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Weismüller, Michael (2012)
A new Approach to Aerodynamic Performance of Aircraft under Turbulent Atmospheric Conditions.
Technische Universität
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication
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|Ph.D. Thesis
|Type of entry:
|Primary publication
|A new Approach to Aerodynamic Performance of Aircraft under Turbulent Atmospheric Conditions
|Tropea, Prof. Dr.- Cameron ; Radespiel, Prof. Dr.- Rolf
|27 March 2012
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|Date of oral examination:
|15 June 2011
In the present study the influence of atmospheric turbulence on aircraft performance has been investigated and a relation between flight physics and meteorology has been established. Special attention was paid on aircraft with natural laminar flow airfoils because they exhibit an additional possibility of performance loss due to increased drag caused by a premature laminar-turbulent transition. A theoretical analysis was performed and the aerodynamic problem was extracted from the performance problem. A new wing glove for the G109b measurement aircraft as well as measurement equipment capable of detecting unsteady aerodynamic effects were developed. In-flight measurements for the validation of performance loss theories were carried out resulting in a new approach to aircraft performance under turbulent atmospheric conditions.
Generally, a loss of flight performance can be the result of decreased lift, increased drag or a combination of both. The aerodynamic state and therefore the possible influencing mechanisms of atmospheric turbulence vary with the flight condition. Based on aircraft performance considerations, three principal flight conditions were determined for an in-depth study of the aerodynamic state related to these flight conditions. The flight conditions are slow flight, best glide and cruise flight. A new wing glove with favorable characteristics for aerodynamic in-flight experiments, retaining the flying qualities of the aircraft besides the asymmetric configuration, has been designed. A survey of the base flow on the glove in non-turbulent conditions by means of flight tests, wind tunnel tests and numerical simulations was conducted prior to the investigations under turbulent conditions. The results were essential as baseline data and showed that the numerous design requirements for the new wing glove were fulfilled. The flight test results show that the assumption of steady inflow conditions is incorrect for flight in atmospheric turbulence. An elevated level of micro-scale turbulence in the atmosphere is related to increased angle of attack variations. Therefore, unsteady changes in the airfoil pressure distribution are prevalent when an elevated turbulence level is encountered. Turbulence levels of 0.5% and more, which lead to different transition scenarios according to the results from flat plate experiments in transition research, do not occur in only light atmospheric turbulence, which is in turn the prerequisite for almost steady pressure distributions. The unsteady lift variations related to the angle of attack variations due to gusts are well predicted by unsteady thin-airfoil theory. A quasi-stationary approach does not cover the entire unsteady lift effects but in the case of laminar airfoils it predicts when the laminar drag bucket is left and airfoil drag increases. Especially in slow flight very close to the upper limit of the laminar drag bucket, angle of attack variations lead to increased airfoil drag. Flying at a lower angle of attack simply solves this problem. Only a slight increase in velocity is required to lower that angle of attack sufficiently.
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|Flugleistungen; atmosphärische Turbulenz; instationäre Aerodynamik; Transition; Flugversuche; Laminarprofil; Windkanalversuche
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Dissertation am Fachgebiet Strömungslehre und Aerodynamik
|Classification DDC:
|600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
|16 Department of Mechanical Engineering > Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics (SLA)
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|09 May 2012 08:16
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The great implementer swindle – making badge use easy doesn't make it clever!Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
No matter how you'll turn it – the future of web design will not revolve around pages and sites but around modules. The social web and the systems providing canvasses to put up applications and badges is here and will be here to stay.
This is cool as it puts the end user much more in control of their own experience. However it is also bad as it means the standards we tried to set up and follow in the last, err 9 years are rapidly going down the drain.
The main reason is the promise of "quick wins" and "low hanging fruit" and once again the attempt to use technology to make the web a WYSIWYG and drag and drop interface.
Here's my latest find that made me wonder why we don't learn from errors of the past – making things easy to implement is not the same as making them easy to use!
Consider the job to be to offer third parties a chance to add a badge to their site. Not hard at all – the main task is really on the implementation level, i.e. making sure the styles of the parent side don't clobber the badge.
Easy to implement badges
Now, to make it easy for the implementers, here's the proposal:
Implementers can choose the size and the skin in attributes and give a brand name to display. This is pretty easy to understand and the script to make it work is no voodoo either:
(badge = function(){
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script');
for(var i=0;s[i];i++){
if(s[i].getAttribute('src') 'badge.js'){
var div = document.createElement('div');
var content = s[i].firstChild.nodeValue;
div.innerHTML = '
Awesome badge! ';
var size = s[i].getAttribute('size');
var skin = s[i].getAttribute('skin');
var col,width;
case 'small':width = 100;break;
case 'large':width = 400;break;
default:width = 200;break;
case 'blue':col = '#ccf';break;
case 'green':col = '#cfc';break;
default:col = '#ccc';break;
div.style.background = col;
div.style.width = width + 'px';
You loop through all script elements, compare the src with yours, read the attributes and the element content, assemble a badge, set the visual style and replace the script with the badge.
This makes implementation a breeze and allows the implementer even to choose the size and colour for each badge they use.
However there are several problems with this:
Invalid HTML
You cannot add custom attributes to HTML nilly-willy as it makes your HTML invalid. This is a tough one to make people understand as HTML validation is considered a nice-to-have than a real necessity. Years of lax browsers have made us immune to that issue. And, actually you could work around that with a custom DTD!
If you wondered if adding a src and content in the SCRIPT is invalid HTML - it isn't. All the recommendations say is that user agents should ignore what is in the SCRIPT when there is a src attribute:
The script may be defined within the contents of the SCRIPT element or in an external file. If the src attribute is not set, user agents must interpret the contents of the element as the script. If the src has a URI value, user agents must ignore the element's contents and retrieve the script via the URI. Note that the charset attribute refers to the character encoding of the script designated by the src attribute; it does not concern the content of the SCRIPT element.
Poor Performance.
This way of adding a badge loads the badge.js file for every instance. While it may be cached this is still an unnecessary overhead. The other issue is that every SCRIPT element makes the browser stop rendering until the script inside it or the one it links to with the src attribute is executed.
The more scripts you have in your document body, the slower your site will be! I can safely say that most of my firefox crashes are because of third party JS includes (really: ads). As a real badge implementation would do more HTTP calls – most of the time directly after rendering – this would add even more overhead.
Bad Accessibility and SEO
Alternative proposals
All of the following proposals here do require more of the implementer, but also make sure that none of the above problems occur. Using progressive enhancement we change a valid HTML structure that can be indexed by search spiders and end up with the same result.
All solutions work with one script include – in this case at the end of the document, but with an onload tweak this could also be in the head. This means the HTTP overhead is much less and your script does not get hit hard by every implementation.
Full-on progressive enhancement with a server-side fallback
This solution simply uses links to a proper backend solution that'll offer a landing page for each brand. This means proper SEO as the links can be followed and the landing page becomes a starting point. The properties of the badge are URL parameters. While not all of them must be used by the server-side fallback they still can. You can never have too much data.
The script is not hard:
(fpebadge = function(){
var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
var b = [];
for(var i=0;divs[i];i++){
if(divs[i].className.indexOf('fpebadge') ! -1){
for(var i=0;b[i];i++){
var link = b[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var urldata = link.getAttribute('href');
var badgecfg = convertURL(urldata);
var div = buildBadge(badgecfg);
function buildBadge(badgecfg){
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = '
Awesome badge! ';
var col,width;
case 'small':width = 100;break;
case 'large':width = 400;break;
default:width = 200;break;
case 'blue':col = '#ccf';break;
case 'green': col = '#cfc';break;
default:col = '#ccc';break;
div.style.background = col;
div.style.width = width + 'px';
return div;
function convertURL(urldata){
var chunks = urldata.split('?')[1].split('&');
var badgecfg = {};
for(var i=0,j=chunks.length;i
var vp = chunks[j].split('=');
badgecfg[vp[0]] = vp[1];
return badgecfg;
Progressive enhancement with a server-side landing page
If you don't want to provide a branded landing page, but just have the name displayed and if you don't trust your implementers to be able to properly encode ampersands :) then you can also just have a landing page and keep the badge properties in class names:
The code is not much different:
(pebadge = function(){
var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
var b = [];
for(var i=0;divs[i];i++){
if(divs[i].className.indexOf('landingbadge') !== -1){
for(var i=0;b[i];i++){
var badgecfg = convertClassData(b[i].className);
var link = b[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var linkdata = link.getAttribute('href').split('brand=')[1];
badgecfg.brand = linkdata;
var div = buildBadge(badgecfg);
function buildBadge(badgecfg){
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = '
Awesome badge! ';
var col,width;
case 'small':width = 100;break;
case 'large':width = 400;break;
default:width = 200;break;
case 'blue':col = '#ccf';break;
case 'green': col = '#cfc';break;
default:col = '#ccc';break;
div.style.background = col;
div.style.width = width + 'px';
return div;
function convertClassData©{
var chunks = c.split(' ');
var badgecfg = {};
for(var i=0,j=chunks.length;i
var vp = chunks[j].split('-');
badgecfg[vp[0]] = vp[1];
return badgecfg;
Hey, you use classes, why not provide a skin file?
