioners biennially; The Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County; Two practicing attorneys of said County to be appointed by the president of the Martin County Bar Association.
The committee shall advise and assist the Director of the Martin County Law Library System in maintenance of the Martin County Law Library.