Seeing that the last option actually uses classes, why not leave the styling to CSS and offer some skinning files the implementer can change? That way your badge script would be very small indeed:
(pebadge = function(){
var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
var b = [];
for(var i=0;divs[i];i++){
if(divs[i].className.indexOf('skinnedbadge') !== -1){
for(var i=0;b[i];i++){
var link = b[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
var div = document.createElement('div');
var linkdata = link.getAttribute('href').split('brand=')[1];
div.innerHTML = '
Awesome badge! ';
You can extend that to load and apply CSS files on demand, but it'll make more sense to keep them in one file, once again to cut down on HTTP overhead but also to use the cascade to produce small CSS files.
Comments? You can go and try out all the examples here
Tags: accessibility, badges, javascript, performance, seo

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Gottfried Fired Over Tasteless Tweets
The iconic voice of Gilbert Gottfried was fired as the voice of the Aflac duck after Gilbert rattled off what he thought were hilarious tweets poking fun at the events of Japan's current disaster. Aflac is a major insurer in Japan, a fact that Gilbert apparently was unaware of previously. Gilbert's tasteless tweets inside.


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The B.C. government is moving to allow longer leaves for parents coping with the death or abduction of a child.
Labour Minister Harry Bains introduced amendments Monday to the Employment Standards Act. They also extend unpaid leave for workers caring for a dying family member, allow pregnancy leave to begin earlier and permit parental leave to be taken for a longer period.
"These amendments are being made to ensure that British Columbians can take advantage of changes to the federal Employment Insurance and compassion care maternity parental benefits with the assurance of job protection," Bains told the legislature.
The two new unpaid leave provisions are 104 weeks for the death of a child and up to 52 weeks for the crime-related disappearance of a child.


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This site is about cars, all sorts of cars. Vintage cars, new cars, the mundane and the magical. And about the people who drive — and drove — them. (Nostalgia will be knife-spreadable here.) You'll find personal stories of the people who drove race cars with skill and speed — Fangio, Moss, Phil Hill, Jimmy Clark, Fireball Roberts, the Unsers, the Rodriguez brothers. And, too, you'll read of ordinary people who, alas, drive us to despair.
This site deals with what to drive (I recently experienced the Bugatti Veyron); where to drive (some great roads I'll tell you about); and how to drive (some tips and admonitions to make those despair-makers more like me and thee.)
I've been at both driving and writing a looong time. I got my first driver's license in 1940. Some ten years later I was writing about, among other things, cars. Some of those other things will show up here, too. But mostly cars, trucks and a few motorcycles. Well, an airplane or two. Yes, and skis. But mostly cars.
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DuoBlog: Denise McCluggage and John Paul Gonzales on the 2013 Buick Encore
Another "He Said, She Said" blather about a new car. Denise McCluggage and John Paul Gonzales take on the small Buick crossover. For more extended conventional reviews check out AutoWeek, Automobile Magazine or Edmunds.
Denise McCluggage: My quick early impression: endearing little machine. Right size and demeanor for a city like Santa Fe with its altitude (7000 feet plus and minus) and often bad or snowy roads. The Encore is easy to get in and out of. Maneuverable. Easy to see out of. Versatile in use. Appropriately quick steering. Impressively tight turning circle for 4WD. (An option.) Proper city manners, like the A-pillar and mirrors doesn't hide a herd of first graders at intersections like so many SUVs and crossovers do. For me the Encore is cocky enough to know it deserves applause and I comply. How do you see it JP?
John Paul Gonzales: I felt that the Encore was a charming vehicle. I'm generally not one for crossovers because they seem to be compromised some way or another, but the Encore felt much more like a small SUV than any sort of SUV crossed over with a car that I've ever driven. It's comfortable, has surprisingly well-balanced road manners, and is looks like something I'd be happy to be seen in.Read More >>
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Today: The 2013 Lexus ES 350
D-McC: Years ago when I was a sports reporter for The New York Herald Tribune my specialties were motorsports and skiing, but I was assigned to other stuff from golf to kids' yacht racing, And dog shows. Though I was amused that canine beauty contests were on the sports page.
One day after the Best-in-Show was chosen we reporters gathered around the judge – pens ready to record a quotable quote to enliven our stories—I got one I've never forgotten. The rather lumpy women, frowning with the seriousness of her job, explained her choice with "I could not fault the Peke today."
Loved it. That became one of my go-to sayings whether apt or not. And, does it fit today. Lexus does not leap to my mind as my kind of car but – certainly JP, I could not fault the ES 350 today. How about you?
JP: You know, it really depends on the context you place the car. The car, like a dog, is innocent and faultless in a vacuum. I think it's just like in one of those dog shows where one can parade them around on the green carpet, poke here and prod there, and find not a fault with the dog's perfect coat and obedient demeanor. That's the dog in a vacuum. But if you want to talk about the dog in the context of "is it good playing with children" or "does parading it around at the dog park attract conversation" then we can really start to get at what the dog means to us—and if there's fault. (But for the record, I'm not really a fan of normative statements anyway).
You can have a pretty car and find plenty of fault in it, or you can have a plain-jane appliance vehicle that does everything you could possibly want it to do depending on how it's used. I'll go on record as saying that the ES350 is pretty much the most fault-less car you can possibly buy for the money today. It does everything you want it do, with no fuss, in comfort and brand-recognition style. After all, "it's a Lexus!" Look, leather seats, premium sound, this navigation system, and Ooh! A "sport/economy" selector that just might indicate this car has some personality. If I had my clipboard and checklist, I'd tick off these points, frumpily frown, and say "I could not fault the Lex today."Read More >>
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I think of Santa Fe's Travel Bug as "The Map Store" and confound people when I say that's where I'll meet them for tea (or coffee if they must.)
But there are more maps here than ever existed when cartography was middle-aged. Books too, travel guides yes, but books about the places as well.
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June 19, 26 and 27, 2008
Cuisine: Vietnamese
2 Nguyen Huy Tu Street
District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
Gia Hoi moved to a new location in Fall 2011:
26 Nguyen Huu Cau Street
District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
Phone: 8202385
Website: none
Imperial Cuisine – clockwise from top left – com hen, hen xao, banh uot thit nuong, bun bo Hue, banh it tran, banh beo, bun thit nuong, banh khoai, banh it ram (center)
Who loves Hue cuisine? We do!
The Astronomer and I ate at Gia Hội 2 for the first time three weeks ago and we've been back three times since then. You could say that we're crushing hardcore on this place, and it's not hard to see (and taste) why. The menu here is short, sweet and focused on the foods of the former imperial capital. Hen (baby clams) are heavily featured.
Last fall, The Astronomer and I visited Hue and tasted com hen for the very first time. Dare I say it was love at first bite. After my grandpa, I am convinced that com hen is the second best thing to come out of Hue. Prior to discovering Gia Hội 2, we only had mediocre versions of this dish in Saigon.
The com hen (12,000 VND) here is as close to the real deal as we've come across down south. All of the essential components of com hen are present and splendid—fresh herbs (Vietnamese coriander, basil), banana flower, crispy pork rinds, sesame seeds, peanuts, warm clam broth, fermented shrimp paste and of course, flavorful baby clams. Unlike your average Vietnamese, I'm not too good with chillies. Gia Hội 2 serves up a sweet and subtly spicy variety that I'm totally down with. Mmm, boy.
Another spectacular baby clam dish is hen xao (16,000 VND), which consists of clams stir-fried in lots of butter along with Vietnamese coriander and onions. The clam mixture is scooped up with toasted rice crackers. I like not bothering with utensils. The clams are packed with so much flavor that this simple preparation highlights all of its natural goodness. A squeeze of lime juice and a bit of shrimp paste add the finishing touches.
Another one of our favorites is the banh uot thit nuong (18,000 VND). Growing up, banh uot was served plain with nuoc mam, not stuffed with thit nuong (grilled meat). It's hard to believe that the plain-ish dish I had as a kid is related to the one served here. Gia Hội 2's banh uot thit nuong consists of a sheet of rice paper wrapped with pieces of barbecued pork and a single mint leaf. The banh uot is served with a special dipping sauce with little pieces of minced meat that's thick and sweeter than you'd expect. The restaurant also serves a shrimp (banh uot tom) variety that we've yet to try.
The banh it ram (right – 17,000 VND) and banh it tran (15,000 VND) are two lovely appetizers or post-meal space fillers. The Astronomer isn't a fan of dough-y chewy balls, but luckily our dining companions have been game to share them with me. The banh it ram are filled with a single caramelized shrimp (tom kho), while the banh it tran are filled with mung bean paste. Another difference between the two is the crispy rice cracker that the banh it ram sits upon. I like both equally.
Banh beo (20,000 VND), steamed rice cakes, is served two ways here—in individual dishes and stacked on plates. When Nina dined with us, she requested that we order the individual ones. Each banh beo was sprinkled with minced shrimp, scallion oil and crispy pork rinds. Banh beo's signature sweet nuoc mam was served on the side.
There are a lot of winners on Gia Hội 2's menu and no all-out losers, but the bun bon Hue (15,000) VND and banh khoai (20,000 VND) didn't quite move us.
If a trip to Hue isn't in the cards, Gia Hội 2 is a great place to go for a taste of the emperor's cuisine.
Click here for a New York Times article about Hue cuisine: "Vietnamese Cuisine: Echo's of Empire."


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Samsung launches new $100M fund for cloud, mobile
The Korean electronics giant will use its new Silicon Valley operations, early stage investment fund, and its $1 billion Samsung Ventures America Fund to boost its presence in the U.S.
"Much of our innovation in the past was done in Korea, because that's where the company began. That's where a lot of the engineers are," Young Sohn, chief strategy officer of device solutions at Samsung Electronics, told reporters during a press conference about the new initiatives. "Samsung has more than half of our employees worldwide."
To jumpstart the $100 million Samsung Catalyst Fund, the company is holding a competition, SamsungCreate Challenge, later this year. The program will encourage artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and other innovators to leverage Samsung's technology. It will award $10 million in seed investments to winners and will also include incubation and support from Samsung's Innovation and Technology fellows and partners with Samsung R&D technologists.
The company plans to provide more details at a later date.
Samsung today also discussed its new Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center in Menlo Park. The business also has offices in Korea and Israel and is led by Sohn. He declined to detail the size of the innovation center.Samsung, while based in South Korea, also has large operations in New Jersey and Texas. However, its presence in Silicon Valley, the traditional heart of U.S. technology, has been relatively small. The company has been taking steps to expand its California-based operations, including by building a new research and development center in Mountain View, Calif. And executives told CNET recently that Samsung has been hiring many people in the area.
Many tech giants operate investment arms to build companies developing technology in their interest areas. Intel's VC arm is one of the biggest startup investment funds in the world, and Google, Qualcomm, and Microsoft are some other companies that operate sizable funds. Samsung founded Samsung Venture Investment Corp. in late 1999, and it has increased the amount in the America-based fund frequently, Sohn said. That has meant more investment in Silicon Valley recently.
Sohn said that by focusing on academics and smaller-scale ideas the company's venture efforts are different from those at Intel, Qualcomm, and Microsoft. He added that the company's business style, which includes being "very patient," might attract entrepreneurs.In recent times, the hottest companies for venture funding have tended to be in social networking, health care, or mobile instead of hardware-related fields. According to research firm CB Insights, which provides quarterly data on VC investments, only 4 percent of the deals made in the fourth quarter were in the computer hardware and services sector. Fifteen percent were in mobile, while the bulk -- 41 percent -- were in Internet companies.
"A number of venture companies are running away from basic science that takes awhile to incubate and develop," Sohn said.
As for the size, Sohn said that the $100 million venture fund is just a starting point that the company has committed to. "Obviously the money can go up if we have other ideas," he told reporters.
The new investments discussed today, as well as the company's R&D center, will help Samsung become more rooted in Silicon Valley. It also should help drive innovation in areas related to Samsung's own business targets.
"There's a hunger for supporting entrepreneurs and academics, [things that] could be the next Google or other things that we can help be a part of that," Sohn said. "We are part of Silicon Valley."
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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook (WAHH) Series is the most deep and comprehensive general purpose guide to hacking web applications that is currently available. This course is a practical opportunity to take the skills and theory taught in the book to the next level, experimenting with all of the tools and techniques against numerous vulnerable web applications and labs, under the guidance of the book's authors. The course also includes new material from the second edition of WAHH, bringing the course right up to date with the latest attacks.
The 2 day course will take place on the 11th & 12th September 2018 at the Novotel London West
Cost is £ 1,300 (inc VAT). Buy your place in our shop now.
Course Outline
The course follows the contents of WAHH, with a strong focus on practical techniques:
- Overview of web application security (chapters 1-3)
- Mapping the application and its attack surface (chapter 4)
- Bypassing client-side controls (chapter 5)
- Attacking core security mechanisms: authentication, session handling, access controls (chapters 6-8)
- Using automation to enhance manual testing (chapter 13)
- Injecting code and other input-based attacks (chapters 9-10)
- Attacking application logic (chapter 11)
- Attacking other users (chapter 12)
We will cover a huge range of attacks and techniques, focusing on arming you up with methods and capability to target the vast cocktail of technologies and situations:
- Injection techniques and methodology to target any language (XXE, SQL, LDAP, JavaScript)
- Writing Burp Extensions, Burp Macros and other tips to automate your work further and test 'untestable' web apps
- Exploiting seemingly "low risk" issues to achieve full application compromise
- Understanding JWT, SAML, and API testing
- Turning theoretical attacks into practical exploits
- The latest attack techniques which have been developed in recent months
- And much more …The course employs a range of demo applications and lab exercises, containing hundreds of different examples of web application vulnerabilities.
This course itself is CREST approved and listed as helpful towards CCT APP.
Student Requirements
Delegates should be able to meet the following:
- Familiarity using an intercepting proxy
- Understanding of basic concepts such as the HTTP protocol, session management, and basic HTML.
- Computers capable of running Burp Suite (www.portswigger.net). Note that attendees should have
- administrative access on these machines in order to set IP addresses, modify hosts files and install software.
What to Bring
- A version of the JRE, capable of running Burp Suite.
- An Ethernet connection.
- Administrative access to the laptop, and the ability to install a few tools, and disable personal firewalls or virus scanners should they get in the way of the lab exercises.
We strongly recommend a personal laptop – if your corporate laptop build is too restrictive this may affect your ability to participate in the course fully.
About the Trainer
Marcus Pinto is internationally recognised as a leader in the application and database security field, having spent the last nine years in Information Security both as a consultant and as an end user responsible for a global team securing over 200 build tracks and 50+ externally facing applications. He has delivered training to some of the most high-profile audiences, at 44CON, BlackHat, SyScan, and Hack in the Box. Privately he has run training for many technical audiences including CESG's penetration testing team.
Marcus also sat on the assessors panel providing input for the CREST Web Application Exam, the UK's number one certification for application assessment.


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Indiana State Fairgrounds is located in Indianapolis, IN and is a great place to catch live entertainment. SeatGeek provides everything you need to know about your seating options, including sections, row and even obstructed views.
SeatGeek is known for its best-in-class interactive maps that make finding the perfect seat simple. Our "View from Seat" previews allow fans to see what their view at Indiana State Fairgrounds will look like before making a purchase, which takes the guesswork out of buying tickets. To help make the buying decision even easier, we display a ticket Deal Score on every row of the map to rate the best bargains.
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Taupe - Pearl - Refill Eye Shadow
Features & Benefits
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Sick of all the doom and gloom, Negative Nancy and Debbie Downer info out there about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Me too!
This blog is different (kinda like me). No medical reports, no darkness and above all, no negativity (because CFS is enough of a downer as it is, am I right?).
My mission is to lighten your load a little and share my experiences all about ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with the people who know what I'm harping on about (that's you), and offer you a little bit of light at the end of what can feel like a very long and laborious tunnel.
I made it to the other side people! And you know what? I've been free of symptoms now for five years (not even a cold)!
My hope is that one day you can too…
Introducing Conquering Fear Spirituality; the blog I wish I'd been able to read when I was ill.
Because let's be honest, unless you've suffered from CFS, it's impossible to relate!
'They' just don't understand!
But I do, I've been there.
I suffered with it for 10 years.
I didn't wake up one morning and miraculously recover. I failed, relapsed (countless times), repeated mistakes and made myself a lot worse before I got better. I was (and still am) my own biggest experiment.
A quick trip down my CFS memory lane
These days I loathe to define myself by my CFS experiences (looking forward, not backwards and all that), but this timeline gives a good indication of the hardest 10 years of my life.
(Not sure if you suffer from CFS? Read more about it here.)
My CFS timeline (because this healing yourself stuff doesn't just happen overnight)
Pre-CFS: Straight 'A' student. Always getting sick.. Who has time for that? Not me!
October 2002: Age 18. I wake up unable to move. I can't even open my eyelids. I'm terrified!
November 2002: I'm diagnosed with M.E. (Myalgic Encephalomyeltitis) also known as CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Read about the difference between M.E and CFS here.
Early 2003: I spend 22 hours of the day sleeping. 6 months pass and I haven't seen daylight. My weight plummets and my quality of life is… well what life?
Read more about a day in the life of a CFS sufferer here.
Mid 2003: I start working one day a week in administration, but the result of one day out of the house means I sleep for the rest of the week.
Late 2003: I return to university, but I'm barely able to attend lectures. I manage to finish my essays though and eventually I'm able to walk around a little.
2005: I complete my final year of university in France. My body clock normalises, I'm eating well and I manage my time and stress levels so that I have adequate rest periods. I feel AMAZING.
2006: I begin working full time, and when my CFS symptoms began to flare up again I ignore them (I haven't learnt all my lessons yet).
2008: The stress of a teaching job in London makes me relapse, and only after a fall that forces me to rest do I decide to make this my last relapse, learn from my mistakes and get myself back to good health again.
2010: Hubby and I move from the UK to a warmer climate. Hello Australia!
2015: I have been symptom-free for over five years (not even a cold).
You can read my full CFS recovery story here.
Can you identify with some or all of the above? I believe that it's the last 15% of recovery that really stumps people! It stumped me more times than I want to admit. My aim is to arm you with the tools that will help you break through that last 15% that's holding you back from full recovery.
Here are my three favourite posts to get you started:
Treatments I Tried (Medical and Alternative) (I've done all the hard work for you)
The CFS Manifesto (My most popular post)
The Root Causes of CFS (My most controversial post)
I hope you find just one thing on this blog that resonates with you and brings a little light to your day.
If you're looking for some extra special 1:1 attention to help you break through your CFS blocks, check out my mentoring page.
There's also more to me than just CFS. I also blog about life, spirituality, finding your true voice and everything in between. Click here to view some articles featured in newspapers and online.
With deep gratitude and love,
CFS Media, Speaking and Interviews
Click here to read my media page, with all the details of what I can offer and my products and services.
This blog was set up to document my healing from ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) in the hope of reaching out to others and sharing our journeys together. The blog is based solely on what has worked for me and my own, personal experiences. I am not a professional counsellor or doctor, I have no medical training of any sort and no background in medicine. If you are receiving medical help, please continue to do so, and do not substitute anything you read about on this website for professional advice.
I will take no responsibility or liability for anything that happens as a result of any advice or tips given on this blog. What works for one person might not work for another person- we are all different and our bodies will take different times to heal and recover. If you choose to follow any advice given on the blog, please know that I cannot and will not take responsibility or liability for situations, losses, damages or consequences which ensue.
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What an amazing story ( I read it on Twitter, first), and share a similiar story of my battle with Gastroparesis, a sdigestive disorder that paralyzes the stomach to some extent. ( varying degrees). I healed after three years and am so grateful for the experience. I, too, was fearful of everything in life, and held a lot of things "in", lots of stress, anxiety, anger, and worry. Ironically, This disease , along with a breakup of a long term relationship, forced me to change my life for good. Or perhaps, not so ironically:). Looking forward to learning your miraculous recovery!
Anita, my lovely, thank you so, so much for sharing your experience. I'm so pleased that you are now healing from your illness- like you said, it takes a long time to shake yourself out of it, but it's worth it!
Thank you so much for contributing! Have a beautiful day!
Love and healing, Katie x
I just read your article about 5 things to ask if you're not where you thought you'd be. It helped me so much. It probably helped me more than anything I've read. Thank you.
Hello gorgeous! Just sending you some virtual love and support! Just discovered your blog and am so happy I did. Keep up the amazing work. xoxo
Hi Katie, just came across your site via your contribution to MindBodyGreen and like your attitude towards CFS! I was diagnosed with this same disease almost twenty years ago, at age 15. I've had my ups and downs since then of course, and am thankful that the downs are getting smaller every time around, especially since becoming a mom 6 years ago (we now have three wonderful kids, aged 6, 3 and 1). But especially in this busy time of life, I am on the lookout for inspiration and support as to how to live happily and in harmony with this challenge of CFS. I'll dig into your site the coming time, but want to thank you for your positive outlook already!
I like the idea of this website and hope it continues to grow. For myself, I am sure that my emotions are linked to my CFS. Traditional therapy gets me nowhere though. I feel as if I am in a catch-22, as resolving the one is dependent upon resolving the other, if that makes any sense.
Beautiful Katie! Very inspiring. xx
I write this from the grave I call my bed. Yet again, I have become bed-strickened, losing yet another day and another battle. I have suffered from severe CFS and Chronic Epstein Barr since I was 19. I am now a 30-year-old man so desperate for change and help. It's so hard to believe someone could heal themselves of this horrible illness but I'm happy to hear you did and I look forward to reading your blog.
I happened to stumble across your blog whilst suffering a bout of insomnia and doing my usual googling trying to look for reassurance that I am not alone suffering with this debilitating illness. I have had Cfs for 15 years and also suffer from extreme anxiety as well. Reading all your blogs really touched me in fact made me quite emotional it was such a relief to read about someone who is feeling exactly the same as me. I just wanted to say thank you as you have really helped me in my time of need. I think what you have done is awesome and that your really inspiring!!
So useful to read, im in the muddy myre of fatiguey/auto-immuney/adrenaly undiagnosed confusion but I'm seeing so much how my emotions and head have got me here. Useful to read your website right now, thanks x


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I am so excited to announce a new project I'm kicking off. It's called The Pintester Movement, and you can participate! I'm getting together as many people as possible to step outside our comfort zones and try that Pinterest pin that's been sitting on your Someday list forever. It's your kick in the pants to get it done! And, in the spirit of Pintester.com, we don't care if you succeed or fail– In fact, if you fail, all the better. Make us laugh. It'll be therapeutic.
In addition to your kick in the pants, benefits include fame and glory. I'll be putting up a post on Thursday, May 30 (that gives you a week and a half to get your project done) with links to everyone who participates and writes up their results. If you have a blog, that means you get some link juice and free traffic from me.
If you don't have a blog, fear not! I've partnered with the awesome folks over at GoMighty.com and they want you to use their platform to join in with us!
Using the site is simple. You just:
1. Register for an invite at http://gomighty.com/register/ . (They're in beta so you have to request an invite, but they send the invite out in 12 hours or less from the request.)
2. Create a goal called 'Participate in The Pintester Movement.'
3. Write a story attached to that goal sharing the project you make and tag it #pintestermovement.
So stop being scared to tackle that project. You might fail, sure. So what? If we've learned anything from Pintester.com it's that failing is not the worst thing ever. And you know what else? You might totally love that pallet coffee table, or crock-pot cheesecake, or Barbie boob necklace you thought you couldn't make. Win-win, lovlies. Win-win.
Rules? I'm not much on rules, but please link back to The Pintester Movement post (once it goes up) from your post on that day, and link to the original tutorial that you're working from on your post, of course. (Spread around that referral love!) The final element I'd suggest (but won't require!) is some kind of call-to-action for your readers to also take on a project they've been putting off and join The Pintester Movement!
Raring to go? I knew you would be! Sign up below and I will email you reminders and details as we get closer to the date! (If you can't see the sign-up form, click here!)


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Halogen chemistry has been exploited by medicinal chemists for nearly 70 years. To date, halogens were regarded useful for optimization of so-called ADMET properties (the acronym stands for absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, toxicity) – they improve oral absorption and facilitate crossing biological barriers by prospective drugs, they are useful for filling small hydrophobic cavities present in many protein targets, and they prolong lifetime of the drug. In short: They make compounds of interest more drug-like. However, direct interactions mediated by halogen atoms have been much ignored in pre-clinical drug development.
Recently, scientists from Heidelberg and Prague, working in quantum chemistry and structure-based drug design, have developed a new tool for the usage of halogen bonds for computational medicinal chemistry and drug discovery applications. The study, led by Dr. Agnieszka Bronowska from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and conducted in cooperation with scientists from the Czech Academy of Sciences, has been published in Chemical Communication.
Most halogens – except fluorine – have unique properties which allow them to stabilize direct interaction between prospective drugs and their protein targets. These properties are of quantum-chemical origin; namely, the anisotropy of charge distribution around the halogen atom, when it is bound to an electron-withdrawing substrate. Unexpectedly, despite of being negatively charged, halogens have regions which remain positively charged (Figure 1, left panel). These regions, called sigma-holes, are responsible for the directional and stabilizing character of halogen bonding with other electronegative atoms, such as oxygen or nitrogen.
Overlooking sigma-holes leads to errors in predictions of structure and energetics of drug-protein complexes and thus to failure in drug development.
By approximating the positively charged sigma-hole with a massless, charged pseudo-atom (denoted as explicit sigma-hole or ESH), Agnieszka Bronowska and her colleagues incorporated a quantum-chemical effect into faster (and much less accurate) computational methods applicable to structure-based drug design. "We tested nearly a hundred complexes between medicinally relevant proteins and halogenated molecules", Bronowska says. "The results showed significant improvement in the description of such complexes upon introduction of ESH."
The new method is already used by research groups in the Czech Republic, in the United Kingdom and in the U.S. for designing novel compounds to treat chemotherapy-resistant cancers, infectious diseases, and Alzheimer's disease.
Scientific Publication:
Plugging the explicit sigma-holes in molecular docking. Michal Kolár, Pavel Hobza and Agnieszka K. Bronowska. Chem. Commun., 2013,49 (10), 981-983
Scientific Contact:
Dr. Agnieszka Bronowska
Molecular Biomechanics Group (MBM)
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)
Press Contact:
Dr. Peter Saueressig
Public Relations
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)
Phone: +49-6221-533245


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1970 Chevy C10 - Red, White, And Blue
The Lister Brothers Go Classic Trucking
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A while ago I got an email with a few images for inclusion in our Classic Cruisers section from a reader by the name of John Lister. John had a good-looking, two-tone 1970 Chevy C10 and after looking at the images and seeing that he was located in nearby Arizona I gave him a call for a bit more info regarding his submission.
Well, one thing led to another and I soon learned that John had a brother, Richard, who also had a good-looking C10 of the same vintage. Not long into our conversation I decided that the pair's hometown wasn't really that far away and that it just might be worthwhile to head out on a short road trip to Chandler, Arizona, to see and photograph the pickups myself. Upon my arrival, I got to meet John and Rick in person and checked out the pair of C10s in person, as well.
As the three of us found a location for shooting the photos, the guys filled me in on both their backgrounds and their trucks' backgrounds. It all started a few years ago when John decided he wanted to build himself a classic pickup. He initially located and purchased a '65 Chevy C10. Being his first project, he was pretty stoked and sort of jumped the gun, paying too much attention to the low asking price and not enough to just how rough the pickup really was. Needless to say, by the time he stripped it down he found that it was too far gone to justify his time and investment, so he decided to cut his losses and start looking for a better prospect than what he had.
He soon found a '66 that was in much better shape than the '65, so he yanked the drivetrain and towed the '65 to the junkyard. At just about the time John was getting back on track with his project, he just so happened to run into his brother Rick whom he'd lost track of over the years. Upon getting reacquainted, the two found out that they were both still interested in trucks, and John now had an extra set of hands to help out on the build. Shortly after, Rick decided he wanted a truck as well, so he sold his Harley and soon found a nice red '70 C10 driver that was fitted with a '67 nose. All Rick's C10 really needed was a lowering job, a four-wheel disc brake conversion, and a nice set of wheels and tires and he'd be ready to cruise.
Meanwhile, they had quite a ways to go on John's project before it'd see the road. One day Rick and John's wife hatched a plan to talk John into selling off the '66 project and finding a solid driver that needed just minor attention. They approached John with the idea of selling him on the fact that he and Rick could be having fun hitting the shows well before he'd ever come close to finishing the '66 project. It didn't take long for John to realize that they had a point, so he put the project on the market and sent it off to a new home. Not long after that, John found the '70 and performed nearly the same modifications his brother Rick had on his truck (lowering, disc brakes, and nice wheels and tires).
Needless to say, the brothers and their pickups were both on the road in short order and have been enjoying themselves immensely ever since.
1970 Chevrolet C10
John Lister
Chandler, Arizona
Frame: modified stock, C'd rear rails
Rearend / Ratio: GM 12-bolt / 3.08:1 by Arizona Differential, Phoenix, AZ
Rear suspension: CPP 4-inch drop coils, CPP 2-inch lowering blocks
Rear brakes: CPP disc, slotted rotors
Front suspension: CPP drop spindles, CPP 2-inch drop coils
Front brakes: CPP disc, slotted rotors
Steering box: GM
Front wheels: Foose Legend, 18x8.5
Rear wheels: Foose Legend, 20x10
Front tires: Nitto, 265/40ZR18
Rear tires: Nitto, 275/40ZR20
Gas tank: stock
Engine: 350ci SBC
Heads: iron
Valve covers: Edelbrock, chromed steel
Manifold / Induction: Edelbrock / Edelbrock 600-cfm
Ignition: GM HEI
Headers: ceramic-coated tube
Exhaust / Mufflers: aluminized / Flowmaster 40-series
Transmission: GM TH350
Shifter: column
Style: pickup
Modifications: restored stock
Fenders front / rear: stock / stock
Hood: stock steel
Grille: stock
Bodywork and paint by: previous owner
Paint type / Color: urethane / white, blue
Headlights / Taillights: halogen / stock
Outside mirrors: stock
Bumpers: chromed stock
Dashboard: stock
Gauges: stock
Air conditioning: not yet
Stereo: Pioneer
Steering wheel: billet
Steering column: stock
Seats: bench
Upholstery by: factory
Material / Color: cloth, vinyl
Carpet: black
1970 Chevrolet C10
Richard Lister
Chandler, Arizona
Frame: modified stock, C'd rear rails
Rearend / Ratio: GM 10-bolt / 3.07:1 by Arizona Differential, Phoenix, AZ
Rear suspension: CPP 4-inch drop coils, CPP 1-inch lowering blocks
Rear brakes: CPP disc, 12-inch slotted rotors
Front suspension: lowering coils, CPP gas shocks
Front brakes: CPP disc, slotted 12-inch rotors
Steering box: GM
Front wheels: Foose Legend, 18x8
Rear wheels: Foose Legend, 20x8.5
Front tires: Hankook, 255/40ZR18
Rear tires: Hankook, 275/35ZR20
Gas tank: stock
Engine: 350ci SBC
Heads: iron
Valve covers: KMJ aluminum
Manifold / Induction: Edelbrock / Edelbrock 600-cfm
Ignition: GM HEI
Headers: coated tubular
Exhaust / Mufflers: 3-inch aluminized / Flowmaster
Transmission: GM TH350
Shifter: column
Style: C10
Modifications: '67 Chevy front sheetmetal
Fenders front / rear: stock / stock
Hood: stock
Grille: stock
Bodywork and paint by: previous owner
Paint type / Color: urethane / red
Headlights / Taillights: halogen / stock
Outside mirrors: stock
Bumpers: chromed stock
Dashboard: stock
Gauges: stock
Air conditioning: not yet
Stereo: Sony
Steering wheel: Grant
Steering column: stock
Seats: Honda
Upholstery by: The Chrome Guy
Material / Color: leather / gray
Carpet: black
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The South Jersey Transportation Authority operates shuttle buses and vans that bridge the gap between employers and qualified employees. The SJTA can help employers fill job openings from a pool of qualified workers and also help transport them to work.
The SJTA operates a shuttle between the River LINE's Route 73/Pennsauken Station and the Pennsauken Industrial Park and the Moorestown Industrial Park. The first shuttle of the day leaves the Route 73/Pennsauken Rail Station at 7 a.m. The shuttle circulates throughout the industrial parks. The shuttle schedule will be adjusted according to employer needs. For more information, call SJTA at (856) 614-1074.
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Bruce Feiler's book — The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More — explores the hidden secrets of improving your family life.
Despite all of the recent research about individual happiness, a lot of life happiness comes from spending time with people you care about. In fact, it is the number one predictor of life satisfaction.
Simply put, happiness is other people, and the other people we hang around with most are our family. So how do we make sure we're doing that effectively?
Adapt All the Time
Almost everyone feels completely overwhelmed by the pace and pressures of daily life, and that exhaustion is exacting an enormous toll on family well-being. Survey after survey shows that parents and children both list stress as their number one concern. This includes stress inside as well as outside the home. And if parents feel harried, it trickles down to their children. Studies have shown that parental stress weakens children's brains, depletes their immune systems, and increases their risk of obesity, mental illness, diabetes, allergies, even tooth decay.
Kids wish their parents were less tired and stressed.
Jeff Sutherland implemented an agile approach at home.
[quote]"People think it's natural to live in a world where everyone is dysfunctional. It's not. It's normal for people to be satisfied. All you have to do is remove the barriers that are making you unhappy, and you'll be a lot happier."[/quote]
That sounds like inversion, and it turns out that acknowledging that things can go wrong and introduce a system to address those things works the same in business and at home. Hello, family meetings.
The centerpiece of the program is a weekly review session built on the principle of "inspect and adapt."
Three questions get asked:
1. What things went well in our family this week?
2. What things could we improve in our family?
3. What things will you commit to working on this week?
This is a mechanism for communication.
"What works about the family meeting," he said, "is that it's a regularly scheduled time to draw attention to specific behaviors. If you don't have a safe environment to discuss problems, any plan to improve your family will go nowhere."
"The purpose of the meeting is not to talk about each of you as individuals. It's to focus on how you're functioning as a family."
As well as talking about the things you want to focus on, you need to talk about rewards and consequences too. Within limits, you need to let the kids decide.
Empowering children works.
A significant amount of recent brain research backs this up. Scientists at the University of California and elsewhere found that kids who plan their own time, set weekly goals, and evaluate their own work build up their prefrontal cortex and other parts of the brain that help them exert greater cognitive control over their lives. These so-called executive skills aid children with self-discipline, avoiding distractions, and weighing the pros and cons of their choices.
By picking their own punishments, children become more internally driven to avoid them. By choosing their own rewards, children become more intrinsically motivated to achieve them. Let your kids take a greater role in raising themselves.
One takeaway I got from agile is that whenever I see friends with checklists— chores, schedules, allowance— I ask whether the adults or the kids are doing the checking off. Invariably it's the adults. The science suggests there's a better way. To achieve maximum benefits, have the children do the scoring. They'll develop a much finer sense of self-awareness. Even if this approach doesn't work on every occasion, it's about teaching your kids an approach to problem solving they can carry with them the rest of their lives.
Dinner Matters.
There is a right way to have family dinner: what you talk about matters as much as what you put in your mouth.
"When you start to look at the research, which is staggering," Laurie David, the Oscar-winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth and the author of The Family Dinner, says "you realize all the things you worry about as a parent can be improved just by sitting down to regular dinners."
A recent wave of research shows that children who eat dinner with their families are less likely to drink, smoke, do drugs, get pregnant, commit suicide, and develop eating disorders. Additional research found that children who enjoy family meals have larger vocabularies, better manners, healthier diets, and higher self-esteem. The most comprehensive survey done on this topic, a University of Michigan report that examined how American children spent their time between 1981 and 1997, discovered that the amount of time children spent eating meals at home was the single biggest predictor of better academic achievement and fewer behavioral problems. Mealtime was more influential than time spent in school, studying, attending religious services, or playing sports.
It's not about the dinner, it's about the people. Use meals to share family history.
The more children knew about their family's history, the stronger their sense of control over their lives, the higher their self-esteem, and the more successfully they believed their families functioned. … (Marshall Duke) says that children who have the most balance and self-confidence in their lives do so because of what he and Robyn call a strong "intergenerational self." They know they belong to something bigger than themselves.
More ideas? Try the 10-50-1 formula.
10. Aim for ten minutes of quality talk per meal. .. 50. Let your kids speak at least half the time. … 1. Teach your kids one new word every meal.
The Warren Buffett Guide to Setting an Allowance
1. Show them the money. (Byron) Trott (Buffett called him "the only banker I trust") said most parents have an instinctive reluctance to be honest with their kids about money— how it's made, lost, invested, and spent. He said that 80 percent of college students have never had a conversation with their parents about managing money. Trott advises his clients to fling open the doors to the vault.
"I tell my clients that forcing their kids to have financial literacy is one of the most important things they can do," he said. He quoted statistics that say the more parents talk to their kids about debt, the less debt they rack up; the more they hear about savings, the more they sock away.
"What happens to a lot of families is they depend too much on osmosis," he continued. "I sat down with one of the richest women in America recently and told her she had to talk openly with her children. She said she didn't want to burden them with the truth, but burdening them with ignorance is really much worse."
2. Take off the training wheels. "One of the biggest problems I see in families," Trott said, "is a reluctance to let your kids make decisions for themselves." As an example, he cited the story of Jack Taylor, the founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, who with a net worth in excess of $ 9 billion has been ranked as high as the eighteenth richest American. When his son turned thirty-two, Taylor handed him the company and never looked back. "Most parents meddle," Trott said.
3. Accept their passions, any passions. Buffett is famous for not wanting to spoil his kids. Instead, after his wife gave each of their three kids $ 100 million, and the money didn't ruin them, Buffett gave each one a $ 1 billion foundation. Trott was privy to that decision, and I asked what he thought of it. Does money inherently spoil children?
"I don't think so," he said. "I've seen too many really rich kids who are great people. In my experience, great people are great because they find their passion. For some that's in business, but for others it's in philanthropy. One of Warren's sons is a farmer; another is a musician. Most families really don't let their kids follow their passions. They assume the parents' passion is the children's passion, and usually it's not. You should allow them to be outliers in their dreams."
4. Put them to work. There's a lot of vagueness in academic circles about children and money, but the research is clear that part-time jobs are great for kids. The Youth Development Survey in St. Paul, Minnesota, followed a number of children from ninth grade through their midthirties to determine whether childhood should be the sanctuary of play and learning or if work can be a productive part of it. The study found that those who work don't lose interest in school and don't cut back on family, extracurricular activities, or volunteering. They even become better at time management.
As the survey's lead researcher, Jeylan Mortimer, observed: The more "planful" adolescents are about their future, the more successful and satisfied they are likely to be as adults. Trott agreed. "The most successful adults I know were all involved in business at a young age," he said. "All of them. Warren believes it's the secret to success. Your kid has to be involved in business. Warren thinks I'm successful because I had a lawn mowing business, a clothing store, all these different businesses as a kid, so I understood money, even though I never studied economics. What he thinks is necessary for someone to be successful in business is early exposure to business. So if you really want your daughters to understand money, have them open a lemonade stand."
Grandmothers Rock
Well, at least mine does.
Countless studies have shown the extraordinary benefits grandmothers have on contemporary families. A meta-analysis of sixty-six studies completed in 1992 found that mothers who have more support from grandmothers have less stress and more well-adjusted children. The more involved the grandmothers are, the more involved dads are, too.
Now you see why Hardly called grandmothers humanity's "secret benefactors."
So what are these grandmothers actually doing? They're teaching children core social skills like how to cooperate, how to be compassionate, how to be considerate. Researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah interviewed 408 adolescents about their relationship with their grandparents. When grandparents are involved, the study found, the children are more social, more involved in school, and more likely to show concern for others. Also, as lead scientist Jeremey Yorgason said, parents take the lead in disciplining negative behavior, leaving grandparents free to encourage positive behaviors.
Use Checklists
"Peter Pronovost's miracle invention was not a drug, a device, or a procedure. It wasn't revolutionary at all. It's one of the oldest, most mundane things on earth. It's a checklist."
By adding checklists with preposterously basic items such as "wash hands with soap" and empowering anyone in the room to speak up when something was wrong, hospitals save lives, money, and time.
I was interested in applying his technique to the problems families face when leaving home for a trip. He gave me a number of recommendations.
1. Create different lists for different times in the process. "Checklists have to be linked in time and space," Pronovost said. "So I have a checklist for ICU admissions, and another for blood transfusions. You should have a checklist for one week before the trip. Then two days before you'll likely need another. Then one more for when you're walking out the door. But you always need time to recover, so if you have one for when you're at the airport, it's too late."
2. Make it specific. "A checklist should take less than a minute to complete," he said. "Each item should be a very specific behavior. Avoid vague language."
3. Killer items only. "Target your checklist on things that commonly go wrong," he told me. "If you put down things you don't fail at, you'll drive people crazy. This has been borne out in aviation, where accidents have been caused by checklist fatigue."
4. The rule of seven. "I have a rule that checklists can be only seven items," Pronovost said. "It's the same reason our telephone numbers are seven digits. Otherwise, people will take shortcuts and items will get missed."
5. Include the kids. "I would sit down with them and say, 'Hey, girls, I'm trying to improve how we travel, so I made a checklist. Does this make sense to you? What else can you add?'"
The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More will remind you about family agility, the power of talking, and how to have fun.


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President Thomas S. Monson on Decisions
"Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to say, 'No,' the courage to say, 'Yes,' Decisions do determine destiny. The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever be."
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Dangling from the edge of Mount Treacly, overlooking the icy abyss of Cliché River, Frozen hurls a Bechtel rope and swings itself to safety in the nick of time. And just in case you miss the climax's blatantly obvious flipping of established Disney gender roles, which mandates female-on-female violence prior to male rescue, there's a joke about how a dude will like his new "sled" because "it's got cupholders." Oh, Frozen, you so hawt.
A menagerie of people assembled Frozen's plot into icy stain-glass art from the broken glass of other stories, including Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen." Co-director Jennifer Lee is given sole screenplay credit, but whichever scribe blissfully ixnayed the expected "woman on woman" fairy tale savagery in favor of a largely villain-less experience deserves kudos and a kiss on the mouth. Probably both.
Frozen begins with Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel) playing together as children. Instead of playing make-believe, the kids roll around in Elsa's ability to create ice like a friggin' lady-sized sno-cone maker. When Elsa accidentally wounds Anna, she discovers that her powers will only grow more dangerous. So she is locked in the obligatory tower that all castle architects build "in case of daughter."
Anna grows up believing her sister hates her, which is problematic when her parents meet the fate that befalls most Disney parents. On the day Elsa is made queen, her powers go wonk-city, and the whole kingdom is plunged into ice, so she bolts. Anna then goes on a quest to find her, with the help of the kind but reclusive Scandanavi-nerd Kristoff (Jonathon Groff), his adorable reindeer, Sven, and a talking, anthropomorphic pile of snow named Olaf (Josh Gad). True love is mentioned (and mocked), a life-saving kiss is pivotal (and subverted) and feminine bonds are extended to virtues beyond swooning at the right heaving bro bosom.
For the first time in…honestly nobody can even agree anymore, the songs in Frozen are all absolutely killer. No wonder; they were penned by the husband-and-wife duo behind "Avenue Q" and "Book of Mormon." And while Bell's adorably awkward Anna and Menzel's kind-but-tortured Elsa are great, it's Gad's Olaf that steals the show. From a hilarious ditty about how much the snowman is looking forward to summer, since he's never seen one, to his dim-witted slapstick shenanigans, Olaf is the supporting humor Disney has long tried to replicate by formula but couldn't.
Frozen is a bit childish, but that's okay. Its level of sophistication isn't Pixar-ian, but that wasn't its aim. This was an attempt to travel back to mermaids, little and beasts, beautiful. And by and large, it does just that. Also, a note to the honchos behind live-action, big-budget superhero movies: not only does Lee's script not waste a lick of damn time providing some kind of "origin story" for Elsa's powers, but The Snow Queen proves without a doubt a female with powers can absolutely work and resonate with audiences. Best get on that before audiences get cold.
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Hi Hari,Reading through the code in svn and noticed it's looking for family code "28." for your temp sensors but mine is "10." http://owfs.sourceforge.net/family.html
Could this be why I'm getting the error?
For future devices, is this the only section of code that gets modified?.... just trying to learn how these template work.
I'd like to join this party and get my temp sensor working. After some initial problems with getting OWFS to install, I think I'm close. However, the 1wire device only lists ttyS0 and ttyS1 for ports and I have a USB temp sensor. Also, I don't see a way to create a multilevel sensor child.John


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8 Min Of smooth and soft ambient/Yoga Background music,This heartfelt, sentimental track features a special Piano and Harp sequence, and is eventually joined by wondrous,tender atmosphere . A beautifully reflective, mellow piece perfect for Yoga background music for creating a peaceful, heartwarming mood.
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In Herman Melville's classic novel Moby-Dick, a mad fisherman named Captain Ahab is consumed by the desire to hunt down the white whale that chomped off his leg. Since then, the white whale has entered the lexicon as a symbol of any rare, nearly unobtainable objects that people feverishly seek out.
Nowhere is this lust for white whales more apparent than in craft beer, where scant supply, limited distribution, and Internet-fueled praise can transform tasty IPAs, imperial stouts, and sour ales into objects of obsession for which driven drinkers will gladly sacrifice a leg. While Russian River's Pliny the Younger, the Alchemist's Heady Topper, and the Bruery's Black Tuesday are all brilliant beers, the effort and cost required to obtain them borders on the absurd—can any one beer possibly be worth such an investment?
That's for you to decide. But even if you do chase cult releases, you'll want to round out your drinking with some easier-to-obtain brews. Here are 10 of craft beer's biggest white whales and—should your hunt be unsuccessful—their suitable replacements.
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Whether you are trying to create a new product, solve problems more effectively, become the most successful company in your industry, or find creative ways to meet your customers' needs, innovation is likely one of your most critical objectives at work. But a factor often overlooked may get in the way of your expressing and implementing your excellent ideas: You are an introvert.
About 50% of U.S. residents are introverts, according to a study by psychologists Stephan Dilchert and Deniz Ones. What are the signs that you are one of them? Introverts have a tendency to be drained by social encounters and energized by solitary activities. They are generally inward looking and less concerned with the outside world. They enjoy reflecting on their own thoughts and feelings, and they often prefer to avoid social situations.
When it comes to generating innovative ideas, introverts and extroverts may be on par. Yet introverts' inward-looking nature can hold them back from having their creative ideas accepted since they may be disinclined to share them with others.
But compared to extroverts, introverts may be more open to others' creative ideas. Adam Grant of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Dave Hofmann of the University of North Carolina, and I conducted some research that shed light on this possibility. We asked managers and employees at 130 franchises of a U.S. pizza-delivery company to fill out a survey, and we obtained data on each store's profitability. Managers answered questions about their own personality. Other employees answered questions about their attempts to introduce improvements in job procedures. We found that in stores where employees tried to proactively introduce their creative ideas for improvements, introverted managers led stores to higher profits than more extroverted ones did. In franchises where employees stayed quiet and didn't offer their ideas, extroverted managers led stores to higher profits than more introverted managers did.
We further examined these relationships in a laboratory experiment in which we encouraged participants to adopt either a more introverted or extroverted behavior. We found that introverts tend to listen carefully to the creative ideas suggested by others, and they help others feel valued and motivated to do their work. By contrast, extroverts tend to feel threatened by the innovative ideas proposed by others and are thus less receptive to them.
These results highlight two potential problems that you may experience, depending on where you stand on the introvert-extrovert personality continuum: If you are an introvert, you may not feel very comfortable talking openly about your creative ideas with others; but if you are an extrovert, you may be too reluctant to listen to good ideas proposed by others. Here are three steps you can take in order to avoid these problems:
1. Reflect on your creative moments and seek out an environment that triggers them. By reflecting on your most creative moments, you may come to realize you have more of an introverted or extroverted style and, moreover, that context plays a significant role in your creativity. You may realize you tend to be the most creative while working in silence by yourself or that your innovative ideas are commonly the results of group brainstorming sessions. Understanding which environments are more conducive to creative sparks will help you make sure you are exploiting your full creative potential.
2. Recognize the pros and cons of your own personality. An introverted personality brings benefits: During a brainstorming session, you are likely to be one of the best listeners in the group, thus enabling you to thoroughly evaluate the quality of the ideas being suggested. At the same time, you may need an extra push to put forth your own good ideas. You may not be ready to think innovatively on your feet, but you can certainly generate innovative ideas when you are on your own. Use this to your advantage. You can prepare for brainstorming sessions in advance, so that you can become ready to suggest your ideas at the right moment.
3. Try to adapt your personality to the context. We can't always choose whom we work with. If you are in a group that tends to be very quiet and where members seem to be as introverted as you are, you might try to adapt to a more extroverted style: You can be the one asking questions, shaping the creativity process so that others feel comfortable taking risks and offering their ideas. Adapting to a more extroverted style may also help you talk about your own innovative ideas more openly in such a group setting.
By following these guidelines, you can be sure to tap into your own creativity in addition to bringing out the innovative ideas of those around you.


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At ZFI, I wrote an essay about Zen Practice in the Soto way, using a metaphor that someone put up about how Rinzai people and Soto People shovel snow, the importance of "Kensho" and some similar topics ...
For those new to all this, and who may not get the snowy symbolism ... "snow" probably means "delusions" and obstructions, "a clean driveway" or "getting from the front door to the sidewalk" means "enlightenment" and "shoveling" means 'Practice".
I would like to echo the wise words of Rev. Nonin ... for we are of one mind ...
Allow me to use Genkaku's "clearing snow" image ... as I do not think that story had the Soto perspective on shoveling quite right ... (What I am about to say is certainly not a matter of "Soto vs. Rinzai", but how some folks in and out of those schools, intentionally or unintentionally, misperceive or mischaracterize each) ...Originally Posted by Nonin
I would phrase the "Mr. Soto" perspective as that there is much shoveling to be done, and we proceed ahead ... yet each scoop by scoop is the drive-way totally realized and clear. Oh, yes, there is much work to be done, and we must make a path from door to the street so that we can get out of our house, just like all our neighbors ... yet the point is not only some destination, but constant realization and perfect arriving with each step and scoop (neither view excluding the other ... forward step by step / constant arriving, no place to go). In fact, each swing of the shovel is a Buddha's fully exerted shoveling, and each shovel full of snow is a snow white Buddha's fullness! It is a dance, one great function, with shovel shoveling snow, snow snowing shovel ... only a Buddha's shoveling Buddhas.Originally Posted by Genkaku
In fact, the driveway was clear all along under snow ... though the snow seemingly hides that fact. Truly, driveway and snow are never apart ... and when seen in such way, snow is not the obstruction we thought. In a way, it was melted before it even fell! Also, snow and driveway one beyond one, not two.
What is more (these tastes are all simultaneously true, not exclusive of each other) ... there is nothing "wrong" with the snow of delusion even as we work so hard to clean and clear it away ... it is pure, white and pristine in its way, yet still it is best cleared and gotten out of our way. In this way ... shovel by shovel ... we clear snow.
The snow is lovely dark and deep ... but we have promises to keep ... so, lovely or not, perfect "just as it is" or not ... GET SHOVELING AND CLEAR IT UP! It may keep snowing, by the way, and the weather forecast is for a season of constant snow ... and, so, we may never arrive (so long as we live) at a driveway perfectly free of the obstructions of snow. NO MATTER, for the very act of shoveling is Perfect Liberation!
In fact, how would we have something to give us the honor of shoveling if there were no snow? We could not live without the snow, so we should be grateful to it ... for being a reason to shovel.
Snow falling falling falling ... day after day ... so shovel shovel shovel, day after day. Repeat endlessly, so long as we are alive ... for that is life itself. Obstructions will never end in this life, so constant care is required to clean them away because they obstruct us, obstruct Budda's work ... and in this way, the obstructions are no obstruction and never were at all.
Snow is ever always perfectly empty from the start ... so shoveling and constant clearing is emptiness realized.
And from such perspective, we get our driveway clean as much as our neighbors ... get to the car and drive away.
Now, this is not something we "only understand intellectually", but is instead truly pierced and made one's own in the real act of living. with our whole body and mind in the act of snow shoveling ... the true act of living is just shoveling snow. GET YOUR BOOTS ON AND GET OUT THERE, grab a shovel ... don't just read weather reports in the news!
Does that give a feel from "practice-realization", "practice as a Buddha's practice, a Buddha's realization", "practice as enlightenment itself"?
In a sense, we might almost say that "getting the driveway clear, and getting from front door to street" is now almost besides the point. Yet, we go on with our work.
Those who would mislead, saying that "Soto Practice is merely to sit in one's house, pretending the snow is not there ... or pretending there is no work required ... or content and self-satisfied with the snow and staying indoors all winter" and otherwise seek to mischaracterize Shikantaza and "Just Sitting" as"just sitting around" ("Just Shoveling" as just shuffling) ... DO NOT, in their wildest imaginations, understand the true art of snow removal.
What I describe is not "dead practice" ... but practice as vibrant life itself!
In a sense there is no "destination" in this life of practice (life of shoveling) ... which may be the main difference between "Just Shoveling" and forms of Buddhism which overly focus on a place to get to. We do not gracefully engage in balanced diligent shoveling (graceful, balance, engaged, diligent life) in order to clear the driveway ... but because "graceful, balanced, engaged, diligent" living/practice is Buddha realized. We shovel because Buddhas shovel ... that is what Buddhas do (we live because we are living Buddhas). The snow will keep falling so long as we are alive, winter by winter ... and we must keep shoveling.
Now, do not mistake my point ... there is a world of difference between "graceful, balanced, engaged, diligent" snow shoveling and "distracted, unbalanced, lazy, negligent, confused" snow shoveling ... and how we shovel makes all the difference in the world. Practice is realization, but how we practice realizes realization, makes realization real. This was also Master Dogen's point about snow shoveling ... one cannot be a negligent snow shoveler (just saying "since the snow and I are Buddha all along, no need to shovel ... or even perfectly okay to do a half-assed job). Far from it! (That is the Naturalist Heresy, in Dogen's eyes)
Buddha shoveling Buddhas requires shoveling like a Buddha would shovel ... and Buddha's get off their Buddha-asses and get to work, doing a careful job, when there is work to do.
Let me try to address some other very big misconceptions about all this ...
We also have Ken-snow moments in our "Just Shoveling" in which shovel, boots, snow, drive, house and snow fully drop away ... and what is tasted is/are all interconnected or all fully dropped away, perhaps both at once or not even that.Obviously Dogen stressed the importance of practice/realization, but it seems that in reading things with a Rinzai bent(On Zen Practice,etc..) there seems to be a slightly derogatory attitude towards pure Soto practice. The main criticism as I read it is that those who only practice Shikantaza without koan study never have any kind of experiential realization and that this leads to dead practice or a practice that has only intellectual understanding. The explanation is that to truly begin zen practice one must have "kensho" and only then does zen practice begin.
But seeing is not doing. Seeing the "True Reality of Snowness" is not getting the job done. Kensho alone (or as the main point of practice ... or even as anything more than a mere point of reference in our shoveling) is a snow job.
Seeing that "ultimately there is only a driveway and no snow" ... or mistakenly thinking "I must clear all this snow to get to the driveway, experiencing and living out our True Pavement at each moment" (when I finally see in Kensho and live upon the True Pavement, the snow out of the way and out of my eyes, then there is finally where is found Truth and Liberation) ... is a very different perspective from our Soto way of snow shoveling (described above ... the Snow-to Way). One of the great misconceptions about practice (and this is not a matter of "Soto vs. Rinzai", because some Soto people are as guilty of this as others) is that "Seeing True Nature" for a moment is anything more than a point of reference for getting on with the key act of snow shoveling. "Seeing True Nature" does nothing more than let one know a bit about the situation and the lay of the land
Some silly guys treat this practice as if a moment of "Seeing the Driveway and the True Snow" melts all the snow right there, getting the driveway clear. Other silly guys think that we shovel in order to have these experiences of enlightened seeing. They each think that the point is to clear the snow in order to see the driveway!
No! We have these "experiences of seeing" in order to be more enlightened shovelers!
Nor is the point to be constantly aware, constant in touch with, constant living from our "True Nature" as realized in Kensho ... because that is not life. Life is shoveling, which is our True Nature made real.
Forget what you may have momentarily tasted of snow and driveway as one beyond one, even that forgotten ...instead, toss "Kensho" into the pile with all the other trash ... stop day dreaming, and get back to the work at hand!
Even Soto (or earlier Silent Illumination) teachers who teach that getting in touch with our Original Face will thus sua sponte turn us instantly in Buddha-like snow shovelers ... always knowing the right thing to do, the right place to head in life, our every step out on the ice graceful and true ... are full of shovels of shit.
So long as we are just human snow shovelers who happen to be Buddhas (as opposed to Golden Buddhas shoveling snow) we will have to wrestle that tension between "graceful, balanced, engaged, diligent" snow shoveling and "distracted, unbalanced, lazy, negligent, confused" snow shoveling. That is the human condition until we each turn into one of the perfect "Snow Shoveling" Buddhas in the Buddhist story books (no more real or relevant, perhaps, than Santa and his Reindeer ... and no less real either, Virginia).
And that fact of endless Buddhas endlessly shoveling Buddhas is true until, one winter, we turn our last shovel of snow ... suffer a coronary and fall over dead on our still half snow covered front lawn (perhaps to come back for more snowing in a future winter ... who knows?).
But enough chatter ... I have a driveway to clear today.
Gassho, J


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Go to www.regulations.gov
Select "Pacific Halibut Fisheries: Catch Sharing Plan for Guided Sport and Commercial Fisheries in Alaska" and leave your comments about why this is wrong.
Here are the details . .
Halibut Catch Share Plan Comment Deadline is Aug 26, 2013
What It Does:
THIS IS NOT A CONSERVATION ISSUE! The "Catch and Share Plan" takes a half million pounds away from guided sports fisherman and gives them to the commercial fleet. Then lowers the limit for sports fisherman to 1 fish. Then the commercial fisherman offers to lease those fish back to the charter anglers. There are absolutely NO FISH SAVED!!
How To Help:
Please go to the above links and share a few words as to why you oppose this new rule.It takes the halibut traditionally caught by the average Joe American over to commercial fisherman (who already get 80% of the allowable halibut). It then leaves the sport fisherman on a 1 fish limit. It will put hundreds of small businesses OUT OF BUSINESS!!
For more information or any questions please contact Alaska Charter Association - (907) 299-0695
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